On meeting her, Nora feels the "voltage" of her presence, and an unequal friendship develops.
I don't remember a thing about it, except for singer Courtney Love towering over us, her foot up on the monitor, the voltage of her incredible charisma coursing over the crowd.
The sheer voltage of her on-screen sensuality threatens to sear through any part she plays.
Her voltage may seem excessive when it's professing her love for Michael Kors and Yves Saint-Laurent, but, when she pushes back any gawkers with the line "You can't see what's under there, 'cause I'm a grown woman," she sounds appropriately immovable.
Her high-voltage personality brought her success in the sales division of the Chanel company, she said, before she was struck in her mid-20s by a calling to serve poor people.
Her $10,000-a-week clients include Katie Couric, Kelsey Grammer and the Townhouse's owner and caterer, Rhona Silver, who lost 40 pounds after Voltage moved into her Five Towns home for two days and cleaned out her cupboards.
Eileen Smith said today that the condition had improved this summer, but that there was still enough voltage moving through her hot tub to cause a tingling sensation.
Voltage, who donates her time to Mother Cabrini in an after-school program she developed called Energy Up, dreams of what she calls an "energy franchise" -- to help boost the self-esteem of teenage girls in schools across the country.
With a history that's part Jacqueline Susann novel, part Horatio Alger tale, Voltage has been honing her persona and her message -- she's anti-salt, sugar and flour, a white powder evangelist -- for more than two decades.
But there were also shameful, high-voltage spotlights, like her awkward interview with Diane Sawyer where she declared, when asked about her alleged drug use, "crack is wack".
