A Stranger in the mirror is a hawk’s eye view of the Entertainment industry, the emotions, ambitions and machinations. Sidney writes as being an insider in the industry for long. The Prologue is a series of mysterious and inexplicable events on a Luxury liner ’’SS Bretagne’’.The story unravels to give way to all the secrets behind those bizarre events
The central character of the story is Toby Temple christined as Tobias Templarhaus. Considering his father as a failure in life, Toby’s mother took the responsibility of bringing him up. Toby was gifted with the talent to imitate anybody and an organ of immense size. By the age of 15 he was laying off each and every girl that crossed his way. Toby’s mother had seen a dream for him. She wanted him to be a famous star who can take on the world. She did not want anyone to ruin her plan , not even Toby’s girlfriend who got pregnant when Toby was 18.
Toby ran off to New York and worked in shady night clubs, bars as a comedian.His break took a long time to come but once he got it, Toby was determined to shine in front of the world.Clifton Lawrence a Hollywood agent to many superstars saw Toby’s talent and after that Toby’s struggle/joyride started.Toby made a mistake of going to bed with the girlfriend of a big man with mob connections. As a result he had to marry her, but no sooner he was a free man again when Millie died giving birth to a stillborn son. When 42 Toby owned the world.He joked with Kings and golfer with Presidents , his million fans did not mind as then knew Toby was one of them.
Josephine Czinki aka Jill Castle too had a struggling story behind her. Her father dies when she was born and mother worked as a seamstress. With dreams in her eyes, she ran off to Hollywood when her rich boyfriend married an equal status girl. After struggling for 7 endless years, when the asst director at Fox told her that he has a good part for her if she would go to bed with him, she decided it was time to say yes. After that she served sexual pleasures to casting directors, producers for small roles in tv shows, movies, commercials etc
When God rolled the dice, both of them met at a TV show , and what happened afterwards can itself be made as a mega grosser top Hollywood movie.
Read the book to find it out.