I recently watched, via Showtime, a seven-episode series by Kristie Allie called FAT ACTRESS, which aired in 2005. Allie plays a fictionalized version of herself. An actress struggling both to get her weight down and to get jobs consistent with her former fame as a star in CHEERS, and as the co-star (with John Travolta no less) in the LOOK WHO'S TALKING movies. One of the aspects of the character that I presume is fictionalized is that she is thoroughly and consistently self-delusional. She has two aides constantly around her who seek to protect her from the consequences of her delusions. In one episode, our protagonist stumbles into a raid on a homosexual men's hang out. It is a parking lot to a small park near her home (and near a "bat cave") where men meet up and engage in what the cops who raid them classify as public lewdness. She meets her ex-husband there, and he spends some time in a prison cell with her. He tries to break it to her that she was his bea...
