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2:58 no sense kicking about death no point arguing with the up my money checking out you sleep get to the dog big not every time dyeing embeds the ticket providing your loan woman happens - again because of a woman who died with a skirt for a blindfold that kind of death really sucks who's this one stone something stone but a bullet in the shoulder we got to make it and private dick no great loss if he don't stone investigations miss Olli speaking we get any busier you could start reading two newspaper yesterday's
3:43 lies with today's date on him happy Monday only Monday your whole life roll over and play dead turned bad side out in just seven days stone investigations miss Julie speaking no he's not may I help you it's a flat rate twenty five dollars a day plus eight cents a mile I'm sorry your wife's cheating on you mister but there's no discount for veterans did I hear the phone some clown hoping for a few snaps of the little lady getting four burns in the back of a family Chevy I think he used a slug to pay for the call we get any busy you can
4:30 start reading to newspapers yesterday's lies with today's date on him happy Monday no such animal three million people in the City of Angels in the last census easily half of them up to something they don't want the other half to know we all get sucked in by the lobby palm trees finger the sky and there's enough sunshine to lay some off on Pittsburgh but that's all on top la from the details not much different than a pretty girl with the flat on day one other day works so hard to
5:17 remind you not to get your hopes up because it's gonna be coming around again real soon breakfast is over some business just walked in and she's wearing a year's salary a woman no flies on you mr. stone will see you now [Music] allora Villiers mr. stone I know how busy you must be mr. stone I appreciate you see does one look at you maybe to play guitars right
6:05 shed the kind of face a man could hang a dream on the body that made me as the model of golf thumbs the floor candle legs from going on forever can I be of some help mrs. Villiers me miss Villiers I don't know where to begin why don't you start by telling me if your husband knows you're running around town pretending to be single what makes you think I'm married when you slip your ring off you forgot how tan you are everywhere else or at least I imagined everywhere else you want to tell me who you really are now that we've established who you're not I'm in trouble mr. stone everybody is it's only the smart ones who know it I'm really the last person in the world you'd expect in this kind of office I'd really
6:51 think you could called um at least I thought so into just watch her dodge the truth like a runaway streetcar this role she plays could win her a prize each gesture is correct well chosen for effect and it would be wiser if I kept my eyes off her thighs mr. stone are you listening to me I will if you will start leveling I beg your pardon tell you the truth from the minute you walked in here every time our eyes meet you look like a deer caught in my headlights let's just say I've been sizing you up all the measurements fit this is a very delicate situation mr. stone reputations are at stake we don't
7:40 share that problem my name is a Laura Kingsley mrs. Laura Kingsley my daughter Mallory is missing with stepdaughter actually my husband's a good deal older than I am how good a deal he's 75 mmm I know how that must sound but were very much in love Mallory's disappeared we've been devastating to my husband he's just not the same when she's not around a part of him has gone off somewhere the secret tender part she was 16 then an early developer it's not a terribly good picture I don't think I could stand a better one you won't need it or this case mrs. Kingsley I've been around the block enough times
8:26 to ready feel a blackjack facial somewhere down the line or someone using my ribs for a shoe rack you get to trust your instincts after a while this song and dance of his is most unconvincing he had that hungry organ if I summon her she'll change his tune after that God they jumped and he loves me ha ha so thanks mrs. Kingsley but no thanks all the same now we say $100 now open above whatever it finally comes to this job is not to be believed and I do not believe a word between a
9:12 double-talk in all that's unsaid I'd bet the farm that there'll be trouble ahead I might be willingly to see because I can trust myself around her even less than I trust her even so I need the dough there'll be a considerable bonus when you find her how considerable will surprise you you're talking when I'm thinking here my money's on you you look like the kind of man who can get the job done I'm going to give me your unlisted number I just dial every possible combination it would be better if you didn't call I'll check with you why did I get the nod mrs. Kingsley you can't lift a manhole cover in this town without finding a private
9:58 investigator yes special reason I saw your name in the phone book stone have a certain ring my secretary show you out Miss Julie miss neele this just Oh mrs. Kingsley good day she get married while she was in there her husband's name slipped her mind it can happen I guess the Red Devils de noms love versus selling tickets Hey today she get married while she was in there her husband's name slipped her
10:44 mind he's 75 there's probably not much else II flip sir [Laughter] her husband's name slipped her mind he's 75 he must have decided to go out with a bang instead of a whimper it's been a long time since I've seen two zeroes next to each other yes nine buddy fiddler director-producer some say genius buddy I just got your first pages I was gonna read them tonight but I couldn't wait and now you wish you had
11:30 sweetheart I am your biggest fan I have read the synopsis of every book you've ever written with a little mustard on some rye every word is a meal but nothing was ever hurt by being improved let me get the pages get the pages I buy a book and I get stuck with the author yeah buy a rose you stuck with a thorn it's undeniable this guy is pliable and Shakespeare and Dickens were washed up before I was born buddy shoot all right all right I'm gonna be honest no matter how much it hurts me I just didn't expect you to go into business for yourself you know what
12:16 I mean those three shots in the dark opening in the hospital stole being wheeled in we never said the rest of the picture would be a flashback not once in all these weeks I mean the main titles then pull right into a flashback that's kicked it's tying flashbacks or a thing in the past besides we're gonna do one at the end when we show star with his girl then the nightclub singer Bobby Bobby right back in the early days are we but the book started with a play wait don't go away yeah yeah put him on hangri Henry can we never mind it's perfect we got to cut out four minutes nothing any good was ever hurt by cutting circumcision to one side of course it's
13:04 all now who does it Henry I can take ten seconds down to the minute waltz nobody will ever know hold on a second babe yeah did your recut that scene where the puppy dies just a little darker how much time and that's a great great call me when you make the other cuts kiss kiss that's beautiful beautiful I know the book started with the flash back if I wanted to shoot just the book I think a picture of the pages and save a fortune on actors just do it like we agreed okay open with luli answering the phone bring in stone then in comes a Laura Kingsley asking him to look for Mallory and in the future you got a promise to do me one favor I insist on after we agree on something don't try to make it better time to tell you the car is picking up early I'm showing two screenings I want to get started in a little since too dark this
13:51 darken is dark I'm coming alone Gaby's publisher wants her back in New York can she go tomorrow I'm showing the new Sturges she's a little harder to rewrite than I am that's all I need is you missing her right now you're not the same when your wife's not around you know that it's like a party has gone off somewhere the secret can depart well tell little holy Fanny back here soon I'm the only one gets to make you unhappy right and I want those pages first thing yesterday I'm gonna open the window I want to see some fingers flying and Stein let me hear a smile louder that's my boy [Music] this job is not to be believed and I cannot believe my luck I'm at the
14:38 literary prime of my life and I'm about to have the time of my life unless I'm easily deceived the body doesn't ever show dirt coat his calm manse he's alright Oh bark no bite I've always longed for a chance to be watching a book of my own on the screen to look up and see stone on the screen would be better than far sit with my wife in a crowd as the credits are shown on the screen in a frame all alone on the screen it says replay by stop for making movies out of books they say that buddy wrote the book I can
15:24 depend on him to give me some lift you can trust the guy who shoots from the hip now here where nothing is how it looks it's hard to disregard a candid stand-up guy which gets the double-talk and let you know exactly what he's thinking about you but I can beat the odds and beat is de man though I'm a stranger and the stranger stopped line this mad adventure - god it's unlike anything I know it's gonna be [Music]
16:18 go straight to the bank and cash that give yourself three weeks pay you only owe me four to grab it while you can kid good-looking woman mrs. what's-her-name's I didn't notice I noticed how much you didn't what's her problem her husband got a little something on the side the man 75 some guys would crawl out of the grave to cheat runaway daughter if this is you where would I find you probably in front of a mirror real prime huh I didn't notice young and right she'll get over it we're all that for about 30 seconds stepmama didn't she didn't all together leave did she that
17:03 kind never does [Music] isn't there any way you could do whatever editing you have to do out here your work takes you away from home my work takes me back can I be perfectly honest can honesty be imperfect I don't think you mind going back to New York at all well I can't deny I prefer working face to face with authors who are the authors of their work am I about to be insulted or has it already happened oh that contract your contract just sticks in my craw Gaby it's a standard clause that the studio wrote this screenplay that after writing the script you're writing it turns out you never even
17:49 wrote it at all well if it's good enough for Faulkner and Fitzgerald then it's bad enough for you darling for $5,000 a week you're willing to be just as much of a hired hand as stole news you know you really should ask for eight cents a mile to five times ten weeks is $50,000 fifty thousand times three pictures is a hundred and fifty thousand dollars is there ever a conversation out here where anyone is at a loss for numbers do you have any idea what all this money is costing you he thinks of writers as overpaid typist but he does you got him wrong Gaby oh you see the glass half full and you see him peeing into it
18:35 oh I can take care of myself I can do it even better when you're doing it for me oh my taxi studio car but he's very disappointed you're not coming to the screening you know he'll get over it he got over not being God I'm sure there'll be someone very nice there for you to watch his picture show with I don't want anyone nice I want you I'll know you know no one will have to say anything to me I will know just as I did last time last time was the last time that's the truth the truth the truth for you sad to
19:22 say is whatever works for the moment it's something that holds up two times in a row I will miss you when you're going to start liking yourself a little more so you can stand for people to like you a little less Oh Cole I'd rather you wrote anything but what you're writing [Music] what you don't know about women what you don't know about women [Music] you are the type of man who looks for understanding lovers who never
20:10 understands the girl who lies beneath the coppers you only have to open up your mouth to show what you don't know you don't know about women a woman needs to be assured that she remains a Yuri - now amend me reassured your passion is and you're me it's not enough to know you lied to polish and routine it and heaven knows I know you're lying the whole routine I've seen it you've gotta mean it what you don't know about women what you don't know about women is what we need to hear you think if you can
20:58 sound sincere then we'll come running to you throw in some truth or atmosphere but we can't see right through you [Music] what I don't know will not hurt me but you don't know how often you do how long ago did good sense desert me I don't know why I still read for you you're a mature and short-sighted you're an incurable player so a lack of discretion to sync with your field
21:46 [Music] ladies love it you can't see [Music] [Applause] and the world [Music] I [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
22:32 say [Music] the rents forty to fifty a month of the Beverly crest deport no one I know has got a clue who Beverly was they named half of everything in LA after my neighbor on one side was a minister at a pet cemetery who also answered fan mail for Gene Autry on the other someone with half a brow advertising income tax returns and high colonics while you wait life at the Beverly Presta could be exceedingly dull a fact that is often too dumb to appreciate and now a wonderful Delta constitute I introduced in my movie three guys named Joe you've
23:20 gotta look out for yourself mr. stone yeah special delivery for mr. stone slip it on to the door you gotta sign for it slip the pencil under two you gotta let the loin about being a host friend how'd you like it if we slip you under the door this needs salt
24:05 who sent you Duncan Hines big six here would like to have a word with you I'm all ears you don't need he talks with his hands that's so huh hope this don't disturb the ladies yeah let's give him a little music [Music] you gotta look out for yourself if you're hoping to be first then you can think me first [Music] you gotta look out nobody
24:58 [Music] and you're your own best friend he's not look out for yourself if you're planning to do sure it does wanna be too [Music] [Applause] [Music]
25:44 [Applause] [Music] let me give you a message mr. stone drop the Kingsley cakes you understand drop it well next time we're gonna have to get rough sorry we can't choose from your dinner take my word for it it needs more salt how about a cup of junk now I gotta pick up something for my girl's birthday she got a radio no yeah give her this yeah look at look at the gap
26:36 [Applause] and hit by a wrecking ball wearing a pink ear it's a part of me that still seemed to be functioning was watching the other part of me that wasn't fall for that part started falling - when the race began to see which part could hit bottom the first somehow is getting the idea that this was God's Way of punishing me for having $100 all at once that's way of punishing me for having $100 all at once is that supposed to be funny half and half it's about right then Donna waiting is expensive Donnie's way here would be even better your dress is half an inch too long and a photograph even longer I'm not in a
27:23 movie we're all in a movie sometimes we just turned the camera on you can tell a writer everytime words words words that's all they know hope I got for lunch Carla who your wife canceller one dozen or two whichever is more beauty fall the man is an artiste took me long enough to teach it see you tomorrow mr. Fidler knock knock the man of my dreams I just got the pages where stone gets beat up you like them like it's for fishes these are too long they're perfect but we'll fix them can't I finish writing the script before we fix it sure you can finish it but first we fix what is it you want new word no no
28:10 there's too many words now give me pictures paint me scenes movies are shadows there they're light they're dark their faces ten feet high close-up of him close-up of her cut to close-up of husband watching close-up of her watching close-up of him you'll get it you'll see sweetheart no one gets a hole in one his first time at bat these people make a fortune writing movies and they don't know how I mean no offense everybody and his brother writes books but a screenplay ah that's a ball game of a different color right when bunny fiddler talks you're not listening to someone else I've got 12
28:56 nominations a half-dozen Oscars nine cars and three ex-wives to show that in this business of refuse and nephews I know [Music] you're a literary grading should or one of the Pureland surprise I would never cannibalize or repair a single hair or phrase of your amazing opus still a lot of scrimp will soon discover what they write for the screen isn't always right for the screen so I intervene by zip through your book and the characters jumped through life on the page now we're at the stage where I
29:43 bring them to life from the screen don't cling to the words to which you gave birth remember how many a picture is worth the odds are a thousand to one so get used to it stop the [ __ ] maybe yours baby trust me the movie is ma you learn from Bob Sternberg you grow from von stroheim and so I'm the heir to their skill this town's got more not stab brazier
30:34 let's face it I've been through dummy authors unprepared to take a stab at this collaborative art must suppress their egos in part with the notion that in motion pictures words are carved in marble Donna darling get this on a pan and type it up for next week I haven't engagement to speak at the Writers Guild you wouldn't want to upset buddy this is advice not a threat buddy but see how come things can get funny when things get rough it can get ah
31:21 bloody baby nobody says no buddy so money get better can see be buddy-buddy [Music] next [Music] [Applause] [Music]
32:11 Huli what do you say sweetheart right it's Manny muñoz your favorite cop looks to me like he's out at the moment can I tell him anything for you Thanks I love you too muchacha stone you all right how do you get it in here not too tough when there's no door you got a warrant don't need one when the piece gets this disturbed who did it in what rearrange your furniture interior decorator he do your face too neighbors said the whole place shook must have been an earthquake in just your bungalow
32:58 nature's funny which one of you stole my radio what case you're working on who says I am I see groceries I got lucky on a quiz show how do you like to win 30 days in the can for not answering routine jobs same old kind of thing I forget what kind of old thing would that be I forget - you're gonna need stitches amigo a lot I hope the rusty needle maybe huh makes my mouth water why'd you take your dog for a walk lieutenant before he messes my carpet whatever here up to 65 is a dame in the picture gambling's illegal lieutenant
33:43 more like even money ten years I know this guy we pounded the same beat together there's not a dame couldn't twist him around her finger from a block away Munoz was right maintains short hands of trouble beginning with Bobby whoever said time heals all wounds never know anyone like Bobby lays a gentleman theme note proudly presents the sultry song stylings of them miss Bobby Edward
34:29 that's not on open up my eyes and find I didn't dream of you [Music] without a warning though it's never a surprise soon as I go way lots of you arise with every breath my turn [Music] anytime [Music] I close my eyes and see your face
35:26 [Music] if you were though said for rappelled from the stone and I've endured [Music] you can charge I've been going
36:16 [Applause] every breath right Bobby I still have another chorus to do do it engaged not a word only yes well you know I can't not yet come on babe we take a million movies a year together and everybody who wanted to be a star no butter when everything's coming by and Monday there's nobody bigger in the business if he likes me it could be my chance my chance to be somebody I figured you for that already can't you just see me all I can see all I want to see is a nice
37:02 [Music] were the one who said forever from the start and I've been drifting since you go [Music] you can charge [Applause] where's every breath right [Music]
38:08 Monday nights I was usually too busy to drop by to see Bobby and she knew it [Music] Bobby Bobby man open up Bobby we're not goddamnit there really is some place called hell the calendar is nothing but who is this crazy maniac wait don't call the police I am the police you son of a [ __ ] no one calls aren't we're not serving as son of a [ __ ] to his face you know how much money I gave charity last year this is
38:54 how you get in the movies you come with his own casting counts here my left pocket there's thousands in and take all you want this never happened I'd like to be in my next picture alright a three-picture deal no no no no no it's going pretty well gab I just finished scene 17 the flashback of the shooting and Bobby's dressing room now it's fine I guess Oh buddy's teaching me to write with guns instead of words what do you think of this scene it's a new one it starts with a close-up of a writer missing his wife okay to cut to a close-up of her
39:40 missing him good I'll print it talk to you tomorrow Donna I don't mean to interrupt then what good are ya buddy's been rereading the new pages I wanted to break the fall oh he doesn't like her whenever been getting shot or this morning he was in love with it one for the rule-of-thumb department love is also something you fall out of girl oh I don't think the scene is dead he just wants to fix it funny how he can keep doing this to people without taking his pants down you're wicked he has to recognize himself in Irwin s Irving no people never see themselves as others right
40:25 there do you see any of you and who Lee's character me never I rest my case Donna thank you for breaking the fall just trying to be the best Lully I can either of you ladies free for dinner tonight Donna might be [Music] scene 18 exterior downtown la day overcast medium shot of a public phone booth at the corner of sunset in anywhere the camera intrudes on one of the city's slimy er angels a rather smudged carbon copy of the human being as he tries to set the record for a nickels worth of heavy breathing after
41:13 establishing Cooley enters as the creepy caller slithers off boolie wipes the receiver with the sleeve of her dress places a call cut to close-up a bully in mid conversation my teller friend at the bank recognized her signature he told me who she was he was so happy to finally get a check from you that wouldn't hit the ceiling if he dropped it listen you want to get in touch with mrs. Kingsley just go to the top of Paso Robles Drive right where it overlooks Arroyo Seco Canyon I know it doesn't get more Pasadena than that looks like mrs. Kingsley's not just any old mrs. Kingsley huh and be careful I'm getting
41:58 that funny feeling I get in my bones when people want to start breaking yours stone [Music] hi deeper I don't want to hurt you then what good are you Oh Thank You Margaret I'll see him here Stone here so fast has there been some kind of cheese sure let me think is there something I don't know I'll make a list for you later darling in the meantime you just let me handle mr. stone you think everything's all
42:43 right I think you might just better finish my knee Peter and try acting natural if you can somehow remember what that's like mr. stone what a pleasant treat seems to be your day for them this is my stepson Peter Kingsley Peter this is mr. stone I'm afraid I'm a bit messy oh we had to talk darling why don't you worn up on the courts and get ready for me mr. stone I don't know much about tennis but how much more warming up your figure he needs you don't play too hard at my
43:30 place I keep breaking the lamps I didn't expect to see you so soon mr. stone any leads on Mallory isn't that what you call them I'm here to teach you my business mrs. Kingsley only to tell you that I don't want yours you weren't happen to know why to train dates showed up at my place last night to give me a crash course in bleeding oh you see it'll live that's your deposit - $25 I'm keeping a day's pay for the pounding only my friends beat me up for nothing I don't understand why would anyone not what Mallory found I have no idea that's the truth the truth the truth to people like you is whatever works for the moment something that holds up two times in a row you're not out on the street now mr. stone give me five seconds oh it was a treat seeing your home they'll save me a
44:16 trip to England I'm afraid you really can't quit mr. stone the choice isn't yours that'll be news to my logic my husband is not known for taking no for an answer this way please this way please but she's leading it a men's sports with [Music] Luther Kingsley of Widowmaker yeah the planes and tanks in World War two the film Agatha Kingsley there weren't too many stray millions the man didn't know I say the man who's more of shadow Luther Kingsley had been seen public for
45:02 years once he owned the world easy come easy go yes [Music] [Applause] you look wonderful darling not too strenuous a visitor Laura we've done a lot of good hard work this morning haven't we Luther doctor mandrel this is mr. stone may I be of some service to
45:51 you sir I was told that your patient I'm supposed to talk to Luther Kingsley is not my patient sir we are all cosmic voyages Luther Kingsley is my traveling companion infantile paralysis is tragic only to those who view it as a disease I see it as but one of the many steps possible in the journey to the center of all truth any an I'm a new dr. Mandl at my husband's spiritual therapist my soul for the soul skepticism cures nothing
46:37 mr. stone fantasy even less fine fine Mallory mr. Kingsley last night two of nature's nastier mistakes tried out the recipe for face pudding on me so they understand that the whereabouts of your daughter was no business of mine leave on the one eye they didn't close I could see their point I've given your deposit back to your wife Madden wrong mr. Kingsley insists you reconsidered mr. Kingsley let me say this straight to your mirror sir no dice mr. stone if you do not agree to find Mallory mr. Kingsley will see to it that your investigators license is held over a very slow flame at City Hall you will be finished in this state the country's got
47:24 one or two more of them you can't see them mr. stone but there are some very long fingers in their fingers that can reach you wherever you go let you feel mr. Kingsley's it's not to appreciate your possible jeopardy mrs. Kingsley spoke to you of a bonus that figure is $10,000 we trust that will not take too much thinking about next to this is Kingsley's that was the
48:10 best figure in the room what was the last time you did get your way you'll be the first to know nasty habit only kind to have don't let me keep you your tennis game you seem at home on the court [Music] well you don't look like the sword like it in Thailand so far haven't been found to deepen up and you're a real good sport shall we say the ball is in your
48:56 court I bet you like to play rough I like to watch [Music] and you just can't get enough I'm good to more than one sense but I promise I'll show no regret if he beats me my backhand is clearly my fort shall we say the ball is in your court I thought your next of kin do with me he's too easily winded you leave me
49:44 breathless too imagine through I may lack form and finesse but I warm up in a jiff it's not exciting unless the competition is steep I think I understand your racket I'm not in your league Hackett's this game commences with love well let's give the tempo or show [Music] tell me how you like for rousing rally
50:44 shall we say looks like one of us is leaving and I got the impression I was being asked to stay after he finally well the incentives never stop I'm saving the best for last shall we say that ball is in your court [Music] [Applause] [Music] one more for the rule of thumb Department for girls run away from home
51:30 looking for something better rich girls can't wait to find anything worse with ten thousand and one new reasons to look for Mallory Kingsley I started at the top by going right to the bottom of the bath [Music] answer me loose if you find it a chance have you like a diamond here call my cheese well you would least expect try to turn her down the whole town go on a fishing expedition everybody's gotta be someone
52:15 girls don't vanish in [Music] [Laughter] [Music] you're in honey water don't be so lucky don't put your feet up turn that heat up everybody's gotta be somewhere
53:00 [Music] where's that day where she's gone - jeez a flame that you're drawn to where I wonder am I gonna find this [ __ ] it's quite a blunder to underestimate er Jesus timely I have a private dick she looked familiar you don't know how many women I see each day beneath the innumerable guys used to be
53:47 hard to forget I regret to say she's one where I wonder if I'm gonna find this wine a bunker to underestimate America though I never seen her I've seen girls like this so young and ripe you're missing this is not the type to miss a misdemeanor let me choose you change your face for broads like this you came to the right place where she what a masterful detective and
54:33 it's your lucky day to stumble on us to find it surplus hobby season random you're wiser scrutinizes we won't refuse so take off your shoes [Music] try to track it down don't be [Music] she's like [Music]
55:20 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the one advantage to living alone was he never had to lie to anyone about what a great day you had looking for Mallory Kingsley was about as refreshing as a quick dip in a cesspool and just as rewarding was time to hit the sack living in earthquake country sometimes the sack hits you it was Mallory Kingsley and for
56:06 a missing girl it was not a whole lot missing surprise a Janelle was my birthday mr. detective [Music] in your home you're [Music] [Applause] [Music] lost and found lost
56:52 [Music] you've earned your salary certain formality wanna play lost and fine [Music] Hey Oh they you've been assigned to find out where I and now you found me in your bed and all my dad said to turn me why don't I turn you on instead
57:45 [Music] please easy Oh private eye it could not sell a bit [Music] why don't you come [Music] No [Music]
58:32 but you can play me [Applause] [Music] thank you I love men's ties there one more thing to hold on to I noticed a few in the closet at trophy's consolation prizes you could spend the night I have to call New York my phone reach is there
59:18 I hate lying in front of an audience anyway I have some work to do you love your wife you know that don't you I do Oh strange phrase in this context then how do you explain being here I hate doing my tie alone I guess or at least without someone I care about right what's your line some guys will crawl out of the grave to cheat uh uh it's uh Lee's you wrote it I just put down what my characters tell me I'm nowhere near as smart as they are which one of them is telling you to leave stone he's got a streak of morality that somehow eludes me [Music]
1:00:07 first you level level about why you're here I don't remember you coming back with these sheets from the laundry that's easy mr. stone I want half of whatever daddy's paying you to find me I've earned it haven't I how many other lost people have turned up in your bed until tonight just me and where exactly do we tell daddy I found you Tijuana Frisco he doesn't care just as long as baby's back why does baby have to go through all this what must be petty cash in your family uh-huh don't let Luther Kingsley's condition fool you mr. stone just because he looks like a hot dog on a roll he has to know what the score is
1:00:53 all the time I can't tell him why I need the money blackmail how did you guess it's my room I do very well here I sort of had a thing with my tennis teacher last summer a couple of other people too we sort of all had a thing together sort of mixed doubles Manuel took some pictures and loves how they came out but I don't think daddy would he thinks I'm a good girl he just doesn't know how good he got step-papa to set up the disappearance scam oh no allure really thinks I did run away my brother Peter and I worked the whole thing out and how come I was invited to the party Peter's very thorough he checked around and
1:01:39 found out you were real smart that you knew how to handle yourself do you really know how to handle yourself mr. stone [Music] another Dame another gun will.i.am learned they ever get life going to be one long flashback Mahoney
1:02:25 Seymour get take this down babe it came out as the official studio release ha ha ha July 17 Hollywood California movie land and filmgoers the world over mourn today the sudden passing in his sleep of industry pioneer in celluloid giant OH&S irving one bullet entered between the third and fourth ribs then penetrated the thorax jet came peacefully to the motion-picture mogul and philanthropist extraordinaire the second bullet shattered the right kidney all in all and obvious heart attack right Whizzer I see pigs die better not when they go with their pants down
1:03:16 stone [Music] it's alright no one knows it never happened unless you were there when it didn't what now another town's babe other jobs other memories my chance to be somebody somebody I can't stand to be
1:04:03 give it time Bobby give it time that's one thing I've had enough off [Music] for Japanese the minute I die you're getting away with it you son of a [ __ ] getting away with murder I was ready to take my lumps there's no god damn longs for Gringo's you want lumps be brown be yellow be black everything's smooth for you milky bastards kicked off the force that don't even muss your hair this happens to me they hang me up on my clock weights Jesus they'd brought me
1:04:50 for jaywalking I didn't ask for this you people don't have to ask it comes with being in the club heads or tails you always win as long as the heads are blonde first you stole the land and now you're murdering the law the more you got the more there is to throw away and you had it all the bags the right skin color and you finished it's not - you are starting this minute you're not gonna need this scarf at night not with my breath on your neck I'm moving inside you there's not gonna be one mirror you're not gonna see me in that better be the cleanest nose in town because I'll bust you for a bad haircut just give me one more chance
1:05:36 and I'll personally strap you into the gas chamber chair sweetheart maybe you can get him to put in a loveseat [Music] we agreed not to have that seen in the board didn't we didn't we agree I was right no I went at serving in the morgue see am I married to everything we agreed to I've been known to be creative on my own you know I mean accidents do happen does it say anywhere not to be created did I dictate someplace be a hat you can write whatever the hell comes in via head I want you to just so long as I like it in advance and I'm telling you that's
1:06:22 showing cool morgue scenes are showing exactly one too many more scenes Wow Jesus that hurts there's a person under this skin look reading the book I saw the whole movie from beginning to end frankly it's a pain in the Kiester to have to shoot the goddamn thing so everybody else can see it but the studio won't sell tickets to my head right just take my word for it I already saw this movie and that first morgue scene isn't in it okay mr. Fidler but doing two more scenes lets me establish muñoz's anger at stone for getting away with Erwin s servings murder it'll be too confusing Oh give the audience a little credit
1:07:08 forget about credit movies is a cash business they give us money we make it easy for them Stine think okay scene 27 dr. mandrill at the edge of the mansion overlooking the canyon right knee I knew the power of prayer you've come to me as I knew one day you would in all your loveliness [Applause] okay after he gets murdered and they wheel them into the morgue you can establish whatever you want about muñoz there okay fine any other of this gold you find somewhat
1:07:55 tarnished well I don't want to pick the thing to pieces no pic pulled that yellow black and brown stuff with munos cut all that my people your people social crap just give me a good private I show it was the social crap that made it more than just that stunning Stein Stein Stein Stein stuffing a guy sittin in the movies right fifty cents to get in the balconies comfy all nice and dark he's got his hand between somebody's legs next to him might even be somebody he knows we all of a sudden gonna remind them he's white and that that pachuco washer my trying to stab him in the throat on his way out what made your book was how good you write I am NOT
1:08:44 asking you to write they're just safe you bet your ass this town is crawling with congressman the last thing I need is for you to get blacklisted right now do you have any I do you have any idea how many close friends how many personal relatives I can't have to the house for a bagel just cuz they they might have won a Henry Wallace button at a rally but how do i fuel munos without the racial angle what makes him hate stone so why his compulsion to see stone punished I don't care what it is just change all that yellow black and brown to red white and blue I know I know writing books is easier but that way you don't get to see me naked right sure wish I brought my
1:09:30 magnifying glass Oh the boy is not happy okay I got it I got it I knew if you gave it enough thought I'd come up with it you ready Munoz was jealous of stone he loved Bobby too almost went nuts when they got engaged he did go nuts they made him psycho that gives him his heat that gives munos his anger that's garbage then polish it make it shine you like working in this town you like having lunch ten feet from Betty Grable till the politics these
1:10:19 guys from Washington are not kidding around they don't even want to get laid out here don't do anything to make the studio replace you they'd only do that if you asked don't make me ask is what I'm asking I can only protect you until I have to start protecting myself you want to go down the toilet with your three picture deal I'm not gonna go along for the ride sitting on your lap is that it for now Donny you got the list pretty girl with that clap bang instead of a whimper clock weights milky bastards god damn it and Jesus read the book you can get away with all kinds of Filth in the book this is motion pictures Oh oh that's right I mustn't offend the guy in the balcony he might
1:11:05 lose his place in the person next to him there was one more wasn't there where stone calls her when s Irving a son of a [ __ ] you know better don't use words you can't use and don't screw up that scene I know Irwin is a [ __ ] so don't ask me why he's my favorite character in the show and just one morgue scene [Music] there was no sign of a struggle not from Andrea went quietly into the night the chief insult being this bullet which ended his larynx depriving the deceased suppose his voice and his life probably in that order 38
1:11:52 caliber from a service revolver much like euro and he leaves many oh I got better than that Bosco bring him in lieutenant some guys order steak and potatoes for the last meal pile of loads a big number I'd start giving it some thought now in case you want something special if you tell me what you're talking about maybe I'll know why I'm being bored let me hear you on the subject that between 7:00 and 9:00 tonight I believe the answer is 8 and he will wear at that time home who's mind doing what I don't remember you and me being married you better play this one straight pally
1:12:39 it was there all night can you prove it have any company I was with someone you weren't alone you've been going to crime school and just who were you not alone with a young lady during those hours we weren't checking the clock will she back you up I'm not sure married missing oh that's just a little bit of too bad now isn't it ask this wouldn't be her would it in bed with you and her just a little south-of-the-border put the cuffs on him jackpot ding goes straight across and I
1:13:24 thought today was going to be a lousy day there's the Sun up in the sky and the birds forgot to sing but you're headed for a sell then to die and rot in hell so it might as well be spring I'll be singing like a bird when the jury sets the dates and this capital event browser vendors heaven-sent all you have to do is away you're about to take that be siesta stone but don't freak west up Padre rest assured that I'll say Mass fine
1:14:12 Americana plate of beans mañana odds are gonna give you gas they will strap you in a chair they will stop you in a chair and for once you'll be polite to equalize your thing up now pardon be fluffy sure to disagree cause the case I've made is tight it's the People vs stone and my money is on the state who says dreams will not come true [Applause] [Music] on the heart somebody i will go to town
1:14:59 on the day or put down like a dog crowds lined up to watch you pay your debts [Music] [Applause] [Music] as you're walking your last mile I shall walk you know let's fire I'll be overcome with pride I'll be overcome with pride taking pleasure in your deaths knowing that your final will be filled with cyanide
1:15:47 [Applause] [Music] think of me receive your fate once the palette is the pale from the instant you inhale fall you have to do is wait all you want to do is wait [Music] [Applause] [Music]
1:16:36 you got nothing on me Sebastian mandrill new you and the Kingsley girl were playing footsies way above the ankles and he had the pictures to prove it now afraid your old man would find out tired of being blackmailed she begged you to get him off her back now mandrill goes through some kind of mumbo-jumbo meditation at the edge of the Kingsley estate which overlooks the canyon you go there to pay him off knock him off finish it any way you can there's a discussion the kind that ends in a shot if you hadn't panicked because the staff came running you would have climbed down to pick up the pictures and your gun it
1:17:23 only took one bullet we dug it out of mandrels voice box even though he couldn't talk it named you loud and clear this is a frame a famous first was somebody set me up whoever it is I'm sending him roses listen to me last time was different man don't nanny me ever the more you've got the more there is to throw away amigo and you had it all the badge the right colour skin did I we know and you had it all the bad girl body
1:18:08 seeing what you saw in you that was hard enough but what really killed me would the way she looked right through me just see it the only thing that spoils your death is the pain it might cause her you're really gonna do this if she's anywhere around to know about it you're gonna cave in just like that I wouldn't have believed it you wouldn't have believed it is that what you said
1:18:55 you wouldn't have believed it you you are some gumshoe you just don't think well get this dumb gumshoe you come from my eight well is your mouth lonely with one foot in there stone your brain only hold thoughts I put in there just what you are I'll spell out you are a novel pain one speck of lint that fell out the last time that I picked my brain you are so jealous of my track record Tolstoy do tell us your feeble hack record your weak knees brand you soft
1:19:42 and unstable one small threat and you fold like a card table you drool in my adventures you're broads in bed are bored go home and soak your dentures your pen is no match for my soul you're nothing without me on the one who go on Devon you wouldn't exists you never be missed I tell you you're out of my mind go and no one without me without
1:20:27 me or nothing you're in my plot I'm still your creator I call each shot I'm your private dictator you are so thick you eat breathe sleep fiction I'm your meal ticket knee-deep in cheap fiction you gloating ignoramus ha ha you haven't any shame hey I'm a famous Shamus and most people don't know your name [Music] you're nothing without me without me you
1:21:14 just disappear right into the air and no one would care or notice you ever were here loser who's destined to fall I'm everything you always wanted to be let's deal with me [Music] you're nothing [Applause] [Music] let's go Manny weights I said to keep my name out of your mouth you bastard out
1:22:27 [Music] Oh [Music] you only go around once and they tell you images fade you're under the gun [Music] you better do your own stunts
1:23:14 I spend a lot of time buried alive you only got one shot bad you drop batters [Music] we're on the edge of the curve set up to take me up to the top have a cigarette [Music]
1:24:00 why not go out with some staff [Applause] [Music] I'm in a sentimental way so stay with me
1:24:46 ask the orchestra to play your favorites [Music] okay pops Jimmy powers stay with me take 37 I'm in the sentimental way so stay with me stay with me
1:25:35 last the orchestra to play your favorites thoughts that we would last who say [Music] [Applause] [Music] so stay with me what say we wild away the day and paid
1:26:26 off [Music] the moments that we spend [Music] [Applause] [Music] or to stay with me even after we [Applause] [Music]
1:27:24 I mean send him away oh say with me now you're reading people be here no mrs. fiddler its new normals this script gets better and better give me a hint I'm only working on six at the moment CDFA Oh better now sure you should see this pages before I get them buddy I've got some thoughts about a Laura's first scene I think when she comes into Stone's office too highly I should be dressed all in what yeah save the suggestions okay I got enough of those
1:28:09 from the right at Sunday brunch I'm not looking for a story time those new earrings you're not gonna wear them today now I am the one color see you get to pick me ahead our problems are not dissimilar you'll see what someone puts LOX and cream cheese on them so somebody will eat me is that's so terrible not so terrible at all I think I can find it again sing it to me sing it
1:29:00 $100,000 bail where are you supposed to get that kind of money you wouldn't like to sell your body a hundred thousand times would you how about just once to a really big spender who do you figure set me up you have to be my legs on this do some checking around starting with the Kingsley's they're closer than denmark and a lot more rotten try the public library back issues of the times do some trolling see you we know might know something they figure nobody else does I knew she was trouble I only had to take one look one look at you taking one look at her she should have never got past me I never learned I don't seem to either that's what it is I never learned stoned
1:29:49 good girl Lully good girl Lully [Music] I'm one of a long line of good girls who choose the wrong guy to be sweet on the girl with a face that says welcome that men can wipe their feet on I'm there when he calls me the trusted girl Friday all wrong but what good does it do me
1:30:35 food on a Saturday night if you need a gal to go without salary and work too hard you can always count on me the kind of a pound sneak you a file past the prison guard loyal to the M degree the boss is quite the ladies man and that's my biggest gripe till I showed up he'd never hired a girl cuz she could type I'm no femme fatale that's faithful and true as a safer nard barking up the wrong damn tree you can
1:31:24 always count on me [Music] [Applause] [Music] know how long these things are buddies usually last three three thirty whichever comes first huh I better show shave if I can bring myself to look in the mirror you always wake up feeling guilty I like to get an early start the change you made in the
1:32:11 moon you'll see works it's fine if you don't know what was there before if you don't know why Kay then collaborating is not caving in collaborating is working with the enemy you're too tough on yourself there are some who are tougher you wake up with her no matter who you go to sleep with don't you all she asks is that I'd be the best possible me I keep settling for being a first draft I don't have a problem with that don't make it easy I need the pain it's a big club [Music]
1:32:57 I don't need a map I naturally head for the dead-end street you can always count on me I'm caught in a trap when joy is approaching then I retreat I'm at home with misery I've been the other woman since my puberty began I crashed the junior prom and met the only married man I'm always on tap for romance or chocolate that's bittersweet you can always count on me I go for the riffraff who's treating me so so when I can play
1:33:42 the second fiddle I'm a virtuoso I should be playing for all wedding bands but they are no wedding rings attached though you can bet their strings attached matter of fact if you want an ill-fated love affair who you can always count on me though I made a pact to carry out research before I care men don't give a warranty 1 Joe who swore he's single got me sort of cracked the Beast I woke up only slightly shocked
1:34:30 that I defrocked a priest or else I attract the guys who are longing to do my hair you can always count on me I wish you were gonna be at buddy's party oh no it's just for the cast nobody below the rank of colonel you've been to one the rest are all remakes baby Sweetie look your last picture crazy about your next they're better at brunch than they are on the screen oh for Best Performance by a husband in the dark watch buddy acting like he doesn't know doesn't know what about his wife and Jimmy powers having the thing of the year which bunny set up
1:35:16 beautifully without either one of them knowing why would he do a thing like that ah listen buddy you have to wait till the last reel her women s Irving lives so are you gonna be here afterwards I've got some errands I'll wait at your hotel you've got more interesting cracks on your ceiling [Music] though my kind of day no doubt will die out like the dinosaurs you can always count on me I'm solely to blame my hip gets advice that my heart ignores my
1:36:03 only and me I choose the kind who cannot introduce the girl he's with there lots of smirking Motel clerks who call me mrs. Smith but I made a name with Hotel detectives to break down doors guess who they expect to see [Music] [Applause]
1:36:57 [Music] now tell Baby B everybody know Delta cos to compose it to the stars know me by oh alimony to half these people and some of the women too this tin pan pots is not the pick of the litter there's not a clever note in his head but Watson valuable is he's so malleable and Steiners at Warner's and so what does anybody want to hear as
1:37:49 long as I wrote it over there I know [Music] [Applause] bloody poncho Vargas thanks for the Munoz part I love him baby nada am I wrong this guy never gets all he's got to be drinking monkey
1:38:34 glands right oh you know the usual crowd the travelling compliment show everyone thrilled with everyone's success positively orgasmic at anyone elses failure and be so thick you could cut it with a knife lodged in every other bat scripts coming along fine I guess some interesting changes I sort of like at any rate and buddy does therefore I do you called the hotel my hotel when fine look hold on will ya I can explain no Gabi she was there Gabby gab
1:39:20 [Music] you know how to murder the right people I'll give you that who put up the bail like you don't know huh nobody I know would hundred thousand big ones that would help me somebody rich with no taste is my guess stone don't leave town you're still my number one suspect you're aces with me too someone has to answer operator I was just talking to the party I know they're there I mean they couldn't just nevermind okay fine
1:40:06 thank you you suppose mr. Fitness read all these books I wrote most of them too or will you mr. Fiddler's Ryder found me in a basket on his doorstep oh boy I'm not interrupting am i I read somewhere that writers are always thinking even when they don't want to we live for the interruptions I'm Admiral Ray's I don't think I've ever seen a better one avril is French for a thrill we should say I'm the only French I really know is my name I'm going to play Mallory Kingsley in the movie why doesn't that surprise me I've read every word of your book from cover to cover it tends to
1:40:53 make more sense that way I was so shocked when Mallory gets killed I started crying and I was all alone in my bed can you believe that oh she had to be one of the most 21 oh well the good die young the naughty even younger mr. Fidler said it was gonna be different in the movie he said that Mallory was gonna be in it right up to the end I'm afraid mr. Fiddler's wrong how can he be he's the producer director it's his movie yeah his movie my script I do anything for Mallory not to be killed mr. Stein I mean anything that you could possibly think of mr. Stein I'm Carla Hayward
1:41:38 buddy's wife oh and please don't tell him I gave him second billing scotch and Soda wasn't it thank you there's tons of food out there Avril I was just talking to mr. Stein and now it's time to be hungry dear well you won't forget mr. Stein please what do you think of your Mallory a young and ripe don't still get over it we're all that for about 30 seconds well no author God never got angry being quoted to himself and what do you think of your Elora Kingsley I never thought of her as anyone else wouldn't do any
1:42:23 good if you did it's hard to replace someone who's sleeping with the director of course in this directors case that's the cottage industry I've been peeking at the pages you finished them ah then we're both up to the same place I'm not one to Pat myself on the back but I guess you put up the bail for stone when I read the book you know most people think it was one of the Caged leaves they're the only ones I've established with that kind of money I knew you wouldn't be that obvious never intentionally not bad for guy probably can't tie his own shoes may I be perfectly honest can honestly be imperfect watch your mouth while you still got one
1:43:08 maybe the two hoods mandrill followers seemed oddly contrived they were just too full I don't know the hoodie hike has to be that ah I've changed it I've given them another motivation how do you mugs figure in all this well dr. moon really took out a kind of insurance policy with us he figured not being too popular with some people if anybody was to shorten his life we was to turn around and do exactly likewise this is what you might call a prepaid hit right sunny right he tried to prove there was death after life did he his and yours you about finished there son here we go
1:43:57 The Voice time the phone rings the cat kid snapped the second ring the fuse is exposed and deployed drink doomed and this water house somewheres over the Rockies how about we go to the corner and make a call oh good idea mr. stone Polly like to get one be in here on its own and all so long mr. stone have a nice slide with just the ticking
1:44:56 [Music] sorry I was just on my way out [Music] I love it wait wait there's a capper [Music] so that's how we got the phone right who knows to call us here [Applause] it's next to the door next up of Lawrence so stay with me the orchestra
1:45:54 play your favorite song Oh beautiful and then he wrote I love your earrings thank you did he ask where you got them I took his mind off the question oh here's the perfect meeting of words and music mr. Stein Jimmy powers I'm a fan sir you're a master wordsmith isn't he ever just time for seconds dear let me get you boys some goodies now don't move Stein you gotta give this tell her I moved play it for him wait till you hear this melody if you
1:46:39 think your ears are getting laid it's not finished I haven't written the release I told you how it should go you know I know I love it I'm just not sure if it works are you questioning me about music you know how much money I gave the symphony last year wait okay wait they're false tops and bottoms what's that is T America's favorite balladeer America should know his mouth goes to sleep in a glass every night still the songs are never out of the hit parade is Mecca
1:47:24 don't last in the store a second go figure huh Dell Dell there's 80 keys Dell try a few others I think I've got it was I right yeah mostly mostly is good enough you're ready this is a Laura C picture it under the bedroom see Carla and satin maybe less ten thousand violence there won't be a dry seat the house [Applause] [Music]
1:48:21 [Laughter] [Applause] let me tell you something about 100 bucks mrs. Kingsley a hundred bucks to buy a hold on in this markdown world but what I can't buy you somebody threatening to lift my shield if I don't take a case I normally wouldn't handle a nice trunks and it doesn't buy your framing rights for a murder or by being sprung by two gorillas hot to make me a stiff for killing a man I barely laid eyes on let alone ever a glove so what's it all about mrs. Kingsley and let's have the truth first time around my stepson he's got only one golden life to inherit because money when he died he would have gotten you share with me he just son and you're getting more and more control over my husband he and
1:49:07 Mallory cooked up a scheme about her disappearing it was Peter who took the pictures of you glad me as we steal your gum and you to get it justice either murder you knew the whole plan Peter boasted about it later when I came to see you I honestly thought she was missing just as I believe she's now Oh worse she's saying he's finished her off too if he hadn't he will and dr. Mallory I'm the only one in the world who stands between him and the money I'm frightened stone you're frightened where is he now I don't know come to who without even touching I felt this
1:49:53 close the first time we met tell me you didn't know it - you know a way of feeling close even when you're not there [Music] why me of all the poor suckers up in the zone why me well me Peter can tell you find him and you'll know got any idea which part of the haystack the place he goes one place more than any other I'll tell you when just promise me you'll do one thing when you find him shoot first [Music]
1:50:52 [Applause] [Music] you got him put him on Stein Donna tells me something you gotta tell me she's wrong you going to New York to see your wife look babe this is not something you tell this is something you ask because if you did I guarantee you I would tell you you got no business asking you don't go away when you're writing writers don't leave in the middle of a movie never mind it's the weekend why can't you fly out here what's the matter you got to knock yourself out going back and forth being here being there being here there's too much to do still sweetheart you gotta put your personal life in the back seat in this business you think I
1:51:37 like being chained to my desk 24 hours a minute seeing my own wife once every blue moon Stein I am warning you in one word don't leave town you make me unhappy you're gonna find out I can return the compliment Stein Stein damn it writers [Music] [Applause] [Music] so we talk to each other only for both in the same town is that how it works from now on I wouldn't count on it you know long-distance phone calls are a lot cheaper than airplane tickets to New
1:52:22 York all depends on how much you want to spend on silence I guess can we at least talk about my letter Oh your letter what'd you think of it my professional opinion Gabi we're not talking about fiction now well you could have fooled me God knows you're fooling yourself you think making stone a hero allows you to act like anything but one if you want to write Hollywood endings what about giving us one where you start acting like he does and he starts writing like you do okay don't take my calls if you won't listen then read one Donna was obviously in my hotel room on Sunday when you phoned to just remember no matter how incensed you were by one I
1:53:09 was not there with her three let me explain oh I do love an apology by the numbers it's not an apology it's an explanation trying to finish a new scene in time to bring two buddies lunch naturally my typewriter picked that precise moment to start acting like a portable prima donna and audible Rima Donna actually since the pee was just one of the several keys that had decided to join the staff of the dead letter office halfway out of the lobby I bumped into Donna halfway in and having been dispatched by Buddy to make sure the pages got done otherwise she could have not gotten into my room we're using her own far more reliable Corona to type up my notes which she was
1:53:56 doing when you called while I was on my way to buddy's never dreaming that her presence despite my absence was going to cause you such needless so easily avoided pain that's it that's the explanation that's it no lack of alibis your knack for the spectacular is still intact I like the tone of it it rings sincere and pretty near succeeds it's just the narrative is like a sieve and cloudy as a cataract there's
1:54:42 not a trace of honesty so face the fact it needs work [Music] you dodgy motion dear your logics unconvincing as it strains to please unlike the books you write this plot is quite contrived the way it reads it's far too obvious and filled with flaws and gross implies abilities accepting for the part about the broken keys it needs work your fiction always had a little grit in it
1:55:30 which in it it hills to be so clear that there was art in it if you had written it so must you go and spit mad and have to think of it you're writing always mirrors our relationship with dangers
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