Angelica has started preschool and the first week goes great. She is quite the social butterfly and has made fast friends with her classmates. Seems she’s a hit with the boys as well as the girls in the class. Her favorite playtime seems to the blocks. She likes to hoard the blocks and make the boys come try to take them back from her. The teachers knows this is normal development for nearly 2 year olds. Bette and Vera have worked well in getting Angelica to school each day this week. Bette is grateful for Vera’s help a couple of mornings this week as she really likes and thrives off her spin and yoga classes.

Tina’s week in Los Angeles has been hellish. Long filming days, an unorganized director and less than inspired crast and crew. Tina steps in to avoid numerous disasters early in the week and boy wonder seems to have been knocked down just enough pegs to get the project back on track. Finally the daily clips were coming in perfect in fewer takes and the crew had started to relax and simply doing their jobs. Tina has been reminded by Helena more than once that she wasn’t willing to deal with any high drama from that “prick”. Tina agreed, but knew getting a new director at this point in the project would cause delays and waste budget. Fortunately, Robert was talented enough at directing that he was turning out some good material. His style left a lot to be desired, but he was technically a sound professional. Just not the type they wanted for the studio. The Peabody jet is making a Friday night red eye run to bring Helena and Tina home to New York for the Easter weekend. Robert and his team would work on the clips and scenes for next week’s location shoots over the weekend and they would begin filming again on Tuesday.

Helena: Well Tina, I must say you are an amazing movie executive. I’ve had my doubts about Robert, but you’ve made him look like a star.

Tina: Early on in this business you figure out how to deal with the assholes.

Helena: Well, I have my methods, but yours will save us more money and are far less messy.