Tuesday, February 13, 2007
La Fea Más Bella #208-209 2/12/07 in which one of those darn boxes finally gets opened.
PM is steamed because Alicia is very reluctant to vacate the high-prestige desk of the presidency. They fight over the phone, then the oxy sprays disinfectant/insecticide (she says it kills cockroaches etc) all over Sara. Squabble, squabble.
Simon totes those boxes around some more (one box becomes, finally, important at last, see below).
Sara draws a chalk line on the floor to separate her office space from Alicia's new low-prestige desk. More squabbling.
Aldo finally gets a chance to see Lety and, his face about three inches from hers, tells her Conceptos has 2 million dollars to play with. He leans in for a kiss (maybe), she flinches.
Tomas arrives - it's time for lunch - Lety introduces him to Aldo. Tomas doesn't like Aldo because he said he likes "curvy pears," which Tomas understands to mean Alicia.
Alicia has announced "Aldo looks at me like he wants me" without realizing he's an equal opportunity guy who gazes at everybody with the identical look; it can be interpreted either as (1) flirting or (2) an appreciation of that particular soul's inner beauty.
Tomas says he made lunch reservations for only two. Just then Caro calls and Aldo, realizing he's not getting an invite from Tomas to join them, accepts Caro's invitation. I guess Caro's ready for another earful about the "Taste of Life."
Lety is mad at Tomas for refusing Aldo a seat at their lunch table. Tomas says he's missing Julieta's food like crazy, couldn't she work at Conceptos and be Vice President of Comestibles? The clients would like it.
After PM manages to wrest the phone out of Alicia's deathgrip, she places a call to Caro, at lunch with Aldo (who is bending her ear about the expensive construction of his new restaurant). She asks Caro to come on board and help with the Gastronomic Tourism exposition they're planning.
Tomas says: "Lety, if you'd take Aldo as your boyfriend, you'd solve your own problem and stop sighing over Fern, and you'd solve my problem, which is that my beloved Oxy has set her cap for Aldo." "It's not that easy, despite my efforts I still love Fern." "Are you going to spend your life wretched, in love with a man who betrayed you? Go with Aldo, you'll be happy and you'll clear my way with Alicia. It's not just self-interest, you're my only friend, I want you to be happy."
Lety: "We kissed, twice; the second time, it was I who kissed him!" ("How did two rich sexy guys fall in love with a, uh, with a woman like you?" whispers Tomas.) "I did it because I was trying to forget Don Fernie, I thought I wouldn't see him again, I let myself have a tender, ephemeral romance. But then I saw Fern again - I shouldn't believe him - I should keep my distance... but I sensed he was looking at me with love - and he told me he loved me..." "I hope you sent him to the devil (blew him off)." "Yes, but I remembered the past - and he said he loved me from the depths of his soul..."
Cut to Fern and Omar at Le Noir. Fern opens his wallet and sees a well-worn mash note from Lety tucked in there; he is muy impactado.
Simon and PM are miffed with each other so he takes the opportunity to enjoy Jazmin's flirting (her awful fake boobs look like tennis balls under her skin).
Erasmo grumps to Julieta about her visiting Conceptos when she should have been home cooking his lunch. He hasn't heard anything about Aldo yet, she realizes. He grumps that he doesn't want Lety distracted by guys.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Aldo asks that the car stop so he can get some fresh air. Caro (dressed in some faux-Japanese style with sticks stuck in her hairdo) gets out too. He tells her Conceptos is an adventure, and everybody there is enchanting in his/her own way, even Alicia. "Oh, not Alicia," wails Caro, "she's awful and will do anything to snag a sucker like you." Then he wonders if Lety sees him only as a brother. Caro encourages him, saying Lety painted her room like the sea to remind herself of Aldo.
Alicia is on the phone trying to convince her dad to pick her up from work every day - she says she'll go halfsies on the gas money but he doesn't believe her.
She sees Tomas and tells her dad: "Oh, I see the cause of my woe right here in front of me - he's an animal, an insect, a social climber, a cross between a scorpion and a cockroach, a bacterium." "Hola," ventures Tomas. "Dad, you just heard it, the voice of a bacterium." "Don't talk to me, don't breathe!" she instructs Tomas. She slaps him. He mildly suggests all the guilt is not on his side. "I wasn't mocking you, Alicia, it was all terribly important to me, but all you cared about was the money ... things turned a bit materialistic." She has tears in her eyes moaning over her car. "The lawyers destroyed me." "It wasn't I who had a lien put on your car, Alicia; you would have lost it anyway." She says she would have squeezed everybody ELSE she knew much harder, but she thought Tomas would come through - he let her down at the last minute. He apologizes. She doesn't accept.
Deflated, Tomas goes down to reception where he is instantly reinflated by Jazmin's attentions (Jazmin is remembering the divine car he used to drive). Lety arrives to take him car-shopping. He muses that, paradoxically, while Jazmin drools over him downstairs, upstairs Alicia thinks he's her worst enemy.
Lety realizes she forgot the directions and, going back for them, encounters Sara and Alicia locked in mortal combat between their desks. She says if this is fighting, she'll have to report them. They say all is well.
Tomas says: "You say you want to forget Fern, but you let him stay and you gave him an office." They discuss the sweetie-pie cards in the black plastic bag. "Lety, why didn't you throw them away?" "They were my life - they were sacred. I gave them to him to see what he'd do with them." Tomas thinks Fern is jealous of Aldo, Lety pish-tushes.
Fern and Omar are also discussing the trash bag. "I couldn't bear to see those cards in the trash. They hold precious memories. At first they were lies, but they became true." Omar: "What really pains me is that this great literature of love ended up in the trash! My unique, irreplaceable writings, very effective you must admit! - worst of all is that this magnificent poetry must remain hidden." "Seriously, I can't bear to lose her."
Marcia hauls Alicia into her office. [Editor's note: isn't it odd that each, Marcia and Fern, has a confidante he/she appears to loathe?] She's brooding about a possible return of the Lety/Fern nightmare. Rehash.
Alicia says she likes Aldo so much, she'd like him even if he were poor. "You know perfectly well you're only saying that because you know he ISN'T poor." [Although Aldo has just informed Caro that "Taste of Life" is causing him a fortune to build so perhaps he won't be quite so rich soon.] "Well, I think Lety wants to humiliate you, get Fern back, and steal your business away from you."
Stung, Marcia calls Fern and it seems he is more repelled by this call than all the previous calls combined. She asks in a cooing soft little voice: "Where are you? What are you doing? Who are you with? When are you coming back?" He answers frostily and impatiently - he's at the bank with Omar, why do you want to know? etc. He slams the phone shut and asks Omar: "Why does she believe me when I'm lying and disbelieve me when I'm telling the truth?" Simultaneously Marcia tells Alicia she can't tolerate any more - she'll quit, pack up, and leave. Alicia: "No! Then I'd have to leave too - you can't leave me here with the witches"
While Lety sits alone somewhere writing happily in her diary about Aldo and how kind he's been to her, and how he made her feel beautiful and important even from the first moment they met, a very different situation is unfolding back at Conceptos. Those boxes Simon has been toting around turn out to be Omar's records, and when Lopez orders the cuartel to sort them out, Sara finds the infamous letter from Omar to Fern, which Lety bound into his prospectus for the Big Meeting. "This is the gossip of the century," gloats Martha. They fight over the letter but take it to the bathroom and read the whole thing and figure out the whole sordid plot.
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Do you think this 2 hour showing was a one-time thing? I wish we could get caught up with Mexico episodes so that we all would get the ending at the same time.
I find that I have trouble understanding Lety's pronunciation--sounds like she doesn't enunciate very well, kind of running her words together. Does anyone else notice that? Could it be because of her braces? Trying to get your lips around those things might alter the way she has to talk. Just wondering if I'm having trouble keeping up with her or if she really is not enunciating all the words.
Barb
I think all you Jaime fans will love this. Jaime has the scruffy-Aldo look going on. Might give you a good idea of what he would have looked like if he had been cast in the Aldo role. Personally, I don't like the scruffy look on him as much as I like it on Juan Soler. Angelica looks divine. The make up people on La Fea have to work really hard to ugly-up Angelica.
The letter Fern found in his wallet - it wasn't from Lety - it was a note he had written to himself on a napkin at a bar the night of the Big Meeting. "Lety, only God knows how much I love you," or something like that. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if Lety EVER wrote him a card, letter, or anything. She did give him a poem once, but it was a poem written by someone else (Delmira Augustini - I got her name wrong in the recap), and she did it on the computer, so it wasn't even handwritten.
It does seem pretty screwy that Lety and Fern would have similar handwriting, though. Because as it is, Marcia can't tell Omar's and Fern's handwriting apart.
What an amazing coincidence that all three of them have the same handwriting.
It seems you watch a little and then they cut away.
One thing I did enjoy last night was seeing Lety admit she loves Fern.
He loves her and she him so now if only they can have at least brief moments of getting together? Probably not.
Aldo would make me really uncomfortable with his 3 inch from your face conversations. I would have to keep backing away.
I remembered when Fern wrote that note to Lety. I think it was in a nightclub?
Although the show can drag, I'm not anxious to reach the end. I've enjoyed this adventure too much.
I love the characters with all their quirks.
The recaps with everyone's different opinions have been great!
Carrie L.
I never would have thought of the plot twist of the cuartel finding the letter. (That's why I'm not writing for this show, obviously. Among other reasons). They really are misinterpreting what the letter means, because they are so busy looking for something in it that isn't there (Lety has told them she had to leave because of something very, very wrong, and they are misinterpreting. If they take their time and really look at what's in that letter, they will see that Fern and Omar used her). That's my 2 cents' worth.
Most of this was an annoying two hours, but the cuartel finding the letter spiced it up. Also, I was impressed that PM can actually sound and look professional for a few seconds when she gets someone on the phone for her boss (when she got Caro). I would never have expected that.
Jeanne
Lety's outfit does look like something that Paul Revere would have worn and it does seem like we are going to be looking at it for quite some time.
The note that Fer brought out was indeed the message he wrote on the napkin. It was in all caps and if I can recall correctly they actually showed him writing it in the bar way back. I didn't think that Lety's handwriting in the diary was similar to Fer's. She wrote in a combination of caps and lower case. I noticed this because it really bugs me when people write this way--It wOuLd be LIke tHiS aNd iT reALLY driVes me CrAZy.
So, do we think that things are going to start happening now that the cuartel knows about the letter and has some idea of what transpired before the big junta.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2_ea_4Ffd0
That should get you to the Angelica Vale/Jaime Camil Cristina show.
Cousins' Comedy "Cure"
It was Anatomy of an Illness, the 1979 memoir by late magazine editor Norman Cousins, that put a potential humor/health connection on the mainstream map. Cousins described how he recovered from a usually irreversible and crippling connective tissue disease with a regimen that -- among other therapies -- included laughing at Marx Brothers movies.
And I swear I typed in the address correctly but they kept telling me no such site found. And when I type in Cristina Youtube I just get the various singers with that name. Sure appreciate you trying to help though...that's what I love about this site. Judy
OR, forget about the CTRL key and try this: highlight the text and click the right mouse button. A pop-up menu appears. Choose Copy. Now put the cursor wherever you want to put the text, right-click again, and choose Paste.
If you have a Mac, you use the Command (Apple) key instead of the CTRL key, but it works the same way.
'cmon... you gotta learn copy and and paste. It was the whole reason I ever wanted to use a computer in the first place. I couldn't imagine (at first) why I would ever want to "save a file," but I sure knew it would be handy to be able to move text around without retyping it.
Aldo's in your face way of talking is very European. We American's are a little more fussy about our private space and I would be backing away from him all the time. Now in adition to his annoying pontificating it seems that the man is a bit dim. The Cuartel charming? Oh puleeze - but then again they spend all their time fawning over him and he laps it up like a dog.
No big surprise that Julieta thinks it would be great for Lety to be with Aldo and Erasmo thinks she has no time for guys. No matter how it goes Erasmo is going to lose his little girl and it will be tough on him.
Poor Nora Salinas what on earth did she ever do the costume staff. First she is dressed as a farmgirl, now as a contestant in the Miss Japan contest. And on top of it she gets a date with the most boring man in the universe who now realizes he may have made a mistake in making Lety think they were like brothers and sisters.
Tomas - what a one track mind - food and Oxi and he seems willing to use his best friend to get both.
And what was with the new car. As I recall Lety said in one of the Junta meetings that Conceptos couldn't afford for her to have cars and a cell. I guess the infusion of the 2M gives her a shot at wheels.
Loved the video, just with Angelica and Jaime were in love for real, like I thought for about two minutes when I read about the Hola! article. Thanks again, Judy
What I don't get is how she expects to pay for a whole car on her salary when the job is supposedly only going to be a few months! (Then again, it's not exactly a Swigglemobile or a Blurabout, and she is getting a president's salary...)
Goodness, just watched this on youtube and i could hardly recognize my Jaime! I thought he looked awful- hunched over, facial hair--- not very attractive- no scruffy. He is much more gorgeous in the show- IMHO. I almost wish I hadn't seen angelica looking this beautiful. It was almost like a spoiler.
Ironic for me to see LETY so gorgeous and Jaime so scruffy and unkempt looking.
Are we positive they are only great friends? Too bad.
I love them both.
Permalink posted by beckster : Tue Feb 13, 11:07:00 AM EST
LOL, Beckster, what a teriffic post! Great song, great movie, great band/historical reference!!
I'm voting for Aldo wearing a (poorly) tie-dyed turtleneck sweater. It looks like it may have been recycled. Was it perhaps part of Don F's wardrobe at one time?
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