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Saturday 19th April
Have slipped a network embedded reporter a roofie in order to use his
satellite phone. As it is, I had to use my gas card and the blasted thing
is running me $500 a minute to console Tim Robbins stateside. The
perennially angry and ranting actor shows no sign of taking a breath. He
talks about a chill wind blowing across the country. He tells me about
this Baseball Hall of Fame fiasco, how the director of the joint told him
his ticket would be no good due to expected far- left diatribes. "Moth,"
he said. "You know I wouldn't have gone in for any of that! I'd have kept
the talk strictly on baseball." I hemmed and hawed and decided the
straight approach from a friend was what the situation required. "You
throw like a girl," I told him at long last. "You're going to be typecast
as a serial murder. No more amiable dunces for you. Sarandon will still
get to play sluts with enormous breasts who inexplicably brandish
cartoon-style southern accents. I don't know why this should be so, but
there it is." He was uncharacteristically quiet for a moment, then made an
odd chirping sound. He then told me John Cusack was on the other line and
rang off. I owe my Mobil credit card $9,000. Shit!
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