Writer Profile: blondbomb |
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| Age | 63 |
| Location | Promise City, Iowa, USA |
| Website | http://www.grm.net/~pandemo/stories/stories.html* |
| Favorite films/plays | Witness, The Man from Snowy River; South Pacific; My Fair Lady, Camelot, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cat Ballou, Tootsie, Some Like It Hot, The Great Escape, The King and I, Yentl, The High and the Mighty, Shane, High Noon, On the Beach, Soylent Green, Rear Window, The World of Suzie Wong, West Side Story, The Graduate, Bambi, To Sir, With Love, The Black Stallion, An Officer and a Gentleman, Lawrence of Arabia, 12 Angry Men, Withering Heights, Vertigo, Brian's Song, Fiddler on the Roof, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Evita, Singing in the Rain, Blackboard Jungle, Gone With the Wind, Raisin in the Sun, The Gods Must Be Crazy |
| Other interests | reading; writing; photography; videography; owning, raising, training, breeding purebred Arabian horses, and partbred Pinto Arabians |
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Propinquity and the Mesmerizer, Part II |
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| Script type | Screenplay |
| Script genre | Romance/Romantic Comedy |
| Logline | Is your character stupid? Inept? A bumbler? Socially awkward? |
FADE IN:
INT. PARAGLIDER STUDIO – PROPINQUITY SET - DAY
OBIE has parked in the shadowy periphery of the set, sitting on her suitcase, back to the wall. She looks sickly, her face as gray as her hair.
GRIP
How’s it going? You don’t look so good.
OBIE
No, I’m not. I suffer from heat stroke, and the bus driver set me out at the main gate because I wouldn’t cough up $25 to line his pockets for a “free” ride to the motel.
GRIP
Bus?
OBIE
Yes. A tour bus evidently commandeered the space reserved for the bus to the motel, then when unsuspecting travelers had luggage safely loaded and were en route, tried to hustle them. I objected! Here I am. Past mad and pathetically parched.
GRIP
(to a passing flunky)
Agua aquí.
A menial reverses course and soon returns with a pitcher of water and two glasses.
ACTOR
A tea a tea? Quite the dish you picked to ply with your romantic whiles.
GRIP
Humanitarian mission.
OBIE gratefully holds a glass swimming in ice water to her feverished forehead.
ACTOR
Call it what you will.
A second actor wanders over.
ACTOR #2
This the hot corner now? What’s up?
OBIE
(indicates first actor)
This man of little faith is decrying my Good Samaritan’s efforts to revive me.
Others passing by stop at this accusation.
OBIE
Am I the best show in town?
The crowd disperses as Quiet on the Set is called. OBIE watches the scene filmed repeatedly, concentrating totally.
JEREMIAH
Every time I read this line, you frown.
OBIE
You can see my facial expression clear over there?
JEREMIAH
It bugs me.
OBIE
I’ll move out of your line of sight.
She stands, knees creaking, and reaches for the handle of the gigantic grip.
JEREMIAH
But keep on frowning?
OBIE
That depends.
JEREMIAH
(Raising his eyebrow in
his characteristic sign of inquiry)
On?
OBIE
Is your character stupid? Inept? A bumbler? Socially awkward?
JEREMIAH
What makes you think so?
OBIE
Your delivery.
The grip grows tense. All nearby motion is suspended.
JEREMIAH
Who are you?
OBIE
Nobody whose opinion should unnerve everyone so.