:09:02
He was hard at work in Bel Air,
making with the golf sticks.
:09:09
You need $300? Of course I could
give you $300, only I'm not going to.
:09:15
- No?
- I'm not just your agent.
:09:18
- It's not the 10%. I'm your friend.
- You are?
:09:22
The finest things have been
written on an empty stomach.
:09:25
Once your talent gets into that
Mocambo-Romanoff rut, you're through.
:09:29
Forget that! It's a car I'm talking
about. Losing it is like losing my legs.
:09:33
Greatest thing that could happen.
Now you'll have to sit down and write.
:09:38
What do you think I've been doing?
I need $300.
:09:42
Sweetheart, maybe what
you need is another agent.
:09:57
As I drove back towards town,
I took inventory of my prospects.
:10:01
They now added up to exactly zero.
:10:03
Apparently,
I just didn't have what it takes.
:10:07
The time had come to wrap up
the Hollywood deal and go home.
:10:11
Maybe if I hocked all my junk, there'd
be enough for a ticket back to Ohio,
:10:15
to that $35-a-week job at the copy
desk of the "Dayton Evening Post",
:10:20
if it was still open, back
to the smirking delight of the office.
:10:25
All right, why don't you
take a crack at Hollywood?
:10:29
Maybe you think you could...
:10:32
Uh-oh!