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Margaret finds Alex an assistant named Yancy Eckert. She’s in her early thirties and is an actual professional, not another one of those barely organized recent L.A. arrivals doing the work for the money or the connections. Alex tells her point blank that he’s glad they’re not peers — not in age or circumstance — because it means they can be friends. He also asks her to remind him when stuff is going on he’s supposed to go to her for help with, because of all the things he’s done in L.A., having an assistant feels the most morally dubious. Certainly, it’s the thing that would most puzzle and possibly upset his mother.
At least Paul approves, happily telling Alex it’s about time. He confesses that he’s teetered on the edge of hiring someone himself for years, what with the hours he wor
