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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A heavily annotated scene-list page maps a Muscle Beach sequence through ships, Mexico, nude performance, money, death, burglary, wine, Mazatlan, and returns to L.A.
The corrected transcript shows a working outline being actively revised on the page. Handwritten additions redirect the typed list, replacing destinations, adding character beats, and pushing the sequence toward a fractured comic-criminal itinerary rather than a fixed plot.
Scene-list working titles running from THE LAST FESTIVAL OF MUSCLE BEACH and a painting-the-nude-at-the-Santa-Monica-entrance opener, through Maria the young Frenchlady running nude to Jesus, the eighty-thousand Bank of America moment, the Lenny Bruce Christmas, Prankster as the Duck at the Oar House, Bullboy at the swimming pool, Twenty Six Bottles of Lancers, Flight to El Paso, Bonnie and Clyde, closing on ANIMAL RETURNS TO L.A. A planned episodic arc, not prose.