Saturday, April 23, 2011
Triunfo del Amor #97 4/22/11 What’s Mine Is Mine and What’s Maria’s Is Mine
Rather than give a straight answer, Burnie diverts by answering the question with one of her own: how could Maria have agreed to take in Jimena’s offspring, being that he’s the child of her worst enemy and her “lover’s” wife, to boot? Maria is now Jimena’s nanny for all practical purposes, gripes Burnie, which is something she considers both humiliating and overly humbling for her granddaughter. (Hmmm. Just like the studio-sized slum-dwelling Burnie’s forced her to live in now.)
At Castillo Sandoval, the family is in Fernanda’s room discussing errant Cruz’s possible ulterior motives in entering Fer’s room through the window. Victoria doesn’t miss a chance to verbally squeeze her philandering ex-hubby, Osvaldo, below the belt again when he dares to defend Cruz as well-meaning, good folk. Vic reminds Oz that he felt the same about Federico Padilla and look where that led. Fer takes up for her daddy and says the accident was her fault, not his. Ozzie considers Victoria’s snide remarks a just rebuke and leaves to go mope somewhere else in the house. Max scolds Vic for being such a witch towards a man who pretty much babysat her while she was in jail the other night. On his way out the door, Max makes the mistake of telling Vicki that Osguito is with Maria. Vic spits fire his way again for leaving his son with hateful and hate filled Maria.
Burnie, meanwhile, escapes the premises without telling Maria anything more than she knew before. Maria gripes to Padre JP about the way his mother always evades answering her. Fausto shows up and JP explains he and Burnie have set Fausto up in the padre’s old apartment to be Maria’s man-Friday and body-guard.
Once again at los Scandal-val, Max gets on Vic for kvetching about Maria. This is the woman he loves, where as Jimmie, the woman Vicki chose for him, has abandoned him and her child while Maria has agreed to help him care for Osguito along with her own son! Vic needs to be a bit more gracious as well as grateful, he says. She apologizes and asks Max to bring both of the babies to the house for a while to visit with her. He agrees. Vicki also agrees to apologize to Ozzie for what she did earlier.
Afterwards, Fer confesses to Vicki that she’s lost hope of ever walking again or having a normal life. Vicki swears she will.
Back in the bowels of the barrio, JP asks Maria why she didn’t tell anyone that Ji had attacked her. Maria says she didn’t want to bother anyone over it. Ji’s just crazy, is all. (Yeah, no biggie. Why would that matter to somebody who never bothers to lock her door, especially in a sleazy part of town like that?) Anyway, Max is dumping Ji, she says, to finally make Maria his main squeeze. (Nothing said about making an honest woman of her, though.) Padre asks about Alonso. It’s platonic. Her heart belongs to Max. JP starts to object because he sees their relationship as impossible. Max walks in on them then and disagrees. Maria is the love of his life and it’s a love that will last a lifetime, he swears. Max and Maria are all Huggies and Smiles--literally. Yup, that’s all they really need to set up house together, Padre.
Cruz faces Vic and explains that he only goes in through the window and does the pratfalls because it makes Fer laugh and she starts having a bit of fun. He swears his intentions are honorable. Vic sees the value in what he’s been trying to do for Fer and gives in. FF>>
Val walks into the study and Oz has their favorite song playing. The memory of that song and his declaration of love are “tattooed” somehow to the both of them. They dance together cheek to cheek and nearly kiss, until Vic catches herself at the last moment. She breaks away from Oz, mean tease that she is, delivering another low blow to what’s left of his male ego–which, admittedly, has got to be slim pickin’s by now. It’s a memory, she says, that she’d prefer to be over and done with. (Okokay! Here’s $64,000 question #2: how many times does a guy have to get kicked in the family jewels before he shows a little self-respect?) Oz stands there and fights the tears stinging his eyes as Vicki struts imperiously away.
Back in the city at Casa de Bernarda, Jimena’s on the phone talking to Gui. Jimmie keeps trying to blow him off while he tries just as hard to get her to visit him for a little more slap and tickle like old times. She grouses. He tries getting into her …er… good graces by suggesting that she could get even with Max using a plan thought up with a cooler head, something like kidnapping Osguito. She’s not interested. As for her starting up with him again, it’s over and has been for a long time now, she reminds him. No, he says, it will never be over between them, especially now that they share a son. The kid’s useless and so’s Guillermo’s blackmail, she says. “--I’m free of you now. Tell them all anything you want. Actually, I’d like to see the look on Max’s face when you tell him that his child is really your son!” She hangs up on him. He tells himself he’s always enjoyed the challenging ones. “—Let’s just see if it really is over for her!"
At Maria’s place again, meanwhile, Padre JP tells Maria he doesn’t doubt she and Max love each other, but hey, seems they've forgotten the “M” word this time around. Somehow Max manages to slide by that little sticker burr of a detail for now, and Maria sidelines the issue saying she’s not abandoning Osguito the way his mother and hers abandoned them. JP is quick to defend against the accusation that she was abandoned. He explains that because of the restraints of the confessional he can’t tell Maria anything more than that he knows for sure that she was never abandoned.
JP then heads off as Antonieta, Pipino and Milagros show up to discuss with Maria their idea for a fashion show at the vecindad for their new Milagros line. Maria agrees to model for them. Max then takes off with the babies so that Vicki can spend some quality time with both of them. Since Ji’s moved out, Maria says, she sees no problem with JPito being at the casota. FF>>
Fabian shows up at Casa Sandoval bearing gifts for Fer. One of them is a book on Frieda Kahlo who was also in an accident and unable to walk for a while. This seems to be all the encouragement Fer needs to go with him to a rehab center. They spend the entire day there together. FF>>
Pipi and Toni continue discussing their ideas for the new line of fashions geared to the average woman. They want all the women in the building to be a part of the show and model. Nat tells them that no matter how nice the dresses are, nothing would make her look good in one. Toni and Pepi take up the challenge and promise to do a total make-over on her.
Gui surprises Jimmie in one of the offices at Casa Bernarda. He tries seducing her. She tries to fight him off. He tells her not to play hard to get with him. Ji admits she did love him once, but it’s turned to hate. As far as he’s concerned hate and love are opposite sides of the same sensual coin. She wants no part of him or the constant feeling of humiliation and submission. He could care less. He’s only got one thing on his mind. He lays a major lip-lock on Jimena and she melts into his arms. Unfortunately, JP walks in on the two of them en lip-lockus delecti. “--Jimena!” Ji immediately tries to claim her innocence and that Gui was trying to take advantage of her. JP is all like talk to the hand. “—No woman who abandons her child is innocent and no woman who jealously tries to kill another woman is innocent.”
The padre tells Jimmie that he knows she attacked Maria Desamparada. The gal still tries to assert her innocence. “—I would be incapable of such a thing!” JP says in his line of work he’s learned to recognize Evil when he sees it, the same way he’s able to know an angel among them, so don’t bother trying to deny it. (We’ll give him a pass here since he really was clueless when it came to both Mama and Jimmie. I think I’d trade my Evil detector in on a new model if I was him, or at least get the old one tuned up.) As far as he's concerned, Gui and she are just alike! They’re bad to the bone! What’s more, Jimmie better steer clear of Maria and JPito! Consider herself warned, he says, and then storms out of the office.
The news that Ji actually tried to off Maria is like an aphrodisiac to giddy Gui. He offers again to help her get even with Maria and Max. He suggests kidnapping the only thing that connects the two of them which is, of course, little JPito. This seems to finally grab Jimmie’s evilly fertile imagination.
Back at los Scandal-val, Vicki notes to Max how drawn she is to JPito. He suggests it’s the call of the blood (a bit of a stretch, considering Max is no blood relative to Vic.) He takes Osguito then and puts him to bed while she and JPito continue to bond.
Fer and Fab continue with her therapy. FF>>
Meanwhile, a couple of clients from the “Lovely” cosmetics line come by Alonso’s studio to ask about a second ad campaign. He’s suggests the model he first offered who was pregnant before, but who’s had her child now. They object and say that since they’re looking to feature the model’s entire body that her looks may have been destroyed by her pregnancy. Alonso looks at them like what century did these two male chauvinist whack-jobs crawl out of? (Perhaps where they come from they haven’t heard of mothers who are still …er…“sexually” active? Just where do these two south ends of a north-bound jack-ass think little brothers and sisters come from, anyway?) Lonnie smiles politely, like any self-respecting salesman might do, and we will wait to see if he takes the opportunity to gently dissuade them of their sexist biases.
Night falls. The male crowd is getting antsy in anticipation of the fashion show that is about to begin. (Did somebody hear Casa Victoria and automatically think Victoria’s Secret? I mean, there ain’t no way guys are gonna get so squirrely over women’s clothing unless it’s fingering non-lingering lingerie.) Juanjo, Don Joel and Don Naco discuss who’s in the lineup. JJ can’t believe they’d waste their time having Nat model anything considering they’d have to dig pretty darn deep—like maybe all the way to China--to find enough of this gal’s inner beauty to be able to qualify her as a model. Naco says something about Nat’s got a surprise worked out, so wait and see.
The show starts. The lights go out. Then suddenly they go up again. There is Nat in a strapless, pleated chiffon turquoise number. JJ turns into a saucer-eyed, tail-beating, panting puppy-dog when he sees how Toni and Pepi transformed her.
At the same time, Vicki has bonded a bit too tightly with JPito. Max comes in to get the baby ready to take back to Maria. Vicki suddenly has a flood of memories about losing little Maria and won’t give the baby back to Max. Max looks at her like she’s lost her mind. Vicki insists the baby is more hers and she won’t give him up.
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Thanks so much for all the work you all do to keep this up... it's so much fun!!
What hateful things has Maria done to Victoria?
Fired her from her job?
Had her fired from all subsequent jobs?
Trashed her to any and all who would listen?
Wait, that wasn't Maria? That was Victoria? My bad.
It really shouldn't surprise me anymore but how can Ximeana continue to do these things and deny them when there are witnesses? If she's trying to gaslight anyone she needs to look for a different crazy.
Kidnapping JPito? How much more evil can these two get? Gui is just as evil as Fernando Escandon.
JuanJo does not deserve Nati. Punto, fin.
And, before I forget, I love Oz. What a handsome, long suffering dude. Yes, yes, he had an affair, but people get a life--instead of taking someone else's child.
Thanks for all the zesty recaps.
La Paloma
Vick--Some days I like her some days I don't. Friday was a don't day. She's going to keep baby JPito? Puleeze. If Max defers to step-mama, he's lost his last marbles.
Dona Demeta--Love her all the time. She's so good at being soooo bad. At least she's not spending as much time in front of her religious objects. Maybe all she needed was a good hobby to keep her busy. Casa Bernie should do it.
Fausto--He creeps me out--not only because of his looks. Sorry, I can't help it. He began his role as a menacing sort of guy and now we have to accept him as an obsessively devoted guy to Maria-PostE. What is PJP going to do with the information he got in the confessional from F. about Mamma Dearest. Does he know Fausto is supposed to me DBernie's mole in the barrio?
Fer-Cruz-Fabian--May the best man win. I like both men a lot now. I like Fer much more since she toned down her act. I think she'll walk again--has to if she's going to go down the aisle with one of the guys.
Alonnie--One 99% Lonnie-free episode. Yaaay. He was sympathetic for a few hot episodes. Now he's down in my book--obsessively devoted to Maria-PostE. Ooops, that describes Fausto, hmmmm.
Oswaldo--I blow warm and cold with him. Can't quite put my finger on which way the wind is going to blow each night.
PJP--Oh, will someone defrock him, but quick. We need him available for viewerville to fantasize over without feeling sinful.
Max--To the Max. He can do the smoochies with Maria-PostE. as many times as he wants. You all know how I feel about those lips. So glad he lost the scarves.
Naty--She's clearly lovelier than Xi-Li. Wonder how long that look will last in the barrio. Casa Victoria had better hire her right away before Bernie gives her an offer she doesn't want to refuse.
Xi-Li--Away with you--Go live your life somewhere else. Do something besides whine, protest, menace, assault and deny. Is she truly over Gui--or too weak to resist him (I think I could resist)? If they do team up to hurt Max and Maria, maybe they'll kidnap OsGuito by mistake.
A happy Easter season to everyone.
Newbie-OK
If I was Fer, I would be having one major tough time choosing between Fab and Cruz (and enjoying every minute.) Fab was so sweet thru the whole PSA on the type of therapies needed. The look on his face when Fer had no response to the doc's exam,...
Why oh why does Nat have to wind up with JJ??? Now she's a knockout it's even worse seeing those two together. There always has to be that one pairing that leaves me head-scratching.
And Newbie (love your character summations), I'm with you 100% on the JP defrocking. So hot when he laid into XI-ppy, I needed a black t-shirt shot to follow! (Anyone else grossed out though by Gui's smile thru that whole scene?)
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Daisynjay: I wasn't as grossed out by Gui's smile as I was amazed at how the actor was able to make the evil/demon-like essence of his character jump out at the screen at me. Cantu never ceases to amaze me that way. I've seen him in numerous tn's as a villano and I always think that he can't devise anything new, but he does!
Dona Dementa will probably try but PJP will put a stop to that. He was already worried that she would try to drown him and would not have a problem telling a judge or a social worker about this. Of course, this also involves revealing the blood tie.
Fausto is creeping me out more and more. His obsession with Maria is dangerous and I hope Eva knows how to rein him in. I don't know how much they know about the blood ties between Dona Dementa and Maria so I dearly wish that Eva hadn't told him about Gonzalo not being his father.
I don't know what to think about Vic, what in the world has she been drinking to think she should keep little JP? Is she too young to be suffering from Alzheimer's?
JJ really got on my bad list with his comments about Nathi and then the complete turn around when he saw her after the makeover. A very shallow man! He doesn't deserve her that's for sure.
Fer is one lucky lady to have two very handsome galan at her side. I want her to end up with Cruz and Nathi and Fab need each other.
Gui scares the B-Jesus out of me. That evil smile was really evil. I hope he meets a worthy end.
I felt really sorry for Os after Vic's rejection, again. How much longer is she going to adopt this sanctimonious attitude. If she wants redemption she better change her attitude and start asking forgiveness of everyone around her.
Rosemary
I'm still laughing at the line no biggie for someone who doesn't bother to lock her door in the sleazy part of the town like that. You're so right what's so funny is the other apartment they had that door was always locked. But this one the first thing she should have done is replaced that door it looks like if you blow on the lock it will open by itself.
Max i agree with what someone wrote how he really hasn't provided for Maria and his child with her. I don't care about Maria's pride he should be putting his foot down and moving her and the baby out of that slum dwelling.
Victoria bi-polar i'll keep saying this until this heifer gets her act together. What gets me is how Maria is allowing her access to her child after the way she has treated her and after all she is only Max's step mother. Keep her locked up in the carcel she belongs there or the nearest manicomo.
Now for Mejia and his writer on this as Variopinta says basura and QTF? So we're supposed to believe Maria is not going to take seriously being threaten with a knife by psycho XXX-factor and not press charges? That's she is going to allow a woman who fired her from her job and then got her fired from other jobs interfering with her means of financial support therefore jeopardizing her unborn baby's health now access to her child? Not to mention how she plotted with the DIL of her choice to separate her from her novio? Yeah there's not enough beanies to make this crap believable. I can see why it's not doing well in Mexico.
I like Fausto nor am i creeped out by him but Alonso he's another story he just doesn't know when it's time to leave and stop being the third wheel. Even though Fausto is in love with Maria D. i think he knows he will never have a chance with her and Max doesn't feel threaten by him like he does with Alonso i see him as Maria D.'s protector and avenging Angel.
Are we sure Nati isn't suffering from cataracts? Please what in the world does she see in JJ and he should be the last person talking about or degrading someone else's looks. I don't know what fun house mirror he's looking in but from what we are seeing it ain't pretty.
Victoria could be bi-polar: She seems totally reasonable with Max when he points out Maria's acceptance of Osvaldito and she's actually nice to Cruz when he describes how he does things to amuse Fer... then she rejects Osvaldo's kiss and insists on keeping JP-ito.
She will freak when she finds out that Maria is her daughter.
http://www.metoperafamily.org//metopera/season/production.aspx?id=11120&hpbucketTomorrow
Deborah Voigt must looked great; she's lost a ton of weight
I could easily become a Ringhead if I won the lottery.
I think I’d trade my Evil detector in on a new model if I was him, or at least get the old one tuned up.)
My favorite line!
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Welcome to the new anonomi and to Amy!
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Does anybody wonder if Nat will go back to being the cinder part of Cinderella once the fashion ball is over?
Back on T: I hope PJP tells Padre Jeronimo about the incident in Maria's apartment. Padre Jer won't reveal what Dona Dementa told him in the confessional, but he will definitely advise PJP not to allow her to be alone with the baby.
Quick question for those who know: Are murders routinely reported in the news media in Mexico? Because if the answer is "si" then Dona Dementa would call more attention to the family "sins" by killing the baby or his mother.
OT to UA Going live on May 9th, pretty good seats, too. My sisters were at the premier, but they aren't real Ring-nuts like me.
We'll skip the tornadoes but we could certainly use any and all of the excess rain you might have on hand.
I'm beginning to feel sympathy for JuanJo as I can't think of a single positive comment about him here since the show began. I think that Guillermo has had more favorable responses.
First, it's probably safe to presume that he is much more proficient (and no doubt comfortable) as an athlete than as an actor. To make things worse, the writers have made his character something of an affable lout. I suspect that is to make his fall for Nathi dramatic.
I'm not sure whom Nathi will end up with. I think that there's a good chance that it'll be Fab and that JuanJo will end up cursing his luck that he had the opportunity and blew it. But then Nathi is really smitten by JuanJo (and deep down he's good) and I want to see her happy.
Nevertheless, I predict that before it's all over, almost everyone here will be fond of (if not a big fan of) our clunky, craggy, clumsy clod.
Carlos
I think Nathi will end up with JJ, and Fabo Fab will end up with that girl at the office.
Jardinera - yikes! I'm glad your home was untouched. We've had our share of tornado and wind shear damage here. This year alone, I've headed to the basement a couple of times.
OT - I went to your site and saw more of your terrific photos --or were they paintings? Hard to tell. Very interesting and imaginative!!
What is very interesting is that the bishop -- who doesn't know these details -- excommunicated Dona Dementa. That's a man who knows evil when he sees it.
This raises the question about whether that should have disqualified Bernarda as JPito's godmother.
UA makes another good point: DD is Definitely Disqualified as a madrina in the Catholic Church if she has been given the big "X"
"No wafer, no wine for you!... Next!"
Carlos
Carlos - LOL!
"And, of course, if you're not a Catholic (with a capital C) you don't get to go to heaven."
LXV - If they repent and mend their ways, they could go to P/protestant heaven. Just don't tell the Pope. ;o)
http://caraycaray.blogspot.com/2009/02/fuego-en-la-sangre-020609-root-bungles.html
with a note in the next day's.
The bishop in TdA must have spoken with Padre Jeronimo, but JP didn't get the memo.
I wasn't around for much of FELS, so I'll have to check it out. But in Alborada, they burned them alive at the stake.
"The Inquisition continued to function in North America until the Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821). In South America Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martin abolished the Inquisition; in Spain itself the institution survived until 1834."
"The Inquisition was definitively abolished on July 15, 1834, by a Royal Decree"
According to Alborada it had already been abolished in Spain by the time the Vicerory of Mexico decided officially to end it there. Carla Estrada took liberties with history and I took her word for it. Sigh, note to self: consider the source.
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