tbaangel-d Digest				Volume 97 : Issue 41

Today's Topics:
	 Re: Unconditional love
	 News, ratings and such....
	 Re: Unconditional love
	 TBAA...about life, not death, IMO
	 Re: TBAA...about life, not death, IMO
	 Re: TBAA...about life, not death, IMO
	 This weeks episode

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:27:29 -0400
From: Jack Koke <jkoke @ .addy.edu>
To: tbaangel @ .execpc.com
Subject: Re: Unconditional love

At 05:59 PM 4/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
< How come Andrew didn't say, "go ahead kick me out too"? I mean I <don't
mean to pick on our dear  beloved character, Andrew, but it didn't <make
sense to me. After all it's only a temp job. 


        Although, the job at the nursing home was a temp job, his job as a
case worker angel is not.  I feel that he had to look at the big picture.  I
am sure that if he had not been on assignment that he would have quit as
well so to prove a point.  But since his job was to be at the nursing home
he really didn't have the chance.

IN CHRIST'S NAME AND LOVE FOREVER

Jackon

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:34:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: IDyeForYou @ .addy.com
To: IDyeForYou @ .addy.com
Subject: News, ratings and such....

Hi everyone,

Ok..it's all official and stuff....

The Late Show with David Letterman:
Tuesday, April 22
News anchor Katie Couric, actress Roma Downey of the hit CBS drama series
"Touched By An Angel," music group INXS

The Rosie O'Donnell Show:
Thursday, April 24
Action star STEVEN SEAGAL
Actress SHARON LAWRENCE ("Fired Up," "NYPD Blue")
>From "Touched By An Angel," actress ROMA DOWNEY

TBAA is the cover story in the May/June issue of Saturday Evening
Post...(thanks Sue)

...and the ratings....

First....the PL airing on Saturday night was successful...although official
renewal has not yet been announced.

CBS was also pleased with ``Chicago Hope's'' 11.7 rating and 21 share. While
the show, because of the Masters overrun, finished at 11:30, making
comparisons tough, the network may be thinking to next fall and whether it
wants to try dramas out on Sunday. CBS also had ``Early Edition'' in the 9-10
p.m. slot, and it averaged a 12.2/18, its all-time high in the metered
markets. National ratings will be issued Tuesday. 

My guess would be that next season we'll see PL Saturdays at 9 pm....and see
TBAA followed by Early Edition and Chicago Hope on Sunday....this would make
sense...but this is CBS...so we'll see.

NEW YORK (Reuter) - The top 20 prime time TV shows for the week beginning
April 7, as compiled by the A.C. Nielsen Co.

CBS had two in the top 10, led by 60 Minutes in sixth place.

A total of 118 prime-time programs were rated.

1/1     E.R. (NBC)                             23.6/39   34.38
2/2     Seinfeld (NBC)                        21.7/34   32.22
3/3     Fired Up (NBC) (P)                  18.8/29   26.64
4/5     Friends (NBC)                         16.3/28   24.36
5/4     Suddenly Susan (NBC)            15.7/26   22.84
6/10-   60 Minutes (CBS)                   15.2/27   21.97
7/10-   Touched By An Angel (CBS)    13.7/22   20.63

Reuters/Variety   12:24 04-16-97

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 01:33:58 -0700
From: Sky Dancer <skydancer @ .addy.net>
To: tbaangel @ .execpc.com
Subject: Re: Unconditional love

> At 05:59 PM 4/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
> < How come Andrew didn't say, "go ahead kick me out too"? I mean I <don't
> mean to pick on our dear  beloved character, Andrew, but it didn't <make
> sense to me. After all it's only a temp job.
 
I've been pondering this a while (and watching everyone's reaction), but
when it was quoted this last time, it really hit home.  "Go ahead and
kick me out too" (IMHO) is in some ways an immature response to the dark
side of human nature.  Angels are above that.  

It never amazes who plot lines are woven in this series.  The first and
formost thread being "God knows what he's doing, even if what happens
seems to make no sense to you."  With Monica in such a fragile human
state, I am sure Andrew was not in any big hurry to go anywhere.  And as
an angel, I would have thought that he would have felt how much pain the
administrator of the nursing home was in through her words.  

God holds on to us in our darkest hours...that's what angels are for. 
Andrew walking out in Rocky's case (The Journalist) had more to do I
believe with Rocky using him so blantantly.  The lady at the nursing
home snarled as a wounded animal would.  Just the situation where an
angel's unconditional love is needed. 

But that's JMHO.  :)
=====================================================================
In Love and Light, 

  Sky Dancer - http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/3471/
  EEL, EEFFRR, KCEB (The Sun-Times Band), TBAA, AiA, X-Phile, &
  Nick's Harem, FKnight Riders, N&NPacker & Dark Knightie Wanna-Be

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:19:46 -0700
From: Richard Treadwell <treadwel @ .addy.com>
To: TBAAngel @ .execpc.com
Subject: TBAA...about life, not death, IMO

Greetings...

	I agree with Darla that "Miss Wings'" (Andrea's) post about aging was
excellent and very insightful.
	However, as one of those dinosaurs, I'd like to point out the exceptional
remark by George; he said something like, "I still feel like a little boy
inside..."  From my life experience that is exactly what aging does...you
still feel 21 inside, but your body ages; limits you.  Oh, some of the
silly passions are set aside...well, most of the time...but it is
frustrating to have an old body limiting the young spirit straining inside.
 Well, it's like a young Monica playing a old person; physically holding
back the spontaneous rapid reactions of her young body.  She did an
exceptional job of it...if anything, I think they made her too old for her
age...especially since George was supposed to be the same age.
	What was neat about that episode was that the angels discerned and wanted
to allow those "young spirits in old bodies" to express themselves, to not
to give up, to be allowed to play...to be alive!
	Specifically, someone posted, "This [Stephanie] is a woman who doesn't
allow her staff to use the word 'death', who puts plastic plants in the
rooms so the inmates will never have to see anything die." I don't mean
this as a slam, :) however I believe it was the flip side which the angels
were assigned to correct, i.e. "plastic plants in the rooms so that inmates
will never have to see anything *ALIVE.*"   IMO "LIFE" was surpressed in
that nursing home and "death" was, indeed, promoted...no activities of
"life" were allowed. It was a death experience...so much so nobody ever
visited.  After all the nurturing of the dying and grieving for the dead
can be incredibly beautiful human experience. Someone said...was it
TBAA..."humans are at the best when things are at their worst."  Embracing
the feelings and reality of death is part of being truly alive.  George's
falling in love with Monica was life breaking forth in a beautiful way...so
was his grief for the former roommate!
	To have emotions is to be alive!  That's why, I think, the angels have
such incredibly acute emotional reactions to things...they are so very
alive.  Their honest, most *vulnerable* depth of feelings is what I love
about them...and it is not simply the characters, but the actors
themselves.  For me, Monica is absolutely brilliant in sharing her personal
joy, love and compassion with us.  However, I think that is also what all
the Andrew posts are responding to...the fullness of life shared from the
hearts of Della, Monica and John through their characters. :)
	Oops...sorry if this post sounds overly passionate. :)  
	In any case, when you younger folks look at an *old body*, please don't
assume there is an *old spirit* inside.  Please allow them, US, to be
alive...otherwise even George's spirit will give up and begin to sit in
chairs staring vacantly at walls.

	In His Love,

		Dick,

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:57:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: AMarsh8597 @ .addy.com
To: tbaangel @ .execpc.com
Subject: Re: TBAA...about life, not death, IMO

Hi Dick, :) 
I was hoping you'd respond to my email.  Well I got the discussion off of the
juvenile Andrew-drivel...at least for a few days. :) 
What have you been up to? I am finishing early childhood special ed
credential program application.

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 04:02:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: AMarsh8597 @ .addy.com
To: tbaangel @ .execpc.com, TBAAngel @ .execpc.com
Subject: Re: TBAA...about life, not death, IMO

ooops sorry I sent a message to Richard(TBAA list member) accidently to the
list. Sorry.  :)

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:22:50 -0400
From: Deelady <deelady @ .addy.net>
To: "'tbaangel @ .execpc.com'" <tbaangel @ .execpc.com>
Subject: This weeks episode

	Well this week's episode may be a rerun, but it is a good one.  I =
especially like when all three angels were fishing  at the end.  Monica =
and Tess's comment to Andrew is priceless.  I won't say it here so as =
not to spoil it for everyone.
	Of course, Andrew has his hair pulled back again!  ARGG  :(    But he =
*does* look cute in a pair of supenders.  I especially like his comment =
to Monica when she sees him and is explaining how she knows him  <G>  =
(you'll love that one, Darla).
	Until later.

NEAFM!!!!
Diana
	

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