Caray, Caray!

Greetings FEA FANS!!!! Tonight I post to you from my Hotel Lobby in Miami where I have just now returned from attending the taping of the La Fea Mas Bella special of Cristina!!!!

Fue magico!! I don’t want to give too much away because it won’t air until after the novella is over, but…… I got to enjoy live and in person Jaime, Angelica, Angelica Maria, Jose Jose, Sergio, his wife and baby, Luis, Augustin, Elizabeth, Julio, Paty, & Niurka!!! Amazing!!! You will love it, as did I!! I need some pinches because I still can’t believe it!! Maybe you’ll see me in the audience when it airs. (I’m not wearing my pink hat though, hats aren’t allowed…) PS In honor of Caray Caray, I told Jaime and Augustin that they have English speaking fans!! They smiled. What beautiful smiles!!

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We open with Caro and Omar finally making out. Thank goodness this frustration is about to end!!!

Fer walks into the Padilla compound announces himself and calls around for everyone, anyone? He yells that the door was open. He wonders why no one is there.

At departamento Mora, Tomas is arguing with Alicia about going to the “formal hand asking” party. Alicia doesn’t want to go, but he says Lety and Aldo are his best friends and he can’t miss their special day, and she’s his wife so she has to accompany him. She tells him to go alone. She mentions she is waiting for someone, and can’t go. Just then the doorbell rings and deliverymen show up with a PLASMA TV!!!!

Now most men I know would be frothing at the mouth if their wives bought a 42” plasma, even with the husband’s money. Bless his heart. Not Tomy. He wants to know what it is and where it came from. Alicia snidely tells him, duh a TV and double duh, from a store. She ends up telling him it’s a gift from her Papi after she orders him to tip the guys. Darn, I really want to meet this Papi. Something tells me, though, soon we’ll find the charge appearing on T’s credit card!!! She tells him to hurry up and connect it because he has to go see the Garnacha. I don’t know, but any one whose tried to mess with electronic devices knows that it can end up to be several hours before it’s quite right. I’m wishing Tomy luck with a quick connect!

The cuartel is at the Don Quixote Restaurant. The maitre‘d says that you can have this table here, but that only one person was expected. Sara says we are one person but with six personalities! He says he remembers now that the invitation was only for one person, to which Juana replies, not to worry, we’ll only eat a little. Mr. Colunga will arrive in half an hour. All the cuartel is excited except for Irma. Turns out she is worried about Fer, that he was in really bad shape.

We then go to Fer sitting alone at Lety’s reminiscing about her smile, her perfume, her flavor, and not of life of course, instead, of the enchilada that she gave him. He laments that she is going off now with Domensolin. He then gets an idea to go up to her room. He confirms no one is there.

I guess the kiss turned into more than a kiss as we now flash to a presumably post-coital Omar and Caro. Funny, I didn’t know that one of the side effects of getting it on was a flushed face in the form of perfect make up!! Ugh, and they even emphasized that she wasn’t dressed in the previous scene! I was so pleased that they finally had someone look natural and now this. Oh well. At least they look happy. Omar with his watch still on. Don’t guys usually take that off? I wouldn’t want to be caressed with that thing touching me!!

Flash back to Fer entering Lety’s room, he asks Lety’s permission to enter, and thanks her. He says here is where my Lety sleeps. Before I lose her I’m going to stay a little while with some momentos of her. I would love to touch her dreams. I wish she was here. He moves over to touch her bed then notices that giant seascape. He curses that Aldo has even gotten up here. He says something about being up to nostrils, his or hers, in essence conveying that someone is full of him. He complains about the picture, that he can’t even turn it upside down cause it’s on the wall!!! He says he should write that he loves her and sign right on it. He makes marking motions, but he reminds himself that he promised to leave her alone. He double checks no one is around and notes how much pain he is in.

At T&As Tomy is still begging A to come to the party. She says she won’t go there for anything. He asks her if she doesn’t really care for him, she ignores him in favor of the TV. He tells her if he goes out of this door by himself, he won’t come back. Finally he goes out, then she thinks, what if he really does leave her alone in the street without a TV and a bed, she screams after him, and of course he immediately turns around and runs back in.

Irma is worrying again about Fer, the cuartel wonders what she can do, they suggest she call his cell. He answers, turns out he’s in the Plaza Garibaldi with Mariachis. He says he wants to go somewhere far, maybe Central America, but he will do legitimate work, nothing illegal. She tells him not to do that, he says he’s got no reason to stay here. She tells him to stay there that she wants to accompany (accompagnar) him, but he thinks she said she wants to sing (cantar) with him, and he excitedly tells the groups she’s going to sing with them and he holds up the cell phone. She says no she’s coming there, so don’t move. She tells the cuartel she’s sorry, but she has to go get him. In a rare moment of unselfish solidarity, they decide she shouldn’t go alone and that they will go with her as they beg for Colunga’s forgiveness for flaking on him. Martha makes sure to bring her comida.

We then get a wonderful taste of Fer singing the Vicente Fernandez classic Me canse de rogarle (I’m tired of begging her)

Me canse de rogarle
me canse de decirle
que yo sin ella de pena muero
ya no quiso escucharme
si sus labios se abrieron
fue pa decirme
ya no te quiero
yo senti que mi vida
se perdia en una abismo
profundo y negro
como mi suerte
quise allar el olvido
al estilo jalisco
péro aquellos mariachis
y aquel tequila
me hicieron llorar
Me canse de rogarle
con el llanto en los ojos
alse mi copa y brinde por ella
no podia despreciar
era el ultimo brindis
de una boemio
por una reyna
los mariachis callaron
de mi mano sin fuerza
caya mi copa
sin darme cuenta
ella quiso quedarse
cuando vio mi tristeza
pero ya estaba escrito
que aquella noche
perdiera su amor


We are back at Casa Padilla where suddenly everyone is back home and Aldo and his Pop arrive bearing Champagne. They all want to rush the wedding, except Robo who says that back in his days they waited at least 6 months after proposing. Julieta interjects that in their times, the land was still warm (the earth was forming). Robo Pop thinks it’s a good thing they got the champagne because the last bottle of Cidre that he had somebody drank for the expo celebration and he looks at Aldo very sternly. Aldo tells him not to look at him, Julieta remembers that was when Aldo proclaimed he was in love, but wouldn’t say with who. He says well now you know it’s with the most marvelous woman in the world. Lety. Everyone smiles and laughs.

I think is one of the greatest sequence of scenes ever…..Back at the plaza Fer is pouring tequilitas for all the mariachis, but he is not taking any, he tells them he doesn’t drink and they should drink for him. Just then the cuartel on their emotional rescue mission shows up and wonders if he is ok. He slurs and sways but kids them that he’s not drunk, the maris are drinking for him. The cuartel tries to get him to go back to his house with them. He says no way, the night is young and we have to enjoy it because today Lety told Domensolin that she will marry him. He miraculously pulls plenty caballitos out of his pocket, enough for each of the cuartel, and bids them to drink.

the Mexican poet Alvaro Mutis wrote in “Tequila: Panegyric and Emblem”:

Tequila has no history; there are no anecdotes confirming its birth.
This is how it’s been since the beginning of time, for tequila is a gift from the gods
and they don’t tend to offer fables when bestowing favors.
That is the job of mortals, the children of panic and tradition.


Fer continues that this is the first of many nights of suffering. This suffering is unending. Who suffers, he continues, Domensolin? Nooooo, not him, ME!!!!!

He knows what he should do! Bring a serenade to Lety to say goodbye. They say no. He says yes, what’s better is a song to try and get her back, muchachos. Let’s go to her house. They try to talk him out of it, and he back downs. The mariachis sing “Que seas Feliz” (That you are happy) Some of you may remember this from Apuesta por un Amor sung by Luis Miguel, and covered often by Patty Manterola who ended up in that story with none other than our beloved Juan Soler!!:

Que seas feliz, feliz, feliz
es todo lo que pido
en nuestra despedida
no pudo ser despues
de haberte amado tanto
por todas esas cosas tan absurdas
de la vida.
Siempre podras contar conmigo
no importa donde estes
al fin que ya lo ves
quedamos como amigos.
En vez de despedirnos
con reproche y con llantos
yo que te quise tanto
quiero que seas feliz, feliz, feliz
Siempre podras contar conmigo
no importa donde estes
al fin que ya lo ves
quedamos como amigos.
En vez de despedirnos
con reproche y con llantos
yo que te quise tanto
quiero que seas feliz, feliz, feliz
En vez de despedirnos
con reproche y con llantos
yo que te quise tanto
quiero que seas feliz, feliz, feliz
But not with Domensolin!!!!! He shouts! The cuartel swept up in the moment agree!

Julieta serves what looks like delicious cream and salsa covered stuffed chili peppers, and announces dinner is served. Right on schedule the human vacuums show up to eat their fill. Ali makes nice nice with Lety and ends up telling everyone we shouldn’t waste time talking and we should go to the kitchen to enjoy the lovely dinner because we are hungry, no? Robo remarks that it was bad enough with one greedy gut (Tomas) and now there are two! Funny, I noticed the table set for six, but there are seven people. Hmmm. Maybe they’ll put Alicia out to eat with Moty….

Fer is glad that the cuartel joined him and says he will never forget that they did this. It looks like they are on the march to Lety’s house. The mariachis are singing :

Te vas porque yo quiero que te vayas,
a la hora que yo quiera te detengo;
(You leave because I want you to go, until the moment that I want to stop you...)

Fer stops them and yells at them that they shouldn’t sing about her going, they should be singing about her coming back! He remarks that they must be drunk to be singing such a thing.

Irma begs him again not to do this, that he is just going to hurt her Lety. He says he’s not going to hurt her he’s going to make her happy because with this she’ll know that I love her even more than that fool Domensolin!!! He continues that the whole world show know about this love. The mariachis say they don’t know it, Fer confirms that’s because it’s not a song!

They are now out front of Lety’s Fer is remarking how drunk they must be, they’ve sang these songs hundreds of times. He tells them to sing well, that this is the woman of his life. Do is Do and Re is Re. He tells them to begin, Irma rushes up to stop him and he tells them to wait for him. This happens again when Martha rushes up to tell him that Lety is really happy with Aldo. He tries to entice her to eat something. He decides that he should sing again “I’m tired of begging you” and he tries to start the mariachis again. The cuartel stop them this time. The mariachi comes over and tells him not to be like this and just decide. He says indeed, ok, you should stop then. He pays them for their time and sends them on their way, but quietly he asks. As they leave they loudly start playing again which of course irritates everyone.


The cuartel tell Don Fer that they are there for him and they want him to be ok and that he is their hero. He tells them he will be alright and he thanks themand so one by one they take their leave, and take the opportunity to kis and hug him goodbye. Some more than others, like Juana and Sara who practically knock him over squeezing him to death. I died laughing during this entire parade. Really I think this was one of the best ever!!

Inside Ali asks for more food. Lety asks if they will get married at the beach. Everyone thinks that’s great. Tomas thinks of course because the sea is Aldo’s life. He corrects that Lety is his life. Tomy says yes, like Ali is my life and the woman that fits him. Ali says no none of that, she thinks it would fit better for her to be with Aldo and Tomas to be with Lety, that would go better. Lety says no, actually opposites attract, and those that are the same repel. Tomas agrees it’s all physics, so a Feo belongs with a bella.

Sadness has caught up again with Fer who now sits alone on the front stoop. He is scrawling something on the sidewalk and mumbles to himself that maybe he should leave her a message here, but it’s the only way he has to show her how much he cares.

Bozo returns. She and Mar are having a heart to heart. Bozo thinks it would be great if she and Fer were together not just as siblings, but married. Mar assures her that she is fine about everything and she’s gotten over all that. Teri hopes Fer gets his happiness too. Mar says he will, you’ll see. She begins to rehas the telvision project and how her son is going to be the star.

Just then Fer walks in and wonders what his Mom is doing in this part of town. She wants to know more from him about his tele debut. He remarks how the gossip flies and refuses to tell her anything that it is a surprise, that it’s something different. He essentially tells her to go home to her humble house and not worry about it and he says good night. Teri tells Mar that she is going to come to the business tomorrow because she doesn’t like that he is being do mysterious about this.

Everyone leaves the Padillas. Aldo remarks that his Dad probably had the best time of anyone. Julieta says that they are going up to bed now and Robo agrees, but after Aldo leaves. Juli tries to persuade him to go now and let them say goodbye as they like. He says fine we’ll go now but he gives Lety 2 ½ minutes to get up to her room.

Aldo asks her if she’s sure that she loves and wants to marry him she says yes and then Lety and he kiss. Robo yells down to make sure that she comes up like she’s supposed to.

We finally go back to Omar and Caro, and Omar is leaving and doesn’t want her to fix anything because he thinks it’s best if he goes home to get some sleep because he has a lot of work tomorrow. She says that’s right tomorrow begins the filming of the program with Aurora. He says Aurora a couple of times and then says that he actually forgot about that. Caro is surprised but glad. They say long goodbyes very happily and think of each other and they fade off.

Back at Casa Padilla Lety and Aldo wander out to say their goodbyes only to find Fer’s message on the side walk. “Lety I wish you much happiness” Lety is clueless, but Aldo is much more cynical. He knows right away it’s Fer and not someone who lives in the colonia and he’s not happy. Lety wants to know why does it always have to be Fer?

Aldo tells her of course it’s him, it’s always him trying to blackmail you. He knows we are inside talking about our wedding date and plans and so the orphan of love has to be out here writing this stuff. She doesn’t understand why he’s so mad. She doesn’t think he tries to black mail her. Aldo wonders then why didn’t he come in and congratulate us to our faces, of course he’s blackmailing you. Lety says she doesn’t care and isn’t interested and he says how can you not be interested in someone blackmailing you and we close with a wickedly angry face of Aldo staring at us like Jack Nicholson in the Shining.

Dum Da Dum Dum Dum…are the tables turning?????

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