:17:03
Say, that's a nice view over there.
:17:05
Welcome to la belle France,
Mr. Bergner.
:17:07
- And hang on to your gold teeth.
- Lina, you're jealous.
:17:11
Why shouldn't l be? l worked
for that schmo for 1 5 years.
:17:15
And he still thinks l'm just doing it
for the money.
:17:19
Maybe l should have walked
into his office a long time ago
:17:22
and said, ''Mr. Bergner,
we simply must have breakfast.
:17:26
Prune Danish, quart of champagne.
:17:29
A poached egg on mink.''
:17:32
The only trouble with being
middle-aged is it lasts so long.
:17:36
- Perhaps this will help, madam.
- Oh, thanks a lot.
:17:39
This isn't exactly a pleasure trip.
:17:40
lf you really wanna
know the truth, l'm in exile.
:17:42
The boss' wife.
:17:44
''Hot Lips'' Hannah?
:17:47
- Monsieur?
- Scotch?
:17:50
Well, they're drinking in New York.
:17:52
Un Scotch et une 7 UP.
:17:56
Harry, you ever feel
absolutely useless?
:17:57
Every morning when l get out
of the shower.
:17:59
Unfortunately,
l got a full-length mirror.
:18:01
- Yeah, well, at least you face it.
- Who faces?
:18:03
No, but, l mean, who am l fooling?
l ain't no global thinker.
:18:06
l'm just a bright boy from Texas
going to write the greatest play
:18:08
the world ever saw.
l never got past the third page.
:18:11
l got to page four.
Then my typing finger got tired.
:18:15
After that l was gonna write
the world's greatest column.
:18:18
You read it lately? Neither have l.
:18:20
Then l took up blonds for an excuse.
:18:22
A new one every week.
Sometimes four, sometimes six.
:18:25
- You know what that's a sign of?
- Stamina?
:18:28
No, loneliness. Deep, mixed-up,
cotton-picking loneliness.
:18:32
Maybe you could teach me
to be lonely too.
:18:34
Pick a different cotton every week.
:18:36
l'm telling you, boy,
l gotta get on the stick.
:18:38
l gotta come up
with something
:18:40
that's gonna be so far-out that, well,
they'll have to start shining up
:18:43
the Pulitzer prize and ordering me
back to New York
:18:45
on a chartered rose petal.
:18:47
Bon voyage.
:18:49
Now, you, you've been working here
in Paris. Now, how do you get a...
:18:53
An interview with somebody
in the French cabinet?
:18:56
- Or the old boy at the top?
- What's your angle?
:18:58
l don't know.