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Well, you still have the same old problem, don't you?

That's not true.

Damn it.

What? It's in your shirt pocket, isn't it?

This?

Right now I am very ticked off at you.

So why don't you just give me till the end of this period to get over it.

Don't talk about your old girlfriend.

Your new one gets the best.

the boy has a problem and you know it he's an alcoholic and he's out of this

school no

You've got big dreams.

You want fame.

Fame comes.

And right here is where you start paying.

You sweat.

Well, you still have the same word problem, don't you?

It's not true.

The problem I was referring to was your dependence upon the sustaining pedal.

Oh, that.

Yeah, well, it makes for such a nice rich sound.

So, am I back in the school or not?

You know,

I usually have a prepared speech that I make at times like this about how the

School of the Arts is not the only place to study music, how the world is full

of side roads to success.

Yes, sir, I know.

No disrespect, but I got that speech once before, remember?

The reason you were asked to leave the school before had nothing to do with

musicianship. Certainly you must know that.

But that's all changed, I promise. Mr. Bailey, no disrespect, but I got that

speech once before, remember?

This time it's true.

Is it?

Yes, sir.

Then kindly take this note to the one and only Mrs. Spurig in the

office.

Does this mean I'm back?

Mrs. Spurig still has to figure out all the proper forms, so I'd say you have

about a 50 -picture check.

That's secondary.

I don't suppose there's one thing I could possibly say to you that would

convince you that I was not eavesdropping. Another one. Stand up,

Mr. Schwartz, I want you to go to the office at once to help Mrs. Berg in

readmitting Mr. Bailey.

You did it!

I'm so excited. I never doubted it for one minute.

Oh, okay. Maybe just, maybe just a smidge. Oh, there's so many people

to meet. You haven't met Holly yet. Oh, she's so neat. She's so cute.

Oh, and you've got to meet Chris. He's a trick. Oh, and you haven't met Morlock.

I love it. Morlock.

Morlock.

Mr. Jorofsky, you didn't.

His musical skills are what I'm asked to grade. I grade them, and he's in the

school.

You might know Morlock on the little boy.

Once he gets a look at Sandy's file... Don't worry about Sandy's file.

It is not as damaging as once it might have been.

Shame on you.

When Morlock checks into the file, he will find only that the family moved to

Montana for business reasons.

And now they have to move back to New York. Simple as that.

You really did that?

I really did. I altered the file.

Is that fair?

Allow me to answer the question with a question.

Do you think if Morlock knew what was really on that file, he would be fair

Sandy Bailey?

Probably not.

And do you think it would be fair to turn away someone with that kind of

No.

Neither did I, Ms. Sherwood.

That's why I did what I did.

I believe the word is chutzpah.

Close enough.

Damn it.

What? It's in your shirt pocket, isn't it?

What is? You know what I'm talking about.

This?

Are you talking about this?

You promised.

Doris, would you please lighten up? Lighten up?

That stuff lightened you right up out of the school and into the gutter. No,

thank you. It's water.

It's what?

Water. You know, like what you drink.

Yeah, sure, it's water.

Oh, great.

This is great.

Lots of trust we got around here.

It's not a question of trust. Of course it is.

Look, did Evan and I had a problem?

Even when they kicked me out of school, did I ever say I wasn't drinking when I

was? No, I did not.

That's not my style. When I'm nailed, I cop to it.

It's okay.

This thing cost me damn near a hundred bucks, and I think it looks neat.

And I carry it around. Maybe that's childish.

But so what if it is?

Go ahead, taste it if you don't trust me.

It's not a question of trust.

Then what is it a question of, Doris?

Anybody but me for a walk down by the boat base.

We can put hot chestnuts in our pockets and watch the moon shine off the river.

You'll be freezing.

Not for us.

I gotta go lock up the light board.

Okay.

I'll meet you in the lobby.

Dear.

Oh, good heavens.

Mrs. Berg?

What happened?

It's my... Well, it was my aunt.

What is it? What's wrong? It seems she's gone over to the other side.

She defected?

Oh, heavens no.

Although I suppose that's one way of looking at it.

Happened to...

Like that.

That girl was barely into her 80s.

Jesus, Bert.

I'm terribly sorry.

Are you all right?

Oh, yes, I'm fine.

We weren't close at all.

She was Rotary Club, and I'm Optimist all the way.

That's why this comes as such a shock.

I don't understand.

You said you weren't close.

Miss Sherwood, sometimes I can't trust my specs.

Does this say what I think it says?

What do you think it says?

I think it says that my dear sweet aunt has left me $100 ,000

cash money.

That's what it says.

Reach out, reach out and touch someone.

Hey. All right.

These are the two people I was talking about.

This is Christopher Donilon, and this is Holly Laird. This is... Wait!

Don't tell me.

I'm picking up vibrations.

What's your sign?

Hey, hey, I never met her before in my life.

I don't have a sign. My family was too poor.

You're a Taurus, aren't you?

Yeah, go ahead.

Music is your life.

Your idols are Debussy and Keith Jarrett. Whoa.

Your favorite color is blue.

You used to part your hair on the other side, and you're a little more than

addicted to video games.

How am I doing so far? Pretty amazing.

Hey, where'd she learn how to do all this stuff?

Doris. Swartz is a psychic?

No, but she used to be Sandy's girlfriend.

And I'm Doris's friend. And girlfriends talk about old boyfriends, especially

ones they're still crazy about.

Well, so much for playing hard to get.

Good morning, people.

In the office, there are two sign -up lists.

One is labeled All Student Review.

The other is labeled Science Fair Project.

Now, the first is quite full.

Quite full.

Names on the front, names on the back, names in the margin.

Someone even signed me up. Thank you. No.

On the science fair project, however, there's one lone signature.

Albert Einstein.

Now, a lesser man might take this personally.

We got trouble in New York City.

But not me.

No siree, Bob.

I'm going to give you a chance to explain how you can overlook such an

opportunity. That jazz ain't what we do, that's all.

Well, I know it ain't what you do, but it's what you're going to do.

How about if we do both?

Well, how's that?

Mr. Bailey, isn't it?

Yes, sir. Sandy Bailey.

Well, how are we going to do both, Mr. Bailey?

Well, if everybody wants to do the student show, why don't we do the

project, and then instead of building some model out of styrofoam and two

batteries, why don't we use dance and music to demonstrate some sort of

scientific principle?

Well, I tell you, Mr. Bailey,

That sounds ridiculous.

But I suppose it's the best deal I'm going to get in this tutu factory, so

you're on.

Foul.

Fractured. Hello, Mrs. Burke.

Fragile. Frail.

Oh, here it is, Frank.

Well, that's no help at all.

No help with what?

I'm trying to find out the rate of exchange for the French franc.

And where does your book say?

Francois.

No, Mrs. Berg.

What you want is F -R -A -N -C.

That's how they spell the coin.

By the way, I understand you inherited quite a bit of money.

Mazel tov.

Thank you.

I'm thinking about a vacation in France.

How much do you think that would cost?

Absolutely nothing. I think of it all the time.

Hi, you tall, dark, and handsome.

Dear Lord, please let this be Diana Rose talking to me. Please let it be her.

Very close.

I'll give you a hint. I need a boost.

Doris. You have to get it on the first guess.

So you're really into this science gig, aren't you?

Well, the least we can do.

Sandy offered to direct.

Now we just have to find a concept that'll work.

I ain't got no problem with that.

But he's got us going 100 miles per hour in first gear. I mean, rehearsals.

Run -throughs, more rehearsals. Now, Darsh, you know me.

I like to ease down into a gig.

Yeah, I've noticed.

Sandy's been away a long time. This is his first show. He's got a right to be

pumped up.

You got that right.

I'll take these.

You round up the rest of the list.

All right.

Talking some pretty heavy -duty feelings between you and Sandy, huh?

Gee, whatever gave you that impression?

I'm faggot, remember?

Oh, right. I forgot.

Danny was telling me some stuff about Sandy.

Stuff you left out.

Probably none of my business.

Thank you very much, Daniel Armatulo.

I guess you guys had a pretty rough ride last time around. Yeah, that's because

Sandy had a drinking problem the last time around.

What about this time around?

A whole new ball came.

Obviously, you don't think so.

Neither do you.

Look!

You have to understand something.

Two years ago, Dora Schwartz was this walking blob of chicken fat and schtick

hiding behind silliness. Now, someone saw past that silliness.

Got her to stop hiding. And the less she hid, the more she liked herself.

Now, that same person is asking me to have confidence in him, and that is

exactly what I am going to do till someone gives me a good enough reason

period.

Doris, no.

Right now, I am very ticked off at you.

So why don't you just get me till the end of this period to get over it? Thank

you.

I like that kid.

I like him a lot.

Who's that?

That new kid, Sandy, um... Bailey.

Yeah, that's him, you know him?

Bailey. He's a music major, you know.

Yeah, well, I wouldn't carve that in granite.

Meaning? Meaning I'm going to do my level best to turn him into a science

It's the kind of material I want on my team.

Called me sir.

Oh, well, now all the pieces start to fit.

Don't you have to yell and scream?

Just asking him a simple question, and he replied, yes, sir.

Polite, respectful.

Of course, it shouldn't surprise me, considering his background.

His background?

Yeah. You know, the kid looked so sharp sitting next to all that dry rot I've

got in the class that I checked into his file.

Seems he spent last year in Montana.

Yes, I'd heard that.

At a military school.

Military?

Yeah. Well...

I thought I recognized a kindred spirit there, a common language,

a way of looking at the world.

Good grief.

I know.

It's beautiful.

Well, I just couldn't decide.

My girlfriend, Willie Estelle, finally helped me pick this one out.

Well, she has exquisite taste.

What kind of fur is that?

Miss Sherwood, do you think I'd wear a fur coat?

That's not a fur coat.

Oh, heavens no.

Mrs. Berg, work with me on this one.

Real people wear fake furs.

That's a fake?

Well, how be darned good for you, Mrs. Berg. Well, actually, I bought it to

on my vacation.

But I just got tired of trying to figure out those French francs.

I'm going up to Canada. I hear a dollar's a dollar up there.

Mrs.

Berg, let me explain something to you.

If this is good news, I'm Brooke Shields.

In Canada, they call it a dollar, but it isn't like our dollar. There's still a

rate of exchange.

Will someone please tell me where I can go on vacation and still know what to

tip? How about Hawaii?

I didn't mean Hawaii. It just came out Hawaii. What I meant was Alaska.

Way up north.

Frozen north, really cold.

A coat like that would come in real handy in Alaska.

Just you and the tundra and racing across the ice and ice fishing. Mush!

Yes!

Five more minutes.

Come on, Schwartz.

He's an hour late already.

Hey, Don was right. This ain't happening.

I hate to admit it.

Oh, come on, Leroy. It's not like you've never been late for rehearsal.

Sure, I've been late plenty of times. When I come an hour late to a rehearsal,

everybody's going home.

I mean, that's the way it should be. That's the way it's going to be because

going home.

Y 'all coming or what?

Yeah. Come on, time.

I'm sorry.

You mean I told you so?

No, I mean I'm sorry.

Hey, come on, Schwartz. You're coming with us.

Stay. It's all right. Go on. I'm okay.

Chuck.

Can't talk about the woman I love like that.

Hi.

Hey, where'd everybody go?

Check your watch.

Oh, well, I mean, I figured it was late, but I never figured anything like this.

I didn't have any money for a cab, so I had to cut through the park.

Do you have any idea how cold it is out there?

What did you do with your money?

What?

I said, what did you spend your money on, Mr. Bailey?

What's this Mr. Bailey crap?

You know, there's this guy named Sandy who I really love.

And I have more good feelings for than I can count.

And then there's this Mr. Bailey, who is this lying, pathetic, heartbreaking

charmer who hurts me a lot. What is this?

So I had a drink.

A drink?

Maybe two. I don't know.

Do you have any idea how cold it is out there?

Not anywhere near as cold as it is here.

Oh, come on. Hey.

Hey, come on, Doris. Damn it, Doris.

I'm sorry.

Sandy.

Good night, Mr. Bailey.

I want to know why I wasn't told. I want to know how you found out. The hard

way, Schwartz. He was passed out in the auditorium when I opened up this

morning.

And of course he had a marvelous story to tell me when he came to.

Are you going to suspend him?

No.

I'm going to expel him.

He doesn't belong here. He needs help. The boy has a problem and you know it.

He's an alcoholic and he's out of this school. No! That's not even close to

being a question. Mr. Warlock, if you kick him out now, you're going to send

right back to the booth.

The hell I am.

I kick him out of here and he goes back out there.

Now, if he chooses to get a bottle of booze, that's his decision. Don't lay it

on me.

Look, you said he needed help.

Well, let us help him.

We're his friends.

That's why he came back here.

Give us a chance.

If he screws up again, you can still kick him out.

Schwartz, are you doing this for him?

Or are you doing it for you?

Can I do it for both of us?

Well, I suppose you can try.

But he's going to let you down.

Why would you say something like that?

How do you know what he's going to do?

Because I've been there, kid.

I have been there.

Schwartz? Yes?

When you were talking about helping your friend, you kept saying us and we.

Now, unless you've got a tapeworm, I think you're being overly optimistic

how much your buddies are going to help.

They'll get on board.

How do you know?

Mr. Morlock, the Schwartzes have a history of thousands of years of getting

their daughters to marry doctors and their sons to date girls named Naomi.

We have our methods.

Is she still there?

Don't look.

How are we supposed to know if she's still there if we don't look?

I've seen too many Frank Capra movies.

Well, all I know is he had his chance and blew it.

Kills me, you know.

She looks like a cocker spaniel.

It's not going to work.

No way.

Just trying to run some little high school guilt trip on us.

Well, that's not going to work.

No way.

Guys.

Relationship, you have your ups and downs.

One minute you're so in love, the next you're going round.

One thing I've learned for certain, I know it's true.

If you want to know what's good for you, don't talk

about your poor girlfriend.

You'll no one get the best.

She'll think there's one you can't forget.

She'll think it's every girl you've ever met.

Don't talk about your whole love affair.

You'll only start to find.

You'll make your new girl sad and blue before you know it, she's mad at you.

Relationship, you have your highs and lows.

One night it's cherry pie, the next it's Cheerios. One thing that leads to

trouble. Take my advice, if you want to keep it sweet and nice.

Don't talk about your old girlfriend.

Your new one gets upset.

She'll think there's one you can't forget. She'll think it's every...

It's the same old story.

When a woman wants to ask a man, was there someone

before me?

Change the subject just as fast, just as fast as you can now.

Don't talk about your old girlfriend. Your new one gets upset.

She'll think there's one.

Thank you. Every girl you ever met. Girl you ever met.

Don't talk about it. Oh, love affair.

You'll only start a fight. You'll only start a fight.

You'll make your new girl sad and blue.

Before you know it, she's mad at you.

Yeah.

Hey.

Don't talk about your old girlfriend.

I turn into a good old boy and start doing beer commercials. This will have

do for... It don't get any better than this.

Wouldn't you just kill to have that number in the show?

I'll settle for a cast with half that much talent and pizzazz.

I just hope I can come up to their level.

All right!

You'll be fine.

You'll be better than fine.

Yeah.

There's an N .R. guy with a record company. He thinks we sounded great.

Danny, I'm a too -low -talking man to come and see us in a science musical.

It's star time, kids. It is star time.

That's great.

Yeah, great. That's all I need.

What are you talking about?

More pressure.

I guess I can handle it.

Mr. Bailey, we are all playing the Bach Prelude. Perhaps you'd like to join us?

Well, that's what I've been playing, too.

True enough.

However, it works better when we're all on the same page.

Stand up, please, Mr. Bailey.

You've been drinking.

This is not a question, as I don't want to give you the opportunity to lie to

me. kindly gather your belongings and leave the room.

And don't worry about getting back because you're not coming back.

You can't do this to me!

Should we play?

No.

Not a time for music.

Silence will be better.

Bailey! What the hell do you think you're doing?

You wasted, man.

Getting wasted.

Doris?

Not quite.

Just thought I'd drop in and see how you were doing.

The truth?

I'll know it if I hear it.

I'm scared.

Let's get the ring of truth to it.

I'm real scared.

You're not going to believe this, but it's real good that you're scared.

What's that?

I... I had a buddy.

Same problem as yours.

Played baseball in the minors.

For a long time.

Well, during all that time, the one thing he had going for him was control.

When he threw a baseball, I swear he could hit a quarter at 70 yards and get

20 cents change.

So when he started drinking, he figured he had the same kind of control. A

couple beers, back on the wagon, no problem.

Well, then they found him one morning with a case of the DTs about 20 minutes

short of checkout time.

It scared the living hell out of him.

Then a funny thing happened.

He stopped trying to pretend that he had control of everything.

He got some real help.

And what do you know?

He got better.

I never had the details.

Not yet.

But there's no law that says you have to hit rock bottom before you try to do

something to help yourself.

You say you're scared.

When they use that fear to do something about it before the DTs, before it's too

late.

Because too late gets here real quick.

Mr. Murdoch.

That friend, the baseball player, was that you?

No.

Is that the truth?

Take a number. Your turn.

I can't go in there.

I have no idea what to say.

Help me.

Talk about the weather, sports, politics, anything.

He's not ready to hear what ought to be said, Schwartz.

Until he's ready to accept responsibility for what he's doing,

wasting your time.

Helping a friend is not wasting your time.

When he's drunk, he's not capable of being a friend to you or to himself.

I'll go in when I know what to say.

I'll stay here until you go in.

Mrs. Berg, this is your resignation.

I am well aware of that.

But you can't. Now you listen to me.

I've made a mistake with that money of mine.

Money shouldn't be used to buy things.

It should be used to help people and to assert one's independence.

I'm not sure I understand.

You're all my friends.

And ever since Mr. Morlock came here, he's been creating problems for all of

you.

So I intend to find him and tell him how I feel about it.

He'll try to have you fired.

He can't fire me.

I've resigned.

Who is it?

Me.

Would it help to say I'm sorry?

I don't know. I'm sorry.

It doesn't help.

Now we know.

Okay, go ahead.

Go ahead and look. Go ahead, read me the riot act. I deserve it.

Sandy, I'm not here to give you a lecture.

I'm here to say goodbye.

So what about your song and dance?

About friends and support and helping me through this thing?

We tried that, remember?

Morlock was right, I was wrong.

I don't know why I do it. Andy, neither do I.

That's why I can't help you.

That's why you have to find somebody who can help you figure out why it is you

think you have to drink.

That's when you'll start getting better and not before I Can't do this without

you And you can't do it

It's a little cold isn't it

When I first met you, I thought I'd die and gone to heaven.

Have someone like Sandy, Bailey interested in me.

No one made me feel the way you did.

I was hooked.

Then you left and I thought,

Nothing would ever make me feel that way again.

When you came back, I thought, okay.

We can just be friends.

I was wrong.

I put myself right back on the line for you.

I ignored all the advice of good friends who really care about me.

Because I was still hooked on that feeling you gave me.

Because that's the way it is with you and Boots.

Now I've got to set a good example.

Of what?

Can we save that question for later?

She wants to have to tell you something.

I think you did all the wrong things.

Thanks for sharing.

You didn't let me finish.

I think you did them for all the right reasons.

All right.

I want to tell you that in all my years in public education, I have never known

a more sadistic, a more cold and unfeeling, a more

cruel.

What are you talking about, Mrs. Burke?

Oh.

Go to the ladies' room and fix your face.

You gotta show the direction.

They're glorious.

Who sent them?

I did.

And there'll be two more delivered here every week, rain or shine.

Brighten up the old place a bit.

That's liable to get pretty expensive, isn't it?

Well, I decided to take that money of mine.

and put some in my pet orphan's fund, put some in the bank, and the rest goes

the florist down the street.

Mrs. Berg, these flowers, lovely as they are, aren't really necessary.

You know why?

Because every day when you walk through that door, you are the school's bouquet.

Mrs. Berg?

Yes. I got a note saying there was a package in the office for me.

Oh, yes.

This was dropped off last night.

It has your name on it.

What a sweet thing to say.

What's that?

It's a chip from Alcoholics Anonymous.

It means that Sandy's gone a month without a drink.

What's in the package?

Mrs. Berg, about the flowers.

Can I ask you a favor?

Come.

Mr. Morlock?

For me and Sandy, thank you very much.

Get out of here, Schwartz. I got work to do.