Talk:The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

This article lacks an impartial tone...

First off, I've seen the movie and understand that the tone and words used in the article does not reflect the nature of the story or Wikipedia's own standards with non-biased articles. Here's the first draft of the original written plot, complete with it's lack of impartial tone. I have taken the liberty and corrected the errors.

She is startled to discover her aunt is a lesbian and fearful of her roommate Kat, a dominatrix who specializes in photographing lesbian sadomasochistic scenes. Falling under Kat's influence, Pippa rapidly descends into an two week world of illegal drugs and lesbian sex with Kat's girlfriend/model. When her aunt returns home early and discovers Pippa's participation in an erotic photo session, she banishes her from her life. Pippa is now thrown into a world of art, drugs and sex with an assortment of characters that resemble Andy Warhol's factory crowd.

While in their company at a beach house party given by a successful publisher's wife Gigi, Pippa is introduced to Herb Lee a charismatic publisher 30 years her senior. She is attracted to and pursues Herb. After a short friendship she becomes Herb's lover. Herb is accepting of her past decadent lifestyle and sees a "sweetness" that accompanies her experience. In a brief time he decides to divorce his wife and marry Pippa.

Invited to a symbolic luncheon with Pippa, Herb's writer friend and Herb's wife, the most dramatic scene of the film takes place. Herb's wife Gigi, who appears up to this point to be civilized and agreeable to a divorce, pulls out a pistol, points it at her dinner guests and then places it in her mouth, fires and kills herself.

Pippa, consumed with guilt, marries Herb and in the ensuing twenty years they have two children, and live a very comfortable life until Herb's multiple heart attacks force them to sell their Manhattan apartment and settle in a retirement community in suburban Connecticut, where Pippa develops a sleep disorder. By far the youngest of all the residents, she finds herself becoming bored and restless and beginning to unravel until she meets her neighbor's emotionally damaged son Chris, many years younger than Pippa, who becomes an unlikely confidante and not unexpected lover as the film concludes. Pippa's unswerving devotion to her husband is tested when she discovers he is having a fling of his own with Sandra Dulles, an attractive woman — even younger than his trophy wife — who has a long list of neuroses of her own. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ralph703 (talk • contribs) 07:01, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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Note: there was a comment to collapse the plot summary, so I did so. But let's keep the extracted material below in case editors want to put parts of it back in, or use it for reference.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 14:40, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Extracted (longer plot summary) follows:

Pippa, an infant born with body hair, is rejected by her mother who shouts, "I have given birth to a monkey." However, mother and daughter soon reconcile, settling in a relationship based on Suky's obsessive behavior over Pippa's looks. When Pippa discovers that her mother's neurotic behavior is due to an addiction to amphetamine pills, she tries to talk to her about how she feels about her addiction. Suky soon stops taking the pills for a week, until she cannot handle life any longer without her medication. When her mother is unable to break away from her prescription addiction, Pippa takes several pills herself after not being able to handle Suky's rapid mood changes. When confronted with her daughter's willingness to become a fellow addict, Suky agrees to it as a way of avoiding censure by her daughter while she continues to use Dexedrine. Pippa explodes at her mother's agreement which results in her mother vituperative rage,"I have always hated you," and Pippa runs away from her rural home and to seek refuge with her father's sister Trish in New York City. She is startled to discover her aunt is a lesbian and retentive of her roommate Kat, a pretentious photographer who specializes in photographing lesbian sadomasochistic scenes. Falling under Kat's influence, Pippa rapidly descends into an two-week participation in the scenes as Kat's model. One afternoon, her aunt returns home earlier than usual, feeling rather unwell. She discovers Pippa's participation in an erotic photo session and banishes her from her apartment. Unaware of her place in the world, Pippa soon finds her way with several other like-minded bohemians, where she supports her pill-based, drug habit as an exotic dancer.

As she finds comfort in her new life, she soon joins her friends at a beach house party given by a successful publisher's wife Gigi, Pippa meets Herb Lee, a charismatic publisher 30 years her senior. After beginning a brief friendship with Herb, she begins to feel "...protected..." Herb is accepting of her past lifestyle and sees a "sweetness" that accompanies her experience. Herb tells Pippa that he has decided to divorce his wife and marry Pippa.

Pippa and Herb visit the beach house again to a "final" lunch with his wife before they officially divorce. At lunch, Herb's wife Gigi, who appears up to this point to be civilized and agreeable to a divorce, pulls out a pistol, points it at her dinner guests and then places it in her mouth, fires and kills herself.

Pippa, consumed with guilt, marries Herb and in the ensuing twenty years they have two children and live a very comfortable life until Herb's multiple heart attacks force them to sell their Manhattan apartment and settle in a retirement community in suburban Connecticut, where Pippa develops a sleep disorder. By far the youngest of all the residents, she finds herself becoming bored and restless and beginning to unravel until she meets her neighbor's rather distant son, Chris, many years younger than Pippa. They begin a friendly relationship in contrast to Pippa's anxiety-filled lifestyle. Pippa later discovers that her friend, Sandra Dulles, has been having an affair with Herb. Her own relationship with Chris grows further. Following a brief talk about the terms of their divorce, Pippa finds Herb a victim to another heart attack and rushes him to the hospital. Afterwards, she takes off with Chris to an empty baseball field where in his truck they begin to pray for Herb. Soon their intimacy deepens and they engage in intercourse. Afterwards, Pippa cries and Chris takes her back to the hospital. Herb stays on life-support. Pippa takes her daughter home and her son stays with their father, whom the doctors say no longer shows any sign of brain activity. Pippa reconciles with her daughter. The following morning, Herb is removed from life-support and Pippa tells her children to take what they want from the apartment and anything else be donated to Goodwill and she herself will not be arranging for the funeral of her husband. After a brief goodbye, she takes off into the sunset with Chris.

It's English, Jim, but not as we know it

"After a time, the aunt discovers Pippa participating in erotic photo sessions with the roommate and her friends and banished from that apartment and goes on to live a bohemian life of drugs and working as an exotic dancer."

Does someone have an English translation of the above sentence?

It almost means any of several things but doesn't actually mean anything.