Flushed Away From Memory
The rise and fall of Hervé Villechaize. Hervé goes to Hollywood. Hervé makes it big; appearing in a James Bond movie. Hervé keeps drinking like a man 3 times his size. Hervé’s enormous appetite for woman cannot be satisfied. Hervé strikes gold with the TV show Fantasy Island. Hervé gets fully loaded and blows all his money.
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Hervé Villechaize was everywhere in the mid 70s. He is most famous for his role as Nick Nack in a James Bond film and as Tattoo in the hit TV show Fantasy Island. Villechaize was born with dwarfism and as an adult stood to be just under four feet. Relentlessly bullied as a child, Hervé was driven to achieve success. Part 1 finds him as the darling of the Paris art scene, as well as the transition to New York as something of a hippie curiosity.
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