Auteur Watch - Monika Harris

Oh, good!  Another short one.  Whelp, we're currently, as of this writing, in the midst of '90s nostalgia.  HOWEVER, and this is a big however, I think it's so far restricted to the first half of the '90s, before the whole world went crazy with consolidation.  Well, just the business world, of course.  The Sherman Anti-Trust Act typically isn't used on individuals.  No, the first half of the '90s was SUPPOSED to be epitomized by the rock group Dee-Lite... am I spelling that right?  Gotta take another Wikipedia break here...Deee-Lite.  That's it.  I guess even the Wikipedia page doesn't want to call them a one-hit wonder.  So cruel.  Of course, Deee-Lite wasn't enough for most people.  There were others who wanted to move their butt like a squirrel on a nut, so the C + C Music Factory would have to do.  Sadly, the factory was quickly shuttered and sold to a German conglomerate.
But this was all before the brief but prolific heyday of one Monika Harris.  It goes without saying... but I'll type it out anyway.  As you can see from her writing credits, it's one episode of "Silk Stalkings"... wasn't that on USA?  Characters welcome!  The old "USA Up All Night," on the other hand... no longer welcome, so it would seem!  So there's "Silk Stalkings" and a feature film called Legal Deceit.  No reviews of it yet, but it is available on VHS from Scarecrow!  Hope that helps!  It's a thinly-veiled autobiographical narrative about a character named Sydney Banks... a name that doesn't quite correlate with a name like Monika Harris, so that works.  That's good writing, folks.  And who knows?  Maybe that's what happened to Monika.  Maybe showbiz wasn't what she ultimately wanted.  Maybe she's running a studio now, who knows.  Or one of these douche-y new e-companies.  Maybe she's worth a billion dollars, but she's old school and doesn't feel like going on Colbert to flog her wares.  Like that Uber douchebag, old what's-his-name.  I mean, you don't take on the taxi business without making a few enemies.
But I get too far afield again.  We were talking about Legal Deceit.  And even though, as of this writing, the film only enjoys an IMDb general quality rating of 3.9 out of 10, if only for me it now enjoys some prescience.  Maybe not The Siege-level prescience for its time, but still.  I mean, now that funds have been funneled through a law firm to go around campaign finance laws, and we come to find that The National Enquirer isn't just some naïve, almost quaint, phony newspaper, but is in fact used as a stonewall for victims of presidential sexual harassment, well... semi-legal deceit, maybe.  As Alan Dershowitz once quipped, it's "lawful but awful."  Not when Drumpf does it, of course.  That's different.  That's totally different.
So in conclusion, a toast to Monika Harris, a once powerful voice in mainstream Hollywood, quieted far too soon.  Come out of obscurity soon, girlfriend!