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No. No, no, no. Hold it, hold it.
I told you I want a shadow right here
on her neck. You understand?
Not your fault, sweetie. You're terrific.
Okay, Charlie. We go again.
Right now.
- Camera, number one position.
- Playback.
- Quiet.
- All right, places, everybody.
And then, before you know it,
comes the night of the preview.
The first part of the film, I felt so safe.
- What did you say her name was?
- Alexandra Del Lago, stupe.
I thought she was dead and buried.
Sweetie, wait. Believe me. Please.
Miss Del Lago, one more picture, please.
She fell. Oh, poor thing.
- She's drunk.
- They're all drunks, all of them.
After that, flight.
Running away from that
frightful comeback.
I never stopped running until now.
- Know what you need right now?
- Yes, to forget again.
First we...
We let the hash take effect.
And then...
...we apply the magic formula.
What?
Like we did in Palm Beach, remember?
That soothing, magical formula
called papaya cream.
Yes. Yes.
Papaya-cream rubs.
Were you one of those faceless
young bodies in Palm Beach?
Well, that's where we met.
Don't you remember, in your
private cabana, on the beach?
And you were breathless.
I mean, just like you are right now.
It was painful. Painful to see.
And you were the anesthetic
that eased my pain.
Yeah, and you were smoking.
Just like you are right now.
That feels so...
I don't remember your face,
but your hands are familiar.
There. That hash,
how'd you get hooked?
On my way to Europe,
running away from my comeback.
The ship's doctor gave me injections.
Did he know he was giving narcotics
to the famous Alexandra Del Lago?
He just knew he was helping a woman
suffering from neuritis.
The hashish came later. In Tangier.
How'd you get it into the States,
smuggle it?
Know another way?
You mean you smuggled it right past
customs, princess?
What are you trying to prove?
Nothing. No, I just...
Don't forget, you're the one
that introduced me...
...to this fine old Moroccan hash.
Boy, I doubt very much
if I have any vice...
...old or new,
that I could introduce to you.
- Ma'am, don't call me boy.
- You knew all about this stuff, Carl.
- My name is not Carl, it's Chance.
- You called yourself Carl in Palm Beach.
in my pocket.
Why, are you a criminal?
No, ma'am, not me.
I mean, you're the one that's committed
a federal crime.
What'd you do that for?
I thought you might've
planted someone outside the door.
Don't you trust me?
Who taught you to rub
desperate ladies the right way?
And you say all you did
was manipulate the papaya cream?
- Well, more or less.
- How much more?
Ma'am, if we'd made love,
you'd have remembered it.
Well, what stopped you? Certainly not I.
And certainly not your ethics.
What's the angle?
Why did you hold out?
I held out till you signed a contract.
Well, evidently I signed.
Why did you still hold out?
- I wanted to hold your interest.
- Well, you miscalculated.
with satisfaction.
You mean you don't intend
to live up to that contract?
I can get out of that contract
any time I want to.
- Do you have any talent?
- For what?
Acting, baby.
Acting. A contract for acting
implies that you are an actor. Are you?
I've been an extra in movies
long enough to know that...
...I can be as big a star as some of them
she-men that have made it. Princess.
Princess?
All I need is just one big break.
- Carl, it takes more than one break.
- Chance. Chance. Chance Wayne.
- You're stoned.
- Baby, there is no easy way to the top.
You can forget about magic formulas
and trick contracts.
Forget about this false dream.
Okay, say it, princess.
What is it you want?
Come here. Let's comfort
each other a little.
That's right.
Princess?
You know something, honey?
That all that talk about narcotics...
...it's been recorded on tape.
- Where did you get that thing?
- You bought it for me in Palm Beach.
To improve my diction.
- Comeback. The ship 's doctor
gave me injections.
Did he know he was giving narcotics
to the famous Alexandra Del Lago?
He just knew he was helping a woman
suffering from neuritis.
The hashish came later. In Tangier.
- Blackmail, is it?
- That's very ugly language.
The language of the gutter is understood
by anyone who ever fell in it. Price?
I just want you
to live up to this contract.
- And that's not all.
- Money?
- And if I refuse?
- Well, you won't.
You wouldn't want the FBI
to get ahold of these recordings.
- Chance.
- Or the newspapers...
...and those bigshot columnists?
And the dirt magazines?
Princess, you got a big name
to protect. You still got a reputation.
I had, baby, I had.
I have been blackmailed by experts.
I hate to think what desperation
has made you think...
...that you can try to intimidate me.
Me, Alexandra Del Lago,
with this ridiculous...
Oh, Chance, it's silly.
It's so silly, it's touching.
It's downright endearing.
Makes me feel close to you.
Now, I gotta see somebody.
I want some cash and I want your car.
Here. Here. Now, you'd better start
signing these traveler's checks, or I'll...
Or what? Oh, put that away,
one monster has to give way...
...and it will never be me.
Now, then, signed checks are payment.
Delivery comes first.
I have only one way to forget the things
that I don't want to remember...
...and that way is through making love.
It's the only dependable distraction,
and I need that distraction right now.
In the morning, we'll talk about
what you want and what you need.
Aren't you ashamed a little?
Yes. Aren't you?
More than a little.
Close the curtains, please.
Then come here to me.
And make me almost believe
that we are a pair of young lovers...
...without any shame.
Two things, Pa.
First, he's bedding in with a broken-down
old movie star, Alexandra Del Lago.
But she's still famous and capable
of causing us trouble...
Second, Mr. Wayne don't show
any inclination to move on.
I told him...
...she's not well enough to travel.
- Bull.
If you roughhouse this woman,
every newspaper's gonna be down here.
But if we separate Mr. Wayne
from his lady...
...we could proceed more directly,
if it was necessary.
Right, sir. You're the doctor,
call an ambulance.
- Haul queenie to the hospital.
- Without her permission?
Say she's contagious.
Bubonic plague, typhoid fever.
- I'm not gonna let you involve me in this.
- Lower your voice.
- He's not gonna involve me in this...
- Doctor, laddie...
...you are already involved right up
to your scrofulous chicken neck.
I've done anything you ever asked me.
Anything.
But one public mistake,
one slip, and we...
Laddie, you've got all the symptoms
of a nervous breakdown.
Now, my prescription for you
is a weekend vacation.
A change of scenery
to build up your backbone.
I'd say you're sickly. Critical.
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