From: riddle@brahms.udel.edu (Tammy Riddle)
Subject: SB:  SOW Info
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: world 
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:30:32 GMT


REVOLVING DOOR

IN:  Manuela Metrix Campanaro began airing Sept. 9 as Countess
Carla Rinaldi, a former flame of Micah's on SB.  Word has it the
Countess is "from the dark side."

OUT:  The date of her final appearance as SB's Katrina is
undetermined, but Maria Ellingsen is leaving the show.  It seems
Katrina has had it with fiance Ted and walks out on him forever. 
Apparently the character, created by former head writers Bridget
and Jerome Dobson, just doesn't figure into current head writer
Pam Long's scenario.

*****

WISH I'D SAID THAT

While on the road, Sawyer and Aurora are asked their names:

AURORA: I'm Laura, he's Luke.
SAWYER:  Luke and Laura -- where did you come up with that?
AURORA:  Let's just say I spent more time than you know watching
TV.
The next week the couple registered in a Philadelphia hotel as
Mr. and Mrs. Luke Spencer.

Julia and Mason trying to become pregnant.  Julia is standing on
her head because she read that it will speed up ovulation.

JULIA:  It is now or never -- make love to me.
MASON:  I am not that limber, Julia.  Now get down and get a grip
on yourself.

While sitting on the couch after Mason forced her to stand right-
side up:
JULIA:  The kit is blue, the ground is fertile, so sow your oats
and make it snappy.  We haven't got a lot of time.  Mason,
please, my egg is not going to stay like this.  Now come over
here and give it your best show.
MASON:  Easy for you to give orders, you just have to lie there -
- I have to do all the work.
JULIA:  Well, this is no picnic for me either, but Mason, we have
a job to do, let's just do it and get it over with.
MASON:  My god, you're so cold.  I am a human being, not just a
sex machine.  How about a little humanity, how about a little
romance, how about you say something to inspire me?
JULIA:  OK, OK, I'm sorry...I want you, my big stallion!

Later still, at the fertility doctor.

DOCTOR:  Sperm inadequacies is the easiest problem to rule out.
MASON:   Well, yo can rule mine out right away.  My sperm is
entirely adequate, thank you.
JULIA:   Oh, it is...it is very adequate.

*****

FLASHBACK

Eden's Rape on SB

ATWT recently opened an episode with a disclaimer because of that
episode's subject:  rape.  This wasn't the first time a soap
advised viewer discretion.  SB did it four years ago this week,
when Eden Castillo was brutally attacked and raped.

The episode, which aired Sept. 15, was chilling.  Eden was being
stalked by a serial killer.  Cruz believed the killer was in an
abandoned building, so he left Eden at home thinking everything
would be fine.  But the killer was actually lurking outside Eden
and Cruz's house, peering into the window and watching Eden's
every move.

Eden was watching the news on TV, when suddenly the house went
dark.  When she tried to call the police, the phone went dead. 
The killer, now inside the house, beat Eden and then raped her.

Chuck Pratt Jr., now a producer and writer for Fox's MELROSE
PLACE, was co-head writer at the time with Anne Howard Bailey. 
He explains he made the rape scene extremely violent because, "It
is an act of violence and it's rarely portrayed that way on
television and film.  It's always given a bit of an erotic
twist."  Pratt recalls the time he wrote a rape scene that was
much like Eden's for ABC's nighttime series GABRIEL'S FIRE, but
after it was cut it ended up being the most erotic scene in the
episode.  "On SB, we had the freedom to portray rape as what it
really is," he says.

At the time, SB had strayed from issue-oriented drama, "so we
thought to take a character like Eden and put her through an
emotional ordeal," says Pratt.  "And it gave us something that
would come between Cruz and Eden.  The story had one of the
strongest, longest arcs SB has ever had.  It had a lot of
different layers, and it gave Cruz and Eden an emotional
challenge they had never faced before."

The aftermath episode was even more gut-wrenching.  Directed by
the late Michael Gliona, it explored the physical examination
rape victims have to endure.  The dialogue was frank (the only
strange line was when Eden asked her doctor if there was a
possibility she might have contracted AIDS and he said, "I think
that's highly unlikely, but I'll check for it"), and the stage
direction amplified the psychological ramifications.  While her
gynecologist examined her, Eden's eyes locked on various objects
in the room, as she desperately tried to avoid the horrible
reality of what was happening to her.

Gliona used cross-cutting to make the scenes more powerful.  (The
episode won SB the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing the
following year, as well as Emmys for Outstanding Series and
Outstanding Writing.)  As Cruz waited outside the examining room,
Eden confessed to her doctor, "I don't know what to say to Cruz. 
I feel like I'm shutting him out and I don't know why."  Cut to
Cruz, pacing back and forth.  Back to Eden:  "I think I'd like to
take a shower now."  She paused.  "Is there going to come a time
when I don't feel this way?"  Fade back to Cruz, who broke down
and cried.

What made this episode particularly chilling to watch the second
time around was knowing that the person who was Eden's rapist
turned out to be her gynecologist, Zack Kelton (Leigh McCloskey,
now Dr. Michael Baranski on GH.)  "It was probably the best-kept
secret I have ever been involved with on daytime," says Pratt of
the shocking -- risky -- twist.  He says he had to fight the
network to make Zack the rapist.  "NBC finally gave in because we
were so committed to the idea," he says.

More controversy was stirred up by the writers' choice to have
Zack perform Eden's examination after he raped her.  "NBC said,
'Let somebody else examine her.  Make Zack the rapist, but let
somebody else examine her.' But we just went ahead and did it. 
The actor who played Zack didn't even know he was the rapist.  I
think Gliona knew.  Anne and I knew, but we didn't tell any of
the other writers."

"At first I thought it was kind of creepy," Walker said when it
was revealed that Zack was the rapist.  "Placing yourself in the
hands of any practitioner involves a lot of trust.  The last
think I wanted was any female member of our audience to feel
unsure about going to her doctor.  You have to be careful what
you say through television.  Rape is a violent crime," Walker
added.  "Not one of passion, sex, love, gentleness or
satisfaction.  It can happen to anyone, and the repercussions can
last a lifetime."

*****

PUBLIC OPINION

Hitting Close to Home

Thank you, SANTA BARBARA, for depicting with incredible reality
the horror of sexual abuse.  

I know seven people who were molested as children, five of whom
are my cousins who were violated by my father for years.  While I
have thanked God over and over that he never came near me, I see
the pain that my loved ones feel every day and want to do to him
exactly what Sawyer did to Frank.  I still want to beat on my
father and ask how he could do such a think to innocent children.

The SB actors, especially Forry Smith, Kim Zimmer, Eric Close and
Sydney Penny, did an excellent job portraying what so many people
have gone through.  To all those who have been abused or are
being abused, don't be afraid.  Stand up and take charge of your
lives before your abuser walks free, the way my father did.

--Name withheld.

*****

Possible Spoilers follow:



THIS WEEK:  Connor is torn between love and honor.  Jodie and
Reese are grateful to Cruz.  Skyler presses BJ for the truth. 
Connor finds a clue in the "Who really killed Frank?" question. 
Micah has a royal visitor and a new job.  Jodie realizes a pair
of loved ones must stay on the run.  When Jodie crashes, Micah
comes to her rescue.  Sawyer and Aurora arrive in Beantown.  Gina
and Lionel pretend to be a '90s couple, but long for the good old
days.  The truth makes Lisa bitter.  Angela plans to turn over a
new leaf.  Sophia cannot get away from CC as easily as she
thought.

NEXT WEEK:  Connor gets closer to the truth.  Gina and Lionel
realize what it is they really want.

*****

That's it for now.  I'll have more later, I hope.

--Tammy
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