Dream The End » Ernest Lehman https://dreamtheend.com Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:09:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1) https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9640 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9640#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:09:24 +0000 DTE Studio http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=9640 GEORGE
(as Martha is not getting up)

Martha, will you show her where we keep the…euphemism?

MARTHA
(turning)
What? Oh?
(to Honey)
Sure! I’m sorry. C’mon. I want to show you the house.

HONEY
(to Nick)
We’ll be back, dear.

MARTHA
Honestly, George, you burn me up!

GEORGE
(delighted with the thought)
All right.

MARTHA
You really do, George.

GEORGE
 Okay, Martha…Okay. Just…trot along.

MARTHA
You really do.

GEORGE
 Just don’t shoot your mouth off…about…you-know-what.

MARTHA
(surprisingly vehement)

I’ll talk about any goddam thing I want to!

GEORGE
 Okay. Okay. Vanish.

MARTHA
Any goddamn thing I want to!

GEORGE
 VANISH!

MARTHA
(practically dragging Honey out with her)

C’mon…

]]> https://dreamtheend.com/?feed=rss2&p=9640 0 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2) https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9642 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9642#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:09:23 +0000 DTE Studio http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=9642 Martha walks out onto the dance floor and stops. MUSIC BEGINS AGAIN… A JAZZY POP TUNE. She looks at Nick.

MARTHA
Okay, stuff, let’s go.

Nick glances at George, then approaches Martha on the dance floor.

MARTHA
Hi.

NICK
Hi.

]]> https://dreamtheend.com/?feed=rss2&p=9642 0 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (3) https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9646 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9646#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:08:54 +0000 DTE Studio http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=9646 GEORGE
I warn you…don’t encourage her.

MARTHA
He warns you…don’t encourage me.

NICK
I heard him… tell me more.

Martha
(consciously making rhymed speech, in time to the music)
Well, Georgie-boy had lots of big ambitions. In spite of something funny in his past…

GEORGE
 (quietly warning)
Martha…

MARTHA
Which Georgie-boy here turned into a novel…
His first attempt and also his last…
Hey! I rhymed! I rhymed!

GEORGE
I warn you, Martha.

NICK
Yeah…you rhymed. Go on, go on.

MARTHA
But Daddy took a look at Georgie’s novel…

GEORGE
You’re looking for a punch in the mouth… You know that Martha.

MARTHA
Do tell!…and he was very shocked by what he read.

NICK
Was he?

MARTHA
Yes…he was…A novel all about a naughty boy-child…

GEORGE
(rising to his feet)
I will not tolerate this!

NICK
(offhand, to George)
Oh, can it.

George rushes toward the juke box.

MARTHA
…ha, ha!
naughty boy child
who…uh…who killed his mother and his father dead.

GEORGE
STOP IT, MARTHA!

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(advancing on her)

You will not say this!

NICK
(sensing the danger)
Hey.

MARTHA
The hell I won’t. You keep away from me, you bastard!
(backs off a little… uses George’s voice again)
No, sir, this isn’t a novel at all… this is the truth… this really happened… TO ME!

]]> https://dreamtheend.com/?feed=rss2&p=9649 0 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (5) https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9651 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9651#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:08:54 +0000 DTE Studio http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=9651 MARTHA
It snapped, finally. Not me…it. The whole arrangement. Boy…you can go along forever, and everything’s…manageable. You make all sorts of excuses to yourself…to hell with it…this is life…maybe tomorrow he’ll be dead… maybe tomorrow you’ll be dead…all sorts of excuses. An then, one day, one night something happens…and SNAP! It breaks. And you just don’t give a damn anymore. I’ve tried with you baby…I’ve really tried.

]]> https://dreamtheend.com/?feed=rss2&p=9651 0 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (6) https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9653 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9653#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:08:54 +0000 DTE Studio http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=9653 MARTHA
(interrupting, sadly)

Baby, you sure are a flop.

She starts through the library to the kitchen to get ice from the refrigerator.

NICK
 (snapping it out as he follows her)
Everybody’s a flop to you! Your husband’s a flop, I’m a flop–!

MARTHA
 You’re all flops. I am the Earth Mother, and you’re all flops.
(more or less to herself)
I disgust me…
(a pause)
There is only one man in my whole life who has ever…made me happy. Do you know that? One!

INT. KITCHEN

NICK
What? the gym instructor, or something?

MARTHA
 No, no, no, no…
(shakes her head)
George.
(no response from Nick)
My husband.

]]> https://dreamtheend.com/?feed=rss2&p=9653 0 Ernest Lehman – Bio https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9840 https://dreamtheend.com/?p=9840#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:07:47 +0000 DTE Studio http://www.dreamtheend.com/?p=9840 Ernest Lehman was born in New York City in 1915. He was a successful screenwriter, nominated for six Academy Awards throughout his career. In 2001, he received an honorary Academy Award for his contribution to the film industry and was the first screenplay writer to receive such an honor. Lehman is most known for his work on the movies Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, North by Northwest, Hello, Dolly!, Family Plot, Sabrina, The Sound of Music, and West Side Story. He passed away on July 2, 2005.

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