1 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:38,402 You mustn't listen to what your younger brother says. 2 00:01:38,504 --> 00:01:41,598 I can't think of anyone less an authority on female anatomy. 3 00:01:41,707 --> 00:01:43,607 He can see. It's enormous. 4 00:01:43,709 --> 00:01:47,509 - No, it isn't. - It's hideous. 5 00:01:47,613 --> 00:01:50,582 Why don't you show me that dress again? 6 00:01:53,620 --> 00:01:56,589 It is a bit full here. Let me have it. 7 00:01:58,992 --> 00:02:00,960 Thanks, Mom. 8 00:02:10,738 --> 00:02:12,706 Tsk. 9 00:02:44,741 --> 00:02:47,677 - Taxi.! - Taxi. Taxi.! 10 00:02:47,778 --> 00:02:49,439 - Is this your cab? - It's not my cab. 11 00:02:49,546 --> 00:02:52,174 - Is this your cab? - Really, it's not my cab. 12 00:02:52,282 --> 00:02:54,273 - We'll share it. - But I don't want it. 13 00:02:54,384 --> 00:02:57,752 No, we'll share it. I insist. That way there'll be no ill feelings. 14 00:02:57,856 --> 00:02:59,756 - Are you going to Sally's too? - No. 15 00:02:59,858 --> 00:03:03,624 Well, that settles it. Come with us. That way we'll all be going the same direction. 16 00:03:03,728 --> 00:03:06,196 You should come, otherwise we're all gonna freeze out here. 17 00:03:06,297 --> 00:03:08,766 Come on.! 18 00:03:10,101 --> 00:03:12,502 - Hi. I'm Nick. - Hi, Nick. I'm Tom. 19 00:03:12,605 --> 00:03:14,505 - Nice to meet you. - I'm Jane. This is Audrey. 20 00:03:14,607 --> 00:03:17,542 - Hi,Jane. - You are going to Sally's, aren't you? 21 00:03:17,710 --> 00:03:20,543 Of course there's a God. We all basically know there is. 22 00:03:20,646 --> 00:03:23,046 - I know no such thing. - Of course you do. 23 00:03:23,149 --> 00:03:27,017 When you think to yourself-And most of our waking life is taken up thinking to ourself- 24 00:03:27,119 --> 00:03:30,283 you must have that feeling that your thoughts aren't entirely wasted... 25 00:03:30,390 --> 00:03:32,290 that, in some sense, they are being heard. 26 00:03:32,392 --> 00:03:35,385 Hey, I think it's this sensation of silently being listened to... 27 00:03:35,495 --> 00:03:37,396 with total comprehension... 28 00:03:37,498 --> 00:03:39,897 - Hi, Sally. - You got here so fast. 29 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,697 - Hello! - that represents our innate belief in a supreme being. 30 00:03:42,804 --> 00:03:44,704 - Nice to meet you. - We stole his cab. 31 00:03:44,806 --> 00:03:47,707 - What's his name again? - Tom Townsend. 32 00:03:47,809 --> 00:03:50,210 No, I think it was something else. 33 00:03:50,312 --> 00:03:52,803 No, it's Tom Townsend, I'm sure. 34 00:03:52,915 --> 00:03:54,815 He looks familiar. 35 00:03:54,917 --> 00:03:58,648 He's the guy that was sitting at the table behind ours without talking to anyone all evening. 36 00:03:58,754 --> 00:04:01,656 Then, outside, he got the cab that we were trying to flag down. 37 00:04:01,758 --> 00:04:04,658 But he insisted that we take it, so Nick insisted that he come along too... 38 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,660 so that there should be no ill feeling. 39 00:04:06,762 --> 00:04:09,891 What it shows is that a kind of belief is innate in all of us. 40 00:04:09,999 --> 00:04:11,899 At some point most of us lose that... 41 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:14,903 after which it can only be regained by a conscious act of faith. 42 00:04:15,005 --> 00:04:16,905 You've experienced that? 43 00:04:17,007 --> 00:04:18,907 Uh, no, I haven't. 44 00:04:19,009 --> 00:04:21,409 I- I hope to someday. 45 00:04:21,512 --> 00:04:24,777 Actually, it wasn't my cab. I was just there waiting for the light to change when it pulled up. 46 00:04:24,882 --> 00:04:27,373 - I never take cabs. - You never take cabs? 47 00:04:27,484 --> 00:04:29,885 No, I either walk or take public transportation. 48 00:04:29,988 --> 00:04:31,888 - Why? - A lot of reasons. 49 00:04:31,990 --> 00:04:35,322 So you're one of those public transportation snobs. 50 00:04:35,427 --> 00:04:38,885 - You look down on people who take taxis. - No, not at all. 51 00:04:38,997 --> 00:04:43,230 That's how New York's seen, at least in the popular imagination. 52 00:04:43,336 --> 00:04:46,236 I don't think that there is a popular imagination. 53 00:04:46,338 --> 00:04:48,239 - What do you mean? - Just that. 54 00:04:48,340 --> 00:04:51,310 I don't think that there is a popular imagination. 55 00:04:51,410 --> 00:04:53,310 - Pomfret. Where did you go? - Farmington. 56 00:04:53,412 --> 00:04:55,312 Both of us did. 57 00:04:55,414 --> 00:04:57,314 Did you know Serena Slocum there? 58 00:04:57,416 --> 00:04:59,316 - The inevitable question. - What? 59 00:04:59,418 --> 00:05:03,822 All the guys ask that. Serena had an incredible number of boyfriends. At least 20. 60 00:05:03,924 --> 00:05:06,825 She could manage it because they were all at different schools... 61 00:05:06,927 --> 00:05:08,827 and she wrote letters incredibly quickly. 62 00:05:08,929 --> 00:05:12,127 Three in a single study hall. She became really famous. 63 00:05:12,233 --> 00:05:15,396 It's incredible how naive some guys are. How do you know Serena? 64 00:05:15,503 --> 00:05:18,404 Actually, that might give someone the wrong impression. 65 00:05:18,506 --> 00:05:21,407 She wrote a lot of guys, but I'm sure she liked some a lot more than others. 66 00:05:21,509 --> 00:05:24,843 Oh, you think so? I never noticed that. How do you know Serena? 67 00:05:25,947 --> 00:05:27,813 I was one of her boyfriends. 68 00:05:27,917 --> 00:05:30,818 Oh. You must be Pomfret. 69 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:32,820 - Your letters were really good. - Yes. 70 00:05:32,922 --> 00:05:35,015 - What do you mean? - They were interesting. 71 00:05:35,124 --> 00:05:37,251 Serena let you read my letters? 72 00:05:37,359 --> 00:05:38,918 No. She read them aloud. 73 00:05:40,263 --> 00:05:41,958 I can't believe it. 74 00:05:42,065 --> 00:05:44,465 She only read us the ones that she thought were really good. 75 00:05:44,567 --> 00:05:46,467 Or really bad. But yours were really good. 76 00:05:46,569 --> 00:05:49,869 There was no suggestion of ridicule, if that's what's worrying you. At least not that I can recall. 77 00:05:49,974 --> 00:05:52,874 I remember a long letter you wrote Serena about agrarian socialism. 78 00:05:52,976 --> 00:05:55,878 I think it was one of the first things to set Alice Dreyer off about Marxism. 79 00:05:55,980 --> 00:05:58,540 Since then she's joined the Red Underground Army. 80 00:05:58,649 --> 00:06:01,140 If she blows herself up, it'll be your fault. 81 00:06:01,252 --> 00:06:04,153 It's actually surprising to see you at something like this. 82 00:06:04,255 --> 00:06:06,986 In your letters, you expressed a vehement opposition to deb parties... 83 00:06:07,092 --> 00:06:08,992 and to conventional society in general. 84 00:06:09,094 --> 00:06:10,994 - I take it you've changed your mind. - No. 85 00:06:11,096 --> 00:06:14,725 - I'm just as much opposed to them as ever. - Then what made you decide to come tonight? 86 00:06:14,833 --> 00:06:16,461 He got an invitation. 87 00:06:16,568 --> 00:06:21,232 He's right. I got an invitation and didn't particularly have anything else to do. 88 00:06:21,340 --> 00:06:23,969 I think that's the case with almost everybody. 89 00:06:24,077 --> 00:06:26,511 No. Nick goes whether he's invited or not. 90 00:06:26,612 --> 00:06:31,073 Unlike Tom, I'm in favor of these kind of parties, and I wanna show that support however I can. 91 00:06:31,185 --> 00:06:35,519 It's a bit ridiculous for someone to say they're morally opposed to deb parties... 92 00:06:35,622 --> 00:06:37,522 and then attend them anyways. 93 00:06:37,624 --> 00:06:39,524 It's - It's untenable. 94 00:06:39,626 --> 00:06:41,992 - Everyone does. - But that's no contradiction. 95 00:06:42,096 --> 00:06:43,996 I wasn't trying to. 96 00:06:44,099 --> 00:06:47,227 I think it's justifiable to go once, to know firsthand what it is you oppose. 97 00:06:47,335 --> 00:06:50,236 I'd read Veblen, but it was amazing to see that these things still go on. 98 00:06:50,338 --> 00:06:53,570 - You're a Marxist? - No, I'm a committed socialist, not a Marxist. 99 00:06:53,676 --> 00:06:57,840 I favor the socialist model developed by the 19th-century French social critic Fourier. 100 00:06:57,947 --> 00:06:59,676 You're a Fourierist? 101 00:06:59,782 --> 00:07:01,750 Yes. 102 00:07:01,851 --> 00:07:05,218 Fourierism was tried in the 19th century and failed. 103 00:07:05,321 --> 00:07:07,653 I mean, wasn't Brook Farm Fourierist? 104 00:07:07,757 --> 00:07:10,089 - It failed. - That's debatable. 105 00:07:10,192 --> 00:07:13,219 - Whether Brook Farm failed? - That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you. 106 00:07:13,330 --> 00:07:16,322 But whether it was really a failure I don't think can be definitively said. 107 00:07:16,433 --> 00:07:19,994 Well -Well, for me, ceasing to exist is failure. 108 00:07:20,104 --> 00:07:22,731 I mean, that's - that's pretty definitive. 109 00:07:22,839 --> 00:07:26,901 Well, everyone ceases to exist. That doesn't mean everyone's a failure. 110 00:07:28,913 --> 00:07:31,143 - You really feel that way? - I really do. 111 00:07:31,249 --> 00:07:33,548 - Really? - Really! 112 00:07:33,652 --> 00:07:35,552 Tom Townsend. 113 00:07:35,654 --> 00:07:37,554 Tom Townsend. 114 00:07:37,656 --> 00:07:39,556 It's a fine name. 115 00:07:39,658 --> 00:07:42,286 What about Tommy? Tommy Townsend? 116 00:07:42,394 --> 00:07:44,294 It's sounds more U.C. 117 00:07:44,396 --> 00:07:46,296 Really? What's that? 118 00:07:46,398 --> 00:07:50,164 Well, we come here all the time, thus the S.F.R.P. - 119 00:07:50,269 --> 00:07:52,670 - Sally Fowler Rat Pack. - Oh. 120 00:07:53,705 --> 00:07:55,606 Mine and Charlie's are too. 121 00:07:55,708 --> 00:07:57,608 But that's the ex - exception though. 122 00:07:57,710 --> 00:08:01,612 I mean, divorce is actually comparatively rare among standard New York social types... 123 00:08:01,715 --> 00:08:03,615 contrary to what people might think. 124 00:08:03,717 --> 00:08:05,617 Well, usually there's something wrong though. 125 00:08:05,719 --> 00:08:07,619 Dead fathers are a common problem. 126 00:08:07,721 --> 00:08:09,848 Jane's father's dead. Very suddenly, last year. 127 00:08:09,957 --> 00:08:12,187 - Must have been awful for her. - Yes. 128 00:08:12,293 --> 00:08:14,193 It was tough on him too. 129 00:08:14,295 --> 00:08:17,197 That's different though. That doesn't mean a broken home. 130 00:08:17,299 --> 00:08:19,529 Well, it still means having your mother go out on dates. 131 00:08:19,634 --> 00:08:23,035 My point was that the common image of divorce and decadent behavior... 132 00:08:23,138 --> 00:08:25,538 being prevalent among New York social types... 133 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,540 is not really accurate. 134 00:08:27,642 --> 00:08:29,633 That's more Southampton. 135 00:08:42,325 --> 00:08:44,725 Okay, Cynthia, let's cha-cha-cha. 136 00:08:44,827 --> 00:08:46,727 It's completely ridiculous. 137 00:08:46,829 --> 00:08:49,230 Oh, now, the cha-cha is no more ridiculous than life itself. 138 00:08:49,333 --> 00:08:51,824 - I don't know how to do it. - You must have learned it in dancing school. 139 00:08:51,935 --> 00:08:54,028 - Cynthia was a dancing school dropout. - I've got it. 140 00:08:54,138 --> 00:08:56,299 ? Cha-cha-cha? 141 00:08:56,406 --> 00:08:58,237 Ah, the cha-cha. 142 00:08:58,342 --> 00:09:02,142 I don't think it's possible to forget the cha-cha. I think you're blocking it out. 143 00:09:02,246 --> 00:09:06,047 ♪ Cha-cha, cha-cha-cha Cha-cha, cha-cha-cha ♪ 144 00:09:06,152 --> 00:09:07,983 ♪ Cha-cha, cha-cha-cha ♪ 145 00:09:08,087 --> 00:09:11,544 ♪ Cha-cha, cha-cha-cha Cha-cha, cha-cha-cha ♪ 146 00:09:11,656 --> 00:09:13,716 Tom! Audrey! ♪ Cha-cha-cha ♪ 147 00:09:13,826 --> 00:09:16,727 Tom! Audrey! ♪ Cha-cha-cha ♪ 148 00:09:16,829 --> 00:09:18,763 I love this. 149 00:09:18,864 --> 00:09:20,764 ♪ Cha-cha-cha♪ 150 00:09:20,866 --> 00:09:23,233 Oh! ♪ Cha-cha-cha ♪ 151 00:09:23,336 --> 00:09:25,702 Bob! ♪ Cha-cha-cha ♪♪ Bob! 152 00:09:28,507 --> 00:09:30,476 - Hi. - Hi. 153 00:09:31,845 --> 00:09:35,246 - What are you doing here in the dark? - I was just getting a glass of water. 154 00:09:35,348 --> 00:09:37,316 Oh. 155 00:09:39,187 --> 00:09:41,746 - It's gone awfully late. - Yes. 156 00:09:41,855 --> 00:09:43,756 What time do after-parties end? 157 00:09:43,858 --> 00:09:45,758 There's no set time. 158 00:09:45,861 --> 00:09:48,022 They usually end whenever people go... 159 00:09:48,130 --> 00:09:50,620 or whenever the parents get up. 160 00:09:50,731 --> 00:09:53,131 Although the last time I was here, over Thanksgiving... 161 00:09:53,234 --> 00:09:55,465 Sally's parents asked us to stay for breakfast. 162 00:09:55,571 --> 00:09:57,471 That's amazing. 163 00:09:57,573 --> 00:10:00,474 - No one stayed except Nick. - Really? 164 00:10:00,576 --> 00:10:02,476 He likes everyone's parents. 165 00:10:02,578 --> 00:10:05,480 I don't think I've ever met anyone's parents, except Serena's. 166 00:10:05,582 --> 00:10:08,551 I once had quite a long talk with her father. 167 00:10:10,887 --> 00:10:13,378 What's the situation between you and Serena now? 168 00:10:13,489 --> 00:10:15,457 There is none. 169 00:10:16,694 --> 00:10:19,662 - When did you stop seeing each other? - Yale game weekend. 170 00:10:26,470 --> 00:10:28,438 Dawn in the big city. 171 00:10:30,075 --> 00:10:32,542 There are eight million stories out there. 172 00:10:45,291 --> 00:10:47,191 - Give our apologies to them. - Oh, it's not necessary. 173 00:10:47,293 --> 00:10:49,193 No, I think it is. Good night. 174 00:10:49,295 --> 00:10:51,195 - Good night. - Good night, darling. 175 00:10:51,297 --> 00:10:53,197 - Good night. - Thank you. 176 00:10:53,299 --> 00:10:55,199 - Oh, you're welcome. - Thanks a lot. 177 00:10:55,301 --> 00:10:57,201 - You're welcome. We'll see you tonight? - No. 178 00:10:57,303 --> 00:11:00,171 - You should come. Hope's a friend of ours. - You won't be coming to any more dances? 179 00:11:00,274 --> 00:11:02,504 - No. - Oh, well, that's a shame. 180 00:11:02,609 --> 00:11:05,169 - It was nice meeting you. - Thank you. It was nice to meet you. 181 00:11:05,279 --> 00:11:07,680 - Ciao, Sally. Ciao! - Ciao! 182 00:11:07,781 --> 00:11:10,409 - Good luck with your Fourierism. - Thank you. 183 00:11:14,454 --> 00:11:17,356 Unless we get a Checker, we're gonna have to take two cabs. 184 00:11:17,458 --> 00:11:20,359 - Don't worry about me. I'm gonna walk. - Really? But it's terribly cold. 185 00:11:20,462 --> 00:11:22,862 - I prefer to walk. - You'll freeze dressed like that. 186 00:11:22,965 --> 00:11:25,933 This is actually very warm. It has a lining. 187 00:11:35,144 --> 00:11:37,408 - Good-bye. Ciao, Tom. - Bye-bye, Tom. 188 00:11:37,514 --> 00:11:39,482 - Good night. - Bye. 189 00:11:45,021 --> 00:11:46,921 Where are we headed? 190 00:11:47,024 --> 00:11:50,083 He's gonna freeze dressed like that in weather like this. 191 00:11:50,193 --> 00:11:52,856 Driver, follow that pedestrian. 192 00:11:59,270 --> 00:12:02,434 - Hey, fella! - We have a Checker. Can we give you a lift? 193 00:12:02,541 --> 00:12:04,532 - No, thanks. - You sure? 194 00:12:04,643 --> 00:12:06,611 Yep. Thanks anyway. 195 00:12:16,688 --> 00:12:19,590 He's getting a crosstown bus. 196 00:12:19,692 --> 00:12:21,660 That explains it. 197 00:12:22,794 --> 00:12:24,763 A Westsider is amongst us. 198 00:13:17,788 --> 00:13:19,688 There is a real escort shortage. 199 00:13:19,791 --> 00:13:21,656 It's no joke. 200 00:13:21,759 --> 00:13:26,253 - What was your impression of him? - He seemed nice. I didn't talk to him much. 201 00:13:26,364 --> 00:13:29,265 Mom, I don't want to seem rude. I know I got up very late. 202 00:13:29,367 --> 00:13:31,267 But I'm having what, for me, is breakfast... 203 00:13:31,369 --> 00:13:34,270 and I really don't want to think about returning my tuxedo right now. 204 00:13:34,372 --> 00:13:37,274 - It's just that I think it's getting too late - - Mom, get off my back! 205 00:13:37,376 --> 00:13:39,844 It's nearly 6:00. They're going to close. 206 00:13:39,945 --> 00:13:41,572 Jesus! 207 00:13:45,284 --> 00:13:47,752 If I have to pay for another day- 208 00:14:14,950 --> 00:14:17,111 Was it already closed? 209 00:14:17,219 --> 00:14:19,585 How much extra will it cost? 210 00:14:19,687 --> 00:14:22,350 Twenty-five dollars. 211 00:14:22,457 --> 00:14:25,358 - I'm sorry about what I said earlier. - Not at all. 212 00:14:25,460 --> 00:14:28,089 A girl called. Her number's by the kitchen phone. 213 00:14:28,197 --> 00:14:30,427 She said it was a bit urgent. 214 00:14:30,533 --> 00:14:33,433 I know it's very late, but we had trouble getting your number. 215 00:14:33,535 --> 00:14:37,199 Basically, we'd all be going together, although officially you'd be Audrey's escort. 216 00:14:37,306 --> 00:14:39,241 - Who? - Audrey Rouget. 217 00:14:39,343 --> 00:14:41,675 The party should be of some sociological interest. 218 00:14:41,777 --> 00:14:44,644 Peter Duchin, the Plaza ballroom, et cetera. 219 00:14:44,747 --> 00:14:47,581 - You think you'll be able to come? - Um - 220 00:14:47,684 --> 00:14:50,812 Well, actually, there's a bit of an escort shortage. 221 00:15:20,486 --> 00:15:22,477 Hi, Rick. 222 00:15:22,588 --> 00:15:27,652 What a mystery. Rick Von Sloneker and Serena Slocum, still together. 223 00:15:27,761 --> 00:15:30,252 - Seems like months. - It has been months. 224 00:15:30,363 --> 00:15:32,763 Well, one thing's for certain - she's lost her virginity by now. 225 00:15:32,866 --> 00:15:36,962 - How can you say that? - You're right. Maybe she wasn't a virgin. 226 00:15:43,911 --> 00:15:46,812 - Riffraff. - He's hardly that. 227 00:15:46,914 --> 00:15:50,078 Oh, you mean because of his title. We're supposed to be impressed by that. 228 00:15:50,184 --> 00:15:53,916 On the contrary, I think the titled aristocracy are the scum of the Earth. 229 00:15:56,858 --> 00:15:59,349 By Tolstoy, War and Peace... 230 00:15:59,461 --> 00:16:02,556 and by Jane Austen, Persuasion and Mansfield Park. 231 00:16:02,665 --> 00:16:05,293 Mansfield Park? You've got to be kidding. 232 00:16:05,401 --> 00:16:08,096 - No. - But it's a notoriously bad book. 233 00:16:08,204 --> 00:16:10,604 Even Lionel Trilling, one of her greatest admirers, thought that. 234 00:16:10,707 --> 00:16:13,301 Well, if Lionel Trilling thought that, he's an idiot. 235 00:16:13,409 --> 00:16:16,607 The whole story revolves around, what... 236 00:16:16,713 --> 00:16:19,113 the immorality of a group of young people putting on a play. 237 00:16:19,215 --> 00:16:22,151 In the context of the novel it makes perfect sense. 238 00:16:22,252 --> 00:16:25,153 But the context of the novel, and nearly everything Jane Austen wrote... 239 00:16:25,256 --> 00:16:27,156 is near ridiculous from today's perspective. 240 00:16:27,258 --> 00:16:30,249 Has it ever occurred to you that today, looked at from Jane Austen's perspective... 241 00:16:30,361 --> 00:16:32,329 would look even worse? 242 00:16:39,371 --> 00:16:41,271 You must be freezing dressed in that. 243 00:16:41,373 --> 00:16:44,673 - It has a lining. - What kind of lining is it? 244 00:16:44,777 --> 00:16:46,677 You gonna wear a raincoat all winter? 245 00:16:46,779 --> 00:16:49,543 Princeton's south of here. I guess it's a lot warmer. 246 00:16:49,649 --> 00:16:52,550 No, I just didn't know where to get a good overcoat. 247 00:16:52,652 --> 00:16:55,052 Uh, Brooks,J. Press, Tripler- 248 00:16:55,154 --> 00:16:57,555 Actually, I haven't had time to buy one. 249 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,916 I'm not sure I wanna go back to Princeton next year. It's too much of a country club for me. 250 00:17:23,017 --> 00:17:24,918 You really shouldn't treat Serena that way. 251 00:17:25,019 --> 00:17:27,579 - What? - Giving her the silent treatment. 252 00:17:27,690 --> 00:17:30,591 - I'm not giving her the silent treatment. - Come on. 253 00:17:30,693 --> 00:17:33,595 I'm not giving her the silent treatment. I just don't have anything to say to her. 254 00:17:33,697 --> 00:17:36,597 Listen, I know you're angry with her. You're probably right to be. 255 00:17:36,699 --> 00:17:40,101 But it's still not right to treat her that way. I think Serena really feels hurt by it. 256 00:17:40,203 --> 00:17:42,103 Oh, give me a break! 257 00:17:42,205 --> 00:17:44,435 Serena Slocum, a real feeling? 258 00:17:44,541 --> 00:17:47,442 Serena's basically a good person. 259 00:17:47,544 --> 00:17:51,072 - She has feelings like anybody else. - I find that very hard to believe. 260 00:17:51,182 --> 00:17:53,616 All this is - is pretty deceptive. 261 00:17:53,717 --> 00:17:56,619 - All what? - Well, I - 262 00:17:56,721 --> 00:18:00,452 I think that - that - that we are all, in a sense, doomed. 263 00:18:00,558 --> 00:18:02,424 What are you talking about? 264 00:18:02,526 --> 00:18:04,427 Downward social mobility. 265 00:18:04,529 --> 00:18:07,429 We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America... 266 00:18:07,532 --> 00:18:11,195 with the focus usually on the comparative ease of moving upwards. 267 00:18:11,304 --> 00:18:15,172 What's less discussed is how easy it is to - to go down. 268 00:18:15,274 --> 00:18:18,174 I think that's the - the direction that we're all heading in. 269 00:18:18,276 --> 00:18:21,178 And I think that the downward fall is gonna be very fast. 270 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:25,774 Not just for us as individuals, but the whole preppy class. 271 00:18:25,885 --> 00:18:28,286 Where do you get all this? 272 00:18:28,388 --> 00:18:32,484 Well,just look around. Take those of our fathers who grew up very well off. 273 00:18:32,593 --> 00:18:35,187 Maybe their careers started out well enough... 274 00:18:35,295 --> 00:18:38,423 but just as their contemporaries really began to accomplish things... 275 00:18:38,532 --> 00:18:40,500 they started to quit... 276 00:18:40,601 --> 00:18:42,501 on rising above office politics... 277 00:18:42,603 --> 00:18:45,505 or- or refusing to compete and risk open failure. 278 00:18:45,607 --> 00:18:48,167 Or not - not doing the humdrum part of the job. 279 00:18:48,276 --> 00:18:50,176 Or only doing the humdrum part. 280 00:18:50,278 --> 00:18:54,408 Or gradually spending more and more time on something more interesting - 281 00:18:54,516 --> 00:18:56,416 um, conservation, or the arts... 282 00:18:56,518 --> 00:18:58,851 where even if they were total failures no one would know it. 283 00:18:58,954 --> 00:19:01,013 Okay. 284 00:19:01,123 --> 00:19:04,024 I guess we all know who you're talking about. 285 00:19:04,126 --> 00:19:06,094 I can't deny your point, but... 286 00:19:06,196 --> 00:19:09,824 unlike you, I've always assumed I'd be a failure anyway. 287 00:19:09,933 --> 00:19:12,959 That's why I plan to marry an extremely rich woman. 288 00:19:14,004 --> 00:19:15,904 Pretty depressing. 289 00:19:16,006 --> 00:19:18,566 A bit overstated, don't you think? 290 00:19:18,675 --> 00:19:21,577 - I'm not so sure. - "Doomed. " 291 00:19:21,679 --> 00:19:23,579 Even if he were right... 292 00:19:23,681 --> 00:19:26,843 it wouldn't be any great tragedy if some of these people lost their class prerogatives. 293 00:19:26,951 --> 00:19:29,351 "These people" are everyone I know. 294 00:19:29,453 --> 00:19:34,413 And besides, it's not a question of losing class prerogatives, whatever that means... 295 00:19:34,526 --> 00:19:37,426 but the prospect of wasting your whole productive life... 296 00:19:37,528 --> 00:19:39,429 of personal failure. 297 00:19:39,531 --> 00:19:41,431 That's so melodramatic. 298 00:19:41,533 --> 00:19:44,434 Life is melodramatic, if you look at the whole sweep of it. 299 00:19:44,536 --> 00:19:46,936 I don't know. 300 00:19:47,039 --> 00:19:49,941 I think my father considers himself a failure... 301 00:19:50,043 --> 00:19:52,011 although I don't think he's one. 302 00:19:53,312 --> 00:19:55,611 I guess few people's lives... 303 00:19:55,715 --> 00:19:57,683 match their own expectations. 304 00:20:03,624 --> 00:20:06,524 I always drink two glasses of water before going to bed anyway. 305 00:20:06,626 --> 00:20:08,595 It's great for your complexion. 306 00:20:08,762 --> 00:20:13,597 I thought I should mention I'm putting you on the floor committee for the Christmas ball. 307 00:20:13,701 --> 00:20:17,296 Essentially, all it means is, you'll be able to go on your own rather than as someone's escort... 308 00:20:17,404 --> 00:20:20,306 and that you'll get a white carnation for your lapel. 309 00:20:20,408 --> 00:20:23,309 Thanks a lot, but actually I'm not planning to go to any more dances. 310 00:20:23,411 --> 00:20:25,311 You weren't? 311 00:20:25,413 --> 00:20:27,814 Well, I strongly advise you to change your mind. 312 00:20:27,917 --> 00:20:30,215 Is it that your resources are limited? 313 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:33,584 This is about the only economical social life you're gonna find in New York. 314 00:20:33,689 --> 00:20:37,591 Music, drinks, entertainment, hot, nutritious meals... 315 00:20:37,693 --> 00:20:39,888 all at no expense to you. 316 00:20:39,996 --> 00:20:42,898 Basically, all you need is one suit of evening clothes... 317 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,900 and a tailcoat. 318 00:20:45,002 --> 00:20:48,904 Dances are either white tie or black tie, so you only need two ties. 319 00:20:49,940 --> 00:20:52,341 - You rented that from where? - A.T. Harris. 320 00:20:52,442 --> 00:20:54,672 Oh, good! You know about Harris. 321 00:20:54,778 --> 00:20:57,144 They also sell them secondhand, very inexpensively. 322 00:20:57,247 --> 00:20:59,147 - It's a good arrangement. - Thanks a lot. 323 00:20:59,249 --> 00:21:01,810 My resources are limited, but actually that's not it. 324 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,413 I know. You're opposed to these parties on principle. 325 00:21:05,524 --> 00:21:07,923 - Yes. - Exactly what principle is that? 326 00:21:08,026 --> 00:21:09,927 Well - 327 00:21:10,029 --> 00:21:12,929 The principle that one shouldn't be out at night eating hors d'oeuvres... 328 00:21:13,032 --> 00:21:15,933 when one could be home worrying about the less fortunate. 329 00:21:16,035 --> 00:21:17,935 Pretty much, yes. 330 00:21:18,037 --> 00:21:22,030 Has it ever occurred to you that you are the less fortunate? 331 00:21:23,076 --> 00:21:26,135 I mean, there's something a tiny bit arrogant... 332 00:21:26,246 --> 00:21:30,979 about people going around feeling sorry for other people they consider less fortunate. 333 00:21:31,084 --> 00:21:33,781 Are the more fortunate really so terrific? 334 00:21:33,888 --> 00:21:36,448 Do you want some much-richer guy going around saying... 335 00:21:36,556 --> 00:21:41,050 "Poor Tom Townsend doesn't even have a winter jacket - I can't go to any more parties"? 336 00:21:41,161 --> 00:21:43,062 That's a bit cynical. 337 00:21:43,163 --> 00:21:46,065 This is not just a matter of what you personally prefer. 338 00:21:46,167 --> 00:21:49,365 I'll tell you this in confidence. You've made a big impression on these girls - 339 00:21:49,471 --> 00:21:51,371 - Oh, come on.! - No, I'm serious. 340 00:21:51,473 --> 00:21:55,876 They like you and are now counting on you as an escort. 341 00:21:55,978 --> 00:21:58,344 Well, I like them, too, but that doesn't - 342 00:21:58,448 --> 00:22:02,350 I'm not sure if you realize this, but these girls are at a very vulnerable point in their lives. 343 00:22:02,452 --> 00:22:07,445 All of this is much more emotional and difficult for them than it is for us. 344 00:22:07,556 --> 00:22:09,457 They're on display. 345 00:22:09,559 --> 00:22:12,824 They have to call the guys up and invite them as escorts. 346 00:22:12,929 --> 00:22:15,831 And preppy girls mature socially much later than others do. 347 00:22:15,933 --> 00:22:18,833 For many of them, this is the first serious social life they've had... 348 00:22:18,935 --> 00:22:23,066 and if you just disappear now, they're gonna take that as personal rejection. 349 00:22:23,173 --> 00:22:26,336 - Give me a break. - I'm not entirely joking. 350 00:22:26,443 --> 00:22:28,502 You should go. 351 00:22:28,612 --> 00:22:32,104 If Thorstein Veblen were here, he'd tell you the same thing. 352 00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:37,921 I'll meet you at 4:30 at Brooks, main floor, southwest corner... 353 00:22:38,023 --> 00:22:40,548 where the pajamas intersect with the expensive shirts... 354 00:22:40,658 --> 00:22:42,627 right across from the undershorts counter. 355 00:22:44,764 --> 00:22:47,129 As a romance, it never really existed. 356 00:22:47,232 --> 00:22:49,724 - Really? - I made a classic mistake. 357 00:22:49,835 --> 00:22:52,303 I fell in love with Serena long before I met her. 358 00:22:52,405 --> 00:22:55,739 I'd seen her at a Chapin dance, but I didn't really meet her until a year later. 359 00:22:55,842 --> 00:23:00,744 Even before we started going out, I'd built up this huge romantic vision about her. 360 00:23:00,847 --> 00:23:02,747 It should be just the reverse. 361 00:23:02,849 --> 00:23:05,249 You should get to know someone gradually, over time... 362 00:23:05,352 --> 00:23:07,752 before the possibility of falling in love even occurs to you. 363 00:23:07,854 --> 00:23:09,754 Possibly not even then. 364 00:23:09,856 --> 00:23:12,017 So the experience has somewhat hardened you? 365 00:23:12,125 --> 00:23:16,825 Yes. At least, it's a very bad idea to fall for someone who doesn't for you. 366 00:23:18,633 --> 00:23:22,535 Yes, but you can't know that you'll feel exactly the same way all the time. 367 00:23:22,637 --> 00:23:25,539 I mean, I suppose there will be risk in any romance. 368 00:23:25,641 --> 00:23:27,541 I suppose so. 369 00:23:27,643 --> 00:23:30,111 Well, this is my building. 370 00:23:31,147 --> 00:23:33,512 - Thanks very much for coming. - Thank you. 371 00:23:35,485 --> 00:23:38,180 You'll come again tomorrow? It'll be as a group. 372 00:23:38,287 --> 00:23:40,255 Yes. 373 00:24:13,525 --> 00:24:15,925 Thanks, Mom. I know how tight things have been. 374 00:24:16,027 --> 00:24:18,690 Things haven't been that tight. - I'll pay you back next month. 375 00:24:18,798 --> 00:24:20,698 Or in February. 376 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,701 - Has Dad called? - He's never called here. You know that. 377 00:24:23,803 --> 00:24:26,397 - I thought maybe his office had. - No. 378 00:24:26,506 --> 00:24:28,475 Thanks a lot. 379 00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:35,942 - They're normally this long in the back? - Yes, sir. 380 00:24:36,049 --> 00:24:38,347 - Uh-huh. - Like to try on the tuxedo? 381 00:24:38,452 --> 00:24:40,420 Okay. 382 00:24:41,656 --> 00:24:43,556 Here you go. 383 00:24:46,426 --> 00:24:48,327 I think I'd prefer one more like the one I rented. 384 00:24:48,429 --> 00:24:51,193 That is the one you rented. - Oh. 385 00:24:51,299 --> 00:24:54,291 I didn't realize it looked like this. I guess it'll be all right. 386 00:24:54,402 --> 00:24:56,371 Thank you. 387 00:24:59,874 --> 00:25:02,844 You haven't seen this? Detachable collar. 388 00:25:02,945 --> 00:25:06,403 Not many people wear them anymore. They look much better. 389 00:25:06,515 --> 00:25:10,418 So many things which were better in the past have been abandoned for supposed convenience. 390 00:25:10,519 --> 00:25:15,115 - I had no idea anyone wore those anymore. - It's a small thing, but symbolically important. 391 00:25:15,224 --> 00:25:18,126 Our parents' generation was never interested in keeping up standards. 392 00:25:18,228 --> 00:25:23,132 They wanted to be happy, but the last way to be happy is to make it your objective in life. 393 00:25:23,234 --> 00:25:25,464 I wonder if our generation's any better than our parents'. 394 00:25:25,570 --> 00:25:30,473 Oh, it's far worse. Our generation's probably the worst since the Protestant Reformation. 395 00:25:30,575 --> 00:25:35,478 It's barbaric, but a barbarism even worse than the old-fashioned, straightforward kind. 396 00:25:35,580 --> 00:25:40,280 Now barbarism is cloaked with all sorts of self-righteousness and moral superiority. 397 00:25:40,385 --> 00:25:44,185 - Will you look at this? - You're obviously talking about a lot more than just detachable collars. 398 00:25:44,289 --> 00:25:45,655 Yeah, I am. 399 00:25:59,239 --> 00:26:01,298 Because he's obviously not an interesting guy. 400 00:26:01,407 --> 00:26:03,807 Why is he so successful with girls then? 401 00:26:03,910 --> 00:26:07,608 Rick Von Sloneker is tall, rich, good-looking... 402 00:26:07,715 --> 00:26:09,945 stupid, dishonest, conceited... 403 00:26:10,050 --> 00:26:12,951 a bully, liar, drunk and thief... 404 00:26:13,053 --> 00:26:15,283 an egomaniac and probably psychotic. 405 00:26:15,389 --> 00:26:17,687 In short, highly attractive to women. 406 00:26:17,792 --> 00:26:20,920 You're completely unfair. You don't know anything about Rick. 407 00:26:21,029 --> 00:26:23,589 - In fact, he's quite shy. - God! 408 00:26:23,698 --> 00:26:25,598 He's a considerate and sensitive man. 409 00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:28,669 The rest is just a superficial game he plays, a façade... 410 00:26:28,770 --> 00:26:30,670 which you've obviously been taken in by. 411 00:26:30,772 --> 00:26:34,140 It's incredible, the eagerness of girls like you to justify the worst bastards imaginable... 412 00:26:34,243 --> 00:26:36,370 as being sensitive and shy. 413 00:26:36,479 --> 00:26:39,380 But if any guy who really was shy dared talk to you... 414 00:26:39,482 --> 00:26:42,384 you wouldn't give him the time of day- your eyes would glaze over. 415 00:26:42,486 --> 00:26:45,386 You're really hung up on Rick, aren't you? He must really threaten you somehow. 416 00:26:45,488 --> 00:26:47,389 You're right. I do feel threatened... 417 00:26:47,491 --> 00:26:51,154 that I may get a venereal disease from one of the St. Tim's girls he's been with. 418 00:26:52,763 --> 00:26:55,824 Did you learn that from your lovemaking with Rick? 419 00:26:55,933 --> 00:26:57,901 I hear it can get really rough. 420 00:26:58,002 --> 00:27:00,970 - Hey! - Don't do that again. 421 00:27:02,273 --> 00:27:04,366 For me, it isn't erotic. 422 00:27:06,644 --> 00:27:10,011 - What are you looking at? - My father's apartment. 423 00:27:11,150 --> 00:27:13,050 - Where? - The fourth floor. 424 00:27:13,152 --> 00:27:16,087 - Corner apartment. - That's Kate Preston's building. 425 00:27:16,188 --> 00:27:18,952 Have your parents been divorced long? 426 00:27:19,058 --> 00:27:20,958 The actual divorce was three years ago... 427 00:27:21,060 --> 00:27:23,961 but they were separated for a year before that. 428 00:27:24,064 --> 00:27:27,362 - Do you see your father much? - We have lunch when I'm in town. 429 00:27:27,466 --> 00:27:30,595 - That's very little. - No, actually we have a very good relationship. 430 00:27:30,704 --> 00:27:33,606 Probably much better than most people who see their father all the time. 431 00:27:33,708 --> 00:27:36,870 It's just that my stepmother is a writer and having us around makes her nervous. 432 00:27:38,712 --> 00:27:41,580 I read that Lionel Trilling essay you mentioned. 433 00:27:41,682 --> 00:27:43,843 - You really like Trilling? - Yes. 434 00:27:44,886 --> 00:27:47,047 I think he's very strange. 435 00:27:47,155 --> 00:27:50,784 He says that nobody could like the heroine of Mansfield Park. 436 00:27:50,892 --> 00:27:52,792 I like her. 437 00:27:52,894 --> 00:27:56,887 Then he goes on and on about how we modern people of today with our modern attitudes... 438 00:27:56,998 --> 00:28:01,264 bitterly resent Mansfield Park because its heroine is virtuous? 439 00:28:01,370 --> 00:28:04,272 What's wrong with a novel having a virtuous heroine? 440 00:28:04,374 --> 00:28:06,274 His point is that the novel's premise - 441 00:28:06,376 --> 00:28:09,777 that there's something immoral in a group of young people putting on a play- is simply absurd. 442 00:28:09,879 --> 00:28:11,904 You found Fanny Price unlikable? 443 00:28:12,014 --> 00:28:14,448 She sounds pretty unbearable. But I haven't read the book. 444 00:28:14,550 --> 00:28:17,782 - What? - You don't have to have read a book to have an opinion on it. 445 00:28:17,888 --> 00:28:19,788 I haven't read the Bible either. 446 00:28:19,890 --> 00:28:22,757 What Jane Austen novels have you read? 447 00:28:22,860 --> 00:28:24,760 None. I don't read novels. 448 00:28:24,862 --> 00:28:26,763 I prefer good literary criticism. 449 00:28:26,865 --> 00:28:29,765 That way, you get both the novelist's ideas as well as the critic's thinking. 450 00:28:29,867 --> 00:28:32,769 With fiction, I can never forget that none of it ever really happened... 451 00:28:32,871 --> 00:28:34,839 that it's all just made up by the author. 452 00:28:38,243 --> 00:28:41,736 One thing I like about him is he doesn't say all the expected things. 453 00:28:41,847 --> 00:28:44,747 He doesn't just agree with everything everyone else is saying. 454 00:28:44,849 --> 00:28:48,411 That's true. He disagrees with everything everyone else says. 455 00:28:48,521 --> 00:28:50,421 I'm not sure I prefer that. 456 00:28:50,523 --> 00:28:53,720 He's quite good-looking though. I think serious guys tend to be better-looking. 457 00:28:53,826 --> 00:28:55,953 Ow! 458 00:29:08,142 --> 00:29:12,704 The term "bourgeois" has almost always been - been one of contempt. 459 00:29:12,814 --> 00:29:17,717 Yet it is precisely the - the bourgeoisie which is responsible for- 460 00:29:17,819 --> 00:29:22,279 well, for nearly everything good that has happened in our civilization over the past four centuries. 461 00:29:22,390 --> 00:29:26,020 You know the French film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie? 462 00:29:26,128 --> 00:29:28,528 When I first heard that title I thought... 463 00:29:28,630 --> 00:29:31,622 "Finally, someone's gonna tell the truth about the bourgeoisie. " 464 00:29:31,733 --> 00:29:34,065 What a disappointment. 465 00:29:34,169 --> 00:29:37,661 It would be hard to imagine a less fair or accurate portrait. 466 00:29:37,773 --> 00:29:39,674 Well, of course. Buñuel's a surrealist. 467 00:29:39,775 --> 00:29:42,870 - Despising the bourgeoisie is part of their credo. - Where do they get off?. 468 00:29:42,979 --> 00:29:46,881 But the truth is, the bourgeoisie does have a lot of charm. 469 00:29:46,983 --> 00:29:48,883 Of course it does. 470 00:29:48,985 --> 00:29:51,579 The surrealists were just a lot of social climbers. 471 00:29:51,689 --> 00:29:53,383 Is there any more wine? 472 00:29:54,425 --> 00:29:56,325 I like the French. 473 00:29:56,427 --> 00:29:59,157 - Really? - At least those I met in Grenoble. 474 00:29:59,264 --> 00:30:02,790 Actually, the only girl I ever knew who studied in France stayed over there and got married. 475 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:04,800 So I guess she liked the French too. 476 00:30:04,903 --> 00:30:07,531 I'm not sure I like them that much. 477 00:30:19,352 --> 00:30:22,253 S.P.S., we used to call him. 478 00:30:22,355 --> 00:30:25,256 Never mind. 479 00:30:25,358 --> 00:30:27,326 Look. 480 00:30:59,227 --> 00:31:02,755 - I think I'll visit the powder room. - What really goes on in there? 481 00:31:02,865 --> 00:31:04,833 Oh, it's fabulous. 482 00:31:12,242 --> 00:31:15,143 You seem to be in an awfully good mood tonight, Townsend. 483 00:31:15,245 --> 00:31:18,146 - Of course, you're in your element here. - Are you kidding? 484 00:31:18,248 --> 00:31:21,274 You're part of it all - the whole Manhattan thing. 485 00:31:21,384 --> 00:31:23,285 It's different for those of us from the country. 486 00:31:23,386 --> 00:31:26,288 - You're from Greenwich. - North Greenwich. 487 00:31:26,390 --> 00:31:28,950 - This is your world, not mine. - Oh, come on. 488 00:31:29,060 --> 00:31:33,121 You're part of that whole Sally Fowler crowd. Doesn't get much more inside than that. 489 00:31:33,230 --> 00:31:36,200 Not that I particularly care. I don't believe in those things. 490 00:31:37,602 --> 00:31:41,505 - Oh, hi, Serena. - Hi. Hi, Tom. 491 00:31:41,607 --> 00:31:43,837 - How's your brother? - Fine. 492 00:31:44,943 --> 00:31:48,242 Tom, I think we should talk. 493 00:31:49,948 --> 00:31:53,646 I haven't been giving you the silent treatment. I just haven't been talking to you. 494 00:31:53,753 --> 00:31:55,721 Well, I felt it. 495 00:31:57,123 --> 00:31:59,523 I love the St. Regis. 496 00:31:59,626 --> 00:32:02,528 There's all sorts of hidden nooks and crannies. 497 00:32:02,630 --> 00:32:04,530 It's really charming. 498 00:32:04,632 --> 00:32:07,100 Yes. They'll probably knock it down soon. 499 00:32:15,109 --> 00:32:18,011 It hardly explains why you just left me there waiting for you to call... 500 00:32:18,113 --> 00:32:22,015 without even a phone call to explain why you didn't show up. 501 00:32:22,117 --> 00:32:26,144 I'm sorry it was such a bad time for you, but I don't see how that should make me feel any better. 502 00:32:26,254 --> 00:32:30,384 You don't? Well, it always makes me feel better. 503 00:32:30,492 --> 00:32:34,223 Well, it makes me feel somewhat better, but it still doesn't change anything. 504 00:32:34,329 --> 00:32:36,730 It shows that it wasn't intentional. 505 00:32:36,832 --> 00:32:39,027 To me, that's an important distinction. 506 00:32:51,114 --> 00:32:53,413 Things are definitely over with Rick. 507 00:32:54,785 --> 00:32:57,687 With some relationships, the breaking up is easier to understand... 508 00:32:57,789 --> 00:33:00,757 than how you got involved in the first place. 509 00:33:03,695 --> 00:33:06,095 Do you think I'd have any trouble getting a cab? 510 00:33:06,197 --> 00:33:08,928 - You're going already? - Yes. I'm exhausted. 511 00:33:09,034 --> 00:33:12,800 My mother's doctor's been giving me these vitamin shots. They've worn off or something. 512 00:33:20,846 --> 00:33:23,748 Oh, Fred, something's come up and I've got to go out for a while. 513 00:33:23,850 --> 00:33:26,943 Would you tell Audrey I should be back soon, but if there's any problem I'll meet her at Sally's? 514 00:33:27,052 --> 00:33:29,954 Should I not get back, could you see that she gets there okay? 515 00:33:37,398 --> 00:33:39,628 Thought I was gonna puke. 516 00:33:43,938 --> 00:33:46,339 I had hardly anything to drink. 517 00:33:46,441 --> 00:33:50,400 It must have been something I ate - those Vienna sausages. 518 00:34:05,428 --> 00:34:08,329 Actually, I was surprised to see you at the dances this week. 519 00:34:08,431 --> 00:34:11,264 You used to be so opposed to that sort of thing. 520 00:34:11,367 --> 00:34:13,267 I still am, basically. 521 00:34:13,369 --> 00:34:15,929 I went to the first one almost accidentally and that night just happened to fall in... 522 00:34:16,038 --> 00:34:17,938 with an extraordinarily nice group of people. 523 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:19,940 Otherwise I wouldn't have gone to any more. 524 00:34:20,042 --> 00:34:23,672 I'd hardly call Nick Smith nice. He's a terrible snob. 525 00:34:23,781 --> 00:34:26,444 He's basically a nice guy, I think. 526 00:34:26,550 --> 00:34:28,711 His behavior toward Rick has been vicious. 527 00:34:28,819 --> 00:34:31,310 What did he do? 528 00:34:31,421 --> 00:34:35,222 Tried to make a big stink about some girl. Rick didn't want to talk about it. 529 00:34:35,325 --> 00:34:37,294 Apparently it was awful. 530 00:34:38,897 --> 00:34:41,058 Rick thinks Nick could be really crazy. 531 00:34:41,166 --> 00:34:43,863 I'm just worried that something's happened to him. 532 00:34:43,969 --> 00:34:46,869 I don't see how - how anything could happen to him in a hotel. 533 00:34:46,972 --> 00:34:49,372 Maybe it was the same thing that happened to Fred. 534 00:34:49,475 --> 00:34:51,875 Tom hasn't had much experience in places like these. 535 00:34:51,977 --> 00:34:55,879 Maybe he went through one of those fire doors that lock from the inside and shut himself in the stairwell. 536 00:34:55,981 --> 00:34:59,383 The fire stairs here aren't like that. I've had to use them when people have forgotten to invite me to their parties. 537 00:34:59,486 --> 00:35:01,716 I've never had any trouble. 538 00:35:01,821 --> 00:35:04,222 I just don't understand where he could be. 539 00:35:08,662 --> 00:35:10,324 Well, that - that's interesting... 540 00:35:10,431 --> 00:35:13,331 because actually there's very little social snobbery in the United States. 541 00:35:13,434 --> 00:35:15,334 I mean, it's considered unacceptable. 542 00:35:15,436 --> 00:35:17,734 There's almost a national taboo against it. 543 00:35:17,839 --> 00:35:20,740 - It's looked down upon. - That's good, isn't it? 544 00:35:20,842 --> 00:35:23,744 No, I'm not talking about what's good or bad. 545 00:35:23,845 --> 00:35:26,245 I'm just making a- a-an observation of fact. 546 00:35:26,347 --> 00:35:28,248 Well, I think it is good. 547 00:35:28,349 --> 00:35:31,478 I can't stand snobbery or snobbish attitudes of any kind. 548 00:35:32,522 --> 00:35:34,649 Could you see who's there? 549 00:35:40,897 --> 00:35:43,798 - Sorry to be so late. - Where were you? 550 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:46,266 - Didn't Fred tell you? - Tell us what? 551 00:35:46,369 --> 00:35:49,270 The only thing we heard from Fred was - 552 00:35:49,372 --> 00:35:52,274 - Fred left ages ago. - God, Audrey, I'm sorry. 553 00:35:52,376 --> 00:35:55,277 - Why? - I asked Fred to tell you if I didn't get back- 554 00:35:55,379 --> 00:35:57,347 Don't worry. It's nothing. 555 00:35:59,084 --> 00:36:01,984 - Well, where were you? - I had to take Serena home. 556 00:36:02,086 --> 00:36:05,056 She was feeling badly and she was going to go home alone. 557 00:36:11,763 --> 00:36:15,221 She's broken up with Rick. It just took longer than I expected. 558 00:36:15,333 --> 00:36:18,235 I asked Fred to tell you that if I didn't make it back, I'd meet you here. 559 00:36:18,337 --> 00:36:21,738 - We didn't get that message. - We thought you'd gotten trapped somewhere in the hotel. 560 00:36:21,841 --> 00:36:24,401 - Audrey was very concerned. - I'm very sorry. 561 00:36:24,510 --> 00:36:26,478 You sound very sorry. 562 00:36:29,249 --> 00:36:32,116 I find it very hard to believe that Serena broke up with Rick. 563 00:36:32,219 --> 00:36:34,187 It was probably the other way around. 564 00:36:38,959 --> 00:36:42,623 I'm worried about Audrey. She seems to have taken this so hard. 565 00:36:42,730 --> 00:36:44,630 I'm a bit surprised. 566 00:36:44,732 --> 00:36:47,565 I had no idea Fred was gonna get sick. 567 00:36:47,669 --> 00:36:49,830 You know, where - where do you get off? 568 00:36:49,937 --> 00:36:51,838 I mean, you're surprised? 569 00:36:51,941 --> 00:36:56,344 You were Audrey's escort, yet you blithely left her stranded in the middle of the dance. 570 00:36:56,445 --> 00:36:58,844 And then you try to shirk the whole thing off on Fred. 571 00:36:58,947 --> 00:37:01,849 I was not trying to shirk the whole thing off on Fred. 572 00:37:01,951 --> 00:37:04,852 And I wasn't even Audrey's escort. We were all there as a group. 573 00:37:04,954 --> 00:37:07,616 - In any case, I'm very sorry there was a mix-up. - There was no mix-up. 574 00:37:07,723 --> 00:37:09,123 Well, it wasn't intentional. 575 00:37:09,225 --> 00:37:13,059 When you're an egoist, none of the harm you do is intentional. 576 00:37:15,465 --> 00:37:17,365 You're going already? 577 00:37:17,467 --> 00:37:19,867 - Yes. I'm really tired. - Just a second. I'll get my coat. 578 00:37:19,970 --> 00:37:21,870 No, that's okay. Charlie said he'd take me. 579 00:37:21,972 --> 00:37:23,872 - I'd like to. - No, really. 580 00:37:23,974 --> 00:37:25,874 Don't bother. 581 00:37:25,977 --> 00:37:28,377 Listen, I'm really sorry about what happened tonight. 582 00:37:28,479 --> 00:37:31,380 - I thought I'd be back much more quickly. - It's not important. 583 00:37:31,482 --> 00:37:33,382 - Thank you very much. - Oh, good night. 584 00:37:33,484 --> 00:37:35,976 - You ready? - Good night. 585 00:37:37,021 --> 00:37:38,989 - Good night, Audrey. - Feel better. 586 00:37:40,525 --> 00:37:43,426 I never thought of myself as a bastard, an egoist. 587 00:37:43,528 --> 00:37:45,428 Listen, don't flatter yourself. 588 00:37:45,530 --> 00:37:48,431 Charlie's standard of polite behavior is so exaggerated. 589 00:37:48,533 --> 00:37:51,435 At school he used to individually answer all his junk mail. 590 00:37:51,537 --> 00:37:55,098 I suppose he thought someone's feelings would be hurt if he didn't. 591 00:37:55,208 --> 00:37:59,508 I like him a lot, but don't try to understand his thought processes. 592 00:37:59,612 --> 00:38:01,512 The summer I met him - We were 10- 593 00:38:01,614 --> 00:38:05,676 he was trying to establish communications with the seagulls of Easthampton. 594 00:38:05,786 --> 00:38:08,687 It was utterly hopeless. The Easthampton seagulls are complete morons. 595 00:38:08,789 --> 00:38:11,690 We still spent several afternoons approaching shore birds, saying... 596 00:38:11,792 --> 00:38:13,693 "We come in friendship. " 597 00:38:13,794 --> 00:38:17,697 They could not have cared less - much like his efforts with girls in recent years. 598 00:38:17,799 --> 00:38:20,426 Great. I'm hated by the preppy St. Francis. 599 00:38:20,534 --> 00:38:22,435 I wouldn't worry about it. 600 00:38:22,537 --> 00:38:24,937 That's the building where my father lives. 601 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,668 - Do you know Kate Preston? She lives there. - No. 602 00:38:29,544 --> 00:38:31,444 Will you look at this? 603 00:38:31,546 --> 00:38:34,948 It's incredible, the things some people throw away. 604 00:38:35,051 --> 00:38:38,418 Steiff stuffed animals. An Aurora model motoring set. 605 00:38:38,521 --> 00:38:40,819 A Derringer. Do you remember the Derringer craze? 606 00:38:42,325 --> 00:38:44,225 These are the toys of our generation. 607 00:38:44,327 --> 00:38:47,227 The childhood of our whole generation is represented here... 608 00:38:47,330 --> 00:38:49,958 and they're just throwing it out. 609 00:38:50,067 --> 00:38:52,968 Maybe we should rescue the electric car set. 610 00:38:53,071 --> 00:38:55,198 Could really add to these after-parties. 611 00:38:58,408 --> 00:39:02,641 - Uh, I turn here. - Oh. See you tonight. 612 00:39:02,747 --> 00:39:05,739 Listen, don't take this thing with Charlie too seriously. 613 00:39:05,850 --> 00:39:07,818 No. See you tonight. 614 00:39:18,397 --> 00:39:22,925 My feeling is that what happened last night had no real significance. 615 00:39:23,035 --> 00:39:25,470 It was just bad luck that Fred got sick. 616 00:39:25,572 --> 00:39:27,540 I can't believe you're talking like this. 617 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,040 He totally humiliated you last night. 618 00:39:30,143 --> 00:39:34,239 Whether I've been humiliated or not is something I can judge for myself. 619 00:39:34,347 --> 00:39:36,942 Besides, I don't think Tom's that way. 620 00:39:37,051 --> 00:39:40,213 Well, I'm not sure you can judge for yourself. 621 00:39:40,321 --> 00:39:42,221 Be careful, Audrey. 622 00:39:42,323 --> 00:39:44,223 - There's something dubious about Tom. - What? 623 00:39:44,325 --> 00:39:47,556 This whole thing about his being a radical when he's obviously not... 624 00:39:47,661 --> 00:39:50,563 and being over Serena when he's obviously not. 625 00:39:50,665 --> 00:39:53,030 Everyone has some contradictions. 626 00:39:53,134 --> 00:39:55,035 Anybody with as many conflicts as Tom... 627 00:39:55,137 --> 00:39:57,628 even if he seems nice, is better not to get involved with. 628 00:39:57,739 --> 00:40:00,139 By those standards, none of us should get involved with anyone. 629 00:40:00,242 --> 00:40:02,301 Well,you're probably right, but in this case certainly. 630 00:40:02,410 --> 00:40:06,540 Tom is the only guy I've ever liked in my whole life. 631 00:40:06,648 --> 00:40:10,380 I'm not gonna forget about him because of some apparent inconsistencies. 632 00:40:10,486 --> 00:40:13,887 - You hardly even know him. - I know him very well. 633 00:40:13,990 --> 00:40:16,323 You couldn't. You only just met him. 634 00:40:16,426 --> 00:40:18,894 Well, I do. 635 00:40:24,334 --> 00:40:26,427 I didn't know you sent out Christmas cards. 636 00:40:26,537 --> 00:40:28,437 Well, I haven't in years. 637 00:40:28,539 --> 00:40:32,101 When we moved, do you know what happened to my toys and things? 638 00:40:33,578 --> 00:40:35,546 They were put in storage. 639 00:40:35,647 --> 00:40:38,878 Do you think some of them could have been sent to Dad's? 640 00:40:38,983 --> 00:40:41,543 It's possible. Why? Do you want them? 641 00:40:41,653 --> 00:40:45,556 - You're a bit old for that sort of thing. - No, I just had a feeling they went to Dad's. 642 00:40:45,658 --> 00:40:49,287 - Well, why don't you call him then? - I have. There's been no answer. 643 00:40:58,505 --> 00:41:01,405 There's something about winter in the city at night, with everyone dressed up... 644 00:41:01,507 --> 00:41:03,408 that reminds me of War and Peace. 645 00:41:03,510 --> 00:41:05,410 - Really? - Do you know what I mean? 646 00:41:05,513 --> 00:41:08,811 Yeah, I think so, though I haven't read it. 647 00:41:15,590 --> 00:41:18,491 Well, I don't think "preppy" is a very useful term. 648 00:41:18,593 --> 00:41:21,790 I mean, it might be descriptive for someone who is still in school or college... 649 00:41:21,896 --> 00:41:26,800 but it's ridiculous to refer to a man in his 7 Os, like Averell Harriman, as a preppy. 650 00:41:26,902 --> 00:41:31,601 And none of the other terms people use - WASP, P.L.U., et cetera - are of much use either. 651 00:41:31,707 --> 00:41:34,835 And that's why I prefer the term "U.H.B." 652 00:41:34,943 --> 00:41:37,138 - What? - U.H.B. 653 00:41:37,246 --> 00:41:40,307 It's an acronym for urban haute bourgeoisie. 654 00:41:40,416 --> 00:41:42,509 Is our language so impoverished... 655 00:41:42,619 --> 00:41:45,986 that we have to use acronyms or French phrases to make ourselves understood? 656 00:41:46,089 --> 00:41:48,990 - Yes. - U.H.B. 657 00:41:49,093 --> 00:41:52,323 The term is brilliant and long overdue. 658 00:41:52,428 --> 00:41:55,330 But it's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it - U.H.B.? 659 00:41:55,432 --> 00:41:59,960 Wouldn't it be better just to pronounce it simply "UHB"? 660 00:42:00,070 --> 00:42:02,972 Well, I didn't expect it to gain immediate acceptance. 661 00:42:03,074 --> 00:42:07,135 No, no, I think it's a useful term. The fact that it sounds ridiculous could be part of its appeal. 662 00:42:07,245 --> 00:42:09,645 You see the world from such lofty heights... 663 00:42:09,748 --> 00:42:12,717 that everything below is a bit comical to you, isn't it? 664 00:42:14,986 --> 00:42:17,420 - Yes. - You're so obnoxious. 665 00:42:19,425 --> 00:42:21,325 I don't see how you can stand him. 666 00:42:21,427 --> 00:42:24,590 You're always complaining about people being frauds and phonies. 667 00:42:24,697 --> 00:42:27,098 Well, this guy is the phony of the decade... 668 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,100 yet you act like he was your long-lost best friend. 669 00:42:30,202 --> 00:42:34,104 Tom Townsend is hardly a phony- just mildly deluded. He's a perfectly nice guy. 670 00:42:34,206 --> 00:42:37,665 That's just another aspect of his phoniness. He's a complete phony. 671 00:42:37,778 --> 00:42:40,679 And when he's not being a phony, h- he's a bastard. 672 00:42:40,781 --> 00:42:42,682 Oh, come on. 673 00:42:42,784 --> 00:42:45,684 - You saw how he treated Audrey last night. - Audrey seems to have forgotten it. 674 00:42:45,786 --> 00:42:50,190 She has to act that way. Otherwise, it would be even more humiliating. 675 00:42:50,291 --> 00:42:53,693 But I don't have to pretend that Tom Townsend's a nice guy. 676 00:42:53,796 --> 00:42:56,764 You're really gaga about Audrey, aren't you? 677 00:42:56,864 --> 00:43:00,426 Well, if by "gaga" you mean, "Do I like her?"... 678 00:43:00,535 --> 00:43:02,436 yeah. 679 00:43:02,538 --> 00:43:04,939 Well, why don't you do something about it then... 680 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,941 instead of just going on and on about what a bastard Tom Townsend is. 681 00:43:08,043 --> 00:43:11,604 What am I supposed to do? Declare myself? That would be an absolute disaster. 682 00:43:11,714 --> 00:43:14,616 And don't think I haven't thought about these things. 683 00:43:14,784 --> 00:43:16,615 Yes, Rick and Serena broke up. 684 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:19,952 But this afternoon they both went down to Washington for Holly Gilchrist's party. 685 00:43:20,057 --> 00:43:22,957 It was Holly who was responsible for getting them together in the first place. 686 00:43:23,059 --> 00:43:25,527 - Oh, so she was responsible. - They went together? 687 00:43:25,629 --> 00:43:28,462 They went separately. How they'll come back- 688 00:43:28,566 --> 00:43:31,126 I don't think that Rick is the sort of guy who lets himself be dropped. 689 00:43:31,235 --> 00:43:34,033 - Ha! - What is that supposed to mean? 690 00:43:34,138 --> 00:43:35,969 Ha! 691 00:43:36,073 --> 00:43:37,974 Rick really threatens you somehow. 692 00:43:38,075 --> 00:43:39,976 How does he threaten me? 693 00:43:40,078 --> 00:43:42,945 Maybe by being more of a man than you are. 694 00:43:43,048 --> 00:43:45,642 - You stupid slut. - Oh, come on.! 695 00:43:45,751 --> 00:43:47,810 What has Rick done that's so terrible? 696 00:43:47,919 --> 00:43:49,819 He is terrible. 697 00:43:49,921 --> 00:43:52,652 I shouldn't have to go into all the sordid details. 698 00:43:52,759 --> 00:43:54,886 Could you go into a few sordid details? 699 00:43:54,994 --> 00:43:57,895 I don't think there are any reasons, except for maybe jealousy. 700 00:43:57,997 --> 00:44:00,727 Rick makes him feel terribly inadequate somehow. 701 00:44:00,833 --> 00:44:04,792 Okay, I'll tell you about Rick Von Sloneker. 702 00:44:08,941 --> 00:44:12,139 Does the name Polly Perkins mean anything to you? 703 00:44:12,246 --> 00:44:14,009 Sounds familiar. 704 00:44:15,116 --> 00:44:17,016 She grew up in Virginia. 705 00:44:17,118 --> 00:44:19,018 A horse fanatic since childhood. 706 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,419 Went to one of those horsey girls schools - Garrison Forest, I think. 707 00:44:22,524 --> 00:44:25,652 Sometime in her senior year she started feeling depressed. 708 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,753 Now, partly it was finally becoming disillusioned with horses. 709 00:44:28,863 --> 00:44:32,766 But there were some real psychological problems too. 710 00:44:32,868 --> 00:44:36,770 That summer she got a job in Edgartown and seemed completely recovered... 711 00:44:36,872 --> 00:44:39,774 except for a couple of idiosyncrasies - she'd only dress in blue... 712 00:44:39,875 --> 00:44:42,776 and she wouldn't eat hamburgers unless they were completely well done. 713 00:44:42,878 --> 00:44:45,780 Any hint of redness and she'd send them back. 714 00:44:45,882 --> 00:44:49,716 Out of loyalty to her boyfriend in Virginia... 715 00:44:49,820 --> 00:44:52,790 she'd only go on group dates, never individual ones. 716 00:44:54,357 --> 00:44:57,986 Von Sloneker met her when he came to Edgartown for the regatta. 717 00:44:59,297 --> 00:45:01,697 She showed no interest in him at all initially... 718 00:45:01,799 --> 00:45:05,166 which makes sense because he's a completely uninteresting guy. 719 00:45:05,269 --> 00:45:07,795 But for someone like Von Sloneker, that's just inciting. 720 00:45:07,906 --> 00:45:10,806 So he swung into action with a full rigamarole... 721 00:45:10,908 --> 00:45:13,433 about how desperately in love he was with her... 722 00:45:13,545 --> 00:45:16,571 how she was the first girl that ever made him feel that way... 723 00:45:16,682 --> 00:45:18,513 how it was their obligation to themselves... 724 00:45:18,617 --> 00:45:21,086 to do everything they could to live life to the fullest. 725 00:45:21,187 --> 00:45:25,783 Polly had, meanwhile, quit her summer job and joined his boat for the rest of the cruise. 726 00:45:25,892 --> 00:45:27,792 He now completely ignored her. 727 00:45:27,894 --> 00:45:30,362 She, in turn, became obsessed with him. 728 00:45:31,965 --> 00:45:35,230 Polly was a bit of a masochist and prone to drink too much. 729 00:45:36,804 --> 00:45:39,966 Von Sloneker exploited this to get her drunk... 730 00:45:40,074 --> 00:45:41,974 and had her- 731 00:45:42,076 --> 00:45:44,806 Do you know what "pulling a train" means? 732 00:45:45,847 --> 00:45:47,940 I don't think so. 733 00:45:50,185 --> 00:45:53,085 When Von Sloneker had gotten her blind drunk one night... 734 00:45:53,187 --> 00:45:55,087 he talked her into pulling a train - 735 00:45:55,190 --> 00:45:57,385 him, Victor Lemley, the other crew member. 736 00:45:59,161 --> 00:46:03,325 When she arrived at Wheaton for her first semester, she was acting very strangely... 737 00:46:03,432 --> 00:46:05,696 always wearing the same clothes... 738 00:46:05,801 --> 00:46:09,703 never washing, except just putting on more and more makeup and perfume. 739 00:46:09,805 --> 00:46:11,705 She'd remain silent for hours... 740 00:46:11,807 --> 00:46:14,106 and then talk obsessively about Paul McCartney. 741 00:46:16,079 --> 00:46:18,980 After two weeks, she was sent to McLean's for treatment... 742 00:46:19,082 --> 00:46:21,983 but was able to go home to Virginia for Thanksgiving. 743 00:46:22,085 --> 00:46:24,986 The day after Thanksgiving, she went into their stables... 744 00:46:25,088 --> 00:46:27,215 and killed herself. 745 00:46:27,325 --> 00:46:30,589 I've heard about that girl, and it wasn't Rick's fault. 746 00:46:30,694 --> 00:46:33,630 She was just some girl who had a crush on him, but whom he hardly knew. 747 00:46:33,731 --> 00:46:38,566 She'd always had psychological problems and was, in fact, a pathological liar. 748 00:46:38,671 --> 00:46:41,867 It was very sad what happened, but Rick had absolutely nothing to do with it. 749 00:46:41,973 --> 00:46:43,941 I don't know. 750 00:46:45,110 --> 00:46:47,805 She was carrying his photo when she killed herself. 751 00:46:47,912 --> 00:46:50,347 That doesn't mean anything. 752 00:46:51,383 --> 00:46:53,442 - What an appalling story. - Yep. 753 00:46:53,552 --> 00:46:55,452 Not many people could know about it. 754 00:46:55,554 --> 00:46:57,955 Von Sloneker could hardly show his face around here. 755 00:46:58,058 --> 00:47:00,959 - You really showed up Cynthia. Whew. - Yeah. 756 00:47:01,060 --> 00:47:03,188 That's what made it worthwhile for me. 757 00:47:03,296 --> 00:47:05,197 What do you mean? 758 00:47:05,299 --> 00:47:07,460 - There is no Polly Perkins. - What? 759 00:47:07,568 --> 00:47:10,695 - There's no girl. I made it up. - You're kidding! 760 00:47:10,804 --> 00:47:14,296 I couldn't let Cynthia get away with that nonsense about Von Sloneker. 761 00:47:14,407 --> 00:47:19,311 And basically it's all true. I mean, Von Sloneker's doing those kinds of things all the time. 762 00:47:19,413 --> 00:47:22,508 Though Polly Perkins is, essentially, a composite... 763 00:47:22,618 --> 00:47:25,518 based on real people, like New York magazine does. 764 00:47:25,620 --> 00:47:29,853 - But Cynthia said she knew all about her. - Yeah. That was priceless. 765 00:47:29,958 --> 00:47:33,519 I think it just shows that Von Sloneker's doing those sorts of things. 766 00:47:33,630 --> 00:47:36,530 But you really do have some factual basis for saying all those things about him? 767 00:47:36,632 --> 00:47:38,930 Of course, there's a factual basis. 768 00:47:52,850 --> 00:47:55,341 ♪ In keeping their sheep ♪ 769 00:47:55,452 --> 00:47:58,683 ♪ On a cold winter's night ♪ 770 00:47:58,789 --> 00:48:00,916 ♪ That was so deep ♪ 771 00:48:01,025 --> 00:48:02,925 Excuse me. 772 00:48:03,027 --> 00:48:06,930 By any chance, would you have any book on the French social philosopher Fourier? 773 00:48:08,667 --> 00:48:11,569 I can tell he's still obsessed with Serena. 774 00:48:11,670 --> 00:48:15,198 You're actually much better off not being involved with a guy who's clearly so mixed-up. 775 00:48:15,307 --> 00:48:18,764 There's not gonna be good news for anyone for a long time. 776 00:48:21,213 --> 00:48:26,618 ♪Dry your eyes♪ 777 00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:28,950 ♪ There's no need to ♪ 778 00:48:29,056 --> 00:48:33,924 ♪ Cry ♪ 779 00:48:34,026 --> 00:48:37,224 ♪ I am so sorry, but ♪ 780 00:48:38,331 --> 00:48:40,799 ♪Bye-bye ♪ 781 00:48:40,901 --> 00:48:42,926 ♪ So long ♪ 782 00:48:44,172 --> 00:48:49,303 ♪ Mother's gotta go now ♪ 783 00:48:49,410 --> 00:48:53,642 ♪ La-la-la, la-la-la ♪ 784 00:48:54,682 --> 00:48:58,641 ♪ I ♪ 785 00:48:58,754 --> 00:49:01,814 ♪ I am so sorry to ♪ 786 00:49:02,858 --> 00:49:06,761 ♪ See you cry ♪ 787 00:49:06,862 --> 00:49:09,626 ♪ Wipe those tears from your- ♪ 788 00:49:09,732 --> 00:49:12,031 - Hi, Audrey. - Hi.! 789 00:49:12,135 --> 00:49:15,104 - Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas. 790 00:49:15,205 --> 00:49:17,605 Oh, I was talking with Tom Townsend the other night. 791 00:49:17,708 --> 00:49:19,733 - He spoke very highly of you. - Really? 792 00:49:19,844 --> 00:49:25,749 Yes, he - he said you were very... well-read. 793 00:49:27,852 --> 00:49:33,654 ♪ O come, all ye faithful ♪ 794 00:49:33,758 --> 00:49:38,560 ♪Joyful and triumphant ♪ 795 00:49:38,663 --> 00:49:41,393 ♪ O come ye ♪ 796 00:49:41,500 --> 00:49:44,025 ♪ O come ye ♪ 797 00:49:44,136 --> 00:49:50,372 ♪To Bethlehem ♪ 798 00:49:50,476 --> 00:49:55,914 ♪ Come and behold him ♪ 799 00:49:56,015 --> 00:50:00,975 ♪ Born the king of angels ♪♪ 800 00:50:19,140 --> 00:50:22,803 ♪ Let us adore him ♪ 801 00:50:22,911 --> 00:50:28,373 ♪ O come, let us adore him ♪ 802 00:50:28,483 --> 00:50:35,082 ♪ O come, let us adore him ♪ 803 00:50:35,190 --> 00:50:40,857 ♪ Christ the Lord ♪♪ 804 00:50:51,675 --> 00:50:56,170 Um,Jane? Are you familiar with Dr. Pomeroy's work? 805 00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,111 Who? 806 00:50:58,216 --> 00:51:01,982 Girls And Sex by Wardell B. Pomeroy. 807 00:51:03,020 --> 00:51:07,252 "The long-needed modern guide to the understanding of girls growing up. " 808 00:51:07,358 --> 00:51:11,591 "'The most frank and objective book currently available. ' Library Journal. " 809 00:51:11,697 --> 00:51:13,892 Oh, that. 810 00:51:13,999 --> 00:51:18,663 "The years of puberty and early womanhood are difficult, even frightening, for many girls. 811 00:51:18,770 --> 00:51:21,898 "This is the time they most need objective, factual information... 812 00:51:22,007 --> 00:51:25,807 and sympathetic advice about their physical and emotional changes. " 813 00:51:25,911 --> 00:51:28,813 You know, we don't have enough for two tables. There's only seven of us. 814 00:51:28,915 --> 00:51:31,713 - That's impossible. - Tom's not here yet. 815 00:51:31,818 --> 00:51:33,649 Is he coming? 816 00:51:33,753 --> 00:51:37,450 Sure. He is coming, isn't he? 817 00:51:38,592 --> 00:51:41,789 - You didn't call him? - I thought there were eight of us. He would have been the ninth. 818 00:51:41,896 --> 00:51:44,956 - You told me that he - - Well,just call him up. I'm sure he isn't doing anything else. 819 00:51:45,065 --> 00:51:48,364 Well, surely there's - there's someone else in New York who can play bridge... 820 00:51:48,469 --> 00:51:50,494 other than Tom Townsend. 821 00:51:50,604 --> 00:51:52,572 I mean, you know, seven can play. 822 00:51:52,673 --> 00:51:54,801 What have you got against Tom? 823 00:51:54,910 --> 00:51:57,538 Just one thing - He's not - not a good person. 824 00:51:57,646 --> 00:52:00,308 - Oh, what nonsense. - Oh, all right. Go ahead. 825 00:52:00,415 --> 00:52:02,350 Call him if you want. I don't care. 826 00:52:02,451 --> 00:52:05,977 Actually, I don't think Tom approves of bridge, but we should ask him anyway. 827 00:52:11,260 --> 00:52:13,228 Well, have a seat. 828 00:52:14,730 --> 00:52:17,255 Then just say you pass. 829 00:52:17,366 --> 00:52:19,266 I pass. 830 00:52:20,537 --> 00:52:24,029 I couldn't believe you were actually going to play bridge. It's such a cliché of bourgeois life. 831 00:52:24,141 --> 00:52:27,577 That's exactly why I play. I don't enjoy it one bit. 832 00:52:28,612 --> 00:52:31,047 I intended to go and got as far as the door. 833 00:52:31,149 --> 00:52:33,947 - What happened? - My mother got upset. 834 00:52:34,052 --> 00:52:36,350 She said that she couldn't face being alone on Christmas Eve... 835 00:52:36,454 --> 00:52:39,685 and that it was really important that the family be together then. 836 00:52:39,791 --> 00:52:42,260 My brother never comes home at Christmas anymore. 837 00:52:42,361 --> 00:52:46,354 So, anyway, I just stayed and had a traditional Christmas with Channel 11 's traditional yule log. 838 00:52:46,465 --> 00:52:49,195 Oh, yeah. I think I've seen that. 839 00:52:49,301 --> 00:52:53,203 Noon on Christmas Day, every other year, we go to my father's place. 840 00:52:53,305 --> 00:52:57,402 I was a bit reluctant to go this year, actually, because I hadn't been able to get in touch with my father all week. 841 00:52:57,510 --> 00:53:00,206 But my mother insisted. It was a real nightmare. 842 00:53:00,313 --> 00:53:02,781 First, the doorman at my father's building wouldn't let me up. 843 00:53:02,881 --> 00:53:06,181 I guess he didn't remember me there from Christmas two years ago. 844 00:53:06,286 --> 00:53:08,413 Then there was some confusion and whispering... 845 00:53:08,521 --> 00:53:12,515 and, finally, they gave me a piece of paper with a Santa Fe, New Mexico address on it. 846 00:53:12,626 --> 00:53:16,562 They told me he'd moved to Santa Fe. I couldn't believe it. 847 00:53:16,664 --> 00:53:19,656 They took me up to the apartment, and except for some paper and litter... 848 00:53:19,767 --> 00:53:23,635 and wire coat hangers lying around, it was completely empty. 849 00:53:23,738 --> 00:53:26,503 He hadn't told me anything about moving. 850 00:53:26,608 --> 00:53:29,405 It was quite a surprise. 851 00:53:29,511 --> 00:53:32,810 That's awful. There must be some explanation. 852 00:53:32,914 --> 00:53:35,679 He must have written you or something, and the letter got delayed. 853 00:53:35,785 --> 00:53:38,412 I don't know. 854 00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,613 And you had such a good relationship. 855 00:53:40,722 --> 00:53:45,092 In retrospect, I wonder how good it was. I hadn't seen him since last spring. 856 00:53:45,194 --> 00:53:47,458 Maybe I was just kidding myself. 857 00:53:50,367 --> 00:53:52,733 Oh, I've been reading Jane Austen. Persuasion. 858 00:53:52,836 --> 00:53:55,804 I like it. I was surprised. 859 00:54:12,992 --> 00:54:15,892 The titled aristocracy are the scum of the Earth. 860 00:54:15,994 --> 00:54:18,793 What really makes me furious is that you have a whole class of people- 861 00:54:18,898 --> 00:54:21,731 mostly Europeans- all looking down at me. 862 00:54:21,834 --> 00:54:25,770 You always say "titled aristocrats. " What about untitled aristocrats? 863 00:54:25,871 --> 00:54:28,602 I couldn't very well despise them, could I? 864 00:54:28,708 --> 00:54:31,574 That would be self-hatred, which is unhealthy. 865 00:54:31,677 --> 00:54:33,611 You're so conceited. 866 00:54:33,712 --> 00:54:36,682 Well, saying that the titled aristocracy are the scum of the Earth... 867 00:54:36,783 --> 00:54:39,651 is -well, is obviously an exaggeration. 868 00:54:39,754 --> 00:54:43,052 But - But it's true that the forces that oblige members of the U.H.B... 869 00:54:43,156 --> 00:54:46,717 to at least appear to act productively and responsibly... 870 00:54:46,827 --> 00:54:48,795 carries little weight, or none at all... 871 00:54:48,895 --> 00:54:52,662 with members of society whose social positions are secure no matter what they do. 872 00:54:57,939 --> 00:55:01,740 So you had a trust fund? The pieces are beginning to fall into place. 873 00:55:01,844 --> 00:55:04,312 I don't have one anymore. 874 00:55:04,413 --> 00:55:06,381 Well, that's less important. 875 00:55:06,482 --> 00:55:10,476 I mean, so-so - sociologically, I mean, what's important is... 876 00:55:10,587 --> 00:55:13,419 having grown up with the assumption of material security. 877 00:55:13,522 --> 00:55:16,185 It - It explains a lot. 878 00:55:16,292 --> 00:55:18,192 I call. 879 00:55:19,696 --> 00:55:21,597 I had no cards. Why did you call? 880 00:55:21,699 --> 00:55:23,963 I felt like it. 881 00:55:24,067 --> 00:55:27,526 Playing strip poker with an exhibitionist somehow takes the challenge away. 882 00:55:32,409 --> 00:55:36,779 His name is Frank Goodrich. He handles some financial things for my father. 883 00:55:36,882 --> 00:55:40,249 Actually, it's a tremendous relief, not having that hanging over my head anymore. 884 00:55:40,352 --> 00:55:42,252 Really? 885 00:55:42,354 --> 00:55:45,323 There was a big load of guilt that went with it, even though it wasn't that much money... 886 00:55:45,423 --> 00:55:48,052 and I never really counted on having it. 887 00:55:48,161 --> 00:55:51,927 You're a tragic case. You've just been robbed, and it's a great relief to you. 888 00:55:52,031 --> 00:55:53,999 In part, regarding the money. 889 00:55:54,100 --> 00:55:57,228 Regarding my relationship with my father, of course I'm concerned. 890 00:55:57,336 --> 00:55:59,327 He moves to another state without telling me... 891 00:55:59,438 --> 00:56:01,407 he doesn't write or call me for over a month... 892 00:56:01,508 --> 00:56:03,975 and basically has me disinherited. 893 00:56:04,076 --> 00:56:08,172 - Obviously, our relationship is not what I thought it was. - Geez. 894 00:56:08,281 --> 00:56:12,742 It's as if he were incredibly angry with me, but I can't think of why. 895 00:56:12,853 --> 00:56:15,378 - I don't know what it could be. - You don't? 896 00:56:15,489 --> 00:56:17,116 No. 897 00:56:19,193 --> 00:56:22,561 One word - "stepmother. " 898 00:56:25,099 --> 00:56:28,364 Well, I hope I can talk to them and straighten things out. 899 00:56:28,469 --> 00:56:32,701 I'm sure nothing you did or said has anything to do with it... 900 00:56:32,807 --> 00:56:36,244 and nothing you say or do will change anything. 901 00:56:36,345 --> 00:56:39,008 - That's awfully pessimistic. - It's the way things are. 902 00:56:40,549 --> 00:56:42,848 The most important thing to realize about parents... 903 00:56:42,953 --> 00:56:45,819 is that there's absolutely nothing you can do about them. 904 00:56:47,524 --> 00:56:49,822 You look terrific. 905 00:56:49,926 --> 00:56:51,826 You like it? 906 00:56:51,928 --> 00:56:54,454 - This is really decadent. - This is nothing. 907 00:57:09,715 --> 00:57:14,152 - Something's happened to Nick. - It's my head. 908 00:57:14,253 --> 00:57:17,416 - It's my head. It's my head. - What's happened? 909 00:57:17,522 --> 00:57:19,990 There was this guy at school Nick liked to imitate saying this. 910 00:57:20,092 --> 00:57:22,926 He had taken mescaline, and he went around doing this about his head. 911 00:57:23,029 --> 00:57:25,758 - It's my head. It's my head. - "It's my head. " 912 00:57:25,864 --> 00:57:29,995 - Nick took mescaline? - No. I mean, it was the other guy, Voss. 913 00:57:30,103 --> 00:57:32,628 - We did take mescaline. - You what? 914 00:57:32,739 --> 00:57:35,800 He shouldn't be reacting this way though. I don't know what happened. 915 00:57:35,909 --> 00:57:37,809 It was really mild. 916 00:57:39,212 --> 00:57:41,181 Are you joking? 917 00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,020 It's called Truth. 918 00:57:48,122 --> 00:57:51,388 You stretch a Kleenex over the mouth of a glass and place a dime on it. 919 00:57:51,493 --> 00:57:54,222 We each take turns burning a hole in it with a cigarette. 920 00:57:54,328 --> 00:57:57,264 If the dime falls in on your turn, you lose... 921 00:57:57,365 --> 00:57:59,993 and you have to answer, with absolute honesty... 922 00:58:00,101 --> 00:58:03,559 whatever question you're asked, no matter how embarrassing. 923 00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,337 Yeah. The more embarrassing, the better. 924 00:58:13,316 --> 00:58:15,410 What are you reading? 925 00:58:15,519 --> 00:58:17,487 The Story of Babar. 926 00:58:19,389 --> 00:58:21,357 I forgot how beautiful it was. 927 00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,726 Sometimes you can find out the most amazing things. 928 00:58:25,829 --> 00:58:27,729 It can really be incredible. 929 00:58:27,831 --> 00:58:31,597 - I don't think we should play this. - Why not? 930 00:58:31,702 --> 00:58:35,366 There are good reasons why people don't go around telling each other their most intimate thoughts. 931 00:58:35,473 --> 00:58:37,373 What do you have to hide? 932 00:58:37,475 --> 00:58:40,444 No, I just know that games like this can be really dangerous. 933 00:58:40,545 --> 00:58:43,070 - Dangerous? - I don't see what's dangerous about it. 934 00:58:43,181 --> 00:58:47,949 You don't have to. Other people have. That's how it became a convention. 935 00:58:48,053 --> 00:58:50,613 People saw the harm that excessive candor can do. 936 00:58:50,723 --> 00:58:53,352 You admit that it's basically just a social convention then. 937 00:58:53,460 --> 00:58:56,019 What you say might be true among people who don't know each other well... 938 00:58:56,128 --> 00:58:58,028 but surely not with us. 939 00:58:58,130 --> 00:59:02,033 - Then it's even worse. - Okay. Let's discuss this. 940 00:59:02,135 --> 00:59:05,161 Basically, what this game requires is complete candor... 941 00:59:05,271 --> 00:59:07,796 which means honesty, openness. 942 00:59:07,907 --> 00:59:10,034 I don't see how that can be bad. 943 00:59:10,143 --> 00:59:11,906 Well, it can. 944 00:59:12,011 --> 00:59:15,038 Well, then don't play, but don't wreck it for everyone else. 945 00:59:15,149 --> 00:59:18,550 No, if we're going to play, we all should. That's the whole point. 946 00:59:18,652 --> 00:59:22,679 I think if one of us isn't going to play, then none of us should. 947 00:59:22,790 --> 00:59:27,421 - I mean, maybe Audrey's right. - Come on. Let's not disagree. 948 00:59:27,529 --> 00:59:29,997 You're really both saying the same thing - 949 00:59:30,098 --> 00:59:32,157 Either we should all play or none of us should. 950 00:59:32,267 --> 00:59:35,237 Well, it's really all up to Audrey then. 951 00:59:38,306 --> 00:59:42,174 - Well, this isn't fair. If Audrey doesn't - - No. Go ahead. I'll play. 952 01:00:03,133 --> 01:00:06,934 - What now? - You get to ask me the most embarrassing question you can think of. 953 01:00:07,038 --> 01:00:10,007 - I'm supposed to ask you the most embarrassing question I can think of? - Uh-huh. 954 01:00:10,108 --> 01:00:12,634 What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you? 955 01:00:12,745 --> 01:00:14,713 No, something specific. 956 01:00:16,147 --> 01:00:19,117 Like who was your most recent conquest? Something like that. 957 01:00:19,218 --> 01:00:22,676 - Who was your most recent conquest? - You mean, who did I sleep with last? 958 01:00:22,788 --> 01:00:25,256 - You don't have to answer that. - No, it's okay. I'm not embarrassed. 959 01:00:25,357 --> 01:00:28,122 I have nothing to hide. It was Nick. 960 01:00:29,628 --> 01:00:31,654 After all that about what a slut she was. 961 01:00:31,765 --> 01:00:34,529 But a very attractive slut. 962 01:00:34,634 --> 01:00:38,092 So,you're just another hypocrite. 963 01:00:38,205 --> 01:00:41,300 That's not hypocrisy. It's sin. 964 01:00:41,409 --> 01:00:43,377 It was hardly that. 965 01:00:55,189 --> 01:00:57,090 Oh! 966 01:00:57,191 --> 01:00:59,092 I have a question. 967 01:00:59,194 --> 01:01:01,526 With absolute honesty and frankness... 968 01:01:01,629 --> 01:01:04,098 list all the girls you're interested in romantically... 969 01:01:04,199 --> 01:01:08,761 in descending order of interest, and why, including significant detail. 970 01:01:10,073 --> 01:01:11,973 I thought that was pretty obvious. 971 01:01:12,075 --> 01:01:15,442 I've had a crush on Serena, with some ups and downs, for over two years. 972 01:01:15,545 --> 01:01:18,947 Recently it seems to have developed into something more serious. 973 01:01:19,049 --> 01:01:21,710 But who else do you like romantically? 974 01:01:23,020 --> 01:01:24,988 I don't think it works that way. 975 01:01:25,089 --> 01:01:28,490 If you're really interested in one person, you're not interested in anyone else. 976 01:01:28,592 --> 01:01:30,856 I suppose it's possible, but what's the point? 977 01:01:30,961 --> 01:01:34,193 But if that doesn't work out, there must be someone else. 978 01:01:35,766 --> 01:01:39,463 If it doesn't work out this time, I'll be off romance for a long time. 979 01:01:39,570 --> 01:01:43,268 I suppose this is embarrassing, but it's hardly a revelation. 980 01:01:49,849 --> 01:01:53,080 I'm sorry I asked him that. It was my fault. 981 01:01:55,488 --> 01:01:59,117 I always think other people are foolish. I'm the big fool. 982 01:02:02,863 --> 01:02:07,266 It's better for her to know the truth. I don't see how knowing the truth could do anyone any harm. 983 01:02:07,367 --> 01:02:09,892 It's not just the truth. It's how and when you learn it. 984 01:02:10,003 --> 01:02:11,972 I don't accept that. 985 01:02:13,407 --> 01:02:16,036 I mean, you - you were right about that game. 986 01:02:16,144 --> 01:02:18,408 It's terrible. 987 01:02:18,513 --> 01:02:22,711 You know, you may not realize it, Audrey, but everyone li - likes you a lot. 988 01:02:22,817 --> 01:02:25,615 Thank you, but I find that very hard to believe. 989 01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:28,120 It's the truth. 990 01:02:28,222 --> 01:02:32,591 And it's not just because you're smart and good-looking and - 991 01:02:32,695 --> 01:02:36,358 and charming and have principles. 992 01:02:36,464 --> 01:02:40,425 It's because they can see that- that you're a good person. 993 01:02:40,537 --> 01:02:43,005 If you want to tease me, this is not the best time. 994 01:02:43,105 --> 01:02:46,542 I mean, maybe this isn't the best time, but for some time now, I- 995 01:02:48,678 --> 01:02:50,805 Well, I like you very much. 996 01:02:50,914 --> 01:02:53,543 I mean, I-I know that you don't yet feel that way, but - 997 01:02:53,651 --> 01:02:55,619 No, please. Stop. 998 01:03:03,494 --> 01:03:07,453 Doesn't Serena look awful here? She's not exactly photogenic. 999 01:03:07,565 --> 01:03:09,534 There's one of you and Tom. 1000 01:03:12,203 --> 01:03:14,194 There it is. 1001 01:03:22,115 --> 01:03:24,913 - Maybe Cynthia's right. - That's impossible. 1002 01:03:25,017 --> 01:03:29,352 Her essential view is experience is good, and she's set out to acquire it. 1003 01:03:29,454 --> 01:03:32,652 I've been just the opposite. Everything's been in my imagination. 1004 01:03:32,759 --> 01:03:34,989 All the romance imaginary, nothing real. 1005 01:03:35,094 --> 01:03:37,620 - She's a slut. - That's what Nick says. 1006 01:03:37,731 --> 01:03:40,063 - He proved it. - That's unfair. 1007 01:03:40,167 --> 01:03:42,067 I don't think so. 1008 01:03:44,405 --> 01:03:47,568 I'm catching the dawn train upstate to East Aurora. 1009 01:03:47,675 --> 01:03:49,643 My father's place. 1010 01:03:49,743 --> 01:03:52,041 It's the first time they've invited me in years. 1011 01:03:52,146 --> 01:03:56,277 I can't help wondering why my stepmother's suddenly so willing to have me come. 1012 01:03:58,353 --> 01:04:02,756 If I should die while there, would you see that there's a thorough investigation... 1013 01:04:02,857 --> 01:04:06,658 even if it looks like an accident or natural causes? 1014 01:04:06,762 --> 01:04:09,560 - Would you promise me that? - Yes. 1015 01:04:11,333 --> 01:04:15,793 Even if I do return alive, I don't think I'll be attending any more dances after this one. 1016 01:04:15,905 --> 01:04:19,603 With everything that's going on, this is probably the last deb season as we know it. 1017 01:04:19,710 --> 01:04:22,178 I don't want to just hang around, watching the decline. 1018 01:04:22,279 --> 01:04:24,975 - Everyone's going tonight? - No. Just me. 1019 01:04:26,083 --> 01:04:29,951 The International is an inorganic debutante ball. 1020 01:04:30,054 --> 01:04:32,955 The others were natural outgrowths of local UHB formations. 1021 01:04:33,057 --> 01:04:35,684 This was assembled like a tourist attraction. 1022 01:04:37,562 --> 01:04:40,190 Each girl has two escorts - 1023 01:04:40,298 --> 01:04:43,233 one, a cadet in uniform from one of the service academies... 1024 01:04:43,335 --> 01:04:45,803 the other a civilian like myself. 1025 01:04:45,904 --> 01:04:48,236 And the whole thing's televised on Channel 9. 1026 01:04:48,340 --> 01:04:51,537 - You're kidding. - No. 1027 01:04:51,643 --> 01:04:54,373 I guess you could say it's extremely vulgar. 1028 01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,109 I like it a lot. 1029 01:04:57,217 --> 01:05:00,880 And these Texas and Oklahoma debs are really nice... 1030 01:05:00,987 --> 01:05:04,787 a real relief from these hypercritical New York girls. 1031 01:05:04,891 --> 01:05:06,416 What's everyone else doing then? 1032 01:05:07,594 --> 01:05:10,291 I imagine they'll be glued to the set. 1033 01:05:10,397 --> 01:05:13,798 From the state of Texas, Miss Sabina Johnston... 1034 01:05:13,901 --> 01:05:16,529 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Johnston. 1035 01:05:16,637 --> 01:05:19,607 - She's cute. - But what about the dress? 1036 01:05:19,707 --> 01:05:22,835 Nick said he thought this would be the last real deb season. 1037 01:05:22,943 --> 01:05:26,401 - How come? - Because of everything going on. 1038 01:05:26,514 --> 01:05:30,714 - Like what? - Well, everything. 1039 01:05:32,487 --> 01:05:36,515 The stock market, the economy, c- contemporary social attitudes. 1040 01:05:36,626 --> 01:05:39,356 Is Audrey coming tonight? 1041 01:05:39,462 --> 01:05:41,929 She said she felt tired and thought she'd stay at home. 1042 01:05:42,031 --> 01:05:45,398 She can watch Channel 9 equally well from there. 1043 01:05:45,501 --> 01:05:48,027 From the state of Kentucky- - 1044 01:05:48,138 --> 01:05:50,106 - I'll get it. - Thanks. 1045 01:05:53,944 --> 01:05:56,913 Miss McLean, Mr. Von Sloneker coming up. 1046 01:05:59,550 --> 01:06:02,987 Um, Cynthia's coming up with-with Rick Von Sloneker. 1047 01:06:03,087 --> 01:06:05,817 - Oh, she mentioned they might come by. - What would Nick say? 1048 01:06:05,924 --> 01:06:09,223 What Nick says or thinks I couldn't care less. 1049 01:06:13,698 --> 01:06:15,791 I'll get it. 1050 01:06:15,900 --> 01:06:20,235 See you. Hi! Hi! 1051 01:06:20,339 --> 01:06:23,934 This is Rick Von Sloneker and Victor Lemley. 1052 01:06:24,043 --> 01:06:27,069 - Tom Townsend. - I've heard a lot about you. 1053 01:06:27,179 --> 01:06:31,776 Of course you have. So, who was talking about me? 1054 01:06:31,885 --> 01:06:35,480 - Nick Smith? - Yes, actually. 1055 01:06:35,589 --> 01:06:37,784 That jerk. How could anyone take him seriously? 1056 01:06:37,891 --> 01:06:41,827 - He's just a jerk. - I think he feels incredibly threatened by you. 1057 01:06:41,928 --> 01:06:44,523 - What a clown. - Is it true you're a baron? 1058 01:06:44,632 --> 01:06:46,998 As a matter of fact, it is. 1059 01:06:47,101 --> 01:06:49,763 I don't take that sort of thing seriously though. 1060 01:06:49,871 --> 01:06:52,340 That was Audrey. She is coming after all. 1061 01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,341 - Oh, Audrey Rouget? - Uh-huh. 1062 01:06:54,443 --> 01:06:57,970 - She's getting pretty attractive. - What are we watching? 1063 01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:00,674 Oh, the International. 1064 01:07:00,782 --> 01:07:04,809 In a little bit more than an hour, the, uh, season will be over. 1065 01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:08,287 You really take that sort of thing seriously? I can't. 1066 01:07:08,390 --> 01:07:11,224 There are a lot of things you don't take very seriously. 1067 01:07:11,327 --> 01:07:13,818 One could get the impression you're not a very serious person. 1068 01:07:13,930 --> 01:07:18,800 Who is this guy, some Nick Smith impersonator? I was already sick of the original. 1069 01:07:18,902 --> 01:07:21,462 Yeah, Tom, cut it out. That's really gotten tiresome. 1070 01:07:21,571 --> 01:07:24,541 The things that Nick said were completely untrue. 1071 01:07:26,710 --> 01:07:29,270 I'm sorry about last night. I didn't mean what I said. 1072 01:07:29,380 --> 01:07:34,977 No. I mean, it was idiotic of me to... approach you that way. 1073 01:07:35,085 --> 01:07:38,544 - I hadn't intended to. - No, it wasn't idiotic. 1074 01:07:45,764 --> 01:07:47,959 Miss Sabina Johnston of Tyler, Texas... 1075 01:07:48,066 --> 01:07:51,195 and Cadet Lieutenant George Frawley of our armed services. 1076 01:07:51,304 --> 01:07:53,204 - Hello. - Hi. 1077 01:07:56,776 --> 01:07:59,142 - I still have a feeling. - It's his age. 1078 01:07:59,245 --> 01:08:02,340 I go away for a couple of hours, and you have Von Sloneker up here? 1079 01:08:02,449 --> 01:08:05,474 - I can invite anyone I want. - So you invited him. 1080 01:08:05,584 --> 01:08:09,351 I didn't, but even if I did, it's none of your business. 1081 01:08:09,456 --> 01:08:12,357 How can you say that? I mean, you know what kind of guy he is. 1082 01:08:12,459 --> 01:08:16,361 I don't. It's just what you say, and you're completely untrustworthy. 1083 01:08:16,463 --> 01:08:19,433 - Not about something serious. - Hey, Smith! 1084 01:08:19,534 --> 01:08:23,231 You're a liar. I've heard the crap you've been telling about me. 1085 01:08:23,338 --> 01:08:27,468 - Ah, you have? - Yeah, about some girl I supposedly mistreated. 1086 01:08:27,575 --> 01:08:31,671 A Polly Perkins? There isn't any Polly Perkins. You know that. 1087 01:08:31,779 --> 01:08:35,511 Such a girl never even existed. 1088 01:08:35,617 --> 01:08:38,143 Go on. Tell 'em. You made it up. 1089 01:08:39,822 --> 01:08:41,916 Is this true? 1090 01:08:42,025 --> 01:08:43,925 Yes and no. 1091 01:08:44,027 --> 01:08:46,154 - Oh, God, Nick! - You did make it up. 1092 01:08:46,262 --> 01:08:50,323 There is no one Polly Perkins. There are many of them. 1093 01:08:50,433 --> 01:08:52,731 So you admit you lied! 1094 01:08:52,836 --> 01:08:55,999 Polly Perkins is a composite, like New York magazine does. 1095 01:08:58,109 --> 01:09:00,202 Name one girl. 1096 01:09:00,311 --> 01:09:02,779 Girls that have been degraded by you don't need the further humiliation... 1097 01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:06,840 of having their names bandied about non-exclusive Park Avenue after-parties. 1098 01:09:06,951 --> 01:09:11,286 - You see? There isn't one. - This looks really bad, Nick. 1099 01:09:15,527 --> 01:09:18,087 Cathy Livingstone. No more harm can be done to her now. 1100 01:09:18,196 --> 01:09:21,256 I had nothing to do with that, and, anyway, she was completely unstable. 1101 01:09:21,366 --> 01:09:25,736 Oh, that didn't stop you from boozing her up and then talking her into pulling a train for you and Lemley. 1102 01:09:25,838 --> 01:09:29,068 - That is not how it happened. - Aw, what did happen, Ricky? 1103 01:09:29,175 --> 01:09:32,269 Anything that happened between Cathy Livingstone and myself... 1104 01:09:32,378 --> 01:09:35,507 is entirely private and entirely personal... 1105 01:09:35,616 --> 01:09:38,813 and had nothing to do with her suicide, which was months afterwards. 1106 01:09:38,919 --> 01:09:42,116 She kept trying to call and talk to you, but you wouldn't even see her.! 1107 01:09:42,222 --> 01:09:46,659 I liked Cathy, but sometimes these things don't work out, and a clean break is usually the best. 1108 01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:50,925 Oh, spare us this fake sensitivity. Are her panties still in your collection? 1109 01:09:51,032 --> 01:09:53,295 Rick keeps a collection of panties of the girls that he's seduced. 1110 01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:57,428 Oh, when they later kill themselves, do you do anything special to memorialize them? 1111 01:09:57,540 --> 01:10:01,499 I don't let anyone say that kind of thing to my face. 1112 01:10:01,610 --> 01:10:04,078 Before you complained that I said it behind your back. 1113 01:10:04,180 --> 01:10:07,240 Now it's that it's to your face. Frankly, how can you tell which is which? 1114 01:10:12,321 --> 01:10:15,223 He had that coming for a long time. 1115 01:10:19,429 --> 01:10:21,897 How dare he hit me! 1116 01:10:21,997 --> 01:10:24,489 He's the scoundrel. I should have thrashed him. 1117 01:10:24,601 --> 01:10:26,501 Well, you missed your chance. 1118 01:10:26,603 --> 01:10:31,735 I would have if I hadn't been doing my damnedest not to splatter blood all over the apartment. 1119 01:10:31,843 --> 01:10:34,277 I got back, he was gone. Nobody did anything to help me. 1120 01:10:34,378 --> 01:10:36,846 I'm facing one of the worst guys of modern times... 1121 01:10:36,948 --> 01:10:39,315 and all I get's this whining criticism - 1122 01:10:39,418 --> 01:10:41,648 "Oh, this looks really bad, Nick. " 1123 01:10:41,753 --> 01:10:44,050 Why should we believe you over Rick? 1124 01:10:44,155 --> 01:10:48,183 We know you're a hypocrite. We know your Polly Perkins story was a fabrication. 1125 01:10:48,293 --> 01:10:50,853 A composite! 1126 01:10:50,963 --> 01:10:53,955 That you're totally impossible and out of control with some sort of drug problem... 1127 01:10:54,066 --> 01:10:56,900 and a fixation on what you consider Rick Von Sloneker's wickedness. 1128 01:10:57,003 --> 01:11:00,905 You're a snob, a sexist, totally obnoxious and tiresome... 1129 01:11:01,007 --> 01:11:02,975 and, lately, you've gotten just weird. 1130 01:11:03,076 --> 01:11:07,673 - Why should we believe anything you say? - I am not tiresome. 1131 01:11:07,781 --> 01:11:09,749 What's Rick to you anyway? 1132 01:11:09,850 --> 01:11:11,875 Your shy friend hits me in the face... 1133 01:11:11,986 --> 01:11:15,945 I'm about to go upstate to the domain of a stepmother of untrammeled malevolence... 1134 01:11:16,056 --> 01:11:18,024 very possibly to be killed... 1135 01:11:18,125 --> 01:11:20,355 and I get this. 1136 01:11:20,461 --> 01:11:23,260 Well, who could blame her? 1137 01:11:23,365 --> 01:11:27,802 If not spattering blood was your objective, you weren't terribly successful. 1138 01:11:31,740 --> 01:11:34,038 Well... 1139 01:11:34,143 --> 01:11:36,236 I'm going to Grand Central. 1140 01:11:36,345 --> 01:11:38,279 The people are friendlier. 1141 01:11:38,381 --> 01:11:40,781 I'll help you with your stuff. 1142 01:11:41,817 --> 01:11:44,445 Why don't we all go see Nick off? 1143 01:11:54,730 --> 01:11:58,189 Even within this group, there are certain standards. 1144 01:11:58,302 --> 01:12:01,271 Apparently, I failed to live up to them. 1145 01:12:04,709 --> 01:12:09,169 - Thanks for coming. Will you write? - Yes. 1146 01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:11,874 - Good-bye. Thanks for coming. - Good-bye, sir. 1147 01:12:12,917 --> 01:12:14,851 - Good-bye, Tom. - Good luck. 1148 01:12:14,953 --> 01:12:19,823 I leave, counting on you and Charlie to maintain the standards and ideals of the U.H.B. 1149 01:12:19,925 --> 01:12:21,893 I've obviously failed to. 1150 01:12:21,994 --> 01:12:24,622 You and Charlie are the only ones who understand this kind of thing. 1151 01:12:24,730 --> 01:12:26,698 - What? - Here. 1152 01:12:26,799 --> 01:12:28,960 Thank you. 1153 01:12:29,069 --> 01:12:31,537 - Oh. Also, you remember, in case I die - - Yes. 1154 01:12:31,638 --> 01:12:34,072 - All right. Good-bye. - Bye. 1155 01:12:34,174 --> 01:12:36,074 - Bye. - Good-bye. 1156 01:13:03,872 --> 01:13:06,842 Is the 21 Club very expensive? 1157 01:13:06,943 --> 01:13:08,843 I believe so. 1158 01:13:11,014 --> 01:13:12,641 That's priceless. 1159 01:13:12,749 --> 01:13:16,048 And then she told Miss Radford, "They look awfully big for mice. " 1160 01:13:16,152 --> 01:13:18,052 - She believed it? - Oh, completely. 1161 01:13:18,154 --> 01:13:20,054 Oh, that's priceless. 1162 01:13:20,157 --> 01:13:23,023 You mentioned something about it in one of your letters. 1163 01:13:23,126 --> 01:13:26,585 When I was going through some stuff over Christmas, I found a packet of your old letters. 1164 01:13:26,697 --> 01:13:29,461 - You saved my letters? - Of course. 1165 01:13:29,566 --> 01:13:33,093 I save all the personal letters I get. Don't you? 1166 01:13:33,203 --> 01:13:35,900 No. 1167 01:13:36,007 --> 01:13:38,531 You mean, you threw away all the letters I wrote you? 1168 01:13:38,642 --> 01:13:40,610 I throw away nearly everything. 1169 01:13:40,711 --> 01:13:44,375 I don't want to go through the rest of my life with the mail I got when I was 16. 1170 01:13:44,482 --> 01:13:46,382 I'm surprised. 1171 01:13:46,484 --> 01:13:50,113 Someone goes through the trouble of writing you a real letter, I save it. 1172 01:13:50,221 --> 01:13:52,349 People don't write many personal letters anymore. 1173 01:13:52,458 --> 01:13:55,018 People in boarding school do. 1174 01:13:56,729 --> 01:13:58,924 And what if someone who wrote you becomes famous? 1175 01:13:59,031 --> 01:14:03,161 Those letters could be the only record of what they were thinking at that time. Crucial for their biographers. 1176 01:14:03,269 --> 01:14:06,762 Anybody who writes me who expects to become famous should keep carbons. 1177 01:14:08,742 --> 01:14:11,371 It just seems to me that it's a kind of trust. 1178 01:14:11,478 --> 01:14:16,381 If someone takes the trouble to write you a substantial letter, you do not throw it out. 1179 01:14:17,752 --> 01:14:21,119 I didn't save your letters, but I didn't throw them out. 1180 01:14:21,222 --> 01:14:24,556 I don't understand. Is that a riddle? 1181 01:14:24,659 --> 01:14:28,186 There was a girl at school who had some kind of a crush on you. 1182 01:14:28,297 --> 01:14:32,358 She came into my room when I was throwing things out, so I gave her your letters. 1183 01:14:32,468 --> 01:14:34,368 Really? 1184 01:14:34,470 --> 01:14:37,598 I know it sounds queer. 1185 01:14:37,707 --> 01:14:40,903 - She kept them? - Mmm. I'm sure. 1186 01:14:41,009 --> 01:14:43,740 How strange. She must be really odd. 1187 01:14:43,847 --> 01:14:46,645 No, she's very nice. 1188 01:14:46,749 --> 01:14:49,514 In fact, you know her. 1189 01:14:49,619 --> 01:14:51,519 Audrey Rouget. 1190 01:14:58,061 --> 01:15:01,759 You mean, you think you've gotten over Serena again. 1191 01:15:01,866 --> 01:15:03,834 Yes, but it's different this time. 1192 01:15:03,934 --> 01:15:08,031 Then I was still intensely involved with her, though in a negative way. Full of bitterness. 1193 01:15:08,140 --> 01:15:10,267 I don't feel that way now. 1194 01:15:10,375 --> 01:15:13,071 Charlie's on his way up. 1195 01:15:13,177 --> 01:15:15,373 Damn. There's something I wanted to ask you. 1196 01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:18,005 Oh, yeah. What was that surprising thing Serena told you? 1197 01:15:18,116 --> 01:15:21,985 Well, you probably already knew about it, but I was surprised - about Audrey saving my letters. 1198 01:15:22,087 --> 01:15:25,546 - What letters? - The ones I wrote Serena. 1199 01:15:25,658 --> 01:15:27,853 Audrey saved them? 1200 01:15:28,961 --> 01:15:30,861 God, how queer. 1201 01:15:30,963 --> 01:15:32,898 Well, it's not so queer really. 1202 01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:34,865 Serena was about to throw them out... 1203 01:15:34,968 --> 01:15:37,765 and Audrey apparently didn't think people's letters should be destroyed that way. 1204 01:15:37,870 --> 01:15:42,570 The really odd thing was though, while I was with Serena, who's really nice and who's so good-looking - 1205 01:15:42,676 --> 01:15:44,667 Yeah, Serena's basically a good person. 1206 01:15:44,778 --> 01:15:47,076 On the big night I'd looked forward to for a week... 1207 01:15:47,181 --> 01:15:50,083 I started feeling this incredible loneliness being with Serena... 1208 01:15:50,185 --> 01:15:53,312 and nostalgia for all those conversations with Audrey before the big blowup. 1209 01:15:53,421 --> 01:15:55,651 That was before I knew anything about the letters. 1210 01:15:55,757 --> 01:15:59,887 I think I preferred arguing with Audrey than to agreeing with Serena or someone else. 1211 01:15:59,994 --> 01:16:04,658 I'd only had that calmly unemotional perspective on my relationship with Serena for a little while... 1212 01:16:04,767 --> 01:16:09,170 when I started getting this warm glow at the prospect of seeing Audrey here again tonight. 1213 01:16:09,271 --> 01:16:11,034 Uh-oh. 1214 01:16:11,140 --> 01:16:15,770 It surprised me because I thought that if- if it didn't work out with Serena this time... 1215 01:16:15,878 --> 01:16:18,780 I'd put that sort of thing on hold for a long time. 1216 01:16:18,882 --> 01:16:21,908 People shouldn't get married till their late 20s, and that's a long way off. 1217 01:16:22,018 --> 01:16:24,987 - Well, your timing is really awful. - What do you mean? 1218 01:16:28,992 --> 01:16:32,292 Damn. I'll get it. I want to continue this. 1219 01:16:38,002 --> 01:16:40,300 - Where's Jane? - She's still in her room. 1220 01:16:40,404 --> 01:16:42,873 - What would you like to drink? - So you're our host? 1221 01:16:42,975 --> 01:16:45,409 I don't know. What do people who don't drink have? 1222 01:16:45,511 --> 01:16:50,312 Ginger ale? Ice water? Ah, maybe a Coke with an aspirin. 1223 01:16:51,483 --> 01:16:54,112 You don't need to put on pink eye shadow for us. 1224 01:16:54,220 --> 01:16:56,848 It's not for you. I've got a date. 1225 01:16:56,955 --> 01:17:00,585 A date? What's that? It sounds like something from the 1950s. 1226 01:17:00,693 --> 01:17:02,593 Yeah. Who's the fella? 1227 01:17:02,695 --> 01:17:05,892 None of you know him, and I'd like to keep it that way. 1228 01:17:10,270 --> 01:17:13,365 What did you mean when you said that about my timing being off? 1229 01:17:13,474 --> 01:17:16,170 Audrey's gone to Cynthia's in Connecticut for the weekend... 1230 01:17:16,277 --> 01:17:18,472 and then on Wednesday she flies back to France. 1231 01:17:18,579 --> 01:17:20,571 And besides that, she thinks you're a total jerk. 1232 01:17:20,682 --> 01:17:21,875 - She hates you. - She hates me? 1233 01:17:21,982 --> 01:17:25,077 Well, she despises you. Actually, it's a bit my fault. 1234 01:17:25,186 --> 01:17:27,746 I asked for that Truth question with a specific idea in mind... 1235 01:17:27,855 --> 01:17:30,256 of showing her you hadn't gotten over Serena yet. 1236 01:17:30,559 --> 01:17:34,586 - A Mr. Andrews is downstairs for you. - Say I'll be right down. 1237 01:17:34,696 --> 01:17:36,926 - We'll go down with you. - No, you won't. 1238 01:17:37,032 --> 01:17:39,433 - We can all go out together. - No. This is a date. 1239 01:17:39,535 --> 01:17:42,003 Well, it seems rude not to go down and check him out. 1240 01:17:42,104 --> 01:17:46,973 Please don't. Feel free to stay here. There's plenty of food and stuff. 1241 01:17:47,077 --> 01:17:50,136 But it's all right if we stay here and wait for everyone else? 1242 01:17:50,246 --> 01:17:52,476 Sure, but what "everyone else"? 1243 01:17:53,817 --> 01:17:56,251 Well, the rest of the S.F.R.P. 1244 01:17:56,353 --> 01:17:58,981 You are the S.F.R.P. tonight. 1245 01:17:59,089 --> 01:18:03,150 Oh, could you be out by midnight? Feel free to stay until then though. Bye! 1246 01:18:03,260 --> 01:18:05,161 - Bye. - Bye. 1247 01:18:05,262 --> 01:18:09,324 Bye. Be out by midnight? What's going on? 1248 01:18:09,434 --> 01:18:13,633 Jane brings this guy she hardly knows back for some kind of assignation? 1249 01:18:13,739 --> 01:18:16,173 - We don't know that. - Well - 1250 01:18:16,275 --> 01:18:18,436 I'm really surprised at Jane. 1251 01:18:18,543 --> 01:18:21,308 Some guy asks her out, and she abandons everything. 1252 01:18:21,413 --> 01:18:24,712 The rest of us can, well, just go to heck. 1253 01:18:24,817 --> 01:18:27,843 The whole Rat Pack thing seems to have disintegrated. 1254 01:18:27,953 --> 01:18:30,889 The Rat Pack is down to the rats. 1255 01:18:30,991 --> 01:18:34,518 This is really depressing. Let's get out of here. 1256 01:18:40,634 --> 01:18:43,660 I guess it's understandable that she would prefer to go out on a date... 1257 01:18:43,771 --> 01:18:48,071 which offers some romantic promise, even if very slight, than stay with us. 1258 01:18:48,175 --> 01:18:52,236 Still, it's a bit disappointing. I thought we were better friends than that. 1259 01:18:52,346 --> 01:18:54,871 I wonder whether we're really friends for them at all. 1260 01:18:54,982 --> 01:18:57,110 We're just way stations between dates. 1261 01:18:57,219 --> 01:19:02,020 I mean, for them, men are either dates, potential dates or date substitutes. 1262 01:19:02,124 --> 01:19:04,149 I find that dehumanizing. 1263 01:19:04,259 --> 01:19:07,490 That might be the case with Cynthia or Sally... 1264 01:19:07,596 --> 01:19:09,791 but Audrey, for instance, is completely different. 1265 01:19:09,898 --> 01:19:12,800 She's someone who would keep up her friendships no matter what. 1266 01:19:12,902 --> 01:19:17,362 And Audrey has a rare largeness of mind. She's not obsessed with her love life. 1267 01:19:17,473 --> 01:19:21,000 She's good-looking, smart... 1268 01:19:21,110 --> 01:19:23,545 charming, principled. 1269 01:19:23,647 --> 01:19:25,615 It's an unusual combination. 1270 01:19:31,021 --> 01:19:32,921 What do you mean? 1271 01:19:33,024 --> 01:19:36,220 You've given her nothing but grief all the past week. - I think I'll be going now. 1272 01:19:36,326 --> 01:19:39,854 I have nothing to say, and I'm completely boring without a drink. 1273 01:19:39,964 --> 01:19:42,431 It's only midnight. You can't go. 1274 01:19:42,534 --> 01:19:47,028 I'm sorry, but without cocktails, staying up all night loses its charm. 1275 01:19:47,138 --> 01:19:50,108 Besides, I haven't had anything amusing to say since I stopped drinking. 1276 01:19:50,209 --> 01:19:53,201 Did you have anything amusing to say before you stopped? 1277 01:19:53,312 --> 01:19:56,008 I know, but it seemed amusing. Now it doesn't. 1278 01:19:56,115 --> 01:19:59,209 - Well, you were asleep. - Was that it? 1279 01:19:59,318 --> 01:20:03,220 - Good night, Charlie. Ciao, Tommy. - Ciao, Fred. 1280 01:20:04,857 --> 01:20:09,454 ♪I won't be loved, baby♪ 1281 01:20:09,563 --> 01:20:13,363 When I was in college, we'd go to dances during Christmas vacations. 1282 01:20:13,467 --> 01:20:16,265 - Do they still go on? - Yes. 1283 01:20:16,369 --> 01:20:19,134 - Pretty much reduced though. - Yeah. 1284 01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:21,504 Ah, well, I wouldn't put much stock in them. 1285 01:20:21,609 --> 01:20:24,238 You go to a party, you meet a group of people, you like them, you think... 1286 01:20:24,345 --> 01:20:27,712 "These people are going to be my friends for the rest of my life. " 1287 01:20:27,815 --> 01:20:31,752 Then you never see them again. I wonder where they go. 1288 01:20:31,854 --> 01:20:34,322 Do you think it's true, though, that, generally speaking... 1289 01:20:34,423 --> 01:20:36,857 people from this sort of background are doomed to failure? 1290 01:20:36,959 --> 01:20:39,588 Doomed? That would, uh, be far easier. 1291 01:20:39,695 --> 01:20:43,257 No, we simply fail without being doomed. 1292 01:20:43,366 --> 01:20:46,766 - But you feel that you have failed. - Yeah. 1293 01:20:46,870 --> 01:20:48,929 You can still afford to come to places like this though. 1294 01:20:49,038 --> 01:20:52,166 I'm not destitute. I've got a good job that pays decently. 1295 01:20:52,275 --> 01:20:56,872 It's just that it's all so mediocre, so unimpressive. 1296 01:20:56,981 --> 01:21:01,111 The acid test is whether you take any pleasure in responding to the question... 1297 01:21:01,218 --> 01:21:03,686 "What do you do?" 1298 01:21:03,788 --> 01:21:06,484 I can't bear it. 1299 01:21:06,590 --> 01:21:11,494 You start out expecting something much more, and some of your contemporaries achieve it. 1300 01:21:11,596 --> 01:21:14,963 You start reading about them in the papers or seeing them on TV. 1301 01:21:15,065 --> 01:21:17,364 That's the danger of midtown Manhattan - 1302 01:21:17,469 --> 01:21:20,700 running across far more successful contemporaries. 1303 01:21:20,806 --> 01:21:23,900 I try to avoid them whenever I can. 1304 01:21:24,009 --> 01:21:27,707 But when I can't, they're always very friendly... 1305 01:21:27,814 --> 01:21:31,511 but inevitably they ask, what am I doing, or think it. 1306 01:21:31,617 --> 01:21:35,644 I - I find it hard to believe that many people from our background are successful. 1307 01:21:35,755 --> 01:21:38,987 Aren't you confusing them with people that you might have known from college... 1308 01:21:39,092 --> 01:21:41,322 who came from normal backgrounds? 1309 01:21:41,428 --> 01:21:46,229 It's not surprising that - that an energetic, self-confident achiever... 1310 01:21:46,333 --> 01:21:48,301 free of UHB illusions... 1311 01:21:48,402 --> 01:21:50,370 should be successful. 1312 01:21:50,470 --> 01:21:52,405 - UHB? What's UHB? - UHB. 1313 01:21:52,506 --> 01:21:56,773 U.H.B. It's an acronym for Urban Haute Bourgeoisie. 1314 01:21:56,879 --> 01:21:59,972 It's a more sociologically precise alternative... 1315 01:22:00,081 --> 01:22:02,915 to "preppy" and other terms. 1316 01:22:03,018 --> 01:22:05,578 Well, you're partly right. 1317 01:22:05,688 --> 01:22:09,283 Some of the people whom I mentioned were not from... UHB? 1318 01:22:09,391 --> 01:22:11,859 - That's right. - UHB backgrounds, but some of them were. 1319 01:22:11,961 --> 01:22:15,089 You're going to have to accept that people from our background... 1320 01:22:15,197 --> 01:22:17,928 are not doomed to failure. 1321 01:22:19,870 --> 01:22:22,998 I - I wonder if they were typical UHBs. 1322 01:22:23,106 --> 01:22:27,305 There was -There was probably some factor which set them apart. 1323 01:22:27,411 --> 01:22:29,538 And, also, their- their career is not over. 1324 01:22:29,647 --> 01:22:31,945 I mean, the failure could still be to come. 1325 01:22:40,124 --> 01:22:44,083 - He seems less pessimistic than you. - I know. It doesn't ring true. 1326 01:22:49,601 --> 01:22:51,501 Look, there's a light on. 1327 01:22:51,603 --> 01:22:53,970 We can't go up to her place unannounced after midnight. 1328 01:22:54,073 --> 01:22:57,702 - It all depends who's on the elevator. - It's not a question of who's on the elevator. 1329 01:22:57,810 --> 01:22:59,869 I mean, you've known Sally for, what, 10 days? 1330 01:22:59,979 --> 01:23:02,447 And you're barging in on her uninvited in the middle of the night? 1331 01:23:02,548 --> 01:23:06,450 She said we should come up anytime we saw the living room lights on, which they clearly are. 1332 01:23:06,552 --> 01:23:09,078 - At least call first. - What, and wake up her parents? 1333 01:23:09,189 --> 01:23:11,657 Well, you act as if her apartment were our living room. 1334 01:23:11,759 --> 01:23:13,727 It is our living room. 1335 01:23:14,762 --> 01:23:16,662 Thanks, Ed. 1336 01:23:19,733 --> 01:23:23,032 - What are we doing here? - It'll be all right. 1337 01:23:25,907 --> 01:23:29,866 - What are you doing here? - You told us to come up if we saw the lights on. 1338 01:23:29,978 --> 01:23:33,345 - I'm sorry to bother you. - I was just about to go out. 1339 01:23:33,449 --> 01:23:36,212 - Oh. - Who is it? 1340 01:23:36,318 --> 01:23:39,117 Just some friends. 1341 01:23:39,221 --> 01:23:41,121 Well, come on in. 1342 01:23:45,428 --> 01:23:48,887 Allen, these are my friends, Charlie and Tommy. 1343 01:23:48,999 --> 01:23:51,899 Allen is the record producer who discovered The Hated Few. 1344 01:23:52,001 --> 01:23:54,562 - They're very good. - Yes, they are. 1345 01:23:54,671 --> 01:23:58,073 And Sally will be very good. She's got a wonderful voice. 1346 01:23:58,176 --> 01:24:01,611 I think we also have a friend in common- Rick Von Sloneker. 1347 01:24:01,712 --> 01:24:04,238 Yeah. You're a friend of Rick's? 1348 01:24:04,349 --> 01:24:07,876 Oh, sure. Rick's a great guy. Our houses are next to each other in Southampton. 1349 01:24:07,986 --> 01:24:10,454 Wow, it's late. Uh, we'd better get going. 1350 01:24:10,555 --> 01:24:13,184 I don't think there's time for drinks after all. 1351 01:24:18,596 --> 01:24:22,465 Do you have any idea when everyone's getting back? It's as if the whole S.F.R.P. had disintegrated. 1352 01:24:22,567 --> 01:24:26,528 We can't just keep getting together with the same people every night for the rest of our lives. 1353 01:24:26,639 --> 01:24:28,539 I don't see why not. 1354 01:24:28,641 --> 01:24:31,109 It's inevitable that things get more back to normal sometime. 1355 01:24:31,211 --> 01:24:33,406 - This wasn't normal? - No. 1356 01:24:33,513 --> 01:24:35,640 I wish somebody had told me that before. 1357 01:24:35,749 --> 01:24:38,217 Could you tell me, at least, when Cynthia and Audrey are getting back? 1358 01:24:38,318 --> 01:24:40,548 I don't know. That's their affair. 1359 01:24:40,653 --> 01:24:43,053 - Your friend Cynthia's gone to that house party at Rick's. - In Southampton? 1360 01:24:43,156 --> 01:24:45,283 - Uh-huh. - I'm not sure if she was really going. 1361 01:24:45,393 --> 01:24:47,361 You guys are so tiresome. 1362 01:25:02,677 --> 01:25:05,407 That was really embarrassing. Thank you for including me. 1363 01:25:05,514 --> 01:25:07,448 I can't believe it. God! 1364 01:25:07,549 --> 01:25:11,679 Maybe, underneath it all, he's a nice guy, but he sure doesn't make a very good first impression. 1365 01:25:11,787 --> 01:25:14,450 - No, not about that. What he said about Cynthia. - Oh. 1366 01:25:14,557 --> 01:25:17,082 Look, if Audrey's supposed to be visiting Cynthia in Connecticut... 1367 01:25:17,193 --> 01:25:19,957 and Cynthia's in Southampton with Von Sloneker, what does that mean? 1368 01:25:20,063 --> 01:25:22,361 That Audrey and Cynthia are in different states. 1369 01:25:22,465 --> 01:25:24,365 No. There's only one explanation. 1370 01:25:24,467 --> 01:25:28,427 Audrey has gone with Cynthia to Von Sloneker's house party in Southampton. 1371 01:25:28,539 --> 01:25:31,872 You know, you're always selling Audrey awfully short, aren't you? 1372 01:25:31,975 --> 01:25:34,740 I mean, I find that - that really despicable. 1373 01:25:34,846 --> 01:25:37,871 Could you stop calling me despicable? I'm really worried about Audrey. 1374 01:25:37,981 --> 01:25:40,644 Jane says that since that Truth session, she's been in a very strange mood... 1375 01:25:40,752 --> 01:25:42,720 and said some really odd things. 1376 01:25:42,821 --> 01:25:45,255 She told Jane she didn't feel like a real woman. 1377 01:25:45,356 --> 01:25:47,756 - She said that? - That's the way Cynthia talks. 1378 01:25:47,860 --> 01:25:49,760 Yeah. 1379 01:25:49,862 --> 01:25:52,626 I can't - I can't really share your concern. 1380 01:25:52,731 --> 01:25:56,030 I mean, Audrey wouldn't put herself in the situation you describe. 1381 01:25:56,135 --> 01:25:58,763 She's got very, very clear views on these things. 1382 01:25:58,871 --> 01:26:01,602 I mean, you know that - that she's a big admirer of Jane Austen. 1383 01:26:01,708 --> 01:26:05,075 - But she's turned her back on all that. - Oh, I don't believe that. 1384 01:26:05,178 --> 01:26:07,146 She's probably at home, asleep right now... 1385 01:26:07,247 --> 01:26:10,842 with her pink coverlet tucked up tight and her stuffed animals looking down over her. 1386 01:26:10,951 --> 01:26:13,818 - Well, let's call her then. - We can't. 1387 01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:18,290 - It's only a local call. - We can't call her up now. It's nearly 3:00 a. m. 1388 01:26:18,392 --> 01:26:20,519 We'd -We'd wake up her parents. 1389 01:26:20,628 --> 01:26:23,597 This is important to them too. What if she's already at Von Sloneker's? 1390 01:26:23,698 --> 01:26:25,667 I'm sure he's not asleep. 1391 01:26:28,003 --> 01:26:31,028 Older people tend to get up really early. I'll call the Rougets at 7:00. 1392 01:26:31,139 --> 01:26:35,577 If there's any risk of Audrey going out to Von Sloneker's, I'll give you a call. 1393 01:26:35,677 --> 01:26:38,407 But - But I don't expect to have to. 1394 01:26:38,514 --> 01:26:40,414 Could you call me either way? 1395 01:26:40,516 --> 01:26:43,509 At 7:00? Okay. 1396 01:26:43,620 --> 01:26:45,884 Thanks. You're not such a bad fellow. 1397 01:26:45,988 --> 01:26:48,651 - I'll call you. - Call me. 1398 01:27:00,871 --> 01:27:03,135 I hate him. 1399 01:27:05,477 --> 01:27:07,877 - Audrey Rouget? - Uh-huh. 1400 01:27:07,979 --> 01:27:11,938 - She's getting very attractive. - She was the first girl that ever made him feel that way. 1401 01:27:12,050 --> 01:27:14,416 She thinks you're a total jerk. She hates you. 1402 01:27:14,519 --> 01:27:17,249 When you're an egoist, none of the harm you do is intentional. 1403 01:27:17,355 --> 01:27:22,292 - Well, she despises you. - Him. Victor Lemley, the other crew member. 1404 01:27:22,394 --> 01:27:26,354 - I want to be a real woman. - You're the only girl who's ever made me feel this way. 1405 01:27:26,465 --> 01:27:29,229 I had nothing to do with that, and, anyway, she was completely unstable. 1406 01:27:29,335 --> 01:27:31,303 I want to be a real woman. 1407 01:27:40,480 --> 01:27:43,176 I called Audrey's parents exactly at 7:00. 1408 01:27:43,284 --> 01:27:45,717 It turns out that they're not - not such early risers. 1409 01:27:45,819 --> 01:27:49,847 But they- they thought that Audrey was with Cynthia in Connecticut too. 1410 01:27:49,957 --> 01:27:52,825 So I called Cynthia's, and her mother answered. 1411 01:27:52,927 --> 01:27:54,895 Apparently, she was sleeping late also. 1412 01:27:54,996 --> 01:27:58,932 But she said that Cynthia was visiting Audrey. 1413 01:27:59,033 --> 01:28:02,765 - Jesus! - Well, Cynthia borrowed her mother's car. 1414 01:28:02,871 --> 01:28:05,305 And the last anyone has seen of either of them... 1415 01:28:05,406 --> 01:28:07,375 was about 4:00 yesterday afternoon. 1416 01:28:07,476 --> 01:28:10,445 So they might have gotten to Von Sloneker's already last night. 1417 01:28:10,546 --> 01:28:12,514 You were right. 1418 01:28:17,086 --> 01:28:19,385 But I am authorized to use my mother's card. 1419 01:28:19,489 --> 01:28:21,923 I use it all the time. 1420 01:28:24,094 --> 01:28:26,528 - She wasn't very polite. - No, she wasn't. 1421 01:28:28,565 --> 01:28:30,533 That should be plenty. 1422 01:28:36,173 --> 01:28:37,800 Yeah. 1423 01:28:43,849 --> 01:28:47,649 - I can't believe you don't have a license. - Of course I don't. I live in Manhattan. 1424 01:28:47,753 --> 01:28:50,745 - I'm just really surprised, that's all. - Oh, give me a break. 1425 01:28:50,856 --> 01:28:53,826 I don't go out to the Hamptons. You could have gotten one easily. 1426 01:28:53,925 --> 01:28:57,053 - I'm no jock. - God, what a disaster. 1427 01:28:57,163 --> 01:28:59,927 No, I'm - I'm gonna get a license soon. 1428 01:29:01,301 --> 01:29:03,599 This must be how the - the, um, failure starts - 1429 01:29:03,703 --> 01:29:07,503 an incompetence in mastering the common tasks of everyday life. 1430 01:29:07,607 --> 01:29:10,702 - Doesn't Fred have a license? - Yeah. 1431 01:29:10,811 --> 01:29:12,711 Okay. 1432 01:29:13,780 --> 01:29:15,681 Bye. 1433 01:29:16,750 --> 01:29:20,050 He says he can't. He's about to get fired as it is. 1434 01:29:20,155 --> 01:29:22,180 He was always saying what a lousy job it was. 1435 01:29:22,290 --> 01:29:25,315 - Did you tell him how serious the situation is? - Yes. 1436 01:29:26,761 --> 01:29:30,162 He's always complaining about what a lousy job it is. 1437 01:29:30,265 --> 01:29:33,701 You know, it's possible that, to other people, the situation might not seem so ominous... 1438 01:29:33,802 --> 01:29:35,771 as it does to you and me. 1439 01:29:35,870 --> 01:29:38,999 I- I mean, what can really happen? 1440 01:29:39,108 --> 01:29:42,077 Of course, you have been right up till now, and Von Sloneker is a bad guy... 1441 01:29:42,178 --> 01:29:44,078 I mean, capable of anything. 1442 01:29:44,180 --> 01:29:47,445 It might sound melodramatic to say that he's ruined girls. 1443 01:29:47,550 --> 01:29:50,520 I mean, what does that really mean today? 1444 01:29:50,620 --> 01:29:54,112 But it's true. I mean, he's done some unspeakable things. 1445 01:29:54,224 --> 01:29:57,786 And if Audrey's as upset and bitter as it seems, well, then anything could happen. 1446 01:29:58,962 --> 01:30:00,930 We gotta get out there as fast as possible. 1447 01:30:01,031 --> 01:30:04,433 While we sit here, flailing around, anything could be happening out at Von Sloneker's. 1448 01:30:04,534 --> 01:30:06,900 If only Nick were here. He'd know what to do. 1449 01:30:07,003 --> 01:30:09,472 Yeah, he's got all sorts of licenses and credit cards. 1450 01:30:09,574 --> 01:30:12,543 What would Nick do? How would he get out of this? 1451 01:30:14,245 --> 01:30:16,976 You've got a lot of cash on you now. 1452 01:30:17,082 --> 01:30:19,243 Yes. Lots. 1453 01:30:53,554 --> 01:30:56,922 Whenever I think we might be overreacting, I remember Polly Perkins. 1454 01:30:57,025 --> 01:31:00,825 - Or Cathy Livingstone. - I think I knew her. 1455 01:31:02,798 --> 01:31:05,096 What are you gonna do when we get there? 1456 01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:08,227 I don't know. It depends on what the situation is. 1457 01:31:11,373 --> 01:31:15,333 Yesterday I was thinking, maybe Fourier was a crank... 1458 01:31:15,445 --> 01:31:17,879 his ideas completely unworkable. 1459 01:31:17,980 --> 01:31:21,814 I wouldn't want to live on a farm with a lot of other people. 1460 01:31:25,956 --> 01:31:29,392 You know, Rick's a strange guy. He's pretty violent. 1461 01:31:31,094 --> 01:31:33,619 He might not be too pleased to see us. 1462 01:31:33,730 --> 01:31:35,698 I've thought of that. 1463 01:32:14,342 --> 01:32:16,469 Thanks a lot. We shouldn't be long. 1464 01:32:16,577 --> 01:32:19,774 Well, take as long as you want. I'm leaving. 1465 01:32:19,881 --> 01:32:24,409 Oh, no. Um, we need you to take us back. That -That was understood. 1466 01:32:24,519 --> 01:32:27,010 Think I'm gonna wait around for you guys? You're crazy. 1467 01:32:34,129 --> 01:32:37,656 But I - I don't know how we're going to get back. 1468 01:32:37,766 --> 01:32:39,961 What's this shit? 1469 01:32:40,068 --> 01:32:42,731 - Oh, a gratuity is included. - What's this shit? 1470 01:32:50,613 --> 01:32:53,742 I was sure th-that we agreed on 120 as the full price. 1471 01:33:01,057 --> 01:33:04,084 - Hey, look at this. - What is it? 1472 01:33:04,194 --> 01:33:06,890 - Looks like some girl's panties. - Jesus. That bastard. 1473 01:33:44,204 --> 01:33:47,435 What are you clowns doing here? 1474 01:33:47,541 --> 01:33:49,873 - What are you doing? - This is my place. 1475 01:33:49,977 --> 01:33:52,708 - I can do whatever I want here. - That's not true. 1476 01:33:52,814 --> 01:33:55,806 How dare you break in here? Did they break that? 1477 01:33:55,917 --> 01:33:58,148 What are you doing here? This is so embarrassing. 1478 01:33:58,253 --> 01:34:01,119 A little embarrassment could do you some good. 1479 01:34:01,222 --> 01:34:03,520 And by the way, whose are these? 1480 01:34:03,625 --> 01:34:06,493 I haven't the slightest idea. Just get out of here, you twerps! 1481 01:34:06,595 --> 01:34:11,123 - They buy them new and scatter them around. It's one of Rick's little delicacies. - That's a lie. 1482 01:34:11,233 --> 01:34:14,066 Look, get out of here and take this flat-chested goody-goody pain in the neck with you. 1483 01:34:14,169 --> 01:34:17,867 - Thank you. - She is not a goody-goody. 1484 01:34:17,974 --> 01:34:20,533 Oh, oh, before you go- 1485 01:34:20,643 --> 01:34:22,839 Hey! Hey! 1486 01:34:22,946 --> 01:34:25,574 - Jesus! He's got a gun! - What are you, crazy? 1487 01:34:25,682 --> 01:34:29,345 - I warn you, he's a Fourierist. - It's only a joke, Rick. 1488 01:34:29,452 --> 01:34:32,650 It's a toy or an antique or something. 1489 01:34:32,757 --> 01:34:37,057 Well, then let the jerk play his little game. 1490 01:34:49,374 --> 01:34:51,808 No, it's not that far. It's, like, an hour. 1491 01:34:51,910 --> 01:34:54,037 Or- Or maybe two, probably. 1492 01:34:54,146 --> 01:34:56,546 Did anything happen? 1493 01:34:56,648 --> 01:34:58,548 Of course not. 1494 01:34:58,651 --> 01:35:01,745 Then you were never really interested in Von Sloneker at all. 1495 01:35:03,856 --> 01:35:06,051 Well, then why did you come out here? 1496 01:35:06,159 --> 01:35:08,128 To get a suntan. 1497 01:35:09,228 --> 01:35:12,221 The whole thing with the Rat Pack was getting claustrophobic. 1498 01:35:12,332 --> 01:35:15,893 And Cynthia insisted I come. She's terribly impressed with Rick. 1499 01:35:16,003 --> 01:35:19,439 It's not something Jane Austen would have done. 1500 01:35:19,541 --> 01:35:22,338 No. 1501 01:35:22,443 --> 01:35:25,140 I suppose Europe is over there. 1502 01:35:25,246 --> 01:35:28,010 No, that'd be more Brazil. Europe would be more that way. 1503 01:35:29,050 --> 01:35:32,178 Are you really going back next week? 1504 01:35:32,287 --> 01:35:34,916 I guess so. 1505 01:35:35,024 --> 01:35:37,992 What can you study in France that you can't study here? 1506 01:35:41,063 --> 01:35:43,190 French. 1507 01:35:43,299 --> 01:35:46,632 Actually, I was thinking of coming back when the semester ends. 1508 01:35:46,736 --> 01:35:50,934 I was thinking of going over, though not necessarily to Grenoble, but to France or Italy. 1509 01:35:51,040 --> 01:35:52,941 Though my resources are limited. 1510 01:35:53,043 --> 01:35:56,672 There are some awfully cheap airfares these days. 1511 01:35:56,780 --> 01:35:59,511 It would seem a shame not to take advantage of them. 1512 01:35:59,617 --> 01:36:01,744 That's the way I feel. 1513 01:36:04,922 --> 01:36:07,550 Do you really think I'm flat-chested? 1514 01:36:07,658 --> 01:36:10,354 Well, I never thought about it. Well, I shouldn't say that. 1515 01:36:10,461 --> 01:36:14,192 The thing is, you look really great, and that's what's important. 1516 01:36:14,298 --> 01:36:16,392 You don't wanna overdo it.