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INT- POWER RECORDS – DAY

DICK WILLIAMS’ OFFICE

DICK WILLIAMS is reading through the comment cards, shaking his head. 

DICK WILLIAMS picks up the telephone intercom.

DICK WILLIAMS

Jeff to my office, please…

SALES FLOOR

CUT TO sales floor, JEFF is with MURIEL the aerobic dance instructor who is dressed in tights.

DICK WILLIAMS (O.C./INTERCOM)

Jeff to my office.

JEFF (V.O.)

How does he expect me to work when he won’t leave me alone?

MURIEL jogs in place as she talks.

MURIEL

Do you have anything new with a good beat?

JEFF (V.O.)

To me the dance titles appear blatantly obvious.  If a song has more than one remix version, chances are it’s a dance song!  

JEFF visually scans the rack and points toward the bottom.  

JEFF (CONT’D)

Umm, there’s this one, at number thirty-four: ‘The Thong Song’ …I guess it’s a dance song.   

MURIEL ignores Jeff’s suggestion.

MURIEL

You know, like that ‘Tom’s Diner’ song?: 

‘Do do, do do do do, do do, do do, do do do do’ …something good for cycle. 

JEFF

Suzanne Vega?

MURIEL

Yeah, her… Susan Vega—do you have any more of her stuff?

JEFF

Ah, hold on.  Here listen to this.

JEFF directs her to a listening station then proceeds back to DICK WILLIAMS’ office.

DICK WILLIAMS’ OFFICE

JEFF enters DICK WILLIAMS’ office.

JEFF

Yes, Dick?

DICK WILLIAMS

Sit down Jeff.

JEFF sits down.

DICK WILLIAMS (CONT’D)

I have a complaint here from a Pete Haggerty.

DICK WILLIAMS puts on his bifocals and squints at the comment card.  He raises the card up near his temple.

DICK WILLIAMS

Somebody told this guy to bone a drag queen.  What’s with this?  You’ve been with us, what, eleven years?  You should know better!

JEFF

What?

DICK WILLIAMS

Yeah, he’s actually made more than one complaint!  He also claims you were talking to him about rape and sodomy.  

DICK WILLIAMS begins shouting.

DICK WILLIAMS (CONT’D)

This is not the sort of language we use on the sales floor, Jeff! …Many people are sensitive about stuff like sodomy.

JEFF bows his head in defeat.

JEFF

And rape too, I suppose.