SYNOPSIS

Based on the 1982 TV movie of the same name, and another of TV's drama's about power, lust and family, Paper Dolls was set in the glamorous world of New York's modeling and cosmetics industry.

Grant Harper was the tycoon who manipulated everyone, his womanizing son, Wesley, was president of Harper Cosmetics, while his beautiful daughter, Blair, was a top model and the wife of hard-working young executive David Fenton, head of Tempus Sportswear.

David and Wesley were bitter rivals - both looking for an exclusive new face that would sell their products and free them from Grant's control. Both were also clients of Racine, the powerful and shrewd head of a top modeling agency, whose hottest client, teenage superstar Taryn Blake, was on the verge of burnout. Although she was just 16, her frequent temper tantrums and the demands of her aggressive mother and manager, Julia, made the young girl likely to be pushed aside when the next "big discovery" was found.

That discovery was Laurie Caswell, also 16-years-old and fresh from the suburbs, who projected an innocent beauty and enthusiasm. Laurie's mother and father, Dinah and Michael, worried about what the high pressure life of a superstar model would do to their daughter, but were soon drawn into the high-stakes corporate and personal intrigues of Madison Avenue.

Colette Ferrier, who ran Ferrier Cosmetics, was one of Harper Cosmetics' chief rivals.