:23:01
- JJ...
- Say goodbye, Lester.
:23:08
May I ask you a naive question, Mr Falco?
:23:11
Exactly how does a press agent work?
:23:15
Uh...
:23:17
Answer the man, Sidney.
He's trying to take you off the hook.
:23:20
You just saw a good
example of it, Senator.
:23:23
A press agent eats a columnist's dirt
and is expected to call it manna.
:23:26
Don't you help columnists
by furnishing them with items?
:23:30
Sure. The columnists can't do without us,
:23:33
except our friend JJ
forgets to mention that.
:23:35
You see, we furnish him with items.
:23:38
- Want some cheap, gruesome gags?
- You print 'em.
:23:40
Yes, with your clients' names attached.
:23:43
That's the only reason the poor slobs pay
you, to see their names in my column.
:23:47
Now I make it out
you're doing me a favour?
:23:49
The day I can't get along
without a press agent's handouts,
:23:52
I'll close up shop and move
to Alaska, lock, stock and barrel.
:23:55
Sweep out my igloo, here I come.
:23:57
You rode in on the Senator's
shirt-tails, so shut your mouth.
:24:00
Now, come, JJ. That's a little too harsh.
:24:03
Anyone seems fair game for you tonight.
:24:07
This man is not for you, Harvey. And you
shouldn't be seen in public with him.
:24:11
Because that's another part
of a press agent's life.
:24:14
They dig up scandal about prominent
people and spread it among columnists.
:24:19
There seems to be some allusion
here that escapes me.
:24:23
We're friends, Harvey. We go back to
when you were a fresh-kid congressman.
:24:28
Why is it that everything
you say sounds like a threat?
:24:31
Maybe it's a mannerism.
I don't threaten friends.
:24:34
But why furnish your
enemies with ammunition?
:24:37
You're a family man, Harvey. Some day,
God willing, you may wanna be president.
:24:41
And here you are, out in the open,
where any hep person knows
:24:45
that this one...
is toting that one around for you.
:24:53
Are we kids or what?
:24:56
Next time you come up,
you might join me on my TV show.
:24:59
Thanks, JJ, for what
I consider sound advice.