KITCHENETTE
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JOE: The other side of the street. Madame!! !
MIKIE: Well,
I
said it once and I'll say it again: Good friends
should lie together.
JOE
(fiercely masculine):
I
agree, sonny boy, you're perfectly right! -
Here, lemme show you!
JOE
pushes everything off the table: cups and saucers, beer cans,
etc., all go clattering onto the floor. Then he picks up the
mattress and places it on top of the table. He grabs
MIKIE
and
pushes him on the mattress and leaps on top of him.
JOE: Mikey, Mikey,
I
just flopped in love with you!
MIKIE: Hey, let me up, will you?
I
ain't Mikey, I'm Mikie!
JOE: That's what
I
said: Mikey,
I
love you.
He pushes
MIKIE
face down on the mattress.
MIKEY
(jumping about in confusion):
He's not Mikey, I'm Mikey!
JOE: Well, why the hell does everybody around here have the same
name? How am
I
supposed to know who to have sex with?
Jo: You have sex with more than a name, don't you?
JOE
(the height of innocence):
What do you mean?
FILMMAKER: Dear.
JOE: Dear.
Jo: Oh, you just seem to have sex with everyone!
JOE: Not
everyone,
my dear - but
anyone!
Resuming his activity with gusto.
MIKIE: Let me up, will you?
Jo: Coming up.
MIKIE
(pushing himself and
JOE
off the mattress):
I'm not coming
at all!
Jo: Oh, yeah? - well you look it!
A dramatic freeze with all four tensed around the table.
Jo
is to
the right of the table, the others to the left.
Jo
(breaking the freeze) :
I
know: I'll toast marshmallows! Toasted
marshmallows for everybody!
MIKEY
removes marshmallows from her V-neck and hands them
to
JOE
who eats one and throws others into the audience.
JOE:
Yum-yum, toasted marshmallows - it's just like eating tit-
ties. . . .
Here, Harvey, you have one too.
Jo
spears a marshmallow with a fork, then eats it slowly, vicious–
ly, staring with triumph at
MIKIE. MIKIE
slowly moves around
the table toward her, stalking her as it were.
Jo
and
MIKIE
