ME AND THE FAMILY Hello hello! My name is Spectra, Sally Spectra. I am the head of Spectra Fashions, that famous fashion house, and the one and only opposite to the Forrester Creations (of course there are more fashion houses out there, but no matter how much Forrester claims to be a high standard fashion house, in the end both Spectra Fashions and Forrester Creations, and only the two of us, are in the same league.)
I have a son and I also had a daughter My daughter was called Macy Alexander, a lovely young woman, who had a great singing career and so much more in her life but then she died., My son is called CJ, namely Clarke Junior. He was conceived in a union of Clarke Garrison and myself. I also had another kid to look after, Kimberly Fairchild, who has now gone away with her father (she sure did cause trouble). It's been a long time since I was married or even had a good relationship. Adam, my ex-husband from behind 25 years was by my side for a while ago (after I somewhat forgave him all the pain he caused me by leaving me and Macy alone 25 years ago, you should have seen me, I was super furious everytime he was around!), and then he had to go again. The other men in my life have been Clarke Garrison, Jack Hamilton and Eric Forrester (he played me for a fool though).
MY ENEMIES & MY SPECTRA FASHIONS My enemies consist mainly of Queen Stephanie and her clan. As Stephanie must have told you, she and I are the greatest enemy couple. We are always disagreeing on everything. Namely because I've stolen millions of Forrester designs. Hah, Queen Stephanie deserves it. Hasn't she so many times cursed me and thrown me deep in the depths (and also to Lake Como). She thinks she is so great because she and Eric built the Forrester Creations, which is on the top of the fashion world, has been for a long time, while I'm struggling here, we are always going to be just a second class fashion house (at least that's what Stephanie says) and just trying to gnawe our living from this. And it's all because of money! MONEY is the word. Money rules the world. Money money money, it's a rich man's world! But you know, Spectra has had bad times, but we have also had some very good times, surfing on the top of the fashion wave for a while, with a brilliant head designer, top class designs, high tech knowledge and abilities for everything blah blah blah and so on. We have had times when we were almost on the edge, without a head designer and a season's collection, almost quit. But something has always saved us. Me, my BRILLIANT plans, or my friends. Or even enemies, like Clarke, that stupid scheming Clarke, whom I was once married to. Clarke wanted to see his son and be with him. He also wanted to help us and promised he will never betray us. I was desperate so I let him get back into my world and my company again. Yes, yes. I should have known him. Never can trust anyone than myself. My best friend, good old me. He left us and went to the Forrester.... my history with Clarke is very long. After Clarke had left us, Grant Chambers came to save us, with his designs, those from the Forrester house. Aaah, it felt so great when they heard about it. The Forresters, I mean. They were devastated, we had our rights to use their designs, they couldn't get them back. A big victory, the Forresters got what they deserved! Another time, we were almost in the end, but then we got a check of a very big sum from some mysterious person, and that check helped us pay our bills and rise the company from the ruins. I still don't know who sent that check. Last time when we were almost finished, we had Clarke save our butts again. CJ talked him into coming back, for his son's sake, and he came, risking his career and everything he had. Clarke has never been that good of a father. He hasn't done much for CJ and has not always been there when me and my son would have needed him. He probably came because he felt guilty. CJ was furious, you know he's so good at it, he was ready to forget his Dad for good, if he did not come back. And he came, and he saved us, at least somehow. These days, Clarke and I are getting on quite well and at times he has actually been a good father too.
Sometimes I've had to save Spectra Fashions myself, and I sure have done a great job with it. Stealing the Forrester designs or making Spectra crash their fashion show. Anything can work, just have to have enough creativity. See, Queen Stephanie, this company has been raised back up from the shadows for so many times already, we have always survived. What about your company, Queen Stephanie, huh? It's not even yours! You don't own it, Brooke does, at least most of it, and Eric has some of the rest. What has your company survived? Nothing! Ha!
MY FRIENDS I think I could call Lauren one of my best friends. I haven't seen her in ages now though, Lauren is on her way back to Genoa City, I don't know whether she will ever get there. I tried my best to help her stay but it didn't work, she felt she didn't have anything to do here and she left, having lost her battle in love, in life. Poor Lauren. I miss her, only a bit though, because for a soap opera character only those things that are actively present in his or her life matter. So I can't really miss someone who has disappeared without a good explanation... Then there's Darla, my loyal secretary Darla, she truly is a friend! She has been such great help to me. So was Saul, good old Saul who is unfortunately not here with us any longer, hasn't been for long. He and Darla were my greatest help with the company. Darla and I have always had so much fun, like dressing up in fancy costumes and gatecrashing parties and fashion shows we weren't invited to.
MY SON CJ I just love my son. To think about it, I haven't seen him for a while though. I wonder where he went. I try my best to help him grow up the right way and learn the rules of this cruel world and he repays me by disappearing. Not so nice, but oh well. I've always had to raise him alone so maybe that is why he is acting this way. Yet I did raise him well. One day he will be in charge of this company. He is already taking big responsibilities, and furying himself because of the bad treatment I receive from Queen Stephanie and her clan. CJ is a nice young man, he is always trying to help others, he is always kind to people and he protects everyone who is being treated unfairly. I've raised him very well, you see. Even if I've had to raise him alone for most of the time, I've done a terrific job, that much I can say. It's okay to praise yourself a bit sometimes, isn't it? My son is also very handsome and therefore attracts many young ladies. He also married the love of his life (I guess) Becky, a cousin of Amber's. Because of Becky I adopted a new habit that I learned from my good friend and great enemy Queen Stephanie: always butt in your son's lovelife. That's what I did quite a lot back then. The Becky died of cancer and left behind a baby boy. My son should have been the one to take care of him, but his so called best friend Rick wanted the kid too... and that sure did cause a lot of trouble. CJ wanted to marry Amber, but she went to Rick. Another reason for me to hate the Forresters, and Stephanie (because she was supporting Rick all the time).
MY DAUGHTER MACY I love my daughter Macy. She was my daughter from my first marriage to Adam Alexander. Macy had to go through a lot in her too short of a life. 25 years ago her father left me and Macy alone. Okay, I know, it's more or less been more than 25 years already, but you know, 25 years sounds a lot more catchy and it's easier to say than something else, I like saying it. I've been saying it quite a lot since the 25 years peek. Anyway, Macy missed her father terribly. Her life seemed to work out pretty well after all, she got married a few times to a Forrester, which I disliked very much at times, and at times very much loved. She also met the power of alcohol, which was a very sad thing to happen. Also she could travel around the world and sing to people. They loved her singing. She sang with Thorne, the bad Forrester, who she always kept ending up with, no matter how untrustworthy he had proven to be, like when he made Macy fall for the bottle. She also married Grant Chambers, who unfortunately died. Macy was the happiest with him, I should say. Then she married Thorne again and because of Thorne, that stupid Forrester, and Brooke my daughter Macy is now dead. Together these two horrible persons drove Macy to grab the bottle and she died in a car accident with Brooke by her side. Brooke however survived and is now happy with Thorne. HOW UNFAIR. At the moment, this is the greatest reason to hate the Forresters. We don't even have so many fashion shows anymore. It seems to have become a minor occupation in our lives. Other things, like family and relationships are much more significant. Anyway, the Forresters killed my beloved daughter and caused heartache for my son. That's enough of a reason to hate them. They are like the incarnations of the devil, they think of nothing but themselves. I could go on forever about this. At least now I have a weapon to use in this battle...
WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON Lately I've been romancing this man called Massimo. He is a very tough guy, and I'd just love to spend some more time in his company (wink, wink) but he is attracted to Stephanie - very unfortunately, but then again, that makes him all the more desirable. But at least Massimo helped me to a weapon to use in the battle against Stephanie. I know Mrs Forrester has a horrible secret and if it came out, it could destroy a great deal of those people whose last name is Forrester. I just love my new position. Oh how I adore this. Finally I have something that I could use against the Forresters, to get a revenge on them for killing my lovely daughter Macy... but unfortunately Massimo is holding me back. I have to wait and see. It's boring. Other things that I have been doing lately include hiring a new designer, a hot lationo guy Tony. He also brought along Sofia, who is a good model and has become a part of the Spectra team. Tony recently married Kristen Forrester, and Eric was against this union. Now of course Tony had all my support, because it was against what Eric wanted. Besides, by being involved in this I came out as a good and tolerable, easy going kind of person, and Eric looked like a conservative old f*rt who is too prejudiced. Isn't that great, now? There.
Hi! My name is CJ (I'm not quite sure what are those letters for). I am the son of the Grande Diva Sally Spectra and some guy whom she let boss her around as much as he wanted until finally realizing what a jerk he is... Oh yeah, Clarke Garrison. Maybe one of my two letters has something to do with the name Clarke... I have to think about that. There was a time when I had nothing to do in this show. I didn't have the smallest bit of a storyline. I was only the crying shoulder for my family and friends. I was just fooling around and playing guitar once in a while. I played once with this rising star, Amber Moore in Café Insomnia. Thought it was going to be something big. Maybe we could have gotten together and form a great band, be famous stars all around the world. But no way. This little beginning of a star was stupid enough to get pregnant, and trap Rick Forrester, my best friend into marrying her. All that was left for me was to try and tell Kimberly that it was going to be all right. Oh yes, Kimberly was crying for Rick, the man she happened to love so much, a guy who was a married man. I had high hopes for making her forget Rick and start dating with me full time. But it never worked out. Then she got together with Rick again. And oh yeah, all Amber's fault. This child she had, could as well have been someone else's, some guy who she happened to sleep with just the day before Rick. (Oh but you have to pretend you don't know that!). Whoops. This came by habit. You can know that already, everyone does by now. I had to be the one keeping the secret from Rick when he should have known. Luckily Amber never told me her other biggie big secret. It was hard enough to keep the other one from my best friend. True, at the time Rick and I, were yet another link between the feuding Forrester and Spectra families, those who always hated each other. Yeah right. As I told Amber and Rick once, that was a long time ago. Now we feel nothing but hate towards each other.
When Rick dumped Amber, I started dating the most wonderful woman, Amber's cousin Becky. I promised her the moon and everything else she might want. Our story began as a very stormy one, we had my mother against Becky, actually that was quite romantic. But Becky and I were too happy together. She had her baby that she got back from Amber, and we were like a little family. It was just going too well for us. As everyone knows, there are the laws of nature and then there are the laws of soap opera. The laws of soap opera say that no one can be happy in the long run. So Becky had to die. She died of cancer, and I was very sad, I became a widow, at very young age. But I'm not bitter, because I realize it served a purpose: we couldn't be happy. She left behind her baby boy, for me and Amber to raise. So I did what she wanted, thought I would follow my destiny, a script of life that someone had written for me but that was not the way it was supposed to be after all. I wanted to marry Amber, and we almost did marry, until Amber's old instincts got the best of her and she went back to the rich guy Ricky boy. She took the baby with him, but then she ended up having to fight for him with this weirdo guy Deacon who was Becky's lover some years ago. Now she is happily back with Rick and this Deacon guy is fooling around with Bridget and who knows where else. While they all are having so much fun with their lives, I just lie around somewhere and do nothing. I hope something will happen soon. Who knows, maybe I will age a bit, that would be fun. I've been through the famous Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome more than once already, so I wouldn't be too surprised. I don't really know how old I will be next year. Will let you know.
Big thanks to someone who sent me a monologue for CJ. This is based somewhat on that. THANKS!!!!!
Hi! I am Darla! (hi-hi-hi). I don't have a storyline! I am only a secretary at Spectra Fashions, Sally's right hand. I have worked there for as long as I can remember! Saul and I were Sally's greatest help all the time. Saul is now dead, has been a long while. I still miss him. Sally and I are good friends. Sally is actually my best friend. I have no one else, but all the people at Spectra. I haven't dated for a long time. Last time was when I dated Bill Spencer. It was a short and stupid relationship. Grant was my good friend too. I was hoping for something good to start between Thorne and I. But I could never really believe in it. My life is just too small for that. I just wish to get a storyline, but they won't give me one. A handsome rich man could enter my life, fall in love with me, and then he could fight for me, and finally get me. Then we could live happily ever after---until another man would part us. That would be great. It is the best thing I could hope for myself right now. Oh but wait - that could hardly happen in a soap opera. It's always the women who fight for men. Unless your name is Amber. So I guess I have to give up on my dream. Bye bye, I have to go now, and do some paperwork or Sally will be mad.
This page last updated at 1/19/2002.