How sweet it is. Just yesterday I called my mother to inform her I would be coming home to work in the family ice cream business, and quit trying to be the next big thing on Broadway. I have been here for three weeks, and it shows. 'Squeeze Play' was to be the one that did it for me, and when it got shot down at the last minute I felt it was time to wake-up and face the obvious...Writing plays, no. Selling ice cream, yes. However, when Sid called and told me that the backers had seen the light, and that the play would indeed open, as scheduled...well, that changed everything.
'Sueeze' opened last week and will be playing for another 3 months at the least. See it soon. Below is the opening few moments of scene 27. I am told this is the section that got me my second chance, and unless you are some kind of petrified turd I am sure you'll agree.
scene 27:
Artie: " My mother will be glad about you being so cool. My mother says she has prayed for you and your writings."
Toyota: Me cool? I suppose you're right, Artie. One mans meat is another man's poison. One could keep on saying that'd be a good name for a Rock band, or that'd make a nice music video, you know? The reality of things is that real men know right from wrong, and yet the Democrats are in power. Your mother makes me cry. See me crying?
Artie: Never mind. A choke-hold need not be a bad thing. A crow bar can open up a door or a can of vegetable soup. Life is just sometimes messy to us hungry men. I just happen to be here now when soup's the craze. That's all. Nothing more. I can't stop you, or anyone else like you, like want to be. Stopped. I mean stopped.
Toyota: Like you said, cool one. "a hundred years from now the only men alive will be the cool ones." And it'll be as close as cool gets close. But let's keep the pace human.
Artie: My mother says she conceived me the day my father and her got saved. How's that?
Toyota: By all means have her keep praying for me and mine. Have you any money left? I'm too rich. I need to call some charities or some accessible poor folk. Like soon.
I love it. Vote cool this November, and see "Squeeze Play" when in town.
