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"Bill? Hello?" I’ fawned over on Melrose? Sitting there with a headset on, looking like you belong in an air traffic controllers’ room at LAX?"

"Do I need to remind you that I am more powerful than you?" Bill asks tiredly "Do I need to remind you that a headset is mandatory?"

"You’re my broker of opportunity, baby"

"Hopefully I will benefit fro on with Flatliners II? The script is like almost brill What’s the story?"

"The story?" Bill asks quietly "The story is: I was at a screening thisand the product had some exceptional qualities It was accessible, well-structured and not particularly sad, but it proved strangely unsatisfying Itto do with the fact that the product would have been better acted by hand puppets"

"What movie was this?"

"It doesn’t have a title yet," Bill ula meets The Breakfast Club"

"I think I’ve seen this movie Twice, in fact Now listen, Bill-"

"I spent a good deal of lunch at Barney Greengrass today staring at the Hollywood Hills, listening to soiant pasta e"

I turn the TV off, search the aparthts?"

"`How near death am I?’ " Bill pauses "I don’t think I should be thinking things like that at twenty-eight I don’t think I should be thinking things like that at Barney Greengrass"

"Well, Bill, you are twenty-eight"

"Touching a seltzer bottle that sat in a chahtcream solidified that process The pitcher finally tried todinner at the Viper Roouely plausible, like, ie, not a bad evening"

I open the glass-door refrigerator, grab a blood orange and rollit