You mind if I use your uh... Amused, David points the way to the bathroom.
DAVID:
I believe it’s unoccupied.
Lipsky goes, leaving the tape running.
39 INT. DAVID’S HOUSE/BATHROOM - 1996 - CONTINUOUS 39 Lipsky spits the tobacco into the sink. He cups his hands under the running water and rinses his mouth. He looks at himself in the mirror and takes a deep, fortifying breath.
He stealthily opens the medicine cabinet and finds it stocked with jars of vitamins, Stri-Dex pads and tubes of Topol, toothpaste for smokers. He jots down notes.
40 INT. DAVID’S HOUSE/LIVING ROOM/KITCHEN - 1996 - MOMENTS LATER40 Lipsky returns, looks around. David is playing with his dogs.
LIPSKY:
Do you not have a TV?
DAVID:
I do not have a TV.
LIPSKY:
How come?
DAVID:
‘Cause if I had a TV, I’d watch it all the time. I don’t even know if I would watch it; it would be on all the time - my version of a fireplace. A source of warmth and light in the corner that I would occasionally get sucked into.
LIPSKY:
Did you watch a lot of T.V. when you were a kid?
DAVID:
Yeah. A lot. You?
25.
LIPSKY:
Me? Yeah, I did. I moved in with a woman who grew up without a television, and living with her, the first month was torture, and then I realized it was probably the best thing for me.
DAVID:
Did you guys stay together?
LIPSKY:
It’s complicated.
DAVID:
Why?
LIPSKY:
I was seeing this woman, then she moved to L.A. and we theoretically broke up. And I started seeing this other woman, but then I started seeing the first woman again - trying the bicoastal thing - and the second... Well, let’s just say she hasn’t taken it very well.
DAVID:
It’s so much easier having dogs. You don’t get laid; but you also don’t get the feeling you’re hurting their feelings all the time. I emphasize: strictly platonic relationship with the dogs.
LIPSKY:
You’re not dating anyone?
DAVID:
Seriously dating? No. I’m out of practice; I wouldn’t know what to say.
