She rose from the chair, got real close to the mirror, ignored the sulking makeup girl, and brought out her own liner, shadow, and mascara for round two. Feinman the coach told her she wore too much makeup but clearly he didn't understand TV news the way she did. The true news babes wore the most makeup. It was that simple and she was amazed Feinman didn't get it. What was it everybody said: those who couldn't do, taught? Same for TV-news coaches. 7:22 PM. She had to be on set by 7:29:55 to do a 5-second live tease for The KXLA Primetime News. And the weird thing was she had to be as done up for those five seconds as she was for the hour-long newscast at 10. She had a few minutes. She'd go past Intake, where an operator taped all the incoming satellite feeds and airchecks, and pick up the aircheck of the prior night's newscast. She wanted to check out her new haircut on tape. It was basically the same as the old one but cost twice as much. She'd switched to a Beverly Hills stylist because she figured that was what she needed now that she was anchoring.
