The Heart of the Deal Page #2

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Everyone was asking about you.

- What's his name?

- Tim?

- Tim.

- Good guy.

-You're a tough man

to get a hold of.

- New phone system.

Got to work the bugs out.

- Can I get your cell?

- Don't really carry one.

Haven't had the need for it.

- Hmm.

How do I get a hold of you?

Your agent Brad Emprin?

- He's not really

my agent anymore.

I thought we could just wrap

this up today, you and me.

- Wrap what up?

- The deal.

Bill and Ben.

Just green-light it.

- I don't have a script.

- I'll get you one.

- This is the English Disraeli?

- Yeah.

- Bobby Mason?

- We'll tailor the script for

him. I'll hire a new writer.

- Mr. Berns...

- Charlie. I'm not that old.

We could date.

[ Chuckling ]

- I'm not sure what

it is exactly

that you think we

could accomplish.

- That's a really

good-looking man.

Bobby's got a window of about 5

months before the Ridley thing.

So we've got to really

move this along.

- I can't OK a script

I've never read.

- It doesn't matter

what you or I think,

it's a Bobby Mason picture.

- Well, Charlie,

we have a procedure here,

and I think we'll stick to it.

I need to read the script and

then get it to Bobby's people.

and then we'll put that

script in development

and we'll do that as quickly

as we possibly can.

- You are so good

at what you do.

- Thank you.

- A lot of people,

women in particular,

are really bitter and angry

because of the pointlessness,

the powerlessness

of their job.

But you have a lot of dignity,

and I really like that.

Thanks for talking to me.

- So you'll send me the script?

- Oh, now you're just

f***ing with me.

[ Chuckling ]

- Wow.

? Smooth vocal jazz ?

And then he say

to me, "We can date."

And with this little

smile on his face,

he says my job is useless,

I'm powerless,

and nobody gives

a sh*t what I think.

Which is true, but I can't

stand that he said that.

And I'm angry and bitter

but I cover well.

[ Phone ringing ]

Can you turn that sh*t down?

Hello?

Oh, yeah. Hello, Howard.

Yes, I met with him today.

Charlie Berns.

What? Well, why?

I told him we were interested.

Well, I just thought that

someone might want to read it.

Howard, I'll do it first

thing tomorrow morning.

OK.

OK, I'm going to do it tonight.

All right, thank you, Howard.

Good night.

- Dinner in two minutes!

- Excuse me!

- Hi!

or Charlie Berns.

- Hi!I'm looking f

- He's asleep.

Are you with

Jeremy Irons' people?

- No, I'm from the studio.

Deidre Hearn.

- Oh! Uh, right!

Um, hi.

I'm Lionel Travitz.

- Nice to meet you.

Oh, you're the...

- Writer. I wroteBill and Ben.

- Well, good for you.

Can I get a clean copy

of the script from you?

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