what it said
up there on the screen?
Yeah, but that's just
for the Writers Guild
health insurance.
- Oh, really?
- Come on,
you can't be serious.
She's an oriental,
for Christ sake.
Have you heard
from Ade lately?
No, why would I hear from her?
Would it be so surprising?
She left me for some other guy.
Is it any wonder?
Her poor mother is so upset,
she's practically delusional.
She's convinced herself
that Ade is dead.
Her mother's an alky.
You know that.
Regardless, Christopher.
You're my cousin,
and I love you, Carmela,
But I don't like what
you're inferring here,
Either with the movie
or how I treated Adriana.
Kelli comes out,
tell her I went to smoke.
There's my pal.
How you doing?
"Billy Bathgate."
they had it in the library.
I thought of you.
I don't know if you heard,
but Gerry Torciano,
He was hit last week
in Brooklyn.
- Who?
- Gerry Torciano.
It was all over the news.
They whacked him
in some restaurant.
Did you know him?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Good guy.
It's hard to breathe.
I'll talk to Gupte,
See if I can get him
to up the beclovent.
I'm dying, aren't I?
It's not good.
I Won't lie to you.
The aggressiveness
surprises me.
I gotta concur with Rosen.
I Appreciate everything
you've done, Warren.
- ( Doorbell ringing )
- ( knocking on door )
- Who is it?
- Christopher: you don't
answer your phone?
I shut the ringer.
It's the middle of the night.
Woman:
honey, what's wrong?
Nothing, sweetie, it's
fine. Go back to sleep.
It ain't fine.
We got a problem.
That whole sequence with
Sally boy banging the fiancee,
You gotta tell Tony
that was your idea.
It wasn't my idea.
What, are you fucking stupid
he probably thinks I put it
in there to embarrass him.
- Why did you put it in there?
- It was an idea.
I don't know.
Who knows where
they fucking come from?
Isaac Newton invented gravity
'cause some asshole hit him
with an apple.
It's bad enough that I don't
get credit for my own ideas.
Now I'm supposed to take
responsibility for some shit
that's gonna get me in trouble?
Fuck that, man.
Humanitas Award.
What's that?
Humanitas.
From the Paulist Brothers,
For writing themes
of socially redeeming--
Ow!
Look out the window.
You see a fucking
Hollywood sign out there?
Maybe you talk
to your agent like that,
But don't ever get fucking
snippy on me again.
The fucking scary thing was
I didn't know what happened
Till after the shot was fired.
Fucking weird.
- Tony, hey. Gentlemen.
- Hey, how are you?
T.J. Hooker.
J.T., actually, but uhm
I'm looking for Chris.
I'm supposed to meet him.
What, here?
The thing is
he left me a message,
But this fucking verizon--
- Mind if I wait?
- Yeah, sit down.
- Diet coke, please.
- Woman: you got it.
So what did you think
of "cleaver"?
It's good, you know.
Congratulations.
I hope we're gonna see
some money soon.
Yeah.
As a writer,
you can never tell,
you know?
You come up with an idea.
You don't know how the audience
is gonna respond.
I mean, just 'cause I like
something, I think of
Doesn't mean
anyone else will.
That's the challenge.
It is challenging sometimes,
Inventing characters,
how they interact.
The boss Sally boy
for example,
His whole persona--
I stole that from Broderick
Crawford in "Born Yesterday."
What's that?
Garson Kanin, 1950.
It's terrific.
William Holden falls in love
with Crawford's girlfiend,
played by Judy Holiday
The black girl,
the singer.
No, that's Billie Holiday.
Although Judy's character
in the movie
Is named Billie too,
so I can see
why you're confused.
I've never seen it.
Why would I be confused?
Anyway, the Sally boy character
Is based on Crawford--
sort of a big, burly guy.
The love triangle,
the cuckolding of Michael,
sleeping with the fiancee,
Very similar to
the Holden-Holliday dynamic.
- So the whole thing was your idea.
- Apologies to Garcon Kanin.
- What happened to your head?
- What?
Oh.