Amanda Dart is a successful, ambitious, high-powered New York gossip columnist. Amanda is 50 years old, single, and proud of it. She keeps herself in fantastic shape and loves to show off her admirable body. Admittedly, though, she has had some cosmetic surgery done which, to Amanda, just makes a really good thing even better. Born Ida Louise Erenheim to mill working parents in a small town in Georgia, Amanda re-invents herself when she moves to New York City to attend Barnard College.