Breakable You Page #2

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I keep rooting

for her to leave

like I should have left

Adam years ago.

Ugh.

Your life would've been

very different.

Pfft. It doesn't matter now.

We signed the papers

this morning.

It was all

very civilized.

Although I did try to smash

a grapefruit in his face.

- CHAZEN:
No.

- [LAUGHING] Yeah.

Good for you. Good for you.

He once told me that I was the

North Star of his moral life.

But he has a... a new muse.

A new fuckmate.

And at 58,

I get to start all over.

Very scary, huh?

Very scary in there.

I know.

But you're very alive right now.

Very alive.

Fabulous.

- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]

ADAM:
Excuse me, is

this stool taken?

[IN FRENCH ACCENT] Uh,

yes, I'm afraid it is.

[CHUCKLES]

- Well, maybe it is free after all.

- [CHUCKLES]

- Can I buy you a drink?

- Yeah.

It's a lovely

Chteauneuf-du-Pape

from a village near Avignon,

just like me.

That's it.

That's our password.

We give this little prick

10 minutes.

When I throw you,

"This is a lovely Chteauneuf"

you look at your watch,

and say you have

to meet your cousins

from Avignon.

My cousins are from

Montpellier.

Montpellier it is.

Why exactly are we meeting

this little prick?

He is the most important critic

in American theater.

Word is

he's writing a book.

He asked to meet.

I don't know why.

He slammed

my last two plays.

Maybe he's writing

a chapter on me.

Mm, maybe the whole book.

- Yeah. Maybe an opera.

- Heh, heh.

There he is.

[WHISPERS]

A lovely Chteauneuf.

[WHISPERS] My cousins

are from Montpellier.

ADAM:

Ah, Robert.

Hi, you look terrific.

Nice to see you.

ADAM:

Sandrine, bon ami.

- Robert Gordon.

- Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- ADAM:
Mike, one more time.

Thank you so much

for taking the time, Adam.

Well, it's the least

I can do for the man

who closed my last

two plays in previews.

Oh, wait a second now. I've been

hard on your latest work,

but I've given him

plenty of raves as well.

Yeah, I'm just giving you a hard

time. Here, pull up a glass,

and give unto the king

your knowledge of the broil.

Well, I am writing a book.

Ah! I had no idea.

Tell me more.

Well, it took some persuasion,

but I finally convinced

the people at Encore Publishing

to get behind

- a critical biography...

- Oh?

Of the late, great

Vincent Frank.

Oh.

Splendid.

- It's about time too, right?

- Yes.

- Who is Vincent Frank?

- Mm.

Uh, Vincent Frank

is a national treasure.

He wrote five

of the most brilliant

unclassifiable plays of the

20th-century American theater.

And, uh, he grew up

in the Bronx with Adam,

and always referred to Adam

as his closest friend

and his literary conscience.

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