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Jesse is a successful Hollywood movie producer, while Muriel is a sweet, naive suburban housewife in her thirties. She is extremely nervous to see Jesse, her old high school boyfriend, and it shows. Meanwhile, he is after a little playful diversion while he is in town. Muriel has remembered exactly how long it has been since their last date and it is clear that she has followed his life and career obsessively for the last seventeen years. Muriel. She is fascinated by his Hollywood lifestyle and
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START: JESSE Muriel!
MURIEL (Smiles, cocks her head) Jesse?
JESSE It's not.
MURIEL It is.
JESSE Muriel, I can't believe it. Is it really you?
[... …]
END: JESSE These?
(To display his shoes, he puts one foot up on the coffee table, the other over the arm of the sofa)v
No. These are the one pair I had made in England. You can't get this leather in Italy. No, I have a man in Bond Street makes them for me ... MacCombs.
(MURIEL reacts to the sight of his widespread legs and turns away in embarrassment)
MURIEL (Attempting to make a joke) Well, they're beautiful shoes, MacCootch!
JESSE MacCootch! That's very good.
Neil Simon, “The Plaza Suite”, The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Vol. 1, pp.539-545.
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