Hewitt takes on Ab Fab-like character in Victoria shoot


	HEWITT TAKES ON AB FAB-LIKE CHARACTER IN VICTORIA SHOOT

Release Date: August 22, 2004

Press Release: The Vancouver Sun

Texas-born former Party of Five-er Jennifer Love Hewitt is in Victoria this month starring in Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber, a two-hour original comedy for the Oxygen network.

Israel-born producer/director Dana Lustig, who brought her Kill Me Later, starring Selma Blair, here in 2000, is helming.

In the movie, based on Adele Lang’s bestselling book of the same name, Hewitt plays Katya Livingston, a young, ruthless, San Francisco ad sales exec who’ll stop at nothing to get to the top of the city’s social ladder.

When tax inspectors question her claims, Katya begins keeping a financial diary and just for fun includes secrets about her friends, enemies and lovers — all from her unique point of view.

“She’s a character who’s sort of out of the school of Ab Fab,” says Oxygen’s programming president Debby Beece. “She’s self-centred, rebellious and should really know better. But in the end you’re rooting for her to get better.”

The movie, also starring Vancouver’s David Richmond-Peck, will premiere in early 2005.

Executive producer Stan Brooks (Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss) and his production company, Once Upon a Time, have been using B.C. locations to great advantage this summer. Brooks is also producing four true crime thrillers for USA cable, including the bank-heist flick Norco, recently wrapped here. He’s also behind the original TV movies Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three’s Company, and the the Diane Keaton crystal-meth thriller On Thin Ice, both shot in Winnipeg.