: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...
:04:11
"Bare Ruined Choirs:
:04:13
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.
:05:00
His gut tells him
what's good and what's...
:05:03
merely adequate.
:05:06
I don't pretend to be a critic,
:05:09
but Lord knows I have a gut,
:05:12
and my gut tells me it's simply...
:05:16
marvelous.
:05:18
And a charming gut it is.
:05:20
Oh, you dog.
:05:22
Aroo!
:05:24
Oh, stop.
:05:26
[ Bell Jingles ]
:05:31
I thought you were going to join us.
:05:34
Jesus, Garland,
you left me alone with those people?
:05:37
Don't panic.
:05:38
I'll join you in a minute.
:05:40
We have to talk a little business.
:05:43
I've just been on the phone
to Los Angeles.
:05:46
Barton, Capitol Pictures wants to
put you under contract.
:05:49
They've offered you $1,000 a week.
:05:52
I think I can get them
to go as high as 2.
:05:55
To do what?
:05:56
What do you do for a living?
:05:58
I'm not sure anymore.