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...where she continued to appear in the gossip columns and got a job hosting another bad TV show, this one for the Lifetime network. It was another non-starter called the "Great American TV Poll." The poll questions ranged from "How old is too old for a miniskirt?" to "Would you tell your best friend if you knew he or she had a cheating spouse...
Perhaps one of the most interesting discoveries of the evening was the skill of Siouxsie's drummer and husband (though only his talents as the former were revealed on stage), Budgie. At earlier stops on their tour Budgie had worn a miniskirt, but fortunately he had abandoned it for this show thereby allowing the audience to concentrate on his talent without being distracted by his appearance. Budgie was not only a wonderful drummer, but he was also the most enthusiastic musician on stage, quickly striking out the beat in a dionysiac frenzy...
...contract hit. As the funeral proceeded, city streets were busy, shops and offices were open as usual and few people seemed touched by the event. "I'll catch it on the news," said Lyudmilla Petrova, a shop worker on Nevsky Prospekt. Tanya, a slender 19-year-old in a miniskirt waiting by a chauffeured Mercedes for her businessman boyfriend, said she had not missed a single TV program on the Romanovs all week. "It was so sad," she said, "but it doesn't seem like it happened here--it's like a miniseries." The muted response to the funeral...
...business as usual in the ICU until Felicia Potter (Kyra Sedgwick) struts into Werner's life. Felicia is confusingly shown as being a) very rich and well-bred, and b) dressed in tacky costume jewelry and embarrasingly ill-applied makeup. At any rate, she (or her charming pink-sequined miniskirt) quickly gets the attention of Dr. Ernst. Though at first it appears that Felicia is simply in need of comfort, her more complex desires soon emerge: she wants the young doctor to quietly pull the plug on her vegetative father...
...offer. "I was wearing jeans, which were dirty, and I was carrying my backpack, so I guess I didn't look right," she says. Down to her last $7, she bought a doughnut for dinner and spent the night on a park bench. Unable to afford even a cheap miniskirt, she sat down in an alley and pulled out her spare blue jeans. After carefully marking off a line just below the crotch, she cut off both pant legs using the saw blade of her Swiss Army knife, a gift from her dad. At 9 that evening she was back...