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<i> I love introducing myself. </i>

2
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<i> In childhood, I did everything
to laugh at me. </i>

3
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<i> Anything. </i>

4
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<i> I entertained my uncles
charismatic ... </i>

5
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<i> and my fashion aunts. </i>

6
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<i> But above all,
my parents. </i>

7
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<i> My mom and dad.
I loved making them laugh. </i>

8
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<i> It was great to see them happy. </i>

9
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<i> that's how
a comedian starts. </i>

10
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<i> He makes his parents laugh. </i>

11
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<i> That was a long time ago.
And it all started here. </i>

12
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<i> My parents bought
this house in 1953. </i>

13
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<i> And the day came when
she is no longer ours. </i>

14
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<i> The year 2001 was well
difficult for me. </i>

15
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<i> I lost a lot of people
dear ...

16
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<i> and still had the attack
September 11th. </i>

17
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<i> It was a hard blow ... </i>

18
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<i> like Joe Frazier
cornered me ... </i>

19
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<i> and I couldn't breathe. </i>

20
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<i> My shows were
speeches in wake ... </i>

21
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<i> of people I loved. </i>

22
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<i> When someone funny
you don't feel that way anymore ... </i>

23
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<i> it complicates things. </i>

24
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1960.

25
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Joel, six feet.

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Rip, 1.75m.

27
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And down here ...

28
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<i> I couldn't
out of the pit. </i>

29
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<i> So I went into the living room. </i>

30
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<i> Here I took
the first laughs ... </i>

31
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<i> and I thought "If I could
hear the laughter again. "</i>

32
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<i> That's what Yogi Berra, my
favorite philosopher said ... </i>

33
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<i> "When faced with a
indecisiveness in life, decide. "</i>

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35
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We bought a
new car! Incredible.

36
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I was the youngest boy
happy in the world ...

37
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because we bought our
first new car.

38
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And I didn't know what it was.
Dad said ...

39
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"Billy, I bought a car.
surprise. Don't tell anyone.

40
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Bring everyone
out of the house ...

41
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I will arrive with him,
exactly at noon. "

42
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So, before noon,
we were all right here ...

43
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imagining
what he had bought.

44
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Joel started. He was older,
with 15 years and very practical.

45
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"A Ford Fairlane."

46
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Rip was 11 years old
and it was already cool.

47
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"Got crazy?
Bellaire convertible ...

48
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turquoise and white.
Bellaire convertible. "

49
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Mom was visionary.
"Couldn't he wait?

50
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They will launch the new Edsel.
It is the car of the future. "

51
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And I interrupted. Always me.

52
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Cages and shorties
always interrupt.

53
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I was 9 years old. "Wait!
He said it was a surprise.

54
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What if it's a Cadillac? "

55
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So my father arrived
in a brand new car ...

56
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from the dealership.
A gray Plymouth Belvedere.

57
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What idea was that?
It wasn't the dream car.

58
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But mom calmed us down
and said "Honey ...

59
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It's a beautiful long car
and with start button. "

60
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And he replaced the one
car I knew.

61
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And I was happy to see him
going away...

62
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because it was embarrassing
go out with him in the city.

63
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It was 1957. There were many
cool cars.

64
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But Crystals still
they had a black Chevrolet ...

65
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and 1948 square.
Look at this thing.

66
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It is not a family car.
It's an escape car!

67
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Sonny was shot on the bridge ...

68
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in this car.

69
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Why do we use this
car so many years?

70
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Two reasons.
We can't buy another one.

71
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And because my father loved him.

72
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He took care of the car
with all affection...

73
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and kept it running every day.
And gave it a name. Nellie.

74
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Men always
give woman names ...

75
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and talk to the cars,
as if they were women ...

76
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especially in the morning.
"Come on, dear. Turn around."

77
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At the end of life, Nellie
began to suffer ...

78
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after-ignition syndrome.

79
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It was very sad.
You turned off the ignition ...

80
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and Nellie coughed and spit
few minutes later.

81
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She looked like an old woman
cursing in an argument.

82
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"It's not me. It's you.
It's not me. � you.

83
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It's not me. � you.
It's not me.

84
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 � you. � you.

85
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 � you. � you.
 � you. � you.

86
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 � you. � you. Get screwed. "

87
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So we had a new car
and we went for a walk and celebrated.

88
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And where do the Jews celebrate?
In the Chinese restaurant.

89
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Our favorite place
it was Wing Lu.

90
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Excited dad
loosened up a little ...

91
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after a few drinks.
Gibson vodka.

92
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Mr. Lu passed and he
shouted "What's up, Lu?"

93
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My father laughed
and Mr. Lu mumbled ...

94
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"What an idiot."

95
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And the gray Belvedere outside,
shining in the streetlight ...

96
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as a good Belvedere
gray can do.

97
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And we were happy, we had
our first new car.

98
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We have never been so happy.
That is...

99
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it was the perfect time to
something goes very wrong.

100
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Big John Amento was
a city mobster ...

101
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a scary gangster.
It was our Lou Gabrozzi.

102
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And we don't know that Big John
was going to come into our life ...

103
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because he drove
his car, drunk ...

104
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a Lincoln Continental
1957, anti-Semitic.

105
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He came flying
on Park Avenue ...

106
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lost control and hit
at the rear of the Belvedere ...

107
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that hit the car
from the front ...

108
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transforming our car
in a Plymouth "Belv."

109
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The other day, we had
a twisted metal ...

110
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at the door of the house,
at 549 East Park Avenue ...

111
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in Long Beach, Long Island, NY.
My home town.

112
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At the time, a
quiet beach town ...

113
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10,000 people in winter
and almost 4 or 5 million in the summer.

114
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All clogging the beach
and the street ...

115
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with an amusement park
miniature.

116
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This was the roller coaster
scary 1 meter.

117
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But it was the perfect place
to grow...

118
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with President Eisenhower
and his wife Mamie ...

119
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that was too old
to use bangs.

120
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It looks like the fringe
jumped out of his head ...

121
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for her head.

122
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The only woman who
had hair like that ...

123
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was the mayor's wife
from Munchkin City.

124
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Long Beach was the city
healthiest in the USA ...

125
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but not that morning.
We sat in the living room ...

126
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mourning the new car.
"I answer."

127
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I always answered,
thinking that one day ...

128
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someone would come to
take me to Hollywood.

129
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I opened the door and what did I see?

130
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An overcoat, a neck
and an eyebrow.

131
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It was Big John Amento.

132
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"Can I see the father, please?"

133
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"The father? Sorry.
We are not Catholic.

134
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Dad! Big John Amento.
He's going to kill us!

135
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We are fried! "
"Billy, stop the drama.

136
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He won't do anything.
He just wants to talk.

137
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It's all right. Let him in. "
"Me? I'm 9 years old!

138
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I have a whole life
ahead! "

139
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Later,
my performance has improved.

140
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"Please, Dad. Don't you know me?
I'm the boy. I'm Porgy.

141
00:08:02,309 --> 00:08:04,316
And Porgy has no legs.

142
00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:08,312
And it's too far
for those who have no legs. "

143
00:08:08,324 --> 00:08:12,329
<i> Bess, you are mine
woman now </i>

144
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"You are crazy. Get up
and let him in. "

145
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"Am I crazy? Come on
sleep with the fish ...

146
00:08:21,305 --> 00:08:22,305
and am I crazy?

147
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I found it. In between."
He followed me into the living room.

148
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We're still
working on it.

149
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"How are you, Mr. Crystal
and Mrs. Crystal?

150
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How are you, boys?
I'm John Amento.

151
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But what happened yesterday
It was an accident.

152
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I didn't mean it.
If it was my intention ...

153
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it would be a posthumous visit,
understood?

154
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So I talked about it
with my partners ...

155
00:09:01,318 --> 00:09:05,300
and we decided to do something
special for you. "

156
00:09:06,322 --> 00:09:09,311
"Special?
This will not be accurate.

157
00:09:09,312 --> 00:09:11,326
We will trigger the insurance. "

158
00:09:15,305 --> 00:09:18,306
"We are the insurance company!
Now that.

159
00:09:23,319 --> 00:09:26,329
I asked about you.
You are dear and respected.

160
00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:28,312
Everyone likes their family.

161
00:09:28,313 --> 00:09:31,314
Here's what we'll do.
I'll buy a new car.

162
00:09:31,315 --> 00:09:34,307
The car you want.
You can choose. "

163
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That was too much!

164
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The car we wanted.
We can choose!

165
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"Dad, listen to my brain.
Corvette! Corvette! "

166
00:09:43,303 --> 00:09:45,323
"Let's fix the car."
"Damn it!"

167
00:09:50,311 --> 00:09:52,311
"A little question, Mr. K."

168
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Some delayed
to understand.

169
00:10:01,302 --> 00:10:03,321
It's not such a good joke.
There are other better ones.

170
00:10:03,322 --> 00:10:06,316
But I'm just testing.

171
00:10:06,317 --> 00:10:09,306
 � the first round,
just a few punches ...

172
00:10:09,307 --> 00:10:12,306
and frankly, you
they need to train more.

173
00:10:12,308 --> 00:10:13,313
But back to the piece!

174
00:10:20,302 --> 00:10:23,324
"Did you decline my offer?
It's not a good idea.

175
00:10:24,303 --> 00:10:26,301
It bothers me
and confuses me ...

176
00:10:26,302 --> 00:10:29,300
and that's why I stay
upset and confused.

177
00:10:29,306 --> 00:10:32,304
Why do you
don't you want a new car? "

178
00:10:32,329 --> 00:10:36,318
"Because, Mr. Amento,
I bought this car. "

179
00:10:43,304 --> 00:10:44,317
The thing got tense.

180
00:10:44,318 --> 00:10:47,300
Joe looked at Rip,
Rip looked at me ...

181
00:10:47,301 --> 00:10:49,313
I looked at mom,
she looked at dad ...

182
00:10:49,314 --> 00:10:52,302
and she smiled in a way
that I will never forget.

183
00:10:52,303 --> 00:10:54,322
She came to Dad,
so embraced him ...

184
00:10:54,323 --> 00:10:58,323
and they smiled together
for Big John Amento.

185
00:11:01,315 --> 00:11:03,306
These are my parents.

186
00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:07,304
Two weeks later,
the car came back.

187
00:11:07,305 --> 00:11:10,300
Big John understood it,
the car was fine.

188
00:11:10,301 --> 00:11:13,309
We open the luggage rack to see
if there was no corpse.

189
00:11:13,310 --> 00:11:15,311
We sit down
in the usual places.

190
00:11:15,312 --> 00:11:18,300
Me in front, my parents
and my brothers back.

191
00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:20,309
They put me
in front to provoke.

192
00:11:20,310 --> 00:11:22,312
"You don't need
of legroom. "

193
00:11:22,313 --> 00:11:23,313
Not yet accurate.

194
00:11:24,309 --> 00:11:26,321
I would sit in the middle,
between my parents ...

195
00:11:26,322 --> 00:11:29,323
my mother used to pass her arm
left behind me ...

196
00:11:29,324 --> 00:11:32,306
and supported him on the shoulder
husband's right ...

197
00:11:32,307 --> 00:11:34,327
while he was driving.
Just to touch it, you know?

198
00:11:34,329 --> 00:11:37,317
I was in the middle
and looked at my father ...

199
00:11:37,318 --> 00:11:40,316
my first hero,
while he was driving.

200
00:11:40,317 --> 00:11:43,320
It looked like he drove
a Rolls Royce or a Bentley.

201
00:11:43,321 --> 00:11:47,317
I never thought it was
a gray Plymouth Belvedere.

202
00:11:47,318 --> 00:11:50,300
That was my father.
He worked hard for us.

203
00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:52,307
I had two jobs,
Sometimes three ...

204
00:11:52,308 --> 00:11:54,307
including friday
and Saturday night.

205
00:11:54,308 --> 00:11:57,309
The only day he stayed
it was Sunday.

206
00:11:57,310 --> 00:12:00,309
On Sundays, my brothers
and I did a show ...

207
00:12:00,310 --> 00:12:03,305
for him to laugh. �amos
to the Long Beach boardwalk ...

208
00:12:03,306 --> 00:12:05,329
enjoy toys,
hitting baseballs ...

209
00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:07,322
play golf, watch a movie ...

210
00:12:07,323 --> 00:12:09,322
or even
a Broadway show.

211
00:12:09,323 --> 00:12:12,315
And Sundays started
early for me, at 4am ...

212
00:12:12,316 --> 00:12:15,305
when daddy arrived
of work on Saturday.

213
00:12:15,306 --> 00:12:16,326
He arrived with the car ...

214
00:12:16,327 --> 00:12:19,303
my room was
near the garage ...

215
00:12:19,304 --> 00:12:21,313
and I felt the car
arriving at the entrance.

216
00:12:21,314 --> 00:12:24,317
He would turn off the engine
and stopped in neutral ...

217
00:12:24,318 --> 00:12:28,309
so as not to wake us up.
I knew he was here.

218
00:12:28,310 --> 00:12:30,305
So, I couldn't
sleep more.

219
00:12:30,314 --> 00:12:31,324
And when the sun rose ...

220
00:12:31,325 --> 00:12:34,304
I was on tiptoe
to their room ...

221
00:12:34,305 --> 00:12:36,300
that was next to mine.

222
00:12:36,301 --> 00:12:39,318
And I pushed the door
to open it a little ...

223
00:12:39,319 --> 00:12:42,325
and spy on my parents
lying together ...

224
00:12:43,302 --> 00:12:45,301
at peace and quiet.

225
00:12:45,327 --> 00:12:49,304
And I would sit there,
waiting for you to wake up.

226
00:12:49,305 --> 00:12:52,311
I couldn't wait
on Sundays.

227
00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,310
And he died out of nowhere,
when I was 15 years old.

228
00:12:55,311 --> 00:12:59,302
So I calculated something
around 700 Sundays.

229
00:12:59,311 --> 00:13:01,314
That's it. 700 Sundays.

230
00:13:01,327 --> 00:13:04,320
There is not much time for
a son stay with the father.

231
00:13:04,321 --> 00:13:07,300
First Sunday. I was born!

232
00:13:08,325 --> 00:13:10,322
Sunday,
March 14, 1948.

233
00:13:10,323 --> 00:13:13,318
If you do the math,
I am 47 years old.

234
00:13:14,323 --> 00:13:18,303
7:30 am. They said my
delivery was difficult.

235
00:13:18,304 --> 00:13:20,322
"Push, dear.
The baby is leaving! "

236
00:13:23,329 --> 00:13:26,302
"I'm pushing."
"How it feels?"

237
00:13:26,303 --> 00:13:29,311
"As if a train leaves
of my ass! "

238
00:13:39,323 --> 00:13:41,322
"He's coming back!"

239
00:13:43,307 --> 00:13:45,300
Get out! I was born!

240
00:13:45,305 --> 00:13:47,320
Someone hits my butt.
Nice reception!

241
00:13:49,311 --> 00:13:52,310
They cut the cord
and put me on an icy scale.

242
00:13:52,311 --> 00:13:54,326
"It passed a little bit,
Do you still want it?

243
00:14:04,307 --> 00:14:05,321
Take the password."

244
00:14:06,302 --> 00:14:08,307
Second Sunday.
My circumcision.

245
00:14:08,308 --> 00:14:09,316
That was slutty.

246
00:14:09,317 --> 00:14:11,318
It's a bad way
to start life.

247
00:14:11,319 --> 00:14:14,312
I had 3.8 kg and was
naked on a pillow ...

248
00:14:14,313 --> 00:14:17,306
like a cooked chicken.
I'm taken from the family ...

249
00:14:17,307 --> 00:14:19,303
by a bearded
and bad breath.

250
00:14:19,304 --> 00:14:21,303
"How are you?"
He puts me on the table ...

251
00:14:21,304 --> 00:14:23,322
take a razor and cut
a piece of my penis ...

252
00:14:23,323 --> 00:14:25,306
15 or 20 centimeters.

253
00:14:32,314 --> 00:14:34,304
"Wow, how hard.

254
00:14:37,317 --> 00:14:39,327
Mary, bring the electric knife.

255
00:14:39,329 --> 00:14:42,310
Get away. When I
shout "wood" ...

256
00:14:42,311 --> 00:14:43,316
it will fall.

257
00:14:44,311 --> 00:14:47,320
Ready! See the size.
It's a blanket.

258
00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:49,307
Bull! Bull!

259
00:14:49,315 --> 00:14:52,301
Murray, see.
I'm the Super-Jew!

260
00:14:53,319 --> 00:14:56,324
Jack, cover the car.
I think it's going to rain."

261
00:14:57,300 --> 00:15:00,319
And I cry out in pain.
"My penis! My penis!"

262
00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,321
And uncle Herman
shout "Let's eat!"

263
00:15:04,322 --> 00:15:07,311
Because we learn soon
that in �diche ...

264
00:15:07,312 --> 00:15:10,310
bris
Is a prefix
of "cookie". </i>

265
00:15:13,323 --> 00:15:16,316
On Sunday 3 Jack and Ellen
take me home ...

266
00:15:16,317 --> 00:15:18,326
and introduce me
to crazy people, manaceans ...

267
00:15:18,327 --> 00:15:20,323
and without notion: my family.

268
00:15:20,324 --> 00:15:23,309
A very eclectic group
of Germans, Russians ...

269
00:15:23,310 --> 00:15:26,308
and Austrians who came
to the USA with the same goal ...

270
00:15:26,309 --> 00:15:29,317
live the American dream.
And they only spoke diche ...

271
00:15:29,318 --> 00:15:32,314
a mix of German
with mucus.

272
00:15:36,305 --> 00:15:39,306
It is not a language,
It's an infection, you know?

273
00:15:39,307 --> 00:15:40,320
 � guilty pleurisy.

274
00:15:40,321 --> 00:15:43,306
They stayed in the room,
coughing out the words.

275
00:15:43,307 --> 00:15:44,317
Coughing like that.

276
00:15:44,318 --> 00:15:48,307
So they used
plastic film at all.

277
00:15:51,301 --> 00:15:53,318
I wore raincoat
up to 27 years.

278
00:15:53,319 --> 00:15:55,324
Precise, a
guttural language ...

279
00:15:55,325 --> 00:15:58,311
and these people eat and speak
at the same time.

280
00:15:58,312 --> 00:16:01,306
If someone eats yogurt
in front of you...

281
00:16:01,307 --> 00:16:02,320
run away.

282
00:16:04,310 --> 00:16:08,311
"The furrier is an idiot.
The furrier is an idiot.

283
00:16:08,312 --> 00:16:11,318
He's an idiot.
It's the furrier. Idiot.

284
00:16:12,304 --> 00:16:14,303
It's a stupid furrier.

285
00:16:25,318 --> 00:16:26,317
Retail!"

286
00:16:32,316 --> 00:16:35,304
"Brooklyn Dodgers?
Screw them! "

287
00:16:41,314 --> 00:16:44,307
You end up wearing
what they ate.

288
00:16:44,308 --> 00:16:47,321
And if it's a blue suit,
you’ll become a Jackson Pollack.

289
00:16:49,311 --> 00:16:52,304
We all have relatives
favorites, right?

290
00:16:52,305 --> 00:16:54,313
That happens.
And with me too.

291
00:16:54,314 --> 00:16:57,315
I had my favorites,
like my aunt Sheila.

292
00:16:58,305 --> 00:17:00,303
A beautiful woman, isn't it?

293
00:17:01,324 --> 00:17:03,329
She was my hero.
He spoke the truth.

294
00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:07,305
Aunt Sheila was frank.
Some said that she talked too much.

295
00:17:07,306 --> 00:17:08,321
But that's why I liked her.

296
00:17:08,325 --> 00:17:10,324
She and my uncle Leonard
lived in Boca Raton.

297
00:17:10,325 --> 00:17:12,309
What a shock!

298
00:17:13,322 --> 00:17:16,301
She smoked all day
and spoke like this ...

299
00:17:16,302 --> 00:17:19,315
"Leonard, get the car.
Leonard, get the car.

300
00:17:19,316 --> 00:17:22,321
My new hip is going to rust.
Take the damn car.

301
00:17:22,325 --> 00:17:26,310
Leonard, it's almost 1:30.
I don't want to be late for dinner.

302
00:17:26,311 --> 00:17:28,308
Take the damn car! "

303
00:17:32,314 --> 00:17:35,304
 �-: Her eldest daughter
it was my cousin Julie.

304
00:17:35,305 --> 00:17:37,314
We were very close
and Julie is a lesbian.

305
00:17:37,315 --> 00:17:39,319
And years ago,
when the gay union ...

306
00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:43,309
was legalized in S�o Francisco
Julie got married. It was fantastic.

307
00:17:43,310 --> 00:17:46,309
Everyone was happy.
And Sheila went there ...

308
00:17:46,310 --> 00:17:48,313
just for the wedding.
And it was great ...

309
00:17:48,314 --> 00:17:51,300
but her generation
you don't understand this well ...

310
00:17:51,301 --> 00:17:54,327
and was proven by
her call to her friend Reba ...

311
00:17:54,329 --> 00:17:56,319
to talk about the wedding.

312
00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,300
"Hello, Reba.
Julie got married yesterday.

313
00:17:59,311 --> 00:18:01,311
With her mate.

314
00:18:01,312 --> 00:18:04,307
That's what they call it.
"Companions".

315
00:18:04,324 --> 00:18:06,329
No. Tonto was s� 
a faithful friend.

316
00:18:13,318 --> 00:18:17,314
They threw a party.
And you know, at the end of the party ...

317
00:18:17,318 --> 00:18:18,317
No, dear.

318
00:18:18,318 --> 00:18:21,301
<i> They don't step on the glass
and shout
L'chaim
. </i>

319
00:18:21,302 --> 00:18:24,314
It was not a Jewish festival.
It was "lesbiteriana".

320
00:18:26,327 --> 00:18:29,300
Leonard, get the car! "

321
00:18:29,315 --> 00:18:31,322
And then, my uncle Jack.
I adore him.

322
00:18:31,323 --> 00:18:34,326
One side of the face was paralyzed.
So he was like that.

323
00:18:43,305 --> 00:18:45,322
Every morning he came
to the coffee and said ...

324
00:18:45,323 --> 00:18:47,319
"Who will eat
waffle with me?

325
00:18:48,311 --> 00:18:50,306
Let's eat waffle.
Who wants?

326
00:18:50,307 --> 00:18:52,319
Let's eat waffle.
I need a waffle.

327
00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,313
Who wants a waffle?
No one?

328
00:18:54,314 --> 00:18:56,317
Why nobody wants
eat waffle? "

329
00:18:56,318 --> 00:19:00,303
"Why don't you see yours as
mouth stays when you eat! "

330
00:19:01,325 --> 00:19:05,306
I adore him. The worst for him
 � that for a joking boy ...

331
00:19:05,307 --> 00:19:08,309
his face was
quite a present.

332
00:19:08,310 --> 00:19:10,323
So I called him
of Uncle Picasso.

333
00:19:15,301 --> 00:19:17,306
But he called me
in a corner ...

334
00:19:17,307 --> 00:19:19,316
and told dirty jokes.
Very dirty.

335
00:19:19,317 --> 00:19:21,322
And I never could
run away from him ...

336
00:19:21,323 --> 00:19:23,326
because that face
it was scary.

337
00:19:23,327 --> 00:19:26,325
It was the Jewish Ghost
of the family opera.

338
00:19:29,302 --> 00:19:30,320
<i> Slow down, dear </i>

339
00:19:31,301 --> 00:19:34,315
And he pushed me
against the fridge ...

340
00:19:34,329 --> 00:19:36,309
and told a joke.

341
00:19:36,310 --> 00:19:37,309
"Billy!

342
00:19:40,301 --> 00:19:41,321
I have a great one for you.

343
00:19:41,322 --> 00:19:44,308
A couple for the car
near the cemetery.

344
00:19:44,309 --> 00:19:47,302
They kiss,
get excited ...

345
00:19:47,303 --> 00:19:49,312
<i> and decide to make a
schtup
. </i>

346
00:19:49,319 --> 00:19:51,312
<i> Schtup
. Make love. </i>

347
00:19:52,327 --> 00:19:54,318
Get laid, got it?

348
00:19:55,309 --> 00:19:56,322
But the car is small.

349
00:19:56,323 --> 00:19:59,307
They enter the cemetery,
take off your clothes ...

350
00:19:59,308 --> 00:20:01,329
he puts it in a tomb,
stay there all night ...

351
00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:05,305
and she hurts her back.
The next day she goes to the doctor.

352
00:20:05,306 --> 00:20:08,305
He examines it and says
"Honey, how old are you?"

353
00:20:08,306 --> 00:20:09,323
She says "I am 22 years old."

354
00:20:09,324 --> 00:20:13,313
"Strange. Your ass says
that you died in 1931.

355
00:20:14,324 --> 00:20:18,305
Understood? Her back
were marked.

356
00:20:21,316 --> 00:20:24,312
Tell your friends
of the school. "

357
00:20:28,315 --> 00:20:30,307
In this Long Beach house ...

358
00:20:30,308 --> 00:20:32,320
I grew up with a family
who lived with us.

359
00:20:32,321 --> 00:20:35,306
It was another family,
besides the one I talked about.

360
00:20:35,307 --> 00:20:37,309
But this family
it never got hot.

361
00:20:37,310 --> 00:20:41,313
They stayed on theirs.
They didn't speak diche ...

362
00:20:41,314 --> 00:20:44,327
but a language that they
invented themselves.

363
00:20:44,329 --> 00:20:47,312
<i> It was the language of
jive
,
the cool ones. </i>

364
00:20:47,313 --> 00:20:50,327
They also smoked
but they were unbranded cigarettes.

365
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,300
Because they were musicians.

366
00:20:53,301 --> 00:20:55,318
The most jazzy
cool and cool of the time.

367
00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:58,301
The house smelled
of bread and whiskey.

368
00:20:58,302 --> 00:21:00,314
They were Jews and jazz
forever in the house.

369
00:21:00,315 --> 00:21:03,305
My bar mitzvah turned
an improvised show.

370
00:21:03,306 --> 00:21:05,326
And why was it weird?
The jazz musicians said ...

371
00:21:05,327 --> 00:21:09,305
"Give me $ 5." And my people
"You owe me $ 5!"

372
00:21:10,316 --> 00:21:13,300
The family business
it was jazz.

373
00:21:13,300 --> 00:21:15,320
My father was a manager
from a record store ...

374
00:21:15,321 --> 00:21:18,326
in NY, at 42nd Street,
in front of the Chrysler.

375
00:21:18,327 --> 00:21:20,322
It was the Commodore
Music Shop.

376
00:21:20,323 --> 00:21:23,329
Originally, Commodore
it was a hardware store ...

377
00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:25,322
of my grandfather, Julius Gabler ...

378
00:21:25,323 --> 00:21:28,312
that sold items
for home and radio.

379
00:21:28,313 --> 00:21:31,316
Your eldest son Milt,
who didn't just become my uncle ...

380
00:21:31,317 --> 00:21:34,306
but my mentor in life
and in my career ...

381
00:21:34,307 --> 00:21:36,310
worked at the store,
after high school.

382
00:21:36,311 --> 00:21:39,303
One day, he arrives at the store,
turn on one of the radios ...

383
00:21:39,304 --> 00:21:42,315
who played Bix Beiderbecke,
from Dixieland ...

384
00:21:42,323 --> 00:21:44,313
and falls in love with music.

385
00:21:44,314 --> 00:21:46,317
So much so that he lied
to his father ...

386
00:21:46,318 --> 00:21:49,319
and said he was going to study
At night with friends.

387
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:53,300
But Milt is hidden,
I would take the train to the Village ...

388
00:21:53,301 --> 00:21:55,321
just to go to clubs
of jazz that was out there.

389
00:21:55,322 --> 00:21:58,307
So he was going to 52nd St.,
the swing street ...

390
00:21:58,308 --> 00:22:00,321
to the clubs
and listen to good music.

391
00:22:00,322 --> 00:22:03,312
And he was going to Harlem
to meet the musicians ...

392
00:22:03,313 --> 00:22:06,308
who came from New Orleans,
Kansas City and Chicago.

393
00:22:06,309 --> 00:22:08,326
And after years of that,
in love with music ...

394
00:22:08,327 --> 00:22:10,323
and after meeting
so many musicians ...

395
00:22:10,324 --> 00:22:15,301
he goes to the store and tells his father
"Dad!" "Milt, don't scare me like that.

396
00:22:15,302 --> 00:22:18,317
I thought it was a Cossack. Already
tell the neighbors' hideout.

397
00:22:18,318 --> 00:22:21,318
What's it?"
"Dad, I had an idea.

398
00:22:21,319 --> 00:22:26,309
I want to produce jazz records.
We can sell them here at the store. "

399
00:22:26,310 --> 00:22:30,304
"Milt, I hate jazz.
Why do you want to do that? "

400
00:22:30,305 --> 00:22:33,310
"We are going to make a lot of money."
"I'm in!"

401
00:22:33,319 --> 00:22:36,308
And in January 1938,
Milt calls his friend ...

402
00:22:36,309 --> 00:22:39,307
a guitarist from chicago
called Eddie Conden.

403
00:22:39,308 --> 00:22:41,314
And the band was
The Windy City Seven.

404
00:22:41,315 --> 00:22:43,326
They go to a stadium
close by ...

405
00:22:43,327 --> 00:22:46,318
and Milt does something that
never did in life.

406
00:22:46,319 --> 00:22:48,318
It produces 2 discs.

407
00:22:51,327 --> 00:22:54,311
<i> And the music
Love is Just
Around the Corner
. </i>

408
00:22:54,312 --> 00:22:57,302
And so the record company is born
of jazz Commodore ...

409
00:22:57,303 --> 00:23:00,311
the first record company
independent jazz in the world.

410
00:23:00,312 --> 00:23:02,305
And the records became
a success.

411
00:23:02,306 --> 00:23:05,325
So much so that in a short time,
Milt produces 95 albums ...

412
00:23:05,326 --> 00:23:08,326
and today, many have become
collector's items.

413
00:23:08,327 --> 00:23:11,309
And the artists line up
for record...

414
00:23:11,310 --> 00:23:13,324
with the brilliant producer
record label.

415
00:23:13,325 --> 00:23:16,326
And their big star
it was Billie Holiday.

416
00:23:16,327 --> 00:23:19,320
Billie recorded her best
discs at Commodore.

417
00:23:19,321 --> 00:23:22,314
<i> Music like
Embraceable You
,
Fond and Mellow
... </i>

418
00:23:22,315 --> 00:23:23,323
<i> My Man
and
Lover Man
. </i>

419
00:23:23,324 --> 00:23:25,323
But his single more
important...

420
00:23:25,324 --> 00:23:28,313
not the greatest success,
but the most important...

421
00:23:28,314 --> 00:23:30,325
<i> was
Strange Fruit
.
You should know. </i>

422
00:23:30,326 --> 00:23:33,326
Otherwise, at that time,
this song was considered ...

423
00:23:33,327 --> 00:23:36,317
one of the first songs
US protest.

424
00:23:36,318 --> 00:23:40,307
She had a strong handwriting about
the lynching of blacks in the south.

425
00:23:40,308 --> 00:23:42,319
"The southern trees
they give strange fruits.

426
00:23:42,322 --> 00:23:44,318
Blood on leaves
and roots.

427
00:23:44,319 --> 00:23:47,302
Black bodies hanging down
South breeze.

428
00:23:47,303 --> 00:23:49,315
Strange fruits
hanging in the fields. "

429
00:23:49,316 --> 00:23:52,306
Nobody wanted to record it.
No one would touch it.

430
00:23:52,307 --> 00:23:55,303
Frustrated, Billie searches
your producer friend ...

431
00:23:55,304 --> 00:23:57,305
my uncle Milt.
And according to legend ...

432
00:23:57,306 --> 00:23:59,318
she went to Commodore,
after hours ...

433
00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:02,300
sat with Milt
and sang the chapel ...

434
00:24:02,301 --> 00:24:04,313
with that painful voice
and painful handwriting.

435
00:24:04,314 --> 00:24:07,320
He said "Billie, this is
important and must be heard! "

436
00:24:07,321 --> 00:24:11,326
<i> And here they are, 75 years ago,
when recording
Strange Fruit
. </i>

437
00:24:11,327 --> 00:24:14,325
Billie Holiday, the legendary
black jazz artist ...

438
00:24:14,326 --> 00:24:17,310
and my white, chubby
and Jewish uncle Milt ...

439
00:24:17,311 --> 00:24:20,319
<i> together, recording
Strange Fruit
,
a song that in 1999 ... </i>

440
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,312
Time Magazine would call
of "song of the century".

441
00:24:23,313 --> 00:24:25,324
The original recording
is at the Smithsonian.

442
00:24:25,325 --> 00:24:27,323
But with pride
that I say ...

443
00:24:27,324 --> 00:24:30,314
that she is ours
record label, Commodore.

444
00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:40,302
<i> And with the success of the records
it's from
Strange Fruit
... </i>

445
00:24:40,303 --> 00:24:42,320
that small store
2.7m wide ...

446
00:24:42,321 --> 00:24:44,327
becomes the center of jazz
in New York.

447
00:24:44,329 --> 00:24:47,325
And the big labels
start calling Milt.

448
00:24:47,326 --> 00:24:49,319
In 1941, he leaves the store ...

449
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,310
and the record company command
to my father...

450
00:24:52,311 --> 00:24:55,312
his brother-in-law. Milt will
for Decca Records ...

451
00:24:55,313 --> 00:24:57,311
where from 1941 to 1973 ...

452
00:24:57,324 --> 00:24:59,329
he builds
an excellent career.

453
00:25:00,301 --> 00:25:03,307
The high school dreamer goes
for the Grammy Hall of Fame ...

454
00:25:03,308 --> 00:25:06,313
with 35 gold records and Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame ...

455
00:25:06,314 --> 00:25:09,303
because the pioneer
jazz records record ...

456
00:25:09,304 --> 00:25:12,301
Rock Around the Clock
,
Bill Haley and the Comets. </i>

457
00:25:12,302 --> 00:25:15,310
Incredible career. Milton was
the celebrity of the family ...

458
00:25:15,311 --> 00:25:17,323
but the store was the place
daddy's favorite.

459
00:25:17,324 --> 00:25:20,308
Joel, Rip and I loved each other
work with him.

460
00:25:20,309 --> 00:25:22,310
Never forget me.
I was 5 years old.

461
00:25:22,311 --> 00:25:25,301
A special gift.
I went to work with Dad.

462
00:25:25,302 --> 00:25:28,302
He straightened me up and put a
pink carnation on my lapel.

463
00:25:28,303 --> 00:25:30,322
We continue towards Nelly
and we went to New York.

464
00:25:30,325 --> 00:25:34,302
We arrived on the expressway,
I saw the buildings from afar ...

465
00:25:34,303 --> 00:25:37,307
and I thought "I'm going to
the Emerald City. "

466
00:25:37,308 --> 00:25:39,315
And we never know
who would be in the store.

467
00:25:39,316 --> 00:25:41,325
We entered and Louis
Armstrong was there ...

468
00:25:41,326 --> 00:25:43,321
Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

469
00:25:43,323 --> 00:25:46,315
Rosemary Clooney
I always went to the store and said ...

470
00:25:46,316 --> 00:25:50,308
"My nephew is the child
sexiest in the world. "

471
00:25:51,324 --> 00:25:54,300
That day, I entered
With my dad...

472
00:25:54,301 --> 00:25:57,300
with jazz playing,
and he puts me in a booth.

473
00:25:57,301 --> 00:26:00,305
Where people listened and decided
which disc it would take.

474
00:26:00,306 --> 00:26:03,311
I was on a stool
and listened to all kinds of music.

475
00:26:03,312 --> 00:26:06,313
I looked through the glass and saw
daddy serve customers.

476
00:26:06,314 --> 00:26:08,325
He looked very
important for everyone.

477
00:26:08,326 --> 00:26:10,308
So it was already 12:45.

478
00:26:10,309 --> 00:26:12,321
He taps on the glass and says
"Time for lunch."

479
00:26:12,322 --> 00:26:16,308
And it was the 1st time I had lunch
alone with my father.

480
00:26:16,309 --> 00:26:19,322
So we left the store
and turn right at 42nd Street ...

481
00:26:19,323 --> 00:26:21,312
that is, to the west.

482
00:26:21,313 --> 00:26:23,326
And so we went through
Commodore Hotel ...

483
00:26:23,327 --> 00:26:25,322
which the store got its name from.

484
00:26:25,323 --> 00:26:28,310
So we went together
 � Grand Central Station.

485
00:26:28,311 --> 00:26:31,308
We followed the crowd,
we passed the oyster bar ...

486
00:26:31,309 --> 00:26:33,318
we go up the ramp
and we entered the lobby ...

487
00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:37,309
with all those people
waiting for whatever.

488
00:26:37,311 --> 00:26:39,322
And I think "It's my birthday.

489
00:26:39,323 --> 00:26:42,310
Because I am
at a train station? "

490
00:26:42,311 --> 00:26:45,305
So he says "Billy,
see the ceiling.

491
00:26:45,306 --> 00:26:47,326
I always have lunch here
and wanted to show you.

492
00:26:47,327 --> 00:26:50,327
Isn't it too much?
Happy birthday, son. "

493
00:26:51,302 --> 00:26:54,309
It is magnificent. � a map
of the constellations ...

494
00:26:54,310 --> 00:26:57,308
stars, galaxies
and the universe ...

495
00:26:57,309 --> 00:26:59,320
that didn't seem to end anymore.

496
00:26:59,321 --> 00:27:02,315
It was the best birthday
that I already had ...

497
00:27:02,316 --> 00:27:04,314
sitting on a bench
With my dad...

498
00:27:04,315 --> 00:27:06,326
eating one
Edith's hot dog ...

499
00:27:06,327 --> 00:27:09,316
under a beautiful sky
of fake stars.

500
00:27:09,317 --> 00:27:11,315
This anniversary
it was a Friday.

501
00:27:11,316 --> 00:27:13,329
When the store closed,
I won a gift.

502
00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:16,303
Dad took me
to another job of his.

503
00:27:16,304 --> 00:27:17,324
Since the late 1940s ...

504
00:27:17,325 --> 00:27:20,325
my father produced shows
Jazz on the Lower East Side ...

505
00:27:20,326 --> 00:27:23,310
on 2nd Avenue
with 6th Street.

506
00:27:23,311 --> 00:27:25,321
It was a salon where
weddings and bar mitzvahs.

507
00:27:25,322 --> 00:27:27,310
The name was Central Plaza.

508
00:27:27,311 --> 00:27:30,300
He started renting it
On Fridays and Saturdays ...

509
00:27:30,301 --> 00:27:33,302
to do something that was
legendary on the jazz scene ...

510
00:27:33,303 --> 00:27:35,326
and what he called just
from "The Sessions".

511
00:27:36,307 --> 00:27:39,310
Everyone played there.
And with the rise of rock ...

512
00:27:39,311 --> 00:27:42,304
the Central Plaza
became the only place ...

513
00:27:42,305 --> 00:27:45,302
where the stars of Dixieland
they played that genre.

514
00:27:45,303 --> 00:27:47,322
And the university students went
to dance ...

515
00:27:47,323 --> 00:27:50,322
because before rock and swing,
this was the fashion.

516
00:27:50,323 --> 00:27:54,307
The shows started at 19h
and ended at 3am ...

517
00:27:54,308 --> 00:27:56,314
usually with the big
Chicago trumpeter ...

518
00:27:56,315 --> 00:27:57,322
Jimmy McPartman ...

519
00:27:57,323 --> 00:28:00,324
<i> who played
When the
Saints Go Marching In
. </i>

520
00:28:01,327 --> 00:28:04,313
My father was very happy there.
Why not?

521
00:28:04,314 --> 00:28:06,317
Because he didn't sell
only the discs.

522
00:28:06,318 --> 00:28:09,313
He was working
with the artists and said ...

523
00:28:09,314 --> 00:28:12,329
that jazz was the only art
genuinely American.

524
00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:15,320
People called,
wanting to play there ...

525
00:28:15,321 --> 00:28:18,311
and my father mixed them
as a scientist ...

526
00:28:18,312 --> 00:28:20,329
always behind the sound
and the perfect mix.

527
00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:23,321
Years ago, the NY Times
did a retrospective ...

528
00:28:23,322 --> 00:28:26,303
from my father's work
at the Central Plaza.

529
00:28:26,304 --> 00:28:28,327
And they quoted him as
"the Rickey Branch of jazz."

530
00:28:28,329 --> 00:28:31,320
As I read, I was proud.
They wanted to say ...

531
00:28:31,321 --> 00:28:34,322
that my father was a
of the first producers ...

532
00:28:34,323 --> 00:28:38,314
to integrate the bands,
with whites and blacks.

533
00:28:38,321 --> 00:28:40,305
This was not common ...

534
00:28:40,306 --> 00:28:42,315
even in New York,
in the 40s and 50s ...

535
00:28:42,316 --> 00:28:45,324
when jazz and Central
Plaza were at the apex.

536
00:28:45,325 --> 00:28:48,323
And the musicians adored him
because of this.

537
00:28:48,324 --> 00:28:50,320
And he too. There ...

538
00:28:51,307 --> 00:28:53,307
they were the others
his children.

539
00:28:53,308 --> 00:28:57,300
If my dad won $ 1,
he gave them 75 cents.

540
00:28:57,301 --> 00:29:00,302
So we had
a gray Belvedere.

541
00:29:00,315 --> 00:29:04,305
But that night I met
my father's secret life.

542
00:29:04,306 --> 00:29:06,327
He said to me "Stay there.
I need to do something.

543
00:29:06,329 --> 00:29:09,300
Can you take care of him?
I'll be right back. "

544
00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,317
He should present the show
and I didn't know he did that.

545
00:29:12,322 --> 00:29:16,300
I was only 5 years old,
and suddenly, he's on stage ...

546
00:29:16,301 --> 00:29:18,307
with a microphone,
saluting the public.

547
00:29:18,310 --> 00:29:22,301
He was smart and charming
and had the audience in the palm of the hand.

548
00:29:22,302 --> 00:29:24,309
I was little,
but I already felt ...

549
00:29:24,310 --> 00:29:26,317
the importance of it being
the subject...

550
00:29:26,318 --> 00:29:29,311
that presented that
music for the world ...

551
00:29:29,312 --> 00:29:31,302
and also being,
for musicians ...

552
00:29:31,303 --> 00:29:32,317
the guy who did that.

553
00:29:32,318 --> 00:29:36,323
I presented the Grammy three
times before the other show.

554
00:29:38,308 --> 00:29:41,302
And at all times,
I channeled it ...

555
00:29:41,303 --> 00:29:43,300
because i did like him
it was decades ago ...

556
00:29:43,301 --> 00:29:46,300
but presenting the great
musicians of my time.

557
00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:48,307
And that night,
on my birthday ...

558
00:29:48,308 --> 00:29:50,326
for the 1st time, I did
a show for a public.

559
00:29:50,327 --> 00:29:54,300
I was backstage
with fantastic musicians ...

560
00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:57,300
which my father used to say
who had "great souls".

561
00:29:57,301 --> 00:30:00,301
And great nicknames too.
Willie "The Lion" Smith ...

562
00:30:00,302 --> 00:30:02,310
Wild Bill Davison,
Cutty Cutshall ...

563
00:30:02,311 --> 00:30:04,320
Big Chief Russell Moore
and Wingy Manone.

564
00:30:04,321 --> 00:30:07,316
This is Roy Eldridge,
a fantastic trumpeter ...

565
00:30:07,317 --> 00:30:09,303
but he was not tall.

566
00:30:09,304 --> 00:30:11,313
So, his nickname
it was Little Jazz.

567
00:30:11,317 --> 00:30:12,323
Upon meeting me ...

568
00:30:12,324 --> 00:30:15,308
he called me
by Nanico Jazz.

569
00:30:15,315 --> 00:30:18,313
The others called me
of face. It was my nickname.

570
00:30:18,314 --> 00:30:21,304
Drummer Zutty Singleton
gave me the nickname.

571
00:30:21,305 --> 00:30:24,307
He called me that because
I made their faces.

572
00:30:24,308 --> 00:30:26,312
I imitated them.
Look at these faces.

573
00:30:26,313 --> 00:30:28,300
What boy would not imitate?

574
00:30:28,301 --> 00:30:30,316
And I started that night,
in the band room.

575
00:30:30,317 --> 00:30:33,306
Someone put a box
saxophone on the floor ...

576
00:30:33,307 --> 00:30:34,312
and that was a stage.

577
00:30:34,313 --> 00:30:36,321
"Zutty, come see what
Face knows how to do!

578
00:30:36,326 --> 00:30:39,319
Face, tell the joke
that I talked about Zutty.

579
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,305
"The couple was standing still
near the cemetery. "

580
00:30:46,305 --> 00:30:47,317
"I like that joke ...

581
00:30:47,318 --> 00:30:49,321
but tell me what I said
about Zutty. "

582
00:30:49,322 --> 00:30:52,322
"Zutty will cut his hair
and ask the barber ...

583
00:30:52,323 --> 00:30:54,327
the cut price.
He says 2 dollars.

584
00:30:54,329 --> 00:30:57,312
What about shaving?
To scratch, $ 1.

585
00:30:57,313 --> 00:30:59,318
Very well then,
can scrape. "

586
00:31:01,310 --> 00:31:04,304
"Did you hear, Zutty?
He caught you, tough guy!

587
00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:06,321
Face, that was too much.

588
00:31:06,322 --> 00:31:09,323
Do you understand?
I know I would understand. "

589
00:31:11,318 --> 00:31:15,300
So, they go on stage,
start playing ...

590
00:31:15,321 --> 00:31:18,311
and I was in Heaven.
I was 5 years old ...

591
00:31:18,312 --> 00:31:20,326
but I understood my father
and my uncle on the spot.

592
00:31:20,327 --> 00:31:23,301
I fell in love
by Dixieland's jazz.

593
00:31:23,302 --> 00:31:25,319
For me, it's music
world's happiest ...

594
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,310
but be 3m from the biggest
musicians of the world ...

595
00:31:28,317 --> 00:31:30,317
playing like that ...

596
00:31:33,315 --> 00:31:34,329
and I couldn't help it.

597
00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:38,327
I went up on stage, I was in the middle of them
and I started tap dancing like crazy.

598
00:31:38,329 --> 00:31:41,313
They acted like I
was part of the show.

599
00:31:41,314 --> 00:31:44,314
My mother tapped very well
and tried to teach me ...

600
00:31:44,315 --> 00:31:46,326
but I was just tap dancing
with the right leg.

601
00:31:46,327 --> 00:31:48,316
The left did not move.

602
00:31:48,317 --> 00:31:51,310
My father took the camera
and filmed everything.

603
00:32:06,315 --> 00:32:07,324
I continued.

604
00:32:09,303 --> 00:32:11,315
I did everything I could,
but I ran out of steps.

605
00:32:11,316 --> 00:32:13,323
I only had one.
So it was pretty quick.

606
00:32:13,324 --> 00:32:17,300
I remembered what Mom said.
"If it gets difficult, finish it."

607
00:32:17,301 --> 00:32:19,312
So, walk away
like that, like crazy ...

608
00:32:19,313 --> 00:32:21,319
I made a star,
I got on my knees ...

609
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,304
and spread my arms.
The staff went crazy ...

610
00:32:24,305 --> 00:32:27,313
and since then, I do
presentations in public.

611
00:32:32,305 --> 00:32:35,303
I will say. Run away
from the stage to my father ...

612
00:32:35,304 --> 00:32:37,317
And he says
"Billy, that was awesome!

613
00:32:37,318 --> 00:32:40,324
When listening to the music, you
can't stand still. "

614
00:32:40,325 --> 00:32:43,301
Once, my father
was producing ...

615
00:32:43,302 --> 00:32:46,301
a Billie Holiday show,
on the Lower East Side ...

616
00:32:46,302 --> 00:32:49,300
and I was very blessed
for meeting her at the time ...

617
00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:51,325
because of her relationship
with my uncle and my father.

618
00:32:51,326 --> 00:32:54,313
Billie Holiday called me
of "Mr. Billy".

619
00:32:54,314 --> 00:32:57,301
And I called her
of "Mrs. Billie".

620
00:32:57,302 --> 00:32:59,321
When she finished
to rehearse with the band ...

621
00:32:59,322 --> 00:33:02,316
she had 3 free hours
before the show starts.

622
00:33:02,317 --> 00:33:05,300
So she looked at me
and said something ...

623
00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:06,316
that changed my life.

624
00:33:06,317 --> 00:33:09,304
"Mr. Billy, come.
Let's go to the movies."

625
00:33:09,305 --> 00:33:11,329
So, Billie Holiday
and I went down 2nd Ave ...

626
00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:14,311
and after Central Plaza,
right next to ...

627
00:33:14,312 --> 00:33:17,318
there was a movie called
Loew's Commodore.

628
00:33:17,319 --> 00:33:21,301
In the 60s, he was
famous as the Fillmore East.

629
00:33:21,302 --> 00:33:23,316
And sitting on your lap
Billie Holiday ...

630
00:33:23,317 --> 00:33:26,329
<i> I saw my first film.
The Brutes Also Love
. </i>

631
00:33:28,309 --> 00:33:31,305
With Alan Ladd, Van Heflin
and Jean Arthur.

632
00:33:32,317 --> 00:33:34,300
And Jack Palance!

633
00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:38,325
And the boy,
Brandon De Wilde ...

634
00:33:38,326 --> 00:33:42,306
that I thought looked like me
proved that even softly ...

635
00:33:42,307 --> 00:33:45,325
I could be quite tall. At the end
from the movie, Shane runs off ...

636
00:33:45,326 --> 00:33:48,318
and he, crying like me,
run behind and scream ...

637
00:33:48,319 --> 00:33:49,318
Shane!

638
00:33:51,324 --> 00:33:52,323
Come back!

639
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,300
And Billie whispered
in my ear...

640
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:01,300
"He won't be coming back."

641
00:34:08,301 --> 00:34:09,317
But you know what?

642
00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:12,314
It was a Sunday.

643
00:34:22,325 --> 00:34:23,324
Thanks.

644
00:34:29,307 --> 00:34:31,302
I'm a lucky boy.

645
00:34:33,310 --> 00:34:36,304
Once, my grandmother
told Louis Armstrong ...

646
00:34:36,305 --> 00:34:38,304
at a Seder dinner ...

647
00:34:38,324 --> 00:34:41,329
"Louis, have you tried
cough to get it out? "

648
00:34:47,316 --> 00:34:49,325
She was great.
My grandmother, Susie Gabler.

649
00:34:49,326 --> 00:34:51,322
And she was big.
Very big.

650
00:34:51,323 --> 00:34:54,306
She already came to fruition
3 electoral votes.

651
00:34:54,307 --> 00:34:57,313
She was big.
But very funny.

652
00:34:57,314 --> 00:34:59,324
Almost a comedian
and very insightful.

653
00:34:59,325 --> 00:35:02,306
She solved everything
very skillfully.

654
00:35:02,307 --> 00:35:04,309
Once ... Can I count?

655
00:35:05,318 --> 00:35:08,304
I arrived suddenly
and she was naked.

656
00:35:08,305 --> 00:35:09,322
Believe. I know.

657
00:35:12,315 --> 00:35:14,324
She did better than me.

658
00:35:14,325 --> 00:35:18,300
"I bet you found it
who would never see this! "

659
00:35:21,309 --> 00:35:22,329
I was 35 ...

660
00:35:25,304 --> 00:35:28,308
and never seen
nothing like that.

661
00:35:29,311 --> 00:35:31,318
Her husband was
my grandfather Julius.

662
00:35:31,319 --> 00:35:34,312
Julius was not so
fun like her.

663
00:35:34,313 --> 00:35:36,326
This is him, laughing.

664
00:35:39,306 --> 00:35:40,316
But he was cool ...

665
00:35:40,317 --> 00:35:42,326
despite a small
hearing problem.

666
00:35:42,327 --> 00:35:45,304
We try to get
a hearing aid ...

667
00:35:45,305 --> 00:35:47,329
with one of your contacts
from the Commodore Music Shop.

668
00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:50,313
Every week, he tested
a new device.

669
00:35:50,314 --> 00:35:52,322
I always did that to him.

670
00:35:52,325 --> 00:35:55,304
"So, grandma ...
I hope this is ...

671
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,319
or the other ... but you know ...

672
00:35:58,308 --> 00:36:00,321
they don't know ...
or can we ...

673
00:36:01,324 --> 00:36:04,322
Testing. One, four.
Testing. Four.

674
00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:06,316
You know ... a song ... "

675
00:36:22,307 --> 00:36:25,300
"Damn it, Billy. Another crap!"

676
00:36:26,322 --> 00:36:28,316
His visits were great.

677
00:36:28,317 --> 00:36:31,312
The house was small
and the walls were very thin.

678
00:36:31,313 --> 00:36:34,322
He woke up at 7am
and we would wake up with him.

679
00:36:34,323 --> 00:36:38,317
He was a Jewish rooster
non-practitioner at 7am.

680
00:36:45,318 --> 00:36:46,324
"Socialism."

681
00:37:09,304 --> 00:37:12,305
The problem was that he
I didn't hear anything.

682
00:37:14,310 --> 00:37:15,323
And for a little boy ...

683
00:37:15,324 --> 00:37:18,300
this sound is the most
funny of all.

684
00:37:18,301 --> 00:37:21,304
He would shake and I would laugh a lot.
And he continued to speak.

685
00:37:21,305 --> 00:37:22,320
"Billy, I think ...

686
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,325
I need...

687
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,327
I need to buy bread ...

688
00:37:28,318 --> 00:37:29,329
and get the clothes.

689
00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:32,305
What a burning smell.
What is that?

690
00:37:32,306 --> 00:37:35,308
Why are you
so far? Come here.

691
00:37:35,329 --> 00:37:37,315
I need to go back at 5pm ...

692
00:37:37,316 --> 00:37:40,320
because your grandmother will
cabbage soup.

693
00:37:44,313 --> 00:37:48,301
What came into you
and died? Is everything okay? "

694
00:37:48,311 --> 00:37:50,326
I loved drinking coffee� 
in the morning with my grandfather.

695
00:37:50,329 --> 00:37:53,309
Every day at 8am,
we had coffee together.

696
00:37:53,310 --> 00:37:56,317
And that's when I started
to learn about life ...

697
00:37:56,318 --> 00:37:59,326
because of the beautiful
his Austrian optimism.

698
00:38:02,317 --> 00:38:05,304
For him, the glass was
always half full ...

699
00:38:05,305 --> 00:38:06,310
of some poison.

700
00:38:07,311 --> 00:38:10,300
I stayed in the kitchen,
waiting for him to come down.

701
00:38:10,301 --> 00:38:13,305
Every day, he went down
wearing the same outfit.

702
00:38:13,308 --> 00:38:15,309
Tank top, shorts ...

703
00:38:15,317 --> 00:38:18,313
and some testicle
coming out from the side.

704
00:38:19,313 --> 00:38:21,327
Just a little bit,
showing up there ...

705
00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:29,313
hanging done
a lava lamp.

706
00:38:30,329 --> 00:38:32,316
Just a little.

707
00:38:33,313 --> 00:38:35,322
Enough
to terrify me!

708
00:38:35,323 --> 00:38:38,321
"What is that?
I don't have that!

709
00:38:39,311 --> 00:38:41,315
Damn it. Am I going to have that?

710
00:38:42,308 --> 00:38:43,318
I don't want to!

711
00:38:44,307 --> 00:38:47,307
What is that? Joe the Grandpa
have an octopus in shorts! "

712
00:38:51,310 --> 00:38:54,314
And sometimes gravity
it got a little worse.

713
00:38:54,315 --> 00:38:59,304
Sometimes, from behind he looked like a
Great Dane leaving.

714
00:39:04,329 --> 00:39:06,319
"Crap. Damn it."

715
00:39:11,325 --> 00:39:13,324
You saw my grandfather.

716
00:39:14,319 --> 00:39:16,323
"Good morning, Bill. Good morning.

717
00:39:17,303 --> 00:39:19,327
What's the deal?
Why are you laughing?

718
00:39:20,304 --> 00:39:21,316
What's the deal? Say it.

719
00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:24,307
It's 8am. Nothing has
thanks to that hour.

720
00:39:24,314 --> 00:39:25,316
What's it?

721
00:39:26,312 --> 00:39:28,322
You are a very happy boy.

722
00:39:29,316 --> 00:39:31,306
That worries me.

723
00:39:31,327 --> 00:39:33,324
Billy, I've been thinking.

724
00:39:34,306 --> 00:39:37,308
You are already 8 years old.
What are you going to do with your life?

725
00:39:37,309 --> 00:39:39,325
You should already know.
At 9 years old ...

726
00:39:39,326 --> 00:39:41,325
I didn't live yet
In the USA.

727
00:39:41,326 --> 00:39:44,310
I lived in Austria,
in the village of ...

728
00:39:46,314 --> 00:39:47,313
Burg.

729
00:39:48,321 --> 00:39:51,314
And my parents wanted
a better future for me ...

730
00:39:51,315 --> 00:39:53,329
and they put me on a ship,
the SS Rotterdam.

731
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:56,329
And I crossed the Atlantic
alone, at 9 years old.

732
00:39:57,300 --> 00:40:00,303
I arrived at Ellis Island
on August 3, 1904.

733
00:40:00,304 --> 00:40:02,324
The next day,
I already had a job.

734
00:40:02,325 --> 00:40:04,329
I had a cart
to push ...

735
00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:07,306
and I pushed it.
Therefore, that name.

736
00:40:07,308 --> 00:40:09,327
Pushing the cart.
Pushing the cart.

737
00:40:09,329 --> 00:40:12,300
And after one month
pushing that ...

738
00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:14,313
I thought "Idiot.
Put something in it. "

739
00:40:15,318 --> 00:40:19,300
I pushed a cart
empty and won nothing!

740
00:40:19,301 --> 00:40:22,300
A plan was missing.
You must plan your life.

741
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:24,320
So, with 2 cents
I bought a cloth ...

742
00:40:24,321 --> 00:40:27,313
but I tore it in half,
I sold them both for $ 0.05 ...

743
00:40:27,314 --> 00:40:30,325
and I made a profit. So, I got it
how it worked.

744
00:40:30,326 --> 00:40:33,308
I tore a cloth,
sold for more ...

745
00:40:33,309 --> 00:40:36,301
and kept the money.
Rip, sell and save.

746
00:40:36,302 --> 00:40:38,314
Rip, sell and save.
And over time ...

747
00:40:38,315 --> 00:40:40,324
I managed to buy
my first store ...

748
00:40:40,325 --> 00:40:43,302
to sell dresses
on Fulton Street.

749
00:40:43,303 --> 00:40:44,329
It was my biggest
pride in life.

750
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:48,312
But the store was too small,
I needed the store next door.

751
00:40:48,313 --> 00:40:51,327
A�, I started to work harder
and I didn't waste my money.

752
00:40:51,329 --> 00:40:54,323
I ate wood
and drank sand.

753
00:40:54,324 --> 00:40:57,305
And over time,
I bought the store next door ...

754
00:40:57,306 --> 00:40:59,307
I dropped everything,
I expanded my store.

755
00:40:59,308 --> 00:41:01,314
Then I bought
four more stores ...

756
00:41:01,315 --> 00:41:04,322
I dropped everything and expanded
until occupying the block.

757
00:41:04,323 --> 00:41:06,324
They were the first
Brooklyn apartments.

758
00:41:06,325 --> 00:41:08,326
And when I saved
a lot of money...

759
00:41:08,327 --> 00:41:11,322
I carried out my plan.
I crossed the Atlantic again ...

760
00:41:11,323 --> 00:41:14,329
and brought my family
to live in the USA.

761
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:17,322
And I completed 10 years.
But you ... "

762
00:41:24,309 --> 00:41:26,308
And I believed him.

763
00:41:26,315 --> 00:41:28,327
How not to believe?
It is a beautiful story.

764
00:41:28,329 --> 00:41:31,311
About a boy
who won in life.

765
00:41:31,312 --> 00:41:33,311
My grandfather turned
my great hero.

766
00:41:33,312 --> 00:41:34,317
But at 8 ...

767
00:41:34,318 --> 00:41:37,306
 � when we started
collecting heroes.

768
00:41:37,307 --> 00:41:39,303
May 30, 1956.

769
00:41:39,327 --> 00:41:42,327
My father takes us to our
1st game at Yankee Stadium.

770
00:41:42,329 --> 00:41:46,306
We drive by the elevated
from Jerome Avenue in the Bronx ...

771
00:41:46,307 --> 00:41:48,323
and the sun tried to appear
behind the rails.

772
00:41:48,324 --> 00:41:52,301
We stopped in the parking lot
and I was looking for the field.

773
00:41:52,302 --> 00:41:54,320
"Dad, where's the field?"
He said "It's over there."

774
00:41:54,321 --> 00:41:55,326
"In that building?"

775
00:41:55,327 --> 00:41:58,304
"Come on, guys."
And we ran.

776
00:41:58,305 --> 00:42:00,316
On the way, it was
increasingly cool.

777
00:42:00,317 --> 00:42:02,316
"Software!
Tickets, please.

778
00:42:02,317 --> 00:42:06,301
Well, no. Have fun, boy. "
I was in the crowd.

779
00:42:06,302 --> 00:42:07,325
Shirt Men
and tie ...

780
00:42:07,326 --> 00:42:09,325
towards "ceremonial"
of the 2 games.

781
00:42:09,326 --> 00:42:12,302
I was 8 years old,
It was THIS big...

782
00:42:12,303 --> 00:42:13,329
and held the hand
from my father...

783
00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:16,319
as he crossed
so dark tunnels ...

784
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,300
that I saw nothing,
but I could hear ...

785
00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:21,311
the sound of something great
about to happen.

786
00:42:21,312 --> 00:42:23,326
I smelled
hot dog ...

787
00:42:23,327 --> 00:42:27,304
beer and mustard
mixed with concrete.

788
00:42:27,305 --> 00:42:30,301
Suddenly,
we were inside.

789
00:42:34,302 --> 00:42:36,327
Dad filmed everything with his camera
to never leave memory.

790
00:42:36,329 --> 00:42:39,318
But how was it possible?
The green of the lawn ...

791
00:42:39,319 --> 00:42:41,301
that beautiful field ...

792
00:42:41,302 --> 00:42:44,303
the bases shining in the sun
like giant marshmallows.

793
00:42:44,304 --> 00:42:46,323
The Washington Senators
warming up on one side ...

794
00:42:46,324 --> 00:42:48,325
and the Yankees on the other.
Very beautiful.

795
00:42:48,326 --> 00:42:50,312
Our TV was
in black and white.

796
00:42:50,313 --> 00:42:52,327
That was my first
color game.

797
00:42:52,329 --> 00:42:55,305
We stayed in the chair
Louis Armstrong.

798
00:42:55,306 --> 00:42:57,315
I sat down on my knees,
I couldn't see.

799
00:42:57,316 --> 00:43:01,312
There was a huge priest at the front.
in a black suit and white collar.

800
00:43:01,313 --> 00:43:05,305
But in the 4th inning, Mickey Mantle,
25 years, a uniformed Elvis ...

801
00:43:05,309 --> 00:43:07,302
hitting left ...

802
00:43:07,303 --> 00:43:10,301
makes the home run longer
of the history of the stadium ...

803
00:43:10,302 --> 00:43:12,325
that hits the facade
of the copper roof ...

804
00:43:12,326 --> 00:43:14,310
180m away.

805
00:43:14,311 --> 00:43:16,312
And while the ball
crossed the sky ...

806
00:43:16,313 --> 00:43:20,300
the priest gets up and won't let me
see my first home run.

807
00:43:20,308 --> 00:43:23,310
And I only hear you
"Jesus Christ!"

808
00:43:25,305 --> 00:43:27,316
In the 7� inning, Mickey
hits a triple ...

809
00:43:27,317 --> 00:43:30,305
runs to the 3rd base,
like a fugitive ...

810
00:43:30,306 --> 00:43:33,326
and I shouted "Mickey! Mickey!"
And he looked at me.

811
00:43:33,327 --> 00:43:36,312
There he is, number 7,
under that sun.

812
00:43:36,313 --> 00:43:39,316
And soon I decided. I wanted
so much be Mickey Mantle ...

813
00:43:39,317 --> 00:43:41,327
that I just walked
like him, limping.

814
00:43:41,329 --> 00:43:44,323
I spoke at my bar mitzvah
Oklahoma fashion.

815
00:43:50,314 --> 00:43:53,300
And my brothers and I
we played baseball ...

816
00:43:53,300 --> 00:43:55,300
I would like to be
Yankees player.

817
00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:57,322
And on Sundays, my father
took me to a field ...

818
00:43:57,323 --> 00:44:00,307
to teach me how to hit
a curved ball.

819
00:44:00,308 --> 00:44:02,312
My father was a launcher
in college ...

820
00:44:02,313 --> 00:44:04,311
and launched a great
curved ball.

821
00:44:04,312 --> 00:44:06,327
And the whole summer
I couldn't get it right.

822
00:44:06,329 --> 00:44:09,313
"Hey, Billy.
Do not rotate the body too much.

823
00:44:09,314 --> 00:44:12,311
You have no strength,
so don't try to pull the ball.

824
00:44:12,312 --> 00:44:14,323
In this game, you
need to stay at the base.

825
00:44:14,324 --> 00:44:17,301
So wait and hit back
to the right.

826
00:44:17,302 --> 00:44:19,312
Wait and hit back
to the right."

827
00:44:19,313 --> 00:44:22,321
Summer gave way to October,
the leaves changed color ...

828
00:44:22,322 --> 00:44:25,322
it was the mood of the World Series
and I still didn't get it right.

829
00:44:25,323 --> 00:44:28,301
"Wait". And it was already November.

830
00:44:28,302 --> 00:44:31,302
"Wait". It was December
and we were still there.

831
00:44:31,307 --> 00:44:33,314
It's hard to get it right
a curved ball ...

832
00:44:33,315 --> 00:44:35,310
but hit the snow?

833
00:44:35,316 --> 00:44:37,307
"Billy, you can do it.

834
00:44:37,308 --> 00:44:39,322
Your brothers are
freezing. Let's go."

835
00:44:41,303 --> 00:44:42,302
"Wait."

836
00:44:47,313 --> 00:44:49,312
"Now, yes. Again."

837
00:44:51,311 --> 00:44:52,310
"Wait."

838
00:45:13,327 --> 00:45:16,312
Thanks. My father did
all these films ...

839
00:45:16,313 --> 00:45:18,322
and I'm glad I
I can use them ...

840
00:45:18,323 --> 00:45:21,312
otherwise, I would only
half the show.

841
00:45:21,313 --> 00:45:23,325
He was ours
documentary filmmaker.

842
00:45:23,326 --> 00:45:26,303
He took the camera
everywhere ...

843
00:45:26,304 --> 00:45:29,323
and it's great to have these films.
My children saw it, their grandchildren will see ...

844
00:45:29,324 --> 00:45:32,303
and know who came
before all of us.

845
00:45:32,304 --> 00:45:34,326
And he had a relationship
different with each one ...

846
00:45:34,327 --> 00:45:36,306
with that 8mm camera.

847
00:45:36,307 --> 00:45:39,329
My favorite is the relationship
him with my uncle Danny.

848
00:45:40,302 --> 00:45:41,329
Danny at the barbecue ...

849
00:45:42,306 --> 00:45:45,313
The best movie of the year,
in all years.

850
00:45:45,316 --> 00:45:48,300
My father filmed my uncle
on the barbecue ...

851
00:45:48,301 --> 00:45:50,323
on Sunday
of July 4, 1957.

852
00:45:50,324 --> 00:45:53,311
It's a silent film
3 minutes ...

853
00:45:53,314 --> 00:45:55,327
and without me saying anything,
it will tell everything ...

854
00:45:55,329 --> 00:45:58,306
about my family.
Want to see?

855
00:45:58,307 --> 00:46:01,301
You have no choice.
I will show.

856
00:46:01,307 --> 00:46:03,326
Let's turn off the light
and show this film ...

857
00:46:03,327 --> 00:46:07,313
the 1957 barbecue,
right now. Thanks.

858
00:48:44,323 --> 00:48:49,302
At 3 pm on Sunday, my father
I took the mandolin and played it.

859
00:48:51,314 --> 00:48:53,315
He sat
in the corner of the sofa ...

860
00:48:53,316 --> 00:48:55,301
near the window.

861
00:48:55,311 --> 00:48:58,305
The sun passed
shutters ...

862
00:48:58,306 --> 00:49:01,325
making it look like it touched
a mandolin on a chain.

863
00:49:09,323 --> 00:49:11,316
We always expected it
touch...

864
00:49:11,317 --> 00:49:13,323
even losing
one hour on Sunday ...

865
00:49:13,324 --> 00:49:16,301
because he was
so happy playing ...

866
00:49:16,302 --> 00:49:19,317
that everyone left him
alone, except me.

867
00:49:20,317 --> 00:49:23,329
I came down the hall
and before reaching the room ...

868
00:49:24,300 --> 00:49:26,321
there was a column where
I could hide.

869
00:49:26,322 --> 00:49:28,314
I would take a look ...

870
00:49:28,315 --> 00:49:31,306
just to see my father
playing the mandolin ...

871
00:49:31,307 --> 00:49:34,309
At 3pm on Sunday.
I don't think he ever saw me.

872
00:49:34,310 --> 00:49:37,303
But I always thought he
knew I was there.

873
00:49:37,304 --> 00:49:38,321
My father was very quiet.

874
00:49:38,322 --> 00:49:41,322
He had a great sense
humorous, insightful and dry.

875
00:49:41,323 --> 00:49:45,318
He knew what was funny.
His smile was gentle and sweet.

876
00:49:45,319 --> 00:49:47,308
Everyone loved him.

877
00:49:47,313 --> 00:49:50,311
But just as he was
kind to people ...

878
00:49:51,302 --> 00:49:54,302
Sometimes at home,
his mood changed.

879
00:49:55,307 --> 00:49:56,325
He was witty.

880
00:49:57,308 --> 00:50:00,326
But my mother had
the smile of Times Square.

881
00:50:00,327 --> 00:50:03,311
It was the family light.
He sang and danced ...

882
00:50:03,312 --> 00:50:05,308
and could be a great actress.

883
00:50:05,309 --> 00:50:07,318
They met
at Macy's in the 1930s ...

884
00:50:07,319 --> 00:50:10,317
when they worked there.
Dad, in the Dept. Legal ...

885
00:50:10,318 --> 00:50:13,302
and she at Armarinho.
She had a balcony ...

886
00:50:13,303 --> 00:50:16,323
where he sold thoughts,
concepts and ideas.

887
00:50:21,321 --> 00:50:23,308
They were a beautiful couple.

888
00:50:23,309 --> 00:50:25,315
Mom was emotional,
romantic dad.

889
00:50:25,316 --> 00:50:28,317
Every Sunday morning,
on the kitchen table ...

890
00:50:28,318 --> 00:50:31,313
there was a vase with s�
a red rose ...

891
00:50:31,314 --> 00:50:34,324
and a card that said
"Forever yours. Jack."

892
00:50:34,325 --> 00:50:38,311
They always embraced
and kissed on the cheek ...

893
00:50:38,312 --> 00:50:40,319
and we never stayed
embarrassed ...

894
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:41,325
neither do they.

895
00:50:42,323 --> 00:50:46,308
It's nice to know that they
they were always in love.

896
00:50:48,317 --> 00:50:52,303
And when he finished playing,
it ended with a flourish ...

897
00:50:52,304 --> 00:50:54,308
put the mandolin
in a beautiful box ...

898
00:50:54,309 --> 00:50:56,312
and took a book
by Will Durant ...

899
00:50:56,313 --> 00:50:57,318
<i> The Life of Greece
. </i>

900
00:50:57,319 --> 00:50:59,325
My father was fascinated
by the Greeks ...

901
00:50:59,326 --> 00:51:02,307
and found the biggest
civilization of all.

902
00:51:02,308 --> 00:51:04,314
All about the Greeks
interested him.

903
00:51:04,315 --> 00:51:06,314
He loved to read
about democracy ...

904
00:51:06,315 --> 00:51:09,311
the mythology, the pieces,
the tragedies, the comedy ...

905
00:51:09,312 --> 00:51:12,305
the squirrel books,
Eur�pides and Arist�fanes ...

906
00:51:12,306 --> 00:51:14,318
and knew a lot
the islands well.

907
00:51:14,319 --> 00:51:17,306
It was like he had
lived in Mykonos ...

908
00:51:17,307 --> 00:51:19,303
or Crete, or Santorini.

909
00:51:19,304 --> 00:51:22,302
And when we could do
our first trip ...

910
00:51:22,303 --> 00:51:25,313
with the family together,
there was only one destiny ...

911
00:51:25,318 --> 00:51:26,320
Catskills.

912
00:51:28,302 --> 00:51:30,314
Inside the Belvedere
we went north ...

913
00:51:30,315 --> 00:51:32,314
towards the mountains
of Catskills ...

914
00:51:32,315 --> 00:51:35,313
land of Rip Van Winkle,
of the Knight Without Head ...

915
00:51:35,314 --> 00:51:38,317
and Jews who had no
money to go to Hawaii�.

916
00:51:38,318 --> 00:51:41,321
Where the miserable people
from the city arrived in 2 hours ...

917
00:51:41,322 --> 00:51:43,317
to be miserable in the countryside.

918
00:51:43,318 --> 00:51:45,327
If Osama Bin Laden
if you hid there ...

919
00:51:45,329 --> 00:51:48,326
someone would tell him
"So, are you single?"

920
00:51:51,306 --> 00:51:54,320
The hotel was Kutcher's. There was a
lake and a huge pool.

921
00:51:54,321 --> 00:51:58,304
It was a lot of space for me
turn on your side and pee.

922
00:51:58,305 --> 00:51:59,327
The restaurant was intense.

923
00:51:59,329 --> 00:52:03,301
There were a thousand Jews eating
like vikings.

924
00:52:04,311 --> 00:52:06,312
And each dish came
with a complaint.

925
00:52:06,313 --> 00:52:09,301
"I didn't ask for this.
I ordered chops. "

926
00:52:09,302 --> 00:52:11,303
That trip would change
my life.

927
00:52:11,304 --> 00:52:13,311
That's when I learned
hating the countryside.

928
00:52:13,312 --> 00:52:15,315
I saw my parents dancing
things together

929
00:52:15,316 --> 00:52:18,324
And we saw Bellboy
from Kutcher's, Wilt Chamberlain ...

930
00:52:18,325 --> 00:52:21,301
in a uniform
Harlem Globetrotters.

931
00:52:21,302 --> 00:52:24,324
But on Saturday nights
the comedian was the king.

932
00:52:24,325 --> 00:52:26,322
I had never seen
a comedy show.

933
00:52:26,323 --> 00:52:30,305
And along with my parents,
we entered the Kutcher's nightclub ...

934
00:52:30,306 --> 00:52:32,318
and that's when I saw my
first comedian.

935
00:52:32,319 --> 00:52:35,306
"Good night,
ladies and Jews.

936
00:52:38,325 --> 00:52:41,320
I got home and my
woman was in bed ...

937
00:52:41,321 --> 00:52:45,313
with my best friend. I said
"Lenny, I'm obliged, are you?"

938
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,313
A guy goes to the doctor
and says he has 5 penis.

939
00:52:53,314 --> 00:52:56,322
-And how does your pants fit you?
Like a glove. "

940
00:52:57,326 --> 00:53:00,318
I saw a boy in the pool
touching the testicles.

941
00:53:00,319 --> 00:53:04,309
He says "Mom, is it my brain?"
She says "Not yet."

942
00:53:07,305 --> 00:53:10,311
He dominated the stage as
panther dressed as a shark.

943
00:53:10,312 --> 00:53:12,323
He was amazing
and ended up with the public.

944
00:53:12,324 --> 00:53:15,309
They shrunk 15cm
when the show was over.

945
00:53:15,315 --> 00:53:18,305
I was only 9 years old,
I had a crack and said ...

946
00:53:18,306 --> 00:53:19,322
"Look at him. Look.

947
00:53:19,323 --> 00:53:23,307
I would never play like Mickey
Mantle, but this ...

948
00:53:24,306 --> 00:53:26,300
I can do it!"

949
00:53:34,306 --> 00:53:37,300
I decorated his show
at the same time.

950
00:53:37,300 --> 00:53:39,327
On the weekend,
the relatives would visit us ...

951
00:53:39,329 --> 00:53:42,301
and there were 40 or 50
people in the room ...

952
00:53:42,302 --> 00:53:44,306
and for me, that was
"Show time!"

953
00:53:44,307 --> 00:53:47,312
My first stand-up but I
I had nothing prepared.

954
00:53:47,313 --> 00:53:50,305
So I used the same
show I saw at Kutcher's ...

955
00:53:50,306 --> 00:53:53,304
and changed some things
to suit my audience.

956
00:53:55,322 --> 00:53:58,315
"Good night, Jewish family.

957
00:54:04,303 --> 00:54:07,303
Grandma had a rough night.
He came home ...

958
00:54:07,304 --> 00:54:09,322
and found grandma in bed
with Uncle Mack.

959
00:54:15,305 --> 00:54:18,300
So he said
"Mack, I am obliged.

960
00:54:18,304 --> 00:54:20,300
What's new? "

961
00:54:26,327 --> 00:54:29,317
Uncle Barney said that
bought a new pair of pants.

962
00:54:29,318 --> 00:54:31,301
"And how did they look?"

963
00:54:31,302 --> 00:54:34,304
"I can't get dressed.
I have five penis! "

964
00:54:34,306 --> 00:54:35,308
It is difficult.

965
00:54:39,305 --> 00:54:41,303
The doctor said
to Uncle Picasso ...

966
00:54:41,304 --> 00:54:44,308
"Jack, I want a sample
of urine, blood and feces. "

967
00:54:44,309 --> 00:54:47,322
He said "Okay.
I will leave my underwear here. "

968
00:54:51,302 --> 00:54:54,326
You were a great family.
Good evening everyone. My God!

969
00:54:54,327 --> 00:54:57,316
I ran to the room.
I didn't understand what happened.

970
00:54:57,317 --> 00:55:01,302
Laughter entered my blood
and fate had caught me.

971
00:55:01,303 --> 00:55:04,300
I was only 9 years old
and I already knew what I wanted to be.

972
00:55:04,301 --> 00:55:06,304
I would be a comedian.
There was no way.

973
00:55:06,305 --> 00:55:08,319
I was very happy! More ...

974
00:55:09,311 --> 00:55:11,312
I heard my parents
in their room ...

975
00:55:11,313 --> 00:55:13,327
right next to mine.
The walls were thin.

976
00:55:13,329 --> 00:55:17,303
"Jack, talk to him. Five penis?
Did he say that?

977
00:55:17,304 --> 00:55:19,305
I don't know if Barney
have a penis ...

978
00:55:19,306 --> 00:55:21,317
and now, he has five?
What was this?"

979
00:55:21,318 --> 00:55:24,319
"He decorated the show
and modified it. It was smart. "

980
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:27,307
"Intelligent?
My mother is crying.

981
00:55:27,311 --> 00:55:30,312
Make love to Uncle Mack?
He's her brother-in-law. "

982
00:55:30,316 --> 00:55:32,322
"It was a joke.
I thought it was funny. "

983
00:55:32,323 --> 00:55:35,325
"Urine, blood and feces
Is it funny for you?

984
00:55:35,326 --> 00:55:38,318
I made a lot of food
and nobody wanted to eat.

985
00:55:38,327 --> 00:55:41,304
Talk to Billy today. "
"I will speak."

986
00:55:41,305 --> 00:55:42,315
"Talk to him today."

987
00:55:42,316 --> 00:55:45,302
"I will talk to him,
but not today.

988
00:55:45,303 --> 00:55:47,310
Did you see how happy he was?

989
00:55:47,311 --> 00:55:49,320
I promise I will speak
with him tomorrow. "

990
00:55:49,321 --> 00:55:52,303
I heard everything
and I was devastated.

991
00:55:52,304 --> 00:55:53,321
But I learned a lesson.

992
00:55:53,322 --> 00:55:57,310
Thicker walls!
Who needs to hear this?

993
00:56:00,325 --> 00:56:03,319
The next day,
my father came to talk.

994
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,304
"Billy? Billy.
You were very funny!

995
00:56:08,325 --> 00:56:12,302
But you know, you must
meet your audience. "

996
00:56:12,303 --> 00:56:15,304
"Dad, I want to be a comedian.
Is it crazy that I want this?

997
00:56:15,305 --> 00:56:16,318
I loved it. Are you crazy? "

998
00:56:16,319 --> 00:56:18,317
"No. You can
be a comedian.

999
00:56:18,318 --> 00:56:21,303
And I will help you because
I believe in you. "

1000
00:56:21,304 --> 00:56:23,316
The next day, he
started helping me.

1001
00:56:23,317 --> 00:56:26,306
He brought something from the store
who found it perfect ...

1002
00:56:26,307 --> 00:56:28,319
for a little boy
I wanted to thank you.

1003
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:30,303
"It's a tape recorder."

1004
00:56:30,304 --> 00:56:32,303
It was a recorder
with a microphone.

1005
00:56:32,304 --> 00:56:34,310
Now the room was
overturned my room.

1006
00:56:34,311 --> 00:56:36,310
I could give
a show in the room ...

1007
00:56:36,311 --> 00:56:38,320
but with the recorder,
I could hear you.

1008
00:56:38,321 --> 00:56:40,319
I would train my
imitations ...

1009
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,318
<i> like that of Edward G. Robinson
in
The ten Commandments
. </i>

1010
00:56:43,319 --> 00:56:45,320
"Where is yours
Messiah now? "

1011
00:56:52,300 --> 00:56:54,329
<i> The recorder was used to
I train my
timing
. </i>

1012
00:56:55,300 --> 00:56:58,300
And my father would show me
the TV comedians ...

1013
00:56:58,300 --> 00:57:01,311
to inspire me. I could even
sleep late in the week ...

1014
00:57:01,312 --> 00:57:03,323
to see the best,
like Ernie Kovacs.

1015
00:57:03,324 --> 00:57:06,324
Or Steve Allen with Tom Post,
Don Knotts and Louis Nye.

1016
00:57:06,325 --> 00:57:09,300
Or the best of all,
Sid Caesar ...

1017
00:57:09,300 --> 00:57:11,322
with Carl Reiner, Imogene
Coca and Howard Morris.

1018
00:57:11,323 --> 00:57:15,315
And every Sunday night Ed Sullivan
received a comedian, right?

1019
00:57:15,316 --> 00:57:17,321
And it was always Alan King.

1020
00:57:18,321 --> 00:57:21,303
It was Phil Silvers
like Sergeant Bilko ...

1021
00:57:21,304 --> 00:57:23,316
<i> and
The Honeymooners
,
with Gleason and Carney. </i>

1022
00:57:23,317 --> 00:57:25,318
So my father brought
home...

1023
00:57:25,319 --> 00:57:28,314
someone more funny
than the TV giants ...

1024
00:57:28,315 --> 00:57:29,322
your little brother.

1025
00:57:29,323 --> 00:57:32,319
It was the first time that
I saw my crazy uncle Bern.

1026
00:57:32,321 --> 00:57:36,303
He was crazy.
1.90m and 108kg of fun.

1027
00:57:36,304 --> 00:57:38,323
An uncle to play with.
He looked like Hemingway ...

1028
00:57:38,325 --> 00:57:41,310
but it had the personality
from Zero Mostel.

1029
00:57:41,311 --> 00:57:44,307
One day, my father brought
a comedy disc ...

1030
00:57:44,308 --> 00:57:47,322
of Spike Jones and his band
called The City Slickers.

1031
00:57:47,323 --> 00:57:51,300
I played for Uncle Bern
and said "Fun, isn't it?"

1032
00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:54,315
"Billy, it's perfect. Duble
and show it to the family. "

1033
00:57:54,316 --> 00:57:55,320
And I dubbed it.

1034
00:58:47,317 --> 00:58:48,316
Thanks.

1035
00:58:49,326 --> 00:58:54,323
So this is what I
I did from 9 to 14 years old.

1036
00:58:55,318 --> 00:58:57,326
I noticed that I just wanted
be two things ...

1037
00:58:57,327 --> 00:59:00,310
a comedian
or a Yankees player.

1038
00:59:00,311 --> 00:59:03,309
Or a Yankees player
very funny.

1039
00:59:03,310 --> 00:59:06,319
But I discovered something that made me
forget about the Yankees ...

1040
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,329
and everything I liked.

1041
00:59:09,300 --> 00:59:11,318
That's when I found out
my penis.

1042
00:59:16,300 --> 00:59:17,306
You too?

1043
00:59:17,308 --> 00:59:20,300
Not mine.
Only I discovered mine.

1044
00:59:20,300 --> 00:59:21,315
I would remember.

1045
00:59:21,319 --> 00:59:25,307
And I discovered it a lot.
6, 7, 8, 10 times a day.

1046
00:59:26,312 --> 00:59:28,325
What's the record?
Does anyone know?

1047
00:59:29,301 --> 00:59:31,303
And it is not a good addiction.

1048
00:59:31,311 --> 00:59:34,305
The penis is a weapon
self-destruct.

1049
00:59:34,306 --> 00:59:37,307
Of course. That little boy,
great, i would say ...

1050
00:59:37,308 --> 00:59:40,302
caused many problems
throughout history.

1051
00:59:40,303 --> 00:59:42,322
Think. Thomas Jefferson
had several cases.

1052
00:59:42,323 --> 00:59:44,320
With your friend
Strom Thurmond ...

1053
00:59:44,321 --> 00:59:46,310
it was the same thing.

1054
00:59:47,324 --> 00:59:51,307
Why great men?
The power goes straight down there.

1055
00:59:51,308 --> 00:59:53,329
There were several. Kennedy,
Clinton and Eisenhower ...

1056
00:59:54,300 --> 00:59:56,326
had cases.
Even FDR had cases.

1057
00:59:56,327 --> 00:59:59,317
I can't understand.
Serious.

1058
00:59:59,323 --> 01:00:02,312
If you can have sex
with Eleanor Roosevelt ...

1059
01:00:02,313 --> 01:00:03,327
every night...

1060
01:00:08,310 --> 01:00:09,322
"Where are you going?"

1061
01:00:10,308 --> 01:00:14,326
He pretended he was just paralyzed
so I don't have to have sex with her.

1062
01:00:18,326 --> 01:00:20,326
What's it? Too early?

1063
01:00:21,304 --> 01:00:23,319
And now I had
this problem in the hands.

1064
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,323
When puberty
hit me ...

1065
01:00:25,324 --> 01:00:28,308
I got possessed.
The hormones screamed.

1066
01:00:28,309 --> 01:00:31,323
I was always ready.
"Now now."

1067
01:00:32,318 --> 01:00:36,321
And I felt horny about everything.
"A bagel." "Now."

1068
01:00:43,318 --> 01:00:44,317
Once.

1069
01:00:46,319 --> 01:00:48,304
But only once.

1070
01:00:48,309 --> 01:00:51,317
It had poppy seed
and almost tore me up.

1071
01:00:56,313 --> 01:00:57,329
"How stupid."

1072
01:00:59,306 --> 01:01:01,313
But we do stupid things
at 15 years old.

1073
01:01:01,314 --> 01:01:03,316
We are very strange
at 15 years old.

1074
01:01:03,317 --> 01:01:05,303
We are not pretty.

1075
01:01:05,304 --> 01:01:07,314
We have the mustache
like a mustache.

1076
01:01:07,315 --> 01:01:10,303
It looks like an anchovy
over the lip.

1077
01:01:10,306 --> 01:01:12,307
And we have Ed Wynn's voice.

1078
01:01:12,309 --> 01:01:13,311
"How are you?

1079
01:01:14,300 --> 01:01:14,329
How are you?

1080
01:01:16,303 --> 01:01:19,301
How are you?
I'm a ghost ...

1081
01:01:20,306 --> 01:01:22,321
with a monster
living in the pants. "

1082
01:01:22,322 --> 01:01:24,305
"Now now."

1083
01:01:28,308 --> 01:01:30,323
That's when I saw the girl.

1084
01:01:31,308 --> 01:01:32,307
"Now."

1085
01:01:33,313 --> 01:01:35,307
It wasn't hard. "Lie."

1086
01:01:37,305 --> 01:01:40,309
It was something else. It was love.

1087
01:01:40,310 --> 01:01:42,308
"Well, you are
talking to me."

1088
01:01:42,309 --> 01:01:43,316
Stop this.

1089
01:01:43,317 --> 01:01:46,304
It was the most beautiful thing
that I had already seen.

1090
01:01:46,305 --> 01:01:48,303
<i> Blonde with freckles.
AND
cheerleader
. </i>

1091
01:01:48,304 --> 01:01:50,312
"Let me go there." Shut up.

1092
01:01:51,300 --> 01:01:54,313
And I asked her out.
I went to her and said ...

1093
01:01:54,314 --> 01:01:55,315
"How are you?

1094
01:01:57,310 --> 01:02:01,321
I'm Billy Crystal
and I don't know you.

1095
01:02:01,322 --> 01:02:06,310
I saw her and if you are
free on Friday ... "

1096
01:02:06,311 --> 01:02:09,300
"Walk long."
"I'm trying.

1097
01:02:09,301 --> 01:02:12,306
If you are free on Friday
Do you want to go out with me?"

1098
01:02:12,324 --> 01:02:14,301
"Now yes."

1099
01:02:14,311 --> 01:02:16,306
My first
encounter in life.

1100
01:02:16,307 --> 01:02:18,321
I was going home
at the age of 15 ...

1101
01:02:18,322 --> 01:02:21,322
and I was so crazy that
I remembered the address.

1102
01:02:21,323 --> 01:02:24,300
I walked around the neighborhood,
lost...

1103
01:02:24,300 --> 01:02:26,326
"Enter to the left."
"Thank you. I ..."

1104
01:02:30,321 --> 01:02:32,311
It is the first GPS.

1105
01:02:36,319 --> 01:02:39,309
"You arrived
to your destination. "

1106
01:02:40,309 --> 01:02:42,324
"Leave me alone." "Never."

1107
01:02:43,301 --> 01:02:45,306
"You are mine."

1108
01:02:45,324 --> 01:02:47,327
I went to the door
and I was terrified.

1109
01:02:47,329 --> 01:02:50,316
"Let me ring the bell.

1110
01:02:52,306 --> 01:02:53,323
Forget it. I'm going to hit. "

1111
01:03:01,313 --> 01:03:03,323
If they didn't
cut the 20cm ...

1112
01:03:03,324 --> 01:03:06,302
I would have brought down the house.

1113
01:03:11,305 --> 01:03:13,316
We started to leave
and it was the 1st time of all.

1114
01:03:13,317 --> 01:03:15,312
Kiss one
girl at the cinema ...

1115
01:03:15,313 --> 01:03:17,311
in the box
Laurel Theater.

1116
01:03:17,312 --> 01:03:19,310
What is most romantic
what is that?

1117
01:03:19,311 --> 01:03:21,318
"Now." After,
in a friend's car ...

1118
01:03:21,319 --> 01:03:23,326
at a Freeport drive-in,
Long Island.

1119
01:03:23,327 --> 01:03:26,300
"Now." She was perfect.
"Now."

1120
01:03:26,301 --> 01:03:29,317
So, I told her
"You know, I love you.

1121
01:03:30,300 --> 01:03:33,317
I love you very much.
Let's date seriously. "

1122
01:03:34,321 --> 01:03:37,308
"Billy, I like it a lot
of you as a friend. "

1123
01:03:40,319 --> 01:03:44,311
"Really? I thought ..."
"Billy, I like you.

1124
01:03:44,327 --> 01:03:46,327
But not that way. "

1125
01:03:48,329 --> 01:03:50,307
"What about me?"

1126
01:03:53,322 --> 01:03:55,310
"I understand well...

1127
01:03:56,321 --> 01:03:59,319
what can I say?
See you at school?

1128
01:03:59,326 --> 01:04:01,324
It's all right. See you. "

1129
01:04:05,313 --> 01:04:08,301
I was rejected
for the first time.

1130
01:04:08,302 --> 01:04:10,317
I said I loved her
and that he liked her.

1131
01:04:10,318 --> 01:04:15,307
What did I get in return?
"I don't feel the same way about you."

1132
01:04:16,311 --> 01:04:18,302
It hurt even in the soul.

1133
01:04:18,310 --> 01:04:20,321
I crawled around the house
all week.

1134
01:04:20,322 --> 01:04:23,311
I just thought
on that girl.

1135
01:04:24,301 --> 01:04:27,313
Tuesday night,
October 15, 1963.

1136
01:04:27,314 --> 01:04:30,309
I was in the kitchen,
studying for a test ...

1137
01:04:30,310 --> 01:04:33,305
it was the next morning
and I didn't give a damn.

1138
01:04:33,306 --> 01:04:36,300
Why? Why should I
call Chemistry?

1139
01:04:36,300 --> 01:04:38,309
I had lost the girl.

1140
01:04:38,311 --> 01:04:42,313
And who cares about Chemistry?
Why do we study this?

1141
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,322
Is there a chemist here?

1142
01:04:45,326 --> 01:04:48,309
See? They never show up!

1143
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,313
Because I
studying Chemistry?

1144
01:04:51,314 --> 01:04:54,300
That would matter
in my life?

1145
01:04:54,300 --> 01:04:56,304
Would I talk about this with anyone?

1146
01:04:56,313 --> 01:04:59,323
Or someone would ask
"Billy, what's the lead?"

1147
01:05:05,325 --> 01:05:08,310
So I was
studying Chemistry ...

1148
01:05:08,311 --> 01:05:11,329
and each page turned,
I saw the girl's face.

1149
01:05:13,309 --> 01:05:15,310
My parents came
say goodnight.

1150
01:05:15,311 --> 01:05:19,301
They went to the bowling tournament
of having at the Long Beach Bowl.

1151
01:05:19,302 --> 01:05:21,313
They had a lot of fun
in this tournament ...

1152
01:05:21,314 --> 01:05:24,320
but honestly, it was
their only fun ...

1153
01:05:24,321 --> 01:05:28,309
because things had
changed for the worse.

1154
01:05:28,322 --> 01:05:30,329
Commodore Music
Shop had closed.

1155
01:05:31,300 --> 01:05:34,302
She couldn't compete
with discount stores ...

1156
01:05:34,303 --> 01:05:35,320
that invaded New York.

1157
01:05:35,321 --> 01:05:38,302
That Sam Goody's
opened on 42nd Street.

1158
01:05:38,303 --> 01:05:40,304
Our store was
straight ahead ...

1159
01:05:40,305 --> 01:05:43,305
and she swallowed us,
like a whale.

1160
01:05:43,318 --> 01:05:46,302
In an instant, they were gone
decades of music ...

1161
01:05:46,303 --> 01:05:50,318
and musicians, laughter and legends.
Gone. In the name of progress.

1162
01:05:50,329 --> 01:05:53,319
And the music I loved,
Coleman Hawkins ...

1163
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:56,325
Ben Webster and Sydney
Bechet was replaced ...

1164
01:05:56,326 --> 01:05:59,311
by Duprees, Earls,
Shirelles and Beach Boys.

1165
01:05:59,312 --> 01:06:01,320
And these giants
original jazz ...

1166
01:06:01,321 --> 01:06:04,300
men and women
who gave birth ...

1167
01:06:04,301 --> 01:06:05,326
 � music we have
until today ...

1168
01:06:05,327 --> 01:06:07,323
started playing
in parks ...

1169
01:06:07,324 --> 01:06:11,300
wearing alloy on the sleeve
and straw hats.

1170
01:06:11,308 --> 01:06:14,312
My father was 54 years old
and I was scared.

1171
01:06:14,313 --> 01:06:17,310
Joel and Rip went to
college at the same time.

1172
01:06:17,311 --> 01:06:21,300
For the first time,
my father was out of a job.

1173
01:06:21,301 --> 01:06:23,320
He still did the shows
Friday and Saturday ...

1174
01:06:23,321 --> 01:06:26,314
but it gave a large part
from money to musicians ...

1175
01:06:26,315 --> 01:06:29,325
for them to survive. I don't know
how we managed at the time.

1176
01:06:29,326 --> 01:06:32,315
I don't know how we did it.
So, one night ...

1177
01:06:32,316 --> 01:06:34,322
the bell rang
and I went to answer ...

1178
01:06:35,300 --> 01:06:37,300
because I always answered.

1179
01:06:37,300 --> 01:06:39,320
He was a nervous guy,
asking for dad.

1180
01:06:39,321 --> 01:06:41,327
They went to where
the garage was.

1181
01:06:41,329 --> 01:06:44,308
I didn't like that.
There was something wrong.

1182
01:06:44,309 --> 01:06:47,308
So, I went after
and I saw from a distance ...

1183
01:06:47,323 --> 01:06:50,302
my father selling his
personal collection ...

1184
01:06:50,303 --> 01:06:51,319
of jazz classics.

1185
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:55,304
All 95 albums
intact originals ...

1186
01:06:55,305 --> 01:06:56,323
for 500 dollars.

1187
01:06:57,322 --> 01:07:01,308
Mom said it was the only one
time you saw daddy cry.

1188
01:07:01,309 --> 01:07:03,308
And upon returning to the kitchen ...

1189
01:07:03,309 --> 01:07:05,316
he was worried,
upset...

1190
01:07:05,317 --> 01:07:08,308
and when you saw me
traveling on the girl ...

1191
01:07:08,309 --> 01:07:09,322
he got mad.

1192
01:07:09,323 --> 01:07:12,304
"Billy, try to pass
in the race tomorrow.

1193
01:07:12,306 --> 01:07:14,304
In all of them!
Improve your grades.

1194
01:07:14,305 --> 01:07:16,320
I don't have money
to pay for your studies!

1195
01:07:16,321 --> 01:07:18,320
You know what?
I'm unemployed!

1196
01:07:18,321 --> 01:07:20,329
If you were
to college today ...

1197
01:07:21,300 --> 01:07:23,311
I couldn't afford it.
It embarrasses me.

1198
01:07:23,312 --> 01:07:26,325
I used life insurance to pay
Joel and Rip's college.

1199
01:07:26,326 --> 01:07:28,324
How will I pay
when is your turn?

1200
01:07:28,325 --> 01:07:30,329
Help me, boy.
Get a scholarship.

1201
01:07:31,300 --> 01:07:33,316
If it's baseball,
it's great. Help now.

1202
01:07:33,317 --> 01:07:36,301
But it's better than you
get a scholarship ...

1203
01:07:36,302 --> 01:07:37,312
for being studious.

1204
01:07:37,313 --> 01:07:39,318
Have you read about the Greeks?
Never!

1205
01:07:39,319 --> 01:07:42,321
And I will tell you.
Stop weeping.

1206
01:07:42,322 --> 01:07:44,300
I can't take it anymore.

1207
01:07:44,301 --> 01:07:46,318
 � because of that
stupid girl, right? "

1208
01:07:46,319 --> 01:07:49,313
"Shut up! You don't know
you are welcome. Shut up! "

1209
01:07:50,326 --> 01:07:53,319
"Never
talk to me like that.

1210
01:07:56,301 --> 01:07:57,306
Please."

1211
01:08:01,325 --> 01:08:04,309
And they left. My God.
I didn't believe it.

1212
01:08:04,310 --> 01:08:05,320
It escaped my mouth.

1213
01:08:05,321 --> 01:08:07,325
I never spoke
so with him.

1214
01:08:07,326 --> 01:08:10,324
I ran to apologize
but the car had already left.

1215
01:08:10,325 --> 01:08:14,311
I stood in the driveway
under that October moon.

1216
01:08:14,312 --> 01:08:17,302
And I said "Easy.
They will arrive at 11:30 pm ...

1217
01:08:17,303 --> 01:08:19,303
and you can apologize.

1218
01:08:19,304 --> 01:08:22,303
And he can help me
to study for the exam. "

1219
01:08:22,304 --> 01:08:25,318
And all that was
because of the girl.

1220
01:08:26,316 --> 01:08:30,302
I went back to the kitchen, looked at
the chemistry book ... and I closed it.

1221
01:08:30,303 --> 01:08:32,304
"Screw it.
What if I don't pass? "

1222
01:08:32,305 --> 01:08:34,320
I went to my room
and before I go to bed ...

1223
01:08:34,321 --> 01:08:36,324
I closed the door,
but not entirely.

1224
01:08:36,325 --> 01:08:40,318
I didn't like being in the dark
and left a little space.

1225
01:08:40,319 --> 01:08:43,314
The corridor light
lit up my room ...

1226
01:08:43,322 --> 01:08:44,327
and I slept.

1227
01:08:45,304 --> 01:08:48,302
And I just remember
the door opening ...

1228
01:08:48,303 --> 01:08:50,318
because the whole house
I shook and I woke up.

1229
01:08:50,319 --> 01:08:52,320
I looked at the clock
and it was 11:30 pm.

1230
01:08:52,321 --> 01:08:55,303
"They arrived."
So, I heard my mother ...

1231
01:08:55,304 --> 01:08:58,305
passing down the hall
where the rooms were ...

1232
01:08:58,306 --> 01:09:01,321
laughing as always.
And it got louder and louder ...

1233
01:09:01,322 --> 01:09:04,323
and higher and higher,
until the door opens ...

1234
01:09:04,325 --> 01:09:07,308
and I realize that she
I wasn't laughing.

1235
01:09:07,309 --> 01:09:10,318
She was crying, copiously.
And it reached me in a second.

1236
01:09:10,319 --> 01:09:12,327
"Billy, honey. Daddy died.

1237
01:09:12,329 --> 01:09:15,322
Dad died. "
Uncle Danny was with her.

1238
01:09:15,323 --> 01:09:18,300
"Dad died.
He didn't stand a chance.

1239
01:09:18,300 --> 01:09:20,304
He died. He died."

1240
01:09:20,305 --> 01:09:21,315
"As well?"

1241
01:09:22,314 --> 01:09:25,311
I woke up to her saying
that daddy had died ...

1242
01:09:25,312 --> 01:09:28,300
and I asked:
"Mom, did Grandpa die?"

1243
01:09:28,314 --> 01:09:30,320
She put her hand
on my face and said ...

1244
01:09:30,321 --> 01:09:31,329
"No, dear.

1245
01:09:34,313 --> 01:09:35,312
Bill ...

1246
01:09:36,327 --> 01:09:39,317
your father had a heart attack
on the bowling alley ...

1247
01:09:39,318 --> 01:09:41,309
and did not survive.

1248
01:09:42,307 --> 01:09:44,327
They tried to save him,
but they didn't succeed.

1249
01:09:44,329 --> 01:09:47,302
He didn't come back with me.

1250
01:09:49,305 --> 01:09:52,303
He died, Bill.
Your father died. "

1251
01:09:59,325 --> 01:10:02,326
She sat close
from me, I hugged her ...

1252
01:10:02,327 --> 01:10:07,300
and said "Mother, always
I'll take care of you. Ever."

1253
01:10:07,326 --> 01:10:10,315
And she gave a
sigh so deep ...

1254
01:10:13,308 --> 01:10:15,318
supported the head
on my shoulder and said ...

1255
01:10:15,319 --> 01:10:18,311
"I need to tell
to your brothers.

1256
01:10:18,316 --> 01:10:20,327
Help me count
that daddy died.

1257
01:10:20,329 --> 01:10:24,326
Help me count.
Dress up, dear.

1258
01:10:25,311 --> 01:10:27,326
Your uncles will come.
The night will be long.

1259
01:10:27,327 --> 01:10:30,311
We have many things
to decide.

1260
01:10:30,312 --> 01:10:33,304
I don't believe
that it happened. "

1261
01:10:33,318 --> 01:10:35,321
And she touched her
face in mine.

1262
01:10:35,322 --> 01:10:39,308
I felt the hot tears
her on my cold face.

1263
01:10:39,314 --> 01:10:42,309
So she got up
and kissed me right here.

1264
01:10:42,310 --> 01:10:44,319
Then she left
and left me alone ...

1265
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:46,329
with this news,
for the first time.

1266
01:10:47,303 --> 01:10:48,323
I looked in the mirror ...

1267
01:10:51,318 --> 01:10:53,326
and I never saw a child again.

1268
01:10:56,313 --> 01:10:59,327
It was like someone
give me a rock ...

1269
01:11:00,312 --> 01:11:01,323
a huge rock ...

1270
01:11:01,324 --> 01:11:04,321
for me to carry
for the rest of your life.

1271
01:11:05,314 --> 01:11:07,327
I got dressed, I went to
dinner room...

1272
01:11:07,329 --> 01:11:11,300
my uncles had already arrived.
Milt, Barney and Danny ...

1273
01:11:11,301 --> 01:11:14,303
holding hands with me
and mom tried to understand ...

1274
01:11:14,304 --> 01:11:16,315
what had happened
one hour before.

1275
01:11:16,316 --> 01:11:18,303
And the confusion increased ...

1276
01:11:18,304 --> 01:11:20,319
with the red light
of the police car ...

1277
01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:22,308
that stopped right in front.

1278
01:11:22,309 --> 01:11:24,313
The red light
I danced around the room ...

1279
01:11:24,314 --> 01:11:26,320
and soon there was
a police officer at home.

1280
01:11:26,321 --> 01:11:29,321
Never had a policeman
entered there. It was scary.

1281
01:11:29,322 --> 01:11:32,300
A huge guy
with a huge gun.

1282
01:11:32,300 --> 01:11:34,306
He took off his cap
and apologized ...

1283
01:11:34,307 --> 01:11:36,323
for the nag.
He came to us.

1284
01:11:36,324 --> 01:11:39,305
I remember the steps
on the wooden floor.

1285
01:11:39,306 --> 01:11:41,327
When approaching,
it got bigger ...

1286
01:11:42,300 --> 01:11:44,300
even stop
right on top of me.

1287
01:11:44,301 --> 01:11:46,308
So he gave it to me
a manila envelope.

1288
01:11:46,309 --> 01:11:49,329
"What is this?"
"Your father's belongings.

1289
01:11:50,309 --> 01:11:53,307
Mrs. Crystal, if you need to
of something, call us.

1290
01:11:53,308 --> 01:11:56,325
Gentlemen, what can I say?
Better days will come.

1291
01:11:57,329 --> 01:11:59,317
Take care, boy. "

1292
01:12:06,304 --> 01:12:08,300
I opened it and there were only ...

1293
01:12:09,308 --> 01:12:11,300
a baseball cap ...

1294
01:12:12,319 --> 01:12:13,321
the alliance ...

1295
01:12:16,309 --> 01:12:17,311
the watch ...

1296
01:12:20,317 --> 01:12:22,303
and his wallet.

1297
01:12:23,300 --> 01:12:25,329
The life of a man
in a manila envelope.

1298
01:12:26,316 --> 01:12:28,327
I had never held
his wallet.

1299
01:12:28,329 --> 01:12:31,329
I don't think I ever touched her.
In childhood, the father never ...

1300
01:12:32,300 --> 01:12:34,324
give us money. � always
the mother. They do everything.

1301
01:12:34,327 --> 01:12:36,322
"Mother, money
for the cinema. "

1302
01:12:36,323 --> 01:12:38,318
"The scholarship is here.
Take what you want. "

1303
01:12:38,319 --> 01:12:42,312
A father never says "Here is the wallet.
Take what you want. "

1304
01:12:47,322 --> 01:12:49,323
And I opened it for the first time.

1305
01:12:49,324 --> 01:12:52,325
There was only the wallet
driver ...

1306
01:12:55,308 --> 01:12:56,321
and pictures of us.

1307
01:13:11,313 --> 01:13:13,314
Cele Weinstein
lived right next door.

1308
01:13:13,315 --> 01:13:16,306
There was a hedge
between the two houses ...

1309
01:13:16,307 --> 01:13:19,303
1.5m high
1.5m wide, like Cele.

1310
01:13:19,329 --> 01:13:21,323
She was a woman
lovely ...

1311
01:13:21,324 --> 01:13:23,309
had a high-pitched voice ...

1312
01:13:23,310 --> 01:13:26,303
and an equal laugh
to a rain of lightning.

1313
01:13:29,321 --> 01:13:32,311
We never see Cele.
She spoke through the hedge.

1314
01:13:32,313 --> 01:13:35,301
And that night,
she was scared.

1315
01:13:35,302 --> 01:13:38,301
"Helen, why are the police
Are you here? Everything okay?

1316
01:13:38,302 --> 01:13:39,321
There is something wrong. I know."

1317
01:13:39,322 --> 01:13:42,326
"Cele, it sucks!
Jack died today.

1318
01:13:43,324 --> 01:13:46,309
Yes, Cele. He had
a heart attack and died!

1319
01:13:46,310 --> 01:13:48,300
My Jack died! "

1320
01:13:48,307 --> 01:13:49,311
"No, Helen!

1321
01:13:51,305 --> 01:13:54,313
Who will take Billy
to baseball games? "

1322
01:14:01,306 --> 01:14:04,326
The next day,
something strange happened.

1323
01:14:06,319 --> 01:14:08,315
The car wouldn't start.

1324
01:14:08,329 --> 01:14:12,320
The gray Belvedere
I didn't want to start.

1325
01:14:13,309 --> 01:14:15,313
He drove the car
160km a day ...

1326
01:14:15,314 --> 01:14:18,300
every day by everyone
the years he had it.

1327
01:14:18,300 --> 01:14:20,311
He kept it
in perfect condition ...

1328
01:14:20,312 --> 01:14:22,315
and he never failed.
Until that day.

1329
01:14:22,316 --> 01:14:26,302
The car knew he had died
and I didn't want to leave without him.

1330
01:14:26,303 --> 01:14:29,301
He stood at the door, with a hood
open ... challenging.

1331
01:14:29,302 --> 01:14:31,317
And Stan, the attendant,
he was a cheerful guy.

1332
01:14:31,318 --> 01:14:34,311
They were good friends
and took care of the Belvedere ...

1333
01:14:34,312 --> 01:14:36,312
since the day my
father bought the car ...

1334
01:14:36,313 --> 01:14:38,311
except that day.
Stan was crying.

1335
01:14:38,312 --> 01:14:40,305
He tried to charge
on the battery.

1336
01:14:40,306 --> 01:14:41,324
But it didn't work.

1337
01:14:41,325 --> 01:14:45,319
He tried several times
and the car wouldn't start.

1338
01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:48,324
I saw everything well from here
and didn't believe it.

1339
01:14:49,304 --> 01:14:52,303
Stan towed it
the Belvedere ...

1340
01:14:52,307 --> 01:14:55,300
and the front of the car
it looked sad.

1341
01:14:59,313 --> 01:15:01,314
Joel and Rip arrived.

1342
01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:04,315
Now there were four of us.

1343
01:15:04,319 --> 01:15:08,309
And they said that
at night, we'll see the body.

1344
01:15:08,310 --> 01:15:11,321
Because the Jews soon bury.
We'll take care of that.

1345
01:15:11,322 --> 01:15:14,312
A narcoleptic uncle
I fell asleep ...

1346
01:15:14,313 --> 01:15:16,308
and we already made the grave.

1347
01:15:26,313 --> 01:15:29,323
I wish I could cut
People of my life...

1348
01:15:29,324 --> 01:15:31,322
that are not part of
of history.

1349
01:15:31,324 --> 01:15:34,302
I wanted to cut them,
like in a movie.

1350
01:15:34,303 --> 01:15:36,316
And I wanted to cut
the owner of the funeral ...

1351
01:15:36,317 --> 01:15:39,325
which was, ironically,
near Yankee Stadium.

1352
01:15:39,326 --> 01:15:41,325
My life was ruined.

1353
01:15:41,326 --> 01:15:44,300
Why I needed
talk to him?

1354
01:15:44,301 --> 01:15:46,316
"My condolences
To the family of the deceased.

1355
01:15:46,317 --> 01:15:49,311
In a few minutes,
you will be able to see him ...

1356
01:15:49,312 --> 01:15:50,324
in a special room ...

1357
01:15:50,325 --> 01:15:53,300
reserved only
for family members.

1358
01:15:53,300 --> 01:15:54,324
For a while,
my condolences ...

1359
01:15:54,325 --> 01:15:58,300
in this sad moment
and sorry for their lives. "

1360
01:16:00,322 --> 01:16:05,310
What a scene! My father dies
and I need to speak to Frajola!

1361
01:16:09,301 --> 01:16:11,315
He approaches and stops
a mourning brooch ...

1362
01:16:11,316 --> 01:16:13,314
we need
use for 30 days.

1363
01:16:13,315 --> 01:16:15,324
<i> So he cuts it off
and sing the
Kaddish
... </i>

1364
01:16:15,325 --> 01:16:18,300
a Jewish prayer
for the dead ...

1365
01:16:18,300 --> 01:16:20,304
that for him,
it was a total disaster.

1366
01:16:41,302 --> 01:16:43,324
"I think I saw a kitten.
Amman! "

1367
01:16:50,313 --> 01:16:53,306
The jokes filled
my brain.

1368
01:16:53,310 --> 01:16:57,325
I looked at Joel, he had
understood and said "Don't even think."

1369
01:17:03,301 --> 01:17:05,308
Many great musicians
attended ...

1370
01:17:05,309 --> 01:17:07,318
everyone to say
goodbye to a great friend.

1371
01:17:07,319 --> 01:17:09,329
And we got in our hands
given in the chapel.

1372
01:17:10,300 --> 01:17:12,309
And our family
and the jazz people ...

1373
01:17:12,310 --> 01:17:14,327
as a family
and bowed their heads.

1374
01:17:14,329 --> 01:17:16,313
Nobody said anything.

1375
01:17:16,314 --> 01:17:19,311
I didn't understand anything.
So, I turned around ...

1376
01:17:19,312 --> 01:17:21,327
and there were Count Basie
and Duke Ellington.

1377
01:17:21,329 --> 01:17:24,307
 �-: They came.
They bowed their heads ...

1378
01:17:24,308 --> 01:17:26,314
everyone came
with the royalty of jazz ...

1379
01:17:26,315 --> 01:17:29,304
and Count and Duke asked
for them to do that.

1380
01:17:29,305 --> 01:17:30,310
Nobody said anything.

1381
01:17:30,311 --> 01:17:33,329
We passed them,
in the private room ...

1382
01:17:36,304 --> 01:17:37,317
and there he was.

1383
01:17:38,317 --> 01:17:42,323
And she didn't look like him.
And he was so quiet.

1384
01:17:42,324 --> 01:17:45,308
Hours before, we fought
because of the girl.

1385
01:17:45,309 --> 01:17:47,320
And I just thought that
it was my fault ...

1386
01:17:47,321 --> 01:17:50,300
that I caused that
and I was answered.

1387
01:17:50,300 --> 01:17:52,311
"It was my fault.
It was my fault."

1388
01:17:52,312 --> 01:17:54,329
But he didn't answer
because it was quiet.

1389
01:17:55,300 --> 01:17:57,303
I didn't hold on
and I got angry.

1390
01:17:57,304 --> 01:17:59,326
I just thought "A father
I shouldn't die like that!

1391
01:17:59,327 --> 01:18:03,300
A father shouldn't die
on a bowling alley ...

1392
01:18:03,300 --> 01:18:06,315
surrounded by strangers
wearing rented shoes! "

1393
01:18:06,323 --> 01:18:09,313
And I hated myself
for feeling that.

1394
01:18:09,314 --> 01:18:11,313
Aunt Sheila was
behind me.

1395
01:18:11,314 --> 01:18:13,319
"Billy, your father is
he's sleeping.

1396
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:15,324
He's just asleep. "

1397
01:18:20,303 --> 01:18:21,305
"Wake him up.

1398
01:18:24,327 --> 01:18:28,311
Let's go. Wake him up.
Let's get out of here! "

1399
01:18:32,317 --> 01:18:34,313
"Leonard, get the car."

1400
01:18:40,326 --> 01:18:43,300
The funeral was the next day.

1401
01:18:43,301 --> 01:18:46,307
It's the hardest day,
because it's the farewell.

1402
01:18:46,315 --> 01:18:49,327
We four were
over the grave ...

1403
01:18:50,304 --> 01:18:52,326
with tree roots
coming out from the sides.

1404
01:18:52,327 --> 01:18:55,318
The coffin went down
with a bang.

1405
01:18:55,327 --> 01:18:57,313
And we followed my mother ...

1406
01:18:57,314 --> 01:19:00,327
when she approached
and threw a red rose.

1407
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:07,315
And following the tradition
Jewish, Joel, Rip and me ...

1408
01:19:07,316 --> 01:19:10,320
Jack's children,
we put the earth on top.

1409
01:19:10,321 --> 01:19:14,305
The sound of earth and stones
that hit the wood ...

1410
01:19:14,306 --> 01:19:16,326
would echo in my
brain forever.

1411
01:19:17,313 --> 01:19:18,321
So it's over.

1412
01:19:20,329 --> 01:19:22,322
We buried our father.

1413
01:19:23,326 --> 01:19:27,300
We left
and we left it there.

1414
01:19:29,300 --> 01:19:30,325
Sundays are over.

1415
01:19:34,309 --> 01:19:36,321
When we get home,
it was full ...

1416
01:19:36,322 --> 01:19:38,321
of neighbors,
friends and relatives ...

1417
01:19:38,322 --> 01:19:41,302
everyone with food
and various subjects ...

1418
01:19:41,303 --> 01:19:43,312
to distract us
in the mourning period ...

1419
01:19:43,313 --> 01:19:45,300
called "shiva".

1420
01:19:45,301 --> 01:19:47,307
But for me,
the right is "tremor" ...

1421
01:19:47,308 --> 01:19:50,326
because what death causes me
Tremor, always.

1422
01:19:51,308 --> 01:19:52,307
And the house ...

1423
01:19:52,317 --> 01:19:56,317
that was always
full of laughter and jazz ...

1424
01:19:57,300 --> 01:20:00,329
now I was lonely,
dark, cold and sad.

1425
01:20:01,300 --> 01:20:03,326
I entered the room and closed
the door without seeing anyone.

1426
01:20:03,327 --> 01:20:06,322
How someone would change
what did I feel inside?

1427
01:20:06,323 --> 01:20:11,320
So I closed the door
and I was alone, day after day.

1428
01:20:14,302 --> 01:20:16,311
And everyone worried
with me...

1429
01:20:16,323 --> 01:20:18,320
because I never cried.

1430
01:20:21,322 --> 01:20:23,326
Then, one day,
I heard a laugh.

1431
01:20:23,327 --> 01:20:26,310
Lots of laughs,
of the whole family.

1432
01:20:26,311 --> 01:20:29,300
So, leave the room
and walked down the hall ...

1433
01:20:29,301 --> 01:20:31,323
to know who was
giving a show.

1434
01:20:31,327 --> 01:20:33,312
And it was Uncle Bern.

1435
01:20:33,313 --> 01:20:36,304
The glorious uncle Bern
was performing.

1436
01:20:36,305 --> 01:20:38,324
Everyone laughed a lot.
Even my mother.

1437
01:20:38,325 --> 01:20:40,306
I didn't believe it.

1438
01:20:40,307 --> 01:20:42,314
He was over
of losing his brother ...

1439
01:20:42,315 --> 01:20:45,315
his dearest person.
But he did a show ...

1440
01:20:45,316 --> 01:20:48,301
and got laughs,
making them forget ...

1441
01:20:48,302 --> 01:20:51,305
for a few minutes that they
they were in a house of mourning.

1442
01:20:51,306 --> 01:20:54,312
And I thought it was fantastic.
And Bern's legacy will always be ...

1443
01:20:54,313 --> 01:20:58,300
"even in pain, it's good
and it's important to laugh. "

1444
01:20:59,319 --> 01:21:03,300
Then, one day,
Wild Bill Davison came.

1445
01:21:03,313 --> 01:21:06,316
He sat right where
my father played mandolin ...

1446
01:21:06,317 --> 01:21:09,301
drew the trumpet
and played a blues.

1447
01:21:10,309 --> 01:21:12,321
So, Edmund Hall
drew his clarinet ...

1448
01:21:12,322 --> 01:21:15,308
<i> and touched the most beautiful
version of
My Buddy
. </i>

1449
01:21:15,309 --> 01:21:17,324
And then Marvel Shaw
I was on the double bass ...

1450
01:21:17,325 --> 01:21:20,322
Willard Lyon at the piano,
Eddie Condon on guitar ...

1451
01:21:20,323 --> 01:21:22,313
and Tyree Glenn on the trombone.

1452
01:21:22,314 --> 01:21:24,329
Zutty made a battery
with cake boxes.

1453
01:21:25,300 --> 01:21:27,325
And they did a show
improvised at home ...

1454
01:21:27,326 --> 01:21:30,300
that will never be forgotten.

1455
01:21:32,313 --> 01:21:34,316
Even my mother was hitting her feet.

1456
01:21:35,306 --> 01:21:38,324
When the music starts,
nobody stands still.

1457
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,316
So, the time has come ...

1458
01:21:42,302 --> 01:21:44,316
of everyone coming back
for their lives.

1459
01:21:45,311 --> 01:21:49,306
"Hey you, Face, it will be
all right. Promise.

1460
01:21:50,325 --> 01:21:53,316
How do you know that never
Are you going to see him again?

1461
01:21:53,317 --> 01:21:55,310
We don't know yet.

1462
01:21:56,316 --> 01:21:57,315
Face...

1463
01:21:58,308 --> 01:22:00,303
think of the rose.

1464
01:22:00,321 --> 01:22:03,323
She is the most beautiful flower
perfumed from all ...

1465
01:22:03,324 --> 01:22:07,302
because it is the most beautiful
and the simplest.

1466
01:22:07,321 --> 01:22:10,325
But sometimes, you
you must prune the rose.

1467
01:22:10,329 --> 01:22:12,311
You must cut it ...

1468
01:22:12,312 --> 01:22:15,309
so that more
fragrant and more beautiful ...

1469
01:22:15,310 --> 01:22:16,314
in place.

1470
01:22:16,315 --> 01:22:19,310
You may not understand
now, Face ...

1471
01:22:19,311 --> 01:22:22,327
but one day, you will
understand. I guarantee.

1472
01:22:23,310 --> 01:22:24,320
One day, Face ...

1473
01:22:25,323 --> 01:22:27,314
you will think of the rose.

1474
01:22:27,315 --> 01:22:28,314
Understood?

1475
01:22:29,323 --> 01:22:30,322
I knew it.

1476
01:22:34,309 --> 01:22:36,313
You will always be the Face. "

1477
01:22:37,305 --> 01:22:40,303
Joel and Rip are back
 � college ...

1478
01:22:40,321 --> 01:22:43,323
and we were just my mother
and me at the house.

1479
01:22:45,301 --> 01:22:47,329
"Bill, don't take it the wrong way,
but your brothers are gone ...

1480
01:22:48,300 --> 01:22:51,305
and now you need to be the man
of the House. Is its function. "

1481
01:22:51,306 --> 01:22:53,305
"Billy, we are
very proud.

1482
01:22:53,306 --> 01:22:55,323
Be strong. Your brothers
went back to school ...

1483
01:22:55,324 --> 01:22:58,321
and you need to be the man
of the House. Is its function. "

1484
01:23:00,312 --> 01:23:01,321
"Billy. Billy.

1485
01:23:04,319 --> 01:23:07,310
Be strong. Your mother
needs you.

1486
01:23:07,313 --> 01:23:10,322
Your brothers are gone.
Be the man of the house.

1487
01:23:11,301 --> 01:23:12,309
Is its function. "

1488
01:23:16,322 --> 01:23:19,300
I did not want this function.

1489
01:23:21,312 --> 01:23:23,317
But when everyone was gone ...

1490
01:23:24,300 --> 01:23:25,314
I stayed with her.

1491
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:27,329
With the function.
The damn function.

1492
01:23:28,300 --> 01:23:31,300
The size of the function.
The irreparable emptiness in the heart.

1493
01:23:31,300 --> 01:23:34,306
And the first feeling
 � with anger. You want answers.

1494
01:23:34,307 --> 01:23:36,313
Because now?
You are so angry ...

1495
01:23:36,314 --> 01:23:38,317
that you want to invade
the room of God.

1496
01:23:40,309 --> 01:23:42,308
"Excuse me.
I came to talk to Him.

1497
01:23:42,309 --> 01:23:44,322
I didn't score anything.
I want to talk to Him.

1498
01:23:44,323 --> 01:23:47,301
What's your name?
Pedro of what?

1499
01:23:50,322 --> 01:23:53,310
There you are.
Why did it?

1500
01:23:53,319 --> 01:23:55,326
You write right
by crooked lines?

1501
01:23:55,327 --> 01:23:58,304
I don't believe that
just said that!

1502
01:23:58,305 --> 01:24:00,314
It's not fair.
You are not a just God.

1503
01:24:00,315 --> 01:24:02,318
Do you think you're fair?
If you think so ...

1504
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:05,304
why took my father
and left Mengele?

1505
01:24:05,305 --> 01:24:06,329
What justice is that?

1506
01:24:07,301 --> 01:24:09,314
Why did it?
What's good about that?

1507
01:24:09,315 --> 01:24:12,300
I'm 15.
Because now?

1508
01:24:12,301 --> 01:24:14,324
Is it the hand I have?
What cards do I play?

1509
01:24:15,321 --> 01:24:18,308
Great. You � 
the bank owner.

1510
01:24:18,309 --> 01:24:20,315
For Christ!
How can you say ...

1511
01:24:23,315 --> 01:24:25,300
I didn't see him there.

1512
01:24:26,304 --> 01:24:27,321
You look great!

1513
01:24:30,300 --> 01:24:33,316
I didn't recognize him with arms
lowered. This is amazing!

1514
01:24:35,301 --> 01:24:36,303
What place!

1515
01:24:38,310 --> 01:24:41,329
Did you work with your father? Think
that I wanted to do that too.

1516
01:24:42,300 --> 01:24:45,321
I will never believe you.
How can I? See what you've done!

1517
01:24:45,322 --> 01:24:48,306
I will love other gods
before you. Pedro.

1518
01:24:48,308 --> 01:24:50,312
And there should be
an 11� commandment ...

1519
01:24:50,313 --> 01:24:52,310
"You will not be an idiotic god.

1520
01:24:53,301 --> 01:24:56,310
I didn't mean it.
It was nothing serious.

1521
01:25:00,304 --> 01:25:03,316
Can you do me a favor?
If you see him ...

1522
01:25:04,317 --> 01:25:07,323
you can say I spent
in the Chemistry test? "

1523
01:25:14,313 --> 01:25:17,302
Back to school
it was very difficult ...

1524
01:25:17,303 --> 01:25:20,316
because i needed
carry that rock.

1525
01:25:21,305 --> 01:25:23,303
But I developed
another skill.

1526
01:25:23,304 --> 01:25:25,318
 � better describe it
by the name I gave.

1527
01:25:25,319 --> 01:25:27,314
I call her
of "the other party".

1528
01:25:27,315 --> 01:25:30,320
That's what I felt.
I was neither here nor there.

1529
01:25:30,321 --> 01:25:34,302
I was in another place that I saw,
but I couldn't see.

1530
01:25:34,303 --> 01:25:37,314
A place I heard,
but I didn't listen.

1531
01:25:37,315 --> 01:25:40,300
It was the other part of everything.

1532
01:25:40,324 --> 01:25:43,324
And I pushed the rock
daily at school.

1533
01:25:44,300 --> 01:25:47,301
Friends passed by,
having a lot of fun.

1534
01:25:47,311 --> 01:25:51,307
So I saw the girl
with a new boyfriend.

1535
01:25:51,326 --> 01:25:54,314
Blond with blue eye
and football player.

1536
01:25:54,315 --> 01:25:58,300
A Nazi bastard
with a convertible.

1537
01:25:59,310 --> 01:26:00,322
And I was confused.

1538
01:26:00,325 --> 01:26:03,306
Sometimes, I didn't know
what was worse ...

1539
01:26:03,307 --> 01:26:07,303
whether it was my father's death or me
not having won over the girl.

1540
01:26:07,306 --> 01:26:09,320
And I felt divided
and very guilty.

1541
01:26:09,321 --> 01:26:11,325
I was in mourning
because of who?

1542
01:26:11,326 --> 01:26:12,325
By him...

1543
01:26:14,308 --> 01:26:15,313
or for me?

1544
01:26:18,317 --> 01:26:21,309
"Basketball Tests"
said the poster in the gym.

1545
01:26:21,310 --> 01:26:23,325
I had to enter
for the basketball team.

1546
01:26:23,326 --> 01:26:26,310
I needed to do something
to leave the house!

1547
01:26:26,311 --> 01:26:29,304
The 1st day arrived, but it was
too early for me ...

1548
01:26:29,305 --> 01:26:32,305
they threw the ball and I didn't see it.
"Sorry. I didn't see it."

1549
01:26:32,306 --> 01:26:34,318
I hit the ball,
but she leaves the place ...

1550
01:26:34,319 --> 01:26:36,314
and went where I didn't want to!

1551
01:26:36,315 --> 01:26:39,300
Because the "other party"
it was blinding me ...

1552
01:26:39,301 --> 01:26:41,305
and I couldn't
mark nobody ...

1553
01:26:41,306 --> 01:26:42,314
and do nothing ...

1554
01:26:42,315 --> 01:26:45,302
because there was a rock
to load.

1555
01:26:45,303 --> 01:26:47,309
Three days of testing.
It was a disaster.

1556
01:26:47,310 --> 01:26:50,302
I was embarrassed
for my way of playing.

1557
01:26:50,303 --> 01:26:53,317
In the end, the coach called me
and I thought I would be cut.

1558
01:26:53,318 --> 01:26:56,304
But instead,
he asked a question ...

1559
01:26:56,305 --> 01:26:59,307
that no one has done since
the 15th of October.

1560
01:26:59,320 --> 01:27:03,313
"Are you okay?
How are things at home? "

1561
01:27:14,308 --> 01:27:16,326
"My God.
Don't look at me.

1562
01:27:17,300 --> 01:27:19,320
Don't look at me. Please.

1563
01:27:23,327 --> 01:27:26,300
Coach, I don't know
what's up with me.

1564
01:27:26,301 --> 01:27:28,316
I don't focus anymore
and I don't know where I am.

1565
01:27:28,317 --> 01:27:30,320
I don't know anymore
what am I doing...

1566
01:27:30,321 --> 01:27:34,300
and I only shoot low grades!
There is no one at home.

1567
01:27:34,300 --> 01:27:36,315
There is no one.
I'm very lonely.

1568
01:27:37,313 --> 01:27:39,311
There is no one at home.

1569
01:27:39,312 --> 01:27:41,316
You know what I do
after school?

1570
01:27:41,317 --> 01:27:42,329
Do you want to know?

1571
01:27:43,319 --> 01:27:46,316
I run home.
I'm not going by bus.

1572
01:27:46,317 --> 01:27:49,317
I run home.
I can't stay on the bus ...

1573
01:27:49,318 --> 01:27:51,321
because of the brooch
idiot I use.

1574
01:27:51,322 --> 01:27:55,310
I know what they think. � the son
of the guy who died in bowling.

1575
01:27:55,311 --> 01:27:57,329
I know what they
think. I know.

1576
01:27:58,317 --> 01:28:02,305
And when I get home,
Do you know what I do?

1577
01:28:03,304 --> 01:28:06,305
I cook. I do
my mother's dinner ...

1578
01:28:06,306 --> 01:28:08,309
because she is
looking for a job.

1579
01:28:08,312 --> 01:28:09,325
Because we have nothing.

1580
01:28:09,326 --> 01:28:12,319
And I want her to arrive
and see the ready dinner ...

1581
01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:14,323
so you don't have to do it
all alone.

1582
01:28:14,324 --> 01:28:19,314
That's what I do every day.
Everyday. And when I get home ...

1583
01:28:19,324 --> 01:28:22,329
she looks so sad
and very tired.

1584
01:28:23,301 --> 01:28:26,327
We sat down and everything
we do � eat.

1585
01:28:27,316 --> 01:28:30,314
Nobody says anything.
We only eat.

1586
01:28:31,305 --> 01:28:32,322
I can't make her laugh.

1587
01:28:32,323 --> 01:28:35,307
Before, I did it.
I love making her laugh.

1588
01:28:35,308 --> 01:28:36,313
But not now.

1589
01:28:36,314 --> 01:28:38,304
I try to study ...

1590
01:28:38,305 --> 01:28:40,321
but I can't
focus on anything.

1591
01:28:40,322 --> 01:28:43,316
I'm going to my room
and opening the book ...

1592
01:28:43,317 --> 01:28:44,319
I hear you.

1593
01:28:45,309 --> 01:28:48,323
I hear her cry
in the bedroom until I sleep ...

1594
01:28:48,326 --> 01:28:52,300
because the walls
they are too thin!

1595
01:28:59,301 --> 01:29:01,302
Damn it.

1596
01:29:01,317 --> 01:29:02,321
And he put me on the team.

1597
01:29:05,317 --> 01:29:08,326
It was the greatest kindness
that already made me.

1598
01:29:09,309 --> 01:29:10,319
We played for the 1st time.

1599
01:29:10,320 --> 01:29:12,316
It was at school
East Rockaway ...

1600
01:29:12,317 --> 01:29:15,306
I was at the bank,
watching Junior Varsity ...

1601
01:29:15,307 --> 01:29:16,322
that preceded Varsity.

1602
01:29:16,323 --> 01:29:19,300
I was there alone,
taking out the rock.

1603
01:29:19,301 --> 01:29:23,311
Two friends were behind me:
Harvey Kreitzman and Joe Ponte.

1604
01:29:23,312 --> 01:29:25,306
Our fans
were coming ...

1605
01:29:25,307 --> 01:29:27,314
to see the game
and as they entered ...

1606
01:29:27,315 --> 01:29:29,324
Harvey innocently
tells Joe Ponte ...

1607
01:29:29,325 --> 01:29:32,323
"Your father is here."
And I said "Where?"

1608
01:29:33,305 --> 01:29:35,320
My God. I didn't believe ...

1609
01:29:36,311 --> 01:29:37,317
but happened.

1610
01:29:37,318 --> 01:29:39,321
What to do?
I couldn't turn around.

1611
01:29:39,322 --> 01:29:42,321
What would I say? It didn't work
to explain. It happened.

1612
01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:46,304
So I sat like
if it was nothing ...

1613
01:29:46,305 --> 01:29:48,304
and I was looking
foward...

1614
01:29:48,305 --> 01:29:50,329
without seeing.
Listening without listening.

1615
01:29:53,305 --> 01:29:56,305
I didn't say more
with Harvey Kreitzman.

1616
01:29:56,311 --> 01:29:59,311
When I saw him in the hall,
I swerved.

1617
01:30:00,329 --> 01:30:04,321
Next week,
on November 22, 1963 ...

1618
01:30:04,323 --> 01:30:06,316
another Jack died.

1619
01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:09,318
A heavy sadness
fell on us ...

1620
01:30:09,319 --> 01:30:11,310
for months and months ...

1621
01:30:11,311 --> 01:30:14,300
until a Sunday night,
in February 1964.

1622
01:30:14,301 --> 01:30:16,313
My mother and I go
the Ed Sullivan Show.

1623
01:30:16,314 --> 01:30:19,317
Sundays were like that.
Dinner for two at Wing Lu ...

1624
01:30:19,318 --> 01:30:21,316
and back
to see Ed Sullivan.

1625
01:30:21,317 --> 01:30:24,312
That night something
made the country feel better.

1626
01:30:24,313 --> 01:30:27,306
The Beatles were
at Ed Sullivan.

1627
01:30:27,308 --> 01:30:30,316
And for the first time
in months, I smiled.

1628
01:30:32,309 --> 01:30:34,304
And for the first time ...

1629
01:30:35,311 --> 01:30:38,304
I liked another
type of music.

1630
01:30:38,309 --> 01:30:40,320
And during that
magic program ...

1631
01:30:40,321 --> 01:30:41,325
I only heard ...

1632
01:30:45,303 --> 01:30:47,303
It wasn't 60 Minutes.

1633
01:30:49,309 --> 01:30:50,327
It was the Beatles.

1634
01:30:51,316 --> 01:30:54,317
But for my mother,
it was the death of jazz.

1635
01:30:57,308 --> 01:30:59,316
The rest of the year was
more of the same.

1636
01:30:59,317 --> 01:31:04,316
 � drift in the other part,
wandering and wandering and wandering.

1637
01:31:05,310 --> 01:31:08,303
So, I started last
school year in 1965.

1638
01:31:08,304 --> 01:31:10,315
And I had played
on the basketball team ...

1639
01:31:10,316 --> 01:31:13,309
the way I wanted it.
I earned my place.

1640
01:31:13,310 --> 01:31:16,323
Our team was great in 1965.
The "Marines of Long Beach".

1641
01:31:16,324 --> 01:31:18,322
And everyone just spoke
of a game ...

1642
01:31:18,323 --> 01:31:21,305
that we did against
the Erasmus Hall High ...

1643
01:31:21,306 --> 01:31:23,309
from Brooklyn NY.
A scary team.

1644
01:31:23,310 --> 01:31:26,324
They were the 2nd team of colleges
from all over the country that year.

1645
01:31:26,325 --> 01:31:29,318
Team
the Powell Memorial.

1646
01:31:29,319 --> 01:31:31,329
The pivot had more
2.10m high ...

1647
01:31:32,300 --> 01:31:33,319
and his name was Lew Alcindor.

1648
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:36,310
Later, he turned
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...

1649
01:31:36,311 --> 01:31:39,320
and it was also Izzy Yizkutz
for 6 months, you know?

1650
01:31:41,300 --> 01:31:44,321
Our coaches knew each other.
Erasmus agreed to come to Long Beach ...

1651
01:31:44,322 --> 01:31:46,320
to play with us
in a friendly match.

1652
01:31:46,321 --> 01:31:49,303
It was in the papers.
It was great news.

1653
01:31:49,304 --> 01:31:51,316
There were two cultures.
There was Erasmus ...

1654
01:31:51,317 --> 01:31:53,327
a school
predominantly black ...

1655
01:31:53,329 --> 01:31:55,319
the ghetto and with a lot of claw.

1656
01:31:55,320 --> 01:31:58,302
And Long Beach was
a white school ...

1657
01:31:58,303 --> 01:32:00,316
middle class
and mostly Jews.

1658
01:32:00,317 --> 01:32:01,325
There were two cultures.

1659
01:32:01,326 --> 01:32:04,310
There was Erasmus and they
played "basketball".

1660
01:32:05,313 --> 01:32:08,320
We were from Long Island
and we played "basketball".

1661
01:32:10,310 --> 01:32:11,323
They scared us ...

1662
01:32:11,324 --> 01:32:13,325
as soon as they arrived
To our school.

1663
01:32:13,326 --> 01:32:17,316
The Erasmus team has arrived
on a Greyhound bus.

1664
01:32:18,307 --> 01:32:21,302
And there was another bus
for the kids on the team.

1665
01:32:26,311 --> 01:32:29,301
We were in the dressing room,
waxing your legs ...

1666
01:32:29,302 --> 01:32:32,315
and the coach arrived,
saying "Come here.

1667
01:32:32,316 --> 01:32:35,303
Luther, Fitzy, Johnny,
Billy and Doug. Come. "

1668
01:32:35,304 --> 01:32:37,313
Right. The Erasmus team
Very good ...

1669
01:32:37,314 --> 01:32:40,303
but we are also.
And we'll show them.

1670
01:32:40,304 --> 01:32:43,309
Who are we? "" Marines. "
"What we do?" "We fight."

1671
01:32:43,310 --> 01:32:47,303
There were thousands on the court
of Erasmus fans.

1672
01:32:47,304 --> 01:32:49,320
Everyone used dashikis,
African turban ...

1673
01:32:49,321 --> 01:32:50,326
and embroidered hats.

1674
01:32:50,327 --> 01:32:53,322
1965 was a terrible year
for civil rights.

1675
01:32:53,323 --> 01:32:56,300
The south was exploding,
literally.

1676
01:32:56,301 --> 01:32:58,312
There were "strange fruits"
all over the south.

1677
01:32:58,313 --> 01:33:01,320
Blacks sought in Africa
your identity in a country ...

1678
01:33:01,321 --> 01:33:04,306
who still denied them
their civil rights.

1679
01:33:04,307 --> 01:33:07,317
The game took place in the middle of everything
that and all that anger.

1680
01:33:07,318 --> 01:33:09,322
We entered excited
on our court ...

1681
01:33:09,323 --> 01:33:12,302
and we were welcomed
for thousands of them ...

1682
01:33:12,303 --> 01:33:14,304
with a wave
and strange songs.

1683
01:33:18,301 --> 01:33:19,305
"Kill them!"

1684
01:33:26,325 --> 01:33:29,315
And our team was
on the other side, singing ...

1685
01:33:29,316 --> 01:33:32,305
<i> Please don't hurt
our players </i>

1686
01:33:32,306 --> 01:33:35,322
<i> They are cool
and get hurt easily </i>

1687
01:33:40,329 --> 01:33:45,319
We were 55 points behind
and the 2nd time begins.

1688
01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:47,311
I was sitting there ...

1689
01:33:48,321 --> 01:33:51,326
in my seat at the bank
and my mother, seven rows behind.

1690
01:33:51,327 --> 01:33:53,326
My mother was
always present.

1691
01:33:53,327 --> 01:33:56,324
In that respect, she was a great mother,
but in basketball?

1692
01:33:56,325 --> 01:33:59,311
When we start to lose,
she did so ...

1693
01:33:59,312 --> 01:34:03,309
"Coach, put on Crystal.
It can't get worse. Let's go!"

1694
01:34:07,304 --> 01:34:10,319
The coach looks at me
and says something that scared me.

1695
01:34:10,322 --> 01:34:12,305
"Billy, come in."

1696
01:34:14,311 --> 01:34:16,320
"Got crazy?
This is a game. "

1697
01:34:21,310 --> 01:34:23,322
I enter and so
that announce my name ...

1698
01:34:23,323 --> 01:34:26,315
floor on the court and all
on the Long Beach side ...

1699
01:34:26,316 --> 01:34:29,305
get up
and applaud me standing.

1700
01:34:29,306 --> 01:34:32,319
They scream my name
while I walk.

1701
01:34:39,319 --> 01:34:42,322
I don't know what Erasmus
thought about the time.

1702
01:34:44,300 --> 01:34:46,305
"It's their secret weapon."

1703
01:34:51,316 --> 01:34:54,311
Everyone started laughing,
I got into the character ...

1704
01:34:54,312 --> 01:34:57,302
and started walking
like a giant.

1705
01:34:58,311 --> 01:35:01,310
I looked at the bank
Erasmus, debauchery ...

1706
01:35:01,311 --> 01:35:03,325
and I put the shirt inside
with authority.

1707
01:35:03,326 --> 01:35:06,310
They started laughing
and pointing at me.

1708
01:35:06,311 --> 01:35:09,303
I looked and my number
it was in the underwear.

1709
01:35:13,319 --> 01:35:16,316
The game resumes and I
was scoring ...

1710
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:19,302
a building
and two pairs of socks.

1711
01:35:19,311 --> 01:35:21,323
He was huge and had
your own climate.

1712
01:35:21,324 --> 01:35:24,313
He was gigantic.
He was so big ...

1713
01:35:24,314 --> 01:35:27,319
that on his crucifix
there was a real man!

1714
01:35:36,320 --> 01:35:40,301
And he was taking
make fun of me and mocking.

1715
01:35:40,302 --> 01:35:41,317
"Are you Oz?"

1716
01:35:45,304 --> 01:35:47,311
<i> I represent the team
basketball </i>

1717
01:35:47,312 --> 01:35:49,318
The basketball team
The basketball team </i>

1718
01:35:49,319 --> 01:35:51,317
<i> We represent
the basketball team </i>

1719
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:57,312
I try to tag him and the people laugh.
I see he wants to play with me ...

1720
01:35:57,313 --> 01:35:59,327
hitting the ball loudly.
But I take it from him ...

1721
01:35:59,329 --> 01:36:03,303
the ball rolls, I dive,
he dives into me ...

1722
01:36:03,304 --> 01:36:04,323
and the referee says "Foul!"

1723
01:36:06,315 --> 01:36:07,320
You and you.

1724
01:36:08,326 --> 01:36:11,316
Let's go to the center of the court.
Everyone laughing ...

1725
01:36:11,317 --> 01:36:15,318
and for the first time, blacks
and whites agree on something ...

1726
01:36:16,309 --> 01:36:19,305
that I look like an idiot.
It's funny, I know.

1727
01:36:19,306 --> 01:36:21,307
He was here
and me down here.

1728
01:36:21,308 --> 01:36:24,304
We seem like a point
and comma. I already know.

1729
01:36:24,322 --> 01:36:27,306
He doesn't even have to jump
to catch the ball ...

1730
01:36:27,307 --> 01:36:29,303
both sides die laughing ...

1731
01:36:29,305 --> 01:36:31,329
and I bow my head,
as in a comedy scene.

1732
01:36:32,300 --> 01:36:34,327
But I hear my mother's voice,
overlapping everything.

1733
01:36:34,329 --> 01:36:37,329
"Come on, Billy. Come on.
Do your best! "

1734
01:36:38,300 --> 01:36:40,314
She was right.
It is a good motto for life.

1735
01:36:40,315 --> 01:36:42,327
"Do your best."
It made perfect sense.

1736
01:36:42,329 --> 01:36:45,310
No matter what you do,
if you say ...

1737
01:36:45,311 --> 01:36:48,316
who did his best,
everything is fine. "Do your best."

1738
01:36:48,317 --> 01:36:51,302
So, confident,
I looked up ...

1739
01:36:51,303 --> 01:36:54,301
for his groin
and said "This is ridiculous.

1740
01:36:54,310 --> 01:36:55,311
How are you?"

1741
01:36:58,318 --> 01:37:01,302
The referee whistles and plays
the ball up.

1742
01:37:01,303 --> 01:37:03,315
So everything stayed
in slow motion.

1743
01:37:04,322 --> 01:37:07,306
I remember the ball spinning
in the light of the gym.

1744
01:37:07,307 --> 01:37:09,306
I could read it. "Spalding".

1745
01:37:27,329 --> 01:37:29,321
"Do your best."

1746
01:37:33,308 --> 01:37:36,316
I jump and get off the ground done
a missile from Cape Canaveral.

1747
01:37:36,317 --> 01:37:39,310
I flew so much that I felt
the friction of air in the body ...

1748
01:37:39,311 --> 01:37:41,315
when going up, listening
the public say ...

1749
01:37:41,316 --> 01:37:44,303
"Billy is going to get the ball!"
At the end of the jump ...

1750
01:37:44,304 --> 01:37:47,305
I see the ball coming down,
I shake hands, close my eyes ...

1751
01:37:47,306 --> 01:37:50,300
I spin and hit
the ball with desire!

1752
01:37:51,300 --> 01:37:51,329
"Damn it!"

1753
01:37:56,325 --> 01:37:57,324
"Damn it!"

1754
01:38:10,306 --> 01:38:14,300
I did my best. Unfortunately,
right in his testicles.

1755
01:38:14,300 --> 01:38:15,319
I was expelled for lack
intentional...

1756
01:38:15,320 --> 01:38:18,315
and it was one of the worst
nights of my life.

1757
01:38:18,316 --> 01:38:21,318
After the game, the staff
from school came to me.

1758
01:38:21,319 --> 01:38:24,327
"What a great idea
hit him in the testicles.

1759
01:38:24,329 --> 01:38:27,321
I don't believe you
had that idea at the time.

1760
01:38:27,322 --> 01:38:28,326
It was too much.

1761
01:38:29,326 --> 01:38:32,323
When I saw that,
he made such a big poop ...

1762
01:38:32,324 --> 01:38:35,311
that even cracked
the floor of the court.

1763
01:38:36,303 --> 01:38:38,329
It was incredible. You saw
his eyes at the time?

1764
01:38:39,300 --> 01:38:41,300
It looked like a slot machine.

1765
01:38:41,305 --> 01:38:44,304
And little birds appeared
around his head.

1766
01:38:44,305 --> 01:38:46,320
They were birds.
Like a cartoon.

1767
01:38:46,321 --> 01:38:49,319
Billy, it was amazing. It was awesome! "

1768
01:38:51,304 --> 01:38:53,322
That was the director
of my school.

1769
01:38:58,326 --> 01:39:01,325
Then, in June 1965,
in the same cinema ...

1770
01:39:01,326 --> 01:39:04,308
where I kissed the girl
for the first time...

1771
01:39:04,309 --> 01:39:07,311
at the Laurel Theater,
I graduated from high school.

1772
01:39:07,314 --> 01:39:10,308
Now, it was my turn
to go to college.

1773
01:39:10,309 --> 01:39:13,306
Go to college
it shouldn't happen ...

1774
01:39:13,307 --> 01:39:16,317
after my father died.
Three weeks later ...

1775
01:39:16,318 --> 01:39:19,323
things calmed down
and Joel and Rip left.

1776
01:39:19,324 --> 01:39:22,313
Mom entered my
room and said "Sit down.

1777
01:39:22,314 --> 01:39:25,305
We need to talk."
"About what, mom?"

1778
01:39:25,306 --> 01:39:26,311
"College."

1779
01:39:28,300 --> 01:39:30,300
"Your father and I had
a dream...

1780
01:39:30,300 --> 01:39:32,318
that our children
go to college.

1781
01:39:32,319 --> 01:39:35,315
And I want to perform
that dream.

1782
01:39:35,326 --> 01:39:39,305
When it's your time,
you will go. "

1783
01:39:42,301 --> 01:39:43,313
"Thank you, mom."

1784
01:39:43,316 --> 01:39:46,329
And she became the biggest
hero of all.

1785
01:39:47,300 --> 01:39:50,305
My mother was 50 years old
and my father died in front of her.

1786
01:39:50,306 --> 01:39:52,321
And she should grow up
again with a boy ...

1787
01:39:52,322 --> 01:39:55,314
that kept growing.
And we had nothing.

1788
01:39:55,315 --> 01:39:57,318
And the idea was
"I'm going to a school ...

1789
01:39:57,319 --> 01:39:59,320
I will take dictation
and typing ...

1790
01:39:59,321 --> 01:40:01,329
to work soon
as secretary ...

1791
01:40:02,300 --> 01:40:04,303
to have money. "
No sooner said than done.

1792
01:40:04,304 --> 01:40:06,327
She studied all day.
I came home from school ...

1793
01:40:06,329 --> 01:40:09,317
and left my duty
to help you with hers.

1794
01:40:09,318 --> 01:40:12,311
I read business letters
for her, in a saying ...

1795
01:40:12,312 --> 01:40:15,300
and she wrote everything
with those abbreviations.

1796
01:40:15,300 --> 01:40:16,329
Then she wrote
words...

1797
01:40:17,300 --> 01:40:19,317
on a typewriter.
Do you remember?

1798
01:40:19,318 --> 01:40:22,310
First, there were 35, 45 ...

1799
01:40:23,307 --> 01:40:25,316
fifty and belt, 65, 75, 85 ...

1800
01:40:25,322 --> 01:40:28,317
100 words per minute.
And she finds a job ...

1801
01:40:28,318 --> 01:40:31,311
as sector manager
in a psychiatric clinic.

1802
01:40:31,312 --> 01:40:32,320
Perfect to me.

1803
01:40:34,302 --> 01:40:35,314
Free samples.

1804
01:40:36,320 --> 01:40:39,324
And for all that time,
she never complained ...

1805
01:40:39,325 --> 01:40:41,315
and we become a team.

1806
01:40:41,316 --> 01:40:44,308
And she never lost
the sense of humor.

1807
01:40:44,311 --> 01:40:46,307
"Mother, you are exhausted."

1808
01:40:46,308 --> 01:40:49,322
"They are schizophrenics.
The work is double. "

1809
01:40:51,311 --> 01:40:53,307
And she keeps $ 2,500 ...

1810
01:40:53,308 --> 01:40:56,300
for me to study
at Marshall University ...

1811
01:40:56,301 --> 01:40:58,316
in West Virginia,
to play on 2nd base ...

1812
01:40:58,317 --> 01:41:01,306
because I got it right
a curved ball.

1813
01:41:02,300 --> 01:41:04,327
I was 17
when I leave home.

1814
01:41:04,329 --> 01:41:08,308
I was too young.
I had never left home ...

1815
01:41:08,309 --> 01:41:10,324
and I rarely slept
at a friend's house.

1816
01:41:10,325 --> 01:41:14,301
I never talked about sex
With my dad.

1817
01:41:14,310 --> 01:41:17,300
We talked once
about the girl ...

1818
01:41:17,309 --> 01:41:20,300
but none of us
I wanted it that way.

1819
01:41:20,301 --> 01:41:24,305
Then, at gate 33 of La Guardia,
before leaving home...

1820
01:41:24,306 --> 01:41:27,300
I talked about sex
with my mother.

1821
01:41:27,316 --> 01:41:29,314
"Billy, honey, before I go ...

1822
01:41:29,315 --> 01:41:32,308
we must speak
about girls. "

1823
01:41:32,324 --> 01:41:36,316
"Mother, I know."
"I'm glad we talked!"

1824
01:41:39,303 --> 01:41:41,313
We embrace
as much as we could.

1825
01:41:41,314 --> 01:41:43,310
It's hard to say goodbye
to our heroes.

1826
01:41:43,311 --> 01:41:47,302
But the brain soon says
"Come on. It's time."

1827
01:41:47,303 --> 01:41:50,306
Because if you create well
your children, they should go.

1828
01:41:50,307 --> 01:41:52,318
I walked to the plane
and I didn't look back.

1829
01:41:52,320 --> 01:41:55,308
And I heard 3 words
that my mother screamed ...

1830
01:41:55,309 --> 01:41:57,324
and that would change my
freshman life.

1831
01:41:57,325 --> 01:41:59,308
"Don't wash there!"

1832
01:42:05,323 --> 01:42:07,310
The 1st year of college.

1833
01:42:07,311 --> 01:42:10,308
Parties, panties thefts,
marijuana and beer!

1834
01:42:10,309 --> 01:42:13,326
I didn't do any of that.
I wanted and I tried ...

1835
01:42:14,303 --> 01:42:17,307
but it was hard to go
with that rock.

1836
01:42:17,308 --> 01:42:19,321
You can say it takes me
to heal me.

1837
01:42:19,322 --> 01:42:22,318
But honestly,
it was hard to have fun.

1838
01:42:22,319 --> 01:42:25,322
I went home in the summer.
I wanted to improve in the 2nd year.

1839
01:42:25,323 --> 01:42:29,307
I was on the beach, playing ball
with my friend Steve Cohen ...

1840
01:42:29,308 --> 01:42:32,316
waiting for the baseball plan
of autumn and playing ball.

1841
01:42:32,317 --> 01:42:35,304
And a girl in a bikini
passes right in the middle ...

1842
01:42:35,305 --> 01:42:37,304
and she walked beautifully.
I didn't know her.

1843
01:42:37,305 --> 01:42:39,301
"Steve, who is she?
I don't know her. "

1844
01:42:39,325 --> 01:42:41,321
"Janis Goldfinger.
to move. "

1845
01:42:41,322 --> 01:42:42,321
"Are you really?"

1846
01:42:45,300 --> 01:42:48,318
"I'm going to marry her."
I went to her and introduced myself.

1847
01:42:48,319 --> 01:42:50,318
I said "How are you?"

1848
01:42:52,314 --> 01:42:54,318
I asked her out
and she accepted.

1849
01:42:54,319 --> 01:42:56,302
And we started to leave.

1850
01:42:56,303 --> 01:42:58,317
All summer long.
And we fell in love.

1851
01:42:58,318 --> 01:43:01,318
A true love.
Hall of Fame.

1852
01:43:01,327 --> 01:43:05,316
A love that transformed
the rock into sand.

1853
01:43:05,322 --> 01:43:08,302
I should go back
for Marshall ...

1854
01:43:08,303 --> 01:43:09,318
but I didn't go.

1855
01:43:10,308 --> 01:43:12,317
I was 18
and Janis was 17 years old.

1856
01:43:12,318 --> 01:43:14,325
But I knew that she
was to get married ...

1857
01:43:14,326 --> 01:43:17,310
and we must never leave
that chance pass.

1858
01:43:17,311 --> 01:43:20,300
And I was right. We are
married for 43 years.

1859
01:43:30,309 --> 01:43:33,312
Today the chops
they're on my back.

1860
01:43:34,316 --> 01:43:36,325
I was 22 years old
and Janis was 21 years old.

1861
01:43:36,326 --> 01:43:39,300
I had performed
mom's dream.

1862
01:43:39,301 --> 01:43:41,303
I was the 3rd son
to graduate from college.

1863
01:43:41,304 --> 01:43:43,310
I graduated from NYU,
as a filmmaker ...

1864
01:43:43,311 --> 01:43:45,304
and had a job
guaranteed.

1865
01:43:47,312 --> 01:43:49,323
If the performance does not
right for me ...

1866
01:43:49,324 --> 01:43:52,319
I would have something solid
as director.

1867
01:43:52,320 --> 01:43:54,318
So we face
difficulties.

1868
01:43:54,319 --> 01:43:55,326
We came to live here.

1869
01:43:55,327 --> 01:43:58,309
There was an apartment
1 bedroom upstairs.

1870
01:43:58,310 --> 01:43:59,320
We lived there for a while.

1871
01:43:59,321 --> 01:44:01,326
It was very good to have sex
in this house...

1872
01:44:01,327 --> 01:44:04,310
with someone
that it wasn't me.

1873
01:44:07,305 --> 01:44:09,327
I think I got the hang of it
because 3 years later ...

1874
01:44:09,329 --> 01:44:12,309
Jennifer Amy Crystal
was born with 3.7kg ...

1875
01:44:12,310 --> 01:44:14,326
and was the dependent
of more beautiful IR.

1876
01:44:15,300 --> 01:44:18,310
My life was perfect.
A beautiful wife, a beautiful baby ...

1877
01:44:18,311 --> 01:44:20,315
no career and no future.
Perfect.

1878
01:44:20,317 --> 01:44:23,303
I was 26 years old.
The clock did not stop.

1879
01:44:23,304 --> 01:44:25,318
I knew I wanted
be a comedian ...

1880
01:44:25,319 --> 01:44:28,323
but start from scratch
it was scary.

1881
01:44:28,324 --> 01:44:31,323
Fear dominated me.
I was paralyzed ...

1882
01:44:31,324 --> 01:44:34,310
and did nothing.
So Janis said ...

1883
01:44:34,311 --> 01:44:37,315
"Honey, I have a plan.
I'll be back to work ...

1884
01:44:37,316 --> 01:44:39,303
you will take care of Jenny ...

1885
01:44:39,304 --> 01:44:41,321
and when I arrive,
you will leave me ...

1886
01:44:41,322 --> 01:44:44,322
and go to NY to try
something in the comedy clubs ...

1887
01:44:44,323 --> 01:44:47,306
and turn the comedian
that you want to be ...

1888
01:44:47,307 --> 01:44:50,314
because I believe in you. "
And that's what we did.

1889
01:44:50,315 --> 01:44:53,316
Janis was going to work
and I took care of Jenny.

1890
01:44:53,317 --> 01:44:56,317
I was Mr. Mother before
it becomes fashionable.

1891
01:44:56,319 --> 01:45:00,301
Her nursery was called
"Mom and me. And him."

1892
01:45:00,318 --> 01:45:03,320
And when changing diapers
I said ...

1893
01:45:03,321 --> 01:45:06,311
"Honey, look carefully
what am I doing...

1894
01:45:06,312 --> 01:45:09,316
because one day, you
will do the same to me. "

1895
01:45:14,302 --> 01:45:16,319
Janis came home,
I would deliver Jenny ...

1896
01:45:16,320 --> 01:45:19,326
get in the car and go
to New York, to enter at 2 am ...

1897
01:45:19,327 --> 01:45:22,308
at Catch a Rising Star
of Rick Newman ...

1898
01:45:22,309 --> 01:45:25,306
or Improv. I arrived
At 3am, I woke up at 6am ...

1899
01:45:25,307 --> 01:45:27,321
and started with Jenny,
writing jokes ...

1900
01:45:27,322 --> 01:45:30,319
all day and it went on for weeks.
That was the plan.

1901
01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:33,322
And I think it worked,
because you are here.

1902
01:45:41,324 --> 01:45:45,319
And I will say. This does not
happens to nobody ...

1903
01:45:46,308 --> 01:45:48,321
unless someone
dear say ...

1904
01:45:48,322 --> 01:45:50,313
"I believe in you."

1905
01:45:51,323 --> 01:45:54,300
We left Long Beach.
It was time.

1906
01:45:54,300 --> 01:45:56,304
My job was
in California ...

1907
01:45:56,305 --> 01:45:58,303
and things were
working.

1908
01:45:58,304 --> 01:46:00,317
I was excited.
And we went west.

1909
01:46:00,318 --> 01:46:02,325
And it was hard to leave
the only city ...

1910
01:46:02,326 --> 01:46:04,325
that the two of us
we actually know.

1911
01:46:04,326 --> 01:46:07,318
Our friends,
Janis's parents ...

1912
01:46:08,311 --> 01:46:10,315
my brothers, my mother ...

1913
01:46:12,322 --> 01:46:13,327
and this house.

1914
01:46:14,305 --> 01:46:16,304
There was a lot of history
in this house.

1915
01:46:16,305 --> 01:46:18,318
We grew up here,
we ate right here ...

1916
01:46:18,319 --> 01:46:22,327
very well, and we laughed here.
And we made people laugh here.

1917
01:46:22,329 --> 01:46:25,321
Joel, Rip and I were
the Nair�bi Trio.

1918
01:46:25,323 --> 01:46:27,304
I was a Yankee here.

1919
01:46:27,305 --> 01:46:29,322
I saw the 61� home run
Roger Maris here.

1920
01:46:29,323 --> 01:46:33,316
I saw the 1st Tonight Show
Johnny Carson here.

1921
01:46:33,327 --> 01:46:37,317
<i> I heard the album
The 2000
Year Old Man
here. </i>

1922
01:46:37,325 --> 01:46:41,303
I saw Bob Hope present
Oscar, every year ...

1923
01:46:41,304 --> 01:46:42,303
right here.

1924
01:46:42,326 --> 01:46:46,305
I saw little John-John
say goodbye here.

1925
01:46:46,325 --> 01:46:48,307
I saw the Beatles here ...

1926
01:46:48,308 --> 01:46:50,324
and I saw the man step on
on the moon here.

1927
01:46:52,301 --> 01:46:55,315
I fell in love here
and I became a father here.

1928
01:46:58,305 --> 01:46:59,324
I was in mourning here.

1929
01:47:02,300 --> 01:47:03,313
It was my home.

1930
01:47:05,319 --> 01:47:07,301
Many stories.

1931
01:47:08,302 --> 01:47:10,322
The last start
on Halloween night ...

1932
01:47:10,323 --> 01:47:12,316
in 2001. And again ...

1933
01:47:12,329 --> 01:47:15,327
the whole country was
in the "other part".

1934
01:47:16,323 --> 01:47:18,310
I was coming down the highway ...

1935
01:47:18,311 --> 01:47:20,318
still with the aftermath
from Ground Zero ...

1936
01:47:20,319 --> 01:47:23,311
for the 4th game of that
strange World Series ...

1937
01:47:23,312 --> 01:47:25,316
with the Yankees against
the Diamondbacks.

1938
01:47:25,317 --> 01:47:28,306
"Strange" because it was
the only World Series ...

1939
01:47:28,307 --> 01:47:31,307
that the country wanted
the Yankees won.

1940
01:47:31,312 --> 01:47:33,327
So that something good
happen in the city.

1941
01:47:33,329 --> 01:47:36,309
I was in the car,
My cell phone rang...

1942
01:47:36,310 --> 01:47:37,322
and it was my brother Joel.

1943
01:47:37,323 --> 01:47:40,324
"Billy, it's bad news.
Mom had a stroke. "

1944
01:47:40,325 --> 01:47:43,322
"When?" "It's an hour.
I found her in the living room ...

1945
01:47:43,323 --> 01:47:46,307
and we are in emergency
from Long Beach hospital.

1946
01:47:46,308 --> 01:47:48,312
They're doing tests,
but she is not well.

1947
01:47:48,313 --> 01:47:49,314
Can you come? "

1948
01:47:49,315 --> 01:47:54,308
"Sure. It'll take me an hour and a half.
Tell her that I'm going. "

1949
01:47:55,318 --> 01:47:57,321
"Janis, my mother
had a stroke. "

1950
01:47:57,322 --> 01:48:00,305
That's what I said.
What else would I say?

1951
01:48:00,306 --> 01:48:01,314
The doctor said ...

1952
01:48:01,315 --> 01:48:04,317
"It's true, Mr. Crystal.
Your mother had a stroke.

1953
01:48:04,318 --> 01:48:08,304
But if it is to have a stroke,
this guy is the best. "

1954
01:48:11,318 --> 01:48:14,319
He explained that it was in a
curable part of the brain ...

1955
01:48:14,320 --> 01:48:17,301
and that she was going to recover
good. "Great."

1956
01:48:17,302 --> 01:48:19,314
"But the left arm
hers is weak. "

1957
01:48:19,315 --> 01:48:20,314
"I understand."

1958
01:48:20,315 --> 01:48:23,324
"She is very confused.
And she is there. "

1959
01:48:23,325 --> 01:48:26,316
"Thank you, doctor.
Let's talk more. "

1960
01:48:26,317 --> 01:48:27,325
Come on, honey.

1961
01:48:29,315 --> 01:48:33,305
Mother. Mom, I'm here.
Janis is here.

1962
01:48:33,306 --> 01:48:36,325
Rip is coming. Joel is here.
Everybody here. I have good news.

1963
01:48:36,326 --> 01:48:40,314
I spoke to the doctor and he said
that you will recover.

1964
01:48:40,315 --> 01:48:41,319
Isn't it great? "

1965
01:48:42,305 --> 01:48:44,322
She looked at me,
quite confused ...

1966
01:48:46,303 --> 01:48:49,308
and spoke to me like
if it was a little girl.

1967
01:48:49,316 --> 01:48:51,311
"My head hurts."

1968
01:48:54,310 --> 01:48:55,319
"I know it does."

1969
01:48:55,327 --> 01:48:57,329
"You are in pain
head, right? "

1970
01:48:58,300 --> 01:48:58,329
"I am."

1971
01:48:59,309 --> 01:49:01,325
I held her hand
and massaged the back of your neck ...

1972
01:49:01,326 --> 01:49:03,325
where did she say
it was hurting.

1973
01:49:03,326 --> 01:49:05,321
"I will always take care
of you, mother.

1974
01:49:05,322 --> 01:49:08,316
"I will always take care of you."
"Thanks."

1975
01:49:08,317 --> 01:49:12,303
And she stopped talking and just looked
forward, silently ...

1976
01:49:12,304 --> 01:49:14,303
all night
and the next day ...

1977
01:49:14,304 --> 01:49:17,329
just looking forward,
in silence, for nothing.

1978
01:49:18,300 --> 01:49:20,305
I panicked
and I went to the doctor.

1979
01:49:20,306 --> 01:49:21,318
"Did you tell me everything?"

1980
01:49:21,319 --> 01:49:23,325
"Why doesn't she speak?"
"Easy, Billy."

1981
01:49:23,326 --> 01:49:26,309
"I know it's difficult,
but try to understand. "

1982
01:49:26,310 --> 01:49:28,303
"She can speak."

1983
01:49:29,316 --> 01:49:33,302
"But she doesn't want to talk.
She is angry. "

1984
01:49:33,307 --> 01:49:35,308
And she was furious.

1985
01:49:35,315 --> 01:49:38,313
Furious that God
insulted his body.

1986
01:49:38,316 --> 01:49:41,314
"How do I get her to talk?
I want to talk to her. "

1987
01:49:41,315 --> 01:49:45,308
"Billy, next time,
do not use the word "spill".

1988
01:49:45,326 --> 01:49:49,306
Upon hearing "spill",
she gets angry and distances herself.

1989
01:49:49,307 --> 01:49:52,323
Just talk to her
about things in common.

1990
01:49:52,324 --> 01:49:55,309
Just talk to her.
Try to do that. "

1991
01:49:57,309 --> 01:49:58,320
"Sorry if I ...

1992
01:50:05,319 --> 01:50:09,314
Yesterday's game was too much.
The Yankees lost 3 to 1 ...

1993
01:50:09,315 --> 01:50:12,300
with two balls out
and nobody to save.

1994
01:50:12,300 --> 01:50:14,315
Paul O'Neill countered
to the left field.

1995
01:50:14,316 --> 01:50:18,320
And do you know who came? Tino.
Your favorite. Tino Martinez.

1996
01:50:19,300 --> 01:50:21,305
He hit a ball
for the home run.

1997
01:50:21,306 --> 01:50:23,315
The stadium came down.
I never saw that!

1998
01:50:23,316 --> 01:50:25,329
And in the 10th inning,
Jeter did a home run ...

1999
01:50:26,300 --> 01:50:27,325
and they won!
And she said ...

2000
01:50:27,326 --> 01:50:31,300
"It was time.
Derek didn't play anything. "

2001
01:50:37,327 --> 01:50:41,303
Spills are like thieves
bank. They break into the safe ...

2002
01:50:41,304 --> 01:50:43,302
and steal everything you
loves more.

2003
01:50:43,303 --> 01:50:45,314
Invade the brain
and run away with the past.

2004
01:50:45,315 --> 01:50:48,329
But she fought,
as you always did.

2005
01:50:49,315 --> 01:50:52,315
The arm came back and she left
the bed with a walker ...

2006
01:50:52,316 --> 01:50:56,317
a cane and nothing more. And all
day we will rehabilitate her.

2007
01:50:56,318 --> 01:50:59,310
She looked like an athlete
training for an event.

2008
01:50:59,311 --> 01:51:02,312
And all this time,
she never complained ...

2009
01:51:02,313 --> 01:51:05,318
and still managed to keep
your sense of humor.

2010
01:51:05,319 --> 01:51:08,309
"Nurse, if you want
let me walk quickly ...

2011
01:51:08,310 --> 01:51:11,304
put Robert Redford
at the end of the hallway."

2012
01:51:12,302 --> 01:51:14,314
So I had to travel
and I was sad ...

2013
01:51:14,315 --> 01:51:17,302
but she was fine.
I needed to spend 3 days away.

2014
01:51:17,303 --> 01:51:19,329
It was an event that I
could not deselect.

2015
01:51:20,300 --> 01:51:21,320
I went to Seattle, WA ...

2016
01:51:21,321 --> 01:51:24,308
to do a show
at a charity event ...

2017
01:51:24,309 --> 01:51:25,324
to help children ...

2018
01:51:25,325 --> 01:51:28,304
who had lost
parents in the attack.

2019
01:51:28,305 --> 01:51:30,316
I would make a presentation
stand-up ...

2020
01:51:30,317 --> 01:51:33,304
something I didn't do
9 years ago ...

2021
01:51:33,317 --> 01:51:36,318
an event that would bring me
up here.

2022
01:51:37,317 --> 01:51:39,312
I called her in the morning.

2023
01:51:39,313 --> 01:51:42,313
"Hello, mom."
"Billy, how was the show?"

2024
01:51:42,319 --> 01:51:43,327
She remembered.

2025
01:51:43,329 --> 01:51:46,303
"It was great. It was really good."

2026
01:51:46,304 --> 01:51:48,319
"And it was in a big theater,
like Radio City. "

2027
01:51:48,320 --> 01:51:50,315
"Remember
from Radio City, mom? "

2028
01:51:50,316 --> 01:51:53,327
<i> "Sure. That's where we saw
The Jester
with Danny Kaye .... "</i>

2029
01:51:53,329 --> 01:51:56,306
Remember
of the vessel with the pestle? "

2030
01:51:57,300 --> 01:51:59,300
I gave all the details
of the jokes.

2031
01:51:59,300 --> 01:52:02,302
She liked to hear
the best jokes from my show.

2032
01:52:02,306 --> 01:52:04,315
But not this time.
She interrupted me.

2033
01:52:04,316 --> 01:52:07,317
"Billy, honey,
were you happy? "

2034
01:52:08,329 --> 01:52:12,311
"Yes, mother. I was.
It was a long time ago. "

2035
01:52:12,316 --> 01:52:15,311
"Well dear.
Aren't things like that? "

2036
01:52:18,317 --> 01:52:21,323
"Sure. Mom, I'll get it
the air bridge.

2037
01:52:22,301 --> 01:52:23,324
I'll be there in the morning.

2038
01:52:23,325 --> 01:52:25,329
I'll spend the whole week.
It will be great.

2039
01:52:26,300 --> 01:52:28,311
What you want in the cafe�
in the morning? You can ask. "

2040
01:52:28,312 --> 01:52:30,324
She cut me off again.
"Billy, dear ...

2041
01:52:30,325 --> 01:52:33,300
no need to run
because of me.

2042
01:52:33,301 --> 01:52:36,300
I'm fine.
And you're busy.

2043
01:52:37,303 --> 01:52:40,308
Billy, I'll see you
when you can. "

2044
01:52:42,310 --> 01:52:44,309
It was the last time
that we speak.

2045
01:52:44,310 --> 01:52:47,300
One hour later,
the thieves are back ...

2046
01:52:47,300 --> 01:52:49,312
and this time, they took it.

2047
01:52:50,311 --> 01:52:52,307
So I was orphaned.

2048
01:52:53,315 --> 01:52:55,314
I was no longer
stuck to the ground.

2049
01:52:55,316 --> 01:52:58,301
I was 15 years old
at the first time...

2050
01:52:58,302 --> 01:52:59,323
and 53 years on the 2nd time ...

2051
01:52:59,324 --> 01:53:01,327
but the tears have
the same taste.

2052
01:53:01,329 --> 01:53:04,304
The rock has the same
weight and size ...

2053
01:53:04,305 --> 01:53:06,319
the "other party" covers
all the same ...

2054
01:53:06,320 --> 01:53:08,300
and the anger increased.

2055
01:53:08,302 --> 01:53:10,329
But an omnipotent being
told me once ...

2056
01:53:11,303 --> 01:53:14,306
"It is the hand that I received.
The cards I have to play. "

2057
01:53:17,326 --> 01:53:19,309
"Maybe 1.67m?"

2058
01:53:19,322 --> 01:53:20,326
"Please.

2059
01:53:21,320 --> 01:53:24,318
Please.
Just a little more. "

2060
01:53:28,311 --> 01:53:30,310
"You will lose your father
with 15 years."

2061
01:53:30,311 --> 01:53:32,300
"Did you shuffle?"

2062
01:53:34,320 --> 01:53:37,303
"May your mother have
a long life. "

2063
01:53:39,309 --> 01:53:41,312
"Marrying a
incredible woman ... "

2064
01:53:41,313 --> 01:53:44,317
"have two beautiful daughters
and four grandchildren. "

2065
01:53:47,312 --> 01:53:49,318
"Do what you always do
wanted to do ... "

2066
01:53:49,319 --> 01:53:52,325
"since it made them laugh
in the living room."

2067
01:53:56,300 --> 01:53:59,300
"I will stay with them.
I'll bet everything. "

2068
01:54:00,301 --> 01:54:01,327
"Show your cards."

2069
01:54:26,307 --> 01:54:29,303
We sell the house.
We needed to sell it.

2070
01:54:29,305 --> 01:54:32,323
Without mom I wouldn't do it
sense to stay with her.

2071
01:54:33,300 --> 01:54:34,327
Today she is someone else's ...

2072
01:54:34,329 --> 01:54:36,326
but it doesn't belong to you.

2073
01:54:37,315 --> 01:54:39,324
Cause I close my eyes
and I'm going there ...

2074
01:54:39,325 --> 01:54:41,305
whenever I want.

2075
01:54:41,306 --> 01:54:44,320
700 Sundays is not a long time
for a son to be with his father.

2076
01:54:44,321 --> 01:54:47,306
But it was enough
to win gifts ...

2077
01:54:47,307 --> 01:54:50,305
that I open until today and share
with my children and grandchildren.

2078
01:54:50,306 --> 01:54:52,318
Gifts of love,
laughter, good food ...

2079
01:54:52,319 --> 01:54:54,322
Jews and jazz,
dinners and whiskey ...

2080
01:54:54,323 --> 01:54:57,320
curved balls in the snow,
Bill Cosby, Mickey Mantle ...

2081
01:54:57,321 --> 01:54:59,317
uncle Bern and "think of the rose".

2082
01:54:59,318 --> 01:55:00,322
"Understood?

2083
01:55:01,313 --> 01:55:02,315
"I knew it."

2084
01:55:03,320 --> 01:55:06,312
I have a recurring dream.
I'm in a car ...

2085
01:55:06,313 --> 01:55:09,323
in a Plymouth Belvedere
1957 gray ...

2086
01:55:09,324 --> 01:55:12,321
sitting in front
because I am small.

2087
01:55:13,300 --> 01:55:15,313
There is no one else,
but I'm not afraid ...

2088
01:55:15,314 --> 01:55:17,324
because the car knows
where you need to go.

2089
01:55:17,325 --> 01:55:19,300
He walks alone.

2090
01:55:19,301 --> 01:55:21,307
And soon we arrived
42nd Street, NY.

2091
01:55:21,308 --> 01:55:23,320
We passed the Commodore
full of people...

2092
01:55:23,321 --> 01:55:25,307
by the Commodore Hotel ...

2093
01:55:25,308 --> 01:55:28,316
we stopped in front of Grand
Central Station and the car stops.

2094
01:55:28,317 --> 01:55:31,306
The door opens and I leave.
I follow the crowd ...

2095
01:55:31,307 --> 01:55:33,318
I pass the oyster bar,
I go up the ramp ...

2096
01:55:33,319 --> 01:55:36,302
and I reach the lobby.
But this time ...

2097
01:55:36,306 --> 01:55:38,306
the stars are real ...

2098
01:55:38,307 --> 01:55:41,301
and the brightness of the sky
It is very beautiful.

2099
01:55:42,314 --> 01:55:44,327
And the terminal still
it's full of men.

2100
01:55:44,329 --> 01:55:46,302
But this time ...

2101
01:55:46,303 --> 01:55:48,314
they are dressed
with my father...

2102
01:55:48,315 --> 01:55:50,326
in white shirt
with the rolled sleeve ...

2103
01:55:50,327 --> 01:55:53,309
open collar
and a tie hanging.

2104
01:55:53,310 --> 01:55:56,302
And now I know what they
are waiting.

2105
01:55:56,303 --> 01:55:59,300
They are expecting parents
your children.

2106
01:56:06,307 --> 01:56:09,316
I see him, he sees me
and he is fine.

2107
01:56:09,317 --> 01:56:11,324
He doesn't seem
worried, upset ...

2108
01:56:11,325 --> 01:56:13,300
and not even angry.

2109
01:56:14,301 --> 01:56:16,312
And we walk
towards each other.

2110
01:56:16,313 --> 01:56:17,329
We don't have to run.

2111
01:56:18,315 --> 01:56:21,327
"Hello, Dad." He smiled,
put your hand on my shoulder ...

2112
01:56:21,329 --> 01:56:24,312
and says "What is lead?"

2113
01:56:33,310 --> 01:56:35,317
"Pb." "Very good, Billy."

2114
01:56:36,324 --> 01:56:38,305
"Have you eaten yet?"

2115
01:56:57,327 --> 01:57:00,313
"I see you like this
that I can. "

2116
01:58:31,319 --> 01:58:33,319
Who wants a waffle?
Anyone want?

2117
01:58:34,305 --> 01:58:40,487
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