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The first time I read the script of “Working Girl,” I thought of a visual of the Staten Island Ferry crossing over to the isle of Manhattan. The Towers were high over all the other buildings in the Wall Street area and the camera panned to the inside of the ferry. Melanie and Joan Cusack were reading Page Six or some other gossip page of one of the morning papers. Cutting away to New York, it made me think of a jungle arriving at a church. I knew I wanted a jungle beat. I wrote a melody that rem