Deal to Die for (2011)
Deal to Die for
“He tried to adjust the expression on his face, wipe off the impatience he was feeling. He’d heard a joke once, about the starlet so dumb she slept with the writer to get a part, but he’d never really understood it. Not the way he did now.
When he’d heard Mahler and Cross complaining about the changes they needed in the script, Paco had seen his chance. They’d been hesitant at first, but he’d persisted, embroidering on his classwork in the facility, the visiting screenwriter’s praise of his ...efforts until it sounded like Paco was some latterday. Youngblood Hawke, just an unfortunate prison sentence standing between him and an Academy Award. In the end, they’d told him to take a whack at it, and he’d jumped at the chance.
But writing a script for these people, even a script of this dubious type, was like taking a test for which there was no correct answer. He’d been at it the better part of twelve hours now, draft after draft, and he had decided that no matter what he gave them, it wasn’t going to be right.MoreLess
When he’d heard Mahler and Cross complaining about the changes they needed in the script, Paco had seen his chance. They’d been hesitant at first, but he’d persisted, embroidering on his classwork in the facility, the visiting screenwriter’s praise of his ...efforts until it sounded like Paco was some latterday. Youngblood Hawke, just an unfortunate prison sentence standing between him and an Academy Award. In the end, they’d told him to take a whack at it, and he’d jumped at the chance.
But writing a script for these people, even a script of this dubious type, was like taking a test for which there was no correct answer. He’d been at it the better part of twelve hours now, draft after draft, and he had decided that no matter what he gave them, it wasn’t going to be right.MoreLess
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