Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Eva Luna #2 Tue 11/2/10 It rhymes with stick and it drives a red sports car.
Eva Luna Episode 2
Disclaimer: I lost it a few times and my comprehension is not perfect, so as always, PLEASE, fill in any blanks and correct any of my errors. Thank you!
We review yesterday, where Eva and her dad are walking down a road and a (rhymes with "stick") driving a cherry red sports car is whizzing down the road.
Meanwhile, evil gloved witch Marcela Arismendi (Señora Weirdo) is kvetching with someone on the phone when the repressed-looking housekeeper comes in and tells her that a policeman wants to talk to her.
Eva's dad stops Eva to tell her how proud he is of her and her sister. Aforementioned "rhymes with stick" hits poor Eva's dad with flashy red sports car. We see the guy's face and it's Daniel (our galán's) friend, Leonardo. He pauses a moment and sees Eva cry out in distress and anger, then screeches on by. Eva continues to cry for help.
At the pension where Eva's family is staying, the young hottie from the bus busts in on Eva's little sister Alicia as she is nekked in the shower. She screams at him to leave, as he says "Wow!" with mixture of wide-eyed delight and lust. Outside the door, he mentally gives himself a high-five and she seems momentarily pleased to see him there—then she remembers, he stole her money on the bus! Another guy who is (rhymes with stick). Bummer!
Señora Weirdo with the Glove is greeting a Los Angeles police officer who is investigating the death of her assistant. It was premeditated, he says. She feigns shock.
Eva looks on as her injured father is loaded onto an ambulance. He's wearing a neckbrace. She is allowed to accompany him in the ambulance, but he seems unconscious.
More with Señora Weirdo and the police detective. What a shame about her assistant. She hopes they'll find out who did it.
Leonardo (aka rhymes with stick) drives back to the party with Daniel and the bimbos at the boat. He seems a little out of sorts. When asked, he says that he's sorry, but the car got hit, but it's okay. "What happened?" someone asks. Cue suspenseful music as we return to Eva following her dad's stretcher as he is wheeled into the emergency room.
Leonardo says he lost control of the car. (I think he says that there was not a scratch? Or a line? Not sure about this.) Daniel says don't worry about it, forget about it.
Back at the unusually opulent pension where Eva's family is staying, Alicia's hottie suspected thief is chatting animatedly with the lady who runs the pension. She's asking how business is going, he says it's great, and presents wads of cash from his wallet and pays her a sum that he apparently owes. Of course Viewerville is left wondering how much of this money is Alicia's, and Viewerville is probably also figuring out that they wouldn't waste a perfectly decent hottie by making him a thief. (But maybe it's just me who thinks that. Moving on.) Anyway, hottie doles out lots of cash to pension lady for next month's rent. She gushes over him and says what good boy he is.
Alicia comes stomping in, a woman with a mission. Hottie wolf whistles. (Subtle? Not.) She confronts hottie (whose name is Tony) and accuses him of theft. He swears he's innocent. She then gets a call from Eva, and hears the news of her father being hit by a car. (Thanks to Juanita for the correction.)
Daniel, Leonardo and bimbos drink a toast to a year of great margaritas (I think that's what they said). Daniel says, the only bad thing was what happened to his car. Leonardo says (I think) he has a friend who specializes in these kinds of cars.
Alicia and pension lady meet Eva at the hospital. A doctor walks up and gives the bad news—dad didn't make it. Much distress and shock at the news. We then transition to a funeral, as papa's coffin is carried down a street by pallbearers with a priest walking in front and Eva and Alicia and other mourners following.
We then return to Leonardo, who is dressed in all black with a hot pink tie. Okay, whatever. I found that distracting. Anyway, Leonardo looks pensive and stressed and flashes back to the hit-and-run of Eva's dad. He yells at himself, "Stupid! I have to forget this accident."
At the cemetery, dad's coffin is at the grave side and Alicia throws herself on the coffin and cries, overcome with grief. Tia Tilde and her friend (pension lady) are there, trying to hold back tears.
Back to Leonardo, saying something else that I didn't catch, then we return to Alicia and Eva throwing flowers into the open grave, and Alicia saying that she'll never forget, never, never . . .
Leonardo is drinking some liquor and saying that it's going to be okay.
Back in the cemetery, Eva swears that she will avenge her father's death.
Días después at the pensión, Tia Tilde is talking to the girls about what they're going to do now. (My brain got a little Spanished-out and I started to lose it a little here so I switched to the English closed captions on CC3—oh my gosh, what gibberish! I don't know what Univision is paying to have CC3 in English, but they're getting ripped off.) Anyway, back to Spanish CC, I think Eva and Alicia are saying they'll pay Tia Tilde back (some money) and that they don't know what they're going to do now. They won't return with Tia Tilde back to her home, but think they must stay there in L.A. Tilde warns them that life in this city is not easy. Eva talks about the secret her dad held that died with him. I think Eva wants to stay in L.A. to hopefully find out what this secret is.
We're in Señora Weirdo With the Black Glove's bedroom and she's in a dressing gown, looking at herself in the mirror and seeming unhappy with what she sees. She's talking about Botox. Repressed Housekeeper tells her that she's very beautiful the way she is, but Señora Weirdo isn't so sure and keeps on poking at her face and looking in the mirror. She tells Renata (Repressed Housekeeper) that she is not to tell anyone else about this, and I think she asked Repressed Housekeeper if she has put or will put the medicine in Julio (her ailing husband's) coffee. Renata says yes.
Stock video of downtown L.A. and then we go to a what is obviously a fashion show that is still being set up, where pretty models are practicing strutting the catwalk as a man looks on and says approving things.
Bimbo 1 and Bimbo 2 (Victoria and Claudia—girlfriends of Daniel and Leonardo) are two of the models and they sit down to apply lipstick and talk girl talk. I think I have lost the will to live. Anyway. I think they are talking about Bimbo 1 (Daniel's girlfriend) "taking control" and getting pregnant in order to trap him into marriage. Bimbos! Where's my Telenovela Bingo card, I think we'll be checking off one of the boxes pretty soon.
Señora Weirdo is talking with her ailing husband Julio, who is wheeling around his office in his electric wheelchair. She's saying that she's working and doing her part to try to reconcile their marriage. Julio doesn't want any of this, and agitatedly says that he wants the divorce to go through so they can end this farce of a marriage. As he talks, he gets more and more wheezy and looks like he's actually having some sort of attack. Señora Weirdo looks on passively, as if it would suit her just fine if he croaked right there. He asks for her help as she looks at him with cold eyes.
Now we're at a car show where of course the announcer is speaking in Spanish. In L.A. Because as we know, Everyone In L.A. Speaks Spanish All The Time. Where is my beanie? Oh well, this is the Telenovela Los Angeles.
Okay, at the car show in come "rhymes with stick" Leonardo and Daniel, looking at the new cars. They find another pretty red car on display and caress it. Daniel wants the car, but in blue. Behind them is Eva Luna, dressed in a short red wig and an even shorter skirt, working as one of the girls who poses in front of cars at car shows. Leonardo spots her and points her out to Daniel. They both stop to admire her. Leonardo says that she will be his next conquest. Yeah, in your dreams, dude.
Back from the break, Leonardo bets Daniel 100 dollars that he can get a kiss and a phone number from her. Daniel asks about his girlfriend, and Leonardo says that it's easy, he's a man that has to be on the hunt. The bet is on between him and Daniel for 100 dollars. At this point I'm not liking either of these guys all that much. But I digress.
Julio is gasping for air as a large black dog barks and Señora Weirdo looks on dispassionately at him (Julio, not the dog). He looks like he's about to expire. Señora Weirdo seems reluctant to do anything, until Renata (Repressed Housekeeper) walks in, looks alarmed, and all of a sudden Señora Weirdo pretends to care and puts a thin stick between her husband's teeth and has the housekeeper call the doctor.
Ugh. Creepy Leonardo puts the moves on Eva. He asks to have his picture taken with her, and says his friends won't believe him when he saw the most beautiful girl ever. He's trying to get a date but she's not interested; she's working. He persists, holding her arm and not letting her go. He wants her to kiss him on the cheek. Her lips tighten and you can tell she is Not Amused. He keeps pestering her about the kiss on the cheek, so she hauls off and slaps him across the cheek. Cool! You asked for that, dude. Daniel walks up and is laughing. He says that he now remembers her—she's the masseuse! She still doesn't look amused.
Bimbo 1 and 2 are still talking about pregnancy as a vehicle to trap Daniel into marriage. Bimbo 1 is not so sure—she's doing great with her career.
Eva is talking with Daniel and Leonardo looks on. Yeah, she's the masseuse, so what? He says that he can't forget her, due to his painful shoulder. She bitches to him something about his lack of respect. (Not sure here.) She is not amused at all. She turns to walk away and trips, but our galán catches her and they pause and look into each other's eyes and have A Moment as the theme song to this TN swells in the background. Then Daniel says with a smirk something about "Yes I see you are afraid" (?) and she looks even more ticked off and slaps his face (she sure does a lot of slapping!) and stalks off as he looks befuddled and at a loss for words.
Back at the mansion, Julio is pretty much incapacitated in his wheelchair as a doctor has arrived and is examining him.
Eva is approached by her boss at the car show and what do you guess—she loses this job too, for slapping clients. (See, I could have told her this would happen.) She tries to explain, but the boss doesn't want to hear it. This is twice now that Daniel has been indirectly the cause of her losing a job!
One of the other pension residents, Isabel, is showing delivery men where to put a HUUUGE widescreen TV. Alicia and Isabel squeee at each other and say that now they'll be able to watch telenovelas! LOL.
Of course, the question Viewerville is asking themselves is, How is Isabel affording all of this stuff? Alicia is thinking the same thing. Isabel says that . . . um . . . pretty girls like her and Alicia don't have to buy things, there will be . . . uh . . . men friends who will do that. I think we can see where this is heading, can't we?
Daniel and Leonardo are chilling at someone's home and Leonardo is congratulating Daniel on the new car. They start talking about their encounter with Eva, and to Daniel getting his cheek slapped. Daniel says that she's a masseuse that he met earlier. Bimbo 1 comes out and hears them talking like this. She wants to know who they're talking about. Daniel says, nothing, just a girl at the auto show (Spanish CC says it's "all show" *cough* ).
Eva returns to the pension and sits in the spacious and gorgeous kitchen (which would be way too expensive for her to afford), drinks a glass of water, and talks about how she misses her dad. She meets a little boy who says he is Adrian Reyes. He lives with his dad, but his dad doesn't let him leave his room much. (This sounds intriguing!) They sit down to chat as Adrian drinks what looks like radioactive limeade and Eva says they've been there for about a week and she's looking for work. They're having a nice chat when a singularly goofy-looking, middle-aged man comes in, yells at the kid. Apparently this is the dad. I confess I am not as intrigued now. (Thanks to martaivett for corrections!)
Tony The Hottie is walking through the pension and almost runs into Eva, who recognizes him immediately as the thief from the bus. She gives him the stinkeye as he looks innocently at her.
Back from the break, Eva is still chewing out Tony the Hottie and he's saying, "You talking to me?" because he doesn't know what she's talking about. I also don't think he recognizes her from the bus. Eva wants to call the police. Pension lady walks in and wants to know what the yelling is about.
Francisco the chauffeur and Daniel's daughter and a dark-haired lady named Jackie are exercising by the pool and Francisco has a back spasm and doesn't want to go on. Daniel comes by carrying some huge unidentifiable stuffed animal (I think it's a dog), to give to his daughter. They walk off. Francisco then makes one more gesture of agony about his back, then seems to immediately recover, and follows Daniel and the daughter. Jackie is left wondering if Francisco was faking the whole back thing.
Back to the drama at the pension. Tony the Hottie is claiming innocence, saying he's a good person. Pension lady (Doña Justa) is backing him up, saying he's been staying there a long time and has never been any trouble. Alicia reminds Eva that they were sleeping when the money was stolen, and they never saw who stole it. Doña Justa I think is saying that they can call the police if they want, but she believes Tony. Eva seems to back off and walks away.
Back at Señora Weirdo's house, Repressed Housekeeper is trying to hire a new assistant or helper for Julio, but the woman she's interviewing doesn't have references, so no good.
Eva is telling her sister about the same guy that caused her to lose her masseuse job now was the reason she lost the car show job! Alicia I think is trying to imply to Eva that maybe she causes some of this herself—something about how Eva is very hard on men (I think) and Eva says she wants respect.
Repressed Housekeeper is explaining to Leonardo that they need a competent assistant, not just one with a pretty face. Leonardo says that sometimes a pretty face is the best medicine. He eats an apple and smirks.
Eva says she'll have to return the clothes she had for the car show, and she'll have a small paycheck. Alicia asks her if the guy that caused her trouble was handsome and had money. Eva, exasperated, says yeah, but it's not important. She needs money and Eva talks about Alicia going to college. (Or is it high school? Thank you Julia for the correction.) Eva will work day and night so Alicia can continue her studies.
It looks like our "rhymes with stick" pal Leonardo has an idea for an assistant for Julio. He's back at the car show and is trying to get Eva's former boss to tell him how to reach Eva. The boss says he can't help because he hasn't got confidential information. Just then Eva shows up at the car show to pick up her check. He says he's been looking for her, but she just wants to get out of there. She asks him to tell his friend (meaning Daniel) that this is the second job that Daniel has cost her. Oh, but Leonardo has an idea to help her. It's a job, and absolutely decent job. She looks interested.
Repressed Housekeeper is looking after Julio and spoon-feeding him. Then she starts talking about how she wants to look after him and it looks like she's very devoted to him.
Daniel walks into his room, shirtless, and stretches his painful shoulder. He dresses in front of the mirror and I think he says something about where is he going to encounter her (Eva) again.
Leonardo returns to the house with Eva in tow, asking for Repressed Housekeeper, Renata. He presents Eva as the new assistant for his step-father Julio. Renata at first balks, talking about the strict requirements they have for the job, but Leonardo is insistent and pulls rank on her.
Señora Weirdo is paying off the doctor and he's chortling as he takes the money. They talk about slipping something into Julio's coffee. The doctor tells her to watch it, one false move and she'll be found out. She replies that she knows, but remember, she's got experience in this. The doctor seems happy to help her, and to keep her secret safe.
Alicia is helping out at the pension, cleaning up and being a housekeeper. Tony the Hottie comes out to chat and talks about how she was born to be famous and in commercials and magazines. (I sort of lost it here.) She seems flattered.
Leonardo is lazing on a lawn chair on the patio. Daniel and Bimbo 1 come see him and ask him about his girlfriend, who I think he's dumping. (I am losing it again now.) Bimbo 1 leaves and Leonardo tells Daniel about his new conquest—his step-dad's new assistant. Daniel just shakes his head, amused.
Tony the Hottie is totally shoveling the BS to Alicia, pretending to view her through a camera viewfinder and flattering her with how perfect she is for Hollywood. She's actually buying this. Tony claims to be a Hollywood agent. Yeah right. All Hollywood agents travel via Greyhound. Even Alicia doesn't buy this. He elaborates that he knows all sorts of famous people. She's starting to buy it. He asks about her sister. Alicia says that Eva has a new job.
Eva at her new job. She is in the kitchen. Daniel comes in looking for someone else, sees her there, and looks astonished. They share another impactado moment as the theme song swells. My recording timed out here so that's all I've got.
Thanks, Elvira (aka Sweeney)
Update: Please read blog comments because several people added more detail and possible corrections to what happened in this episode. THANK YOU everybody!
Disclaimer: I lost it a few times and my comprehension is not perfect, so as always, PLEASE, fill in any blanks and correct any of my errors. Thank you!
We review yesterday, where Eva and her dad are walking down a road and a (rhymes with "stick") driving a cherry red sports car is whizzing down the road.
Meanwhile, evil gloved witch Marcela Arismendi (Señora Weirdo) is kvetching with someone on the phone when the repressed-looking housekeeper comes in and tells her that a policeman wants to talk to her.
Eva's dad stops Eva to tell her how proud he is of her and her sister. Aforementioned "rhymes with stick" hits poor Eva's dad with flashy red sports car. We see the guy's face and it's Daniel (our galán's) friend, Leonardo. He pauses a moment and sees Eva cry out in distress and anger, then screeches on by. Eva continues to cry for help.
At the pension where Eva's family is staying, the young hottie from the bus busts in on Eva's little sister Alicia as she is nekked in the shower. She screams at him to leave, as he says "Wow!" with mixture of wide-eyed delight and lust. Outside the door, he mentally gives himself a high-five and she seems momentarily pleased to see him there—then she remembers, he stole her money on the bus! Another guy who is (rhymes with stick). Bummer!
Señora Weirdo with the Glove is greeting a Los Angeles police officer who is investigating the death of her assistant. It was premeditated, he says. She feigns shock.
Eva looks on as her injured father is loaded onto an ambulance. He's wearing a neckbrace. She is allowed to accompany him in the ambulance, but he seems unconscious.
More with Señora Weirdo and the police detective. What a shame about her assistant. She hopes they'll find out who did it.
Leonardo (aka rhymes with stick) drives back to the party with Daniel and the bimbos at the boat. He seems a little out of sorts. When asked, he says that he's sorry, but the car got hit, but it's okay. "What happened?" someone asks. Cue suspenseful music as we return to Eva following her dad's stretcher as he is wheeled into the emergency room.
Leonardo says he lost control of the car. (I think he says that there was not a scratch? Or a line? Not sure about this.) Daniel says don't worry about it, forget about it.
Back at the unusually opulent pension where Eva's family is staying, Alicia's hottie suspected thief is chatting animatedly with the lady who runs the pension. She's asking how business is going, he says it's great, and presents wads of cash from his wallet and pays her a sum that he apparently owes. Of course Viewerville is left wondering how much of this money is Alicia's, and Viewerville is probably also figuring out that they wouldn't waste a perfectly decent hottie by making him a thief. (But maybe it's just me who thinks that. Moving on.) Anyway, hottie doles out lots of cash to pension lady for next month's rent. She gushes over him and says what good boy he is.
Alicia comes stomping in, a woman with a mission. Hottie wolf whistles. (Subtle? Not.) She confronts hottie (whose name is Tony) and accuses him of theft. He swears he's innocent. She then gets a call from Eva, and hears the news of her father being hit by a car. (Thanks to Juanita for the correction.)
Daniel, Leonardo and bimbos drink a toast to a year of great margaritas (I think that's what they said). Daniel says, the only bad thing was what happened to his car. Leonardo says (I think) he has a friend who specializes in these kinds of cars.
Alicia and pension lady meet Eva at the hospital. A doctor walks up and gives the bad news—dad didn't make it. Much distress and shock at the news. We then transition to a funeral, as papa's coffin is carried down a street by pallbearers with a priest walking in front and Eva and Alicia and other mourners following.
We then return to Leonardo, who is dressed in all black with a hot pink tie. Okay, whatever. I found that distracting. Anyway, Leonardo looks pensive and stressed and flashes back to the hit-and-run of Eva's dad. He yells at himself, "Stupid! I have to forget this accident."
At the cemetery, dad's coffin is at the grave side and Alicia throws herself on the coffin and cries, overcome with grief. Tia Tilde and her friend (pension lady) are there, trying to hold back tears.
Back to Leonardo, saying something else that I didn't catch, then we return to Alicia and Eva throwing flowers into the open grave, and Alicia saying that she'll never forget, never, never . . .
Leonardo is drinking some liquor and saying that it's going to be okay.
Back in the cemetery, Eva swears that she will avenge her father's death.
Días después at the pensión, Tia Tilde is talking to the girls about what they're going to do now. (My brain got a little Spanished-out and I started to lose it a little here so I switched to the English closed captions on CC3—oh my gosh, what gibberish! I don't know what Univision is paying to have CC3 in English, but they're getting ripped off.) Anyway, back to Spanish CC, I think Eva and Alicia are saying they'll pay Tia Tilde back (some money) and that they don't know what they're going to do now. They won't return with Tia Tilde back to her home, but think they must stay there in L.A. Tilde warns them that life in this city is not easy. Eva talks about the secret her dad held that died with him. I think Eva wants to stay in L.A. to hopefully find out what this secret is.
We're in Señora Weirdo With the Black Glove's bedroom and she's in a dressing gown, looking at herself in the mirror and seeming unhappy with what she sees. She's talking about Botox. Repressed Housekeeper tells her that she's very beautiful the way she is, but Señora Weirdo isn't so sure and keeps on poking at her face and looking in the mirror. She tells Renata (Repressed Housekeeper) that she is not to tell anyone else about this, and I think she asked Repressed Housekeeper if she has put or will put the medicine in Julio (her ailing husband's) coffee. Renata says yes.
Stock video of downtown L.A. and then we go to a what is obviously a fashion show that is still being set up, where pretty models are practicing strutting the catwalk as a man looks on and says approving things.
Bimbo 1 and Bimbo 2 (Victoria and Claudia—girlfriends of Daniel and Leonardo) are two of the models and they sit down to apply lipstick and talk girl talk. I think I have lost the will to live. Anyway. I think they are talking about Bimbo 1 (Daniel's girlfriend) "taking control" and getting pregnant in order to trap him into marriage. Bimbos! Where's my Telenovela Bingo card, I think we'll be checking off one of the boxes pretty soon.
Señora Weirdo is talking with her ailing husband Julio, who is wheeling around his office in his electric wheelchair. She's saying that she's working and doing her part to try to reconcile their marriage. Julio doesn't want any of this, and agitatedly says that he wants the divorce to go through so they can end this farce of a marriage. As he talks, he gets more and more wheezy and looks like he's actually having some sort of attack. Señora Weirdo looks on passively, as if it would suit her just fine if he croaked right there. He asks for her help as she looks at him with cold eyes.
Now we're at a car show where of course the announcer is speaking in Spanish. In L.A. Because as we know, Everyone In L.A. Speaks Spanish All The Time. Where is my beanie? Oh well, this is the Telenovela Los Angeles.
Okay, at the car show in come "rhymes with stick" Leonardo and Daniel, looking at the new cars. They find another pretty red car on display and caress it. Daniel wants the car, but in blue. Behind them is Eva Luna, dressed in a short red wig and an even shorter skirt, working as one of the girls who poses in front of cars at car shows. Leonardo spots her and points her out to Daniel. They both stop to admire her. Leonardo says that she will be his next conquest. Yeah, in your dreams, dude.
Back from the break, Leonardo bets Daniel 100 dollars that he can get a kiss and a phone number from her. Daniel asks about his girlfriend, and Leonardo says that it's easy, he's a man that has to be on the hunt. The bet is on between him and Daniel for 100 dollars. At this point I'm not liking either of these guys all that much. But I digress.
Julio is gasping for air as a large black dog barks and Señora Weirdo looks on dispassionately at him (Julio, not the dog). He looks like he's about to expire. Señora Weirdo seems reluctant to do anything, until Renata (Repressed Housekeeper) walks in, looks alarmed, and all of a sudden Señora Weirdo pretends to care and puts a thin stick between her husband's teeth and has the housekeeper call the doctor.
Ugh. Creepy Leonardo puts the moves on Eva. He asks to have his picture taken with her, and says his friends won't believe him when he saw the most beautiful girl ever. He's trying to get a date but she's not interested; she's working. He persists, holding her arm and not letting her go. He wants her to kiss him on the cheek. Her lips tighten and you can tell she is Not Amused. He keeps pestering her about the kiss on the cheek, so she hauls off and slaps him across the cheek. Cool! You asked for that, dude. Daniel walks up and is laughing. He says that he now remembers her—she's the masseuse! She still doesn't look amused.
Bimbo 1 and 2 are still talking about pregnancy as a vehicle to trap Daniel into marriage. Bimbo 1 is not so sure—she's doing great with her career.
Eva is talking with Daniel and Leonardo looks on. Yeah, she's the masseuse, so what? He says that he can't forget her, due to his painful shoulder. She bitches to him something about his lack of respect. (Not sure here.) She is not amused at all. She turns to walk away and trips, but our galán catches her and they pause and look into each other's eyes and have A Moment as the theme song to this TN swells in the background. Then Daniel says with a smirk something about "Yes I see you are afraid" (?) and she looks even more ticked off and slaps his face (she sure does a lot of slapping!) and stalks off as he looks befuddled and at a loss for words.
Back at the mansion, Julio is pretty much incapacitated in his wheelchair as a doctor has arrived and is examining him.
Eva is approached by her boss at the car show and what do you guess—she loses this job too, for slapping clients. (See, I could have told her this would happen.) She tries to explain, but the boss doesn't want to hear it. This is twice now that Daniel has been indirectly the cause of her losing a job!
One of the other pension residents, Isabel, is showing delivery men where to put a HUUUGE widescreen TV. Alicia and Isabel squeee at each other and say that now they'll be able to watch telenovelas! LOL.
Of course, the question Viewerville is asking themselves is, How is Isabel affording all of this stuff? Alicia is thinking the same thing. Isabel says that . . . um . . . pretty girls like her and Alicia don't have to buy things, there will be . . . uh . . . men friends who will do that. I think we can see where this is heading, can't we?
Daniel and Leonardo are chilling at someone's home and Leonardo is congratulating Daniel on the new car. They start talking about their encounter with Eva, and to Daniel getting his cheek slapped. Daniel says that she's a masseuse that he met earlier. Bimbo 1 comes out and hears them talking like this. She wants to know who they're talking about. Daniel says, nothing, just a girl at the auto show (Spanish CC says it's "all show" *cough* ).
Eva returns to the pension and sits in the spacious and gorgeous kitchen (which would be way too expensive for her to afford), drinks a glass of water, and talks about how she misses her dad. She meets a little boy who says he is Adrian Reyes. He lives with his dad, but his dad doesn't let him leave his room much. (This sounds intriguing!) They sit down to chat as Adrian drinks what looks like radioactive limeade and Eva says they've been there for about a week and she's looking for work. They're having a nice chat when a singularly goofy-looking, middle-aged man comes in, yells at the kid. Apparently this is the dad. I confess I am not as intrigued now. (Thanks to martaivett for corrections!)
Tony The Hottie is walking through the pension and almost runs into Eva, who recognizes him immediately as the thief from the bus. She gives him the stinkeye as he looks innocently at her.
Back from the break, Eva is still chewing out Tony the Hottie and he's saying, "You talking to me?" because he doesn't know what she's talking about. I also don't think he recognizes her from the bus. Eva wants to call the police. Pension lady walks in and wants to know what the yelling is about.
Francisco the chauffeur and Daniel's daughter and a dark-haired lady named Jackie are exercising by the pool and Francisco has a back spasm and doesn't want to go on. Daniel comes by carrying some huge unidentifiable stuffed animal (I think it's a dog), to give to his daughter. They walk off. Francisco then makes one more gesture of agony about his back, then seems to immediately recover, and follows Daniel and the daughter. Jackie is left wondering if Francisco was faking the whole back thing.
Back to the drama at the pension. Tony the Hottie is claiming innocence, saying he's a good person. Pension lady (Doña Justa) is backing him up, saying he's been staying there a long time and has never been any trouble. Alicia reminds Eva that they were sleeping when the money was stolen, and they never saw who stole it. Doña Justa I think is saying that they can call the police if they want, but she believes Tony. Eva seems to back off and walks away.
Back at Señora Weirdo's house, Repressed Housekeeper is trying to hire a new assistant or helper for Julio, but the woman she's interviewing doesn't have references, so no good.
Eva is telling her sister about the same guy that caused her to lose her masseuse job now was the reason she lost the car show job! Alicia I think is trying to imply to Eva that maybe she causes some of this herself—something about how Eva is very hard on men (I think) and Eva says she wants respect.
Repressed Housekeeper is explaining to Leonardo that they need a competent assistant, not just one with a pretty face. Leonardo says that sometimes a pretty face is the best medicine. He eats an apple and smirks.
Eva says she'll have to return the clothes she had for the car show, and she'll have a small paycheck. Alicia asks her if the guy that caused her trouble was handsome and had money. Eva, exasperated, says yeah, but it's not important. She needs money and Eva talks about Alicia going to college. (Or is it high school? Thank you Julia for the correction.) Eva will work day and night so Alicia can continue her studies.
It looks like our "rhymes with stick" pal Leonardo has an idea for an assistant for Julio. He's back at the car show and is trying to get Eva's former boss to tell him how to reach Eva. The boss says he can't help because he hasn't got confidential information. Just then Eva shows up at the car show to pick up her check. He says he's been looking for her, but she just wants to get out of there. She asks him to tell his friend (meaning Daniel) that this is the second job that Daniel has cost her. Oh, but Leonardo has an idea to help her. It's a job, and absolutely decent job. She looks interested.
Repressed Housekeeper is looking after Julio and spoon-feeding him. Then she starts talking about how she wants to look after him and it looks like she's very devoted to him.
Daniel walks into his room, shirtless, and stretches his painful shoulder. He dresses in front of the mirror and I think he says something about where is he going to encounter her (Eva) again.
Leonardo returns to the house with Eva in tow, asking for Repressed Housekeeper, Renata. He presents Eva as the new assistant for his step-father Julio. Renata at first balks, talking about the strict requirements they have for the job, but Leonardo is insistent and pulls rank on her.
Señora Weirdo is paying off the doctor and he's chortling as he takes the money. They talk about slipping something into Julio's coffee. The doctor tells her to watch it, one false move and she'll be found out. She replies that she knows, but remember, she's got experience in this. The doctor seems happy to help her, and to keep her secret safe.
Alicia is helping out at the pension, cleaning up and being a housekeeper. Tony the Hottie comes out to chat and talks about how she was born to be famous and in commercials and magazines. (I sort of lost it here.) She seems flattered.
Leonardo is lazing on a lawn chair on the patio. Daniel and Bimbo 1 come see him and ask him about his girlfriend, who I think he's dumping. (I am losing it again now.) Bimbo 1 leaves and Leonardo tells Daniel about his new conquest—his step-dad's new assistant. Daniel just shakes his head, amused.
Tony the Hottie is totally shoveling the BS to Alicia, pretending to view her through a camera viewfinder and flattering her with how perfect she is for Hollywood. She's actually buying this. Tony claims to be a Hollywood agent. Yeah right. All Hollywood agents travel via Greyhound. Even Alicia doesn't buy this. He elaborates that he knows all sorts of famous people. She's starting to buy it. He asks about her sister. Alicia says that Eva has a new job.
Eva at her new job. She is in the kitchen. Daniel comes in looking for someone else, sees her there, and looks astonished. They share another impactado moment as the theme song swells. My recording timed out here so that's all I've got.
Thanks, Elvira (aka Sweeney)
Update: Please read blog comments because several people added more detail and possible corrections to what happened in this episode. THANK YOU everybody!
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Elvira, this was exquisitely funny, super informative, and maraviguau. You have great style. I don't think you need to worry about your comprehension; seems like you got it all.
Okay, a few of my favorite bits:
"I think I have lost the will to live." Amen. Why is there such an ample supply of this type of bimbo in Telenovelalandia?
"dressed in a short red wig and an even shorter skirt"
and of course all your apodos are totally apt and amusing.
Not getting why Eva thinks Daniel was disrespectful to her at the massage booth. He was just annoyed because she clearly had no clue what she was doing and hurt him. Seems reasonable to me!
Descanse en paz, papi. We hardly knew ye.
This might be a quick game of Bingo. I checked off three items already! I'm playing card #8, by the way.
Okay, a few of my favorite bits:
"I think I have lost the will to live." Amen. Why is there such an ample supply of this type of bimbo in Telenovelalandia?
"dressed in a short red wig and an even shorter skirt"
and of course all your apodos are totally apt and amusing.
Not getting why Eva thinks Daniel was disrespectful to her at the massage booth. He was just annoyed because she clearly had no clue what she was doing and hurt him. Seems reasonable to me!
Descanse en paz, papi. We hardly knew ye.
This might be a quick game of Bingo. I checked off three items already! I'm playing card #8, by the way.
Sweeney32: Congrats! Excellent and I believe you caught it all! Love that title too.....you nailed it there! LOL! As for boy hottie-- "Yeah right. All Hollywood agents travel via Greyhound"..... Good line. Repressed Housekeeper has a thing for the old man that goes way back to wife numero uno? That should be a rich storyline. She wants to be his personal nurse-maid, literally! So this may provide some interesting friction between her and Eva. Looking forward to that, sort of.
Thanks, Elvira, for a helpful and delightfully snarky recap.
I have a hard time understanding why Eva would pay for Alicia to go to college when Alicia clearly must have had a hard time getting through middle school, let alone high school. She's a walking timebomb of simplemindedness. (BTW, I think Eva called her to let her know about their father's accident, rather than her calling Eva.)
The look on Tia Tilde's face when Eva was wondering about her father's secret clearly indicated that Tia Tilde knows. I was surprised that there wasn't some appropriately melodramatic music to accompany her knowing look. I looked for a square on my bingo card that said "I know the secret but I'm not telling," but I couldn't find one. Perhaps it's on one of the other cards? Oh well, ni modo, I still managed to check off five squares on my card just from last night's episode!
Another square I couldn't find on my card: dog barks ominously at baddie. As in the dog barking at Señora Weirdo.
One thing (one of many) that I didn't understand: why is Daniel buying a new car? There didn't seem to be all that much damage to the old one. I guess the plot requires him to have a blue car so that it takes a little more time for Eva to figure out that the car that hit her father was his, but still....
I'm glad you mentioned the gibberish that you got with the closed captions in English. I don't get CC3, but I find the Spanish captions all but useless--they start off OK but very quickly become gibberish, as if 100 monkeys were typing at once. I'd found this to be true of Univision captions before and was hoping that whatever had gone wrong had been fixed, but apparently not.
I have a hard time understanding why Eva would pay for Alicia to go to college when Alicia clearly must have had a hard time getting through middle school, let alone high school. She's a walking timebomb of simplemindedness. (BTW, I think Eva called her to let her know about their father's accident, rather than her calling Eva.)
The look on Tia Tilde's face when Eva was wondering about her father's secret clearly indicated that Tia Tilde knows. I was surprised that there wasn't some appropriately melodramatic music to accompany her knowing look. I looked for a square on my bingo card that said "I know the secret but I'm not telling," but I couldn't find one. Perhaps it's on one of the other cards? Oh well, ni modo, I still managed to check off five squares on my card just from last night's episode!
Another square I couldn't find on my card: dog barks ominously at baddie. As in the dog barking at Señora Weirdo.
One thing (one of many) that I didn't understand: why is Daniel buying a new car? There didn't seem to be all that much damage to the old one. I guess the plot requires him to have a blue car so that it takes a little more time for Eva to figure out that the car that hit her father was his, but still....
I'm glad you mentioned the gibberish that you got with the closed captions in English. I don't get CC3, but I find the Spanish captions all but useless--they start off OK but very quickly become gibberish, as if 100 monkeys were typing at once. I'd found this to be true of Univision captions before and was hoping that whatever had gone wrong had been fixed, but apparently not.
BTW, I don't think this recap has been bookmarked. The first one was, but this one didn't show up on the Eva Luna bookmark page. I found it only by going to the CarayCaray main page and scrolling down.
Hi Elvira. You most definitely have the writing and comprehension chops for a recapper. I like your style.
So far I'm enjoying this show. It's fast-paced but not overwhelming. I'm intent on improving my comprehension so I don't use captions, but on other shows I've had to cheat during the first week, just to keep straight who's who and what's what. However, in this one, the good and bad guys are lining right up, along with the plot developments.
Again, thanks so much for an enjoyable read.
So far I'm enjoying this show. It's fast-paced but not overwhelming. I'm intent on improving my comprehension so I don't use captions, but on other shows I've had to cheat during the first week, just to keep straight who's who and what's what. However, in this one, the good and bad guys are lining right up, along with the plot developments.
Again, thanks so much for an enjoyable read.
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: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 11:02:00 AM EDT
: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 11:02:00 AM EDT
Thanks for the recap. I like leo I think he so goodlooking, but he is a player, I would be interested in these kind of guys. Anyway I can't get closed captions, does anyone have AT&t u-verse and does it have closed captions. I called them and im still trying to figure it out. Again thanks so much for the recaps you guys are wonderful to take the time to do this. I've enjoyed the show so far.
rebecca
rebecca
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 11:25:00 AM EDT
: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 11:25:00 AM EDT
Thanks for the recap Elvira. It was really good and your title and asides made me chuckle.
I believe Univision does not have English captions and that's why CC3 is gibbish. This does not explain why the Spanish CCs are bad but others have mentioned the lack of quality there.
I believe Univision does not have English captions and that's why CC3 is gibbish. This does not explain why the Spanish CCs are bad but others have mentioned the lack of quality there.
Hmm. I haven't had problem with English but sometimes it depends on the model TV set I've used if you can believe it!
Elvira, thanks for the funny informative recap. That Leo indeed is a "stick". I will have to admit it took me a while to fgure out your code but it sure does fit!!
I agree with Julia, your comprehesion is great. There are a lot of hotties on this show. Tony is a cutie and I sure hope he doesn't turn out to be a crook.
The older sibling always putting the younger sibling through school in these stories seems common. At least it was the same for Dinero. So it makes novela sense that Eva would be putting Alicia through school.
I have tried to get the CC3 as well to work and it doesn't for this story. I even tried on my TV downstairs which gets Telemundo and CC3 works just fine there. I don't think Univsion has set it up yet for this story. I hope they do as I read an article that said they were going to. Maybe it works only in certain areas.
Any way thanks again Elvira.
I agree with Julia, your comprehesion is great. There are a lot of hotties on this show. Tony is a cutie and I sure hope he doesn't turn out to be a crook.
The older sibling always putting the younger sibling through school in these stories seems common. At least it was the same for Dinero. So it makes novela sense that Eva would be putting Alicia through school.
I have tried to get the CC3 as well to work and it doesn't for this story. I even tried on my TV downstairs which gets Telemundo and CC3 works just fine there. I don't think Univsion has set it up yet for this story. I hope they do as I read an article that said they were going to. Maybe it works only in certain areas.
Any way thanks again Elvira.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 12:18:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 12:18:00 PM EDT
It was the same in Sortilegio. It seems pretty common int these for the older sibling to take on the role of helping the parent(s) financially, which includes helping to pay for their younger siblings to go further in school than they did. It makes sense and happens in real life in most cultures/countries.
Elvira- You did a great job on the recap. I agree that the guys really are acting like jerks right now. When they were talking and got interrupted by the Ho, Dan was saying what a heavy hand (mano pesado) Eva has and Leo agreed. Guess those slaps, and that massage, really hurt. :)
At first when the Evil Gloved One told the head maid to put the medicine in the coffee, I thought the mais was in on the poisoning. But then with her scene with the old man, it seems she really cares for him and always has. So now I assume she thinks she is helping him by giving him the "medicine", which is really poison. Otherwise the gloved one wouldn't have then tried to act like she was helping her husband when the maid walked in.
Julia- No BINGO yet, but I checked off quite a few on card 10: auto accident; que haces aqui; villain talks out loud to self; gratuitous shirtlessness; and unsuccessful murder attempt. This is fun!
Elvira- You did a great job on the recap. I agree that the guys really are acting like jerks right now. When they were talking and got interrupted by the Ho, Dan was saying what a heavy hand (mano pesado) Eva has and Leo agreed. Guess those slaps, and that massage, really hurt. :)
At first when the Evil Gloved One told the head maid to put the medicine in the coffee, I thought the mais was in on the poisoning. But then with her scene with the old man, it seems she really cares for him and always has. So now I assume she thinks she is helping him by giving him the "medicine", which is really poison. Otherwise the gloved one wouldn't have then tried to act like she was helping her husband when the maid walked in.
Julia- No BINGO yet, but I checked off quite a few on card 10: auto accident; que haces aqui; villain talks out loud to self; gratuitous shirtlessness; and unsuccessful murder attempt. This is fun!
Thank you everyone, for your encouragement, and THANK YOU so much for elaborating on what else happened! I always enjoy these recaps because of what everyone else adds to the discussion.
(BTW, Juanita, I corrected the thing about Eva calling Alicia, other than Alicia calling Eva, and thank you!)
Yes, Eva Luna definitely is supposed to have English on CC3. There are press releases about it. I think this is the first TN from Univision that has English CC. I tried yesterday watching some of it in English, and it worked pretty well, except that sometimes the last letter of each word was cut off, but you could still understand what was supposedly said. But I decided that I liked the Spanish CC better (a big part of the enjoyment is practicing my Spanish comprehension). But last night my brain was getting Spanished-out in one scene so I tried CC3, and it was MISERABLE. Obviously CC3 is hit and miss for Univision, this show, or maybe it's just my TV, but I kind of think the blame lies at the other end.
I believe that CC reception in large part has to do with your television, or whatever mechanism is being used to decode CC (usually that's the TV, but not always). Some newer TVs support CC3, but older ones don't. I just replaced an old TV (with no CC3 support) with a new one, so that might explain why it is catching CC3. (I plan on transitioning over to an HD signal pretty soon, all the better to see the beads of sweat on Fernando Colunga's chest, don't you know! LOL.)
Also, when you have HDTV (which I don't as yet—though this new TV supports HD), it is also hit-or-miss with closed captioning. It seems so strange, but apparently HD doesn't do well with CC. You have to make sure that your TV and/or receiver supports it (I was very particular on what model I bought for that reason). I have Dish Network and have already had a conversation with them where they PROMISE me that their HD service fully supports CC.
(BTW, Juanita, I corrected the thing about Eva calling Alicia, other than Alicia calling Eva, and thank you!)
Yes, Eva Luna definitely is supposed to have English on CC3. There are press releases about it. I think this is the first TN from Univision that has English CC. I tried yesterday watching some of it in English, and it worked pretty well, except that sometimes the last letter of each word was cut off, but you could still understand what was supposedly said. But I decided that I liked the Spanish CC better (a big part of the enjoyment is practicing my Spanish comprehension). But last night my brain was getting Spanished-out in one scene so I tried CC3, and it was MISERABLE. Obviously CC3 is hit and miss for Univision, this show, or maybe it's just my TV, but I kind of think the blame lies at the other end.
I believe that CC reception in large part has to do with your television, or whatever mechanism is being used to decode CC (usually that's the TV, but not always). Some newer TVs support CC3, but older ones don't. I just replaced an old TV (with no CC3 support) with a new one, so that might explain why it is catching CC3. (I plan on transitioning over to an HD signal pretty soon, all the better to see the beads of sweat on Fernando Colunga's chest, don't you know! LOL.)
Also, when you have HDTV (which I don't as yet—though this new TV supports HD), it is also hit-or-miss with closed captioning. It seems so strange, but apparently HD doesn't do well with CC. You have to make sure that your TV and/or receiver supports it (I was very particular on what model I bought for that reason). I have Dish Network and have already had a conversation with them where they PROMISE me that their HD service fully supports CC.
BTW, I am loving the Telenovela Bingo! I have card #6 and so far have three things checked off: Automobile accident, gratuitous shirtlessness, and "suéltame!" Was there a "para siempre" or "te lo juro" in these past two eps that I missed, because I haven't checked those off yet!
Elvira, this was great! I love your style and comments. This TN so far has me looking for a larger beanie, but your humor made this episode so much more enjoyable.
so far, not feeling the love with any of these characters personalities, but Guy I'm sure will mend his playboy ways and we'll be cheering for him soon. Eva is annoying, kind of self-righteous, but hopefully she'll chill too.
Momma one-glove is just plain freaky. I don't mind an evil femail villian, but she's just hard to look at let alone have to deal with major segments of plot with. she already looks like she's indulged in more than enough Botox. As for repressed housekeeper, Elvira, images of Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein kept coming into my head last night.
I'll keep checking this out for a few more episodes.Plot hasn't intrigued me yet, sort of badly predictable. Choppy editing was driving me crazy last night. (Continuity dept. too seemed to be off the job in a couple places too.)
so far, not feeling the love with any of these characters personalities, but Guy I'm sure will mend his playboy ways and we'll be cheering for him soon. Eva is annoying, kind of self-righteous, but hopefully she'll chill too.
Momma one-glove is just plain freaky. I don't mind an evil femail villian, but she's just hard to look at let alone have to deal with major segments of plot with. she already looks like she's indulged in more than enough Botox. As for repressed housekeeper, Elvira, images of Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein kept coming into my head last night.
I'll keep checking this out for a few more episodes.Plot hasn't intrigued me yet, sort of badly predictable. Choppy editing was driving me crazy last night. (Continuity dept. too seemed to be off the job in a couple places too.)
Elvira, thank you for the recap. I swore I was not going to watch this TN but you and Jardinera have pulled me into the fold with your delightful recaps.
Rosemary
Rosemary
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 2:12:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 2:12:00 PM EDT
I thought they said "colegio" when they were talking about Alicia registering for school...does that mean she's still in high school, not university? I think then it would make more sense that Eva thinks it's essential that she finish. A university education might be a bit wasted on Alicia; she'd probably do better in cosmetology school or something like that, but a high school diploma is pretty vital for getting a decent start at a career.
Elvira, thanks for the information about cc depending on one's TV. I'm watching "Eva Luna" on a moderately old TV that, as far as I can tell, doesn't get cc3 and makes a mess of cc2 on Univision. One thing that surprised me is that when I started to watch TNs on Telemundo, the Spanish captions were MUCH MUCH better than I'd ever seen on Univision. Very little gibberish and better timed. Now I'm watching Univision again, and, as I said, I'm back to watching 100 monkeys typing at once. But after reading your message, I'm wondering what would happen if I got a new TV. Hmmmm....
Julia, I was interested in what you said about "colegio." Yes, it would be much more reasonable for Eva to want her sister to finish high school rather than university.
Julia, I was interested in what you said about "colegio." Yes, it would be much more reasonable for Eva to want her sister to finish high school rather than university.
about the conversation with Tia Tilde... Tia Tilde paid for the funeral arrangements for their dad so Eva was thanking her and promising her they would pay her back. She says don't worry about that but she spent all her savings on the funeral costs so she would not be able to stay with them so she had to return home.
Tia tilde also tried to convince Eva to forget about trying to find out her dad's secret, that things might turn ugly.. but Eva's mind was made up that she would stay and find out what was so important for him to have brought them to live there.
The doctor surely threw enough hints that he and the weirdo lady were teamed up to get rid of her husband Julio... and possibly had also been involved in the death of Julio's wife. The head maid, while caring for Don Julio, said she had been working for them for many years, seemed to have come in to care for his late wife, and she never expected that she would end up caring for him too later on. This woman seems to have very deep feelings for Don Julio.. his facial expression at hearing that was priceless!
When Leonardo was talking to himself alone, I think he said something to the effect that he can't believe he gets into trouble all the time, now this...
At the car show, after Daniel holds Eva from falling to the floor, Daniel is really close to Eva's face and tells her 'you see now that I still scare you/make you afraid'?.. As she slaps him she says stte of 'yeah, see how scared I am!'
The whole sequence was so funny, I don't recall ever seen a telenovela where the heroine slaps both the hero and the villain within the first 90 minutes of the show.
When Eva met with little Adrian, he said his dad almost never lets him out of the room, but his dad had stepped out for a minute, so he sneaked to the kitchen. It was funny how Eva ran after them when the dad bashed Adrian only because he was there talking to her.
At the car show, after Daniel holds Eva from falling to the floor, Daniel is really close to Eva's face and tells her 'you see now that I still scare you/make you afraid'?.. As she slaps him she says stte of 'yeah, see how scared I am!'
The whole sequence was so funny, I don't recall ever seen a telenovela where the heroine slaps both the hero and the villain within the first 90 minutes of the show.
When Eva met with little Adrian, he said his dad almost never lets him out of the room, but his dad had stepped out for a minute, so he sneaked to the kitchen. It was funny how Eva ran after them when the dad bashed Adrian only because he was there talking to her.
Thank you martaivett and Julia and everyone who made corrections or elaborated on the nuances of this episode. I've added some more corrections and also made a note at the bottom of the recap to remind everyone to read the comments. You guys are GREAT!
Regarding CCs, T-Mundo has always been waaay superior to Uni's. Maybe cuz they're US-owned (by NBC), and based.
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 5:04:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 5:04:00 PM EDT
Great recap, Elvira.
I was able to get EL in English, but not only were some of the words chopped off but it rolled along so quickly I couldn't read fast enough so I turned it off and struggled with Spanish. I was very great
ful for your recap.
I have a fairly new flat screen TV; maybe that's why I got English but EL was the only one so far on Univision. My code is DTVCC2 for English.
Ann-NYC
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I was able to get EL in English, but not only were some of the words chopped off but it rolled along so quickly I couldn't read fast enough so I turned it off and struggled with Spanish. I was very great
ful for your recap.
I have a fairly new flat screen TV; maybe that's why I got English but EL was the only one so far on Univision. My code is DTVCC2 for English.
Ann-NYC
Permalink posted by : Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 5:36:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 5:36:00 PM EDT
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