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CLERK:

I'll put the, in your r...

WALT:

Somebody make a note. I want Li...,

for the broad... what does she like?

Lilacs. Okay. A truck of lilacs when

the broad comes. And get something

for Bob Barrenger, get him, what

does he like...?

CLERK:

Bob Barrenger... Bob... Bob

Barrenger's in this movie?

WALT:

That's cor...

CLERK:

(awed)

He's staying here? Bob Barrenger is

staying he...?

WALT:

Put something in his room. What does

he like?

BILL:

Fourteen year old girls.

WALT:

Well, get him something else and

let's get out of here in one piece.

Get him a half of a 28-year old girl.

INT. PROD. OFC. - WAITING ROOM - DAY

INSERT:

Front Page:
Burlington Banner. Picture of movie star Bob

Barrenger, and Banner headline: "Waterford chosen as sight

of new Bob Barrenger film. A story of small town life based

on..."

Carla knocks on the door to the back room, voices from inside.

Outside, on two chairs, the MAYOR, GEORGE BAILEY, a man in

his fifties, and JOE WHITE, the writer, dressed in an army

field jacket and jeans, waiting to be admitted.

Joe is reading an old "Welcome to Waterford" tourist folder.

The door to the room opens, and Joe stands, looks inside,

squints. Takes off his reading glasses and puts on another

pair.

JOE:

(to the open door)

I, I'm sorr...

(as the door closes,

to a passing aide)

...I lost my typewriter...

Carla brushes past them.

CARLA:

Hi, Mr. Bailey...

MAYOR:

Carla, would you tell them that I'm...

WALT:

(from inside)

...What? What is it?

Carla enters the back room. As she does so, she passes the

First A.D., who is on the phone.

FIRST A.D.

Could I speak to my wife, please --?

Camera takes us with Carla into the back room. Past the A.D.

SECRETARY:

(to A.D.)

You've got a call...

INT. PROD. OFC. & WALT'S OFFICE - DAY

Inside the room, production boards being carried in,

blackboards, schedules taped to the wall, sketches of Main

Street, a large "days till shoot...4" sign. The Old Mill

plate is on the desk.

The PRODUCTION DESIGNER is bent over a worktable, he holds a

compass, and refers to blueprints and a scale model of the

Firehouse and the Old Mill, which are on the table.

Walt is holding glossy photographs, and leafs through them

as the Production Designer talks. They leaf through

storyboards.

We see that Walt is leafing through glossy photos of horses.

Walt has shuffleboard stick over his shoulder.

ANGLE on storyboards of firehouse scene.

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

And Uberto tells me he can't take

this shot, unless they let me take

out the firehouse window.

COSTUME DESIGNER

Walt, I've got to talk to you about

her nude scene.

Carla enters.

WALT:

Aren't you ever in school?

CARLA:

There's other things to be learned.

WALT:

Izzat so?

CARLA:

The Mayor's outside.

WALT:

What's his name?

CARLA:

Mr. Bailey.

Walt goes to the door, opens it, looks around.

EXT. WALT'S OFFICE - DAY

Joe reading the Burlington Banner. He stands up.

WALT:

Mr. Bailey... Mr. Bailey...?

Walt and Mr. Bailey enter Walt's office.

JOE:

(to passing secretary)

I lost my typewriter...?

A.D.

(passing)

Yes, could I please speak to my

wife...?

ANGLE interior Walt's office.

WALT:

I have to tell you, I can not express

to you how happy...

MAYOR:

And we're glad to have you here...

WALT:

My golly, you know? All my life I

grew up in the city, but every

summer... would you like a cigar?

MAYOR:

(of cigars)

Aren't these illegal?

WALT:

Why would they be illegal?

BILL:

...there's a trade embargo against

Cuba.

Pause.

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