Bullets Over Broadway Page #3

small part. Who do you see in the lead?

- I don't know.

- What about Helen Sinclair?

Oh, sure. I mean, she'd be great.

But can we get her?

Why can't we get her? She's been in

nothin' but flops the past three years.

Yeah, but she's

a major actress.

[ Chuckles ]

Was.

She'd be great.

I mean, really, she's brilliant.

- She possess the necessary fire.

For the part, she'd be great.

- You really think so?

- I'm glad you think so.

- Think we can get her?

- I sent the script

to her agent, Sidney Loomis.

- You did?

- Did I do wrong? Did I do wrong?

- No, no.

- Did I do wrong not checking

with you first?

- Not at all.

- If so, I stand corrected. I mean that.

- No, really.

- Helen Sinclair... really.

- Get it out.

- She's great.

- Well, all we can do

is hope for the best.

You must be joking!

You want me to play some frumpy

housewife who gets dumped for a flapper?

Don't you remember who I am?

Don't you know who you represent?

- I'm Helen Sinclair!

- Definitely! You are

definitely Helen Sinclair.

I look at you and I say Helen Sinclair!

But who better to play that role?

- Under whose direction? Some novice!

- He's the author.

- Of two flops.

- Julian says it was the directors

that messed up those projects.

Julian Marx! I do plays put on

by Belasco or Sam Harris.

Not some Yiddish pants salesman

turned producer.

My ex-husband used to say,

"lf you're gonna go down,

go down with the best of them."

- Which ex-husband?

- Oh, I don't know which ex-husband.

The one with the moustache.

Listen to me. Authors are very often

the best directors of their own works.

She's dowdy! Sid, the ingenue

has all the hot lines.

Even the female psychiatrist

is a better role.

But the role of Sylvia Poston

is the lead.

Sylvia Poston.

Even the name reeks of Orbach's!

I do Electra!

I do Lady Macbeth!

I do plays by Noel and Phil Barry

or at least Max Anderson.

Helen, listen to me. This is

a major part in a serious play.

And let's face it, Helen. You have

not been in a hit in a long time.

- In a long, long, long time.

- I'm still a star!

I never play

frumps or virgins.

You're a star because you're great,

and you are a great star.

- But let me tell you somethin'.

- [ Bell Rings ]

In the last couple of years...

you're better known as an adulteress and

a drunk-- I say this in all due respect.

I haven't had a drink

since New Year's Eve.

- We're talkin' Chinese New Year's.

- Naturally.

Still, that's two days, Sid.

You know how long that is for me?

- What is it, Josette?

- [ Woman ] Some flowers.

Well, bring them here,

will you?

The offers are not pourin' in

like they used to.

They're from David Shayne.

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