Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts

Author:Billie Letts [LETTS, BILLIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC000000, cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9780446537865
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-08-26T14:00:00+00:00

At the studio, Lutie met Ebony, a statuesque beauty whose skin was the color of coffee, and Lingo—tall with a sculpted body and a gay partner, Brice, who did hair and makeup for the cast.

Philo had the three “stars” disrobe in their dressing rooms, then, wearing kimonos, come to the studio bedroom, where he told them the story line of the movie, a plot featuring a married couple—Ebony and Lingo—bored with their sex lives until they hire a young live-in housekeeper, who would be played by Lutie.

When Philo had them remove their kimonos and pose in various sexual positions for Polaroid shots, Lutie was so uncomfortable and embarrassed that she wanted to run. But she didn’t. She knew she had no choice. If she didn’t make this film, she and Fate would soon be living out of a car again, and he would still be going to James Baldwin Elementary, where his next beating might be worse than the first.

After Philo finished with the still photos, he thumbtacked them to a bulletin board, then sent the actors to the fitting room, where a Vietnamese woman was waiting. She had them try on costumes, which she measured, marking seams with chalk, pinning up hems, adjusting straps, belts, chains—and doing her work without speaking a word.

From there they returned to their dressing rooms, put on their street clothes, and met with Philo again so he could give them their scripts. He told them to memorize their lines for tomorrow, the first day of shooting, because he would not tolerate an actor who didn’t know his or her lines. He said their day would begin at eight o’clock, not a minute later, and told them to be prepared to stay late, as he planned to finish this film in three days.

On her way to the Digger, Lutie stopped at Denny’s, where she bought fifty dollars’ worth of coke from Viper with the money T. had given her, flashing—without intending to—the entire seven hundred not only to Viper, but to another guy working in the kitchen.

When she got back in her car, she snorted a few lines to try to ease the ugly memories of the pictures she’d just posed for, knowing that the next three days she’d be doing more of the same. And probably worse.

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