Anthony Zerbe credited as playing...
Antheil
- John Converse: [about his wife] If you really want to know, I think she's pretty moral, basically.
- Antheil: "Pretty moral, basically"? Oh, Jesus. What a couple of yo-yo's.
- Antheil: I was just reading your play. I liked a lot of it. I don't like the main character, though. This Marine. Sounds like a real jellyfish. I guess you're supposed to like him because he's against the Marine Corps. Is that it?
- John Converse: Something like that.
- Antheil: Why doesn't he *do* something? I mean, go over the hill, refuse an order. I couldn't sympathize with a character like that.
- John Converse: Not everyone did.
- Antheil: The Marine in the play, that supposed to be you?
- John Converse: No.
- Antheil: Maybe a little?
- John Converse: Maybe on some level.
- Antheil: Um-hmn. You know what I think, "on some level"? I think you're the kind of wise cocksucker that writes a tear-jerk play against the Marines and then turns around and smuggles a shitload of heroin into this country.
- Antheil: You know, our little friend in Saigon told me you were nuts... but she didn't tell me the half of it.
- John Converse: "Our little friend in Saigon"?
- Antheil: Yeah, Charmian. We go back a long way. Even a dipstick like you should have figured that out.
- Antheil: You know what I think, on some level? I think you're the kinda' wise cocksucker that writes a tear-jerk play against the Marines and then smuggles a shitload of heroin into this country.
- John Converse: I deny that. And no more literary conversation until I call my lawyer.
- Antheil: You mean Ben Odell? No Commie lawyer's gonna' help you now.