Smitten: Marital Impasse

Smitten: Marital Impasse    
   
     Rowena seeks reassurance from Doug’s television wife. Ro says, “Listen, I know you’re only Doug’s wife on TV but, please, tell me those steamy kisses are all fake.”
     The actress says, “Smooching with him is like doing it with my cousin.”
     Ro replies, “Your cousin is a surfer dude built like a locomotive. So that isn’t reassuring.”
     In private his real wife, Rowena, asks:
“Those kisses look pretty passionate. Do they ever turn Frenchie?”
     Doug says, “It is all for the ratings honey. There is no more passion than kissing my cousin.”
     “Doug, your cuz is a gorgeous red-head who could turn heads in a nursing home.”
     “OK, I’m going to demand no more kisses on the set or I quit.”
     “You’d be fired on the spot. Don’t you dare!”  
     “Honey, when will you stop telling me how to handle my career?”
     “When you act your age when making decisions!”
     Doug vows to say goodbye to Hollywood kisses but Rowena rings his make-believe wife who promises to keep on set kisses chaste. Ro’s is the only female tongue he will taste, when he puts off the toothpaste, to savor her flavor.
     They face off in the hallway. Doug says, “If you think I’m going to put up with yet another of your interferences in my career, thank God you did,” he smiles.
     Rowena says, “If you think turning down the heat with that woman makes up for all that putting out with her for all my family to see at prime time, well you’re right,” Ro grins from ear to ear.
     Her leer is for something other than beer or a DVD of King Lear when she lays on her lipstick smear.