ALL:
 Every movie's a circus
 On the wire without a net
 JOANNA
 Coffee?
 MYRON:
 I'm up too early
 Shooting at seven
 I gotta go
 ALL:
 Movies
 BOY:
 What's wrong?
 GIRL:
 Can't get a screen test
 Don't you hate it
 When a yes-man says no?
 ALL:
 Movies
 GIRL:
 Good part?
 BOY:
 I'm a policeman
 "Hands up, punk!"
 That's all I say
 ACTOR:
 First time you've worked on the lot there
 ACTRESS:
 I must say R.K.O. are O.K.
 ALL:
 Movies
 BOY:
 Then what?
 GIRL:
 He pressed a button
 Out of the wall
 Fell a four-poster bed
 ALL:
 Movies
 MYRON:
 Busy?
 JOANNA:
 They shot my screenplay
 MYRON:
 Isn't that great?
 JOANNA:
 No, they shot the thing dead
 ALL:
 Every movie's a circus
 On the wire without a net
 BOY:
 Lonely?
 GIRL:
 That's how I like it.
 BOY:
 Can't you be nice?
 GIRL:
 Why? We're not on the set.
 ALL:
 Movies
 ARTIE:
 Hey, Joe
 What are you, slumming?
 JOE:
 Here for a meeting
 ARTIE:
 This time of night?
 ALL:
 Movies
 JOE:
 Yeah, it's some studio smartass
 You know I'm famous for being polite
 ALL:
 Movies
 ARTIE:
 Guess what?
 I'm getting married
 JOE:
 Congratulations
 ARTIE:
 She'll be right back
 ALL:
 Movies
 ARTIE:
 Fact is, we were just leaving
 She's been stood up by some uppity hack
 ALL:
 Movies
 JOE:
 Married. Who would have thought it?
 Why don't you look happy?
 Come on, be brave
 ALL:
 Movies
 ARTIE:
 It's this movie I'm shooting
 JOE:
 You first assistant?
 ARTIE:
 More like a slave
 ALL:
 Every movie's a circus
 ARTIE:
 But this is a circus movie as well
 Problems, nothing but problems
 Animals, actors
 Two kinds of hell
 ALL:
 Every movie's a circus
 On the wire without a net
 BETTY:
 Well hello, Mr. Gillis
 ARTIE:
 You two have met?
 JOE:
 I'm the uppity hack
 ARTIE:
 And she's the studio smartass
 BETTY:
 What's going on here?
 BARMAN:
 Artie, they're calling you back.
 BETTY:
 I just reread "Blind Windows"
 It needs some real re-working, of course
 If we fixed up the opening
 ARTIE:
 Call up the wrangler
 Pay off the horse