From: afpaeji@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JIM PAE)
Subject: Re: ATWT - was this acting???
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Date: 28 Jul 1992 10:41 EST  

In article <1992Jul28.080333.18693@qiclab.scn.rain.com>, sallyb@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Sally Bowley) writes...
>HELLO CHAPS AND CHAPETTES!!!

Hello Sal -
> 
>gawd, i really think her-story was made today (i'm going through a
>feminist phase at the moment). i am of the belief (and i am unanimous
>in this...) that we were witness to actual acting on today's show. and
>it sorely grieves me - enuff to the point where i just had to have 2
>lime jello sandwiches for supper instead of one - to attribute this
>acting to our own hairstyler's nightmare - frantic. yes. gawd. i know
>it's amazing - have another drink. don't mind if i do. what a show. in
>fact, this was one of the best i've seen - so good, in fact, that it
>inspired me to don body stocking and chuck & di slippers and address
>you all this evening. 
> 

I was thinking this too (about the acting, not the body stocking).  What 
Frantic needs most is real motivation.  The day to day are not special 
enough for her to exude her acting qualities.  I guess being stalked by a 
wacko does something to a girl.

>what a hoot!! here's frantic frantically breaking open drawers of
>carodead's beaureau and finding secret openings and pages fom THE
>DIARY. there's ollie (after oliver cromwell - he had his 'air cut the
>same way, you know),

I was very impressed with Frantic's use of the tools around her, she almost 
rendered a McGyver.  From her past, I did not expect her to be so 
resourceful.  I also expected her to see H2D coming when she found the 
secret drawer.  When she pulled the switch, her head was sticking through 
the curtains and I was sure she'd see Darrylicus Demonicus heading for the 
cabin.  Maybe, it was only her hair that moved the drapes - there's room 
for error there.

 racing up the "mountain" towards the lodge, 
>accompanied by that tension mounting music : da dum, DUM DUM DUM, da
>dum DUM DUM DUM

OH! The music!  I liked the occasional pounding on the lower keys of the 
ol' ATWT piany during tense moments.  OOO, I got all tingley.

 - well i near filled me depends. tears are corsing
>down frantic's cheeks as she reads of carolegs' supsicions that h2d
>may have killed nate - she also finds out about his affair with
>con-her. carodead alludes to the fact that she just can't trust h2d
>anymore - frantic gasps and gags as she reads about the same things
>happening to *her* - large sums of money being withdrawn from the
>bank, mysterious business trips with candycane, a friendly phone call
>from deero the night before caro's "accident", references to
>treacherous weather reports (h2d had told frantic the weather was
>okay) and to a hoilday in sardinia or some -ia, when h2d told frantic
>that he'd never been there before when they went on their honeymoon.
>HA! so he danced the beach fantastic already!!! she's agog, agast and
>agape; staggering about the lodge, clutching her forehead and running
>her hands through her hair, without thought to ruining the style....
>(wouldn't you think she'd have changed out of that bustiere thing she
>had on - i mean, switzerland aint the tropics, if you know what i
>mean). da dum DUM DUM DUM - there's ollie pounding thru the trees
>towards the lodge and up the steps - he flings open the door and i
>thought she'd shit for sure. just *brilliant* scenes between them -
>and you don't know how many g&t's i had to down before i'd admit this
>- she accusing him of everything, him admitting to nothing, screaming
>at each other, snatching the journal pages from one another, him
>feverishly trying to burn them, her darting about trying to stop him.

LIES! LIES!  I've got to burn these LIES!  - Brilliant Darryl, did you have 
anyone help you with that conclusion?  Where are those blue tips?


>he really did look quite mad as he babbled on about loving her and how
>paranoid carodead was blah blah. thank gawd frantic wasn't having it
>- mind you, i may not have acted the same way, up there all alone. i
>may have acquiesced to him until i was in a safer place to get away.

I was very surprised Frantic responded the way she did.  With her being so 
weak and feeble the last, oh, year and a half I expected her to fall apart. 
Way to go Fannie!

>and when she bashed him with the poker!!!! DA DA DUM DUM DUM!! run
>away run away!!!!!!!!!!! here she is, running sobbing down to the
>tramcar, the mist is rising, it's getting dark. there he is,. lying
>slumped in the chair, blood gushing from his 'ead. she gets on the
>tram, she pushes the button, the car begins it's ascent. DA DUM, DUM
>DUM DUM - where the FUCK did he come from, that's what *i* want to
>know? here's ollie springing from nowhere - above, i think - into the
>tramcar, clutching a rag to his bleeding 'ead - aaggggggHH! trapped!!!
>i can hardly wait for tomorrow's episode - in fact, i'mnot going to
>bed at all - just so's i don't miss it. *this* is what i'm on the ward
>for - excitement, moider, the thrill of the chase - pass the jello,
>it's gonna be a long nite.........
> 
>cheerio
>sal the gal  
> 
>thought she was a gonner for sure. 

Maybe she still will be.



tooTALL
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