Word: girlness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This season the networks have given us lots of prostitutes, but how realistic are they? We asked Norma Jean Almodovar, a former L.A. traffic officer turned call girl, who is founder of the International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education. Here's what she thought...
FRASIER: The worst portrayal is the call girl who dated Niles Crane. She is the stereotypical dumb whore. Niles, a psychiatrist, didn't know he was dating a whore. What does that say about his profession? A funny bit for TV, but it wouldn't happen. At least not to someone in our profession...
...WEST WING: This call girl could be one of the many real-life law students who moonlight as hookers, trying to make ends meet while getting an education. What could be more educational than dating someone in the White House? You don't think it could really happen...
Everyone in the gym at Martinez snickers at the names that Pritchard and his lunkhead pals used to call a heavy girl named Gina when he was a third-grader in St. Louis. But they mummy up when he says, "Nobody wanted to be there...when she was home, with all her pain locked up." Pritchard tells how, years later, he ended up in an emergency room after a gang member conked him on the head. And guess who was his nurse? Gina, who took note of the fact that while she had slimmed down nicely, Pritchard was the size...
Even some established musicians are taking up the craft. Three years ago, Ben Watt, of the pop group Everything But the Girl, put down his guitar and bought a pair of turntables. "I got tired of playing the guitar--it's simple as that," says Watt, who now does a weekly deejay stint at a London club and whose scratching is featured on Everything But the Girl's new CD Temperamental. "For the moment, working on my deejay skills seems like an interesting area to explore...