BEg2 chapter 3 - chunks of fair usage quotes & a few comments

[Michael Bailey]

Bonus: there were 220 episodes of the original Dynasty…remember the wedding
shootout and the Moldavians? (Chapter 2 flashback to 80s flashback)
A-and that Fallon? Amanda? Freakin’ Dex Dexter’s voice was just like my
sister’s boyfriend’s…



“Yes, Heidi, and yet despite it all sometimes I would almost welcome
somebody that accommodating in my life again.”


         “You, ah, want his number? Horst?”

         “You have it?”

         “No, uh-uh, I was going to ask you.”

         They shake their heads at each other. Without needing a mirror,
Maxine knows they look like a couple of depraved grandmas. An untypical
adjustment to have to make, their roles being usually a little more
glamorous. At some point early in their relationship, which has been
forever, Maxine understood that she was not the Princess here. Heidi wasn’t
either, of course, but Heidi didn’t know that, in fact she thought she was
the Princess and furthermore has come over the years to believe that Maxine
is the Princess’s slightly less attractive wacky sidekick.”

Prairie and Che translated to a different milieu?



“Whatever the story of the moment happens to be, Princess Heidrophobia”

Close enough to play with names.
Hydrophobia - rabies - in popular parlance, to be rabid would be to be
unstoppable and dangerous, and mad



“…is always the lead babe while Lady Maxipad is the fastmouthed soubrette,
the heavy lifter, the practical elf who comes while the Princess is
sleeping or, more typically, distracted, and gets the real work of the
princessipality done.”

What’s a soubrette again?

         Soubrette Soprano– A soubrette soprano refers to *both a voice
type and a particular type of opera role*. A soubrette voice is light with
a bright, sweet timbre, a tessitura in the mid-range, and with no extensive
coloratura.


soubrette, in theatre <https://www.britannica.com/art/theater-building>,
comic female character usually in the role of a chambermaid. The soubrette
role originated in French comedy, one of the earliest examples being
Suzanne in
<https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Augustin-Caron-de-Beaumarchais>Pierre-Augustin
de Beaumarchais’ *Le Mariage de Figaro* (1784). Still earlier, Molière’s
<https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist> plays
*Tartuffe* (1664) and *Le Bourgeois gentilhomme* (1670) contained versions
of the character in the roles of Dorine and Nicole.


[Maxine succeeded in negotiating for Heidi a good old-fashioned
breach-of-promise settlement]
“…holding up the Strubels for a sum nicely in excess of what they had
initially offered to buy Heidi, the little Polish snip, off. “Galician,
actually,” Heidi remarked. It was not for her the issue of conscience
Maxine had been afraid of, for Evan Strubel turned out to be a feckless
putz who lived in reflexive fear of his mother, Helvetia, whose timely
entrance that day in a St. John suit and a snappish mood prevented Evan
from putting further moves on Maxine
 herself, is how serious he was about Heidi to begin with. Not that Maxine
shared details of young Strubel’s perfidy with the Princess, settling for
“I think he sees you mostly as a way to get out of the house.” Heidi was
far, further than Maxine expected, from desolated. They sat at her vast
kitchen table counting the Strubels’ money, eating ice-cream sandwiches and
cackling.”

St John suit
https://www.fineclothing.com/st-john-knits-2pc-aqua-crystal-glitter-knit-jacket-skirt-suit.html

Mother’s name, Helvetia, “is the female national personification of
Switzerland” (wikipedia)

https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Helvetia-Switzerland-Swiss-Switzerland-by-77tinel/41193613.EJUG5



          “Heidi, relieved to be single, pursued a career in academia,
having recently been given tenure at City College in the pop-culture
department. “You totally pulled my meatloaf out of the microwave on that
one,” Heidi airily, “don’t think I’m not eternally grateful.” “What choice
did I have, you always thought you were Grace Kelly.” “Well, I was. Am.”
“Not career Grace Kelly,” Maxine points out. “Only, specifically, Rear
Window Grace Kelly. Back when we used to surveil the windows across the
street.” “

Grace Kelly played Lisa, who daringly climbed the fire escape.

Thelma Ritter played Stella, the nurse. Wendell Corey played Tom Doyle, the
cop friend.

Been awhile since I’ve seen that.


Segueing into the Deseret.