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Look, I told you I don't want to go, so don't bug me about it anymore.

It's a benefit for AIDS research. It's a great cause, and what could be more fun

than a dance marathon?

Having hemorrhoids on jury duty?

Look, look, I'm not going, which is why I'm sponsoring all of you with one tax

-deductible check.

Oh, come on, Abe. It's going to be great.

You get to dress up in 40s clothes and dance all night.

Don't you want to say you were there?

I can say that anyway.

All right, here you go, honey.

Another bowl of pasta.

I'm training for this thing like a long -distance runner. I'm carbo -loading.

You're free -loading.

I got a good feeling about tomorrow night.

I'm going to walk in there and sweep a girl right off her feet.

Or a blade pick one up off the floor.

Well, one thing's for sure.

We're all going to look great.

And isn't that what it's all about?

I've got a fabulous gown from the 40s I can't wait to wear.

I decided to wear my father's old uniform.

It's been stored up in the attic for years. I finally got the guts to try it

When I looked at myself in the mirror, I actually got a little choked up. I

almost hate to ask this.

What are you wearing, Meg? You're looking at it.

The whole point is to lose yourself in the feeling of the 40s. You've got to

dressed up, I tell you what.

Now, tomorrow I'm going to take you down to my favorite thrift store. They got

tons of great vintage World War II things.

Oh, boy, you get to go to a party in dead person's clothes.

You see, that's why I'm staying home.

What do you mean you're staying home?

Come on, you got to go. It's going to be great.

Now, wait a minute, Dana. Let's not push Abe too hard. He's a dancing marathon

and a man who's getting on in years.

I don't want to say Abe's old, but the last time he got dressed up, he wore a

powdered wig.

Hey, hey, hey.

He is so old. that his last charity event was to raise money for the Aaron

Defense Fund.

Hey, hey, watch it there, Groody. Tender One says I'm on the dance floor longer

than you. You're on it.

How the hell did that happen?

Oh, wow.

Roseland, exactly as it must have been.

You can almost feel the presence of Glenmore.

Isn't it incredible?

Dana, you haven't said anything about my hair.

Does it look all right, or did I go too far?

Well, it does kind of take your head into a whole other dimension.

What, you're saying it looks bad?

It doesn't look like it's receding, does it? Because my hairline is not

receding.

It's a widow's peak.

A larger than average widow's peak.

Well,

you get a load of you two.

We were definitely born in the wrong era, especially you, Nadine.

Or should I say Veronica Lake. I could be anybody tonight, Dana.

Oh, and Jack, very daring.

It's a widow's peak.

Has anybody seen Ray? He probably got stuck trying to fit into his father's

uniform.

Oh, look.

Oh, my God, is that him? Oh, it is.

Wait.

They're looking all over for you.

Wait. What the hell are you wearing?

It's my father's uniform.

Dad was head bellhop at the Roosevelt Hotel.

Nice hat. Nice peak.

Here comes Meg.

You wouldn't believe what it took for me to get her into this outfit. Please

don't make a big deal out of it or we'll never get her out of those jeans again.

Hi.

How's it going?

Nice room, huh? It's wonderful.

All right, now I know I look like an idiot. What's a good one? How about pass

around Sue from the steno pool?

The reason no one's taking a shot is because you look...

Fabulous. Now, why can't you just accept that?

Yowza, yowza, yowza.

Who's the senorita broke up with the prize -winning keister?

Hey, you mutts and Jeffs. I bet you've been dying to know what happened to the

old kipster. No, not really.

Been out on the coast making a pilot for a new TV series.

It's a private eye show set on a beach town.

It's called Big Sur.

I played the title role.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome, one and all, to the annual AIDS Project New York Dance Marathon!

Here we go!

Yes!

Eight hours! Eight hours of continuous dancing!

Now, of course, be very careful, because if anybody sits down, they're out of

here! All right, now, when you hear the music change, I'll announce change

partners. And so you shall.

Is everybody ready?

All right!

Let the music begin, and here we go!

So, Nadine, would you care to dance?

Okay.

Oh, gosh, Ray, there's something about this atmosphere.

As for tonight, I don't want to be the old Nadine. I want to be a stranger in

the night.

So, as a stranger, how do you think I'm coming across?

If I meet Miss Wright tonight, I want to make a good impression.

Well, Ray, when you think of the great romantic figures of the 40s, you know,

the bandleaders, the gangsters, the flyboys, bellhop doesn't just leap off

page.

Oh, ow, ow, ow, ow.

Blow quick, quick, slow.

You know, last time I planned on sweating with somebody taller than me,

on a basketball court.

I just wear the high heels out of sympathy.

You need the handicap.

I hope you like the smell of floor wax, because I give you two hours and you're

going down.

Jack, can you believe it's been almost a year since we first danced?

I knew the first time you dipped me, I was headed for big trouble.

I wasn't even trying.

We were so new, I was giving you what I call the clinical.

The clinical?

Yeah.

Here's how it goes. Stiff left -hand grip, right hand under your shoulder,

nothing touching in between.

Reserved for bosses, wives, favorite aunts, and... Certain dangerous female

chefs who could break your heart in a second.

Exactly. And now that we know each other better, I prefer the intimate.

Strong, slightly possessive left -hand grip.

Meanwhile, the right hand creeps so slowly down to that little divot in the

small of your back.

You sure did find my divot.

Not enough room between us for the tiniest sliver of moonlight.

Oh, my God.

Dana, Dana.

I just thought somebody.

It can't be.

It can't be who? Who just... Oh, my God.

It's him.

Him? Now, you see, this is not the thing I want to hear. Him who?

All right, change partners.

Kim, could you just...

Stand a little to my left.

There's somebody here, and I don't want them to see me.

I know the feeling.

How many payments have you got left?

You know how it is when you think you're never going to see anybody again, much

less on this side of the world.

Are you okay?

I don't know.

Ten years ago, I was living in Barcelona, and I met this incredible

novelist.

I was so in love.

And one day, he was just gone, and I never heard from him again.

Now he's here.

You are an excellent dancer.

What's your name?

Whitney.

Sasha.

My name is Sasha.

I'm a professional dancer, at least.

I was.

I was with the New York City Ballet.

Really? Did you retire?

Oh, no.

Foolish boy. Not that good.

No, no, no.

Life got in the way.

I had an affair with Mikhail Gorishnikov.

Well, who didn't? You're probably thinking, this was different. We were so

each other's skin, it started to affect our work.

I had to leave the company.

But I... I'm dying for a cigarette. Do you smoke?

No. Well, goody for you. Don't talk to me anymore. Just dance.

Change partners.

Here we go.

Luck be this lady tonight.

Some even, huh?

I don't know. Maybe it's the clothes. Maybe it's the music.

Some people are showing all their colors tonight.

There's another side to all of us, Kip.

Well, Dana just told me something very interesting.

See that soldier over there?

Oh.

Used to be the love of her life.

Really?

That's right.

She hasn't seen him in ten years.

I think they were engaged when he split.

Took the A train out of there in the middle of the night. Really?

Yeah, she said it didn't bother her, but she should have seen the pain on the

kid's face.

Like most dames with the tires a little worn around the white walls.

She's got a few skeletons in her closet.

Yeah, you got a point there. Dana has lived.

Stands to reason her closet door would fall open every now and then a couple of

those old bones would rattle out.

Why are you talking like that? I don't know. You start it.

I wonder if Jack knows.

Surprise!

Yeah, well,

you may think you are today, but by tomorrow you'll probably feel completely

different. You see that soldier over there? Yeah.

Dana's ex -fiance.

You're kidding.

Dana was engaged?

Well, if you think that's a surprise.

He dumped her on their wedding day. I hear she fell into a black depression.

Boy, how could anybody do anything like that to Dana?

I don't know. I guess some guys just have a hard time with the idea of a wife

and children.

Children?

Does Jack know?

Change partners.

There you go.

Ray, this is your big chance. Go ask her to dance. Okay.

I feel the power of the uniform.

Cutting in, cutting in, cutting in.

Yeah, all right.

Step on her feet a couple times.

Oh, Ray, we shouldn't be dancing together. We look like a bad subplot

Busby Berkeley movie.

Don't worry about it. I won't be dancing with you long.

I'm using you as a warm -up for the main event over there.

I think I found this right.

Cute. How come you're not dancing with her?

Oh, I need to take time with a woman like that.

She's not easy like you. Oh.

All right. Now I'm not going to tell you the big news of the night. Yes, you

are. Okay. I just heard about it. It's about Dana.

She was once engaged.

No way.

She was.

That guy over there.

Yeah, he left her at the altar ten years ago. She nearly went crazy and all of a

sudden now here he is.

You're kidding.

Dana got dumped? I can't picture it. Gee, why would a guy ever take off on

somebody like Dana?

That's what I would add.

I heard she might have been pregnant.

Oh.

Does Jack know?

I don't think so.

You guessed it.

James Pundit.

Hello, yeah. Oh, my God, thank me.

Oh, I like your hair just the way it is.

Not that.

It doesn't make you look fat.

Not that.

Then what the hell is it? Those are the only two answers my wife trained me to

go with.

Abramson, you're a man.

If you ran out on a woman and then you unexpectedly ran into her again, would

you want her to walk up to you and say hello?

Well, it depends on why I left her.

If she was the one who tried to stab me in my sleep, I'd rather she not.

He's saving his voice. He asked me to tell everyone individually. Now get out.

Oh, Meg.

I'm glad you're here.

I've lost Dana. Something about some guy she spotted.

And you got a pretty good view from up there. Can you see what's going on?

Jack, listen, I got something to tell you.

Maybe you already know this, but I'm guessing you don't.

Know what?

What?

We have been friends for a long time. We are both reporters, so I'm just going

to give you the thing.

That guy over there?

Ten years ago, me and Dana were engaged.

He dumped her on their wedding.

It was like some train spent in a mental hospital or something.

And it's possible there just may be a love child.

Are you kidding me?

Hey, don't shoot the messenger.

Meg, look.

Dana and I have slept together on numerous occasions. Believe me, I would

roll over and miss a discussion of this magnitude.

Maybe she hasn't told you yet. Does Dana know every detail of your past?

Oh, God.

Where is Dana?

Where is this guy? What does he look like? You don't want to know. Just leave

at tall and gorgeous.

I hate my hair.

Uh -oh. Uh -oh. Current girlfriend at 8 o 'clock. He didn't hear this from me.

Hi, handsome.

Haven't seen you since we got here.

Got time to dance with the dame what, Bronya?

Sure.

Lots of people here tonight, huh? Yeah.

So many faces, huh?

Some new, some old.

Some I guess you never thought you'd ever see again.

Oh, God.

You heard about Daniel?

Oh, so now he has a name, huh?

Look, Jack, I guess I should have told you about this, but now I have to. Look,

I have all the information.

So tell me, Dana, was it going to be a big wedding?

Wedding? Yeah. You were never even engaged.

You weren't? No.

Then why'd you have a break then?

Jack, what are you talking about?

I'm not sure.

But I might as well go ahead and make a horse's ass of myself anyway.

Is there a Dana Jr.?

Have you ever seen a stretch mark on this body?

Oh, man.

I can't believe I got sucked into that.

I was scared there for a minute, though.

I mean, all I could think about was, you know, there was this guy here, and you

had all these unresolved feelings for him.

Dana, you still don't have feelings for him, do you?

partners. Daniel.

Jack, shouldn't you be going over there and beating that guy up or something?

Jack Stein's not run after a woman.

Whatever's going on between them, I'm just going to let it play out.

For God's sake, Jack, will you go over there and fight for her? It's what women

want, you know, for their white knight to come charging down, scoop her up in

your arms. Come on, back me up on this, Meg. Oh, yeah.

Then he can bring me back to the palace, and I can wear long gowns and pointy

hats, and if I birth him a son, I get to live.

I know it's taken me ten years to say it, but I'm so sorry.

And it's taken me ten years to ask it.

Why did you leave?

The night before I left, I was lying in bed thinking how much in love with you I

was.

But I wasn't ready for you yet.

I was young.

Younger.

And, uh, well, I guess I thought that when the time was right, I could find

somebody who could take your place.

It never happened.

Thanks for the truth.

I thought maybe when you woke up that morning and went running with the bull,

after you'd been trampled, your deformity was so great that you decided

weren't worthy of me.

But as I see, you're still looking pretty good.

Dana, I'm afraid to ask this question.

Are you married?

No.

But I am involved with someone.

Doesn't matter. Beck is right over there.

Well, the bellhop or the balding guy?

It's a widow's peak.

Change partners.

Hey, they didn't change partners.

Well, so?

Maybe they're not through with their conversation.

I mean, it's been ten years.

What could they possibly have to talk about?

I don't know. Their path.

If they have a future.

Subject of your hair probably came up, but we won't dwell on that.

Now, keep your cool, Jack. Now, you don't want to get too crazed here.

This is where men blow it.

I know.

You're right, Avery. I'm not going to lose it now.

Yes, sir.

I don't want the woman to have all the power.

Jack Snyder will never let a woman think that she has the upper hand.

We can go back to Barcelona.

Find that same little apartment that we shared.

Rewrite history.

Daniel. Remember how we used to go down to the sea and wait for the boats to

come in?

We'd get fresh fish in a pail and cook them on the wood stove, eat them on our

balcony. We can go there now.

Right now.

Daniel, I can't just take off like I used to.

I have a job.

People are depending on me. Depending on you?

Dana Palladino?

I think I remember you as being much more spontaneous.

I guess I've changed.

I've changed, too.

I'll never leave you again.

Dana, Dana, look me in the eye, and if you don't care anymore...

Oh, look at the lovely mirrored ball.

I've never seen myself so many times.

Daniel, as much as I feel that it is possible to still have feelings for

after all these years, I'm in love with someone else.

And if I've changed, it's because of him.

He's the kind of man who gives you every reason you want to stay.

And even though we fight, So much.

The best time I've ever had.

Look, is it okay if this time I kiss you goodbye?

Okay. You see this?

This here bothers me.

I mean, this whole kissing thing, I don't know. It just feels wrong.

Oh, yeah, this definitely bothers me. All right, all right, break it up.

Hey, hey, hey, I don't know who you think you are, pal, but first of all,

you hear me say change partners?

What, do you think you are above the law? I don't think so. You are

disqualified.

It's about time you got yourself over here.

Oh, really?

I was trying to be an evolved guy, but that crap is over now.

It is back to the barracks for you, Sarge.

Dana, Dana, if I could just have your number. Here, I got a number for you. 1

-800 -TAKE -A -HIKE.

I'll always miss you.

Huh, you got that right.

Yes, sir. You'll be ordering soup for one from now on, pal.

You get the hell out of here, or you'll feel the fury of my peak.

What are you looking at?

Come on, keep moving, keep dancing.

It's all part of the show.

you say?

I'm sorry you didn't see that, Dana.

Let's just dance quietly for a moment.

No talking.

Okay.

Boy, you must really be wild about me.

Almost obsessed.

What?

Like I have some kind of power over you.

You need me.

You're crazy.

do this, but I was watching you earlier, and I was wondering if you would want

to dance with me. Oh, sure.

Oh, great.

Oh, my God.

What? I don't believe it.

I just saw a guy I haven't seen in nine years.

I'm sorry. I've got to go now.

partners.