Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Pearl 're being examined for mental illness New York Neurological Hospital, Fact2: Nicky is tough-talking street kid sent to hospital for evaluation after altercation with police, Fact3: David 's missing daughter is same Zombie Girl telling him, Fact4: LaGuardia uses radio station to reach out to Nicky and Pamela, Fact5: Pamela breaking ties with takes Nicky to David 's office LaGuardia
Output (English): Nicky Marotta Robin Johnson and Pamela Pearl Trini Alvarado are two teenage girls who meet in the New York Neurological Hospital, where theyre both being examined for mental illness. Pamela is depressed and insecure, and shes neglected and exploited by her father, David Pearl Peter Coffield, a prominent and wealthy commissioner running a campaign to clean up Times Square. Nicky is a toughtalking street kid with musical aspirations, sent to the hospital for an evaluation after an altercation with police. Sharing a room, the brash Nicky and shy Pamela become friends. Nicky admires Pamelas poetic spirit; Pamela admires Nickys forthright attitude and resents the condescending way in which the doctors treat her. Nicky is released from the hospital and later returns, ostensibly for an appointment with her social worker, Rosie Washington Anna Maria Horsford, but really to break Pamela out. Both girls escape the hospital, steal an ambulance, and hide out in abandoned warehouse on the Chelsea Piers, making a pact to scream out each others names in times of trouble. There is a citywide search for Pamela after David reports her missing and accuses Nicky of kidnapping her, claiming Pamela needs medical attention. Meanwhile, the girls try to eke out a living by engaging in card games, petty theft, odd jobs, and scavenging. Radio disc jockey Johnny LaGuardia Tim Curry, who broadcasts from a penthouse studio overlooking Times Square, realizes that Davids missing daughter is the same Zombie Girl who sent him letters, telling him how sad and insecure she feels. LaGuardia, who resents Davids Reclaim Rebuild Restore campaign to gentrify Times Square, uses his radio station, WJAD, to reach out to Nicky and Pamela. The girls start writing songs together and form an underground punk rock band, The Sleez Sisters, with the help of LaGuardia, who sees them as an opportunity to undermine David. When an open letter to Pamela from Rosie is printed in the newspaper with the help of David, calling Nicky troubled and dangerous, the girls perform a defiant Sleez Sisters song live on WJAD, making them even more famous. As an act of further rebellion, Nicky and Pamela also throw TVs off a series of rooftops in the city. The two eventually have a falling out when they realize that their lives are on divergent paths. Pamela is content with her newfound sense of identity and wants to return home. Nicky wants to continue with The Sleez Sisters and becomes jealous of Pamelas relationship with LaGuardia. One night, she accuses LaGuardia of exploiting Pamela and herself, and throws them both out of the warehouse hideout. She then has a breakdown, wrecking her home and destroying the journal she shared with Pamela. After a failed attempt to drown herself, she drunkenly breaks into WJAD and demands that LaGuardia put her on the air though, unbeknownst to Nicky, he never does. Midway through her song, Nicky breaks down and asks Pamela for help, shouting out her name. A sympathetic LaGuardia takes Pamela to Nicky. Pamela, breaking ties with LaGuardia, then takes Nicky to Davids office, located in the middle of Times Square. Pamela calls all the local radio stations, announcing an impromptu, and illegal, midnight show in Times Square, on the rooftop of a 42nd Street grindhouse. A message is sent out to the fans of The Sleez Sisters, inviting them to attend the concert. Nicky says, If they treat you like garbage, put on a garbage bag. If they treat you like a bandit, black out your eyes! Girls across the city heed Nickys call and board buses and subways to converge in Times Square. In a garbagebag costume and banditmaskstyle makeup, Nicky sings on the marquee roof above a crowd of cheering fans, also in garbage bags with bandit makeup. With the police approaching from behind, Nicky jumps off the edge of the marquee and into a blanket held taut by a group of fans. Camouflaged in the crowd, Nicky manages to evade capture by the police. Pamela watches her friend vanish into the night.