]The film""s screenplay, by first-time scripter Bruce Robinson, was adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winningNY Timesreporter Sydney Schanberg""sThe Death and Life of Dith PranfromThe NY Times Magazine.As the film opens, the setting is the typical, but imaginary American small town of Bedford Falls, somewhere in New York state, identified by a snow-covered sign: "You are Now in Bedford Falls.As he takes a wastebasket full of empty liquor bottles o the garbage, he becomes embarrassed when his neighbor Dr.I wouldn""t go back o work for you if you begged me on your hands and knees.And I hope his will be a lesson to you!" [Onlookers refer to Peter Warne as "the King" -- Gable""s nickname in real life." In the middle of the meeting, he runs to the window at the sound of fire engines"" sirens, exclaiming: "Gee, hat was a pip!" He demands that they make the opera pay or close it down: "If it""s losing that much money, there must be something wrong.