He drew a paycheck for six months before anyone realized he was just another fraternity brother from Penn State. Both Julie and Phil played important parts in helping to found the Screenwriter's Guild and supported the union movement in general. Both twins would rise around a quarter to 12, and then Julie would drive over from his house in Bel Air to our place in the Palisades. It says you have to be on the lot by nine in the morning. Butchers have to be at the butcher shop at nine.
Clerks have to be behind their desks then, too.
Then the other threw that day's pages onto their employer's desk. Now and then Warner would persist, demanding that the writers show up at their offices by the stipulated hour and making sure that the studio cop noted their arrival. On one such occasion, they worked through the day cutting and pasting old pages of dialogue together and sent the resulting typescript over to Jack's office. The next morning the mogul called them in and began to rant about how this was the worst scene he'd ever read in his life. That was the last straw.