From: amy@lloyd.Camex.COM (Amy Lindsay)
Subject: B&B: The Last Lindsay Update (for now...)
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:11:52 EST

In article <1992Dec17.192232.7727@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker) writes:
>: Meanwhile, Karen arranges a "Night Thorne Will Never Forget."  She and Macy
>: have words (earlier in the week Macy broke the news to Karen that, while
>: she may have moved out, she had not given up!)
>
>	I'm not at all surprised by this.  It's clear that Macy needs to
>forget Thorne and move on, perhaps to a muscular, intelligent, sympathetic,
>witty, oceanographer.  Hmmm...

Yes, but they're sooo difficult to find these days, especially the un-
prunified ones...

>	Nawh, but I have seen her at Virgins Anonymous meetings.  Whoops!
>I'm not supposed to tell!

Now, James, what were you doing at that meeting... undercover work?


Now, on to The Night Thorne Will Never Forget: 

(I re-iterate.)
>: Obviously, Karen believes anything worth doing is worth overdoing...

Karen has decorated the entire apartment (in one afternoon, "all by
herself") in a festive winter grove motif.  She has also arranged to
provide all of Thorne's favorite foods.  And mistletoe.

The two trade a few lies, swap a bit of spit.  (I couldn't watch this
especially the "let me ease your pain, Thorne" bit, not to mention the
exploding virgin theory (probably better explained by Professor Acker...)

Meanwhile...

Macy is working late.  Darla tries to convince her to go out and have a
good time, which of course, she's not up for.  Many languishing sighs and a
few tears shed by our Macy: "Jim, Jim, Wherefor art thou, Jim?" (OK, I
had to put that in to see if he read this far...)

Macy and Thorne do the simultaneous thought thing, but Karen is having none
of it.  She drags him off to do the horizontal mambo...


In unrelated storylines, Sheeee-la finds out that Dr Tracy is going to be
doing the paternity test on Brooke's baby (Eric tells her) and excuses
herself to go call to say that "sure, she'll be HAPPY to help out around
the hospital."


Taylor and Ridge receive a hand delivered calligraphed card, and Taylor
proceeds to tease Ridge about it being from Brooke.  (which it isn't.)
Then, they go off and do Newlywed Things...

> with Zach, Kristen actually came back to Clarke!   Stephanie, despite
> her harshness, has backbone.  (Maybe it's in her contract -- Susan Flannery
> portrays the only female character with pride.)  I think a couple of
> characters need renovations.

My room-mate made a comment a couple of months back that, at least in the
Bell soaps, women can either be really successful in business or they can
have a interesting (in a good sense) love life, like we're totally unable
to handle a job AND a relationship both successfully.

I have problems with Karen, but I can't figure out if she's supposed to be
a sympathetic character, or just someone who will do anything to get what
she wants.  It's like the writers change her daily and the actress just
can't get into the part.

You're right about 95% of the women on B&B have the spine of a jellyfish.

Brooke, especially.

I think they definitely need more men on this show.  I'm getting a little
tired of the two-women-fighting-over-their-Forrester theme that has been
going on a bit too long.  

>	Not bad!  Let's see, there also Loess (Lois), River (as in
> River Phoenix -- it's been done!), or even (gasp) Sierra!  (but to
> defame the memory of my favorite ATWT heroine -- please God, no!)

Or Sahara.  (You know, they should just name the kid something ordinary
like Polly or Fred.  Of course, there aren't too many people on the soaps
named like that, so they'd end up sounding really esoteric!)


					--amy

Dear Mr. Bell,

Please hire Jim Acker.  I don't care what he looks like.  You DESPERATELY
need more guys on B&B.  And besides, he's a great writer, even if he's
a bit obsessed at times with Macy...
			     	       --a.lindsay
p.s. Jim said he'd LOVE to share a dressing room with Jeff Trachta...

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