Elizabeth Rohm's character is not a 'b**ch'

Possessing a 'type A' personality doesn't excuse someone from not being nice. The problem with many type A's is that they think they can treat people like crap and it's okay. I think every rude, mean, or bitchy 'type A' should be treated the same way in return. That way maybe, just maybe, receiving a dose of their own medicine will help them change for the better. Plus, she definitely is a thief and a bitch for stealing Wendy's ideas and presenting them as her own.

I agree that no one is just a straight-up "beyotch" - people are more complex than that and usually the cruelest people are often also emotionally wounded or insecure. BUT this is a tv movie we're talking about, a genre that is hardly known for its subtly in story-telling or writing, but more for stereotyping or corny, contrived situations, so it's really hard to give the writers the benefit of the doubt that there's meant to be more under the surface.

Being a tough or demanding boss is one thing, but she also harshly insults her assistant's (voluntary) work and five minutes later takes complete credit for ideas she apparently considers "repellant." A stern but professional superior might say "These sketches are inappropriate for this project, no thank you, now please get on board with the ideas we ARE presenting." A cruel person attacks someone for work that isn't to their taste or mocks them to cover up their anxiety that it might be better.

She does have a right to incorporate concepts her assistant presented to her for their supposed collaboration (though she did them without being instructed to and in her free time), but purposely not giving her any credit is wrong. The boss even realizes it's shady (or at least that the distinction would matter to Adam), that's why she has to threaten Wendy's future career to keep her quiet. She also admits that she manipulates her whole relationship with him, largely because of his wealth/influence, and doesn't even give him the option to propose or not - she steals the ring and proposes to herself! A bully even to the man she supposedly loves... "Egomaniacal" is a better word for the character.

Sorry cwg2005a but I have to disagree. She is cold and selfish. While she may care for Adam, it's his wealth and his family's prestige that matter more to her than love. She goes so far as to spell that out to Wendy, plus, she knows almost nothing of his close relationship with his grandmother, and clearly doesn't know or care about his taste, which is why Priscilla gets the holiday party designs completely wrong for what he wants. Added to that the taking credit for Wendy's spot on design plans just to look good in his eyes is low. Plus, she shows her desperation to not lose her ticket to high society by searching his room for the engagement ring, and steam rolling over the fact that he never actually popped the question. Her posing as an anonymous "friend of the couple" and leaking news of the fake engagement to the society pages in the paper was pretty sleazy.

All that aside, however, I love Elizabeth Rohm and think she was excellent in this role. She was almost too good, because it was hard for me to have any sympathy for her character simply because she played the part so well!

The night is dark, and full of terrors.

It is not bad to know what you want, what makes her bad person is how manipulative she is. She "forces" him into an engagement and chooses him because of his lifestyle? She sells the other girl's design as her own, which is stealing. Sorry but apart from commiting a crime what makes a person evil in your opinion?

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You're on crack.

That character was SO nasty that she was practically a caricature of an actual person.

I think they went about 86.5 miles overboard with it though.

We could have 'hated' her with much less.

Priscilla was very *itchy! I guess it hits a nerve with you. She thought she was better than Wendy! She didn't care who she hurt or step on to get what she wanted. There is nothing wrong with being assertive but Priscilla was aggressive!

I would not want to be friends with the OP, if that is her way of thinking.....man, what a bitch that woman was!!!!

I agree, she fought for her man, and Adam was no gentleman; for him to take off the ring from Priscilla while she was on the floor with possibly a broken nose, is simply despicable!