
Kristin (2001)
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Jerry Zaks — Director
Episodes 3
The Showdown
Tommy gets hit on by supermodel Marinka at a fashion show. Kristin thinks the brochure for the apartments in Tommy's new building is "kinda blah," so she redesigns the cover. Tommy likes Kristin's design better than Santa's, and he asks her to redesign the rest of the brochure. Santa tells Kristin that she knows she's not as sweet and innocent as she pretends to be, accuses her of being after her job or something better, and tells her she doesn't know who she's dealing with. Tommy brings Marinka to the office, and she tells him she wants to have sex on his desk. Kristin gets stuck on a detail and needs Tommy's opinion. He tells her to call Santa. But when she does, Santa hangs up on her, and Kristin is forced to interrupt Tommy and Marinka, who then walks out on him. The next day, Tommy reprimands Santa, who cries and says she was looking after her sick mother. Tommy tells Kristin he thinks she should just stick to her job, as she obviously cannot handle added responsibilities.
Read MorePilot
Kristin copes with audition rejections and finds herself desperate to make ends meet, so she takes a job as the personal assistant to Tommy Ballantine, a high-powered real-estate developer. Talk about a mismatch. He's a slick womanizer known as "the master harasser disaster"; she's a virtuous naif. As it turns out, however, the playboy has met his match.
Read MoreThe Rival
Kristin and Aldo try to convince hard-hearted Tommy to fund the city zoo's Monkey Island, a haven for all the underprivileged simians in the neighborhood, but when he doesn't take to the idea, Kristin sends in the chimps to do the talking. Tommy's former business associate, Peter Medavoy, pays a visit to Ballantine Enterprises to see his old partner -- and takes Kristin by surprise with his confession that he just got out of prison for cheating the I.R.S. When Peter hears about her cause -- and that Tommy won't help out -- he turns over a new leaf, and tells Kristin that he knows some money men who can assist her in putting together a fundraiser. Tommy soon realizes that Peter's generosity is really just a ploy to get Kristin into bed, as he's known the guy a lot longer than she has. But since he has no credibility with Kristin, Tommy turns to Reverend Thornhill, and asks him to break them up. The Reverend quickly sizes up that the only reason Tommy's come to him is because he himself
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