hey gillis we d give you up let me take your coat jesus joe what s this made of mink who did you borrow this from adolphe menjou close but no cigar hey it s quite a crowd i invited all the kids doing walk ons in samson and delilah where have you been hiding i called your apartment i called your ex agent i was about to call the bureau of missing persons well they always know where to find me you gotta say your new year s resolution out loud jean by this time next year i ll have landed a juicy part nineteen fifty will be my start no more carrying spears i ll be discovered my life won t ever be the same billy wilder will know my name and he ll call all the time til he does can one of you guys lend her a dime  just an apartment with no roaches and no dry rot where the hot water comes out hot that s my hollywood dream your resolution is to write something that gets shot with approximately the plot i first had in my head but you ll get rewritten even after you re dead artie it s the year to begin a new life buy a place somewhere quiet somewhere pretty when you have a young kid and a wife then you need somewhere green far from the city it s a rambling old house with a big apple tree with a swing for the kid and a hammock for me behold my children it is i cecil b demille meeting me must be quite a thrill but there s no need to kneel i guarantee you every girl in my chorus line is a genuine philistine they don t come off the shelf i flew every one in from philistia myself i have some good news it s blind windows you don t let go i gave sheldrake an outline joe and he swallowed the bait well hallelujah while you ve been buying vicuna coats i ve been making a lot of notes now there s work we should do betty you re forgetting that i gave it to you you remind me of me long ago off the bus full of ignorant ambition thought i d waltz into some studio and achieve overnight recognition i ve seen too many optimists sinking like stones felt them suck all the marrow clean out of my bones i love blind windows but i can t write it on my own can t we speak on the telephone all my evenings are free hey just a minute i m the fellow who bought the ring artie this is a business thing it s important to me you ll be on location in clinch tennessee please make this your new year s resolution for me by this time next year i will get my foot in the door next year i know i m going to score an amazing success cut to the moment when they open the envelope pass the statuette to bob hope and it s my name you hear we ll be down on our knees outside grauman s chinese palm prints there on the street immortality s neat this time next year this time next year we ll have nothing to fear contracts all signed three picture deal yellow brick road career hope we re not still saying these things this time next year you know i think i will be available in the new year in fact i m available right now joe that s great hey artie where s your phone under the bar hey artie you think you could put me up for a couple of weeks it just so happens we ve got a vacancy on the couch i ll take it yes max it s mr gillis i want you to do me a favor i m sorry mr gillis i can t talk right now listen i want you to take my old suitcases i m sorry i am attending to madame what do you mean madame found the razor in your room and she s cut her wrists three two one happy new year should auld acquiantance be forgot and never brought to mind should auld acquiantance be forgot and days of auld lang syne for auld lang syne my dear for auld lang syne