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- Page 5 and 6: 3. CHEEBA Yo, let's get to it. You
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- Page 9 and 10: DELACROIX De-la-croix. CHEEBA Y'kno
- Page 11 and 12: again he's the lone person of color
- Page 13 and 14: overhead projector. DUNWITTY (CONT'
- Page 15 and 16: Sucks. ANGLE ON Conference room. DU
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- Page 19 and 20: get offended by my use of the quote
- Page 21 and 22: class does exist, and it's rich mat
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- Page 25 and 26: that takes place on a watermelon pa
- Page 27 and 28: 13. CHEEBA Ahh, the luxuries of lif
- Page 29 and 30: DELACROIX (V.O.) I was never good a
- Page 31 and 32: INT. TENEMENT BUILDING - NIGHT Manr
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- Page 35 and 36: same time, the exact same thought.
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- Page 39 and 40: CLOSE ON Sloan. DELACROIX (V.O.) (C
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- Page 43 and 44: "Amos 'n' Andy" show. Sloan leads M
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- Page 55 and 56: BIG BLACK If you were really down y
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- Page 65 and 66: DUNWITTY This could be bigger than
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- Page 69 and 70: MANTAN As long as the hoofing is re
- Page 71 and 72: We think so. DUNWITTY Sleep 'n Eat,
- Page 73 and 74: MANTAN I'm not smiling. CHEEBA Naw,
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- Page 81 and 82: DELACROIX It looks delicious. ORCHI
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Conference room. Delacroix and Sloa
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successful just as much as you. Ple
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stacked, the fix was in. Could Don
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And for reason. Have you ever seen
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AUDITION MONTAGE WE SEE singers, ma
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SLOAN This is the group I was telli
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BIG BLACK Microphone check. One. Tw
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Needless to say, the Mau-Mau's did
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DELACROIX Finland. JUKKA You know,
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JUKKA My visual style is very eroti
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DELACROIX I don't give a good godda
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Wait a minute. Hold up. They all la
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It's the bone breaking stuff I'm wo
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59. INT. SLEEP 'N EAT'S DRESSING RO
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60. SLOAN I want to apologize about
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Mantan is mashing the corks. SLOAN
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INT. MANTAN'S DRESSING ROOM ON LIPS
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what to think. MANTAN We both left
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drugs, the crack babies born out of
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The WHITE AUDIENCE, of course, has
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the CNS brass. They saw some clips
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DELACROIX I'll be right over. INT.
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DELACROIX I can't go all the way do
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You think that's gonna work, huh? H
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ON SUGAR SHAK Delacroix works himse
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He continues on with his show. ON T
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DELACROIX It's me, Peerless. INT. D
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Just my tonic. He holds up his drin
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hold ya career back? JUNEBUG All I
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question is what are you gonna do,
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DOT The drinking is for the pain. I
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CLOSER DELACROIX (V.O.) (CONT'D) An
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New Millennium Minstrel Show. Audie
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INT. MANTAN'S DRESSING ROOM ON MIRR
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Eat. The audience goes crazy as the
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That'll work. I just bought one for
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SLEEP 'N EAT ...I heard different,
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It's dat mean, evil overseer Massa
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Frankenstein. INT. SLOAN'S STUDIO A
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DA BOMB PRODUCT SHOT AND LOGO HONEY
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scientists developed Da Bomb for yo
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DAWG #2 Timmi's gots all da latest
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87. DUNWITTY I know all of you have
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That this is fun. Nice wholesome fu
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She ignores him. MYRNA Wear Kente c
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A gift. DELACROIX For what? SLOAN N
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DELACROIX How so? SLOAN To me, it s
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DELACROIX Yes. And I say yes becaus
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Are you telling me that nobody can
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Parents are fighting over Beanie Ba
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I'm on it. INT. CAR DEALER - DAY A
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Same thing Giuliani said. DELACROIX
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1/16TH BLACK ...Benedict Arnold...
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97. SLOAN This is a nice place. It
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know that's written in the Constitu
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I slept too near where I fell out.
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my stepdaughter became my mother be
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Porch Monkeys Band. MANTAN I feel a
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take care of dat red/and nobody wou
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The winner is... Pierre Delacroix f
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fool, Hollywood's new favorite Negr
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Meaning? CHEEBA I'm out. MANTAN Goo
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MANTAN For what? He left. Not me. E
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ON BIG BLACK He waves to his sister
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ON STAGE Mantan is moving and groov
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The door crashes open, Mantan rocke
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INT. BET STUDIO - NIGHT Mantan is o
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whatI'mtalkin''bout. Y'knowwhatI'ms
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hear from our proud sponsors, DA BO
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TAVIS SMILEY What do you do? BIG BL
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SLOAN He's just playing big brother
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Delacroix and Sloan are taking off
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over Sloan. MANTAN What you did is
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position as his assistant. MANTAN A
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MANTAN Don't try to change to the s
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ORCHID Of course I'm happy for you.
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He is incredulous. DELACROIX (V.O.)
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can't stand to BLACK UP anymore. IN
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You better talk to him. He won't li
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BUNNING I should notify Dunwitty. D
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you can muster up inside your assau
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EXT. BACKSTAGE The security guards
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124. MANRAY What did I do? BIG BLAC
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MONTAGE Various newsrooms, computer
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DELACROIX (V.O.) Somehow, someway,
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American way of life... INT. DELACR
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It's used to mask the origin of an
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difficulty breathing with her asthm
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SMOOTH BLACK Whereas Mantan is a he
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Each Mau-Mau has a 9mm and is firin
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BIG BLACK (CONT'D) You ain' BLAK. H
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Corleone Dance of Death as bullets
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SLOAN Watch this. This is what you
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extraordinary to her. With Daddy it