Steve Jobs Page #19

JOANNA:

I have the correct time and we’re

running out of it. “A great

keyboard.”

STEVE:

A great keyboard and the coolest

mouse you’ve ever seen. This is

what those things look like today.

On the screen flashes a picture of a bulky PC. Some people in

the rehearsal audience who are seeing the full production for

the first time laugh.

STEVE (CONT’D)

And now I’d like to show you what

they’re going to look like

tomorrow. This is the iMac.

STEVE yanks the dark silk sheet off an iMac as a pool of

perfect light comes up on the table.

CHEERS and APPLAUSE from the APPLE EMPLOYEES.

STEVE clicks the mouse and the screen shows a lightning fast

succession of applications complete with a heart-racing

percussion score-

--after which the screen fills with the words “Hello

(again).”

The hundred or so people sitting and standing around out in

the house CLAP AND CHEER.

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STEVE (CONT’D)

(pause)

That was cool. Why did I like that

better than I usually do?

JOANNA:

I don’t know.

STEVE:

Something was different.

ANDREA CUNNINGHAM, the publicist from the Mac launch, is

standing at the foot of the stage-

ANDREA:

Hey stupid.

STEVE looks at her-

STEVE:

(pause)

I think she’s talking to one of you

guys.

ANDREA:

Did you notice a difference?

STEVE:

That’s what I’m--the exit signs

were off!

ANDREA:

Full blackout.

STEVE:

You did it.

ANDREA:

We wired all the exit lights to our

board, they go out for seven

seconds with the cue and come back

on again in theory.

STEVE:

We think that’s legal?

ANDREA:

No, we’re very certain it’s not.

You want to see some quotes?

JOANNA:

Let’s hold off on those.

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ANDREA:

He’ll like ‘em.

JOANNA shakes her head “no.”

ANDREA (CONT’D)

(to STEVE)

I’ll give ‘em to you later.

STEVE:

I’ll take ‘em now.

STEVE takes a couple of stapled pieces of paper from ANDREA

and as ANDREA turns around she mouths “I’m sorry” to JOANNA

while JOANNA says-

JOANNA:

Pick it up from there please, we

only have a couple of minutes so

let’s just do the 360.

STAGE MANAGER:

It’s Cue 84, right where we are,

you’re bringing out the camera.

STEVE:

(presenting again)

We’re gonna bring out a wireless

camera we stole from Panasonic and

show you what this looks like.

A CAMERA OPERATOR with a camera on his shoulder comes out

from the wings and circles the iMac, showing a 360 degree

picture on the big screen as STEVE describes and points to

what we’re looking at.

STEVE (CONT’D)

The whole thing is translucent, you

can see into it.

(calling out)

How’s that for a compromise, Woz?

You still can’t get into it but you

can see into it.

WOZ:

(calling back)

Fair enough.

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STEVE:

We’ve put stereo speakers in front,

infra red right up here, CD-ROM

drive right in the middle, dual

stereo headphone jacks and all the

connectors are inside one beautiful

little door here--Ethernet, USB.

The Apple employees CHEER. Obviously they’re not seeing the

computer for the first time but it’s a proud and exciting

day.

STEVE (CONT’D)

Even though this is a full-blooded

Macintosh, we’re targeting it for

the number one use that consumers

tell us they want a computer for,

which is-

STAGE MANAGER:

Let’s hold please.

STEVE:

The answer was “The Internet.”

(motioning her over)

Joanna?

JOANNA comes down to meet him at the edge of the stage.

JOANNA:

Yeah.

STEVE:

(quietly)

Just stand in front of me. I want

to look at these quotes but I don’t

want Joel to know.

JOANNA:

They’re all great.

STEVE:

(reading)

“A piece of hardware that blends

sci-fi shimmer with the kitsch

whimsy of a cocktail umbrella,”

says Steven Levy in Newsweek. “It

is not only the coolest looking

computer introduced in years, but a

chest-thumping statement that

Silicon Valley’s original dream

company is no longer somnambulant.”

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STEVE takes a moment for himself...

STEVE (CONT’D)

(pause--then to JOANNA)

It’s a word, it means sleepwalking.

STAGE MANAGER:

Steve, I’m sorry, we have to clear

the house if we’re gonna start on

time.

STEVE JOANNA:

We’re gonna start on time. We’re starting on time.

STEVE:

(handing JOANNA the

quotes)

Take this.

(calling out)

Everybody, that’s it. They’ve got

to mop the stage, reset and open

the house. I love you guys.

Everyone CHEERS-

STEVE (CONT’D)

Andy, come on back a minute?

ANDREA:

Which one?

STEVE:

Hertzfeld.

(to JOANNA)

Walk with me.

JOANNA walks up the step unit to the stage just as the step

unit is being taken away. STEVE takes the paper from her as

they head-

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STEVE:

Alright.

JOANNA hands back the quotes-

STEVE (CONT’D)

Forbes calls it “...an industry-

altering success.”

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JOANNA:

(pointing)

Look here.

STEVE:

Why haven’t we ever slept together?

JOANNA:

We’re not in love. Look here.

STEVE:

Where?

JOANNA:

Here.

STEVE:

(pause--STEVE’s surprised

but keeps even)

Sculley.

JOANNA:

Nobody’s heard from him in five

years but he did this.

STEVE:

Sculley talked to Forbes...

JOANNA:

Look what he said.

STEVE:

“He has implemented the same simple

strategy that made Apple so

successful 15 years ago: make hit

products and promote them with

terrific marketing.”

(pause--nods)

That was nice of him.

JOANNA:

It was.

STEVE:

I meant it.

JOANNA:

Sightings of J.D. Salinger are more

common than John Sculley.

STEVE:

I wasn’t being sarcastic, it was

nice of him.

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STEVE (CONT’D)

(pause)

Do you ever talk to him?

JOANNA:

No.

STEVE:

You haven’t talked to him since

‘88?

JOANNA:

I’d have told you if I did.

STEVE:

(pause)

It doesn’t matter, I don’t want

people thinking that they can cross

me and then boom 15 years later I’m

okay with it.

(beat)

I was kidding, what’s wrong with

you this morning?

JOANNA:

Let’s get off the stage.

STEVE and JOANNA open the heavy door that leads out into-

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--where they start heading down toward Steve’s dressing room.

We can HEAR the crowd in the lobby around the corner.

JOANNA:

You see how this door looks like

this door? If you go through this

door you’re backstage, if you go

through this door you’re in a

parking lot.

STEVE:

(looking at the pages of

quotes)

Oh man, look at this.

JOANNA:

Did you hear what I just said?

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STEVE:

I’m not worried I’m gonna

accidentally walk into a parkinglot.

JOANNA:

I want to talk to you.

STEVE:

“The only thing Apple’s providingnow is leadership in colors.”

JOANNA:

Don’t worry about it.

STEVE:

What does Bill Gates have againstme?

JOANNA:

I don’t know, you’re both out of

your minds. Listen to me-STEVE

He dropped out of a better schoolthan I dropped out of-They

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STEVE:

--but he is a tool bag and I’ll

tell you why.

JOANNA:

Make everything alright with Lisa.

STEVE:

You know--Joanna--boundaries.

JOANNA:

You’ve come to my apartment at 1AM

and cleaned it so tell me where the

boundary is.

STEVE:

There, let’s say it’s there.

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