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

Take a chance and face the wind.

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

There were times I lost a dream or two.

Found a trail.

At the end was you.

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

The nights are long, but you might awake.

A brand new life, a brand new life, a brand new life around the bend.

Bravo! Watch out, Barista Coffee. Here comes my silly call.

Yeah, Dad, what does he have that you don't?

Very tight tight.

Angela,

thanks for taking us. I love the ballet. Oh, sweetheart, you're so welcome. I

find an evening of culture is always inspiring and uplifting. Yeah, me too.

Hey, Sam.

I'll sell you my opera tickets.

I'd give anything to be able to dance like that.

Well, honey, why don't you take some lessons?

Oh, I don't know.

It looks so hard.

Are you kidding me? You'll be great at it. You're a natural.

You get that from me.

Dad, you cannot ballet dance, and you just proved that.

Are you kidding me? When I played ball, I slid at the second. It was ballet with

cleats.

Well, Tony, you know, there's a school right here in town.

Yeah, but wait a minute. How good is the instructor?

He has a Russian accent.

Ooh, all right -ski.

Russian for ski. Angela, is he about five foot ten and a half with dark hair

smooth as vodka on the rock?

Mother, why do you ask?

No reason.

Oh, damn. Look at this place, huh? It reeks of class.

Dad, I think that's sweat.

That's classy sweat.

Hello.

You must be Mr.

Michele. You must be Mr.

Rubinicinski. Very good.

I've been practicing.

Just call me Sergei. Hey, I like that.

And you must be...

Samantha? Yes?

My lovely new ballerina?

It's an old Russian custom.

I hope you don't mind. Hey, no problem.

When in Moscow.

Now I remember why I defected.

I guess I better go get changed. Okay, honey.

Break a toe.

Okay, I'm going to sit and watch. Okay.

You're new here, huh? Yeah.

This is my daughter's first class, and is she excited?

Her name is Samantha.

She's 13.

Oh, my Cindy has it all, you know?

Grace, beauty, talent.

See if you can pick her out.

a tough one um her impressive

isn't she she's got it all and then some

You were magnificent.

You were wonderful. You were beautiful.

Just check it.

in three weeks.

She has, uh,

um, she has oodles of talent.

Well, I love oodles.

Perhaps, perhaps she will become a prima

ballerina.

No.

Yeah? No.

She's getting started too late.

Isn't she?

Yes, she is.

say she'd be in a good company.

Look at Mladen.

Or Izmailova.

And, of course, Krasnetsova.

For someone with Samantha Stalin, the age is no... What's the word?

No problem.

No obstacle.

No, no, no.

No sweat.

No, no.

But I think... You know what I mean.

If you mean what I think you mean,

Well, I don't know about the top.

Hey, hey, oh, oh, hey.

She's a macelli.

You don't know Samantha.

Well, she would have to come five days a week and rehearse at home.

We'll do it. We'll do it.

Well, then you got it.

Thank you, Sergei.

Angela, you're never going to believe what Sergei told me.

He says Sam has the talent to become a prima ballerina.

That's wonderful!

But isn't she getting started too late?

No, Angela.

Lots of famous ballerinas have started much later than Sam. It's Malyova,

and Krasnikova, to name but three.

I'm impressed.

So am I.

I am taking it. She must be excited.

Oh, she doesn't know about it. I haven't told her yet. I want to tell her until

I'm sure I can swing it.

She's got to go five days a week. That's 20 days a month.

That's a lot of bread.

Tony.

Let me tell you a little story.

Hey, the two things. My mind's on this ballet. My story kind of relates to

Okay, go ahead.

It's about a little girl.

Who played the cello.

And she was good.

I mean good.

But like most little girls, she had other things that she liked to do.

And nobody pushed her to practice. And so she gave up the cello.

And she became an advertising executive.

Let me just take a wild stab.

Is her name Angela?

Okay, you guessed.

Unbelievable. Really, but the point is, I wasted my talent, I've regretted it

ever since, and I'd hate to see that happen to Sam.

Me too.

Now look, Tony, I know how you feel about me giving you money for things,

this is so important for Sam, and I'd be thrilled if you'd let me pay for part

or even all.

Okay.

Okay part or okay all?

We'll work something out, okay?

But, hey, I'm going to get you free seats for Sam when she's dancing Swan

at the Met.

Front row center.

You'll be so close you'll be swimming in swan sweat.

Hi, Danny.

Oh, no.

Get a load of this.

Sam is going to be a prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera House.

You miss Ted Koppel one night and you're out of it. Shut up.

The ballet teacher says she has real talent. Yeah, she could end up dancing

all the major cities in Europe.

London, Vienna.

Paris. Oh, Paris.

I love Paris.

I always thought I'd look great in a beret.

I'm sure you will, but how does Sam feel about being pushed into a career?

Mona, I'm not pushing her. I just wanted to eat, drink, and breathe ballet.

By the way, Mother, what's wrong with pushing?

If you had pushed me...

I'd be at the Philharmonic today.

Doing what?

Playing the cello?

Tony, do you realize what a life in ballet means?

It means giving up everything else in life. Look, no more baseball, no more

food, no more boys.

I can live with that.

Yeah, but can Sam?

Don't impose your dreams on her.

Let her decide for herself, huh?

Hey, come on, Moan. I ain't one of those pushy stage mothers.

It's her life. It's her choice.

Huh? Samantha, could you come out here, please?

Whatever she says goes.

Good.

Bye, Dad.

Sweetheart.

Would you like to be poor and unknown for the rest of your life?

Or would you rather be the toast of Paris?

Uh,

where's Sam?

She hasn't come home from ballet yet, buddy.

Don't ignore me anymore.

That's because she no longer has a childhood.

Mona, you're bucking for balcony seats.

All I know is she's only 13 years old and she practically lives in a dance

studio. Hey, Mona, when I was her age, I practically lived on a baseball field.

It's the only way to get to the top. No pain, no gain.

Dad, guess what?

They're gay.

that I have the best rond de jambes in the whole class. See that, Moan? You

seen any jambes ronding in a net?

Hey, Sam, do you want to go ice skating?

Ooh, that sounds like fun.

It might shorten my muscles.

Mona, that looks wonderful.

Want a bite?

No, no, no.

Gotta keep in shape, right, Dad? That's right, my baby, right to the top.

This is a wonderfully soothing instrument, isn't it?

Angela, where did you get that thing?

Tony found it for me in the attic.

It was you.

Mona, come on, it wasn't easy either. It was buried under all this stuff, almost

like somebody had...

Mother,

you hid this, didn't you?

Yes.

And... That was wrong of me.

I should have burned it.

Hello.

Yeah. It is?

Samantha, it's Chad McCann. Chad McCann, the cutest boy in the school?

Hello.

Everything's coming up, Posey.

I have ballet.

Some childhood, huh?

Uh, uh, Sam, um... Just a minute, Chad.

I think it'd be all right if you, you know, you missed one thing. Dad, did you

miss many days of practice when you were playing ball?

No, no.

How about you, Angela?

Did you miss practice when you were playing the cello?

All the time.

Sorry, Chad, but I have to practice.

Maybe another time.

Yeah, me too.

Okay.

Bye.

Honey, are you sure this is what you... Dad, I want to be a ballerina.

It's what she wants.

And I think she's just determined enough to get it.

Well, I hate to say I was wrong and you were right, so I won't.

Up this leg.

Back straight.

Very good.

Up with leg.

Back.

Head.

Never mind.

today, you must have a wonderful teacher.

So, Dad, am I ready for Paris yet or what? Oh, I think I can taste the french

fries already.

Goodbye, baby. Oh, wait a second. I forgot my leg hair. Oh, let me get it.

wait in the car.

She was exquisite today, wasn't she?

She has oodles of talent.

There is just no telling how far she could go.

You mean as a professional dancer?

But isn't she a little too...

Well, she does weigh less than Baryshnikov.

Of course, she'd have to come five days a week.

Well, that's no problem.

Oh, I like that, Cindy. Oh, thank you, sir.

Cindy?

I can't believe I let that guy con me. I even kissed him on both cheeks.

Tony, I feel terrible.

What are you going to tell Sam?

Hey. I have no choice but to just tell the truth.

It's all your fault.

My fault? Well, hey, who took us to the ballet in the first place? And who paid

me extra lessons? And who tugged at my heartstrings with that sad story about

that little girl and her cello?

Tony, now is not the time to lay blame. Oh, look. And the whirlwind tour was

your idea.

London, Vienna, Paris.

Paris was yours.

Now, hey, how do I go about telling my kid?

That she ain't got what it takes.

Angela, are you still playing that stupid cello?

Give it up, you stink!

Well, that's one way.

Oh, hi, Dad.

Hi, Sam.

Sweetheart, there's, um...

There's no easy way for me to say what I gotta say, so I'm just gonna come right

out with it, okay?

Paris ain't all it's cracked up to be.

Dad, what are you talking about?

Oh, the buildings, they're old. The buildings are old, and the people are

Oh, they're rude to people. And the food, the food's better in Italy.

I'm not going to Paris.

Am I?

Not as a ballerina, hon.

Sergei. He said I had oodles of talent.

The value of the Russian oodles going down.

I'm not special.

Now, wait a minute. You're the most special person in the whole world.

But just not a special dancer.

Sweetheart, I know how you feel.

This is just how I felt when they told me I was never going to play baseball

again.

What'd you do?

Well, me and a couple of my friends went out and got...

Honey, it's just that parents, they

want so much for their kids.

I guess I just wanted one Miss Sally to make it to the top.

I hope you're not disappointed in me.

Sweetheart, I... I feel like it's my fault. Like, I pushed you into this.

You didn't push me.

I jumped.

I wanted it bad.

I wanted it bad enough to turn down a date with Chad McCann.

Gee.

Are you okay?

I live.

Speaking of living...

Some chocolate ice cream.

Yeah, a sundae, a sundae. With, with, with syrup and nuts.

And oodles and oodles of whipped cream?

Oodles and oodles, you got it.

Sit here, madame. Make like it's Paris.

I don't know