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23 INT. JOHNNY’S BEDROOM -DAY 23

Johnny answers the ringing telephone.

Hello.

JOHNNY:

He hears a professional woman’s voice on the line.

MARGE (O.S.)

Good-morning Johnny, the car’s

waiting downstairs.

Huh?

JOHNNY:

MARGE (O.S.)

Claire will meet you in the lobby

to take you up when you get there.

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24 EXT. FOUR SEASONS HOTEL - DAY 24

A town car pulls up to the hotel, where Johnny gets out.

He is met by a few professional young women and an eager PR

guy.

CLAIRE, a young professional talks to Johnny as they head in.

She talks to him slowly and clearly as if he’s retarded or

crazy.

CLAIRE:

We need to first get you upstairs

for a photo with Rebecca, and then

get you over to the press

conference.

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25 INT. FOUR SEASONS SUITE - DAY 25

Johnny and REBECCA, a young actress, pose in front of a movie

poster as a happy couple in love.

A strobe flashes as they are photographed together. As soon

as the flashes stop, Rebecca is glum.

She steps back and looks at him.

REBECCA:

(with bitter sarcasm)

You look great.

Johnny gives her a look like he’s not in the mood.

The photos start up again, and they pose back together as

romantic leads.

When the camera stops again, she turns to him:

REBECCA:

Is this really it, Johnny? Is that

all?

He lights a cigarette and is silent.

REBECCA:

Oh, that’s really great, just

retreat and go silent...are you

ever going to grow up and be a

person?

He looks at her, waiting for her to be done.

She tries to keep it together as she walks away.

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26 INT. FOUR SEASONS CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 26

Johnny’s led into a conference room, where he sits down at a

table in front of the Hollywood Journalists International.

Some journalists put down bagels at a buffet table in the

back of the room and come sit down, joining the others in

chairs in front of Johnny.

There’s a guy from Israel, the woman from Italy, etc. They

bicker among themselves over who will ask the first question.

ITALIAN JOURNALIST

How do you think this role

represents Italian-Americans?

Another journalist rolls her eyes as an Indian journalist

mutters under his breath:

INDIAN JOURNALIST

She always goes first.

ARGENTINIAN JOURNALIST

This film has a reflection of

today’s post-modern globalism?

Johnny waits for more, but that’s it.

JOHNNY:

I’m sorry, what was the question?

Another journalist with a thick accent interrupts:

SPANISH JOURNALIST

Who is Johnny Marco? Please.

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27 INT. TOWN CAR - LATE AFTERNOON/SUNSET 27

Johnny rides in the back of the car, empty and disgusted with

himself.

He looks out the window as they drive up La Cienega, passing

the Beverly Center at sunset.

JOHNNY:

Can you turn on Fountain, I want to

make a quick stop.

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28 EXT. BAMBI’S HOUSE - DUSK 28

They pull up to a small duplex on Fountain.

Johnny goes up to it, and the door is opened by Bambi, one of

the twins.

The car is still running as we see through the window:

Johnny lifts Bambi up and kisses her against the window. With

her legs wrapped around him, they disappear to another room.

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29 INT. CHATEAU MARMONT- NIGHT 29

The evening is starting, people are arriving to hang out.

Johnny gets in the elevator with some scenesters and another

MOVIE STAR. He nods to Johnny, actor to actor.

Hey, man.

MOVIE STAR:

Hey.

JOHNNY:

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He answers lamely, and gets off on his floor.

He walks down the empty, dingy hallway.

He passes a room where we can hear some drunk girls singing

along to Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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30 EXT. CHATEAU BALCONY - NIGHT 30

Johnny stands on his balcony looking out over Sunset as the

city lights glimmer.

We hear the sound of helicopters overhead.

A sexy girl lit up on a billboard looks at him.

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31 INT. JOHNNY’S BEDROOM -DAY 31

Johnny answers the phone half-awake.

MARGE (O.S.)

They’re waiting for you at the

special effects studio, they need

to do a mold of your head. The map

should be under your door, ok?

Yeah, ok.

JOHNNY:

He sits up.

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32 EXT. CHATEAU MARMONT - DAY 32

Johnny pulls out of the parking garage, on to the street.

He looks as he passes by an empty car that’s crashed into the

wall. A few bouquets have been placed in the bushes by it.

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33 EXT. SUNSET BLVD - DAY 33

Johnny’s P.O.V. out the windshield:

Driving past Sunset Plaza in harsh sunlight. People hang out

at cafes. A Tom Ford billboard looms overhead.

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34 INT. SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKE-UP STUDIO - DAY 34

Inside the studio, we see remnants from other projects, an

alien head, a wounded half of a face.

Johnny leans back in a chair as the team of make-up artists

cover his head in plaster.

They put a straw into his nose to breath out of.

We hear Johnny’s breath - slow and heavy. It seems to take

forever to dry.

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35 Later:
The make-up artists stand in front of him working with

concentration. When they finish, they stand back for Johnny

to see himself in the mirror:

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It’s Johnny at 80 years-old. His eyes look out from the

realistic old age make-up.

He looks at himself as an old man.

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36 INT. JOHNNY’S SUITE - EVENING 36

Back at the Chateau, Johnny’s young again.

Just out of the shower, wearing a long towel around his

waist, he smokes a cigarette in his room when the phone

rings.

RECEPTIONIST (O.S.)

Good- evening Mr. Marco, your

masseuse is here, shall we send him

up?

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JOHNNY:

Uh? -ok.

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37 INT. JOHNNY’S SUITE - NIGHT 37

Johnny lies face down on the massage table, with a towel

across him.

JOHNNY:

Where’s Laurie?

MASSEUR:

Oh, they didn’t tell you? She

wasn’t available.

He sets up a little iPod speaker system to play New Age super-

relaxing music, we hear ocean waves crashing within a gentle

flute melody.

The masseur rubs his hands together and takes a long, deep

breath.

We see Johnny’s P.O.V. of the masseur through the face-

cradle:
Men’s muscular legs with bare feet. We watch as his

shorts drop and he steps out of them as he starts his work.

Johnny jumps up, holding his towel in front of him.

JOHNNY:

What the f***, Dude?!

MASSEUR:

Oh, did they not tell you how I

work?

Johnny looks confused, is this guy a hooker?

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MASSEUR:

I have a web-site that explains my

technique. I feel that if my client

is naked, it’s more comfortable if

I meet them on the same level...

CUT TO BLACK.

We hear the sound of the door slamming shut.

38 INT. JOHNNY’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 38

E.C.U. Johnny takes some sleeping pills.

With the only light in the room coming from the T.V., Johnny

lays in bed and watches a Gandhi documentary that’s on.

The narrator talks about all his accomplishments for mankind.

NARRATOR (O.S.)

Assuming leadership of the Indian

National Congress in 1921, Gandhi

led nationwide campaigns for easing

poverty, for expanding women’s

rights, for building ethnic amity

and for increasing economic self-

reliance...

A puffy Johnny, with heavy eyelids, stares ahead as Gandhi

helps the masses.

FADE OUT.

39 INT. JOHNNY’S BATHROOM - MORNING 39

Johnny stands under the water of the shower, trying to wake

up and start another day.

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40 INT. JOHNNY’S SUITE - DAY 40

Johnny wears a towel like a sarong, and smokes as he goes to

the front door to get the paper.

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