Magnolia Page #7

PROMO ANNOUNCER (contd.)

-- and we hope there's thirty more years

of watching that happen.

JIMMY (to Nurse)

...Jimmy Gator...

CUT TO:

INT. SUBURBAN HOME - DAY

CAMERA DOLLIES in towards the televison again. A quick highlight

clip shows a ten year old kid named STANLEY SPECTOR answering question

after question on the show, "What Do Kids Know?" in a series of

dissolves;

STANLEY:

...Donald W. Winnicott....1911...North America....

...South America....the answer is four....

...the answer is 22...the answer is gravity....

the answer is "The Life of Samuel Johnson."

CUT TO:

INT. SPECTOR HOUSE - DAY

CAMERA is HAND HELD and moving around a small apartment, watching a

ten year old kid STANLEY SPECTOR (dressed in a suit) as he dumps dog

food into two bowls for two dogs yapping around his legs while

he simultaneously tries to gather his backpacks -- His father enters:

RICK SPECTOR (late 30s) starts barking directions;

RICK:

Let's go,let's go, let's go, you shoulda

done that ten minutes ago --

STANLEY:

We need more dog food --

RICK:

-- talk in the car, talk in the car,

moves your ass, c'mon --

Stanley grabs two BACKPACKS and puts them over each arm. Rick grabs

another bag....heads for the door....Stanley is about to fall over with

these two full packs, but reaches for another bag on the floor...

RICK:

Cmon,cmon,cmon, that one to?

STANLEY:

I need this one.

RICK:

Why the hell do you need all four

bags of books to go to school each day?

STANLEY:

I can't carry all of them.

I need them. I need my books.

I need them to go to school.

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EXT. SPECTOR HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER

CAMERA pushes in quick as Rick sits in the car, engine running, watching

Stanley struggle to get himself and the backpacks in;

RICK:

There's no reason for this many backpacks.

CAMERA LANDS IN CLOSE UP of STANLEY as he slams the car door.

CUT TO:

EXT. SCHOOL - MOMENTS LATER

CAMERA PULLS BACK from the parked car in a new location as Stanley gets

out of the car with his backpacks, Rick watches from the driver's seat;

RICK:

Be ready at two --

STANLEY:

Should be one-thirty.

RICK:

I got an audition, I won't make it

here 'till two, c'mon, I'll see you

later. Love you.

STANLEY:

Love you too.

Rick drives off real quick. Stanley looks around at his backpacks.

CUT TO:

INT. 1960's SUBURBAN HOME - DAY

CAMERA pushes in on an old television set playing a clip

from "What Do Kids Know?" (1968) The clip shows a younger JIMMY GATOR

asking questions to a ten year old kid named DONNIE SMITH.

JIMMY:

Donnie, you have an answer?

DONNIE:

Promethius.

JIMMY:

It is!

TELEVISION CLIP continues and we see DONNIE and two other KIDS receive

a check from the younger JIMMY GATOR in the amount of 100,000 dollars

each. CU - Young Donnie Smith as he smiles, accepts check, shakes hands

with Jimmy.

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