Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Writer Tom Clancy tells another partier, “I don't subscribe to the notion of writer's block.”
”Writer's block is a term invented by the writer's community to justify their laziness.” (0:05)

Writer Lee watches The Little Foxes on television. (0:07)

Her old friend Jack tells Lee, “Last time I saw you... we were both pleasantly pissed at some horrible book party.”
Lee: ”Nobody could stop talking about the handsome English gentleman who was so shit-faced he mistook the coat closet for the can.”
Jack: ”I happen to have some very nice cocaine if you're interested.”
”It's 4 in the afternoon, and you got drunk.”
Lee: “ I'm hardly drunk.” (0:11)

Shop owner Anna tells Lee, “I love his writing, and Dorothy Parker as well.” (0:37)

Jack tells Lee, “I just sold a little coke.” (0:39)

Singer in drag: “This next song goes out to all the agoraphobic junkies who couldn't be here tonight.” (0:40)

Lee tells Jack, “Maybe you could find some coke.” (0:42)

Collectible seller Nell tells Lee, referring to a letter, “Dorothy Parker” (0:43)

Lee tells the super, “Does flies are driving me crazy.” (0:44)

Lee forges a letter from Dorothy Parker: “I have a hangover that is a real museum piece.” (0:47)

More forgeries: “... Yours, Dorothy Parker... Dear Edith, That terrible old fart, the tyranny addict, Joe Kennedy...” (0:48)

Lee: “... Dorothy Parker...” (0:49)

Anna proposes a toast “To... Dorothy Parker...”
”I'm an idiot, I know.” (0:50)

Anna tells Lee, “I think I'm a little tipsy.” (0:53)

A collectible seller tells Lee, “Hey, for a while there we had the Hitler Diaries.” (0:56)

Lee tells Jack, “I'll have you know I'm a better Dorothy Parker than Dorothy Parker.” (0:59)

Lee tells Jack, “No, moron, it's not what you said.” (1:05)

Lee tells Jack, “God, you idiot”
Jack: ”Stop calling me an idiot.”
”I'm just going to kill myself first.” (1:07)

Lee tells a librarian, “I'm doing an in-depth look at writers and alcoholism, hence, Lillian Hellman...” (1:10)

Anna tells a man, referring to Jack, “He seemed pretty nervous.” (1:10)

Jack snorts cocaine from a table top.
Jack tells his friend, ”Oh, a little coke, a little dope, and me.”
His friend lights a joint and shotguns him.” (1:11)

The librarian tells Lee, “Ah yes, the book on drunk authors.” (1:13)

Lee tells the librarian, “I get overly anxious when I travel.” (1:15)

Her lawyer Lloyd tells Lee, “... and you've got to go to AA.” (1:26)

The judge asks Lee, “Have you in the last 24 hours used drugs, pills, alcohol...”
Lee: “I have been living in a state of enormous guilt and anxiety for many months... I lost my friend who may have been an idiot, but he tolerated me.”
Judge: “You may only leave home to go to... Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.” (1:27)

Lee tells Jack, “I'm at an AA meeting on 10th Street right now.” (1:33)

Lee sees a letter signed by Dorothy Parker in a shop window.
She tells the clerk, referring to a fictitious friend, “He would love to own that Dorothy Parker in the window.”
“No one can write like Miss Parker could, not before and not since.”
Lee composes a letter: ”... Yours, Dorothy Parker” (1:38)