Though Heidi Fleiss is at about the 55 minute mark of her 15 minutes of fame, this shameless self promoter is at it again. Now she is busy opening a brothel for women, despite the fact that she has been ‘opening’ the planned bordello for years now and it’s gone nowhere. It takes a certain vain outlook to genuinely believe that people are actually interested in all the dull minutia of her life, and Heidi has that vain outlook in spades. We’d all be luckier if she just went away.

You can always count on her mug showing up a few times a year on tv, though – like a bad penny, she keeps on turning up.

Read all about her infomercial, I mean documentary, at The Ledger.com…

Heidi Fleiss Airs Her Laundry in Film

“I know it all sounds crazy, like I’m just a raving lunatic,” says Heidi Fleiss. “But it’ll all make sense once it all comes together.”

leiss, the former “Hollywood Madam” jailed for nearly two years a decade ago, is trying to put things back together when she relocates to Nevada, where prostitution is legal. She dreams of opening a brothel catering exclusively to women with male prostitutes.

Her efforts to make this fantasy real is the subject of a documentary, “Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal,” which charts the difficulties that result – many self-imposed.

Just because she has acquired the needed acreage and hired architects to design her pleasure palace doesn’t mean she’s welcome in tiny Crystal. Or that she’s immune to strange distractions that seem to raise further doubt she’ll ever reach her goal. (One of those distractions: an elderly former madam who lives next door with dozens of exotic birds which, when the woman dies, are bequeathed to Fleiss’ care.)

In the film, Fleiss tells of a happy childhood, of being a child chess champion in Los Angeles whose entrepreneurial spirit became clear in high school when she established a baby-sitting service. But she also speaks of a weakness for crystal meth, and volunteers that she’s inept at a certain sexual technique.

Maybe her Stud Farm Project is a good idea, but, by the end of the film, it remains nothing more than an idea. Instead, Fleiss has opened a coin-operated laundry in nearby Pahrump. The 70-minute film is the poignant portrait of a world-famous personality nearing the end of her 15 minutes, and seemingly grateful for the extra time the film provides.

Produced by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, it premieres 9 p.m. Monday on HBO.

Other shows to look out for:

CNN’s documentary series “Black in America” continues next week to probe the question: Is the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. still alive 40 years after his assassination? “The Black Woman & Family,” which airs Wednesday at 9 p.m., explores the varied experiences of black women and their families, while investigating the reasons behind disturbing statistics on single parenthood, disparities between black and white students in the classroom, and the devastating toll of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in black communities. A corresponding two-hour special, “The Black Man,” which airs Thursday at 9 p.m., asks whether there are two Black Americas, offering success for some black men but huge challenges for many more. The personal stories of members of the 1968 class of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., (and of those students’ sons and grandsons) shed light on topics such as gaps between blacks and whites in educational and financial achievement, as well as factors leading to the dramatic rates of black male incarceration. Soledad O’Brien anchors both programs.

He’s a private investigator who happens to be gay, and now the third installment in the Donald Strachey Mystery franchise is set to premiere on Here!, the premium-cable network catering to gay and lesbian viewers. The film, “On the Other Hand, Death,” based on the novel by Richard Stevenson, stars Chad Allen, with Margot Kidder (”Superman”) co-starring. Delving into gay hate crimes, it begins with Dorothy (Kidder) and Edith (Gabrielle Rose) asleep on the second floor of their beloved farmhouse while, downstairs, a shadowy invader leaves a hateful message scrawled across the walls. Is this a pressure tactic to get them to sell out to a big land developer? Strachey investigates. The on-demand film premieres Friday.