From: roxy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (r.prisco)
Subject: Re: B&B: Y&R: Come on!
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:38:16 GMT

In article <317*.S=marsiske.OU=vax1.O=mpib-berlin.PRMD=mpg.ADMD=dbp.C=de.@MHS>, marsiske@vax1.mpib-berlin.mpg.dbp.de (Michael Marsiske) writes:

> CBS has been hyping a Sheila and Lauren confrontation?  Said confrontation
> occurs and it is delicious? (vases crashing, guns in purse, tying Lauren up
> with a phone cord, Sheila wearing the showstopper, Lauren showing up at
> the last minute, Eric disenchanted, Sheila revealed on stage and being
> dragged away screaming by the police...)
> 
> Jim Acker's descriptions were so vivid, and others of you helped along--I
> felt like I was watching it.  Everyday, I wished the update would stretch
> just a little further, so there would be some resolution.  
> 
> AND IT WAS A DREAM?  A CHEAP, LOUSY, ONE-WEEK DREAM?  ARE YOU _KIDDING_
> ME?
> 
> Bill Bell has pulled this stunt before, but never in such a protracted way.
> I know he felt, dramatically, there HAD to be a confrontation.  Why did
> he have to do it this way?  I know he wanted to save Sheila, but...if I
> were writing this, this is what I would have done:


Didn't he do a two-dayer or so when Brooke was going to marry Eric?  Wasn't
there a cliff-hanger where she dreamed that Ridge walked in and declared his
love and they got married right in the dressing room (or whatever) and Eric
found out after the deed was done ... and then the second or third day we
found out it was all a dream or daydream of Brooke's?
I HATE when they do that ....

> On Y&R, Lauren learns (she's still in the middle of a custody fight, right?),
> that her chances of getting custody are in jeopardy if there is ANY remote
> chance of Sheila being alive--some legal mumbo jumbo about the baby's
> affectional ties being to Sheila, giving her first legal right as mother.
> (I KNOW this is hogwash, but it has a point...)
> 
> So, Lauren goes to L.A., and spies Sheila (maybe on stage behind the veil,
> or somewhere....and the confrontation is loose).
> 
> Sheila begs for forgiveness--she wants to get on with her life--Lauren
> wants to call the police.  Suddenly, Lauren remembers she must keep Sheila
> DEAD if she is to have any chance of getting Scotty.
> 
> Wouldn't that be great--if these two mortal enemies make a pact to keep
> their meeting secret--to help each other despite the fact that they loathe
> each other.  But...they could go on knowing about one another...and always
> knowing that the other one could some day pop in to ruin her life.


I think this is great!  I think that a lot of the folks who post here should
go for writing jobs on these soaps .... then we could all kind of pitch in and
help .....!

> (How I would have written it---maybe a little less dramatic than a phone
> cord and a vase smashing, but much less cheap and manipulative than a
> multi-day dream sequence.  Arggh.)

I agree ..... I haven't been watching but I couldn't believe it when I heard
it was just a dream .... shades of Pam Ewing, as someone else pointed out!

> Michael


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