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 Angie
Dalton's course presents many similarities with Victoria Lane's. Today,
they meet in Santa Barbara, but they would have been able to meet in
cinema studios. Former actress, Angie has known the hell of drug. Today,
if she managed to go out of the influence of cocaine, it is to help
better the people (connected or not to the cinema world) to overcome
their drug addiction. Under a severe appearance and a certain hardness
in her words, Angie hides a charming personality determined to do her
best so that Tori and Mel Stock win their fight against their
dependence.
Angie
welcomes Tori in the detoxification center and very fast the voices
raise between the two women. Indeed, Victoria, just like Mel, badly
bears the treatment and Angie's severe judgment. Angie obliges Tori to
face the truth and to name her real problem : her dependence in cocaine.
To help her to make this painful work on her, Angie does not hesitate to
tell her her course. She wanted to become an operator on movies. But,
due to the lack of proposals, she became an actress in pornographic
movies, and she was then paid with drug. Quickly, wasted away by drug,
she became another woman.
Throughout
their talks, she obliges Tori and Mel to see themselves such as they
really are : drug-addicts. She demonstrates to Mel, who believes that
drug inspires him, that since he takes it, he was incapable to produce a
good work.
Repeatedly,
she shouts on Tori to be honest and to admit her drug addiction to her
husband and to her family; it is essential for the treatment. She also
explains her that she has to stop sniveling on her fate and to have to
concentrate on herself. She does not either hesitate to tell Mason that
he has to support his wife in this ordeal and that, by his behavior, he
facilitated Tori's
dive in drug.
She
announces afterward Mel's relapse to Tori and she makes her understand,
without false appearance as usual, that she is a person on borrowed time
and that the slightest false move can be fatal to her.
With
Tori's
recovery, Angie will disappear from the show, perhaps leaving this
latter even more alone...
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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