NOTTING HILL

    RITZ MAN
  There was a Miss Pocahontas in room 126
  -- but she checked out an hour ago.  I
  believe she's holding a press
  conference at The Savoy before flying to
  America.

 William is very grateful.  He kisses the Ritz Man.  Bernie's also
 gratuful.  He kisses him too.

    BERNIE
  We have lift off!!

 A Japanese guest assumes this is the way to behave and the Ritz
 Man gets kissed a third time.

 EXT. LONDON STREET - DAY

 The car speeds through London.  It gets totally stuck at a
 junction where no one will let them in.

    SPIKE
  Bugger this for a bunch of bananas.

 He gets out of the car and boldly stops the traffic coming in the
 opposite direction.  Our car shoots past him.

    SPIKE
  Go!

 They leave him behind.  Honey leans out the window and shouts...

    HONEY
  You're my hero.

 Spike waves wildly -- he loses concentration and is very nearly
 hit by a car.

 EXT. THE SAVOY - DAY

 They pull to a stop.  William leaps out.

    MAX
  Go!

 INT. THE SAVOY - DAY

 William rushes up to the main desk.

    WILLIAM
  Excuse me, where's the press
  conference?

    MAN AT SAVOY
  Are you an accredited member of the
  press?

    WILLIAM
  Yes...

 He flashes a card.

    MAN AT SAVOY
  That's a Blockbuster video membership
  card, sir.

    WILLIAM
  That's right... I work for their in-
  house magazine.
   (mimes quotation marks)
  'Movies are our business.'

    MAN AT SAVOY
  I'm sorry, sir...

 Honey shoots into shot, pushing Bella's chair.

    BELLA
  He's with me.

    MAN AT SAVOY
  And you are?

    BELLA
  Writing an article about how London
  hotels treat people in wheelchairs.

    MAN AT SAVOY
  Of course, madam.  It's in the
  Lancaster Room.  I'm afraid you're very
  late.

    HONEY
   (to William)
  Run!

 INT. SAVOR ROOM - DAY

 William runs, searching.  At last finds the room, and enters.

 INT. LANCASTER ROOM - DAY

 Huge room -- full of press.  Row after row of journalists,
 cameras at the front, TV cameras at the back.  Anna clearly
 gives press conferences very rarely, because this one is
 positively presidential.  She sits at a table at the end of the 
 room, beside Karen: on her other side is Jeremy, the PR boss,
 firmly marshalling the questions.

    JEREMY
  Yes... You -- Dominic.

    QUESTIONER 1
  How much longer are you staying in the
  UK then?

    ANNA
  No time at all.  I fly out tonight.

 She's in a slightly melancholic and therefore honest mood.

    JEREMY
  Which is why we have to round it up now.
  Final questions.

 He points at a journalist he knows.

    QUESTIONER  2
  Is your decision to take a year off
  anything to do with the rumours about
  Jeff and his present leading lady?

    ANNA
  Absolutely not.

    QUESTIONER 2
  Do you believe the rumours?

    ANNA
  It's really not my business any more.
  Though I will say, from my experience,
  that rumours about Jeff... do tend to
  be true.

 They love that answer, and all scribble in their note books.
 Next question comes from someone straight right next to
 William.

    QUESTIONER 3
  Last time you were here, there were some
  fairly graphic photographs of you and a
  young English guy -- so what happened
  there?

    ANNA
  He was just a friend -- I think we're
  still friends.

    JEREMY
  Yes, the gentleman in the pink shirt.

 He is pointing straight at William, who has his hand up.

    WILLIAM
  Yes -- Miss Scott -- are there any
  circumstances in which you two might be
  more than just friends?

 Anna sees who it is asking.

    ANNA
  I hoped there might be -- but no, I'm
  assured there aren't.

    WILLIAM
  And what would you say...

    JEREMY
  No, it's just one question per person.

    ANNA
  No, let him... ask away.  You were
  saying?

    WILLIAM
  Yes, I just wondered whether if it
  turned out that this... person...