Back home you'd be stuck with peanutbutter and marshmallow fluff.
ARIADNE:
I want marshmallow fluff.
Chace starts fixing the sandwiches.
CHACE:
You're breaking my heart. I tell you what, I can get us some shippedfrom back home. I have connections.
But don't tell your mother.
Chace brings the sandwiches over to the kitchen table, whichis still burdened by the reel-to-reel tape recorder. He lifts it up and places it on the floor so they can eat.
CHACE (CONT'D) More like it.
Chace and the kids eat the meal he has prepared. For a moment Chace seems slightly surprised to find himself here.
EXT. GAIL'S APARTMENT -- DAY Gail collects the day's mail and the newspaper from themailbox. From O.S. we hear the sound of a camera CLICKING.
Gail looks up to see a weedy PAPARAZZO snapping pictures.
GAIL:
Lens cap.
The Paparazzo removes his lens cap, embarrassed. He tries to get a reaction from her, calling out questions:
PAPARAZZO:
Is your son dead, Signora? It's four months now. Surely he is dead.
GAIL:
No.
PAPARAZZO:
How do you know?
Gail doesn't answer. The Paparazzo grows frustrated.
88.
PAPARAZZO (CONT'D) We wait out here months. You don't pay the money. You don't cry. You don't care if your own son dies.
(off her look) I have to earn a living.
GAIL:
Money's the best excuse there is.
He shoves his cigarette in his mouth and climbs back ontohis scooter, rewinding his film as he goes, then speeds away.
Chace stands in the doorway behind Gail.
GAIL (CONT'D) I'm pretty sure that was the last ofthem. They've all given up now.