Smart Advice at the Smart Water Shindig

Smart Advice at the Smart Water Shindig by Roxanne McDonald

Be elegant. Don’t monopolize. Have humor.How many succeeded with these three simple guidelines?

One. Dionne ripped up the place with innocuous wit. At least, she impressed Benny Medina and company in a kind of bring out the youngster for a quick command performance for the elite with ennui moment.

All of the girls started with a very simple “challenge”…well, not even a challenge, really. They were invited to meet Leslie Hornby. Who? When their visitor arrived, it was Twiggy, bringing with her not only the lesson on how names make

the model but advice on how to act with a new model name.

Oh, and to reflect on past seasons of “America’s Next Top Model,” Melrose was brought back to discuss (how much discussing one could do at this level, I am not so sure) her name, Melissa Rose, which she changed to Melrose by getting rid of the “issa”.

Anyway, to test this unique name thing, the girls were taken to a posh party for Smart Water—where most did the socializing, schmoozing, and networking thing (smart Jaslene, for instance, realized they were there to “do business!”). Some were less wise, getting tipsy, getting in the faces of the celebrities, and getting, as Jael did, thrown in the pool (or, as Natasha did) throwing herself in the pool after Jaslene.

Okay, so it was their first big boy/big girl party.

Who was there? Bill Maher; Tia and Tamara Maury; Jason Wahlor from “Laguna Beach;” Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie; 50 Cent; and Benny Medina, Tyra’s manager. The big challenge, though the girls are not directly conscious of it, is to be the model hopeful who impresses Benny the most.

Besides not impressing Benny, Jael bugs 50 Cent, others just act silly, and Renee really stupidly confides in Nicole and Paris that she hates Jael. Nicole Richie of course tells Jael,

and our celebrities in the making are born.

Jael calls Renee on it; Renee bitches back; and Whitney jumps for joy—literally—that the powerhouses are at war.

The rest join in by refusing to answer when Renee asks, “Is that true, nobody else likes me either?”

And the apropos following challenge is to show four faces, four sides of each one’s personality—in a photo shoot for double Januses, I suppose (two-faced two-faced?)….

And still Renee is not booted. She is beautiful, or takes beautiful photos, but man is she the poster child for that beauty is more than skin deep cliché.

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