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From: yarnot@babbage.ecs.csus.edu (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: Update 11/17/94
Date: 18 Nov 1994 18:18:49 GMT

The theme is music and slamming doors.  I knew my luck in not having
Ick-L scenes would run out, especially as May had reported on the
taping of this scene.  However, I must say, the scenery
is beautiful.  There was a fort and a blue blue sky for St. Miguel
to fly a kite in.  They go to dinner with Juan and his folks and find out
he's happy.  Miguel sings a lullaby, and the only part of him we
see is one lock of unwashed hair, so it's OK.  He actually does have
a nice voice for lullabies.  ["Fuero contra Fuero."  My Spanish is
rusty and the books are in the back room: force against force?"]

Meanwhile, back in Port Chuck, it's a another happy day at the Quartermaines
with the family sniping at each other about the upcoming trial and their
business (AJ has a job?  I thought Ned fired him from the hotel, what is he
doing these days?)  Lila tries to soothe everyone, which a half-century of
experience should have taught her was wasted effort.  Edward says they've all
been testy as Monica comes in, and he remembers that this is one of the
reasons.  "I wouldn't presume to complain in your presence."  "That's never
stopped you before."  (Monica seems to feel better, mentally, today.)
She comments that if it were Edward vs. cancer, the malignancy wouldn't
have a chance.  Alan and Monica head off to the hospital for her bone
scan and tests.

Ned, meanwhile, goes to the gatehouse.  Lois is still not talking and using
Brenda as the Wall (from the Fantastics).  Ned flies a concept idea, that
he should pull out a three-legged stool and an acoustic guitar [YES!] and
starts singing.  Lois hates it.  This is an ego trip and he's playing the
tragedy of his love life with his sappy love songs.  Ned gets angry and tells
her she's a disgrace to the entire management profession.  He comes up with
the Phrase of the Day, telling her she's filtering her decisions through
"that kaleidoscope of rage you wear as a second skin."  Lois sends him out
(slammed door #1.)  "I hate him!"  Brenda gets a smug look on her face.
"Suuuuure."  That night, in a nice segue from the Menudo lullaby, Ned is
outside the gatehouse window singing "Will You Stay With Me?"  "Hey", she
says, "you want to wake the neighbors?"  She tells him he's made his point.
"The dopy love song.  You can do it."

At the hospital, Amy keeps asking Bobbie if she's heard from Tony.  [I dunno
why the Gossipmistress didn't recognize Lois the other day, she should have.]
Kevin, having been up all night with a suicidal patient comes in, and he will
be home sleeping for the foreseeable future. Has Bobbie heard from Tony?
Bobbie is pulled from her self-pity, however, when Monica and Alan come in.
Oh, yeah, there are other things going on than her pathetic excuse of a
marriage.  Monica thinks that if this turns out to be a new tumor, maybe
she'd rather die.  Bobbie reminds her that she loves life.  "I want my OLD life
back!"  She goes off for the scan, and Alan waits with Bobbie.  "I thought the
waiting was intolerable, but being this close to the answer, this is even
worse."  Bobbie reminds him that "this is happening to YOU, too."  There's
a BAD segue from a Puerto Rico scene to Alan and Monica at the Q. mansion.
[In fact, with two teaser PR scenes, and no teaser Monica scene, I kinda
wondered if an editor blew it.] The cancer has metastasized.  Everyone starts
fussing about who will take care of Monica, till Monica blows up.  "NO!  This
cancer is mine!  I own it, it belongs to me!"  She storms out (slammed door
#2.)  AJ is going to go after her, but Alan stops him, and thinks that anger
is a good thing.

At the lighthouse, Kevin is dozing on the couch, and there's a persistent
knock on the door.  Lucy is here, to ask him if he'd like to see the
Grateful Dead.  He looks, to put it mildly, bemused. Lucy raves on about
the joys of love beads and so forth, till Kevin declines the offer.  Lucy
then remembers that she doesn't like tie-dye anyway.  Kevin sits back down
and kicks his shoes off (he was *really* tired when he got home not to
have done this before!)  "So what are we going to do instead?"  "Oh, I'm
doing it", Kevin mumbles.  Lucy watches him doze and says she has an over-
whelming desire to take care of him.  "It's a primal thing."  "How primal?"
So primal she feels like making him chicken soup.  (There's that Knell of
Doom again!)  He doesn't have one of Lucky's little disposal kits, does he.
No, "I like a worm-free environment."  Well, Lucy says, "I really can be a
wonderful caregiver when I want to be."  She bangs around in the kitchen
for a while.  "Where's your Soup Starter?"  (For someone who likes to eat
as much as Lucy, I'd have thought her kitchen survival skills would be more
developed.)  "Think linear" says Kevin, sleepily.  Lucy decides that opening
straight chicken broth will do, after all, she isn't domestic. She comes out,
and Kevin is asleep.  She tucks him up.
        Kevin has a nightmare about Grace, but Lucy holds him.  He won't
tell her about the nightmare.  Lucy thinks he needs a good therapist.
Kevin gets angry, after all, she isn't a professional.  [FGCs, don't bother,
I don't think either character needs a defense in this scene. They're both
behaving exactly as one would.]  Lucy gets angry, and Kevin apologizes, but
she tells him off, tells him to stick with his dreams, and slams door #3
on her way out.  This time Kevin doesn't destroy the furniture, but he's
thinking hard.

I'll be out of town and away from my computer on Thanksgiving, but will
get the update out as soon as possible that weekend.  Happy T-day to
all!

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