...No, Fritz, I'm not going back to Hollywood, any more than I'm going back to baseball. Make-believe and games can't hold a candle to the real world! Ah, well, I suppose your rugged adventures nowadays more than make up for it! But I have a piece of news, for which I'm willing to bargain -- (interrupting) -- Oh, Fritz, please, not another saga of screenwriter deullo, hot from Svengali’s--
FRITZ:
Come, tell me about the Red Planet, and how the devil did you get permission to go?
RAY:
Through family, really. You know my brother Mike, the archaeologist -- he got a grant from the De Jong Museum. They asked him to dig up some lost Martian book... |