Steve Jobs Page #13

--where CHRISANN is waiting.

STEVE:

Where’s Lisa?

CHRISANN:

She’s around.

STEVE:

What does that mean?

CHRISANN:

She’s running around the building.

STEVE:

An hour ago you said you were

taking her to school.

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CHRISANN:

She begged me to let her stay. There

are fathers who would so love-

STEVE:

It is wrong, okay? It is morally

wrong, it is parentally wrong, it

is wrong for you to use Lisa as a

way of getting money from me. She

will know if she doesn’t already

that that is your primary use for

her and (she will hate you for it

for the rest of your life).

CHRISANN:

(over)

She will see, if she doesn’t

already, that her mother is a woman

who stands up to men.

STEVE:

By living off of them.

CHRISANN:

By not letting myself be imprisoned

and degraded by them.

STEVE:

Imprisoned? I can’t get rid of you!

CHRISANN:

I need a doctor and I need a

dentist.

STEVE:

I dropped out of college after a

semester but okay, let’s have a

look.

CHRISANN:

You will support your daughter and

her mother.

STEVE:

Did you pay someone fifteen hundred

dollars to bless your house?

CHRISANN:

Did you hear what I said?

STEVE:

Did you?

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CHRISANN:

I don’t remember how much it was,

Steve.

STEVE:

It was fifteen hundred dollars.

CHRISANN:

They don’t do it for free.

STEVE:

They don’t, they charge fifteen-

hundred dollars.

CHRISANN:

How I spend--f***, you know, I’m

(not even gonna--)

STEVE:

(over)

Were you about to say, “How I spend

my money is none of your business?”

CHRISANN:

I have a sinus infection and I need

to see a dentist too.

STEVE:

So you can see how your blessing

budget could have been better

spent.

CHRISANN:

Like on a perfect cube?

STEVE:

Look at me, Chrisann.

CHRISANN:

What?

STEVE:

Look at me. You know who I am,

right?

CHRISANN:

Yes.

STEVE:

And you know I know people.

CHRISANN:

What are you talking about?

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STEVE:

Look at me. And you know the people

I know, they know people.

CHRISANN:

What is this?

STEVE:

If I ever hear again that you’ve

thrown a cereal bowl at Lisa’s head-

CHRISANN:

What?!

STEVE:

--my private line is gonna ring

and a voice on the other end is

gonna say, “We’re all set.”

And that’s how I’ll learn that

you’re dead.

CHRISANN:

Are you cra--I threw the bowl on

the floor! I didn’t throw it at her

head, she wasn’t even in the room!

She was nowhere near--I threw it on

the floor!

STEVE:

She’s a little girl, you’re scaring

her. I’m a grown man, you’re

scaring me. Taking out the garbage

is a chore, clearing the table is a

chore, waking you up in the morning

is just f***in’ creepy.

CHRISANN:

Please teach me more about being a

parent. It means-

STEVE:

We’re done here, Chris.

CHRISANN:

It means so much coming from

someone who won’t admit he is one.

STEVE:

We’re all set. Stop screaming at

Lisa.

CHRISANN:

I give her responsibilities-

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STEVE:

Got it.

CHRISANN:

--and one day she’s going to thank

me for it.

STEVE:

Probably in your sleep.

CHRISANN:

F*** off.

STEVE:

Okay.

CHRISANN:

I never threw anything at her head.

I never--I never would.

(broken)

Things don’t become so because you

say so.

STEVE:

There’ll be more money in your

account by the end of business.

STEVE opens the door and walks out into-

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--where JOANNA’s still waiting.

JOANNA:

Are you being nice?

STEVE:

Oh yeah.

JOANNA:

Andy’s next.

STEVE:

Hertzfeld or Cunningham?

JOANNA:

Hertzfeld. He’s playing with Avie

Tevanian and the computer

backstage.

JOEL PFORZHEIMER, the reporter we met briefly in the first

act, runs and catches up with STEVE and JOANNA.

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JOEL:

Steve?!

STEVE turns to see him coming but keeps walking with JOANNA-

JOANNA:

Can he do it later, Joel, we go in

8 minutes.

JOEL:

Can I just get a quick reaction to

the press this morning?

STEVE:

What about it?

JOEL:

The size of it, the volume.

JOANNA:

I’ll tell you on background-

JOEL:

I was hoping for a quote from

Steve.

JOANNA:

I’ll tell you on background that

I’ve never seen anything like it in

the tech industry. I called the

Wall Street Journal to take out a

full page ad for today and you know

what their sales guy said? “Why

bother? It’d be like notifying

Macy’s that tomorrow is Christmas.”

JOEL:

You saw the Stewart Alsop

newsletter?

JOANNA:

I did.

JOEL:

I’m sorry, Joanna, I need to get

Steve on the record.

JOANNA:

The headline was “Dear NeXT: When

Can I Get My Machine?”

JOEL:

When can he?

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JOANNA:

We’ll announce the ship date in the

next 8-10 weeks.

JOEL:

Alsop’s not talking about the ship

date, he wants to know when he can

get one to play with.

JOANNA:

We have a lot of respect for

Stewart Alsop and we want to get a

machine into his hands so he can

tell his subscribers about it.

JOEL:

And when will that be?

JOANNA:

Very soon.

JOEL:

A couple of days, a week? Off the

record.

JOANNA:

Off the record?

JOEL:

Completely.

JOANNA:

We think-

STEVE:

He’ll get it when it’s finished.

JOEL stops walking. STEVE and JOANNA stop too.

JOEL:

(pause)

It’s not finished?

STEVE:

It’s almost finished.

JOEL:

I’ve been watching you rehearse the

demo for three weeks.

STEVE:

Yes.

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JOEL:

What’s left?

STEVE:

A little thing.

JOEL:

What?

JOANNA:

I think that’s enough.

STEVE:

We’re off the record and Joel’s

always been good at understanding

nuance.

JOEL:

What’s left to finish?

STEVE:

I guess in layman’s terms you’d

have to say we don’t have an OS.

JOEL:

(pause)

An operating system.

STEVE:

Yeah.

JOEL:

What do you mean?

STEVE:

Well the OS is what runs the

computer. In fact it sort of is the

computer.

JOEL:

How has it been running, how is it

gonna run this morning? What do you

mean you don’t have an OS?

They walk into-

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ANDY HERTZFELD is huddled over the shoulder of AVIE TEVANIAN

and some ENGINEERS who are busy with last minute checks.

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STEVE:

(quietly)

Avie Tevanian is our chief software

designer and he wrote a demo

program. It’s like this, we built a

great car, we haven’t built the

engine, so we put a golf cart

battery in there to make it go for

a little bit. All this computer

knows how to do right now is

demonstrate itself.

JOEL:

(quietly)

You’re telling me the only thing

you’ve built is a black cube?

STEVE:

(pause)

Yes.

(beat)

Yeah, but isn’t it the coolest

black cube you’ve ever seen?

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