Let's Have Lunch

JOE: Hi there, Myron

MYRON: How's it hanging?

JOE: I've got a date with Sheldrake

MYRON: I'm shooting a Western down at Fox

JOE: How can you work with Darryl?

MYRON: We should talk

JOE: Gotta run

BOTH: Let's have lunch

MARY: Hi, Mr. Gillis

JOE: You look great!

MARY: I'm up for an audition

JOE: Sheldrake is driving me insane

MARY: Don't forget me when you're casting

JOE: We should talk

MARY: Gotta run

BOTH: Let's have lunch

JOE: Morning, Joanna

MARY: Hi, there Myron

JOANNA: Who are you meeting?

MYRON: You look great

JOE: Sheldrake, but do I need it

MARY: I've spent the last month fasting

JOANNA: I'm handing in my second draft

MYRON: I'm shooting a Western down at Fox

JOE: I'd really love to read it

MARY: Don't forget me when you're casting

JOANNA: We should talk

MYRON: We should talk

JOE/MARY: Gotta run

ALL FOUR: Let's have lunch

JOE: Yeah, I had an appointment with Mr. Sheldrake

JONES: Name?

JOE: Gillis. Joseph Gillis

JONES: All right, sir, you know your way?

JOE: Yeah

FIRST FINANCEMAN: We want the keys to your car

SECOND FINANCEMAN: You're way behind with the payments

FIRST FINANCEMAN: Don't give us any fancy footwork

SECOND FINANCEMAN: Give us the keys

JOE: I only wish I could help

I loaned it to my accountant

He has an important client down in Palm Springs

Felt like shooting the breeze

FIRST FINANCEMAN: Are you telling us you walked here?

JOE: I believe in self-denial

I'm in training for the priesthood

SECOND FINANCEMAN: O.K., wise guy, three hundred bucks

FIRST FINANCEMAN: Or we're taking the car

SECOND FINANCEMAN: We have a court order

JOE: I love it when you talk dirty

SAMMY: Bless you, Joseph

JOE: That you, Sammy?

SAMMY: How do you like my harem?

JOE: How come you get such lousy breaks?

SAMMY: One learns to grin and bear 'em

GIRLS: This is the biggest film ever made

JOE: What're you playing?

ANITA: Temple virgin

DAWN: Handmaiden to Delilah

JOE: Let's have lunch. Gotta run

You've got to find me a job

I'm way behind with my payments

I thought you were meant to be my agent

I need some work

MORINO: I only wish I could help

This town is dead at the moment

There's been this slowdown in production

JOE: Who is this jerk?

MORINO: He's my wunderkind from Broadway

Every major studio wants him

YOUNGER MAN: Playing one against the other

JOE: What I need is three hundred bucks

MORINO: Maybe what you need is a new agent

JOE: Hello, Artie

ARTIE: Joe, you bastard!

JOE: You never call me any more

ARTIE: Found a cuter dancing partner

How are things?

JOE: Not so great

ARTIE: Will this help? Twenty bucks?

JOE: Thanks, you're a pal

ALL: Good morning, Mr. DeMille

SHELDRAKE: This is Sheldrake

Bring some water. Get me that ****head Nolan

Nolan, sweetheart. Great to talk

This draft is so much brighter

You're the best

Even so

I've hired another writer

SECRETARY: Mr. Gillis

SHELDRAKE: Joe! What the **** brings you here?

JOE: You wanted to see me

SHELDRAKE: I did? What about?

JOE: "Bases Loaded." It's an outline for a baseball picture

SHELDRAKE: So, pitch

JOE: It's about a rookie shortstop. He's batting .347.

The kid was once mixed up in a holdup. Now he's trying to go straight

SHELDRAKE: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think I have read this

Somebody, bring in what we've got on...

JOE: "Bases Loaded."

SHELDRAKE: ..."Bases Loaded."

JOE: They're pretty hot for it over at Twentieth

SHELDRAKE: Good!

JOE: But can you see Ty Power as a shortstop?

ENSEMBLE: Let's have lunch

BETTY: Here's that "Bases Loaded" material, Mr. Sheldrake

I made a two-page synopsis for you, but I wouldn't bother to read it

SHELDRAKE: Why not?

BETTY: It's just a rehash of something that wasn't very good to begin with

SHELDRAKE: Meet Mr. Gillis. He wrote it

ENSEMBLE: We should talk

SHELDRAKE: This is Miss Kramer

BETTY: Schaefer. Betty Schaefer.

And right now, I'd like to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me

JOE: If I could be of any help...

BETTY: I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, I couldn't see the point of it

JOE: What sort of material do you suggest? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?

BETTY: I think pictures should at least try to say a little something

JOE: I see you're one of the message kids

I expect you'd have turned down "Gone With the Wind"

SHELDRAKE: No, that was me

ENSEMBLE: Gotta run

BETTY: And I guess I was disappointed

I've read some of your other work and I thought you had some real talent

JOE: Yeah, that was last year. This year I felt like eating

BETTY: Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis

SHELDRAKE: Thank you, Miss Kramer

Well, looks like Zanuck's got himself a baseball picture

ENSEMBLE: We should talk. Gotta run. Let's have lunch

JOE: You've got to give me some work

I'll take whatever's on offer

There must be some **** that needs a rewrite

Throw it my way

SHELDRAKE: I only wish I could help

There's no spare shit at the moment

Remember the greatest writers starved in garretts

Didn't care about pay

JOE: Are you trying to be funny?

SHELDRAKE: I believe in self-denial

Gives a man some moral backbone

JOE: Can you loan me three hundred bucks?

SHELDRAKE: I'm sorry, Gillis. Good-bye

JOE: I just love Hollywood

......

GROUP 1: We should talk

GROUP 2: Gotta run

ALL: Let's have lunch!

Hi, good morning

Aren't we lucky?

Going to work with Cukor

Paramount is paradise

Movies from A to Zukor

We should talk, gotta run

GROUP 1: Let's have lunch

GROUP 2: We should talk

GROUP 1: Gotta run

GROUP 2: Gotta run

ALL: Let's have lunch!

JOE: Come to get your knife back?

It's still right there, right between my shoulder blades