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A jacket for five dollars...I can buy this town for fifty bucks.
You told me that about the <u>last</u> town.
Yeah, but they never made a movie here.
I'm bleeding, Bill, I'm <u>bleeding</u>...
...why am I here...?
What, what, what, what do they got that can pass for the Old Mill...
Waterford, Vermont.
...you got to get me that street for nothing...
I will.
Waterford, Vermont. Where is it? <u>That's</u> where it is...
Because, because...we don't <u>have</u> to build an Old Mill they <u>have</u> an Old Mill <u>yeah</u>. It's on a stream that's where you <u>put</u> a mill.
...they run on water.
Now: I'm looking at the...
Fourteen year old girls.
Well, get him something else and let's get out of here in one piece. Get him a half of a 28year old girl.
It's Marty on the Coast
On the coast? Of <u>course</u> he's on the coast, where's he gonna be, the <u>Hague</u>...
How big is this horse?
Fifteen hands.
What is that in fingers...? Just kidding, get me this horse.
This horse is booked.
Tell the guy, get me the horse, I'll give him an Associate Producer credit.
He's on the ph...
Mitch, th'Marty Rossen, I'm here in...
Wat...
I'm somewhere in the, I'm on location, eh: This...well I'm going to solve it here, or this <u>Bimbo</u> you sent me's going to be doing a fuckin' <u>donkey</u> act in Akron, I'm talking about Restraint of Trade, Breach of...IT'S VERY SIMPLE...!
Rewrites that Bob Barrenger requested... the "dead horse scene," the...
Whatever it is. GO <u>do</u> it. How you doing on the permit?
Marty, it's Howie Gold on the coast, he needs your confirmation on a request for money...?
And I need a drink.
But, does it have to be an Old Mill?
Hi.
<u>Wonderful</u> scr...
Can't...can't you build the Old Mill?
They're holding it for ransom.
Uh why did we have to leave New Hampshire?
What's an Associate Producer credit?
It's what you give to your secretary instead of a raise.
It'll hurt the box office.
They know what her tits look like.
What courthouse?
Courthouse back in town.
Town ain't got no courthouse.
What?
Ain't got no courthouse. Courthouse burnt down, 1960.
Well, where do they hold court?
Hold court, they have to, science lab, the high school.
Mornin', Doc...
You doin' here, Doug, thought you started out the day with that pernicious <u>caffeine</u>...
He had a hard day. Ann's deserted him for some guy on the movie.
Well, they don't always leave with the ones they came in with.
Big day last night.
Hope to tell you. Didn't I pick the fragments of glass out of Bob Barrenger's actual head myself.
Cluster of events. Don't see something, ten years, allasudden. Three times inna night.
That's what they call an events cluster. Some guy, nobby orders a Manhattan, fifteen, twenty years, allasudden, three times inna night.
I know em, I don't know what order they come in...
We'll work it out...
Maude, this <u>man</u> wrote this <u>play</u>!
That a fact. Now, is it a good play?
Yes, Maude, it is. It is a <u>very</u> good play.
Well, then, what's he doing here?
What're you doing here...?
I'm glad you asked...I'll <u>tell</u> you what was wrong with it. And what was wrong with it was it was behind the times. Now: You want to bring <u>business</u> into this town? You have to plan for a Waterford that Does Not Exist. Not at the moment, <u>no</u>...
Morning, darling.
Morning.
S'Okay, Maude. You know your lines...?
...I'm sure that people are upset...
Well, I for one, am glad of a little diversion and I'm glad they're here...
What I am <u>saying</u>, is, we have to Look Out For Our Own...Now: they want to close down Main Street...
Annie: you stick to the Amateur Theatricals. This isn't quite the same thing, you see? This is Big Business, in which, our Life... ...s'no less a <u>commodity</u> than...than our...
Water or mineral deposits.
Waal, that's what I'm saying.
We on for tomorrow night?
After Drama Group.
Drama Group?
Tuesdays and Thursdays. But after Play Practice, I'm yours.
Go you Huskies...
And I might have something important to tell you...
What is it, a surprise?
That's right...
Waal, <u>there</u> you are, and Have I Got Some News for <u>You</u>...
Doug, this is Joe White, and this is, this, this is my fiance, Doug Mac...
What, what what are you doing here?
Yes, that's right.
Look at this. Do you know what they're offering? Look at this. They treat us like we're their backyard. Do you know what they're offering for three days to close down Main Street?
What are they offering?
Ten thousand dollars.
That's so beautiful...
I beg your pardon?
"The mill grinds the grain, but the grain is not destroyed. <u>Although</u> it is altered..."
Sure, but...ten thousand dollars. Do you know what they...this movie is budgeted at fifty <u>million</u> dol...they're coming up here, offer us a measl...
Hi!
We had a date.
We did...?
Where have you been...
I've been thinking.
Where have you been, we had a date for <u>three</u>...where have you <u>been</u>...?
I have to tell you something...
Well, I <u>know</u>, because they <u>told</u> me you were with that writer from the, you see, this is what I mean, the whole <u>town</u> has been warped by the, by, by the presence of the movie company, they holler, and we jump, you have a <u>date</u>, they call, you're doing business nine o'clock at night. It isn't...
I wasn't doing business.