IT'S ELECTRIFYING!

AFTER WE WENT ON OUR LITTLE PICNIC AND WE REMEMBER THAT FORREST SAID, "I DON'T REMEMBER MY FIRST PICNIC, LET'S SEE IF THIS WILL JOLT HIM INTO REMEMBERING. SINCE GILBERT WAS THROWN OUT OF THE MILITARY FOR BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE WASTE IN THE QUEEN'S COUNTRY, HE HAD TO MAKE A LIVING DOING ODD JOBS. ON PAGE 335 I WRITE: THE COUNTRY WAS FAST APPROACHING UPHEAVEL AND IN SEPTEMBER OF 1957 IN LITTLE ROCK ARKANSAS, PRESIDENT EISENHOWER WOULD SEND FEDERAL TROOPS TO RESTORE ORDER (PARAMOUNT-WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON WHISPERING TO FORREST....SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP.... EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK....FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING...(EMPLOYER SCREAMING AT GILBERT) DONE, DRILL SERGEANT! DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNIG...GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDDAY, PRIVATE GUMP.....! EISENHOWER.....ANYWAY....LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA..YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO....) AND TO LET INNOCENT BLACK CHILDREN ENTER CENTRAL HGH SCHOOL AND A YOUNG MINISTER NAMED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WOULD COME TO PUBLIC ATTENTION. (WE SEE THE TROOPS AND THE BLACK CHILDREN TRYING TO ENTER THE HIGHSCHOOL. AND WE SEE FORREST WAVING AND HE IS THERE. WE READ ABOUT DR. KING IN THE PARMAOUNT SCRIPT WHERE EVERYONE IS CLAPPING AND SINGING AND GOING OVER THE BRIDGE AND PARAMOUNT INDICATES THAT THEY BLOW UP THE BRIDGE.) GILBERT WAS STILL WALKING AROUND WITH "UNSUITABLE" WRITTEN ON HIS DISCHARGE PAPERS. HE WOULD BE REJECTED CONSTANTLY FOR WORK AND SOMETIMES WHEN HE WAS LUCKY, HE WOULD BE SHOWN THE DOOR. ON ONE OCCASSION AN EMPLOYER TOSSED HIM OUT AND SCREAMED: "TRAITOR! YOU'LL BE LUCKY IF YOU GET A JOB ANYWHERE IN THIS TOWN, ANY TOWN!" (PARAMOUNT-SHRIMP TOSSED SALADS...FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. FOOTLOCKER CAN BE A LOCKER AT SCHOOL.....A TOOL BOX.....A RECORD PLAYER....A HOOD OF A CAR....BOOM....A VIOLENT REACTION....A CASH BOX...WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER.....PRIVATE? GEAR-A ROCK A WRENCH, A SCREWDRIVER, A WIRE, A RED BUTTON.....ELECTRICITY JUMPER CABLES....A A JOLT....A VOLT....A NEEDLE AND CABLE JUMPERS IN HIS OL FOOT LOCKER.....OUCH! HE LIFTS OUT A HAND (ABOUT THAT TIME THE ONE YEAR OLD BABY BOY LIFTED HIS HANDS UP FOR GILBERT TO PICK HIM UP.......) HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER-DISCHARGE PAPERS....AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A REIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....A RECIPE FOR BATTERY....FOR AN ATOMIC CLOCK.....BOOM.....FOR TOSSED SALAD.....FOR "UNSUITABLE" TOSSED SALAD HE LIFTS OUT A HAND.....SHOOK HIS FIST....FOOTLOCKER....HIS POCKET....TOO....PAPER...DISCHARGE PAPERS...) "TRAITOR! YOU'LL BE LUCKY IF YOU GET A JOB ANYWHERE IN THIS TOWN, ANY TOWN!" GILBERT WOULD JUST PICK HIMSELF UP AND DUST HIMSELF OFF AS HE PUT HIS DISCHARGE PAPERS BACK INTO HIS POCKET WHILE THE MAN STILL SCREAMED AND SHOOK HIS FIST AT GILBERT. (FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND...HIS FIST.....A PIECE OF PAPER...WALKING PAPERS.....DISCHARGE PAPERS.....GEAR-JUMPER CABLES IN HIS OL FOOTLOCKER.....) "GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE I CALL THE POLICE!" (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE LT. TAYLOR TELL THE HOOKERS...."GET OUT OF HERE!" AS HE THROWS THEIR CLOTHES TO THE DOOR.) GILBERT WOULD SUPPORT LORINE AND THE KIDS THE BEST WAY THAT HE KNEW HOW BY GETTING ODD JOBS, REPAIRING AUTOMOBILES AND CLOCKS. HE LOVED CLOCKS AND ONE EVENING WHILE HE SAT AT THE TABLE WITH THE CHILDREN HE COULD HEAR A PERRY COMO SONG ON THE RADIO. "WHEN DADDY FIXES THIS CLOCK, WE WILL HAVE SOME MORE MONEY, HE SAID TO HIS LITTLE CHILDREN. (PARAMOUNT-WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON, WHISPERING TO FORREST...SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP...EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT...YOU GOT TWO MEN SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WAHT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK....) ABOUT THAT TIME THE ONE YEAR OLD BABY BOY LIFTED HIS HANDS UP FOR GILBERT TO PICK HIM UP. (HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE....THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.....)

FOLLOW ME!

IN MY SCRIPTS I WRITE THAT GILBERT WAS JEALOUS OF LORINE AND HE WOULD GIVE DIRTY LOOKS TO ANY MAN AROUND AND TO SEE IF SHE WAS HAVING AN AFFAIR OR A FLING. I WROTE THAT HE WOULD FOLLOW LORINE, WALKING BEHIND HER, SPYING ON HER AND THROWING DIRTY LOOKS TO ANY MAN WHO WOULD TALK TO HER. IN FORREST GUMP, WE SEE A BUS LOAD OF MEN AND THEY ARE GETTING OFF THE BUS, WE SEE FORREST IN LINE AND A WOMAN COMES UP AND SAYS, "FOLLOW ME!" AND THEY ALL FOLLOW BEHIND HER. SOME IN MILITARY UNIFORMS.

PANTIES AND BRA

IN THE MOTION PICTURE JENNY IS TAKING OFF HER BRA AND PANTIES WITH HER BACK TO THE CAMERA. SHE ASKS FORREST IF HE HAS EVER BEEN WITH A GIRL.....IN THE MOVIE WE SEE FORREST RUNNING ON THE DOCK AND WE SEE HIM RUN HIS BOAT INTO THE DOCK ACCIDENTLY AND WE SEE FISHING IN THE MOVIE....WE SEE FORREST JUMP INTO THE WATER....WE HEAR THE SONG,"AQUARIUS." (PARAMOUNT-FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS....TACKLE BOX....HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER....PRIVATE? GEAR-RED TAPE....BRA....PANTIES....THE OL BAMBOO....TRUNKS...A ROPE....THE LAST SUIT YOU'LL EVER WEAR....A SEARCH LIGHT....DNA....THAT'S A REICPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI..... ON PAGE 66 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE: LORINE (PULLING OFF BLOUSE AND BRA) IT'S BEEN ALL THE BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE AND ALL THE WALLS WE'VE BEEN SLAMMING INTO FOR YEARS AND YEARS. GILBERT (SAD, RUBBING LORINE'S SHOULDER'S) POOR DAMON, HE'S SIXTEEN NOW, IT'S BREAKING MY HEART. AND THEN I THINK ABOUT THE BABY, I BET SHE'S AS BEATIFUL AND TIMID AS HER MOTHER. LORINE (SMILING WITH JUST HER PANTIES ON BACK TO THE CAMERA) LORD, GILBERT, IF SHE'S LIKE YOU! A TEAR ROLLS DOWN GILBERT'S FACE AS LORINE BENDS DOWN TO KISS HIM TENDERLY ON THE LIPS. THE SONG, "AQUARIUS," STARTS TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND. CUT TO: EXT. TENNESSEE RIVER DOCK - DAY THE SONG, "AQUARIUS," WHICH IS ALSO THERESE'S SUN SIGN, CONTINUES TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND AS A LITTLE GIRL ABOUT ELEVEN YEARS OLD, WHO IS THERESSE, WITH BACK TO CAMERA IS SITTING ALONE ON THE DOCK BY THE RIVER. THE DOCK IS SECLUDED WITH TREES AND SHE IS FISHING. SHE BRINGS A FISH UP OUT OF THE WATER AND THEN LETS IT GO. DRESSED IN A PLAID SHIRT AND PANTS WITH HAIR BUNDLED UP UNDER A CAP TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT SHE IS A BOY. THERESE RISES UP, THROWS THE FISHING POLE DOWN, BACK STILL TO THE CAMERA, STRIPS HER CLOTHES OFF AND THROWS THE CAP OFF AS THE WAIST LENGTH HAIR FALLS TO HER WAIST. SHE NOW HAS A BAND OF WHITE FLOWERS AROUND HER HEAD THAT WAS HID BY A CAP. NOW LOOKING LIKE A FLOWER CHILD, THERESE TAKES OFF RUNNING UP THE DOCK, UP THE BANK AND GRABS A ROPE THAT IS TIES TO A TREE LIMB AND SWINGS IN THE AIR AS SHE DIVES INTO THE DEEP WATER. THE SONG, "AQUARIUS" IS STILL PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND. SHE IS MORE SPIRITED THAN HER FATHER AND MOTHER COMBINED. A MAN DRESS IN A BLACK SUIT STANDING ON A HILL IN THE DISTANCE IS TAKING ALL OF THIS IN AS HE KEEPS AN EYE ON THERESE. HE IS A GOVERNMENT MAN. (THE MEN IN BLACK) IN THE MOVIE WE ALSO SEE JENNY WEARING A BAND OF FLOWERS AND BAREFOOTED AS SHE MARRIES FORREST.

VITAMIN E SPELLS PILLS FOR AN ERECTION. EXTENZE PILLS TO MAKE YOU LARGER!

PARAMOUNT-THE BOYS ARE BUSILY POLISHING THEIR BOATS...FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER.....SHRIMP COCTAIL, PAN FRIED, DEEP FRIED, STIR FRIED....THE BOYS ARE POLISHING THE FLOOR. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER...PINEAPPLE SHRIMP, COCONUT SHRIMP, LEMON SHRIMP PEPPER SHRIMP, SHRIMP SOUP, SHRIMP SALAD, SHRIMP STEW...SHRIMP BURGERS, SHRIMP SANDWICHES..THAT'S ABOUT IT....FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER (MEDICINE CABINET )AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER....PRIVATE? GEAR-A STOP WATCH....PILLS TO TREAT AN ERECTION PROBLEM.....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER- A PRESCIPTION FOR SEX DRUGS.....ERECTILE PILLS TO KEEP A HARD ON FOR HOURS....PILLS TO TREAT A LIMP PROBLEM......THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...FOR MR. BURNS.....A SUPPOSITORY PILL TO TREAT ERECTION PROBLEMS..... ON PAGE 66 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: THAT NIGHT HE MADE LOVE TO HER THOUGHOUT THE NIGHT. IT WAS A PASSION THAT BURNED DEEPLY AND PASSION THAT WAS EMBEDDED IN THEIR SOULS AND IN THEIR HEARTS. LIKE AN ADDICTING DRUG OR LOVE POTION THAT GETS INSIDE THE BODY, FROM HERE ON OUT GILBERT AND LORINE WOULD NEVER HAVE ENOUGH OF EACH OTHER. EVEN THOUGOUT THE YEARS TO COME, THEIR PASSION FOR EACH OTHER PROVED TO BE INSATIABLE.

HOW ABOUT THOSE EGGS?

IN THE MOVIE WE SEE FORREST TAKING PHOTOS...WE SEE MARILYN AND JACKIE KENNEDY AND JOHN KENNEDY AND THAT JENNY WAS ON THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE. PARAMOUNT-FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS.....COLD EMBRYO STORAGE....HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. (A-BOMB) WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER...PRIVATE? GEAR-A CAMERA....COLD STORAGE FOR EMBRYOS...BAT AND BALLS.....APPLES....BOMB....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE...PAPER-FILM....A PHOTO....A COVER PAGE....A NEWSPAPER....THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....APPLE PIE...FOR A BLONDE.....FOR A HAWK.....FOR MR. BURNS....YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDAY....PRIVATE?! NOW DISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON....ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING....EMBROY'S AND SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT...BOMB.....YOU CAN BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO.....) ON PAGE 88 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: IT WAS THE TIME OF THE AMERICAN SEX-SYMBOL, MARILYN MONROE, A TIME FOR BASEBALL (IN PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ THAT HE, LT. DAN WHILE IN A WHEELCHAIR, TAKES HIS BALL BAT, RUNNING EVERYONE OUT.....) HEROS LIKE JOE DiMAGGIO AND A TIME FOR JOY AND A TIME FOR TEARS. IT WAS A TIME FOR APPLE PIE AND A TIME FOR DEAN MARTIN AND JERRY LEWIS. IN 1953 A PIONEERING SWEDISH PHOTOGRAPHER, LENNART NILISSON, DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES FOR PHOTOGRAPHING A HUMAN EMBRYO WHILE AEC DEMONSTRATED WHAT AN A-BOMB WOULD DO TO A HOUSE A FEW THOUSAND FEET AWAY. WHILE MARILYN MONROE WOULD GRACE THE COVER PAGE OF LIFE MAGAZINE IN MAY, JOHN F. KENNEDY AND JACQUELINE LEE BOUIVER WOULD BOTH GRACE ITS COVER IN JULY. WHILE "GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES," DIRECTEDD BY HOWARD HAWKS AND STARRING JANE RUSSEL, MARILYN MONROE AD CHARLES COBURN WOULD PREMIER IN NEW YORK, ARTHUR EISENHOWER, THE BROTHER OF IKE, WOULD LATER BE QUOTED BY THE LAS VEGAS SUN AS CALLING McCARTHY "THE MOST DANGEROUT THREAT TO AMERICA."...CHARLIE CHAPLIN WILL BE BARRED FROM THE UNITED STATES AS A COMMUNIST SUPPORTER. TO BE CONTINUED....

IT'S PAJAMA TIME!

IN THE MOTION PICTURE, LT. DAN AS PARAMOUNT COPIES, DEVIATES AND WRITE THAT HE GRABS FORREST BY THE PAJAMA COLLAR AND THROWS HIM TO THE FLOOR AND SAYS: YOU LISTEN, YOU CHEATED ME! I SHOULD HAVE DIED IN THE FIELD WITH MY MEN! AND WE SEE THAT HIS LEGS DON'T WORK. PARMAOUNT INDICATES THAT HE IS ROUGHING UP FORREST AND THROWS HIM ON THE FLOOR IN THE PARAMOUNT CRAPPY SCRIPT. AND THIS IS WHERE THEY GOT IT: ON PAGE 61 I WRITE: EXT. OUTSIDE REVEREND COLE'S HOUSE - DAY A GOVERNMENT MAN DRESSED IN A BLACK SUIT IS TAKING THERESE (ME) FROM REVEREND COLE'S CUSTODY AND IS HOLDING THERESE WRAPPED IN A PINK BLANKET WITH HER PAJAMAS ON AND HOLDING ONTO A TEDDY BEAR, SUCKING HER THUMB. HE WALKS ACROSS THE YARD WITH THE BABY, OPENS THE BACK DOOR OF THE BLACK CAR AS A WOMAN IN THE BLACK SEAT REACHES OUT TO TAKE THERESE. ON PAGE 404 I WRITE: (PAJAMA PARTY) I CAN REMEMBER AS A GIRL HOW ONE BEAUTY QUEEN WHO WOULD MAKE IT TO THE MISS AMERICA PAGEANT WOULD TERRORIZE ME ALONG WITH HER FRIENDS ONE HORRIBLE EVENING. I WOULD BE INVITED TO AN ALL GIRL PARTY AND ONCE I HAD ARRIVED, THE PARTY BEGAN. I WOULD BEAT AND HAZED. EVENTUALLY, I LEARNED TO GAIN ACCEPTANCE WITH FIGHTING AND THIS WOULD HAPPEN A YEAR LATER, WHEN A SERIES OF WINNING FIGHTS NO WOULD EVER BOTHER ME AGAIN. I WOULD WHIP THE SCHOOL BULLY IN JUNIOR HIGH. MOST OF THAT SCHOOL YEAR I SPENT DOWN IN THE DIRT DEFENDING MYSELF WITH PULLED OUT AND TORN DRESSES OR PANTS. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR CALLED A TIME TO HEAL, I WRITE: (FATHER DIES) I HUNG UP THE PHONE AS I WATCHED A SHOOTING STAR BURN ACROSS THE SKY. "THAT'S DADDY GOING TO HEAVEN," I THOUGHT. "I LOVE YOU, DADDY, YOUR LITTLE GIRL LOVES YOU DADDY, CAN YOU HEAR ME?" "CAN YOU SEE ME?" "I ALREADY MISS YOU, DADDY," I SAID AS THE TEARS STREAMED DOWN MY FACE. HE WASN'T SUPPOSE TO LEAVE NOW, NO NOW, NOT AFTER WE JUST GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER! HE LEFT AS FAST AS HE CAME INTO MY LIFE AND I WAS ALL ALONE. I WOKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT FEELING AFRAID. I HAD DREAMED THAT I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AGAIN AND WE WERE WALKING TOGETHER AND HOLDING HANDS AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE WERE PICKING DAISIES. HE THEN PICKED ME UP AND PUT ME ON HIS SHOULDERS AS WE WALKED AWAY INTO THE SUNSET, MY DADDY AND ME. (THE FIELD) I WRITE ON PAGE 67: (THE FIELD) CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - NIGHT THE DREAM SCENE. (IN THE MOVIE WE ALSO FORREST BEING ASKED, "DO YOU DREAM, FORREST, ABOUT BEING WITH A GIRL....") THE DREAM SCENE. GILBERT IS PLAYING WITH LITTLE THERESE IN A FIELD OF DAISIES. THEY'RE ARE LAUGHING ND HE IS CARRYING HER ON HIS SHOULDERS WITH HIS BACK TO THE CAMERA. THE SUN IS SETTING, VERY BEAUTIFUL. ALL OF A SUDDEN, GOVERNMENT MEN DRESSED IN BLACK SUITS AND GLASSES COME UP AND TAKE THERESE AND PULL GILBERT AWAY AS ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT MEN CARRIES THERESE OFF. SHE IS REACHING AND CRYING FOR GILBERT AS THEY TAKE HIM AWAY. GILBERT WAKES UP SUDDENLY IN A COLD SWEAT. HE HAS HAD A NIGHTMARE. ON PAGE 176 I WRITE: (THE FIELD) GILBERT WALKED AROUND A COUPLE OF ACRES TO SEE THAT THE SPARE PARTS WERE LYING ON THE GROUND IN OPENED AREAS, VAST OPENED AREAS. MOST WERE STILL IN THEIR ROTTING CRATES AND JUST RUSTING AWAY NEVER HAD EVER BEEN OPEN. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ, "HERE RUSTY, HERE CARTER, HERE PRINCE," AS HE THROWS THE STICK FOR THE DOGS TO FETCH. I WROTE THAT THEY WENT TO FETCH ME WHEN I WAS ONE YEAR OLD AND I WROTE OF THE HOSTAGES AND PRESIDENT CARTER AND I WROTE OF PRINCE PHILIP AND I WROTE THAT AN INDIAN WOMAN WHO TOLD FORTUNES WROTE IN THE DIRT WITH A STICK AND INDICATED THAT THERE WAS A BIG BIRD, LIKE A PLANE AND SHE DREW BABY BEARS REPRESENTING LORINE'S CHILDREN AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THEM. BUT, SHE WOULDN'T TELL LORINE ABOUT THE FUTURE. SHE SCRATCH OUT THE PICTURES IN THE DIRT WITH THE STICK.) JUST RUSTING AWAY NEVER HAD EVER BEEN OPEN. "HOW COULD THIS BE?" HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. "ISN'T THE AIR FORCE MORE ORGANIZED THAN THIS?" HE THOUGHT AS HE SCRATCHED HIS HEAD IN BEWILDERMENT. GILBERT HAD BEEN WARNED OF COMMUNIST SUBVERSION AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE THOUGHT THIS WAS. BUT, HE DIDN'T THINK THE AIR FORCE WOULD WARN OF COMMUNIST SUBVERSION IN ITS OWN BACK YARD. HE EVEN THOUGHT THAT HTIS WAS ORGANIZED WASTE AND NOW IT WAS THE POOR TAXPAYERS WHO WERE THE VICTIMS, SOMEONE HAD TO KNOW ABOUT THIS. GILBERT WALKED BACK OVER THE SNOWY GROUND TO HIS JEEP AND PRECEDED DRIVE AROUND FOR AWHILE. IT SICKENED HIM TO SEE SUCH A MASSIVE WASTELAND OF THE DEAD. IT WAS A WASTELAND OF SPARE PARTS AND A WASTELAND OF MONEY THAT WAS SPENT TO THE HILT ONLY TO DIE HERE IN THE RUGGED BACKWOODS WHERE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC COULD NOT SEE IT. IT WAS IN THE DISTANCE THAT HE SAW SOME DEER CHEWING ON GRASS, BUT, IT WAS A SORRY SIGHT TO SEE THE CORRUPTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INNOCENCE OF GOD'S CREATURES IN THE SAME PICTURE THAT GILBERT WAS LOOKING AT. (IN THE PARAMOUNT WE READ THAT FORREST LIKE A DEER WAS CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS. ) (THE FIELD CONTINUED) "I SHOULD HAVE DIED IN THE FIELD WITH MY MEN." WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT. ON PAGE 77 I WRITE: MEDICS PICKED UP THE PIECES OF THE REMAINS OF TE PILOT A TE RADA OBSERVER WHILE GILBERT AND LORNE LOOKED ON IN SHOCK. IT FINALLY GOT TO BE TOO MUCH FR LORINE WHEN THE MEDICS WOULD PICK UP A PIECE OF MEAT, SMELL IT TO SEE IF IT WERE THE REMAINS AND THEN DROP IT IN A BASKET. SHE HAD TO COVER HER EYES AND AT ONE POINT SHE ALMOST GREW FAINT. AT THAT POINT, GILBERT PUT HIS ARM AROUND LORINE AND DECIDED TO TAKE HER HOME. FORREST IS IN HIS PAJAMAS IN BED, HE GRABS HIM BY THE PAJAMA COLLAR AND THROWS HIM ONTO THE FLOOR. "I SHOULD HAVE DIED IN THE FIELD WITH MY MEN!" 'YOU CHEATED ME!" "I SHOULD HAVE DIED IN HE FIELD WTH MY MEN!" TO BE CONTINUED......

COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER

MY ADOPTED DAD, O.B. JEFFERS FROM WINCHESTER, TENNESEE WAS A COAL MINER AND I AM A COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER. DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN LT. DAN THREW A GRANADE IN A HOLE, "FIRE IN THE HOLE! BLAM! CHECK OUT THAT HOLE." AND FORREST JUMPS IN? WELL, I WROTE ABOUT JAMES HOFFA, (ANOTHER MOTION PICTURE WE'RE LOOKING INTO FOR INFRINGEMENT AFTER WE FILE ON THE MOTION PICTURE, "TITANIC" THAT I WATCHED OVER THIS LAST WEEKEND, 4 TIMES AND TOOK DOWN HUNDREDS OF SIMILIARITIES AND VERBATIM DIALOGUE COPYING AND WROTE ABOUT TITANIC IN MY WRITINGS AND WORKED FOR THE DEFENDANTS. ISN'T THAT AMAZING AND THE NEWSPAPERS ARE NOW WAITING FOR THE FILING. SO LET'S FINISH UP A FEW SAMPLE SCENES HERE FOR FORREST AND LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS OF "CIVIL WAR." WELL, ANYWAY MY DADY WAS A COAL MINER AND THAT IS WHY I WROTE ABOUT JIMMY HOFFA AND LORINE'S HUSBAND WAS A WAREHOUSEMAN. SO WE SEE THE "CHECK OUT THAT HOLE" AND FORREST JUMPS IN. ON PAGE 254 OF MY NOVEL OF "MY DADDY WAS A WHISTLBLOWER" WRITTEN UNDER MY PEN NAME T. URICH AND COPYRIGHTED (AND WE SEE A MAN BLOING THE WHISTLE IN "TITANIC" AND THEN ROSE BLOWS THE WHISTLE.) I WRITE ABOUT THE COAL MINER'S SON: ROBERT KENNEDY ( WRITE ABOUT BOBBY SEVERAL TIMES AND YET ANOTHER MOVIE IDEA TO BE PRODUCED ALONG WITH HOFFA, PETER PAN, TITANIC, MEN IN BLACK, THE HURRICANE AND I BOXER I WRITE ABOUT, CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE.....L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, QUEEN ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN, COSTELLO, TRUMAN, FORREST, DR. DOOLITTLE, HOWARD HUGHES, CHICAGO, MARIE ANTOINETTE, I MEAN THEY JUST KEEP THEM COMING.....ALL I WROTE ABOUT IN MY SCRIPTS THAT WERE ALSO USED FOR FORREST AND TITANIC AND IF MY SCRIPTS THAT WERE BEING PASSED AROUND INSPIRED THOSE TO PRODUCE THESE MOVIES THAT'S ONE THING, BUT, IF ANY SIMILIARITES OR VERBATIM DIALOGUE WAS COPIED, WE'LL COME AFTER YOU AND THEN I MAY PASS AFTER I GET MY MONEY FOR FORREST AND TITANIC....WHO KNOWS WHAT THE FUTURE WILL HOLD? BUT, I CAN PREDICT ONE THING, THE RATS WILL START JUMPING SHIP.) ON PAGE 254 OUT OF ALMOST 600 PAGES: ROBERT KENNEDY BECAME OBSESSED WITH GOING AFTER HOFFA. KENNEDY CAME FROM A RICH FAMILY WHILE JIMMY HOFFA CAME FROM A POOR ORIGIN AS A COAL MINER'S SON. HE WAS BORN FEBURARY 14, 1913 IN BRAZIL, INDIANA. AFTER HIS FATHER DIED SEVEN YEARS LATER (PROBABLY FROM BLACK LUNG AND A CHEST FULL OF COAL DUST) JIMMY'S MOTHER MADE HER LIVING FOR HER CHILDREN BY TAKING IN LAUNDRY. WHEN JIMMY WAS A LITTLE BOY HIS CHORES AT HOME WERE TO TAKE OF THE STOVE AN THE CLOTHES BOILER AND ALSO THE PICKING UP AND DELIVERING OF THE LAUNDRY. JIMMY'S MOTHER AND HIS BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS MOVED LATER TO CLINTON, INDIANA AND LATER SETTLED IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN IN AN APARTMENT ON THE CITY'S BRAWLING, WORKING CLASS WEST SIDE. HE AND HIS BROTHER WERE CALLED "HILLBILLIES" FROM OTHER CHILDREN UNTIL THE HOFFA BOYS GOT THEIR ACCEPTANCE WITH THEIR FISTS. JIMMY WOULD DROP OUT OF SCHOOL AND TAKE A JOB MAKING ONLY $12 A WEEK AS A WAREHOUSEMAN. LORINE'S FAMILY HAD A LAUNDRY BUSINESS AND GILBERT, TOO, WORKED AS A WAREHOUSEMAN FOR SAVE THE CHILDREN (WE HERE IN THE MOVIE OF GUMP, "I NEVER THANKED YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE.") FEDERATION. LATER HOFFA WOULD ORGANIZE ENOUGH TO HAVE A STIKE AFTER HE HAD WORKED IN HORRIBLE CONDITIONS. JIMMY FOUGHT MANY BATTLES FOR THE UNION AND HE WOULD BEATEN UP BY POLICE OR STRIKEBREAKERS MANY TIMES. IN ONE STRIKE IN A 24 HOUR SPAN HE WAS ARRESTED EIGHTEEN TIMES. NOW TO COMPARE WITH GUMP. "GUMP CHECK OUT THAT HOLE." COAL MINING AND PARAMOUNT-EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING (MINING) TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK. FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING DONE, DRILL SERGEANT! DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING....GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON ( A SHOVEL, PICK....DYNOMITE....EXPLOSIVES....) TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME DRILL SERGEANT. ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING...SRHIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA....YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, (HOFFA'S BOILER) BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO...FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER...SHRIMP BURGERS (IN THE MOVIE THAT ARE MEANING BERLIN, HAMBURG) FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING (WE SEE THE INSPECTION BOTH IN MY WORKS AND TITANIC, AGAIN AND IN GUMP) INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. (THE HOLE.....MINING....ELEVATOR SHAFT....LUNCH BOX....BOILER.....STOVE.....(WE HEAR OF IN TITANIC AND I WRITE ABOUT THE STOVE AND LORINE ALSO AND WE HEAR IT ALSO IN TITANIC ) (FOOTLOCKER....) STOVE.....LAUNDRY BASKET.....LAUNDRY VAN...A WAREHOUSE....A JAIL CELL.....GEAR-A BILLIE CLUB OR POLICEMAN'S BATON.....TASER.....A POLICE CLUB....HANDCUFFS ( I WRITE ABOUT HANDCUFF IN NOVEL AND SCREENPLAY AND WE SEE JACK IN TITANIC HANDCUFFED TO A BAR.....LEONARDO....ON THE COVER OF GQ'S MAN OF THE YEAR.......RUPERT.......TRY THEM ON...) FOOTLOCKER.....A BASKET...LAUNDRY VAN....A WAREHOUSE..A JELL CELL... A COAL CART.... HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.....BOOM! WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER....PRIVATE? GEAR-A COAL MINER'S HARD HAT.....A COAL....DYNOMITE.....BOOM.....A CLOTHES BOILER.....SOAP.....A CLEANER.....A BILLIE CLUB.....A POLICMAN'S CLUB....A TASER.....HANDCUFFS.....CLUBS.....A CANARY FOR THE MINES.....A BUCKET......HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....(HOFFA'S FISTS) SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-A PAYCHECK.....A LAUNDRY NAME TAG.....POLICE RECORD.....MUG SHOT....THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MAMA, MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI. A RECIPE FOR A STRIKE.....A RECIPE FOR THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE..... IN ADDITION, HERE WE HAVE ANOTHER HOLE: I WRITE THAT THERE WAS A PLANE CRASH THAT LEFT A HOLE IN THE GROUND AT A FARM IN NEWFOUNDLAND. (GUMP, CHECK OUT THAT HOLE! FORREST CHECKS IT OUT AND JUMPS IN.) THE WASTE THAT GILBERT BLEW THE WHISTLE ON IN NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA APPEARED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. IT ALSO BECAME A HEARING IN WASHINGTON, D.C.. ON PAGE 298 OF MY NOVEL: TRAINED THAT WERE IN CHARGE AND THAT THEY WERE A WARRANT OFFICER AND ONE (SERGEANT) FIRST-CLASS. HE WOULD STATE THAT THEY WOULD TRY TO TURN SPARE PARTS BACK TO THE BASE-SUPPLY OFFICER, BUT, THE BASE -SUPPLY OFFICER COULD NOT TAKE THEM BECAUSE HE WAS IN THE SAME (BOAT) THEY WERE IN WITH EXCESS SPARE PARTS. (PARAMOUNT-AND WE SEE THAT FORREST, WITH NO OTHER THOUGHT IN THE WORLD, TOTALLY FOCUSED, IS A WHIZ.....WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON (SPARE PARTS, A SHOVEL, A BULLDOZER) WHISPERING TO FORREST...SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP....EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK.....FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING.....DONE, DRILL (SERGEANT!) DRILL SERGEANT...ABRUPTLY TURNING....GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. JESUS H. CHRIST. THIS IS OUTSTANDING! THAT IS A NEW COMPANY RECORD! IF IT WOULDN'T BE A (WASTE) OF SUCH A DAMN FINE ENLISTED MAN, I'D RECOMMEND YOU FOR OCS, PRIVATE GUMP. YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDAY, PRIVATE GUMP.....! NOW DISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON AND CONTINUE....ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA....YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO...THE BOYS ARE BUSILY POLISHING THEIR (BOATS) (IN THE SAME BOAT THEY WERE IN WITH EXCESS SPARE PARTS) FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER....SHIRMP COCTAIL, PAN FRIED, DEEP FRIED, STIR FRIED....THE BOYS ARE POLISHING THE FLOOR. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER....PINEAPPLE SHRIMP, COCONUT SHRIMP, LEMON SHRIMP, PEPPER SHRIMP, SHRIMP SOUP, SHRIMP SALAD, SHRIMP STEW...SHRIMP BURGERS, SHRIMP SANDWICHES.....THAT'S ABOUT IT. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL (SERGEANT) IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER......PRIVATE? (GEAR-SPARE PARTS, SHOVEL, BULLDOZER THAT WE SEE IN THE MOVIE....HE BULLDOZES JENNYS HOUSE DOWN AND COVERS IT UP....) HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPERS-THE PROOF, THESE HEARINGS. THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.) PAGE 298 CONTINUED ON THE HOLE AND THE INSPECTION WE SEE HERE IN PARAMOUNT: HE WOULD STATE THAT THEY WOULD TRY TO TURN SPARE PARTS BACK TO THE BASE-SUPPLY OFFICER, BUT, THE BASE-SUPPLY OFFICER COULD NOT TAKE THEM BECAUSE HE WAS IN THE SAME (BOAT) THEY WERE IN WITH EXCESS SPARE PARTS. WILKS WOULD CLAIM THAT DURING THE MONTHS BETWEEN APRIL TO ABOUT NOVEMBER OF 1956 A TEAM CAME DOWN FROM COLUMBUS OHIO TO (INSPECT) THE SPARE PARTS PROBLEM. SENATOR REVERCOMB. BUT YOU HAVE HAD EXPERIENCE WITH MATERIAL OF THIS NATURE AND SPARE PARTS IN A NUMBER OF PLACES OF SERVICE. WAS THIS MATERIAL OR THESE SPARE PARTS USABLE AT OTHER PLACES? MR. WILKS. WE HAD SOME STUFF, THERE, THAT I HAVE SEEN AT TIMES IN THE FAR EAST OR SOMEWHERE THAT WE COULD HAVE GIVEN OUR BOTTOM DOLLAR TO HAVE GOTTEN A HOLD OF. (PARAMOUNT- YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK.) AS THE QUESTIONING PROCEEDED WARRENT OFFICER WILKS WOULD ADMIT BURYING THE PARTS AT HARMON AFTER HE HAD A MEETING WITH CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON. HE AND WILKS BOTH WERE IN THE ARMY OF THE 823D ENGINEERS THAT HAD REVERTED BACK FROM AIR FORCE IN 1955. HE WOULD GET PERMISSION TO BURY THE SPARE PARTS FROM CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON AND THE (INSPECTOR) GENERAL OF THE FIRST ARMY WOULD DIG IT UP. ACCORDING TO 823D ENGINEER BATTALION REPORT (PARAMOUNT-THIS IS OUTSTANDING! A NEW COMPANY RECORD! PIECE OF PAPER-MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI) REPORT FURNISHED BY THE ARMY, ABOUT $33,185.57 WORTH OF SPARE PARTS WERE BURIED BY THE ORDERS ACCORDING TO WILKS THE ORDERS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON WITH WILKS, AND (SERGEANT) MANN TOGETHER. THEY WOULD BURY IT WITH A BULLDOZER. (FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN......) MR. O'DONNEL. MR. WILKS, CAN YOU RELATE WHETHER OR NOT CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON GAVE YOU AN ORDER TO BURY THIS STUFF? MR. WILKS. IT WAS IN A DISCUSSSION OF THE PROBLEM THAT WE WERE HAVING IN THE OUTSIDE AREAS TO WHEN THE DECISION WAS MADE THAT WE WOULD BURY IT. MR. WILKS. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SCRAP AND THE WAY THAT WE COULDN'T TURN IT IN. WE HAD TO IDENTIFY IT BEFORE WE COULD TURN IT IN TO THE BASE DISPOSAL OFFICER. OR IF IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS RECLAIMABLE OR RECOVERABLE, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TURNED IN TO BASE R AND C, RECEIVING CLASSIFICATION, AND THEY WASN'T TAKING ANYTHIN. AS FAR AS I KNOW, THERE WAS NO RECOVERABLE STUFF THAT WENT IN THERE ANYWAY. MR. O'DONNELL. WHAT DID CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON SAY TO YOU, EXACTLY, ABOUT IT? MR. WILKS. HE SAID, "WE GOT THE HOLE. WE MIGHT AS WELL USE IT." (THROWS IN GRANADE. BLAM! GUMP, CHECK OUT THAT HOLE. FORREST JUMPS IN.) MR. O'DONNELL. WAS ANYONE PRESENT IN THE CONVERSATION YOU HAD WITH HIM? MR. WILKS. SERGEANT MANN WAS PRESENT. MR. O'DONNELL. DID YOU INTERPRET WHAT CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON SAID AS AN ORDER? MR. WILKS. I DID, SIR. MR. O'DONNELL. DID YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER CONVERSATION WITH CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON AFTER THAT CONCERNING THE BURIED PARTS? MR. WILKS. CAPTAIN WILLIAMSON ASKED ME IF THEY WAS COVERED UP. MR. O'DONNELL. WHEN WAS THIS? MR. WILKS. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT WAS THE NEXT DAY, OR IT COULD HAVE BEEN 2 OR 3 DAYS LATER. IT WAS IN COVERSATION. MR. O'DONNELL. DO YOU REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID? MR. WILKS. I BELIEVE HE ASKED ME DID I GET THE HOLE COVERED UP OR DID I GET----WORDS TO THAT EFFECT. I DON'T KNOW, SIR, I DON'T RECALL. MR. O'DONNELL. WHAT WAS YOUR ANSWER TO HIM? MR. WILKS. I TOLD HIM, "YES, SIR." MR. O'DONNELL. DID YOU KNOW, AT THE TIME YOU WERE BURYING THESE PARTS, THAT YOU WERE BURYING THEM CONTRARY TO ARMY REGULATIONS? MR. WILKS. CONTRARY TO REGULATIONS, SIR, BUT WE WERE AT A STANDSTILL. (FORREST AND BUBBA STANDING AT ATTENTION.) WE HAD A MISSION TO ACCOMPLISH. WE HAD EQUIPMENT ON DEADLINE. WHEN CAPTAIN ARTHUR A. WILLIAMSON CAME TO THE WITNESS STAND HE WOULD DENY GIVING ORDERS OF BURYING THE SPARE PARTS. (FORREST AND BUBBA STANDING AT ATTENTION) (IN THE MOVIE WE HEAR FORREST SAY THAT HE HAD ENOUGH MONEY LEFT OVER TO BUY HIMSELF THINGS AND THAT HE TOLD A LITTLE LIE. WE SEE HIM STANDING AT JENNY'S GRAVE. "I BURIED YOU HERE." WE HERE HIM SAY. (GUMP, CHECK OUT THAT HOLE. FORREST JUMPS IN AND EVERYONE IN THE THEATRE LAUGHS.)

POOR BUNNY

IN THE MOTION PICTURE FORREST GUMP, WE SEE A PHOTO OF MARILYN MONROE, WE SEE THAT JENNY GOT INTO TROUBLE WITH HER "SWEATER" I WROTE MY MOM KNITTED MY SWEATERS, BUT, I NEVER STRIPPED AND I NEVER APPEARED IN PLAYBOY. AND WE SEE FORREST SHOW PLAYBOY MAGAZINE IN THE MOVIE. "LOOK AT THE TITS ON HER!" WE HEAR AND ONE OF PARAMOUNT'S ADD ONS, PERVERTED ADD ONS. WE SEE THE WORD "MAD" ON THE HELMET OF A HELICOPTER PILOT AND FORREST AND BUBBA GET SCARED WHILE THEY ARE BEING FLOWN TO THE BASE. WE HEAR FORREST SAY ABOUT ONE OF THE HOOKERS, "SHE TASTES LIKE CIGARETTES." WE SEE THE G.E. EMBLEM. WE SEE FORREST IN A FIGHT. WE SEE FORREST LOOK UP AND SEE A CONSTELLATION. WE SEE A MARRIAGE. WE SEE A FOOTBALL GAME. AND WE READ THAT JENNY IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT IS COLD, WET ON THE ROAD AS THE ROAD CUTS TO THE "HORIZON." ON PAGE CHAPTER EIGHT CALLED, "A CHILD IS BORN" (WE SEE A CHILD OF FORREST'S HAS BEEN BORN.) I WRITE: IT WAS NEARING THE END OF 1953. MARILYN MONROE HAS APPEARED ON THE COVER OF PLAYBOY MAGAZINE WITH THE COST OF FIFTY CENTS A COPY. OTHER NEW MAGAZINES THAT HAD POPPED UP ON THE HORIZON IN THE 1950'S WERE MAD MAGAZINE COSTING TEN CENTS A COPY, TV GUIDE WAS FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY AND THE DECADE'S MOST SENSATIONAL, SCANDAL-CHASING MAGAZINE WAS CONFIDENTIAL WHICH WOULD BE BESEIGED OF LAWSUITS FILED BY ROBERT MITCHUM, MILLIONAIRESS DORIS DUKE, (WE SEE A WOMAN NAMED DOROTHY SMOKING A CIGARETTE IN FORREST GUMP AND MY MOM'S NAME WAS DOROTHY WHO HELPED TO MAKE THE FIRST ATOM BOMB. WE SEE DOROTHY DRIVING THE SCHOOL BUS SMOKING A CIGARETTE AND SHE SAYS, "YOU DO UNDERSTAND BEFORE YOU GET ON THIS BUS THAT IT IS A SCHOOL BUS? TO LITTLE FORREST AND WE HEAR FORREST SAY ABOUT ONE OF THE HOOKERS, "SHE TASTED LIKE CIGARETTES.) MAUREEN O'HARA, AND LIBERACE. MORE PEOPLE LOVE LUCY WITH A FIFTY MILLION VIEWERSHIP AND McCARTHISM TOOK CENTER STAGE. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY THREATENED TO FIRE ANY EMPLOYEE WHO ADMITTED TO BEING A COMMUNIST OR SPY IN DECEMBER, THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE SECRETARY TALBOTT MADE THE STATEMENT THAT THE UNITED STATES INTENDED TO HELP JAPAN BUILD AN AIR FORCE. THE YEAR WAS COMING TO AN END WITH KID GAVILAN WAS NAMED AS "FIGHTER OF THE YEAR" BY THE BOXING WRITERS' ASSOCIATION IN NEW YORK. WHILE THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION SUSPENDS J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER AND THE NATIONS FIRST "FLYING RADAR STATION," ARRIVES AT McCLELLAN AIR FORCE BASE IN CALIFORNIA, A DOUGLAS RC-121 SUPER-CONSTELLATION. BY THE END OF 1953, FILM ACTRESS HEDY LAMARR MARRIES THE TEXAS OIL INDUSTRIALIST, W. HOWARD LEE IN NEW YORK. THE DETROIT LIONS BEAT THE CLEVELAND BROWNS 17-16, IN DETROIT AND WIN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFF FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR WHILE SECRETARY CHARLES WILSON PREDICTS TO THE PRESIDENT THAT THE UNITED STATES WILL FACE HIGH DEFENSE COSTS AND COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE "FOR MANY YEARS TO COME." PARAMOUNT- FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. LOCKER....FOOTBALL....OIL SHAFT.... (A VIOLENT BOXING MATCH) A VIOLENT REACTION SUPER NOVA...BOOM.....CONSTELLATION.....A ROUGH GAME OF FOOTBALL.....) WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER......PRIVATE? GEAR-A BOA MADE OUT OF PEACOCK FEATHERS....?......BOXING GLOVES......A FLYING RADAR STATION.....A SUPER CONSTELLATION....SUPER NOVA.....A FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL GEAR?......HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-A PLAYBOY MAGAZINE.....MAD MAGAZINE.....TV GUIDE......CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE.....A SUMMONS FOR A LAWSUIT....A SHEET MUSIC.....CIGARETTE PAPER......WEDDING INVITATION.....THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.....THAT'S A RECIPE FOR THE BUNNY RANCH......THAT'S A RECIPE FOR A SCORE....THE ROYAL LIONS......THAT'S A RECIPE FOR A CIVIL ACTION........CIVIL WAR....STUCK IN TV GUIDE......

FULL STEAM AHEAD!

IN THE MOVIE FORREST GUMP, FORREST AND LT. DAN ARE OUT ON THE BOAT LOOKING FOR SHRIMP. 'WHERE ARE THOSE SHRIMP?" THEY GO THROUGH A HURRICANE, WHICH I WRITE ABOUT, THE BOAT HITS A DOCK, WE SEE THEM LOOKING FOR SHRIMP, THEN LT. DAN SAYS, TURN HERE, TURN RIGHT THERE, TURN LEFT HERE." AND WE HEAR HIM SAY, "THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP!" AND THEY ARE LOOKING FOR MORE SHRIMP. IN MY SCRIPTS, I WRITE ABOUT THE FISHING, THE BOATS, THE HURRICANE AND SO FORTH, BUT, WHAT IS HE LOOKING FOR, HIS CHILDREN AND HE'S LOOKING TO SEE IF LORINE IS CHEATING, HE FOLLOWS HER. SO FORREST AND LT. DAN ARE LOOKING FOR "SHRIMP,' HIS CHILDREN, IN OTHER WORDS. FORREST CAN BE FOUND ON THE PRINCE PHILIP PAGE WHERE JAMES DOLITTLE ALSO APPEARS AND THE QUEEN AND ELVIS AND BOB HOPE THAT WE SEE IN THE MOVIE. AND WE SEE FORREST DIVE INTO THE WATER FROM THE BOAT. WE SEE THE LT. DIVE IN WITH NO LEGS. LOOKING....HE'S LOOKING.... FOR THOSE SHRIMP..... IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: IT WAS AT THAT VERY MOMENT THAT GILBERT DOVE INTO THE QUARRY WHILE THE OLDER BOY HESITATED AND DECIDED NOT TO JUMP AFTER ALL. (IN TITANIC, ROSE AND JACK SAY, "YOU JUMP, I JUMP.") HE HAD COWERED UNDER PRESSURE AND LITTLE BROTHER STARTED TO WORRY AFTER GILBERT HAD BEEN UNDERNEATH TH WATER FOR SOME TIME. LITTLE BROTHER LOOKED BACK AND FORTH TRYING TO FIND HIS OLDER BROTHER, BUT, HE COULD NOT FIND HIM. IN A FRANTIC VOICE LITTLE BROTHER CRIED OUT, "WHERE'S HE AT?" "I DON'T SEE HIM!" "HE MUST BE DEAD BY NOW!" THE OLDER BOY JUST STOOD THERE AS GILBERT'S LITTLE BROTHER COMMANDED HIM TO GO IN AND "GET HIM," BUT THE OLDER BOY WAS AFFRAID. "I WAS JUST ONLY KIDDING, I DIDN'T THINK HE HAD THE BALLS TO JUMP IN," THE OLDER SAID WHILE HE SCANNED THE LAKE WITH HIS EYES. LITTLE BROTHER STARTED TO CRY AND CRIED OUT TO THE OLDER BOY, "YOU FART!" "GO IN AND GET HIM, NOW!" THE OLDER BOY COWARD AGAIN AND LITTLE BROTHER'S FRIEND AT THIS TIME STARTED TO POINT AT SOME BUBBLES RISING OVER THE WATER. "LOOK!" "OVER THERE!" 'THERE HE IS, THERE'S GILBERT!" HE CRIED. SUDDENLY, GILBERT SPRANGED UP OUT OF THE WATER LIKE A SWORDFISH AND HE STARTED SWIMMING TOWARD THE BANK. THE BOYS COULD NOT BELIEVE THERE EYES AS GILBERT SWAM TO THE BANK CARRYING WHAT LOOKED LIKE A SWORD AND SHAKING FIERCLY FROM THE COLD WATERS. "LOOK WHAT I FOUND, A SWORD, SORT OF LIKE KING ARTHUR," GILBERT SAID AS HE MADE HIS WAY UP THE ROCKY BANK. WIPING THE TEARS FROM HIS EYES, LITTLE BROTHER SAID, "SURE SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME." (THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.") UNTIL I LEARNED HOW TO SWIM, I ALMOST DROWNED AND PEOPLE HAD TO GO IN AND GET ME. THAT'S WHAT INSPIRED ME AND GILBERT AND HIS BROTHER TOLD ME HE AND BILL WOULD GO AND SWIM AT THE QUARRY. (THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP!) ON PAGE 63 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE THAT GILBERT'S SWORD IS ON HIS WALL AND HE IS SLEEPING. HE HAS HAD HIS CHILDREN TAKEN AFTER THE WHISTLEBLOWING IN THE QUEEN'S COUNTRY. HE HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND HE SAYS HE WILL FIND HIS CHILDREN STILL GONE. ONE IS THE SLOW OLDER BROTHER (LIKE FORREST IN THE MOVIE AND HIS LITTLE SISTER, ME.) DARLING, CAN YOU HEAR ME? OH, MY SWEET DARLING, CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE'VE BEEN EXONERATED OF THE MISDEMEANOR BY THE GRAND JURY. CAN YOU HEAR ME, DARLING? THE TWINS AND LITTLE GILBERT ARE COMING HOME! (FORREST'S CHILD IN THE MOVIE HAS HIS NAME TOO.) BUT, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE DAMON IS. WE DON'T WHERE THERESE IS, EITHER. CAN YOU HEAR ME, DARLING? TEARS ARE STREAMING DOWN LORINE'S FACE AS SHE LAYS HER HEAD DOWN ON THE BED, GETS UP AND LEAVES THE ROOM. THE CAMERA COMES IN CLOSE ON GILBERT'S FACE AS HE STARTS TO WAKE UP. HIS CLOSED EYES ARE TWITCHING AS THE CAMERA MOVES DOWN TO HIS HAND HOLDING ONTO THE SHEET. CAMERA MOVES BACK TO HIS FACE WITH HIS EYES OPEN. GILBERT (LOOKING INTO SPACE) (WE SEE FORREST TOO LOOKING INTO SPACE.) I'LL FIND YOU AND AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, WE WILL NEVER BE APART AGAIN. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP!) PAGE 71 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE: EXT. OUTSIDE FOOTBALL STADIUM, JULY 4, 1976 - NIGHT ( WE READ "BICENTENNIAL FOURTH OF JULY IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, NOT ANY OTHER FOURTH AND WE SEE FORREST PLAYING FOOTBALL, IN ENGLAND IS IT CALLED SOCCER OR RUGBY? I THINK) CAMERA COMES IN FOR A CLOSE UP OF GILBERT'S FACE AS A TEAR ROLLS DOWN HIS FACE AS HE IS LOOKING UP TO WATCH THE FIREWORKS IN THE SKY. (WE SEE FIREWORKS IN THE MOVIE) GILBERT (TO HIMSELF) I'LL FIND YOU. (THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.) PAGE 72 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE: AS THE FAMILY AND GILBERT MAKE THEIR WAY THROUGH THE THE SHOVING CROWD, GILBERT STOPS HIS WHEELCHAIR AS HE SEES A TALL BLONDE AIR FORCE MAN WITH HIS CHILDREN, A BLACK HAIRED RETARDED BOY AND A LITTLE BLONDE HAIRED GIRL, WHO ARE MUCH LIKE GILBERT'S MISSING CHILDREN. GILBERT THINKS THEY MIGHT BE HIS. BUT THEY WALK PAST HIM. GILBERT (TRYING TO TURN HIS CHAIR AROUND) WAIT! WHO ARE YOU! GILBERT TRIES TO GO AFTER THEM IN THE ONGOING CROWD, BUT, THEY DISAPPEAR FROM HIS SIGHT, SADLY HIS CHILDREN ARE MUCH OLDER THAN THESE CHILDREN. CUT TO: EXT. PARK - DAY GILBERT IS SITTING IN HIS WHEELCHAIR AND LOOKING OFF INTO THE LAKE AS THE SUNSET TOUCHES THE WATER. (FORREST SAYS IN THE MOVIE, "AND WHEN THE SUN CAME UP.....IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.") HE IS ALONE AND THE SOUND OF A WHIPPOORWILL IS IN THE DISTANCE. (IN THE MOVIE, FORREST IS TRYING TO FIND JENNY TOO, WRITES MANY LETTERS, WE WE THE MAILBOXES AND LETTERS.) CUT TO: EXT. MAILBOX - DAY GILBERT STRUGGLES TO PUT A LETTER INTO THE MAILBOX AND IS WAITING FOR THE MAILMAN TO COME. IN THE DISTANCE IS A GOVERNMENT MAN SITTING IN A BLACK CAR WEARING DARK GLASSES WATCHING GILBERT. GILBERT DOES NOT SEE HIM. THE MAILMAN ARRIVES. MAILMAN (WALKING UP TO GILBERT) HOW'S IT GOING? GILBERT (TO MAILMAN) ANYTHING TODAY? MAILMAN (TO GILBERT) SORRY, NOT TODAY. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.) PAGE 77 OF MY SCREENPLAY, GILBERT GETS A PHONE CALL. HE HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS.....WE SEE FORREST AND HIS CLIPPINGS... I WRITE ON THIS PAGE: ANNONYMOUS CALLER (IN A SOFT MAN'S VOICE) I KNOW WHERE YOUR KIDS ARE. THEY'RE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE! (LAUGHS) YOU COMMUNIST PIG! (HANGS UP, DIAL TONE) GILBERT THROWS THE PHONE ACROSS THE ROOM. GILBERT (ANGRY) YOU SON OF A BITCH! CUT TO: EXT. LAKE - DAY GILBERT HAS SECRETLY ASKED ONE OF HIS FRIENDS WHO IS A BLACK MAN (WE SEE FORREST AND THE BLACK MAN FISHING FOR SHRIMP...."I'VE ONLY CAUGHT FIVE," THE BLACK MAN SAYS, THE SAME NUMBER AS GILBERT'S CHILDREN, FIVE.) WHO IS A BLACK MAN, TO SEARCH THE LAKE WITH HIS BOAT AND HOOKS, FOR HIS CHILDREN. (WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I, TOO, WATCHED ALONG WITH OTHERS WHILE A BOAT WITH HOOKS SEARCHED FOR A DROWNED MAN) LORINE HAS NO BEEN TOLD. GILBERT SITS IN HIS WHEELCHAIR BY THE WATER, AS THE BOAT SLOWLY GOES BACK AND FORTH WITH THE HOOKS DRAGGING THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE. SUDDENLY, THE BOAT STOPS AND THE MAN STANDS UP TO TELL GILBERT SOMETHING. MAN (EXCITED) MR. GLENN! MR. GLENN! GILBERT (TEARS IN HIS EYES) HAVE YOU FOUND SOMETHING? MAN (EXCITED) NO SIR! THERE'S NOTHING HERE, THEY AIN'T HERE! GILBERT WITH AN UNSHAVEN FACE, PUTS HIS FACE DOWN IN HIS HANDS AND WEEPS AS AN AIR FORCE JET FLYS OVER. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP!) IN THE MOVIE WHILE THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THE SHRIMP, LT. DAN SAYS TO TURN RIGHT, TURN LEFT. THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP. IN THE MOVIE WE SEE THE NEW YORK CABS, JENNY GETTING INTO A CAB AND PARAMOUNT WRITING IN THE PARAMUNT SCRIPT THAT FORREST GETS ON THE BUS AND WE HEAR HIS "BRACELETS" HANDCUFFS CLANKING ALONG AND HE SITS NEXT TO LITTLE JENNY AND SHE TELLS HIM SHE HAS ON HER PARTY DRESS. WE SEE HOOKERS IN THE MOVIE. AND THAT THEY ATE A THANKSGIVING TURKEY SANDWHICH. (TURN RIGHT, TURN LEFT, THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.) ON PAGE 124 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: "WHERE TO SON?" ASKED THE CAB DRIVER LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER TO GILBERT SMOKING A CIGAR. "TO STEPHENVILLE," (CANADA) REPLIED GILBERT AS HE WIPED THE COLD WINDOWS WITH HIS HANDKERCHEF SO HE COULD SEE OUT. "JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN WE GET TO THE RIGHT STREETS," RESPONDED THE CAB DRIVER IN A GRAVELY BROOKLIN ACCENT. "YOU FROM NEW YORK?" ASKED GILBERT. "SURE AM, HOW DID YOU KNOW," LAUGHED THE DRIVER. "YOU FROM THE SOUTH?" ASKED THE CAB DRIVER WITH THE CIGAR STILL IN THE CORNER OF HIS MOUTH. "SURE AM, HOW DID YOU KNOW?" CHUCKLED GILBERT. "YES, I'VE BEEN OUT HERE FIVE YEARS NOW, CAME UP HERE TO FIND MYSELF," REPLIED THE CAB DRIVER SARCASTICALLY. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY WRITE, JENNY HAS GONE TO FIND AMERICA.) "JUST AS WELL GO TO SIBERIA TO DO THAT," LAUGHED GILBERT KNOWING THAT THESE PARTS COULD BE VERY LONELY AND MOSTLY COLD FOR THE MOST PART OF THE YEAR. "I KNOW JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON UP HERE IN THIS SIDE OF THE WOODS," THE CAB SAID IN A THICK BROOKLIN ACCENT. "SO YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE OFFICIALS THAT COME UP FROM WASHINGTON?" (WE SEE FORREST IN WASHINGTON STANDING NEXT TO PRESIDENT NIXON IN A PHOTO OP.) GILBERT WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT HIS FRIENDS HAD TOLD HIM THANKSGIVING AT HIS HOUSE. "SURE, DO, SON." "WELL, WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME, I'M NEW TO THE AREA AND THEY ARE COMING IN A COUPLE DAYS FOR INSPECTION," GILBERT SAID AS HE LEANED UP CLOSER TO THE DRIVER TO HEAR BETTER. "I KNOW THAT AI HAVE TRANSPORTED THEM AND THE GIRLS TO PRIVATE PARTIES HERE," THE CAB DRIVER SAID WITH A SMILE. "WHAT GIRLS?" "DO I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU?" THE CAB DRIVER TOOK A BIG SIP OF HIS COFFEE THAT HE SAT BESIDE HIM IN A BOX TO KEEP IT FROM TIPPING OVER AND THEN HE LOOKED AT GILBERT IN HIS REAR VIEW MIRROR. "PARTY GIRLS, LADIES OF THE EVENING, PROSTITUTES FROM THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT, DO I HAVE TO CONTINUE?" (WE SEE THE RED LIGHT IN TITANIC, COPIED) "NO, I UNDERSTAND QUITE WELL, THANK YOU." "SON, IT GOES ON ALL THE TIME, JUST ABOUT EVERY MILITARY OUTFIT ALL OVER THE WORLD." "BUT, I DID NOT REALIZE THAT IT COULD HAPPEN HERE," GILBERT SAID IN A DISAPPOINTED VOICE. "I WAS IN WORLD WAR II AND THE JAPANESE HAD A WHOLE RACKET WHERE THEY GOT THEIR OWN WOMEN TO DO UNGODLY THINGS FOR THEIR OFFICERS, SORT OF LIKE SLAVERY (WE HEAR THIS IN TITANTIC-SLAVES) AND THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF IT," THE CAB DRIVER SAID IN A SERIOUS VOICE AS IF HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. "AND THEY DO IT UP HERE IN NEWFOUNDLAND, HUH," GILBERT SAID SITTING BACK QUICKLY IN HIS SEAT AS IF THIS NEWS DISTURBED HIM GREATLY. "I DON'T THINK THEY CARRY TO THE EXTENT OF THE JAPANESE, BUT, THOSE AREN'T CHURCH WOMEN THAT GET IN THIS CAB," REPLIED THE DRIVER. GILBERT SAT THERE FOR A MOMENT NOT WANTING TO BELIEVE WHAT HE HEARD FROM THE CAB DRIVER, NOT WANTING TO BELIEVE WHAT HE HEARD FROM HIS BUDDIES. I GUESS IT WAS TRUE HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, IT WAS JUST ONE BIG PARTY THAT HE DID NOT WANT TO BE A PART OF. "I'VE ALREADY SAID TOO MUCH, SON, FORGET ABOUT IT ALL." TURN ON THIS STREET," POINTED GILBERT. (GUMP-TURN HERE, TURN RIGHT, TURN, THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.......) "DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN IT, SON, THE GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG, THEY CAN HURT YOU REAL BAD." "THERE'S MY HOUSE," GILBERT SAID AS HE GOT HIS THINGS TOGETHER TO LEAVE. "I'LL SEE YOU REAL SOON, OKAY, THAT'LL BE FIFTY CENTS," SAID THE CAB DRIVER AS HE PUT HIS CIGAR IN THE ASH TRAY AND STARTED TO COUGH. GILBERT GAVE HIM THE MONEY AND THANKED HIM FOR THE RIDE HOME. ALL THAT GILBERT WANTEDTO DO WAS TO GET TO HIS WIFE, LORINE, AND GIVE HER A BIG HUG AND LOTS OF KISSES. AS HE WALKED UP THE ICY SIDEWALK HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF ABOUT THE PURENESS OF LORINE AND OF THEIR MARRIAGE. HE HAD TO PROTECT HER FROM THE EVILS OF THIS WORLD. WHEN HE ENTERED HIS HOME, IT WAS A WARMTH OF GOODNESS AND OF LOVE AND NOT OF THE EMPTINESS AND SLEAZINESS THAT THIS WORLD SOMETIMES GIVES. HE GREW UP CLOSE TO THE MOUTAINS, THESE THINGS DID NOT GO ONE IN THE COUNTRY. IF A WOMAN EVEN WORE A RED DRESS (WE SEE ROSE WEARING THE RED DRESS AND RED SHOES IN TITANIC AS SHE CLIMBS OVER TO JUMP FROM THE SHIP) IF A WOMAN EVEN WORE A RED DRESS OR MAKEUP SHE WAS MARKED AS A "BAD WOMAN." LITTLE DID THE SMALL APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY KNOW ABOUT WHAT GOES ON OUTSIDE ITS PROTECTED INNOCENT SHELTER OF EXISTENCE. COUNTRY CHURCH PEOPLE COULD NOT SURVIVE IN A WORLD OF CORRUPTION AND EVIL HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF AS HE CALLED OUT TO HIS LORINE. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.) ON PAGE 169 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: OTHER EVENTS THAT WOULD OCCUR IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR WOULD BE THE ARRESTING OF ATTORNEYS HERMAN BULLER AND LOUIS GLAZER AND TWO WOMEN ON CHARGES OF SMUGGLING BABIES OF UNWED MOTHERS TO THE U.S. COUPLES FOR $3,000.00 OR MORE A CHILD. THEIR SMUGGLING OCCURED OVER TEN YEARS. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.) IN MARCH THE UNITED STATES EXPLODED ITS SECOND HYDROGEN BOMB AT BIKINI ATOLL IN THE PACIFIC, THE MOST POWERFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION TO DATE. TWENTY-EIGHT AMERICANS AND 236 MARSHALL ISLANDERS ARE EXPOSED TO RADIATION AND 23 JAPANESE FISHERMEN ON A SHIP 70-90 MILES FROM THE BLAST SUFFERED SERIOUS RADIATION BURNS. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.) ON PAGE 89 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: OTHER MOVIES OF 1953 WERE THE TITANIC, HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (THE FAT MAN IN THE MOVIE LAUGHS AT FORREST AND SAYS, "I WAS SITTING NEXT TO A MILLIONAIRE!" JOKING AND NOT BELIEVING FORREST.) OHIO, THE BLUE GARDENIA, MOGAMBO, ROMAN HOLDIAY, THE CADDY, APRIL IN PARIS, KISS ME KATE, PETER PAN AND STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER WERE JUST TO NAME A FEW. (TITANIC-THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP) (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP) ON PAGE 167 ON ANOTHER BOAT I WRITE: IN JUST A COUPLE OF SHORT MONTHS, ROBERT KENNEDY DISCOVERED THAT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE KOREAN WAR, ABOUT 75 PERCENT OF ALL SHIPS CARRYING GOODS TO MAINLAND CHINA HAD SAILED UNDER WESTERN FLAGS WHILE CHINESE TROOPS WERE SHOOTING AT AMERICAN BOYS IN KOREA. HE ALSO DISCOVERED THAT SOME OF THE SHIPPERS WERE COLLECTING AT THE SAME TIME, LARGE SUMS OF MONEY FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FOR DELIVERING DEFENSE MATERIALS TO WESTERN EUROPE. BRITIANS ROLE IN THE CHINA TRADE APPEARED TO BE THE BLAME. KENNEDY ALSO DISCOVERED THAT A LARGE ROLE OF SENDING VESSELS OF MATERIALS TO CHINA WAS TO BE BLAMED ON GREECE. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.) ON PAGE 66 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE THAT DAMON AND I ARE STILL MISSING AND HE IS STILL LOOKING FOR THEM AND I'M ON THE DOCK BY MYSELF FISHING AND THEN I TAKE MY CLOTHES OFF AND RUN UP THE DOCK AND JUMP INTO THE WATER. I'M ELEVEN YEARS OLD. IN THE MOVIE BOTH THE LT. AND FORREST JUMP IN THE WATER AND THEIR BOAT RUNS INTO THE DOCK, CRASHING INTO THE DOCK. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.) (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP. ) ON PAGE 92 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: CUT TO: EXT. MAILBOX - DAY GILBERT SITS WAITING ON A LETTER FROM THERESE. CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - DAY GILBERT AND LORINE ARE SITTING IN THE BED READING THERESE'S LETTER. GILBERT (READING LETTER TO LORINE) THERESE SAYS SHE FEELS PRETTY GOOD AND IS SINGING AGAIN. (JENNY SINGS AND IS SICK. FORREST FINDS HER IN TENNESSE AND PULLS HER OFF THE STAGE TO TAKE HER AWAY. PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT SHE IS NUDE AS GROSS AS THEY ARE AND THAT MEN REACH UP "FONDLING HER," "POURING BEER ALL OVER HER.") LORINE (SMILING) HOW NICE. GILBERT (SMILING) I BET SHE'S SINGING IN CHURCH. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ THAT THE DO GOODER PERFECT FORREST IS THE ONE WHO SINGS IN CHURCH AND PARAMOUNT SCUMMED UP THE SINGER AND MADE JENNY SING IN A STRIP JOINT. IN TITANIC WE SEE THEM SINGING HYMS ON THE SHIP, COPIED) CUT TO: INT. HONKY TONK - NIGHT THE CROWD OF PEOPLE ARE LAUGHING AND DANCING AS THEY WATCH THERESE DRESSED IN A SHORT, BLUE, LOW CUT, SEQUIN DRESS, DANCING AND SINGING ON STAGE. THERESE IS VERY MUCH ENJOYING HERSELF AS A LINE OF YOUNG MEN SURROUND THE STAGE TO GET A GLIMPSE OF HER. SHE BLOWS ONE OF THE BOYS A KISS. HAVING FUN AND NOT IN CHURCH! CUT TO: EXT. RIVERBOAT - DAY CAMERA SHOW THE RIVERBOAT MOVING SLOWLY DOWN THE RIVER. GILBERT IS SITTING IN HIS WHEELCHAIR WITH LORINE IN HIS LAP. COME IN FOR CLOSE UP TO SHOW THEY ARE SITTING ON SECOND DECK NEXT TO THE RAIL. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY WRITE THAT JENNY IS SITTING ON A STOOL, CATATONIC, SINGING AS THE MEN REACH UP TO FONDLE HER. WE SEE THE BOAT AND LT. AND FORREST IN THE MOVIE.) GILBERT AND LORINE ARE KISSING AND CARESSING. A SECOND HONEYMOON. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP. I WRITE THAT HE FOLLOWS HER. IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY WRITE THAT HE FOLLOWS HER LIKE A "SHADOW.") CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - DAY GILBERT IS SITTING UP IN HIS BED GOING THROUGH OLD LETTERS, NEWSPAPERS, AND MAGAZINES THAT HAVE PUBLISHED HIS WRITINGS. THE ARTICLES AND LETTERS ARE ALL OVER HIS BED. (THERE'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THOSE SHRIMP.) (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE ALL THE NEWS CLIPPINGS, MAGAZINES, GOSSIP COLUMNS THAT FORREST HAS BEEN IN, IN THE SCRAPEBOOK.) WHEN WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THAT FORREST IS CLANKING UP THE AISLES OF THE BUS IN HIS BRACLETS, WE KNOW THAT ARE SAYING HE IS IN HIS HANDCUFFS AND HE SITS NEXT TO LITTLE JENNY. SHE IS A LITTLE GIRL AND SHE SAYS THIS IS HER PARTY DRESS, ("THOSE ARE PARTY GIRLS," I WRITE. PROSTITUTES AND THAT IS WHAT PARAMOUNT MEANS THAT THIS CHILD IS IN HER PARTY DRESS.) OTHER PARTIES ARE BIRTHDAY PARTIES, PAJAMA PARTIES AND HERE IS WHAT I WROTE: ON THE FIRST PAGE OF MY SYNOPSIS I WRITE: THE PARENTS I WAS SEPARATED FROM ON JOHN F. KENNEDY'S BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY MAY 29, 1959 AND PUT IN ORPHANAGES, FOSTER HOMES, AND THEN TO BE PLACED IN THE HOME OF ORVILLE JEFFERS, SERGEANT MAJOR OF WORLD WAR II WHO WORKED IN PANAMA, UNION CARBIDE, ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT CENTER, AND THEN RETIRED FROM THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITIES. HE WAS AN EXPERT IN HYDROLIC AND NEUCLEAR POWER AND WAS A LOVING BUT STRICT FATHER WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE IN SPARING THE ROD. (GEAR, MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.) HIS WIFE, DOROTHY, WAS TO BE MY MOTHER,. SHE WORKED AT THE ATOMIC PLANT IN OAK (WE READ THAT FORREST AND LITTLE JENNY ARE SITTING IN A TREE.) RIDGE, TENNESSEE DURING WORLD WAR II AND HELPED TO BUILD THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB (MAMA'S, MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI PARAMOUNT DEVIATES) THAT WAS DROPPED ON JAPAN IN 1945. BOTH WERE TO BE MY PARENTS AND IN RAISING ME THEY LAID THE FOUNDATION AND RAISED ME THE BEST THAT THEY KNEW HOW TO. (IT'S MY PARTY BIRTHDAY DRESS.") PAGE 19 OF MY SYNOPSIS I WRITE: THREE CHILDREN IN THREE DIFFERENT HOMES, AND THE TWINS AT AN ORPHANAGE, ALL OF THIS WHILE MAMA AND DADDY WERE AT JAIL IN A HOLDING CELL. (FORREST CLANKING IN HIS BRACELETS) SO, "THE PAPER WORK COULD BE WRITTEN UP, BEFORE THEY COULD BE RELEASED," AS ONE DEPUTY TOLD THEM. PEOPLE WERE SURE BUSY THAT DAY, MAY 29, 1959, ON THE DAY OF JOHN F. KENNEDY'S BIRTHDAY. BUT IT SURE WAS NO BIRTHDAY OR PICNIC FOR THE GLENN FAMILY! (FORREST SAYS HE DOESN'T REMEMBERT HIS PICNIC, BUT, HE REMEMBERS THE SWEETEST LITTLE GIRL. THEN PARAMOUNT ADDS IN THE PARAMOUN SCRIPT THAT HE IS CLANKING UP THE AISLE IN HIS BRACELETS. AND JENNY TELLS HIM THAT THIS IS HER PARTY DRESS.) PARTY BIRTHDAY DRESS AND ON PAGE 35 OF MY SYNOPSIS I WRITE: AS WE ALL SAT BY OUR MOTHER UNDER THE TENT NEAR OUR FATHER'S COFFIN WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG DRAPPED OVER IT, WE LISTENED AS THE SOLDIERS GAVE HIM A SEVEN GUN SALUTE. (FORREST AND BUBBA SALUTE AND LT. DAN TELLS THEM TO GET THEIR HAND DOWN, "THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF SNIPERS AROUND HERE.") I LOOKED AROUND AT MY MOTHER, MY BROTHERS, AND MY SISTER, AND REALIZED THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME WE WERE ALL TOGETHER SINCE WE WERE TAKEN AWAY ON JOHN F. KENNEDY'S BIRTHDAY, MAY 29, 1959. (JULY 19, 1985, THE SAME TIME WHEN A PLANE WAS HIJAKED BY TERRORISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND CHUCK NORRIS DID A MOVIE ABOUT IT, YOU AND SEE CHUCK AND ME IN A PHOTO POSTED ON MY WEBPAGES, WHEN WE FILMED A MOVIE CALLED, "TOP DOG," A MOVIE ABOUT NEO NAZI TERRORISTS. WHEN WE MET UNDER THE TENT TO BURY OUR FATHER THIS IS THE REUNITING OF SHRIMP.) WE WERE FINALLY ALL HERE TOGETHER AND BURYING OUR FATHER IN THE NATIONAL GRAVE FOR SOLDIERS. OUR FATHER, WHO, AS A YOUNG MAN THOUGHT IT TO BE HIS PATRIOTIC DUTY TO INFORM SENATOR KEFAUVER ABOUT THE WASTE AND CONDUCT AT HARMON AIR FORCE BASE IN NEWFOUNDLAND. A YOUNG, TALL AND HANDSOME AIRMAN WHO WAS IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE, HIS CHILDREN, HIS COUNTRY AND IN LOVE WITH LIFE, AND WE WERE ALL HERE AS WE WITNESSED THE MILITARY RECOGNITION. AS I CRIED AND TEARS....END OF PAGE IT'S MY PARTY DRESS.... PAGE 404 I WRITE: I CAN REMEMBER AS A GIRL HOW ONE BEAUTY QUEEN WHO WOULD MAKE IT TO THE MISS AMERICA PAGEANT WOULD TERRORIZE ME ALONG WITH HER FRIENDS ONE HORRIBLE EVENING. I WOULD BE INVITED TO AN ALL GIRL PARTY AND ONCE I HAD ARRIVED, THE PARTY BEGAN. I WOULD BE BEAT AND HAZED. EVENTUALLY, I LEARNED TO GAIN ACCEPTANCE WITH FIGHTING AND THIS WOULD HAPPEN A YEAR LATER, WHEN AFTER A SERIES OF WINNING FIGHTS ON ONE WOULD EVER BOTHER ME AGAIN. I WOULD WHIP THE SCHOOL BULLY IN JUNIOR HIGH. MOST OF THAT SCHOOL YEAR I SPENT DOWN IN THE DIRT DEFENDING MYSELF WITH PULLED OUT HAIR AND TORN DRESSES OR PANTS. (IT'S MY PARTY DRESS. WE SEE JENNY AND HER TORN DRESS, BUT, PARAMOUNT INDICATES THAT HER FARMER FATHER DID IT. WE ALSO SEE THE TORN CLOTHING ON ROSE'S FIANCEE IN TITANIC AT THE END WHEN HE IS SEARCING FOR HER AND THEN THEY WRITE HE PUTS A GUN IN HIS MOUTH AND BLOWS HIS HEAD OFF.)

WANT A CHOCOLATE? THE CHOCOLATE WHICH INCLUDES CANDY AND ANY CHOCOLATE.

PARAMOUNT COPIES MY BOX OF CANDY CHOCOLATES AND LETS START HERE TO SHOW YOU. THEY GET MARRIED AND ARE ON THEIR HONEYMOON: ON PAGE 34 I WRITE: (CANDY) THE WALL PAPER IN THE LIVING ROOM MADE UP OF SMALL, DELICATE PINK ROSES; A DELICATE TOUCH TO A FAIRY TALE HOUSE. THE KITCHEN HAD ALL THE MODERN APPLIANCES AND CONVENIENCES OF THE EARLY 1950'S. LORINE WAS CERTAINLY BOTH SURPRISED AND HAPPY, TOO, WHEN SHE INSPECTED THE TINY KITCHEN TURNING EVERYTHINK ON AND OFF. THE REFRIGERATOR WAS FILLED WITH GOODIES FOR BREAKFAST AND IN THE MORNING LORINE IMAGINED THAT SHE WOULD BRING HER NEW HUSBAND A TRAY OF WONDERFUL FOOD. THERE WOULD BE HAM STEAK WITH RED-EYED GRAVEY, BISCUITS WITH FRESH HOMEMADE BUTTER, CREAM OF WHEAT SWEETENED WITH HONEY FROM THE NEAR-BY BEE HIVE, BLACKBERRIES WITH SWEET CREAM AND TO FINISH WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT BREW OF THE FINEST EUROPEAN FRENCH ROASTED COFFEE THAT WOULD MAKE A KING PROUD. SHE COULD NOT WAIT TO PREPARE THEIR FIRST BREAKFAST TOGETHER. WHILE LORINE WAS OBSERVING THE KITCHEN, GILBERT WAS OBSERVING THE BEDROOM. A FIREPLACE WITH FRESHLY CHOPPED WOOD NEXT TO IT WAS ONLY A FEW FEET FROM THE OVERSIZED TENNESSEE ANTIQUE BED. IT HAD LARGE ROUND POSTS AND A WHITE CANOPY THAT COVERED THE BED. THE MATTRESS WAS A FEATHER BED AND STOOD SO FAR FROM THE FLOOR THAT IT HAD ITS OWN SPECIAL STEP LADDER TO HELP ONE INTO THE BED. BY THE ANTIQUE BED ON A BEAUTIFUL MAHOGONY TABLE SAT A BOQUET OF FRESH ASSORTED COUNTY FLOWERS, RED, PINK, PURPLE, ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW WITH A TOUCH OF BABY'S BREATH (WHITE LITTLE FLOWERS) TO GIVE IT THAT SPECIAL TOUCH. NEXT TO THE FLOWERS WAS ALSO A LITTLE JAR OF MINTS FROM GERMANY. (CANDY) THE COVER PAGE OF CHAPTER SIX CALLED, "A PICNIC WITH A MOOSE." AND WE HEAR FORREST SAY IN THE MOVIE, "I DON'T REMEMBER MY FIRST PICNIC, BUT, I REMEMBER THE SWEETEST LITTLE GIRL." SHE'S GOING TO HAVE A BABY THE NEXT DAY GILBERT LEFT THE BASE EARLY TO COME HOME AND TAKE LORINE TO THE DOCTOR. HE LOOKED SO HANDSOME IN HIS MILITARY BLUES AND HAT AS HE GOT OUT OF THE FORD AND REACHED BEHIND THE SEAT FOR SOMETHING. WHILE GILBERT WAS BUSY RETREIVING SOMETHING FROM THE BACK SEAT, LORINE WAS COMBING HER RAVEN HAIR AND PUTTING POWDER ON HER FACE AND ADDING A TOUCH OF PINK LIPSTICK THAT SHE HAD BOUGHT AT THE COMMISSARY. THERE WAS NOT A GREAL DEAL TO SELECT FROM IN THE WAY OF COSMETICS AND TOILETRIES AND THEY HAD TO WAIT UNTIL ANOTHER SHIPMENT CAME IN. ""LORINE, I'M HOME." "I'M IN THE BATHROOM," LORINE SAID AS SHE LOOKED INTO THE MIRROR AND SMACKED HER LIPS TOGETHER AFTER APPLYING HER LIPSTICK. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT PARAMOUNT COPIES AND WRITES THAT JENNY LOOKS IN THE MIRROR, SHE HAS A BLACK EYE, AND WE SEE A GUITAR. A BAND. A MAN WITH VERY BLONDE HAIR, ALMOST WHITE WITH TATOOS (MILITARY) (THIS IS IN CANADA) IS PASSED OUT ON THE BED. SHE LOOKS IN THE MIRROR, LOOKS AT HER JEWELS, GATHERS THEM UP ALONG WITH HER MAKEUP AND LEAVES.) THROUGH THE MIRROR SHE SAW GILBERT STANDING BEHIND HER FLASHING THOSE WHITE TEETH IN A PLEASANT SMILE. "COME HERE, LORINE, I HAVE A SURPRISE FOR YOU." "WHAT IS IT!" EXCLAIMED LORINE. "NOW SHUT YOUR EYES," HE SAID AS HE LEAD LORINE TO THE LIVING ROOM. WHEN HE TOLD HER TO OPEN HER EYES, THERE ON THE COUCH SAT A GIANT TOY PANDA BEAR HOLDING A BOX OF IMPORTED SWISS CHOCOLATES. (WE SEE FORREST IN THE MOVIE HOLDING THE BOX OF CHOCOLATES.) (IN THE MOVIE SHE GIVES HIM A PRESENT, HE OPENS THE PRESENT AND IT IS A PAIR OF RUNNING SHOES.) BESIDE THE PANDA ON A TABLE NEXT TO THE COUCH WERE A DOZEN RED BEAUTIFUL ROSES. (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE HER SO HAPPY, SITTING BY THE ROSES.) "WHERE DID YOU GET ALL OF THIS?" ASKED LORINE THROWING HER ARMS AROUND GILBERT. "IT'S A SECRET, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THIS YOUR HAPPIEST DAY OF ALL OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, " HE SAID AS HE LOOKED DOWN AT.....END OF THIS PAGE. THE CHOCOLATE, SHE'S ABOUT TO GO INTO LABOR. I WRITE ABOUT THANKSGIVING THAT WE HEAR IN THE MOVIE AND TURKEY SANDWICHES. I WRITE ABOUT ST. JAMES AND HERE THE CHOCOLATE. ON PAGE 112 I WRITE: FIRST CAME THE TURKEY ON A BEAUTIFUL SILVER PLATER AND NEXT CAME THE DRESSING WITH APPLES AND CHESTNUTS IN A PRETTY PINK CERAMIC BOWL SHE THEN PLACED THE GIBLETT GRAVEY OUT AND THE CREAMED POTATOES WITH MUSHROOM GRAVEY SHE SAT NEXT TO THE TURKEY. NEXT CAME THE CORN ON THE COBB, FRESH TOSSED SALAD, BUTTERED CARROTS AND PEAS (WE HEAR IN THE MOVIE, FORREST SAYS THAT HE AND JENNY WERE LIKE PEAS AND CARROTS) CRANBERRY SAUCE, GREEN BEANS WITH A LIGHT CREAM SAUCE AND CRESANT ROLLS WITH FRESH BUTTER. OVER ON THE CABINET WERE PIES LINED UP DESERT. THERE WERE PUMPKIN PIES, CHERRY CREAM CHEESE PIE, (CHOCOLATE) PIE AND A HOT-APPLE PIE WITH ICE-CREAM. (IN THE MOVIE WHEN FORREST IS SHOT IN THE ASS, THE LT. GETS SHOT TOO AND FORREST AND HIM HAVE TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL AND FORREST IS WEARING A DIAPER AND SAYS, "LT. DAN WANT SOME ICE-CREAM? ICECREAM!) IT WAS A FEAST MADE FROM HEAVEN WITH LORINE AS THE CHIEF ANGEL COOK. (FORREST SAYS IN THE MOVIE, "I MET THE SWEETEST LITTLE GIRL, SHE WAS LIKE AN ANGEL." SHE HAD DONE HERSELF WELL AND THE MEN WOULD BE PLEASED. GILBERT SAT AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE WITH LORINE SITTING ACROSS FROM HIM AND JOZEF AND JESSIE FACED EACH OTHER ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE. (PARAMOUNT-FORREST AND BUBBA ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER...SHRIMP SALAD....AND THEY LIST THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FOODS....) STARTING WITH GILBERT, EACH ONE SAID A DEDICATION TO A LOVED ONE OR TO FAMILY MEMBER THAT COULD NOT BE THERE. GILBERT MADE HIS DEDICATION TO HIS WIFE AND UNBORN CHILD. EVERYONE PROCEEDED TO EAT THE THANKSGIVING DINNER THAT LORINE HAD PREPARED WITH SUCH CARE WHILE THE SNOW STARTED TO COME DOWN HARDER OUTSIDE. THE CANDLES FLICKERED ON THE TABLE AND THEIR LAUGHTER RANGED OUT OVER THE ENTIRE HOUSE. IT WAS INDEED A TIME TO CELEBRATE WHEN THEY WERE SO FAR FROM HOME IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. (QUEEN ELIZABETH'S COUNTRY PROVINCES) ON PAGE 127 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: "LORINE, LORINE I'M HOME." GILBERT THREW HIS COAT AND HAT ON THE COUCH LOOKING AROUND FOR HIS LOVELY WIFE. HE COULD SMELL THE AROMA OF SUPPER COOKING IN THE KITCHEN, LORINE HAD KNOCKED HER SELF OUT AGAIN HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. "LORINE, WHERE ARE YOU AT?'" "HERE I AM," RESPONDED LORINE AS SHE APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY THAT LED TO THE KITCHEN. SHE WAS WALKING VERY SLOWLY WITH ALL SMILES AND A LACEY APRON TIED TO HER SWELLING BELLY (MUM'S RECIPE FOR PORK BELLY SLICED BACON). SHE CARRIED A BIG SPOON IN ONE HAND AND A SPATULA IN THE OTHER. "WELL, DON'T YOU LOOK RADIANT," BEAMED GILBERT. "I'M SO HAPPY, HONEY, COME AND LOOK WHAT I HAVE COOKED FOR YOU." GILBERT HELPED LORINE BACK INTO THE KITCHEN AND ON THE TABLE WAS A SUCCULENT ROASTED DUCK WITH BAKED APPLES AND HONEY GLAZE. THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL TABLE SETTING OF BLUE ARTIFICLE FLOWERS AND A WHITE LACE TABLE CLOTH AND CANDLES. THERE BY THE DUCK WAS A CERAMIC BOWL OF ORANGE SAUCE (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ THAT FORREST AT SCHOOL IS CARRYING A BOOK AROUND ON SAUCES.) AND ALL KINDS OF DELICIOUS BUTTERED VEGETABLES. LORINE EVEN MADE HOT BUTTERED ROLLS THAT WOULD MELT IN YOUR MOUTH AND A DOUBLE (CHOCOLATE) DUTCH CAKE WITH (FUDGE) ICING. (WHAT'S THE GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER-FROSTING, FROSTING SPREADER, FROST YOURSELF.) "I'M SO HAPPY TODAY, I'VE BEEN CLEANING AND GETTING THE BABY CLOTHES READY AND THE BASSINET AND EVERYTHING." "BUT, SWEETHEART, YOU SHOULD BE RESTING." "TODAY SEEMS SO SPECIAL, GILBERT, I JUST WANTED TO DO SOMETHING." THEN SHE GOES INTO LABOR. ON PAGE 131 OF MY NOVE GILBET HAD FORGOTTEN LORINE'S SUITCASE (IN THE MOVIE FORREST FORGETS THE SUITCASE AND RUNS BACK TO GET IT, HE CARRIES IT WITH HIM ALWAYS.) AND RACED BACK OUT TO THE CAB TO RETREIVE IT AND WHEN HE CAME BACK INTO THE HOSPITAL, HE LOOKED AROUND FOR LORINE BUT HE COULD NOT FIND HER. WHILE THE CAB DRIVER STOOD AROUND SIPPING A CUP OF HOT COCOA PROVIDED BY ONE OF THE NURSES...... WE SEE THE CHOCOLATES, AND WE HEAR, FORREST SAY THAT MAMA SAYS, "LIFE" IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET. ON PAGE 88 I WRITE ABOUT "LIFE." IN 1953 A PIONEERING SWEDISH PHOTOGRAPHER (WE SEE FORREST SNAPPING AWAY HIS CAMERA, IN WASHINGTON AND GILBERT AND LORINE WERE LIVING IN WASHINGTON. THEN PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT FORREST PROMENADES. WHICH IS LIKE A SQUARE DANCE AND WE SEE FORREST IN HIS PLAID SHIRT.) LENNART NILSSON, DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES FOR PHOTOGRAPHING A HUMAN EMBRYO (MUM'S RECIPE FOR PORK BELLY SLICED BACON AND EGGS.) WHILE AEC DEMONSTARTED WHAT AN A-BOMB WOULD DO TO A HOUSE A FEW THOUSAND FEET AWAY. WHILE MARILYN MONROE (WE SEE FORREST LOOKING AT HER PHOTO AT THE WHITE HOUSE WHILE HE VISITS THE KENNEDYS) WOULD GRACE THE COVER PAGE OF ("LIFE") MAGAZINE IN MAY, JOHN F. KENNEDY AND JACQUELINE LEE BOUIVER WOULD BOTH GRACE ITS COVER PAGE IN JULY. "LIFE" IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET. AND TO CONCLUDE THE CHOCOLATE SCENE, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I WROTE ABOUT LIFE, ONE BECAUSE I LOVE THE KENNEDYS AND TWO I LOVE MARILYN MONROE AND HAVE BEEN TOLD MANY TIMES AS A BLONDE I LOOK LIKE HER. AT THE CORONADO HOTEL WHRE SHE MADE "SOME LIKE IT HOT," MY FRIEND WANTED ME TO STAND NEXT TO HER WALL SIZE PHOTO THERE TO TAKE A PHOTO, BECAUSE HE SAID I LOOKED LIKE HER. AND LAST BUT, NOT LEAST I WROTE ABOUT "LIFE" BECAUSE I WAS GIVEN SOME MAGAZINES. THEY WERE MARILYN MONROE ON THE FRONT COVER DATED JUNE 22, 1962, THE ORIGINAL LIFE MAGAZINES THAT I HAVE HER. ANOTHER "LIFE" GIVEN TO ME WAS PRINCE CHARLES ON THE COVER, DATED DECEMBER 1978, ANOTHER MAGAZINE GIVEN TO ME WAS PRINCE PHILIP ON THE COVER OF "LOOK," MAGAZINE DATED AUGUST 7, 1956, TITLED "PRINCE PHILIP, THE QUEEN'S CONTROVERSAL HUSBAND." IN THE MOTION PICTURE WE SEE FORREST ON THE COVER AND WE HEAR FORREST SAY, "WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A PHOTO OF LT. DAN? AND HE SHOWS THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE OF LT. DAN. ALSO, WHEN THE DEFENDANTS' AGENTS HAD MY WORKS, I GAVE THEM A COPY OF THE PHOTO OF GILBERT IN HIS MILITARY UNIFORM, YOU CAN SEE IT ON THE ROYAL FAMILY WEBPAGE OF MINE. WHEN I WENT TO AN EXPERT AND SHOWN HIM THE PHOTO OF GILBERT I ASKED HIM, "WHO DOES HE LOOK LIKE?" HE RESPONDED IN SHOCK," HE LOOKS LIKE LT. DAN IN FORREST GUMP. IN BOTH THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT AND IN TIANTIC WE SEE THE PAINTING. THE WOMAN TELLING THE STORY ABOUT THE TITANIC CALLS AND TELLS THEM, "THE WOMAN IN THE DRAWING IS ME." THE PAINTING IN MY SCREENPLAY THAT I WRITE ABOUT IS ME. THEY COPIED THE DIAMOND TOO FROM MY WRITINGS. BUT, THEY PERVERTED IT. I WRITE THAT MY FATHER WAS AN ARTIST WHO DREW SKETCHES. IN THE MOTION PICTURE "TITANIC" IT CLEARLY STAES THAT THE ARTIST WAS NEVER RECORDED IN HISTORY, RUPERT MURDOCH'S AND PARAMOUNT'S VIACOM COPIED HIM FROM MY WRITINGS. NEXT WILL BE THE PAINTING SCENE. THE SKETCHES IN "TITANIC" ARE A GIRL WHO IS NUDE, I WRITE I WAS ALONE, NUDE, SWIMMING......ANOTHER SKETCH IS A WOMAN NURSING A BABY......I WROTE MY MOTHER WAS LIKE A QUEEN AND THEY NAMED ME AFTER A EUROPEAN QUEEN AND SHE IS NURSING ME AND THEN I WRITE ABOUT THE FALL OF THE MONARCY.....ANOTHER SKETCH IS OF THEY SAY A ONE LEGGED PROSTITUE, I WRITE OF THE PROSTITUTES....AND THE DRAWING WE SEE AND SHE SAYS SHE IS THE ONE IN THE PAINTING OR DRAWING......I'M THE WOMAN IN THE PAINTING. MORE CHOCOLATE PAGE 136 OF MY NOVEL: FORREST SAYS, "WANT A CHOCOLATE?" WE SEE HIM SITTING AND WAITING. PAGE 136 CUPS OF COFFEE AND IT WAS MAKING HIM A NERVOUS WRECK. HE STOOD THERE AND SIPPED HIS COCOA WHEN HE LOOKED INTO THE FATHERS' WAITING ROOM. HE COULD SEE ANOTHER MAN, PROBABLY WAITING FOR HIS BABY TO BE BORN ALSO. GILBERT COULD ALSO SEE HIS REFECTION IN THE GLASS AND NOTICED THAT HE HAD ALREADY HAD TWO DAYS WORTH OF FACIAL STUBBLE ON HIS FACE. HIS HAIR WAS STANDING STRAIGHT UP ON HIS HEAD AND HE TRIED TO SMOOTH IT DOWN, BUT, THE MORE HE TRIED THE WORST IT BECAME. HE DIDN'T HAVE HIS SPECIAL HAIR TONIC THAT HE USED EVERY DAY THAT GAVE HIM THAT SPECIAL SQUEAKY CLEAN LOOK. HIS SHIRT TAIL ON ONE SIDE WAS STICKING OUT OF HIS PANTS AND HE TRIED TO PUT HIS SHIRT BACK IN WHEN A NURSE CAME IN AND TOLD HIM THAT THEY WERE WHEELING LORINE TO THE DELIVERY ROOM. SHE HAD HER MEDICATION AND SHE WOULD BE IN HER BED WAITING. GILBERT RACED THROUGH THE DOUBLE DOORS AND INTO THE MATERNITY WARD AND DOWN THE HALL CORRIDOR WHEN HE SAW AN ORDERLY AND TWO NURSES PUSHING LORINE'S BED WITH HER IN IT DOWN THE LONG HALLWAY TOWARDS THE DELIVER ROOM. LORINE WAS VERY SEDATED, BUT, WHEN SHE SAW GILBERT SHE STARTED TO SMILE. GILBERT GRABBED HER HAND ND WALKED ALONGSIDE HER WHILE HE TOLD HER HOW MUCH HE LOVED HER. HE WAS TRYING TO KEEP UP THE PACE AS LORINE SMILED AND GIGGLED. (AND WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, "FORREST SMILES A CHOCOLATY SMILE.') NEXT, THE PAINTING AND LATER THE SKETCHING. TO BE CONTINUED.

THE RED CROSS

BEFORE WE CONTINUE TO THE PAINTING SCENE, LET'S GO BACK TO WHEN BLEW THE WHISTLE ON WASTE. HIS LIFE AND HIS FAMILY'S LIFE WAS DESTROYED. AND NOW I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT MY LIFE IS BEING DEVISTATED AND DESTROYED BY HARRASSMENT, STALKING, PEOPLE GETTING INTO OUR PHONES, OUR LIVES, ACCOUNTS, WITH TRICKS AND PEOPLE WHO TRY TO WORM THEY WAY INTO OUR LIVES BY TRYING TO GAIN OUR TRUST AND CONFIDENCE. IT'S WRONG AND MY HEALTH IS BEING AFFECTED BY IT. WE JUST WANT PEACE IN OUR LIVES. THESE PEOPLE CAN'T BE STRAIGHT FORWARD AND JUST TALK TO US IN AN HONEST WAY, THEY HAVE TO TRICK, LIE, DECIEVE AND TORMENT US. IT IS GANG STALKING AND IT HAS TO STOP NOW! WE WANT WHAT BELONGS TO US AND THAT IS THE MONEY FROM OUR COPYRIGHTS AND WE HAVE BEEN TORTURED FOR IT. WANT DO YOU WANT, TO KILL US? YOU ARE NOT WANTED HERE, YOU INTRUDED INTO OUR LIVES AND STALKED AND CHASED US ALMOST TO THE GRAVE. I'M ILL TODAY FROM IT AND THEY DON'T CARE, WHAT I'VE SEEN FROM THESE PEOPLE BOTH MEAN SPIRITED WOMEN AND MEN IS THEY WANT ME DEAD. WE HAVE ATO HAVE PUBLIC SUPPORT AND TO GET THESE STALKERS OUT OF OUR LIVES, THEY ARE JUST TERRIBLE PEOPLE, JUST TERRIBLE. YOU WONDER HOW THEY WERE BROUGHT UP AND WHY DID THEY FORGET WHAT WAS GOOD. THEY ARE COLD AS ICE, MANIPULATIVE AND COLD BLOODIED CALCULATING. DEMONIC. LET'S GO BACK TO THIS SCENE. WE'LL COMPARE IT TO PARAMOUNT SCRIPT. PARAMOUNT-AND WE SEE THAT FORREST, WITH NO OTHER THOUGHT IN THE WORLD, TOTALLY FOCUSED, IS A WHIZ......WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON....A LARGE ROCK.....A WRENCH.....A SCREWDRIVER.....AN ATOMIC CLOCK....WHISPERING TO FORREST..SEE....WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM. ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP....EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK....FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING...DONE. DRILL SERGEANT! DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING....GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDAY, PRIVATE.....! NOW DISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON AND CONTINUE. ANYWAY......LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO.... FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. (BUT THEIR PASSION AND UNDYING LOVE FOR EACH OTHER STOOD ROCK SOLID AND THEY WEREN'T ABOUT TO GIVE UP.) A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS (RED CROSS TRUCK, BOX OF FOOD, A TRUCK BED, AN ENGINE, A CLOCK BOX, A BUM.....) HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER.....PRIVATE? GEAR-A RED CROSS, A ROCK, AN ATOMIC CLOCK IF IT IS A VIOLENT REACTION.....A WHISTLE...OBSTACLES....ADRIFT....A SPONGE TO WASH THE BUM OUT....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....SHOULDERS....A HEART....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-AN UNEMPLOYMENT PINK SLIP....A RED CROSS....FOOD STAMPS.....A LABEL....THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP CREOLE. A RECIPE TO BE RUINED.... ON PAGE 237 I WRITE: DEMORALIZED AND RUINED. TO BE ACCEPTED INTO CIVILIAN LIFE AND EMPLOYMENT WOULD VIRTUALLY BE IMPOSSIBLE AND ALREADY HAVING THREE CHILDREN; THEY HAD TO DEPEND ON THE HELP OF THE RED CROSS AND HELP FROM RELATIVES FOR FOOD AND SHELTER. DURING THAT TIME THEY HAD NO FOOD STAMPS NOR DID THEY HAVE ASSISTANCE FROM THE GOVERNMENT TO HELP THEM OUT AND ALL THE SHAME THAT GOES WITH IT; THEY DID ALL THAT THEY COULD TO KEEP THEIR FAMILY TOGETHER. GILBERT'S AND LORINE'S HEALTH STARTED TO DETERIOATE AND FOR A COUPLE STILL IN THEIR YOUNG TWENTYS THEY HAD THE WEIGHT OF THE WHOLE WORLD UPON THEIR SHOULDERS, BUT THEIR PASSION AND UNDYING LOVE FOR EACH OTHER STOOD ROCK SOLID AND THEY WEREN'T ABOUT TO GIVE UP. GILBERT TRIED VERY HARD TO GET WORK AND WAS TURNED DOWN BY MANY; HE'D DO ODD JOBS, WORK ON CARS, UNLOAD TRUCKS, FIX CLOCKS IN WHICH HE HAD A PASSION FOR AND IN THE YEARS TO COME HE COULD COLLECT BEAUTIFUL CLOCKS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. HE DID EVERY THING HE POSSIBLE COULD DO TO OBTAIN WORK AND TO KEEP HIS FAMILY WARM AND SAFE; BUT, IT SEEMED THERE WERE OBSTACLES COMING FROM EVERY DIRECTION. ONE OBSTACLE WOULD BE THAT HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, LORINE'S MOTHER, UPON HIS DISCHARGE DID NOT REALIZE THAT HE WAS WASHED OUT BECAUSE HE HAD BLOWN THE WHISTLE, SHE LIKE OTHER PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY THOUGHT HE WAS NO GOOD, A BUM WHO HAD NO RESPONSIBILITIES, BECAUSE THE MILITARY LABELED HIM OF THAT. LORINE'S MOTHER WAS OVER PROTECTIVE OF LORINE AND BELIEVED IN HER HEART THAT HER DAUGHTER......NEW PAGE

THE PAINTING

IN THE FORREST GUMP WE READ: AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW. BOTH IN GUMP AND TITANIC WE READ ABOUT MONET WHO PAINTED LANDSCAPES. IT IS THE PAINTING THEY ARE COPYING. WE SEE THE FIELD OF FLOWERS IN FORREST GUMP. LET'S SEE HOW THEY CAME UP WITH: AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW. ON PAGE 87 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE: CUT TO: EXT. YARD, WINCHESTER - DAY IN A BEAUTIFUL YARD WITH FLOWERS AND TREES EVERYWHERE, SITS THERESE WITH BACK TO CAMERA. CAMERA NEVER SHOWS HER FACE, BUT COMES IN CLOSE TO SHOW HER BACK AS SHE SITS IN A CHAIR WITH A WHITE ROBE AND A WHITE CAP OR WHITE BANDAGES ON HER HEAD. SHE IS PAINTING A PICTURE OF A FATHER AND A LITTLE GIRL IN A FIELD OF DAISIES. CAMERA COMES IN CLOSE OF SOMEONE'S HAND PUTTING THE LETTERS INTO HER HAND AS SHE REACHES OUT HER ARM. THEN, CLOSEUP UP OF HER HAND HOLDING THE LETTERS. THERESE HAS SURVIVED HER ORDEAL. (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) PAGE 3 OF MY SCREENPLAY: IN SLOW MOTION. AT THIS MOMENT GILBERT SPRINGS UP OUT OF THE WATER INTO THE AIR AND IS HOLDING AN OBJECT THAT LOOKS LIKE A VERY LARGE KNIFE OR SWORD. GILBERT (HOLDING SWORD P WHILE SWIMMING TOWARDS BANK) LOOK WHAT I FOUND, A SWORD, SORT OF LIKE KING ARTHUR! (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) PAGE 66 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CUT TO: EXT. TENNESSEE RIVER DOCK - DAY THE SONG, "AQUARIUS," WHICH IS ALSO THERESE'S SUN SIGN, CONTINUES TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND AS A LITTLE GIRL ABOUT ELEVEN YEARS OLD, WHO IS THERESE , WITH BACK TO CAMERA IS SITTING ALONE ON THE DOCK BY THE RIVER. THE DOCK IS SECLUDED WITH TREES AND SHE IS FISHING. SHE BRINGS A FISH UP OUT OF THE WATER AND THEN LETS IT GO. DRESSED IN A PLAID HRIT AND PANTS WITH HAIR BUNDLED UP UNDER A CAP TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT SHE IS A BOY. THERESE RISES UP, THROWS THE FISHING POLE DOWN, BACK STILL TO THE CAMERA, STRIPS HER CLOTHES OFF AND THROWS THE CAP OFF AS THE WAIST LENGTH HAIR FALLS TO HER WAIST. SHE NOW HAS A BAND OF WHITE FLOWERS AROUND HER HEAD THAT WAS HID BY THE CAP. NOW LOOKING LIKE A FLOWER CHILD, THERESE TAKES OFF RUNNING UP THE DOCK, UP THE BANK AND GRABS A ROPE THAT IS TIES TO A TREE LIMB AND SWINGS IN THE AIR AS SHE DIVES INTO THE DEEP WATER. THE SONG, "AQUARIUS," IS STILL PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND. SHE IS MORE SPIRITED THAN HER FATHER AND MOTHER COMBINED. A MAN DRESSED IN A BLACK SUIT STANDING ON A HILL IN THE DISTANCE IS TAKING ALL OF THIS IN AS HE KEEPS AN EYE ON THERESE. HE IS A GOVERNMENT MAN. (IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAYS HE TAUGHT HER HOW TO SWING AND SHE SHOWN HIM HOW TO DANGLE AND WE SEE HIM HANGING UPSIDE DOWN FOR A LIMB.) (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) ON PAGE 72 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CUT TO: EXT. PARK - DAY GILBERT IS SITTING IN HIS WHEELCHAIR AND LOOKING OFF INTO THE LAKE AS THE SUNSET TOUCHES THE WATER. HE IS ALONE AND THE SOUND OF A WHIPPOORWILL IS IN THE DISTANCE. (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) PAGE 77 OF MY SCREENPLAY: GILBERT (ANGRY) YOU SON OF A BITCH! CUT TO: EXT. LAKE - DAY GILBERT HAS SECRETLY ASKED ONE OF HIS FRIENDS, WHO IS A BLACK MAN, TO SEARCH THE LAKE WITH HIS BOAT AND HOOKS, FOR HIS CHILDREN. LORINE HAS NOT BEEN TOLD. GLBERT SITS IN HIS WHEELCHAIR BY THE WATER, AS THE BOAT SLOWLY GOES BACK AND FORTH WITH THE HOOKS DRAGGING THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE. SUDDENLY, THE BOAT STOPS AND THE MAN STANDS UP TO TELL GILBERT SOMETHING. (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER, RUNNING SO SLOW.) PAGE 92 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CUT TO: EXT. RIVERBOAT - DAY CAMERA SHOW THE RIVERBOAT MOVING SLOWLY DOWN THE RIVER. GILBERT IS SITTING IN HIS WHEELCHAIR WITH LORINE IN HIS LAP. COME IN FOR CLOSE UP TO SHOW THEY ARE SITTING ON SECOND DECK NEXT TO RAIL. GILBERT AND LORINE ARE KISSING AND CARESSING. A SECOND HONEYMOON. (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) PAGE 2 OF MY NOVEL: LAWLESSNESS IS NOT CONDONED ON THE PART OF ANY GROUP, BUT, IT DOES SEEM A LITTLE FAR FETCHED TO CONCLUDE THAT THE WHITE CAPS WERE FORMED MERELY TO DEAL WITH A HANDFUL OF FROLICKING WOMEN. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE FORMATION OF THE WHITE CAPS HAD ITS ROOTS IN THE CIVIL WAR FROM WHICH A NUMBER OF VIGILANTE GROUPS SPRANG. IT IS NOT YET DETERMINED HOW THE BLUE BILLS GOT THEIR NAME, UNLESS IT HAD SOME CONNECTION WITH THE COLOR OF THE UNION ARMY UNIFORM. (THEY WORE HOODS AND WE SEE FORREST IN THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE WEARING A WHITE HOOD) LABAN LATHAM DID NOT REALIZE THAT A LITTLE OVER 50 YEARS LATER HE WOULD HAVE AN OFFSPRING WHO, TOO, WOULD TRY TO DO THE RIGHT THING As HE DIED IN THE MUDDY WATERS OF HENDERSON SPRINGS ALONG A RIVER BANK ONE COLD NOVEMBER NIGHT IN 1894. THIS IS THE STORY ABOUT MY DADDY, MY DADDY WHO WAS A WHISTLEBLOWER, AND I LIVED TO TELL THE STORY. GILBERT GLENN WAS BORN NOVEMBER 12, 1932 TO LOUIE AND PEARL GLENN. LOUIE, A SCOTTISH MAN, CAME FROM A SCRABBLE EXISTENCE, WORKING IN A ROCK QUARRY CARRYING STONES NEAR HIS HOME. (NOTE: IN THE MOVIE, JENNY IS THROWING ROCKS AT THE OLD HOUSE AND HOW COULD HE HAVE DONE THIS TO HER. FORREST SAYS, "I GUESS THERE JUST ISN'T ENOUGH ROCKS.") GILBERT'S MOTHER, PEARL GLENN, WAS BORN PEARL LATHAM CODY. A NAME MANY ASSOCIATE WITH BUFFALO BILL. PEARL HAD MARRIED LOUIE WHEN SHE WAS ONLY FIFTEEN YEARS OLD AND HER MOTHER, MARY JANE, HAD COME TO LIVE WITH THEM WHEN GILBERT WAS BORN. PEARL WAS SO YOUNG AND NEEDED HER MOTHER TO HELP OUT, IN FACT, GRANNY TOOK CARE OF ALL OF THEM WHILE LOUIE WORKED THE QUARRY. IT WAS A TIME OF INNOCENCE, A TIME OF GOOD MORAL VALUES, THE AMERICAN WAY, AND BELIEVING AND TRUSTING ONE'S COUNTRY. SOON THE WHOLD WORLD WOULD FALL TO ITS KNEES. (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) ON PAGE 95 OF MY NOVEL: BY SEPTEMBER, 1953, SENATOR JOHN F. KENNEDY MARRIED A NEWPORT SOCIALITE AND FORMER WASHINGTON TIMES HERALD PHOTOGRAPHER JACQUELINE LEE BOUVIER IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND AND BY NOVEMBER EISENHOWER AUTHORIZED NEW YORK STATE TO ACT AS U.S. AGENT IN DEVELOPING WITH CANADA A $600 MILLION ST. LAURENCE RIVER POWER PROJECT. AEC ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD SHARE INFORMATION WITH CANADA AND BRITIAN ON THE EFFECTS OF ATOMIC WEAPONS BUT NOT ON HOW THEY ARE DESIGNED. (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. RUNNING SO SLOWLY) ON PAGE 350 OF MY NOVEL: I WANTED TO RUN AND DANCE AND SING ALONG WITH MY BROTHERS AND SISTER, BUT, MY LEGS WERE NOT YET STEADY CAUSING MY ATTEMPTS TO FAIL AND FALLING DOWN IN A BUNCH OF FLOWERS CRYING. THEY NAMED ME AFTER A EUROPEAN QUEEN CALLED THERESE AND MY NAME WAS THERESE KATE GLENN. (IN THE MOVIE WHEN FORREST REUNITES WITH HIS CHILD, JENNY TELLS HIM, I NAMED HIM AFTER HIS FATHER. FORREST SAYS HE'S GOT A FATHER NAMED FORREST? THE CHILD IS NAMED AFTER HIM. "THEY NAMED ME AFTER A EUROPEAN QUEEN......" I ALSO WRITE ABOUT. ST. GEORGE'S BAY. AND THE SAPPHIRE LAKE) MAMA RUSHED TO ME AS SHE HEARD MY CRIES AND PICKED ME UP OUT OF THE DAISIES BRUSHING ME OFF AND GIVING ME A LOVING KISS. I FELT SAFE IN HER ARMS AND KNEW THAT NO HARM WOULD EVER COME TO ME. I WAS AN INNOCENT BABY NOT KNOWING THAT THE COUNTRY THAT I WOULD GROW UP BELIEVING IN WAS IN FACT A COUNTRY THAT COULD BE FULL OF LIES AND CORRUPTION. I WAS A BABY IN THE EYE OF A HURRICANE. GILBERT DECIDED BEFORE EVERYONE ATE THEIR LUNCH THAT HE WANTED TO TAKE A PICTURE OF ALL OF US. SO HE CALLED OR THE CHILDREN TO COME QUICKLY BEFORE THEY REACHED THE RIVER AND MIGHT FALL IN AND DROWN. WE ALL GATHERED ON THE COUNTRY QUILT WITH THE FIELD OF DAISIES BEHIND US AND A RIVER THAT RAN TRHOUGH IT A DISTANCE AWAY FOR A BEAUTIFUL BACKGROUND. LORINE DECIDED THAT SHE WANTED TO WEAR HER PRETTY LIGHT BLUE SWEATER WITH THE PEARLS ON IT, SO SHE RAN BACK TO THE CAR TO GET IT. BUT, WHEN SHE STARTED BACK, SHE BECAME UNSTEADY AND GRABBED HER STOMACH IN PAIN. BY THE TIME SHE REACHED GILBERT, SHE BECAME VERY PALE AND FAINTED IN HIS ARMS. TERRIFIED, HE PICKED HER UP AND TOLD THE TWINS TO STAND GUARD OVER THE REST OF US WHILE HE PUT MOMMY IN THE CAR. HE THEN CAME BACK FOR THE REST OF US AND RUSHED US INTO THE CAR SO HE COULD GET HIS LORINE HOME AND IN BED AND CALL THE.....END OF PAGE (WE HEAR FORREST SAY IN THE MOVE, "I'M DIZZY.") ADDITIONAL BODY OF WATERS: (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) (MOTHER'S MILK.....IN THE MOVIE TITANIC, THE ARTIST DRAWS A DRAWING OF A MOTHER NURSING HER BABY.) THE ARTIST THAT THEY COPY IS BOTH ME AND MY FATHER THAT I WRITE OF.) PAGE 42 OF MY SCREENPLAY: NURSE (SMILING) LET'S JUST SAY SHE'S VERY MIGHTY. CONGRATULATIONS, MR. GLENN. (IN THE MOVIE PRESIDENT SHAKES FORREST'S HAND AND TELLS HIM CONGRATULATIONS AND HOW DOES HE FEEL. "I GOT TO PEE." AFTER HE DRANK SODA POP. THEY COPY THE HAND SHAKE WHEN KING ARTHUR AND THE BOYS OF THE CLUB SHAKE HANDS.) CUT TO: INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT GILBERT IS SITTING ON THE BED WHILE LORINE IS NURSING THE BABY. LORINE (SMILING AT BABY) ISN'T SHE BEAUTIFUL? GILBERT (TO LORINE) SHE'S A QUEEN LIKE HER MOTHER. LET'S NAME HER AFTER A QUEEN, LORINE. (I NAMED HIM AFTER YOU FORREST.) LORINE (LOOKING UP AT GILBERT) THERESE? HOW BEAUTIFUL, SO ARISTOCRATIC! GILBERT (TO LORINE) WE'LL NAME HER AFTER THE QUEEN MARIE THERESE OF FRANCE. (AUSTRIA) CUT TO: EXT. FRANCE, OCTOBER 16, 1793 - DAY A LITTLE GIRL IS WATCHING HER MOTHER, MARIE ANTOINETTE BEING CARRIED OFF THE THE GUILLOTINE IN A GARBAGE CART. THE CHILD THERESE, WATCHES AS THE GUILLOTINE COMES DOWN UPON HER MOTHER'S HEAD. A SOLDIER LEADS THERESE OFF KICKING AND CRYING. (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW. THE RIVER OF BLOOD. AND THEN I WRITE THAT NAPOLEON CHASES THERESE THEN THE BRITISH STOP HIM. AND YET ANOTHER MOTION PICTURE IS PRODUCED RECENTLY. ACTUALLY I WAS NAMED AFTER THE TWO THERESES, THE GRANDMOTHER OF AUSTRIA AND THE GRANDDAUGHTER THERESE OF FRANCE, WHO ACTUALLY BECAME A QUEEN FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME AND SHE MARRIED CHARLES) (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) ON PAGE 98 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE OF ST. GEORGE'S BAY: IT WAS COLD OUTSIDE, BUT, THE DAY WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. GILBERT AND LORINE HAD TO BUNDLE UP WARMLY EVEN THOUGH THE SUN WAS SHINING OUT BRIGHTLY. THE AIR WAS CRISP AND THANKSGIVING WAS ONLY AROUND THE CORNER. WHEN THEY FINALLY DROVE UP IN THEIR FORD, THEY GOT OUT AND WENT AND SAT DOWN ON THE DOCK BY THE BAY. THEY ATE THE SANDWICHES, WHICH WERE A LITTLE DRY, THAT GILBERT PREPARED AND DRANK SODA POP AS THEY GAZED INTO THE SAPPHIRE COLORED WATER. (FORREST SAID IN THE MOVIE THEY PUT HIM IN THIS TINY ROOM (A CELL JAIL THEY COPY ) AND HE DRANKED ALL THOSE SODA POPS.) THE LEAVES ON THE TREES WERE CHANGING TO MULTI COLORS OF REDS AND BRIGHT ORANGES AND IN THE DISTANCE THEY COULD SPOT A COUPLE OF DUCKS SWIMMING AND DIVING TO THE BOTTOM FOR FOOD. (IN THE MOVIE WE HEAR FORREST SAY, "IT WAS LIKE DUCKS IN WATER," MEANING IT WAS LIKE A SHOOTING GALLERY OF EVERYTHING IN THIS SETTING.) AN ELDERLY MAN ON THE BANK HAD JUST CAUGHT A COD FISH WHILE CHILDREN LAUGHED AND RAN UP A HILL WITH THEIR ESKIMO-LIKE DOGS. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR A DOG FIGHT) "LORINE, LOOK OVER THERE IN THE TREES," GILBERT SAID AS HE SWALLOWED THE LAST DROP OF HIS SODA POP.) (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) MORE WATER AND LIQUIDS LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW: (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) PAGE 35 OF MY NOVEL: GILBERT CALLED OUT TO LORINE TO COME AND JOIN HIM IN THE BEDROOM. SHE WALKED IN CARRYING HER LITTLE TAPESTRY SUITCASE AND HAT BOX. (IN THE MOVIE FORREST SITS WITH A SUITCASE) LORINE WAS STILL A VIRGIN AND A NERVOUS ONE AT THAT. (MUM'S RECIPE TO BE EXILED IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.) SHE KNEW THAT THE TIME HAD COME THAT SHE ANTICIPATED ALL OF HER LIFE WAS NOW HERE. SHE HAD TO LEAVE THE GIRL BEHIND AND BECOME A WOMAN, AFTER ALL SHE WAS GOING TO BE 25 YEARS OLD AND GILBERT WAS GOING ON TWENTY. TWO LOVEBIRDS IN LOVE, IT DID NOT MATTER THAT THERE WAS AN AGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM, THEY WERE IN LOVE. "I'LL BE RIGHT BACK," LORINE SMILED AS SHE TOOK HER LITTLE TAPESTRY SUITCASE INOT THE AJOINING BATHROOM. GILBERT WASHED UP NEAR THE ANTIQUED TABLE BY THE WINDOW. ON THE TABLE STOOD (FORREST AND BUBBA STANDING ATTENTION) A WHITE CERAMIC PITCHER OF WATER (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) WITH LITTLE HOMEMADE OATMEAL SOAPS IN A DISH NEARBY. FRESH TOWELS ON A WOODEN RACK ALSO HUNG NEARBY WHILE GILBERT SLOWLY POURED THE WATER (AND SE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) INTO A BOWL AND WASHED HIS FACE. AFTER WASHING HIS BODY, HE THEN DRIED HIMSELF (WE SEE FORREST IN THE MOVIE WITH THE TOWEL, BEHIND BARS) WITH THE FRESH, CRISP TOWELS. HE COMBED HIS HAIR AND FOLDED BACK HIS TOWEL AND HUNG IT BACK ONTO THE RACK. HE WALKED ACROSS THE COLD, WOODEN FLOOR AND STEPPED UP ONTO THE LADDER FALLING INTO THE BIG FEATHER BED. WHAT A RELIEF AS HIS BODY SUNK DOWN INTO IT ALMOST HIDING HIM. HE WAS BOTH TIRED FROM THE DRIVE AND ALSO EXHILARATED FROM THE THOUGHT THAT LORINE WOULD SOON BE WITH HIM IN HIS ARMS. HIS BEAUTIFUL ORINE, SO MUCH LIKE A CHILD, SO MUCH LIKE A WOMAN, AND WHAT A WOMAN! SHE WOULD BE ALL HIS TONIGHT AND FOREVER. (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) PAGE 144 OF MY NOVEL: WERE FORMED. DURING THE MID-FIFTIES, THE TERMINAL AT ERNEST HARMON WAS A HUB OF ACTIVITY, AND SERVED AN AVERAGE OF 24,787 PASSENGERS EACH MONTH AND THE LARGEST CIVILIAN COMMERCIAL TRANSCIENT AT HARMON WAS TRANS-CANADA AIR LINES, WHICH HAD FOUR SCHEDULED FLIGHTS IN AND OUT EACH DAY, AND A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF OTHER COMMERCIAL AIRLINES USED THE BASE WHEN WEATHER CALLED FOR UNSCHEDULED LANDINGS. ERNEST HARMONAIR BASE WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO THE UNITED STATES IN THAT IT WAS THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE FOR THE NORTH EAST AIR COMMAND AND IT WAS A FUELING STOP FOR AIRBORNE SAC BOMBERS, AND IT SUPPLIED MANY JOBS TO CIVILLIANS IN NEWFOUNDLAND. IT BROUGHT IN AN INCOME OF OVER $4,000,000.00 A YEAR THAT WAS PAID OUT TO THE 1,300 NEWFOUNDLANDERS WHO WORKED ON THE BASE AND BROUGHT IN ANOTHER $5,000,000.00 A YEAR TO THE COMMUNITY AS PAYMENT FOR RENT AND UTLITIES. IN 1953 THE NEXT SPURT OF CONSTRUCTION IN ERNEST HARMON WHEN IN-FLIGHT REFUELLING WAS INTRODUCED AND THE BASE WAS EXTENDED TO SERVE AS A TANKER CENTRE. THE TANK FARM (WE HERE IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAY THAT JENNY'S FATHER WAS SOME KIND OF A FARMER.) CONSISTED OF TWENTY-ONE FUEL TANKS, WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 37,800,000 GALLONS (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) (BOTH GUMP AND TITANIC HAVE THE PAINTING AND DRAWINGS IN IT.) AND IT WAS LAID OUT IN A HIGHLY DISPERESED PATTERN. IT WAS SERVICED BY A PUMPING STATION AND EXTENSIVE NETWORK (DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM......YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP.) (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING . LIKE A RIVER RUNNING VERY SLOW.) OF PIPELINES ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND. THE SAME YEAR SAW THE CONSTRUCTION TANERS WHICH DELIVERED AVIATION FUEL TO THE BASE. THE DEEP-DRAUGHT NAVIGATION CHANNEL WAS .75 MILES LONG AND 200 FEET WIDE WITH A DRAUGHT OF ABOUT 35 FEET AND THE CHANNEL EXTENDED INTO A TURNING BASIN LARGE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE A 33,076 ST TANKER AT A WARF O 960 FEET LONG. (TITANIC COPIED, IN OTHERS WORDS THEY GIVE DETAILED ABOUT THE SIZE OF TITANIC WHICH SUNK OFF OF NEWFOUNDLAND IN THE NORHT ATLANTIC.) THE UNITED STATES SPARED LITTLE EXPENSE IN THEIR EFFORTS TO TURN NEWFOUNDLAND INTO A WELL-ARMED FORTRESS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC, OCCUPING IN ALL FORTY-SEVEN DIFFERENT SITES THOUGHOUT THE PROVINCE BETWEEN 1941 AND 1976. THERE WERE ABOUT 367 BUILDINGS THAT WERE CONSTRUCTED IN STEPHENVILLE OVER THIS PERIOD OF TIME, AND ERNEST HARMON WAS IMPORTANT THAT IT WAS THE FIRST MAJOR OVERSEAS STOP FOR MILITARY AIRCRAFT FLYING THE NORTH ATLANTIC TO ENGLAND, GREENLAND AND EUROPE. DURING THIS TIME THROUGH THE USO (WE SEE IN THE MOVIE) MANY MOVIE STARS, DIGNITARIES AND TOP MILITARY LEADERS VISITED ERNEST HARMON. THE USO BUILDING WAS IN CORNER BROOK (FORREST SAYS IN THE MOVIE HIS FRIEND IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER AND WE READ THAT HE PROMENADES AROUND THE CORNER.) AND MOVIE STARS VISITING WERE BOB HOPE (WE SEE IN MOVIE WITH HIS USO), FRANK SINATRA, JAYNE MANSFIELD (WE HEAR LT. TAYLOR SAY THAT HE SHOULD HAVE DIED IN THE FIELD WITH HIS MEN.) LANA TUNER, ELVIS PRESLEY (WE SEE IN MOVIE).....FORREST TUCKER...DIGNITARIES SUCH AS QUEEN ELIZABETH AND PRINCE PHILIP....JAMES DOOLITTLE......(THE REST OF THE VISITORS ARE ON THIS PAGE OF 145 LIKE RAYMOD BURR, GENERAL GEORGE PATTON, MARLENE DIETRICH, THE PREMIERE OF INDIA) PAGE 146 THE SOLDIERS WOULD ENJOY THE BENEFIT OF RIDING THE TROLLEY (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, WE READ THAT FORREST GETS HIT ON THE CROSSING ON THE TRACKS.) TO CORNER BROOK ON THREE DAY PASSES TO ENJOY THE USO OR MAYBE CATCH A GLIMPSE OF A MOVIE STAR, DIGNITARY OR TOP MILITARY LEADERS. IT WAS COMMON THAT NEWFOUNDLAND GIRLS AND AMERICAN SOLDIERS WOULD CATCH A RIDE HEADING FOR A DANCE AT THE USO IN CORNER BROOK. (WE SEE FORREST AND JENNY DANCING IN THE WINDOW AND FORREST SAYS, "WE WERE LIKE FAMILY ME AND JENNY." AND "I HAVE A FRIEND HERE JUST AROUND THE CORNER.") DURING THIS TIME, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT OVER 25,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS MARRIED NEWFOUNDLAND WOMEN. YES, IN THE BACKWOODS LOVE WAS EVERYWHERE AND GILBERT AND LORINE WERE THE VERY PROOF OF IT. ON THE OTHER HAND, THOUGH, THERE WERE AN UNDERCURRENT OF LIES AND COVERUPS. (I WRITE ABOUT THE TITANIC WHICH SANG OFF OF NEWFOUNDLAND. IN THE MOVIE WHEN THE SHIP SINKS, WE SEE LEONARDO TRYING TO HOLD ONTO KATE AND WE SEE THEM CAUGHT IN AN "UNDERCURRENT.") THE INNOCENSE OF THE COUNTRY AND LAND WERE BEING RAPED EVEN THOUGH THE PEOPLE DID NOT REALIZE WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND THEM. IT WAS NEW YEARS EVE AND GILBERT WAS BACK AT HIS HOUSE PREPARING FOR THE ARRIVAL OF LORINE AND HIS NEW BABY BOY. HE WOULD SCRUB THE FLOORS (WE SEE FORREST IN THE MOVIE SCRUBBING THE FLOOR.) AND THE WINDOWS, WASH ALL OF THE CLOTHING, AND HE MADE SURE THAT ALL OF THE DIAPERS WERE FOLDED AND STACKED. HE CHECKED THE KITCHEN CUBBORDS TO SEE IF THERE WERE ENOUGH BOTTLES. HE HAD HIS MIND MADE UP THAT BEFORE LORINE AND THE BABY WOULD COME HOME HE HAD TAKEN THE PRIDE IN MAKING ALL OF THE BABY'S FORMULA AND HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT LORINE RESTED. HE WAS DETERMINED TO GET UP FOR THE NIGHT FEEDINGS, NO MATTER HOW TIRED HE MAY BE DURING THE DAY IN RECOREDS AND SUPPLY SQUARDRON. PARAMOUNT-ANYWAY..LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA..YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO... THE BOYS ARE BUSILY POLISHING THEIR BOATS...FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER... ....SHRIMP COCTAIL, PAN FEIED, DEEP FRIED, STIR FRIED...THE BOYS ARE POLISHING THE FLOOR. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTON. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. (GET A GLIMPSE OF A DIGNITARY.......FOOTLOCKER...TROLLEY. CUBBORDS..DUFFEL BAG...LAUNDRY BASKET...DIAPER BAG...) HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.....RAPE......UNDERCURRENT....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER...PRIVATE? GEAR-TROLLEY BELL, RINGING THE TROLLEY BELL, GEAR-WEDDING RING...BLOOD TESTS...JUSTICE OF THE PEACE...THE CLEANER...DIAPERS....PINS....WIPES.....BOTTLES....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND (ON THE OTHER HAND, THOUGH, THERE WERE AN UNDERCURRENT (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING. LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.) AND UNDERCURRENT OF LIES AND COVERUPS.) HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-TROLLEY PASS, THREE DAY PASS, A DIGNITARY'S MEDAL, A MARRIAGE LICENSE HORNS AND HATS AND CONFETTI, HAPPY NEW YEAR!.....PAPER-RECORDS) THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI. THAT A RECIPE FOR NEWFOUNDLAND, AMERICAN, DANISH, GREEK SHRIMP. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR PROOF.....THAT'S A RECIPE FOR A COVERUP...THAT'S A RECIPE FOR A FORMULA. OTHER BODIES OF WATER, (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING, LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW) I WRITE ABOUT KING ARTHUR AND THE LADY OF THE LAKE I WRITE ABOUT HOW HE HEARS HER CALLING TO HELP HER, HE SEARCHING, SHE WAS ON THE PLANE AND HE WAS AFRAID HER PLANE WOULD FLY INTO A BUILDING. SHE CALLS FOR HELP, HE SEES HER FEET AND HER WHITE GOWN, THE (LONDON) FOG IS CAUSING HIM TO NOT BE ABLE TO SEE AND SHE IS FLOATING.....(MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI) HE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR HER AND THE WEATHER IS BAD AT THE AIRPORT. IN THE MOVIE FORREST IS WAITING IN THE BAD WEATHER FOR JENNY. IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY WRITE, "FORREST IS CREST FALLEN." AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING, LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW. AND I WRITE ABOUT THE TOUR AND I WRITE ABOUT EGYPT, THE NILE AND "WE SEE A MONET PAINTING, LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.

"I WANT TO GO HOME."

IN THE MOVIE, WE HEAR BUBBA SAY AS HE LIED NEXT TO THE WATER, "I WANT TO GO HOME." AND THEN WE HEAR FORREST SAY, "I THINK I'LL GO HOME NOW." WE WILL EXAMINE HOW AND WHERE PARAMOUNT CAME UP WITH THIS COPIED EXPRESSION. REUNTED SHRIMP. TO BE CONTINUED....

I'M SICK.

IN THE PREVIOUS SCENES HERE, I WRITE THAT I WROTE ABOUT MAD MAGAZINE AND WE SEE IN THE MOVIE FORREST AND BUBBA RIDING IN A HELICPOPTER WITH THE PILOT WEARING A HELMET THAT HAS "MAD" WRITTEN ON IT. I ALSO WRITE THAT SENATOR SYMINGTON, A "MAD DOG", GETS OFF THE STAND TO TESTIFY AT THE HEARINGS. AND THAT McCARTHY AND HIM HATED EACH OTHER AND ACCUSE SYMINGTON OF STOOPING SO LOW AND LATER McCARTHY WOULD DIE FROM ALCOHOL. (FORREST AND BUBBA STANDING AT ATTENTION. (HEARING) A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER......PRIVATE? GEAR-RABIES SHOTS...MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.) WHEN WE SEE FORREST AND BUBBA RIDING IN THE HELICOPTER, PARAMOUNT IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WRITES THAT IT IS A BRAND NEW, SPANKING HELICOPTER AND GEAR. I WRITE THAT STUART SYMINGTON GAVE LINDON JOHNSON A BRAND NEW HELICOPTER FOR IN EXCHANGE FOR MILITARY CONTRACTS. PARAMOUNT COPIES BOTH THE BRAND NEW AND THE HELICOPTER AND PUTS MAD ON THE HELMENT OF THE PILOT. NOW THE VIRUS FOR WHISTLEBLOWING: JENNY IN THE MOVIE SAYS SHE WAS SICK, THAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE MATTER WAS AND THAT IT WAS SOME KIND OF VIRUS. ON PAGE 3 OF MY SYNOPSIS I WRITE: THE MATER WAS INITIALLY GIVEN THE RUNAROUND, DOCUMENTABLE BY AN AIR FORCE GENERAL'S LETTER TO SENATOR KEFAUFER, (YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDAY PRIVATE GUMP.....NOT DISSASSEMBLE THAT WEAPONG.....THE VIRUS WEAPON...) AND PROVIDED TO GILBERT GLENN BY THE SENATOR. BUT, WHEN INVESTIGATORS DID ARRIVE, IT WAS DISCLOSED PUBLICLY THAT SUPPLY WASTE (IF IT WEREN'T SUCH A WASTE OF A FINE ENLISTED MAN, I'D RECOMMEND YOU OR OCS, PRIVATE GUMP. YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDAY, PRIVATE GUMP.....! NOW DISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON AND CONTINUE....ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT....THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO...FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER...WHAT'S THIS GEAR....A SYRINGE WITH THE AIDS VIRUS....PILLS....VITAMINS....MAMA'S, MUM'S REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....)DISCLOSED PUBLICLY THAT SUPPLY WASTE WAS OCCURING ON A RAMPANT SCALE, AT THAT BASE IN PARTICULAR, AND ALSO THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE NORTH EAST AIR COMMAND, TO THE TUNE OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, (NEAC WAS A FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE FOR AMERICA) AND ALTHOUGH MY FATHER WASN'T LOOKING FOR ANY CREDIT SOMEONE (WHAT'S THIS GEAR-CREDIT CARD, MUM'S RECIPE) SOMEONE ELSE MAY HAVE GRABBED THE CREDIT WHILE GILBERT GLENN AND HIS FAMILY WERE GIVEN THE SHAFT!! (WHAT'S THIS GEAR IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER--A SHAFT, MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.) IF GILBERT HAD NAY KNOWLEDGE OR IDEA THAT IT WOULD EVENTURALLY CAUSE HIS FAMILY HARM HE WOULD NOT HAVE REPORTED IT IF THEY HAD CARRIED OFF THE WHOLE DAMN BASE. HE SAW WHAT WAS HAPENING AT THAT BASE AND IT WAS HIS BELIEF THAT COMMUNIST SUBVERSION WAS RESPONSIBLE AND THAT IS WHAT HE TOLD SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER. WHEN GILBERT GLENN ARRIVED AT McGHEE TYSON IN EARLY 1955 HE DID SO WITH A SERVICE RECORD WHICH SHOWED THREE YEARS OF CONTINUOUS EXCELLENT CHARACTER RATINGS AND SATISFACTORY TO EXCELLENT EFFICIENCY RATINGS, (FORREST IN THE MOVIE TAKES HIS TESTS AND THEY INDICATE HE IS SLOW) PLUS HIGH SCORES IN OTHER AREAS. MILITARY RECORDS WILL BE ABLE TO PROVE HIS CHARACTER AND SCORES. DURING THE EARLY MONTHS THERE, GILBERT CONTRACTED A SIMPLE VIRUS OF FLU AND GIVEN A DRUG TO CAUSE SUCH REACTIONS AS ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK, COLLAPSE, AND TO PRODUCE HYPOTHERMIA. WHEN GILBERT WAS GIVEN THIS DRUG, WHICH IS RECORDED ON MEDICAL RECORDS THAT I WILL SUBMIT TO BE EXAMINED AS PROOF, HE EXPERIENCED EXTREME ALLERGIC REACTION AND HE TOO EXPERIENCED ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK AND THEN COLLAPSED, WHICH WAS THEN FOLLOWED BY ONE PERIOD OF HOSPITALIZATION AFTER ANOTHER, FOR SOMEONE WHO HATED HOSPITALS, GILBERT HAD A TOTAL OF TEN PERIODS OF HOSPITALIZATIONS ALTOGETHER, WITH THREE OF THOSE TRIPS REQUIRING AN AMBULANCE. (WE SEE THE AMBULANCE IN THE MOVIE) AT ONE POINT THEY CLAIMED THAT THEY WERE GIVING HIM VITAMINS, BUT BY THE MILITARY MEDICAL RECORDS THAT I HAVE OBTAINED, I CAN SHOW THAT GILBERT GLENN WAS GIVEN A DRUG TO CAUSE THE VERY SYMPTOMS THAT CAUSED HIM TO BE HOSPITALIZED. JUST A FEW MONTHS BEFORE GILBERT WAS TRANSFERRED TO McGHEE TYSON IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, A LT. COL. WROTEAN EXCELLENT LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION OF AIRMAN GLENN AND LT. COL. CUTRESS SAYS IN HIS LETTER, "I THINK THIS AIRMAN IS GOOD MATERIAL AND WILL PROVE IN THE FUTURE TO BE A VALUABLE ASSET TO THE AIR FORCEJ." BUT, JUST A FEW MONTHS AFTER TRANSFERRING TO McGHEE TYSON AIR FORCE BASE, GILBERT GLENN WAS GIVEN A DRUG THAT CREATED THE VERY SYMPTOMS THAT DEEMED HIM "UNSUITABLE" AND WAS WASHED OUT OF THE MILITARY JUST FOUR MONTHS SHORT OF COMPLETION OF A FOUR YEAR ENLISTMENT. CAPTAIN HARRY GOLDSMITH CALLED GILBERT GLENN, "UNSUITABLE" AND SAYS IN THE LETTER I HAVE WRITTEN BY HIM, "AIRMAN GLENN IS OF NO VALUE TO THE AIR FORCE AND COULD NOT BE TRAINED TO BECOME OF SUCH VALUE." THIS LETTER WAS A SWORN AFFIDAVIT AND CAPTAIN GOLDSMITH ALSO SAYS THAT AIRMAN GLENN "BE SEPERATED AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT." THE CAPTAIN AND OTHER PERSONNEL EMPLOYEES SAID THERE WAS NOTHING PHYSICALLY WRONG WITH AIRMAN GLENN, BUT, IN A SWORN AFFIDAVIT THAT I NOW HAVE, WILLIE D. THOMAS, A CIVILLIAN EMPLOYEE WITH THE INSULATION ENGINEERS (IN THE MOVIE PARAMOUNT KILLS THE BLACK MAN AND BLOWS OUT HIS GUT, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE A NEWSPAPER OBITURARY THAT HE LIVED A LONG TIME AND WAS WELL RESPECTED AND HE DIED IN JUST THE LAST FEW YEARS, WELL AFTER FORREST GUMP.) AND WAS WORKING AT McGHEE TYSON AIR BASE IN KNOXVILLE AND RECALLS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT. THOMAS SAYS THAT GILBERT GLENN, SERGEANT FOUST AND HE RODE DAILY (WE SEE FORREST AND BUBBA RIDING TO THE BASE, SYMINGTON WAS ON THE COMMITTEE THAT CONDUCTED THE HEARINGS ON THE WASTE.) HE RODE DAILY TOGETHER IN THE AFFIANTS CAR AND IN HIS SWORN AFFIDAVIT MR. THOMAS SAYS, "WE RODE DAILY TO THE BASE IN THE MORNING AND BACK HOME AGAIN IN THE AFTERNOON AND JST ABOUT EVERYDAY, I WOULD HAVE TO STOP (WE READ THAT FORREST IS TOLD TO "STOP!" OVER AND OVER) MY CAR AND LET MR. GLENN OUT OF THE CAR IN ORDER FOR HIM TO VOMIT. THIS VOMITING DID NOT SEEM TO BE BECAUSE OF JUST HAVING EATEN; THAT MANY TIMES AROUND 3:30 IN THE AFTERNOON WHEN MR. GLENN HAD HAD NO FOOD SINCE THE NOON HOUR, I WOULD HAVE TO STOP THE CAR AND LET HIM OUT SO HE COULD VOMIT." MR. THOMAS GOES ON TO SAY THAT MR. GLENN WOULD AVERAGE ONCE OR TWICE EACH WEEK CALLING HIM AND TELLING HIM NOT TO COME BY FOR HIM THAT HE WAS TOO SICK TO GO TO THE BASE AND REPORT FOR DUTY. HE CONTINUES, "DURING THE ENTIRE TIME THAT MR. GLENN WAS RIDING WITH ME, HE WAS PALE, SICK LOOKING, AND VERY QUIET; HE DID NOT SEEM ABLE TO MAKE CONVERSATION OR JOKE OR VISIT WITH THE OTHER PASSENGERS. HE WAS QUITE APOLOGETIC ALWAYS, BUT, MR. GLENN NEVER STATED TO ME WHAT WAS WRONG EXCEPT THAT HE WAS SICK." WILLIE THOMAS, AFFIANT, FURTHER MAKES AN OATH THAT HE IS NOT RELATED TO THE AIRMAN; THAT HE IS OF A DIFFERENT RACE THAN THE AIRMAN, BUT THAT HE MAKES THIS STATMENT IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE FACTS MAY BE KNOWN, AND THAT JUSTICE MAY BE DONE ON THE PREMISES. (IN THE MOVIE LT. DAN ASKS FORREST AND BUBBA IF THEY ARE TWINS. "WE ARE NOT RELATED.' IS FORREST'S RESPONSE. THEN LT. TELLS BUBBA THAT HE BETTER TUCK HIS LIP IN OR HE'LL GET IT CAUGHT ON A TRIP WIRE, A BOMB. THE TWINS ARE MY BROTHER AND SISTER.) (MUM'S RECIPE-VITAMINS, A SYRINGE-RECIPE FOR THE VIRUS) (JENNY SAYS, "I'M SICK, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MATTER IS, SOME KIND OF A VIRUS.) ON PAGE 81 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: LORINE WAS ON THE FLOOR BY THE TOILET LEANING (WE SEE FORREST HOLDING A TOILET SEAT IN THE MOVIE THAT THEY PULLED UP IN THE SHRIMP NETS) HER HEAD AGAINST THE SEAT AND HOLDING THE COLD CLOTH AGAINST HER FORHEAD. "WHAT IN THE WORLD.." "I'M SICK AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS THE MATTER," LORINE STARTED TO CRY. (LORINE IS PREGNANT...."SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA....YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO...THE BOYS ARE BUSILY POLISHING THEIR BOATS...FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER...SHRIMP COCTAIL, PAN FRIED, DEEP FRIED, STIR FRIED....THE BOYS ARE POLISHEING THE FLOOR. FORREST AND BUBBA ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER (ALSO CLEANING THE VOMIT IN THE CAR) HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER....TOILET...WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER.....PRIVATE? (GEAR-WE SEE JENNY AND A SYRINGE IN THE MOVIE, PILLS AND VITAMINS, ORANGE JUICE....ORANGE CRATE....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER.....MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...FOR THE VIRUS......) THEN I WRITE SHE IS FEELING A LITTLE BETTER DRINKING ORANGE JUICE. ON PAGE 416 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: MY FATHER AND I WOULD WANT MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON AIDS RESEARCH AND THE RESEARCH TO END THE NUMBER ONE KILLER AMONG WOMEN WHICH IS BREAST CANCER AND ALL CANCERS. WE WOULD WANT A BETTER HEALTH CARE SYSTEM TO ALL AND FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR ELDERLY WHO SIT AT HOME ALONE FEARING THAT THEIR MONEY OR MEDICATION WILL DISAPPEAR. WE WANT TO SEE THAT TH EENVIRONMENT AND ANIMALS COULD BE SAFE FROM MAN'S DESTRUCTION. (IN THE MOVIE AS THE NEWSMEN AND WOMEN CHASE AFTER FORREST THEY ASK HIM WHAT HE IS RUNNING FOR, WOMEN, ANIMALS, THE ENVIRONMENT........"I JUST FELT LIKE RUNNING," FORREST SAYS. WHERE DO THEY GET THE REPORTERS CHASING AFTER FORREST? ON PAGE 344 I WRITE: THE NEXT DAY GILBERT AND LORINE WOULD ARRIVE IN CINCINNATI, OHIO, THEY WOULD SAY FAREWELL TO THE NICE MARINE DOCTOR AND THE BUS DRIVER WHO HAD HELPED THEM OUT. (WE SEE FORREST WAITING AT THE BUS STOP FOR THE BUS.) I WOULD BE BORN THE VERY NEXT DAY IN A CHARITY HOSPITAL AND I WOULD BE A GIRL, NOT A ROWDY BOY. GILBERT WOULD GET A JOB AT WCPO TELEVISION STATION IN CINCINNATI, OHIO AS A PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILM EDITOR. (WE SEE FORRET TAKING PHOTOS IN THE MOVIE.) HE WOULD PROVE TO BE A VALUABLE EMPLOYEE AND VALUED BY HIS EMPLOYERS. (WE SEE FORREST BEING CHASED BY THE REPORTERS, WHAT ARE YOU RUNNING FOR THEY ASK. HE'S ON THE BRIDGE, "I JUST FELT LIKE RUNNING." (I WRITE ABOUT CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND AND THE FATHER OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, OPPENHEIMA IN SO MANY WORDS AND THAT HE HEADED THE MANHATTEN PROJECT AND STUDIED AT HARVARD, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND AND GOTTINGEN UNIVERSITY , GERMANY. HE DIRECTED THE ATOMIC BOMB LABORATROY AT LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO AND LATER HE WAS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY AT PRINCETON IN NEW JERSEY. LATER DR. OPPENHEIMA HAD HIS SECURITY CLEARANCE TAKEN AWAY BECAUSE OF ALLEGED LEFTIST ACTIVITIES. WE SEE FORREST RUNNING FROM THE REPORTERS AND IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY WRITE THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE SINGING AND CLAPPING ON THE BRIDGE SINGING, "AIN'T NO ONE GOING TO TURN ME AROUND." AND THEY WRITE THAT FORREST AND JENNY SAY, "THAT WAS THE BIGEST SPLASH EVER." WE SEE FORREST RUNNING AND HE SAYS HE FELT LIKE RUNNING. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY AT THIS POINT , PRINCE PHILIP SERVED FOR MANY YEARS AND FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE NOW AND PRESENTLY AS PRESIDENT OF CAMBRIDGE TO MY UNDERSTANDING OR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS I THINK. "I JUST FELT LIKE RUNNING!" FORREST HE TELLS THE REPORTERS. AND LATER HE SAYS, "I THINK I'LL GO HOME NOW." ON THIS SAME PAGE 416 I WRITE: GILBERT GLENN IF HE WERE ALIVE TODAY WOULD WANT TO SEE RACISM END AND FOR COUNTRIES TO UNITE IN PEACE, INSTEAD OF LIVING IN FEAR THAT MOST DO IN EASTERN EUROPE, A WORLD FULL OF SNAKE PITS AND SUFFERING ALL AROUND AND WHOSE WOMEN ARE NOW BEING RAPED AND TORTURED. (IN THE MOTION PICTURE TITANIC, THEY COPY THE SNAKE PIT AS MOLLY BROWN TURNS TO LEONARDO AND SAYS, "YOU'RE ABOUT TO GO INTO THE SNAKE PIT. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO WEAR?" TITANIC IS EASIER TO SEE EXPRESSION COPYING AND THERE WILL BE A LAWSUIT FILED.) TO BE CONTINUED......

AND THEY GOT MARRIED

AFTER JENNY GETS SICK, SHE AND FORREST MARRIED. WE SEE GILBERT AND LORINE GET MARRIED. HE PROMISES HE WILL TAKE CARE OF HER. THE VIRUS IS COPIED FROM THE PREVIOUS PAGES. OTHER MARRIAGES I WRITE ABOUT, TOO, JACK AND JACKIE KENNEDY, JOE DIMAGGIO AND MARILYN, ARTHUR MILLER AND MARILYN, SOLDIERS MARRYING NEWFOUNDLAND WOMEN, "HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONARE", HEDDY LAMARR MARRIES THE TEXAS OIL INDUSTRIALIST, W. HOWARD LEE IN NEW YORK ON CHAPTER PAGE ENTITLED, "A CHILD IS BORN," AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I WRITE ON CHAPTER PAGE ENTITLED, "MEN IN BLACK" "AND THE LOWERING OF THE BOOM." I WRITE, MARILYN WOULD DIVORCE JOE DIMAGGIO IN HOLLYWOOD WHILE CLARK GABLE WILL MARRY A FORMER MODEL KAY WILLIAMS SPRECKLES IN NEW JERSEY. ( I WROTE ABOUT MARILYN BECAUSE I LIKED HER AND WE SEE HER IN THE MOVIE AND I WRITE ABOUT KAY, BECAUSE THAT WAS MY MIDDLE NAME, CHANGED FROM KATE TO KAY. SO I GUESS WHERE MY MIND IS WRITING ALL OF THIS AND PARAMOUNT USES IT.) I HAD WRITTEN THAT IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT AND MOTION PICTURE FORREST SAYS WHILE THEY ARE DANCING, "JENNY AND ME, WE WERE LIKE FAMILY." I WROTE I WAS A YEAR OLD BABY NAMED AFTER A EUROPEAN QUEEN AND I WANTED TO DANCE AND SING. I WROTE THAT I WAS DANCING WHILE SINGING AT A HONKY TONK. AND SO FORTH. I FORGOT TO ADD ONE MORE DANCING. WE SEE FORREST AND JENNY THROUGH THE WINDOW DANCING. ON PAGE 26 OF MY NOVEL: THE PARTY BEGAN IN THE RECEPTION HALL AND LORINE WOULD HAVE THE FIRST DANCE WITH GILBERT WHILE EVERYONE LOOKED ON. MR. AND MRS. CLAYTON JOINED THEM ALONG WITH MR. AND MRS. GLENN. EVEN THE HEAVY LADY WITH THE BEE-HIVE HAIRDO JOINED IN WITH HER HUSBAND. HER HUSBAND WAS MUCH SHORTER THEN HIS VERY ENDOWED WIFE. SHE ALMOST CRUSHED HIM WHEN SHE PUT A BEAR HUG AROUND HIM. THEY WERE IN LOVE, TOO. EVERYONE ELSE THEN JOINED IN, OLD AND YOUNG ALIKE, DANCING TO THE MUSIC AS THEY CELEBRATED. AFTERWARD, GILBERT AND LORINE CUT THE WEDDING CAKE. WHILE EVEYONE LOOKED ON, GILBERT MADE A TOAST TO LORINE AND THEIR FUTURE. HE MADE A TOAST, ALSO, FOR HIS FUTURE CHILDREN AND HE WOULD SAY THAT HIS CHILDREN WILL ALWAYS KNOW THA HE WILL LOVE THEM EVEN IF THEY SHOULD EVER BE SEPARATED OR IF HE SHOULD EVER PASS ON. GILBERT AND LORINE MADE A FINAL EMBRACE AND BEFORE LEAVING FOR THEIR HONEYMOON, EVERYONE CHEERED WHEN LORINE THREW HER WEDDING BOQUET OF ROSES TO THE YOUNG WOMEN. THEN THEY BOTH HURRIED OUT TO LEAVE FOR THEIR HONEYMOON. OUTSIDE IN FRONT OF THE LITTLE BRICK CHRUCH, THE AIRMEN HELD UP THEIR CROSSED SWORDS WHILE GILBERT AND LOVELY LORINE RAN UNDER. EVERYONE THREW RICE AND WAVED GOODBYE AS GILBERT AND LORINE MADE A MAD DASH TOWARDS THE 1950 FORD THAT LORINE'S FATHER GAVE THEM. THEY WAVED (WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE) TO THE CHEERING CROWD AS THEY DROVE AWAY AS MAN AND WIFE. MRS. CLAYTON (IN MY SCREENPLAY IT'S "MRS. KENNEDY) STOOD BY THE CURB AND WIPED THE TEARS FROM HER EYES WITH A HANDKERCHIEF. MR. CLAYTON TRIED TO COMFORT HER WHEN HE CAME UP AND PUT HIS ARM AROUND HER WAIST. "HAPPY, HONEY?" "WHAT, HARVEY?' SHE SNIFFLED. "ARE YOU READY TO GO, CUPCAKE?' (IN THE PARAMOUNT WE FIND THAT WHILE IN WASHINGTON, FORREST AND JENNY STAY UP ALL NIGHT DRINKING COFFEE AND EATING CUPCAKE DOUGHNUTS.) MRS. CLAYTON'S HAT ALMOST BLEW OFF (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ THAT MRS. GUMP WHILE TALKING TO THE PRINCIPLE IS SITTING WITH HER HAT IN HER LAP, FINGERING HER HAT.) OFF OF HER HEAD FROM A GUST OF WIND WHEN SHE TURNED AROUND AND SNAPPED AT HER HUSBAND. "HARVEY, DON'T CALL ME CUPCAKE!" "WHAT'S THE MATTER CUP....., I MEAN, HONEY?" "HONESTLY, HARVEY, HERE YOU ARE MAKING GOO GOO EYES AND YOUR DAUGHTER IS DRIVING OFF TO A HOTEL, WITH THAT, THAT MAN!" SHE SNAPPED WALKING OFF TOWARDS THE CAR. "NOW, NOW, ETHEL, THEY'RE MARRIED NOW," HE SAID AS HE FOLLOWED BEHIND HER TO HELP HER INTO THE CAR. BUT BEFORE ETHEL COULD OPEN THE CAR DOOR, ANOTHER GUST OF WIND BLEW HER HAT OFF WHILE SHE RAN AFTER IT. THN ANOTHER GUST OF WIND BLEW UP HER DRESS (IN THE MOVIE WHILE JENNY IS IN THE CAR WITH A MAN, PARAMOUNT WRITES THA HER DRESS IS HIKED UP AND SHE SAYS, "OUCH, THAT HURTS." FORREST BEATS THE MAN UP IN THE CAR.) WHILE HARVEY LOOKED ON IN SHOCK. SHE WAS FIT TO BE TIED BY NOW AND SHE SNAPPED AT HER HUSBAND WHEN SHE CLIMBED INTO THE FRONT SEAT AND SLAMMED THE DOOR. MR. CLAYTON TOOK IT ALL IN STRIDE AND REACHED INTO HIS COAT POCKET FOR HIS PIPE AND TOBACCO. HE SMILED WHEN HE THOUGHT HE COULD FINALLY TAKE ETHEL HOME ALONE NOW. HE LIT HIS PIPE WHILE HE DREAMED OF A FEW MINUTES ALONE WITH HIS WIFE AND THEN HE TOOK A FEW PUFFS OFF OF THE PIPE. HE WALKED AROUND TO HIS SIDE OF THE CAR, GOT IN WITH HIS TEARFUL ETHEL AND DROVE UP THE DUSTY ROAD.

WE PRAY TODAY

IN THE MOVIE WE SEE LITTLE JENNY AND FORREST GET ON THEIR KNEES AND PRAY. "PRAY WITH ME FORREST," "MAKE ME A BIRD SO I CAN FLY FAR, FAR AWAY." AND HER FATHER THEN CALLS FOR HER, SEARCHING FOR HER, WHERE IS HIS LITTLE GIRL. ON PAGE 48 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: THE CHEROKEE WOMAN STARTED TO DRAW SIGNS AND PICTURES IN THE ROAD WITH A STICK. (MORE ART FOR GUMP AND TITANIC) "I TELL YOUR FORTUNE," SAID THE CHEROKEE WOMAN WITHOUT LOOKING UP. "WHAT DOES IT SAY?" LORINE EAGERILY ASKED AS SHE ATE A CORN CAKE FROM THE BASKET. SUNFLOWER DREW IN THE DIRT A MAMA BEAR WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN LORINE, AND SHE DREW SMALL BABY BEARS. SHE DREW A VERY LARGE BIRD IN THE SKY WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN AN AIRPLANE. THEN SHE DID SOMETHING VERY STRANGE, SHE DREW A LINE THROUGH THE BABY BEARS AS IF TO OMIT THEM AND THEN SHE SCRATCHED THE WHOLE PICTURE ALL OUT COMPLETELY. "SUNFLOWER MAKE MISTAKE," SHE SAID AS SHE SCRATCHED IN THE DIRT WITH HER STICK. "BUT, WHAT DID IT SAY?' LORINE ASKED AGAIN, "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BABY BEARS?" "SUNFLOWER MAKE MISTAKE," SAID THE CHEROKEE WOMAN AGAIN AS SHE ROSE TO HER FEET AND WALKED TOWARD HER HUSBAND, BIG BEAR LEAVING LORINE BEHID. LORINE WONDERED TO HERSELF WHAT THE WOMAN HAD SEEN IN THE DIRT, WAS IT BAD, WAS SOMETHING AWFUL GOING TO HAPPEN TO LORINE'S CHILDREN SHE ASKED HERSELF AS SHE TOO GOT UP. SHE WALKED TOWARDS GILBERT, BIG BEAR AND SUNFLOWER. (FORREST AND BUBBA STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS (BASKETS, PLANE, CAR) INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER...PRIVATE? GEAR-A STICK, AN ARROW FOR A BIRD, A BLACK BERRIE....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND (ARM, FEET) SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-AN INVITATION...THAT'S A REICPE FROM MY MUM, THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI......) "WE'RE ALL FINISHED HERE," GILBERT SAID AS HE PUT HIS ARM AROUND LORINE. "CAN WE DRIVE YOU FOLKS ANYWHERE," GILBERT ASKED BIG BEAR. "NO THANK YOU, WE KEEP OUR FEET ON THE GROUND," REPLIED BIG BEAR. "THANK YOU SO MUCH, ARE YOU SURE?" ASK GILBERT AGAIN WHILE HE OPENED THE DOOR OF THE CAR AND HELPED LORINE IN. "I GO QUAIL HUNTING AND WOMAN PICK BLACK BERRIES," ANSWERED BIG BEAR. "YOU COME TO RESERVATION TONIGHT FOR A BIG CELEBRATION,' BIG BEAR CONTINUED. "WHAT'S THE CELEBRATION FOR, " GILBERT ASKED. "YOUR WEDDING," SMILED BIG BEAR. GILBERT AGREED AND SHOOK THE OLD CHEROKEE INDIAN MAN'S HAND AS HE GOT INTO THE FORD AND CONTINUED ON UP THE MOUNTAIN. BIG BEAR AND SUNFLOWER WAVED GOODBYE AND THEY CONTINUED ON WITH THEIR JOURNEY TO HUNT FOR QUAIL AND TO PICK BLACK BERRIES. (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE FORREST SHAKES HAND WITH THE PRESIDENT AND HE'S TOLD CONGRATULATIONS, THE HAND SHAKING IS HERE, WHEN GILBERT AND LORINE HAVE A BABY, AND AT THE QUARRY WHEN THEY SAY THEY ARE KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. WE PRAY TODAY. AFTER SHE SEES THE BIRD LATER WE SEE LORINE AND GILBERT PRAYING, WE SEE JENNY AND FORREST PRAYING. "PRAY WITH ME FORREST." "MAKE ME A BIRD, SO I CAN FLY FAR, FAR AWAY.' ON PAGE 28 OF MY SYNOPSIS I WRITE: THE DOORS KEPT SLAMMING INTO THEIR FACES ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF THEIR YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, THERESA. (WE HEAR FORREST'S SCREEN DOOR SLAM IN THE MOVIE AND HE GOES OUT ON THE PORCH LOOKING AROUND. ) AND AT THE SAME TIME, SOME OF THE JEFFERS FAMILY WOULD SEND FOR MY LAST RITES TO BE GIVEN. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, THEY DEVIATE AGAIN AND WRITE THAT IT IS AN EXORCISM AND THEY WRITE, "JENNY IS EXERCISING HER DEMONS." AND HERE I WAS DYING AND PARAMOUNT DID THIS.) AS THE MACHINES BEEPED LOUDLY BY MY BEDSIDE AND PEOPLE STOOD OVER MY HOSPITAL BED SPRINKLING WATER ON ME AND PRAYING, (FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR- LAST RITES OR THE CROSS AND THE BIBLE....MUM'S RECIPE.....GEAR-THE PLUG...PULLING THE PLUG...) SPRINKLING WATER ON ME AND PRAYING, (AND WE READ "FORREST TOTALLY FOCUSED IS A WHIZ.....) SPRINLING WATER ON ME AND PRAYING, GILBERT GLENN WAS DOING SOME PRAYING OF HIS OWN, "DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN, PLEASE, WIT OUR POWER, HELP US TO FIND OUR DAUGHTER, THERESA." (PRAY WITH ME FORREST) WE PRAY TODAY....

THE MAP

IN THE MOVIE AND THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT PARMOUNT SAYS AND "WE SEE A MAP OF THE PLACES FORREST HAS RUN TO.'" AND WE SEE THE MAP IN THE MOVIE AND WE READ "MAP" IN THE GUMP PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THAT THEY COPIED. I WRITE THAT GILBERT COMES ACROSS A MAP AND BECAUSE I WRITE MANY PAGES THAT WE CAN USE IN THE COURT ROOM, I WILL KEEP IT SHORT HERE, THEY COPIED THE MAP I WROTE OF PLAIN AND SIMPLE. PAGE 163 OF MY NOVEL: IN ANOTHER LEDGER IT WOULD SHOW THE COSTS OF RATIONS FOR OVERSEAS MILITARY FAMILIES AND GILBERT QUESTIONED IN HIS MIND THE ACCURACY OF THESE RECORDS. (THERE'S ANOTHER RECORD....YOU DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM....YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF .....) HE GOT UP AND PUT THE LEDGERS BACK INTO THE CABINET AND CAME ACROSS A MAP OF THE BASE. THERE WERE PARTS OF THE BASE THAT HE HAD NOT SEN YET AND ON THE MAP THERE WAS A FOOTNOTE ON THE BOTTOM INDICATING THE LOCATION OF UNLOADING SUPPLIES. HE HAD NEVER SEEN THIS PART OF THE BASE AND TOMORROW HE WOULD GO AND VISIT THIS LOCATION AFTER HE TOOK INVENTORY. HIS COMMANDING OFFICER TOLD HIM THE PREVIOUS DAY THAT HE WAS TO GO TO ANOTHER PART OF THE BASE TO TAKE INVENTORY AND HE WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE OVER THERE, IT WOULD GIEV HIM A CHANCE TO CHECK OUT THIS OTHER LOCATION HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. SINCE THE FIRST ATOM BOMB WAS DROPPED ON JAPAN, IT TRIGGERED AN ARMS RACE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA THAT WOULD BEGIN AFTER THE KOREAN WAR BROKE OUT. THE UNITED STATES HAD WHOLEHEARTEDLY USED TAX PAYERS' MONEY TO BUY WEAPONRY. (WORKS ON HIS WEAPON WHISPERING TO FORREST) IT WAS THE COLD WAR NOW AND THERE WAS A FEAR THAT RAN THROUGH THE NATION'S CAPTITAL. THEY FEARE RUSSIA AND NOW WAS A TIME FOR A MILITARY BUILD UP OF WEAPONS. GILBERT DECIDED TO PUT THE MAP IN HIS COAT POCKET AND TO KEEP THE CABINET UNLOCKED SO THAT HE COULD GO BACK OVER THE RECORDS. NOW HE HAD THE JOB OF RETURNING THE KEYS AND PUTTING THEM BACK INTO THE GENERAL'S OFFICE. (YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDAY.....PRIVATE! NOW DISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON AND CONTINUE...) SO HE WALKED (A DRILL SERGEANT WALKING INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS....CASH BOX) BACK TO THE WINDOW OF THE GENERAL'S OFFICE AND LOOKED IN TO SEE IF ANYONE WAS IN THERE AND HE LOOKED AROUND TO SEE IF ANYONE WAS LOOKING. THE COAST WAS CLEAR, SO THE UNLOCKED WINDOW WHICH HE UNLOCKED EARLIER WAS VERY EASY FOR HIM TO CRAWL IN QUICKLY AND PUT THE KEYS BACK UNDER THE CASH AND DOCUMENTS (WAVES A PAPER IN BUBBA'S FACE.) (GEAR-KEYS IN THE FOOTLOCKER....MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....) IN THE GOLDEN BOX.....LOOKS IN BUBBA FOOT LOCKER.....GILBERT CLIMBED BACK OUT F THE WINDOW AND INTO THE COLD SNOW HE WALKED AWAY BEFORE ANYONE SAW HIM. PAGE 170 WHILE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WOULD SEND BILLIONS OF DOLLAR OF TAX PAYERS' MONEY TO FOREIGN LANDS, GILBERT GLENN WOULD BE IN STEPHENVILLE, NEWFOUNDLAND WORRYING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT ABOUT THE NEXT DAY'S INVENTORY AND GOING TO THE OTHER PARTS OF THE BASE TO CHECK OUT A FEW THINGS THAT WERE ON THE MAP. THE MAP HAD INDICATED THAT IT WAS A PART OF THE BASE FOR UNLOADING AND SINCE HIS COMMANDER WAS SENDING HIM OUT TO TAKE INVENTORY, HE WOULD CHECK OUT THIS MYSTERY THAT HE HAD YET TO SEE. ........ THIS MORNING, GILBERT WANTED TO GET THERE AN HOUR EARLY TO GO OVER THE LEDGERS BEFORE HE SET OUT FOR THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BASE TO CHECK OUT INVENTORY AND THEN TO CHECK OUT THE MAP. HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HE WAS GOING TO FIND, BUT, IT WAS BETTER THAN NOT KNOWING THE WAY HE WORRIED FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS...... PAGE 172. GILBERT TOOK A MAP OUT OF HIS POCKET TO STUDY IT WHILE HE DRANK A CUP OF COFFEE. (THIS WAS AFTER HE SAW IN THE LEDGER EXPENSES OF OFFICERS ON PARTIES, USING TAX PAYERS' MONEY....MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....) .....THERE WAS A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION STILL GOING ON AND SOME OF THE ROADS WERE PRETTY BAD. MOST OF THEM WERE VERY MUDDY AND SLUSHY ICE DID NOT HELP MATTERS AS GILBERT SWIRVED THE JEEP INTO A SHALLOW DITCH. (WE SEE FORREST COVERED IN MUD AS HE IS RUNNING AND WE SEE AN ACCIDENT.) ....WHEN HE OPENED THE WAREHOUSE DOORS HE COULD NOT BELIEVE HIS EYES. IT SEEMED THAT THERE WERE BOXES....(A DRILL SERGEANT INSPECTING....HE LOOKS IN AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER....RADIOS, BARRELS OF HAZARDOUS TOXIC WASTES (IF IT WEREN'T SUCH A WASTE OF A FINE ENLISTED MAN....) CORROSIVES AND SOME OF THE BARRELS WERE LEAKING AND RUSTING. SPARE PARTS WITH NO IDENTIFICATION.) BOXES OF UNDENTIFIED SPARE PARTS STACKED AT LEAST FIVE BOXES HIGH ON SHELVES WITH NO IDENTIFICATION CARDS OR NUMBERS SO THAT GILBERT COULD RECORD IT. (PAPER- (A COUPLE OF FAKE I.D.'S)CARDS, MUM'S REICPE FOR A HOUSE OF CARDS.....SHRIMP SCAMPI......A WASTELAND OF THE DEAD.....FAKE I.D.'S A PIECE OF PAER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE) HE WALKED AROUND TO SEE THE MESS THAT HAD ACCUMULATED AND WONDERED HOW IT COULD HAVE GOTTEN SO BAD. THERE WERE ALL KINDS OF PARTS, RADIOS, BARRELS OF HAZARDOUS TOXIC WASTE SUCH AS ACIDS, CORROSIVES AND SOME OF THE BARRELS WERE LEAKING AND RUSTING. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR ACIDS, FOR LEAKS....) IN ADDITON THERE WERE MILES OF SPARE PARTS WITH NO IDENTIFICATION, IT WAS A JOB THAT WOULD BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. GILBERT WENT ON THE THE NEXT WAREHOUSE, BUT, WHAT HE HAD DISCOVERED AT THIS NEXT WAREHOUSE WAS THE SAME AS THE WAREHOUSE BEFORE, A MESS. HE THEN SET OUT TO DRIVE AROUND AND TO GO TO THE AREA THAT WAS ON THE MAP. (IN THE MOVIE WE HEAR FORREST SAY, "WE HAVE THIS BIG OL WAREHOUSE.') WHEN GILBERT HAD ARRIVED HE WAS IN SHOCK TO SEE THAT THERE WERE ACRES OF SPARE PARTS SUCH AS PARTS OF VEHICLES, CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT, AIRCRAFT SPARE PARTS, PRECISION PARTS, PARTS FOR REBUILDING OF EQUIPMENT, (IN THE PARAMOUT SCRIPT THAT LITTLE FORREST IS "PLAYING ON SOME EQUIPMENT.") ENGINES, STARTERS (WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTOCKER.....PRIVTATE?) GENERATORS, ALL TYPES OF MATERNAL WORKINGS OF AN ENGINE, SAW BLADES AND ALL TYPES F ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT. IT WAS LAYING OUT IN OPENED AREAS, SOME STILL IN THEIR BOXES AND ROTTING AWAY AND RUSTING. IT HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO ALL SORTS OF WEATHER. (HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE...A MAP...MUM'S REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....) GILBERT THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD TAKE SOME 50 YEARS TO USE ALL OF THESE SPARE PARTS IF THEY WERE STIL USUABLE. THE NEWS MEDIA (IS RUNNING AFTER FORREST, "WHAT ARE YOU RUNNING FOR?") MEDIA ACTS VERY QUICKLY IN EXPOSING OVER-SPENDING OF THE BIG THINGS SUCH AS AIRCRAFT OR TANKS OR ROCK-CRUSHERS (WHAT'S THIS ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER.....PRIVEATE? A ROCK CRUSHER...MUM'S RECIPE) BUT IT IS THE BIG THINGS THAT MAKE UP OF ONLY ONE FOURTH OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING. TAX PAYERS' MONEY IS BEING EXPENDED ON OVER-SPENDING OF SPAREPARTS WHICH MAKES UP THREE-FOURTHS OF GOVERNEMENT SPENDING AMOUNTING As OF THE MID 1980'S TO ALMOST 100 BILLION DOLLARS. (WE CAN MAKE UPWARDS......) IT IS THE SPARE PARTS THAT CAUSES THE WASTE OF TAX PAYERS' MONEY, THE LITTLE ITEMS. (IF IT WEREN'T SUCH A WASTE OF A FINE ENLISTED MAN......) IT CAN BE ARGUED THAT THE SURPRISE ATTACK CAN WIN WARS AND IN ORDER TO KEEP THE ENEMY OFF BALANCE IS TO ALWAYS COME UP WITH BETTER AIRCRAFT, MISSILES (MUM'S RECIPE IN THE OL FOOTLOCKER.....) THAT THE ENEMY KNOWS NOTHING OF THEIR TECHNICAL ADVANCMENTS AND TO UPDATE NEWER EQUIPMENT AND AIRCRAFT ONE HAS TO UPDATE THE SPARE PARTS. BUT, IT IS TAXPAYERS MONEY THAT IS BEING THROWN AWAY ON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF WASTE, WASTE THAT WILL NEVER BE USED. WE CAN ALSO SAY THAT WHEN IT COMES TO FOREIGN SPENDING, FOREIGN-MADE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT, WARSHIPS, AND TANKS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE AMERICAN AIRCRAFT, WARSHIPS, AND TANKS. WE CAN ALSO SAY THAT FOREIGN-MADE SPARE PARTS ARE LESS EXPENSIVE. HARMON AIR FORCE BASE WAS A STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND AND IN ORDER FOR THEM TO GET THESE SUPPLIES THEY HAVE TO GET PERMISSION FROM THE SYSTEMS COMMAND. THE CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE SYSTEMS COMMAND IS AT ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE. THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND IS A VERY POWERFUL FORCE WITHIN THE AIR FORCE AND USUALLY THE SYSTEM COMMAND CAN NOT REFUSE ITS REQUESTS. ANOTHER SYSTEMS COMMAND BASE IS AT EGLIN AIR FORCE IN FLORIDA AS ONE OF THE FOUR MAIN DIVISIONS. ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT CENTER (AEDC) IS A SYSTEMS COMMAND LOCATED NEAR TULLAHOMA TENNESSEE. (MY ADOPTED DAD WORKED WHEN I FIRST CAME TO THEIR HOME TO LIVE.) EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE IS HOME OF THE SYSTEMS COMMAND'S ARAMENT DIVISION WERE STUDIES ARE MADE AND WORKED OUT OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ARMAMENT. IT ALSO SUPERVISES THE AIR FORCE LABORATORIES (WHERE GILBERT WAS SENT AFTER HE BLEW THE WHISTLE) AND OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS THAT DO THE ACTUAL WORK AND UNCOVERS NEW AND TECHNICAL POSSIBILITIES. THE PURPOSE OF HAVING A SYSTEMS COMMAND IS TO CONTROL THE SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL POTENTIAL OF THE NATION AND TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE AIR FORCE. IF AN ENGINEER WANTS TO DEVELOP A NEW WEAPON (DISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON GUMP AND CONTINUE.....SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA.....YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT...) FOR THE AIR FORCE, HAS TO HAVE FUNDING FOR IT AND IN ORDER TO OBTAIN FUNDING THE REQUEST HAS TO GO THROUGH A CHAIN OF APPROVALS. FIRST IT MUST BE AUTHORIZED BY THE SYSTEMS COMMAND, THEN NEXT BY THE AIR FORCE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. NEXT TO GET APPROVAL IT HAS TO GO THROUGH THE STAFF OF THE UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING AND THE FINAL APPROVAL COMES FROM THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE OFFICE AND THEN ALL HAS TO BE APPROVED BY CONGRESS. THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HAS HIS JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF TO ADVISE HIM AND HIS OFFICE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TRYING TO REDUCING FRAUD, WASTE, AND MISMANAGEMENT BUT, WITHOUT CONGRESS ALL CAN FAIL. THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SUPERVISES AND MANAGES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. HIS OFFICE ALSO MANAGES FOREIGN POLICY, HEALTH AND WELFARE, INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT AND ABOVE ALL FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING. THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE OVERSEES THE ANNUAL DEFENSE BUDGET AND MOST SECRETARY OF DEFENSES HAVE SOUGHT THE LARGEST BUDGETS FOR THE MILITARY DOING LITTLE OR NOTHING TO IMPROVE THE OPERATIONS. THE AIR FORCE CAN SPEND HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO HAVE BETTER AIRCRAFT, WEAPONRY BUT THEY DO LITTLE TOWARDS THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF THE SERVICE FAMILIES WHO LIVE ON PRACTICALLY NOTHING TO SURVIVE. MORALE PLUMMETS FOR MOST WHO ARE AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND GILBERT COULD SEE THAT HARMON AIR FORCE BASE HAD BAD MORALE AMONG ITS OFFICERS. UP UNTIL NOW, GILBERT THOUGHT THE AIR BASE HAD ONLY A MORALE PROBLEM, BUT NOW HE RELIZED THAT ERNEST HARMON AIR FORCE BASE HAD A WASTE PROBLEM THAT WAS OUT OF CONTROL. (SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA.....YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT......) GILBERT WALKED AROUND A COUPLE OF ACRES TO SEE THAT THE SPARE PARTS WERE LYING ON THE GROUND IN OPENED AREAS, VAST OPENED AREAS. MOST WERE STILL IN THEIR ROTTING CRATES AND JUST RUSTING AWAY NEVER HAD EVER BEEN OPENED. "HOW COULDE THIS BE?" HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. "ISN'T THE AIR FORCE MORE ORGANIZED THAN THIS?" HE THOUGHT AS HE SCRATCHED HIS HEAD IN BEWILDERMENT. GILBERT HAD BEEN WARNED OF COMMUNIST SUBVERSION AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HE THOUGHT THIS WAS. BUT, HE DIDN'T THINK THE AIR FORCE WOULD ARN OF COMMUNIST SUBVERSION IN ITS OWN BACK YARD. HE EVEN THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS ORGANIZED WASTE, AND NOW IT WAS THE POOR TAXPAYERS WHO WERE THE VICTIMS, SOMEONE HAD TO KNOW ABOUT THIS. GILBERT WALKED BACK OVER THE SNOWY GROUND TO HIS JEEP AND PRECEDED TO DRIVE AROUND FOR AWHILE. IT SICKENED HIM TO SEE SUCH A MASSIVE WASTELAND OF THE DEAD. (IF IT WEREN'T SUCH A WASTE OF A FINE ENLISTED MAN, I RECOMMEND YOU FOR OCS....) IT WAS A WASTELAND OF SPARE PARTS AND A WASTELAND OF MONEY THAT WAS SPENT TO THE HILT ONLY TO DIE HERE IN THE RUGGED BACKWOODS WHERE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC COULD NOT SEE IT. IT WAS IN THE DISTANCE THAT HE SAW SOME DEER CHEWING ON GRASS, ( WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, THAT FORREST LIKE A GAZELLE JUMPS OVER THE FENCE RUNNING AND WE READ THAT "FORREST LIKE A DEER CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS.") BUT, IT WAS A SORRY SIGHT TO SEE THE CORRUPTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND HE INNOCENCE OF GOD'S CREATURES IN THE SAME PICTURE THAT GILBERT WAS LOOKING AT. GILBERT DECIDED TO DRIVE BACK TO THE SUPPLY SQUARDRON TO REPORT WHAT HE HAD FOUND AND WHEN FINALLY DROVE UP, HE SAW HIS FRIEND JESSIE STANDING OUTSIDE TALKING TO GILBERT'S COMMANDING OFFICER. (FORREST AND BUBBA STANDING AT ATTENTION) BOTH LOOKED SURPRISED WHEN THEY (FORREST LIKE A DEER CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS) SAW THAT GILBERT HAD COME BACK SOONER THAN EXPECTED....... PAGE 177. "I WENT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BASE TODAY." JESSIE'S FACE TURNED SLOWLY FROM A SMILE INTO A FROWN, "YOU WHAT?" (DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING...GUMP WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY? BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO, DRILL SERGEANT.) "CHECK OUT THIS MAP, JESSIE." (HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE...MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI......) "WHAT MAP?" "THIS MAP THAT I GOT OUT OF THE FILING CABINET," GILBERT SIAD AS HE REACHED INTO HIS POCKET AND TOOK OUT THE MAP AND UNFOLDED IT FOR JESSIE TO SEE. (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER.....PRIVATE? HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM.....) "OH, NO, GLENN, YOU DIDN'T" "I TOLD YOU TO STAY OUT OF THAT CABINET!" JESSIE GRABBED THE MAP OUT OF GILBERT'S HANDS AND THEN REALIZED THAT GILBERT HAD GOTTEN THE KEYS FROM THE GENERAL'S OFFICE, "WHERE DID YOU GET THE KEYS?" "I PUT THE KEYS BACK INTO THE OFFICE, JESSIE." "YOU WHAT!" "JESSIE THERE IS A LO OF WASTE GOING ON AT THIS BASE." "ARE YOU TRYING TO GET YOURSELF INTO ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE?" "BUT, YOU SHOULD SEE..." "GLENN, I'VE ALREADY SEEN, I'VE BEEN HERE LONGER." "WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING....." lIKE WHAT, GLENN, TELL SOMEONE?" "YES!" GILBERT SAID AS HE GRABBED THE MAP BACK AND FOLDED IT UP AND HE PUT IT BACK INTO HIS SHIRT POCKET. JESSIE STARTED SHADING HIS HEAD BACK AND FORTH MECHANICALLY. "GLENN, LEAVE IT ALONE, TROUBLE, IT'S NOTHING BUT TROUBLE." "JESSIE OUR COUNTRY IS IN A LOT OF TROUBLE." "I TOLD YOU, GLEEN, BACK AT YOUR HOUSE WHEN WE CAME OVER FOR TANKSGIVING DINNER TO NEVER MESS WITH THE GOVERNMENT, OR YOUR LIFE WILL BE OVER WITH." "TO EVEN THINK ABOUT IT MAKES ME SHAKE IN MY SHOES.' (IN THE MOVIE, JENNY GIVES FORREST A PAIR OF RUNNING SHOES. AND IN THE MOVIE WE HEAR FORREST SAY THAT IN THE LAND OF CHINA, CHILDREN HAVE NO SHOES.) IN BOTH THE MOVIE AND IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE SEE A MAP OF WHERE FORREST IS RUNNING TO AND WHERE'S BEEN.

I WANT TO GO HOME.

IN THE MOVIE, 'FORREST GUMP," BUBBA HAS HAD HIS STOMACH BLOWN AWAY, HIS STOMACH LAY OPEN SHOWING HIS GUTS AND IS LYING THERE. FORREST SAYS, "BUBBA SAID SOMETHING I WILL NEVER FORGET," BUBBA, "I WANT TO GO HOME.' THEN FORREST SAYS THAT BUBBA DIED THERE BY THAT RIVER. PARAMOUNT COPIES, "I WANT TO GO HOME,' FROM MY PAGES AND HERE'S WHERE THEY COPIED IT FROM. VERBATIM EXPRESSION PROTECTED BY THE COPYRIGHT LAWS. ON PAGE 29 OF MY SYNOPSIS: "I ENDURED AN EIGHT HOUR RADICAL SURGERY OF THE REMOVAL OF MY LARGE INTESTINE. THEY SAID I DIED ON THE OPERATING TABLE, "SLIPPED AWAY SHORTLY,' ONE SAID, BUT, I ONLY REMEMBER WAKING UP WITH I.V. NEEDLES IN MY NECK AND AN I.V. NEEDLE IN MY ARM, AND EVENTUALLY IN MY FEET, BECAUSE, MY BLACKENED ARMS WOULD EVENTUALLY RUN OUT OF STRONG VEINS. I REMEMBER A LOT OF PEOPLE IN MY ROOM AND NURSES RUNNING IN AND OUT. MY DOCTOR CAME IN AND SAT DOWN ON MY BED AND SAID, "WELCOME, BACK TERRI." THE DOCTOR GAVE ME THE NICKNAME, TERRI, BECAUSE HE SAID I LOOKED MORE LIKE A TERRI THAN A THERESA. MY CHEST FELT AS IF SOMEONE HAD HIT ME REAL HARD WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER, MAYBE THAT'S WHERE THEY PUT THE PADDLES TO BRING ME BACK. MY NOSE WAS BURNING BECAUSE I HAD A TUBE THROUGH MY NOSE RUNNING DOWN TO MY STOMACH. I TRIED TO PULL THE I.V. OUT OF MY NECK AND TRIED TO PULL THE TUBE OUT OF MY NOSE, BUT, THE DOCTOR STOPPED ME. I SAID, "I TALKED TO JESUS, I SAW JESUS." (FORREST SAID JENNY SAW GOD, BUT, HE DIDN'T BELIEVE HER.) AND THEN THE DOCTOR SAID, "TERRI, IT'S JUST THE MORPHINE WE'RE GIVING YOU, YOU COULD BE HALLUCINATING." "BUT, I TOLD JESUS I WANTED TO COME HOME; I HURT SO BAD; I WANT TO GO HOME TO HEAVEN." ("I WANT TO GO HOME," BUBBA SAYS WITH HIS GUTS HANGING OUT.) AND I REMEMBER HEARING A VOICE LIKE JESUS' SAY, "DO, YOU WANT ME TO TAKE YOU NOW?" AND I SAID, 'YES, TO END MY SUFFERING." THE VOICE SAID, "BUT, WHAT ABOUT YOUR FAMILY, THEY STILL NEED YOU." THE DOCTOR CHECKED ALL OF MY BANDAGES AND STAYED BY MY SIDE UNTIL I FELL ASLEEP. BUBBA SAYS, "I WANT TO GO HOME.' "HONEY, HOW ARE DOING?' HE ASKED AS HE SAT DOWN ON THE BED NEXT TO HIS WIFE. SHE LOOKS SO PALE AND WEAK HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF AS HE PLACED A COLD, WET COMPRESS TO HER FOREHEAD AND HELD HER HAND. "GILBERT, I WANT TO GO HOME, PLEASE TAKE ME HOME," LORINE BEGGED IN A LITTLE GIRL VOICE. SHE WAS FRIGHTENED AND SHE DID NOT REALIZE THAT IT WOULD BE THIS PAINFUL AND SHE WAS NOT FULLY DIALATED YET. "BABY, IF I COULD TAKE YOU HOME, I WOULD, YOU KNOW I WOULD." GILBERT'S COMFORTING WORDS WERE IN A WHISPER AS HE KISSED HER LIPS. HE WISHED THAT HE WAS THE ONE CARRYING THE PAIN FOR HER AND HE COULD NOT BEAR SEEING HER THIS WAY. IT WAS DECEMBER 29 AND 5:00 A.M. IN THE MORNING AND IT WAS TIME TO START THE ADMINISTERING THE PAIN MEDICATION. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....A RECIPE FOR THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS....A RECIPE FOR A GRAND CHRISTMAS.....AND FORREST SAID, 'YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER." ON THE CHAPTER PAGE CALLED, "IN THE EYE OF A HURRICANE." LORINE HAD HER HANDS FULL WITH THE CHILDREN AND HER HEALTH HAD WORSEN. SHE WNTED TO GO HOME TO BE NEAR PEARL, GILBERT'S MOTHER AND GILBERT ONLY WANTED TO MAKE HER HAPPY. I WANT TO GO HOME. ON PAGE 396: MY DREAMS WERE COMING TRUE AND I FOR THE FIRST TIME WOULD MEET MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER. MY BROTHER'S COURAGE IN FINDING ME RESULTED IN OUR BECOMING VERY CLOSE. PARAMOUNT USES THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH WHEN FORREST SEARCHES FOR JENNY AND FINDS HER NUDE SINGING ON A STAGE. JENNY SAID THE CANON BALLS WILL BE FLYING. AND FORREST SAYS, "HER DREAMS HAD COME TRUE, SHE WAS A FOLK SINGER." GET IT, FOLK (PARENTS) SINGER AND THAT IS HOW THEY SMUTTED UP A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY IN MY LIFE. I SANG, BUT, NOT NUDE ON STAGE OR STRIPPED, EVER AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS I FILED THE LAWSUIT. GOING HOME IS COMING UP. AND WE READ ABOUT THE LONDON CLOCK.

WHAT WAS JENNY'S ADDRESS?

IN THE MOTION PICTURE FORREST TRIES TO FIND JENNY BY WRITING LETTERS TO HER. WHAT WERE HER ADDRESSES IN THE MOTION PICTURE? ONE ADDRESS THAT I MENTION IN MY SCRIPTS IS PARK AVENUE AND ALSO: ON PAGE 32 OF MY SYNOPSIS: JIMMY'S FIRST LETTER WAS ADDRESSED SIMPLY: "O.B. JEFFERS, WINCHESTER, TENNESEE." "I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THERESA FOR A FEW YEARS NOW," HE WROTE. "IF YOU HAVE TOLD HER ABOUT BEING ADOPTED, I WOULD LIKE TO MEET HER. IF NOT, THEN I WON'T BOTHER BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW SHE IS DOING AND I WOULD LIKE A RECENT PICTURE...." " I HAVE BEEN PRAYING (ANOTHER COPY, 'PRAY WITH ME FORREST.") THAT SOMEDAY I WOULD FIND MY BABY SISTER. "I HOPE THIS IS NOT ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT." TEARS STREAMED DOWN MY FACE, AS I READ THE LAST SENTENCE AND I GOT UP FROM MY BED AND WALKED BACK INTO THE KITCHEN. I LOOKED AT MY ADOPTED DAD AND SAID, "I LOVE YOU AND MOTHER AND DON'T WANT YOU TO BE HURT BY ALL THIS, BUT I HAVE TO KNOW WHERE I CAME FROM, WHO I LOOK LIKE, I JUST HAVE TO KNOW, DAD." NOTICE ON THE ENVELOPE THAT IT SAYS JUST "O.B. JEFFERS, WINCHESTER, TN.?" THE LETTER GOT THERE WITHOUT THE ENTIRE ADDRESS BECAUSE WE ARE WELL KNOWN. IN THE MOTION PICTURE WE SEE THE LETTER TO JENNY AND IT HAS THE ADDRESS RT. 2. NO WHERE IN MY SCRIPTS DO I HAVE RT. 2. MY ADDRESS WAS RT. 2 THERE AT MY DAD'S HOUSE. LATER FORREST IS TALKING TO THE ELDERLY WOMAN AT THE BUS STOP AND THE ADDRESS LATER FOR FINDING JENNY IS 1947 HENRY ST. NOW I WILL SHOW YOU HOW THEY DID IT. CONCERNING THE WASTE HEARINGS: THE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTE ON INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COMMITTE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS MET ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1957 AT 10:00 A.M., PURSUANT TO SENATE RESOLUTION 37, AGREED TO JANUARY 30, 1957, IN ROOM 357 OF THE SENATE OFFICE BUILDING. SENATOR JOHN L. McCLELLAN WHO WAS CHAIRMAN PRESIDED. ALSO PRESENT WERE (HENRY) M. JACKSON, DEMOCRAT FROM WASHINGON, STUART SYMINGTON, DEMOCRAT, FROM MISSOURI AND CHAPMAN REVERCOMB, REPUBLICAN FROM WEST VIRGINIA. DONALD F. O'DONNELL ACTED AS CHIEF COUNSEL AND JAMES JULIANA WAS THE CHIEF COUNSIL TO THE MINORITY. THOMAS G. EGAN WAS THE COMMITTEE'S INVESTIGATOR AND BARBARA L. MAXWELL WAS CHEF CLERK. JOHN L. McCLELLAN, CHAIRMAN, IN THE 1940'S OPPOSED MOST OF PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S FAIR DEAL PROGRAMS. HE VOTED AGAINST THE EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946, FOR THE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT OF (1947), AND AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION'S MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR PUBLIC HOUSING MEASURE IN 1949. HE WAS A CONSISTENT FOE OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION. HE HEADED TALBOTTHEARINGS, THE McCARTHY, THE TEAMSTER AND HOFFA HEARINGS AND NOW HE HEADED THESE HEARINGS ON THE WATE IN NEWFOUNDLAND. (NOTICE 1947 HENRY, AND I BELIEVE PARAMOUNT IS IMPLYING THAT JENNY LIVES IN PUBLIC HOUSING ON 1947 HENRY ST. LATER WE WILL GO TO THE REUNITING SCENE AND TO FLOOD GATES. AT THE FAMILY REUNION.) 1947 HENRY ST. CONTINUES: ON PAGE 260 NOVEL THAT I WRITE: PRESENT AT THE HEARINGS ON THE WASTE IN NEWFOUNDLAND WAS SENATOR CHAPMAN REVERCOMB FROM WEST VIRGINIA. SENATOR REVERCOMB WAS ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF THE GI BILL OF RIGHTS, THE DISPLACED PERSONS ACT OF 1948, AND SPONSOR OF BILLS TO LIBERALIZE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND ESTABLISH THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. ALSO PRESENT WAS SENATOR (HENRY) MARTIN JACKSON FROM WASHINGTON. JACKSON WAS A STRONG SUPPORTER OF TRUMAN'S ANIT-COMMUNIST POLICIES ABROAD. (HENRY) JACKSON WAS A MEMBER OF THE INTERIOR SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AND THE JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY. HE VOTED IN VAIN AGAINST OVERRIDING PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S VETO OF THE (1947) TAFT-HARTLEY LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS ACT, A MEASURE RESTRICTING THE RIGHTS OF UNIONS THAT WAS UNPOPULAR IN HIS DISTRICT. SO THERE YOU HAVE WHAT WE CAN READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT AS THE ADDRESS, THEY WERE SCANNING DOWN THE PAGE AND COPIED THE ADDRESS AS 1947 HENRY ST. AND WE SEE IT IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT. FORREST GOES TO JENNY'S HOUSE WHICH IS "PUBLIC HOUSING." AND HE MEETS HIS CHILD FOR THE FIRST TIME AND I GET TO MEET MY DADDY FOR THE FIRST AND ACCORDING TO THE MOVIE, ON HENRY ST. ! I WRITE THE GATES WERE OPENED AND THERE MY DADDY WAS THERE LOOKING AT ME AND I WRITE ABOUT LONDON TIME, IN THE MOVIE WE SEE A WOMAN LOOKING AT HER WATCH TO SEE WHAT TIME IT IS AND I WRITE, "LONDON TIME." AND LIKE THE CHRISTMAS MOVIE, "MIRACLE ON 34TH ST." THIS IS THE MIRACLE ON HENRY ST! AFTER THE REUNITING I WILL GO ON TO EXAMINE ONLY A FEW MORE SCENES AND THAT WILL CONCLUDE MY SCENE COMPARISON EVEN THOUGH IS MUCH MORE. I WILL GO ON TO TELL ABOUT HOW HE ARRIVES BY TRAIN TO ASK HER TO BECOME HIS WIFE AND HOW WE SEE THE TRAIN IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT. TO BE CONTINUED IN JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS. AND LIKE IN THE MOTION PICTURE, "MIRACLE ON 34TH ST." I AM GOING TO MACY'S FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AND I WILL BE BACK HERE IN A COUPLE OF DAYS! FROM PRINCESS SAMANTHA

THE REUNION

IN THE MOVIE FORREST GUMP, FORREST GOES TO JENNY AND REUNITES WITH THE CHILD. "IS HE MINE?" HE ASKS, WHEREAS I WRITE, "ARE YOU MY MOTHER?" "ARE YOU MY FATHER." SAME CONCEPT, SAME COPYING. FIRST I WILL WRITE THE RENUNION AND THEN I WILL COMPARE IT TO THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT. ON PAGE 396-400 OF MY NOVEL WERE ALSO DISCREPANCIES IN MY ADOPTION IN WHICH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES WOULD WRITE AFTER MONTHS OF INQUIRIES FROM HIM AND HIS FAMILY AND STATE THAT I HAD ACTUALLY BEEN ADOPTED. FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS GILBERT AND HIS FAMILY SET OUT TO LOCATE ME. HE COULD NOT WALK SO HE HAD TO RELY ON THE NEXT OLDEST SON FOR HELP. AFTER MANY ATTEMPTS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS THEY FINALLY GOT A CLUE THAT I WAS LIVING IN WINCHESTER, TENNESSEE. I WOULD RECIEVE A LETTER (PARAMOUNT-HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....) ASKING PERMISSION TO SEE ME. AT FIRST I WAS HAPPY THEN SHOCKED AND THE CONFUSED AND SCARED. (WHEN FORREST SHOWS UP, JENNY TELLS HIM SHE WAS CONFUSED AND MIXED UP AND WAS SORRY.) I DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. THE LETTER HAD COME AFTER MY SUFFERING FROM AN ILLNESS AND ALMOST DYING IT CERTAINLY COULD NOT HAVE COME AT A BETTER TIME. I WAS TWENTY YEARS OLD AND WITHIN A COUPLE OF MONTHS I WOULD TURN TWENTY ONE. MY BROTHER WOULD TRAVEL FROM KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE TO WINCHESTER TO COME AND GET ME AND WOULD BEGIN OUR JOURNEY THAT I HAD WAITED FOR ALL OF MY LIFE. MY DREAMS WERE COMING TRUE AND I FOR THE FIRST TIME WOULD MEET MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER. (IN THE MOVIE FORREST FINDS JENNY IN A STRIP JOINT, WHICH REALLY PIST ME OFF THAT PARAMOUNT EMBELLISHED IT AND WE HEAR FORREST SAY, "HER DREAMS HAD COME TRUE, SHE WAS A FOLK SINGER." (MY FOLKS)) MY BROTHER'S COURAGE IN FINDING ME RESULTED IN OUR BECOMING VERY CLOSE. GILBERT WOULD BE NERVOUS THAT DAY ALSO As HE TRIED TO PREPARE HIMSELF FOR A DAUGHTER HE WOULD ONLY REMEMBER AS A BABY. "LORINE, HOW DO I LOOK?" "DO I LOOK OKAY," HE SAID AS HE COMBED HIS HAIR AND STRAIGHTENED HIS SHIRT. LORINE CAME INTO THE ROOM AND GAVE GILBERT A KISS ON HIS CHEEK, "JUST PERFECT." (WE HEAR LT. DAN SAY, "JUST PERFECT," AND ANGRY AS FORREST GETS A MEDAL AND IS ON TELEVISION, FORREST GETS SHOT IN THE ASS.) GILBERT STILL NOT SATISFIED AS HE LOOKED (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER.....PRIVATE? GEAR- A MIRROR, A PAIR OF SCISSORS, A WINCHESTER, A PILLOW, ATOMIC CLOCK, A CLOCK WITH AN EYE OR CAMERA, A STOP WATCH? A DOORKNOB, A COMB, ART BRUSHES, ART PENCILS, CRAYONS, PAINT CANS, A GATE OPENER, LOCK AND KEY, PAD LOCK, A DEER KNIFE, CROSSBOW, GUN FOR A DEER, NIGHT VISION MONOCULARS, HUNTING GEAR, HUNTING CLOTHES, A ROCK, A VALUABLE JEWEL.....A SWORD....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....OUT OF THE FOOTLOCKER...OR CAR TRUNK, AUTO...LIFTS OUT THE GEAR.... A HAND....HAND....MIRROR....THE ARM.....PULLED MY HAND BACK....HER EYES....MY EYES....ARM AROUND ME....AN ARM....DEAD LEGS.....KNEES....EYES AND MOUTH WIDE OPEN.....ARMS.....MY HEAD.....SHOULDERS.....BLOOD AND CEMENT....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE....THE PAPER-ADOPTION PAPERS....SOCIAL SERVICE LETTER....MISSING CHILD FLYERS......POSTERS.......LETTER FROM BROTHER......SKETCHES LIKE IN TITANIC AND HE SKETCHES A PERSON WITH ONE LEG....DRAWINGS.....WRITTEN IN BLOOD AND CEMENT....WEDDING PICTURES...HIS WRITINGS IN THE NEWSPAPERS THAT WE SEE IN GUMP......THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHIRMP SCAMPI....SCUM.....THAT'S A RECIPE FOR A WARM RECEPTION.....ASSET ACCEPTANCE.....A RECIPE FOR A BASTARD AT A FAMLY REUNION...A RECIPE FOR DEER STEAK.....A RECIPE FOR DEER POT PIES...A RECIPE HONEY BUN.....FOR CINAMON BUNS....FOR A FLOOD.....A RECIPE FOR A DEER TROPHEY HEAD TO MOUNT AND PUT ON THE WALL) GILBERT STILL NOT SATISFIED AS HE LOOKED INTO A HAND MIRROR, "YOU DON'T THINK THAT MY HAIR IS TOO LONG?" (WE SEE FORREST RUNNING AND HIS HAIR IS LONG AND HE HAS A BEARD.) "I JUST CUT IT," LORINE SAID AS SHE FLUFFED GILBERT'S PILLOW. (SCISSORS...MUM'S RECIPE) GILBERT WOULD HAVE A COLLECTION OF CLOCKS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WITH EACH COUNTRY'S CORRECT TIME. GILBERT WOULD AT HIS CLOCK ON THE WALL. (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.) "WHAT TIME IS IT, LORINE?" LORINE STARTED TO GIGGLE, "IT'S 8:A.M." "WHAT?" "LONDON TIME!" SMILED LORINE. (WE SEE FORREST SITTING WITH A NURSE WHO IS LOOKING AT HER WATCH, TOO.) "LORINE NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO....SHOULD THEY NOT BE HERE BY NOW?" GILBERT HELD A BOQUET OF FLOWERS AS LORINE LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW ONE MORE TIME. "THERE THEY ARE!" "THEY'RE DRIVING UP," LORINE SCREAMED WITH DELIGHT. (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.) GILBERT BECAME NERVOUS AS HE TRIED TO SIT UP MORE IN HIS BED. HIS CHILDREN WERE FINALLY HERE AND HE WAS NOT PREPARED. I WAS VERY NERVOUS AS WE PULLED UP TO THE APARTMENT AND I DID NOT KNOW IF I WOULD SAY THE RIGHT THING. I WAS STILL VERY CONFUSED. I FELT AS IF I WERE GOING TO FAINT WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE CAR. (WE HERE FORREST SAY, "I'M DIZZY.") MY BROTHER CAME AROUND AND TOOK ME BY THE ARM AND LED ME UP TO THE SIDEWALK TO THEIR FRONT DOOR. WHEN I BROUGHT MY HAND SLOWLY UP TO KNOCK ON THE DOOR, THE DOOR SLOWLY OPENED UP AND A WOMAN WHO APPEARED WITH TEARS IN HER EYES WOULD FLASH A BIG SMILE. (MAMA'S, MUM'S RECIPE FOR A FLASH) "ARE YOU MY MOTHER?" "YES, HONEY, YOU ARE MY LITTLE GIRL." "I'M YOUR MAMA!" TEARS WOULD FILL MY EYES AS MY MOTHER WITH HER HAIR UP IN A BUN WOULD PUT HER ARMS AROUND ME AND SAY, "YOU'RE HOME!" (WE HEAR FORREST SAY IN THE MOVIE,"I'M HOME, MAMA.") "I'VE GOT MY BABY BACK!" "YOU ARE FINALLY HOME!" SHE LED ME THROUGH THE HOUSE AND I WOULD SEE SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS ON THE WALL THAT MY FATHER HAD DRAWN WHILE HE WAS BEDRIDDEN WITH HIS DEAD LEGS THAT COULD NOT WALK. (WE SEE LT. COULD NOT WALK AND LATER HE WALKS WITH HIS WALKING CANE.) "THERESA, I WANT YOU TO MEET YOUR DADDY." (IN THE MOVIE SHE WANTS FORREST TO SEE HIS CHILD AND THE CHILD IS WATCHING BERT AND "ERNIE," I WRITE ABOUT ERNEST HARMON AIR BASE IN NEWFOUNDLAND THAT PRINCE PHILIP AND QUEEN ELIZABETH VISIT...) WE SLOWLY MADE OUR WAY THROUGH THE HOUSE TOWARDS THE DOOR OF HIS BEDROOM AND I TOOK A DEEP BREATH AS MY MOTHER OPENED THE DOOR. MY KNEES ALMOST GAVE WAY. "GILBERT, SHE'S HERE, THERESA IS HERE!" AS THE DOOR OPENED, I STOOD THERE LIKE A LITTLE CHILD WITH ITS EYES AND MOUTH WIDE OPEN, THERE WAS MY DADDY AND HE WAS LOOKING BACK AT ME! (WE SEE FORREST AND BUBBA STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.....) "HELLO, THERESA, IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, ANGEL." (FORREST SAYS IN THE MOVIE "I DON'T REMEMBER MY FIRST PICNIC, BUT I REMEMBER THE SWEETEST LITTLE GIRL, SHE WAS LIKE AN ANGEL.') "HELLO, I SAID NOT KNOWING IF I SHOULD CALL HIM BY HIS NAME OR CALL HIM DAD. HE STARTED TO SMILE AT ME,"WE NEVER THOUGHT WE WOULD EVER SEE YOU AGAIN, AND NOW HERE YOU ARE STANDING BEFORE ME." THE FLOOD GATES WERE OPEN AND I COULD NOT HOLD BACK THE TEARS, "ARE YOU MY FATHER?" "YES, I AM, THERESA." EVEN THOUGH HE COULD NOT WALK, I COULD FEEL HIS POWER IN THE ROOM AS I STOOD FROZEN LIKE A FRIGHTENED DOE IN THE FOREST. I WANTED TO RUN (WE HEAR IN THE MOVIE, "RUN FORREST RUN!") I WANTED TO RUN AND I FEARED THAT SOMEHOW THIS WAS NOT REAL, BUT, A DREAM. (WE HEAR FORREST BEING ASKED, DO YOU DREAM, FORREST?) I WAS AFRAID THAT IF I WOULD AWAKE, EVERYONE WOULD ALL GO AWAY LEAVING ME ALONE IN THE FOREST. (MAMA'S RECIPE FOR THE DEER HUNTER.....BAGGED....AND WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, "AND FORREST LIKE A DEER CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS.") I JUMPED AS HE BEGAN TO SPEAK, "IT'S OKAY, THERESA, I WON'T HURT YOU." "WHAT?" I SAID AS I LOOKED UPON THIS MAN. (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER PRIVATE?" MUM'S RECIPE FOR DEER STEAKS.....IT SEEMS....) "COME HERE CLOSER SO I CAN SEE YOU," HE SAID IN A TENDER VOICE. I WALKED CAUTIOUSLY TOWARDS HIM AND THEN I PUT MY ARMS OUT AND GAVE HIM A HUG. "I LOVE YOU," I SAID AS I LAID MY HEAD ON HIS SHOULDER AND STARTED TO CRY. "I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED YOU, THERESA." I ALWAYS DREAMED ABOUT MY FATHER AND MOTHER, BUT, THEY WERE NOT MOVIE STARS, DIGNITARIES OR PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES. THEY WERE MY PARENTS WHO HAD SUFFERED DEARLY AND BECAME IMPROVERISHED AND LIVING IN A HOUSING PROJECT. THEY WERE THE ALL-AMERICAN FAMILY WHO HAD BEEN CUT DOWN BY THE SWORD OF LIES AND DECEPTION TO END UP LIVING IN POVERTY AND SHAME. I WOULD NOTICE THAT HE HAD DARK CIRCLES UNDER HIS EYES AND THAT HE DID NOT LOOK THE BEST OF HEALTH. HE WAS ILL, VERY ILL. BUT, I LOVED HIM ANYWAY, GOOD OR BAD, NO MATTER WHAT HAD HAPPENED OR WHAT HE MAY HAVE DONE IN HIS LIFE. IT WAS WRITTEN IN BLOOD AND CEMENT AND IT WOULD NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT I HAD COME FROM HIS LOVE TO MY MOTHER AND I WAS HIS DAUGHTER. AS THE LIGHT OUTSIDE TURN TO DARKNESS, I WOULD TALK TO MY FATHER, MY MOTHER AND MY BROTHER. I WOULD GET TO SEE THEIR WEDDING PICTURES AND HIS WRITINGS IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND I WOULD FALL IN LOVE WITH MY ENTIRE NEW FAMILY. THE FIRST IMPRESSION THAT I WOULD GET OF MY MOTHER WOULD BE ONE OF A WOMAN WHO WAS GENTLE AND PASSIVE, THAT OF AN INNOCENT CHILD WHO WOULD SHOW GREAT AFFECTION FOR HER HUSBAND. THE FIRST IMPRESSION THAT I WOULD GET OF MY FATHER WAS THAT OF A MAN WHOSE INNER SELF WAS ROCK SOLID AND STRONG EVEN THOUGH HE COULD NOT WALK. HE DID NOT FEEL SORRY FOR HIMSELF WHEN I FIRST MET HIM AND HE SEEMED TO BE PROTECTIVE OF MY MOTHER LIKE A STRONG ROCK UPON THE SEA OF MONSTERS. (IN THE MOVIE, LT. DAN SAID TO GET THE SLING ROPES, EITHER HE IS TALKING ABOUT A WEAPON THAT DAVID USED AS A SLING SHOT IN THE BIBLE TO DEFEAT GOLIETH OR AN ANCIENT WEAPON MADE OF SLING ROPES THAT COULD HOLD A 400 POUND ROCK HELD BY A HALTER LIKE SLING MADE OF FRESH ANIMAL HIDES THAT WOULD HOIST THE ROCK TO KILL THE ENEMY. USUALLY IT WOULD TAKE ABOUT 200 MEN TO LAUNCH THIS ROCK.) I WOULD GET TO MEET MY BROTHERS AND SISTER AS I AND MY BROTHER WOULD TRAVEL ON OUR JOURNEY THAT WAS LONG AWAITED. FIRST, I SAW MY OLDER BROTHER WHO IS MENTALLY RETARDED AND TAKEN VERY GOOD CARE OF IN A LEARNING CENTER IN TENNESSEE. NEXT, WE WOULD DRIVE TO BOSTON TO SEE THE YOUNGEST BOY WHO A LITTLE OVER A YEAR OLDER THAN ME. HE WAS VERY KIND TO ME. AND LAST, BUT, NOT LEAST, WE WOULD DRIVE TO CINCINNATI TO MEET MY SISTER AND HER FAMILY. SHE WAS A JEWEL, A TENDER AND LOVING WOMAN WHO WOULD RADIATE (WHAT'S THIS GEAR-A JEWEL? MAMA'S, MUM'S REICPE FOR RADIATE? RADIATION? JUST TRYING TO MATCH UP COMPARISONS HERE) BEAUTY WITH HER GENTLENESS AND EASE. THEN WE WOULD TRAVEL BACK TO TENNESSEE, MY BROTHER AND I WOULD SAY OUR FAREWELLS, UNTIL WE WOULD MEET AGAIN. (PARAMOUNT-AND WE SEE FORREST WITH NO OTHER THOUGHT IN THE WORLD IS TOTALLY FOCUSED. IS A WHIZ....WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON....A GUN....A WINCHESTER.....A PAIR OF SCISSORS......A ROCK....A DEER KNIFE.....A CROSSBOW.....ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP...EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK....ON LEATHER.....DEER MEAT....AT THE ART GALLERY (AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING, LIKE A RIVER RUNNING REAL SLOW.....I WANTED TO RUN....) FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING...DONE, DRILL SERGEANT!.....DRILL SERGEATNT ABRUPTLY TURNING...GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY/! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. HIS IS OUTSTANDING! THIS IS A NEW COMPANY RECORD.....ADOPTION....LETTERS...SKETCHES AND SO FORTH....ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING....SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS (SWORD), SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO... AND WE GET THE PICTURE...... TO BE CONTINUED.....

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!

IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ, "AND WE SEE FORREST RUNNING FROM A ROLLING FIRE BALL. AND WE HEAR FORREST BEING TOLD, "RUN FORREST RUN!" WHERE DID THEY GET IT? ON PAGE 6 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CUT TO: EXT. WORLD WAR II - DAY SCENES OF THE WAR FRO 1942-1945. BOMBS ARE GOING OFF. AIRPLANES DROPPING BOMBS. LINES OF NUDE PEOPLE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WAITING TO BE GASED ("MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.") CHILDREN CRYING FOR THEIR MOTHERS AS THE NAZI SOLDIERS SEPARATE THEM. ONE LINE FOR THE ONES TO BE SPARED, ONE LINE FOR THE GAS CHAMBERS. A PREGNANT WOMAN IN LINE TO BE EXTERMINATED WHILE HER CHILDREN IN ANOTHER LINE. A MASSIVE STATE OF CONFUSION. SATAN HAS COME ALIVE TO THROW A MASS DESTRUCTION UPON THE WORLD. (WE HEAR IN MOVIE, "GOD SHOWN UP.") HITLER'S SOLDIERS MARCHING. CUT TO: EXT. HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - DAY AUGUST 6, 1945. SIRENS ARE GOING OFF. CIVILIANS, ELDERLY PEOPLE, WOMEN AND BABIES ARE SCREAMING AND RUNNING. A WOMAN PICKS A BABY UP OFF THE STREET AND STARTS TO RUN, RUN ANYWHERE. THEIR SAD DOOM IS NEAR. THE ATOMIC MUSHROOM CLOUD IS RISING UP IN SLOW MOTION TO FILL THE ENTIRE SCREEN. (PARMOUNT-AND WE SEE A MONET PAINTING, LIKE A RIVER RUNNING SO SLOW.") A BRIGHT BALL OF FIRE FROM HELL ALMOST LIGHTS UP THE ENTIRE THEATRE. (WE READ, "MAMA'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI." MAMA'S RECIPE FOR A HOLIDAY MUSHROOM DIP TO BE SERVED WITH CRACKERS. MUM'S RECIPE FOR ARMAGEDDON) (PARAMOUNT-"AND WE SEE FORREST RUNNING FROM A ROLLING FIREBALL AND BALL OF FIRE.) LIKE A MONET PAINTING RUNNING SO SLOW

DIAMONDS

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THE BASEBALL CAP

BEFORE WE GET TO THE DIAMONDS, LET'S GO BACK TO THE MOVIE AT NEW YEAR'S EVE WHERE FORREST AND THE LT. ARE IN THEIR HOTEL ROOM, OR THE LOST ROOM AND ARE ENTERTAINING "TWO WORN OUT WOMEN,' OR HOOKERS. ONE IS CALLED LONGARMS LENORE OR I GUESS THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE. WE SEE A YOUNG GIRL WITH A BASEBALL CAP ON HER HEAD AND IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY WRITE AND PERVERT THAT SHE IS "NAKED" AND SITTING ASTRIDE LT. AS THEY CAREEN AROUND IN HIS WHEELCHAIR. THEY ALSO WRITE THE LT. GETS A BRAND NEW WHEELCHAIR. THIS IS IN NEW YORK. THEY WRITE AFTER SHE SAYS "DID HE LOSE HIS PECKER IN THE WAR." AND THEY WRITE THAT ONE OF THEM PULLS FORREST DOWN ON THE COUCH KISSING HIM. PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT HE THROWS HER OFF HIS LAP AND CHASES THEM OUT WITH "HIS BASEBALL BAT." FORREST SAYS THAT ONE OF THEM TASTES LIKE CIGARETTES. THEY GOT THE CIGARETTES FROM THE PAGE WHERE I WRITE ABOUT DORIS DUKE, TOBACCO QUEEN AND WHERE I WRITE THAT CIGARETTE SMOKING CAUSES LUNG CANCEER. I WRITE ABOUT JOE DIMAGGIO, TOO. WHERE DID THEY GET ALL OF THIS FROM? I'LL SHOW YOU, THE CAP, THE WHEELCHAIR AND SITTING HIS LAP CAREENING AROUND NAKED WHILE WEARING THE CAP. THE BASEBAL BAT, AND BEING THROWN OUT. "GET OUT!" AND ONE OF THE GIRLS CALLS HIM A FREAK WE HEAR. ON PAGE 138 I WRITE: GILBERT PLACED THE MAGAZINE ON THE TABLE AND STARTED THINKING ABOUT HIS BABY, WOULD IT BE A GIRL OR A BOYA? WOULD IT BE HEALTHY, HE WONDERD IF THERE WOULD BE MORE CHILDREN? WOULD THEY TAKE WALKS IN THE PARK, GO ICE SKATING ON A FROZEN DECEMBER LAKE, AND WOULD THERE BE LITTLE LEAGUE GAMES OR BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL SCOUTS? HE IMAGINED HIMSELF SITTING AT HIS SON'S BASEBALL GAME AS HIS LITTLE BOY MADE A HEROIC HOMERUN AFTER KNOCKING THE BALL OUT OF THE PARK AND WINNING THE ENTIRE GAME. EVERYONE WOULD CHEER HIS LITTLE BOY AS GILBERT STOOD PROUD AMONG THE CROWD. HE WOULD BE THE PROUDEST FATHER IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE STADIUM. THEN GILBERT IMAGINED IF HE HAD A LITTLE GIRL. WOULD SHE BE A LITTLE BLONDE HAIRED, BLUE EYED LITTLE GEM TAKING AFTER HIM OR WOULD SHE BE A RAVEN HAIRED LITTLE DARLING TAKING AFTER HER MOTHER. WOULD HE SOMEDAY SIT OUT IN THE AUDIENCE A SHE PERFORMED HER FIRST BALLET DANCE OF "SWAN LAKE" (AND WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, "WE SEE A MONET PAINTING LIKE A RIVER, RUNNING SO SLOW.') OR WOULD HE WATCH HER SING HER FIRST SOLO IN CHURCH. EITHER WAY, HE WOULD BE HAPPY IF THE BABY WERE A GIRL OR A BOY. HE WOULD BE HAPPY, HE THOUGHT, IF HE ENDED UP HAVING HIS OWN LITTLE BASEBALL TEAM OF GIRLS AND BOYS ALL HIS OWN. HE PRAYED THAT LORINE AND THE BABY WERE OKAY. PAGE 64-65 OF MY SCREENPLAY: EXT. VIETNAM - 1965 AMERICAN SOLDIERS WITH THEIR GUNS AND PACKS ON THEIR BACKS ARE WADING THROUGH A MUDDY SWAMP WATERS OF VIETNAM. (WE SEE THIS IN THE MOVIE0 CUT TO: EXT. CHICAGO - 1966 SHOW FILM CLIP OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE PROTESTING U.S. POLICY IN VIETNAM. NATIONAL GUARDS QUELLS RACE RIOTS IN CHICAGO. (WE SEE THE PROTESTORS IN THE MOVIE.) CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - DAY LORINE IS FEEDING GILBERT AS THEY SMILE AT EACH OTHER. THE 1960'S SONG, "AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH," SUNG BY MARVIN GAYE AND TAMMI TERREL IS PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND. CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - DAY GILBERT IS TYPING ON THE TYPEWRITER IN HIS BED. LORINE BRINGS HIM HIS FOOD ON A TRAY. AS THE SONG, "AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH," CONTINUES TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND. CUT TO: INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY LORINE IS HELPING GILBERT AS HE STRUGGLES TO SIT IN HIS NEW WHEELCHAIR WITH A BIG RED BOW ON IT. THEY'RE SMILING AT EACH OTHER. THE SONG, "AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH,' CONTINUES TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND. CUT TO: EXT. PARK - DAY LORINE IS PUSHING GILBERT IN THE PARK, BOTH ARE SIMILING AS GILBERT GRABS LORINE'S AND BRINGS HER AROUND SO SHE IS NOW SITTING ON HIS LAP. THEY STARTS KISSING AND CARESSING EACH OTHER. THE SONG, "AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH," PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND. ON PAGE 66 OF MY SCREENPLAY: A TEAR ROLLS DOWN GILBERT'S FACE AS LORINE BENDS DOWN TO KISS HIM TENDERLY ON THE LIPS. THE SONG, "AQUARIUS,' STARTS TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND. CUT TO: EXT. TENNESSEE RIVER DOCK - DAY THE SONG, "AQUARIUS," WHICH IS ALSO TERESE'S SUN SIGN, CONTINUES TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND AS A LITTLE GIRL ABOUT ELEVEN YEARS OLD, WHO IS THERESE, WITH BACK TO CAMERA IS SITTING ALONE ON THE DOCK BY THE RIVER. THE DOCK IS SECLUDED WITH TREES AND SHE IS FISHING. SHE BRINGS A FISH UP OUT OF THE WATER AND THEN LETS IT GO. DRESSED IN A PLAID SHIRT AND PANTS WITH HAIR BUNDLED UP UNDER A CAP TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THAT SHE IS A BOY. THERESE RISES UP, THROWS THE FISHING POLE DOWN, BACK STILL TO THE CAMERA, STRIPS HER CLOTHES OFF AND THROWS THE CAP OFF AS THE WAIST LENGTH HAIR FALLS TO HER WAIST. SHE NOW HAS A BAND OF WHITE FLOWERS AROUND HER HEAD THAT WAS HID BY THE CAP. NOW LOOKING LIKE A FLOWER CHILD, THERESE TAKES OFF RUNNING UP THE DOCK, UP THE BANK AND GRABS A ROPE THAT IS TIES TO A TREE LIMB AND SWINGS IN THE AIR AS SHE DIVES INTO THE DEEP WATER. THE SONG, "AQUARIUS," IS STILL PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND. SHE IS MORE SPIRITED THAN HER FATHER AND MOTHER COMBINED. A MAN DRESSED IN A BLACK SUIT STANDING ON A HILL IN THE DISTANCE IS TAKING ALL OF THIS IN AS HE KEEPS AN EYE ON THERESE. HE IS A GOVERNMENT MAN. (WE HEAR IN THE MOVIE THE BACKGROUND MUSIC, 'LET'S MAKE A LITTLE LOVE, GET DOWN TO TONIGHT." PAGE 33 OF MY SYNOPSIS (THE COUCH) WE WENT BACK TO MY HOUSE WHERE JIMMY COULD FRESHEN UP AND THEN WE WOULD LEAVE THE NEXT MORNING FOR KNOXVILLE. MEANWHILE, HE GAVE ME MAMA'S AND DADDY'S WEDDING PICTURE, THEY WERE SUCH A HANDSOME COUPLE. HE WORE HIS AIR FORCE UNIFORM AND SHE WAS IN HER BEAUTIFUL WEDDING GOWN. GILBERT AND LORINE LOOKED LIKE A COUPLE OUT OF A STORY BOOK. THEN HE GAVE ME A PICTURE OF MAMA AND ALL THE CHILDREN SITTING ON THE COUCH AND SHE WAS HOLDING ME IN HER ARMS, AND I COULDN'T HAVE BEEN NO MORE THAN A FEW WEEKS OLD. BUT, MAMA, LOOKED SO TIRED IN THIS PICTURE, AND SHE SMILED LIKE A LITTLE CHILD WITH ALL HER BABIES WITH HER. THE COUCH: PAGE 45-47 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CUT TO: INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY LORINE IS LYING ON THE COUCH RUNNING A FEVER (GEAR-ASPIRIN AND THERMOMETER...MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....) SHE'S HAD A MISCARRIAGE. GILBERT IS WRINGING WATER OUT OF A CLOTH INTO A PAIL AND PUTTING THE CLOTH ONTO HER HEAD. THE HOUSE IS A MESS AND THE BABY IS CRYING. THE TWINS ARE SITTING ON THE COUCH AT THEIR MOTHER'S FEET. DAMON IS SITTING IN A CHAIR NEAR HIS MOTHER'S HEAD. LITTLE GILBERT IS STANDING NEAR GILBERT, RUBBING HIS MOTHER'S FACE AS GILBERT WRINGS WATER OUT. THE TEAPOT KETTLE BEGINS TO WHISTER AS MRS. KENNEDY COME TO THE SCREEN DOOR DRESSED UP IN A SUIT AND A HAT. MRS. KENNEDY (KNOCKING) IS ANYONE HOME? GILBERT (WIPING LORINE'S FACE) JUST A MINUTE. MRS. KENNEDY (TO GILBERT) WHAT'S THE MATTER? WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY DAUGHTER? GILBERT (TURNING AROUND) SHE'S SICK, SHE'S HAD A MISCARRIAGE. THEN THE ARGUMENT BETWEEN HIM AND MRS. KENNEDY BREAKS OUT AND HE TELLS HER TO GET OUT. GILBERT (YOU'LL NOT INTERFERE AT ALL WITH MY FAMILY! DO YOU HEAR ME? IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS WHAT WE DO OR HOW MANY CHILDREN WE HAVE AND I'LL TELL YOU NOW THAT I WILL MAKE LOVE TOMY WIFE, YOUR DAUGHTER, ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME WITHOUT YOUR BUSYBODY FAMILY. MRS. KENNEDY (SURPRISED) WHAT? GILBERT (TO MRS. KENNEDY) I'LL MAKE LOVE TO LORINE ON YOUR FRONT LAWN IN FRONT OF ALL YOUR COUNTRY CLUB QUEENS AND BIBLE (FREAKS) IF I WANT TO. (AND WE HEAR FORREST SAY IN THE MOVIE THAT HE WILL MOW THAT LAWN FOR FREE.) MRS. KENNEDY (CLUTCHING HER THROAT) WELL, I NEVER! GILBERT (TAKING MRS. KENNEDY'S ARM) WELL, MAYBE YOU SHOULD. NOW, TAKE YOUR FAT ASS AND ALL YOUR SNOOTY FRIENDS YOU SEND OVER AT ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT TO SPY AND LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE! GILBERT GOES INTO THE HOUSE SLAMMING THE SCREEN DOOR AS MRS. KENNEDY WALKS OFF IN A HUFF. PAGE 11-12 OF MY SYNOPSIS: "YOU ARE NOT TAKING CARE OF MY DAUGHTER, YOU ARE A WORTHLESS BUM WHO HAS KEPT MY DAUGHTER PREGNANT AND IN POVERTY AND I WANT YOU OUT OF HER LIFE; I WILL MAKE SURE OF IT, IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO ON THIS EARTH!" HE RESPONDED BACK WITH HIS FIST CLENCHED, "YOU'LL NOT INTERFERE AT ALL WITH ME OR MY FAMILY ANYMORE! DO YOU HEAR ME? IT IS NONE F YOUR BUSINESS WHAT WE DO OR HOW MANY CHILDREN WE HAVE AND I'LL TELL YOU NOW THAT I WILL MAKE LOVE TO MY WIFE, YOUR DAUGHTER, ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME WITHOUT YOUR INTERFERENCE AND I'LL MAKE LOVE TO HER ON YOUR FRONT LAWN IF I WANT TO IN FRONT OF ALL YOUR COUNTRY CLUB QUEENS AND YOUR BIBLE FREAKS!" "IT'S JUST AS WELL, WE CAN'T GET ANY PRIVACY HERE WITH YOUR CONSTANT CALLING AND YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS YOU SEND OVER HERE AT ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT!" MRS. CLAYTON STARTED TO BOIL INSIDE AND WAS ENRAGED, SHE HATED GILBERT WITH A PASSION AND IT WAS NOT EASY FOR HER TO STAY AWAY FROM HER DAUGHTER; HER DAUGHTER FOR WHOM SHE USE TO DRESS UP LIKE A PRIMA DONNA; HER DAUGHTER WHO WAS LIKE A DEBUTANT GROWING UP IN A GOOD HOME WHERE HER PARENTS HAD A DRY CLEANING AND FLOWER BUSINESS. AN ALL AMERICAN GIRL WHO IN MRS. CLAYTON'S EYES WHO THREW HER LIFE AWAY WHEN SHE MARRIED THAT GOOD FOR NOTHING GILBERT GLENN. SHE WAS DETERMINED TO DEVISTATE HIM EVEN MORE AND WOULD BECOME OBSESSED IN GETTING RID OF HIM AT ALL COST. MAYBE LORINE WOULD OPEN UP HER EYES AND DUMP THIS TRASH, SHE THOUGHT. LORINE'S FATHER, HARVEY CLAYTON, WAS A QUIET MAN; A GOOD MAN WHO CAME FROM GOOD STOCK, AN IRISH FAMILY OF KENNEDYS AND CLAYTONS. MR. CLAYTON HAD MUCH RESPECT IN THE COMMUNITY AND EVERYONE KNEW THE CLAYTON FAMILY; THEY ALSO WERE AWARE OF THE TROUBLE THAT WAS BREWING BETWEEN HIS WIFE AND HIS SON-IN-LAW. THAT WAS NOT MUCH HARVEY COULD DO TO CONTROL HIS HEAD STRONG AND IRON WILLED WIFE. (IN TITANIC HE SAYS, "SHE'S MADE OF IRON AND SHE WILL SINK.') SHE WAS DETERMINED TO CRUSH GILBERT, AND BEING VERY AMBITIOULY INVOLVED WITH HIS BUSINESS MUCH OF THE TIME, THERE WAS NOT MUCH HE COULD DO. GILBERT AGAIN WAS WORKING AT ODD AND PART-TIME JOBS, AND IT WAS STILL DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO GET A REALLY GOOD JOB WITH HIS SERVICE RECORD. HE DID ALL HE COULD TO BRING FOOD HOME TO HIS FAMILY AND IN EARLY 1959, MRS. CLAYTON SENT HER BROTHER TO "CHECK UP ON THEM" THIS LEAD INTO AN ARGUMENT WITH GILBERT AND MRS. CLAYTON'S BROTHER AND GILBERT SAID, "WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE STOP TREATING US THIS WAY AND LEAVE MY FAMILY AND ME THE HELL ALONE! WE DON'T NEED YOU, WE DON'T WANT YOU COMING OVER HERE BOTHERING US ANYMORE, YOU HAVE DONE ENOUGH TO US ALREADY, NOW GET OUT OF MY HOUSE OR I'M GOING TO CALL THE COPS! GET OUT! AND HE SLAMMED THE DOOR IN MR. HARMON'S FACE. BOTH WERE FUMING. GILBERT HAD FINALLY EXPLODED AND CURSED MRS. CLAYTON'S BROTHER, MR. HARMON, COMPLETELY OUT AND HE WOULD LIVE TO REGRET IT. IN JUST A FEW DAYS THER WAS A KNOCKING ON THE DOOR; GILBERT ANSWERED. "MR. GLENN, WE HAVE A WARRANT FOR YOUR ARREST ON THE GROUNDS OF CONTRIBUTING TO THE NEGLECT OF FIVE MINOR CHILDREN AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE YOU IN.' GILBERT, STUNNED AS IF THE BREATH WAS KNOCKED OUT OF HIM LOOKED AT HIS WIFE LORINE ON THE COUCH. "BUT, MY WIFE SHE'S SICK, I CAN'T LEAVE HER HERE, SHE'S JSUT HAD A MISCARRIAGE AND LOST OUR BABY, SHE'S RUNNING A FEVER AND I WRITE THAT THE POLICE SAY THAT THE WARRANT IS FOR HER ARREST TOO. SIGNED BY HER OWN MOTHER. ON PAGE 118 I WRITE: GILBERT GOT UP AND PACED AROUND THE ROOM A COUPLE OF TIMES AND LOOKED AS IF HE HAD BEEN HIT WITH A BALL BAT. HE THOUGHT MAYBE THAT HE SHOULD END THE EVENING AND GO ON INTO THE BEDROOM WITH LORINE AND FORGET ALL OF THIS INFORMATION, HE COULD NOT, IT WAS ETCHED INTO HIS MIND FOREVER. HE DID NOT WANT TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE TO HIS GUESTS AND LET THE EVENING END ON A HAPPY NOTE. 'YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SAY ANYTHING ARE, GLENN?" ASKED JESSIE IN A NERVOUS TONE. "OF COURSE NOT, I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET, GUYS, WHAT DO I KNOW, RIGHT?" HE SMILED A LITTLE BUT INSIDE HE KNEW THAT HE HAD TO GO BACK INTO THE BASE TOMORROW AND PRETEND THAT THIS CONVERSATION NEVER OCCURED. HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD JSUT GET UP LIKE ANY OTHER MORNING AND DO HIS JOB TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY, THAT'S ALL HE COULD DO, RIGHT? GILBERT AND THE BOYS DECIDED TO PLAY ANOTHER GAME OF CARDS BEFORE TURNING INTO BED. IT HAD BEEN A LONG DAY, A GOOD DAY, GILBERT THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, WHY RUIN IT BY GETTING ALL UPSET BY WHAT JESSIE TOLD HIM. HE JUST COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT THE AIR FORCE COULD DO ANYTHING WRONG OR CORRUPT, HE NEVER SAW ANYTHING. HIS YOUNG 21 YEAR OLD MIND AND HEART WOULD NOT LET HIM BELIEVE THAT THIS WORLD COULD BE THAT EVIL AND BAD. GILBERT WAS STILL INNOCENT AND NAIVE BELIEVING IN THE AMERCIAN WAY AND MOM AND APPLE PIE, HE WANTED AN AMERCA AND AN AIR FORCE TO BELIEVE IN. THE REASON I WROTE OF CAPS AND BASEBALL IS THAT WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, I PLAYED BASEBALL. I ALSO WROTE ABOUT FRANK SINATRA WHO STARRED IN THE 1949 MOTION PICTURE CALLED, "TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME."

A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH AND MUM'S RECIPE FOR POTATO CHIPS FROM POTATOS SLICED FROM A PEELER, POTATOS CALLED THE SNOWDEN POTATO, MUM'S RECIPE FOR POTATO CHIPS

ON PAGE 408-409 I WRITE: "IT'S OKAY, HONEY, IT DOESN'T MATTER TO THEM," LORINE SAID AS SHE TURNED AROUND TO GO INTO THE KITCHEN. (DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING. GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. NOW DISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON AND CONTINUE. WHILE WORKING ON HIS WEAPON...POTATOES.....A GUN.....BOMB.... SEE....WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NET ALONG THE BOTTOM....ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP.....ANYWAY....LIKE I WAS SAYING....SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO...WE HEAR IN THE MOVIE....SHRIMP AND POTATOES.....) "LORINE, THERE'S SOMETHING I NEED TO TELL YOU." "I'LL BE RIGHT BACK, HONEY." "PLEASE, COME HERE, I NEED TO TALK TO YOU." "OKAY, HONEY, WHAT IS THE MATTER?" "COME HERE AND SIT BESIDE ME, LORINE." "SURE." "I KNOW ALL THESE YEARS YOU HAVE STOOD BY MY SIDE AND I WISHED THAT I COULD HAVE GIVEN YOU MORE.' (PARAMOUNT-FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. LOOK AT YOUR DRESS....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER.....PRIVATE? GEAR-A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH.....THE CROWN JEWELS.....THE KING'S JEWELS.....A DRESS...A COUPLE OF POTATOES....A BOMB.....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND.....HER ARMS AROUND HIM....LIPS...HAND TIGHTLY...LOOKS IN BLACK CAR...LIFTS OUT A HAND....HIS EYES....HEAD...HIS SHOULDER.....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE....PAPER-THE LETTER....BOOM I ASSUME IS WHAT PARAMOUNT MEANS....WE SEE FORREST IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WEARING A TURBAN.....THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MAMA, MUM DRILL SERGEANT...SHRIMP CREOLE? (ETHNIC-IRAQ) DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI... THAT'S A RECIPE FOR A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH.....BAKED POTATOES) "I KNOW ALL THESE YEARS YOU HAVE STOOD BY MY SIDE AND I WISHED THAT I COULD HAVE GIVEN YOU MORE.' "YOU GAVE ME LOVE." "LOOK AT YOUR DRESS, LORINE, YOU DESERVE TO HAVE THE BEST." "BUT, I HAVE THE BEST, GILBERT, I HAVE YOU," LORINE SAID AS SHE PUT HER ARMS AROUND GILBERT AND KISSED HIM ON THE LIPS. "I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, LORINE, YOU MEAN MORE TO ME THAN ALL THE JEWELS IN THE WORLD." "AND YOU ARE MY DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH!" LORINE GIGGLED. SUDDENLY THERE CAME A KNOCKING ON THE FRONT DOOR AND LORINE GOT UP FROM THE BED TO ANSWER IT. GILBERT HELD ONTO HER HAND TIGHTLY. "PLEASE DON'T ANSWER IT, STAY HERE WITH ME." 'IT'S OKAY HONEY, I'LL BE RIGHT BACK," LORNE SAID AS SHE BENT DOWN TO KISS GILBERT AGAIN ON THE CHEEK AND DISAPPEARED INTO THE LIVING ROOM. GILBERT PICKED UP MORE LETTERS AND READ THROUGH THEM AND THEN HE PICKED UP A LETTER OF HIS THAT WAS PUBLISHED PRAISING ISRAEL FOR BOMBING IRAQ. HE THEN PICKED UP A LETTER THAT WAS WRITTEN TO HIM FROM THE EMBASSY OF HE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. IT WAS AN OLD LETTER DATING FEBURARY 4, 1980 AND IT READ: DEAR MR. GLENN, THIS IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF YOUR LETTER OF JANUARY 15. WE APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORT VERY MUCH. WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION. PEOPLE LIKE YOU, WHO PERCEIVE THE BIAS OF THE PRESS, DEEP IMMORALITY OF THE CARTER ADMINISTRATIO, (WE READ IN PARAMOUNT THAT PRESIDENT CARTER HAS A HEAT STROKE AND FALLS INTO THE ARMS......AND TAKEN AWAY TO CAMP DAVID....) THE SUPPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OTHER FREEDOMS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE VERY RARE. WE HOPE THIS SITUATION WILL CHANGE FOR THE BETTER AND AFTER THE TRIAL OF THE CRIMINAL DEPOSED SHAH, SOME LIGHT WILL BE THROWN ON THE TRUE NATURE OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND PRESENT AND PAST PRESIDENTS. A COPY OF YOUR LETTER IS BEING FORWARD ON TO THE HOSTAGES. YOU MAY FIND THE ENCLOSED MATERIAL TO BE OF USE. WE HOPE THAT YOU CONTINUE YOUR EFFORTS TO INFORM OTHER FELLOW AMERICANS ABOUT THE TRUTH. IN PEACE, ALI A. AGAH, CHARGE d' AFFAIRES', THE EMBASSY OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. GILBERT PUT THE LETTER DOWN WHEN LORINE ENTERED THE ROOM LOOKING BAFFLED. "GILBERT, NO ONE WAS THERE." "MAYBE, JUST SOME KIDS PULLING A PRANK." "IT WAS SO VERY ODD, BECAUSE, WHEN I LOOKED DOWN THE STREET, I SAW A MAN IN A BLACK CAR DRIVE AWAY." "LORINE, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE A SUPERFINE WOMAN AND THAT I LOVE YOU SO MUCH," GILBERT SAID AS TEARS FILLED HIS EYES AND LORINE LAID HER HEAD DOWN ON HIS SHOULDER. "OKAY, LORINE, GO AND PUT THE POTATOES ON SO WE CAN EAT," GILBERT SAID AS HE WIPED THE TEARS FROM HIS EYES AND LAID HIS HEAD BACK ONTO THE PILLOW TO REST. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR POTATO CHIPS MADE FROM THE SNOWDEN POTATO) TO BE CONTINUED....... THE MEN IN BLACK AND THE SAD SOUND OF THE TRAIN

FLASH BACKS

IN THE MOTION PICTURE AS JENNY IS DYING, FORREST IS TALKING TO HER AND HAS FLASHBACKS. ....AND LAID HIS HEAD BACK ONTO THE PILLOW TO REST. LORINE LEFT THE ROOM AND GILBERT STARTED HAVING FLASH BACKS OF HIS LIFE. HE COULD SEE LORINE STANDING IN FROM OF HIM WITH THE MAIL, THEN HE COULD SEE HIS SON AND ME STAND IN FRONT OF HIM. (PARAMOUNT-WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON, WHISPERING TO FORREST...A HIGH POWERED GUN WE SEE....A PILLOW....FLASH WEAPON.....FLASH BANG WEAPON....A STRIKE....A SWORD....(IN PARAMOUNT THEY ADD ON THAT FORREST FALLS ON HIS SWORD) A COUPLE OF POTATOES.....A CRUCIFIX....BEAM OF LIGHT WEAPON....BEAM MICROWAVE WEAPON....SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM..ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP...EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK....FROM WEAPONS AND OR ASSASSINATION IS WHAT THEY ARE IMPLYING. IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY WRITE THAT THEY HAVE TO FIND MORE SHRIMP SO THEY CAN HAVE MORE MONEY TO HAVE MORE BARBEQUES AND TO BUY MORE LAWN FURNITURE OR THE THINGS THEY WANT.....) ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING....SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, (VIA FLASH, MICROWAVES, BEAMS AND SUCH NON-LETHAL WEAPONS THAT CAN BE TURNED TO LETHAL WEAPONS AND FRY PEOPLE AND THEIR INNER ORGAN DAMAGE ALSO OF MASS TORTURE...SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS....SWORD.....SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO...SHRIMP COCKTAIL....PAN FRIED, DEEP FRIED.....PINEAPPLE SHRIMP, COCONUT SHRIMP, LEMON SHRIMP, SHRIMP SOUP, SHRIMP SALAD, SHRIMP STEW....SHRIMP BURGERS, SHRIMP SANWICHES...THAT'S ABOUT IT. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER (VAN, COFFIN, A TRAIN CAR, A TRAIN CASE OR LUGAGE) AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOO LOCKER.....PRIVATE? GEAR-A PILLOW, A PILLOW CASE, FLASH WEAPON, FLASH BANG WEAPON, HER PETTICOATS, BEAM MICROWAVE WEAPON, A SWORD, POTATOES, A CRUCIFIX, A TRAIN ATTENTANT'S UNIFORM AND HAT, A HOBO CLOTHES, A TRAIN WHISTLE, FORREST'S RUNNING SHOES.....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....HOLDING LORINE'S HAND....FACE WAS PALE...HIS EYES....HIS EYES SHUT....SHOOK HER HEAD....HIS HAND UP REACHING...FACE...HER HEAD...EYES...EYES...HEAD...ARMS....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE....PAPER-MAIL, BUS TICKETS, A LAUNDRY TAG....A BIRTH CERTIFICATE....A DEATH CERTIFICATE....A WILL.....A POTATOE KNIFE, PEALER OR PEELER,THAT'S A REICPE FROM MY MUM, MAMA, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....THAT'S A RECIPE FOR ENTERING THE TWILIGHT ZONE....THAT'S A REICPE FOR A RESURECTION....A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI) HE COULD SEE LORINE STANDING IN FRONT OF HIM WIH THE MAIL, THEN HE COULD SEE HIS SON AND ME STAND IN FRONT OF HIM. HE WOULD THEN HAVE FALSH BACKS TO HIS OTHER CHILDREN AND THEN TO THE TIME THAT THEY HAD THEIR PICNIC IN THE FIELD OF DAISIES WHEN EVERYONE WAS SO HAPPY. HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AS HE SAW HIMSELF HOLDING LORINE'S HAND THE NIGHT SHE ALMOST GAVE BIRTH ON THE GREYHOUND BUS AND THEN HE FLASHED BACK TO THEIR HONEYMOON COTTAGE IN THE MOUNTAINS. HE SMILED WHEN HE SAW HIMSELF MAKING LOVE TO HI WIFE AND THEN HIS MIND FLASHED BACK TO THE TIME THAT LORINE CRAWLED OUT BACKWARDS OF HER FAMILIES' LAUNDRY VAN WHILE HER BROTHERS WHISTLED AND GIGGLED AT HER WITH HER PETTICOATS SHOWING AND HOW BEAUTIFUL AND PROUD SHE WAS HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. THEN HIS MIND CARRIED HIM TO A PLACE OF HIS BOYHOOD AS HE CRAWLED UP THE BANK SOAKING WET HOLDING HIS SWORD (SHRIMP KABOBS) TO THE HEAVENS. "CAN A MAN'S COUNTRY STRIKE HIM DOWN FOR WHAT HE THINKS IS RIGHT?" AT LAST HE SEES HIMSELF AS A YOUNG BOY SPRINGING UP AND IN SLOW MOTION HOLDING HIS SWORD INTO THE AIR AS THE SUN AND THE WATER SPARKLED AROUND HIM. (IN THE MOVIE AND IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WHILE SHE IS DYING, HE TELLS JENNY ABOUT HOW "THOSE OLE SPARKLES ON THE WATER WERE BEATIFUL." AS FORREST HAS FLASH BACKS WHILE JENNY DIES.) HE LAID THERE AS HIS MIND FLASHED BACK AND FORTH TO HIS LIFE AND HE SMILED AS HE LAID VERY STILL IN HIS BED. HIS FACE WAS VERY PALE AND THE DARK CIRCLES UNDER HIS EYES MADE HIM LOOK LIKE A GHOST, BUT, FOR A MOMENT HE WAS HAPPY AND FELT AT PEACE. WHILE LORINE SAT AND PEELED POTATOES (THE SNOWDEN POTATOS PEELED FROM A PEELER) IN THE KITCHEN, SHE STARTED TO FEEL AN UNEASINESS THAT SHE HAD NEVER FELT BEFORE. WHEN SHE LOOKED (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.) OUT OF THE KITCHEN WINDOW, SHE SUDDENLY SAW A MAN DRESSED IN BLACK RUNNING AWAY FROM THE HOUSE. SHE JUMPED UP SPILLING THE BOWL OF POTATOS (SNOWDEN POTATOS-MUM'S RECIPE FOR POTATO CHIPS) ALL OVER THE FLOOR (FORREST AND BUBBA POLISHING THE FLOOR) AS SHE RAN TO THE DOOR OF THE KITCHEN AND STOPPED TO LOOK AT THE CRUCIFIX OF CHRIST HANGING ON THE WALL. (WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER...PRIVATE? GEAR-A PEELER, THE HOLY SWORD, THE SPEAR OF CHRIST..IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THAT WRITE THAT HE FALLS ON HIS SWORD.) SHE RAN TO THE DOOR OF THE BEDROOM WHERE GILBERT LAID WITH HIS EYES SHUT AND SHE SAW A BEAM OF LIGHT COME THROUGH THE WINDOW SHINING ON GILBERT'S PALE WHITE FACE. TEARS STREAMED DOWN HER FACE AND SHE KNEW THAT THE END WAS NEAR. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR END OF DAYS.) "LORINE, TAKE CARE OF OUR CHILDREN." SHE SHOOK HER HEAD YES AS THE SAD, SAD, SOUND OF A TRAIN WHISTLE (IN PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY ADD THAT FORREST GETS HIT ON THE TRACKS AT THE CROSSING WHILE HE IS A LITTLE BOY.) A TRAIN WHISTLED OUTSIDE. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR A BOX CAR HOBO) GILBERT REACHED HIS HAND UP TOWARD HER. "STAND IN THE LIGHT SO I CAN LOOK AT YOUR BEAUTY ONE MORE TIME." (A DRILL SERGEANT LOOKS INTO BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT ) (MUM'S RECIPE FOR A DERAILMENT, MUM'S RECIPE FOR AN ATOMIC TRAIN?) WITH HER TEAR STAINED FACE, LORINE DID WHAT GILBERT ASKED OF HER AND MOVED TO THE CENTER OF THE ROOM SO THAT THE BEAM OF LIGHT WOULD SHINE ON HER. "LORINE, YOUR BEAUTY IS MORE THAN THE HUMAN MIND CAN COMPREHEND." LORINE WALKED OVER TO GILBERT AND CLIMBED INTO BED WITH HIM AS SHE PLACED HER HEAD SOFTLY ON HIS SHOULDER AND LOOKED UP INTO HIS TIRED AND WEARY EYES. WHEN GILBERT LOOKED DOWN AT LORINE AND LOOKED DEEPLY INTO HER EYES, SHE KNEW THEN THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE OKAY, NOW. "LORINE, I LOVE YOU," GILBERT SAID SOFTLY AS HE LOOKED INTO LORINE'S EYES. (JENNY TELLS FORREST, "I LOVE YOU.") AT THAT MOMENT, GILBERT'S EYE'S ROLLED BACK AS HIS HEAD FELL BACK ONTO HIS PILLOW. IT WAS OVER, HE HAD DIED IN LORINE'S ARMS. (JENNY DIES) SHE COULD NOT ACCEPT AT THAT MOMENT THAT HE WAS DEAD AS SHE WOULD SHAKE HIM, TRYNG TO AWAKEN HIM WHILE SHE CRIED, "GILBERT!" "GILBERT!" BUT IT WAS NO USE, HE WAS FINALLY RESTING WITH GOD NOW AFTER A LONG JOURNEY IN LIFE AND NOW HIS TWILIGHT OF LIGHT HAD GONE OUT. HE DIED THE WAY HE WANTED, PEACEFUL IN LORINE'S ARMS, MY DADDY, MY DADDY WHO WAS A WHISTLEBLOWER. A PHOTOGRAPHER, AN ARTIST AND WRITER.

THE FUNERAL

HE DIES. MUM'S RECIPE FOR FIRE IN THE SKY.

I KNOW THAT MY FATHER'S HEALTH WAS DECLINING BECAUSE HIS LETTERS WOULD GRADUALLY STOP COMING. (PARAMOUNT-PAPER-LETTERS-MAMA'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...) THAT NIGHT I WOULD RECIEVE A PHONE CALL FROM MY BROTHER. "THERESA, ARE YOU SITTING DOWN?" "NO, WHAT'S THE MATTER?" "DADDY'S PASSED AWAY, HE DIED JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO." I FELT MY HEART JUMP TO MY THROAT AS I LET THE PHONE DROP TO MY SIDE. I JUST STOOD THERE, FROZEN. I COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT I WAS HEARING, I THOUGHT MY BROTHER WAS LYING TO ME. I PUT THE PHONE BACK TO MY EAR AND AS MY FACE CRACKED, I SAID, "YES, I UNDERSTAND," TRYING TO HOLD BACK THE TEARS, "I'LL BE THERE TOMORROW." I HUNG UP THE PHONE AS I WATCHED A SHOOTING STAR BURN ACROSS THE SKY. "THAT'S DADDY GOING TO HEAVEN," I THOUGHT. "I LOVE YOU, DADDY YOUR LITTLE GIRL LOVES YOU DADDY, CAN YOU HERE ME?" "CAN YOU SEE ME?" (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ THAT A BOMB HAS GONE OFF, "I CAN'T HEAR, I CAN'T HEAR!" AS THE BLOOD RUNS FROM HIS EARS." WE READ PARAMOUNT'S EMBELLISHMENT) "I ALREADY MISS YOU, DADDY," I SAID AS THE TEARS STREAMED DOWN MY FACE. HE WASN'T SUPPOSE TO LEAVE NOW, NO NOW, NOT AFTER WE JUST GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER! HE LEFT AS FAST AS HE CAME INTO MY LIFE AND I WAS ALL ALONE NOW. I WOKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT FEELING AFRAID. I HAD DREAMED THAT I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AGAIN AND WE WERE WALKING TOGETHER AND HOLDING HANDS AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE WERE PICKING DAISIES. HE THEN PICKED ME UP AND PUT ME ON HIS SHOULDERS AS WE WALKED AWAY INTO THE SUNSET, MY DADDY AND ME. WE ALL SAT BY OUR MOTHER UNDER THE TENT OUTSIDE NEAR HIS COFFIN WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG DRAPPED OVER IT. I LOOKED AROUND AT MY MOTHER, MY BROTHERS AND MY SISTER AND REALIZED THIS WS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE HAD ALL BEEN TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE WE WERE TAKEN AWAY ON JOHN F. KENNEDY'S BIRTHDAY, MAY 29, 1959 AND I WAS ONLY A BABY. WE WERE FINALLY ALL HERE TOGETHER AND BURYING OUR FATHER IN THE NATIONAL GRAVE FOR SOLDIERS. OUR FATHER, WHO AS A YOUNG MAN THOUGHT IT TO BE HIS PATRIOTIC DUTY TO INFORM SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER ABOUT THE WASTE AND CONDUCT AT HARMON AIR FORCE BASE IN NEWFOUNDLAND. A YOUNG, TALL AND HANDSOME AIRMAN WHO WAS IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE, HIS CHILDREN, HIS COUNTRY AND IN LOVE WITH LIFE. NOW WE WERE ALL HERE TO WITNESS HIS BURIAL ALONG WITH HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND HIS MOTHER, PEARL. I REALIZED THTA THERE WAS AN EMPTIED CHAIR AS THE TEARS STREAMED DOWN MY FACE. OUR OLDEST BROTHER WOULD NOT BE THERE. HE IS NOW VERY HAPPY IN A WONDERFUL LEARNING CENTER AND HAS MADE GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. BUT, WE ALL MISSED HIM NOT BEING THERE EVEN THOUGH A CHAIR WAS STILL SET OUT FOR HIM. WE ALL SAT THERE WHILE WE COULD HEAR THE WHISTLING OF A TRAIN IN THE BACKGROUND. OUR FATHER WAS ON HIS JOURNEY TO REST WITH GOD NOW AFTER A LONG, HARD AND SAD LIFE OF SUFFERING. HE WAS NOW RESTING. MY MOTHER WOULD TELL US THAT SOMEDAY WE WOULD ALL REUNITE IN HEAVEN AND THAT WE WOULD FINALLY BE A FAMILY TOGETHER AGAIN, GOD'S FAMILY. (SHRIMP GUMBO.....FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS....HEARST.....COFFIN.....GRAVE....HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. (TORN APART.....CRYING...) WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER....A SHOVEL... A TRAIN...HOBO'S CLOTHES.....TRAIN CONDUCTOR'S UNIFORM AND HAT.....A WHISTLE.....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-REGISTER OF SIGNATURES AT FUNERAL...IDENTITY....MISTAKEN IDENTITY....THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MAMA....SHRIMP CREOLE? THAT'S A REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....AMERICAN SHRIMP...A REICPE FOR GRAVE ROBBERS....A RECIPE FOR THE ELECTRIC CHAIR.....GRAVE DIGGERS.....FOR AN EMPTY GRAVE...) WE COULD HEAR THE WHISTLING OF A TRIAN IN THE BACKGROUND. OUR FATHER WAS ON HIS JOURNEY.....THIS WORLD HAD TORN US APART AND GOD WOULD PUT US BACK TOGETHER AGAIN. (WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT FORREST IS RUNNNG AND IS AT THE CROSSING) (PARAMOUNT-IN THE PARAMOUNT PICTURES SCRIPT WE READ, "THE SHROUD OF TURIN" I WRITE THAT LORINE LOOKS AT HE CRUCIFIX AND SEES A MAN RUNNING AWAY... AND PARMOUNT CONTINUES TO WRITE THAT FORREST WITH HIS HUNCH BACK WALKS UP THE HILL AS HIS FOLLOWERS ARE BEHIND....WE SEE FORREST AND HIS FOLLOWERS......PARAMOUNT-WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON....GUNS....A PILLOW...A SWORD...A WALKING STICK THAT WE SEE THE LT WITH IN THE MOVIE AND WE READ THAT HE THROWS THE STICK FOR THE DOGS TO GO AFTER (AND WE READ IN THE PARMOUNT SCRIPT THAT THE DOGS' NAMES ARE PRINCE, CARTER, RUSTY, MUM'S RECIPE FOR A DOG FIGHT, THEY TELL THE DOGS TO FETCH A STICK, I WROTE THAT HE WENT TO FETCH ME AS A BABY AND PARAMOUNT TELLS THE DOGS TO AFTER THE STICK, "FETCH PRINCE, CARTER, RUSTY." AND I ALSO WRITE ABOUT THE STICK IN THE SAND AND THE BIG BIRD IN THE SKY...WHILE HE WORKS ON HI WEAPON....SEE....WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM....ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP....FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING....DONE, DRILL SERGEANT! DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING...GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA.....YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS....SWORD...SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO.....THE BOYS ARE BUSILY POLISHING THEIR BOAT...(I WRITE OF KING ARTHUR AND THE LADY IN THE LAKE....) FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER....PEPPER SHRIMP....) PAGE 100 OF MY SCREENPLAY: GILBERT'S EYES ROLL BACK AS HIS HEAD FALLS BACK ONTO HIS PILLOW. (WHAT'S THIS GEAR-PILLOW, GUN, HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....EYES...HEAD....ARMS..MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHIRMP SCAMPI...) GILBERT HAS DIED IN LORINE'S ARMS. LORINE (SCREAMS, TRYING TO WAKE HIM GILBERT) DADDY! DADDY! CUT TO: EXT. MILITARY GRAVEYARD - DAY GILBERT IS RECIEVING A MILITARY BURIAL. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE MAY 29, 1959, THE CHILDREN ARE ALL TOGETHER EXCEPT FOR THE OLDEST BOY, DAMON. (IN THE MOVIE IT IS JENNY WHO HAS DIED....FORREST SAYS, "I BURIED YOU HERE UNDERNEATH OUR TREE." AT THE END OF THE MOVIE OR NEAR THE END WE SEE THE PEOPLE GATHERED AND A WOMAN SAYS, "IT'S ABOUT TO BEGIN." IT IS A WEDDING) THE CHILDREN ARE SEATED WITH LORINE. SHE IS IN THE CENTER. RELATIVES IN THE BACKGROUND. MRS. GLENN IS THERE, MRS. KENNEDY AS DIED. (WE SEE THAT MRS. GUMP HAS DIED AND JENNY DIES) CAMERA COMES IN FOR A CLOSE UP OF THE CHILDREN'S FACES, ONE BY ONE, THERESE'S LAST. TEARS RUNNING DOWN THEIR FACES AS THE SOLDIERS (WORKING ON HIS WEAPON WHISPERING TO FORREST) FIRE THE GUNS IN THE BACKGROUND. THE AMERICAN FLAG IS BEING FOLDED AND THEN HANDED TO LORINE. JIMMY HELPS HIS MOTHER (IN THE MOVIE DURING THE SHOOTING AND PEOPLE ARE ON THE GROUND WE HEAR PEOPLE SAY, "HELP ME FORREST!") JIMMY HELPS HIS MOTHER TO HER FEET (WHAT'S THIS ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER......PRIVATE? A GUN.....A SWORD...A FLAG...THE MAGIC BULLET?....A CAMERA....REIGESTER OF SIGNATURES...MUSIC...MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....THE AMERICAN FLAG....) TO HER FEET WHILE SHE LIES THE AMERICAN FLAG ON THE EMPTY SEAT TAHT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE FOR DAMON, BUT HE HAS NOT BEEN FOUND YET. GILBERT J. RISES UP AND PICKS UP GILBERT'S CHILDHOOD SWORD (KING ARTHUR) AND LIES IT UPON THE AMERICAN FLAG RESTING IN DAMON'S EMPTY CHAIR. THE BOYS HELP LORINE BACK TO HER SEAT. SHE ALMOST STUMBLES. THE CAMERA (GEAR) NOW FOCUSES ON THE EMPTY SEAT CARRYING THE SWORD AND THE AMERICAN FLAG. (WHERE DID PARMOUNT COME UP WITH THAT FORREST LIMPED AND WORE BRACES AND CARRIED A CASE WITH HIM AND HAD A BUBBA SHRIMP HAT AND HIS CASE WITH HIS THINGS AND HIS MEMORIES AND THE RADIO WE SEE THE LT. TALK INTO AT SEA AND ON THE BATTLEFIELD CRYING OUT FOR PEOPLE TO HELP THEM AND THE SINGING ALSO? I WILL SHOW YOU. IN CHAPTER 12 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: POPULAR THEATER AND LITERATURE WILL BY MAC HYMAN'S "NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS," (DRILL SERGEANT IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT) , THEODOR PLIEVIER'S NOVEL, "BERLIN," AND THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WILL GO TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY. ("I GOT A MEDAL" WE HEAR FORREST SAY.) TENNESSEE WILLIAM'S "CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF," WILL WIN PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA. IN 1954 THE ST. LAURENCE SEAWAY PROJECT WILL BE APPROVED BY EISENHOWER ("YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDAY....PRIVATE GUMP.") AND THE COMMUNISTS WILL OCCUPY HANOI. WHEN GREAT BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE AND THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS WILL MEET IN BERLIN, BUT, RUSSIA WILL REJECT THE IDEA OF GERMAN REUNIFICATION. 1954 MARKED A TIME WHEN CHILDREN WILL BE INOCULATED WITH THE ANTIPOLIO SERUM CREATED BY DR. JONAS E. SALK AND THE PLACE WILL BE PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA. THERE WILL ALSO BE A GREAT CONCERN DURING THIS TIME IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE ABOUT FALLOUT AND THE DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE. THIS IS WHERE PARAMOUNT CAME UP WITH THE FACE THAT FORREST LIMPED AND WORE BRACES. FROM ME. MY HUSBAND HAD POLIO AND HE WAS FROM PENNSYLVANIA. MY BROTHER WALKED WITH A LIMP AND WORE BRACES AND I WROTE ABOUT IT, THIS IS HOW THEY CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA WHICH IN FACT IS FACT AND NOT FICTION, PARAMOUNT STOLEN THIS. TO CONTINUE ON PAGE 100 OF MY SCREENPLAY: WHERE DID THEY COME UP WITH THE LIMP, HIS CASE OF MEMORIES, FORREST SWINGING IN A SWING AND PARMAOUNT PERVERTS IT BY SAYING THAT HE HIS OUTSIDE SWINGING IN THE MOON LIGHT AS A BALDING MAN BUILDS TO AN ORGAISM..."AAAAAHHHHHH AAHHHHHHHH!' THEY ADD AND I WRITE ALSO THAT I AM AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD NAKED BY MYSELF AS I SWING FROM THE TREE AND JUMP INTO THE WATER.......A GOVERNMENT MAN IS KEEPING AN EYE ON ME.....BALDING MAN, IN SOME PAGES I WRITE ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT MAN ARCHIBALD COX.....SO PARAMOUNT PAIRS THE SCENES AND THE BALDING MAN IS BUILDING TO AN ORGASIM WHILE HE IS SCREWING FORREST'S MOTHER PARAMOUNT ADDS AND EMBELLISHES WITH WITH THIS SMUT. THE MAN IN THE SWING: CUT TO: EXT. SOMEWHERE IN TENNESSEE - DAY SOMEWHERE IN TENNESSEE IS A MENTALLY RETARDED MAN WHO IS ABOUT 32 YEARS OLD. HE IS SWINGING IN A CHILD'S SWING OUTDOORS. HE GETS UP OUT OF THE SWING, AND WITH A LIMP, WALKS TO A TABLE WHERE A RADIO IS SITTING ON IT. HE BENDS OVER (WE SEE FORREST BEND OVER AND MOON EVERYONE IN THE MOVIE.) AND LOOKS INTO A BOX (DRILL SERGEANT INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS...AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.....) THAT IS ON THE GROUND NEXT TO THE TABLE AND REACHES INTO AND BRINGS (HE LIFTS OUT.....) A RED, WHITE, AND BLUE TOP HAT COVERED WITH GLITTERING SILVER STARS ALL OVER IT. HE PUTS THE HAT ON HIS HEAD (LIFTS OUT A HAND...A HEAD.....WHAT'S THIS GEAR-MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....) AND TURNS THE RADIO ON. AS THE RADIO STARTS PLAYING YANKEE DOODLE DANDY, DAMON BRINGS THE RADIO UP NEXT TO HIS EAR AND STARTS TO SING. DAMON (SMILING AND SINGING) I'M A YANKEE DOODLE DANDY, A YANKEE DODDLE DO OR DIE..... (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE IN THE CASE A HAT...FORREST'S BUBBA SHRIMP HAT....) PAGE 101 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CAMERA COMES IN FOR A CLOSE UP OF DAMON'S FACE AND FREEZES INTO A STILL SHOT AS THE SILHOUETTE OF GILBERT'S FACE COMES IN ALONG SIDE OF DAMON'S FACE. THE STILL SHOT GIVES THE IMPRESSION THAT FATHER AND SON ARE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. FINALLY TOGETHER ON THE SCREEN, ONE WEARS AN AIR FORCE HAT, THE OTHER AN UNCLE SAM HAT. FADE OUT END OF SCREENPLAY (AT THE END OF THE MOVIE, WE SEE ONLY TWO PEOPLE, FORREST AND HIS CHILD. AND THE CASE OF MEMORIES AND HE PICKS UP A FEATHER AND PUTS IT IN HIS CASE. HE TRIES TO TELL LITTLE FORREST NOT TO GET ON THAT BUS.....THEN LET'S HIM GO AND PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT THE FEATHER "LANDS" AT HIS FEET.)

THE SUN.....AND THE MOON.....

IN THE MOVIE FORREST, PARAMOUNT WRITES DOESN'T KNOW WHO HIS FATHER IS. THEY INDICATE THAT HIS FATHER COULD BE IN JAIL. IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY COPY AND PERVERT OF COURSE THAT FORREST'S DAD WORKS AT A SHIPYARD, UNLOADING BANANAS, (MAYBE THEY ARE IMPYING THAT HE JUST GOT OFF OF A BANANA BOAT.) THEY WRITE THAT FORREST'S DAY LEAVES, HE WALKS OFF, INT THE NIGHT TOWARD THE MOON....HE WORKS FOR A SHRIP YARD AND THEY PARAMOUND STUPIDLY ADDS THAT HE IS KILLED WHEN A BUNCH OF BANANAS LANDS ON TOP OF HIM. I WRITE ABOUT BEING TACKLED. BUT, THEY WRITE THAT HE JUST WALKS OFF INTO THE NIGHT TOWARD THE MOON, LEAVING THE CHILD BEHIND. LOOKING AT THE MOON. WHERE DID THEY GET SOME OF THIS. I WROTE THAT GILBERT WORKED AS A WAREHOUSEMAN AND HE WORKD FOR "SAVE THE CHILDREN," TOO, THE REST IT APPEARS ON THESE PAGES IS WHERE PARAMOUNT CAME UP WITH THIS..... ON PAGE 357 OF MY NOVEL: GILBERT TOOK CHARLES BY THE COLLAR AND LEAD HIM TO THE DOOR, "OUT OR I'M GOING TO CALL THE COPS!" CHARLES STRAIGHTENED HIS STARCHY SUIT AND TIE AND WALKED CLOSE TO THE SCREEN DOOR THAT SEPARATED HIM FROM GILBERT AND SAID, "I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE A DONE THAT." THEN HE WALKED OFF INTO THE NIGHT LEAVING GILBERT STANDING THERE WITH A FEELING OF SHOCK AND FEAR THAT WENT THROUGH HIS BODY LIKE AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK WAVE. WHAT HAD HE DONE HE HAD DONE HE HAD THOUGHT TO HIMSELF? WHY COULDN'T HE JUST HAVE BEEN POLITE TO CHARLES AND NOT BECOME ANGRY? HE SENSED THAT WHAT HE HAD DONE WOULD COME BACK ON HIM TEN-FOLD. GILBERT WALKED INTO THE ROOMS OF THE CHILDREN AND JUST STOOD THERE FROZEN AS IF HE HAD NO BODY AND THAT HE WAS LOOKING OVER THEM FOR PROTECTION. HE FELT THAT HE WAS ONLY A GHOST IN THEIR LIVES NOW AND HE WANTED TO LET THEM KNOW HOW MUCH HE LOVED THEM SO HE WALKED OVER TO EACH CHILD....END OF PAGE PAGE 71 OF MY SCREENPLAY: JIMMY (PUTTING ARM AROUND GILBERT) WELL YOU KNOW GILBERT'S OKAY, HE JUST CALLED FROM BOSTON. GILBERT (TO JIMMY) I KNOW, BUT, IT'S THAT FANATIC, RELIGIOUS GROUP WITH THE FLOWERS, WHAT THE LOONEY MOONIES, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WORRIES ME, DON'T GET ME WRONG, I LOVE GOD, TOO. JIMMY (TO GILBERT) BUT, WHAT..... GILBERT (ABOUT TO CRY) WHEN WE KNOW THAT YOUR OLDEST BROTHER, AND YOUR BABY SISTER ARE OKAY, THEN WE CAN BE AT PEACE. NOTHING WILL KEEP ME FROM GIVING UP. IN THE MOVIE WE SEE FORREST GIVING A MOON TO THE TV CAMERAS AS PRESIDENT JOHNSON ASK HIM WHERE HE GOT WOUNDED. FORREST BENDS OVER AND WE SEE A MOON.

THE FULL MONTY MUM'S RECIPE FOR RAT POISON. MUM'S RECIPE FOR AN EARTHQUAKE.

WHERE DID PARAMOUNT GET SOME OF IT'S STRIPPER SCENE? WELL, I WILL TELL YOU. FORREST WALKS IN TO A "STRIP JOINT IN TENNESEE." PARAMOUNT PERVERTS AND HE FINDS JENNY THERE NUDE SITTING. AND HE SAYS, "JENNY'S DREAMS HAD FINALLY CAME TRUE, SHE WAS A FOLK SINGER." AND PARAMOUNT GOT IT FROM HERE: THE SINGING-PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT JENNY IS NUDE, SITTING ON A STOOL, CATATONIC, WHILE MEN "HOOT" AT HER AND REACH UP AND FONDLE HER AND POUR BEER ALL OVER HER. I WRITE ABOUT MANY SINGERS, MYSELF, ELVIS, PERRY COMO, DINAH SHORE AND MORE, HERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES BEFORE WE GET TO THE "STRIP" JOINT AND SHE WAS A "FOLK" SINGER. PAGE 32 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CUT TO: EXT. MILITARY HOUSING, FRONT PORCH - NIGHT GILBERT IS ROCKING HIS LITTLE BOY, DAMON, WHO IS MENTALLY RETARDED. HOOT OWLS HOOTING, CRICKETS CHIRPING, SOFT 1950'S MUSIC IS PLAYING ON THE RADIO, FRANK SINATRA MUSIC. GILBERT KISSES HIS LITTLE BOY AND LOOKS SADLY OFF INTO SPACE. I ALSO WRITE I AM A ONE YEAR OLD BABY AND I WANTED TO SING AND DANCE AND I FALL DOWN SITTING IN A BUNCH OF FLOWERS. PAGE 71 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CUT TO: INT. HIGHSCHOOL GYM, WINCHESTER - NIGHT THE ORCHESTRA MUSIC IS PLAYING AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL AND IT IS JULY 4, 1976. THE GYM IS FILLED WITH PEOPLE. AT THE MICROPHONE STANDS THERESE WEARING A LONG WHITE FORMAL GOWN AND A WHITE ORCHID CORSAGE, SHE IS SINGING HER HEART OUT AS THE CONDUCTOR WAVES HIS WAND TO THE ORCHESTRA. ABOUT AT THE END OF THE SONG, THERESE, PUTS HER HAND TO HER FOREHEAD AS SHE FAINTS. THE CONDUCTOR WATCHING HER GRABS HER AND PICKS HER UP AS THE AUDIENCE MOANS. THERESE HAS BEEN FOR SOME TIME SLOWLY DYING FROM AN ILLNESS. EXT. OUTSIDE FOOTBALL STADIUM, JULY 4, 1976 - NIGHT CAMERA COMES IN FOR A CLOSE UP OF GILBERT'S FACE AS A TEAR ROLLS DOWN HIS FACE AS HE IS LOOKING UP TO WATCH THE FIREWORKS IN THE SKY. GILBERT (TO HIMSELF) I'LL FIND YOU. PAGE 33 OF MY NOVEL: "WHAT'S THAT?" CRIED LORINE. "A HOOT OWL." "WHAT'S OVER THERE?" LORINE POINTED AT TWO GLOWING EYES IN THE WOODS. "IT'S A CAT." "MY SKIN IS CRAWLING, WHERE'S THE CABIN?" GRABBING GILBERT'S ARM, LORINE KEPT LOOKING OVER HER SHOULDER. (THEN THE STRIPPING) ON PAGE 109 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: ONLY SAT BACK AND FOLDED HIS ARM AND SULKED LIKE A LITTLE BOY KNOWING HE HAD BEEN BEAT. GILBERT STARTED LAUGHING AT JESSIE AND HE TOOK IT IN STRIDE AS HE STAYED IN JAIL. HE KNEW IT WAS ONLY A GAME AND EVENTUALLY JESSIE BURST OUT IN LAUGHTER ALSO. JOZEF STOOD UP AND DID A FOLK DANCE AS HE WAVED THE MONEY IN THE AIR. "YOU'D THINK HE JUST WON THE LOTTERY BY THE WAY HE'S STRUTING AROUND LIKE A ROOSTER," CHUCKLED JESSIE. "SINCE I AM THE WINNER AND GRAND MASTER, I GET TO CHOOSE SOMEONE FOR A DEATH DEFYING FEAT," SAID JOZEF AS HE MADE A TOAST WITH HIS GLASS. JESSIE STARTED LAUGHING AND SAID, "OH, NO, HERE HE GOES WITH THAT GRAND MASTER CRAP." 'I CHOOSE YOU JESSIE TO STRIP DOWN TO YOUR UNDERWERAR AND RUN BAREFOOT UP THAT BIG HILL OUT THERE BACKWARDS." AT THAT MOMENT WAS LORINE'S CUE TO GO BACK INTO THE KITCHEN AND FINISH UP DINNER, SHE CERTAINLY DID NOT WANT TO SEE A BUNCH OF NAKED MEN RUNNING AROUND OUTSIDE IN THE COLD SNOW. "YOU WHAT!" JESSIE CRIED OUT WITH A SURPRISED LOOK ON HIS FACE. "YOU HEARD ME, JESSIE, STRIP!" "HE HAS LOST HIS MIND," STUTTERED JESSIE AS HE STOOD UP TO DEFEND HIMSELF. (IN THE MOVIE FORREST STUTTERS AND WE HEAR FORREST BEING ASKED, "ARE YOU CRAZY!") "YOU KNOW THE RULES, JESSIE, THE BIG LOSER HAS TO DO WHAT THE WINNER SAYS," GILBERT CROWED AS HE AND JOZED EACH TOOK AN ARM AND LEAD JESSIE OUTSIDE. (I WRITE ON THE NEXT PAGES, THEY START STRIPPING HIS CLOTHES OFF AND ONE OF THE MEN LAUGHS LIKE A JACK ASS AND JESSIE GETS TO THE TOP OF THE HILL AND THEN THEY TELL HIM TO NOW LAY DOWN AND ROLL BACK DOWN THE HILL IN HIS UNDERWEAR (MUM'S RECIPE FOR A TOOTSIE ROLL CANDY) AND JESSIE IS SCREAMING FROM THE COLD SNOW AND THE MEN ARE LAUGHING. PARAMOUNT IN THEIR SCRIPT ALSO WRITES THAT FORREST IS RUNNING FROM A ROLLING NAPALM FIREBALL....WHICH I FOUND TO BE AN EVIL THING THAT PARAMOUNT ADDED....SO THIS IS WHERE THEY GOT "STRIP AND FOLK SINGER." PARAMOUNT ALSO USES MAN ON GROUND TO WRITE THAT JENNY'S SCARF IS ON FIRE AND SHE IS ON FIRE ROLLING AROUND ON THE GROUND, WHILE EVERYONE IS "SLOW TO REACT." THEY GET THIS FROM THESE PAGES TOO. PAGE 50 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CUT TO: EXT. OUTSIDE POLICE STATION - DAY LORINE IS DRESSED IN RAINCOAT AND SCARF, WALKS SLOWLY UP THE STEPS OF THE POLICE STATION AS IT RAINS. SHE GOES INTO THE POLICE STATION AND THEY GIVE HER A CUP OF COFFEE AND HER HANDS SHAKE. GILBERT IS RELEASED AD THEY GIVE HIM HIS THINGS IN A BROWN PAGE (GEAR-A BAG AND A SCARF, MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI, MUM'S RECIPE FOR RAT POISON AND MUM'S RECIPE FOR AN EARTHQUAKE.) PAGE 64 OF MY SCREENPLAY: EXT. FEBURARY 1962 - DAY SHOW FILM CLIP OF JOHN GLENN IN HIS ASTRONAUT SUIT, THE FIRST AMERICAN TO ENTER SPACE. A ROCKET TAKES OFF INTO SPACE. (LT. DAN IN MOVIE WANTS TO BE AN ASTRONAUT AND THEN THEY GO ON TO DO APOLLO.) CUT TO: EXT. SAIGON - 1963 A BUDDHIST MONK PROTESTS BY SETTING HIMSELF ON FIRE. SHOW NEWS CLIP. PAGE 66 OF SCREENPLAY, "STRIP" I WRITE I STRIP MY CLOTHES OFF AND I AM ELEVEN YEARS OLD AND I RUN UP THE DOCK AND CLIMB THE TREE AND JUMP INTO THE WATER. (WE SEE BOTH THE MEN, FORREST AND THE LT. JUMP INTO THE WATER IN THE MOVIE, LIKE MEN IN TREES.) ON THE GROUND CONTINUED. PAGE 8 OF MY NOVEL: SCARE THE PANTS OFF OF ME. (FROM PREVIOUS PAGE THEY COULDN'T FIND GILBERT AND IT SCARED HIS LITTLE BROTHER.) "ME TOO!" SAID LITTLE BROTHER'S FRIEND. "TAKE A LOOK AT THAT SWORD, IT MUST BE A CONFEDERATE!" WHEN GILBERT FINALLY REACHED THE TOP OF THE ROCKS HE WAS OUT OF BREATH AND LOOKED LIKE A DROWNED RAT. "AIN'T IT A REAL BEAUTY, JUST LIKE THE SWORD IN THE STONE AND ALL OF YOU ARE MY KNIGHTS," HE SAID CHOPPING AT THE AIR WITH HIS SWORD WHILE THE OTHERS JUMPED BACK IN FEAR THAT THEY WOULD BE SLICED INTO. SUDDENLY THE OLDER BOY WHO WAS GILBERT'S RIVAL, BECAME JEALOUS AND WITH A WICKED LAUGH HE CHUCKLED, "HEY, GILBERT THINKS HE'S KING ARTHUR." "I WOULD SAY HIS IS MORE LIKE THE LADY OF THE LAKE, RIGHT BOYS?" GILBERT REMEMBERED THAT THE MEAN BOY HAD NEVER JUMPED INTO THE LAKE AND RESPONDED BACK, "OH, YEAH, WHERE WERE YOU?" THEN HE PUSHED THE OLDER BOY BACKWARDS. "WELL, I..." RESPONDED THE OLDER BOY TRYING TO CATCH HIMSELF BEFORE HE FELL. BUT, IT WAS TOO LATE, ABOUT THAT TIME GILBERT KNOCKED THE OLDER BOY TO THE GROUND AND THEN THEY GOT INTO A REAL SCUFFLE. GILBERT HAD THE OLDER BOY PINNED TO THE GROUND WHEN HE TOLD THE OLDER BOY TO SAY "UNCLE" IF HE EVER WANTED TO GET BACK UP. "SAY UNCLE, SAY IT, " COMMANDED GILBERT. "NO!" (AND BESIDES BEING ON THE GROUND, THE MEN AGAIN LET ME STATE JUMP INTO THE WATER IN THE MOVIE AND I WRITE THAT LITTLE BOYS ARE JUMPING INTO THE WATER NAKED AS A JAY BIRD SWIMMING TOWARDS THE END OF MY NOVEL ON A SUNDAY MORNING WHILE SOME PEOPLE WERE ON THERE WAY TO CHURCH. AND WE SEE THE MEN IN THE MOVIE JUMP INTO THE WATER. AND PARAMOUNT WRITES IN THE SCRIPTS, "THAT LT. DAN GOT A REAL BAPTISM." THE SCENE AGAIN IS PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT JENNY'S SCARF IS ON FIRE, SHE IS ROLLING ON THE GROUND CRYING WHILE EVERYONE IS SLOW TO REACT. AND I ALSO WRITE ABOUT THE FIREBALL FROM HELL AND PEOPLE ARE RUNNING FROM THE BOMB.

MI6

IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE COME ACROSS "MI6" WHERE DID THEY GET THIS? AND THAT FORREST WAS A MI6? OR EVEN THE WORD MI6? DO YOU KNOW WHAT MI6 IS? MI6 IS THE BRITISH SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE. MI6 (SIS) WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM'S ESPIONAGE ACTIVITIES OVERSEAS.....WHERE DID THEY GET THIS? FROM MY SCRIPTS. I WROTE THAT GILBERT WAS ACCUSED OF BEING A SPY AND I WROTE ABOUT SPIES. I WILL TELL YOU BRIEFLY WHERE PARAMOUNT GOT THIS FROM THESE SEVERAL PAGES. PAGE 95 OF MY SCREENPLAY: LORINE (LOOKS WORRIED) WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? ARE YOU OKAY? GILBERT (LOOKING VERY PALE) WELL, I'M NOT FEELING VERY WELL AND THERE'S SOMETHING I NEED TO TELL YOU. DO YOU REMEMBER IN 1956 AFTER I GOT OUT OF THE AIR FORCE, THREE MEN CAME TO OUR HOME? LORINE (CONFUSED) YES, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. CUT TO: EXT. OUTSIDE GILBERT'S HOUSE, 1956 - DAY GILBERT AND THREE F.B.I. MEN ARE STANDING OUTSIDE A BLACK GOVERNMENT TALKING. GILBERT (V.O.) I COULDN'T SAY ANYTHING TO YOU. THOSE WERE F.B.I. MEN AND THEIR ESPIONAGE UNIT THAT CAME DOWN FROM NEW YORK. CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S HOUSE IN A VAN, 1956 - NIGHT F.B.I. MEN ARE LISTENING INTO EARPHONES AS THEY TAPE WHAT IS BEING SAID INSIDE. GILBERT (V.O.) THE F.B.I. WERE RUNNING A SURVEILENCE ON ME FOR OVER A YEAR AND A HALF FOR BEING A SPY. CUT TO: INTO. NEWFOUNDLAND AIR BASE WAREHOUSE - DAY GILBERT IS IN THE WAREHOUSE LOOKING AT WHAT HE HAS DISCOVERED, TOXIC WASTE, LEAKING DRUMS, DANGEROUS CHEMICALS, AND DANGEROUS CORODING SUPPLIES AND WEAPONRY. GILBERT (V.O.) AT THE AIR BASE IN NEWFOUNDLAND, I HAD DISCOVERED A WAREHOUSE SUPPLIED WITH DANGEROUS TOXIC CHEMICALS AND WEAPONRY. I WROTE TO SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER OF WHAT I THOUGHT WAS COMMUNIST SUBVERSION AT THAT BASE. ORGANIZED GOVERNMENT WASTE THAT WAS RUNNING RAMPANT. CUT TO: EXT. HUNGARY -DAY RUSSIAN TANKS ROLLING INTO HUNGARY. GILBERT (V.O.) IN 1956 THE HUNGARIAN PEOPLE WERE MAKING A HEROIC EFFORT TO FREE THEMSELVES FROM THE RUSSIAN BOOT. (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE FORREST PULL A BOOT FROM THE WATER.) MOSCOW SENT TANKS INTO BUDAPEST AND CRUSHED THE HUNGARIAN STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM, I WAS OUTRAGED AT THE COMMUNIST RUSSIAN TYRANNY. CUT TO; INT. THE UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK - DAY A RUSSIAN DELEGATE IS READING A LETTER OF PROTEST FROM GILBERT GLENN. HE PICKS UP THE PHONE. (LETTER-MAMA'S RECPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.) GILBERT (V.O.) I WROTE TO EISENHOWER, THE UNITED STATES DELEGATETO THE UNITED NATIONS, AND A VERY HEATED LETTER TO THE SOVIET DELEGATE. CUT TO: INT. RUSSIA - DAY A RUSSIAN OFFICIAL IS ON THE PHONE RECEIVING THE PHONE CALL FROM THE RUSSIAN DELEGATE AT THE UNITED NATIONS BUILDING. HE IS DRESSED IN A RUSSIAN MILITARY UNIFORM. (GEAR-MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.) GILBERT (V.O.) THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIA THREW THE UNITED STATES A CURVE BY INFORMING THEM THAT I WAS A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY. THE F.B.I. WAS TOLD I WAS ON RUSSIA'S RECURITMENT LIST TO BECOME A SPY. (LIST-MAMA'S RECIPE) CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - DAY GILBERT IS SITTING UP IN BED WITH THE F.B.I. REPORT IN HIS HAND (HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLE PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE...) AS LORINE STARTS TO CRY. LORINE (TAKING REPORT FROM GILBERT) BUT, YOU'RE NO SPY! GILBERT (POINTING TO DOCUMENTS) (MUM'S RECIPE) I HAD TO PUT IN A REQUEST FOR THOSE DOCUMENTS, AND IN THEM, LORINE, THE F.B.I. STATES IN THAT REPORT THAT MY HABITS AND MORALS APPEARTO BE GOOD AND THAT THERE WAS NEVER ANY QUESTION OF MY LOYALTY TO THIS COUNTRY, EVEN THOUGH THE MILITARY SAID THAT I WAS UNFIT. LORINE (TEARS ROLLING DOWN FACE) (PARAMOUNT-FORREST RUNNING FROM A ROLLING FIREBALL) WE WENT THROUGH..... (HELL) GILBERT (INTERPOSING, SERIOUS VOICE) YOU BELIEVE, LORINE, THAT I AM NOT A SPY? DO YOU BELIEVE? LORINE (WIPING TEARS FROM FACE) OF COURSE! GILBERT (PALE AND SWEAT ROLLING DOWN SIDES OF FACE) YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ANYMORE. NOW, BABY, GO AND PUT THE POTATOES ON SO WE CAN EAT. LORINE GETS UP, WIPES HER TEARS, AND LEAVES THE ROOM. GILBERT REACHES UP AND TAKES HIS CHILDHOOD SWORD FROM THE WALL ABOVE HIM. HE STARTS TO HAVE FLASH BACKS OF HIS LIFE AS HIS SWORD LIES ACROSS HIS LAP. CAMERA COMES IN CLOSE OF GILBERT'S FACE, VERY PALE, DARK CIRCLES UNDER EYES. FLASH BACKS CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - DAY THERESE IS SITTING ON THE BED NEXT TO GILBERT. GILBERT (TO THERESE) IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME TO KNOW THE TIME OF EVERY COUNTRY ALL OVER THE WORLD. (THEN I WRITE LATER AS LORINE IS PEELING THE POTATOES, THE MAN IN BLACK RUNS AWAY FROM THE HOUSE AND WE HEAR THE TRAIN.) CHAPTER 12 I WRITE: BY 1954 THE BIG SONG HIT "SH-BOOM," BY THE CHORDS WOULD BE A VERY POPULAR SONG AND "THE REBEL" IS PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY KNOPF. WHILE GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN ARE NAMED BES COMEDY SHOW OF THE YEAR, $26 MILLION DOLLARS IS AUTHORIZED BY THE HOUSE TO START A PROJECT TO BUILD AN AIR FORCE ACADEMY THAT WILL BE LIKE WEST POINT. A CANADIAN SLIP REVEALS THAT THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED THE LOCATIONS OF NINE TOP SECRET RADAR STATIONS THAT SCREEN THE APPROACHES TO POTENTIAL BOMBER TARKETS IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.....BRITAIN WILL MEET IN BERLIN. PAGE 89 OF MY NOVEL: THE ENDING OF THE KOREAN WAR MARKED A SPIRAL IN DECLINE FOR JOE McCARTHY. BY NOW HE HAD BECOME EMBROILED (YOU CAN BROIL IT...) WITH THE ARMY. HE LAUNCHED A SEARCH FOR COMMUNIST AND SPIES IN THE ARMY SIGNAL-CORPS INSTALLATION AT FORT MONMOUST, NEW JERSEY. THE ARMY DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK IN 1954. PAGE 212 OF MY NOVEL: IN 1955 STUART SYMINGTON WILL SAY THAT THE SOVIET AVIATION DAY IN MOSCOW WILL INDICATE THAT UNITED STATES HAS LOST SOME OF ITS AIR SUPERIORITY WHILE SENATOR JAMES EASTLAND AND WILLIAM OF THE SENATE INTERNAL SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ARE AGAINST JURY TAPPING AND WILL PRESS FOR "SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR EAVESDROPPING" ON JURIES. PAGE 213 OF MY NOVEL: ONE AFTERNOON WHILE LORINE WOULD BE GETTING READY FORTHE DEPARTURE TO HER HOMETOWN IN KNOXVILLE, ACCORDING TO DOCUMENTS, GILBERT WOULD BE NEAR ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE AND A MAN WITH A BLACK SUIT AND HAT ON WOULD TRY TO START UP A CONVERSATION WITH HIM. GILBERT HAD NEVER SEEN THE MAN BEFORE AND WAS CAUTIOUS AT THE MAN'S APPROACH. HE DID NOT KNOW IF THE MAN WAS WITH THE GOVERNMENT, THE C.I.A., OR THE F.B.I., HE ONLY KNEW THAT HE WOULD NOT ANSWER THIS MAN'S QUESTIONS. (WE READ MI6 IN PARAMOUNT) AFTER GETTING INTO HIS CAR AND DRIVING OFF SLOWLY, GILBERT WOULD NOTICE THA THE MAN WOULD BE FOLLOWING CLOSE BEHIND HIM FOR SERVERAL MILES. GILBERT WOULD TRY TO LOSE THE MAN BY TURNING INTO DIFFERENT STREETS, BUT, IT DID NOT STOP THE MAN IN THE BLACK CAR FROM FOLLOWING HIM. MAYBE THE MAN WAS ONLY TRYING TO SCARE GILBERT OR MAYBE HE WAS LETTING GILBERT KNOW THAT SOMEONE WAS KEEPING AN EYE ON HIM. BUT, AT ANY EVENT, IT HAD UN-NERVED HIM TO SAY THE LEAST. WHEN GILBERT HAD PULLED INTO HIS DRIVE WAY AT LAST, THE MYSTERIOUS MAN DROVE SLOWLY BY AND GAVE GILBERT A POKER FACE STARE THAT SENT COLD CHILLS UP AND DOWN GILBERT'S SPINE. HE WAS GLAD THAT HE AND LORINE AND THE BABIES WOULD BE FINALLY BOARDING THE AIR FORCE PLANE FROM ANDREWS TO KNOXVILLE. THE NEXT DAY GILBERT, LORINE AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN WSERE READY TO LEAVE THEIR PLACE IN WASHINGTON D.C.. CHAPTER 16 OF MY NOVEL: GILBERT WAS UNDER SURVEILENCE FROM THE F.B.I. IT WAS REQUESTED FOR GILBERT TO BE INVESTIGATED ALONG WITH HIS FAMILY. THE F.B.I. AGENTS WOULD BE INSTRUCTED TO FIND ANY SUBVERSION THAT THEY COULD FIND, THIS INVESTIGATION WAS REQUESTED BY THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND FROM KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE AND FROM THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND IN NEW YORK. THE REQUESTED SURVEILENCE WAS GRANTED FROM NONE OTHER THAN J.EDGAR HOOVER AND HE ORDERED THAT THE AGENTS BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL NOT TO DISCLOSE THE SOURCE. AT THE SAME TIME, THE WASTE IN NEWFOUNDLAND WAS BEING INVESTIGATED. IT WAS BELIEVED THAT THE AIR FORCE REQUESTED FOR GILBERT TO BE INVESTIGATED TO RUIN HIS REPUTATION EVEN FURTHER SO THAT HE WOULD NOT BE CREDIBLE, BUT ACCORDING TO F.B.I. RECORDS, NOTHING SUBVERSIVE COULD BE FOUND. MOST OF THE RECORDS HAD BEEN BLACKED OUT TO PROTECT NATIONAL SECURITY AND TO PROTECT PRIVATE CITIZENS AND SEVERAL PAGES HAD ALSO BEEN DESTROYED. GILBERT BELIEVED THAT HE WAS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR WRITING ABOUT THE HUNGARIAN UPRISING AND THIS WOULD BE THE TYPE OF INFORMATION THAT HE VOLUNTEERED TO THE AGENT, BUT, LITTLE DID HE KNOW THAT SOMEONE IN HIS OWN COMMAND OR SOMEONE ON THE OUTSIDE HAD TOLD SOMEONE IN HIS COMMAND TO START A F.B.I. INVESTIGATION TO DRUM UP DIRT ON HIM. THIS WOULD BE DONE AFTER HE WAS WASHED OUT OF THE AIR FORCE JUST TWO YEARS EARLIER. CHAPTER 18 I WRITE: THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE USED THE HEARINGS ON THE WASTE AT HARMON TO IMPLEMENT THE CORDINER REPORT AND GILBERT AND LORINE WOULD KNOW NOTHING OF IT. THEY WOULD BE STRUGGLING TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES ALONG WITH THEIR FOUR SMALL CHILDREN AND WITH A BABY ON THE WAY. (ME) GILBERT BELIEVED THAT THE F.B.I. HAD HIM UNDER SURVEILANCE BECAUE HE HAD WRITTEN A HEATED LETTER PROTESTING THE WAY THE RUSSIANS HAD SURPRESSED THE HUNGARIANS. HE HAD WRITTEN LETTERS OF PROTEST TO PRESIDENT EISENHOWER AND A SOVIET DELEGATE. HE ONLY RECIEVED A FEW COPIES OF THE F.B.I. REPORT, BUT, WHEN I HAD REQUESTED F.B.I. RECORDS ON MY FATHER THROUGH THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, I LEARNED THAT THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND HAD REQUESTED THAT THE F.B.I. INVESTIGATE HIM ON SUBVERSION AND TO SMEAR HIM FOR BEING A RUSSIAN SPY. THIS WAS DONE DURING THE TIME OF MY OLDER BROTHER'S BIRTH AND AT THE ITME THERE WAS A RUSH TO CLEAN UP THE BASE PRIOR TO THE HEARINGS. GILBERT GLENN WAS NOT A HERO, BUT, A YOUNG MAN WHO THOUGHT HE WAS DOING HIS PATRIOTIC DUTY BY BREAKING THE CHAIN OF COMMAND AND INFORMING SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER OF THE WASTE, THE MORALE, AND THE RATIONS AND INCOME TO BE GIVEN TO MILITARY FAMILIES. HE DID NOW THAT THE HEARINGS WOULD BE USED TO IMPLEMENT THE CORDINER REPORT AND THAT ESTES KEFAUVER WOULD BE ONE OF THOSE ON THE SENATE ARMS COMMITTEE THAT THE CORDINER REPORT WOULD COME BEFORE TO IMPLEMENT. PAGE 328 OF MY NOVEL, QUOTING MR. CORDINER AT ONE OF THE HEARINGS ON THE WASTE. A BILL WAS THEN PASSED TO BUILD UP TROOPS FOR THE 190'S WHICH WOULD BE THE VIETNAM WAR AS A RESULT THAT CAME FROM WASTES......... "THE UNITED STATES HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO MEET THE CHALLENGE OF COMMUNIST (THIS WRITER WAS IN THE WOMB WHEN THIS SECOND HEARING ON THE WASTES WAS CONDUCTED) TECHNOLOGY AND EXPEND BILLIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE SCIENTIFICALLY ADVANCED WEAPONS; OTHERWISE, THE FREE NATIONS WILL LIE HELPLESS BEFORE OVERWHELMING COMMUNIST POWER." BUT ALONG WITH THESE BILLIONS FOR NEW WEAPONS, WE MUST INVEST FOR THE NEXT 2 FISCAL YEARS THE FEW HUNDRED MILLIONS NECESSARY TO DEVELOP AND RETAIN THE MILITARY MANPOWER THAT IS CAPABLE OF COMMANDING, OPERATING, AND MAINTAINING SCIENTIFICALLY ADVANCE EQUIPMENT. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ, "FORREST IS PLAYING ON SOME EQUIPMENT.") "SUCH SKILLS CANNOT BE DEVELOPED OVERNIGHT. THE TRAINING MUST BEGIN NOW, AND THE MEN WITH USEFUL SKILLS MUST BE RETAINED AND MOTIVATED, SO THAT THE UNITED STATES WILL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO DEFEND ITSELF AND PROVIDE A GENUINE DETERRENT TO WAR IN THE AGE OF INTERCONTINENTAL MISSILES WITH ATOMIC WARHEADS, (WE HEAR LT. DAN IN THE MOVIE TO CHECK OUT THAT HOLE (SILO) AND FORREST JUMPS IN AFTER WE HEAR "BLAM!" AND SMOKE COMING OUT.) SUPERSONIC AIRPLANES AND NUCLEAR-POWERED SUBMARINES.' (WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT YOUR FOOT LOCKER.....PRIVATE? HAS A VIOLENT REACITON....GEAR-A TORPEDO.....PARASCOPE....MAMA'S REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.....) "THUS, TO PUT IT BLUNTLY, THE REAL ISSUE BEHIND THE COMMITTEE PROPOSALS YOU WILL BE DISCUSSING IN THESE HEARINGS IS NATIONAL SURVIVAL IN THIS NUCLEAR AGE." HE WILL CONTINUE TO SAY IN HIS STATMENT: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND INNOVATION ON AN EXPANDING SCALE HAVE BECOME A WAY OF LIFE NOT ONLY IN INDUSTRY, BUT IN THE MILITARY FIELD. THE DRAMATIC TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES SYMBOLIZED BY NUCLEAR ENERGY, ELECTRONICS, SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT, AND MISSILES SYSTEMS ARE CAUSING AN EXPLOSION OF CHANGE AND GROWTH IN AN ALMOST EVERY SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTION, INCLUDING , OF COURSE, THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.' MR. CORDINER GOES ON TO SAY WE HAVE TO LOOK DOWN THE ROAD TO THE 1960'S WHICH WAS THE VIETNAM WAR. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT THE LT. TAYLOR-I WRITE OF GEN. MAXWELL TAYLOR.....WRITES THAT TAYLOR IS ALWAYS LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD.....AND WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THAT FORREST'S BRACES "EXPLODE OFF OF HIS LEGS.' MI6 IS A SPY FOR UNITED KINGDOM. I WRITE OF SPIES. PAGE 242 I WRITE: EARLY IN THAT YEAR THERE WAS STILL A FEAR OF COMMUNIST AND ESPIONAGE. PRESIDENT EISENHOUWER WOULD BE DISTURBED BY THE COMUNIST PARTY TO COMMIT ESPIONAGE AND SUBVERSION SO HE WOULD CALL A METTING OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL TO TALK ABOUT THIS THIS POSSIBLE THREAT. ATTENDED THE MEETING WOULD BE J. EDGAR HOOVER, RICHARD NIXON, ATTORNEY GENERAL BROWNELL, SECRETARY OF STATE DULLES AND SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CHARLES WILSON. HOOVER WOULD TELL EVERYONE AT THE MEETING ABOUT THE F.B.I.'S USE OF ILLEGAL INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES AND THE SURVEILLANCE OF THE COMMUNIUST PARTY. HE EVEN TALKED OF TECHNIQUES SUCH AS BREAK-INS, MAIL OPENINGS, WIRETAPS AND BUGS AND HTA IT WAS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY DISORGANIZE THE COMMUNIST PARTY. THIS ILLEGAL PLAN ON THE FBI WAS TO HARASS OR DISCREDIT OFFICIALS, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY AS WELL AS NON-COMMUNIST ACTIVISTS AS WELL. OTHER TACTICS WERE TO LEAK BAD AND DAMAGING INFORMATION TO THE PRESS AND TO TARGET CERTAIN GROUPLD AND INDIVIDUALS SUCH AS MARTIN LUTHER KING, AND OTHER TACTICS INCLUDED TO BREAK UP MARIAGES AND CAUSING VIOLENCE AMONG STREET GANGS. HE WOULD ACT ON HIS OWN WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE PRESIDENT. (WE SEE NIXON AND THE WATERGATE HOTEL IN THE MOVIE, IN MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE ABOUT WATERGATE) PAGE 243 I WRITE: ACCORDING TO F.B.I. DOCUMENTS THE CHARACTER CASE WOULD SAY INTERNAL SECURITY-RUSSIAN. PAGE 56 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: THE ROSENBERGS, THAT WERE SENTENCED AS ATOMIC SPIES IN 1951 WOULD BE EXECYTED, AND IN THE UNITED STATES, MOST MOVIE THEATRES ARE ADAPTED FOR CINEMASCOPE FILM PROJECTION IN 1953. WHILE "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY," WOULD BE AN ACADEMY AWARD WINING MOVIE, "DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW," WOULD BE A POPULAR SONG AS WELL As "STRANGER IN PARADISE," (IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAYS HIS MAMA TOLD HIM NOT TO TALK TO STRANGERS.) PAGE 387 I WRITE: AFTER KENNEDY BECAME PRESIDENT HE WOULD CONTINUALLY HAVE STRUGGLES WITH THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, FIDEL CASTRO, THE BAY OF PIGS AND SOUTHEAST ASIA. THE BERLIN WALL HAD GONE UP AND THE UNITED STATES WAS ON THE VERGE OF A NUCLEAR WAR WITH THE MISSILE CRISIS AND THE SHOOTING DOWN OF THE U-2. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI) ALSO WE SEE IN THE MOVIE THAT FORREST GETS HIS DIPLOMA AND HE AND HIS MAMA STAND IN FRONT OF THE WALL SO THEY CAN SHOOT A PHOTO OF THEM, IS A PERFECT PHOTO OPT. PAGE 28 OF MY SYNOPSIS I WRITE: FOR THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO I WOULD BE IN AND OUT OF HOSPITALS WITH PRIVATE TEACHERS COMING TO MY HOME, AND MIRACULOUSLY WOULD WALK DOWN THE STAGE WITH MY CAP AND GOWN ALONG WITH THE OTHER GRADUATING STUDENTS IN 1977 AND RECEIVED MY DIPLOMA AND THEN GO ON TO START COLLEGE. FINALLY, AFTER MY ILLNESS CAME BACK AGAIN, WEIGHING ONLY 70 POUNDS, I ENTERED THE METHODIST HOSPITAL IN WINCHESTER, TENNESSEE FOR THE LAST TIME. MY CHANCES OF LIVING WERE SLIM AND TIME WAS RUNNING OUT FOR THE GLENN FAMILY. WHILE NO WOULD KNOW IF I WOULD VER COME OUT OF THE HOSPITAL ALIVE AGAIN, THE GLENNS KEPT RUNNING INTO BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE. THE DOORS KEPT SLAMMING INTO THEIR FACES ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF THEIR YOUNGEST DAUGHTER , THERESE. AND, AT THE SAME TIME, SOME OF JEFFERS FAMILY WOULD SEND FOR MY LAST RITES TO BE GIVEN. (PARAMOUNT-WE SEE FORREST AND MAMA STANDING IN FRONT OF THE WALL TO HAVE A PHOTO SHOOT, HE'S JUST GOTTEN HIS DIPLOMA.) PAGE 387 I WRITE: THE BERLIN WALL HAD GONE UP (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE FORREST JUMP OVER THE WALL , THE FENCE.) AND THE UNITED STATES WAS ON THE VERGE OF A NUCLEAR WAR WITH THE MISSILE CRISIS AND THE SHOOTING DOWN OF THE U-2. MANY EVENTS WOULD OCCUR IN THE WORLD UNTIL I BECAME 18. PAGE 92 OF MY NOVEL: JIM THORPE DIED...I WRITE, FORREST IN THE MOVIE WAS A MARATHON, CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER. IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAYS, "WORLD PEACE IS IN OUR HANDS.' ON THIS PAGE I WRITE: ADM. LEWIS STRAUSS, CHAIRMAN OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION WARNS IN A LETTER TO SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMISIONER CHAIRMAN ALEXANDER WILEY THAT "IT IS A FALACY TO ASSUME THAT A STOCKPILE OF ATOMIC WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS IS IN ITSELF ANY LONGER A COMPLETE DETERRENT TO AGGRESSIVE ACTION." AND ON THIS PAGE ABOUT SPYING: THE SENATE INTERNAL SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE CHARGES IN A REPORT THAT THE SOVIET INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION PENETRATED THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FROM THE LOWER RANKS TO THE TOP LEVEL POSITTIONS AND IT REPORTED THAT THOUSANDS OF U.S. SECRETS WERE STOLEN BECAUSE OF THE TRUMAN'S ADMINISTRATION'S FAILURE TO ACT ON ON F.B.I. REPORTS. POPULAR SONGS IN 1953 WERE 'COME WHAT MAY," "VAYA CON DIOS," "MY PAPA," "DON'T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES," "CRY ME A RIVER," "RUBY," "SECRET LOVE," "RICOCHET,' IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ MI6

TASTY TASTY

IN THE MOVIE WE SEE FORREST EATING ICECREAM AND A MALT ON HIS VISIT TO WASHINGTON. IN ONE PART OF THE MOVIE FORREST SAYS THAT LATE AT NIGHT HE MISSED HIS MAMA AND HE MISSED JENNY TOO. WE SEE FORREST IN THE MOVIE WRITING LETTERS, TOO. AFTER HE SAYS HE MISSED HIS MAMA, HIS ROOMATE THROWS HIM A MAGAZINE AND SAYS, "LOOK AT THE TITS ON THAT GIRL." WHERE DOES SOME OF THIS COME FROM? THEY SAY JENNY GOT INTO TROUBLE. LET'S SEE WHERE THEY STOLEN THE GOODS FROM. ON PAGE 54 OF MY NOVEL: GILBERT WAS GETTING READY FOR LORINE AND HE LOOKED WORRIED AS IT BEGAN TO COME A SNOW STORM. IT WAS PRETTY BAD OUTSIDE AND HE WAS HOPING LORINE WOULD MAKE IT TO STEPHENVILLE UNHARMED. HE HAD MISSED HER FIERCLY AS WELL AS HIS HOME TOWN IN TENNESSEE. UNLIKE TENESSEE AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, NEWFOUNDLAND WAS MORE BACK COUNTRY, WILDERNESS, AND HE WAS GETTING PRETTY LONELY FOR HER. GILBERT LATE AT NIGHT WOULD WRITE LETTERS AT HIS DESK TO OCCUPY HIS TIME WHILE THE KIDS BACK IN THE STATES PACKED THEMSELVES INTO PHONE BOOTHS, CAR AND WENT TO THE MOVIES OR TO THE MALT SHOP FOR FUN AND RECREATION. GILBERT WOULD STUDY AND READ A LOT OF BOOKS, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT. MOST OF THE NEWSPAPERS FROM NEW YORK COVERED JOE McCARTHY, AND SUBVERSION IN THE COUNTRY.(HIS ROOMATE THROWS HIM A PLAYBOY MAGAZINE, "LOOK AT THE TITS ON THAT GIRL.' "IT SEEMED JENNY HAD GOTTEN INTO TROUBLE WITH HER SWEATER.") I WRITE THAT GILBERT LIVES WITH ANOTHER COUPLE IN STEPHENVILLE, HIS ROOMMATES AND HE WOULD RIDE TO THE BASE WITH HIS ROOMATE. CHAPTER EIGHT CALLED, "A CHILD IS BORN," I WRITE: MARLYN MONROE HAS APPEARED ON THE COVER OF PLAYBOY MAGAZINE WITH THE COST OF FIFTY CENTS. (SAME PAGE WITH MORE SPYING-GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY THREATENED TO FIRE ANY EMPLOYEE WHO ADMITTED TO BEING A COMMUNIST OR A SPY...) PAGE 107 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: "I HAVE NEVER SEEN YOU LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL AND VOLUPTUOUS, LIKE A RIPE BERRY FULL OF SWEET NECTAR," GILBERT WHISPERED (WORKING ON HIS WEAPON WHILE WHISPERING TO FORREST, SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHIRMP....) IN HER EAR AND THEN BENT DOWN TO UN-BUTTON HER TOP BUTTONS TO GIVE HER A KISS ON HER BREASTS. (SHE IS PREGNANT AND I WRITE THAT A COW RUNS OUT CHASING GILBERT AS HE GETS INTO HIS CAR AND IT IS ACTUALLY A MAMA MOOSE AND SHE STARTS LICKING THE GLASS AND LORINE SAYS," LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT MOOSE," "LOOK AT THE TITS ON HER!" ON PAGE 42, I WRITE THAT I AM BORN AND NAME AFTER A QUEEN, "GILBERT IS SITTING ON THE BED WHILE LORINE IS NURSING THE BABY." ON PAGES 24-25 OF MY SYNOPSIS I WRITE THAT MY ADOPTED MOM KNITTED MY SWEATERS.

LT. DAN WAS EXERCISING HIS ARMS.

IN THE MOVIE WHILE IN NEW YORK, WE SEE FORREST AND LT. DAN, HE SAYS THAT LT. DAN EXERCISED HIS ARMS. AND WE SEE HIM LIFT HIS ARM TO TAKE A SWIG OF WHISKEY. AND WE READ THAT FORREST AND THE LT. ARE ENTERTAINING "TWO WORN OUT WOMEN," IN NEW YORK. ON PAGE 211 I WRITE: MOVIES SUCH AS "EAST OF EDEN," STARRING JAMES DEAN AND JULIE HARRIS, "DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER," STARRING FESS PARKER, (IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAYS HE HAS MORE MONEY THAN THE DAVY CROCKETT.) KATHARINE HEPBURN'S "SUMMERTIME," AND DISNEY'S "LADY AND THE TRAMP," WILL ALL PREMIER IN NEW YORK. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK" WILL OPEN ON BROADWAY WITH GOOD REVIEWS IN NEW YORK. THE BOOK, "THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT," BY SLOAN WILSON IS PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK ALSO. HOWARD HUGHES (ANOTHER MOVIE THAT HAS COME OUT CALLED, "THE AVIATOR," AND I ALSO WROTE OF "TITANIC." ) HOWARD HUGHES IN 1955 WILL SALE HIS R.K.O. RADIO PICTURES CORPORATION WITH ITS STOCK OF HUNDREDS OF FILMS FOR $25 MILLION. (LT. DAN EXERCISED HIS ARMS.) THE UNTIED STATES AND RUSSIAN WEIGHT-LIFTERS WILL MEET IN MOSCOW FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE WORLD WAR II FOR THE FIRST SOVIET-AMERICAN ATHELETIC COMPETITION. (IN THE MOVIE FORREST TRIES TO GIVE A SPEECH, BUT, IS SABATOGED) SAME PAGE-IN 1955 CHARLES WILSON WILL CLAIM THAT RUSSIA LEADS THE UNITED STATES IN NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND LATER HE WILL IMPOSE STRICT LIMITS ON SPEECHES AND PUBLISHED MATERIAL OF MILITARY PERSONNEL AND HE WILL REPLACE MILITARY PUBLIC INFORMATION DIRECTORS WITH CIVILIANS. EVEN THOUGH SECRETARY DEFENSE CHARLES WILSON WILL CLAIM THAT RUSSIA LEADS THE UNITED STATES IN NUCLEAR WEAONS, NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING PHYSICIST CECIL POWELL WILL COME TO AN ESTIMATE THAT THE UNITED STATES STOCKPILE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IS AT 4,000 WHILE RUSSIA'S IS AT 1,000 AND HE WILL PREDICT THAT BOTH COUNTRIES WILL BE ABLE TO DESTROY NE ANOTHER'S POPULATION. IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE IN 1955 THE HOUSE WILL PASS AND SEND A BILL TO THE SENATE, PROVIDING A REWARD UP TO $500,000 FOR INFORMANTS WHO CAN FIND AN ATTEMPT OF ANYONE SMUGGLING ATOMIC BOMBS OR NUCLEAR WEAPONS INTO THE UNITED STATES WHILE IT ALSO SENDS A BILL TO THE SENATE FOR A $2.4 BILLION AUTHORIZATION FOR WORLDWIDE MILITARY BASE CONSTRUCTION. TO BE CONTINUED......

THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN WASHINGTON....MUM'S RECIPE FOR A FLOOD....MUM'S RECIPE FOR A FLOOD...A NATIONAL DISASTER.....

IN FORREST GUMP, WE SEE THE VIETNAM WAR. WE ALSO SEE THAT FORREST ASKS FOR SOMEONE TO FIX THAT FUSE BOX, THE POWER HAS GONE OUT AND WE SEE THAT LIGHTS ARE OUT AT THE HOTEL. MEN ARE WAKING HIM UP WITH FLASHLIGHTS AND SEARCHING. THEN WE SEE THAT NIXON LEAVES. WHERE DID THEY GET THE LIGHTS GO OUT? I WILL SHOW YOU. ON THE FIRST PAGE OF CHAPTER THREE CALLED, "HONEYMOON IN CHEROKEE COUNTY," I WRITE: IN JUNE, 1952, THE KOREAN WAR CONTINUED TO ESCULATE. GENERAL WILLIAM K. HARRISON JR. HAD NO SUCCESS IN BRINGING THE REDS TO AN AGREEMENT. FRUSTRATED BY THE COMMUNIST' OBSTINATE REFUSAL TO BUDGE, THE AMERICAN LEADERS DECIDED ON AN ACTION THAT WOULD BE EMPLOYED AGAIN IN VIETNAM. THEY LAUNCHED MASSIVE AIR ATTACKS IN AN EFFORT TO FORCE THE REDS TO AGREE TO THE AMERICAN DEMANDS ON PEACE. A THREE-DAY AIR ATTACK ON POWER PLANTS AND STATIONS WAS ORDERED AND CAUSED A TWO WEEK POWER BLACKOUT THAT TOOK A LONG TIME FOR POWER SUPPLIES TO BE RESTORED. THE BOMBING OF THE POWER PLANTS CAUSED AN ENORMOUS UPROAR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. (ALSO IN THE GUMP SCRIPT DURING NEW YEARS, PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT THEY HEAR A MUFFLED ROAR ON TIMES SQUARE....10....9.....8....7.....6.....5.....4....3....2.....1) WE THEN SEE NIXON LEAVE. ON PAGE 68 OF MY SCREENPLAY: GILBERT'S ASKING FOR HELP APPEARED IN THE NEWSPAPER AND I WROTE IT INTO THE SCREENPLAY AND THEN NIXON RESIGNED. AIDE (V.O.) I ASSURE YOU THAT THE CITY THERE IS ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL AID TO IT'S FLOOD VICTIMS. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ "THE WATERBRIDGE" I ALSO WRITE OF CAMBRIDGE AND FATHER OF THE ATOMIC BOMIC) GILBERT (SURPRISED) YES, SIR, THANK YOU, SIR! UH, SIR, WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER MATTERS THAT I WROTE TO PRESIDENT NIXON ABOUT? AIDE (V.O.) ABOUT THOSE MATTERS, MR. GLENN, WE'LL LOOK INTO THAT FOR YOU, TOO. THANK YOU, MR. GLENN. GOODBYE. GILBERT (SMILING) GOODBYE. LORINE WALKS IN WITH SOME MORE TYPING PAPER AND HANDS IT TO GILBERT. (HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MAMA, THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.) LORINE (HANDING PAPER TO GILBERT) WHO WAS THAT? GILBERT (SMILING) BABY, THAT WAS AN OFFICIAL FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. LET ME FINISH THIS LETTER, OUR BABIES ARE COMING HOME! CUT TO: INT. WASHINGTON - DAY AT NIXON'S FAREWELL SPEECH AFTER WATERGATE. SHOW FILM CLIP. PRESIDENT NIXON (SADLY) THE PREDIDENCY IS BIGGER THAN ANY MAN, BIGGER THAN ANY INDIVIDUAL PRESIDENT. CUT TO: EXT. SAIGON - 1975 U.S. CIVILIANS ARE EVACUATED FROM SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM, AS COMMUNIST FORCES COMPLETE TAKE OVER OF SOUTH VIETNAM. SHOW FILM CLIP. IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAYS THAT THE FLASHLIGHTS KEEP WAKING HIM UP, HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE THEY GET THIS: AFTER I WRITE OF THE EVACUATION HERE WE SEE ON PAGE 34 OF MY SCREENPLAY: CUT TO: EXT. NEWFOUNDLAND AIR BASE - NIGHT GILBERT, LORINE AND THE BABIES ARE FIXING TO BOARD A SMALL PLANE THAT IS HEADING BACK TO TENNESSEE. AS SNOW FALLS UPON THEM, GILBERT IS HOLDING SLEEPY LITTLE DAMON AS HE HELPS LORINE AND THE BABIES UP THE STEPS INTO THE PLANE. IN CIVILAN CLOTHING, COAT, AND HAT, GILBERT TURNS AROUND TO TAKE ONE LAST LOOK ATH THE BASE AS THE ENGINE AND THE PLANE'S PROPELLERS START UP. A MAN IS ON THE GROUND WITH A LIGHT MOTIONING THE PILOT THAT IT'S OKAY TO TAKE OFF. (NEVER TO RETURN) (FORREST WE SEE IS TELLING THEM TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT FUSE BOX (THE LIGHTS AND POWER ARE GONE AND THAT THE FLASHLIGHT KEEPS WAKING HIM UP.)

WHOSE YOUR DADDY? MUM'S RECIPE FOR A PLAGUE OF FROGS. IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ THAT FORREST IS ALSO STANDING NEXT TO NIXON WITH THE PLAGUE.

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN FORREST IS LYING IN HIS LITTLE TWIN BED ASKING HIS MAMA WHO IS DADDY IS AND WHERE HE WENT TO? AND DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE PRINCIPAL TELLS FORREST'S MOTHER, "YOU'RE BOY IS DIFFERENT.' MEANING HE IS NOT NORMAL. WELL SEE WHERE PARAMOUNT GOT THIS. ON PAGE 25 OF MY SYNOPSIS: MY ADOPTED SISTER, ROSEMARY, WAS NINE YEARS OLDER THAN ME, AND WAS AN ONLY CHILD UNTIL THE JEFFERS RECEIVED ME INTO THEIR HOME. I'M SURE SHE RESENTED ME WITH GREAT CONTEMPT, BUT I LOOKED UP TO HER, SHE WAS MY IDOL AND I PLAYED THE PIANO BECAUSE I THOUGHT SHE WAS SO GOOD AND I WANTED TO BE JUST LIKE HER. WE WERE NEVER CLOSE EVEN THOUGH I WISHED SHE COULD HAVE SHOWN MORE AFFECTION TOWARDS ME. I NEEDED AN OLDER SISTER, BUT SADLY AND TRUTHFULLY CAN SAY THAT SHE WAS NEVER THERE FOR ME, SHE ONLY PUSHED ME AWAY. SHE SHOWED HER HATE AND RESENTMENT TOWARDS ME FOR MANY MANY YEARS AND TO THIS DAY WE WILL NOT TALK TO EACH OTHER. I LOVE ROSEMARY, BUT, HER REJECTION AND RESENTMENT TOWARDS ME IS STILL TO THE DAY VERY PAINFUL. GROWING UP IN THE JEFFERS HOME HAD ITS MANY ADVANTAGES, BUT PROVED TO BE MORE PAINFUL AND LONELY THAN MOST LITTLE CHILDREN CAN ENDURE. I NEVER FELT LIKE I BELONG, A MISFIT, AN ODDBALL, EVEN TO OSTRACIZED FROM MY FRIENDS. (WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER......PRIVATE? AN OSTRICH EGG....MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI AND STICKING YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND.....) AND THEIR MOTHERS. EVEN THOUGH I MADE HONOR ROLL IN SCHOOL AND TRIED TO JOIN ALL THE CLUBS AND TRY TO BE A MAJORETTE, (IN THE PARMAOUNT SCRIPT FORREST TELLS JENNY, "LOOK JENNY A PARADE!") AND RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS, I WAS LABELED ILLEGITIMATE, A TRAMP, BECAUSE I WAS ADOPTED AND NO ONE KNEW IN THAT LITTLE PEYTON PLACE OF A TOWN MY BACKGROUND, NOT EVEN ME. I, TOO, WAS STIGMATIZED LIKE MY FATHER, GILBERT GILBERT. CERTAIN MOTHERS WOULD NOT LET THEIR CHILDREN PLAY WITH ME AND THIS COMPOUNDED THE LONLINESS (IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAYS AT NIGHT HE GOT LONELY AND HE MISSED HIS MAMA.) EVEN MORE. AFTER DOROTHY'S HEALTH FAILED HE3R, WE KEPT TO OURSELVES AND WERE LABELED "STRANGE" (IN THE MOVIE, FORREST TELLS DOROTHY THAT HIS MOTHER TOLD HIM NOT TO TALK TO STRANGERS. AND I ALSO WRITE ABOUT "STRANGERS IN PARADISE.") OR THAT MRS. JEFFERS WAS "CRAZY," (WE HEAR IN MOVIE WHEN FORREST IS ASKED, "ARE YOU CRAZY, OR JUST STUPID?" FORREST SAYS, "STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.") AND AS A CHILD I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY A GWEN OR A SUZIE COULD NOT COME OR VISIT. OR, MAYBE, MY ADOPTED MOTHER WAS TOO SICK TO LET COMPANY COME OVER. I REMEMBER LYING IN MY LITTLE TWIN BED AT NIGHT AND LISTENING TO THE BULLFROGS DOWN BY THE BARN AND SEEING THE FIREFLIES (A LITTLE BUG THAT FLYS AROUND AND HAS A LIGHT ON IT THAT FLICKERS OFF AND ON IN THE SOUTH THAT WE WOULD CATCH IN AN OLD MASON JAR AND PUT HOLES IN THE TOP AND SEE THEIR LIGHT IN THE DARK AND THEN LET THEM GO.) AND SEEING THE FIREFLIES GLOW THROUGH THE WINDOW AND THINKING TO MYSELF, "MAYBE MY REAL MOTHER WAS AN AWFUL PERSON OR MAYBE MY FATHER WAS IN JAIL (FORREST'S MOM TELLS HIM THAT A FATHER IS SOMEONE WHO LEAVES AND NEVER COMES BACK) OR MAYBE NO ONE EVER KNEW OF HIS WHEREABOUTS." I'D ONLY DREAM THAT MY MOTHER WAS A MOVIE STAR OR MY FATHER WAS AN ASTRONAUT OR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OR MAYBE THEY WERE DIPLOMATS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY OR MAYBE THEY WERE KILLED IN AN AIRPLANE CRASH, BUT I DID NOT KNOW, I ONLY MADE THEM SUPER HUMAN IN A LITTLE CHILD'S MIND. (IN THE MOVIE WHEN FORREST ASKS ABOUT HIS FATHER, WE READ THAT HIS MAMA IS READING HIM A STORYBOOK, I WRITE ABOUT THE STORYBOOK WHEN THE PRINCE MARRIES HIS PRINCESS, BUT, IN THE MOVIE, PARAMOUNT CHANGES IT AND THAT SHE IS READING A STORYBOOK CALLED "CURIOUS GEORGE. THE CURIOUS LITTLE MONKEY.") AND THE COMMUNITY WOULD CONTINUE TO WHISPER AND GOSSIP. A SMALL TOWN CAN BE VERY CRUEL TO A FAMILY THAT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT AND THAT IS WHAT WE WERE, A LITTLE DIFFERENT. ("MRS. GUMP, YOUR BOY'S DIFFERENT.")

GOING TO SCHOOL

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN LITTLE FORREST WORE HIS PLAID SHIRT AND CARRIED HIS APPLE AND LUNCH TO SCHOOL? DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN FORREST STOOD IN LINE? DO YOU REMEMBER THE FLOATING FEATHER? I WILL SHOW YOU WHERE PARAMOUNT GOT THESE ITEMS THEY STOLEN. ON PAGES 3-5 OF MY NOVEL, I WRITE: IT IS THE EVE OF WORLD WAR II AND AIRPLANES ARE DROPPING BOMBS EVERYWHERE. HITLER IS IN GERMANY KILLING THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF JEWS. THERE ARE LINES OF NUDE PEOPLE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WAITING TO BE GASED, WHILE LITTLE CHILDREN CRY FOR THEIR MOTHERS. THE NAZI SOLDIERS SEPARATE THEM INTO TWO DIFFERENT LINES. ONE LINE WAS FOR THE ONES TO BE SPARED AND WHILE THE OTHER LINE PEOPLE AWAITED THEIR FATE. A PREGNANT WOMAN STANDS ALONE IN ONE LINE TO BE EXTERMINATED WHILE HER CHILDREN STAND IN ANOTHER SCREAMING FOR HER TO PROTECT THEM. IT IS A MASSIVE STATE OF CONFUSION AND SATAN HAS COME ALIVE THROWING A MASS DESTRUCTION UPON THE WORLD. FAR AWAY IN ANOTHER WORLD LIES THE SLEEPY SMOKEY MOUNTAINS OF EAST TENNESEE NEAR THE GATE TO THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS. IT IS 1942 IN THE BEAUTIFUL TOWN OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESEE WHERE A LITTLE BOY LIVES, MY DADDY, GILBERT GLENN. IT IS LATE SPRING, WITH DOGWOOD TREES IN BLOOM WHILE ROBINS SING ON A NEARBYE BRANCH. (WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THAT THEY WRITE THAT FORREST AND JENNY ARE SITTING ON A BRANCH IN THE TREE AS THE CLOUDS GO OVER.) THERE IS NO SIGN OF THE WAR THAT IS GOING ON IN EUROPE EXPECT THE FACT THAT GILBERT AND HIS FATHER, MOTHER AND LITTLE BROTHER DO NOT LIVE TOO FAR FROM AN AIR BASE IN A COUNTRY HOUSE. IT IS MORNING AND THE WORLD IS WAKING UP TO A NEW DAY, GILBERT'S FATHER, LOUIE HAS ALREADY BEEN GONE FOR SOME TO WORK. GILBERT'S MOTHER, PEARL, AND HER MOTHER MARY JANE, ARE IN THE KITCHEN PREPARING LUNCHES FOR THE CHILDREN. THE SOUND OF AIR FORCE PLANES FLY ABOVE THE COUNTRY HOME. PEARL LOOKED UP WHILE SHE PUT A SANDWICH INTO A BROWN PAPER BAG AND SAID, "THERE GOES THOSE PLANES, MAMA, IT IS TOO BAD WE LIVE SO CLOSE TO THE AIRBASE." GRANNY DID NOT LOOK UP WHILE SHE SPREAD THE GRAPE JELLY THAT SHE AND PEARL HAD JUST CANNED ONTO A PIECE OF WHITE BREAD. SHE LOOKED AS IF SHE WAS REMINISCENCING BACK INTO ANOTHER TIME AND RESPONDED, "EVER SINCE THEY BOMBED PEARL HARBOR LAST DECEMBER, IT SEEMS THAT THE WHOLE WORLD HAS GONE CRAZY." (FORREST IS ASKED IN THE MOVE, "ARE YOU CRAZY?") PEARL WORRIED THAT THE THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON IN EUROPE MIGHT START TO HAPPEN HERE IN THEIR OWN HOME TOWN. "LORD, MAMA, HITLER IS KILLING BABIES, WHEN IS IT GOING TO END?" PEARL ASKED. GRANNY HAD A WORRIED LOOK ON HER FACE WHILE SHE PUT THE LAST APPLE IN THE BROWN PAPER BAG. SHE REASSURED HER DAUGHTER, PEARL, THAT AS LONG AS THERE WAS ANY STRENGTH LEFT IN HER OLD BODY, SHE WOULD TAKE CARE OF ALL OF THEM. BUT, PEARL WAS STILL NOT CONVINCED. "WHAT IF THEY COME OVER HERE AND TAKE OUR BABIES?" GRANNY PUT HER ARM AROUND HER LITTLE GIRL AND IN A STRONG MOUNTAIN ACCENT SAID, "THERE AIN'T NO CHILDREN GOING TO BE SEPARATED FROM THEIR MAMAS AND PAPAS OVER HERE, (WE HEAR THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS SINGING IN THE MOVIE, "ALL THE LEAVES ARE GONE AND THE SKY IS GREY.") UNLIKE OVER THERE IN GERMANY IN THOSE CONCENTRATION CAMPS." GRANNY STARTED TO SMILE AS SHE WAVED HER KNIFE INTO THE AIR, "IF I HAD A GRANADE, I WOULD GO OVER THERE TO GERMANY MYSELF AND STICK IT UP HITLER'S ASS!" (IN THE PARAMOUNT WE READ, AS HE THROWS THE STICK TO THE DOGS THEY WRITE, "FETCH PRINCE, CARTER, RUSTY...." AND THEY USE THE WORD "FETCH" WHEN I WROTE THEY WENT TO FETCH ME AND I WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM MY PARENTS. I ALSO WRITE ABOUT THE STICK AND THE WRITING IN THE SAND AND THE BIG BIRD AND SOMETHING HORRIBLE PREDICTED ABOUT THE CHIDREN.) "GOOD LORD, MAMA, THE CHILDREN MIGHT HERE YOU!" SCOLDED PEARL. PEARL PUT HER FINGER TO HER MOUTH TO QUIET GRANNY, BUT, HER ATTEMPT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL. GRANNY CHUCKLED AS GILBERT APPEARED IN THE KITCHEN DOOR FOR THE FIRST TIME. HE WORE A PLAID SHIRT AND JEANS, EATING AN APPLE. THE TEN YEAR OLD GILBERT DID NOT SEEM TO BE TOO INTERESTED IN WHAT THE WOMEN WERE TALKING ABOUT AS HE STOOD THERE WITH HIS APPLE IN HIS HAND. HE WAS VERY HANDSOME BOY WITH HIGH CHEEK BONES AND HE LOOKED VERY EUROPEAN. BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE EYES WERE HIS SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES ND HE WAS TALL FOR HIS AGE. SUDDENLY HE WALKED TOWARDS THE TABLE WHERE THE WOMEN WERE WORKING AnD HE GRABBED HIS LUNCH AND STARTED FOR THE SCREEN DOOR. HE TURNED AROUND SLOWLY TO HIS MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER WHILE EATING HIS APPLE AND SAID, "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" MOTHER GAVE GRANNY A CONCERNED LOOK AND REPLIED, "NOW, HONEY, DON'T YOU WORRY YOURSELF WITH WHAT ME AND GRANNY ARE TALKING ABOUT." THEN TO EVERYONE'S SURPRISE GILBERT SAID IN A SERIOUS TONE, "I AIN'T EVER GOING TO LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO YOU OR TO GRANNY." "WHAT A BIG MAN YOU ARE, HONEY," SMILED PEARL. STILL IN A SERIOUS TONE, GILBERT SAID, "BESIDES THE PRESIDENT WOULD NEVER LET FAMILIES OVER HERE SEPARATE." "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, HONEY?" PEARL ASKED. "I'M LIKE GRANNY, WE SHULD ALL GO OVER THERE AND STICK A GRANADE UP HITLER'S ASS AND BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!" HE SAID SWINGING HIS ARM BACK AND FORTH. ABOUT THAT TIME YOU COULD HAVE KNOCKED PEARL OVER WITH A FEATHER AND GRANNY JUST STOOD THERE WITH A BIG SMILE ON HER FACE. PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT "THE FEATHER LANDS AT HIS FEET."

LEMONADE

DO YOU REMEMBER IN THE MOVIE WHEN FORREST AND JENNY ARE SEEING THE FIREWORKS. DO YOU REMEMBER THE PREFERRED BEVERAGE? LEMONADE. DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN JENNY TRIES TO COMMIT SUCIDE? PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT AFTER SHE TAKES DRUGS, SHE GETS UP ON A TABLE AND "CRADLES" HER ARMS LIKE SHE IS GOING TO JUMP ONTO "SUNSET BLVD." THE COLD HARD PAVEMENT AND CRADLE IS IMPLYING IS HAS A BABY IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT. I WROTE ABOUT WILLIAM HOLDEN WHO STARRED IN SUNSET BLVD WITH GLORIA SWANSON. I KNOW ALL OF US CAN REMEMBER THIS MOVIE. DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN LT. DAN COULDN'T WALK AND HE HAD NO LEGS? FORREST SAID HE HAD MAGIC LEGS. FORREST CONTINUES IN THE MOVIE TO TRY TO FIND JENNY AND WE SEE HER DRUGGED ON A LEDGE AND PARAMOUNT EMBLEISHES IT THAT SHE IS CRADLING HER ARMS AND ABOUT TO JUMP. I ALSO WROTE ABOUT GILBERT'S MISSING CHILDREN AND HE LOOKS OFF INTO THE SUNSET. LET'S TAKE A ABRIEF LOOK AT WHERE SOME OF THIS CAME FROM. ON PAGE 69 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE: CUT TO: EXT. OUTSIDE IN GILBERT'S BACKYARD - DAY GILBERT IS OUTSIDE TYPING, IT IS JULY 3, 1976. FLOWERS ARE IN BLOOM. JIMMY, GILBERT'S SON DRIVES UP AND GETS OUT OF THE CAR AND GOES TO SIT DOWN BY HIS FATHER AT THE TABLE. GILBERT (TYPING) HI, SON. JIMMY (PATS GILBERT ON SHOULDER) YOU SURE LOOK GOOD, HOW'S IT GOING? GILBERT (STILL TYPING) WELL, NOT SO GOOD. I'M WRITING TO THE SENATOR TO GET MY MEDICAL RECORDS. THE MILITARY WON'T LET ME HAVE EM. JIMMY (TO GILBERT) YEAH, I'VE HEARD OF YOUNG MILITARY BOYS COMMITTING SUICIDE WHEN THEY'D LEARN THEY COULDN'T GET SERVICE CONNECTED, BECAUSE THE MILITARY DID SOMETHING WITH THEIR MEDICAL RECORDS, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. GILBERT (LOOKING UP AT JIMMY) YEAH, WE KNEW A BOY WHO KILLED HIMSELF IN KNOXVILLE. IT WAS REALLY SAD. JIMMY DADDY, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT I CAN DO? GILBERT (TO JIMMY) WELL, SON, I APPRECIATE THAT. THERE IS SOMETHING. YOU CAN HELP ME CONTINUE TO FIND DAMON AND THERESE. YOU CAN BE MY LEGS, SON. (WE SEE A CLOSE UP OF JENNY'S FEET AND LEGS AS SHE CLIMBS UP, DRUGGED UP.) AT THAT TIME JANET, JIMMY'S TWIN SISTER, COMES OUT WITH A PITCHER OF LEMONADE AND SITS IT DOWN ON THE TABLE. FIRE CRACKERS ARE GOING OFF NEXT DOOR LIKE POPPING GUN SHOTS. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR TOOTSIE POPS CANDY) TO BE CONTINUED.... AND TO THOSE HARRASSING ME AND CAUSING SLEEPING DISTURBANCES AND ME BECOMING ILL, BACK OFF! DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER. YOU HAVE MADE ME ILL FOR A YEAR NOW AND YOU WON'T STOP. YOU WILL IF YOU FIND YOURSELF CLANKING ALONG ON A PRISON BUS TO A HELLISH PRISON WHERE YOU WILL THEN BE CHASED NIGHT AND DAY. SEE HOW MUCH SLEEP YOU GET AND YOU WILL THEN THROW UP FROM IT AND BLOOD RUNS OUT OF YOUR NOSE, THE WAY YOU HAVE MADE MINE AND INTERNAL SOFT TISSUE DAMAGE. YOU CRIMINAL THUGS. DON'T DROP THE SOAP IN PRISON BECAUSE WHAT GOES AROUND IS ABOUT TO GO ROUND AND ROUND. THIS ISN'T A THREAT. IT IS A PROMISE.

DEATHBLOW

GOD BLESS THE BEASTS AND THE CHILDREN NEXT...... DEATHBLOW TO THE INNOCENTS AND TO BE FOREVER REMEMBERED BY THE RATTLESNAKES WHO WILL BURN IN HELL

THE DAY THE SNOW TURNED TO BLOOD

DO YOU REMEMBER IN THE MOVIE WHEN WE SEE ALL KINDS OF AMERICAN WARS? LT. DAN SLIDING DOWN A ICY, SNOWY SLOPE AND THEN HITS SOMETHING? DO YOU RMEMBER WHEN FORREST WAS EATING ICECREAM AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE ASS AND THEN THE LT. THROWS HIS CONE INTO THE TOILET? DO YOU REMBERT SHRIMP STEW? DO YOU REMEMERT FORREST AND LITTLE JENNY IN BED AND SHE SAYS, "ACCIDENTS HAPPEN?" DO YOU REMEMBER THEM PULLING UP A TOILET SEAT FROM THE OCEAN? DO YOU REMEMBER FORREST SINGING IN THE CHURCH CHOIR? DO YOU REMEMBER FORREST JUMPING IN A HOLE? PARAMOUNT-AND WE SEE THAT FORREST, WITH NO OTHER THOUGHT IN THE WORLD, TOTALLY FOCUSED, IS A WHIZ.....PEEING.....WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON....A HIGH POWERED RIFLE IN THE MOVIE....SICKLE SWORDS, SWORDS, FIREWOOD, METAL TIN, A NEEDLE, A GRANADE FOR WAR, GROUND LAND MINES, CASSEROLE SURPRISE.....WHISPERING TO FORREST...SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP (PEOPLE, CHILDREN....AND WHATEVER WE MAY FIND HERE....) EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK....FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING...DONE, DRILL SERGEANT! DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING....GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. ANYWAY....LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT.....THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO...THE BOYS ARE BUSILY POLISHING THEIR BOATS...FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER...SHRIMP COCTAIL, PAN FRIED, (A LID, A KETTLE, A BOWL) STIR FRIED....THE BOYS ARE POLISHING THE FLOOR. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER...PINEAPPLE SHRIMP, COCONUT SHRIMP, LEMON SHRIMP, PEPPER SHRIMP....A KILLING.....SHRIMP SOUP, SHRIMP SALAD....POPCORN SHRIMP....SHRIMP STEW....SHRIMP BURGERS, SHRIMP SANDWICHES (LIKE THE ONE GRANNY WAS MAKING WITH JELLY AND JAM FOR HIS LUNCH AND APPLE) THAT'S ABOUT IT. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THEIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER.....PRIVATE? GEAR-A PINEAPPLE.....A LOOK OUT TOWER.....TIN METAL....SNOW....A SPOON....FIRES CRACKLING....A BOWL....A NEEDLE....A QUILT TO STITCH THEM IN....A BUCKET OF WATER...LOOKS IN FOOT LOCKER....FIREPLACE.....HOLE IN THE GROUND FOR A TOILET..AN ICEBOX....A HOLE IN THE GROUND....A MOUTH....SNOWBALLS....FIREWOOD....GEAR...A GUN.....A CARROT IN THE FOOTLOCKER...COAL...A TOP HAT...HE LIFTS OUT A HAND...BLUE EYES.... HAND STITCHED....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND.....BODIES....BODY PARTS.....A HELPING HAND.....THE EYES....THE NOSE......HELD HANDS....LIFTS OUT A HAND....SMALL MOUTHS...HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE...PAPER-A COMMUNIST MEMBERSHIP CARD....BOOKS....LOOKS IN....DISHES....BOWLS....TOILET....FIREPLACE....A HOLE....A MOUTH.....A BOA OF BLACK FEATHERS.....GEAR....PARER-BOOKS-FIREPLACE LOGS....LOGS....THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT? SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH, UH, THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...A RECIPE FOR THE CRUSADES....THAT'S A REICPE FOR A STORM BREWING....FOR SNOW....SNOW CREAM....FOR SOUTHERN CRACKLINGS...CRACKLIN BREAD...FOR SHRIMP STEW...POP CORN SHRIMP....RECIPE FOR THE POOPS....A BUCKET OF THE COL. CHICKEN....A RECIPE FOR GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE...FOR A BON FIRE....FOR RABBIT STEW....FOR A SNOWMAN....A RECIPE FOR A GOOD HOLIDAY BANGUET...HOMETOWN BUFFET.... A REICPE FOR A ROLL. FOR A CRZY SIDESHOW ON PAGE 13, 14 AND A CHAPTER 7 CALLED, "THANKSGIVING AND A ROLL DOWN THE HILL," I WRITE: THE KOREAN WAR MEANWHILE WROUGHT A SIGNIFICIANT CHANGE IN THE PUBLIC ATMOSPHERE. IT CREATED A CLIMATE THAT TRANSFORMED McCARTHY'S CRUSADE FROM A CRAZY SIDESHOW INTO A VERY POPULAR MOVEMENT. COMMUNISTS WERE KILLING AMERICAN BOYS IN KOREA, WHY SHOULD THE COMMUNISTS BE GIVEN THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT IN THE UNITED STATES? IN EVERY PART OF AMERICA, A FRANTIC STORM WAS BREWING. A MEMBERSHIP IN ANY LIBERAL R INTERNATIONALIST ORGANIZATION SEEMED TO BE ENOUGH GROUNDS FOR INDICTING A MAN'S LOYALTY TO HIS COUNTRY. CONGRESS ESTABLISHED A SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD TO FOLLOW COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES. EVERYONE WAS ON THE LOOK-OUT FOR COMMUNISTIC SUBVERSION AND WERE TOLD TO BE ON THE LOOK-OUT. IN THE WINTER OF 1950, GILBERT GLENN HAD GROWN INTO A VERY HANDSOME YOUNG MAN. TALL, BLONDE HAIRED AND BLUE EYES, HE WAS EVERY GIRLS DREAM OF A BOYFRIEND OR EVEN A HUSBAND. HE WAS SOFT SPOKENT AND WELL MANNERED FOR A YOUNG MAN OF EIGHTEEN YEARS. (WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON, WHISPERING TO FORREST....SEE WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP...) SNOW WAS ON THE GROUND AND CHILDREN WOULD MAKE SLEDS OUT OF TIN FROM A ROOF OR A LARGE KETTLE LID IF THEY COULD NOT AFFORD A REAL ONE. THEY WOULD ALL MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO SLIDE DOWN THE SNOWY SLOPES AND HILLS AS THEY GIGGLED AND LAUGHED. SCHOOL WOULD NOT BE IN SESSION FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IN THE SNOW CAP MOUNTAINS OF TENNESSEE. MOTHERS WOULD BE MAKING SNOW CREAM FROM THE NEW FALLEN (MUM'S RECIPE FOR THE FALL) SNOW AND IT WOULD CONSIST OF FRESH SNOW, MILK AND VANILLA FLAVORING FROM THE NEARBY GROCERY STORE IT WOULD BE JUST LIKE EATING ICE CREAM, BUT EVEN MORE SPECIAL, BECAUESE IT WAS SNOW, AND A REMINDER OF NO MORE TOIL FROM BOOKS FOR A WHILE. FIRES WOULD BE CRACKLING IN THE FIREPLACE (GEAR-FIREPLACE POKER, WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER....PRIVATE? MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI) AND MOTHERS WOULD SOON BE CALLING THERE LITTLE ONES TO COME IN FROM THE COLD. ONLY AFTER A BOWL OF HOMEMADE STEW WOULD THEY BE ALLOWED TO EAT THE SNOW CREAM (MUM'S RECIPE FOR ICECREAM ) AND LATER THEY WOULD SETTLE AROUND THEIR FIREPLACES AS FATHERS POPPED POPCORN OVER THE FIRES. THE ROOMS OF THE HOUSES WOULD NOT BE EVENLY HEATED, USUALLY THE LIVING ROOM AND THE KITCHEN THE WARMEST. THE BEDROOMS WOULD BE THE COLDEST AS THE LITTLE ONES WOULD PILE INTO BED WITH A MILE HIGH OF HAND-STITCHED QUILTS COVERING THEIR BODIES MAKING IT HARDER TO MOVE OR TURN OVER IN THEIR SLEEP. (DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING...GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT...ANYWAY..LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THAT SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BREW IT, SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CROLE, SHRIMP STEW AND GUMBO.....) IF ONE HAD TO USE THE BATHROOM, THERE WOULD USUALLY BE A BUCKET PROVIDED NEAR THE BED OR TAKE A CHANCE TO GO TO THE OUT-HOUSE OUT SIDE IN THE DARK. (AND WE SEE FORREST, WITH NO OTHER THOUGHT IN THE WORLD, TOTALLY FOCUSED, IS A WHIZ....LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED....TOILET PAPER...SEE WHAT YUO DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM....ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP....) USUALLY THERE WERE NO INDOOR BATHROOMS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF TENNESEE AND IF NE HAD AN INDOOR TOILET THEY WERE PRIVILEDGED. THERE WAS A CLOSENESS IN THE FAMILIES AND A SENSE OF LOYALTY AND EVERYONE KNEW THEIR NEIGHBOR. THEY WOULD NOT BE AFRAID TO GIVE A HELPING HAND (WHAT'S THIS ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER...HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....) IN TIMES OF A CRISIS. IT WAS THE WAYS OF THE TENNESSEAN WHO LIVED AND WORKED IN THE VOLUNTEER STATE. THE NEXT DAY WHILE THE SNOW GLISTENED UPON THE GROUND, A KNOXVILLE CHURCH SOCIAL GATHERING WOULD BE TAKING PLACE INSIDE. PEOPLE CAME FROM ALL AROUND TO BRING HOMEMADE DISHES AND THERE WOULD BE SINGING AND LAUGHING. THEY WOULD ALL GATHER IN THE SOCIAL HALL OF THE CHURCH TO EAT AND IT IS THERE THAT GILBERT WOULD MEET THE LOVELY LORINE KENNEDY CLAYTON, A RAVEN BEAUTY. (CHAPTER SEVEN) THANKSGIVING HAD FINALLY ARRIVED AND OUTSIDE GILBERT'S LORINE'S DUPLEX, THE CHILDRENFROM THE NEIGHBORS' HOUSE WERE BUILDING A SNOWMAN FROM THE FRESH SNOW THAT HAD FALLEN FROM THE NIGHT BEFORE. THE LITTLE GIRLS MADE THE EYES AND THE NOSE FRJOM THEIR MOTHER'S ICEBOX WHILE THE LITTLE NEIGHBOR BOYS THREW (MUM'S RECIPE FOR SNOWBALL SNACK CAKES) SNOWBALLS AT EACH OTHER. UP A NEARBY HILL (DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM) CHILDREN WERE SLEDING DOWN THE ICY SLOPE AND STRUGGLED AS THEY MADE THEIR ATTEMPTS TO CLIMB BACK UP TO THE TOP OF THE HILL. ON A NEARBY POND CHILDREN DESSED IN THEIR WOOLEN COATS AND HATS SKATED (GEAR-SKATES, MUM'S RECIPE ) ACROSS (LIFTS OUT A HAND) AS THEY HELD HANDS (MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI) (RECIPE FOR A DROWING) WHILE THEY LAUGHED AND SANG. (AS HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON....A HIGH POWERED GUN, METAL TIN WHISPERING TO FORREST....SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...OF A POND...OF A HILL....ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP.....MUM'S RECIPE FOR A SMOKE STACK...SHRIMP SCAMPI...) THE AIR WAS COLD AND CRISP AND ANY ATTEMPT TO TALK ONLY MADE A WHITE LOOKING SMOKE COME OUT OF THEIR SMALL MOUTHS. THE CHILDREN GIGGLED AT EACH OTHER AS THEY SAW THIS AND COULD SEE WHICH ONE COULD MAKE THE BIGGEST SMOKE STACK. WHEN THE SUN SHINED OUT BRIGHTLY OVER THE WHITE VELVET (RECIPE FOR A SNOW ANGEL.) LAND, THE SNOW WOULD ALMOST BLIND YOU FROM THE REFLECTION. (IN THE MOVIE FORREST GUMP, LT DAN DAYS, "ARE YOU BLIND!? I'M WALKING HERE!" AND WE READ ABOUT THE REFLECTING POOL IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND JENNY RUNNING THROUGH IT.) IT WAS A WINTER WONDERLAND AS CHILDREN PLAYED AND RABBITS RAN ACROSS THE SNOW TO JUMP INTO A NEARBY HOLE FOR WARMTH AND COMFORT. (IN THE MOVIE, LT. DAN THROWS A GRANADE IN AND SMOKE COME OUT THEN HE SAYS, "CHECK THAT HOLE!" AND THEN FORREST JUMPS INTO THE HOLE.) INSIDE GILBERT'S HOME, LORINE WAS PREPARING A THANKSGIVING DINNER FOR GILBERT AND A FEW OF HIS AIR FORCE FRIENDS FROM THE BASE. THE MEN WERE HERE IN NEWFOUNDLAND ALL ALONE WITHOUT THEIR FAMILIES AND GILBERT DECIDED SINCE THEIR FAMILIES WERE SO FAR AWAY INT THE UNITED STATES, HE WOULD ASK THE MEN OVER TO HIS HOUSE TO THANKSGIVING DINNER. "BOY, IS IT GETTING COLD," GILBERT SAID AS HE WALKED IN FROM THE OUTSIDE COLD CARRYING FIREWOOD FOR THE FIREPACE IN THE LIVING ROOM. (WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER.....PRIVATE? A CHAINSAW... A LOG...A FIREPLACE POKER...HE LIFTS OUT A PAIR OF DUCE, (THEY PLAY A GAME OF POKER...) MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....MUM'S RECIPE FOR A LOG JAM...FOR RABBIT STEW....GAMBLING DEBTS......FOR MR. SNOWMAN......MR. FREEZE.....FOR A LOG JAM.....UP YOURS

ON THE MAIN STREETS.

I WRITE THAT GILBERT IS WALKING DOWN THE MAIN STREET AND WILD HORSES ARE RUNNING AND ALMOST KILL HIM AND RUN HIM OVER AND HE FALLS DOWN. IN THE GUMP SCRIPT PARAMOUNT CONJURED UP THEY WRITE THAT THE TEAM OF GUMP AND GUMP ARE RUNNING DOWN MAINSTREET, HORSES. THE STOREKEEPER SAYS THEIR LIKE A TRAIN, ONCE THEY GET STARTED NOTHING CAN STOP THEM AND WE READ THAT FORREST STOPS ON THE TRACKS. I ALSO WRITE ABOUT ANOTHER HORSE.

GILBERT'S FRIEND

PAGE 385 OF MY NOVEL: JUST A YEAR AGO HE WOULD FIGHT SO HARD TO GET HIS CHILDREN BACK AND EVEN THOUGH HE WAS WORKING FOR A VERY NICE JEWISH BUSINESS MAN PARKING CARS IN THE PARKING LOT, IT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO CONVINCE THE JUDGE THAT HE WAS A CAPABLE PERSON. THE JEWISH MAN HAD A BUSINESS WHILE GILBERT WORKED IN THE PARKING LOT JUST NEXT TO IT AND THIS ENABLED GILBERT TO SEE THE NICE MAN DAILY UNTIL THEY DEVELOPED A FRIENDSHIP. GILBERT WOULD FINALLY TELL THE MAN OF HIS TROUBLES WITH THE COURTS. UPON THIS THE JEWISH MAN WOULD ADVISE GILBERT TO TAKE IT TO THE GRAND JURY AND TO GET IT OUT OF JUVENILE COURT OR IT WOULD BE HELD OVER GILBERT'S HEAD AND HE MIGHT NOT EVER GET HIS CHILDREN BACK. (PARAMOUNT-ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT,BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO...FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE (OF CARS) OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOTLOCKERS....TRUNKS....HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER...PRIVATE? HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....A HEAD....HEADS...A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE...PAPER-LETTERS, A BILL, COURT MINUTES....THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT....SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR A SHARK BITE...FOR AN INDICTMENT...FOR KOSHER FOODS....MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...FOR AN EXODUS) GILBERT WOULD GET BUSY IN TRYING TO GET IT CHANGED AND MADE MANY PHONE CALLS AND LETTERS. THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY MONEY FOR ANY ATTORNEY AND WOULD BE TURN DOWN MANY BECAUSE OF THEIR INABILITY TO COME UP WITH A RETAINER. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY WRITE THAT FORREST'S BRACES VIRTUALLY EXPLODE OFF OF HIM-RETAINER-BRACES) ON JANUARY 21, 1960, THE INDICTMENT THE STATE VS. GILBERT AND LORINE GLENN FOR A MISDEMEANOR WAS VOTED A NOT TRUE BILL BY THE GRAND JURY AND THEY WOULD BE EXONERATED OF ALL CHARGES, A MISDEMEANOR, WHICH WOULD CAUSE MY SEPARATION FROM THEM FOR TWENTY YEARS. THEY WOULD NEVER BE TOLD THAT THEY WERE EXONERATED, NOR WOULD THEY BE NOTIFIEDBY MAIL AND THE SOCIAL SERVICES WOULD HOLD THIS OVER THEIR HEADS FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, UNTIL GILBERT WOULD GET A LETTER DATING APRIL 13, 1978 OF THE COURT MINUTES HAT IT HAD BEEN VOTED A NOT TRUE BILL BY THE GRAND JURY, JANURARY 21, 1960, EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER.

AND SHE RODE INTO EXILE

I HAD WRITTEN AND TOLD PEOPLE SEVERAL TIMES THAT I AM THE NAMESAKE OF A QUEEN, NAMED AFTER THE TWO THERESES. EMPRESS MARIA THERESE OF AUSTRIA AND HER GRANDAUGHTER QUEEN MARIE THERESE OF FRANCE WHO WAS QUEEN FOR A VERY SHORT TIME AND MARRIED TO CHARLES AND SHE WAS DAUGHTER TO MARIE ANTOINETTE (ANOTHER MOTION PICTURE THAT HAS COME OUT AND I HAVE NOT SEEN, YET.) PAGE 42 OF MY SCREENPLAY: GILBERT (TO LORINE) SHE'S A QUEEN LIKE HER MOTHER. LET'S NAME AFTER THE QUEEN, LORINE LORINE (LOOKING UP AT GILBERT) BUT WHO? GILBERT (SMILING) SINCE SHE'S STRONG LIKE YOU, WE'LL NAME HER THERESE. LORINE (LOOKING UP AT GILBERT) THERESE? HOW BEAUTIFUL, SO ARISTOCRATIC! GILBERT (TO LORINE) WE'LL NAME HER AFTER THE QUEEN MARIE THERESE OF FRANCE. CUT TO: EXT. FRANCE, OCTOBER 16, 1793 - DAY A LITTLE GIRL IS WATCHING HER MOTHER, MARIE ANTOINETTE BEING CARRIED OFF TO THE GUILLOTINE IN A GARBAGE CART. THE CHILD, THERESE, WATCHES AS THE GUILLOTINE COMES DOWN UPON HER MOTHER'S HEAD. A SOLDIER LEADS THERESE OFF KICKING AND CRYING. LORINE (V.O.) OH, YES, I REMEMBER, MARIE ANTOINETTE'S DAUGHTER. SHE LOST ALL OF HER FAMILY AND WAS THEREAFTER IMPRISONED. CUT TO: INT. FRANCE, 1815 - DAY THERESE CLIMBS UPON HER HORSE DRESSED IN FULL SOLDIER'S UNIFORM TO GATHER HER TROOPS TOGETHER, TO SAVE THE EMPIRE UPON HEARING THAT NAPOLEON HAD ESCAPED FROM ELBA IN FEBURARY, 1815. SHE RIDES FROM BARRICK TO BARRAICK TO GATHER MEN TO FIGHT NAPOLEON. (PARAMOUNT-FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. (LOOKS IN A JAIL CELL, IN BARRICKS, IN A BASSINET) WHAT'STHIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER....PRIVATE? GEAR- A CROWN, A GUILLOTINE, A SOLDIER'S UNIFORM, KEYS HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....A HEAD, HEADS, A REAR....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-BIRTH CERTIFICATE, A DEATH WARRANT, BOOKS, AN ARREST WARRANT...THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE (FRENCH) DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. (SHAKES HEAD NO) UH. UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR FRENCH CREOLE SHRIMP...THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP LOUIS.....THAT'S A RECIPE FOR AN EXILE....THAT'S A RECIPE FOR A SWAT (WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THAT THEY "SWAT" OR THERE IS A SWAT AND THEY ARE SHOOTING. THAT'S MUM'S RECIPE FOR THE CROWN. THAT'S MUM'S REICPE FOR A VOLCANO EXPOLSION (HE HAS A VIOLENT REACTION) MOUNT ST. HELEN'S....THAT'S A RECIPE FOR HOT LAVA.) SHE RIDES FROM BARRICK TO BARRICK TO GATHER MEN TO FIGHT NAPOLEON. HER MILITARY LEADERS ARE SHAKING THEIR HEADS NO. EVEN THOUGH SOME OF HER MEN ARE RIDING WITH HER, MOST OF THE REST HAVE FLED TO NAPOLEON'S SIDE IN FEAR OF HIM. (YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL PRIVATE GUMP!) GILBERT (V.O.) NAPOLEON ONCE SAID THAT THERESE WAS THE ONLY MAN IN HER FAMILY. LORINE (V.O.) I READ IN ONE OF YOUR BOOKS THAT SHE TRIED TO STAND ALONE AGAINST NAPOLEON AND THEN FORCED IN EXILE. (FORREST AND BUBBA STANDING AT ATTENTION.) GILBERT (V.O.) YES! AFTER LOUIS XVIII FLED TO BELGIUM, THERESE GOT ON HER HORSE IN UNIFORM RIDING TO ALL THE BARRAICKS TO GATHER UP HER SOLDIERS TO FIGHT NAPOLEON HERSELF IN ORDER TO SAVE THE EMPIRE. SHE CALLED THE SOLDIERS TRAITORS WHEN SHE LEARNED THAT HER SOLDIERS HAD FLED TO NAPOLEON IN FEAR OF HIM. NAPOLEON WAS TRYING TO HAVE HER ARRESTED AND SHE HAD TO BE FORCED INTO EXILE IN ORDER TO SAVE HER LIFE. ABOUT A WEEK LATER, NAPOLEON SURRENDERED TO THE BRITISH (MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....AN EXILE, AN ARREST WARRANT, A SWAT) GOVERNMENT AND SENT TO ST. HELENA WHERE HE DIED. THERESE IS BEING HELPED UPON A HORSE BY ONE OF NAPOLEON'S MEN WHO HAS COME TO ARREST HER. HE SWATS THE HORSE ON THE REAR AS THE HORSE RUNS OFF WITH THERESE ON IT'S BACK. THE MAN HAS SAVED THERESE'S LIFE AS HE WATCHES HER RIDE AWAY INTO EXILE. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR AN EXILE TO AN ISLAND?) (FOR A SWAT?) CUT TO: INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT LORINE (SADLY) THERESE ENDURED THE HORRORS THAT WAS DELIVERED UPON HER. GILBERT ((TOUCHING BABY) SHE ALSO BELIEVED THAT HER BROTHER WHO WAS LATER CALLED "THE LOST PRINCE," WAS BEING RAISED BY THE IROQUOIS INDIANS NEAR NEW YORK STATE. BUT, WHEN SHE SENT HER MEN TO SEARCH FOR HIM THERE WITH THE INDIANS, THE BLONDE HAIRED BLUE EYED BOY WAS MENTALLY RETARDED (IN THE MOVIE FORREST IS SLOOOOOW, SLOW AND WE HEAR LITTLE JENNY SAY AND WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT SHE SAYS, "ACCIDENTS HAPPEN AS JENNY PUTS THE REAPER INTO GEAR AND RUNS OVER HER FATHER."' BAD GIRL) MENTALLY RETARDED FROM AN ACCIDENT AND COULD NOT REMEMBER HIS PAST. (WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER.....ARROWS, TOMMY HAWK, INDIAN FEATHERS, PEACE PIPE) (WE ALSO READ THAT FORREST SHUFFLES HIS FEET AND THAT HE CLANKS UP THE BUS AISLE IN HIS ANKLE BRACELETS AND SITS DOWN BY JENNY. HE TELLS HER HE'S ABOUT TO STRAIGHTEN UP NOW LIKE AN ARROW.....) LORINE (SADLY) HOW SAD. GILBERT (TOUCHING BABY'S HEAD) (HE LIFTS OUT A HAND.....A HEAD....A BABY...THAT'S MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....A PIECE OF A PAPER-FILM, PHOTOS, MONEY) THE INDIANS SAID THAT BEFORE THE BOY HAD BEEN INJURED, HE TOLD THEM THAT HE HAD LIVED IN A CASTLE. THERESE FROM THEREAFTER SENT MONEY TO THE INDIANS TO TAKE CARE OF HIM. (IN THE MOVIE FORREST GETS SOME MONEY AND HE BUYS HIMSELF SNACKS AND A SODA, A HAIRCUT..) LORINE (LOOKING AT BABY) (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION..WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER.....INDIAN GEAR....INDIAN KNIFE, TOMMY HAWK, MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....) (LOOKING AT BABY) WELL, YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH THOSE HORRIBLE THINGS. GILBERT (KISSING BABY) I'M AFRAID WITH THE AIR FORCE, THE JOBS, SHE'LL HAVE TO BE A FIGHTER (GEAR-BOXING GLOVES IN THE FOOT LOCKER...FILM....MUM'S RECIPE FOR A K.O. A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI) (MAMA'S RECIPE FOR THE TITLE, FOR THE CROWN) LORINE (TO GILBERT) IT'S OKAY. GILBERT TAKES THE BABY FROM LORINE AND HOLDS HER UP TO THE HEAVENS, AS THE CAMERA COMES IN CLOSE OF THE BABY. GILBERT (HOLDING BABY IN AIR) LORD, GIVE THE STRENGTH TO KEEP US TOGETHER. (THAT'S MUM'S RECIPE FOR THE COLIC. THAT'S MUM'S RECIPE FOR A CHARLEY HORSE. FOR A GOOD KICK.) TO BE CONTINUE.

A PARADE AND A DRAGNET

IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ THAT FORREST TELLS JENNY, " HEY, JENNY. LOOK A PARADE!" AND PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT KING IS AT THE BRIDGE (COPIED FROM WHAT I WROTE ABOUT CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND AND THE FATHER OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.) IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ THAT REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING IS IN A PARADE AND PEOPLE ARE SINGING, "AIN'T NOTHING GOING TO TURN ME AROUND...." (I QUOTE KINGS'S "I'VE GOT A DREAM SPEECH," AND PEOPLE ARE CLAPPING AND CHEERING AND WE SEE FORREST IN THE MOVIE TRYING TO GIVE A SPEECH BUT AN OFFICER SABATOGES IT, BY PULLING THE PLUG. SO PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT KING IS PARADING AND PEOPLE ARE CLAPPING AND SINGING ON THE BRIDGE, THEN PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT FORREST AND JENNY SAY THAT THAT WAS THE BIGGEST SPLASH, EVER MEANING VIOLENCE AND DEATH, FALLING INTO THE WATER, DEATH ON THE BRIDGE. DO YOU REMEMBER THE GUNBATTLE? DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THEY ARE RUNNING IN VIETNAM, FALL DOWN, LT. DAN IS SHOT, FORREST IS SHOT AND LT. IS DRAGGED ACROSS THE GRASS? AND PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT FORREST IS SHUFFLING HIS FEET WITH ANKLE BRACELETS AND HANDCUFFS. I CALL THIS COMPARISON ANGRY DAD WHO GETS A GOOD HOSING. WHERE DID THEY GET ALL THIS? I'LL SHOW YOU. PAGE 59 OF MY SCREENPLAY: LORINE (TO GILBERRT) DID YOU GET THEM? GILBERT (TO LORINE) THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS, I'LL TELL YOU THAT! LORINE (LOOKING OUT WINDOW)(WE SEE FORREST LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW) HE'S STILL OUTSIDE WITH HER. GILBERT (TO PHONE SOCIAL WORKER) YES, THIS IS GILBERT GLENN AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I WANT MY BABY BACK! NO I WON'T CALM DOWN! LORINE (WALKING OVER TO GILBERT) GILBERT. GILBERT (TO WORKER ON PHONE) I WANT MY CHILDREN BACK! YOUR SORRY BASTARDS PUT OUR LITTLE BABY, THERESE, IN A HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET WITH THAT MAN AND WE CAN'T GO NEAR HER. NO, I WON'T SETTLE DOWN! LORINE (REACHING FOR PHONE!) LET ME TALK TO THEM. GILBERT (TO WORKER ON PHONE!) HE'S PARADING HER UP AND DOWN THE STREET AS IF SHE'S SOME PRIZE! LORINE (TO GILBERT) MAYBE YOU SHOULD HANG UP. LORINE (HUGGING GILBERT!) HONEY, HONEY..... GILBERT (TO WORKER ON PHONE) NOW, RIGHT NOW! WHERE ARE THE REST OF OUR CHILDREN? LORINE (HOLDING GILBERT) IT'S OKAY, HONEY GILBERT (STARTING TO CRY, THROWING PHONE) ARE THEY MONSTERS WITH NO COMPASSION? GOD IN HEAVEN! GILBERT THROWS THE PHONE DOWN, RUNS OUT THE FRONT DOOR TOWARDS THE REVEREND'S HOUSE. THE BABY START TO CRY WHEN SHE SEES GILBERT. THERESE (CRYING) DADDY! CUT TO: EXT. OUTSIDE REVEREND COLE'S FRONT DOOR - DAY REVEREND COLD RUNS INSIDE HIS HOUSE WITH THE BABY AND LOCKS THE DOOR. GILBERT RUNS AFTER HIM AS LORINE FALLS DOWN RUNNING AFTER GILBERT. LORINE (STUMBLING) (WE SEE THEM STUMBLING IN THE WAR AND WE SEE JENNY FALL DOWN AS SHE THROWS ROCKS AT THE HOUSE IN THE MOVIE. HOW COULD YOU DO THIS SHE SAYS AND FORREST SAYS THAT HE GUESSES THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROCKS. THE ROCKS CAME FROM THE ROCK QUARRY WHERE GILBERT IS KING ARTHUR.) GILBERT, NO! GILBERT (BEATING ON DOOR) GIVE ME MY BABY, YOU DEVIL! (WE HEAR IN MOVIE THAT GOD SHOWN UP AND THERE WAS THE HURRICANE, I WROTE I WAS A BABY IN THE EYE OF A HURRICANE IN MY NOVEL CONCERNING THIS. "FORREST'S BOAT WAS THE ONLY BOAT LEFT STANDING,' WE HEAR.) GILBERT RUNS BACK OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YARD AND STARTS YELLING. HE IS OUT OF HIS MIND. (FORREST IS ASKED IN THE MOVIE, "ARE YOU CRAZY?!") NEIGHBORS START COMING OUT OF THEIR HOUSES. (WE HEAR FORREST SAY THAT HE HAS A FRIEND RIGHT NEXT DOOR AFTER THEY ARE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER THE WAR.) GILBERT (POINTING SKY) (PARAMOUNT WRITES THEY ARE POINTING AFTER KING IS DEAD ON THE GROUND) YOU STOLE MY BABY, GIVE HER BACK, OR I'M COMING IN! I'LL MAKE YOU SEE THE LIGHT! DO YOU HEAR ME PREACHER MAN? (PARAMOUNT-BUBBA WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON, WHISPERING TO FORREST...SEE WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG (BEING DRAGGED ON THE GROUND OR DRAGNET) YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP.....EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK...FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING (GLENN YELLING) DONE, DRILL SERGEANT! GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT......) THREE POLICE CARS DRIVE UP AND GET OUT. GILBERT FIGHTS TO KEEP THEM FROM TAKING HIM AS THEY KNOCK HIM TO THE GROUND TO HANDCUFF HIM AND THEN THEY (DRAG) HIM ACROSS THE YARD. (WHAT'S THIS GEAR-HANDCUFFS, PEPPERSPRAY, TASER IN THE OL FOOTLOCKER THEY IMPLY MUM'S RECIPE FOR A HOSING, PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE, MUG SHOT AND FINGERPRINTS...) AS THEY KNOCK HIM TO THE GROUND TO HANDCUFF HIM AND THEN THEY (DRAG) HIM ACROSS THE YARD. LORINE (CRYING) NO! YOU'RE HURTING HIM! POLICEMAN (TO LORINE) MAM, HE'S OUT OF CONTROL! LORINE (CRYING) HE'S HAVING A BREAKDOWN! POLICEMAN (TO LORINE) GET IN THE SQUAD CAR. WE'RE TAKING HIM TO THE HOSPITAL. (AND WE SEE THE MEN IN THE HOSPITAL) AN AMBULANCE (WE SEE AMBULANCE IN THE MOVIE) DRIVES UP AND THE MEDICS HOLD HIM DOWN TO GET A STRAIGHT JACKET ON HIM (GEAR-STRAIGHT JACKET AND SYRINGE...MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....) TO GET A STRAIGHT JACKET ON HIM AND PUT HIM ON A STRETCHER. ONE OF THE MEDICS GIVES GILBERT A TRANQUILIZER SHOT TO KNOCK HIM OUT. (MUM'S RECIPE FOR A KNOCK OUT A K.O. AND WE SEE THE SYRINGE IN THE MOVIE....JENNY HAS IT AND THEN LOOKS LIKE SHE IS GOING TO JUMP FROM THE LEDGE) LORINE STANDS BY CRYING AS A POLICEMAN PUTS HIS ARM AROUND HER AND HELPS HER INTO THE BACK OF THE SQUAD CAR. (WE SEE JENNY SITTING IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE CAR, MAKING OUT AND FORREST COMES UP AND BEATS UP THE GUY IN THE BACK SEAT, AND LIKE ON THIS PAGE WE SEE JENNY LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW AND WAVE AS SHE DRIVES AWAY.) THE MEDICS RAISE GILBERT UP ON THE STRETCHER, PUT HIM INTO THE AMBULANCE AND SHUT THE DOORS. CUT TO: EXT. OUTSIDE REVEREND COLE'S HOUSE - DAY A GOVERNMENT MAN DRESSED IN A BLACK SUIT IS TAKING THERESE FROM REVEREND COLE'S CUSTODY AND IS HOLDING THERESE WRAPPED IN A PINK BLANKET WITH HER PAJAMAS ON (WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT THAT THE LT. GRABS FORREST BY THE PAJAMA COLLAR AND THROWS HIM ONTO THE FLOOR, "I SHOULD HAVE DIED IN THE FIELD WITH MY MEN." (ALSO I WANT TO MENTION SOMETHING I FORGOT, PREVIOUSLY I WROTE ABOUT RUSSIAN AND THE COMMUNISTS, IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT LT. TELLS FORREST THAT HE CAN GET HIM A BARBEQUE OVER THERE WHERE THE REST OF THOSE FALLEN COMMARDES ARE THAT WE READ IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT.) PAJAMAS ON HOLDING ONTO A TEDDY BEAR, SUCKING HER THUMB. (WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR PRIVATE....GUMP! (REVEREND'S FROCK, STRAIGHT JACKET, TEDDY BEAR, BLANKET) HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....A THUMB....BACK....FACE....HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER-HOSPITAL PAPERS, FILM, CAMERA, PHOTOS, A LONG POLICE REPORT...THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MUM, SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....) HE WALKS ACROSS THE YARD WITH THE BABY, OPENS THE BACK DOOR OF THE BLACK CAR AS A WOMAN IN THE BACK SEAT REACHES OUT TO TAKE THERESE. ( A DRILL SERGEANT IS WAKING DOWN A LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S (TRUNK...CAR....) FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT.....MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...) CUT TO: INT. DARK HOSPITAL - DAY CAMERA COMES IN FOR A CLOSE UP OF GILBERT LYING IN A HOSPITAL ROOM, CURTAINS SHUT. (WE SEE THIS SCENE WITH LT. IN THE HOSPITAL) HE'S HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND IS SLEEPING, SUDDENLY, A TEAR ROLLS DOWN HIS FACE. CUT TO: EXT. GOVERNMENT CAR DRIVING UP NARROW ROAD - DAY AS THE CAR DRIVES AWAY, THERESE IS PEEKING OVER THE WOMAN'S SHOULDER AND LOOKS OUT THE BACK WINDOW. THE CAMERA COMES IN FOR A CLOSE UP O HER LITTLE FACE, BUT, NEVER SHOWS THE FACE OF THE WOMAN, JUST HER BACK THROUGH THE BACK WINDOW. THERESE STARTS TO LOOK AROUND NOT KNOWING WHERE SHE IS GOING. THERESE (LOOKING OUT BACK WINDOW) DADDY, DADDY? IN THE MOVIE WE SEE FORREST BEING LEAD THROUGH THE YARD BY A WOMAN DRESSED IN BLACK AND WE SEE JENNY GETTING OUT OF THE POLICE CAR, HOLDING HANDS WITH THE POLICEMAN AS HE TAKES HER TO GRANDMA'S HOUSE PARAMOUNT WRITES. TO BE CONTINUED.....

READING THE NEWSPAPERS

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN JENNY TOLD FORREST TO LOOK AT ALL HIS NEWS CLIPPINGS THAT SHE BOOK IN A SCRAPEBOOK? IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THEY WRITE THAT FORREST IS WEARING A TURBIN. WE SEE THAT FORREST HAS EXTRA MONEY AND WE READ THAT THEY TO NEED TO FIND MORE SHRIMP SO THEY CAN HAVE MORE THINGS, MORE BARBEQUES, MORE LAWN FURNITURE AND MORE AND MORE THINGS, THAT "WE HAVE MORE MONEY THAN THE DAVY CROCKETT," FORREST SAYS. WHERE DID THEY GET SOME OF THIS? (PARAMOUNT-AND WE SEE FORREST, WITH NO OTHER THOUGHT IN THE WORLD, TOTALLY FOCUSED IS A WHIZ..... WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON, WHISPERING TO FORREST.....SEE....WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM....ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP....EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS (BLOOD MONEY THAT LOOKS LIKE BLOOD) OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK..... FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING....DONE, DRILL SERGEANT....DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING...GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! (WEAPONS FOR HOSTAGES) BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. NOW DISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON AND CONTINUE....ANYWAY....LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT....THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE (FRENCH) SHRIMP GUMBO...THE BOYS ARE BUSILY POLISHING THEIR BOATS...FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER...(GILBERT VERY SADLY HANGS HIS HEAD) SHRIMP COCTAIL, PAN FRIED, DEEP FRIED, STIR FRIED....THE BOYS ARE POLISHING THE FLOOR. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER...PINEAPPLE SHRIMP, COCONUT...COO COO SHRIMP AT THE CLOCK OF LONDON HOMECOMING.....LEMON (LEMONADE SHRIMP AT THE FIREWORKS WITH JANET) PEPPER SHRIMP (GEN. PEPPERLILY I WRITE OF...) SHRIMP SOUP, SHRIMP SALAD AT THE THANKSGIVING DINNER WITH THE ROLLS....SHRIMP STEW AT HOME WHILE FATHER POP POPCORN AND MOM'S MAKE HOMEMADE ICECREAM....SHRIMP BURGERS.....SHRIMP SANDWICHES....GRANNY MAKING SANDWICHES FOR SCHOOL...THAT'S ABOUT IT.....FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS.....BASEMENTS....NEWSPAPER BIN...A MILIATRY COMPOUND....HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. SEIZED WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER....PRIVATE? GEAR-A ROPE TO HANG...A ROYAL BLUE PEN....A NEWS REEL....BLIND FOLDS....A SHARP RAZOR.....A SWORD.....A TYPEWRITER....BLACK INK...INDIGO....GUNS....ARMS...HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....HIS HEAD...EYES....ARMS....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-ADOPTION PAPERS....A NEWS REEL....A CLIPPING....A LETTER...NEWSPAPER ARTICLE....AN ARTICLE....BLOOD MONEY...THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MAMA, MUM DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....THAT'S A REICPE FOR FOR A HANGING....A KILLING...FOR A TORTURE.....A FINALIZATION....THAT'S A RECIPE (REMEMBER PARAMOUNT IS IMPLYING ETHNIC OR RACE WHEN IT SAYS CREOLE) THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP IRANIAN.....A REICPE FOR HEAD CHEESE.....A RECIPE FOR ARMS FOR HOSTAGES....A RECIPE FOR THE PUBLISHER......A RECIPE FOR A BLOOD CLOT...A RECIPE FOR BLOOD PUDDING....A RECIPE FOR SOMOYA....NICARAGUA SHRIMP.....IN THE MOVIE WE SEE FORREST'S MOM, MAMA, MUM BEING PROPPED UP. "MAMA'S RECIPE FOR SHIRMP SCAMPI.' WHICH IMPLIES.....SCUM...FROM PARAMOUNT. PAGE 82 OF MY SCREENPLAY: GILBERT VERY SADLY HANGS HIS HEAD. GILBERT (TO LORINE) WE NEVER SIGNED ANYTHING! WHY HAS IT TAKEN THEM SO LONG IN RESPONDING TO US? LORINE (TEARS IN EYES) I DON'T KNOW I JUST DON'T KNOW. GILBERT (LOOKING UP AT LORINE) (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.) DID THEY GET BUSY AND FINALIZE HER ADOPTION IN ORDER TO SLAM A LEGAL DOOR IN OUR FACE? LORINE SITS DOWN NEXT TO GILBERT ON THE BED AND PUTS HER ARMS AROUND HIM. CUT TO: INT. AMERICAN - IRAN AMERICANS HAVE BEEN SEIZED FROM THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN IRAN AND TAKEN HOSTAGE. SHOW NEWS CLIP CONCERNING THIS MATTER. CUT TO: EXT. GILBERT'S BACK YARD - DAY GILBERT IS SITTING AT HIS TYPE WRITER AND TYPING A LETTER. LORINE COMES OUT AND TRIES TO CHEER GILBERT UP WITH A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE. GILBERT LOOKS BAD, DEPRESSED, AND UNSHAVENED. LORINE (SMILING) HOW'S MY BIG HERO? GILBERT (TYPING) HUH? LORINE (SMILING) I CAME OUT HERE TO CHEER YOU UP. GILBERT (STILL TYPING) THANKS, BABY. LORINE (SMILING) LOOKY HERE, THEY PUBLISHED YOUR ARTICLE YOU WROTE ABOUT HOW YOU ACCUSED THE U.S. OF PROPPING UP DICATORS AND THE SHAH OF IRAN AND SOMOYA OF NICARAGUA, DICTATORS WHO MADE THEMSELVES WEALTHY AT THE EXPENSE AND BLOOD OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE. (QUOTED FRON THE NEWSPAPER....THE NEWSPAPER MADE A TYPO IN SOMOYA....Y IS CLOSER TO Z.....HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER....HE LOOKS UP AT LORINE....AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER....PRIVATE? HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...AND WE END UP HERE WITH THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR.....MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.... TO BE CONTINUED.....

MAMA PROPPED UP

WHEN WE SEE FORREST'S MOM PROPPED UP, HE ASKS HER, "WHAT IS MY DESTINY, MAMA." SHE TELLS HIM HE WILL HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT FOR HIMSELF. NEXT....DANGLING A HANGING

FORREST AND HIS SUITCASE

WE HAVE SEEN DAMON AND HIS BOX OF MEMORIES, BUT, WHERE DID PARAMOUNT ALSO COPY FORREST'S SUITCASE? FORREST IS SITTING ON A BENCH WAITING FOR THE BUS, HE HAS THE SUITCASE. INSIDE WE SEE A CAP, A PING PONG PADDLE, HIS MEMORIES. HIS SNEAKERS I BELIEVE AND HE ALWAYS HAS THE SUITCASE. HERE IS WHERE AND HERE IS WHERE WE HEAR ABOUT PROSTITUTION. PARAMOUNT INSTEAD CHANGES IT THAT JENNY IS A PROSTITUTE. HERE IS WHERE THE SUITCASE CAME FROM. (PARAMOUNT-WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON WHISPERING TO FORREST....SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE (BOTTOM) ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP. EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHA YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK...PROSTITUTION....FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING...DONE, DRILL SERGEANT! DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING..GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BEAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. IF IT WOULDN'T BE A WASTE OF SUCH A DAMN FINE ENLISTED MAN, I'D RECOMMEND YOU FOR OCS, PRIVATE GUMP. YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDAY, PRIVATE GUMP..! NOW DISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON AND ONTINUE...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, BAKE IT, BROIL IT, PEPPER SHRIMP....SHRIMP SANWICHES...) PAGE 17 OF MY SCREENPLAY: GILBERT WALKS OUT TOWARDS GENERAL PEPPERLILLY'S OFFICE TO SEE IF ANYONE IS WATCHING HIM. ( FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOTLOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER (SUITCASE) AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER...PRIVATE? GEAR- CAMPING GEAR...ANOTHER KIND OF GEAR....EARRINGS, SHORT SKIRT, A TIE...GEAR IS ALSO CAMPING GEAR...MARSHMELLOWS....HOTDOGS...(MOM'S RECIPE FOR THE STAY PUFT MARSHMELLOW MAN... HE LIFTS OUT A HAND...BOTTOM.... A BODY PART ON THIS PAGE....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S WAVES. PAPER-A CHECK , CUTTING THE CHECK. THAT'S A REICPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...MUM'S RECIPE FOR THE STAY PUFT MARSHMELLOW MAN DRESSED IN A SAILOR'S UNIFORM....) GILBERT WALKS OUT TOWARDS GENERAL PEPPERLILLY'S OFFICE AND LOOKS TO SEE IF ANYONE IS WATCHING HIM. THE GENERAL'S OFFICE DOOR IS HALF OPENED AS GILBERT LISTENS TO THE CONVERSATION THAT IS GOING ON INSIDE. GENERAL PEPPERLILLY (O.S.) RHONDA, HAVE YOU GOT ALL THE GIRLS LINED UP FOR NEXT WEEK? RHONDA (O.S. GIGGLES) YES, GENERAL, I HAD TO CALL EVERY BORDELLO IN TOWN TO FIND EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED. GENERAL PEPPERLILLY (O.S.) (I'D RECOMMEND YOU FOR OCS) GREAT! THEN EVERYTHING IS SET. GILBERT DUCKS (FORREST SAYS IT WAS LIKE DUCKS IN WATER) BEHIND A CORNER AS THE GENERAL AND HIS SECRETARY, RHONDA, COME INTO THE HALL WAY. GENERAL PEPPERLILLY IS A TALL OVERWEIGHT MAN WITH BLACK HAIR AND A BLACK BEARD, IS TALKING TO HIS SECRETARY, RHONDA, A BLONDE WHO IS ABOUT TWENTY TWO YEARS AND WARS HER SKIRTS VERY SHORT. RHONDA (STRAIGHTENING GENERAL'S TIE) BEFORE I FORGET, SIR, YOUR EX-WIFE CALLED ASKING FOR MONEY AGAIN. HER EXCUSE THIS TIME WAS THAT ONE OF THE CHILDREN WANTED TO GO CAMPING AND THEY NEED FOOD AGAIN. GENERAL PEPPERLILLY (ARROGANTLY) JESUS! WHEN IS THAT BITCH GOING TO LEAVE ME ALONE! I GUESS SHE STILL HASN'T GOTTEN OVER ME YET. (PARAMOUNT-JESUS H. CHRIST. THIS IS OUTSTANDING! IF IT WOULDN'T BE A WASTE OF SUCH A FINE ENLISTED MAN, I'D RECOMMEND YOU OF OCS, PRIVATE GUMP. YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GENERAL SOMEDAY, PRIVATE GUMP....! NOW ISASSEMBLE THAT WEAPON AND CONTINUE....ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING... SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA... YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, (CAMP TOO) BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO... THE BOYS ARE BUSILY POLISHING THEIR BOATS...FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER...PEPPER SHRIMP...) GENERAL PEPPERLILLY PATS RHONDA ON THE BOTTOM. GENERAL PEPPERLILLY (PATTING RHONDA'S BOTTOM) HONEY, YOU WRITE HER A CHECK FOR ME THIS AFTERNOON? IT'LL SHUT THE OLD BAGGAGE UP FOR AWHILE. (AND WE SEE FORREST AND HIS OLD SUITCASE THAT HE IS TAKING CARE OF.) RHONDA (SMILING) OKAY. GENERAL PEPPERLILLY (PULLING RHONDA NEXT TO HIM) HOW ABOUT THOSE LITTLE DIAMOND EARRINGS YOU WANTED? RHONDA (GIGGLES) YES, DADDY DARLING! GILBERT DUCKS INTO THE GENERAL'S OFFICE AS THEY WALK DOWN THE HALL. GILBERT (SARCASTICLY) GREAT GUY!

WHAT IS MY DESTINY, MAMA?

SHE TELLS HIM HE WILL HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT FOR HIMSELF. "WHAT IS MY DESTINY?' FROM MY NOVEL...."BUT, SHE COULD NOT STOP WHAT WAS SOON TO BECOME THE INEVITABLE.......UNITING IN MARRIAGE.....IS OUR NEXT SCENE. NEXT TO BE SEEN HERE. WE ALL REMEMBERT WHEN FORREST MEETS LITTLE JENNY AND PARAMOUNT WRITES "SHE SMOOTHS HER DRESS." FORREST SAYS, MY NAME IS FORREST, FORREST GUMP. ON PAGE 7 OF MY SCREENPLAY: GILBERT IS WATCHING AS ORINE STSRUGLES TO GET HER DRESS FREE FROM THE CLUTCHES OF THE MOSTER VAN. SHE YANKS HER DRESS OUT AND CLIMBS ON OUT THE VAN. LORINE'S DATE JUMPS OUT THE BACK, TOO, AND TRIES TO GRAB HER ARM. LORINE PULLS AWAY FROM HIM FAST. GILBERT FOLLOWS RIGHT BEHIND WITH HIS DATE AS THEY ALL WALK UP THE SIDEWALK TOWARDS THE MOVIE THEATRE. THE VAN IS FOLLOWING CLOSE BY AS LORINE'S BROTHERS AND THEIR DATES ARE WHISTLING AND GIGGLING AT LORINE. GILBERT FOLLOWS, WANTING TO TALK TO LORINE. LORINE IS GETTING ANGRY AND TURNS AROUND QUICKLY TO TELL THE BOYS TO SHUT UP AND ALMOST BUMPS INTO GILBERT. LORINE (SWINGING AROUND) SHUT UP, YOU.... GILBERT (CATCHING LORINE) HELLO, BABY! LORINE (SHOCKED) WELL, I NEVER! GILBERT'S AND LORINE'S DATES LOOK ON NERVOUSLY (MUM'S RECIPE FOR DATES) AS GILBERT MOVES CLOSER TO LORINE. GILBERT (GRINNING) ARE YOU OKAY? I SAW YOU, UH, CRAWLING OUT..... (FORREST- DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.) LORINE (INTERPOSING) YOU WHAT? GILBERT (PRETTY, IT WAS, UH, YOU'RE VERY PRETTY. I'D BET YOU'D LOOK GOOD DRESSED IN WHITE. LORINE (SMILING) WHAT? GILBERT (SMILING) MY NAME'S GILBERT. WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO OUT WITH ME SOMETIME? LORINE (RAISING ONE EYEBROW AND TURNING HER NOSE UP IN THE AIR) (WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER PRIVATE? HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....A NOSE...SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE.....PAPER-THEATRE TICKETS, SHEET MUSIC, WEDDING INVITATIONS.) DREAM ON SOLDIER BOY! GILBERT AND THE REST FOLLOW BEHIND THE HIGH SPIRITED QUEEN LORINE ON INTO THE THEATRE AS THE SONG "RED ROSES FOR A BLUE LADY," PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND. CUT TO: EXT. CHURCH HOUSE - DAY 1952 IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE A WEDDING IS STARTING TO TAKE PLACE. THE SETTING IS A LITTLE WHITE CHURCH WITH DOGWOODS IN BLOOM AND BIRDS SINGING. ALMOST LIKE MAGIC, PEACFUL AND HAPPY. CHILDREN ARE LAUGHING AND RUNNING THROUGH THE YARD IN THEIR SUNDAY BEST AS THE PEOPLE ARE WALKING INSIDE. (WE SEE THE CHILDREN RUNNING LIKE THIS SCENE.) IN MOVIES WE SEE PROPOSALS AND WE DON'T IN MOST, BUT, HERE THE SAME AS FORREST GUMP, WE HAVE A PROPOSAL. FORREST ASKS JENNY WHY SHE WON'T MARRY HIM AND THAT HE IS A MAN. SHE LOOKS AT HIM FROM THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (I WRITE IN ANOTHER SECTION THAT LORINE IS CLIMBING THE STAIRS TO THE POLICE STATION TO GET HER HUSBAND OUT OF JAIL. SHE IS ALREADY MARRIED AND IT IS OUT OF THE QUESTION.) AND JENNY SAYS, "YOU DON'T WANT TO MARRY ME FORREST." I FEEL THAT THIS IS DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER, BECAUSE THE AUDIENCE BELIEVES NOW THAT JENNY HAS DONE VERY BAD THINGS, DRUGS, PROSTITUTION, YOU NAME IT AND HAS A DISEASE, AND HERE IS WHERE WE GET THE PROPOSAL, ON PAGE 15 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: (LET ME MAKE A NOTE THAT IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT THAT HAVE FORREST IN HANDCUFFS, CLANKING UP THE AISLE IN HIS LEG SHACKLES AND TELLS JENNY, "MY NAME IS FORREST, FORREST GUMP." "JENNY SMOOTHES HER DRESS.") IT WAS AS THIS LITTLE CHURCH SOCIAL THAT THE TWO LOVEBIRDS MET. THEY WOULD SEE EACH OTHER OFTEN AT OTHER CHURCH GATHERINGS, BUT, THEY WOULD NOT GO OUT ON A DATE WITH EACH OTHER FOR ALMOST A YEAR. THEY ADMIRED EACH OTHER FROM A CLOSE DISTANCE BECAUSE GILBERT WAS GOING WITH LORINE'S FRIEND, (ACTUALLY IT WAS HER SISTER, CHRISTINE) AND LORINE WAS GOING WITH GILBERT'S BEST FRIEND. BOTH WANTED SO MUCH TO BE WITH EACH OTHER, BUT, FOR THE NEXT YEAR THEY ALL WENT OUT TOGETHER ON DOUBLE DATES OR IN GROUPS AND USUALLY THEY WERE ALL CHAPERONED. THEY BECAME GOOD FRIENDS AND THEY GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER WITH TRUST AND ADMIRATION. LORINE CAME FROM A MIDDLE CLASS AMERICAN HOME WHERE HER FATHER OWNED A FLOWER AND A LAUNDRY BUSINESS WHILE LORINE'S MOTHER, ETHEL, WOULD HELP OUT. LORINE'S MOTHER WAS STRICT WITH LORINE AND SHE WAS VERY CAUCIOUS WITH WHOMEVER HER DAUGHER WOULD GO OUT WITH. NO ONE COULD BLAME HER FOR LOVING HER DAUGHTER. BUT, NO MAN WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR HER LORINE, SHE DID NOT WANT HER DAUGHTER TO EVEN GET MARRIED. SHE KNEW THAT WITH HER OWN FAMILY THAT IT WAS JUST TOO HARD AND SHE HAD OTHER PLANS FOR LORINE. ETHEL'S MAIDEN NAME WAS DALTON, A NAME MANY ASSOCIATE WITH THE DALTON GANG AND HER MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME WAS HARMON. GRANDMA HARMON HAD COME FROM HOLLAND AND CAME TO AMERICA TO MARRY HER HUSBAND. LORINE'S FATHER, HARVEY CLAYTON, WAS A QUIET MAN WHO RAN HIS BUSINESSES AND HE WAS A SHORT MAN WHICH EXPLAINS WHY I AM THE SHORTEST IN MLY FAMILY WHILE THE OTHERS ARE SO TALL. MY FATHER'S PEOPLE CAME FROM ENGLAND AND HIS MOTHER'S PEOPLE CAME FROM IRELAND. HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS KENNEDY AND SHE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A GOOD IRISH HOME WITH GOOD VALUES. BOTH HARVEY AND ETHEL WANTED THE BEST FOR LORINE AND THEIR OTHER CHILDREN AND THEY WORKED VERY HARD TO BRING UP THEIR CHILDREN WITH THE VALUES THAT THEY HAD GROWN UP WITH. LORINE REMEMBERS HER GRANDMOTHER AND THE KENNEDY FAMILY WHO HAD A LOT OF FARM LAND AND SHE WAS FOND OF HER AND HER GRANDMOTHER HARMON. MRS. CLAYTON BROUGHT LORINE UP TO BE A LADY AND TO PROUD, SO PROUD THAT WHENEVER LORINE'S BROTHERS AND FRIENDS WOULD GO TO THE MOVIES IN THE CLAYTON LAUNDRY VAN, SHE WOULD BE SO EMBARRASSED THAT SHE WOULD MAKE HER BROTHERS STOP THE VAN SO THAT SHE COUD CLIMB OUT THE BACK ABOUT A BLOCK UP THE STREET FROM THE THEATRE SO THAT NO ONE WOULD KNOW SHE HAD RIDDEN IN THE LAUNDRY VAN TO GO SEE THE MOVIES. INSIDE YOU COULD HEAR THE GIGGLES AND THE LAUGHTER AS THE VAN PULLED TO THE CURB TO LET LORINE OUT. THE DOORS TO THE BACK OF THE VAN WOULD FLY OPEN AND A YOUNG LORINE WITH A RUFFLE DRESS AND PETTICOATS WOULD CRAWL OUT BACKWARDS EXPOSING HER PANTIES. SUDDEN'Y SHE GOT HER PETTICOATS CAUGHT IN THE DOOR OF THE VAN AND SHE TUGGED AND PULLED WHILE EVERYONE INSIDE LAUGHED. 'LAUGH ALL YOU WANT, I'M NOT PULLING UP IN FRONT OF THE SHOW IN THIS MONSTER!" "I'LL WALK," SHE SAID AS SHE TRIED TO FREE HERSELF FROM THE VAN'S CLUTCHES WHILE HER WHITE PANTIES WERE IN FULL VIEW. (A DRILL SERGANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS INSIDE BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT IS THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER...PRIVATE? GEAR-A PAIR OF PANTIES....MUM'S REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI (ETHNIC....IRISH SCAMPI....STEW...) HER WHITE PANTIES WERE IN FULL VIEW. SHE FINALLY JERKED HER DRESS FREE WHILE HER DATE JUMPED OUT OF THE VAN RIGHT BEHIND LORINE. IN THE DISTANCE WHILE ALL OF THIS WAS GOING ON, GILBERT WAS WALKING UP THE SIDE WALK TO THE MOVIES WITH HIS DATE, LORINE'S FRIEND. HE THEN SPOTTED (INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS...) LORINE AND HER TROUBLE WITH THE VAN. HE TRIED NOT TO LAUGH AS HE WATCHED THE VAN PULL AWAY SLOWLY FROM THE CURB AND FOLLOW ALONGSIDE OF LORINE AND HER DATE. LORINE'S BROTHERS AND THEIR DATES DID NOT HELP MATTERS AS THEY CHEERED AND WHISTLED AT THE RED FACED LORINE WHEN THEY DROVE SLOWLY BY HANGING THEIR HEADS OUT THE WINDOW. "SHUT UP, YOU...." LORINE SAID AS SHE SWUNG AROUNG BUMPING INTO GILBERT. 'WELL, HELLO, LORINE," GILBERT SAID AS HE CAUGHT LORINE IN HIS ARMS TO KEEP HER FROM FALLING. LORINE LOOKED UP INTO GILBERT'S EYES AND STARTED TO SMILE. "WELL, HELLO, I DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE STANDING THERE." "WE DECIDED TO GO SEE A MOVIE TONIGHT AND WE DIDN'T COUNT ON BUMPING INTO YOU,' GILBERT SAID WITH A SOFT SPOKEN VOICE. (WHISPERING TO FORREST AS HE WORKS ON HS WEAPON...SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM... ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP...EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK...) GILBERT'S AND LORINE'S DATES LOOKED ON NERVOUSLY WHILE GILBERT MOVED CLOSER TO LORINE'S SIDE. AT THAT BRIEF MOMENT GILBERT AND LORINE BOTH FORGOT THEIR DATES WHILE THEY LOOKED LOVINGLY INTO EACH OTHER'S EYES. (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION....) GILBERT GRINNED, "ARE YOU OKAY?" "I SAW YOU, UH CRAWLING OUT....." (FORREST- DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI, FROM HIS MUM....) "YOU WHAT?" LORINE ASKED SHARPLY HOPING THAT HE DID NOT SEE HER PANTIES. "PRETTY, IT WAS, UH, YOU ARE VERY PRETTY," SMILED GILBERT. "THANK YOU, I THINK," LORINE SAID AS HER FACE TURNED A ROSE RED. GILBERT SMILED AND SAID, "I WOULD BET THAT YOU WOULD LOOK VERY BEAUTIFUL IN WHITE." AT THAT POINT GILBERT AND LORINE AND THEIR DATES WALKED UP THE SIDEWALK AND INTO THE MOVIES. IT WOULD MARK THE BEGINNING OF THEIR ROMANCE AND AFTER THREE SHORT MONTHS OF ROMANCING, GILBERT ASKED LORINE TO MARRY HIM, AFTER ALL, THEY HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR SOME TIME EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD NOT ALWAYS BEEN WITH EACH OTHER UNTIL NOW. THEY HAD KNOWN ALL ALONG THAT THEY WERE IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER AND THAT THEY WANTED TO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIVES WITH EACH OTHER. MRS. CLAYTON WAS NOT AT ALL TOO PLEASED WITH THE IDEA OF LORINE GETTING MARRIED. SHE WAS VERY OVER PROTECTIVE OF LORINE. SO MUCH THAT WHEN GILBERT WOULD COME AND VISIT LORINE, HE WOULD BRING ALONG HIS FRIEND THAT PLAYED THE PIANO. MRS. CLAYTON LOVED THE PIANO AND HAD ONE OF HER OWN IN THE LIVING ROOM. WHILE GILBERT'S FRIEND PLAYED THE PIANO AND ENCHANTED MRS. CLAYTON, GILBERT AND LORINE WOULD SNEAK OFF INTO THE KITCHEN TO "WASH THE DISHES." THIS WAS WHERE THEY COULD BE ALONE UNTIL MRS. CLAYTON WOULD BREAK OUT OF HER SPELL AND START TO MISS LORINE. SHE WOULD ALWAYS FIND THEM EMBRACING IN THE KITCHEN AND SHE WOULD CALL OUT TO LORINE TO COME BACK INTO THE LIVING ROOM. BUT, SHE COULD NOT STOP WHAT WAS SOON TO BECOME THE INEVITABLE, THE UNITING OF GILBERT AND LORINE IN MARRIAGE. (WHAT IS MY DESTINY, MAMA?) ON FEBURARY 19, 1952, GILBERT WOULD LEAVE HIS JOB WITH SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION AND GO AND VOLUNTEER TO JOIN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AND HE WOULD REPORT TO THE AIR FORCE BASE IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS FOR TRAINING WHILE LORINE WOULE PLAN THEIR WEDDING FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. AT LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, GILBERT WOULD HAVE EXCELLENT CHARACTER RATINGS AND EXCELLENT EFFICIENCY RATINGS ON ALL OF HIS INDORSEMENTS. FROM THERE HE WOULD REPORT TO WARREN AIR FORCE BASE IN CHYENNE, WHOMING FOR MORE SCHOOLING AND TRAINING IN SUPPLY TECHNOLOGY. FROM THERE HE WOULD CALL LORINE TO INFORM HER THAT HE MADE EXCELLENT ON ALL TESTS. AGAIN, HE HAD EXCELLENT CHARACTER RATINGS AS WELL AS ACHIEVING HIGH MARKS ON EFFICIENCY RATINGS. GILBERT WOULD PHONE LORINE ON A PAY PHONE OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM TO LET HER KNOW THE NEWS THAT HE DAD DONE WELL AS IT STARTED TO RAIN. HE WAS SO PROUD TO BE IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. LORINE SAT IN THE KITCHEN OF HER MOTHER'S HOUSE AND SHE HAD TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT TALKING ON THE TELEPHONE. SHE DID NOT WANT ANY ONE TO HEAR HER CONVERSATION WITH HER FIANCEE'. SHE STOOD THERE LIKE A LITTLE GIRL WITH HER HAIR IN A PONYTAIL (WE SEE JENNY IN A PONYTAIL) AS SHE SQUEALED WITH EXICTMENT OVER THE GOOD NEWS. "HOW WONDERFUL!" SHE SAID. "I MADE EXCELLENT ON EVERYTHING AND THEY TOLD ME THAT I HAD THE I.Q. OF A GENIUS!" CHUCKLED GILBERT WHILE THE RAIN BEAT DOWN HARD AGAINST THE GLASS OF THE PHONE BOOTH. (IN THE MOVIE, FORREST'S DRILL SERGEANT LOOKS AT FOOREST AND SAYS, "YOU HAVE THE I.Q. OF A 160!") "I KNOW YOU WERE SMART, WAIT UNTIL I TELL MAMA," LORINE LAUGHED AS SHE JUMPED A LITTLE INTO THE AIR LIKE A CHEERLEADER. "I HOPE IT WILL CONVINCE HER THAT I'M A GOOD GUY," LAUGHED GILBERT KNOWING THAT TO CONVINCE MRS. CLAYTON WOULD BE A TASK IN ITSELF. GILBERT WAS IN THE TOP TEN PERCENT AND HE WOULD BE COMING HOME SOON FOR A THIRTY DAY LEAVE SO THAT HE AND LORINE COULD GET MARRIED. BOTH WERE ANXIOUS TO SEE EACH OTHER BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN APART NOW FOR THREE MONTHS. SOON THEIR WAITING WOULD BE OVER. MEANWHILE IN WORLD NEWS, SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER WOULD LOSE THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION TO ADLAI STEVENSON, GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS. GOVERNOR STEVENSON HELPED TO FOUND THE UNITED NATIONS IN 1944 AND 1946 AND HE BECAME THE GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS IN 1948. STEVENSON WOULD UNSUCESSFULLY LOSE TO DWIGHT EISENHOWER IN 1952 AND LATER STEVENSON WOULD SERVE AS UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS UNDER JOHN F. KENNEDY AND LYNDON JOHNSON. GILBERT WOULD ARRIVE BY TRAIN AND HE WOULD SOON AFTER CALL LORINE TO LET HER KNOW THAT HE WAS BACK IN KNOXVILLE. SHE HAD BEEN PLANNING THEIR WEDDING FOR MONTHS NOW AND SHE WAS EXCITED ABOUT BECOMING MRS. GILBERT GLENN. FROM A PHONE BOOTH GILBERT NERVOUSLY PUT THE DIME INTO THE TELEPHONE SLOT TO CALL HIS LOVELY BRIDE-TO-BE. "LORINE, IT'S ME, GILBERT." "ARE YOU READY TO BECOME MY WIFE?" GILBERT ASKED WITH EAGER ANTICIPATION. "YES!" "OH, GILBERT, WHEN DID YOU ARRIVE?" "I HAVE BEEN ON PINS AND NEEDLES SINCE THE LAST TIME WE TALKED!" (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER.....TRAIN CASE....TRAIN COMPARTMENT...THE SLOT....AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION.....WHAT'S THIS GEAR-PINS AND NEEDLES, DIME.....THAT'S A REICPE FROM MY MAMA, MUM....A REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.....) "IT'S OKAY, SWEETHEART, I JUST GOT INTO TOWN AND WE ARE GOING TO DO IT RIGHT," SAID GILBERT AS HE LISTENED TO LORINE'S EXCITMENT. "OH, GILBERT, I'M SO NERVOUS!" "THERE'S NO NEED TO BE NERVOUS, SWEETHEART, WE WILL HAVE THE REST OF LIVES TOGETHER," HE SAID HOLDING TIGHTLY TO THE PHONE. "I LOVE YOU, GILBERT." "I LOVE YOU, TOO, LORINE, I'LL SEE YOU REAL SOON," GILBERT SAID AND THEN HUNG UP THE PHONE. IT WAS JULY, 1952 IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE AND A WEDDING WAS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE IN A LITTLE METHODIST CHURCH CLOSE TO TOWN. IT WAS A WARM, SUNNY DAY WITH TREES IN FULL BLOOM AND BIRDS SINGING. IT WAS A MAGICAL, PEACEFUL SCENE FULL OF HAPPINESS WHILE THE CHILDREN RAN THROUGH THE CHURCH YARD BLOWING CATTAILS IN THE AIR. MOTHER CALLED TO THEM TO KEEP THEIR LITTLE CHILDREN, ALL DRESSED IN THEIR SUNDAY BEST, FROM GETTING DIRTY. PEOPLE WALKED UP THE STAIRS (AGAIN WE HAVE STAIRS.....JENNY I ON THE STAIRS....."WHY WON'T YOU MARRY ME, JENNY?" "YOU DON'T WANT TO MARRY ME, FORREST.") AND INTO THE CHURCH WHILE TWO SENIOR WOMEN WERE WALKING IN THE DISTANCE TOWARDS THE CHURCH. (WE SEE THE WOMEN WALKING IN THE MOVIE) THE REVEREND WHO WAS ABOUT TO PERFORM THE CERMONY WAS FOLLOWING CLOSELY BEHIND THE WOMEN WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE WHILE HE CARRIED HIS BIBLE CLOSE TO HIS HEART. "I'M SO HAPPY LORINE IS MARRYING GILBERT," SIGHS THE FIRST WOMAN ALL DRESSED IN YELLOW. (IN THE MOVIE A WOMAN IN THE YELLOW SUIT TELLS PEOPLE THAT THE WEDDING IS ABOUT TO START.) "IT'S NICE TO SEE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL COUPLE SO FULL OF LOVE, BUT, I'M AFRAID MRS. CLAYTON ISN'T TOO HAPPY THAT HER DAUGHTER IS MARRYING A GLENN BOY," RESPONDED THE SECOND WOMAN WEARING A RED BIRD IN HER WHITE HAT. "THAT'S REALLY A SHAME, SHE'S BEE SO OVERPROTECTIVE OF LORINE ALL OF THESE YEARS," THE FIRST WOMAN SAID. END OF PAGE

GHOST

IN THE MOTION PICTURE, FORREST IS LOOKING OUT AND HE SEES WHAT LOOKS LIKE A GHOST OF JENNY IN THE DISTANCE WEARING A WHITE GOWN. THEN THE GHOST FADES OUT AND DISAPPEARS. WHERE DID THEY GET THE GHOST? GHOSTBUSTERS YOU JUDGE FOR YOURSELF IF YOU SEE A GHOST IN THE MOVIE AND A GHOST WRITTEN HERE IN MY NOVEL. ON PAGES 62, 63 AND 357 WE WILL READ: (ALSO IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE FIND THA FORREST IS WAITING FOR JENNY IN THE RAIN, THE WEATHER IS BAD AND HE WAITS FOR HER AND THEN SHE'S NOT THERE, "HE'S CREST FALLEN," PARMOUNT WRITES.) LOOKED THROUGH THE AIRPORT WINDOW. THE RUNWAY WAS ICED OVER WITH SNOW AND PEOPLE WERE RUNNING TO GET INTO THE WARM BUILDING INSIDE. GILBERT MADE ANOTHER PHONE CALL AND IT WAS STARTING TO GET VERY LATE. 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE CABS ARE SHUT DOWN FOR THE NIGHT? HE ASKED ANGERILY. HE HUNG THE PHONE BACK UP AND LOOKED AROUND TO FIND A COFFEE SHOP, MAYBE HE COULD GET A BITE BEFORE HE BEDDED DOWN FOR THE NIGHT IN ONE OF THE AIRPORT'S CHAIR, HE THOUGHT. THE NIGHT WAS BLACK AND THICK WITH LONDON FOG AS HE LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW FROM THE COFFEE SHOP. HE WORRIED THAT THE PLANE WOULD HAVE MORE TROUBLE LIKE ICE ON THE PROPELLERS OR THA IT WOULD RUN OUT OF GASOILINE OR THAT THE FOG WOULD BE SO DENSE THAT IT WOULD CRASH INSIDE OF A MOUNTAIN OR EVEN COME DOWN OVER THE OCEAN. THEY WERE HAVING NOTHING BUT BAD LUCK HE THOUGHT AS HE SIPPED HIS COFFEE. A FLIGHT ATTENDANT WHO WAS ALSO WAITING TO GO HOME, RETRIEVED A BLANKET AND A PILLOW FOR GILBERT AND DIRECTED HIM TO THE NURSES STATION SO HE WOULD NOT HAVE TO SLEEP IN A CHAIR. GILBERT WAS GRATEFUL THAT HE WOULD HAEV A BED TO SLEEP IN, BUT HE DID NOT SLEEP WELL AT ALL. AT ONE POINT HE WAS DREAMING THAT HE WAS LOOKING OUT THROUGH THE GLASS OF THE AIRPORT AND COULD SEE LORINE IN THE DISTANCE CALLING TO HIM. SHE WAS GHOSTLIKE, ALMOST FLOATING AS THE FOT ENCIRCLED HER. HE COULD NOT SEE HER FEET ONLY WHITE GOWN THAT COVERED HER BODY AS THE WIND BLEW HER HAIR. (FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. (HE COULD NOT SEE HER FEET) HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION. WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR (FLOATING) IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER.....PRIVATE? GEAR-ICE....GASOILINE...A BLANKET....A PILLOW....GLASS....THE MIRROR....? THAT'S A RECIPE FROM MY MAMA, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...) HE COULD NOT SEE HER FEET ONLY HER WHITE GOWN THAT COVERED HER BODY AS THE WIND BLEW HER HAIR. SHE WAS CALLING FOR HIM TO HELP HER, (IN THE MOVIE WE HEAR, "HELP ME, FORREST.") BUT, HE COULD NOT REACH HER. HE BANGED ON THE GLASS, THERE WERE NO DOORS, NO OPENINGS, NO WAY OUT. HE JUMPED UP OUT OF HIS SLEEP AS THE SWEAT POURED DOWN THE SIDE OF HIS FACE. "IT WAS ONLY A DREAM, MY GOD, IT WAS ONLY A DREAM," HE SAID IN A RELIEVED AND SHAKEN VOICE. "LORINE, HURRY UP AND GET HERE, I NEVER WANT TO BE SEPARATED FROM YOU AGAIN," HE SAID AS HE LAYED BACK DOWN TO ONLY DRIFT (WHAT' THIS ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER...PRIVATE?) TO DRIFT IN AND OUT OF A LIGHT SLEEPLESSNESS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. HE AWOKE AT 7:00 A.M. IN THE NURSES STATION AND SLOWLY MADE HIS WAY INTO THE BATHROOM. WHEN HE LOOKED INTO THE MIRROR, A DAY'S GROWTH OF BEARD AND STUBBLE (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER.....PRIVATE? GEAR-RAZOR... A TIE...HE LIFTS OUT A HAND....HER BODY....FACE....SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER...THE MIRROR AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE....MUM'S REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...) A DAY'S GROWTH OF BEARD AND STUBBLE HAD MANAGED TO PLANT ITSELF ONTO HIS FACE MAKING HIM LOOKE TIRED AND OLDER. HE DID NOT LOOK AS POLISHED (THE BOYS ARE POLISHING THEIR BOATS....FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER...THE BOYS ARE POLISHING THE FLOOR...FORREST AND BUBBA ARE ACROSS EACH OTHER...) HE DID NOT LOOK AS POLISHED AS THE DAY BEFORE AND AT THIS POINT IT DIDN'T MATTER ANYMORE, HE WANTED HIS BABY SAFE IN HIS ARMS. HE WNET INTO THE RESTROOM TO FRESHEN UP AND TO PUT HIS CLOTHES AND TIE BACK INTO PLACE. HE THEN SPLASHED WATER ONTO HIS FACE AND THEN COMBED HIS BLONDE HAIR. HE MANAGED TO PULL HIMSELF TOGETHER BEFORE HE WENT BACK OUT TO WAIT ON LORINE'S PLANE. ON TUESDAY, MUCH OF THE DAY WAS SPENT PACING BACK AND FORTH. WHEN IT STARTED TO GET DARK, FOG WAS SETTING IN, LIKE A MURDUROUS STRANGER SET OUT TO STRANGLE THE NIGHT. GHOST, PAGE 357 GILBERT TOOK CHARLES BY THE COLLAR AND LEAD HIM TO THE DOOR, "OUT, OR I'M GOING TO CALL THE COPS!" CHARLES STRIGHTENED HIS STARCHY SUIT AND TIE AND WALKED CLOSE TO THE SCREEN DOOR THA SEPARTED HIM FORM GILBERT AND SAID, "I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT." (IN THE MOVIE, FORREST GOES OUTSIDE AND WE HEAR THE SCREEN DOOR SLAM BEHIND HIM.) THEN HE WALKED OFF INTO THE NIGHT LEAVING GILBERT STANDING THERE WITH A FEELING OF SHOCK AND FEAR THAT WENT THROUGH HIS BODY LIKE AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK WAVE. (WHAT'S THIS GEAR-MICROWAVE, NON-LETHAL WEAPONS, MAMA'S REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI.....) WHAT HAD HE DONE HE HAD THOUGHT TO HIMSELF? WHY COULDN'T HE JUST HAVE BEEN POLITE TO CHARLES AND NOT BECOME ANGRY? HE SENSED THAT WHAT HE HAD DONE WOULD COME BACK ON HIM TEN-FOLD. (AND IT DID) GILBERT WALKED INTO THE ROOMS OF THE CHILDREN AND JUST STOOD THERE FROZEN AS IF HE HAD NO BODY AND HE WAS LOOKING OVER THEM FOR PROTECTION. HE FELT THAT HE WAS ONLY A GHOST IN THEIR LIVES NOW AND HE WANTED TO LET HIM KNOW HOW MUCH HE LOVED THEM SO HE WALKED OVER TO EACH CHILD, FIRST....END OF PAGE DO YOU SEE THE GHOSTS? IN THE MOVIE SEE JENNY'S GHOST WALKING THOUGH THE YARD AWAY FROM THE HOUSE. WE WILL HAVE JUST A FEW MORE SCENES. ELVIS AND MORE....TO BE CONTINUED. OVER THE YEARS INVOLVED WITH THIS, I HAVE BEEN DISTURBED BY READING WHAT I HAVE READ IN THE COURSE OF TRYING TO COMPARE THE WORKS BETWEEN MINE AND PARAMOUNT. THERE ARE SEVERAL INTREPRETATIONS AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM THAT I HAVE TRIED TO SHOW. I HAVE BECOME ILL MANY TIMES FROM IT, GONE INTO THE HOSPITAL SEVERAL TIMES FROM IT, HARRASSED AND STALKED AS A RESULT OF IT AND CONDEMNED AND EVEN THREATEN WITH SANCTIONS AND JAIL. I AM CRYING NOW FROM IT AND I SEE THINGS THAT TO ME ARE VERY DISTURBING. I COULD NOT LIVE WITH MYSELF IF I GAVE UP AND THREW MY HANDS WHICH I WANTED TO DO MANY TIMES. I HAD TO FEEL THAT I DID MY BEST AND ALL THAT I COULD DO TO GET JUSTICE. I HAVE BEEN A TARGET. NOT ONLY DID PARAMOUNT DEFAME ME, THEY DEFAMED THE PEOPLE I WROTE ABOUT. AND THE AUDIENCE UNKNOWINGLY LAUGHED ABOUT IT. THOSE WHO READ I KNOW HAVE BEEN INJURED I'M SURE, BUT, I, MY FRIEND HAVE SUFFERED THE BLUNT OF IT, FOR YEARS AND STILL BEING STALKED AND TERRORIZED. I NEED HELP, I DON'T NEED PEOPLE'S JUDGEMENT, I AM CALLING OUT FOR HELP AND I FEEL HELPLESS AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE HELL BENT ON HURTING ME OVER AND OVER. TO BE CONTINUED....

"AND IF YOU'RE HUNGRY, STEAKS ARE BURNING OVER THERE WHERE THOSE FALLEN COMARDES ARE," WE HEAR AND READ IN PARAMOUNT.

IN THE MOVIE WE HEAR ABOUT THE STEAKS COOKING, IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, THEY ADD COMRADES. IN THE MOVIE, WE SEE FORREST AND JENNY TALKING AND WALKING IN THE COUNTRY. WE SEE THAT JENNY WORKS FOR A CAFE IN THE MOVIE. WHERE DID PARAMOUNT COME UP WITH THIS? HERE'S HOW. PAGE 60 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: THE FURTHER NORTH THAT THE PLANE WOULD FLY, THE WORSE THE WEATHER CONDITIONS WERE. SHE WROTE THAT SHE WOULD STAY THE NIGHT IN ANOTHER HOTEL IN MONTREAL AND FOR GILBERT NOT TO WORRY. LORINE WOULD ARRIVE IN STEPHENVILLE ON MONDAY. (PARAMOUNT-WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON WHISPERING TO FORREST....SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP...EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING FOR TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK.....ANYWAY...LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT...THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE...SHRIMP GUMBO..THE BOYS ARE BUSILY POLISHING THEIR BOATS....FORREST AND BUBBA ARE ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER...PINEAPPLE SHRIMP, COCONUT SHRIMP, LEMON SHRIMP, PEPPER SHRIMP, SHRIMP SOUP AT THE CAFE, SHRIMP SALAD, SHRIMP STEW...SHRIMP BURGERS, SHRIMP SANDWICHES...THAT'S ABOUT IT. FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING (HE HAD BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO THEIR LONG WALKS IN TENNESSEE...) DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION...(HE SAW A WOMAN THAT LOOKED A LOT LIKE LORINE....HE WAS A LITTLE JEALOUS OF THE WAY MEN LOOKED AT HER....) WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER....PRIVATE? (GEAR-WOLF COSTUME....WOLF SKIN....LAMBSKIN....CONDOM? A RARE STEAK...PERFUME...COOKING GEAR....A GRILL....A JUKEBOX NEEDLE...A VINLE RECORD...PLASTIC...HE LIFTS OUT A HAND.... EYES...A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-HER LETTER SHE WROTE...THAT'S A REICPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? (MONTREAL SHRIMP) DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....A REICPE FOR A WOLF...A RARE STEAK....) A RECIPE FOR MISTAKEN IDENITY....FOR TWINS.) GILBERT LEFT THE HOUSE IN SEARCH OF A DINER OR A CAFE WHERE HE COULD GET HIMSELF A THICK JUICY STEAK, ABOUT MEDIUM RARE. HE FOUND A LITTLE CAFE UP THE ROAD AND ASKED THE CAB DRIVER TO PULL OVER WHEN HE SAW A WOMAN THAT LOOKED A LOT LIKE LORINE, BUT IT WASN'T HER. HIS EYES AND HIS MIND WERE PLAYING TRICKS ON HIM, HE THOUGHT. HE GOT OUT AND WENT ON INSIDE TO EAT AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC ON THE JUKEBOX. WHEN HE FINISHED HE WENT ON HOME TO RETURE TO HIS BED AND TO DREAM OF LORINE. HE THOUGHT OF HER NIGHT AND DAY AND TOMORROW HE WOULD BE SEEING HER AND HE COULD TOUCH HER SILKY RAVEN HAIR. WHILE HE LIED THERE IN THE DARK, HE COULD ALMOST SMELL HER SWEET PERFUME THAT HE HAD BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ON THEIR LONG WALKS IN THE COUNTRY OF TENNESSEE. SHE WAS HIS HONEYSUCKLE, PURE AND INNOCENT TO THE WAYS OF THE WORLD. A BABY IN THE WORLD OF WOLVES, WHAT IF SOMEONE MADE A PASS AT HER ON HER WAY TO NEWFOUNDLAND HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. HE WAS A LITTLE JEALOUSE OF THE WAY MEN LOOKED AT HER, BUT, ONLY BECAUSE HER BEAUTY SHINED OUT SO MUCH. HE WOULD NOT REST UNTIL SHE GOT THERE WHERE HE COULD PROTECT AND LOVE HER FOREVER.

THE CLEANER

GILBERT WAS REDUCED TO A JANITOR AFTER HE BLEW THE WHISTLE ON TOXIC WASTE. IN THE MOVIE WHILE FORREST'S MOTHER IS TALKING ABOUT FORREST'S EDUCATION, WE SEE OUTSIDE THE OFFICE A JANITOR CLEANING UP THE PLACE. IN THE MOVIE WE SEE THAT THE LT. CAN'T WALK, WE SEE KENNEDY AND WE SEE FORREST TRYING TO GIVE A SPEECH, BUT, THE POLICEMAN PULLS THE PLUG. (PARAMOUNT-AND WE SEE FORREST, WITH NO OTHER THOUGHT IN THE WORLD, TOTALLY FOCUSED, IS A WHIZ.... WHILE HE WORKS ON HIS WEAPON...A SWORD...A HIGH POWERED GUN..MILITARY STRENGTH... SEE...WHAT YOU DO IS DRAG YOUR NETS ALONG THE BOTTOM...ON A GOOD DAY YOU CAN CATCH OVER A HUNDRED POUNDS OF SHRIMP....EVERYTHING GOES ALL RIGHT, YOU GOT TWO MEN, SHRIMPING TEN HOURS, LESS WHAT YOU SPEND ON GAS, YOU CAN MAKE UPWARDS OF THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK....FORREST STUPIDLY SHOUTING...DONE, DRILL SERGEANT....DRILL SERGEANT ABRUPTLY TURNING...GUMP, WHY DID YOU PUT THAT WEAPON TOGETHER SO QUICKLY?! BECAUSE YOU TOLD ME TO DRILL SERGEANT. ANYWAY....LIKE I WAS SAYING...SHRIMP IS THE FRUIT OF THA SEA...YOU CAN BARBEQUE IT, BOIL IT, BROIL IT, BAKE IT, SAUTE IT... THERE'S SHRIMP KABOBS, SHRIMP CREOLE, SHRIMP GUMBO...THE BOYS ARE POLISHING THEIR BOATS....WHICH A LONG TIME AGO IS WHAT THEY CALLED A VERY LARGE AND LONG CAR...FORREST AND BUBBA KNEELING BY EACH OTHER....SHRIMP COCTAIL, PAN FRIED, DEEP FRIED, STIR FRIED...THE BOYS ARE POLISHING THE FLOOR, FORREST AND BUBBA ARE ACROSS FROM EACH OTHER...SHRIMP SOUP, SHRIMP SALAD, SHRIMP STEW.....THAT'S ABOUT IT...FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS OF FOOT LOCKERS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS... HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION...WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOTLOCKER....PRIVATE?! GEAR-A SWORD...A SHEET...(WE SEE FORREST WEARING A WHITE SHEET IN THE MOVIE) A CAMERA....A PILL....A PILLBOX....(THE SWORD IS GILBERT'S KING ARTHUR'S SWORD IF WE REMEMBER OF HIS CHILDHOOD....CAMELOT) HE LIFTS OUT A HEAD...HAND....FACE....HANDS...FINGERS...FINGERS ARE MOVING....MUSCLE....ARM....HEAD....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE. PAPER-A SPEECH....A POEM BOOK...THAT'S A REICPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT. SHRIMP CREOLE? DRILL SERGEANT. NEGATIVE. UH UH. THAT'S A REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....IRISH STEW....RECIPE FOR LADY FINGERS....A REICPE FOR A PRESIDENT...) FOR A COMA....FORM A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND ALSO COULD BE, MUM'S RECIPE FOR JACK IN A BOX..... ON PAGE 62 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE: CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - DAY THE ROOM IS DARK, GILBERT'S CHILDHOOD SWORD IS ON THE WALL ABOVE HIS BED. GILBERT HAS HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND IS BEDRIDDEN. HE IS IN A DEEP SLEEP COVERED WITH A WHITE SHEET. A VOICE OVER OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY IS HEARD AS THE CAMERA FOCUSES ON GILBERT'S FACE. PRESIDENT KENNEDY (V.O.) WHEN POWER LEADS MAN TOWARDS ARROGANCE, POETRY REMINDS HIM OF HIS LIMITATIONS. WHEN POWER NARROWS THE AREAS MAN CONCERN, POETRY REMINDS HIM OF THE RICHNESS AND THE DIVERSITY OF HIS EXISTENCE. WHEN POWER CORRUPTS, POETRY CLEANSES. CAMERA MOVES FROM GILBERT'S FACE DOWN TOWARDS HIS HANDS AND FINGERS TO SHOW HE IS STARTING TO COME OUT OF HIS COMA LIKE STATE. HIS FINGERS ARE MOVING. CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S AND LORINE'S LIVING ROOM - DAY LORINE IS HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH THE DOCTOR AS THE DOCTOR IS GETTING READY TO LEAVE. DOCTOR (RISING FROM COUCH) HE'S GOING TO BE OKAY, BUT, HIS MUSCLE DISEASE WIL RAPIDLY DETERIORATE AND HE WILL PROBABLY NEVER WALK AGAIN. I'M SO SORRY. LORINE (TO DOCTOR) WHAT SHOULD I DO? DOCTOR (PUTTING ARM AROUND LORINE) BE STRONG, BE STRONG. CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - DAY CAMERA FOCUSES ON GILBERT AND HIS SWORD ON THE WALL ABOVE HIS HEAD AS A VOICE OVER OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY CAN BE HEARD. PAGE 63 SCREENPLAY: PRESIDENT KENNEDY (V.O.) I LOOK FORWARD TO A GREAT FUTURE FOR AMERICA. A FUTURE IN WHICH OUR COUNTRY WILL MATCH IT'S MILITARY STRENGTH WITH OUR MORAL RESTRAINT, IT'S WEALTH WITH OUR WISDOM, IT'S POWER WITHOUT PURPOSE. I LOOK FORWARD TO AN AMERICA WHICH WILL NOT BE AFRAID OF GRACE AND BEAUTY WHICH WILL PROTECT THE BEAUTRY OF OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO A WORLD WHICH WILL BE SAFE NOT ONLY FOR DEMOCRACY AND DIVERSITY BUT ALSO FOR PERSONAL DISTINCTION. CAMERA COMES IN FOR A CLOSEUP OF THE SWORD WITH A BEAM OF LIGHT SHINING ON IT. (WORKING ON HIS WEAPON WHISPERING TO FORREST....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER....PRIVATE? GEAR-A SWORD, A LEAF BLOWER, A CAMERA , A SHEET....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND...FACE...FACE...EYES ARE TWITCHING...HAND HOLDING ONTO A SHEET....HE LIFTS OUT A HAND SCRIBBLED PIECE OF PAPER AND WAVES IT IN BUBBA'S FACE...A SPEECH...AN EXONERATION....FILM....A WITNESS.....THAT'S A REICPE FROM MY MUM, DRILL SERGEANT...GEAR-A LEAF BLOWER...A RECIPE FOR SRHIMP SCAMPI....) IN THE MOVIE THE CAMERA FOCUSES ON SWIRLING LEAVES....GEAR-A LEAF BLOWER CUT TO: EXT. WINTER - DAY CAMERA WHOS THE CHANGING OF THE SEASONS FROM THE FALL LEAVES BLOWING IN THE WIND TO THE WINTER SNOW ON THE GROUND. (WE HEAR JENNY SINGING, "THE ANSWER MY FRIEND IS BLOWING IN THE WIND...AND THE CANON BALLS WILL BE FLYING...") GEAR-A LEAF BLOWER CUT TO: INT. GILBERT'S BEDROOM - DAY LORINE IS SITTING BY GILBERT'S BED TALKING TO HIM WHILE HE SLEEPS. LORINE (HOLDING GILBERT'S HAND.) (HE LIFTS OUT A HAND.... DARLING, CAN YOU HEAR ME? (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT, DURING THE VIETNAM WAR AS THE BOMBS GO OFF, PARAMOUNT WRITES: "I CAN'T HEAR" "I CAN'T HEAR" "AS THE BLOOD RUNS FROM HIS EARS.") OH, MY SWEET DARLING, CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE'VE BEEN EXONERATED OF THE MISDEMEANOR BY THE GRAND JURY. CAN YOU HEAR ME, DARLING? THE TWINS (WE HEAR IN THE MOVIE BEING ASKED OF FORREST AND HIS FRIEND, "ARE YOU TWINS?" "IF YOU DON'T TUCK THAT LIP IN YOU'LL GET IT CAUGHT ON A TRIP WIRE." WHICH I BELIEVE IS A LAND MINE.) THE TWINS AND LITTLE GILBERT ARE COMING HOME! BUT, WE DON'T WHERE DAMON IS. WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THERESE IS, EITHER. CAN YOU HEAR ME, DARLING? TEARS ARE STREAMING DOWN LORINE'S FACE AS SHE LAYS HER HEAD DOWN ON THE BED, GETS UP AND LEAVES THE ROOM. THE CAMERA COMES IN CLOSE ON GILBERT'S FACE AS HE STARTS TO WAKE UP. HIS CLOSED EYES ARE TWITCHING AS THE CAMERA MOVES DOW TO HIS HAND HOLDING ONTO THE SHEET. CAMERA MOVES BACK TO HIS FACE WITH HIS EYES OPENED. GILBERT (LOOKING INTO SPACE) (HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOT LOCKER AND HAS A VIOLENT REACTION....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER......PRIVATE? A SWORD, A LEAF BLOWER....MAMA'S REICPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI...) (LOOKING INTO SPACE) I'LL FIND YOU AND AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, WE WILL NEVER BE APART AGAIN. TO BE CONTINUED

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(PARAMOUNT-FORREST AND BUBBA ARE STANDING AT ATTENTION. A DRILL SERGEANT IS WALKING DOWN THE LINE OF BUNKS INSPECTING FOOT LOCKERS. HE LOOKS IN BUBBA'S FOOTLOCKER AND HAS A VIOLNET REACTION.....WHAT'S THIS GEAR ADRIFT IN YOUR FOOT LOCKER...PRIVATE? GEAR-DYNOMITE...SURVEY EQUIPMENT....MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....FOR A LOG JAM.... MUM'S RECIPE FOR THE VILLAGE PEOPLE. MUM'S RECIPE FOR SHRIMP SCAMPI....A REICPE FOR AN EXODUS, A RECIPE FOR MISPLACED PERSONS...... ON CHAPTER CALLED, "DIGNITARIES, MOVIE STARS AND RUNAWAY SHEEP.' I WRITE: STEPHENVILLE WAS A GROWING TOWN BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS, WHEN IN FACT IT WAS ONLY A QUIET VILLAGE OF FIVE HUNDRED RESIDENTS IN 1941. MOST OF THE RESIDENTS MADE ITS LIVING BY FARMING, (IN THE MOVE WE HEAR THAT FORREST SAYS JENNY'S FATHER WAS SOME KIND OF A FARMER AND JENNY SAYS, "MAKE ME A BIRD SO I CAN FLY FAR, FAR AWAY.") FISHING, OR LUMBERING AND HOMES WERE SCATTERED OVER THE LAND WHILE HUGE MILITARY INSTALLATION WAS TO BE BUILD. THE PEOPLE OF THIS SMALL COMMUNITY WOULD LOSE THEIR HOMES AND THE UNITED STATES WOULD COMPENSATE THEM EVEN THOUGH THE VILLAGE PEOPLE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY HAD TO GIVE UP HER PROPERTY. THE UNITED STATES AT THIS TIME WAS NOT ACTIVELY IN WAR AND OVERNIGHT THE ARMY AIR FORCE BASE WOULD BE BUILT AND BRINGING IN THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO CONSTRUCT IT. BECAUSE OF ITS STRATEGIC LOCATION, THIS AREA WOULD BECOME A VITAL REFUELLING STOP FOR (MUM'S RECIPE FOR OIL...YOU CAN UPWARDS OF .....) FOR ALL AIRPLANES EN ROUTE TO EUROPE. AFTER THE UNITED STATES DECLARED WAR ON JAPAN ON DECEMBER 7, 1941 THE MILITARY CHIEF OF STAFF REALIZED THAT THE STEPHENVILLE AIR BASE COULD NOT ALONE LOOK AFTER THOUSANDS OF AIRCRAFT THAT WOULD BE FLOWN TO THE EUROPEAN WAR, AND THE ARMY AIR CORPS BASE BECAME A PART OF THE STEPHENVILLE COMMAND FROM THE BEGINNING. UNITED STATES ARMY TROOPS ARRIVED IN STEPHENVILLE IN JANUARY OF 1941 AND WOULD BEGIN THE CONSTRUCTING OF THIS STRATEGIC LOCATION. THE UNITED STATES CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND KEY UNITED STATES CIVILLIAN PERSONNEL WOULD SURVEY THE LAND AND WHAT WOULD BE CONSTRUCTED.

IT WAS A BULLIT.

IN THE MOTION PICTURE WE SEE LT. DAN SHOOTING HIS GUN WHILE BEING DRAGGED ON THE GROUND. THEN WE SEE FORREST BY THE RIVER WITH BUBBA AND FORREST SAYS, "BUBBA SAID SOMETHING I WILL NEVER FORGET," "I WANT TO GO HOME." AND THEN FORREST SAYS THAT "YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER." THEN WE HEAR, "IT WAS A BULLIT." "THAT JUMPED UP AND BIT YOU." "BIT ME DIRECTLY IN THE BUTTOCKS. "THE GOOD THING ABOUT BEING WOUNDED IN THE BUTTOCKS IS THE ICECREAM." WE SEE FORREST AND HIS BANDAGES, ON HIS STOMACH SLIDING ALONG ON A GURNEY AND PARAMOUNT WRITES IN THEIR EMBELLISHED SCRIPT THAT HE IS EATING ONE AND HOLDING THE OTHER. "ICECREAM LT. DAN." THEN THE LT. TAKES THE CONE AND THROWS IT, IN THE BED PAN. WHERE DID THEY GET "DRAGGED," "I WANT TO GO HOME," "DIED BY THE RIVER," "BULLIT" "ICECREAM." "BANDAGES," AND "THROWS?" I WILL SHOW YOU. PAGE 60 OF MY SCREENPLAY: YOU STOLE MY BABY, GIVE HER BACK, OR I'M COMING IN! I'LL MAKE YOU SEE THE LIGHT! (PEOPLE ARE FALLING ON THE GROUND AND WE SEE IN THE SHOOTOUT PEOPLE ON THE GROUND) DO YOU HEAR ME PREACHER MAN? THREE POLICE CARS DRIVE UP AND GET OUT. GILBERT FIGHTS TO KEEP THEM FROM TAKING HIM AS THEY KNOCK HIM TO THE GROUND TO HANDCUFF HIM AND THEN THEY DRAG HIM ACROSS THE YARD. (WE SEE LT. DRAGGED ACROSS THE GROUND WHILE HE IS SHOOTING HIS GUN SEVERAL TIMES.) LORINE (CRYING) NO! YOU'RE HURTING HIM! POLICEMAN (TO LORINE) MAM, HE'S OUT OF CONTROL! (I WANT TO GO HOME) PAGE 134 OF MY NOVEL: "YOU JUST MISSED ALL OF THE ACTION," SMILED ONE OF THE NURSES. "HONEY, HOW ARE YOU DOING?" HE ASKED AS HE SAT DOWN ON THE BED NEXT TO HIS WIFE. SHE LOOKS SO PALE AND WEAK HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF AS HE PLACED A COLD, WET COMPRESS TO HER FOREHEAD AND HELD HER HAND. "GILBERT, I WANT TO GO HOME, PLEASE TAKE ME HOME," LORINE BEGGED IN A LITTLE GIRL VOICE. SHE WAS FRIGHTENED AND SHE DID NOT REALIZE THAT IT WOULD BE THIS PAINFUL AND SHE WAS NOT FULLY DIALATED YET. "BABY, IF I COULD TAKE YOU HOME, I WOULD, YOU KNOW I WOULD." GILBERT'S COMFORTING WORDS WERE IN A WHISPER AS HE KISSED HER LIPS. HE WISHED THAT HE WAS THE ONE CARRYING THE PAIN FOR HER AND HE COULD NOT BEAR SEEING HER THIS WAY. IT WAS DECEMBER 29 AND 5:00 A.M. IN THE MORNING AND IT WAS TIME TO START ADMINISTERING THE PAIN MEDICATION. GILBERT HELD TIGHTLY ONTO LORINE AS THE LAST PAINFUL CONTRACTION HAD LEFT HER BODY. GILBERT THOUGHT THAT THE CONTRACTIONS WERE COMING PRETTY CLOSE NOW AS HE TRIED TO SMOOTH LORINE'S MATTED HAIR. ONLY A FEW HOURS AGO, HE THOUGHT, HER HAIR WAS BEAUTIFULLY COMBED AND NOW IT WAS DRENCHED WITH SWEAT. HE WORRIED THAT SHE MIGHT DIE AS HE WATCHED THE SWEAT RUN DOWN THE SIDE OF HER GHOST-LIKE (WE SEE ANOTHER GHOST HERE, IN THE MOVIE, JENNY WALKS ACROSS THE YARD AS A GHOST AND THEN FADES AWAY, FORREST THINKS HE SEES HER GHOST.) GHOST-LIKE PALE FACE. SHE WAS IN A STATE OF DELIRIUM NOW PASSING FROM THE CONCIOUS TO THE SUB-CONCIOUS WHILE SHE ENTERED INTO A NEW PHASE OF UNBEARABLE PAIN. GILBERT JUMPED UP WHEN LORINE STARTED TO CRY FOR RELIEF AND HE RAN DOWN TO THE NURSES STATION. (I WAS INSPIRED BY THE TIME I WAS DYING WEIGHING 68 POUNDS AT 21 YEARS OLD AND THE PAIN WAS UNBEARABLE AND MY MOTHER RAN TO THE NURSES STATION BEGGING THEM TO GIVE ME SOMETHING FOR PAIN.) "CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE MY WIFE SOMETHING FOR PAIN," HE YELLED, "I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE SHE CAN STAND!" "MR. GLENN," COMMANDED THE HEAD NURSE, "YOU WILL HAVE TO BE QUIET!" "SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE IS DYING," PLEADED GILBERT. ABOUT THAT TIME GILBERT FELT A STURDY HAND ON HIS SHOULDERS. IT WAS LORINE'S DOCTOR AND REASSURED GILBERT THAT THE NURSES HAD JUST GONE IN LORINE'S ROOM TO START AN I.V. OF PAIN MEDICATION. (THE WORST PAIN FOR A WOMAN IS IN CHILDBIRTH. THE WORST PAIN FOR A MAN EQUALLY IS WHEN HE IS SHOT AND DYING ON THE FIELD IN WAR.) (HE DIED BY THAT RIVER) PAGE 2 OF MY NOVEL: IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE FORMATION OF THE WHITE CAPS HAD ITS ROOTS IN THE CIVIL WAR FROM WHICH A NUMBER OF VIGILANTE GROUPS SPRANG. IT IS NOT YET DETERMINED HOW THE BLUE BILLS GOT THEIR NAME, UNLESS IT HAD SOME CONNECTION WITH THE COLOR OF THE UNION ARMY UNIFORM. ("LT. DAN HAD FAMILY WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN EVERY AMERICAN WAR.") LABAN LATHAM DID NOT REALIZE THAT A LITTLE OVER 50 YEARS LATER HE WOULD HAVE AN OFFSPRING WHO, TOO, WOULD TRY TO DO THE RIGHT THING AS HE DIED IN THE MUDDY WATERS OF HENDERSON SPRINGS ALONG A RIVER BANK ONE COLD NOVEMBER NIGHT 1894. LOUIE WORKED IN A ROCK QUARRY. (WE SEE ROCKS BEING THROWN SEVERAL TIMES IN THE MOVIE, "I GUESS THERE JUST AIN'T ENOUGH ROCKS," WE HEAR FORREST SAY.) SOON THE WORLD WOULD FALL TO ITS KNEES. IN THE MOVIE WE HEAR THAT FORREST GETS WOUNDED IN THE BUTTOCKS, HE BENDS OVER FOR THE PRESIDENT TO SEE HIS WOUND, ON TELEVISION. THE BEND. PAGE 103 OF MY NOVEL: LORINE BEING EIGHT MONTHS WITH CHILD WAS NOW TRYING TO BEND DOWN TO BASTE THE TURKEY IN THE OVEN WITH SPECIAL SPICES AND MELTED CHURNED BUTTER, IT WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER FROM THE AROMA. SHE STRUGGLED TO STAND UP AND CALLED OUT TO GILBERT, "THE TURKEY ISN'T READY YET, HONEY." NEXT PAGE, GREASE POPS AND HITS GILBERT. ("SOMETHING BIT ME." AND WE HEAR "THEY WANT TO GREASE YOU.") BENDING OVER FOR THE PRESIDENT OR MOONING AS WE HAVE DISCUSSED EARLIER HERE. PAGE 177 OF MY NOVEL: (FORREST LOOKS OUT AND HE SEES THE GHOST OF JENNY WALKING ACROSS THE YARD) "YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'VE SEEN A GHOST, GLENN," LAUGHED JESSIE AS HE STOOD IN FRONT OF THE FURNACE RUBBING HIS HANDS TOGETHER TO WARM. "JESSIE THERE'S SOMETHING THAT I NEED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT," GILBERT SAID PACING AROUND THE ROOM AND THEN STOPPING TO LOOK AT JESSIE. "SHOOT, GLENN," JESSIE STILL SMILING AS HE NOW TURNED HIS BACKSIDE TO THE FURNACE TO FACE GILBERT. "I WENT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BASE TODAY." JESSIE'S FACE TURNED SLOWLY FROM A SMILE INTO A FROWN, "YOU WHAT?" "CHECK OUT HTIS MAP, JESSIE." "WHAT MAP?" (AFTER JENNY SLEEPS WITH FORREST AND GETS PREGNANT AND SHE LEAVES IN A CAB, FORREST THEN TAKES OFF RUNNING. WE SEE A MAP ON THE TELEVISION OF WHERE HE IS RUNNING.) ("IT WAS A BULLIT?" "THAT JUMPED UP AND BIT YOU." "BIT ME DIRECTLY IN THE BUTTOCKS," "THE GOOD THING ABOUT BEING WOUNDED IN THE BUTTOCKS IS THE ICECREAM." PARAMOUNT ADDS THAT HE IS EATING ONE CONE AND HOLDING ANOTHER AND GIVES ONE TO THE LT AND IT IS THROWN IN THE BED PAN.) PAGE 33 OF MY SCREENPLAY I WRITE: CUT TO: EXT. GILBERT'S MAILBOX - DAY GILBERT DRIVES UP IN A 1950'S TRUCK (WE SEE A TRUCK FULL OF MEN IN MY NOVEL AND IN THE MOVIE WE SEE A TRUCK FULL OF MEN CHASING FORREST) AND GETS THE MAIL OUT OF THE MAILBOX. HIS DISCHARGE PAPERS FROM THE AIR FORCE HAVE ARRIVED IN THE MAIL. ( AN OFFICER WALKS UP TO FORREST AND TELLS FORREST THAT HE HAS HIS DISCHARGE PAPERS AND THAT FORREST CAN GO HOME.) GILBERT (TO HIMSELF) DISCHARGE PAPERS, NOW I CAN START LOOKING FOR WORK IN THE REAL WORLD. SITTER COMES RUNNING OUT OF THE FRONT DOOR (WE SEE THE SITTER BRINGING HOME FORREST'S LITTLE BOY, "HE'S HAS A FATHER NAMED FORREST?" "I NAMED HIM AFTER YOU, FORREST.") HOLDING LITTLE DAMON. SITTER (EXCITED) LORINE'S AT THE HOSPITAL, SHE HAD TWINS! (WE HEAR FORREST BEING ASKED, "YOU TWINS!" "TWINS!" "YOU BETTER TUCK THAT LIP IN OR YOU'LL GET IT CAUGHT ON A TRIP WIRE." AND TELLS FORREST THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GREASE HIM.) GILBERT (FALLING AGAINST TRUCK) TWINS! SITTER (EXCITED) A BOY AND A GIRL! GILBERT JUMPS INTO THE TRUCK AND DRIVES OFF AS THE SITTER WAVES GOODBYE HOLDING LITTLE DAMON. AN ELVIS PRESLEY SONG, "THAT'S ALRIGHT MAMA," A 1954 HIT FROM SUN RECORDS IS PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND AS GILBERT DRIVES OFF IN THE 1950 TRUCK UP THE DUSTY ROAD. (WE SEE THE TRUCK DRIVING UP THE DUSTY ROAD CHASING FORREST TRYING TO GET HIM.) CUT TO: INT. HOSPITAL - DAY GILBERT AND LORINE ARE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE NURSERY LOOKING AT THE BABIES. (BORN AT ANDREWS) LORINE (GRABBING GILBERT'S ARM) LORD, GILBERT, TWO OF EM! GILBERT (SMILING) BABY, LOOKS LIKE I SHOT MORE THAN ONE SILVER BULLET! (IT WAS A BULLET. GOT ME IN THE BUTTOCKS AND BULLET CAN BE A HIT RECORD, IN THIS CASE WE HAVE BOTH ON THIS PAGE.) (THE BANDAGES AND THE MOONING, SHOT IN THE BUTTOCKS. HE THROWS, IT IN THE BED PAN.) ON PAGE 29 OF MY SYNOPSIS I WRITE: THE DOCTOR CHECKED ALL OF MY BANDAGES AND STAYED BY MY SIDE UNTIL I FELL ASLEEP. FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS I HAD TO LEARN HOW TO WALK ALL OVER AGAIN, AND WITH AN I.V. CONNECTED TO ME AND THE BACK OF MY GOWN OPENED, EXPOSING MY BACKSIDE, (BUTTOCKS) I WALKED LIKE A BABY HANGING ONTO MY WALKER AS THE NURSE HAD A HOLD OF ONE ARM (EATING ONE AND HOLDING ANOTHER WE READ IN PARAMOUNT) AND THE URINE BAG IN THE OTHER. I HURT REALLY BAD AND WOULD CURSE AT THE NURSE AS MY LEGS WOBBLE AND MY ARMS SHOOK AS I TRIED TO GLIDE THE WALKER LITTLE BY LITTLE ACROSS THE ROOM AND PULL MY BODY UP ON MY WEAK LEGS TO TRY TO WALK. (WE HEAR FORREST IN THE MOVIE, "THERE WAS THIS MAN WHO SAID THE "F WORD A LOT, F THIS AND F THAT.") "FUCK YOU, GO TO HELL," I'D SAY TO THE NURSE AS I ALMOST FELL DOWN. SHE LAUGHED, 'THAT'S RIGHT, LITTLE SUGAR, (WE SEE JENNY IN THE MOVIE PUT A SUGAR CUBE IN HER MOUTH) YOU KEEP ON HOLLERING AND A CURSIN, YOU STILL HAVE A LOT OF STRENGTH AND SPIRIT LEFT IN THAT LITTLE BODY OF YOURS!" "I HATE YOU!" TEARS WERE STREAMING DOWN MY FACE. "WE GOTTA GET YOU A WALKIN, LITTLE SUGAR, YOU'VE BEEN IN THAT BED TOO LONG." "YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME, " I WOULD CRY BACK TO HER. "I WANT TO GO BACK TO BED!' "ALRIGHT, LITTLE SUGAR," THE BLACK NURSE, (WE SEE A BLACK NURSE IN THE MOVIE AND A BLACK NURSE PICKS THE LT. UP, HE CAN'T WALK) THE BLACK NURSE SAID, "BUT, COME TOMORROW, I'LL BE BACK AGAIN, AND I'M DETERMINED TO GET YOU BACK ON YOUR LEGS." AND SHE DID COME BACK AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN. SHE BECAME MY BEST FRIEND. MANY TIMES DURING THIS REHABILITATION I BECAME FRUSTRATED AND EVENTUALLY THROW A TRAY OF FOOD AT ONE OF THE NURSES, BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD AND WERE VERY KIND TO ME. (WE SEE THE LT. DAN THROW THE CONE......I THINK THEY ARE REFERRING TO ME, I WAS THE ONE THROWN AWAY.) THEY'D ALWAYS CALL ME "LITTLE BABY" OR "LITTLE SUGAR" BECAUSE I WAS SO SMALL AND MANY TIMES MY BED SHEETS WOULD HAVE ATO CHANGED WITH ME IN THEM. I STARTED BACK SINGING AGAIN AND DECIDED TO RECORD A RECORD AT JERRY NEWTON'S STUDIO. JERRY WAS THE BROTHER OF THE FAMOUS WAYNE NEWTON. THE SONG WOULD BE CALLED, "DADDY," A SONG ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL ASKING HER FATHER TO COME HOME, AGAIN. JERRY LIKED THE SONG BECAUSE AS ONE STUDIO MUSCIAN SAID, "IT REMINDS JERRY THE SONG WAYNE RECORDED, "DADDY DON'T YOU WALK SO FAST." (WE SEE FORREST ON HIS STOMACH SLIDING, EATING A CONE, PARAMOUNT WRITES THAT HE IS EATING ONE AND HOLDING THE OTHER. "THE GOOD THING ABOUT BEING WOUNDED IN THE BUTTOCKS IS THE ICECREAM.") PAGE 13 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: SNOW WAS ON THE GROUND AND CHILDREN WOULD MAKE SLEDS OUT OF TIN FROM A ROOF OR A LARGE KETTLE LID (WE SEE JENNY'S TIN ROOF HOUSE AND A LARGE KETTLE LID) IF THEY COULD NOT AFFORD A REAL ONE. THEY WOULD ALL MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO SLIDE DOWN THE SNOWY SLOPES (WE SEE LT. TAYLOR SLIDING DOWN A SNOWY SLOPE AND CRASH AS FORREST RUNS AFTER HIM) AND HILLS AS THEY GIGGLED AND LAUGHED. SCHOOL WOULD NOT BE IN SESSION FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IN THE SNOW CAP MOUNTAINS OF TENNESSEE. MOTHERS WOULD BE MAKING SNOW CREAM FROM THE NEW FALLEN SNOW AND IT WOULD CONSIST OF FRESH SNOW, MILK AND VANILLA FLAVORING FROM THE NEARBY GROCERY STORE. IT WOULD BE JUST LIKE EATING ICECREAM, BUT EVEN MORE SPECIAL, BECAUSE IT WAS SNOW, ANED A REMINDER OF NO MORE TOIL FROM BOOKS FOR A WHILE. FIRES WOU8LD BE CRACKLING IN THE FIREPLACE AND MOTHERS WOULD SOON BE CALLING THERE LITTLE ONES TO COME IN FROM THE COLD. ONLY AFATER A BOWL OF HOMEMADE STEW WOULD THEY BE ALLOWED TO EAT THE SNOW CREAM AND LATER THEY WOUDL SETTLE AROUND THEIR FIREPLACES AS FATHERS POPPED POPCORN OVE THE FIRES. PAGE 54 OF MY NOVEL: HE HAD MISSED HER FIERCLY AS WELL AS HIS HOME TOWN IN TENNESSEE. UNLIKE TENNESSEE AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, NEWFOUNDLAND WAS MORE BACK COUNTRY, WILDERNESS, AND HE WAS GETTING PRETTY LONELY FOR HER. (FORREST WAS LONELY AND HE SAID HE MISSED HIS MAMA AND HE MISSED JENNY. HE SAID HE WROTE TO HER ALL THE TIME.) GILBERT LATE AT NIGHT WOULD WRITE LETTERS AT HIS DESK TO OCCUPY HIS TIME WHILE THE KIDS BACK IN THE STATES PACKED THEMSELVES INTO PHONE BOOTHS, CARS AND WENT TO THE MOVIES OR TO THE MALT SHOP FOR FUN AND RECREATION. (FORREST IS EATING ONE AND HOLDING ANOTHER) PAGE 112 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: FIRST CAME THE TURKEY ON A BEAUTIFUL SILVER PLATTER AND NEXT CAME THE DRESSING WITH APPLES AND CHESTNUTS IN A PRETTY PINK CERMAIC BOWL. SHE THEN PLACED THE GIBLETT GRAVEY OUT AND THE CREAMED POTATOES WITH MUSHROOM GRAVEY SHE SAT NEXT TO THE TURKEY. NEXT CAME THE CORN ON THE COBB, FRESH TOSSED SALAD, BUTTERED CARROTS AND PEAS, (FORREST IN THE MOVIE SAYS HE AND JENNY WERE LIKE PEAS AND CARROTS.) CRANBERRY SAUCE AND CRESANT ROLLS WITH FRESH BUTTER. OVER ON THE CABINET WERE PIES ALL LINED UP FOR DESERT. THERE WERE PUMPKIN PIES, CHERRY CREAM CHEESE PIE, CHOCOLATE PIE AND A HOT APPLE PIE WITH ICE-CREAM. IT WAS A FEAST MADE FROM HEAVEN WITH LORINE A THE CHIEF ANGEL COOK. (IT WAS A BULLIT, A BULLET THAT JUMPED UP AND BIT YOU.)

"YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER."

PREVIOUSLY I HAD SHOWN YOU HOW THEY COPIED THIS FROM MY WRITINGS. IN ADDITION. FORREST IS TRYING TO GET THEM OUT OF THERE, PICKING THEM UP AND TRYING TO SAVE THEIR LIVES. HE HAS BEEN SHOT IN THE BUTTOCKS WITH A BULLIT. AND BUBBA DIES BY THE RIVER. "YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER." WE HEAR THIS AND THEY COPY THIS FROM: RIVER- PAGE 95 OF MY NOVEL: BY SEPTEMBER, 1953, SENATOR JOHN F. KENNEDY MARRIED A NEWPORT SOCIALITE AND FORMER WASHINGTON TIMES HERALD PHOTOGRAPHER JACQUELLINE LEE BOUVIER IN NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND AND BY NOVEMBER EISENHOWER AUTHORIZED NEW YORK STATE TO ACT AS U.S. AGENT IN DEVELOPING WITH CANDA A $600 MILLION ST. LAURENCE RIVER POWER PROJECT. AEC ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD SHARE INFORMATION WITH CANADA AND BRITIAN ON THE EFFECTS OF ATOMIC WEAPONS BUT NOT ON HOW THEY ARE DESIGNED. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE SEE THAT THEY HAVE COPIED HERE ABOUT FORREST'S DESTINY AND WHETHER IT IS BY CHANCE OR "DESIGN." PARAMOUNT WRITES.) RIVER-PAGE 138 OF MY NOVEL: THE INSURANCE ADVERTISMENT SAID WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO YOUR CHILDREN IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU? GILBERT PLACED THE MAGAZINE ON THE TABLE AND STARTED THINKING ABOUT HIS BABY, WOULD IT BE A GIRL OR A BOY? WOULD IT BE HEALTHY, HE WONDERED IF THERE WOULD BE MORE CHILDREN? WOULD THEY TAKE WALKS IN THE PARK? (IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAYS HE AND JENNY TOOK LONG WALK.) GO ICE SKATING ON A FROZEN DECEMBER LAKE, AND WOULD THERE BE LITTLE LEAGUE GAMES OR BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL SCOUTS? HE IMAGINED HIMSELF SITTING AT HIS SON'S BASEBALL GAME AS HIS LITTLE BOY MADE A HEROIC HOMERUN AFTER KNOCKING THE BALL OUT OF THE PARK AND WINNING THE ENTIRE GAME. EVERYONE WOULD CHEER HIS LITTLE BOY AS GILBERT STOOD PROUD AMONG THE CROWD. HE WOULD BE THE PROUDEST FATHER IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE STADIUM. THEN GILBERT IMAGINEDIF HE HAD A LITTLE GIRL. WOULD SHE BE A LITTLE BLONDE HAIRED, BLUE EYED LITTLE GEM TAKING AFTER HIM OR WOULD SHE BE A RAVEN HAIRED LITTLE DARLING TAKING AFTER HER MOTHER. WOULD HE SOMEDAY SIT OUT IN THE AUDIENCE AS SHE PERFORMED HER FIRST BALLET DANCE OF "SWAN LAKE" (YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER) OR WOULD HE WATCH HER SING HER FIRST SOLO IN CHURCH. (WE SEE JENNY SINGING AND WE SEE FORREST SINGING IN CHURCH) EITHER WAY, HE WOULD BE HAPPY, HE THOUGHT, IF HE ENDED UP HAVING HIS OWN LITTLE BASEBALL TEAM OF GIRLS AND BOYS ALL HIS OWN. HE PRAYED THAT LORINE AND THE BABY WERE OKAY. (WE SEE THAT TOM HANKS ALSO IS IN A MOVIE ABOUT A BASEBALL TEAM OF GIRLS.) RIVER-HE TRIES TO GET THEM OUT OF THERE AND PICKS THEM UP. "YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER." PAGE 350 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: I WANTED TO RUN AND DANCE AND SING WITH MY BROTHERS AND SISTER, BUT, MY LEGS WERE NOT YEST STEADY (IN THE WAR SCENE LT. GET HIS LEGS SHOT OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND FORREST GETS SHOT IN THE BACK, WHILE "YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER.") CAUSING MY ATTEMPTS TO FAIL AND FALLING DOWN IN A BUNCH OF FLOWERS CRYING. THEY NAMED ME AFTER A EUROPEAN QUEEN CALLED THERESA AND MY NAME WAS THERESA KATE GLENN. MAMA RUSHED TO ME AS SHE HEARD MY CRIES AND PICKED ME UP OUT OF THE DAISIES BRUSHING ME OFF AND GIVING ME A LOVING KISS. I FELT SAFE IN HER ARMS AND KNEW THAT NO HARM WOULD EVER COME TO ME. I WAS AN INNOCENT BABY NOT KNOWING THAT THE COUNTRY THAT I WOULD GROW UP BELIEVING IN WAS IN FACT A COUNTRY THAT COULD BE FULL OF LIES AND CORRUPTION. I WAS A BABY IN THE EYE OF A HURRICANE. GILBERT DECIDED BEFORE EVERYONE ATE THEIR LUNCH THAT HE WANTED TO TAKE A PICTURE OF ALL OF US. SO HE CALLED FOR THE CHILDREN TO COME QUICKLY BEFORE THEY REACHED THE RIVER AND MIGHT FALL IN AND DROWN. (IN THE MOVIE IN VIETNAM WE HEAR THE LT. DAY THAT THERE ARE SO MANY CLICKS BEFORE THAT REACH THE RIVER.) WE ALL GATHERED ON THE COUNTRY QUILT WITH THE FIELD OF DAISIES BEHIND US AND A RIVER THAT RAN THROUGH IT A DISTANCE AWAY FOR A BEAUTIFUL BACKGROUND. LORINE DECIDED THAT SHE WANTED TO WEAR HER PRETTY LIGHT BLUE SWEATER WITH THE PEARLS ON IT, SO SHE RAN BACK TO THE CAR TO GET IT. BUT, WHEN SHE STARTED BACK, SHE BECAME UNSTEADY AND GRABBED HER STOMACH IN PAIN. BY THE TIME SHE REACHED GILBERT, SHE BECAME VERY PALE AND FAINTED IN HIS ARMS. TERRIFIED, HE PICKED HER UP AND TOLD THE TWINS TO STAND GUARD OVER THE REST OF US WHILD HE PUT MOMMY IN THE CAR. HE THEN CAME BACK FOR THE REST OF US AND RUSHED ("I RUSHED HIM OUT OF THERE," WE HEAR FORREST SAY.) AND RUSHED US INTO THE CAR SO HE COULD GET LORINE HOME AND IN BED AND I WRITE THAT HE CALLED FOR THE KIDS TO STAY IN THE CAR SO HE COULD CARRY HER. WE SEE FORREST CARRYING BUBBA AS WE SEE AN EXPLOSION BEHIND THEM. (YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER.) YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER- PAGE 66 OF MY SCREENPLAY: EXT. TENNESSEE RIVER DOCK - DAY THE SONG, "AQUARIUS" (WE HEAR IN THE MOVIE) WHISH IS ALSO THERESE'S SUN SIGN, CONTINUES TO PLAY IN THE BACKGROUND AS A LITTLE GIRL ABOUT ELEVEN YEARS OLD, WHO IS THERESE, WITH BACK TO CAMERA IS SITTING ALONE ON THE DOCK BY THE RIVER. (A MAN IS WATCHING HER FROM A DISTANCE.) (YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER) RIVER-PAGE 92 OF MY NOVEL- POPULAR SONGS OF 1953 WERE "COME WHAT MAY," "VAYA CON DIOS," "MY PA-PA," "DON'T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES," "CRY ME A RIVER," "RUBY," "SECRET LOVE," "RICOCHET," (YOU DIED BY THAT RIVER) ALSO I HAD WRITTEN ABOUT THE "DANCE" AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD ONE MORE. IN THE MOVIE FORREST AND JENNY ARE DANCING LIKE I WROTE ABOVE THAT I WAS NAMED AFTER A QUEEN AND WANTED TO DANCE AND SING AND WE ALSO SEE JENNY OR A SINGER ON STAGE IN THE MOVIE, A STRIP JOINT WHERE MEN ARE REACHING UP AND GROPING HER AND "FONDLING" HER PARAMOUNT EMBELLISHES AND PERVERTS. THIS IS WHERE WE GET DANCING AND SINGING TOO. (WE SEE FORREST AND JENNY DANCING AND HE SAYS, "ME AND JENNY WERE LIKE FAMILY.") ON PAGE 71 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: CLOTHING AND THE SHIP WAS ALWAYS A WELCOME SIGHT. THE VILLAGE THEATRE WAS USED FOR AN OCCASSIONAL MOVIE, USO TOURS (WE SEE BOB HOPE'S USO TOUR IN THE MOVIE AND I WRITE OF BOB HOPE'S USO TOUR ON PAGE 145 OF MY NOVE.) AND CHURCH. IN THE THEATRE ON SUNDAY MORNINGS, THE CATHOLICS WENT FIRST FOR MORNING MASS AND THEN WOULD LET OUT (WE HEAR IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAY THAT HIS MAMA SAID TO LET THOSE ROOMS OUT) FOR THE NON-DEMONINATIONAL CHURCH GOERS TO ATTEND THEREAFTER. EVERYBODY WENT TO CHURCH IN THE VILLAGE THEATRE. ON ONE SPECIAL OCCASION, GILBERT AND LORINE WOULD GO TO SEE NAT KING COLE AT THE THEATRE WHEN THE USO TOUR WOULD COME THROUGH. NAT KING COLE WAS THEIR FAVORITE AND HIS ROMANTIC MUSIC SET THE STAGE FOR LOVERS IN LOVE. IT WOULD BE AN EXPERIENCE THAT THEY WOULD NEVER FORGET, ESPECIALLY LORINE SINCE SHE HAD SUCH A SWEET AND DELICATE NATURE ABOUT HER. GILBERT WOULD HOLD LORINE IN HIS ARMS AS THEY DANCED SLOWLY NEXT TO THE STAGE TO THE SONG, "UNFORGETABLE." GILBERT LOOKED INTO LORINE'S EYES AND SUNG ALONG, TOO AND IT WOULD BE A NIGHT OF PURE EXSTACY AND DELIGHT. IT WAS UNFORGETABLE. LISTENING TO NAT KING COLE UP THERE ON STAGE ONLY MADE GILBERT AND LORINE FALL THAT MUCH MORE IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER. IT WAS ALWAYS A BIG TREAT WHEN THE USO TOUR WOULD COME THROUGH, BECAUSE, THERE JUST WAS NOT MUCH GOING ON WAY UP THERE IN THE BACK WOODS OF CANADA. MAYBE BOWLING AND OCCASIONAL MOVIE AND CHURCH WERE THE ONLY OUTLETS THAT MOST EVERYONE HAD. SOMETIMES IT WOULD GET QUITE LONELY FOR MOST FOLKS UP THERE AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES. (IN THE PARAMOUNT SCRIPT WE READ THAT WHILE IN VIETNAM THEY SWATED AT NATS. THE SWAT CAME FROM THE PAGE WHERE THEY SWAT THE HORSE AS THE PRINCESS RIDES INTO EXILE AND HER FRIGHTENED ROYAL FAMILY IS ON THE RUN AND NAPOLEON IS CARDED OFF INTO EXILE, "WHAT IS MY DESTINY MAMA") DANCING-WHILE FORREST AND JENNY ARE DANCING, "WE WERE LIKE FAMILY, ME AND JENNY.") SHOE SHINING WHILE BUBBA IS LISTED OVER MANY WAYS TO COOK A SHRIMP, WE SEE HIM SHINING HIS SHOES. WHERE DID THEY GET THIS? PAGE 58 OF MY NOVEL: "I'LL BE HERE WAITING FOR YOU, LORINE." "BE CAREFUL NOW, DARLING." GILBERT HUNG THE PHONE UP AND CAUGHT A CAB BACK TO HIS HOUSE. "I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN ON THAT PLANE WITH HER," HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. HE WONDERED IF SHE WOULD BE OKAY ALL ALONE DOWN THERE IN NEW YORK CITY WHILE HE COUNTED THE HOURS THERE IN NEWFOUNDLAND. THE NEXT MORNING GILBERT GOT UP EARLY TO EAT AND DRESS SO HE COULD BE AT THE AIRPORT TO MEET LORINE. HE DRESSED IN HIS BEST MILITARY BLUES AND COMBED HIS BLONDE HAIR. (IN THE MOVIE FORREST SAYS HE MAKES SURE THAT LITTLE FORREST COMBS HIS HAIR.) HIS BLUE EYES SHINEDWHEN HE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD BE MAKING LOVE TO LORINE TONIGHT. HE WAS A VERY HANDSOME MAN AT THAT AND LORINE WAS VERY LUCKY TO HAVE A GOOD HUSBAND LIKE GILBERT. HE MADE SURE THAT HIS SHOES SHINED LIKE A DIMEAND HE FINISHED UP BY STRAIGHTENING HIS TIE AND LOOKING ONE MORE TIME IN THE MIRROR. (WE SEE FORREST LOOKING IN THE MIRROR.) A CAB PULLED UP OUTSIDE THE HOUSE AS THE SNOW STARTED COMING DOWN HARDER NOW AND GILBERT ALMOST SLIPPED WHEN HE WALKED DOWN THE STEPS AND ONTO THE SIDEWALK. TALL AND PROUD HE GLANCED OUT OF THE CORNER OF HIS EYE TO SEE IF ANYONE WAS WATCHING. HE GOT INTO THE BACK OF THE CAB AND HE DRIVER DROVE UP THE ICY ROAD TO THE AIRPORT. (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE THE NEW YORK CABS AND WE ALSO SEE JENNY AFTER MAKING LOVE TO FORREST, LEAVE AND GET INTO A CAB AND DRIVE OFF. SHE IS NOW PREGNANT WITH FORREST'S CHILD.) THE COURIER IN THE MOTION PICTURE, A COURIER COMES UP TO FORREST WITH A MESSAGE. FORREST IS GONG TO GET A MEDAL. WHERE DID THEY GET THE MESSENGER AND THE MEDAL? ON PAGE 59 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: WHEN HE GOT OUT OF THE CAB IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, HE PAID THE DRIVER AND WALKED ON IN THE HOUSE. THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE ICE BOX WHEN HE OPENED IT TO LOOK INSIDE. "I GUESS I FORGOT TO GET GROCERIES YESTERDAY," HE SAID OUT LOUD TO HIMSELF AS HE CLOSED THE DOOR. SUDDENLY, THE DOOR BELL RANG AND GIBLERT COULD SEE A MAN STANDING OUTSIDE THERE IN THE COLD HOLDING SOMETHING. 'YES, CAN I HELP YOU?' GILBERT ASKED AS HE SWUNG OPEN THE DOOR. "MR. GLENN?" ASKED THE MAN. "YES, I'M GILBERT GLENN." ("I'M FORREST, I'M FORREST GUMP.") "MR. GLENN, I HAVE A TELEGRAM FOR YOU." "WOULD YOU PLEASE SIGN HERE," SAID ATHE MAN AS HE HANDED GIBLERT A CLIP-BOARD AND A PEN. IT WAS TELEGRAM AND THE FIRST THING GILBERT THOUGHT WAS THAT THE PLANEHAD GONE DOWN OVER THE OCEAN. HE TORE IT OPEN AND STARTED TO READ. "OH NO!" HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF. LORINE HAD BOARDED THE PLANE TO NEW YORK AND THE PLANE HAD TO MAKE A STOP IN MONTREAL BECAUSE OF THE SNOW STORM. (LATER FORREST SEES THE GHOST OF JENNY IN THE FOG FLOATING AND ASKING FOR HELP IS WHAT I WRITE IN HER WHITE GOWN AND WE SEE JENNY IN MOVIE WEARING A WHITE GOWN, A GHOST.) PAGE 91 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: MEDALS-IN 1953, THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WENT TO GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL. OTHER EVENTS WOULD INCLUDE THE CROWNING OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II AND THE U.S. CONGRESS CREATED A NEW CABINET POST OF SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE. LAOS IN 1953 WOULD BE ATTACKED BY VIETNAMESE REBELS. THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE WOULD GO TO WINSTON CHURCHILL AND ARCHIBALD MacLEISH'S "COLLECTED POEMS," WOULD WIN THE PULITZER PRIZE AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' (END OF PAGE) THE HITCHER IN THE MOVIE WE SEE JENNY HITCHING RIDES ALONG THE ROAD IN THE RAIN. WHERE DID THEY GET THE HITCHER? PAGE 45 OF MY NOVEL I WRITE: THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY TO THE INDIAN RESERVATION. (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE AN INDIAN IN THE WINDOW BANGING ON DRUMS) ON THE WAY, GILBERT AND LORINE PICKED UP A SOLDIER WHO WAS TRYING TO HITCH A RIDE, AND GILBERT AND LORINE STOPPED AND LET HIM RIDE ALONG IN THE BACK SEAT. THEY WERE EVEN CHALLENGED BY ANOTHER DRIVER ON THE HIGHWAY, HE WANTED TO CAR RACE GILBERT. (IN THE MOVIE WE SEE A MAN WANTED TO RACE FORREST.)

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