Divorce accountant (Brian) from LA wrote ten screenplays, his wife threw them away during divorce. The garbage collector (Keel) found it and kept after reading. Being a good Samaritan he put them all anonymously on the front porch of the heavyweight veteran of the film industry (Winston) whose garbage he’d been collecting for several years. It was Winston’s wife who convinced him to go through all of them, which he did with pleasure. He tried to find the author but his searches ended nowhere…
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Jay Han-San. Ten Scripts
PART ONE – LAWYERS, DOGS, GARBAGE, & OSCARS
STORY: BRIAN
STORY: KEEL
STORY: WINSTON
PART TWO – THE SCRIPT
ACTION: KEEL’S FRIEND
ACTION: WINSTON’S WIFE
ACTION: BRIAN’S WIFE
PART THREE – 5 YEARS, 10 SCRIPTS, 15 DOLLARS-A-WORD
BRIAN
WINSTON
KEEL
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A distant sound of a garbage truck leaving the neighborhood was fading away outside a small house in Orange county. Brian opened his eyes. It was 4:34 in the morning. The way he saw it – nobody’s going to knock on his door or call on the phone for another six months. He just moved in and didn’t have any interest in getting acquainted with anyone. Not a living person knew his new number or address, not even his lawyer who just finalized his divorce paperwork.
“Hey, there’s life after divorce, buddy. You’ll get used to it. Don’t worry. Everybody does.” with a 280$-an-hour smile said a man in an old grey suit when a few days ago Brian signed his side of the page.
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“Hey, listen. Listen to this. Katie was high enough to accept his invitation to a penthouse party on Fifth Avenue. She was ready to bend over and obey whatever the Grand Master commands. – The Grand Master? – seriously?! This is so lame!” he shoved it in the back when the truck did a U-turn on the roundabout.
