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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:04,207 --> 00:02:05,323 Hey! 2 00:02:07,169 --> 00:02:08,169 Hey! 3 00:02:09,713 --> 00:02:11,545 Why so sad? 4 00:02:12,674 --> 00:02:13,790 What? 5 00:02:14,092 --> 00:02:15,754 Why so sad? 6 00:02:17,679 --> 00:02:19,466 I'm not sad. 7 00:02:19,765 --> 00:02:22,473 Trouble with a woman? 8 00:02:22,768 --> 00:02:24,680 What? 9 00:02:24,978 --> 00:02:27,186 Trouble with a woman? 10 00:02:28,690 --> 00:02:30,477 Something like that. 11 00:02:30,776 --> 00:02:33,564 You want another drink? Last call. 12 00:02:33,862 --> 00:02:36,525 Sure. Why not? 13 00:02:44,539 --> 00:02:46,656 You are not the kind of guy who would be... 14 00:02:46,958 --> 00:02:49,166 at a place like this at this time in the morning... 15 00:02:49,461 --> 00:02:51,623 but here you are, and you can't say... 16 00:02:51,922 --> 00:02:53,629 that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar... 17 00:02:53,924 --> 00:02:56,211 although you must admit that the details are fuzzy. 18 00:02:56,510 --> 00:02:58,230 You're the kind of guy who wakes up early... 19 00:02:58,470 --> 00:03:00,302 to the smell of bread from the local bakery... 20 00:03:00,597 --> 00:03:03,260 goes out, brings back the paper and a couple of croissants... 21 00:03:03,558 --> 00:03:05,891 to your wife Amanda. 22 00:03:06,186 --> 00:03:08,428 She left you a couple of months ago... 23 00:03:08,730 --> 00:03:10,141 and here you are. 24 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,023 How did you get here? All might come clear... 25 00:03:13,318 --> 00:03:15,059 if you could just slip into the bathroom... 26 00:03:15,362 --> 00:03:17,215 and do a little more Bolivian marching powder... 27 00:03:17,239 --> 00:03:19,652 but, then again, this epidemic lack of clarity... 28 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:21,532 is a result of too much of that already. 29 00:03:21,827 --> 00:03:23,318 Your brain is composed of brigades... 30 00:03:23,620 --> 00:03:26,237 of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They're tired and muddy... 31 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:28,180 from their long march through the night... 32 00:03:28,375 --> 00:03:32,369 and they're hungry. They need to be fed. 33 00:03:32,671 --> 00:03:35,630 They need the Bolivian marching powder. 34 00:03:49,354 --> 00:03:52,768 Hi. Got some blow? 35 00:03:59,114 --> 00:04:00,855 I love drugs. 36 00:04:01,158 --> 00:04:02,945 That's something we have in common. 37 00:04:03,243 --> 00:04:05,951 Have you ever noticed how the good words start with "D"? 38 00:04:06,246 --> 00:04:07,407 "D" and L... 39 00:04:07,706 --> 00:04:11,541 You know, drugs, delight, decadence. 40 00:04:11,835 --> 00:04:13,371 Debauchery. 41 00:04:13,670 --> 00:04:15,377 Dexedrine. 42 00:04:15,672 --> 00:04:17,379 Delectable, debilitated... 43 00:04:17,674 --> 00:04:19,336 deranged. 44 00:04:19,634 --> 00:04:20,634 Delinquent. 45 00:04:20,677 --> 00:04:21,884 Delirium. 46 00:04:22,179 --> 00:04:24,341 And lush and luscious. 47 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:25,639 Languorous. 48 00:04:25,724 --> 00:04:28,432 Librium. 49 00:04:28,727 --> 00:04:29,934 Libidinous. 50 00:04:30,228 --> 00:04:31,685 What's that? 51 00:04:33,148 --> 00:04:34,480 Horny. 52 00:04:38,153 --> 00:04:41,692 What, do you have a problem with "H" words? 53 00:04:44,326 --> 00:04:45,442 Shit. 54 00:04:45,744 --> 00:04:48,282 OK, everyone, the Palladium is now closed. 55 00:04:48,580 --> 00:04:50,788 We'll reopen again tomorrow night at 11:00... 56 00:04:51,082 --> 00:04:53,790 and we hope to see you then. 57 00:04:54,085 --> 00:04:56,418 Barbara! Barbara! 58 00:04:56,713 --> 00:04:58,045 Where did Allagash go? 59 00:04:58,340 --> 00:05:00,332 He left a couple of hours ago. 60 00:05:00,634 --> 00:05:03,468 Shit. 61 00:05:03,762 --> 00:05:05,253 Shit! 62 00:05:23,740 --> 00:05:25,857 Hey. Hey... 63 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,278 Morning. Listen, I only have $1.50 in my pocket. 64 00:05:30,580 --> 00:05:32,822 - When we get to my apartment... - Go fuck yourself. 65 00:05:33,124 --> 00:05:34,456 Thank you. 66 00:06:06,575 --> 00:06:08,282 Yeah. 67 00:06:10,745 --> 00:06:12,987 What time is it? 68 00:06:13,290 --> 00:06:15,498 Oh, shit. 69 00:06:15,792 --> 00:06:17,203 Oh, shit. 70 00:06:17,502 --> 00:06:19,494 Is she there yet? 71 00:06:19,796 --> 00:06:21,503 Is she looking for me? 72 00:06:21,798 --> 00:06:24,791 Oh, shit. Oh, Christ, Meg. 73 00:06:25,093 --> 00:06:27,881 I'm all right. OK, I'm coming in. 74 00:06:44,487 --> 00:06:48,106 "The Post" is the most shameful of your several addictions. 75 00:06:48,408 --> 00:06:50,866 You're a secret fan of killer bees, hero cops... 76 00:06:51,161 --> 00:06:52,447 sex fiends, lottery winners... 77 00:06:52,746 --> 00:06:54,453 teenage terrorists, Liz Taylor... 78 00:06:54,748 --> 00:06:57,115 tough tots, sicko creeps, living nightmares... 79 00:06:57,417 --> 00:07:00,956 life on other planets, spontaneous human combustion... 80 00:07:01,254 --> 00:07:02,995 coma babies. 81 00:07:43,296 --> 00:07:46,585 Morning. Thanks. 82 00:07:46,883 --> 00:07:47,883 Morning. 83 00:07:51,846 --> 00:07:53,053 Morning. 84 00:07:53,348 --> 00:07:54,509 Morning. 85 00:07:54,808 --> 00:07:58,097 Good morning. Tardy, tardy. Very tardy. 86 00:08:07,362 --> 00:08:09,228 Good morning, Mr. Conway. 87 00:08:09,531 --> 00:08:13,400 May I speak to you in my office? 88 00:08:24,337 --> 00:08:25,873 Close the door. 89 00:08:27,465 --> 00:08:30,549 How nice to see you, Jamie. 90 00:08:30,844 --> 00:08:33,336 Thank you, Clara. Nice to see you. 91 00:08:33,638 --> 00:08:37,131 I wasn't sure you were keeping office hours anymore. 92 00:08:37,434 --> 00:08:38,434 Sit down. 93 00:08:41,521 --> 00:08:45,891 Mr. Vogel has decided to move the French piece up an issue. 94 00:08:46,192 --> 00:08:48,980 That means I need it on my desk before you leave today. 95 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:50,279 Is that clear? 96 00:08:50,572 --> 00:08:51,813 Quite clear. 97 00:08:52,115 --> 00:08:55,324 I want every single fact verified... 98 00:08:55,618 --> 00:08:57,575 as per standard procedure. 99 00:08:57,871 --> 00:09:00,534 I want the spelling of every name double-checked. 100 00:09:00,832 --> 00:09:04,746 I want every accent in place. I want every figure correct. 101 00:09:05,045 --> 00:09:07,412 If the writer gives the population of France... 102 00:09:07,714 --> 00:09:09,455 I want you to find the exact figure... 103 00:09:09,758 --> 00:09:11,294 man, woman, and child... 104 00:09:11,593 --> 00:09:16,258 down to the last baby born the hour we go to press. 105 00:09:16,556 --> 00:09:18,764 Is that clear? 106 00:09:19,059 --> 00:09:20,345 Crystalline. 107 00:09:20,643 --> 00:09:23,181 Because if there is one single mistake... 108 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,223 in that article, whose fault will it be? 109 00:09:26,524 --> 00:09:28,516 The writer's fault? 110 00:09:28,818 --> 00:09:29,818 My fault. 111 00:09:30,028 --> 00:09:31,985 Exactly. And if I were you... 112 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,114 I would be on the phone to Paris now... 113 00:09:35,408 --> 00:09:37,400 where it is 5:00 in the afternoon... 114 00:09:37,702 --> 00:09:39,462 and where everyone is thinking of going home. 115 00:09:39,746 --> 00:09:42,284 Of course, we know from your resume... 116 00:09:42,582 --> 00:09:43,822 that you're fluent in French... 117 00:09:44,042 --> 00:09:46,409 so this will be no problem for you. 118 00:09:46,711 --> 00:09:49,419 Absolutely. No problem. 119 00:09:49,714 --> 00:09:51,376 My desk. 120 00:09:51,674 --> 00:09:52,960 My ass. 121 00:09:53,259 --> 00:09:55,296 What? 122 00:09:56,930 --> 00:09:59,593 Alors, vite, vite. 123 00:09:59,891 --> 00:10:02,599 Allons-y. Travaillez. 124 00:10:08,525 --> 00:10:10,812 Still got that nasty sinus problem, I see. 125 00:10:19,994 --> 00:10:20,994 Records, hi. 126 00:10:21,162 --> 00:10:23,028 This is Yasu Wade from "Gotham Magazine." 127 00:10:23,331 --> 00:10:25,789 Jamie, listen, do you want some help with that? 128 00:10:26,084 --> 00:10:28,004 - No, Meg. Thanks, I'm fine. - I'm not real busy. 129 00:10:28,211 --> 00:10:31,295 - Are you sure? - Yeah. I'm sure. Absolutely. 130 00:10:31,589 --> 00:10:33,706 There's a certain shabby nobility... 131 00:10:34,008 --> 00:10:35,294 in failing all by myself. 132 00:10:35,593 --> 00:10:38,836 Well, if you can call me back, I'll be here until about... 133 00:10:39,139 --> 00:10:41,973 Yeah, hi, Eleanor? Listen, can you get those calls... 134 00:10:42,267 --> 00:10:44,930 through to Paris for me this morning? 135 00:10:45,228 --> 00:10:48,312 Right. Yeah. The same two ministries. 136 00:10:48,606 --> 00:10:51,098 Oh, and I need you... 137 00:10:51,401 --> 00:10:53,393 to get ahold of John Martin for me. 138 00:10:53,695 --> 00:10:55,152 Right. You got that number? 139 00:10:55,446 --> 00:10:56,857 OK. Thanks. 140 00:10:57,157 --> 00:10:59,149 Richard Rose. 141 00:10:59,450 --> 00:11:01,942 Richard B. Rose. Thanks. Thanks a lot. 142 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,446 Jesus Christ. 143 00:11:09,752 --> 00:11:11,118 Hello. 144 00:11:11,421 --> 00:11:13,879 "Ne kee tay pa"? 145 00:11:14,174 --> 00:11:16,917 Oh! Ne quittez pas. 146 00:11:17,218 --> 00:11:18,504 Oui, je... oui. 147 00:11:18,803 --> 00:11:21,295 Why did I put knowledge of French on my resume? 148 00:11:21,598 --> 00:11:23,590 Jamie, you don't speak French? 149 00:11:23,892 --> 00:11:25,849 Pardon? 150 00:11:26,144 --> 00:11:30,354 Oui. Je suis Monsieur Jamie Conway... 151 00:11:30,648 --> 00:11:32,059 des Etats-Unis. 152 00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:37,820 Oui. Je travaille sur le, uh, essai... 153 00:11:38,114 --> 00:11:39,150 de, uh, politique? 154 00:11:39,449 --> 00:11:42,032 Shit. I mean, merde. 155 00:11:42,327 --> 00:11:44,865 I mean, pardon? 156 00:11:45,163 --> 00:11:48,702 De pol... hello? 157 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,787 Hello? 158 00:11:51,085 --> 00:11:52,826 Line went dead. 159 00:12:04,641 --> 00:12:07,554 Mr. Vogel. May I help you? 160 00:12:07,852 --> 00:12:09,138 No, thank you. 161 00:12:11,522 --> 00:12:14,515 - Clara? - Oh, hello, Mr. Vogel. 162 00:12:23,993 --> 00:12:25,609 Headache? 163 00:12:25,912 --> 00:12:27,778 Yeah. 164 00:12:28,081 --> 00:12:31,540 I need to go to the deli, get a little nourishment. 165 00:12:33,544 --> 00:12:35,752 - You want anything? - I'd love a cheese danish. 166 00:12:36,047 --> 00:12:37,687 All right, OK. Anybody else want anything? 167 00:12:37,966 --> 00:12:39,002 No, thank you. 168 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:40,836 - Last chance! - No, thanks. 169 00:12:41,135 --> 00:12:43,127 Megan, if anybody calls, I'll be right back. 170 00:12:48,977 --> 00:12:50,218 Mr. Tyler. 171 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,261 How's the travel section? 172 00:12:52,563 --> 00:12:53,974 Fine, fine. 173 00:12:54,274 --> 00:12:56,482 Big piece on Tibet this week. 174 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:59,109 How's that beautiful wife of yours? 175 00:12:59,404 --> 00:13:02,863 She's fine. She's in Paris, modeling. 176 00:13:03,157 --> 00:13:05,865 Really? I could have sworn... 177 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,994 I saw her modeling some clothes on a TV talk show this weekend. 178 00:13:10,999 --> 00:13:13,082 No, it must have been a rerun. 179 00:13:13,376 --> 00:13:16,039 I'd know if she was in town. 180 00:13:16,337 --> 00:13:18,624 Yeah, you'd certainly hope so. 181 00:13:18,923 --> 00:13:22,917 So how's Clara behaving? 182 00:13:23,219 --> 00:13:25,962 Same as usual. Like a fourth-grade tyrant. 183 00:13:26,264 --> 00:13:29,974 I've always wanted to ask somebody in fact... 184 00:13:30,268 --> 00:13:32,430 does Clara piss in the men's room... 185 00:13:32,729 --> 00:13:34,971 or the ladies'? 186 00:13:35,273 --> 00:13:37,856 I don't believe she pisses. 187 00:13:38,151 --> 00:13:40,268 Marvelous. 188 00:13:40,570 --> 00:13:43,483 So how do you like it down here in fact? 189 00:13:43,781 --> 00:13:46,945 All in all, I'd rather be in fiction. 190 00:13:47,243 --> 00:13:49,030 Oh, you write, don't you? 191 00:13:49,329 --> 00:13:50,991 That seems to be a matter of opinion. 192 00:13:51,289 --> 00:13:52,996 Read Hazlitt, that's my advice. 193 00:13:53,291 --> 00:13:56,455 Read Hazlitt and write before breakfast every day. 194 00:14:13,978 --> 00:14:15,094 OK, what can I do you for? 195 00:14:15,396 --> 00:14:16,477 Pastrami on rye. 196 00:14:16,773 --> 00:14:18,480 Want a little mustard today, Jamie? 197 00:14:18,775 --> 00:14:20,812 Yeah, mustard. Mustard and butter. 198 00:14:21,110 --> 00:14:23,102 And butter. Just like your mother made it? 199 00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:26,355 What do you know about it? 200 00:14:26,657 --> 00:14:28,489 That's how my mother used to make it. 201 00:14:32,580 --> 00:14:34,367 Hey, listen, while you were out... 202 00:14:34,665 --> 00:14:36,406 I took two messages for you... 203 00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:39,827 one from Monsieur something at the department of something... 204 00:14:40,129 --> 00:14:42,496 and one from your brother Michael. 205 00:14:42,799 --> 00:14:43,799 Really? 206 00:14:44,008 --> 00:14:45,419 Yeah. He said it was urgent. 207 00:14:45,718 --> 00:14:47,209 Right. 208 00:14:49,097 --> 00:14:51,134 Is Vogel still in there? 209 00:14:51,432 --> 00:14:52,432 Yeah. 210 00:14:52,517 --> 00:14:54,884 I wonder what's going on. 211 00:14:56,020 --> 00:14:57,056 Allo? 212 00:14:57,355 --> 00:14:59,563 Practicing our French, are we? 213 00:14:59,857 --> 00:15:01,064 No, excuse me, ma'am. 214 00:15:01,359 --> 00:15:03,897 I thought it was my call from Paris. 215 00:15:04,195 --> 00:15:06,006 Can you spare a few moments to see me in my office? 216 00:15:06,030 --> 00:15:07,030 Sure. 217 00:15:08,783 --> 00:15:10,866 I'm about to find out. 218 00:15:15,748 --> 00:15:18,081 Close the door. 219 00:15:18,376 --> 00:15:19,787 Mr. Vogel? 220 00:15:20,086 --> 00:15:21,622 Good afternoon. 221 00:15:23,923 --> 00:15:25,539 Something wrong? 222 00:15:25,842 --> 00:15:28,425 Did you verify the facts in this article? 223 00:15:31,973 --> 00:15:34,465 Frecipitate or precipitous? 224 00:15:36,227 --> 00:15:39,061 Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. I remember. 225 00:15:39,355 --> 00:15:43,440 Mr. Vogel called me up and expressed his concern... 226 00:15:43,734 --> 00:15:46,101 about the president's correct usage of English. 227 00:15:46,404 --> 00:15:47,611 In this piece... 228 00:15:47,905 --> 00:15:50,113 the president warns against precipitous action. 229 00:15:50,408 --> 00:15:52,741 Mr. Vogel felt that "precipitate" was the word... 230 00:15:53,035 --> 00:15:54,276 the president was looking for. 231 00:15:54,579 --> 00:15:56,115 - Correct. - Go on. 232 00:15:56,414 --> 00:16:01,785 Well, I called the White House, tried to explain to them... 233 00:16:02,086 --> 00:16:03,543 the importance of the distinction. 234 00:16:03,838 --> 00:16:05,625 I spent several hours on hold. 235 00:16:05,923 --> 00:16:08,540 So, finally, with the composing room... 236 00:16:08,843 --> 00:16:10,643 and everybody screaming for the final pages... 237 00:16:10,928 --> 00:16:12,528 I checked with Webster's third edition... 238 00:16:12,805 --> 00:16:14,592 which listed them as synonymous. 239 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:17,800 The third edition? 240 00:16:18,102 --> 00:16:20,594 Yeah. I know that the second edition... 241 00:16:20,897 --> 00:16:22,980 gives different meanings for the words... 242 00:16:23,274 --> 00:16:25,357 but the third edition is a lot racier. 243 00:16:28,696 --> 00:16:30,562 Hello! 244 00:16:30,865 --> 00:16:32,106 John Martin. Hi. 245 00:16:32,408 --> 00:16:34,616 Jamie Conway here. 246 00:16:34,911 --> 00:16:38,279 Jamie. "Gotham Magazine." 247 00:16:38,581 --> 00:16:41,824 Right, right. Yeah, listen. I'm checking facts... 248 00:16:42,126 --> 00:16:44,743 on that piece you wrote about the French elections. 249 00:16:46,380 --> 00:16:48,997 Yeah. It's great, John. It's good. 250 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:50,882 It's really good. Right. 251 00:16:51,177 --> 00:16:53,464 Where did you get this about the French government... 252 00:16:53,763 --> 00:16:57,677 owning a controlling interest in Paramount Pictures? 253 00:16:57,975 --> 00:17:00,058 No. John, I can't... 254 00:17:00,353 --> 00:17:02,686 I can't run a line through that. 255 00:17:02,980 --> 00:17:05,688 The next three paragraphs depend on it. 256 00:17:05,983 --> 00:17:10,193 No, I just need to know if it's true or not. 257 00:17:10,488 --> 00:17:12,650 You heard it where? 258 00:17:12,949 --> 00:17:14,906 At a fucking cocktail party? 259 00:17:16,369 --> 00:17:19,157 No, John, no. Don't hang up. 260 00:17:19,455 --> 00:17:23,369 All right, get the door. I'll hold. 261 00:17:23,668 --> 00:17:25,751 Just call me back, all right? 262 00:17:31,884 --> 00:17:33,921 This is going to take all night. 263 00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:44,098 Jamie. 264 00:17:45,815 --> 00:17:49,229 I want it on my desk before you leave. 265 00:17:49,527 --> 00:17:51,689 I've left my door unlocked. 266 00:18:32,445 --> 00:18:34,232 Jimmy, good to see you. 267 00:18:34,530 --> 00:18:36,383 - Mr. Allagash. How you doing? - Good, thank you. 268 00:18:36,407 --> 00:18:38,820 Can I get a vodka on the rocks, and can I borrow your phone? 269 00:18:39,118 --> 00:18:40,905 - You got it. - Thank you. 270 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,327 Hello. Hello. 271 00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:52,622 What the fuck are you doing at the office? 272 00:18:52,923 --> 00:18:55,043 We have plans tonight. Monstrous events are scheduled. 273 00:18:55,343 --> 00:18:57,143 What happened to you Saturday night, Allagash? 274 00:18:57,428 --> 00:18:59,188 I had to walk home. I couldn't pay for a cab. 275 00:18:59,430 --> 00:19:01,387 - I left. - Yeah, I know. 276 00:19:01,682 --> 00:19:03,173 I, believe it or not... 277 00:19:03,476 --> 00:19:05,436 took this bimbo back to her place on Fifth Avenue. 278 00:19:05,686 --> 00:19:07,393 Did some of her off-the-boat-quality drugs. 279 00:19:07,688 --> 00:19:09,896 We scooped it out of these tall Ming vases... 280 00:19:10,191 --> 00:19:11,853 did it off each other's naked bodies. 281 00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:13,562 Fucking beautiful, man. 282 00:19:13,861 --> 00:19:15,272 Bullshit. 283 00:19:15,571 --> 00:19:16,571 No, it's true. 284 00:19:16,864 --> 00:19:17,980 God, I hate you. 285 00:19:18,282 --> 00:19:19,682 Well, let me tell you about tonight. 286 00:19:19,784 --> 00:19:21,776 Elaine and Theresa, they're dying to meet you. 287 00:19:22,078 --> 00:19:24,161 Theresa's father owns an oil company... 288 00:19:24,455 --> 00:19:27,163 and Elaine is soon to be in a major television commercial. 289 00:19:27,458 --> 00:19:29,825 And I think I have cornered a big chunk... 290 00:19:30,127 --> 00:19:33,245 of Bolivia's national product. 291 00:19:33,547 --> 00:19:36,381 No, look, I'll be working on this thing most of the night. 292 00:19:36,676 --> 00:19:38,316 Then I'm gonna go home and get some sleep. 293 00:19:38,552 --> 00:19:40,544 Give me a time. I'll pick you up. 294 00:19:40,846 --> 00:19:45,432 Call me in half an hour. I have to finish this. 295 00:19:45,726 --> 00:19:48,639 I'll see you in a while. Bye-bye. 296 00:19:48,938 --> 00:19:50,895 Thanks a lot, Jimmy. 297 00:20:23,848 --> 00:20:26,215 There you go, Clara. 298 00:20:26,517 --> 00:20:28,474 Read it and weep. 299 00:20:30,938 --> 00:20:32,474 Good night. 300 00:21:44,845 --> 00:21:46,006 "He was expecting her... 301 00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:48,797 "on the afternoon flight from Paris... 302 00:21:49,099 --> 00:21:52,308 "when she called to say she would not be coming home. 303 00:21:52,603 --> 00:21:55,471 "' Taking a later flight?' he asked. 304 00:21:55,773 --> 00:21:59,983 'No,' she said, 'I'm starting a new life."' 305 00:22:38,065 --> 00:22:39,476 Screw it. 306 00:23:16,562 --> 00:23:17,723 Who is it? 307 00:23:18,022 --> 00:23:19,822 Narcotics squad. We're soliciting donations... 308 00:23:20,065 --> 00:23:22,432 for children around the world without drugs. 309 00:23:22,735 --> 00:23:23,976 Would you open the door, please? 310 00:23:24,278 --> 00:23:25,894 Yeah, one minute. Hang on a second. 311 00:23:28,991 --> 00:23:30,983 Ready to roll? The girls are waiting. 312 00:23:31,285 --> 00:23:32,992 Right. Where are we rolling to? 313 00:23:33,287 --> 00:23:35,404 Into the heart of the night. 314 00:23:35,706 --> 00:23:37,368 Wherever there are dances to be danced... 315 00:23:37,666 --> 00:23:41,831 drugs to be hoovered, women to be Allagashed. 316 00:23:42,129 --> 00:23:44,542 It's a dirty job, Jamie, but somebody's got to do it. 317 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,752 Speaking of drugs, are you in possession? 318 00:23:47,051 --> 00:23:48,051 Negative. 319 00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:50,001 Not even a single line for young Tad? 320 00:23:50,304 --> 00:23:51,304 Sorry. 321 00:23:51,597 --> 00:23:55,307 - Not even a mirror to lick? - Jesus. Help yourself. 322 00:23:55,601 --> 00:23:57,968 Where the fuck did you get this? 323 00:23:58,270 --> 00:24:01,138 I told you, I inherited that from my grandmother. 324 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,853 Christ. Jesus, I got to change this shirt. 325 00:24:04,151 --> 00:24:05,517 There's something on here. 326 00:24:05,819 --> 00:24:07,856 Yeah. That's dust, Tad. 327 00:24:08,155 --> 00:24:09,817 The dust in this apartmenfs... 328 00:24:10,115 --> 00:24:11,777 probably got better coke content... 329 00:24:12,076 --> 00:24:14,534 than some of the shit we buy by the gram. 330 00:24:16,372 --> 00:24:18,785 Did you know that 90% of the average household dust... 331 00:24:19,083 --> 00:24:21,951 is composed of human epidermal matter? 332 00:24:22,252 --> 00:24:23,618 That's skin to you. 333 00:24:23,921 --> 00:24:26,163 Maybe that's why I keep thinking about Amanda. 334 00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:28,001 She left her skin behind. 335 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:31,088 Doing a little writing, are we? 336 00:24:31,387 --> 00:24:32,844 Yeah! "Dead Amanda." 337 00:24:33,138 --> 00:24:34,538 I told you, you'd get more nookie... 338 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,159 than you could shake a fucking stick at... 339 00:24:36,183 --> 00:24:37,924 if you just told people your wife was dead. 340 00:24:38,227 --> 00:24:39,513 I hit the wrong key. 341 00:24:39,812 --> 00:24:41,172 It's the sympathy vote that counts. 342 00:24:41,355 --> 00:24:43,375 It's a lot better than saying she fit you with horns... 343 00:24:43,399 --> 00:24:46,107 and kited off to Paris. 344 00:24:46,402 --> 00:24:48,815 Are you sure you have no drugs in this apartment? 345 00:24:49,113 --> 00:24:52,197 There's some Robitussin in the bathroom. 346 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:54,232 I'm real disappointed in you, coach. 347 00:24:54,535 --> 00:24:56,215 I always figured you for the kind of guy... 348 00:24:56,245 --> 00:24:58,077 who'd save something for a rainy day. 349 00:24:58,372 --> 00:25:00,489 I've fallen in with bad companions. 350 00:25:02,418 --> 00:25:05,286 Maybe Amanda died in a plane crash. 351 00:25:05,587 --> 00:25:06,867 She was coming home from Paris... 352 00:25:07,047 --> 00:25:09,505 on the day of your first anniversary. 353 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,757 That's fucking beautiful. 354 00:25:12,052 --> 00:25:15,170 Come on, Warner. Answer the goddamn phone. 355 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:20,801 Shit! 356 00:25:21,103 --> 00:25:24,346 I know that asshole's sitting up there in his loft... 357 00:25:24,648 --> 00:25:27,356 on top of a pile of toot, ignoring the goddamn phone. 358 00:25:27,651 --> 00:25:28,858 It's 11:00. 359 00:25:29,153 --> 00:25:30,689 It's a little too early for Odeon... 360 00:25:30,988 --> 00:25:32,570 but I figure once we're downtown... 361 00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:34,945 it'll be happy hunting ground for sneeze and squeeze. 362 00:25:35,117 --> 00:25:36,277 Let's go. You look beautiful. 363 00:25:36,493 --> 00:25:38,200 - Can I ask you one question? - Absolutely. 364 00:25:38,495 --> 00:25:40,223 Do you ever have this nearly overwhelming desire... 365 00:25:40,247 --> 00:25:41,954 to just spend a quiet evening at home? 366 00:25:42,249 --> 00:25:43,285 No. 367 00:25:46,128 --> 00:25:49,462 Elaine! Theresa! This is Jamie Conway. 368 00:25:49,757 --> 00:25:52,124 - Hi. - Hi, Jamie. 369 00:25:52,426 --> 00:25:55,043 Aren't you Amanda White's boyfriend? 370 00:25:55,345 --> 00:25:57,177 Husband. Yeah, I was. 371 00:25:57,473 --> 00:25:58,473 You didn't hear? 372 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,400 She was in Paris showing the fall collection. 373 00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:02,359 She got hit by a burst of terrorist crossfire. 374 00:26:02,436 --> 00:26:04,143 Palestinians, French police. 375 00:26:04,438 --> 00:26:06,118 It was a real fluke thing. Senseless death. 376 00:26:06,398 --> 00:26:08,435 She was an innocent bystander. 377 00:26:08,734 --> 00:26:10,771 Jamie doesn't like to talk about it. 378 00:26:11,070 --> 00:26:12,686 Jeez, that's terrible. 379 00:26:12,988 --> 00:26:13,988 Yeah. 380 00:26:14,114 --> 00:26:15,230 A tragedy is what it is. 381 00:26:15,532 --> 00:26:17,068 I have to take care of some business. 382 00:26:17,367 --> 00:26:19,324 But you'll take care of him? Good. 383 00:26:21,872 --> 00:26:23,363 Is that true? 384 00:26:23,665 --> 00:26:25,406 Not really, no. 385 00:26:25,709 --> 00:26:27,291 What is Amanda doing these days? 386 00:26:27,586 --> 00:26:28,586 She's in Paris. 387 00:26:28,837 --> 00:26:30,624 She's doing the Oscar de la Renta collection. 388 00:26:30,923 --> 00:26:32,755 Wait a minute, is she alive? 389 00:26:33,050 --> 00:26:35,417 We sort of split up. 390 00:26:35,719 --> 00:26:38,427 Too bad for you. She was yummy. 391 00:26:38,722 --> 00:26:40,964 Sort of the slinky girl-next-door look. 392 00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:42,347 Very ingenuous. 393 00:26:42,643 --> 00:26:43,804 I don't understand this. 394 00:26:44,103 --> 00:26:45,765 Neither do I. 395 00:26:46,063 --> 00:26:48,521 - Aren't you a writer? - Yeah, I do some writing. 396 00:26:48,816 --> 00:26:50,656 More of an editor, actually. "Gotham Magazine." 397 00:26:50,734 --> 00:26:52,646 Oh, God. I've been reading it all my life. 398 00:26:52,945 --> 00:26:54,186 I mean, my parents get it. 399 00:26:54,488 --> 00:26:56,354 I always read it at the gynecologist': 400 00:26:56,657 --> 00:26:58,819 What's your name again? Should I know you? 401 00:26:59,118 --> 00:27:01,485 I haven't actually been published yet. 402 00:27:01,787 --> 00:27:03,494 They have a couple of my short stories. 403 00:27:03,789 --> 00:27:08,284 I got my fingers crossed. A matter of time. 404 00:27:08,585 --> 00:27:11,123 Don't you want a drink? 405 00:27:11,421 --> 00:27:14,664 Yeah. That would be great. 406 00:27:14,967 --> 00:27:18,131 Oh, too late. Bingo. 407 00:27:37,197 --> 00:27:38,483 Oh, shit! 408 00:27:38,782 --> 00:27:41,525 Seems like I spend about half my life in bathrooms. 409 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:57,540 Hey, Bruno, two vodkas. 410 00:27:57,843 --> 00:27:58,879 You got it. 411 00:27:59,178 --> 00:28:00,919 Hey, Jamie! 412 00:28:01,221 --> 00:28:04,965 Hey, Rich! When did you get back? 413 00:28:05,267 --> 00:28:07,805 I can't hear you. Where's Amanda? 414 00:28:14,735 --> 00:28:17,569 I'm sorry. That's terrible. 415 00:28:22,743 --> 00:28:24,905 Jamie, I'm so sorry. 416 00:28:29,082 --> 00:28:31,324 Hey, two Stolis on the rocks. 417 00:28:39,468 --> 00:28:40,925 Hey, here we go, ladies. 418 00:28:41,220 --> 00:28:42,864 Did you have the vodka, or did you have the vodka? 419 00:28:42,888 --> 00:28:45,505 - No margarita? - No margarita. Vodka. Vodka. 420 00:28:45,807 --> 00:28:46,807 Thanks. 421 00:28:47,017 --> 00:28:49,100 Jamie. 422 00:28:49,394 --> 00:28:51,306 What did you say to them? 423 00:28:51,605 --> 00:28:52,641 What? 424 00:28:52,940 --> 00:28:55,398 What did you say to Rich and Kathy? 425 00:28:55,692 --> 00:28:58,230 I told them Amanda died of leukemia. 426 00:28:58,528 --> 00:28:59,609 What? 427 00:28:59,905 --> 00:29:01,737 I told them Amanda died of leukemia. 428 00:29:02,032 --> 00:29:04,319 That's not funny. My mom died of cancer. 429 00:29:04,618 --> 00:29:05,618 Jamie! 430 00:29:07,537 --> 00:29:09,620 I'm sorry. 431 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:14,041 What was that all about? 432 00:29:14,336 --> 00:29:16,419 I just said something in really bad taste. 433 00:29:16,713 --> 00:29:18,295 Oh, Jamie. 434 00:29:20,509 --> 00:29:23,297 I'm so sorry about Amanda. 435 00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:26,804 She was such a pretty girl, and you made a great couple. 436 00:29:27,099 --> 00:29:29,637 It's all right, Kathy. She's not dead. 437 00:29:29,935 --> 00:29:31,972 - What? She's not dead? - No. She's not dead. 438 00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:34,058 He's pulling your leg. She's in Paris. 439 00:29:35,899 --> 00:29:37,765 She's doing a shoot. 440 00:29:43,865 --> 00:29:45,857 Well, did you break up or something? 441 00:29:46,159 --> 00:29:48,697 Sort of. Maybe. I don't know. 442 00:29:48,996 --> 00:29:50,862 Oh. Want to dance? 443 00:29:55,669 --> 00:29:57,706 No, not right now. Maybe later? 444 00:29:58,005 --> 00:29:59,746 - OK. - All right, later. 445 00:30:03,385 --> 00:30:04,385 I tried. 446 00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:05,718 Where are the girls? 447 00:30:06,013 --> 00:30:08,221 - Bath room. - What, without me? 448 00:30:08,515 --> 00:30:10,097 - I guess so. - You gonna come? 449 00:30:10,392 --> 00:30:11,712 No, I'll catch you on the rebound. 450 00:30:11,852 --> 00:30:12,968 All right. 451 00:30:18,942 --> 00:30:20,774 Excuse me, ladies, coming in. 452 00:30:21,069 --> 00:30:24,733 - Hi. How you doing? - Fine. 453 00:30:25,032 --> 00:30:26,148 All right. 454 00:30:28,994 --> 00:30:31,532 Hey, save some for me. 455 00:30:34,249 --> 00:30:36,787 Want to join the party? 456 00:30:37,085 --> 00:30:38,826 No, thanks. Bon appetit. 457 00:31:48,407 --> 00:31:51,366 It's very late. 458 00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:53,367 You don't remember getting home... 459 00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:56,621 but you dream about the coma baby. 460 00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:02,186 What? What do you want? 461 00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:05,894 You going to come out? 462 00:33:06,193 --> 00:33:08,936 No way, Jose. I like it in here. 463 00:33:09,237 --> 00:33:12,401 Everything I need is pumped in. 464 00:33:12,699 --> 00:33:15,112 Mom's on her way out. 465 00:33:15,410 --> 00:33:19,245 Hey, if the old lady goes, then I'm going with her. 466 00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:24,624 Don't be like that. 467 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,583 I can't hear you. 468 00:33:27,881 --> 00:33:31,170 I can't hear you. 469 00:33:33,136 --> 00:33:34,672 Come out. 470 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,677 Listen to me, you got to come out. 471 00:33:40,685 --> 00:33:43,018 Open up. It's the doctor. 472 00:33:46,733 --> 00:33:50,226 They're never gonna take me alive. 473 00:34:03,208 --> 00:34:04,494 Hello? 474 00:34:04,793 --> 00:34:07,001 Jamie? 475 00:34:07,295 --> 00:34:08,502 Oui. 476 00:34:08,797 --> 00:34:10,163 Hi. It's Megan. 477 00:34:10,465 --> 00:34:13,458 I just wanted to make sure you were awake. 478 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,467 Oh, yeah. 479 00:34:15,762 --> 00:34:18,220 What, are you kidding me, Megan? I'm making breakfast. 480 00:34:18,515 --> 00:34:19,972 I'm making sausage and eggs. 481 00:34:20,267 --> 00:34:22,259 Look, I hope you don't mind... 482 00:34:22,561 --> 00:34:24,894 but I didn't want you getting in Dutch with Clara again. 483 00:34:25,188 --> 00:34:26,224 She's not here yet. 484 00:34:26,523 --> 00:34:28,685 But I just wanted to make sure you were awake. 485 00:34:28,984 --> 00:34:30,395 OK. You sure you're awake? 486 00:34:30,694 --> 00:34:32,481 It certainly feels like it. 487 00:34:32,779 --> 00:34:35,487 Headache, queasy stomach... all the vital signs. 488 00:34:35,782 --> 00:34:37,739 I'll be right there. 489 00:35:16,698 --> 00:35:21,113 I'll get it. Hello? 490 00:35:21,411 --> 00:35:23,073 Michael, hello. 491 00:35:23,371 --> 00:35:25,784 No, he's not here yet, but I expect him any minute. 492 00:35:26,082 --> 00:35:28,449 He didn't get back to you yesterday? 493 00:35:28,752 --> 00:35:30,368 I told him you called. 494 00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:32,912 Yes, absolutely, I'll tell him. 495 00:35:36,384 --> 00:35:38,626 Listen, you just missed your brother. 496 00:35:38,928 --> 00:35:41,671 You should call him right away. It sounds important. 497 00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:43,589 - Where's Clara? - She's still not here. 498 00:35:43,892 --> 00:35:45,258 I just had a call from Clara. 499 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,552 She's sick. She won't be in today. 500 00:35:47,854 --> 00:35:49,220 Nothing fatal, I hope. 501 00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:51,889 She asked me to distribute the assignments. 502 00:35:52,192 --> 00:35:53,899 Did you finish the French piece? 503 00:35:54,194 --> 00:35:55,480 More or less. 504 00:35:55,779 --> 00:35:57,739 Jeez, if she's not coming in, maybe I can go in... 505 00:35:57,947 --> 00:35:59,904 take one last look, make sure it's OK. 506 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,345 She had it picked up early and sent over to typesetting. 507 00:36:02,369 --> 00:36:06,033 She even had a photocopy messengered to her apartment. 508 00:36:06,331 --> 00:36:09,540 Jesus! Why does she hate me so much? 509 00:36:09,834 --> 00:36:12,542 It's not my fault she never got married. 510 00:36:13,963 --> 00:36:16,171 I think she's secretly determined to get me fired. 511 00:36:16,466 --> 00:36:19,675 Not possible. The magazine has a tradition... 512 00:36:19,969 --> 00:36:21,756 of never acknowledging its mistakes. 513 00:36:22,055 --> 00:36:23,921 She's not going to fire you. 514 00:36:24,224 --> 00:36:26,682 I'm not so sure. 515 00:36:29,270 --> 00:36:31,637 She's got a heart like a twelve-minute egg. 516 00:36:34,734 --> 00:36:37,192 Let's see, now... 517 00:36:37,487 --> 00:36:41,231 first in a long series on cancer research. 518 00:36:41,533 --> 00:36:43,866 Megan. 519 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,402 An inventor who just received his 1aath patent... 520 00:36:46,705 --> 00:36:49,243 for a rotary nose hair clipping device. Yasu. 521 00:36:49,541 --> 00:36:52,249 Here's an amusing one for you, Jamie. 522 00:36:52,544 --> 00:36:55,252 Meeting of the society of polar explorers... 523 00:36:55,547 --> 00:36:57,664 at the Sherry Netherland. 524 00:37:00,468 --> 00:37:03,256 Good. So there was such an event. 525 00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:04,636 And you did serve... 526 00:37:04,931 --> 00:37:07,264 smoked emperor penguin on Triscuits. Good. 527 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:09,551 All right. Wait. One more thing. 528 00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:15,224 Yeah. Is it true that somebody wore a headdress... 529 00:37:15,525 --> 00:37:16,982 made out of walrus skin? 530 00:37:18,445 --> 00:37:20,732 I'll be damned. 531 00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:23,898 No, that's it. Great. Thanks. Bye. 532 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,238 All right. Facts are stranger than fiction. 533 00:37:28,455 --> 00:37:31,243 OK, the polar explorer piece is put to bed. 534 00:37:31,541 --> 00:37:34,409 I'm going to grab a bite. Anybody want anything? 535 00:37:34,711 --> 00:37:36,151 I'd love a bagel, toasted, no butter. 536 00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:39,247 You would. Bagel, toasted, no butter, got it. 537 00:37:46,139 --> 00:37:47,380 Good afternoon. 538 00:37:57,525 --> 00:37:58,686 Mr. Hardy. 539 00:37:58,985 --> 00:38:03,150 I was just thinking it could use some fish. 540 00:38:03,448 --> 00:38:07,112 All water coolers could use some fish. 541 00:38:07,410 --> 00:38:09,197 The old crew in the great days... 542 00:38:09,496 --> 00:38:12,239 of this magazine would have thought of it. 543 00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:15,624 Siamese fighting fish in the water cooler. 544 00:38:17,003 --> 00:38:18,460 What's your name? 545 00:38:18,755 --> 00:38:21,293 I know. It's on the tip of my tongue. 546 00:38:21,591 --> 00:38:25,175 - Jamie Conway. - Jamie Conway. 547 00:38:25,470 --> 00:38:27,052 Jamie Conway. 548 00:38:27,347 --> 00:38:30,181 Didn't you send a story to us in the fiction department? 549 00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:32,808 Yeah. Yes. 550 00:38:33,102 --> 00:38:35,310 Yes, seven months ago. 551 00:38:35,605 --> 00:38:37,267 Did you get a chance to read it? 552 00:38:37,565 --> 00:38:39,602 Sort of a lower-case Scott Fitzgerald... 553 00:38:39,901 --> 00:38:41,358 without the crackup. 554 00:38:41,653 --> 00:38:43,485 Yeah, I guess you could say that. 555 00:38:45,865 --> 00:38:47,822 Oh, you got a cough. 556 00:38:48,117 --> 00:38:51,201 I knew Fitzgerald's friend Bunny Wilson. 557 00:38:51,496 --> 00:38:53,488 Yeah, I know. 558 00:38:53,790 --> 00:38:56,874 The only great American man of letters. 559 00:38:57,168 --> 00:38:58,750 Where are you headed? 560 00:38:59,045 --> 00:39:01,002 Just going out to lunch. 561 00:39:01,297 --> 00:39:02,788 Good. I'll join you. 562 00:39:03,091 --> 00:39:05,253 Refresh my memory. What's it about? 563 00:39:05,552 --> 00:39:07,088 A young writer right out of college... 564 00:39:07,387 --> 00:39:09,107 goes to Kansas City, meets a beautiful girl. 565 00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:11,012 They get married, come back to New York City. 566 00:39:11,307 --> 00:39:12,387 He encourages her to model. 567 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,637 They start going out at night, start doing drugs. 568 00:39:14,936 --> 00:39:16,802 You have a very interesting style. 569 00:39:17,105 --> 00:39:18,971 Very interesting sense of story. 570 00:39:19,274 --> 00:39:22,233 Good sense of character, a sense of place. 571 00:39:22,527 --> 00:39:24,439 I assume it's autobiographical. 572 00:39:27,407 --> 00:39:30,400 - Give me a couple more of these. - I'm still nursing this one. 573 00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:32,318 It reminds me of the kind of stuff... 574 00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:34,737 I used to write when I was a kid. 575 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:37,656 I started off as an office boy at the magazine... 576 00:39:37,959 --> 00:39:39,951 got published every so often. 577 00:39:40,253 --> 00:39:44,213 I used to write satirical sketches on Manhattan highlife. 578 00:39:44,507 --> 00:39:46,874 I know, I used to read that stuff. Amazing. 579 00:39:47,176 --> 00:39:49,964 Yeah. A lot more fun than being an editor. 580 00:39:50,263 --> 00:39:52,050 All I do as an editor... 581 00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:56,388 is read a lot of undisciplined, untalented crap. 582 00:39:58,062 --> 00:39:59,303 Your table's ready, Mr. Hardy. 583 00:39:59,606 --> 00:40:01,643 Thanks. Don't forget the two drinks. 584 00:40:01,941 --> 00:40:03,682 Come on. Right over here. This way. 585 00:40:06,154 --> 00:40:08,817 So, what are you working on now? 586 00:40:11,034 --> 00:40:14,323 I'm thinking about writing a novel. 587 00:40:14,621 --> 00:40:17,238 I've been making some notes. 588 00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:20,078 I'm just having a hard time actually sitting down... 589 00:40:20,376 --> 00:40:21,742 and writing, you know? 590 00:40:23,630 --> 00:40:26,373 My wife left me, so... 591 00:40:26,674 --> 00:40:29,963 it sounds corny, but I've been doing a lot of suffering. 592 00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:35,047 Have you ever considered getting an MBA? 593 00:40:36,517 --> 00:40:37,974 Absolutely not. 594 00:40:38,269 --> 00:40:40,682 I'm not necessarily saying go into business. 595 00:40:40,980 --> 00:40:43,017 No, but write about it. That's the stuff. 596 00:40:43,316 --> 00:40:45,433 Right now the guys who understand business... 597 00:40:45,735 --> 00:40:47,317 will be writing the new literature. 598 00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:51,026 Money is poetry now. 599 00:40:51,324 --> 00:40:53,532 I don't want to believe that. 600 00:40:53,826 --> 00:40:55,533 It may be true... 601 00:40:55,828 --> 00:40:58,616 but, no, I don't want to believe that. 602 00:40:58,915 --> 00:41:01,157 Look, don't be seduced by all that crap... 603 00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:04,543 about garrets and alt like I was. 604 00:41:04,837 --> 00:41:06,624 Write about money. 605 00:41:06,923 --> 00:41:08,960 Eric, a couple more. 606 00:41:14,222 --> 00:41:16,179 I knew some of the giants. 607 00:41:16,474 --> 00:41:18,557 I knew Bill Faulkner, you know. 608 00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:20,888 Oh, God, we had a helluva lot of fun. 609 00:41:21,187 --> 00:41:23,165 We used to go to Musso's and get pissed for lunch... 610 00:41:23,189 --> 00:41:25,272 and roar around. 611 00:41:25,566 --> 00:41:29,025 Talk about everything under the sun... 612 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,903 women, life, death, art. 613 00:41:32,198 --> 00:41:34,440 But most of all, we talked about work... 614 00:41:34,742 --> 00:41:36,324 about commitment... 615 00:41:36,619 --> 00:41:38,906 about not selling out. 616 00:41:39,205 --> 00:41:40,241 I got to go. 617 00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:42,372 No! One more. Have one more for the road. 618 00:41:42,667 --> 00:41:46,035 No, I can't. Alex, I can't. 619 00:41:46,337 --> 00:41:48,670 So you think I got some talent? 620 00:41:48,965 --> 00:41:50,922 I'm not just wasting my time? 621 00:41:51,217 --> 00:41:53,584 How do I know whether you're wasting your time? 622 00:41:53,886 --> 00:41:56,253 You can't tell from one little story. 623 00:41:56,556 --> 00:41:58,593 Anyone can write one little story. 624 00:42:01,144 --> 00:42:02,305 Let me.. 625 00:42:02,603 --> 00:42:05,596 No, no. Save it. This is on me. 626 00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:07,605 It's all right. 627 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:09,357 Thanks. 628 00:42:47,398 --> 00:42:48,605 Amanda. 629 00:42:49,901 --> 00:42:51,108 Amanda. 630 00:42:55,865 --> 00:42:57,902 - Amanda! - In here! 631 00:42:58,201 --> 00:42:59,692 Hey. How are you? 632 00:42:59,994 --> 00:43:01,530 Amanda. 633 00:43:06,250 --> 00:43:07,832 Sorry I took so long. 634 00:43:08,127 --> 00:43:09,480 It's pouring rain. I couldn't get a cab. 635 00:43:09,504 --> 00:43:10,585 It's OK. Here. 636 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,793 It's OK. We're just starting. 637 00:43:14,092 --> 00:43:16,630 Here, put this all over your face. 638 00:43:16,928 --> 00:43:18,635 This is my husband Jamie. 639 00:43:18,930 --> 00:43:21,263 This is the writer, the one I was telling you about. 640 00:43:21,557 --> 00:43:22,968 - This is Luigi. - How you doing? 641 00:43:23,267 --> 00:43:24,474 And Lucas. 642 00:43:24,769 --> 00:43:27,512 It's just a head? I thought it was the body. 643 00:43:27,814 --> 00:43:29,500 I was looking forward to seeing you lying naked... 644 00:43:29,524 --> 00:43:31,231 face-down in a vat of latex batter. 645 00:43:31,526 --> 00:43:32,562 No, just my head. 646 00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:34,726 Wait a minute. How do I breathe? 647 00:43:35,029 --> 00:43:37,271 We'll put some straws in your nose. 648 00:43:37,573 --> 00:43:39,064 Sounds familiar. 649 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:44,577 I didn't know you were gonna stay that long. 650 00:43:44,872 --> 00:43:47,364 You never said anything about being there that long. 651 00:43:47,667 --> 00:43:48,783 I checked the messages. 652 00:43:49,085 --> 00:43:51,285 There's a party at Magique tonight, if you want to go... 653 00:43:51,546 --> 00:43:52,832 and your agent called. 654 00:43:53,131 --> 00:43:56,215 She said that your flight leaves at 1a: aa tomorrow. 655 00:43:56,509 --> 00:43:59,422 And she said that you should be prepared... 656 00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:01,052 to stay the full two weeks. 657 00:44:01,347 --> 00:44:03,227 You never said anything about staying that long. 658 00:44:03,391 --> 00:44:05,257 I didn't hear anything about staying that long. 659 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,142 You all right? 660 00:44:07,436 --> 00:44:08,927 What's the matter? 661 00:44:09,230 --> 00:44:10,391 She's OK. 662 00:44:10,690 --> 00:44:13,398 Hey, Amanda! Hey! You OK? 663 00:44:13,693 --> 00:44:14,979 She's OK. Don't be scared. 664 00:44:15,278 --> 00:44:16,985 All right, fine. Are you all right? 665 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,067 I love you. 666 00:44:19,365 --> 00:44:21,197 Just relax, OK? Relax. 667 00:44:21,492 --> 00:44:25,156 It's OK. Amanda, I love you. 668 00:44:35,590 --> 00:44:37,081 She's back. 669 00:44:39,802 --> 00:44:41,384 She's in town. 670 00:44:45,558 --> 00:44:47,470 Click modeling agency. May I help you? 671 00:44:47,768 --> 00:44:49,680 This is Andrew Carrington, the photographer. 672 00:44:49,979 --> 00:44:51,845 Right. I'm just in town for a few days... 673 00:44:52,148 --> 00:44:53,917 and I'm interested in working with Amanda White. 674 00:44:53,941 --> 00:44:56,729 - Is she in New York? - Yes, as a matter of fact. 675 00:44:57,028 --> 00:44:58,828 Yes, she's doing the Oscar de la Renta show... 676 00:44:58,863 --> 00:45:00,863 at the Parsons School of Design Thursday afternoon. 677 00:45:01,115 --> 00:45:03,482 Marvelous. Terrific. Thanks. 678 00:45:09,457 --> 00:45:10,457 Yeah. 679 00:45:10,625 --> 00:45:11,741 Mr. Conway's on the line. 680 00:45:12,043 --> 00:45:13,375 I'll take it. Jamie! 681 00:45:13,669 --> 00:45:15,831 Listen, I gotta talk to you. Meet me at Cybelle's. 682 00:45:16,130 --> 00:45:18,463 - I'm really busy right now. - You gotta meet me now! 683 00:45:18,758 --> 00:45:20,795 - What's the matter? - I'll explain when I see you. 684 00:45:21,093 --> 00:45:22,459 OK? Just be there. Bye. 685 00:45:24,847 --> 00:45:26,429 Camelia! 686 00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:29,432 I'm taking the rest of the afternoon off. 687 00:45:30,603 --> 00:45:32,265 How you doing? 688 00:45:32,563 --> 00:45:35,772 Oh. Double vodka, please. 689 00:45:39,570 --> 00:45:43,029 - Hey. What's the big deal? - I need a favor. 690 00:45:43,324 --> 00:45:45,737 That's funny. So do I. What you drinking? 691 00:45:46,035 --> 00:45:47,196 Double vodka. 692 00:45:47,495 --> 00:45:48,972 Can I have the same, please? Thank you. 693 00:45:48,996 --> 00:45:50,783 All right, you go first. What's yours? 694 00:45:51,082 --> 00:45:52,948 Tonight I have a very steamy engagement... 695 00:45:53,251 --> 00:45:54,833 with the glorious Inge. 696 00:45:55,127 --> 00:45:58,165 - Which one's Inge? - The aspiring actress. 697 00:45:58,464 --> 00:46:00,547 New York City's full of aspiring actresses. 698 00:46:00,841 --> 00:46:02,833 Inge was also Miss August. 699 00:46:03,135 --> 00:46:04,501 "Penthouse" Miss August? 700 00:46:04,804 --> 00:46:06,011 You got it. 701 00:46:06,305 --> 00:46:08,888 - The one with the parrot? - That's Inge. 702 00:46:09,183 --> 00:46:13,473 Unfortunately, my cousin Vicky is in town today. 703 00:46:13,771 --> 00:46:15,808 She's a grad student at Princeton. 704 00:46:16,107 --> 00:46:18,019 She's here on some academic gig at NYU. 705 00:46:18,317 --> 00:46:19,837 I promised her I'd pick her up early... 706 00:46:19,944 --> 00:46:21,651 take her to dinner. 707 00:46:21,946 --> 00:46:23,666 This is where you got to help me out, coach. 708 00:46:23,864 --> 00:46:26,823 Why do I envision an overweight prig with glasses? 709 00:46:27,118 --> 00:46:30,327 Hey! She's an Allagash. She has Allagash genes. 710 00:46:30,621 --> 00:46:32,829 She's a very attractive lady. 711 00:46:33,124 --> 00:46:36,117 She'll also inherit a little of the Allagash money. 712 00:46:36,419 --> 00:46:37,419 That's all right. 713 00:46:37,670 --> 00:46:40,333 You can't let me down, coach. 714 00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:42,293 Anything I possess... 715 00:46:42,591 --> 00:46:46,130 including some of Bolivia's finest, is yours. 716 00:46:48,431 --> 00:46:50,593 All right. OK, I'll tell you what. 717 00:46:50,891 --> 00:46:53,099 I'll have dinner with your canine cousin. 718 00:46:53,394 --> 00:46:54,430 Good. 719 00:46:54,729 --> 00:46:56,812 If you get me into the Oscar de la Renta show... 720 00:46:57,106 --> 00:46:58,972 at the Parson Art School Thursday afternoon. 721 00:46:59,275 --> 00:47:03,610 Amanda's in town. She's working that show. 722 00:47:05,573 --> 00:47:06,654 I know. 723 00:47:11,912 --> 00:47:12,993 OK. 724 00:47:32,933 --> 00:47:34,549 Excuse me. 725 00:47:34,852 --> 00:47:36,889 You wouldn't happen to be Vicky, would you? 726 00:47:37,188 --> 00:47:38,268 - Allagash's cousin? - Yeah. 727 00:47:38,522 --> 00:47:40,388 Hi. Jamie. He told you, right? 728 00:47:40,691 --> 00:47:42,148 - He did. - Great. 729 00:47:43,611 --> 00:47:45,398 Good. Great. 730 00:47:45,696 --> 00:47:47,232 Shit. Sorry I'm so late. 731 00:47:47,531 --> 00:47:49,113 It's OK. I was just looking around. 732 00:47:49,408 --> 00:47:50,615 This is a great bookstore. 733 00:47:50,910 --> 00:47:54,028 Yeah. It's a little early for dinner. 734 00:47:54,330 --> 00:47:57,494 You want to do something? Want to get a drink? 735 00:47:57,792 --> 00:47:58,792 All right. 736 00:47:59,043 --> 00:48:01,080 Or we could just go for a walk. 737 00:48:01,379 --> 00:48:03,621 All right. 738 00:48:03,923 --> 00:48:04,923 Where are you from? 739 00:48:05,216 --> 00:48:07,424 Up near Marblehead. Allagash country. 740 00:48:07,718 --> 00:48:09,425 How about you? 741 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:12,428 Bucks County. Your parents? 742 00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:15,261 They divorced three years ago. Yours? 743 00:48:15,559 --> 00:48:16,925 A happy marriage. 744 00:48:17,228 --> 00:48:19,641 You're lucky. You have any brothers or sisters? 745 00:48:19,939 --> 00:48:21,396 Yeah. I have a brother. 746 00:48:21,690 --> 00:48:23,210 Oh, that's nice. I have a brother, too. 747 00:48:23,275 --> 00:48:25,608 So, what did Tad tell you about me? 748 00:48:25,903 --> 00:48:28,486 Not much. Not much. 749 00:48:28,781 --> 00:48:30,363 What did he say? 750 00:48:32,118 --> 00:48:35,236 He raved. He tried to build you up. 751 00:48:35,538 --> 00:48:38,576 I was expecting a field hockey player... 752 00:48:38,874 --> 00:48:41,161 with thick glasses and lockjaw. 753 00:48:43,963 --> 00:48:47,047 What did he tell you about me? 754 00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:48,957 Not much. 755 00:48:49,260 --> 00:48:50,296 Come on. 756 00:48:50,594 --> 00:48:53,962 He said you were a cross between... 757 00:48:54,265 --> 00:48:55,972 a young F. Scott Fitz-Hemingway... 758 00:48:56,267 --> 00:48:58,384 and the later Wittgenstein. 759 00:49:00,563 --> 00:49:02,304 That's it? Nothing else? 760 00:49:02,606 --> 00:49:03,847 Nothing else. 761 00:49:06,193 --> 00:49:10,312 Tad is a great guy. Tad is a hell of a guy. 762 00:49:10,614 --> 00:49:13,448 You got to admire his style, his joie de vivre... 763 00:49:13,742 --> 00:49:16,610 his savoir-faire, his sprezzatura. 764 00:49:16,912 --> 00:49:19,655 He's not necessarily a man for a heart-to-healt... 765 00:49:19,957 --> 00:49:24,748 but he's been a good friend to me in a time of need... 766 00:49:25,045 --> 00:49:28,413 and he's generous in his own careless way. 767 00:49:28,716 --> 00:49:31,049 - Are you two very close? - I think he's an ass. 768 00:49:31,343 --> 00:49:33,710 Exactly. I got to go wash my hands. 769 00:49:34,013 --> 00:49:35,424 I'll be right back. 770 00:49:55,576 --> 00:49:57,736 Let's see if it's possible to get through an evening... 771 00:49:57,828 --> 00:49:59,990 without chemicals for a change. 772 00:50:04,752 --> 00:50:06,744 So tell me about your job. 773 00:50:07,046 --> 00:50:08,966 I guess I'm supposed to be pretty impressed, huh? 774 00:50:09,048 --> 00:50:11,040 Don't be. I don't like it much, actually. 775 00:50:11,342 --> 00:50:12,958 They don't like me much, so it works out. 776 00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:16,094 I know people who would kill for a job like that. 777 00:50:16,388 --> 00:50:18,550 Actually, it's pretty tedious. 778 00:50:18,849 --> 00:50:20,369 When I first started on the magazine... 779 00:50:20,434 --> 00:50:23,017 I thought it'd be my first step towards literary glory... 780 00:50:23,312 --> 00:50:24,873 and it was just a matter of time before... 781 00:50:24,897 --> 00:50:27,139 I joined the roster of famous writers. 782 00:50:27,441 --> 00:50:28,898 All I do is pore over... 783 00:50:29,193 --> 00:50:30,420 encyclopedias and phone books... 784 00:50:30,444 --> 00:50:32,084 and dictionaries and government pamphlets. 785 00:50:32,363 --> 00:50:34,070 It's not very creative. 786 00:50:34,365 --> 00:50:36,085 I've only known you for a couple of hours... 787 00:50:36,325 --> 00:50:38,612 but that doesn't really seem like your kind of job to me. 788 00:50:38,911 --> 00:50:41,619 Yeah, I don't think it is. 789 00:50:41,914 --> 00:50:45,624 Well, I really got to go now. This is my car. 790 00:50:45,918 --> 00:50:48,626 I wish you didn't. 791 00:50:48,921 --> 00:50:50,537 Yeah, me, too. 792 00:50:51,757 --> 00:50:54,545 - You have my number, right? - Right. 793 00:50:54,843 --> 00:50:56,550 You should call me. 794 00:50:56,845 --> 00:50:58,177 Yeah, I'd like to. 795 00:51:31,589 --> 00:51:33,205 Drive safe. 796 00:52:20,095 --> 00:52:21,711 - Jamie. - Hey. 797 00:52:22,014 --> 00:52:23,630 Clara's here, and she's in a rage. 798 00:52:23,932 --> 00:52:25,548 She says the French piece is a mess... 799 00:52:25,851 --> 00:52:27,843 but it's too late to pull it from the issue. 800 00:52:28,145 --> 00:52:29,681 She said it was a mess? 801 00:52:29,980 --> 00:52:33,439 Yep. She's got Vogel in her office right now. 802 00:52:33,734 --> 00:52:35,441 How bad could it be? 803 00:52:35,736 --> 00:52:37,944 You got most of it done, didn't you? 804 00:52:38,238 --> 00:52:41,072 I really don't know. 805 00:52:41,367 --> 00:52:42,949 She said it was a mess? 806 00:52:43,243 --> 00:52:44,324 A mess. 807 00:52:59,176 --> 00:53:02,089 I would like to see you in my office immediately. 808 00:53:06,558 --> 00:53:08,595 She said it was a mess. 809 00:53:40,092 --> 00:53:42,084 I would like to know what happened. 810 00:53:45,264 --> 00:53:46,630 I screwed up? 811 00:53:48,225 --> 00:53:50,182 You screwed up. 812 00:53:54,565 --> 00:53:59,526 May I be so bold as to ask for a little elaboration? 813 00:53:59,820 --> 00:54:01,356 Really, I'm interested. 814 00:54:01,655 --> 00:54:05,114 Just how did you "screw up" exactly? 815 00:54:06,243 --> 00:54:07,654 Well? 816 00:54:09,621 --> 00:54:13,581 Do you realize just how serious this is? 817 00:54:13,876 --> 00:54:17,916 You have endangered the reputation of this magazine. 818 00:54:18,213 --> 00:54:20,830 We have built a reputation for scrupulous accuracy... 819 00:54:21,133 --> 00:54:22,874 with regard to matters of fact. 820 00:54:23,177 --> 00:54:26,511 Do you know that in fifty years of publication... 821 00:54:26,805 --> 00:54:30,219 there has been only one printed retraction? 822 00:54:30,517 --> 00:54:35,308 Can I ask what errors you found exactly? 823 00:54:41,904 --> 00:54:45,397 Two accents reversed... 824 00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:47,611 an electoral district in central France... 825 00:54:47,910 --> 00:54:50,618 incorrectly identified as northern... 826 00:54:50,913 --> 00:54:55,157 a minister ascribed to the wrong department... 827 00:54:55,459 --> 00:54:57,667 This is just what I've been able to find so far. 828 00:54:57,961 --> 00:55:00,328 I'm scared to death of what I'll uncover as we go along. 829 00:55:00,631 --> 00:55:02,167 The proofs are a mess. 830 00:55:02,466 --> 00:55:04,799 I can't tell what you've verified and what you haven't. 831 00:55:05,093 --> 00:55:08,086 The point is, you have not followed standard procedure... 832 00:55:08,388 --> 00:55:10,675 which, by this time, should be second nature to you... 833 00:55:10,974 --> 00:55:14,342 which procedure is thoroughly outlined in your manual... 834 00:55:14,645 --> 00:55:16,045 which procedure is the net result... 835 00:55:16,230 --> 00:55:18,062 of years of collective labor... 836 00:55:18,357 --> 00:55:20,189 and the proper application of which... 837 00:55:20,484 --> 00:55:22,567 ensures that insofar as possible... 838 00:55:22,861 --> 00:55:26,650 errors of fact do not appear in this magazine! 839 00:55:29,284 --> 00:55:32,243 Do you have anything to say for yourself? 840 00:55:35,624 --> 00:55:37,331 I don't think so. 841 00:55:37,626 --> 00:55:39,333 This isn't the first time. 842 00:55:39,628 --> 00:55:42,086 I've given you the benefit of the doubt before. 843 00:55:42,381 --> 00:55:45,089 You seem to be unable to perform the duties... 844 00:55:45,384 --> 00:55:47,216 required for this job. 845 00:55:47,511 --> 00:55:49,969 I'd like to hear what you have to say. 846 00:55:54,059 --> 00:55:55,891 I assume I'm fired. 847 00:56:01,567 --> 00:56:04,605 That's correct. Effective immediately. 848 00:56:07,573 --> 00:56:09,064 AWthing else? 849 00:56:11,827 --> 00:56:12,943 I'm sorry. 850 00:56:15,581 --> 00:56:17,368 I know you are. 851 00:56:21,628 --> 00:56:22,628 Well? 852 00:56:22,796 --> 00:56:25,083 It was nice working with you. 853 00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:27,840 No. She didn't. She couldn't! 854 00:56:28,135 --> 00:56:29,376 What exactly did she say? 855 00:56:29,678 --> 00:56:31,544 The gist of it was that I'm fired. 856 00:56:31,847 --> 00:56:33,213 You didn't have enough time. 857 00:56:33,515 --> 00:56:36,098 Everybody knows John Martin's research is sloppy. 858 00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:37,509 She can't do that. 859 00:56:37,811 --> 00:56:40,519 Or we could take it up with the arbitration committee. 860 00:56:40,814 --> 00:56:42,976 Look, it doesn't matter, OK? 861 00:56:43,275 --> 00:56:44,891 I'm gonna clean this up tomorrow. 862 00:56:45,193 --> 00:56:46,193 Jamie. 863 00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:49,153 Listen. 864 00:56:49,448 --> 00:56:51,235 Can we have lunch tomorrow? 865 00:56:54,912 --> 00:56:56,995 I'd really like to talk to you. 866 00:56:58,582 --> 00:57:00,915 Yeah, Meg. Sure. 867 00:57:01,209 --> 00:57:03,041 Are you all right? 868 00:57:08,508 --> 00:57:11,125 Oh, God, I forgot to tell you. Your brother called again. 869 00:57:11,428 --> 00:57:13,215 He says he's got to talk to you. 870 00:57:13,513 --> 00:57:15,379 I don't want to talk to my brother. 871 00:57:17,059 --> 00:57:18,846 Lunch. Tomorrow. 872 00:57:19,144 --> 00:57:20,601 Don't forget. 873 00:58:38,890 --> 00:58:41,678 You want to buy a ferret? 874 00:58:43,603 --> 00:58:46,095 No. No, thanks. 875 00:58:47,774 --> 00:58:49,231 Loose joints. 876 00:58:49,526 --> 00:58:51,768 Genuine Hawaiian sens. 877 00:58:55,699 --> 00:58:57,656 His name is Fred. 878 00:58:57,951 --> 00:58:59,692 What else you got? 879 00:58:59,995 --> 00:59:02,703 Monkeys, boas, coke... 880 00:59:02,998 --> 00:59:04,205 How much? 881 00:59:04,499 --> 00:59:05,831 $50 a half. 882 00:59:07,669 --> 00:59:10,707 Half what? Half borax, half mannitol? 883 00:59:11,006 --> 00:59:12,747 Pure stuff, uncut. 884 00:59:13,050 --> 00:59:14,757 Sure. 885 00:59:16,970 --> 00:59:19,087 No. I can't... I can't make the fifty. 886 00:59:19,389 --> 00:59:20,505 If it's fifty... 887 00:59:20,807 --> 00:59:22,673 if it's fifty, I can't buy Fred. 888 00:59:22,976 --> 00:59:25,684 - You gonna buy Fred, too? - How much is he? 889 00:59:26,855 --> 00:59:30,098 I'll make you a good deal. 890 00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,187 How many more? 891 00:59:32,486 --> 00:59:34,318 One more. Just one second. 892 00:59:34,613 --> 00:59:37,526 One second. This is it. 893 00:59:40,827 --> 00:59:42,739 Hey, you want to step a little lighter? 894 00:59:43,038 --> 00:59:44,449 Here we are. 895 01:00:05,977 --> 01:00:07,263 It's locked. 896 01:00:07,562 --> 01:00:08,848 No problem. 897 01:00:19,199 --> 01:00:21,031 All right. Calm down, Fred. 898 01:00:21,326 --> 01:00:23,409 - Give me the leash. - I don't have it. 899 01:00:23,703 --> 01:00:26,116 - I gave it to you! - I don't have it. 900 01:00:26,414 --> 01:00:28,174 All right. Let me just put him in her drawer. 901 01:00:28,458 --> 01:00:30,040 Hold this. 902 01:00:30,335 --> 01:00:32,497 All right. Calm down, Fred. 903 01:00:32,796 --> 01:00:34,412 You're about to become the mascot... 904 01:00:34,714 --> 01:00:35,921 for the whole department... 905 01:00:36,216 --> 01:00:39,209 a real, live ferret for the fact-checkers. 906 01:00:39,511 --> 01:00:43,801 OK, let him out. 907 01:00:44,099 --> 01:00:46,307 Fuck, no. You let him out. 908 01:00:46,601 --> 01:00:48,968 OK, but hold the flashlight. 909 01:00:49,271 --> 01:00:50,387 I'll hold the flashlight. 910 01:00:50,689 --> 01:00:51,725 Alright! 911 01:00:52,023 --> 01:00:54,060 OK. Easy now. 912 01:00:54,359 --> 01:00:57,352 Hi, Fred. Hi, buddy. 913 01:00:57,654 --> 01:00:59,611 Oh, Jesus! Get it off! 914 01:00:59,906 --> 01:01:01,397 Throw it! 915 01:01:01,700 --> 01:01:02,700 Get it Off! 916 01:01:02,702 --> 01:01:03,908 Throw it! 917 01:01:04,202 --> 01:01:05,818 Not at me! 918 01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:10,332 Oh, God! 919 01:01:10,584 --> 01:01:12,166 Jamie, get this fucking thing off! 920 01:01:12,460 --> 01:01:15,248 I can't! I'm bleeding here, Tad! 921 01:01:15,547 --> 01:01:17,960 Jesus Christ! Get the fuck off of me! 922 01:01:18,258 --> 01:01:19,465 Jamie! 923 01:01:23,513 --> 01:01:25,300 God! 924 01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:27,306 Come here, let me see. 925 01:01:27,601 --> 01:01:28,808 Oh, shit! 926 01:01:29,102 --> 01:01:32,516 Jesus. Look at this. 927 01:01:32,814 --> 01:01:34,350 One more inch. 928 01:01:35,483 --> 01:01:37,019 Oh, God, I... 929 01:01:37,319 --> 01:01:39,436 Hey, what's going on in here? 930 01:01:39,738 --> 01:01:40,774 Oh, fuck. 931 01:01:41,072 --> 01:01:42,813 Is the door locked? 932 01:01:43,116 --> 01:01:44,116 Oh, shit! 933 01:01:44,284 --> 01:01:46,776 I know you're in there! 934 01:01:57,756 --> 01:01:59,372 Pygmies. 935 01:01:59,674 --> 01:02:01,666 I'm surrounded by pygmies. 936 01:02:01,968 --> 01:02:03,880 It's OK. 937 01:02:04,179 --> 01:02:06,387 Alex. Hi. 938 01:02:06,681 --> 01:02:09,890 I lost my wallet in here this morning. 939 01:02:10,185 --> 01:02:12,802 I just came back to find it. Got it! 940 01:02:13,104 --> 01:02:14,390 He found it. 941 01:02:14,689 --> 01:02:16,396 I knew the giants. 942 01:02:16,691 --> 01:02:17,727 Yeah. 943 01:02:18,026 --> 01:02:21,485 I worked with the giants, guys whose words... 944 01:02:23,114 --> 01:02:25,231 Words went out into the world... 945 01:02:25,533 --> 01:02:27,365 and kicked some ass. 946 01:02:27,661 --> 01:02:28,697 All right, OK. 947 01:02:28,995 --> 01:02:31,237 Girls, then, women... whatever... 948 01:02:31,539 --> 01:02:33,906 Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter... 949 01:02:34,209 --> 01:02:35,996 Anais Nin, Dorothy Parker. 950 01:02:36,294 --> 01:02:39,958 I'm talking talent here... male or female... 951 01:02:40,257 --> 01:02:44,968 not like these precious turds around today. 952 01:02:45,262 --> 01:02:47,174 - Goddamn pygmies... - Fred. 953 01:02:47,472 --> 01:02:50,306 And their pygmy talent. 954 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:51,600 Jesus! 955 01:02:51,851 --> 01:02:54,969 What the hell is that thing? 956 01:02:56,481 --> 01:02:57,481 Jesus! 957 01:03:01,111 --> 01:03:02,192 Oh, no. 958 01:03:07,867 --> 01:03:09,654 Great. Let's get the hell out of here. 959 01:03:09,953 --> 01:03:11,694 No, I can't leave him like this. 960 01:03:11,997 --> 01:03:13,975 Do you want to explain to everybody why we're here? 961 01:03:13,999 --> 01:03:16,036 - Let's go. - Shit! Just a minute. 962 01:03:16,334 --> 01:03:17,334 Are you all right, Alex? 963 01:03:17,419 --> 01:03:19,786 - He's fine. - Get the suitcase! 964 01:03:22,799 --> 01:03:24,165 All right, where's Fred? 965 01:03:24,467 --> 01:03:25,503 He went down the hall. 966 01:03:25,802 --> 01:03:27,509 Fred! Freddie! 967 01:03:28,763 --> 01:03:30,550 Fuck Fred! Let's get out of here. 968 01:03:30,849 --> 01:03:32,465 You're on your own, Fred. 969 01:03:32,767 --> 01:03:33,767 Wait! 970 01:03:37,188 --> 01:03:39,020 Fitz... 971 01:03:39,316 --> 01:03:41,433 and Faulkner. 972 01:03:43,236 --> 01:03:46,274 Faulkner and Theodore... Dreiser. 973 01:03:46,614 --> 01:03:49,652 I can't remember when I had my last tetanus shot. 974 01:03:49,951 --> 01:03:51,738 I wonder if it needs stitches. 975 01:03:53,246 --> 01:03:54,532 Let me see. 976 01:03:54,831 --> 01:03:56,538 Nah, I don't think so. 977 01:03:56,833 --> 01:03:59,826 If Fred was rabid, he wouldn't have been so friendly... 978 01:04:00,128 --> 01:04:02,085 before you put him in the suitcase. 979 01:04:02,380 --> 01:04:04,747 I hear rabies shots are really painful. 980 01:04:05,050 --> 01:04:07,884 They put needles in your dick or something. 981 01:04:08,178 --> 01:04:09,339 Here. Give me your hand. 982 01:04:09,637 --> 01:04:12,050 Oh, great! Oh, shit! 983 01:04:12,349 --> 01:04:15,012 So much for antiseptic. Now for anesthetic. 984 01:04:15,310 --> 01:04:17,768 I can see the headline in the "Post" now... 985 01:04:18,063 --> 01:04:20,771 "Faulkner friend falls afoul of furry fiend." 986 01:04:21,066 --> 01:04:23,524 "De casibus firorum illustrium"... 987 01:04:23,818 --> 01:04:26,151 as we used to say in the old Latin class. 988 01:04:26,446 --> 01:04:27,982 What does that mean? 989 01:04:28,281 --> 01:04:30,989 Something to do with the fall of famous men. 990 01:04:34,245 --> 01:04:37,864 - Hey, don't answer that! - I think it's Warner! 991 01:04:38,166 --> 01:04:40,203 - Heartbreak Hotel. - Hi, is Jamie there? 992 01:04:40,502 --> 01:04:42,368 Yo, Michael! 993 01:04:42,670 --> 01:04:45,037 I'm not home. No. 994 01:04:45,340 --> 01:04:49,584 How's it going on the home front? 995 01:04:49,886 --> 01:04:52,924 Yeah. No. Jamie's not here right now. 996 01:04:53,223 --> 01:04:56,307 Yeah. Amanda's not here either. 997 01:04:56,601 --> 01:04:59,218 Me? I'm just sitting here, watering the plants. 998 01:04:59,521 --> 01:05:01,604 You know, they got this real thirsty jade tree. 999 01:05:01,898 --> 01:05:04,606 Yeah. Would I kid you, Michael? 1000 01:05:04,901 --> 01:05:08,360 Yeah. No, I think they took off to the Hamptons. 1001 01:05:08,655 --> 01:05:10,942 Yeah. Look, Michael, I got to take off, OK? 1002 01:05:11,241 --> 01:05:12,948 I'm gonna leave a message. I promise. 1003 01:05:13,243 --> 01:05:15,735 OK. Bye-bye. 1004 01:05:16,037 --> 01:05:19,030 What's wrong with Michael? He sounds really upset. 1005 01:05:19,332 --> 01:05:21,574 I don't want to talk about it. 1006 01:05:21,876 --> 01:05:23,162 OK. 1007 01:05:32,971 --> 01:05:33,971 I almost forgot. 1008 01:05:34,139 --> 01:05:36,847 Here's the invitation to the fashion show. 1009 01:05:38,810 --> 01:05:40,017 Jesus Christ. 1010 01:05:41,688 --> 01:05:44,647 Thanks a lot for taking Vicky off my hands last night. 1011 01:05:44,941 --> 01:05:47,103 Inge is eternally grateful. 1012 01:05:47,402 --> 01:05:49,519 Oh, no. My pleasure. 1013 01:05:49,821 --> 01:05:53,405 Really? You got lucky, did you? 1014 01:05:53,700 --> 01:05:56,363 None of your goddamn business. 1015 01:05:56,661 --> 01:05:57,947 Jesus. 1016 01:06:04,627 --> 01:06:07,745 You never really liked Amanda much, did you? 1017 01:06:08,047 --> 01:06:10,505 God knows she wasn't hard to look at. 1018 01:06:14,721 --> 01:06:18,214 I don't know why you felt like you had to marry her, though. 1019 01:06:18,516 --> 01:06:22,226 Yeah. I've been wondering the same thing. 1020 01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:24,807 Didn't you see the sign on her forehead? 1021 01:06:25,106 --> 01:06:26,517 What sign? 1022 01:06:26,816 --> 01:06:30,275 "Space to let, long and short-term leasing." 1023 01:06:32,489 --> 01:06:35,197 We met in a bar. 1024 01:06:35,492 --> 01:06:37,700 It was too dark to read. 1025 01:07:06,940 --> 01:07:09,102 Your invitation, please. 1026 01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:10,766 Have they started yet? 1027 01:07:11,069 --> 01:07:13,311 Just. You'll have to sit in the back, though. 1028 01:07:14,948 --> 01:07:16,155 Double vodka. 1029 01:07:16,449 --> 01:07:17,781 The bar's closed. 1030 01:07:21,579 --> 01:07:23,787 One for my date, too. 1031 01:09:20,073 --> 01:09:21,189 Amanda. 1032 01:09:24,369 --> 01:09:27,578 Amanda, I want an explanation! 1033 01:09:27,872 --> 01:09:30,239 Amanda! I want an answer. 1034 01:09:30,541 --> 01:09:32,578 I want an explanation. I want to know why. 1035 01:09:32,877 --> 01:09:34,368 I just want to know why. 1036 01:09:34,671 --> 01:09:36,378 Amanda, I want answers! 1037 01:09:36,673 --> 01:09:38,380 I just want to know why! 1038 01:09:38,675 --> 01:09:40,917 Amanda, you owe me. 1039 01:09:41,219 --> 01:09:44,212 You owe me! You owe me an explanation! 1040 01:09:44,514 --> 01:09:47,222 - Let's go! - That's my wife! 1041 01:09:47,517 --> 01:09:49,099 You're out of here, pal! 1042 01:09:49,394 --> 01:09:52,432 Amanda! Amanda! 1043 01:09:52,730 --> 01:09:55,564 All right, you're out of here, buddy! 1044 01:10:02,323 --> 01:10:04,030 Stay out of here! 1045 01:10:23,970 --> 01:10:25,336 Jamie! 1046 01:10:42,321 --> 01:10:43,857 Jamie, stop! 1047 01:10:57,503 --> 01:11:00,120 Jamie, stop! It's me... Michael! 1048 01:12:29,220 --> 01:12:31,257 Remember me? 1049 01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:36,592 I remember something about a lunch date. 1050 01:12:38,938 --> 01:12:41,521 Damn. Damn. 1051 01:12:41,816 --> 01:12:42,932 I'm sorry. 1052 01:12:56,372 --> 01:12:59,365 By the way, whatever happened to my bagel... 1053 01:12:59,667 --> 01:13:01,283 toasted, no butter? 1054 01:13:04,213 --> 01:13:05,875 How about dinner? 1055 01:13:06,173 --> 01:13:10,167 One more meal with you could be the death of me. 1056 01:13:18,686 --> 01:13:20,143 Tell me about Amanda. 1057 01:13:20,438 --> 01:13:23,226 I get the feeling something bad happened. 1058 01:13:25,693 --> 01:13:26,809 Amanda. 1059 01:13:28,195 --> 01:13:31,779 My Amanda, the Amanda that I fell in love with... 1060 01:13:32,074 --> 01:13:33,986 is a fictional character. 1061 01:13:34,285 --> 01:13:37,198 I made her up. She doesn't exist. 1062 01:13:37,496 --> 01:13:39,738 I didn't realize this until another woman... 1063 01:13:40,041 --> 01:13:41,623 also named Amanda... did me in... 1064 01:13:41,918 --> 01:13:44,251 with a collect phone call from Paris. 1065 01:13:47,506 --> 01:13:49,338 Mind if I open another bottle of wine? 1066 01:13:49,634 --> 01:13:51,421 - Sure. Go ahead. - Fabulous. 1067 01:13:53,971 --> 01:13:57,260 I'm not sure which one did what to me, or when she did it... 1068 01:13:57,558 --> 01:14:00,141 but I do know I met one of them in Kansas City. 1069 01:14:00,436 --> 01:14:01,722 Did I ever tell you that? 1070 01:14:02,021 --> 01:14:03,021 No. 1071 01:14:03,189 --> 01:14:05,306 I worked there, right out of college. 1072 01:14:05,608 --> 01:14:08,225 "Kansas City Star." 1073 01:14:08,527 --> 01:14:11,895 Hemingway worked there. It was his first job, too. 1074 01:14:12,198 --> 01:14:16,738 Anyway, I met her in a bar called the Bum Steer. 1075 01:14:21,540 --> 01:14:23,406 Anyway, I couldn't believe my luck. 1076 01:14:23,709 --> 01:14:28,374 She walks right up to me... this gorgeous creature. 1077 01:14:28,673 --> 01:14:30,630 I found out later that she overheard me... 1078 01:14:30,925 --> 01:14:32,882 tell the bartender that I was from New York. 1079 01:14:33,177 --> 01:14:34,839 I should've known. 1080 01:14:35,137 --> 01:14:39,632 So, within a week, she moved in with me. 1081 01:14:39,934 --> 01:14:42,142 My education, she said, excited her... 1082 01:14:42,436 --> 01:14:47,477 and her desire to educate herself with my help excited me. 1083 01:14:47,775 --> 01:14:50,518 She wanted to better herself. 1084 01:14:50,820 --> 01:14:53,563 She had a really terrible childhood... 1085 01:14:53,864 --> 01:14:55,196 really grim. 1086 01:14:55,491 --> 01:14:57,323 Divorce. 1087 01:14:57,618 --> 01:14:59,655 Stepfathers plural. 1088 01:15:01,622 --> 01:15:04,285 Trailer parks, all that shit. 1089 01:15:04,583 --> 01:15:06,449 My writing excited her... 1090 01:15:06,752 --> 01:15:11,122 and the fact that she was excited excited me. 1091 01:15:11,424 --> 01:15:14,167 We got excited a lot together. 1092 01:15:14,468 --> 01:15:17,506 So eight months later, we decided to move to New York. 1093 01:15:17,805 --> 01:15:18,921 That was inevitable. 1094 01:15:19,223 --> 01:15:21,556 She wanted to live a magazine ad. 1095 01:15:21,851 --> 01:15:25,140 I wanted to live a literary cliche. 1096 01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:28,431 My parents weren't exactly thrilled... 1097 01:15:28,733 --> 01:15:30,349 with the living-together arrangement. 1098 01:15:30,651 --> 01:15:33,769 But they liked Amanda. They welcomed her... 1099 01:15:34,071 --> 01:15:36,358 welcomed her like she was a fuckin' refugee... 1100 01:15:36,657 --> 01:15:38,148 especially my mother. 1101 01:15:38,451 --> 01:15:40,534 Anyway, as soon as we got here... 1102 01:15:40,828 --> 01:15:42,569 she was desperate to get married. 1103 01:15:42,872 --> 01:15:44,738 She was worried I was gonna leave her. 1104 01:15:45,041 --> 01:15:48,580 No. I think she was worried that my book would be published... 1105 01:15:48,878 --> 01:15:50,710 I'd become famous, and I'd find somebody else. 1106 01:15:51,005 --> 01:15:52,645 Anyway, after a year of living together... 1107 01:15:52,882 --> 01:15:54,402 eight months there, four months here... 1108 01:15:54,633 --> 01:15:57,376 and the way she was behaving... "Marry me, marry me..." 1109 01:15:57,678 --> 01:16:00,921 we decided it was the thing to do, so we did it. 1110 01:16:01,223 --> 01:16:03,089 So there she was... 1111 01:16:03,392 --> 01:16:06,009 Mrs. Conway, on my arm. 1112 01:16:06,312 --> 01:16:08,520 People were knocked out by her. 1113 01:16:08,814 --> 01:16:11,181 All my friends said, "God, she could be a model..." 1114 01:16:11,484 --> 01:16:14,477 which was exactly what she wanted to hear. 1115 01:16:14,779 --> 01:16:16,987 So one day she takes it upon herself... 1116 01:16:17,281 --> 01:16:19,398 to stop off at a modeling agency... 1117 01:16:19,700 --> 01:16:21,860 and fuck me if she doesn't come home with a contract... 1118 01:16:22,036 --> 01:16:23,036 like that. 1119 01:16:23,204 --> 01:16:25,116 They said she was a natural. 1120 01:16:25,414 --> 01:16:27,280 So then her career, like, takes off. 1121 01:16:27,583 --> 01:16:30,621 She's on magazine covers, commercials, layouts. 1122 01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:33,128 All her dreams are coming true. 1123 01:16:33,422 --> 01:16:35,755 Not true of mine. 1124 01:16:39,136 --> 01:16:41,674 I mean, I was trying to write. 1125 01:16:41,972 --> 01:16:44,715 I was working on a novel. 1126 01:16:45,017 --> 01:16:48,761 Submitted some short stories to the magazine. 1127 01:16:49,063 --> 01:16:51,180 But our life was really complicated then, you know? 1128 01:16:51,482 --> 01:16:53,482 She was invited everywhere that I wasn't invited... 1129 01:16:53,692 --> 01:16:56,184 and I was invited a lot. 1130 01:16:56,487 --> 01:16:59,821 And getting out of bed at 6 A.M. to work on a novel... 1131 01:17:00,116 --> 01:17:02,403 just kept getting harder... 1132 01:17:02,701 --> 01:17:04,567 and harder and harder. 1133 01:17:04,870 --> 01:17:07,487 And then there was this change... 1134 01:17:07,790 --> 01:17:10,032 this really subtle change. 1135 01:17:10,334 --> 01:17:12,667 I know when I was at work... 1136 01:17:12,962 --> 01:17:14,373 she was snooping around my desk. 1137 01:17:14,672 --> 01:17:17,756 She was trying to see if I, the writer... 1138 01:17:18,050 --> 01:17:21,418 was making any progress. 1139 01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:26,090 I know this because she started smiling... 1140 01:17:29,061 --> 01:17:31,269 when I started telling people at cocktail parties... 1141 01:17:31,564 --> 01:17:33,681 that I was working on a book. 1142 01:17:37,444 --> 01:17:39,731 'Cause then, about two months ago... 1143 01:17:40,030 --> 01:17:45,071 she was packing for a trip to Paris for the collection. 1144 01:17:45,369 --> 01:17:47,031 She started to cry. 1145 01:17:49,456 --> 01:17:51,664 I asked her what was the matter. 1146 01:17:51,959 --> 01:17:54,042 She said she was worried about the flight. 1147 01:17:54,336 --> 01:17:56,874 She was nervous about the flight. 1148 01:17:57,173 --> 01:17:59,460 By the time the cab came, she was fine. 1149 01:17:59,758 --> 01:18:01,841 We kissed at the door. 1150 01:18:04,972 --> 01:18:07,339 She told me to water the plants. 1151 01:18:11,979 --> 01:18:15,848 The night before she was due home, she called. 1152 01:18:16,150 --> 01:18:18,392 Her voice sounded peculiar. 1153 01:18:20,237 --> 01:18:24,197 She said she wasn't coming home this time. 1154 01:18:24,491 --> 01:18:26,198 I didn't understand. 1155 01:18:26,493 --> 01:18:30,612 She said her career was really taking off over there. 1156 01:18:32,249 --> 01:18:33,865 So... 1157 01:18:34,168 --> 01:18:36,876 a couple of days later... 1158 01:18:37,171 --> 01:18:38,707 this man calls. 1159 01:18:40,382 --> 01:18:42,339 He said he was her lawyer. 1160 01:18:46,472 --> 01:18:49,306 Easiest thing all the way around, he said... 1161 01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:51,887 was for me to sue her... 1162 01:18:54,438 --> 01:18:56,646 for sexual abandonment. 1163 01:18:59,860 --> 01:19:02,273 A legal term, he said. 1164 01:19:07,034 --> 01:19:08,821 My friend Allagash says... 1165 01:19:09,119 --> 01:19:12,533 that not only was her leaving not surprising... 1166 01:19:12,831 --> 01:19:14,288 it was inevitable. 1167 01:19:16,710 --> 01:19:18,793 And my heartbreak is just a variation... 1168 01:19:19,088 --> 01:19:21,205 on the same old story. 1169 01:19:23,217 --> 01:19:24,424 Where's the john? 1170 01:19:24,718 --> 01:19:26,129 Right in there. 1171 01:19:26,428 --> 01:19:28,010 Are you all right? 1172 01:19:28,305 --> 01:19:29,386 You OK? 1173 01:19:29,682 --> 01:19:32,516 I'm fine. Yeah, I'm fine. 1174 01:19:43,904 --> 01:19:45,566 You're too high. 1175 01:20:01,630 --> 01:20:03,587 Contraceptive jelly. 1176 01:20:07,636 --> 01:20:09,844 "Unscented. Colorless. Stainless." 1177 01:20:10,139 --> 01:20:11,721 This is good news. 1178 01:20:14,310 --> 01:20:16,302 "Megan Avery. Lithium carbonate. 1179 01:20:16,603 --> 01:20:18,094 "Take four times daily." 1180 01:20:20,524 --> 01:20:22,106 Tetracycline. 1181 01:20:24,528 --> 01:20:26,144 Valium. 1182 01:20:26,447 --> 01:20:29,235 Valium. Victory. Valium. 1183 01:20:31,118 --> 01:20:32,780 You're too high. 1184 01:20:34,288 --> 01:20:37,031 You're too high. You got to come down. 1185 01:20:37,333 --> 01:20:38,790 Too high. 1186 01:20:48,260 --> 01:20:50,502 - You all right? - Fine. 1187 01:20:50,804 --> 01:20:52,444 Thought I'd get the dishes out of the way. 1188 01:20:52,556 --> 01:20:54,388 That's a good policy. 1189 01:20:54,683 --> 01:20:55,969 You want some more wine? 1190 01:20:56,268 --> 01:20:58,681 No, I'm not much of a drinker anymore. 1191 01:20:58,979 --> 01:21:00,766 That's also a good policy. 1192 01:21:03,567 --> 01:21:05,854 Have you been able to write at all? 1193 01:21:10,616 --> 01:21:12,198 What are you gonna do in the meantime? 1194 01:21:12,493 --> 01:21:13,984 You have anyjob prospects? 1195 01:21:14,286 --> 01:21:15,993 I've got some leads. 1196 01:21:16,288 --> 01:21:18,075 I know an editor at Harper and Row... 1197 01:21:18,374 --> 01:21:19,831 who'd be happy to talk to you. 1198 01:21:20,125 --> 01:21:21,707 Whoa. Megan... 1199 01:21:22,002 --> 01:21:24,665 I appreciate your efficiency... 1200 01:21:24,963 --> 01:21:27,626 but getting fired has wiped my ass out... 1201 01:21:27,925 --> 01:21:29,666 and I'd just as soon put the prospect... 1202 01:21:29,968 --> 01:21:32,301 of any future employment on hold right now. 1203 01:21:33,764 --> 01:21:35,096 But thank you. 1204 01:21:35,391 --> 01:21:37,929 Thanks very much. 1205 01:21:38,227 --> 01:21:40,059 If you need a little money to tide you over... 1206 01:21:40,354 --> 01:21:41,354 don't hesitate to ask. 1207 01:21:41,605 --> 01:21:42,605 You're terrific. 1208 01:21:42,898 --> 01:21:44,685 I just want to see you get back on your feet. 1209 01:21:44,983 --> 01:21:46,940 You are a rare woman. 1210 01:21:47,236 --> 01:21:48,602 Everything's gonna work out. 1211 01:21:48,904 --> 01:21:49,904 A rare woman. 1212 01:21:50,155 --> 01:21:52,693 Everything's gonna be all right. 1213 01:22:04,962 --> 01:22:07,124 No. That's not what you want. 1214 01:22:07,423 --> 01:22:09,460 Jamie, that's not what you want. 1215 01:22:09,758 --> 01:22:11,249 - Yeah. - No. 1216 01:22:13,679 --> 01:22:15,545 No, no. Calm down. Calm down. 1217 01:22:18,475 --> 01:22:20,432 Poor baby. 1218 01:22:20,727 --> 01:22:23,970 Poor baby. Poor little baby. 1219 01:22:24,273 --> 01:22:25,764 I got to go. 1220 01:22:26,066 --> 01:22:27,523 Oh, fuck. I got to go. 1221 01:22:27,818 --> 01:22:29,980 Jamie, are you all right? 1222 01:22:30,279 --> 01:22:31,279 I'm fine. 1223 01:22:31,530 --> 01:22:34,273 Thanks for the linguine and sympathy. 1224 01:22:34,575 --> 01:22:36,032 Jamie. Are you all right? 1225 01:22:36,326 --> 01:22:38,283 I'm OK! I'm OK! 1226 01:23:44,561 --> 01:23:45,677 Michael. 1227 01:23:45,979 --> 01:23:48,141 How did you get in here, Michael? 1228 01:23:48,440 --> 01:23:50,773 I talked to the super. He let me in. 1229 01:23:51,068 --> 01:23:52,559 Sneaky little shit. 1230 01:23:52,861 --> 01:23:54,352 What the hell's going on with you? 1231 01:23:54,655 --> 01:23:56,591 I've been trying to track you down for over a week! 1232 01:23:56,615 --> 01:23:58,015 I called your office, I called here. 1233 01:23:58,075 --> 01:24:00,435 - When did you get into the city? - Today! You saw me today! 1234 01:24:00,494 --> 01:24:01,774 I thought you were somebody else. 1235 01:24:02,037 --> 01:24:03,369 Don't give me that bullshit! 1236 01:24:03,664 --> 01:24:06,031 I left about 150 messages at your office. 1237 01:24:06,333 --> 01:24:07,893 Then I go to your office this morning... 1238 01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:09,560 and they tell me that, as of yesterday... 1239 01:24:09,753 --> 01:24:12,120 you're no longer employed there. What the fuck is goin' on? 1240 01:24:12,422 --> 01:24:13,788 Why do you want to see me about? 1241 01:24:14,091 --> 01:24:15,298 I don't want to see you. 1242 01:24:15,592 --> 01:24:17,800 I'd just as soon leave you here to drown in coke... 1243 01:24:18,095 --> 01:24:20,963 or whatever it is you're doing, but Dad's worried about you... 1244 01:24:21,265 --> 01:24:22,927 and I'm worried about Dad. 1245 01:24:23,225 --> 01:24:25,842 Why? How is Dad? 1246 01:24:26,144 --> 01:24:28,682 What do you care? 1247 01:24:28,981 --> 01:24:31,223 Dad's in California on business. 1248 01:24:31,525 --> 01:24:33,107 At least, he was until last night. 1249 01:24:33,402 --> 01:24:35,985 He called me to make sure you got home for the weekend. 1250 01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:38,772 Since you never call or answer, here I am... 1251 01:24:39,074 --> 01:24:41,394 and you're coming back with me, whether you want to or not. 1252 01:24:41,660 --> 01:24:42,660 - OK. - Do you hear me? 1253 01:24:42,911 --> 01:24:44,527 OK! 1254 01:24:44,830 --> 01:24:46,196 Tomorrow's the anniversary. 1255 01:24:46,498 --> 01:24:48,490 One year, in case you've forgotten. 1256 01:24:48,792 --> 01:24:50,472 We're gonna spread her ashes in the lake... 1257 01:24:50,627 --> 01:24:53,495 and Dad wants you to be there. 1258 01:24:53,797 --> 01:24:55,208 Jamie? 1259 01:24:57,092 --> 01:24:59,926 You just forgotten Mom completely, haven't you? 1260 01:25:00,220 --> 01:25:01,381 Don't get righteous with me! 1261 01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:03,320 You haven't seen Dad since last Christmas. 1262 01:25:03,348 --> 01:25:04,634 - Shut up! - Don't tell me to... 1263 01:25:04,933 --> 01:25:08,643 Shut up! Shut the fuck up! OK? I'll be there! Shut up! 1264 01:25:08,937 --> 01:25:10,348 Shut up! 1265 01:25:19,823 --> 01:25:21,314 Can I make a sandwich? 1266 01:25:24,536 --> 01:25:25,902 Help yourself. 1267 01:25:32,711 --> 01:25:35,169 Hey, where's Amanda? 1268 01:25:35,464 --> 01:25:36,671 Shopping- 1269 01:25:36,965 --> 01:25:38,752 At this time of night? 1270 01:25:52,147 --> 01:25:54,184 Find everything you need in there? 1271 01:25:54,483 --> 01:25:58,227 Well, the milk is sour. This bread is moldy. 1272 01:25:58,528 --> 01:26:00,861 What the hell do you live on? 1273 01:26:01,156 --> 01:26:03,318 A lot of things that start with 1274 01:26:03,617 --> 01:26:05,153 What? 1275 01:26:10,624 --> 01:26:12,866 Amanda isn't shopping, Mike. 1276 01:26:13,168 --> 01:26:15,501 Amanda left me. 1277 01:26:20,133 --> 01:26:21,374 I'm sorry. 1278 01:26:28,975 --> 01:26:33,060 I never really liked Amanda too much, to tell you the truth. 1279 01:26:33,355 --> 01:26:36,644 I always thought she was a fake. 1280 01:26:36,942 --> 01:26:38,558 I was just thinking. 1281 01:26:38,860 --> 01:26:41,318 When Mom was sick... 1282 01:26:41,613 --> 01:26:44,777 Amanda was really cold and distant, you know? 1283 01:26:45,075 --> 01:26:50,571 It's like she resented Mom dying or something. 1284 01:26:50,872 --> 01:26:53,285 Well, do you think you would've married her... 1285 01:26:53,583 --> 01:26:54,915 if Mom hadn't been sick? 1286 01:26:55,210 --> 01:26:57,202 Mom never said it would do her heart good... 1287 01:26:57,504 --> 01:26:58,585 to see you get married. 1288 01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:03,625 But you wanted her to be happy, and she wanted you to be happy. 1289 01:27:03,927 --> 01:27:06,089 In the end, you might have confused what she wanted... 1290 01:27:06,388 --> 01:27:08,050 with what Amanda wanted. 1291 01:27:10,559 --> 01:27:13,097 Hey, you want a couple of lines? 1292 01:27:15,188 --> 01:27:16,599 No. Thanks. 1293 01:27:18,608 --> 01:27:20,440 Do you mind if I take a shower? 1294 01:27:20,736 --> 01:27:23,353 No. Would you, Mike? That'd be great. 1295 01:27:26,533 --> 01:27:27,614 You know, Jamie... 1296 01:27:27,909 --> 01:27:31,994 it was exactly a year ago today that you came home. 1297 01:27:38,378 --> 01:27:40,165 I'm gonna hop in the shower. 1298 01:27:41,673 --> 01:27:43,005 Good. 1299 01:28:16,333 --> 01:28:19,792 Have you slept with a lot of girls? 1300 01:28:21,296 --> 01:28:22,787 Mom, really, that's... 1301 01:28:23,089 --> 01:28:26,002 Now, come on. What's the matter? 1302 01:28:30,388 --> 01:28:31,469 Yeah. 1303 01:28:33,183 --> 01:28:34,970 Yes, Mom. There have been some girls. 1304 01:28:35,268 --> 01:28:36,554 Really? 1305 01:28:37,729 --> 01:28:40,221 Mom, I'm not going into details. 1306 01:28:40,524 --> 01:28:42,516 Why not? 1307 01:28:42,818 --> 01:28:45,060 It's embarrassing. 1308 01:28:45,362 --> 01:28:46,944 No, don't be embarrassed. 1309 01:28:47,239 --> 01:28:50,323 Just, you know, tell me what it's like. 1310 01:28:50,617 --> 01:28:52,028 Do you enjoy it? 1311 01:28:55,455 --> 01:28:58,323 Yeah, I like it. 1312 01:28:58,625 --> 01:29:02,164 You've slept with girls that you haven't been in love with? 1313 01:29:02,462 --> 01:29:05,421 Is it different when you're in love? 1314 01:29:05,715 --> 01:29:06,715 Sure. 1315 01:29:08,468 --> 01:29:09,834 It's better. 1316 01:29:14,808 --> 01:29:16,720 What about Sally Keegan? 1317 01:29:17,018 --> 01:29:18,805 Did you sleep with her? 1318 01:29:22,941 --> 01:29:23,941 Once. 1319 01:29:24,234 --> 01:29:26,317 The night of the prom. 1320 01:29:26,611 --> 01:29:28,443 I thought so. 1321 01:29:29,781 --> 01:29:33,274 What about Stephanie Bates? 1322 01:29:33,577 --> 01:29:35,660 Oh, God. 1323 01:29:38,456 --> 01:29:40,493 How do you know this stuff? 1324 01:30:00,937 --> 01:30:04,476 You were the funniest little boy. 1325 01:30:04,774 --> 01:30:06,811 You were an awful baby. 1326 01:30:08,445 --> 01:30:10,983 You were a real screamer. 1327 01:30:11,281 --> 01:30:13,398 You cried through the night. 1328 01:30:15,160 --> 01:30:17,447 There were some nights... 1329 01:30:17,746 --> 01:30:21,114 we had to take you out and put you in the car... 1330 01:30:21,416 --> 01:30:24,659 and drive you around to get you to sleep. 1331 01:30:24,961 --> 01:30:26,793 You were something. 1332 01:30:29,174 --> 01:30:31,962 Hold my hand! Hold my hand! 1333 01:30:32,260 --> 01:30:33,260 Yes. 1334 01:30:45,190 --> 01:30:46,476 The pain... 1335 01:30:46,775 --> 01:30:48,983 Mom, please. Let me give you the morphine, OK? 1336 01:30:49,277 --> 01:30:50,984 No, wait! Wait. 1337 01:30:51,279 --> 01:30:54,522 Wait. You know what this is like? 1338 01:30:54,824 --> 01:30:56,656 This pain? 1339 01:30:58,828 --> 01:31:01,696 This is like when you were born. 1340 01:31:01,998 --> 01:31:04,411 It sounds crazy... 1341 01:31:04,709 --> 01:31:06,951 I know, but... 1342 01:31:07,253 --> 01:31:10,462 that's exactly what it's like. 1343 01:31:11,883 --> 01:31:13,715 It was that bad? 1344 01:31:14,010 --> 01:31:15,672 Terrible. 1345 01:31:20,225 --> 01:31:22,592 You just didn't want to come out. 1346 01:31:26,231 --> 01:31:29,440 I didn't think I'd live through it. 1347 01:31:32,237 --> 01:31:33,773 Now you know... 1348 01:31:36,908 --> 01:31:40,367 why I love you so much... 1349 01:31:40,662 --> 01:31:43,154 so much. 1350 01:32:01,641 --> 01:32:02,677 Mum? 1351 01:32:14,988 --> 01:32:17,025 The pain's going away. 1352 01:32:19,492 --> 01:32:22,030 That's good. That's good. 1353 01:32:25,832 --> 01:32:28,199 Are you still holding my hand? 1354 01:32:32,839 --> 01:32:34,375 Yes, I am. 1355 01:32:36,342 --> 01:32:38,049 Good, honey. 1356 01:32:40,513 --> 01:32:42,425 Don't let go. 1357 01:33:03,536 --> 01:33:04,697 What? 1358 01:33:04,996 --> 01:33:08,114 It's Allagash. I'm at a party, and your presence is requested. 1359 01:33:08,416 --> 01:33:11,033 My brother's here right now. I can't go to any party. 1360 01:33:11,336 --> 01:33:12,872 Amanda's here. 1361 01:33:13,171 --> 01:33:14,207 Where is it? 1362 01:33:14,506 --> 01:33:16,418 2 Staple Street. 1363 01:33:18,218 --> 01:33:19,584 I'll be there. 1364 01:33:26,017 --> 01:33:27,929 Michael? I'm going out. 1365 01:33:29,771 --> 01:33:31,387 Jamie! 1366 01:33:40,240 --> 01:33:41,572 Taxi! 1367 01:34:01,553 --> 01:34:02,589 It's the best. 1368 01:34:03,972 --> 01:34:06,089 Yeah. That one right there. 1369 01:34:10,979 --> 01:34:11,979 Barbara? 1370 01:34:13,481 --> 01:34:14,938 Where's Allagash? 1371 01:34:15,233 --> 01:34:17,725 I think he's somewhere over there. 1372 01:34:18,027 --> 01:34:19,027 Thanks. 1373 01:34:20,780 --> 01:34:22,237 I had that imported. 1374 01:34:22,532 --> 01:34:24,273 Oh, I'd love to get some tickets. 1375 01:34:25,785 --> 01:34:27,026 Allagash. 1376 01:34:29,122 --> 01:34:30,122 Where is she? 1377 01:34:30,373 --> 01:34:33,741 Easy, Jamie. You look ready to detonate. 1378 01:34:34,043 --> 01:34:35,409 Whose party is this? 1379 01:34:35,712 --> 01:34:38,420 The heir to some fast-food fortune. 1380 01:34:38,715 --> 01:34:40,251 Jamie, I'd like you to meet Stevie. 1381 01:34:40,550 --> 01:34:42,542 You want to dance? 1382 01:34:42,844 --> 01:34:44,756 Maybe later. 1383 01:34:45,054 --> 01:34:46,261 Where is she? 1384 01:34:46,556 --> 01:34:48,764 Your formerly deceased, not yet ex-wife? 1385 01:34:49,058 --> 01:34:50,344 Right. 1386 01:34:50,643 --> 01:34:54,136 Let me tell you something. She didn't come here alone. 1387 01:34:54,439 --> 01:34:58,809 She got a new friend. Some famous French photographer. 1388 01:34:59,110 --> 01:35:02,228 She's telling everybody he's gonna make her a star. 1389 01:35:03,406 --> 01:35:05,238 - Hey, Tony. - Albelt. 1390 01:35:30,808 --> 01:35:33,892 So... how's it going? 1391 01:35:38,274 --> 01:35:40,186 "How's it 90mg?" 1392 01:35:41,986 --> 01:35:43,898 Yeah. 1393 01:35:44,197 --> 01:35:46,189 "How's it 90mg?" 1394 01:36:03,925 --> 01:36:05,541 Oh, hey. How's it going? 1395 01:36:10,932 --> 01:36:11,932 Oh, fuck. 1396 01:36:14,936 --> 01:36:15,936 Come on. 1397 01:36:17,855 --> 01:36:19,642 Stevie, can you get him a glass of water. 1398 01:36:19,941 --> 01:36:21,773 Here, take my drink. 1399 01:36:24,404 --> 01:36:26,396 It's OK. It's OK. 1400 01:36:28,574 --> 01:36:29,860 Oh, Jesus. 1401 01:36:30,159 --> 01:36:31,695 He got blood on that column. 1402 01:36:31,995 --> 01:36:33,987 Out of the way! Out of the way! 1403 01:36:34,289 --> 01:36:37,202 - He's an epileptic. - I am not. 1404 01:36:37,500 --> 01:36:39,958 He's an emotional quadriplegic. 1405 01:36:49,262 --> 01:36:51,128 "How's it 90mg?" 1406 01:36:54,225 --> 01:36:57,059 I need some help. 1407 01:36:57,353 --> 01:36:58,810 Whatever that is. 1408 01:37:02,108 --> 01:37:05,226 I can't straighten everything out... 1409 01:37:05,528 --> 01:37:07,485 all in one night. 1410 01:37:52,575 --> 01:37:53,575 Hello? 1411 01:37:53,826 --> 01:37:57,536 Vicky, sorry for calling so late... or so early... 1412 01:37:57,830 --> 01:37:59,196 or whatever it is. What is it? 1413 01:37:59,499 --> 01:38:00,615 Who is this? 1414 01:38:00,917 --> 01:38:02,078 It's Jamie. 1415 01:38:02,377 --> 01:38:06,246 Oh, Jamie. What time is it? 1416 01:38:06,547 --> 01:38:09,130 It's late. I'm in New York. 1417 01:38:09,425 --> 01:38:10,791 I just wanted to talk. 1418 01:38:11,094 --> 01:38:12,630 Let me guess. You're with Tad? 1419 01:38:12,929 --> 01:38:16,343 I was with Tad. Tad's around here someplace. 1420 01:38:16,641 --> 01:38:18,678 Is something wrong? 1421 01:38:18,976 --> 01:38:23,596 I just wanted to tell you that my mom died. 1422 01:38:23,898 --> 01:38:26,811 Oh, God. I'm sorry. 1423 01:38:27,110 --> 01:38:29,272 - When? - A year ago. 1424 01:38:29,570 --> 01:38:30,777 I didn't tell you before... 1425 01:38:31,072 --> 01:38:33,280 so I just wanted to tell you now. 1426 01:38:33,574 --> 01:38:34,610 Seemed important. 1427 01:38:34,909 --> 01:38:38,323 I'm sorry. 1428 01:38:39,997 --> 01:38:42,956 I tried to block her out of my mind... 1429 01:38:43,251 --> 01:38:45,868 but I think I owe it to her to remember. 1430 01:38:46,170 --> 01:38:48,457 I was thinking tonight. 1431 01:38:48,756 --> 01:38:51,499 When she found out that she had cancer... 1432 01:38:51,801 --> 01:38:54,009 she was talking to Michael and me. 1433 01:38:54,303 --> 01:38:58,263 - Michael? - My brother. 1434 01:38:58,558 --> 01:39:00,595 She said if the pain became unbearable... 1435 01:39:00,893 --> 01:39:03,010 she wanted us to help her... 1436 01:39:03,312 --> 01:39:06,146 you know, end it all. 1437 01:39:06,441 --> 01:39:07,773 And she... 1438 01:39:08,067 --> 01:39:09,933 we had this prescription for morphine... 1439 01:39:10,236 --> 01:39:11,852 so there was this option. So anyway... 1440 01:39:12,155 --> 01:39:15,364 the pain got real bad. and I asked her, and she said... 1441 01:39:15,658 --> 01:39:17,320 she said that when you're dying... 1442 01:39:17,618 --> 01:39:19,405 you have a responsibility to the living... 1443 01:39:19,704 --> 01:39:22,913 and I was amazed that she said that, you know? 1444 01:39:23,207 --> 01:39:25,119 The way that she felt. 1445 01:39:26,794 --> 01:39:30,834 And I was thinking that we have a responsibility to the dead. 1446 01:39:31,132 --> 01:39:32,464 The living, I mean. 1447 01:39:32,758 --> 01:39:36,342 God, does any of this make any sense? 1448 01:39:36,637 --> 01:39:38,629 Yeah, maybe. 1449 01:39:38,931 --> 01:39:41,389 I can't tell now, Jamie. 1450 01:39:41,684 --> 01:39:44,347 Can I call you back later today... 1451 01:39:44,645 --> 01:39:47,513 or tomorrow, or whatever it is? 1452 01:39:47,815 --> 01:39:49,898 Yeah. Call me. Please call me whenever. 1453 01:39:50,193 --> 01:39:52,981 Just... are you sure you're all right? 1454 01:39:53,279 --> 01:39:56,317 Well, my brain is trying to find a way out of its skull... 1455 01:39:56,616 --> 01:40:00,200 and I'm afraid of just about everything... 1456 01:40:00,495 --> 01:40:01,986 but I'm OK. 1457 01:40:02,288 --> 01:40:04,996 Get some sleep, OK? 1458 01:40:05,291 --> 01:40:06,291 I will. 1459 01:40:06,501 --> 01:40:07,992 Call me if you can't. 1460 01:40:08,294 --> 01:40:10,001 Thanks, Vicky. 1461 01:40:10,296 --> 01:40:11,503 Good night. 1462 01:40:17,845 --> 01:40:19,131 Good night. 1463 01:40:43,788 --> 01:40:46,030 Hey, coach. 1464 01:40:46,332 --> 01:40:47,539 Where are you going? 1465 01:40:47,833 --> 01:40:50,246 Come on. Inge just got here. I want you to meet her. 1466 01:40:50,545 --> 01:40:53,629 You can't take off now. Things are just getting good. 1467 01:40:53,923 --> 01:40:56,836 You know, Allagash. I just realized something. 1468 01:40:57,134 --> 01:40:58,134 What's that? 1469 01:40:58,427 --> 01:40:59,759 You and Amanda... 1470 01:41:00,054 --> 01:41:01,636 would make a terrific couple. 1471 01:42:23,095 --> 01:42:24,131 Bread. 1472 01:42:24,430 --> 01:42:26,638 What was your first clue? 1473 01:42:26,932 --> 01:42:28,719 Could I have some? 1474 01:42:29,018 --> 01:42:30,759 Just a roll or something? 1475 01:42:31,062 --> 01:42:32,803 Get out of here. 1476 01:42:36,609 --> 01:42:39,226 I'll trade you my sunglasses. 1477 01:43:20,027 --> 01:43:23,816 It's 6 A.M. on the island of Manhattan. 1478 01:43:24,115 --> 01:43:25,856 In the dawn's early light... 1479 01:43:26,158 --> 01:43:28,198 you can imagine the first ship from the old world... 1480 01:43:28,411 --> 01:43:32,121 sailing slowly up the biggest river they had ever seen. 1481 01:43:32,415 --> 01:43:35,123 That was almost how you felt the first time you saw the city... 1482 01:43:35,418 --> 01:43:36,954 from the window of a Greyhound... 1483 01:43:37,253 --> 01:43:38,773 like you were looking at a new world... 1484 01:43:38,963 --> 01:43:40,579 waiting to be discovered. 1485 01:43:40,881 --> 01:43:42,588 And that's how it looks to you now. 1486 01:43:42,883 --> 01:43:44,624 But you have to go slowly. 1487 01:43:44,927 --> 01:43:48,386 You'll have to learn everything all over again. 104441