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Lace

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Lace	comment	A two-part American miniseries that aired on ABC Television on February 26 - 27, 1984. The miniseries was an adaptation of Shirley Conran's 1982 novel of the same name. Told in flashback form, it follows the lives of three former schoolmates from their days in a Swiss boarding school to adulthood. In the present day, they interact with a young actress, Lili, who, unbeknownst to them, is the daughter that one of them had out-of-wedlock while at the boarding school. She is determined to find out which of the three is her mother and to exact revenge on all of them for abandoning her as a child.One of the classic miniseries of The '80s, Lace was a sweeping epic that spanned two decades of time and five countries over three continents (not counting a brief detour to Vietnam). In keeping with the Conspicuous Consumption of the times, it featured lots of haute coture fashion, exotic cars, and elegant interior shots of palaces, chateaus, country manors, and hotel suites. A glamorous cast of characters included Arab oil sheikhs, French champagne barons, and Greek shipping tycoons.The cast features Bess Armstrong (Judy Hale), Brooke Adams (Jennifer "Pagan" Trelawney), and Arielle Dombasle (Maxine Pascal) as the schoolmates and Phoebe Cates as Lili. Angela Lansbury, Anthony Higgins, Anthony Quayle, and Herbert Lom appear in supporting roles. The strong ratings by the miniseries led to sequel, Lace II, which aired in 1985.
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Lace / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Lace / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: American Brooke Adams lapsed in and out of a British accent in playing Pagan.
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Lace / int_370fcc49	type	Meaningful Appearance
Lace / int_370fcc49	comment	Meaningful Appearance: While the miniseries was filled with fabulous clothes, there was not much emphasis on the shoes, even though Judy had a passion for them in the book. But they did play an important role in the closing sequence. The women all wore the same shoes (black pumps) to the hotel meeting with Lili. The final sequence has Lili's mother walking up the stairs to Lili's room. To prolong the mystery, only her shoes and the lower part of her legs were shown. Because the women wore the same shoes, it was uncertain who Lili's mother was until The Reveal.
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Lace / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Lace / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Pagan wore mink several times, while Maxine wore one in the rain after the Lace celebration.
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Lace / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Lace / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Even after a bitter falling out, being backed against the wall with blackmail, and risking complete ruin, the three women still refuse to reveal which one of them is Lili's real mother.
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Lace / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Lace / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Serge, the sleazy pornographer who initially exploits teenage Lili's hopeless situation, ends up taking her in no questions asked and nurses her back to health after she becomes homeless and almost dying from a botched abortion.
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Lace / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Lace / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The boarding school sequences at times included spectacular views of the Swiss Alps. There were glamorous urban scenes in New York, London, and Paris. Spain was used as a substitute for North Africa or the Middle East.
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Lace / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
Lace / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Honor Blackman is one of the top billed actors, but only appears in three short scenes during part two of the miniseries as a token Psycho Lesbian.
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Lace / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Lace / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Judy, Maxine, and Pagan have a chubby nemesis at their boarding school who they nickname “Piggy.”
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Lace / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Lace / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: The girls were extremely close during their boarding school days, so much so that two of them agreed to the wild plan to hide the pregnancy of the third and to even raise the child if one of them succeeded before the others. They even had a motto that was used throughout their lives: "Through thick and thin." They had a falling out though after they got news that Lili had been killed, which turned out to be untrue. That schism lasted 10+ years and resulted in the women not talking to each other, even at the funeral for Maxine's Aunt Hortense.
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Lace / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Lace / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Pagan numerous times. After all, she is a Lady Drunk. Judy, Maxine, and Pagan after their final confrontation with Lili in her hotel room.
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Lace / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Lace / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: How most of the story is told. Part 1 follows Judy, Maxine, and Pagan during their boarding school days, how one of them got pregnant, and the plan they come up with to deal with the pregnancy. That is to show How We Got Here as the three interact with Lili in the present. Part 2 follows the three schoolmates after they graduated and went on to loves and careers.
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Lace / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
Lace / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: The girls smoked in secret during their boarding school days and continued into adulthood. While commiserating in the hotel bar at the end, Judy even lit Pagan's cigarette with her own lit one.
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Lace / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Lace / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Selma, Pagan's mother's new business partner, openly hits on Pagan, and when the latter refuses her sexual advances, proceeds to passive aggressively drive a wedge between Pagan and her mother to drive her away.
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Lace / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Lace / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The miniseries puts greater focus on the mystery of who is Lili’s biological mother, with a much more dramatic reveal of her identity than in the original novel.
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Lace / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
Lace / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: Averted in the miniseries. But in the book and in the sequel miniseries Lace II, it is revealed that Judy became pregnant with Lili after being raped by Abdullah and not by having sex with Nick Cliffe, as implied in the original miniseries. This was unknown to Lili when she had an affair with Abdullah, which was also then Parental Incest.
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Lace / int_5dc04c4e	type	Brownface
Lace / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: English actor Anthony Higgins plays Prince Abdullah, supposedly of North African/Middle Eastern descent, and his complexion is darkened accordingly.
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Lace / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Lace / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Judy as a war correspondent during combat in Vietnam.
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Lace / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Lace / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The book had a fourth potential mother, Kate, who was a magazine editor with a significant other named Tom. In the miniseries, Kate was combined with Judy to form a Composite Character.
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Lace / int_619bc34b	type	High-Class Gloves
Lace / int_619bc34b	comment	High-Class Gloves: The girls during the Valentine's Day dance at the boarding school and Pagan during some of her high class outings with Abdullah in London.
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Lace / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Lace / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Pagan after graduating from the boarding school. She was the only one of the three friends who didn't have post-graduation plans. Upon her return to England to live on her mother's estate, she spent much of her time horseback riding and going to parties. She was also arrogant, calling the weight-loss clients who were given her room "obesities" and "fat blubbers." She eventually turned to philanthropy after her marriage to Sir Christopher Swann.
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Lace / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Lace / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In the last moments of the film we finally find out that Judy Hale is Lili’s mother.
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Lace / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Lace / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Maxine, Pagan, and Judy have been secretly haunted by Elizabeth’s alleged death for years and blame themselves for not taking the girl back sooner.
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Lace / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
Lace / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: The three women keep their word for over two decades and never gave away the true identity of Lili/Elizabeth’s mother, even after a particularly ugly falling out and years worth of mutual resentment. The truth is only revealed when Lili’s actual mother decides to end the charade and tell the truth herself.
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Lace / int_70638525	type	Luke, You Are My Father
Lace / int_70638525	comment	Luke, You Are My Father: Gender Flipped as Lili reveals this to her potential mothers with one of the most memorable lines in television history: "Incidentally. . . which one of you bitches is my mother?"
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Lace / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Lace / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: The girls talk about getting an abortion to solve the problem, and Judy is particularly adamant that abortion should be legal. But they eventually decide against it. On the other hand, Lili gets one from a Back-Alley Doctor.
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Lace / int_95614e0e	type	One-Night-Stand Pregnancy
Lace / int_95614e0e	comment	One-Night-Stand Pregnancy: Each of the three schoolmates has sex just once with the potential father of Lili but one of them gets pregnant.
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Lace / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
Lace / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: Lili's foster family is massacred by Soviet Hungarian Socialists, who then capture her and hold her in a prison camp for ten years until she escapes.
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Lace / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Lace / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The miniseries contains numerous subtle (and not so subtle) clues to the identity of Lili's real mother: Judy is the first of the girls introduced in the initial flashback. Out of the three girls, Judy was the only one who didn't cheer when Doctor Geneste announced the pregnancy wouldn’t show until after they graduated, instead she just closed her eyes and sighed with relief. The first time Doctor Geneste meets the expecting mother without her two friends, he notes she was the one he "least suspected." Judy is portrayed as more level-headed and sensible than Pagan and Maxine. Overall, Judy was always the least jovial about the secret pact to hide Elizabeth (Lili). Judy has the most sentimental attachment to Elizabeth. She is the only one who kept a framed drawing from the little girl and the first one to receive new photos of her. When Lili pushes the three women to betray the pact in the end to save their own skin, Judy is the one who lowers her head and sighs in defeat, fully expecting Pagan and Maxine to finally give in and reveal her as Lili's real mother. When the camera next turns to Maxine, she gazes off for a moment and then glances in the direction in which Judy is sitting. At the end of the film, Judy is the one who decides to end the pact and asserts that, for the first time, Elizabeth's real mother must make things right on her own.
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Lace / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Lace / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When Judy, Maxine, and Pagan receive news about the accident, they blame themselves (and each other) for Elizabeth's alleged death, completely ruining their friendship.
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Lace / int_a409e6f9	type	Fluffy Fashion Feathers
Lace / int_a409e6f9	comment	Fluffy Fashion Feathers: The closing sequence has Lili sleeping in an outfit that includes a feathered top garment. At one point, she moves her arms in a flapping motion, which, combined with the feathers, gave her the appearance of a bird.
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Lace / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Lace / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Needless to say, the girls’ genius plan to hide Elizabeth until one of them becomes financially secure quickly falls apart as their personal lives constantly get in the way and they make one excuse after another to avoid getting the girl until it’s too late and tragedy strikes.
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Lace / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Lace / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: One of the reasons Monsieur Chardin wants to expel the girls, complaining "You chase every pair of pants in town!" they reply "So do you!" And they have evidence which they use to stay in the school.
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Lace / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Lace / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Lili. She was conceived out of wedlock, was abandoned by her mother to foster care, was told that her mother would eventually come back for her but never did, was taunted at school for having no mother or father, saw her foster parents killed at 6, spent the next 10 years in a prison camp where she was groped and made to scrub toilets and floors, got pregnant at 16 shortly after escaping the prison camp, left by her boyfriend on the news of the pregnancy, forced to work as nude model to earn money to pay for a back-alley abortion, was thrown out on the streets while still trying to recover from the abortion, turned to prostitution to survive, and became a porn actress. On top of that, she unknowingly commits incest with her father (not revealed in the original miniseries but mentioned in the book and the sequel miniseries). She turns into a bitter, obnoxious Jerkass hell-bent on seeking Revenge against her mother and her friends, even after she becomes a successful international celebrity.
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Lace / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Lace / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Judy likens losing her virginity to “crossing a bridge.” Also a Sexual Euphemism.
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Lace / int_db1ab4b1	type	Just a Stupid Accent
Lace / int_db1ab4b1	comment	Just a Stupid Accent: Numerous times as many actors were playing a Fake Nationality: American Phoebe Cates used a much commented on bizarre European accent for Lili. In the sequel she wisely dropped the accent. Englishwoman Angela Lansbury used a French accent in playing Maxine's Aunt Hortense. Englishmen Anthony Quayle used a French accent in playing Dr. Geneste.
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Lace / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Lace / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change Judy's surname is Jordan in Conran's book but Hale in the miniseries. Judy's magazine is named Verve! in the book and Lace in the miniseries. The fictional name the girls give for Lili's mother is Emily Post in the book and Lucinda Lace in the miniseries.
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Lace / int_dceccabf	type	Cat Fight
Lace / int_dceccabf	comment	Cat Fight: Lili and Maxine have it out after Lili seduces Maxine's son.
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Lace / int_e6d0ea39	type	Nature Abhors a Virgin
Lace / int_e6d0ea39	comment	Nature Abhors a Virgin: One of the big elements of the first part of the miniseries was the girls seeking to lose their virginity during their boarding school days. The metaphor used by Lucinda Lace, the protagonist in Judy's novel, was "crossing a bridge."
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Lace / int_ee0c2c3c	type	Fictional Country
Lace / int_ee0c2c3c	comment	Fictional Country: Sydon, the oil-rich home of Prince Abdullah. It is located in the Qurac region as it was never made clear whether it was located in North Africa or the Middle East. It is a monarchy that suffers from both internal and external political tension. Hence the forced breakup of Abdullah and Pagan and the Arranged Marriage between Abdullah and Serah.
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Lace / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: Pagan after she was dumped by Abdullah.
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