Wednesday, September 15, 2010
La dolce vita
Chapter 52
Scene set is at Old Winery Inn... 'Ethel Entertains'
J.P. is sitting in his 'Director' chair.
"Take 1"
Ethel is sitting on the deck, enjoying a glass of wine. Lucy comes around the side of the house.
"Hello, Lucy! How are you today?"
"I'm wonderful." She wilts onto a dainty garden chair and says, "What's this?"
"I'm trying a 'Gewurtztraminer.' My brother John says this is his favorite."
Lucy gets a stiff, odd look on her face.
"Are you alright, Lucy? Can I pour you some wine?"
"No!" Lucy almost faints off her chair.
"Are you sure?" Ethel looks perplexed.
"The Jews were not welcomed in Barr. They experienced much persecution there," Lucy acted out believable venomous outrage.
"Well, 'Gewurtz' just means spicy and 'traminer' actually originates from the South Tyrolean town of Tramin at the foot of the Dolomite mountains. Were the Italians good to you?"
Lucy blows out her lips, into her poodle cut hairdo and puckers her red lips, "Alright, if you don't have a 'Riesling,' I'll have a 'Gerwurtztraminer.' I hope none of my ancestors are rolling over in their graves right now."
"Cut!"
J.P. bursts into laughter.
"Lucy, were you ad libbing? Try to remember that the movie is about my folks, not your red-haired namesake. Now, again, from 'Alright, if you dont' have a 'Riesling.'"
"Take 2"
Lucy- "Alright, if you don't have a 'Riesling.'"
Ethel- pours Lucy a glass of wine, sets it in front of her, then raises her own glass, "La Dolce Vita."
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