In all seriousness, Sarah left and it wasn't really that big of a deal. I would still argue that Sarah had a great look, but there is no way I could argue that she could have won it all. At the beginning of the episode, the producers tried to say that Sarah's performance suffered because of her crush on Kim, but I think her performance suffered because she could barely walk when she was sober. Sarah is very young though and has her whole life in front of her. Perhaps the more controversial incident took place with Cassandra, who wouldn't cut her hair and got the heave-ho. That poor girl is horribly delusional; I don't think that anybody has told her that there may be some sort of life after her pageant career, and that career may even involve something more than marrying a doctor and driving a Mercedes wagon to pick up your kids from soccer practice. But if it makes her happy, it can't be that bad.

The girls are really stoked when they make it back to the house, because they have a digital camera. What is the first thing that most people think about when they buy a digital camera for the first time? I don't know, maybe you take a picture of your bedroom to show your mom that you actually make your bed once and a while? Not that I would be the one who would do that. Luckily, these girls are not so stupendously lame as I was some people, in theory, and they did something that is way more enjoyable. I may have to erect a shrine to Jayla, because it was she that suggested that her housemates spice up their pictures by taking some of them topless. I would have enjoyed all of this more, but I kept on thinking to myself that these girls were just five minutes from the TVgasm offices and there was jack shit that I could do about it. Well, I guess I could start stalking, but I don't think I have the attention span.

One of the themes this week was confidence, or rather the lack of confidence that a lot of the girls have displayed. It's still early in the season, and simply having the confidence it requires to be a model would be enough to keep some of these girls around even if they aren't slamming in their pictures. That presence in front of the judges can take you a long way, and you better have that presence if you expect to win in the end. I don't know if you can really say that she has a presence, but Lisa sure does have confidence. Even though she was one of the last to be picked as a finalist, she has always thought she was the best. The judges fed her ego early on by telling her how great she was and praising her on her knowledge of modeling and her skill at posing.

Lisa's attitude is great for her, but the way she carries herself around the house is not winning her any friends. Nicole says that she wants to have some Absolut Mandarin before they go out, but Lisa doesn't want to share anything, even though Nicole could probably get drunk by licking the inside of the cap. And it's not like that is her only bottle, as it looked like she packed enough to last her, Tom Sizemore, and several Baldwins through a nuclear holocaust or three.

This week, the girls were given a chance to learn about their flaws and then learn how to work those flaws as unique features, or to hide those features by the tilt of the head or the turn of the hips. Essentially, you turn your negatives into positives, and even for those models that don't know math, that is one calculation I am sure they are all interested in. To talk about how you are supposed to work what your momma gave you, they bring out Twiggy. I guess it's hard to imagine that Twiggy never had a career, but apparently the poor thing had to fight her way to the top of a modeling world that was filled with women who weren't as skinny, flat-chested, or dumbo-eared as she was. Nobody ever thought about hiring somebody as skinny as her, and she paved the way for the trend for thin models ever since. You could just see Diane sitting off to the side wanting to strangle her or wishing she were born 40 years earlier when her curves were much more appreciated.

Posted by J-Unit on October 13, 2005 11:25 AM