Seriocomic stories that make one wonder, in the City of Angels is Cupid just another out-of-work actor?1. DON'T SPIT ON THIS PITCH. Project proposal for animatedfeature film "Hollywood or Burst" by Frances Abigail YeardleyA successful screenwriter pitches an animated film for adultsabout 3 LA wannabes looking for love and a hit movie, whichever comes first.2. FIRST LOVE. PARTS 1, 2 & 3.When a New York doctor and LA film director fall in love forthe first time on a hiking trip they must manage dream andreality across the wide continent that separates them.3. BEACHED IN VENICE.Failure to perform belittles a hapless hero in this Kafkaesquetale.4. TINSELTOWN.A hick comes to Hollywood looking for the kind of divineplatinum blondes he's seen in the movies, only to find thatcelluloid can be deceiving.5. A LESSON IN LOVE.Former swinger, now happily married Jack Winston tries tostraighten out his hormonal teenage sons with a cautionarytale about his own seriocomic history looking for love in allthe wrong places.6. TOO DEEP FOR TEARS, featuring Private Detective JohnMarriner.The corpse of a former nun turned actress/model has been foundin the desert near Joshua Tree National Park and her onetimeMother Superior asks Banning private detective John Marriner--a decorated war veteran with stress and other disorders--tosearch for her killer on the mean streets of LA, where he waslast seen bitchslapping the city Police Chief.7. HONEST ABE. A salesman looks back at the life and career ofhis boss, the honestest used car dealer in the SouthernCalifornia heartland.