more re Studio60 (pilot)

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Early draft of the pilot script
http://www.geocities.com/seekergurl/studio60.html
This has been transcribed from an early draft of the Studio 60 pilot script - from when the show's working title was Studio 7. Jamie McDeere has since been renamed Jordan McDeere, Danny Moore is now Danny Tripp and Martha Moyer - now Karen - is no longer a journalist and only appears fleetingly as Danny's date. The network, UBS, is now NBS.
I'd like to know the discussn ~ thoughts ~ motivating these small changes, wld be very int to me.

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WES stands there for a moment. He looks onto the stage from the back of the vomitorium and sees RICKY and RON--two guys we'll get to meet later. They catch his glance and give him a nod. WES looks as them the way a king looks at illegitimate sons who are plotting to take his throne. Then he heads off as we

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INT. CONTROL ROOM - NIGHT ...

[A vomitorium is actually an architectural feature – a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre, through which the crowds could 'spew out' at the end of a show.Roman cuisine - Wkp]

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WES
...and there's always been a struggle between art and commerce, but now I'm telling you art is getting is ass kicked, and it's making us mean, and it's making us bitchy, and it's making us cheap punks and that's not who we are.
JERRY
(to the DELAY MAN)
Are you bleeping this out?

DELAY MAN
He hasn't said anything you're not allowed to say.

JERRY
He's telling people to change the channel.

CAL
I don't think you have to worry about anybody changing the channel right now.

WES
...We're eating works for money, "Who Wants to Screw My Sister", guys are getting killed in a war that's got theme music and a logo. That remote in your hand is a crack pipe...

JERRY
Cal--

CAL
I'm waiting for him to say something that isn't true.

LILLY
(gently urging)
Cal.

CAL's almost made up his mind. It's like he's a trained and experienced policeman by this is the first time he's faced live fire.

CAL
All right--I think we're just gonna go to titles. Stand by VTR.

WES
These are the people they're afraid of, this prissy, feckless, off-the-charts greed-filled whorehouse of a network you're watching. This thoroughly unpatriotic--

CAL
Go VTR! Go VTR! Roll titles! Now!

And we

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OUR MAIN TITLES

END OF TEASER

these logistics seems deftly written:
where 'we' are, following the camera, when continuously and when cut.
usually I dislike reading plays-scripts, here the form actually works for me as storytelling. even handling layers to advantage: customer calls to "roll titles" on show within show, and we
Cut to: OUR titles.nice.