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...extreme displeasure) on Donahue's show two weeks ago, he was being the pedal-to-the- metal performance artist one expects. And his unedited riffing can often be, as charged, disgusting: his jokes 11 years ago about his wife's miscarriage were inexcusable, his now defunct TV show's low-rent T&A spectacle a depressing glimpse into a New Jersey heart of darkness...
...with a friend, when eight cops, mind you, accompanied by a drug-sniffing dog, suddenly leaped out of the bushes and yelled, "L.A.P.D.! Which one of you is Heidi Fleiss?" As if they had to ask! Worse, Heidi was certain she was brought down by any number of envious, low-rent madams who run tacky $200 and $300 doxies -- "like they send their maid out on a job or something...
After this low-rent Lolita seduces Jeremy, she is almost immediately stricken with a fatally incurable disease, presumably as punishment for her sins, and dies, not as a result of her illness, but inexplicably, in a car accident. Lady Henrietta and Jeremy console each other and move in together, presumably to cohabitate in happiness...
SCHOOLTEACHERS LUC AND ISABELLE BENTZ are hardly extravagant. By day, both teach immigrant children in low-income districts of Paris. At night, the couple returns to the working-class suburb of Sarcelles where, across from a busy train station, they live in a three-bedroom apartment with their daughter and son, ages 3 years and 18 months. The flat is cozy but small, typical of the low-rent units constructed back in the 1950s to house French families repatriated from North Africa. Together, the Bentzes take home $3,600 a month, not a lot for a family of four...
...after a shocking 2-0 loss (well, losses aren't too shocking these days) against Boston College yesterday in Chestnut Hill, the Crimson has moved out of its palace on the hills and into a low-rent, run-down apartment in Funk City...