It is Election 2000 in America. and Florida is recounting its disputed Bush/Gore votes. But scores of movie-business wannabes are focused on only one goal: getting a piece of a hotly tipped new TV project called The Diviners, an epic mini-series that will begin with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and close with a Mormon divining for water in the Nevada desert. Nobody has actually read a script yet, but the word is that The Diviners will be huge...
Among those circling the project is Vanessa Meandro, volatile chief of Means of Production, a New York indie film company seeking to crack the mainstream. Among Vanessa's staff and creative associates she can boast a Sikh cab driver. a bipolar bike messenger, two celebrity publicists, the Vanderbilt girls, a studio head, a writer who throws Botox parties, and a young woman whose job it is to fetch Vanessa her beloved Krispy Kreme donuts.