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Right, clockwise from top: Los Angeles' famous Pink Motel on San Fernando Road was reworked to become the Dusty Spur Motel. A fictional milkshake stand called Fun Burger is the place nearest the gym where the ladies go for lunch; the backside of Cadillac Jack's café next door was repainted and signage and dressing added. Vanessa Riegel designed the Dusty Spur boot. Below, center and bottom: Ms. Riegel also designed the menu sign at Fun Burger. Cate Bangs drew the necessary modifications to the Pink Motel neon sign. begin to develop ring personas...with help from their drug-addled bosses. It is inside the ring that the consequences of their moniker choices play out, both with one another and with the audience. Other than a constructed walk-in costume closet in the producer character's mansion, I knew these scenes were going to be visually all about the wardrobe, hair and makeup. So beyond creating a period-specific world that the overall story could occupy naturally, the Art Department concentrated its efforts on showing who each of the women were outside of the ring. RUTH WILDER Ruth is an enthusiastic theater nerd from Omaha who wants real parts in Hollywood but just isn't having any luck. She continually borrows money from her family to pay bills and complains to her best friend Debbie that she's eaten cereal every meal for a week. I wanted her apartment to combine a sense of who she wants to be and who she actually is, while also capturing 1985 Los Angeles, so I based the design on other single working women characters such as Jane Fonda in Klute, Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns and Melanie Griffith in Working Girl. Pilot director Jesse Peretz shot Ruth on the phone, crossing the room to reveal a charming, but tiny, art deco studio. A glory days photo of her Omaha