From: tcarsten@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Teresa C D Carstensen)
Subject: GL: Update for Tuesday, January 19  
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:11:20 GMT

Sorry this is being posted a little later than usual.  I apparently 
screwed up when I tried to post it originally :-(.

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Eve's Room

Eve and Nick wake up after their night of boinking and are surprised to 
discover that it is already the afternoon.  Nick wants to call the 
airlines and immediately reschedule their vacation but Eve isn't overly 
keen on that.  She asks him about what happened between him and Mindums 
last night.


The Lighthouse

Mindums is still there (sheesh!) and is fuming because Nick apparently 
spent the night at Eve's.  Billy comes in. 


Nadine's House

Nadine hears someone furiously pounding on her door, so she opens it.  It's
Harley, who immediately confronts her about her _lie_.


The  Firehouse

AC is working on some paperwork concerning Frank Sr. when Frank bursts in. 


WSPR

Roger comes into Gilly's office and tells her that he has a Pulitzer Prize
caliber story for her to cover.  Through the glass walls of the office, 
Jenna can be seen.


Spaulding Enterprises

Ross, Vanessa, Henry, and Weiner Boy are in the boardroom sifting through 
some papers about Jenna's dad.  A courier pops in with a package from 
Leo Flynn.  It contains a bunch of legal papers virtually demanding the 
shirts off the back of Spaulding Enterprises, everyone high up on the 
corporate ladder, and from all their decendents for the next 12 generations
or so.  Vanessa wants to call in Nick to help deal with the problem, but 
Weiner Boy questions his loyalty to the family.


WSPR

Gilly isn't interested in doing Jenna's story.  She claims it is too 
business)oriented and will bore the viewers.  Jenna, who is acting 
completely wired, tells Roger to _order_ Gil to do the story.  Gil 
says he can't because Holly is in charge of programming, and he can't 
override her authority on that.  After Gil refers to her as Roger's
_mistress_, Jenna becomes indignant and storms out.  Gilly argues that 
the story is too _sticky_ to do, but Roger says he can tell that she
really wants to do it, anyway.
.

The Firehouse

Frank complains that he has been frantically trying to get ahold of AC 
and Harley _for days_ to let them know about Maureen  (I didn't get this. 
I thought they drove straight through to Washington, spent the evening 
there, and drove straight back, which should have taken them less than 
2 days.  Worse yet, Frank gave the impression that he didn't even know 
where they were.  I must have missed something.)  At any rate, AC is 
shocked by the news, especially since she was alive when they left and 
had already been buried before they got back.  He wants to go to church to 
pray and to thank Maureen.  He tells Frank about how she unknowingly 
helped him on Christmas Eve.  He wants her to know that she saved his life.


At Nadine's

Harley is ranting about Nadine's lies.  Nadine tells her that she 
shouldn't listen to what people who are jealous of her say.  She claims
that she doesn't know what Harley is upset about, so Harley asks her
_What is in Washington?_  Nadine answers _Hilary?_  Just then, Billy 
calls to tell her that Mindums is back.  he wants them all to have dinner
together that night.  As soon as he hangs up, Harley asks her outright
why she lied about Frank and Harley's father being dead.


The Lighthouse

Mindums tells Billy that she probably won't be staying in town very long. 
Billy mentions that they will be having a little party at Nadine's, to
which Mindums asks him about his _other wife,_.  Billy says _Well, you 
know we can't invite her... but there is someone else we could invite._
Mindums gets annoyed and tells him that she's already seen Nick.


Eve's Room

Nick has gotten a call asking him to come to a board meeting at Spaulding.
He and Eve speculate that maybe Alexandra has come back just at the same
time Mindums did.  Eve tells him that he doesn't have to keep what went on
between him and Mindums last night from her.  She is somewhat sympathetic
towards the Mimster.  Nick says that Mindums wanted to let him know it
was over between them and that she would be going back to NY soon.


Spaulding

Nick thinks the Jenna problem is a lot of fuss over nothing.  He doesn't 
care about his inheritance, and doesn't think Jenna's case is very strong
anyway.    He offers to let them give his inheritance to Jenna in order 
to get her off their backs.  Weiner Boy is staring at some papers and 
looks trez bothered.  He tells Nick to let Ross handle it.


WSPR

Roger tries to tempt Gill by offering her sole producing credit for the 
story.  Gilly tells him that if she did the story, she would present it 
in an unbiased manner, and that might not fit his plans.  Rog starts to 
flatter her, saying that she has gone as far up as she can go in WSPR and
has the talent to go much farther someplace where she has better 
opportunities.  He says he wants _the best_ for this story, and it might 
be the stepping stone for her to go onto bigger and better things.  She
teases him about trying to butter her up, but it's obviously working.  


Nadine's

Harley asks Nadine about the telegram and the purple heart.  Nadine admits
that she got the purple heart and other war mementos from an estate sale.
_And you'd thought we'd never find out!_ adds Harley.  Nadine tries to 
calm her down by saying _Would you be happier if you knew your father was
just off somewhere?_  Harley accuses her of not caring about Frank Sr. 
(henceforth to be known as Buzz so I don't get him and Frank mixed up). 
Nadine assures her that she and Buzz loved each other as much as 2 *young*
people could.   She wanted Harley to look up to him, so she had people 
tell her tales that made Buzz out to be a great guy.  _But *why* did you 
lie?_ Harley still wants to know.  Nadine tries to explain that it was 
very difficult for her, trying to raise 2 small children while living with
Pops, Buzz's father, who resented her for supposedly holding Buzz back.
_He was MIA ... you know what that means._  Harley insists that Nadine could
have told her and Frank.  Nadine disagrees, saying _Sometimes hope is not a
good thing.  Sometimes hope can make you sick_.


The Firehouse

Frank says something about if things were perfect, people would (or 
wouldn't) mind dying ( I couldn't tell what he said since my tape garbled 
at this point).   Then the conversation swings to the topic of Whiney.
Frank is still mooning over her, so AC tells him it's time that he start 
looking at other women's legs.   Frank notices a souvenir t-shirt from
the Veteran's Memorial and asks about the picture he had asked AC to take 
of his father's name on the wall.  AC makes up some excuse about having 
trouble with the camera and ruining the film.  He mentions that Harley is 
over at Nadine's telling her about the trip.  At first Frank is ticked that
Harley would tell Nadine first, since he didn't think she cared like he does.
Then he starts to reminisce about how lovey-dovey Nadine and Buzz were when
he was little.  He decides to go to Nadine's to hear about the trip.  AC
joins him.  


The Lighthouse

Mindums (or should that be Min-Dumb?) admits to Billy that she didn't 
explain to Nick why she ran out on him.  She spits fire about how he 
is sleeping with that hussy Eve.  Billy says he's sorry, he didn't know.
Then Mindums declares that she wants to go visit Vanessa, but Van is at 
work and Mindums doesn't want to go to Spaulding alone.


Eve's Room

Eve is puttering around getting her room tidied up.  She tries to unzip
her suitcase so she can unpack it, but the zipper is jammed.  She has a 
temper tantrum and throws it against the armoire, smashing her dressing 
mirror.


Spaulding

Ross informs everyone that their personal wealth is not at risk, but their
income from Spaulding is.  Nick pesters Weiner Boy and Henry because he 
doesn't understand why they involved him in this.  He doesn't know what they 
expect him to do about it.  They assure him, however, that they only called
him over because they thought he had a right to know what was going on. 
He leaves.  The others wonder how he'll react to the news that Brandon framed
Jenna's dad.  Weiner Boy announces that the papers he was looking at from 
the Federal Justice Department prove that Brandon did.


WSPR

Roger tells Gilly that he has proof to back up his story.  It may have been 
obtained illegally, but it is still proof.  Gilly asks Roger just what he
is offering her.  They get interrupted by a secretary who announces that
Holly is on the line.  Gilly instructs her to tell Holly never mind, the
problem has been taken care of.  Roger gloats.


Nadine's 

Harley accuses Nadine of having lied for selfish reasons, that it was easier
that way for her to take off and leave her kids.  There is a knock at the
door.  It's Frank and AC.  Frank wants to know everything about the trip.


Towers Club

Jenna is getting sloshed and ranting like a madwoman.  Roger tells her to
start thinking about how much she has to gain from all this.


Spaulding Boardroom

Ross points out that Brandon was never charged for the crime.  The only
issue they are legally liable for is a licensing crime, and no judge is 
going to ruin them for that.  Then Weiner Boy makes a strange statement- 
_It never happened_.  Everyone looks at him like he's gone weird so he
repeats it.  He explains that the crime never happened because Brandon was
so slick that he never left any traces of his misdeeds.  If he *had* done 
this, no one would have ever found out about it.


Outside, in the reception area, Nick is still hanging around.  He gets a 
call from Eve, who is seen wearing a slinky red dress.  She is at some 
restaurant and wants him to meet her there.  He says OK.  He turns and
starts to leave, but who does he find standing there behind him?  It's
everyone's little darling, Mindums!

_So,_ she snarls, _Alexandra sucked you in after all._



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I don't get much chance to post aside from doing the Tuesday updates, so 
pardon me if I rant for a minute.  Geez, is that Mindums ever a jerk or
what!  I can't believe she has the gall to be mad at Nick for getting on 
with his life after she ran out on him and disappeared for several months
with NO explanation.   I always thought the writers tried to portray her 
as a character we were supposed to feel sympathy for, but I have absolutely 
no tolerance for this loser.  Kill her off quick before she turns into a 
Holly clone!  Better yet, bring Alex back and have her send Mindums 
whimpering back to New York with her tail between her legs.  I want to
see her destroyed.   

BTW, Michael Zazlow was in Columbus the other day doing some promotional
work.  I saw a blip about him on the news.  His hair was back to grey and
IMHO he looked much better than he does with that Grecian formula stuff. 
Didn't they just start dyeing his hair once they matched him up with Jenna?
I guess they were afraid he'd look too old for her.  Heck, if he's old 
enough to be Blake's dad, then we know he's also old enough to be Jenna's 
dad, so why bother?
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