I think pretty girls are what we most sort of dream and despair of ever having, of ever paying attention to you. And there they are, in the front row, making eyes at you.
LIPSKY:
I think my girlfriend is in love you.
DAVID:
No she’s not.
LIPSKY:
I think she is. I think she likes your writing more than she likes mine.
It’s getting kind of annoying.
DAVID:
Get her on the phone.
LIPSKY:
No, she’s probably sleeping anyway.
A beat.
DAVID:
Please?
71 INT. HOTEL WHITNEY/DAVID'S ROOM - MINNEAPOLIS - 1996 -71 MOMENTS LATER: Lipsky holds the phone. We HEAR Sarah’s voice.
SARAH’S VOICE (over the phone) Hello?
LIPSKY:
Hi.
SARAH’S VOICE Hi! How’s it going?
LIPSKY:
It’s fine. Did I wake you up?
SARAH’S VOICE No, I’m up reading Infinite Jest.
It’s pretty amazing.
LIPSKY:
Good. Listen: Somebody wants to say hello. Hold on a sec.
51.
He hands the receiver to David.
DAVID:
(whispers to Lipsky) What’s her name again?
LIPSKY:
Sarah.
David speaks into the phone. (When David is on the phone, we -and Lipsky - hear only his side of the conversation.)
DAVID:
Sarah? Hi. It’s Dave Wallace.
Lipsky tries to reclaim the phone a couple of times during the following but David, engaged in a power play, retains
