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[HARD IMPACT SOUND]

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[CHAIN RATTLING TAMBOURINE MUSIC]

[WITH THUNDER ROLLS]

[STRIKING A MATCH]

[FOG HORN BELLOWING]

CATHERINE (VO):: There is a revolution going on.

[BREATHY SOUND]

VO CONT: We came to San Francisco

and we made a new Garden of Eden.

Our whole generation was enchanted

by the crackling energy sweeping across the Bay.

I wanted to be with the wild ones.

The ones who broke free.

I wanted to be one of the dreamers.

One of the crazies who were creating a better world.

[MYSTICAL LAUGHTER FILLS THE AIR]

[PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC]

♪ Love is but a song we sing ♪

♪ Fear's the way we die ♪

♪ You can make the mountains ring ♪

♪ Or make the angels cry ♪

♪ Though the bird is on the wing ♪

[SEAGULLS SQUAWK

♪ And you may not know why ♪

♪ Come on people now Smile on your brother ♪

♪ Everybody get together Try to love one another ♪

CATHERINE (VO):: When I was a student

I thought that Plato or Aristotle

or Sartre could teach me how to live.

But they couldn't. Then Kerouac said

Go! Go! Go! Just go!"

[IN BG - A man keeps saying C'mon]

VO (CONT): And I went.

CATHERINE (VO):: There was madness and laughter and just wild energy everywhere.

[RHYTHMIC DRUMMING]

We reached up and touched the stars.

We burned bright in the San Francisco night.

CATHERINE (VO):: It was 1968 and changes were coming.

We were dancing at the edge of the world,

looking out over the waves,

As the sun set on paradise.

[RHYTHMIC DRUMMING]

♪ Oh, she may be weary ♪

♪ Them young girls they do get weary ♪

♪ Wearing that same old shabby dress, oh no no no... ♪

♪ But when she gets weary ♪

♪ Try a little tenderness oh no no got nothing to do ♪

♪ You know she's waiting ♪

♪ Just anticipating ♪

♪ For things that she'll never, ♪

♪ never, never, never possess, oh, yeah ♪

♪ But while she's there waiting, ♪

♪ Try a little tenderness, oh, oh... ♪

♪ That's all you gotta do ♪

LONNIE: Guys get in here. Take a look at these girls.

They are beautiful.

♪ Sentimental, no, no, no ♪

♪ She had her grief and care, yeah, no, no, bless you... ♪

♪ But the soft words spoken so gentle, so gentle ♪

♪ It makes it easier, easier to bear, whoa... ♪

LONNIE: Naked. Naked.

[CAR ENGINE REVS]

EARL: You look good Earl, again.

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

LONNIE: Goodnight, boss.

EARL: I told you, Lonnie.

It's "good evening, Mr. Wild". Goodnight sounds like

tucking me in bed.

I'd never do anything like that, boss.

You look good tonight. You're looking sharp!

EARL: Lonnie...

(mouths) Relax.

♪ Young girls they won't forget it. ♪

♪ Love is their only happiness.... yes it is now. ♪

EARL: Hot! Hot! Hot!

♪ It's all soooo, easy... ♪

♪ All you gotta do is try a little tenderness ♪

♪ That's all you got to do now ♪

Sacramento Dave, my man!

♪ All you got to do is try a little tenderness ♪

♪ That's all you gotta do now is try a little tenderness. ♪

♪ You better, hold her, ♪

♪ Squeeze her, never leave her ♪

♪ You've got, gotta, tenderness, ♪

♪ A little bit of tenderness, ♪

♪ you got what you got ♪

♪ yeah ♪ ♪ You, yeah ♪

CLUB PERSON: I got it!

♪ Yeah ♪ CROWD: Yeah.

♪ Yeah ♪ CROWD: Yeah!

CLUB WOMAN: Yeahhhhhh!!!

♪ You got it ♪

Gotta!

♪ Got to ♪ MAN: Gotta!

♪ Try a little tenderness ♪

♪ A little bit tenderness ♪

♪ That's what you got to do, ♪

♪ When life is better ♪

♪ hold her, squeeze her, never leave her ♪

♪ You know you got to try ♪

♪ Try a little tenderness... ♪

BARRY: Yeah! Lord have mercy people. Lord have mercy...

EARL: Tell it Barry!

I feel good. Way down deep inside,

because I know deep in my heart,

these are good times. Yes they are.

We're all brothers and sisters in here,

and they're doing fine. Oh Yeah!

And that love light is shining down on us here tonight

brother, oh yes I do, oh yeah!

CROWD: Yeah!

BARRY: Feel it!?

CROWD: Yeah!

BARRY: Feel it!?

CROWD: Yeah!

BARRY: We all left out.

I'm feeling that. Y'all feeling that?

CROWD: Yeah!

BARRY: Feel it?

CROWD: Yeah!

BARRY: Lord, God Almighty!

♪ You better hold her, ♪

♪ squeeze her, never leave her ♪

♪ you know what you got to do, ♪

♪ Just try a little tenderness, ♪

♪ Got to try a little tenderness ♪

♪ All you got to do oh, you got to do is... ♪

♪ Hold her ♪

♪ Squeeze he r ♪

♪ Never tease her ♪

CATHERINE (VO):: The club was like a womb,

a safe haven for us fugitives.

♪ Try a little tenderness ♪

We were three hippie chicks preaching peace and love.

Society couldn't touch me now.

I had escaped into the underworld.

Everybody came to see us.

Everybody wanted to feel the revolution.

I felt good taking my clothes off.

I felt free.

But I didn't know yet freedom that has to be paid for.

I was too happy to look around and see that it couldn't last.

EARL: Ahhhh.

EARL: Nietzsche, huh?

CATHERINE: Tabitha suggested it.

Ah, that figures.

Why are you always looking at me?

CATHERINE: I'm not!

I'm a married man, you know.

You're gonna have to stop that.

I'm not looking at you, Earl.

What do you want, baby?

Nothing.

Ooh, Everybody wants something.

When you figure out what it is, you let me know.

[MYSTICAL GUITAR AND CLARINET]

[INSTRUMENTAL VERSION OF THE SONG NIGHTINGALE PLAYS]

[CAR DOOR CLOSING SOUND THEN ENGINE RUMBLING TO LIFE]

♪ I cant quite remember ♪

♪ Inside your face ♪

♪ I can't quite remember ♪

♪ The feel of your hands. ♪

♪ And I - When you kissed me ♪

♪ Love... ♪

[MYSTICAL GUITAR]

♪ Ooh... ♪

♪ My love... ♪

♪ Ooh... My love... ♪

[DIALTONE CAN BE HEARD]

CATHERINE (ON PHONE): Hello?

BEN: Do you like that fat guy?

What fat guy?

The old guy who gave you money.

Who are you?

Sweet soul sister...

I think I love you.

Are you still there?

Please... please tell me who you are.

Will you make love with me?

NETWORK ANNOUNCER (VO): Senator Robert Kennedy had now emerged as

the clear front runner to be the Democratic

nominee for president.

Tragedy struck just after midnight.

As Senator Kennedy was leaving his victory party

he was shot in the kitchen..

CATHERINE (VO): When they killed Robert Kennedy...

NETWORK ANNOUNCER (VO): ...Ambassador Hotel in downtown Los Angeles

CATHERINE (VO): ...something died in America.

CATHERINE (CONT'D) (VO): ...that would never come again.

NETWORK ANNOUNCER (VO): Senator Robert Francis Kennedy

died at one forty four this morning.

LOCAL TV INTERVIEWER (VO): The nation is mourning today the death of Robert Kennedy.

I'm on the streets of San Francisco

getting some reactions to this tragic loss.

Sir, what does his death mean to you?

BLACK MAN (VO): America was built by killing'...

...and destroyin'. They made us Negro people to be slaves...

...and they killed off the Indians...

...and then they poured cement

over all their bones and made cities.

[SOUND OF THE OCEAN, BIRDS AND WIND]

MAN ON TV (CONT) But you can't do that kind of thing unless...

someday you got to pay.

[DARK ETHEREAL BELLS AND CHIMES]

MAN ON TV (CONT): Look what they did to this fine man.

I say there's gonna be a great fire coming' that will burn...

everything they built...

[CITY POLICE SIRENS WAILING]

It's gonna burn it right to the ground

and then maybe we can build a new America.

♪ R&B FUNK MUSIC ♪

♪ If I do I'm gonna lose my life ♪

♪ I can't turn you loose now. ♪

♪ If I do I'm gonna lose my life... ♪

♪ I can't turn you loose to nobody ♪

♪ I love you honey, yes I do... ♪

♪ Ooh, give me shakin' Mama, I told ya ♪

♪ I'm in love with only you... ♪

♪ Gotta baby, do it baby, why don't ya ♪

♪ I'll give you everything that I told ya. ♪

♪ Gotta, gotta hold ya, Never gonna turn ya loose ♪

TULSA: Woo!!

♪ Gotta to keep holdin' on ♪

♪ Gotta do my best now... ♪

♪ Oh! I can't turn you loose. ♪

♪ I'm in love with the prettiest thing... ♪

♪ Oh, I can't let 'em turn you loose. ♪

♪ Cause I love a girl that can groove... ♪

♪ I can't turn you loose to nobody... ♪

TULSA: Peace in Vietnam! Stop the war!

STOP THE WAR!! STOP THE WAR!!

EARL: What the hell is going on?!

What the hell is going on?!

♪ Melancholy music starts playing in background ♪

♪ With all of those knives I thought I was dead ♪

♪ Even the money in my bed ♪

♪ And the palm passes upon this head ♪

♪ So put your hands ♪

♪ In mine ♪

♪ Because by the window ♪

BEN: Who're you with?

♪ It shines... cause the thief left behind the moon... ♪

EARL: Take him out!

Boys, the rest of the evening is on the house.

Have a seat, you're my personal guests.

Have a seat, it's all good. It's all good.

In fact this whole room gets a free round tonight,

on me. Frannie, take orders, baby!

Lola! Ladies and gentlemen!

The one, the only, my favorite two

syllables on the planet! Lola!

ANNOUNCER: Sock it to me!

[DRUMS KICK IN LIFTING THE ENERGY OF THE ROOM]

[MATCH SCRAPE]

TULSA: Oh, my god, Earl's going to fire me for sure!

CATHERINE: I'm proud of you, Tulsa.

EARL: I never want to see another goddamn anti-war

demonstration like that in my joint again!

Do you understand me?! No politics in Paradise!

Put that joint out!

I got enough trouble with the city as it is

I don't need a goddamn drug rap.

You women should be supporting our men in uniform.

We got Americans dying over there.

They don't know what they're dying for.

TABITHA: They are throwing their lives away for nothing.

This war is a lie.

Is that a fact? You know I got a feeling, I got

a feeling, the three of you are a bunch of goddamn Commies.

I didn't know you were such an extreme conservative, Earl.

I'm a patriot! And I feel this war down deep down in my heart.

And if I weren't such an old fuck, I'd be over there fightin'

it my goddamn self.

Am I fired?

If I was a sane man you would be.

TABITHA: Well sanity's overrated. As performers it is

our goal to achieve madness.

It is your job is to turn people on out there.

You know what your problem is? You're

problem is you are overeducated.

So I'm not fired?

I don't want anything to come between me and my girls.

Look I have an almost religious feeling about what

we're doing here. Know what I mean?

Far out.

(he laughs)

Tulsa says I'm far out. What do you think?

I feel sorry for you.

You feel sorry for me? What the fuck does that mean?

The government is lying to you and you know it.

You wave the flag so everyone thinks you're a patriot.

I think you're afraid of the truth.

The truth? The truth ain't always true.

Nails! Let me see 'em.

Okay. Everybody get a manicure tomorrow.

And tell Crystal to use that frosted shit I like all right.

[DRUM RYTHEM AND CYMBALS CRASH]

[CROWD CHEERS]

[ORGAN SWELL STARTS PLAYING]

I am not the entertainment.

Admit it, you're having a good time, right?

REGULAR (VO): Bring the girls back!

EARL: You're rude.

You must be from the East Coast.

You're in San Francisco now, good buddy.

The most peaceful, sexiest city in the US of A.

Let me tell you a little story about Ponca City, Oklahoma.

When I was a kid my Ma and I lived above a

low down honky tonk joint...

She used to send me downstairs to sweep out the bar

while she, while she worked the trade in our little room.

But she taught me manners!

And you could use some manners.

You could use my mother. My mother

taught me that manners can get you anything. Look at me,

look at me now! I've got the best crew on the street!

Sacramento Dave!

The best bartender in the business!

We got beautiful redheaded Frannie right there.

She can serve more liquor than a Tennessee moonshiner.

And behind the bar there.

That's my mother-in-law.

I love you, Ma!

I better! The lease is in her name!

Everybody gets turned on in Paradise.

We get all types in here, all shapes,

all sizes, heights, weights. There's no

discrimination here.

And who do I see in the back? Who do I see in the back?

Somebody talk to me.

SACRAMENTO DAVE: Perverts!

Ha, ha! Sure we got perverts here

but nobody gets out of line in Paradise.

Once you step in my club you are safe. Of course,

we're all fugitives in here. Am I right?

Okay, so we had a little incident earlier

but that's all straightened out. Am I right, boys?!

You cool with that? Salute!

You know we have guys who come in here who

have never seen their wives naked!

SACRAMENTO DAVE (VO): That's sad.

I'm telling you.

Yeah, They do it in their bedrooms with the lights off!

They've never seen it! That's right!

They don't know what it looks like.

They're like scared little bunny rabbits. That's why

Earl Wild runs this public service.

Earl Wild shines a light on the mystery!

[CROWD CHEERS]

CATHERINE (VO): The singing and dancing

man expresses himself as a member of a higher

community... he has forgotten how to walk and talk,

and is on the

way toward flying into the air dancing.

His very gestures express enchantment.

He feels himself a god,

he himself now walks about enchanted,

in ecstasy, like the gods he saw walking in his dreams...

CATHERINE (VO): He is no longer an artist,

he has become a work of art.

[MYTHICAL SHAKERS]

[GUITAR PLUCKING]

[GIVES A PYSCHEDELIC FEELING]

[DJEMBA DRUMMING]

POET: Join me here in this space.

That we invent from real stuff. Where we have never

laughed, nor danced nor sung before.

We are rainbow- colored knights in

spastic boats upon a whirlpool.

I am a mamal Patriot. You know that we can walk.

You know each challenge issues from our core.

We've been everywhere before.

We're physiques of thoughts upon a crowded land,

and all the airiness and aureolas that we create are us.

CATHERINE (VO): I knew who he was. I listened to his music.

I knew all of his songs.

[GUITAR PLUCKING]

He was the wild poet of rock and roll.

Why was he following me?

But I knew, I knew. I knew him.

We'd met before on a star.

We'd run like mad lovers through the galaxies together.

I recognized him. And I was afraid.

But I didn't care

because I knew nothing was ever gonna be the same.

I met my fate and he was drunk on his own madness.

I felt a stab in my heart and a voice said,

a voice said, "This is it!".

POET: We're physiques of thoughts upon a crowded land

and all the airiness and aureolas that we create are us.

♪ Won't you never let go of my hands ♪

♪ I would be so glad ♪

♪ Should the devil let go of my hands ♪

♪ [WAILING] ♪

♪ Right in my heart ♪

BEN (VO): I am cursed. I am drowning.

[COIN SOUND AS IT DROPS INTO TELEPHONE]

Can you save me?

[PHONE RINGS]

VO (CONT) I am leaving, will you come with me to the edge

of the night, to the edge of the sea where my boat

waits to take us to the far horizon,

to plunge us, wailing and free,

golden and immortal, over the edge of the world.

[PHONE DIAL TONE]

BEN (VO CONT): Over the edge of the world.

[CLACK OF HEELS IN AN ALLEY MIXED WITH PHONE OFF HOOK]

[SHUFFLING MONEY]

[QUIET EXCEPT FOR HEELS AND THE COUNTING OF MONEY]

[RAGTIME PIANO]

♪ I say I'm going to war, love and peace for ever more. ♪

♪ I say no no war. Love and peace for ever more. ♪

TABITHA: Take it, take it.

♪ We will be fine, fine ♪

♪ And man kind don't know war? ♪

♪ love the people at war ♪

♪ Happy New Year ♪

CROWD / EARL: 10... 9... 8... 7..6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! NINETEEN SIXTY NINE!!!

♪ AULD LANG SYNE ♪ Plays as everyone celebrates

[LAUGHTER, WHISTLING AND A DRUNKEN SINGER OF THE SONG]

♪ For auld..... lang syne... For auld lang syne... ♪

♪ We'll talk of kindness yet, for auld lang syne... ♪

♪ For auld lang syne, my dear for auld lang syne.... ♪

♪ We'll take a cup of kindess yet, for auld lang syne... ♪

[EVERYTHING ECHOES... GIVING A DRUGGY FEEL]

[THE SOUND OF THE CITY]

CATHERINE (VO): 3 O'clock in the morning. Sausage and eggs.

Earl called it the Breakfast Show.

We were all tired except Barry.

He loved to sing "Cry Baby".

♪ Cry, cry baby ♪

♪ Cry baby ♪

♪ Cry baby... ♪

♪ Welcome back home home ♪

♪ Now he told you ♪

♪ That he loves you much more than I ♪

♪ But he left you ♪

♪ And you don't, you just don't why. ♪

♪ And when you don't know what to do. ♪

♪ You come running and start... ♪

♪ Cry, cry baby ♪

♪ cry baby, oh, cry, cry baby... ♪

♪ Won't you cry baby ♪

SACRAMENTO DAVE: We're all full up. Come back another night.

BEN: I want to see her.

That's what they all say.

We don't need your kind of trouble here.

♪ Nobody can love you, the way I do... ♪

CATHERINE (VO): I could feel the energy slipping away from

everyone in the room.

♪ Take the pain and the heartache to... ♪

Earl fired Barry and the band the next day.

The topless and go-go craze was over.

I knew that if I wanted to stay I would have to change.

The fun was dimming like a candle at the end of its wick,

Struggling To keep the flame alive.

It was now 1969.

The last year of the Sixties.

[SHUFFLING CAN BE HEARD]

BARRY: ♪ I've spent so many sleepless nights ♪

♪ Just waiting for you to come walking through that door. ♪

♪ And even though you have made a fool out of me ♪

♪ So many times before. ♪

CROWD: Whoo!

♪ I know what it takes for me to be alive ♪

♪ Now I'll always love you darling... ♪

♪ Listen and I see your eyes. ♪

♪ Your eyes, your eyes are turning red. ♪

♪ Turning red baby. ♪

♪ Listen, so come on. ♪

♪ C'mon ♪

♪ C'mon ♪

♪ C'mon ♪

♪ C'mon ♪

♪ C'mon ♪

♪ and cry, cry cry... baby, yeah... ♪

♪ I am feeling it, cry baby ♪

♪ Cry cry my baby Whoah... ♪

♪ Welcome back home Yeah...... ♪

[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND CLAPS]

EARL: God bless you, Ma! Wherever the hell you are.

CATHERINE: I can't believe it happened.

EARL: Me either.

CATHERINE: Poor Ma...

EARL: Poor Ma.

She was a fucking low down fucking ball

breaking bitch, what she was!

God bless America! The greatest country on

the mother fucking planet

and don't you ever forget it.

Nothing to say, huh? You lefties, you're all full of

shit. Put somethin' over me...

We're not full of shit, Earl.

Yeah, oh, yeah.

I'm fuckin' freezing to death in here.

♪ God bless America ♪

♪ Land that I love. ♪

♪ Stand beside her, and guide her. ♪

God bless America.

[GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING]

RICHARD NIXON (TV): So help me God.

♪ Every time me and my baby we go up town ♪

♪ Police come and they knock me down ♪

EARL: You girls remember Pank right?

♪ Cocaine all around my brain ♪

It's party time, Pank.

♪ Yeah baby, come here quick. ♪

♪ This old cocaine 'bout to make me sick. ♪

♪ Cocaine run all around my brain. ♪

EARL: You don't want any of this, it's shit.

How many times you step on this, Pank?

PANK: It's virgin, man.

I know I'm paying for virgin but that's not it.

TABITHA: Who cares if it gets you high, Earl?

You're not paying for it, are you, baby.

How many times, Pank?

It's fucking pharmaceutical, man.

Bullshit.

You wanna step outside, man?

Step outside! Get out of the car, motherfucker, right now!

Outta the car! You big ol'

CATHERINE: Earl! Stop it!

Daniel Boone ass cocksucker!

I will kick your goddamn ass trying to rip me off...

PANK: I don't want to hurt you man.

EARL: It ain't cool pal what you tried to pull.

Just lay some bread on me and we can forget about this.

I'll lay some goddamn bread on you.

You dig it?

Want some bread, Here's your goddamn bread.

You're short, man.

I'd say for this shit we are even.

Get in the car!

Get in the car!

Get in the car!

Get in the car,

Get in the car, goddammit!

Let's get a steak, man! Come on!

Get in the goddamn car right now!

Fuck you!

Let's go get a steak come on.

[OCEAN BREEZE RUSHING OVER HEAD]

[VIETNAM WAR EXPLOSION SOUNDS with CONGAS]

VO: What do you turn on.

When you turn on.

What do you turn on.

When you turn on.

What do you turn on.

When they slither

of the galaxy.

What do you turn on.

When you turn on. Turn off...

[PA SYSTEM FEEDBACK]

Structure... release.... Control... turn on, turn on...

SACRAMENTO DAVE (OS) Ladies and gentlemen...

The Paradise Club is proudly to present the

exotic... Naja!

[PSYCHEDELIC INDAN MUSIC]

[MUSIC CONTINUES...]

[GUITARS ARE ADDED... PERIODIC WHIP SOUNDS]

[HELPING CREATE THE DRUGGED OUT FEELING]

CATHERINE (VO): When I was young I lived in a cage.

But I escaped and I ran to the edge of the abyss and

I flew to the other side where the

music waited for me. Play it loud, drown out the world!

I... I live in the music.

[HEAVY BREATHING IS ADDED FOR ATMOSPHERE]

[THE MUSIC PICKS UP A LITTLE URGENCY]

[IT STARTS REACHING A CRESCENDO...]

HOSTILE MAN: Let's see some tit if ya got any.

CATHERINE (VO): Don't listen.

I don't hear them. I don't see them.

♪ The golden sun.... ♪

I hear the music, louder, louder, louder!

♪ From and into the sun.... ♪

I fly away.

♪ Turning in, turning... out, spirals high... ♪

Why won't they come with me?

[PYSCHEDELIC LAUGHER ECHOES...]

♪ Wonder.... wonders, loving... ♪

BEN (VO): Sweet soul sister, I think I love you.

CATHERINE Ecstasy, rapture.

♪ Tumbling wars... ♪

I want to be transformed.

♪ World... One... ♪

Don't they understand that sex is magic!

♪ Heaven's bird.... ♪ [Music crescendos....]

♪ Life is gold... ♪

CATHERINE: Come on, come on now.

Do you love me?

EARL: I never been in love in my life. Wouldn't know it if it hit me

over the head.

What we got is better than love, baby.

CATHERINE: What is it we have, Earl?

EARL: You are so fuckin' hot! Let me show you.

(he growls and groans)

[HEAVY GUITAR COMES IN TO PUNCTUATE INTENSITY]

HOSTILE MAN: I'm sorry, honey, I'm sorry

you're beautiful... Absolutely beautiful.

CATHERINE (VO): Life is love.

I believe that.

Do you?

Will you come with me now?

Can you see me?

Can you feel me?

Do you love me?

[HORN SOUNDS OFF THE WATER]

BEN (VO): The world is gone.

We don't need it.

Don't be afraid.

Take it slow.

Don't speak.

Are you crazy enough to take a chance with me?

Can you save me?

Don't speak.

I locked the door.

I'll reach across the stars to touch your hand.

I'm burning.

Will you meet me in the flames?

There is no space between us.

[INSTRUMENTAL GUITAR START]

♪ My love must be a kind of blind love ♪

♪ I can't see anyone but you ♪

♪ Sha bop sha bop ♪ ♪ Sha bop sha bop ♪

♪ Sha bop sha bop ♪ ♪ Sha bop sha bop ♪

♪ Are the stars out tonight? ♪

♪ I don't know if it's cloudy or bright ♪

♪ I only have eyes for you dear. ♪

♪ Sha bop Sha bop ♪ ♪ Sha bop sha bop ♪

Stay with me tonight.

CATHERINE (VO): I can't.

BEN (VO): All the dreamers are waking up.

The wild ones drag their bones away from the gates

of paradise.

Can't you see that you can't go back anymore?

SACRAMENTO DAVE (VO): Get ready for the sexiest soul sister on

Broadway! The Paradise Club proudly presents, Sugar!

[CLAPPING IN BG]

TULSA: You won't tell anyone, will you?

CATHERINE: No.

TULSA: Naja, I love you so much.

I wish you were my mother.

Maybe then I wouldn't be so fucked up.

[SAD MUSIC STARTS UP]

CATHERINE (VO): Stab your demonic smile to my brain

cover me with kisses,

cognac, and cocaine.

Shhhhhhh......

(imitates a MALE VOICE): What's a nice girl like you doing in a

place like this?

(normal voice) I'm not a nice girl. I'm Naja.

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYS]

[HER HEELS CAN BE HEARD ON THE HARD FLOOR]

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC CONTINUES]

CATHERINE (VO): Why was there so much pain and death

everywhere?

ANNOUNCER Over 50,0000.....

We thought we could change the world but we couldn't.

The world wouldn't listen.

VO (CONT): It got dark, real dark.

There was a war going on and we couldn't stop it.

We lost our way.

EARL (OS): Don't do that, Pank.

CATHERINE (VO): And it started to be about the coke.

EARL: Don't do that, Pank! It makes her nervous.

PANK: How much you want for her man?

She's not for sale.

Too bad. She sure is mysterious, isn't she.

I don't have it, Pank.

Business is down. Way down.

I thought you said going bottom- less was gonna bring 'em in man.

Well, everybody's jaded now.

But I do have another card to play,

you will get your money.

When?

Soon.

You and your old lady been going through a lot of blow,

man.

Yeah? How much?

Twenty grand, man.

Twenty grand? That's a whole lotta money.

You know what your problem is, Pank?

No idea, man.

No class.

[PANK LAUGHS]

And, you owe me interest on the twenty.

Fuck you, Pank.

Show me some class, man... Now!

You gonna shoot me in the head?

I don't think so.

Relax, buddy. You'll get your money.

With interest!

With interest.

Maybe we could forget about the interest, man.

[DOOR SLAMS]

Sure you won't sell her man?

Take her and get out.

[DARK HEAVY SYNTH DRONE]

EARL (VO: Thank you, Sacramento.

First chapter of Genesis.

And God said let there be light. And there was light.

And God created male and female.

And he saw what he made and it was good.

Paradise presents... Adam and Eve.

[TRIBAL DRUMMING AND HIPPIE SYNTH]

[THE MUSIC HAS A SURREAL, PERSIAN FEEL TO IT...]

[VERY SIXTIES]

TABITHA Why are you on the floor?

CATHERINE (VO): You're the one who said

the goal was to achieve madness.

You can't get to paradise waiting on tables.

TULSA: Paradise?

TABITHA: Catherine, you're stuck in the endless night.

I don't want the night to ever end.

A new day is dawning.

Are you ready?

TULSA: I'm... ready.

[THE MUSIC TURNS DARKER, UGLIER]

CATHERINE (VO): Every morn and every night

some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,

some are born to the endless night

[APPLAUSE CAN BE HEARD]

SACRAMENTO DAVE: Good night Earl.

[THE DARK MUSIC CONTINUES, HER SHOES HEARD EXITING]

[CAR CAN BE HEARD SPEEDING AWAY]

[OCEAN WAVES ARE HEARD WITH SEAGULLS CHATTERING]

CATHERINE (VO): The days are too bright.

I belong to the night.

Darkness is my blanket.

It shelters me.

Love is gone.

The sun will rise soon.

[NORMAL OCEAN SOUNDS]

[DRUMMING]

[OCEAN AND DRUMS CONTINUE]

[CITY SOUNDS THEN A BUS SWOOSHES BY]

[HORNS HONKING, NIGHT SOUNDS COME ALIVE]

[QUIET INSIDE]

EARL: You're killing those feathers, baby

CATHERINE: I'm not using it, Earl.

It's not me.

EARL: Ok.

[PHONE RINGS]

Give me that thing.

Huh!

Make 'em believe it, baby.

You want them to want you.

Baby baby! Hot! Hot!

[PHONE KEEPS RINGING IN BACKGROUND]

Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot!

Show me! Show me.

CATHERINE: Oooh.... (she laughs)

Baby, baby.

Nice!

Baby, you're killin' me.

Hot! Hot!

EARL: There's a new day coming and we've got to be ready baby.

[GIANT SNORT SOUND]

All that peace and love crap is finished.

I've indulged you long enough,

[PHONE RINGS[

EARL: Paradise! (listens) Hold on.

CATHERINE: Hello?

[AUDIENCE CAN'T HEAR WHAT IS BEING SAID]

[A DIAL TONE CAN BE HEARD]

Son of a bitch.

[CROWS CROWING]

[LOON CALLING]

[PYSCHEDELIC SOUNDS START MIXED WITH NATURE SOUNDS]

BEN (VO): I am your fool.

Take my hand.

Let's not go back.

CATHERINE (VO): I will stay here with you.

Our bodies are exploding.

Our bodies are exploding, I love you.

Flashing into the sky.

I'm falling. Hold me.

Don't be afraid.

Look at me.

You're burning.

You're a fool's love. They are us.

I know you.

I am wild again.

I am wild again. I am free.

I burn with you.

I burn with you.

Come with me.

Come with me.

I have wings.

Burn with me.

We are burning... I'm not afraid.

Burn with me. Burn with me.

Burn with me.

I hear angels, they say

Hold on. Hold on...

Hold. Don't let go!

[CLUB SOUNDS IN THE DISTANCE....]

[DRUM INSTRUMENTAL WITH SOME SITAR]

♪ White bird In a golden cage ♪

♪ On a winter's day In the rain ♪

♪ White bird In a golden cage ♪

♪ Alone ♪

♪ The leaves blow ♪

♪ Across the long, black road ♪

♪ To the darkened skies ♪

♪ In it's rage But the white bird ♪

♪ Just sits in her cage ♪

♪ Unknown ♪

♪ White bird must fly or she will die ♪

♪ The White bird Dreams of the aspen trees ♪

♪ With their dying leaves. Turning gold ♪

♪ But the white bird Just sits in her cage ♪

♪ Growing old ♪

♪ White bird must fly ♪

♪ Or she will die ♪

♪ White bird must fly Or she will die ♪

♪ The sunsets come The sunsets go ♪

♪ The clouds roll by And the earth turns old ♪

♪ And the young bird's eyes ♪

♪ Do always glow ♪

♪ And she must fly, She must fly, She must fly ♪

[GUITAR SOLO]

[THE INSTRUMENTAL SOLO CONTINUES

CATHERINE: Tulsa! Tulsa! Tulsa!

♪ On a winter's day, in the rain... ♪

Take your other glove off.

TULSA: What happened to us, man?

(she laughs weakly)

♪ White bird, she will die.... ♪

♪ White bird must fly Or she will die.... ♪

♪ White bird must fly Or she will die.... ♪

♪ White bird must fly!!!! ♪

[SOUND OF THE OCEAN]

[BANGING MIXED WITH HIS JEWELRY HITTING]

EARL The truth is I'm no damn good.

I need a woman who's no damn good too.

Eat a donut. You're too skinny.

CATHERINE: What are you trying to say?

Mandy kicked me out!

Says I can't see my kids anymore.

Taking me to the fuckin' cleaners! Goddamn

mayor's trying to shut down the club,

I'm three months back on the rent

and that punk Pank wants his money! Son of a bitch!

Get away from me, honey, before it's too late...

I know what you're asking and I won't do it.

You're my girl... you are my girl.

Help me out, baby, I'm drowning here.

Baby?

You fucking him?

Huh?

I never figured you for a groupie, baby.

Word is he's all washed up.

I guarantee you...

that creep will never set foot in Paradise again.

He's not a creep!

Really? You in love with this guy?

What do you know about love?!

I know it's a crock of shit.

It's a crock of shit?!

That's what I said baby.

It's a crock of shit?! It's a crock of shit?!

YOU'RE A CROCK OF SHIT!!

Ooh... Ooh, baby, ain't gonna work that way.

[OCEAN HORN CAN BE HEARD, WAVES COMING IN HARD]

[HE GRUNTS FROM IMPACT]

[BREATHING AND DOGS BARKING IN BG]

Don't cry, Earl.

Damn it. Don't leave me.

[GUITAR RYTHM]

CATHERINE (VO): Life is love.

Love is life.

I still believed that

but it was getting harder.

[CHAOTIC QUALITY TO MUSIC]

CATHERINE VO: I felt a dark shadow following me.

There was nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide.

I saw myself and it was the face of madness.

Please, please, please, please call me. Call me! Please!

[DEATH SOUND BLUES PLAYS OVER MONTAGE]

[GUITAR PICKING RIFF]

♪ I hear that death sound, baby ♪

♪ Oh, like an echo in my brain ♪

♪ Well, there's a part of us dying ♪

♪ You know that things will never be the same ♪

♪ I will never be the same. ♪

♪ I feel the black nails a pounding now ♪

♪ Yes, into the coffin of our love ♪

CATHERINE (VO): Is this the face of love.

♪ I hear the black nails a pounding' now ♪

♪ Yes, into the coffin of our love ♪

CATHERINE (VO): I am lost in the wilderness.

♪ Well, like a black shrouded hunter now ♪

♪ Don't you know that I have killed a snow white dove ♪

♪ Oh, I've killed the dove. ♪

CATHERINE (VO): I can't see my way back.

[THE SOUND OF WAVES DROWNS OUT THE MUSIC]

CATHERINE (VO): Where did love go?

[THE SOUND OF WAVES CONTINUES THRU MONTAGE]

BEN (VO): Catherine... I love you!

BEN (VO): I love you!

BEN (VO): I love you.

[CHURCH BELLS CHIME]

[SCREECHING SOUND MIXES WITH CHURCH BELLS]

[FAINT SCREAMS]

[STRONG POWER GUITAR CHORDS]

♪ Now when the day goes to sleep ♪

♪ and the full moon looks ♪

♪ And the night is so black that the darkness cooks ♪

♪ And you come creeping around, ♪

♪ making me do things I don't want to do ♪

[BACK TO POWER GUITAR FROM PETER GREENE]

♪ Can't believe that you need ♪

♪ my love so bad ♪

♪ Come sneaking around, ♪

♪ trying to drive me mad ♪

♪ Busting in all my dreams, ♪

♪ making me see things I don't want to see ♪

[MUSIC CONTINUES GETTING MORE FRENETIC]

[AN ODD CHOICE FOR STRIPPING, MADDENING]

♪ Cause you're the Green Manalishi ♪

♪ with a two-pronged crown ♪

♪ All my trying is up, ♪

♪ all you're bringing is down ♪

♪ Just take my love, and slip it away ♪

♪ Leaving me here just ♪

♪ trying to keep from following you ♪

[THE MUSIC CONTINUES IN IT'S MADNESS]

POET (VO): If I had a trillion senses

I could tell you why molecules are lies,

And what we truly are!

And why we build these souls and what is the

perfume they are!

If I had a thousand-trillion senses

I could tell you why molecules are lies

and what we truly are!!!

And Why we build these souls and how

(if we make one) it may help to heal the scar.

[BACK TO POUNDING, MADDENING ROCK MUSIC]

[THE SONG IS THE GREEN MANALISHI BY P. GREENE]

[IT KEEPS BECOMING MORE OVERWHELMING]

[BUILDING TO IT'S CLIMAX]

CATHERINE (VO): Can you show me my freedom now?

Can you show me where love is?

Come back for me!

[SHE HITS THE PHONE, MAKING IT JANGLE...]

Come back for me!

Don't leave me here!!

[CHURCH BELLS]

[THE SOUND OF MORNING, AND EARL WALKING]

[GUITAR BLUES MUSIC]

[IT'S ELMORE JAMES THE SKY IS CRYING]

♪ The sky is crying, ♪

♪ Look at the tears roll down the street... ♪

CATHERINE: I won't do this again.

Did you hear me?

Never... never...

Never again!

EARL (VO): Look at you.

♪ I'm waiting, looking for my baby ♪

CATHERINE: I need you...

CATHERINE: I need you to tell me who I am.

EARL: You're a fucked up twenty six year old girl.

Who never should have walked in my door in the first place.

♪ And she was walking on down the street. ♪

CATHERINE Fuck... fuck... fuck me. Fuck me... fuck me now!

Fuck me!

EARL Baby, listen to me.

CATHERINE No! You don't have to love me!

EARL Listen, listen to me. You got yourself too high.

[THE BLUES CONTINUES PLAYING]

♪ Make me feel so good... ♪

♪ Until my poor heart would skip a beat... ♪

♪ I gotta bad feeling... ♪

CATHERINE It's too late.

EARL (VO): What did you say?

CATHERINE It's too late.

EARL (OS): What did you say?

CATHERINE It's too late.

EARL (OS): Don't say that. Come on.

EARL (CONT'D) I been hustling all my life reaching for the brass ring,

baby, and I had it. I had it in my hand!

But it slipped away.

♪ My baby don't love me no more.... ♪

But you won the revolution. Look at me. Because I love you.

♪ The tears rolling down my door. ♪

EARL (CONT'D) I am ready. Ready for all of it. The whole nine yards.

Peace, love, everything. We can do it. We can go away.

We'll go down to Mexico, start over. What do you say, baby?

What do you say?

CATHERINE (whispers) What do I say?

EARL Motherfucker.

[TODAY PLAYS BY JEFFERSON AIRPLANE]

♪ Today, I feel like pleasing you ♪

♪ More than before ♪

♪ Today, I know what I want to do, but I don't know what for ♪

♪ To be living for you, Is all I want to do... ♪

♪ To be loving you It'll all be there... ♪

♪ When my dreams come true. ♪

♪ Today, you'll make me say ♪

♪ That I somehow have changed ♪

♪ Today, you look into my eyes ♪

♪ I'm just not the same... ♪

♪ To be any more than all I am Would be a lie... ♪

♪ I'm so full of love, I could burst apart ♪

♪ And start to cry... ♪

♪ Today, everything you want I swear it all will come true ♪

♪ Today, I realize how much I'm in love with you... ♪

BEN (VO): The music's over. It's your last dance...

[EVERYONE IS QUIET]

[MIC FEEDBACK CAN BE HEARD]

EARL Alright, alright!

EARL (CONT'D) Are we ready for 1970?!

[CROWD CHEERS]

I know I'm ready.

EARL (CONT'D) Pank! Catch you later, good buddy.

But know this, I do not got what you want! Mmhmm.

Okay almost time. Here we go.

Earl Wild says a brand new day is coming.

A brand new day is coming

I can feel it down deep in my bones.

Alright! Here we go, here we go! Almost... almost! And...

10... 9... 8... 7... 6... ...5... 4... 3..2..

1... Happy New Year! 1970!!!!

Sock it to me! Sock it to me! Sock it to me!!

[LONE GUNSHOT CUTS THROUGH THE CELEBRATION]

EARL (CONT'D) Yeah!!

[MUSIC STARTS PLAYING]

♪ I.... want to go home. ♪

PANK Happy New Year, man.

♪ And I.... want to go home.... ♪

♪ Remember the last time you.... kissed me. ♪

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