De Amerikaanse schrijver en draaiboekauteur Horton Foote werd geboren op 14 maart 1916 in Wharton, Texas. Zie ook alle tags voor Horton Foote op dit blog.
Uit: Blind Date
“SARAH NANCY. Anyway, they are all stupid.
DOLORES. Who, honey?
SARAH NANCY. Boys.
DOLORES. Precious, darling.
SARAH NANCY. Dumb and stupid. (she starts away)
DOLORES. Sarah Nancy, where in the world are you going?
SARAH NANCY. I’m going to bed.
DOLORES. Sarah Nancy, what is possessing you to say a thing like that? You’re just trying to tease me.
SARAH NANCY. Oh no I’m not. (She starts away)
DOLORES. Sarah Nancy, you can’t go to bed. You have a young man coming to call on you at any moment. You have to be gracious …
SARAH NANCY. I don’t feel like being gracious. I’m sleepy. I’m going to bed.
DOLORES. Sarah Nancy, you can’t. Do you want to put me in my grave? The son of one of your mother’s dearest friends will be here at any moment to call on you, and you cannot be so rude as to go to bed and refuse to receive him. Sarah Nancy, I beg you. I implore you.
SARAH NANCY. Oh, all right. (She sits down) Ask me some questions.
DOLORES. No, dear. You ask me some questions.
SARAH NANCY. What church do you attend?
DOLORES. That’s lovely. That’s a lovely question to begin wtih. Now I’ll answer as Felix will. Methodist.
SARAH NANCY. That’s a dumb church.
DOLORES. Sarah Nancy.
SARAH NANCY. I think it’s a dumb church. It’s got no style. We used to be Methodist but we left for Episcopal. They don’t rant and rave in the Episcopal church.”
Horton Foote (14 maart 1916 – 4 maart 2009)
Evan Jonigkeit en Hallie Foote in ‘Blind Date,’ New York, 2012