While We're Young Page #6

JAMIE:

He’s a giant. He’s a guy I’d love tomeet. Do you also produce Josh’sfilms?

CORNELIA:

No, Josh likes to work alone.

JAMIE:

(again with real interest,

to Josh)

Josh, what’s your new film about?

JOSH:

Well, I’m trying to solve the problemthat Eisenstein never solved -- that

is how to make a film that is both

materialist and intellectual at the

same time --

Darby gets a text and starts to reply. Jamie yawns openly.

Josh feels he’s losing his audience but keeps going.

JOSH:

It’s about the distinctly Americanrelationship between biography andhistory, theory and method and howthat relates to power and class in ourcountry, particularly the political,

military and economic elite.

(sensing he’s lost them)

It’s really about America.

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Jamie takes out a pad and pen and scribbles something down.

JAMIE:

Eisenstein is astonishing. I justsaw Strike! I’m obsessed with Europein the 20’s, see. The interwar

period, ex-patriots, that sort ofthing.

DARBY:

I keep trying to get Jamie to dosomething with before and afters.

All humans love before and afters.

Any TV show with before and afterswill succeed.

JAMIE:

(smiles broadly)

Before you said that.

(Jamie frowns)

After you said that.

DARBY:

(shakes her head)

F*** you.

He grabs her breast she smacks his hand playfully and returnsto her phone and answers a text. Cornelia tries an

accommodating smile.

CORNELIA:

What do you do, Darby?

JAMIE:

Darby makes ice cream.

CORNELIA:

Oh, yeah?

DARBY:

(shrugs, texting)

Yeah, I make ice cream.

JAMIE:

I brought it over to the Whole Foodsnear us and they’re pumped.

DARBY:

It’s Jamie’s idea to sell it, I justdo it because I like it.

CORNELIA:

And you guys are married?

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They both nod in unison.

17.

CORNELIA:

That’s so nice and old fashioned.

JAMIE:

Yeah. We said our vows in an emptywater tower in Harlem.

CORNELIA:

Oh.

DARBY:

There was a mariachi band and a slipand slide.

JOSH:

Wow.

DARBY JAMIE:

Jamie wanted a big wedding. It was amazing. Some rituals

exist for a reason, you know.

CORNELIA:

(glances at Josh)

Yeah. We did it at city hall.

DARBY:

(looking up from a text)

Isaac and Benny are walking thetracks.

JAMIE:

Have you guys done this? We walked

through the subway tunnels on the Dline last week.

JOSH:

(as if it’s commonplace)

No, no, we haven’t.

DARBY:

They’re at a Bar on Essex. You want

to come?

JOSH:

(to Cornelia)

Oh, do we -- ?

CORNELIA:

It’s already past our bedtime.

JOSH:

(sheepishly)

Yeah, we’re usually in bed by eleven.

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The check is placed on the table. Anticipating someresistance, Josh puts his hand on the check.

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