Justify My Sins by Felice Picano

Author:Felice Picano
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Hollywood, LGBT, Gay fiction, AIDS, Erotica, Manhattan
ISBN: 9780998126296
Publisher: Beautiful Dreamer Press
Published: 2019-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-three

“I’m a little confused by the ending of the scenario”

Frank said—pretty much out of nowhere.

They had been working on the script itself, the opening ten minutes, that initial set-up of Theo’s life at his office, his solitary life at home in his studio apartment, the phone calls just as he got home nearly every day with no one on the other end or someone suddenly hanging up. And then that fateful phone call when the person on the other end didn’t hang up but instead turned out to be a young woman with a seductive British voice asking if he was the same Theo that a friend of hers had dated briefly. Theo’s guarded response, “No.” But then their initial conversation, which went on for some time and would lead to everything else that happened, that would eventually change both their lives.

Victor had assumed the basics of this Perry scenario had been all worked out two weeks ago, no? That’s why they were working on the script itself now.

“O-kay,” Victor said slowly, hoping his annoyance at the sudden shift in his creative thinking remained in at least audible check. “What’s the problem? And where? Where, exactly?”

Fortunately for both of them, Frank knew exactly where the problem lay. He wasn’t vague the way virtually all the people Victor had ever worked for in film or TV tended to be, with their “feelings” and their “impressions” and their oh-so-vaunted sense of something being “not quite right,” which was about as useful to a writer as a quart of lemonade was to an ocean. Didn’t they realize how much contempt professional writers had for “feelings” and “intuitions” that weren’t their own and thus immediately accessible?

Frank’s problem had to do with exactly where in Anna-Marie’s suddenly darkened apartment she and Theo would each be at that climatic moment near the end of the script when Theo would use the key stolen from her building’s super to get inside.

Perfect! This Victor could deal with.

As he began explaining, Frank stood up from the desk and went behind the other large leather-covered club chair in the room, where he crouched down. “I’m Anna-Marie hiding. Now where does Theo enter?”

So they acted it out, the exact motions, the counted number of steps each would make in the darkness (in the “film-set darkness”—after all, the audience had to be able to see them) vis-a-vis each other, and where each of them were as the two characters gestured and said certain key words of their final dialogue.

Victor purposely stumbled about a bit, being Theo carrying a flashlight with a faulty battery connection. Frank only crawled around the big office, being the crazed and terrified young woman avoiding Victor’s determined, night-blinded young man.

Thus, a kind of dance ensued, until both of them somehow ended up at the corner at the front door of Anna-Marie’s apartment, where she was trying to escape and where he was trying to cut her off.

Still crawling, the captured Frank stopped and looked up at Victor standing above him only inches away.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.