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No more you don't! What is this You're showing off for her? They're supposed to hear you in Korea?
He's intuitive he knows he's getting fired!
If you're funny, James, I'm a pretzel! Drop dead!
You're touchy, Sidney don't be so touchy...
I wasn't looking for a brawl. I came to bring him a present. Wanna bite to eat?
Feels like a Monday night, don't it...?
Not to me. Sometimes, the world feels like a cage. Then someone comes along and opens the door...and it's never Monday night again... I wish you and Steve could like each other.
We stick in each others craw.
Yes, but why?
Well, for one thing, he thinks J.J. is some kind of monster.
Where do you come off to make a remark like that?
Who could love a man who keeps jumping through burning hoops, like a trained poodle?
Do you think J.J. likes Steve...?
Frankly, yes, to my surprise. He thinks he's very gifted those boys'll go a big mile, he thinks.
It's given me a big lift to know that some people want me for myself, not just because I'm my brother's sister.
Chickie, I'll have to laugh at that an attractive girl like you...!
I hope that J.J. really likes Steve, that it isn't an act.
Why should he put on an act? Your brother has told PRESIDENTS where to go and what to do!
It's not my nature, Susie, but I'll talk to you like an uncle...
But I don't need an uncle, Sidney.
Listen, get a good night's sleep tomorrow's another day. Feeling sorry for yourself won't help.
I'm sorry about Steve, not myself. I'm even sorry for my brother. To be so lonely, without one real friend in the world to have to hang on to a worthless rag of a girl like me because she's his only real family
Come on now, chickie, why don't you go to bed...?
And I'm sorry for you, too, Sidney. You're going down with the ship.
What ship?
Susie, whatever problems you have with J.J. I didn't invent them! What're you blaming me for? If you learned to let out your hatred you would be better off!
Like you?
Yeah! Like me! I don't choke on my own gall I fight back! Let THEM choke, not me!
I'm not a man, Sidney, I'm
I know that bit you're a girl; you need a man to give you strength! So what do you pick such weak sisters for? Don't you know yet that you fight fire with fire, not with tear drops?
I could almost forgive you if what you did to Steve came from jealousy and love...
I didn't do anything!
...but you did it for greed, Sidney and that's pathetic.
Don't run away I was always the man for you! I'm talking to you out of two years of silence listen to what I say! Inside of six months
Please, Sidney, I can't stand this
J.J., if you think
Don't explain, Sidney... It doesn't matter now...
You watch him, Al, I s...s...stutter!
Temple, I caught your act the other night and
Did you now? On which bounce?
and I just had to drop by and tell you how great I thought you were.
Cheers. What time is it, Al?
No, I don't mind. I'm busy too.
Good! We're all off to Utica, so excuse me, Mr. Frannisonthe Portisan.
If there's a funnier man in the world than Herbie Temple at the Palace...uh...pardon us for not catching the name, we were too busy laughing. No, make that 'screaming'. It's sweet of you, J.J., thanks. Probably see you at Twenty One tonight. No, for supper, late. Right. 'Bye...
Speak to this lad, Al, ... to Mr. Falco.
See me in my office.
And it would cost a pretty penny, huh?
You tell him, I stutter!
Where's those glossy prints you promised? Tonight's the latest I can place them
Well, thanks, anyway let's forget it. It's cold out here, Susie.
I'm feeling too good to fight with you, but that isn't what I said I said you snoop. For instance, what were you doing around my hotel the other night?
Begging your pardon, I haven't been down the bowery in years!
It's a habit with me. So now I'm briefed. So what?
Frank thinks I shouldn't have come here
Why me...?
Why not you?
That's your idea of logic? I tell the Judge I didn't murder the man the Judge says, "Why not you?"
Only two men in this town could be responsible for that smear you or Hunsecker or both.
Dallas, ask your own manager he's standing here like a pained wolfhound Hunsecker and Elwell are enemies to the knife. So how do you get him doing J.J. a favor?
It is a favor, isn't it?
According to you, yeah. Dallas, your mouth is as big as a basket and twice as empty! I don't like you, comma, but neither do I go along with this column saying you smoke marijuana and belong with the Reds. Also, since we're talking repulsive, J.J. won't like this for two cents! Don't give me that look, Dallas J.J. believes in fair play. And secondly, this could splatter his sister with rotten egg by implication your her boyfriend!
You're talking very fast.
Well, I'll tell you what excuse me for breathing, will ya? How do you like it? He comes to my office and
Frank, you don't listen! J.J. just told you to shut your mouth!
Don't you think it's about time you shut yours? Who are you to tell a man like Frank D'Angelo to shut up?!
Give him creditthe boy's gall is gorgeous!
Why don't we hear what Susie has to say?
That's the third time he's called today.
He wants me to break a leg?
No, an arm, he said. I told him you were sure the item would be in Mr. Hunsecker's column in tomorrow's...
It isn't. I've just seen the early edition.
But...
But what?
That makes five days in a row that Mr. Hunsecker's cut you out of his column.
May I rent you out as an adding machine.
Who else phoned?
The renting agent and the tailor.
Pay the rent. Let the tailor wait.
It won't leave much of a balance in the bank... Mr. Robard? Could you locate him?
I wish I could help in some way, Sidney.
Help me with two minutes of silence!
Go home, Sally. It's late...
I hate to see you like this
Yes, but as a new subscriber you're under no obligation to take more than three books. And if you mail the enclosed card within ten days
Sidney, I know you by now. Don't do a dance with me...
You mean you don't want the extra free gift of a colorful giant map of the world???
Sidney, please, dear, if you feel nervous...
So what'll you do if I feel nervous? You'll open your meaty, sympathetic arms...?
Sid...you got me so...I don't know what...
You ought to be used to me by now.
I'm used to you...
No. You think I'm a hero. I'm no hero. I'm nice to people where it pays me to be. I gotta do it too much on the outside, so don't expect me to kowtow in my own office. I'm in a bind right now with Hunsecker so Every dog has his day! Lock up and leave the key.
If that's for me, tear it up!
Take a top coat.
And leave a tip in every hatcheck room in town?
What's the matter?
Nothing...
Did you send my folks in Philly the check...?
Yes.