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From: jyarnot@netcom.com (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: Update Thursday May 25
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 00:33:52 GMT

THE AIDS STORYLINE
Robin is lurking at GH, and pacing, pacing.  She waylays Alan, what are
the results??  He's already called, but he will call again.  He calls the
lab and bullies the technician into giving him the results.  Oh, RIGHT.
Over the phone with no positive ID that this is a Dr. we're talking to?
Anyway.  The results are negative.  Robin goes incandescent with relief,
and after Doc Alan kisses her on the forehead, he warns her that she must
have another test in 6 months, and more later, too.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She can hardly wait to tell Stone.
        Meanwhile, Stone is nauseous.  Sonny comes in and wants to know
how he's doing.  [Gangster chicks, I do remember your man pushing Stone
into the drink without the least concern as to if he could swim... Who is
this new Sonny?  I must say I like him a lot!]  Lily comes, Stone leaves,
and Leelee wants to talk about the violence she's read about in the papers.
(Yesterday's?  Perhaps she was so busy teaching Spanish to smitten Sly
she didn't have time to read the paper till late?)  Sonny reminds her of
her father.  In a *good* way, that is.  They are both men of great
confidence.  Going on, she cautions Sonny that he has to trust people.
Going further on (I kept expecting Brenda to walk in on this) she
discusses Miguel and worries that the personal problems they are having
(which didn't, apparently, stop them from discussing the shootout: I
thought that they weren't speaking to each other) will affect his
career.  "What?" exclaims Sonny.  "Not L&B!" Of course L&B.  [Miguel is a
far worse danger to this company than Sonny, but no one seems to see that.]
        Robin comes to see Stone and tells him her good news.  He
cautions her that she will need to have another test in 6 months.  Yeah
yeah yeah.  Meanwhile, she says "we've had all the bad news we're going
to have for a long long time."  [Ominous Knell of Doom]  Robin doesn't
want to leave Stone for the wedding, and convinces him that he should
go.  They only one he's ever been to before was Karen and Jagger's, which
astounds Robin, who has lived a soap-opera life.  I checked with the
Booklist Boy and he's only been to one, and to another's reception, in RL.
Robin comes out and says hi to Sonny.  She tells him her results.  He
cautions her to have the test retaken in 6 months.  Yeah yeah yeah.  She
and he agree to try to trust each other for Stone's sake.  Sonny even
tells Robin that he loves Stone.  He is really coming along!

PARLAY-VOO FRANSAY?
Lucy is packing, apparently, while practicing her execrable (but very
funny) French phrases, useful things like "my wine glass is dirty."
Kevin is standing there watching her, and eventually she notices him.
"How long have you been standing there?"  "Long enough to hear you
murdering the most beautiful language known to man -- or woman."  Lucy
can't go to the wedding, she has to go to France, a little town near "Cawnes"
(Kevin corrects her "Cannes") to check out supplies.  Kevin wonders how
the dirty wineglass phrase will fit in with business.  Lucy hates going
alone.  Meanwhile, Kevin will cancel the reservation for the wedding.
This is a good excuse to curl up with light reading, like [spelling warning!]
Nietsche.  [Lucy corrects the pronunciation!]
        "Sigmund gets so moody when I'm not here." "Damn the duck," Kevin
says heretically, "what about me?"  Lucy invites him along, since he's
already cleared his calendar for the wedding.  Kevin doesn't think it'd
be any fun to be hanging around while Lucy mangles the language with her
suppliers.  Besides, the dirty wineglass thing worries him.  So then she
tells him he has to go to the wedding to report on the fashions and what
people say and do.  These are Lucy-reasons.  She puckers up her face and
tells him it'd be good for him to get away and to mingle with other people.
Kevin finishes with "Me and Sigmund, we're lost without you."
        At the hospital, Alan passes on the good news about Robin to
Kevin.  They worry that she's not taking the warning to retest
seriously.  [Madame Maya could doubtless hear the tiny "yeah yeah yeah"
in the ozone.]

THE TEDDY BEAR PICNIC
Emily is in the Q sitting room looking pensive when Alan comes in with
his paper.  They exchange a few words and then Alan disappoints me by
sitting across the room and hiding behind his paper.  Shortly, though, a
gravelly voice is heard, talking about how nice teddy bears are.  And out
pops Alan, or should I say Sydney the Bear, who has somehow managed (with
the other two hands that were not holding the paper, perhaps?) to tie his
tie into a bow and ruffle his hair, and mugging terribly.  Emily is
intrigued and dubious all at the same time, but she introduces her bear
Oscar to "Stanley" and is corrected by Sydney.  Sydney lithps adorably
and draws Emily out as to why she's sad.  Of course, it's because she
wants things to be the way they were, and they can't be, because her
mother is going to die.  Amber Tamblyn is a fantastic actress.  Sydney is
sad, too, and needs a bear hug, and (what a guy!  Mr. Sensitive!!) waits
for Emily to give it to him, and she does, crying, and I run out of tissue.

LOOK INTO ZE CREESTAL BALL
Damian goes to Chicago to meet Madame Maya.  He has a proposition for her.
She agrees that "an unconscionable amount of money would be a great help
at this moment."  She owes $100,000 to the IRS ("I didn't see that one
coming!" (Hahahaha!))  They continue to spar, and MM tells Damian "you're
either very kinky or very desperate, neither of which makes sense to
someone as good-looking as you."  He suggests she should know what he
wants, and she points out "six figures tend to obliterate my psychic
synapses."  Damian starts to tell about this fascinating woman, the great
love of his life, and Madame Maya senses about his aura "an incredible
amount of negative harmonics."  "Meaning?" he queries.  "You are about to
embark on a great load of bull."  Damian begins to realize that "dealing
with a psychic may be more complex than I realized."  He offers to "help"
by passing info to MM, and she is appalled.  "Compromise my standards?
Just how unconscionable WAS that amount of money??"  They agree on
$200,000 in three installments, no listening devices, no blackmail.

This whole thread was hilarious.  I cried at the teddy bears and laughed
at this.  Great show today.
--
   Jan Yarnot, net.granny, RABbabe, Proud Mom to Stands-With-a-Book
          and the Booklist Boy, plus three, a Nifty Fifty!
Disgruntled baseball fan, on strike.         Go Modesto!  Go Jesuit High!
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