hollywood (los angeles, calif.)

Gabrielle and Buffy's long and firm friendship becomes strained when Gabrielle visits Buffy in California and finds her swept up in a new and very different life style.

In 1917 an actress's rise to stardom is paralleled by the birth of Hollywood.

In 1917, Kate Witherspoon, who has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents, goes to Los Angeles where she meets crippled midwestern farm boy, Julian Birch, another runaway, and together they realize they have the ability to triumph over death and time.

Wealthy Jasmine Green, the daughter of a major Hollywood studio head, writes a steamy screen play based loosely on her life; but when the script is bought by her father's studio, she will do whatever it takes to stop production.

Star-struck Heather, who has been hoping to win a trip to Los Angeles in a local video store contest, decides that being a movie star may not be as glamorous as it appears after the magic mirror transports her to 1940s Hollywood where she is chosen to be a stand-in for a missing child actress.