The others around the table would be actor friends. Dim figures you may still remember from the silent days. I used to think of them as your wax works.
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I just had to get out of there. I had to be with people my own age. I had to hear somebody laugh again. I thought of Artie Green. There was bound to be a New Year's shindig going on in his apartment down in Los Palmas. Writers without a job. Composers without a publisher. Actresses so young they still believe the guys in the casting office. A bunch of kids who didn't give a hoot.
Sheldrake: That'll be all Miss Kramer... Schaefer.Betty Schaefer: Goodbye, Mr. Gillis.Joe Gillis: Next time I'll write you "The Naked and the Dead".
Madame has moments of melancholy.