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Estranged brothers Austin and Lee are looking after their mother’s house while she is in Alaska. Lee sabotaged Austin’s movie deal and strong-armed his way into getting a lucrative deal to produce his Western idea. Their working relationship deteriorated and Austin refused to help Lee write his script. Austin also backed out of his own deal. In this scene, both men are drunk. Lee has been smashing Austin’s typewriter with a golf club and is desperately trying to find the number of a woman to
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Start: Austin: You gotta’ eat something. Can’t just drink. How long have we been drinking, anyway?
Lee: (Looking through slips of paper) Maybe it was Fresno. What’s the area code for Fresno? How could I have lost that number! She was beautiful.
Austin: Why don’t you just forget about that, Lee. Forget about the woman.
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End: Lee: And I own all the rights. And every dime goes in my pocket. You do that and I’ll sure enough take ya with me to the desert. How’s that sound?
Austin: It’s a deal.
Citation: Sam Shepard, True West, Samuel French, 1981, pp. 57-60.
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