Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Sueno de amor, #14 - 03/28/16 P.E. Teacher needed - Requirements: good looking guy, with great body, killer smile and very complicated family life

Happy belated Easter to those who celebrated this weekend. I hope you all rested, filled your tummies and got ready for a new week of Sueno de amor (and other regular activities, you know).


This felt like a filler episode, so I kind of rambled a lot. Looking forward to your ramblings in the comment section.
We pick up right from where we left off, with Ernesto and Ricardo’s piss contest fight about who is the better man.
Ernie pretends that he has no clue about the guy who was following Ric ; so what if he was his employee, he doesn’t care what his personnel does outside of office hours. And he won’t take this interrogatory anymore. What is Ric, a cop? No, he’s just a mere teacher, Ernie adds with contempt.
Well, Esperanza is just a teacher, too, and you still fell in love with her, Ric counter-attacks. Ernie proudly agrees and not only that, but he and Espe also share a child. Yeah, one that he abandoned, Ric points out. Things degenerate and a fight is about to erupt, but Super Spy is definitely the better fighter, managing to twist Ernie’s hand and kneel him at the same time. As he walks out, Ric adds that he won’t leave Esperanza’s side anymore and he’s definitely not afraid of Ernie (who's screaming for security at the point).

Patoluca are still post bliss (not that kind of bliss, thankfully). She’s in awe over his amazing-ness (what else is new?). He always finds ways to scare her to death provoke her, she didn’t even have the time to prepare (did she by any chance wet her pants during the jump? I know I would have). Luca assures her that they were safe the whole time and, besides, he would never hurt her.
This last statement gives Pato the sads: yeah, maybe he would never hurt her intentionally, but she can’t forget the fact that he’s about to go away for a long time (if only he could go faster). He reassures her that they will be OK – he loves her and yada yada yada ... smooches smooches smooches….

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El Hotel de los Secretos #43, 3/28/16: The key. Remember the key?

Felipe asks Garrido where he can get a lot of wine for cheap. Garrido recommends a guy named Jorge Arenas. Felipe needs an introduction. He swears it will be worth Garrido's trouble. They take off to meet with Arenas.

Teresa asks Diego to prepare a discreet burial for Baby #1. He picks up the phone, then pauses. We don't need a funeral.

Isabel stands in the hallway in yet another white dress. She sees wet Julio hustling out of Cecilia's room as Cecelia's voice calls from the other side of the door, "don't be a coward." Isabel makes as if to knock, but Mateo materializes behind her to say that Mrs. Limantur is waiting in the garden to meet her for breakfast. Also, a maid named Emelia needs help reading a letter. Isabel agrees to read them the letter on the way to the garden. (Standard letter-from-Mom stuff. Mom can write, but she doesn't know that Emelia can't read?)

Sofia looks bad. She knows what she did. She can't even look at the dead baby on the bed and she slides the bedroom door shut behind her without turning around. She leans (actually, sort of rubs up in a creepy way) against the door to the hallway and pleads, "come back, come back." Wow, that'll be a fine sight for Alfredo to come home to.
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Monday, March 28, 2016

Un Camino Hacia el Destino-Week 6 (March 28, 2016)

---And Baby Makes Four, or Three, or Two, But Not One

Our ethical, dedicated, handsome and hopelessly in love Dr. Carlos, is on the horns of a well-calculated, well-timed dilemma, not of his own making. With the announcement of the (fake) pregnancy of his very recently ex-girlfriend, he has various outcomes staring at him.

1) There is a baby. He doesn't want to give up Fernanda, but his mother and Isabela are ready to take over the management of his relationships. Fernanda breaks up with him because she believes he must "do the right thing" by the baby. There will be wedding bells in his not too distant future.

2) There is a baby. He just can't give up Fernanda. He defies his mother. He begs Fernanda not to break up with him. They love each other madly, deeply. He is certain they can work this out and still be together. She agrees to stand by him.

3) There is no baby. He will try desperately to prove its non-existence. He begs Fernanda not to break up with him until there is solid proof, one way or another. If there is no baby, he won't have to give up Fernanda and his mother, Marissa, will finally be convinced Isabela wasn't right for him, or for her.

With time, 1 & 2 will be eliminated, but this week, he doesn't know that. Isabela says she doesn't expect anything of him (and that is as fake as the pregnancy). Marissa wants a wedding as soon as possible--with Isabela, of course, and to end his relationship with Fernanda, of course.

What will he do? How does he tell Fernanda? What does he tell Fernanda? What is the right thing to do?

This is not the CAMINO we wanted to take, but we will have to follow along and see where it goes. Tune in and see (7 pm).

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TELEMUNDO Y MÁS (#1): ¿Quién es Quién?, Eva la Trailera, El Señor de los Cielos #4, and Fatmagül: Week of March 28, 2016

Welcome to Page #1 (Monday edition) of the Telemundo y Más page, issued twice a week: Mondays at 3:00 PM and Thursdays at 8:00 PM.

Here's the lineup (all times are Eastern Standard Time):

 noon  - ¿Qué Culpa Tiene Fatmagül?*
 8 PM  - ¿Quién es Quién?
 9 PM  -  Eva la Trailera
10 PM -  El Señor de los Cielos #4**

*Fatmagül ends Friday, April 1—followed by Império starting April 4 
**El Señor de los Cielos #4 premiers Mon, March 28 in a 2-hr gran estreno starting at 9PM,( preempting Eva for one night).

Everyone is welcome to join in the conversation.  Since we all share the same page, please remember to put the name of the telenovela you're discussing at the top of your post, so readers can find their way around.



Telemundo is also re-broadcasting the hit telenovela La Reina del Sur on Saturdays and Sundays from 6-8 PM (EST & PST, 5-7 PM CST).  For the moment, all the capítulos are also available on Telemundo's web site.  Some discussion and occasional recaps from the original broadcast can be found here.

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Friday, March 25, 2016

El Hotel de los Secretos #42, 3/24/16: Discussion Space - Baby #2, Front and Center, Please

Princess Juju had emergency toe surgery (it's a thing!) and now she's in pain and on drugs that made her fall asleep before she saw the episode- they also made her over sleep :/. Please feel free to discuss the episode. If you don't I'll come back and give you graphic details of what my toe looks like!

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Weekend Discussion: Crimes of Fashion, 4th Edition 3/25/16


There is so much Stürm und Drang among the denizens of the DF upper crust that it seemed appropriate to understand why these emotional conflicts exist. A few of the women in the midst of this conflict might have made their lives better – in their own minds – with better fashion choices. It was only the sudden death of Monserrat Moret that made Nina Perez de Montenegro the main focus of this latest edition. She is no Ann Grenville in money matters and even now still has much to learn of fashion in the world she hopes to stay in.

Thanks to Soledad Romero-Vargas, our fashion critic here at Vanidades, we bring you these fashion felonies. Enjoy.

  • D.D.  

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Amor de barrio index

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Pasión y poder, Episode 111, Thursday, March 24, 2016: Okay, maybe I AM jealous!


It's been a while, hasn't it?  I've just come home from an extended and rather bittersweet visit with family.  We decided to drive this time, and as we made our way towards Boston, I imagined rolling down the window and shouting out to my CarayCaray friends somewhere south of our path – JudyB and Susanlynn and Diana, just to name a few.  (Of course I kept my thoughts to myself.  I'm not sure Mr. Maven would get it, or not entirely.)

I've now caught up with our imaginary PyP crowd I think,  thanks in no small part to the fabulous recaps here (and no thanks at all to the brain trust at Univisión, which is still playing chicken with my television provider, ATT U-Verse*).  I'm especially grateful to Urban Anthropologist for taking on last Thursday and doing her usual impeccable job.

I think this is tonight's episode.  Fingers and toes duly crossed.

*Update – Yay! Univisión and ATT have kissed and made up!  Will any of the fools on the screen do the same?

Arturo is where we left him last night, still fulminating.
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Sueño de amor, Ep #13 (3.24.2016) Surprises and secrets and plans, oh my!

I want to make this worthy of your time, so I will be brief.

♪ ♫ Virgen de la paz, te amo, ven a mí, junto a mí
Virgen de la paz te quiero, siempre escuchas tú mi ruego ♪ ♫

Sweet mother of Jesus,
Give us the wisdom of the Holy Spirit so we can own and administer your gifts and know how to multiply them and share them will all the people you put in our paths. Amen  

Se consigue más con miel que con hiel
Ricardo has a plan and Pato is the perfect ally. Of course we never get to know anything they tell each other. You can get more with honey than with gall sounds true when you see Pato getting closer to Ricardo than to her biological father, Ernesto de la Colina. Now, regarding the love advice, that's another story, like asking Oprah for a diet that works but who am I to judge? I wouldn't trust Ricardo with a plastic butter knife, but anyway, now that Luca is going away to Járvar, she doesn't want to wait 20 years for him to come back (cough) she will miss him. The distance shouldn't kill the love dream they have. It worked for him. Pato will always have skype (please sponsor us-wink). 

After knowing that Neto had something to do with Pato's scholarship, Pera gets very upset, because she doesn't want to owe favors to anybody. Even if that ''anybody'' owes her 17 years of child support. He insists saying that no matter what, they will be together one day as a family.

In the meantime, in the middle of some street in CDMX, a skipping Erasmo hugs Kristela, sealing their relationship. 

After Esperanza did the recording gig on Silvana and she almost lost her job, now she sleeps with her one good eye open and has started to play Big Sister checking the closed circuit videos so she can reverse Esperanza's trick with evidence to fire her, assuming that the romance between our protagonists is true, and believe me, it is. Maybe Ricardo can hack this system and watch Pamela closely to know La Sombra's whereabouts.
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TELEMUNDO Y MÁS (#2): ¿Quién es Quién?, Eva la Trailera, La Querida del Centauro, and Fatmagül: Week of March 21, 2016

 TELEMUNDO WEEKEND EDITION  (continuación)


Here's Page 2 for the week.  Don't forget there will be schedule disruptions at prime time due to the Easter holiday & shows ending/beginningCheck your local listings and the comments for more detailed info & schedule updates.

The novelas currently being covered include the following (all times are Eastern Standard Time):

noon  - ¿Qué Culpa Tiene Fatmagül?*
 8 PM  - ¿Quién es Quién?
 9 PM  -  Eva la Trailera
10 PM -  a couple days of Easter specials before El Señor de los Cielos #4  begins Monday 3/28 (at 9PM, pre-empting Eva for that night)

*Fatmagül ends Friday April1— followed by Império starting April 4

Everyone is welcome to join in the conversation! 

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Another of your blog mom's projects: tshirts of a little guy in a stovepipe hat

I don't, as you know, make any money off this blog, but that doesn't mean I don't try to make money elsewhere! I'm interested in your opinions: could a character this obscure be popular today? Let me know what you think in the comments! Thanks!

I love old pop culture. I've been bringing back to life Samuel Zagat's early 20th century comic strip called "Gimpel Beynish the Matchmaker." Gimpel was wildly beloved by the people of New York City's Lower East Side. Gimpel, that shlemiel, seldom succeeded in anything he did, yet he never got discouraged and his self-esteem was unimpaired. That must have been very heartening for folks struggling to make a buck.

You can see the comics as I clean them up and translate them, here: GimpelBeynish.com and also see two books of his comics which I've published.

Wondering if Gimpel could be loved by the modern world too, I just make a couple Gimpel tshirts. They are only $14.99. Click on either picture to see more colors and styles...

1. An impoverished millionaire turns his pockets inside out



2. Gimpel visits the high seas during World War I, falls in the ocean and is rescued by a submarine. Here is is looking through the periscope!


Thanks!

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El Hotel de los Secretos #41, 3/23/16: Detective Dagoberto Suarez, At Your Service!

Isabel is arguing with Jacinto about how upset Diego is going to be with him for letting her enter through the servants’ entrance, when they run into Angela, who’s trying to see where the assailant who attacked her and Andres went. She tells Isabel and Jacinto that someone just tried to kill Andres! She rushes back to Andres with Isa and Jacinto following. They see the blood on the back of Angela’s head where she was bonked, and then they find the filled syringe and the jug used to hit Angela. Isa makes sure no one touches either item, and wraps them up to preserve fingerprints. Andres wakes up and is utterly perplexed to hear that someone tried to kill him.

Isabel goes to Diego’s dark office to call Ayala to tell him about the murder attempt. She’s unpleasantly surprised when the light goes on, and she sees her husband rising like a vampire from the couch. She continues with her call, and takes about five beats too long to remember to mention her married name to Detective Ayala. Diego notices. Ayala, whose hands are tied by Teresa’s judge friend, has to tell Isa that he can’t go out to the hotel, despite the gravity of the situation. He promises to be there first thing in the morning, and asks her to make sure the evidence is kept safe, and Andres not be left alone. He’s sure the attacker won’t try again tonight. But lock the door! Diego scoffs, and wonders who would want to kill a mere waiter. Isa ignores him.

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Pasion y Poder #110, Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Lo Nuevo

At GLA Nina and Eladio make a lunch date. They will meet later. Nina leaves. Caridad does not think it's a good idea for Eladio to go to lunch with Nina because she's jealous. Eladio tells her to keep her mouth shut and get back to work.
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Sueño de amor #12 3/23/16

Well, away we go!

In Ricardo's classroom, he is telling Pámela that after class they will be going to the principal's office to talk about her gluing him to the chair.

Félix makes a point of stopping by Esperanza's room to talk to her. He recognizes her as the one who made the recording of Silvana. He lets her know he is there to supervise Silvana but also tells her he is all about following the rules. Nobody is above the rules. Salma records it all. Silvana spies from the back of the room.

At Ernesto's office he is telling his investigator that he needs him to find out exactly who this Ricardo is; to use all of his contacts. Ricardo knows all about self defense. There has to be more. Viviana comes in wanting to talk about their son Adrián. She cannot get him to come home because he is afraid of Ernesto. They end up arguing as usual. She blames him. He blames her for babying him. For Viviana, the worst part is that her son is with her "rival". Hearing "rival" just makes Ernesto snicker and smirk.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

El Hotel de los Secretos #40, 3/22/16: If At First He Didn't Succeed, He'll Try, Try Again

Julio races to town to tell Det. Ayala that Andres is awake and has told him –along with Angela and Dr. Vicario—that it wasn’t an accident; he was attacked by the Gold Knife Killer and the horse got frightened and the rest is history.  Anyway, Ayala returns to the hotel to question Andres.

Diego has his goon and Jacinto spying on Isabel’s every move.

Dr. Vicario visits Teresa to give her the news that Andres has regained consciousness.  She head downstairs to ahem…“pay her respects”.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Pasión y Poder Martes 3/22/16 #109


Chapter 109: Second Chances

Second chances are often heavily anticipated and highly over-rated. They can be both too late and inadequate to the task. In theory everyone deserves one, but in practice this doesn't always play out. And nobody who looks for them ever thinks about that. – D.D.
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Sueño de Amor (SdA) #11. Tuesday March 22, 2016. Don't Kiss Me, Marcel Marceau! They Will Cyberbully Me And Glue Your Pompis To A Chair!

Hello Patio Pals! We’ll have to make do with a discussion page until a valiant volunteer takes over this recapping spot.

The mime bit took me by surprise and, I won’t lie to you, I did yell out an involuntary "What in the...?". However, after the initial shock, I was really charmed, not just by Ricardo’s performance but also by Esperanza’s reaction to it. This actress has won me over and, as much as I love
Cristián de la Fuente, I must admit that his co-protagonist is now the main reason I tune in. 

Pedro, the Friend Zone's poster boy, reconciles Kristel and Erasmo.

Viviana confesses to Luca that she is still in love with Ernesto despite their long-term estrangement.

SuperClingy gives SuperKlutzy permission to go to Járvar.

Ricardo kisses Esperanza in the teachers' lounge. It was a beso chiquitito, short and sweet, but somehow Osorio managed to fudge up the editing.

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El Hotel de los Secretos #39, 3/21/16: Another Evening Pass

So Isabel is having dinner with Diego, insofar as she can bring herself to break bread with him, and Diego reminds her that she had something to tell him. "So let's talk now," he says. "I'm all ears!"

Andres is waking up in his bed. "You had an accident on your wedding night," Julio tells him.

Alfredo walks in on Belen nursing "his" son. "You're the wet-nurse? No way! Gimme!" Alfredo says, trying to wrestle the baby away from Belen.
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Pasion y Poder #108 20160321 Eladio is a Better Man, but a Boring Villain

This recap has not been edited.  I'm way too tired.  The last ten minutes of this recap is sketchy.  My signal kept going in an out.  I missed a lot of what was going on. 

Julia's still pissed because Nina called her a homewrecker.  She recounts the sordid scene with Humberto.  Humberto tells Julia that Nina has no class.  The hand that "rocked her cradle wasn't wearing a diamond". 

Dani wants to cook Dave a romantic dinner.  As soon as Dave leaves the room, Dani calls Petra-Samantha, who walks her through the preparation. 

Lucita WTF asks Caridad to be her grandmother.  Caridad agrees. 

Julia visits Dave and they argue over the divorce.  Both Dave and Julia are stupid.  Really stupid.  Instead of rejoicing that she is free from her abuser, Julia is obsessing over why Eladio divorced her first.  Who cares?  One less beating to endure, one less egg to fry!  Duh!  Dave who has forgotten that Eladio sired Franco and boinked the Ratt reminds Julia that men don't like to be cheated on.  Julia's all like...if Eladio loved me, he wouldn't have divorced me!  Anyways, Julia finds the keys that Dani conveniently left on his counter.  Dave tells Julia that he doesn't owe her an explanation.  Julia is shocked that Dave didn't realize that Dani just pulled an alternative version of the old marking your territory by "leaving your underwear at his house trick".  Or is it the old leave an item at his house trick so that he will have to contact you again. 
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Monday, March 21, 2016

Sueño de Amor (SdA) #10. Monday March 21, 2016. Secrets To Be Unveiled And Pairings To Be Unpaired.

At a glance


-- Luca and Pato are separating. Thank you, Jesus!
-- Pedro learns the reason for Ricardo’s long absence, but we viewers don’t.
-- Tracy agrees to sign the divorce papers in exchange for custody of the kids.
-- Ernesto gives Pato back her scholarship and hires thugs to assault Ricardo.
-- Kristel gets a job at the only antro in Mexico City.
 

A closer look

We get a repeat of the restaurant scene where Pedro asks Ricardo for the reason of his two-decade-long disappearing act. Before he can answer, we’re teleported to the constructora. Outside, the Three Stooges attempt to dodge security to help Nacho talk to his wife, Begoña; and inside, Ernesto instructs Arleth to find out who the owner of Instituto Palacios is. He also asks her to contact Murillo from business intelligence for more in-depth information on Ricardo.
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