Aug 15, 2006 20:18
GINA: Against what?
MANNY: 'Gainst assholes -- like the sleazeball in the red suit. He says it like it's personal.
GINA: (picks up on it) I like Fernando, he's a nice guy, he knows how to treat a woman.
MANNY: (a face) What future's he got? On a bandstand somewhere? He's a bum, Why don't you go out with somebody who's going somewhere?
She gives him a look.
GINA: Like who?
MANNY: Like a doctor or a dentist or something.
GINA: What about you? Why don't you take me out?
She's looking straight at him now, challenging.
MANNY: What? Me?
GINA: Yeah, you. I see the way you look at me -- Manolo Ribera.
EXT. TONY'S MOTHER'S HOUSE - NIGHT
MANNY: (Pulls the car over to the curb.)I guess we're here.
Pause.
GINA: You think about it, okay, you think about it real hard, Manny. 'Cause you don't know what you're missing....
She leans across the front seat and lightly lays a kiss on his cheek. The ladykiller is rigid in his terror. She gets out of the car, crosses in front of his headlights, towards the house, looking at him.
He watches.
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I'll write here after the 19th. Don't expect much.