All language subtitles for Hustling (1975)

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hmm

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ah

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so

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me

they don't even try to hide it anymore i

tell you what's happening to this city

you can't even walk the streets anymore

without being

the way they stand there brazen as can

be now it says

he can't go the block from his office to

grand central without getting a dozen

transportations

i'm not cheap either what do you mean

that chief how much you want to find out

so how much 20 and 10.

you mean 30 dollars you don't want to

buy it get lost

70 dollars later you're gonna love that

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what did she say thirty dollars thirty

dollars that all

i thought it would be much more whatever

happened to two dollars

inflation harriet remember

of selling yourself for money i grabbed

the salad then lay up and then

wait for my husband to pay my bills out

of his paycheck

which is gonna be short thirty dollars

or maybe fifty if he likes me

watch out

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wanda we have to stop meeting like this

you think grown men have something

better to do to chase a few girls around

the street

okay girl all right let's go

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all right who wants to make a phone call

i gotta call my roommate i'm an

independent

how much money you got some screw in

here ripped me off last week

yeah we know gizelle is a tough life yes

what are you doing today again

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yeah i got red glitter with sparkles oh

good luck

good thanks hey listen how long are we

in court

the last man left were caught about 20

minutes ago so everybody's in for the

night

of six

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what are you complaining about you're

all back on the streets and i'm still

filling out the form

how can i book prostitutes on a

typewriter with the broken b

use a w age

19.

occupation is he for real

secretary put down i'm working for the

city

social security number

taking time

this uniform comes up to me he says come

on i'm taking you

i've been taking me in can't you see i'm

eating

i mean how can i be working when i'm

eating right

your story really touches me no really

this is what turns us girls against you

cops you're taking someone in for

nothing just cause one of you creeps

once make is overtime

ah you girls don't have a persecution

complex you think the men enjoy doing

this

i have to promise them promotions oh

yeah tell it to me

they love pushing women around that's

how they get their kicks

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i wonder who is paying the police the

taxpayers or the prosecutors

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please it's just too damn easy to blame

the police for everything gentlemen

may i remind you that the purpose of

these meetings is to attack the problem

not each other meetings meetings all we

have is meetings

what we are facing here a certain

socio-economic urban inevitability

are you listening to me you clean up

midtown or i'm going to close up my

restaurant

oh no and that's the only inevitability

that i can see and i'm speaking for all

the honest businessmen in the district

mr monty the mayor is deeply concerned

we are the guardians of the greatest

city in the greatest country in the

world salute to the flag

now with enlightened participation from

the community of this kind

we are certainly moving towards some

long-range solutions

long-range hell we are drowning in in

porno and hookers

right and we also have immediate ongoing

action to alleviate the problem

you know harold always lands on his feet

folks let me be honest with you

the mayor considers this to be a number

one priority

midtown is the income producing heart of

the city he wants me to assure every one

of you

that there is nothing more important to

him than keeping that heart beating

uh morrison city magazine

where is the mayor unfortunately he had

to deal with uh

excuse me another very critical issue

like getting re-elected

but he did ask deputy inspector keough

to come here to make a comprehensive

report on the progress of operation

cleanup

colin here come the marines well now

ladies and gentlemen

the first thing you have got to remember

is that we are dealing with a very

big area now i'm talking about over 60

subway platforms

11 convention hotels 300 restaurants and

over 700 bars

that takes coverage we have beefed up

our task force with

two captains 11 lieutenants 54 sergeants

and over 553 patrollers

there are over 1 000 street prostitutes

in this district

now during the past three-month period

we have scored over 1500 loitering

arrests

never heard so many numbers in all my

life

well it makes them feel secure you know

when you're a

patrolman pounding a beat you carry a

gun and you're a deputy inspector you

carry statistics

weren't you carrying the mayor a bit too

just a little around the edges

that are no handle okay now comment

you know i like the way that piece

turned out the one you did in the porno

bookstore is good

very good yeah not good enough just the

tip of the iceberg i think what are you

[ __ ] for a national journalism award

isn't everybody you get the girls off

the street you might make commission

another chance

every night i've got a station house

full of frost the next morning they take

a taxi home from court

soak their feet put on fresh eyelashes

by one o'clock it's like somebody rang a

bell

new game same players sounds like kids

playing ring olivia

a thousand prostitutes do you have any

solutions

sure every commuter should take one home

hey i might like to come down and hang

around some night impossible

yeah why not how about tonight we'll be

just in time for the night game

family

foreign

when do you use a cigarette

where he's done it before the girls in

this table he'll do it again

keller shall sign a statement we can put

him in jail for a very long time told

her

to tell her she's frank will give her

protection we'll put her in a hotel with

a guard for 24 hours

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so then she says to me what does your

pimp do all day

so i thought that he don't do nothing

but the way he don't do it

is beautiful hey

hey you know i think you girls are

really yo-yos

what's the matter honey you jealous

what'd you do get a new air pillow yeah

the last one kept leaking

that's just like my baby i can't seem to

keep them in diapers

where you got them now these people in

the bronx they're taking care of him for

me that's good hey i know

hey honey you think oh they could get me

down to court early tomorrow morning you

know i got a hair appointment

oh what are you gonna do get a permanent

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oh

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shut up

why don't you ask him what he did to one

of his girls go ahead and ask him mr big

shot

go on and tell her what you did she

probably deserved

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i'll never understand it this thing that

bookers have for their pimps

is a 14 year old girl with her back

burned raw

and we can't get into press charges is

she just afraid or is it

sex or love or status

are they looking for their fathers what

i don't know

maybe just somebody to be responsible

for their lives

like a lot of women i guess

look if i could get inside a process

head i'd have the street cleaned up in

24 hours

where are they going now oh we lock them

up in cells tonight

listen i think i'd like to talk to one

or two of them would that be possible

yeah sure it's possible

i don't think you'll learn too much but

date yes sir

they're kind of hard to know yeah says

everybody

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i ain't sleeping with no 9th avenue

how about marrying the librarian

together she's working the east side now

what about that runaway the one with the

gimpy foot oh listen that uh skinny

redhead the one that lets everything

hang out

wasn't this some college girl from

boston yeah she changed her story now

her father's or something senator

hmm they all got some crazy story 99 of

them you can't trust me

hey how about wanda

she's okay she's been on the street by

four years

a dedicated woman but i don't think

she'll go for her a dedicated woman

what's she unfortunate

nah i solved this time she was telling

off a bus full of matinee women of 50.

she slugged the driver there's nothing a

working girl hates more

than straight women will drop the

assault charge you shall talk to miss

morris

that's right

so

oh

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dollars trial november 15 next days

people versus angel cologne how you

plead guilty

want to get paid for it it could mean a

three four hundred dollar fine

depending on what side of the bed his

honor got up on his horse oh

i'll make it up sweet nose all i need

is a couple good nights chewy nose

the only problem is he hasn't got it

can't send the money wanda do i have to

explain

lately you've been in more than you're

out when you don't work it ain't my

fault

i i can't help but cause there's a

squeeze of things that are cutting up on

an assault charge that's not smart

i could sweep plenty 5 000 a month last

year where is it

now what kind of talk is that you know

sweet's got heavy expenses it's not an

easy business he has to compete

he says you better plead guilty and take

the time

i ain't going to no riker's island i

hate that stinking place

talking about a couple of weeks at the

most nothing's that bad for a couple of

weeks

seems for him to say sitting around at

willy's washington knicks on tv

people first

what what kind of a game is he playing

with me anyway

i ain't no baby running away he's got a

teacher lesson two

i'm his number one woman ain't i when

you work

the defendant is charged with assault in

the third degree and that she did strike

the complainant theodore medina about

the face

causing him to sustain an injury which

necessitated that he'd be treated at

roosevelt hospital how do you plead

guilty ryan you know you've got 27

direct prostitution arrests in the past

four years

so now you're going on to bigger things

eh do you have anything to say

they creep push me first

five hundred dollars or sixty days

it'll be over before you know it let us

see some justice in the courts

people versus sherry dubois

excuse me adam's department of social

services i've been authorized to pay the

fine for wanda clavic

what are you talking about what's going

on here

you'll find out when you get outside

i didn't mean to make a mystery out of

it frankly i wasn't even sure you take

it

what's this for you what do you want

with me anyway thank you

good luck can we have a cup of coffee i

don't know

i gotta get back to

listen work i went to you for 500.

you must give me another 5 for the cab

right

here write down your address please i

don't like calling anybody

i'll pay it all back in a couple of

weeks i'm in no hurry yeah but i am

all right what's going on here look i

know nobody does anything for nothing

right that's right

i want to make a business deal with you

i want to i want to talk to you i want

to know about

working girl no what anything everything

whatever you can tell me

and time's worth money i mean yours and

mine so

so if we can talk then uh then i'll pay

you

whatever we can work out pay by the hour

it could take care of the fine why me

well because swifty says you're a

dedicated woman

oh you don't even know what that means

do you

no not exactly but uh it sounds

it sounds nice something you can handle

like a white [ __ ] right

a dedicated woman don't roll with john

and she don't steal

but i'm a [ __ ] and i sell it for money

just like yourself a marriage license

advanced

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dinner

hey how about my offer i gotta think

about it

we're going up to 59th street drop me

off the 45th okay

okay

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one besides a pound of sugar and 10

gallons of gas can possibly be worth 500

would you believe integrity for

integrity yes a commodity in very short

supply come on friend get off the

soapbox

integrity from a hustler well why not

you know what she said to inspector

keough when he offered to exchange her

privacy for an out on an assault wrap

please huh i forgot you don't like women

to swear

or smoke cigars suey but she's willing

to spill her all to you for hard cash

huh you know what i think morrison

i think she's got a good head for

business lester there is something

special here i know it how special can a

piece on prostitution be it's cheap

it's easy every magazine in the city has

one

you titillate a little you exploit that

is not what we're about

i know that

but lester there isn't a woman alive who

hasn't had the fantasy of going into a

room with a stranger

and selling herself for money

or the nightmare

i look at that girl and i wonder what

separates us

desperation or guts

maybe just a case of bd

you always did have a lot of class

besides we just ran that big spread last

month on the new black middle class

i don't want to follow it with this well

what makes you think this scene is black

would you be surprised to hear that the

majority of the girls on the street are

white

from midwest cities they school dropouts

all come here to be models find a rich

man same old dream

anyway i don't even know whether she's

going to talk to me or not but if she

does and you're

chicken pick up the tab myself

okay okay

talk about hustling you mean it's still

around

i thought with all those singles bars

and liberated females with water beds

nobody has to pay for it anymore but

they want to

what do you mean they want to well i

think a lot of men are scared to death

with a free giveaway

and with a prostitute they can play it

safe no

risk no demand no intimacy

women's live may be the biggest boom to

prostitution since the invention of the

twin bed

can i quote you at the athletic club

your table will be ready in just a

moment and i'll personally take care of

your lobster

thank you online take tonight for

instance it's so complicated

you're gonna take me to bed right but

first you have to feed me

at a very expensive restaurant because

it makes you feel better

true but it makes you feel better too

subtly maybe

now what would you say if i told you

you're in solid agreement with an eighth

avenue hooker

i'd say it calls for two martinis and

this girl wanda

she says that under all the romance and

the orange blossoms and

all that that men and women engage in

business transactions

all the time that's a pretty profound

thought for a hooker

for anybody it just leaves out a couple

of things

like what respect mutual need

love

they've got our names on them uh fine

look you've been with the prostitute

right haven't we exhausted this subject

oh come on all you princeton boys must

have had to pass your masculinity exams

at the local brothel

you're a terrier why can't you ever do a

nice in-depth piece on the lennon

sisters or a needlepoint

the lennon's is just our needlepoint you

should know by now i refuse to be a

statistic in your articles

excuse me miss morrison a telephone call

you may take it right away thank you

sorry

hello miss morrison this is vincent

kalino your exchange game in the number

kalino swiftly oh swift i'm sorry i

didn't recognize the night you know what

he does

i saw wanda today and she asked me to

tell you she'll meet you tomorrow at two

o'clock

oh uh where wherever you want

uh tell her the um the copper kettle the

one just off six

oh yeah okay look i'm really glad you

paid her fine

but her pimp on me well why not i'm

saving you money yeah but you're

poaching on his territory he's not gonna

like that

oh well wanda looks like a girl who can

take care of herself

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okay

and there's little owls on real agate

kind of a japanese stroke on broadway

anything with a owl

elephant supposed to be good luck are

you superstitious

i wasn't wouldn't be here third thursday

of the month it's my most unlucky day

yeah maybe we can break the jinx listen

let's get the money straightened up

right now okay

that's the first thing a working girl

does so you don't have no hassles later

right what'd you have in mind well

you're talking like this i mean no it's

gonna be printed up and everything

the majority of girls they might take

advantage of you know they figured

say what could you get on the street

things were going good you got four or

five tricks in an

hour you'd make 150 dollars but uh

i'm taking into consideration the money

is hard right

thought everywhere so uh

if you could afford it i would charge

you fifty dollars now

sounds fair i'm afraid i'm gonna have to

ask you to leave

thank your pardon the restaurant

reserves the right to refuse service to

anyone

well i'd like to know the reason i think

the reason is obvious

i'd like to hear it look i don't want to

create a scene don't you just go

quietly look i'm fran morrison from city

magazine and this is a friend of mine

now are you really telling me that we're

not welcome here

i'm very sorry ms morrison but the

restaurant has a very firm policy

we have to think of our customers what's

the matter

afraid they'll catch something you don't

get it off place

it's a rip-off anyway two and a quarter

for a loudly horsemeat hamburger

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we should have stayed in there and

caught that out yeah right you're

kidding me

just paying off my last bite why am i so

furious and you're so calm

i'm calm oh just used to it you

ain't yeah but i mean doesn't [ __ ] you

being treated like that like darby right

what are you gonna do

sometimes you fight sometimes you

swallow it down

anyway you just got your first lesson in

the world of the straits boy

a bunch of friggin hypocrites one know

something

this guy he owns all these copper

kettles

same creep all the mona lisa you believe

it what's the mona lisa

oh it's this uh you know so tell where

most of west side girls work

hey wait a second how do you know that

laurie wants to be there he's the

manager he told me

are you sure about that well what about

that

uh guy who uh owns the hotel

larry's a lot of things you know being a

wife

what's that dollar and a half right okay

there you go

oh i feel like ketchup yeah

eat on the county put on everything i'm

telling you

what county uh cayuga just outside

cleveland

i grew up around lakes you believe it is

the only water i see in this place

is that where your family is yeah

what's left of it my brother sister

works in a mill there you know

my my sister

my mother died in a fire

my you father never know where he is

reporter's best tool

that way yeah you get everything down

right you don't have to rely on your

memory bother you

i don't know i ain't never done this

before

just forget it's there

listen if it's going to bother you you

know what i can do without it i don't

really know

this is business like a trick

you paid for it you got a right to have

it the way you want it right

oh that's a silly question asking a

prostitute why she doesn't

well i make my living asking silly

questions what do you make a year

unless it's private or something well i

make uh 20 sometimes 25

000 oh yeah that's pretty good first

year

i was out of the street i made 70.

thousands yeah

thousand before that i wait for the job

nine to five six days a week sixty two

takeoff including tips so that's why

it's a silly question

well i got another silly question the

other day you didn't have enough to pay

your fine

so where is it all your money

you give it to somebody

give it to your pen

all right that's my business

i gotta go to work

can we meet tomorrow

i don't know what time be good for you

to let you know

maybe this whole thing is such a good

idea what

steel we make we talk and stuff

it ain't my oh why not it's everybody's

stuck

you're smart got opinions now what time

do you a smart girl

you know don't go off at b on eighth

avenue i know what to expect i

i don't get no black from nobody

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right except when you're in the bullpen

or in court

or on rikers island listen man

i didn't come looking for you you'll get

your 500 back i don't wait

damn about the money i don't i don't

i guess there's something else we should

have straightened out up front

i'm not in this too trap you

or insult you

but i'm not gonna [ __ ] foot around or

walk on eggshells that's not my beat

i have to feel free to ask you whatever

i want

say whatever i think and you can answer

or not answer or you can tell me to go

to hell anytime

if you don't agree on that then you're

right better call it quits

no

you should have that that thing turned

on when a joke was talking to a

restaurant

you is that don't i sound like

it's a ripoff

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hey anyway hey baby wait a minute

how you doing mama he'll tell you that's

sweet

news travels faster speech you know

sweet he don't know how to take care of

no woman

you know where i find one

hey what are you doing here on my corner

huh

you're going on the corner you're right

i've been here for three years you know

everybody knows

my regulars everybody

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you want more huh

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you can't let every dumb [ __ ] scare you

with that kind of talk you ain't gonna

last a month

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they only testing to see how you're

gonna do without protection

i sure hope you know what you're doing

cause the word is out

that you have left sweet don't anybody

at work around here

before they do it's gossip they say

something big shout out type page

that's all they know happens she's a

writer you know one of the magazines

he's paying me just to talk to him talk

to her about what

anything i want 50 bucks an hour

wait now i heard of some freaks well i'm

getting back on my corner for all those

black guys so they can take over my beat

i wish i could luck out like that 50 an

hour without flap-backing

i ain't even called pick one yet today

and you know

you know that place in the bronx they

keep my baby for me

they say everything's going up and they

need more money

sweet says that means i gotta make more

forget it he can

he can spring for another 30 bucks on

starving to death so we don't get his

custom continental this year he's in a

real bad mood

i think it's cause you haven't called

him let him call me are you kidding

london

he can't do that how would it look for

him to go running after one of his girls

huh

everybody'd be laughing at him you know

he's got his pride i don't give a damn

i'll call him when i'm good and ready

maybe never you better not say things

like that to anybody it'll get better

what if it does come on don't do it

wanda

you know sweet cares about you you don't

act like it

it was number one woman so much you

wouldn't be going out that stinking

hellhole

for stinking rikers

hey how about it i'll go home get an

answer

tell your mother to give me a decent

shirt and look i got the money

you got a hundred dollars oh yeah a

hundred dollars wow is she spaced out on

summer or what

wanda are you kidding you better not

undercut they had the 30. you gotta

teach men not to disrespect you

pimps include he's gonna go real hard on

me if i don't make my quota tonight

are you busy it's uh

20 and 10. well i'll see you later

oh wait a minute wait a minute uh

how about two girls 50.

you only get one for the room

40. you want bargains try 14th street

hey wanda please

okay

sixteen thousand this week fourteen last

week i'm not gonna stay in the countdown

seems like larry don't care who he lives

in this place get out of here

all right

church room number 15.

10 books mike you want to know i think

she's trying to move into your spot with

sweet

what do you want with a dog like that

hey

hey you gotta register mr and mrs

what

who's coming i see us sniffing around

sweet over at willy's coming on cute

yeah cute

like a cobra who's she with anyway uh

it's 30 honey remember

big george she's telling everyone she

makes 4 50 and then

50. 354. i don't know what she is a damn

lie

i'm telling you she ain't making no 450.

now with all this heat on

uh honey you're worried about your

wallet just put it in your pants and lay

your head on it

maybe she's working massage partly yeah

the parking lots and always that's more

speed

anyway she's making a real place no

kissy kissy honey

like i'm saying it's just what i hear

that's one of the oldest lines in the

world y'all beefing up your nightly take

oh wait i don't know if he is or not i

just know she's trying

then i tell you he's not so smart as he

makes out to be

hey what about me

i'm getting to you honey sweet yeah all

this fuss about sweet

what is he anyway he's just a man

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no no for real if somebody aside wants

to see you

hello wanda

what's the matter we've always been

friends

that's right don't be mad i got good

news

up to five c's for you

how come you know how i feel about you

does no one like wanda i always tell

sweet

i like to see you two lovebirds on the

out so i said to him let me advance it

to 500.

i know she's good for it

that's nice that's real nice

just one thing

he doesn't want you talking to any

reporters

that's crazy i'm telling her anything

about

by him or or business like that you know

just uh

stuff couldn't hurt nobody you don't

know what could hurt

plus you think i'm some dummy i can't

even up my mouth

i ain't stupid

wanda do like he says huh

use your head take the 500 and stop the

talking

stop it

first

stop suffering here hey

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i'm trying this little girl look the man

really go for it

only nothing's going to help tonight

come on why the freedom the writer i

told you about

i'm going over to show off this troll on

flex do you want cars

i don't think i ought to go really oh

come

come on

i guess there's no tricks in the rain

anyway

oh friend this is

what's up we're going over to lexington

avenue

mom oh why not everybody's keeping them

dried at night sweet was just here

boy was he mad i only had 40 together i

had a night like this

it clears up i guess i could work late

you know i try

lex once with the vice squad you know

the 17 they're the worst

what is that tape recorder i always use

it yeah all writers use it you know when

they want to get it

straight not just make it up like they

they thought it was

uh-huh that's groovy oh look uh this

month lisa i'll tell him to talk about

uh slow down will you stop

uh you see up there uh that window that

reflects

that's what larry sits that way he

cannot he can see the

the cockpit when they come around the

corner who gets the girls right in

kidding and that same sebastian they

call it the midtown

chapel that's nice and close to that

yeah the priest he's always giving larry

the business

calling the cops raised in the roof okay

go now cabbie

but the priest he ain't against the

girls though when i see the van coming

i always duck him and he says to me do i

want to pray and i say

sure he knows i'm waiting till the cops

go by

and then over here now this this is

where we hide out when we're running

from the van yeah

wait you mean that big building it's

being constructed

slow down yeah and i found this place

where i you see over there behind that

big piling

yeah well they got some kind of fire

stairs and we can run up three

four stories and nobody can ever find us

let's see everyone yeah listen are we

gonna go across

town or anywhere with sightseeing okay

yeah so charter a bus what are you

[ __ ] those ports right there on the

meter

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maybe we ought

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right here right here on this corner i

was turned out four years ago oh

i didn't know everybody i knew i knew

the cops i knew

the girls i knew the councilman hi how

you doing big deal i liked the actions

better

yeah it was different here's a little

more high class right do you ever think

about quitting

everybody's got a goal what kind of a

goal

well most girls they want to save two or

three grand by a certain age put it down

on business yeah like a restaurant

club a boutique ooh would i love it i

know some girls they think i'm standing

all their life

yeah like they're born to it ain't

nobody bought toys stupid

i mean you were born those are for

franny

or jackie kennedy

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all right come on girl let's go let's go

i don't know what you mean officer

what any identification oh

yes officer i'm a writer and these women

are helping me on a research

project so i don't know what research

project

can you girls know this is a well-known

area for prostitutes is that shocking

look it looks like i've left my press

card at home but if you just let me make

a call

to my office they'll explain everything

to you tell you what you can make all

the fields you want done at the

preaching all right

something moving around

this is ridiculous you can't even walk

on the street i can assure you inspector

kia will not be happy here ryan

no kidding how's the maid going to feel

all right come on let's go make some

rumors come on

hey honey what you doing over here on

lex

mouth all right this is a research

project officer oh what this is shocking

officer what do you mean

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come on what is this some joke if it is

it isn't funny

i told him him i told him we were on a

research project

nobody ella what are you doing four

thousand was this research project

what's a research project

nova yellow this is miss morrison she's

a writer what's the matter with you

all right so i was wrong about her but

the rest of them are just plain prods

right

what the hell difference does that make

they work working

i can swear to that now what business do

you have picking them up when they're

not working

it's a violation of their constitutional

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rights

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oh

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this is the first time i ever walked out

of that place like that

i'm telling you you shouldn't hire her

oh well it doesn't hurt to have a clout

it ain't clown honey it is brave

she knows more than all them uniform

clowns put together

what business you got

picking up

is it what well you know

against all right well yes violates the

14th amendment

how does that go again well

um the 14th amendment says that

the the police can't

arbitrarily or capriciously you know

what i mean um deprive you of your

life or liberty without what's called

due process of law

and it guarantees you you know um

equal protection under the law that in

other words all that means is that

no group of people safe blacks

homosexuals prostitutes whatever

can be arrested and treated differently

just because they're members of that

group

that's all

be damned how come i got to be 22 years

old and nobody ever told me none of that

yeah how the hell come there's nothing

wrong with the constitution honey but

who's got time to read it

hey where's dede she's over there there

she is

hey sweetie

what you doing over there all by

yourself i

want to go back to work oh come on will

you

be such a damn hell joy

something to matter you know that you

feel good

yeah hey you missed out about the

constitutional

what's the matter man because they

yelled again

i was thinking about my baby

i'll be a year old next month

he recognizes me now when i come visit

him

what's his name she cries me

one time it is his name is

stacy i didn't even crack 50 tonight

what am i going to tell sweden well you

called him from the precinct didn't you

tell him they kept you in all night i

don't know i'm lying

he always knows he'll give me a baby why

do you let him

cause he's right he's right to beat you

sure then i know he loves me

that's when i make my quota he's so nice

to me

he buys me a peek-a-boo blouse

but it weapons for my own good cause i'm

i'm lazy

i wouldn't work if it wasn't for him

i wouldn't be worth enough of what i

wanted

you make me sick stop the ball like some

dumb

baby oh that'll be gone off i don't want

i mean things ain't like that was when

you and i first started out years ago

i mean uh it was enjoyable

you could work easy

uh you could work a little bit you know

save some money and you could have a

good time

but now they got animals out there on

the street things look on me

and you gotta have a man that looks

after you

a woman can't do it by himself

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ah

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are you kidding me

huh

sweet i just got beat up

they took my money they cut my face

i don't know what to do

can i come back to you

i need you sweet

sure you can come back sweet's here

don't he always give you what you need

don't he always take care of your baby

how am i gonna get there

i hurt i can't hardly walk

crawl

i don't understand it i got this in the

mail from walmart this morning

a note figuring out how much she owes me

and four 20

bills oh what's it mean she got mugged a

couple of nights ago

nobody made out any official report but

it's all over the street

no uh where how outside her place

they got something new now it's gangs of

car girls you know what they do

they rub and cut them up it's easier

that way they don't have the flat back

and the payoff's much bigger they don't

work as hard

i'll tell you they must have given her a

hell of a going over hmm

when women get rough they're worse than

men anyway she's gone back to her pimp

now

back to her camp hey almost weigh your

tempers

she could have called me i'd have helped

her wow you're a square no matter how

hard you try

you're on the outside oh i don't believe

that

we had a relationship i i i know it

meant something

you need to a point compete with the

pimp you got to lose

i've got no proof but i lay rg fingered

her for that game i mean a working girl

can't get too independent i might be

catching you know what i'm telling you

do you think wanda knows that of course

then how can she go back to him how

could she not go back

what if she got a choice hey swifty come

on let's go i'm sorry i gotta go

isn't there something anything i can do

yeah

do her favor leave her alone

i feel so helpless and i hate it

i know you like to be in control

that was a favorite phrase of my

ex-husbands he could make it sound like

a communicable disease

i'm sorry he always resented it

do you in theory no

i'm that uh 20th century mutation

an enlightened male in practice

there's some kind of reflex way deep

down in my unconscious

gulp yeah gulp

oh god

change takes such a long time isn't it

so don't beat yourself

don't be such a bleeding heart for the

exploited of the world

including your prostitutes oran they are

not my prostitutes they're

women with names and faces and

knowing someone is a responsibility you

can't just walk away from it

is it that is it just a good story you

can't oh no that's a lousy thing to say

i mean it doesn't matter as if i'd

exploit them just take this

boy but you reporters have a wish and i

hate sentences what is the start with

you reporters

i don't have to apologize you're writing

about fact not fiction that girl is

whatever the hell she is

you have to accept it you can't rewrite

her the way you wanted to be

you sound like you hate her

i don't hate her i just don't want to

live with her

i don't want her in bed with you and me

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hey charge hit the bus up

mr gostavino come in thank you for

seeing me

probably on the phone i ain't afraid to

talk to a reporter

i got nothing to hide oh i see yeah

business is good yeah no complaints what

is it you want to know

uh well first of all let me make sure

i've got your name spelled right

it's uh g-u-a-s-t-a

the rest is vino like wine all right

who was it said i don't care what you

say about me as long as you spell my

name right

i don't know right i want to know about

the hotel you got 32

rooms 14 well-fed arrested transients

and last year you scored 74 prostitution

arrests and 29 convictions

where'd you get those figures from the

police file

you should have ain't some kind of

scandal sheet you're writing for

no it's a very reputable here look give

you a copy

there you go see what i'm doing to peace

on midtown so naturally uh

prostitution's a part of that

look if you want to find out what it's

all about you should rent a room for a

couple hours and give it a try

well i'm afraid that might violate my

professional standards what do you mean

everybody here is professionals in this

field i

i'd be an amateur the only difference

between amateurs and professionals is

the money

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anybody wants to rent the room here all

they're going to do is have 10 bucks

as long as they're not looking to rob

anybody it ain't my responsibility

you didn't find any robbery arrests on

that sheet did you

how much does the hotel gross in a week

i don't keep the books

we pay our tax like any other business

oh shoe store

who's we

okay

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do you own the hotel me i'm just a

manager

well who is the owner some corporation

does it have a name

well now somebody pays your salary

i told you before i make it a point not

to mind

nobody else's business living

is my motto i'm sure we make a little

money off the girls

so do the big hotels so do the

politicians

and the police they do okay too on

overtime

you know what it costs the taxpayers to

keep the hookers off the streets

plenty

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she took my piggy ring she saw the

diamond she took it

put the knife down now look don't come

any closer

i lost a little weight and slipped off

my finger no one gets rolled in this

hotel

are you kidding i know you're working

together give me back that ring give it

back

hey come on there's a cop down on the

corner you don't put that thing down in

one second i'm gonna go bring him up

he's gonna book it for a saw we'll be in

all the papers tomorrow

come on

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creep

i didn't take it and just get out of

here get your clothes on get out of here

grab this hotel don't come back

don't go to any hotel i have anything to

do with i'm wanting it

a piece of glass anyway

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hey katie wait a minute

the girls won't talk to me i think the

pimps must have got to them

you sound surprised i don't know what i

am

this is one business that doesn't relish

publicity i'm beginning to understand

why

you know what they take in at the mona

lisa in an average week i figured it out

on the way over here

twenty thousand dollars won't match that

you take two hundred thousand

prostitutes in the united states

today and the lowest estimate six

transactions a day

and the lowest figure 20 and you come up

with around 7

billion a year that is 10 times the

budget of the justice department

i just don't get it get what oh the

whole logic of law enforcement

you don't arrest the pimps you don't

arrest the johns you don't touch the

owners of these fleabag hotels

but you're gonna beat this monolith by

busting wanda and dede and 40 other

girls a night and tossing them in the

bullpen

if you wanted to stop illegal racetrack

gambling would you put the racehorses in

jail

whoever said anything about logic oh

it's ridiculous it's obscene

oh now hold it up lady i'm just a cop i

do what i'm told

the rest i leave up the city hall and

the courts i've heard that one before

guastavino's only the manager

it ain't my responsibility they ought to

grind out lapel buttons and hand them

out to everybody

you know friend everybody's got a dream

i've got two the first is

i stretch a big net across the holland

tunnel on the jersey side

that way i scoop up half the john's in

new york city and one fell swoop

the other i run a big magnet up the

streets of midtown manhattan

and all the guns come flying out of hip

pockets and subway gratings

what are you trying to say that doing

something about this is just a pipe

dream

hey morrison what happened to your sense

of humor i'm on your side

i'm not so sure

what are you being so damn righteous

about i've been playing this game of tag

since you were in kindergarten

i've been through a dozen

administrations and a dozen cleanups and

every time i broke my tail trying to

buck the system

well after a while you'll learn you

don't break your heart

sorry what do you want what's the vino's

head on a platter nah he's just a minnow

you could swallow him in one bite

somebody's getting very rich out of all

this a lot of somebody's i want to know

who they are

you're opening up a very big can of

beans lady i like beans

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this is a list of all the price hotels

and the massage parlors in the district

but the owners names you're gonna have

to dig

you're going to run into dummy

corporations inside other dummy

corporations

i'm going to find property held in

lawyers names secretary's names and

dogs and cats names but if you ever get

past all that

you're gonna find some names that'll

surprise the hell out of you

but i don't think you'll ever touch him

that's not the way the game is played

but if you do if you and your magazine

come up with some ammunition

i'll use it but in the meantime

do you mind if i keep on polishing my

magnet

hey how's it going ah well one baby step

after another

have you seen wanda yeah how is she

she's okay

i took your advice haven't tried to see

her

she uh back working she never stuck

there's no sick leave on the street

hey next time you see her could you tell

her something for me she's upstairs in

the bullpen now

the van picked her up in some parking

lot in the back seat of a car with a

trunk

i know he's pushing her very hard swift

even there's some way i can talk to her

just for a few minutes this is something

i'd like her to know

hey i don't think she'll come if she

knows you're here tell you the truth

then don't tell her

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hello wanda hi

i asked swifty to send you down

uh yeah i got your note and the money

thanks it's okay

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look um i'm sorry we can't talk anymore

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but uh there's something i wanted you to

know

you gave me something very important for

my article

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you gave me yourself

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420 bucks that's a bargain

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look i don't want to do anything to hurt

you

so is there anything you told me you

don't want me to use

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write whatever you want you paid for it

i can't do it i can't give out anything

like that but there is such a list

we have a record of the owners of some

of those properties yes but it's

classified well why

we're not talking about anything

criminal or are we i want to go on

record that i didn't introduce that word

well then why can't i get anybody in

city government to talk about it i made

a dozen calls in the lab

there's a question of civil liberties

here i mean you can't go around

publishing the names of the owners of

any of these establishments okay then

how about if i'm willing to take that

chance you can do that of course it's

open your magazine but i

can't be party to it i mean the mayor

has certain considerations

yeah like uh not stepping on any big

toes

i resent that now carol don't get

defensive

i'm not defensive i'm offended there's a

big difference

harold you're a very dedicated public

servant well i certainly try to be

i think you're doing a very responsible

job in a tough situation i intend to

make a point of that

thank you i'm not gonna

press you for your list but uh

say i wanted to do a little digging on

my own i need a few shortcuts

any suggestions

you go to the register's office

i can tell you who owns the land under

any building in the city

that's room 206

can we remember to ask for a certificate

urban corporation

certificate oh i think over here

that's the only way you can tell if one

corporation is owned by another

corporation

well what about the buildings

that's a little harder you gotta go down

to nassau street

and you have to buy copies of the

standard

abstract guide to commercial

properties and i hope that you have a

very good expense account because they

cost almost as much as they weigh

are you kidding with these vouchers

they're astronomical

so is the story fran i don't think any

two parts

the girls on the street and then the

whole long line of

parasites that make money off their

backs starting with the pimps

and ending with the landlords now

it's just a partial list of the owners

of the buildings and the properties

let me check this all out uh every name

comes out of the records

every bank every insurance company

that's a park avenue doctor

that is a charity organization and that

is the lawyer who fronts for the mob in

the peep show rockets

and that one that's the widow of a

supreme court judge

this is mind-blowing stuff

lester i'm not naive

and i know there are going to be

pressures all kinds

now am i just spinning my wheels are you

gonna have the guts to use it

tribe it's for you

hello oh oren i'm

no no it's all right sorry uh

i was that tonight oh i'm sorry i forgot

all about it i

no i i am i don't really feel up to a

party and besides i want to work

why don't you just go on by yourself

thanks jill adele girl yeah well look if

i um

if i change my mind i'll get back to you

okay yeah

bye well

you didn't answer you want to know if i

would use that

yes but

we've got lawyers you know what they're

going to say they're going to say we're

a small magazine

we haven't got a million dollars for

lawsuits

and don't tell me you're going to pay

for it either friend take my advice go

to that

party tonight what does that mean lester

you're gonna let this thing go down the

drain

means you gotta let me handle this

look just take the evening

relax get drunk or something come on

come on come on get away from this

come on lauren tells me you're doing a

story on prostitutes

yes i am you must be having them tall

i'm sure you can't use a little help

with the

response oh yes

he's much too heavy for you no one it's

time to do it

i'm in great shape what's the 25th

anniversary without a toast

they uh they say marriage is like a

feast

where the grace is sometimes better than

the dinner

to ethel and harlan who've shown us you

can dine well and richly for 25 years

just occasionally a little touch of

indigestion

no it's not virgin just tell lester that

if he has any word

for me uh he'll know what that means

just tell him that i'll be home all

day tomorrow

now real tough little brother this

should be especially interesting to you

this frosty comes up to these friends of

mine and she says to him wanna have a

little party

remind you right in front of his wife

so she up and says my husband doesn't

need a prostitute

and the girl looks up at her and says

well then how are you

oh dead you know you made that up no

well now isn't it true most of them are

ac dc i'm really not an expert

i listen i promised fran that i take him

away from all that tonight

you can't get away from it anymore it's

under your noses you see it everywhere

oh i don't know not in any of my

restaurants you don't

all right

right now i'm doing 100 acre industrial

complex one across the river yes

uh guess it is flaunted in the streets

but

i suppose that's the price you have to

pay for living in a permissive society

i guess you'd call me an anachronism an

old-fashioned man with

old-fashioned morals excuse me dad

i'm afraid we're going to have to say

goodnight already

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good night good night everybody

good night oh that grandfather business

it's the greatest holy [ __ ] almost five

mr nast

isn't that awfully young to own a

prostitution hotel

you've got to be joking i'm not the

melissa corporation owns the copper

kettles

it also owns the building that houses

the mona lisa hotel i just didn't know

until tonight that harlan nast is the

principal of both

an old-fashioned man with old-fashioned

morals

how do you know that i have a copy of

the certificates of incorporation oh

come on fran you lease a building to

someone

you don't necessarily know what's going

on in it oh even when the lease calls

for a percentage of the gross a very

sizable gross oh you're making a big

thing out of this

it's not his responsibility there goes

another lapel button

you don't mean you're really going to

mention nast

you'll be in good company don't act

naive

it could be very embarrassing for a man

in his position and don't you think it's

embarrassing for wanda when she sits in

the cross van with a bullpen

you're not equating harlan nast with an

eighth avenue why not

because it's her own choice fran nobody

makes her go on the streets she likes

the money

so does nast since they share the fruits

of free enterprise why shouldn't they

share the embarrassment

i can't believe this whole thing i mean

what do you think you're going to

accomplish

make a few headlines get a few hotels

closed down

they'll only be open again in a couple

of months

and i don't know what you expect of me

there aren't any landslides anymore

i've got a 20 million dollar project

hanging in the balance and i

i don't want to lose it

is that so hard to understand

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everybody hustles

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some of us just don't

get arrested for it

i don't see any point coming up

let's give it a rest

for a while

i have to uh sort myself out

maybe you do too

excuse me ma'am there's somebody to see

you i put her in the side lobby

oh miss morrison

i'm sorry we can't have horse around

don't look good for the house

then who the hell's living in all those

1200 penthouses upstairs

wanda yeah i figured i was all the way

up here my whole way

i'm glad you did come on let's go

upstairs no i can't i can't

i gotta get back to work it ain't

nothing big it's just uh

dede i've seen been around all weekend

and

i went up to a place and she ain't there

and not none of the girls have seen me

she's up in the bronx with their baby

wow

they took stacey away the welfare

people was keeping on me so they

couldn't do it on my mind

oh no did she know that

yeah they told her they couldn't get her

so they they they called me

what uh how did you take it

well you know all right

real quiet i thought maybe

maybe she didn't hear me

she hurt

what can i do to help

well um you know i can't call the police

so i thought if if you could go to them

you could find something i'll call

swifty i'll call you man thanks

oh um

you know uh

oh yeah

i shouldn't have ridden her like that i

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i shouldn't let her cry if she felt like

it

oh hey

don't feel guilty you're a good friend

to dede you care about it come on

those little friends on the street just

on my corner that's all

another couple months to be a different

girl i don't believe that otherwise you

wouldn't be here

i don't give a damn what you believe i

don't even believe that

get off my back you friggin square would

you just leave me alone

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i don't know what she thinks could have

happened but she's afraid to go to you

then there's something you can do i'll

send a couple of men out to canvas to

time square joints where will you be

i'll be home

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when i see the van coming i always stuck

him and he said to me do i want to pray

and i say sure she knows i'll wait until

the cops go by

and they're over here now this this is

where we hide out when we're running

from the van

and we can run up three four stories and

nobody can't ever find us

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no no please one more

dee

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dee

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dede

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oh dear god

senator

this way please

okay you gotta sign a couple of these

forms certifying these are the

identifiable romance

where the ex is please

that's it what happens to it now

well unclaimed no next to ken city will

dispose of the body

no religion

what does that mean disposal it don't

mean a 21-men salute

harry yet let's run another one off here

harvest came out wild

what does it mean what do you want from

me

i mean they'll take her out to arts

aisle on the planet potter's field okay

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come on lady wait a second

harry give me a straight jacket hey take

your hands over i'll take care of her

i'll take care okay

okay

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so

ah

i commend to your mercy oh lord your

servant

dorothea snyder

she was 18 a child your child

i saw her only in flight

now she has stopped running

she's at rest with you the lord is my

shepherd

i shall not want he maketh me to lie

down in green pastures

he leadeth me beside the still water he

restoreth my soul

he guideth me in straight paths for his

name's sake

yea though i walk through the valley of

the shadow of death i shall fear no evil

for thou art with me thy rod

and thy staff they comfort me

surely goodness and mercy shall follow

me all the days of my life

and i shall dwell in the house of the

lord

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thank you father you're welcome

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radio says it's gonna rain she'd have

been glad

not many tricks out in the rain

where can i drop you downtown

i want to stay here i just won't be by

myself you know

hey might need it

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so

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oh you didn't have to come here i mean

you know he was busy or something

no i wanted to i only got your note this

morning oh yeah

i decided kind of quick it's my pie you

know just got this letter from my

brother he says he's

raising hell again getting drunk

gobbling pills you know

hurting himself this and that oh thanks

and uh you know

the authority oh thanks the authorities

they want us to commit in the conroy

that's a state hospital

state awesome again i've been there i'm

telling you

no matter what they call it it's still a

jail i wouldn't want him to go to no

jail

what else could he do could he stay with

your brother my brother

my brother's got a wife a couple of kids

it's hard having someone like barbara

you know here kids go down the corner

bar get grandpa

a couple of shots at a phase so i

figured you know

maybe he needs me

i might get a good place you know keep a

wild as a

job at the plant where my my brother

works

it's not neither five it's eight to four

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watch out with this it weighs a ton

i took my pots and pans

i cook a prepay meatball you know when i

got the time

you like meatloaf yeah i make a pretty

fair one myself

oh yeah too bad we could've had a bake

off

hey how come sweets letting you go

house gonna stop me kill me he says i'll

be back within a month

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he says in my blood money the excitement

him yeah that's what sweet says

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what do you say

i don't know

oh something for you to read on the

plane

just came out today

oh here's your umbrella i almost forgot

i could have kept it i don't like

oh and somebody yeah i know

come on it's okay though somebody it's

good

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open the door you can't even wait for

somebody don't you see someone

waiting outside

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columbus circle

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so

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you