17 November 2008

I think I used to work for one of these women...

Apropos of next to nothing, Julie Gray ran another short scene competition. My entry didn't make the finals, but I've got it, so I should post it. Enjoy, don't, I don't care.

INT. RESTAURANT - DAY

ELLEN and JULIA sit opposite each other. They are both some indeterminate age between 28 and 60 and cut from the same very expensive, finely woven cloth.

ELLEN

Daphne still going on about the election?

JULIA

Incessantly. You’d think they’d made her Queen of L.A.

(conspiratorial)

I didn’t vote for her.

ELLEN

Me neither. What does she know about teaching, anyway?

JULIA

Is that what school boards do?

DAPHNE strides in. She’s similar to the others in the way a Faberge egg is like a child’s first Easter Egg. In a smart little bag she carries her CHIHUAHUA. Kiss-hellos.

DAPHNE

I’m so glad I caught you two. I need your help with something.

JULIA

What’s that, darling?

DAPHNE

The annual winter carnival is the day after Thanksgiving. Can I count on your help?

ELLEN

I don’t know. Alan usually takes me to Aspen that weekend.

JULIA

And I’ve got my Pilates class.

DAPHNE

Alan said yes, and Evan’s doing a free mat class. Even little Frances Farmer here is coming.

ELLEN

(feigning enthusiasm)

This is why we voted for you!

BLACKOUT:

2 comments:

2old4this said...

Maybe you shouldn't make disparaging comments about women and cast them in a bad light when it's a women running the competition?

I never checked over there so I really don't know. I suppose I should investigate things before commenting, but I'm feeling evangelical today.

R.A. Porter said...

That's certainly possible, but more likely she just liked the other scenes better. I liked one of them quite a bit.