Whoopi had enough balls to go ahead and do this scam, but if she was clever enough to have come up with this, she would have just faked a phone call from Cutty, and said, 'Look, I want Whoopi to take over from here on in. That could have cured everything. Of course, then we'd have missed seeing the spectacle of our star in Brando-esque drag, but it certainly would have been more inspiring. Salmansohn has other ideas for the heroine as well, such as taking her prospectus to women CEOs instead of only to men. In the end, you know, money is respected even more than the gender you are.
Money is the ultimate power.
Salmansohn pauses a moment. Possibly her stumbling block was that she looked so wild. When I was in advertising I would wear a different outfit for different meetings. I was a secret agent girl. Then go back to the office and put on my little business suit to pitch to my other advertising clients, because I understood that people want to be with other members of their tribe.