Editing Inside Monkey Zetterland (section)

==Plot==
Monkey Zetterland is a struggling screenwriter and a former [[child actor]] who is working on a historical script based on the defunct [[Pacific Electric|Red Car subway]] of Los Angeles. He lives in a building owned by his neurotic mother Honor Zetterland, who is a famous [[soap opera]] star. While secretly hoping there is a future in acting for Monkey, she attempts to turn her other son, hairdresser Brent, into a film star.

Honor shows up at Monkey's apartment to borrow his epsom salts at the same time that his disagreeable girlfriend, Daphne, arrives. His sister Grace arrives in tears to reveal that her [[lesbian]] girlfriend, Cindy, has become pregnant from a [[one-night stand]] in an attempt to bring the two of them closer. Honor rents the [[basement apartment]] to Sasha and Sofie, a [[gay]] man and lesbian posing as husband and wife while publishing an underground newsletter that [[Outing|outs]] [[closeted]] gay people in the entertainment industry.

As if this were not enough, a creepy woman, Bella, shows up with a [[Fan mail|fan letter]] for Honor, and another strange lady, Imogene, begins openly pursuing Monkey's attention. After a series of confrontations with Monkey, Daphne moves out. At around the same time, his estranged father Mike, who was absent for long periods of time throughout the Zetterlands’ lives, surfaces in time for [[Thanksgiving]].

While everyone busies themselves with their personal issues, Grace discovers that Sasha and Sofie are in fact terrorists who intend to bomb a local insurance agency that is denying medical coverage to people with [[HIV]] and [[AIDS]]. Sofie comes up with a plan to send Grace into the agency with a bomb, which Grace and Sasha believe is set up to give Grace enough time to escape before it detonates. It is not, and Grace dies in the explosion.

This event pulls everyone out of their own selfish interests and forces them to reexamine their lives and the people around them. The patriarch of the family disappears again, Cindy  and her newborn baby are taken in by the family, and Monkey decides to let Imogene get closer to him. Then, just as things are starting to fall into place, Monkey comes home to find his apartment ransacked and his finally finished script, of which was his only copy,  stolen.

Later that evening, Bella, who left a fan letter for Honor, arrives with Monkey's stolen script and a gun. She tries to shoot Honor, but hits the family dog instead. She is taken down, but the ensuing drama pulls the remaining emotional conflicts of the family into place. Honor accepts that Monkey is never going to become a famous actor. Instead of pushing him into acting, she uses her industry connections to have his script produced into a film starring Brent.