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The San Francisco Panorama.
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THE SETTING: A boardwalk in a sleepy New Jersey beach community, sometime in the 1950s. Or possibly the 1940s. Or the 1960s. It's hard to tell. A station wagon pulls up to the beach. The FATHER steps out of the car. FATHER
MOTHER
JUNIOR
MOTHER
FATHER opens the back door of the station wagon, leans in, and shakes a 17-year-old JANET RENO awake. FATHER
JANET RENO
FATHER
JANET RENO gets out of the car, begins sulking toward the beach with her FATHER, when she hears a wolf-whistle behind her. She stands still, as her FATHER continues walking toward the water. JANET RENO A young, tanned BILL GATES appears, carrying a surfboard. BILL GATES
JANET RENO BILL GATES
JANET RENO blushes. BILL GATES
JANET RENO CUE SOUNDTRACK: "The Look of Love," by Dusty Springfield MONTAGE: The two sharing a malt, laughing; they walk along the water as BILL GATES tosses stones into it; they ride a ferris wheel, sharing cotton candy; at a carnival booth, BILL GATES knocks over an array of milk bottles and wins an enormous stuffed animal, which he presents to JANET RENO; a seagull grabs JANET RENO's hat, and the two chase it until they collapse, laughing; the two kiss and roll around in the frothing surf. As the music fades out, we see BILL and JANET, walking along the boardwalk at night. JANET RENO
BILL GATES
They kiss. But just as they do, we hear a crowd of men, yelling. They appear, all carrying surfboards. CROWD
BILL GATES
JANET RENO
NATHAN MYRHVOLD
BILL GATES
JANET RENO
NATHAN MYRHVOLD
BILL GATES BILL GATES leaves with the rest of his CROWD. JANET RENO stands alone on the boardwalk, clutching the oversized stuffed animal he won for her earlier in the day. JANET RENO
THE END
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