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Above, top and center: The fictional Dusty Spur Motel featured a bar and restaurant, now mostly defunct, built adjacent to the individual motel rooms, the gym and numerous other sets, at Riverfront Stages in Atwater. Below, left and right: Each of the characters were to be paired up in motel rooms, with vintage Route 66-style wallpapers and specific Western dressing that nodded to their individual personalities. Selecting vintage wallpapers, tile and carpeting for each character's room. production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat hangs next to the refrigerator, which sits only a few feet from the bed, while Katharine Hepburn watches stoically from above a small desk. Period dressing and assorted foods and toiletries were used to punctuate the somewhat minimalist space. DEBBIE EAGAN Creating career tension between them, Debbie has had a bit more success than her best friend Ruth. She once had a key role on a fictional soap opera called Paradise Cove until her character was written into a coma when Debbie revealed her real-life pregnancy. Now a stay-at-home mom, sideswiped by severe marital problems, she longs for the spotlight again but is trapped by her new suburban life. I wanted her Pasadena house to feel like golden handcuffs: middle-class modest but also eighties elegant with a touch of soap opera. A standing set at the stages was reworked, adding a porch and various alterations, and a pastel palette with touches of brass to go with Debbie's more diva-inspired sensibilities. Set decorator Ryan Watson's team and propmaster Pola Schreiber brought period authenticity to the young family's décor, artwork and toddler accessories. And as an immediate indicator of how Debbie sees herself, an oversized, melodramatic portrait of her hangs in the living room—produced as part of the aforementioned character stills shoot. When her marriage crumbles and she moves into the Dusty Spur Motel with the others, her room has an ironic honeymoon-suite look with pastel florals and lighter woods. SAM SYLVIA A B-movie director with admirable (though poorly thought out) sociopolitical ambitions for his work, and not-so-admirable sexist tendencies in his life, Sam agrees to make a women's wrestling show in hopes of getting his next feature funded (called Mothers & Lovers, an oedipal story that shares hilariously unintentional similarities with Back to the Future). As Sam becomes a caretaker of sorts for fourteen women he's promised to make into stars, his more cynical layers are gradually peeled away to show a lonely, disenchanted artist whose mommy issues would make a psychiatrist's head spin, but who deep down just needs to feel respected. I imagined Sam in a cluttered mid-century modern house where he works away on unproduced B-movie scripts and displays clippings from his career and photos of idols like Brian De Palma and Alfred Hitchcock. For an argument Glitter Pictures, LLC. 3042 Treadwell Street Los Angeles, Ca. 90065 Art Dept.: 323-937-7730 EPISODE 104-06 REVISION 1: 10/18/16 RELEASE: 10/17/16 REVISION 2: 10/25/16