My Unbelievable, Sometimes Horrifying, Ever-Perplexing but Entirely True Adventures in the Film and TV Biz: “A Sequel?” (Part Two of Six)

The Gautama Sapphire, my inauspicious industry debut, was a disaster. A soft-core rip-off of The Maltese Falcon (see Part One of this Six-Part saga for that torrid story), I chalked the future straight-to-video failure to paying my dues.