a long pause

What a beautiful painting of the White House library in 1963!

(This picture has nothing to do with blogging the 1993 film Manhattan Murder Mystery, but I have to include it here because it's just such a dynamite picture.)


{the film, continued}

Slightly later.  The rain has stopped.  Same shot through the passenger's-side window of the car, but the window is now open again.

A long pause.  Ted and Carol seem to each be lost in their own thoughts.  Then Ted gives a look outside and comes back to attention.

TED
Look, look -- look!  Look.

CAROL
Oh, what?

                           The camera pans to the other side of the street.  A woman is coming out of the brick building.

TED
(yelling in voice over)
Helen!
(with a softer voice)
Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck!

                            On the other side of the street, the woman has stopped and is looking around her.

CAROL
(voice over)
Oh, God, yeah.  Right.

TED
She didn't see us.  She didn't see us.

CAROL
No?  No.  That's gotta be her.

TED
I'll bet it's...

                               The woman starts walking again.

CAROL
Are you sure?

TED
I mean, she answered to Helen.

CAROL
She answers to... She's pretty.

TED
Yeah, I'll say.

                              The woman has reached the corner, and now she raises one hand high.

CAROL
She's... What is she doing?  She's getting a...

TED
She's getting a cab.

                               A yellow cab stops near the woman.

CAROL
Okay, okay.  Hold on.

TED
Keep-Keep down.

CAROL
Okay, don't worry.  Don't worry.

TED
I'm gonna follow her.

CAROL
All right.

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That part toward the beginning, above, where Ted and Carol are lost in their own thoughts and it says there's "a long pause" -- reminds me of that episode of "Friends" where (the character) Joey Tribbiani is auditioning for (the real actor) Jeff Goldblum, and, reading from the script, Joey says, with feeling, 

"I can't.  Oh, I want to, long pause, but I can't."

     Goldblum tells him he's not supposed to say "long pause" -- and Joey is like, Oh, I thought Long Paws was his Indian name, or something....

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