Episode Report Card Potes: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Featuring Janice Dickinson As Herself
By Potes | Season 6 | Episode 4 | Aired on 03.28.2006
Jade interrupts to ask if today's lesson is only about commercial looks, and Janice just answers, "No," while, to throw us off, L'il Jan drinks a glass of water. Oh, and in case you hadn't inferred this, Lisa is just kind of hanging around and being useless. Janice says that editorial posing is mostly about "wearing a feeling." It's the feeling that the photographer gives you, the client gives you, the editor gives you on any given day. You know, Janice was so coked up in her heyday that I bet some of the photographers, clients, and editors she worked with even gave her a feeling in the ass from time to time. Janice tells the girls to find the light, and says she's always craning towards the light and trying to be more fabulous than anyone else. With this, she wraps her hands around Lisa's face. Given what goes down later on in the episode, I think it's fair to say that Lisa should be thankful there wasn't a pillow or some wire hangers nearby.
Furonda asks how long they should hold each pose when being photographed. Janice says that it's primarily about "feeling it," and that they need to give the photographer enough time to take the picture. Brooke doesn't understand what "finding the light with your face" means. Janice says it's about knowing your best angles. She interviews that Brooke showed up looking like she just rolled out of bed, which is totally true. Janice is so convincingly disgusted that it makes me a little disgusted, too. Gina starts off by saying, "I can't give a convincing photograph." Janice immediately mocks what she just said, and then says, "I don't want to hear the next thing out of your mouth, but go ahead." The way she says it is so funny, even if it's mean. See, there's a difference between being funny-mean and mean-mean, but we'll get to that in a minute. Gina says that she always gives a blank stare. Janice asks her to smile and laugh out loud. Gina does, but not so successfully. Janice orders her to go behind the other girls and jump up and down on one foot while hysterically laughing. Gina kind of twitters about it for a while, but eventually realizes that when Janice says something, it's better to just do it and not risk her whacking you with her purse and then having all her pills spill out. Gina hops and laughs. Jade interviews that Gina is clueless, and that she has lost her damn mind. For once, I am kind of with Jade. Gina interviews that she felt stupid, and that Jade was loving every minute of it. Danielle says that she knew Janice was going to get Gina, and that she had to stop looking because it was painful to watch. Janice keeps berating Gina and making her hop. She says to Gina, "Even if you think you're making a total fool out of yourself...it's a lesson." It's a lesson not to trust Janice, ever. And that, my friends, is a lesson Gina did not heed. Janice says that Gina does not possess the ability to laugh at herself, and that she has a problem feeling comfortable and confident enough to make any pose stick. Well, way to build her confidence, then. Janice tells the girls to remember who they are and be confident and fabulous. It sounds so nice, but that's because Janice is still sober.