Saturday, August 25, 2007
Destilando Amor, 08/24/07: "The Bruhaha Over the Bruja"
Isadora and Gaviota are finally face to face and so now it's two she-cats staring warily, hissing, positioning and circling, their backs up, tails down, fur fluffed, marking out their respective territories. They sit and try the small talk. Isa asks Gavi if they gave her the office today. Gavi says no, actually yesterday. Isa says "oh, then when you decided to stay?"
Ok. Small talk over. Gave says Isa is pretty well informed and Isa replies, " Wouldn't you be in my place?" Gav/Mariana answers,"Yes, I probably would but only out of curiosity, not for the sole reason of tormenting me for life." Isa asks if it isn't a torment knowing that the same woman has been going after her husband for the past 3 years and is still doing it. Gavi replies that then their chat should put her at ease since she certainly doesn't want to upset her in her condition. Isa asks the big question: "What could you possibly tell me that will allow me to leave here and live happily ever after with my husband and to get through this pregnancy worry-free?"
In the middle of this heart-to-heart between the two women in his life, Rod has a "Chachi loves Joanie" moment. He decides to write up a romantically worded and somewhat suggestive fax under the pretext of requesting more organic agave information, and confirms what we have suspected all along about Burly Bear's still suffering through his delayed puberty --not to mention, he just really has one hell of a retarded sense of sexual expression.
The fax is loaded with enough sexual innuendo to give any self-respecting H.R. executive worth their salt a major heart attack, let alone send them running in panic to schedule a whole obnoxious slew of sexual harassment and sensitivity classes.
Isa continues playing the victim, hamming it up and trying to make Gavi feel guilty. She tells her that she, his loving wife, is in constant hellish torment over the fear that her husband will abandon her at any time, leaving her to make love in the arms of another woman; that she wonders if she'll go to bed next to him one night only to wake up the next morning and find he's gone for good with La Gaviota, leaving her and "his" child unprotected.
Gavi/Mariana admits to Isa how tired she is of this whole situation of loving Rod in secret. She admits she's carried the torch for Rod the entire time. She had a couple of opportunities to marry him and would have but fate played a role in taking him away from her. The first time she left, she came back only to find he'd already married Isa and she tried to stay away. "Well you must have regretted it because you ended up at the corporate offices." Mariana says, true enough but adds it was constant torment for her and filled her with guilt. She just didn't know how to get out of that tight spot soon enough.
Isa presses her advantage. "I suppose my husband told you he didn't love me, that we only married for convenience sake, that he had no sexual interest in me?" Gavi sits up. "It would be improper for me to tell you what he said to me. What's important is that he's back with you, you're expecting a child together. Even though you might not believe it, that is sacrosanct for me."
Suddenly the fax machine starts up. "How long can I be sure you'll leave us alone?" "--Forever, ma'am." Some crazy picture is beginning to print out now and Mariana glances over at it. "--But, if my husband keeps after you and tells you you're the only woman he's ever loved and been with? And if you continue to believe it?" "--Your husband can do whatever the heck he wants! I'm keeping my word!" The picture is a huge heart with an arrow stuck through it, pure junior high.
Isa keeps talking and stands up as the heart picture drops to the floor, and she shoves her stomach, belly-bling and all, in Mariana's face. "This body was his once also and is the result of the love we shared together." She rubs her naked bulge to emphasize the point. (Lovely.) "We had a normal a sex life before and we still do." A picture of a heart and arrow with "Gaviota + Rod" shoots through then.
Gavi, trying to keep from getting distracted by all this stands up too. "I don't want to argue that with you!" "--Neither do I. I don't want to discuss our sex life with you, either!" (I'm thinking what sex life?) Another picture shoots through with "I LOVE YOU" plastered big as life on it. It drops to the floor.
Page after page after page is printing out. Gaviota realizes what is being sent through the fax machine as it all starts falling face up onto the floor. Her heart jumps into her throat, but the sheets just won't stop. She is worried that Isadora will notice them or will see the pictures and recognize Rod's handwriting, cuz then she is gonna really be toast!!
Isa is so full of herself and, like the pink engergizer bunny, she just keeps going and going and going. Isa claims it's not her style to get jealous and to go around plotting. No-o-o-o-o-o! She just wants to be up front about it all with Mariana. (This scene was so prime it had the hubby and me both on the edge of our couch cushions yelling at the screen and having one hell of an OMG! moment.) Mariana manages a serious "Of course, ma'am."
Isa drones on and on: Mariana must respect their marriage; and she doesn't want to threaten her; and Mariana must promise to leave the two of them in peace!
Trying to keep her composure and to save her professional rear end, Gavi lays all her cards on the table for Isadora. She and his family are the ones who have been dogging after her everywhere she goes, and not the other way around. They've harassed her and even pushed her down to the point of poverty and starvation. She has simply been trying to keep her job at the CRT but they have caused her tremendous harm. Isa says that it was no more than what Gavi had done to her.
Gavi loses her patience. "Just leave me in peace and neither you, nor your family, nor your husband will ever hear from me again." Oodles of pages now start spitting onto the floor as Isa continues standing there ironically declaring that her husband's love for her is real and demanding respect.
Gavi realizes any moment now Rod's wife could see those printouts from the fax, but luckily Isa turns her back this time. "When my husband first took over the corporation you intended to respect my marriage, but within a few months you had your bags packed and were ready to run off with him."
Gavi thinks fast and moves in front of the fax machine. She hides the crazy stuff behind her back that she's been hurriedly picking up off the floor and attempts to listen attentively to Isa's unending claptrap. She explains that she and Rod made a pact not to ever see each other again, and they've been sticking to it. Avellaneda is aware of it as well.
"Words! Words! Words!" Isa screams at her. "I'm not threatening you, BUT as long as you keep your pact and Rod knows enough to keep his distance, then you won't have anymore problems from the Montalvo's." Isa turns and starts towards the fax machine, but then pauses and turns towards the door. Finally she exits.
Gaviota by now is angry and hurt and she is fit to be tied. She picks up the rest of the pages, rolls them into little balls and throws them into the trash can cursing Rod the whole time for deceiving her again. "I hate you, Rodrigo Montalvo! I hate you! I hate you!"
Rod calls Gavi just then to see if the fax went through and to flirt a bit. She takes the call all right. "You idiot! How could you think to send me something like this?" Rod is impactado. "What? What's the matter?" She lets him have it with both barrels and right between the eyes. She yells at him about breaking their pact and sending those pages of crazy love notes and adolescent drawings. The only thing missing would be a letter addressed directly to the director!
Rod denies it, making you wonder if he has any clue at all. (In fact, about now I was feeling so embarrassed for the stupid jerk that this whole thing just left me feeling like I'd walked in on something way too embarrassingly personal to describe. You know how it is, how your face gets all red-hot and all you can think of is looking for the nearest exit and getting the hell out of whatever pig pile, so to speak, you just stepped into?)
Gavi screams through the receiver, "Stop bothering me and don't ever do this kind of thing again!" Rod is still impactado, "What the heck is the matter with you?" "--Like it's important to you!" Rod screams back at her, "Then do what you want with them! Throw them away or burn them for all I care!" "--I already did!" From now on, she tells him, her secretary, Nancy, will be handling any of his needs from the CRT 'cause she's done with him.
Rod resorts back to type here and the Montalvo in him demands she be careful to speak respectfully to him. "--So write a letter and get me fired!" Click! Gavi has fallen for Isa's sad little sob story about little Rodrigo Jr. really being conceived as God intended and not through some crazy artificial insemination after all. She collapses into a chair and cries tears of frustration. "You liar! You liar! And to think I was falling for it all over again!"
Now we all know that Nim-Rod is a bit slow on the uptake, but eventually it does dawn on him what he's done and he realizes what a careless jackass he's been. He suspects then that Avellaneda may have been in with Gavi at the time and saw the silly thing. At the same time Gavi prays for the virgencita to get Rod's mind right and to keep him occupied with his wife and family, so she can finally just live in peace! God forbid she has to face him and he piles it on.
Nancy runs in with a cup of tea to calm Gavi's nerves and Gavi shows her the crazy fax and tells Nancy never ever again to pass another call from Rodrigo Montalvo to her. Nancy is the one who's going to handle his requests from the CRT from now on. She's had it with Hotstuff.
Alonso walks in then and looks around at the mess in her office. He smiles and it is a complete 180 from what has just taken place in there! In the most soothing voice ever Alonso tells her, "Count to ten, calm down and then come to my office." While Rod's like red-hot chili peppers or a too-hot-to-handle-tamale, Alonso is anything but. Think refreshing, think cool, think blue-eyed and blonde Adonis as the hot iron hits icy water. S-s-s-s-s-s-s!
A minute later Mariana, mostly composed, enters Alonso's office and he asks her in that sure, soothingly calm voice of his, how it went with "Mrs. Montalvo." Gavi lies and says it went just fine. He asks if she's able to continue working and she says of course. So he has her sit down at his desk while he dictates something to her, and even his leather executive's chair is a cool mint green!
As Gavi begins to type Alonso looks over admiringly at her and smiles. This smile is not exactly a disinterested one either. (Note to Rod: Hon, that's the operator saying "Yo' time is uh-h-h-p!" and you're about to lose what you and your family have only abused.)
Rod calls back to apologize again, and to find out for sure if Gaviota is now in trouble with the director. Nancy, that doll, proves to be a gatekeeper of the highest magnitude and she holds Rod off with a definite skill that would be the envy of most doctors' offices. She explains she'll be handling any business at the CRT for him from now on. These are Mariana's instructions and she doesn't dare disobey her, and anyway, she's out of the office till late in the afternoon. So, Rod hangs up in frustration and mumbles to himself.
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In the kitchen at the hacienda, San Juana, Sofia and Ofelia are discussing Frankie's peculiar city ways and Sofia is making excuses for him. SJ says it's certain his parents spoiled the heck out of him when he was little. Sofia giggles, "They certainly did!" (Gag me)
Meanwhile, Frankie is in town, calling up old girlfriends on his cell. They all remind him he's married and he gives them the old saw, "I got married but I am not dead!" Click.
Back at Montalveña, James is distraught over his bad visit with Acacia. Sofia sees him in the living room and asks if he knows where her husband might be. He says no. She sees he's upset and asks what's wrong. He says he's got problems and needs to talk with Rod. He goes into the office to call him.
Rod is still having a brain freeze over Gavi when Elvira walks in to give him a report. He asks Elvira if she's seen his wife or heard from her. Elvira says she told her she went shopping for the day with her mother and her cell is turned off. Rod's phone rings right then and it's James.
James tells him he's quitting so he can move to Guadalajara while Acacia is being treated. Her therapy could take a long time and he wants to be close to her. Rod talks him out of it and tells him to leave Acacia with the doctors and to keep working for him there at the hacienda because it's the best way for him to keep his mind off her while she's being treated. Besides he needs James' expertise to help launch his father's organic agave project. So, James, duded-out bow tie, rooster appliques and all, decides to give it the old college try once more for his best bud.
Sofia finds James about then in the office and asks him for a lift into town so she can get the things she needs for Frankie's meals. James says fine, but first they'll have to stop at the distillery for him to check on the chemicals.
Isadora shows up at Rod's office and checks in with Elvira for anything out of the ordinary in Rod's activities. They check his schedule for the month together and she tells Elvira to keep her informed.
Rod comes out. She missed their lunch date and she tells him in the most gratingly and irritatingly sweet and honeyed voice that she's been shopping with Mommy Dearest all day. The time just flew by. Rod suggests she wait in his office while he sees Quintaro about something. In the teensiest of sweet voices Isa agrees (while I'm fighting hitting the mute and the FF here) then thinks to herself she's going to stick to him like white on rice. She's going to be the shadow he's never had. She spends much of the afternoon in his office while he works on reports.
Back in Alonso's office, Susana gets another attack of the green eyed envy monster when she hears Alonso tell Gavi he's having her do the presentation this afternoon of the reports that she's been putting together for his VIP's meeting. He wants all their important guests to meet her. After he leaves Susy and Nancy convince Mariana to doll herself up a bit in the ladies lounge before the meeting.
Nancy goes in to the ladies' lounge with Gavi to help. Susy pretends to leave then but she comes right back and takes the stack of notebooks for the meeting and dumps them in a trash bin somewhere else in the building.
Gavi asks Nancy how Rod took the news when he called back. Nancy says he acted stupid and will still act silly until she finally takes his calls. Gavi says he'll be waiting til the cows come home. They finish and Gavi and she come back out of the lounge. Gavi has only a couple of minutes to get into the meeting room for the presentation but she sees the notebooks are missing.
They call Susy, but Susy denies having seen them and Nancy says she did leave before they went into the restroom, so she couldn't have them. So Gavi orders security and maintenance and anybody else there to start tearing the place apart to find those notebooks no matter how long it takes.
Susy informs Gavi a couple minutes later that they're all waiting for her in the meeting and then she pretends to help look for the missing notebooks she dumped. Nancy is blaming herself and panicking and crying. Gavi is fit to be tied and warns everyone that if she finds out somebody hid them on purpose there will be hell to pay. Susy is very happy with herself and secretly smirks at her threats.
Avellaneda gives the meeting over to Alonso and whispers that he wants to know what's the delay. Where is Mariana with the reports? Alonso says he is as puzzled as Avellaneda is and stalls for more time. The Tourism Secretary and the president of the hotel owners' association are getting antsy to see the CRT's written proposals. Alonso says he's got them for them and they'll see them shortly. He finally leaves to look for Mariana.
Just as Alonso comes looking to ask about the delay one of the janitorial people finds the notebooks and runs them in to her. He yells for her and she grabs the notebooks and tells Alonso that somebody hid them from her. They both head into the meeting and she passes out the notebooks. Avellaneda whispers to her that afterward he wants to know what took so long. She and Alonso give their presentations and the meeting is successful.
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Isa calls Minnie on the phone in Miami and tells her what happened with Gavi at the CRT and also about the pact Rod and Gavi have with each other and with Avellaneda. Minnie says pact or not, the floosie cannot be trusted and needs to be watched like a hawk. She reminds her that Isa agreed to leave her alone once before and Isa almost lost Rod because of it. Minnie also asks if Rod suspects she went to talk with Mariana. Isa says that she could care less if he finds out. He can complain all he wants.
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After the VIP's leave, Avellaneda wants to know why there was such a delay. Gavi tells him and Alonso that the notebooks were hidden from her and she feels the Montalvo's had a hand in it somehow. Avellaneda thinks she's acting paranoid and warns her not to let it happen again. The two men then agree that Mariana is extremely talented and will soon go far. They put her in charge of an expanded promotional.
Susy is eagerly hanging onto every word near the open door by her desk. When Gavi leaves Avellaneda's office she lets Susy know she suspects the CRT has a spy working for the Montalvo's there. She says Susy is going to have to help her discover who it is and when she does find out who it is, she can't begin to tell her what all she'll do to that person.
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Meanwhile, back in Tequila, Panama Jack-ass, aka, Frankie, is all out of names to call and talks Crispin into finding him a few local beauties to join them for an afternoon of food and frolic. Old habits die hard and Gigolo Jack looks around and points out three that he sees enter the restaurant. Crispin, brown noser that he is, hurries over and invites these three girls to join them.
Frankie flirtatiously twirls the girls around, suggestively kissing them on their cheeks. Sofia and James are driving through town about then and she asks her ex if he's jealous. James replies that he only wants the best for her. He is not the jealous type (not to mention he's too wimpy to be). Just then the two of them drive down the street near the restaurant and James catches a glimpse of Frankie just as he's kissing up these pretty young things.
James immediately slams his breaks on and stops the truck. He has Sofia bend down to see what fell onto the floor and quickly drives past in order to keep her from seeing Frankie flirting with his female townies.
Frankie makes the mistake of formally introducing himself to them all. Once the girls hear who he is they excuse themselves and leave. Poor Frankie doesn't understand. Women never drop him flat like that. Why he's a de la Vega, Francisco de la Vega!
Crispin explains that all the Tequila folk know he's married to Sofia. He's not Francisco de la Vega, but de la Vega de Montalvo around there. Nobody will dare get involved with him because it would be the kiss of death. He suggests Frankie, frankly, is better off having his little amorous adventures away from there, in one of the other little towns in the area.
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Meanwhile, Aaron gets Oñate's back up copy of the Agave Turquesa files and is thrilled; but he worries that Pam or Gaspar might be able to break the code and figure out the dicey stuff he's got in them. Oñate says the likelihood of that happening is next to none.
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Back at corporate, Rod tells Quintano he's personally handling the port business for the Tequila that's made from the organic agave. Oñate will have nothing to do with it he says, and then he has Quintano go look for certain patent information. Rod takes advantage of Quintano's absence to sneak another call on his cell to the CRT.
Nancy answers his phone call and admits that she's long time best buds with Ms. Franco, from hotel days when she was still "Teresa Hernandez", so she knows that Gavi says what she means and will not be taking his calls again. She begs him not to insist and get her in trouble with Mariana.
Rod asks if Nancy has any idea why Mariana is acting this way and if it's possible she might be in trouble with Avellaneda. Nancy says she's not at all and in fact she's in a VIP meeting with him and Dr. Santoveña at that very moment, in fact. Either way, he should know that when a woman gets into it with her man, there's no talking to her.
Rod tells Nancy then just to let Gavi know he's traveling to Tequila and when he returns he hopes she'll have thought it through and will take his call. He hangs up and cannot understand why she's turned on him like this. (I bet The Shadow knows......)
Across town, Barbara Torreblanca tells her daughter that she has to make a business trip to Rome and she invites Pammy along. Pammy doesn't really want to, but in the end figures it will be a way to get over the hurtful way Aaron treated her.
When their workday is finally over Nancy tells Mariana that Rod called back uh-gain. She asks what did the bungling doofus want this time. Nancy says the same as before, to talk with her and thinking she was in trouble. She says it isn't going to happen but if he keeps acting like such an idiot, otherwise she will be.
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This is one of the fastest moving telenovela's I've ever seen. Last night when it was 9 o'clock, I gritted my teeth and hollered" Why isn't this a 2 hour show, it moves so fast and so many things happen the time just flies."
I think last night was one of the best and, as usual, your recap was divine.
Thanks, Jardinera.
: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 6:31:00 PM EDT
You’re right, Alonso is such a cool breeze after the stormy heat with Rod. Gaviota is quite the tornado though, and you know she is always going to be drawn back to the heat!
: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 7:03:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 8:08:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 8:10:00 PM EDT
: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 8:16:00 PM EDT
I couldn't believe that it never occurred to Rod that someone else might have been in Gavi's office... or that the fax machine might not have been! It could have been on Nancy's desk, or whatever...
(Pardon my ignorance, but is it usual for fax machines to do color? In this case both the sending and receiving fax machines were able to handle it... most office fax machines are still black and white, if I'm not mistaken, but maybe I am...)
Anyway, between that scene and Crispin telling Frankie that he's known in town as Mr. Sofia Montalvo, I had QUITE the evening of hearty laughter.
And Isa looks so much better in pink than in taupe.
how may times have we been through this cycle? I'm ready for something new to happen.
thanks for your work Jardinera
Rod is so pretty to look at, but damn you just can't take him anywhere. However, push comes to shove..I could never give up the Rod for the Alonso. I just don't think Alonso would bring the "fun factor", nope not at all.
Life with him would be fine wine and opera music..once Isa runs off, dies or whatever fate deals her, it will be great times at the ranch & awesome shots in Tequila on the weekend.
though I suppose i wouldn't take him anywhere at all!
does anyone know how old Hilario is supposed to be, if rod and gave are in their 20s?
I do like Rene here but I've been won over by Rod so I just have to wait for the wizard (Daniela) to give him a brain so he can figure some things out.
Andrea you are so right. How many times has Gavi flown of the handle based on an incorrect perception. If only she would think before reacting.
If Rod and Isa were so happy, why would Isa worry so much about Gavi?? Hmm!! Something is amiss. I guess that is what makes telenovelaland so predictable and funny. :)
If Rod and Gavi are supposed to be in their 20's. OMG is Hilario of legal age? :)
Yvette
Quite amazing what steroids can do to really buff up a man's "bod"(as someone mentioned the change in Eduardo Yanez)..One only has to look at most actors on novelas to know it's not natural and not from working out daily in the gym..We have that same issue here in USA..
: Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 10:10:00 AM EDT
Exported, you said "One only has to look at most actors on novelas to know it's not natural and not from working out daily in the gym.." That's an eye opener for me. I thought the muscles were the result of working out. In books and magazines they always picture actors with personal trainers. Perhaps the trainers are providing the steroids? What a shame. They sure had me fooled.
: Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 10:32:00 AM EDT
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Thanks to everybody for slogging through these laborious lines of script each time with me. I guess it just shows how really involved I am with this storyline I suppose (as compared to say, dopey Mundo), 'cuz as you see, I am having a real problem filtering down these pivotal, wordy scenes into pithy little one and two-liners anymore. Gaitan deserves a space on the same page of telenovela history as Caridad Bravo Adams for telling such a great and compelling story (scriptwriters and directors aside) in a most satisfyingly moralistic and melodramatic manner.....
Watching that fax scene was just to die for! I was just as amazed. It was mesmerizing. How often do we get just the right amount of every emotion there is all rolled up into one tight little package with even the bow when we sit through these things night after night? >9 8 ? )
: Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 7:43:00 PM EDT
Although I don't care for Alonzo, he does have beautiful eyes....can't wait for Monday's show.
I am reminded of the SNL skit "Besos and Lagrimas" where Antonio Banderas is dressed almost exactly like Hilario's character, complete with the shirt and hat. My daughter found it again on you-tube...we cracked up!
: Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 9:27:00 PM EDT
: Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 9:56:00 PM EDT
: Monday, August 27, 2007 at 1:28:00 AM EDT
Can you give us the link to the skit on Youtube? A simple cut and paste will do, 'cuz he has always been a fascinating handsome hunk for me. Melanie, though doesn't need to be jealous. ;?)
TeleNovela World (use link on left side of this site at bottom of pictures and dates to jump there) has that site still up I think if you want company. They also have the links to the summaries. If you understand enough Spanish, I have a compilation I put together on my own from Univision's forista's and Esmas and you're welcome to them.
: Monday, August 27, 2007 at 10:06:00 AM EDT
Becky T.
: Monday, August 27, 2007 at 10:15:00 AM EDT
: Monday, August 27, 2007 at 12:08:00 PM EDT
: Monday, August 27, 2007 at 4:01:00 PM EDT
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