6/10
Slooow Burn!
12 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** A tale full of suicide murder and revenge peppers the made for TV thriller "They Shoot Divas, Don't They" staring top music video diva the over the hill and pushing 40 Sloan McBride, Jennifer Beals, who's past has suddenly caught of with her. Not Sloan's age but the song "Slow Burn" that made her an overnight sensation in the music video world back in 1985.

It's Jenny Wyle, Keri Lynn Pratt, who's been waiting for the right moment to strike at the now fading from the limelight Sloan and now after 17 years of waiting planning and hoping she's ready to make her move on the diva! By destroying what left of her career in the music world as well as those connected with her in it! Getting a job in Sloan's private circle of friends and admirers Jenny at first ingratiate her way into Sloan's heart and then does everything to break it! Break it in like putting and end to her life!

Like a spider weaving a web Jenny slowly isolates her boss Sloan McBride first from the world of reality and then of the living. Taking out Sloan's publicity agent Diane, Molly Hagen, in a faked carjacking Jenny then has Sloan's boyfriend and record director/producer Trevor Mason, Johathon Schaech, framed for statutory rape. This has an outraged Sloan kick the confused and befuddled Trevor out of her mansion as well as her bedroom! Besides Sloan it's Jay Darrenberg, David Bowe, that Jenny want's most to stick it to! He's the one together with Sloan that Jenny holds responsible for her mom's, Clara Wyle, death back in 1985! It was Clara who was to originally record the song "Slow Burn" that was to make Solan McBride a household word in the world of rock and music video! That Jenny feels both Sloan and Jay stole from Clara that lead to her killing herself.

***SPOILERS*** Turning her hateful fury on Jay, as well as Sloan, for driving her mom to commit suicide Jenny was to find out after it was too late that she was wrong all these years about her moms death as well as her losing out on making the platinum video song "Slow Burn". And the worst was yet to come in her finding out the truth about her own families past history! And the real reason behind her mom losing out in making the music video "Slow Burn" whom the person who both wrote and produced the song Jenny blew away!

P.S look for former porn star and later legitimate film actress Traci Lord as Mina Long the TV talk show host on who's show Sloan freaked out on due to Jenny slipping her a bottle full of downers in her health drink!
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