Friday, March 17, 2006
the grand dame
...aaliyah - care 4 u - track 12...
i realized, at some point, i would have to explain the statement...the title. erica kane is the matriarch of pine valley. matriarch sounds so matronly, doesn't it. she's more the legacy. she is kane.
erica is a "homegrown star". when the show debuted, erica was 16 years old. she and her mother, mona kane, were the focus of all my children. maybe people focused on them more because mona kane was a single mother. maybe it's because erica proved to be a bit of a bad seed. either way you look at it, a star (and a legacy) was born. it was destiny, and erica knew it.
she has been through so many things i am not a "witness" to, i know i'll never be able to do a good synopsis. at least not one of "blog size". let's see...she's had ten, pardon, eleven marriages. four of them to the same (and current) husband, jackson montgomery. she's been a fashion model, spokesmodel, cosmetic mogel, magazine editor, and a talk show host. so it goes without saying, one ms. erica kane has little trouble in love or money.
...or a lot of trouble, depending on how you look at it.
but of all the up's and down's of her life, i think the struggles with her children are what's most important to her. her youngest daughter, bianca, involved the most...sensible of stress. there was the custody battle (although, she did kidnap her own daughter), helping her daughter through an eating disorder, and even found out she was gay. the most tramatic event concerning bianca was her rape through which she gave birth to miranda mona montgomary...
Unfortunately, this brings me to erica's oldest daughter, kendal. somewhere in 1990, kendal hart came to town as erica's assistant. (she REALLY needs to be more careful when she hires assistants. val was her only good one!) it was recovered that erica was raped at 14 (something set up by her sleazy father eric kane, no less) and kendal was the product of that heinous crime. matron mona kane made erica give her up for adopton and erica has had to pay for that decision a long time...at least after she remembered it happend. >;-D>
what we did see happen in erica's life, was her abortion. oooh, she was punished for that too. she was the first to have an "on screen" abortion in soap history (if not tv history). the "fans" went wild, so in retribution, she lost her husband and something else i don't quite remember - probably something to do with her careeer, i'm sure. some 26 years later, all the suffering proves to be in vain. there's more suffering to overcome. erica kane's new secret turn this into more of a tragedy.
she's recently discovered that the abortion didn't happen. the world renown fertility doctor, Dr. Madden, stole her embryo. he (presumedly) was one of the first doctors to experiment on embryo transplanting, but he did it without erica's knowledge or consent. well, anyone who knows anything about soaps knows that there is always more to the story. the young man she hired as "new beginnings" production manager, who is also trying to steal her job to the extent of drugging her to discredit her sanity, is her son. the reasons why erica hired Dr. Madden's son Josh is it's own long story, and firing him is self explanatory, but explaining why she hasn't pressed charges, even without actual proof of the druggings, is getting harder by the day.
there's an awful lot of drama going on in ms. kane's life, even now some couple of months after i started this entry. will she be able to keep this latest secret? and considering jeff martin, is this even her secret to keep? the time will come when the things kept in the dark will come to light, but we'll have to turn that page (or skip those comercials) when we get there. for now, this is a glimpse into the life of the woman you always wanted to be, until you knew her story.
i realized, at some point, i would have to explain the statement...the title. erica kane is the matriarch of pine valley. matriarch sounds so matronly, doesn't it. she's more the legacy. she is kane.
erica is a "homegrown star". when the show debuted, erica was 16 years old. she and her mother, mona kane, were the focus of all my children. maybe people focused on them more because mona kane was a single mother. maybe it's because erica proved to be a bit of a bad seed. either way you look at it, a star (and a legacy) was born. it was destiny, and erica knew it.
she has been through so many things i am not a "witness" to, i know i'll never be able to do a good synopsis. at least not one of "blog size". let's see...she's had ten, pardon, eleven marriages. four of them to the same (and current) husband, jackson montgomery. she's been a fashion model, spokesmodel, cosmetic mogel, magazine editor, and a talk show host. so it goes without saying, one ms. erica kane has little trouble in love or money.
...or a lot of trouble, depending on how you look at it.
but of all the up's and down's of her life, i think the struggles with her children are what's most important to her. her youngest daughter, bianca, involved the most...sensible of stress. there was the custody battle (although, she did kidnap her own daughter), helping her daughter through an eating disorder, and even found out she was gay. the most tramatic event concerning bianca was her rape through which she gave birth to miranda mona montgomary...
Unfortunately, this brings me to erica's oldest daughter, kendal. somewhere in 1990, kendal hart came to town as erica's assistant. (she REALLY needs to be more careful when she hires assistants. val was her only good one!) it was recovered that erica was raped at 14 (something set up by her sleazy father eric kane, no less) and kendal was the product of that heinous crime. matron mona kane made erica give her up for adopton and erica has had to pay for that decision a long time...at least after she remembered it happend. >;-D>
what we did see happen in erica's life, was her abortion. oooh, she was punished for that too. she was the first to have an "on screen" abortion in soap history (if not tv history). the "fans" went wild, so in retribution, she lost her husband and something else i don't quite remember - probably something to do with her careeer, i'm sure. some 26 years later, all the suffering proves to be in vain. there's more suffering to overcome. erica kane's new secret turn this into more of a tragedy.
she's recently discovered that the abortion didn't happen. the world renown fertility doctor, Dr. Madden, stole her embryo. he (presumedly) was one of the first doctors to experiment on embryo transplanting, but he did it without erica's knowledge or consent. well, anyone who knows anything about soaps knows that there is always more to the story. the young man she hired as "new beginnings" production manager, who is also trying to steal her job to the extent of drugging her to discredit her sanity, is her son. the reasons why erica hired Dr. Madden's son Josh is it's own long story, and firing him is self explanatory, but explaining why she hasn't pressed charges, even without actual proof of the druggings, is getting harder by the day.
there's an awful lot of drama going on in ms. kane's life, even now some couple of months after i started this entry. will she be able to keep this latest secret? and considering jeff martin, is this even her secret to keep? the time will come when the things kept in the dark will come to light, but we'll have to turn that page (or skip those comercials) when we get there. for now, this is a glimpse into the life of the woman you always wanted to be, until you knew her story.
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