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From: chips@eskimo.com (:crp:)
Subject: GH: Update Tues 10-17
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 16:08:42 GMT

General Hospital Update
Tuesday, Oct 17 '95

As i posted, there was a problem with my tape this week. I was sent the
following, which made it kind of silly to type my own. Thanks Julie!
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From: julie@cynosure.com (Julie Gleitsmann)
Here's from AOL:

Subj:  Tuesday 10/17 Summary, Pt 1
Date:  95-10-17 16:42:07 EDT
From:  AEW54

Brenda and Miguel are excited, anticipating the concert tomorrow night and
the order of events.  They imagine the hush of the crowd and then the frenzy
that will break out.  Lois comes in and predicts that's exactly what will
happen.  B & M are proud that everything's under control and say they make a
great management team.  Lois reminds M that he's the talent (ahem, ahem), but
compliments them for being on top of things while she soaked in oatmeal to
get rid of her hives.  She asks the two whether they think Stone will be up
for the trip.

Stone and Robin are discussing the memory book.  Stone asks how she managed
to get all of the letters and poems, and Robin teases that she had to
threaten and bribe people.  He can't thank her enough.  She tells him that
the look on his face while he reads it is thanks enough; he looks "loved."
He finds it all hard to believe.  He's read them all, except for one:  the
one from Mack.

At the Outback, Mack's preparing the specials menu and Felicia says she's
sorry, but she just hates it.  "What?  The new pasta?"  No, she she hated
seeing him all over Katherine at the party.  He tells her again that it's not
her business.  Friends should let friends live their own lives.  He
appreciates that she cares, but to relieve her anxiety, she should know that
the obstacles are all crumbling.  Katherine's broken it off with Damien.
(Sure sure sure)

At Kath's, she's preparing to go out and hears Damian struggling  with the
key in the lock.  She lets him in.  "What did you do," he asks, "change the
lock?"

Katherine "explains" that her key broke off in the locks and she did just
have it replaced.  She vamps, telling him she'll pick up a copy of the key
for him when she goes out.  He comments that their timing does seem to be off
lately, and she apologizes that she's going off to meet with another reporter
to talk about DayCo and the foundation fiasco.  "No problem," he says.  "I'll
come along.  You don't think I'd let you get away again, do you?"

Felicia apologizes for having overstepped her bounds and she says that, given
her track record, her advice may be dubious; but ever since they broke up,
she's only wishes somebody wondefrul and appropriate would come along for him
(how unselfish!  What about her?).  As a fling, Katherine might be O.K. but
not as an "ongoing integral element."  That would require a "fundamental
readjustment of the fabric of the cosmic."  Mack asks whether she's been
spending too much time with Tom lately (big words and all that. ) She admits
it, and says Tom has an analagous problem with Justus and Simone.  But she
promises to keep her lips sealed.  Mack heads for the phone.

Katherine says she thinks it's a better idea if she meets with the reporter
alone, and then comes back and reports on her progress.  She answers the
phone and discreetly plans a date with Mack and a walk in the monlight.  He
can tells she can't speak freely.  She lets him know she'll come by later.
When she hangs up, Damian wants to know who it was.

Robin encourages Stone to read the letter from Mack.  If he had anything
negative to say, he wouldn't have put it in, and she assures him there's
nothing between the lines.  The letter goes something like this:  "When you
first came into Robin's life I was so upset that I'd stay up late at night
gnashing my teeth, but as long as I was up, I started to think about the kind
of man I'd like to see with Robin, if I had a choice.  He would think of her
before himself, commit himself to loving and understanding her, respect her
intellectual gifts, bring valuable things from his own life to the
relationship, be unconventional but understand the social contract, have a
wide diversity of friends, be loyal to them, have humor, courage -- and then
I realized that the guy sounded a lot like you.  Oh, I forgot one thing - he
would think I was really smart and indescribably cool. "  Stone laughs and is
so pleased.  He wants to go speak to Mack and thank him -- by himself.

Katherine repeats that she'd be better off seeing the reporter herself, but
she'll encourage him to interview Damian, too, so they'll get two stories for
the price of one.  O.K., he'll trust her judgment.  "Go get 'em, Tiger," he
says, as he leaves.  (Shouldn't that be TIgress, given her bubble bath
potion?).  He waits outside and, suspicious, follows her when she goes.

Stone, at the Outback, tells Mack how much the letter meant to him.  He was
so surprised.  Mack says he was surprised at what came out, too.  He's sorry
he didn't say it -- or know it -- all sooner.

The two imagine what it would be like if they'd always gotten along.  Stone
says that he can picture what Mack's vision of the future would have been a
few months back, and PRESTO, a fantasy of a grey-haired Mack receiving a
visit from Stone, a pregant Robin, two gun-wielding bodyguards, and six or so
small children, all dressed in black, with the Godfather theme song as
accompaniment.    Stone kisses "Uncle Mack" on both cheeks, so does one of
the young boys, who whispers, "Be nice to my daddy, or I'll break your legs!"
Coming out of the fantasy, the two laugh, and Mack assures him that his
fantasy was entirely different:  A fresh-faced Robin and Stone come in, and
Mack congratulates Stone for being the first Tony award winner from Port
Charles -- and for Shakespeare, too (You always made a great Romeo, he says)
And Robin's a Shakespeare professor at Yale.  They're going off to work for
the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mack as actor, Robin as consultant.  They have
other news, too.  She's pregnant.  In both fantasies, Felicia is present,
seemingly in her faithful friend role.  As the second fantasy ends, Mack and
Stone smile, but realize it's not the future that counts.  It's the present.

When Katherine joins them, she detects there's a chill in the air.  Mack
admits he found it hard being treated so coolly on the pohone.  "But I'm here
now," she says, and "can concentrate completely on you."  Mack says he can't
wait til her gig with Damian is over.  Little do they know but Damian's
spying on them through the window.

Lois tries to prepare Miguel for a press conference.  He wants to know why
isn't his music enough for the critics.  Does he have to talk to them, too?
(It certainly can't help matters.)  Brenda tells him to just be his
"wonderful" self.  Sonny breezes in and is very noisy about confirming his
ticket and travel plans.  Lois assures him everything's under control, but he
makes sure everybody knows he's bringing Lily with him, and that she'll be
staying in the hotel with him.  Lois tries to keep a lid on things, but
Miguel says that he doesn't want Sonny there.

Lois tries to nip the problem in the bud.  She tells Brenda and Miguel that
Sonny is a major partner and has a right to be there.  She tells Sonny not to
bait "the talent."  She tells him she'll make the plans for him.  Sonny tells
them that he'll be paying for Lily, he's not expecting a freebie.  As he
exits, Lois tells him he could have used the phone and didn't have to make a
big scene out of it.  Miguel is itching for a fight, and Lois holds him back.

Mack tells Katherine he can be patient, but she'll have to be, too.  And she
should expect surprises.  He tells her about all the exotic things he did in
Thailand when he was a teenager, and he tells her they'll have to take a trip
there so he can demonstrate.  Just then, Damian walks over to them and asks
what's going on.

Sonny walks into Luke's office in a great mood.  Luke asks him what's up, and
tells him to remember it's a blues club, after all.  Sonny gloats about his
big trip and his plans for New York.  When he mentions that he'd told his
partners that he's bringing Lily, Mike pipes up and calls him a "total
jackass."

Mike tells Sonny that "even you don't need the kind of trouble you're
making."  Already he's made Brenda miserable, and now it seems he's going to
make Lily miserable too.  Sonny says he doesn't care what Mike thinks; Mike
repeats the whole litany of Sonny's complaints about how Mike abandoned Sonny
and his mother to the bad guys who are now Sonny's good bodies and blah blah
blah.  Luke breaks up their quarrel and tells Mike to deal with the liquor
delivery.  Sonny tells Luke to can Mike -- now.

Miguel is still fuming.  Brenda says, "We can't let Sonny know how he pushes
our buttons."  They head off to pack as Ned comes in.  Lois tells him about
Sonny's visit.  She begs him not to get into another fight with Sonny in New
York.  "No more fisticuffs.   & you've got to keep Miguel and Sonny out of
each other's faces.  This is essential."

Damian said he thought Katherine was having lunch with a reporter.  She fibs
and tells him she got a call on her cell phone cancelling, so she's finishing
some business with Mack.  Mack looks at her with semi-disgust, knowing she's
lying.  "We'll do this later," she says.  "Yeah," Mack responds, "I'll take a
rain check on my rain check."  Damian says, no, they can have lunch here,
he's curious to know what Kath's business with Mack is.  Felicia and Stone
have been observing all this, when suddenly Felicia shouts.  Stone has fallen
off his chair and is having a seizure!!

Lois and Ned discuss New York some more.  She tells him she won't have time
to referee the sandbox, so please please please be good, and keep Sonny and
Miguel away from each other.  She goes upstairs to look for the press comps,
Ned is making notes, and there's a knock at the door.  It's Garcia (whose
first name is Alex; did we even know this?).  He tells Ned that they've hit
pay dirt.

He tells him that the police had found a phone number at Sonny's apartment,
and it took them a long time because it didn't have an area code, but it's
the number for Jimmy "Boots" Buchwald, a "notrious alleged Chicago area wise
guy" and the information was enough to get the judge to agree to a wire tap.
"It's just a matter of time before we nail Sonny."

Luke asks Sonny, "You're ordering me to fire Mike?"  "Yeah, today.
Preferably in the next five minutes."  Luke refuses, saying everybody,
including the paying customers, likes Mike and gets along with him, so maybe
Sonny better examine what his own problem with Mike is all about.  Sonny says
O.K., but Mike should stay out of Sonny's business.  Luke asks him about
Lily, and Sonny says "she's smart, savvy, doesn't whine and is beautiful" and
he has "a lot of reasons to take good care of her." (whatever you say, guy)

Ned keeps Lois calm about the trip.  He tells her that he really is a little
bit jealous of Miguel, because Eddie Maine hasn't had a gig in a long time.
She apologizes and kisses him.  It's O.K., he says, "we all have to be on the
back burner for a while" (inside joke?).  He tells her that he has something
for her, and she says, "you already gave me something -- what stamina" and
there's a bunch of double entendres as she pulls the shades down, but what he
really has for her is a gold apple for her charm bracelet, because he's sure
she's going to take the Big Apple by storm -- including making time for a
bialy and a great manicure.  "What's wrong with my nails?," she asks.
"Nothing, You're perfect."

Mack shouts for Felicia to call 911 as he cradles Stone's head.  It's bloody
because he hit his head on the floor when he fell, and Felicia cautions Mack,
who asks someone to get bleach from his office as a precaution.  He tells
Stone to hang in.   He's still in seizure, and Felicia tells 911 to send an
ambulance fast!!

The End!
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