TOOTSIE Sereenplay by Larry Gelbart March 8 1982 NEW YORK MIRAGE ENTERPRISESMACRO SHOT. LIKE AN ABSTRACT PAINTING Only one area in focus, It is an actors! character box. We SLOWLY PAN to see: a monccle, difzeren® pairs oF eyeglasses, rubber appliances, various makeups, a collection of dental applications, an assortaent of brushes. A hand comes into frame and removes a small ottle. WE FOLLOW to see it is spirit gum. The other hand enters frame and uncaps the sottlé. FOLLOW one hand as it applies the spirit gum to a cheek. We see only a portion of the cheek. Now the hands apply spirit Sun ESS unser SCaPe PETS we Fone ane nee they place the scar upon the actor's cheek. The ritual continues as we watch a moustache being applied. The hands then search out the dental appliances and pick one. fe study the movement as the appliance is inserted into the actor's mouth. Throughout the above we HEAR Someone mumbling, but we cannot make out the words, Suddenly we HEAR: A VOICE Next! A BLACK SCREEN: OR SO IT SEEMS. Really a darkened theatre. we're locking out toward the auditoriun. Worce (continuing) Michael ... Dorsey, is it? PULL BACK to hold MICHAEL in fg., locking out toward the Garkened auditoriun, ae is an actor, 40 years olé. te holds a script. CAMERA CIRCLES to reveal Michael's face, The scar is present, as is the moustache. Ee also has perfect teeth. vorcs Top of twenty-three, MICHAEL (with feeling) "Do you know what it was like waking up in Paris that morning? Seeing the empty pillow where .., wait a minute, cover your breasts! Kevin is downstairs! My God what are you?" (conrrNuED)3 4 CONTINUED: AN to reveal a BURLY MALE STAGE MANAGER, cigar butt in mouth. ee STAGE MANAGER "I'ma woman, Not Felicia's mother. "Not Kevin's wife ... VOICE Thank you. That's fine, We're looking for someone a little older. ANOTHER BARE STAGE - MICHAEL WITH ANOTHER STAGE MANAGER Michael is dressed in cut-offs, a T-shirt and sneakers, He plays with a yo-yo. MICHAEL "Mom! Dad! Uncle Fete! some thiag's wrong with Biscuit! 1 think he's dead!" voice (rom the darkness) Thank you. Thank you. We're locking for someone a little younger, A TRIRD BARE STAGE > MICHAEL WITH ANOTHER STAGE MANAGER Michael has dark makeup on, his hair slicked back, wears a zoot suit, another moustache. He has a "Walkman" stereo hanging from his neck, and wears earphones. STAGE MANAGER (eyes on script) "No, Julie, no. Get out of the Barrio while you can.” MICHAEL "I don' go wi! out zsthella ... * He suddenly whips out a knife and flicks it open under the Stage Manacer's chin. The Stage Manacer lcoks op from the script in terror. MICHAEL +++ an Iwan! you to look at me when I walk, mon. Look at me! (ConTmvED)