:59:00
Abdullah.
:59:03
Stick'em up, Gillis.
:59:05
Stick'em up,
or I'll let you have it.
:59:09
Hi, Artie.
Evening, Miss Schaefer.
:59:11
- I'm so glad to see you.
- Walking out on the mob.
:59:14
- What's the big idea?
- I'm sorry about New Year's.
:59:16
Would you believe me if I told you
I stayed with a sick friend?
:59:19
Someone in the formal set, no doubt,
with a ten-carat kidney stone.
:59:22
Oh, stop it, Artie, will you?
:59:25
Where have you been keeping yourself?
I've got wonderful news for you.
:59:28
I haven't been keeping myself
at all. Not lately.
:59:31
I called your agent,
I called the Screenwriters Guild.
:59:34
Finally your old apartment
gave me some Crestview number.
:59:36
Somebody with an accent
growling at me.
:59:39
You weren't there. You weren't to be
spoken to. They never heard of you.
:59:43
Is that so?
:59:44
- What's the wonderful news?
- Sheldrake likes the teacher angle.
:59:48
- What teacher?
- Dark Windows.
:59:49
I got him all hopped up about it.
He thinks it could be made into something.
:59:52
Okay, where's the cash?
:59:54
Where's the story?
:59:56
I bluffed it out
with a few notions of my own.
:59:58
- It needs work.
- I was afraid of that.
1:00:01
I've got 20 pages of notes and
a pretty good character for the man.
1:00:04
Write in plenty
of background action...
1:00:06
so they'll need
an extra assistant director.
1:00:07
Oh, Artie, shut up.
1:00:09
- If we could sit down for 2 weeks--
- I'm sorry, Miss Schaefer.
1:00:12
- I've given up writing on spec.
- But this is half sold.
1:00:16
As a matter of fact,
I've given up writing altogether.
1:00:18
Mr. Gillis.
1:00:20
- If you please.
- I'll be right there.
1:00:24
The accent. I get it. This guy's
in the pay of a foreign government.
1:00:28
Check those studs.
Get those cuff links.
1:00:30
I've got to run along. Thanks anyway
for your interest in my career.
1:00:33
It's not your career, it's mine.
I'd hoped to get in on this deal.
1:00:37
I don't want to be a reader
all my life. I want to write.
1:00:40
- I'm sorry if I crossed you up.
- You sure have.
1:00:44
So long.
1:00:56
What on earth, darling?
It took you hours.
1:00:59
I ran into some people I know.