1:44:00
just for the record.
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By this time
the whole joint was jumping--
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cops, reporters,
neighbors, passersby.
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As much hoop-de-doo
as we get in Los Angeles...
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when they open a supermarket.
1:44:14
Even the newsreel guys
came roaring in.
1:44:17
Here was an item everybody
could have some fun with.
1:44:21
The heartless so-and-sos.
1:44:25
What would they do to Norma?
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Even if she got away with it
in court--
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crime of passion,
temporary insanity--
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those headlines would kill her.
1:44:35
"Forgotten Star a Slayer:"
1:44:39
"Aging Actress:"
1:44:41
"Yesterday's Glamour Queen:"
1:44:54
Coroner's office?
1:44:56
I want to speak to the coroner.
1:44:59
Who's on this phone?
1:45:00
I am! Now get off.
This is more important.
1:45:04
Times city desk?
Hedda Hopper speaking.
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I'm talking from the bedroom
of Norma Desmond.
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Don't bother with a rewrite.
Take it direct.
1:45:12
Ready?
1:45:13
As day breaks
over the murder house...
1:45:15
Norma Desmond,
famous star of yesteryear...
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is in a state
of complete mental shock.
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A curtain of silence
seems to have fallen around her.
1:45:23
She sits in the silken boudoir
of her house on Sunset Boulevard--
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Was it a sudden quarrel? Did you ever
have any trouble between you before?
1:45:31
If it was a quarrel,
how come this gun was right there?
1:45:35
This guy-- Where did you meet him
for the first time?
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Where did he come from?
Who is he?
1:45:40
Did you hate him?
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Had you ever thought of
doing something like this before?
1:45:44
Was theft involved?
1:45:46
Did you catch him stealing,
or find he had stolen something?
1:45:49
Newsreel men are here
with the cameras.
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Tell them to go fly a kite.
This is no time for cameras.
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Now, Miss Desmond, is there
anything you want to tell us?