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Jane : Good morning, Gina.
Gina : Hi.
Jane : You haven't seen my Filofax anywhere,
have you?
Gina : No.
Jane : No. Okay. I'll go look for it. Did you get those catalog pages in for
George?
Gina : No.
Jane : Okay. No worries. I'll get them from production.
Casey : Attagirl.
Show her who's boss.
Jane : I'm not her boss.
Casey : You're the boss's assistant. Same
diff. What's the good of your job if you can't abuse the power?
Jane : Casey, go to Accounting.
Casey : Now you're bossy.
Jane : Where the hell did I put that thing?
Kevin : That is a great idea for the front
page of the section.
Maureen : Oh, come on, Doyle. How many times have I heard this from you?
Kevin : I'm telling you, Maureen : It's a great idea.
Maureen : Really? As great as your last great idea, an expose on price-fixing at
wedding bakeries?
Kevin : Yes! Yes! They're ripping people off.
Flour costs pennies per ounce. That's an 800% markup. It's outrageous.
Maureen : Yes, it is. Also, no one cares.
Kevin : What about the piece I wanted to do on the exploitation of workers in
lace factories? That is a killer piece.
Maureen : Oh, right. That's what people really wanna read about in the Style
section. Kevin, this section practically pays for the entire paper: Our
advertisers want fun, upbeat, colorful human-interest stories... opposite their
products.
Kevin : So that's what we're about now? Making money?
Maureen : Get out.
Kevin : All right. Listen. That was not right. I get it. But this one is. Look,
this woman has been in seven weddings-
Maureen : So?
Kevin : This year. She was in two on Saturday alone. But it won't just be about
her. It'll be an incisive look at how the wedding industry has transformed
something: That should be an important rite
of passage into
nothing more than a corporate revenue stream. In a fun, upbeat, you know,
cheerful way. Look, Maureen, I amdying
back there in
Commitments. If I have to write another sentence about baby's
breath, I'm gonna shoot myself. This is a real story. This is
what I wanna do.
Maureen : I need you covering weddings. That's what you're good at. And that's
what I need you to do.
Kevin : If you don't start giving me feature stories, I'm gonna have to quit.
Maureen : All right. One chance. If I don't like it, you go back to Commitments
for the rest of your life with a big smile on that ridiculously handsome face of
yours.
Kevin : Deal.
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