The year 1922, Alice Kerpunkle arrives in Hollywood: a starlet is born! The young an alluring (if somewhat overweight) girl is renamed, "Alice Sweet" by Paramount Super-Chief Adolf Zukor. Quickly...

The year 1922, Alice Kerpunkle arrives in Hollywood: a starlet is born! The young an alluring (if somewhat overweight) girl is renamed, "Alice Sweet" by Paramount Super-Chief Adolf Zukor. Quickly the adventure begins Alice falls down the hole, witness to the funny man's illustrious crime, Fatty Arbuckle, the children's comedian: a murdering rapist! Hobnobbing with the "All-American", Wallace Reid: a heroin junkie? Or starlet, Barbara Lamarr: a cocaine addict! Racing to the courtroom with true faith to help her friend the "IT" girl, Clara Bow: a nymphomaniac and boozer! Zukor entrancing Alice to the New York world of Maxim's where white button boys like Rudolph Valentino get paid to entertain wealthy women: a prostitute! Socializing with the tempestuous Lupe Velez: a suicide spitfire! See Alice's whirl into WONDERLAND and THEDA BARA'S CRYSTAL BALL revealing a land of ghost fairies, PROHIBITION, old Hollywood, the glamour, the decadence and silent tragedies of a bygone era. The feature film now in principal photography stars Jennifer Tilly as Clara Bow, Laura Elena Harring (Mulholland Drive), Philip Bloch, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ione Skye, Stephen Saux, Tippi Hedren, Shiva Rose, and Debi Mazar. The filmmakers, Alex Canawati and Boothe Jouvet were approached and optioned to re-make their short, "The Birth of Babylon" into a feature film after winning "Best Short" in the American Film & Music Festival 2000. The film is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2003. "Ione Skye" "Jennifer Tilly"