Steve Jobs Page #10

and Sculley the same way you get

over your high school sweetheart.

Build a new one.

JOANNA:

Can I tell you something?

STEVE:

Yes.

JOANNA:

You said you wouldn’t compete with

them and you designed a computer

specifically for the education

market which they putatively own so

I think it’s cool they’re here.

STEVE:

They’re suing me.

JOANNA:

Still it was nice they came.

STEVE:

They’re not being magnanimous, they

want it to look like an amicable

divorce. History doesn’t remember

Joe DiMaggio kindly for dumping

Marilyn.

JOANNA makes a suppressed but loud sound while shutting her

eyes and shaking her fists at God.

STEVE (CONT’D)

What’s your problem?

JOANNA:

I don’t know but I’m sure it can be

traced back to you. You know I’m

the one who has to explain you to

people. $100,000 to Paul Rand for a

corporate logo when we didn’t even

know what our company made. A

$650,000 mold for the Cube because

God forbid the angles are 90.1

instead of 90.

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STEVE:

I forbid the angles be 90.1 instead

of 90. That box could be on display

at the Guggenheim and you’re

forgetting about the number of

coats of paint.

JOANNA:

On the Cube or the factory? As if

customers are out there thinking,

“You know I’d buy that thing except

I’m not sure I like the color of

the walls at their plant in Fort

Worth.”

STEVE:

You’re very funny for someone with

no imagination.

JOANNA:

Don’t give them a reason to say to

the press you have a chip on your

shoulder, will you do that for me?

STEVE:

I don’t have a chip on my shoulder.

JOANNA:

(trying not to laugh)

Okay, but don’t give them a reason

to say you do.

STEVE:

I don’t.

JOANNA:

That’s the right attitude.

STEVE:

It’s not an att-

(beat)

They’re gonna call me back in a

minute to look at the light.

JOANNA:

Get one out of the way.

STEVE:

Fine.

JOANNA:

Yeah?

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STEVE:

One more thing.

JOANNA:

Sure.

STEVE:

No questions from the press after.

JOANNA:

No--why?

STEVE:

Until I have better answers. No

press avail. Somebody asks where I

am, you just saw me and I’ll be

right back.

JOANNA:

How long do you think that’s going

to work?

STEVE:

I don’t know, how good are you at

your job?

JOANNA:

Tell me what I don’t know. I mean

it, tell me.

STEVE:

Trust me.

JOANNA’s starting to try to figure something out...

JOANNA:

(pause)

Okay. Who do you want first?

STEVE:

Bring me the face of Steve Wozniak.

STEVE walks into-

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--where he walks to a small refrigerator and takes out a

bottle of water. He turns around and-

STEVE:

Aagh!

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--reacts to the sight of LISA, now nine years old, who he

clearly didn’t know was in the room.

LISA is studiously measuring the sides of the NeXT Computer,

the black cube, with a plastic ruler. She has a Sony Walkman

on her waist with the headphones around her neck.

LISA:

Hang on.

STEVE:

I thought you went to school?

LISA:

Hang on.

STEVE:

You were supposed to go to school

an hour ago, I thought you left.

LISA:

I didn’t wake up my mom on time

this morning. It’s happened before

too. I wake up with the alarm and

then I get dressed and eat

breakfast but then sometimes I

forget to see what time it is after

that.

STEVE:

(pause)

Why doesn’t your mom just set her

own alarm clock?

LISA:

It’s one of my chores.

STEVE hates hearing this but doesn’t want to get into it.

STEVE:

(pause)

Well I don’t understand what that

has to do with why you’re still-where’s

your mother?

LISA:

She went to find a pay phone.

STEVE:

An hour ago she said-

LISA raises her hand.

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STEVE (CONT’D)

You don’t have to raise your hand.

LISA:

You said it was off by a little.

STEVE:

It is.

LISA:

I just measured it.

STEVE looks at her a second and then goes to the door and

pops his head out, looking for help-

STEVE:

(calling)

Joanna!

LISA:

Exactly a foot on all four sides.

STEVE:

There are six sides but you’re not

supposed to be here right now.

LISA:

We know if four sides are equal to

each other the other two are equal

as well.

STEVE:

What grade are you in?

LISA:

Fourth.

STEVE:

You’re nowhere near taking

geometry.

LISA:

It’s just logic.

STEVE:

The top, bottom, right and left are

about a millimeter shorter than the

front and back.

LISA:

They’re not, I measured them.

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STEVE:

Lisa, I’m kind of an expert in

design and that’s a 20 cent ruler,

you think there’s a chance it could

be off?

LISA thinks about it a moment...

LISA:

(pause)

If I had another ruler I could

measure the ruler but I really

doubt (it’s off).

STEVE:

When your mother-

LISA:

’Cause it’s a ruler.

STEVE:

(beat)

--comes back, you have to go to

school.

LISA:

Why is it off?

STEVE:

Did you hear what I just said?

LISA:

Yes.

STEVE:

‘Cause sometimes it seems like you

just keep saying what you want

without listening.

LISA:

I’m listening.

There’s a silence for a moment...

STEVE:

Is there something you need?

LISA:

No.

Another uncomfortable silence...

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LISA (CONT’D)

(pause)

Why isn’t it a perfect cube?

STEVE:

You’ve asked me before.

LISA:

I forgot what it is.

STEVE:

It’s an optical anomaly. To the

human eye a perfect cube doesn’t

look like a cube so we made it

roughly a millimeter shorter than a

foot on two sides.

LISA:

What’s an anomaly?

STEVE:

You’ve asked me that before too, I

don’t know why you do that.

LISA doesn’t really know what to say...because she’s nine.

STEVE (CONT’D)

(pause)

It’s an exception, something that

doesn’t fit a pattern.

There’s a knock on the door-

STEVE (CONT’D)

You have to go to school.

(calling)

Come in.

JOANNA opens the door and she and WOZ enter-

JOANNA:

I think you two have met.

STEVE:

Hey man.

WOZ:

Hello old friend.

STEVE:

You look well.

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WOZ:

So do you, so do you.

JOANNA:

And they’re telling me George is

ready for you to look at the focus.

STEVE:

(to WOZ)

Take a walk with me.

WOZ:

Is this Lisa?

STEVE:

Yeah.

WOZ:

This can’t be Lisa.

STEVE:

It is.

WOZ:

(indicating small)

Lisa’s this big.

STEVE:

They get taller. Come on.

WOZ:

Do you remember me?

STEVE:

She doesn’t.

WOZ:

I’m your dad’s friend, Steve

Wozniak.

LISA:

I apologize, I don’t remember you.

WOZ:

(pause)

You’re very polite.

STEVE:

Woz?

WOZ:

Yeah.

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WOZ heads out the door-STEVE

(to JOANNA)

Chrisann’s at a pay phone.

(quietly meaning LISA)

Would you watch Lisa until-Yeah.

JOANNA:

STEVE joins WOZ out in-34

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--where they make their way to the stage.

WOZ:

It’s a madhouse out there.

STEVE:

Good turnout.

WOZ:

Great turnout.

Yeah.

STEVE:

WOZ:

“Insanely great.”

STEVE:

Insanely great.

WOZ:

You know this is the first time

ever we haven’t played for the sameteam. It’s like you’re releasing

your first solo album. I appreciateyour inviting me to the launch.

STEVE:

I just want to wipe the slateclean.

WOZ:

That’s exactly what I want. That’s

why I came backstage. I want you toknow I’ll be out there with you.

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