Bamboozled Page #5

MANRAY:

And I'm the feet.

CHEEBA:

Yo, you gotta show some patience.

You want me to snap my fingers and

presto chango - you're an overnight

sensation. Son, there is no such

thing.

MANRAY:

I'm tired of waiting.

INT. DELACROIX'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

He sits in front of a large flat-screen television, watching

the Yankee game and eating his takeout Chinese food. On top

of the monitor, he has attached a sign that reads "FEED THE

IDIOT BOX."

INT. SLOAN'S STUDIO APARTMENT - NIGHT

She sits in front of her television, hand on remote, flipping

channels and eating takeout Chinese food.

INT. CHEEBA AND MANRAY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

They both are devouring the chicken with rice, as they watch

bootleg HBO.

INT. DELACROIX'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

Delacroix sits at his desk, a ream of white bond paper in

front of him, a box of number-two pencils and an electric

pencil sharpener.

DELACROIX (V.O.)

I was never good at performing

under the gun.

14.

CLOSE:

Pencil after pencil gets inserted and sharpened to a knife

like point.

DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Well, this wasn't a gun, it was a

bazooka and it was pressed dead

blank right against my dome.

CLOSE ON:

Delacroix, staring at the blank ream of paper. It is very

intimidating.

CLOSE ON:

Monitor. Bernie Williams is at the plate for the New York

Yankees.

CLOSE ON:

Sign atop monitor. Again, it reads "FEED THE IDIOT BOX."

INT. SLOAN'S STUDIO APARTMENT

She too is blank. A screen saver bobs and weaves on her

laptop.

INT. DELACROIX'S APARTMENT

Delacroix grabs a pencil and put it to paper.

CLOSE ON:

Paper. He doodles.

INT. TENEMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

Manray screws out the bare light bulb which is the sole

source of illumination and lays down onto his mattress on

the floor.

INT. SLOAN'S STUDIO APARTMENT

Sloan closes her laptop and jumps into her bed.

INT. DELACROIX'S APARTMENT

Delacroix is already in the bed, the lights are out.

CLOSE ON:

Delacroix, who's wide awake.

15.

INT. TENEMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

Manray and Cheeba are both sound asleep.

CLOSE ON:

Cheeba, he has a sheet pulled over his head.

CLOSE ON:

Manray, who's sawing logs, snoring loudly.

OFF-SCREEN, WE HEAR A RUCKUS, A BIG COMMOTION. VOICES

yelling. Police sirens, cars and trucks.

ANGLE ON:

Apartment. Cheeba and Manray run to the window and look out.

THEIR POV:

The street is filled with police cars, vans and wagons.

Helicopters hover overhead with their searchlights on the

building.

CHEEBA:

Oh snap! It's a raid!

Cheeba and Manray jump into their cloths.

EXT. TENEMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

Cops in riot gear storm into the tenement. A police chief

barks over a speaker system.

POLICE CHIEF:

Please evacuate this building. All

of you are illegal residents of

this condemned building. Please

leave immediately, by order of the

Mayor of New York City, Rudolph

Giuliani.

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