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Not the kind of back that can carry

off that kind of dress, you know

what I mean? Why don’t people look

in the mirror?

(beat)

Like a dude. You know?

REBECCA:

It’s weird, the way you watch her.

MARY:

I don’t watch her. I walk by.

REBECCA:

(beat)

We gotta do something for Grandma’s

birthday.

MARY:

When is she gonna croak?

REBECCA:

What if somebody said something

like that about you?

MARY:

They probably already have.

REBECCA:

I’m gonna buy her a nightgown.

MARY:

How much?

REBECCA:

I don’t know. She’s got a ratty old

thing.

MARY:

I’ll write you a check.

REBECCA:

You know the neighbors? They look

at me like, is she dead yet?

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MARY (O.S.) (cont'd)

MARY:

Why shouldn’t they?

REBECCA:

Because it’s wrong.

MARY:

You think that if they didn’t buy

her apartment she wouldn’t die?

What’s the difference.

13 INT. MODERN AGE - DAY 13

A loft like store on tenth avenue filled with mid century

modern furniture.

TWO MALE SHOPPERS try out a long, thin sofa.

MALE SHOPPER 1

Feel this texture. Nubby but soft.

MALE SHOPPER 2

Yeah, but it’s not comfortable.

MALE SHOPPER 1

It’s nice.

MALE SHOPPER 2

It’s not, it’s too shallow or

something.

MALE SHOPPER 1

Well, you don’t have to converse

with it.

MALE SHOPPER 2

Very funny.

Alex comes up.

ALEX:

Beautiful, isn’t it?

MALE SHOPPER 1

Gorgeous.

ALEX:

And comfortable. It’s actually ten

feet long.

MALE SHOPPER 2

How much.

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Alex goes across the large room to the desk area where Kate

is working and looks in a binder for the price. Kate glances

at the couch the guys are sitting on.

KATE:

What’s wrong with that piece?

ALEX:

(quietly)

It’s not comfortable.

KATE:

We should take it off the floor.

ALEX:

(to shouting to Man 2)

It’s very comfortable.

KATE:

Why did you do that?

ALEX:

He might think it’s comfortable.

KATE:

That’s not possible.

ALEX:

You don’t know that.

She watches Alex return to the shoppers and tell them the

price. By their body language, she can tell they don’t want

the couch. She’s vindicated.

Abby enters from the street and flops down on a womb like

chair. She’s got an enormous backpack.

ABBY:

I saw these jeans I want.

KATE:

What for?

ABBY:

Cute.

ALEX:

How much?

ABBY:

Two.

KATE:

You want two hundred dollar jeans.

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ABBY:

That’s what you spend.

KATE:

I’m a grown up.

ABBY:

That makes no sense. It’s what

jeans cost.

KATE:

I am not spending two hundred

dollars on a pair of jeans for my

teenage daughter when there’s forty

five homeless people on our street.

ABBY:

What does that have to do with

anything? They don’t want jeans.

Alex comes up to Abby and kisses her.

ALEX:

Hi, honey. You look pretty.

ABBY:

Right.

14 INT. RADIOLOGY FRONT OFFICE - DAY 14

Rebecca is filing while DOCTOR LERNER (40), and the

receptionists chat.

DR. LERNER

My wife and I drove up to

Woodstock.

CATHY:

Were they gorgeous?

DR. LERNER

Oh, incredible. The kids didn’t

care but we loved it.

(beat)

Rebecca, you going to see the

leaves?

REBECCA:

No...

DR. LERNER

You should. They’re spectacular.

And they’re just about to end.

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