too wild for a Cossack

 Mr. Marie:

Their relationship is indecent!

Don Hollinger:

Indecent?!  Mr. Marie -

Ann:

Oh, Daddy, that's just ridiculous.

Lew Marie:

Have you read the book?

Ann:

No.  But I have faith.

Ann's mother (softly and firmly):

So have I, Lew.

Lew:

Oh, you have?  Oh come, all ye faithful, and listen to this.  

[reads from the manuscript]

Michael is a writer in love with an actress.  He is also one of modern literature's greatest swingers.  Page one.  Michael and Rosemary meet at a party.

[stops reading from the manuscript, looks up and says - ]

...a party that in my opinion would be too wild for a Cossack!

Ann (curious) -

Let's see...

[She goes over to look, and her dad holds the manuscript away from her]

Lew Marie:

Over my dead body!

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