[ALL]
Every movie's a circus
On the wire without a net
[JOANNA]
Coffee?
[MYRON]
I'm up too early
Shooting at seven
I gotta go
[ALL]
Movies
[BOY]
What's wrong?
[GIRL]
Can't get a screen test
Don't you hate it
When a yes-man says no?
[ALL]
Movies
[GIRL]
Good part?
[BOY]
I'm a policeman
"Hands up, punk!"
That's all I say
[ACTOR]
First time you've worked on the lot there
[ACTRESS]
I must say R.K.O. are O.K
[ALL]
Movies
[BOY]
Then what?
[GIRL]
He pressed a bu*ton
Out of the wall
Fell a four-poster bed
[ALL]
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[MYRON]
Busy?
[JOANNA]
They shot my screenplay
[MYRON]
Isn't that great?
[JOANNA]
No, they shot the thing dead
[ALL]
Every movie's a circus
On the wire without a net
[BOY]
Lonely?
[GIRL]
That's how I like it
[BOY]
Can't you be nice?
[GIRL]
Why? We're not on the set
[ALL]
Movies
[ARTIE]
Hey, Joe
What are you, slumming?
[JOE]
Here for a meeting
[ARTIE]
This time of night?
[ALL]
Movies
[JOE]
Yeah, it's some studio smarta**
You know I'm famous for being polite
[ALL]
Movies
[ARTIE]
Guess what?
I'm getting married
[JOE]
Congratulations
[ARTIE]
She'll be right back
[ALL]
Movies
[ARTIE]
Fact is, we were just leaving
She's been stood up by some uppity hack
[ALL]
Movies
[JOE]
Married. Who would have thought it?
Why don't you look happy?
Come on, be brave
[ALL]
Movies
[ARTIE]
It's this movie I'm shooting
[JOE]
You first a**istant?
[ARTIE]
More like a slave
[ALL]
Every movie's a circus
[ARTIE]
But this is a circus movie as well
Problems, nothing but problems
Animals, actors
Two kinds of hell
[ALL]
Every movie's a circus
On the wire without a net
[BETTY]
Well hello, Mr. Gillis
[ARTIE]
You two have met?
[JOE]
I'm the uppity hack
[ARTIE]
And she's the studio smarta**
[BETTY]
What's going on here?
[BARMAN]
Artie, they're calling you back
[BETTY]
I just reread "Blind Windows"
It needs some real re-working, of course
If we fixed up the opening
[ARTIE]
Call up the wrangler
Pay off the horse