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From: ap974@yfn.ysu.edu (Rick Kitchen)
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Subject: Re: LOV: Update, Thursday, 10/6/94
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>This is my third attempt -- hope it goes this time.  :-)
>
>1.  You Can't Go Home Again
>Steffi and Deborah are standing at the front door of their old house.
>Steffi has come alone, and Deborah found out from the realtor, and
>didn't want Steffi to be here alone, because she was worried that Steffi
>would be upset to see that the place where she grew up is empty.
>S:  This may be the place I grew up in, but this place never felt like
>my home.
> 
>Deborah tries to convince Steffi that she should have some sentimental
>attachment to the house.
>S:  OK, the laundry room has some charm.
>Deborah tries the old guilt trip -- single mother, trying to raise a
>child alone, lots of sacrifices made for Steffi.
>S:  It wasn't about things, because things didn't hold me when I was
>having a nightmare.  Things didn't tell me that everything was going to
>be ok when the homework was hard at school.
>Deborah insists that Steffi isn't remembering the good times.
>S:  I can't make them up out of nothing.  Why don't I have any warm
>fuzzy feelings in this house?  There's no spirit, there's no love,
>here, there's nothing.  It's just an empty, cold, neat, clean, perfect,
>tidy house.
>Steffi says she isn't trying to hurt Deborah, it's just how she feels.
>She came here to pack up her dreams for the future.
>Steffi:  I did like the pink paint in my bedroom.
>She goes upstairs, and Deborah smiles sadly.
>
>
>Steffi brings down a pink tissue paper package.  It contains a
>nightgown.  She bought it many years ago, and she was saving it for a
>very special night.
>D:  Honey, I don't want to be blunt or anything, but didn't you have
>that night already?
>S:  I mean, the first special night with the man I'm in love with.  The
>man of my dreams, my prince.
>D:  I see.  So, this dream man wasn't Clay?
>S:  I guess I always knew he never was.  I guess Clay knew that, too.
>Deborah claims she married Clay so he wouldn't ruin Steffi's life.  She
>talks up Cooper, hoping Steffi will marry Cooper and be happy.  Deborah
>says she's about ready to have her own happy marriage, a real one.
>S:  Please don't tell me you're talking about Clay.
>
>
>They argue about Clay and Deborah's relationship.  Deborah calls her
>arguments with Clay "a spark."  Steffi wonders what the attraction is --
>Clay has no money.
>D:  Well, I thought about that, but I have this feeling he's going to go
>right to the top again.
>Steffi is concerned that Clay will hurt Deborah, but Deborah doesn't buy
>t.
>S:  (resigned)  Well, OK, whatever.
>
>
>2.  The Cocktail Hour
>Clay is waiting for Elizabeth Barnes in the hotel bar [What is the name
>of this place?]  When Elizabeth shows up, they start small talk, then
>they start talking about what Steffi said about Wendell.
>E:  What did you mean when you said there was a way we could help each
>other?
>C:  I think you know the answer to that.  (He takes her hand)  Or you
>wouldn't have accepted my invitation.
>
>Elizabeth talks about Wendell taking her for granted.  Clay wonders if
>Wendell has been telling her about problems at AE.
>E:  Let's not waste time. You want something from me, and I want
>something from you.  It's the all-American game, isn't it?
>They agree that what Elizabeth wants is for Wendell to hear that she was
>having cocktails in a hotel bar with a handsome man.  But what does Clay
>want?
>C:  I want my old life back, and I think you can help me get it.
>
>Clay wants information from Elizabeth so he can get back in at AE.
>Elizabeth offers her help, but why would Clay want to go back to AE?
>C:  Why would you stay married to Wendell?
>Because of the time she's put in, and the position she has as Mrs.
>Wendell Barnes, and she's not about to hand it over to some child who's
>caught Wendell's fancy.
>C:  Then you'll understand why I want AE back.
>He starts putting Cooper down.
>E:  I take it you're not fond of him.
>C:  I hate every golden hair on his sweet head.  And I'll be damned if
>I'll watch him destroy everything I've worked for.
>He doesn't want to sit back and watch Cooper destroy AE.  Nor watch
>him destroy Steffi, the woman Clay loves.  Elizabeth doesn't buy it --
>she'ss een the indifference Clay has shown to Steffi in the past.
>E:  Darling, Steffi is your little trophy.  Now that she's gone to
>Cooper, you want her back.  That's revenge, not love.
>C:  You sound awfully sure of yourself.
>E:  Machiavelli may have defined the art of revenge, but I like to think
>that I've given revenge some modern and delicate twists.
>C:  Talk to me.
>
>
>Elizabeth says the best revenge against Wendell is making him stay
>married to her.  She has documented each and every fling; her detectives
>are very thorough.  She has an album of photos.
>E:  I have to remind Wendell every once in a while that the tortures of
>the damned await him should he stray.  Wendell may not love me, but he
>sure loves his money and this book is my insurance policy.
>C:  It's a brilliant idea.
>E:  For you?  What good would photos of Cooper and Steffi do?  You're
>not getting her back, darling.
>C:  Now, Elizabeth.  Would I do anything to seperate such a lovely young
>couple?
>Clay smiles mysteriously.
>
>3.  Dead Again
>Gwyn is in her apartment, looking at a photo of Jeremy.  She sighs.
>Curtis comes in.  She tells him she won't be dating Jeremy anymore.
>Curtis is delighted.
>C:  Jeremy is poison, and anybody who gets close to him is gonna get
>hurt bad.
>
>Gwyn wants to know why Curtis is angry with Jeremy.  Jeremy had the
>compassion and decency to relize that Curtis is sick, when Curtis
>attacked him.
>C:  I'm not sick.  Jeremy is the one who's sick.
>Gwyn tries to convince Curtis that Jeremy had to have been compassionate
>for the way he dealt with Curtis after Curtis gave Jeremy a concussion.
>Curtis flashes back to Gilbert telling Curtis about his "brain tumor."
>C:  You're right, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said it.
>G:  Then why did you?
>C:  Because he hurt you, and anyone who would walk away from someone as
>wonderful as you must be sick.
>
>
>Gwyn begins defending Jeremy.  Jeremy helped her get past her feelings
>of inferiority around Clay.
>C:  He's great at motivating people.
>Gwyn blames herself for the breakup with Jeremy.  She must have gone
>wrong somewhere.  Or maybe there's someone else?
>C:  Yeah, maybe there's someone else.
>He stares at Jeremy's photo.  Suddenly it turns into a picture of Dante.
>Curtis jumps up from the couch in fear.
>
>4.  Dinner For Two (And Maybe Breakfast at Tiffany's?)
>Ava is on the phone with Alex, in her penthouse.  Alex is still in
>Disney World.  Gilbert shows up for a meeting, carrying an enormous
>bouquet of flowers.  Ava is stunned.  Gilbert escorts in two waiters
>with a romantic dinner for two.  Ave is even more stunned.
>
>The waiters light the candles.  Avea is concerned.  Gilbert says he's
>making up for the last time.  Did I scare you?
>A:  Gee, no, why should somebody standing on the edge of my balcony
>tempting gravity and fate bother me?
>G:  It was a flashback to other times.
>He apologizes, then offers food while they work: Vegetable pate', salad,
>filet mignon with olives and peppers, Chevret Chambertin wine (sp?) to
>go along with it, and champagne to start.  Ava is uncomfortable.
>G:  Making you a little uncomfortable?  Oddly shy, aware of your every
>mood, as if I was trying to seduce you?
>A:  Well, yes.
>G:  Excellent.  I want to seduce you the same way we're going to seduce
>our customers at Burnell's.
>He claims the dinner is a demonstration -- they have to romance and
>pamper their customers.  Ava loves the idea.  Gilbert says that will
>bring in a clientele like Ava -- sophisticated, stylish, savvy, and
>very, very special.  They drink champagne.  Ava thinks they should also
>think about their other customers.  Gilbert says that Back to School
>clothes won't push them to the top, and Ava nees to leave the people
>below her behind.
>G:  Leave your past behind.  Are you willing?
>
>
>The sound of a helicopter landing on the roof.  Gilbert has hired it to
>take them to a haute couture showing in New York, to show Ava the kind
>of clothes Burnell's should carry.  Ava is reluctant.  She mentions
>Gilbert's fear of heights.
>G:  With you next to me, I'll deal.
>Ava agrees to go.
>
>
>


--
Rick Kitchen                                       ap974@yfn.ysu.edu
"We have so much time and so little to do.  Strike that.  Reverse it."
-- "Willie Wonka"

