--- In rememberingdanaplato@y..., "neptunemoon1" <lmw100@a...> wrote:
> I know that Dana was working with her last manager on developing a
> comeback story of her life. The essential element being that Dana
> had some really rough periods but that her positiveness, talent,
and
> endurance overcame the odds.
>
> I don't know how Dana would feel about a veiled screenplay about
her
> life, especially with the tragedy that followed. It would remind
me
> of the Marilyn Monroe thing and it is so sad to watch those endings.
>
> Give it careful thought, she was a wonderful & enduring person. :-)
> Lynda


Thank you for your opinion Lynda,
Shortly after my original post I had similar misgivings to yourself
and have come to the conclusion that I do not want a sad ending, i
still would like to have the lead character a very similar person to
Dana and had to suffer similar things to which she had to deal with
but I have been working the story round to a more general point of
questioning the "child star curse" and I have spoken to a few people
regarding this, most notably Paul Petersen of AMC. I have decided
that the character should work her way up from the brink of suicide
to achieve the dreams that Dana reportedly wanted to follow, opening
a sandwich shop, taking her son on a cross country road trip and
writing a book, in the end eventually taking up a mentor-type role at
AAMC. Like I said in my original post, the last thing I want to do is
ccompromise Dana's legacy and I feel that in picking up on the things
hher death has taught us would be a better way to remember Dana.
I really do not want to have a veiled biopic about Dana, I want
something new that would educate people into why these wonderfully
talented people thake the path they do rather than just trot-out the
media cliche of money getting to their heads or something similar. I
have serious reservations as to whether i will take it past the
written stage to actually making it, because i am worried it could be
received in the wrong light as a biopic of Dana Plato, and I will get
as much opinion as possible at every single stage to make sure this
isn't the case. I do not want to be seen as "cashing in" on a
tragedy, I just want to make people aware that I discovered the
plight of the child star and was inspired to write a movie about it
because of Dana Plato, and by the heartfelt sympathy I felt for her
and the extreme shock I experienced when I found she was not able to
recover. It will be dedicated to her memory, it will be aimed at
educating us that these people are human, that Dana was human, that
Kimberly Drummond, was a character, Kimberly Drummond was scripted.
Dana Plato wasn't, she should have been allowed to make mistakes and
she should have been allowed a second chance.