'Mad scientist Ajay Sahgal has set out to test the validity of the proposition that nature abhors a vacuum by sending movie star Emery Roberts, to rustic Vermont...As a group portrait of young Hollywood, Pool is absolutely convincing and authentic. Sahgal knows the tribal language and rituals--the cigarette after the gym, the vanity production company, the agentspeak. And in Emery Roberts he has given us a pure portrait of the pop idol as empty vessel.'