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]
Gotta run [MARY]
Gotta run
[ALL FOUR]
Let's have lunch

[JOE, spoken]
Yeah, I had an appointment with Mr. Sheldrake

[JONES, spoken]
Name?

[JOE, spoken]
Gillis. Joseph Gillis

[JONES, spoken]
All right, sir, you know your way?

[JOE, spoken]
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, spoken]
Good morning, Mr. DeMille

[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, spoken]
Mr. Gillis

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Joe! What the fuck brings you here?

[JOE, spoken]
You wanted to see me

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
I did? What about?

[JOE, spoken]
"Bases Loaded." It's an outline for a baseball picture

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
So, pitch

[JOE, spoken]
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, spoken]
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think I have read this
Somebody, bring in what we've got on...

[JOE, spoken]
"Bases Loaded."

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
..."Bases Loaded."

[JOE, spoken]
They're pretty hot for it over at Twentieth

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Good!

[JOE, spoken]
But can you see Ty Power as a shortstop?

[ENSEMBLE]
Let's have lunch

[BETTY, spoken]
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, spoken]
Why not?

[BETTY, spoken]
It's just a rehash of something that wasn't very good to begin with

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Meet Mr. Gillis. He wrote it

[ENSEMBLE]
We should talk

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
This is Miss Kramer

[BETTY, spoken]
Schaefer. Betty Schaefer. And right now, I'd like to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me

[JOE, spoken]
If I could be of any help...

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

[JOE, spoken]
What sort of material do you suggest? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?

[BETTY, spoken]
I think pictures should at least try to say a little something

[JOE, spoken]
I see you're one of the message kids
I expect you'd have turned down "Gone With the Wind"

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
No, that was me

[ENSEMBLE]
Gotta run

[BETTY, spoken]
And I guess I was disappointed
I've read some of your other work and I thought you had some real talent

[JOE, spoken]
Yeah, that was last year. This year I felt like eating

[BETTY, spoken]
Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
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 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

[MORINO]
Let's pencil Thursday morning

[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 ok!
[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

[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, spoken, to BETTY]
Come to get your knife back? It's still right there, right between my shoulder blades