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Published on December 02, 1999

Suddenly, Mima is haunted by a glowing, floating apparition of her former pop-idol self, who keeps showing up to insist that Mima the actress is nothing but a tarnished, tawdry "slut" who sold out. Worse, she begins receiving threats in the mail -- including an exploding letter, which goes off in the hand of her manager; eventually, her friends and business associates start winding up dead. The kick here is that Mima's being punished for abandoning her pure pop world for the evil sleaze that is the acting biz -- as though the music business is a far more chaste and noble realm for washed-up pop idols. Hardly the sturdy stuff of which cautionary tales are made -- especially when it all still looks like Speed Racer, only with nipples.

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