A Diva's Christmas Carol2000

Ebony Scrooge:
Is this about the royalties because I thought we already settled that. If I write 65% of the songs, I get 65% of the...

Marli Jacob:
[shows her chains] I think I'm way past worried about money now.

Ebony Scrooge:
Well, then you must be dead because no one's ever past worrying about money. And what's with the getup? I thought you quit the chains when you broke up with that guy from Paramus.

Marli Jacob:
These chains are to represent my mistakes, how I messed up my life.

Ebony Scrooge:
I'll say you did. What a waste. And we were getting so big.

Marli Jacob:
But how did we use our success? What did we do to help our own? In the true business of life, we were flops.

Ebony Scrooge:
That doesn't make sense.

Marli Jacob:
I have tried, Lord knows I have tried, to reach you from... wherever it is I am, and tonight I finally did. So I am telling you, you have got to start...

Ebony Scrooge:
What gives you the right to tell me what to do?

Marli Jacob:
What gives me the right? [Room brightens up as she sits down] We were best friends. You tell me what happened to that.

Ebony Scrooge:
You screwed up, that's what happened.

Marli Jacob:
You pushed us out of the spotlight!

Ebony Scrooge:
Now it's all my fault?

Marli Jacob:
Excuse me, I'm talking! The first minute we're a trio, the next, Terri and I are your backup singers! And that hurts!