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ight and continued down the hill past cheap houses and empty lots its driver cursing his quarry the whole time for not owning a phone ed and johnny lived in an apartment complex that had been modeled after the garden of allah but was a fraction of its famous namesake s size and possessed none of its opulence nor did it have a pool not even a miniature version of the real one it did have a garden however which filled the center of the horseshoe around which the spanish style bungalows were arrayed although it had not been tended since the advent of talkies a dwarf palm provided the centerpiece around which sprouted with an abandon comparable to that of the hungover guests at the grand hostel up the hill an array of exotic weeds the builder of the establishment sid nussbaum now deceased had faced a conflict when the time came to christen it should he name it after the hotel that had inspired him or after his blushing bride after much agonizing he had settled on a compromise and called it the garden of edna a large sign by the gravel driveway announced the name in a florid script of neon filled tubing and it was under this sign that the phaeton hissed to a stop and its driver stepped out and listened just as he d hoped and expected the air was rent by a single sound a typewriter clattering at inhuman speed following the racket around the weeds and past the dwarf palm he closed in on a room in a distant corner perhaps not accidentally the room furthest from the building office brilliant line ed boomed his fingers flying over the typewriter keys how about we follow it with then who the heck are you looking at aces johnny crowed pacing back and forth in front of the card table on which the typewriter sat and tearing bites from a sandwich and later when he s wearing that crummy jacket we ll know what he s up to an angel of vengeance descending upon the iniquitous ed intoned between bites of his own sandwich you better not be typing that johnny said you think ol ed doesn t know when to soar into poesy and when to stick to the vernacular so you think we got a winner here chum academy award winner chum that s what we ve got better n that bunkum brackett and wilder copped the statue with last week brackett and wilder ed said in a tone that suggested only pity for those men who had no idea what was about to hit them then he added god i m sick of spam it was the only thing louie d let me have on credit what do you want on our budget a porterhouse between bites of spam johnny dictated the next eight lines then ed suggested nine of his own although suggest might be the wrong word as his fingers never stopped pounding as johnny came back with the next five a knocking sounded at the door let s introduce the hooker now ed said do i hear knocking damn i hope we didn t wake up edna again johnny said okay she s wearing this big hat at first so he can t see her face clever ed said as another knock sounded at the door this one much louder and emphatic his voice dropped to a whisper christ don t tell me it s another bill collector johnny peered cautiously around the curtain then his face lit up hey it s paulie polidoris from d f s office as he threw open the door the typing stopped in the sudden silence his ears continued to ring with the staccato hammering hiya paulie how s tricks paulie was impassive and wasted not a breath d f s got a stinker he needs rewritten in four days you in a top to bottom rewrite demanded ed appearing alongside johnny he was no taller than his collaborator but his presence seemed nearly to dwarf him the extra fifty pounds accounted for part of that but mainly it came from his glowering eyes his forceful bearing and a voice that had been known to drown out artillery drills and air raid sirens during the war in four days that s what i said said paulie well i hope you left a deck of cards in the office said johnny so we can while away the extra time he punched ed in the arm and laughed paulie only stared at them are you in or are you not in the usual remuneration asked ed guild minimum and a pitch meeting with d f that s extra ah for christ s sake paulie yelled johnny if we do a full rewrite for the mug we deserve a meeting if i get you in there and you lay a turd in the middle of his rug the stink sticks to my shoes i ve got to balance the ledger of my career here hokay hokay said ed we do the rewrite for guild scale and then we kick back a quarter of it to you for a pitch meeting with the master by way of an answer paulie turned and walked toward the car ed and johnny had learned by experience that this signaled an agreement paulie had long ago stopped wasting the word yes on anyone but his employer had he refused their terms he would first have described them in a manner unacceptable to the motion picture production code and then turned toward his car they ducked back inside to shave and change ten minutes later the phaeton glistened back to the west with ed and johnny in the back seat ed secretly wished that he could take the front as his massive frame fit only with discomfort into the convertible s modest rear but he knew that anyone seen riding in the front seat through beverly hills would be taken for another studio flunky and not a top drawer writer being wooed johnny was content with any seat so long as the view was rewarding today it was a young housemaid turning up the steps to ronald colman s house gave him a smile he smiled right back fifty thousand dollars said ed in a hushed tone for her johnny yelped you re off your nut not her numbskull said ed the mansion and when we start selling our original scripts that castle could be ours yeah said johnny dreamily then he frowned at ed but i thought ronnie and benita said they were gonna hang onto the joint for a while paulie shot them a glance in the rearview mirror but never opened his mouth until they d left beverly hills and the hillcrest golf course behind and turned in at the fox studio gate look who i got he said to the guard hi ed hi johnny said the guard cheerily you got any more great movie ideas have we got ideas ed thundered an ex marine lands in the big apple see but he can t stomach the urban debauchery paulie accelerated abruptly and stopped even more abruptly at the writers building he handed them the screenplay told them what office they were in and roared off without another word the moment ed and johnny had disembarked that chiseler gives me a pain johnny said ed was looking all around with a gleam in his dark eyes ah but isn t it fine to be back on the fox lot johnny agreed that it was although he seemed less sure of it by the time they d found their way through the bowels of the writers building to their office he glared at the plain white door then looked down the corridor at the shingles that hung on every other door each emblazoned with a name dunne trotti reinhardt chodorov mankiewicz i d sure like to rate a shingle someday he said glumly partner ed said there s a whole world full of shingles in our future and a screen credit too above the title brother a smile spread over johnny s face but it fell abruptly when he opened the door to the office they d been assigned plaster was flaking off the ceiling the carpet had more cigarette burns than the waiting room floor in a maternity ward the sharp bite of mildew assaulted their nostrils stepladders paint cans a battered accordion and a dusty tyrolean hat sans feather were piled in a corner say johnny said this is the same dump they gave us last time i recognize the stupid hat nice of them to hold it open for us ed said breezily they must ve known it brings us luck johnny snorted the least they could ve done was fix us up with a secretary did you see the eyeful they gave furthman hell the dame hasn t been invented yet who can type half as fast as ed said ed what do you want a finished script or an eyeful did i hear somebody say eyeful they spun around at the voice betty grable was leaning against the doorjamb swinging a dainty little bag against her thigh she wore a dark gray skirt that barely covered her knees and a canary yellow cashmere sweater a black hat about the size of a teacup clung to her golden locks just above the right ear ah miss rosie o grady ed boomed sweeter than ever oh you betty said she held out both hands and ed and johnny each clasped one too late to hide their frayed cuffs it s so nice to see you both again ed nodded smugly as if he expected nothing else when johnny gazed into those radiant blue eyes he melted his eyes softened and a wide slow grin dimpled his cheeks with his straw hair and chiseled good looks he resembled alan ladd when he grinned only his teeth were nearer to six feet off the ground than ladd s five so how have you been betty asked jeepers when you two vanish you vanish but good you naughty boys haven t even given me your phone number they hadn t given her their phone number because they hadn t had one last time she d asked nor a phone to go with it they still didn t but one of their neighbors at the edna a struggling actor named beaumont had recently offered to let them use his ed had started to rattle the number off when betty said any great new movie ideas boys and how johnny said picture this for a meet cute this guy s driving his cab see and he s broken up because some high hat dame he was chasing just gave him the fingeroo when suddenly into his cab jumps don t spoil it now johnny betty put in are you boys going to preston sturges s party next friday we ve got no choice ed said the scallawag wouldn t take no for an answer i ll be dying to hear your ideas then betty said you shall not die in vain ed roared what time should we be there johnny asked but by then betty was already sashaying off tossing a toodle oo back over her shoulder well ed said it looks as though we re finally being accorded our due respect in this town i hope so johnny said you hope so ed sneered doubt that the stars move and that the sun is fire lad but don t doubt that betty grable just begged us to make a shindig okay okay johnny said waving the screenplay in the air now let s see what we can salvage outta this pile of rags as was their custom ed sat with his eyes closed visualizing the movie as johnny paced and read it out loud halfway through the opening scene ed barked stinks rewrite johnny had nearly made it to the fade out of the next scene before ed again said stinks rewrite the next section a brief montage something with swirling newspapers to show the passage of time went by without a word from ed but johnny was only two lines into the scene where the boy meets the girl when ed s voice filled the room again stinks rewrite so it went until at the end johnny flipped back through the pages and announced that s forty two scenes to redo how much time left til d f needs it ed pulled a pocket watch from his overstretched vest and said eighty hours and thirty five minutes johnny did some scribbling on the last page of the script that s an hour and fifty five minutes per scene but what about time for sleep ed asked we can t do a good rewrite unless we get enough sleep johnny looked at him and for a moment he and ed held each other s gazes suddenly they both burst into guffaws all right ed said settling at the typewriter it s a lead pipe union laid cinch ready johnny flipped back to the opening page of the screenplay ready he said and they were off the typewriter hammered through the evening when the other writers milled in the corridors and tossed pleasant insults at each other before driving home to their wives and mistresses through the long night when only they and the security guards remained on the lot into the hours before dawn when sleep hungry actresses began arriving to be painted into presentability by their make up crews occasionally the typing would slow as they wrestled with complex narrative decisions this joker who s trying to get the girl before the guy has the balls to propose said johnny as the sun rose he s got to be oilier let s make him a nazi great said ed he went into hiding right before uncle adolph traveled to the great beyond with a ton of stolen nazi gold said johnny oh wait a minute said ed vigorously rubbing his eyes his name s pedro and they want him written for cesar romero crap said johnny were there nazi mexicans there were spanish fascists who the hell knows what a fascist is snapped johnny how about since he got out of berlin he s been laying low in mexico or havana or wherever those people go paraguay ed said a villa in montevideo and the typewriter began picking up speed again roaring through the morning like the super chief across the heart of america then abruptly as if a herd of cattle had stampeded across the track it ground to a halt grant me but one kiss señorita johnny was dictating for a fleeting taste of your ruby lips i would run roughshod over the he broke off when he realized ed had stopped typing what the hell ed was shaking the typewriter damned contraption went blooey on me he said i think it s jammed jammed johnny said and into that single word the hard edge of desperation had crept ed glanced at his watch come on he said it s early enough that we should be able to appropriate another one they ran out of their office and barged through the first door they came to unlike the storage closet to which they had been assigned they found themselves in a vast opulently appointed office complete with a secretary with veronica lake hair lana turner lips and a jane russell bosom she sat erectly and very decoratively before a typewriter taking dictation from joseph l mankiewicz the klempner novel shows possibilities but there are just too damned many wives if we mankiewicz broke off and turned to regard the intruders a livid frown on his face but when he saw who it was the corners of his lips reversed their trajectory and a gleam appeared in his eyes ed johnny he grinned and what makes today my lucky day sorry mank johnny said we need your machine gun but bad then it s yours mankiewicz said i d never be the man who impedes your genius thanks a million ed said cradling the machine in his arms with barely a glance at the astonished secretary you know how impatient zanuck is we re all bees in a beehive mankiewicz said but promise me you re not neglecting your own dazzling ideas johnny grinned from ear to ear we ve got a honey in the roller right now mank this could be the one that makes us something made of music and fire eh you said it the hero s a real dope see but he saves the girl in the last reel a preston sturges sort of thing mankiewicz said sturges never wrote anything like this ed said i ll bet not mankiewicz said oh you know he s throwing a party next friday we know ed yelled as they thundered out of the room betty grable was just begging us to be there then i ll be there too mankiewicz said if you promise to tell me this idea before you ve won your beachhead on the shores of immortality aye aye sir ed said and as they 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