:03:04
- Author!
- Author!
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- Author!
- Author!
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- Author!
- Author!
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- Author!
- Author!
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- Bravo!
- Bravo!
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[ Dog Yaps ]
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Your table is ready, Monsieur Fink.
:03:33
In fact, several members of your party
have already arrived.
:03:36
Is Garland Stanford here?
:03:38
He called to say
he'd be a few minutes late.
:03:41
Ah, here we are.
:03:43
Barton!
Barton, so glad you could make it.
:03:46
You know Richard St.Claire
:03:48
and Poppy Carnahan.
:03:49
Charmed, charmed, charmed.
:03:52
We're drinking champagne
in honor of the occasion.
:03:54
Have you seen the Herald?
:03:56
Not yet.
:03:58
I won't embarrass you,
:03:59
but Caven could
hardly contain himself.
:04:01
More important,
:04:02
Richard and Poppy here loved the play.
:04:05
Weeping.
:04:06
Copious tears.
:04:07
What did the Herald say?
:04:09
I happen to have it.
:04:10
Please, Derek...
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"Bare Ruined Choirs:
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Triumph of the Common Man.
:04:15
The star of Bare Ruined Choirs
:04:18
was nowhere seen
on the stage last night,
:04:20
though the thespians
acquitted themselves admirably.
:04:22
The find of the evening
:04:24
was the author of this drama
about simple folk,
:04:27
fishmongers, in fact,
:04:29
whose brute struggle for existence
:04:31
cannot quite quell their longing
for something higher.
:04:33
The playwright finds nobility
:04:35
in the most squalid corners
:04:37
and poetry in the most callous speech.
:04:39
A tough new voice
in the American theater has arrived,
:04:42
and the owner of that voice is named...
:04:45
Barton Fink."
:04:47
They'll be wrapping fish in it
in the morning.
:04:51
Cynic.
:04:53
I can't start listening to the critics,
:04:55
and I can't kid myself
about my own work.
:04:58
A writer writes from his gut.