(Bette Davis, All About Eve)
Awards banquet: den
of sin. Lit like loaded gun
aimed point-blank at Eve.
*
Run-down dressing room,
Kabuki cold cream. Enrapt:
Eve’s self-creation.
*
Phone rings, 3 a.m.
Bill’s call from Beverly Hills.
Eyes wide to Eve’s scheme.
*
Next morning, breakfast
in bed. “Birdie, you don’t like
Eve.” Blueprint theory.
*
“Fasten your seatbelts”:
perhaps the most famous cig
of last century.
*
Late for audition,
rages onstage. Bushwhacked by
understudy Eve.
*
Stuck on snowy road,
hair down, regrets misconduct
toward all, even Eve.
*
Cub Room: the elite
meet. Great actress to wed Bill.
No more about Eve.
*
Back at banquet: same
cig? Eyes Eve evilly as
she collects her prize.
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