Nashville Page #9

KENNY:

Mom?

MOTHER (V.0.)

I've been so worried, dear. where

are you?

KENNY:

Nashville.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Oh... Well.

KENNY:

The car broke down.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Oh, well, I knew that before you-

even left. I told you, 'Kenny, that

old Nash won't make it down the

road.' But you had to go.

KENNY:

Well, I got to Nashville. That's

pretty far.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Next you'll be sick.

KENNY:

I feel really good.

MOTHER (V.0.)

How are you going to pay when you

get sick?

KENNY:

I'm in a rooming house with Mr.

Green.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Green? Not Owen Green. Owen Green

embezzled money from your

grandfather

KENNY:

I don't know his first name.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Bet the sheets are grey.

KENNY:

No. No, they're white. He's got a

nice dog.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Worst time at year for dogs is when

they get fungus.

KENNY:

Fungus?

MOTHER (V.0.)

He doesn1t have fungus, does he?

KENNY:

I don't think so.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Well, you'll get it, skin as

sensitive as yours.

KENNY:

How do you know if they do?

He looks suspiciously at the dog in his room.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Weather's been awful. All those

bombs dropping. It changes our

weather. Sure not like the good old

days.

KENNY:

(still looking at

the dog)

Does their hair fall out?

MOTHER (V.0.)

Your hair fell out? Just like your

father. Weak hair.

KENNY signals the dog to get off the bed. He's getting worried.

L.A. JOAN will have wandered in and out during this phone call.

KENNY:

Listen. Maybe I should go...

MOTHER (V.0.)

I've been a Little dyspeptic.

KENNY:

I want to get the dog off my bed.

MOTHER (V.0.)

But, I'll take some of that

Nyquil... you know it puts you right

to sleep no matter what's wrong, you

go right off...

KENNY is really impatient to get the dog oft his bed.

KENNY:

Okay. I'll be talking to you.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Keep warm, dear. Let me hear from

you.

KENNY:

Bye.

MOTHER (V.0.)

Bye.

125 NEW ANGLE

KENNY hangs up the receiver and starts for his room and the dog.

L.A. JOAN comes from her room and interrupts. She asks him where

he's going.

KENNY:

I have to try to get my car

running.

L.A. JOAN

I'll go with you.

KENNY:

Well, okay...

CUT TO:

126 EXT. BAPTIST CHURCH - DAY

LINNEA has come to join DELBERT and the kids. They enter an ante

room where coffee and snacks are served.

127 INT. ANTE ROOM - DAY

ALBUQUERQUE is eating everything in sight. LINNEA approaches.

LINNEA:

This your first time?

ALBUQUERQUE'S mouth is full and she nods, "yes."

LINNEA:

You're from out of town?

ALBUQUERQUE:

Yes. I'm cutting a record.

LINNEA:

We have a Bible study meeting

tonight if you'd like to come.

ALBUQUERQUE:

Is there food?

LINNEA:

No.

ALBUQUERQUE:

Well, I just wondered 'cause being

from out or town I wouldn't be able

to make anything.

LINNEA:

No, those are socials you're

thinking of... Saturday's usually.

The MINISTER is nearby.

MINISTER:

This is your first time, isn't it?

ALBUQUERQUE:

Yes sir. I'm from Tallahassee.

MINISTER:

I see.

ALBUQUERQUE:

And I want you to know I round

Jesus today, right here.

MINISTER:

Bless you. I hope we see you

again, then.

He walks to the next person. ALBUQUERQUE passes LINNEA and

DELBERT and goes to the street.

CUT TO:

128 INT. LIMO - afternoon

NORMAN is giving TRIPLETTE a tour.

NORMAN:

Now in the cemetery Roy already has

his stone, it's a fiddle... right as

you drive in you can see it in front

there.

TRIPLETTE:

Oh?

NORMAN:

Lot of them do. Fans start

chipping at them, though.... Johnny

cash has a $100,000 fence around his

house. Well, the fans are stealing

the rocks right out of it. Haven

Hamilton has a $700,000 fence. It

has spikes.

129 NEW ANGLE

They pass a house with a red pickup truck in the driveway.

NORMAN:

That house over there is where I

live. The one with the red truck.

My aunt drives the school bus. 600

kids a day.

TRIPLETTE cranes to look as a car with "Just Married" and "We've

only just begun" painted on it drives by them. Norman looks at

it, too.

NORMAN:

Some black folks wanted to paint

this car once. I didn't let them.

They also wanted me to kiss the

bride. I declined.

130 NEW ANGLE

He makes another turn on to a street that looks like a series of

parks strung together. He slows down.

NORMAN:

In the city of Nashville, there are

a total of hundred and twenty

millionaires some of them inhabit

these beautiful home sites to make

Nashville known as the Athens of the

South. Here on the right you see

the home of Haven Hamilton's mother.

He built it for her after his Daddy

passed away three years ago of lung

cancer. Haven contributes time and

money to the cancer foundation, now.

You can see some of his records

handing there in the living room.

TRIPLETTE struggles to see. NORMAN pulls up a little further and

stops.

NORMAN:

Look, now you can see it.

Sure enough you can.

NORMAN:

He got that one in 1962. Song

called 'Smokey Heart.'

131 ANOTHER SECTION 0F ROAD - DAY

The limo passes OPAL and continues down the road.

132 INT. STAR'S TRUCK - INTERSTATE 40 - AFTERNOON

We SEE OPAL hitching a ride. He starts past, but she yells,

forcing him to stop.

133 NEW ANGLE

OPAL opens the door and gets in.

OPAL:

You weren't really going to drive

off?

STAR just looks at her. She smiles back.

OPAL:

My name's Opal. What's yours?

STAR drives off.

OPAL:

You going to Nashville?

He grunts.

OPAL:

Good. I came out here to meet some

underground singer. They say she

only writes in those trees over

there.

There is a long pause. STAR doesn't respond, so OPAL continues.

OPAL:

She never came. I'm trying to

gather some information about the

characteristics of music people for

English television. I started in

San Francisco. Some friends were

making an anti-war film about 'Nam,

you know, and I just love marine

movies. It is really the consummate

art form, all those parts of the

puzzle to make the whole. All that

energy being collective, you know

what I mean?

She removes same of her clothes because or the heat

OPAL:

I've been all over the United

States now except for Maine and

Vermont.

STAR looks at her body and changes lanes.

OPAL:

What did you say your name was?

STAR:

Star.

OPAL:

Star - oh! that's a fantastic name.

Almost as good as Opal. I changed

my name in Taos. This man that was

really into low budget movies said

my eyes were opalistic.

She reaches over and turns on the RADIO. He reaches over and

turns it off.

OPAL:

I'm going to make the consummate

documentary as soon as I finish

gathering information. You know

it's so nice not to feel oppressed

in a society that is male oriented.

STAR:

Are you in music?

OPAL:

No, I told you that.

134 EXT. HIGHWAY/STAR'S TRUCK The truck accelerates.

OPAL (0.S.)

Just living and then after that

making the total documentary that

will encompass everything.

We SEE them pass KENNY'S Nash. KEMNY and L.A. JOAN are there.

135 ANGLE AT NASH

All the door handles have been stolen from the car. So has the

radio and the steering wheel. There is a raw egg and a note that

says, "ha-ha." KENNY is dumbfounded.

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