Scene: The Back Lot

T-H-E, E-N-D I can't believe it, I finished my first script Shouldn't we open some champagne? The best I can offer is a stroll to the water cooler at the end of the lot Sounds good to me I love the back lot here It's all cardboard, all hollow, all phony All done with mirrors I think I love it better than any street in the world I spent my childhood here What were you? Child actress? No, but my family always expected me to become a great star I had ten years of dramatic lessons, diction, dancing, everything you could think of And then, the studio made a test That is the saddest story I ever heard[BETTY] Not at all I was born two blocks from here My father was head electrician at the studio until he died And mother still works in wardrobe Second generation, huh? Third, grandma did stunt work I guess it is kind of exciting, at that Oh, finishing a script What? Are you alright? Sure Something's a matter, isn't it?[BETTY] I had a telegram from Artie Is something wrong? He wants me to come out to Tennessee He says it would only cost two dollars to get married in Clinch What's stopping you? Now that we finished the script You're getting married, isn't that what you wanted? Not anymore Don't you love Artie? Of course I do I'm just not in love with him anymore, that's all Why not? What happened?[BETTY] You did