From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
Subject: B&B: Thursday oopser
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:32:34 GMT



     Fairly quick update before I leave and head to Seattle.

I switched between this and the movie "Dead Calm" with
Nicole Kidman -- incredibly suspenseful -- sort of demonstrates
that these shows, while lots of fun, are pretty lightweight
compared to a well-crafted drama.
     Which is probably why I don't take them all that
seriously -- as my fans can tell.

     Thursday on "The Bold and the Beautiful"

     JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO COME OUT OF THE
CASINO

     Jack is looking over his ring and practicing his
proposal speech.  (I can relate!)  Stephanie comes in and
they get all lovey-dovey.  They're in a study with lots of
books -- Jack says he can tell a lot about a person by what
they read.  He pulls down some Walt Whitman and they
exchange some mildly-arousing verse (something about "shared
fire" -- I'm getting warm thinking about it!  Any poetry
experts out there.
     They stand up, Jack goes into the windup, saying how
happy she makes him, how incredible she is, etc.  He tells
her he loves her.  She says that she loves him too.  He's
reaching into his pocket for the ring, when she says "I wish
my life was as uncomplicated as my relationship with you."
She wants to talk, he re-pockets the ring.  Felicia and the
goon she's dating are bugging me.  Stephanie sums up the
gambling-kidnapping-attempted rape story, with Jack thinking
"this has a familiar "ring" to it."  Then Stephanie says she
met with Zach (another "ring") last week -- an episode I
missed -- and she knows he's trouble.  A drifter.  Amoral.
Where did you meet him?  Jack asks.  A bar he works at, one
of those kids' places on Malibu -- the Bikini.  Jack is
hoping Stephanie has a spare pair of Depends in the house.
Stephanie says when she thinks about what they put Felicia
through, she could KILL them!  She despises them!  Sensing
that she's spoiled the mood, she goes to check with Maria
about dinner.  Alone, Jack wonders what he's done -- he's
the man she'd kill!  He's the man she despises!

     DON'T CRY OVER SPILT JACK

     Darla looks spiffy prepped to go out with Bill.  She
asks Sally what she's doing late at the office.  Working to
put this company back on the right track (cliche #88) -- she
considers Karen's plan a bridge and not an end.  Darla
points out how great it is to make good-looking duds people
can afford.  Darla asks about Jack.  Out with Queen
Stephanie -- but as soon as Jack realizes what kind of woman
Stephanie is, he'll be hungry for a real woman.  He's a man
who takes risk, knows money and how to handle it.  We're two
of a kind.  (Best line:  Darla comments that it didn't look
like they were breaking up at the restaurant, and Sally says
we weren't looking close enough.  Darla says to look any
closer you'd have to be sitting in Jack's lap!)

     DON'T CRY OVER SPLIT RIDGE

     Taylor is disconsolate, looking at the picture of
Brooke and Ridge in the fashion news.  She wastes time
(thank you, more Nicole!) thinking back on the Virgin
Islands trip and the wedding.  She wishes Ridge were back.
Ding-dong.  It's Zach.   Zach talks with her, she says Ridge
is on a trip.  He tells her he might be moving on and moving
away, and she doesn't like it -- they're just getting to
know each other again!  He says he'll visit.  She still
wants him to meet the family -- let's just go up to the main
house and meet Stepanie now, she's with Dad.  Let's not
disturb them, Zach suggests.  You're right.  As he leaves,
she makes him promise he won't disappear again.
     Later, Taylor's in a shiny blue robe.  The phone rings
-- it's Ridge at an airport.  It's pouring rain outside, and
the connection is bad.  Ridge shouts that there's been a
change in plan, and Taylor asks if it's about Brooke?  But
Ridge has given up and hangs up.  Taylor's worried.

     Gotta go.  I'm giving my humor muscle a rest next week
so I'll be ready for the following week.  All you reluctant
updaters, now's your chance!  Go for it!

     Jim "they'd better not resolve Thorne/Macy/Karen" 'til
I get back" Acker
     jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov


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