Victoria Foyt

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Victoria Foyt is an American author, novelist, screenwriter and actress, best known for her books The Virtual Life of Lexie Diamond, [http://www.valentinetofaith.com/ Valentine to Faith] and Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden. Foyt has written articles for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, O at Home, and Film & Video.

Biography

Foyt married Henry Jaglom in 1991 and divorced him in 2013. They met after Jaglom viewed a postcard promoting a play Foyt was performing in.Robert Levine, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-25-ca-50267-story.html "Jaglom's 'Babyfever' Looks at Real Life : Movies: The director co-wrote the film with his wife, who also stars in the film as an Angst- filled woman who hears her biological clock ticking."] Los Angeles Times, April 25, 1994.

In 2012, Foyt founded the publishing company Sand Dollar Press.

Film career

Foyt co-wrote and starred in four feature films, all of which were directed by Jaglom.{{cite news|last=Carr|first=James|title=Humor makes 'Babyfever' endearing|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/61957121.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+06%2C+1994&author=Jay+Carr%2C+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Humor+makes+%60Babyfever%27+endearing&pqatl=google|access-date=23 August 2012|date=May 6, 1994}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The pair first worked together in 1994's Babyfever{{cite news|last=Maslin|title=Review: Babyfever|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE5DC1E30F937A35756C0A962958260|access-date=23 August 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 4, 1994}} and filmed Déjà Vu in 1997, which was partially inspired by how Jaglom and Foyt met.Jeff Strickler, [https://web.archive.org/web/20181116171513/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62562543.html "`Deja Vu' is, in a word, forgettable; Director Jaglom wrote semiautobiographical story with wife."] Star Tribune, July 3, 1998, via HighBeam Research.{{cite news|last=Mills|first=Michael|title=ACTRESS KNOWS THE TRUE MEANING OF 'BABYFEVER'|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PBPB&p_theme=pbpb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF86EE9E76CC6C&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=23 August 2012|newspaper=The Palm Beach Post|date=May 6, 1994}}

Foyt wrote and directed the short film The Sweet Spot, which starred Jennifer Grant and Carl Weathers. The Sweet Spot was shown in several film festivals, including PBS on Hollywood: Fine Cut, the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the Hawaii Film Festival, and the Newport Beach Film Festival. In 2005, she starred in Jaglom's Going Shopping.{{cite news|last=Kelly|first=Laura|title=YOU MAY NEED A MALL FIX AFTER THIS|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/930360871.html?dids=930360871:930360871&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+23%2C+2005&author=Laura+Kelly+Staff+Writer&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=YOU+MAY+NEED+A+MALL+FIX+AFTER+THIS&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131143630/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/930360871.html?dids=930360871:930360871&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+23,+2005&author=Laura+Kelly+Staff+Writer&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=YOU+MAY+NEED+A+MALL+FIX+AFTER+THIS&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|access-date=23 August 2012|newspaper=South Florida Sun - Sentinel|date=Nov 23, 2005}}

''Save the Pearls'' criticism

Foyt received criticism for her self-published novel Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden, a dystopian novel in which people of African descent are the "ruling class".[http://www.dailydot.com/society/teen-book-racism-controversy/ Young adult novel sparks controversy over racism] Daily Dot Some reviewers of an early excerpt described elements of the novel as racist, including the use of the term "coal". The science fiction and fantasy magazine Weird Tales announced that it would publish an excerpt from the novel in one of its first issues under new ownership, but after readers threatened a boycott, the planned publication was cancelled.{{cite web|last=Fox|first=Rose|title=Weird Tales Goes Back in Time|url=http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/genreville/?p=2058|publisher=Publishers Weekly|access-date=22 August 2012}}{{cite news|last=Flood|first=Allison|title=Racism row over SF novel about black 'Coals' and white 'Pearls'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/21/racism-row-novel-coals-pearls?newsfeed=true|access-date=22 August 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=21 August 2012}} Foyt responded to the criticism by stating that she had not intended the book's contents or advertising to be racist, and that her intention was to write a novel addressing the issue of global warming.[http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/author-of-controversial-revealing-eden-hits-back-at-critics-1.898520#ixzz22CjxJbC5 Author of controversial Revealing Eden hits back at critics] CTV News

Filmography

Babyfever, 1994
Last Summer in the Hamptons, 1995
Déjà Vu, 1997
Going Shopping, 2005
The Sweet Spot (as writer and director)

Bibliography

=Novels=

Valentine to Faith (2020)

The Virtual Life of Lexie Diamond (2007){{cite journal|last=Spisak|first=April|title=The Virtual Life of Lexie Diamond (Review)|journal=Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books|year=2007|volume=60|issue=10|pages=414–415|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/364914973|access-date=9 April 2013|doi=10.1353/bcc.2007.0389|s2cid=144463515|oclc=364914973}}