Drop Dead Gorgeous Page #7

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INT. HIGH SCHOOL - GYM

She POINTS to VARIOUS PATCHES on her LETTER JACKET.

TAMMY CURRY (cont'd)

...This one's for Varsity Soccer, uh,

I'm captain.

(pointing)

I run track, and, uh...

(points to small gun patch)

Right here, I'm the new President of

the Lutheran Sisterhood Gun Club...

ANGLE ON:

LSGC PRESIDENT logo patch.

TAMMY CURRY (cont'd) (O.S.)

I love that one.

EXT. FARM FIELD

Shot from crew van. Sun is setting behind a lovely field

of green. A John Deere Thresher travels across the

burning red horizon.

DOCUMENTARIAN (V.O.)

Would you say you have a good chance

to win this pageant?

SUPER:
CONTESTANT #9, TAMMY CURRY

TAMMY (V.O.)

Yeah, you bet I do. I mean, maybe

other people think I can't win a

beauty pageant. But other people

didn't think I could beat out Becky

Leeman for President of the gun club,

either. And I did. I-I-It's just

like Anthony Robbins says, "I'm a

winner. Nobody can stop me but me!"

KABLOOM! Tammy's John Deere thresher BLOWS UP!

INT. LUTHERAN CHURCH BASEMENT - KITCHEN AREA - NIGHT

CLOSE ON framed school photo of Tammy Curry. PULL BACK

to see her letter jacket - scorched and torn (Lutheran

Gun Club patch is MISSING) - and flowers. CONTINUE

PULLING BACK to reveal both are surrounded by buns, bars

and coffee on a long buffet table. A line of somber and

repressed Lutherans help themselves to the food.

Servettes stand at the ready. Gladys and Iris face the

camera.

GLADYS:

Well, you know, I think everyone's

doing really well considering the fact

that she was so young.

IRIS:

It's always hard to see the young ones

called home, especially on an

exploding thresher. It's just so odd

and gross.

GLADYS:

You know that sometimes it's hard to

understand God's great plan.

IRIS:

Yeah.

Iris pats Gladys on the shoulder.

FEMALE MOURNER #1

May I have a tissue?

GLADYS:

But the show must go on.

(she faces Iris)

I gotta get a hold of Ted and ask him

if we can use that barn light as a

spot again. So you watch the Jell-o

salad, okay?

IRIS:

All right. Okay.

INT. HIGH SCHOOL - GYM - LATER

It's smokey as hell. THREE "FRY" GIRLS and a PREGNANT

"FRY" GIRL - all with "shelf bangs" - smoke and drink.

FRY GIRL #1

...Oh, yeah-right. I ain't gonna be

in no goddamn pageant! Look what

happened to that dork-ass farm girl.

PREGNANT FRY GIRL (O.C.)

Tammy Curry?

FRY GIRL #1

Yah-yah. Everyone says this is a big

accident? She got iced because she

wins everything, and this time someone

didn't want her to win.

PREGNANT FRY GIRL

This pageant's like a roach motel.

FRY GIRL #1

Girls check in, but they don't check

out.

PREGNANT FRY GIRL

Yeah. And they say smokin' is bad for

your health.

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