PRESS RETINUE.
DEHAVEN
... a full 35 percent of all jobs in
the U.S. military are still, to this
day, off-limits to women. And
thats simply gotta change.
PRESS #1
What about those who say women
arent suited for all jobs? That
theyre physically weaker... they
have less stamina...
DEHAVEN
Sure. And were gonna hog the
bathroom, too.
DEHAVENS AIDE catches up, pulls her aside.
DEHAVENS AIDE
White Hous
free speech.
We got to.
lts in the Constitution.
My boy is distributing
those handbills now.
lts a free country, Willie.
lf you can convince people
to vote for you...
...you go right ahead.
What did you want to see me about?
l wanted you to meet a fella...
...that came all the way up
from the state capital to meet you.
A reporter.
Wants to write you up.
Maybe put your picture in the paper.
lm hap
free.
Move. Youre attracting flies.
Forgive my associate. Strangers make him anxious.
What with the public running wild, thieves and cutthroats around every bend--
Ill keep my eyes open.
Get out! Go on, go away!
- Where are you going? - Paris.
- Oh, what business takes you there? - Mine.
Stop!
Put down your sword or hes dead.
This man is a moment from his death if you dont put down your sword!
Wh
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 off now, Mother?
- Raymond, what is the matter with you?
You look as if your head
were about to come to a point.
Johnny, fix him a drink.
Sit down, Raymond!
Well be home in less than three hours.
Im not going home with you, Mother.
Im going to New Y
free? Ah, Isabel.
- Hey! Hi.
lm sorry. l am in a hurry.
l have got to go.
Okay.
lll see you later.
- Yhank you, mademoiselle.
- Good-bye.
Looking for someone?
Roxy de Persand, my sister.
You sound just like her.
Let me help. lll call her.
Oh. Yhank you.
lll buzz her.
Mrs. de Persand?
Its just up there on the right.
Hey, where was
Charles-Henri going?
Uh, he had to go to the country
to see about o
free lunch, and
then take you in the back room and
they get you laid.
The bartender, JIMMY, comes up to Galvin.
JIMMY
Another, Frank . . . ?
GALVIN
(gestures to include
group)
...everybody. Mike says, `Pat,
you mean to tell me for a buck you
get a free lunch and a beer, and
then you go in the back and get
laid? `Thats correct. Mike
says, `Pat. Have you been in this
bar ? Pat says, `No, but my sis
pressive.
Not as impressive as it sound.
What I really do, is sell kitsch to redneck.
Now I train some other
schmuck to do it.
- May I ask a question?
- Yes, go ahead.
Would you kindly be telling me,
what is kitsch, and what is redneck,
and what is schmuck?
Kitsch is garbage that people buy.
- Redneck basically mean farmer.
- Farmer?
and schmuck?
That mean a nice guy.
You the person Im here to tr
into his face.
He jumped up and screamed:
"I was not excellent!
I was not extraordinary!
I was monumental!
I was epochal!"
All this made a very deep
impression on me then...
...and that I would work with him
later and make five feature films...
You would never
have thought that.
No, that was never on
my horizon at the time.
It was beyond my
furthest thoughts.
Did he ever have any training as
pressed.
The last time I was really happy
I put on twenty-five pounds. I
thought John was going to have
a stroke.
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JOHN
(voice over)
Its true, Im telling you.
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3 INT. LAW OFFICE -- DAY
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JOHN MILLANEY, twenty-nine, sits at his desk talking on the
telephone. He is dressed very well, sporting real suspenders
with his striped pinpoint oxford shirt and cotton suit. He
fingers the wedding ring on
presses back on the door, closing it.
WHAM! Its slammed open again.
Melinda tries pressing it closed, but the Killers gloved
hand reaches in and grabs her. Yanks on her hair. Melinda
screams and slams the door closed on the Killers hand.
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INT. BENOIT HOME -- EVENING
The Killer withdraws his hand, raises the pick axe.
2.
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INT. BEDROOM -- EVENING
The door SPLINTERS over Melinda. She screams, sc