paper clips

 Ann:

Well, you just never mentioned you knew anybody as important as T.L. Harrison!

Lew:

He lives in Brewster.  Where he's been eating in my restaurant for years.

Ann:

Donald, how 'bout that?  My humble father knows a prominent publisher!

Donald:

Do you really know him well, sir?

Lew:

Well? - Onion soup, mixed green salad (oil and vinegar), New York steak-medium-rare, baked potato - sour cream and chives, coffee, and custard.  That well enough for you?  

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Ann asks her dad to give Donald's novel to T.L. Harrison, to read.

Don demurs, saying it's too much of an imposition, but Mr. Marie wants to help.

        They give him the manuscript.

        The following weekend, Don and Ann drive up to Brewster to see Ann's parents, by invitation, and to see about the novel.

Ann's mother lets them in.

Ann:

How's everything?

Mrs. Marie:

Oh, fine - fine.

Ann:

Did Daddy show Mr. Harrison Donald's novel?

Mrs. Marie:

No he didn't.

Ann:

Why?

Mrs. Marie:

Because - uh - well - Why don't you ask him yourselves?

Ann:

OK.  Hi, Daddy!  (going into the room where he is)

Don:

Hi, Mr. Marie.

Mrs. Marie:

Well Lew, you have to speak to them.

Lew:

You should both be arrested.  You, for writing this trash, and you for letting your delinquency be contributed to!  

Ann:

You didn't like it.

Mrs. Marie:

He felt it missed.

Don:

So I gather.

        I'm sorry you don't care for the book, Mr. Marie.

Lew:

Your apology is not accepted.  And do not call this a book.  I call it trash. ...

Donald:

With all due respect, Mr. Marie, I can't believe you understood the book.

Lew:

I understood it perfectly.  I marked the trashy parts with paper clips.  And before I was half-way through, I had to go out and buy another box of clips!

Marlo Thomas as Ann Marie

Lew Parker as Lew Marie

Ted Bessell as Don Hollinger

        in That Girl

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