The End of the Tour Page #2
LIPSKY (CONT’D)
It wasn’t the Upper East Side, and it
was dirty. I felt marooned. Our
mother had taken us off the track of
the nice life we’d been on. She’d
moored us in a creepy cul-de-sac with
her art-world friends.
14 EXT./INT. KGB BAR - NYC - 1996 - NIGHT 14
Deafening music. A crowded, noisy gathering of mostly young,
cool, black-attired New York writers and artists.
LIPSKY (V.O.) (CONTD)
None of the kids in my school had
parents in the art world. It made me
feel different. Like there was
something I had to cover up.”
Lipsky gets two glasses of wine from a bar. We FOLLOW as he
makes his way through the crowd. He knows a lot of people
with whom he exchanges ad-libbed greetings along the way.
They have to SHOUT to be heard above the din.
5.
BEARDED GUY:
David, hi! How’d your reading go?
LIPSKY:
Great!
BEARDED GUY:
Sorry I missed it!
LIPSKY:
Drinks held aloft, Lipsky continues into the crowd. A MODEL:
MODEL:
I heard you got the Rolling Stone job!
LIPSKY:
We’ll see! I’m sort of on probation!
Lipsky delivers the drink to Sarah, who stands in a circle of
acquaintances in mid-conversation.
SARAH’S FRIEND
Did you see Kirn’s review in New York
Magazine? The guy’s been f***ing
canonized!
LIPSKY:
Who’s this?
SARAH:
David Foster Wallace.
15
INT. LIPSKY’S W 77TH ST APT/BEDROOM/BATHROOM - NYC - 1996 - 15
NIGHT:
Lipsky, at the bathroom door, reads aloud Walter Kirn’s
review in New York magazine (2/12/96). Sarah comes out in a
towel and he follows her to the bedroom.
LIPSKY:
“Next year’s book awards have been
decided.” Can you believe this? “The
plaques and citations can now be put
into escrow.” Unbelievable. “With
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace -
a plutonium-dense, satirical whiz-kid
opus that runs to almost a thousand
pages
She kisses him as she goes past.
6.
LIPSKY (CONTD)
- (not including footnotes) - thecompetition has been obliterated.
It’s as though Paul Bunyan had joined
the NFL or Wittgenstein had gone onJeopardy! The novel is that colossallydisruptive. And that spectacularlygood.” That’s the f***ing opening
paragraph!
SARAH:
What if it actually is that good? You
know? You may just have to read it.
16 INT. LIPSKY’S W 77TH ST APT/LIVING ROOM - NYC - 1996 - DUSK 16
If his 2008 place is grad-student-y, the 1996 Lipskyresidence is smaller and explosively chaotic, like ateenager’s domain. We find Sarah on the couch reading thecurrent bestseller, Primary Colors and Lipsky beside herreading Infinite Jest. Silence.
Sh*t.
LIPSKY:
17 INT. ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE/CUBICLES/BOB'S OFFICE - NYC -
1996 - DAY
17
Buzzing with the hip, youthful industry of people who knowthey’re at the place to be. Lipsky drops by to see hiseditor, BOB LEVIN, 40, greying, bearded.
LIPSKY:
How many times have we interviewed awriter in the last ten years? Guess.
BOB:
Um... how many?
Zero.
LIPSKY:
I checked.
BOB:
Maybe that’s because Rolling Stone
doesn’t interview writers.
LIPSKY:
There hasn’t been a writer like this
one. Once in a generation, maybe.
Hemingway, Pynchon. Let me have this
story.
BOB:
What story?
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