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It was like taking medicine?

No! No! You are not some big fat shrieker!

Thank you!

Hey! You are nervous and now

you are making me nervous.

I'm not nervous to goto bed...

actually I got out of a pretty hot romance, OK?

But I never paid anyone

to do it with me, before.

Incidentally, I need the $20 in advance.

There is nothing sexy about the

two of us going through the motions!

Here, just take the money and go.

Don't you wanna try me?

Listen, I'm so lonely that I would have been

happy to talk but I'm even too tired for that.

Am I not attractive?

You are okay. You are fine!

It's me, I get a headache.

Oh? And this town is full of fantastic looking girls?

Yeah!

They come from all over, lookin' to get in movies.

Yeah.

So, you don't wanna go to bed with me?

Yeah.

It's just that I'm not in the mood, sorry. I lost it.

Oh Jesus! Don't cry. Don't cry. Cmon!

Oh, come on! Cmon on!

If it's gonna kill you, lets go.

Cmon, we'll do it.

All I ask is that we turn the lights out.

You know what? I got a feelin',

this line of work is not right for you.

Hey look!

I came over here a little late,

OK, but its you who is backing down.

Hey! Because you are making me tense.

Give me the bottle. I need another drink.

Maybe if we just took our

clothes off and got into bed?

What? No! I can't. It's too mechanical.

Here, just take the 20 bucks.

No! Forget it. I'll just go.

Sorry I screwed everything up.

No, I'm sorry too.

'Cause this isn't really my style.

And don't be upset, it's got nothing to do with your looks.

Don't take it personally. Okay?

But you don't wanna do it?

Oh, my God! If it's so important to you, we'll do it!

Cmon! We'll do it! Let's go.

Come on.

Okay.

Okay!

Here, take the money.

So what is your name? Cindy?

Its Candy.

Candy? Its Candy?

Yeah.

It's that real...? What is that? Candice?

No, not really.

But it's a sexy name, don't you think?

It's okay..

My real name is Shirley.

Shirley Garfein.

You are a Jew?

Yeah. So?

A Jewish hooker! Is this is a first.

Oh, don't act so shocked!

I'm not gonna make a career out of it!

Just take the 20, OK? And please go.

Just go. Thank you.

Oh! What's wrong?

Please.

Nothing, I just can't...let you in.

Let's go.

But, please. Are you sure?

Very sure. It was nice to meet you. Thank you so much.

Just don't talk to anybody on your way out.

That's fine.

It's just down this hall.

Great!

Come in. Come in.

Sorry been so hard to get to.

Hate to tell you, how hard its been going

through with Howard Hawks at Chicago.

Oh! That's okay, Uncle Phil.

Sit.

So...

what's the story?

Rose tells me you wanna live out here?

Yes...yes,

I could not go on with my father's business.

Sorry...

It was stilt defying, I wanna do something

more interesting with my life.

Call for you, sir.

Hello? Yeah, hi Paul.

Yeah, its a mess down there.

Adolphe Menjou is threatening to walk off the picture.

I'll give you the details at Jacks on Friday.

You will be at the poker game, right?

OK, we'll talk then.

Yeah, yep. I'm tied up right now.

Great.

You can't believe last coupla weeks.

Oh, Christ! Ben, it's all about ego!

This whole town runs on ego.

Yeah. Hi, I'm Bobby.

Ben is my brother though, so its understandable.

So what the hell...

What can I do for you?

Adele calling...

Hold on...hello?

Oh, Jesus! What...?

Absolutely. Yes.

Lunch on Friday at the Brown Derby.

Yeah. And bring Harry because I believe

Joel McCrea would be the perfect play to lead.

Absolutely. See you on Friday.

And don't cancel on me with

a cock-a-mame excuse.

What do you think of Joel McCrea?

I think he's a great movie star.

What I like about Joel McCrea is that he can

play drama and give you the light touch.

Great range.

So...what are your plans?

Are you plannin' on staying out here?

Well, I thought maybe if you know somethin' I could get started here maybe.

Maybe something at your agency?

Here, like what?

I don't know. Like something I can stay out here.

I kinda...I kinda of need a job.

We have nothing here at the moment,

I mean if you're talking about the mail room.

The Mail room, yeah so thats...

Yeah, sure, to maybe begin with.

If something comes up in the mail room,

I could let you know.

OK so...so there nothing here, now then?

Unless...

put you working for me.

Come up with some cock-a-meme title.

I always have some errands to run.

Oh! I'll do anything.

You know anybody in town?

No. I don't.

Hotel life, it's worse, right?

Umm, Karen and I will

invite you over to dinner.

And we've these parties.

Sunday brunches. We'll invite you.

You meet some nice people.

Vonnie, come in here. Can you?

Check in with me each day and I will

have some odd jobs for you to do.

This is so nice of you, Uncle Phil.

Stop with The Uncle. It's Phil.

You don't wanna over-emphasize on empathism.

Vonnie, this is my nephew...umm...

Bobby. Bobby...Bobby.

He just moved out here.

Maybe you can help him get oriented.

Show him the town?

Right now, he's at sea.

Absolutely.

Anytime this weekend.

Are you free Saturday?

Yes! Great. Hmm..umm. And...

Fantastic. Very nice to meet you.

When you leave, I'll get your information.

Okay.

She was nice.

Dear Evelyn, just a note to say hello.

I'd call more frequently but

between mom & dad, you and Ben,

the long distance calls are

probably bankrupting everybody.

Ben sent me a few bucks, so I'm managing.

I gotta job with Uncle Phil.

Not much of a job, but he's going to have me at

dinners and brunches, and introduce me to contacts.

His secretary is going to

show me around, this weekend.

She is very pretty.

Dear Bobby,

It's raining here today.

Very pretty, but a little melancholy.

Leonard says, its the poignancy of life,

and not only do we have to

embrace its meaninglessness,

and celebrate life because it has no meaning.

Its too deep for me,

but mom always boils it down to:

Live every day like its your last.

And someday you will be right.

Hi, thank you so much for driving.

Of course.

So?

So...

So where should we start?

I was thinking, maybe the Beverly Hills homes?

The fancy, spamshy movie stars homes?

Great! I'm game.

Okay.

This is Spencer Tracy's house.

Wow! Hmm...

I think it's one of the prettiest.

But its not done out.

Yeah. Wait! Whose that one?

Well that I don't know.

Looks a bit pretentious, don't you think?

Is it?

Well, to me, these all seems

like the Taj Mahal.

I know the feeling.

And here is where Joan Crawford lives.

Oh! My God!

It takes your breath away. Right?

Look at that car!

Know I met Ms.Crawford once.

Really?

She is a client of your uncle's.

What is she like?

Beautiful.

I knew her, before she was a movie star.

She was larger than life.

I can imagine what it would be like,

to be larger than life.

Sure'd be fun for a while.

But I think I'd be happier life-sized.

This is Robert Taylor's house.

OK, if you could chose one house

on the block to live in,

which would you pick?

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