[©2010 BY CLINTON09; ALL CHARACTERS OVER THE AGE OF 18; NO EVENTS DESCRIBED ARE TRUE]
If you ever watched NFL football on Fox a few years ago, or ever lived in the LA basin and watched a certain local station's weather babe, you know Jillian Barbarie. Thinking back to the 1950's and 1960's: In those days of yore, women would fight like demons to keep their 'good name', to insist that they were really 'good girls' in spite of hearsay to the contrary (or, say, video tapes.)
Now comes Jillian Barberie. Sexy Jillian. As I watched her on the local weather cast, the station made no bones about the fact that she was totally unqualified to do the weather, or even to do the news anchor (just kidding). She typically would wear a tight fitting wrap around blouse with push-up bra, a bare midriff with her darling little navel showing (remember, this is the weather, during family news hour), a skirt so tight that she could only move with difficulty, the best legs on local TV, and shoes so vampy that strippers would be embarrassed to wear them on the job. It didn't help (which is to say, it DID help) that her body was marked with sexy tattoos in discrete places. It made more than a few viewers wonder where some of the OTHER tattoos might be...Hmmm
As I said, for years women fought for their reputations. Well, this station wanted viewers, so Jillian would wiggle, jiggle, jump, and do two more things that made me watch. First, she held the digital screen pointer, but in a certain way. Oddly enough, by sheer chance, she held it at her exact center below her flat tummy, the pointer, and her second finger, pointing at her sacred place. I don't mean once, or twice, or for a few seconds, but for virtually the whole weathercast, men had to watch her point to her 'personal area'. It was absolutely maddening. I pity the man whose business (outdoor café? farmer?) really relied on the weather; he'd tune in and get caught up in those bouncing boobs, her long legs, her trim tattooed ankles, and her perfect feet in those sexy shoes. Mama mia!
I was going to one of the myriad University of California branch campuses in the LA area. I worked on the student newspaper, and the editor (male of course) thought it would be great for circulation if someone could interview a local on-air personality as colorful as, say, Jillian Barberie. I closed my eyes, hoping, and couldn't believe it when he pegged yours truly to do the story! He said, with tongue planted in cheek, that he wanted me to "really nail the story".
I said,"I really intend to!"
With a call from our office to her public relations hack, a meeting was set up for us at her home. When I got there, I was immediately impressed by the sprawling home in a tony neighborhood of suburban LA. After I rang the bell, all you could hear was dogs barking. She opened the door and gave me her famous vampy smile. It communicated so much, like: 'If you're man enough, try and fuck me; you just might get lucky...punk.'
I shook her hand as she held one dog and the leash of another. She asked me if I minded dogs or cats, because she had eleven (mostly adopted strays). I said no, I loved dogs in my youth and had two cats of my own.
We went to her Italian leather couch (smart, leather doesn't hold pet hair) and sat down. I told myself over and over, "do not stare, do not stare, treat her respectfully like a nun." After I sat, she sat down, right next to me. She was wearing a terry cloth robe and slippers, as if she just came from the shower.
Sure enough, she said, "you have to forgive me; I just came from the shower and I'm still sopping wet. I'm sure I'll dry out as we talk." I took my first and biggest gamble.
I said, "Well, actually, I was hoping that that would happen in reverse order!" That 'clever' remark just laid out there for seconds...no reaction.
Then, she laughed her well known laugh, grabbed me on the knee firmly, and said that we would see.
I told her what really turned on her male viewers: "besides your fantastic figure, your vampy moves, and your sheer sex appeal, you flaunt everything tawdry about you. I mean, most women trying to make it on TV as legitimate news personalities wouldn't talk about their past as strippers, but you did...God, I thought I was going to reach thru the TV to grab that rock hard butt of yours!"
She laughed riotously, saying that that was the reaction that she, and the producers(!), wanted. She looked into my eyes, said I was "sweet", and kissed me. I was stunned, looked back at her, and returned the honors with gusto. She had a sense of humor and asked if this was going to be an 'in depth' interview.