Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

All right. Great, all right.

What, you thought you were fired?

- Hey, Jim. - Jim, good to see you.

He wrote the script for "Patton"

You read it and you say, "That's my family."

What'd I miss? What'd I miss?

I could send you some scripts.

it's--it's about the experience of it.

Okay, so maybe we go with

JACK: Charlie, you own "The Godfather."

Not only was he a producer

You have the authority to do that?

Come on, Cheese.

In recognition for his loyalty to the commission,

What else was I gonna say?

♪ [Brenda Devlin's "I Love You More Than Anything"]

Hank can't fucking direct his way out of a paper bag.

ERIKA: Mario, he asked you a question.

Worked for Rand Corporation before "Hogan's."

SINGER: ♪ You said no strings

There's a French prisoner. Guy's a gourmet chef,

Guy's more connected than God,

Get the fuck out of here before I smack you myself.

BARRY: I hate to interrupt your little soiree,

BARRY: Ann-Margret and two flutes of champagne

I don't know why I did this to myself.

I'm just scared to lose this, producing,

They yell at each other.

Mr. Ruddy, I don't think this is--

I'll take you anywhere you want.

terrifying man of the hour.

Now, look, the movie's in here, but you gotta carve it away.

"Cowboy Favorites" to Bluhdorn. That's gonna change his tune.

and that book has been at number one for the past year.

No, the excitement, the thrill.

You must swear a blood oath to this.

but not at the price of my loyalty to what we do here,

instead of war.

Paramount's low budget specialist.

No ice cream. No ice cream.

After a year in L.A.,

I give you the reins,

a hell of an instinct for all these shows.

Eh, there's already "McHale's Navy,"

♪ [Cream's "White Room"]

You tell me who you are and why I should work with you.

You know what we're gonna do?

A million dollar return

It's says, "Hopefully, we can make this thing go away."

- Nobody. - Nobody.

what you've hit with, a military comedy.

I mean, you wanna talk shop sometime?

Hacks don't borrow money from guys

All right, it's not written yet.

It's the only way we're gonna make change.

So the studio got me a whole house to write in?

you're knocking it out of the park.

- Who the hell are you? - Al Ruddy with Paramount.

I mean, how do you glorify men who cut the head off a horse

and yeah, he's always that tan.

Well, then we'd better get started.

- at CBS last week. - Mm.

not including prints and ads, I can do that.

Look, we need an Italian to do this.

How do I tell that story any differently?

Yeah, the death is what makes it work.

- Producer of my next film, huh? - AL: That's right.

Uh, are we moving in?

AL: I'll get it.

God damn you all to hell!

And then book me a flight.

to produce the film that we should not be making?

Mr. Ruddy. Nice to see you again.

They can eat a lot of food though.