All language subtitles for play it as it lays = old film

If Carter and Helene want to think it
happened because I was insane, I say let

them.

I could tell you I saw a cock in that
inkblot. But why?

I could give you a lot of answers, but
none of them apply.

Here are some typical questions the
doctors here ask me.

I'm to answer yes or no.

Do I think a large number of people are
guilty of bad protection? Do

I believe my sins are unpardonable?

Have I been disappointed in love?

How could I answer?

How could it apply?

I'll tell you what I do.

I try to live in the now. I watch
Hummingbird.

I go for a walk during visiting hours.

I see no one I used to know.

But then, I'm not just crazy about a lot
of people.

I used to ask questions.

And I got the answer.

If Carter and Helene aren't careful,
they'll get the answer too.

People are talking all over town.

I put.

I got you.

Hi to Rick Lacey. Hi to Rick Lacey.

It's Carter Lang's wife.

I have this room for half an hour and
you show up 15 minutes late? Well, I was

tied up in traffic.

A little early for a matinee.

I don't do that anymore.

Carter will be happy.

All right, we're ready.

Where's Carter?

Still looking for locations.

Yes, Susanna Wood, director, cut away.

Action, sweetheart.

How does anyone get to the desert?

You drive there. Wait a second. That is
so phony, Susanna, I can't believe it.

Man, just talk to me. Tell me about
yourself. Talk to me about yourself.

I've got a mole on my left thigh.

I'm terrific in bed.

That's very cute.

But this time you're not testing for a
porno. What are you talking about?

I'm talking about your first movie, The
Porno. That touch with the dog,

terrific. Where did you see that? Your
business manager showed it to me.

I'd change my credit on this one.

Produced by Benjamin Zimbalist
Mendenhall.

What do you want from me?

I want the look that's on your face
right now.

Now you can start to act.

Did you ever see her series?

Canceled after 13 weeks.

How do you get to the desert?

You drive there.

Is he fucking here?

I can't help admiring the way you reduce
everything to its central element.

Paisley, why did you want me to see that
test?

Because it's Thursday.

The masseur doesn't come until four, had
a couple hours to kill. I thought you'd

be interested.

Would you get it back up to 85?

It comes with the rent.

I don't know if you realize this, but
Carter wanted to use you in this picture

very badly.

At one point, he told me to scrap the
whole deal just because he wanted to use

you. It's only his third picture. He's
still a little insecure as well.

We'll let him use her for a while.

All right.

Forget it.

Erase the tape. Take two.

Want to go to Larry Kulik's party
tonight?

Where's Helene? Helene's in bed.

Helene's depressed.

Elaine has these very copious
menstruations.

Larry Kulik's a gangster.

A lawyer.

He's a lawyer for gangsters.

Anyway, he's a great admirer of yours.

You know what he told Carter?

What I like about your wife, Carter, is
that she's not a cunt.

I said to myself, Kulik, you're going to
die.

And suddenly I got it. The whole meaning
of life came to him in a blinding flash

right there on the table at Seeders.
What was it? I'd like to get into that.

What's that, babe?

I wouldn't call it the impossible dream.

The whole meaning of life. Not that many
guys, only six. I had it researched.

How's it going, babe?

Great. How's Carter? Fine.

Mariah, baby, I didn't even know you
were in town.

You didn't leave a number. I just
assumed you were out looking for

with Carter.

Well, Carter must have told you that we
were separated, Freddie.

Well, he might have said something about
it, but I never listen to Carter when

he's thinking about a new picture.

And he certainly didn't say anything
about your wanting to work again.

It's not a question of a comeback,
Freddy. I always wanted to work.

Well, whether it's wanting to work again
or wanting to work always, the fact is,

when an actress walks off a picture,
people get the idea she doesn't want to

work.

But that was almost a year ago. I was
sick. I was upset about Kate. Now, I

haven't walked off any more sets. Now,
you know that, Freddy.

I had lunch, Mariah.

had some reason in mind when they told
it, you know what I mean?

I mean, it makes you feel as if you
might find out the reason.

When I first married Carter and my name
began appearing in columns, I received

mail from mad people.

It's no longer necessary for them to
even write me.

I know when someone is thinking of me.

I've learned to deal with this.

50 from the magazines.

But I don't do showrooms.

Right now, I think I need to get my
weight up a little bit.

Everyone who used to book me said that I
was, you know.

My mother died.

I look at a plate of food and I see a

rattlesnake, you know, coiled.

Carter? Carter?

Carter? Is it you?

Camping out?

No, I thought you were looking for
locations.

Well, I just got back.

I've been trying to reach you for a week
on the telephone.

What for?

Come on, let's just stop that.

I thought we were going to be separated
for a while.

That's... That's what you want.

It wasn't me.

I mean, was it me?

No, Mariah.

It's never you.

I guess... I guess we could try.

Only if you want to. Of course I do. Of
course I want to. Well, then why don't

you sound like you do?

Carter, I want to.

Maybe it's just not such a good idea.

Do what you want.

How many times have you been out there
lately?

Not much at all. Maybe a couple of times
all month.

You've been out there four times since
Sunday, they called me.

Of course they called you. You were the
one who had her committed.

Don't say that word.

I said don't say that word.

And I call to point out unscheduled
parental appearances tend to disturb the

child's adjustment.

Adjustment? Adjustment to what? Shock?

Don't you understand? She's not being
treated with shock. Oh, no!

How long have you been sleeping outside?

It's too hot in here.

Why don't you turn on the fucking air
conditioner?

Details. I was born in Reno, Nevada, and
moved nine years later to Silver Wells,

Nevada.

Population then 28, now zero.

We moved down to Silver Wells because my
father lost the Reno house in a private

game and happened to remember that he
owned this town, Silver Wells.

He had bought it or won it, or maybe his
father left it to him.

I'm not sure which, and it doesn't
matter to you.

From my mother, I inherited my looks and
a tendency to migraine. From my father,

I inherited an optimism which did not
leave me until recently.

My mother killed herself by cracking up
a car ten miles east of Tonopah.

My father died two years later of
peritonitis in Rose de Lima Hospital,

This is not a picture of Silverwell.

You can't mean for me to make decent
bloodies with a mixed PC.

Why don't you start with one organic
tomato?

Bertie, Jay can call.

He's trying to sell us somebody to score
the picture.

I told him we weren't thinking about a
score.

I'm thinking about a score.

The Angel Beach original soundtrack
grossed over $800 ,000.

That's what I like about you, Carter.

The cult's director with a nose for
commerce.

How's that Botticelli child you brought
up to Pebble Beach last year?

Still in an institution?

Nicely put, Mother.

BZ said you were in Cozumel.

You can have Cozumel.

Also Machu Picchu.

I can't even dream why you stopped at
Cozumel.

I mean, since you can't bear Mexicans.

BZ said it's marvelous.

That's why, Elaine.

BZ likes Mexicans.

I know why BZ likes Mexicans.

Why?

First the mix, now this.

An artificial lemon.

It's a bad joke.

All Beazys, my sirs, are purists.

Or Mexicans.

Don't be draggy, Helene.

Run down the beach and ask Audrey Wise
for some lemons.

Do you know what Jerry Wise gave Audrey
for her birthday?

Let me guess.

One perfect white rose?

One perfect thousand dollar bill.

Maybe she can buy herself one perfect
fuck.

The lemon?

I'll get the goddamn lemons.

That's one less for lunch.

I seem to have come in after the main
titles.

Is he going to get the lemons?

Well, isn't he?

Baggage may carry nervous.

Actually, Nelson, this lemon is not
artificial.

This lemon is reconstituted.

You know what I'd like to have?

What?

I'd like to have a house on the beach
and some rocks.

And on the rocks, I'd like to have some
mussels.

And I'd gather them every day and cook
them with cake.

That would be very pretty.

You know what the muzzles would turn out
to be?

Toxic.

I always have

breakfast out when I'm not shooting.

the Wilshire or the Beverly Hills.

Or Nate Nells when I'm with an agent.

I read the trades.

I like being alone for breakfast.

Or with an agent.

In fact, he doesn't always have
breakfast out.

In fact, the only time he had breakfast
out in the past year was the day he took

Kate to the hospital.

Why do we always drink California wine?

Because you're so rich.

B .C., where did you find this divine
Mr. Goodwin?

Why hasn't he been here all day?

You've met less before, Mother.

You remember his wife?

Felicia.

Charming little thing.

Where is she?

She's still in New York.

Felicia didn't impress you.

Couldn't have been more charmed.

She was like this child.

Funny you should say that.

I bored her.

Don't I bore you.

Admit it.

Carlotta's speaking to you, Mariah.

How much money do you give Busy and
Helene to stay married?

I didn't quite get your performance
tonight.

I'm sick of everybody's thick
arrangement.

You've got a fantastic vocabulary.

I've got a fantastic vocabulary, and I'm
also pregnant.

I said I'm also pregnant.

It's not mine.

I suppose you're going to tell me it's
not mine. I don't know.

Who was it?

You know.

Les Goodwin's been fired off three
scripts this year.

What makes you so sure?

Because I went to this doctor. Who was
the doctor?

Dr. Doctor from Wilshire.

A doctor you didn't know?

Mean I'm interested in the mechanics of
this how your mind works how you picked

this particular doctor He was near sacks
I

was having my hair done at sacks

Moving to the Wilshire.

I'm sorry.

Whatever that means.

That's

the

number. You can call it tomorrow.

It's a number of a doctor who's semi
-retired.

Supposed to be the only one in Los
Angeles County who does clean work.

Clean work.

Very fast.

Very quiet.

No signing in or out of a hospital.

I'm not interested in reading any blind
items about what you're doing in Cedars

-Sinai.

What young director's wife is taking a
well -deserved, if somewhat unexpected,

rest. You can forget about that.

Actually, you know, you're not the
youngest director I can think of.

Shut up.

I won't do it.

Okay.

You go on and have this, kid.

Now I'll take Kate.

If I go ahead and do this, would you let
me keep Kate,

please?

Please?

We'll see.

Please promise me.

I don't promise anything.

and see.

Hello.

I was, um, given this number.

I mean, to call.

Now, who gave you this number?

Um, actually, my husband did.

This one sold this one to an Arab in
Tangier for playing fair

back to Paris. And this one stayed with
the Arab for seven months.

You'll have to take a look at my new
sauna.

Stereo piped in.

Boku fantastic.

Any complications?

Simplicity itself.

The chickie wants the frog. The frog
wants the frog.

Hey, Letras, Taser.

We're moving the party back to my house.

I'm going home.

You're not exactly a shot of meth
tonight, anyway.

I feel beaucoup fantastic.

Larry Kulik?

Maybe Larry Kulik.

And maybe the chickie.

And maybe the froggy.

So I'll get what they're coming for.

Don't you ever get tired of doing favors
for people?

You don't know how tired.

You see, I have to come out here to
brush your hair.

You never brush your hair right.

You'll see.

When you come home, I'll wash your hair
every morning and brush it dry in the

sun.

My mother used to do that for me.

And she cut my hair in bangs to look
like Margaret Sullivan.

Listen.

We'll get a house.

And we'll stay in it. And we'll sleep in
the same bed.

We'll grow cucumbers.

And I'll teach you how to pick a home.

Okay?

Hey! No, now stop that! Stop hitting
Barbara!

I'm going to have to take you inside.

We definitely would have suggested you
wait until tomorrow.

I can't make it tomorrow.

I see.

Oh, and one thing.

If she wakes up at night and says,
always, always, it

means she's having a nightmare.

I mean, I don't know if I ever told you
that before.

I'm sure you did.

Straight here, Mariah.

Oh, I hope you don't mind my calling you
Mariah.

You can call me Jack.

Is that your name?

Oh, wow.

Don't take offense if I ask you
something.

What kind of mileage you get on this?

Is that the question?

I'm interested.

Pretty good.

Not too bad.

Fifteen? Twenty?

Eighteen.

Do you ever drive a Camaro?

No.

That's a lease pad I drive.

I'm thinking of getting out of leases.

Picking up a little Camaro.

Think you'll get a Camaro, huh?

I got my eye on this particular Camaro.

The exact model is a pace car, the
Indianapolis 5.

Got this friend of mine right here with
a sweet deal. It's on the floor much

longer. He almost had to buy it last
week.

But lucky for me.

Oh, right here.

Right here in this driveway.

Careful.

Lucky for you, what?

Oh, lucky for me, the guy's credit
didn't hold up.

What do you do with the baby?

It's just tissue, Mariah.

Whatever you call it.

coming down to pick up his dead.

All finished?

All set.

Irrigant and tetracycline.

One every six hours.

I'm Earl Shive.

When I paint your car for only... Isn't
this a pretty fair movie, Mariah?

Used up five minutes.

I know.

You called me up here to Oxnard so that
I could watch you mix drinks?

What the

hell are you doing up here, anyway?

I was on the Ventura Freeway.

An abortion at 5 o 'clock in Playa del
Rey.

Hypnosis is a medical art.

You're not a real hypnotist?

What is a real hypnotist?

I'm only here because I read an
advertisement.

You think you have to apologize for
being here?

No, no. It's talking about taking people
back.

Regressing. Regressing them, yeah, when
they were fetuses.

Or even further to a previous life.

No, no further. I don't care about
further.

You wish to remember what it was like
when... When I was a fetus.

You wish to recapture that state of
consciousness.

I need to know if they think.

This is a picture of my father and his
partner, Benny Austin.

That snake.

Actually, they didn't kill the snake. My
mother killed the snake.

But she was the only one...

This is a picture of my mother on her
30th birthday.

And we drove down to Vegas to see Patty
Page at the Fremont, and she gave me a

sip of her rum and coke.

Were they happy?

Yeah.

We drove a pickup.

And my father kept a bottle of bourbon
on the floorboards.

Didn't you tell me your father used to
ball that waitress in his restaurant in

Silverwells? I don't want to talk about
that.

Pauline, wasn't it?

No, it was Paulette.

Paulette. Tell me about the place in
Silverwell.

Two slots and a crap table.

Two slots and a crap table.

Whatever happened to Pauline?

Paulette, and you know what happened to
her?

Tell me again.

Well, she's living in Arizona.

Where? Sun City.

You ever envy Paulette?

No. All in your father?

No.

You ever think about it?

No. On that crap table with the old man,
that soft, green -felt crap...

I was experimenting.

I was trying to see how far I could go
before breaking down the barrier between

film and real.

And yet the personality constantly
shattered the conventional camera

relationship.

That personality being your wife's. But
she wasn't my wife yet, no.

You didn't just hire her, Carter. You
couldn't have gotten that kind of

performance. Well, that's the whole
point of the film.

It wasn't a performance. You mean
existentially it was not a performance.

I mean it wasn't a performance. It was
not a performance.

This was her life, as it were.

As it were.

Do you remember that day?

Remember? Hell, that was the day your
dad and I had the grand opening for the

miniature golf.

And nobody came.

We were ahead of our time, right, ahead
of our time.

That was your father's only Waterloo.

He was a man always, 20 years before his
time.

I'm not talking only about the miniature
golf. I'm talking about the ghost town

scheme, automatic blackjack concept.

Harry Wise could be a rocker fellow in
Silverwells today.

There's no Silverwells today. It's in
the middle of a mystery. I'm talking

as it was, Mariah.

Silverwells as it was.

Have a thought?

No, thank you.

The minute you called, I... I got
together your dad's papers.

Got his mineral certificates.

They're right here. That's not why I
called, Benny. Of course you want these

certificates, honey. They're your
inheritance. No action now, but... I'd

because I've been thinking about my
mother.

Your dad and I once knew a guy, thought
his rights were worthless. Turns out he

is sitting on pitchblank.

Benny, you're the only one left who
remembers my mother. So loaded with

that the counters were all haywire
when...

Jesus, you are Francine's girl.

See you sitting here.

I swear I'm back in silver wells.

Francine and your dad.

There is no silver well.

These were my mother's rings.

And this one, the silver one, is from
Mexico.

She always wanted to go to Mexico.

And she wanted to go to Honolulu, too.

And Paris.

She used to enter all these contests
where the prize was a two -week trip to

Paris.

And one time, I saved enough money to
give her a trip to Paris.

The song she sings all the time.

One fuller used to have 1410.

I don't know him.

One of the great old second unit
directors.

There's a new disposal.

No pets.

No children.

I'll take it.

the front porch.

Or it was getting a little, uh, how
would you say, uh, conspicuous?

Did I, uh, catch you in the middle of an
overdose, Mariah, or what?

If I'd wanted to read my mail, I
wouldn't have moved.

It's in principle I'm not grasping,
Mariah.

You have a $1 ,500 a month house sitting
empty in Beverly Hills.

And you live in a furnished apartment on
Fountain Avenue. Did you want to be

closer to Schwab's? Is that it?

I mean, I don't get the joke.

And I've never been much impressed with
Catatonia as a lifestyle.

Watch this.

It's her house.

I'm not interested in her house.

You want to know what she's saying?

What is she saying?

She's saying you boys are doing a really
outstanding

camera job.

How do you know what she's saying?

Because I saw it at five.

And at seven.

Mrs. Lange.

Oh, Mrs. Lange, I hate to see you go.
You've been a perfect hit. But like some

could mention.

Portino, too.

But dear, you haven't been here three
months. I'm afraid you'll have to

your cleaning department. Oh. I really
am sorry.

Well, as are I.

Who does Carter want for the picture?

Judy Garland.

you want to play next.

Expecting somebody from house and
garden?

I think that I will go to New York.

And see some plays?

Mm -hmm.

Maybe do some modeling.

For Avedon and Irving Penn, four
collections.

They need a fresh face.

Well, it hasn't been that long. Yes, it
has.

Do you think you'd be better off in New
York?

Or Silver Wells?

Or Butte, Montana?

You think this is a terrible place and
you're mixed up with terrible people and

that's why you feel the way you do?

That's a shell game, thinking that way.

Nothing outside you has got anything to
do with how you feel.

You don't know how I feel.

I know how you feel. You feel like I do.

All your life you've been looking for
the answer.

You keep going further and further
looking for the answer.

What is the question?

I want to tell you something. You stole
that line.

My grandfather decided he was going to
find the answer.

He was the first Jew in the Pacific
Union Club.

and absentee owner of, among other
things, about 700 square miles of

Desert.

When he was 54 years old, he had
occasion for the first time to inspect

Sonoran holdings.

He got off the train, went to a room at
the Hotel San Alberto in Hermosillo,

and shot himself.

Father, as a very young man, converted
to Catholicism, studied to be a Jesuit

priest.

When he was 22 years old, he visited
Lourdes and lost his faith.

Some years later, marrying Carlotta.
Some years after that, dying of acute

alcoholism at a clinic in Lausanne. But,
um...

I decided I was going to find the answer
to.

And I looked for it.

I looked for it.

No more gender.

No more ego.

Just the ten minutes that could take you
right on through to where nobody's

been.

What we all found was...
incontrovertible evidence that...

all of it means zero.

I haven't found that.

You will.

I don't ever want to be where you are.

You don't want to be, but you will.

She looks years younger, I must say.

The week at the Colston, she looked that
way.

The eyes go first.

The elbows.

Whatever happened to Guatemala?

What Guatemala?

The maid. The one that stole your
diagram.

She's working in the massage parlor in
the valley.

You know the saddest people in the
world.

Oh, no.

You do.

Day of days, Maria.

We'll be late.

Arlene, it's been too long.

Arlene Walsh's new friend.

Watch the action.

Oh, yes.

Oh, she's an actress named Shirley
Carroll.

I worked with her once.

She kept a dildo in her dressing room.

Arlene Walsh has more dildos around her
house than anybody ever knew.

Vodka rocks.

Look at my new ring.

It's from Carlotta.

A bribe.

Because I told her I was going to spend
the spring in London instead of going

out on occasion with Beezy.

Speaking of which, he's rented the most
unspeakable house out there.

Everybody else is staying in a motel.

But Beezy says motels make him feel
deracinated.

And what he really means is that he
can't shuttle his friends in and out

the dailies.

This is no excuse for you to fall apart.

I mean in divorce.

I've done it twice.

I've heard once.

Twice. Beasley says once because that's
what he told Carlotta.

You know, you can really tell.

Tell what?

Tell I haven't done my Laszlo in three
days.

On the behalf of my client, Mrs. Mariah
Lang, who herewith submits a foresaid

petition for dissolution of the marriage
contracted between herself and the

aforesaid Carter Lang, in the state of
New York, county of Manhattan, this

agreement by the parents with respect to
their minor child... Buzzer of the

week. Guess which two dykes were seen
feeding each other cheese souffle at La

Scala today?

What are you going to do while we're on
location?

Yorkshire and carried around Beverly
Hills into magnets and sacks.

Polo lounge for lunch, too. You wouldn't
do that.

No, of course I wouldn't do that.

Anything else you wouldn't do?

Mm -hmm.

Lots of things.

Sadomasochism?

Not unless I wanted to.

Deal? Never.

Never deal and never go to the luau.

What else?

Never walk through the sands or Caesars
alone after midnight.

I wouldn't borrow furs from a store to
go to a party.

And I would never ball at a party.

Did you ever get paid for it?

seven grand already.

When he becomes you, Larry?

Little on the shoulders, darling.

My barber gets his stuff in Paris.

Bronto, wicky, wicky.

How do you keep your tan?

I stay in season.

Hey, babe.

You're gonna come over and use the
sauna.

You think I need something?

I think you need something.

Think it over.

I'm a good friend to people I like.

So what if I just put down your
independent redevelopment?

What can I do for you?

Why, she isn't Luann's foster mother.

Shut up. I'm Harry Wyatt's daughter.

Francine? Yeah, that's my mother. I'm
Mariah.

They used to bring me with them when we
used to visit you.

Benny Austin used to come with us?

Benny and I worked fit together at the
Nugget. Oh, sure, you can stay in here

unless she sees you. I thought you might
know where I could find it.

It's been a long time passing, honey.

I really wanted to find him.

I heard he had a taco franchise in
Henderson a while back, but it wasn't

Hey, tell your dad I owe him a Daniels
or two, will you?

Okay.

Uh, do you know Benny Austin?

I don't know any Benny person.

Oh, I just thought he might still come
around.

I've only been here two weeks.

Well, maybe if he does come around,
could you give him a note for me?

You got a process to serve, honey. You
serve it in person.

I'm into zinc.

Very confidential still.

That's why it's lucky I ran into you.
I'm moving around right now, here,

Jesus, honey, you forget everything we
taught you.

Picked up some rights out by Blue
Mountain today.

Wait a minute. Hold it now. Hold it.

We're with the shooter now. Don't blow
his roll.

We did it.

You even play crap like your mother did.
You don't think.

Would you please pay to Mr. Benny
Austin?

No.

Yes.

Benny Austin.

Try again, please.

Ask him out.

Guys like that interest me. You'd be
surprised.

No, I wouldn't be surprised at all. Who
knows? Maybe he needs a favor.

Hello, Benny?

Benny, listen, I'm sorry. I didn't just
leave you.

I know you wouldn't run out on me.

I changed your diapers.

You should have told me you were sick,
though. I got a good friend. House

at the Nugget.

I just need some rest.

Benny, listen, can you hear me?

Yeah, do you?

Do you remember the last time that we
were out just

before Mommy died? I'd just come back
from New York, and you and Mommy and

took me to the plane at the Cairn. Just
before that, we'd opened Christmas

presents at the house.

Remember that?

Yeah, yeah, you bet, honey.

I'd like to see you. Can I see you
tomorrow?

Maybe we could play some blackjack.

And next time, Mom and Ellie, we'll tie
one on for your mom and dad, huh? Benny?

I'll see you, honey.

Listen. Keep moving.

702, please.

He took the noon flight back to L .A.,
honey.

He said you could use the...

Well, they've got to answer. It's an
answering service.

This is Mariah Wyeth, Box 8, with any
messages?

Nothing?

Thank you.

I'm looking for Carter Lang.

Carter's in his room.

What room is that? Eleven.

Carter, I'm telling you.

They look at the dailies and they want
to know why they're not seeing a master,

a two, a close -up, and a reaction on
every scene.

I start covering myself that way on
every scene.

And we'll bring it in at about 2 -5.
We're two days ahead of schedule. We can

afford to give them a little coverage.

Came to see you.

Think I'll tell them to break for lunch?
No.

I can get two more setups before lunch.

See you later, Ben.

You only get two towels a week here.

I read it in the trades.

You just came to see me?

I just came to see you.

We're ready with the shot, Carter. It
could have lit World War II in the time

it's taken.

You just happened to come to see me
because you just happened to find

within 100 miles of here. You just
happened to be in Vegas.

You just happened to be in Vegas. I
heard all about it. Good morning, Mrs.

Ritchie. Oh, Lester has arranged for you
to use the deputy vehicle in the movie

car.

Good girl.

Larry Kulik is your friend.

I never got in bed with him.

Got to get the shot.

shows the desert explication.

It's a lot better for motorcycles to
ride on.

Okay, let's, um, let's get back to that
thing you said about the bike move.

What did I say?

You said, uh... Don't you use a tape
recorder?

No, no, I don't.

What if you started to write the piece
and you couldn't read your notes?

That hasn't happened to me yet.

You said the actress in that movie, your
wife.

At that time, my wife. At that time, of
course.

Was not giving a performance.

Existentially.

She was giving a performance.

What are you doing?

Existentially, I'm getting a hemp.

You know how I am, Maureen.

Now that you've done a few interviews,
you feel better?

Jesus Christ, Mariah, I'm shooting.

I've got a 40 -day schedule on a 70 -day
picture. I've got a script that doesn't

play. And I hear my ex -wife's in Vegas
with a... A gangster, and don't call me

your ex -wife. What did you come here
for?

I don't know where else to go.

Oh, really pretty.

Susanna, you're going to love these.

Oh, very nice.

Yes, sir.

Carter, I dropped the wig.

What exactly do you think you're doing?

He doesn't know how to shoot.

Give him back the gun and get off the
set.

on the set.

Whoever gave it to you will be fired.

I knew a fucking Susanna.

What about it?

I mean, did you really like it?

Not particularly.

I wonder why not.

You don't have to try and wake me up.

I'm awake.

I'm not trying to wake you up.

You're not asleep.

Why aren't you asleep?

Not asleep because you've been alone
here for the last two hours, hating me.

It isn't any good.

Oh.

But you don't want it.

Yes, I do.

It's never been any good.

I'll go back to town tomorrow if you
want.

For Kate.

What's the matter?

I can't give it to her.

Love, Nelson.

Why don't you dump the fags?

Soft voices in their sharkskin suits.

Yeah, their alligator shoes with the
funny little tassels on them.

Yeah, they got their writs and their
motions and their depositions on their

fancy Latin words.

Habeas corpus. You think Marty Rundell
got habeas corpus?

Marty Rundell got a .38 dum -dum two
inches under his right eye.

Now, there's only one way you're going
to nail $2 million.

Let's fuck.

License, please.

Actually, I don't have it with me.

This your car?

Actually, I borrowed it.

why Johnny Waters reported the car
stolen?

Because he's a TV personality.

I must say, you don't seem terrifically
appreciative.

I was not caring, Elaine. I mean, he
can't have it both ways. His car,

his thieves.

Aren't you even interested in how much
it costs? How much did it cost?

Of course, the problem was getting the
possession off the record.

How much?

A sizable campaign contribution out of
Carter's pocket.

Besides pledging Susanna to a telethon
for Southern Nevada Cystic Fibrosis.

She can use the exposure.

Of course you're all right. You're
perfectly fine.

There's nothing at all off about letting
yourself get picked up in a tennis

court at 2 o 'clock in the afternoon by
Johnny Waters.

There's nothing wrong there.

I don't want to eat in the whole house.

Pretend you're in Acapulco.

I mean, there's been something
distinctly peculiar about your whole

pattern lately.

I would almost go so far as to call it a
very self -destructive personality

structure. Don't go out on a limb.

What kind of a fuck is Johnny Waters?

You know, I used to know somebody once.

He used to call me up in the middle of
the night.

And he'd say, How much do you want it?

Tell me what you'd do to get it from me.

I can't remember what I would have done
to get it from any

of them now.

Back to Carters tonight?

No.

You're going to have to see him tomorrow
anyway.

Well, I'll see him tomorrow then.

I mean, it doesn't matter, does it?

You're getting there.

Where? Where I am.

Where you are is shit.

right, you made your point.

What's my point?

You proved it.

You gave me the message you can't be
left alone.

Answer me.

What you ask.

I've got to get back to the set.

We'll drop you off at the motel.

I'll stay here Come on, let's go

I'll tell you another iced coffee, but
Lee Ewing didn't bring the ice yet.

He's got the school board today.

Where's the school?

Up 147 by 50 miles.

Not many children around.

I used to have one.

She totaled my Chevy.

This latest location may appear to be
the California desert.

Ricardo Lang is filming, as always,
somewhere in the geography of the human

heart.

This girl's really very acute.

She's a philosopher.

A poetess. Listen to what she says about
Mariah.

Cover pretzel. Friday morning.

Lang's ex -wife is on the set.

Easy with her, concerned.

The part of Amelia is not only of an
immense professional family... You know,

actually, they call this the rattler
room, and they have some kind of boa

there.

Who'd want to look at a rattlesnake?

What does it say about my visual
concept?

Don't you have any hobbies or anything?

I mean, I got this place to take care
of. I got the restaurant.

I got my hobbies.

I keep busy. You know there's no use in
sweeping this porch.

Just look.

You ever made a decision?

About what?

I mean, I made my decision in 61 to
meeting down to Barstow.

And I never had one doubt since.

When I went to get the mail, Lester told
me this story.

Three days ago, an old man at a trailer
park, and he went for a walk. Who's

Lester? Lester Ritchie, the deputy
sheriff. Lester.

The point is, this old man at the
trailer park went for a walk three days

And before he went for the walk, he told
his wife that he was going to ask God

for a message.

Now, between years, there isn't any

punchline. I mean, he never came back
from his walk.

And when Lester was out patrolling this
morning, he found his body.

Dead, dead, a snake bite.

I'll tell you, there isn't any
punchline.

He said he was going to talk to God.

She wants to know if you think God
answered.

What do you want?

I can't help you unless you tell me what
you want.

Tell me what you feel.

Mr. Ritchie had the whole file of these.
He lent them to me.

Where's Carter?

He wasn't here last night. If you look
close enough, you can see things.

Yeah, but you have to use the glass.

Where was he?

Maybe it was Susanna. Look at this one.

Does that matter to you?

No.

you can see his false teeth on the
pavement.

But you have to use the glass.

There's another one here, somewhere with
the snake on the embankment.

When my mother died, my father wrote me
a letter.

This is how it ended.

You might call this a bad hand, but God,
if there is one in honey, I sincerely

believe there must be some higher power.

Never meant it to set you back in your
plans.

Don't let anybody bluff you because,
believe me, you're holding all the aces.

I mean, maybe I was holding all the
aces.

But what was the game?

Drinks. We need drinks.

We finished The Last Master after you
left this afternoon.

Three set -ups in the morning and we are
home free. Fantastic.

We need ice.

Oh, I'm going to spend all next week in
a jacuzzi.

Susanna's fabulous.

Super good.

What is a nine -letter word for
excellent?

Super good.

We're all going to Vegas to celebrate.

I'm not going.

We all are.

It's all planned.

Sylvie Roth's over and Cassie and Leona
and... You go ahead. Maybe I'll drive

Mariah over later.

Don't you want to see Leona's opening?

No. I saw the charts today.

Her single stopped at 85.

Exactly what do you want?

Exactly?

Nothing.

My father advised me that life was a
craft game.

That was one of the two lessons he
taught me.

The other was that overturning a rock
was apt to reveal a rattlesnake.

As lessons go, those two seem to hold
up, but not to apply.

Came to see if you wanted to go into
Vegas with Carter and Helene and Susanna

and Cassie and Leona.

You know I don't.

Look at me, I'll dude it up.

Why aren't you in bed at nine o 'clock?

Why not?

You're a good girl.

Green and a half second on.

Want some? No.

You're still flying.

Someday you'll wake up and you just
won't feel

like playing anymore.

Can I have a glass of water?

I won't fake you.

I didn't know that.

I think I'd be here if I didn't know
that.

Why are you here?

Nothing is.

You know why.

what you're gonna do.

I'm gonna get Kate.

I'm gonna live alone with Kate.

I'll do some canning.

Sweet India relish.

Pickled peaches.

Apple chutney.

Pomegranate jelly.

Summer squash.

Succotash.

I'm sorry.

Hold on a minute.

Just remember darling, all

the while you...

I did know.

If Carter and Helene want to think it
happened because I was insane, I say let

them.

Carter called today, but I saw no point
in talking to him.

On the whole, I talked to no one.

I come from trade instead.

On the way you light with strike -filled
mason jars on a kitchen windowsill.

One thing in my defense, not that it
matters, I know something Carter never

knew, or Elaine, or maybe you.

I know what nothing means.

And keep on playing.

Why?

Why not?