Album: Sunset Boulevard

Let's Have Lunch

Joe
Hi there, Myrion
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, Myrion
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
Gotta run
Mary
Gotta run
Both
Let's have lunch
Both
Let's have lunch
Joe
Yeh, I have an appoinment with Mr. Sheldrake
Jones
Name?
Joe
Gillis, Joseph Gillis
Jones
All right, sir, you know your way?
Joe
Yeah
Ist Fin.
We want the key to your car
2nd Fin.
You're way behind the payments
1st Fin.
Don't give us any fancy footwork....
2nd Fin.
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 Fin.
Are you telling us you walked here?
Joe
I believe in self-denial, I'm in training for the priesthood
2nd Fin.
Okay wise guy, three hundred bucks
1st Fin.
Or we're taking the car
2nd Fin.
We have a court order
Joe
I love it when you talk dirty
Sammy
Bless you, Joseph
Sammy
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 planning?
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
Young 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 anymore
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. De Mille
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.Gilis
Sheldrake
Joe! What the fuck bring you here!
Joe
You wanted to see me
Sheldrake
I did? What about?
Joe
"Based 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 whatever we've got on....
Joe
"Based Loaded"
Sheldrake
......"Based Loaded"
Joe
They're pretty hot for it over at Twentieth
Sheldrake
Good
Joe
But can you seeTy Power as a shortstop?
Ensemble
Let's have lunch
Betty
Here's that "Based 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'll 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 works
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, give 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 are 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 taling 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 others
Gotta run
John
Let's drive to Vegas this weekend
Joanna
Let's have lunch
Anita
You look great
Joanna
I'm handling 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
Joe
Come to get your knife back?
It's still there, right between my shoulder blades.