A young woman interviews a Hollywood screen writing team, men whose extensive credits include a film with a line second in fame only to "Here's looking at you kid." They have always maintained they didn't know which of them wrote the line. Eventually the woman gets around to the loathsome question. Today, the answer threatens their union, sounding it to its depths with comic effect and a surprising conclusion.
Published in the collection A Way with Words
Give the Bishop My Faint Regards premiered at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City in 1992 under the direction of Daniel Selznick.