Swingers Page #10

MIKE:

Christy was nice...

TRENT:

I didn't even like her, to be honest.

MIKE:

She was hot.

TRENT:

She really didn't do it for me, baby.

How'd you like Dorothy?

MIKE:

I don't know. The whole Judy Garland

thing kind of turned me on. Does that

makes me some kind of fag?

TRENT:

No, baby. You're money.

MIKE:

She didn't like me, anyway.

TRENT:

She thought you were money.

MIKE:

I don't think so.

TRENT:

I heard them talking. They both thought

you were money.

MIKE:

Yeah, a good friend.

TRENT:

Baby, you take yourself out of the game.

You start talking about puppy dogs and

ice cream, of course it's gonna be on the

friend tip.

MIKE:

I just don't think she liked me in that

way.

TRENT:

Baby, you're so money you don't even

know it.

MIKE:

Tee, girls don't go for me the way they

go for you.

TRENT:

Michelle went for you, right.

MIKE:

That was different.

TRENT:

How?

MIKE:

I was younger... It was college. You

didn't go to college, you don't know what

it's like. You screw chicks you have no

business being with. They're young, they

don't know any better.

TRENT:

That's just plain silly. Your self-

esteem is just low because she's with

someone else. But thinking about it and

talking about it all the time is bad.

It's no good, man. You gotta get out

there. The ladies want to love you,

baby.

MIKE:

I just need some time...

TRENT:

Why? So you can beat yourself up?

Sitting around in that stuffy apartment.

It's just plain bad for you, man. It's

depressing. You've come so far.

Remember the first week? After she told

you? You couldn't even eat.

MIKE:

Don't remind me.

TRENT:

You just sat around drinking orange

juice. Now look at you. Look how far

you've come in just a few months. You

got that part in that movie...

MIKE:

... a day...

TRENT:

... Whatever. It's work. You're doing

what you love. What's she doing?

MIKE:

Selling scrap metal.

TRENT:

(smiles)

See? And what does this guy she's with

do?

MIKE:

He drives a carriage.

TRENT:

What?!?

MIKE:

(smiling)

I hear he drives a carriage around

Central Park or something.

TRENT:

Please. And you're sweating him?

You're "all that" and you're sweating

some lawn jockey?

MIKE:

I hear she's getting real fat.

TRENT:

Baby, she's the one who should be

thinking about you. Sounds to me like

you cut loose some dead weight. Trust

me, Mikey, you're better off.

Trent cranks some Frank. "You Make Me Feel So Young".

Mike is finally, genuinely, smiling.

He turns down the music enough to talk.

MIKE:

I'm gonna try. I'm really gonna try.

Trent just smiles and cranks Frank back up

27 EXT. DESERT ROAD - SAME 27

Trent's car drives off into the distance. A sign reads:

"Los Angeles - 270 miles".

DISSOLVE TO:

28 EXT. PITCH AND PUTT GOLF COURSE - LOS FELIZ - DAY 28

Establishing shot of MIKE and ROB teeing off with nine irons.

Rob wears a Yale sweatshirt. Mike wears one from Queens

College. A Mets cap shades his eyes. Neither have shaved

and, odds are, neither showered. They each carry a loose

nine blade and putter as they wander to their lie.

ROB:

I don't think I'm gonna take it.

MIKE:

I's a gig.

ROB:

I mean, I need the money.

MIKE:

You're an actor. Find the Zen in the

role.

ROB:

It's definitely a step back for me.

MIKE:

Look, there's not much of a call for

Shakespeare in this town.

ROB:

There's just something about being

"Goofy". Any other Disney character

would be fine. There's just this stigma

associated with the character.

MIKE:

What do you want? You're tall.

ROB:

Do you realize how hard it's going to be

to tell my parents? I still haven't told

them I didn't get the pilot.

MIKE:

You tested over a month ago. I'm sure

they figured it out by now.

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