Man About Town Page #2

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- Brynn.

- What?

You have play rehearsal tonight?

- Why? Who is that?

- It's Jack Giamoro.

He wants to know if I want

to go to the Lakers tonight.

Come on.

The hell he does.

He knows you left your agent.

He Just wants to sign you.

What's going on?

Tell him you have to

take care of the kids.

Listen, Jack, I'm sorry.

I cannot do it tonight.

Brynn is in this play,

and tonight she's got rehearsal,

so I'm stuck with the kids.

The kids.

- Game over.

- I understand that.

It's more important than any of this.

Good for you.

Listen, buddy, I would benefit

from spending some time with you.

What's he saying?

So, Just selfishly,

will you have lunch with me this week?

Okay, Jack.

Sounds great.

Thank you. Okay.

All right, I'll talk to you soon.

Take care of yourself.

All right.

Piece of sh*t.

Well, he trumped you with

that stuff with the kids.

By the way, the Laker game?

Jack, come on.

You sound like a fool saying that.

Every agency has got

Laker floor seats now, so...

Anyway, you've got a bigger problem

than not signing David Lilly.

Phil Balow.

The puppy here was asleep at the wheel.

Whoa, the puppy was not

asleep behind no wheel.

- What happened?

- You put four calls in to the guy.

He hasn't returned one

in three weeks.

Phil Balow's not calling me back?

Jeez, I must have been so crazy,

I didn't even notice.

Didn't we send him something?

That was last month

when he moved downtown.

Phil moved downtown?

Yeah. Him and Sela

got a loft downtown.

I guess they think the Westside

is too white or something.

Downtown?

Yeah, I don't get it either.

You know what?

I don't really get any of this, but, Jack,

fantastic Job signing David Lilly.

It's amazing watching

the master work.

Thanks, Fineberg.

You're the best partner

a guy could ask for.

Sounds to me like you're

about to lose Phil, Jack.

Goddamn it.

Phil Balow was the creator

of the situation comedy,

The DiPsy Doodle Show.

I can't afford a problem with Phil.

It's all a math equation.

I'm me because at any given time,

I have three Phil Balows.

Hey.

Jack! Jesus!

Sorry.

Did I catch you

at a bad time?

No. Well, yeah.

I mean...

No, you know, we're Just in the middle of,

you know, rehearsal.

Sure, sure.

What's up?

What's up?

You haven't returned

my calls in three weeks.

It's not like you, Phil.

I Just want to make sure

everything's okay.

Yeah, no, yeah.

Oh, no, yeah, no.

I'm good. No, I'm fine.

- You happy?

- No, yeah.

Yes, yes, no.

- Yeah. Yeah, no.

- Okay. All right.

It's all good, right?

I mean, that's the thing, right?

But... right.

But you know what?

I gotta do this, 'cause, you know...

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Right, right.

- So... Okay.

- All right. Great.

- Okay, man.

- Good to see you.

- Okay, okay, okay.

- All right.

I'll talk to you soon.

Okay. Okay.

- Looks good.

- Okay. Okay.

So, we can't say "vulva,"

but we can say "fallopian."

I don't understand.

I think "vulva" is fine.

Now, is it the product?

Is it because of Volvo

that we can't say that...

You have one new message.

Sent today at 6:
01 p.m.

Hey, Jack, it's Phil.

Look, I gotta talk to you.

It was tough today

when you came by.

Something's going on.

You know?

And it's Just not like me.

We've got to sit down.

You know, we been through

a lot together, you and I,

and let's talk in the morning.

Okay, we should talk.

He's leaving the agency.

I knew it.

What a life.

Jack! Jack!

L... I love these fish.

They... they make me happy.

Sorry.

How about some trousers?

Okay.

Yes.

Jack.

Yes?

I've been sleeping with Phil.

It Just happened.

He was obsessed with me.

And we'd get together and...

I lost control

and it happened.

But it's over, Jack.

I swear it's over.

I'm so sorry.

So that's what he's

gonna tell me tomorrow?

Because I told him that

I was gonna tell you.

I made such a huge mistake,

Jack.

I'm so sorry.

I love you so much, Jack.

I love you so much.

Nina came along at

a point in my life

where all I did was work...

work and plan

and strive and deliver.

I became bigger than life.

I became rich and famous.

But I never smiled.

For five years, I never

cracked one genuine smile.

Steven Bochco is on line two.

It's important.

Tell Bochco you'll call him back, Jack.

I'm going to a photo shoot

and you're going with me.

I can't. I swamped.

Get unswamped.

These are supermodels.

Tell Bochco I'll call him back.

That's what I thought you'd say.

Nina brought the light back.

It was dark,

and then it was light,

and the only difference was Nina.

- Look. You like it?

- Wow. Yeah.

I can paint or sew or whatever.

It's a room for me.

Do you like it?

Yeah, it's great.

You have built-ins and everything.

- I know.

- What did this cost?

That's not important.

- That's not important?

- So not important.

- It's important to me.

- No. It's not.

I think it's important.

I'll figure out some way

to make it up to you.

You will?

We can figure it out right now!

Nina's on line one.

Tell her I'm not here.

Guys, we need to talk

about this thing at CBS.

We need to prepare for these meetings.

We aren't prepared.

You guys spend the entire meeting

talking about your little girlfriends.

That's only because

you won't spend any time

talking about your little

girlfriends, Arlene.

If I got one-third of

the snatch you get, Arlene,

I'd be the happiest man

on the planet.

You'd be the

second happiest man.

I'd be the first, 'cause you'd be

telling me all about it, okay?

We have a Phil Balow problem.

Excuse me?

He's been sleeping with my wife.

Okay, all right,

I thought you were being serious.

If that's the problem,

who hasn't been sleeping

with your wife?

So have I.

Me, too.

She confessed to me yesterday,

out of the blue.

Apparently, it's been

going on for some time.

Now, I'm telling you

all this as my partners,

as my best friends,

as my family, so I assume

I don't have to give

the confidentiality speech right now.

Oh, my God, Jack.

If this is true, I'm so sorry.

I don't know what to say.

Jack, this is true?

Yeah.

Apparently, she broke it off with him,

but it may have been

going on for some time.

Jesus Christ, Jack.

Is there anything we

can do to help out?

Well, you can support my decision

to drop Phil as a client.

You're kidding, right?

You don't want to drop Phil.

He's about to re-up his deal.

He's starting a new show.

You Just told me the other day

how valuable Phil is.

If it does half of

what DiPsy Doodle does,

we're looking at a package

that could be in the tens

of millions of dollars.

Jack, you need to

take a deep breath.

Okay? You need to get

straight with Nina, yes.

But don't do this, please.

I can take him on day-to-day.

You don't even have to

talk to the guy.

He is f***ing my wife!

What is it you guys

don't understand about this?

His name is off the client list!

Jack, come on.

You're taking this really personal.

That's the closet, Jack.

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