From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (Class Guest3)
Subject: B&B:  Friday update
Summary:  Business as unusual
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:42:17 GMT


     Back in the usual swing of things in the "Bold and
Beautiful" arena.

     Friday on "The Bold and the Beautiful"

     TUBULAR

     Saul and Jack examine the books.  The predominant color
is red.  Sally and Macy look on.Sally says what've we got?
Enough to meet the payroll and $200 to make our getaway.
Great.  As of midnight to-night, Spectra Fashions is
history.  It's over.  Finished.  Au revoir.  Arrividerci.
C'ya.  Turn out the lights, the party's over.  The fat lady
is singing.  Down the tubes.  Say goodnight, Gracie.  Good
night, David/Good night, Chet.  Wrapped up.  Sealed with a
kiss.  Dead and buried.  And that's the way it is.  Kaput.
Finito.  The bum's rush.  Time, gentlemen.
     Whew.
     Macy and Sally hug.  Saul says maybe we could stall the
banks a couple more days, but Sally said then the people
wouldn't get paid.  (Haven't these dopes ever heard of
Chapter 11?  I think that'd be an interesting storyline --
declaring bankruptcy and pulling out of it.  Very topical!
What is Bell, a Republican?  IIWWTT!)

     WHITE KNIGHT

     Spencer is in the office.  Darla comes over to see him.
Why Darla, this is a surprise!   Great to see you, baby, but
no time for nookie, Darla says, adding "I'm desperate,
Spence!"  I thought you just said no time for nookie?  Not
what I mean -- if we don't get some bucks, Spectra will be
belly up by tomorrow (I missed that one!).  Have you thought
over the proposal?  Why yes, I have.  Sign here.  O.K.!  But
what did I just sign?  In exchange for connubial rights to
your most excellent body, I'm buying half of Spectra, with
you signing for my dummy corporation.  Really?  Darla says.
Well, we can negotiate the extent of the connubial rights.
Spencer says he can put up working capital until the corpse,
uh, corporation shows a profit.  Darla is in near-exalted
ecstasy, promises Spence he won't be disappointed.  Not in
those connubial rights, no sirree.  Spence eyes glitter --
he's got some ideas.  Darla bops out.

     I THOUGHT TONIGHT WAS OUR NIGHT TO PARTEE

     Thorne comes home.  Karen is dressed to the nines,
ready for some fun on the town, but Thorne is worried about
the impending closure of Spectra and Macy's mental attitude.
Isn't Spectra's demise good for Forrester?  In this economy,
Thorne explains, the failure of a couture house casts a dim
light on the garment industry, stifling investment capital
at a time when margin is thin and demand incipient.
Therefore, our quarterly prospects are regarded as suspect
by highly-placed investors, and therefore we may have to
scale back our expansion options.  Got it?  Uh, if Spectra
goes out of business isn't that good for Forrester?  Don't
worry about it, Thorne says, but I need to go see how Macy
is doing.  We'll draw up a new schedule.  Karen is ever-so-
slightly bummed, but lets him go.  After Thorne exits, she
gets a call from Daddy.  Get your Grace Kelly act over here
right away, Daddy tells her.  I've got plans, she covers.
Cancel!  Be here, aloha, or I cancel your $1500 weekly
allowance.  When you put it that way, Dad...

     GLOOM, DOOM, MORE GLOOM, MORE DOOM, KABOOM!

     At the wake for Spectra, everybody is looking glum.
Thorne comes in and Macy gives him a hug, and asks what they
can do?  (DECLARE CHAPTER 11, YOU DUMBIES!)  But no, Thorne
isn't up on the latest in bankruptcy law, and asks if they
could get new capital.  Nobody's going to do anything for us
if we haven't got a collection or a head designer!  Sally
laments.   Wrong!  Darla says from the doorway.  What is it,
Darla?  Where you been, honey?  Out sniffing up investors,
Darla says.  Where, down in the red light district?  No, I
work a higher-class crowd now.  And I've got a deal!  Sally
doubts it, but Darla shows her Jack the paperwork.  Though
Jack isn't a lawyer and is no Jack Kennedy, he says it looks
good -- a hidden partnership for 50% of the company, working
capital, etc.  Sally opens her cliche' book, says Darla, you
tell this investor this is one long shot that'll pay off!
(Jack jumps.)  You're the wild card that might've just dealt
us a winning hand!  (Jack winces.) (ACTUAL DIALOGUE --
Sheesh!)  Macy worries that the investor might want a hand
in day-to-day operations, but Darla says no way!

     WAY

     Karen enters Daddy's office.  Dad, if this is about the
Thorne and Macy thing, I told them no more games of "Doctor
and Nurse with the Pretty Patient!"  No, it's not about
that... wait a minute, what are the rules to that game?  Oh,
never mind.  Young lady, it's about time you paid your debt
to society.  Joined the rat race.  Became a working stiff.
Went on the 9-to-5 shift.  Earned a wage.  You mean I should
get a job, Daddy?  No, I mean I should give you a job,
that's the traditional way.  Here at the company.  No, I
just bought half of Spectra Fashions and I want you to work
with the deal.  No way, Jose, I ain't taking orders from no
Macy!  Not exactly -- you'll be giving the orders.  From the
lick of the lips, it looks like Karen finds the deal tasty.

     SPINNING THE BLACK WIDOW WEB

     Back at condo Forrester, Sheila, recently released from
the hospital, is relaxing in a bathrobe under Eric's body,
er, care.  He makes her some Shanghai aphrodisiac tea he
used to give to Brooke, but it wore off.  She's concerned
that he should be out schmoozing with the glitterati at the
post-show reception, but Eric tells her there's no place
else he'd rather be.  She regrets missing the show, and he
regrets that he didn't get to show her off to the fashion
moguls, including Lauren Fenmore.  Oh yeah, Lauren Fenmore.
But I'm sure you'll get to meet her someday, Eric reassures
her, because we're old friends.  They talk some more, Eric
tells her that he's falling in love with her, she's real
happy, etc. etc.  She says another hint about the fact that
she was a real witch in a past life, but Eric tells her that
her demonic past doesn't matter to him.  They kiss on the
couch.  So it goes.

     Tune in next time, when we very well could hear Darla
say:
     "I've got a body for business and a head for sin, or is
it a body for head and a business in sin, or maybe a
businesslike body and a skinny head, or maybe a head for
business and a body for sin?  Something like that, anyway."

     Jim "keep it coming, love" Acker
     jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov



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