:23:03
I felt kind of pleased
with the way I'd handled the situation.
:23:07
I dropped the hook,
and she snapped at it.
:23:11
My car would be safe down below
while I patched up the script.
:23:16
And there should be
plenty of money in it.
:23:23
This room hasn't been
used for a long time.
:23:26
It'll never make "House Beautiful",
but it's OK for one night.
:23:30
- I made your bed this afternoon.
- How did you know I'd stay?
:23:36
The bathroom's there. I put in some
towels, soap and a toothbrush.
:23:44
Say, she's quite a character
that Norma Desmond.
:23:48
She was the greatest.
You wouldn't know, you're too young.
:23:52
In one week,
she received 17,000 fan letters.
:23:56
Men bribed the hairdresser
for a lock of her hair.
:23:59
There was an Indian maharajah who
came to beg one of her stockings.
:24:04
Later he strangled himself with it.
:24:08
Well, I sure turned
into an interesting driveway.
:24:11
You did, sir. Goodnight, sir.
:24:20
I pegged him as slightly cuckoo, too.
:24:24
A stroke maybe.
:24:26
The whole place seemed stricken
with a creeping paralysis,
:24:32
out of beat with the rest of the world,
crumbling apart in slow motion.
:24:38
There was a tennis court,
or rather the ghost of a tennis court,
:24:43
with faded markings
and a sagging net.
:24:50
And, of course, she had a pool.
Who didn't then?
:24:55
Mabel Normand and John Gilbert
swam in it 10,000 midnights ago.