1:13:01
a writer,
a storyteller of your stature.
1:13:03
Give it to me
in bold strokes, Bart.
1:13:05
Give me the broad outlines.
1:13:07
I'm in the audience,
the lights go down,
1:13:10
Capitol logo comes up.
1:13:11
You're on, huh?
1:13:16
Yeah.
1:13:18
Uh... okay.
1:13:19
Huh?
1:13:22
Well, uh...
1:13:25
we... we fade in...
1:13:26
Uh-huh.
1:13:29
It's... It's a tenement building
on the Lower East Side.
1:13:32
Great!
He's poor, this wrestler.
1:13:34
He's had to struggle, huh?
1:13:38
And then...
1:13:39
Uh-huh?
1:13:40
Well, uh...
1:13:44
Can I be honest, Mr. Lipnick?
1:13:46
Can you?
Jesus, you damn well better be!
1:13:49
If I wasn't honest
in my business dealings...
1:13:51
Well, you can't always be honest,
1:13:53
not with the sharks
swimming around this town.
1:13:56
If I'd been totally honest,
1:13:57
I wouldn't be near this pool
1:13:59
unless I was cleaning it.
1:14:01
But that's no reason
for you not to be.
1:14:03
Honest, I mean.
Not cleaning the pool.
1:14:09
Oh.
1:14:11
Uh-huh.
1:14:19
To be honest, uh...
1:14:21
I'm never really comfortable
1:14:22
discussing work in progress.
1:14:24
I got it all worked out in my head,
1:14:27
but sometimes,
if you force it into words...
1:14:30
prematurely...
1:14:32
uh, the wrong words...
1:14:34
Well, your meaning changes,
1:14:35
and it changes in your own mind,
and you never get it back,
1:14:39
so I'd... I'd just as soon
not talk about it.
1:14:48
Mr. Fink... never mind me.
1:14:50
Never mind how long
I've been in pictures.
1:14:52
Mr. Lipnick's been in pictures
1:14:54
about since they was invented.
1:14:56
He practically invented them.
1:14:57
I think if he's interested
1:14:59
in what one of
his contract employees is doing,