You know, cashing in somehow, or getting some little celebrity for myself. That will, from some bizarre set of misunderstandings, sell more copies of the book.
LIPSKY:
Right.
DAVID:
You can quote that. Preferably in a context where I don’t sound like a total dweeb.
(A beat.) By the way, are they gonna send Annie Leibovitz to take pictures?
LIPSKY:
I’m not sure. Possibly.
DAVID:
I know:
You’re a good-looking guy. We should have ‘em photograph you, and say you’re me. Maybe I’ll finally end up getting laid.
Lipsky laughs.
35 INT. 7-ELEVEN - BLOOMINGTON - 1996 - NIGHT 35 Muzak. In the blue-white fluorescent light, David and Lipsky ad-lib while stocking up on six-packs of Diet Rite, chewing tobacco, Oreos, etc.
At the cash register, Lipsky prepares to pay.
LIPSKY:
Let me.
DAVID:
You don’t have to pay for my sh*t.
21.
LIPSKY:
It’s not coming out of my pocket... I’ve got an expense account.
DAVID:
All right, if you insist... David goes back for more.
36 INT. CAR/COMMERCIAL DRAG - BLOOMINGTON - 1996 - NIGHT 36 Riding through town, the Davids are eating candy liketeenagers on a joyride.
DAVID:
If you ate this stuff all the time, what would be wrong with that?
LIPSKY:
Except for your teeth falling out andgetting really fat?
DAVID:
Yeah, it doesn’t have any of the nourishment of real food, but it’s real pleasurable masticating andswallowing this stuff.
LIPSKY:
Like seductive commercial entertainment.
DAVID:
Exactly, and what saves us is thatmost commercial entertainment isn’t very good.
LIPSKY:
What about good seductive commercial entertainment - like Die Hard?
