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There is more to life than what you're lit.

So take a chance and face the wind.

Open road and a road that's lit. Brand new life around the bend.

There were times I lost a dream or two.

Found a trail and at the end was you.

There's a path we take and a path not taken. The choice is up to you, my

The night's long, but you might awake.

Grand life, grand life, grand life around the bend.

Dad, can I sleep over at Martin's house tonight? Oh, no, no, no. Tonight's a

school night.

Not if I cut school tomorrow.

Good morning.

Hey, Mona.

Hi, Grandma.

Good morning, darling.

Angela, you think you might put the paper down for one second and say good

morning to your mother?

Uh -huh.

Angela, you're beginning to look more and more like your father.

Oh,

Computron and Unidac merged.

Are you kidding? I thought they were just good friends.

Oh, the girl I got. That's my job.

My job.

Hi. Telegram for Mona Robinson.

Mona, telegram.

I have told that man a million times I will not serve in his cabinet.

That's what they all say.

Sign here.

He signed.

Oh, I'll tell you for you.

Excuse me. I also do stripper grams for the right people.

I'll keep it in mind.

Mother, what is it?

He, Everett Brooke, died.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Who is he? Who was he?

I don't know, but... I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm rich! What do you say?

Look! He left me eighty...

Is this guy, and why did he leave you all this money? I don't know. Just what

says there that I'm rich. I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich.

And so and so and so and so and contact legal department United Global

Industries. Of course, United Global Industries. C .E. Brooks, I read his

obituary last week. He was a billionaire.

Billionaire? You only left your lousy 80 Gs?

Well,

it's the thought that counts.

You must have at least met him. Well, I may not remember names and faces, but I

never forget a billionaire.

Well, apparently he was a very eccentric man. He left a sizable trust fund to be

divided among all Elvis impersonators.

Gee, I don't think I sound a thing like Elvis.

Mona, I for one am very happy about this. This could not have happened to a

nicer person.

Well, maybe one nicer person.

Elvis, let's see.

This is such fun. I've always wanted to hire my own

decorator.

Yes, I can see why.

This place is simply not you.

Who designed it?

Me.

That was the old you. I see the new you in an environment far more upscale and

tre elegante.

Well, 80 ,000 smackers can buy a lot of elegante.

80 ,000? Oh, honey, for that we could do the whole room over.

Excuse me.

Hello, I'm Larry Liebling, the car king.

Hello. I'm Mona Robinson, the inheritance queen.

Pretty lady, I see you behind the wheel of a sleek black sports car.

We're not talking transportation here. We're talking fulfillment, adventure,

romance.

No sex?

Sorry, I'm a married man.

But I'm not a fanatic.

Get down, Larry.

I was looking for something with a little more horsepower.

Hey, Mona. Oh, I'm sorry to interrupt.

Tony, this is Carol.

Oh, Patrice, my interior decorator plays environmental designer.

And this is Larry Liebling.

The car king!

Have I got an alpha for you? Oh, do I wish.

You better take a look at the paper here. There's an article about C. Edward

Brooks. The wives are getting together. They're going to contest the will.

Well, I'm not afraid of a fight. I mean, that money is mine, and I want it.

That's my girl. You tell him, baby.

Oh, is this your daddy war box?

Yum, yum, yum.

That's the Everett Brooks.

Well, on the other hand, what's $80 ,000?

Thanks so much for dropping by.

It's been fun. But what about your new environment?

What about your wheels? Well, I think I'll just paint the place and rotate the

tires on my bike.

Hey,

Mona, what gives?

Would you recognize this guy?

No, I never saw him before in my life.

Mother! Tony! Have you seen this afternoon's paper?

There's a picture of Brooks...

I'm talking to furniture.

What are you doing, talking to furniture?

Yeah, I just got this afternoon's paper, and there's a picture of Brooks, and he

looks very familiar. Let's go see if Mother remembers him. I already showed

the paper, and she doesn't remember him a lot.

What does that mean?

I don't know. It's really weird. She takes one look at the picture. She says

she's turning down the money because she don't want the hassle.

Oh, that is weird. Mother loves a good hassle.

I know I have seen this face somewhere.

Well, somewhere's a big place, Angela. Could you narrow it down a little bit

me?

Yeah, I know.

Let's check the family archives.

The what?

The attic.

Oh. Well, let me put this sauce down. Oh, that looks good. What is it? Sweet

sour. Oh, thanks.

After I put in the sweet.

Tony, now I haven't been up to the attic in ages. It's probably a big blast.

Tony, it's spotless. Yeah, well, you know me. Born to dust.

Hey, now wait. Wait till you see how I got it organized, huh? For instance, for

instance, let's just do Christmas decorations, all right?

Alphabetical. A, angel hair.

B,

bells.

C, cloths. Santa, refer to Kringle, Chris.

E,

escalator.

No, I'm positive.

There's nothing here, Tony. How are you doing?

Oh, good. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Who's the babe on the baskin rug?

Give me that.

I knew it was you. I'd recognize those rosy cheeks anywhere.

Tony!

Oh,

look,

here I am at 14.

Oh, man,

no, it's that way.

I remember my gawky period, too.

What a lousy weekend that was.

Here I am at nine.

Oh, yeah?

It's the summer we spent at Nantucket. Oh, Nantucket. I've never been there,

I love the limerick.

Really? How's it go?

Let's just keep looking.

Oh, and there's Mother and Me on the Beach, and that's the cottage that we

Oh, yeah? Well, where's your father?

Oh, Daddy was in the city working.

Mm -hmm. Oh, and at the end of summer, we had this great clam bake.

Angela, it's him. It's the Everett Brooks.

No, no, Tony. That was the guy who had the cottage next to it.

What was his name? The Everett Brooks. I'm telling you. No, no, no. His name

was, uh, Charlie something.

Brookheimer. Yeah.

How'd you know? It's written on the back of the picture. I'm telling you,

Angela. You take Charlie Brookheimer, huh? He had 20 years.

20 pounds, about 20 million bucks. You get rid of the Heimer, you got C.

Brooks.

I think you may be right.

Well, he wasn't a billionaire then, but he gave me money for the movies. Yeah,

well, you three must have seen a lot of movies. Oh, no.

Actually, it was just me.

He and Mother spent a lot of time alone. They went swimming and took long walks

on the beach.

Oh, my God.

What?

That's why he gave her the money, and that's why she doesn't want to take it.

Why?

Charlie and my mother had an affair.

There, it's done.

What's done?

My will.

Want to see?

Oh, yeah, let us see.

I'm taking everything with me, signed Jonathan Bauer.

Very good.

Jonathan, you can't... do that?

King Tut did. He put all his golden stuff in a pyramid so that he can take

him when he dies. Oh, good idea. Tell you what, when you make Pharaoh, you can

do that too.

Maybe I'll just spend it now while I'm young.

Hey, Dad.

Yeah? Do you have a will?

Of course I have a will, and I want you to know I'm leaving you every day. Would

you like it now?

Do you want to eat it?

It's easy for her to say. Her mother was a saint.

You had a rough night?

Well, outside of nightmares and insomnia and a slight migraine, I feel totally

refreshed.

See what happens to you when you keep things bottled up inside you?

Not that it's any of my business.

Good morning, you two.

Hey, hey, mama, good morning. Here's your coffee.

Mother.

And how about...

A nice, hot, flaky croissant to go with that coffee?

I don't mind if I do.

I thought you were on a diet.

So I'm cheating.

Well, it won't be the first time.

Angela.

Is something wrong?

No.

Yes.

I didn't sleep very well last night.

And that's all that's bothering you?

Yes. No.

Well, I've learned my lesson. No more yes and no questions.

Well, wouldn't anybody like to talk to their mother this morning?

Angela, if you have something to say, say it.

Pass the jelly.

Mona, I think what Angela's trying to say is...

That we were up in the... Tell her.

The attic.

And we found a couple of pictures that were taken in Nantucket.

And these pictures were of you and Charlie Bruckheimer.

And she got the crazy idea that you and Charlie had an... Had an affair?

No matter how crazy she is, I'll pass the jelly and we can get on with our

lives, okay?

She's not wrong.

Charlie and I did have an affair.

Well, thank you so much, Tony, for getting this out in the open. I'm sure

everyone feels so much better.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be off to work. And us, of course, is another

portion of my life you'd like to ruin.

How are you?

Sorry. That's okay, Tony.

We all do things we regret.

Hey, come on, Mona. That stuff with you and Charlie, that's a long time ago.

I was married, and I had an affair.

I guess you're disappointed in me, huh?

Hey, come on, Mona. You know you'll always beat cops with me.

Thanks, Tony.

I've been carrying this... secret around for a long time and i've always dreaded

the day that angela would find out oh hey but listen let's take it a bright

huh i mean now it's finally out hey and it's not so bad

Tony. Ow!

You're home.

Yes, were you waiting up? Right until I fell asleep.

It's almost 12 o 'clock. Where you been?

I had some work to catch up on. Good night.

Well, wait a minute.

Is it too much to ask for you to pick up the phone and call me? I'm worried sick

here. Well, for a worried man, you were sleeping rather soundly.

I was a troubled sleep, Angela.

I remember my father used to wait up for me. Yeah, well, I hope he gave you hell

if you made him wait like this.

No.

I used to come home late from the library and he'd be sitting there with

briefcase open and he'd be pretending to work, but I knew what he was doing.

Hey, Angela, I'm real sorry about this morning, about not minding my own

business. And I promise you, I will never stick this Roman nose where it

not belong again.

Thank you, Tony. But aren't you going to talk? Tony!

I can't. I wouldn't know what to say.

Say something.

Tell her you're hurt. Tell her you're mad at her. Tell her you hate her guts.

Could we stop it? Tell her you're mad.

Gee, look at the time.

I think I'm going to go upstairs and mind my own business.

I was waiting up for you.

Yes, well, there seems to be a lot of that going around.

You know, Angela, my affair with Charlie was not a subject that I ever

intended to discuss with you.

Okay, good night.

But now, Angela, don't you think we should talk about it?

I know that I've hurt you.

And if you want...

You can punch me on the arm as hard as you can.

On the shoulder.

Oh, mother.

Oh.

Angela, you hit your mother.

How could you do that to Daddy?

How could you sneak around behind his back?

I didn't have to sneak around. He was never there.

He was supposed to come up on the weekends, remember?

And he never did. Not once. And that's the way it always was.

I was very lonely.

Well, don't you think that he was lonely, too? But he didn't go and have a

mistress. Well, you're wrong there.

What?

Who?

That secretary with the cheap perfume?

No, Angela.

His work.

That... Damn bank that I was jealous of every day of our married life.

Well, while he was working, you and Charlie were... You know what you were.

Yes, Angela, I know.

But you don't know, Angela.

Charlie and I were doing a lot of things.

We were talking and we were laughing and...

We were keeping each other from feeling as lonely as we really were.

Well, that's very nice, but I'm just glad Daddy never found out.

Well, he did.

What?

How?

I told him.

You told him?

What happened?

Well, we yelled a lot and we slammed a lot of doors and we broke a lot of

dishes.

And then we patched things up.

The doors and the marriage.

And I needed a new set of dishes anyway.

Is that when we got the Wedgwood?

Yes.

Yes.

And we also got your father back.

After that, he took vacations with us.

He tried to come home for dinner and...

He didn't work quite so many Saturdays.

So he forgave you.

He was a wonderful man.

I miss him.

So do I.

You know, Angela, I've always thought you were quite a bit like him.

So if he could forgive you, so could I.

Oh, mother.

Something I can throw away up here?

Tony.

Your own Girl Scout uniform?

Angela, you were a Girl Scout?

Yeah. Oh, look, she got a merit badge and everything.

Proficiency patch.

What was this for?

Telephone manners.

Oh, we were proud of her.

Keep going, Angela.

Show them how you take a message.

Oh, mother.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Now, this is what I'm talking about. This is something that every family

A little palm tree with a monkey climbing on it.

You can't throw that away. It goes to my old turtle bowl.

Oh, that's great, but where's the turtle?

He got away three years ago.

But he might come back.

Yeah, sure, he'll be back. Save this. Save everything.

I'm going downstairs to make dinner.

Yeah, let's get out of here.

This place is spooky.

At night I hear noises.

Oh, no, darling, that's just your imagination.

All right, come on, we'll go down. Okay, come on.