From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
Subject: B&B:  Two day's worth
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:51:59 GMT




     Got a bit behind the 8-ball yesterday.  And the 4-ball,
the cue ball, the bowling ball, the Sisyphean ball, the
inaugural ball, etc.

     So, this is a combined and short update.  Also affected
by memory lapse.

     Wednesday on "The Bold and the Beautiful"

     DARLA the SPY

     Darla, as Camille, comes into Ridge's office.  Ridge
tells her to learn to knock.  Darla figgers she's a goner.
Ridge says don't worry, he's not a monster.  Darla sighs
with relief.

     SALLY/SAUL/MACY

     Saul and Sally discuss the progress of the Forrester
furtive filching in-filtration.  Saul, previously a
supporter, is now sagging.  Ouch.  Sally says buck up, we
haven't lost a step even though we've gained a few pounds!
Anything we do is worth it to get Bill Spencer off of our
fiscal backs.  Saul says I still worry about going into
Forrester to steal their designs!  Sally says "why don't you
say it louder, they missed a few words in Timbuktu!"  (An
A.D. laugher!)  She says as long as we keep it under our
hat, we'll be O.K.  Macy enters and the duo looks guilty.
     Did I break something up?  Macy inquires.  No, just
talking about the old times, Sally says.  Saul inquires
about the holiday.  Not great, Macy says.  Not for lack of a
date, Sally says, alluding to the Sly guy.  He's sly?  Saul
asks, that doesn't sound good.  No, that's his name.  I was
a little hard on him, Macy says.  Sally encourages her to
get off her pretty little... chair and go at least make an
apology.  Macy decides a hard friend is good to find, and
heads Bikini-ward.

     ERIC/SHEILA

     Sheila comes to see Eric and ask about the babe.  She
gets the scoop.  Then she asks where they are if the baby
isn't his.  His feelings haven't changed.  Left unanswered
is the "Eric as father" scenario.  His affirmation is just
what Sheila needed to hear, and to confirm her course of
action.  She decides with the spare week she's been given
due to the baby's patina, she can go stir things up in Genoa
City.

     MACY/SLY

     Sly is doing the books at the Bikini Bar when Macy puts
a yellow rose on the daily ledger.  She asks if she can
apologize.  She's being really sweet, he's being
monosyllabic.  Finally, though, he gets up from behind the
desk and they go to the table.  She explains that she was
expecting Thorne and still has some feelings for him.  Sly
says he just wanted to be a friend.  Their fingertips meet
over the tabletop.  She says thanks, friends are good.  He
asks if this means he can try again in a supper framework
and she says sure, and leaves.  He's wondering what it
means.

     Thursday on "The Bold and the Beautiful"

     ANOTHER NAME FOR JOB SECURITY, and
     SPEAKING OF SECURITY, THY NAME AIN'T DARLA

     Sally leads a closed-eyes (hand over his eyes) Jack to
a door and then inside.  Open Bun, er, Sesame!  She's
transformed Felicia's old digs into a big new office,
complete with slot machine.  (Oh, now that's a good idea!!!)
Why!  Cuz he's a high roller who can pull $100K out of his
pocket when a damsel's about out of her dress, er, in
distress.  He says he doesn't deserve it.  She says he does.
In order to quell further argument, he covers her lips with
his mouth.
     Post-liplock, Sally is hypoxic.  She calms her heaving
breasts, and they further discuss the office.  Jack finally
accepts it, but reports that further largeness, er, largess
won't be justified by the fourth quarter earnings, er, heavy
losses.  I didn't think we'd turn it around 'til next year,
Sally says.  It's not turning around, it's sinking fast, and
Bill Spencer is a man who'll abandon ship before the decks
are awash.  Get my driftwood?  Sally thinks, Darla arrives
and has to talk privately.  Jack goes to pack after a peck.
     
     DARLA CARRIES THE MAIL

     Eric's on the phone -- I don't think it was a
storyline-related call -- when high-octane no-knock formula
Camille slips in the office with the mail.  He doesn't
object to the quiet delivery, but wants to know who she is
and who hired her without telling him?  Chester Evans hired
her, over the holidays.  You were busy.  Yes, but I still
like to meet my employees and form a first impression.
Darla goes to the "I need the job, hope I impressed you" sob
story, and Eric says yes, I'm impressed, good legs, nice
bosom, lose the glasses.  Keep the job.  Stephanie chooses
to pop in, discomfiting Darla, who gets out fast, and says
this place is SPOOKY!
     (BTW, "Camille's" DarkSide nickname will be Hurricane.)
Camille goes home early on her first day.  Not good for job
security!

     SUPER-DARLA

     Having changed her identity from mild-mannered Camille
Evans, mail room worker at a great metropolitan design
house, Darla changes into a tight, black, form-fitting
uniform, flies over to Spectra Fashions, becomes blonde
again (just like Supergirl!) and drops in on Sally Spectra,
seeing the Jack peck.  Jack leaves.  Was that a kiss?
Second one in 20 minutes, a thoroughly bussed Sally reports.
But skip the osculation update, how was it at Forrester?
(Ad break)  In the interim, Darla reported on the Ridge
berating but that Eric was O.K. with the slippin' in.  Good
-- keep it up.  If he objects, start knockin'.  He probably
won't object.  Some day, he won't be there, and then you
finalize filching Forrester fashion formats.  Fine?  Darla
is worried she might not be filch material.  Sally says we
need those designs, so stick to it.  With Elmer's?  ditzy
Darla asks.

     ERIC FINALLY TELLS STEPHANIE SHE'S A BIG WINDBAG
(sort of)

     Stephanie asks if he's seen Ridge.  He has.  What's he
like?  He's a changed man, Eric says.  I hope you see the
danger that Brooke's cunning wiles have put our entire
family in, and the threat to Ridge's marriage!  Furthermore,
this baby could be a threat to your relationship with
Sheila.  I assume you've discussed this with her?  Eric says
that if the baby isn't his, they proceed as planned.  And if
it is yours?  Stephanie asks.  We haven't talked about the
hypotheticals.  Stephanie says that you should have!  Eric
tells her that he doesn't need this berating, he'll worry
about when they get the test (which he mentions they can't
get for a week -- Sheila told him) and goes to see Brooke,
leaving abruptly.   Stephanie thinks that Eric can't think
for himself and since she's the remaining lucid thinker in
the fambly, she'd better take matters into her own talons.

     KAREN COMES TO SEE BROOKE

     Brooke awakens in the hospital room and finds Karen
waiting to see her.  Karen asks how she's doing and brought
her a present.  How nice.  Karen tells Brooke that she
admires her and wants to get to know her better, because
they're alike in many ways -- blonde, want to bed down the
Forrester brothers, etc.  Karen tells Brooke that she feels
she knows her for the lying, clinging, man-stealing,
manipulative... wonderful, caring, cherished friend that she
was to Caroline, because she read Caroline's letters and
diaries.  We have a lot in common.  Brooke confides that she
thinks the baby is Ridge's.  Karen is amazed that they
shared such an intimate experience, and Brooke tells her it
was the most wonderful, romantic, sweaty, intense experience
she's ever had.  (Number two was the sauna scene.)  Karen
tells Brooke that she hopes she gets what she wants, i.e.
Ridge.  So Karen is against Taylor too, now.

     YESSIR, THAT MAY BE MY BABY,
     I MEAN, THAT'S MY BABY, MAYBE

     Eric goes to the hospital, and stops by the nursery to
see little Nameme Something Forrester.  Karen stops by and
they admire the tyke together through the window.  Eric says
Ridge is right, we have to make sure that this baby doesn't
get a bad time.  Karen asks if he wants to be the baby's
father, and he says he'd be honored to be the baby's father.
Fortunately, though, if it is his she doesn't have his cleft
chin!  (A.D.)  If I could just hold her I think I'd know.

     AND YOU THOUGHT POST-PARTUM DEPRESSION WAS BAD

     SLAM!
     Brooke, startled, looks up to see Stephanie glowering
at her.  How dare you scare me like that, and furthermore,
visiting hours are over!   Stephanie says you may think
you've got it all figured out now, but I'm going to give you
a dose of reality!  They stare each other down.

     Tune in tomorrow, when the guys at Caltech say:

     "Was that an earthquake?"
     and a faithful B&B watcher answers,
     "No, it was just Stephanie slamming the door."



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|  James G. Acker                       Occasional Genius  |
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|  "Animal-based research in this field ignores the fact   |
|  that in humans much sexual behavior has little to do    |
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|  logically..."                                           |
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