Misfit by Adam Braver

Author:Adam Braver
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2012-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

Gable tells Marilyn it’s good to meet her, and he looks forward to making a good picture together. He says it’s a heck of a script that her husband put together, and that sometimes you don’t need to say a whole lot to say everything. And she just stands before him, unsure of what to do with her hands. She feels little, as small as she was when she’d lie on her stomach on the bed thumbing through magazines just to find a picture of him. She calls him Mr. Gable, and he corrects her, saying to call him Clark, and she calls him Clark, but it feels as unrealistically dreamy as sitting in any one of her childhood rooms, staring up at the ceiling and imagining that her unknown father might have been Clark Gable. Or that one day Clark Gable would rescue her. Clark. He looks at her when she says his name, waiting. But she can’t think of anything to follow it up with, and the hole just hangs there, while she searches for something to fill it, until she finally grabs Paula’s hand and says, “Have you met Paula Strasberg? My acting coach.” As soon as she says acting coach a sense of rank amateurishness washes over her, and she follows up by explaining that Paula is married to Lee Strasberg of the Actors Studio in New York, where she’s been studying, but Gable just looks at her with no real expression, clearly not interested in where she’s been studying. In her head she tells herself to shut up, because that’s what she needs to do—she needs to shut up. Paula steps forward to introduce herself, and Gable tells her it’s good to meet her (no different from how he said it to Marilyn), adding that she must be awfully hot all in black. Marilyn’s sure he takes none of this seriously, and so she searches and searches for some bit of information, some interaction she’s witnessed that will tell her what to do and that will establish her as something more than a grade-school girl who raised the most money in the school auction, with the prize being a chance to meet Clark Gable. “If you’ll excuse me,” she says with abrupt alacrity, “I think I left something back in my trailer.” She turns around, walking off without Paula, figuring that by the time she reaches her dressing room, she’ll be alone and able to rummage through every stored box in her memory, tossing out the contents without anybody else there to name them, until finally finding the one deportment that will allow her to ease into the world of Clark, and belong there.

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