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THESE ARE THE FIRST 5 PAGES
A SINGLE WORD CHANGES 'EXECUTIVE WING' TO 'WEST
WING'
HERE ARE THE FIRST FIVE PAGESOF THE SCRIPT THAT BARBARA MALTBY GAVE TO REINER AND SORKIN
'lHe West Ntxtl" ' Exr. wHrrE Housa sourH LAwN ExEcurrvE wtte. oey. I
The cherry trees shov tiny naked green buds of spring, A squirrel drops down in front of an office suite.
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TNT. BUSTER SOLVANG'S TNNER OFFICE. DAY. I ^JrN
BUSTER soLvANG, the white House chief of staff, is standing behind his desk on the phone, nerwously fiddling vich the Phi
Beta Kappa pin on his ivy league tie. wife.
SOLVANG (into phone)
room --
solvang qlances across the roon at a Ralph Nader lookalike, JoE NOVAX, of the washinqton Post, During the interruption, Novak has picked up a sculpture nade of a soft white plastic fron the' coffee table.
calls over)
That's called a soft scuLpture interactive puzzle-thing. Put your finqrer somevhere. see how it feeIs.
Novak puts fj.rst one finger fron his right hand into the sculpture, then puts a fj.nger frorn his left hand into the scu lpture. Makes him smiIe.
No -- I wanc to use the station wagon. No, f don't care hov nuch
.
SOI,VANC (cups receiver;
SOLVANG (turns to face the
windov, the south Lann stretching far alray in front of hin)
Honey -- HONEY -- it's a tailoatq party, bottorn line, and the convertible doesn't have a tailgate, botton line.
( cal. Ls to Novak)
You can put all ten fingers into it.
lHE PUZZLET The Journalist puts al.l ten fingers into the material, as into swiss cheese.
He's talking to his
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