Post by bluemoongirl on Jan 26, 2006 14:29:39 GMT -5
Here are a few notes and omitted scenes taken from the script - 1st draft-revised through 10-30-86. The first scene which, given how the episode finally aired, in my opinion, cuts right to the heart of Maddie's feelings for David. And given what occurs later in the season, was cut for obvious reasons. Great scene, though. I just love Agnes when she has these moments with Maddie. She may act like a ditz, but she's very clear when it comes to serious matters of the heart between her two friends.
The scene begins with Maddie and Agnes having just rifled through David's desk - looking for clues to his married past.
MADDIE: This man does't need an office. He needs a playpen.
...and Maddie PICKS UP a stack of magazines...and Dipesto sees them...
DIPESTO: (trying to reassure Maddie) Don't worry...he only buys those for the articles.
MADDIE: (picking up a magnifying glass) And this is for the fine print, I suppose.
...Maddie puts the stuff back in the drawer...she's losing hope...
MADDIE (closing the drawer) We're wasting our time. There's nothing in here but junk and smut. Besides, who cares what she looks like.
DIPESTO (spoting something) Here's a picture!
Maddie (quickly) Where?
...Dipesto REACHES into the bottom of her drawer and PULLS OUT A slightly crumbled 5 xx7...LOOKS at it...her EYES WIDEN...
DIPESTO: Hubba, hubba!
...and Maddie TAKES the photo...and LOOKS at it... and LOOKS at Dipesto...
MADDIE: Agnes, I don't think David was married to Miss Bikini California. (and then) He said he met her while he was living in New York. (and then) He was tending bar at some place in the Village. She walked in. It was more than ten years ago...I feel stupid just talking about it. I almost got married a couple of times. Everybody gets married...or almost married.
ON DIPESTO
....and she clears her throat...
MADDIE (cont'd) Your day will come.
DIPESTO: I know. (and then) So what else?
MADDIE: That's all I know.
DIPESTO: Aren't you dying of curiosity?
MADDIE: Dying? I wouldn't say dying. I'm a littlecurious, maybe...but only because it's sort of ...amusing...to think that at some point, David Addison put on a tuxedo, walked down an aisle and promised to spend the rest of his lifewith someone...I mean I have trouble with the concept of David promising to spend the rest of a nightwith someone... (and then; pulling herself up from the floor) It's late. We really should go home.
{The aired version is cut at this point}
ANOTHER ANGLE...as Dipesto does the same...and the two women look at each other...
DIPESTO: Miss Hayes, if you don't mind me saying so, you're taking this very well.
MADDIE (amused) Taking what ver well Ms. Dipesto? It's not going to make a difference in my life.
DIPESTO: It's not?
MADDIE: Of course not. (turning; starting out of the office) So David used to be marriend. A lot of people used to be married. (and then) Your day for that will come too.
INT. RECEPTION AREA...Maddie making her way through it...Dipesto following...
MADDIE (cont'd) So he's going to see her for the first time in nine years? So? What possible impact could that have on my life?
DIPESTO: None...I guess.
MADDIE (amused) You guess?
DIPESTO: I mean...none. Absolutely.
MADDIE: Absolutely positively. (and there doesn't seem to be any more to say) Well...(and then) See you in the morning.
...and she TURNS and STARTS for the door...ON DIPESTO...it has to be said...
DIPESTO (quietly) Unless they got back together.
ON MADDIE'S BACK...and she STOPS IN HER TRACKS...
MADDIE (after a long moment; without turning around) What was that?
ON DIPESTO...deeply regretting having said anything...
DIPESTO: Nothing. I just said...how about this weather?
ANOTHER ANGLE...as Maddie SLOWLY TURNS...
MADDIE: You said "unless they got back together".
DIPESTO (in an apologetic burst) I know. I know I did, but I didn't mean to! I just opened my mouth and out it came!
MADDIE: And what possible impact could that have on my life?
ON DIPESTO...and...as if afraid of giving the wrong answer...she says NOTHING
ON MADDIE...tired of waiting...
MADDIE: None. It would have none Agnes. (and then; turning once more) Goodnight...Ms. Dipesto.
...and she is through the door...and a moment later...she is gone...ON MS. DIPESTO...standing there...staring at the EMPTY SPACE where Maddie stood...and we HOLD for a LONG MOMENT....and then....
Dissolve to: {the scene where Maddie is taking a bath. In the script, she has no lines. There is only description of her in the bath, then getting into bed - staring at her empty wine glass "a depressing momento of a lonely, depressing night". Dissolve to: the dance sequence. It's described pretty accurately to the way it was choreographed - except for the part where Maddie comes in....it's described as such: David enters to find 'wife' dancing with another man - she's teaching him the same dance steps...."and they dance away together....leaving David alone and devastated...completely forlorn...not knowing what to do with himself...UNTIL...All of a sudden...MADDIE appears...She's come to rescue him...at first he's reluctant, but she teaches him a a dance step...and they dance together...simply, but in perfect harmony...and it seems very obvious that they belong together...David seems to have recovered...maybe he's even smitten again...and we..."
And get this...in the script...they omited forty shots!! The mind reels... I'm soooo glad that the dance sequence ended up being directed/choreographed the way it was. ;D
The next sequence that was cut is this. Quite a hilarious bit with Maddie while she's waiting in the hotel room for David all day.
A DIGITAL CLOCK...just as 4:59 flips to 5:00...and we PULL BACK TO REVEAL...MADDIE...SITTING in a chair...arms folded....STARING...at the clock...still dressed in her funeral clothes...WAITING...and then there's a KNOCK on the door...Maddie JUMPS UP and RUNS for it...then catches herself...slows down...tries to look casual...she OPENS the door and there stands...A BELLHOP...his arms full of stuff (at this point we don't know what)...he looks winded...
BELLHOP: Did I make it?
ANOTHER ANGLE...to include both of them...
MADDIE: Excuse me?
BELLHOP: You said you needed this stuff by five.
MADDIE: Oh. Yes. Come in.
...he FOLLOWS her inside...she GOES to her purse to get some money to tip him...
MADDIE: You can just put it on the bed.
BELLHOP: I got everything you wanted. Postcards, museum brochures, a poster from that Monet exhibit...
MADDIE: That's fine. Thank you.
BELLHOP (holding them up) Shopping bags -- Saks and Bloomingdale's okay?
MADDIE (wishing he'd leave) Yes. Thank you.
BELLHOP...Playbill from "Cats"...(holding it up) I got a large sweatshirt because they're a hundred percent cotton...
MADDIE: I'm sure it'll be perfect. (handing him a ten) Thank you very much.
BELLHOP (taking the money) Thank you. Let me know if you need anything else.
MADDIE (herding him out the door) I will...Bye now.
...she CLOSES the door behind him...then HURRIES over to the bed and SPREADS all of the newly acquired articles around...she CRUMPLES up the shopping bags so they won't look so new..."PLACES" everything so that it looks natural...STANDS back and STUDIES it...decides it looks okay...then GOES back to her chair to SIT and WAIT some more...
The only other notable lines omited are in the very last scene on the plane. It's described that David is sitting in the window seat - so their actions are reversed. She asks to borrow his shoulder and then:
DAVID: Only for another twenty or thirty years...then I"m gonna need it back.
....she rests her head on his shoulder...they both CLOSE their eyes...and then...
DAVID (eyes still closed) I wish you could have met her. I think you'd like each other. I know she'd like you.
...and Maddie OPENS her eyes...asks herself once more whether or not she should call him on it...
DAVID (cont'd) Hey...who knows...maybe someday you two will meet...
....Maddie makes her decision...it's final....
MADDIE: Yeah...who knows....
and she SMILES up at him...a smile he doesn't see and wouldn't understand anyway...and we FREEZE FRAME...
There are a few other minor line changes here and there, but these are the most intriguing and notable. One of my favorites from this season. And even more so now, knowing what was originally intended.
The scene begins with Maddie and Agnes having just rifled through David's desk - looking for clues to his married past.
MADDIE: This man does't need an office. He needs a playpen.
...and Maddie PICKS UP a stack of magazines...and Dipesto sees them...
DIPESTO: (trying to reassure Maddie) Don't worry...he only buys those for the articles.
MADDIE: (picking up a magnifying glass) And this is for the fine print, I suppose.
...Maddie puts the stuff back in the drawer...she's losing hope...
MADDIE (closing the drawer) We're wasting our time. There's nothing in here but junk and smut. Besides, who cares what she looks like.
DIPESTO (spoting something) Here's a picture!
Maddie (quickly) Where?
...Dipesto REACHES into the bottom of her drawer and PULLS OUT A slightly crumbled 5 xx7...LOOKS at it...her EYES WIDEN...
DIPESTO: Hubba, hubba!
...and Maddie TAKES the photo...and LOOKS at it... and LOOKS at Dipesto...
MADDIE: Agnes, I don't think David was married to Miss Bikini California. (and then) He said he met her while he was living in New York. (and then) He was tending bar at some place in the Village. She walked in. It was more than ten years ago...I feel stupid just talking about it. I almost got married a couple of times. Everybody gets married...or almost married.
ON DIPESTO
....and she clears her throat...
MADDIE (cont'd) Your day will come.
DIPESTO: I know. (and then) So what else?
MADDIE: That's all I know.
DIPESTO: Aren't you dying of curiosity?
MADDIE: Dying? I wouldn't say dying. I'm a littlecurious, maybe...but only because it's sort of ...amusing...to think that at some point, David Addison put on a tuxedo, walked down an aisle and promised to spend the rest of his lifewith someone...I mean I have trouble with the concept of David promising to spend the rest of a nightwith someone... (and then; pulling herself up from the floor) It's late. We really should go home.
{The aired version is cut at this point}
ANOTHER ANGLE...as Dipesto does the same...and the two women look at each other...
DIPESTO: Miss Hayes, if you don't mind me saying so, you're taking this very well.
MADDIE (amused) Taking what ver well Ms. Dipesto? It's not going to make a difference in my life.
DIPESTO: It's not?
MADDIE: Of course not. (turning; starting out of the office) So David used to be marriend. A lot of people used to be married. (and then) Your day for that will come too.
INT. RECEPTION AREA...Maddie making her way through it...Dipesto following...
MADDIE (cont'd) So he's going to see her for the first time in nine years? So? What possible impact could that have on my life?
DIPESTO: None...I guess.
MADDIE (amused) You guess?
DIPESTO: I mean...none. Absolutely.
MADDIE: Absolutely positively. (and there doesn't seem to be any more to say) Well...(and then) See you in the morning.
...and she TURNS and STARTS for the door...ON DIPESTO...it has to be said...
DIPESTO (quietly) Unless they got back together.
ON MADDIE'S BACK...and she STOPS IN HER TRACKS...
MADDIE (after a long moment; without turning around) What was that?
ON DIPESTO...deeply regretting having said anything...
DIPESTO: Nothing. I just said...how about this weather?
ANOTHER ANGLE...as Maddie SLOWLY TURNS...
MADDIE: You said "unless they got back together".
DIPESTO (in an apologetic burst) I know. I know I did, but I didn't mean to! I just opened my mouth and out it came!
MADDIE: And what possible impact could that have on my life?
ON DIPESTO...and...as if afraid of giving the wrong answer...she says NOTHING
ON MADDIE...tired of waiting...
MADDIE: None. It would have none Agnes. (and then; turning once more) Goodnight...Ms. Dipesto.
...and she is through the door...and a moment later...she is gone...ON MS. DIPESTO...standing there...staring at the EMPTY SPACE where Maddie stood...and we HOLD for a LONG MOMENT....and then....
Dissolve to: {the scene where Maddie is taking a bath. In the script, she has no lines. There is only description of her in the bath, then getting into bed - staring at her empty wine glass "a depressing momento of a lonely, depressing night". Dissolve to: the dance sequence. It's described pretty accurately to the way it was choreographed - except for the part where Maddie comes in....it's described as such: David enters to find 'wife' dancing with another man - she's teaching him the same dance steps...."and they dance away together....leaving David alone and devastated...completely forlorn...not knowing what to do with himself...UNTIL...All of a sudden...MADDIE appears...She's come to rescue him...at first he's reluctant, but she teaches him a a dance step...and they dance together...simply, but in perfect harmony...and it seems very obvious that they belong together...David seems to have recovered...maybe he's even smitten again...and we..."
And get this...in the script...they omited forty shots!! The mind reels... I'm soooo glad that the dance sequence ended up being directed/choreographed the way it was. ;D
The next sequence that was cut is this. Quite a hilarious bit with Maddie while she's waiting in the hotel room for David all day.
A DIGITAL CLOCK...just as 4:59 flips to 5:00...and we PULL BACK TO REVEAL...MADDIE...SITTING in a chair...arms folded....STARING...at the clock...still dressed in her funeral clothes...WAITING...and then there's a KNOCK on the door...Maddie JUMPS UP and RUNS for it...then catches herself...slows down...tries to look casual...she OPENS the door and there stands...A BELLHOP...his arms full of stuff (at this point we don't know what)...he looks winded...
BELLHOP: Did I make it?
ANOTHER ANGLE...to include both of them...
MADDIE: Excuse me?
BELLHOP: You said you needed this stuff by five.
MADDIE: Oh. Yes. Come in.
...he FOLLOWS her inside...she GOES to her purse to get some money to tip him...
MADDIE: You can just put it on the bed.
BELLHOP: I got everything you wanted. Postcards, museum brochures, a poster from that Monet exhibit...
MADDIE: That's fine. Thank you.
BELLHOP (holding them up) Shopping bags -- Saks and Bloomingdale's okay?
MADDIE (wishing he'd leave) Yes. Thank you.
BELLHOP...Playbill from "Cats"...(holding it up) I got a large sweatshirt because they're a hundred percent cotton...
MADDIE: I'm sure it'll be perfect. (handing him a ten) Thank you very much.
BELLHOP (taking the money) Thank you. Let me know if you need anything else.
MADDIE (herding him out the door) I will...Bye now.
...she CLOSES the door behind him...then HURRIES over to the bed and SPREADS all of the newly acquired articles around...she CRUMPLES up the shopping bags so they won't look so new..."PLACES" everything so that it looks natural...STANDS back and STUDIES it...decides it looks okay...then GOES back to her chair to SIT and WAIT some more...
The only other notable lines omited are in the very last scene on the plane. It's described that David is sitting in the window seat - so their actions are reversed. She asks to borrow his shoulder and then:
DAVID: Only for another twenty or thirty years...then I"m gonna need it back.
....she rests her head on his shoulder...they both CLOSE their eyes...and then...
DAVID (eyes still closed) I wish you could have met her. I think you'd like each other. I know she'd like you.
...and Maddie OPENS her eyes...asks herself once more whether or not she should call him on it...
DAVID (cont'd) Hey...who knows...maybe someday you two will meet...
....Maddie makes her decision...it's final....
MADDIE: Yeah...who knows....
and she SMILES up at him...a smile he doesn't see and wouldn't understand anyway...and we FREEZE FRAME...
There are a few other minor line changes here and there, but these are the most intriguing and notable. One of my favorites from this season. And even more so now, knowing what was originally intended.