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- Mr Benson...
- Yes?
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This screenplay,
when does it have to be finished?
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Well, let's see, today is Friday.
:11:15
My friend and, in this case, patron
and producer Mr Alexander Meyerheim
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arrives in Paris from Cannes
at ten o'clock on...
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...Sunday morning.
Which happens to be Bastille Day.
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Perfect! 10:01 we hand him
the completed script,
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and then you and I celebrate. Drink
champagne, dance in the streets,
:11:36
whatever they do on July 14th.
:11:38
You're very kind but I have a date.
You haven't written anything at all?
:11:44
You have a date?
:11:46
You mean this entire movie
has to be done in two days?
:11:51
Miss Simpson, if you aren't up to
your part of the job, tell me now.
:11:56
- I can find someone else.
- No, I didn't mean that.
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It's just that it's,
well, rather unusual, isn't it?
:12:03
Not for me.
:12:05
I imagine you've given it
a great deal of thought.
:12:07
No, I haven't.
:12:10
So what have you been doing?
:12:14
What any red-blooded
American screenwriter
:12:17
would or should have been doing
:12:20
for the first 19 and a fraction weeks
of his employment.
:12:24
Water-skiing in St Tropez,
:12:26
lying in the sun in Antibes,
studying Greek.
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Greek?
:12:30
There was this starlet
representing the Greek film industry
:12:34
at the Cannes Festival.
:12:36
Then, of course,
a few weeks unlearning Greek,
:12:39
which involved
a considerable amount of vodka
:12:41
and an unpremeditated trip to Madrid
for the bullfights,
:12:43
which fortunately, since
I can't bear the sight of blood,
:12:46
had long since gone on to Seville.
:12:49
Weeks 17 and 18 were spent
in the casino at Monte Carlo,
:12:53
in a somewhat ill-advised attempt
to win enough money
:12:56
to buy back my $5,000-a-week,
plus expenses, contract
:12:59
from my friend, employer and patron,
Mr Alexander Meyerheim,