:27:00
"Her haunting courage
to admit the failure, pain and flaws...
:27:04
"in the people for whom she writes and
her contradictory mystical optimism...
:27:07
"is both bittersweet
and affirming.
:27:10
"The Luminaries are the great
vocal discovery of the year,
:27:12
but the voice behind their
power is Denise Waverly."
:27:15
- You just made that up.
- You think I could dream up
a review like that?
:27:19
"Mystical 'opticism"'?
:27:21
"Optimism." I will take a little
of the credit.
:27:24
The reviewer, John Murray,
from Songwriter magazine,
he's a friend of mine.
:27:27
- I've been telling him about you.
- What'd you say?
:27:29
How I'm Miss Mass Audience, exploiting
the pain of the working class Negro?
:27:33
I told him the truth...
that you're the best songwriter
in this joke of a business.
:27:38
- Wow. Thank you, Caszatt.
- You're welcome, Miss Waverly.
:27:40
What are you doing
around here anyway?
:27:43
What, are you spying on us evil,
imperialist pop songwriters?
:27:46
I have an office
down the hall too.
:27:49
- What, are you
the janitor or something?
- Oh, ho-ho! That's funny.
:27:53
- Listen, I wanted
to propose something.
- Mm-hmm?
:27:57
- Would you consider
writing a song with me?
- [Laughs]
:28:00
No, hear me out.
Hear me out.
:28:04
We set a love song
in an underclass ghetto.
:28:07
Yes?
:28:09
Two machinists fall in love
on the graveyard shift
at a plumbing parts factory.
:28:13
Ooh, boy, you are
some romantic.
:28:17
I think we'd make
a good team.
:28:20
- Oh, is that so?
- Yeah.
:28:23
I appreciate what
you're saying, I do,
:28:26
but I wouldn't know the first thing
about how to save even myself...
:28:29
with a song,
much less the world.
:28:32
Besides, I don't intend
to write songs for much longer,
:28:35
because I'm a singer
and I'm going to record my own stuff.
:28:38
But I appreciate
the offer.
:28:41
- Well... please keep me
in mind, Miss Waverly.
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:28:44
Oh, I will, Mr. Caszatt.
I'll keep you in mind.
:28:51
Know-it-all.
"Optimism."
:28:57
Well, don't you look nice.
[Chuckles] Oh, this old thing?