2:24:21
- Hi, Harry.
- Well, Stanley. How are you?
2:24:24
- All right. What's happening?
- You're just in time.
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We're gonna start a little game
called the "race for space".
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And it concerns you, so sit down.
2:24:30
Oh, yeah, you're gonna
shoot me up in something?
2:24:32
No, no, no. I'm talking about
space in a newspaper.
2:24:35
We gotta get your name
in the newspaper,
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- get people talking about you.
- Yeah.
2:24:38
See, in the old days,
we'd have you bathing in champagne
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- or committing suicide.
- That sounds wonderful. I love that.
2:24:43
But today you do the same thing
and never have to leave the office.
2:24:46
- You see that red phone over there?
- Yeah.
2:24:48
That is the hotline.
2:24:50
You're calling Khrushchev about me?
2:24:52
Somebody more important
than Khrushchev.
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- Who?
- Hedda.
2:24:55
- "Who-dda"?
- Hedda. Hedda Hopper!
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But I don't call her, she will call me.
2:25:02
You see, she has the most fantastic
nose for news in the world.
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If I were to call her and tell her what a
sensational new discovery I had here,
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she'd drop it in a little box
that said "press agents",
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and then they get thrown out with
the rest of the trash in the morning.
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Instead, I start a little story
around town about you.
2:25:18
Yeah, yeah.
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And I let it nourish,
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and I let it grow.
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And then we sit back and wait
for the red phone to beckon.
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Hey, you got a buck?
2:25:29
Yeah, that's all I have left
from rehearsal.
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Last time I tried this,
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Hedda called in four minutes
and 48 seconds.
2:25:35
Well, I got a buck says
she calls in four minutes flat.
2:25:37
- Bet?
- You got a bet.
2:25:39
Now, Stanley,
just to start the ball rolling...
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...where would you go if you wanted
to hear some real hot gossip?
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Where would I go if I wanted...?
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- Barber shop, beauty parlour?
- Perfect!
2:25:52
Perfect. The centre of American
cultural exchange.
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- The beauty parlour.
- Start timing, Stanley.
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All right. One.
If I win the buck, it'll be
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two, because he put one,
is two...