Queen of the Lot Page #3

I don't really eat, so...

- You don't really eat?

- (GIGGLING) No.

- That's one that I...

- So play, okay.

But don't gamble money,

real money. Okay?

What do you want me

to play for, carrots?

- I want you to just back off.

- Money, you play for money.

Listen to me.

Back off, the money is no more.

So when you play,

just take it easy.

You can call me Margie.

Margie Chizek, that's my name.

They renamed me Maggie, 'cause

it sounds better for action.

Aaron Lambert,

nice to meet you, Margie Chizek.

Actually, it's Aaron Lefkowitz

if you go back

four generations, so...

- Really?

- Yeah.

I like Lefkowitz a lot.

AARON:
When you make

scrambled eggs,

do you remove them

from the shell?

(LAUGHING)

MAGGIE:
Yes, I do.

I don't cook. I don't cook...

- You're kidding.

- (LAUGHING) You don't like 'em?

- No, I love 'em. (COUGHING)

- You don't like 'em.

- I love 'em.

- MAGGIE:
Oh, my God.

That's great.

My aunts cooked

and my grandma cooked.

I used to stay overnight

at my grandma's farm in Iowa,

and we'd come home from church,

and in the morning

she'd make...

she'd boil this huge pot of,

you know, homemade hot dogs.

And then she'd cut them open and

put them face down on a bun...

- For breakfast?

- ...with margarine.

Yeah, oh it's the best thing

in the world.

- Hot dogs for breakfast?

- Yeah, after church.

Best thing you've ever tasted.

It's amazing.

What did you eat for breakfast?

I had the uh,

same thing for breakfast.

I had two eggs over easy

with rye toast

and potatoes, and all

served to me on a little...

Rattan tray by Mai Lin

every morning.

MAGGIE:
Really?

Eight o'clock,

she would wake me up.

Stopped when I was

eight years old,

when my father thought

I was old enough

to come and sit

at the family table

and be criticized

like everybody else.

You'd have to sit there,

and you'd have to give

an account for your day,

what you did,

what you were going to do,

what the value

of doing that was,

you had to make it interesting,

you had to make it funny.

It was like going to a

morning pitch meeting

with your brothers, and sisters,

and parents, yeah.

- And I was shitty at it, so...

- Why?

I was shitty at it...

Well, because there were

better people at the table

getting attention than I was,

like my brother.

And it's a win in that scenario.

Somebody else had to lose.

And I...

And you never knew whether

it was a good thing to win,

or a bad thing to win,

'cause the power dynamic

was always shifting and...

It was much easier

staying in bed

and having Mai Lin

bring me my breakfast.

- I would stay in bed too.

- Yep.

INTERViEWER:
I had to fight

for this assignment,

which is not unusual,

but it's very strange

because I actually feel

like I discovered you.

Three years ago, I came out here

to interview Robin Mack,

and where is he now?

You know, Kaz got me in there,

but you were the one that

became the center of the article

and here you are.

You know I have

a million questions,

but most of them lead to

that gadget on your ankle.

- When does it come off?

- Next week.

You've been getting yourself

in a little bit of trouble

and I really don't know why.

That's not the Maggie Chase

we all knew and loved early on.

What's going on?

A little too much of this,

a little too much of that.

Trouble with the law.

Isn't that a bit of a cliche?

You know,

I really see a correlation

between you and Betty Davis.

So, with your latest legal

woes and problems,

I wouldn't worry about it

one little bit.

Betty had the same problems

at Warner Brothers.

She was sipping the sauce too.

One DUI arrest is problematic,

two is kind of comical,

if it happens

in the short period

that it's happened

for you, but...

There's not going

to be a third time.

How did it happen twice?

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:

You have been famously,

romantically linked to

Dov Lambert for quite a while.

Dov Lambert,

of Hollywood royalty.

Isn't he already married to the

dangerously sexy Shaelynn Roth?

What's ahead for you

and Dov Lambert?

What about your relationship

with Dov?

Don't you think getting

involved with a married man,

who's already

an established star,

which is a very high profile

thing to do,

is gonna kind of throw you off

your career path a little bit?

I've seen recently

that the press

has decided to be really tough.

Has it been hard for you?

Honestly, don't write this down.

It's been absolutely amazing.

It's unbelievable how you get

no coverage on anything

until you do something

really bad.

I mean getting a DUI is like the

best thing that I've ever done,

because now all of a sudden

I'm in the magazines.

Before, nobody ever even

wanted to talk about me.

Don't write that note,

you know why?

Because you write the note,

you forget about it later.

You're gonna have

that down there

and you're gonna

do the wrong thing.

With all respect,

I've been working for her

for three years,

please don't tell

me how to do my job.

With all respect,

I set all of this up.

I mean how else are you supposed

to get in front of people?

- TOMMY:
Absolutely.

- Right?

I mean Betty Davis

had to have done that too.

She had to, she had to.

HILDI:
I want you to breathe

right into there.

Good. Keep breathing.

(TAKING LOUD BREATHS)

Where are you holding on?

Breathe into where

you're holding on.

(CAMERA CLICKING)

(YELLING)

Good.

- (YELLING)

- (CAMERA CLICKING)

- (DOG BARKING)

- Let it come out!

Let it come out!

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

When I drink alcohol, I feel

so much better about myself

and I can just say the things

that I feel.

I push things down so much

and people don't think I'm shy,

but really I'm shy.

And I think everybody

hates me most the time,

and then, you know, it just

gives me a chance to be angry.

I really like being angry.

You like being angry?

I don't know,

when I've had six martinis

I feel really angry

and I, you know,

say really mean things and

I turn into a child of Satan.

- Oh.

- Mm-hm.

The only thing that matters,

and I'm telling you this

from experience, okay?

Is whether the addiction

conquers you, or you conquer it.

For me, it's the opiates.

Anything that

just quiets my nerves.

I was born this way,

I'm wound up.

Everybody thinks I'm on cocaine,

I've never done coke in my life.

That's just who I am.

That's my chemical makeup,

that's what I got.

And there's something

about Vicodin and Oxycontin

and Darvocet,

codeine, you name it.

That stuff is like candy to me.

It's like... It's too good.

It's too, too good.

And so it controlled me

for a long time.

I'm sorry, I'm getting

way too personal here.

CAESAR:
This is

the most uncomfortable

I've ever been

in my entire life.

Oh it's wonderful, I love it.

CAESAR:
Why do we have to

be on our couch like this?

We don't have to be,

we want to be.

- I'm cursed.

- No, 12% that's why we're here.

- CAESAR:
Oh, God.

- Don't forget it.

Excuse me,

the court has allowed us to have

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