We’ll Always Have Parrots (2004)
“Either she’d just knocked back a killer dose of mouthwash or she’d taken up flavored vodka. She gazed slowly around the circle of people outside her door, though it didn’t feel as if she was looking at us. More like scanning us with some instrument other than her eyes. I could imagine a reptile performing the same emotionless survey. It’s not edible; it’s not dangerous; I can’t mate with it; it might as well not exist; I’ll ignore it.
Fine by me. I’d seen what happened to people when the QB stopped ignoring them.
I saw a faint spark of interest in her eyes when she spotted Michael.
“Come in,” she said, beckoning to him. The rest of us followed. She didn’t shriek, so I deduced she was in a good mood.
An artificially induced good mood, though. Her balance was worse than usual, and her smile had a certain wobbly quality.
I was surprised, and I could tell Michael was, too. From his tales of life on the set, her drinking was a menace, but only after the cameras stopped rolling.
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