Woman in Gold Page #2

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His cell phone - very much of the period - rings on the

passenger seat next to him. He picks it up, placing the cup

between his thighs.

RANDY (ON THE PHONE) (CONT’D)

Hello?

BARBARA (O.S.)

Randy, do you remember Maria

Altmann? She has something she

wants to ask you.

RANDY (ON THE PHONE)

Not a good time, Mom, not a good

time. I’ll call you later.

He switches it off, puts it back, and aims for his cup. But

he drops it, pouring steaming coffee on his crotch.

RANDY (CONT’D)

Sh*t!

EXT. BERGEN BROWN SHERMAN OFFICES. DAY.

Randy is racing towards the impressive glass and steel

building that houses the Bergen Brown Sherman Law Firm. He’s

running late, has to weave his way through impressive young

lawyers on their way to work.

INT. ELEVATOR, BERGEN BROWN SHERMAN. DAY.

And in the elevator of the law firm building, he is still

rehearsing under his breath.

RANDY:

I sincerely feel that with a firm

of this standing, no, with a firm

of this calibre..

There’s a high-powered looking lawyer wearing an impressive

suit in the lift - he throws Randy a funny, slightly

supercilious look and then spots the coffee stain on the

crotch.

RANDY.

It’s coffee. Soya cappuccino.

INT. BERGEN BROWN SHERMAN BOARDROOM. DAY

In the impressive glass and steel offices, Randy is now being

interviewed by the partners that make up BERGEN, BROWN and

SHERMAN, all in their sixties. They sit on one side of the

boardroom table and on the other sits Randy, who is

delivering his rehearsed spiel with nervy gusto.

RANDY:

With a firm as impressive as this,

I would be strongly motivated to

deliver my very best.

SHERMAN has an open folder before him which contains Randy’s

CV :
the name SCHOENBERG in bold letters at the top.

SHERMAN:

Any relation to the famous

composer?

Randy is a little put out by the question. One senses he gets

this all the time. But he does his best to cover the

instinctive response.

RANDY:

Arnold was my grandfather, sir.

SHERMAN:

His music demands a certain quality

of application but the rewards

validate the effort.

BROWN:

A radical.

RANDY:

One of the things I would most look

forward to is dealing with..

But he’s interrupted.

SHERMAN:

And Judge Schoenberg is your

father.

RANDY:

Retired now, but yes sir, he is.

SHERMAN:

Outstanding lineage Mr. Schoenberg.

RANDY:

Yes, sir.

He gives up, smiles, just a little defeated. It’s not as if

he’s not used to living in these shadows.

SHERMAN:

So what happened in Pasadena?

Randy is flummoxed by the question. For a second he

flounders, then opts for honesty.

RANDY:

I took a risk and it didn’t pay

off. Working for yourself isn’t

everything it’s hyped up to be.

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