Bamboozled Page #2

DELACROIX:

I didn't find out about this very

important staff meeting until...

Delacroix looks at his Jaeger-LeCoultre.

DELACROIX (CONT'D)

Four minutes ago.

DUNWITTY:

So are you telling me everyone knew

about this get-together except you?

DELACROIX:

I wasn't told about this until

Marie informed me as soon as I got

off the elevator.

All eyes are on Delacroix and he feels it.

DUNWITTY:

People, you can attempt to pull a

Rodman like our friend Delacroix,

but I guarantee you'll be sent

packing just like him.

Dunwitty via remote turns off the lights and turns on an

overhead projector.

DUNWITTY (CONT'D)

These are the standings. Read 'em

and weep. As you can plainly see

the Continental Network System is

languishing.

CLOSE ON:

Ratings charts.

7.

DUNWITTY (O.S.) (CONT'D)

Look at 'em people. We are BOOTY,

CA CA. We are DOO-DOO. Doo-doo on

a stick, if you will.

CLOSE ON:

Dunwitty.

DUNWITTY (CONT'D)

I do not like to be the laughing

stock of the broadcast industry. I

have pride and people, you better

start getting some too. These

numbers have to go up.

Dunwitty turns on the lights. JOAN, one of the writers,

raises her hand.

DUNWITTY (CONT'D)

Question?

JOAN:

So what do you want us to do?

DUNWITTY:

What I want everyone to do is write

some material that is FUNNY. The

junk you've been writing is about

as funny as a dead baby. It's not

funny, it's not new. It's not sexy.

It, it, it...

CLOSE ON:

Fish.

FISH:

Sucks.

ANGLE ON:

Conference room.

DUNWITTY:

SUCKS. Thank you, Fish. This

meeting is over but I want everyone

to seriously think about what I

said and how you can deliver.

People scurry out.

DUNWITTY (CONT'D)

Monsieur Delacroix, in my office now.

8.

INT. HALLWAY - MORNING

The writers, beat down, come out of the conference room and

move past SLOAN HOPKINS, a highly attractive African-

American "sistuh."

Delacroix sees Sloan and holds her arm as they walk. He

talks under his breath.

SLOAN:

How was it?

DELACROIX:

Why didn't you tell me about this

staff meeting?

SLOAN:

Nobody told me anything.

DELACROIX:

What good are you if you don't tell

me stuff like this?

SLOAN:

It wasn't my fault. If I would

have known, I would have known.

INT. DUNWITTY'S OFFICE - MORNING

Delacroix enters his corner office, which has huge action

photos of ALI, JORDAN, GRIFFEY, TYSON, AARON and JABBAR on

his walls, it is also decorated with African art throughout.

ANGLE ON:

Office. Dunwitty looks at the floor-to-ceiling windows

overlooking mid-town Manhattan.

DUNWITTY:

Do you know what C.P. Time is?

DELACROIX:

C.P. Time is Colored People's Time.

The stereotypical belief that

Negroes are always late. That

Negroes have no sense of time -

time except when it comes to music

or dance.

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