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The Bold & the Beautiful Daily update Recap 07/28/09

2009-07-29T03:03:00.004-04:00

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Whip admonishes newlyweds Nick and Bridgette for necking on the Jackie M. hallways instead of distracting Stephanie. Bridgette assures Whip that Stephanie will lecture them for at least 10 minutes when she catches them going at it like school kids against a locker.

Clarke strolls by a starry-eyed Pam and gasps to see her donning a flaming red wig. Pam pouts that she thought he liked redheads. “Listen. Only one dame can pull that off,” Clarke insists, “the original redhead herself.” As Pam slips the wig under her desk, Jackie and Owen spill out of Nick’s office, announcing that it’s time.

Later, Stephanie Forrester can’t understand why Jackie wants to put a perfectly good office chair into storage. Stephanie actually wouldn’t mind having her own desk somewhere, so that she doesn’t inconvenience Nick. Jackie, dressed in a strapless baby doll dress and knee-high white boots, leads Stephanie down the hall to a door, and suggests they cram a desk into the storage room after they clear it out.

Stephanie opens the look to have a look, and the staff of Jackie M. yells, “Surprise!” Stephanie’s flattered to see a newly designed office. Pam removes the storage sign from the door to reveal Stephanie’s name. Nick and Jackie say they wanted to find a way to celebrate what Stephanie brought to their design house. Nick says she was an undervalued asset at Forrester, but she’d never be undervalued at Jackie M.

Owen goes for the cake Pam just sliced, but Pam says that piece is for Clarke, who loves the extra frosting. Bridgette stacks framed pictures of Stephanie’s children on the desk, Whip’s gift idea. Stephanie leans in, asking if Bridgette can stand to work with Whip after what happened. Bridgette insists Brooke and Whip were trying to protect her. She hopes they’ve all moved on. Stephanie insinuates that Whip still has a thing for Brooke.

Stephanie calls everyone’s attention to say that her influence at Forrester had waned and she no longer felt that she was contributing there. She says it’s the opposite at Jackie M., where she’s found a new family. She realizes that she’s not a Forrester anymore, and says that she wouldn’t be any place else.

After the party, Nick, Bridgette, Whip, Owen, Clarke, and Pam think Stephanie enjoyed her surprise. Bridgette can’t believe Stephanie and Jackie were getting along so well. Nick thinks working together is one thing, but he’s not so certain that the two women will be friends.

Jackie enters Stephanie’s new office with a gift. It’s a picture of Jackie and Stephanie from Jackie’s wedding. Stephanie loves it. Jackie starts to leave, but Stephanie stops her to acknowledge that they weren’t friends. They apologize to each other for the bad things that happened. Stephanie asks if they can forget those things. She says that Jackie gave her something that she’d lost, a sense of family and a place to go to each day. “I want to say thank you, and I’d be happy if we could be friends,” Stephanie said. Jackie pulled Stephanie in for a tight hug.
At Brooke’s house, Katie changed her mind and urges Brooke to stalk Ridge via text-message. Donna worries because Ridge asked to be left alone. Brooke says he isn’t alone; he’s with Taylor. Katie tells Brooke to text Ridge to call her. Brooke wearily picks up her cell phone.

At Taylor’s house, Thomas and Steffy come inside after happily losing a tennis match to their “cute” parents. Steffy’s phone beeps, she receives a text from Brooke, forwarded from Ridge’s phone. Steffy calls Brooke borderline crazy to pursue Ridge after sending him to Taylor. Thomas says that Brooke would rather chase Ridge than actually have him.

Steffy feels guilty about her actions, but Thomas warns that if they don’t thwart Brooke, Ridge will run over there, leaving Taylor in the cold. Steffy says she’ll be her father’s strength and commences to texting Brooke back. Taylor and Ridge trot in with lemonade, and Taylor savors the simplicity of having her children and her husband-to-be.

Taylor is excited to be remarrying Ridge the next day, and promises the children that the vows are a commitment to them, and to Phoebe. Taylor tells Ridge that Phoebe will be there with them in spirit. She calls her wedding planner, and Ridge tells her to spare no expense. He wants the reuniting of their family to be memorable. Taylor hugs him, looking as if she might cry tears of joy. Ridge hugs her back, staring vacantly into the distance.

Back at Brooke’s house, she reads the text response she thinks is from Ridge, saying, “I need space.” Katie says Ridge is avoiding Brooke because he knows he’s vulnerable. Brooke thinks Katie might be right, adding that he’d never wed Taylor after spending time with Brooke.

Brooke’s sisters insist she go to Taylor’s, but Brooke doesn’t want to face Taylor. She’s also sure Stephanie booby-trapped the house. Katie urges her not to give up. Brooke decides she must find a way to reach Ridge. “I’ll get through to him,” she says. “I’ll never give up.”

Brooke slumps alone on her stairs, remembering a time when Ridge proposed and they eloped on an island. She recalls remarrying recently on the beach. She says that Ridge can’t forget her, and she texts him once more.

Steffy receives a text link to “Unforgettable,” and worries that she can’t keep up the scheme. Thomas says they have to do it until their parents remarry. As Steffy texts back, Ridge enters, wondering if there’s a problem. Steffy and Thomas express their worry about Brooke, but Ridge thinks Brooke respects his decision. He says he hasn’t heard a peep out of her since he asked her to back off. Meanwhile, Brooke receives a text saying, “You need to move on. I have.” Brooke texts back that she’ll never forget.

Steffy’s phone beeps, and Thomas distracts Ridge and Taylor, while Steffy checks her phone. She texts back, “Leave me alone,” and her phone flies out of her hand as she turns around. Ridge picks up the phone, and it beeps again. He looks at it, and rages, “Oh, my God, Steffy! What is this?”

Two-faced Corey Feldman Looks a Fool at Jackson Staples Center Memorial

2009-07-08T02:55:00.007-04:00

Corey Feldman, after insinuating that Michael Jackson might have acted inappropriately with him as a child, has the nerve to show up at Jackson's memorial--wearing Michael Jackson's clothes no less. Or at least cheap imitations of Michael's clothes.

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What sickens me most about this is that Corey Feldman seems to have had an obsession with Michael Jackson over the years. He didn't know how to let go. It seems he couldn't handle that Michael Jackson might have had other friends, and so he acted out like a child, bad mouthing Michael Jackson. Now that Jackson is dead, Feldman wants to mope about, talking about how much he misses him. No one wants to hear that from any of these washed up stars, falling out of the woodwork to make some claim to knowing Michael Jackson. Uhm, you hear that Lisa Marie?

I was once a fan of Corey Feldman until I heard of all the drama he was keeping up for poor Michael (click link above to know what I mean); however, I was completely disheartened by his veiled claims to Martin Bashir, which just added fuel to the fire of the child molestation witch-hunt that had been pursuing Jackson for nearly a decade at that time.

And the memorial wasn't the first time Feldman pulled out that mothballed Jackson costume. According to People.com, he wore it the Saturday after Michael's death, dedicating a moment of silence to Jackson during his alternative fuels concert. At least Feldman's trying to do something good for the planet.

Where to View Michael Jackson Staples Center Memorial Telecast

2009-07-05T20:57:00.001-04:00

Where to View Michael Jackson Staples Center Memorial Telecast

TV stations and public venues are options for fans unable to win one of the 11,000 Michael Jackson Memorial Lottery Tickets for the Staples Center service on Tuesday, July 7. Several networks and some businesses will air the memorial, which starts at 10am PST live from the stream requested by the Jackson family. A brief list of where to watch...

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Michael Jackson: Honors and Memorials to the King of Pop

2009-07-05T03:50:00.003-04:00

Michael Jackson: Honors and Memorials to the King of Pop

Time, CNN, BET, American Idol, Xbox Live, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and others, scrambled to honor King of Pop Michael Jackson.
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Michael Jackson Bodyguard Speaks of Mysterious Girlfriend

2009-07-02T05:24:00.001-04:00

Michael Jackson Bodyguard Speaks of Mysterious Girlfriend

Former bodyguard and friend discusses a mysterious girlfriend of Michael Jackson, the recklessness of his doctors, and the kind soul behind Michael's facade. Click above for the full story.

Would You Fall Asleep While This Guy Tattoos You?

2009-06-17T22:52:00.001-04:00

—Courtrai, Belgium

Kimberley Vlaminck blames language barriers and drowsiness for causing her to be erroneously tattooed with 53 more stars than she’d originally asked Tattooist Rouslan Toumaniantz to sketch onto her face. Vlaminck claims that she asked Toumaniantz to etch three simple stars above her left eye, but she awakened to a nightmarish 56 stars, forming a half moon over the left side of her face.

Vlaminck’s first mistake was not running for the hills the moment she walked into The Tattoo Box and took one look at her tattoo designer. Rouslan Toumaniantz has doused himself from head to toe in innumerable, grotesque tattoos, piercings, and nose and earplugs. Not to mention, he must have a dozen lip rings in his mouth. It’s no wonder she didn’t understand what he was saying when he confirmed that she wanted 56 stars on her face—not three, as she contends. If he couldn't hear her, the glasses on his face indicate that he could definitely see what he was doing to her. He claims that she had a mirror and could see him as he was working.

The 18-year-old alleged victim says that she can’t go out on the streets because she’s so embarrassed and she looks horrible. What she really should be embarrassed about is thinking anyone would believe she’d fall asleep with a tattoo needle above her left eye—o r that she believed that tattooing three stars on her face would take so long that she’d fall asleep. She should feel horrible for expecting people to believe that she fell asleep before he moved from above her eye to any other part of her face, or that anyone could fall asleep with a needle poking their face. I personally can’t reconcile that she fell asleep with that man hovering over her at all.

She apparently paid him 55 lira for the work. She's suing for 10,000 lira and the cost of cosmetic surgery. Toumaniantz has offered to pay for half the 8,500 lira cost of removal. Even so, he stands by his claims that Vlaminck was awake during the procedure, observed herself in the mirror several times, and left a satisfied customer. Another customer who had been in the parlor at the same time supports his story. He suspects that criticism from her father and boyfriend, who accused Toumaniantz of drugging Vlaminck, led the girl to concoct the story.

I have never been tattooed, and so I my defer to those who have been to answer my questions.

Pop Intervention Questions of the Day:

Would you have fallen asleep while this man or anyone else tattoos you?

Is it even possible to fall asleep during such a procedure?

Whom do you believe in this situation, the customer who’s always right or the tattooist?

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