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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Deconstructing Harry (1997) aka "Woody Allen Fall Project 1996" Marc2008 (2009), The Netherlands. 2 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 SUBRip by Cristo cristo@konto.pl 3 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:55,699 I could never get those fires started. 4 00:01:55,740 --> 00:01:58,460 Dad, are you gonna have chicken? You want meat? 5 00:01:58,500 --> 00:01:59,779 Chicken's fine. 6 00:01:59,820 --> 00:02:01,260 This is a brilliant article. 7 00:02:01,299 --> 00:02:02,259 Norman! 8 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:04,660 Did you read Ken's article on China? 9 00:02:04,699 --> 00:02:06,619 -No, I haven't. -Terrific article. 10 00:02:06,659 --> 00:02:07,899 Where is Ken? 11 00:02:07,940 --> 00:02:10,619 In the house watching the Yankee game. 12 00:02:10,660 --> 00:02:13,860 Your husband. Comes for a day in the beautiful countryside... 13 00:02:13,899 --> 00:02:16,099 heads for the television set. 14 00:02:16,140 --> 00:02:17,980 Ken, come on, honey! 15 00:02:18,019 --> 00:02:20,540 How many people want chicken, and how many want hamburgers? 16 00:02:20,580 --> 00:02:22,859 Two more outs! Three minutes! 17 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:25,260 I think everybody's dying for a little libation. 18 00:02:25,299 --> 00:02:27,659 Why don't you make your famous Stoli martinis? 19 00:02:27,659 --> 00:02:30,700 Janet, when are you and Ken gonna have a child? 20 00:02:30,740 --> 00:02:33,379 You've let your sister have a big head start. 21 00:02:33,419 --> 00:02:35,940 Let Leslie practice viola for six hours a day... 22 00:02:35,979 --> 00:02:37,540 then it's not so easy. 23 00:02:37,580 --> 00:02:39,259 Leave her alone. 24 00:02:47,219 --> 00:02:50,500 I came in here to make drinks for everybody. 25 00:02:53,259 --> 00:02:54,939 What are you doing? You want a drink? 26 00:02:56,620 --> 00:02:57,860 Sure. 27 00:03:05,260 --> 00:03:06,540 This is nuts. 28 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:09,540 We gotta get out of here. 29 00:03:15,779 --> 00:03:17,060 Oh, God. 30 00:03:23,820 --> 00:03:25,060 We're gonna get caught. 31 00:03:25,099 --> 00:03:27,139 They're by the lake. I can see everything. 32 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:44,380 They're deep in conversation. 33 00:03:45,099 --> 00:03:46,339 Wait! There's Janet! 34 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:51,780 Ken... 35 00:03:53,499 --> 00:03:56,499 You can't scare me like that. I grind my teeth. 36 00:03:56,539 --> 00:03:58,660 Just don't scare me like that. 37 00:03:58,699 --> 00:04:00,339 It was nothing. Just a false alarm. 38 00:04:00,379 --> 00:04:02,740 Try not to actually chew. 39 00:04:02,780 --> 00:04:05,940 Wouldn't it be great if we could be alone together? 40 00:04:05,979 --> 00:04:07,420 Just relaxed, you and me? 41 00:04:07,459 --> 00:04:08,859 It would be so great. 42 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:10,300 That would be so great. 43 00:04:10,339 --> 00:04:12,819 Let's hang in. You never know what's gonna happen. 44 00:04:12,859 --> 00:04:13,939 Come on. Open wide. 45 00:04:13,980 --> 00:04:18,420 Ken, turn the Yankee game off and come on out here now! 46 00:04:18,459 --> 00:04:21,260 I will! Just one minute! It's almost over! 47 00:04:31,660 --> 00:04:33,299 God. I'm done. 48 00:04:33,340 --> 00:04:35,380 You can come anytime you want. 49 00:04:35,420 --> 00:04:36,380 Can I? 50 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:39,459 I'm ready! 51 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:43,660 Leslie, is that you? 52 00:04:44,460 --> 00:04:46,859 Can you lead me down to the lake? 53 00:04:46,859 --> 00:04:48,899 Can you give me just a minute, Grandma? 54 00:04:48,940 --> 00:04:51,460 I'm just--I'm making martinis. 55 00:04:51,499 --> 00:04:53,060 Sure, dear. 56 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:54,499 I want to finish. 57 00:04:54,539 --> 00:04:55,779 Oh, Ken? 58 00:04:55,820 --> 00:04:56,940 Is that you? 59 00:04:57,419 --> 00:04:58,619 Finish what? 60 00:05:01,259 --> 00:05:02,300 Come, Ken. 61 00:05:02,339 --> 00:05:03,660 Come? 62 00:05:03,699 --> 00:05:05,659 Come lead me down to the lake. 63 00:05:05,700 --> 00:05:10,059 Ever since I lost my second eye, I feel so frail. 64 00:05:13,019 --> 00:05:14,900 You don't have to moan about it. 65 00:05:14,939 --> 00:05:16,980 It's not that terrible. 66 00:05:17,019 --> 00:05:18,939 Ken is hurrying, Grandma. 67 00:05:18,980 --> 00:05:21,539 Would you do the olives, Ken? Quickly? 68 00:05:21,579 --> 00:05:24,060 Oh, you know, you can use onions, too. 69 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:26,260 I prefer onions, don't you, Ken? 70 00:05:29,740 --> 00:05:32,740 Boy, you must really love onions. 71 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:37,260 How much do I-- 72 00:05:42,860 --> 00:05:43,939 Lucy? 73 00:05:43,980 --> 00:05:45,460 You schmuck! You bastard! 74 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:47,140 I'd like to cut your head off. 75 00:05:47,660 --> 00:05:49,060 You're upset, right? 76 00:05:49,379 --> 00:05:52,060 How could you? Didn't you know what would happen? 77 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:53,740 What? 78 00:05:53,779 --> 00:05:56,060 Don't answer me, prick. 79 00:05:56,099 --> 00:05:58,780 You knew. You just didn't give a shit. 80 00:05:58,820 --> 00:06:01,700 Why don't you take your coat off and just... 81 00:06:01,739 --> 00:06:03,580 How could you write that book? 82 00:06:03,620 --> 00:06:04,860 Are you so selfish? 83 00:06:04,899 --> 00:06:07,580 You're so self-engrossed you don't care who you destroy? 84 00:06:07,619 --> 00:06:10,659 You told our whole story! 85 00:06:11,619 --> 00:06:13,900 All the details. You gave me away to my sister. 86 00:06:13,939 --> 00:06:16,100 Marvin's left me. He's gone. 87 00:06:16,579 --> 00:06:19,100 It was loosely based on us. 88 00:06:19,139 --> 00:06:21,700 Don't bullshit me, motherfucker! 89 00:06:22,019 --> 00:06:23,579 Who do you think you're talking to... 90 00:06:23,620 --> 00:06:25,700 one of those retarded talk-show hosts? 91 00:06:27,460 --> 00:06:29,019 I lived through it with you. 92 00:06:29,059 --> 00:06:30,939 I know how loosely based it is. 93 00:06:30,979 --> 00:06:32,859 Hey, what are you telling me... 94 00:06:32,899 --> 00:06:36,019 that your blind grandmother caught us fucking one day? 95 00:06:36,739 --> 00:06:38,180 No, No. Of course. 96 00:06:38,219 --> 00:06:40,539 You made a few stupid exaggerations... 97 00:06:40,579 --> 00:06:44,099 or, as the critics say, "inspired comic flights." 98 00:06:44,139 --> 00:06:46,220 But Jane recognized it. 99 00:06:46,260 --> 00:06:48,140 You'd have to be submental not to. 100 00:06:48,180 --> 00:06:50,220 And Marvin was crushed! 101 00:06:50,260 --> 00:06:51,499 Jane suspected us. 102 00:06:51,539 --> 00:06:53,579 I can't tell you how long Jane suspected us. 103 00:06:53,620 --> 00:06:55,499 I know! I denied it! 104 00:06:55,540 --> 00:06:56,940 And now you've gone... 105 00:06:56,980 --> 00:06:59,459 you've gone and confirmed it all for her. 106 00:06:59,860 --> 00:07:03,140 Big fuckin' deal-- you made Leslie shorter. 107 00:07:03,179 --> 00:07:04,740 Big fuckin' deal! 108 00:07:04,780 --> 00:07:05,939 But it's all here. 109 00:07:06,540 --> 00:07:09,700 The poor schmuck country doctor, the violinist... 110 00:07:09,739 --> 00:07:12,980 her younger sister cheating with her husband. 111 00:07:13,459 --> 00:07:15,860 The picture window, for Christ's sake! 112 00:07:16,459 --> 00:07:18,380 Cruel observations about Marvin... 113 00:07:18,419 --> 00:07:20,420 with his barbecue and chef's hat. 114 00:07:21,139 --> 00:07:22,379 And, of course, Jane... 115 00:07:22,419 --> 00:07:26,140 or, as you pathetically disguise her... 116 00:07:26,619 --> 00:07:27,739 Janet. 117 00:07:28,660 --> 00:07:29,860 Here it is. 118 00:07:31,059 --> 00:07:33,899 "It was not simply that Leslie had become numbed... 119 00:07:33,899 --> 00:07:36,020 "with the inane spate of leaden perceptions... 120 00:07:36,060 --> 00:07:38,540 "that passed for wit from Marvin. 121 00:07:38,579 --> 00:07:41,380 "It was not even the image she shared with Ken... 122 00:07:41,420 --> 00:07:44,899 "of Marvin's flaccid, microscopic member... 123 00:07:44,940 --> 00:07:47,140 "jiggling up and down as he bounced naked... 124 00:07:47,180 --> 00:07:50,460 "across the icy floor of their Connecticut home... 125 00:07:50,539 --> 00:07:52,100 "to close the storm windows. 126 00:07:52,620 --> 00:07:55,019 "It was that she had never loved him... 127 00:07:55,339 --> 00:07:57,700 "but wanted to have children... 128 00:07:57,740 --> 00:07:59,780 "to retaliate against her older sister... 129 00:07:59,819 --> 00:08:02,019 "who did not have a maternal bone in her being... 130 00:08:02,059 --> 00:08:03,939 "and whose every inch, Leslie felt... 131 00:08:03,979 --> 00:08:06,579 "was occupied by gluttonous self-love. 132 00:08:06,620 --> 00:08:09,220 "Ken ran his hand over Leslie's large round breasts... 133 00:08:09,260 --> 00:08:10,659 "and mounted her from the rear." 134 00:08:10,699 --> 00:08:12,739 Big fuckin' deal. You gave her large breasts. 135 00:08:12,780 --> 00:08:14,180 Leslie, please-- 136 00:08:14,219 --> 00:08:15,300 Lucy! 137 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:19,100 I'm Lucy, motherfucker! 138 00:08:19,979 --> 00:08:22,339 Not Leslie. 139 00:08:24,099 --> 00:08:26,419 Except, of course, I am Leslie... 140 00:08:26,459 --> 00:08:29,059 because you made no attempt to disguise anything. 141 00:08:29,100 --> 00:08:30,460 You didn't give a fuck! 142 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:32,739 You didn't care enough to disguise anything! 143 00:08:32,779 --> 00:08:34,180 Please! Jesus! 144 00:08:34,220 --> 00:08:35,899 You pulled out two years ago. 145 00:08:35,939 --> 00:08:37,699 You broke my fuckin' heart. 146 00:08:37,740 --> 00:08:40,340 You left your wife and me... 147 00:08:40,380 --> 00:08:42,420 for some little cooze! 148 00:08:42,460 --> 00:08:43,940 Me and Janet! 149 00:08:44,380 --> 00:08:46,459 Jane. Janet is the character. 150 00:08:47,819 --> 00:08:50,140 Now, two years on... 151 00:08:50,620 --> 00:08:52,499 your latest magnum opus... 152 00:08:52,540 --> 00:08:56,219 emerges from this sewer of an apartment... 153 00:08:56,260 --> 00:08:57,820 where you take everyone's suffering... 154 00:08:57,859 --> 00:08:59,540 and turn it into gold. 155 00:08:59,580 --> 00:09:01,139 Literary gold. 156 00:09:01,179 --> 00:09:03,820 Everyone's misery. You even cause them misery. 157 00:09:03,859 --> 00:09:06,460 Mix your alchemy and make it into gold... 158 00:09:06,499 --> 00:09:08,659 like some fuckin' black magician! 159 00:09:08,699 --> 00:09:09,779 Give me a break. 160 00:09:09,819 --> 00:09:12,020 I'm the one who wound up in Bellevue. 161 00:09:12,060 --> 00:09:13,940 -You deserve it and worse. -Lucy! 162 00:09:13,980 --> 00:09:15,139 You've ruined my life! 163 00:09:15,180 --> 00:09:16,820 I've come here to blow my brains out! 164 00:09:16,860 --> 00:09:17,940 What's wrong with you? 165 00:09:17,980 --> 00:09:21,579 In front of you on your carpet because you caused it. 166 00:09:21,620 --> 00:09:23,060 My fuckin' brains on your carpet! 167 00:09:23,099 --> 00:09:24,980 You're so fucking unstable! Will you relax? 168 00:09:25,019 --> 00:09:27,059 That's why you picked me. 169 00:09:27,099 --> 00:09:28,979 That's what turns you on about me-- 170 00:09:29,019 --> 00:09:30,099 Jane's crazy sister. 171 00:09:30,140 --> 00:09:32,340 Calm down. You're not gonna kill yourself. 172 00:09:33,020 --> 00:09:35,060 No, you're not, because it's not in you. 173 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:37,940 You're not the dramatic type. You never were. 174 00:09:37,980 --> 00:09:39,859 Jane is the dramatic sister. 175 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:41,980 Jane is the solo violinist. 176 00:09:43,860 --> 00:09:45,940 Relax. For Christ's sake. 177 00:09:47,580 --> 00:09:48,700 You're right. 178 00:09:50,980 --> 00:09:53,340 I don't have the nerve to kill myself. 179 00:09:55,619 --> 00:09:57,980 I knew it as I came over here. 180 00:09:59,419 --> 00:10:02,619 I said, no, not me. 181 00:10:05,260 --> 00:10:06,380 Better... 182 00:10:07,259 --> 00:10:08,700 to kill him. 183 00:10:09,699 --> 00:10:11,140 Pardon me? 184 00:10:11,180 --> 00:10:13,380 Kill the black magician... 185 00:10:13,419 --> 00:10:17,100 so he can't spin any more gold out of human misery. 186 00:10:17,139 --> 00:10:18,700 What's wrong with you? 187 00:10:18,740 --> 00:10:20,620 -Shut up! -Put it down! 188 00:10:20,660 --> 00:10:21,900 You're so fuckin' verbal! 189 00:10:21,939 --> 00:10:24,659 Who else could have talked me into giving him a blow job... 190 00:10:24,699 --> 00:10:26,299 at my father's funeral? 191 00:10:26,339 --> 00:10:27,100 Lucy, think it over. 192 00:10:30,780 --> 00:10:31,939 You stop right there! 193 00:10:31,979 --> 00:10:34,019 Don't shoot! Don't pull the trigger. 194 00:10:34,060 --> 00:10:37,340 Look, If it makes you happy, my life has been going badly. 195 00:10:37,380 --> 00:10:39,140 I've been miserable. My girl left me. 196 00:10:39,180 --> 00:10:40,820 She went off with a close friend of mine. 197 00:10:41,740 --> 00:10:43,219 Insomnia. I've got herpes. 198 00:10:43,260 --> 00:10:44,660 I've squandered everything I have 199 00:10:44,699 --> 00:10:47,500 on shrinks and lawyers and whores. 200 00:10:47,540 --> 00:10:48,740 ...fatigue syndrome. 201 00:10:48,780 --> 00:10:51,620 I'm not gonna stand up here on this fucking roof... 202 00:10:51,660 --> 00:10:54,620 with a world-class meshugana cunt... 203 00:10:54,660 --> 00:10:55,620 and beg for my life. 204 00:10:55,659 --> 00:10:57,100 If you want to, shoot me. 205 00:10:57,100 --> 00:10:58,500 I was working. You interrupted. 206 00:10:58,539 --> 00:11:00,820 So whose life were you exploiting today? 207 00:11:00,859 --> 00:11:02,019 You'll be very happy-- 208 00:11:02,060 --> 00:11:04,780 I was working on an autobiographical thing... 209 00:11:04,820 --> 00:11:06,619 about when I was first married. 210 00:11:08,299 --> 00:11:10,339 Harvey Stern married too young-- 211 00:11:10,379 --> 00:11:12,259 mainly to get out of his parents' apartment... 212 00:11:12,299 --> 00:11:14,260 which was a rent-controlled cornucopia... 213 00:11:14,299 --> 00:11:17,739 of guilt, antagonism, and soul-deadening criticism. 214 00:11:17,779 --> 00:11:20,619 By day, he labored listlessly in a shoe store. 215 00:11:20,659 --> 00:11:24,140 By night, he glowed intensely over his Remington portable. 216 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:26,419 Are you coming to bed? 217 00:11:27,659 --> 00:11:30,460 Rosalee, I'm in the middle of a sentence... 218 00:11:30,499 --> 00:11:34,180 I'm feeling rejected because we never sleep together anymore. 219 00:11:34,219 --> 00:11:37,099 I don't know what it is. I'm just not attracted to her. 220 00:11:37,140 --> 00:11:38,619 Is she doing something to put you off? 221 00:11:38,700 --> 00:11:40,699 It's my fault, too. 222 00:11:40,740 --> 00:11:43,900 And I lie. I tell her I'm too wrapped up in work... 223 00:11:43,939 --> 00:11:45,339 but the opposite is true. 224 00:11:45,380 --> 00:11:48,219 I'm hyper-sexually aroused, just not for her. 225 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:50,699 -Who for? -Anyone else. 226 00:11:50,740 --> 00:11:53,340 She has a sister. I'm dying to fuck her. 227 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:55,339 A doll. Thick lips. 228 00:11:55,380 --> 00:11:57,860 Her friend from Columbia. Jennifer? I dream of her. 229 00:11:57,900 --> 00:12:00,019 I never thought I could care about African history... 230 00:12:00,060 --> 00:12:01,539 but she's spellbinding. 231 00:12:01,580 --> 00:12:04,259 The truth is, I never meet or see a woman... 232 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:07,139 that I don't wonder what it would be like in bed with her. 233 00:12:10,979 --> 00:12:12,379 I met a great hooker. 234 00:12:13,059 --> 00:12:14,299 A hooker? 235 00:12:14,340 --> 00:12:15,740 Yeah. Beautiful. 236 00:12:15,779 --> 00:12:17,340 From China. 237 00:12:17,380 --> 00:12:19,739 Unbelievable body. 238 00:12:19,779 --> 00:12:23,540 Schooled by tradition in the art of pleasing men. 239 00:12:23,579 --> 00:12:25,020 It's 50 clams. 240 00:12:25,819 --> 00:12:27,940 Wouldn't you be cheating on your wife? 241 00:12:27,979 --> 00:12:30,540 It's not cheating. She's a hooker. 242 00:12:30,579 --> 00:12:32,659 It's not like I'm having a love affair. 243 00:12:33,140 --> 00:12:35,499 You don't feel for a professional girl... 244 00:12:35,539 --> 00:12:37,339 the way you do for your wife. 245 00:12:37,380 --> 00:12:39,619 She comes over, rubs on her oils... 246 00:12:39,659 --> 00:12:40,820 Oils? 247 00:12:41,299 --> 00:12:43,980 Into the sack, she takes you to the moon. 248 00:12:44,019 --> 00:12:46,580 You lay half a C-note on her, and she's history. 249 00:12:47,540 --> 00:12:49,219 Where would you do it? 250 00:12:49,259 --> 00:12:51,859 I couldn't have her come to my apartment. 251 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:53,020 Get a hotel room. 252 00:12:53,059 --> 00:12:55,139 That's what I do when the wife's home. 253 00:12:57,859 --> 00:13:00,659 I don't have that kind of dough. Fifty's a lot in itself. 254 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:03,180 Maybe a friend will let you use his place. 255 00:13:03,219 --> 00:13:06,220 Kid, you're always bitchin' about your sex life. 256 00:13:06,259 --> 00:13:07,540 I'm trying to help. 257 00:13:08,979 --> 00:13:11,020 I tell her you gave me the number? 258 00:13:11,059 --> 00:13:13,219 No, no. Not my name. 259 00:13:13,259 --> 00:13:14,980 Don't use your real name. 260 00:13:15,019 --> 00:13:16,659 No, of course. Not the real name. 261 00:13:16,699 --> 00:13:19,139 Tell you what you do. You borrow a friend's apartment. 262 00:13:19,179 --> 00:13:22,100 You use his name. That way, it'll be on the bell. 263 00:13:23,580 --> 00:13:25,500 Now good fortune smiled on Harvey... 264 00:13:25,540 --> 00:13:28,100 as one of his closest friends, Mendel Birnbaum... 265 00:13:28,140 --> 00:13:29,540 was hit by a car... 266 00:13:29,579 --> 00:13:31,860 and lay hovering between life and death... 267 00:13:31,899 --> 00:13:33,259 at New York hospital... 268 00:13:33,299 --> 00:13:37,379 thus freeing up an apartment for Harvey's tryst. 269 00:13:37,419 --> 00:13:39,780 Donning the other man's silk robe... 270 00:13:39,820 --> 00:13:42,219 Harvey became the swinger Mendel Birnbaum... 271 00:13:42,260 --> 00:13:46,820 and awaited his Oriental passport to paradise. 272 00:13:46,859 --> 00:13:49,219 You must be Mendel Birnbaum. 273 00:14:09,099 --> 00:14:11,259 Did you enjoy it? 274 00:14:11,299 --> 00:14:12,980 Are you kidding? I'll be right back. 275 00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:14,179 Where you going? 276 00:14:14,220 --> 00:14:17,059 I'm gonna see if I can find another 50. 277 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:18,500 I'd like to go again. 278 00:14:36,820 --> 00:14:38,740 Open. 279 00:14:38,780 --> 00:14:40,459 Who is it? 280 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:47,020 Who are you? 281 00:14:47,059 --> 00:14:49,500 I've come for you. 282 00:14:49,539 --> 00:14:50,820 What are you talking about? 283 00:14:50,860 --> 00:14:55,979 I'm Death, and your name is on my list. 284 00:14:56,020 --> 00:14:58,940 No, no, no. Wait a minute. You've made a mistake. 285 00:14:59,019 --> 00:15:01,179 You don't have a minute. 286 00:15:01,219 --> 00:15:02,579 I'm not Mendel Birnb-- 287 00:15:02,620 --> 00:15:05,380 Don't give me that bullshit! 288 00:15:05,419 --> 00:15:07,259 Look at your monogram. 289 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:10,060 Mendel, who are you talking to? 290 00:15:10,099 --> 00:15:11,379 Stop calling me Mendel. 291 00:15:11,420 --> 00:15:12,660 I'm just using his pad. 292 00:15:12,699 --> 00:15:13,780 Right. 293 00:15:13,819 --> 00:15:16,380 They always have an excuse. 294 00:15:16,419 --> 00:15:17,499 Let's go. 295 00:15:17,539 --> 00:15:20,019 Move it, you little putz. 296 00:15:20,780 --> 00:15:23,620 I'm standing on the roof, and she's pointing a gun at me. 297 00:15:23,660 --> 00:15:26,060 We're out in the cold, and I'm panicked. 298 00:15:26,060 --> 00:15:29,019 I'm telling her about a story I wrote when I was younger... 299 00:15:29,059 --> 00:15:30,819 and she found it funny, thank God. 300 00:15:30,860 --> 00:15:33,019 She laughed. 301 00:15:33,060 --> 00:15:35,300 She relaxed a little. She put the gun down. 302 00:15:35,339 --> 00:15:36,699 And you know. 303 00:15:36,739 --> 00:15:38,779 So your writing saved your life. 304 00:15:38,820 --> 00:15:41,139 It's amazing to me. 305 00:15:41,180 --> 00:15:43,220 The interesting thing to me... 306 00:15:43,260 --> 00:15:45,219 apart from the obvious sexual guilt... 307 00:15:45,259 --> 00:15:48,259 that I had when I was a young man in the story... 308 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:50,459 is that nothing's changed. 309 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:52,260 It's years later. 310 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:54,419 I had a shrink then, I have a shrink now. 311 00:15:54,460 --> 00:15:55,899 I'm 6 shrinks later. 312 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:57,859 I'm 3 wives down the line... 313 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:00,619 and I still can't get my love life in order. 314 00:16:00,660 --> 00:16:03,140 I still love whores. 315 00:16:05,980 --> 00:16:08,340 To me, the ideal thing is you pay them... 316 00:16:08,379 --> 00:16:09,980 and they come over to the house... 317 00:16:10,020 --> 00:16:12,980 and you don't have to discuss Proust or films or-- 318 00:16:14,059 --> 00:16:15,460 I don't know what's been happening to me. 319 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:20,899 You know, I just have not grown up... 320 00:16:20,940 --> 00:16:23,460 and I feel, you know, it's not... 321 00:16:23,499 --> 00:16:25,819 I see other guys my age. 322 00:16:25,859 --> 00:16:28,380 I'm always thinking of fucking every woman I meet. 323 00:16:28,419 --> 00:16:31,739 I meet a woman, a stranger, a woman on the bus... 324 00:16:31,780 --> 00:16:33,659 I think, what would she look like naked? 325 00:16:33,700 --> 00:16:35,579 Is it possible I can fuck her? 326 00:16:35,620 --> 00:16:37,179 This is crazy. 327 00:16:37,219 --> 00:16:40,379 I see guys I know that are lawyers and doctors. 328 00:16:40,420 --> 00:16:41,579 They have families and houses. 329 00:16:41,619 --> 00:16:43,499 They're not so... 330 00:16:43,539 --> 00:16:45,739 Does the President of the United States... 331 00:16:45,780 --> 00:16:47,020 want to fuck every woman he met. 332 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:50,140 Bad example. 333 00:16:50,180 --> 00:16:52,459 But I don't know. 334 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:54,300 Take Raoul Wallenberg. 335 00:16:54,339 --> 00:16:57,180 Did he want to bang every cocktail waitress in Europe? 336 00:16:57,219 --> 00:16:58,980 Probably not, but... 337 00:16:59,019 --> 00:17:01,099 Tell me about your honoring ceremony tomorrow. 338 00:17:01,140 --> 00:17:03,139 Oh, that's bullshit. 339 00:17:03,180 --> 00:17:07,099 It's ironic that the same school that threw me out years ago... 340 00:17:07,139 --> 00:17:08,700 now wants to honor me. 341 00:17:08,739 --> 00:17:10,340 Why'd they throw you out? 342 00:17:10,379 --> 00:17:13,380 Because I was not interested in college. 343 00:17:13,419 --> 00:17:14,899 I wanted to be a writer. 344 00:17:14,939 --> 00:17:16,540 That's all I cared about was writing. 345 00:17:16,579 --> 00:17:18,700 I did not care about the real world. 346 00:17:18,740 --> 00:17:21,539 I cared only about the world of fiction. 347 00:17:21,580 --> 00:17:24,740 And, plus, I tried to give the dean's wife an enema... 348 00:17:24,779 --> 00:17:26,859 so they didn't take kindly to that. 349 00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:29,219 But the sad thing is... 350 00:17:29,260 --> 00:17:32,619 I gotta drive upstate to be honored... 351 00:17:32,660 --> 00:17:34,340 and I have to go by myself. 352 00:17:34,379 --> 00:17:35,779 I got nobody to go with. 353 00:17:35,820 --> 00:17:38,259 It's, you know, I-- OK, so-- 354 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:41,019 And-- You know, I can't-- 355 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:43,100 What about bringing your son up with you? 356 00:17:43,140 --> 00:17:45,379 It's not my visiting time with him. 357 00:17:45,420 --> 00:17:47,419 And Joan is completely inflexible. 358 00:17:47,459 --> 00:17:49,820 She won't trade dates with you? 359 00:17:49,860 --> 00:17:51,819 I can't even get her on the phone. 360 00:17:51,859 --> 00:17:54,419 She hates me. 361 00:17:54,459 --> 00:17:55,860 I don't know. Lately... 362 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:59,140 For the first time in my life, I experienced writer's block. 363 00:17:59,180 --> 00:18:01,380 This, to me, is unheard of. 364 00:18:01,419 --> 00:18:04,739 I start these short stories, and I can't finish them. 365 00:18:04,780 --> 00:18:07,940 I can't get into my novel at all... 366 00:18:07,980 --> 00:18:09,700 because I took an advance. 367 00:18:11,179 --> 00:18:13,219 I don't know. 368 00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:17,380 I find that I'm taking more pills and medicine and... 369 00:18:17,420 --> 00:18:19,220 You remind me of that short story... 370 00:18:19,259 --> 00:18:21,859 you were working on maybe two months ago-- 371 00:18:21,899 --> 00:18:23,099 The Actor. 372 00:18:24,459 --> 00:18:26,259 This goddamn lens has something wrong with it. 373 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:27,820 This one, too? I changed lenses. 374 00:18:27,860 --> 00:18:29,900 The focus is off. 375 00:18:29,939 --> 00:18:31,619 I don't know why. 376 00:18:31,660 --> 00:18:33,539 It's out of focus. 377 00:18:33,580 --> 00:18:35,019 All the lenses can't be soft. 378 00:18:35,059 --> 00:18:36,500 Let's move it along. 379 00:18:36,539 --> 00:18:38,179 It's getting late. Let's move it. 380 00:18:38,219 --> 00:18:40,740 I'm trying to shoot Mel, and he's soft. 381 00:18:40,779 --> 00:18:42,699 Where are you renting these lenses? 382 00:18:42,739 --> 00:18:44,059 The lenses are fine. 383 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:46,539 Holy shit. Mel's out of focus. 384 00:18:46,579 --> 00:18:47,899 That's what I said, genius. 385 00:18:47,939 --> 00:18:50,060 I don't mean the lens. Mel himself. 386 00:18:50,099 --> 00:18:51,540 Let me see. 387 00:18:51,580 --> 00:18:54,020 You're right. Mel's out of focus. 388 00:18:54,060 --> 00:18:55,780 What are you talking about? 389 00:18:55,820 --> 00:18:57,900 The actor's out of focus. 390 00:18:57,939 --> 00:18:59,179 How can this be? 391 00:18:59,220 --> 00:19:00,579 Is there something wrong? 392 00:19:00,620 --> 00:19:01,820 Mel, come here. 393 00:19:01,860 --> 00:19:05,020 I don't know how to tell you this. 394 00:19:05,059 --> 00:19:06,220 You're soft. 395 00:19:06,260 --> 00:19:07,979 I've gained a little weight. 396 00:19:08,020 --> 00:19:09,859 It's not that. You're soft. 397 00:19:09,899 --> 00:19:11,939 You're out of focus. 398 00:19:11,980 --> 00:19:13,220 I don't know why. 399 00:19:13,260 --> 00:19:14,819 Is there anything we can do? 400 00:19:14,860 --> 00:19:16,699 I can't adjust this. 401 00:19:16,739 --> 00:19:18,580 Just look at yourself. 402 00:19:18,620 --> 00:19:20,540 There's nothing to do. 403 00:19:20,579 --> 00:19:22,460 You sure you're OK? 404 00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:24,819 It's fuzzy. 405 00:19:24,860 --> 00:19:26,059 I feel fine. 406 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:27,579 Mel's out of focus. 407 00:19:27,660 --> 00:19:29,140 He's soft. 408 00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:30,820 I don't know what to do. 409 00:19:30,859 --> 00:19:32,420 It's almost 4:00 anyway. 410 00:19:32,460 --> 00:19:34,019 Why don't we just wrap? 411 00:19:34,060 --> 00:19:36,260 We'll wrap and see what happens. 412 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:40,899 I want you to go home and rest. 413 00:19:40,940 --> 00:19:42,939 See if you can sharpen up. 414 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:50,260 Grace, I'm home. 415 00:19:52,460 --> 00:19:54,419 Hey. What's the matter? 416 00:19:54,459 --> 00:19:56,379 You look strange. 417 00:19:56,420 --> 00:19:58,019 I'm out of focus. 418 00:19:58,060 --> 00:20:02,299 Yeah, you are. Just a little bit. 419 00:20:02,379 --> 00:20:03,460 And you look pale. 420 00:20:03,499 --> 00:20:05,220 Daddy, you're all blurry. 421 00:20:05,259 --> 00:20:07,300 Maybe you should lie down. 422 00:20:07,339 --> 00:20:09,500 Daddy's out of focus! 423 00:20:09,539 --> 00:20:11,299 Daddy doesn't need that, OK? 424 00:20:11,339 --> 00:20:13,060 You be nice. 425 00:20:13,099 --> 00:20:15,299 What happened at work? 426 00:20:15,340 --> 00:20:16,819 Daddy's out of focus! 427 00:20:16,860 --> 00:20:18,100 Rueben! Stop it! 428 00:20:18,140 --> 00:20:22,380 They thought it was the camera. Then...it was me. 429 00:20:22,419 --> 00:20:24,180 They sent me home. It's so humiliating. 430 00:20:24,219 --> 00:20:27,060 Did you eat anything strange at lunch? Any shellfish? 431 00:20:27,099 --> 00:20:30,099 This isn't an allergic reaction. I don't know what it is. 432 00:20:30,139 --> 00:20:32,419 I just need to get a good night's sleep. 433 00:20:32,459 --> 00:20:33,699 I'll be OK. 434 00:20:33,740 --> 00:20:34,899 I'm sure that's all it is. 435 00:20:34,939 --> 00:20:36,220 What happened to you? 436 00:20:36,259 --> 00:20:40,580 You get a good night's sleep, and tomorrow you'll be fine. 437 00:20:40,620 --> 00:20:44,020 The following morning, however, things did not improve. 438 00:20:44,060 --> 00:20:46,340 In fact, the situation had gotten worse. 439 00:20:46,380 --> 00:20:48,940 Mel was more out of focus than ever. 440 00:20:48,980 --> 00:20:50,180 I gotta get to the doctor. 441 00:20:52,179 --> 00:20:54,419 I've never seen anything like this. 442 00:20:54,460 --> 00:20:57,659 Nothing's is wrong with you, except you're out of focus. 443 00:20:57,699 --> 00:20:59,780 What's the matter? 444 00:20:59,820 --> 00:21:02,059 It's from looking at Mel, I'm seasick. 445 00:21:02,099 --> 00:21:04,379 That's why I want everyone to try these. 446 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:08,099 I don't want to wear glasses. 447 00:21:08,139 --> 00:21:10,340 Wait. Let's see. 448 00:21:10,380 --> 00:21:12,659 Put 'em on so you can see me, son. 449 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:14,060 This is much better. 450 00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:15,700 You'll be able to see me. 451 00:21:15,740 --> 00:21:17,459 Put those on. Daddy'll be sharper. 452 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:19,420 Don't you want to see Daddy? 453 00:21:19,460 --> 00:21:21,539 Put those on, and we won't get headaches. 454 00:21:21,579 --> 00:21:25,700 Despite the fact that children don't want to wear glasses... 455 00:21:25,740 --> 00:21:27,140 they're forced to. 456 00:21:28,139 --> 00:21:32,259 You expect the world to adjust to the distortion you've become. 457 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:33,940 I don't expect anything. 458 00:21:33,980 --> 00:21:36,980 I'm going through something-- I don't know what. 459 00:21:37,019 --> 00:21:40,700 For the first time in my life, I can't seem to write. 460 00:21:40,739 --> 00:21:41,940 It's not coming. 461 00:21:41,979 --> 00:21:43,939 And for me... 462 00:21:43,980 --> 00:21:46,499 all I have in life is my imagination. 463 00:21:46,539 --> 00:21:48,660 I'm sorry. Our time is up. 464 00:21:48,699 --> 00:21:50,860 Have a good time at the honoring ceremony. 465 00:21:50,899 --> 00:21:53,060 I think it would be good for you and your son... 466 00:21:53,099 --> 00:21:55,100 if you brought him along. 467 00:21:57,219 --> 00:21:59,259 Joan, you never return my phone calls. 468 00:21:59,299 --> 00:22:01,380 Oh, leave me alone. 469 00:22:01,420 --> 00:22:03,259 Do you want me to call the police? 470 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:04,860 I've got to ask you one question. 471 00:22:04,899 --> 00:22:06,780 I don't want to listen to you. 472 00:22:06,860 --> 00:22:09,579 Tomorrow they're honoring me at Adair, my old university. 473 00:22:09,620 --> 00:22:10,819 I want to take Hilly. 474 00:22:10,860 --> 00:22:12,100 He has school tomorrow. 475 00:22:12,139 --> 00:22:14,020 I want to trade one visitation day. 476 00:22:14,059 --> 00:22:15,299 I have plans with Hilly. 477 00:22:15,339 --> 00:22:16,579 It'll be good to see. 478 00:22:16,620 --> 00:22:18,499 The kid will see his father honored. 479 00:22:18,540 --> 00:22:20,740 I don't want him to see you! 480 00:22:20,779 --> 00:22:23,740 He'll have a day in the country. Will you stop for one second? 481 00:22:23,780 --> 00:22:26,139 A day in the country. What is so bad? 482 00:22:26,179 --> 00:22:27,539 He is nine years old. 483 00:22:27,580 --> 00:22:30,900 Where does he learn phrases like "banging beaver" and "fuck God?" 484 00:22:30,939 --> 00:22:32,260 What, from me? 485 00:22:32,299 --> 00:22:33,859 What do I look like, an imbecile? 486 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:36,220 I know what your conversations are like with him... 487 00:22:36,260 --> 00:22:38,700 and don't think I didn't hear about Open School Week. 488 00:22:38,740 --> 00:22:41,340 Beth Kramer has never been so appalled in her entire life! 489 00:22:41,379 --> 00:22:44,419 Dad, why doesn't my penis look like yours? 490 00:22:45,059 --> 00:22:47,259 Why doesn't your penis look like mine? 491 00:22:47,299 --> 00:22:51,300 Because your mother and I never had you circumcised. 492 00:22:51,740 --> 00:22:53,820 When I was your age, every kid in my neighborhood-- 493 00:22:53,859 --> 00:22:57,019 you know what they used to do? They'd name their penises. 494 00:22:57,060 --> 00:22:58,620 I'm going to name mine Dillinger. 495 00:22:58,659 --> 00:23:00,459 Dillinger is perfect! 496 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:01,900 Dillinger is great! 497 00:23:01,939 --> 00:23:03,619 Hilly, you're inspired. You're a genius. 498 00:23:03,660 --> 00:23:06,859 Dillinger was one of the great geniuses of his profession. 499 00:23:06,899 --> 00:23:08,460 Like Willy Sutton. 500 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:10,660 Remember when we discussed Freud once? 501 00:23:10,699 --> 00:23:14,060 Freud said the 2 most important things to having a good life... 502 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:16,940 are the work that you choose and sex. 503 00:23:16,980 --> 00:23:18,539 Those are the 2 things. 504 00:23:18,579 --> 00:23:20,660 Women are God. 505 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:21,900 God's a woman? 506 00:23:21,940 --> 00:23:24,140 I'm not saying God's a woman. 507 00:23:24,179 --> 00:23:25,860 There are women. 508 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:28,419 We don't know if there's a God, but there are women... 509 00:23:28,460 --> 00:23:31,620 not in some imaginary heaven, but right here on earth. 510 00:23:31,660 --> 00:23:36,460 And some of them, Hilly, shop at Victoria's Secret. 511 00:23:36,499 --> 00:23:40,260 Beth Kramer has never been so mortified in her life. 512 00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:43,619 Beth Kramer's an aggressive, tight-assed, busybody cunt... 513 00:23:43,659 --> 00:23:46,539 and it's none of her business how I speak to my son. 514 00:23:46,580 --> 00:23:48,900 Beth Kramer is a decent parent and a great friend. 515 00:23:48,940 --> 00:23:50,060 Oh, Bullshit. 516 00:23:50,099 --> 00:23:52,299 I'm asking you to change one visitation day. 517 00:23:52,340 --> 00:23:53,659 What is so terrible? 518 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:56,220 He is not gonna miss a day of school. 519 00:23:56,259 --> 00:23:57,740 What if he was sick? 520 00:23:57,779 --> 00:24:00,020 He would miss school. 521 00:24:00,060 --> 00:24:01,660 But he is not sick... 522 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:03,900 and he's not gonna spend the afternoon... 523 00:24:03,939 --> 00:24:06,340 with his pill-popping, alcoholic... 524 00:24:06,380 --> 00:24:09,220 beaver-banging excuse for a father. 525 00:24:09,260 --> 00:24:11,460 Years ago, you didn't say that about me. 526 00:24:11,499 --> 00:24:12,579 You didn't think that. 527 00:24:12,619 --> 00:24:14,340 You were a nice, loose, easygoing spirit. 528 00:24:14,379 --> 00:24:15,619 Put it in a book! 529 00:24:15,660 --> 00:24:17,699 What am I saying? You already did. 530 00:24:18,580 --> 00:24:21,499 Epstein had married his third shrink. 531 00:24:21,580 --> 00:24:24,340 He had confessed his feelings toward her several times... 532 00:24:24,379 --> 00:24:26,940 and it seemed she had put it down to transference... 533 00:24:26,979 --> 00:24:29,420 but one day, she surprised him. 534 00:24:29,459 --> 00:24:31,180 I think it best... 535 00:24:31,219 --> 00:24:33,380 that we terminate your treatment. 536 00:24:34,379 --> 00:24:36,100 And then I think... 537 00:24:36,140 --> 00:24:39,940 we should give it a substantial period of time... 538 00:24:39,980 --> 00:24:42,300 and then if we both feel the same way... 539 00:24:42,339 --> 00:24:45,420 I think we can begin to see each other again... 540 00:24:45,460 --> 00:24:46,940 socially. 541 00:24:48,939 --> 00:24:52,460 It was, to Epstein's thinking, a match made in heaven. 542 00:24:52,499 --> 00:24:55,900 Here, at last, was a woman who understood him. 543 00:24:55,939 --> 00:24:59,899 You know all my secrets, every nuance of my psychic life. 544 00:24:59,939 --> 00:25:02,860 There isn't a feeling or desire that I haven't admitted to you. 545 00:25:02,899 --> 00:25:05,220 Now it's your turn to explore me. 546 00:25:05,259 --> 00:25:07,699 But all my perversions, you accept them. 547 00:25:07,739 --> 00:25:10,579 My need to be tied up, to watch you with other women... 548 00:25:10,619 --> 00:25:13,020 to feel your spike heels in my mouth. 549 00:25:13,059 --> 00:25:15,180 No one can say that I didn't know... 550 00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:17,140 what I was letting myself in for. 551 00:25:19,340 --> 00:25:21,859 The first 2 years were amazing. 552 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:24,299 They moved into a large Westend Avenue apartment. 553 00:25:24,339 --> 00:25:26,420 He wrote. She saw patients. 554 00:25:26,460 --> 00:25:29,740 But her clearest insights were into his work. 555 00:25:29,780 --> 00:25:31,299 What one comes away with... 556 00:25:31,339 --> 00:25:34,020 is your total isolation, your fear of people... 557 00:25:34,059 --> 00:25:36,060 your panic over closeness... 558 00:25:36,139 --> 00:25:38,899 and that's why your real life is so chaotic... 559 00:25:38,940 --> 00:25:42,340 and your writing is so much more controlled and stable. 560 00:25:42,380 --> 00:25:43,939 You're unable to-- 561 00:25:43,980 --> 00:25:45,900 Yes, it all went quite well... 562 00:25:45,940 --> 00:25:48,459 until Helen became pregnant and gave birth. 563 00:25:48,499 --> 00:25:49,979 From that moment on... 564 00:25:50,060 --> 00:25:52,820 as if she had experienced a divine revelation... 565 00:25:52,859 --> 00:25:56,179 she suddenly became what Epstein referred to angrily... 566 00:25:56,220 --> 00:25:58,339 as "Jewish with a vengeance." 567 00:25:58,380 --> 00:26:02,940 I rue the day I listened to you and didn't have him circumcised. 568 00:26:02,979 --> 00:26:04,420 What are you, nuts? 569 00:26:04,460 --> 00:26:06,019 We can still do it. 570 00:26:06,060 --> 00:26:07,699 No. He's too old. 571 00:26:07,740 --> 00:26:09,339 What is wrong with you? 572 00:26:09,380 --> 00:26:11,259 Now he's too old. 573 00:26:11,340 --> 00:26:13,220 You're like a born-again Christian... 574 00:26:13,260 --> 00:26:14,580 except you're a Jew. 575 00:26:14,620 --> 00:26:17,379 I see my father's face in Hillel. 576 00:26:17,419 --> 00:26:18,980 Hilliard. 577 00:26:19,020 --> 00:26:20,699 His name is Hilliard. 578 00:26:20,740 --> 00:26:22,339 We didn't name him Hillel. 579 00:26:22,379 --> 00:26:24,379 We didn't name him after some rabbi. 580 00:26:24,419 --> 00:26:25,619 It's Hilliard Epstein. 581 00:26:25,659 --> 00:26:27,460 No, I'm sick of your smug cynicism. 582 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:29,059 There's value in tradition. 583 00:26:29,099 --> 00:26:30,699 I never thought it would mean anything... 584 00:26:30,739 --> 00:26:32,659 but now that I'm a mother, it does. 585 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:36,339 I see not only meaning in Judaism, but true beauty. 586 00:26:36,380 --> 00:26:38,020 Helen, you're a scientist. 587 00:26:38,060 --> 00:26:39,779 Einstein was a scientist... 588 00:26:39,820 --> 00:26:42,300 and a he was a Jew, and he was religious. 589 00:26:42,340 --> 00:26:46,339 Helen had taken on the obligation of daily prayers. 590 00:26:46,379 --> 00:26:47,620 Jews, of course... 591 00:26:47,660 --> 00:26:50,020 fearing a wrathful and vengeful God... 592 00:26:50,059 --> 00:26:52,539 give praise and thanks for everything. 593 00:27:08,739 --> 00:27:09,539 ...blow job. 594 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:13,580 Then one day, the inevitable happened. 595 00:27:13,619 --> 00:27:15,500 A patient of Helen's, an Israeli... 596 00:27:15,539 --> 00:27:17,700 who had come to her in a depressed state... 597 00:27:17,739 --> 00:27:19,780 over his wife having left him... 598 00:27:19,819 --> 00:27:21,899 captured Helen's heart. 599 00:27:21,940 --> 00:27:23,939 I think we should terminate your treatment... 600 00:27:23,980 --> 00:27:27,339 and give it a substantial period of time... 601 00:27:27,379 --> 00:27:29,060 and then if we both still feel the same way... 602 00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:32,739 then I think we could start to see each other socially. 603 00:27:40,099 --> 00:27:41,300 Richard. 604 00:27:41,339 --> 00:27:42,900 ...lost in thought. 605 00:27:42,940 --> 00:27:45,899 I was thinking about a book I wrote. 606 00:27:45,940 --> 00:27:48,099 -I'm a mess. -What's the matter? 607 00:27:48,140 --> 00:27:49,979 I'm on my way to the doctor's. 608 00:27:50,019 --> 00:27:51,899 I'm having severe pains in my chest. 609 00:27:51,939 --> 00:27:53,539 That's nothing. 610 00:27:53,579 --> 00:27:56,940 That's indigestion, gallbladder, ulcer, or acid reflux. 611 00:27:56,979 --> 00:27:58,180 I've got a family history. 612 00:27:58,219 --> 00:27:59,380 My father died of a heart attack... 613 00:27:59,420 --> 00:28:01,340 my mother dropped dead of a massive coronary... 614 00:28:01,420 --> 00:28:04,659 and both my brothers were dead before 50 from heart failure. 615 00:28:05,619 --> 00:28:07,500 I don't know why you're wasting time. 616 00:28:07,539 --> 00:28:08,939 You should get an ambulance. 617 00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:11,620 -Are you busy? -I was gonna see my editor. 618 00:28:11,659 --> 00:28:13,780 I hate going for these tests alone. 619 00:28:13,820 --> 00:28:17,299 My mother died giving birth to me... 620 00:28:17,340 --> 00:28:19,700 for which my father never forgave me. 621 00:28:19,739 --> 00:28:23,540 Funny. I wish before he died I had forgiven him. 622 00:28:23,579 --> 00:28:27,179 We're morbid, 'cause you think you're dying, but you're not. 623 00:28:27,220 --> 00:28:29,540 Today, they got lasers, all kinds of things. 624 00:28:29,580 --> 00:28:31,579 You and science, right? 625 00:28:31,659 --> 00:28:33,579 There's nothing wrong with science. 626 00:28:33,619 --> 00:28:35,580 Between air conditioning and the pope... 627 00:28:35,659 --> 00:28:37,059 I'll take air conditioning. 628 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:38,780 I'm scared. Really scared. 629 00:28:38,819 --> 00:28:41,579 Can we change the subject? 630 00:28:41,620 --> 00:28:43,059 I have writer's block. 631 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:46,099 For the first time in my life... 632 00:28:46,140 --> 00:28:48,380 I can't come up with a meaningful idea... 633 00:28:48,419 --> 00:28:49,700 something that holds my interest. 634 00:28:49,740 --> 00:28:52,500 Since Fay left you, you've been having trouble. 635 00:28:52,539 --> 00:28:54,820 I'm seeing Fay later. I'm having a drink with Fay. 636 00:28:54,859 --> 00:28:56,180 That's very good. 637 00:28:56,219 --> 00:28:58,059 She's good for you. 638 00:28:58,100 --> 00:28:59,779 She's a lot better... 639 00:28:59,819 --> 00:29:02,699 than a lot of those other crazies that you-- 640 00:29:02,740 --> 00:29:04,260 Ow. My God, my arm. 641 00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:06,659 I'm telling you, it's nothing. 642 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:10,099 I'm not scared. 643 00:29:10,140 --> 00:29:12,740 You're in great shape. 644 00:29:12,780 --> 00:29:15,299 You have a little bursitis in your arm, but... 645 00:29:15,339 --> 00:29:16,580 Oh, that's fantastic. 646 00:29:16,620 --> 00:29:18,500 What do I always say? 647 00:29:18,540 --> 00:29:20,139 The most beautiful words in the English language... 648 00:29:20,180 --> 00:29:22,620 are not "I love you, but "it's benign." 649 00:29:22,660 --> 00:29:25,500 We could do more tests, but I don't think so. 650 00:29:25,540 --> 00:29:27,899 -This is fantastic. -Your heart's in great shape. 651 00:29:27,939 --> 00:29:29,220 While I'm here... 652 00:29:29,260 --> 00:29:31,659 I hurt my back a few weeks ago, opening a subzero refrigerator. 653 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:32,780 Let me schedule you. 654 00:29:32,820 --> 00:29:34,899 Let me buy you a cup of coffee. 655 00:29:34,939 --> 00:29:36,019 I don't have time. 656 00:29:36,060 --> 00:29:37,539 What are you doing tomorrow? 657 00:29:37,580 --> 00:29:39,220 I'm busy. Why? 658 00:29:39,260 --> 00:29:42,059 I'm going to my old university. They're honoring me. 659 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:44,060 I'm looking for company to come with me. 660 00:29:44,099 --> 00:29:48,740 I don't think I can get out of this thing, but that's great. 661 00:29:48,779 --> 00:29:50,500 Congratulations. 662 00:30:06,820 --> 00:30:08,419 So you look great. 663 00:30:08,460 --> 00:30:10,859 Thank you. You look a little tired. 664 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:14,380 'Cause I'm struggling with this book. 665 00:30:14,419 --> 00:30:17,339 Naturally, I spent the advance already. 666 00:30:17,380 --> 00:30:20,019 I'm having a tough time. 667 00:30:20,059 --> 00:30:23,179 The reason that I wanted to have this drink was-- 668 00:30:23,219 --> 00:30:27,299 Can I get a red wine, exact same thing that she has? 669 00:30:27,339 --> 00:30:29,740 I wanted to be the first to tell you... 670 00:30:29,779 --> 00:30:31,419 that I'm getting married. 671 00:30:31,459 --> 00:30:33,260 Oh, don't say that. 672 00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:35,939 -Why? -What do you mean, why? 673 00:30:35,979 --> 00:30:38,620 Because I love you. 674 00:30:38,660 --> 00:30:41,299 How can you get married? 675 00:30:41,339 --> 00:30:42,580 Who? is it Larry? 676 00:30:42,620 --> 00:30:43,619 Yes, it's Larry. 677 00:30:43,659 --> 00:30:46,700 I knew that. I don't fucking believe this. 678 00:30:46,740 --> 00:30:49,340 This guy's allegedly a friend of mine. 679 00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:51,540 He's the devil. 680 00:30:51,579 --> 00:30:52,979 I should never have introduced you. 681 00:30:53,020 --> 00:30:55,419 When Larry's around, I smell burning sulfur. 682 00:30:56,620 --> 00:30:59,579 Can we have your blessing? Can I have it? 683 00:31:00,580 --> 00:31:02,060 You don't have my blessing. 684 00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:04,020 I don't want you to get married. 685 00:31:04,059 --> 00:31:05,859 I don't want you to. 686 00:31:06,220 --> 00:31:07,180 I should go. 687 00:31:07,219 --> 00:31:08,499 I was your pupil. 688 00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:11,260 It was Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. 689 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:13,620 That's what it was, and that's what you loved. 690 00:31:13,659 --> 00:31:16,699 But it didn't work that way. What do you want me to say? 691 00:31:16,740 --> 00:31:18,540 Why did you fall in love with me? 692 00:31:18,580 --> 00:31:23,180 You gave me those lectures on love in the Western world. 693 00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:26,340 I didn't think I could. I thought I was too damaged. 694 00:31:26,380 --> 00:31:28,379 But it's not... 695 00:31:28,420 --> 00:31:29,699 I woke up one morning... 696 00:31:29,739 --> 00:31:32,059 and I looked at you over breakfast... 697 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:36,660 and I thought to myself, "God, this is what they mean. 698 00:31:36,699 --> 00:31:38,820 "This is what they're talking about." 699 00:31:38,860 --> 00:31:40,620 Those warnings about how I wasn't supposed... 700 00:31:40,660 --> 00:31:42,219 to fall in love with you. 701 00:31:42,260 --> 00:31:44,099 But then I fell in love with you. 702 00:31:44,139 --> 00:31:46,260 ...another jerk fan. 703 00:31:46,299 --> 00:31:49,380 That I would fuck you and move on to the next fan. 704 00:31:49,420 --> 00:31:51,300 But it didn't happen that way. 705 00:31:51,340 --> 00:31:55,340 You were a fan and a follower... 706 00:31:55,379 --> 00:31:59,180 and then a pupil, and then you were a roommate. 707 00:31:59,219 --> 00:32:01,539 And before I knew it... 708 00:32:01,579 --> 00:32:04,660 you were the one who had control of the channel changer. 709 00:32:10,380 --> 00:32:12,020 I loved you. 710 00:32:12,060 --> 00:32:14,019 I was in awe of you. 711 00:32:14,059 --> 00:32:17,500 But I wasn't in love with you. 712 00:32:17,540 --> 00:32:19,340 ...to my old university. 713 00:32:19,379 --> 00:32:21,699 They're honoring me, if you can believe that. 714 00:32:21,739 --> 00:32:23,939 Give me a chance to talk you out of it. 715 00:32:23,980 --> 00:32:25,539 Spend one day with me. 716 00:32:25,579 --> 00:32:27,899 I'm getting married tomorrow. 717 00:32:27,940 --> 00:32:30,219 Tomorrow you're getting married? 718 00:32:30,260 --> 00:32:31,619 The day I'm honored-- 719 00:32:31,660 --> 00:32:33,180 I can't fucking believe this. 720 00:32:33,259 --> 00:32:34,499 You're getting married tomorrow? 721 00:32:34,540 --> 00:32:37,300 Yes. It's been planned for months. 722 00:32:37,339 --> 00:32:38,660 Don't do it! 723 00:32:44,619 --> 00:32:47,099 While Goldberg was asleep one night... 724 00:32:47,140 --> 00:32:49,259 the devil entered his apartment... 725 00:32:49,299 --> 00:32:51,219 and abducted his beautiful blond love... 726 00:32:51,260 --> 00:32:53,139 and carried her off to hell. 727 00:32:53,180 --> 00:32:54,980 The following morning... 728 00:32:55,019 --> 00:32:58,260 Goldberg noticed the odd smell of burning sulfur. 729 00:33:04,020 --> 00:33:05,739 Harry Block? 730 00:33:05,780 --> 00:33:06,979 You're Cookie? 731 00:33:07,020 --> 00:33:08,379 Cookie Williams. 732 00:33:08,420 --> 00:33:10,099 You wanted me here at 10:00? 733 00:33:10,180 --> 00:33:11,300 Yeah. Jesus. 734 00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:18,779 Shall we get to it? 735 00:33:19,660 --> 00:33:21,860 You don't want to talk a little first? 736 00:33:21,899 --> 00:33:23,780 Talk? Why? 737 00:33:24,419 --> 00:33:27,380 Really? Most guys don't like to just jump right into bed... 738 00:33:27,419 --> 00:33:28,659 without a little talking. 739 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:30,340 They think it's too businesslike. 740 00:33:30,340 --> 00:33:31,539 Oh, not me. 741 00:33:31,580 --> 00:33:32,899 ...tie me up. 742 00:33:32,940 --> 00:33:34,220 Whatever you want. 743 00:33:34,259 --> 00:33:36,299 Let's get the monetary part out of the way. 744 00:33:36,339 --> 00:33:37,459 Then we can relax. 745 00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:38,700 Absolutely. You get 200? 746 00:33:38,740 --> 00:33:40,100 That's right. 747 00:33:40,139 --> 00:33:42,219 You want me to tie you up? 748 00:33:42,259 --> 00:33:46,219 Tie me up, hit me a little bit, and give me a blow job. 749 00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:48,300 A blow job, then hit you. 750 00:33:48,340 --> 00:33:52,219 No. Hit me, then the blow job. I want to get the order right. 751 00:33:52,259 --> 00:33:53,420 Otherwise, it's no fun. 752 00:33:53,459 --> 00:33:55,620 Tie me up, hit me, blow job. 753 00:33:55,659 --> 00:33:57,579 What do you want me to tie you with? 754 00:33:57,619 --> 00:34:00,820 Well, truth is, I thought you were gonna wear stockings. 755 00:34:00,859 --> 00:34:02,980 Cookie, you're a definite artist. 756 00:34:03,020 --> 00:34:05,379 They should put your lips in the Smithsonian. 757 00:34:05,419 --> 00:34:07,140 It took you a long time. 758 00:34:07,179 --> 00:34:08,859 I didn't think you'd make it. 759 00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:11,620 I was having a problem focusing. 760 00:34:11,620 --> 00:34:13,460 Finally, I got the right fantasy. 761 00:34:13,499 --> 00:34:16,860 I thought of a woman I saw on Sixth Avenue today... 762 00:34:16,899 --> 00:34:19,460 and I coupled her with Svetlana Stalin. 763 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,299 It's the daughter of the dictator. 764 00:34:21,339 --> 00:34:22,620 It worked for me. 765 00:34:22,659 --> 00:34:24,059 What do you take medicine for? 766 00:34:25,139 --> 00:34:26,860 Me? Depression. 767 00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:28,859 What are you depressed about? 768 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:30,740 Depressed. Don't you ever get depressed? 769 00:34:30,779 --> 00:34:33,659 Doesn't your work ever get you down? 770 00:34:33,700 --> 00:34:35,739 It's OK. Beats the hell out of waitressing. 771 00:34:36,419 --> 00:34:40,939 Every hooker I ever speak to tells me it beats waitressing. 772 00:34:40,980 --> 00:34:43,780 Waitressing's got to be the worst job in the world. 773 00:34:43,819 --> 00:34:44,980 It's unbelievable. 774 00:34:45,019 --> 00:34:47,259 What are you sad about? 775 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:50,259 I'm spiritually bankrupt. I'm empty. 776 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:51,700 What do you mean? 777 00:34:51,739 --> 00:34:53,220 I'm frightened. 778 00:34:53,259 --> 00:34:56,179 I got no soul. You know what I mean? 779 00:34:56,220 --> 00:34:57,539 Let me put it this way. 780 00:34:57,580 --> 00:34:58,659 When I was younger... 781 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:00,900 it was less scary waiting for Lefty... 782 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:02,499 than it is waiting for Godot. 783 00:35:03,019 --> 00:35:04,419 Aw, you lost me. 784 00:35:05,660 --> 00:35:08,180 You know that the universe is coming apart? 785 00:35:08,219 --> 00:35:11,099 You know what a black hole is? 786 00:35:11,139 --> 00:35:13,019 Yeah. That's how I make my living. 787 00:35:13,380 --> 00:35:15,300 You know, I gotta tell you, Cookie.... 788 00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:17,299 a great writer named Sophocles... 789 00:35:17,340 --> 00:35:20,340 said that it was probably best not to be born at all. 790 00:35:20,380 --> 00:35:22,140 Honey, it's a little too late for that. 791 00:35:22,980 --> 00:35:24,460 I fought it. 792 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:26,820 I didn't want out. They had to come and get me. 793 00:35:28,060 --> 00:35:29,660 You want another blow job? 794 00:35:30,780 --> 00:35:31,979 How come? 795 00:35:32,020 --> 00:35:33,820 It's on the house. No charge. 796 00:35:33,859 --> 00:35:36,580 'Cause them pills you taking sure ain't working. 797 00:35:37,220 --> 00:35:39,460 I'm just in a peculiar mood tonight... 798 00:35:39,499 --> 00:35:42,379 'cause I had some bad news today. 799 00:35:42,420 --> 00:35:45,019 Let me ask you a question. What are you doing tomorrow? 800 00:35:45,779 --> 00:35:46,779 Hustlin'. 801 00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:49,499 Why don't you come with me? 802 00:35:49,539 --> 00:35:50,739 Where? 803 00:35:50,779 --> 00:35:54,100 I'm going up to my old school 'cause they're gonna honor me. 804 00:35:54,140 --> 00:35:55,900 I got nobody to share it with. 805 00:35:56,219 --> 00:35:58,419 I'm serious. Come with me. 806 00:35:58,459 --> 00:36:00,739 I'll give you 500 bucks for the day. 807 00:36:00,779 --> 00:36:02,979 Sleep here tonight, come up with me tomorrow. 808 00:36:02,979 --> 00:36:04,540 How come you got all this money? 809 00:36:04,619 --> 00:36:06,580 I always keep hooker money around... 810 00:36:06,620 --> 00:36:08,660 'cause I once paid by check years ago... 811 00:36:08,699 --> 00:36:10,140 and the IRS killed me. 812 00:36:22,139 --> 00:36:26,340 Fay, when you get this message, if it's not too late... 813 00:36:26,379 --> 00:36:28,780 I don't want you to get married... 814 00:36:28,820 --> 00:36:33,019 because I love you, and I want to marry you. 815 00:36:33,060 --> 00:36:34,180 You... 816 00:36:34,860 --> 00:36:38,459 I was looking at my last book... 817 00:36:38,499 --> 00:36:40,379 the part where we met... 818 00:36:40,419 --> 00:36:44,420 and I tried to exaggerate it to make it funny... 819 00:36:44,460 --> 00:36:47,379 but it was actually very romantic. 820 00:36:49,739 --> 00:36:51,140 She can't hear. 821 00:36:51,180 --> 00:36:53,060 I'm in town to see Les Mis. 822 00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:54,340 I have a free hour. 823 00:36:54,379 --> 00:36:57,019 I don't know if I can. 824 00:36:57,060 --> 00:36:58,939 I got our usual place at the Wyndham. 825 00:36:58,980 --> 00:37:00,579 It's been almost two weeks. 826 00:37:00,579 --> 00:37:03,419 We'll have to make it fast. 827 00:37:03,459 --> 00:37:05,420 I can't make it believable for so long. 828 00:37:10,019 --> 00:37:11,539 You'll be back in an hour. 829 00:37:11,580 --> 00:37:14,579 I have to be done by then anyway. 830 00:37:17,419 --> 00:37:19,140 Think I'll take a walk. 831 00:37:19,140 --> 00:37:20,739 Now? 832 00:37:20,780 --> 00:37:25,060 'Cause I thought that I would just... 833 00:37:25,099 --> 00:37:27,900 just to get some fresh air. 834 00:37:57,940 --> 00:37:59,419 Excuse me. 835 00:37:59,460 --> 00:38:01,420 Are you Harry Block? 836 00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:05,820 Your writing has been so meaningful to me. 837 00:38:05,859 --> 00:38:07,700 Thank you very much. 838 00:38:07,740 --> 00:38:09,660 Can't believe I'm in the elevator with you. 839 00:38:09,699 --> 00:38:11,739 It's no big deal. 840 00:38:11,779 --> 00:38:13,580 Are you staying here? 841 00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:16,340 I'm meeting someone. 842 00:38:24,460 --> 00:38:26,819 Oh, my God. 843 00:38:26,859 --> 00:38:28,540 What is this? 844 00:38:28,580 --> 00:38:30,699 It's stuck again. 845 00:38:30,740 --> 00:38:32,540 If this was one of my stories... 846 00:38:32,579 --> 00:38:34,939 this elevator would get stuck between floors... 847 00:38:34,980 --> 00:38:38,020 and the two of us would start a major affair and fall in love. 848 00:38:48,619 --> 00:38:51,499 Promise me you won't fall in love with me. 849 00:38:52,940 --> 00:38:55,379 Definitely not. Not a good idea. 850 00:38:55,420 --> 00:38:56,619 Why? 851 00:38:56,660 --> 00:39:01,139 Because I'm too screwed up. 852 00:39:01,180 --> 00:39:05,379 I have too many quirks. 853 00:39:08,099 --> 00:39:09,980 I have trouble being faithful. 854 00:39:10,019 --> 00:39:13,820 I have too many phobias and craziness. 855 00:39:13,899 --> 00:39:17,059 But I fell in love with you before I met you... 856 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:19,140 when I read you. 857 00:39:19,180 --> 00:39:21,220 But you fell in love with my work. 858 00:39:21,260 --> 00:39:23,140 That's a different thing. 859 00:39:24,019 --> 00:39:27,899 I love your work, your imagination. 860 00:39:27,940 --> 00:39:31,620 But this is not a book. 861 00:39:31,620 --> 00:39:33,219 You know what I mean? 862 00:39:33,219 --> 00:39:36,539 We're not characters in a fictional thing. 863 00:39:37,859 --> 00:39:39,460 So don't fall in love. 864 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:40,739 Kiss me. 865 00:39:40,779 --> 00:39:43,899 Promise you won't fall in love with me. 866 00:39:43,939 --> 00:39:45,060 I promise. 867 00:40:05,420 --> 00:40:06,939 The subway took forever. I'm sorry. 868 00:40:06,979 --> 00:40:09,819 You said you weren't coming. 869 00:40:09,859 --> 00:40:11,339 We said 10:00. 870 00:40:11,379 --> 00:40:13,259 I'm sure that's what we said. 871 00:40:13,299 --> 00:40:15,739 I called you last night. 872 00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:16,979 When did you call me? 873 00:40:17,020 --> 00:40:18,860 I called you at 9:30 last night. 874 00:40:18,899 --> 00:40:20,979 You were writing-- 875 00:40:21,020 --> 00:40:22,380 We spoke on the phone? 876 00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:24,139 Of course. 877 00:40:24,180 --> 00:40:26,059 My mind has been playing tricks. 878 00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:27,780 This is Cookie. This is Richard. 879 00:40:27,819 --> 00:40:29,140 How are you? 880 00:40:29,179 --> 00:40:30,979 What's so special about this honor? 881 00:40:30,979 --> 00:40:33,900 The man is being honored by the school that expelled him. 882 00:40:33,940 --> 00:40:36,380 If only Hilly could see me-- he'd be so proud. 883 00:40:36,420 --> 00:40:38,020 I know, and it's sad... 884 00:40:38,020 --> 00:40:39,459 but short of kidnapping, he ain't coming. 885 00:40:44,139 --> 00:40:46,660 -This is ridiculous. -Don't worry. 886 00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:48,499 You're going to get in trouble. 887 00:40:48,539 --> 00:40:49,980 Come on, boys. 888 00:40:51,939 --> 00:40:53,579 Dad? What is it? 889 00:40:53,619 --> 00:40:55,659 We're not going to school today. 890 00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:57,579 What are you doing? Stop it! 891 00:40:57,620 --> 00:40:58,780 It's an emergency. 892 00:40:58,819 --> 00:41:00,619 What are you doing? Come on. 893 00:41:00,660 --> 00:41:02,779 You! Stop it! 894 00:41:02,819 --> 00:41:04,220 You can't do this! 895 00:41:04,260 --> 00:41:05,659 Get out of the car! 896 00:41:08,019 --> 00:41:09,379 Somebody stop this man! 897 00:41:09,420 --> 00:41:10,579 He's a deviant! 898 00:41:10,619 --> 00:41:13,980 Somebody stop him ! Somebody call the police! 899 00:41:14,019 --> 00:41:15,460 When the red, red robin... 900 00:41:15,500 --> 00:41:17,380 comes bob, bob, bobbin' along. 901 00:41:17,380 --> 00:41:19,340 -Go faster. 902 00:41:19,379 --> 00:41:23,259 There'll be no more sobbin' when he starts throbbin' his... 903 00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:24,500 old sweet song. 904 00:41:24,540 --> 00:41:27,420 Wake up, wake up, you sleepyhead. 905 00:41:27,459 --> 00:41:29,979 Get up, get up, get out of bed. 906 00:41:30,020 --> 00:41:32,579 Cheer up, cheer up, the sun is red. 907 00:41:32,620 --> 00:41:35,220 Live, love, laugh, and be happy. 908 00:41:40,099 --> 00:41:41,300 It's fabulous here. 909 00:41:41,339 --> 00:41:42,819 It's beautiful. I love it. 910 00:41:42,859 --> 00:41:44,300 A Ferris wheel. 911 00:41:44,339 --> 00:41:45,579 Look at the swings. 912 00:41:45,619 --> 00:41:46,979 Want to go? 913 00:41:53,860 --> 00:41:55,019 Very good. 914 00:41:59,459 --> 00:42:01,099 High-five. 915 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:08,300 I am going to smoke this joint. Want some? 916 00:42:08,339 --> 00:42:10,579 I can't stand that stuff. 917 00:42:10,620 --> 00:42:12,660 See that place there? 918 00:42:12,700 --> 00:42:14,939 That Red Apple Rest? 919 00:42:14,980 --> 00:42:18,820 Years ago, my then-wife Jane and I... 920 00:42:18,860 --> 00:42:21,139 were coming from Connecticut-- her sister's house-- 921 00:42:21,180 --> 00:42:23,059 and we had this awful fight. 922 00:42:23,100 --> 00:42:24,259 She was having her period. 923 00:42:24,299 --> 00:42:26,380 We stopped there to get water for her Midol. 924 00:42:26,420 --> 00:42:28,060 I don't want a child. 925 00:42:28,099 --> 00:42:30,660 Don't bring it up, especially in front of my parents. 926 00:42:30,699 --> 00:42:32,219 I don't understand you. 927 00:42:32,260 --> 00:42:33,979 We've discussed it. 928 00:42:34,019 --> 00:42:36,179 -Don't I get a vote? -You have a child. 929 00:42:36,219 --> 00:42:37,660 Who I never get to see. 930 00:42:37,699 --> 00:42:38,900 That's not my fault. 931 00:42:38,939 --> 00:42:40,459 I like being a father. 932 00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:42,219 I chose a different life than Lucy. 933 00:42:42,259 --> 00:42:43,459 You knew that. 934 00:42:43,459 --> 00:42:44,699 You're dedicated to work. 935 00:42:44,740 --> 00:42:46,140 That means we can't have children. 936 00:42:46,180 --> 00:42:48,100 Since when are you a family man? 937 00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:50,980 Don't think I don't see you staring at Lucy. 938 00:42:51,019 --> 00:42:52,259 What? 939 00:42:52,259 --> 00:42:53,660 Don't play ignorant. 940 00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:55,539 You watch her walk, sit. 941 00:42:55,580 --> 00:42:58,500 You can't keep your eyes off her toes. 942 00:42:58,539 --> 00:42:59,860 Are you nuts? 943 00:42:59,899 --> 00:43:01,220 What are you suggesting? 944 00:43:01,260 --> 00:43:02,939 I wouldn't put it past you... 945 00:43:02,979 --> 00:43:05,380 if you weren't dying to have a thing with her. 946 00:43:05,419 --> 00:43:08,100 She's a neurotic, suburban hausfrau. 947 00:43:08,139 --> 00:43:10,619 I have no interest in her. 948 00:43:10,659 --> 00:43:13,580 Your level of denial is intense. 949 00:43:13,619 --> 00:43:16,659 You're suffering from a premenstrual nuclear meltdown. 950 00:43:17,540 --> 00:43:18,979 You want a hit? 951 00:43:21,299 --> 00:43:23,020 That smoke is killing me. 952 00:43:24,179 --> 00:43:25,940 I'm going to the bathroom. 953 00:43:25,979 --> 00:43:27,420 I'll catch you later. 954 00:43:40,740 --> 00:43:42,979 Cold fish, your third ex-wife. 955 00:43:43,019 --> 00:43:45,339 She never would have made a good mother. 956 00:43:45,380 --> 00:43:47,219 Who are you? 957 00:43:47,259 --> 00:43:48,700 It's me--Ken. 958 00:43:51,779 --> 00:43:52,899 Look at this guy. 959 00:43:52,899 --> 00:43:55,779 You created me. Now you don't recognize me? 960 00:43:55,820 --> 00:43:58,300 I'm a little high because of her smoke. 961 00:43:58,339 --> 00:44:00,380 How'd you hook up with Jane? 962 00:44:00,419 --> 00:44:01,580 Jane was fine. 963 00:44:01,620 --> 00:44:04,379 Jane was having her period, so she was irritable. 964 00:44:04,419 --> 00:44:06,179 It wasn't just her period. 965 00:44:06,220 --> 00:44:08,899 She was a cold, selfish woman. 966 00:44:08,899 --> 00:44:10,100 She's so self-involved... 967 00:44:10,139 --> 00:44:13,140 she doesn't realize her sister hates her. 968 00:44:13,179 --> 00:44:15,779 How do you know so much? 969 00:44:15,779 --> 00:44:18,180 I'm just you, thinly disguised. 970 00:44:18,219 --> 00:44:21,379 You gave me more maturity and a different name. 971 00:44:22,259 --> 00:44:24,380 What are you saying? That I know this? 972 00:44:24,419 --> 00:44:26,380 Of course you do. That's why you picked her... 973 00:44:26,420 --> 00:44:27,900 so it wouldn't work-- 974 00:44:27,940 --> 00:44:29,980 so you'd never have to give up sport-fucking... 975 00:44:30,019 --> 00:44:32,499 and chronic dissatisfaction and grow up. 976 00:44:32,539 --> 00:44:36,260 I'm not going to get lectured by my own creation. 977 00:44:36,260 --> 00:44:38,220 You can't fool me. 978 00:44:38,259 --> 00:44:39,939 I'm not like your shrink. 979 00:44:39,939 --> 00:44:42,460 He only knows what you tell him. I know the truth. 980 00:44:42,499 --> 00:44:45,539 Her sister Lucy-- another head case. 981 00:44:46,980 --> 00:44:48,699 You sure can pick 'em. 982 00:44:48,740 --> 00:44:50,739 Even she was better than Jane... 983 00:44:50,779 --> 00:44:52,379 more maternal, and she loved you. 984 00:44:53,580 --> 00:44:55,299 You weren't there the day your bomb dropped... 985 00:44:55,340 --> 00:44:57,700 but take a look. 986 00:45:00,020 --> 00:45:01,420 He left me. 987 00:45:01,459 --> 00:45:03,899 Our marriage is finished. 988 00:45:03,939 --> 00:45:06,499 I'm so sorry. 989 00:45:06,499 --> 00:45:07,739 Are you shocked? 990 00:45:07,779 --> 00:45:09,900 Yes and no. 991 00:45:09,939 --> 00:45:12,859 Things have not been good for some time. 992 00:45:12,900 --> 00:45:14,339 I knew he played around. 993 00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:17,899 You never mentioned that. 994 00:45:17,939 --> 00:45:20,860 I don't like to discuss my private life. 995 00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:22,859 I suspected Lynn, his editor. 996 00:45:22,900 --> 00:45:28,020 Then I thought it might be Allison Davis, our friend. 997 00:45:28,059 --> 00:45:29,940 I even thought he might have a crush on you. 998 00:45:31,180 --> 00:45:32,500 Me? 999 00:45:32,540 --> 00:45:33,819 You're very beautiful. 1000 00:45:33,860 --> 00:45:35,899 We've spent a lot of time together. 1001 00:45:35,940 --> 00:45:38,700 You two get along well. 1002 00:45:38,739 --> 00:45:41,860 Obviously, I knew you never would in a million years... 1003 00:45:41,860 --> 00:45:45,459 but I imagined he longed for you. 1004 00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:49,540 I think I even heard him mention your name in his sleep. 1005 00:45:51,020 --> 00:45:52,300 My goodness. 1006 00:45:56,459 --> 00:45:58,020 That's absurd. 1007 00:45:59,619 --> 00:46:00,739 Really. 1008 00:46:02,140 --> 00:46:03,820 You're all red. 1009 00:46:06,980 --> 00:46:08,900 Are you OK? 1010 00:46:11,620 --> 00:46:13,619 Since we're talking openly... 1011 00:46:15,099 --> 00:46:16,739 I have a confession. 1012 00:46:22,420 --> 00:46:26,059 Life takes strange twists and turns. 1013 00:46:26,099 --> 00:46:27,299 It overwhelms us. 1014 00:46:27,339 --> 00:46:29,340 We're not responsible for our feelings. 1015 00:46:29,379 --> 00:46:31,179 Everybody's feelings are irrational. 1016 00:46:31,220 --> 00:46:34,699 But to hear from your husband that he found another woman... 1017 00:46:34,739 --> 00:46:37,059 He said that? 1018 00:46:37,100 --> 00:46:39,980 He said his future is all mapped out. 1019 00:46:44,780 --> 00:46:49,099 I'm going to be frank with you. Just try and hang on-- 1020 00:46:49,139 --> 00:46:50,860 I'm being replaced. 1021 00:46:50,899 --> 00:46:53,060 But it doesn't have to be a nightmare... 1022 00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:54,540 if we're all just mature about it. 1023 00:46:54,580 --> 00:46:56,819 Replaced by a 25-year-old. 1024 00:46:58,019 --> 00:46:59,859 Excuse me? 1025 00:46:59,900 --> 00:47:01,859 A 25-year-old-- a wannabe writer. 1026 00:47:01,899 --> 00:47:04,619 Fay Sexton is her sexy name. 1027 00:47:06,699 --> 00:47:09,100 What's the matter? Now you're white. 1028 00:47:12,260 --> 00:47:14,020 Have you eaten anything today? 1029 00:47:17,779 --> 00:47:18,860 Have a drink. 1030 00:47:18,899 --> 00:47:20,659 Finish that. 1031 00:47:20,699 --> 00:47:22,899 Hard to believe him when he's a liar. 1032 00:47:22,940 --> 00:47:24,140 I'm weak. 1033 00:47:26,579 --> 00:47:28,899 What's wrong? 1034 00:47:28,940 --> 00:47:31,180 You'd think he dumped you. 1035 00:47:31,219 --> 00:47:34,819 I know you feel bad for me, but I can handle it. 1036 00:47:34,860 --> 00:47:37,579 -Air! -I'm in shock today, but-- 1037 00:47:37,620 --> 00:47:39,459 I want to speak to Fay. 1038 00:47:39,459 --> 00:47:42,499 It's Harry Block. I've been trying to reach her. 1039 00:47:42,540 --> 00:47:44,419 This is an emergency. 1040 00:47:44,460 --> 00:47:46,019 I've got to talk-- 1041 00:47:46,059 --> 00:47:47,979 Tell her to call me back. 1042 00:47:48,020 --> 00:47:49,339 It's the car number. 1043 00:47:49,380 --> 00:47:50,579 The car. 1044 00:47:50,620 --> 00:47:52,580 Give up. She's in love with someone else. 1045 00:47:52,619 --> 00:47:54,419 This guy is too old for her. 1046 00:47:54,460 --> 00:47:55,700 He's younger than you. 1047 00:47:55,740 --> 00:47:58,139 I'm much too old for her. It's ridiculous. 1048 00:47:58,180 --> 00:48:00,780 Because of my immaturity, I have a boyish quality that works. 1049 00:48:00,820 --> 00:48:02,499 Is it much longer? 1050 00:48:02,539 --> 00:48:03,980 We were just at the fair. 1051 00:48:04,019 --> 00:48:05,220 You walked, ate. 1052 00:48:05,259 --> 00:48:06,660 How much longer is it? 1053 00:48:06,660 --> 00:48:08,220 It won't be long. 1054 00:48:08,259 --> 00:48:11,740 My sister lives 10 minutes from here. 1055 00:48:11,780 --> 00:48:13,540 We'll surprise her. It'll be fun. 1056 00:48:13,540 --> 00:48:14,859 You can eat, walk around-- 1057 00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:16,259 She's your half-sister. 1058 00:48:16,259 --> 00:48:18,500 But it'll still be 10 minutes... 1059 00:48:18,539 --> 00:48:21,500 not five, just because she's a half-sister. 1060 00:48:25,659 --> 00:48:27,300 It's wonderful. 1061 00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:28,579 It is so funny. 1062 00:48:28,579 --> 00:48:31,019 -Do you think so? -And it's sad. 1063 00:48:31,059 --> 00:48:32,419 I really loved it. 1064 00:48:32,460 --> 00:48:34,820 You're so great, so kind. 1065 00:48:34,859 --> 00:48:38,179 You have such a sweet, kind instinct. 1066 00:48:39,139 --> 00:48:40,899 Don't do that. 1067 00:48:40,939 --> 00:48:44,940 I count on you to be critical, to be tough. 1068 00:48:44,980 --> 00:48:46,340 You're too easy on me. 1069 00:48:46,379 --> 00:48:49,060 What was wrong with the story? 1070 00:48:49,060 --> 00:48:52,579 It had no energy. 1071 00:48:52,620 --> 00:48:53,939 I became discouraged with it. 1072 00:48:53,980 --> 00:48:56,220 It doesn't release any power. 1073 00:48:56,259 --> 00:48:57,499 It came to nothing. 1074 00:48:57,539 --> 00:48:59,780 I thought it was touching. 1075 00:48:59,780 --> 00:49:03,460 You knew when the boy grew up he would never love. 1076 00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:04,659 It was beautiful. 1077 00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:08,339 Your problem is you love too easily, too much. 1078 00:49:08,379 --> 00:49:12,619 I think you're beautiful and great and too kind to me... 1079 00:49:12,660 --> 00:49:14,180 and lovely. 1080 00:49:15,140 --> 00:49:17,460 But you're not in love with me. 1081 00:49:17,500 --> 00:49:21,180 I told you not to fall in love with me, and I meant that. 1082 00:49:21,219 --> 00:49:23,900 I still have not been able to figure out why. 1083 00:49:24,939 --> 00:49:28,340 Because l'm the boy in that story. 1084 00:49:28,379 --> 00:49:30,019 I can't love. 1085 00:49:30,019 --> 00:49:32,420 I don't want you to get into anything. 1086 00:49:32,459 --> 00:49:33,859 You love Hilly. 1087 00:49:34,659 --> 00:49:35,939 What? 1088 00:49:40,459 --> 00:49:42,820 Because Hilly's my son. 1089 00:49:42,820 --> 00:49:45,819 It's easy to love a little kid. 1090 00:49:45,860 --> 00:49:47,540 You love music. 1091 00:49:48,620 --> 00:49:49,980 You love baseball. 1092 00:49:50,019 --> 00:49:51,780 Baseball's also easy, because it has rules. 1093 00:49:51,819 --> 00:49:53,579 It has foul lines. 1094 00:49:53,619 --> 00:49:56,099 Women are complicated. 1095 00:49:58,180 --> 00:49:59,420 Happy birthday. 1096 00:49:59,460 --> 00:50:00,780 You're kidding. 1097 00:50:00,820 --> 00:50:02,180 Open it up. 1098 00:50:03,860 --> 00:50:06,499 You didn't have to get anything. 1099 00:50:06,499 --> 00:50:08,299 It's probably another sweater. 1100 00:50:10,059 --> 00:50:13,219 A baseball signed by the 1951 Giants. 1101 00:50:13,260 --> 00:50:16,300 That's so great. The '51 Giants were... 1102 00:50:16,340 --> 00:50:17,580 Bobby Thompson. 1103 00:50:17,619 --> 00:50:21,100 The one genuine miracle of my lifetime. 1104 00:50:21,140 --> 00:50:22,539 When he hit that home run... 1105 00:50:22,579 --> 00:50:25,739 that was the only hint that there may be a God. 1106 00:50:28,140 --> 00:50:30,499 What made you think of that? 1107 00:50:30,499 --> 00:50:31,459 It was easy. 1108 00:50:31,459 --> 00:50:32,979 You're the greatest. 1109 00:50:34,820 --> 00:50:38,700 It's your birthday today, so you get any wish you want. 1110 00:50:38,739 --> 00:50:41,380 Anything at all that would make your day special. 1111 00:50:42,739 --> 00:50:44,339 You are the greatest. 1112 00:50:44,379 --> 00:50:45,700 I don't deserve you. 1113 00:50:45,739 --> 00:50:47,740 You're too... 1114 00:50:56,380 --> 00:50:57,340 We were driving. 1115 00:50:57,379 --> 00:50:59,699 We thought we'd stop in to see you. 1116 00:50:59,739 --> 00:51:02,179 This is Richard and Cookie. 1117 00:51:02,219 --> 00:51:04,499 I'm your Aunt Doris. 1118 00:51:04,539 --> 00:51:05,899 Remember your Uncle Burt? 1119 00:51:09,219 --> 00:51:12,420 Would you like a cookie or something like that? 1120 00:51:12,420 --> 00:51:14,500 Come in the kitchen here. 1121 00:51:14,539 --> 00:51:17,139 I got to go to the bathroom. Where's the john? 1122 00:51:17,180 --> 00:51:19,420 You just go right through there. 1123 00:51:19,459 --> 00:51:20,900 Over there? 1124 00:51:20,940 --> 00:51:22,739 I thought we'd drop in. 1125 00:51:25,300 --> 00:51:28,700 You're the last person I ever expected to see. 1126 00:51:28,740 --> 00:51:30,140 Don't say that, Doris. 1127 00:51:30,179 --> 00:51:31,539 What's with Cookie? 1128 00:51:31,580 --> 00:51:32,899 Cookie's the nanny. 1129 00:51:32,939 --> 00:51:35,740 Where did you get her from, an agency or a massage parlor? 1130 00:51:35,779 --> 00:51:38,379 She's sweet. What are you picking on-- 1131 00:51:38,419 --> 00:51:41,699 Still with the sexpots, the tramps, the vihlde chayes. 1132 00:51:41,740 --> 00:51:43,140 She's got a Ph.D. 1133 00:51:43,140 --> 00:51:45,060 I don't know how she did on her written... 1134 00:51:45,060 --> 00:51:47,339 but I'm sure she got an A-plus on her oral. 1135 00:51:47,380 --> 00:51:48,740 Give me a break. 1136 00:51:48,780 --> 00:51:49,980 I'm driving upstate. 1137 00:51:50,020 --> 00:51:52,580 I take the time to say hello. 1138 00:51:52,620 --> 00:51:54,579 Can you believe they're honoring me at Adair? 1139 00:51:54,619 --> 00:51:55,860 I can't believe it. 1140 00:51:55,900 --> 00:51:59,379 Not that I care, but it's great for Hilly to see me. 1141 00:51:59,419 --> 00:52:02,060 The last time I saw him, he was six years old. 1142 00:52:02,100 --> 00:52:04,619 You don't exactly contact me, either. 1143 00:52:04,660 --> 00:52:06,980 I know what you think of me. 1144 00:52:06,980 --> 00:52:08,220 Don't start in. 1145 00:52:08,260 --> 00:52:11,059 Am I wrong? It's all over your book-- 1146 00:52:11,100 --> 00:52:13,539 "Jewish," "too Jewish," "professionally Jewish." 1147 00:52:13,580 --> 00:52:15,819 You attributed it all to your ex-wife Joan... 1148 00:52:15,859 --> 00:52:17,540 but you gave her the details of my life... 1149 00:52:17,580 --> 00:52:20,219 because you wanted to depict her with contempt. 1150 00:52:20,259 --> 00:52:21,820 I don't know what you're talking about. 1151 00:52:21,859 --> 00:52:23,499 You don't know? 1152 00:52:23,539 --> 00:52:25,619 You made a picture of your ex as a horror. 1153 00:52:25,660 --> 00:52:28,260 In order to make that picture unsympathetic-- 1154 00:52:28,299 --> 00:52:29,740 you used some of her-- 1155 00:52:29,780 --> 00:52:33,659 but mostly, you caricatured my religious dedication. 1156 00:52:33,699 --> 00:52:37,020 Because it enraged you that I returned to my roots. 1157 00:52:37,060 --> 00:52:39,900 What roots? You were a wonderful, sweet kid. 1158 00:52:39,940 --> 00:52:42,619 You got me through my childhood. 1159 00:52:42,660 --> 00:52:45,459 Then you go away to Fort Lauderdale... 1160 00:52:45,499 --> 00:52:48,219 and you meet this fanatic-- this zealot. 1161 00:52:48,260 --> 00:52:51,860 He fills you full of superstition. 1162 00:52:51,899 --> 00:52:53,340 It's tradition. 1163 00:52:53,380 --> 00:52:55,339 Tradition is the illusion of permanence. 1164 00:52:55,379 --> 00:52:56,739 You have no values. 1165 00:52:56,780 --> 00:52:58,820 Your whole life, it's nihilism, cynicism... 1166 00:52:58,860 --> 00:53:01,259 sarcasm, and orgasm. 1167 00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:03,780 In France, I could run on that slogan and win. 1168 00:53:05,259 --> 00:53:07,460 I'm a Jew. I was born a Jew. 1169 00:53:07,460 --> 00:53:08,980 Do you hate me because of that? 1170 00:53:09,020 --> 00:53:12,460 If our parents converted to Catholicism... 1171 00:53:12,499 --> 00:53:15,779 a month before you were born, we'd be Catholics. 1172 00:53:15,819 --> 00:53:18,340 They're clubs. They're exclusionary. 1173 00:53:18,379 --> 00:53:21,139 They foster the concept of the other... 1174 00:53:21,180 --> 00:53:23,780 so you know clearly who you should hate. 1175 00:53:23,780 --> 00:53:25,340 That's enough. 1176 00:53:25,379 --> 00:53:27,780 If a Jew gets massacred... 1177 00:53:27,820 --> 00:53:30,820 does that bother you more than if a gentile gets hurt... 1178 00:53:30,859 --> 00:53:33,339 or a black or a Bosnian? 1179 00:53:33,380 --> 00:53:34,579 It does. 1180 00:53:34,620 --> 00:53:36,300 I can't help it. It's my people. 1181 00:53:36,339 --> 00:53:38,060 They're all your people. 1182 00:53:38,100 --> 00:53:39,939 Burt is right about you. 1183 00:53:39,980 --> 00:53:41,819 You're a self-hating Jew. 1184 00:53:41,859 --> 00:53:44,459 I may hate myself, but not because I'm Jewish. 1185 00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:46,140 He says he's not a self-hating Jew... 1186 00:53:46,180 --> 00:53:49,099 and look how he talks about them in his stories. 1187 00:53:50,659 --> 00:53:53,619 Max and Dolly Pincus were married for 30 years. 1188 00:53:53,659 --> 00:53:54,940 They raised two children... 1189 00:53:54,980 --> 00:53:57,219 and there was never a family wedding or bar mitzvah... 1190 00:53:57,260 --> 00:53:59,500 where they were not generous participants. 1191 00:53:59,539 --> 00:54:00,779 Max, how are you? 1192 00:54:01,859 --> 00:54:03,379 Yossel, mazel tov. 1193 00:54:03,420 --> 00:54:04,660 For Donald. 1194 00:54:04,700 --> 00:54:05,900 Thank you. 1195 00:54:10,659 --> 00:54:14,140 Dolly, you got a private minute? 1196 00:54:14,180 --> 00:54:15,380 Sure. 1197 00:54:15,420 --> 00:54:17,659 We are leaving in a few minutes. 1198 00:54:19,260 --> 00:54:21,820 I don't know if I should tell you. 1199 00:54:21,860 --> 00:54:23,139 Tell me what? 1200 00:54:23,180 --> 00:54:25,780 Tell me, and I will tell you if you should tell me. 1201 00:54:25,820 --> 00:54:27,060 My heart is heavy. 1202 00:54:27,099 --> 00:54:28,459 What happened? 1203 00:54:28,499 --> 00:54:31,180 Nothing terrible happened to your husband Phil, did it? 1204 00:54:31,219 --> 00:54:32,780 He has been dead for so many years. 1205 00:54:35,300 --> 00:54:37,340 When I was in Florida last week... 1206 00:54:37,379 --> 00:54:38,980 I ran into a man... 1207 00:54:39,019 --> 00:54:42,420 who heard from someone who knew someone. 1208 00:54:42,459 --> 00:54:46,500 Anyway, it seems Max has some secret from his past. 1209 00:54:47,740 --> 00:54:49,100 You're talking about my Max? 1210 00:54:49,140 --> 00:54:50,579 A dark secret. 1211 00:54:50,620 --> 00:54:52,700 -What kind of a dark secret? -Dark. 1212 00:54:52,739 --> 00:54:54,939 What is by you dark? 1213 00:54:54,979 --> 00:54:56,140 I don't know. 1214 00:54:56,179 --> 00:54:57,859 What kind of a dark secret? 1215 00:54:57,900 --> 00:55:00,419 We have been married for 30 years. 1216 00:55:00,459 --> 00:55:02,020 You're his first wife? 1217 00:55:02,059 --> 00:55:03,540 Sure. 1218 00:55:03,579 --> 00:55:05,020 Before me, he worked for-- 1219 00:55:05,060 --> 00:55:06,940 All right. 1220 00:55:06,980 --> 00:55:09,219 What? 1221 00:55:09,260 --> 00:55:10,299 You heard something different? 1222 00:55:10,339 --> 00:55:12,259 I heard only a dark secret. 1223 00:55:12,259 --> 00:55:13,660 Do I know what dark secret? 1224 00:55:13,700 --> 00:55:15,099 Who told you? 1225 00:55:16,260 --> 00:55:18,699 Wolf Fishbein. 1226 00:55:18,740 --> 00:55:20,700 Be careful. 1227 00:55:20,739 --> 00:55:22,980 That's all I want to say. 1228 00:55:22,980 --> 00:55:26,259 Dolly tried putting Elsie's words out of her mind... 1229 00:55:26,300 --> 00:55:28,940 but Max's dark secret plagued her. 1230 00:55:28,979 --> 00:55:32,180 Then one day, she ran into Wolf Fishbein... 1231 00:55:32,220 --> 00:55:34,780 and the truth was revealed. 1232 00:55:34,820 --> 00:55:36,580 Try to breathe deeply. 1233 00:55:36,620 --> 00:55:39,620 You were right. 1234 00:55:39,659 --> 00:55:41,459 Fishbein told me a tale. 1235 00:55:41,500 --> 00:55:45,500 Max, before I met him, he lived in Florida. 1236 00:55:45,539 --> 00:55:49,460 He had a store--groceries. 1237 00:55:49,500 --> 00:55:51,619 He was married. 1238 00:55:51,660 --> 00:55:52,780 Now it comes out. 1239 00:55:53,860 --> 00:55:57,339 To a woman with two children. 1240 00:55:57,379 --> 00:55:59,299 Max had other children? 1241 00:55:59,340 --> 00:56:03,460 The woman's children, from a prior marriage. 1242 00:56:05,820 --> 00:56:09,179 He began an affair with the downstairs neighbor-- 1243 00:56:09,220 --> 00:56:10,460 a widow. 1244 00:56:10,500 --> 00:56:12,540 He probably had all his hair then. 1245 00:56:13,659 --> 00:56:18,420 Meanwhile, he got into debt deeper and deeper... 1246 00:56:18,459 --> 00:56:21,379 and carry on with the neighbor. 1247 00:56:21,420 --> 00:56:22,820 My heart. 1248 00:56:25,540 --> 00:56:28,740 He can't get himself out of a predicament. 1249 00:56:30,179 --> 00:56:31,499 What does he do? 1250 00:56:31,539 --> 00:56:33,260 He stole money. 1251 00:56:33,299 --> 00:56:35,219 I should be so lucky. 1252 00:56:35,260 --> 00:56:37,060 He killed his wife. 1253 00:56:40,060 --> 00:56:42,180 The man purchased an ax. 1254 00:56:42,219 --> 00:56:43,380 With an ax? 1255 00:56:43,420 --> 00:56:44,620 You know Max. 1256 00:56:44,659 --> 00:56:46,179 He's nothing with tools. 1257 00:56:46,219 --> 00:56:48,499 He can't even hang a picture. 1258 00:56:48,539 --> 00:56:50,059 I'm dropping dead. 1259 00:56:50,100 --> 00:56:52,060 Plus her children. 1260 00:56:53,219 --> 00:56:54,740 Plus a neighbor. 1261 00:56:54,780 --> 00:56:59,020 Four people he killed one night with an ax. 1262 00:56:59,059 --> 00:57:01,179 Your Max? 1263 00:57:01,220 --> 00:57:02,860 This is not the capper. 1264 00:57:02,899 --> 00:57:04,459 There's more? 1265 00:57:04,500 --> 00:57:05,699 More. 1266 00:57:07,500 --> 00:57:08,939 What more? 1267 00:57:10,059 --> 00:57:11,500 He ate them. 1268 00:57:11,539 --> 00:57:13,099 Are you talking crazy? 1269 00:57:13,140 --> 00:57:16,420 He devoured them. 1270 00:57:16,460 --> 00:57:18,579 I can't breathe. 1271 00:57:18,620 --> 00:57:20,459 Everything is closing in. 1272 00:57:20,499 --> 00:57:24,420 Whatever you do, first, hear Max's side. 1273 00:57:24,459 --> 00:57:26,460 Max has a side? 1274 00:57:26,499 --> 00:57:29,099 He kills his family and eats them up. 1275 00:57:29,139 --> 00:57:30,499 The man has a side? 1276 00:57:30,540 --> 00:57:34,499 He was a good husband and a loving father for 30 years. 1277 00:57:34,540 --> 00:57:36,539 You have a daughter who went to college. 1278 00:57:36,580 --> 00:57:38,220 You have a son who's a writer. 1279 00:57:39,740 --> 00:57:43,580 Maybe the best course of action is let sleeping dogs lie. 1280 00:57:44,659 --> 00:57:47,099 Honey, would you pass the sour cream? 1281 00:57:51,899 --> 00:57:54,300 You haven't touched a thing. 1282 00:57:55,739 --> 00:57:56,859 Nice weather! 1283 00:57:58,020 --> 00:57:59,100 It's OK. 1284 00:57:59,139 --> 00:58:00,900 It's not just OK. 1285 00:58:00,900 --> 00:58:02,179 It's nice! 1286 00:58:02,179 --> 00:58:03,620 All right, all right. 1287 00:58:03,620 --> 00:58:05,660 What are you getting so steamed up about? 1288 00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:08,099 What makes you such an authority on the weather? 1289 00:58:08,099 --> 00:58:09,540 Me? 1290 00:58:09,540 --> 00:58:10,979 All I said... 1291 00:58:10,979 --> 00:58:12,899 I know, I know. I know what you said. 1292 00:58:12,899 --> 00:58:14,819 The fish is delicious. 1293 00:58:14,819 --> 00:58:16,820 Wouldn't you rather have meat? 1294 00:58:16,859 --> 00:58:18,779 Since when do I eat meat? 1295 00:58:18,820 --> 00:58:19,899 Mm-hmm. 1296 00:58:19,940 --> 00:58:22,660 With my arteries, you gotta watch out for cholesterol. 1297 00:58:22,660 --> 00:58:23,940 Uh-huh. 1298 00:58:23,940 --> 00:58:26,820 What is the "uh-huh"? 1299 00:58:26,820 --> 00:58:29,420 I mean, you've been very touchy lately. 1300 00:58:29,459 --> 00:58:31,460 Don't interrogate me... 1301 00:58:31,500 --> 00:58:33,420 Mr. Max Pinchuck! 1302 00:58:39,820 --> 00:58:42,140 Where did you hear that name? 1303 00:58:42,180 --> 00:58:44,859 Did you kill your first wife with an ax? 1304 00:58:44,900 --> 00:58:47,459 I got a headache. 1305 00:58:47,500 --> 00:58:50,059 Did you chop her up along with your mistress? 1306 00:58:53,260 --> 00:58:57,059 If I tell you why I did it, do you promise not to nudge me? 1307 00:58:57,059 --> 00:58:59,939 Wolf Fishbein said in order to hide the bodies... 1308 00:58:59,980 --> 00:59:02,099 you ate them ! 1309 00:59:02,139 --> 00:59:05,220 So what are you making a fuss? 1310 00:59:05,259 --> 00:59:07,300 Some bury, some burn. 1311 00:59:07,339 --> 00:59:08,419 I ate. 1312 00:59:08,459 --> 00:59:09,699 Enough! 1313 00:59:09,740 --> 00:59:11,940 I remember Max Pincus' Dark Secret. 1314 00:59:11,979 --> 00:59:13,379 That is a disgraceful story. 1315 00:59:13,420 --> 00:59:15,459 You don't see your sick view of our parents? 1316 00:59:15,500 --> 00:59:17,219 I wrote it when I was younger. 1317 00:59:17,260 --> 00:59:19,460 The first of a number of anti-Semitic pieces. 1318 00:59:19,500 --> 00:59:21,540 Here he is, direct from the Wailing Wall. 1319 00:59:21,579 --> 00:59:23,460 Disrespectful, shameful. 1320 00:59:23,499 --> 00:59:24,899 Jews haven't suffered enough... 1321 00:59:24,940 --> 00:59:27,580 without being depicted by him as homicidal cannibals. 1322 00:59:27,619 --> 00:59:29,019 He has no spiritual center. 1323 00:59:29,060 --> 00:59:30,939 He's betting everything on physics and pussy! 1324 00:59:30,980 --> 00:59:32,660 Excuse the expression. 1325 00:59:32,699 --> 00:59:33,980 Wait till he gets cancer. 1326 00:59:34,020 --> 00:59:35,899 He'll be the first one in synagogue... 1327 00:59:35,940 --> 00:59:37,499 in the front row in a yarmulke. 1328 00:59:37,539 --> 00:59:39,579 Why should I get cancer? I eat broccoli. 1329 00:59:39,620 --> 00:59:41,499 Do you care even about the holocaust... 1330 00:59:41,540 --> 00:59:42,940 or do you think it never happened? 1331 00:59:42,979 --> 00:59:45,339 Not only do I know that we lost six million... 1332 00:59:45,380 --> 00:59:49,299 but the scary thing is that records are made to be broken. 1333 00:59:49,339 --> 00:59:51,580 I know what's out there. Do you have any idea? 1334 00:59:51,619 --> 00:59:53,660 He creates offensive Jewish stereotypes... 1335 00:59:53,699 --> 00:59:55,099 Like in Der Sturmer. 1336 00:59:55,140 --> 00:59:57,819 Max is a version of Daddy-- a man you hated... 1337 00:59:57,860 --> 01:00:00,859 a man you think was guilty of being a terrible parent. 1338 01:00:00,900 --> 01:00:02,459 He was a terrible parent. 1339 01:00:03,299 --> 01:00:05,180 Thank you for dropping by. 1340 01:00:05,219 --> 01:00:07,180 Please come again in another four years. 1341 01:00:07,220 --> 01:00:09,020 Look, wouldn't it be a better world... 1342 01:00:09,059 --> 01:00:12,379 if not every group thought they had a direct line to God? 1343 01:00:12,420 --> 01:00:15,259 He thinks I'm all Jewish paranoia. 1344 01:00:15,300 --> 01:00:16,700 No, I don't think you're paranoid. 1345 01:00:16,739 --> 01:00:18,620 I think you're the opposite of a paranoid. 1346 01:00:18,659 --> 01:00:21,500 You go around with the insane delusion that people like you. 1347 01:00:30,899 --> 01:00:31,819 What's the matter? 1348 01:00:31,859 --> 01:00:33,260 You son of a bitch! 1349 01:00:33,300 --> 01:00:34,220 What's wrong? 1350 01:00:34,260 --> 01:00:36,140 You sick, sick, sick... 1351 01:00:36,180 --> 01:00:37,579 sick fucking bastard! 1352 01:00:37,619 --> 01:00:38,900 What's wrong? 1353 01:00:40,179 --> 01:00:41,579 What do you think is wrong? 1354 01:00:41,620 --> 01:00:44,140 You've been having an affair with one of my patients. 1355 01:00:44,179 --> 01:00:45,259 Who? 1356 01:00:45,299 --> 01:00:48,139 Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about! 1357 01:00:48,179 --> 01:00:49,259 Don't speak! 1358 01:00:49,300 --> 01:00:51,340 I just talked to her. She told me the whole thing. 1359 01:00:51,380 --> 01:00:52,340 Who? Who? 1360 01:00:54,100 --> 01:00:56,300 Mrs. Pollack. Amy Pollack. 1361 01:00:56,340 --> 01:00:57,739 Can I explain something? 1362 01:00:57,779 --> 01:00:58,859 You know Amy Pollack? 1363 01:00:58,900 --> 01:01:00,779 Don't explain anything, you little fucking asshole! 1364 01:01:00,820 --> 01:01:02,220 Will you calm down? 1365 01:01:02,259 --> 01:01:04,459 Don't you tell me to calm down! 1366 01:01:04,499 --> 01:01:06,860 -What's wrong? -What is wrong? 1367 01:01:06,900 --> 01:01:09,740 I treat this woman and she exits... 1368 01:01:09,780 --> 01:01:12,620 and you meet her and you fuck her! 1369 01:01:12,660 --> 01:01:15,019 Supposing I told you that my fucking Amy Pollack... 1370 01:01:15,059 --> 01:01:18,380 was a disguised plea for more closeness with you? 1371 01:01:18,420 --> 01:01:21,140 Then I'd say you are a mental case. 1372 01:01:21,179 --> 01:01:22,620 This is you with your first wife. 1373 01:01:22,660 --> 01:01:23,740 You're crazy. 1374 01:01:23,780 --> 01:01:26,180 You were claiming you loved her, couldn't live without her... 1375 01:01:26,180 --> 01:01:28,580 all the while you're having affair after affair. 1376 01:01:28,580 --> 01:01:31,899 My first wife, I told you, I was laying in bed with her... 1377 01:01:31,940 --> 01:01:35,140 I turned off her because the way the light struck her. 1378 01:01:35,140 --> 01:01:37,060 Suddenly she looked to me like Max Schmeling. 1379 01:01:37,060 --> 01:01:39,100 What do you want me to say? 1380 01:01:39,140 --> 01:01:42,020 Not that she wasn't pretty, but she looked like Schmeling. 1381 01:01:42,020 --> 01:01:43,299 I couldn't get an erection. 1382 01:01:43,299 --> 01:01:45,059 Stop this tap-dancing! This is bullshit! 1383 01:01:45,059 --> 01:01:46,820 It's not bullshit. 1384 01:01:46,820 --> 01:01:49,540 With you, it's different. You turned off me. 1385 01:01:49,540 --> 01:01:51,460 Ever since Hilly was born. 1386 01:01:51,460 --> 01:01:54,340 We've been living like siblings. It's been platonic. 1387 01:01:54,340 --> 01:01:55,860 Don't play "blame the victim"! 1388 01:01:55,899 --> 01:01:57,259 What are you talking about? 1389 01:01:57,299 --> 01:02:00,139 I'm as much a victim as you. 1390 01:02:00,179 --> 01:02:02,619 You think that getting a blow job... 1391 01:02:02,659 --> 01:02:06,380 from a big-bosomed 26-year-old is a pleasurable thing for me? 1392 01:02:06,420 --> 01:02:07,900 You're making me sick! 1393 01:02:07,940 --> 01:02:10,699 I can't believe this is happening. 1394 01:02:10,739 --> 01:02:11,819 You're overreacting. 1395 01:02:11,860 --> 01:02:13,260 I'm not overreacting! 1396 01:02:13,299 --> 01:02:15,139 Are you trying to tell me... 1397 01:02:15,139 --> 01:02:17,059 that every week for the last four months... 1398 01:02:17,059 --> 01:02:19,860 you've been with her in the hotel? 1399 01:02:19,899 --> 01:02:22,259 Oh, that's so crazy. No, of course not! 1400 01:02:22,300 --> 01:02:24,419 I rented an apartment. 1401 01:02:24,459 --> 01:02:26,300 I'm gonna kill you! 1402 01:02:29,379 --> 01:02:32,259 Hello, doctor. I'm sorry I'm late. 1403 01:02:32,259 --> 01:02:33,219 Mr. Farber. 1404 01:02:33,219 --> 01:02:35,139 Take off your coat. Come in. 1405 01:02:49,539 --> 01:02:50,980 I've been... 1406 01:02:50,980 --> 01:02:52,900 I've been losing sleep at night. 1407 01:02:52,900 --> 01:02:54,820 I can't shut my eyes at night. 1408 01:02:54,820 --> 01:02:57,219 I think I should quit my job... 1409 01:02:57,219 --> 01:03:00,180 but I can't bring myself to do it. 1410 01:03:00,219 --> 01:03:03,060 Maybe because my brother-in-law treats me kindly. 1411 01:03:03,099 --> 01:03:04,980 But working for him... 1412 01:03:05,019 --> 01:03:07,300 is taking its toll on me emotionally. 1413 01:03:07,300 --> 01:03:09,220 Could you excuse me, Mr. Farber? 1414 01:03:09,220 --> 01:03:10,340 What? 1415 01:03:14,140 --> 01:03:16,139 You fucked-up fuck! 1416 01:03:16,179 --> 01:03:18,339 I can't believe you fucking did this! 1417 01:03:18,380 --> 01:03:19,620 You fucking asshole! 1418 01:03:19,660 --> 01:03:21,540 You fucked my patient? 1419 01:03:21,580 --> 01:03:23,620 Harry, you don't fuck somebody's patient! 1420 01:03:23,660 --> 01:03:25,140 Fuck you! 1421 01:03:34,460 --> 01:03:36,059 Continue, Mr. Farber. 1422 01:03:40,380 --> 01:03:41,779 You lost your thread? 1423 01:03:41,819 --> 01:03:43,699 You were talking about quitting your job. 1424 01:03:43,739 --> 01:03:45,499 Oh. Right. 1425 01:03:47,100 --> 01:03:50,419 I discussed it with my wife. 1426 01:03:50,459 --> 01:03:53,299 While she seems on the surface to be supportive... 1427 01:03:53,339 --> 01:03:55,219 I know she'd rather I stay on. 1428 01:03:55,259 --> 01:03:57,139 She idolizes Gordon. 1429 01:03:57,179 --> 01:03:59,059 I mean, all the time... 1430 01:03:59,099 --> 01:04:01,939 that's all she does is spend time with him anyway. 1431 01:04:01,979 --> 01:04:04,660 Listen, could you excuse me just one more second? 1432 01:04:04,699 --> 01:04:05,860 Again? 1433 01:04:05,900 --> 01:04:08,580 Just continue. I can hear you from the hallway. Loudly. 1434 01:04:10,700 --> 01:04:12,740 I want you to get out of here. 1435 01:04:12,779 --> 01:04:15,419 I want you to get your goddamn stuff together... 1436 01:04:15,460 --> 01:04:16,860 and I want you out. 1437 01:04:16,899 --> 01:04:18,780 You know, I cannot understand... 1438 01:04:18,819 --> 01:04:20,859 why the most sophisticated of women... 1439 01:04:20,899 --> 01:04:22,460 can't tell the difference... 1440 01:04:22,500 --> 01:04:25,500 between a meaningless, hot, passionate sexual affair... 1441 01:04:25,539 --> 01:04:27,899 and a nice, solid, tranquil, routine marriage. 1442 01:04:27,940 --> 01:04:29,819 Harry, just tell me something. 1443 01:04:29,860 --> 01:04:32,060 Was she the only one, or were there others? 1444 01:04:32,100 --> 01:04:33,980 No, Amy Pollack was the only one. 1445 01:04:34,020 --> 01:04:35,459 May God strike me dead if I'm lying. 1446 01:04:35,500 --> 01:04:37,499 You're an atheist, Harry! 1447 01:04:37,540 --> 01:04:40,379 We're alone in the universe. Gonna blame that on me, too? 1448 01:04:40,420 --> 01:04:42,139 -Stop that tap-dancing! -Stop that! 1449 01:04:42,179 --> 01:04:44,420 You know, you turned off me first. 1450 01:04:44,459 --> 01:04:46,500 Oh, please! 1451 01:04:46,539 --> 01:04:47,939 No, I gave birth. 1452 01:04:47,980 --> 01:04:51,300 When women give birth, there is a time period... 1453 01:04:51,339 --> 01:04:53,259 when their hormones just sort of go crazy. 1454 01:04:54,219 --> 01:04:55,420 But they settle. 1455 01:04:55,459 --> 01:04:57,980 OK, so you're telling me that you're settling. 1456 01:04:58,020 --> 01:05:00,539 -I accept that. -You accept that? 1457 01:05:00,580 --> 01:05:02,940 Oh, Harry, you are so fucking nuts! 1458 01:05:02,979 --> 01:05:04,860 Take it easy. 1459 01:05:04,899 --> 01:05:09,339 Harry, if you're not happy in a marriage, you don't cheat. 1460 01:05:09,380 --> 01:05:11,099 And with my patient? 1461 01:05:11,140 --> 01:05:13,979 That is a sacred trust. My patient. 1462 01:05:14,020 --> 01:05:16,059 What do you want? Who else do I meet? 1463 01:05:16,100 --> 01:05:18,219 I'm here, working in the room, we have the baby... 1464 01:05:18,260 --> 01:05:20,699 you're out there practicing, we never socialize. 1465 01:05:21,300 --> 01:05:23,019 So now you're blaming me... 1466 01:05:23,060 --> 01:05:25,420 because I don't go out with you enough places... 1467 01:05:25,460 --> 01:05:27,299 where you can meet strangers to fuck? 1468 01:05:31,700 --> 01:05:36,339 I was merely explaining to you why my choice, of necessity... 1469 01:05:36,380 --> 01:05:38,219 is confined to your practice. 1470 01:05:40,339 --> 01:05:42,499 I knew you were mentally ill before I married you... 1471 01:05:42,499 --> 01:05:45,099 but I thought because I was a trained professional... 1472 01:05:45,139 --> 01:05:46,660 that I could help you. 1473 01:05:49,460 --> 01:05:50,859 The last thing you wanna do... 1474 01:05:50,899 --> 01:05:53,020 is get down on yourself as a therapist. 1475 01:05:55,379 --> 01:05:58,860 I want you to get your shit and get your goddamn clothes... 1476 01:05:58,900 --> 01:06:01,260 and I want you to get the fuck out of here! 1477 01:06:01,299 --> 01:06:03,660 You are the most fucking irresponsible person... 1478 01:06:03,700 --> 01:06:05,740 I've ever seen in my entire life! 1479 01:06:05,780 --> 01:06:07,380 And get out! 1480 01:06:10,499 --> 01:06:12,099 Continue, Mr. Farber. 1481 01:06:13,700 --> 01:06:15,139 Doctor... 1482 01:06:15,139 --> 01:06:18,500 And I mean tonight, motherfucker! 1483 01:06:25,539 --> 01:06:27,300 Dad, my Pepsi. 1484 01:06:34,660 --> 01:06:36,580 So you got even with your ex-wife... 1485 01:06:36,580 --> 01:06:38,619 and with your sister, and I was born? 1486 01:06:38,660 --> 01:06:40,099 Born? What are you saying? 1487 01:06:40,099 --> 01:06:42,620 From your pen. From your fertile imagination. 1488 01:06:42,660 --> 01:06:44,219 And I mean imagination. 1489 01:06:44,260 --> 01:06:46,299 I wasn't trying to get even with Joan. 1490 01:06:46,340 --> 01:06:49,060 You created me as the shrewish Jewish hybrid... 1491 01:06:49,060 --> 01:06:50,620 who goes off with another patient... 1492 01:06:50,659 --> 01:06:53,180 an orthodox divorcee from Tel Aviv. 1493 01:06:53,220 --> 01:06:55,260 My sister never should have married Burt. 1494 01:06:55,300 --> 01:06:57,340 This guy's turned her into a zealot. 1495 01:06:57,379 --> 01:06:58,459 She loves you. 1496 01:06:58,499 --> 01:07:00,740 It wasn't her fault your father persecuted you. 1497 01:07:00,740 --> 01:07:02,780 She was fine till she wound up with him-- 1498 01:07:02,820 --> 01:07:04,740 this right-wing hawk that she's married. 1499 01:07:04,740 --> 01:07:05,820 Listen to him. 1500 01:07:05,860 --> 01:07:08,580 So she disappointed you in her choice of husbands? 1501 01:07:08,580 --> 01:07:10,139 Well, fuck you. She loves Burt. 1502 01:07:10,179 --> 01:07:12,899 She was a wonderful kid. She had a flair for physics. 1503 01:07:12,899 --> 01:07:14,539 Suddenly overnight, she's kosher. 1504 01:07:14,580 --> 01:07:15,980 She loves you still... 1505 01:07:16,019 --> 01:07:18,860 despite your obvious condescension towards her life. 1506 01:07:18,899 --> 01:07:20,060 Does she love me? 1507 01:07:20,100 --> 01:07:22,540 Would you like to hear what she says about you? 1508 01:07:22,580 --> 01:07:23,940 He's not so bad, Burt. 1509 01:07:23,979 --> 01:07:25,860 He really was a very good brother. 1510 01:07:25,860 --> 01:07:28,580 Just my father never forgave him when his wife died. 1511 01:07:28,580 --> 01:07:30,019 The man is not a Jewish man. 1512 01:07:30,019 --> 01:07:31,939 He's not a Jewish man. That's all. 1513 01:07:31,939 --> 01:07:33,500 All right. Poor Harry. 1514 01:07:33,540 --> 01:07:35,300 He was always lost. 1515 01:07:35,300 --> 01:07:37,220 He could just never accept the fact... 1516 01:07:37,220 --> 01:07:39,259 that there are things you can't know. 1517 01:07:39,300 --> 01:07:42,180 The man is incapable of an act of faith. 1518 01:07:42,180 --> 01:07:44,100 For that, I pity him. 1519 01:07:44,100 --> 01:07:46,980 I would like to hug him again like when we were kids. 1520 01:07:46,980 --> 01:07:49,539 And if I was upset, he was a comfort to me. 1521 01:07:50,179 --> 01:07:51,739 What happens to us? 1522 01:07:51,780 --> 01:07:52,740 Doris... 1523 01:07:52,740 --> 01:07:54,179 She can't hear you. 1524 01:07:55,900 --> 01:07:57,780 And as for Joan... 1525 01:07:57,820 --> 01:07:59,700 Joan? Joan hates me. 1526 01:07:59,740 --> 01:08:01,140 Well, shouldn't she? 1527 01:08:01,179 --> 01:08:04,059 Why should she hate me, because I was unfaithful to her? 1528 01:08:04,100 --> 01:08:06,580 No, because when she caught you, you weren't a man. 1529 01:08:06,620 --> 01:08:09,460 You turned into this double-talking... 1530 01:08:09,500 --> 01:08:12,180 wise-cracking, tap-dancing liar. 1531 01:08:12,220 --> 01:08:14,260 If she had not become so enraged... 1532 01:08:14,300 --> 01:08:15,859 maybe we could've patched things up. 1533 01:08:15,900 --> 01:08:17,700 Listen to this guy. Deluded. 1534 01:08:17,700 --> 01:08:20,020 Maybe it tapered a bit after Hilly was born... 1535 01:08:20,060 --> 01:08:21,980 but you two had sex pretty regularly. 1536 01:08:22,019 --> 01:08:24,659 I have no idea why I took up with that patient. 1537 01:08:24,700 --> 01:08:26,740 She was available, she was adorable. 1538 01:08:26,780 --> 01:08:28,660 And my marriage was droning on. 1539 01:08:28,700 --> 01:08:31,379 What you call "droning on," most people call "working." 1540 01:08:31,420 --> 01:08:33,780 If that's working, then marriage is not for me. 1541 01:08:33,819 --> 01:08:35,219 Well, it's not for everyone. 1542 01:08:35,260 --> 01:08:37,060 But then I get lonely. 1543 01:08:37,060 --> 01:08:39,139 Hey, what do you want me to say? 1544 01:08:39,179 --> 01:08:40,979 She gave me Hilly... 1545 01:08:41,020 --> 01:08:42,899 and for that I'm eternally grateful... 1546 01:08:42,940 --> 01:08:44,980 'cause I love him so much. 1547 01:08:45,020 --> 01:08:46,739 You can have any one you want here. 1548 01:08:46,780 --> 01:08:48,180 Can I get two? 1549 01:08:48,219 --> 01:08:49,299 You can get two. 1550 01:08:49,339 --> 01:08:51,219 Tell you what, you get any three presents. 1551 01:08:51,259 --> 01:08:53,620 Go through the store and pick any three presents, OK? 1552 01:08:53,660 --> 01:08:54,740 Yeah. 1553 01:08:54,779 --> 01:08:55,860 Look what I found. 1554 01:08:55,899 --> 01:08:56,979 Hey. 1555 01:08:57,019 --> 01:08:59,219 This is the chemistry set you always wanted. 1556 01:08:59,260 --> 01:09:01,139 Look at that. It's perfect. 1557 01:09:01,180 --> 01:09:02,980 No, no. Don't open it here. 1558 01:09:03,019 --> 01:09:05,899 Let me buy it first, OK? So I don't get into-- 1559 01:09:09,099 --> 01:09:10,179 How you doing? 1560 01:09:10,220 --> 01:09:11,779 Larry, what are you doing here? 1561 01:09:11,819 --> 01:09:13,220 Buying my nephew a Power Ranger. 1562 01:09:13,260 --> 01:09:15,300 When did you get back? 1563 01:09:15,340 --> 01:09:16,899 A couple of days ago. 1564 01:09:16,940 --> 01:09:18,900 Hey, Fay. 1565 01:09:18,939 --> 01:09:20,900 Meet Larry. I told you about Larry. 1566 01:09:20,940 --> 01:09:22,980 Oh, yeah. It's nice to meet you. 1567 01:09:23,020 --> 01:09:24,260 Old friend, colleague, peer. 1568 01:09:24,299 --> 01:09:25,379 Right. 1569 01:09:25,419 --> 01:09:26,660 So you got back when? 1570 01:09:26,700 --> 01:09:29,060 Two days ago. I took a boat down the Amazon. 1571 01:09:29,099 --> 01:09:30,500 Really? God, that sounds exciting. 1572 01:09:30,540 --> 01:09:32,900 Yes, if you don't mind malaria and dysentery. 1573 01:09:32,939 --> 01:09:34,820 Butterflies the size of doves. 1574 01:09:34,859 --> 01:09:36,580 Never seen anything like it before. 1575 01:09:36,619 --> 01:09:38,660 I can live without that, however. 1576 01:09:38,699 --> 01:09:39,939 It was astounding. 1577 01:09:39,980 --> 01:09:41,540 It sounds it. 1578 01:09:41,579 --> 01:09:44,260 So you got back two days ago? 1579 01:09:44,299 --> 01:09:46,340 We go back a long way. 1580 01:09:46,379 --> 01:09:48,579 We both started out wanting to be Kafka... 1581 01:09:48,620 --> 01:09:50,659 and you got slightly closer than me. 1582 01:09:50,700 --> 01:09:52,819 Yeah, I became the insect and he... 1583 01:09:53,899 --> 01:09:55,299 Good. I'm amazed. 1584 01:09:55,340 --> 01:09:56,740 We should go out. 1585 01:09:56,779 --> 01:10:00,219 Why don't you come to my house in East Hampton for a weekend? 1586 01:10:00,259 --> 01:10:01,500 It will be great fun. 1587 01:10:01,540 --> 01:10:02,940 Well, let's not get hysterical. 1588 01:10:02,979 --> 01:10:05,340 No, I'd love to. It would be fun. 1589 01:10:05,380 --> 01:10:06,620 Oh, it's beautiful out there. 1590 01:10:06,659 --> 01:10:08,380 It's sand in the crotch. It's ticks. 1591 01:10:08,420 --> 01:10:10,259 To get this guy to leave his room... 1592 01:10:10,300 --> 01:10:13,020 He's never had a tan. 1593 01:10:13,060 --> 01:10:15,899 I've always wanted to learn how to snorkel. 1594 01:10:15,940 --> 01:10:17,020 Oh, it's great there. 1595 01:10:17,060 --> 01:10:19,260 Where he lives there are sharks. 1596 01:10:19,299 --> 01:10:20,379 You see those photographs... 1597 01:10:20,419 --> 01:10:22,619 of guys with stumps for legs and arms? 1598 01:10:22,660 --> 01:10:23,740 Am I lying? 1599 01:10:23,780 --> 01:10:25,179 Yes, you are. It's fabulous. 1600 01:10:25,219 --> 01:10:26,620 Let me buy dinner. We'll talk. 1601 01:10:26,660 --> 01:10:28,219 No, we'll buy dinner. 1602 01:10:28,260 --> 01:10:30,299 I'd love to tell you about the Amazon. 1603 01:10:30,340 --> 01:10:31,740 It changed my life. 1604 01:10:31,779 --> 01:10:33,179 It sounds amazing. 1605 01:10:33,220 --> 01:10:35,260 Gonna write a novel. I'll tell you. 1606 01:10:35,300 --> 01:10:38,300 I'm not into the Amazon. You know what the Amazon is? 1607 01:10:38,339 --> 01:10:40,380 The Amazon is the tiny, little heads... 1608 01:10:40,419 --> 01:10:41,819 with the lips sewn together. 1609 01:10:41,860 --> 01:10:43,419 Can you picture him this way? 1610 01:10:44,740 --> 01:10:46,780 That's great. We'll go to dinner tonight. 1611 01:10:46,820 --> 01:10:48,219 -Yeah, great. -That'd be great. 1612 01:10:48,259 --> 01:10:50,979 Great. I'm single, available, with the soul of a black man. 1613 01:10:52,099 --> 01:10:54,299 Do you smell sulfur? 1614 01:10:54,340 --> 01:10:56,700 Hilly, did you open the chemistry set? 1615 01:10:57,780 --> 01:10:59,779 Hey, look. We're almost there. 1616 01:10:59,820 --> 01:11:01,900 Hilly. Hilly, wake up. We're almost-- 1617 01:11:01,939 --> 01:11:04,460 Hilly, wake up. We're almost at the university. 1618 01:11:04,500 --> 01:11:06,219 Your dad's gonna be honored... 1619 01:11:06,260 --> 01:11:08,139 limited as my curriculum was. 1620 01:11:08,180 --> 01:11:09,260 Richard, we're there. 1621 01:11:09,300 --> 01:11:10,739 Hey, honey. Wake up. 1622 01:11:12,340 --> 01:11:13,420 Something's wrong. 1623 01:11:13,459 --> 01:11:14,859 What's the matter? 1624 01:11:14,900 --> 01:11:17,140 I don't think he's breathing. 1625 01:11:17,179 --> 01:11:19,619 He's dead! 1626 01:11:19,659 --> 01:11:20,940 I can't believe this. 1627 01:11:20,980 --> 01:11:22,539 We were at the doctor's yesterday. 1628 01:11:22,580 --> 01:11:23,980 They said his heart was fine. 1629 01:11:24,019 --> 01:11:25,100 I'm scared. 1630 01:11:25,139 --> 01:11:26,540 There's nothing to be scared of, Hilly. 1631 01:11:26,580 --> 01:11:27,660 I'm fine, dad. 1632 01:11:27,700 --> 01:11:30,380 Remember I told you death is a natural part of life? 1633 01:11:30,420 --> 01:11:31,979 You have to embrace them both. 1634 01:11:32,019 --> 01:11:33,260 What are we gonna do? 1635 01:11:33,300 --> 01:11:35,340 I don't know. Get back in the car. 1636 01:11:35,380 --> 01:11:36,740 I don't wanna sit next to him ! 1637 01:11:41,820 --> 01:11:43,819 Welcome to Adair University. 1638 01:11:44,820 --> 01:11:47,339 We certainly hope you had a pleasant trip. 1639 01:11:47,379 --> 01:11:48,940 Would you like to rest up? 1640 01:11:48,979 --> 01:11:51,020 Would you like some refreshments, perhaps? 1641 01:11:51,059 --> 01:11:52,340 Is he all right? 1642 01:11:52,819 --> 01:11:55,500 He's dead, honey. You got one of them rubber bags? 1643 01:11:55,540 --> 01:11:57,740 We've made arrangements... 1644 01:11:57,779 --> 01:12:00,580 for the body to be delivered to New York City. 1645 01:12:02,699 --> 01:12:06,340 I don't think he has any immediate family, actually. 1646 01:12:07,140 --> 01:12:10,659 If you prefer, we can call off the proceedings. 1647 01:12:11,460 --> 01:12:13,860 I think that's the best idea. 1648 01:12:15,219 --> 01:12:17,580 He'll be all right. He's here for a purpose. 1649 01:12:21,060 --> 01:12:22,459 You know, I... 1650 01:12:23,139 --> 01:12:24,700 I'll see that... 1651 01:12:24,740 --> 01:12:27,340 that he's, you know... 1652 01:12:27,379 --> 01:12:29,820 that the funeral comes off and all that. 1653 01:12:29,859 --> 01:12:33,100 I'll see that he's buried properly. 1654 01:12:33,139 --> 01:12:34,860 I understand. 1655 01:12:38,180 --> 01:12:41,699 Poor Richard. Oh, Jesus. The poor guy! 1656 01:12:44,659 --> 01:12:47,019 I'm not gonna make it. I can't go on. 1657 01:12:47,060 --> 01:12:49,099 Not if you keep drinking and popping pills. 1658 01:12:49,140 --> 01:12:50,979 Oh, Jesus. I can't believe this. 1659 01:12:50,979 --> 01:12:52,820 My old school wants to honor me... 1660 01:12:52,860 --> 01:12:54,740 I show up with a hooker and a dead body. 1661 01:12:54,780 --> 01:12:55,860 Take it easy. 1662 01:12:55,900 --> 01:12:57,979 You're getting yourself all wound up about nothing. 1663 01:12:58,019 --> 01:12:59,460 -Cookie, look at me! -What? 1664 01:12:59,460 --> 01:13:01,419 Look! Look! I'm out of focus! 1665 01:13:01,460 --> 01:13:04,380 You're a little pale, but you're all right. 1666 01:13:04,419 --> 01:13:06,260 I'm out of focus. I'm soft. 1667 01:13:06,300 --> 01:13:08,620 You better calm down. They'll be here any minute. 1668 01:13:08,659 --> 01:13:10,499 No, no. It's so humiliating. 1669 01:13:10,499 --> 01:13:12,539 They're gonna honor me, and I'm a blob. 1670 01:13:12,580 --> 01:13:14,339 You look fine. Don't worry. 1671 01:13:15,259 --> 01:13:16,980 I'll be sitting on the dais. They're eating. 1672 01:13:17,020 --> 01:13:18,419 They'll get seasick. They'll throw up. 1673 01:13:18,459 --> 01:13:20,660 Hold my hand. Now relax. 1674 01:13:20,700 --> 01:13:23,540 You drive all the way here so your son can see you honored... 1675 01:13:23,580 --> 01:13:25,620 and you make a jackass out of yourself. 1676 01:13:25,660 --> 01:13:28,220 But don't you see? I'm a huge blur. 1677 01:13:28,260 --> 01:13:30,460 You're gonna be all right. I'm gonna talk you down. 1678 01:13:30,499 --> 01:13:32,539 I have seen all kinds of guys O.D. 1679 01:13:32,579 --> 01:13:35,019 Heroin, acid, crack. You name it. 1680 01:13:35,059 --> 01:13:36,460 I didn't take any of that stuff. 1681 01:13:36,500 --> 01:13:38,380 Yeah, but you're a pill-popper. 1682 01:13:38,420 --> 01:13:40,659 That's not what it is, Cookie. It's me. 1683 01:13:40,700 --> 01:13:43,180 I'm O.D.ing on myself. It's that I'm a shit. 1684 01:13:43,220 --> 01:13:44,339 Have some black coffee. 1685 01:13:44,379 --> 01:13:46,139 I don't want anything. 1686 01:13:46,180 --> 01:13:49,419 Talk to me about something. You like sports? 1687 01:13:49,459 --> 01:13:50,819 Yeah. I was a pitcher. 1688 01:13:50,819 --> 01:13:54,140 When a guy crowded the plate, I used to throw at his head, 1689 01:13:54,180 --> 01:13:56,100 'cause I'm the worst person in the world. 1690 01:13:56,100 --> 01:13:57,539 Honey, I've seen worse. 1691 01:13:57,539 --> 01:13:58,980 Who's worse than me? 1692 01:13:58,980 --> 01:14:00,259 Hitler. 1693 01:14:00,259 --> 01:14:01,820 All right. Maybe Hitler. 1694 01:14:01,860 --> 01:14:03,299 Maybe Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels, 1695 01:14:03,299 --> 01:14:05,219 but I'm fourth, right behind them. 1696 01:14:05,219 --> 01:14:06,660 Come on, hold my hand. 1697 01:14:06,660 --> 01:14:08,099 Can you feel my hand? 1698 01:14:08,099 --> 01:14:09,059 Yes, it's warm. 1699 01:14:09,059 --> 01:14:10,979 See? It's just panic. 1700 01:14:10,979 --> 01:14:12,420 You're not a blob. 1701 01:14:12,420 --> 01:14:13,900 I know. I'm gonna get over this. 1702 01:14:14,659 --> 01:14:17,180 I'm having a panic attack. I have these attacks. 1703 01:14:17,220 --> 01:14:18,659 What sports do you like? 1704 01:14:18,659 --> 01:14:20,579 I like them all. 1705 01:14:20,579 --> 01:14:22,020 I like baseball. I like basketball. 1706 01:14:22,020 --> 01:14:23,940 I was married to a woman, Cookie, who-- 1707 01:14:23,940 --> 01:14:25,860 she looked like Max Schmeling. 1708 01:14:25,860 --> 01:14:27,939 No, I'm not joking. 1709 01:14:28,899 --> 01:14:30,220 All right, it's time. 1710 01:14:31,180 --> 01:14:34,019 I can't get through this without you. 1711 01:14:34,019 --> 01:14:35,460 Don't worry about it. Don't worry. 1712 01:14:35,460 --> 01:14:36,899 If you didn't come with me today... 1713 01:14:36,899 --> 01:14:38,860 Don't worry about it. Straighten up. 1714 01:14:39,779 --> 01:14:42,180 I gotta get a tie. I gotta get my tie. 1715 01:14:42,180 --> 01:14:43,420 All right. Let's go. 1716 01:14:47,419 --> 01:14:50,940 Are you ready to be immortalized by Adair? 1717 01:14:50,980 --> 01:14:52,420 I teach your books. 1718 01:14:52,420 --> 01:14:54,100 These are some of my literature students. 1719 01:14:54,139 --> 01:14:56,580 We all know all your work, your characters... 1720 01:14:56,619 --> 01:14:58,179 even the obscure ones. 1721 01:14:58,220 --> 01:15:00,099 Good reading is a creative act. 1722 01:15:00,140 --> 01:15:01,780 So are you working on anything now? 1723 01:15:01,819 --> 01:15:04,179 Something we can look forward to sinking our teeth into? 1724 01:15:04,220 --> 01:15:08,019 I'm in the midst of writing a thing on the devil... 1725 01:15:08,060 --> 01:15:11,380 who comes and kidnaps a man's one true love... 1726 01:15:11,419 --> 01:15:13,980 and takes her down to hell, and he goes to retrieve her. 1727 01:15:14,020 --> 01:15:18,299 Since it's hell, I'm able to settle a lot of old scores. 1728 01:15:19,139 --> 01:15:20,659 What's the man like? 1729 01:15:20,700 --> 01:15:22,460 It's me, thinly disguised. 1730 01:15:22,500 --> 01:15:26,740 In fact, I don't even think I should disguise it anymore. 1731 01:15:26,780 --> 01:15:28,700 It's, you know, it's me. 1732 01:15:30,499 --> 01:15:33,460 Floor five: subway muggers, aggressive panhandlers... 1733 01:15:33,500 --> 01:15:34,580 and book critics. 1734 01:15:35,619 --> 01:15:38,739 Floor six: Right-wing extremists, serial killers... 1735 01:15:38,779 --> 01:15:40,699 lawyers who appear on television. 1736 01:15:41,700 --> 01:15:44,020 Floor seven: the media. 1737 01:15:44,060 --> 01:15:45,780 Sorry. That floor is all filled up. 1738 01:15:46,859 --> 01:15:48,860 Floor eight: escaped war criminals... 1739 01:15:48,899 --> 01:15:50,860 TV evangelists, and the NRA. 1740 01:15:51,700 --> 01:15:53,979 Lowest level. Everybody off. 1741 01:16:24,579 --> 01:16:25,860 What did you do? 1742 01:16:25,899 --> 01:16:27,780 I invented aluminum siding. 1743 01:16:44,459 --> 01:16:45,500 Dad. 1744 01:16:45,539 --> 01:16:47,420 Get me out of here! This is terrible! 1745 01:16:47,459 --> 01:16:49,700 You know how I could never stand hot weather. 1746 01:16:49,740 --> 01:16:51,139 What is this man doing here? 1747 01:16:51,179 --> 01:16:52,900 He's condemned to eternal suffering. 1748 01:16:52,939 --> 01:16:54,339 Harry, help me. 1749 01:16:54,380 --> 01:16:57,859 I don't understand. I demand to know the charges. 1750 01:16:57,899 --> 01:16:59,779 "He behaved unconscionably toward his son... 1751 01:16:59,819 --> 01:17:01,699 "accused the boy of committing a capital crime... 1752 01:17:01,739 --> 01:17:03,340 "merely by being born." 1753 01:17:03,379 --> 01:17:06,020 "Your wife, they told me, is dead... 1754 01:17:06,060 --> 01:17:07,940 "but your son, he's thriving." 1755 01:17:08,459 --> 01:17:10,259 Why did he fight not to be born? 1756 01:17:11,260 --> 01:17:13,379 Look, I forgive him. 1757 01:17:15,059 --> 01:17:16,659 What's over is over. 1758 01:17:17,540 --> 01:17:20,420 It's finished. Let him go to heaven, please? 1759 01:17:20,460 --> 01:17:22,380 I'm a Jew. We don't believe in heaven. 1760 01:17:23,379 --> 01:17:24,740 Where do you wanna go? 1761 01:17:24,740 --> 01:17:26,660 To a Chinese restaurant. 1762 01:17:26,699 --> 01:17:28,100 Take him to Joy Luck. 1763 01:17:28,140 --> 01:17:30,099 I love him despite everything. 1764 01:17:50,660 --> 01:17:52,059 Looking for someone? 1765 01:17:54,180 --> 01:17:55,899 I'm here to get Fay. 1766 01:17:55,939 --> 01:17:57,939 She's not coming with you. 1767 01:17:57,979 --> 01:17:59,260 What are you telling me? 1768 01:17:59,300 --> 01:18:01,180 Because you're the head of this whole underworld... 1769 01:18:01,220 --> 01:18:03,780 that you can just abduct her and get away with it? 1770 01:18:03,820 --> 01:18:06,940 I'm gonna kidnap her back. What are you laughing? 1771 01:18:06,980 --> 01:18:08,939 You dare to match your powers against mine? 1772 01:18:08,980 --> 01:18:10,380 You wanna know why? 1773 01:18:10,419 --> 01:18:11,740 Yeah, I do. 1774 01:18:11,780 --> 01:18:14,060 I'm sorry. Forgive me for laughing. 1775 01:18:14,100 --> 01:18:14,740 Why? 1776 01:18:15,460 --> 01:18:19,899 I'm more powerful than you because I'm a bigger sinner. 1777 01:18:19,939 --> 01:18:24,260 Because you're a fallen angel, and I never believed in God... 1778 01:18:24,299 --> 01:18:25,539 or heaven or any of that stuff. 1779 01:18:25,539 --> 01:18:30,059 I'm strictly quarks and particles and black holes. 1780 01:18:30,100 --> 01:18:32,220 All the other stuff is junk to me. 1781 01:18:32,259 --> 01:18:34,979 And also I do terrible things. 1782 01:18:35,019 --> 01:18:38,060 I've cheated on all my wives, and none of 'em deserved it. 1783 01:18:38,100 --> 01:18:41,500 I sleep with whores, I drink too much... 1784 01:18:41,540 --> 01:18:43,779 I take pills and I lie and I'm vain... 1785 01:18:43,779 --> 01:18:47,580 I'm cowardly and prone to violence. 1786 01:18:47,619 --> 01:18:48,699 Violence? 1787 01:18:48,739 --> 01:18:51,700 I once almost ran over a book critic with my car... 1788 01:18:51,739 --> 01:18:53,460 but swerved at the last second. 1789 01:18:53,499 --> 01:18:55,179 Did you ever have two women at once? 1790 01:18:55,220 --> 01:18:57,300 Yes, I did have two women at once. 1791 01:18:57,339 --> 01:18:58,299 And I'll tell you something else. 1792 01:18:58,339 --> 01:19:00,140 I didn't care that it was exploitive. 1793 01:19:00,180 --> 01:19:01,260 And I'll tell you something else. 1794 01:19:01,300 --> 01:19:03,180 -They were sisters. -Really? 1795 01:19:03,220 --> 01:19:05,820 Yes. Absolutely. Two blond WASP sisters. 1796 01:19:05,859 --> 01:19:07,099 Not the Sherman twins? 1797 01:19:07,140 --> 01:19:09,100 Yes, the Sherman twins. Exactly. 1798 01:19:10,340 --> 01:19:11,260 They're here. 1799 01:19:11,300 --> 01:19:13,900 -The Sherman twins are here? -Sure. 1800 01:19:13,939 --> 01:19:16,460 So, do you know Sandra Pepkin? 1801 01:19:16,500 --> 01:19:18,459 Only the best blow job in the hadasa. 1802 01:19:18,499 --> 01:19:20,620 So if you know Sandra Pepkin... 1803 01:19:20,659 --> 01:19:23,819 I fucked her best friend, the cripple, Pearl. 1804 01:19:23,859 --> 01:19:25,339 Oh, Pearl in the wheelchair. 1805 01:19:26,579 --> 01:19:28,499 Speaking of handicaps, do you know Marie Taylor? 1806 01:19:28,540 --> 01:19:30,939 Well, yes, but Marie Taylor I don't count. 1807 01:19:30,979 --> 01:19:32,179 Marie Taylor's dyslexic. 1808 01:19:32,219 --> 01:19:34,539 She put her tampax in her nose. 1809 01:19:34,580 --> 01:19:35,659 You ever fuck a blind girl? 1810 01:19:35,700 --> 01:19:37,340 No, that I never did. Did you? 1811 01:19:37,379 --> 01:19:39,219 They're so grateful. 1812 01:19:40,419 --> 01:19:41,819 Would you like a drink? 1813 01:19:41,860 --> 01:19:44,259 Could I get some tequila? 1814 01:19:44,299 --> 01:19:45,619 I got great tequila. 1815 01:19:45,659 --> 01:19:47,380 Sit down. Make yourself at home. 1816 01:19:47,419 --> 01:19:48,860 You want me to turn on the air conditioner? 1817 01:19:48,899 --> 01:19:50,100 You're air conditioned here? 1818 01:19:50,139 --> 01:19:52,219 Sure. It fucks up the ozone layer. 1819 01:19:52,260 --> 01:19:54,740 I could be very comfortable down here. 1820 01:19:54,780 --> 01:19:56,100 I'll tell you something, Harry. 1821 01:19:56,100 --> 01:19:57,699 I love it. I love it here. 1822 01:19:57,739 --> 01:19:59,059 I wouldn't be anyplace else. 1823 01:19:59,099 --> 01:20:00,299 Here you go. 1824 01:20:00,339 --> 01:20:03,059 You know, I've been offered a lot of jobs in your world... 1825 01:20:03,100 --> 01:20:05,099 but why should I be an employee? 1826 01:20:05,139 --> 01:20:07,299 Here I'm my own boss, and I'm free. 1827 01:20:07,299 --> 01:20:08,740 What kind of jobs did they offer you? 1828 01:20:08,780 --> 01:20:10,459 For two years, I ran a Hollywood studio... 1829 01:20:10,500 --> 01:20:12,620 but you can't trust those people. 1830 01:20:12,659 --> 01:20:13,739 I agree with you. 1831 01:20:13,779 --> 01:20:16,420 Better to rule down here than to serve in heaven. 1832 01:20:16,460 --> 01:20:17,820 That's Milton, I think. 1833 01:20:17,859 --> 01:20:19,779 To evil. It keeps things humming. 1834 01:20:19,819 --> 01:20:22,819 Oh, jeez. So you kidnapped Fay? 1835 01:20:22,860 --> 01:20:23,899 Yes, I did. 1836 01:20:23,939 --> 01:20:25,500 But some women are turned on... 1837 01:20:25,539 --> 01:20:26,899 by aggressive, assertive behavior. 1838 01:20:26,939 --> 01:20:29,020 Yeah, so if I suddenly kidnapped her back? 1839 01:20:29,060 --> 01:20:31,579 You kidnap? It's not your style. 1840 01:20:31,619 --> 01:20:33,539 You're not a fun guy. Too serious. 1841 01:20:33,580 --> 01:20:35,699 Fay knew that. You're too angry at life. 1842 01:20:35,740 --> 01:20:38,299 -I got a lot to be angry at. -Who doesn't? 1843 01:20:38,339 --> 01:20:41,059 But sooner or later, Harry, you gotta back off. 1844 01:20:41,059 --> 01:20:43,659 It's like Vegas. You're up, you're down... 1845 01:20:43,700 --> 01:20:46,379 but in the end, the house always wins. 1846 01:20:46,419 --> 01:20:48,420 Doesn't mean you didn't have fun. 1847 01:20:48,459 --> 01:20:51,420 Now, one thing you are not is a kidnapper. 1848 01:20:51,459 --> 01:20:53,020 Kidnapper! 1849 01:20:53,060 --> 01:20:54,980 Listen to me! 1850 01:20:55,019 --> 01:20:56,539 Get out of my way! 1851 01:20:56,579 --> 01:20:59,060 Can't you see you're walking with a fucking kidnapper? 1852 01:20:59,100 --> 01:21:00,539 You'll have to come with me, sir. 1853 01:21:02,179 --> 01:21:06,900 You're under arrest. I gotta put the cuffs on you. 1854 01:21:06,940 --> 01:21:08,580 You stay over there. 1855 01:21:08,619 --> 01:21:10,060 How can I kidnap my own son? 1856 01:21:11,580 --> 01:21:14,420 Hey, we got drugs in the bag. 1857 01:21:14,460 --> 01:21:16,380 Let me go, bitch! Just let me go! 1858 01:21:17,939 --> 01:21:19,380 Get off of me, bitch! 1859 01:21:22,179 --> 01:21:24,020 Can't I be honored and then arrested? 1860 01:21:24,060 --> 01:21:25,779 No, we can't do that. I'm sorry. 1861 01:21:26,979 --> 01:21:28,259 Kidnapping? 1862 01:21:28,259 --> 01:21:32,260 Prostitute in your car in possession of marijuana. 1863 01:21:32,300 --> 01:21:34,780 Possession of an unlicensed firearm. 1864 01:21:34,819 --> 01:21:36,739 I told you already about the firearm. 1865 01:21:36,780 --> 01:21:39,260 There was a crazy woman on my roof shooting at me. 1866 01:21:39,300 --> 01:21:41,180 I got the gun away from her, I put it in my car. 1867 01:21:41,220 --> 01:21:42,860 I was gonna hand it in. 1868 01:21:42,899 --> 01:21:44,419 I gotta make another phone call. 1869 01:21:44,460 --> 01:21:45,499 You made your call. 1870 01:21:45,539 --> 01:21:46,859 Yeah, I know, but that didn't count. 1871 01:21:46,899 --> 01:21:49,020 That was to my girlfriend's answering service. 1872 01:21:49,059 --> 01:21:50,619 I'm trying to keep her from getting married. 1873 01:21:50,660 --> 01:21:52,340 You also called your sister. 1874 01:21:52,379 --> 01:21:53,980 My sister wasn't in. 1875 01:21:54,019 --> 01:21:55,099 You called your lawyer. 1876 01:21:55,139 --> 01:21:56,779 My lawyer was at Canyon Ranch. 1877 01:21:56,820 --> 01:21:58,220 I can never get my lawyer. 1878 01:21:58,259 --> 01:22:00,420 Can I give you some advice? 1879 01:22:00,459 --> 01:22:02,659 You're in deep shit. 1880 01:22:10,300 --> 01:22:12,500 This time, I think you've really had it. 1881 01:22:14,219 --> 01:22:17,499 Hey, it was your idea to kidnap Hilly. 1882 01:22:17,540 --> 01:22:18,979 It was my idea? It wasn't my idea. 1883 01:22:19,019 --> 01:22:20,300 I made a joke. 1884 01:22:20,339 --> 01:22:22,419 You don't have to act out on every impulse. 1885 01:22:22,460 --> 01:22:24,100 You've got to tell me the truth. 1886 01:22:24,140 --> 01:22:26,139 Is it better being dead? 1887 01:22:26,180 --> 01:22:28,739 No, it's not really, but there's one good thing. 1888 01:22:28,780 --> 01:22:30,659 You don't get called for jury duty... 1889 01:22:30,659 --> 01:22:32,259 but then you have no options. 1890 01:22:32,299 --> 01:22:33,659 It's not for you. 1891 01:22:33,700 --> 01:22:35,660 Jesus. I'm no good at life. 1892 01:22:35,699 --> 01:22:37,820 No, but you write well. 1893 01:22:37,860 --> 01:22:39,620 I write well, but that's a different story... 1894 01:22:39,660 --> 01:22:41,820 because I can manipulate the characters and plots. 1895 01:22:41,860 --> 01:22:43,340 You create your own universe... 1896 01:22:43,379 --> 01:22:45,579 but that's much nicer than the world we have. 1897 01:22:45,619 --> 01:22:47,819 But I can't function in the world we have. 1898 01:22:47,860 --> 01:22:50,180 I'm a failure at life. 1899 01:22:50,180 --> 01:22:53,139 I think you bring pleasure to a lot of people. 1900 01:22:53,180 --> 01:22:55,100 But even that's drying up. 1901 01:22:55,140 --> 01:22:57,099 For the last months... 1902 01:22:57,139 --> 01:23:01,219 I haven't been able to come up with a meaningful idea to write. 1903 01:23:01,259 --> 01:23:05,700 Make peace with your demons and your block will pass. 1904 01:23:05,739 --> 01:23:10,100 Jesus, it sounds so trite, but I just want to be happy. 1905 01:23:10,819 --> 01:23:12,459 To be alive is to be happy. 1906 01:23:12,499 --> 01:23:13,979 Take it from me. 1907 01:23:15,180 --> 01:23:17,380 Hey, Block. Come on. 1908 01:23:21,300 --> 01:23:22,739 Some people just put up your bail. 1909 01:23:24,340 --> 01:23:25,700 This way. 1910 01:23:26,499 --> 01:23:27,819 You? 1911 01:23:27,859 --> 01:23:30,100 We got the message on our service. 1912 01:23:30,140 --> 01:23:31,500 Came right from our wedding. 1913 01:23:31,539 --> 01:23:33,459 You did? 1914 01:23:33,500 --> 01:23:34,940 We're on our way to our honeymoon. 1915 01:23:34,979 --> 01:23:38,019 -You got married? -You have to ask? 1916 01:23:38,060 --> 01:23:39,460 I can't believe it. 1917 01:23:39,460 --> 01:23:41,819 In the end, you chose him over me? 1918 01:23:41,859 --> 01:23:43,099 I can't fathom this. 1919 01:23:43,140 --> 01:23:44,780 You're gonna insult me after we ran from the altar... 1920 01:23:44,819 --> 01:23:46,180 to keep you from rotting in prison? 1921 01:23:46,180 --> 01:23:47,979 I know you get claustrophobic. 1922 01:23:48,019 --> 01:23:49,659 Plus you're the perfect punk. 1923 01:23:49,700 --> 01:23:51,660 You'll get buggered by every con in the cell block. 1924 01:23:51,699 --> 01:23:53,940 You're the guy that should be in there... 1925 01:23:53,980 --> 01:23:55,819 because you stole her from under my nose. 1926 01:23:55,860 --> 01:23:59,340 Harry, he did not steal me. I love him. 1927 01:23:59,379 --> 01:24:01,299 I can't fathom this. 1928 01:24:01,339 --> 01:24:04,059 I appreciate your coming, but I can't-- 1929 01:24:04,100 --> 01:24:06,379 Why? Why not me? 1930 01:24:06,420 --> 01:24:09,259 You told me I wasn't supposed to fall in love with you. 1931 01:24:09,300 --> 01:24:12,419 How could you listen to me? You know how crazy I am. 1932 01:24:12,419 --> 01:24:15,100 Well, you were my mentor, that's why. 1933 01:24:15,139 --> 01:24:16,779 But you were sleeping with your mentor. 1934 01:24:16,819 --> 01:24:19,819 So? I've slept with my gynecologist. 1935 01:24:19,859 --> 01:24:22,579 What has that got to do with anything? 1936 01:24:22,620 --> 01:24:24,700 You're gonna snorkel down the Amazon with him... 1937 01:24:24,739 --> 01:24:26,819 when you could have me? 1938 01:24:26,860 --> 01:24:29,340 I will never be the writer you are. 1939 01:24:29,380 --> 01:24:30,939 You put your art into your work. 1940 01:24:30,980 --> 01:24:32,459 I put it into my life. 1941 01:24:32,500 --> 01:24:34,180 I can make her happier. 1942 01:24:34,219 --> 01:24:36,220 I love you. 1943 01:24:36,259 --> 01:24:40,539 I do. It's just that I'm in love with Larry. 1944 01:24:40,580 --> 01:24:42,339 I'm his wife. 1945 01:24:42,339 --> 01:24:45,020 I love you, too, Harry. Give us your blessing... 1946 01:24:45,059 --> 01:24:47,580 so that we can go and enjoy our honeymoon. 1947 01:24:47,620 --> 01:24:48,980 We'll be in Santa Fe about a month... 1948 01:24:49,019 --> 01:24:52,380 and when we come back, we'll all go out. We're friends. 1949 01:24:52,420 --> 01:24:53,500 This is where you're going on your honeymoon? 1950 01:24:53,539 --> 01:24:55,619 He's taking you to the desert? 1951 01:24:55,659 --> 01:24:58,580 Sand? The desert is cactus. 1952 01:24:58,619 --> 01:25:00,419 It's gila monsters... 1953 01:25:00,419 --> 01:25:03,820 whatever you call them, lizards, is the desert. 1954 01:25:03,859 --> 01:25:06,059 Harry, give us your blessing, please? 1955 01:25:06,100 --> 01:25:07,579 Give 'em your blessings... 1956 01:25:07,620 --> 01:25:09,859 before I throw you back in that fucking jail cell... 1957 01:25:09,899 --> 01:25:11,099 and I bugger you. 1958 01:25:14,139 --> 01:25:16,580 I don't know what to say. I love you. 1959 01:25:16,619 --> 01:25:18,740 This guy I've loved... 1960 01:25:21,460 --> 01:25:23,179 I give up. I give up. 1961 01:25:25,700 --> 01:25:27,299 We'll get you home, all right? 1962 01:25:28,780 --> 01:25:30,459 Santa Fe, you're gonna take her? 1963 01:25:30,500 --> 01:25:31,900 Tacos. 1964 01:25:53,140 --> 01:25:56,180 Harry, what about the honoring ceremony? 1965 01:25:59,100 --> 01:26:00,820 We haven't had the ceremony. 1966 01:26:00,860 --> 01:26:02,660 The police interrupted. 1967 01:26:04,339 --> 01:26:05,979 What, am I dreaming? 1968 01:26:06,019 --> 01:26:07,099 Everybody dreams. 1969 01:26:07,140 --> 01:26:08,579 Come on. 1970 01:26:08,619 --> 01:26:10,420 Professor Clark has everything planned. 1971 01:26:12,260 --> 01:26:14,659 Can I bring Hilly? 1972 01:26:14,700 --> 01:26:16,900 Well, it's your dream. 1973 01:26:18,140 --> 01:26:19,739 Stebbins Hall? 1974 01:26:19,780 --> 01:26:22,299 Everyone is waiting to honor you. 1975 01:26:22,339 --> 01:26:25,339 After all, you created them. 1976 01:27:29,460 --> 01:27:31,419 I love all of you. 1977 01:27:31,459 --> 01:27:32,939 Really, you've given me... 1978 01:27:32,979 --> 01:27:35,259 some of the happiest moments of my life... 1979 01:27:35,299 --> 01:27:38,780 and you've even saved my life at times. 1980 01:27:38,819 --> 01:27:41,820 And now you've actually taught me things... 1981 01:27:41,859 --> 01:27:43,219 and I'm completely grateful-- 1982 01:27:43,259 --> 01:27:46,139 I think the author's message is to know yourself... 1983 01:27:46,180 --> 01:27:48,699 stop kidding yourself, accept your limitations... 1984 01:27:48,739 --> 01:27:50,180 and get on with your life. 1985 01:27:50,180 --> 01:27:51,299 It's amazing. 1986 01:27:51,339 --> 01:27:54,619 To me, it's a really interesting character-- 1987 01:27:54,660 --> 01:27:58,020 a guy who can't function well in life... 1988 01:27:58,059 --> 01:28:01,499 but can only function in art. 1989 01:28:01,540 --> 01:28:04,700 It's sort of sad in a way and also funny. 1990 01:28:04,740 --> 01:28:07,620 But your books all seem a little sad on the surface... 1991 01:28:07,659 --> 01:28:09,060 which is why I like deconstructing them... 1992 01:28:09,100 --> 01:28:11,379 because underneath they're really happy. 1993 01:28:11,420 --> 01:28:12,699 It's just that you don't know it. 1994 01:28:14,819 --> 01:28:16,859 I feel like I'm in a dream. 1995 01:28:16,900 --> 01:28:20,620 This, for me, is the best dream I've had in months. 1996 01:28:20,659 --> 01:28:23,100 The happiest dream-- 1997 01:28:23,139 --> 01:28:24,779 Oh, I like it. 1998 01:28:24,819 --> 01:28:26,459 I like it. 1999 01:28:26,500 --> 01:28:31,620 A character who's too neurotic to function in life... 2000 01:28:31,620 --> 01:28:34,819 who can only function in art. 2001 01:28:36,339 --> 01:28:38,219 Notes for a novel. 2002 01:28:38,939 --> 01:28:40,260 Opening possibility: 2003 01:28:41,419 --> 01:28:46,020 Rifken led a fragmented, disjointed existence. 2004 01:28:46,059 --> 01:28:48,419 He had long ago come to this conclusion... 2005 01:28:48,419 --> 01:28:51,019 all people know the same truth. 2006 01:28:51,060 --> 01:28:54,819 Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. 2007 01:28:54,859 --> 01:28:57,979 Only his writing was calm. 2008 01:28:58,019 --> 01:29:01,780 His writing, which had in more ways than one... 2009 01:29:01,819 --> 01:29:03,499 saved his life. 2010 01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:12,000 SUBRip by Cristo Marc2008 (2009), The Netherlands. 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