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SID: So Joseph has done – well, just a whole lot of good work for us in the past. Whenever we’ve needed a witness or a third party for, I don’t know – a petition of grievance or alienation of affection — DEEANNA: And he’s reliable? JOE: I’m bonded, miss. SID: Joe is the most reliable human being on the planet, in our experience. All Eddie Mannix wants is to preserve the audience’s belief in DeeAnna Moran’s “innocence,” so that her pictures will continue to make money. All the pregnant and unmarried DeeAnna Moran wants is a man she can count on. Eddie needs to get her married to somebody. “We’ve offered you some very suitable, clean young men,” Eddie says, reining in his frustration. DeeAnna is scornful: “Pretty boys, saps, and swishes! You think if there was some good steady reliable man I wouldna grabbed him?” Something has to be done — something pretty creative — and soon, because DeeAnna is finding it increasingly difficult to fit into her mermaid costume, or, as she calls it, her…