Movies the replaced the circus and the carnival as the travelling sideshow for the misses of America today providing longed for escape from day-to-day really. In the actual movie business, one is either above the line or below the line, the demarcation where the real money and power starts and stops in a personal attempt to separate fact from fiction the author takes a look at the beautiful, and the not so-beautiful, people who work in films, in a behind-the-scenes account of "movie magic from the bottom."