Excerpt
- Parker: If I contribute something to the play, how can I review it? It’s going to be hard enough to be objective as it is.
- Angela: How can you re—
- Dion: You’re going to review it?
- Parker: Yes, I am. I’ve talked it over with my editor, and myself, and I’m going to.
- Dion: We assumed you would – disqualify yourself.
- Parker: Sorry, I’m a vampire; nothing disqualifies me but a stake through the heart.
- John: Or being caught outside the coffin in direct sunlight.
- Parker: (To Dion, pointing back over his shoulder at John) The world’s leading authority on vampires.
- Angela: But—but that’s not fair! You read the play! You hated it!
- Parker: I’d review it if I loved it. I’ll do my best to be objective.
- Dion: But damn it, she’s your wife!
- Parker: No, she isn’t, not on opening night. (To Angela) You’re a playwright, I’m a critic; let’s both do our jobs as well as we can and shake hands before and after.
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