[JOE]
Hi there, Myron

[MYRON]
How's it hanging?

[JOE]
I've got a date with Sheldrake

[MYRON]
I'm shooting a Western down at Fox

[JOE]
How can you work with Darryl?

[MYRON]
We should talk

[JOE]
Gotta run

[BOTH]
Let's do lunch

[MARY]
Hi, Mr. Gillis
[JOE]
You look great!

[MARY]
I'm up for an audition

[JOE]
Sheldrake is driving me insane

[MARY]
Don't forget me when you're casting

[JOE]
We should talk

[MARY]
Gotta run

[BOTH]
Let's do lunch

[MYRON]
Morning, Joanna

[MARY]
Hi there, Myron
[JOANNA]
Who are you meeting?

[MYRON]
You look great

[JOE]
Sheldrake, but do I need it?

[MARY]
I've spent the last month fasting

[JOANNA]
I'm handing in my second draft

[MYRON]
I'm shooting a Western down at Fox

[JOE]
I'd really love to read it

[MARY]
Don't forget me when you're casting

[JOANNA]
We should talk
[MYRON]
We should talk

[JOE]
Gotta run

[MARY]
Gotta run

[BOTH]
Let's do lunch

[JOE, spoken]
Yeah, I have an appointment with Mr. Sheldrake

[JONES, spoken]
Name?

[JOE, spoken]
Gillis. Joseph Gillis

[JONES, spoken]
Okay, sir. You know your way?

[JOE, spoken]
Yeah

[FINANCEMAN #1]
We want the keys to your car

[FINANCEMAN #2]
You're way behind with the payments

[FINANCEMAN #1]
Don't give us any fancy footwork

[FINANCEMAN #2]
Give us the keys

[JOE]
I only wish I could help
I loaned it to my accountant
He has an important client down in Palm Springs
Felt like shooting the breeze

[FINANCEMAN #1]
Are you telling us you walked here?

[JOE]
I believe in self-denial
I'm in training for the priesthood

[FINANCEMAN #2]
Okay, wise guy, three hundred bucks

[FINANCEMAN #1, spoken]
Or we're taking the car

[FINANCEMAN #2, spoken]
We have a court order

[JOE, spoken]
I love it when you talk dirty

(sung)
Hey there, Sammy
How are you doin'?

[SAMMY]
Truth is, I'm brokenhearted
Fed up with playing gigolos

[JOE]
That's how the stars got started

[GIRLS]
This is the biggest film ever made

[JOE]
What are you playing?

[ANITA]
Another victim

[DAWN]
"Tart with a heart of tinsel"

[JOE]
Let's do lunch
Gotta run

You've got to find me a job
I'm way behind with my payments
I thought you were meant to be my agent
I need some work

[MORINO]
I only wish I could help
This town is dead at the moment
There's been this slowdown in production

[JOE]
Who is this jerk?

[MORINO]
He's my wunderkind from Broadway
Every major studio wants him

[YOUNGER MAN]
Playing one against the other

[JOE]
What I need is three hundred bucks

[MORINO, spoken]
Maybe what you need is a new agent

[JOE]
Hello, Artie

[ARTIE]
Joe, you bastard!
You never call me any more
Found a cuter dancing partner
How are things?

[JOE]
Not so great

[ARTIE]
Will this help?
Twenty bucks?

[JOE, spoken]
Thanks, you're a pal

[SHELDRAKE]
This is Sheldrake
Bring some water
Get me that shithead Nolan

Nolan, sweetheart
Great to talk
This draft is so much brighter
You're the best
Even so
I've hired another writer

[SHELDRAKE]
Joe! What the fuck brings you here?

[JOE, spoken]
You wanted to see me

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
I did? What about?

[JOE, spoken]
"Bases Loaded", it's an outline for a baseball store

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
So, pitch!

[JOE, spoken]
It's about a rookie shortstop running .347. The kid was once mixed up in a holdup. Now he's trying to escape

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think I have read this
Somebody, bring in what we've got on a...

[JOE, spoken]
"Bases Loaded"

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
—Bases Loaded!

[JOE, spoken]
They're pretty hot for it over at Twentieth

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Good!

[ENSEMBLE]
Let's do lunch

[BETTY, spoken]
Here's that "Bases Loaded" materical, Mr. Sheldrake
I made a two-page synopsis for you, but I wouldn't bother to read it

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Why not?

[BETTY, spoken]
It's just a rehash of something that wasn't very good to begin with

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Meet Mr. Gillis. He wrote it!

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
This is Miss Kramer!

[BETTY]
Schaefer. Betty Schaefer. And right now, I'd like to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me

[JOE, spoken]
If I could be of any help...

[BETTY, spoken]
I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, I couldn't see the point of it

[JOE, spoken]
What sort of material do you suggest? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?

[BETTY, spoken]
I think pictures should at least try to say a little something

[JOE, spoken]
I see you're one of the message kids. I expect you'd have turned down "Gone With the Wind"

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
No, that was me!

[ENSEMBLE]
Gotta run

[BETTY, spoken]
And I guess I was disappointed. I've read some of your other work and I thought you had some real talent

[JOE, spoken]
But that was last year. This year I felt like eating

[BETTY, spoken]
Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Thank you, Miss Kramer! Looks like Fox have got themselves a baseball picture!

[ENSEMBLE]
We should talk
Gotta run
Let's do lunch

[JOE]
You've got to give me some work
I'll take whatever's on offer
There must be some shit that needs a rewrite
Throw it my way

[SHELDRAKE]
I only wish I could help
There's no spare shit at the moment
Remember the greatest writers starved in Garrets
Didn't care about pay

[JOE]
Are you trying to be funny?

[SHELDRAKE]
I believe in self-denial
Gives a man some moral backbone

[JOE]
Can you loan me three hundred bucks?

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
I'm sorry, Gillis. Good-bye

[JOE, spoken]
I just love Hollywood!

[MYRON, CLIFF, SAMMY, KATHERINE]
Morning, Joanna
Where've you been hiding?
Hi there, Lisa
How're you doing?
I hate this weather
You look great

[LIZ, MARY, JOANNA, GIRLS]
RKO are okay!
What're you doing?
You look great
This is the biggest film ever made!

[CLIFF, MARY, DAWN, JOANNA]
I'm trying to make my mind up
Guess I was born to play her
What is my motivation?
You look great

[SAMMY, LIZ, MYRON, MORINO]
They're talking nominations
You should go work for Warners'
Is your new script with Sheldrake?
I'm very close to Sheldrake

[ARTIE]
We shoot next month

[SAMMY, SANDY, ARTIE, MORINO, MYRON]
Gotta run!

[JOHN, KATHERINE, JOANNA, ANITA, JOANNA]
Let's drive to Vegas this weekend
Let's do lunch
You look great
I'm handing in my second draft

[MARY, KATHERINE, ADAM, CLIFF, MARY]
It's between me and Dietrich
I've landed a big Broadway show
I'm gonna work for Metro
Let's do lunch

[GIRLS, MYRON, CLIFF, JOHN]
Let's do lunch, this is the biggest film ever made!
I'd really love to read it
I'd know just how to light you
Let's do lunch

[JOHN & LISA]
It won't work

[MORINO]
Let's pencil Thursday morning

[ENSEMBLE #1]
We should talk

[ENSEMBLE #2]
Gotta run

[ALL]
Let's do lunch!
Hi, good morning. Aren't we lucky?
Going to work with Cukor
Paramount is paradise!
Movies from A to Zukor
We should talk
Gotta run

[ENSEMBLE #1]
Let's do lunch

[ENSEMBLE #2]
We should talk

[ENSEMBLE #1]
Gotta run

[ENSEMBLE #2]
Gotta run

[ALL]
Let's do lunch!

[JOE]
Come to get your knife back

(spoken)
It's still there. Right between my shoulder blades