:22:00
Are you an actor, Mr Falco?
:22:03
That's what I was thinking.
Are you, Mr Falco?
:22:05
How did you guess it, Miss James?
:22:08
He's so pretty, that's how.
:22:11
Mr Falco, let it be said at once,
is a man of 40 faces, not one.
:22:16
None too pretty, and all deceptive.
:22:19
You see that grin? That's the, uh...
:22:22
That's the "charming street urchin" face.
:22:25
It's part of his helpless act.
He throws himself upon your mercy.
:22:28
He's got a half dozen faces for the ladies.
:22:31
But the one I like, the really cute one,
is the "quick, dependable chap".
:22:35
Nothing he won't do for you in a pinch.
So he says.
:22:40
Mr Falco, whom I did not invite to sit at
this table tonight, is a hungry press agent
:22:44
and fully up to all the tricks
of his very slimy trade.
:22:49
Match me, Sidney.
:22:52
Not right this minute, JJ.
:22:58
I know, your wonder boy
is opening at the Latin Quarter.
:23:01
- JJ...
- Say goodbye, Lester.
:23:08
May I ask you a naive question, Mr Falco?
:23:11
Exactly how does a press agent work?
:23:15
Uh...
:23:17
Answer the man, Sidney.
He's trying to take you off the hook.
:23:20
You just saw a good
example of it, Senator.
:23:23
A press agent eats a columnist's dirt
and is expected to call it manna.
:23:26
Don't you help columnists
by furnishing them with items?
:23:30
Sure. The columnists can't do without us,
:23:33
except our friend JJ
forgets to mention that.
:23:35
You see, we furnish him with items.
:23:38
- Want some cheap, gruesome gags?
- You print 'em.
:23:40
Yes, with your clients' names attached.
:23:43
That's the only reason the poor slobs pay
you, to see their names in my column.
:23:47
Now I make it out
you're doing me a favour?
:23:49
The day I can't get along
without a press agent's handouts,
:23:52
I'll close up shop and move
to Alaska, lock, stock and barrel.
:23:55
Sweep out my igloo, here I come.
:23:57
You rode in on the Senator's
shirt-tails, so shut your mouth.