Lola Loves Richard: Resurrection

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Resurrection

Buck turned to Jackie and said, “There’s one thing I really don’t understand, though.”

Jackie really liked Buck, but she wasn’t ever going to TELL him that. That would ruin it.

“You know,” Buck said, quizzically, “the trouble with theories of re-incarnation is that they require an infinite regress, and don't accommodate the idea of a beginning or an end. Like, I mean, when do souls come into being, when do they start… is it just a continuous recycling of souls, an infinitely revolving door?”

Surprised by the choice of topics her new friend had selected, Jackie continued driving the stolen Mercedes, musing to herself as she pulled up to Sunset Blvd, and then pointed the car in the direction of the beach, “I definitely kissed the right man, this time.”

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AnonymousDecember 16, 2009 at 5:21 AM
These flashbacks are killing me...
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Richard is a 33 year-old chauffeur for a Hollywood movie studio. He’s a former chicken rancher, stand-up comedian, and amateur poet. He’s madly in love with Lola. He’s a former philosophy major in college (as is Lola). Richard meets Lola through his on-line ad, in which he says his ideal mate would be a blonde bombshell, who likes Martinis without olives, and who is familiar with pre-Socratic philosophy. When Lola responds to his ad, Richard wears a rented Rooster costume to his first date with Lola. Little does Richard know, that he is in for the adventure of a lifetime with Lola

Lola, a 32-year old aspiring actress, is quirky, troubled and beautiful. She knows how to handle a hand-gun, thanks to her father who sent her off to Hollywood, packing a Smith and Wesson. Lola moves to Santa Monica from her hometown of Boston. We meet Lola as she is attempting to become a successful actress in a decidedly unfriendly Hollywood. Lola hates being in love with Richard, but she is in love with him, anyway, despite her reservations. When Lola suspects that Richard is sleeping with a psychotherapist, named Jackie Weston, Lola becomes a client of Jackie’s in order to check out the “competition.” Lola doesn’t realize that Richard isn’t, in fact, involved with Jackie.

Jackie Weston is a 38 year-old psychotherapist. She is Buck’s girlfriend. She meets Buck while drinking one morning in a downtown LA bar. She’s diagnosed with an unspecified genetic disease that suggests that she could die precipitously. She’s an independent soul. She is a very attractive Brunette who is given to wearing delicate jewelry including a wristwatch on each wrist. She Steals a Mercedes and takes a joyride with Buck on their “first date.” Jackie is reckless and impulsive, especially for a professional woman. She is also kind an empathetic.

Buck, Jackie’s boyfriend, is a Harvard grad, who is in his mid-30s. He grew up in LA and his father teaches at UCLA in the History Dept. (His father was an ex-radical, and both the father and mother are English.) Buck is a journalist—travel magazines, but occasionally more “serious” journalism, too. He has traveled quite a bit, and we learn he’s been to a few dangerous countries on assignment. Buck meets Jackie through a friend when he, his friend, and Jackie all meet in a downtown LA bar for morning drinks. Jackie picks-up Buck when she and Buck leave the bar, and Jackie asks Buck to ride along with her in "her" car. As it turns out, the car is not Jackie’s—she steals a Mercedes from the parking lot of the bar. She and Buck drive and ultimately ditch the car along Mulholland Dr. and being to hitchhike away from the scene of the abandoned car.

Richard Meets Jackie and Buck. On his return trip from chauffeuring a Hollywood mogul home, Richard, always a kind-hearted soul, picks up Jackie and Buck, who are hitchhiking along Mulholland Drive. When Richard drops Jackie and Buck off at Jackie’s home, just off Melrose, in LA, Jackie gives Richard her business card. Buck later writes a note to Lola on the back of Jackie’s business card, and leaves it at Lola’s house, when Lola isn’t home. When Lola finds the card with the note she notices it’s got the name of female therapist on the reverse side. Although Lola is ambivalent about Richard, she can’t stand the thought that Richard may be seeing another woman. Hence Lola’s suspicion that Richard may be “seeing” Jackie as a therapist and may be romantically involved with her too. Lola soon becomes a client of Jackie, so she can keep an eye on the imagined "competition."

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Written in brisk, six-sentence chapters, Lola Loves Richard, is a serial, tragicomedy, about love and irony in contemporary Hollywood. Lola, a quirky, handgun-toting, Harvard-educated, aspiring actress, just can’t stand the fact that she loves Richard, her big-studio-chauffeur boyfriend. But when Lola learns that Richard, the man who wore a rented rooster costume on their first date, may be having an affair with her therapist, Lola discovers that true love is more than skin deep.

One Holywood poobah said “Lola Loves Richard is a colorful, graphic novel, without the pictures."Another Hollywood insider said, “Lola Loves Richard is just like real Hollywood, only more so."

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