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party tonight, and there's
your chance.
ADAM and BARBARA pull back.
ADAM
You'll tell us what to do?
BEETLE JUICE
That's what I'm here for,
pal. Hey, you're blocking
my rays.
INT: DINING ROOM -- NIGHT
The DEETZ's first dinner party, using EVELYN (CHARLES's first
wife,) and OTHO as guinea pigs. Even so, things aren't going as
well as DELIA had hoped. It's EVELYN who's putting in the knife,
and OTHO (under the guise of friendship) who's twisting it.
EVELYN
Nobody understands why
you did it, Delia.
CATHY
Did what?
EVELYN
Drag your whole family into
the wilds of Connecticut.
You'll never get anybody
to visit you.
CHARLES
You came quickly enough,
Evelyn.
EVELYN
That's because I had to get
you to sign some very important
contracts. People come up to
me, and say, "Why on earth did
they do it? What's in Winter
River?"
LYDIA
Zilch. Zilch is what is in
Winter River.
OTHO
Well, I defend you. I tell
people that I think it was
a wonderful idea. Charles can
write without distraction --
and for a conceptual artist like
Delia who is -- let's face it,
in a critical slump... I tell
people it's good for you to
appear inaccessible. But I have
to agree with Evelyn, it's going
to be hard to get people out here.
DELIA, in her agitation, knocks over a glass of water. The glass
falls off the table onto the fine Oriental carpet beneath the
table. There's a little distracting to-do about retrieving it.
DELIA
Well, there's not going to be
any difficulty about getting them
out here when they find out just
how special this house is.
OTHO
It's nice, Delia, and it will be
more than presentable when I've
worked my way with it -- but I
don't know if I'd care to use the
word special.
DELIA
Ghosts aren't special? Ghosts
are pretty special in my book.
CHARLES
(Cautionary) Lydia and Cathy
tried to play a little joke on
us this afternoon.
LYDIA