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Archives - Phyllis Summers - 2000-2001 See also: Michael Baldwin Phyllis Summers Abbott July 2000 PHYLLIS SUMMERS - STUCK IN A RUT? However, from the outset Summers appeared to be stuck in a stupid rut when she asked
Jack Abbott, "Do you remember me?" 'SMALL TOWN WITH SMALL
MINDED PEOPLE'! After listening to the customer explain she was hoping to get a job, Roma spewed how she was thinking the former Mrs. Romalotti must have come looking for Danny Romalotti, her brother. "He must still be in Europe," Summers replied and then asked for her former husband's address. "Do I look like a lawyer?" Roma snarled before saying her brother and his son are doing fine and not to meddle. Before Summers could give Roma a good smack across the face for being a rude bitch, Jack Abbott walked in to tell Summers he's been having second thoughts about hiring her to run the Jabot Glow website. "Genoa City is a small town with small minded people" Summers spewed and then told Abbott to take his job and shove it. BUG ORDERS NEMESIS
OUT OF TOWN! Looking around for a table with a view, Summers spotted cafe owner Gina Roma. "You're sort of like family. I thought I'd say good bye." Summers sniped. More than pleased to hear the good news Roma showed Summers to a table just as the crusader Bug slithered in. Roma made a point of telling the Bug that Summers was in the house. "Don't worry. Her broomstick is all gassed up. She's ready to leave town" Roma said and quickly changed the subject to why the Bug had chosen her establishment for its early morning meal. Although Roma had promised to distract Summers, so that the Bug could eat in peace, it wasn't long before Summers spotted the creature, walked over and said hello. The hatred began flowing immediately. As the war of words got underway Summers made a snide remark about a baby Bug. "You don't have any friends in Genoa City. Just get out of town. I'm busy. It's been a pleasure talking to you," the Bug seethed. Fearing she might rip the Bug's antenna off, Summers moved away, thought about returning to her table for a moment but turned and rushed out the door. Moments later Summers was in the office of Jabot Cosmetics executive, Jack Abbott where she told Abbott if the job of web site creator is still open she's ready for the task. September 2000 Money Is Tight! "My agent already has other jobs lined up for me but I'm going to wait a bit before looking at them," Summers said. "Money is tight," Jabot executive Jack Abbott told Summers but acknowledged the work Summers did this summer on the Glow by Jabot website helped sales skyrocket. Accordingly, Abbott indicated he would bring the matter of Summers' continued employment before the board of directors. Perfect Strangers? Newman praised Summers for her work on the Glow by Jabot website but when she began asking technical questions Summers became suspicious. "Who are you? What are you up to Victoria? If that's really your name." "I'm one of the Newmans. I run Rash & Sassy," Newman assured Summers. "Trying a little industrial espionage are we? You're not very good at it," Summers snapped. Newman pressed on with questions about Summers contractual agreement with Jabot Cosmetics and hinted if none exists she might be willing to offer Summers a job with a big company and a big budget. Summers did not immediately respond but is expected to make a deal with Newman soon. Memory Problems? In the past, Baldwin has made it clear his representation would be seen as a conflict of interest, but Summers apparently didn't get it or she's suffering from memory loss. Baldwin did however, agree to assist Summers off the record. Talks Break Down Summers outlined her position in a memo she presented during a meeting Tuesday with Newman at R&S. Written with the help of attorney Michael Baldwin, the memo listed conditions under which Summers would work for the Newman Enterprises subsidiary. "I need a contract. It's pay and play. I won't be shuttled off to Siberia. Graveyards are filled with people who didn't protect themselves against Victor Newman," Summers said. "I offered Ms. Summers a sweet deal. She's burned bridges at Jabot so my offer stands," Newman huffed turning her nose up at Summers demands. "I've had five other offers. She [Newman] obviously don't realize how easy it will be for me to get my job back at Jabot. It's her call," Summers grumbled as she balked out of the meeting abruptly. Summers Scores! Specific details of the contract signed Thursday were not made public. "I call it ingratitude! She stabbed us in the back," angry Jabot Cosmetics competitor Jack Abbott said upon learning of the agreement but concluded the loss of Summers may be a blessing in disguise. Summers celebrated her new employment with a bottle of champagne and some heavy petting with attorney Michael Baldwin at the offices of Williams & Baldwin. More Office Sex! "It was disgusting," said Xerox service technician Laura Daniels who was repairing a FAX machine in the copy room next door. "Look, I don't mind a good roll in the hay now and then but I do it in the privacy of my own bedroom - not at the office. Those two were humping away like dogs in heat." A W&B secretary, Chantal, was asked if either Summers or Baldwin washed up after the apparent sex act. "Oh, I didn't see anything. I heard some noise in there but compared to where I used to work it weren't nothing. Do you know my old boss boinks his girlfriends right on his desk? That old fart doesn't clean up afterwards either so I didn't pay any attention to what was going on in Mr. Baldwin's office until I saw Ms. Williams go in. Ms. Summers rushed out but she didn't stop to use the restroom." October 2000 Walking On Thin Ice? Upset that Billy Abbott, a classmate she's led to believe had sex with her, Hodges demanded Friday that Summers not reveal the truth should Abbott ask. Unwilling to get on the Abbott's bad side, Summers refused which brought an immediate tongue lashing from Hodges. "I can tell everyone what you did in a hot minute," Hodges spewed only to have it thrown back into her face. "People will see you as a deceitful, pitiful, jealous, rejected girlfriend and they won't believe anything you say," Summers snarled adding it's not smart to threaten Phyllis Summers. February 2001 Tuesday
02.13.01 Upset the man she hopes to snare as a full-time lover is being setup to attend the christening with another woman, Summers spewed what some have interpreted as discrimination toward full-sized women. "I'm just going to see for myself what this date looks like. I hope she is big, fat and ugly", Summers said without further comment. March 2001 Newmans Seek Company
Secrets Newman's daughter, Victoria, desperate for money to run a summer ad campaign for subsidiary Rash & Sassy cosmetics, again pledged she will, "take down" Jabot CEO, Jack Abbott. Mr. Newman, uncertain of Summers loyalty, expressed concern that Summers' bad attitude would normally be cause for dismissal but will make an exception so long as she provides exceptionally highly classified Jabot documents or other information. While the cloak and dagger facade might be drama-driven under normal circumstances, a full assessment of what damage Summers might bring to bear on Jabot will take more time. Considering Jack Abbott is aware Summers may be a counter-spy it would seem this spy-vs-spy game will certainly rank as one of the bigger intelligence failures ever to take place in Genoa City. Football Star
Tours City! "I saw the game! You guys were wonderful. What are you doing in Genoa City?" Summers peppered Bailey until the cornerback explained he's in Genoa City on vacation doing a little sight-seeing. Never too busy to make a fool of herself, Summers quipped, "If you need a guide I'd be happy to show you around." "My girlfriend knows the area quite well. We'll be fine," Bailey replied politely shaking Summer's hand and looking anxious to rid himself of a major menace. The Fools On
The Hill But the real fools here are everyone involved in these silly websites. Without dissecting the individual items, suffice it is to say that the entire concept is a joke. Primarily because Spring break is already underway and these morons are still planning? There is hope for Summer website events but not much. New webmaster Sean Bridges is on the scene for Jabot but has already blundered by asking for the help of a teenaged girl to help him review web cast tapes from last year. On the other side of the fence, Rash & Sassy's one and only coordinator, Victoria Newman, isn't even in town! So why is Jabot so worried about the competition? Phyllis Summers was banned from accessing R&S computers so how did she manage to obtain high level information and take that information to her hotel room? If the imbeciles at Jabot and Rash & Sassy bumbling around in the dark pretending to be corporate spies are representative of America's spy network the Russian's have nothing to worry about. May 2001 Baby Makes Three? The subject of childbirth surfaced after Jack Abbott mewled how lucky his sister, Ashley Abbott Carlton, is to have a child in her life. Abbott conveniently forgot his does have a child named Keemo Violein who at last report was living in Vietnam. June 2001 Unfit For
Motherhood? "The judge said I was an unfit mom when he gave custody to Danny. I don't want to fail with another child," Summers moaned when asked if she intends to have children should she and Jack Abbott take their relationship to the marriage level. "I'll just have to keep Jack dazzled so he'll forget about a child for now," Summers added. It was 1994 when Summers first blew into Genoa and immediately blamed Christine 'Bug' Blair, the former wife of rock star Danny Romalotti, of breaking up her family. Summers thought her life was going to be perfect after she seduced Romalotti in 1993 and convinced him the child she was going to have was his. The couple were married, divorced and by 1997 had married again. But when Sasha Green appeared with a manuscript detailing how Summers had doctored a paternity test, things began going haywire. Summers didn't like being blackmailed and Green wound up dead. Another paternity test revealed Romalotti was not the father of Danny JR. Romalotti filed for divorce and a custody battle ensued. In 1988 Romalotti won custody. Summers was granted visitation rights but after one or two visits Romalotti fled with her child to Europe. Summers never sought a legal remedy and to this day has made only one inquiry as to her son's whereabouts. Privacy Lacking In
Wireless World Winters suspects Perez didn't go to her prom because she couldn't afford a dress. Why
it matters at all is only something the bizarre people involved would know. By simply
placing a call to the Human Resources department at Newman Enterprises and then a call to
the librarian (see photo) at the high school Perez attended, Summers was able to ascertain
that in fact, Perez did not attend the prom. Webmaster
Has Mini-Breakdown July 2001 Hotel, Didn't
Do Anything Wrong In the golden state to attend a computer conference, Summers left Genoa City aboard We Fly You Anywhere Air, checked herself into a hotel and after a shower to rinse way the travel grime was outraged to find the hotel bellhop had allowed Jack Abbott into her room! How the Jabot Cosmetics CEO determined Summer's whereabouts and why the hotel would allow anyone into her room has raised serious questions about security. Police and hotel officials had no immediate plans to conduct an investigation. Summers pleaded with the bellhop to call security but the little slug didn't make a move to offer any help. As Abbott pleaded with Summers to reconsider, she looked at the bellhop and spat, "What are you still doing here? Get lost!" Confused, the bellhop departed not knowing what to do and subsequently did nothing. Summers and Abbott renewed their battle over Abbott's demand she marry him even though Summers continues to say she needs time to think about how she can get beyond the past. Beyond Past,
Woman Says I Do! Under the Abbott family shotgun, Summers got a lucky break this week when she snatched up the opportunity to attend a computer conference in California. Thinking the time alone would give her time to sort things out, Summers was surprised Thursday when Jack Abbott showed up at her hotel room. Summers again reminded Abbott of her fear. The marriage to Romalotti was such a disaster and since residents of Genoa City do not learn from the past, they are destined to repeat it. "I just want to grow old with you," Abbott pleaded. After receiving assurances that Abbott's family will learn to accept her, Summers gave in. She accepted the proposal even though Abbott did not present her with an engagement ring. Like most men in this city who have been granted their wish, Abbott said, "You've made me the happiest man in the world." Las Vegas odd makers give the marriage a slim to none chance of lasting more than a year. No wedding date was immediately disclosed. August 2001 She's pregnant! Summers had just come from a distasteful meeting with Newman Enterprises giant Victor Newman during which the great man demanded to know why she hadn't told him that she is living with Abbott. Apparently thinking the stomach pain was a normal reaction to having encountered Newman, Summers didn't give it a second thought. However, pain of this nature is almost always indicative of pregnancy. Sales? What sales? Like the ignorant morons in charge of the Glow by Jabot site, Summers seems to think the amount of hits a site receives means something. In addition, it is impossible to determine the age group of web surfers clicking into any given site unless a survey form is in place to record such information. For the savvy business people they claim to be, both R&S and Glow officials have yet to figure out that the purpose of their sites is to generate sales. Since their inception, not a single Newman Enterprises or Jabot executive has asked, "So how are web sales?" Webmaster rushed to
doctor! Worst care anywhere! Ms. Summers was rushed to
the C4D after developing what was termed a painful 'twinge' in her abdomen and after
waiting to see the doctor for what seemed like an eternity, Dr. Walker sauntered by for a
gaze at his patient. "You say you feel a twinge. Is there any pain?" Walker
asked. Woman rushed to
surgery! One moment Summers was fine and the next she was doubled over in pain. Summers' doctor, Reese Walker, already aware that the twinges come and go, had planned additionally to run a sonogram on his patient but when he walked into the waiting room and saw Summers in pain, immediately ordered her to emergency surgery. The rash move was bizarre even by C4D standards. What would the surgeon look for once Summers was sliced open? Why didn't Walker order an MRI first? What if the patient only had a stomach virus or a simple case of indigestion? What made Walker think his patient was in a life threatening situation? Could it have been money? As previously reported, the Center 4 Disease is a dangerous place. With one of the highest death rates in the nation, the C4D has a long history of malpractice ranging from unskilled doctors to pharmacists who dilute patients medication in order to increase their profits. Hospital patient
escapes death! "This was actually a medical emergency," Dr. Reese Walker said as he informed Summers it was a good thing she came to the hospital when she did. Otherwise, who knows what may have happened? But the news was not all good. Walker explained how he suspected Summers might have been pregnant and a test prior to the surgery confirmed his suspicion. Unfortunately, the pain Summers experienced meant the baby wasn't in the uterus where it should have been but was in a fallopian tube which had ruptured. Although it was only a guess at the time, Walker rushed Summers to surgery where it was determined there was no viable baby. In addition, the left fallopian tube is "gone" and the right is severely damaged. Regrettably, Summers will be unable to have children. Down the tubes! Claiming to know how important family is, Abbott sniveled how Phyllis Summers saw right through him. "The woman I love knows how I feel about having a child" he gurgled playing the victim to a tee. In Genoa City, it's all about me. A woman undergoes emergency surgery which may have saved her life and all the man in her life can do is whine about how it affects him. "How can I console her when I feel like this? What's wrong with me?" Abbott asked. What's wrong with Abbott is spelled s-e-l-f-i-s-h. If, as Abbott says, he needs a child to fill a void in his life, a good place to start would be to track down the son he already has. Even if takes long distance calls to Vietnam, give Keemo Violein a call. Get to know him. If that's not good enough, check out adoption. But the elite residents of this city are fearful of adoption. Some agonize over being unable to be with their biological children while others fight tooth and nail to get visitation rights to children they have no blood connection. Mention the word adoption and their eyes get glassy as if adopting were equal to the black plague. Scrambled eggs? IVF makes it possible to
combine sperm and eggs in a laboratory for a baby that is genetically related to one or
both partners and is often used when a woman's fallopian tubes, likes Summers', are
blocked. The ovaries are stimulated to produce multiple eggs and once mature, the eggs are
suctioned from the ovaries and placed in a lab culture dish with the man's sperm for
fertilization. The dish is placed in an incubator and about two days later (one hour Genoa
City time), three to five embryos would be transferred to Summer's uterus. If she doesn't
become pregnant, she can try again in the next cycle. Address unknown? Besides the obvious, nothing about Roma's request made any sense. Roma knows Williams can't stand her brother. To tell the PI that Romalotti wants the address was a slap in Williams' face. Williams and Romalotti fought over the Bug for years. Rock star Romalotti was once married to the Legal Aid crusader turned passive aggressive lawyer but lost the girl of his dreams to Williams. Romalotti later settled for Phyllis
Summers after she tricked him into thinking the child she had given birth to was his. The
Bug and Williams became the child's godparents and eventually, Romalotti learned the truth
about Summers. After a custody battle, Romalotti took Danny JR., and fled to Europe even
though the court had given Summers visitation rights. Hot babe Summers back
on the market? September 2001 In Vitro is out,
would be too stressful? The real reason Abbott doesn't want Newman Enterprises webmaster Phyllis Summers to go through the process undoubtedly has more to do with the discovery of Abbott's paternal relationship to ousted Genoa City resident Diane Jenkins' baby than anything else. The process of In Vitro fertilization is relatively stress free. More than 20,000 babies have been born worldwide using the procedure. Due to improvements in ultrasound imaging, surgery is no longer necessary for most In Vitro Fertilization patients. A technique for recovery of eggs from the ovary uses a sonographically-guided needle to replace the surgical procedure which previously was used to recover oocytes (eggs). This procedure requires neither hospitalization nor general anesthesia. Newly released C4D
patient attends gala! Summers entered the
hospital on August 15 after experiencing stomach 'twinges', underwent surgery on August 20
and was subsequently told she would be unable to have children. While most operations of
this nature are considered routine and Summers should have been released within two or
three days, C4D policy retains patients for the longest amount of time possible in an
effort to milk insurance companies for all they are worth. Jack Abbott pops the
question! I, ah, I, er, YES! November 2001 And baby makes three! December 2001 Tuesday, 12.11.01 Such was the case Tuesday when Phyllis Summers, told by her immediate supervisor to start helping out with boosting low company morale at Rash & Sassy Cosmetics by getting to work on a new holiday campaign in less than 24-hours, balked at being told how to do her job and threatened to quit. "It would be silly to change in midstream. It would confuse our buying public. It takes time to come up with great ideas and finally it would cost millions," Summers yelped. Told again to do her job, Summers fired back, "I'm giving 110-percent for this job. I've got plans of my own. I was going to ask for some time off. If you want it done, do it yourself or get a new webmaster!" Without blinking an eye, Summers' supervisor, Neil Winters, backed down. Heaven forbid he reprimand an indispensable employee. If employee morale was the overriding problem, Winters could resolve that issue himself. Providing employees with eye-catching, brightly colored shirt-hat-and-apron ensembles might work. Friday, 12.14.01 It's common knowledge that the privileged few in Genoa City are some of the most bizarre people found anywhere on the globe. Where else can two women have a civil conversation one moment and be stabbing each other in the back the next? All smiles and even pouring coffee she proudly brewed herself, Newman Enterprises webmaster Phyllis Summers entertained and pumped competitor Nikki Newman for information about Diane Jenkins Friday but came away empty handed when Newman switched the subject to Summers' impending marriage. Anxious to expound on her wedding, Summers visualized doves flying, saw herself dressed in a pretty Oscar de la Renta gown and fired off an invitation to her soon to be husband's former wife which was joyously accepted. But Newman wasn't interested in Summers' life. She could care less if Summers relationship with Jack Abbott is meaningful or if there is any real intimacy in it. What she really wanted to know was what Summers plans to do about having children. Summers was stunned. Was Newman saying that her marriage is doomed if she doesn't pop out a baby or two? Must every married couple bring children into an already crowded and dangerous world in order to be accepted in the eyes of society? Was Newman already trying to break up her marriage before it had begun? Fed up with Newman's conniving, Summers threw down the gauntlet. "I'll bet our marriage lasts longer than yours did," she hissed as Newman made a fast getaway. Had there been a substantial amount of money at stake, Newman stood to reap the reward. In Genoa City, long term marriages are rare with most ending in divorce within the first year. With news floating around that Jack Abbott is the father of Diane Jenkins' baby, Summers marriage could go down in the history books as one of the shortest. Monday, 12.17.01 On the small scale there is Summers' matron of dishonor who has yet to throw the bridal shower and not a single person has shown any interest in arranging a bachelor party for Abbott. On a larger scale is the vague information Abbott's former wife holds alluding to the siring of Diane Jenkins' baby. Depending on when Nikki Newman makes the information public could determine if there will be a wedding. If it is revealed that Abbott made a sperm deposit at the local sperm lab which wiggled its way into Jenkins' womb, Summers will undoubtedly be too repulsed to go through with the marriage. The elitists in this city operate on a fine line. Illegitimate children roaming the globe are like flies in soup. That woman had your baby? Get away from me you scourge! Discovering another baby he hasn't bonded with, Abbott is likely to develop a guilt complex comparable to the one that manifested when his son Keemo Violein surfaced. Try as he might, Abbott could never get his son to accept the white man's way. Jumping at another chance to demonstrate his parental responsibility, Abbott's infatuation could leave Summers alone to ponder her blocked and defective fallopian tubes. Distraught, Summers might find solace by making lemonade out of the lemons. It would be the perfect opportunity to forget about having new kids and track down the kid she abandoned. After a custody battle years ago, the court gave Summers visitation rights to her son, Danny JR. Although not the child's biological father, rock star Danny Romalotti was given custody but soon fled to Europe. To this day Summers has made no effort to find her son.
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