:35:04
I see Bartha gave you
cold tongue for supper.
:35:08
- I got a date with a dame.
- Hey!
:35:10
Look, Otis, if you're trying to blow this
into an item for your column, forget it.
:35:14
By the way, what's this I hear about
JJ giving you the flit-gun treatment?
:35:18
He shut you out of his column.
:35:21
Why?
:35:24
You don't know that lunatic yet?
Whims, whims. Egotistic whims.
:35:28
He's like the gag-you got him for
a friend, you don't need an enemy.
:35:33
That's what my beef with Leo Bartha was
about. "Leo," I says, "JJ froze me out."
:35:37
"So I'm eating humble pie this month.
Please, please print me an item."
:35:41
Instead he printed his heel
on your face, huh?
:35:44
- You're full of human feelings.
- Turn the record over.
:35:47
Like most of the human race, I'm bored.
:35:50
I'd go a mile for a... chuckle.
:35:59
Or two miles for a pretty girl.
:36:02
Three.
:36:05
Then you're really washed up
with Hunsecker, huh?
:36:11
This is how much
I'm washed up with Hunsecker.
:36:20
Look, Otis. I make no brief
about my bilious private life,
:36:24
but he's got the morals of a guinea pig
and the scruples of a gangster.
:36:28
A fine, fat, dirty item.
:36:31
Who's it about?
:36:33
Um, a kid named Dallas.
He runs a dinky jazz quintet.
:36:38
But he happens to be keeping
company with JJ's screwball sister.
:36:44
It's a real goody, if, like me,
you wanna clobber JJ.
:36:48
He's got his TV tomorrow.
He'd read it before rehearsals.
:36:51
I want to clobber JJ.
:36:53
But I can't think of a good reason why
I should print anything you give me.
:36:58
I can't even think of a bad reason.