[02:46.00]Salome - Various Artists
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[02:46.00]Various Artists
[02:46.00]Sunset Blvd. Cd 1
[02:46.00]Salome
[02:46.00]Norma:Salome, what a woman, what a part!
[02:46.00]Innocent body and a sinful heart,
[02:46.00]Inflaming Herod's lust,
[02:46.00]But secretly loving a holy man.
[02:46.00]Nobody could play her like I can.
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[02:46.00]Joe:well, I had nothing urgent coming up,
[02:46.00]I thought I might as well skim it.
[02:46.00]It's fun to see how bad bad writing can be,
[02:46.00]This promised to go to the limit.
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[02:46.00]Norma:there's so many great scenes, I can't wait.
[02:46.00]A boiling cauldron of love and hate.
[02:46.00]She toys with Herod
[02:46.00]Till he's putty in her hands
[02:46.00]He reels tormented through the
[02:46.00]Desert sands
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[02:46.00]Joe:it sure was a real cheery set-up
[02:46.00]The wind breezing through that organ
[02:46.00]Max shuffling around and a dead ape
[02:46.00]Dumped on a shelf
[02:46.00]And her staring like a gorgon
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[02:46.00]Norma:they drag the Baptist up from the jails
[02:46.00]She dances the dance of the seven veils.
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[02:46.00]Herod says: I'll give you anything.
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[02:46.00]Joe:now it was time for some comedy relief
[02:46.00]The guy with the baby casket.
[02:46.00]Must have seen a thing or two, that chimp,
[02:46.00]Shame it was to late to ask it
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[02:46.00]Norma:have you got to the scene where she
[02:46.00]Asks for his head?
[02:46.00]If she can't have him living, She'll
[02:46.00]take him dead.
[02:46.00]They bring in his head on a silver tray.
[02:46.00]She kisses his mouth. it's a great
[02:46.00]Screenplay!
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[02:46.00]Joe:it got to be eleven, I was feeling ill
[02:46.00]What the hell was I doing?
[02:46.00]Melodrama and sweet champagne
[02:46.00]And a garbled plot from a scrambled brain;
[02:46.00]But I had my one plot brewing.
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[02:46.00]Just how old is Salome?
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[02:46.00]Norma:Sixteen.
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[02:46.00]Joe:could be it's a little long
[02:46.00]Maybe the opening's wrong
[02:46.00]But it's extremely good for a beginner.
[02:46.00]Norma:no, it's a perfect start,
[02:46.00]I wrote that with my heart
[02:46.00]The riverbank, the Baptist, and the sinner.
[02:46.00]Joe:shouldn't there be some dialogue?
[02:46.00]Norma:I can say anything I want with my eyes.
[02:46.00]Joe:it could use a few cuts.
[02:46.00]Norma:I will not have it butchered!
[02:46.00]Joe:I'm not talking limb from limb,
[02:46.00]I just mean a little trim
[02:46.00]All you need is someone who can edit.
[02:46.00]Norma:I want someone with a knack
[02:46.00]Not just any studio hack
[02:46.00]And don't think for a minute I'll share
[02:46.00]Credit!