Saturday, December 09, 2006
Mundo de Fieras 12/08/06
At the same time Miriam is getting her hand bandaged up by son Leo and is having second thoughts about abandoning him all those (30-40 some odd) years ago and is wishing she could hug him and confess all, Candy is fearing the worst challenge from her. “Miriam is very cunning and can catch him in her net; I’ll just die!” Just then Silvestre knocks and enters to show her his surprise – pretty in pink Elsa come with him to pay a visit!
Leo excuses himself for momentarily indulging in self-pity about his being abandoned by his parents so ver-r-r-r-r-r-ry long ago. Miriam asks him if he’s ever wondered who they were and if he’d ever like to meet his real mother. He answers not really because Candy is the only mother he’s ever known; the way she sacrificed for him all these years to get him to this point in his life and career, he could never manage to give her all the thanks she’s due. (Tough nuts, Miriamcita!) Miriam sees how bitter Leo is and insists on asking him if he didn’t think the woman might have had her reasons? Leo says no way a real mother would do anything but fight to keep her child near her and his mother didn’t. “Not even a wild animal acts like that.” (Slap! Bam! Bang! --Take that, Miriamcita!)
Candy tells Elsa and Silvestre that she’s hopeful Elsa will come back to stay for good. Silvestre prompts a stubborn Elsa into admitting she came to stay the night.
Mariangela and Gabe drive up and down the narrow streets looking for Clemente, but they don’t find him. (They didn’t bother with the back alleys, I guess, huh.) While talking about Clemente, Mariangela begins to refer to him as her father. Gabe mentions this to her. She feels badly because if she hadn’t been so arrogant and hadn’t rejected him he wouldn’t be in danger right now. She is certain he’s in danger because of the strange hurt in her heart. Gabe tells her not to be so hard on herself ‘cause it isn’t easy getting used to the idea of a daddy after all this time alone. In the meantime, Clemente wakes up with amnesia and one hell of a headache, but we don’t know if it was all that boozing or the deadly poison Miriam put in his drink.
Back at Demian’s place, Regina and Delores are up in Regina’s bedroom having a gossip-fest. Delores is excited because she is going on that trip, but she can’t lie. It is to find out if Edgar may still be alive somewhere and to prove her innocence for certain, then. Nicolas has asked her to keep quiet for her personal safety and so Regina promises to keep quiet about it. (Delores though, stupidly has told her son, Tiberio, who has no good reason to keep his mouth shut and definitely not the good sense to do it, either.)
El Coyote comes stumbling into his rat hole, drunk as a skunk and screaming for Elsa. When he sees she’s not there again he goes into the closet in the bedroom, takes out all of her clothes and shreds them with his knife.
Elsa is lounging out on the couch at Mom’s and a wad of bills drops out onto the floor. Candy picks it up saying it is the money Clemente had left her to give to Mariangela. (That was the wrong name to bring up, Candy!) Elsa smarts off about the new little rich girl and watches where Candy sticks the cash in the cupboard.
At supper Pedro asks when Clemente is coming down to eat. Karen and Jos inform him that Clemente has left the house for good because he decided that he wants nothing more to do with him. Pedro thinks that’s a bit odd but shuts up and just keeps eating all that rich food Mayeya has been cooking for them since Candy took sick leave.
Delores informs Demian that she has changed her mind and will leave early the next morning to take that trip he suggested to her. He wonders why the change in attitude and Delores says it will be a life-changing experience for her. He then sits down with Regina and tells her how he hopes she will some day come to love him. Then he gives her a necklace as a present. Regina eventually says that if he continues with this new approach to life, she is certain that she may. (Hitler haircuts, heavy breathing, and stuttering excitability in a wealthy middle-aged man with bad taste in jewelry sure does a lot for me, too.)
Miriam returns home with Rogelio from the hospital. Pedro comes walking in munching an apple and Miriam tells him she and he have something to discuss. They leave and Jos and Rogelio snicker about whatever naughty thing he might be getting in trouble over. Miriam accuses Pedro of sneaking into her bedroom and asks what he was looking for. He denies it and says if she doesn’t believe him then he’ll leave the house immediately.
Pau and JC are in bed and she’s still in a snit over the text message. He finally tells her that this dirty trick is no reason to lose their happiness. They must have some enemy that wants to separate them from each other. Whom could it be? If he knew who was doing this to them he tells her, he would have stopped it already. Pau reconsiders and asks forgiveness and says she believes him. (They’ll figure it out eventually, but not soon enough for me.) So, they spend another night of wedded bliss together because making up is always so much more fun with the likes of a Sebastian Rulli in your bed.
Miriam tells Pedro to reconsider his lie, and that the only reason she may not be kicking him out is that it would only complicate the family's problems right now. He rushes out and goes straight to Rogelio. Rogelio laughs in Pedro’s face when accused of knowing (and darned well) that it was he and not Pedro who snuck into Miriam’s room. Rogelio taunts him and asks for proof, then laughs aloud and tells Pedro that Pedro will not be able to get the better of him. No, he’s better prepared and he is such a handsome and charming guy. On the other hand nobody will ever believe an ugly, insignificant loser like Pedro. Rogelio smugly turns on his heel after that and walks off leaving his cousin fuming.
Gabe and Mariangela have struck out at the police station, too, since nobody there knows anything about Clemente. Gabe decides to call his house and see whether anybody there has heard from Clemente. Jos answers the phone, but she’s half asleep and doesn’t realize what she’s saying when she picks up the phone. Gabe asks why she isn’t worried about the fate of her father. Jos says, “Who do you mean?” He says, “Clemente of course.” She tells him she doesn’t know a thing and doesn’t care because he’s not her father so stop bothering her. The minute she hangs up she realizes her error. Gabe calls back and says, “It’s me again. What did you mean Clemente isn’t your father?” He gives Mariangela the cell phone and she tries to get Jos to talk to her. Jos asks what in blazes is she doing on the phone. Mariangela asks if something has happened to make Miriam kick him out of the house. Jos just spits at her and hangs up.
About this time Clemente meets up with a couple of homeless drunks who warm him up with a bottle of their hootch. (Yech!) They take him along with them and offer him a bit of their meager, scavenged garbage scraps. (Double yech!) He accepts, not knowing who or where he is. He just absent-mindedly munches and hopes the pain in his head stops.
Gabe and Mariangela go for coffee. They are both worried for Little Luis being under the same roof as Jos and they know he is frightened to have to stay with her. Gabe says he knows it was never about protecting Lui from him but keeping him away from his son. Gabe and she start putting the pieces together (pardon the pun) regarding the fishtank incident and the scalding during the therapy session. How could Jos have appeared at the hospital just then and how did she know about the session being that early in the morning Gabe wonders? He says he’s come to the conclusion that Jos has been involved in everything that has happened to his little boy, as if she’s planned it all purposely. Even Regina’s accident with the viper made no sense. (You can say that again, Mr. Mejia.) Because of this he says that he is prepared to do whatever it takes to see and to protect his son. In this case, that means forgetting about the divorce. He tells Mariangela that he has told Jos he is acceding to her conditions only to see his son, not her.
Jos right then is pacing around her bedroom and talking to the picture of her son. She is telling the photo that his father must not, should not be with “that woman” and how much she hates her for it. She is frantic again and drops Little Lui’s framed photo on the floor and the glass shatters everywhere.
Down in the kitchen, late that night also, Belen and Simona have a heart to heart. Belen admits to her mother that she slept with Tiberio and found out too late that he was just using her. Simona feels badly for her daughter but does not judge her. Belen says, if that weren’t the worst of it, she finds that she is now in love with another man, Silvester, the taxi driver. Unfortunately, it’s a waste of her time because he is hopelessly in love with another woman. Simona thanks her daughter for trusting her enough to tell her the truth.
While this is going on in the kitchen, Ti is pacing through the house because he can’t sleep. He is too upset at the thought that Juan Cristobal might stand to inherit everything of his fathers, leaving poor Ti with nothing. He tells himself he has to insure that JC looks incompetent and unable to take over the reigns of the business in front of his father. Somehow, then, he enters his father’s office and finds Demian’s spare eye-patch, and plays Daddy-dress up in it.
Belen happens to notice Ti’s strange play-time while she is walking back from the kitchen. She cannot help herself and watches half amazed as Tiberio, with thunderously loud strains of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” (4th movement, 5th Symphony) reverberating in the background, acts out and verbalizes in his delusions of grandeur his fantasy of Demian dispossessing JC of his share of the inheritance. “Tiberio, you are the inheritor of my construction business and my empire! On the other hand, Juan Cristobal, you will be left out of everything that belongs to you! Away from it, away away away!” (I just cannot decide whether Mejia was laughing with us, at us, or was just taking his production entirely too seriously in this scene. My apologies to Mr. Mejia and his musical directors, but I thought it was downright roll-on-the-floor hilarious!)
Mariangela comes back to Candy’s after a long night of searching for Clemente. She admits to Candy that she has come to realize she truly does love him and wishes she’d treated him better. Candy tells her how sick he appeared to be during his last visit. Then she remembers the money he left with her for Mariangela because he didn’t know how to hand it to her or how she would take it. Candy goes looking in the cabinet for the wad of bills and sees it is gone. She has no idea where it might be.
Cut to a scene of Elsa in the beauty shop counting her new-found riches, aka, Clemente’s wad of cash, that she’s stolen from her mother’s cabinet. In comes El Coyote, filthy and stinking from his boozing the night before, and he grabs her by her hair. He slaps Elsa and knocks her around, causing quite a scene for all the customers. She tries to tell him she only spent the night with her mother. He doesn’t believe her. He screams at her and asks if she takes him for a fool? He’s going to check out her story and if she really wasn’t there last night then he’s going to kill her. Coyote storms out of the place. Once he leaves, the shop’s owner fires Elsa on the spot. This is the last time she will allow a scandal at her business. (It’s about friggin’ time, lady! Once would have been enough for me.....)
Pau and JC stop for lunch the next day at Chela’s which is now once more a streetside taco stand. They wonder what has happened and she explains how her husband didn’t read the contract fully. The building’s owner kept upping the rent and apparently can whenever he wants to so they had to give up the space.
Little Lui is very depressed and won’t eat the lunch that Mayeya has brought him. He complains to her.
Demian looks out of his office window downtown and asks if Delores left on her trip. Ti says yes, early that morning. He also tells him that she went along with Nicolas on this trip in order to do something that will hopefully prove her innocence. This definitely gets Demian’s attention.
When Belen, who is now working full time at Chela’s, gets a chance, she tells JC what she saw Ti doing in his daddy’s office the night before.
Leo comes home from the hospital that morning and finds Mariangela with his mother. They tell him about Clemente missing and how she and Gabe looked for him all night but couldn’t find him anywhere. Leo promises to get the other taxi drivers to help look for her father. Gabe shows up at the door about then and hears them. He asks if he can join them. Leo says that is fine with him and then kisses Mariangela on the lips purposely, in front of Gabe, to embarrass him. Gabe is embarrassed, but then, so is Mariangela and in the end, so is Leo because he realizes what an immature, insecure jerk he just was.
Federico comes to Miriam’s office and gives her the finished papers to sign in order to ensure that Clemente’s fortune is definitively taken away from him. He informs her that Clemente came to complain to him about being Jos’s real father and having slept with his wife years ago. Miriam scolds him and Freddy says, "Who cares? I put him in his place and the guy was just as pathetic as ever." Then Miriam forges Clemente’s signature and Freddy compliments her "artistry".......
Ti, JC, Pau, Regina and Demian are in a business meeting together. A bit earlier Ti was complaining to Demian that JC had lost a chain of suprmarkets for them because the owners didn't like JC's non-creativity. Now, at the meeting,Ti starts insulting Juan Cristobal’s poor work and insinuates that JC just isn’t cut out to be a part of their construction company. Demian is getting rather uncomfortable with Ti’s attitude and accusations. Regina asks what Ti is referring to. He says he doesn't want to risk their losing the business because of JC. JC finally has had enough and he confronts Ti with the crazy things he said and did late last night in his daddy’s office at home, i.e., strutting around in Demian’ eye-patch and saying JC will be left out of the business and any inheritance. Ti is stunned and left speechless.
Mariangela, Leo and Gabe pay a visit to Jos and Miriam at the manse to see if they have heard anything from or about Clemente. Miriam says Clemente left on his own accord, but Mariangela says she doesn't believe that. She knows her "father" too well. Miriam delights in emphasizing that phrase "my father". She says yeah, that everyone now, including Jos, knows he is her father. Mariangela has had enough of Jos and Miriam's attitude. Finally she confronts Jos in front of everybody and asks Jos point blank why she is denying that Clemente is her father. She adds, "and I want THE TRUTH!"
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I am SO BUMMED that I recorded something else instead of Mundo Friday night. I would have loved to have seen Tiberio's rant. I don't watch Mundo very often, only to catch the choice scenes that you recappers mention. Great recap, very very funny.
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: Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 10:38:00 PM EST
: Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 10:38:00 PM EST
Great recap...LOL, thanks for the memories...Just when you think it can't get any worse...IT DOES!!!
Is there actually a single character worth redeeming?
Is there actually a single character worth redeeming?
Does anyone watch ''Talk Soup'' on the E! network???? They show clips from shows each week and make fun of them. They are usually American TV shows, but they sometimes show clips from the telenovelas. They used to show ''La Madastra'' a lot - evidently they got a big kick out of the drama on that show. Anyhoo...this week they showed the scene of Joslyn standing next to the tub as Little Lui boiled. ~~~~Susanlynn
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