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From: jyarnot@netcom.com (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: Update Thursday Aug 17
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 20:55:17 GMT

Mercifully, I was spared Braindead and Icky today.  (And I'm taking
a short break/my kids back to college/my husband to Yellowstone for
the next couple of weeks and the hip1 is stepping in.  I'll come back,
watch 8 straight episodes of GH, and maybe I'll be lots more positive
about the show.)

FELICIA GETS A LESSON IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY
At the hospital, Felicia stops for a brief chat with Bobbie.  Lucas told
Maxie that "Mommie and Daddy kissed and made up."  Dish the dirt!  Bobbie
looks a bit upset.  I thought at first because of the torch she's
carrying for Alan, but later in the show it seems that it's because of
the gossip factor.  (Luke, Mac, the children... sounds like soon all PC
will know, just as they did when Robin Did It and also when she decided
not to go to Yale.  [I guess Brenda has one of those message beepers like
Simone's!])
        Leaving the desk, Filly bumps into Tom, who has his nose in a
journal.  She tells him she will be happy when she can read a newspaper
again.  Tom looks thunderstruck.  He asks her what she knows about
Persephone and Eurydice, and of course it's nothing.  [Nice to know Tom
is doing his share at GH!]  She informs him she can't even keep Maxie and
Georgie straight.  Tom asks why she's at the hospital and she smiles
enigmatically and bubbles off.  He stares after her, obviously smitten.
(Which makes his treatment of Simone even more nasty.)
        Filly has come to see Stone [Mighod, this kid is one fine actor!]
He is playing with tinted glasses, saying it makes him look like a nerd.
Felicia gets the lecture on what CMV is.  Stone wants some good blind
jokes.  Felicia redeems herself for the opportunistic visit to Sonny's
apartment before by being very supportive and sweet and understanding.
She asks about telling Jagger.  Stone figures Jagger will just tell him
it's what he deserved for being stupid.  Felicia insists that Jagger is,
after all, Stone's brother, but Stone won't let him know.
        Tom chases Felicia down the hall when she leaves to tell her he's
figured out the differences between Persephone and Eurydice.  Both went
to Hades, but for differing reasons.  They discuss control and lack of
it, and make each other very sad before Felicia goes home.

SYDNEY COMES OUT, BUT DOESN'T STAY
Emily is sitting in the Quartermaine living room and Monica comes in,
raving about the flowers.  [I've had an 11-yr-old staying here the past
two weeks.  I doubt flower beds appeal for long.]  Monica suggests all
sorts of things they could do together, and Emily is reluctant.  Monica
suggests shopping for back-to-school clothes.  Emily wonders if anything
is wrong with the clothes she already has.  No, says Monica, but there's
something wrong with your attitude.  Monica's feelings are hurt.  She
leaves, and Alan comes in.  Emily wants Sydney.  Alan goes out to the
patio and lo and behold Sydney comes in.  Hooray!  "Why do bears have
sticky hair?  Because they use a honeycomb."  Emily tells Sydney she
feels unhappy about feeling guilty about not getting along with Monica.
Sydney tells her that he, Sydney, is not a threat because he can't
replace her mother.  Emily is confused by this, and Alan comes out to
explain.  He tells her she's mad because her Mom died and he suggests
maybe she call Lucky.  She does.  Lucky is finishing the go-kart with
Foster and will wait for the test drive till Emily and Raoul get there.
Emily wonders if Reginald has to drive her, and Alan says no, she can
ride her bike over just like a real kid.
        Unfortunately, once she's gone, the Sydney personna is as well.
And Alan has been drinking the water.  At the hospital, Alan talks to
Bobbie for a minute about Felicia's gossip of Maxie and Lucas' gossip.
Then he talks to Monica, who is probably feeling bad about losing her
temper with Emily, but who tears a strip off Alan.  (She's past PMS, past
menopause, and is no recommendation for any wellness group when she's in
this mood.)  Bobbie eavesdrops, and when Monica leaves, she circles in
like a shark.  Alan tells her he loves Monica, but doesn't like her very
much at the moment.  He wants to keep seeing Bobbie, but Bobbie is once
more in caution mode.  They should stop meeting in public places where
the gossip mills run.
        Bobbie then goes to LUKE's where she flirts with Mike and vice
versa.  Alan comes in, "by accident?"  She'd told him the Outback but
then went to LUKE's because she was afraid he'd go to the Outback.  He
chose LUKE's because she said she'd be at the Outback.  And I fell off
the turnip truck.  Luke comes to their table and says it's a "provocative
surprise on a sexy sultry summer evening."  When he leaves, Alan is
horrified to find out that Bobbie has told Luke about them.  WHAT "about
them?"  "So now I'm being busted for an affair I've never even had.  I've
heard of sex without guilt, but guilt without sex?"  [Where's Rhonda when
you need her?]  He does like being with Bobbie, though.  Again, Bobbie is
being the wise one, with Luke hovering in the background.  "Please, Alan,
go home."  Luke comes over with coffee and some stern words for Bobbie.

WHEN SONNY SMILES....
Sonny comes into L&B where Lois is at the desk.  He's smiling.  She tells
him off and he apologizes for the scene outside LUKE's.  He's brought in
his receipts for some money he advanced for Miguel's tour, since they
aren't all good friends any more. There's a cash outlay unreceipted for
teens to plaster handbills around.  Lois spent less, but then Buffalo is
a bit different from Manhattan.  Ned comes in demanding to know what
Sonny is doing there.  He is off to BOSTON where he will call once he
reaches the HOTEL PERMONT.  Sonny hears this.  (What a surprise!)
        Before Sonny leaves he tells Lois and Ned about Stone's CMV and
that he's going blind.  Lois looks stricken, and even Ned seems sorry.
        When next we see Sonny, he's on the phone, okaying the "job" for
today.  He is really smiling.  At LUKE's, he is grinning like a canary-
swallowing cat.  He's "one happy dude."  Luke is glad to hear it, and to
hear that it might have to do with Ned, but he wants Lois left out of
whatever's going on.  Sonny informs him that he's not too fond of Lois
right now, either.
        Ned is at the bar in Boston.  [You see?  If he didn't hang out in
disreputable places, he wouldn't get in trouble.  He's simply asking for
it, in a blame-the-victim world.]  A "groupie", glasses & all, comes up.
She is Gretel, and is reading _War & Peace_ and is an investment banker.  He
drinks, she drugs his drinks, and in case the chemicals don't work she
talks nonstop about W&P and Tolstoy and philosophy and lots and lots of
big words strung together until he's totally woozy and asks her to take
him to his room. [*hehehehehe* the updater says, rubbing her hands
together in glee.]

LUCKY STILL ACTS LIKE A KID
Lucky shows Emily his go-kart.  It has worms painted on it instead of
lightning bolts, since it's the money from his worm farms that paid for
it.  Emily notes that the brake isn't all that strong, but hey, says
Lucky, the idea is to go FAST.  Emily allows him the first test drive,
and sans helmet, off goes Lucky.  *CRASH*  He's hit a tree, and hit his
head on a rock.  Foster licks him.

And so, as your updater sinks slowly into the west, we leave General
Hospital for the day.  See you in three weeks!!

--
Jan Yarnot, net.granny, RABbabe, Proud Mom to Stands-With-a-Book, the
        Booklist Boy, the IRS Guy, the Tycoon, and Sunbunny.
Nifty Fifty (growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional.)
jyarnot@netcom.com           Hey, Major League Baseball!  Grow up!!