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In 1937 a bill to finally ban
the lynching of African-Americans
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was considered by the senate.
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It did not pass.
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Billie Holiday rose to fame in part
due to the song strange fruit,
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a lyrical, horrifying
description of a lynching.
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Well, I guess it is about kick‐off time.
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I'm gonna put this on top of here
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so we can get both of us.
New York City
May 3, 1957
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My next guest has appeared on Broadway.
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Sold out Carnegie Hall.
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She's played in movies
out in Hollywood
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with the likes of Louis Armstrong.
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I am Reginald Lord Divine
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and my God...
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My God.
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I cannot believe
that we have the opportunity
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as I live and breathe
to interview the Lady,
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the legend, my hero, Miss Billie Holiday.
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The Lady Day.
Which do you prefer, honey?
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She'd prefer you pay her money first.
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Tell me. Tell me.
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What's it like to be a colored woman?
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Would you ask Doris Day
a question like that?
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Well, Doris Day
is not colored, silly.
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Jesus.
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I want to talk Strange Fruit.
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Yes, Strange Fruit.
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My audience wants to know.
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You keep getting in trouble for it,
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but you are determined to keep singing it.
Troublemaker!
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You ever seen a lynching?
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It's about human rights.
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Government forgets that sometimes.
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They just want me to shut up
and sing All of Me.
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Ten years earlier
Let's start where it all began.
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At the Cafe Society.
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Honey, I loved that place.
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♪ Can't you see? ♪
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♪ I'm no good without you ♪
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I remember seeing
Lena Horne tipping in with... Who was it?
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That drunk. Tallulah Bankhead.
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♪ I want to lose them ♪
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That's the first time
I saw you sing, honey.
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- Mesmerizing. And everybody was there.
- ♪ I never use them ♪
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The wrong kind of place
for the right kind of people.
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Like Jimmy Fletcher.
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Leave him alone.
He didn't know what he was walking into.
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Yes, he did. Soldier boy.
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♪ How can I go on, dear ♪
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♪ Without you? ♪
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You were there with
that famous manager back then.
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What was his name?
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Crook.
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Yeah, that's right.
Crooked‐ass Joe Glaser.
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He was there with my husband Monroe.
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♪ So why not ♪
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♪ Take all of me? ♪
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- Have a good evening, sir.
- You as well.
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♪ Your goodbye ♪
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♪ Left me with eyes that cry ♪
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♪ How can I ♪
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♪ Go on, dear,
without you? ♪
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♪ You took the best ♪
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♪ So why not take the rest? ♪
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♪ Baby ♪
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♪ Take all of me ♪
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Okay, give me a lighter.
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Orson Welles is outside,
he needs to see you again.
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Tell him tomorrow. Monroe's out of town.
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You got some fans in from Baltimore
that want to see you.
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- Lucio, you dig the show?
- Yeah.
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- And who are you?
- Jimmy Fletcher.
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- She don't know you.
Move. Come on, y'all.
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- Thank you.
- Come on, y'all, meet Lady Day.
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- Hey, how y'all doing?
Thanks for coming.
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- Hello, Miss Holiday.
- No. Please call me Billie.
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- We love you.
- Y'all are sweet.
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So y'all came all the way from Baltimore
to come see me?
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- Yes, ma'am.
- Yes, ma'am.
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And you're gonna take me
to a fancy dinner, too.
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Gee‐whiz! I'm from Baltimore, too.
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Come here. Have some champagne.
Prez, give 'em something to drink.
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You just make sure he take you
to Jimmie's Chicken Shack up in Harlem.
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- God, yeah.
- That's good eatin'.
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Here. Let me see that.
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Where in Baltimore are y'all from?
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- Near Columbus Park?
- Okay, yeah, she's from east.
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Yeah. Fells Point.
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- Thank you.
- Thank you, Miss Holiday.
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No, nigga.
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- I'm sorry, Mom.
I was on a job interview.
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What job interview's, at 10:30...
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Don't... stop. Stop.
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What job interviews are at 10:30
on a Sunday night?
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James, your lies are unbecoming,
and I'm getting tired of it.
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Living off your father's
hard‐earned trust.
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And you know I hate when you're late.
- Yes.
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Sunday dinner's all we have together
now that you've moved out.
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Yes. Yes, Mother, I was downtown
interviewing for this writing position
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with The Sun news.
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I had to go to the editor's home.
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I got the job.
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Your father would turn in his grave
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with all that he accomplished.
- Mom. Mom, please.
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You're not fooling nobody
walking around in that uniform.
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Just because I don't hang
in the gutter with your friends
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doesn't mean I don't know what's going on.
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You're hanging out
with those jazz musicians
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in them clubs and God...
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God knows what else.
Take this out of here.
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I do like the jazz clubs, Mom.
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I even met Billie Holiday.
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- Really?
- Yes, really.
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You should be congratulating me
on my new job that I start tomorrow.
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Finally getting out of this uniform.
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My! Billie Holiday!
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I hear that she is quite the lady.
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- I don't know, Mom.
I hear just the opposite.
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Those are just rumors.
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Anytime somebody colored
is doing something right,
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they paint us out wrong.
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- Good morning, Miss Holiday.
- Milk. No, that's for the baby.
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Mommy didn't forget about you.
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It's like a damn kennel in here.
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Vogue magazine want to interview me
about your gowns and such.
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You ain't giving no interview
to no magazine.
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Somebody wants to hear about her
they can come talk to me.
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They sent these over.
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- I'll take them both.
- It'll cost me an arm and a leg.
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Shut the fuck up, Monroe.
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Send the dressmaker
one of my husband's arms, please.
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Ooh, where'd he come from?
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Yeah. Joe, nah, he not clicking.
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Hey, man. Thanks for coming in.
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- Sorry, ma'am.
- Thank you.
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- Good riddance.
- Ros.
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- He was horrible.
- Take a look.
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Yeah, looks good.
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They should be running
half‐page ads, at least.
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You should be getting
a bigger cut of the door, too.
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You're practically
topping the DownBeat poll.
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Eleanor Roosevelt has to pull strings
to get in here.
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He has a point.
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Yeah, you do kind of got a point.
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Glaser.
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I'm working on it.
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When she started here, she was a nobody,
and now she's a star.
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I'm working on it, okay?
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- Joe's working on it, honey.
- Give me that.
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See, look. Told you.
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Your friend Anslinger's
in the paper again.
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- He ain't no friend of mine.
- Sure he is.
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Glaser's friend, too, right?
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I cut Strange Fruit.
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- No, Joe.
I want to sing the damn song, all right?
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The club advertises it.
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People pay good money to come here
and hear me sing it.
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I've told you a hundred times,
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people in high places
don't want you singing that song.
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And I've asked you
over a hundred times...
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"What people, Joe?"
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What you looking at him for?
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Shit, I'm the one who pays you.
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The government.
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Yeah, the government.
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People like your buddy Anslinger, right?
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Quit it with that?
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The song means a lot to me, Joe.
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Meeropol wrote it
and he's a fucking commie.
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Come on. I don't care, all right?
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It's important to me.
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You ain't singing that song.
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I'll sing what the fuck I want.
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Look, if Lady wants to sing the song,
then we should sing the song.
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Gives a face to them
little boys being lynched.
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Mind your business, Freddy.
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Look, bitch,
we ain't going through this again.
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You, if you all
ain't Anslinger's friends,
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then how come you be sitting with him
every night?
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What do you expect us to do?
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Run from the man?
I'm trying to protect your ass.
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Don't lie to me, nigga.
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I ain't lying.
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I'm scratching it.
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It's for your own good, okay?
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Get up, c'mon.
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Get the fuck off me. Come on, let's go.
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Fuck the feds and fuck Anslinger.
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Agent Harry anslinger
Washington, DC - April 3, 1947
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Gentlemen.
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You have to help me get this budget
pushed through Congress tomorrow.
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We just increased your budget last year.
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Thank you, Roy.
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McCarthy, I gotta get me
a Roy Cohn just like you.
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Why is this so important to you, Harry?
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Drugs and niggers are a contamination
to our great American civilization.
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Well, that's why we helped you
in the first place.
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- John, listen to me.
This jazz music is the devil's work.
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That's why
this Holiday woman's got to be stopped.
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She keeps singing this Strange Fruit song
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and it's causing a lot of people
to think the wrong things.
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We've warned her to stop singing that,
but she won't.
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We've got her husband in the bag,
though she won't stop singing the song.
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People are calling the song
a musical starting gun
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for the so‐called civil rights movement.
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Well, let me ask you a question.
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You all got a plan?
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We can't just arrest a nigger
for singing a song.
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She's inciting a riot.
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That's a misdemeanor at best.
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She's a drug addict, though.
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Exactly.
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You go after that bitch on the drugs.
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Joe Guy!
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I came down here for you to save my ass.
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You don't need me to do that.
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Shit, Lady...
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You do that all by yourself.
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It's for your own good, okay.
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I'm scratching it.
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Thank you.
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Can you all hear me out there?
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Yes!
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Good. 'Cause I sure can hear you.
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Say hi to Louis Armstrong everybody.
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We're recording a V‐Disc tonight
for all our men and women in the service,
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and that makes tonight
all the more special.
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You all are fighting
a real fight out there
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and we love you for it.
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I feel lonely, Louis.
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Let's say we try Solitude.
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Anything for you, Lady.
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♪ In my solitude ♪
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♪ You haunt me ♪
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♪ With reveries ♪
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♪ Of days gone by ♪
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♪ In my solitude ♪
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♪ You taunt me ♪
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♪ With memories ♪
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♪ That never die ♪
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♪ I sit in my chair ♪
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♪ Filled with despair ♪
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♪ There's no one could be so sad ♪
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♪ With gloom everywhere ♪
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♪ I sit and I stare ♪
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♪ I know that I'll soon go mad ♪
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♪ In my solitude ♪
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♪ I'm praying ♪
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♪ Dear Lord above ♪
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♪ Send me back ♪
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♪ My love ♪
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Hi.
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Is Miss Holiday here?
254
00:17:53,605 --> 00:17:55,855
You finally struck up the nerve
to come see her.
255
00:17:56,313 --> 00:17:57,397
Who is that?
256
00:17:57,855 --> 00:17:59,397
It's the little writer nigga
here to see you.
257
00:17:59,397 --> 00:18:01,480
Freddy! Who is it?
258
00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,480
Little pretty motherfucker
that be writing all the time.
259
00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,314
Yeah. Let him back.
260
00:18:08,731 --> 00:18:10,939
You can give me them flowers,
she don't need 'em.
261
00:18:12,814 --> 00:18:14,106
What, you scared?
262
00:18:16,189 --> 00:18:18,356
You better not be one of 'em
gossip folk either.
263
00:18:22,523 --> 00:18:24,106
- Lady, I'll be back.
- Yeah.
264
00:18:28,689 --> 00:18:31,606
No uniform tonight, soldier boy.
265
00:18:33,231 --> 00:18:34,606
You're here all the time.
266
00:18:35,981 --> 00:18:38,648
Jimmy Fletcher.
267
00:18:40,148 --> 00:18:41,606
Great show last night.
268
00:18:42,648 --> 00:18:43,689
Yeah...
269
00:18:45,981 --> 00:18:47,232
Now it's quiet.
270
00:18:49,732 --> 00:18:51,107
I don't like the quiet.
271
00:18:54,357 --> 00:18:55,399
So noisy, you know.
272
00:18:58,357 --> 00:19:00,065
I've been practicing this new thing.
273
00:19:02,149 --> 00:19:04,607
What you think?
- I like it.
274
00:19:04,607 --> 00:19:06,190
- It's nice, right?
- Yeah.
275
00:19:07,107 --> 00:19:09,149
- You don't got a girl?
- Nope.
276
00:19:11,857 --> 00:19:15,315
I've served my time for the country,
now, starting a new job.
277
00:19:20,232 --> 00:19:21,982
Your boyfriend give you that stuff?
278
00:19:23,899 --> 00:19:25,274
Why, you want some?
279
00:19:25,815 --> 00:19:26,815
No, thanks.
280
00:19:28,065 --> 00:19:29,816
It takes the edge off, you know.
281
00:19:29,816 --> 00:19:31,441
Two, three...
282
00:19:31,441 --> 00:19:32,608
Pour yourself a drink.
283
00:19:32,608 --> 00:19:34,108
three.
284
00:19:34,108 --> 00:19:35,108
Sure.
285
00:19:35,566 --> 00:19:37,400
One, two, three.
286
00:19:37,816 --> 00:19:39,775
One, two, three.
287
00:19:42,066 --> 00:19:44,025
Why don't you ever sing Strange Fruit?
288
00:19:44,691 --> 00:19:46,358
Strange Fruit.
289
00:19:49,066 --> 00:19:51,233
I got to be pretty high to sing that one.
290
00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:54,941
Never heard you sing it.
291
00:20:01,233 --> 00:20:03,691
It's a song about important things,
you know.
292
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,441
Things that are going on in the country.
293
00:20:08,150 --> 00:20:10,441
I don't think people know
I care about those things.
294
00:20:11,650 --> 00:20:13,609
Most of my other songs
are just about love.
295
00:20:15,109 --> 00:20:17,234
Well, love is important, too, right?
296
00:20:19,817 --> 00:20:24,651
You know, one day,
I'm gonna quit the drinking.
297
00:20:25,317 --> 00:20:27,234
And get off that stuff, too.
298
00:20:28,692 --> 00:20:30,359
Maybe go to one of those hospitals,
you know,
299
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,776
like Judy Garland, those movie stars.
300
00:20:35,276 --> 00:20:37,651
You know how to do the waltz?
That shit is so pretty.
301
00:20:37,651 --> 00:20:38,651
Yes.
302
00:20:39,651 --> 00:20:40,859
You do?
303
00:20:42,067 --> 00:20:43,734
You would look good in a tuxedo.
304
00:20:44,151 --> 00:20:45,401
You are funny.
305
00:20:47,192 --> 00:20:48,401
Yeah.
306
00:20:53,567 --> 00:20:55,110
'Cause I know what you want.
307
00:21:13,693 --> 00:21:15,985
Which one of my songs
is your favorite song?
308
00:21:16,610 --> 00:21:17,652
All of Me.
309
00:21:18,943 --> 00:21:20,943
♪ All of me ♪
310
00:21:21,860 --> 00:21:26,152
♪ Why not take all of me ♪
311
00:21:27,318 --> 00:21:28,402
Yeah.
312
00:21:28,860 --> 00:21:31,110
All right, well,
that'll be our song then.
313
00:21:33,235 --> 00:21:35,985
- So you really know
how to do the waltz?
- Yes.
314
00:21:53,861 --> 00:21:56,569
That's good. Come on.
315
00:21:56,569 --> 00:21:59,111
- Come now. Come on. Come on.
- There you go.
316
00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:02,111
That's good.
317
00:22:03,028 --> 00:22:04,486
- I know.
- Right.
318
00:22:16,569 --> 00:22:17,944
I'm sorry for your loss.
319
00:22:19,194 --> 00:22:21,654
- Of course.
I lost my father
when I was young.
320
00:22:21,654 --> 00:22:22,945
My Lord...
321
00:22:27,529 --> 00:22:29,654
Chiquita sat on my lap every day.
322
00:22:29,654 --> 00:22:32,404
It was her dog.
323
00:22:33,237 --> 00:22:35,445
Her dog died.
324
00:22:37,445 --> 00:22:40,695
It was the little one, not the big one.
325
00:22:41,779 --> 00:22:43,612
Mister's all right. Yeah?
326
00:22:43,612 --> 00:22:44,904
Mister's fine, right?
327
00:22:45,570 --> 00:22:47,195
Billie, I told you,
328
00:22:47,195 --> 00:22:50,112
you can't let Chiquita
eat off your plate.
329
00:22:50,570 --> 00:22:53,029
That's why she choked.
- Ros.
330
00:22:58,695 --> 00:23:00,945
Someone tells me
331
00:23:00,945 --> 00:23:03,571
you are very tight
332
00:23:03,571 --> 00:23:06,113
with Tallulah Bankhead.
333
00:23:06,446 --> 00:23:07,738
You know what I mean?
334
00:23:08,821 --> 00:23:11,405
Now wait. What Tallulah Bankhead
got to do with this?
335
00:23:11,405 --> 00:23:14,280
You said this interview
was a retrospective on her career.
336
00:23:15,488 --> 00:23:16,488
Cut the tape.
337
00:23:17,738 --> 00:23:18,821
Cut the tape.
338
00:23:20,488 --> 00:23:23,905
Little bitch, you got one more time
to ask one more smartass question.
339
00:23:32,655 --> 00:23:34,905
- Nobody saw us come in here, right?
- No.
340
00:23:36,405 --> 00:23:38,946
Vogue magazine wants to talk to me
about you.
341
00:23:39,488 --> 00:23:41,613
Should I do it?
- Go ahead.
342
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:44,947
Just take me to your room.
343
00:23:48,447 --> 00:23:50,364
- James.
- Ma'am.
344
00:23:51,906 --> 00:23:53,656
You know I can't allow her on here.
345
00:23:55,656 --> 00:23:57,572
James, don't you know who this is?
346
00:23:57,572 --> 00:23:59,739
I do know who
she is, Miss Bankhead.
347
00:23:59,739 --> 00:24:01,239
Also know I want to keep my job.
348
00:24:03,531 --> 00:24:06,864
Miss Holiday, only Negro allowed
on this elevator's me.
349
00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:09,906
What? So Negroes can't,
350
00:24:11,114 --> 00:24:14,156
but a bunch of goddamn bull daggers can.
351
00:24:16,697 --> 00:24:18,489
Miss Holiday, you got to
take the service elevator.
352
00:24:18,489 --> 00:24:21,156
I'm not taking
a fucking service elevator.
353
00:24:21,906 --> 00:24:22,906
Just move.
354
00:24:23,989 --> 00:24:25,114
Excuse me.
355
00:24:25,656 --> 00:24:26,739
Please.
356
00:24:27,198 --> 00:24:29,157
Now, they're killing us
for less down south.
357
00:24:29,490 --> 00:24:30,782
Lynching men and women.
358
00:24:31,532 --> 00:24:33,198
Please don't cause a fuss here.
359
00:24:41,198 --> 00:24:42,448
Get off me.
360
00:24:43,490 --> 00:24:44,907
Just don't touch me.
361
00:24:52,323 --> 00:24:55,032
I'll take the damn service elevator
with you.
362
00:25:16,949 --> 00:25:18,283
Damn it.
363
00:25:33,458 --> 00:25:37,708
Earle theatre, Philadelphia
May 27, 1947
364
00:26:10,492 --> 00:26:11,492
- Billie!
- Billie!
365
00:26:15,575 --> 00:26:17,784
We can't wait
to hear you sing, Billie!
366
00:26:18,659 --> 00:26:21,492
- Sing Strange Fruit.
- Strange Fruit, Billie.
367
00:26:25,617 --> 00:26:29,159
♪ Southern trees ♪
368
00:26:29,159 --> 00:26:30,534
Get her off that stage.
369
00:26:32,659 --> 00:26:36,368
♪ Bear a strange ♪
370
00:26:36,368 --> 00:26:39,243
♪ Fruit ♪
371
00:26:42,285 --> 00:26:45,535
- We gotta get the hell outta here.
- Hey, Prez! Get off me.
372
00:26:45,868 --> 00:26:48,451
- Hey, leave her alone!
- What are you doing?
373
00:26:51,326 --> 00:26:53,118
I'm singing this goddamn song!
374
00:26:53,118 --> 00:26:55,076
I'm singing this song!
375
00:27:03,910 --> 00:27:05,201
Hurry your ass up!
376
00:27:15,951 --> 00:27:17,786
You're safe here, baby.
377
00:27:17,786 --> 00:27:21,119
Hey, Joe honey, can you get me
some ice cream, please?
378
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:22,536
I don't want any ice cream.
379
00:27:22,536 --> 00:27:24,702
Come on, please,
baby, just go to Libby's,
380
00:27:24,702 --> 00:27:25,911
right around the corner.
381
00:27:26,869 --> 00:27:28,661
That sound good.
Ice cream sound good.
382
00:27:28,661 --> 00:27:31,494
All right, baby, I'mma get you
some ice cream, okay?
383
00:27:31,994 --> 00:27:34,327
- Thank you, honey.
- Hold my head up.
384
00:27:37,577 --> 00:27:39,036
What kind of ice cream you want?
385
00:27:39,036 --> 00:27:41,411
Chocolate ice cream,
I want chocolate ice cream.
386
00:27:41,411 --> 00:27:43,119
Chocolate ice cream on the way.
387
00:27:44,536 --> 00:27:47,827
You ain't gettin' me no ice cream.
You can't get me shit, you.
388
00:27:47,827 --> 00:27:49,369
Where you going? Ice cream that way.
389
00:27:49,369 --> 00:27:51,661
Go somewhere where the ice cream is.
390
00:27:52,911 --> 00:27:54,994
Get up, Joe.
391
00:27:57,244 --> 00:27:58,911
Fine, I'll go get it myself.
392
00:28:07,662 --> 00:28:09,578
Then you gotta put some clothes on.
393
00:28:09,578 --> 00:28:11,245
I got some clothes on.
394
00:28:11,245 --> 00:28:12,912
You don't see this coat on me?
395
00:28:13,370 --> 00:28:14,620
Nigga, that's my coat.
396
00:28:15,703 --> 00:28:16,995
Shut up, stupid.
397
00:28:29,162 --> 00:28:30,370
It's in here somewhere.
398
00:28:30,370 --> 00:28:31,787
Joe, get up, the Feds!
399
00:28:31,787 --> 00:28:33,287
Both of you are under arrest.
400
00:28:33,287 --> 00:28:35,203
No, Holiday. Stop, stop!
401
00:28:36,745 --> 00:28:37,745
Stop!
402
00:28:39,745 --> 00:28:41,495
Get up.
403
00:28:45,454 --> 00:28:47,288
- Give me your hands.
- Fuck off of me, man.
404
00:28:47,288 --> 00:28:49,746
You drank with me backstage
405
00:28:49,746 --> 00:28:51,579
pretending to be a soldier.
406
00:28:52,204 --> 00:28:55,288
That's low.
- Punch that nigga in his face, Billie.
407
00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:57,996
I almost kissed your ugly ass.
408
00:28:59,704 --> 00:29:03,121
You came to my baby's
goddamn funeral, Jimmy.
409
00:29:05,663 --> 00:29:08,329
And all the while you're just
some fucking fed!
410
00:29:11,829 --> 00:29:14,579
You probably don't like
any of my music, do you?
411
00:29:19,288 --> 00:29:22,163
You're under arrest, Miss Holiday.
412
00:29:24,079 --> 00:29:27,414
And you're a lying Black son‐of‐a‐bitch.
413
00:29:30,747 --> 00:29:34,247
Policewoman will be here shortly
to search you for further evidence.
414
00:29:34,247 --> 00:29:35,664
You're gonna search me?
415
00:29:36,164 --> 00:29:37,497
You search me.
416
00:29:38,247 --> 00:29:40,247
That police bitch is only
gonna feel me up.
417
00:29:40,247 --> 00:29:42,330
- No, ma'am.
- That's what you really
been wanting.
418
00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:48,955
Miss Holiday,
keep your clothes on, please.
419
00:29:55,205 --> 00:29:56,955
You gonna arrest me...
420
00:30:00,705 --> 00:30:02,872
Agent Fletcher.
421
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,040
- Keep out of the way.
- Miss Holiday!
422
00:30:10,581 --> 00:30:11,956
- Give her some room.
- Miss Holiday.
423
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,456
Billie, why did you...
424
00:30:15,540 --> 00:30:17,081
Talk to him. There.
425
00:30:17,790 --> 00:30:18,956
Move, out of the way.
426
00:30:19,540 --> 00:30:21,165
You should feel ashamed.
427
00:30:23,206 --> 00:30:25,165
You stay in trouble with the law,
Miss Holiday.
428
00:30:25,998 --> 00:30:27,665
Don't you want to set
an example for your race
429
00:30:27,665 --> 00:30:29,540
like Ella Fitzgerald and Marian Anderson?
430
00:30:32,623 --> 00:30:35,081
You know, the people that are
hardest on me are my own race.
431
00:30:35,998 --> 00:30:37,540
I need help.
432
00:30:37,540 --> 00:30:38,665
Not jail time.
433
00:30:44,456 --> 00:30:45,456
Move.
434
00:30:48,915 --> 00:30:50,624
- It's Fletcher, right?
- Yes, sir.
435
00:30:50,624 --> 00:30:52,791
Congratulations on your fine work.
436
00:30:53,874 --> 00:30:55,124
Thank you, Mr. Anslinger.
437
00:30:55,124 --> 00:30:59,082
- The United States vs. Billie Holiday.
Docket number 14‐243.
438
00:30:59,082 --> 00:31:01,332
The honorable
Judge Cullen Ganey presiding.
439
00:31:01,332 --> 00:31:02,332
All rise.
440
00:31:04,041 --> 00:31:06,374
We need to know
the whole truth about your addiction.
441
00:31:07,207 --> 00:31:10,041
We want you to help us trace
the drug down to the source.
442
00:31:11,874 --> 00:31:15,374
Now the police found heroin in your room
at the Attucks Hotel.
443
00:31:15,916 --> 00:31:17,499
Who supplies you?
444
00:31:28,541 --> 00:31:31,374
- Just send me to a hospital.
Get this over with.
445
00:31:45,958 --> 00:31:47,333
Miss Holiday...
446
00:31:49,333 --> 00:31:52,667
I hereby sentence you
to one year and a day...
447
00:31:52,667 --> 00:31:54,000
To jail?
448
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,292
- You'll be remanded
to Alderson Women's Prison.
- Joe! Joe!
449
00:31:56,292 --> 00:31:58,167
Wait, wait! Get your hands off me!
450
00:31:58,167 --> 00:32:00,667
Hey, Joe. You told me
they'd send me to a hospital.
451
00:32:00,667 --> 00:32:01,958
Y'all set me up!
452
00:32:01,958 --> 00:32:04,750
Y'all folks set me up.
Joe, I paid your ass all that money.
453
00:32:04,750 --> 00:32:06,417
Nigga, you go to jail.
454
00:32:06,417 --> 00:32:08,000
I trusted you, Joe.
455
00:32:14,042 --> 00:32:15,793
Stand up, women.
456
00:32:20,959 --> 00:32:23,376
Stand up.
You ain't Billie Holiday in here.
457
00:32:24,668 --> 00:32:26,626
- Jimmy.
- You did it.
458
00:32:29,543 --> 00:32:31,209
I'm proud of you.
459
00:32:45,918 --> 00:32:49,168
- Hey, Shirley, you got anything?
- Yes. Here you go.
460
00:32:59,044 --> 00:33:01,794
They knew they couldn't
get no white boys to infiltrate Harlem.
461
00:33:01,794 --> 00:33:04,044
So they had us do it
and you're leading it.
462
00:33:05,669 --> 00:33:07,502
Yes, Sam, I guess I am.
463
00:33:09,627 --> 00:33:11,585
You're paving the way for all of us.
464
00:33:12,085 --> 00:33:13,960
Hoover and them white boys
better get ready.
465
00:33:14,627 --> 00:33:17,794
Can't nobody do it better than a nigga
when he gets the opportunity.
466
00:33:23,085 --> 00:33:26,044
"You should be congratulating me
on my new job
467
00:33:26,044 --> 00:33:27,377
that I start tomorrow."
468
00:33:27,919 --> 00:33:31,585
You lied to me,
just like you lied to Miss Holiday.
469
00:33:32,627 --> 00:33:36,044
Why wouldn't you tell me that
you're working as a federal agent?
470
00:33:36,044 --> 00:33:38,169
They swear you to secrecy, Mom.
471
00:33:38,627 --> 00:33:42,003
- You could do anything with yourself.
You don't even have to work.
472
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,170
Why that?
473
00:33:46,461 --> 00:33:48,211
I didn't want to be an undertaker.
474
00:33:48,753 --> 00:33:52,711
The mortuary business didn't work out
so bad for us, James.
475
00:33:53,461 --> 00:33:57,045
Your father's money
left you with opportunities
476
00:33:57,045 --> 00:33:58,961
no ordinary Negroes have.
477
00:33:59,628 --> 00:34:02,003
Drugs are turning Harlem upside down.
478
00:34:02,545 --> 00:34:04,128
I wanted to make a difference.
479
00:34:05,253 --> 00:34:09,003
I am one of the first
Black federal agents ever.
480
00:34:10,378 --> 00:34:12,378
They're using you.
481
00:34:13,753 --> 00:34:15,920
It's not just about the drugs.
482
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,878
They don't want her singing that song,
483
00:34:17,878 --> 00:34:20,295
but if she don't do it, who will?
484
00:34:20,295 --> 00:34:23,421
Ain't no other Negro star
bold enough to do it.
485
00:34:24,046 --> 00:34:26,171
She's singing it for all of us.
486
00:34:26,171 --> 00:34:27,837
That young lady is a hero.
487
00:34:28,379 --> 00:34:32,171
♪ It gets worse with time ♪
488
00:34:33,087 --> 00:34:37,879
♪ It's a long way down from here ♪
489
00:34:37,879 --> 00:34:41,379
♪ They normally don't stay with me ♪
490
00:34:42,129 --> 00:34:46,587
♪ Once the morning light appears ♪
491
00:34:46,796 --> 00:34:50,879
♪ I don't have much to give ♪
492
00:34:51,087 --> 00:34:53,712
♪ But here is now ♪
493
00:34:54,087 --> 00:34:58,712
♪ And I pray it breaks your fall ♪
494
00:35:00,254 --> 00:35:03,171
♪ Breaks your fall ♪
495
00:35:03,171 --> 00:35:08,005
♪ I should warn you
This will probably hurt like hell ♪
496
00:35:08,963 --> 00:35:11,463
♪ I don't do love ♪
497
00:35:11,463 --> 00:35:14,547
♪ Or lovers very well ♪
498
00:35:14,547 --> 00:35:18,963
♪ I fade like flowers on days like this ♪
499
00:35:18,963 --> 00:35:21,630
♪ It's amazing you maybe ♪
500
00:35:21,630 --> 00:35:24,088
♪ Past that first kiss ♪
501
00:35:24,088 --> 00:35:27,297
♪ I don't have much to bring ♪
502
00:35:27,297 --> 00:35:29,922
♪ You've seen it all ♪
503
00:35:30,463 --> 00:35:35,547
♪ And I pray it breaks your fall ♪
504
00:35:36,547 --> 00:35:41,130
♪ Breaks your fall ♪
505
00:35:41,672 --> 00:35:45,172
♪ 'Cause there's no remedy ♪
506
00:35:45,172 --> 00:35:47,338
♪ For staying next to me ♪
507
00:35:47,338 --> 00:35:51,256
♪ The pain's contagious
I warned you so I blame you ♪
508
00:35:51,256 --> 00:35:53,839
♪ If you stay, it's your loss ♪
509
00:35:53,839 --> 00:35:56,964
♪ Probably say it's my fault and it is ♪
510
00:35:57,214 --> 00:35:59,923
♪ But it is what it is ♪
511
00:36:01,089 --> 00:36:06,714
♪ It gets worse with time ♪
512
00:36:06,714 --> 00:36:09,256
And, even the recording dates,
513
00:36:09,256 --> 00:36:13,714
Billie seemed to be so thrilled
to make the tape with each other.
514
00:36:14,756 --> 00:36:16,131
I'll probably never even marry again.
515
00:36:16,131 --> 00:36:19,214
I know I'm gonna find my ass
right back up in this jail cell.
516
00:36:19,214 --> 00:36:22,256
♪ Morning light comes near ♪
517
00:36:22,256 --> 00:36:25,923
♪ I don't have much to give ♪
518
00:36:25,923 --> 00:36:29,131
♪ But here is now ♪
519
00:36:29,131 --> 00:36:31,674
♪ And I pray it breaks ♪
520
00:36:31,674 --> 00:36:35,674
♪ Your fall ♪
521
00:36:39,049 --> 00:36:43,049
♪ Breaks your fall ♪
522
00:36:45,632 --> 00:36:47,257
Why'd you do it?
523
00:36:49,424 --> 00:36:51,715
My father told me when I was a kid
524
00:36:51,715 --> 00:36:53,840
that drugs would be
the death of our people.
525
00:36:55,757 --> 00:36:58,882
For you to be one of them agents,
you sure is stupid.
526
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,674
I'mma tell you something real
about that person you put in jail.
527
00:37:04,257 --> 00:37:05,715
She was raped...
528
00:37:06,882 --> 00:37:08,924
when she was just 10 years old.
529
00:37:09,757 --> 00:37:12,465
You don't know how it is
to be missing something in your life
530
00:37:12,465 --> 00:37:14,341
that only a fix seems to fill.
531
00:37:15,591 --> 00:37:17,341
She get with these men,
532
00:37:20,175 --> 00:37:21,675
and they treat her bad.
533
00:37:22,383 --> 00:37:24,883
She run around, she steal little trinkets.
534
00:37:27,716 --> 00:37:30,800
She look like a million bucks,
but she feels like nothing.
535
00:37:34,258 --> 00:37:36,966
Hop eases the pain,
but then that shit come right back
536
00:37:36,966 --> 00:37:38,675
and it hit harder than before.
537
00:37:39,716 --> 00:37:40,925
Like a hammer.
538
00:37:45,508 --> 00:37:47,383
Billie ain't got nobody.
539
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,591
Singing is her life and...
540
00:37:55,801 --> 00:37:58,134
She give that away to the world.
541
00:37:58,134 --> 00:38:00,634
So, at the end of the day,
she don't hurt nobody but herself.
542
00:38:23,092 --> 00:38:24,676
Here for Mr. Anslinger.
543
00:38:24,676 --> 00:38:27,259
- What do you want?
- Mr. Anslinger?
544
00:38:27,259 --> 00:38:28,967
It's Agent James Fletcher.
545
00:38:29,926 --> 00:38:30,926
Sit down.
546
00:38:40,385 --> 00:38:41,427
Come on.
547
00:38:44,635 --> 00:38:46,302
There's nothing on Holiday.
548
00:38:48,427 --> 00:38:50,968
Well, how can there be, sir?
She's in jail.
549
00:38:55,052 --> 00:38:56,427
Pardon me for asking,
550
00:38:57,302 --> 00:38:59,385
but why is that song so important to us?
551
00:39:00,010 --> 00:39:01,677
Hoover says it's un‐American.
552
00:39:02,885 --> 00:39:04,468
You've heard those lyrics.
553
00:39:04,468 --> 00:39:07,177
They provoke people, in the wrong way.
554
00:39:09,885 --> 00:39:10,885
The wrong way.
555
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,593
What would you have me do, sir?
556
00:39:15,593 --> 00:39:17,093
You're a good liar.
557
00:39:18,468 --> 00:39:21,844
Now, I need you to go down to the prison
and tell her you're sorry.
558
00:39:23,553 --> 00:39:24,886
She'll believe you.
559
00:39:25,428 --> 00:39:27,136
She's a sucker for men.
560
00:39:30,969 --> 00:39:32,178
Yes, sir.
561
00:39:35,928 --> 00:39:38,594
We'll make sure she never gets
that cabaret license back.
562
00:39:45,803 --> 00:39:48,219
Miss Holiday, you can't trust anyone.
563
00:39:51,011 --> 00:39:53,219
They're gonna set you up
as soon as you get out of here.
564
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,511
They want you down and they want me
to take you down again.
565
00:39:57,428 --> 00:39:58,511
I won't.
566
00:40:00,469 --> 00:40:02,178
What's your game, man?
567
00:40:04,179 --> 00:40:05,887
I thought I was doing the right thing.
568
00:40:06,679 --> 00:40:08,137
Right thing?
569
00:40:13,137 --> 00:40:14,720
You look older, soldier boy.
570
00:40:18,845 --> 00:40:20,804
You said you'd kick that stuff.
571
00:40:24,554 --> 00:40:26,387
Even in prison, you're beautiful.
572
00:40:26,762 --> 00:40:28,304
Don't flirt with me.
573
00:40:29,470 --> 00:40:31,012
You ain't my kind of guy.
574
00:40:38,262 --> 00:40:39,262
Let's go.
575
00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:46,805
New York City
March 16, 1948
- That took forever.
- You know how trains can be.
576
00:40:48,305 --> 00:40:49,513
Hey.
577
00:40:53,471 --> 00:40:55,138
I hate baby's breath.
578
00:40:56,846 --> 00:41:00,263
Hi, baby. Mommy missed you so much.
579
00:41:01,263 --> 00:41:03,096
I didn't think he'd remember me.
580
00:41:03,096 --> 00:41:05,846
This is Ed Fishman. He's a good manager.
581
00:41:06,763 --> 00:41:07,763
Really?
582
00:41:08,221 --> 00:41:09,471
What's he gonna do for me?
583
00:41:09,471 --> 00:41:10,555
Tell her.
584
00:41:11,596 --> 00:41:15,638
Billie Holiday headlining
at Carnegie Hall.
585
00:41:16,805 --> 00:41:18,263
Headlining, kid.
586
00:41:20,138 --> 00:41:21,555
No one will come to see me.
587
00:41:22,388 --> 00:41:24,138
I've been reading the papers.
588
00:41:25,221 --> 00:41:27,555
All them nasty things
they're saying about me.
589
00:41:28,139 --> 00:41:29,847
Tickets went on sale yesterday
590
00:41:30,431 --> 00:41:32,097
and we're selling pretty good.
591
00:41:33,681 --> 00:41:35,431
They just want to hear you sing, Lady.
592
00:41:35,431 --> 00:41:36,639
That's all.
593
00:41:36,889 --> 00:41:38,847
Hey, why don't you stay at Lester's?
594
00:41:38,847 --> 00:41:41,806
Yeah, we can go over the numbers
and you can eat some of Mama's chitlins.
595
00:41:41,806 --> 00:41:43,972
Yeah, I know
what the two of y'all are thinking.
596
00:41:45,181 --> 00:41:46,597
I beat it this time.
597
00:41:48,347 --> 00:41:50,514
I don't plan on
doing none of that shit again.
598
00:41:55,306 --> 00:41:56,722
Carnegie Hall?
599
00:41:58,972 --> 00:42:01,472
Hot damn, Prez!
600
00:42:07,056 --> 00:42:08,847
- Who are you smiling at?
- Shit.
601
00:42:08,847 --> 00:42:11,098
- Hell no, not that nigga.
- She's something.
602
00:42:11,098 --> 00:42:13,473
Take your goddamn dog. Come on.
603
00:42:14,432 --> 00:42:15,640
Well, I'll be damned.
604
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,182
Your little visit to her worked.
605
00:42:18,473 --> 00:42:20,848
I told you not
to get goddamn baby's breath.
606
00:42:22,765 --> 00:42:24,265
They didn't have
no goddamn tulips.
607
00:42:24,265 --> 00:42:25,973
What the fuck you want me to do?
Grow 'em out my ass?
608
00:42:25,973 --> 00:42:29,557
♪ I cried for you ♪
609
00:42:29,558 --> 00:42:32,015
Two months later
♪ Now it's your turn to cry... ♪
610
00:42:32,015 --> 00:42:33,473
Hey, Miss Mona.
611
00:42:33,890 --> 00:42:37,015
♪ To cry over me ♪
612
00:42:37,015 --> 00:42:39,890
Listen, Bobby, I had an idea.
- What?
613
00:42:39,890 --> 00:42:43,140
I think we should make the tune
more of a conversation, you know?
614
00:42:43,140 --> 00:42:45,473
And the band take their cue
from you, Prez.
615
00:42:45,765 --> 00:42:48,015
You play it. You know how you play it.
616
00:42:49,765 --> 00:42:52,933
♪ I cry for you ♪
617
00:42:57,183 --> 00:42:59,349
Not now, honey. Mommy's working.
618
00:42:59,349 --> 00:43:02,474
♪ I cried for you ♪
619
00:43:02,474 --> 00:43:06,641
♪ Now it's your turn to cry over me ♪
620
00:43:06,641 --> 00:43:08,183
- Yeah.
- You dig?
621
00:43:08,183 --> 00:43:10,558
- I dig, I dig. Yeah.
- You think that'll work?
622
00:43:10,558 --> 00:43:12,433
So glad to have you back, Lady.
623
00:43:12,433 --> 00:43:13,891
Yeah, I'm not feeling too bad.
624
00:43:17,933 --> 00:43:19,599
You know, I've been thinking.
625
00:43:19,599 --> 00:43:22,349
I think we should integrate
the audience for the show.
626
00:43:22,349 --> 00:43:24,349
You know, Blacks and whites
sitting together,
627
00:43:24,349 --> 00:43:26,391
you know, if...
628
00:43:27,141 --> 00:43:28,974
I feel like it would be
more of a party that way.
629
00:43:28,974 --> 00:43:32,641
You know, Carnegie Hall and Broadway,
the whole scene, you know what I mean?
630
00:43:32,641 --> 00:43:34,558
It's meant to keep the Negroes out.
631
00:43:34,808 --> 00:43:37,184
- Let's change it up a little bit.
Do something different.
632
00:43:37,767 --> 00:43:39,642
- It's a great idea.
- You know.
633
00:43:40,142 --> 00:43:42,767
No. Miss Mona?
634
00:43:43,350 --> 00:43:44,809
Yes, Miss Holiday?
635
00:43:44,809 --> 00:43:47,267
Honey, could you pull
that pinstripe suit out for me?
636
00:43:47,267 --> 00:43:48,975
- Okay.
- Yeah, I'm gonna go pray.
637
00:44:22,935 --> 00:44:24,851
It's like the whole world's
out there right now.
638
00:44:24,851 --> 00:44:27,601
- What'd I tell ya?
Packed house, Billie, packed house.
639
00:44:28,935 --> 00:44:31,976
- Will you keep your head still?
- You know what? Stop! Stop!
640
00:44:32,476 --> 00:44:33,643
I'll do it myself.
641
00:44:36,893 --> 00:44:38,893
Shit!
642
00:44:44,310 --> 00:44:45,560
All right, I gotta go.
643
00:44:53,851 --> 00:44:55,976
Motherfucker, what are you doing?
644
00:44:55,976 --> 00:44:57,893
- Who's out there right now?
- It's funny you should ask.
645
00:44:57,893 --> 00:44:59,768
I have a whole list
of the most important...
646
00:45:33,311 --> 00:45:35,227
She does look incredible.
647
00:45:35,227 --> 00:45:38,061
- Thank you.
- Thank you, everybody.
648
00:45:39,144 --> 00:45:42,561
Well, I'm back.
649
00:45:46,812 --> 00:45:48,395
And jail was fun.
650
00:45:49,978 --> 00:45:51,687
Sing Strange Fruit.
651
00:45:54,937 --> 00:45:57,187
I'm afraid I won't be able to do
that one tonight, honey.
652
00:45:59,770 --> 00:46:01,062
I love you, Billie!
653
00:46:01,853 --> 00:46:03,562
I'm a little nervous up here tonight.
654
00:46:04,062 --> 00:46:05,728
All these reporters keep asking me,
655
00:46:06,187 --> 00:46:08,145
"Billie, why you do the things you do?"
656
00:46:08,853 --> 00:46:11,478
You know, I should be more like
this person or that person.
657
00:46:12,020 --> 00:46:13,520
This is what I tell them.
658
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,270
♪ "Ain't Nobody's Business" plays ♪
659
00:46:35,104 --> 00:46:39,813
♪ There ain't nothing I can do ♪
660
00:46:39,813 --> 00:46:43,479
♪ Or nothing I can say ♪
661
00:46:44,021 --> 00:46:48,604
♪ That folks don't criticize me ♪
662
00:46:48,854 --> 00:46:51,938
♪ But I'm going to do ♪
663
00:46:51,938 --> 00:46:56,479
♪ Just as I want to anyway ♪
664
00:46:57,604 --> 00:46:59,896
♪ And don't care ♪
665
00:46:59,896 --> 00:47:04,021
♪ Just what people say ♪
666
00:47:06,771 --> 00:47:11,605
♪ If I should take the notion ♪
667
00:47:11,605 --> 00:47:15,689
♪ To jump into the ocean ♪
668
00:47:16,314 --> 00:47:21,897
♪ Ain't nobody's business if I do ♪
669
00:47:24,939 --> 00:47:29,022
♪ If my man ain't got no money ♪
670
00:47:29,605 --> 00:47:33,689
♪ And I say take all of mine, honey ♪
671
00:47:34,689 --> 00:47:40,022
♪ Ain't nobody's business if I do ♪
672
00:47:43,355 --> 00:47:47,272
♪ If I give him my last nickel ♪
673
00:47:47,939 --> 00:47:51,815
♪ And it leaves me in a pickle ♪
674
00:47:52,731 --> 00:47:58,315
♪ Ain't nobody's business if I do ♪
675
00:48:01,481 --> 00:48:05,440
♪ Well, I'd rather my man would hit me ♪
676
00:48:05,940 --> 00:48:10,231
♪ Than for him to jump up and quit me ♪
677
00:48:11,190 --> 00:48:16,356
♪ Ain't nobody's business if I do ♪
678
00:48:19,731 --> 00:48:24,190
♪ I swear I won't call no copper ♪
679
00:48:24,190 --> 00:48:28,356
♪ If I'm beat up by my papa ♪
680
00:48:29,190 --> 00:48:35,107
♪ Ain't nobody's business if I do ♪
681
00:48:38,024 --> 00:48:41,899
♪ Nobody's business ♪
682
00:48:42,232 --> 00:48:46,316
♪ Ain't nobody's business ♪
683
00:48:47,191 --> 00:48:50,732
♪ Nobody's business ♪
684
00:48:50,732 --> 00:48:54,149
♪ If I do ♪
685
00:50:04,234 --> 00:50:06,984
What the hell you mean
you can't get my cabaret card back?
686
00:50:06,984 --> 00:50:08,693
We had three lawyers working on it.
687
00:50:08,693 --> 00:50:10,401
They all came back empty‐handed, I...
688
00:50:10,401 --> 00:50:12,651
Well, they won't let me sing nowhere
without my card.
689
00:50:12,651 --> 00:50:14,859
No clubs, no money, no nothing.
690
00:50:14,859 --> 00:50:16,526
We'll work something out.
691
00:50:17,359 --> 00:50:19,109
You ain't working fuck out!
692
00:50:20,234 --> 00:50:21,776
You son of a bitch!
693
00:50:22,234 --> 00:50:23,568
You're fucking high.
694
00:50:41,319 --> 00:50:43,069
Of course I'm high, Ed.
695
00:50:49,902 --> 00:50:51,735
I wanted to put on a great show.
696
00:50:57,277 --> 00:50:58,652
All the fans...
697
00:51:02,027 --> 00:51:06,110
and all those goddamn feds
sitting in the front row.
698
00:51:09,944 --> 00:51:11,444
Of course I'm high.
699
00:51:13,777 --> 00:51:15,069
Shit.
700
00:51:26,695 --> 00:51:28,361
How am I supposed to work
701
00:51:32,653 --> 00:51:34,653
if I don't got my fucking card?
702
00:51:58,695 --> 00:52:01,820
♪ Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know ♪
703
00:52:01,820 --> 00:52:04,778
♪ She is my baby and she lives next door ♪
704
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:07,821
♪ Every mornin' 'fore the sun comes up ♪
705
00:52:07,821 --> 00:52:10,071
How in the hell you pull this off?
706
00:52:11,487 --> 00:52:13,737
Is that the band standing up there?
707
00:52:14,946 --> 00:52:16,654
- Is that Ros and Freddy right there?
- Yep.
708
00:52:16,654 --> 00:52:19,612
- None of your goddamn business, baby.
Now, get out there and sing a song.
709
00:52:20,029 --> 00:52:23,696
Prez, you know I can get arrested
for singing without my cabaret card.
710
00:52:23,696 --> 00:52:27,237
Bobby Tucker swears this John Levy
cat got all the hookups. Come on.
711
00:52:28,154 --> 00:52:30,696
And he's a looker, too.
712
00:52:31,196 --> 00:52:32,279
Yeah.
713
00:52:33,904 --> 00:52:35,779
You don't even know
what we're gonna sing.
714
00:52:37,237 --> 00:52:38,446
Look at y'all fools.
715
00:52:38,737 --> 00:52:40,987
How y'all let him talk y'all into this?
716
00:52:42,112 --> 00:52:44,529
We'll figure it out like we always do.
717
00:52:44,821 --> 00:52:46,321
You just gotta handle him.
718
00:52:50,947 --> 00:52:53,488
All right, y'all.
We kinda gotta get ready for anything.
719
00:53:02,530 --> 00:53:04,905
Am I gonna get arrested
for singing in here?
720
00:53:07,363 --> 00:53:08,447
Come here.
721
00:53:21,197 --> 00:53:23,572
From now on, I don't want you
to worry about none of that.
722
00:53:24,363 --> 00:53:25,488
I'll pay off the right people.
723
00:53:25,822 --> 00:53:27,572
And you would do that for me?
724
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:30,739
You just got a standing ovation
725
00:53:30,739 --> 00:53:33,406
and three curtain calls from
a sold‐out crowd at Carnegie Hall.
726
00:53:34,906 --> 00:53:36,823
Plus, the cops owe me some favors.
727
00:53:38,698 --> 00:53:41,281
You and me might make a swell team.
728
00:53:44,739 --> 00:53:47,573
Only I decide when
it's time to team up that way.
729
00:53:48,906 --> 00:53:50,698
You got a divorce from Monroe,
didn't you?
730
00:53:51,823 --> 00:53:53,531
That ain't none of your business.
731
00:53:54,698 --> 00:53:56,239
Shit. I'm here to sing.
732
00:53:56,698 --> 00:53:58,156
Make you some money.
733
00:53:59,156 --> 00:54:01,198
Well, go on and make me some money then.
734
00:54:21,824 --> 00:54:23,365
Thank you.
735
00:54:24,282 --> 00:54:26,115
Well, I'm sure you've all heard,
736
00:54:26,115 --> 00:54:28,074
they ain't giving me
my cabaret card back yet.
737
00:54:28,074 --> 00:54:30,115
- Yeah, boo!
- They suck!
738
00:54:30,824 --> 00:54:32,740
So to keep working,
I've been having to run around
739
00:54:32,740 --> 00:54:35,824
singing in Washington and Philly
because I don't need no card there
740
00:54:35,824 --> 00:54:37,865
but tonight...
741
00:54:37,865 --> 00:54:39,574
Feels good to be back home.
742
00:54:40,157 --> 00:54:42,990
Thank you, John.
743
00:54:44,449 --> 00:54:46,907
So, I think we're gonna
try something new tonight.
744
00:54:46,907 --> 00:54:49,615
Them There Eyes.
Them There Eyes.
745
00:55:01,825 --> 00:55:05,575
♪ I fell in love with you
the first time I looked into ♪
746
00:55:05,575 --> 00:55:07,450
♪ Them there eyes ♪
747
00:55:07,908 --> 00:55:10,825
♪ You have a certain
little cute way of flirtin' ♪
748
00:55:11,408 --> 00:55:13,741
♪ With them there eyes ♪
749
00:55:14,366 --> 00:55:17,616
♪ They make me feel so happy ♪
750
00:55:17,616 --> 00:55:20,283
♪ They make me feel so blue ♪
751
00:55:20,283 --> 00:55:23,575
♪ I'm fallin', no stallin' ♪
752
00:55:23,575 --> 00:55:26,075
♪ In a great big way for you ♪
753
00:55:26,408 --> 00:55:29,783
♪ My heart is jumpin',
you started somethin' ♪
754
00:55:29,783 --> 00:55:31,950
♪ With them there eyes ♪
755
00:55:32,950 --> 00:55:37,158
♪ Baby, them there eyes ♪
756
00:56:02,701 --> 00:56:06,284
♪ I fell in love with you
the first time I looked into ♪
757
00:56:08,701 --> 00:56:11,909
♪ You have a certain
little cute way of flirtin' ♪
758
00:56:15,326 --> 00:56:18,492
♪ They make me feel so happy ♪
759
00:56:18,492 --> 00:56:21,493
♪ They make me feel so blue ♪
760
00:56:21,493 --> 00:56:24,077
♪ I'm fallin', no stallin' ♪
761
00:56:24,410 --> 00:56:26,868
♪ In a great big way for you ♪
762
00:56:26,868 --> 00:56:31,452
♪ I'm lookin' for the boy
with the wistful eyes ♪
763
00:56:32,868 --> 00:56:38,868
♪ I fell in love with them there eyes ♪
764
00:56:40,702 --> 00:56:42,160
All right!
765
00:56:51,410 --> 00:56:54,035
to that van with a sign saying,
766
00:56:54,035 --> 00:56:57,077
"Welcome, Satchmo and his All‐Stars
767
00:56:57,077 --> 00:56:59,493
from the New Orleans Roman Jazz band."
768
00:56:59,493 --> 00:57:01,660
We played about three days concert there
769
00:57:01,660 --> 00:57:04,161
and one of the nights we went out
to the trumpet player's home...
770
00:57:04,161 --> 00:57:06,078
Telling folks I'm a musician.
771
00:57:06,078 --> 00:57:07,578
Say again?
772
00:57:07,578 --> 00:57:09,453
Telling folks I'm a musician.
773
00:57:10,828 --> 00:57:12,869
Just make sure they don't ask you
to play something.
774
00:57:27,036 --> 00:57:28,453
How about that, nigga?
775
00:57:30,453 --> 00:57:31,578
What you got?
776
00:57:32,369 --> 00:57:34,286
Marleen's whorehouse closed.
777
00:57:37,078 --> 00:57:39,203
At least I ain't gotta worry
about giving my wife the clap no more.
778
00:57:42,619 --> 00:57:44,119
Got anything on Louis or Charlie?
779
00:57:44,786 --> 00:57:46,037
Nothing that'll stick.
780
00:57:48,870 --> 00:57:50,745
Do you ever feel strange
about what we're doing, Jimmy?
781
00:57:52,620 --> 00:57:54,079
You sound like my mother.
782
00:57:54,704 --> 00:57:57,495
They got us down in the basement
trying to take out Negroes.
783
00:57:58,870 --> 00:58:00,662
The people I respect, you know?
784
00:58:05,458 --> 00:58:09,292
Three months later
785
00:58:14,792 --> 00:58:18,292
What's the best drink
you serve here?
786
00:58:19,204 --> 00:58:21,870
I told you they don't serve
no piña coladas in here, Ros.
787
00:58:21,870 --> 00:58:25,329
You need to figure out how you're going
to get us paid from that creep.
788
00:58:25,329 --> 00:58:26,329
Yeah.
789
00:58:28,833 --> 00:58:30,750
Please tell me
you have crème de menthe?
790
00:58:35,788 --> 00:58:36,955
One moment, Miss Holiday.
791
00:58:36,955 --> 00:58:38,996
Let me arrange a special table for you.
792
00:58:38,996 --> 00:58:40,996
- Sure. Thanks.
- Who you looking at?
793
00:58:43,663 --> 00:58:44,746
God!
794
00:58:47,871 --> 00:58:49,871
Hey, baby.
795
00:58:52,788 --> 00:58:54,413
How you doing?
- Good.
796
00:58:54,413 --> 00:58:56,288
Glad we're finally having dinner tonight.
797
00:58:56,288 --> 00:58:57,663
Yeah, about that...
798
00:58:57,663 --> 00:58:59,663
I gotta run by the number house.
- What?
799
00:58:59,663 --> 00:59:01,538
Baby, no, come on.
You said you was eating with us tonight.
800
00:59:01,538 --> 00:59:03,371
I'm sorry. Forgot I had business.
801
00:59:05,538 --> 00:59:07,580
I'll see you back at the club.
- Yeah, sure.
802
00:59:10,788 --> 00:59:12,206
Hey, Levy!
803
00:59:12,206 --> 00:59:14,622
Goddamn! You done shorted me
my money again, nigga.
804
00:59:14,622 --> 00:59:15,747
Told you.
805
00:59:16,706 --> 00:59:19,539
- Hey, who's that?
- Louis McKay.
806
00:59:19,539 --> 00:59:21,206
Some so‐called businessman.
807
00:59:21,206 --> 00:59:24,081
He's really just a boxer and a damn pimp.
He's trouble.
808
00:59:24,914 --> 00:59:27,081
- Your table is ready, Miss Holiday.
Just this way.
809
00:59:27,081 --> 00:59:29,206
Luigi, that ain't necessary.
810
00:59:29,206 --> 00:59:31,539
Miss Holiday will be dining
with me tonight.
811
00:59:33,997 --> 00:59:35,664
That's mighty swell of you.
812
00:59:36,206 --> 00:59:37,706
Ain't that nice, Ros.
813
00:59:39,206 --> 00:59:40,331
Come on, let's go.
814
00:59:40,331 --> 00:59:42,289
The table's just for two, though.
815
00:59:48,789 --> 00:59:50,164
Well...
816
00:59:51,247 --> 00:59:54,415
Well, you wouldn't want to eat with us,
would you?
817
00:59:55,207 --> 00:59:56,498
Do you?
818
00:59:57,332 --> 00:59:59,540
I'll see you at the club later. Yeah?
819
00:59:59,540 --> 01:00:00,915
Here, take the baby from me.
820
01:00:02,207 --> 01:00:04,707
Take the baby. Take the baby. Take her!
821
01:00:15,790 --> 01:00:17,748
Tallulah Bankhead.
822
01:00:18,290 --> 01:00:19,373
Thank you for meeting me.
823
01:00:21,873 --> 01:00:24,040
I'm Federal Agent Harry Anslinger.
824
01:00:29,498 --> 01:00:31,582
Who the hell do you think
you're playing with?
825
01:00:32,957 --> 01:00:34,248
What is this?
826
01:00:34,873 --> 01:00:36,791
I know you're friends with Miss Holiday.
827
01:00:38,208 --> 01:00:39,416
We're trying to help her.
828
01:00:39,999 --> 01:00:42,791
I just bet you are.
829
01:00:43,749 --> 01:00:46,958
We have intel that you don't approve
of her drug use.
830
01:00:46,958 --> 01:00:49,499
I am unaware of any drug use
by Miss Holiday.
831
01:00:51,958 --> 01:00:53,916
Would you consider her a friend?
832
01:00:54,958 --> 01:00:56,166
Yes.
833
01:00:57,208 --> 01:00:58,874
Billie's got lots of friends.
834
01:01:00,083 --> 01:01:04,958
I hear she likes to get to know
her lady friends... intimately.
835
01:01:06,416 --> 01:01:08,874
I wouldn't know about that.
836
01:01:09,708 --> 01:01:12,332
Are you sexually involved
with Miss Holiday?
837
01:01:18,123 --> 01:01:19,832
The whole thing was unnerving.
838
01:01:19,832 --> 01:01:23,248
Darling, I'm sorry you had
to go through all that, Bankhead.
839
01:01:23,957 --> 01:01:25,915
You're not still using that stuff,
are you?
840
01:01:25,915 --> 01:01:28,582
- Come on, Bank. It's such a nice day.
Can't we just enjoy it, please?
841
01:01:29,290 --> 01:01:30,915
How's that John Levy treating you?
842
01:01:30,915 --> 01:01:32,540
Well, I'm singing in his club.
843
01:01:33,373 --> 01:01:35,040
I heard he's stealing your money.
844
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,832
You could do better.
They're all using you.
845
01:01:37,832 --> 01:01:39,997
What makes you think I'm not using him?
846
01:01:41,789 --> 01:01:43,872
Mister, knock it off. Come on.
847
01:01:45,622 --> 01:01:47,997
You'll never understand my life,
white girl.
848
01:01:50,289 --> 01:01:52,539
See, Mister can beg, but he can't heel.
849
01:01:52,539 --> 01:01:54,247
But it's not his fault.
I ain't train him right.
850
01:01:54,247 --> 01:01:56,206
I'm gonna train this one.
- Yeah.
851
01:01:59,331 --> 01:02:00,539
Small world.
852
01:02:02,747 --> 01:02:04,206
Only if you following me.
853
01:02:04,206 --> 01:02:07,330
I'll follow you
to the moon and back, Lady.
854
01:02:07,330 --> 01:02:09,371
Train that dog for you for free.
855
01:02:10,163 --> 01:02:13,496
How about we ditch these snow bunnies
and go get into some black shit?
856
01:02:15,621 --> 01:02:17,913
I loathe the East End.
857
01:02:19,496 --> 01:02:21,288
Really, Billie?
858
01:02:29,913 --> 01:02:31,413
He won't miss us none.
859
01:02:32,955 --> 01:02:34,912
I've been singing here all this time.
860
01:02:34,912 --> 01:02:36,495
Packing that motherfucker.
861
01:02:38,620 --> 01:02:40,954
Did he think he not gonna pay us? Shit.
862
01:02:40,954 --> 01:02:43,287
♪ She's got them bad ♪
863
01:02:44,370 --> 01:02:47,329
♪ She feels so sad ♪
864
01:02:49,079 --> 01:02:53,329
♪ And wants the world to know ♪
865
01:02:54,287 --> 01:02:58,829
♪ Just what her blues is all about ♪
866
01:03:01,994 --> 01:03:03,453
What you mean, "No"?
867
01:03:03,453 --> 01:03:05,536
Nigga, I'm tired of going to jail.
868
01:03:05,536 --> 01:03:07,703
Come on, Joe. Baby, please, okay?
869
01:03:07,703 --> 01:03:10,494
I just need a little‐‐
I need a little taste. A little taste.
870
01:03:10,494 --> 01:03:13,786
Why? You've been clean for a minute now.
871
01:03:13,786 --> 01:03:15,786
You said we could beat this shit, Billie,
872
01:03:15,786 --> 01:03:16,828
and we can.
873
01:03:20,078 --> 01:03:21,953
Look, I know I did, Joe, okay?
874
01:03:21,953 --> 01:03:23,536
I know I did, but...
875
01:03:23,536 --> 01:03:24,953
You know, you gotta understand, baby.
876
01:03:24,953 --> 01:03:26,994
Right now, I'm in a situation, you know.
877
01:03:26,994 --> 01:03:28,785
And this fucking Levy cat...
878
01:03:28,785 --> 01:03:30,910
You know, he's been
fucking with me, you know?
879
01:03:31,660 --> 01:03:33,952
Look, there's always gonna be somebody
fucking with us.
880
01:03:34,368 --> 01:03:36,660
Hey, what happened to that clinic
you was talking about?
881
01:03:38,952 --> 01:03:40,077
Fuck!
882
01:03:42,535 --> 01:03:44,743
Look, fuck that clinic shit, Joe.
883
01:03:44,743 --> 01:03:46,202
I need some now.
884
01:03:46,202 --> 01:03:49,077
Man, shit. Look,
how about we just go together?
885
01:03:49,535 --> 01:03:51,702
Look, you done took his cash.
886
01:03:51,702 --> 01:03:53,535
Why don't we make some good use of it?
887
01:03:53,535 --> 01:03:55,284
It's not his cash.
888
01:03:55,742 --> 01:03:56,909
This is not his money.
889
01:03:56,909 --> 01:03:58,826
Nigga, this my motherfucking money.
890
01:03:58,826 --> 01:04:01,617
You know what, Joe? Fuck you.
- Billie...
891
01:04:01,617 --> 01:04:03,992
If you're not gonna help me,
I'm gonna find somebody who can.
892
01:04:03,992 --> 01:04:06,242
♪ I'm telling you ♪
893
01:04:06,242 --> 01:04:09,034
♪ She's got them bad ♪
894
01:04:10,784 --> 01:04:15,534
♪ But now the world will know ♪
895
01:04:17,367 --> 01:04:21,951
♪ She's never gonna sing them no more ♪
896
01:04:23,283 --> 01:04:29,116
♪ No more ♪
897
01:04:40,450 --> 01:04:42,158
Jesus.
898
01:04:42,866 --> 01:04:44,158
Hey, come on.
899
01:04:44,158 --> 01:04:45,533
Come on.
900
01:04:56,365 --> 01:04:57,824
You're so silly!
901
01:04:57,824 --> 01:04:59,074
Hey, daddy.
902
01:05:02,907 --> 01:05:04,449
Whoa!
903
01:05:04,449 --> 01:05:06,907
Sneaking into my money
and then try to come back to my club.
904
01:05:08,782 --> 01:05:10,574
Come on, y'all, now. Stop!
905
01:05:14,074 --> 01:05:15,115
Billie, no!
906
01:05:20,489 --> 01:05:21,614
Do something.
907
01:05:26,489 --> 01:05:27,489
Fuck!
908
01:05:29,989 --> 01:05:31,573
Clean your ass up.
909
01:05:35,489 --> 01:05:38,156
Come on, baby. Come on, get up!
910
01:05:38,989 --> 01:05:40,531
Come on. Get up.
911
01:05:40,531 --> 01:05:42,573
- Get the fuck off me.
- No, Billie! Stop!
912
01:05:42,573 --> 01:05:44,281
Motherfucker, get back here!
913
01:05:44,281 --> 01:05:46,322
Billie, stop! Come on!
914
01:05:50,072 --> 01:05:51,072
Please.
915
01:05:51,738 --> 01:05:54,113
Please, Billie, stop.
916
01:06:01,780 --> 01:06:07,530
♪ I don't know why
but I'm feeling so sad ♪
917
01:06:08,238 --> 01:06:13,446
♪ I long to try something I've never had ♪
918
01:06:14,279 --> 01:06:16,862
♪ Never had no kissin' ♪
919
01:06:17,737 --> 01:06:20,696
♪ What I've been missin' ♪
920
01:06:21,196 --> 01:06:24,987
♪ Lover man, where can you be? ♪
921
01:06:27,487 --> 01:06:32,904
♪ The night is cold and I'm so all alone ♪
922
01:06:33,821 --> 01:06:39,278
♪ I'd give my soul
just to call you my own ♪
923
01:06:40,445 --> 01:06:42,861
♪ Got a moon above me ♪
924
01:06:43,361 --> 01:06:45,986
♪ But no one to love me ♪
925
01:06:46,445 --> 01:06:50,736
♪ Lover man, where can you be? ♪
926
01:06:52,611 --> 01:06:55,486
♪ I've heard it said ♪
927
01:06:56,195 --> 01:06:59,320
♪ That the thrill of romance ♪
928
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:03,736
♪ Can be like a heavenly dream ♪
929
01:07:04,986 --> 01:07:10,110
♪ I go to bed with a prayer ♪
930
01:07:10,110 --> 01:07:13,402
♪ That you'll make love to me ♪
931
01:07:13,985 --> 01:07:16,985
♪ Strange as it seems ♪
932
01:07:18,444 --> 01:07:21,027
♪ Someday we'll meet ♪
933
01:07:21,610 --> 01:07:24,777
♪ And you'll dry all my tears ♪
934
01:07:25,152 --> 01:07:27,652
♪ Then whisper sweet ♪
935
01:07:27,652 --> 01:07:30,735
♪ Little things in my ear ♪
936
01:07:31,652 --> 01:07:34,443
♪ A‐hugging and a‐kissing ♪
937
01:07:34,859 --> 01:07:38,318
♪ What we've been missing ♪
938
01:07:38,776 --> 01:07:42,734
♪ Lover man ♪
939
01:07:42,984 --> 01:07:47,151
♪ Where can you be? ♪
940
01:07:50,943 --> 01:07:52,818
Holiday heads to Hollywood...
941
01:07:52,818 --> 01:07:54,776
hopefully without heroin.
942
01:07:54,776 --> 01:07:57,318
Billie Holiday
takes San Francisco by storm.
943
01:07:57,318 --> 01:08:00,068
She has been the victim of both
narcotic agents and dope peddlers
944
01:08:00,068 --> 01:08:01,942
who have harassed her constantly.
945
01:08:02,733 --> 01:08:04,567
This gal sure can play.
946
01:08:08,317 --> 01:08:10,192
Maybe I should learn
to play the guitar.
947
01:08:13,567 --> 01:08:16,858
You know, some people say we have a very
unhealthy thing going on here.
948
01:08:18,067 --> 01:08:19,150
Why?
949
01:08:20,650 --> 01:08:22,317
'Cause I punched you in the lobby?
950
01:08:25,067 --> 01:08:27,108
Yeah, you gonna learn to pay me on time.
951
01:08:29,066 --> 01:08:31,816
Would you believe I ain't used
in almost two months?
952
01:08:32,691 --> 01:08:34,274
Yes, I can, baby.
953
01:08:36,399 --> 01:08:38,316
How come we don't ever talk
about marriage?
954
01:08:39,482 --> 01:08:41,191
You know how much I need you.
955
01:08:41,191 --> 01:08:42,982
Shut up, Levy.
956
01:08:42,982 --> 01:08:44,691
You're already married, remember?
957
01:08:45,107 --> 01:08:47,107
And I told you I was getting a divorce.
958
01:08:47,107 --> 01:08:48,274
Yeah.
959
01:08:49,816 --> 01:08:51,857
I like our arrangement just fine.
960
01:08:51,857 --> 01:08:53,232
Is that right?
961
01:08:53,566 --> 01:08:55,566
Well maybe this gift
will change your mind.
962
01:08:56,898 --> 01:08:58,190
What?
963
01:09:03,898 --> 01:09:06,106
What you gone and got me, daddy?
964
01:09:06,106 --> 01:09:07,690
- Just a little somethin'.
- What?
965
01:09:07,690 --> 01:09:09,481
Come here.
966
01:09:17,731 --> 01:09:19,731
- What is this?
- No, don't worry about that.
967
01:09:20,231 --> 01:09:21,481
- What is this?
- Nothing.
968
01:09:21,481 --> 01:09:22,565
Levy, what is this?
969
01:09:22,565 --> 01:09:24,022
I'm not taking this shit.
970
01:09:41,522 --> 01:09:44,814
The fact that the drug works,
the spoon, syringe and so forth
971
01:09:44,814 --> 01:09:48,564
were found in a waste paper basket.
It was odd, yes.
972
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:51,854
Typically, the...
973
01:09:53,063 --> 01:09:55,438
The junkie will keep their works close by.
974
01:09:56,354 --> 01:10:01,063
And‐- and she was holding
the opium, but I...
975
01:10:01,063 --> 01:10:02,854
So it could have been a frame up?
976
01:10:03,646 --> 01:10:05,521
I‐I didn't say that.
977
01:10:07,104 --> 01:10:08,938
What you mean by that then?
978
01:10:08,938 --> 01:10:09,938
I, I...
979
01:10:13,104 --> 01:10:14,438
Fuck.
980
01:10:14,438 --> 01:10:16,438
People, please, please. Back off.
981
01:10:21,228 --> 01:10:22,937
What happened in there, Billie?
982
01:10:22,937 --> 01:10:25,728
Well, they tried framing me,
but they got caught red‐handed.
983
01:10:25,728 --> 01:10:27,437
What's next for you, Billie?
984
01:10:28,603 --> 01:10:30,520
I'm tourin' America.
985
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:33,395
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, I'm going on tour.
986
01:10:33,395 --> 01:10:34,645
You all can catch me on tour.
987
01:10:45,727 --> 01:10:48,227
You looked like Nat King Cole up there.
988
01:10:50,686 --> 01:10:54,644
The opium was on her, but I...
989
01:10:54,644 --> 01:10:56,394
You sounded like Stepin Fetchit.
990
01:10:57,019 --> 01:10:59,352
All of our hard work
just went down the drain.
991
01:11:00,144 --> 01:11:01,686
You wanted me to lie up there?
992
01:11:01,686 --> 01:11:03,477
You had a job to do and you failed.
993
01:11:03,977 --> 01:11:06,644
Now guess what, Nat King Fucking Fetchit?
994
01:11:09,061 --> 01:11:10,477
You're going on tour.
995
01:11:18,768 --> 01:11:21,810
Why that Black ass federal agent
keep following us for?
996
01:11:21,810 --> 01:11:23,226
This nigga's still following us.
997
01:11:23,226 --> 01:11:25,018
Yeah, I seen him two miles back.
998
01:11:26,476 --> 01:11:28,060
Why don't he go fuck with
some white people?
999
01:11:39,601 --> 01:11:43,392
♪ Up in Harlem
every Saturday night ♪
1000
01:11:43,767 --> 01:11:46,642
♪ Where the highbrows
get together ♪
1001
01:11:46,642 --> 01:11:48,600
♪ It's just too right ♪
1002
01:11:48,850 --> 01:11:50,892
♪ They all congregate ♪
1003
01:11:50,892 --> 01:11:52,892
♪ And all night... ♪
1004
01:11:52,892 --> 01:11:54,017
Let me see what it says.
1005
01:11:54,017 --> 01:11:55,600
Shit say, "I'm cured for good now".
1006
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:57,600
That bitch probably high
right now, talking about...
1007
01:11:57,600 --> 01:11:58,934
What she got on, man? What she got on?
1008
01:11:58,934 --> 01:12:02,809
♪ Ole Hannah Brown
from way across town ♪
1009
01:12:03,392 --> 01:12:05,017
♪ Gets full of coin ♪
1010
01:12:05,017 --> 01:12:07,434
♪ And starts breaking them down ♪
1011
01:12:08,349 --> 01:12:11,808
♪ And at the break of day ♪
1012
01:12:12,391 --> 01:12:15,683
♪ You can hear ole Hannah say ♪
1013
01:12:16,474 --> 01:12:18,016
♪ Gimme a pigfoot... ♪
1014
01:12:19,058 --> 01:12:21,974
♪ And a bottle of beer ♪
1015
01:12:22,308 --> 01:12:25,808
♪ Send me gate, I don't care ♪
Baltimore, Maryland
April 3, 1949
1016
01:12:30,974 --> 01:12:34,099
♪ I want a pigfoot ♪
1017
01:12:34,099 --> 01:12:36,307
♪ And a gang of gin ♪
1018
01:12:36,307 --> 01:12:37,598
Hey, you. Come here.
1019
01:12:39,765 --> 01:12:41,640
How did I do?
- You've done fantastic.
1020
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:43,640
We're sold out.
Don't stop.
1021
01:13:09,889 --> 01:13:15,097
♪ Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer ♪
1022
01:13:16,931 --> 01:13:18,972
December. Friday.
1023
01:13:18,972 --> 01:13:20,472
Okay, here we go.
1024
01:13:20,472 --> 01:13:22,806
Ain't you been watchin'.
1025
01:13:22,806 --> 01:13:24,431
Jesus ain't watch Freddy's hand.
1026
01:13:24,431 --> 01:13:26,847
In Jesus' name, y'all better hope
he watchin' Freddy's hand.
1027
01:13:26,847 --> 01:13:30,638
In Jesus name, we gonna watch your hand
with that money you not paying us.
1028
01:13:30,638 --> 01:13:32,805
Jesus said he's gonna
give us some money.
1029
01:13:32,805 --> 01:13:35,596
That's what we gonna do
while we bringin' the Holy Spirit in here.
1030
01:13:35,596 --> 01:13:37,763
Shut the fuck up.
1031
01:13:37,763 --> 01:13:39,846
Hell, no. I know you better
get the fuck out of here.
1032
01:13:41,055 --> 01:13:43,555
Hey, hey, hey, leave him alone.
Leave him alone.
1033
01:13:43,555 --> 01:13:45,555
After all the trouble
this cat done caused us?
1034
01:13:46,221 --> 01:13:47,513
Leave him be.
1035
01:13:47,513 --> 01:13:49,555
Lady, you know, a hard head
make a soft ass.
1036
01:13:49,555 --> 01:13:51,388
You ain't learned your lesson yet.
1037
01:13:51,388 --> 01:13:53,096
It's complicated.
1038
01:13:54,513 --> 01:13:55,513
Come here. Sit down.
1039
01:14:01,387 --> 01:14:03,595
You can fuck around with this one
right here if you want to,
1040
01:14:03,595 --> 01:14:05,345
but I need to get paid.
1041
01:14:06,220 --> 01:14:08,054
If the club ain't have the money,
then why we play?
1042
01:14:08,054 --> 01:14:10,095
They gave us what they had, Prez.
1043
01:14:10,595 --> 01:14:12,429
Come on, man. You know
we'll make it up at the next one.
1044
01:14:18,470 --> 01:14:20,387
Thanks for what you did for me
in that courtroom.
1045
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:24,386
They want you to think
that they fired me.
1046
01:14:25,761 --> 01:14:27,261
Is you still working for 'em?
1047
01:14:29,219 --> 01:14:30,511
It's complicated.
1048
01:14:34,719 --> 01:14:36,178
So you really just here to hang out?
1049
01:14:42,011 --> 01:14:43,594
You know he got
some candy for you.
1050
01:14:43,594 --> 01:14:44,886
Hey, Candyman.
1051
01:14:45,594 --> 01:14:47,136
Let me blow a bubble.
1052
01:14:47,136 --> 01:14:48,344
What you get?
1053
01:14:55,427 --> 01:14:58,385
All right. Here's what we got.
1054
01:14:59,385 --> 01:15:01,093
Yeah, that is all we got.
1055
01:15:01,093 --> 01:15:02,093
Okay.
1056
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:05,468
I sure hope you gave him enough for me.
1057
01:15:05,468 --> 01:15:07,260
- You know, I did.
- Shut the fuck up, Freddy.
1058
01:15:07,260 --> 01:15:09,552
What, you mad
'cause I ain't got my lipstick on?
1059
01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:14,427
He be gettin' so mad
at me sometimes.
1060
01:15:15,260 --> 01:15:17,052
That man crazy about me.
1061
01:15:17,052 --> 01:15:19,259
Freddy, play the damn game.
1062
01:15:19,259 --> 01:15:22,592
♪ Workin' hard every night, ♪
1063
01:15:23,176 --> 01:15:26,342
♪ Tryin' to get paid, ♪
1064
01:15:26,884 --> 01:15:28,676
♪ Might get laid ♪
1065
01:15:28,676 --> 01:15:31,009
I'm trying to get sane.
1066
01:15:31,842 --> 01:15:34,176
Why we don't do that track?
1067
01:15:34,176 --> 01:15:36,509
- We'll do...
- Billie's Blues, yeah.
1068
01:15:36,509 --> 01:15:39,176
Wait. Wait.
1069
01:15:41,009 --> 01:15:42,884
So, Billie, how you gonna pay
that drug man?
1070
01:15:42,884 --> 01:15:44,176
But I ain't got nothing.
1071
01:15:44,176 --> 01:15:45,426
Come on, Ros.
1072
01:15:45,426 --> 01:15:47,091
Y'all know I need my medicine.
1073
01:15:47,091 --> 01:15:48,508
Medicine, my ass.
1074
01:15:48,508 --> 01:15:50,008
You knew what you
was getting yourself into
1075
01:15:50,008 --> 01:15:51,216
when you decided to come on the road.
1076
01:15:51,216 --> 01:15:53,091
Shut up, Freddy.
I wasn't even talking to you.
1077
01:15:53,091 --> 01:15:54,383
Just gotta do like I do.
1078
01:15:54,383 --> 01:15:56,633
- Shut the fuck up.
- The hell you do.
1079
01:15:56,633 --> 01:15:58,591
- Nah, Freddy...
- That bitch don't pay me my money,
1080
01:15:58,591 --> 01:16:00,800
I take her shit.
- Get outta my goddamn clothes.
1081
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:03,258
I'm just letting you know
I'm gonna take everything
1082
01:16:03,258 --> 01:16:04,966
except your bra and your panties.
1083
01:16:04,966 --> 01:16:07,175
I can't‐- I can't wear that size.
1084
01:16:08,008 --> 01:16:11,133
I can't wear a gown. I ain't gonna...
1085
01:16:11,133 --> 01:16:12,425
If you gonna do it, do it right.
1086
01:16:12,883 --> 01:16:14,174
Here.
- Hey, Fletcher.
1087
01:16:14,174 --> 01:16:16,215
You're gonna follow us around
the whole country in that car?
1088
01:16:18,132 --> 01:16:19,507
I ain't got nothing better to do.
1089
01:16:21,340 --> 01:16:23,799
I trust you about as far as I can
throw your ass.
1090
01:16:25,465 --> 01:16:26,882
The Lady trusts me.
1091
01:16:26,882 --> 01:16:27,882
No, I don't.
1092
01:16:29,965 --> 01:16:31,340
You better damn not.
1093
01:16:31,340 --> 01:16:33,049
All right, now shut up. This is serious.
1094
01:16:33,049 --> 01:16:34,715
Here we go.
1095
01:16:34,715 --> 01:16:36,632
Hypothetically speaking, all right?
1096
01:16:37,132 --> 01:16:38,424
Let's say you catch Freddy.
1097
01:16:38,424 --> 01:16:41,423
Now, even though he don't have
no drugs on hand,
1098
01:16:41,423 --> 01:16:43,631
in the trunk of his car,
there is a considerable amount.
1099
01:16:43,631 --> 01:16:45,839
What then?
- She said "considerable amount."
1100
01:16:46,548 --> 01:16:48,256
You drive around with drugs
in the trunk of your car?
1101
01:16:48,256 --> 01:16:51,173
- She said, "Hypothetically."
Nigga, I don't even got no car.
1102
01:16:51,173 --> 01:16:53,214
You see me driving a car,
that shit is stolen.
1103
01:16:53,214 --> 01:16:55,298
I promise you that.
1104
01:16:55,298 --> 01:16:56,756
Well, if it's your car,
1105
01:16:56,756 --> 01:16:59,256
then they could probably bust you
for possession or something.
1106
01:16:59,256 --> 01:17:02,048
- Damn.
- Now that's some ridiculous shit.
1107
01:17:02,048 --> 01:17:03,381
Why the FBI shittin' on me?
1108
01:17:04,006 --> 01:17:06,798
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
let's keep this party going.
1109
01:17:06,798 --> 01:17:08,463
It is time for the main event.
1110
01:17:08,463 --> 01:17:11,963
Okay.
Well, it's time for me to go.
Y'all have a blessed night.
1111
01:17:11,963 --> 01:17:13,422
Come on, Ros.
You ain't got to go!
1112
01:17:13,422 --> 01:17:15,130
- You ain't got to go!
- It's all right.
1113
01:17:15,130 --> 01:17:17,380
- Bye.
- Bye, bitch.
1114
01:17:19,755 --> 01:17:21,380
Pray for us, Ros.
1115
01:17:21,380 --> 01:17:25,838
♪ The devil and I got up to dance
a slow dance ♪
1116
01:17:27,505 --> 01:17:32,672
♪ The devil and I began to dance
a slow dance ♪
1117
01:17:33,672 --> 01:17:38,587
♪ She showed her tongue
and had the nerve to ask me ♪
1118
01:17:39,712 --> 01:17:45,004
♪ Yes, all at once,
she had the nerve to ask me ♪
1119
01:17:45,504 --> 01:17:47,421
♪ I would leave your body... ♪
1120
01:17:47,421 --> 01:17:48,796
Do it.
1121
01:17:48,796 --> 01:17:51,587
♪ 'Cause it's your soul
I came here for ♪
1122
01:17:52,921 --> 01:17:54,754
If you're with us,
go ahead and do it.
1123
01:17:55,921 --> 01:17:57,379
Mr. Federal Agent.
1124
01:18:00,671 --> 01:18:05,795
♪ There's no way in the world
to save you now ♪
1125
01:18:06,836 --> 01:18:12,253
♪ This kiss,
the sweetest poison that I found ♪
1126
01:18:12,670 --> 01:18:15,503
♪ And before I let you go ♪
1127
01:18:18,961 --> 01:18:22,086
♪ I'll take you down ♪
1128
01:18:22,086 --> 01:18:23,086
Relax.
1129
01:18:23,628 --> 01:18:25,128
Let that shit kick in.
1130
01:18:34,460 --> 01:18:35,502
You feel it?
1131
01:18:36,169 --> 01:18:37,335
That shit good, ain't it?
1132
01:18:39,002 --> 01:18:40,169
Come with me.
1133
01:18:43,002 --> 01:18:46,919
♪ She said there is to be
no turning back ♪
1134
01:18:46,919 --> 01:18:50,085
♪ I'm strong and beautiful in black ♪
1135
01:18:50,085 --> 01:18:55,502
♪ The devil and I were caught up
in a slow dance ♪
1136
01:18:57,502 --> 01:18:59,793
I never had a chance
to play with dolls.
1137
01:18:59,793 --> 01:19:01,251
Momma.
1138
01:19:01,251 --> 01:19:03,209
I started working when I was six.
1139
01:19:03,209 --> 01:19:04,209
Momma.
1140
01:19:05,126 --> 01:19:07,709
- Hey, Eleanora.
- Hey. You seen my Momma?
1141
01:19:07,709 --> 01:19:08,709
No.
1142
01:19:10,834 --> 01:19:12,084
I missed you, beautiful.
1143
01:19:12,709 --> 01:19:13,959
Where the fuck is my mother?
1144
01:19:14,709 --> 01:19:16,459
She down the hall, Eleanora.
1145
01:19:16,459 --> 01:19:21,584
♪ I'll take you down ♪
1146
01:19:22,709 --> 01:19:26,333
♪ I'll take you down ♪
1147
01:19:27,500 --> 01:19:28,583
Momma.
1148
01:19:28,583 --> 01:19:30,583
♪ I'll take you down ♪
1149
01:19:30,583 --> 01:19:31,583
Momma.
1150
01:19:32,625 --> 01:19:33,625
Shit.
1151
01:19:34,333 --> 01:19:39,000
♪ I'll take you down ♪
1152
01:19:41,583 --> 01:19:44,125
♪ Ain't nobody ♪
1153
01:19:44,667 --> 01:19:48,458
♪ Bizness if I do ♪
1154
01:19:49,208 --> 01:19:52,250
♪ If I do ♪
1155
01:19:53,874 --> 01:19:59,582
♪ If my friend ain't got no money ♪
1156
01:19:59,582 --> 01:20:00,957
Momma, where you been?
1157
01:20:01,624 --> 01:20:02,874
You got to go, Eleanora.
1158
01:20:03,916 --> 01:20:04,916
Why?
1159
01:20:05,666 --> 01:20:07,624
It's time for you to figure out
how to make your own money now.
1160
01:20:07,624 --> 01:20:08,707
Come on.
1161
01:20:08,707 --> 01:20:09,832
I don't want to go, Momma.
1162
01:20:10,624 --> 01:20:12,166
You're a woman now, Eleanora.
1163
01:20:12,166 --> 01:20:14,624
It's a woman's job
to keep her man happy, all right?
1164
01:20:14,624 --> 01:20:15,832
What you mean "happy"?
1165
01:20:15,832 --> 01:20:17,499
What the fuck
do you think I mean "happy"?
1166
01:20:17,499 --> 01:20:18,582
Happy!
1167
01:20:18,582 --> 01:20:20,790
Make that nigger happy.
Touch him, caress him.
1168
01:20:21,415 --> 01:20:22,831
I don't want to be a fucking whore.
1169
01:20:22,831 --> 01:20:24,998
Well, it's good enough for me,
ain't it?
1170
01:20:26,248 --> 01:20:27,540
Go on, you can do it.
1171
01:20:28,165 --> 01:20:29,623
There ain't no room for you here.
1172
01:20:29,623 --> 01:20:30,748
You takin' up space.
1173
01:20:30,748 --> 01:20:33,040
Ms. Gerty around the corner,
she got a room for you.
1174
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:34,206
Please don't make me go, Momma.
1175
01:20:34,790 --> 01:20:36,123
I want to stay with you.
1176
01:20:38,206 --> 01:20:39,373
I‐‐
1177
01:20:40,456 --> 01:20:42,498
I told Ms. Gertrude to look after you.
1178
01:20:43,248 --> 01:20:45,373
Come on now.
You come back anytime you want.
1179
01:20:54,622 --> 01:20:57,580
The fuck you think?
She think she can't go no damn where.
She a superstar.
1180
01:20:58,164 --> 01:20:59,872
I can go any damn where I want to.
1181
01:21:01,497 --> 01:21:03,039
Be careful with this feeling.
1182
01:21:06,539 --> 01:21:08,039
This love right here, baby.
1183
01:21:09,455 --> 01:21:10,664
It won't love you back.
1184
01:21:13,955 --> 01:21:15,163
I promise.
1185
01:22:13,411 --> 01:22:17,702
Daddy, get Momma
down from that tree.
1186
01:22:34,036 --> 01:22:36,036
Daddy!
1187
01:24:01,865 --> 01:24:02,865
Come on.
1188
01:24:15,198 --> 01:24:17,032
I've got it ready. Come on, come on.
1189
01:24:17,823 --> 01:24:19,073
Come on.
1190
01:24:24,573 --> 01:24:25,990
Help me out, please.
1191
01:24:33,739 --> 01:24:35,572
- Get your hands off her.
- Stop! Stop!
1192
01:25:41,112 --> 01:25:45,195
♪ Southern trees ♪
1193
01:25:46,487 --> 01:25:52,444
♪ Bear a strange fruit ♪
1194
01:25:54,569 --> 01:25:58,069
♪ Blood on the leaves ♪
1195
01:25:59,153 --> 01:26:03,069
♪ And blood at the root ♪
1196
01:26:05,194 --> 01:26:08,069
♪ Black bodies swinging ♪
1197
01:26:09,319 --> 01:26:14,653
♪ In the southern breeze ♪
1198
01:26:14,986 --> 01:26:18,235
♪ Strange fruit hanging ♪
1199
01:26:18,485 --> 01:26:22,568
♪ From the poplar trees ♪
1200
01:26:41,902 --> 01:26:44,984
♪ Pastoral scene ♪
1201
01:26:45,692 --> 01:26:50,109
♪ Of the gallant south ♪
1202
01:26:52,317 --> 01:26:56,859
♪ The bulging eyes ♪
1203
01:26:57,734 --> 01:27:02,234
♪ And the twisted mouth ♪
1204
01:27:04,692 --> 01:27:08,692
♪ Scent of magnolia ♪
1205
01:27:09,817 --> 01:27:12,233
♪ Sweet ♪
1206
01:27:12,233 --> 01:27:16,775
♪ And fresh ♪
1207
01:27:18,150 --> 01:27:21,816
♪ Then the sudden smell ♪
1208
01:27:22,233 --> 01:27:27,816
♪ Of burning flesh ♪
1209
01:27:29,025 --> 01:27:32,233
♪ Here is a fruit ♪
1210
01:27:33,191 --> 01:27:38,649
♪ For the crows to pluck ♪
1211
01:27:40,815 --> 01:27:45,357
♪ For the rain to gather ♪
1212
01:27:46,815 --> 01:27:51,315
♪ For the wind to suck ♪
1213
01:27:53,399 --> 01:27:57,815
♪ For the sun to rot ♪
1214
01:28:00,107 --> 01:28:03,815
♪ For the trees ♪
1215
01:28:06,564 --> 01:28:12,356
♪ To drop ♪
1216
01:28:14,689 --> 01:28:19,189
♪ Here is a strange ♪
1217
01:28:20,231 --> 01:28:26,064
♪ And bitter ♪
1218
01:28:31,731 --> 01:28:37,730
♪ Crop ♪
1219
01:28:50,397 --> 01:28:52,563
We need to nail this bitch.
1220
01:28:53,522 --> 01:28:57,772
Are you telling me she hasn't done drugs
the entire time she's been on the road?
1221
01:28:59,230 --> 01:29:00,229
No, sir.
1222
01:29:09,521 --> 01:29:10,562
Are you there, sir?
1223
01:29:14,812 --> 01:29:16,562
Make sure you call me tomorrow.
1224
01:29:19,146 --> 01:29:20,146
Yes, sir.
1225
01:29:57,935 --> 01:29:59,144
Thought you were asleep.
1226
01:30:02,144 --> 01:30:03,685
You were making a phone call...
1227
01:30:07,977 --> 01:30:09,352
to your boss.
1228
01:30:11,144 --> 01:30:12,394
Yes.
1229
01:30:14,935 --> 01:30:16,102
You tell him everything I do.
1230
01:30:17,019 --> 01:30:18,019
No.
1231
01:30:24,476 --> 01:30:25,476
You tell him you shot up?
1232
01:30:28,893 --> 01:30:30,601
Tell him you been fucking me good?
1233
01:30:35,393 --> 01:30:37,018
Take your shit off, nigger.
1234
01:30:41,434 --> 01:30:42,851
What are they going to give you, Jimmy?
1235
01:30:44,643 --> 01:30:46,684
Shiny gold watch and a brand‐new car?
1236
01:30:50,267 --> 01:30:51,808
Your picture in the paper?
1237
01:30:55,933 --> 01:30:57,725
I get all of that every day of the week.
1238
01:31:09,142 --> 01:31:10,767
Come on, Jimmy.
1239
01:31:45,806 --> 01:31:46,806
What?
1240
01:31:50,931 --> 01:31:51,973
Not like this.
1241
01:31:53,681 --> 01:31:54,681
What?
1242
01:31:55,848 --> 01:31:57,181
Then, like what?
1243
01:31:59,348 --> 01:32:00,765
Like what?
1244
01:32:00,765 --> 01:32:01,765
Hey.
1245
01:32:04,598 --> 01:32:05,598
Like this.
1246
01:34:16,051 --> 01:34:18,510
- What you doing?
- I got smoke in my eye.
1247
01:34:18,510 --> 01:34:20,385
Watch out.
Freddy will knock it to first.
1248
01:34:21,051 --> 01:34:22,635
Come on, Lester. What the fuck!
1249
01:34:22,635 --> 01:34:24,176
What the fuck kind of throw is that?
1250
01:34:30,092 --> 01:34:31,467
- Come on.
- Come on, baby.
1251
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:34,259
God damn!
1252
01:34:34,259 --> 01:34:35,342
Yes!
1253
01:34:35,342 --> 01:34:36,759
Shit.
1254
01:34:40,634 --> 01:34:42,509
This motherfucker
must take him some vitamins.
1255
01:34:43,675 --> 01:34:44,884
Look at Miss Freddy.
1256
01:34:46,175 --> 01:34:47,800
Hey, hey, what's up with the bags?
1257
01:34:51,509 --> 01:34:52,842
What's up with the bags, Billie?
1258
01:34:54,967 --> 01:34:56,424
Jimmy, we got to talk.
1259
01:35:02,883 --> 01:35:04,508
We really got to talk.
1260
01:35:07,883 --> 01:35:09,049
How about we...
1261
01:35:10,216 --> 01:35:11,424
How about we go back to New York?
1262
01:35:14,091 --> 01:35:15,508
Take you in my car, we can...
1263
01:35:16,841 --> 01:35:18,091
get you the help you need.
1264
01:35:22,716 --> 01:35:24,257
No, that's not gonna work.
1265
01:35:25,757 --> 01:35:27,840
You gotta find you a nice girl, okay?
1266
01:35:31,340 --> 01:35:32,715
And that ain't me.
1267
01:35:40,173 --> 01:35:41,673
I know what you thinking.
1268
01:35:44,298 --> 01:35:45,548
Dumb.
1269
01:35:48,757 --> 01:35:51,797
Me, I only know a certain
kind of love that makes me feel safe.
1270
01:35:58,506 --> 01:36:00,797
At least what you and I got here is...
1271
01:36:05,297 --> 01:36:06,339
I don't understand this.
1272
01:36:12,422 --> 01:36:14,131
I don't feel in control.
1273
01:36:18,171 --> 01:36:19,171
Billie.
1274
01:36:19,546 --> 01:36:21,630
You called saying you were stranded,
1275
01:36:21,630 --> 01:36:23,255
so I drove all night to get here.
1276
01:36:23,921 --> 01:36:24,963
Let's go.
1277
01:36:25,505 --> 01:36:27,005
We got a plane to catch.
1278
01:36:27,338 --> 01:36:28,421
I'm coming.
1279
01:36:42,088 --> 01:36:43,213
Billie, let's go.
1280
01:36:44,588 --> 01:36:45,920
- I'm sorry, Jimmy.
- Yeah.
1281
01:36:49,920 --> 01:36:51,212
Billie, I know
goddamn good and well
1282
01:36:51,212 --> 01:36:53,420
you ain't about to leave us
out here like no stray mutts.
1283
01:36:53,712 --> 01:36:55,754
We got no damn gas money to get home.
1284
01:36:56,379 --> 01:36:57,670
All right, Ros, Freddy, come on.
1285
01:36:58,045 --> 01:36:59,670
Lady, I thought we was family.
1286
01:37:00,795 --> 01:37:02,295
You don't do this shit to family.
1287
01:37:03,087 --> 01:37:04,462
And I'll wire the money
as soon as I get home.
1288
01:37:04,462 --> 01:37:05,545
Don't look at me that‐‐
1289
01:37:07,379 --> 01:37:09,712
- So done with your shit, Billie.
- Take my bag, Ros.
1290
01:37:09,712 --> 01:37:11,629
Fuck. The fuck we supposed to do?
1291
01:37:13,419 --> 01:37:14,586
Billie, let's go.
1292
01:37:20,086 --> 01:37:21,086
Let's go!
1293
01:37:34,211 --> 01:37:35,878
See you in church, soldier boy.
1294
01:37:38,961 --> 01:37:40,377
Fuck you, bitch.
1295
01:37:40,877 --> 01:37:42,752
Come on, Carl.
Let's get on the goddamn bus.
1296
01:37:43,585 --> 01:37:44,710
Billie.
1297
01:37:44,710 --> 01:37:46,252
We gotta figure out
some kind of way to get home.
1298
01:37:46,252 --> 01:37:48,377
Got a plane to catch now. Let's go.
1299
01:37:54,543 --> 01:37:55,960
I got my eye on you, little nigger.
1300
01:37:58,335 --> 01:38:00,043
That shit ain't funny around here neither.
1301
01:38:02,752 --> 01:38:05,127
Louis McKay
came to save the day, bitch!
1302
01:38:18,584 --> 01:38:19,917
- Where's my stuff, Shirley?
- I don't know.
1303
01:38:20,501 --> 01:38:22,459
- Where's my shit?
- I don't know Mr. Fletcher.
1304
01:38:22,459 --> 01:38:24,167
You'll have to ask Mr. Williams.
1305
01:38:25,084 --> 01:38:26,917
What's going on, Sam? Where is my stuff?
1306
01:38:26,917 --> 01:38:28,334
Sorry, Jimmy.
1307
01:38:28,334 --> 01:38:30,251
I don't know. What do you want me to say?
1308
01:38:30,626 --> 01:38:32,251
Where is my shit, Sam?
1309
01:38:32,626 --> 01:38:33,626
They took it.
1310
01:38:37,458 --> 01:38:39,541
They're moving you
over to Administration, Jimmy.
1311
01:38:44,625 --> 01:38:46,500
They want me to pick up
where you left off.
1312
01:38:57,458 --> 01:38:59,166
This drug war is just a war on us.
1313
01:39:00,666 --> 01:39:01,915
I got a family, man.
1314
01:39:02,665 --> 01:39:03,665
I can't leave.
1315
01:39:04,999 --> 01:39:06,332
They're gonna fuck you, too.
1316
01:39:07,874 --> 01:39:09,915
Now, let's get on with this straight.
1317
01:39:10,415 --> 01:39:12,207
In the more realistic sense,
1318
01:39:12,207 --> 01:39:16,374
the big comeback of her career
was launched not tonight,
1319
01:39:16,999 --> 01:39:18,624
but over five years ago,
1320
01:39:19,624 --> 01:39:21,707
when there was a year of darkness.
1321
01:39:22,124 --> 01:39:26,499
When she fell victim to one
of society's most dreaded illnesses,
1322
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:28,499
the use of narcotics.
1323
01:39:28,957 --> 01:39:31,831
Billie, it's a privilege
to have you with us tonight.
1324
01:39:32,539 --> 01:39:34,998
- Thank you, George.
It's an honor to be here.
1325
01:39:35,706 --> 01:39:39,998
Now, Billie, this is the usual part
of our procedure in this show
1326
01:39:39,998 --> 01:39:43,748
where we introduce from the audience
the family of our guests,
1327
01:39:43,748 --> 01:39:47,414
those near ones who were there,
1328
01:39:48,081 --> 01:39:50,706
to give the strength and security needed
1329
01:39:50,706 --> 01:39:53,039
when their kinfolk are in trouble.
1330
01:39:53,581 --> 01:39:55,789
But there's no one here
to remember for Billie.
1331
01:39:55,789 --> 01:39:57,247
No family.
1332
01:39:57,622 --> 01:40:00,413
Not a single relative that she knows.
1333
01:40:03,038 --> 01:40:05,997
Yes, well, I have my husband.
1334
01:40:05,997 --> 01:40:07,538
Mr. Louis McKay.
1335
01:40:40,292 --> 01:40:42,125
Billie Holiday a sellout - 5 nights
she sings strange fruit
1336
01:40:50,792 --> 01:40:52,083
Rome loves "lady day"
1337
01:40:52,953 --> 01:40:54,495
I'm going to see the goddamn Pope.
1338
01:40:54,495 --> 01:40:56,870
- Sit your ass down.
You ain't going no‐fucking‐where.
1339
01:41:04,161 --> 01:41:05,245
Take the picture, man.
1340
01:41:06,661 --> 01:41:08,286
Man, take the goddamn picture.
1341
01:41:08,995 --> 01:41:10,078
I wasn't looking.
1342
01:41:13,411 --> 01:41:14,870
- Good times.
- Time.
1343
01:41:14,870 --> 01:41:15,953
- Yes.
- Good time.
1344
01:41:15,953 --> 01:41:17,995
That's how you say it right?
"I love you good time"?
1345
01:41:17,995 --> 01:41:19,077
Good time?
1346
01:41:19,077 --> 01:41:20,077
That's right.
1347
01:41:34,035 --> 01:41:35,327
Your gum, Ms. Holiday.
1348
01:42:10,743 --> 01:42:14,825
You motherfuckers just can't stand
seeing two beautiful Black people
1349
01:42:14,825 --> 01:42:17,033
running around in this world
having a good time in life.
1350
01:42:17,450 --> 01:42:19,075
And now you here wasting my time.
1351
01:42:19,658 --> 01:42:21,700
There wasn't enough on you
to make a case.
1352
01:42:21,908 --> 01:42:23,408
You guys got lucky.
1353
01:42:23,408 --> 01:42:24,575
I'm a lucky guy.
1354
01:42:24,575 --> 01:42:26,242
Well, her luck's running out.
1355
01:42:26,950 --> 01:42:28,450
You can get on the right side.
1356
01:42:29,283 --> 01:42:30,992
Help me plant some heroin on her.
1357
01:42:32,117 --> 01:42:33,617
We need her to talk.
1358
01:42:33,867 --> 01:42:34,867
Shit.
1359
01:42:35,283 --> 01:42:37,075
I can't make her say nothing.
1360
01:42:37,575 --> 01:42:40,033
Just like I can't make her stop singing
that goddamn song.
1361
01:42:40,367 --> 01:42:42,366
She tells everybody
you live off her money.
1362
01:42:42,616 --> 01:42:44,699
She wouldn't have any money
if I ain't keep her in line.
1363
01:42:46,241 --> 01:42:47,616
So you're wearing the pants, right?
1364
01:42:47,616 --> 01:42:48,574
Damn right.
1365
01:42:48,574 --> 01:42:50,366
Well, maybe she's got you by the balls.
1366
01:42:56,042 --> 01:42:59,667
Mr. Kelly's, Chicago
September 18, 1954
1367
01:43:03,407 --> 01:43:06,491
♪ Them that's got shall have ♪
1368
01:43:08,365 --> 01:43:11,156
♪ Them that's not shall lose ♪
1369
01:43:12,323 --> 01:43:18,115
♪ So the Bible said and it still is news ♪
1370
01:43:19,531 --> 01:43:21,990
♪ Mama may have ♪
1371
01:43:22,906 --> 01:43:25,698
♪ Papa may have ♪
1372
01:43:26,031 --> 01:43:30,948
♪ But God bless the child
that's got his own ♪
1373
01:43:32,448 --> 01:43:34,906
♪ That's got his own ♪
1374
01:43:37,864 --> 01:43:42,239
♪ Yes, the strong get smart ♪
1375
01:43:43,405 --> 01:43:45,655
♪ While the weak ones fade ♪
1376
01:43:46,947 --> 01:43:48,697
♪ Empty pockets ♪
1377
01:43:48,697 --> 01:43:53,072
♪ Don't ever make the grade ♪
1378
01:43:53,697 --> 01:43:56,822
♪ Mama may have ♪
1379
01:43:56,822 --> 01:43:59,864
♪ Papa may have ♪
1380
01:44:00,822 --> 01:44:05,613
♪ But God bless the child
that's got his own ♪
1381
01:44:07,446 --> 01:44:10,488
♪ That's got his own ♪
1382
01:44:15,238 --> 01:44:20,988
♪ Money, you've got lots of friends ♪
1383
01:44:22,071 --> 01:44:26,863
♪ They're crowding
around your door ♪
1384
01:44:29,113 --> 01:44:35,070
♪ But when you're gone
and spending ends ♪
1385
01:44:36,195 --> 01:44:40,112
♪ They don't come no more ♪
1386
01:44:41,153 --> 01:44:44,237
♪ Rich relations give ♪
1387
01:44:45,195 --> 01:44:48,028
♪ Crusts of bread and such ♪
1388
01:44:49,112 --> 01:44:51,778
♪ You can help yourself ♪
1389
01:44:51,778 --> 01:44:55,237
♪ But don't take too much ♪
1390
01:44:56,945 --> 01:44:59,652
♪ Mama may have ♪
1391
01:45:00,236 --> 01:45:02,944
♪ Papa may have ♪
1392
01:45:03,277 --> 01:45:08,652
♪ But God bless the child
that's got his own ♪
1393
01:45:10,152 --> 01:45:14,069
♪ That's got his own ♪
1394
01:45:19,236 --> 01:45:20,944
You can have the bitch.
1395
01:45:22,861 --> 01:45:26,401
Her audience wants to know
about Louis McKay.
1396
01:45:26,610 --> 01:45:29,235
You two seemed so in love and...
1397
01:45:30,443 --> 01:45:33,651
then he vanished.
1398
01:45:33,651 --> 01:45:34,568
Poof!
1399
01:45:36,193 --> 01:45:38,985
Yeah, McKay and me, we're separated.
1400
01:45:40,526 --> 01:45:42,776
He's trying to control my estate.
1401
01:45:44,443 --> 01:45:47,526
But my friend Jimmy's been with me
and he's been helpful.
1402
01:45:49,193 --> 01:45:50,901
Helpful, all right.
1403
01:45:51,360 --> 01:45:52,359
He's a Fed.
1404
01:45:55,275 --> 01:45:59,692
What is the government's problem
with Billie Holiday?
1405
01:46:00,109 --> 01:46:03,775
Why is the government always after you?
1406
01:46:05,150 --> 01:46:06,150
My song.
1407
01:46:06,942 --> 01:46:08,484
Strange Fruit.
1408
01:46:10,609 --> 01:46:12,859
It reminds them that they're killing us.
1409
01:46:14,817 --> 01:46:16,400
Reminds them.
1410
01:46:18,025 --> 01:46:19,858
It reminds you, too, Reginald.
1411
01:46:21,191 --> 01:46:22,941
Lady, don't say that.
1412
01:46:24,691 --> 01:46:27,858
See, this is why
she's always getting in trouble.
1413
01:46:27,858 --> 01:46:29,316
I'll edit that part out.
1414
01:46:30,733 --> 01:46:33,149
You don't have to edit shit
for Harry Anslinger.
1415
01:46:34,399 --> 01:46:36,233
He was in charge of Prohibition, remember?
1416
01:46:37,441 --> 01:46:38,816
See us drinking, don't you?
1417
01:46:42,149 --> 01:46:44,233
He can't afford to lose with drugs.
1418
01:46:46,191 --> 01:46:49,065
But it's a war on drugs,
not on you, Lady.
1419
01:46:53,857 --> 01:46:56,065
Yeah, that's what
they want you to believe.
1420
01:47:01,773 --> 01:47:04,107
They say they want
the names of my suppliers.
1421
01:47:10,190 --> 01:47:11,773
They don't want no names.
1422
01:47:15,897 --> 01:47:17,564
They want to destroy me.
1423
01:47:27,022 --> 01:47:29,939
He wants me to stop singing
what's in my soul.
1424
01:47:35,272 --> 01:47:40,272
Well, why don't you stop singing
the damn song?
1425
01:47:40,856 --> 01:47:45,896
Wouldn't your life
be easier if you just behaved?
1426
01:47:50,021 --> 01:47:51,813
♪ I'm a fool ♪
1427
01:47:52,563 --> 01:47:55,730
♪ To... to... want ♪
1428
01:47:56,355 --> 01:47:58,396
I can't seem to get these words.
1429
01:48:04,646 --> 01:48:07,105
Where is that?
Lady Sings the Blues?
1430
01:48:07,355 --> 01:48:10,645
You recorded that one
a few years back, Billie.
1431
01:48:12,937 --> 01:48:15,562
Baby, we're gonna go home, okay?
1432
01:48:19,437 --> 01:48:20,520
Jimmy.
1433
01:48:30,312 --> 01:48:33,270
♪ Lady sings the blues ♪
1434
01:48:35,854 --> 01:48:37,811
♪ I'm telling you ♪
1435
01:48:40,353 --> 01:48:43,061
Shit. Where's my rum?
1436
01:49:00,519 --> 01:49:04,727
♪ Can't no grave
hold my body down ♪
1437
01:49:06,393 --> 01:49:09,227
♪ You know when the first trumpets sound ♪
1438
01:49:09,518 --> 01:49:12,810
♪ I'm going to get up out of the ground ♪
1439
01:49:13,185 --> 01:49:17,685
♪ Can't no grave hold my body down ♪
1440
01:49:18,560 --> 01:49:20,977
♪ Well, well, well, can't no grave... ♪
1441
01:49:21,310 --> 01:49:22,768
♪ Can't no grave ♪
1442
01:49:24,102 --> 01:49:26,185
I should have been
a gospel singer, you know.
1443
01:49:26,185 --> 01:49:27,393
Gospel singer?
1444
01:49:27,393 --> 01:49:28,852
Yeah, gospel.
1445
01:49:30,602 --> 01:49:32,434
I like Sister Rosetta.
1446
01:49:35,726 --> 01:49:38,017
She bring a little sunshine
to death, you know.
1447
01:49:43,392 --> 01:49:45,142
Prez died.
1448
01:49:46,851 --> 01:49:49,309
His wife wouldn't let me
sing at the funeral.
1449
01:49:56,809 --> 01:49:58,226
I miss him.
1450
01:49:58,641 --> 01:50:00,183
I'm sorry.
1451
01:50:03,641 --> 01:50:06,183
You remember last time
we was all together?
1452
01:50:10,975 --> 01:50:12,808
I left him there, Jimmy.
1453
01:50:19,308 --> 01:50:21,308
I love you, Billie Holiday.
1454
01:50:29,432 --> 01:50:31,140
My liver don't work no more.
1455
01:50:35,640 --> 01:50:37,390
They say it's cirrhosis.
1456
01:50:41,140 --> 01:50:42,640
I want you to blow!
1457
01:50:42,640 --> 01:50:44,307
I want you to blow!
1458
01:50:44,640 --> 01:50:48,640
♪ Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow ♪
1459
01:50:48,640 --> 01:50:53,556
♪ Can't no grave hold my body down ♪
1460
01:50:53,889 --> 01:50:55,848
♪ No, no, no ♪
1461
01:50:56,389 --> 01:50:57,431
♪ Can't no grave... ♪
1462
01:51:01,056 --> 01:51:04,848
♪ Can't no grave hold my body down ♪
1463
01:51:05,514 --> 01:51:06,848
♪ Yes ♪
1464
01:51:06,848 --> 01:51:09,889
♪ When I hear that trumpet sound ♪
1465
01:51:09,889 --> 01:51:12,348
Ms. Mona, call a doctor.
1466
01:51:20,098 --> 01:51:22,638
Your fans love you.
1467
01:51:23,222 --> 01:51:24,847
Look at this.
1468
01:51:24,847 --> 01:51:25,847
Look here.
1469
01:51:26,263 --> 01:51:27,388
Look.
1470
01:51:27,388 --> 01:51:32,847
NAACP says, "Billie Holiday
is the voice of our people."
1471
01:51:37,805 --> 01:51:40,180
Try not to blame yourself
for any of this.
1472
01:51:46,222 --> 01:51:48,762
You got well‐wishers crowding up
in the street outside.
1473
01:51:49,096 --> 01:51:50,429
It's pretty wild out there.
1474
01:51:51,637 --> 01:51:52,929
That's swell.
1475
01:51:55,471 --> 01:51:57,012
Give me some of that.
1476
01:52:07,721 --> 01:52:09,221
I must look a mess.
1477
01:52:16,220 --> 01:52:18,136
Hey, help me paint my nails,
would you?
1478
01:52:20,845 --> 01:52:22,928
That... I don't know
how to do that, Billie.
1479
01:52:23,178 --> 01:52:24,678
Come on, man.
1480
01:52:25,595 --> 01:52:26,636
Get my purse.
1481
01:52:28,428 --> 01:52:29,428
Yeah.
1482
01:52:31,720 --> 01:52:33,761
- I got two bottles in there.
- Okay.
1483
01:52:35,261 --> 01:52:36,470
Give me that blood red.
1484
01:52:40,720 --> 01:52:41,803
Blood red.
1485
01:52:42,760 --> 01:52:43,885
All right.
1486
01:52:46,927 --> 01:52:49,052
- You know what you're doing, right?
- I told you, I don't.
1487
01:52:50,302 --> 01:52:51,344
You don't listen.
1488
01:53:12,509 --> 01:53:13,551
Hello, sir.
1489
01:53:14,718 --> 01:53:15,968
You're out of line being here.
1490
01:53:16,843 --> 01:53:18,218
Maybe he's supplying her.
1491
01:53:20,509 --> 01:53:22,926
If you obstruct us,
we have enough to tie you to her.
1492
01:53:27,718 --> 01:53:29,843
And that's a long way down.
1493
01:53:33,718 --> 01:53:34,968
You hate her.
1494
01:53:37,592 --> 01:53:39,550
Despite all this shit in her life,
1495
01:53:39,758 --> 01:53:42,467
she's made something of herself,
and you can't take it,
1496
01:53:43,300 --> 01:53:45,050
because she's strong,
1497
01:53:46,425 --> 01:53:48,008
beautiful,
1498
01:53:49,175 --> 01:53:50,842
and Black.
1499
01:54:31,632 --> 01:54:32,631
Get up, nigger.
1500
01:54:34,423 --> 01:54:36,548
Come on! Stop! Hey, what you all doing?
1501
01:54:36,548 --> 01:54:37,881
Stop it, y'all!
1502
01:54:39,590 --> 01:54:40,590
Yo.
1503
01:54:41,423 --> 01:54:43,673
Come on, what are we doing?
1504
01:54:46,215 --> 01:54:47,798
Hey, baby.
1505
01:54:47,798 --> 01:54:49,965
I heard you wasn't feeling so good.
1506
01:54:51,923 --> 01:54:53,506
Yeah, all of a sudden, I'm not.
1507
01:54:54,256 --> 01:54:55,340
Let me take you home.
1508
01:54:55,340 --> 01:54:56,590
No!
1509
01:54:58,590 --> 01:54:59,797
Jimmy, come here.
1510
01:55:11,130 --> 01:55:13,380
What do critics
think about my last record?
1511
01:55:15,589 --> 01:55:17,297
Thought you didn't care
about the critics.
1512
01:55:18,547 --> 01:55:19,547
I don't.
1513
01:55:26,339 --> 01:55:28,213
I want folks to like it, you know.
1514
01:55:31,671 --> 01:55:32,963
The critics didn't like it.
1515
01:55:36,838 --> 01:55:38,254
Did you like it?
1516
01:55:40,879 --> 01:55:42,296
Yes.
1517
01:55:49,004 --> 01:55:50,713
Go on, scram,
1518
01:55:51,379 --> 01:55:53,171
so I can get this man out of here.
1519
01:55:55,003 --> 01:55:57,128
Jimmy. Jimmy.
1520
01:55:57,128 --> 01:55:58,462
Anslinger's gonna be here in a minute.
1521
01:55:58,462 --> 01:55:59,587
We gotta go.
1522
01:56:02,253 --> 01:56:04,045
See you in church, soldier boy.
1523
01:56:09,920 --> 01:56:11,587
Hey, princess.
1524
01:56:13,545 --> 01:56:15,837
We need to talk about these papers, honey.
1525
01:56:17,003 --> 01:56:18,753
I need you to sign them.
1526
01:56:22,252 --> 01:56:23,711
She may not talk to you.
1527
01:56:23,711 --> 01:56:25,752
I don't feel good
about this, brother.
1528
01:56:32,252 --> 01:56:33,586
Hey, blondie.
1529
01:56:35,377 --> 01:56:37,586
Jimmy.
1530
01:56:43,461 --> 01:56:45,169
Ooh. It is a mess in there.
1531
01:56:45,169 --> 01:56:46,169
Yeah.
1532
01:56:46,711 --> 01:56:48,461
My friend's a nurse here.
1533
01:56:50,335 --> 01:56:51,960
Jimmy, they're going
to take her off Methadone
1534
01:56:51,960 --> 01:56:53,543
and she's in withdrawal.
1535
01:56:55,126 --> 01:56:56,918
If they do it,
they're going to kill her.
1536
01:56:56,918 --> 01:56:58,960
So you have to do something, Jimmy,
1537
01:56:58,960 --> 01:57:00,835
because those bastards
won't let me in there.
1538
01:57:00,835 --> 01:57:03,918
So you have to do something, you hear me?
You have to do something.
1539
01:57:05,418 --> 01:57:06,501
Shh.
1540
01:57:12,043 --> 01:57:13,835
Anslinger's going to plant
heroin on her.
1541
01:57:26,250 --> 01:57:27,625
Hello, sweetie.
1542
01:57:33,709 --> 01:57:35,292
My wife is a big fan.
1543
01:57:36,917 --> 01:57:38,375
She understands what you need.
1544
01:57:38,375 --> 01:57:40,042
Billie and me discussed things.
1545
01:57:40,250 --> 01:57:44,041
She hasn't been well, but she's sorry
for the trouble she's caused
1546
01:57:44,041 --> 01:57:45,374
and she's ready to help.
1547
01:57:47,916 --> 01:57:51,499
For the record, I'm going to need you
to state your name.
1548
01:57:57,083 --> 01:57:58,999
My name is Billie Holiday.
1549
01:58:02,458 --> 01:58:04,833
Go on, Lady.
Go ahead and speak your peace.
1550
01:58:07,208 --> 01:58:08,958
You're a victim of drugs.
1551
01:58:09,666 --> 01:58:10,790
We know that.
1552
01:58:14,040 --> 01:58:15,748
I blame nobody but myself.
1553
01:58:17,082 --> 01:58:19,790
Go ahead and tell 'em
what you need to tell 'em, baby.
1554
01:58:21,623 --> 01:58:24,623
Ms. Holiday,
you want to clear your name, right?
1555
01:58:27,748 --> 01:58:31,165
Get us off your case
and you'll never see us again.
1556
01:58:41,164 --> 01:58:43,122
You think I'm going
to stop singing that song?
1557
01:58:52,539 --> 01:58:54,789
Your grandkids
will be singing Strange Fruit.
1558
01:59:01,539 --> 01:59:04,789
Y'all motherfuckers think
y'all got something on me?
1559
01:59:10,163 --> 01:59:11,205
You don't.
1560
01:59:19,163 --> 01:59:21,580
You stupid bitches don't got shit on me.
1561
01:59:29,663 --> 01:59:31,455
Suck my Black ass.
1562
02:00:39,875 --> 02:00:46,042
On July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died.
She was 44 years old.
1563
02:00:55,208 --> 02:00:59,625
Narcotics agents,
claiming to have found heroin,
1564
02:00:59,833 --> 02:01:03,208
arrested her as she lay dying.
1565
02:01:55,208 --> 02:01:57,708
Harry anslinger
remained commissioner
1566
02:01:57,917 --> 02:02:00,167
of the federal bureau
of narcotics
1567
02:02:00,375 --> 02:02:03,542
until his retirement
at the age of 70.
1568
02:02:05,032 --> 02:02:08,199
Harry Jacob Anslinger,
distinguished citizen,
1569
02:02:08,199 --> 02:02:12,490
for your dedicated efforts to combat
the illegal traffic of narcotic drugs
1570
02:02:12,865 --> 02:02:15,657
have earned for you
the respect of the world community.
1571
02:02:15,657 --> 02:02:17,448
Signed, John F. Kennedy.
1572
02:02:22,333 --> 02:02:24,667
Jimmy Fletcher
regretted his actions
1573
02:02:24,875 --> 02:02:26,917
while working
for Harry anslinger
1574
02:02:27,125 --> 02:02:29,208
and the United States government
1575
02:02:29,417 --> 02:02:30,833
until the day he died.
1576
02:02:39,708 --> 02:02:41,917
In 1978, Billie Holiday's single
"strange fruit"
1577
02:02:42,125 --> 02:02:44,000
was inducted into
the grammy hall of fame.
1578
02:02:44,375 --> 02:02:49,417
Time magazine named it
"song of the century."
1579
02:03:00,333 --> 02:03:02,708
In February 2020,
1580
02:03:02,917 --> 02:03:07,875
the Emmett till anti-lynching act
was considered by the senate.
1581
02:03:10,250 --> 02:03:15,292
It has yet to pass.
1582
02:05:18,858 --> 02:05:22,275
♪ All of me ♪
1583
02:05:22,275 --> 02:05:26,983
♪ Why not take all of me ♪
1584
02:05:28,982 --> 02:05:32,191
♪ Can't you see? ♪
1585
02:05:32,482 --> 02:05:37,399
♪ I'm no good without you ♪
1586
02:05:38,857 --> 02:05:42,607
♪ Take my lips ♪
1587
02:05:42,607 --> 02:05:48,149
♪ I want to lose them ♪
1588
02:05:49,107 --> 02:05:52,816
♪ Take my arms ♪
1589
02:05:52,816 --> 02:05:57,773
♪ I never use them ♪
1590
02:05:59,231 --> 02:06:02,898
♪ Your goodbye ♪
1591
02:06:02,898 --> 02:06:08,065
♪ Left me with eyes that cry ♪
1592
02:06:09,565 --> 02:06:14,815
♪ How can I go on, dear ♪
1593
02:06:14,815 --> 02:06:17,981
♪ Without you ♪
1594
02:06:19,606 --> 02:06:24,480
♪ You took the part ♪
1595
02:06:24,480 --> 02:06:28,980
♪ That once was my heart ♪
1596
02:06:29,605 --> 02:06:32,564
♪ So why not ♪
1597
02:06:32,564 --> 02:06:36,564
♪ Take all of me ♪
1598
02:06:39,480 --> 02:06:41,855
- One, two, three. Here we go.
One, two, three.
1599
02:06:41,855 --> 02:06:44,730
- One, one, two.
- One, two, three.
1600
02:06:44,730 --> 02:06:47,522
One, two, three. One, two, three.
1601
02:06:47,522 --> 02:06:49,147
Out.
- Out.
1602
02:06:49,147 --> 02:06:51,729
In. That's the wrong spin, Jimmy.
1603
02:06:51,729 --> 02:06:52,896
It's... Okay.
1604
02:06:53,896 --> 02:06:58,063
- One. One...
Get off of my Prada dress, please.
1605
02:06:58,479 --> 02:07:01,521
One, two, three. One, two, three.
1606
02:07:01,521 --> 02:07:02,979
One, two, three.
1607
02:07:02,979 --> 02:07:04,521
One, two, three.
1608
02:07:04,521 --> 02:07:06,021
One, two... Jimmy!
1609
02:07:06,021 --> 02:07:07,604
Prada! The dress is Prada!
1610
02:07:07,604 --> 02:07:09,271
They didn't make Prada back then.
1611
02:07:09,271 --> 02:07:11,021
Fuck you, nigger.
1612
02:07:13,604 --> 02:07:14,646
Billie!
1613
02:07:21,437 --> 02:07:24,478
♪ All of me ♪
1614
02:07:24,895 --> 02:07:30,395
♪ Why not take all of me ♪
1615
02:07:31,353 --> 02:07:34,937
♪ Can't you see? ♪
1616
02:07:34,937 --> 02:07:39,895
♪ I'm no good without you ♪
1617
02:07:41,270 --> 02:07:45,062
♪ Take my lips ♪
1618
02:07:45,062 --> 02:07:50,894
♪ I want to lose them ♪
1619
02:07:51,644 --> 02:07:55,144
♪ Take my arms ♪
1620
02:07:55,144 --> 02:08:00,227
♪ I never use them ♪
1621
02:08:02,061 --> 02:08:05,894
♪ Your goodbye ♪
1622
02:08:05,894 --> 02:08:11,227
♪ Left me with eyes that cry ♪
1623
02:08:12,102 --> 02:08:15,601
♪ How can I ♪
1624
02:08:15,601 --> 02:08:20,476
♪ Go on being without you ♪
1625
02:08:22,185 --> 02:08:26,601
♪ You took the best ♪
1626
02:08:26,601 --> 02:08:31,601
♪ So why not take the rest ♪
1627
02:08:32,393 --> 02:08:35,310
♪ Baby ♪
1628
02:08:35,310 --> 02:08:41,309
♪ Take all of me ♪
1629
02:08:49,267 --> 02:08:51,434
♪ Say, say, say ♪
1630
02:08:54,767 --> 02:08:57,392
♪ Say, say, say ♪
1631
02:09:00,475 --> 02:09:03,059
♪ Say a prayer for me ♪
1632
02:09:05,017 --> 02:09:08,599
♪ Strange fruit
come down off that tree ♪
1633
02:09:10,808 --> 02:09:15,724
♪ Cut it down
under your feet ♪
1634
02:09:16,308 --> 02:09:19,308
♪ Juicy fruit so bitter sweet ♪
1635
02:09:19,308 --> 02:09:22,058
♪ Fruit stand tall
these roots go deep ♪
1636
02:09:22,058 --> 02:09:24,933
♪ Strange fruit bussin
on these thieves ♪
1637
02:09:27,808 --> 02:09:30,641
♪ Ancestors
don’t take defeat ♪
1638
02:09:30,641 --> 02:09:33,308
♪ Left the scent of victory ♪
1639
02:09:33,308 --> 02:09:37,723
♪ In the air, tigress and the tweed ♪
1640
02:09:40,015 --> 02:09:43,057
♪ Lentheric ♪
1641
02:09:43,057 --> 02:09:45,765
♪ You carry it, I'm tired ♪
1642
02:09:45,765 --> 02:09:49,723
♪ Grin and bear it
the truth of it is you carry the ♪
1643
02:09:49,723 --> 02:09:54,307
♪ Future you and your chariots ♪
1644
02:09:54,307 --> 02:09:56,557
♪ Say a prayer ♪
1645
02:09:59,890 --> 02:10:02,597
♪ Say, say, say, say ♪
1646
02:10:05,639 --> 02:10:08,056
♪ Say, say, say ♪
1647
02:10:09,222 --> 02:10:11,847
♪ Say a prayer for me ♪
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