2010 June 28
Batman, 1989
A strange HISSING NOISE. A few feet away, PURPLE SMOKE
billows from air-conditioning vent.

TRAYS OF FOOD CRASH TO THE FLOOR as WAITERS, pass out.
ART LOVERS drop forks, go face down in their pasta salad.

1. — (egyptian sculpture)
2. Rembrandt, The Syndics of the Clothsmakers Guild
3. Edgar Degas, Two Ballerinas
4. Douglas Volk, Abraham Lincoln
5. Archibald Willard, The Spirit of ’76 (Yankee Doodle)
6. Edward Hopper, Approaching A City
7. — (generic roman bust)
8. Rembrandt self-portrait
9. — (Degas, ballerina)
10. — (two girls, Renoir?)
11. Vermeer, The Woman Wearing Pearls
12. Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy
13. Gilbert Stuart, George Washington
14. Francis Bacon, Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef

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“Novelization by Craig Shaw Gardner based on the story by Sam Hamm and the screenplay by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren and the character created by Bob Kane”