Thursday, July 30, 2009
Gancho Wed 7-29 Beto gets a job, Moni switches jobs, Mau does a job on Coni, and noone really ever actually works
Press is interviewing Coni and Mau after the show asking when they will marry. Coni pipes up hopefully in the coming month. Mau gives her the look of death and walks away. Always good to do in front of press.
Aldo comes up to the bawling Estrella. He won’t let her sulk alone. She says the more she tries to change the more she ends up being like herself. He very sweetly says he’s had a bad time of things, but you can get past life’s sluggings, just fight back.
Coni is still finessing the press but Mau begs them off and has the balls to ask not to mention what they talked about earlier. Ay no. In what parallel universe is he in? Since when does the press have that kind of restraint not to dish on a hot race car driver? Anyway, Rolu walks up and takes yet another opportunity to annoy our Mau. Basically Jero tells them to save it for the track. Had to put in a foto of these three hotties all in one frame. Yow!!
Sal calls him and tells him not to forget to review the permit papers for their plaza project because they are due tomorrow. Mau tells him to do it as his right hand man and not to take his eyes off the plans because they are fried if the competition gets a look at them.
Xime comes and asks Mau Tse Tung if he isn’t going to say something. She and Rolu are back together. He so thrilled you could barely hold him down. Not. He asks about Mona, and Xime gives him the bad news that she has gone and it looks like she got mad about something.
Mona is back at the barrio asking Pau what happened. Pau doesn’t hold back and doesn’t want to talk about that whore. Ouch. Mona says she ain’t, it’s just the way she carries herself. Pau isn’t convinced. No sooner does Moni defend Estre than she comes out of her apartment stroking Aldo and thanking him for listening to her. Mona wants to know whats up. They swear nothing and she tells Aldo to go.
Back at the house Coni yells at Mau for not wanting to talk about the wedding. He says of course not in public. She is about to tell him he never does it privately either when DanI saves him and tells him Tere’s ready for dinner. OH my gosh she’s so damn cute! They go off.
Mona lectures Estre about the way she acts making everyone think what they do and she needs to tone it down a little. Estre asks her what happened at the fashion show and she goes on about Monsti being happy about marrying in the next month and Mau is Coni’s prince not hers, she has Beto. Said princely fellow waltzes up looking for someone to make him a footbath because he feels like hell working makes him ill. They make fun of him and he reminds us how macho he is when next he commands his ma to make him dinner. Ah yes, some prince.
Sal is hugging his loca wife, whom I’m surprised is still allowed in that joint after her carving exploits when who’s back? Creepy Oscar. He smooches Gabi when she comes out and Loca wife thinks how great to be in love and smacks hubby Sal for agreement. He’s like uh, yep, sure. Jero walks off the elevator and tells Os they have to talk so Os pops a bouquet of roses in her face and walks off. Lust is blind.
Jero tells Os that Mau is going to marry, and then they chat about the project plans. Os suggests robbing them to get rid of Sal. Jero thinks not a bad plan.
Mau dreams that he was about to marry Monsti but declines and Mona shows up instead as they blow Coni away literally. I think the next morning he tells Tere about this and she tells him you don’t dream things like that for no reason and it seems someone is tickling his fancy and it ain’t Coni. He agrees he will break it off with Coni. As is par for the course in novelas, the walls always have ears for those kinds of statements and we see that Luisa has heard this and runs off to tell the happy news. She busts in to tell a still sleeping Aldo who‘s apparently thinking of Estre. She says there’s no Estre, in fact I have a long way to go to be like her and she holds her bubis. Now that’s an interesting move for a teen actress. He’s like yeah whatever, and she leaves frustrated. He repeats to himself what he thought she said that Mau is going to state his intentions to Coni today. OK great, he thinks.
We go to the park where our stylin’ chics are jogging and discussing the evening’s events. I always jog in a short sleeve T-shirt and full length knit scarf…. :)
While out there Coni get the “serious” call that Mau wants to see her and she gets herself all in a fret.Xime wants her to sprint to get happy but Xime just walks the other way.
Next we have the foiled attempt at the grand switcheroo. Moni has interrupted jero’s attempt to switch the plans and wonders what the heck he’s doing in there. She knows he’s up to no good and threatens him but he tells her not to mess with him, he’s bad like MJ and she’ll regret it. Our little power pack is not scared of him but is definitely suspicious.
Aldo makes his next faux pau taunting Katia that Mau is going to ask her sister to marry him today. She rushes off all giddy.
The evil twins continue discussing their plans of demise when in walks their stooge. It’s Beto looking for a bano. Well he gets a deal instead. We then see him switching stuff at their direction and getting an "advance" on his salary if he promises not to tell anyone. Of course in Beto's world, money talks.
Kati goes home and breaks the news to Coni she's going to get "the question" today...estrogen fest all around because of coure all we women live for is to marry. :)
Our evil loser team watch on as their new patsy sneaks into Sal's office and replaces the plans and proposal for the project. Beto looks ok in a suit...
We go to a super cool looking cafe, I'm sure it's famous, where Mau finally finds his cajones and breaks up with Coni...hurray!! How long will this last??? Of course Coni doesn't take this well and vows to fight for him. He essentially tells her she's wasting her time but that flies over her well shampooed little head. Here we go...
Beto is counting his spoils and Mona discovers him, wondering donde the hell he got so much dinero. He says Gabi gave him an advance and gets all indignant on her. She knows something else is up.
We then see Sal searching for the real stuff like a loco man realizing that someone stuck a hand in this and exchanged his documents. Gabi thinks maybe he's looking for her. :) Jeo comes in wondering what the commotion is. Sal realizes there is no other and goes to punch him but Mau intervenes just in time.
Pau runs in to tell Moni what's going on. After first fearing they would blame her, her internal naco meter pegs out and she further arises her suspicions that Beto is involved so wants to find him.
Coni tells the gals what happened and how could Kati do this to her, she thinks the kids told Kati the wrong thing because they hate her. She vows to become everyone's worst nightmare...as if she isn't already. Hell hath no fury....
Beto brings home a bunch of clothes for his Ma with the money he earned. Mona sees he's called in sick to work already and rips him a new one and corners him on where that money came from, she knows he was a thief and though she can tolerate his immaturity, stealing she can't and she also finds her missing cajones (little harder -ha pun- for her as a girl) and calls it off with him. Again I ask how long will this last???? :(
Back at the office Mau tries to find out what's up and he like the absolute doof that he is puts evil abogado in charge of the investigation. Sal refuses to even accept that Mau could doubt him and walks out in a huff. Mau of course is upset and runs after Sal. Instead he finds Moni and we are back sitting out in the rain again. It must wash the cobwebs out of his brain or something because he tells her he has something important to tell her and he can't hide this anymore and she too and then, briiing, the phone interupts yet ANOTHER almost kiss. Sigh. Evil Oscar tells him he figured out something about Sal so Mau has to go back in. Mona tells him to worry about his friend because it must be serious.
Beto is with his Ma and tells her he hurts in his chest. If he loses Moni he'll die. Ma tells him to go after her. he gets up and Estrella tells him he shouldn't, women don't like men being after them all the time. :) Beto thinks maybe she's right. Ma says Mona is a saint for putting up with you, so maybe all she needs is a vacation. He says well do all you can so it's with me.
Turns out Sal's wife has some accounts with tons of money in the Cayman Islands and there was a big transfer. Mau says this means nothing, but Os points out the huge transfer happened yesterday, see Sal lost the permits. Mau gets Gabi to try to find him, while Pau and Moni look on. They worry Sal will be fired and Mona tells Pau she thinks Beto did it. Pau tells her to dump beto he's good for nothing. She says she already did.
Kati blasts Aldo for lying to him, he says he told her what Luisa told him and she says she told him the opposite. They realize what has happened and Dani jumps up and down that ding dong the wicked witch is gone!! Everyone thanks God except for Katia who realizes she's severely outnumbered.
Connie is all in a huff and Xime sipping on a margarita or something tells her to calm down. She basically says she can't until she gets rid of that circus monkey. Xime worries if she is going to kill Mona.
Mona at work gets a call from Dani saying that Mau sent the Monstranza packing, and we end with her very elated smile.
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Estrella is so sweet and has such a good heart. I'd love to see her with someone who deserves her. Let's hope Ricky has gone away permanently.
Ximena has been compared to so many great characters. Last night, during the "jogging" sequence, she struck me as a slightly more attractive but just as lovable Olive Oyl. If someone has already mentioned that, I apologize.
Gabi's "romance" with Oscar is definitely getting under Sal's skin. But will he do anything about it??
Diana in MA
Kris, I too hope your headache is better. Writing while feeling terrible is the worst!
Loved your description of Monita as "our little power pack". Spot on.
Ah, Monita in her pure white bridal lingerie. Finally came to me that she was channeling Candy's running down the beach attire in Tontas, complete with the veil thing. I was hoping the u-trou component would have allowed us to see if she has a tacky tush tatt.
Beto: does anyone else have a problem w/ an able bodied 30-something guy who lives with his mommy and expects income from a girlfriend?
Trivia - wasn't Lady Chatterly's first name also Constance? Somethin' about them lower caste boys appeals to them high class dames, I guess.
I liked 'little power pack', she certainly is that.
Olive Oyl, yep, that fits pretty well.
Great pics Kris, the one of Dani is priceless. I hope you got a good night's sleep and were able to blow your headache away as easily as Mau and Moni did to Coni.
"...naciste por golfa, y golfa te vas a morir."
basically,"you were born a slut, and you'll die a slut."
What encouraging, affirmative, uplifting words. I'm sure she meant it in the nicest possible way.
Carlos
Carlos
It's a good thing she has that meter, since Mauricio obviously has no instincts at all for who's really behind the various nefarious acts. At least he finally broke up with Connie. Maybe we can have a few days of bliss for our leads before the next anvil hits.
I work in the construction business, and I'm trying to imagine in what kind of scenario it would be disastrous for the competition to see your building plans, especially if you're already at the permit stage. Things must be a little different in Novelaland DF. Here, by the time you get that far, you've already shown your drawings to a gazillion people all over town, including a design review board and usually the general public if it's a big project. There are no real secrets. And I can't imagine one developer having such an awesome plan that the competition would be willing to pay for the information. What are they going to do with it? Anyway.
Mauricio needs to spend more time paying attention to his kids. Why was Dani wearing a sweatshirt that said "Sweet Bottom"?
Mike - I'm completely with you on Beto. It's hard for me to find him funny b/c he treats his mother and girlfriend so poorly.
I also thinks Nieves needs to stop being a busybody regarding Estrella.
Olive Oyl is perfect...I knew she reminded me of something but I never quite pieced it together. She's a great character. I'm sure she loves doing it.
-Vivi in DC
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