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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 06:01:11 -0600
From: ninapie@ntcnet.com
Subject: GH: UPDATE Monday June 23
X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Jun 28 10:52:49 1997 GMT

General Hospital Update 6/23/97

The Nurses' Ball is still a happening thing, babies, and I get
to tell you about it!   So prepare for plenty of digressions as
we boogie the night away!

Facts of note:  Alert the media!  After missing in action for 21
shows, *Keesha* appeared today!  Actually they let all the Black
characters speak lines today--that must be some kind of a
record!

Flashback count --2 mini ones

Today was he first day in ages that I watched the show in real
time and I must say that today was truly enjoyable!

In the parking garage--
Taggert and Garcia discover a bloody scalpel in the trunk of a
red car.

In the ballroom--
 Sonny and Brenda gape at Jason as he returns from his chat with
Karen Wexler.  (Okay, now it's time to comment on Brenda's
dress.  She could look good in a paper towel, but I really think
this outfit, aside from showing off her skinny midriff, did
nothing special for her. And I think she was going for the
Hunter Tylo award for most creative hairstyle worn to a public
event.  But the award for worst dress tonight must go to Bobbie
and that awful blue number she wore on Friday.)
  They remark on how odd it was to see Karen and Jason together
again, like the "perfect couple" they once were--as if the past
four years never happened.  But they did happen, Jason tells
them.  He doesn't even remember Karen, though she seems nice.
Sonny agrees that she is nice.  Does Jason look extra hard at
him?

Backstage--
Carly and Tony are getting dressed after their number. He tells
her that he wants her to stay.  He wants to be part of the
baby's life.  "Is that because you can't imagine your life
without me or is it door number 2--for the sake of the baby?"
she cries.  Carly tells him that she needs to be needed for
herself, and if he can't agree to that  then they will say
goodbye tonight.

Bobbie is in her disco dress.  Her partner Dr. Drexler is
gussied up like John Travolta.  He's eager to show off his stuff
and in front of Bobbie, Lucy, and Amy does some fancy twirls.
He twirls out of camera range and we hear a huge crash while the
women stare in horror.

Amy has a meltdown.  Her career as producer is over before it
begins.  She hurries to find a replacement while Lucy has a
flashback to somebody holding her by the throat and threatening
that she must pay the ransom for Serena at the NUrses' Ball.
Bobbie sees that Lucy is weirded out and tries to calm her.  Amy
rushes back with Luke in tow--he can save the day!  Bobbie and
Luke still pretend they hate each other, but they can force
themsleves to dance so that the show may go on.  But does Luke
know the routine?  "I invented disco, Barbara...and when it
bored me I killed it..."

Lucy tells Luke to get ready, go backstage and "do something
with yourself".  Luke counters "With all these people around?"
Amy runs over to Dr. Drexler on the paramedic's stretcher and
starts tearing his costume off.

In the ballroom--
  AJ goes to comfort a lonely Carly--she's worrying if her
ultimatum to Tony will work.  AJ tries to cheer her up and leads
her arm and arm across the room.

  From her table, Keesha watches them.  (May I say that Keesha
looks lovely in her gown, an orangey-red color, although we
can't see much of it from behind the table.)  Justus asks what
has her so fascinated.  "I guess I didn't realize that AJ and
Carly were so chummy."
  "I guess I didn't realize you still cared," Justus responds.
   Dara comes over.  She's a nervous wreck. (Her green and
yellow gown has grown on me--I like it better today than I did
on Friday.)  "Singing in public is my worst possible nightmare,"
she tells them.  "What possessed me?  Who was in my body when I
agreed to do this?"
  "Well, don't look at me," a wicked Justus quips.  He offers
her champagne to calm her nerves.
   Keesha misses this exchange--she's still looking into the
distance, presumably at AJ and Carly.

  As Lucy goes into her intro, backstage Luke and Amy struggle
to get him out of his pants so he can change into his costume.
Pratfalls and clowning galore. (Hey, I laughed!)  Finally, just
in time, Luke gets his fly zipped and bursts onstage to dance
the "Last Dance" with Bobbie.  He poses a la Travolta then get
into his thang.  Actually, he does a lot more dancing than
Bobbie does--she comes on more toward the end of the number so
he can swing her around.
Excellent job!

  Backstage--
   Edward is grouchier than ever and nervous as hell.  Lila has
to tell him where to head in.  Well, he can't help it, he can't
remember any of his confounded lines.  Won't Emily help him?
   When his number is on, he wears a big baggy suit and a
comical long tie.  The Ward Street Kids are his chorus.  They
sing "I don't need anything but you."  In the middle of the
number, Ed points to Emily--"Help me, okay?"  She joins in the
song (she has a great voice) and finishes the song with him.
She also dances with the ice-cream man onstage ( who happens to
be Russ Tamblyn--remember Riff from "West Side Story"?--who is
Amber Tamblyn's real life dad).
                I only wish Emily had worn a prettier gown--I did not care for
the one she had on.

                Jason borrows Sonny's cell phone to call Robin.  He steps into
the hallway for more privacy and finds that she is here--gazing
at the panel from Stone's quilt.  They embrace.

  Onstage--
  Lucy introduces Kat Bell to say a few words (I don't know how
she rates, but anyway).  Katy-puss astounds one and all by
walking onto the stage with the help of a cane.  Applause.
Stefan blinks back tears.  (It's the guys who are misty-eyed
today.)  She tells them that she knows that this night is not
about her (this must be a pre-emptive strike, cause she heard
how pissed RATSA would be at her if she tried to steal the
spotlight tonight :-)) but she wanted to share a small miracle
with them tonightso that they can  all make a larger miracle
happen--like defeating HIV.  She then introduces "our own
miracle, Robin Scorpio."

  Robin ascends.  She looks really pretty ina a pale pink gown
and her hair in a curly new do.  She talks about the
helplessness she felt when the boy she loved was dying, and then
when she herself was diagnosed HIV+  All her dreams for the
future died.  "Every hope I had for the future was gone--Robin
the wife, Robin the doctor, the mother, the grandmother--gone."
But thanks to those assembled and others, she can fell hope
again--she can see the future.  (Jason rubs tears from his
cheek.)  She remembers those who did not make it--Stone, Jon
Hanley--and tells everyone they must commit to eradicating this
disease.

  Lucy is still acting kooky.  Kathy tries to talk to her.  Lucy
insists that everything must proceed normally--that's the most
important thing.  Kitty-Kat says "You want normal, you'll get
normal."

  Onstage, Ned and Dara sing "You've Got a Friend".  Both are in
excellent voice.  During the number, the camera pans to squares
on the quilt that are being used as back-drop.  We see Mac have
a flash back to the time he presented Stone's square to Robin,
wrapping it around her.  He's moist-eyed, too.

  Jax looks longingly at Brenda during the song.  She's leaning
against Sonny.  Jax turns back toward the stage, swallowing a
lump in his throat <sniffle>.

  Aw, hell, I got misty eyed, too, during this number. (And it
wasn't because of Jax and Brenda.)  Everybody at the tables
joined in on the last chorus of the song: "You just call out my
name/and you know wherever I am...you've got a friend..."

  Backstage--
  Lucy's in a dither.  She can't get her wraparound dress
wrapped around right (say that fast ten times).  Kat comes to
assist.  She pretends to fasten Lucy while secretly making some
snips with a pair of scissors she smuggled in.

  Onstage the chorus line (including Dara, Keesha, Carly and
Gina(?)) are singing and dancing to "One".  Lucy emerges (her
dress looks like a giant dish towel if you ask me)and as she
joins the group her dress falls down and once more she ends the
show in her underwear.

  Kat watches from the sidelines.  "Katherine," barks a voice
commandingly.  "Meet me in an hour."  It's Stefan.   "Where?"
she quivers in Pavlovian response to her master's voice.  "*You*
know where." He eyes her like the hero of a bodice-ripper.

  In hallway--
  Brenda and Karen meet in front of Stone's quilt panel.  Karen
wonders what it was like for Stone at the end.  Brenda tells her
it was terrible, but the way that Stone faced death was
inspiring.  Karen admits that Jagger still feels guilty, blaming
himself for his brother's death, and it's made him single-minded
as a cop pursuing drug-dealers.  Brenda remarks (rather
perfunctorily--maybe she's bored with the conversation because
it's not about her) that she's sure Karen and Jagger will get
back together soon.
                Alone, Brenda "talks" to Stone.  She tells him that she and
Sonny are together again--she's sure he's smiling down at them.
We are rescued from this nauseating scene by the cavalry riding
over the hill--that is, Taggart and Garcia.  They want Ms.
Barrett-Jax-Whoever to accompany them to police HQ.  Brenda
sighs.  What a way to ruin an evening.

--end of show--

Nina P.

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