1 00:00:43,597 --> 00:00:45,948 ...expected of my single life. 2 00:00:45,972 --> 00:00:49,115 Am I... i... i... i... i... is there a place for me, 3 00:00:49,139 --> 00:00:51,889 being that I'm single? 4 00:00:54,264 --> 00:00:57,115 How can my singleness be a blessing to the Lord? 5 00:00:57,139 --> 00:00:59,240 -This recording was discovered by Michigan State. 6 00:00:59,264 --> 00:01:01,240 Police in the dead woman's hand. 7 00:01:01,264 --> 00:01:04,656 She apparently was still attached to the suicide machine. 8 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:06,906 A spokesman for the State's Attorney General said she may 9 00:01:06,930 --> 00:01:10,490 become the test case for a new so-called "Kevorkian Law" 10 00:01:10,514 --> 00:01:12,948 forbidding doctor-assisted suicide. 11 00:01:12,972 --> 00:01:19,212 Reporting from East Lansing, Brook Manning, CBS News. 12 00:01:20,014 --> 00:01:21,014 -Run! 13 00:01:21,180 --> 00:01:22,281 Don't walk! 14 00:01:22,305 --> 00:01:24,073 To your local Aero dealer. 15 00:01:24,097 --> 00:01:26,948 Our new Wildcat 4x4 is on sale! 16 00:01:26,972 --> 00:01:29,240 With rebate under $12,000! 17 00:01:29,264 --> 00:01:30,906 Now, get wild! 18 00:01:30,930 --> 00:01:32,130 Come on! 19 00:01:32,264 --> 00:01:33,240 Get down here! 20 00:01:33,264 --> 00:01:36,864 We've got all kinds of cars... 21 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,073 -Chuck, everyone's trying to get out of town for the weekend. 22 00:02:58,097 --> 00:03:01,490 The GW Bridge has 20-to 30-minute delays to lower Manhattan. 23 00:03:01,514 --> 00:03:02,573 Crossings aren't much better. 24 00:03:02,597 --> 00:03:05,281 If you're trying to make a plane out of Kennedy, 25 00:03:05,305 --> 00:03:10,781 "the Van Wyck has a jack-knifed tanker truck..." 26 00:03:10,805 --> 00:03:12,156 -Hi, it's Jackie. 27 00:03:12,180 --> 00:03:14,240 Leave your message and I'll call you back. 28 00:03:14,264 --> 00:03:15,944 Thanks, ciao. 29 00:07:37,764 --> 00:07:38,964 -Johnny! 30 00:07:39,139 --> 00:07:40,339 Help me! 31 00:07:40,430 --> 00:07:41,630 Help me! 32 00:07:47,430 --> 00:07:49,930 -I'd rather be dead. 33 00:08:47,430 --> 00:08:49,080 -Who is it? 34 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:53,240 Hello, who is it? 35 00:08:53,264 --> 00:08:54,614 -Michael. 36 00:08:55,305 --> 00:08:56,305 -Oh. 37 00:09:31,097 --> 00:09:32,448 You're early. 38 00:09:32,472 --> 00:09:33,822 -I guess. 39 00:09:34,847 --> 00:09:36,406 -Have y... have you been waiting out there long? 40 00:09:36,430 --> 00:09:37,073 -Oh no, just a few seconds. 41 00:09:37,097 --> 00:09:40,573 I heard music and... -Yeah, no, I was just listening... 42 00:09:40,597 --> 00:09:43,573 I... I didn't know I couldn't hear the bell so... -Oh. 43 00:09:43,597 --> 00:09:44,573 I know what that's like. 44 00:09:44,597 --> 00:09:45,597 -Yeah. 45 00:09:47,264 --> 00:09:48,573 Yeah, y... come in. 46 00:09:48,597 --> 00:09:49,597 -Yeah. 47 00:09:50,014 --> 00:09:52,615 That light's... kinda Twilight Zone-y. 48 00:09:52,639 --> 00:09:53,689 -Sorry. 49 00:09:53,764 --> 00:09:55,740 They won't fix it. 50 00:09:55,764 --> 00:09:58,514 -Oh, no harm, no foul. 51 00:10:00,264 --> 00:10:01,240 This is nice. 52 00:10:01,264 --> 00:10:02,573 - Thanks. - It's really nice. 53 00:10:02,597 --> 00:10:03,906 -Can I take your coat? 54 00:10:03,930 --> 00:10:04,906 -No, I'm okay. 55 00:10:04,930 --> 00:10:05,930 -Okay. 56 00:10:06,764 --> 00:10:09,490 -Oh, I... got this for you. 57 00:10:09,514 --> 00:10:10,514 -Oh! 58 00:10:11,180 --> 00:10:12,490 - Wine? - Yeah. 59 00:10:12,514 --> 00:10:15,406 I don't know what you like, but... -No, this looks great! 60 00:10:15,430 --> 00:10:17,240 Let's have some. 61 00:10:17,264 --> 00:10:19,573 -Oh, you don't have to open it. 62 00:10:19,597 --> 00:10:20,948 -What, you don't drink? 63 00:10:20,972 --> 00:10:22,240 -No, you can save it for another time. 64 00:10:22,264 --> 00:10:26,347 You don't have to open it just because, you know, I brought it. 65 00:10:27,180 --> 00:10:30,660 No, let's... let's have some. 66 00:10:39,014 --> 00:10:41,406 This is a real view. 67 00:10:41,430 --> 00:10:44,864 -Yeah, it's probably why I stayed here, you know? 68 00:10:45,139 --> 00:10:48,573 I need to see the city and the people. 69 00:10:48,597 --> 00:10:51,906 -How long have you lived here? 70 00:10:51,930 --> 00:10:56,406 Oh my God, could it be... I think five years? 71 00:10:56,430 --> 00:10:57,430 Oh. 72 00:11:02,014 --> 00:11:03,694 -Here you go. 73 00:11:16,847 --> 00:11:19,740 -I didn't know if you'd be here or not. 74 00:11:19,764 --> 00:11:20,740 -What do you mean? 75 00:11:20,764 --> 00:11:23,740 -Well, I saw you in Grayson's office, you know, at five and... 76 00:11:23,764 --> 00:11:26,115 you know, I didn't know how you'd get here so early. 77 00:11:26,139 --> 00:11:31,139 -Well, you know, I just... I just left a few minutes early, so... Good. 78 00:11:38,014 --> 00:11:39,781 -Have you got dinner going already? 79 00:11:39,805 --> 00:11:40,805 -Yeah. 80 00:11:40,972 --> 00:11:42,281 Nothing too fancy. 81 00:11:42,305 --> 00:11:45,205 I hope you like seafood. 82 00:11:48,514 --> 00:11:49,281 What? 83 00:11:49,305 --> 00:11:51,781 -No, it's... it's just the word "seafood." 84 00:11:51,805 --> 00:11:54,406 It gives me the creeps. 85 00:11:54,430 --> 00:11:55,780 -I guess. 86 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:58,740 -Well, I don't know if it's a genetic thing or you had a... a 87 00:11:58,764 --> 00:12:01,073 traumatic experience when you first hear a word, 88 00:12:01,097 --> 00:12:02,240 you know, but some words embarrass you. 89 00:12:02,264 --> 00:12:06,573 You know... you know, like "ritzy" or, you know, "spigot." 90 00:12:06,597 --> 00:12:07,948 You know, most French words. 91 00:12:07,972 --> 00:12:08,781 You know? 92 00:12:08,805 --> 00:12:10,240 - But the scallops... - Yeah, I love them. 93 00:12:10,264 --> 00:12:11,573 -Oh, good. 94 00:12:11,597 --> 00:12:12,906 -Hate the word. 95 00:12:12,930 --> 00:12:13,930 -What? 96 00:12:14,514 --> 00:12:16,264 -Just kidding. 97 00:12:17,597 --> 00:12:18,597 -Oh. 98 00:12:24,347 --> 00:12:25,240 Jeez. 99 00:12:25,264 --> 00:12:27,323 You know, these things scare me. 100 00:12:27,347 --> 00:12:30,115 -Oh, well, they're pretty safe. 101 00:12:30,139 --> 00:12:32,073 Well, do you know how they work? 102 00:12:32,097 --> 00:12:38,247 Yeah, it's the, you know, it's the... microwaves! 103 00:12:38,514 --> 00:12:39,406 Yeah, it's the waves. 104 00:12:39,430 --> 00:12:40,906 You know, they go in, they heat the food up. 105 00:12:40,930 --> 00:12:43,680 It's... it's the waves. 106 00:12:44,930 --> 00:12:46,990 -No, the... No, not exactly. 107 00:12:47,014 --> 00:12:50,930 See, microwaves are powerful low-frequency electromagnetic waves. 108 00:12:51,347 --> 00:12:53,490 -When they strike an organic substance and make the molecules 109 00:12:53,514 --> 00:12:56,406 vibrate, vibration's heat. 110 00:12:56,430 --> 00:12:58,240 That's how they work. 111 00:12:58,264 --> 00:13:00,240 That's pretty cool. 112 00:13:00,264 --> 00:13:01,406 -You like science? 113 00:13:01,430 --> 00:13:03,305 Y... yeah, sure. 114 00:13:04,514 --> 00:13:05,714 I guess. 115 00:13:07,347 --> 00:13:10,073 Yeah, especially those, animal science kinds of things. 116 00:13:10,097 --> 00:13:13,406 You know, the... the nature specials. 117 00:13:13,430 --> 00:13:14,406 The nature specials are great. 118 00:13:14,430 --> 00:13:17,323 You know when the animals, they do all those kinds of things? 119 00:13:17,347 --> 00:13:22,073 You know, birds... -Are really dinosaurs. 120 00:13:22,097 --> 00:13:23,147 -Birds. 121 00:13:23,347 --> 00:13:24,323 -Birds. 122 00:13:24,347 --> 00:13:27,115 You know, the... No, no, when the... when the big dinosaurs went 123 00:13:27,139 --> 00:13:28,906 extinct, the little ones survived. 124 00:13:28,930 --> 00:13:32,406 And... and, see birds and... and dinosaurs both have hollow 125 00:13:32,430 --> 00:13:35,397 bones and the feathers are really just an evolvement of scales. 126 00:13:35,764 --> 00:13:39,240 I always thought that was really amazing. 127 00:13:39,264 --> 00:13:40,156 That's pretty cool. 128 00:13:40,180 --> 00:13:42,115 Where'd... where'd you learn all this stuff? 129 00:13:42,139 --> 00:13:46,490 -Oh, I... I... I read a lot and... you know, just remember stuff. 130 00:13:46,514 --> 00:13:47,514 -Yeah. 131 00:13:49,847 --> 00:13:51,722 I love reading. 132 00:13:52,930 --> 00:13:54,430 And books. 133 00:13:56,472 --> 00:13:58,406 -Like, I remember all the telephone numbers of all my 134 00:13:58,430 --> 00:14:01,790 friends from grammar school. 135 00:14:03,930 --> 00:14:04,930 Yeah. 136 00:14:05,972 --> 00:14:06,573 Really? 137 00:14:06,597 --> 00:14:10,656 Oh, yeah, like... my friend, Mickey Hobart. 138 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:14,760 -His telephone number was 869-3740. 139 00:14:14,930 --> 00:14:16,656 -Are you sure? 140 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:18,073 -What do you mean? 141 00:14:18,097 --> 00:14:21,740 Well, I thought it was, I thought it was 3704. 142 00:14:21,764 --> 00:14:25,448 -How do you... I don't know how you... -I'm just joking. 143 00:14:25,472 --> 00:14:26,906 -Oh, yeah. 144 00:14:26,930 --> 00:14:27,740 That's funny. 145 00:14:27,764 --> 00:14:29,823 See, I remember telephones numbers by memorizing the, 146 00:14:29,847 --> 00:14:32,281 f... the form or the pattern for the number, 147 00:14:32,305 --> 00:14:34,240 like with Mickey's, it's 3740. 148 00:14:34,264 --> 00:14:37,906 Three from seven is four so 37... - Yeah, but... - What? 149 00:14:37,930 --> 00:14:39,990 -Well, I mean, if... if you're going to go to all the trouble, 150 00:14:40,014 --> 00:14:42,240 like, to remember the equation, you know? 151 00:14:42,264 --> 00:14:43,740 And all the ways, this equals that, 152 00:14:43,764 --> 00:14:45,323 wouldn't it just be easier to, like, 153 00:14:45,347 --> 00:14:47,073 remember the number or write the number down or something? 154 00:14:47,097 --> 00:14:47,906 -Oh, no. 155 00:14:47,930 --> 00:14:50,073 Now, see, the brain, by subdividing the task, 156 00:14:50,097 --> 00:14:53,337 it increases the retention. 157 00:14:54,305 --> 00:14:55,305 -Oh. 158 00:14:55,847 --> 00:14:56,847 Right. 159 00:14:57,305 --> 00:14:58,655 I get it. 160 00:14:59,264 --> 00:14:59,823 -Well, you sure? 161 00:14:59,847 --> 00:15:01,115 'Cause if you've got a pencil or paper I can... 162 00:15:01,139 --> 00:15:04,619 -No, no, no, I get it, thanks. 163 00:15:04,764 --> 00:15:07,664 Brain... brain's amazing. 164 00:15:13,430 --> 00:15:15,430 What's in there? 165 00:15:16,430 --> 00:15:19,910 -Oh, that's my dressing room. 166 00:15:22,472 --> 00:15:23,472 What? 167 00:15:27,847 --> 00:15:28,847 What? 168 00:15:29,305 --> 00:15:31,490 -Well, where do you sleep? 169 00:15:31,514 --> 00:15:33,014 -Oh, this! 170 00:15:33,347 --> 00:15:37,156 You know, it's... it folds out. 171 00:15:37,180 --> 00:15:38,530 It's a... 172 00:15:47,264 --> 00:15:50,414 You know, you can s... you can see into all those apartments. 173 00:15:52,430 --> 00:15:53,430 -Yeah. 174 00:15:59,514 --> 00:16:01,014 -Oh, yeah. 175 00:16:02,805 --> 00:16:04,656 It's wild, isn't it? 176 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:05,990 It's so strange. 177 00:16:06,014 --> 00:16:08,240 Sometimes, I'll be at a subway, you know? 178 00:16:08,264 --> 00:16:11,990 And I'll look out the window at the crowded sidewalks or... no, 179 00:16:12,014 --> 00:16:15,073 I'll... I'll be on a bus looking out the window at the crowded 180 00:16:15,097 --> 00:16:18,073 sidewalks, and it's like... it's hard for me to believe sometimes 181 00:16:18,097 --> 00:16:20,656 that I have, you know, a life. 182 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:21,240 You know? 183 00:16:21,264 --> 00:16:23,073 It's like I'm going through all this stuff and it's 184 00:16:23,097 --> 00:16:26,322 like, we're not all just, like, extras, you know? 185 00:16:26,597 --> 00:16:27,448 -You mean like in a movie? 186 00:16:27,472 --> 00:16:30,240 -Yeah, it's like... I don't know, we're not really here. 187 00:16:30,264 --> 00:16:33,504 We don't really have lives. 188 00:16:35,014 --> 00:16:39,490 -I w... I would've thought that you would feel real and everybody 189 00:16:39,514 --> 00:16:41,764 else was an extra. 190 00:16:42,430 --> 00:16:43,573 No, no, not really. 191 00:16:43,597 --> 00:16:45,073 It's not the same thing. 192 00:16:45,097 --> 00:16:46,906 -Hey... - What? - What? 193 00:16:46,930 --> 00:16:48,430 Oh, sorry. 194 00:16:48,764 --> 00:16:49,948 No, it's just all those apartments. 195 00:16:49,972 --> 00:16:54,406 You know, it's... it's so, -Yeah. 196 00:16:54,430 --> 00:16:55,430 -Yeah. 197 00:16:57,097 --> 00:16:59,573 - Are you all right? - I'm fine. 198 00:16:59,597 --> 00:17:04,906 I don't know, it's just... it's just weird having you here, that's all. 199 00:17:04,930 --> 00:17:06,823 -What do you mean? 200 00:17:06,847 --> 00:17:09,490 - Well, I mean, you know, we've... - we've always... we've always been 201 00:17:09,514 --> 00:17:11,448 in the office, right? 202 00:17:11,472 --> 00:17:14,490 You know, all the time in the office... -In... in the office, yeah. 203 00:17:14,514 --> 00:17:17,406 -Yeah, and... and so now, here you are and... 204 00:17:17,430 --> 00:17:20,597 I mean, you know, we talk and we laugh every day... Ha-ha! 205 00:17:20,764 --> 00:17:22,639 You're so funny. 206 00:17:23,972 --> 00:17:25,740 You know how you know someone one way for, 207 00:17:25,764 --> 00:17:30,305 like, months and months, and then this, it's just wild, you know? 208 00:17:30,639 --> 00:17:31,639 -Yeah. 209 00:17:32,430 --> 00:17:35,330 It's very pleasant here. 210 00:17:46,264 --> 00:17:48,347 D... do you want some more wine, or...? 211 00:17:49,764 --> 00:17:51,656 -I didn't know if you drank. 212 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:55,400 Sure, I'll - I'll have a little. 213 00:17:56,514 --> 00:17:58,573 -I don't drink that much, you know? 214 00:17:58,597 --> 00:18:02,490 Just sometimes at night, sometimes on the weekends. 215 00:18:02,514 --> 00:18:06,615 So... what's your place like? 216 00:18:06,639 --> 00:18:08,906 - Oh, my apartment? - Yeah. 217 00:18:08,930 --> 00:18:09,615 It's just an apartment. 218 00:18:09,639 --> 00:18:11,448 It's... it's a one-bedroom on the East Side. 219 00:18:11,472 --> 00:18:13,406 Oh, on the East Side? 220 00:18:13,430 --> 00:18:15,406 I like the East Side. 221 00:18:15,430 --> 00:18:17,156 You know, I used to live on the East Side. 222 00:18:17,180 --> 00:18:20,323 But, it started getting on my nerves. 223 00:18:20,347 --> 00:18:22,948 - Oh, yeah, mine... - mine didn't have a view. 224 00:18:22,972 --> 00:18:24,573 I couldn't live without a view, you know? 225 00:18:24,597 --> 00:18:28,948 I mean, I need to see the city and the people. 226 00:18:28,972 --> 00:18:29,906 -To the extras. 227 00:18:29,930 --> 00:18:30,930 -Oh. 228 00:18:31,597 --> 00:18:34,222 To the extras, right. 229 00:18:35,972 --> 00:18:37,823 Oh... -What? 230 00:18:37,847 --> 00:18:40,073 -I love being in on those meetings. 231 00:18:40,097 --> 00:18:40,906 -What meetings? 232 00:18:40,930 --> 00:18:42,323 -You know, the... like, 233 00:18:42,347 --> 00:18:45,281 with Sanders today, when you were giving him a hard time. 234 00:18:45,305 --> 00:18:47,573 -I wasn't giving him a hard time. 235 00:18:47,597 --> 00:18:48,990 -What are you talking about? 236 00:18:49,014 --> 00:18:51,448 I mean, you do it to him all the time... 237 00:18:51,472 --> 00:18:54,156 -Oh, well... you know, paralegals aren't supposed to have 238 00:18:54,180 --> 00:18:57,573 opinions, you know, according to Sanders, but... -Yeah, well... 239 00:18:57,597 --> 00:18:58,781 at least you get to open up your mouth, 240 00:18:58,805 --> 00:19:01,264 which is more than us executive assistants, right? 241 00:19:01,639 --> 00:19:03,448 -Oh, is that what they call the secretaries now? 242 00:19:03,472 --> 00:19:05,152 That's good. 243 00:19:05,514 --> 00:19:10,434 -Yeah, that's what it says on my paycheck. 244 00:19:16,764 --> 00:19:19,639 I guess this is a lull. 245 00:19:20,264 --> 00:19:21,264 -Yeah. 246 00:19:23,264 --> 00:19:23,906 It's funny. 247 00:19:23,930 --> 00:19:28,448 You know, I always know what to say in the office. 248 00:19:28,472 --> 00:19:30,722 -Yeah, the office. 249 00:19:33,097 --> 00:19:40,323 So... so, where'd you grow up? 250 00:19:40,347 --> 00:19:41,406 -Long Island. 251 00:19:41,430 --> 00:19:41,948 Oh, really? 252 00:19:41,972 --> 00:19:43,073 That's interesting. 253 00:19:43,097 --> 00:19:44,972 -Oh, excuse me. 254 00:19:45,764 --> 00:19:47,406 I hope this comes out okay. 255 00:19:47,430 --> 00:19:48,156 -Oh, right. 256 00:19:48,180 --> 00:19:49,530 Scallops. 257 00:19:51,264 --> 00:19:54,444 -See, I made this on the weekend and, I, froze it. 258 00:19:56,180 --> 00:19:57,906 See, I make all my meals on the weekends and I 259 00:19:57,930 --> 00:19:59,156 microwave them during the week. 260 00:19:59,180 --> 00:20:01,156 It's... it's very strange. 261 00:20:01,180 --> 00:20:02,990 It's like on a Saturday or Sunday when I'm cooking, 262 00:20:03,014 --> 00:20:08,156 it's like I'm making four or five meals all at once. 263 00:20:08,180 --> 00:20:09,156 Yeah, it's... it's ready. 264 00:20:09,180 --> 00:20:10,115 Are you still hungry? 265 00:20:10,139 --> 00:20:11,639 -Oh, sure. 266 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:12,680 -Yeah? 267 00:20:14,597 --> 00:20:16,823 Or, I don't know, maybe we should wait. 268 00:20:16,847 --> 00:20:18,156 -Oh, no, let's eat. 269 00:20:18,180 --> 00:20:18,906 - Yeah? - Yeah. 270 00:20:18,930 --> 00:20:19,930 -Okay. 271 00:20:21,597 --> 00:20:22,573 -D... do you want your glass? 272 00:20:22,597 --> 00:20:24,277 Yeah, please. 273 00:20:24,972 --> 00:20:26,990 Yeah, it's so strange to be making all this stuff. 274 00:20:27,014 --> 00:20:28,406 It's like when I'm done, the week is over. 275 00:20:28,430 --> 00:20:30,740 I can't really explain it. 276 00:20:30,764 --> 00:20:33,073 Oh, I hope this comes out okay. 277 00:20:33,097 --> 00:20:34,740 See, what I do is I make all my meals on the 278 00:20:34,764 --> 00:20:37,990 weekends and, I microwave them during the week. 279 00:20:38,014 --> 00:20:39,990 It's very strange. 280 00:20:40,014 --> 00:20:42,740 So strange to be making all this stuff. 281 00:20:42,764 --> 00:20:44,406 It's like when I'm done, the week is over. 282 00:20:44,430 --> 00:20:45,430 Here. 283 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,573 I can't really explain it. 284 00:20:49,597 --> 00:20:52,906 So... do you have brothers and sisters? 285 00:20:52,930 --> 00:20:55,156 -What makes you ask that? 286 00:20:55,180 --> 00:20:55,740 -Well, I don't know. 287 00:20:55,764 --> 00:21:00,448 We were talking about where you grew up and... -Oh, right, Long Island. 288 00:21:00,472 --> 00:21:06,406 Yeah, I have... seven brothers and sisters. 289 00:21:06,430 --> 00:21:09,990 Yeah, five brothers and, two sisters. 290 00:21:10,014 --> 00:21:10,740 -Big family. 291 00:21:10,764 --> 00:21:12,573 -Yeah, big family. 292 00:21:12,597 --> 00:21:16,677 Never a dull moment, all that shit. 293 00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:48,073 This is really good. 294 00:21:48,097 --> 00:21:49,297 -Thanks! 295 00:21:49,847 --> 00:21:51,948 You know, sometimes, the freezing and the reheating of 296 00:21:51,972 --> 00:21:54,448 food makes things better. 297 00:21:54,472 --> 00:21:55,406 Scallops are like that. 298 00:21:55,430 --> 00:21:57,240 That's why I chose this one. 299 00:21:57,264 --> 00:22:00,615 -Oh, it's like a cryonic dinner. 300 00:22:00,639 --> 00:22:03,999 -That was a joke, wasn't it? 301 00:22:04,180 --> 00:22:08,097 -It's taking a while, but I think I'm starting to get ya. 302 00:22:10,264 --> 00:22:11,264 Oh. 303 00:22:11,514 --> 00:22:13,194 -Oh, thanks. 304 00:22:20,597 --> 00:22:25,180 You know, they... they say all kinds of things about you, right? 305 00:22:26,097 --> 00:22:27,097 -Who? 306 00:22:27,764 --> 00:22:29,514 -The partners. 307 00:22:29,597 --> 00:22:30,115 -Really? 308 00:22:30,139 --> 00:22:31,573 Like what? 309 00:22:31,597 --> 00:22:36,156 -Well... they say that you have this weird smirk on your face. 310 00:22:36,180 --> 00:22:38,781 Like you're making fun of them. 311 00:22:38,805 --> 00:22:40,005 -Really? 312 00:22:41,639 --> 00:22:44,240 - They call you "Mr. - Strange." 313 00:22:44,264 --> 00:22:45,406 -That's fascinating. 314 00:22:45,430 --> 00:22:47,740 -I mean, just some of them. 315 00:22:47,764 --> 00:22:52,204 I just tell them that you're insecure. 316 00:22:52,514 --> 00:22:54,573 -What do you mean? 317 00:22:54,597 --> 00:22:58,656 -Well, you know... I thought that, somebody should say something 'cause, 318 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,281 you know, they see us talking all the time. 319 00:23:00,305 --> 00:23:03,490 -Oh, so you're trying to help me? 320 00:23:03,514 --> 00:23:05,764 -Oh, I don't know. 321 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:11,490 I think it's kind of sweet how you're insecure. 322 00:23:11,514 --> 00:23:13,615 -Well, I don't... I don't see myself as insecure and, 323 00:23:13,639 --> 00:23:15,240 you know, you really don't have to go around apologizing to 324 00:23:15,264 --> 00:23:19,740 those jerks for, you know, something I haven't even done. 325 00:23:19,764 --> 00:23:24,240 -Yeah, but, I mean... I mean, you do, like, smile and laugh a lot when, 326 00:23:24,264 --> 00:23:28,240 you know, people say things at the... wrong moment or... 327 00:23:28,264 --> 00:23:30,990 I don't know, maybe not at the wrong moment, but, like... 328 00:23:31,014 --> 00:23:33,781 when no one else is laughing, right? 329 00:23:33,805 --> 00:23:34,990 -You're right. 330 00:23:35,014 --> 00:23:38,281 It's called "a sense of humor." 331 00:23:38,305 --> 00:23:40,406 I find life amusing. 332 00:23:40,430 --> 00:23:43,240 Especially life... if you can call it that at at Cantfield, 333 00:23:43,264 --> 00:23:45,889 Keller, and Jacobson. 334 00:23:46,139 --> 00:23:49,014 -You can say that again. 335 00:23:56,430 --> 00:23:58,990 - See, I was... - You are, aren't you? 336 00:23:59,014 --> 00:24:00,014 -What? 337 00:24:01,014 --> 00:24:05,240 -Well, you know, I just said "You can say that again." 338 00:24:05,264 --> 00:24:07,406 And so I thought maybe as a joke, you know, you might say it again, 339 00:24:07,430 --> 00:24:08,406 right? 340 00:24:08,430 --> 00:24:09,406 Oh, no, I wasn't. 341 00:24:09,430 --> 00:24:10,156 - No? - No. 342 00:24:10,180 --> 00:24:12,305 -You're so funny. 343 00:24:19,014 --> 00:24:20,014 Oh. 344 00:24:22,472 --> 00:24:25,573 But that was really funny with Sanders today. 345 00:24:25,597 --> 00:24:26,615 -Oh, it's... it's not hard. 346 00:24:26,639 --> 00:24:28,573 He's such a slow-moving target. 347 00:24:28,597 --> 00:24:30,240 -I mean, you should've seen his face when he opened up 348 00:24:30,264 --> 00:24:33,264 that envelope from the opposing attorney thinking it was his own brief. 349 00:24:34,264 --> 00:24:35,464 -Really? 350 00:24:36,597 --> 00:24:38,573 -I wanna know, how did you get the nerve... 351 00:24:38,597 --> 00:24:41,740 to send the opposing attorney all of Sanders' evidence in the case. 352 00:24:41,764 --> 00:24:45,115 I mean, couldn't they, like, have arrested you or something? 353 00:24:45,139 --> 00:24:47,073 -See, what I don't get is th... is they sent it back without even 354 00:24:47,097 --> 00:24:48,740 opening it. 355 00:24:48,764 --> 00:24:50,573 -I mean, they don't care about what's right and wrong in these cases. 356 00:24:50,597 --> 00:24:51,406 It's... its completely rigged. 357 00:24:51,430 --> 00:24:52,906 It's like a... it's like junior high school. 358 00:24:52,930 --> 00:24:54,323 It's like a big club. 359 00:24:54,347 --> 00:24:56,448 -They're gonna fire you eventually, you know. 360 00:24:56,472 --> 00:24:59,740 -It's they feel guilty about me. 361 00:24:59,764 --> 00:25:01,240 It's they know I'm right. 362 00:25:01,264 --> 00:25:02,948 And to fire me would only prove their own guilt. 363 00:25:02,972 --> 00:25:07,490 It's just... -I wouldn't be too sure of that. 364 00:25:07,514 --> 00:25:08,740 -You know, I save their asses daily. 365 00:25:08,764 --> 00:25:14,404 For what they pay me, they're not gonna fire me. 366 00:25:16,972 --> 00:25:21,823 -You know... when I first got to the firm, 367 00:25:21,847 --> 00:25:25,448 I thought that you were one of... one of the partners. 368 00:25:25,472 --> 00:25:26,672 -Really? 369 00:25:28,264 --> 00:25:30,740 And, you know, the way that you walked around... 370 00:25:30,764 --> 00:25:34,240 talking to everybody, I thought you were one of the lawyers. 371 00:25:34,264 --> 00:25:35,073 -This is a joke, right? 372 00:25:35,097 --> 00:25:37,656 You... you're kidding. 373 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,740 I mean, in a good way, you know? 374 00:25:40,764 --> 00:25:43,639 You seemed... important. 375 00:25:44,347 --> 00:25:46,406 And, of course, the way that you dress differently from the other 376 00:25:46,430 --> 00:25:47,656 paralegals. 377 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,323 -Oh... it's just an old suit. 378 00:25:50,347 --> 00:25:56,281 -Yeah, well, none of the other paralegals wear suits. 379 00:25:56,305 --> 00:25:57,740 -Well, you don't think I wear a suit so that people will think 380 00:25:57,764 --> 00:26:00,389 I'm a lawyer, do you? 381 00:26:02,764 --> 00:26:05,948 I don't know, I never really thought about it. 382 00:26:05,972 --> 00:26:07,448 -Oh, good. 383 00:26:07,472 --> 00:26:09,406 'Cause it would kill me if I thought I was anything like those guys. 384 00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:11,448 I... I mean... May... maybe I should wear those, you know, 385 00:26:11,472 --> 00:26:12,573 those button-down shirts, you know, 386 00:26:12,597 --> 00:26:14,240 with the... with the khaki pants, you know, 387 00:26:14,264 --> 00:26:15,406 and the desert boots and all that. 388 00:26:15,430 --> 00:26:16,480 Christ. 389 00:26:21,764 --> 00:26:25,244 No, no, you're not like them. 390 00:26:31,097 --> 00:26:34,240 -Were you disappointed I was just a measly paralegal or...? 391 00:26:34,264 --> 00:26:35,115 -No, I don't care about that. 392 00:26:35,139 --> 00:26:36,906 I'm just saying... I'm just saying that it was funny seeing 393 00:26:36,930 --> 00:26:37,656 you after that, you know? 394 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,330 That's all. 395 00:26:39,764 --> 00:26:41,864 -You shouldn't encourage me, you know. 396 00:26:42,139 --> 00:26:43,406 -Why not? 397 00:26:43,430 --> 00:26:46,180 What are you gonna do? 398 00:26:59,930 --> 00:27:05,948 So... I'm an executive assistant. 399 00:27:05,972 --> 00:27:08,573 -Right, as we established. 400 00:27:08,597 --> 00:27:10,906 -But I made it to Manhattan, you know. 401 00:27:10,930 --> 00:27:12,490 Manhattan's great. 402 00:27:12,514 --> 00:27:14,948 You know that I've lived in this apartment building for over five 403 00:27:14,972 --> 00:27:17,490 years and I've never had a conversation with anybody? 404 00:27:17,514 --> 00:27:18,115 -Really? 405 00:27:18,139 --> 00:27:22,406 -I mean, some of them I don't even say hello to. 406 00:27:22,430 --> 00:27:24,406 -Where'd you grow up? 407 00:27:24,430 --> 00:27:26,823 -Oh, just outside the city in Westchester. 408 00:27:26,847 --> 00:27:31,240 That must have been great, -Yeah, it was okay. 409 00:27:31,264 --> 00:27:32,781 -Yeah, I always wanted to live in Manhattan. 410 00:27:32,805 --> 00:27:34,615 I don't know why. 411 00:27:34,639 --> 00:27:38,573 I can't explain it really but, you know... 412 00:27:38,597 --> 00:27:40,906 You know when there's just something you gotta do, you know? 413 00:27:40,930 --> 00:27:46,322 It's like... something you just... gotta do? 414 00:27:47,097 --> 00:27:49,722 You know what I mean? 415 00:27:57,472 --> 00:28:00,906 When I was 13, I was listening to the Beatles' song, 416 00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:03,240 you know, "She Loves You." 417 00:28:03,264 --> 00:28:09,448 And... I don't know, it's... it's crazy, I shouldn't... Never mind. 418 00:28:09,472 --> 00:28:12,222 -Oh, come on, tell me. 419 00:28:12,972 --> 00:28:15,906 -Well, during the song, I kept hearing my name over and over again. 420 00:28:15,930 --> 00:28:19,650 You know, "Michael, Michael..." 421 00:28:24,764 --> 00:28:26,990 What are you doing? 422 00:28:27,014 --> 00:28:31,115 -Oh, I... No, I was just trying to fit "Michael" in... with the words, 423 00:28:31,139 --> 00:28:32,115 like you said. 424 00:28:32,139 --> 00:28:35,573 -Oh, no, no, it was... it was... subliminal. 425 00:28:35,597 --> 00:28:37,323 It was... the... it was part of the song. 426 00:28:37,347 --> 00:28:41,573 I... I don't... I don't know, I can't explain it now. 427 00:28:41,597 --> 00:28:43,277 -That's cool. 428 00:28:44,639 --> 00:28:47,656 -So why are you looking at me like I'm crazy? 429 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,240 -I'm not looking at you like you're crazy. 430 00:28:51,264 --> 00:28:53,656 I think that's sweet. 431 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:54,880 -Petite. 432 00:28:56,930 --> 00:28:58,281 -What's that? 433 00:28:58,305 --> 00:29:02,115 -No, it's just... I don't know, I just never told anybody about 434 00:29:02,139 --> 00:29:04,573 that, so... -Yeah, no, I know, I understand. 435 00:29:04,597 --> 00:29:07,740 'Cause, you know, I had something like that happen to me once. 436 00:29:07,764 --> 00:29:08,323 -Oh, really? 437 00:29:08,347 --> 00:29:08,948 With the Beatles? 438 00:29:08,972 --> 00:29:09,948 -No. 439 00:29:09,972 --> 00:29:12,573 Not with the Beatles. 440 00:29:12,597 --> 00:29:18,437 I mean, it wasn't so dramatic but, yeah, it was something like that. 441 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,615 -'Cause when I was a kid, I... I loved 'The Iliad.' 442 00:29:23,639 --> 00:29:26,073 See, I wanted to have a... a... a heroic life, 443 00:29:26,097 --> 00:29:27,115 you know, a life of action. 444 00:29:27,139 --> 00:29:27,740 -Is that a good book? 445 00:29:27,764 --> 00:29:28,823 I never read it. 446 00:29:28,847 --> 00:29:30,073 -It's the best. 447 00:29:30,097 --> 00:29:31,240 We used to have these big fights with, 448 00:29:31,264 --> 00:29:33,573 you know, like, garbage can covers and these wooden swords 449 00:29:33,597 --> 00:29:37,948 and I used to... I used to beat everybody, it's just... 450 00:29:37,972 --> 00:29:41,448 That's the international sign for wooden swordplay. 451 00:29:41,472 --> 00:29:42,472 -Oh. 452 00:29:42,639 --> 00:29:45,906 -But I had a very high tolerance to pain. 453 00:29:45,930 --> 00:29:46,930 -Cool. 454 00:29:56,805 --> 00:29:59,906 -Well, so where do you go to college? 455 00:29:59,930 --> 00:30:03,073 This technical school in the Bronx. 456 00:30:03,097 --> 00:30:06,823 It was free 'cause I was a resident. 457 00:30:06,847 --> 00:30:09,490 -Oh, I thought you're from Long Island. 458 00:30:09,514 --> 00:30:14,406 -Yeah, I was born on Long Island but, you know, I moved around a lot. 459 00:30:14,430 --> 00:30:16,740 -Where'd you go to school? 460 00:30:16,764 --> 00:30:18,114 -Harvard. 461 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,073 -You mean the Harvard? 462 00:30:22,097 --> 00:30:24,948 -Yeah, it's no big deal. 463 00:30:24,972 --> 00:30:28,073 -You know, I always wanted to go to a real college. 464 00:30:28,097 --> 00:30:32,240 Like, an Ivy League school or something like that. 465 00:30:32,264 --> 00:30:35,156 But, my parents, they... they didn't want me to. 466 00:30:35,180 --> 00:30:37,490 See, they wanted me to work for my uncle. 467 00:30:37,514 --> 00:30:38,740 And I said that I'd never do that. 468 00:30:38,764 --> 00:30:41,781 You know, I'd rather kill myself first. 469 00:30:41,805 --> 00:30:43,485 But Harvard? 470 00:30:45,097 --> 00:30:45,781 -I hated it. 471 00:30:45,805 --> 00:30:47,406 It was stupid. 472 00:30:47,430 --> 00:30:48,281 -You shouldn't say that, you know. 473 00:30:48,305 --> 00:30:49,781 People would kill to go there. 474 00:30:49,805 --> 00:30:51,448 -People do kill to go there. 475 00:30:51,472 --> 00:30:52,406 Excuse me. 476 00:30:52,430 --> 00:30:54,555 It was totally... 477 00:30:54,597 --> 00:30:56,615 I mean, it's taken me years to overcome the effects of that place. 478 00:30:56,639 --> 00:31:01,406 It was totally... you know, racist and sexist and corrupt and... 479 00:31:01,430 --> 00:31:03,740 -Well, I'm impressed. 480 00:31:03,764 --> 00:31:05,764 -Yeah, don't be. 481 00:31:22,347 --> 00:31:25,740 I watch you at work, you know? 482 00:31:25,764 --> 00:31:27,764 -You do, do you? 483 00:31:28,639 --> 00:31:31,906 -You're doing something, aren't you? 484 00:31:31,930 --> 00:31:33,406 -What do you mean? 485 00:31:33,430 --> 00:31:37,630 -Well, you keep writing things down. 486 00:31:37,805 --> 00:31:39,073 -Writing things down? 487 00:31:39,097 --> 00:31:40,073 -Yeah, you did it just before. 488 00:31:40,097 --> 00:31:41,406 It's in your jacket pocket. 489 00:31:41,430 --> 00:31:41,948 -Oh! 490 00:31:41,972 --> 00:31:42,573 That. 491 00:31:42,597 --> 00:31:45,597 I'm... just taking a note. 492 00:31:47,097 --> 00:31:48,448 -I knew it. 493 00:31:48,472 --> 00:31:50,948 You know, I was saying to myself... 494 00:31:50,972 --> 00:31:54,240 "He's doing something, he's... he's... writing something. 495 00:31:54,264 --> 00:31:59,281 He's writing something like, like maybe a book?" 496 00:31:59,305 --> 00:32:04,830 -Oh, no, no, it's just... It's notes. 497 00:32:25,139 --> 00:32:28,990 Did somebody say something about a book? 498 00:32:29,014 --> 00:32:30,014 -No. 499 00:32:33,014 --> 00:32:37,214 But that's what you're doing, right? 500 00:32:38,264 --> 00:32:46,384 I don't really, wanna talk about it 'cause, -Come on, you can tell me. 501 00:32:51,764 --> 00:32:54,490 -Well, I... I don't really like to talk about it, 'cause... 502 00:32:54,514 --> 00:32:58,834 -I'm not gonna tell anyone, trust me. 503 00:33:06,430 --> 00:33:09,247 Well, you'd have to promise that... -I promise. 504 00:33:14,972 --> 00:33:20,281 -Well, I'm writing a... Well, it's... it's gonna be a book. 505 00:33:20,305 --> 00:33:21,985 That is cool. 506 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,406 -Yeah, I'm... I'm writing a book about lawyers. 507 00:33:24,430 --> 00:33:25,490 -Really? 508 00:33:25,514 --> 00:33:27,514 What's it about? 509 00:33:28,264 --> 00:33:29,573 - Well, it's... - it's gonna be called. 510 00:33:29,597 --> 00:33:31,448 'The Business of Justice.' 511 00:33:31,472 --> 00:33:33,490 See, a lot of people handling me wanted me to call it, 512 00:33:33,514 --> 00:33:36,240 'Justice for Sale, ' but that's too commercial. 513 00:33:36,264 --> 00:33:36,781 It's the wrong audience. 514 00:33:36,805 --> 00:33:39,230 This is not an axe-grinding kind of book, it's... 515 00:33:39,930 --> 00:33:42,990 See, it's about, how money drives the system, 516 00:33:43,014 --> 00:33:45,156 how right and wrong and good and bad have become relative terms 517 00:33:45,180 --> 00:33:47,781 in relation to the economic weight they carry. 518 00:33:47,805 --> 00:33:48,740 See, I'm writing about all those, 519 00:33:48,764 --> 00:33:50,740 you know, lonely, damaged, crippled people. 520 00:33:50,764 --> 00:33:53,180 You know... you know, the people that make this country what it is. 521 00:33:53,472 --> 00:33:56,948 I mean, the things I've seen working at that firm... 522 00:33:56,972 --> 00:33:59,490 -They're gonna be pissed off at you. 523 00:33:59,514 --> 00:34:00,514 -Good. 524 00:34:01,097 --> 00:34:04,240 -What, you're not afraid of what they could do to you? 525 00:34:04,264 --> 00:34:06,573 -What are they gonna do to me? 526 00:34:06,597 --> 00:34:08,615 I mean, I don't have anything. 527 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:10,448 See, I'm the kind of person that thinks... 528 00:34:10,472 --> 00:34:12,281 "Why do you have to be in a museum and... and look at 529 00:34:12,305 --> 00:34:15,281 paintings if you can paint your own painting?" 530 00:34:15,305 --> 00:34:16,281 You know, do things for yourself. 531 00:34:16,305 --> 00:34:18,490 I mean, do you have somebody come in and sleep with your wife for you? 532 00:34:18,514 --> 00:34:20,615 Do you have... do you pay somebody to eat your food for you? 533 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:22,406 I mean, do things yourself, that's what life's about. 534 00:34:22,430 --> 00:34:25,948 I... I... There's so many people doing things they hate. 535 00:34:25,972 --> 00:34:27,906 I mean, you have people running the country who... all they care 536 00:34:27,930 --> 00:34:29,573 about is keeping their jobs but not doing their jobs. 537 00:34:29,597 --> 00:34:32,305 I mean, there's so little real love in any of the work that I see. 538 00:34:33,264 --> 00:34:34,944 I've been... 539 00:34:45,597 --> 00:34:48,615 I've been in many "in camera" sessions. 540 00:34:48,639 --> 00:34:49,490 In... in camera. 541 00:34:49,514 --> 00:34:51,448 Do you know what that means? 542 00:34:51,472 --> 00:34:53,472 -Y... no, I... no. 543 00:34:56,180 --> 00:34:57,406 - It means... - "in camera" is Latin. 544 00:34:57,430 --> 00:34:58,406 It means "in the room." 545 00:34:58,430 --> 00:34:59,448 In camera, in the room. 546 00:34:59,472 --> 00:35:01,990 It means anything said in the room has to stay there. 547 00:35:02,014 --> 00:35:05,073 But if you don't understand something, just, just ask me. 548 00:35:05,097 --> 00:35:06,073 -Oh, yeah, I know, I know. 549 00:35:06,097 --> 00:35:08,573 But they, you know, they... they get upset with me whenever 550 00:35:08,597 --> 00:35:11,281 I do, so I... -Oh, you can't let them do that do you. 551 00:35:11,305 --> 00:35:12,906 You have to get over that. 552 00:35:12,930 --> 00:35:16,290 -Yeah, I know, you're right. 553 00:35:25,264 --> 00:35:26,740 -I carry this old tape recorder. 554 00:35:26,764 --> 00:35:27,656 No, no, no. 555 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,305 The things I've recorded, I'm gonna blow them out of the water. 556 00:35:31,972 --> 00:35:33,948 -That is... I can't believe that, you know? 557 00:35:33,972 --> 00:35:36,448 I mean, it's like I've worked for... in offices, 558 00:35:36,472 --> 00:35:38,990 you know, for years, but I've never even bothered myself to 559 00:35:39,014 --> 00:35:40,694 get involved. 560 00:35:41,014 --> 00:35:43,740 -I don't know, I... I guess I just, you know, feel responsible. 561 00:35:43,764 --> 00:35:46,014 -Yeah, no, I know. 562 00:35:46,514 --> 00:35:50,073 I guess it's... it's different for you. 563 00:35:50,097 --> 00:35:50,573 -What? 564 00:35:50,597 --> 00:35:52,930 I mean, do you feel intimidated or... -No. 565 00:35:54,764 --> 00:35:57,573 I guess it must be like... a background thing. 566 00:35:57,597 --> 00:35:59,240 You know, like where you grew up. 567 00:35:59,264 --> 00:35:59,990 Something like that. 568 00:36:00,014 --> 00:36:03,854 -You mean like the Harvard thing. 569 00:36:09,180 --> 00:36:11,948 Oh, no, I was just... kidding. 570 00:36:11,972 --> 00:36:13,722 It was a joke. 571 00:36:42,764 --> 00:36:50,264 So... you... you must have read a lot of, you know, law... law books. 572 00:36:50,930 --> 00:36:52,656 - What? - Law books, you must... -Oh, law books! 573 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:53,740 I we... I went to law school. 574 00:36:53,764 --> 00:36:57,406 -Oh, you went to law school, -Yeah, but I... but I didn't finish. 575 00:36:57,430 --> 00:36:58,906 Well, what happened? 576 00:36:58,930 --> 00:37:00,240 I mean, if you don't mind me asking. 577 00:37:00,264 --> 00:37:01,264 -Oh! 578 00:37:01,305 --> 00:37:02,573 No, I had enough credits. 579 00:37:02,597 --> 00:37:08,805 I mean, almost enough... to graduate and... -Well, you just left? 580 00:37:09,597 --> 00:37:12,115 -It was an act of personal protest. 581 00:37:12,139 --> 00:37:12,781 You know, against the system. 582 00:37:12,805 --> 00:37:14,156 I couldn't take it anymore. 583 00:37:14,180 --> 00:37:18,930 I had to take a stand and... -You're amazing. 584 00:37:34,305 --> 00:37:38,323 So... you want some desert? 585 00:37:38,347 --> 00:37:41,247 Oh, no, I'm pretty full. 586 00:37:45,014 --> 00:37:47,406 You want some coffee? 587 00:37:47,430 --> 00:37:52,740 Oh, you know... -You want something to drink? 588 00:37:52,764 --> 00:37:56,490 I mean, you know, I've got, I've got some hard stuff. 589 00:37:56,514 --> 00:37:58,514 -Oh, like drugs. 590 00:38:05,805 --> 00:38:08,281 Oh, but that was... that was really good. 591 00:38:08,305 --> 00:38:10,805 - That was... - Thanks. 592 00:38:11,264 --> 00:38:17,624 You know, I just... threw it together over the weekend. 593 00:38:33,264 --> 00:38:41,240 So... so, you... you're writing a book about the firm? 594 00:38:41,264 --> 00:38:45,230 Oh, well, no, it's not really about them, it's... 595 00:38:45,430 --> 00:38:47,448 -You've been working on it a long time? 596 00:38:47,472 --> 00:38:50,222 Yeah, almost 15 years. 597 00:38:50,930 --> 00:38:52,281 -You've been at the firm that long? 598 00:38:52,305 --> 00:38:53,656 -Oh, no, no, no. 599 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:54,880 Only 13. 600 00:38:55,430 --> 00:38:56,430 -Oh. 601 00:38:57,305 --> 00:38:58,573 Oh, 13 years? 602 00:38:58,597 --> 00:39:00,073 Oh, my God! 603 00:39:00,097 --> 00:39:02,573 That's like a kid's whole lifetime. 604 00:39:02,597 --> 00:39:08,805 I mean, you know, like if a kid... You know, if the kid... 605 00:39:15,305 --> 00:39:19,240 So, you must've, written a lot of it already. 606 00:39:19,264 --> 00:39:22,384 Oh, yeah, I'm almost done. 607 00:39:23,264 --> 00:39:25,240 That's so exciting. 608 00:39:25,264 --> 00:39:28,323 -Yeah, well, it's... I'm just doing what I have to do. 609 00:39:28,347 --> 00:39:31,073 -Well, maybe I could help you. 610 00:39:31,097 --> 00:39:32,906 -Oh, I don't know. 611 00:39:32,930 --> 00:39:34,990 -What, are you afraid I'm gonna screw it up for you or something? 612 00:39:35,014 --> 00:39:36,073 -Oh, no, no, nothing like that. 613 00:39:36,097 --> 00:39:42,781 It's just... Well, I'm probably gonna... end up losing my job and I... I 614 00:39:42,805 --> 00:39:45,406 couldn't expect you to lose yours 'cause... 615 00:39:45,430 --> 00:39:48,156 I mean, I'll end up with a book, you know? 616 00:39:48,180 --> 00:39:49,180 -Yeah. 617 00:39:49,805 --> 00:39:50,805 Right. 618 00:39:51,305 --> 00:39:52,505 I guess. 619 00:40:08,430 --> 00:40:10,448 -You know the Sanders case? 620 00:40:10,472 --> 00:40:12,448 -You know, the one I was telling you about? 621 00:40:12,472 --> 00:40:14,115 Well, it's about this young kid. 622 00:40:14,139 --> 00:40:17,823 And there's guy who's obviously abusing the kid and he's using 623 00:40:17,847 --> 00:40:20,406 the firm to get custody. 624 00:40:20,430 --> 00:40:23,573 It's completely disgusting and... 625 00:40:23,597 --> 00:40:25,323 the lawyers at the firm know what they're doing is wrong and 626 00:40:25,347 --> 00:40:26,240 they keep doing it. 627 00:40:26,264 --> 00:40:27,656 I mean, they couldn't need the money. 628 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:28,823 I mean, how much money could they need? 629 00:40:28,847 --> 00:40:32,906 And they know this is never going to end and... 630 00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:37,370 So, I... I'm recording the whole thing. 631 00:40:37,597 --> 00:40:42,156 And... I'm gonna write about, you know, those lonely, 632 00:40:42,180 --> 00:40:46,156 damaged, you know, crippled people and... 633 00:40:46,180 --> 00:40:47,948 And, you know, even if I only help a little bit, 634 00:40:47,972 --> 00:40:50,240 I'll feel like I've done some good. 635 00:40:50,264 --> 00:40:54,740 -God, it even sounds like a book when you talk. 636 00:40:54,764 --> 00:40:57,740 -Well, I... I shouldn't, you know... I... I'm talking about 637 00:40:57,764 --> 00:40:59,740 too much, but... -No, no! 638 00:40:59,764 --> 00:41:02,906 I mean... it's great to hear you talk about something you're excited 639 00:41:02,930 --> 00:41:04,930 about, you know? 640 00:41:06,097 --> 00:41:10,281 -Well, I think it's important to have a sense of history. 641 00:41:10,305 --> 00:41:13,240 Like, you see, like, when I think about where I am... 642 00:41:13,264 --> 00:41:15,889 -I mean, I feel okay. 643 00:41:16,764 --> 00:41:20,073 I mean, 'cause... like... like, think back on the 19th Century. 644 00:41:20,097 --> 00:41:22,948 You know, these doctors and lawyers and... politicians and, 645 00:41:22,972 --> 00:41:24,823 you know, people getting rich and seeming famous, 646 00:41:24,847 --> 00:41:27,573 and I bet, like, if you asked people back then who'd be 647 00:41:27,597 --> 00:41:30,406 remembered, they'd come up with a list of people that... 648 00:41:30,430 --> 00:41:32,805 you know, you... you know, you've never heard of, and... 649 00:41:34,139 --> 00:41:35,615 You know, a huge percentage of the people we honor today were 650 00:41:35,639 --> 00:41:40,847 completely obscure back then, like, Van Gogh and... 651 00:41:41,014 --> 00:41:44,281 and Emily Dickinson and... and Schubert. 652 00:41:44,305 --> 00:41:46,740 You know, and... and it just... it makes me laugh when 653 00:41:46,764 --> 00:41:48,823 I think about those self-important people, you know? 654 00:41:48,847 --> 00:41:51,323 Like the partners at the firm who... 655 00:41:51,347 --> 00:41:52,906 you know, they'll... they'll be dead soon and no one's gonna 656 00:41:52,930 --> 00:41:55,240 mention their name again ever, even in contempt. 657 00:41:55,264 --> 00:42:02,073 It's j... -Well, what about their families? 658 00:42:02,097 --> 00:42:02,781 -Well, that doesn't mean anything. 659 00:42:02,805 --> 00:42:04,906 I mean... I mean, who else are they gonna talk about? 660 00:42:04,930 --> 00:42:05,906 It's just... that's happenstance. 661 00:42:05,930 --> 00:42:09,573 -No, no, I... See, I don't think that people feel that way about their 662 00:42:09,597 --> 00:42:10,947 families. 663 00:42:14,097 --> 00:42:18,448 -Well, I... well, I... I don't know, would you wanna be... 664 00:42:18,472 --> 00:42:19,240 part of Keller's family? 665 00:42:19,264 --> 00:42:21,823 Imagine him being, like, your father or your brother or... 666 00:42:21,847 --> 00:42:23,597 -Your husband? 667 00:42:26,305 --> 00:42:29,073 -No, I... couldn't imagine that. 668 00:42:29,097 --> 00:42:31,073 But, no, I mean, I bet if he gave people in his family, 669 00:42:31,097 --> 00:42:35,374 you know, like, the choice, I mean, they'd dump him in a second. 670 00:42:38,264 --> 00:42:40,240 I'm talking too much about this. 671 00:42:40,264 --> 00:42:41,264 -Yeah. 672 00:42:42,514 --> 00:42:45,823 - What do you mean? - No, I'm only joking. 673 00:42:45,847 --> 00:42:47,573 I mean, it's really... it's really good to hear you talk 674 00:42:47,597 --> 00:42:50,823 about something you're excited about. 675 00:42:50,847 --> 00:42:52,073 -Yeah, I... I guess 'cause I... you know, 676 00:42:52,097 --> 00:42:54,490 I never talk about it, when I get going, it's, like, hard to stop. 677 00:42:54,514 --> 00:42:55,823 -Yeah, well, I don't know. 678 00:42:55,847 --> 00:42:58,573 Guys do that when they're scared. 679 00:42:58,597 --> 00:43:00,740 -Oh, no, I'm not scared, it's... 680 00:43:00,764 --> 00:43:03,240 I don't know, I just feel like I have something to say. 681 00:43:03,264 --> 00:43:04,740 I mean, not, like... you know, like... not like the other 682 00:43:04,764 --> 00:43:07,264 lawyers at the firm. 683 00:43:07,347 --> 00:43:11,406 -Well, do you see me inviting them home for dinner? 684 00:43:11,430 --> 00:43:14,323 -Oh, n... I didn't mean it like th... I was... didn't mean it... 685 00:43:14,347 --> 00:43:16,722 -Trust me, I don't. 686 00:43:22,347 --> 00:43:24,240 -No, s... I mean, I can't believe the kind of 687 00:43:24,264 --> 00:43:26,490 relationships that people have. 688 00:43:26,514 --> 00:43:29,180 -You know, it's... it's amazing, the things that people settle for. 689 00:43:29,264 --> 00:43:30,948 You know, if someone is... like, if you're walking along the 690 00:43:30,972 --> 00:43:33,281 street and, like, you see a couple, 691 00:43:33,305 --> 00:43:37,156 and... and it's, like, hard to imagine them sleeping together? 692 00:43:37,180 --> 00:43:40,300 -Right, like your parents. 693 00:43:40,472 --> 00:43:41,990 -My parents? 694 00:43:42,014 --> 00:43:43,014 -No. 695 00:43:43,305 --> 00:43:44,990 Not your parents. 696 00:43:45,014 --> 00:43:46,281 -Well, what do you mean? 697 00:43:46,305 --> 00:43:47,955 -Forget it. 698 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,740 -Well, you don't have to apologize. 699 00:43:51,764 --> 00:43:54,448 -All right, well, like, when I was younger, you know? 700 00:43:54,472 --> 00:43:56,490 And I was growing up and I was learning about the facts of life 701 00:43:56,514 --> 00:43:58,740 and all that, it was always hard for me, 702 00:43:58,764 --> 00:44:02,948 you know, to believe that my parents actually... did it. 703 00:44:02,972 --> 00:44:07,097 You know, it kinda... kinda creeped me out. 704 00:44:07,639 --> 00:44:08,639 -Oh. 705 00:44:09,180 --> 00:44:10,990 So you think I'm projecting my parental incest 706 00:44:11,014 --> 00:44:16,294 fantasies onto the authority figures at work. 707 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:20,573 -You're joking with me, aren't you? 708 00:44:20,597 --> 00:44:21,406 -Who, me? 709 00:44:21,430 --> 00:44:22,430 -Oh! 710 00:44:22,597 --> 00:44:24,597 That is so cool. 711 00:44:32,639 --> 00:44:37,439 -So, do you... do you want something else? 712 00:44:38,264 --> 00:44:40,014 -No, I'm okay. 713 00:44:40,097 --> 00:44:41,097 -Yeah? 714 00:44:58,014 --> 00:45:01,134 What, did I say something? 715 00:45:02,972 --> 00:45:04,740 -Oh, no, I just never tell anybody about what I'm doing. 716 00:45:04,764 --> 00:45:07,764 You know, the... the book. 717 00:45:08,097 --> 00:45:09,747 -What book? 718 00:45:12,139 --> 00:45:13,073 -Right. 719 00:45:13,097 --> 00:45:14,906 -I just... you know, it makes me nervous. 720 00:45:14,930 --> 00:45:18,781 -I don't know what you're talkin' about. 721 00:45:18,805 --> 00:45:27,406 -Well, a... anyway... -Yeah, I do a little writing too. 722 00:45:27,430 --> 00:45:29,115 - Really? - Yeah. 723 00:45:29,139 --> 00:45:32,740 Well, it's just since I've come to Manhattan. 724 00:45:32,764 --> 00:45:37,222 -Like, plays or novels or... No, no, just, stories. 725 00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,156 That's really interesting. 726 00:45:40,180 --> 00:45:41,906 -Yeah, I don't tell people either. 727 00:45:41,930 --> 00:45:43,280 Like you. 728 00:45:43,764 --> 00:45:46,323 Well, maybe not like you, 'cause it's not like I have anything to 729 00:45:46,347 --> 00:45:48,722 say like you and... 730 00:45:49,305 --> 00:45:51,406 I don't know, I don't wanna seem like a snob or anything, 731 00:45:51,430 --> 00:45:53,555 but I don't know. 732 00:45:53,764 --> 00:46:00,156 But... I'm actually embarrassed by, by writing stories. 733 00:46:00,180 --> 00:46:01,180 -Why? 734 00:46:02,930 --> 00:46:05,073 -All right, I'll tell you. 735 00:46:05,097 --> 00:46:08,281 You see, I write children's stories. 736 00:46:08,305 --> 00:46:10,573 -You know, kids' stories. 737 00:46:10,597 --> 00:46:11,240 -Yeah. 738 00:46:11,264 --> 00:46:12,906 -Bedtime kinds of things... -Right, right. 739 00:46:12,930 --> 00:46:14,115 -And I just... I just feel kinda 740 00:46:14,139 --> 00:46:15,948 - stupid, that's all. - Oh, you shouldn't. 741 00:46:15,972 --> 00:46:18,156 You know, a lot... a lot of great writers... 742 00:46:18,180 --> 00:46:19,781 they... they write, children's stories, 743 00:46:19,805 --> 00:46:25,597 like, Stevenson and Tolkien and Swift and... -Oh, yeah. 744 00:46:26,097 --> 00:46:29,817 I never really thought of that. 745 00:46:32,014 --> 00:46:37,414 -Well, maybe you can show them to me sometime. 746 00:46:38,972 --> 00:46:41,781 You know that, I was attracted to you because I 747 00:46:41,805 --> 00:46:44,925 thought you were a writer? 748 00:46:56,930 --> 00:46:58,906 I mean, I never meet writers. 749 00:46:58,930 --> 00:46:59,930 Right? 750 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,740 I went to some of those poetry things I read about, 751 00:47:04,764 --> 00:47:06,823 a couple of years ago in The Voice. 752 00:47:06,847 --> 00:47:08,406 But I didn't know what anybody was talking about. 753 00:47:08,430 --> 00:47:09,740 It was crazy. 754 00:47:09,764 --> 00:47:12,073 And then this guy hit on me and I felt... I felt so stupid, 755 00:47:12,097 --> 00:47:13,972 I had to leave. 756 00:47:15,639 --> 00:47:19,115 Oh, and then I bought that, that magazine, The New Yorker. 757 00:47:19,139 --> 00:47:20,240 Do you know that magazine? 758 00:47:20,264 --> 00:47:20,948 - Yeah. - Yeah? 759 00:47:20,972 --> 00:47:21,740 Yeah. 760 00:47:21,764 --> 00:47:23,323 Well, I... I mean, I never opened it up. 761 00:47:23,347 --> 00:47:24,781 You know, I felt... 762 00:47:24,805 --> 00:47:26,823 I was so afraid that... that somebody would find it on my 763 00:47:26,847 --> 00:47:28,847 coffee table, so. 764 00:47:36,347 --> 00:47:38,406 But I like lyrics. 765 00:47:38,430 --> 00:47:41,073 I don't get some of it sometimes, but I think it's cool. 766 00:47:41,097 --> 00:47:42,281 Do you like lyrics? 767 00:47:42,305 --> 00:47:44,430 - Sometimes. - Yeah? 768 00:47:46,264 --> 00:47:49,990 So... I go to work every day, you know? 769 00:47:50,014 --> 00:47:52,656 And on the weekends, I write these little stories, -you know? 770 00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,406 -And I'm really lonely and I miss my family and everything 771 00:47:55,430 --> 00:47:59,406 and, well, I call them and... they never know what to say to me. 772 00:47:59,430 --> 00:48:01,823 They feel like I'm not the same person, you know? 773 00:48:01,847 --> 00:48:03,906 Well, you know families. 774 00:48:03,930 --> 00:48:06,073 I mean, I really enjoyed growing up with my brothers and sisters 775 00:48:06,097 --> 00:48:07,240 and everything, you know? 776 00:48:07,264 --> 00:48:10,240 It was one of those big family kinds of things and everything. 777 00:48:10,264 --> 00:48:14,839 And... Oh, God. 778 00:48:15,097 --> 00:48:16,490 I'm really going on, aren't I? 779 00:48:16,514 --> 00:48:17,823 -Oh, no, no. 780 00:48:17,847 --> 00:48:19,490 -Are you dying over there? 781 00:48:19,514 --> 00:48:21,764 -No, no, I'm fine. 782 00:48:22,264 --> 00:48:24,264 - Really? - Really. 783 00:48:25,139 --> 00:48:27,389 -But I like music. 784 00:48:31,430 --> 00:48:35,740 To me, that's where some of the best writing is. 785 00:48:35,764 --> 00:48:37,781 Like I said before, you know? 786 00:48:37,805 --> 00:48:39,555 In the lyrics? 787 00:48:40,430 --> 00:48:42,740 Sometimes, I go into used record stores just to sit and read the 788 00:48:42,764 --> 00:48:44,240 words to the music. 789 00:48:44,264 --> 00:48:47,448 -Oh, you mean, like the... like librettos. 790 00:48:47,472 --> 00:48:48,472 -Yeah. 791 00:48:48,597 --> 00:48:50,347 The librettos. 792 00:49:07,847 --> 00:49:10,156 But I like Air Supply. 793 00:49:10,180 --> 00:49:14,620 Do you know that group from Australia? 794 00:49:21,097 --> 00:49:22,097 No? 795 00:49:25,514 --> 00:49:27,281 And Deep Purple. 796 00:49:27,305 --> 00:49:28,115 Yeah. 797 00:49:28,139 --> 00:49:30,240 Well, with Deep Purple, it's not so much, 798 00:49:30,264 --> 00:49:31,906 it's not so much the words, you know. 799 00:49:31,930 --> 00:49:36,615 It's more... it's more of a musical thing. 800 00:49:36,639 --> 00:49:38,740 I used to go to all their concerts when I was younger, 801 00:49:38,764 --> 00:49:41,323 you know, and I'd go crazy. 802 00:49:41,347 --> 00:49:42,448 Well, that's when I was living in, 803 00:49:42,472 --> 00:49:45,073 in Queens before I moved to Manhattan. 804 00:49:45,097 --> 00:49:50,805 I was still waistressing and... I mean waitressing. 805 00:49:52,264 --> 00:49:54,073 And, you know, all the people I used to hang out with, 806 00:49:54,097 --> 00:49:56,573 it was like, they didn't go so much for, 807 00:49:56,597 --> 00:49:59,573 like, the words or... or the music or... 808 00:49:59,597 --> 00:50:02,780 I mean, it was more like the drugs, you know? 809 00:50:02,972 --> 00:50:06,740 The fooling around on the beach after the concert. 810 00:50:06,764 --> 00:50:10,573 God, I wonder where all those people went. 811 00:50:10,597 --> 00:50:11,490 You know? 812 00:50:11,514 --> 00:50:12,406 There were zillions of them. 813 00:50:12,430 --> 00:50:14,323 There were zillions of... 814 00:50:14,347 --> 00:50:17,323 waitresses, secretaries that I used to hang out with, you know? 815 00:50:17,347 --> 00:50:22,147 And we used to do all that kind of stuff. 816 00:50:28,639 --> 00:50:34,781 Yeah, but I'd love to hear one of your stories sometime. 817 00:50:34,805 --> 00:50:38,740 -Well, I mean, I could read you one. 818 00:50:38,764 --> 00:50:40,656 -Oh, you mean now? 819 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:41,823 -No, not now. 820 00:50:41,847 --> 00:50:44,139 I don't know, maybe some other time, right? 821 00:50:49,180 --> 00:50:51,615 Why... why don't you? 822 00:50:51,639 --> 00:50:52,906 -You're just saying that. 823 00:50:52,930 --> 00:50:55,906 -Oh, no, no, I'd r... I'd really like to hear one. 824 00:50:55,930 --> 00:50:57,573 -You mean it? 825 00:50:57,597 --> 00:50:58,948 -You gotta stop being so insecure. 826 00:50:58,972 --> 00:51:00,990 I'd really like to hear it. 827 00:51:01,014 --> 00:51:02,214 -Really? 828 00:51:02,764 --> 00:51:03,964 -Really. 829 00:51:05,472 --> 00:51:06,672 -Well... 830 00:51:12,764 --> 00:51:13,764 Okay. 831 00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,448 I could tell by your face you don't wanna hear this. 832 00:52:25,472 --> 00:52:26,115 -Oh, no, no. 833 00:52:26,139 --> 00:52:27,990 I... I wanna hear it. 834 00:52:28,014 --> 00:52:30,906 - Are you sure? - Yeah, yeah. 835 00:52:30,930 --> 00:52:31,930 -Okay. 836 00:52:46,597 --> 00:52:47,490 'What Happened Was... ' 837 00:52:47,514 --> 00:52:49,740 -Oh, what's... what's the title? 838 00:52:49,764 --> 00:52:51,615 -That is the title. 839 00:52:51,639 --> 00:52:53,615 -'What Happened Was' is the title? 840 00:52:53,639 --> 00:52:55,073 That's good, I like that. 841 00:52:55,097 --> 00:52:55,948 -What's so funny? 842 00:52:55,972 --> 00:52:56,573 -No, no, no! 843 00:52:56,597 --> 00:52:59,972 It's... it's great, it's... really, it's... go on, yeah. 844 00:53:01,472 --> 00:53:03,240 -You know, maybe this isn't a good idea. 845 00:53:03,264 --> 00:53:05,573 -Oh, no, come on, don't be stupid! 846 00:53:05,597 --> 00:53:08,073 -I didn't think I was being stupid. 847 00:53:08,097 --> 00:53:09,823 -Well, I didn't... I didn't mean it like that. 848 00:53:09,847 --> 00:53:13,147 I m... no, I'd really... I'd love to hear it, please. 849 00:53:13,764 --> 00:53:14,964 Come on. 850 00:53:15,264 --> 00:53:17,264 - You sure? - Yeah. 851 00:53:19,180 --> 00:53:20,180 -Okay. 852 00:53:28,014 --> 00:53:32,990 'What Happened Was' by Jac... you know, Jackie Marsh. 853 00:53:33,014 --> 00:53:34,694 -Yeah, go on. 854 00:53:40,514 --> 00:53:45,027 "The Buick Regal screeched out of the Bangagon Tavern parking lot. 855 00:53:45,597 --> 00:53:48,115 Felix was drunk again. 856 00:53:48,139 --> 00:53:51,656 In his lap bobbed the head of one of the topless dancers from 857 00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:53,180 "the club." 858 00:53:53,930 --> 00:53:55,610 "Up and down. 859 00:53:56,097 --> 00:53:59,817 They were going about 90 when... ". 860 00:54:01,347 --> 00:54:02,847 Excuse me. 861 00:54:03,764 --> 00:54:08,740 "The Buick Regal hit the endless curve and lost control." 862 00:54:08,764 --> 00:54:13,156 Sparks lit the black nowhere countryside, revealing a house. 863 00:54:13,180 --> 00:54:16,990 The car flipped as it reamed through the front yard. 864 00:54:17,014 --> 00:54:21,573 The head came... flying out of the car as it exploded in a 865 00:54:21,597 --> 00:54:23,347 woosh of fire. 866 00:54:24,264 --> 00:54:29,448 A fat woman tumbled out of the burning house, her nightgown in flames. 867 00:54:29,472 --> 00:54:33,948 Her skinny husband crawled after down the front steps, 868 00:54:33,972 --> 00:54:36,573 looking for his glasses. 869 00:54:36,597 --> 00:54:39,323 Minnie and Wallace Meanie. 870 00:54:39,347 --> 00:54:42,073 The topless dancer was being bodybagged when, 871 00:54:42,097 --> 00:54:45,156 from behind the house, came the sound of crying. 872 00:54:45,180 --> 00:54:47,615 And even though he couldn't see a thing, 873 00:54:47,639 --> 00:54:51,281 Wallace said, 'Geez, is that a baby?' 874 00:54:51,305 --> 00:54:54,406 'Yeah, isn't it yours?' asked the fireman. 875 00:54:54,430 --> 00:54:58,573 'No, me and Minnie...' trailed off Wallace. 876 00:54:58,597 --> 00:55:01,740 Minnie and Wallace were childless in their middle age, 877 00:55:01,764 --> 00:55:04,406 and at the insistence of Wallace, 878 00:55:04,430 --> 00:55:09,906 they adopted the baby girl and called her 'Mini Minnie.' 879 00:55:09,930 --> 00:55:13,997 The real trouble started when Little Minnie got to be a teenager. 880 00:55:14,430 --> 00:55:17,281 Big Minnie got too fat to go out of the house, 881 00:55:17,305 --> 00:55:21,156 so Wallace got a job selling baseball uniforms to little 882 00:55:21,180 --> 00:55:24,073 league teams across the country. 883 00:55:24,097 --> 00:55:27,740 Big Minnie sat in bed and yelled for her food and made Little. 884 00:55:27,764 --> 00:55:32,281 Minnie go to the mall to rent videos for her. 885 00:55:32,305 --> 00:55:35,573 Little Minnie was walking home from the mall late one night 886 00:55:35,597 --> 00:55:38,323 when a voice came from the ball rushes. 887 00:55:38,347 --> 00:55:44,573 'Minnie... Mini Minnie... I know where you came from, Mini Minnie.' 888 00:55:44,597 --> 00:55:48,990 Minnie was always tortured by not knowing where she came from. 889 00:55:49,014 --> 00:55:51,740 So, she crept into the weeds. 890 00:55:51,764 --> 00:55:54,906 'You know where I came from?' asked Minnie. 891 00:55:54,930 --> 00:55:58,980 Just then, a dark figure grabbed Minnie and pulled her to the ground. 892 00:55:59,430 --> 00:56:02,156 'If you want me to tell you, you must let me do whatever I want 893 00:56:02,180 --> 00:56:04,656 to you, ' hissed the voice. 894 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:08,073 'No, please, can't you just tell me?' 895 00:56:08,097 --> 00:56:10,115 'No, I need the inspiration. 896 00:56:10,139 --> 00:56:12,781 I really need it, bad.' 897 00:56:12,805 --> 00:56:14,990 So Minnie gave in. 898 00:56:15,014 --> 00:56:16,990 He did whatever he wanted to her. 899 00:56:17,014 --> 00:56:19,823 Awful, unspeakable things. 900 00:56:19,847 --> 00:56:22,990 But worse was what he said to her. 901 00:56:23,014 --> 00:56:25,406 'Your mother, she would lay before any man, 902 00:56:25,430 --> 00:56:28,948 at any time, and was always having babies. 903 00:56:28,972 --> 00:56:31,906 But she hated the children, and she needed to hide her 904 00:56:31,930 --> 00:56:34,948 pregnancies from her foolish husband. 905 00:56:34,972 --> 00:56:37,781 She hid them by getting really fat. 906 00:56:37,805 --> 00:56:40,823 And when the babies were born, she didn't know what to do with 907 00:56:40,847 --> 00:56:42,240 the babies. 908 00:56:42,264 --> 00:56:46,990 But being hungry all the time, she ate them.' 909 00:56:47,014 --> 00:56:47,990 'Oh, no. 910 00:56:48,014 --> 00:56:49,781 No, ' screamed Little Minnie. 911 00:56:49,805 --> 00:56:50,781 'Yes. 912 00:56:50,805 --> 00:56:53,448 Yes, that's what she did. 913 00:56:53,472 --> 00:56:56,781 Until one night, when she was having her last baby, 914 00:56:56,805 --> 00:56:59,847 there was a car crash that stopped her from eating her baby. 915 00:57:00,139 --> 00:57:03,573 It crawled away during the confusion.' 916 00:57:03,597 --> 00:57:07,240 'You mean... Minnie is my real mother?' 917 00:57:07,264 --> 00:57:12,180 'Yes, ' hissed the voice as he violated her over and over again. 918 00:57:12,764 --> 00:57:15,740 'No, she can't be, ' screamed Minnie. 919 00:57:15,764 --> 00:57:20,323 The dark figure ran off, leaving Minnie lying in the swamp. 920 00:57:20,347 --> 00:57:24,990 She got up and went out to the road and hitchhiked away. 921 00:57:25,014 --> 00:57:28,240 She worked her way North as a topless go-go dancer. 922 00:57:28,264 --> 00:57:30,573 She was always athletic. 923 00:57:30,597 --> 00:57:34,073 After many nights, Minnie finally c... found the site of 924 00:57:34,097 --> 00:57:35,656 the old Meanie house. 925 00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:37,948 She dug through the burnt timbers, 926 00:57:37,972 --> 00:57:41,240 and in the basement, beneath a charred chrome Buick Regal 927 00:57:41,264 --> 00:57:45,323 insignia, she found a pile of baby bones. 928 00:57:45,347 --> 00:57:49,630 She began, at that moment, her quest to bring Big Minnie to justice. 929 00:57:50,264 --> 00:57:51,906 She worked her way back to Florida, 930 00:57:51,930 --> 00:57:55,240 dancing at the same clubs along the way. 931 00:57:55,264 --> 00:57:58,281 But she started having an awful dream. 932 00:57:58,305 --> 00:58:01,823 It was so awful that it even began to hurt her dancing. 933 00:58:01,847 --> 00:58:05,490 She would wiggle so fiercely, it scared the men in the clubs. 934 00:58:05,514 --> 00:58:08,073 The owners would warn her, but she would reply, 935 00:58:08,097 --> 00:58:11,337 'I can't control my dreams.' 936 00:58:11,639 --> 00:58:15,740 When she got back home, Little Minnie burst in the front door. 937 00:58:15,764 --> 00:58:18,240 Big Minnie screamed, 'Where have you been? 938 00:58:18,264 --> 00:58:21,615 You never came back with my videos or my food.' 939 00:58:21,639 --> 00:58:24,740 Little Minnie rushed at the huge woman in a fury. 940 00:58:24,764 --> 00:58:27,781 Little Minnie grabbed Big Minnie's face and screamed, 941 00:58:27,805 --> 00:58:31,240 'I have something for you to eat, Mother.' 942 00:58:31,264 --> 00:58:33,448 Little Minnie pinned Big Minnie down and shoved all 943 00:58:33,472 --> 00:58:35,990 the baby bones down her throat. 944 00:58:36,014 --> 00:58:37,823 Big Minnie died. 945 00:58:37,847 --> 00:58:40,948 Choked on the bones of her children. 946 00:58:40,972 --> 00:58:45,314 Little Minnie ran away to Miami, where she worked in clubs for months. 947 00:58:45,472 --> 00:58:49,347 Every night, she would wake up screaming and crying from her dream. 948 00:58:52,639 --> 00:58:56,823 At the end of the summer, Little Minnie came to see Wallace. 949 00:58:56,847 --> 00:58:59,823 When he heard her he... coming, he jumped up and they hugged 950 00:58:59,847 --> 00:59:01,823 each other, crying. 951 00:59:01,847 --> 00:59:05,087 Wallace begged her to stay. 952 00:59:06,139 --> 00:59:10,130 So, life went on for a while with Little Minnie living with Wallace. 953 00:59:10,764 --> 00:59:13,948 She worked at Bob's Big Boy Hamburger Joint. 954 00:59:13,972 --> 00:59:17,573 They went duckpin bowling, like in the old days. 955 00:59:17,597 --> 00:59:23,281 But she kept having her dream, over and over, about her twin sister. 956 00:59:23,305 --> 00:59:28,906 She and her sister were unborn twins in Big Minnie's womb. 957 00:59:28,930 --> 00:59:30,906 Through the walls of Big Minnie's body, 958 00:59:30,930 --> 00:59:35,406 she could hear fighting between Wallace and Big Minnie. 959 00:59:35,430 --> 00:59:38,406 Her twin was really scared and stuck her little fingers in her 960 00:59:38,430 --> 00:59:40,110 little ears. 961 00:59:40,514 --> 00:59:42,615 But Little Minnie listened. 962 00:59:42,639 --> 00:59:45,740 She knew there was only one way for her to live. 963 00:59:45,764 --> 00:59:49,073 So she went over and talked to her twin. 964 00:59:49,097 --> 00:59:52,906 She calmed her down and told her that she should go out and 965 00:59:52,930 --> 00:59:55,448 everything would be okay. 966 00:59:55,472 --> 00:59:59,156 Her twin sister was so scared that she agreed to go. 967 00:59:59,180 --> 01:00:02,115 In the dream, her sister was born, 968 01:00:02,139 --> 01:00:04,573 and Little Minnie hid inside Big Minnie, 969 01:00:04,597 --> 01:00:08,073 listening to Wallace kill her sister. 970 01:00:08,097 --> 01:00:11,740 Later that night, Little Minnie snuck out of Big Minnie and was 971 01:00:11,764 --> 01:00:13,514 born secretly. 972 01:00:14,347 --> 01:00:18,448 She crawled into the walls of the house and hid. 973 01:00:18,472 --> 01:00:20,656 She lived there for months. 974 01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:25,490 Late at night, she'd sneak out and eat from the leftover food. 975 01:00:25,514 --> 01:00:29,906 It was very lonely, living in the walls of the house. 976 01:00:29,930 --> 01:00:34,490 "That is, until the night of the crash." 977 01:00:37,514 --> 01:00:40,406 "Right at that moment, Little Minnie woke up, and standing 978 01:00:40,430 --> 01:00:44,240 over her was Wallace smiling at her. 979 01:00:44,264 --> 01:00:48,823 He came closer and whispered, 'I know what you've been dreaming.' 980 01:00:48,847 --> 01:00:51,990 When Little Minnie heard this, she jumped up. 981 01:00:52,014 --> 01:00:55,906 Wallace stood up, laughing like a maniac. 982 01:00:55,930 --> 01:00:57,990 'Dance for me, Minnie. 983 01:00:58,014 --> 01:01:01,823 Dance for me like you dance for all those men. 984 01:01:01,847 --> 01:01:05,240 You and me, we're the same, Minnie. 985 01:01:05,264 --> 01:01:07,014 We're killers. 986 01:01:07,097 --> 01:01:08,740 You killed your twin sister. 987 01:01:08,764 --> 01:01:10,781 I know all about it. 988 01:01:10,805 --> 01:01:13,406 And I know you killed Big Minnie. 989 01:01:13,430 --> 01:01:16,323 Poor, old, fat Big Minnie. 990 01:01:16,347 --> 01:01:18,406 Come back and be with me. 991 01:01:18,430 --> 01:01:20,430 We can be happy. 992 01:01:20,514 --> 01:01:22,240 You knew all about us. 993 01:01:22,264 --> 01:01:24,514 "You always knew.'" 994 01:01:33,305 --> 01:01:35,055 "'You knew... '" 995 01:01:36,847 --> 01:01:40,323 "'You know you were almost a year old..." 996 01:01:40,347 --> 01:01:46,597 When you were found during that... that fire. 997 01:01:46,930 --> 01:01:49,906 You know you lived in the walls of our house. 998 01:01:49,930 --> 01:01:51,448 It all adds up. 999 01:01:51,472 --> 01:01:53,906 You were good at math in school, I know. 1000 01:01:53,930 --> 01:01:56,073 "Come back to me.'" 1001 01:01:56,097 --> 01:01:59,740 "Minnie cried, 'I'll never come near you." 1002 01:01:59,764 --> 01:02:02,240 I'd rather be dead.' 1003 01:02:02,264 --> 01:02:04,740 'But you already have, Minnie. 1004 01:02:04,764 --> 01:02:06,323 Don't you remember that night? 1005 01:02:06,347 --> 01:02:07,847 The swamp? 1006 01:02:07,972 --> 01:02:11,073 When I told you where you came from?' 1007 01:02:11,097 --> 01:02:13,906 'What do you mean?' cried Minnie. 1008 01:02:13,930 --> 01:02:17,281 And in a voice that Minnie remembered... 1009 01:02:17,305 --> 01:02:23,905 Wallace continued hissing, 'I know where you came from.' 1010 01:02:24,097 --> 01:02:26,823 'No, ' screamed Minnie. 1011 01:02:26,847 --> 01:02:27,847 'Yes. 1012 01:02:29,097 --> 01:02:33,657 Now, be a good girl and come to Daddy.' 1013 01:02:35,764 --> 01:02:38,656 Minnie turned and ran out to the road. 1014 01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:40,740 She quickly hitched a ride. 1015 01:02:40,764 --> 01:02:45,647 But this time, she headed west, the place where people go to forget. 1016 01:02:46,472 --> 01:02:50,072 She go-go danced her way west. 1017 01:02:50,305 --> 01:02:52,805 "End of chapter one." 1018 01:03:07,139 --> 01:03:08,339 -Christ. 1019 01:03:09,305 --> 01:03:10,305 -What? 1020 01:03:11,430 --> 01:03:14,910 -That was a children's story? 1021 01:03:16,639 --> 01:03:17,639 -Yeah. 1022 01:03:18,597 --> 01:03:20,781 Didn't you like it? 1023 01:03:20,805 --> 01:03:21,740 -It was great. 1024 01:03:21,764 --> 01:03:24,805 ...it was just... -What? 1025 01:03:24,847 --> 01:03:25,823 -You know, so grown up, you know, 1026 01:03:25,847 --> 01:03:31,014 with the car crashes and the, you know, the... yeah, topless bars. 1027 01:03:31,764 --> 01:03:36,324 -Have you ever read the Grimm Brothers? 1028 01:03:38,180 --> 01:03:39,830 Not lately. 1029 01:03:43,264 --> 01:03:43,948 -Well, you should. 1030 01:03:43,972 --> 01:03:45,906 It's pretty heavy stuff. 1031 01:03:45,930 --> 01:03:47,240 Topless bars? 1032 01:03:47,264 --> 01:03:49,639 -Worse, much worse. 1033 01:03:50,347 --> 01:03:52,740 -Yeah, that was wonderful. 1034 01:03:52,764 --> 01:03:53,964 -Thanks. 1035 01:03:54,639 --> 01:03:56,448 You know, I have fun doing it. 1036 01:03:56,472 --> 01:03:59,656 That's the most important thing, right? 1037 01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:01,615 I think it's important to do something with a work. 1038 01:04:01,639 --> 01:04:03,823 You know, to... to have people hear it. 1039 01:04:03,847 --> 01:04:05,197 -I guess. 1040 01:04:05,805 --> 01:04:09,645 -See, I think you should publish. 1041 01:04:10,139 --> 01:04:11,240 No, really, I mean, through my publisher, 1042 01:04:11,264 --> 01:04:14,464 the one I'm working with, I'm sure I could hook you up with someone. 1043 01:04:14,597 --> 01:04:16,573 Because... see, I've been offered substantial advances, 1044 01:04:16,597 --> 01:04:17,448 but I'll probably hold out. 1045 01:04:17,472 --> 01:04:18,948 See, the longer you refuse to sell, 1046 01:04:18,972 --> 01:04:20,281 the more control you have over your book. 1047 01:04:20,305 --> 01:04:22,573 Like... like, they'll say they love your book and then you find 1048 01:04:22,597 --> 01:04:23,990 out all they were really interested in was the, 1049 01:04:24,014 --> 01:04:27,281 the title or, you know, stuff about girls or... 1050 01:04:27,305 --> 01:04:29,656 But, see, I've been working with publisher for years, 1051 01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:34,156 and... and they... they feel, really feel that I'm ready for my success. 1052 01:04:34,180 --> 01:04:35,740 But I tell them I won't do talk shows. 1053 01:04:35,764 --> 01:04:36,406 Hate those things. 1054 01:04:36,430 --> 01:04:38,406 I w... I mean, I would never do Letterman. 1055 01:04:38,430 --> 01:04:39,156 Guy doesn't get it. 1056 01:04:39,180 --> 01:04:41,490 I mean, I... I'd never become part of the problem. 1057 01:04:41,514 --> 01:04:43,240 'Cause I... I mean, I'm not gonna become another Jimi Hendrix. 1058 01:04:43,264 --> 01:04:45,823 See, he wasn't ready for success and it killed him. 1059 01:04:45,847 --> 01:04:48,472 But maybe... maybe I'll do radio interview but no, no TV. 1060 01:04:54,930 --> 01:04:56,580 What is it? 1061 01:04:59,764 --> 01:05:01,114 -Nothing. 1062 01:05:17,639 --> 01:05:21,073 -Well, don't you wanna publish? 1063 01:05:21,097 --> 01:05:24,889 You shouldn't be scared, a lot of people... -I have been published. 1064 01:05:24,930 --> 01:05:26,240 -What do you mean? 1065 01:05:26,264 --> 01:05:28,073 -I have a publisher. 1066 01:05:28,097 --> 01:05:28,906 -You have a publisher? 1067 01:05:28,930 --> 01:05:29,930 -Yeah. 1068 01:05:29,972 --> 01:05:32,614 I mean, it's just a small company, but yeah. 1069 01:05:34,597 --> 01:05:36,972 -How'd you do that? 1070 01:05:37,847 --> 01:05:40,073 -Oh, it was really cool. 1071 01:05:40,097 --> 01:05:41,948 One day, I was reading this magazine that, 1072 01:05:41,972 --> 01:05:44,656 that said that these guys were looking for unpublished 1073 01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:48,240 works, and so I sent them the copy of the book and, 1074 01:05:48,264 --> 01:05:52,323 and they read it and they really liked it. 1075 01:05:52,347 --> 01:05:54,740 And they said that they couldn't sell a lot of copies but, 1076 01:05:54,764 --> 01:05:57,355 you know, they could sell a few and we could see what would happen. 1077 01:05:58,930 --> 01:06:00,281 It was the happiest day of my life. 1078 01:06:00,305 --> 01:06:01,355 For me. 1079 01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:07,573 So, I went down, I sent them the book, you know... 1080 01:06:07,597 --> 01:06:14,579 they read the book and... and yeah, they ended up doing my book. 1081 01:06:16,430 --> 01:06:19,240 -But, y... you got an advance, right? 1082 01:06:19,264 --> 01:06:22,240 No, actually, I... I, I had to put up a little money for, 1083 01:06:22,264 --> 01:06:25,990 like, the rights or some legal fees or something. 1084 01:06:26,014 --> 01:06:26,948 -Oh. 1085 01:06:26,972 --> 01:06:27,972 -Yeah. 1086 01:06:28,597 --> 01:06:31,115 But they did... yeah, they did a really great job. 1087 01:06:31,139 --> 01:06:34,406 In fact, they even let me design the cover myself. 1088 01:06:34,430 --> 01:06:36,240 They said not everybody was allowed to design the covers 1089 01:06:36,264 --> 01:06:39,139 themselves but that they liked my design, so... 1090 01:06:43,014 --> 01:06:46,610 I mean, it's never gonna make the New York Times bestseller list, but... 1091 01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:50,400 -No, that... that's pretty good. 1092 01:06:51,347 --> 01:06:52,781 -You wanna see it? 1093 01:06:52,805 --> 01:06:54,485 ...oh, sure. 1094 01:07:00,597 --> 01:07:04,781 -I keep all my stuff under here 'cause of my dreams. 1095 01:07:04,805 --> 01:07:06,485 -Your dreams? 1096 01:07:08,597 --> 01:07:09,597 -See? 1097 01:07:25,639 --> 01:07:28,740 -This is really beautiful. 1098 01:07:28,764 --> 01:07:29,964 -Thanks. 1099 01:07:31,430 --> 01:07:33,406 -Have you sold many of these? 1100 01:07:33,430 --> 01:07:35,180 -No, not many. 1101 01:07:36,014 --> 01:07:36,781 -Why not? 1102 01:07:36,805 --> 01:07:40,055 -I don't know, I just thought it was more important to get it printed. 1103 01:07:42,264 --> 01:07:43,948 -So nobody's seen this? 1104 01:07:43,972 --> 01:07:46,972 -I sent one to my parents. 1105 01:07:51,847 --> 01:07:53,490 -What'd they say? 1106 01:07:53,514 --> 01:07:56,634 -We didn't talk very much. 1107 01:08:00,764 --> 01:08:02,240 What are you laughing at? 1108 01:08:02,264 --> 01:08:05,115 Oh, no, sorry, it's just... 1109 01:08:05,139 --> 01:08:08,240 you know, this family you say you miss so much and then you, 1110 01:08:08,264 --> 01:08:09,740 you know, you write a story like that. 1111 01:08:09,764 --> 01:08:11,414 -Like what? 1112 01:08:11,847 --> 01:08:15,680 - Oh, I don't kn... - just, you know, crazy and violent. 1113 01:08:17,305 --> 01:08:18,305 -Oh. 1114 01:08:18,597 --> 01:08:19,597 Yeah. 1115 01:08:20,097 --> 01:08:23,240 I never really thought about it. 1116 01:08:23,264 --> 01:08:25,139 Yeah, families? 1117 01:08:26,472 --> 01:08:28,281 I just had to get away from mine, you know? 1118 01:08:28,305 --> 01:08:30,615 It was, like, too much noise. 1119 01:08:30,639 --> 01:08:32,389 Mental static. 1120 01:08:33,305 --> 01:08:34,990 You know, sometimes I... I walk through that door, 1121 01:08:35,014 --> 01:08:36,448 it's like I can finally breathe, you know? 1122 01:08:36,472 --> 01:08:40,781 I don't have people's thoughts banging into my head. 1123 01:08:40,805 --> 01:08:44,472 Right, well, doesn't that get lonely or... or boring or... -No. 1124 01:08:45,014 --> 01:08:45,573 Remember? 1125 01:08:45,597 --> 01:08:48,115 I told you, I used to run around a lot. 1126 01:08:48,139 --> 01:08:49,789 -Oh, right. 1127 01:08:50,597 --> 01:08:51,906 Party girl. 1128 01:08:51,930 --> 01:08:54,615 -Yeah, don't remind me. 1129 01:08:54,639 --> 01:08:59,164 The things I've done... -Like what? 1130 01:09:02,014 --> 01:09:03,906 -I was young, you know? 1131 01:09:03,930 --> 01:09:07,323 And when I first came to Manhattan, I couldn't believe it sometimes. 1132 01:09:07,347 --> 01:09:10,073 I mean, even if you never go to any of the cultural shit or any 1133 01:09:10,097 --> 01:09:15,817 of the plays or anything, it's... It's just, it's an amazing town, 1134 01:09:16,014 --> 01:09:16,573 you know. 1135 01:09:16,597 --> 01:09:18,597 You can feel it. 1136 01:09:20,514 --> 01:09:29,156 Well, I mean... do the lawyers... I'm sorry, it's none of my business. 1137 01:09:29,180 --> 01:09:30,180 -What? 1138 01:09:31,264 --> 01:09:33,448 -Well, they must, you know... 1139 01:09:33,472 --> 01:09:35,740 come onto you or... or... or you must have gotten some 1140 01:09:35,764 --> 01:09:39,777 harassment, like, pressure or... -It happens. 1141 01:09:40,347 --> 01:09:42,972 But you deal with it. 1142 01:09:48,097 --> 01:09:49,573 What are you... are you thinking that I've, 1143 01:09:49,597 --> 01:09:52,740 like... slept with some of the lawyers from the firm? 1144 01:09:52,764 --> 01:09:55,115 - No, no, no, I... - Because I haven't. 1145 01:09:55,139 --> 01:09:59,906 -Oh, no, I was just... you know... -I mean, only a couple of times. 1146 01:09:59,930 --> 01:10:00,980 -Right. 1147 01:10:02,514 --> 01:10:03,490 - What? - Would you relax? 1148 01:10:03,514 --> 01:10:05,240 I'm only joking! 1149 01:10:05,264 --> 01:10:06,264 -Oh. 1150 01:10:07,014 --> 01:10:09,189 -I haven't gone out with any of them, really. 1151 01:10:10,764 --> 01:10:12,573 -'Cause you said, you know, you had a wild life and... 1152 01:10:12,597 --> 01:10:16,948 -Yeah, well, I'm sure you did all that kind of stuff. 1153 01:10:16,972 --> 01:10:18,615 -Like what? 1154 01:10:18,639 --> 01:10:20,514 -Like go crazy. 1155 01:10:23,097 --> 01:10:24,490 -I guess I did in my own way, but it wasn't... 1156 01:10:24,514 --> 01:10:28,354 -I'm sure it was fun at the time. 1157 01:10:28,430 --> 01:10:30,110 -Not really. 1158 01:10:33,847 --> 01:10:39,770 -So... now, I... now, I just... come home. 1159 01:10:41,305 --> 01:10:43,990 -Into your lonely apartment. 1160 01:10:44,014 --> 01:10:47,014 -You know what it's like. 1161 01:12:09,097 --> 01:12:14,823 You know, I think, I, I... I'd better... -I have a surprise. 1162 01:12:14,847 --> 01:12:16,497 A surprise? 1163 01:12:20,264 --> 01:12:21,614 Sit down! 1164 01:12:22,014 --> 01:12:28,156 But I, I... -What are you d... -And close your eyes, it's a surprise. 1165 01:12:28,180 --> 01:12:30,555 What... what are y... 1166 01:12:43,180 --> 01:12:44,530 Surprise! 1167 01:12:47,430 --> 01:12:49,930 But it's... it's not my... -What? 1168 01:12:49,972 --> 01:12:51,490 -Well, it's not my birthday. 1169 01:12:51,514 --> 01:12:53,115 -I know, it's my birthday. 1170 01:12:53,139 --> 01:12:54,139 -Oh! 1171 01:12:54,305 --> 01:13:01,017 -Well, it's really Sunday, but I decided that we'd celebrate tonight. 1172 01:13:02,930 --> 01:13:05,740 Aren't you gonna wish me a - -Oh, happy birthday! 1173 01:13:05,764 --> 01:13:07,414 -Thank you. 1174 01:13:10,264 --> 01:13:12,639 Oh, I need a knife. 1175 01:13:15,097 --> 01:13:16,490 You want some coffee? 1176 01:13:16,514 --> 01:13:18,323 No, no, I'm... I'm fine. 1177 01:13:18,347 --> 01:13:19,573 You know, if... if I had known that it w... 1178 01:13:19,597 --> 01:13:21,740 -But I told you last week and the week before, twice. 1179 01:13:21,764 --> 01:13:23,240 -Oh, right, I'm... I'm not so good at that kind of thing. 1180 01:13:23,264 --> 01:13:24,944 -That's okay. 1181 01:13:25,514 --> 01:13:27,906 -You know, I didn't get you a present. 1182 01:13:27,930 --> 01:13:29,610 -You didn't?! 1183 01:13:33,430 --> 01:13:34,406 Would you relax? 1184 01:13:34,430 --> 01:13:36,430 I'm only joking. 1185 01:13:36,472 --> 01:13:37,823 I mean, you know, I never celebrate it, 1186 01:13:37,847 --> 01:13:39,740 so it's like I saw this cake today and I... I had to buy it. 1187 01:13:39,764 --> 01:13:41,406 I didn't bring it out to make you nuts or anything. 1188 01:13:41,430 --> 01:13:42,323 -Oh, no, no, I'm not getting nuts. 1189 01:13:42,347 --> 01:13:44,156 -Well, you should see your face. 1190 01:13:44,180 --> 01:13:45,740 -Oh, my f... see, I'm not like a lot of people. 1191 01:13:45,764 --> 01:13:47,573 My face doesn't have that much to do with what I'm feeling. 1192 01:13:47,597 --> 01:13:48,281 It's just... 1193 01:13:48,305 --> 01:13:49,656 -Yeah, well, you know, I wasn't gonna bring it out if I didn't 1194 01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:51,406 think things were going well and I thought things were going 1195 01:13:51,430 --> 01:13:53,805 - well. - Sure, right. 1196 01:13:55,097 --> 01:13:56,490 -I just remembered. 1197 01:13:56,514 --> 01:13:58,073 I have some champagne in the fridge. 1198 01:13:58,097 --> 01:13:59,490 It's been in there for a couple of years but I'm sure we could 1199 01:13:59,514 --> 01:14:02,389 open it up in a second. 1200 01:14:03,139 --> 01:14:04,406 And I have this new tape. 1201 01:14:04,430 --> 01:14:07,906 Well, it's a new band but, you'll probably really, really love it. 1202 01:14:07,930 --> 01:14:08,740 I'm sure you will. 1203 01:14:08,764 --> 01:14:11,740 Because, you see, I've got my girlfriend that... she turned me onto it. 1204 01:14:11,764 --> 01:14:14,740 And, and I... what I did is I recorded it from her CD, 1205 01:14:14,764 --> 01:14:16,240 'cause I don't have a CD, you see. 1206 01:14:16,264 --> 01:14:18,490 And I thought that it would be a really good idea that we could 1207 01:14:18,514 --> 01:14:26,573 probably... Anyway, so... So, anyway... What are you doing? 1208 01:14:26,597 --> 01:14:28,615 Oh, well, it's... it's getting really late and... -It's Friday night. 1209 01:14:28,639 --> 01:14:30,156 What are you talking about? 1210 01:14:30,180 --> 01:14:32,406 Well, it, I... well, I'm under a lot of ple... pre... 1211 01:14:32,430 --> 01:14:36,073 Pressure with my, with my publisher. 1212 01:14:36,097 --> 01:14:37,406 -This is a joke, right? 1213 01:14:37,430 --> 01:14:38,781 You're so funny! 1214 01:14:38,805 --> 01:14:44,240 -No, it's just I... I have a deadline with my book. 1215 01:14:44,264 --> 01:14:47,264 But it... it was really great getting together after all this time. 1216 01:14:47,430 --> 01:14:52,073 And... you know, and... and the food was really... was really great. 1217 01:14:52,097 --> 01:14:53,073 -Yeah, the seafood. 1218 01:14:53,097 --> 01:14:54,147 -Right. 1219 01:14:54,764 --> 01:14:55,948 The seafood. 1220 01:14:55,972 --> 01:14:57,652 That's good. 1221 01:14:59,014 --> 01:15:01,948 So... -Oh, don't forget your jacket. 1222 01:15:01,972 --> 01:15:03,622 -Oh, right. 1223 01:15:08,097 --> 01:15:12,281 Anyway... and especially it was great to hear your story and... I mean, 1224 01:15:12,305 --> 01:15:18,097 your book and... and... 1225 01:15:24,764 --> 01:15:28,364 Is something going on, Jackie? 1226 01:15:29,597 --> 01:15:31,990 -I don't know, is it, Michael? 1227 01:15:32,014 --> 01:15:37,580 Well, I don't know, you seem... What is it? 1228 01:15:37,930 --> 01:15:39,280 -Nothing. 1229 01:15:39,472 --> 01:15:41,122 -Wh... what? 1230 01:15:41,264 --> 01:15:42,614 -Nothing. 1231 01:15:42,764 --> 01:15:44,264 -You sure? 1232 01:15:47,930 --> 01:15:51,890 -I thought you might want to stay. 1233 01:15:52,097 --> 01:15:56,490 Oh, you mean... -Forget it, I shouldn't have said anything. 1234 01:15:56,514 --> 01:15:58,490 -Oh, no, I didn't... I wasn't trying to sto... 1235 01:15:58,514 --> 01:16:01,764 -Listen, let's just forget I even said anything, okay? 1236 01:16:02,805 --> 01:16:05,740 Why don't you go before I humiliate myself even further. 1237 01:16:05,764 --> 01:16:07,740 Well, you haven't humiliated yourself. 1238 01:16:07,764 --> 01:16:11,323 -Thanks, I feel much better now. 1239 01:16:11,347 --> 01:16:12,615 Hey, wait, why don't we... let's... 1240 01:16:12,639 --> 01:16:14,906 Okay, let's... let's sit down, let's talk about it and get clear. 1241 01:16:14,930 --> 01:16:16,448 - No, let's just let it go, okay? - No, let's get it clear and... 1242 01:16:16,472 --> 01:16:18,406 -Let's let it go! 1243 01:16:18,430 --> 01:16:21,073 -We can talk ab... -And I'll forget about it in the morning and, 1244 01:16:21,097 --> 01:16:25,490 you know, I'll see you at work on Monday. 1245 01:16:25,514 --> 01:16:27,115 -Well, I... I f... I feel terrible now. 1246 01:16:27,139 --> 01:16:31,699 -Yeah, well, dates are weird sometimes. 1247 01:16:34,930 --> 01:16:37,055 -This was a date? 1248 01:16:37,930 --> 01:16:39,573 -You know, you'd like everyone to think that you don't know 1249 01:16:39,597 --> 01:16:41,656 what's going on, but you know what's going on. 1250 01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:44,115 You know very well that... that... that I liked you a lot and that 1251 01:16:44,139 --> 01:16:46,139 this was a date. 1252 01:16:48,180 --> 01:16:49,740 -Oh, no, 'cause, see, if I had known that you feel 1253 01:16:49,764 --> 01:16:53,573 that way, because I was... -Don't tell me that you wouldn't have come. 1254 01:16:53,597 --> 01:16:54,740 -Well, I hope I haven't done anything to mislead you, 1255 01:16:54,764 --> 01:16:57,406 'cause I was r... I... -Oh, no, you haven't done anything. 1256 01:16:57,430 --> 01:17:02,656 You know, I liked you and I'm sorry I liked you. 1257 01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:05,406 -Well, no, I'm... I'm very flattered you feel that way about me. 1258 01:17:05,430 --> 01:17:05,948 -Flattered? 1259 01:17:05,972 --> 01:17:07,573 Are you fucking kidding me?! 1260 01:17:07,597 --> 01:17:09,948 I mean, if you don't want to get involved, that's your choice, right? 1261 01:17:09,972 --> 01:17:11,740 But don't tell me that this never happened. 1262 01:17:11,764 --> 01:17:13,740 That I got this all wrong, that I made this up. 1263 01:17:13,764 --> 01:17:18,204 Don't you tell me that I made this up! 1264 01:17:20,097 --> 01:17:21,740 -Well, why don't you just let me try to explain to you... 1265 01:17:21,764 --> 01:17:23,490 -That's it, get out. 1266 01:17:23,514 --> 01:17:25,156 -Well, I just want to tell you, if you'd just let me try to 1267 01:17:25,180 --> 01:17:30,100 - explain... - Just get the fuck out of here! 1268 01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:02,880 -Well... 1269 01:18:27,972 --> 01:18:35,180 I... I... I don't do this... 1270 01:18:37,930 --> 01:18:43,073 I said I don't do this kind of thing anymore. 1271 01:18:43,097 --> 01:18:45,740 I didn't quit law school, I had to leave. 1272 01:18:45,764 --> 01:18:49,823 I w... I was... I was almost done... and then... 1273 01:18:49,847 --> 01:18:53,115 I started to... I couldn't get out of bed in the morning. 1274 01:18:53,139 --> 01:18:56,406 And everybody's voices started getting... 1275 01:18:56,430 --> 01:18:59,240 louder and louder and I... I felt smaller and smaller and I... 1276 01:18:59,264 --> 01:19:05,144 See, I felt like I was falling all the time and... 1277 01:19:05,639 --> 01:19:08,323 See, I carry this briefcase everywhere. 1278 01:19:08,347 --> 01:19:12,656 You know, writing notes all the time. 1279 01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:15,656 And I get home and I... I put the briefcase on the hall table and 1280 01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:17,680 I never open it. 1281 01:19:21,305 --> 01:19:23,073 See, I don't write. 1282 01:19:23,097 --> 01:19:25,115 I haven't written anything in years. 1283 01:19:25,139 --> 01:19:28,619 And I don't have a publisher. 1284 01:19:29,639 --> 01:19:31,406 You know what I do all the time? 1285 01:19:31,430 --> 01:19:32,740 I watch TV. 1286 01:19:32,764 --> 01:19:37,073 I... I get home and I... I get my dinner, I sit in front of the TV set, 1287 01:19:37,097 --> 01:19:39,240 and I tell myself it's okay to watch for a while 'cause I'm 1288 01:19:39,264 --> 01:19:41,448 lonely, you know... you know, right after dinner, 1289 01:19:41,472 --> 01:19:46,152 and then, after dinner, I... I get the... 1290 01:19:46,430 --> 01:19:48,323 TV Guide and I check and see if something's on. 1291 01:19:48,347 --> 01:19:49,490 I'm gonna watch one program, like a good one, 1292 01:19:49,514 --> 01:19:55,097 like a science special or something and... But... 1293 01:19:55,264 --> 01:19:57,781 but I wanna watch whatever's on. 1294 01:19:57,805 --> 01:20:00,823 Even if I've seen it before, I... 1295 01:20:00,847 --> 01:20:04,823 'Cause it... it fills this void in me. 1296 01:20:04,847 --> 01:20:06,406 'Cause... 'cause nobody ever told me what to do. 1297 01:20:06,430 --> 01:20:12,847 I... And so, like, I watch all night hoping that it tells me what to do. 1298 01:20:14,514 --> 01:20:17,406 You know, I... I don't talk about anything I haven't seen on TV. 1299 01:20:17,430 --> 01:20:22,710 I didn't read about birds or microwaves or... 1300 01:20:26,264 --> 01:20:30,514 See, it's like something broke in me... a long time ago. 1301 01:20:33,972 --> 01:20:34,948 And I don't know what it was, 1302 01:20:34,972 --> 01:20:38,740 and... and it's too hard for me to keep trying. 1303 01:20:38,764 --> 01:20:45,964 And there are a lot of things that I want to do with my life. 1304 01:20:48,514 --> 01:20:50,906 And I'm so far behind now, I'm never gonna catch up. 1305 01:20:50,930 --> 01:20:54,823 I just... I just wish someone would tell me what to do, 1306 01:20:54,847 --> 01:20:59,740 that I should sit down and I should eat something and... 1307 01:20:59,764 --> 01:21:02,389 afterwards, they'll... 1308 01:21:10,805 --> 01:21:13,573 Afterwards, they'll, you know, answer my questions and tell me 1309 01:21:13,597 --> 01:21:15,240 how to do stuff and that if I screw up, it's okay, 1310 01:21:15,264 --> 01:21:16,406 'cause that's what people do. 1311 01:21:16,430 --> 01:21:18,073 Screwing up's a good thing! 1312 01:21:18,097 --> 01:21:20,972 It's... it's good and... 1313 01:21:21,347 --> 01:21:23,406 And then, they'll tell me to go to bed and... and go to sleep and 1314 01:21:23,430 --> 01:21:26,740 that... you know, it'll be okay tomorrow, 1315 01:21:26,764 --> 01:21:31,222 we'll do something... else and, you know, we'll have fun. 1316 01:21:34,597 --> 01:21:36,097 I'm sorry. 1317 01:21:58,014 --> 01:21:59,664 You know... 1318 01:22:10,264 --> 01:22:11,740 I lie in bed at night, you know, 1319 01:22:11,764 --> 01:22:16,490 and I'm staring up at the ceiling and it's like... 1320 01:22:16,514 --> 01:22:21,073 the only thing that's gotten me through lately... 1321 01:22:21,097 --> 01:22:25,406 is the thought that I'd see you at work. 1322 01:22:25,430 --> 01:22:29,490 You know, at first, I thought, oh, I just liked you 'cause, 1323 01:22:29,514 --> 01:22:32,156 you know, you were so much... fun, 1324 01:22:32,180 --> 01:22:35,573 making jokes at those guys' expense and... and them not knowing it. 1325 01:22:35,597 --> 01:22:46,073 And then... and then, you'd smile and you'd... you'd look at me. 1326 01:22:46,097 --> 01:22:48,472 And I'd understand. 1327 01:22:56,180 --> 01:22:59,300 I don't know what happened. 1328 01:23:00,430 --> 01:23:11,020 It's like... at one point, guys just, stopped asking me out, you know? 1329 01:23:12,930 --> 01:23:16,781 I mean, I don't know if it was 'cause of my age or, 1330 01:23:16,805 --> 01:23:22,194 because, you know, maybe I... I gave off this, serious vibe. 1331 01:23:24,014 --> 01:23:26,639 It was probably that. 1332 01:23:28,472 --> 01:23:31,097 It's funny, you know? 1333 01:23:32,264 --> 01:23:34,764 You finally grow up. 1334 01:23:35,805 --> 01:23:36,448 You know? 1335 01:23:36,472 --> 01:23:40,948 You finally, figure out who the hell you are. 1336 01:23:40,972 --> 01:23:42,823 And just when you've got something interesting to give, 1337 01:23:42,847 --> 01:23:46,567 they're not interested anymore. 1338 01:23:48,264 --> 01:23:52,280 So, I probably knew you wouldn't come through for me, you know? 1339 01:23:54,930 --> 01:24:02,230 I should've known... when the smartest, nicest... funniest guy, 1340 01:24:02,597 --> 01:24:06,656 who's a paralegal, who does the xeroxing in the office, 1341 01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:13,240 I should've known that you are... you know, you are where you are... 1342 01:24:13,264 --> 01:24:16,504 because you wanna be there. 1343 01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:28,514 Because... we all are where we are because... we wanna be there, right? 1344 01:25:08,430 --> 01:25:10,680 It's getting late. 1345 01:25:10,805 --> 01:25:11,855 -Right. 1346 01:25:15,764 --> 01:25:17,448 -I need to sleep. 1347 01:25:17,472 --> 01:25:19,152 -Yeah, right. 1348 01:25:32,930 --> 01:25:36,990 Do you wanna get together again, you know, outside of work? 1349 01:25:37,014 --> 01:25:39,240 -You mean like on a date? 1350 01:25:39,264 --> 01:25:42,281 -Yeah, I was thinking, you know, maybe next Friday? 1351 01:25:42,305 --> 01:25:44,805 -So this was a date? 1352 01:25:44,847 --> 01:25:48,240 -Yeah, I'm asking you on a date next Friday. 1353 01:25:48,264 --> 01:25:50,264 -After all this? 1354 01:25:51,805 --> 01:25:53,948 Listen, why don't you... 1355 01:25:53,972 --> 01:25:55,906 You know, why don't you think about it next week and then you 1356 01:25:55,930 --> 01:25:57,406 can ask me then, okay? 1357 01:25:57,430 --> 01:25:59,490 -Oh, no, I don't need to wait. 1358 01:25:59,514 --> 01:26:00,573 -Don't do this to me again. 1359 01:26:00,597 --> 01:26:01,948 -Oh, I'm just asking you out on a date. 1360 01:26:01,972 --> 01:26:03,906 -I don't think so. 1361 01:26:03,930 --> 01:26:05,115 -Well, m... I mean, you can always change your mind. 1362 01:26:05,139 --> 01:26:06,781 I mean, anytime you want, you just... just say the word. 1363 01:26:06,805 --> 01:26:08,240 I mean, I know it's gonna be uncomfortable at work, 1364 01:26:08,264 --> 01:26:11,740 - but... - I just said ask me next week. 1365 01:26:11,764 --> 01:26:14,972 -But I was thinking 'cause we've been talking, - maybe... - Don't. 1366 01:26:17,180 --> 01:26:18,180 -Okay. 1367 01:26:18,930 --> 01:26:20,490 So, I'll see you at work. 1368 01:26:20,514 --> 01:26:22,639 -See you at work. 1369 01:26:30,597 --> 01:26:31,597 What? 1370 01:26:34,764 --> 01:26:37,764 -I don't know what to do. 1371 01:26:37,930 --> 01:26:41,406 You know, what am I gonna do now? 1372 01:26:41,430 --> 01:26:43,906 -Just go home, Michael. 1373 01:26:43,930 --> 01:26:46,830 Everything will be okay. 1374 01:26:47,305 --> 01:26:48,985 -Yeah, right. 1375 01:26:50,930 --> 01:26:52,610 I'll see you. 1376 01:26:53,264 --> 01:26:54,464 -See ya.