Chapter 14

Question 1

He ______ his long bristly beard and ________us with his piercing, bloodshot eyes.

Answer 1

strokes; regards

Question 2

His neck is ________ an angry red, highlighting every little bump, mole, and broken capillary.

Answer 2

stained

Question 3

I can’t tell if he’s getting ready to ______________________ or if he’s just thinking really hard.

Answer 3

blow his stack

Question 4

I can’t tell if he’s getting ready to _________________________ or if he’s just thinking really hard.

Answer 4

blow his stack

Question 5

blow one’s stack means

Answer 5

lose one’s temper

Question 6

The thick scent of smoke and stale pizza and uncomfortable silence _______ the oxygen out of the kitchen.

Answer 6

chokes

Question 7

Uncle Doug _______ his cigarette. He sniffs, then clears his hroat.

Answer 7

crushes out

Question 8

He’d give you the five K, Coop answers. Because he could see the ______ of the whole sitch.

Answer 8

upside

Question 9

product placement means

Answer 9

a practice in which manufacturers of goods or providers of a service gain exposure for their products by paying for them to be featured in movies and television programs.

Question 10

Not to mention the chance to turn a small investment into a __________.

Answer 10

mega-fortune

Question 11

But I want to heart it from Seanie. Would you lend me the money or not?

I don’t know. My gaze _____________ the scratched-up wooden kitchen table.

Answer 11

drops to

Question 12

Might? or Would? He _______ the side. Come on now.

Answer 12

leans to

Question 13

huevos rancheros means

Answer 13

a dish of fried or poached eggs served on a tortilla with a spicy tomato sauce; testicales

Question 14

Fair enough. So now I need you to look me ____________________ and tell me if you honestly think that you’ll be able to produce a motion picture decent enough to gnerate enough money fory ou to pay me back.

Answer 14

square in the face

Question 15

Uh-uh. Uncle Doug ____ me with an emtpy pack of cagarettes.

Answer 15

beans

Question 16

bean means

Answer 16

to hit (someone) on the head.

Question 17

Wrong! Uncle Doug roars, slapping the table, which causes a thin cloud of _____________________ dust to rise in the air.

Answer 17

tobacco-scented

Question 18

Uncle Doug grabs the ________ from his ashtray, straightens it out, and relights it.

Answer 18

extinguished joint

Question 19

Business plan? I blink, my eyes dry and __________ from the smoke.

Answer 19

stinging

Question 20

A what? I ask, sinking down in my chair.

A budget, _____________

Answer 20

dummkopf

Question 21

What do you have for me? Some comparative box-office analysis? a marketing strategy? A film trailer? A script, ___________? Anything?

Answer 21

perchance

Question 22

______________________ understand that you would like me to be an investor in your film project? One that has no budget? No business plan? No marketing strategy? No script? To be produced by people who have absolutely no movie-making experience? He bobs his head _____________.

Answer 22

Am I to; in the affirmative

Question 23

Okay, well, _____ a point for stupid honesty. He makes an imaginary check mark in the air with his smoldering ___________.

Answer 23

notch; roach

Question 24

Obsviously, investing in your film would be an ______________________________.

Answer 24

idiotic colossal gamble

Question 25

I guess it could be __________________ shoving afistful of cash up your asshole and expecting you to ___________ gold coins.

Answer 25

likened to; shit out

Question 26

Uhp. Uncle Doug cuts me off with a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 26

traffic cop hand (traffic stop hand)

Question 27

All right, now, Uncle Doug continues, let me just say this right off the bat. There's no way in hell I'm giving you kids five thousand dollars to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 27

piss away on a movie

Question 28

But. Uncle Doug happens to be a gambler. And he ______ cards. He __________ horses. He once even _____ that his tongue was longer than every other guy's at his MOnday night poker game.

Answer 28

bets on; bets on; bets

Question 29

But hey, could the odds of me _________ your movie be much worse than Powerball? At two hundred million to one, I doubt it. And if I can lay a hundred bucks on that every week, why not bet a cool grand on my _____ nephew?

Answer 29

getting rich off; bozo

Question 30

bozo means

Answer 30

a stupid, rude, or insignificant person, especially a man.

Question 31

That's great. You _____________________ it's great!

Answer 31

bet your sweet ass

Question 32

Don't go ________________ just yet, mister. He plops himseelf back down into his chair and _________________ another cigarette.

Answer 32

slicking your slacks; taps out

Question 33

If you actually do __________ and win this contest, Uncle Doug wants twenty-five percent of the the prize money plus fifty percent of any subsequent profits thereafter.

Answer 33

manage a miracle

Question 34

Coop leans forward. Okay wait a second-- Condition \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 34

numero dos

Question 35

Condition numero dos. Doug holds up his fingers in a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 35

pudgy peace sign

Question 36

As your new executive producer and partner, I am now going to be intimately involved in all aspects of this production. I want to have \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, of course.

Answer 36

full script approval

Question 37

Uncle Doug shurgs. I am not about to have my good name ______ with a piece-of-crap movie. I have a reputation to \_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 37

associated; uphold

Question 38

This kind of thing could have major _______________________ my business.

Answer 38

repercussions on

Question 39

I could lose customers that way. NOpe. I want to see each and every scene before it's filmed. All right, I \_\_\_\_\_\_. Si that everything.

Answer 39

concede

Question 40

All right, then. Uncle Doug rubs his hands together. I'm glad we're all so \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. Now onto my final \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. He grins. His one you're really not going to like.

Answer 40

amenable; stipulation