tick, tick...boom! Michael Flash Cards
You sure? You haven't had more than a couple days at home for weeks.
They get me the best hotels. I'm not complaining.
Hot.
Touch me.
I don't know, Mike. I haven't owned three belts over the course of my entire life.
Try it. It's a good feeling.
I go to Michael's office... I can't do this, Mike!
Uh?
Freedom...
We already said that. America.
The seat? ...the seat is HEATED.
And you can adjust it.
Anywhere. Thank you so much for coming.
Are you kidding? Wild horses, Jon.
Come on. How can you take that stuff seriously?
Because they pay me to. Get over in that lane.
Hey, I tried.
Chubstitute?
Not bad, right?
DAD: Are they paying?
She glides away. I wipe my face...
DAD: Hellllloooo....
Not technically, no.
DAD: Next time. I'm proud of you. Write if you get work.
The first Thanksgiving.
Family.
JUDY: Health.
Goodness.
She wants us to move to Cape Cod.
I am so sorry.
Sure. Is David busy?
I can't ask David right now.
Have a safe trip, okay?
I'll see you in a couple of days. Don't wreck the car.
OK.
Just OK?
I haven't decided, Mike. I'm still enjoying my pre-midlife crisis
At least think it over
They told me to be creative. I was creative.
Bullshit. You didn't even try.
Mike spends way too much traveling on business.
CLEAR THE RUNWAY - MAKE ANOTHER PASS, TRY ONE MORE APPROACH BEFORE YOU'RE OUT OF GAS
His new Beamer...is ****ing awesome. The stereo. The sleeckness.
Check out the seat.
Hi, Dad.
DAD: Pretty good crowd.
Whoops. Sorry, Mike. Hello?
Dad: HEELLO?
Hi Dad. My weekly call from White Plains.
Dad: How's it feel to be an old man?
Arrrgghhh..
Dad: Isn't the marvelous?
I'm not thirty yet, Dad.
Dad: Make good dough at brunch?
My brother in law.
Dad: Sold another screenplay! The one he's been working on for a month!
Not bad.
Dad: Your sister just got a $40,000 bonus from the law firm. And of course you heard the news about Chuck.
SCENE 9- JON: So much for my Market Research career.
Damn, Jon, I'm gonna hear about this.
Freedom.
Dawn... New Dawn...
What airline are you?
Delta.
Pleasure.
Desire.
Hope....
Dignity
Mike's office. Wow. Big cold lobby. Corporate America! Hundreds of people and they all look busy. Grey flannel execs:
EXEC: Tell the west coast we need to liaise with corporate.
Oh what the hell. Sure, I'll do it.
Excellent. You won't be sorry. I'm gonna go pack.
Newark Airport?
Hard to get to, but once you're here, fewer delays.
Is there a list?
Harrington? Harrington?!
JON: The next fifty-five minutes are a blur. Michael comes in first.
Hey, buddy.
WHAT CAN I DO? (end of 30/90)
Hey, tomorrow night I want to show you the new place
Nothing? No nibbles? Nothing?
Honey, we always knew it's a little quirky for Broadway, and the cast is awfully big for Off-, and the futuristic thing means sets are expensive and musical theatre is Newark Airport and you're snowed in at Buffalo- and now, having plucked out your heart and eaten it like a piece of ripe fruit, I'll leave you to sweep up the fragments of your shattered dreams, bye bye honey! Happy birthday!
...best friends through it all.
How's Susan?
JON: Hope.
Huh?
Don't you ever miss acting?
I don't miss starving.
I know. But you've really been going all-out lately.
I like it. Keeps me distracted.
Oh, right.
I think you should be very proud. Everything went beautifully.
TENSION!
I'll have the Salad Nick-oyz and some Holly bread.
Four waters to table 7
I'm sorry, we don't deliver on Sunday - I need table 3 for 2, yesterday!
You going to bed? It's early
I'm still on London time. Night.
IS THIS REAL, IS THIS REAL?
IS THIS REAL LIFE? - I gotta go.
Why not?
It's...complicated. We... (phone rings)
But my God...
Jon, welcome to Victory Towers! (No More)
What's 30? Just, you know, the end of youth.
Jon, you've got to chill.
I get three other calls from friends in the business and they're all like that. SCENE 14
Jon?
I can't keep doing this! The show-
Listen, Jon, the show was very good. You should be proud of it. Everyone loved it!
Destiny.
Manifest Destiny.
I didn't belong there, Mike.
Maybe not. But... Jon, for me this is it. It's not some show I can rewrite, or throw away if it's not working. It's real life.
I love that woman! She -- whoops, sorry Dad.
No problem. That's all the news anyway. Talk to you soon.
You are?
No, of course not, you ****ing idiot! What is the matter with you?!
ORDER!
No- I'm sorry those people were here first. We don't have tables for seven.
But you were really good.
Not good enough. Right here is fine.
From what?
Nothing. I just - sometimes I wonder. The life you said Susan wants. It doesn't sound so bad. Some peace, you know? Love. A family... if the chance for those things is there, maybe you should grab it.
KARESSA: BABY, COME BACK ALIVE. (end of Come to Your Senses)...SCENE 13
ROSA: Jon? It's Rosa calling. I just wanted to say Congratulations!
It's still being remodeled.
Remodeled!
Love.
Sex.
Hello! Free-dawn.
She's good.
Yeah?
Sometimes I wish I could (Real Life)
Really? Thanks! The cast was good, I think, and the audience seemed into it -- did you see St----- S----?
Stevie? Oh yes, I wanted to chat but he must have snuck out early. But everyone had fun. Congratulations, honey. We'll talk soon.
But right now I have to go to work (end of Johnny Can't Decide)
Straight back and to your left!
Temps in wrinkled khakis...
TEMP: Uh, I think the fax machine is jammed...
Inalienable Rights... JON: The right to be skinny.
The bill of rights.
The founding fathers.
The pilgrims.
Yes.
There.
Oh no.
They're doing a brainstorming session for a new project. Real creativestuff. You'd be perfect for it. I told them all about you. Please? Just come in, no commitment, I promise. Just get your feet wet?
Mike, you're thirty. Are you happy?
Thirty's great. Thirty's like Newark Airport.
I see it.
This wasn't a joke, you know. I really had to push for you.
You going away again?
Tomorrow night. Meeting in Atlanta. Departing Newark 6pm. Drive me?
Lust.
Urge.
Rosa uh wait -- Do you think... what do you think will happen? I mean does anyone want to move it to the next step, or...I mean, the Interesting People, did anybody say anything?
Well, Jon, I think everyone was just so intrigued by your talent, and they can't wait to see what happens next.
Rosa! Thank you so much for calling.
Well, you left eleven messages this morning, dear.
Back home in Soho, Michael is trying on one of three new Gucci belts he's just bought.
Well?
I COULD GET USED TO YOU! (end of No More)
What do you think?
My friends loved it.
What's wrong with that?
Mike! Thank God.
Where should I sit?
We're out of milk!
Who took my Rye Bread?
Touch me again.
Wow!
Dad signs off the conversation, as always, with the old Bob and Ray line:
Write if you get work.
Mike. You all right?
Yeah.
... I'm 17 and buying condoms for the first time.
Yeah?
What happens next.
Yes, be sure to keep me up to date on what you're working on.
KARESSA: I just think it's so incredible, you're so young but you're such a mature talent --
You want me to bag these or you want to eat them here?
Lately Mike's been worried my musical theatre career isn't going anywhere. And I'm not sure I blame him
You'll love it. You'll be promoted faster than I was.
No, maybe I should really think about it.
You're not a Cape Cod guy. Listen, I've got a better idea. I want you to come to the office tomorrow.
.... I feel better. Just hearing myself say it, I already feel better.
You're right. I think your heart is telling you something, and I think what you're saying takes courage. I think it takes courage to let all that stuff go. I'm proud of you.
Pick up those ****ing eggs!
(Brrrring-Bbrrrrring)
Mom: You know you can always move in with us for a while,
(DAD grunts)
if you need to.
(DAD grunts)
Hi, yeah, I'll just take these, uh, double-A batteries, and a pack of the Bic pens, and uh, a Wall Street Journal and a Mademoiselle...
And four packages of Twinkies?
I'll think it over
All I'm asking. See you in the morning
...bathtub in the bathroom. Tick, tick, tick...
And will you please let me set up an interview with my firm?
