building anger.
CHIP
I do great in school, Dad.
(Eats toast as fly buzzes off)
A sickened and rage-filled MOM stalks the fly to
DADs orange juice glass where it secretes on the
rim in closeup.
DAD
Well, your mothers going to PTA
today. Well see what your
teacher has to say.
(Takes a big gulp as fly buzzes away)
CHIP
(Giving a pleading look to MOM as
the buzzing of the fly builds in
intensity on t
apartment next to the one Violet and Ceasar entered.
She slides the key in and opens the door.
??
INT. EMPTY APARTMENT
It is later. All of Corkys tools are gathered in the
middle of the living room.
The apartment is cavernous and looks like someone recently
moved out: cracks in the wall, picture hooks, hangers,
and other discarded junk.
Corky is on the phone.
CORKY
I looked over everything sir, a
BUILDING -- MORNING
Distinctive SAN FRANCISCO skyline on the horizon.
Nicholas building is a brownstone bookended by skyscrapers.
Old money dwarfed by new. The Bentley arrives...
INT. VAN ORTON BUILDING, UNDERGROUND GARAGE -- MORNING
The Bentley moves past a valet station. One VALET follows.
The Bentley takes its place. A brass plaque reads:
"NICHOLAS VAN ORTON, Van Orton Enterprises." The valet
apartment...
- So I like to live good. Any objections?
None at all.
If you dont overlook your obligation to
me. I trust it was purely an oversight.
Im sure a man in your position wouldnt
deliberately antagonise his creditors.
I aint got it, Leo. I know I should have it,
and Im as anxious to pay you off as
you are to have me, but I just aint got it.
Well, we all get a little
cramped now and then.
build a better world.
The crusher Bones is going to try
once more to shatter steel...
only using the power
of his mighty arms.
Please, ladies and gentlemen,
I want absolute silence...
during the demonstration.
I must beg of you,
for your own safety...
not to look him in the eye...
because his power of concentration
is so great...
that he might provoke
a cerebral hemorrhage...
in the weaker ones a
building named after me.
It was named after my father.
- Good. Why dont you live in it? - I did!
I wouldnt be who I am today if it werent for my years there.
Maybe I dont wanna be who you are. Maybe I dont wanna be a Parrish.
You wont be. Not till you start acting like one.
Get your coat!
I guess Im not ready for Cliffside then!
Were taking you there next Sunday! l dont wanna hear another word ab
apart. The NINE year old struggles
ferociously, SCREAMING and kicking like a mad man.
INT. HOSPITAL WARD - 1972 - DUSK
In the b.g. we see the Nine year old Boy sleeping. A DOCTOR
and the boys FATHER, a hard-looking MAN in his forties, walk
through the door. We MOVE with them down the hall.
DOCTOR
The pressures and demands players with
your sons abilities put on themselves
to win are incredible. T
APARTMENT - ANGLE ON A LARGE, TATTERED
POSTER-NIGHT (TODAY)
Taped over a crack on a wall. The poster shows a
glittering CHRISTY VAN CARTIER: singing star of a fifth-
rate Vegas lounge. Christy wears tight spangles and a
major wig on the poster. She has clearly lived up, or
down, to all of Sister Immaculatas expectations.
The CAMERA PANS through the dark bedroom in which the
poster hangs; a neon s
apartment
has a very special meaning for me.
As a thirteen-year-old
schoolboy, I used to live here...
...with my mother and
my two brothers.
This was a small, rather shabby
boarding house...
...now restored of course.
- That was in the Fifties?
I was just thirteen.
The odd thing was that I lived here
with Klaus Kinski for months.
Oh, really?
It was a chain of coincidences.
The owner of the boardi
apartment,
which I rented
just so shed go out with me.
I gave him a good price.
Yeah, not good enough.
Shes a killer. No, seriously, um...
After about a month of dating,
I knew she was the one.
[Woman] Aw.
And I couldnt be happier...
that on this day that Ive been
dreaming about for so long,
the woman Im standing
next to... is you.
[Lisa Laughing]
Oh, my goodness.!
I lost my shoe!
Look at this pl