Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Destilando, Tuesday September 4: '...and you pucker up your lips, like this'
Ok, so If you find gaps between the words, it's because I was trying to catch some ants that were spontaneously walking up my arm as I was trying to follow Gavi's fast chatter. It's so darn hot here these days that even the ants are trying to find shelter on my carpet. Anyhoo, here it goes:
At the CRT, Nancy does what she's best at: weeping. Susie conveniently interrupts, only to tell Mariana that if she needs anything, just anything at all, to ask her for help, "cuz that's what friends are for".
Right then, Rod calls and asks to speak to Nancy. Gavi: Rod it's me!. Rod, serious: yeah I know, but Nancy is the one in charge of taking my call, please let me speak to her. Gavi apologizes for her attitude with him earlier; they talk about Organic Tequila, and Rod gets his smile back as he talks of his dream project, and she wishes him luck on his trip to the hacienda. But that smile doesn't last long...cuz Alonso calls Gaviota out loud...and our compulsive Rod gets very jealous that anyone other than him is calling her 'Gaviota', and that her boss won't wait until she's done talking to HIM. It's like, hey Gavi, your boss needs to understand that you are having a personal conversation and CANNOT work right now, OK?? Gavi says sorry Rod, I gotta go it's my boss, Rod reluctantly asks to speak to Nancy.
Alonso needs the spreadsheet in 1 hour. He says him and Nancy will work on the balance sheet. Gavi tells him to go home and she'll work on it. Alonso says no, we haven't got enough time. Nancy walks in, and informs Alonso that Rod will bring him a sample of his O-tequila project. Gavi puts in a couple of good words for Rod and his project. Alonso realizes it will soon be time for the tequia festival; Gavi thinks that O-tequila will do great during the festival. He reminds her that their priority is to get the spreadsheet done for Avellaneda.
At the hacienda, James finds Sofia ironing Frankie's shirts. They seem to be getting along great now that they're both married to someone else. I hope this doesn't evolve into YET another affair. James tells Sofia that he just cannot believe she's become her husbands slave...he's upset about this, and leaves.
At his office, Frankie pretends to work. They tell him something about copper sulfate...Crispin mentions a formula to illegally sneak in lots of money on the Copper Sulfate business. I am assuming that Crispin and Frankie will now become best friends...
Isa and Mom talk about how Rod and Ricky get along so well; Rod loves him. Isa's mom is happy that Rod and Gavi aren't really seeing each other, but Isa tells ma not to think so highly of Rod 'ma, as soon as the O-tequila project concludes, Rod will run to Gavi's arms'. She tells mom that when that happens, she will divorce him. Nuria, thinking of the diamonds she'll have to give up if that happens, freaks out, but Isa says 'no worries Ma, I know what I'm doing!' Phone rings, it's Sofie, looking tired, she wants Isa to come to the hacienda. They manage to talk about how Frankie is gone so much...Isa looks attentive...not sure if she's thinking of Frankie's cheating, or of the boinking-sessions her and Frankie will be undergoing when she's back at the hacienda.
Rod is instructing Elvira about O-tequila. Tio bruno walks in, Elvira leaves, Rod shows his tio the samples of O-tequila. Bruno congratulates him. They talk about New York, and how tequila prices will go up. They're both happy, cuz finally the Montalvena is developing big crops and will have lots of Agaves without plagues, just like 3 years ago and lots of $$$ will start to flow... by this, I fear that we are being warned of a disaster....with a good-for-nothing like Frankie working at the hacienda, will there remain any fortune in this family??... Tio Bruno smells the tequila and starts thinking about Aron's loss of opportunities because Agave turquesa is not going well.
Aron and some Cuban guy are talking about the poor sales of Turquesa. Aron wants him to make sure Turquesa gets most demands. After placing his wish, he rudely tells C-guy to get the hell out of there.
At their home, Pammie wants to know what her dad found out after dissecting Aron's USB Drive. Apparenlty dad took this drive to some experts, but they couldn't find any concrete proof yet. Pammie says 'no Pa, we're going to find a way to find proof of Aron's fraudulent business!!! Daddy, if you don't to it, I will.' Dad is scared...'what if Aron finds out before we get to discover anything?? He'll tear us to pieces!!'. But Pammie is not so worried, cuz when Aron finds out, he'll be behind the bars of prison!! MUHAHAHAHAAAAA....
At home in Miami, Minnie walks in and tells Aron that she has great news. Aron immediately slurs out his most famous sentence yet in this novela 'are you pregnant!!' M: Nope, but I'm going to be working with some special doctors that will put me through special treatments that'll increase the chances that I have a varon! A: ah, finally you make a smart move my love! Minnie: but honey, I need to be in a calm environment during my pregnancy... A: amorcito, you know I've always been great to you! M: but i'm worried, when our varon is born, what will you do about Rod's baby?? A: no worries honey, I won't dirty my hands with that.
At the office, Bruno compliments Rod on his extraordinary tequila. He predicts a great future for this Ardiente Pasion product. Rod is happy, but not too excited about the label design...he feels its lacking something.
CRT: Gavi is typing a bunch of numbers that Alonso is reading to her. He notices she's tired, and tells her to take a break. Gavi walks out of his office, and asks nancy to stop working on the balance sheet and check on invitations for the annual tequila festival. N: But if the boss finds out he'll kill me!! Alonso walks out, and calls Gavi back into the office. I guess the break was only meant to be 97 seconds long.
At home, Isa is talking to Elvira on the phone about some documents she needs. Elvira says, sure thing!
At the hacienda, Sofia notices that Fran is late and tells James that once again, they will eat dinner alone. James notices Sofie is looking kind of tired. Sofie confesses that it's because Frankie wants noone but her to take care of all his things and she hasn't been able to spend any time on herself. When she moved to the hacienda, she thought she'd have more time with him. Sofie starts crying, as she realizes that Fran wants her to be nothing other than a full time house wife. She feels ugly...James says noooo Soooofie, you are...are...hermosaa!! Right then Fran walks in, looks jealous, but prefers to ask if his wife has made him something to eat. Fran wants to talk to James, so he asks sofie for a margarita, and Sofie leaves the room. You'd think he wants to ask James to stay away from his wife, but no, he doesn't really care about her (sometimes I wonder he'd even mind if Sofie and James had an affair); instead, he tells James that he needs his help with his job, since he's too busy to take care of the accounting part that corresponds him. James reminds him that they don't really need him at the hacienda. James then coldly says, no problem, and leaves. Sofie comes back with his Margarita, and has him taste it, just like they do at the professional food contests (or during the end if the Iron chef)... she patiently awaits for him to drink, taste, savor, and tell her what he thinks....he likes it, applause!!! Sofie now gets her prize: she gets to give Frankie a 1 hour massage, which she is happy to perform as long as she gets to touch her husband. And I can't wait for Frankie to get beaten up by someone, anyone, at this point! Even Crispin could do the work....anyhoo...
At home, Isa tells Rod that her and the baby are going to travel with him to he hacienda. She's being nice...until they talk about tequila organico. She tells him to feel free to fool around with Gavi...Rod is not sure if he's more impactado or confused about this. Rod: are you SURE?? Isa: yeeeaaah...??? Just letting you know, I won't keep my arms crossed if you do that though. Remember she falsified her passport in the past, and what would everyone do if they knew of her false documents?? I swear that I will destroy her life if you leave me for her. I was keeping quiet sofar for your family, but it depends on how long you stay with me.
James, Roman and Frankie are adding up numbers...Fran ends up falling asleep. Roman says it's due to all the partying. James tells him to keep quiet; he agrees that that's not his business.
Clarita and Maria Jose are watching novelas together. They then see Hilario on TV......he looks like a typical Rico Suave sitting in a Jacuzzi, with the glasses sliding down his eyes, a side-smile, and some cheap techno playing in the background. But anyhoo, we'll pretend he's doing a very good commercial. The ladies talk about how much money he must be making. Clarita wonders about Gavi and Alsonso...something must be going on. Even when she believes Gavi will never forget Rod...but that Alonso, he seems to be calling an awful lot.
Gavi and Alonso are looking through the spreadsheets. Nancy is ready to leave. He tells Gavi to leave too, since it's late. Gavi decides to stay with him. He likes that she's a workaholic. She asks if he wants coffee, cuz she'll make some. He says nooooo! I'll make it. Apparently she sucks at it. And there we go again with a new conversation about some brand of coffee. He says something about 3 grains representing health, money and love. Gavi decides she only wants 2 grains of coffee then, cuz if she has health and money, she won't need amorrr.
Rod, at home, gets a flashback to that famous tree where him and Gavi made love...he gets an idea for the o-tequila label design...somehow he wants to incorporate Gavi into the label design. Later on that night, he's in bed playing with Ricky. As Isa sleeps, he tells her he won't let her hurt Gavi! And you little one, I'll make sure to take care of you always, and never ever leave you alone. I must say Ricky is adorable...he has some cute chubby cheeks...geez, it must have been a long time since I've watched cuz they managed to swap in a bigger baby than the one I'm used to seeing.
Next morning, Rod asks Dani to meet up soon. Isa comes into the livingroom, and asks Rod to think about her.... she's playing nice. She repeats the same thing she said the day before, but in a nice way, as if that will make a difference. After Rod leaves, she calls Susy...Susy is confident that Mariana will be fired cuz she'll never finish the sheet ontime. Isa promises a juicy cash compensation. Henriqueta then brings Isa Mariana's CV, courtesy of Elvira.
Nancy is calling people for the tequila party. Alonso hears her and gets upset....she's scared, he yells at her, Nancy ...well, cries. Gavi overhears and takes awfully long to step in, but eventually does so, and tells him that she's the one that asked Nancy to do it. Alonso realizes she's just trying to make sure every one is there for Rod's O-tequila. A: All you care about is Montalvo!! Meanwhile me, Avellaneda, and everyone else can just get screwed over and noone will care!! He runs into his office, shuts the door, and tells them to forget about him cuz he's DEAD!!! Nancy, crying: should we slide our resignation under the door?? A: You don't have time!!! You have a lot of work to do on the balance!! ( I know some might not agree, but this is where I notice a difference between him and Aldo from La Fea Mas Bella... This guy is grumpy and has an attitude, and is a nightmare of a boss. I didn't watch la fea too much, but didn't Aldo have eternal patience and wouldn't he never raise his voice at anyone?)
At Montalvo Corp; Rod wants Dani to take some Ardiente Tequila packages to CRT; one for Gavi and one for Avellaneda. He wants Dani to ask Gavi to put on some red lipstick and kiss a blank sheet of paper many times. He also wants her to spy on Alonso. He doesn't like that Alonso is calling Gavi, 'Gaviota'...
At CRT, the ladies are still trying to get Alonso to talk to them. He bursts out, and tells nancy to continue calling the invitees for the festival cuz he doesn't want the festival to end up ruined because of him.
In Miami, Aron is on the phone. Minnie walks in.....Aron was justing talking to his dad about Rod's O-tequila/Ardiente Pasion, but A doesn't think it'll do well cuz Rod is too slow for advertisement. Just then, he gets the invitation to the festival in his mailbox; Minnie doesn't want him to go, he says, porsupuesto (of course) that he's going!! All the tequileros will be there!! And he'll take Minnie....Minnie is excited, not because she gets to make sure her hubby will not cheat on her that night, but because it will annoy Isa to see her rival again...
Dani brings a copy of Ardiente Pasion to Gavi, and reminds her that Rod has 2 golden dreams, tequila, and her. She asks Gavi to kiss the sheet of paper as she hands her the red lipstick..."Rod wants your lips on the paper"... Gavi is impactada.
Tomorrow...tum tum TUUUM:
-Sofie is complaining to Isa about Fran's behavior...Isa suspects he's cheating on Sofie, and her :)
- Rod tells Frankie to reduce his expenses....Frankie tries to talk but Rod gets real mad...ya go Rod!! I love it when he yells at the right people.
- Alonso comes over to Mariana's house, Clarita talks about marriage as Gavi chokes on her drink
- Rod is tired of Isa, he wants to separate.
Labels: Destilando
Anyway, that side of Aldo wasn't in the original Gaitan version of Betty La Fea. (But I don't think Michel, from BLF, was moody and grumpy, either.)
Poor Sofia....she looks so tired and frumpy lately. When, oh when is she gonna find out about her smarmy Frankie fooling around! And what's with Meester James's moustache???? He's beginning to look alot like Wild Bill!!!
Very good....
Julie is very correct...Aldo was patronizing...he would give he slightest, caress to people...months of letting Luigi think he was gay, nothing outright, but he knew exactly what he was doing. The right sigh and glance to Alicia. But that was childsplay for any decent con. None of those people and I mean none with exception of Marcia, was very astute in judging people or just being very smart. I think Marcia was the only one who did not get caught up in the hero worship.
Alfonso is just basically a geek, that got a couple of tropical weight suits & a bit of good luck in the looks dept.
Coffee anyone?
Oh yeah the Frankie slap down..bring it on
What's with the tantrum throwing boss? I've commented before that at least in this show people appear to be working in the office not just gossiping and eating. But, Gavi was out of line to carry on personal conversations with Rod while in the middle of a business crisis. She should have flat out cut him off or said she'd call him back later. Even when Alonso called her she kept on yakking. That would be fireable in the company i worked for.
...and i wonder, besides james' mustache, why does he wear those charro-inspired outfits? cuz noone else around him wears them. i wonder if they are worn in Mexico at all.
ps, for the pirate telenovela lovers: i read that it'll start showing on september 17 on the televisa channel, and will be replacing destilando... i saw some pics, and fernando looks hot! he's more buff than ever. he'll have the leading role, together with susana conzalez ('babe lawyer' from heridas de amor).
It was sort of like that scene in Star Wars episode 2 where all the Jango Fett clones are eating together in the cafeteria. Except not as hot, because I love Jango Fett.
On the other hand, there wasn't any tequila in the cafeteria scene... hmmm... well, hotness can mean many things.
I suppose James wears these outfits to signal his lifelong devotion to tequila, much as a Jedi wears special robes. (Cuz he's THAT serious about tequila!)
I'm no fan of Colunga but am interested in the new Jose Alberto Castro production with Juan Soler and 4 leading ladies who are apparently already in diva mode over top billing.
in any case, i got to see some of the pictures and clips on youtube, and it looks very promising!! colunga looks great -no, gorgeous- in those extensions... i also like that susana gonzales is in it; at least she looks a little closer to the age she's supposed to be in the novela (unlike hipolita or gaviota). i love destilando, but i think i'm ready for some pirate action, fencing, and gorgeous men riding on their horses again. i sure hope these 3 months go by fast! :)
..the new jose alberto castro production?? that sounds really good...what's the name of it?
(9-4) for us was marked 6-21 for them, so we still have 3 full months to go.
BUT!!!!!!!!!
COLUNGA THIS WAY COMES!!!!!!!!!!
Terrific!
"[Frankie] likes [the margarita], applause!!! Sofie now gets her prize: she gets to give Frankie a 1 hour massage..." --LOL What a hoot! I needed that! Tks!
Susanlynn: Are you smokin' somethin' illegal up there! Your comments had me rolling.
Answer to a question from the other day, the Jose Alberto Castro (Angelica's hubby) new show is untitled at the moment. The bickering divas are Edith Gonzales, Ludwika Paleta, Lidia Avila and Yadhira Carrillo. The only galan mentioned so far is Juan Soler.
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