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 Dynamic
and full of vivacity, Danny is the younger son of the Andrade family.
Faithful to his family and to his Hispanic origins, he will however live
most of his adventures with his friends, Ted Capwell, Laken Lockridge
and Jade Perkins.
It
is maybe his modest background which obliges Danny to work as a waiter
at the restaurant La Mesa rather than to frequent the benches of the
high school, and to dream in a star's career in Hollywood. It is
moreover while being noticed by a movie director at the Santa Barbara
beach that he obtains the chance to realize his ambition. With his best
friend Ted and the young Jade he is secretly in love with, Danny thus
leaves Santa Barbara for the capital of cinema. If he finally does not
obtain the big role he hoped for, he lives the time of some weeks the
excitement to frequent big restaurants and famous actors. Danny even
manages to play Jade's devoted admirers by taking her out from the hands
of an unreliable producer who wanted to make her shoot a pornographic
film without her knowing.
Back
in Santa Barbara, Danny continues to make every joke possible with Ted
and the band. First of all, he helps his friend to take revenge for Mr.
Bottoms, his old quick-tempered professor, by bringing a dromedary in
his classroom. Then, he participates in the investment in a rather
pitiful hotel, the Frisky Business, which turns out to be a brothel.
Danny
has however more chance with his love story with Jade. Once his rival
Warren Lockridge spread, Danny succeeds in being loved by Jade who,
until there, saw in him only a simple good friend.
It
is during 1985, while Jade and Laken have left Santa Barbara, that Danny
knows some darker hours. Confronted with fights between gangs, he is
saved from a sure death by his family's friend, Cruz Castillo. After he
has been arrested by the police for
driving under influence, some
problems of cocaine addiction make him come back on the front of the
scene at the end of the year 1986. Incapable to pay his dealer,
Angel Ramirez, he owes again his life only to Cruz, who manages to
render Angel harmless. After a few days at the hospital where he finds
his old friend Ted again, Danny disappears definitively from the show,
without that his fate being really sealed...
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