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 mary

Morning, joanna hi there, myron

Joanna myron

Who are you meeting? you look great

Joe mary

Sheldrake, but do i need it? i've spent the last month fasting

Joanna myron

I'm handing in my second draft i'm shooting a western down at fox

Joe mary

I'd really love to read it don't forget me when you're casting

Joanna myron

We should talk we should talk

Joe mary

Gotta run gotta run

Both both

Let's have lunch let's have lunch

Joe

Yeah, i have an appointment with mr. sheldrake.

Jones

Name?

Joe

Gillis. joseph gillis.

Jones

All right, sir, you know your way?

Joe

Yeah.

1st financeman

We want the keys to your car

2nd financeman

You're way behind with the payments

1st financeman

Don't give us any fancy footwork...

2nd 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

1st financeman

Are you telling us you walked here?

Joe

I believe in self-denial

I'm in training for the priesthood

2nd financeman

O.k., wise guy, three hundred bucks.

1st financeman

Or we're taking the car.

2nd 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 wunderkid 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.

Myron

Good morning, c.b.

Sheldrake

This is sheldrake

Bring some water

Get me that shithead 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 fuck 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" materical, 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 shit 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 garrets

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.

Myron

Morning, joanna cliff

Where've you been hiding? sammy

Hi there, lisa myron

How're you doing? katherine

I hate this weather cliff

You look great liz

Rko are o.k.!

Mary

What're you doing? joanna

You look great girls

This is the biggest film ever made cliff

I'm trying to make my mind up mary

Guess i was born to play her dawn

What is my motivation?

Joanna

You look great sammy

They're talking nominations liz

You should go work for warners' myron

Is your new script with sheldrake? morino

I'm very close to sheldrake artie

We shoot next month

Sammy, sandy, artie, morino, myron

Gotta run

John

Let's drive to vegas this weekend

Katherine, joanna

Let's have lunch

Anita

You look great joanna

I'm handing in my second draft mary

It's between me and dietrich katherine

I've landed a big broadway show adam

I'm gonna work for metro cliff

Let's have lunch mary

Let's have lunch

Girls

Let's have lunch, this is the biggest film ever made myron

I'd really love to read it cliff

I'd know just how to light you john

Let's have lunch john/lisa

It won't work morino

Let's pencil thursday morning

Group 1

We should talk

Group 2

Gotta run

Chorus

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!