Personal Services Personal Services Personal Services is a 1987 British comedy film directed by Terry Jones and written by David Leland. It is the story of the rise of a madam of a suburban brothel which caters to older men. The story is inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne, the legendary "House of Cyn" madam. Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a sexually naive waitress and single-mother who pays for her teenage son's tuition by renting flats to local call girls. She later becomes a call girl herself – joining her friend Shirley (Shirley Stelfox) and their "maid" Dolly (Danny Schiller)
Cynthia Barnett Environmental Journalism and Nature & Adventure Journalism. She is a critic of environmental communication targeted exclusively to conservation audiences and encourages students to reach “the Caring Middle.” She first wrote about the Caring Middle in a commencement address to the Unity College class of 2012 in Unity, Maine. Cynthia Barnett Cynthia Barnett is an American journalist who specializes in the environment. She is the author of the water books "Mirage" (2007), "Blue Revolution" (2011), and "Rain: A Natural and Cultural History" (2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for