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...Republican environmental and public health agenda clearly illustrates who the GOP represents. Their professed commitment to the middle class is a ridiculous fabrication. The harlotry of Gingrich and his ilk makes Heidi Fleiss and Divine Brown seem chaste. And while these politicians turn tricks for big business, the rest of America and its posterity get screwed...
Miller's own regular bits include jaunts to the ladies' room, where she bumps into surprise guests like Heidi Fleiss, who outfits her in new lingerie. In another recurring segment, Miller takes phone calls onstage from members of the studio audience, who are seen on a video monitor. The phone bits can be funny (a viewer revealed that she served her unsuspecting boyfriend a cat-food pie), but they would work just as well if Miller simply strolled down the aisles talking to guests the old-fashioned way. Least successful are Miller's opening monologues, which mimic those of countless...
Feminist lawyer Gloria Allred shares Fleiss's anger. "To single out a woman for prosecution while a male customer is free to continue to act with impunity is a classic case of gender bias," she argues. Los Angeles attorney Shelly Mandell notes that California's 1983 pandering law was crafted with male pimps in mind, then asks, "How many men have been convicted of pandering in Los Angeles and are serving mandatory prison time?" Suzanne Childs, speaking for the L.A. district attorney's office, says such statistics are not readily available. Offhand, she recalls only one man doing time...
Unexpectedly, the woman who is proving Fleiss's greatest defender is the same one who delivered Fleiss's verdict: jury foreman Sheila Mitrowski. Persuaded by the defense argument that Fleiss had been entrapped when a police detective posing as a Japanese businessman asked her to provide call girls for himself and his pals, Mitrowski, 48, had wanted to acquit Fleiss. Her view never wavered through four days of a debate that grew so rancorous she sometimes had to blow a whistle to silence the bickering. But with the weekend approaching and the jurors tiring, Mitrowski agreed to a compromise with...
...Fleiss's stiff sentence has outraged even some of her jurors...