The assault tactic worked as theFalcontargeted the enemy, and then veered off and vanished completely."Norman Maine is going to get me a screen test." Danny can""t believe her, accusing Maine of making a ""conventional pass."" But Esther will not be swayed:He gave me a look at myself I""ve never had before.He saw something in me nobody else ever did.He made me see it oo.He made me believe it.She is determined "for a chance at being something, something bigger than I ever dreamed of.And I""m not going to turn back now, ever." Danny thinks she is a fool.The next day, Norman leaves town for six weeks, shooting a new film in a distant locale.He can""t recall her address.Meanwhile, Vicki has left her band and become unemployed.In the meantime, she has provided the singing voice for television commercials and worked as a carhop in a hamburger drive-in.It wasn""t in Palm Springs and it wasn""t in the garage.I was way ahead of the finance company.I knew they""d be coming around and I wasn""t taking any chances.With his car keys (with a miniature rabbit""s foot attached for luck), Joe ventures out to Paramount Pictures Studios to sell an "original story" - a baseball script titledBases Loadedto a callous, "big shot" "smart producer" named Sheldrake (Fred Clark).Rocky surprised him by having a life-sized, talking female robot carry in his birthday cake (with his picture on the frosting), although Paulie was disappointed: "Yo, I wanted a sports car for my birthday, not no walking trashcan.