:10:03
I understand, Mr. Michaud.
:10:08
Had he been behaving
any differently lately?
:10:12
- Differently?
:10:14
Tom was always a jet-setter.
:10:16
But the last little while
he had completely withdrawn.
:10:21
Since his last novel, a year ago,
:10:23
I found him totally moody.
:10:29
Somber.
:10:32
Do you understand?
:10:36
He invited me over
5 or 6 months ago.
:10:39
He told me:
:10:41
- I'm stopping writing.
:10:43
If you're trying to get me
to lower my cut, forget it.
:10:47
- It's no joke.
:10:52
I'm retiring.
:10:53
- Get real!
:10:55
You're a writer, not a bus driver.
:10:57
Read the world over.
:10:59
Exactly, I'm rich now.
:11:02
- Cut the crap.
You never wrote for the money.
:11:07
So what is it?
:11:11
Out of ideas?
:11:14
- Ideas? They come non-stop.
:11:24
- Then what's the problem?
:11:32
- It's too painful.
:11:35
- Painful?
:11:36
- Some answer, huh?
:11:38
I asked what he meant,
but he wouldn't say.
:11:42
We fought, he threw me out.
:11:44
Me, his closest friend.
:11:47
I haven't seen him since.
:11:50
I called him,
we'd talk for a few seconds.
:11:54
But that isn't all.
:11:56
For 5 months now,
not a single TV talk show,