The "Helen Steeply" cover: Moment soft-profiler; the drag mechanics; the putative CV

pivotal · YDAU

• When: YDAU (the field-drag cover in force across the whole year's operation)
• What: For the YDAU operation Steeply is disguised as "Helen Steeply," a huge, unconvincing female soft-profile journalist for Moment magazine, "assigned to cultivate some of the Entertainment's alleged filmmaker's relatives and inner circles." The drag mechanics: gigantic prosthetic breasts (that will not stay aligned and point in different directions), a blonde wig, electrolysis (patches of red pimples along jowls and upper lip), luridly running makeup, high heels his broad, hairy, trollesque feet are unused to, cheap high-alcohol perfume in the handbag, rhinestone sunglasses — the whole effect "not merely unattractive but inducing something like sexual despair." A fabricated "putative curriculum vitae" invents Helen P. Steeply, 36, 1.93 m, 104 kg: intern at Time, columns at Decade and Southwest Annual, stints at Newsweek and Ladies Day, now Moment's Southwest Bureau in Erythema AZ.