Let’s Do Lunch lyrics

[JOE]
Hi there, Myron

[MYRON]
How's it hanging?

[JOE]
I've got a date with Sheldrake

[MYRON]
I'm shooting a Western down at Fox

[JOE]
How can you work with Darryl?

[MYRON]
We should talk

[JOE]
Gotta run

[BOTH]
Let's do lunch

[MARY]
Hi, Mr. Gillis
[JOE]
You look great!

[MARY]
I'm up for an audition

[JOE]
Sheldrake is driving me insane

[MARY]
Don't forget me when you're casting

[JOE]
We should talk

[MARY]
Gotta run

[BOTH]
Let's do lunch

[MYRON]
Morning, Joanna

[MARY]
Hi there, Myron
[JOANNA]
Who are you meeting?

[MYRON]
You look great

[JOE]
Sheldrake, but do I need it?

[MARY]
I've spent the last month fasting

[JOANNA]
I'm handing in my second draft

[MYRON]
I'm shooting a Western down at Fox

[JOE]
I'd really love to read it

[MARY]
Don't forget me when you're casting

[JOANNA]
We should talk
[MYRON]
We should talk

[JOE]
Gotta run

[MARY]
Gotta run

[BOTH]
Let's do lunch

[JOE, spoken]
Yeah, I have an appointment with Mr. Sheldrake

[JONES, spoken]
Name?

[JOE, spoken]
Gillis. Joseph Gillis

[JONES, spoken]
Okay, sir. You know your way?

[JOE, spoken]
Yeah

[FINANCEMAN #1]
We want the keys to your car

[FINANCEMAN #2]
You're way behind with the payments

[FINANCEMAN #1]
Don't give us any fancy footwork

[FINANCEMAN #2]
Give us the keys

[JOE]
I only wish I could help
I loaned it to my accountant
He has an important client down in Palm Springs
Felt like shooting the breeze

[FINANCEMAN #1]
Are you telling us you walked here?

[JOE]
I believe in self-denial
I'm in training for the priesthood

[FINANCEMAN #2]
Okay, wise guy, three hundred bucks

[FINANCEMAN #1, spoken]
Or we're taking the car

[FINANCEMAN #2, spoken]
We have a court order

[JOE, spoken]
I love it when you talk dirty

(sung)
Hey there, Sammy
How are you doin'?

[SAMMY]
Truth is, I'm brokenhearted
Fed up with playing gigolos

[JOE]
That's how the stars got started

[GIRLS]
This is the biggest film ever made

[JOE]
What are you playing?

[ANITA]
Another victim

[DAWN]
"Tart with a heart of tinsel"

[JOE]
Let's do lunch
Gotta run

You've got to find me a job
I'm way behind with my payments
I thought you were meant to be my agent
I need some work

[MORINO]
I only wish I could help
This town is dead at the moment
There's been this slowdown in production

[JOE]
Who is this j*rk?

[MORINO]
He's my wunderkind from Broadway
Every major studio wants him

[YOUNGER MAN]
Playing one against the other

[JOE]
What I need is three hundred bucks

[MORINO, spoken]
Maybe what you need is a new agent

[JOE]
Hello, Artie

[ARTIE]
Joe, you bast*rd!
You never call me any more
Found a cuter dancing partner
How are things?

[JOE]
Not so great

[ARTIE]
Will this help?
Twenty bucks?

[JOE, spoken]
Thanks, you're a pal

[SHELDRAKE]
This is Sheldrake
Bring some water
Get me that sh*thead Nolan

Nolan, sweetheart
Great to talk
This draft is so much brighter
You're the best
Even so
I've hired another writer

[SHELDRAKE]
Joe! What the f*ck brings you here?

[JOE, spoken]
You wanted to see me

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
I did? What about?

[JOE, spoken]
"Bases Loaded", it's an outline for a baseball store

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
So, pitch!

[JOE, spoken]
It's about a rookie shortstop running .347. The kid was once mixed up in a holdup. Now he's trying to escape

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think I have read this
Somebody, bring in what we've got on a...

[JOE, spoken]
"Bases Loaded"

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
—Bases Loaded!

[JOE, spoken]
They're pretty hot for it over at Twentieth

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Good!

[ENSEMBLE]
Let's do lunch

[BETTY, spoken]
Here's that "Bases Loaded" materical, Mr. Sheldrake
I made a two-page synopsis for you, but I wouldn't bother to read it

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Why not?

[BETTY, spoken]
It's just a rehash of something that wasn't very good to begin with

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Meet Mr. Gillis. He wrote it!

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
This is Miss Kramer!

[BETTY]
Schaefer. Betty Schaefer. And right now, I'd like to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me

[JOE, spoken]
If I could be of any help...

[BETTY, spoken]
I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, I couldn't see the point of it

[JOE, spoken]
What sort of material do you suggest? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?

[BETTY, spoken]
I think pictures should at least try to say a little something

[JOE, spoken]
I see you're one of the message kids. I expect you'd have turned down "Gone With the Wind"

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
No, that was me!

[ENSEMBLE]
Gotta run

[BETTY, spoken]
And I guess I was disappointed. I've read some of your other work and I thought you had some real talent

[JOE, spoken]
But that was last year. This year I felt like eating

[BETTY, spoken]
Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
Thank you, Miss Kramer! Looks like Fox have got themselves a baseball picture!

[ENSEMBLE]
We should talk
Gotta run
Let's do lunch

[JOE]
You've got to give me some work
I'll take whatever's on offer
There must be some sh*t that needs a rewrite
Throw it my way

[SHELDRAKE]
I only wish I could help
There's no spare sh*t at the moment
Remember the greatest writers starved in Garrets
Didn't care about pay

[JOE]
Are you trying to be funny?

[SHELDRAKE]
I believe in self-denial
Gives a man some moral backbone

[JOE]
Can you loan me three hundred bucks?

[SHELDRAKE, spoken]
I'm sorry, Gillis. Good-bye

[JOE, spoken]
I just love Hollywood!

[MYRON, CLIFF, SAMMY, KATHERINE]
Morning, Joanna
Where've you been hiding?
Hi there, Lisa
How're you doing?
I hate this weather
You look great

[LIZ, MARY, JOANNA, GIRLS]
RKO are okay!
What're you doing?
You look great
This is the biggest film ever made!

[CLIFF, MARY, DAWN, JOANNA]
I'm trying to make my mind up
Guess I was born to play her
What is my motivation?
You look great

[SAMMY, LIZ, MYRON, MORINO]
They're talking nominations
You should go work for Warners'
Is your new script with Sheldrake?
I'm very close to Sheldrake

[ARTIE]
We shoot next month

[SAMMY, SANDY, ARTIE, MORINO, MYRON]
Gotta run!

[JOHN, KATHERINE, JOANNA, ANITA, JOANNA]
Let's drive to Vegas this weekend
Let's do lunch
You look great
I'm handing in my second draft

[MARY, KATHERINE, ADAM, CLIFF, MARY]
It's between me and Dietrich
I've landed a big Broadway show
I'm gonna work for Metro
Let's do lunch

[GIRLS, MYRON, CLIFF, JOHN]
Let's do lunch, this is the biggest film ever made!
I'd really love to read it
I'd know just how to light you
Let's do lunch

[JOHN & LISA]
It won't work

[MORINO]
Let's pencil Thursday morning

[ENSEMBLE #1]
We should talk

[ENSEMBLE #2]
Gotta run

[ALL]
Let's do lunch!
Hi, good morning. Aren't we lucky?
Going to work with Cukor
Paramount is paradise!
Movies from A to Zukor
We should talk
Gotta run

[ENSEMBLE #1]
Let's do lunch

[ENSEMBLE #2]
We should talk

[ENSEMBLE #1]
Gotta run

[ENSEMBLE #2]
Gotta run

[ALL]
Let's do lunch!

[JOE]
Come to get your knife back

(spoken)
It's still there. Right between my shoulder blades