While We're Young Page #3

8.

SCHOLAR (ON SCREEN)

There was a poll conducted in 1987 inwhich people were given a series ofphrases and asked which ones could befound in the US Constitution --

JOSH:

Let me see the continuity...

SCHOLAR (ON SCREEN)

One of the phrases that got thehighest percentage of votes was:

“From each according to his ability,

to each according to his need.”

This, of course, is not to be foundin the Constitution, but is thefamous Communist credo popularized byKarl Marx.

Josh takes the sheet and holds it about two feet from his

face. He squints.

JOSH:

Why do they type this stuff so small?

TIM:

I think that’s 12 point. That’s

normal.

SCHOLAR (ON SCREEN)

However, when this phrase waspresented to people as atenet of Communism, they, ofcourse, overwhelminglyrejected it.

JOSH:

That is not 12, that’s atmost eight. Look at it, it’stiny.

TIM:

We need to cut away from Ira herebecause...

We hear a ringing. On the SCREEN: the scholar goes into hispants pocket and retrieves a cell phone from a few years ago.

SCHOLAR (ON SCREEN)

Hold on...

He looks at it like he’s never seen anything like it before.

He puts on reading glasses and very deliberately pressesTalk.

SCHOLAR (ON SCREEN)

Hello?...Evelyn, I’m doing aninterview...Did you look in the car?

This is every f***ing day, sweety!

(MORE)

9.

SCHOLAR (ON SCREEN) (CONT'D)

I keep telling you: put them on afucking chain around your neck!

(mouths to the camera)

Sorry.

(back to the phone)

Sweety, if you don’t stop this, I’mgoing to f***ing screa -

Tim freezes the image on the screen.

JOSH:

We could cut to me asking the

question about hermeneutics?

TIM:

We could, but you look like this inthat footage -

He shows an image of a younger Josh in a goatee and Jew-fro.

TIM:

It’s from eight years ago. And the

previous shot of you asking anyrelevant questions is this -

He pulls up an image of Josh with short hair and his arm in asling.

JOSH:

That’s from when I fell down the

subway stairs at Grand Army Plaza.

The blizzard of 06? You remember how

icy that was?

We CUT between a series of Joshes from over the years.

Different hair lengths, a beard, a brief moustache, a black

eye.

JOSH:

You remember, I was trying my part onthe other side.

Tim doesn’t.

JOSH:

God, eight years ago. Has it been

that long?

TIM:

It’s been ten.

JOSH:

(counting in his head,

rationalizing)

(MORE)

10.

JOSH (CONT'D)

Ten this fall. Nine and a half.

Look at my jaw -- I had more babyfat.

(looks at his reflectionin the computer screen)

Are my eyes getting hollows?

TIM:

I don’t know.

JOSH:

(trying to be positive)

Well...we’re getting there.

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