Every Movie's A Circus

BETTY：I read one of your stories

Wasn't it Scribner's

Some magazine

Title

Something with windows

JOE：It was Blind Windows

If that's what you mean

BETTY：That's right

I really liked it

JOE：I'm all warm and runny inside

BETTY：Let me pitch it to Sheldrake

JOE：I may be broke

But I still have my pride

BETTY：Come on

Get off your high horse

Writers with pride don't live in L A

Silence

Exile and cunning

Those are the only cards you can play

JOE：Sheldrake won't buy this story

He likes trash with fairy lights

Jesus think of the effort

Trying to get him to heighten his sights

BETTY：Every movie's a circus

Can't we discuss this

Schwab's Thursday night

JOE：What for

Nothing will happen

I gotta go now

Fight the good fight

BETTY：What's the rush

JOE：See those gorillas

JOE：Do me a terrific favor

Keep them amused while I escape

BETTY：If you're at Schwab's on Thursday

If I lose that in this town it's like having my legs cut off

BETTY：Let's duck into the soundstage

FIRST FINANCEMAN：So what

BETTY：He's working on Samson and Delilah

They're doing a red hot scene with Hedy Lamarr

You want to stay and watch

FIRST FINANCEMAN：No