Dirt: 2.6 ‘And the Winner Is…’ Recap
Original Air Date: April 6, 2008
NOTE: This series and recap contain mature themes and language.
Everybody’s going to the Hollywood Gold Awards. After the red-carpet arrivals, it’s time for last year’s Best Actress winner, HOLT MCLAREN’s forthcoming co-star JASMINE FORD (Guest Star Rochelle Aytes), to help announce this year’s Best Male Actor winner. Unfortunately, after a supposed 13 months of being booze-free, she shows up on the stage acting drunk and almost immediately vomits for all to see. And, since the show is telecast live, everyone watching does just that.
Jasmine is taken to the hospital, while LUCY hurriedly dispatches WILLA and FARBER to investigate. The reporters eventually learn from the actress’ representative that she really has been sober for over a year, while her pro-athlete ex-husband TREY PAULSON (Guest Star Victor Webster) reveals he has no motive since he has a pre-nup agreement that gets him half of what she earns.
Following the embarrassing incident, it’s likely Jasmine will loose her starring role in the upcoming film, especially since the movie studio didn’t want to bond her in the first place. When Farber calls a friend on the inside and learns the studio had buyer’s remorse about Jasmine from the get-go and even tried to persuade her people to let them put her on a different film, he and Willa realize its possible someone from the studio may have drugged the actress to get the studio out of the contract.
Elsewhere, BRENT BARROW informs his boss ADAM PROTEAU (Julian Acosta) that Gibson has changed his mind about not including the rights to DirtNow brand extensions, such as book rights and TV specials, in the sale. He’ll now sell them to Adam for just $1 in order to avoid having to pay millions of dollars in tax liabilities; Adam doesn’t have to worry about those since his business is multinational.
Adam, who’s been eyeballing Brent’s date JEN all night long, then drops the bomb that he wants Brent to swap dates with him. When Brent brings this up with Jen later, she’s not too thrilled about rich men’s sense of entitlement … until she comes up with the idea to agree if she’s paid one million dollars for one night with Adam and double if his girlfriend NICOLINA (Guest Star Holly Weber) sticks around. Adam’s not willing to pay anything, however, so Brent ultimately ends up bribing Jen by giving her his car.
Adam decides he’s going to keep both women, and as thanks for Brent’s efforts, he gives Brent the website, the options, and a finder’s fee of over 2.5 percent on the $100 million deal since Brent found the properties before Adam’s lawyers did. Plus, Brent also gets the expensive sports car Adam’s assistant just dropped off outside. After a night of drinking and drugging, Brent drives the car home, parks it in the garage, and falls asleep at the wheel with the engine still running. [I wonder who might not feel so great the next day — that is, if he wakes up at all…]
DON’s date, pop star SHARLEE CATES (Ashley Johnson), finally gets her moment on stage to announce MIA’s (Guest Star Rosanna Arquette) Lifetime Achievement Award. When the aging music icon comes out, she greets Sharlee with a whopping French kiss and feel-up, a la Madonna and Britney. As Lucy says, that act’s getting old.
Still, Sharlee is psyched because she thinks it means Mia, her hero, likes her. When she and Don go to Mia’s dressing room later, however, Mia is nothing short of contemptuous of Sharlee, whom she thinks has no talent. Mia claims she kissed her only to give viewers with short attention spans what they want. This hurts Sharlee’s feelings deeply, and after she storms out of the dressing room, Don, who was recording the entire exchange on a hidden tape recorder Lucy gave him, tells Mia that all of her bitterness makes her look old.
Sharlee confesses to Don later that she’s ashamed of how much she loves what she does. Don responds that although he’s 41, he listens to her third CD Tattered all the time because he loves the incongruity of it. Sharlee has no idea what the word means, but she immediately realizes it’s like them when Don explains the word describes things that don’t go together. Sharlee asks Don to kiss her then, like normal people.
Meanwhile, Lucy is attending the show with TED ROTHMAN (Guest Star Danny Comden). He sees Lucy and Holt having an intimate conversation at one point, and he approaches Holt later when the actor’s alone and eggs him into starting a physical altercation. His strategy is simple. He first reveals that he had to give up gambling and smoking, so he’s determined to keep up the booze and pussy. Then he launches into an account of how he bends Lucy, who’s not as hard on the inside as she appears on the outside, over his couch, which predictably sets Holt off.
Holt punches Ted in the face and is hauled away by security while Ted smiles. Lucy chews Holt out for getting played so easily — he doesn’t care, of course — and Ted leaves when he asks Lucy afterwards if she loves Holt and she replies that she doesn’t know.
There’s still more tension ahead for the editor. When Lucy demands the tape recorder she gave Don, the photographer claims there was no story with Mia. Lucy has nothing else since she couldn’t get anything on the Jasmine debacle — she did figure out that a rival actress at the event, CLAIRE LELAND (Guest Star Morena Baccarin), probably drugged Jasmine’s soda before the incident, but she has no proof — and after she snatches the recorder from Don, she advises him that Sharlee is a product not a person. If he can’t remember that, she continues, he should take a vacation.
With the awards show over, Lucy returns to DirtNow’s offices to find that Don removed the cassette from the recorder. She looks at a photo taken that night of her and Ted next and then calls Holt to tell him she’s coming over.
Willa and Farber’s night ends on a similar note. In the limousine, Farber confesses he should have called her after they slept together instead of sending an email. Willa didn’t get the email, though, because Farber sent it from his personal address. She didn’t open the message because she didn’t recognize the sender and she only opens emails from familiar addresses. Still, Farber felt they were close enough after sleeping together for him to share his personal address, and this admission charms Willa enough to want to have sex again right there in the car.
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