Death to Smoochy Page #2
EXECUTIVE #4
Yeah, if we back up the Brinkstruck.
EXECUTIVE #1
No way. The idea now is to stopthe hemorrhaging.
EXECUTIVE #2
You better fix this, Stokes. Get
fast. Bland, milk toast. Not a
speck of controversy.
A giant hand slams on the table. All heads snap.
The CEO drags his fingers along the shiny mahogany.
Deafening sound.
CEO:
(calm and measured)
Squeaky f***ing clean.
INT. STOKES' OFFICE - DAY
Stokes sits behind his mahogany desk, sipping a glass ofwine as he goes over potential Randolph replacements withNORA BISHOP, his pretty protege.
STOKES:
Bumble Bee Billy?
NORA:
(reading from a list)
Wife beater.
STOKES:
Square Dance Danny?
NORA:
Still appealing the mail fraudthing.
STOKES:
Skippy Black and the Tippy Trolls?
NORA:
Black was deported, and thetrolls... well, who gives a sh*t.
Nora kicks the table in frustration.
(CONTINUED)
6.
CONTINUED:
NORA:
This is impossible. If I ever see
that Rainbow Randolph again I'llstrangle him. Choke the life out
of him. Squeeze his scrawny neckuntil his eyes pop out of hisskull and bounce off the walls...
STOKES:
Before indulging such cheeryfantasies, let's just concentrateon saving my job. Shall we?
NORA:
Sorry, Frank.
Stokes flips through a thick stack of files. He suddenly
stops at one.
STOKES:
What's going on with Sheldon Mopesthese days.
Nora laughs.
NORA:
Oh my God. Have we sunk to that
level already? Smoochy the Rhino?
What a sap.
STOKES:
Sap's just the pill we need right
now. Mopes is a straight arrow.
Always has been.
NORA:
The guy can't get arrested, Frank.
He can't even break into the
birthday party circuit. Last I
heard he was working hospitals andnursing homes. He's a joke.
Stokes stands up and walks around the room.
STOKES:
successful children's show has
always depended on two simpleelements: a fuzzy costume and alot of hype. Strip away the foamrubber and the network money andthey're all jokes. Marginaltalents.. cabaret acts... off-
Broadway runoff...
(CONTINUED)
7.
CONTINUED:
NORA:
I probably have ten acts in mydevelopment file -- acts I've beencultivating!-- that are more
deserving than Sheldon Mopes.
STOKES:
And each one a moral questionmark. Something I can't risk atthe moment.
NORA:
(frustrated)
We can do better than this guy,
Frank. He brings nothing to thetable.
STOKES:
Except ethics. With Mopes,
controversy. The man's an
ethical, harmless, cornball. In
short, a glass of milk on twolegs.
Stokes stops pacing.
NORA:
Don't ask me to do it. You know
I'll do anything for you, butplease... not this...
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