61. INT. POLO LOUNGE RESTAURANT – DINING AREA – DAY (CONT’D)
(Continuation from end of montage.) FRANKIE sees KAPPY seated in a booth, and sits down with him.
KAPPY
Have a good day?
FRANKIE
Tell it like it is.
KAPPY
Well, they talk James Garner or Rod Taylor or somebody else. They won’t talk you.
FRANKIE
When you tell it straight, you don’t do any polka do you?
KAPPY
Put Regan’s back against the wall you told me, and I told you he’d remember. The figures on your picture are all over town.
FRANKIE
That crumb. I broke may back for him in “Breakthrough.” It was a great picture.
KAPPY
I checked it out, it’s all true. Like tryin’ to hatch an ostrich egg. The picture sits there.
FRANKIE
Things can’t be as bad as you’re makin’ ’em, Kappy. Not so fast, not just like that.
KAPPY
It’s as bad as you can make it, Frankie.
FRANKIE
I’ve got a home, a wife, a yacht, cars, I’ve got things I worked a long time to get. It’s a nightmare, Kappy. You’ve gotta do something, you’ve got to pull me out.
KAPPY
If you only saved a little, Frankie, but you always spent. God, how you spent.
FRANKIE
That’s all passed. This is now. Don’t lecture me, you’ve got to save me, Kappy.
KAPPY
What am I, the second coming of the Messiah? I’m an agent, there’s just so much I can do. (pause) All right, there’s a television pilot deal, an adventure series.
FRANKIE
A television pilot?!
KAPPY
I figured you feel that way about it.
FRANKIE
Pilot films are a dollar a six-pack. If it doesn’t sell, I’m really through. This town is full of ex-actors who were in unsold television pilots. They’re sellin’ used cars or real estate.
KAPPY
I know . . . or working as head waiters. But there’s no other way to go.
Panicked, Frankie starts to leave.
KAPPY (CONT’D)
Frankie, winter’s coming. Be smart, get in out of the cold.