She is reduced to Rum and Diet Coke cocktails with an occasional maraschino cherry for cheap thrills. So she constantly dreams up far-fetched schemes to fulfill her desperately tawdry cravings for glamour and glitz.
DiDi is a suburban Sysiphus
striving futilly to redecorate her life. She thrives on highly charged
emotional scenes, valium and pepperoni pizza. She scrupulously examines
and catalogs her physical flaws and any sign of incipient aging sends
her into a panic . Wrinkles, dewlaps, crowsfeet, cellulite, flab and
grey hairs are all featured in her self-flagellating litany of disgust.
Her best friend is Loretta, a full-figured, bee-hived, beak- nosed,
over-sexed brunette bombshell. Loretta favors skin tight toreador pants
and lots of cleavage,
DiDi's widowed mother, Irma, lives in Miami Beach. Irma favors Mai-Tais,
muu-muus and beach boys. Not necessarily in that order.