State And Main Page #17

JOE:

My glasses fell apart. I lost the...

ANN:

...lost the screw...

JOE:

You got a paperclip?

A little kid is walking by, carrying a fishing rod.

LITTLE KID:

Evening, Annie.

ANN:

Evenin', sweetheart.

LITTLE KID:

Go you Huskies.

ANN:

You said it.

JOE:

You like kids?

ANN:

Never saw the point of 'em.

JOE:

Me, too. You have a paperclip?

ANN:

Paperclip?

JOE:

Fix my glasses.

ANN:

Better idea...

She ducks under the sheet hanging by the door, she and Joe

come upon the fishergirl, who is standing by the bank about

to make a cast.

We see Annie take some leader from the little girl and burn

one end to make a hinge.

JOE:

Gonna' be good as new.

ANN:

Better'n new, cause it's got a story.

Want to do the other part?

Joe takes the hinge, and a match and tries to fix the hinge,

and burns his finger.

JOE:

Ow.

He grabs for the nearest object. Pause.

ANN:

What?

Joe shows her.

ANN:

Y'know what you got there? You got a

fishhook in your finger.

EXT. BOOKSTORE - DUSK

Doug standing, holding a bunch of flowers. The A.D. walks

by. Looks in the window.

FIRST A.D.

I'm looking for the writer.

DOUG:

What the hell are you so down about?

FIRST A.D.

(pause)

My wife's going to have a baby.

DOUG:

How about that.

FIRST A.D.

Mmmm.

(pause)

You have children?

DOUG:

No.

(pause)

No, but we're planning to.

FIRST A.D.

(pause)

Could you tell me where a fellow

goes to get a drink in this town?

DOUG:

Yes.

INT. WALT'S HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT

Marty and Walt et al. studying various documents. Claire

sitting there.

MARTY:

I want to tell you something, Wally,

he's a pussycat. My thing is to see

everybody does what they said they

would and I have to do that. Now:

what is this you want Eight Hundred

Thousand Dollars to do what you're

being paid to, you already signed

you'd do...?

(pause)

What is that?

CLAIRE:

I think I should talk to my agent,

Marty, you and I should, we should,

really not discuss...

MARTY:

Who is her agent...?

BILL:

Mitch Cohn...

CLAIRE:

He's...

MARTY:

Get him on the phone.

CLAIRE:

He's on the Island, he'll be back

on...

MARTY:

Get him on the...

Claire starts back to her room.

MARTY:

I want you to hear this.

CLAIRE:

I really think that business...

matters should be discussed between

you t...

MARTY:

Well, I'm going to discuss 'em between

you babe, cause it's your idea, and

you think you're going to sign to do

a, then hold us up in the wilds

sweetheart, you are in error...

Bill hands him the phone.

BILL:

He's on the ph...

MARTY:

(takes phone)

Mitch, th'Marty Rossen, I'm here

in...

BILL:

Wat...

MARTY:

I'm somewhere in the, I'm on location,

eh:
This... well I'm going to solve

it here, or this Bimbo you sent me's

going to be doing a f***in' donkey

act in Akron, I'm talking about

Restraint of Trade, Breach of...

IT'S VERY SIMPLE...!

Joe enters. His finger bandaged.

JOE:

(tentatively)

Hi!

MARTY:

Her tits! Her tits! How, that she

signed IN HER CONTRACT, we hired her

'cause of ten years at the Actors

Studio? The way she played Medea?...

Her last two pictures laid there on

the screen like my first wife...

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