25. EXT. MOVIE PREMIERE – NIGHT
FRANKIE and CHERYL arrive at a lavish movie premiere. Fans are cheering in bleachers as the stars arrive. A PHOTOGRAPHER takes photographs and a REPORTER interviews the celebrities as they walk into the theater. Frankie purposely walks on Cheryl’s left, so she pulls him to her right.
PHOTOGRAPHER
Miss Barker?
He snaps a photo.
PHOTOGRAPHER (CONT’D)
Thank you.
REPORTER
Miss Barker, anything to say about your next picture?
CHERYL
Oh, the studio’s just pleading with me to do a picture Jack Lemmon but I really haven’t made up my mind yet.
REPORTER
Who is the gentleman you are with, Miss Barker?
CHERYL
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I respect Mr. Lemmon, I think he’s a marvelous actor. It’s just that I feel I should wait until the right script comes along.
REPORTER
The gentleman you’re with, Miss Barker. What’s his name?
CHERYL
My last picture was so terribly exhausting I really feel I need a rest, but the studio is spending a million dollars to exploit it so I have agreed to travel to several of the openings.
PHOTOGRAPHER
This way, Miss Barker, please! Hold it, Miss Barker.
Frankie, disgusted with the preceding, sticks his face in front of hers and mugs for the photographers.
FRANKIE
Excuse us, fellas, but Miss Barker has to go rest up her mouth awhile, she has been talking all evening.
Cheryl, insulted, hits Frankie over the head with her purse. This image freezes and transforms into a newspaper photograph with the caption “BARKER WORSE THAN BITE.”