At last I can show those Lalas in Lotusl...
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The time is the 1960s when stars like Bette Davis
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At last I can show those Lalas in Lotusland what a real actress is! And not in those silly new films with robots and spies and kewpie dolls! No. I'll be in the kind of film only someone with my background and pizazz can do!
(Maniacally laughing, then calmly stating:)
A hip 60’s horror movie. Yeah! Just like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford! My old producer, Happy Hathaway, phoned yesterday and wants me—the great Enid Beaucoup—to star in his marvelous flick, CHOP CHOP! I’m going to play a serial killer masquerading as a housewife.
A movie relevant to our times! So, watch out, world! My creative juices have fermented in the cellar too long. I'm vintage stuff, my darling. And it's time to fizz again! THIS is a role I’d kill for, again and again.
(Recited lyric like a specch)
AFTER LONG YEARS OF COLD SECLUSION,
MY CAREER GETS A BLOOD TRANSFUSION,
LOVELY AS SCREEN ILLUSION...
A SECOND CHANCE.
TROUBLE AND RUMOR ONCE CONSPIRED
SO SOMEHOW I COULD NOT GET HIRED;
NOW I'VE WHAT I DESIRED...
A SECOND CHANCE.
NOW I'VE FOUND
WITH EV'RYTHING I'VE FACED --
SECOND ROUND --
NO SECOND WILL I WASTE.
FAREWELL TO EV'RY SAD AND BLUE TIME,
DEALING WITH TYPES WHO LIE AND TWO-TIME.
THIS DAY BEGINS A NEW TIME:
(Proudly)
A SECOND CHANCE.
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