From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: B&B:  Yeah, this is Thursday's
Summary: I got used to it after awhile
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:01:19 GMT
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
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     The #$#%! news server is currently posting articles
from 3:30 yesterday.  ARRGH!  Means tasty tidbits posted
over the upcoming weekend will get canned unseen.
     WE LABOR ON, UNDAUNTED.
     (Watched the first half of this before the debate and
the rest after the debate.  See, I do have self-control!)

     Thursday on "The Bold and the Beautiful"

     YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY THE MOTHER OF TRANS

     Sheila mulls over the ongoing "how do I prove I'm a
good person" problem when Stephanie bops by.  She's been
auditing her activities and says Sheila hasn't been as busy
as she oughta be.  So what have you been up to?  Sheila is
flustered, so Stephanie speaks up for her, saying "Chasing
Eric is not in your job description.   Getting rid of Brooke
WAS in your job description, but it's not anymore.  I'm
taking over that project."
     Stephanie goes on to say that she's been observing
Sheila closely.  She can see right through her, she's
transparent.  (Get it?)  As we've been speaking you've
already told me half-a-dozen whoppers.  I can't prove it,
but I KNOW it.  Sheila is a duo now -- she's beside herself.
Stephanie bores in.  You're hiding something -- what is this
great secret you harbor?  You may be able to fool a lot of
the people most of the time and most of the people a lot of
the time, but you can't fool ME!  I'm different, and just
like Sting, "I'll Be Watching You, every breath you take,
every move you make."  She exits.  Sheila realizes that
Stephanie may, resemblance notwithstanding, be the
proverbial "immovable object" at Forrester Fashions.

     I GUESS SHE'S NOT ON THE "FRIENDS AND FAMILY" PLAN
EITHER

     Sheila gets into gear on the personality-revision
program.  She dials Mommy (apparently also called her once
before in an episode I skipped for the Veep-to-go, the Veep-
to-be, and the other one) and poses as Sarah Quirk, a former
classmate of Sheila's.  In voice disguise, Sheila asks Mommy
how she feels about Sheila.
     She's dead!  Mommy quavers.  And she was not very nice.
     Well, other than that?
     I hope she's got a spot in Hell close to the fire!     
     Surely you jest, Mumsy Carter!
     I hope the Devil is using her for his personal love
bunny!
     Mommy almost hangs up, but "Sarah" pleads for more
information.  Sheila wisely switches tactics, reminding
Mommy about a wonderful trip to Chicago Sheila had
"described" to her.  You can see on Mommy's face that some
emotions have been rekindled.  (This dame is GOOD!)  She
refuses to talk to "Sarah" anymore.  After the hangup,
Sheila muses that she's starting to get through to Mommy,
and she HAS to get through to Mommy.

     IT'S GOING TO BE A ROUGH DAY AT THE OFFICE TOMORROW

     At the Bikini, Thorne and Karen are dancing, then back
at the table quaffing brews.  Sly ambles by and asks if they
want some more?  Thorne goes for another ale.  He asks Sly
where he got that weird "date" notion?  Karen didn't call.
I didn't say it was Karen.  Well, it couldn't have been
Macy, Karen says, she's home doing the old granny
needlepoint thing.  Sly is surprised to hear this, knowing
as he does that Macy is barely covered in that leopard-skin
bikini backstage.  He goes.  Karen continues to make
disparaging comments on Macy's ability to "have fun",
"party", and "keep Thorne interested".  Thorne remonstrates
her for the personal fouls.  But Karen is sure that "down
the line", Macy will be the past and they'll be the future,
because Macy is dowdy.
     Up on stage, the band finishes the number and Sly
introduces "the one, the only, the incredible, the fantastic
(I'll take it from here, Sly), the curvaceous, the stunning,
the wowsers, the glamorous, the ex-beauty queen, the genes,
the teeth, the hair, the eyes, the lack of clothes, the skin
(back to you, Sly) and the needlepoint champion of the
world, Macy Forrester!  Whawhawhawhawha?  says Karen, but
Thorne is already eyeing the stage and the decolletage.  (A
downright good idea.)  The band rips through a credible
cover of "It's In His Kiss", while Macy parades around
singing to salivating males.  Thorne is into it, Karen is
clearly not amused.  After the song, Karen suggests they
blow the pop stand, but Thorne wants to see the next song.
(I bet.  Notice he didn't say "hear" the next song?)  Macy
invites Thorne on stage, he declines, but she insists.  They
cover "Everlasting Love" (I don't know the original artist:
Lyrics:  Open up your eyes/then you'll realize/you'll never
be denied/everlasting love,  and Open up your arms/lead me
to your charms/ do dah do dah dah/everlasting love.  Who was
this??)  Despite Thorne's lounge-lizard vocals, it's still
pretty good.  Karen is NOT AMUSED.  Post song, they hug
during the applause, Macy tells him that he's her one and
only love and soon she'll have him to herself again, the
crowd goes wild, and all but one of the party animals
applaud wildly as the two exchange tongue numbers.  Macy
proceeds to deliver the #14 "I Won This Round" actress look
and the #27 "Now You're Playing in the Big Leagues, Kid"
actress smile to an unamused Karen.

     Tune in to our fascinating show next time, when there's
(sigh) very little likelihood we'll hear Macy say:
     "Care to do an HBO movie, Thorne?"

     (BTW, I just had this thought.  Sly is still sans goil,
and she and Karen are both airheads.  IIWWTT, I could
envision a "Secret of My Success"-type plot in which Sly
turns out to be a business whiz.  First he and Karen
"accidentally" end up between the sheets (perhaps to make
Thorne jealous), but Karen finds out that she enjoys chest
rugs and gets Velcroed to Sly.  So she gets Sly a job in the
Spectra mail room, where they occasionally play "special
delivery from the mailman" during business hours.  Between
conjugal visits, Sly comments on her plans and suggests
changes.  The changes work!  This puts Karen in a dilemma,
because Sly's idea's are helping the company, but it's
supposed to be an all-woman show.  Does she lose Sly or lose
the illusion?  And does Sly really love her or is he just
getting out from behind the bar?)

     Jim "what an imagination!" Acker
     jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov