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From: willers@trombone.sps.mot.com (Robert Willers)
To: lovinglist@uclink.berkeley.edu, rec-arts-tv-soaps@cs.utexas.edu
Subject: LOV: Update for Tuesday, August 2
Status: R

Jennifer is out of commission with the Chicken Pox, so here is the...
LOVING Update for Tuesday, August 2:

STORYLINE: A DOLLAR A MONTH
           (starting location: Penthouse)
* Ava asks, "Well?"  Alex says she looks "mahvelous, dahling."  She asks
 if she looks like $5.4 million, because that's what they are asking for
 Burnell's.  Alex says they can't come up with that kind of money.  Ava
 says she met with the employees and suggested to them that they buy it
 together.  "They loved the idea, and I sent the proposal to the [Leo's]
 attorney yesterday."  Alex says he is impressed.  Ava kisses him and
 tells him to wish her luck, that the next time he sees her, she will be
 the proud owner of Burnell's -- *we* will be, that is.  She leaves,
 giggling.  Cooper passes her in the hall and enters the penthouse.
* [At the office inside Burnell's.]
Ava enters, smiling, and greets everyone.  Deborah says hello to Ava.
 Ava asks her what she is doing there.  MR. COCO asks Ava to "stand over
 there with the others."  Ava starts spreading paperwork on the desk and
 says she is ready to discuss the buyout proposal, the "cooperative."
 Deborah comments that it sounds a little like communism.  Ava reminds
 him that he had it messingered over to him yesterday.  Coco tells her
 that he had his secretary read it and she didn't think it was viable.
 Ava, stunned, asks, "You mean you didn't even read it?"  He tells her
 that he is a busy man and if he read everything that came into the
 office, he'd never get any work done.  Ava asks what this meeting is
 all about, then.  "To announce the sale of Burnell's."  Ava, dreading
 the answer, asks who bought it.  "A previous owner.  The Aldens."
 Deborah, with her big smile, says, "Welcome to work, Ava."  Ava sneers,
 then forces a smile.
* Deborah says that now that Burnell's is back in the hands of the Alden
 family, it can recommit itself to excellence.  Ava remarks that Deborah
 was just in there two weeks ago trying to hock her jewelry.  Deborah
 asks Ava what she said, and she says, "Nothing."  Deborah, however, did
 hear Ava's remark and acknowledges to the lawyers and staff present
 that she had some hard times a few weeks ago, and when you go through
 hard times, you do what you have to do, but then she met a wonderful
 man who changed her whole life.  In fact, he bought Burnell's for her
 to run.  She says she will be working for $1 per month.  Ava asks,
 "*What*?"  Deborah says there *are* some fringes, though.  Ava asks,
 "Such as...?"  "All the dresses I can carry!"
Deborah says the takeover starts immediately, but it is business as
 usual, and she will let them know if anything changes.
Ava (to herself): "I say we hang her."
D: "So, chop-chop.  Everybody back to work."
A: "I'll go find a rope."
Deborah asks Ava to stay.  When everybody else is gone, Deborah asks
 Ava if she likes her job at Burnell's.
* Ava says she likes her job just fine, thank you very much.  Deborah
 says she assumes she would like to keep it.  Ava asks if there is a
 problem with that.  Deborah says no, that with the proper training,
 Ava would make a wonderful manager.  Ava points out that she has
 managed the store for three years.  Deborah says she has developed
 some bad habits in that time.  Ava asks Deborah how involved she
 intends to be.  "Well, very!  I am a hands-on kind of gal."  Deborah
 leaves, happy as can be.
Ava throws a tantrum.  Very angrily, she shoves everything off the
 desk.  Deborah returns, apologizing because she forgot this was *her*
 office.  She sees the mess.  "Why, Ava.  You cleared off my desk for
 me.  How sweet."  Ava says she will need an office.  Deborah says of
 course she will; she had a desk put in the dressing room down the hall.
 "*Dressing room*?"  Deborah says she realizes it is small, but the
 mirror makes it larger, and if she needs her privacy, she can just
 ("whoop!") pull the curtain.  Ava is disgusted.

STORYLINE: HIT THE ROAD AGAIN, BUCK
           (location: New Jersey)
* It's the next day, and Buck is back at Linda's door.  He asks if he
 can come in and she tells him to get lost.  He says he isn't leaving
 until he gets some answers.  "Here."  Linda shoves an envelope in his
 face and tries to slam the door, but Buck's boot is in the way.
* Inside the apartment, Linda says she would offer Buck a drink, but she
 is "all out of arsenic."  Buck asks when Pam wrote the note, and Linda
 answers last night.  Buck asks if Pam was there, and Linda says she
 was, but she is long gone now.  Buck says he needs to talk to her, and
 Linda says he needs to leave her alone.  Linda says she never liked him
 and she was only nice to him because of Pam.  She doesn't have that
 reason now, though.  Linda says that Pam *still* talks about Buck, even
 after twenty years: every time they have pizza, Pam tells her the story
 of when she and Buck made a pizza together: "'Cucumbers and salami,
 best pizza I hever had.'"  Linda tells Buck he broke Pam's heart.
After a pause, Buck apparently changes the subject to the daughter.
B: "Have you met her?"
L: "Of course."
B: "[Do you] Have a picture?"
L: "No."
B: "Linda, please.  I want to see what she looks like."
L: "Tough."
B: "I have a daughter?"
L: "No.  *Pam* has a daughter.  You don't have nothing!"
B: "I just don't understand it.  Why didn't she tell me she was
 pregnant?"
L: "You left her!  What was she supposed to say?  'Excuse me, honey,
 you forgot something.'"
B: "Yeah, but if I'd have known she was pregnant, I'd --"
L: "You'd have done *what*?  Married her?"
B: "Maybe."
L: "Oh, and wouldn't *that* have been a happy life?"
B: "I could have at least helped out some."
L: "Buck, you left because you were afraid of commitment.  And she
 loved you enough to let you go.  So now it's time to return the favor.
 The door's over there."
Buck, very hurt, doesn't move.
* Buck says he understands why Pam doesn't want to see him.  Linda
 says that considering what he did to her, she's surprised Pam doesn't 
 hire a hit man.  She tells Buck that his leaving her devastated her.
 "When you left, her whole world fell apart."  Buck repeats that he
 didn't know she was pregnant.  Linda says it wasn't just that: Pam
 loved him.  "Why, I don't know, but she did."  She asks if he knows
 what Pam gave up for him.  He says he knows Pam's mother hated his
 guts.  "The whole neighborhood hated your guts.  And they hated Pam
 by association.  But that didn't matter to her, because she had you.
 That's all that mattered."  She tells him to leave her alone.  He says
 he will, but "We had a baby together."  "*Together*?  No!  Pam has a
 baby, Buck."  Buck asks, "Was I the father or not?"  Linda says she
 supposes so, "If you use the term loosely."
B: "You know, if I'd have known, I'd have been there.  [Pause.]  I don't
 even know her name or anything about her.  Can you tell me something?"
L: "Pam wrote all she wanted you to know in that letter."
B: "All it says is that they're both doing fine.  That's it."
L: "Well, I guess that's all you get then."
Buck says they can't be doing *that* great.  Linda says that Pam has put
 every penny she has earned toward the child's education.  She says that
 the daughter is in one of the top universities in the nation, in one of
 "those special fast-track programs."  Buck tries: "What?  Harvard?
 Yale?"  "Nice try."  Buck says she must be very smart.  Linda says she
 got that from Pam.  "Come on, Linda.  What's she like?"  "Beautiful and
 sweet.  She got that from Pam, too."  Buck offers some money.  Linda
 says that the daughter will have plenty of money to take care of both
 herself and her mother when she gets out of college, "Which is a lot
 more than you've ever done."  Buck is hurt...again.
* Buck says he can only say "I'm sorry" so many times and says he is not
 proud of the situation.  Linda says she should hope not.  Buck says he
 is trying to learn from his mistakes.  Linda says that doesn't help Pam
 much.  Buck says he is there to do right by her.  Linda says that he
 can do right by them by leaving them alone as Pam asked.  "You have a
 wonderful daughter.  And she's doing great.  But if you come into her
 life right now, it would just upset them."  Buck says he wishes there
 was something he could do for them.  She says he can stay away.  Buck
 says he knows she is right.  He leaves.  In the doorway, he says that
 if she or Pam ever needs anything...  Linda says she will give Pam the
 message.  Buck says it was good seeing Linda again.  "Yeah, right.
 Good bye, Buck."  "Good bye."  Buck turns and leaves.  Linda goes back
 inside the apartment and knocks on the bedroom door.  "Pam, he's gone.
 I hope I didn't lay it on too thick about that college stuff."

STORYLINE: CHILL, JANIE
           (location: Ralph's Diner ("Open 24 hours"))
* Janie is now waitressing.  A customer (presumably a regular customer)
 compliments Ralph on his new hire.  Ralph, who is behind the counter,
 says, "Anything for you, Fred."  As we see Frankie enter the diner,
 Janie brings their food and when she sets a cheeseburger down in
 front of Fred, he puts his arm around her waist and tells her that he
 ordered _Swiss_ cheese, and this is _American_.  She dumps his water
 glass in his lap and tells him that if he touches her again, it will
 be "a fork up the nose."  Ralph pushes Janie back, saying, "What the
 hell do you think you're doing?"  "Oh, come on, he grabbed my --"
 Ralph interrupts her: "I don't care *what* he grabbed.  This is it!
 I've had it!"  We see a shot of a stunned Janie.
* None.
* Frankie and Janie go into the kitchen so she can "chill."  She says
 that *nobody* touches her without her permission.  Frankie says he
 didn't mean anything by it and asks why she has to freak out about
 everything.  "He just pissed me off, OK?"  Frankie asks if she wants
 to keep this job or not; she says yes, but she is not apologizing to
 "that jerk."  Frankie goes out to talk to the manager.
Janie leans against a counter and does some mini-push-ups to relieve
 some of her stress.  Cabot enters and says, "Nice triceps."  Janie
 stops: "Excuse me?"  Cabot asks if she is "one of those bodybuilders
 that comes on afternoon talk shows."  "No."
C: "Well, you have very nice definition."
Janie, a bit dumbfounded: "Yeah.  Thank you."
C: "Where do you work out?"
J: "Wherever."
C: "Do you compete?"
J: "No.  I just don't want to be some wimp, that's all."
C: "You just want to be able to protect yourself."
J: "Exactly."
C: "Well, I think muscle is fine."
J: "Great.  Glad you approve."
C: "But it doesn't protect you against everything."
J: "What are you talking about?"
C (pointing to his heart): "The most important muscle..."
Cabot leaves.  Janie is still a bit confused.
* Janie, smiling again, takes two slices of pie to that table.  "All
 right.  Dessert's on the house.  Sorry about the, uh, water thing."
 Fred says, "That's all right.  I like my women feisty."  Janie can't
 believe it.  She leaves the table, shaking her head.  Frankie follows
 her and asks if everything is OK.  She thanks him for talking to Ralph.
 She was sure she would be fired.  Frankie says Ralph is a good guy.
 He says there are a lot of nice people in the world; "Only a small
 percentage is out to get you."  Janie says he's a funny guy and asks
 how Angie is doing.  Frankie says she is out of the hospital.  Janie
 asks if everything is cool.  "No, not exactly.  The disease can come
 back."  Janie asks if it is "just a matter of time --"  Frankie asks
 why she always looks at everything from the negative side.  "All I said
 was --"  "Janie, forget it."  Frankie leaves, exasperated.
Fred turns around and asks "Peaches" for another cup of "joe."  "In a
 minute."  Janie goes to the kitchen.  Cabot is at the grill.
J: "Now where does he get off --"
C: "I just heard.  Man's fishing in an empty bucket."
J: "Yeah.  He's a psycho, that's what he is."
C: "Then throw him in prison."
J: "I wouldn't exactly go that far --"
C: "*Communism*.  That's what it is."
J: "What is?"
C: "A 'New Deal.'  He wants a new deal, I'll give him a new deal!"
J: "What are you talking about?"
C: "Roosevelt.  I'm telling you, girl.  The only thing that will get
 this country out of the Depression is a war!"
Janie just shakes her head in disbelief and smiles.

STORYLINE: ALEX GETS INVOLVED
           (location: Penthouse)
* Cooper enters the penthouse [above] and asks Alex what he would think
 if he told him that Clay "did something horrible."  Alex laughs and
 says, "I'd say, 'Tell me something that I don't know.'"  Cooper asks
 what he would say if that horrible thing was about to catch up with
 Clay.  "I'd say, 'I'm all ears.'"
* Alex says he is *very* interested in this.  Only then does Cooper
 remember that Alex *was* Clay at one time, CEO of Alden Enterprises
 and Jack's best friend.  Cooper asks if Clay didn't like Jack.  Alex
 says he hated him.  Cooper asks how much.  Alex asks if Jack has
 something to do with "Clay's problems."  Cooper says he thinks he
 might have *everything* to do with them.  Alex says Jack has been dead
 for over two years.  Cooper asks, rhetorically, "Has he?"  Alex asks
 what Cooper is getting at.  Cooper says Clay has gone a bit too far
 this time, and Cooper wants Alex's help investigating Clay.  Alex asks
 for something more specific and Cooper beats around the bush.  Alex
 says, "Either (a) you trust me, or (b) you don't."  Alex says that if
 he wants his help, he has to tell him everything.
* Cooper has told him the story.  Alex asks what Cooper's motive was.
 Cooper says he did it for Stephy: it was very hard on her to watch her
 boyfriend marry her mother.  Alex asks if his theory is that Deborah
 blackmailed Clay to marry her, and that his theory is that she used
 *what* for leverage?  Cooper says they have been pieceing together
 a theory...  Alex asks what Jack has to do with it.  Cooper says he
 thinks Jack may still be alive.  "*What*?  [...]  Cooper, why would
 he do that?"  Cooper points out that Alex himself said that they were
 enemies.  "Yeah, but that doesn't mean that Clay is going to go and...
 Wait a minute.  You didn't go to Stacey with this theory, did you?"
 Cooper says he knows that was a mistake.  Alex says that if Jack were
 alive, nothing in the world would keep him away from Stacey.  Cooper
 says that whoever Clay has could ruin him.  Alex asks how he knows
 that.  Cooper babbles on about how Stephy wanted out but that he
 talked her back into it...  Alex asks why he would drag her back in
 when he knows this is potentially dangerous.  Cooper says he likes
 working with her: she's funny.  "Then ask her out on a date!  Don't
 drag her back into the line of fire."  "It's too late.  We're already
 in it."  Ominous music and fade into commercial.
* Cooper is telling the story of when they were in Clay's office.  He
 asks Alex if he has ever heard of the Cradle Foundation.  No.  Cooper
 asks him to think hard.  He assures him he has never heard of it.  He
 says it *didn't* exist when he was there.  Cooper says that helps to
 pinpoint the time frame.  He asks if Alex is interested in helping.
 Alex says, "Yeah.  You've got my curiosity going."  Cooper says he
 knows there is a fee for this type of service...  Alex tells him to
 shut up; he doesn't want his money.
C: "No?  Well, you want *something*."
A: "Oh, yeah."
C: "What?"
Alex turns to him and gives him that "Alex stern face" look...

All-I-want-is-AE-back-hanger?
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|   David Gordon Willers, born at 23:50 on Wednesday, May 18, 1994.    |
| At birth: 4 pounds, 12.5 ounces; 17.5 inches tall.  (6 weeks early.) |
| Current: 10 pounds,  8   ounces; 22.0 inches tall.  (11 weeks old.)  |
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