Dawn:By this time next year

I'll have landed a juicy part

Steve:Nineteen fifty will be my start

Richard T.:No more carrying spears

Mary:I'll be discovered

My life won't ever be the same

Billy wilder will know my name

And he'll call all the time

Katherine:till he does can one of you guys

Lend her a dime?

Alisa:Just an apartment

With no roaches and no dry rot

Anita:where the hot water comes out hot

Both:That's my Hollywood dream

Joanna:My resolution

is to write something that gets shot

With approximately the plot

I first had in my head

Myron:But you'll get rewritten

Even after your dead.

Artie:It's the year to begin a new life,

Buy a place somewhere quiet,

Somewhere pretty.

When you have a young kid and a wife

Then you need somewhere green far

From the city.

It's a rambling old house with

A big apple tree

With a swing for the kid and a hammock

For me.

Sammy:Behold, my children

It is I, Cecil B. DeMille

Meeting me must be quite a thrill,

Adam:But there's no need to kneal.

Sammy:I guarantee you

Every girl in my chorus line

Is a genuine philistine

Adam :they don't come off the shelf

Sammy:I flew everyone in from philistia myself.

Joe:how's your next project?

Betty:Sheldrake's anxious to option it

I've a feeling he smells a hit

We've got so much to do.

Joe:Betty, you're forgetting that I gave it to

You.

You remind me of me long ago

Off the bus, full of ignorant ambition

Thought I'd waltz into some studio

And achieve overnight recognition.

But an audience thinks when it's watching

The screen. That the actors make up every word

In the scene.

Betty:I've done an outline,

But I can't write it on my own

Can't we speak on the telephone?

All my evenings are free.

Artie:Hey just a minute

I'm the fellow who bought the ring

Betty:Artie, this is a business thing

It's important to me

You'll be on location in Clinch

Tennessee.

Please make this your new year

Resolution for me.



All:by this time next year,

I will get my foot in the door

Next year I know I'm going to score

An amazing success



Cut to the moment

When they open the envelope

Pass the statuette to Bob Hope

And It's my name they hear

We'll be down on our knees

Outside Grauman's Chinese

Palm prints there on the street

Immortality's neat!

This time next year

This time next year



We'll have nothing to fear

Contracts all signed

Three-picture deal

Yellow brick road career

Hope we're not still saying these things

This time next year