Saturday, October 07, 2006
Mundo de Fieras - Friday, 10/06/06
Juan Cristobal’s old flame, Mariela, (who apparently never got the message?) sees him at the awards dinner during the cocktail hour and rushes him out to the balcony where she grabs and kisses him before he can explain he’s there with a date. Uh-oh.......Too late! Paulina has wandered out onto the opposite balcony and observes the embrace at a distance. When Juan Cristobal finally breaks it off and explains he’s there with another woman he cares about he sees Paulina has in fact seen them. With a look of horror, Paulina runs off from the awards hall with Juan Cristobal in hot pursuit. As she cries in pain about having found and lost true love in a single evening Juan catches up to her to beg her to listen to his explanation. This woman means nothing to him now (sure, famous last words) and it’s time they forget their silly nicknames and tell each other who they really are because he loves her and he wants to marry her. Paulina is still in shock and crying inconsolably. She screams back that she never wants to see him again, throws down the locket he bought her and runs off. He picks up the locket, tears streaming from his cheek.
Chacal calls Tiberio to inform him that he’s finished the assignment; Tiberio smiles and sends a text-message to Damian that Raquel has been “taken care of” and Damian chortles evilly.
Regina calls her son, Juan to congratulate him during the awards dinner, but he’s been unsuccessfully looking for Paulina everywhere, missed his awards dinner and is somewhat distracted. He thanks his mom and hangs up. An embarrassed Mariela is there with her award and explains that after they ran off, both missed the dinner and acceptance of their awards. He takes the awards with him and continues searching for "Bella" through the next morning since he’s called the hotel and found out she never returned to their room. He finally gets a glimpse of Paulina getting onto a motor boat which is taking her to the opposite shore and screams at her not to leave him. She sees him just as she’s climbing in and cries to herself that she will never see him again. She apparently travels back to Barcelona.
Back at the hospital Mariangela is crying at her mother’s bedside and thinking she needs to find a good job to be able to pay for good hospice care for Aurora. Aurora wakes up and this time recognized her daughter and asks why she’s crying. Mariangela is excited to see her mother actually knows who she is.
At Gabriel’s mansion, Miriam and her hen-pecked husband, Clemente, are eating breakfast on the veranda. Clemente asks his wife if she’s considered his request to allow his daughter to come live there at the mansion-house. She feigns hurt and a sleepless night over the realization that he’s got a bastard daughter. Clemente tells her not to pretend with him; they both know she doesn’t care a whit for him. She reminds him it may be the case, but having a child outside the marriage is the greatest show of disrespect. However, she’s decided to be generous and allow her to live there as long as nobody knows she’s his bastard daughter. She’ll assign her a task and a salary. He’d better not try to change the rules of the agreement, either. Clemente agrees.
As Gabriel and Joselyn are chauffeured back home, Joselyn swears she’ll be a better mother and wife. Gabe reminds her she has promised this numerous times before. She says she only wants him to pay more attention to her: she wants him to forget everything else and dedicate himself to her. When he explains he has other obligations besides her she turns extremely jealous and repeatedly asks him if these other obligations mean: “the other woman”. He is exasperated (me too!) at her refusal to listen or, literally, to see reason.
Back in Barcelona Juan C. is wondering the best way to find "Bella" to give her her award since he only knows she’s a student here in the city.
At the Cruz Roja Mariangela tells her mother that a Don Clemente has offered to help her out and to allow her to live with him. This surprises her mother and she explains that the padre has suggested she accept his offer and consider him as a father. What does Aurora think of this? She says certainly do what the padre suggests. It will be for the best. Mariangela says fine, she will.
Miriam and her best friend, Ingrid, are arranging flowers for Joselyn’s return. Ingrid laughs at the thought of Clemente – the wrinkled old prune – having had a daughter from some earlier mistress of his. Miriam reminds her to stay quiet about the girl. Ingrid says, “Hey, I am like the tomb. If I’d have really wanted to harm you I could have told about the bastard baby son you abandoned at a church years ago. I wonder what has become of him, the child you had before Joselyn?” --“Shsh! I don’t care to remember!” is Miriam’s reply. (Co-o-old-hearted woman. I’m beginning to see deep-seated male-hatred issues here.)
Cut to the upper-middle class barrio street lined with gorgeous 40 foot palms. Leonardo and Silvestre (Alejandro Ruiz) are leaning on the hood of a car discussing Mariangela. She’s the first female that has made Leo feel the same as he did once with Vivana. A motorcycle gang drives up and we see Elsa, sitting behind El Chacal on his bike, stopped at the corner. Leo yells at her to get down off it and grabs her off the seat, yelling at her for hanging around with this group of low-lives. She tells him he has no right to order her around because he’s nothing to her but an adopted foundling her mother saw abandoned at some church. Elsa jumps back on. El Chacal sneers at him and the gang all laugh as they ride off. Leo tells his buddy that Elsa was right. He’s nothing but a foundling with no name and no claim.
Inside the kitchen of Gabe’s mansion, Candelaria is telling the maids over coffee how she loves both her children equally, despite Leo having been abandoned by his birth-mother. One of the women remarks that the woman must have been like a feral animal to have just left her baby that way!
Juan C. and Paulina come face to face at one of the beautiful plazas of downtown Barcelona.
Miriam warns Ingrid as they walk down the grandiose stairway that as far as that baby is concerned, being her accomplice, should that secret ever become known, she’ll go down along with Miriam. Luisito comes oh-so cheerfully into the front hall yelling excitedly that his mother has finally come back from the hospital. Karen, aggravated at the noise, tells him to quiet down and Grandpa Clemente suggests to them all to try to be a harmonious group to keep Joselyn from having a relapse. Miriam agrees “for once” as a smiling Jocelyn comes gliding into the room, arms up in angel-winged sweatered-sleeves all spread-eagled, with wounded wrists up to insure nobody misses them, nor the “martyred angel” to whom they belong. (She’s definitely hamming it and enjoying the attention!) Luisito runs to her and she pushes him off a bit telling him not to bump her. When Gabe mentions he only is glad to see his ailing mother, she feigns a warm kiss to his sweet young forehead. (I sense another female with similarly deep-seated male-hatred issues here.) Then the glowing, golden blonde Joselyn glides over to the couch and “receives court,” but just as she gets good and comfy on the couch the dark-haired beauty, Mariangela, appears in the doorway with suitcase in hand. Uh-oh!! The talk stops and all eyes turn to the new face in the doorway. (Lots of appropriate beastly snarling in the background here.)
She announces to Don Clemente that if his offer still stands, then she will accept and will live there as he offered. Don Clemente, forever with a lit cigarette butt either dangling at his side or out of his lips, turns and walks over to her. (Heck, If I were married to Miriam all those years I’d chain smoke, too!) Graciously he receives Mariangela and offers to take her to Candelaria. He even carries her suitcases for her!
Gabe swallows, thinking probably that it’s starting to get really warm in there. Joselyn sours and asks who that woman is supposed to be as Miriam escorts her daughter up to her bedroom. The others leave also as Rogelio stares after Mariangela and Karen wonders aloud who she is. He answers she is just a servant Grandfather hired, and then muses that she’s just way too pretty. Gabe hears this and seemingly sees this could be a problem with his married son and even with himself. (She is way too pretty and innocent to be thrown in with all these hot-blooded beasties.) Upstairs Miriam promises Joselyn to make the new competition miserable so that she leaves quickly.
Back in Barcelona Paulina refuses to listen to Juan C.’s explanations or declarations of love and marriage. She runs away and he decides to follow her secretly back to where she lives. Later she’s crying about their broken relationship. All of a sudden there’s a knock at the door and its a serenading troupe of costumed college kids presenting her with her award and a love song while Juan C. waits down below on the street. She runs them off and throws a bucket of cold water down on Juan’s head. (Loved this scene!)
Leo, the medical student, visits Mariangela’s mother, Aurora, since she's his mother’s best friend, at the hospital and asks her about her symptoms. He promises to discuss it with the doctors there.
Mariangela visits with Luisito and finds out that he’s crippled and has gone through numerous operations and much therapy, but with no improvement. She personally promises to help him walk again. She explains that she used to be a schoolteacher back home. Miriam walks in on them and refuses to allow her to work with her grandson, but Gabe walks in and says that if his son wants Mariangela as his nanny, then that’s what she’ll be. Miriam grumps and leaves.
Calendaria comes to the hospital to visit Aurora. She tells her not to worry that Don Clemente has brought Mariangela to the house and she’ll be looking after his grandson. However, they won’t be telling anyone about who she is because it would cause too big a stir in the house and would obviously embarrass her. Also, she says, Don Clemente is here to speak with Aurora. She doesn’t want to talk to him after all this time, but he rushes in and insists. He begins to cry and ask her forgiveness for having been such a coward all these years. Aurora does forgive him.
Gabe and Mariangela walk out into the hallway and she tells him that his son has stolen her heart. They laugh and she says she wants to take the opportunity to apologize for slapping him the other day in the street. He laughs and says he probably deserved it. Anyway, he hopes she stays around as he knows it will not be easy for her there in that house. He tells her that many times he thinks it is not just a house but a world of wild beasts and walks off.
Up in Joselyn’s bedroom Ingrid, Miriam and Joselyn are brooding and Jos is pacing in circles. Miriam tells her daughter to stop it ‘cause she’s acting like a caged animal. Jos says that’s how she feels. Now she’s got this girl there, so of course she’s upset. She whines that her husband wouldn’t listen when she asked him to devote himself to her totally from now on. Ingrid tells her that with that attitude she’s going to scare him away! Miriam advises her to act more intelligently with her husband, like she’s done with her father all these years. Clemente is nothing without her she says.
Downstairs Gabe warns Miriam against mistreating or humiliating the new girl. Miriam answers that he should be worried more about his wife than this stranger. He answers that he’s worried for years, but to no avail. She says it’s his fault for the accident that changed Jocelyn forever. If she’s ill, then he has only to blame himself and walks off.
Joselyn throws the picture of her and Gabe at the wall and sinks into one of her jealous rages and wonders why her husband doesn’t love her. She begins throwing things all around, runs into the closet and takes a scissors to all of his shirts. Her little boy hobbles in on his crutches and asks what she’s doing. Still in a daze and ripping shirts she knocks him off balance and he falls crying to the floor. She ignores him because she’s apparently really in her own world intent on now hiding Gabe’s ripped up shirts.
Regina is telling Simona, that she is meeting Damian for lunch. Simona is worried for her and suggest she just stay home. Regina is determined to keep the relationship going for the sake of their son, Juan C. Simona suggests she tell her son how rotten her husband has been treating her all these years. She refuses saying she doesn’t want Juan to suffer and walks out. Damian is on the phone in his office telling Tiberio that the business with Raquel is not over yet and orders him to do as he’s instructed him. Tiberio calls up the police from a pay phone and tells them he has information regarding the lover of Raquel Rodriguez, the woman who was murdered the other night.
In the meantime, Mariangela goes to visit her mother but thinks the worst when she sees the room completely empty and her mother nowhere in sight. Rogelio is shocked reading in the newspaper about Raquel’s death when the doorbell rings and the police come in and arrest him for her murder.
In Barcelona Juan C. is yelling to himself about who the heck that girl thinks she is and that someone needs to teach that little wild animal a lesson. His mother calls to say hi and that she’s going into his dad’s office and is meeting him for lunch. There’s no secretary outside so she figures she’ll just go in unannounced. She says good-bye and hangs up. Regina opens the door and there is said absent secretary on Damian’s lap and the two are kissing each other hot and heavy.
Chacal calls Tiberio to inform him that he’s finished the assignment; Tiberio smiles and sends a text-message to Damian that Raquel has been “taken care of” and Damian chortles evilly.
Regina calls her son, Juan to congratulate him during the awards dinner, but he’s been unsuccessfully looking for Paulina everywhere, missed his awards dinner and is somewhat distracted. He thanks his mom and hangs up. An embarrassed Mariela is there with her award and explains that after they ran off, both missed the dinner and acceptance of their awards. He takes the awards with him and continues searching for "Bella" through the next morning since he’s called the hotel and found out she never returned to their room. He finally gets a glimpse of Paulina getting onto a motor boat which is taking her to the opposite shore and screams at her not to leave him. She sees him just as she’s climbing in and cries to herself that she will never see him again. She apparently travels back to Barcelona.
Back at the hospital Mariangela is crying at her mother’s bedside and thinking she needs to find a good job to be able to pay for good hospice care for Aurora. Aurora wakes up and this time recognized her daughter and asks why she’s crying. Mariangela is excited to see her mother actually knows who she is.
At Gabriel’s mansion, Miriam and her hen-pecked husband, Clemente, are eating breakfast on the veranda. Clemente asks his wife if she’s considered his request to allow his daughter to come live there at the mansion-house. She feigns hurt and a sleepless night over the realization that he’s got a bastard daughter. Clemente tells her not to pretend with him; they both know she doesn’t care a whit for him. She reminds him it may be the case, but having a child outside the marriage is the greatest show of disrespect. However, she’s decided to be generous and allow her to live there as long as nobody knows she’s his bastard daughter. She’ll assign her a task and a salary. He’d better not try to change the rules of the agreement, either. Clemente agrees.
As Gabriel and Joselyn are chauffeured back home, Joselyn swears she’ll be a better mother and wife. Gabe reminds her she has promised this numerous times before. She says she only wants him to pay more attention to her: she wants him to forget everything else and dedicate himself to her. When he explains he has other obligations besides her she turns extremely jealous and repeatedly asks him if these other obligations mean: “the other woman”. He is exasperated (me too!) at her refusal to listen or, literally, to see reason.
Back in Barcelona Juan C. is wondering the best way to find "Bella" to give her her award since he only knows she’s a student here in the city.
At the Cruz Roja Mariangela tells her mother that a Don Clemente has offered to help her out and to allow her to live with him. This surprises her mother and she explains that the padre has suggested she accept his offer and consider him as a father. What does Aurora think of this? She says certainly do what the padre suggests. It will be for the best. Mariangela says fine, she will.
Miriam and her best friend, Ingrid, are arranging flowers for Joselyn’s return. Ingrid laughs at the thought of Clemente – the wrinkled old prune – having had a daughter from some earlier mistress of his. Miriam reminds her to stay quiet about the girl. Ingrid says, “Hey, I am like the tomb. If I’d have really wanted to harm you I could have told about the bastard baby son you abandoned at a church years ago. I wonder what has become of him, the child you had before Joselyn?” --“Shsh! I don’t care to remember!” is Miriam’s reply. (Co-o-old-hearted woman. I’m beginning to see deep-seated male-hatred issues here.)
Cut to the upper-middle class barrio street lined with gorgeous 40 foot palms. Leonardo and Silvestre (Alejandro Ruiz) are leaning on the hood of a car discussing Mariangela. She’s the first female that has made Leo feel the same as he did once with Vivana. A motorcycle gang drives up and we see Elsa, sitting behind El Chacal on his bike, stopped at the corner. Leo yells at her to get down off it and grabs her off the seat, yelling at her for hanging around with this group of low-lives. She tells him he has no right to order her around because he’s nothing to her but an adopted foundling her mother saw abandoned at some church. Elsa jumps back on. El Chacal sneers at him and the gang all laugh as they ride off. Leo tells his buddy that Elsa was right. He’s nothing but a foundling with no name and no claim.
Inside the kitchen of Gabe’s mansion, Candelaria is telling the maids over coffee how she loves both her children equally, despite Leo having been abandoned by his birth-mother. One of the women remarks that the woman must have been like a feral animal to have just left her baby that way!
Juan C. and Paulina come face to face at one of the beautiful plazas of downtown Barcelona.
Miriam warns Ingrid as they walk down the grandiose stairway that as far as that baby is concerned, being her accomplice, should that secret ever become known, she’ll go down along with Miriam. Luisito comes oh-so cheerfully into the front hall yelling excitedly that his mother has finally come back from the hospital. Karen, aggravated at the noise, tells him to quiet down and Grandpa Clemente suggests to them all to try to be a harmonious group to keep Joselyn from having a relapse. Miriam agrees “for once” as a smiling Jocelyn comes gliding into the room, arms up in angel-winged sweatered-sleeves all spread-eagled, with wounded wrists up to insure nobody misses them, nor the “martyred angel” to whom they belong. (She’s definitely hamming it and enjoying the attention!) Luisito runs to her and she pushes him off a bit telling him not to bump her. When Gabe mentions he only is glad to see his ailing mother, she feigns a warm kiss to his sweet young forehead. (I sense another female with similarly deep-seated male-hatred issues here.) Then the glowing, golden blonde Joselyn glides over to the couch and “receives court,” but just as she gets good and comfy on the couch the dark-haired beauty, Mariangela, appears in the doorway with suitcase in hand. Uh-oh!! The talk stops and all eyes turn to the new face in the doorway. (Lots of appropriate beastly snarling in the background here.)
She announces to Don Clemente that if his offer still stands, then she will accept and will live there as he offered. Don Clemente, forever with a lit cigarette butt either dangling at his side or out of his lips, turns and walks over to her. (Heck, If I were married to Miriam all those years I’d chain smoke, too!) Graciously he receives Mariangela and offers to take her to Candelaria. He even carries her suitcases for her!
Gabe swallows, thinking probably that it’s starting to get really warm in there. Joselyn sours and asks who that woman is supposed to be as Miriam escorts her daughter up to her bedroom. The others leave also as Rogelio stares after Mariangela and Karen wonders aloud who she is. He answers she is just a servant Grandfather hired, and then muses that she’s just way too pretty. Gabe hears this and seemingly sees this could be a problem with his married son and even with himself. (She is way too pretty and innocent to be thrown in with all these hot-blooded beasties.) Upstairs Miriam promises Joselyn to make the new competition miserable so that she leaves quickly.
Back in Barcelona Paulina refuses to listen to Juan C.’s explanations or declarations of love and marriage. She runs away and he decides to follow her secretly back to where she lives. Later she’s crying about their broken relationship. All of a sudden there’s a knock at the door and its a serenading troupe of costumed college kids presenting her with her award and a love song while Juan C. waits down below on the street. She runs them off and throws a bucket of cold water down on Juan’s head. (Loved this scene!)
Leo, the medical student, visits Mariangela’s mother, Aurora, since she's his mother’s best friend, at the hospital and asks her about her symptoms. He promises to discuss it with the doctors there.
Mariangela visits with Luisito and finds out that he’s crippled and has gone through numerous operations and much therapy, but with no improvement. She personally promises to help him walk again. She explains that she used to be a schoolteacher back home. Miriam walks in on them and refuses to allow her to work with her grandson, but Gabe walks in and says that if his son wants Mariangela as his nanny, then that’s what she’ll be. Miriam grumps and leaves.
Calendaria comes to the hospital to visit Aurora. She tells her not to worry that Don Clemente has brought Mariangela to the house and she’ll be looking after his grandson. However, they won’t be telling anyone about who she is because it would cause too big a stir in the house and would obviously embarrass her. Also, she says, Don Clemente is here to speak with Aurora. She doesn’t want to talk to him after all this time, but he rushes in and insists. He begins to cry and ask her forgiveness for having been such a coward all these years. Aurora does forgive him.
Gabe and Mariangela walk out into the hallway and she tells him that his son has stolen her heart. They laugh and she says she wants to take the opportunity to apologize for slapping him the other day in the street. He laughs and says he probably deserved it. Anyway, he hopes she stays around as he knows it will not be easy for her there in that house. He tells her that many times he thinks it is not just a house but a world of wild beasts and walks off.
Up in Joselyn’s bedroom Ingrid, Miriam and Joselyn are brooding and Jos is pacing in circles. Miriam tells her daughter to stop it ‘cause she’s acting like a caged animal. Jos says that’s how she feels. Now she’s got this girl there, so of course she’s upset. She whines that her husband wouldn’t listen when she asked him to devote himself to her totally from now on. Ingrid tells her that with that attitude she’s going to scare him away! Miriam advises her to act more intelligently with her husband, like she’s done with her father all these years. Clemente is nothing without her she says.
Downstairs Gabe warns Miriam against mistreating or humiliating the new girl. Miriam answers that he should be worried more about his wife than this stranger. He answers that he’s worried for years, but to no avail. She says it’s his fault for the accident that changed Jocelyn forever. If she’s ill, then he has only to blame himself and walks off.
Joselyn throws the picture of her and Gabe at the wall and sinks into one of her jealous rages and wonders why her husband doesn’t love her. She begins throwing things all around, runs into the closet and takes a scissors to all of his shirts. Her little boy hobbles in on his crutches and asks what she’s doing. Still in a daze and ripping shirts she knocks him off balance and he falls crying to the floor. She ignores him because she’s apparently really in her own world intent on now hiding Gabe’s ripped up shirts.
Regina is telling Simona, that she is meeting Damian for lunch. Simona is worried for her and suggest she just stay home. Regina is determined to keep the relationship going for the sake of their son, Juan C. Simona suggests she tell her son how rotten her husband has been treating her all these years. She refuses saying she doesn’t want Juan to suffer and walks out. Damian is on the phone in his office telling Tiberio that the business with Raquel is not over yet and orders him to do as he’s instructed him. Tiberio calls up the police from a pay phone and tells them he has information regarding the lover of Raquel Rodriguez, the woman who was murdered the other night.
In the meantime, Mariangela goes to visit her mother but thinks the worst when she sees the room completely empty and her mother nowhere in sight. Rogelio is shocked reading in the newspaper about Raquel’s death when the doorbell rings and the police come in and arrest him for her murder.
In Barcelona Juan C. is yelling to himself about who the heck that girl thinks she is and that someone needs to teach that little wild animal a lesson. His mother calls to say hi and that she’s going into his dad’s office and is meeting him for lunch. There’s no secretary outside so she figures she’ll just go in unannounced. She says good-bye and hangs up. Regina opens the door and there is said absent secretary on Damian’s lap and the two are kissing each other hot and heavy.
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Well done! Joselyn is fairlyl magnificent, I like how she says: "All I want is all his time and attention."
Yes...it's all about Joselyn...''OK, I'll stop talking about me. Now, you talk about me.'' How do you say ''high maintenence'' in Spanish ?? Isn't it interesting that it appears that Ernesto and Helene will again be mother and son as they were in ''Amor.'' [The staircase is the one in Matilde's family's home in ''Amor.''] Susanlynn
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: Saturday, October 7, 2006 at 6:02:00 PM EDT
thanks jardinera for the detailed recap.
everyone did catch Gabriel saying "Asi es asi sera" during the MA-Luisito scene?
Does Sebastian Rulli own a bathrobe, or does he just have a stack of beach towels on hand to wrap around himself?
J.R.
everyone did catch Gabriel saying "Asi es asi sera" during the MA-Luisito scene?
Does Sebastian Rulli own a bathrobe, or does he just have a stack of beach towels on hand to wrap around himself?
J.R.
Thanks, folks. --Yes, I heard Gabriel mouth that and I immediately thought "shades of Alborada...." I wondered how much of a fairytale or culturally accurate expression it was or if it was just a lazy slip up from the same writer, who I think was Abud!
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