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Here I come, here I come, here I go.

Tonight's the night you can check on my blood.

Time to get it started.

You know what to do.

I can make you love me if you only dream.

Don't you ever come with me.

Hey,

hey now.

having some sugar. Come on.

Uh -uh. Uh -uh.

Uh -uh. Uh -uh. Uh -uh. Uh -uh. Uh -uh. Uh -uh. Uh -uh. Uh -uh. Uh -uh. Uh -uh.

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Uh -uh. Uh

What Hollywood connection?

Helen, I'm about to go pay the lotto. Have you seen my lucky monkey foot?

Shut up, fool, and say hello to your nephew.

Jamie, Jamie.

Oh, boy, look at you, boy.

Your body finally caught up to your head.

Yeah, because, Jamie, you had one of them big old cantaloupe heads.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, uh, you steal gambling.

No, Jamie, I gave that...

What's your favorite number?

Uh, my birthday, uh, 12 -13 -67.

Yeah, uh, I must have left my wallet upstairs.

Uh, Helen, could you let me hold $5 till the first? I am not contributing to

your bad habit, no.

Hey, uh, uh, uh, don't sweat that. Uh, take this $5, man.

You know, since you're gonna be letting me stay here, you know, free room and

board and everything.

Free?

Room and board's not free.

You will be working here.

Oh, well, yeah.

I'm going to be working and everything, but I'm going to be pursuing my acting

career, you know, because I got skills.

Yeah, well, until your acting career takes off, act like you work here.

See you all later.

Who is that?

Oh, that's Fancy. She runs the front desk. She'll be showing you the ropes.

I hope they're connected to her bedpost.

I'm a Sagittarius. My name is Jamie, and you are Don't Even Tell Me.

Your name must be Angel because you look so heavenly.

No, it's Francesca. And your name must be Devil because that shirt, it looks

like hell.

Dennis, come here. I want you to meet somebody.

This is Jamie.

Wait a minute.

You're Jamie?

I have heard a lot about you.

Brother, you even have great suitcases. Look at these. Yeah, those are sharp,

man, but those aren't mine.

Are you sure?

Yeah, positive. I left mine out on the luggage cart.

Okay, all right. It's an honest mistake. You know, it's not a big... It happens

to anybody. It's a hazard of the job. I'll just... I'll be right back.

Then it just started yesterday.

Nice kid, but bright is not his favorite color.

I see, but anyway, Mitch, fancy pants back to you. Now, check this out. I

Ah, Francesca.

Can I see you for a moment? Oh, wait a minute, Chico the Barge.

Now, the lady was talking to me.

Why?

Ah, ah, listen, Broham.

If you're looking for spare change, try the gas station that way.

Well, if you wasn't looking for a tic -tac, you need to.

Braxton?

Braxton, this is my nephew, Jamie. Jamie, meet Braxton, our accountant. He

sent here by his graduate school. Now, hopefully, you two can help us take this

hotel to a whole nother level. Who, me and Braxton? The name is Braxton.

Braxton P.

Hartnabrig.

Can you say that?

I'll have you know that I have a degree from the Cornell School of Hotel

Management. I also graduated cum laude from USC.

Yeah, well, I sung Kumbaya Loud when I graduated, too.

Oh, God.

Nerve.

Rapscallion. Square.

Street Urchin.

Johnny Mantis.

Still got that piano?

Mm -hmm. Man, this place hasn't changed since I was a kid.

Well, now, I know it's a little outdated.

A little outdated? It look like y 'all had to last up up in here. Matthew.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Where we all at?

This room has a lot of history.

Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, all of them performed right

in this room.

Ah, but see, you wouldn't know nothing about them, young buck.

I don't know nothing about them. Oh, no.

Unforgettable.

Thank you.

I'm here, see, I can hip you to the new school, like Mary J. Blige, you know,

Biggie Smalls. Hip me?

Please. Me and Biggie are like this, baby, baby.

Auntie, I didn't know you was down with the new school. You better ask.

Basically, how you check in a guest. Do you have any questions?

Yeah, I was wondering if I could take you out to the flyest restaurant in town

and put this big knot in my pocket. You know, you can even supersize your order.

Look, you seem like a nice guy, but workplace romances aren't my thing.

Yep.

Oh, look at my nephew all dressed up.

Yeah, but, Auntie, we got to talk about the outfit a little bit.

No, it's not what you young folks are wearing, but everybody here has to wear

uniform. No, that ain't what I'm talking about. I mean, you know.

All

right,

dear. Well, now, don't you worry about a thing, baby. Don't worry. Cut that out.

Who do you think that is?

Uh, Mrs. King.

Man. Mrs. King.

I think we have a bit of a problem.

I found this behind the filing cabinet. I want you to know I am not responsible.

What's up, Auntie?

My temper?

That junior has the worst gambling problem I've ever seen.

There's a $10 ,000 loan against the hotel, and it's overdue. Wait a minute,

if it's not paid back in the next 48 hours, we're going to lose the hotel.

Your love gives me such a thrill But I don't fucking love Don't pay my bills I

need money That's...

standing around here looking outside far like a bunch of pallbearers? Because

we're about to go to your funeral. Fancy handing me my knife out the drawer.

Yo, Uncle, if I was you, I'd get up out of here and she's about to go Lorraine

and Bobby. Say no more.

Junior, get back here.

What is this $10 ,000 you borrowed from a show -enough savings and loan?

Oh, Dad.

Look, I've been meaning to talk to you about that. You see, I took out a little

loan against a hotel to redecorate.

Well, I don't see any decoration. So what'd you do with the money?

I gave it to Nappy Red, the bookie, so he wouldn't redecorate my face.

Well, I hope you're happy.

All the blood, sweat, and tears we put into this place, and we're about to lose

it because of your foolishness.

What do you have to say for yourself, Junior, huh?

Damn that Dion and a fake psychic prince.

You know I'm about to say...

Well, looks like this is going to be our last evening working together,

Francesca.

Maybe we can get together sometime so you can see the wild side of me.

Yeah. Why don't you call me sometime? Call me.

Okay. You bet.

I don't think we should give up just yet.

Now, check this out.

I got $1 ,000 in my savings account, right? If I could just go out into the

community, make a small investment, flip it, make a profit... I refuse to be

involved with street pharmaceuticals.

That's not even what I'm talking about, me so corny.

You don't even know the words to the song.

It's me so horny.

All right, you got one in, baby.

No, she's not. She's upstairs crying, talking about this place is her whole

life. Man, I feel terrible about losing that money, Jamie.

Well, Jamie has $1 ,000.

Yeah, but that's not going to do us any good.

Pick up the dice, boy. That's you.

Yeah, but I ain't betting all of it.

Just try 100, Jamie. It don't work. That's why we brought Lady Knuckles with

All right, well, fancy blow on these.

No, I mean blowing the dice. Uh -uh. I'm not blowing on nothing. I just came

because your uncle's car had a boot on it.

Seven. Winner. You won.

Just like that, huh? Yeah. Now, let's go before you lose your mind.

Hey, hey, hey. Don't worry about it. I'm not going to get caught up in this

gambling stuff.

I got you all in check.

Winner. Oh,

yeah.

Boy, you are on fire. How much do you want?

Let me see.

Damn, I done won $5 ,000.

Oh, now let me get out of here. Baby, are you crazy? Call me Butter, baby,

because I'm on a roll.

No, I'm about to get crazy paid.

What you think?

Jamie, I know you're on a winning streak, but you just might want to take

break.

All right, I'll take a break, man, but I'm coming back, baby, you know, because

I can't lose, all right?

Snake eyes loser.

Brother, I was just giving you a dice back. Yeah, that's the truth. He wasn't

rolling. No, no, that's what they all say. No, brother, no. Look here, I'm not

going out like that.

Mrs.

King, Jamie and I were talking in the car, and I think we have some great

What, y 'all hired somebody to off Junior so I can collect the insurance

No, but I know how we can get the money back, right?

Now, listen, you remember earlier you told me that a lot of big stars

here back in the day. Yeah, but they're all dead.

True that, true that. But listen, why don't we find some live ones to put on a

benefit?

Oh, yeah.

You mean like those big celebrity friends of yours?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What celebrity friends?

Girl, you better recognize.

I mean, you know, I'm down with a...

I mean, I'm down with, you know, like, Babyface and, uh, D 'Angelo and, uh,

Janet Jackson.

Ah, don't forget about Annie and Arsenio. Girl, my baby knows everybody.

Yeah, we all in the same gang.

Wait, wait, wait.

Do you know R. Kelly?

I love him.

Me and R?

Man.

Hey, you know what? What?

I know I could get R. Kelly to get down. Hey, hey, but you got to keep it on the

down low.

You better hope this works.

Well, I sure hope it works fast, because somebody in here smells like feet.

Okay, listen, guys.

Jamie just got here, and Fancy, he wants you to bring on the first guest.

That's R.

Kelly. R. Kelly?

He really got R. Kelly? Oh, please, Francesca. I know you would not allow

yourself to be taken in by his childish shenanigans.

Hey, listen, pal. Don't kill the messenger, okay? He says he has R.

introduction here performing his latest hit big toe

Listen, listen, listen.

Now, I know you're upset and you're mad because you've been deceived, and you

should be.

But I was only doing this for my aunt and my uncle, man, because they put

blood, their sweat, and their tears. Hey, man, see the drama for your mama. I

want my money back.

All right, wait a minute.

What if I gave you some real talent up here, huh?

And if you didn't like what you heard, I will give everybody in this room their

money back.

This is going to be good.

Because, you know, this hotel represents everything that was back in the day.

You know what I'm saying?

Back when even dating was easy.

You know, back when order to date, all you had to do was write on a letter. Do

you like me?

Yes or no. Do what?

Circle one. Back in the day when you had your diamond in the back.

Sun rooftop, digging in the scene with the gangsta me.

I'm back in the day when they used to slow the music down and your favorite

was something like this.

I was all alone.

I was feeling very low.

I needed someone to let my spirit.

It's $4 ,000. Yeah, but we're still $6 ,000 short.

Well, at least you tried, Jamie.

I don't see how we can come up with that kind of money by tomorrow morning.

Well, let's give ourselves an A for effort, shall we?

Absolutely.

Well,

Jamie, baby, I appreciate what you tried to do. I mean, bless your heart.

I guess it just wasn't meant to be.

Yeah, I'm looking for a Junior King.

I'm Junior King.

Nappy Red over at the boogie joint said to give you this.

Everybody get out, he's got a gun.

Or a sandwich.

Just came by to tell you that your number's here.

Congrats.

Ow!

Looks like I just won $8 ,000.

and I can go buy some pants that fit.

Well, if it weren't for your good luck and that show you put on, baby, we'd all

be selling oranges by the freeway. Yeah, now you can tell everyone that you made

your Hollywood debut at the King Tower.

Yeah, well, now you can put my picture right next to Nat King Cole.

You weren't that good.

Quit playing the games. You know, I know you want me. I can tell by the way you

look at me. And it's this little thing you do with your eyes.

It's called rolling them.

Hey, look, now I know you think I'm some kind of country bama from Texas, and a

little bama I might be.

But when my career starts rolling and I start to blow up, she wait, you're going

to want to be on her brother's team.

I got you.

Uh -huh. You sure do. Especially when you started singing and playing that

piano.

Oh.

Now, how would you like it if I hopped right in that bed with you?

I wouldn't be mad at you.

Get on now.

Remember earlier when I said workplace romances weren't for me?

Yeah.

I meant it.

What?

break into this little show business thing, you know?

I'm going to be the next Denzel.

Maybe we can, you know, hook up.