StarletsReal life is turning out to be stranger than a script for the silver screen. Real life is turning out to be stranger than a script for the silver screen. Summer, 1958. Vivienne Rhodes thinks shes finally landed her break playing Helen in Apex Pictures big budget Troy epic, A Thousand Ships, an anticipated blockbuster meant to resurrect the failing studio. Naturally, shes devastated when she arrives on the remote Italian island of Tavalli and finds