Nicholas Nickleby Script
What happens when the light first pierces...
the dark dampness
in which we have waited?
We are slapped and cut loose.
If we are lucky,
someone is there to catch us...
and persuade us that we are safe.
But are we safe?
What happens if, too early,
we lose a parent?
That party on whom we rely
for only everything?
Why, we are cut loose again...
and we wonder, even dread...
wh
wait around on the parking lot.
An old broken down bus, very East European looking, with curtains in the windows, parks in the parking lot. Twenty or so men get out with sports bags, hockey sticks, helmets. They enter the ice rink guided by two production assistants who greet them and show them the way, walkie-talkies held to their ears.
A small convertible enters the parking lot, carrying the di
have herfamily.
Im sorry.
Today ofall days.
All right.
Okay, Im opening.
Uh, can I open
the big one first ?
Wait foryour mother.
Mom ! Mom !
[Man On Radio]
lhavejust one question
formy listeners.
Doyou thinkJimmy
is loving MaryAnn
on theirlast night together?
lets take a look
through the lookingglass
whereyoullfindyouranswer.
Here on CKRT,
withya untilthe end.
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protective gloves, Jerome opens the liquid-nitrogen
cooled refrigerator. A cloud of condensed water vapor billows
out. Revealed inside the fridge are racks of labelled jars and
silicon pouches - some containing a yellowish liquid, some a
deep, red liquid.
In front of one of the jars is a handwritten shopping list -
"TRUFFLES, CIGS, VODKA". Jerome smiles to himself as he
retrieves the note
Wait till we get to Missouri.
Tell them gals about how
Jesse James charged the Union Army.
- He keeps that up, hell outrank you.
- Ill still be better-looking, right?
Lets meet on that south road.
See if we can get those Yankees
Jesse here scared off.
- Ride with me, cousin.
- I could use the walk.
All right. Well have
horses waiting for you at the road.
All right, Rangers, lets ride!
I would sou
list of Japanese ships
we suspect will be assigned to amphib operations south of Rabaul.
The Coral Sea! Thats where we think theyll strike next.
But something else is stirring, something out our way.
We need facts, not guesswork.
Matt, we cracked Yamamotos code, but we cant just reel it off.
We get a flicker here and a glimmer there.
How much can you decipher? Hell, maybe...
Really decipher. Ten
New In Town Script
Oh, I bet you thats Trudy right now.
Harve, would you get that?
Harve, get that, will you?
To the 35, 40. What a block.
Forty-five, still going.
Brought down at the 50.
Okay, buster, no tapioca for you.
- Hey, everybody.
- Hi.
Hi, Trudy.
I froze my patootie off waiting
for someone to open that door.
You know how those New Ulm men
get when the Vikings play.
- Yeah, I know.
- So,
listed
as missing in action for three days,
back through the enemy lines to safety."
A gift from the Citizens For Iselin
Committee for his last birthday.
It saved our lives during the campaign.
You see, this opens up into a double bed.
This is the press room.
And this... This is my private office.
Anything to take the pain
out of campaigning, eh?
Thats what I always say!
- May I take this thing o
waiting, right?
Theres a geezer standing there
in a see-through womans negligee.
Hes got all the fucking tackle
hanging out. Hes stark naked.
-Hes got a great big la-di-da.
-Yeah, one at both ends.
Yeah, but the cigar was bigger.
He says,
"Hello, you must be Mark.
My wife, Deborah, told me about you.
Drinks are in there, partys in there."
And hes pointed at these doors.
What you call them doors
i
listing
for a Lauren Garland?....unlisted....okay..
Do you have a Sylvia Garland? S for Sylvia.
None...okay, thank you.
(hangs up phone)
OFFICE NEIGHBOR
Lets see, Burbank, got a prospect in Wells
Park for you to close.
TRUMAN
Wel-Wells Park? On uh...Harbor Island?
OFFICE NEIGHBOR
You...know another one?
TRUMAN
Well, I cant do it. I uh...have an
appointment. Dentist.
OFFICE NEIGHBOR
Really?
TRUMAN