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B - /en6/ /en10/ TIME CODE: 33:30
Richard and Cyndicome downstairs, Richard catching up with
her in the area.
YANG RICHARD
Hold on a minute. What's going on?
CYNDI
Nothing.
YANG RICHARD
You're jealous of that broad. I don't believe
you. I thought we just settled that.
CYNDI
And I don't believe you. You get next to a
microphone and there's no shutting you up.
You just had to wax poetic about this whole
sham, didn't you? You couldn't just answer
the questions like a normal groom, oh no, you
had to come off like Sir Galahad or Lancelot,
some lovestruck romantic--
YANG RICHARD
Hold it, hold it! This is really ridiculous.
CYNDI
Is it?
YANG RICHARD
What are you afraid of? I've told you I have
no interest in going to bed with her. But
even if I was, we've always had an open
relationship, we've always given each other
freedom to explore ourselves. What's the
sudden jealousy trip? You sound like some
uptight bitch from the fifties. A real Doris
Day trip, man. I don't believe it.
CYNDI
I never believed in this scam in the first
place.
YANG RICHARD
You know we need the money.
CYNDI
The surrogating business is going to make us
both wealthy, and you know it.
YANG RICHARD
I believe it, but in the meantime we've got
legal bills up the yinyang. Hey, that's
funny, I've got to remember that -- "up the
yinyang." We ought to add it to the ceremony.
CYNDI
The ceremony almost made me puke.
YANG RICHARD
Don't lose your sense of humor on me, Cyndi.
Lose your sense of humor and the church is in
trouble.
CYNDI
I liked acting better.
YANG RICHARD
What do you think you're doing now?
CYNDI
When we had the traveling company. It was a
hell of a lot more fun.
YANG RICHARD
You like sleeping on the ground, right.
Living out of a suitcase, right. All you ever
did was bitch.
CYNDI
The gig in New Orleans was nice before you got
us into dealing. We could've done more like
that, just straight theater.
YANG RICHARD
I'm not fond of being poor.
CYNDI
Because your brain is between your legs. If
you hadn't started messing with Lady
What's-Her-Face, the Mardi Gras grand
pooh-pah, with her prodigious cocaine habit--
YANG RICHARD
Well, listen to Miss Virtue. Who was banging
her way up the corporate ladder? Look, why
are we fighting? Because of a twit like
Trudy? Let's keep everything in perspective.
CYNDI
I shouldn't've let you go through with it.
YANG RICHARD
Man, she's so moonstruck, how could we turn
down a natural sucker?
CYNDI
She could've joined the church without you
marrying her.
YANG RICHARD
Expediency. Now we can get our hands on her
money immediately. Before we'd've had to woo
it from her a little at a time.
CYNDI
She doesn't seem all that moonstruck to me.
YANG RICHARD
She's a pushover. Born with a golden spoon in
her mouth and spiritually at sea -- she'll do
anything I suggest. So we get the money out
of her account and into ours, and I file for
divorce. I've already got the papers ready, I
told you that.
CYNDI
There's something about her -- it's too pat,
somehow.
YANG RICHARD
Candy from a baby, sweetheart. Come on,
lighten up. Let's have fun with this. Why
don't we get into a little post-marital
mumbo-jumbo, amuse the troops. Get into a
fertility rite, how's that?
CYNDI
I'm not sure I have the energy.
YANG RICHARD
Man, we got radio and TV coverage, it's a
better stage that we used to have. Let's go
for it, improv a little, see what we can get
away with. Cyndi, where's the old energy,
the joy in the performance, laughing all the
way to the bank? Hell, let's pass the hat,
with this kind of crowd we'll probably hit
four digits. Seriously, let's do the
fertility rite, it'd be a kick.
CYNDI
You never quit, do you?
YANG RICHARD
Born performer, just like you.
CYNDI
I must be coming down with something. I've
felt rotten all week.
YANG RICHARD
You don't have to do anything during the
fertility rite except moan and groan, not much
energy involved there.
CYNDI
Let me think about it.
YANG RICHARD
Look at this crowd, they didn't know what the
hell to think about the wedding. The
fertility rite will blow their mind.
CYNDI
At least you have to do all the work.
YANG RICHARD
I'll find Trudy, and we'll do it where we did
the wedding.
CYNDI
Not yet.
YANG RICHARD
Be good for you, it'll get you out of
yourself.
CYNDI
Out of my manic/depressive self, you mean.
YANG RICHARD
We're going to be fine. You're right, the
surrogate scam is the best gig we've had, and
it's even legal. Once we get that cokescam
rot behind us--
CYNDI
Is it rot, isn't it? You haven't set
something up behind my back?
YANG RICHARD
No way. New Orleans was enough drug hustling
to last a lifetime, believe me. We could've
ended up in jail.
CYNDI
I never wanted anything to do with it. I
don't want anything to do with Trudy.
YANG RICHARD
She's an absolute pushover, trust me.
CYNDI
I trusted you in New Orleans.
YANG RICHARD
You're never going to let me forget that, are
you?
CYNDI
We had a nice acting gig going.
YANG RICHARD
Being treated like shit, man, come on -- we
were paid slaves, darkies on the riverboat,
dancing for the plantation owners. Who needs
it?
CYNDI
Tell me you're not dealing.
YANG RICHARD
Jesus, Cyndi -- how can you even consider that
I'd be doing that?
CYNDI
Because you surprised me once, you can
surprise me again.
YANG RICHARD
I'm not dealing.
CYNDI
Promise.
YANG RICHARD
Promise. Christ, man . . .
CYNDI
Don't be mad.
YANG RICHARD
I'm doing to try and liven this party up.
He exits to find Trudy. /ex6/ TIME CODE: 37:30.
Cyndi notices Trudy in C and will spy until
going into C at 3900. /h10/
?"Follow Richard" ?"Spy with Cyndi"
:"Follow Richard"
>.loadmark[D3800]
:"Spy with Cyndi"
She stays in area, spying on Trudy. Then she goes into C.
?"Follow Cyndi" ?"Bookmark" ?"Exit"
:"Follow Cyndi"
Follow Cyndi