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Estranged brothers Austin and Lee are looking after their mother鈥檚 house while she is in Alaska. Lee sabotaged Austin鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥� eat something. Can鈥檛 just drink. How long have we been drinking, anyway?
Lee: (Looking through slips of paper) Maybe it was Fresno. What鈥檚 the area code for Fresno? How could I have lost that number! She was beautiful.
Austin: Why don鈥檛 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鈥檒l sure enough take ya with me to the desert. How鈥檚 that sound?
Austin: It鈥檚 a deal.
Citation: Sam Shepard, True West, Samuel French, 1981, pp. 57-60.
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