A New Kind of Love Page #4

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s'il vous plait.

- Certainement.

- Oh, Mr. Bergner, look. lsn't it lovely?

Say, that's a nice view over there.

Welcome to la belle France,

Mr. Bergner.

- And hang on to your gold teeth.

- Lina, you're jealous.

Why shouldn't l be? l worked

for that schmo for 1 5 years.

And he still thinks l'm just doing it

for the money.

Maybe l should have walked

into his office a long time ago

and said, ''Mr. Bergner,

we simply must have breakfast.

Prune Danish, quart of champagne.

A poached egg on mink.''

The only trouble with being

middle-aged is it lasts so long.

- Perhaps this will help, madam.

- Oh, thanks a lot.

This isn't exactly a pleasure trip.

lf you really wanna

know the truth, l'm in exile.

The boss' wife.

''Hot Lips'' Hannah?

- Monsieur?

- Scotch?

Well, they're drinking in New York.

Un Scotch et une 7 UP.

Harry, you ever feel

absolutely useless?

Every morning when l get out

of the shower.

Unfortunately,

l got a full-length mirror.

- Yeah, well, at least you face it.

- Who faces?

No, but, l mean, who am l fooling?

l ain't no global thinker.

l'm just a bright boy from Texas

going to write the greatest play

the world ever saw.

l never got past the third page.

l got to page four.

Then my typing finger got tired.

After that l was gonna write

the world's greatest column.

You read it lately? Neither have l.

Then l took up blonds for an excuse.

A new one every week.

Sometimes four, sometimes six.

- You know what that's a sign of?

- Stamina?

No, loneliness. Deep, mixed-up,

cotton-picking loneliness.

Maybe you could teach me

to be lonely too.

Pick a different cotton every week.

l'm telling you, boy,

l gotta get on the stick.

l gotta come up

with something

that's gonna be so far-out that, well,

they'll have to start shining up

the Pulitzer prize and ordering me

back to New York

on a chartered rose petal.

Bon voyage.

Now, you, you've been working here

in Paris. Now, how do you get a...

An interview with somebody

in the French cabinet?

- Or the old boy at the top?

- What's your angle?

l don't know.

Maybe his love life.

Nobody's tried that yet.

That's good. That's very good.

Then you can write your experiences

as the first American to be guillotined.

- Ol.

- Frre Jacques.

l think l'll take you to Lanvin

this afternoon.

Tomorrow to Dior. He's one

of the best. Then St. Laurent--

Oh, you mustn't mention

that you've been to the other houses.

lt's absolutely a civil war. Why,

you have to have passports to get in.

lt's so exciting.

You can dress in leopard

from top to bottom.

And what woman doesn't want to have

a leopard bottom? And Pierre Cardin...

- Who's that?

- l don't know.

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