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Week Four:

Before her departure from The Island Evil Fanny left Daisy all her French Magazines. She knew Daisy has had this thing for the French ever since she laid eyes on Dr. Chabot. Katie offered to teach Daisy the language on her villa in France once they left The Island. Claudia mentioned she was an expert and offered to help anyone with "French lessons", although I don't believe Claudia was referring to the language! ;>)

It was a hard week for Dolly. She snapped at The Island's Harmonia Gardens when Henrietta served her a rat pot roast instead of the turkey she ordered. When asked for comment Henrietta Baskin-Robins said annoyed, "What's it to you if I give the islanders a rat pot roast?" She then proceeded to mock the reporter by adding, "Ya caught us, we sit around all day eating rat pot roast and calling Yugoslavia." Katie corrected Herrietta by telling her Yugoslavia no longer exists while Esther screamed at the reporter asking, “When is it ever enough g-dammit, don’t you ever get enough?”

Margaret, still in her own little world was seen sitting in a hospital gown on the sand. She spoke about visiting the other side of The Island where she saw the Statue Of Liberty buried in the beach and Charlton Heston with a gun on his knees screaming, “Noooooooooooooo!”  Lowenstein confided in Claudia, telling her she was worried about Margaret. Claudia just laughed and asked, “Is she NUTS? Oh, I’m sorry that’s your question.” She then flashed Lowenstein and went back to watering her marijuana crop.

Evil Rose has had it with her diet and was caught stealing everyone's stash of goodies on a number of occasions. Hillary talked ER into jogging with her every morning. The other island members like to get up early and watch the two run together. Good Fanny said embarrassed, “It’s good for a laugh, I guess it’s not… funny”. Hillary has begun to excel on The Island with a new talent. Where Daisy is able to find lost addresses, tell when the weather will change before hand and make plants grow, Hillary has found she can sniff out tapioca for her fellow inhabitants. They don’t call her “the nose” for nothing!

Meanwhile Esther has been busy. She found a way to mix several varieties of berries into spray paint and has taken to writing her name in script all over everyone's huts (backwards, of course).  She made the mistake of spraying the roof of Daisy’s hut. Daisy threatened to cut off the next finger that touches her roof <snip><snip>. Esther also infringed on Doris’ privacy but I can’t repeat here what Doris said about that <g>.

Esther‘s emotions ran in all directions this week.  One day it was "I Love You, I Love You." The next day it was "I Hate You, I Hate You”. When not sharing the community rocking chair with Good Rose and Henrietta, “Ess” insists on lighting candles for her nightly baths in the lagoon.  Because of this The Island’s supply of candles are nearly depleted. Soon Yentl will have no candle for The Sabbath prayer and Anshel can’t take a candle to light in the forest while he talks to Papa. Of course Dolly doesn't know from anything but candles and can't brush her naturally red hair in the dark.  Fortunately for her Good Rose has lent Dolly one of her spare hairpieces… Don’t ask!

The other characters now are questioning Esther’s worth on The Island. Sure she can sing like a fish, but can she catch them? She tried to entertain her fellow inhabitants with a song but when she starts shaking her head violently they thought she was having a seizure! Like her late husband John Norman Howard, the current Prime Minister of Australia, Esther is all talk…talk…talk. She keeps saying, "If there were floods (on the island) I'd give a damn"; "Let me do everything, everything (on the island)" and "I'd like to plan a city, play the cello (on the island) ", but no one has seen her do anything. When Esther sings, "I'd like to have the perfect twin, one that goes out when I go in" Anshel and Yentl giggle (although no one has seen them do that at the same time). Doris told Esther, “hopefully folks will only have One More Look At You before you take that final bow at the Tribal Council meeting.” Things looked bleak for Esther until Katie came to her rescue. She uncovered evidence on one of the other island members that could turn everyone against that person. She staged a trial at the weekly tribunal. Would it backfire on Katie? See NEWS: Week 4 for the full trial story!

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