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Ain't no miracle bein' born
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People doin' it every day
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Ain't no miracle growin' up
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People just grow that way
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So it goes like it goes
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Like the river flows
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And time, it rolls right on
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And maybe what's good
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Gets a little bit better
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And maybe what's bad gets gone
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Bless the child of a workin' man
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She knows too soon who she is
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And bless the hands of a workin' man
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He knows his soul is his
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So it goes like it goes
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Like the river flows
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And time, it rolls right on
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And maybe what's good
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Gets a little bit better
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And maybe what's bad gets gone
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Yeah, it goes like it goes
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Like the river flows
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And time keeps rollin' on
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And maybe what's good
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Gets a little bit better
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And maybe what's bad
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Gets gone
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That's all you're eating
for lunch? An apple?
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I'm dieting.
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I got to keep my strength up.
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I put these preserves up myself.
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Sunday, Russell and I put up
over 60 quarts of peaches.
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What did you do over
the weekend, Norma?
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I soaked my feet.
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I saw you in town Sunday.
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Your friend drives
a mighty big car.
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If you'd looked on the motel
register, you'd seen my name, too.
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It's none of my business.
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Mama, you haven't opened
up your sack yet.
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Mama, aren't you hungry?
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Mama?
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Mama, you feeling all right?
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Mama?
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Mama, can you hear me?
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Mama?
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Mama!
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Mama, come on. Come on.
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She didn't hear one word I said!
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You know that happens.
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Well, it doesn't happen to my mama!
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It'll pass off.
It's just temporary.
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That makes it OK!
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She's only deaf all day!
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She can get another job.
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What other job in this town?
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I'll give her a note.
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They'll send her home.
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Come on, Mama.
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They don't care anything about you.
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You all right out there?
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I'm fine.
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You're going to get all bitten up.
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I'll be in. Just a minute.
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Well...
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I'm going to let this pot soak.
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There's one soaking from breakfast.
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Now it's got company.
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Hey, you kids.
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10 more minutes of this junk,
then do your homework.
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I did it.
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Unsatisfactory in
lettering and reading,
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and your numbers aren't too good.
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You haven't done much homework.
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- Shh!
- Shush! I'll shush you.
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What are you getting fixed up for?
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I'm going into town.
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What do you need in town?
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Things.
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OK. I'll drive you in.
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You got Bonanza on next.
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I'll miss that. It's
the same every week.
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I'm going to J.C. Penney's,
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buy myself some panties and a white
cotton brassiere, size 32-B.
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If you want to sit outside
the dressing room
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and have the ladies look
at you, then come on.
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No, ma'am.
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You coming straight back?
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No.
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I'm going to the drugstore,
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buy myself some Kotex pads
and a Cosmopolitan magazine.
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Mm-hmm. Then you coming home?
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Yeah. I'll be so tired
from all the excitement,
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I'll be coming home.
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Hi.
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Mr. Witchard?
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That's right. Vernon Witchard.
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Who are you?
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My name is Reuben Warshovsky.
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Warshovsky. What kind
of name is that?
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The kind you have to spell for
telephone operators and headwaiters.
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What do you want?
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I'd like a room with a mill family.
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What for? We got a hotel,
a motel with 36 rooms.
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I want to get to know
some mill hands.
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Why is that?
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I'll tell you.
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I just got into town
about an hour ago.
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Hi. How are you?
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Right away, the police chief
was saying, "Who are you?"
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So I told him I'm a
labor organizer.
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I've come to put a union in
the OP. Henley Textile Mill.
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He said, "The hell you are, boy!"
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He was dead right.
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You people are Communists,
agitators, crooks, or Jews,
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or all four rolled together.
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You make folks lose their jobs,
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get their heads busted...
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Excuse me, sir.
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How much do you make an hour?
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I make $1.33 a frame.
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When was your last
cost-of-living raise?
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I haven't had that.
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With today's inflation,
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that makes you a schlemiel.
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You calling me some kind of name?
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You're underpaid.
You're overworked.
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They're shafting you right
up to your tonsils.
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You need me, sir.
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If you run real fast,
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you'll get to your car
before my dog bites you.
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We ain't even got a dog.
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You don't need one.
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Hey. How you doing?
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Do you have any vacancies?
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Yes.
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Hi.
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Hey.
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Friendly little town you got here.
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So far I've been told
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to shove off, get off, and go away.
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Oh, it's OK.
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Make sure they spray
your room for roaches.
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You got roaches down here?
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I'm very familiar with roaches.
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Do you have a room with a view?
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You got the back alley
or the parking lot.
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Which?
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Back alley or parking lot?
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Give him 31, Alston.
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Can't hear the drunks
from in there.
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I'll be back this way next
Wednesday after dinner.
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I'm having dinner
with my wife's folks.
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Tonight was the last time, George.
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You don't say, Norma Rae.
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Well, now, isn't that
a surprising turn?
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No. Been coming on for some time.
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You know something funny?
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I didn't notice it.
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Didn't you get your steak dinner
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and your box of pralines?
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Didn't you come three times in
a row in that bed over there?
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I wasn't counting.
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Ha ha ha!
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Well, well, well.
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Looks like I don't know what it
takes to satisfy you these days.
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It just doesn't sit well
with me anymore, George.
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You got your wife, your
two kids in high school.
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There's a lot of gossip.
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I got my two kids.
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I don't know.
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It just doesn't make me feel good.
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You're here to make me feel good.
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I'm not trotting down here anymore.
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Why, you hick.
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You got dirt under
your fingernails.
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You pick your teeth
with a matchbook.
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What the hell are you
good for, anyway?
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You come outta that factory,
you wash under your armpits,
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you come on down here and
spread your legs for a poke,
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and you're dumping me?
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I heard a hell of a thump.
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That was me, getting
throwed across the room.
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I have some ice for that.
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Sit down. Please.
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You look all shook up.
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Here, put this on.
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I thought everybody down
South was Ashley Wilkes.
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You lie down with
dogs, you get fleas.
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Does this look broken to you?
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Go like this.
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No, I don't think so.
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Do you want aspirin?
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No, thanks.
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Band-Aid? Valium?
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You're a whole drugstore.
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I'm a mild hypochondriac.
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Keep that on it.
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Ohh.
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Me and men.
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I ought to learn to say
no right from the start.
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But if it wasn't men, I don't
know what it would be.
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You got a lot of books.
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I'm terrified I'll wake up
in a motel room one morning
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and have nothing to read
but the phone book.
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She got big eyes.
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Yeah, got a big brain, too.
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What's her name?
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Dorothy Finkelstein.
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She's a hotshot labor
lawyer out of Harvard.
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She must be your girlfriend if
you haul her picture around.
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We sleep together
on Sunday mornings
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and read The New York Times.
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I guess that makes
her my girlfriend.
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Hey.
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- I'm Norma Rae Wilson.
- Reuben Warshovsky.
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Nice meeting you.
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My pleasure. Keep
that on your nose.
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I'm sorry about my daddy.
He got a short fuse.
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My credentials keep me
out of a lot of places.
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But once in a while,
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someone puts me in
their best bedroom
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and treats me like a cousin.
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- Ha ha ha!
- What?
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That sure as heck
wouldn't be my daddy!
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You a Jew?
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I beg your pardon?
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Are you a Jew?
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Born and bred.
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I never met a Jew before.
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How you doing?
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I heard you all had horns.
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Circumcised, yes. Horns, no.
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Well, as far as I can see,
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you don't look any different
from the rest of us.
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Well, we are.
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Well, what makes you different?
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History.
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Oh.
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You got it now?
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Hey, it looks better.
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I think it stopped.
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Thanks for the ice.
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Any time.
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Christ, I hope not.
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Good morning.
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I'm from the Textile
Workers' Union of America.
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Read this when you have a
chance, on your break.
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Thank you. Good morning.
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Read this when you
have a chance, please.
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Thank you.
251
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Here you go.
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Good morning.
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Read this when you have a chance.
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I'm from the Textile
Workers' Union of America.
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Read this when you have a chance.
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Read this on your break.
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Want to read this
when you can, please?
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I'm from the Textile
Workers' Union of America.
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You want to read this
when you have a chance?
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Good morning.
261
00:17:56,659 --> 00:17:58,787
You want to read this when
you get home, please?
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I'm with the Textile
Workers' Union of America.
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Read this on your break.
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Good morning!
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How's your nose?
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Read that on your break.
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There's too many big words.
268
00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:19,190
If I don't understand it, they
ain't gonna understand it.
269
00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:21,817
That fellow your friend, Norma?
270
00:18:21,892 --> 00:18:23,439
He's getting to be.
271
00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:27,274
- Better hurry. You'll be late.
- I don't care if I get there tomorrow.
272
00:18:28,566 --> 00:18:29,613
If you have questions,
273
00:18:29,692 --> 00:18:32,491
I'm at the Golden
Cherry Motel, room 31.
274
00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:36,954
Don't be late for work, now, folks.
275
00:18:37,033 --> 00:18:39,001
Good morning.
276
00:18:42,538 --> 00:18:45,382
The lady wants to go to work.
277
00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:47,381
I'll catch you later.
278
00:18:52,548 --> 00:18:55,722
One of you guys shows up
about every four years,
279
00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:58,395
about the same time
we get the locusts.
280
00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:00,606
What's your name?
281
00:19:02,016 --> 00:19:04,235
My name's Jimmy Jerome Davis.
282
00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:08,611
We got six boss men
in civil contempt.
283
00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:10,691
Would you care to make it seven?
284
00:19:10,775 --> 00:19:14,496
Why, hell, we plaster the
toilets with them things.
285
00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:18,787
Want to read this on your break?
286
00:19:20,951 --> 00:19:22,498
Asshole.
287
00:19:35,341 --> 00:19:39,346
I already told him I wouldn't go
out to dinner. What's he want now?
288
00:19:39,428 --> 00:19:43,103
Maybe he wants to make
it breakfast, Norma Rae.
289
00:19:58,114 --> 00:20:00,708
Whatever it is, I didn't do it.
290
00:20:00,783 --> 00:20:04,083
You got the biggest
mouth in this mill.
291
00:20:04,161 --> 00:20:08,041
"Give us a longer break,
more smoking time.
292
00:20:08,124 --> 00:20:10,798
"Give us a Kotex pad machine."
293
00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:13,258
Do it, and I'll shut up.
294
00:20:15,715 --> 00:20:20,390
The only way to close that
mouth is to promote you.
295
00:20:20,469 --> 00:20:22,938
You're going up in
the world, honey.
296
00:20:23,013 --> 00:20:25,812
Yeah? How far for how much?
297
00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:30,939
Well, we're going to put
you on spot-checking.
298
00:20:33,649 --> 00:20:36,152
Well, hell, it sure ain't
gonna make me any friends.
299
00:20:36,569 --> 00:20:39,197
It'll make you another
$1.50 an hour.
300
00:21:47,056 --> 00:21:48,558
How am I doing, little girl?
301
00:21:49,016 --> 00:21:51,394
You doin' good, Daddy.
302
00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:55,273
I think you better try to
speed it up, if you can.
303
00:21:55,356 --> 00:21:57,199
I'm going as fast as I can.
304
00:21:57,858 --> 00:21:59,860
Yeah.
305
00:21:59,944 --> 00:22:02,322
Well, they're watching me.
306
00:22:02,404 --> 00:22:04,532
They're watching you.
307
00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,686
Well, what, you're sore at me?
308
00:22:29,765 --> 00:22:33,360
You shouldn't push your own daddy.
309
00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:35,688
I need the money for my kids.
310
00:22:35,771 --> 00:22:38,490
Well, I don't need it from my kid.
311
00:22:53,122 --> 00:22:54,965
Millie! Craig!
312
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,964
What are you doing in
Grandma's marigolds?
313
00:22:58,043 --> 00:22:59,465
Get up!
314
00:22:59,545 --> 00:23:00,671
I don't want to.
315
00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:03,098
You do it anyway!
316
00:23:03,173 --> 00:23:04,641
You're filthy!
317
00:23:05,301 --> 00:23:07,269
I asked you to watch him.
318
00:23:07,344 --> 00:23:09,438
Criminy! I cleaned you up once!
319
00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:17,734
Come on! Right in here now.
320
00:23:17,813 --> 00:23:20,066
That's it.
321
00:23:20,149 --> 00:23:23,073
Come on, Steve! Come on, Steve!
322
00:23:23,152 --> 00:23:24,620
Come on!
323
00:23:35,331 --> 00:23:38,210
All right! They made it!
324
00:23:38,292 --> 00:23:40,465
He's got an arm on him!
325
00:23:40,544 --> 00:23:41,841
Woo!
326
00:23:41,921 --> 00:23:43,719
Hey, you want something?
327
00:23:44,965 --> 00:23:47,684
Get me a hot dog, lots of relish.
328
00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:50,312
- Woo!
- All right!
329
00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:53,770
Can I have a hot dog, please?
330
00:23:53,849 --> 00:23:55,601
OK.
331
00:23:55,684 --> 00:23:57,402
Thank you.
332
00:23:58,103 --> 00:24:00,572
Hi, Wilma. Can I have two dogs?
333
00:24:00,648 --> 00:24:02,821
OK. Just a minute.
334
00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:04,868
Hi. How you doing?
335
00:24:05,569 --> 00:24:06,661
You enjoying the game?
336
00:24:06,737 --> 00:24:09,707
Oh, yeah. I love the shortstop.
337
00:24:11,367 --> 00:24:13,540
Scouts are looking at him.
338
00:24:15,871 --> 00:24:19,125
What's the matter?
You don't like it?
339
00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:22,963
This isn't a hot dog.
340
00:24:23,045 --> 00:24:24,718
What's in this thing?
341
00:24:24,797 --> 00:24:27,767
Lots of things you don't
want to know about.
342
00:24:27,841 --> 00:24:29,764
Excuse me a minute.
343
00:24:38,602 --> 00:24:40,570
Hello, Norma.
344
00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:43,152
Hey, Ellis.
345
00:24:43,232 --> 00:24:44,984
You're looking fine.
346
00:24:45,067 --> 00:24:47,536
I'm always fine. I'm a horse.
347
00:24:49,822 --> 00:24:51,074
You changed your hair.
348
00:24:51,699 --> 00:24:53,451
It grew.
349
00:24:55,411 --> 00:24:57,038
How's Craig?
350
00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:59,673
He lost a tooth.
351
00:25:00,666 --> 00:25:02,339
It wouldn't hurt if you came by
352
00:25:02,418 --> 00:25:05,638
to see him every now and then.
353
00:25:05,713 --> 00:25:08,512
I don't believe
I can do that, Norma.
354
00:25:08,590 --> 00:25:13,266
Well, suit yourself.
You always have.
355
00:25:22,771 --> 00:25:24,114
Give me a Coke.
356
00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:25,315
You want a Coke?
357
00:25:25,399 --> 00:25:26,400
Yeah.
358
00:25:26,483 --> 00:25:27,951
Two, please.
359
00:25:29,028 --> 00:25:31,406
Here, this is for hers.
360
00:25:31,488 --> 00:25:32,614
All right.
361
00:25:32,698 --> 00:25:34,450
Keep the change.
362
00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:36,623
Here you go.
363
00:25:39,038 --> 00:25:41,006
I climbed into the
backseat of his Cadillac
364
00:25:41,081 --> 00:25:43,049
one rainy night six years ago,
365
00:25:43,125 --> 00:25:44,672
stuck my feet out the back window,
366
00:25:44,752 --> 00:25:48,677
and got little Craig off
that Southern gentleman.
367
00:25:50,007 --> 00:25:53,136
He ain't done nothin'
worthwhile since.
368
00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:55,141
Did you get married?
369
00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:58,850
He didn't bother. I didn't bother.
370
00:26:00,642 --> 00:26:02,736
My first affair, as I recollect it,
371
00:26:02,811 --> 00:26:05,906
was with my Hungarian
piano teacher.
372
00:26:05,981 --> 00:26:07,233
I was playing Smetana.
373
00:26:07,316 --> 00:26:09,569
She put her head in my lap.
374
00:26:09,651 --> 00:26:11,949
I played the hell out of that.
375
00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:17,497
Next thing I knew, we
were in her bedroom.
376
00:26:18,452 --> 00:26:20,955
Her husband came home and found us.
377
00:26:21,038 --> 00:26:23,166
The poor guy burst into tears.
378
00:26:23,248 --> 00:26:28,596
I said, "Hey, man, I'm sorry,"
379
00:26:28,670 --> 00:26:32,174
and we all went into the kitchen
and had a glass of tea.
380
00:26:35,094 --> 00:26:38,940
I'm always hassling
with some other guy.
381
00:26:39,014 --> 00:26:41,108
That's how it seems.
382
00:26:41,183 --> 00:26:43,686
What do you think of me, I wonder.
383
00:26:45,020 --> 00:26:48,866
I think you're too smart for
what's happening to you.
384
00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:12,885
I'm over here now.
385
00:27:14,174 --> 00:27:16,302
I got the jump on you!
386
00:27:21,056 --> 00:27:24,310
Come on, lady. Come on,
come on, come on!
387
00:27:24,393 --> 00:27:26,737
Mark me down. Mark me down.
388
00:27:27,771 --> 00:27:28,818
I'm over here now, lady!
389
00:27:28,897 --> 00:27:29,944
Come on!
390
00:27:30,023 --> 00:27:31,821
I'm over here.
391
00:27:34,444 --> 00:27:36,162
Hey. lady!
392
00:27:36,238 --> 00:27:37,410
What you waiting for, girl?
393
00:27:37,489 --> 00:27:39,912
I'm over here now.
394
00:27:42,619 --> 00:27:44,496
Come on, lady.
395
00:27:44,580 --> 00:27:46,548
I'm over here now.
396
00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:50,340
Come on, lady. Come on.
397
00:27:50,419 --> 00:27:51,511
You damn fool!
398
00:27:51,587 --> 00:27:54,682
You'll get us both
to lose our jobs!
399
00:28:02,306 --> 00:28:04,274
I'll get it.
400
00:28:10,814 --> 00:28:12,282
Hey.
401
00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:20,206
I won't trouble you.
402
00:28:20,282 --> 00:28:22,330
I just came to apologize.
403
00:28:22,409 --> 00:28:24,628
I know I could have lost
you your job today.
404
00:28:27,456 --> 00:28:29,800
You sure went crazy on me.
405
00:28:29,875 --> 00:28:31,343
I know.
406
00:28:32,461 --> 00:28:35,180
I got handed divorce
papers this morning.
407
00:28:35,255 --> 00:28:37,974
I guess I went off my head.
408
00:28:47,976 --> 00:28:49,944
Well,
409
00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:53,907
things can get to you.
410
00:28:58,904 --> 00:29:01,578
Would you come and
have a drink with me?
411
00:29:01,657 --> 00:29:05,082
Just to make up for the ruckus.
412
00:29:06,662 --> 00:29:08,756
I'm Sonny Webster.
413
00:29:09,873 --> 00:29:12,046
You used to come in
my mama's bakery.
414
00:29:19,716 --> 00:29:21,263
Sonny Webster?
415
00:29:22,177 --> 00:29:24,600
Sonny Webster! I remember you.
416
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,311
You stood behind the cash register
and gave everybody the wrong change.
417
00:29:29,393 --> 00:29:30,940
I never was too good at math.
418
00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:32,646
You're telling me!
419
00:29:32,729 --> 00:29:35,278
Sonny Webster! Golly!
420
00:29:37,484 --> 00:29:39,327
How about that drink?
421
00:29:41,321 --> 00:29:42,914
OK.
422
00:29:42,990 --> 00:29:44,867
Just wait one minute.
423
00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:53,216
I heard a man's voice.
424
00:29:54,501 --> 00:29:55,548
I'm going out with him.
425
00:29:55,627 --> 00:29:57,300
Where did you meet him?
426
00:29:57,379 --> 00:29:59,256
Just now, on the front porch.
427
00:30:01,925 --> 00:30:03,177
You're not going out.
428
00:30:03,260 --> 00:30:05,729
Daddy, I'm over 21.
429
00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:08,148
Let me say some names to you.
430
00:30:08,223 --> 00:30:12,944
Buddy Wilson, Ellis Harper,
George Benson, a U.S. sailor.
431
00:30:14,563 --> 00:30:18,321
None of which is looking after
you, as far as I can see.
432
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,448
It's my roof, my food.
433
00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:23,451
You're always trying
to keep men off me.
434
00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:28,376
Be grateful for your daddy's love.
435
00:30:28,452 --> 00:30:30,705
You're loving me to death.
436
00:30:32,205 --> 00:30:36,756
My needs are very much alive
437
00:30:38,420 --> 00:30:42,220
Is it OK if I stop by
438
00:30:44,426 --> 00:30:47,646
It's all wrong, but it's all right
439
00:30:47,763 --> 00:30:51,108
It's all wrong, but it's all right
440
00:30:51,183 --> 00:30:53,606
God darn, that lady can sing.
441
00:30:54,603 --> 00:30:56,571
And her words are so true.
442
00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:58,819
I like Elvis myself.
443
00:30:58,899 --> 00:31:03,200
I wish I could make lots
of money by just wailing.
444
00:31:03,278 --> 00:31:04,655
That don't necessarily
make them happy.
445
00:31:04,738 --> 00:31:07,617
What does? What does? What does?
446
00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:10,794
A man and a woman is
about your best chance.
447
00:31:13,747 --> 00:31:15,090
Didn't you tell me you got a gun,
448
00:31:15,165 --> 00:31:19,636
and you was gonna shoot your wife?
449
00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:22,590
I was gonna burn them both down,
450
00:31:22,672 --> 00:31:26,267
her and her boyfriend,
451
00:31:26,343 --> 00:31:28,311
but I couldn't.
452
00:31:30,472 --> 00:31:35,228
She was a real good person
when we went to school.
453
00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:38,780
But then a change
had come over her.
454
00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:42,818
It still really amazes me.
455
00:31:44,152 --> 00:31:45,620
Listen.
456
00:31:47,614 --> 00:31:50,538
I'm a lot different
from what I was.
457
00:31:50,617 --> 00:31:53,541
I mean, you go through things.
458
00:31:56,081 --> 00:31:57,173
Hey!
459
00:31:57,249 --> 00:31:58,296
Hey!
460
00:31:58,375 --> 00:32:00,469
New York! Hey, man!
461
00:32:00,544 --> 00:32:02,546
Hey, buddy!
462
00:32:03,338 --> 00:32:04,430
Come on over here!
463
00:32:04,506 --> 00:32:05,883
We need anybody else?
464
00:32:05,966 --> 00:32:07,092
The more the merrier.
465
00:32:07,175 --> 00:32:08,643
Reuben!
466
00:32:10,637 --> 00:32:13,516
Here you are with your papers!
467
00:32:13,598 --> 00:32:14,724
Come on over.
468
00:32:14,808 --> 00:32:16,856
Come on, Reuben.
469
00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:18,608
Reuben, meet Sonny.
470
00:32:18,687 --> 00:32:20,564
Sonny, this is Reuben
Warbershovsky.
471
00:32:20,647 --> 00:32:23,150
Close! How are you?
472
00:32:23,233 --> 00:32:25,110
Sit down! Take a load off.
473
00:32:26,695 --> 00:32:28,538
What are you doing here?
474
00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:29,705
I'm working.
475
00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,408
Working?
476
00:32:31,491 --> 00:32:33,243
This is a drinking place.
477
00:32:34,327 --> 00:32:35,920
Can I pour you out one?
478
00:32:35,996 --> 00:32:38,590
I'll just have some plain seltzer.
479
00:32:38,665 --> 00:32:42,010
You're just drinking club soda?
480
00:32:42,085 --> 00:32:45,885
You'll feel a whole lot better
than I will tomorrow morning.
481
00:32:47,048 --> 00:32:51,474
Reuben's trying to put
a union in the mill.
482
00:32:51,553 --> 00:32:53,897
But there ain't never been one.
483
00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:56,270
Then maybe its time has come.
484
00:32:57,517 --> 00:33:01,897
There better be more than one of you,
'cause there's more than one of them.
485
00:33:02,731 --> 00:33:04,233
There will be.
486
00:33:05,066 --> 00:33:08,570
Those big companies get
everything they want.
487
00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:10,246
You getting tired of it?
488
00:33:12,073 --> 00:33:15,998
Oh, when I do, I just
wash it down with a beer.
489
00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:19,331
We never really got
right down to talkin'
490
00:33:19,414 --> 00:33:21,382
Hey, you know what?
491
00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:26,843
This song on the jukebox
492
00:33:26,922 --> 00:33:30,426
was on the radio the
night they called me up
493
00:33:30,509 --> 00:33:32,029
and told me my husband
had been killed
494
00:33:32,093 --> 00:33:34,312
in a fight in a beer joint.
495
00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:37,857
I knew Buddy Wilson in high school.
496
00:33:37,933 --> 00:33:39,901
You did?
497
00:33:42,938 --> 00:33:45,032
Yeah. Goll!
498
00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:49,528
He was drunk,
and he got in a fight,
499
00:33:49,611 --> 00:33:52,080
and he broke a beer bottle.
500
00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:56,080
And then this other guy,
he had a broken beer bottle, too.
501
00:33:57,118 --> 00:34:00,497
I went down to the funeral parlor
502
00:34:00,580 --> 00:34:02,207
because I wanted to see him.
503
00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:07,672
This old guy says
I shouldn't see Buddy
504
00:34:07,754 --> 00:34:10,177
because he wasn't "prepared" yet.
505
00:34:12,968 --> 00:34:14,060
I don't know.
506
00:34:14,135 --> 00:34:17,856
I really just wanted to see him,
507
00:34:17,931 --> 00:34:20,525
and my daddy wouldn't let me.
508
00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:32,404
Well, that were the end of Buddy.
509
00:34:33,572 --> 00:34:35,540
Far as that goes.
510
00:34:52,882 --> 00:34:53,974
I'm going to drive.
511
00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:55,176
I'll drive.
512
00:34:57,387 --> 00:34:58,513
No, I'll drive.
513
00:34:58,597 --> 00:35:00,770
No, no, gang.
514
00:35:00,849 --> 00:35:02,351
This way.
515
00:35:07,856 --> 00:35:11,861
I'm coming home with two men.
516
00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:15,447
That will surprise the
hell out of my daddy.
517
00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:17,908
He sure keeps a close watch on you.
518
00:35:17,991 --> 00:35:20,335
Yeah. We're close.
519
00:35:21,369 --> 00:35:24,714
He used to drive 250 miles
520
00:35:24,789 --> 00:35:27,838
to take me down to Crescent Beach.
521
00:35:28,877 --> 00:35:33,098
He'd buy me a chicken dinner.
522
00:35:33,173 --> 00:35:35,141
We'd sleep in the back of the car.
523
00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:38,811
We'd wake up that morning
and walk out on the sand.
524
00:35:38,887 --> 00:35:41,515
He bought me this ring.
525
00:35:43,016 --> 00:35:44,484
Reuben, would you
pull the car over?
526
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:46,732
I think I'm going to be sick.
527
00:35:50,231 --> 00:35:51,653
Hang on.
528
00:35:52,567 --> 00:35:54,365
Easy, easy.
529
00:35:56,279 --> 00:35:57,997
You OK?
530
00:35:58,073 --> 00:35:59,370
Come on.
531
00:36:00,742 --> 00:36:04,087
I'd help, Norma, but I
think I'd give it up, too.
532
00:36:15,632 --> 00:36:18,351
That was real ladylike of me.
533
00:36:18,426 --> 00:36:21,771
I did bedpans one summer
at Stuyvesant Hospital.
534
00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:27,068
One of these days,
I'll get myself together.
535
00:36:27,143 --> 00:36:28,360
Well, make it soon.
536
00:36:28,436 --> 00:36:32,278
Because one of these days,
I'm going to start in on you.
537
00:36:38,613 --> 00:36:40,536
Read this when you can.
538
00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:43,209
Got it down to two syllables.
539
00:36:43,284 --> 00:36:45,036
One's better.
540
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,542
Good morning. Good morning.
541
00:36:46,621 --> 00:36:49,625
Read this when you
have a chance, please.
542
00:36:50,625 --> 00:36:52,844
Good morning, Norma Rae.
543
00:37:01,261 --> 00:37:03,184
Hey, Lucius.
544
00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:20,493
Morning, Linette.
545
00:37:22,157 --> 00:37:23,579
Linette?
546
00:37:36,296 --> 00:37:38,219
Hey, Billy Jo.
547
00:37:45,430 --> 00:37:48,684
What the hell is going
on around here?
548
00:37:50,518 --> 00:37:52,771
I'm talking to you!
549
00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:55,865
Fink.
550
00:37:57,358 --> 00:37:58,780
Well, shit!
551
00:38:11,414 --> 00:38:13,508
Nobody's talking to me.
552
00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:15,802
Less talk, more work.
553
00:38:15,877 --> 00:38:18,175
They're my friends.
554
00:38:18,254 --> 00:38:20,552
I'm quitting.
555
00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:22,760
You're speeding them up
so you can weed them out.
556
00:38:22,842 --> 00:38:25,186
You knew all that.
557
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,935
Yeah. I was greedy, and I was dumb.
558
00:38:32,018 --> 00:38:34,146
You can fire me.
559
00:38:34,229 --> 00:38:39,076
We'll put you back
in the weaving room.
560
00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:42,324
Your family's been with
this mill a long time.
561
00:39:18,064 --> 00:39:19,407
Good morning!
562
00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:20,984
Morning.
563
00:39:21,734 --> 00:39:22,735
Hey.
564
00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:23,945
Hey.
565
00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:26,781
We're all ready.
566
00:39:26,865 --> 00:39:27,957
All of you?
567
00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:30,869
All three of us.
568
00:39:33,496 --> 00:39:35,498
Well, then, everybody hop in.
569
00:39:35,582 --> 00:39:38,586
Millie, you can climb in yourself.
570
00:39:38,668 --> 00:39:40,887
Now, be careful. Don't fall down.
571
00:39:40,962 --> 00:39:42,259
What's your name, big guy?
572
00:39:42,338 --> 00:39:43,430
Craig.
573
00:39:44,799 --> 00:39:47,302
Put your feet on the floor!
574
00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:49,728
Bye!
575
00:39:49,804 --> 00:39:51,397
Bye, Mama.
576
00:39:51,472 --> 00:39:53,065
Bye, Grandma!
577
00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:58,484
I want to sit up front.
578
00:39:59,522 --> 00:40:01,069
Are we there yet?
579
00:40:01,149 --> 00:40:03,868
No, you silly willy.
580
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:07,076
We just started off.
581
00:40:07,155 --> 00:40:08,748
I thought we were
going to the lake.
582
00:40:08,823 --> 00:40:11,201
I got to make a stop.
583
00:40:11,284 --> 00:40:14,254
You should have done
that before we started.
584
00:40:19,292 --> 00:40:21,215
This is Alice.
585
00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:24,013
She's mine.
586
00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:30,724
Like I always say,
the more the merrier.
587
00:40:33,056 --> 00:40:35,434
OK, watch what you're doing now.
588
00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:47,074
Next time, you get
up there yourself.
589
00:40:48,404 --> 00:40:51,283
You're sure easy with your kids.
590
00:40:51,366 --> 00:40:52,959
I yell at them.
591
00:40:53,034 --> 00:40:54,581
I swat them.
592
00:40:56,955 --> 00:40:58,878
You're a pretty woman.
593
00:40:59,958 --> 00:41:03,511
I was good at 18, but things
have slipped and slid.
594
00:41:03,586 --> 00:41:06,089
You look all right to me.
595
00:41:06,172 --> 00:41:08,800
Keep the lights low, I'm all right.
596
00:41:08,883 --> 00:41:12,103
I'll take you where it's dark.
597
00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:14,184
I've been there.
598
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,658
I don't owe a nickel in this town.
599
00:41:33,741 --> 00:41:35,459
I'll eat anything
put in front of me.
600
00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:37,788
I can fix anything electrical.
601
00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:40,873
I'm all right after my
first cup of coffee.
602
00:41:40,957 --> 00:41:42,959
I want that bad, though.
603
00:41:44,419 --> 00:41:47,013
I got me a new job
at the gas station.
604
00:41:47,088 --> 00:41:50,809
I turn my paycheck
over every Friday,
605
00:41:50,883 --> 00:41:53,181
and I come straight home from work,
606
00:41:53,261 --> 00:41:56,185
and I stay there.
607
00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:59,268
Me and Alice, we're alone.
608
00:42:00,852 --> 00:42:02,149
You got your two kids.
609
00:42:02,228 --> 00:42:03,605
You're alone.
610
00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:09,694
If you could help me,
611
00:42:09,777 --> 00:42:11,450
maybe I could help you.
612
00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:17,664
It's been a long
time between offers.
613
00:42:24,459 --> 00:42:26,382
Kiss me.
614
00:42:27,045 --> 00:42:30,219
If that's all right,
615
00:42:30,298 --> 00:42:32,471
then everything else will be.
616
00:42:58,659 --> 00:43:02,247
By the authority vested in me,
by this sovereign state,
617
00:43:02,330 --> 00:43:05,129
I pronounce you man and wife.
618
00:43:05,208 --> 00:43:08,178
If you like, you may
kiss the bride.
619
00:43:17,678 --> 00:43:20,894
Mother over here has a
little homemade wine for us.
620
00:43:20,973 --> 00:43:23,476
I picked the berries myself.
621
00:43:23,559 --> 00:43:25,527
Thank you.
622
00:43:31,943 --> 00:43:34,116
To my wife Norma Rae.
623
00:43:35,113 --> 00:43:36,865
And, uh...
624
00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:40,876
I just hope I can keep up with her.
625
00:43:54,132 --> 00:43:57,636
Roscoe doesn't like it,
but I'm going.
626
00:43:57,718 --> 00:44:00,722
I'm not asking anybody. I'm going.
627
00:44:21,242 --> 00:44:26,999
On October 8, 1970, my grandfather,
628
00:44:27,081 --> 00:44:30,676
Isaac Abraham Warshovsky, age 87,
629
00:44:30,751 --> 00:44:32,753
died in his sleep in New York City.
630
00:44:34,130 --> 00:44:38,681
On the following Friday
morning, his funeral was held.
631
00:44:38,759 --> 00:44:40,978
My mother and father attended,
632
00:44:41,053 --> 00:44:43,977
my two uncles from
Brooklyn attended,
633
00:44:44,056 --> 00:44:46,775
and my Aunt Minnie
came up from Florida.
634
00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:50,688
Also present were 862 members
635
00:44:50,771 --> 00:44:52,523
of the amalgamated Clothing Workers
636
00:44:52,607 --> 00:44:56,578
and the Cloth, Hat, and Cap
Makers' Union of America.
637
00:44:56,652 --> 00:44:58,871
Also members of his family.
638
00:45:00,448 --> 00:45:04,498
In death, as in life,
they stood at his side.
639
00:45:04,577 --> 00:45:07,956
They had fought battles with him,
640
00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:12,545
had earned bread together,
and had broken it together.
641
00:45:12,627 --> 00:45:16,006
When they spoke, they
spoke in one voice,
642
00:45:16,088 --> 00:45:18,887
and they were heard.
643
00:45:18,966 --> 00:45:20,968
And they were black,
and they were white.
644
00:45:21,052 --> 00:45:22,725
They were Irish,
and they were Polish.
645
00:45:22,803 --> 00:45:25,773
They were Catholic,
and they were Jews.
646
00:45:25,848 --> 00:45:28,317
And they were one.
647
00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:31,646
That's what a union is, one.
648
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,195
Ladies and gentlemen,
the textile industry,
649
00:45:38,277 --> 00:45:41,872
in which you are
spending your lives,
650
00:45:41,948 --> 00:45:44,042
and in which your children
and their children
651
00:45:44,116 --> 00:45:46,619
will spend their lives,
652
00:45:46,702 --> 00:45:50,957
is the only industry
in these United States
653
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,667
that is not unionized.
654
00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:56,755
They are free to exploit you
655
00:45:56,837 --> 00:46:00,091
and to take away what
is rightfully yours.
656
00:46:00,174 --> 00:46:04,771
Your health, a decent wage,
a fit place to work.
657
00:46:07,223 --> 00:46:09,066
I urge you to stop them
658
00:46:09,141 --> 00:46:12,486
by coming over to room 31
at the Golden Cherry Motel
659
00:46:12,561 --> 00:46:15,906
to pick up a union
card and sign it.
660
00:46:17,191 --> 00:46:20,240
Yes, it comes from the Bible.
661
00:46:20,319 --> 00:46:24,415
"According to the
tribes of your fathers,
662
00:46:24,490 --> 00:46:27,414
"ye shall inherit."
663
00:46:27,493 --> 00:46:30,588
But it comes from
Reuben Warshovsky,
664
00:46:30,663 --> 00:46:33,462
"Not unless you make it happen."
665
00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:38,049
Thank you.
666
00:46:44,385 --> 00:46:45,853
Thank you, Reverend.
667
00:46:45,928 --> 00:46:47,521
Appreciate it.
668
00:46:48,806 --> 00:46:51,480
Everybody should have come.
669
00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:52,560
Next time.
670
00:46:52,643 --> 00:46:55,112
If I have to drag them.
671
00:46:55,187 --> 00:46:57,110
Hey.
672
00:46:58,274 --> 00:46:59,651
When are you going to join?
673
00:46:59,734 --> 00:47:00,986
Who's got the time?
674
00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:03,036
Make the time.
675
00:47:03,112 --> 00:47:05,080
I need help.
676
00:47:09,785 --> 00:47:14,541
I appreciate any help
you can give me.
677
00:47:14,623 --> 00:47:18,503
Licking stamps, stuffing envelopes,
typing with two fingers, anything.
678
00:47:18,586 --> 00:47:20,338
I'll show up.
679
00:47:35,811 --> 00:47:37,358
I'm here.
680
00:47:37,438 --> 00:47:39,782
I'm ready to inspect your plant.
681
00:47:41,609 --> 00:47:43,452
The federal government,
682
00:47:43,527 --> 00:47:46,781
in accordance with federal
court order 7778,
683
00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:49,640
states the following, "The
union has the right to inspect
684
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,119
"every bulletin board in the
mills at least once a week
685
00:47:52,203 --> 00:47:55,958
"to verify that its notices
are not being stripped off."
686
00:47:59,668 --> 00:48:00,715
Do you have a trash can?
687
00:48:00,795 --> 00:48:01,967
Inside.
688
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,393
Keep America beautiful.
689
00:48:07,468 --> 00:48:09,266
Downstairs.
690
00:48:23,609 --> 00:48:25,202
Thank you.
691
00:48:34,286 --> 00:48:35,503
Morning.
692
00:48:43,629 --> 00:48:44,721
Morning.
693
00:48:44,797 --> 00:48:47,266
Am I moving too quick for you?
694
00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:49,139
I did my running in the army.
695
00:48:49,218 --> 00:48:50,970
I'm not in the army now, brother.
696
00:48:51,053 --> 00:48:54,686
If you're out of shape,
I'll slow down.
697
00:48:56,517 --> 00:48:58,645
Keep it to a basic saunter.
698
00:49:05,317 --> 00:49:06,739
Good morning.
699
00:49:06,819 --> 00:49:10,574
I'm Reuben Warshovsky of the
Textile Workers' Union.
700
00:49:10,656 --> 00:49:12,124
What is your name, brother?
701
00:49:12,199 --> 00:49:14,042
Buffum.
702
00:49:14,952 --> 00:49:16,795
How long have you worked here?
703
00:49:16,871 --> 00:49:18,544
Twelve years.
704
00:49:19,248 --> 00:49:21,967
Do you like your job?
705
00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:23,589
I'd like to keep it.
706
00:49:24,712 --> 00:49:28,467
You're interfering with the work.
707
00:49:28,549 --> 00:49:31,143
Court order says you can't do that.
708
00:49:31,218 --> 00:49:33,141
Well, then, brother,
let us both keep
709
00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:35,939
to the letter of the law.
710
00:49:36,015 --> 00:49:38,518
I ain't got no kike brother.
711
00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:41,983
You didn't mean that.
712
00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:44,064
I meant it.
713
00:49:44,148 --> 00:49:47,152
Shit, do we have to fight?
714
00:49:47,234 --> 00:49:48,577
The bulletin board's over here.
715
00:49:48,652 --> 00:49:50,780
"Bulletin board's over here"!
716
00:49:55,075 --> 00:49:56,793
Good morning.
717
00:50:03,626 --> 00:50:07,176
Somebody's looking to
get into a car pool.
718
00:50:07,254 --> 00:50:10,383
Somebody wants to
sell a basset pup.
719
00:50:10,466 --> 00:50:13,436
You can pick pecans
for 40 cents a bushel
720
00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:16,230
at Zelma Landing.
721
00:50:16,305 --> 00:50:18,808
The only thing missing
is my notice.
722
00:50:18,891 --> 00:50:21,019
It's there.
723
00:50:21,101 --> 00:50:23,399
It is? I don't see it.
724
00:50:26,774 --> 00:50:29,027
Ah, yes.
725
00:50:30,402 --> 00:50:33,702
Wilt Chamberlain on stilts
could read that thing maybe.
726
00:50:33,781 --> 00:50:37,706
Bring it down to eye
level, brothers.
727
00:50:37,785 --> 00:50:40,254
We'll make note of your request.
728
00:50:41,956 --> 00:50:44,880
Why do you guys pull
this horseshit?
729
00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:47,838
I'll have to call my lawyers.
730
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:49,843
That's childish.
731
00:50:51,257 --> 00:50:53,225
Where's the pay phone?
732
00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:54,722
Hey!
733
00:50:56,095 --> 00:50:57,972
Rick, bring it down.
734
00:51:05,312 --> 00:51:07,064
Eye. Eye level.
735
00:51:07,147 --> 00:51:08,569
Eye.
736
00:51:18,742 --> 00:51:21,541
You ain't supposed to read it.
737
00:51:21,620 --> 00:51:27,923
No union organizer has
been here for 10 years.
738
00:51:28,002 --> 00:51:29,379
I'm reading it.
739
00:51:29,461 --> 00:51:30,508
Well, read fast, then.
740
00:51:30,588 --> 00:51:33,262
You go read the court order
741
00:51:33,340 --> 00:51:35,434
that says any agent of this company
742
00:51:35,509 --> 00:51:40,766
can be held in contempt.
743
00:51:40,848 --> 00:51:41,895
I ain't violatin' no laws!
744
00:51:41,974 --> 00:51:43,897
You're violating the law now!
745
00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:46,854
Can we finish this?
746
00:51:46,937 --> 00:51:48,359
Certainly.
747
00:51:52,192 --> 00:51:54,240
Where's the other bulletin board?
748
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:55,321
In the weaving room.
749
00:51:55,404 --> 00:51:57,247
Show it to me.
750
00:51:57,323 --> 00:51:58,700
Rick!
751
00:52:07,374 --> 00:52:09,968
Good morning. How are you?
752
00:52:12,087 --> 00:52:14,055
Good morning.
753
00:52:14,798 --> 00:52:16,220
Good morning to you. Good morning.
754
00:52:16,300 --> 00:52:19,682
I'm Warshovsky, Textile
Workers' Union of America.
755
00:52:21,096 --> 00:52:23,975
Good morning. Morning to you.
756
00:52:24,058 --> 00:52:26,311
Good morning, ma'am.
757
00:52:27,561 --> 00:52:28,687
Good morning.
758
00:52:28,771 --> 00:52:31,399
Warshovsky, Textile
Workers' Union of America.
759
00:52:31,482 --> 00:52:34,452
Good morning to you, ma'am.
760
00:52:39,740 --> 00:52:41,242
Good morning.
761
00:52:41,325 --> 00:52:44,044
I'm in room 31 of the
Golden Cherry Motel
762
00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:46,588
if you have any questions.
763
00:52:48,207 --> 00:52:50,130
Good morning.
764
00:52:52,086 --> 00:52:54,009
Good morning to you.
765
00:52:55,381 --> 00:52:57,304
Good morning.
766
00:53:02,096 --> 00:53:03,848
Nice.
767
00:53:06,934 --> 00:53:12,361
Gentlemen, your average
working man is not stupid.
768
00:53:12,439 --> 00:53:14,862
He just gets tired.
769
00:53:14,942 --> 00:53:18,697
You want to move this
out of here, please?
770
00:53:34,211 --> 00:53:36,714
Move it. Move the stuff.
771
00:54:09,163 --> 00:54:10,881
Hey, Reuben?
772
00:54:10,956 --> 00:54:12,549
Hey.
773
00:54:12,624 --> 00:54:13,591
You busy?
774
00:54:13,667 --> 00:54:15,840
Yeah, very busy.
775
00:54:16,628 --> 00:54:17,629
Can I come in?
776
00:54:17,713 --> 00:54:19,056
Please.
777
00:54:29,975 --> 00:54:33,696
Jeez, don't they ever
clean up around here?
778
00:54:35,689 --> 00:54:37,316
I don't want them
messing with my stuff.
779
00:54:37,399 --> 00:54:39,697
I know where everything is.
780
00:54:41,403 --> 00:54:43,868
If I joined up with you,
would I lose my job?
781
00:54:43,947 --> 00:54:45,369
No way.
782
00:54:46,033 --> 00:54:49,457
You can wear a union button
as big as a Frisbee,
783
00:54:49,536 --> 00:54:54,042
talk union, as long as
it's during a break,
784
00:54:54,124 --> 00:54:57,173
and pass along union pamphlets.
785
00:54:57,252 --> 00:54:59,050
They can't touch you.
786
00:55:01,799 --> 00:55:05,144
I was never a very good Girl Scout.
787
00:55:05,219 --> 00:55:07,642
I'll go along with you.
788
00:55:07,721 --> 00:55:09,769
You're the fish I wanted to hook.
789
00:55:11,225 --> 00:55:12,727
Well,
790
00:55:14,728 --> 00:55:17,356
you got me.
791
00:55:17,439 --> 00:55:19,316
What the hell you gonna do with me?
792
00:55:19,399 --> 00:55:21,072
Make a mensch out of you, kid.
793
00:55:23,445 --> 00:55:24,788
What is that?
794
00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:29,664
Somebody who visits the old
folks' home on Saturday
795
00:55:29,743 --> 00:55:32,496
instead of playing golf
796
00:55:32,579 --> 00:55:36,004
or gives a blind man a
dollar for a pencil.
797
00:55:36,083 --> 00:55:37,255
I'd do that.
798
00:55:37,918 --> 00:55:40,091
But would you take the pencil?
799
00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:41,638
Of course. I paid for it.
800
00:55:41,713 --> 00:55:45,308
Somewhere between logic and charity
maybe there falls a little shadow?
801
00:55:45,384 --> 00:55:46,351
Reuben...
802
00:55:46,426 --> 00:55:48,679
We could debate this all night.
803
00:55:50,013 --> 00:55:51,435
Sign this.
804
00:56:05,195 --> 00:56:07,414
"Norma Rae Webster."
805
00:56:07,906 --> 00:56:10,125
Everybody down here
has three names.
806
00:56:13,161 --> 00:56:17,507
Let me pin this on you.
807
00:56:17,583 --> 00:56:21,053
It would cover up the gravy spot.
808
00:56:21,128 --> 00:56:24,177
What do I get if I do?
809
00:56:24,256 --> 00:56:27,055
You don't get nothin' if you don't.
810
00:56:27,134 --> 00:56:29,512
Besides, ain't you
had enough of that?
811
00:56:29,595 --> 00:56:33,600
We used to heat up that
NCO club, remember?
812
00:56:33,682 --> 00:56:35,150
Bygone days.
813
00:56:36,685 --> 00:56:38,608
Then pin it on for bygone days.
814
00:56:38,687 --> 00:56:41,156
Wayne, I'm proud of you.
815
00:56:42,733 --> 00:56:46,078
Think we'll see that
club again, honey?
816
00:56:46,153 --> 00:56:49,202
Take your wife. She
doesn't get out much.
817
00:56:51,992 --> 00:56:55,667
Looks like you've strayed
off the reservation, Norma.
818
00:56:55,746 --> 00:56:57,498
Is that right?
819
00:56:59,666 --> 00:57:03,136
You got a coffee
machine at your end.
820
00:57:03,211 --> 00:57:05,134
But no water fountain.
821
00:57:05,213 --> 00:57:08,387
I cool down my coffee
before drinking it.
822
00:57:08,467 --> 00:57:10,390
You'll cool everything!
823
00:57:26,276 --> 00:57:28,449
Hey, Reverend.
824
00:57:28,528 --> 00:57:30,405
Norma. You caught me
in my shirtsleeves.
825
00:57:32,366 --> 00:57:35,119
Can we have some of your
flowers for Sunday?
826
00:57:35,202 --> 00:57:37,330
Spider mites eating up everything.
827
00:57:37,412 --> 00:57:38,880
OK.
828
00:57:40,332 --> 00:57:42,960
Somehow I can help you, Norma?
829
00:57:44,878 --> 00:57:47,802
How long I been coming
to this church?
830
00:57:47,881 --> 00:57:49,883
Since you were little.
831
00:57:49,967 --> 00:57:51,389
That's right.
832
00:57:51,468 --> 00:57:54,267
I accepted Christ when
I was 6 years old.
833
00:57:58,558 --> 00:58:02,483
Would you call me a good Christian?
834
00:58:02,562 --> 00:58:04,314
With a lapse or two, yes.
835
00:58:04,398 --> 00:58:06,821
With a lapse or two.
836
00:58:06,900 --> 00:58:09,369
Are you a good Christian?
837
00:58:09,444 --> 00:58:11,196
That's for the Lord to say.
838
00:58:13,407 --> 00:58:16,286
I want this church for a
union meeting next Saturday.
839
00:58:16,368 --> 00:58:19,372
That's blacks and whites
sitting together.
840
00:58:19,454 --> 00:58:21,047
This is a house of God.
841
00:58:21,123 --> 00:58:23,876
I'm waiting to see whether it is.
842
00:58:23,959 --> 00:58:26,303
You're coming close to blasphemy.
843
00:58:26,628 --> 00:58:31,509
I've come here to ask
God's forgiveness.
844
00:58:31,591 --> 00:58:33,844
I want to see what this
church stands for,
845
00:58:33,927 --> 00:58:38,103
and if you'll say there
should be justice, a union.
846
00:58:38,181 --> 00:58:42,652
And if you don't,
847
00:58:42,728 --> 00:58:45,527
there ain't nothin' good
for me in that church.
848
00:58:45,605 --> 00:58:47,107
I'll leave it flat.
849
00:58:54,031 --> 00:58:56,875
We're going to miss your
voice in the choir.
850
00:59:01,913 --> 00:59:05,008
You'll hear it raised
up someplace else.
851
00:59:17,971 --> 00:59:21,396
I'll be in in a minute.
852
00:59:32,319 --> 00:59:36,040
We're holding a meeting,
union business.
853
00:59:36,114 --> 00:59:39,414
Afterward we're having
lemonade and ginger snaps.
854
00:59:39,493 --> 00:59:41,996
The shades are up. You can see in.
855
00:59:42,079 --> 00:59:43,581
Washed my windows on Saturday.
856
00:59:43,663 --> 00:59:46,507
You shouldn't have any trouble.
857
00:59:52,672 --> 00:59:55,425
You're going too far.
858
00:59:55,509 --> 00:59:57,011
How?
859
00:59:57,844 --> 00:59:59,767
There's a bunch of
black men in there.
860
00:59:59,846 --> 01:00:01,223
You'll get us in trouble.
861
01:00:01,306 --> 01:00:05,982
I've never had trouble with
black men, only white men.
862
01:00:14,069 --> 01:00:18,074
I remember some of
you from the church.
863
01:00:18,156 --> 01:00:21,205
I did all of the talking that day.
864
01:00:21,284 --> 01:00:24,379
Now I'd like you to speak.
865
01:00:26,081 --> 01:00:27,708
Please.
866
01:00:43,807 --> 01:00:49,405
A man's work should be a man's
work, not a term in jail.
867
01:00:49,896 --> 01:00:52,615
Blacks have been pushed,
pulled, and scorned.
868
01:00:52,691 --> 01:00:54,364
For what?
869
01:00:54,442 --> 01:00:58,948
If everybody believes in
the union, I'm all for it.
870
01:01:00,824 --> 01:01:04,249
Excuse me for saying
this with menfolks here,
871
01:01:04,327 --> 01:01:07,672
but when I get menstrual cramps,
872
01:01:07,747 --> 01:01:09,670
which come pretty hard,
873
01:01:09,749 --> 01:01:12,753
they don't let me
sit down on my job.
874
01:01:15,130 --> 01:01:18,009
You got to keep to your feet
875
01:01:18,091 --> 01:01:21,015
unless you bring a
note from the doctor.
876
01:01:21,094 --> 01:01:23,517
We wouldn't pretend to be sick.
877
01:01:24,472 --> 01:01:28,397
I look at a brick wall all day.
878
01:01:28,476 --> 01:01:30,570
There used to be a window there.
879
01:01:30,645 --> 01:01:33,615
They brick it up to make
us feel we shut in.
880
01:01:36,443 --> 01:01:40,198
My husband died of brown
lung two months ago.
881
01:01:41,740 --> 01:01:46,246
His children are going
to grow up not even
882
01:01:46,328 --> 01:01:47,625
knowing him.
883
01:01:54,461 --> 01:01:58,341
I got all his clothes, if
someone could use them.
884
01:02:10,894 --> 01:02:13,647
I'm not getting the message across.
885
01:02:15,148 --> 01:02:17,321
17 people out of 800.
886
01:02:19,069 --> 01:02:23,165
Well, you're an outsider.
887
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,334
Things move slow around here.
888
01:02:25,408 --> 01:02:28,252
This isn't New York, where you
grab a taxi and grab your hat.
889
01:02:28,328 --> 01:02:30,296
Craig's wetting the bed.
890
01:02:32,332 --> 01:02:36,302
I told him not to drink Coke
before he went to sleep.
891
01:02:38,088 --> 01:02:39,806
Craig?
892
01:02:39,881 --> 01:02:41,929
Come on, sugar, wake up.
893
01:02:42,008 --> 01:02:43,225
Get up.
894
01:02:43,301 --> 01:02:45,895
Put your arms around my neck.
895
01:02:57,774 --> 01:03:00,118
You got any ideas?
896
01:03:00,193 --> 01:03:02,616
Get some corn whiskey.
897
01:03:02,696 --> 01:03:05,620
We'll hit the back
roads on Saturday.
898
01:03:07,325 --> 01:03:09,168
Are you finished, honey?
899
01:03:09,244 --> 01:03:10,712
OK.
900
01:03:11,413 --> 01:03:13,882
No more Cokes before
you go to sleep.
901
01:03:24,884 --> 01:03:29,355
Mr. Robinson, how you doing today?
902
01:03:30,015 --> 01:03:31,483
I'm busy.
903
01:03:31,558 --> 01:03:33,902
I'm Norma Rae. You know me.
904
01:03:35,020 --> 01:03:36,647
Yeah. How do you do?
905
01:03:36,730 --> 01:03:38,528
This is my friend Reuben.
906
01:03:38,606 --> 01:03:40,825
Nice to see you.
907
01:03:40,900 --> 01:03:44,200
Read this, if you will, sir,
908
01:03:44,279 --> 01:03:45,826
and I'll fix your tire.
909
01:03:45,905 --> 01:03:47,282
How about that?
910
01:03:47,365 --> 01:03:49,288
You've got a deal.
911
01:03:53,997 --> 01:03:55,294
Can you do this?
912
01:03:55,373 --> 01:03:57,091
Are you kidding?
913
01:03:57,167 --> 01:03:59,511
Let's look like we can.
914
01:04:03,089 --> 01:04:04,511
Watch your hand.
915
01:04:04,591 --> 01:04:07,185
I think he was taking it off.
916
01:04:18,980 --> 01:04:21,950
Are you making a baseball bat?
917
01:04:24,402 --> 01:04:28,407
Hey, Joe. Will you
read one of these?
918
01:04:28,490 --> 01:04:30,333
Jay, how you doing?
919
01:04:30,408 --> 01:04:32,081
Will you read one?
920
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:36,040
Meet Reuben. He's a friend of mine.
921
01:04:36,122 --> 01:04:38,090
How you doing, gentlemen?
922
01:04:38,583 --> 01:04:43,009
Would you like to read one?
Elwood? Bob?
923
01:04:43,088 --> 01:04:44,214
I'm not interested.
924
01:04:44,297 --> 01:04:46,299
You're not interested in a union?
925
01:04:46,383 --> 01:04:47,430
No.
926
01:04:47,509 --> 01:04:50,683
You think you'll get a better
shake from management?
927
01:04:50,762 --> 01:04:52,480
I always have.
928
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:54,687
Ow!
929
01:04:54,766 --> 01:04:57,144
Damn glad you cut it.
930
01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:01,156
That's telling him.
931
01:05:01,481 --> 01:05:03,074
Hey, Robert.
932
01:05:03,149 --> 01:05:04,446
Hi, Norma.
933
01:05:06,319 --> 01:05:07,696
- We come out...
- Ah!
934
01:05:11,783 --> 01:05:13,706
It's only grass and water.
935
01:05:26,172 --> 01:05:29,267
We swam here as kids.
936
01:05:29,342 --> 01:05:32,767
We'd leave school,
chuck off our clothes,
937
01:05:32,846 --> 01:05:34,268
and jump in.
938
01:05:34,806 --> 01:05:38,777
The only water hole I ever saw
939
01:05:38,852 --> 01:05:42,482
was when we opened the
fire hydrant on 110th
940
01:05:42,564 --> 01:05:44,237
with a wrench.
941
01:05:46,067 --> 01:05:47,694
This is the life!
942
01:05:47,777 --> 01:05:50,530
It's just a mud hole.
943
01:05:50,613 --> 01:05:52,741
It's cooling off my mosquito bites.
944
01:05:54,534 --> 01:05:57,083
It's as clean as I can get it.
945
01:05:57,162 --> 01:05:58,835
Thank you.
946
01:06:02,459 --> 01:06:03,676
Whoo!
947
01:06:04,377 --> 01:06:06,004
It is hot.
948
01:06:07,714 --> 01:06:08,966
I'm coming in.
949
01:06:09,048 --> 01:06:10,516
Come on.
950
01:06:27,066 --> 01:06:28,488
You know what?
951
01:06:28,568 --> 01:06:33,494
An old farmer used to live
around here with a BB gun.
952
01:06:36,576 --> 01:06:38,499
Sure hope he's moved.
953
01:06:38,578 --> 01:06:40,501
Yeah. Me, too.
954
01:06:40,580 --> 01:06:44,084
What's that? Something's
flicking around my...
955
01:06:45,210 --> 01:06:46,211
Those are minnows.
956
01:06:46,294 --> 01:06:47,295
Those are what?
957
01:06:47,378 --> 01:06:48,846
Minnows. They won't hurt you.
958
01:06:48,922 --> 01:06:50,139
They better not.
959
01:06:50,215 --> 01:06:53,640
You're a fish out
of water down here.
960
01:06:53,718 --> 01:06:56,597
It's not exactly my native habitat.
961
01:06:57,931 --> 01:07:03,153
What would you do on a
day like this at home?
962
01:07:06,147 --> 01:07:09,492
Play handball at the Y,
go see Aida at the Met.
963
01:07:10,610 --> 01:07:14,080
Eat Chinese, play
poker, hit the sack.
964
01:07:19,244 --> 01:07:22,043
I've been two places in my life.
965
01:07:22,121 --> 01:07:26,130
I've been to Henleyville,
been to Piston.
966
01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:29,637
Oh, you'd love New York.
967
01:07:29,712 --> 01:07:31,339
You would, wow.
968
01:07:31,422 --> 01:07:33,049
Super town.
969
01:07:33,132 --> 01:07:34,930
Most beautiful women in the world,
970
01:07:35,009 --> 01:07:39,936
best food, opera, theater, ballet.
971
01:07:41,224 --> 01:07:42,396
Reuben.
972
01:07:42,475 --> 01:07:44,022
What?
973
01:07:44,102 --> 01:07:45,319
You're homesick.
974
01:07:45,395 --> 01:07:46,772
Right.
975
01:07:47,772 --> 01:07:49,695
God.
976
01:07:49,774 --> 01:07:51,117
Reuben.
977
01:07:52,986 --> 01:07:55,080
You got a skinny build.
978
01:07:55,154 --> 01:07:56,246
Yeah?
979
01:07:59,576 --> 01:08:01,999
Sonny works out with weights.
980
01:08:03,997 --> 01:08:05,465
I tried that.
981
01:08:07,166 --> 01:08:09,009
I dropped them and broke my foot.
982
01:08:11,004 --> 01:08:12,130
Well,
983
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:18,936
you don't got to worry, because
you got a head on you,
984
01:08:20,430 --> 01:08:22,353
and you use it.
985
01:08:36,195 --> 01:08:37,367
What?
986
01:08:39,032 --> 01:08:44,337
We got a bad connection, because
the line is being tapped.
987
01:08:44,412 --> 01:08:48,042
Hey, you? This is
Norma Rae Webster.
988
01:08:48,124 --> 01:08:50,547
I'm talking union to Henry Willis.
989
01:08:50,627 --> 01:08:52,675
I'm on every night.
990
01:08:52,754 --> 01:08:54,381
Same old story, no commercials.
991
01:08:54,464 --> 01:08:56,432
Union, union, unions.
992
01:08:56,507 --> 01:08:59,727
Look, have your boss man tap me.
993
01:08:59,802 --> 01:09:03,306
Then you can go home
to your wife and kids.
994
01:09:03,389 --> 01:09:05,858
Henry?
995
01:09:06,893 --> 01:09:08,145
Shoot!
996
01:09:10,271 --> 01:09:12,820
You ain't gettin' any sleep.
997
01:09:12,899 --> 01:09:14,321
Neither am I.
998
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:16,869
We're working tomorrow morning.
999
01:09:16,944 --> 01:09:19,322
I got 100 calls to make tonight.
1000
01:09:21,449 --> 01:09:23,668
Is that going on our phone bill?
1001
01:09:23,743 --> 01:09:26,371
We'll take it out of my paycheck.
1002
01:09:26,454 --> 01:09:28,081
That damn milk is sour!
1003
01:09:29,749 --> 01:09:32,377
I didn't have a chance
to go shopping.
1004
01:09:32,460 --> 01:09:36,181
And you didn't get to the washing,
1005
01:09:36,255 --> 01:09:39,600
or the kids, or to me!
1006
01:09:39,676 --> 01:09:40,973
Is that right?
1007
01:09:41,052 --> 01:09:42,178
That's right!
1008
01:09:42,261 --> 01:09:43,934
Damn TV dinners!
1009
01:09:44,013 --> 01:09:46,857
Kids going around in dirty jeans!
1010
01:09:46,933 --> 01:09:49,481
I'm going around, uh, without!
1011
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:51,187
Altogether!
1012
01:10:05,368 --> 01:10:07,291
You want cooking?
1013
01:10:17,588 --> 01:10:19,306
You got cooking.
1014
01:10:21,509 --> 01:10:23,227
You want laundry?
1015
01:10:27,056 --> 01:10:28,649
You got laundry.
1016
01:10:31,144 --> 01:10:33,067
You want ironing?
1017
01:10:35,690 --> 01:10:37,237
You got ironing.
1018
01:10:37,316 --> 01:10:38,659
You want to make love?
1019
01:10:38,735 --> 01:10:42,615
You get behind me and lift up
my nighty, and we'll make love.
1020
01:10:44,657 --> 01:10:45,829
Norma.
1021
01:10:48,161 --> 01:10:50,334
Norma!
1022
01:10:50,413 --> 01:10:51,585
Hey.
1023
01:11:06,387 --> 01:11:10,267
Come this time. Don't
just nod your head.
1024
01:11:10,349 --> 01:11:14,445
Doris, come on. Bring
your peanut butter pie.
1025
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:18,400
I heard your little
one's got the measles.
1026
01:11:18,483 --> 01:11:20,451
Keep him away from mine, will you?
1027
01:11:20,526 --> 01:11:23,405
Brenda, how's your new baby?
1028
01:11:23,488 --> 01:11:26,833
Get down to the Golden Cherry.
1029
01:11:26,908 --> 01:11:29,912
Hey, get down to the Golden Cherry.
1030
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:35,375
Sue? Come on, read this, every
single word of it. It's important.
1031
01:11:35,458 --> 01:11:36,755
Come on down.
1032
01:11:36,834 --> 01:11:39,257
If I got the time, you do.
1033
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,354
I don't bump into you much anymore.
1034
01:11:54,602 --> 01:11:56,354
You all right, Daddy?
1035
01:11:56,437 --> 01:11:57,939
About the same.
1036
01:11:59,190 --> 01:12:01,909
Your color's bad.
You been drinking?
1037
01:12:01,984 --> 01:12:03,361
Thimbleful now and then.
1038
01:12:03,444 --> 01:12:05,867
It's not good for you.
1039
01:12:05,947 --> 01:12:07,369
What's the difference?
1040
01:12:07,448 --> 01:12:10,702
I lie down and wonder
if I'll get up again.
1041
01:12:12,453 --> 01:12:14,672
Don't talk old. I don't like it.
1042
01:12:17,250 --> 01:12:18,547
Listen.
1043
01:12:21,045 --> 01:12:25,391
I'm coming over there
one of these nights
1044
01:12:25,466 --> 01:12:27,935
and take you out to a grand supper.
1045
01:12:29,345 --> 01:12:30,642
OK.
1046
01:12:30,721 --> 01:12:32,143
OK.
1047
01:13:00,084 --> 01:13:03,588
Has James gone back?
1048
01:13:03,671 --> 01:13:05,514
I guess so.
1049
01:13:06,841 --> 01:13:08,764
Where'd he go, home?
1050
01:13:08,843 --> 01:13:10,311
I don't know.
1051
01:13:12,179 --> 01:13:13,431
Jesus.
1052
01:13:13,514 --> 01:13:15,983
I ought to be going home, too.
1053
01:13:21,063 --> 01:13:23,737
Hey, how's Dorothy?
1054
01:13:24,817 --> 01:13:27,070
Terrific. Thanks.
1055
01:13:27,153 --> 01:13:29,155
I see you got a new picture of her.
1056
01:13:31,324 --> 01:13:34,794
You like it? My mother sent that.
1057
01:13:34,869 --> 01:13:38,624
She and your mother must
get along real well.
1058
01:13:39,749 --> 01:13:42,628
Are you kidding?
My mother loves her.
1059
01:13:42,710 --> 01:13:46,681
She's a lawyer, she's
Jewish, and a great cook.
1060
01:13:46,756 --> 01:13:48,474
What else is there?
1061
01:13:54,055 --> 01:13:56,308
How come she's so smart?
1062
01:13:56,390 --> 01:13:57,642
Dorothy?
1063
01:13:58,851 --> 01:13:59,943
Books.
1064
01:14:02,521 --> 01:14:05,274
Oh, madame, your dinner.
1065
01:14:05,358 --> 01:14:08,285
Le grand banana and a beer.
1066
01:14:08,361 --> 01:14:09,487
No.
1067
01:14:12,823 --> 01:14:14,450
Who's this?
1068
01:14:14,533 --> 01:14:16,001
Dylan Thomas.
1069
01:14:17,495 --> 01:14:22,171
He was a poet, genius, and a drunk.
1070
01:14:26,087 --> 01:14:28,681
What's he write about?
1071
01:14:28,756 --> 01:14:33,727
Love, sex, death, other
matters of consequence.
1072
01:14:34,929 --> 01:14:36,647
Is he hard to read?
1073
01:14:36,722 --> 01:14:37,939
Eh...
1074
01:14:38,015 --> 01:14:38,937
Eh...
1075
01:14:39,934 --> 01:14:41,936
So why should I bother?
1076
01:14:42,019 --> 01:14:45,819
Because maybe he has
something to say to you.
1077
01:14:45,898 --> 01:14:47,821
Open that, will you?
1078
01:14:50,903 --> 01:14:54,658
"Rage, rage against the
dying of the light."
1079
01:14:54,740 --> 01:14:55,832
Yeah?
1080
01:14:55,908 --> 01:14:57,000
Yeah.
1081
01:14:58,494 --> 01:15:01,585
Well, I'll try him.
1082
01:15:01,664 --> 01:15:02,756
Good.
1083
01:15:04,917 --> 01:15:09,514
Hell, there ain't nothin'
on TV but reruns anyway.
1084
01:15:09,588 --> 01:15:11,431
Don't eat while you read.
1085
01:15:11,507 --> 01:15:13,805
I hate banana in my books.
1086
01:15:13,884 --> 01:15:16,057
Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch.
1087
01:15:54,425 --> 01:15:55,893
Warren?
1088
01:15:58,304 --> 01:15:59,726
Warren?
1089
01:16:02,683 --> 01:16:05,402
Nobody showed up at the meeting.
1090
01:16:05,478 --> 01:16:08,607
They got us on a stretch-out.
1091
01:16:08,689 --> 01:16:11,192
Put us on a three-day week.
1092
01:16:11,275 --> 01:16:14,324
Twice the work for half the pay.
1093
01:16:14,403 --> 01:16:16,656
All on account of you.
1094
01:16:17,490 --> 01:16:20,084
You stand there for a minute.
1095
01:16:26,332 --> 01:16:27,754
Oh, man.
1096
01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:36,559
There's six turnips and two
quarts of water in there.
1097
01:16:36,634 --> 01:16:39,808
That's supper for seven people.
1098
01:16:39,887 --> 01:16:41,981
Sell your union someplace else.
1099
01:16:42,056 --> 01:16:43,399
Hey...
1100
01:17:09,041 --> 01:17:12,466
My arm's numb. I better lie down.
1101
01:17:13,170 --> 01:17:16,265
You got a break in 15 minutes.
1102
01:17:16,340 --> 01:17:18,138
I better go now.
1103
01:17:18,217 --> 01:17:20,640
Hang on. Your break's coming up.
1104
01:18:26,911 --> 01:18:29,835
In a minute, Lucius.
1105
01:18:30,539 --> 01:18:33,167
Mavis, Rhonda.
1106
01:18:38,047 --> 01:18:39,765
Hey, Betty.
1107
01:18:41,842 --> 01:18:44,846
You're supposed to be here at 3:15.
1108
01:18:44,929 --> 01:18:48,559
It's 4:15. Working for
this union or not?
1109
01:18:48,641 --> 01:18:51,064
I got my tooth filled.
1110
01:18:51,143 --> 01:18:53,566
You were getting your
beer gut filled!
1111
01:18:54,813 --> 01:18:57,657
Chew your old man out. Get off me.
1112
01:18:57,733 --> 01:19:02,990
I'm giving 9, 10, 12
hours here every day.
1113
01:19:03,072 --> 01:19:05,575
We're doing our share of work.
1114
01:19:05,658 --> 01:19:07,752
Either do your share or don't
call yourself a union member!
1115
01:19:07,826 --> 01:19:13,003
Norma! Shut your cake hole.
Out of the office.
1116
01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:16,627
I only said what was true.
1117
01:19:16,710 --> 01:19:18,257
Out.
1118
01:19:18,337 --> 01:19:19,805
Come on.
1119
01:19:24,969 --> 01:19:26,016
Peter.
1120
01:19:26,095 --> 01:19:28,723
Get to work. Come on.
1121
01:19:28,806 --> 01:19:31,400
Everybody back to work.
1122
01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:49,710
Mouth.
1123
01:19:52,579 --> 01:19:54,422
You can't come down
that hard on a man.
1124
01:19:54,498 --> 01:19:56,921
Leave him his balls. Easy. Jesus.
1125
01:19:58,294 --> 01:20:01,673
If you were in the state
department, we'd be at war.
1126
01:20:03,590 --> 01:20:06,184
- All right. I got a big mouth.
- Um-hmm.
1127
01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:14,151
Cotton mill workers are
known as trash to some.
1128
01:20:16,729 --> 01:20:20,529
The union's the only way
we'll get our own voice
1129
01:20:20,607 --> 01:20:23,076
and make ourselves any better.
1130
01:20:24,194 --> 01:20:26,572
I guess that's why I push.
1131
01:20:26,655 --> 01:20:28,749
Our own Mother Jones.
1132
01:20:28,824 --> 01:20:30,826
Who's she?
1133
01:20:30,909 --> 01:20:33,128
She was some considerable lady.
1134
01:20:33,203 --> 01:20:37,174
She made it happen for the
coal miners in West Virginia.
1135
01:20:37,249 --> 01:20:40,173
You ain't mad at me?
1136
01:20:41,587 --> 01:20:43,681
If the situation ever called for
1137
01:20:43,756 --> 01:20:49,513
a smart, loud, profane,
sloppy, hard-working woman,
1138
01:20:49,595 --> 01:20:52,189
I'd pick you every time, kid.
1139
01:20:52,264 --> 01:20:55,359
How come sloppy? Nobody
wears girdles anymore.
1140
01:20:57,269 --> 01:20:59,442
I didn't order anything.
1141
01:20:59,521 --> 01:21:01,444
Well, hey, you ate it!
1142
01:21:22,419 --> 01:21:23,671
What do you want?
1143
01:21:23,754 --> 01:21:25,176
Warshovsky around?
1144
01:21:27,424 --> 01:21:29,347
Reuben's at the printer's.
1145
01:21:29,426 --> 01:21:31,520
Pretty late for the printer's.
1146
01:21:33,347 --> 01:21:35,896
Reuben keeps them working late.
1147
01:21:36,767 --> 01:21:39,236
You're Norma Rae, aren't you?
1148
01:21:39,478 --> 01:21:40,479
Huh?
1149
01:21:41,271 --> 01:21:43,820
I'm Mrs. Webster.
1150
01:21:43,899 --> 01:21:46,072
We're from the union
national headquarters.
1151
01:21:46,151 --> 01:21:47,903
Al London, Sam Dankin.
1152
01:21:47,986 --> 01:21:50,159
Is that right?
1153
01:21:50,239 --> 01:21:54,085
I might as well give
you my shopping list.
1154
01:21:54,159 --> 01:21:57,504
We need envelopes, stamps.
1155
01:21:57,579 --> 01:21:59,001
We're almost out of typing paper.
1156
01:21:59,081 --> 01:22:03,006
How about some typewriters
that don't stick?
1157
01:22:04,002 --> 01:22:06,425
We're not in office
supplies, Mrs. Webster.
1158
01:22:06,505 --> 01:22:09,600
You aren't around much, either.
1159
01:22:09,675 --> 01:22:11,268
Hello, Reuben.
1160
01:22:11,343 --> 01:22:14,597
Sam, you're getting fat.
1161
01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:16,182
I've gained a couple pounds.
1162
01:22:16,265 --> 01:22:17,687
Al, how are you?
1163
01:22:17,766 --> 01:22:20,189
Lousy. I got a cold.
1164
01:22:21,353 --> 01:22:23,276
What brings you guys?
1165
01:22:24,022 --> 01:22:26,445
You're not getting up a
head of steam, Reuben.
1166
01:22:26,525 --> 01:22:29,870
You know what I'm up against.
1167
01:22:29,945 --> 01:22:31,367
We're worried.
1168
01:22:31,447 --> 01:22:32,994
That makes three of us.
1169
01:22:33,073 --> 01:22:35,997
It's a small,
Southern Baptist town.
1170
01:22:36,076 --> 01:22:37,953
You got to keep your
nose very clean.
1171
01:22:38,036 --> 01:22:40,960
Why? You see any snot in mine?
1172
01:22:43,584 --> 01:22:45,962
Maybe Mrs. Webster
would like to leave?
1173
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:49,052
Why?
1174
01:22:49,131 --> 01:22:50,303
This concerns her.
1175
01:22:50,382 --> 01:22:52,259
I'm making it easy on her...
1176
01:22:52,342 --> 01:22:54,936
It's late. What do you want?
1177
01:22:57,723 --> 01:23:00,067
If the company wants
us to look bad,
1178
01:23:00,142 --> 01:23:03,692
they'll use anything
to make us look bad.
1179
01:23:03,770 --> 01:23:07,491
The mill hands go to
church every Sunday.
1180
01:23:07,566 --> 01:23:09,409
She's talking union to them?
1181
01:23:13,989 --> 01:23:15,411
They say she's made a porno movie
1182
01:23:15,491 --> 01:23:19,161
with a local police
officer, very explicit.
1183
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:24,003
Run it for me.
1184
01:23:24,082 --> 01:23:27,757
There doesn't have to be a movie,
if people talk like there's one.
1185
01:23:29,838 --> 01:23:32,341
The lady has an illegitimate child.
1186
01:23:32,424 --> 01:23:34,017
She's slept around.
1187
01:23:34,092 --> 01:23:36,015
She naps on your bed.
1188
01:23:36,094 --> 01:23:41,442
Are we in the union business or the
character assassination business?
1189
01:23:41,517 --> 01:23:46,523
After an 18-hour day, I got
the Legion of Decency here!
1190
01:23:46,605 --> 01:23:49,199
She's broken her ass
for this organization!
1191
01:23:49,274 --> 01:23:52,027
She doesn't see her kids!
Doesn't have time for bath!
1192
01:23:52,110 --> 01:23:55,034
Is this the Catholic Church?
1193
01:23:55,113 --> 01:23:56,285
Are we canonizing her?
1194
01:23:56,365 --> 01:23:57,708
It's your game.
1195
01:23:57,783 --> 01:23:59,410
You're damn right!
1196
01:23:59,493 --> 01:24:01,871
Make it stick or get out!
1197
01:24:01,954 --> 01:24:03,581
Get out anyway!
1198
01:24:08,460 --> 01:24:10,554
I'm sorry, Mrs. Webster.
1199
01:24:19,638 --> 01:24:22,938
I don't want to hurt the
union. I'll quit if you want.
1200
01:24:23,016 --> 01:24:25,986
Weren't you supposed
to be typing letters?
1201
01:24:28,480 --> 01:24:29,652
Yeah.
1202
01:24:54,506 --> 01:24:56,474
Hey. It's me, Norma.
1203
01:24:58,218 --> 01:25:00,721
OK, it's I, Norma.
Forget the grammar.
1204
01:25:00,804 --> 01:25:03,023
We got to talk.
1205
01:25:07,477 --> 01:25:10,401
Maybe we could meet at my break.
1206
01:25:10,480 --> 01:25:11,902
OK.
1207
01:25:14,860 --> 01:25:17,659
I was making sure my kids
got home from school.
1208
01:25:17,738 --> 01:25:21,368
Your kids are with my
kids buying candy.
1209
01:25:23,493 --> 01:25:26,042
That's why dentist
bills is busting me!
1210
01:25:26,997 --> 01:25:28,544
Uh!
1211
01:25:30,834 --> 01:25:34,259
Come on! Come on, boy!
1212
01:25:34,338 --> 01:25:35,965
Come here, boy!
1213
01:25:37,174 --> 01:25:38,926
You thinking union?
1214
01:25:39,551 --> 01:25:42,100
You want union? You'll get union.
1215
01:25:48,352 --> 01:25:50,775
Break it up! Break it up!
1216
01:25:50,854 --> 01:25:52,777
Break it up!
1217
01:26:01,907 --> 01:26:02,999
You all right?
1218
01:26:03,075 --> 01:26:04,122
Yeah.
1219
01:26:04,993 --> 01:26:06,495
What started this?
1220
01:26:06,578 --> 01:26:09,832
They put up a letter saying
blacks are taking over the union,
1221
01:26:09,915 --> 01:26:14,261
that they're going to
push the whites around.
1222
01:26:14,336 --> 01:26:17,089
We'll take legal action.
1223
01:26:17,172 --> 01:26:18,765
Get me the letter.
1224
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:21,639
They're watching me.
1225
01:26:21,718 --> 01:26:23,061
How's your memory?
1226
01:26:23,136 --> 01:26:24,888
I don't know the
pledge of allegiance.
1227
01:26:24,971 --> 01:26:27,224
Write down a line at a time.
1228
01:26:27,307 --> 01:26:30,026
It's like the time
I pinched a lipstick.
1229
01:26:30,102 --> 01:26:31,194
Did you get caught?
1230
01:26:31,269 --> 01:26:33,317
I went back for curlers.
1231
01:27:04,469 --> 01:27:08,349
"Dominate it
1232
01:27:08,432 --> 01:27:12,403
"and control it
1233
01:27:12,477 --> 01:27:16,402
"as you may
1234
01:27:16,481 --> 01:27:19,826
"see fit.
1235
01:27:19,901 --> 01:27:22,825
"If now...
1236
01:27:24,740 --> 01:27:26,663
"if now..."
1237
01:27:27,659 --> 01:27:30,037
Damn! Damn, damn, damn!
1238
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:34,091
"...you black employees,
by joining the union,
1239
01:27:34,166 --> 01:27:37,716
"can dominate it and control it
1240
01:27:37,794 --> 01:27:39,091
"as you may see fit.
1241
01:27:39,171 --> 01:27:41,265
"If..."
1242
01:27:41,339 --> 01:27:42,591
Where's the rest?
1243
01:27:42,674 --> 01:27:44,267
That's all I could get.
1244
01:27:44,342 --> 01:27:45,764
Mata Hari.
1245
01:27:45,844 --> 01:27:47,687
They watched us every minute.
1246
01:27:47,763 --> 01:27:51,108
Here's our chance to nail them.
1247
01:27:51,183 --> 01:27:52,935
Don't tell me you can't remember.
1248
01:27:53,018 --> 01:27:57,273
You copy it line for line.
1249
01:27:57,355 --> 01:28:01,451
You get the date and signature.
1250
01:28:01,526 --> 01:28:02,618
I'll get fired.
1251
01:28:02,694 --> 01:28:03,661
I'll run you a benefit.
1252
01:28:03,737 --> 01:28:05,614
Thanks a lot.
1253
01:28:05,697 --> 01:28:07,870
Want a massage?
Go to a massage parlor.
1254
01:28:07,949 --> 01:28:11,203
Either we get beat,
or we don't get beat.
1255
01:28:12,954 --> 01:28:17,710
I got three kids, bills,
and an unhappy husband.
1256
01:28:17,793 --> 01:28:21,969
I'll do it, but keep off my back.
1257
01:28:22,047 --> 01:28:24,266
Reuben, I'll tell you something.
1258
01:28:24,341 --> 01:28:25,809
What?
1259
01:28:25,884 --> 01:28:29,934
You've been away from home
and you're getting crabby.
1260
01:28:30,013 --> 01:28:33,233
Reuben, you need yourself a woman.
1261
01:28:34,392 --> 01:28:36,019
Funny you should mention it.
1262
01:28:36,102 --> 01:28:38,355
Tonight's the night.
1263
01:28:38,438 --> 01:28:39,940
What would Dorothy say?
1264
01:28:40,023 --> 01:28:41,650
"Wear a rubber."
1265
01:28:49,449 --> 01:28:50,666
You can't copy this!
1266
01:28:50,742 --> 01:28:52,995
It's on the board.
I'm going to copy it!
1267
01:28:53,078 --> 01:28:55,126
You better not.
1268
01:28:55,205 --> 01:28:57,378
I'm taking down every word!
1269
01:28:57,457 --> 01:29:01,337
It's my break!
I'm copying every word!
1270
01:29:01,419 --> 01:29:02,887
Stay out of my way!
1271
01:29:02,963 --> 01:29:04,886
I'm copying it!
1272
01:29:09,427 --> 01:29:10,849
Hello, Norma.
1273
01:29:10,929 --> 01:29:13,648
You know who I am.
1274
01:29:13,723 --> 01:29:16,476
Put the pencil and paper away.
1275
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:18,938
Stop it right now.
1276
01:29:19,020 --> 01:29:21,443
You're going to leave!
1277
01:29:21,523 --> 01:29:25,369
The law's going to come after you!
1278
01:29:25,443 --> 01:29:29,573
Mr. Mason, I started this,
and I'm going to finish it.
1279
01:29:31,616 --> 01:29:34,244
"Serious violence."
1280
01:29:43,128 --> 01:29:45,551
Let's go to my office.
1281
01:29:50,176 --> 01:29:53,897
Why did you make personal
calls on company time?
1282
01:30:00,812 --> 01:30:03,486
Spell out your names for me.
1283
01:30:06,026 --> 01:30:07,573
Don't be foolish, Norma Rae.
1284
01:30:10,071 --> 01:30:12,995
Nobody here is on my side,
1285
01:30:13,074 --> 01:30:17,079
and I'm not leaving until I
set down all your names.
1286
01:30:17,162 --> 01:30:20,712
I want you off the premises now!
1287
01:30:21,499 --> 01:30:24,844
Phone your husband!
Have him fetch you!
1288
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:26,968
I want you out quick!
1289
01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:56,292
Norma Rae.
1290
01:30:56,368 --> 01:30:57,620
Forget it!
1291
01:30:57,702 --> 01:30:59,796
I'm staying put!
1292
01:30:59,871 --> 01:31:01,999
Right where I am!
1293
01:31:05,168 --> 01:31:08,388
It's going to take you,
the police department,
1294
01:31:08,463 --> 01:31:10,215
the fire department,
1295
01:31:10,298 --> 01:31:13,393
and the National Guard
to get me out of here!
1296
01:31:15,261 --> 01:31:18,640
I'll wait for the sheriff
to take me home!
1297
01:31:18,723 --> 01:31:21,897
And I ain't gonna budge
till he gets here!
1298
01:33:59,801 --> 01:34:02,520
Come on down now, Norma Rae.
1299
01:34:04,305 --> 01:34:06,228
Come on down, now.
1300
01:34:12,647 --> 01:34:15,070
You heard what I said. Come down.
1301
01:34:29,038 --> 01:34:30,255
Lamar.
1302
01:34:32,834 --> 01:34:37,965
I want you to put it in writing
that Sheriff Lamar Miller
1303
01:34:38,047 --> 01:34:42,177
is going to take Norma Rae
Webster straight home.
1304
01:34:42,260 --> 01:34:44,854
I want you to sign it,
1305
01:34:44,929 --> 01:34:48,604
and I want you to hand it to me.
1306
01:34:49,017 --> 01:34:50,769
Don't tell me what to do.
1307
01:34:50,852 --> 01:34:53,856
You're getting nothing
from me in writing.
1308
01:34:55,398 --> 01:34:56,900
You want her off the premises?
1309
01:34:56,983 --> 01:34:58,530
Take her out.
1310
01:35:00,278 --> 01:35:02,121
I'm not sure I should
get in the same car
1311
01:35:02,197 --> 01:35:04,370
with you and nobody else.
1312
01:35:05,867 --> 01:35:09,292
Lamar, I ain't gonna bite you.
1313
01:35:41,277 --> 01:35:43,746
A police car?
You're taking me to jail!
1314
01:35:43,821 --> 01:35:46,916
No! No! No!
1315
01:35:46,991 --> 01:35:48,117
Quit that now!
1316
01:35:48,201 --> 01:35:49,578
No! No!
1317
01:35:49,661 --> 01:35:51,208
You're going to jail!
1318
01:35:51,287 --> 01:35:52,630
No!
1319
01:35:52,705 --> 01:35:54,048
Get her in there.
1320
01:35:54,123 --> 01:35:55,921
No! No!
1321
01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:58,674
No!
1322
01:35:58,753 --> 01:36:00,255
Get in there now!
1323
01:36:00,338 --> 01:36:01,430
No!
1324
01:36:01,506 --> 01:36:02,758
Get her in.
1325
01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:04,638
Get in there.
1326
01:36:04,717 --> 01:36:06,185
No!
1327
01:36:07,345 --> 01:36:08,813
Ahhh!
1328
01:36:08,930 --> 01:36:10,853
No!
1329
01:36:23,861 --> 01:36:27,286
Webster, Norma Rae.
1330
01:36:27,365 --> 01:36:30,790
704 Priester Road, Henleyville.
1331
01:36:30,868 --> 01:36:32,586
She's white.
1332
01:36:32,662 --> 01:36:35,123
Female, 31.
1333
01:36:35,206 --> 01:36:37,834
Occupation, textile.
1334
01:36:37,917 --> 01:36:42,339
Fair complexion, brown
hair, brown eyes.
1335
01:36:42,422 --> 01:36:46,472
Arrest number, 2238B.
1336
01:36:46,551 --> 01:36:50,096
Charge, disorderly conduct.
1337
01:36:51,347 --> 01:36:54,938
Norma Rae, you go with her now.
1338
01:37:13,786 --> 01:37:15,788
Might as well sit down.
1339
01:37:18,041 --> 01:37:20,590
You got one phone call.
1340
01:37:20,668 --> 01:37:22,420
Better call Sonny.
1341
01:37:24,005 --> 01:37:26,474
I'll be calling my union organizer.
1342
01:37:31,262 --> 01:37:34,266
The first time you're in is bad.
1343
01:37:52,367 --> 01:37:54,461
It comes with the job.
1344
01:38:00,500 --> 01:38:03,094
I saw a pregnant woman
on a picket line
1345
01:38:03,169 --> 01:38:05,888
get hit in the stomach with a club.
1346
01:38:05,963 --> 01:38:09,388
I saw a boy of 16 get
shot in the back.
1347
01:38:11,177 --> 01:38:13,555
I saw a guy blown to hell and back
1348
01:38:13,638 --> 01:38:16,107
when he tried to start his car.
1349
01:38:21,312 --> 01:38:24,156
You just got your
feet wet on this one.
1350
01:38:39,831 --> 01:38:42,425
Norma, you all right?
1351
01:38:46,421 --> 01:38:48,844
I put the kids to bed.
1352
01:38:57,140 --> 01:38:58,813
Craig?
1353
01:38:58,891 --> 01:38:59,983
Honey, wake up.
1354
01:39:00,059 --> 01:39:01,561
It's Mama.
1355
01:39:01,644 --> 01:39:04,488
I want to talk to you. Come on.
1356
01:39:04,564 --> 01:39:07,238
Put your arms around my neck.
1357
01:39:07,316 --> 01:39:09,694
Alice, Millie, wake up.
1358
01:39:09,777 --> 01:39:11,620
I want to talk to you, sweetheart.
1359
01:39:11,696 --> 01:39:13,994
Come in the living room.
1360
01:39:15,324 --> 01:39:17,702
Come on. Atta girl.
1361
01:39:40,892 --> 01:39:42,860
I love you kids.
1362
01:39:44,228 --> 01:39:46,697
That's the first thing.
1363
01:39:47,899 --> 01:39:49,822
And Sonny loves you.
1364
01:39:51,903 --> 01:39:54,326
You got the both of us.
1365
01:39:57,700 --> 01:39:59,748
The second thing is
1366
01:40:01,412 --> 01:40:03,835
I'm a jailbird.
1367
01:40:05,500 --> 01:40:07,923
Now, you're going
to be hearing that
1368
01:40:08,002 --> 01:40:10,471
and a lot of other things.
1369
01:40:10,546 --> 01:40:13,516
But you're going to
hear it from me first.
1370
01:40:18,971 --> 01:40:20,894
Millie.
1371
01:40:20,973 --> 01:40:22,771
Your daddy.
1372
01:40:22,850 --> 01:40:24,898
His name was Buddy Wilson.
1373
01:40:24,977 --> 01:40:28,322
He died four months
after you was born.
1374
01:40:30,483 --> 01:40:31,951
Craig.
1375
01:40:33,486 --> 01:40:36,660
I wasn't never married
to your daddy.
1376
01:40:36,739 --> 01:40:39,367
And he wasn't Buddy.
1377
01:40:39,450 --> 01:40:41,748
And he's not Sonny.
1378
01:40:41,827 --> 01:40:43,795
He's another man.
1379
01:40:46,332 --> 01:40:49,427
And there have been
others in my life.
1380
01:40:49,502 --> 01:40:52,972
You're going to be
hearing about them, too.
1381
01:40:54,173 --> 01:40:56,175
I'm not perfect.
1382
01:40:57,510 --> 01:40:59,387
I made mistakes.
1383
01:41:11,482 --> 01:41:14,907
Millie, these are
pictures of your daddy.
1384
01:41:16,028 --> 01:41:18,656
Craig, I got pictures
of your daddy.
1385
01:41:20,032 --> 01:41:22,000
They belong to you.
1386
01:41:33,045 --> 01:41:36,140
If you go in the mill,
1387
01:41:36,215 --> 01:41:40,140
I want life to be better
for you than it is for me.
1388
01:41:43,055 --> 01:41:46,104
That's why I joined the union,
1389
01:41:46,183 --> 01:41:48,686
and that's why I got fired for it.
1390
01:41:51,439 --> 01:41:53,191
You understand me?
1391
01:41:59,071 --> 01:42:00,948
Now, you kids,
1392
01:42:02,408 --> 01:42:04,376
you know what I am.
1393
01:42:06,037 --> 01:42:09,007
And you know that I believe
1394
01:42:09,081 --> 01:42:12,051
in standing up for
what I think is right.
1395
01:42:23,095 --> 01:42:25,894
Go to the bathroom
before you get into bed.
1396
01:42:27,099 --> 01:42:29,568
Take your pictures.
1397
01:42:31,103 --> 01:42:32,571
Go on.
1398
01:42:42,907 --> 01:42:45,535
I'll take a bath.
1399
01:42:45,618 --> 01:42:48,087
There's lice in that jail.
1400
01:43:00,091 --> 01:43:03,015
She had one call,
and she called you.
1401
01:43:04,637 --> 01:43:07,106
She knew I could make bail.
1402
01:43:09,100 --> 01:43:11,353
You come in here,
1403
01:43:11,435 --> 01:43:15,315
you mix her up, turn
her head all around.
1404
01:43:15,398 --> 01:43:17,571
She's all changed.
1405
01:43:19,652 --> 01:43:22,781
I didn't want her to
be a front-runner.
1406
01:43:27,785 --> 01:43:30,880
What's going to happen to us now?
1407
01:43:30,955 --> 01:43:32,298
She stood on the table.
1408
01:43:32,373 --> 01:43:34,341
She's a free woman.
1409
01:43:34,417 --> 01:43:37,546
Maybe you can live with it.
Maybe you can't.
1410
01:43:47,179 --> 01:43:49,273
Busted my shoelace.
1411
01:43:51,308 --> 01:43:53,436
There's another one in the drawer.
1412
01:43:53,519 --> 01:43:56,068
I busted that one last week.
1413
01:44:03,946 --> 01:44:06,995
Did you ever sleep with him?
1414
01:44:07,074 --> 01:44:08,701
No.
1415
01:44:11,162 --> 01:44:12,379
But he's in my head.
1416
01:44:17,501 --> 01:44:21,506
I'm going to see you
through getting tired,
1417
01:44:21,589 --> 01:44:23,387
getting sick,
1418
01:44:25,342 --> 01:44:27,310
getting old.
1419
01:44:30,473 --> 01:44:34,398
I'm going to see you through
anything that comes up.
1420
01:44:36,312 --> 01:44:39,236
And there's nobody else in my head.
1421
01:44:41,358 --> 01:44:42,860
Just you.
1422
01:47:16,055 --> 01:47:20,481
Folks, ballots tabulated for
the O.P. Henley Company,
1423
01:47:20,559 --> 01:47:24,689
against the union, 373.
1424
01:47:47,086 --> 01:47:48,554
Folks,
1425
01:47:51,423 --> 01:47:55,473
the count for the union, 427.
1426
01:48:10,401 --> 01:48:12,403
We got it in!
1427
01:48:13,278 --> 01:48:17,078
Union! Union! Union! Union!
1428
01:48:18,325 --> 01:48:21,044
Union! Union! Union!
1429
01:48:23,288 --> 01:48:26,007
Union! Union! Union!
1430
01:48:31,922 --> 01:48:35,051
Union! Union! Union! Union!
1431
01:48:35,134 --> 01:48:38,684
Union! Union! Union!
1432
01:48:38,762 --> 01:48:42,187
Union! Union! Union!
Union! Union! Union!
1433
01:48:50,357 --> 01:48:53,327
Union! Union! Union!
Union! Union! Union!
1434
01:49:18,343 --> 01:49:20,186
You going to drive
straight through?
1435
01:49:20,262 --> 01:49:22,606
Yes.
1436
01:49:22,681 --> 01:49:25,059
You better stop for
coffee, stay awake.
1437
01:49:25,142 --> 01:49:27,440
I got a thermos in the car.
1438
01:49:30,105 --> 01:49:31,527
Well...
1439
01:49:33,358 --> 01:49:34,826
Well?
1440
01:49:34,985 --> 01:49:36,237
Well.
1441
01:49:36,320 --> 01:49:37,367
Well.
1442
01:49:37,988 --> 01:49:40,116
Ah, so.
1443
01:49:40,199 --> 01:49:42,167
What are you going to do now?
1444
01:49:42,242 --> 01:49:44,336
Live. What else?
1445
01:49:45,829 --> 01:49:48,503
Drop me a line once in a while.
1446
01:49:49,708 --> 01:49:51,381
Anyone read your mail?
1447
01:49:51,460 --> 01:49:53,462
My mother.
1448
01:49:57,174 --> 01:49:59,973
I'll send you a copy
of Dylan Thomas.
1449
01:50:00,052 --> 01:50:02,976
I already bought one for myself.
1450
01:50:03,055 --> 01:50:04,932
You did?
1451
01:50:05,015 --> 01:50:07,643
Nobody can do anything
for you, huh?
1452
01:50:10,020 --> 01:50:15,200
You've done something
for me, a lot.
1453
01:50:18,195 --> 01:50:21,119
Well, you did something for us.
1454
01:50:24,034 --> 01:50:25,786
A mitzvah.
1455
01:50:26,829 --> 01:50:29,753
- What's that?
- What is that?
1456
01:50:30,457 --> 01:50:32,380
That's a good work.
1457
01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:37,890
I don't say good-bye.
1458
01:50:37,965 --> 01:50:40,764
I have been known to cry.
1459
01:50:40,843 --> 01:50:42,766
- Well, what do you say?
- Ahhh...
1460
01:50:44,721 --> 01:50:46,268
Be happy.
1461
01:50:46,348 --> 01:50:48,271
Be well.
1462
01:50:48,350 --> 01:50:50,273
Same to you.
1463
01:50:56,233 --> 01:50:59,328
Best wishes don't
seem hardly enough.
1464
01:50:59,403 --> 01:51:00,871
I...
1465
01:51:00,946 --> 01:51:02,493
I'd like to thank you.
1466
01:51:05,450 --> 01:51:07,077
I do.
1467
01:51:07,161 --> 01:51:10,711
I thank you for your companionship,
1468
01:51:10,789 --> 01:51:13,212
your stamina,
1469
01:51:13,292 --> 01:51:16,594
your horse sense, and 101 laughs.
1470
01:51:18,964 --> 01:51:22,013
I also enjoyed very much
1471
01:51:22,092 --> 01:51:24,811
looking at your shining hair
1472
01:51:24,887 --> 01:51:26,605
and your shining face.
1473
01:51:28,015 --> 01:51:30,859
Reuben, I think you like me.
1474
01:51:32,311 --> 01:51:33,779
I do.
1475
01:51:36,690 --> 01:51:39,409
I was going to buy you something,
1476
01:51:39,484 --> 01:51:42,454
but I didn't know what you'd like.
1477
01:51:44,156 --> 01:51:48,627
Norma, what I've had from
you has been sumptuous.
1478
01:52:03,717 --> 01:52:09,395
Bless the child of a workin' man
1479
01:52:09,473 --> 01:52:15,071
She knows too soon who she is
1480
01:52:15,145 --> 01:52:21,073
And bless the hands of a workin' man
1481
01:52:21,151 --> 01:52:26,908
He knows his soul is his
1482
01:52:26,990 --> 01:52:29,789
So it goes like it goes
1483
01:52:29,868 --> 01:52:31,586
Like the river flows
1484
01:52:32,454 --> 01:52:38,086
And time, it rolls right on
1485
01:52:38,168 --> 01:52:41,012
And maybe what's good
1486
01:52:41,088 --> 01:52:46,015
Gets a little bit better
1487
01:52:46,093 --> 01:52:52,851
And maybe what's bad gets gone
1488
01:52:59,356 --> 01:53:02,030
And it goes like it goes
1489
01:53:02,109 --> 01:53:04,988
Like the river flows
1490
01:53:05,070 --> 01:53:11,544
And time keeps rollin' on
1491
01:53:11,618 --> 01:53:14,963
And maybe what's good
1492
01:53:15,038 --> 01:53:21,091
Gets a little bit better
1493
01:53:21,169 --> 01:53:26,479
And maybe what's bad
1494
01:53:26,550 --> 01:53:33,399
Gets gone100765
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