Asphalt Bungle
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EDWIN Been away from the hunt too long. There must be good suckers somewhere out there. BONGO I'm sure there are Guv. EDWIN Know what I learned in prison? BONG No Guv. EDWIN Nothing. Absolutely nothing. (Beat) Total waste of time. No rehabilitation whatsoever. BONGO (Smiling) Sorry about that Guv. EDWIN Actually there is one thing I did learn. BONGO Yes Guv? EDWIN As one wanders through the vicissitudes of life, if one wants to go up, in prison or elsewhere, one has to go down. BONGO Really? EDWIN Yes. BONGO Dillinger? EDWIN He went down. BONGO Columbo? EDWIN He wasn’t a real person. And he wasn’t in prison. But if he were he would go down. BONGO Jeez.
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Bumbling Bumble Bees “Asphalt Bungle” shows how two small-time crooks screw-up their hoped-for last score. In the comedic-suspense original screenplay Asphalt Bungle (published by AuthorHouse), by author Lawrence J. Corneck, readers meet two strange dudes, their myriad criminal cohorts and a caper that goes completely kablooey. When Edwin is released from prison, he is met by his supposed best pal Bongo. Ready for his first post-prison meal at Brooklyn Dreams Diner, Edwin expects an easy evening. But things haven’t been easy for Edwin in quite some time. So, when a he gets caught up in a bust at the diner, it seems like the Golden Goose has arrived; that is until Edwin and Bongo launch a plan to steal a priceless painting from a safe in the home of a sex-crazed octogenarian gangster carrying on an affair with a bipolar scamming Russian waitress working for an entrepreneurial thug. Played against the backdrop of New York City, Asphalt Bungle, with its dizzying cast of eccentric characters and humorous plot twists, is a thinking man’s suspense story. With equal parts hilarity and pop insight, the story takes the classic heist story and turns it into a Shakespearean feast. Bad judgment calls, double-crossing alliances, court-jesters, an off-beat love story brewing in impossible circumstances - Asphalt Bungle includes it all.
About the Author
Lawrence J. Corneck is the author of Existential Hell: A Screenplay Trilogy; Big Cigar, small d**k; FAT FAT Snitch; Geezer Pleaser, Bald Lubavitcher, Mime's the Word, Bubble Catcher and Asphalt Bungle (also published by AuthorHouse), all part of the same saga. More screenplays based upon earlier characters, including B**** Fight at the KO Corral, Spy with the Beautiful Frown and Killing Time as Time Kills, will soon be available through AuthorHouse. Each screenplay will be written in a different genre: cat and mouse, domestic drama, high adventure, coming-of-age, comedy, romance, horror, tear-jerker, show biz, caper, western, spy and science fiction.