Drop Dead Gorgeous Page #4

INT. GUN RANGE

Becky, in shooting goggles and ear muffs, FIRES a Glock-

17 9mm pistol with both hands. Sign on wall reads:

"Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club." (See Iona in b.g. with

an arsenal of sniper weaponry.)

BECKY:

(yelling over noise)

...What?! Klinghagen thinks it'll all

come down to me and Amber?

Becky stops firing and takes off her hear muffs.

BECKY (cont'd)

Well, you have to take everything Mrs.

Klinghagen says with a grain of salt.

Not all your Catholics go to communion

for the wafers, if you know what I

mean...

JUMP CUT TO:

INT. LUTHERAN SISTERHOOD GUN RANGE - LATER

Becky thumbs bullets into her magazine as she talks.

BECKY:

...Yah-my mom gave me this nine-mil

for my thirteenth birthday...

SUPER:
CONTESTANT #6, BECKY LEEMAN

I'll always remember what she wrote in

the card. "Jesus loves winners."

That's why, no matter what I do...

She shoves the magazine back in her pistol.

BECKY (cont'd)

I aim to win.

She smiles to camera, then violently fires off a few

rounds. Zoom in on the MALE TARGET: several bullet holes

in the head.

INT. "NEW YORK, NEW YORK" BEDROOM - DAY

It's all NEW YORK MEMORABILIA. Lisa Swenson - big bubbly

girl - sits on her bed.

LISA:

Why? Well, uh, it's kind of like

askin', "Why do all the guys chew

Copenhagen?" You know? I mean, if

you're seventeen and you're not a

total fry, it's just what you do.

ETHEL MERMAN's "Everything's Coming Up Roses" PLAYS over

speakers.

SUPER:
CONTESTANT #7, LISA SWENSON

DOCUMENTARIAN (O.S.)

Have you decided what your talent is

going to be yet?

LISA:

I'm gonna sing and dance to, "New

York, New York." See, I fell in love

with The Big Apple last summer when I

was visitin' my brother. He followed

his dream to New York.

PICKS UP 8x10's, shows to camera.

LISA (cont'd)

This is Peter as Liza. This is him as

Madonna. Oh, here's me with him as

Barbara...

INT. "GERMAN SHEPHERD" BEDROOM - DAY

TESS WEINHAUS, wearing an "I love German Shepherds" t-

shirt. The room is filled with German Shepherd

paraphernalia.

TESS:

Uh... I don't know what my talent's

gonna be yet...

SUPER:
CONTESTANT #3, TESS WEINHAUS

TESS (cont'd)

Kenny. Kenny, come. Come, Kenny.

A DACHSHUND enters and jumps on her lap.

TESS (cont'd)

This is Kenny. Spike, my German

Shepherd, went to live with a nice

family on a farm after he attacked me.

It wasn't his fault. I had beef jerky

in my front pocket.

(pulling up shirt)

They re-made my belly with skin from

my butt.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. SCHOOL LIBRARY - DAY

IONA HILDERBRANDT - librarian, 65+ - stamps books.

SUPER:
IONA HILDERBRANDT, MOUNT ROSE AMERICAN TEEN

PRINCESS - 1945

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