Cold Open, A Tale of Modern Hollywood // Chapter 1. The Establishing Shot

Cantara Christopher
8 min readMay 14, 2022

It was a chilly February three in the morning. On a dark winding road just off Marmont Crescent Drive in Laurelwood Canyon the lights were still on at the house on the left, a model of faux-Moorish architecture nestled among the jacaranda trees. As the home of television’s newest, loveliest bright light, Dennie Dearman — star and title character of family drama’s…

Cantara Christopher

Memoirist. Musicologist. Retired movie actress. I write about US+UK movies / books / music / radio+tv / culture. https://patreon.com/cantarachristopher