From: rpeck@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (robert william peck)
Subject: OLTL: UPDATE for Thurs., December 31
Organization: Indiana University
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:50:30 GMT

Happy New Year, OLTL viewers!  It was a rousing night in Llanview,
December 31, 1992.  Most of the evening's activities took place at the
Llanview Hospital Women's Wing Benefit Party at the Buchanan Palace
Hotel ballroom, hosted by Renee.  The four main storylines were:
	1. Asa/Blair, Max/Luna, Tina/Cain
	2. The Rest of the Party
	3. Bo/Nora/Hank/The Drunkard
	4. Mortimer/Renee

1. Asa/Blair, Max/Luna, Tina/Cain
   *****Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Whatever That Means)*****
	Max and Luna have set up their WVL radio broadcasting center at
the Palace ballroom, where they will host the final broadcast of Luna's
Love Line, live throughout the evening.  Luna protests periodically to
Max that she doesn't want to know what he and Blair did to make Asa so
mad.  Max approaches Asa and warns him that he's hurting Luna by
shutting down Serenity Springs and the radio station.  Asa tells Max
that he doesn't care who gets in the path of his wrath.  He WILL have
his revenge!!  
	Meanwhile, Tina and Cain are bickering.  To prove his love for
Tina, Cain goes over to Luna and asks to borrow the microphone.  He
announces to the whole party (and to any radio station listeners) that
he is a changed man because of Tina.  While he is saying this, Tina
slips away.  She leaves a newspaper, along with a message to look in the
personals, with Suede, should he see Cain.  At first, Cain thinks Tina
has rejected him, but upon opening the paper to the personals, he finds
a black stocking with a note saying rm. 322.  Cain goes to the front
desk and asks for the key to this room.  The clerk hands him the
matching stocking, complete with key.  Once at the room, Cain begins to
unlock the door when we hear Tina say from inside: "It's unlocked.  All
you have to do is turn the knob and push."  Cain enters to find Tina in
a white fur (WHICH HAD BETTER BE FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!), lying on the bed.
She begins a striptease, and invites Cain to join her.  Tina goes into a
quite unique rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" (with freely adapted melodic
contours).  
	Back at the party, Blair has grandly entered the
ballroom (uninvited, though she did manage to present some document to a
servant at the door), in an altered gown of Cassie's.  A hush comes over
the room, and then Cassie saves Blair's face by rushing over to her and
saying she was welcome to stay (and to ruin Cassie's expensive dresses,
anytime).  After sparring verbally with the likes of Cain, etc., Blair
approaches Asa, who is unreceptive.  Not to be shunned, Blair grabs the
WVL microphone (which also seems to be serving as a public address
system to the party at various times throughout the evening) and
proceeds to tell an allegory.  She talks of a man whose beautiful young
wife slept with the only man she had ever loved, on the day of her
wedding--right on top of her wedding dress.  The crowd (and Asa) is
rendered speechless, and Luna runs out of the room, horrified to realize
that this man is Max, and that this story is what Max had been trying to
tell her.  
	Max pursues Luna, and Blair pursues Max.  Max mollifies Luna
into almost forgiving him (slick talker that he is), when Blair pleads
to Max for compassion.  The very same song to which Max and Blair danced
last New Year's Eve, begins to play.  Blair begs him pathetically to
grant her just one dance (all this right in front of Luna).  Max turns
her down cold, saying that all his dances are reserved for someone else.
That person is Luna, whom Max asks if she will do him the honor of this
dance.  Max and Luna go back into the ballroom.

2. The Rest of the Party
   ****Bring on the Bubbly...We'll Need It!****
	Dorian and Viki are out on the patio, having speaks.  Dorian is
gloating that /she/ got Sloan for her date, and Viki is denying that she
cares one whit about this.  Viki's facial expressions and her actions
(keeping her head down, wringing her hands, etc.) belie her denial.
Viki says she could never possibly be jealous of someone as low as
Dorian.  Dorian retorts to "Queen Victoria" (Dorian's own words).
	At the party, Hank and Sheila are dancing, and Hank has his eye
on Rachel and Kevin, who are also dancing.  Hank approaches them and
breaks in to dance with Rachel, and Kevin goes off with Sheila.
	Renee announces to the party that Luna brought with her from the South,
a New Year's Eve custom: Every person in the room (except the waiters)
is given a chocolate chip cookie.  In one (Renee emphasizes: in ONLY
one) of these cookies, is imbedded a cranberry bean.  Whoever has the
bean will be crowned King or Queen of the New Year, with his/her partner
as the Queen or King.  Everyone searches through the cookies, and who
should find the bean but...Lee Ann!  So she and Jason are crowned Queen
and King of the New Year.  (Jason's crown is rather large for him, but
Lee Ann has a sweet little tiara.)  Naturally, Kevin is standing with
Rachel immediately behind Lee Ann, looking quite jealous indeed.  Lee
Ann and Jason begin the dance.
	Later, at the stroke of midnight, Sheila (in disgust that Hank
has been called to the police station) is sitting alone at a table
feeling sorry for herself.  She mutters, "No man, no bean, no nothing!"
Also at the stroke of midnight, Dorian and Sloan plant one right on each
other's lips, much to the onlooking Viki's envy.  Viki decides to "get
even" with this duo and, taking a deep breath, kisses Clint most
chastely.  She asks him if everything's ever going to be all right.
Clint assures her that it will.  

3. Bo/Nora/Hank/The Drunkard
   ****Out With The Old (Ex), In With The New (?????)****
	Hank, you will recall, was called to the police station.  At
this locale, Bo, Nora, and the drunkard that Bo had beaten up, are
awaiting a decision.  Nora, in her element, is habitually correcting
the bad lyrics of other drunkards, who are singing various medleys.
Finally, Hank enters, not at all surprised to see Nora, although he
demands to know what she's doing there.  Hank and Nora argue as usual.
Later, at the Cinderella hour, Bo and Nora kiss, while Hank looks on,
irritated.

4. Mortimer/Renee
   ****Carlo's New Year's Resolution: To Live Again****
	In what should have been the high point of this episode (and
ironically, probably was), Mortimer finally approaches Renee as Carlo.
He says, "Renee, it's me, Carlo," to which she replies that no, it
can't be--this is some cruel trick.  She leaves.  So much for that
story.

That's a wrap!  Again, happy New Year to all, and to all a good night.

--Bob