“Terpsy baby! How’s it goin’?”
“Sorry, sorry - Terpsichore, of course. Why bad?”
“Whaddya mean, fire me? What’s goin’ on?”
“What?! Those lyin’ bastards - they can’t offer you anything I can’t!”
“Step Up? Stomp the Yard? What the hell are those?”
“I know you wanna become more relevant, Terpsy, and you wanna work - I’m on it, baby! You don’t have to sign on with someone else! Didn’t I just get you in on Save the Last Dance? Pretty big show, that one…”
“URBAN CRED?! What the hell is URBAN CRED?! Is that what those boys at Sid Meyer are offering you?! Listen, bitch: when I found you, you were barely scraping by on Arthur Murray dance lessons. The time of Fred and Ginger was long past.”
“Exactly! Who introduced you to John Travolta? I know you were out of your head on blow for most of the time, but disco was BIG, baby! I don’t need to tell a Greek muse that, hey?”
“Oh, c’mon now - Fame paid the bills. What about Dirty Dancing, huh? At least you had nothing to do with that break dancing crap…”
“All right, all right - I can’t keep you if you wanna go. It’s not like you’re as big as Calliope, and even Erato is getting some good exposure. Heh heh - a little joke there.”
“OK, Terpsy. I just have this one more project I was savin’ for ya - you owe me one, for all we’ve been through and because it’s in the contract. It’s just a little film for the Disney Channel hacks. Do this project, sign over the residuals to me so I can barely recoup my losses on you, and go to this other agency. I tell ya - when you’re on a VH1 “Where Are They Now?”, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
“Oh, I dunno - something called High School Musical. I’m sure it’s a dud, but I have to eat, right? Just sign the contract, inspire the project, and we’re square. Good?”
“All right, good - listen, I gotta go. Eros is here with another script. Yeah, yeah - I’ll tell him you say hi. Bye, babe.”