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- Margo again.
- And again and again.
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- Two hours late for the audition.
- That's on time for Margo.
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And then a childish routine about
not knowing Eve was her understudy.
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- It's possible she didn't.
- She knew.
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Addison told her how superbly
Eve had read the part.
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Karen, let me tell you about Eve.
She's got everything. A born actress.
1:13:21
- Sensitive, understanding, young, exciting...
- You'll run out of adjectives, dear.
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Everything a playwright first thinks
of wanting to write about,
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until his play becomes
a vehicle for Miss Channing.
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Margo hasn't done badly by it.
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Margo's great.
She knows it, that's the trouble.
1:13:37
She can play Peck's Bad Boy
all she wants and who's to stop her?
1:13:40
Who's to give her that boot
in the rear she needs and deserves?
1:13:46
It's gonna be a cosy weekend.
1:13:48
- What is?
- We're driving to the country tomorrow.
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Just the four of us. Bill, Margo, you and I.
1:13:55
Well, we've spent weekends
before with nobody talking.
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Just be sure to lock up
all blunt instruments and throwable objects.
1:14:06
Newton, they say, thought of gravity
by getting hit on the head by an apple.
1:14:11
And the man who invented the steam-engine,
he was watching a teakettle.
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But not me. My big idea came
to me just sitting on a couch.
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That boot in the rear to Margo.
Heaven knows, she had one coming.
1:14:25
From me, from Lloyd, from Eve,
Bill, Max and so on.
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We'd allfelt those size fives
of hers often enough.
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But how? The answer was
buzzing around me like a fly.
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I had it.
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But I let it go.
Screaming and calling names is one thing,
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but this could mean...
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Why not? "Why"I said to myself"not?"
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It would all seem perfectly legitimate.
And only two people in the world would know.
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Also, the boot would land where
it would do the most goodfor all concerned.