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by Jaron Summers @ 2007
T he world's most successful studio executive, Scot Squeegee, drove his new stretch Rolls Royce from his 60-room mansion in Bel Air to Streak Studios to view the rushes of: The Scot Squeegee Saga.According to reports in Daily Variety, The Scot Squeegee Saga was expected to play to sold-out crowds in theaters around the world. The Scot Squeegee Saga had everything from stunning women to power. Well, actually it only had two things: stunning women and power—with those two things you could get everything else you needed in Southern California. Actually, to be truly accurate, women did not need to be that stunning, so long as they had enormous mammary glands, which could be purchased from almost any competent plastic surgeon on any corner in Beverly Hills. (Usually mammary glands were sold in sets, although some starlets bought an extra for a spare.) After a power breakfast prepared by Martha Stewart, Scot Squeegee went to his inner, inner executive office (the one with 11 private bathrooms, a Krispy Kreme donut concession and series of small ICBMs used to annihilate tiny countries that did not endorse American screening policies). Mr. Squeegee was smoking his second three-foot Havanan of the day. He was inhaling the Havanan. The Havanan was a small actor from Havana; lately, studio executives had taken to midget smoking It was a pastime that Arnold Schwarzenegger had introduced in Predator VII, a lovely piece of cinema in which he single-handedly invaded Cuba using all of the guns in the United States of America. After Arnold ran out of bullets, he began smoking the rebellious natives of Cuba. It was a movie thing that appealed to the film executives.
Another case of life
imitating art.
This was a good thing, since executives never knew
when one of the six or seven (bankable) Hollywood film directors might
die, requiring Hollywood to find a newcomer to fill his or her boots.
And then he would smoke
another Havanan and stare at the person he was talking to and demand,
"Do you know what I am saying?" The young directors' faces were upturned because they were standing in the pit in front of Mr. Squeegee's desk. The pit was 40 feet deep.
This was
a subtle method that film executives employed to convey the raw power of
a studio head to anyone who visited them. "I can take three
questions," said the world's most powerful filmmaker. "Do you
know what I am saying?"
Mr. Squeegee deduced the girl was eager
to talk to him because she was holding her hand the highest and she had
removed all of her clothing except for her seven-inch pumps. "The
film student—the perky 42D—what is your question, dear?"
He cranked up the
power of the bullhorn and accidentally (but permanently) deafened nine
students in the front row. (A small price to pay for his wisdom.)
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