1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:36,604 --> 00:00:39,373 ANNOUNCER (OVER SPEAKERS): Live, until they drop dead ... 4 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:40,674 (AUDIENCE LAUGHS) 5 00:00:40,741 --> 00:00:42,576 ...from the beautiful Carlou Theater 6 00:00:42,643 --> 00:00:45,012 in the heart of sunny Miami Beach, Florida, 7 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:48,149 it's the Veterans Day Polio Telethon! 8 00:00:48,216 --> 00:00:50,884 And now, please welcome your hosts 9 00:00:50,951 --> 00:00:54,088 the beautiful, the talented, Lanny Morris 10 00:00:54,155 --> 00:00:56,790 and Vince Collins! 11 00:00:58,025 --> 00:00:59,827 (BAND PLAYING FUN JAZZ MELODY) 12 00:01:03,664 --> 00:01:05,999 (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) 13 00:01:17,044 --> 00:01:18,812 Do you realize, Lanny, we have to present ourselves 14 00:01:18,879 --> 00:01:20,948 in front of these lovely people for the next three days? 15 00:01:21,014 --> 00:01:23,917 Oh. Hello, lovely people for the next three days. 16 00:01:23,984 --> 00:01:26,320 -Look at you. You're a disgrace. -What? 17 00:01:26,387 --> 00:01:29,823 Look, your hair's a mess, your shoes aren't shined, your shirt's not pressed. 18 00:01:29,890 --> 00:01:31,425 Look at your tie. It's not even straight. 19 00:01:31,492 --> 00:01:32,660 Look at yours. It doesn't even clip on. 20 00:01:33,327 --> 00:01:35,429 AUDIENCE: Oh! 21 00:01:36,464 --> 00:01:38,031 Now... 22 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:40,501 I'm upset. 23 00:01:40,568 --> 00:01:42,403 You know what happens when I get upset. 24 00:01:42,470 --> 00:01:45,406 Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no. Please. Please don't hurt me, Vince. 25 00:01:45,473 --> 00:01:48,909 I've had a terrible day already. All sorts of bad things have happened. 26 00:01:48,976 --> 00:01:50,478 I don't wanna be hurt again. 27 00:01:50,544 --> 00:01:52,946 -Oh, you've been hurt already, have you? -Yep, it hurt bad. 28 00:01:53,013 --> 00:01:54,782 And what happened, pray tell? 29 00:01:54,848 --> 00:01:56,550 -Want me to pray or want me to tell? -I think you better pray. 30 00:01:56,617 --> 00:01:58,619 (LAUGHTER) 31 00:01:58,686 --> 00:02:01,054 -I saw this stranger... -I don't know whether you're singing or speaking. 32 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:02,756 (IN SING-SONG) * Leave my pad 33 00:02:02,823 --> 00:02:04,258 (PHONES RINGING) 34 00:02:04,325 --> 00:02:08,229 * And I said, "Baby, what explanation do you have?" * 35 00:02:08,296 --> 00:02:09,630 There's always a woman involved. 36 00:02:09,697 --> 00:02:12,166 * And she said, "Hmm" 37 00:02:12,233 --> 00:02:14,335 -Next time? -Next time. 38 00:02:14,402 --> 00:02:16,804 * And I said "There will be no next time" 39 00:02:16,870 --> 00:02:18,939 That's what you said last time, Lanny, and the time before that. 40 00:02:19,006 --> 00:02:21,309 * That was the last time for me 41 00:02:21,375 --> 00:02:22,643 You have to make sure there's no first time, 42 00:02:22,710 --> 00:02:24,044 then there can't be a next time. 43 00:02:24,111 --> 00:02:26,214 * Said there'll be no next time 44 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,216 Or a last time. 45 00:02:28,282 --> 00:02:30,518 * That was the last time for me * 46 00:02:30,584 --> 00:02:32,186 Let's hope so, Lanny. 47 00:02:32,253 --> 00:02:34,455 Lanny Morris, ladies and gentlemen. 48 00:02:34,522 --> 00:02:37,458 (MELLOW BLUES PLAYING) 49 00:03:16,664 --> 00:03:18,866 (COOL JAZZ PLAYING) 50 00:03:22,202 --> 00:03:24,037 (TIRES SCREECH) 51 00:03:24,104 --> 00:03:25,973 (HORN HONKS) 52 00:03:42,155 --> 00:03:44,392 VINCE: My manager sent me over some of your work. 53 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:49,096 It's funny how you're really in them a lot. 54 00:03:49,162 --> 00:03:51,565 Whenever I read one of these interviews where the writer says, 55 00:03:51,632 --> 00:03:55,002 "This is how I felt the morning I woke up to meet the pope" 56 00:03:55,068 --> 00:03:56,670 "This is how I felt when the pope greeted me, 57 00:03:56,737 --> 00:03:59,340 "and how he reminded me so much of my friend Mike" 58 00:03:59,407 --> 00:04:02,075 I always think, "Who the fuck is Mike?" 59 00:04:04,144 --> 00:04:05,779 So who are you? 60 00:04:06,947 --> 00:04:08,849 KAREN: I was a young journalist 61 00:04:08,916 --> 00:04:11,051 with a few awards, 62 00:04:11,118 --> 00:04:13,821 a couple of cover stories 63 00:04:13,887 --> 00:04:16,857 and a desperate need to prove myself. 64 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:22,262 If you look through my work, you'll see I try to present 65 00:04:22,330 --> 00:04:25,232 a balanced view of my subjects. 66 00:04:25,299 --> 00:04:27,267 I leave the conclusions to the reader. 67 00:04:27,335 --> 00:04:29,370 I'm not sure we like balance. 68 00:04:29,437 --> 00:04:30,938 Or leaving the conclusions to the reader. 69 00:04:31,004 --> 00:04:32,840 I'm used to being publicized, not analyzed. 70 00:04:32,906 --> 00:04:34,475 It would be your words. 71 00:04:34,542 --> 00:04:37,110 We'd publish it as a transcript. 72 00:04:37,177 --> 00:04:39,146 My questions, your answers. 73 00:04:40,548 --> 00:04:42,650 If you say it, I can use it. 74 00:04:43,784 --> 00:04:45,252 If you don't, I can't. 75 00:04:45,319 --> 00:04:47,321 And they're gonna pay me a million for this? 76 00:04:47,388 --> 00:04:49,457 An excerpt will be published in a magazine 77 00:04:49,523 --> 00:04:51,058 as a way of amortizing the investment 78 00:04:51,124 --> 00:04:52,760 they'll be making in the book. 79 00:04:54,127 --> 00:04:56,296 They're looking for some... 80 00:04:57,531 --> 00:05:00,734 ...provocative stories for the first issue. 81 00:05:00,801 --> 00:05:04,204 Any thoughts on what these provocative stories might be about? 82 00:05:06,006 --> 00:05:08,976 The breakup. Why Lanny and you split. 83 00:05:13,781 --> 00:05:15,148 And the girl. 84 00:05:16,216 --> 00:05:17,851 Maureen. 85 00:05:19,620 --> 00:05:21,655 What happened to Maureen O'Flaherty. 86 00:05:24,124 --> 00:05:27,395 KAREN: No one had ever been able to pin Lanny Morris 87 00:05:27,461 --> 00:05:29,897 or Vince Collins to the girl's death. 88 00:05:30,898 --> 00:05:32,733 All that was clear 89 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,703 was that Maureen was found dead in their hotel suite. 90 00:05:35,769 --> 00:05:37,671 (CLICKING TYPEWRITER KEYS) 91 00:05:37,738 --> 00:05:40,541 It was unthinkable to me that Lanny and Vince 92 00:05:40,608 --> 00:05:43,043 could have had anything to do with it. 93 00:05:43,811 --> 00:05:45,913 They were my heroes. 94 00:05:45,979 --> 00:05:49,417 GIRL: "The reason I consider myself to be a miracle girl 95 00:05:49,483 --> 00:05:51,184 "is because I had the good fortune 96 00:05:51,251 --> 00:05:54,788 "to meet Lanny and Vince when I was sick. 97 00:05:54,855 --> 00:05:58,125 "Their love of life is what gave me hope 98 00:05:58,191 --> 00:06:00,861 "and it's hope that gives us the power to live." 99 00:06:02,730 --> 00:06:04,097 Thank you, Lanny. 100 00:06:04,865 --> 00:06:06,366 Thank you, Vince. 101 00:06:07,401 --> 00:06:09,369 (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) 102 00:06:21,949 --> 00:06:24,351 LANNY: Come on, let's hear it for her. 103 00:06:24,418 --> 00:06:28,021 LANNY: Denise handled publicity for the polio foundation. 104 00:06:28,088 --> 00:06:31,592 And it was her idea to plug the girl's story on the telethon. 105 00:06:31,659 --> 00:06:36,597 The day before, it was my idea to plug Denise at the Miami Versailles Hotel. 106 00:06:48,842 --> 00:06:51,011 LANNY: You can tell a lot about a woman 107 00:06:51,078 --> 00:06:54,247 by the way she acts when you're having sex and room service comes in. 108 00:06:54,314 --> 00:06:56,349 See, some girls will sit up and light a cigarette 109 00:06:56,416 --> 00:07:00,554 like there's nothing funny in the world about her being naked. 110 00:07:00,621 --> 00:07:02,556 It's obvious we were in the process of screwing 111 00:07:02,623 --> 00:07:05,058 so why not let a complete stranger into the room? 112 00:07:05,125 --> 00:07:07,127 Come on in. 113 00:07:07,194 --> 00:07:09,296 Oh, then there's the kind that will pull the sheets up over their head 114 00:07:09,362 --> 00:07:11,098 and act like they're asleep. 115 00:07:11,164 --> 00:07:13,266 Where would you like it, sir? 116 00:07:13,333 --> 00:07:15,402 Sweetheart, wherever you'd like it. 117 00:07:15,469 --> 00:07:18,038 Then, of course, there's the ones who scrunch real flat 118 00:07:18,105 --> 00:07:21,208 thinking that the bed will look empty. 119 00:07:21,274 --> 00:07:24,812 With Denise, it was kind of hard to tell which way she'd go. 120 00:07:33,253 --> 00:07:35,388 Can I have your autograph, Mr. Morris? 121 00:07:35,989 --> 00:07:37,357 Sure. 122 00:07:37,424 --> 00:07:39,527 Should I make it out to Maureen? 123 00:07:43,831 --> 00:07:45,699 I mean, your autograph on the bill. 124 00:07:49,637 --> 00:07:51,672 Okay. 125 00:07:51,739 --> 00:07:53,707 I mean, I'd love to have your autograph. 126 00:07:54,942 --> 00:07:57,811 And maybe a few minutes of your time. 127 00:07:58,612 --> 00:08:01,081 I'm a huge fan and 128 00:08:01,148 --> 00:08:04,351 well, I was thinking about 129 00:08:04,417 --> 00:08:07,788 writing an article on you for my campus paper. 130 00:08:07,855 --> 00:08:09,356 I'm the editor. 131 00:08:09,422 --> 00:08:11,959 Any interview requests go through me, honey. 132 00:08:16,129 --> 00:08:18,398 You know, it's just a college paper. 133 00:08:30,410 --> 00:08:32,312 Thank you. 134 00:08:32,379 --> 00:08:34,314 No, thank you. 135 00:08:36,016 --> 00:08:37,985 Thank you, Maureen. 136 00:08:38,051 --> 00:08:40,320 LANNY: I say goodbye to Maureen, knowing I'd see her again 137 00:08:40,387 --> 00:08:42,623 close the door and then turn to look at Denise 138 00:08:42,690 --> 00:08:46,894 thinking, "I know this girl from every college town we have ever played." 139 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,395 They're called career girls. 140 00:08:48,461 --> 00:08:50,898 The absolute easiest lays 141 00:08:50,964 --> 00:08:53,066 in this great nation of ours. 142 00:08:57,370 --> 00:08:59,673 Now, since you're reading this, you'd be interested to know 143 00:08:59,740 --> 00:09:02,576 that my favorite catches were the intellectuals. 144 00:09:02,643 --> 00:09:04,978 They'd be the ones in the straight black dresses, 145 00:09:05,045 --> 00:09:06,714 severe black hair. 146 00:09:06,780 --> 00:09:11,318 Your basic neurotic, eyeglasses, cool jazz, liberal 147 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:13,954 "I'll fuck any black guy as part of my personal apology 148 00:09:14,021 --> 00:09:17,758 "for racism in America" type. 149 00:09:17,825 --> 00:09:21,128 Anyhow, on this particular night, we're in a club in New Jersey 150 00:09:21,194 --> 00:09:25,165 it's the '50s, and I'm mingling with the crowd. 151 00:09:25,232 --> 00:09:27,267 Now, when I say "mingling," what I mean is 152 00:09:27,334 --> 00:09:29,737 I was scouting for who I would sleep with that night. 153 00:09:29,803 --> 00:09:31,772 Didn't matter if the girls came with dates. 154 00:09:31,839 --> 00:09:35,408 That was Reuben's job. Reuben is my valet. 155 00:09:35,475 --> 00:09:38,411 I never figured out how Rueben helped them get rid of their dates 156 00:09:38,478 --> 00:09:40,981 but they were always gone by the second show. 157 00:09:41,048 --> 00:09:43,216 Reuben could clean up any situation. 158 00:09:43,283 --> 00:09:45,385 Excuse me, miss. May I say that I think 159 00:09:45,452 --> 00:09:48,388 you have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. 160 00:09:48,455 --> 00:09:50,323 Thank you. 161 00:09:50,390 --> 00:09:52,159 Notice I say, "I think you've got the most beautiful eyes I've seen." 162 00:09:52,225 --> 00:09:53,927 that's because I haven't actually seen them yet. 163 00:09:53,994 --> 00:09:55,295 I've been too busy staring at your cans. 164 00:09:55,362 --> 00:09:57,097 (LAUGHTER) Now, Lanny. 165 00:09:57,164 --> 00:09:58,799 GIRL: I can't believe he just said that. 166 00:09:58,866 --> 00:10:00,634 That is completely unacceptable. 167 00:10:00,701 --> 00:10:02,602 Madam, I do apologize. 168 00:10:02,670 --> 00:10:04,504 I apologize, ladies and gentlemen for my friend's behavior. 169 00:10:04,571 --> 00:10:06,506 You cannot speak that way to a perfect stranger. 170 00:10:06,573 --> 00:10:08,809 LANNY: Look, her husband's not offended. 171 00:10:08,876 --> 00:10:10,944 -VINCE: He's not? -No, of course her husband's not offended. 172 00:10:11,011 --> 00:10:13,681 Her husband's not here. This lucky guy is her boyfriend. 173 00:10:13,747 --> 00:10:16,349 And even he's not offended, and do you know why? 174 00:10:16,416 --> 00:10:18,185 Well, I can certainly hazard a guess. 175 00:10:18,251 --> 00:10:19,619 What the hell is hazard a guess? 176 00:10:19,687 --> 00:10:21,488 For chrissake, Vince, this is America. 177 00:10:21,554 --> 00:10:23,356 We don't say, "hazard a guess." 178 00:10:23,423 --> 00:10:25,125 We say "yes" or we say "no." 179 00:10:25,192 --> 00:10:27,127 MAN: Well, I say "no" to you, Morris. 180 00:10:27,194 --> 00:10:28,829 Excuse me, sir? Could you repeat that? 181 00:10:28,896 --> 00:10:31,598 I don't think the entire audience heard you. 182 00:10:31,665 --> 00:10:33,834 Go back to where you came from, bastard! 183 00:10:33,901 --> 00:10:35,302 LANNY: I get hecklers all the time, 184 00:10:35,368 --> 00:10:37,037 but this schmuck came off personal. 185 00:10:37,104 --> 00:10:38,371 Where did he think I came from? 186 00:10:38,438 --> 00:10:40,874 Bastard! Bastard! He called me a bastard. 187 00:10:40,941 --> 00:10:43,343 Now, it doesn't show from the front, Lanny. 188 00:10:43,410 --> 00:10:46,714 Now, please, would you kindly not mount me? It's very disagreeable. 189 00:10:46,780 --> 00:10:49,116 LANNY: Vince plunges straight into quoting some lines I wrote 190 00:10:49,182 --> 00:10:50,784 from a song from our first motion picture. 191 00:10:50,851 --> 00:10:54,187 I happen to be honored to work with this jerk 192 00:10:54,254 --> 00:10:55,388 LANNY: Is that a compliment? 193 00:10:55,455 --> 00:10:56,957 VINCE: I never frown with this clown 194 00:10:57,024 --> 00:10:58,225 LANNY: Never, never, never. 195 00:10:58,291 --> 00:10:59,760 I get a kick from this... 196 00:10:59,827 --> 00:11:01,161 (LAUGHTER) 197 00:11:02,696 --> 00:11:04,264 ...friend of mine. 198 00:11:04,331 --> 00:11:07,167 Fine, but don't give the mike to this kike. 199 00:11:07,234 --> 00:11:08,969 AUDIENCE: Oh! 200 00:11:11,571 --> 00:11:14,875 -Well... -WOMAN: Just relax. 201 00:11:14,942 --> 00:11:17,778 VINCE: It's not often we get topped by a member of our audience, 202 00:11:17,845 --> 00:11:20,714 but tonight, this gentleman has done the near impossible. 203 00:11:20,781 --> 00:11:22,515 What is your name? 204 00:11:23,383 --> 00:11:24,818 It's Joe. 205 00:11:24,885 --> 00:11:28,822 Joe, we were just wondering if you'd be a great sport 206 00:11:28,889 --> 00:11:31,124 and help us out on stage. What do you say, folks? 207 00:11:31,191 --> 00:11:33,193 (APPLAUSE) 208 00:11:34,762 --> 00:11:36,229 Go on, Joe. 209 00:11:36,296 --> 00:11:39,833 Joe here is going to play a crazy high school professor 210 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:44,071 who's about to give Lanny and I our final high school exam. 211 00:11:44,137 --> 00:11:46,907 So if you'll just excuse us while we help Joe change 212 00:11:46,974 --> 00:11:49,276 into his crazy-professor outfit. 213 00:11:49,342 --> 00:11:51,745 Lanny, a little costume-changing music 214 00:11:51,812 --> 00:11:53,446 if you please. 215 00:11:53,513 --> 00:11:55,949 (LANNY SINGING) 216 00:12:00,387 --> 00:12:02,389 * I'm just a gigolo 217 00:12:02,455 --> 00:12:04,724 * And everywhere I go 218 00:12:04,792 --> 00:12:07,227 Step this way. 219 00:12:07,294 --> 00:12:08,962 I'll have a quiet word with my partner 220 00:12:09,029 --> 00:12:10,630 about the way he spoke to your wife. 221 00:12:10,697 --> 00:12:12,532 JOE: Completely unnecessary. 222 00:12:12,599 --> 00:12:14,267 Just this way. 223 00:12:15,936 --> 00:12:17,437 * There will come a day 224 00:12:17,504 --> 00:12:19,239 * When youth will pass away 225 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,709 * What will they say about me? 226 00:12:23,643 --> 00:12:24,644 (VINCE GRUNTING) 227 00:12:25,612 --> 00:12:26,847 (JOE GROANING) 228 00:12:27,915 --> 00:12:31,151 * Life goes on without me 229 00:12:31,218 --> 00:12:34,654 You call any Jew on this planet anything you like. 230 00:12:34,721 --> 00:12:38,391 But nobody calls my partner a kike. Do you understand? 231 00:12:38,458 --> 00:12:40,227 (SAXOPHONE PLAYING SOLO) 232 00:12:56,409 --> 00:12:59,012 LANNY: Boffing ladies and bashing gentlemen. 233 00:12:59,079 --> 00:13:01,648 I tell you, there was nothing under the sun 234 00:13:01,714 --> 00:13:03,616 Vince and I wouldn't do for each other. 235 00:13:05,018 --> 00:13:06,353 Are you finished? 236 00:13:17,730 --> 00:13:19,599 MAN: Thank you, Mamie. 237 00:13:21,534 --> 00:13:23,803 I'm sorry about that, Miss O'Connor. 238 00:13:23,871 --> 00:13:27,307 We just needed to be sure you didn't take any notes. 239 00:13:27,374 --> 00:13:30,643 Lanny gave me very specific instructions on that point. 240 00:13:30,710 --> 00:13:33,146 I don't understand why he'd want me to read this. 241 00:13:34,915 --> 00:13:37,417 Why would he ever want anyone to see this side of him? 242 00:13:37,484 --> 00:13:40,120 When you contacted us about meeting Lanny for your book, 243 00:13:40,187 --> 00:13:42,355 it wasn't simply a question of letting you know 244 00:13:42,422 --> 00:13:44,691 he wasn't interested in speaking with you. 245 00:13:44,757 --> 00:13:47,794 I believe my client wanted you to understand that he, in fact 246 00:13:47,861 --> 00:13:50,130 was completing a book of his own which would serve 247 00:13:50,197 --> 00:13:52,665 not only as his autobiography 248 00:13:52,732 --> 00:13:56,803 but also as the definitive account of the joint careers of Morris and Collins. 249 00:13:56,870 --> 00:14:00,773 You've had, at first hand, a sample of Lanny's writing voice. 250 00:14:01,774 --> 00:14:03,210 Yes, I have. 251 00:14:03,276 --> 00:14:05,312 Such a book, Miss O'Connor 252 00:14:05,378 --> 00:14:07,881 this raw, this honest 253 00:14:07,948 --> 00:14:10,250 would make your own efforts look... 254 00:14:10,317 --> 00:14:12,185 Well, there's been some very nice translations 255 00:14:12,252 --> 00:14:13,553 of the Bible over the centuries, 256 00:14:13,620 --> 00:14:14,854 (CHUCKLES) 257 00:14:14,922 --> 00:14:16,924 but they would run a very poor second in popularity 258 00:14:16,990 --> 00:14:20,793 to the discovery of the actual Ten Commandments. 259 00:14:22,262 --> 00:14:24,731 BONNIE: Single best part about teaching grade two 260 00:14:24,797 --> 00:14:27,100 is the difference between the bright ones and the dumb ones 261 00:14:27,167 --> 00:14:28,201 isn't so obvious. 262 00:14:28,268 --> 00:14:29,736 What's so great about that? 263 00:14:29,802 --> 00:14:32,572 The results of my work as a teacher aren't so depressing. 264 00:14:32,639 --> 00:14:36,543 Also, there's no homework to correct in the evenings and... 265 00:14:36,609 --> 00:14:38,979 well, none of the kids know how to use drugs. 266 00:14:45,185 --> 00:14:48,488 KAREN: Bonnie had come from New York to visit me that summer. 267 00:14:48,555 --> 00:14:51,624 We'd been best friends since kindergarten. 268 00:14:51,691 --> 00:14:54,361 At school we started the Lanny and Vince Fan Club 269 00:14:54,427 --> 00:14:58,865 raising almost $200 for that year's telethon. 270 00:14:58,932 --> 00:15:00,767 ANNOUNCER: All of you send in a bit of your allowance. 271 00:15:00,833 --> 00:15:04,137 Just a little bit. A dime, a nickel, a penny. 272 00:15:04,204 --> 00:15:07,574 Every bit helps. 273 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,345 LANNY: The goal of the telethon that year was $3.9 million, 274 00:15:12,412 --> 00:15:14,514 which was a lot of dough at that time. 275 00:15:14,581 --> 00:15:17,517 Thank you, Tom. You're a prince among men. 276 00:15:17,584 --> 00:15:20,988 VINCE: Whoa, whoa, Lanny. There are children watching! 277 00:15:21,054 --> 00:15:23,190 Where does he get his energy? 278 00:15:23,256 --> 00:15:24,824 LANNY: To remind viewers of the goal 279 00:15:24,891 --> 00:15:28,361 we agreed the telethon could run 39 hours nonstop. 280 00:15:30,097 --> 00:15:32,299 The show would begin at 9:00 p.m. on Friday 281 00:15:32,365 --> 00:15:34,434 and finish at noon on Sunday. 282 00:15:34,501 --> 00:15:37,070 We paced it so that Vince and I were together for the kickoff, 283 00:15:37,137 --> 00:15:38,905 most of the day Saturday 284 00:15:38,972 --> 00:15:43,043 then the big finale on Sunday with us bleary-eyed 285 00:15:43,110 --> 00:15:46,046 and weeping as America got ready to go to church. 286 00:15:46,113 --> 00:15:49,616 Lanny, Lanny. What are you doing? 287 00:15:49,682 --> 00:15:51,851 I'm ordering a pizza. I'm starving. 288 00:15:51,918 --> 00:15:53,987 No anchovies on mine, Lanny. 289 00:15:54,054 --> 00:15:55,989 Hey, so who are you talking to? 290 00:15:56,056 --> 00:15:59,392 I'm talking to little Suzie from Whittier, California 291 00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:03,096 and she is going to donate three weeks of allowance. 292 00:16:03,163 --> 00:16:06,333 -How about that, folks? -ANNOUNCER: Suzie from Whittier, thank you. 293 00:16:06,399 --> 00:16:08,301 -Thank you. -Three weeks of allowance. 294 00:16:08,368 --> 00:16:10,403 Surely, that's a challenge for all you... 295 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:12,072 LANNY: See, what you have to understand is that Vince and me 296 00:16:12,139 --> 00:16:14,774 were essentially a boy-girl act. 297 00:16:14,841 --> 00:16:17,410 I was the tramp, ready for any sort of action 298 00:16:17,477 --> 00:16:18,745 and Vince was the gentleman 299 00:16:18,811 --> 00:16:21,714 always trying to make me behave myself. 300 00:16:21,781 --> 00:16:24,251 I was pleasure, and he was control. 301 00:16:24,317 --> 00:16:27,587 I was rock 'n' roll, and he was class. 302 00:16:27,654 --> 00:16:31,124 His presence gave America permission to like me. 303 00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:37,597 KAREN: My deal with the publisher gave me first-class travel 304 00:16:37,664 --> 00:16:39,499 a luxury I'd never enjoyed. 305 00:16:39,566 --> 00:16:41,934 Is there any chance of switching to a window seat? 306 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:44,404 Sorry, we're completely booked in first. 307 00:16:44,471 --> 00:16:46,739 But these center seats are really wonderful. 308 00:16:46,806 --> 00:16:49,242 See...if you push here. 309 00:16:49,309 --> 00:16:50,843 -Can I show you? -Sure. 310 00:16:53,313 --> 00:16:56,183 The chair swivels to the left and the right. 311 00:16:56,249 --> 00:16:58,685 And this converts to a full-sized dining table 312 00:16:58,751 --> 00:17:00,653 during our Pan Am platinum service 313 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,423 with damask linen and silverware by Fornari 314 00:17:03,490 --> 00:17:05,858 so you don't have to eat off a tray. 315 00:17:05,925 --> 00:17:08,595 Again, that's only for these center seats. 316 00:17:09,596 --> 00:17:11,298 How does that sound? 317 00:17:11,364 --> 00:17:14,033 KAREN: At that time, when you traveled first class 318 00:17:14,101 --> 00:17:18,271 people would always ask you if you met someone famous on the flight. 319 00:17:18,338 --> 00:17:20,473 -Mr. Morris. -Thank you. 320 00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:21,708 You're welcome. 321 00:17:31,418 --> 00:17:35,522 KAREN: Though he would later accuse me of engineering this, I didn't. 322 00:17:35,588 --> 00:17:38,225 It just...happened. 323 00:17:45,365 --> 00:17:49,336 Reuben. So they record these songs in a studio 324 00:17:49,402 --> 00:17:50,470 that I am paying for. 325 00:17:50,537 --> 00:17:52,472 Songs that are recorded for me, 326 00:17:52,539 --> 00:17:54,507 that they are contracted to provide. 327 00:17:54,574 --> 00:17:56,609 -Are you with me here? -IRV: Yes, Lanny, it's just that... 328 00:17:56,676 --> 00:17:58,311 LANNY: No, it's just that nothing, Irv. 329 00:17:58,378 --> 00:18:00,547 Please, let me finish. So, they record... 330 00:18:00,613 --> 00:18:03,183 KAREN: I read an interview where Lanny was given credit for insisting his butler 331 00:18:03,250 --> 00:18:08,188 travel in the same class and stay at the same hotels as his boss. 332 00:18:08,255 --> 00:18:10,757 The valet's attentiveness was impressive. 333 00:18:12,825 --> 00:18:15,528 Looks like you'll be having dinner with Lanny Morris. 334 00:18:18,931 --> 00:18:21,501 -Hello. -Hi. 335 00:18:31,978 --> 00:18:34,747 We should get a waiter to slide a matchbook under the airplane. 336 00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:37,684 There we go. 337 00:18:37,750 --> 00:18:39,219 That should hold. 338 00:18:40,620 --> 00:18:42,289 This is my friend Reuben. 339 00:18:42,355 --> 00:18:44,324 -Hi. -Hi. 340 00:18:44,391 --> 00:18:47,594 And this is also my friend, technically speaking and business manager, Irv. 341 00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:48,761 Hi. 342 00:18:50,897 --> 00:18:52,165 My name is Lanny. 343 00:18:56,936 --> 00:18:58,471 And what's your name? 344 00:18:59,872 --> 00:19:02,442 Bonnie. Bonnie Trout. 345 00:19:02,509 --> 00:19:03,743 What do you do, Bonnie? 346 00:19:03,810 --> 00:19:05,512 I teach. 347 00:19:05,578 --> 00:19:07,214 And what do you teach? 348 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,649 -Second grade. -Well, we have a lot in common. 349 00:19:09,716 --> 00:19:12,385 You teach second grade, I went to second grade. 350 00:19:12,452 --> 00:19:15,054 -Irv, you went to second grade too? -IRV: Many times. 351 00:19:15,822 --> 00:19:17,424 Tell me, Miss Trout 352 00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:19,058 I don't mean to be impolite 353 00:19:19,125 --> 00:19:20,860 but I was wondering 354 00:19:20,927 --> 00:19:24,464 how a second-grade schoolteacher affords to fly first class. 355 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:28,935 Well, I have a pass 356 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:32,772 that allows me free use of the subway on weekends 357 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:35,242 and the hot lunches at school are only 50 cents. 358 00:19:37,244 --> 00:19:41,414 And I'm the mistress of a wealthy married man 359 00:19:41,481 --> 00:19:43,583 and when he and his wife go on vacation, 360 00:19:43,650 --> 00:19:46,619 he treats me to a first-class trip in the opposite direction. 361 00:19:48,488 --> 00:19:50,790 But look at me, talking only about myself. 362 00:19:50,857 --> 00:19:54,093 What do you do for a living? 363 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,829 I'm a French impressionist painter out of Tahiti, mainly. 364 00:19:56,896 --> 00:19:58,331 But I'm just doing that to pay the bills. 365 00:19:58,398 --> 00:20:01,501 My ambition is to be a stockbroker in Paris. 366 00:20:01,568 --> 00:20:03,670 -I don't get it. -KAREN: Paul Gauguin. 367 00:20:03,736 --> 00:20:05,838 He gave up being a successful stockbroker 368 00:20:05,905 --> 00:20:07,307 to become a painter in the South Seas. 369 00:20:09,376 --> 00:20:11,578 You think the average person knows that? 370 00:20:11,644 --> 00:20:14,247 Well, we're not talking about the average person, Irv. 371 00:20:17,950 --> 00:20:19,552 KAREN: In some ways 372 00:20:19,619 --> 00:20:23,590 he had never stopped being a hero to me. 373 00:20:23,656 --> 00:20:27,226 That's why it was impossible to think he might also be a killer. 374 00:20:34,601 --> 00:20:36,168 Well, this has been great. 375 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:38,505 I'm gonna see you inside your apartment. 376 00:20:38,571 --> 00:20:41,140 -There's really no need. -Don't be silly. 377 00:20:41,207 --> 00:20:43,276 I'm not gonna try to come in. 378 00:20:43,343 --> 00:20:45,545 Promise. 379 00:20:45,612 --> 00:20:48,047 You've been away from your apartment for how long now? 380 00:20:48,114 --> 00:20:49,516 Ages. 381 00:20:49,582 --> 00:20:52,084 Well, you never know if somebody's broken in while you were gone. 382 00:20:52,151 --> 00:20:55,455 ''ll just see you inside your door. 383 00:20:55,522 --> 00:20:58,491 Believe me, I'm... I'm not trying to seduce you. 384 00:20:58,558 --> 00:21:00,660 I have to do the Today show at 7:00 a.m. 385 00:21:00,727 --> 00:21:03,363 They want me in Makeup at 6:15. 386 00:21:03,430 --> 00:21:05,632 KAREN: Bonnie had moved to New York for the teaching job 387 00:21:05,698 --> 00:21:08,000 a little over a year ago. 388 00:21:08,067 --> 00:21:12,038 I had never visited her and had no idea if this was the right place. 389 00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:14,707 Which floor? 390 00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:17,109 Why, um... 391 00:21:18,345 --> 00:21:20,046 -Four-D. -Forty? 392 00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:21,981 It only goes up to six. (SNICKERS) 393 00:21:24,351 --> 00:21:26,252 Four-D, uh... 394 00:21:26,319 --> 00:21:28,555 -Four-D, the fourth floor. -Ah. 395 00:21:50,142 --> 00:21:51,344 (GIGGLES) 396 00:21:51,411 --> 00:21:53,012 Which way? 397 00:21:53,746 --> 00:21:55,715 -Guess. -Why? 398 00:21:55,782 --> 00:21:57,350 It's a test. 399 00:21:57,417 --> 00:21:58,951 A test? 400 00:22:00,653 --> 00:22:02,355 Okay. 401 00:22:02,422 --> 00:22:03,790 This way. 402 00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:09,529 So why didn't we take this elevator? 403 00:22:09,596 --> 00:22:11,564 Doesn't work. 404 00:22:11,631 --> 00:22:13,199 (CLEARS THROAT) 405 00:22:14,767 --> 00:22:16,202 Well... 406 00:22:17,103 --> 00:22:18,438 Good night. 407 00:22:18,505 --> 00:22:20,673 No, I'm going to see you into your apartment. 408 00:22:20,740 --> 00:22:22,409 And then I'm gonna leave you alone until tomorrow. 409 00:22:29,048 --> 00:22:31,584 (KEYS CLINKING) 410 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,362 I never get which key goes in which lock the first time. 411 00:22:45,965 --> 00:22:47,600 Hey, looks like they fixed it. 412 00:22:52,405 --> 00:22:54,240 (OBJECTS CLATTERING) 413 00:22:59,612 --> 00:23:01,213 You okay? 414 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,215 Maybe we should turn on a light. 415 00:23:06,819 --> 00:23:08,154 Whoops. 416 00:23:17,430 --> 00:23:19,799 Well... 417 00:23:19,866 --> 00:23:21,801 I'm going to leave you now because I have... 418 00:23:21,868 --> 00:23:25,337 I have Reuben and Irv waiting in the limousine downstairs and 419 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:28,274 I should get some sleep for the Today show. 420 00:23:30,677 --> 00:23:32,111 So... 421 00:23:37,183 --> 00:23:38,851 It was lovely to meet you, Bonnie. 422 00:23:51,631 --> 00:23:52,899 (BAND PLAYING FESTIVE MELODY) 423 00:23:52,965 --> 00:23:54,934 BOTH: * We may not go far 424 00:23:55,001 --> 00:23:58,370 * But sure as a star 425 00:23:58,437 --> 00:24:01,107 LANNY: By the end of the telethon, we had no voices. 426 00:24:01,173 --> 00:24:04,711 Thirty-nine hours of nonstop entertainment. 427 00:24:04,777 --> 00:24:07,780 A telethon was a superhuman feat. 428 00:24:07,847 --> 00:24:10,650 We weren't just heroes, we were gods. 429 00:24:10,717 --> 00:24:12,384 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 430 00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:17,089 A couple of the boys were there to make sure we got out alive 431 00:24:17,156 --> 00:24:18,858 to make the flight to New York. 432 00:24:21,393 --> 00:24:23,362 (REPORTERS YELLING) 433 00:24:23,429 --> 00:24:26,398 Everyone. Listen. Listen. 434 00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:28,835 Gentlemen. Gentlemen, please. 435 00:24:28,901 --> 00:24:32,204 Gentlemen, if I could just have your attention. 436 00:24:32,271 --> 00:24:34,273 Everyone, Mr. Collins and Mr. Morris 437 00:24:34,340 --> 00:24:36,743 will answer questions at the press conference 438 00:24:36,809 --> 00:24:38,645 at the Palace Del Sol. 439 00:24:38,711 --> 00:24:41,013 Gentlemen, there will be plenty of time 440 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,483 to answer your questions at the Palace Del Sol. 441 00:24:44,551 --> 00:24:47,754 Thank you, we will answer your questions at the press conference. 442 00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:49,822 Thank you for coming. 443 00:24:55,828 --> 00:24:58,565 LANNY: We had a full police escort, along with several bodyguards 444 00:24:58,631 --> 00:25:02,068 who were there to protect us from any thoughts we might have had of going AWOL 445 00:25:02,134 --> 00:25:04,036 prior to this press conference 446 00:25:04,103 --> 00:25:07,540 A pair of New Jersey's finest walked on either side of us 447 00:25:07,607 --> 00:25:10,142 as we entered the lobby of the hotel. 448 00:25:10,209 --> 00:25:13,112 See, it was an indication of how legitimate the Mob had gone 449 00:25:13,179 --> 00:25:15,314 that they could bring in the local police 450 00:25:15,381 --> 00:25:18,517 to guard the facade of their racket. 451 00:25:18,585 --> 00:25:22,722 The local chief was a man named Jack Scaglia. 452 00:25:22,789 --> 00:25:25,825 WOMAN: And of course , the two gentlemen on my right 453 00:25:25,892 --> 00:25:27,827 who need no introduction, 454 00:25:27,894 --> 00:25:30,663 have come here directly from their record-breaking 455 00:25:30,730 --> 00:25:34,233 polio telethon in Miami, Florida. 456 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:38,037 So the first thing I'd like to announce is that Mr. Sanmarco... 457 00:25:38,104 --> 00:25:39,572 LANNY: I wish I could tell you 458 00:25:39,639 --> 00:25:42,642 that Sally Sanmarco was a slim, 6' 6'' guy 459 00:25:42,709 --> 00:25:45,612 who looked like a prince and spoke with an English accent. 460 00:25:45,678 --> 00:25:48,280 Then I wouldn't seem to be falling back on the stereotype. 461 00:25:48,347 --> 00:25:52,719 The trouble was, Sally was straight out of central casting. 462 00:25:52,785 --> 00:25:54,921 A gangster who looked and talked 463 00:25:54,987 --> 00:25:57,757 just like you would expect from the movies. 464 00:25:57,824 --> 00:26:01,127 How did it feel to raise all that money for polio? 465 00:26:01,193 --> 00:26:03,462 It felt great. It felt really great. 466 00:26:03,529 --> 00:26:06,365 LANNY: From a publicity angle, and in terms of giving him legitimacy 467 00:26:06,432 --> 00:26:08,768 this was a huge coup for Sally. 468 00:26:08,835 --> 00:26:11,303 Like I said, we were gods. 469 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:15,141 We'd only been in the New York area for an hour or so, 470 00:26:15,207 --> 00:26:18,778 during which time we were constantly watched by police and reporters 471 00:26:18,845 --> 00:26:22,314 which ended up being a good thing for us. 472 00:26:22,381 --> 00:26:24,250 SALLY: We got you our best bridal suite. 473 00:26:25,351 --> 00:26:28,354 Fucking nice, huh? 474 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:31,290 People talk about having fancy apartments and hotel rooms 475 00:26:31,357 --> 00:26:33,559 on the West Side of Manhattan. What do they see? 476 00:26:33,626 --> 00:26:36,295 Fucking New Jersey. Here, you see New York City. 477 00:26:36,362 --> 00:26:37,797 (WOMAN SCREAMS) 478 00:26:43,970 --> 00:26:46,505 LANNY: Unfortunately, Vince and I were acquainted 479 00:26:46,572 --> 00:26:51,510 with the dead girl in the bathroom of our hotel suite in New Jersey. 480 00:26:51,577 --> 00:26:55,181 Her last name was O'Flaherty. 481 00:26:55,247 --> 00:26:58,718 KAREN: Her first name was Maureen. 482 00:26:58,785 --> 00:27:02,321 BONNIE: Karen, we decided to trade apartments, not identities. 483 00:27:02,388 --> 00:27:04,023 Why didn't you make up a name? 484 00:27:04,090 --> 00:27:06,826 KAREN: Bonnie, I was looking at a five-hour flight. 485 00:27:06,893 --> 00:27:10,162 I didn't wanna make up a life story that wasn't attached to anything. 486 00:27:10,229 --> 00:27:13,966 Well, I returned the offense. I got to pretend I was you. 487 00:27:14,033 --> 00:27:15,567 -What do you mean? -You received a package. 488 00:27:15,634 --> 00:27:18,204 Messenger service. I signed your name. 489 00:27:18,270 --> 00:27:20,072 -Who's it from? -No return address. 490 00:27:20,139 --> 00:27:21,307 -Want me to open it? -Sure. 491 00:27:21,373 --> 00:27:22,842 That's good. I already did. 492 00:27:22,909 --> 00:27:24,143 It's a manuscript. 493 00:27:24,210 --> 00:27:28,848 "Excerpt from the Memoirs of Lanny Morris." 494 00:27:28,915 --> 00:27:30,616 Hey, all your dreams are coming true. 495 00:27:30,683 --> 00:27:32,952 He's writing you love letters already. 496 00:27:33,019 --> 00:27:35,121 Bonnie, I need to know what he's written. 497 00:27:35,187 --> 00:27:38,424 - Well, I'll send it to you. -No, now. Before he calls me tomorrow. 498 00:27:39,892 --> 00:27:41,527 (SIGHS) 499 00:27:41,593 --> 00:27:43,763 -Please? -All right. 500 00:27:43,830 --> 00:27:45,164 (CLEARS THROAT) 501 00:27:45,765 --> 00:27:47,800 All right. 502 00:27:47,867 --> 00:27:49,268 Here we go. 503 00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:55,007 "Let me explain to you why two very famous guys 504 00:27:55,074 --> 00:27:59,712 "just finishing a nationally broadcast telethon ended up in New Jersey." 505 00:27:59,779 --> 00:28:02,114 (WILD JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) 506 00:28:04,550 --> 00:28:09,789 LANNY: For years, the Palace Del Sol was one of the centers of mob prosperity. 507 00:28:09,856 --> 00:28:13,059 Needless to say, a major headliner in the showroom 508 00:28:13,125 --> 00:28:16,262 helped legitimize the entire operation. 509 00:28:16,328 --> 00:28:18,297 PHOTOGRAPHER: Give her a kiss. Yeah, beautiful. 510 00:28:18,364 --> 00:28:21,567 One more, guys. That's it. That's great. Thank you. 511 00:28:21,633 --> 00:28:24,136 LANNY: Now, Vince and I needed help in keeping us up all the time 512 00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:26,638 and in the way of thinking in the '50s 513 00:28:26,705 --> 00:28:29,041 anything you didn't take with a needle was okay. 514 00:28:29,108 --> 00:28:32,912 It wasn't serious, serious. It was like running a red light. 515 00:28:32,979 --> 00:28:37,549 Everyone used bennies. Vince added them to his morning coffee like sugar. 516 00:28:42,855 --> 00:28:44,723 Not that you could tell. 517 00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:48,861 When we did finally decide to flatten out 518 00:28:48,928 --> 00:28:51,030 we'd take two or three Tuinals, 519 00:28:51,097 --> 00:28:53,099 or three or four "Threeinals." 520 00:28:53,165 --> 00:28:54,533 They were really good. 521 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,903 Between the moment you took them and passing out 522 00:28:56,969 --> 00:29:00,372 it felt really sexy. 523 00:29:00,439 --> 00:29:02,942 * One day 524 00:29:03,009 --> 00:29:04,643 * Why doesn't somebody man up and pick this man up? 525 00:29:04,710 --> 00:29:06,645 * Put him on the street give him something to eat 526 00:29:06,712 --> 00:29:08,614 * Make him a little more neat Introduce him to his mother 527 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:09,681 * Make him believe he has a part 528 00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:11,417 * In the great human education 529 00:29:11,483 --> 00:29:12,985 * Teach him a little bit about conversation 530 00:29:13,052 --> 00:29:14,753 * Validation, vindication 531 00:29:14,821 --> 00:29:16,188 * For God's sake, send this man somewhere 532 00:29:16,255 --> 00:29:17,957 * where he can have a bit of self-belief 533 00:29:18,024 --> 00:29:20,759 * Something like the Army where he can be sent to exotic places, 534 00:29:20,827 --> 00:29:22,161 * Kill exotic people 535 00:29:22,228 --> 00:29:24,230 * Give him the very model of a modern major general 536 00:29:24,296 --> 00:29:26,398 * Teach him about equations both simple and quadratical 537 00:29:26,465 --> 00:29:27,934 (APPLAUSE) 538 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,668 * About binomial theorem he's teeming with a lot of news 539 00:29:29,735 --> 00:29:31,871 * Teach him the square root of the hypotenuse * 540 00:29:34,907 --> 00:29:36,042 (INDISTINCT) 541 00:29:36,108 --> 00:29:37,276 Sure. 542 00:29:37,343 --> 00:29:39,345 -Enjoyed the show. -Thank you. 543 00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:42,714 That must have been good for you. 544 00:29:44,216 --> 00:29:45,818 LANNY: The walls of the Blue Grotto 545 00:29:45,885 --> 00:29:48,821 were made of a mixture of plaster and Styrofoam. 546 00:29:48,888 --> 00:29:51,858 Flammable as all hell. But the boys had learned it was cheaper 547 00:29:51,924 --> 00:29:55,494 to give the inspector 200 bucks and a ringside table to our show 548 00:29:55,561 --> 00:29:59,065 than to spend thousands of dollars on fireproofing. 549 00:29:59,131 --> 00:30:02,368 Besides, it was always vital in a business enterprise of this sort 550 00:30:02,434 --> 00:30:06,238 to have the option to torch the place at a moment's notice 551 00:30:06,305 --> 00:30:08,674 should the need present itself. 552 00:30:10,776 --> 00:30:13,946 One night, after our show, we were taken to Sally's office. 553 00:30:14,013 --> 00:30:15,581 We wondered what we had done wrong 554 00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:17,416 but what we had done was done good. 555 00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:20,052 Sally started going on about how much he liked us 556 00:30:20,119 --> 00:30:23,255 how he thought we were a good fit with his crowd 557 00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:25,858 meaning that we brought in an audience of heavy drinkers 558 00:30:25,925 --> 00:30:28,027 adulterers and gamblers. 559 00:30:28,094 --> 00:30:30,897 So, what we want is for you boys to come back here 560 00:30:30,963 --> 00:30:34,266 three months from now and open our new showroom for us. 561 00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:37,703 A two-week, exclusive limited engagement 562 00:30:37,769 --> 00:30:41,173 that we want you to do for us for six weeks. 563 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,010 LANNY: God help you when a killer takes a shining to you. 564 00:30:44,076 --> 00:30:49,115 I looked at Vince and scratched my nose, which meant our strongest "no." 565 00:30:49,181 --> 00:30:50,950 That's a very great honor, Sally. 566 00:30:51,017 --> 00:30:54,253 -You're damn fucking right it is. -The thing is, uh... 567 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,555 We're just trying to cut down on the nightclub work at the moment. 568 00:30:56,622 --> 00:30:59,892 We turned down the Sands so we could do a TV special 569 00:30:59,959 --> 00:31:03,429 and the only reason we still work the Versailles is out of friendship for you. 570 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,401 What dates were you thinking of? 571 00:31:09,468 --> 00:31:11,070 We open November 15th. 572 00:31:11,137 --> 00:31:13,940 Sally, any other day we would be here in a flash 573 00:31:14,006 --> 00:31:17,043 but, you know, that's the day right after the next polio telethon. 574 00:31:17,109 --> 00:31:20,412 I mean, we always take two weeks off right after that to recover. 575 00:31:20,479 --> 00:31:21,948 -Right, Vince? -At least. 576 00:31:22,014 --> 00:31:24,283 -I mean, we're tired. -SALLY: That's the way I want you. 577 00:31:24,350 --> 00:31:27,987 After the fucking telethon, we fly you up from Miami 578 00:31:28,054 --> 00:31:30,856 hold a press conference, all fucking exhausted 579 00:31:30,923 --> 00:31:33,892 so people know what heroes you are. 580 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,562 I'll keep a suite for you with the best hookers I got. 581 00:31:36,628 --> 00:31:38,864 Your own personal cathouse. 582 00:31:38,931 --> 00:31:40,299 And I'll have them send you up 583 00:31:40,366 --> 00:31:42,701 a shipment of lobsters and stone crabs. 584 00:31:42,768 --> 00:31:45,337 -You like lobsters? -Love them. 585 00:31:45,404 --> 00:31:50,176 And a case of these special grapefruits 586 00:31:50,242 --> 00:31:53,345 that I get special down there. 587 00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:56,448 The most delicious thing you ever tasted in your life. 588 00:31:56,515 --> 00:31:59,551 Juicy, thin skin. 589 00:31:59,618 --> 00:32:03,489 LANNY: Months later, on the night before the telethon in Miami 590 00:32:03,555 --> 00:32:06,092 we got back to our room and found that Sally 591 00:32:06,158 --> 00:32:09,161 had been more than good to his word. 592 00:32:11,163 --> 00:32:13,899 Laid out around the room were various crates 593 00:32:13,966 --> 00:32:16,635 bearing the addresses of their destination. 594 00:32:16,702 --> 00:32:20,606 Our suite at the Palace Del Sol hotel in New Jersey. 595 00:32:20,672 --> 00:32:26,212 VINCE: (IMITATES SALLY) "You like lobsters? See you in New Jersey." 596 00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:29,448 (IMITATES SALLY) "Thin skin, fucking most delicious fucking thing 597 00:32:29,515 --> 00:32:31,483 "you ever had in your fucking life." 598 00:32:31,550 --> 00:32:33,519 BONNIE: "What I thought was a box of beach balls 599 00:32:33,585 --> 00:32:36,655 "turned out to be the thinnest-skinned, dripping-wet grapefruits 600 00:32:36,722 --> 00:32:38,857 "I'd ever tasted in my life. 601 00:32:38,924 --> 00:32:41,660 "The 6-foot crate was filled with fruits of the sea 602 00:32:41,727 --> 00:32:44,263 "slowly shifting over a bed of ice." 603 00:32:44,330 --> 00:32:48,400 Yeah, this is Lanny Morris. Send up three steaks, all right? 604 00:32:48,467 --> 00:32:49,901 Yeah. Make them rare this time. 605 00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:51,537 -Yeah, rare. -Like bloody. 606 00:32:51,603 --> 00:32:54,506 Bloody. And a couple of bottles of that champagne. 607 00:32:54,573 --> 00:32:56,742 -Make that three. -Three bottles of champagne. 608 00:32:56,808 --> 00:33:00,212 And can you make sure that Maureen delivers them? 609 00:33:00,946 --> 00:33:02,914 Yeah, Maureen. 610 00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:04,383 LANNY: We called down for Maureen 611 00:33:04,450 --> 00:33:06,418 the room-service girl I'd met earlier 612 00:33:06,485 --> 00:33:09,321 who wanted the interview for her school paper. 613 00:33:09,388 --> 00:33:12,124 She brought up three steaks, one for her 614 00:33:12,191 --> 00:33:15,094 as her last official delivery of the day. 615 00:33:15,161 --> 00:33:16,962 As much as I love lobster 616 00:33:17,029 --> 00:33:20,232 seeing all that shellfish nestled on ice in the crate 617 00:33:20,299 --> 00:33:23,502 put me in the mood for hooves, not claws. 618 00:33:33,745 --> 00:33:38,717 The interview for Maureen's campus paper went better than expected. 619 00:33:38,784 --> 00:33:41,153 Vince and I popped some Tuinals 620 00:33:41,220 --> 00:33:43,655 to insure that we would sleep like babes 621 00:33:43,722 --> 00:33:48,060 after we wore off the general horniness that the pills first give you. 622 00:33:48,127 --> 00:33:53,265 Vince bought insurance on his bet by having a few babes on hand. 623 00:33:53,332 --> 00:33:56,768 Well, not exactly on his hand. 624 00:33:56,835 --> 00:33:58,604 That wasn't his preference. 625 00:33:58,670 --> 00:34:01,973 BONNIE: "Not exactly on his hand. That wasn't his preference." 626 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:06,145 "Not exactly on his hand? That wasn't his preference?" 627 00:34:08,214 --> 00:34:10,949 "The Tuinals, coupled with a nice amount of booze 628 00:34:11,016 --> 00:34:13,685 "guaranteed us the sleep of the dead. 629 00:34:13,752 --> 00:34:16,455 "Late the next morning, Maureen was sent packing 630 00:34:16,522 --> 00:34:21,160 "and Vince and I prepared ourselves for that night's broadcast." 631 00:34:23,495 --> 00:34:25,464 Well, I guess this is one story 632 00:34:25,531 --> 00:34:27,266 my kids won't have to give a book report on. 633 00:34:30,369 --> 00:34:31,737 Thanks. 634 00:34:31,803 --> 00:34:33,705 Must be weird to find out 635 00:34:33,772 --> 00:34:36,875 that the object of all your adolescent fantasies is a pig. 636 00:34:38,510 --> 00:34:41,012 He's not like that. 637 00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:44,183 Oh, so it's just the way he describes himself. 638 00:34:45,651 --> 00:34:47,586 KAREN: She was right. 639 00:34:47,653 --> 00:34:50,756 Which was the real Lanny? 640 00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:53,925 I'd find out later that the story of the hookers in the hotel suite 641 00:34:53,992 --> 00:34:56,595 was a complete fabrication. 642 00:34:56,662 --> 00:34:59,531 That night, Maureen was alone. 643 00:35:08,474 --> 00:35:10,476 (PHONE RINGS) 644 00:35:11,343 --> 00:35:12,344 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 645 00:35:13,845 --> 00:35:15,414 (PHONE RINGS) 646 00:35:19,151 --> 00:35:21,387 (PHONE CONTINUES RINGING) 647 00:35:27,359 --> 00:35:28,394 Hello? 648 00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:29,995 So how did you like the show? 649 00:35:30,061 --> 00:35:31,630 Lanny? 650 00:35:33,865 --> 00:35:35,601 The Today show. 651 00:35:35,667 --> 00:35:37,769 You did watch, didn't you? 652 00:35:37,836 --> 00:35:40,406 -The show. -You didn't watch. 653 00:35:40,472 --> 00:35:42,274 Wow, that's scary. 654 00:35:44,676 --> 00:35:47,546 You see, when you're a star 655 00:35:47,613 --> 00:35:49,114 you live in terror, 656 00:35:49,181 --> 00:35:50,649 wondering if it's all over yet. 657 00:35:50,716 --> 00:35:52,851 You keep looking for the signs. 658 00:35:52,918 --> 00:35:56,222 You're shooting a scene from a movie on a New York street 659 00:35:56,288 --> 00:35:57,523 and a crowd doesn't form. 660 00:35:57,589 --> 00:35:59,458 You meet a girl on a plane and tell her 661 00:35:59,525 --> 00:36:01,527 that you're gonna be on the Today show the next morning 662 00:36:01,593 --> 00:36:03,529 and she doesn't wake up early to watch. 663 00:36:03,595 --> 00:36:07,599 It's very scary. 664 00:36:07,666 --> 00:36:10,969 Hey, you know, I mentioned you on the air. 665 00:36:11,036 --> 00:36:12,204 (CHUCKLES) 666 00:36:12,271 --> 00:36:15,173 -You did? -Yes, I proposed to you on the air. 667 00:36:15,241 --> 00:36:18,109 Your apartment building is probably surrounded with photographers 668 00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:19,411 at this very moment. 669 00:36:19,478 --> 00:36:21,247 You're kidding. 670 00:36:21,313 --> 00:36:23,081 Yes, I'm kidding. 671 00:36:26,585 --> 00:36:28,554 So, 672 00:36:28,620 --> 00:36:30,422 what time would you like to meet? 673 00:36:54,746 --> 00:36:57,616 Stanley, this is Bonnie. Bonnie, Stanley. 674 00:36:57,683 --> 00:36:59,385 Nice to meet you. 675 00:36:59,451 --> 00:37:00,719 Is the food almost ready, Stan? 676 00:37:00,786 --> 00:37:02,888 Yeah. I'll bring it right out, Mr. Lanny. 677 00:37:04,290 --> 00:37:06,057 I was very hungry, 678 00:37:06,124 --> 00:37:08,294 so I asked Stanley to prepare us something special. 679 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,329 That sounds great. 680 00:37:12,163 --> 00:37:13,932 Tell me, what kind of a meeting 681 00:37:13,999 --> 00:37:16,368 does a schoolteacher have to go to during the summer vacation? 682 00:37:16,435 --> 00:37:20,272 I'm exploring the possibility of another job. 683 00:37:20,339 --> 00:37:23,842 -Something in publishing. -How did it go? 684 00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:25,944 Okay. 685 00:37:26,011 --> 00:37:27,913 Have you ever thought about writing a book? 686 00:37:29,315 --> 00:37:32,518 -About what? -Your life. 687 00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:34,386 Sure. When I'm dead. 688 00:37:34,953 --> 00:37:36,655 No, seriously. 689 00:37:36,722 --> 00:37:38,857 It would have to be published after I died 690 00:37:38,924 --> 00:37:42,060 when I wouldn't care what anybody thought about me. (CHUCKLES) 691 00:37:42,127 --> 00:37:46,832 So, what would you write about, if you were going to tell the truth? 692 00:37:46,898 --> 00:37:48,834 In my book? 693 00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:52,571 Well, the truth is, I've met four presidents. 694 00:37:52,638 --> 00:37:54,473 Each one of them seemed like they were totally out of it. 695 00:37:54,540 --> 00:37:56,575 Like they had no idea what was going on. 696 00:37:56,642 --> 00:38:00,211 Even JFK left me unimpressed. I felt like I was with the boss' son. 697 00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:01,880 You don't think you could say that? 698 00:38:01,947 --> 00:38:05,216 Not if I was planning on living in this country. No, no. 699 00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:08,320 I don't think that Judy Garland was such a great singer 700 00:38:08,387 --> 00:38:10,155 after she turned 16. 701 00:38:10,221 --> 00:38:13,258 That quiver, you know, it was like she had no control over it. 702 00:38:13,325 --> 00:38:15,694 I would get killed for saying that. 703 00:38:15,761 --> 00:38:19,197 Or that Marilyn Monroe was no better an actress 704 00:38:19,264 --> 00:38:22,133 after she studied with Lee Strasberg than before. 705 00:38:25,404 --> 00:38:27,773 I'm saying what really happened. 706 00:38:31,777 --> 00:38:34,012 Having to be a nice guy 707 00:38:34,079 --> 00:38:36,382 is the toughest job in the world when you're not. 708 00:38:43,121 --> 00:38:45,691 This is a lamb in tea sauce. 709 00:38:45,757 --> 00:38:48,560 This is twice-cooked pork with shredded, pickled cabbage. 710 00:38:49,628 --> 00:38:52,063 Kung Pao chicken. 711 00:38:52,130 --> 00:38:54,299 And this is Kung Ping Loh Haa 712 00:38:54,366 --> 00:38:59,371 lobster in tangerine peel for you and your lovely lady friend. 713 00:38:59,438 --> 00:39:01,573 You shouldn't have done that, Stanley. 714 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,643 I don't eat lobster. I'm Jewish. 715 00:39:04,710 --> 00:39:06,344 But you eat pork. 716 00:39:06,412 --> 00:39:09,114 -Do you have a problem with that? -No, I just thought... 717 00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:13,018 No shrimp, no lobster. They're disgusting. Take it away. 718 00:39:13,084 --> 00:39:14,820 I will pay for the dish, but take it away, please. 719 00:39:16,221 --> 00:39:17,889 I'll change it. 720 00:39:19,458 --> 00:39:21,460 I'm sorry, I... 721 00:39:21,527 --> 00:39:24,029 I should have asked. Maybe you love lobster. 722 00:39:24,095 --> 00:39:26,965 I'm fine. 723 00:39:27,032 --> 00:39:29,000 Have you ever had Szechwan cuisine before? 724 00:39:29,067 --> 00:39:32,037 It's from the northern part of China. 725 00:39:32,103 --> 00:39:34,840 It must be strange for you. 726 00:39:34,906 --> 00:39:37,409 If you complain to a waiter, 727 00:39:37,476 --> 00:39:40,546 you're not just some jerk at table five, 728 00:39:40,612 --> 00:39:42,313 you're Lanny Morris. 729 00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:45,584 I know that everyone dreams about being famous 730 00:39:45,651 --> 00:39:47,152 but it would be interesting to know 731 00:39:47,218 --> 00:39:49,354 what it's like to relinquish all anonymity. 732 00:39:54,192 --> 00:39:57,929 -Gets me a date. -Does that bother you? 733 00:39:57,996 --> 00:40:00,966 That people only wanna be with you because of who you are? 734 00:40:01,032 --> 00:40:03,034 As opposed to? 735 00:40:03,101 --> 00:40:05,136 Well, the real you. 736 00:40:07,673 --> 00:40:09,307 LANNY: The real me. 737 00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:17,115 The real me was brought up as a nice middle-class kid 738 00:40:17,182 --> 00:40:18,550 which is not the easiest thing in the world 739 00:40:18,617 --> 00:40:22,588 when you are extremely poor and living in a slum. 740 00:40:22,654 --> 00:40:27,626 The real me spent most of his time getting the shit kicked out of him 741 00:40:27,693 --> 00:40:29,728 and dreaming about something better. 742 00:40:32,464 --> 00:40:36,034 Like being here with someone like you. 743 00:40:36,101 --> 00:40:39,170 KAREN: Fifteen years ago, he had, for one brief moment 744 00:40:40,506 --> 00:40:43,341 made me feel like the most special person in the world. 745 00:40:43,408 --> 00:40:47,979 "The miracle in my life is not that I survived polio 746 00:40:48,046 --> 00:40:50,048 "and am standing here today. 747 00:40:50,115 --> 00:40:54,319 "No. The reason I consider myself to be a miracle girl 748 00:40:54,385 --> 00:40:56,054 "is because I had the good fortune 749 00:40:56,121 --> 00:40:58,924 "to meet Lanny and Vince when I was sick." 750 00:40:58,990 --> 00:41:02,027 KAREN: It was a moment seen by millions of people 751 00:41:02,861 --> 00:41:05,764 but felt only by me. 752 00:41:10,636 --> 00:41:14,072 That moment had changed my life. 753 00:41:17,709 --> 00:41:22,213 I was about to find my own way into Lanny's book 754 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,017 after he had found such a powerful way into mine. 755 00:42:40,992 --> 00:42:42,360 Checking out today? 756 00:42:59,678 --> 00:43:01,546 Is there a message for Bonnie Trout? 757 00:43:01,613 --> 00:43:03,982 -From one of our guests? -Yes, Lanny Morris. 758 00:43:07,285 --> 00:43:08,720 I'm afraid not. 759 00:43:08,787 --> 00:43:10,188 Are you sure? 760 00:43:10,255 --> 00:43:12,223 Oh, yes, I'm sure. 761 00:43:16,962 --> 00:43:18,296 Do you need a cab? 762 00:43:23,669 --> 00:43:27,172 I still don't understand why Vince Collins 763 00:43:27,238 --> 00:43:29,540 is willing to be involved in such an expose of himself. 764 00:43:31,176 --> 00:43:33,111 Vince is a realist. 765 00:43:33,178 --> 00:43:36,247 The days of his box-office power are drawing to a close. 766 00:43:36,314 --> 00:43:38,183 Given the amount of money we're offering... 767 00:43:38,249 --> 00:43:42,153 And it's because the investment in Mr. Collins is so large 768 00:43:42,220 --> 00:43:45,290 I've compiled a list of questions 769 00:43:45,356 --> 00:43:47,492 we'd like the miracle girl to ask. 770 00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:57,302 I don't wanna look at your questions. 771 00:43:57,368 --> 00:43:58,937 I have my own approach. 772 00:43:59,004 --> 00:44:02,040 Ms. O'Connor, we're not paying a million dollars for your approach, 773 00:44:02,107 --> 00:44:04,342 we're paying for what Vince Collins has to say. 774 00:44:04,409 --> 00:44:05,576 To me. 775 00:44:05,643 --> 00:44:08,413 What he has to say to me. 776 00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:11,750 Greg, this is not as easy as it looks. 777 00:44:11,817 --> 00:44:14,652 If you go to Vince Collins and ask him a series of questions 778 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:17,088 you'll come back here with a 300-page press book. 779 00:44:17,155 --> 00:44:20,692 Well, as I've always understood this company's policy 780 00:44:20,759 --> 00:44:22,093 while the book is being written 781 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,431 the relationship between the author and editor is sacrosanct. 782 00:44:28,333 --> 00:44:30,769 This isn't your typical book deal. 783 00:44:30,836 --> 00:44:34,639 We've really just leased an oil well called Vince Collins 784 00:44:34,706 --> 00:44:38,509 and granted Ms. O'Connor the right to tap. 785 00:44:38,576 --> 00:44:43,749 I think we have a responsibility to...monitor the drilling. 786 00:45:02,768 --> 00:45:04,936 (KNOCKS ON DOOR) 787 00:45:08,073 --> 00:45:10,575 -Hello. -Mrs. O'Flaherty? 788 00:45:11,042 --> 00:45:12,878 Yes. 789 00:45:12,944 --> 00:45:16,314 My name's O'Connor. I'm the one writing the book. 790 00:45:29,594 --> 00:45:32,931 The book will be centered around Vince Collins. 791 00:45:32,998 --> 00:45:35,934 I'll be asking him a lot of questions. 792 00:45:36,001 --> 00:45:38,236 I wanted to know if there were any 793 00:45:38,303 --> 00:45:41,039 you'd like to have answered yourself. 794 00:45:45,176 --> 00:45:49,314 Maureen and I planted this tree on her fifth birthday. 795 00:45:49,380 --> 00:45:50,916 (CHUCKLES) 796 00:45:50,982 --> 00:45:54,385 Father did most of the digging, of course. 797 00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:57,155 She'd be 38. 798 00:45:58,589 --> 00:46:00,792 I'm 59, myself. 799 00:46:03,895 --> 00:46:06,131 If she were alive now... 800 00:46:07,866 --> 00:46:10,335 we'd be talking about things, back and forth 801 00:46:10,401 --> 00:46:12,570 like two women. 802 00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,107 Like you and I are doing. 803 00:46:22,180 --> 00:46:23,781 And Maureen's father? 804 00:46:25,350 --> 00:46:27,152 Frank died six years ago. 805 00:46:28,653 --> 00:46:31,122 He took his own life. 806 00:46:31,189 --> 00:46:34,359 One night, just before he died 807 00:46:34,425 --> 00:46:36,527 he dug up the earth around this tree 808 00:46:38,129 --> 00:46:40,098 he took the urn with Maureen's ashes in it 809 00:46:40,165 --> 00:46:42,868 and spread them around its roots. 810 00:46:45,703 --> 00:46:48,673 So this is my daughter. 811 00:46:51,176 --> 00:46:53,378 This is what I have of her. 812 00:47:00,685 --> 00:47:03,989 -MRS. O'FLAHERTY: Are you Catholic? -KAREN: My... My mother was. 813 00:47:04,055 --> 00:47:06,892 MRS. O'FLAHERTY: Then you will understand my dilemma. 814 00:47:06,958 --> 00:47:09,560 Our faith offers an afterlife. 815 00:47:11,662 --> 00:47:15,400 A daughter needs her mother. 816 00:47:15,466 --> 00:47:20,171 So I have to live out this life as far from sin as I can manage. 817 00:47:24,242 --> 00:47:27,345 I'll never see my husband again. 818 00:47:27,412 --> 00:47:28,980 He's consigned himself to hell. 819 00:47:32,283 --> 00:47:35,120 But what if Maureen killed herself too? 820 00:47:38,957 --> 00:47:42,227 She's in hell, with my husband. 821 00:47:42,293 --> 00:47:47,365 The life I'm trying to lead will bring me to heaven's grace 822 00:47:47,432 --> 00:47:50,101 only to hear their screams of torment. 823 00:47:52,403 --> 00:47:55,140 KAREN: Chief Scaglia, you were in the hotel room 824 00:47:55,206 --> 00:47:57,342 when they found Maureen's body in the tub. 825 00:47:57,408 --> 00:47:58,409 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 826 00:47:58,476 --> 00:47:59,978 So was Sally, 827 00:48:00,045 --> 00:48:01,479 so was Lanny, 828 00:48:01,546 --> 00:48:03,648 so was Vince. 829 00:48:03,714 --> 00:48:07,018 And there was also a PR lady there from the hotel. 830 00:48:08,419 --> 00:48:10,455 How do you think she died? 831 00:48:10,521 --> 00:48:13,658 Oh, she died in an auto accident two weeks later. It was terrible. 832 00:48:17,028 --> 00:48:18,229 Uh, no, Maureen. 833 00:48:18,296 --> 00:48:21,266 -How did Maureen die? -She drowned. 834 00:48:21,332 --> 00:48:23,201 -Why? -What do you mean, why? 835 00:48:23,268 --> 00:48:26,037 Well, you and I take baths all the time. We don't drown in them. 836 00:48:26,104 --> 00:48:29,174 You and I do not mix sleeping pills with booze. 837 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:32,577 -She committed suicide? -Overdose is the official story. 838 00:48:32,643 --> 00:48:36,481 What's the official story on the fact that the staff of the hotel in Miami 839 00:48:36,547 --> 00:48:39,317 all seemed to know she delivered room service to the boys' suite 840 00:48:39,384 --> 00:48:42,220 three days before and was never seen alive again? 841 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,122 What happened to her? 842 00:48:44,189 --> 00:48:47,192 How did she end up in a hotel room in New Jersey? 843 00:48:47,258 --> 00:48:50,996 Sally never had any problem moving girls around. Okay? 844 00:48:51,062 --> 00:48:52,330 He had two hotels. 845 00:48:52,397 --> 00:48:54,532 -So Sally arranged it? -No, I don't think so. 846 00:48:54,599 --> 00:48:57,702 You see, she was brought up there as a reward for the boys 847 00:48:57,768 --> 00:49:00,571 and I think she started to party just a little too early. 848 00:49:00,638 --> 00:49:03,241 She was a student. This was a summer job. 849 00:49:03,308 --> 00:49:05,010 Listen to me, 850 00:49:05,076 --> 00:49:10,348 the Palace Del Sol was very important to Sally, okay? 851 00:49:11,349 --> 00:49:14,519 He launched his new wing 852 00:49:14,585 --> 00:49:18,389 with a push from Lanny and Vince 853 00:49:18,456 --> 00:49:24,162 and this stupid girl shows up dead. 854 00:49:24,229 --> 00:49:28,666 She's not gonna come back. We do the best thing for all of us. 855 00:49:28,733 --> 00:49:33,404 We speed up the investigation and we cremate her. Okay? 856 00:49:33,471 --> 00:49:34,872 End of story. 857 00:49:38,409 --> 00:49:39,744 AIRHOSTESS 1: Here you are. 858 00:49:39,810 --> 00:49:41,246 AIRHOSTESS 2: Here's your lobster. Bon appetit. 859 00:49:42,380 --> 00:49:46,051 -Enjoy. -Looks great. 860 00:49:46,117 --> 00:49:48,486 "And Sally said, I'll have them send you up 861 00:49:48,553 --> 00:49:50,555 "your own shipment of lobsters. 862 00:49:50,621 --> 00:49:53,058 "You like lobster?" 863 00:49:53,124 --> 00:49:57,162 LANNY: We said we did because we really did. 864 00:49:57,228 --> 00:49:59,597 You shouldn't have done that, Stanley. I don't eat lobster. 865 00:50:03,101 --> 00:50:05,536 Were there any signs of violence on her body? 866 00:50:05,603 --> 00:50:09,274 No, no. There were some small scratches on the torso. 867 00:50:12,077 --> 00:50:16,247 MRS. O'FLAHERTY: Why did my daughter die? Did she kill herself? 868 00:50:18,149 --> 00:50:21,018 What had they done to her that would make her do that? 869 00:50:24,422 --> 00:50:26,557 KAREN: What had they done? 870 00:50:31,562 --> 00:50:33,964 Once upon a time 871 00:50:34,031 --> 00:50:36,834 when terrible things happened to people, 872 00:50:37,935 --> 00:50:40,238 they were left as a mystery. 873 00:50:42,573 --> 00:50:45,076 Even the tabloids kept a distance. 874 00:50:51,249 --> 00:50:56,654 Some things were allowed to be left just the way they were. 875 00:51:05,930 --> 00:51:07,798 Any trouble with the directions I gave you? 876 00:51:07,865 --> 00:51:09,800 Only the parts where I had to turn. 877 00:51:09,867 --> 00:51:11,269 Sorry. 878 00:51:12,470 --> 00:51:14,071 It's the price of seclusion. 879 00:51:19,710 --> 00:51:21,612 VINCE: You haven't switched over to cassette? 880 00:51:21,679 --> 00:51:23,348 Actually, it's my dad's. 881 00:51:24,048 --> 00:51:25,816 And what does he do? 882 00:51:27,218 --> 00:51:28,853 He was a journalist too. 883 00:51:30,421 --> 00:51:32,790 He did a big story on you once. 884 00:51:32,857 --> 00:51:34,692 Followed a little girl who had polio. 885 00:51:35,860 --> 00:51:37,462 You took her under your wing... 886 00:51:39,264 --> 00:51:40,865 And now she's interviewing you. 887 00:51:45,270 --> 00:51:48,173 He must be proud that his daughter's making such a name for herself. 888 00:51:49,073 --> 00:51:51,142 I'd like to think so. 889 00:51:52,343 --> 00:51:54,945 -He died last year. -Sorry to hear that. 890 00:51:57,548 --> 00:52:00,251 -Would you like some coffee? -Sure. 891 00:52:08,259 --> 00:52:10,295 Are you alone here? 892 00:52:10,361 --> 00:52:14,532 Yes. The thought of having live-in help is a little poisonous to me. 893 00:52:14,599 --> 00:52:16,100 Why's that? 894 00:52:16,167 --> 00:52:18,169 Well, I'd have to talk to them... 895 00:52:18,236 --> 00:52:20,871 Ask them how their family was doing. 896 00:52:20,938 --> 00:52:23,541 Hear about this and that, introduce them to the guests, 897 00:52:23,608 --> 00:52:26,444 and tell them how their family was doing. 898 00:52:26,511 --> 00:52:29,447 All so that I would seem to be a nice guy. 899 00:52:30,648 --> 00:52:32,183 Which is an awful lot of work. 900 00:52:32,250 --> 00:52:34,719 Considering what I cherish most in life these days... 901 00:52:34,785 --> 00:52:36,454 Is not to have to be Vince Collins. 902 00:52:37,255 --> 00:52:38,623 No Reuben in your life? 903 00:52:39,990 --> 00:52:42,360 How do you know about Reuben? 904 00:52:42,427 --> 00:52:45,930 He was in a lot of the material I've been looking at. 905 00:52:45,996 --> 00:52:47,665 No, I never had a Reuben. 906 00:52:47,732 --> 00:52:50,235 Lanny always paid him directly. He was Lanny's man. 907 00:52:50,301 --> 00:52:51,469 Right. 908 00:52:54,004 --> 00:52:56,040 You know, what I like is to... 909 00:52:56,441 --> 00:52:58,042 Read... 910 00:52:59,277 --> 00:53:00,811 Think. 911 00:53:00,878 --> 00:53:03,147 It's to have the freedom to... 912 00:53:03,214 --> 00:53:05,683 Get up and leave without telling anyone about it... 913 00:53:05,750 --> 00:53:07,618 Any time of day. 914 00:53:09,787 --> 00:53:12,122 Or even having to say goodbye. 915 00:53:14,359 --> 00:53:18,463 To be backstage, surrounded by acrobats, actors, magicians... 916 00:53:18,529 --> 00:53:20,531 ...it was intoxicating. 917 00:53:20,598 --> 00:53:22,600 You know, I was only 12 years old. 918 00:53:22,667 --> 00:53:24,435 That's a... 919 00:53:24,502 --> 00:53:26,003 That's a pretty impressionable age. 920 00:53:26,070 --> 00:53:27,438 To hear all these stories of touring... 921 00:53:27,505 --> 00:53:30,341 KAREN: My father always told me that nothing had meaning 922 00:53:30,408 --> 00:53:32,176 unless it could be put on the record . 923 00:53:32,243 --> 00:53:34,312 VINCE: I also like the idea of... 924 00:53:34,379 --> 00:53:37,582 KAREN: Yet things had changed . 925 00:53:37,648 --> 00:53:39,750 As Vince had pointed out at our first meeting 926 00:53:39,817 --> 00:53:44,622 it had become fashionable to put yourself into the story. 927 00:53:44,689 --> 00:53:48,025 The question became how far you were prepared to go . 928 00:54:11,382 --> 00:54:15,219 -Excuse me. That's not mine. -Oh, I'm sorry. 929 00:54:18,689 --> 00:54:21,025 Aren't you Miss Trout? 930 00:54:21,091 --> 00:54:24,028 We've met, on the plane to New York. 931 00:54:24,094 --> 00:54:25,430 -Reuben. -CASHIER: Excuse me, sir. 932 00:54:25,496 --> 00:54:28,232 Can I leave you for just a second, please? 933 00:54:31,902 --> 00:54:34,705 I'm so deeply sorry, Miss Trout, the way you were treated. 934 00:54:34,772 --> 00:54:37,775 -He could've left a note. -Of course. 935 00:54:40,210 --> 00:54:43,013 Miss Trout, I would like you to understand something. 936 00:54:44,615 --> 00:54:47,017 I have a great loyalty to Mr. Morris. 937 00:54:47,084 --> 00:54:48,619 He's treated me very well. 938 00:54:49,420 --> 00:54:50,888 I'm very grateful. 939 00:54:52,490 --> 00:54:55,760 He has done wonderful things for many people 940 00:54:55,826 --> 00:54:59,930 and I have been privileged to work for him. 941 00:55:02,333 --> 00:55:04,769 But I do have certain principles 942 00:55:04,835 --> 00:55:09,440 especially about how women are to be treated and respected. 943 00:55:09,507 --> 00:55:12,276 Mr. Morris can be very attentive, 944 00:55:12,343 --> 00:55:14,111 but once he has a woman... 945 00:55:16,046 --> 00:55:18,148 Oh, God, I think it's almost a sickness. 946 00:55:20,785 --> 00:55:22,787 When he left you that morning... 947 00:55:22,853 --> 00:55:25,756 You may have felt bad, but believe me, Miss Trout... 948 00:55:25,823 --> 00:55:27,725 To have him out of your life... 949 00:55:27,792 --> 00:55:31,596 Is the best thing that could have happened to you. 950 00:55:31,662 --> 00:55:34,298 At that point, you may have felt your life was wounded. 951 00:55:36,767 --> 00:55:38,403 (SOFTLY) It wasn't. 952 00:55:39,570 --> 00:55:40,671 It was saved. 953 00:55:50,014 --> 00:55:52,383 KAREN: Vince , I was very clear about this from the beginning . 954 00:55:52,450 --> 00:55:54,419 I ' m not out to play games with you . 955 00:55:54,485 --> 00:55:57,555 This is why you ' re being paid such a huge amount of money . 956 00:55:57,622 --> 00:55:59,657 VINCE: This isn ' t entirely about money , you know . 957 00:55:59,724 --> 00:56:03,360 A million dollars is more than the gross of your last film. 958 00:56:03,428 --> 00:56:05,796 You know, I was somehow under the impression that my entire life... 959 00:56:05,863 --> 00:56:09,066 Might have been of more than passing interest. 960 00:56:09,133 --> 00:56:11,902 But if my fleeting encounter with a girl named Maureen O'Flaherty 961 00:56:11,969 --> 00:56:13,203 is all you really want to talk about, 962 00:56:13,270 --> 00:56:14,839 then that's what we'll do. 963 00:56:16,841 --> 00:56:19,309 I have to make an appearance at the clinic tomorrow. 964 00:56:19,376 --> 00:56:21,311 We can come back and talk after that. 965 00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,381 It's wonderland. 966 00:56:24,449 --> 00:56:26,150 I imagine you might remember that. 967 00:56:26,216 --> 00:56:30,087 * One side makes you larger 968 00:56:30,154 --> 00:56:34,992 * And the other side will make you small 969 00:56:35,993 --> 00:56:40,064 * I asked one side of what? 970 00:56:40,130 --> 00:56:43,434 KAREN: He was right . I did remember Wonderland . 971 00:56:45,169 --> 00:56:47,037 -You ready? -Ready. 972 00:56:47,104 --> 00:56:49,474 KAREN: When I was a girl , the entire hospital 973 00:56:49,540 --> 00:56:51,542 was devoted to children with polio . 974 00:56:51,609 --> 00:56:53,744 (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) 975 00:56:53,811 --> 00:56:57,347 Since that time , it had become a clinic for kids 976 00:56:57,414 --> 00:57:01,118 with a variety of different physical handicaps . 977 00:57:01,185 --> 00:57:04,555 * And you know you're going to fall * 978 00:57:04,622 --> 00:57:07,825 KAREN: Once a year, the children would put on a pageant 979 00:57:07,892 --> 00:57:11,629 playing different characters from Alice in Wonderland. 980 00:57:11,696 --> 00:57:14,799 Vince , in his continuing support of the hospital 981 00:57:14,865 --> 00:57:16,567 had hired a band and a singer . 982 00:57:16,634 --> 00:57:19,236 * ...to call Alice 983 00:57:20,971 --> 00:57:24,174 * When she was just small 984 00:57:24,909 --> 00:57:26,744 Who is that? 985 00:57:26,811 --> 00:57:30,014 I don't know. She's good, whoever she is. 986 00:57:31,782 --> 00:57:35,486 * Get up and tell you where to go 987 00:57:35,553 --> 00:57:37,121 (APPLAUSE) 988 00:57:37,187 --> 00:57:41,959 * And you've just had some kind of mushroom * 989 00:57:42,026 --> 00:57:45,362 Karen, do you mind if we start this conversation tomorrow? 990 00:57:45,429 --> 00:57:47,097 I'm just... 991 00:57:47,164 --> 00:57:49,534 I'm not feeling all that well. 992 00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,537 -Vince -In fact, it won't make any difference over there. 993 00:57:52,603 --> 00:57:53,871 The office will be closed. 994 00:57:53,938 --> 00:57:55,272 They've been working late. 995 00:57:55,339 --> 00:57:57,074 Then they've been working much too hard. 996 00:57:58,676 --> 00:58:01,311 First thing tomorrow. First thing. 997 00:58:05,315 --> 00:58:06,316 (SIGHS) 998 00:58:08,385 --> 00:58:10,821 I hope your editors were reasonable. 999 00:58:10,888 --> 00:58:14,058 (SCOFFS) Reasonable? No, they weren't. 1000 00:58:14,124 --> 00:58:16,193 We can go as late as you like. 1001 00:58:16,260 --> 00:58:17,595 That's good. 1002 00:58:17,662 --> 00:58:19,129 It might take us into the evening. 1003 00:58:19,196 --> 00:58:21,732 I had a feeling that might be the case. 1004 00:58:21,799 --> 00:58:24,569 So I've ordered a hot and cold smorgasbord to be brought in. 1005 00:58:24,635 --> 00:58:26,236 We can work through dinner, if you like. 1006 00:58:26,303 --> 00:58:28,038 -We'll be having company? -Yes. 1007 00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:31,942 I have... 1008 00:58:32,009 --> 00:58:34,344 ...a surprise for you. 1009 00:58:34,411 --> 00:58:36,747 Actually, this is a fairly big deal for me as well. 1010 00:58:38,415 --> 00:58:40,117 I've asked Lanny to join us today. 1011 00:58:42,252 --> 00:58:43,320 (QUIETLY) Lanny? 1012 00:58:44,521 --> 00:58:47,024 Well, this is something. 1013 00:58:47,091 --> 00:58:51,161 (SIGHS) Neuman and Newberry will certainly be getting their money's worth. 1014 00:58:51,228 --> 00:58:53,698 I thought that if I was going to discuss something 1015 00:58:53,764 --> 00:58:55,365 that had such an impact on our lives... 1016 00:58:55,432 --> 00:58:57,602 It would be fair for Lanny to hear what I had to say. 1017 00:58:58,936 --> 00:59:00,537 Given that we've never talked about it. 1018 00:59:00,605 --> 00:59:03,608 I'm sure I'll have lots to ask him. When is he coming? 1019 00:59:03,674 --> 00:59:05,576 He should be here any minute now. 1020 00:59:06,243 --> 00:59:08,078 This is very exciting. 1021 00:59:08,879 --> 00:59:10,247 Shit. 1022 00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:24,962 (PHONE RINGING) 1023 00:59:25,029 --> 00:59:27,464 -BONNIE: Yes? - Bonnie, I have to talk fast. 1024 00:59:27,531 --> 00:59:30,534 I need you to do exactly as I tell you and I can't tell you why, okay? 1025 00:59:30,601 --> 00:59:31,636 BONNIE: Sure . 1026 00:59:31,702 --> 00:59:32,803 (PHONE RINGING) 1027 00:59:32,870 --> 00:59:34,739 Excuse me, that might actually be him now. 1028 00:59:34,805 --> 00:59:36,073 (CLEARS THROAT) 1029 00:59:36,140 --> 00:59:37,642 Yes, hello? 1030 00:59:50,220 --> 00:59:51,756 Yes, thank you. 1031 00:59:52,456 --> 00:59:53,490 (HANGS UP) 1032 00:59:53,557 --> 00:59:54,925 That was my office. 1033 00:59:54,992 --> 00:59:57,662 There's a woman. A friend, a relative of yours? 1034 00:59:57,728 --> 01:00:00,097 She said she called on a number you gave her. 1035 01:00:00,865 --> 01:00:02,166 She's gonna call back. 1036 01:00:02,232 --> 01:00:03,801 (RINGING) 1037 01:00:05,102 --> 01:00:06,103 (CLEARS THROAT) 1038 01:00:09,273 --> 01:00:11,575 -Yes? -BONNIE: Hi , kiddo . 1039 01:00:11,642 --> 01:00:14,712 Listen , your brother Clifford has just been rushed to the hospital . 1040 01:00:14,779 --> 01:00:16,647 He was doing construction work , when a thing . 1041 01:00:16,714 --> 01:00:19,016 -A steel girder? - That ' s it . 1042 01:00:19,083 --> 01:00:21,551 So , you better come to the city and make your peace with him . 1043 01:00:21,618 --> 01:00:23,788 I booked you on the next flight to San Francisco . 1044 01:00:23,854 --> 01:00:26,590 I ' m waiting here for you in front of the terminal . 1045 01:00:26,657 --> 01:00:28,793 They reserved me a seat on the next flight to San Francisco 1046 01:00:28,859 --> 01:00:30,895 -I'll drive you there. -No, no. 1047 01:00:30,961 --> 01:00:33,831 Sharon is waiting at the airport for me. You can't stand Lanny up. 1048 01:00:33,898 --> 01:00:36,333 Please give him my deepest apologies. 1049 01:00:39,169 --> 01:00:40,170 (GASPS) 1050 01:00:45,409 --> 01:00:49,379 -Hey. -Please, I can explain. 1051 01:00:49,446 --> 01:00:51,849 You've broken the law, Bonnie-fucking-Trout. 1052 01:00:51,916 --> 01:00:54,018 You've assumed another person's identity for the purposes 1053 01:00:54,084 --> 01:00:56,486 of getting information from a business competitor. 1054 01:00:56,553 --> 01:00:59,323 Obviously I lied about who I was. I'm sorry. 1055 01:00:59,389 --> 01:01:01,692 It was a huge untruth. It wasn't planned. 1056 01:01:01,759 --> 01:01:05,896 I was just freaked out about suddenly being on the plane with... 1057 01:01:07,397 --> 01:01:08,933 With you and... 1058 01:01:08,999 --> 01:01:11,268 And how did you get the seat behind me on the plane? 1059 01:01:11,335 --> 01:01:12,837 -It was pure coincidence. -Bullshit! 1060 01:01:12,903 --> 01:01:14,404 It's true. 1061 01:01:14,471 --> 01:01:15,472 (SIGHS) 1062 01:01:18,776 --> 01:01:20,610 How could you... 1063 01:01:20,677 --> 01:01:22,046 How could you have just left me at the hotel like that? 1064 01:01:22,980 --> 01:01:24,414 You were asleep. 1065 01:01:24,481 --> 01:01:27,785 Reuben woke me to say I had to be a substitute performer 1066 01:01:27,852 --> 01:01:29,854 at a charity concert at the Hollywood Bowl. 1067 01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,089 I had to get the first flight out. 1068 01:01:32,156 --> 01:01:33,623 You could have left me a note or called. 1069 01:01:33,690 --> 01:01:35,325 -I did leave you a note. -Where? 1070 01:01:37,762 --> 01:01:40,264 I don't know why we're even talking about this. 1071 01:01:40,330 --> 01:01:41,631 I don't like you. 1072 01:01:41,698 --> 01:01:44,134 All right? I wish we had never met. 1073 01:01:50,407 --> 01:01:52,309 Hello, Vince. 1074 01:01:52,376 --> 01:01:54,044 What the fuck's going on? 1075 01:01:55,946 --> 01:01:58,816 Vince, a few days after we first met 1076 01:01:58,883 --> 01:02:01,852 I found myself next to Lanny on a flight to New York. 1077 01:02:01,919 --> 01:02:03,620 It was a complete coincidence. 1078 01:02:03,687 --> 01:02:05,823 -He asked my name... -And she lied. 1079 01:02:05,890 --> 01:02:09,026 I had just finished reading the first chapter of Lanny's own biography. 1080 01:02:09,093 --> 01:02:12,629 His lawyers had let me see it in the hope of discouraging our own project. 1081 01:02:12,696 --> 01:02:15,332 As a reflex, since I knew he would view me as the enemy 1082 01:02:15,399 --> 01:02:16,834 I gave him the name of a friend of mine 1083 01:02:16,901 --> 01:02:19,336 whose apartment I was staying at in Manhattan. 1084 01:02:19,403 --> 01:02:22,873 I thought I just had to get through the awkwardness of the flight itself... 1085 01:02:22,940 --> 01:02:24,875 -But the trouble is... -You slept with him. 1086 01:02:26,877 --> 01:02:30,247 -Vince... -You slept with my ex-partner. 1087 01:02:31,882 --> 01:02:33,083 Technically. 1088 01:02:34,985 --> 01:02:37,587 Doesn't sound like things were particularly technical. 1089 01:02:59,443 --> 01:03:02,312 Now, you listen to me, sweetheart. 1090 01:03:02,379 --> 01:03:06,283 Vince doesn't always do what's best for Vince. 1091 01:03:06,350 --> 01:03:09,553 That's why he needed me here today. 1092 01:03:09,619 --> 01:03:13,057 The story of this girl is the most painful thing in his life. 1093 01:03:14,024 --> 01:03:15,692 What happened to her, Lanny? 1094 01:03:15,759 --> 01:03:17,194 (SCOFFS) 1095 01:03:17,261 --> 01:03:18,863 Well, you're not gonna find out. 1096 01:03:20,030 --> 01:03:22,232 Not now. 1097 01:03:22,299 --> 01:03:23,868 Not after what you've done to him. 1098 01:03:33,878 --> 01:03:35,812 Vince. 1099 01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:37,181 (WHISPERS) Oh, shit. 1100 01:03:38,883 --> 01:03:41,318 Vince 1101 01:03:41,385 --> 01:03:43,287 I made a terrible mistake in New York. 1102 01:03:43,353 --> 01:03:46,323 I apologize to you more than I know how to say. 1103 01:03:46,957 --> 01:03:48,859 I'm so sorry. 1104 01:03:58,969 --> 01:04:02,506 Vince, the realization of your life story 1105 01:04:02,572 --> 01:04:05,309 shouldn't be threatened because of my failings. 1106 01:04:07,344 --> 01:04:11,181 Please let me continue to work with you again. 1107 01:04:11,248 --> 01:04:13,583 I'll help you tell your story right. 1108 01:04:16,253 --> 01:04:18,188 Come back tonight. 1109 01:04:20,157 --> 01:04:21,825 Let me think about it. 1110 01:04:34,471 --> 01:04:38,475 -How do you like the wine? -It's magnificent. What is it? 1111 01:04:38,542 --> 01:04:41,378 1961 Haut-Brion. 1112 01:04:41,445 --> 01:04:43,180 People make a big deal of 1959 1113 01:04:43,247 --> 01:04:47,184 but I don't think there'll be a year as special as 1961. 1114 01:04:47,251 --> 01:04:49,453 It was a great year for French wines. 1115 01:04:53,257 --> 01:04:55,225 Will you join me? 1116 01:04:56,060 --> 01:04:58,062 What are they? 1117 01:04:58,128 --> 01:05:02,166 They're like very mild-mannered Quaaludes. 1118 01:05:02,232 --> 01:05:04,001 Must've done a few of those in your time, right? 1119 01:05:06,236 --> 01:05:08,172 Are you sure they're okay with alcohol? 1120 01:05:08,238 --> 01:05:11,441 Oh, they're even better with alcohol. Believe me, I'd know. 1121 01:05:18,048 --> 01:05:20,951 Come on in, honey. The water's fine. 1122 01:05:21,018 --> 01:05:26,390 KAREN: All my life , I ' ve h this idea that I could always be in control . 1123 01:05:26,456 --> 01:05:28,692 Ever since I was sick, I had this sense 1124 01:05:28,758 --> 01:05:31,895 that I could make my body do anything I wanted. 1125 01:05:31,962 --> 01:05:33,697 If I could will my polio away 1126 01:05:33,763 --> 01:05:36,866 I ' d certainly be able to will away the effect of any drug . 1127 01:05:48,112 --> 01:05:50,981 (CHUCKLING) 1128 01:05:51,048 --> 01:05:54,718 Do you mind if I close the drapes? The sun's in my eyes. 1129 01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:58,388 It's moonlight. 1130 01:05:59,789 --> 01:06:01,291 Go ahead. 1131 01:06:10,367 --> 01:06:11,368 (GIGGLES) 1132 01:06:18,008 --> 01:06:21,611 (LAUGHING) 1133 01:06:25,482 --> 01:06:29,919 ALICE: * One pill makes you larger 1134 01:06:29,986 --> 01:06:34,324 * And one pill makes you small 1135 01:06:36,293 --> 01:06:40,664 * And the ones that Mother gives you 1136 01:06:41,765 --> 01:06:45,802 * Don't do anything at all 1137 01:06:46,970 --> 01:06:50,107 * Go ask Alice 1138 01:06:51,075 --> 01:06:53,943 * When she's 10 feet tall 1139 01:07:03,287 --> 01:07:05,021 I remember you. 1140 01:07:05,889 --> 01:07:06,990 You're Alice. 1141 01:07:08,358 --> 01:07:09,359 In Wonderland. 1142 01:07:09,426 --> 01:07:10,427 (CHUCKLES) 1143 01:07:11,228 --> 01:07:13,497 Oh, I don't know. 1144 01:07:13,563 --> 01:07:15,565 I'm really stoned out of my head already. 1145 01:07:17,267 --> 01:07:18,835 Is it good? 1146 01:07:22,539 --> 01:07:24,508 (COUGHS) 1147 01:07:24,574 --> 01:07:28,645 Jesus, Vince. It's like monster grass. 1148 01:07:28,712 --> 01:07:30,347 Do you get this stuff all the time? 1149 01:07:31,115 --> 01:07:32,316 All the time. 1150 01:07:32,382 --> 01:07:33,383 (CHUCKLES) 1151 01:07:38,355 --> 01:07:40,757 (BOTH GIGGLING) 1152 01:07:42,559 --> 01:07:43,627 You're Alice. 1153 01:07:47,797 --> 01:07:49,233 You're so beautiful. 1154 01:08:18,462 --> 01:08:19,796 She's ours. 1155 01:08:21,131 --> 01:08:23,133 Isn't that so, Alice? 1156 01:08:24,634 --> 01:08:25,935 I'm yours. 1157 01:09:06,643 --> 01:09:09,946 KAREN: I had always been fascinated by how some women could cross the line 1158 01:09:10,013 --> 01:09:14,651 between who they were and who they would let themselves become . 1159 01:09:15,452 --> 01:09:17,153 Maureen . 1160 01:09:17,854 --> 01:09:19,155 Alice . 1161 01:09:20,357 --> 01:09:22,091 And now ... 1162 01:09:22,158 --> 01:09:23,727 Me . 1163 01:09:30,099 --> 01:09:31,735 Morning. 1164 01:09:31,801 --> 01:09:34,838 That was not a Quaalude you gave me. I've had Quaaludes. 1165 01:09:34,904 --> 01:09:37,974 Mmm... I said it was like a Quaalude. 1166 01:09:38,041 --> 01:09:40,410 And you didn't take one yourself. You palmed the pill. 1167 01:09:40,477 --> 01:09:41,878 Somebody had to drive. 1168 01:09:43,480 --> 01:09:45,515 Don't worry, you won't get pregnant. 1169 01:09:45,582 --> 01:09:47,116 Not from Alice, and certainly not from me. 1170 01:09:47,183 --> 01:09:50,053 I never took off my pants, as you may or may not remember. 1171 01:09:50,119 --> 01:09:51,721 There are laws against drugging people. 1172 01:09:51,788 --> 01:09:54,023 Oh, please. You took it voluntarily. 1173 01:09:54,090 --> 01:09:55,759 Nobody slipped it into your drink. 1174 01:09:57,594 --> 01:10:01,164 And you chased it with one of the most expensive wines in the world. 1175 01:10:01,231 --> 01:10:04,301 You're just in a dither because you've discovered you can swing both ways. 1176 01:10:07,103 --> 01:10:09,773 You see... 1177 01:10:09,839 --> 01:10:11,841 I needed to get something on you. 1178 01:10:11,908 --> 01:10:15,211 Of course, your behavior with Lanny might have been even better than this, but... 1179 01:10:15,279 --> 01:10:16,813 But I'd already set the wheels in motion. 1180 01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:20,250 And as I was dying to see you and Alice get it on... 1181 01:10:21,785 --> 01:10:23,420 Well, these are just a sample. 1182 01:10:25,622 --> 01:10:26,623 (SIGHS) 1183 01:10:31,628 --> 01:10:33,330 Why would she agree to do this? 1184 01:10:33,397 --> 01:10:34,564 Doesn't she want a career? 1185 01:10:34,631 --> 01:10:37,301 Well, it's your career I'm worried about. 1186 01:10:37,367 --> 01:10:40,337 You're a journalist playing loose with the rules. 1187 01:10:40,404 --> 01:10:42,939 She's just a vulnerable young singer you seduced. 1188 01:10:43,006 --> 01:10:45,275 A promising... Oh, good heavens... 1189 01:10:46,310 --> 01:10:49,112 Promising artist that I happen to manage. 1190 01:10:49,178 --> 01:10:51,381 You met her through me... 1191 01:10:51,448 --> 01:10:52,949 And had your way with her. 1192 01:10:57,787 --> 01:10:59,389 What do you want from me? 1193 01:11:02,459 --> 01:11:04,928 You're going to continue writing the book. 1194 01:11:04,994 --> 01:11:09,098 I'm going to continue telling you juicy stories, funny stories... 1195 01:11:09,165 --> 01:11:11,335 Heart-tugging stories. 1196 01:11:11,401 --> 01:11:13,370 And you're not going to ask me a single question 1197 01:11:13,437 --> 01:11:17,240 about what happened to the girl in New Jersey. 1198 01:11:17,307 --> 01:11:20,310 You're going to go to your publisher, say you tried every angle 1199 01:11:20,377 --> 01:11:23,279 but you could find nothing odd or suspicious in what I told you. 1200 01:11:30,186 --> 01:11:32,656 I'll even try to spice it up a little, 1201 01:11:32,722 --> 01:11:34,724 talk about how the night before the telethon, 1202 01:11:34,791 --> 01:11:37,126 I wanted to sleep like a babe so to cover my bets, 1203 01:11:37,193 --> 01:11:39,663 I kept a few babes on hand. 1204 01:11:39,729 --> 01:11:41,164 Well, not exactly on my hand, 1205 01:11:41,230 --> 01:11:43,933 and that's not my preference, as you might have gathered by now. 1206 01:11:54,611 --> 01:11:56,780 So you get your bestseller, 1207 01:11:56,846 --> 01:11:58,582 I get my million. 1208 01:11:58,648 --> 01:11:59,983 Everyone goes home happy. 1209 01:12:00,049 --> 01:12:03,453 You've dreaded talking about Maureen O'Flaherty since we met. 1210 01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,589 If it's something you're so desperate to avoid, 1211 01:12:05,655 --> 01:12:07,657 why would you ever agree to do this book? 1212 01:12:08,458 --> 01:12:10,293 I need the money. 1213 01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:14,831 Vince, anything you say in my presence is mine to use. 1214 01:12:14,898 --> 01:12:17,701 Everything you said last night and everything you've just told me. 1215 01:12:17,767 --> 01:12:20,804 And since I'm also allowed to include contextual background, 1216 01:12:20,870 --> 01:12:23,006 I can write about how you set me up, 1217 01:12:23,072 --> 01:12:26,676 how you tried to blackmail me. I'll even include those Polaroids. 1218 01:12:26,743 --> 01:12:30,146 It's your word against mine. We have a contract. Everything's in my words. 1219 01:12:30,213 --> 01:12:33,583 We've agreed to your answers, but there's nothing to stop me 1220 01:12:33,650 --> 01:12:37,754 from putting any information I want into a question I ask. 1221 01:12:39,456 --> 01:12:43,326 Information that I'd like to be public knowledge, 1222 01:12:43,393 --> 01:12:45,294 or that the police might wanna look into. 1223 01:12:50,534 --> 01:12:54,504 Would you like me to fire one of my loaded questions, on the record? 1224 01:12:55,705 --> 01:12:56,940 Sure. 1225 01:13:04,648 --> 01:13:06,950 Vince, 1226 01:13:07,016 --> 01:13:11,020 in your suite at the Versailles Hotel in Miami, 1227 01:13:11,087 --> 01:13:13,690 was it your or Lanny's idea 1228 01:13:13,757 --> 01:13:17,126 to put Maureen's body into the case containing shellfish and ice 1229 01:13:17,193 --> 01:13:18,862 and have it shipped to New Jersey? 1230 01:13:23,733 --> 01:13:27,170 No answer, Mr. Collins? So noted. 1231 01:13:27,236 --> 01:13:30,306 Oh, and incidentally, by not answering 1232 01:13:30,373 --> 01:13:33,376 you're in violation of your contract. 1233 01:13:33,443 --> 01:13:36,680 What a shame. I understood you needed that money. 1234 01:13:38,748 --> 01:13:40,416 (GASPING) 1235 01:13:42,886 --> 01:13:43,887 (SCREAMS) 1236 01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:53,530 (VINCE SOBBING) Oh, no. Oh, God. 1237 01:13:53,597 --> 01:13:57,333 Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God! 1238 01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:58,434 (WHEEZES) 1239 01:13:58,502 --> 01:13:59,769 (COUGHS) 1240 01:14:02,572 --> 01:14:04,273 (VINCE SOBBING) 1241 01:14:06,510 --> 01:14:08,244 Was that how you murdered Maureen? 1242 01:14:10,179 --> 01:14:12,281 (PANTING) 1243 01:14:21,558 --> 01:14:22,826 Ask Lanny. 1244 01:14:23,527 --> 01:14:25,094 (SNIFFLES) 1245 01:14:26,229 --> 01:14:27,631 He's the one who knows. 1246 01:14:46,616 --> 01:14:50,453 KAREN: It wasn ' t that hard for him to get the suite he wanted . 1247 01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:54,658 The Versailles was still one of the fanciest of the hotels along the beach . 1248 01:14:54,724 --> 01:14:57,126 But by then , its era had passed . 1249 01:14:58,427 --> 01:15:00,029 Thank you, sir. 1250 01:15:09,906 --> 01:15:12,308 All the furniture was new . 1251 01:15:12,375 --> 01:15:14,711 It had been 15 years. 1252 01:15:15,579 --> 01:15:17,581 But the floor plan 1253 01:15:17,647 --> 01:15:19,816 was still the same . 1254 01:15:20,516 --> 01:15:23,052 In that spot 1255 01:15:23,119 --> 01:15:25,521 that was where the truth had come out . 1256 01:15:27,056 --> 01:15:29,158 That was why she had to die . 1257 01:15:40,804 --> 01:15:42,572 Are you Japanese or Chinese? 1258 01:15:44,440 --> 01:15:46,542 Vietnamese. 1259 01:15:46,610 --> 01:15:50,013 The kitchen tell me you famous person. 1260 01:15:50,079 --> 01:15:52,415 Why you famous? 1261 01:15:52,481 --> 01:15:54,150 They didn't tell you my name? 1262 01:15:54,718 --> 01:15:56,085 No. 1263 01:15:56,152 --> 01:15:57,821 What is it? 1264 01:16:00,256 --> 01:16:01,758 Lanny Morris. 1265 01:16:02,759 --> 01:16:04,628 It's a Jewish name, 1266 01:16:04,694 --> 01:16:05,962 but I'm a nebbish. 1267 01:16:07,396 --> 01:16:09,866 You ordered three bottle of champagne. 1268 01:16:09,933 --> 01:16:11,835 You want me to open one now? 1269 01:16:11,901 --> 01:16:13,970 Or wait until friend come? 1270 01:16:15,104 --> 01:16:16,640 Open all three. 1271 01:16:18,274 --> 01:16:20,576 Are you really famous, Mr. Morris? 1272 01:16:21,745 --> 01:16:23,847 In my day. 1273 01:16:23,913 --> 01:16:25,481 Before your time, I suppose. 1274 01:16:26,883 --> 01:16:29,518 I come from the north of Vietnam. 1275 01:16:29,585 --> 01:16:32,288 In my town, there is no television. 1276 01:16:32,355 --> 01:16:36,693 KAREN: She explained that American movies had been banned where she grew up . 1277 01:16:41,831 --> 01:16:44,400 She got better tips pretending she was Madame Butterfly 1278 01:16:44,467 --> 01:16:47,170 than by telling people where she was really from . 1279 01:16:48,938 --> 01:16:50,874 What did you do, Mr. Morris? 1280 01:16:52,041 --> 01:16:54,010 I made Vince Collins' life... 1281 01:16:54,978 --> 01:16:57,280 Very difficult. 1282 01:16:57,346 --> 01:17:00,684 KAREN: She didn't understand, but her policy was not to linger in the rooms 1283 01:17:00,750 --> 01:17:04,020 of solitary gentlemen . 1284 01:17:04,087 --> 01:17:07,490 He signed the room-service check under Lanny's name. 1285 01:17:10,559 --> 01:17:12,095 Thank you. 1286 01:17:35,251 --> 01:17:37,553 There was no ice or water left in the buckets 1287 01:17:37,620 --> 01:17:41,657 when his body was discovered the next morning . 1288 01:17:41,725 --> 01:17:46,595 He had dumped the ice into the bathtub and died in it . 1289 01:17:46,662 --> 01:17:49,198 He must have felt there was some poetry in it . 1290 01:17:53,302 --> 01:17:55,805 His plan was to drink enough champagne 1291 01:17:55,872 --> 01:17:57,473 with enough sleeping pills 1292 01:17:57,540 --> 01:18:01,978 so that ending things would become an acceptable idea . 1293 01:18:02,045 --> 01:18:04,647 He could manage that . 1294 01:18:04,714 --> 01:18:08,051 He knew for certain he couldn ' t manage anything else . 1295 01:18:11,654 --> 01:18:13,189 Hi. 1296 01:18:13,957 --> 01:18:15,491 (SIGHS) 1297 01:18:15,558 --> 01:18:17,326 I thought you were gonna be out all afternoon. 1298 01:18:17,393 --> 01:18:18,394 (SNIFFLES) 1299 01:18:22,899 --> 01:18:25,134 I'm sorry. 1300 01:18:25,201 --> 01:18:27,103 It's okay. Um... 1301 01:18:28,037 --> 01:18:29,572 This was under the door. 1302 01:18:37,814 --> 01:18:39,115 What is it? 1303 01:18:40,516 --> 01:18:42,085 Chapter three. 1304 01:18:44,387 --> 01:18:47,690 LANNY: John , as my lawyer , I want you to know that this next chapter... 1305 01:18:47,757 --> 01:18:49,258 (DOORBELL RINGS) 1306 01:18:49,325 --> 01:18:52,028 ...is to be read after Vince and my death, 1307 01:18:52,095 --> 01:18:56,699 and is only to be used under the most extreme of circumstances . 1308 01:18:58,667 --> 01:19:00,303 We knew we wanted to make an early night of it 1309 01:19:00,369 --> 01:19:04,407 with the telethon starting the next day , so Vince suggested we dine in 1310 01:19:04,473 --> 01:19:07,510 so Maureen could do the interview for her campus paper . 1311 01:19:07,576 --> 01:19:13,116 This is a gift for us from the audience 1312 01:19:13,182 --> 01:19:17,120 from the people, the people that are out there. 1313 01:19:18,021 --> 01:19:20,289 Sooner or later you gotta say, 1314 01:19:20,356 --> 01:19:22,525 "We wanna give something back." 1315 01:19:22,591 --> 01:19:24,227 I think that's really important. 1316 01:19:24,293 --> 01:19:27,496 Not many people would take the time out to do that. 1317 01:19:27,563 --> 01:19:29,432 Thank you. 1318 01:19:29,498 --> 01:19:31,334 LANNY: She actually hid her tape recorder in the room - service cart, 1319 01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:33,769 because she didn ' t want the hotel to find out . 1320 01:19:42,378 --> 01:19:45,648 We finished the interview and then asked her to stay . 1321 01:19:48,684 --> 01:19:52,956 To help us get into the mood , I did a Tuinal ... 1322 01:19:53,022 --> 01:19:54,958 Then she did one ... 1323 01:19:55,024 --> 01:19:59,695 And Vince, he did two, because he was always doing two. 1324 01:19:59,762 --> 01:20:03,833 We got into the second of the three bottles of Moet we'd ordered. 1325 01:20:03,900 --> 01:20:09,105 We thought it would be better to keep the action to neutral territory. 1326 01:20:12,675 --> 01:20:14,210 God... 1327 01:20:14,277 --> 01:20:15,979 She was beautiful. 1328 01:20:18,681 --> 01:20:20,950 I chain - locked the front door to the living room 1329 01:20:21,017 --> 01:20:24,753 to make sure that housekeeping, eager to turn down our beds, 1330 01:20:24,820 --> 01:20:27,490 didn't walk in on an employee having a menage a trois 1331 01:20:27,556 --> 01:20:29,792 with the hotel's headliners. 1332 01:20:29,859 --> 01:20:32,996 Then I went to chain-lock the door to Vince's room. 1333 01:20:33,062 --> 01:20:36,465 I took a quick shower, I put on my robe, 1334 01:20:36,532 --> 01:20:40,769 and brought a robe for Maureen, in case she felt a little bashful. 1335 01:20:44,173 --> 01:20:47,243 So much for bashful . 1336 01:20:47,310 --> 01:20:50,646 I threw the robe on the bed and moved into the room, 1337 01:20:50,713 --> 01:20:53,282 half - worried that they would finish without me . 1338 01:20:55,451 --> 01:20:57,353 (ROMANTIC JAZZ PLAYING) 1339 01:21:14,203 --> 01:21:18,474 Watch it there, compadre. 1340 01:21:18,541 --> 01:21:21,444 It's a little hard to tell who's who, under the circumstances. 1341 01:21:21,510 --> 01:21:25,548 I'm the one that's more than a little hard, you dumb fucking limey. 1342 01:21:25,614 --> 01:21:28,918 Well, I'm the one with a foreskin. Don't you forget that. 1343 01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:33,189 Whoa-whoa-whoa. 1344 01:21:33,256 --> 01:21:34,823 Hey. Watch it. You got the end zone there, Vince. 1345 01:21:34,890 --> 01:21:38,027 -Come on, come on. Fuck. -You're gonna like it. 1346 01:21:38,094 --> 01:21:40,029 -It's like from another planet when you come. -(MAUREEN GRUNTING IN PAIN) 1347 01:21:40,096 --> 01:21:41,965 -Get the fuck off me. -I'd never hurt you. 1348 01:21:42,031 --> 01:21:43,967 -I'd never hurt you. -Get the fuck off me! 1349 01:21:44,033 --> 01:21:47,136 -No, trust me. It's like double the sex... -Get the fuck off me! 1350 01:21:47,971 --> 01:21:50,906 We don't fuck, Vince! 1351 01:21:50,974 --> 01:21:54,243 We're buddies, we're pals, we're partners, we're a duo. 1352 01:21:54,310 --> 01:21:57,580 We love each other, but we don't fuck! 1353 01:21:58,381 --> 01:22:00,649 We're fucking stars! 1354 01:22:00,716 --> 01:22:02,351 -We can travel together. -Okay. 1355 01:22:02,418 --> 01:22:04,920 We can hang out together, we can live together, 1356 01:22:04,988 --> 01:22:07,423 but we can't be queers! 1357 01:22:07,490 --> 01:22:09,825 It's not funny! 1358 01:22:33,249 --> 01:22:35,651 I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. 1359 01:22:35,718 --> 01:22:37,220 About? 1360 01:22:39,555 --> 01:22:40,990 About your nose. 1361 01:22:43,826 --> 01:22:45,361 It's not broken, is it? 1362 01:22:48,331 --> 01:22:49,932 It's how I am. 1363 01:22:49,999 --> 01:22:54,037 Guess the question is, who's gonna pay me? 1364 01:22:54,103 --> 01:22:56,105 LANNY: This surprised me . 1365 01:22:56,172 --> 01:22:58,107 The girl was not a hooker . 1366 01:23:09,252 --> 01:23:11,420 My wallet was on top of my robe . 1367 01:23:12,455 --> 01:23:14,857 I took out some money . 1368 01:23:14,923 --> 01:23:16,559 I don ' t remember how much . 1369 01:23:33,576 --> 01:23:36,279 I don't think so. 1370 01:23:36,345 --> 01:23:39,182 That's more than you would make in a month of tips. 1371 01:23:39,248 --> 01:23:40,983 I'm not looking for a tip. 1372 01:23:42,451 --> 01:23:44,287 What the hell are you saying? 1373 01:23:44,353 --> 01:23:46,855 Honey, I'm in my last year of college. 1374 01:23:46,922 --> 01:23:48,591 This is a summer job. 1375 01:23:52,728 --> 01:23:54,897 I wanna write. 1376 01:23:54,963 --> 01:23:56,465 I wanna be a journalist. 1377 01:24:02,138 --> 01:24:04,107 So I could either use this information 1378 01:24:06,375 --> 01:24:07,910 or I could use a lot of money. 1379 01:24:10,113 --> 01:24:12,148 I promise you this will only cost you once. 1380 01:24:16,352 --> 01:24:18,654 I'm so tired, I don't even think I'm going home. 1381 01:24:20,489 --> 01:24:22,024 I think it's the Tuinals. 1382 01:24:24,527 --> 01:24:27,763 Hey, Lanny, don't take it personally. 1383 01:24:27,830 --> 01:24:30,166 You were a great lover. 1384 01:24:30,233 --> 01:24:33,068 You have got the cutest little butt. 1385 01:24:38,474 --> 01:24:41,177 I guess Vince thinks so too. 1386 01:24:46,182 --> 01:24:47,616 Night, Lanny. 1387 01:24:50,186 --> 01:24:53,088 LANNY: I would never see her alive again. 1388 01:24:56,091 --> 01:24:58,594 I put a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my door, 1389 01:24:58,661 --> 01:25:02,064 fastened the chain lock, in case the maid didn't read. 1390 01:25:02,131 --> 01:25:04,267 I left a wake-up call for 8:00, 1391 01:25:04,333 --> 01:25:06,769 and went to sleep knowing that a telethon 1392 01:25:06,835 --> 01:25:09,638 was the least of the ordeals I was going to have to face in the morning. 1393 01:25:09,705 --> 01:25:10,906 -(PHONE RINGING) -(KNOCKING ON DOOR) 1394 01:25:15,878 --> 01:25:17,880 The Tuinals had really conked me out 1395 01:25:17,946 --> 01:25:21,184 and I slept through my wake-up call that morning. 1396 01:25:21,250 --> 01:25:23,552 The operator had called Reuben down the hall 1397 01:25:23,619 --> 01:25:25,421 to see if he could wake me but... 1398 01:25:25,488 --> 01:25:28,591 He couldn't get in because we had chain-locked all the doors. 1399 01:25:28,657 --> 01:25:29,692 Hey-hey-hey... 1400 01:25:29,758 --> 01:25:31,827 Reuben! 1401 01:25:31,894 --> 01:25:34,530 I yelled for Reuben to wake up Vince while I worked on Maureen 1402 01:25:34,597 --> 01:25:38,066 trying to make myself believe that she was still sleeping . 1403 01:25:41,170 --> 01:25:42,171 LANNY: Fuck. 1404 01:25:43,406 --> 01:25:44,973 LANNY: No, no. Fuck. 1405 01:25:45,040 --> 01:25:48,110 LANNY: The autopsy revealed the drugs and alcohol in her body 1406 01:25:48,177 --> 01:25:50,313 but I knew it wasn't enough to kill her . 1407 01:25:55,651 --> 01:25:57,553 All three doors to the suite 1408 01:25:57,620 --> 01:26:00,689 were chain-locked from the inside when I found her. 1409 01:26:01,757 --> 01:26:03,692 I hadn't touched her. 1410 01:26:03,759 --> 01:26:09,465 That's how I know that my former partner and friend, Vince Collins, 1411 01:26:09,532 --> 01:26:12,100 murdered Maureen O'Flaherty. 1412 01:26:16,872 --> 01:26:20,142 You must have guessed by now that Vince and I had found a way 1413 01:26:20,209 --> 01:26:23,346 to relocate Maureen's body to New Jersey. 1414 01:26:23,412 --> 01:26:27,049 This is the one criminal act the both of us committed , 1415 01:26:27,115 --> 01:26:30,919 but we were in a panic and needed to create an ironclad alibi. 1416 01:26:30,986 --> 01:26:32,421 (WOMAN SCREAMS) 1417 01:26:32,488 --> 01:26:34,523 The crates were delivered to our room. 1418 01:26:34,590 --> 01:26:37,493 The publicist had opened the crates for a photo op . 1419 01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:39,161 But the official story became 1420 01:26:39,228 --> 01:26:41,964 that she found Maureen ' s overdosed body in the tub . 1421 01:26:42,030 --> 01:26:46,201 A police officer called Scaglia was there to witness the whole thing . 1422 01:26:46,269 --> 01:26:48,471 ANNOUNCER: Live, until they drop dead... 1423 01:26:48,537 --> 01:26:50,105 During the telethon , 1424 01:26:50,172 --> 01:26:54,042 I kept telling myself that I could forgive Vince for two reasons . 1425 01:26:54,109 --> 01:26:57,145 First of all, I don't think he could have known what he was doing. 1426 01:26:57,212 --> 01:27:00,949 He was completely out of it, even more than usual. 1427 01:27:01,016 --> 01:27:02,985 The second is that he was terrified 1428 01:27:03,051 --> 01:27:06,021 that this incident would become public knowledge. 1429 01:27:06,088 --> 01:27:10,158 In those days, the slightest hint that he could swing both ways 1430 01:27:10,225 --> 01:27:14,630 would destroy his show-business career in an instant. 1431 01:27:14,697 --> 01:27:17,232 As it was, it was only to destroy us. 1432 01:27:18,166 --> 01:27:20,403 We completed the telethon, 1433 01:27:20,469 --> 01:27:23,038 but we both knew we were finished. 1434 01:27:23,872 --> 01:27:26,208 The marriage...was over. 1435 01:27:28,944 --> 01:27:31,747 There was a moment in the middle of the telethon 1436 01:27:31,814 --> 01:27:34,717 where I actually broke down. 1437 01:27:34,783 --> 01:27:38,020 I just couldn't control myself. 1438 01:27:38,086 --> 01:27:41,757 I remember I mumbled something to a little girl 1439 01:27:41,824 --> 01:27:45,828 who was recounting her experiences with the disease . 1440 01:27:45,894 --> 01:27:48,631 I don't remember what I said 1441 01:27:48,697 --> 01:27:50,933 but I do remember feeling worthless. 1442 01:27:53,268 --> 01:27:56,305 Everyone thought that my tears were for her. 1443 01:27:56,372 --> 01:27:59,074 It made for a great picture in the papers the next day. 1444 01:28:01,910 --> 01:28:03,812 Mr. Morris will see you now. 1445 01:28:28,371 --> 01:28:32,741 I expected to see you at Vince's funeral. 1446 01:28:32,808 --> 01:28:36,278 Kind of heartless of you not to show up, don't you think, Karen? 1447 01:28:38,113 --> 01:28:42,918 Considering you're probably the one that drove him to it. 1448 01:28:45,688 --> 01:28:47,089 I won't answer that. 1449 01:28:50,025 --> 01:28:51,894 So don't. 1450 01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:54,397 So get the fuck out of my office. 1451 01:28:54,463 --> 01:28:58,434 Lanny, I have interview material with Vince up until the moment he met you. 1452 01:28:59,502 --> 01:29:01,870 It would be great if this 1453 01:29:01,937 --> 01:29:04,607 warm, funny side of Vince could reach the public. 1454 01:29:04,673 --> 01:29:07,610 And what the fuck do you know about Vince's warm and funny side? 1455 01:29:10,779 --> 01:29:13,582 What about the warm and funny fact that he killed himself? 1456 01:29:13,649 --> 01:29:16,084 -Why would he do that? -I don't know. 1457 01:29:18,487 --> 01:29:22,324 That's the answer I'm giving you and anyone else that asks. 1458 01:29:23,726 --> 01:29:24,893 "I don't know." 1459 01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:26,495 But you do know, don't you, Lanny? 1460 01:29:26,562 --> 01:29:28,096 Whatever I know, sweetheart 1461 01:29:28,764 --> 01:29:31,066 I'm writing in my book. 1462 01:29:31,133 --> 01:29:33,368 Except you're never going to finish your book. 1463 01:29:35,003 --> 01:29:37,573 You don't have to. 1464 01:29:37,640 --> 01:29:39,575 The person who needed your book is dead. 1465 01:29:41,410 --> 01:29:43,111 You had always written the material for your shows. 1466 01:29:43,178 --> 01:29:45,448 Every single word was rehearsed. 1467 01:29:45,514 --> 01:29:48,116 The book was a manual, a set of notes 1468 01:29:48,183 --> 01:29:52,120 so Vince would get every detail of the official story. 1469 01:29:52,187 --> 01:29:54,957 "A couple of extra babes for him to sleep with that night. 1470 01:29:55,023 --> 01:29:57,092 "A few of them on hand. 1471 01:29:57,159 --> 01:30:00,128 "Well, not exactly on his hand. That wasn't his preference." 1472 01:30:01,664 --> 01:30:04,800 -So, what's your point? -He quoted that very line to me. 1473 01:30:04,867 --> 01:30:09,037 Quoted it from your manuscript as if he were saying it for the first time. 1474 01:30:11,273 --> 01:30:13,108 You wrote it because you loved him. 1475 01:30:17,546 --> 01:30:19,047 And feared for him. 1476 01:30:22,685 --> 01:30:24,252 And feared for yourself. 1477 01:30:29,091 --> 01:30:31,026 And then you wrote this... 1478 01:30:34,396 --> 01:30:35,397 Where... 1479 01:30:36,699 --> 01:30:38,133 Where the fuck did you get that? 1480 01:30:38,200 --> 01:30:40,836 -Delivered to my room. -Bullshit. You stole it. 1481 01:30:40,903 --> 01:30:45,373 Maureen O'Flaherty was killed in the Versailles Hotel, in your room, 1482 01:30:45,440 --> 01:30:48,010 the night before the telethon. 1483 01:30:50,412 --> 01:30:52,380 The night before we met. 1484 01:30:59,387 --> 01:31:01,156 Get out of my office. 1485 01:31:49,738 --> 01:31:52,575 Miss Trout? 1486 01:31:52,641 --> 01:31:55,944 KAREN: We walked through the deserted backlot of the studio, 1487 01:31:56,011 --> 01:32:00,448 and I confessed that I wasn't Bonnie Trout. 1488 01:32:00,515 --> 01:32:02,685 That I was writing a book about Vince Collins. 1489 01:32:02,751 --> 01:32:04,587 And that I was trying to uncover the secret 1490 01:32:04,653 --> 01:32:06,989 behind what happened to Maureen O'Flaherty. 1491 01:32:07,890 --> 01:32:10,559 I told him what I found out . 1492 01:32:10,626 --> 01:32:12,160 He prayed that he would be forgiven 1493 01:32:12,227 --> 01:32:14,797 for having been there as the murder was concealed. 1494 01:32:14,863 --> 01:32:16,899 Miss O'Connor, 1495 01:32:16,965 --> 01:32:20,302 I have a tape recording of the night Miss O'Flaherty was killed. 1496 01:32:21,570 --> 01:32:24,039 She had brought a machine. 1497 01:32:26,875 --> 01:32:28,977 -For the interview. -Yes. 1498 01:32:29,044 --> 01:32:31,513 I found it as I was getting rid of her things. 1499 01:32:34,016 --> 01:32:36,184 She kept it on? 1500 01:32:38,386 --> 01:32:40,488 Could you use this tape for your book? 1501 01:32:45,327 --> 01:32:46,729 Of course. 1502 01:32:47,763 --> 01:32:49,331 Miss O'Connor... 1503 01:32:50,432 --> 01:32:52,267 Is it something... 1504 01:32:53,268 --> 01:32:54,970 Oh, my... 1505 01:32:55,037 --> 01:32:58,140 Is it something I could sell? 1506 01:32:58,206 --> 01:33:01,509 Reuben, I can't speak on behalf of my publishers 1507 01:33:01,576 --> 01:33:04,212 but I'm sure that we can settle on a price. 1508 01:33:04,279 --> 01:33:05,981 Oh, thank you, Miss O'Connor. 1509 01:33:10,418 --> 01:33:13,055 VINCE: I'll even spice it up a little, talk about how 1510 01:33:13,121 --> 01:33:15,257 t he night before the telethon , I wanted to sleep like a babe . 1511 01:33:15,323 --> 01:33:16,892 So to cover my bets , 1512 01:33:16,959 --> 01:33:18,360 I kept a few babes on hand. 1513 01:33:19,762 --> 01:33:21,664 Well, not exactly on my hand. 1514 01:33:21,730 --> 01:33:24,800 That's not my preference, as you may have gathered by now. 1515 01:33:27,235 --> 01:33:28,671 I need the money. 1516 01:33:30,973 --> 01:33:34,142 Did you have a figure in mind? 1517 01:33:34,209 --> 01:33:38,080 Would you think a million dollars would be too much? 1518 01:33:39,782 --> 01:33:43,719 Vince was being paid a million dollars for his life. 1519 01:33:43,786 --> 01:33:45,087 This is one night. 1520 01:33:45,988 --> 01:33:49,424 The most important night. 1521 01:33:49,491 --> 01:33:51,626 KAREN: You could have left me a note or called me. 1522 01:33:51,694 --> 01:33:53,929 -LANNY: I did leave you a note. -KAREN: Where? 1523 01:34:04,206 --> 01:34:07,475 Lanny left this for me at my apartment. 1524 01:34:07,542 --> 01:34:09,444 It's his version of what happened that night. 1525 01:34:11,579 --> 01:34:15,417 On its own, it's absolutely useless to me. 1526 01:34:15,483 --> 01:34:17,385 I could have typed it myself. 1527 01:34:21,323 --> 01:34:25,894 But if it matched what's recorded on your tape, 1528 01:34:28,630 --> 01:34:30,098 it would make it priceless. 1529 01:34:35,470 --> 01:34:37,239 Which is why you sent it to me. 1530 01:34:40,142 --> 01:34:43,311 You just said Mr. Morris left it at your apartment. 1531 01:34:43,378 --> 01:34:45,347 He was surprised I had it. 1532 01:34:47,983 --> 01:34:51,720 Like he was surprised I hadn't found the note he left for me at the hotel. 1533 01:34:51,787 --> 01:34:54,656 The note you must've disposed of as you were tidying the room. 1534 01:34:54,723 --> 01:34:57,325 REUBEN: I told you how he deals with women. I was afraid. 1535 01:34:57,392 --> 01:34:58,794 Really afraid of what he might do to you. 1536 01:34:58,861 --> 01:35:01,363 KAREN: Maybe you were afraid of what I'd... 1537 01:35:01,429 --> 01:35:04,066 I'd do to him. And to you. 1538 01:35:04,132 --> 01:35:08,236 Why would I be afraid of a schoolteacher called Bonnie Trout? 1539 01:35:08,303 --> 01:35:10,906 Because you knew I was Karen O'Connor. 1540 01:35:10,973 --> 01:35:13,809 When I woke up, you folded my clothes 1541 01:35:13,876 --> 01:35:15,944 and placed my pocketbook on the bed. 1542 01:35:16,011 --> 01:35:18,747 The pocketbook that had my name and the letter from my publisher. 1543 01:35:21,683 --> 01:35:25,220 I was writing about the one thing you wanted to have total control over... 1544 01:35:25,287 --> 01:35:26,789 Collins and Morris. 1545 01:35:28,690 --> 01:35:31,894 You made me abandon any thought of trying to contact Lanny. 1546 01:35:33,695 --> 01:35:35,831 You made me feel like I was less than nothing to him 1547 01:35:35,898 --> 01:35:38,200 because you were playing your own complex game. 1548 01:35:38,266 --> 01:35:43,305 And what exactly was this complex game I was playing, Miss O'Connor? 1549 01:36:02,757 --> 01:36:04,426 You were in the room. 1550 01:36:05,727 --> 01:36:08,096 That night. 1551 01:36:08,163 --> 01:36:10,833 Lanny had a robe. He dropped it on the bed. 1552 01:36:10,899 --> 01:36:13,101 After Maureen asked for money... 1553 01:36:13,168 --> 01:36:15,904 The wallet was on top. It had been folded. 1554 01:36:15,971 --> 01:36:19,707 Well, I always, always arranged Mr. Morris' things. 1555 01:36:19,774 --> 01:36:23,178 After he went to bed. You were there before. 1556 01:36:23,245 --> 01:36:26,081 How would I get out? All three doors were chain-locked. 1557 01:36:44,867 --> 01:36:47,069 Through Vince's room. 1558 01:36:48,436 --> 01:36:50,038 Then, the next morning, 1559 01:36:50,105 --> 01:36:53,408 you must have chain-locked the door before you went to wake him up. 1560 01:36:57,612 --> 01:36:59,247 LANNY: Fuck! 1561 01:37:02,750 --> 01:37:05,387 Lanny let me read the first chapter. 1562 01:37:05,453 --> 01:37:07,589 Vince sent me the second. 1563 01:37:10,425 --> 01:37:12,360 And you stole this. 1564 01:37:12,427 --> 01:37:13,828 To whet my appetite. 1565 01:37:38,353 --> 01:37:40,188 MAUREEN: I wanna write. 1566 01:37:40,255 --> 01:37:42,690 I wanna be a journalist. 1567 01:37:42,757 --> 01:37:45,393 So I could either use this information, 1568 01:37:46,694 --> 01:37:48,863 or I could use a lot of money. 1569 01:37:48,931 --> 01:37:50,665 Is that why you killed her? 1570 01:37:52,567 --> 01:37:53,868 To protect them? 1571 01:38:01,109 --> 01:38:05,080 KAREN: For 15 years, 1572 01:38:05,147 --> 01:38:08,250 he tormented Vince and Lanny . 1573 01:38:11,886 --> 01:38:16,224 He could never blackmail Vince while Sally Sanmarco was alive, 1574 01:38:16,291 --> 01:38:20,695 so he waited until Sally died to activate his retirement plan... 1575 01:38:23,331 --> 01:38:27,169 A million dollars from Vince. 1576 01:38:27,235 --> 01:38:31,573 A million dollars for the same tape he offered to me. 1577 01:38:36,444 --> 01:38:37,812 He would never get his money, 1578 01:38:37,879 --> 01:38:40,282 and I would never see him again. 1579 01:38:46,421 --> 01:38:49,191 He had taken her life, 1580 01:38:49,257 --> 01:38:51,526 and with it her mother's heart, 1581 01:38:52,694 --> 01:38:54,496 and her father's mind. 1582 01:38:56,631 --> 01:38:58,266 And now, 1583 01:38:58,333 --> 01:39:01,703 all that remained of Maureen O'Flaherty... 1584 01:39:01,769 --> 01:39:05,040 Was a tree in her mother's garden. 1585 01:39:20,522 --> 01:39:23,891 Your daughter learned something about Vince Collins 1586 01:39:23,958 --> 01:39:26,828 that he didn't want anyone to know. 1587 01:39:26,894 --> 01:39:30,498 Because of that she was killed. 1588 01:39:30,565 --> 01:39:33,335 If it's of any small comfort, she probably didn't suffer. 1589 01:39:34,302 --> 01:39:36,871 I want people to know about this man. 1590 01:39:38,506 --> 01:39:41,043 I want them to know why he killed her. 1591 01:39:46,648 --> 01:39:48,983 There is someone in all this, 1592 01:39:49,051 --> 01:39:51,186 who is totally innocent of any involvement 1593 01:39:51,253 --> 01:39:53,388 in the events of that night, 1594 01:39:53,455 --> 01:39:57,659 but whose life will be made infinitely worse if I tell the truth at this time. 1595 01:39:59,294 --> 01:40:02,030 I wanna protect this person from any further pain. 1596 01:40:05,867 --> 01:40:08,370 I promise you... 1597 01:40:08,436 --> 01:40:12,040 I promise you I will write down the truth that I've learned, 1598 01:40:12,107 --> 01:40:15,177 but I have to let matters lie until this person has died, 1599 01:40:15,243 --> 01:40:17,179 and the truth can no longer touch them. 1600 01:40:22,717 --> 01:40:25,853 I saw no indication on her face 1601 01:40:25,920 --> 01:40:28,156 that she knew I was talking about her. 1602 01:41:02,590 --> 01:41:05,160 You're a very special girl. 1603 01:41:13,468 --> 01:41:15,337 Forgive me.