Grosse Pointe Blank Page #21

MARTIN:

I'm in pro-active international

relations. It's a very specialized

company. We execute economic

investment opportunities. Sort of

economic clean-up... with an emphasis

on personnel. It's boring, you know,

it's boring. I don't like to talk

about it because I don't think what

a man does necessarily reflects who

he is...

Martin begins to draw strange looks from all over the table.

Martin may be in trouble.

MARTIN:

...I've always tried to refrain from

a black-and-white moral lexicon--you

know, good, bad, right, wrong--I've

been more interested in the gray

areas.

Silence. Martin pushes on.

MARTIN:

But that's no way to live. I guess

you've got to just take the leap of

faith. Believe in something. F***

it.

DARIUS:

Sounds complicated, Martin. Are you

happy?

MARTIN:

I just have to close this one last

account. I'd like to just stop now,

today, but I can't... It's a step in

the right direction.

DEBI:

I don't know, Martin. It sounds like

you're feeling compromised. Live the

way you want. The only thing that's

inexcusable, to me, is cynicism.

That's the biggest cop-out there is.

Nods of assent come from around the table. A brief silence,

and then...

AMY:

But wait. I still don't understand

what you do.

MARTIN:

I work at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Debi suppresses a laugh.

AMY:

You do not.

MARTIN:

Yes I do.

AMY:

You don't...

MARTIN:

In the corporate offices.

AMY:

Oh... really?

MARTIN:

Yeah...

AMY:

What do you do?

MARTIN:

I sell biscuits to the Southland.

AMY:

You do not.

MARTIN:

It's what I do.

AMY:

You're so funny...

MARTIN:

I sell biscuits and gravy all over

the Southland--

AMY:

--Stop it--

MARTIN:

You know those horsey biscuit gravy

packets? I move all of those--

AMY:

--No.

MARTIN:

Sometimes we sell them to McDonald's

and just change them to special

barbecue sauce.

Across the table from Martin and Debi, Dennis turns to Darius.

DENNIS:

What do you think about black coaching

in the NFL, Darius? Because I think

it's great.

DARIUS:

I don't pay much attention to

football.

MIKE:

I have to agree with you Dennis.

It's good to see that the owners are

willing to put the franchise behind

a black head coach or QB when for

years in the league they've been

kept out of the thinking positions

and relegated mainly to the physical

game.

DENNIS:

But now, you see, you have Warren

Moon at the helm, Cunningham, Art

Shell, and the coach up at

Minnesota...

MIKE:

Dennis Green. And if you remember,

Doug Williams was the first black

man to prove that on a Superbowl

Sunday.

Amy leans in to Martin.

AMY:

(to Martin)

I'm teaching art at Cedar Junior

High School.

DENNIS:

...Yeah, listen. Where do you stand

on this whole Louis Farrakhan

issue...?

DARIUS:

(facetious)

I'm a De Klerk man myself.

Debi nods, indicating to the deejay stand.

DEBI:

I'm going over to play some tunes.

Martin watches her walk away.

INT. GYM - GRANDSTANDS - LATER

Dan Koretzky sits with two other FORMER-SQUARES-turned-

handsome-fellas who now enjoy a confidence that comes with

early investment in Microsoft.

Martin looks out over the milieu below, enjoying the seene.

He eavesdrops on a group of men from a few rows back.

GROUP OF MEN:

DAN:

Look at her. There it is. Jenny

Slater. The finest thing that ever

walked these halls.

FORMER-SQUARE #2

I believe she married the state of

Maine.

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