Jimmy Hollywood Page #5

Did he seem sympathetic?

See, I felt there was a vulnerability.

I mean, I thought there was toughness,

but, you know, there was vulnerability.

Terry Malloy, On The Waterfront.

-Brando. He had vulnerability.

-Yeah.

Remember that scene I always play for you?

-What?

-Eva Marie Saint. She drops the glove.

He picks it up, tries to put it on his hand.

He was a boxer, a tough guy,

and he's trying to put

a little white glove on his hand.

Macho into femininity.

It happened all at the same time.

I mean, don't forget,

I was at a disadvantage.

I mean, I was in the shadows.

You couldn't see my eyes.

It all had to be done with the voice.

You know, put me at a big disadvantage,

but I thought I came across

threatening, tough and vulnerable.

I had vulnerability, too, right?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Okay. Im gonna take a bath.

You know, another thing

you got to remember, too.

Its the first time I played Jericho.

I mean, Im not gonna do it,

but imagine if I got more familiar with him.

If I was allowed to do an

instead of a one-minute clip,

think of it that way.

This is a promise to

all the good citizens of Hollywood.

We give fair warning to the police

and to the judicial system

to protect and serve

the good people of Hollywood,

because we will be watching and waiting.

-This is our pledge.

-Its even better with repeated viewing.

S.O.S. Save our streets.

Definitely better with repeated viewing.

Jimmy. Men with ties.

-Detectives, looks like.

-Yeah.

You think they're looking into the S.O.S.?

The car radio guy

could've told them the street.

Wonder if they'll come and question me.

Be interesting questioning me.

Don't you think?

I could do a real number

if they question me.

Where were you on the night of so-and-so?

I could really do a number.

Do you want to go out for breakfast

and leave me at work?

Yeah. Yeah.

You know, if they question me,

I could play it real quiet.

Long pauses, you know.

Id drive them crazy. Pause. Pause.

Id play this real deliberate kind of a guy.

Ill make them nuts.

They just didn't know is

what I think they were saying.

They mentioned an MRI and they said

maybe they'd see something.

'Cause I definitely don't

remember things well.

I don't know. What do you think, Jimmy?

I don't know. "This is MRI. This is MRI."

-I think Jericho's better.

-Got you a lollipop.

-Is that root beer?

-No.

No? Ill like root beer.

You know, when you get this MRI, you're

gonna see everything's gonna be okay.

So don't worry, you know?

You're just a little preoccupied.

That's why you're blanking.

-You think so?

-Yeah.

Look at this.

We gotta get right behind this bus now.

These people, they kill everybody

with these fumes.

They should put something

on these things.

I mean, look. This is disgusting.

-How big is this part?

-Its a nice little role.

It takes place in one

of the underground clubs.

Yeah? Well, I mean, if this isn't

a lead role, I might be wasting my time.

Don't you have

some other principal roles there?

No, these are the roles we're casting.

I understand that,

but what about the principal roles?

Were they already cast?

This is what we're casting right now.

I can't tell you about anything else.

Well, I came for a principal role.

Well, this is all we have.

The ad in the trades said a principal role.

This is not a principal role.

This is a little role here, one line.

Do you have a picture and resume?

He's got his own bus bench ad.

He's right.

I have a bus bench right on Sunset.

Right at the gates of Bel Air.

A big advertisement,

cost me a lot of money,

and as we speak I have new pictures

being made. I mean, you...

-Excuse me.

-What? What?

-What's your name?

-Jimmy Alto. Who are you?

-Im Rob Weiss, the film's director.

-The director. How are you, Rob?

-How's it going?

-We were just discussing over

some roles that are available here.

I wanna read him for Lewis.

I think you'd be interested

in this part of Lewis.

Lewis? Who's Lewis? He's a principal?

-He's a principal.

-Now we're talking. See?

I want to take... He's going to come with me.

I want to do this.

Do you have time to do this?

Well, I just... You know,

I have to run across town.

I have another appointment with a director,

but I can push that appointment off.

I don't think you have

any other appointments.

-Its a little later, the appointment...

-He's a lot like Lewis.

Listen, I wanna take you with me.

If you come with us to the end of the hall,

maybe we can do some work.

-Just take a couple of minutes.

-Sure. No problem at all.

Thanks for your help, sweetheart.

You know, Rob,

this girl has a bit of an attitude.

I mean, she tried to dismiss me

like I was some kind of an extra

or something.

Yeah, we'll take care of that ourselves.

So, did you happen to see any of

that S.O.S. stuff on the news last night?

-The what?

-The S.O.S. story with Jericho.

I think you're going way over my head here.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Thought you said that Channel 5 was

the number one news station, William?

Jimmy, I want you

to understand something here.

All right, this is a very inexpensive film,

so it's not really scripted.

Well, there's not a script-script.

So what we're gonna do is

we're gonna improv a lot of it.

-Its going to be real loose.

-Hey, that's when Im at my best,

when Im loose, when Im free, you know.

Hey, you give me words, sometimes it

pulls me down. You know what I mean?

Listen, I have this guy outside

I know who is going to play Tom.

Okay, Im gonna bring him in here.

What I want you guys to do

is do some improv for me.

-Hey, no problem.

-So I get a feel, you know?

Get really loose with him.

Hey, it's a principal role. Of course.

Stella! Loosening up my voice.

Its all right.

Get up now, you big tub of guts.

Hey, the heads of the family,

I want them all here.

So, what do you want to do?

You want to kill him? 'Cause Ill kill him.

Ill kill him if that's what you want me to do.

So, you want to kill him?

What are you saying, I can't?

'Cause Ill kill him.

Its just that you seemed

a little ambivalent about it.

You see something in these eyes

that says Im ambivalent?

Guess which one of your favorite actors

got the second lead in Urban Nomad?

-Really?

-That's right.

Jimmy Alto. Remember that name.

Urban Nomad. Probably be out

the beginning of next year sometime.

-Is that my phone?

-No.

Hi, this is Jimmy Alto.

Im on the set right now,

so please leave a message

or a fax for me. Thanks.

Hi. This is Linda from Rob Weiss' office.

We've been trying to get in touch with you.

Unfortunately, we've had to go with

our second choice for the role of Lewis.

We're very sorry, Mr. Alto.

Thank you again for coming in.

The burden of battle.

Stars like Al Jolson,

Debbie Reynolds,

Mickey Rooney,

and Marilyn Monroe.

This is a traditional scene,

a traditional thing for a star to do,

for it was established long ago

that when the nation went to war,

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