a brilliant satirist and comedienne, and all of her work is in the spirit of fun and good humor." On the controversy Ullman stated: "My criteria for doing a character is do they exist, do they talk like this, would they indeed run a doughnut establishment? And I think Mrs. Noh Nang Ning meets all of that [...] Asian people don't necessarily see themselves in mainstream television and certainly not comic situations and after Mickey Rooney at Breakfast At Tiffany's I can understand why they're a little gun-shy." The controversy later become comic fodder in season four when Ruby Romaine announces that she was behind Mickey Rooney's look in Breakfast At Tiffany's. True to form, Ruby doesn't get all the hubbub and declares that she should have won an Oscar. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning was retired after season three; Ullman had been complaining for years that the character's makeup felt like being buried alive. Ironically, minorities made up the show's largest fan base – even those in the Asian community. "It's such a diverse audience that I get. They're all those characters that I portray that are supposed to be politically incorrect. I get these Asian teen-agers who come up and I think, 'Aren't you supposed to be offended by my doughnut-shop lady?' and they go, 'Oh, no! There's no one like that on TV. That's like my grandmother. I'd rather you do it than no one at all.'" Ruby Romaine, who Ullman has described as "pure Hollywood white trash", was based on many of the Hollywood union makeup artists sent to make her up over the years. Romaine's look was inspired by Romaine Greene, a hairstylist who worked on many of Woody Allen's films. The voice was inspired by Florence Aadland, mother to actress Beverly Aadland, who at 15 had an affair with a 48-year-old Errol Flynn. Ullman played Florence on Broadway in the 1991 one-woman show The Big Love based on the 1961 book. She spent hours listening to audio recordings of the late Florence dictating her memoir to writer Tedd Thomey. There are parallels between Ruby Romaine's early days in Hollywood and that of Beverly Aadland's, specifically Aadland's affair with Erroll Flynn. Beverly Hills madam, Madam Nadja was based on Hollywood madam, Elizabeth Adams (known as "Madam Alex"), "I love that she kept money underneath her bed. She never gets up all day. If she ever has