Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Destilando 9/5 - "It costs a lot to look this good," Francisco explains.
Dani visits Gaviota, "Not as my brother's emissary, but as a representative of the Montalvo Corporation. I have samples of Rodrigo's new tequila for Big Boss and Dr. Blondie." "What's it called?" "Ardent Passion! Catchy, dontcha think?" "It's his golden dream come true!" "He has two golden dreams - this tequila, and you." Gav says she'll help. Dani has another mission - she produces a lipstick and a piece of paper - Rodrigo has asked that she get Gaviota to cover the paper with kisses. Gaviota doesn't like the lipstick color he picked but she complies, asking if Rod's still mad at her for hanging up abruptly when Dr. Blondie shouts. "I guess if he's asking for a page of kisses, not so much."
Gaviota asks about the baby. "First, about the mother," says Dani, "he's trying to tolerate her until he can leave." "But the kid, he must be crazy for him?" "Sure, but I haven't seen them since he left the hospital, I'm not allowed at the house." Gav is going on about how lovely this child must be, with the beautiful Isa for a mom and the beautiful Rod for a dad (except I hate his new haircut) when the Dr. shouts in a panic: Gav cleaned his office while he was away and now he can't find his archives and his books and he's going crazy and (they follow him into his office) "You can't put the coffeepot in the sunshine!"
Gav introduces Dani, who charmingly says: "I'm part of the disastrous Montalvo family but please don't call the police." He tries the new tequila and says it's great: "Oh! I smell the agave! The taste! Sweet and bitter in equilibrium! Soft, a prolonged taste..." He starts beaming at Gaviota and beams this identical beam every time he looks at her for the rest of the episode. (It's like there's an on/off switch or something. High beam.)
As Dani is leaving, she says in private: "Any woman could fall for that Dr. Blondie." "Not if you work for him 19 hours a day." "Do you have a message for Rod?" "Tell him thanks for the tequila." "That's for the corporation, what about for my brother?" "Say I hope he likes the lipstick kisses, and why did he want them?"
At the hacienda, all coo over the baby. SanJuana says to Rod, "Oh, he's cute but he doesn't look one li'l bit like you." Frankie coughs. Roman comes for Rod, Frankie says he'll come too but Rod says "no need" and leaves quickly. Isa pulls Frankie aside and says, with a leer, that she'll be a most accommodating landlady.
Somewhere James and Rod are exulting over the report card their tequila got from the tasters - 19 out of a possible 20 points. Rod says two special people will be trying the tequila tonight, and he has an important decision to make. James and Rodrigo discuss Isa via dichos about a rattlesnake and a cobra. "She's blackmailed me over the baby ever since the hospital and last night gave an ultimatum: if I ever see Gaviota again, she'll destroy her. I'm sure she called Gaviota and threatened her. I've realized that Isa has two faces." "Will you separate from her?" "Of course! I need to get away from her and save my energy for work and for getting Gaviota back." There are other problems, like Isa's profligate father.
I notice rick-rack on James' shirt, I haven't seen this since junior high. He has the worst shirts in the world.
Gaviota calls her ma and says she'll be working till 10 getting that balance (erased by Suzi) back together. Clarita insists that if Dr Blondie gives her a ride home, he should come get formally presented.
Isa tells Sofia she threatened Rodrigo when she was in a rage, "But don't worry, I won't do any damage to the family. Besides the small problem of Gaviota, I have no complaints, your brother is good to the baby." "Your plan [unspecified] sounds dangerous," Sofia warns.
Sofia asks what time it is, and told it's 7:30, she panics. "Oh no, I haven't made Francisco's dinner!" "What about the maid Pilar gave you?" "He fired her." "How is your husband behaving?" "I don't want the family to know, but this marriage is not going the way I'd hoped. He leaves in the morning, he's obsessed with work, he goes shopping, meets with the farmers, then every single night he stays out till early in the morning."
"Sofia - is your husband, perchance, unfaithful?" "Don't even joke about it!" (Sofia is wearing what appears to be a black lace teddy over her bulky button-up white blouse. She and James are meant for each other, with these horrible shirts.) "He loves me, but I feel abandoned. I have my pride, I can't reveal to anyone that I detest life locked up in this hacienda, taking care of Frankie's clothes and cooking his dinner. He's so fussy, only I can do it right..."
Isa points out that Sofia dumped James because she didn't want to be at the hacienda, and now look! "He treats you like an employee, why do you put up with it?" Sofia makes some lame excuses and then reveals that she and Francisco can't make ends meet on the salary Rod provides!
Isa is going into full impactada over that revelation when all the boys swarm in. It's time to go over the books. "Where's Frankie?" "He's resting up [with cucumbers over his eyes] for the meeting, I'll go get him."
Dani calls Rod to say she got the kiss-paper and he's all happy and wants to know how Gaviota is, and all the details. Dani says she'll come to the corporation next day and tell him in person and he's getting all bent about that when Isa bursts into the room, saying she's been waiting for him in the dining room. He shoves her out. Dani says, "It's your gendarme wife, see why we can't talk now?"
Dr. Blondie, predictably, offers to take Gaviota home at 10 and she tells him Clarita wants to meet him. "My mother wants to know if you're decent and educated." He pirhouettes: "Do I look presentable enough to meet your mother?" He and Gaviota get to her apartment and Clarita's wearing a housedress. She goes to get dressed properly. Dr. Blondie says he'll make the supreme sacrifice and drink some of their no-doubt-inferior and possibly horrible coffee. Clarita makes nice to Dr. Blondie, then asks if he's married or has a girlfriend, no he doesn't, well have you thought of marrying? Gav is mortified. "No woman could tolerate me," explains Blondie, "my work leaves me no time. It's been my salvation, distracting me from the death of my wife. Lucero's death left me empty." Oddly, Clarita suggests they toast the health of his dead wife (seems a little late for that). After embarrassing Gaviota once more by asking her to sing for the Doctor, Clarita says he can come back any time. He tells Gaviota: "I haven't gotten the 'Boyfriend Inquisition' since I was a teenager. He kiss her. She is impactada. Clarita leaps for joy.
The boys are hunched over the computer, going over tonnage of harvest, inventory of cattle, vaccination costs etc. and all that seems in order. Rod turns the page and sees a huge list of other expenses: hotels, bars, restaurants, facials!? Francisco explains: it's important that he, as representative of the Montalvo family, look specially cool. Rod barks: "well, it's excessive, cut it out."
Frankie, whose timing is erratic, now asks what his cut of the profits is going to be, seeing as how things are going well. Rod blows his top: "Are you crazy? You're a well-paid employee." "I thought I was part of the family."
Isa sends Sofia to calm her brother down, while she "explains" to Frankie thus: "I told you marrying Sofia wasn't a good business move. I have a better proposition."
Rod can't believe Sofia and Frankie can't live on the lush pasture Rod has provided, including a Jacuzzi and a nice jeep. Rod scolds James, who's been covering for Francisco. "He has to control his expenses, he could ruin us in three months." James says Frankie is a city boy, doing the best he can, but he just doesn't seem to be able to learn the work. "If he's betraying my sister, he's out of here, I can't take any more." Then Rod says he's thinking of Gaviota.
Gaviota scolds her mother and says to Dr. Blondie she is just a working machine. Clarita disagrees, she saw how Dr. Blondie's eyes sparkled (that's the beam machine in the "on" position) whenever he looked at her. "You know I only loved once. There's nothing between me and the doctor." "Does he know about Rod?" "He doesn't need to know everything, the story embarrasses me. Anyway ma, is this another of your telenovelas?" Clarita gets the last word: "Does he get jealous when you talk about Rod?"
My machine cut off before the previews, sorry!
Labels: Destilando
I'm glad Rod is "seeing" that Isa can sometime have two faces. Now that he's noticed this perhaps he'll put together some other clues as well.
When Gavi was getting the glasses to test the tequila, was Dr. Blondie checking her out, and did Dani notice? I only caught a glimpse of this out of the corner of my eye and wasn't sure if that's what I really saw.
I thought I saw Dr. Blondie checking out Gavi too!
I'm glad to see some of the unraveling now rather than in the last two episodes. It was fun to see smarmy Frankie squirming...
jb
I'll bet soap writers across the world hated to get this news -- ruins the mystery.
Cindy
A fancy test like that would be much more useful in tracing a disease back through a family, or something like that. I don't know if that would make for an interesting novela plot, or a huge yawner!
You know, all that time when Rodrigo was staring at the new tequila label and saying "something's missing," I was SURE (and really afraid) that he meant "a photo of Gaviota wearing a crown of celery stalks that are supposed to look like an agave, like in the opening credits." The lipstick kisses were a HUGE improvement!!
And Rod's hair needs to grow out fast....his hat was way too big because of lack of hair!
As for Blondie making goo goo eyes at Gav and Rod being jealous...too bad, Rod... you're still MARRIED!!!
What is with Rod wearing his hat inside the house? I guess he feels he has to cover his head to hide that awful haircut.
Clarita was totally cringe inducing. I can never figure where she really stands with Gavi's affair with Rod. It actually surprises me that so many of the characters on this show seem to find nothing wrong with a married man mooning over another woman. In fact they seem to encourage it. If he was separated or divorcing Isa it would another thing but he isn't.
Lori
jb
I've always preferred dark-haired women to blondes, but Isa looks great and the curls and smile instead of the usual frown were a welcome change of pace.
The only thing I was confused about was whether she was smiling at Sophie's embarrassment or at Frankie's stupid excuse about needing to look good!
The hat falling down around Rod's ears was hilarious. Even more hilarious was Meester James standing there with bowed head while Rod chewed him out. cindy
I guess Rod scolding Frankie was just a teaser for bigger things to come. Clarita=comic relief gone awry.
I had to just hoot at Jame's rick-rack shirt and Rod's hat. I too thought he was wearing the hat in the house to cover his bad hair style. I don't remember him doing that before. Sophie's black lace bustier over a tailored white shirt? QUE the heck, girl?? She may be the most fashion-challenged one on the show. James caused me to try researching Mexican folk costume online today. Those floppy bow ties seem to be required wear for charro/mariachi outfits. Haven't finished searching yet.
Clarita needs a J O B...
A vision of a silhouette celery wearing gavi flashed in ma mind too only it was accampanied by Pilar making a snide comment the label reminds her of a certain jimadhora...LOL Pilar was the first person to pop in ma head.
*Hani*
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Wouldn't it be awesome if Acacia escaped & killed James by, not the piano wire...but rick-rack
Clarita, take it down a notch..all the sudden she was like texas-cheerleader mom & gavi just made the squad.
The actress that plays Clarita has a long telenovela history..she often plays "Indian" or mixed role. I always think she is great cause she must make quite a lucretive salary on these. She cranks out a bunch of them.
Mexico and not Spain, right?"
Well, I've traveled lots of times down to Mexico with my wife to visit family and Clarita looks more like the people I've seen and met than the rest of the cast members other than Acacia!!
I think this topic came up in one of the other novella's in reference to the nationality of the major actors in comparision to the country that the novella was set in.
I understood that Anon 7:44 was simply noting that based on physical similarities, Rod looks more like Clarita's son than Gaviota looks like her daughter.
On the other hand, I had the delightful experience once while stationed in Hawaii, or meeting a group of 18 young Mexican women (secretaries) on a group vacation. The physical characteristics ranged from dusky skin/black hair to fair skin, freckles and red hair! Mexico has been quite the melting pot with the various waves of immigrants and would-be rulers.
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