:24:00
What kind of scribbler are you?
:24:03
Newspaperman did you say?
:24:05
No. Actually, I'm writing
for the pictures now.
:24:08
Pictures?
:24:09
Jesus!
:24:13
Aw, I'm sorry, brother.
:24:15
I was just sitting here thinking
:24:17
I was talking to some ambitious
youngster eager to make good.
:24:20
Hell, you've got it made.
:24:22
Beating out that competition?
:24:25
And me being patronizing?
:24:29
Is the egg showing or what?
:24:31
Actually, I'm just starting out
in the movies,
:24:34
though I was well established
in New York,
:24:37
some renown there.
:24:39
Oh, it's an exciting time, then.
:24:41
I'm not the best-read mug on the planet,
:24:44
so it's not surprising
I didn't recognize your name.
:24:47
Jesus, I feel like a heel.
:24:50
That's okay, Charlie.
I'm a playwright.
:24:53
My shows have only played New York.
:24:55
The last one got
a hell of a write-up.
:24:58
Must be why they wanted me.
:25:00
Why not?
Everyone wants quality.
:25:02
What kind of venue...
that is to say,
:25:06
thematically,
:25:08
um...
:25:10
What do I write about?
:25:13
Caught me trying to be fancy.
:25:15
Yeah, that's it, Bart.
:25:17
Well, that's a good question.
:25:19
Strange as it may seem, Charlie,
:25:21
I write about people like you--
:25:24
the working stiff,
the common man.
:25:26
Well, ain't that
a kick in the head.
:25:29
I guess it is, but in a way,
:25:31
that's exactly the point.
:25:33
There's a few people in New York--
:25:36
hopefully our numbers are growing--
:25:37
who feel we have an opportunity
:25:40
to forge something real
out of everyday experience,
:25:43
create a theater for the masses
:25:46
based on a few simple truths,
:25:48
not on some shopworn abstractions
about drama
:25:51
that don't hold true today.
:25:53
I don't guess this means much to you.
:25:56
Hell, I could tell you stories.
:25:58
And that's the point--
we all have stories.