- FADE IN:
- INT. JOE'S Billiards - night
- TEDDY sits at the bar of Joe's Billiards watching the large HD screens over the clatter of pool cues and the occasional burst of laughter and argument over a score.
- He plays with the bowl of nuts by his drink.
- American gymnasts in leotards spin past on the screen.
- Teddy turns to SUE, the bartender.
- TEDDY
- You know, something about gymnastics inherently bothers me. Maybe it's the feeling that these little girls are being robbed of a childhood and hyper-sexualized, all at the same time.
- SUE
- You a feminist or something?
- TEDDY
- Something like that. You've got these small teenagers with stunted puberty doing floor routines that look like watered-down stripper moves racing around in skin tight leotards while announcers talk about how cute and adorable the female athletes are.
- SUE
- Nice delivery. I can't disagree about the announcers...you let men talk that long and misogyny will show up. But you ever think that the sport itself might be a bit more innocent than you're painting it?
- TEDDY
- Maybe it has to do with my ambivalence about sports. I am simultaneously a fan and a dissident when it comes to them.
- SUE
- So what would you change?
- Teddy shrugs.
- SUE
- You shouldn't criticize something without having at least an idea about how you should fix it.
- TEDDY
- What are you, a former gymnast or something?
- SUE
- That's um...that's quite an assumption and a bit of a non-sequitur.
- TEDDY
- Point taken. And you're right, I should have some brilliant solution to this, but i don't...it just bothers me.
- SUE
- And I am a former gymnast.
- She grins at him.
- He nods and raises his glass to the screen and to her.
- TEDDY
- Cheers!
- SUE
- I'll drink to that.
- FADE TO BLACK.
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