Hey dpg –

As wilsondownunder comments below, “sleeping his way” definitely means “fucking his way”, but I can definitely see the confusion now that you’ve pointed it out.

The stalker is essentially an antagonist, the fiance of someone that the protagonist has slept with and discarded on his rise to fame. As this is an update of Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” attempting to comment on our fame obsessed culture in the same way that the original attacked hedonism, I had to search the original for someone who could be elevated to the antagonist role. The only one I could find was an a spurned fiance, thus their inclusion in the logline. Your comments have made me re-think this, and I will find an antagonist that ties more directly to the protagonist’s goal.

The causal connection between the video and the show isn’t direct – the direct causal connection is the video to the sex that he’s having to WIN the show. The video eliminates his guilt – his conscience essentially – allowing his to lie, cheat, steal … whatever it takes to win, without having to feel bad about it as he does it.

The stalker and the reality show? I would imagine this link is obvious – the protagonist is fame obsessed, and in the process of becoming famous, he has attracted the dark side of fame to him.

Fret not, I will re-think and re-post once I’ve considered these hurdles.