Tagline – “Believe Nothing,
Question Everything”
“25 words or less” – The lengths a
pair of Hollywood publicists will go to hide their unstable celebrity clients’
secrets and cover up their indiscretions is explored
Full Summary:
Jacob Peters and Katie Monroe are
ambitious Hollywood publicists who would do anything to promote and maintain their
clients’ pristine public images. Two
years ago they left their PR jobs to partner together in a new firm with a
small, but strong, nucleus of celebrity clients. They’re also in a long-term relationship with
each other that occasionally causes stress at home which tends to boil over
into the workplace. At the center of
their domestic dispute is Katie’s desire to get married and start a family,
which Jacob has been avoiding while he concentrates on building their firm into
an industry powerhouse with his business partner and girlfriend.
When it comes to their valued clients,
it’s up to Jacob and Katie and their PR firm, Monroe & Peters, to pick up
the pieces from the messes they make, cover up their transgressions and tell
tall tales that put them in a positive light among the unsuspecting, gullible
public. At this stage of their fledging
boutique PR agency, their client roster includes five famous celebrities in the
world of Hollywood and music who all have ties with Jacob and Katie through
family connections or the neighborhood they grew up in:
Brent Sheridan is a handsome movie
star and closeted gay in his mid-thirties who tries to suppress his feelings
through raging alcoholism. To him, and
his publicists, it doesn’t matter how big of a star he becomes or how much
America evolves socially, there’s still a huge fear of turning off the
heartland and affecting his box office sales by coming out. However, his heavy drinking tends to put him
in precarious situations that endangers him both physically and mentally.
In the first episode, Brent breaks
his wrist while trashing his hotel penthouse suite after the male co-star of
his current production rejects his sexual advances. Fearing he’ll be fired from the movie if the
truth comes out, it’s up to Jacob to fix the situation by planting a fake story
in the press about Brent’s “made up” heroics to explain his recent injury.
Then there’s Dylan Dame, a
goody-two-shoes pop singer in her early-twenties who obsessively thinks non-stop
about her painstakingly crafted public persona.
She goes through great lengths to never be, or say anything,
controversial because she doesn’t want to damage her image with any of her
fans. However, tired of always singing
“bubble gum” pop music, Dylan asks Katie in the first episode to set her up
with a famous, or semi-famous, black guy so that she can gain “street cred” as
she prepares to record a pop, R&B album with Timbaland.
There’s also the hot rap group
Double Down featuring African-American twin brothers in their early twenties,
Ja’Von and Da’Von Downs. Although
they’ve had tremendous success early in their careers, they hardly ever see
eye-to-eye on most decisions and occasionally, and embarrassingly, fight
publicly over their creative differences and girls. It’s up to both Jacob and Katie to
continually put a positive public spin on their tenuous relationship.
In this episode, it’s up to Katie to
act as a mediator when Ja’Von tries to force a bizarre movie idea, and the
accompanying action figures, on his younger brother (who’s only younger by four
and a half minutes), Da’Von, both of which put him a very negative light while
Ja’Von comes out looking like a superstar.
Finally there’s Courtney Ford, a
young, flaky, coked up, promiscuous, up-and-coming Hollywood actress in her
mid-twenties who’s known just as much for her promiscuity, especially among
married actors, and drug use as she is for her acting. In fact, she’s gaining such a reputation
around town as a homewrecker that Courtney puts the onus on Jacob to fix it.
In this episode, Courtney freaks
out after learning she lost her purse at a West Hollywood restaurant which had
a large amount of cocaine in it. She
doesn’t care about anything else in the purse, except her coke, so she asks
Jacob to find it. Eventually, the
mystery man that originally found her purse calls Jacob and offers to hand it
back with all the contents intact in exchange for a sexual rendezvous with
Courtney.
Flacks Screenplay
