Broadcast News Page #3

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INSERT:
JANE'S ROOM

The Filofax book is almost an additional character -- a crucial

hand-fashioned tool of Jane's trade. She flicks at a page --

takes down a typewritten sheet scotch-taped to it showing the

room number of her crew and reporter.

ON JANE:

As she dials one room number.

JANE:

(into phone)

Hi...It's me...

INT. DUPLICATE MOTEL ROOM - DAY

ANGLE ON CAMERAMAN -- his equipment in evidence though

essentially asleep holding his bedmate's hand, as he listens

to Jane.

JANE'S VOICE

(voice over)

It's thirty minutes before you have

to meet me in the lobby -- nudge

your wife.

BACK TO SCENE:

JANE:

There's probably no time to eat...

but there's a cafeteria at the bus

depot once we get down there. I

love working with you two...It

saves me a call.

She dales.

INT. DUPLICATE MOTEL ROOM

Where Aaron is switching his TV from station to station,

monitoring the early morning news. His PHONE RINGS.

AARON:

Hi. Turn on your TV...

Good Morning America, the

Morning News and Today are all

about to talk to Arnold

Schwarzenegger and I think he's

live on at least two of them.

BACK TO SCENE:

JANE:

At six o'clock on the wake-up

news they used the wrong missile

graphic.

AARON:

(Austrian accent)

Now listen, Arnold just said that

he's been making three million a

movie now. But he's not ever

gonna change. He's still the same

person when he was making two

million dollars a movie. He feels

no different. He also bought a brand-

new condo with Maria, they gonna

furnish tastefully.

JANE:

A half hour in the lobby.

AARON:

(Austrian accent)

Okay, I'll see you in the lobbies [sic].

She hangs up -- takes the phone off the hook and lays it on the

bed for a moment's solitude. She sits stiffly, palms on top of

her legs. It looks like someone with unusually good posture,

waiting for something, and now we BEGIN TO SEE the first signs

redden and she begins to cry. Now she sobs -- then miraculously

shakes it off and exits quickly to the bathroom. This crying

episode is clearly part of her morning routine.

INT. BUS STATION - DAY

Jane standing behind her husband-wife - camera-sound team

as they train their attention on Aaron; who is getting ready to

do a stand-up. There is a DERELICT off to one side. Aaron holds

his microphone at the ready.

AARON:

Ready.

CAMERAMAN:

Your hair's a little funny.

AARON:

It's an ethnic curl, I can't do

anything about it.

CAMERAMAN:

In front of a little -- it's a bit...

You want a mirror?

AARON:

No -- Don't worry about it. Let's

do this.

Jane nods her assent.

CAMERAMAN:

Okay.

AARON SEEN THROUGH CAMERA

AARON:

In other times, for other purposes,

there might be a band and bunting

here at the bus depot for J.D. Singer's

return from war. He...

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