Mr. Notarile:
Due to the increasingly belligerent and constant badgering of my client, B. Britches, by you and your crony(Sheila), I will serve as intermediary in all subsequent exchanges for the sake of legal, and shall I say ethical, clarity.
1. Let me reiterate what my client has already stated quite clearly. B. Britches is NOT the owner of this pizza or any other business establishment. He works full-time as a pizza cook in order to provide for his disabled father. The low wages he earns are only supplemented by his share in tips for large-scale orders where he must serve as a veritable one-man catering service.
2. B. Britches considers himself a very big fan of 'Methodic,' as he stated in his first two messages. It pains him to have fallen in dutch with the film's director, but his destitution and concern for the well-being of his father, goaded him into making contact with the producers of said film. Call it naivete if you will, but Britches believed that if the filmmakers were made aware of their mistake (for further details, look here: http://tipthepizzaguy.com/objections/delcharge.htm), then surely they would seek to rectify the ill they had done him. It is beginning to look like he was mistaken in this regard.
3. As an attorney-at-law and avid reader, I have learned to dislike unnecessary enumerations like the ones in your previous note, as they are oftentimes an annoying distraction from an otherwise choppy, incoherent argument.
4. Yes, it is true that Niki broke the sacred covenant of marriage; but she only did so after feeling an insurmountable rift had already been created between you two by the increasing chaos of your lives as you strove to achieve your ambitions. The drugs and cheating only came as the painful afterbirth to an already stillborn relationship. The unfortunate outcome of such a divide should not preclude you or Niki from cherishing what you once had. After all, neither of you would be where you are today without the other, and my client is the last person in the world who would want to further estrange you from the potential mother of your presently nonexistent children.
5. If I can speak frankly, in representing B. Britches, I think I speak to his best interest when I tell you my client would be more than happy to put this ugly display of bruised egos and deflated fiscal worth behind him in exchange for what he wants more than anything else in the first place: to be an actor in your next film. My client loves your movies, Mr Notarile, and he thinks you are incredibly talented (albeit a bit of a miser) and would be gracious enough to forget the whole ordeal for his big chance at stardom. If you have failed to notice yet, my client has a "can do" attitude with ample "follow through." His remarkable charisma and acting chops have heretofore only been privvied by his semi-quiescent father and myself, his attorney and proud brother-in-law.
If you were to give B. Britches a starring role in your next film, I have his notarized word that he would consider the hatchet duly buried and you two could close this unfortunate chapter in your mutual history and look forward to a fruitful collaboration. No doubt, as you two gallavant from ComiCon and Fangoria conventions to Thai brothels, you could one day laugh about this rueful beginning to what will certainly be one of Hollywood's legendary partnerships. You can revel in the good fortune of being a cheapskate when the history books are written and B. Britches is declared the Lon Chaney to your Tod Browning.
I look forward to sending any future scripts and treatments directly to my client, and I wish you the best of luck in all your penny-pinching endeavors.
Respectfully,
John Baxter, J.D.
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