From: jackie8@dasher.cc.bellcore.com ()
Subject: SIS: Summary of 12/12
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:55:15 GMT

Someone asked for a summary.  Beth mailed me the following and
it seemed pretty much a good summary for me, so I thought that
this might help:  (Not that I have to tell you guys this, but
feel free to add comments where-ever necessary!!! :-)   )
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It was good - here's what I remember.

Frankie shows up at Georgie's house to check up on John
and the boys.  They are eating popcorn and pizza for breakfast
and wearing their bathrobes and saying how great it is not to
have to bathe regularly.  The house is a disaster.  She cleans
up, cooks dinner and takes the boys for haircuts, to the dentist,
and brings them really ugly winter hats.  The three of them keep
trying to sneak out of the house without her seeing them.  She has
a surprise for them - tickets to something that involves the Chicago
Stadium and ice.  They are all excited to be going to the Black Hawks
game - but it turns out to be Snoopy on Ice.  John finally tells her
that it is ok, they are doing fine and she doesn't have to mother them
or pay them back.  She says she is sorry Georgie had to leave because
of her.  John tells her she needed time to herself anyway, and it really
had nothing to do with her or Thomas.  She offers to cook him a pot roast
and leave it on the front porch.

Alex is taking a writing course with this author that she idolizes.  She
reads her story out loud in class - it's about 2 sisters "Alice" and 
"Terri" who are rivals.  The teacher says it is wonderful and she has a
lot of talent.  She is very excited and writing like a mad woman.  
Later, she is walking out of school with Reed and Kirby when she hears
him reading her story to someone over the phone.  They are all excited,
maybe he is talking to a publisher!  Then he makes some derogotory 
remark about how horrible it is and how everyone thinks they can be 
a writer.  She is devastated.  The next day she goes in to see him and
says she won't be taking his class anymore, she heard what he said over
the phone.  She idolized him when she was younger, he told the truth and
that meant a lot to her.  That is why she wanted to take this class. She
quotes something from his book about hypocrites and throws it in the
trash and walks out.  Later he comes up to her and apologizes.  It turns
out that he never published anything else after that first book and 
people began building him up so much that he felt he had to say and do
things, like saying everyone had potential, to live up to his image.  He
thanks her for teaching him an important lesson and asks if she will
come back to class.  From now on he will write and say only the truth.
She does and says she has scrapped the original story.  She reads a new
part where "Alice" called "Terri" and apologizes for being jealous, etc.
It is good and when he tells her so she knows that he means it.  After
class she calls Teddy, but Teddy says she can't talk to her right now 
(see below) and hangs up on her.  

Most of the show was about Teddy.  She sets up this big shoot for a 
magazine and gets the top model of the moment and the top photographer.  
The photographer runs over his previous project and can't get out
of France or wherever.  So Mac gets her a list of other photographers.  
One of them is the guy she dated in high school - her first love 
(William Katt).  So she calls him up and he agrees to do it.  Through
the whole show they are reminicing and calling each other Bonnie and Clyde.  
Lots of flashbacks with their younger selves.  Anyway the model comes and 
hears who is doing the shoot and makes some snide comment about thinking 
he was dead since he left NY.  She tells Teddy he has AIDS.  

Teddy is of course devastated and eventually confronts him with it.  
He tells her yes, he does have it and is going to die soon.  He shows her 
his arms, he has Karposi's Sarcoma.  Apparently he got into the drug scene 
and fast living when he was in NY.  Once word was out that he was sick he 
got tired of people looking at him wierd or not wanting to work with him
so he moved back to Chicago.  Teddy says she'll do anything to help him.  

When they get to the shoot, the model is really a pain in the ass.
She keeps flinching whenever he touches her and generally looks
like she wants to get out of there.  Finally she walks off the set.
They are just about to pack up when Teddy appears in the dress, all
dolled up, can they use her instead?  (Sela looked absolutely
gorgeous, you can see why she was a top model)  Later, they are at
the factory and she asks him to take some pictures of the two of them.
He asks why she'd want a picture of a skinny sick guy.  She says because
that skinny sick guy is her buddy.  They take some pictures and he is
upset because his sleeve rides up and you can see the sores.  She tells
him to leave it and they fool around for the camera.

A few days later they are looking at the pictures and she is picking
the ones to put in the magazine.  She picks two of herself and one
of them together.  He questions her.  She has been thinking about it
and wants her ads to say that beauty is more than looks and clothes,
it's about love and friendship.  He says that's great, but if those
pictures get out, no one will ever hire him again.  He tells her to
save them - someday she will be able to use them, just not now.  He
kisses her and walks out.  Later at home she is looking at the picture and
comparing it with their prom picture and crying.  (This is when Alex
calls her)

Beth
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