Ordinary People Page #13

GUESTS:

He's a jolly good fellow

For he's a jolly good fellow

Won't regret, can't forget

What we did for love

Beth and other women and gathered around the piano. They

are a little drunk are singing a little false.

Annie, a guest with red blouse, is sitting on the steps of

the stairs, eating out of her plate. Calvin comes and sits

next to her.

CALVIN:

Hi. Annie. What's your boy up to

these days?

ANNIE:

Oh. Who knows? They won't tell.

How's Conrad doing?

CALVIN:

He's great. Just great.

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ANNIE:

I asked Donald, and he says they

haven't talked much. I said maybe

he's a little self-conscious.

A woman in green going upstairs, drunk, trips over Calvin

CALVIN:

Oh!

Calvin laughs. The woman goes upstairs.

CALVIN (cont'd)

No, no. No. No. He's...

Beth, not far, listens.

CALVIN (cont'd)

There's a doctor in Highland

Park... that he sees a couple of

times a week. That kinda cuts into

his social life.

Beth, still.

CALVIN (cont'd)

He's great. Just great.

ANNIE:

Really? Is he still having some

problems?

CALVIN:

Oh, no, no. Nothing like that. No,

no, just somebody to talk to...

that's all. Kind of polish off the

rough edges, that's all.

Beth joins in, to cut him off.

BETH:

How are you. Darling? Is he falling

asleep on you, yet?

ANNIE:

Nah. He's great.

CALVIN:

(Mimicking "Mr.

Wonderful")

Mr. Great. That's me!

51 INT. CAR ­ NIGHT 51

Beth looks uptight and scornful. Calvin notices it.

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CALVIN:

Hey?

BETH:

You drink too much at parties,

Calvin.

CALVIN:

I'm not drunk.

BETH:

Why did you tell Annie Marshall

that Conrad is seeing a

psychiatrist?

CALVIN:

I dunno. Why not?

BETH:

Well for one thing, I don't think

people hear that kind of thing very

easily.

CALVIN:

Come on, for most people, it's a

status symbol, right up there with

going to Europe.

BETH:

Well, I thought your blurting it

out like that was in very bad

taste...

CALVIN:

I did not think it was that...

BETH:

Not to mention a violation of

privacy!

CALVIN:

Whose privacy?

Beth is strangely vehement.

BETH:

Our privacy! The family's privacy!

I think it is a very private

matter.

Calvin sighs.

INT. Dr. BERGER'S OFFICE ­ DAY

Conrad sits in an armchair, very nervous, scratching his leg.

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CONRAD:

So what do I do... tell you my

dreams?

DR BERGER:

I don't hold much stock in dreams.

CONRAD:

What kind of a psychiatrist are

you? They all believe in dreams.

DR BERGER:

Really? What's happening?

What's going on?

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