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Merry
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What are you doing
in the closet?
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I thought it was the
housemother.
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For God's sake,
the taxi's waiting.
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- I'm ready.
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Just because
you don't want to graduate.
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He's been here three and a half
years. Maybe he'd like to.
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I couldn't leave Hamburger.
He's been my family...
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- ...ever since I was little.
- Shh. Come on.
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Give me this.
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I guess he could stay and be
some sort of company.
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It's okay.
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- Come on, Merry.
- Okay, okay.
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Liz, tell me. Aren't you just a
little bit jealous?
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LIZ:
Are you crazy?
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MERRY: Well, in a way, Doug's
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far more your type than mine,
you know.
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He likes the same old boring
books.
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A real brain.
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Did I tell you he started
smoking a pipe?
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I swear on everything you
consider holy, I do not
envy you and Doug.
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Well, he was your date.
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Oh, Liz. Next time we meet I'm
gonna be a married lady.
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What do you think?
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I'm gonna be
an unmarried lady.
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MERRY:
Oh.
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- There he is.
- Oh!
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Doug.
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Doug.
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Hi.
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Hello, Doug.
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- Flawless.
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Do you see what I mean?
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We better go.
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I'm not stealing your roommate.
She's following me...
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...all the way to California.
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Yeah. You rats.
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Have a wonderful life...
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...trip, everything.
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You owe me one.
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To talk about debuts being
auspicious...
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...is to talk about the career
of Liz Hamilton.
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She came to our attention with
her very first novel,
Night Song.
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A remarkable achievement...
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...because it won
the National Writer's Award...
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...and she was then only early
in her 20s.
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Since then her essays have
appeared in reviews
and in journals.
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And her second novel is promised
to us for later this year.
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Or maybe early next year in
1970, if she gets to it.
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Oh, look. Oh, God.
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SPEAKER: Although she doesn't...
- Hi. Liz.
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...identify herself specifically
with feminist politics...
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...her works are themselves an
evocation of the feminine life.
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A plea for the feminine ethic...
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...a demand for a space to be
just that, female.
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I'm very pleased that she's
with us today.
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Please, help me greet Liz
Hamilton.
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Thank you.
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My sincere thanks to
Professor Fields.
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My thanks, also definitely
sincere, to the
Women's Caucus...
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...for sending me a ticket
to come to this warm climate.
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And receive such a
warm reception.
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I'm not sure it's an exclusively
feminine instinct...
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...but I need a lot of warmth.
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Perhaps it is true, as
Professor Fields has said...
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...that I do not involve myself
specifically in
feminist politics.
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WOMAN:
Why not?
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WOMEN:
Yeah.
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Perhaps I am too exclusively
involved in work.
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That is, in writing and the
paralysis that seems
to come with it.
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I don't know why it is, but
writers, many writers...
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...must face some
daily barrier of fear.
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But then, a dear old man,
James M. Cain said that:
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"If your writing doesn't keep
you up nights...
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...it won't keep anyone else
up either."
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I have a confession to make.
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All my life,
I've had a love for old men.
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My father was old
when I was born.
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Older still, when he died.
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My first novel was a
memory of him.
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And I am damn sure
not going to apologize for that.
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And this is, sort of,
the entertaining area.
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It's just a little thing,
but, you know...
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...little tiny houses out here
on the beach...
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...they cost as much as a
mansion down home.
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- Doug.
- Hi, Daddy.
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In case you've forgotten,
that handsome man is my husband.
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- My house.
- Terrific.
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Doug resents we don't
still live near the lab.
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But I could not take it,
I tell you, Pasadena. Whew.
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Go see your daddy.
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Look, honey,
look who's here.
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- Hi.
- Hi, Doug.
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- You're looking great.
- Oh, you're the one.
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- You're beautiful.
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Let me look?
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Oh, my God. You don't look bad.
And a celebrity too.
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Debby, take your hands
out of your pants.
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You should have seen the
admiration of all those girls.
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Debby, we all have interesting
things under our clothes...
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...but we don't stand around
and pick at them.
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So you were a big hit on campus.
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They tarred,
but did not feather me.
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What we call boffo box office.
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Oh, now Douglas,
don't you start.
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Here in Malibu,
we all talk show-biz talk.
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Liz is not interested
in any Hollywood silliness.
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She's a New York authoress.
Right, hon?
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She takes her coffee every day
at the Plaza Hotel, Palm Court.
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And she eats her steaks at
the Four Seasons on Park Avenue.
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I'm impressed.
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I take my coffee to go
at a deli on Sixth Avenue.
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Heh. I'm even more impressed.
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If he had his way, we'd be over
at Caltech all the time.
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But those college people,
they're like Atlantics...
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...except they lie even more.
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When do I get to see more
of your husband?
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Later.
We're having a party for you.
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And he's agreed not to work
for just a minute or two.
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A party?
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You're my only friend
who's a celebrity.
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- A very minor celebrity, Merry.
- Oh, hell.
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It'll do these folks good.
They're all such major ones.
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Oh, Liz, honey, look,
this is Kent.
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This is Kent, this is Liz.
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Hi.
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Don't fall all over yourself
because it just embarrasses him.
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Don't worry. I only know
how to embarrass myself.
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I'm sorry I haven't read any
of your books.
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Oh, there's only been one.
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But, it's marvelous though, even
the parts I don't understand.
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What parts?
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Parts unknown.
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- But, Merry, wait, I, I--
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How're you doing?
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- I'm drunk.
- Let me catch up.
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You shouldn't be talking to the
help. Half of Hollywood's here.
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Yeah?
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You wanna go for a walk?
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- She likes me to rebel
now and again.
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Hey, your turn.
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I'm right in the middle
of a story.
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How's the book coming?
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Well, the first hundred pages?
Terrific.
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I've written them over five
times in five years.
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Is that how you normally write?
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LIZ:
I don't write normally.
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I'm what is called blocked.
Isn't that humorless?
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DOUG:
What about the Frenchman?
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You still into him?
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Into him
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That's California talk, I think.
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Are you?
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I used to be very young.
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Paris was very old.
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He was intense. I was shy.
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- He did all the work.
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They ought to warn you before
they let you fall in love.
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I mean, for the first time.
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You can pick the
God-awfullest one.
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And you don't recover.
Not from the first. Never.
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What comes after the Frenchman?
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Nothing for the moment.
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I got no lover,
but I got a therapist.
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Now, that's humorless.
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Well, he says,
"When I start writing again,
I'll start loving."
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What he said was,
"fucking again."
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Excuse me, Doug,
the man's a Freudian.
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Maybe it's the other way. Start
loving, you'll start writing.
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- I suggested that.
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He said, not writing
was my problem.
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We missing the party?
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- The party's over.
- I'm sorry.
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It's the habit of this community
to be suspicious.
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When a married man goes off with
a married woman's best friend...
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...that's the occasion
for suspicion.
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We better move, because I'm not
changing my habits.
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It's my fault.
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JOHNNY CARSON :
You know that.
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Anyway, tomorrow night
David Steinberg will be here.
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And on Friday, Joe Namath,
who's gonna be a--
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[AUDIENCE CLAPS
AND CHEERS OVER TV]
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Joe will not do a monologue,
because it takes him too--
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Kiss?
I'm not mad at you anymore.
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- Better.
- That's my best.
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- Thank you, Doug.
- Thank you.
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Good night.
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- Good night, honey.
- Good night.
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Merry, thank you.
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What for?
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For being there.
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One year I come running from
Paris, and you-- You're there.
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Another time, I want to crawl
into a hole until
the reviews come out...
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...you open the door.
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And the party.
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Oh, that little party.
Forget it.
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I always thought if my books
were a success, I would buy you
a mink coat.
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- Sable.
- All right, sable.
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Well, it was a big success.
You were in Newsweek, honey.
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There's a lot of broke people
in Newsweek.
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Some of these movie folk here
knew your name.
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They're all rich and famous.
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You're just famous.
That's harder to do.
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All the good things
happen to you.
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Handsome husband.
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A beautiful little girl.
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And you know how to sew.
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- Just a little.
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Why?
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I wanted to talk.
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I can drink and talk. Go.
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Liz, honey, I'm so proud of the
way you turned yourself out.
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I sound like a table leg.
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I mean, what do I do? I sit here
and sew like my grandmother...
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...and kiss my husband goodbye
on his way to work.
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Have tea with Rock Hudson.
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Oh, you know,
they are just folks here.
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They all got problems
same as you and me.
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We could debate that.
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You take that nice fella,
my little neighbor next door.
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That fellow may be just
a neighbor to you...
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...but he shows up in a lot
of ladies' dreams.
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Well, that is just the point.
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Just because he is a star actor,
doesn't mean he's happy.
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He's always moping around,
coming in here for tuna fish.
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He has got lots of time to sit
home and worry.
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- He's had three wives.
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Not one of them worth spit.
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He has become far too familiar
with drugs...
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...some of which he
puts up his nose.
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Here, just let me find the part
about Kent.
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Hmm. Here's the part about--
This is the part about Kent.
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Hmm.
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Well, maybe I-- Maybe I better
start at the beginning.
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Start what?
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- Well.
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Liz, I know this sounds silly
but this is a novel.
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This whole box.
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How wonderful.
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Oh, no.
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It doesn't have all the commas
in place like yours...
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...but it is something I feel
real serious about.
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These folks around here, they
come and they sit on this beach.
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And it is no different
from down home.
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00:17:15,435 --> 00:17:18,138
They got problems, honey,
and they tell them to me.
248
00:17:18,205 --> 00:17:21,341
Because I like to listen.
249
00:17:21,408 --> 00:17:24,711
And then you,
you write about them?
250
00:17:24,777 --> 00:17:26,546
Well, I changed all the names.
251
00:17:26,613 --> 00:17:29,782
- Oh, good.
252
00:17:29,849 --> 00:17:31,251
Let me read, it's easier.
253
00:17:31,318 --> 00:17:34,521
No, it's such a mess.
I better read it.
254
00:17:37,590 --> 00:17:41,328
Let's just start and see
how far we get, okay?
255
00:17:41,394 --> 00:17:43,596
You're gonna hate this but,
okay?
256
00:17:50,903 --> 00:17:52,905
It's got a title.
257
00:17:52,972 --> 00:17:56,409
It's called A House by the Sea.
258
00:17:56,476 --> 00:17:59,246
You know,
to make you think of Malibu.
259
00:18:05,618 --> 00:18:08,087
"This was a first
for Laurelle Jordan.
260
00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:12,659
Her first trip to New York, her
first visit to the Plaza Hotel.
261
00:18:12,725 --> 00:18:16,763
Being a girl from Dallas, she
marched into that hotel
drinking room...
262
00:18:16,829 --> 00:18:20,233
...with all the arrogance of
Texas money."
263
00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:22,635
- You're not getting drunk are
you?
- I'm listening.
264
00:18:26,072 --> 00:18:29,876
"As she sat there fingering the
olive in her crystal clear...
265
00:18:29,942 --> 00:18:33,246
...drink she was wearing a hat
in the shape of a Stetson.
266
00:18:33,313 --> 00:18:37,984
But this was no cowboy hat.
It was made of mink.
267
00:18:38,050 --> 00:18:41,554
The little animals who gave up
their lives to make her hat...
268
00:18:41,621 --> 00:18:43,823
...had all come of
age in Siberia.
269
00:18:47,327 --> 00:18:49,362
MERRY:
There was the sand
at her feet...
270
00:18:49,429 --> 00:18:51,664
...and as many as the grains
of that sand...
271
00:18:51,731 --> 00:18:53,533
...were the memories
of her years...
272
00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,636
...Brad, Elliot, Gerald...
273
00:18:56,703 --> 00:19:02,442
...in and out of her life as the
tide that came now to wash at
her feet.
274
00:19:02,509 --> 00:19:07,314
'Gone,' seemed to say the
lapping tide, all gone.
275
00:19:07,380 --> 00:19:12,419
But her memories and this,
her simple house by the sea."
276
00:19:19,726 --> 00:19:21,328
Was it okay?
277
00:19:22,462 --> 00:19:25,298
Why do they always
end up alone?
278
00:19:27,967 --> 00:19:29,902
Who?
279
00:19:29,969 --> 00:19:34,707
Those ladies, in those stories,
they always end up alone.
280
00:19:36,042 --> 00:19:37,644
You liked it?
281
00:19:39,779 --> 00:19:41,348
It knocked me out.
282
00:19:43,816 --> 00:19:44,817
Is that good?
283
00:19:44,884 --> 00:19:47,387
The Mona Lisa never
knocked me out.
284
00:19:50,056 --> 00:19:51,258
Haven't you had enough?
285
00:19:51,324 --> 00:19:53,626
A nightcap.
A morningcap.
286
00:20:01,934 --> 00:20:04,704
I don't want you to tell me
any lies, Liz.
287
00:20:04,771 --> 00:20:08,575
Don't worry. I need to get sleep
before I tell a believable lie.
288
00:20:11,110 --> 00:20:13,246
Did you like my book?
289
00:20:18,651 --> 00:20:20,787
How long did it take you
to write it?
290
00:20:20,853 --> 00:20:23,390
Oh, almost a year.
Let's see...
291
00:20:23,456 --> 00:20:25,658
...I started just after
Debby went--
292
00:20:25,725 --> 00:20:29,028
Well, eight months,
in the afternoons.
293
00:20:29,095 --> 00:20:31,664
Eight months in the afternoons?
294
00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:34,301
What are you gonna do with it?
Get it published?
295
00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:36,168
I was going to ask you.
296
00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:37,437
Go ahead. Ask.
297
00:20:37,504 --> 00:20:39,038
I don't like your tone, Liz.
298
00:20:39,105 --> 00:20:40,740
What is wrong with my tone?
299
00:20:40,807 --> 00:20:44,210
The New York Review of Books
said I was a master of irony.
300
00:20:44,277 --> 00:20:46,413
Oh, drink your gin
and go to sleep.
301
00:20:46,479 --> 00:20:49,015
You want me to show the book
to Jules Levi.
302
00:20:50,583 --> 00:20:53,786
Well, I want you to do whatever
you think is right.
303
00:20:53,853 --> 00:20:55,988
Jules Levi is the wrong man
for you, Merry.
304
00:20:56,055 --> 00:20:57,390
Why?
305
00:20:57,457 --> 00:20:58,991
Too much important tailoring.
306
00:20:59,058 --> 00:21:01,361
He's like an apple the butler
polishes every day.
307
00:21:01,428 --> 00:21:03,930
He's the most impressive
publisher in the business.
308
00:21:03,996 --> 00:21:05,131
Let's say he's impressed.
309
00:21:05,197 --> 00:21:08,401
Liz, would you
310
00:21:08,468 --> 00:21:10,570
Would you show it to
Jules Levi...
311
00:21:10,637 --> 00:21:13,706
...tell him it not be like some
translation from the Russian?
312
00:21:13,773 --> 00:21:16,709
I haven't escaped from the
iron curtain or anything...
313
00:21:16,776 --> 00:21:19,111
- ...but I do know what it
feels--
- To have feelings!
314
00:21:19,178 --> 00:21:21,581
You know what it feels like
to have feelings.
315
00:21:21,648 --> 00:21:23,416
- I suppose.
- It is not a supposition.
316
00:21:23,483 --> 00:21:25,151
It is a fact,
from the master of irony.
317
00:21:25,217 --> 00:21:27,787
Merry knows what it feels like
to have feelings.
318
00:21:27,854 --> 00:21:29,589
That is worth money
in the pocket.
319
00:21:29,656 --> 00:21:31,524
But not Jules Levi's pocket.
320
00:21:31,591 --> 00:21:33,159
He doesn't have any pockets.
321
00:21:33,225 --> 00:21:36,128
- Too much expensive tailoring.
322
00:21:36,195 --> 00:21:38,765
Jules Levi is interested in
something called serious art.
323
00:21:38,831 --> 00:21:41,000
Serious art.
Ask him and he'll tell you.
324
00:21:41,067 --> 00:21:44,904
There are only two markets for
serious art:
homosexuals and Jews.
325
00:21:44,971 --> 00:21:48,841
- That's an ugly thing to say.
Homosexual or Jew?
326
00:21:48,908 --> 00:21:51,243
I could smack your face
and not even feel it.
327
00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:53,346
Another gin
and I wouldn't either.
328
00:21:54,914 --> 00:21:57,917
What's wrong with me writing a
book
329
00:21:57,984 --> 00:21:59,519
Nothing.
330
00:21:59,586 --> 00:22:02,955
What is wrong with learning to
bounce balls on your nose
eight months?
331
00:22:03,022 --> 00:22:06,559
I should learn to bounce balls
on my nose. Balls, I should.
332
00:22:06,626 --> 00:22:09,496
I'm too busy writing and
rewriting my first 100 pages...
333
00:22:09,562 --> 00:22:13,966
...for that famous apple
polished, impressed
and impressive publisher.
334
00:22:14,033 --> 00:22:17,437
He has been waiting years for
what they call my second effort.
335
00:22:19,506 --> 00:22:21,307
Do you know what it is
to be blocked?
336
00:22:21,374 --> 00:22:23,610
Could you develop a few
hang
337
00:22:23,676 --> 00:22:25,311
Don't you wanna write major art?
338
00:22:25,378 --> 00:22:28,080
And knock them out
at the local gay Hadassah?
339
00:22:28,147 --> 00:22:29,816
Why are you all shouting?
340
00:22:29,882 --> 00:22:33,520
Liz is just being a bitch, is
what we call it down home.
341
00:22:33,586 --> 00:22:36,989
Well, we're not down home.
We're way out West.
342
00:22:37,056 --> 00:22:39,459
And quit quoting Atlanta as
though it were gospel.
343
00:22:39,526 --> 00:22:41,428
Atlanta has fallen.
Haven't you heard?
344
00:22:41,494 --> 00:22:43,630
Sherman has spared us
any further wisdom...
345
00:22:43,696 --> 00:22:45,765
...from that quotable
capital of the South.
346
00:22:45,832 --> 00:22:48,267
Give us a quote from Paris,
France then, Miss Smarty.
347
00:22:48,334 --> 00:22:49,836
Okay.
348
00:22:49,902 --> 00:22:53,640
In Paris in France they had a
guy who was, for the record...
349
00:22:53,706 --> 00:22:56,042
...both a homosexual and a Jew.
350
00:22:56,108 --> 00:23:00,513
Who wrote a seven-volume book
they continue to refer to
as a masterpiece.
351
00:23:00,580 --> 00:23:02,982
Who was such nitro-glycerin
in the head...
352
00:23:03,049 --> 00:23:05,652
...that he had to hide out
in a cork-lined room...
353
00:23:05,718 --> 00:23:07,954
...or else he'd have
gone up in shrapnel.
354
00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:10,089
Proust, Marcel Proust.
355
00:23:11,558 --> 00:23:13,660
He had the good grace
to suffer for his art.
356
00:23:13,726 --> 00:23:15,995
And didn't push aside
the tuna fish sandwiches...
357
00:23:16,062 --> 00:23:18,364
...on his Formica kitchen table
to write it.
358
00:23:18,431 --> 00:23:20,633
Has anybody slept around here?
359
00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:23,770
Liz Hamilton, it is my duty
to remind you of a promise...
360
00:23:23,836 --> 00:23:27,039
...you extracted from me
early in our careers in college.
361
00:23:27,106 --> 00:23:29,341
You made me promise to tell you
if you ever went too far...
362
00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:30,977
...and were in danger
of hurting me.
363
00:23:31,043 --> 00:23:33,446
Well, you are too far right now.
Apologize.
364
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:36,983
I apologize.
365
00:23:37,049 --> 00:23:40,186
Tell her I apologize for a basic
lack of honesty.
366
00:23:40,252 --> 00:23:42,689
You have been lying.
367
00:23:42,755 --> 00:23:45,992
Not yet. I would only be lying
if I let you believe...
368
00:23:46,058 --> 00:23:49,796
...it was merely Scotch or gin
that are making me do what I am
about to do.
369
00:23:49,862 --> 00:23:52,331
What are you about to do?
370
00:23:52,398 --> 00:23:53,733
Vomit.
371
00:23:57,103 --> 00:23:58,871
She liked my book.
372
00:24:08,114 --> 00:24:12,351
Don't worry, I'll get some sleep
on the plane, I guess.
373
00:24:12,418 --> 00:24:15,254
Oh, give these back to Merry.
374
00:24:15,321 --> 00:24:17,389
And, tell her, thank you.
375
00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:19,759
I wish I understood you two.
376
00:24:19,826 --> 00:24:23,362
Why should you know the secret?
We don't.
377
00:24:23,429 --> 00:24:25,598
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER PA]
378
00:24:29,201 --> 00:24:30,603
Thank you.
379
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,008
I'm just sorry.
380
00:24:36,075 --> 00:24:39,646
Why? You've been behaving
like a normal human being.
381
00:24:39,712 --> 00:24:41,948
I'm sorry you don't
live around here.
382
00:24:42,014 --> 00:24:43,550
You are?
383
00:24:43,616 --> 00:24:46,653
It'd be nice for Merry
having a friend.
384
00:24:46,719 --> 00:24:49,255
Oh, some friend.
385
00:24:51,057 --> 00:24:52,959
You're okay.
386
00:25:04,436 --> 00:25:06,138
Bye, Doug.
387
00:25:08,374 --> 00:25:09,909
Thanks.
388
00:25:14,981 --> 00:25:19,586
WOMAN :
--Airlines, flight 174...
389
00:25:19,652 --> 00:25:22,889
...for St. Louis and Houston...
390
00:25:22,955 --> 00:25:25,291
...will depart from gate 30.
391
00:25:41,073 --> 00:25:42,575
Thank you.
392
00:25:44,877 --> 00:25:47,379
Are you not drinking?
393
00:25:47,446 --> 00:25:49,315
Not this trip, thanks.
394
00:26:10,770 --> 00:26:13,840
Hmm. I don't think
she's drinking.
395
00:26:13,906 --> 00:26:17,176
A little wine.
That doesn't count.
396
00:26:17,243 --> 00:26:21,614
- Well, don't blame me.
- Heh. No, you are blameless.
397
00:26:32,659 --> 00:26:34,193
Thanks.
398
00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:39,131
It was hard at first.
Sure, it's an adjustment.
399
00:26:40,466 --> 00:26:42,601
I can't imagine.
400
00:26:42,669 --> 00:26:45,905
It must be really horrible
in its way.
401
00:26:45,972 --> 00:26:50,743
For example, I've never been
able to take this off.
402
00:26:50,810 --> 00:26:52,779
How old was she?
403
00:26:52,845 --> 00:26:55,281
If you don't mind saying?
404
00:26:55,347 --> 00:26:57,349
Twenty-nine.
405
00:26:57,416 --> 00:26:59,385
I'm just two years older.
406
00:27:00,486 --> 00:27:02,321
Any kids?
407
00:27:02,388 --> 00:27:05,091
No. Thank God for that.
408
00:27:11,597 --> 00:27:13,900
You ever known a guy
409
00:27:18,037 --> 00:27:21,240
Have you ever known a guy who
loved you so much that he'd...
410
00:27:21,307 --> 00:27:24,944
...run up the stairs because he
couldn't wait for the elevator?
411
00:27:25,011 --> 00:27:27,246
You ran up the stairs
for your wife?
412
00:27:27,313 --> 00:27:29,248
Sometimes.
413
00:27:30,783 --> 00:27:33,419
I've never lived in
an elevator building.
414
00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:35,221
It can be nice.
415
00:27:35,287 --> 00:27:36,355
What?
416
00:27:36,422 --> 00:27:38,224
ATTENDANT:
Would you like one last drink...
417
00:27:38,290 --> 00:27:40,259
...before our approach
to Kennedy?
418
00:27:41,327 --> 00:27:43,029
Kennedy?
419
00:27:45,531 --> 00:27:47,399
No. Thank you.
420
00:27:49,668 --> 00:27:51,804
Oh, excuse me.
421
00:27:56,743 --> 00:27:58,444
LIZ:
Sorry.
422
00:28:31,911 --> 00:28:33,412
Oh, sorry.
423
00:28:59,371 --> 00:29:01,207
...in preparation
for our landing at Kennedy.
424
00:29:01,273 --> 00:29:04,143
We ask at this time that
you return to your seats...
425
00:29:04,210 --> 00:29:07,046
...and extinguish
all smoking materials.
426
00:29:14,586 --> 00:29:17,523
...seatbacksin full upright
position, make sure all
carry...
427
00:29:17,589 --> 00:29:20,026
...on luggage is securely
under your seat.
428
00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:41,547
...place and is a normal
part of our flight.
429
00:29:55,527 --> 00:29:57,897
The sound you hear is the
captain reversing engines...
430
00:29:57,964 --> 00:30:01,633
...to retard our forward motion
and is a normal part
of our procedure.
431
00:30:04,503 --> 00:30:07,473
On behalf of Captain Price
and the entire flight crew...
432
00:30:07,539 --> 00:30:10,209
...we want to welcome you
to the New York area...
433
00:30:10,276 --> 00:30:12,478
...and to thank you
for flying TWA.
434
00:30:12,544 --> 00:30:14,613
We hope your trip has been
pleasurable.
435
00:30:20,719 --> 00:30:24,223
I work in the city
and maybe we could--
436
00:30:24,290 --> 00:30:26,458
You know, I don't even know
your last name.
437
00:30:26,525 --> 00:30:30,062
Max, some things are perfect
just as they are.
438
00:30:30,129 --> 00:30:33,765
- Well, what if I give you my
number?
- Well....
439
00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:35,501
GIRL:
Daddy, Daddy.
440
00:30:35,567 --> 00:30:40,606
Max, darling. Max, thank God.
I thought we missed you, honey.
441
00:30:40,672 --> 00:30:43,375
WIFE: The kids fought all the
way down the Saw Mill
River Parkway.
442
00:30:43,442 --> 00:30:46,078
I wanted to surprise you
but it wouldn't have been...
443
00:30:46,145 --> 00:30:48,280
... much of a surprise
if we'd missed you.
444
00:30:48,347 --> 00:30:50,616
- Oh, no, no. No, thanks.
445
00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:53,585
I've been helped quite enough
for one day.
446
00:30:53,652 --> 00:30:56,222
Come on, let's go.
I made this wonderful dinner.
447
00:30:56,288 --> 00:30:59,125
You're just gonna love it.
Come on, you got everything?
448
00:31:30,689 --> 00:31:32,158
- Jules.
- Ah.
449
00:31:33,792 --> 00:31:35,027
- Mwah.
- Welcome home, dove.
450
00:31:35,094 --> 00:31:36,662
- That is a tan.
- Ha-ha.
451
00:31:36,728 --> 00:31:39,365
Most New Yorkers never get out
of the Polo Lounge out there.
452
00:31:39,431 --> 00:31:43,269
- I passed out on the beach a
lot.
- Five years.
453
00:31:43,335 --> 00:31:45,071
I've always had to call you.
454
00:31:45,137 --> 00:31:48,407
I felt like a rejected suitor.
At last you call me.
455
00:31:48,474 --> 00:31:50,409
With your manuscript.
Unbelievable.
456
00:31:50,476 --> 00:31:51,510
Not quite.
457
00:31:51,577 --> 00:31:53,779
- Scotch and water.
458
00:31:53,845 --> 00:31:55,514
Another martini for you,
Mr. Levi?
459
00:31:55,581 --> 00:31:59,318
When a writer calls her
publisher,
it's usually love or money.
460
00:31:59,385 --> 00:32:02,221
- They're out of one or the
other.
- Well, Jules, it's neither.
461
00:32:02,288 --> 00:32:04,123
- Yeah.
462
00:32:04,190 --> 00:32:05,691
You're not in love?
463
00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:07,659
No, I've lost my resilience
in that department.
464
00:32:07,726 --> 00:32:09,761
How do you mean?
465
00:32:09,828 --> 00:32:13,032
Well, my trust, which at best
has always been minimal,
is now entirely gone.
466
00:32:13,099 --> 00:32:14,633
Nothing ventured.
467
00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:17,103
I've never found anyone to
compare with you, Jules.
468
00:32:17,169 --> 00:32:19,805
Heh. What's wrong with the
original? Try him, terrific.
469
00:32:19,871 --> 00:32:21,107
- Sarah says so.
470
00:32:21,173 --> 00:32:22,841
Your wife, Sarah.
471
00:32:22,908 --> 00:32:26,045
I don't know why so many
attractive ladies are more
concerned...
472
00:32:26,112 --> 00:32:29,015
...about my wife's feelings
than mine. Your novel.
473
00:32:31,117 --> 00:32:32,718
This isn't mine.
474
00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:35,854
I thought you said you were
closing in on it, on the finish?
475
00:32:35,921 --> 00:32:37,356
I am closing in on it. But--
476
00:32:37,423 --> 00:32:39,858
Since I came back,
I've been possessed with work.
477
00:32:39,925 --> 00:32:44,963
- A couple hours a day I'm
possessed.
478
00:32:45,031 --> 00:32:47,633
This is by a friend.
479
00:32:47,699 --> 00:32:51,703
My oldest friend, truly a
friend. It has potential.
480
00:32:51,770 --> 00:32:53,239
Give it to Allan for a read.
481
00:32:53,305 --> 00:32:55,107
No, I want you to read it
as a favor.
482
00:32:55,174 --> 00:32:57,743
What's it about?
483
00:32:57,809 --> 00:32:58,777
Feelings.
484
00:32:58,844 --> 00:33:01,247
What kind of feelings?
485
00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:03,549
The kind of feelings
they have in Malibu.
486
00:33:04,550 --> 00:33:06,718
Malibu.
487
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,794
Oh.
488
00:33:15,861 --> 00:33:18,130
Just because I'm from the
South, every time I open my...
489
00:33:18,197 --> 00:33:20,466
...mouth some Yankee thinks
I sound stupid.
490
00:33:20,532 --> 00:33:23,269
Why
Well, I don't care.
491
00:33:23,335 --> 00:33:26,272
I'm not gonna curl up
like some salted slug.
492
00:33:26,338 --> 00:33:31,610
I'm proud to be from Atlanta.
493
00:33:31,677 --> 00:33:35,114
Twice a year, when Merry Noel
Blake takes down Margaret
Mitchell's...
494
00:33:35,181 --> 00:33:39,285
...phenomenal bestseller to
read, it's not just to be
reminded of home.
495
00:33:39,351 --> 00:33:41,820
She may be comparing royalties.
496
00:33:41,887 --> 00:33:43,655
Ever since her first book...
497
00:33:43,722 --> 00:33:47,493
...A House by the Sea, went
through Hollywood like a...
498
00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:50,962
...mowing down about half the
film colony with its exposé...
499
00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:53,365
...she has established herself
as more than a writer.
500
00:33:53,432 --> 00:33:57,903
This prolific woman, with five
torrid bestsellers,
one after the other...
501
00:33:57,969 --> 00:34:01,873
...has become a, kind of,
publishing institution.
502
00:34:01,940 --> 00:34:03,642
But at what a cost.
503
00:34:03,709 --> 00:34:05,777
KENT:
Nah. I've always loved Merry.
504
00:34:05,844 --> 00:34:06,912
She's a good kid.
505
00:34:06,978 --> 00:34:08,647
DICK:
You don't feel that...
506
00:34:08,714 --> 00:34:12,918
...there's a slightly altered
portrait of you in her book?
507
00:34:12,984 --> 00:34:16,688
Now, do I look like the kind
of a guy that
508
00:34:16,755 --> 00:34:19,825
I mean, once in a while, some
schnook could get carried away.
509
00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:22,694
But, I mean, with all of the
daughters of all of his...
510
00:34:22,761 --> 00:34:25,364
...friends? Including the
daughter of the studio head?
511
00:34:25,431 --> 00:34:27,866
God, somebody's gotta be
a fruitcake to do that.
512
00:34:27,933 --> 00:34:31,803
DICK:
It's not true then...
513
00:34:33,972 --> 00:34:35,474
Nah. Heh.
514
00:34:35,541 --> 00:34:37,843
Nah, I'm sorry to see Merry
move out of the colony.
515
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:40,346
DICK: We should mention,
that's the Malibu Colony.
516
00:34:40,412 --> 00:34:42,481
And that's where the first
novel is set.
517
00:34:42,548 --> 00:34:45,384
Why did she leave Malibu?
518
00:34:45,451 --> 00:34:49,821
I don t know.
Some guy set fire to her car.
519
00:34:49,888 --> 00:34:52,458
DICK: It's hard to imagine that
the pyramids...
520
00:34:52,524 --> 00:34:56,128
...along the Nile or the sphinx
with its mysterious smile,
could have--
521
00:34:56,195 --> 00:34:57,529
You're gonna miss this.
522
00:34:57,596 --> 00:34:59,565
It's a rerun.
You've seen it once.
523
00:34:59,631 --> 00:35:02,033
- Make me one too.
524
00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:04,035
Half of whatever
you're drinking.
525
00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:06,705
DICK:
--that you use a nom de plume.
526
00:35:06,772 --> 00:35:08,807
MERRY: I was a Christmas
surprise to my mama...
527
00:35:08,874 --> 00:35:10,942
...so she named me
Merry Noel...
528
00:35:11,009 --> 00:35:12,978
...you know, M-E-R-R-Y.
529
00:35:13,044 --> 00:35:16,315
All the folks down home call me
Merry Noel to this day.
530
00:35:16,382 --> 00:35:23,789
DICK:
In her second book, Cleo...
531
00:35:23,855 --> 00:35:27,693
...and falls in love, in fact
into bed, with a executive...
532
00:35:27,759 --> 00:35:32,364
- ...who looks like our own
Gerald Ford.
- There's your half.
533
00:35:32,431 --> 00:35:35,534
- Nope.
534
00:35:35,601 --> 00:35:37,903
I'm booked on
to The Merv Griffin Show.
535
00:35:42,641 --> 00:35:43,709
I'm sorry.
536
00:35:43,775 --> 00:35:45,444
I know how you like to affix
blame...
537
00:35:45,511 --> 00:35:48,046
...but I did not close down the
project, the lab did.
538
00:35:48,113 --> 00:35:49,948
I said, I'm sorry.
539
00:35:50,015 --> 00:35:53,919
Sometimes words just slide out
of my mouth. Heh.
540
00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:56,522
Like a snake out of its hole.
541
00:36:22,381 --> 00:36:24,049
Home Cookin'.
542
00:36:24,115 --> 00:36:26,552
- Hmm.
543
00:36:26,618 --> 00:36:27,986
That's it.
That's the title.
544
00:36:28,053 --> 00:36:29,255
Home Cookin'.
545
00:36:29,321 --> 00:36:31,857
It's gonna be about Mama.
546
00:36:31,923 --> 00:36:33,792
Yeah.
547
00:36:33,859 --> 00:36:38,564
I keep trying to remember why
she kept going off to see Papa.
548
00:36:38,630 --> 00:36:40,699
She had been married
three more times...
549
00:36:40,766 --> 00:36:43,134
...and she was living
with her third husband.
550
00:36:43,201 --> 00:36:45,804
And she snuck off to a motel
to see Papa.
551
00:36:45,871 --> 00:36:48,106
She was 60.
552
00:36:48,173 --> 00:36:51,310
- My God, she was driven.
- Mm-hm.
553
00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:56,782
- I wonder.
554
00:36:57,916 --> 00:36:59,251
Wha--
555
00:37:01,453 --> 00:37:03,289
She must have loved Papa.
556
00:37:04,956 --> 00:37:08,727
You never recover from the first
person you fall in love with.
557
00:37:08,794 --> 00:37:11,129
- No.
558
00:37:11,196 --> 00:37:13,632
- Well, you said it.
- Liz told me.
559
00:37:13,699 --> 00:37:16,001
- We did.
560
00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:19,004
- Some years ago.
561
00:37:31,483 --> 00:37:36,888
Doug, honey, Doug, could you
excuse me? Just a second.
562
00:37:36,955 --> 00:37:39,224
I'll be right back.
Hon, I'll be right back.
563
00:37:39,291 --> 00:37:40,826
You just-- I'll be right back.
564
00:37:40,892 --> 00:37:43,562
One second, okay?
I've just gotta--
565
00:38:46,625 --> 00:38:48,727
Dougy.
566
00:38:48,794 --> 00:38:51,797
- Mm.
- I'm sorry.
567
00:38:54,966 --> 00:38:56,868
Doug
568
00:38:56,935 --> 00:39:00,939
- I finished.
569
00:39:01,006 --> 00:39:02,874
Without me?
570
00:39:02,941 --> 00:39:06,011
I only feel, Merv, you can only
be honest when you do something.
571
00:39:06,077 --> 00:39:08,079
You have to do it,
speak from the heart...
572
00:39:08,146 --> 00:39:10,849
...you have to tell it like it
is. That's how I feel.
573
00:39:10,916 --> 00:39:13,819
- I do, yes, I do, she's 14.
574
00:39:13,885 --> 00:39:19,257
I wonder, Merry Noel, what
advice you give her about boys?
575
00:39:19,324 --> 00:39:22,761
Oh, well, I just tell her
what my mama told me.
576
00:39:22,828 --> 00:39:25,464
I just tell her, if you think
too much about boys...
577
00:39:25,531 --> 00:39:27,165
...you get on the back
of a horse.
578
00:39:28,534 --> 00:39:29,668
MERV:
Quite a philosopher, your mama.
579
00:39:29,735 --> 00:39:31,269
MERRY:
She was, yes.
580
00:39:31,336 --> 00:39:34,940
MERV: Did you do a lot of
horseback riding as a youngster?
581
00:39:35,006 --> 00:39:37,275
MERRY: Oh, no, I didn't Merv.
I don't like horses.
582
00:39:37,342 --> 00:39:40,378
They're so big,
but I like jockeys.
583
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,148
MERV :
Do you?
584
00:41:46,204 --> 00:41:47,639
You're early.
585
00:41:50,542 --> 00:41:52,377
Hi, Doug.
586
00:41:52,443 --> 00:41:53,879
You're not at
The Merv Griffin Show?
587
00:41:53,945 --> 00:41:57,215
I stepped out for a drink.
588
00:41:57,282 --> 00:42:00,986
- I was about to have
one myself.
- Me too.
589
00:42:01,052 --> 00:42:03,121
I thought you were sticking
with Merry.
590
00:42:03,188 --> 00:42:05,591
She can never find her way
down here.
591
00:42:05,657 --> 00:42:09,695
She can figure out how to find a
bookstore in Satsuma, Florida.
592
00:42:09,761 --> 00:42:11,296
I'm not worried.
593
00:42:15,701 --> 00:42:20,271
I haven't figured out whether
I like you better drunk
or sober.
594
00:42:20,338 --> 00:42:21,840
No Scotch?
595
00:42:23,842 --> 00:42:26,344
Ah. Next to the typewriter.
596
00:42:26,411 --> 00:42:29,014
I forgot the literary process.
597
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,148
You're almost right.
598
00:42:30,215 --> 00:42:32,417
I was having drinks
with a novelist.
599
00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:33,852
That is literary,
isn't it?
600
00:42:33,919 --> 00:42:37,555
The novelist?
Are you still seeing him?
601
00:42:38,690 --> 00:42:41,426
- No.
602
00:42:41,492 --> 00:42:43,161
-No.
603
00:42:43,228 --> 00:42:45,997
- If there was something
to talk about.
- Ahh.
604
00:42:46,064 --> 00:42:47,966
Poor Liz.
605
00:42:55,206 --> 00:42:59,210
I finally figured out after
three, what is it...
606
00:42:59,277 --> 00:43:02,280
...three and a half,
on-again off-again years...
607
00:43:02,347 --> 00:43:05,316
...that my friend Paul
considers me an interruption.
608
00:43:07,619 --> 00:43:09,988
To his otherwise
important thoughts.
609
00:43:14,525 --> 00:43:16,361
Poor Liz.
610
00:43:19,264 --> 00:43:21,132
Don't worry.
I took his best years.
611
00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:23,334
Please God,
don't let me burn that bird.
612
00:43:25,370 --> 00:43:29,274
All the times we've been here,
I've never seen you in the
kitchen.
613
00:43:29,340 --> 00:43:32,711
I don't go in the kitchen.
The roaches talk about me.
614
00:43:32,778 --> 00:43:34,880
I'm thinking about
moving back here.
615
00:43:36,915 --> 00:43:38,583
I'm not afraid of cockroaches.
616
00:43:38,650 --> 00:43:40,551
You're kidding?
617
00:43:40,618 --> 00:43:43,254
Hmm. They run when I turn on the
light. They're afraid of me.
618
00:43:43,321 --> 00:43:45,456
I mean about moving back here.
619
00:43:45,523 --> 00:43:49,227
There's an opening at the
Rockefeller Institute.
I'm going in to see them.
620
00:43:49,294 --> 00:43:50,696
Does Merry want to live
in New York?
621
00:43:50,762 --> 00:43:52,764
I don't know.
I never asked her.
622
00:43:52,831 --> 00:43:55,100
- Liz.
623
00:43:55,166 --> 00:43:58,336
I have this fantasy that if I
work back here I can come by.
624
00:43:58,403 --> 00:44:01,206
- You can incinerate a bird.
625
00:44:01,272 --> 00:44:03,174
- She can fly in between books.
- Oh, yeah.
626
00:44:03,241 --> 00:44:05,777
That's what she does,
flies in between books.
627
00:44:05,844 --> 00:44:07,779
- Naughty.
- Hey, I can cook.
628
00:44:07,846 --> 00:44:10,615
Did I tell you?
I used to read Gourmet Magazine.
629
00:44:10,682 --> 00:44:12,117
Let me ask you something--
630
00:44:12,183 --> 00:44:14,485
I'm thinking,
if I get a place back here...
631
00:44:14,552 --> 00:44:17,723
...I can cook duck
or cherries jubilee.
632
00:44:17,789 --> 00:44:20,658
- That sounds fun.
- And invite you.
633
00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:27,398
You're thinking, you can move
away from Merry...
634
00:44:27,465 --> 00:44:31,236
...between books and invite her
oldest friend over for duck?
635
00:44:31,302 --> 00:44:33,438
And cherries jubilee.
636
00:44:34,806 --> 00:44:36,775
And then what?
637
00:44:36,842 --> 00:44:40,645
-Where does your fantasy go from
there?
-I told you way back in
college...
638
00:44:40,712 --> 00:44:46,417
...when I started going with
Merry, if there ever came a
time when you--
639
00:44:46,484 --> 00:44:49,354
You promised you'd never
mention that again.
640
00:44:50,555 --> 00:44:52,357
I lied.
641
00:45:04,836 --> 00:45:06,972
That's Merry, Doug.
642
00:45:10,175 --> 00:45:12,077
Doug.
643
00:45:19,617 --> 00:45:22,687
The limousine driver had no idea
where Minetta Lane was.
644
00:45:22,754 --> 00:45:24,722
He had to stop and ask a cab.
645
00:45:24,790 --> 00:45:26,424
I got so darn angry
I took the cab...
646
00:45:26,491 --> 00:45:29,260
...and then that damn fool
couldn't even find the Village.
647
00:45:29,327 --> 00:45:32,163
Goddamn it. I see you
found your way down here.
648
00:45:32,230 --> 00:45:34,866
- Liz has some wonderful Scotch.
649
00:45:34,933 --> 00:45:37,502
I don't. He doesn't.
Why do you give him liquor?
650
00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:39,237
She also sacrificed a chicken.
651
00:45:39,304 --> 00:45:42,573
Great, great. You're drunk.
That's just great.
652
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:44,142
- I'll get it.
- No, I got it.
653
00:45:44,209 --> 00:45:46,845
- I'll get it.
- Goddamn it.
654
00:45:49,314 --> 00:45:51,582
Well, l took a Dexamyl
and cleaned house today.
655
00:45:51,649 --> 00:45:53,618
You did all this in one day?
656
00:45:53,684 --> 00:45:56,888
Oh, the dexie did it.
I just watched.
657
00:46:08,399 --> 00:46:09,801
Good night.
658
00:46:11,336 --> 00:46:13,604
- Back to the hotel.
659
00:46:13,671 --> 00:46:15,173
-I've got an interview tomorrow.
660
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:17,608
I wanna go and drink myself
to sleep. Alone.
661
00:46:17,675 --> 00:46:19,577
Do you have any idea
how far away you are...
662
00:46:19,644 --> 00:46:22,380
- ...from sleeping on park
benches?
- Come on, Merry.
663
00:46:22,447 --> 00:46:24,715
I wish you weren't always
ready with a Scotch...
664
00:46:24,782 --> 00:46:26,684
...and a back scratch
for poor Doug.
665
00:46:26,751 --> 00:46:28,386
"Poor Doug" likes his
back scratched.
666
00:46:28,453 --> 00:46:31,089
It is, l am told,
the spirits of affection...
667
00:46:31,156 --> 00:46:33,424
...and not the distillery
that comfort the soul.
668
00:46:33,491 --> 00:46:35,994
- Brother!
669
00:46:36,061 --> 00:46:37,662
This is not Bellevue.
670
00:46:37,728 --> 00:46:41,032
I do not accept responsibility
for the sprits of my guests.
671
00:46:41,099 --> 00:46:42,968
You cannot imagine
what it's been like...
672
00:46:43,034 --> 00:46:45,103
...since he drank himself
out of his job.
673
00:46:45,170 --> 00:46:46,938
Bullshit.
I never drank to do my job...
674
00:46:47,005 --> 00:46:48,173
- ...at the lab.
- Hah!
675
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,508
I only drink to perform
my job as husband.
676
00:46:50,575 --> 00:46:52,410
Then you better bring a bottle
to bed next time.
677
00:46:52,477 --> 00:46:54,545
LIZ: Let's say we eat.
- Blame me, goddamn it...
678
00:46:54,612 --> 00:46:57,448
...it's clear he blames me
for what turns out to be...
679
00:46:57,515 --> 00:47:00,518
...to my surprise, something
missing in his character.
680
00:47:00,585 --> 00:47:03,421
What's missing are a few
intimate parts of my anatomy.
681
00:47:03,488 --> 00:47:05,156
Disgusting.
682
00:47:05,223 --> 00:47:07,425
I do blame myself because
if I hadn't offered them up...
683
00:47:07,492 --> 00:47:09,294
...you'd never have
sliced them off.
684
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:13,331
- I wish I'd slice you up.
- Get your hand off my tie.
685
00:47:15,967 --> 00:47:18,103
How very stupid.
686
00:47:18,169 --> 00:47:20,105
It's a scene from
one of your books.
687
00:47:20,171 --> 00:47:22,707
That ain't stupid.
It's just trash.
688
00:47:22,773 --> 00:47:24,542
- Trash.
689
00:47:24,609 --> 00:47:25,776
You said trash?
690
00:47:25,843 --> 00:47:28,346
- Trash.
- Successful trash.
691
00:47:28,413 --> 00:47:29,714
You're goddamn right.
692
00:47:29,780 --> 00:47:33,651
You put together enough trash,
you get major garbage.
693
00:47:44,795 --> 00:47:46,597
Trash.
694
00:47:46,664 --> 00:47:48,666
Trash, my ass!
695
00:48:09,754 --> 00:48:12,223
Liz.
696
00:48:12,290 --> 00:48:13,959
Doug.
697
00:48:18,329 --> 00:48:19,897
Hi, Doug.
698
00:48:20,932 --> 00:48:22,700
- I had the interview.
- Oh.
699
00:48:22,767 --> 00:48:23,834
And it wasn't right.
700
00:48:23,901 --> 00:48:26,537
Really. I'm sorry.
701
00:48:26,604 --> 00:48:28,506
It was probably best.
I'm going down to Houston.
702
00:48:28,573 --> 00:48:31,042
There's a NASA position
that sounds right.
703
00:48:31,109 --> 00:48:33,511
That means I'll live
in Texas. Assuming--
704
00:48:33,578 --> 00:48:36,681
- You're serious about this with
Merry.
- Yes.
705
00:48:36,747 --> 00:48:40,118
I gave her 15 years. You can't
say that I wasn't serious.
706
00:48:41,252 --> 00:48:42,687
Aren't you gonna tell her?
707
00:48:42,753 --> 00:48:45,023
We talked it out,
we shouted it out, last night.
708
00:48:45,090 --> 00:48:47,758
- No, about Texas.
709
00:48:47,825 --> 00:48:49,961
- No.
710
00:48:50,028 --> 00:48:53,031
No, Doug. Don't start any more
of this fantasy business.
711
00:48:53,098 --> 00:48:54,966
Why don't you let me
be your friend?
712
00:48:55,033 --> 00:48:56,834
You are my friend.
713
00:48:56,901 --> 00:48:59,270
Close friend.
You need a close friend.
714
00:48:59,337 --> 00:49:01,506
You and Merry are both
my close friends.
715
00:49:01,572 --> 00:49:03,308
You know what the end
of my fantasy is?
716
00:49:03,374 --> 00:49:04,875
- No, Doug.
- Merry divorces me.
717
00:49:04,942 --> 00:49:07,045
- Please.
- You forget about her friend.
718
00:49:07,112 --> 00:49:09,047
- Stop.
- Hey, look at me.
719
00:49:09,114 --> 00:49:11,816
And you marry me.
720
00:49:11,882 --> 00:49:14,652
Doug, you're scaring the shit
out of me.
721
00:49:29,334 --> 00:49:31,269
MERRY:
Doug.
722
00:49:36,174 --> 00:49:39,944
- You told her you were meeting
me?
723
00:49:40,011 --> 00:49:42,113
Doug.
724
00:49:42,180 --> 00:49:43,648
- I had to.
725
00:49:43,714 --> 00:49:46,151
Fifteen years.
726
00:49:46,217 --> 00:49:49,520
Don't you want me
to tell her something?
727
00:49:49,587 --> 00:49:50,688
Yeah.
728
00:49:51,622 --> 00:49:53,991
Tell her goodbye.
729
00:49:54,059 --> 00:49:55,426
MERRY:
Doug.
730
00:49:55,493 --> 00:49:57,295
Doug, wait.
731
00:50:00,931 --> 00:50:03,168
Doug.
732
00:50:03,234 --> 00:50:06,237
- Doug.
- He's gone, Merry.
733
00:50:06,304 --> 00:50:08,339
- He's gone to Texas.
734
00:50:08,406 --> 00:50:09,374
Texas?
735
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,276
- A job interview in Texas.
- Ugh.
736
00:50:11,342 --> 00:50:13,511
Did you tell him I forgive
everything he said?
737
00:50:13,578 --> 00:50:15,746
He doesn't wanna talk,
he's leaving, he's left.
738
00:50:15,813 --> 00:50:18,816
- He's left the marriage.
739
00:50:18,883 --> 00:50:21,852
He said you all
talked it out.
740
00:50:21,919 --> 00:50:24,355
Stupid man.
He said stupid things.
741
00:50:25,956 --> 00:50:28,193
Well, go get him. Go.
742
00:50:30,895 --> 00:50:32,930
Did he say anything more?
743
00:50:32,997 --> 00:50:34,499
He said, goodbye.
744
00:50:36,567 --> 00:50:38,103
Goodbye?
745
00:50:38,169 --> 00:50:40,371
- Goodbye.
746
00:50:45,710 --> 00:50:47,345
What
747
00:50:47,412 --> 00:50:48,779
What am I gonna do?
748
00:50:50,848 --> 00:50:53,284
You're gonna miss him, terribly.
749
00:50:53,351 --> 00:50:57,054
Oh, no, I don't want to.
750
00:50:58,389 --> 00:51:00,325
I hate to be unhappy.
751
00:51:00,391 --> 00:51:01,826
Oh.
752
00:51:01,892 --> 00:51:05,896
You are making me unhappy
and I'm gonna hate you for it.
753
00:51:05,963 --> 00:51:08,766
I'm gonna hate you, Doug.
754
00:51:08,833 --> 00:51:10,301
I hate you.
755
00:51:12,303 --> 00:51:15,206
- I hate Texas.
- Merry.
756
00:51:17,575 --> 00:51:19,577
Oh.
757
00:51:22,947 --> 00:51:27,218
Oh, Liz,
we were a good marriage.
758
00:51:27,285 --> 00:51:29,554
Everyone said so.
759
00:51:29,620 --> 00:51:33,991
I don't mean just the magazines.
I mean, our friends, everyone.
760
00:51:34,058 --> 00:51:37,061
Didn't you think we were happy?
761
00:51:37,128 --> 00:51:39,597
Now what are they going to say?
762
00:51:39,664 --> 00:51:41,031
What can they say?
763
00:51:41,098 --> 00:51:44,235
Just something more that was
happy, gone to waste.
764
00:51:45,336 --> 00:51:48,105
It's the times.
765
00:51:48,173 --> 00:51:51,242
What ugly times,
we live in.
766
00:51:53,110 --> 00:51:55,880
Another broken home.
767
00:51:56,547 --> 00:51:58,283
Mm.
768
00:51:58,349 --> 00:52:01,419
I never wanted to be
a statistic.
769
00:52:01,486 --> 00:52:03,221
Oh.
770
00:52:07,158 --> 00:52:11,196
Make a new life, isn't that
what abandoned ladies always do?
771
00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:13,664
Well, to hell with that.
772
00:52:13,731 --> 00:52:16,934
I'm just gonna keep the same
life with just a piece missing.
773
00:52:17,001 --> 00:52:19,237
I'll just break off a piece.
774
00:52:19,937 --> 00:52:22,273
I got my career.
775
00:52:24,008 --> 00:52:25,876
- I got my daughter.
- Hmm.
776
00:52:27,178 --> 00:52:30,381
I got you, my friend.
777
00:52:30,448 --> 00:52:33,017
Liz, you'll be my friend,
won't you?
778
00:52:33,083 --> 00:52:34,652
That's a stupid question.
779
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:38,055
We'll just be old friends
like always, huh?
780
00:52:38,122 --> 00:52:41,158
Old friends.
Of course.
781
00:53:24,402 --> 00:53:25,870
Hello. Sorry.
782
00:53:25,936 --> 00:53:28,138
Liz is late.
Take a little off her vote, huh?
783
00:53:28,205 --> 00:53:31,342
I've forgotten how long it takes
to get around in this city.
784
00:53:31,409 --> 00:53:33,378
How are the ducks and the pigs?
785
00:53:33,444 --> 00:53:35,813
I have a mill pond.
It's for mills, not for ducks.
786
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,650
I'd be damned if I'd live in
Connecticut without something
that said "moo."
787
00:53:39,717 --> 00:53:41,886
- Ducks and pigs don't go "moo."
788
00:53:41,952 --> 00:53:44,889
If I can get down to what is
called serious business.
789
00:53:44,955 --> 00:53:47,191
- The Algonquin.
790
00:53:47,258 --> 00:53:48,526
--which I must read.
791
00:53:48,593 --> 00:53:50,695
Martha, you have every
good intention...
792
00:53:50,761 --> 00:53:52,997
...we know, but you're not
gonna read the rules.
793
00:53:53,063 --> 00:53:56,734
- We know the rules.
- It is not my intention to bore
you.
794
00:53:56,801 --> 00:53:58,536
Then don't.
795
00:53:58,603 --> 00:53:59,837
Sorry.
796
00:53:59,904 --> 00:54:02,673
We have until December 31st
to make the announcement...
797
00:54:02,740 --> 00:54:04,909
...of the best of American
fiction for the year.
798
00:54:04,975 --> 00:54:07,878
- All of you, as previous
winners--
- She's going to do it.
799
00:54:07,945 --> 00:54:10,881
I have a question. One of the
titles we've been considering...
800
00:54:10,948 --> 00:54:12,750
...is Merry Blake's
Home Cookin'.
801
00:54:12,817 --> 00:54:14,885
It's already getting
some remarkable press.
802
00:54:14,952 --> 00:54:17,388
That woman has ground out
sausage for 10 years...
803
00:54:17,455 --> 00:54:19,056
...and suddenly a
book comes out.
804
00:54:19,123 --> 00:54:20,691
That woman is a friend of mine.
805
00:54:20,758 --> 00:54:22,893
It's not your fault she wrote
something good.
806
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,630
- Even old Dr. No likes it.
807
00:54:25,696 --> 00:54:28,333
Hennings. Didn't you see his
piece in the Sunday Times?
808
00:54:28,399 --> 00:54:30,000
- Enough. Please.
809
00:54:30,067 --> 00:54:32,737
He said, "At last she has
written from the heart...
810
00:54:32,803 --> 00:54:35,740
...and decided to bypass the
obstruction of her brain."
811
00:54:35,806 --> 00:54:38,676
Mm. Funny.
812
00:54:38,743 --> 00:54:41,946
I wanna register with you,
if I should disqualify myself.
813
00:54:42,012 --> 00:54:44,982
If anyone should disqualify
himself, it should be me.
814
00:54:45,049 --> 00:54:46,417
What do you mean, Martin?
815
00:54:46,484 --> 00:54:48,853
Well, you know, about me
and Anita Turner.
816
00:54:48,919 --> 00:54:50,455
No.
817
00:54:50,521 --> 00:54:53,358
Her book is all about me,
for chrissake.
818
00:54:56,994 --> 00:54:58,062
Now, what does that mean?
819
00:54:58,128 --> 00:54:59,497
Oh, Martin, be a big boy.
820
00:54:59,564 --> 00:55:01,666
You be a big boy.
821
00:55:03,934 --> 00:55:06,170
I just wanted you all
to be warned.
822
00:55:06,236 --> 00:55:09,039
My old friend Merry has taken
the floor of a hotel...
823
00:55:09,106 --> 00:55:12,843
...and she intends to lobby this
entire city for this award.
824
00:55:12,910 --> 00:55:16,046
She's got Jules Levi lined up to
a series of what she calls...
825
00:55:16,113 --> 00:55:17,715
...opinion-forming parties.
826
00:55:17,782 --> 00:55:22,453
We're the only three who can be
impressed by such tactics.
827
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,222
That is a cold
statement of truth.
828
00:55:25,289 --> 00:55:27,958
When the National Writers' Award
was first formed...
829
00:55:28,025 --> 00:55:30,127
...it was the intention
of the charter--
830
00:55:47,177 --> 00:55:49,113
1218, please.
831
00:55:52,082 --> 00:55:53,651
Thanks.
832
00:55:53,718 --> 00:55:58,222
Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry.
833
00:55:58,288 --> 00:56:01,225
A messenger brought
this for you.
834
00:56:01,291 --> 00:56:02,727
The National Writers' Award.
835
00:56:02,793 --> 00:56:04,028
- And this.
- Books, great.
836
00:56:04,094 --> 00:56:06,731
- There's a man waiting to see
you.
837
00:56:06,797 --> 00:56:09,333
- Mr. Adams.
838
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:11,168
Christopher Adams.
839
00:56:11,235 --> 00:56:13,671
He's over there,
next to the column.
840
00:56:14,572 --> 00:56:16,407
Oh, okay.
841
00:56:25,115 --> 00:56:26,884
Mr. Adams?
842
00:56:26,951 --> 00:56:29,319
- No. I'm sorry.
843
00:56:29,386 --> 00:56:32,557
- No, I'm not.
- I am.
844
00:56:33,424 --> 00:56:35,760
Hi. Chris Adams.
845
00:56:35,826 --> 00:56:37,027
Liz Hamilton.
846
00:56:37,094 --> 00:56:38,996
You wanna do it down here
or go to your room?
847
00:56:42,099 --> 00:56:46,103
- I don't remember.
- Well, that's okay.
848
00:56:46,170 --> 00:56:49,640
It's better than okay, it's
terrific. Nice meeting you.
849
00:56:49,707 --> 00:56:51,842
Would you like a bellboy for
these, Miss Hamilton?
850
00:56:51,909 --> 00:56:53,177
- Uh--
- I got them.
851
00:56:53,243 --> 00:56:54,579
Hmm?
852
00:56:54,645 --> 00:56:56,714
Are you a messenger
from the Writers' Award?
853
00:56:56,781 --> 00:56:58,916
- I'm from the Stone.
854
00:56:58,983 --> 00:57:00,818
Rolling Stone.
We have an interview.
855
00:57:00,885 --> 00:57:02,587
Chris. Chris Adams.
Rolling Stone--
856
00:57:02,653 --> 00:57:04,254
God, I'm sorry.
857
00:57:04,321 --> 00:57:08,025
I'm sorry I can't possibly do
it. I've gotta read all these.
858
00:57:08,092 --> 00:57:11,028
- I'll carry them up for you.
- Ahem.
859
00:57:20,004 --> 00:57:21,472
Come in.
860
00:57:23,073 --> 00:57:25,743
- Over here.
861
00:57:47,698 --> 00:57:49,567
I'll just be a minute.
862
00:58:00,911 --> 00:58:03,113
Give me room service please.
863
00:58:03,180 --> 00:58:04,882
Oh, don't put that on yet.
864
00:58:04,949 --> 00:58:07,384
- I don't drink.
865
00:58:07,451 --> 00:58:09,754
- No.
866
00:58:11,255 --> 00:58:15,092
This is room 1218.
867
00:58:15,159 --> 00:58:18,963
I'd like a Scotch, please.
And a water to back it up.
868
00:58:19,029 --> 00:58:22,099
Oh, no, give me double,
thank you.
869
00:58:24,001 --> 00:58:25,636
Um....
870
00:58:25,703 --> 00:58:28,205
Somebody left grass around.
Maybe you'd prefer that?
871
00:58:28,272 --> 00:58:30,040
No.
872
00:58:34,044 --> 00:58:35,212
- Funny.
- Mm.
873
00:58:35,279 --> 00:58:37,982
When they said someone
from the Stone was coming...
874
00:58:38,048 --> 00:58:40,284
...I imagined a satin
jumpsuit...
875
00:58:40,350 --> 00:58:43,888
...and two coke spoons coming
out of your nose.
876
00:58:43,954 --> 00:58:47,357
I don't have to use this
at all, if you don't want.
877
00:58:47,424 --> 00:58:49,193
Well,
how long is this gonna take?
878
00:58:49,259 --> 00:58:50,828
Whatever you want.
879
00:58:50,895 --> 00:58:54,665
You don't wanna talk now,
you can call me later.
880
00:58:54,732 --> 00:58:56,667
Since when would I want?
881
00:58:56,734 --> 00:58:58,836
I mean, you guys.
882
00:58:58,903 --> 00:59:01,038
How old are you,
may I ask?
883
00:59:01,105 --> 00:59:02,773
Twenty-two.
884
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:06,210
Well, you're more like 12.
885
00:59:06,276 --> 00:59:08,012
If you say.
886
00:59:08,078 --> 00:59:10,848
I don't really understand
why the interview.
887
00:59:10,915 --> 00:59:12,182
Why?
888
00:59:13,918 --> 00:59:15,219
Yeah.
889
00:59:15,285 --> 00:59:18,388
Why me
Why me, for the Stone?
890
00:59:18,455 --> 00:59:19,957
- It was my idea.
891
00:59:20,024 --> 00:59:21,158
Yeah.
892
00:59:21,225 --> 00:59:23,260
Perhaps you could break
the language barrier...
893
00:59:23,327 --> 00:59:25,329
...and let me know
what this is all about.
894
00:59:25,395 --> 00:59:28,666
- I thought this was a joke...
895
00:59:28,733 --> 00:59:30,534
...you know, about your
publication.
896
00:59:30,601 --> 00:59:32,569
The utterances of those
who can't speak...
897
00:59:32,637 --> 00:59:34,672
...written by those
who cannot write...
898
00:59:34,739 --> 00:59:37,041
- ...for those who cannot read.
- I used that.
899
00:59:37,107 --> 00:59:38,743
You did?
900
00:59:38,809 --> 00:59:41,045
In one of my interviews.
901
00:59:42,479 --> 00:59:45,349
Well, you see.
902
00:59:45,415 --> 00:59:49,086
After your second novel, it was
my idea to do a piece on you.
903
00:59:49,153 --> 00:59:52,056
There's no one that fits in
right where you do.
904
00:59:52,122 --> 00:59:54,291
The magazine wanted
a woman in the arts.
905
00:59:54,358 --> 00:59:57,161
There were others with more
visibility but I wanted you.
906
00:59:57,227 --> 01:00:00,564
You have political anger.
But reason keeps it cool.
907
01:00:00,631 --> 01:00:03,067
Especially in your small
magazine pieces.
908
01:00:03,133 --> 01:00:05,269
Your fiction, there's passion
right there.
909
01:00:05,335 --> 01:00:07,872
But again, within the parameters
of taste.
910
01:00:07,938 --> 01:00:11,475
Or maybe it's art, not taste,
you'll tell me.
911
01:00:11,541 --> 01:00:15,012
More than any other woman with a
public profile, I respect you.
912
01:00:18,315 --> 01:00:21,618
Well, turn it on
and maybe we'll get started.
913
01:00:22,887 --> 01:00:25,622
Ah. No, it's Scotch.
914
01:00:30,527 --> 01:00:33,764
- Oh, Debby.
- Hi, Aunt Liz.
915
01:00:33,831 --> 01:00:35,766
- Hi.
- Hi.
916
01:00:35,833 --> 01:00:37,201
This is my favorite niece.
917
01:00:37,267 --> 01:00:39,770
More or less my niece,
daughter of a friend.
918
01:00:39,837 --> 01:00:42,339
Her name is Debby. This is Chris
from Rolling Stone.
919
01:00:42,406 --> 01:00:44,809
- Four times.
920
01:00:44,875 --> 01:00:46,043
What'd she say?
921
01:00:46,110 --> 01:00:48,212
I don't know.
I just got the messages.
922
01:00:48,278 --> 01:00:51,749
I can tell you, she's going to
be opposed to my moving in here.
923
01:00:51,816 --> 01:00:54,218
She is? Well, so am I.
924
01:00:54,284 --> 01:00:57,287
There's only room here for me,
and the ghost of Dorothy Parker.
925
01:00:57,354 --> 01:00:59,957
I'm not really, I've just gotta
get out of that hotel.
926
01:01:00,024 --> 01:01:02,192
So I can stay at Ginger's.
She hates Ginger.
927
01:01:02,259 --> 01:01:03,460
Well, who's she?
928
01:01:03,527 --> 01:01:06,697
Ginger Trinidad. He's this
terrific Puerto Rican poet.
929
01:01:06,764 --> 01:01:08,332
You've heard of him.
930
01:01:08,398 --> 01:01:11,335
He started writing poetry in the
Tombs, the New York jail.
931
01:01:11,401 --> 01:01:13,470
- I don't know.
932
01:01:13,537 --> 01:01:14,939
It was in TIME magazine.
933
01:01:15,005 --> 01:01:17,041
He robbed some liquor stores
or something.
934
01:01:17,107 --> 01:01:18,809
But it was
politically motivated.
935
01:01:18,876 --> 01:01:20,778
Oh, apart from a
few minor details...
936
01:01:20,845 --> 01:01:22,646
...I don't know what your mother
has against him.
937
01:01:22,713 --> 01:01:24,782
We're making it, that's what.
938
01:01:24,849 --> 01:01:27,852
She's got some weird idea I
should save myself for an
astronaut or something.
939
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,022
The Scotch.
940
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:40,197
- Oh.
941
01:01:40,264 --> 01:01:42,266
I have been too busy
answering the door.
942
01:01:42,332 --> 01:01:45,002
- This is Chris Adams.
943
01:01:45,069 --> 01:01:47,137
- He's from the press.
- Oh, how interesting.
944
01:01:47,204 --> 01:01:49,373
- Rolling Stone.
945
01:01:49,439 --> 01:01:53,443
I've just been trying to find
out one little piece of
information...
946
01:01:53,510 --> 01:01:56,280
- You mean about--
947
01:01:56,346 --> 01:01:59,116
- I guess you mean about--
- I can't talk about it.
948
01:01:59,183 --> 01:02:01,385
- They liked your book.
949
01:02:01,451 --> 01:02:02,586
That much I can say.
950
01:02:02,652 --> 01:02:03,788
- Oh, Jesus.
951
01:02:05,589 --> 01:02:07,291
Please, God.
952
01:02:09,393 --> 01:02:11,028
MAN:
Hi, there. Is Debby here?
953
01:02:11,095 --> 01:02:13,397
- You must be Ginger.
954
01:02:13,463 --> 01:02:15,499
She's the mother.
I'm the aunt. Come in.
955
01:02:15,565 --> 01:02:16,700
Thank you.
956
01:02:16,767 --> 01:02:17,902
- Hi, honey.
- Hi, Ginger.
957
01:02:17,968 --> 01:02:19,136
- Fine.
958
01:02:19,203 --> 01:02:21,271
- Please.
959
01:02:21,338 --> 01:02:23,573
- Good.
- Just one moment.
960
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:25,009
Please, young lady.
961
01:02:25,075 --> 01:02:27,044
I know, maybe
you don't like me too much.
962
01:02:27,111 --> 01:02:29,579
Not like you?
I have no reason to dislike you.
963
01:02:29,646 --> 01:02:31,681
It's just a question of my
liking my daughter more.
964
01:02:31,748 --> 01:02:34,484
Perhaps too much, but then
again, she is my daughter.
965
01:02:34,551 --> 01:02:36,987
Maybe you don't like Puerto
Ricans. Is that it?
966
01:02:37,054 --> 01:02:39,389
Heh. It has nothing to do
with being a Puerto Rican.
967
01:02:39,456 --> 01:02:41,826
You could have skin whiter
than apple blossoms.
968
01:02:41,892 --> 01:02:43,928
As long as there's
lingering respect...
969
01:02:43,994 --> 01:02:46,230
...from my daughter that she'll
consider my opinion...
970
01:02:46,296 --> 01:02:50,034
...I would prefer that she not
race about the streets of this
dangerous city...
971
01:02:50,100 --> 01:02:51,869
- ...with the criminal element.
- Wow.
972
01:02:51,936 --> 01:02:53,070
Let's go, Ginger.
973
01:02:53,137 --> 01:02:54,738
- Nice meeting you all.
- Ginger.
974
01:02:54,805 --> 01:02:56,540
Debby!
975
01:03:01,645 --> 01:03:04,481
You. Darling, Aunt Liz.
976
01:03:04,548 --> 01:03:07,985
After whom my daughter
chooses to model her years.
977
01:03:08,052 --> 01:03:11,355
I've ordered a double, you can
have half. Save your speech
until then.
978
01:03:11,421 --> 01:03:14,424
You consider it adventuresome,
her affair with a car thief.
979
01:03:14,491 --> 01:03:16,760
- He's addicted to the practice.
980
01:03:16,827 --> 01:03:18,395
Maybe he can get me a Mercedes.
981
01:03:18,462 --> 01:03:20,364
Debby would roar
over that cynical humor.
982
01:03:20,430 --> 01:03:21,866
Would you get off it?
983
01:03:21,932 --> 01:03:24,068
- I've been keeping this fellow
- I don't mind.
984
01:03:24,134 --> 01:03:25,502
- I mind.
- I'll go.
985
01:03:25,569 --> 01:03:29,639
- Just give me one simple word.
986
01:03:29,706 --> 01:03:31,441
Am I or am I not
wasting my time...
987
01:03:31,508 --> 01:03:34,011
...and considerable amount
of money back here...
988
01:03:34,078 --> 01:03:36,646
...or am I going to win
the National Writers' Award?
989
01:03:36,713 --> 01:03:38,515
Well,
there are two simple words.
990
01:03:38,582 --> 01:03:40,250
Yes and no.
991
01:03:40,317 --> 01:03:43,687
- That is all for now.
992
01:03:43,753 --> 01:03:45,122
Okay.
993
01:03:46,823 --> 01:03:47,992
Don't forget.
994
01:03:48,058 --> 01:03:50,260
Dinner Friday night at Jules'.
995
01:03:50,327 --> 01:03:53,397
I can't, Merry. I've gotta go up
to Connecticut for the weekend.
996
01:03:53,463 --> 01:03:55,966
- With 200 books.
- All right.
997
01:03:56,033 --> 01:03:58,668
Well, there's another Tuesday
night at my place.
998
01:03:58,735 --> 01:04:00,537
- I'll try.
- Please.
999
01:04:00,604 --> 01:04:03,107
And find someone nice to bring.
1000
01:04:17,221 --> 01:04:19,523
Can we do this later?
1001
01:04:19,589 --> 01:04:20,958
You know what you need?
1002
01:04:21,025 --> 01:04:22,692
You know what I need?
1003
01:04:22,759 --> 01:04:24,428
You need to relax.
1004
01:04:24,494 --> 01:04:25,629
What do you mean?
1005
01:04:25,695 --> 01:04:28,332
Relax? Relax means relax.
1006
01:04:28,398 --> 01:04:30,567
You mean, I need someone
to relax me?
1007
01:04:32,702 --> 01:04:36,673
You think I need someone to
relax me? To come here
and relax me?
1008
01:04:36,740 --> 01:04:38,442
I didn't mention someone, no.
1009
01:04:40,544 --> 01:04:42,579
There's an arrogance about men,
sometimes.
1010
01:04:42,646 --> 01:04:45,515
Maybe you haven't noticed,
not being yet a man yourself.
1011
01:04:47,952 --> 01:04:50,320
Look, all I meant was
you should get some rest.
1012
01:04:50,387 --> 01:04:53,157
If you wanna get some rest
with someone, that's up to you.
1013
01:04:53,223 --> 01:04:55,692
If I wanna get movement in bed
I'll check into a motel...
1014
01:04:55,759 --> 01:04:58,328
...and drop a quarter
in the vibrating mattress.
1015
01:04:58,395 --> 01:05:00,397
I'm at the Chelsea
when you wanna do this.
1016
01:05:00,464 --> 01:05:03,533
I'm wrong. It is the young men
who are the most arrogant.
1017
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,470
When it comes to arrogance
in sexual matters...
1018
01:05:06,536 --> 01:05:09,606
...they assume everyone
is falling down over them.
1019
01:05:09,673 --> 01:05:11,908
Put that on. I have a quote.
1020
01:05:14,478 --> 01:05:17,914
I find this century obsession
with young flesh obscene.
1021
01:05:17,982 --> 01:05:20,350
It's like eating green
cantaloupes.
1022
01:05:21,651 --> 01:05:23,653
Okay. Goodbye.
1023
01:05:45,009 --> 01:05:46,743
- Yes, ma'am.
1024
01:05:46,810 --> 01:05:48,345
Great.
1025
01:05:51,848 --> 01:05:55,452
Wait.
1026
01:05:55,519 --> 01:05:57,621
Thanks. Down, please.
1027
01:06:01,558 --> 01:06:03,660
[BAND PLAYING
"JOY TO THE WORLD"]
1028
01:06:24,181 --> 01:06:27,884
Excuse me, could you tell me
where Cartier's is?
1029
01:06:27,951 --> 01:06:31,988
Yes. It's just up there
on the other side of the street.
1030
01:06:32,922 --> 01:06:34,691
Near those flags?
1031
01:06:34,758 --> 01:06:36,126
Yeah.
1032
01:07:07,891 --> 01:07:09,493
It's up there.
1033
01:07:18,235 --> 01:07:20,937
This thing doesn't fit.
1034
01:07:21,004 --> 01:07:23,673
It's supposed to be a bracelet.
1035
01:07:23,740 --> 01:07:26,610
It'd be fine,
if I wanted a necklace.
1036
01:07:28,112 --> 01:07:29,813
Is it a gift from your mother?
1037
01:07:31,415 --> 01:07:35,051
No. My mother lives
in Redlands, California.
1038
01:07:46,930 --> 01:07:48,232
Are you Mrs. Collins?
1039
01:07:49,399 --> 01:07:50,634
No.
1040
01:07:51,635 --> 01:07:53,970
East 71st Street?
1041
01:07:54,037 --> 01:07:55,472
No.
1042
01:08:09,253 --> 01:08:12,689
At one time, every important
literary figure in New York
came here.
1043
01:08:14,458 --> 01:08:16,693
Over there where you see
the restaurant area...
1044
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,028
...they had a weekly luncheon
called the round table.
1045
01:08:19,095 --> 01:08:24,501
With writers like Robert
Benchley, George Kaufman,
Edna Ferber.
1046
01:08:24,568 --> 01:08:27,571
Thank you, Jim, for walking me
all the way down here.
1047
01:08:41,285 --> 01:08:43,587
You do a lot of smiling.
1048
01:09:36,005 --> 01:09:38,975
How old are you?
1049
01:09:39,042 --> 01:09:40,777
Eighteen.
1050
01:10:09,038 --> 01:10:11,341
Who is Mrs. Collins?
1051
01:12:49,999 --> 01:12:52,902
My problem is,
I'm truly an old-fashioned girl.
1052
01:12:54,538 --> 01:12:57,841
I like men who talk.
I love to talk.
1053
01:12:57,907 --> 01:13:00,143
There's a whole generation
crowding up behind us...
1054
01:13:00,209 --> 01:13:02,646
...of people who wanna talk
with their bodies.
1055
01:13:02,712 --> 01:13:05,181
Christ, everyone is so muscular
and chic.
1056
01:13:05,248 --> 01:13:09,118
Their tits spilling out all over
the place, soft fashions.
1057
01:13:09,185 --> 01:13:12,989
We've got a generation of
beauties. They're more beautiful
than the Greeks.
1058
01:13:13,056 --> 01:13:14,991
But what happened
to the articulate guy?
1059
01:13:15,058 --> 01:13:17,093
I mean, nobody wants to
talk anymore.
1060
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:18,695
You don't have to be hard on me.
1061
01:13:18,762 --> 01:13:21,931
- I'm just listening.
- Listening is an intimate act.
1062
01:13:23,500 --> 01:13:26,069
- It laughs.
- You said something funny.
1063
01:13:26,135 --> 01:13:29,839
I don't talk to everyone, nor
make love to every woman I meet.
1064
01:13:29,906 --> 01:13:32,175
Maybe you should catch up
with your peers.
1065
01:13:32,241 --> 01:13:37,013
I'll agree with your point.
A way to approach a woman is
through the ears.
1066
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,883
Ears, you know. They're little
emblems of sexuality.
1067
01:13:39,949 --> 01:13:42,519
I'm listening to you through
little emblems of sexuality.
1068
01:13:46,255 --> 01:13:50,026
I'm not ready to concede that
the young aren't more...
1069
01:13:50,093 --> 01:13:52,161
...sexually arrogant though,
and this is important...
1070
01:13:52,228 --> 01:13:54,297
...I have been recently
led to believe...
1071
01:13:54,363 --> 01:13:58,067
...that they might have
something to be arrogant about.
1072
01:13:58,134 --> 01:13:59,736
Namely...
1073
01:13:59,803 --> 01:14:02,572
...endurance and bodies.
1074
01:14:03,807 --> 01:14:06,342
My old friend Bessie Smith...
1075
01:14:06,409 --> 01:14:11,214
...whose records shared many an
afternoon with me in Paris...
1076
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:16,152
...said she liked it when her
daddy took her for a buggy ride.
1077
01:14:19,155 --> 01:14:22,425
What I like about you is
you never stall.
1078
01:14:22,492 --> 01:14:24,594
How about you, kid?
1079
01:14:24,661 --> 01:14:27,096
I never preferred it
with girls my age.
1080
01:14:27,163 --> 01:14:28,565
Oh.
1081
01:14:28,632 --> 01:14:30,834
I was about to make you,
Christopher Adams...
1082
01:14:30,900 --> 01:14:33,870
...the lead character of my new
book, Young Flesh.
1083
01:14:35,905 --> 01:14:37,741
Why not with girls your own age?
1084
01:14:37,807 --> 01:14:40,777
They're always watching
for their own orgasm.
1085
01:14:40,844 --> 01:14:43,547
What should they
be watching for?
1086
01:14:43,613 --> 01:14:45,181
Your orgasm?
1087
01:14:45,248 --> 01:14:47,483
Our orgasm.
1088
01:14:56,225 --> 01:14:58,762
I suppose if I talk fast enough
and stay up all night...
1089
01:14:58,828 --> 01:15:02,465
...I could tell you my life
story before I get on the train
in the morning.
1090
01:15:02,532 --> 01:15:03,867
I'll drive you.
1091
01:15:03,933 --> 01:15:06,169
I got a license.
1092
01:15:06,235 --> 01:15:09,038
Well, for one thing, I've got to
read all those books.
1093
01:15:09,105 --> 01:15:12,175
If you give me a minute,
I'm sure there's another reason.
1094
01:15:12,241 --> 01:15:14,911
Pick you up at 10.
1095
01:15:14,978 --> 01:15:16,746
- Okay.
1096
01:15:17,446 --> 01:15:18,915
Night.
1097
01:15:18,982 --> 01:15:20,750
Good night.
1098
01:15:40,269 --> 01:15:42,405
LIZ:
Ah. Heh.
1099
01:15:42,471 --> 01:15:43,707
CHRIS:
Oh, it's so great.
1100
01:15:43,773 --> 01:15:47,010
LIZ: Isn't it terrific?
CHRIS: Yeah.
1101
01:15:47,076 --> 01:15:50,013
- I'll get the bags later.
- Okay.
1102
01:15:53,850 --> 01:15:56,552
CHRIS:
Here, here, here, I'll help you.
1103
01:15:57,621 --> 01:15:59,188
LIZ:
Thanks.
1104
01:16:04,327 --> 01:16:06,262
Watch out, it's slick there.
1105
01:16:08,732 --> 01:16:11,334
Hang on, I'll just get the key.
1106
01:16:38,061 --> 01:16:40,263
- Thank you.
- Mm-hm.
1107
01:17:12,295 --> 01:17:13,897
Let me look at you.
1108
01:17:55,638 --> 01:17:56,773
Ooh!
1109
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,843
Put this on, put this on.
1110
01:18:05,614 --> 01:18:07,817
Mwah. All right, one more.
1111
01:18:10,453 --> 01:18:12,989
- That's enough. That's enough.
- One more. Uhn.
1112
01:18:16,059 --> 01:18:17,326
Hah.
1113
01:18:39,048 --> 01:18:40,649
I don't like this.
1114
01:18:40,716 --> 01:18:43,452
- Because I don't like parties.
1115
01:18:43,519 --> 01:18:45,955
- Ginger, you need these people.
- I don't need--
1116
01:18:46,022 --> 01:18:47,190
- Hi.
1117
01:18:47,256 --> 01:18:49,358
- This is Ginger Trinidad.
- Hi.
1118
01:18:57,901 --> 01:18:59,502
- Francis.
1119
01:18:59,568 --> 01:19:01,204
Hello, hello.
1120
01:19:01,270 --> 01:19:04,273
MERRY: Oh. How are you?
- Oh, Merry. You're a beauty.
1121
01:19:04,340 --> 01:19:07,610
I won't be for long if Jules
doesn't give me some rest.
1122
01:19:07,676 --> 01:19:10,980
It's party, party, party.
1123
01:19:11,047 --> 01:19:12,816
MERRY:
Excuse me.
1124
01:19:14,417 --> 01:19:17,921
You are late.
But I barely forgive you.
1125
01:19:17,987 --> 01:19:19,755
- And your young friend.
- Jules.
1126
01:19:19,823 --> 01:19:21,757
Hi, Liz.
1127
01:19:25,494 --> 01:19:26,629
My girls.
1128
01:19:30,934 --> 01:19:32,435
This is Christopher Adams.
1129
01:19:32,501 --> 01:19:33,502
- Fine.
1130
01:19:33,569 --> 01:19:35,872
Thank you very much.
1131
01:19:54,357 --> 01:19:55,825
Merry.
1132
01:20:09,572 --> 01:20:11,207
I do not believe it.
1133
01:20:12,608 --> 01:20:14,110
It's true.
1134
01:20:15,644 --> 01:20:17,213
You are in love.
1135
01:20:22,651 --> 01:20:26,155
You sly, old land turtle.
1136
01:20:32,228 --> 01:20:33,696
He's--
1137
01:20:33,762 --> 01:20:35,831
He's so young.
1138
01:20:36,732 --> 01:20:38,534
God, I'm sick.
1139
01:20:52,982 --> 01:20:55,351
MERRY:
You see, I'll invite just
anyone.
1140
01:20:55,418 --> 01:20:57,320
- Ha-ha.
1141
01:20:57,386 --> 01:20:59,255
MERRY:
I could not believe your review.
1142
01:20:59,322 --> 01:21:01,958
I thought Southern boys were
taught nicer manners than that.
1143
01:21:02,025 --> 01:21:05,261
I bet your mama won't let you
say at home what you
say in print.
1144
01:21:05,328 --> 01:21:07,931
Merry Noel,
are you trying to charm me?
1145
01:21:07,997 --> 01:21:11,134
MERRY: Oh, I'd imagine that's
beyond the realm of possibility.
1146
01:21:23,646 --> 01:21:25,481
Yeats was an absolute madman.
1147
01:21:25,548 --> 01:21:28,017
He and his wife used to sit
around listening for voices...
1148
01:21:28,084 --> 01:21:29,652
...to tell him how to write.
1149
01:21:29,718 --> 01:21:33,356
Once he heard an owl bark,
and it threw him off for days.
1150
01:21:34,623 --> 01:21:37,393
Oh, but what he wrote.
1151
01:21:37,460 --> 01:21:39,362
God, the Irish.
1152
01:21:40,763 --> 01:21:44,267
But one man loved
The pilgrim soul in you
1153
01:21:44,333 --> 01:21:47,536
And loved the sorrows
Of your changing face
1154
01:21:47,603 --> 01:21:49,872
Hmm.
1155
01:21:49,939 --> 01:21:52,441
I've had this great revelation.
1156
01:21:53,709 --> 01:21:55,578
That it's all right.
1157
01:21:55,644 --> 01:21:56,812
You know?
1158
01:21:56,879 --> 01:21:58,547
No.
1159
01:21:58,614 --> 01:21:59,983
It.
1160
01:22:00,049 --> 01:22:01,684
It's all right. Us.
1161
01:22:01,750 --> 01:22:03,052
I mean...
1162
01:22:03,119 --> 01:22:04,453
...it's all right for me.
1163
01:22:04,520 --> 01:22:06,822
Oh, it's all right to be in
love? Heh.
1164
01:22:06,889 --> 01:22:09,592
Look, I've the right to let me
say it.
1165
01:22:09,658 --> 01:22:11,527
That's what I mean...
1166
01:22:11,594 --> 01:22:12,695
...in love.
1167
01:22:13,762 --> 01:22:15,531
To be in love.
1168
01:22:18,501 --> 01:22:20,603
Does sex confuse you?
1169
01:22:21,504 --> 01:22:23,439
No.
1170
01:22:23,506 --> 01:22:27,676
I don't mean how to do it,
though that can be confusing
at times.
1171
01:22:27,743 --> 01:22:31,380
I just mean the question of sex.
1172
01:22:31,447 --> 01:22:33,016
Mm-mm.
1173
01:22:33,082 --> 01:22:36,352
I went to this therapist
one summer.
1174
01:22:36,419 --> 01:22:40,556
He had this insane notion
that's probably true...
1175
01:22:40,623 --> 01:22:45,594
...that I had to wait to be
emotionally mauled by some guy
before I can write.
1176
01:22:45,661 --> 01:22:48,031
He also said...
1177
01:22:48,097 --> 01:22:50,366
...that I take surrogate lovers.
1178
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:54,270
To wit,
I am aroused by object A.
1179
01:22:54,337 --> 01:22:57,373
I go out and go to bed with
object B.
1180
01:22:59,808 --> 01:23:04,680
With you, I feel like
I'm making love to object A.
1181
01:23:15,724 --> 01:23:20,496
Did you ever think that what
makes sex so exciting is that
it's so frightening?
1182
01:23:20,563 --> 01:23:22,765
Is that what you think?
Do I frighten you?
1183
01:23:24,700 --> 01:23:29,472
It's like T. S. Eliot. He made
this crack about D. H. Lawrence.
1184
01:23:29,538 --> 01:23:31,574
He said Lawrence
was looking for an intimacy...
1185
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:35,511
...that was impossible
between a man and a woman.
1186
01:23:35,578 --> 01:23:39,282
Well,
I say bullshit, T. S. Eliot.
1187
01:23:39,348 --> 01:23:41,150
See, Eliot was just scared.
1188
01:23:41,217 --> 01:23:46,089
And there was Lawrence like some
sexual test pilot, ready to take
the dive.
1189
01:23:46,155 --> 01:23:47,990
You understand?
1190
01:23:48,057 --> 01:23:49,825
Oh, you intellectuals
are too much for me.
1191
01:23:52,027 --> 01:23:54,197
What is everybody afraid of?
1192
01:23:54,263 --> 01:23:57,066
Chances Commitment?
1193
01:23:57,133 --> 01:24:01,370
Those are the popular words but,
God, they don't measure up to
the old words.
1194
01:24:02,571 --> 01:24:07,176
Lovesick, heartfelt,
with this hand...
1195
01:24:07,243 --> 01:24:10,913
...sickness and health,
death do us part.
1196
01:24:10,979 --> 01:24:13,349
Those are sensational.
1197
01:24:13,416 --> 01:24:16,585
You can't hear them
without ladies weeping.
1198
01:24:18,187 --> 01:24:20,756
What do men do?
1199
01:24:20,823 --> 01:24:22,991
Don't they weep?
1200
01:24:23,058 --> 01:24:27,930
Well, different style. They've
got little hairs that stand up
in a lot of places.
1201
01:24:27,996 --> 01:24:30,366
Are your
little hairs standing up?
1202
01:24:32,135 --> 01:24:35,471
Those words, love, honor.
1203
01:24:35,538 --> 01:24:37,706
I'd love to be able to use them,
you know.
1204
01:24:37,773 --> 01:24:41,043
I'd love to believe in someone,
some one woman so much...
1205
01:24:41,110 --> 01:24:42,811
...that I could
believe those words...
1206
01:24:42,878 --> 01:24:46,115
...and they'd just come jumping
out of my mouth.
1207
01:24:48,117 --> 01:24:50,253
What did you mean,
some one girl?
1208
01:24:50,319 --> 01:24:53,722
- God, you're hard.
1209
01:24:56,024 --> 01:24:58,661
I'm like T. S., I'm scared.
1210
01:24:58,727 --> 01:25:01,397
I mean, I'd like to say to you
I wanna get married.
1211
01:25:01,464 --> 01:25:03,866
But you'd bitch, you'd laugh.
1212
01:25:03,932 --> 01:25:05,201
No, I wouldn't.
1213
01:25:05,268 --> 01:25:07,370
Who do you wanna marry?
1214
01:25:13,909 --> 01:25:18,247
Do you know how many times I've
asked someone to marry me?
1215
01:25:18,314 --> 01:25:20,249
Think about it.
1216
01:25:55,718 --> 01:25:58,020
Oh, it's you.
1217
01:25:58,086 --> 01:26:00,456
That fact doesn't thrill me
either.
1218
01:26:00,523 --> 01:26:04,193
Debby doesn't come in, doesn't
call. I'm giving up on her.
1219
01:26:04,260 --> 01:26:09,732
She's 18, and in this state,
that's old enough for a martini.
1220
01:26:09,798 --> 01:26:13,436
This Brahms you recommended
is crippling my fingers.
1221
01:26:21,477 --> 01:26:25,614
Didn't he write that lullaby,
that Brahms "Brahms Lullaby"?
1222
01:26:25,681 --> 01:26:28,851
I guess, he must have.
It's got his name on it.
1223
01:26:45,033 --> 01:26:47,270
What do you think?
1224
01:26:53,742 --> 01:26:55,077
Perfect.
1225
01:26:55,143 --> 01:26:57,346
No, I mean, the whole picture.
1226
01:26:57,413 --> 01:27:00,883
Self-sufficient woman,
a woman of proven talents...
1227
01:27:00,949 --> 01:27:04,253
...sitting by the fire,
playing her piano.
1228
01:27:08,223 --> 01:27:09,658
Is a reporter coming?
1229
01:27:09,725 --> 01:27:11,827
Oh, hardly.
1230
01:27:11,894 --> 01:27:13,161
A man.
1231
01:27:13,228 --> 01:27:14,997
Oh.
1232
01:27:15,063 --> 01:27:16,799
A man.
1233
01:27:16,865 --> 01:27:18,967
He likes lullabies?
1234
01:27:19,902 --> 01:27:21,337
Oh, may I?
1235
01:27:25,674 --> 01:27:27,710
Doug called.
He's in New York.
1236
01:27:27,776 --> 01:27:29,712
Doug Blake?
1237
01:27:29,778 --> 01:27:33,316
He's tanned and successful,
up from Houston.
That's what he says.
1238
01:27:33,382 --> 01:27:35,851
He would've come over,
but it's business, business.
1239
01:27:35,918 --> 01:27:37,453
- Tomorrow.
1240
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:41,490
Give him my love.
He's a wonderful man.
1241
01:27:41,557 --> 01:27:44,793
He's got something very obvious
in mind. I know it.
1242
01:27:44,860 --> 01:27:47,430
I'm willing to stake my
life on it.
1243
01:27:47,496 --> 01:27:48,964
He wants the marriage back.
1244
01:27:49,031 --> 01:27:51,900
It's only been four years.
That's not long.
1245
01:27:51,967 --> 01:27:55,338
They say it takes you five years
for your mattress to lose its
imprint.
1246
01:27:55,404 --> 01:27:59,041
We're still imprinted
on each other.
1247
01:27:59,107 --> 01:28:01,444
Let me look at you.
1248
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:07,883
- I've lost.
1249
01:28:07,950 --> 01:28:10,553
That's why you look like you're
standing on your own udder.
1250
01:28:10,619 --> 01:28:12,220
Oh, Merry, please.
1251
01:28:12,287 --> 01:28:15,858
They took a vote, I've lost.
And you can't tell me.
1252
01:28:17,660 --> 01:28:20,095
- I'm not a child.
1253
01:28:20,162 --> 01:28:21,964
Today's date is December 30th.
1254
01:28:22,030 --> 01:28:24,633
The final vote is December 31st,
as promised.
1255
01:28:28,671 --> 01:28:32,608
Oh, Liz, I've been dreaming
about my party.
1256
01:28:32,675 --> 01:28:35,744
Right at the stroke of midnight,
New Year's.
1257
01:28:35,811 --> 01:28:40,215
I announce the victory of my
book and the rejoining of my
marriage.
1258
01:28:40,282 --> 01:28:41,650
How can you be so sure?
1259
01:28:41,717 --> 01:28:44,019
- Either.
1260
01:28:46,522 --> 01:28:48,724
I'm having tables
all along here...
1261
01:28:48,791 --> 01:28:51,960
...just spilling over whatever
grows this time of year.
1262
01:28:52,027 --> 01:28:54,963
The trouble with December
is there's no strawberries.
1263
01:28:55,030 --> 01:28:58,467
How am I gonna create a big red
area in the center of the table?
1264
01:28:58,534 --> 01:29:00,669
Stab one of the guests.
1265
01:29:02,805 --> 01:29:06,775
Liz, if all you want is to be
unhappy, just let me be.
1266
01:29:06,842 --> 01:29:09,778
I'm sorry, but those are my
thoughts.
1267
01:29:09,845 --> 01:29:11,947
I'm sorry.
1268
01:29:12,014 --> 01:29:15,017
I didn't mean to make you
unhappy.
1269
01:29:15,083 --> 01:29:17,486
Give my love to Doug.
I meant what I said.
1270
01:29:17,553 --> 01:29:19,755
He's a wonderful guy.
1271
01:29:32,868 --> 01:29:36,805
You know, you two are the only
thing I ever admired.
1272
01:29:36,872 --> 01:29:38,507
A marriage...
1273
01:29:38,574 --> 01:29:41,677
...a real child and you loved
each other.
1274
01:29:47,282 --> 01:29:49,384
I'm fine, really.
1275
01:29:49,452 --> 01:29:51,353
I wanna know
what's going on with you.
1276
01:29:51,420 --> 01:29:53,556
Tomorrow, Merry, tomorrow.
1277
01:30:02,130 --> 01:30:05,067
Merry, go back inside.
You'll die out here.
1278
01:30:07,836 --> 01:30:10,906
Can you lend me your coat for a
second
1279
01:30:10,973 --> 01:30:15,077
- Yes, ma'am. I'll wait inside.
- Okay, thank you.
1280
01:30:20,382 --> 01:30:21,950
MERRY:
Liz.
1281
01:30:24,286 --> 01:30:26,522
Liz.
1282
01:30:26,589 --> 01:30:28,457
You are so determined.
1283
01:30:28,524 --> 01:30:32,360
If you're going through all this
worry just because of me
and that prize.
1284
01:30:32,427 --> 01:30:33,529
No.
1285
01:30:33,596 --> 01:30:35,163
Your writing?
1286
01:30:35,230 --> 01:30:36,932
Please, no.
1287
01:30:36,999 --> 01:30:38,634
Rolling Stone?
1288
01:30:38,701 --> 01:30:40,903
His name is Chris Adams.
1289
01:30:43,305 --> 01:30:45,508
That's what it is.
1290
01:30:50,378 --> 01:30:51,780
He wants to marry me.
1291
01:30:53,081 --> 01:30:54,349
That boy?
1292
01:30:54,416 --> 01:30:56,318
That's what I said.
1293
01:30:56,384 --> 01:30:58,120
He proposed?
1294
01:30:58,186 --> 01:30:59,555
Yes.
1295
01:30:59,622 --> 01:31:03,258
To this mature woman.
1296
01:31:03,325 --> 01:31:07,062
Ah. I do not believe that.
1297
01:31:07,129 --> 01:31:08,396
That's my problem too.
1298
01:31:08,463 --> 01:31:10,132
Do you think he's serious?
1299
01:31:12,935 --> 01:31:15,170
- He says he is.
1300
01:31:16,972 --> 01:31:18,206
I said no.
1301
01:31:19,407 --> 01:31:22,745
What do you feel?
1302
01:31:22,811 --> 01:31:25,280
I don't want anyone around
watching my thighs grow old.
1303
01:31:25,347 --> 01:31:29,451
You are such a big, bad bear at
times, you only scare yourself.
1304
01:31:29,518 --> 01:31:30,919
Well--
1305
01:31:30,986 --> 01:31:33,922
I mean, how long could it last?
1306
01:31:33,989 --> 01:31:35,524
It's insane.
1307
01:31:36,659 --> 01:31:39,261
- A year.
1308
01:31:39,327 --> 01:31:44,266
Or two, maybe three. From there,
there might be a fourth.
1309
01:31:44,332 --> 01:31:45,734
What are you saying?
1310
01:31:45,801 --> 01:31:47,803
There's no guarantees.
1311
01:31:47,870 --> 01:31:49,437
If that man says he wants you...
1312
01:31:49,504 --> 01:31:52,741
...you let him stick around
until your thighs turn to stone.
1313
01:31:52,808 --> 01:31:54,943
What the shit difference
does it make?
1314
01:31:57,746 --> 01:31:59,214
Why didn't you say this
in the beginning?
1315
01:31:59,281 --> 01:32:01,283
Oh.
1316
01:32:01,349 --> 01:32:05,153
Well, honey, we're not talking
about a new dress here,
this takes a moment.
1317
01:32:23,438 --> 01:32:25,540
1218, any messages?
1318
01:32:25,608 --> 01:32:27,976
No messages.
1319
01:32:28,043 --> 01:32:29,812
Oh, thanks.
1320
01:32:30,979 --> 01:32:33,315
Courthouse
1321
01:32:33,381 --> 01:32:35,250
Is he on a story?
1322
01:32:35,317 --> 01:32:39,922
Yes, please. Tell him I'm at the
hotel. I'm eating in.
1323
01:32:39,988 --> 01:32:41,590
Thank you.
1324
01:32:49,264 --> 01:32:50,633
Hello.
1325
01:32:50,699 --> 01:32:53,435
Oh, Debby, it's you.
1326
01:32:53,501 --> 01:32:56,004
Look,
your mother's looking for you.
1327
01:32:56,071 --> 01:32:58,874
And I'm trying to keep off this
line. I'm expecting a call.
1328
01:32:58,941 --> 01:33:01,209
What
1329
01:33:01,276 --> 01:33:05,080
Yeah, Chris is here. He's been
terrific. He's in talking to the
judge now.
1330
01:33:05,147 --> 01:33:06,481
- No.
1331
01:33:06,548 --> 01:33:08,150
No, not him. It's Ginger.
1332
01:33:08,216 --> 01:33:11,419
They arrested Ginger for parole
violation, carrying a weapon.
1333
01:33:11,486 --> 01:33:14,489
It wasn't even for real. It was
a real gun and everything...
1334
01:33:14,556 --> 01:33:17,559
...but he was using it to see
how people would respond.
1335
01:33:17,626 --> 01:33:19,194
He's starting a new novel.
1336
01:33:19,261 --> 01:33:20,796
Why didn't you call me?
1337
01:33:20,863 --> 01:33:24,399
I was. I was trying to reach
you. You weren't in.
1338
01:33:24,466 --> 01:33:28,136
So I called the Chelsea and I
asked for Chris, thinking you'd
be there.
1339
01:33:28,203 --> 01:33:31,106
No way was I calling my mom and
getting the daughter of Dracula.
1340
01:33:31,173 --> 01:33:33,275
Debby, could you please
put Chris on?
1341
01:33:33,341 --> 01:33:36,745
He can't, no. He's in there with
Ginger and the judge.
1342
01:33:36,812 --> 01:33:39,547
Okay, sure. As soon as he can.
1343
01:33:39,614 --> 01:33:41,249
Okay.
1344
01:33:54,129 --> 01:33:55,630
Oh.
1345
01:34:00,635 --> 01:34:03,138
Um.... Wait.
1346
01:34:03,205 --> 01:34:06,742
555-9970, please.
1347
01:34:11,413 --> 01:34:13,281
Room 2-1-8.
1348
01:34:17,585 --> 01:34:18,721
What?
1349
01:34:18,787 --> 01:34:20,756
No, this is a friend.
1350
01:34:23,091 --> 01:34:24,426
You must.
1351
01:34:25,593 --> 01:34:27,395
They say?
1352
01:34:27,462 --> 01:34:30,332
They said they don't want
to be disturbed?
1353
01:34:37,372 --> 01:34:39,775
Liz. Liz.
1354
01:34:51,820 --> 01:34:54,957
I'm having lunch uptown
with Doug.
1355
01:34:55,023 --> 01:34:56,491
Well, I'm going downtown.
1356
01:34:56,558 --> 01:34:58,593
Oh, we'll go downtown.
Go downtown.
1357
01:35:18,646 --> 01:35:21,183
Well?
1358
01:35:21,249 --> 01:35:24,486
I thought we can have this
conversation later over a drink.
1359
01:35:24,552 --> 01:35:26,021
I lost.
1360
01:35:27,589 --> 01:35:29,491
- Not exactly.
- I won.
1361
01:35:29,557 --> 01:35:33,728
- Not exactly.
1362
01:35:33,796 --> 01:35:35,864
It was a dead heat.
1363
01:35:36,899 --> 01:35:40,002
A split prize?
1364
01:35:40,068 --> 01:35:42,204
Well, not really.
It was decided that...
1365
01:35:42,270 --> 01:35:44,472
...two people should
win first prize.
1366
01:35:44,539 --> 01:35:46,341
You...
1367
01:35:46,408 --> 01:35:48,243
...and Sharon Gay.
1368
01:35:48,310 --> 01:35:50,278
Sharon?
1369
01:35:50,345 --> 01:35:52,848
Both books are in what they
call the American grain.
1370
01:35:52,915 --> 01:35:56,184
-The coming of age of rural
America--
-I know the American grain.
1371
01:35:56,251 --> 01:35:59,254
Hers is the black woman's point
of view. Yours, the white.
1372
01:35:59,321 --> 01:36:01,857
Sharon Gay.
1373
01:36:01,924 --> 01:36:03,792
Merry,
both are excellent choices.
1374
01:36:03,859 --> 01:36:06,895
If they had the guts, they'd
have given it to the black.
1375
01:36:06,962 --> 01:36:08,163
What is that?
1376
01:36:08,230 --> 01:36:10,398
They obviously wanted
to give it to Sharon.
1377
01:36:10,465 --> 01:36:12,367
The reviews have been
licking her feet.
1378
01:36:12,434 --> 01:36:15,137
You were on the jury,
they had to toss you a bone.
1379
01:36:15,203 --> 01:36:18,406
Goddamn it, your book is good
and so is Sharon's.
1380
01:36:18,473 --> 01:36:20,642
I'm a son of a bitch
if I'm gonna explain.
1381
01:36:20,708 --> 01:36:22,410
You didn't have to
share the award.
1382
01:36:22,477 --> 01:36:25,013
They gave it all to you.
Blue Ribbon.
1383
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:27,850
It may come as a surprise, but
we did not write the same book.
1384
01:36:27,916 --> 01:36:29,417
Meaning mine is worse than
yours?
1385
01:36:29,484 --> 01:36:32,220
Meaning I am sick
and fucking tired...
1386
01:36:32,287 --> 01:36:34,857
...of you trying to live your
life through my skin.
1387
01:36:34,923 --> 01:36:38,560
Ha. If I had your skin,
I'd take better care of it.
1388
01:36:40,795 --> 01:36:42,464
That is truly amusing.
1389
01:36:42,530 --> 01:36:43,798
Oh, you stop it.
1390
01:36:43,866 --> 01:36:46,468
I'm angry and I want you
to be angry too.
1391
01:36:46,534 --> 01:36:49,271
- I'm getting out of the car.
- I always wanted to write.
1392
01:36:49,337 --> 01:36:51,673
Ever since I was 8
and I started my first diary.
1393
01:36:51,739 --> 01:36:53,608
It had nothing to do with you.
1394
01:36:53,675 --> 01:36:55,710
Merry, be honest.
1395
01:36:55,777 --> 01:37:01,216
If I had become a glider pilot,
you'd be behind the wheel of a
747 by now.
1396
01:37:01,283 --> 01:37:03,651
Driver, can you drop me here,
please?
1397
01:37:14,629 --> 01:37:16,798
Taxi.
1398
01:37:34,582 --> 01:37:35,750
How are you?
1399
01:37:35,817 --> 01:37:37,385
Wiped out.
1400
01:37:37,452 --> 01:37:39,621
I was worried, this jail
business and all.
1401
01:37:39,687 --> 01:37:41,156
I had about three hours' sleep.
1402
01:37:41,223 --> 01:37:42,724
Did you get Ginger out?
1403
01:37:42,790 --> 01:37:45,193
They're holding him for 60 days.
Parole violation.
1404
01:37:45,260 --> 01:37:46,995
Debby must be heartbroken.
1405
01:37:47,062 --> 01:37:49,097
- I guess.
1406
01:37:49,164 --> 01:37:50,999
I guess she's still asleep.
1407
01:37:51,066 --> 01:37:52,600
Merry didn't mention
she was back.
1408
01:37:52,667 --> 01:37:54,802
- Back at her mother's hotel.
1409
01:37:54,869 --> 01:37:56,004
She's not there.
1410
01:37:56,071 --> 01:37:58,206
- My room.
1411
01:37:59,541 --> 01:38:01,443
Your room.
1412
01:38:01,509 --> 01:38:02,610
On the couch.
1413
01:38:02,677 --> 01:38:04,446
- How odd.
1414
01:38:04,512 --> 01:38:06,748
She could have come to my hotel,
I have a couch.
1415
01:38:06,814 --> 01:38:09,684
She was going to her mom's
but you know how that is.
1416
01:38:09,751 --> 01:38:11,853
No. How is that, Chris?
1417
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:14,722
- I'm upset for Debby.
1418
01:38:14,789 --> 01:38:16,491
All alone and no place to go.
1419
01:38:16,558 --> 01:38:19,494
Chelsea must be booked up
or she wouldn't impose on you.
1420
01:38:19,561 --> 01:38:21,829
- You know Chelsea's not booked.
1421
01:38:21,896 --> 01:38:25,633
- I haven't checked the books.
- I didn't wanna tell you this.
1422
01:38:25,700 --> 01:38:28,370
Tell me about what?
Something I shouldn't know?
1423
01:38:28,436 --> 01:38:30,305
No,
I knew you'd get carried away.
1424
01:38:30,372 --> 01:38:33,841
Never been calmer. It's you
who's gone all emotional.
1425
01:38:33,908 --> 01:38:35,677
Sudden compassion
for runaway teenagers.
1426
01:38:35,743 --> 01:38:38,380
-Stop it, please.
1427
01:38:38,446 --> 01:38:41,283
Why couldn't you receive calls?
What was all that about?
1428
01:38:41,349 --> 01:38:45,053
Debby and her mom were having
fights and she kept calling
back.
1429
01:38:45,120 --> 01:38:46,588
What if it had been me?
1430
01:38:46,654 --> 01:38:48,790
Why am I on the defensive?
1431
01:38:48,856 --> 01:38:51,393
I'm trying to say that...
1432
01:38:51,459 --> 01:38:56,164
...I've been sleepless all night
reconsidering your proposals.
1433
01:38:56,231 --> 01:38:57,899
You remember,
your many proposals.
1434
01:38:57,966 --> 01:39:01,236
- Your many insistent proposals
- Stop!
1435
01:39:01,303 --> 01:39:04,606
You said no. We don't have
to beat it to death.
1436
01:39:04,672 --> 01:39:06,008
Oh.
1437
01:39:06,074 --> 01:39:08,610
- I'm sorry.
- I wanted to marry you.
1438
01:39:08,676 --> 01:39:11,646
You didn't have to be
so goddamn hostile.
1439
01:39:11,713 --> 01:39:15,417
Well, then, be man enough
to end the hostilities.
1440
01:39:15,483 --> 01:39:17,719
Hostilities end when
one side surrenders.
1441
01:39:17,785 --> 01:39:20,455
Oh. Is that what you think
marriage is
1442
01:39:20,522 --> 01:39:23,591
Who the fuck is talking
about marriage?
1443
01:39:23,658 --> 01:39:26,428
You were. Until you opened
a youth hostel.
1444
01:39:30,165 --> 01:39:32,234
Can I join you guys?
1445
01:39:33,868 --> 01:39:35,370
I guess not, huh?
1446
01:39:35,437 --> 01:39:37,839
- I'm sorry, it's not really--
- No, no. No problem.
1447
01:39:37,905 --> 01:39:41,143
I better go call Mom and tell
her what's going on, anyway.
1448
01:39:41,209 --> 01:39:43,645
I'll call you later.
And thank you, really...
1449
01:39:43,711 --> 01:39:45,047
...for saving my life.
1450
01:39:45,113 --> 01:39:46,781
Bye, Aunt Liz.
1451
01:39:46,848 --> 01:39:48,550
Bye, baby.
1452
01:39:53,288 --> 01:39:55,657
I'm going on the road
with Fleetwood Mac.
1453
01:39:55,723 --> 01:39:57,425
I'm doing an interview.
1454
01:39:59,027 --> 01:40:01,229
Debby's going with me
as my assistant.
1455
01:40:01,296 --> 01:40:04,632
It was in the budget
and the guy I was--
1456
01:40:08,870 --> 01:40:14,176
Debby's been wanting to get away
from home. I think that's good.
1457
01:40:14,242 --> 01:40:15,577
Yeah.
1458
01:40:15,643 --> 01:40:17,979
Truly.
1459
01:40:18,046 --> 01:40:19,981
It's better than good.
It's fantastic.
1460
01:40:20,048 --> 01:40:21,783
Yeah?
1461
01:40:23,951 --> 01:40:25,720
Don't say we're
gonna be friends.
1462
01:40:25,787 --> 01:40:29,491
We're inappropriate as friends.
1463
01:40:29,557 --> 01:40:33,161
-If I can't have you as a lover,
I--
1464
01:40:33,228 --> 01:40:35,397
Well, we have to agree
about one thing.
1465
01:40:35,463 --> 01:40:39,501
That in some ways
I'm more mature than you.
1466
01:40:40,902 --> 01:40:42,837
I've seen some endings.
1467
01:40:42,904 --> 01:40:44,172
This is one.
1468
01:40:44,239 --> 01:40:46,007
I wanted something from you.
1469
01:40:46,074 --> 01:40:47,275
I know.
1470
01:40:47,342 --> 01:40:50,312
- You made me really furious.
- I know.
1471
01:40:52,880 --> 01:40:55,150
Do me another favor.
1472
01:40:55,217 --> 01:40:56,751
Let's forget about
the interview.
1473
01:40:56,818 --> 01:41:00,188
I don't wanna read it.
1474
01:41:00,255 --> 01:41:03,825
We've written something
sensational together.
1475
01:41:03,891 --> 01:41:06,661
But it's a private edition.
Let's not make it public.
1476
01:41:07,729 --> 01:41:10,832
You talk some good talk,
you know.
1477
01:41:10,898 --> 01:41:11,966
Like my old friend Yeats said:
1478
01:41:13,568 --> 01:41:16,738
When you're old and gray
And nodding by the fire
1479
01:41:16,804 --> 01:41:19,707
You can take down that book
And slowly read
1480
01:42:02,317 --> 01:42:03,985
Are you leaving?
1481
01:42:04,051 --> 01:42:05,720
I'm going to Connecticut.
1482
01:42:05,787 --> 01:42:07,922
What about my party?
1483
01:42:07,989 --> 01:42:10,992
I'm sorry.
I was gonna call.
1484
01:42:11,058 --> 01:42:15,830
I'm so down,
I'd just spoil it.
1485
01:42:15,897 --> 01:42:18,966
I think we have come to a
serious juncture in our lives...
1486
01:42:19,033 --> 01:42:21,736
...when we should examine
the terms of our friendship.
1487
01:42:21,803 --> 01:42:23,238
Hold this.
1488
01:42:24,972 --> 01:42:28,276
Thanks.
1489
01:42:28,343 --> 01:42:30,912
Merry, I'm truly sorry
about the award...
1490
01:42:30,978 --> 01:42:35,149
...but it's not the worst thing
that could happen. There'll be
lots of publicity.
1491
01:42:35,217 --> 01:42:36,884
That is water long under
the bridge.
1492
01:42:36,951 --> 01:42:39,821
- Even longer under the bridge.
1493
01:42:39,887 --> 01:42:43,157
- Dry as the Sahara.
1494
01:42:43,225 --> 01:42:44,892
How does he look?
1495
01:42:48,463 --> 01:42:52,867
He's getting married.
1496
01:42:52,934 --> 01:42:55,270
- Joyce.
1497
01:42:55,337 --> 01:42:57,272
From Houston.
1498
01:42:57,339 --> 01:42:59,173
Oh. Poor Merry.
1499
01:42:59,241 --> 01:43:02,310
What a day you are having.
1500
01:43:02,377 --> 01:43:05,513
They've bought a house
with a yard.
1501
01:43:05,580 --> 01:43:08,483
- Sounds wonderful to me.
1502
01:43:08,550 --> 01:43:11,619
I'm not immune to the
attractions of a man and a yard.
1503
01:43:11,686 --> 01:43:13,255
Or to Doug specifically?
Doug and a yard?
1504
01:43:13,321 --> 01:43:14,822
I never thought of it.
1505
01:43:14,889 --> 01:43:17,525
- Never thought of Doug as a
husband?
- Never.
1506
01:43:17,592 --> 01:43:20,795
Along with his ability to drink,
he has lost his ability to lie.
1507
01:43:20,862 --> 01:43:23,865
- Don't you look away from me.
- I'm closing my suitcase.
1508
01:43:23,931 --> 01:43:26,768
I began to smell there was
something he didn't wanna say.
1509
01:43:26,834 --> 01:43:29,003
I bought him a drink and it
all came tumbling out.
1510
01:43:29,070 --> 01:43:30,438
You bought him a drink?
1511
01:43:30,505 --> 01:43:33,575
What a petty, disgusting
confession it was.
1512
01:43:33,641 --> 01:43:36,010
Me, the unsuspecting wife...
1513
01:43:36,077 --> 01:43:38,880
...blaming myself over the years
as I sensed my husband...
1514
01:43:38,946 --> 01:43:41,516
...slowly but surely
slipping away from me.
1515
01:43:41,583 --> 01:43:43,385
Those don't sound like
Doug's words.
1516
01:43:43,451 --> 01:43:45,920
Isn't it true that all the time
he was married to me...
1517
01:43:45,987 --> 01:43:47,922
...he was pouring out
his love for you?
1518
01:43:47,989 --> 01:43:50,157
- He mentioned it.
1519
01:43:50,224 --> 01:43:53,027
- At the last.
1520
01:43:53,094 --> 01:43:54,829
Tsk. Merry, I said no.
1521
01:43:54,896 --> 01:43:57,432
Oh, because of your friendship
with me?
1522
01:43:57,499 --> 01:43:59,401
- At least you got that right.
- Oh.
1523
01:43:59,467 --> 01:44:03,137
Except for that strange lapse
into morality you would have
taken him?
1524
01:44:04,606 --> 01:44:06,741
He sure deserved better
than he was getting.
1525
01:44:06,808 --> 01:44:09,344
How did you know what he was
getting
1526
01:44:09,411 --> 01:44:12,647
If you have any more
revelations, keep them
for your diaries...
1527
01:44:12,714 --> 01:44:14,916
...or your novels,
they sound about alike.
1528
01:44:14,982 --> 01:44:16,551
Well, it's happy time for all.
1529
01:44:16,618 --> 01:44:19,053
Doug and his Joyce.
You and your cradle snatchings.
1530
01:44:19,120 --> 01:44:21,723
You can have a double ceremony.
1531
01:44:25,159 --> 01:44:26,894
If you mean Chris, he's gone.
1532
01:44:26,961 --> 01:44:28,162
Where?
1533
01:44:29,831 --> 01:44:33,034
Into the arms of what you would
be corny enough to call...
1534
01:44:33,100 --> 01:44:35,437
- ..."the other woman."
1535
01:44:36,338 --> 01:44:37,839
Debby.
1536
01:44:40,207 --> 01:44:42,076
My Debby?
1537
01:44:42,143 --> 01:44:44,045
That's absurd.
1538
01:44:44,111 --> 01:44:47,415
That's what I thought.
They're too close in age.
1539
01:44:47,482 --> 01:44:49,016
I'm gonna put a stop to that.
1540
01:44:49,083 --> 01:44:50,318
Hell you are.
1541
01:44:50,385 --> 01:44:52,554
Chris is giving her a job
with my blessings.
1542
01:44:52,620 --> 01:44:55,857
Doesn't that just complete
the picture?
1543
01:44:55,923 --> 01:44:57,559
In a painful kind of way.
1544
01:44:57,625 --> 01:45:00,094
Everything I've ever had,
I had to share because of you.
1545
01:45:00,161 --> 01:45:02,364
My award, my husband,
my daughter.
1546
01:45:02,430 --> 01:45:04,766
Isn't there anything
that's mine?
1547
01:45:04,832 --> 01:45:07,435
- Your bile.
- My righteous anger.
1548
01:45:07,502 --> 01:45:08,970
Ah.
What a preacher you would make.
1549
01:45:09,036 --> 01:45:11,806
Because I don't have the morals
of a yellow dog?
1550
01:45:11,873 --> 01:45:14,008
I have respect for the morals
of yellow dogs.
1551
01:45:14,075 --> 01:45:16,878
- One come in the yard, we'd
kick it.
- They're loyal.
1552
01:45:16,944 --> 01:45:18,946
They'd hump a snake
if it stood still.
1553
01:45:19,013 --> 01:45:22,417
- I haven't tried snakes.
- A miracle.
1554
01:45:22,484 --> 01:45:24,352
- You said it.
1555
01:45:24,419 --> 01:45:26,087
What are you saying, Merry?
1556
01:45:26,153 --> 01:45:27,922
How many men have you had?
1557
01:45:29,657 --> 01:45:30,858
How many before you're a slut?
1558
01:45:30,925 --> 01:45:32,259
- Three.
- Heh.
1559
01:45:32,326 --> 01:45:35,597
- Kick me out of the yard.
1560
01:45:35,663 --> 01:45:37,599
Three sailors and a jockey
but never your husband.
1561
01:45:37,665 --> 01:45:39,734
Which at this point, I regret.
1562
01:45:39,801 --> 01:45:43,638
What astonishes me is that you
have no idea why I truly hate
you at this point.
1563
01:45:43,705 --> 01:45:45,039
It's not because of your
jealousy over my work.
1564
01:45:45,106 --> 01:45:46,941
Oh, your work!
1565
01:45:47,008 --> 01:45:51,212
Because you lack the moral
sensibility to appreciate what
I have lost in Doug.
1566
01:45:51,278 --> 01:45:52,847
- Next to nothing.
- Liar.
1567
01:45:52,914 --> 01:45:54,949
A possession.
You lost more in that bear.
1568
01:45:55,016 --> 01:45:56,984
That is one thing of mine
you won't keep.
1569
01:45:57,051 --> 01:45:59,220
Take him. That's one thing
that won't talk back...
1570
01:45:59,286 --> 01:46:01,789
...so you can turn to hate
of all exaggerations.
1571
01:46:01,856 --> 01:46:03,925
- I am not such a woman.
- You're right.
1572
01:46:03,991 --> 01:46:05,960
- You are part such a woman.
1573
01:46:06,027 --> 01:46:07,161
Cunt.
1574
01:46:07,228 --> 01:46:09,296
God!
1575
01:46:09,363 --> 01:46:12,400
- Give me that bear. Give it.
- It's mine.
1576
01:46:12,467 --> 01:46:14,335
Give me that.
Give it here.
1577
01:46:25,947 --> 01:46:27,415
Oh.
1578
01:46:33,320 --> 01:46:37,692
[MAN SINGING, PLAYING "ON THE
SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET"
ON PIANO]
1579
01:46:55,142 --> 01:46:58,513
[LAUGHTER, MUSIC
AND CHATTERING CONTINUES]
1580
01:48:07,114 --> 01:48:09,116
Darling,
I've been looking for you.
1581
01:48:09,183 --> 01:48:12,520
- Happy New Year, Jules.
- Happy New Year, angel.
1582
01:48:14,388 --> 01:48:16,390
Where are you going, love?
1583
01:48:16,457 --> 01:48:18,159
A party.
1584
01:48:45,186 --> 01:48:46,954
Liz.
1585
01:48:52,459 --> 01:48:54,796
Hello
1586
01:49:02,503 --> 01:49:04,005
MERRY:
Liz.
1587
01:49:05,406 --> 01:49:07,141
Hello?
1588
01:49:12,580 --> 01:49:14,448
Come in.
1589
01:49:17,384 --> 01:49:19,420
Oh.
1590
01:49:19,486 --> 01:49:23,057
Do you know how much it costs
to take a cab, from New York?
1591
01:49:23,124 --> 01:49:24,525
Ninety dollars.
1592
01:49:24,592 --> 01:49:25,993
Ninety.
1593
01:49:26,060 --> 01:49:28,696
I tipped him five.
Was that enough?
1594
01:49:33,300 --> 01:49:35,502
Ooh.
1595
01:49:35,569 --> 01:49:38,806
Oh, boy, doesn't that feel good.
1596
01:49:41,342 --> 01:49:43,611
Do you have glasses?
1597
01:49:48,482 --> 01:49:50,051
I hated my party.
1598
01:50:04,732 --> 01:50:07,168
Damn, the bubbles are gone.
1599
01:50:10,304 --> 01:50:11,673
Thanks.
1600
01:50:20,081 --> 01:50:23,217
I'm not much good at
apologizing.
1601
01:50:23,284 --> 01:50:27,221
I guess I never have,
actually, but I am now.
1602
01:50:27,288 --> 01:50:30,457
- You don't have to.
- I certainly do.
1603
01:50:30,524 --> 01:50:32,359
I couldn't hate you.
1604
01:50:32,426 --> 01:50:35,229
And even if sometimes I do,
I shouldn't say it.
1605
01:50:35,296 --> 01:50:38,432
You're my oldest friend.
What else have we got in life?
1606
01:50:38,499 --> 01:50:40,001
Our oldest enemies.
1607
01:50:41,335 --> 01:50:44,405
Honey, as the years go on,
they begin to look alike.
1608
01:50:48,409 --> 01:50:50,111
I've been thinking about us.
1609
01:50:50,177 --> 01:50:52,113
Really?
1610
01:50:52,179 --> 01:50:54,248
We're terrific.
1611
01:50:54,315 --> 01:50:57,251
You don't say.
1612
01:50:57,318 --> 01:51:02,056
We've accomplished one hell of a
lot, in one lifetime.
1613
01:51:02,123 --> 01:51:04,759
What we deserve is a rest.
1614
01:51:06,393 --> 01:51:07,962
And we shouldn't always argue.
1615
01:51:08,863 --> 01:51:12,266
I know. You're right.
1616
01:51:17,805 --> 01:51:19,640
Take a year off...
1617
01:51:19,707 --> 01:51:21,675
...and sail around
the Greek Isles.
1618
01:51:23,544 --> 01:51:27,849
Only sleep with guys
who can't pronounce our names.
1619
01:51:27,915 --> 01:51:29,316
All Greeks.
1620
01:51:31,318 --> 01:51:32,653
Uh--
1621
01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:34,288
Well, I couldn't do that.
1622
01:51:34,355 --> 01:51:36,457
- Just the fishermen.
- Well, how--
1623
01:51:38,592 --> 01:51:40,728
But how could I do such a thing?
1624
01:51:42,396 --> 01:51:45,432
It's simple. You just go there
and let it happen.
1625
01:51:45,499 --> 01:51:52,673
I wouldn't even know where to
start. I wouldn't
1626
01:51:52,740 --> 01:51:54,475
All my life I've wanted men...
1627
01:51:54,541 --> 01:51:58,045
...to find something mysterious
and seductive in my work.
1628
01:51:58,780 --> 01:52:00,414
Some poetry.
1629
01:52:01,648 --> 01:52:03,284
Me too.
1630
01:52:06,553 --> 01:52:09,957
Now, let them find the poetry
in my body.
1631
01:52:10,024 --> 01:52:11,859
Forget about the books.
1632
01:52:23,704 --> 01:52:25,006
Merry...
1633
01:52:25,072 --> 01:52:27,408
...do me a favor.
1634
01:52:27,474 --> 01:52:28,776
What?
1635
01:52:30,711 --> 01:52:32,379
Kiss me.
1636
01:52:36,617 --> 01:52:38,152
After all these years...
1637
01:52:38,219 --> 01:52:41,122
...are you going to tell me
there's something about you?
1638
01:52:44,391 --> 01:52:46,327
It's New Year's Eve.
1639
01:52:47,494 --> 01:52:50,331
I want the press of
human flesh...
1640
01:52:50,397 --> 01:52:53,067
...and you're the only
flesh around.
1641
01:52:53,634 --> 01:52:55,036
Kiss me.
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