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“Hey! Lady, You, yes… you… in the yellow dress, please get back into the queue if you need your lunch. I do not have all day.”

“Sorry Ma’am…Is that Jeff Bridges?”

“Yes”

“Hey! Lady, You, yes… you… in the yellow dress, please get back into the queue if you need your lunch. I do not have all day.”

“Sorry Ma’am…Is that Jeff Bridges?”

“Yes”

“Californian men are so cool”

The cook scrapes the unit goulash on my tray.

This is so exciting. It is my first big Hollywood film. It is about a giant gorilla in NYC. I got a nice ‘walk in’ part. The Assistant Director said he would put me in the front. There might be a line too.

A little distance away from the hollywood stars, under some tree shade, I find myself a spot on the art department planks. It is a warm day.

Wow! There is Jessica Lange. She is quite a looker. She is from Cloquet, Minnesota. I think we are the same size. Maybe I should audition to be her body double and do stunts. She has been lucky, her first break and that too a big one. There are so many famous people here. I read about them in the magazines. I can hear them talk. The director John Guillermin is sitting with Carlo; he is some famous Italian guy who made this huge giant mechanical ape. Then there were problems with what Carlo had made and Rick the make-up guy designed a real nice and cheap monkey suit.

Oh, there comes Rick in his funny suit without the mask.
“Hey gorgeous, enjoying the lunch? Oh, please feed me or get ready for some monkey business.” The director and Carlo turn to look.

“RICKKKIEEE! Watch out! Duck!!!” I scream as I see a crane arm swinging towards Rick’s head. I throw my tray to the side and jump off the planks to a tearing sound.

Rick goes down on all fours. The crane misses his head by a breath. I raise my hand to my forehead and sigh in relief. A terrifying moment has passed.

Somebody starts clapping. I look around. They are all looking at me. The whole unit is looking at me. Everybody is clapping.

YIKES!!!!!! I AM NAKED.

The yellow dress is hanging from a nail on the plank. I am standing in the middle of a NY street with just my panties and heels for company.

“Nice threads honey! Real nice!” I hear a unit hand say. A few whistles go off from the guys on the floor above.

“Peace on you, brother!” I smile back and walk towards the dress. I am trembling. Sometimes I wonder why I fell for this whole ‘burn your bra’ thingy.

Jesus, this is so embarrassing. I cover myself with the dress. I think I just gave red color a new definition. I must be a lobster.

“Hi, that was a very brave thing you just did. I am John.” He extends his hand out.

“Hi…I …I… Kelly Nichols,” I stutter back “Rick is a friend.”
John thumps his chest, “Ha! Ha! I meant the slow casual walk back to the dress. You kept your humor. Ha! Ha!”

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В© Arjun Chandramohan Bali. 2005

Mini biography (curtsey: imdb and others)
Kelly aka Marianne Walter, started her career as a nude model in the late 1970s. After she was selected as a Penthouse Pet of the Month, she began her career in the adult film business. This career move started just as the porn industry was changing the availability from adult theatres to the privacy of home video. She is remembered as a hard worker in the industry.

Much before this, she had a small part (uncredited) in King Kong (1976).

Fiction. This could have happened.