Page 78 - The Kid Who Played The Palace

HARRIET
(On phone) There‘s a deli next door. (Listens) KELLY
Yep. We‘ll be waiting. (Listens) Bye. (Hangs Oh, my god. I‘m so outtie five hundred. (She
up) starts to leave.)

ALYSON
You‘re not gonna cry, are you? ALYSON
Oop. There goes your hook. Run home to your
mom—you been away fifteen minutes-she‘s
BENNY prob‘ly having a panic attack.
I said stop it.

BENNY
All right—I said enough! Kelly, hold on. (To Harriet) Listen- whattaya doin‘ Saturday afternoon? Ya
gotta hear these kids.

HARRIET
Oh, I can hear ‗em. (To Benny) Wonderful seeing you again.

BENNY
Know when you‘re gonna publish?

HARRIET
The photos?

BENNY
And whatever else.

HARRIET
Should be cover of Friday‘s Weekend section. Thank you for that, by the way. Break a leg, everyone!
(Stops, noticing Alyson and Kelly‘s mutual hostility) Just not each other‘s. Ready, dear? (Exits with
Kelly)

BENNY
(Moment) God knows what we‘re gonna read Friday. Know how many years it‘s been since the
Times was up here?

ALYSON

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