PoweR Girls: The Secret Is In The Needle
What s gross? Watching Bruce Willis slice the peas and carrots off some freak show pedophile in Sin City. What s grosser than gross? Watching Lizzie Grubman get botox in the most recent episode of our beloved PoweR Girls. Intern David was completely shocked by the injections — he had always assumed that Lizzie was born with an endless supply of poison in her cheeks. My doctor makes me look beautiful, Lizzie proclaims. And David gets chicks from writing for Gawker...
Let's talk about last night s episode, because God knows you didn t watch it. Fashion Week has arrived and the girls need to get some famous faces at the show for Fusha, the label designed by Wyclef s wife, Marie Claudinette Pierre Jean. Let s just say that Ms. Claudinette Pierre Jean and Lizzie s doctor probably share the optometrist. Witness Wylcef clad in an oversized red furry jacket that gave some indication of what a Haitian Elmo might look like.
This was supposed to be the Millie is a beeatch because she doesn t show up to work episode, but it s difficult to hate on a girl who must single-handedly raise her younger sister while Rachel and Kelly engage in a mind-obliterating discussion on toenail polish (albeit, on the job). Describing her work in PR, Millie admits, I m not going to take it so seriously as if it were a life or death situation. Truer words have never been spoken, except for last week when Millie referred to Star Jones as a bitch.
There s also, for those keeping score, a subplot regarding the opening of club 17, which, like the magazine, nobody gives a shit about. And while party-attendee Shelley Reinstein claims that the event was a great, when was the last time we trusted anything that came out of the mouth of an Us Weekly staffer, aside from their dinner. And lunch. Possibly breakfast.
The episode concludes with the Fusha show attended by such luminaries as Puffy s mom and ex-sorta porn star Simon Rex. Lizzie, if you re reading (and I know you are), try to go out with a bang on next week s season — but I ll go out on a limb and say series — finale. Throw a party with Robert Blake, Oksana Baiul, and Dave Coulier. Pudding wrestle Ronn Torrosian. Ram your car into a pack of innocent (but totally not on the list) bystanders. Anything that ll make this show more alive than the muscles in your face.