:08:01
Last year, somebody talked me
into buying a ranch,
:08:04
so I borrowed the money.
:08:06
This year, I had to mortgage the
ranch to keep up my life insurance...
:08:15
After that,
I drove down to headquarters.
:08:18
That's how a lot of us
think about Schwab's drugstore.
:08:21
Kind of a combination office,
Kaffeeklatsch and waiting room.
:08:25
Waiting... Waiting for the gravy train.
:08:30
I got myself ten nickels and started
sending out a general SOS.
:08:35
I couldn't get hold of my agent,
naturally.
:08:38
So I called a pal of mine,
Artie Green.
:08:41
An awful nice guy,
an assistant director.
:08:44
He could let me have twenty,
but twenty wouldn't do.
:08:49
Then I talked to a couple of yes-men
at Metro. To me, they said no.
:08:54
Finally, I located that agent of mine.
The big faker!
:08:59
Was he out digging up
a job for poor Joe Gillis?
:09:02
He was hard at work in Bel Air,
making with the golf sticks.
:09:09
You need $300? Of course I could
give you $300, only I'm not going to.
:09:15
- No?
- I'm not just your agent.
:09:18
- It's not the 10%. I'm your friend.
- You are?
:09:22
The finest things have been
written on an empty stomach.
:09:25
Once your talent gets into that
Mocambo-Romanoff rut, you're through.
:09:29
Forget that! It's a car I'm talking
about. Losing it is like losing my legs.
:09:33
Greatest thing that could happen.
Now you'll have to sit down and write.
:09:38
What do you think I've been doing?
I need $300.
:09:42
Sweetheart, maybe what
you need is another agent.
:09:57
As I drove back towards town,
I took inventory of my prospects.