Moonstruck Page #22

ROSE:

I'm a housewife.

PERRY:

Then why are you eating alone?

ROSE:

I'm not eating alone. Can I ask you

a question?

PERRY:

Go ahead.

ROSE:

Why do men chase women?

PERRY:

(considers)

Nerves.

ROSE:

I think it's because they fear death.

PERRY:

Maybe. Listen. You wanna know why I

chase women? I find women charming.

PERRY:

I teach these classes I've taught

for a million years. The spontaneity

went out of it for me a long time

ago. I started off, I was excited

about something and I wanted to share

it. Now it's rote, it's the

multiplication table. Except

sometimes. Sometimes I'm droning

along and I look up, and there's

this fresh young beautiful face, and

it's all new to her and I'm this

great guy who's just brilliant and

thinks out loud. And when that

happens, when I look out among those

chairs and look at a young woman's

face, and see me there in her eyes,

me the way I always wanted to be and

maybe once was, then I ask her out

on a date. It doesn't last. It can

go for a few weeks or a couple of

precious months, but then she catches

on that I'm just a burnt out old

gasbag and that she's as fresh and

bright and full of promise as

moonlight in a martini. And at that

moment, she stands up and throws a

glass of water in my face, or some

action to that effect.

ROSE:

What you don't know about women is a

lot.

INT. THE OPERA HOUSE-LOBBY-NIGHT

INTERMISSION. THRONGS OF PEOPLE talking, talking, talking.

Piled up at the bars to get drinks.

INT. OPERA HOUSE - LOBBY/WOMEN'S BATHROOM - NIGHT

Outside the women's bathroom, with its huge line waiting to

get in.

INT. OF THE WOMAN'S BATHROOM

Loretta and THREE OTHER WOMEN freshen their makeup before a

mirror. The woman next to Loretta leaves and is replaced by

Mona. Mona and Loretta stand side by side freshening their

makeup.

INT. OF THE OPERA HOUSE - LOBBY - NIGHT

MANY PEOPLE pressing to the bar to buy drinks. Cosmo and

Ronny achieve the bar's perimeter at the same moment, and

start to order.

INT. OPERA HOUSE - LOBBY - NIGHT

A CONCESSIONAIRE selling special glossy LA BOHEME programs.

ELSEWHERE IN THE LOBBY DURING INTERMISSION

Ronny and Loretta are standing by a column holding drinks.

Loretta is looking around.

LORETTA:

They get some turnout for this stuff.

RONNY:

It's the best thing there is.

LORETTA:

I like parts of it, but I don't really

get it.

IN ANOTHER PART OF THE LOBBY DURING INTERMISSION Cosmo and

Mona are sitting on a bench.

MONA:

You haven't once said you like my

dress.

COSMO:

I like your dress.

(he thinks)

It's very bright.

He looks around.

MONA:

Why you looking around so much?

COSMO:

I don't know. I got a feeling.

MONA:

I'm wearing your bracelet.

He nods, still looking around.

CHIMES SOUND THROUGHOUT LOBBY

Indicating the end of intermission. The Audience starts to

file back into the theatre.

EXT. THE GRAND TICINO - NIGHT

Rose and Perry emerge from the restaurant.

PERRY:

May I walk with you a ways?

ROSE:

Sure.

They set off to the left.

EXT. THE CASTORINI HOUSE - NIGHT

The door opens, and the Old Man comes out, in his great coat

and hat, with the Five dogs. He strikes off to the right.

EXT. STREET I - NIGHT

Rose and Perry come around a corner and pass a store. They

pause and look at the Christmas decorations in the window.

They continue walking.

EXT. STREET II - NIGHT

The Old Man and the Dogs have stopped by a big tree. Which

the dogs adore.

EXT. STREET I - NIGHT

Rose and Perry walking. They exit camera left.

EXT. STREET II - NIGHT

The Old Man drags the Dogs away from the tree and sets off

camera right.

EXT. STREET I - NIGHT

Rose and Perry walking to the left.

EXT . STREET II - NIGHT

The Old Man and the Dogs walking to the right.

EXT. STREET I - INTERSECTION

OUTSIDE LAUNDROMAT - NIGHT

Rose and Perry are walking towards camera. Rose stops short,

stunned and alarmed by what she sees before them.

EXT. STREET II - INTERSECTION OUTSIDE OF LAUNDROMAT - NIGHT

The Old Man pulls up the Dogs. Aghast by what he sees before

him.

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