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Not the kind of back that can carry

off that kind of dress, you know

what I mean? Why don’t people look

in the mirror?

(beat)

Like a dude. You know?

REBECCA:

It’s weird, the way you watch her.

MARY:

I don’t watch her. I walk by.

REBECCA:

(beat)

We gotta do something for Grandma’s

birthday.

MARY:

When is she gonna croak?

REBECCA:

What if somebody said something

like that about you?

MARY:

They probably already have.

REBECCA:

I’m gonna buy her a nightgown.

MARY:

How much?

REBECCA:

I don’t know. She’s got a ratty old

thing.

MARY:

I’ll write you a check.

REBECCA:

You know the neighbors? They look

at me like, is she dead yet?

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MARY (O.S.) (cont'd)

MARY:

Why shouldn’t they?

REBECCA:

Because it’s wrong.

MARY:

You think that if they didn’t buy

her apartment she wouldn’t die?

What’s the difference.

13 INT. MODERN AGE - DAY 13

A loft like store on tenth avenue filled with mid century

modern furniture.

TWO MALE SHOPPERS try out a long, thin sofa.

MALE SHOPPER 1

Feel this texture. Nubby but soft.

MALE SHOPPER 2

Yeah, but it’s not comfortable.

MALE SHOPPER 1

It’s nice.

MALE SHOPPER 2

It’s not, it’s too shallow or

something.

MALE SHOPPER 1

Well, you don’t have to converse

with it.

MALE SHOPPER 2

Very funny.

Alex comes up.

ALEX:

Beautiful, isn’t it?

MALE SHOPPER 1

Gorgeous.

ALEX:

And comfortable. It’s actually ten

feet long.

MALE SHOPPER 2

How much.

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Alex goes across the large room to the desk area where Kate

is working and looks in a binder for the price. Kate glances

at the couch the guys are sitting on.

KATE:

What’s wrong with that piece?

ALEX:

(quietly)

It’s not comfortable.

KATE:

We should take it off the floor.

ALEX:

(to shouting to Man 2)

It’s very comfortable.

KATE:

Why did you do that?

ALEX:

He might think it’s comfortable.

KATE:

That’s not possible.

ALEX:

You don’t know that.

She watches Alex return to the shoppers and tell them the

price. By their body language, she can tell they don’t want

the couch. She’s vindicated.

Abby enters from the street and flops down on a womb like

chair. She’s got an enormous backpack.

ABBY:

I saw these jeans I want.

KATE:

What for?

ABBY:

Cute.

ALEX:

How much?

ABBY:

Two.

KATE:

You want two hundred dollar jeans.

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ABBY:

That’s what you spend.

KATE:

I’m a grown up.

ABBY:

That makes no sense. It’s what

jeans cost.

KATE:

I am not spending two hundred

dollars on a pair of jeans for my

teenage daughter when there’s forty

five homeless people on our street.

ABBY:

What does that have to do with

anything? They don’t want jeans.

Alex comes up to Abby and kisses her.

ALEX:

Hi, honey. You look pretty.

ABBY:

Right.

14 INT. RADIOLOGY FRONT OFFICE - DAY 14

Rebecca is filing while DOCTOR LERNER (40), and the

receptionists chat.

DR. LERNER

My wife and I drove up to

Woodstock.

CATHY:

Were they gorgeous?

DR. LERNER

Oh, incredible. The kids didn’t

care but we loved it.

(beat)

Rebecca, you going to see the

leaves?

REBECCA:

No...

DR. LERNER

You should. They’re spectacular.

And they’re just about to end.

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REBECCA:

Okay.

DR. LERNER

Really. Not to be missed.

Blushing, Rebecca takes a file and walks away.

DR. LERNER

Next time I’ll invite you to come

with us.

REBECCA:

(shy)

Great, thanks.

15 INT. COFFEE SHOP - NIGHT 15

Rebecca sits opposite a GUY, 30 years old. He’s very clean

cut and dressed formally. He refers to a printed out piece of

paper as he occasionally looks up at Rebecca.

GUY:

So it says here you grew up in New

York.

REBECCA:

Yes, in the village.

GUY:

Do you think that’s good, to grow

up in the city?

REBECCA:

I do. I mean, I saw a lot of things

I probably shouldn’t have seen, but

it got me to grow up fast. I was

really independent. Which in some

ways is good.

GUY:

I think it’s an awful place to

raise kids. It’s filthy, crime

ridden, noisy. And it’s only

getting worse.

REBECCA:

Uh huh. Well, that’s true too.

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GUY:

(back to paper)

Funny, you said - you know, in your

questionnaire, that you had dark

brown hair.

(beat)

It’s really kind of light brown.

REBECCA:

Really. I think it’s dark.

GUY:

I wouldn’t call it dark. It’s more

ash.

REBECCA:

But it’s brown. I mean, I didn’t

lie.

GUY:

(insisting)

But it’s not dark brown.

REBECCA:

It is.

16 INT. KATE AND ALEX’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 16

Alex is in bed watching ACCESS HOLLYWOOD, listening to a

story about Nicole Ritchie. Kate climbs in with a book.

KATE:

Are you attracted to her?

(beat)

Humor me.

ALEX:

She exists purely for people like

me to fantasize about. Except I

think she’s going to hit the wall

early.

She turns to him.

KATE:

Hit the wall.

ALEX:

She’s not gonna look good when she

gets older.

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KATE:

You mean, when she’s like twenty

seven.

ALEX:

More like thirty.

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KATE:

(opening her book)

That’s nice.

ALEX:

Artie threw something at his new

assistant.

KATE:

Ohmygod. I think my ovary fell out!

ALEX:

Howard was really mad but Artie is

in anger management so he’s giving

him another chance.

(beat)

It was very entertaining.

KATE:

(turning to him)

You know you used to read books.

(beat)

Well, magazines.

ALEX:

Don’t wreck my fun.

KATE:

I won’t.

ALEX:

Good.

KATE:

Don’t wreck my fun.

(beat)

I don’t have any fun.

ALEX:

None?

KATE:

Will you rub my feet?

He pulls her feet onto his lap and rubs them. She closes her

eyes.

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