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- From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
- Subject: Re: B&B: The Last Lindsay Update (for now...)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:39:12 GMT
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- Amy Lindsay (amy@lloyd.Camex.COM) wrote:
-
- {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ Urgent to Miss Lindsay ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
-
- Tell Mr. Acker to up his asking price to $50,000. I won't go lower than
- that. If he won't pay, I won't play.
-
- Bill
-
- : The two trade a few lies, swap a bit of spit. (I couldn't watch this
- : especially the "let me ease your pain, Thorne" bit, not to mention the
- : exploding virgin theory (probably better explained by Professor Acker...)
-
- If this is the one that says virgins occasionally explode after
- The First Time (tm), then you've definitely not made MY day...
-
-
- : Meanwhile...
- :
- : Macy is working late. Darla tries to convince her to go out and have a
- : good time, which of course, she's not up for. Many languishing sighs and a
- : few tears shed by our Macy: "Jim, Jim, Wherefor art thou, Jim?" (OK, I
- : had to put that in to see if he read this far...)
-
- I did. "Down in the rose bushes, the trellis broke!" Old Joke (tm)
-
- : Macy and Thorne do the simultaneous thought thing, but Karen is having none
- : of it. She drags him off to do the horizontal mambo...
-
- : In unrelated storylines, Sheeee-la finds out that Dr Tracy is going to be
- : doing the paternity test on Brooke's baby (Eric tells her) and excuses
- : herself to go call to say that "sure, she'll be HAPPY to help out around
- : the hospital."
- :
- :
- : Taylor and Ridge receive a hand delivered calligraphed card, and Taylor
- : proceeds to tease Ridge about it being from Brooke. (which it isn't.)
- : Then, they go off and do Newlywed Things...
-
- Did it matter who it was from?
-
- : > with Zach, Kristen actually came back to Clarke! Stephanie, despite
- : > her harshness, has backbone. (Maybe it's in her contract -- Susan Flannery
- : > portrays the only female character with pride.) I think a couple of
- : > characters need renovations.
- :
- : My room-mate made a comment a couple of months back that, at least in the
- : Bell soaps, women can either be really successful in business or they can
- : have a interesting (in a good sense) love life, like we're totally unable
- : to handle a job AND a relationship both successfully.
- :
- : I have problems with Karen, but I can't figure out if she's supposed to be
- : a sympathetic character, or just someone who will do anything to get what
- : she wants. It's like the writers change her daily and the actress just
- : can't get into the part.
-
- I agree -- those writer's meetings must be doozies. "Let's
- bring back Caroline" "But she's dead!" "O.K., bring back her missing twin
- sister!" "Cool!" "And get her involved with Thorne!" "WHAAAAAT?"
-
- : I think they definitely need more men on this show. I'm getting a little
- : tired of the two-women-fighting-over-their-Forrester theme that has been
- : going on a bit too long.
-
- True, especially since Zach is AWOL and Felicia got fired.
- Dr. Joe Garvin? Now there's a chin...
-
- : > Not bad! Let's see, there also Loess (Lois), River (as in
- : > River Phoenix -- it's been done!), or even (gasp) Sierra! (but to
- : > defame the memory of my favorite ATWT heroine -- please God, no!)
- :
- : Or Sahara. (You know, they should just name the kid something ordinary
- : like Polly or Fred. Of course, there aren't too many people on the soaps
- : named like that, so they'd end up sounding really esoteric!)
-
- Brooke wouldn't be so stupid as to name the kid Ridge Jr., would
- she? I'm betting it's a girl, anyways, and Brooke will name it
- something subtle to remind Ridge he's a Ridgit -- like Europa.
-
- : --amy
- :
- : Dear Mr. Bell,
- :
- : Please hire Jim Acker. I don't care what he looks like. You DESPERATELY
- : need more guys on B&B. And besides, he's a great writer, even if he's
- : a bit obsessed at times with Macy...
- : --a.lindsay
- : p.s. Jim said he'd LOVE to share a dressing room with Jeff Trachta...
- p.p.s. All those things I said about Thorne don't apply to Jeff. Really.
- (Wimp, stupid, idiotic, spineless, etc.)
-
- Jim Acker
- jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov
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