THE KING ATLASBetaA WORLD BETWEEN STORIESSingle-book characters / Named cast
16 named character entries recorded in Sorry, Right Number. Open a snippet for the book’s wording.
These entries belong to this story; they do not establish matches to characters in other books. Read about this work and its recorded connections.
This is a growing catalog, not a claim that every character has been found.
Then . . . the phone starts ringing. KATIE (eyes closed) Thank You, God. VOICE (filter) Hartshorn Hall, this is Frieda. If you want Christine the Sex Queen, she’s still in the shower, Arnie. KATIE Could you call Polly to the phone? Polly Weiderman? This is Kate Weiderman. Her mother.
A pause. Then . . . the phone starts ringing. KATIE (eyes closed) Thank You, God. VOICE (filter) Hartshorn Hall, this is Frieda. If you want Christine the Sex Queen, she’s still in the shower, Arnie. KATIE Could you call Polly to the phone? Polly Weiderman? This is Kate Weiderman.
KATIE (voice, fading) Oh, I saw Janie Charlton today . . . yes! Big as a house! . . . She fades. The TV gets louder. There are three kids: JEFF eight, CONNIE, ten, and DENNIS, thirteen. Wheel of Fortune is on, but they’re not watching.
INT. KATIE She sighs, bends down, and replaces the phone. Then she pushes the stop button on the Walkman. INT. DAWN, BILL, AND KATIE DAWN wakes up when the music stops. Looks at BILL and KATIE, puzzled. DAWN (fuzzed out) Well . . . hi.
KATIE (voice, fading) Oh, I saw Janie Charlton today . . . yes! Big as a house! . . . She fades. The TV gets louder. There are three kids: JEFF eight, CONNIE, ten, and DENNIS, thirteen. Wheel of Fortune is on, but they’re not watching.
A pause. Then . . . the phone starts ringing. KATIE (eyes closed) Thank You, God. VOICE (filter) Hartshorn Hall, this is Frieda. If you want Christine the Sex Queen, she’s still in the shower, Arnie.
From behind the bride and groom come others. Among them are KATIE, DENNIS, CONNIE, and JEFF . . . all five years older. With KATIE is another man. This is HANK. In the interim, KATIE has also taken a husband. POLLY turns and her mother is there.
KATIE (voice, fading) Oh, I saw Janie Charlton today . . . yes! Big as a house! . . . She fades. The TV gets louder. There are three kids: JEFF eight, CONNIE, ten, and DENNIS, thirteen. Wheel of Fortune is on, but they’re not watching.
KATIE (voice, fading) Oh, I saw Janie Charlton today . . . yes! Big as a house! . . . She fades. The TV gets louder. There are three kids: JEFF eight, CONNIE, ten, and DENNIS, thirteen. Wheel of Fortune is on, but they’re not watching.
Whoever it was forced it. DAWN Gosh, no! That was Jerry, last week. I locked us out by mistake and he didn’t have his key and the spare wasn’t over the door like it’s supposed to be.
I thought something was wrong. How can you sleep with that music blasting? DAWN It’s restful. (Sees the gnawed book BILL’S holding) Oh my God, Bill, I’m sorry! Justin’s teething and— BILL There are critics who’d say he picked just the right thing to teethe on.
Possible aliases: KATIE
… FADE IN ON: KATIE WEIDERMAN’S MOUTH, ECU She’s speaking into the telephone. Pretty mouth; in a few seconds we’ll see that the rest of her is just as pretty. KATIE Bill? Oh, he says he doesn’t feel very well, but he’s always like that between books . . . can’t …
BILL Honey, where’re the blank videotapes? I can’t find any in the study and— KATIE (to BILL) Wait! (to LOIS) Gonna put you on hold a sec, Lo. She does. Now both lines are blinking. She pushes the top one, where the new call has just come in.
Possible aliases: Polly
Polly Weiderman? This is Kate Weiderman. Her mother. VOICE (filter) Oh, jeez! Sorry. I thought—hang on, please, Mrs. Weiderman. SOUND: THE PHONE CLUNKS DOWN. VOICE (filter, and very faint) Polly? Pol? . . . Phone call! . . . It’s your mother! INT.
… a B on my French Conversational Essay, and Ronnie Hansen asked me to the Harvest Ball. I’m so all right that if one more good thing happens to me today, I’ll probably blow up like the Hindenburg. KATIE You didn’t just call me up, crying your head off? We see …
BILL William Weiderman. My number is— OPERATOR (filter) Not the William Weiderman that wrote Spider Doom?! BILL Yes, that was mine. If— OPERATOR (filter) Oh my God, I just loved that book! I love all your books! I— BILL I’m delighted you do.