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One more on the horizon without a fantasy/ Sci Fi bent is Factory Girl.

The story unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s 'It Girl' Edie Sedgwick, the superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of celebrity-obsessed culture. Sedgwick appeared to be the quintessential American princess, with her blue blood, her trust fund and her Harvard education, not to mention ethereal beauty and charisma. But she was also a lost and fragile little girl. When she met Andy Warhol, everything changed. Edie found herself at the center of a Pop Art universe bursting with sex, drugs, style and rock ‘n’ roll . . . and a lemming-like rush for fame that took her closer to her own destruction. Possibly not a giggle-fest and almost bound to ooze style over substance. Oh, and there's the difficult matter of the young Darth Vadar playing an equally young RC Icon and rival for Ms Sedgewick's affections, Bob Dylan.
Could be a real car wreck for some of us

Stars Guy Pearce (Prescilla, LA Confidential), Sienna Miller (Layer Cake) and Hayden Christensen (Darth Vadar in the last two - appalling - Star Wars films).

Whilst this film may hold a nostalgic appeal to people of a certain age, it seems equally capable of delivering a message to the wannabe superstars of the twenty-first century.
Are you listening, Britney Spears?