Dirt Page #5

JOHNNY COLE:

Right. You were great in Another

Word For Love. One a my all-times.

HOLT:

Thanks.

JOHNNY COLE:

I thought, damn, this guy’s good.

I thought I was gonna have to like,

move aside.

Julia rolls her eyes at the insensitivity of this remark.

13.

HOLT:

I’m gonna go sit down.

JOHNNY COLE:

(homeboy peace-out)

Keep at it...you got mad skills,

dawg!

Johnny Cole regards Holt as he walks away. He nods

drunkenly, raises his beer bottle as if saluting a fallen

comrade.

IN AND OUT OF THE LIGHT

Holt rummages through the food table and, as carefully as a

jewel thief, slips food into his jacket pockets.

TIME CUT TO:

IN THE DARK:

At a cocktail table, Lucy slides in beside Holt. Why wouldshe waste her time with cold-as-ice Holt McLaren?

LUCY:

Hi, Lucy Spiller. NOW Magazine?

They shake hands.

HOLT:

Right, nice to meet you.

LUCY:

You too. Sorry about earlier.

That photographer’s a nutjob.

IN THE LIGHT:

Julia listens to Johnny droning on.

IN THE DARK:

Holt and Lucy lean in to hear one another.

LUCY (CONT’D)

I would love to do a feature on you

some time...”The Actor’s Actor.”

Holt gobbles up the attention, but remains self-deprecating.

HOLT:

“Actor’s Actor?” Isn’t that a nice

way of saying “chronically

unemployed?”

14.

LUCY:

We’ll just have to find the right

thing to do together.

She smiles enigmatically.

LUCY (CONT’D)

Or the right reason.

Holt looks at her quizzically...

IN THE LIGHT:

Julia squints into the dark, sees the back of Lucy walking

away.

Johnny Cole drunkenly takes off his shirt. Flexes down.

Points to his nipple.

JOHNNY COLE:

And she f***ing pulled the nipple

ring out with her teeth! Look,

it’s shredded, right? Like a

f***in’ snake tongue!

High fives and fist bumps all around.

IN THE DARK:

Holt sits on the sidelines, several Rolling Rocks down,

glowering over at Johnny and Julia.

Holt slips his foot back and forth, feels something on the

bottom of his boot. He reaches down and peels off...

DON KONKEY’S BUSINESS CARD

He looks at it for a moment, puts it in his coat pocket.

IN THE LIGHT:

Julia finally looks openly bored, rolling her eyes and

sticking out her tongue. She makes her way over to Holt,

saying thank you and fake-smiling to all her well-wishers.

IN THE DARK:

She sits next to him. She looks over at Johnny Cole, who’s

now busting full crazy martial arts moves.

JULIA:

What an a**hole.

HOLT:

Gee, you think?

15.

JULIA:

Easy there, Tyson.

HOLT:

I’m sorry I ruined your premiere.

JULIA:

Are you kidding? It took their

minds off the movie, which sucks.

HOLT:

You were great, though.

JULIA:

You just love me.

Holt shrugs, resigned.

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