Steve Jobs Page #14

JOEL:

Is this--we’re off the record--is

this a strategy or a problem

because if it’s a problem-

STEVE interrupts this and points to ANDY-

STEVE:

Do not share proprietary knowledge

with that man.

JOANNA:

(confidentially to JOEL)

It’s not a problem.

STEVE’s walking over to ANDY and AVIE, who are busy on the

computer.

ANDY:

I wouldn’t understand it anyway.

STEVE:

I don’t understand it either and my

name’s on the patents.

ANDY:

It’s got email.

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STEVE:

Email’s not just for tech

specialists anymore. Well it is,

but it won’t be.

ANDY:

And I assume an email sent on a

NeXT computer can only be received

by a NeXT computer?

STEVE:

Closed end to end.

(to AVIE)

The new trash can is wrong. I want

to tell you I appreciate all the

hours you put into it but I can’t

because of how terrible it is.

AVIE:

We’ll go back to the other one.

STEVE:

And why are we still giving three

options on the clock?

AVIE:

How many options do you want to

give?

STEVE:

Two. Buy it or don’t.

ANDY:

(to STEVE)

Can I talk to you a second?

STEVE:

Absofruitly.

ANDY leads STEVE away to talk to him privately-

ANDY:

Look, man, Avie’s been recompiling

but he says there may be some

glitches this morning.

STEVE:

If all there are are some glitches

it’ll be a triumph of a miraculous

magnitude. Why are you translating

for Avie?

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ANDY:

I didn’t want him to find out the

hard way your position on glitches

in a demo but it sounds like you’ve

mellowed.

STEVE:

I’ve been growing, Andy, I’ve been

learning to love myself.

ANDY:

I wouldn’t have ever dreamed that

was a problem.

STEVE:

Fantastic burn. You need to go to

your seat.

ANDY:

And how ‘bout Lisa? Getting into a

school for gifted kids?

STEVE:

Yeah, she was tested and it turns

out she can fly.

ANDY wants STEVE to treat this like it’s a big deal.

ANDY:

Seriously, it’s a big deal.

STEVE:

I know it’s a big deal. That’s why

I built the school a building.

ANDY:

I’m sure that’s not why she got in.

STEVE:

Really?

ANDY:

Can I show you something funny from

MacWorld?

STEVE:

I can’t think of anything I have to

do right now.

ANDY:

It’ll make you feel good.

(calling)

Joanna, look at this.

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JOANNA comes over--ANDY’s taken a folded-up page from a

magazine out of his pocket.

JOANNA:

Andy, he’s only got a few minutes.

ANDY:

It’s Guy Kawasaki writing in

MacWorld, you’re gonna like this.

JOANNA:

Can we all enjoy it later?

ANDY:

He wrote a parody press release

about Apple buying NeXT for your

OS. He imagines a near-future where

Apple needs your OS and has to buy

NeXT and you come back as CEO. He

has Gates saying there would now be

more innovations from Jobs that

Microsoft could copy. You can read

it later.

STEVE:

(taking the article)

Thanks.

ANDY:

She would have gotten in without

you donating a building.

(beat)

She’s a very bright girl, Steve.

STEVE:

(beat)

Still, it was something to talk

about in the interview.

ANDY:

Alright, good luck.

ANDY exits backstage to head out into the house...

JOANNA:

Give it to me, I’ll throw it out

for you.

STEVE:

I’m gonna hang on to it.

STEVE folds the article and puts it in his pocket. JOANNA

stares at him, trying to puzzle through what’s happening...

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STEVE (CONT’D)

What?

(beat)

What?

JOANNA:

You ready for Sculley?

STEVE:

Mm-hm.

But STEVE’s seen something up in the lighting grid. She’s

sitting in her coat and scarf and listening to music on her

Walkman.

STEVE (CONT’D)

Excuse me.

(calling)

Lisa?

JOANNA:

You can’t shout.

STEVE heads up the metal stairs and onto-

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LISA sees her father and smiles as he walks toward her.

STEVE:

You have to go.

She either can’t hear him or is pretending she can’t.

STEVE (CONT’D)

It’s dangerous up here, that’s why

I make other people do it.

LISA points to her headphones. STEVE kneels down and pushes

the headphones down around her neck.

STEVE (CONT’D)

Who are you hiding from, me or your

mom?

LISA:

I’m not hiding.

STEVE:

Let’s go.

LISA gets up and follows her father to the stairs-

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STEVE (CONT’D)

What were you listening to?

LISA:

I’m listening to two versions of

the same song. And then when I get

to the end I rewind and listen to

them again. It’s the same song but

the versions are different.

STEVE holds a moment...then sees an opening.

STEVE:

(pause)

What’s the song?

LISA:

Okay, so it’s a really old song and

it’s called “Both Sides Now.”

STEVE:

“Both Sides Now.”

LISA:

Yeah.

That went alright so STEVE tries it again.

STEVE:

(beat)

What’s it about?

LISA:

(thinks)

It’s about--there are three verses.

Clouds, love and life. And the

person singing is singing that they

used to think of, that they used to

think about, you know-

STEVE:

--clouds, love and life.

LISA:

--right, one way, yeah, but now

they look at them another way and

now they’re, you know, they’ve...

STEVE:

(beat)

--they’ve come to the conclusion

that they really don’t know clouds,

love or life at all?

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LISA:

Those are the exact words.

STEVE:

Yeah Joni Mitchell, ‘cause it’s not

a really old song unless I’m a

really old guy. You have to go to

school now.

They’ve come down the metal stairs and land-

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LISA:

You want me to tell you the

difference between the two

versions?

STEVE:

Right now.

LISA:

The first version is the kind of

thing you’d call girlish.

STEVE:

I didn’t mean that I want to know

the difference right now, I meant

you have to go to school right now.

LISA:

I can stay and watch.

STEVE:

You are truant, you’re committing a

crime.

LISA:

I’m not gonna miss anything

important.

STEVE:

How do you know?

LISA:

I read ahead. The Pilgrims make it

to the New World.

JOANNA opens the door and steps into the backstage area from

the corridor-

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JOANNA:

Steve?

LISA:

Then the Declaration of

Independence.

STEVE:

(paying attention to

JOANNA now instead)

Yeah you skipped over a couple of

centuries.

JOANNA:

Chrisann’s out here.

STEVE and LISA are quiet for a moment...we HEAR the sound of

the giant sold-out house.

STEVE:

(pause)

Let’s go.

LISA:

Can I make my case for staying?

STEVE:

No.

STEVE walks LISA out into-

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--where CHRISANN is waiting.

STEVE:

She was with me.

CHRISANN:

Come on. Your dad doesn’t want us

to stay.

STEVE:

Hey that’s not true, that’s not-

STEVE gives CHRISANN a look that says “What the hell?”-

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