stress formula pills that worked miracles , miracle cleaners that handled everything short of nuclear waste , skin cream that miraculously erased cellulite and stretch marks , miracle stop-smoking tapes he stopped and watched that for ten seconds then kept clicking a mother and daughter slap-fighting over their common boyfriend , two transvestites in court over disputed costs for some kind of operation , a tv preacher with an arch of hair that started a half-inch above one ear and swept over the top of his head to the other ear .