Sweet Smell of Success Page #2
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- 1957
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SIDNEY:
(interrupting, sharply)
It isn't. I've just seen the early
edition.
SALLY:
But...
SIDNEY:
But what?
SALLY:
That makes five days in a row that
Mr. Hunsecker's cut you out of his
column.
SIDNEY:
May I rent you out as an adding
machine.
He has begun to change his clothes.
SIDNEY:
Get me Joe Robard.
Sally goes back into the outer room.
SIDNEY:
Who else phoned?
SALLY:
The renting agent and the tailor.
SIDNEY:
Pay the rent. Let the tailor wait.
SALLY:
It won't leave much of a balance in
the bank...
(to phone)
Mr. Robard? Could you locate him?
Sidney, in a state of semi-undress, comes to take the phone
from her.
SIDNEY:
(gloomily)
Watch me run a fifty yard dash with
my legs cut off!
Very abruptly, he comes alive on the phone. A real laughing
boy.
SIDNEY:
(effusively)
Sidney, Joe. How do you like it?
I'm running out of alibis! No, I
asked Hunsecker to withhold the
item, until he could give it a
fine, fat paragraph. The column
was running over and I didn't want
you kissed off with just a line...
INT. ROBARD'S CLUB - NIGHT
Robard is a stolid, secure man, balding and with a moustache.
He has a morose sense of humor. He is speaking from a
telephone on a little desk at the end of the bar. In
background, the Club is open, but there are few customers as
yet. Some recorded jazz is being played while the musicians
are still arriving, strolling past in background, depositing
their overcoats and music cases in the little closet assigned
to them.
ROBARD:
(in answer to Sidney)
Of course.
(he listens to
protest from Sidney)
What is this, Sidney, a kissing
game? You're a liar - that's a
publicity man's nature. I wouldn't
hire you if you wasn't a liar. I
pay you a C-and-a-half a week
wherein you plant big lies about me
and the Club all over the map.
(a pause)
Yeah, I mean in that sense. But
also in the sense that you are a
personal liar, too, because you
don't do the work I pay you for.
(new protests on the
other end of the line)
Oh, stop it, Sidney. You're from
the country, not me.
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