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character than Wanda Berkowski, both by her side completely fanciful and
by the fact that her usefulness in the show remained all relative
throughout her appearances.
Wanda
is presented to his family by Ted Capwell as his new girlfriend on the
eve of New Year 1989, even if their meeting has not been shown to us.
Wanda seems at once a very friendly young woman, open-minded, extrovert,
a cinema fanatic. Each situation she lives reminds her a scene from an
old Hollywood classic, and she sees in the people around her the
characters incarnated on screen by Spencer Tracy or Katharine Hepburn.
It is only on very rare occasions that she opens herself a little about
her past. Abandoned by her mother at 10 years old, raised by an
alcoholic grandmother, Wanda knew a poor and dull childhood. This is
what led her to get over, at least on a psychological side, to change
her name from Shirley to Wanda, and to decide to live her life as in the
movies she used to watch younger.
It
will take several months for Wanda so that Ted decides to make her his
girlfriend in the facts. Even
if they spend much of their time together, the relationship between
Wanda and Ted seems to have remained platonic for a while. Wanda remains
for a long time everybody's good friend, always ready to organize
parties, sing and pay tribute to these movies she loves so much. Short
of money, she applies for a job as a bartender at The Lair, but her
application is rejected by the co-owner T.J. Daniels, who prefers to see
the job occupied by a man. Wanda then launches legal proceedings
for sex discrimination, which is not without causing some tensions with
Ted, the other co-owner of the bar. To reconcile with her, Ted
disengages himself from his investment. At
last, T.J. also decides to separate from The Lair to avoid the
prosecuting, and Wanda is hired by the new owner, Bunny Tagliatti. Ted's
sudden departure for the search of his brother Mason at summer of 1989
does not seem to cause much trouble to Wanda. Absent of the party during
which Ted says goodbye, Wanda will never refer to her new single status.
She
will disappear very soon anyway of the screen, quickly forgotten like an
extra of a classic Hollywood movie...
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