Up Close and Personal 4 Page #2

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...you think you might be ready to...

...take in a little more...

...responsibility?

- Exactly. I'm already.

You know what you are ready for?

You can stop tomorrow morning on your

way in. My cleaning. Shun Lee.

You want a ride home?

Otherwise I've just had the shortest

career in the History of W.M.I. A...

- News Heartbeat of American Riviera.

- The ride home is optional.

I opt no, thank you.

- You want Rob to wear that?

- You know, weather is sponsored spot.

What if it's not raining, Dan?

Any other costume ideas on tap?

I was thinking maybe

big sunglasses if... Sh*t.

Warren, Three has happy weather.

Three? The night

the Gulf War started...

they led with a Bal Harbour Winter

Wonderland Shopathon.

And Three is the top-rated station in

this market. What could it cost to try?

- It would could cost you nothing.

- Give me a second.

- I said I wanted them boxed.

- They still don't come boxed.

- I was watching the news last night...

- Is that unusual?

...and I have an idea about something.

I was rethinking the weather spot.

Yeah, everybody is.

I could do the desk and the weather...

...same salary.

- If I could restate my point...

- I got it. Salary to one side, Sally.

- I did some weather in Reno.

I wanted to hire regular weather,

an Arnie Poole type.

San Francisco's got Arnie Poole.

We've got Rob.

- All I ask to let Rob try this.

- The weather in Reno. Let's see.

They must get some

genuine weather there, huh?

- Oh, big time.

- You prove me wrong, I'm easy.

Dan...

meet our new weather person.

Really? Really?

This is Dan Duarte, our station

manager and my boss.

I go through life with a smile,

try to spread a little goodness.

You know, some people in this

business get jaded because...

it's always the same awful stories.

And it is the same stories.

But they're happening to

different people.

Our new weather gal seems

to be under the weather.

Thirty seconds, Rob.

Focus on spreading that goodness, Rob.

What is this? Okay, come on.

Let's get up.

- Now, what is it?

- Oh, I can't do it.

Now, you've done this before.

If you're Sally,

I want you in makeup now, please.

Not now. Wait outside.

- Say, "Sally Atwater." Say it.

- Thally.

Thally.

- Say it.

- Thally Atw...

- No, I can't do it!

- Then don't do.

You don't have to do it.

- Yes, I do.

- What?

- Yes, I do.

- Okay. I'll get you through it.

I'm your floor manager. You're gonna

be on camera two the entire time.

Okay, everybody, happy weather! In

fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve...

Okay, everybody...

Keep on your toes.

Let's do this one for Uncle Dan.

Rob, check the prompter.

And now with the weather, here's Sa...

Tally Atwater. Tally?

It's your new name. It's easy to say.

don't look at me, look at the camera.

You got twenty-nine

seconds to commercial.

Talk straight into the red light. You

will find you've got a new best friend.

Tally?

Come on, baby.

Thanks, Rob.

How long was that? Okay, we need to

lake thirty seconds off the close.

What an idea.

We will want these, because it's

heat, heat and more heat.

Oh, another good idea, Dan.

We're looking at an expected high

of ninety-eight.

- Sunglasses don't look silly on Seven.

- Will she come out next with a banana?

When the sun goes down, look for a

balmy low of eighty-six.

- Pick it up.

- More high pressure moving in means...

Pace yourself.

don't look at me.

Look at the camera.

And so the five-day

forecast is more...

...more, more hot, hot, hot. Thtay...

Stay inside, cuddle up and

enjoy the air conditioning. Rob.

You made your point, Warren.

This is a non-starter.

She eats the lens.

This is Rob Sullivan saying,

for Adela Syms and myself...

and all of us here at Channel Nine

News good night. Be of good cheer.

Won't want this.

Will need these.

Not to worry, Dan. Uncle Rob was

there to step in if it got any worse.

- Good job, Sally.

- I was betting she'd pee on air.

- I've never seen anything like it.

- We'll do it again tomorrow, okay?

You don't have to put up

with him, Lu.

Luanne, I hear it. I hear it.

No, it is not the guy from

the sweepstakes.

Nobody but you believes in the guy from

sweepstakes. It's like the tooth fairy.

Wait, don't hang up!

I wanna talk to you.

- You're feeling sorry for yourself?

- What are you doing here?

N.B.C.'s million dollar baby

and how she got there.

No Miami Herald, no Washington Post,

no Wall Street Journal?

You getting a cheap rush from this?

You know the demo tape I sent you?

I faked it.

I didn't do any of those things. I

went to East Reno Community College.

I wasn't valedictorian. I didn't

graduate. I rented a cap and gown.

I did the camera myself.

I even threw the confetti myself.

No crucial California Youth Forum

Elections? Big time weather?

Once when I was working at...

Cal-Neva, there, it got snowed in.

And a Reno station asked for

some report...

phone reports, and I did one.

It was forty seconds long.

- I know all that. I checked it out.

- So, fire me.

If you're hungry enough to fake it,

you might be hungry enough to do it.

- The weather is not gonna work.

- You don't think I know that?

You come across on camera.

I'm giving you a shot as reporter.

That's what I came by to tell you.

You thought I came by to

f*** you, didn't you?

Lu! I think I just got promoted.

Actually, this is a set-aside.

Harvey's Belle Glade piece tells

me a story. Yours doesn't.

Miami's beautiful people

got an eyeful today...

- What's the story?

- The story is...

The fashion industry comes

to South Beach.

It came. It went.

We did that story. It's gone.

Now let's lay in B roll and see

if we can't salvage this thing.

Some of the finest cigar makers

exiled from Cuba...

are making profitable businesses

here in Little Havana.

As I quickly learned,

it's not as easy as it looks.

What's the story here? Is it the Cuban?

Or are you getting cute with the cigar?

This is Tally Atwater, Channel

Nine News, in Little Havana.

The Cuban, of course.

Then you should've found out that this

particular exiled cigar maker...

is not from Havana,

but a Batista officer.

- Just do it better.

- Right.

Harvey's truck is down.

On his way to...

How long would it take us

to get to Miami Beach?

I thought we're doing

this bullshit boat show.

- This' a much better story. How long?

- Half an hour.

Vic... Yeah, Tally.

Listen, Ned and I are moments

from this Harvey story.

- Harvey's truck is down.

- I'm covering till he gets here.

But if he doesn't get here you'll

need an on-camera reporter.

You've never done a live feed. You

don't even know what the story is.

Get the boat, get the cable, get the

balconies. Get the spokesman.

Then tell me what the story is.

Okay, show me what you got.

Get in there.

Jam the damn mike in his face.

Hey, wait a minute!

- We have to make a positive I.D. First.

- How do you do that, Sheriff?

- Metro-Dade, missy.

- How do you make a positive I.D.?

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