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'The Last of Sheila was born out of the fondness for game-playing shared by Broadway golden boy Stephen Sondheim and actor Anthony Perkins, who would throw intricate puzzle parties for their well-heeled guests. Together they decided to write a murder mystery, originally setting its homicidal and scandal-drenched "truth games" at a snowed-in Long Island estate. However, everyone involved soon realized that a Riviera location would afford a much more pleasurable movie shoot. [It] offers a template for the genre's reinvention and even its self-parody with a complex whodunit set among the California jet set.' TCM