3 00:00:38,561 --> 00:00:39,394 - Leon. 4 00:00:39,394 --> 00:00:40,973 Leon Turner! 5 00:00:40,973 --> 00:00:43,226 You still work at that museum? 6 00:00:43,226 --> 00:00:44,845 Why haven't you called me? 7 00:00:44,845 --> 00:00:45,690 - Trish. 8 00:00:45,690 --> 00:00:47,242 The last couple of times we went out, 9 00:00:47,242 --> 00:00:48,717 we just bored each other. 10 00:00:50,591 --> 00:00:52,341 - He's right, we did. 11 00:01:12,554 --> 00:01:13,471 - Yo, Mark! 12 00:01:16,197 --> 00:01:17,030 Yo, Mark! 13 00:01:17,957 --> 00:01:18,874 - Yo, Leon. 14 00:01:19,902 --> 00:01:20,958 Yo, what's up? 15 00:01:20,958 --> 00:01:22,259 - What's up, let me get it. 16 00:01:22,259 --> 00:01:23,752 - You miss it, you bought it. 17 00:01:24,585 --> 00:01:25,418 - Yeah. 18 00:01:27,362 --> 00:01:28,195 Thanks, bro. 19 00:01:28,195 --> 00:01:29,577 - Yo, what you need with that anyway? 20 00:01:29,577 --> 00:01:32,393 - Gotta do some undercover work. 21 00:01:32,393 --> 00:01:33,801 Catch you later. 22 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:11,737 - What's up, man? 23 00:02:15,699 --> 00:02:17,503 - Raczynski was one of the first painters 24 00:02:17,503 --> 00:02:19,018 to try and drain painting 25 00:02:19,018 --> 00:02:21,438 of all of it's non-essential components. 26 00:02:21,438 --> 00:02:23,188 Perspective, imagery. 27 00:02:25,385 --> 00:02:27,391 - Well, why would he want to do that? 28 00:02:27,391 --> 00:02:28,964 - It forces you to examine 29 00:02:28,964 --> 00:02:31,221 the technical side of the painting. 30 00:02:31,221 --> 00:02:33,168 There's nothing to look at but the brushstroke 31 00:02:33,168 --> 00:02:35,609 and the texture of the painting. 32 00:02:35,609 --> 00:02:37,436 See, the Russian constructivists 33 00:02:37,436 --> 00:02:39,240 were trying to offer the common man 34 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:43,500 a purer, more truthful, non-bourgeois form of art, 35 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:45,425 one that would appeal to the Proletariat 36 00:02:45,425 --> 00:02:46,624 in the name of brotherhood. 37 00:02:46,624 --> 00:02:47,457 - Hm. 38 00:02:47,457 --> 00:02:48,581 Did they succeed? 39 00:02:48,581 --> 00:02:50,529 - It helped instigate a complete revolution 40 00:02:50,529 --> 00:02:52,612 in the rhetoric painting. 41 00:02:54,433 --> 00:02:55,266 - Leon! 42 00:02:57,631 --> 00:03:00,535 You're supposed to be in gallery 23! 43 00:03:00,535 --> 00:03:02,068 - I just wandered for a second! 44 00:03:02,068 --> 00:03:04,228 - You don't get paid to wander, 45 00:03:04,228 --> 00:03:08,038 you get paid to stand still and do nothing. 46 00:03:08,038 --> 00:03:08,955 - Yes, sir. 47 00:03:11,848 --> 00:03:13,617 - See, the Russian constructivists 48 00:03:13,617 --> 00:03:15,488 were trying to offer the common man 49 00:03:15,488 --> 00:03:19,855 a pure, more truthful, non-bourgeois form of art. 50 00:03:19,855 --> 00:03:21,571 One that would appeal to the Proletariat 51 00:03:21,571 --> 00:03:24,012 in the name of brotherhood. 52 00:03:24,012 --> 00:03:26,370 - See, the Russian constructivists felt 53 00:03:26,370 --> 00:03:29,584 that they were giving the common man 54 00:03:29,584 --> 00:03:33,751 a purer, more truthful, non-bourgeois form of art. 55 00:03:35,282 --> 00:03:38,243 One that would appeal to the Proletariat 56 00:03:38,243 --> 00:03:40,839 in the name of brotherhood. 57 00:03:40,839 --> 00:03:42,865 Yeah, brotherhood! 58 00:03:42,865 --> 00:03:47,337 Now, this work helped to incite a revolution 59 00:03:47,337 --> 00:03:49,909 in the rhetoric of painting. 60 00:03:49,909 --> 00:03:51,326 - Rhetoric! 61 00:03:55,029 --> 00:03:57,824 - Where'd you get those clothes? 62 00:03:57,824 --> 00:03:58,757 - I bought 'em. 63 00:03:58,757 --> 00:03:59,590 - Uh huh. 64 00:04:00,741 --> 00:04:02,369 Do you remember our deal? 65 00:04:02,369 --> 00:04:04,203 - Ma, I was gonna pay the rent, 66 00:04:04,203 --> 00:04:06,120 but these clothes were on sale! 67 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,736 And the sale ended yesterday. 68 00:04:07,736 --> 00:04:10,706 - Well, I give you 'til the end of the month. 69 00:04:10,706 --> 00:04:12,048 - Okay. 70 00:04:12,048 --> 00:04:13,392 I love you, Ma. 71 00:04:13,392 --> 00:04:14,225 - I love you too. 72 00:04:14,225 --> 00:04:15,665 - No, but Ma, I love you. 73 00:04:55,999 --> 00:04:56,832 Wow. 74 00:05:01,862 --> 00:05:04,834 Man, every time I look at this, 75 00:05:04,834 --> 00:05:08,110 it still amazes me that just a bunch of rectangles 76 00:05:08,110 --> 00:05:10,079 could cause a complete revolution 77 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:12,412 in the rhetoric of painting. 78 00:06:03,891 --> 00:06:04,724 Damn! 79 00:06:05,748 --> 00:06:08,159 Raczynski is the joint. 80 00:06:08,159 --> 00:06:09,567 - I could paint this! 81 00:06:09,567 --> 00:06:11,061 - I'm sure you could. 82 00:06:11,061 --> 00:06:12,119 And they'd hang your painting 83 00:06:12,119 --> 00:06:14,055 on some wall in corporate America. 84 00:06:14,055 --> 00:06:17,364 This painting incited a revolution. 85 00:06:17,364 --> 00:06:19,190 - This painting caused a revolution? 86 00:06:19,190 --> 00:06:22,632 - My man created a new, non-bourgeois form of art. 87 00:06:22,632 --> 00:06:25,570 One that embraced the brotherhood of the common man. 88 00:06:25,570 --> 00:06:27,100 - Oh, God. 89 00:06:27,100 --> 00:06:29,452 Are you an art student? 90 00:06:29,452 --> 00:06:31,204 - Hell no, I'm a painter. 91 00:06:31,204 --> 00:06:33,172 - Yo, Princess! 92 00:06:33,172 --> 00:06:36,505 They got a really violent one over here. 93 00:06:39,044 --> 00:06:39,961 - 555-8948. 94 00:06:42,456 --> 00:06:43,984 The name's Judy. 95 00:06:43,984 --> 00:06:44,817 Call me. 96 00:06:48,868 --> 00:06:49,868 - "555-8948. 97 00:06:51,552 --> 00:06:52,708 The name's Judy. 98 00:06:52,708 --> 00:06:53,541 Call me." 99 00:06:54,374 --> 00:06:55,207 555-8948. 100 00:06:56,418 --> 00:06:57,751 555- - Excuse me. 101 00:07:01,301 --> 00:07:02,134 Excuse me! 102 00:07:05,253 --> 00:07:07,836 Do you need a pencil and paper? 103 00:07:09,453 --> 00:07:10,286 - What? 104 00:07:11,202 --> 00:07:13,531 - You know, to write down her phone number? 105 00:07:14,414 --> 00:07:15,331 - Oh, yeah. 106 00:07:16,515 --> 00:07:17,348 Thanks. 107 00:07:20,433 --> 00:07:21,516 That's 555... 108 00:07:27,153 --> 00:07:28,320 - 8948. - 8948. 109 00:07:31,301 --> 00:07:32,134 Judy. 110 00:07:33,357 --> 00:07:36,238 - Did I hear you say you were a painter? 111 00:07:36,238 --> 00:07:37,071 - Yeah. 112 00:07:37,954 --> 00:07:40,649 - Well, what are your paintings like? 113 00:07:40,649 --> 00:07:43,732 - They deal mainly with Black issues. 114 00:07:47,701 --> 00:07:48,534 - Really? 115 00:07:48,534 --> 00:07:51,804 - So, why are you so curious about my paintings? 116 00:07:51,804 --> 00:07:52,810 - Sorry. 117 00:07:52,810 --> 00:07:57,182 I'm the assistant director of an art gallery, Mimi Furst. 118 00:07:57,182 --> 00:07:58,265 - Leon Chame. 119 00:08:01,614 --> 00:08:03,749 - One of my responsibilities is to be on the lookout 120 00:08:03,749 --> 00:08:05,301 for good, young painters. 121 00:08:05,301 --> 00:08:07,413 I'd be happy to see your work sometime. 122 00:08:09,032 --> 00:08:12,794 - Thanks, but I don't think your gallery 123 00:08:12,794 --> 00:08:14,464 is gonna go for my paintings. 124 00:08:14,464 --> 00:08:17,605 Besides, I do fine on my own. 125 00:08:17,605 --> 00:08:21,364 - You know, I've gotta get to an appointment. 126 00:08:21,364 --> 00:08:22,545 It's just through the park. 127 00:08:22,545 --> 00:08:25,165 You want to walk with me? 128 00:08:25,165 --> 00:08:26,498 - Sure, why not? 129 00:08:27,749 --> 00:08:29,058 - Are you thinking that our gallery 130 00:08:29,058 --> 00:08:31,092 wouldn't be interested in your work 131 00:08:31,092 --> 00:08:33,908 because of the subject matter? 132 00:08:33,908 --> 00:08:36,371 - Now, what would make me think that? 133 00:08:36,371 --> 00:08:39,773 - Okay, look, I know SoHo hasn't been incredibly kind 134 00:08:39,773 --> 00:08:42,489 toward minority artists in the past, 135 00:08:42,489 --> 00:08:44,833 but you have to believe there are people in the art world 136 00:08:44,833 --> 00:08:47,297 that would really like to change that situation. 137 00:08:47,297 --> 00:08:50,125 - And you consider yourself one of those people? 138 00:08:50,125 --> 00:08:51,257 - Well, I certainly can't prove it 139 00:08:51,257 --> 00:08:55,007 if artists like you won't show me their work. 140 00:08:56,549 --> 00:08:58,165 - Hey, wait a sec. 141 00:08:58,165 --> 00:09:00,089 - Nothing would make me happier 142 00:09:00,089 --> 00:09:02,005 than to represent an artist whose work 143 00:09:02,005 --> 00:09:04,797 actually had a little edge to it. 144 00:09:04,797 --> 00:09:06,877 I mean, I'm well aware that most of the work 145 00:09:06,877 --> 00:09:11,877 being sold in SoHo is just pointless and self indulgent. 146 00:09:12,069 --> 00:09:16,612 I call the garbage art gallery deals retinal massages. 147 00:09:16,612 --> 00:09:17,445 - Huh? 148 00:09:18,557 --> 00:09:22,420 - Oh, kinda like the fine arts equivalent of Muzak. 149 00:09:22,420 --> 00:09:24,409 - Oh, you mean the shit is soft? 150 00:09:24,409 --> 00:09:25,445 - Exactly. 151 00:09:25,445 --> 00:09:26,278 - Yeah. 152 00:09:27,111 --> 00:09:28,272 - Why don't you come down and see for yourself? 153 00:09:28,272 --> 00:09:29,909 We're having an opening this Friday. 154 00:09:29,909 --> 00:09:31,230 You could bring some slides of your work. 155 00:09:31,230 --> 00:09:32,705 Come on, what would it hurt? 156 00:09:32,705 --> 00:09:34,905 - Well, I don't make slides of my work. 157 00:09:34,905 --> 00:09:35,738 - Well, come anyway. 158 00:09:35,738 --> 00:09:37,200 Here's my card, the address is on there, 159 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,106 it'll get going around30. 160 00:10:21,917 --> 00:10:23,855 - It reminds me a little of Balzac. 161 00:10:23,855 --> 00:10:24,688 - Why? 162 00:10:24,688 --> 00:10:26,212 - Have you read "Lost Illusions"? 163 00:10:26,212 --> 00:10:30,542 - No, but in a way, both authors don't prosaically 164 00:10:30,542 --> 00:10:32,826 try to tell the story of one character, 165 00:10:32,826 --> 00:10:37,159 but they tend to paint a portrait of an entire city. 166 00:10:38,833 --> 00:10:41,130 - Were you talking about Lost Illusions? 167 00:10:42,142 --> 00:10:45,186 - Actually, we were talking about Bonfire of the Vanities. 168 00:10:45,186 --> 00:10:46,700 - Bonfire, where'd I hear that? 169 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:48,947 - It's a Tom Wolfe novel. 170 00:10:48,947 --> 00:10:50,377 - That's right. 171 00:10:51,729 --> 00:10:53,764 So, what's it about? 172 00:10:53,764 --> 00:10:56,185 - It's a complicated story. 173 00:10:56,185 --> 00:10:57,547 - Well, how's it start? 174 00:10:57,547 --> 00:11:00,036 - I believe it starts with a hit and run car accident 175 00:11:00,036 --> 00:11:01,685 in the South Bronx. 176 00:11:01,685 --> 00:11:02,872 Isn't that right? 177 00:11:02,872 --> 00:11:04,172 - I think so. 178 00:11:04,172 --> 00:11:05,005 - Yeah. 179 00:11:05,005 --> 00:11:06,909 - I haven't actually read the book. 180 00:11:08,176 --> 00:11:10,274 - Neither have I! 181 00:11:10,274 --> 00:11:12,157 - I read lots of reviews and criticisms of it. 182 00:11:17,205 --> 00:11:20,880 - That a subordinate culture is understood 183 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,297 by a dominant one much better 184 00:11:24,389 --> 00:11:28,261 than a dominant one is understood by a subordinate one. 185 00:11:28,261 --> 00:11:30,032 I like the way the play raises questions 186 00:11:30,032 --> 00:11:31,869 of cultural domination. 187 00:11:31,869 --> 00:11:34,597 - Cultural domination, huh? 188 00:11:35,430 --> 00:11:37,024 Am I interrupting something? 189 00:11:37,024 --> 00:11:37,857 - No, not at all. 190 00:11:37,857 --> 00:11:40,108 We were just talking about Angels in America. 191 00:11:40,108 --> 00:11:41,228 - Really? 192 00:11:41,228 --> 00:11:42,208 - Have you seen it? 193 00:11:42,208 --> 00:11:43,041 - No. 194 00:11:43,041 --> 00:11:44,783 But I usually see these things late. 195 00:11:44,783 --> 00:11:46,520 I mean, it was just last week that I finally got around 196 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,931 to reading Bonfire of the Vanities. 197 00:11:50,380 --> 00:11:51,933 Oh, by the way, I'm Leon Chame. 198 00:11:51,933 --> 00:11:54,312 - I'm Dan Belden, this is Blythe. 199 00:11:54,312 --> 00:11:55,145 - Hi. - Hey. 200 00:11:55,145 --> 00:11:57,632 - Are you a friend of Jason's? 201 00:11:57,632 --> 00:11:59,247 - No, I'm a painter. 202 00:11:59,247 --> 00:12:00,330 - Oh, really? 203 00:12:01,176 --> 00:12:03,035 What do you think of the show? 204 00:12:03,035 --> 00:12:06,038 - Well, to be truthful with you, 205 00:12:06,038 --> 00:12:09,197 these are what I call retinal massages. 206 00:12:09,197 --> 00:12:11,603 You know, like the Muzak of art. 207 00:12:11,603 --> 00:12:14,683 What I'm trying to say is, the shit is very soft. 208 00:12:18,006 --> 00:12:20,074 - Excuse me, are you here with someone? 209 00:12:20,074 --> 00:12:22,526 - Oh, Mimi invited me. 210 00:12:22,526 --> 00:12:25,561 - Okay, well then, I'll be happy to go get her for you. 211 00:12:25,561 --> 00:12:26,394 - Thanks. 212 00:12:28,830 --> 00:12:31,382 - Art in America is gonna run a slide from this show 213 00:12:31,382 --> 00:12:33,049 in their next issue. 214 00:12:33,932 --> 00:12:36,765 You can't find a safer investment. 215 00:12:40,599 --> 00:12:42,182 Excuse me a second. 216 00:12:47,111 --> 00:12:48,540 - There's some Black kid upstairs 217 00:12:48,540 --> 00:12:50,490 who's insulting our show. 218 00:12:50,490 --> 00:12:52,919 - It's not illegal for Black men to have good taste. 219 00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:56,638 - It's also not the best advertising for the paintings. 220 00:12:56,638 --> 00:12:58,375 - Well, tell him to shut up. 221 00:12:58,375 --> 00:13:01,958 - He says you invited him, so you tell him. 222 00:13:04,701 --> 00:13:05,693 - Rodovich. 223 00:13:05,693 --> 00:13:07,528 Lost Illusions. 224 00:13:07,528 --> 00:13:09,595 Angels in America. 225 00:13:09,595 --> 00:13:11,380 Bonfire of the Vanities. 226 00:13:11,380 --> 00:13:12,357 - Rodovich? 227 00:13:12,357 --> 00:13:13,348 - Hi. 228 00:13:13,348 --> 00:13:14,625 - Hey, you following me? 229 00:13:14,625 --> 00:13:16,067 Don't think about it! 230 00:13:16,067 --> 00:13:17,175 - Thanks. 231 00:13:17,175 --> 00:13:18,945 - Do you know this guy? 232 00:13:18,945 --> 00:13:20,841 - He's a painter I met at the museum. 233 00:13:20,841 --> 00:13:22,435 - Graffiti? 234 00:13:22,435 --> 00:13:25,229 - I don't know, probably. 235 00:13:25,229 --> 00:13:26,222 He's a little paranoid though, 236 00:13:26,222 --> 00:13:28,573 he won't show me his work. 237 00:13:28,573 --> 00:13:32,060 - Well, maybe you said something that offended him. 238 00:13:32,060 --> 00:13:32,893 - No, I don't think so. 239 00:13:32,893 --> 00:13:33,911 - You might not have realized it. 240 00:13:33,911 --> 00:13:35,216 - I didn't say anything! 241 00:13:35,216 --> 00:13:36,618 - Hey, Mimi! 242 00:13:36,618 --> 00:13:38,325 - I bet you I can get him to show you his work. 243 00:13:38,325 --> 00:13:39,158 - How? 244 00:13:39,158 --> 00:13:39,991 - Watch. 245 00:13:41,066 --> 00:13:41,975 - Hey. 246 00:13:41,975 --> 00:13:42,808 How you doin'? 247 00:13:42,808 --> 00:13:43,670 - Good. - Good. 248 00:13:43,670 --> 00:13:45,268 - Leon Chame, Richard Marx. 249 00:13:45,268 --> 00:13:46,192 - Hi. - Hi. 250 00:13:46,192 --> 00:13:47,744 - Nice to meet you. - You too. 251 00:13:47,744 --> 00:13:49,064 - So, was I lying about the paintings? 252 00:13:49,064 --> 00:13:50,209 - Oh. 253 00:13:50,209 --> 00:13:51,925 You're being overly generous. 254 00:13:51,925 --> 00:13:54,376 - How much would you guess that one sells for? 255 00:13:54,376 --> 00:13:55,401 - Got me. 256 00:13:55,401 --> 00:13:57,105 - That one's $30,000. 257 00:13:59,812 --> 00:14:01,472 - It's true. 258 00:14:01,472 --> 00:14:02,749 - Come on! 259 00:14:02,749 --> 00:14:05,739 Nobody likes that enough to pay 30 G's for. 260 00:14:05,739 --> 00:14:06,764 - Oh, you have it backwards. 261 00:14:06,764 --> 00:14:09,800 They pay $30,000 for it, and then they learn to like it. 262 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,813 See, people buy what they're told is good. 263 00:14:11,813 --> 00:14:12,892 - Richard is a critic. 264 00:14:12,892 --> 00:14:14,219 He's here to review the show. 265 00:14:14,219 --> 00:14:16,060 - What are your paintings like? 266 00:14:16,060 --> 00:14:18,688 - Well, lately I've been fascinated by 267 00:14:18,688 --> 00:14:21,449 questions of cultural domination. 268 00:14:21,449 --> 00:14:23,338 - Oh, you know, there are a lot of people in this room 269 00:14:23,338 --> 00:14:26,608 who could benefit from a Black point of view on that topic. 270 00:14:26,608 --> 00:14:27,441 - You think so? 271 00:14:27,441 --> 00:14:28,387 - Oh, I know so. 272 00:14:28,387 --> 00:14:29,665 - You know, I really wish you'd reconsider 273 00:14:29,665 --> 00:14:31,008 showing them to me, Leon. 274 00:14:31,008 --> 00:14:33,229 They sound exactly like what we're looking for. 275 00:14:33,229 --> 00:14:34,153 - Let me get this straight. 276 00:14:34,153 --> 00:14:37,937 If I show you my paintings, and you like 'em, 277 00:14:37,937 --> 00:14:40,304 you'll tell these people to pay 30 grand for 'em? 278 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:43,053 - Well, we'd have to start them out, you know, 279 00:14:43,053 --> 00:14:47,233 a little bit lower, but we could be getting as much as 280 00:14:47,233 --> 00:14:49,066 100,000 within a year. 281 00:14:51,273 --> 00:14:53,238 - Well, I'll definitely reconsider. 282 00:14:53,238 --> 00:14:54,383 - I hate to ask you this, 283 00:14:54,383 --> 00:14:56,912 but would you mind not insulting the paintings out loud? 284 00:14:56,912 --> 00:14:58,816 It's not very good for business. 285 00:14:58,816 --> 00:15:01,309 - A thousand apologies. 286 00:15:01,309 --> 00:15:02,424 - Call me. 287 00:15:02,424 --> 00:15:03,507 - Okay. - Bye. 288 00:15:07,868 --> 00:15:10,839 - So, in what medium do you work? 289 00:15:10,839 --> 00:15:12,346 - Huh? 290 00:15:12,346 --> 00:15:15,019 - What kind of paint do you use? 291 00:15:15,019 --> 00:15:16,352 - Regular paint. 292 00:15:21,751 --> 00:15:23,324 - Yo, man, we done looked at a hundred, no, 293 00:15:23,324 --> 00:15:24,805 a thousand of these damned paintings, 294 00:15:24,805 --> 00:15:27,163 just pick one, man! 295 00:15:27,163 --> 00:15:29,044 - Yo, what am I supposed to do, huh? 296 00:15:29,044 --> 00:15:31,563 Invite this girl up to Harlem and say, 297 00:15:31,563 --> 00:15:33,048 "Look at the culturally dominated 298 00:15:33,048 --> 00:15:35,175 apples and bowls I've painted!" 299 00:15:35,175 --> 00:15:37,426 Man, I can't put my name on that shit. 300 00:15:37,426 --> 00:15:38,259 - Leon. 301 00:15:38,259 --> 00:15:39,861 If a painting of culture domination jumped up 302 00:15:39,861 --> 00:15:41,100 and bit you on your ass, 303 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:42,784 you wouldn't know it! 304 00:15:42,784 --> 00:15:44,130 - Well, I ain't giving up. 305 00:15:44,130 --> 00:15:45,709 - Yo, what is this all about, man? 306 00:15:45,709 --> 00:15:47,272 I know you, you don't put this much effort 307 00:15:47,272 --> 00:15:48,349 into getting with no hoochie 308 00:15:48,349 --> 00:15:50,432 no matter how bad she is. 309 00:15:52,768 --> 00:15:53,920 - I may have stumbled into a way 310 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,964 to make some crazy cash, man! 311 00:15:55,964 --> 00:15:57,345 This girl. 312 00:15:57,345 --> 00:15:59,667 She wants to sell my paintings for a lot of money. 313 00:15:59,667 --> 00:16:00,909 - Leon. 314 00:16:00,909 --> 00:16:02,207 If these people could sell those paintings 315 00:16:02,207 --> 00:16:03,040 for a lot of money, 316 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:04,091 they wouldn't be standing out here 317 00:16:04,091 --> 00:16:06,591 begging us to buy 'em for $25. 318 00:16:08,512 --> 00:16:10,534 - Nah, man, you don't understand. 319 00:16:10,534 --> 00:16:12,847 This chick wants to represent Black painters, 320 00:16:12,847 --> 00:16:16,026 and she thinks I might be like Spike with the brush, man. 321 00:16:16,026 --> 00:16:16,859 - Whoa, whoa, whoa. 322 00:16:16,859 --> 00:16:18,163 You talking about running a con? 323 00:16:18,163 --> 00:16:19,460 - Look, I don't know what I'm saying, man. 324 00:16:19,460 --> 00:16:20,293 All I know is, 325 00:16:20,293 --> 00:16:22,411 when I started recorded these conversations, I was bored, 326 00:16:22,411 --> 00:16:25,131 and I wanted to try something different, something new. 327 00:16:25,131 --> 00:16:26,263 So I'm gonna follow this thing through 328 00:16:26,263 --> 00:16:27,114 and see what happens. 329 00:16:27,114 --> 00:16:28,455 You never know. 330 00:16:28,455 --> 00:16:31,004 - Leon, it sound to me like she fuckin' with you, man. 331 00:16:31,004 --> 00:16:32,447 You gonna wind up spending your whole paycheck 332 00:16:32,447 --> 00:16:34,439 on this garbage you call painting. 333 00:16:34,439 --> 00:16:36,111 - Yeah, maybe so. 334 00:16:36,111 --> 00:16:39,213 But then again, maybe it'll be a big break for me. 335 00:16:39,213 --> 00:16:41,359 I ain't standing in that museum for the next 10 years 336 00:16:41,359 --> 00:16:43,482 watching money walk by, man. 337 00:16:45,562 --> 00:16:47,387 Look, I'm gonna see if I can go and find my pops, man. 338 00:16:47,387 --> 00:16:49,103 I remember him complaining about some artist 339 00:16:49,103 --> 00:16:51,534 writing on the walls in the building he used to work on. 340 00:16:51,534 --> 00:16:52,840 - Well, yo, I'm gonna head back uptown, 341 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:53,673 'cause I gotta get to work, 342 00:16:53,673 --> 00:16:54,583 I got shoes to sell, G. 343 00:16:54,583 --> 00:16:55,880 - Yeah, and some feet to smell, man. 344 00:16:58,403 --> 00:17:01,384 - This is the girl you were looking for, son. 345 00:17:01,384 --> 00:17:03,806 She used to come for money. 346 00:17:03,806 --> 00:17:06,389 She used to paint all the time. 347 00:17:09,798 --> 00:17:12,215 Now all she does is get high. 348 00:17:15,826 --> 00:17:18,570 - Listen, you stupid fuck! 349 00:17:18,570 --> 00:17:19,862 You don't understand. 350 00:17:19,862 --> 00:17:21,270 I have leukemia. 351 00:17:21,270 --> 00:17:22,256 If you turn the phone off, 352 00:17:22,256 --> 00:17:23,437 I won't be able to call my doctor 353 00:17:23,437 --> 00:17:25,154 when I have one of my fits! 354 00:17:25,154 --> 00:17:26,977 Yes, you do have fits when you have leukemia, 355 00:17:26,977 --> 00:17:28,144 I should know. 356 00:17:29,547 --> 00:17:30,380 Hello? 357 00:17:32,139 --> 00:17:32,972 Hello? 358 00:17:32,972 --> 00:17:33,805 - Whoa. 359 00:17:36,199 --> 00:17:39,077 - He wants the God damn phone. 360 00:17:39,077 --> 00:17:42,362 Who needs call fucking waiting. 361 00:17:42,362 --> 00:17:43,539 - Hey, put that down. 362 00:17:43,539 --> 00:17:44,571 My boy here just wants to trade 363 00:17:44,571 --> 00:17:46,345 for one of your paintings. 364 00:17:46,345 --> 00:17:47,885 - What do you mean trade? 365 00:17:47,885 --> 00:17:50,285 - Well, he won't give no cash to a junkie. 366 00:17:50,285 --> 00:17:51,931 - That's discrimination. 367 00:17:51,931 --> 00:17:53,024 - Hey, look. 368 00:17:53,024 --> 00:17:55,554 If you got paintings I like, 369 00:17:55,554 --> 00:17:57,554 I'll re-hook your phone. 370 00:17:59,272 --> 00:18:01,209 - There's some over there in the corner. 371 00:18:01,209 --> 00:18:03,078 But only you can stay. 372 00:18:03,078 --> 00:18:04,398 - You take care, son. 373 00:18:04,398 --> 00:18:05,817 - Aight. 374 00:18:05,817 --> 00:18:07,067 See you uptown. 375 00:18:13,778 --> 00:18:15,010 You know, I'm looking for something 376 00:18:15,010 --> 00:18:18,380 that deals more with cultural domination. 377 00:18:18,380 --> 00:18:22,316 - I can paint some black dots in the corner. 378 00:18:22,316 --> 00:18:23,745 You can call it Johannesburg. 379 00:18:23,745 --> 00:18:26,905 - Nah, you have anything that's less abstract? 380 00:18:26,905 --> 00:18:30,155 - I got some self portraits over there. 381 00:18:31,933 --> 00:18:33,016 - Over there? 382 00:18:34,045 --> 00:18:36,378 - Over there, in the corner. 383 00:18:40,614 --> 00:18:41,447 - You think... 384 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,402 That I can say this is about cultural domination? 385 00:18:45,402 --> 00:18:47,170 - Of course you can. 386 00:18:47,170 --> 00:18:49,734 It's a blonde haired, blue-eyed white woman. 387 00:18:49,734 --> 00:18:51,437 She's on almost every billboard, 388 00:18:51,437 --> 00:18:54,270 she stars in almost every TV show. 389 00:18:55,353 --> 00:18:58,353 She certainly dominates the culture. 390 00:19:00,053 --> 00:19:00,886 - Yeah. 391 00:19:02,485 --> 00:19:05,389 Yeah, I could talk some shit about this. 392 00:19:05,389 --> 00:19:07,398 How many more you got? 393 00:19:07,398 --> 00:19:10,381 - I don't know, I think I painted 8 of them. 394 00:19:10,381 --> 00:19:13,714 - It's a bit crude, but I tell you what. 395 00:19:15,905 --> 00:19:19,014 I'll re-hook your phone, for all 8. 396 00:19:19,014 --> 00:19:20,316 - Crude? 397 00:19:20,316 --> 00:19:21,889 I spent half my life in art schools 398 00:19:21,889 --> 00:19:23,096 learning how to paint, 399 00:19:23,096 --> 00:19:24,846 and that's not crude. 400 00:19:27,023 --> 00:19:28,553 Phone for one of 'em. 401 00:19:28,553 --> 00:19:30,401 - Well, wait a second! 402 00:19:30,401 --> 00:19:32,780 Look, I'll throw in an extra 50 bucks worth of groceries. 403 00:19:32,780 --> 00:19:37,204 But with that I get the stand, I get the brushes, 404 00:19:37,204 --> 00:19:40,832 I get the paint, I get everything I need to create a studio. 405 00:19:40,832 --> 00:19:41,749 - Fuck off. 406 00:19:46,584 --> 00:19:47,417 Okay. 407 00:19:49,523 --> 00:19:50,884 - Okay. 408 00:20:12,895 --> 00:20:14,649 Can I use the brush? 409 00:20:14,649 --> 00:20:16,497 - You can use the other one if you want. 410 00:20:16,497 --> 00:20:17,330 - Okay. 411 00:20:19,037 --> 00:20:20,230 Okay. 412 00:20:20,230 --> 00:20:22,892 - But please don't hold it like a tennis racket. 413 00:20:22,892 --> 00:20:24,970 Give it some respect. 414 00:20:24,970 --> 00:20:26,685 Yeah, it's your sixth finger, you know? 415 00:20:26,685 --> 00:20:28,338 - Sixth finger. - Yeah. 416 00:20:28,338 --> 00:20:29,272 - Okay. 417 00:20:29,272 --> 00:20:31,274 - Just be relaxed. - Relaxed. 418 00:20:31,274 --> 00:20:32,758 - Smoothly. 419 00:20:32,758 --> 00:20:34,675 Let it go, let it flow. 420 00:20:35,570 --> 00:20:36,403 All right. 421 00:20:37,328 --> 00:20:38,161 - Leon! 422 00:20:40,709 --> 00:20:42,214 - I'll be right back. 423 00:20:42,214 --> 00:20:43,601 - Excuse me, what are you doing with my brush? 424 00:20:43,601 --> 00:20:44,934 - Be right back! 425 00:20:50,869 --> 00:20:52,619 - What are you doing? 426 00:20:54,340 --> 00:20:57,728 Can't you just stand where I tell you to stand? 427 00:20:57,728 --> 00:20:58,978 - Ernie, chill. 428 00:21:00,642 --> 00:21:03,470 Look, I'll give you my personal guarantee 429 00:21:03,470 --> 00:21:06,770 nobody's going after a painting in the next two minutes. 430 00:21:06,770 --> 00:21:07,990 And even if they did, 431 00:21:07,990 --> 00:21:11,073 it's not like I'm jumping in the way. 432 00:21:12,105 --> 00:21:13,355 - You're fired. 433 00:21:18,008 --> 00:21:20,425 - Hass Gallery, this is Mimi. 434 00:21:21,769 --> 00:21:22,602 Hi. 435 00:21:24,817 --> 00:21:27,149 Yes, of course I remember you. 436 00:21:27,149 --> 00:21:28,096 Sure, I would. 437 00:21:28,096 --> 00:21:29,173 When? 438 00:21:29,173 --> 00:21:31,912 Today is fine, I can come up right now. 439 00:21:31,912 --> 00:21:33,829 138 West, 136th Street. 440 00:21:35,842 --> 00:21:36,808 Okay, great! 441 00:21:36,808 --> 00:21:39,320 Well, I'll see you soon. 442 00:21:51,772 --> 00:21:54,235 Listen, would you mind waiting for me? 443 00:21:54,235 --> 00:21:55,318 - No problem. 444 00:22:02,329 --> 00:22:03,162 Good luck. 445 00:22:13,097 --> 00:22:14,347 - Hello? 446 00:22:17,808 --> 00:22:18,641 Hello? 447 00:22:50,183 --> 00:22:51,471 - Oh, hey, Mimi. 448 00:22:51,471 --> 00:22:52,944 Give me a sec. 449 00:22:52,944 --> 00:22:53,777 Jesus. 450 00:22:54,907 --> 00:22:55,740 Come on! 451 00:23:08,144 --> 00:23:10,300 - You can really paint. 452 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:11,750 - Well, what did you expect? 453 00:23:11,750 --> 00:23:12,583 Graffiti? 454 00:23:13,838 --> 00:23:14,671 - No. 455 00:23:15,864 --> 00:23:16,697 I just... 456 00:23:18,284 --> 00:23:22,344 I guess I just didn't know what to expect. 457 00:23:22,344 --> 00:23:23,455 - Ay, carajo! 458 00:23:24,965 --> 00:23:27,448 Would you like a glass of wine? 459 00:23:27,448 --> 00:23:29,141 - I'd love one. 460 00:23:29,141 --> 00:23:29,974 - Good. 461 00:23:32,550 --> 00:23:34,706 - Where did you go to school? 462 00:23:34,706 --> 00:23:35,539 - PS-348. 463 00:23:36,499 --> 00:23:37,918 I quit after 8th grade. 464 00:23:37,918 --> 00:23:39,931 - You taught yourself how to paint like this? 465 00:23:39,931 --> 00:23:41,339 - Yeah. 466 00:23:41,339 --> 00:23:44,422 I spent a lot of time in that museum. 467 00:23:47,443 --> 00:23:48,687 - Who is she? 468 00:23:48,687 --> 00:23:50,546 - Well, she's nobody real. 469 00:23:50,546 --> 00:23:53,207 She's the woman that every man is taught to want. 470 00:23:53,207 --> 00:23:56,374 Goddess of TVs, magazines, billboards. 471 00:23:58,563 --> 00:24:01,435 She's the goddess of cultural domination. 472 00:24:01,435 --> 00:24:04,352 You can't help but dream about her. 473 00:24:06,507 --> 00:24:07,340 - Leon. 474 00:24:09,862 --> 00:24:11,787 I can sell these. 475 00:24:12,620 --> 00:24:14,725 I'll start them out around 5,000 apiece. 476 00:24:14,725 --> 00:24:15,558 - Yes! 477 00:24:15,558 --> 00:24:16,391 - I'd love to put them in this group show 478 00:24:16,391 --> 00:24:18,027 that we're having down at the gallery. 479 00:24:18,027 --> 00:24:18,860 - Okay. 480 00:24:18,860 --> 00:24:22,926 - I need one to take down to my boss right now. 481 00:24:22,926 --> 00:24:26,514 Oh, and is there somewhere where I can call you? 482 00:24:26,514 --> 00:24:28,252 'Cause I need you to come down and meet her. 483 00:24:28,252 --> 00:24:29,671 - Oh, well, I'm gonna take Dex home, 484 00:24:29,671 --> 00:24:31,685 and then I'm gonna shoot over to the Dante. 485 00:24:31,685 --> 00:24:32,839 It's a neighborhood bar. 486 00:24:32,839 --> 00:24:34,951 - Well, can you call me at the gallery at 6? 487 00:24:34,951 --> 00:24:36,502 - Yeah. 488 00:24:36,502 --> 00:24:37,891 - Do you have the number? 489 00:24:37,891 --> 00:24:38,974 - Dex has it. 490 00:24:40,665 --> 00:24:42,941 Give him your name. 491 00:24:42,941 --> 00:24:44,329 - Mimi Furst. 492 00:24:44,329 --> 00:24:46,837 - Mimi Furst, 555-3741. 493 00:24:46,837 --> 00:24:47,913 - See? 494 00:24:47,913 --> 00:24:50,137 Dex, the chauffer Rolodex. 495 00:24:50,137 --> 00:24:51,083 So, I'll call you later. 496 00:24:51,083 --> 00:24:52,216 - Okay. 497 00:24:52,216 --> 00:24:54,314 - Call you later. 498 00:24:56,132 --> 00:24:58,332 - Those paintings were done by that Black kid? 499 00:24:58,332 --> 00:24:59,165 - Right. 500 00:24:59,165 --> 00:25:00,191 - You mean, the one who came to our opening 501 00:25:00,191 --> 00:25:02,805 in a purple suit and insulted the show? 502 00:25:02,805 --> 00:25:03,688 - Yeah. 503 00:25:03,688 --> 00:25:07,099 Virginia, he taught himself everything. 504 00:25:07,099 --> 00:25:09,438 I mean, if anyone deserves to be in a show, it's him. 505 00:25:09,438 --> 00:25:10,916 - Mimi, I don't disagree with that, 506 00:25:10,916 --> 00:25:12,830 I'm just telling you that our collectors 507 00:25:12,830 --> 00:25:15,712 are not interested in those type of paintings. 508 00:25:15,712 --> 00:25:17,284 - Well, I think that he might attract 509 00:25:17,284 --> 00:25:18,880 a more elite clientele. 510 00:25:19,790 --> 00:25:23,511 - I don't want a more elite clientele. 511 00:25:23,511 --> 00:25:25,452 Remember, Mimi, we sell Bibles, 512 00:25:25,452 --> 00:25:27,535 we don't convert natives. 513 00:25:29,812 --> 00:25:31,278 - Virginia. 514 00:25:31,278 --> 00:25:33,753 I really want to work with this painter. 515 00:25:33,753 --> 00:25:35,003 - I understand. 516 00:25:38,054 --> 00:25:39,869 - Besides... 517 00:25:39,869 --> 00:25:43,753 I already told him he could be in the group show. 518 00:25:43,753 --> 00:25:44,586 - Mimi... 519 00:25:45,721 --> 00:25:46,919 I'm the only one who decides 520 00:25:46,919 --> 00:25:49,002 whom we're going to show. 521 00:25:56,301 --> 00:25:58,497 - This kid's never been to art school? 522 00:25:58,497 --> 00:26:01,830 - Well, he dropped out in the 8th grade. 523 00:26:03,826 --> 00:26:06,378 Richard, he's undoubtedly the most 524 00:26:06,378 --> 00:26:09,878 naturally talented painter I've ever seen. 525 00:26:12,075 --> 00:26:14,363 - Well, if you're so hot on him, 526 00:26:14,363 --> 00:26:15,766 I'll call him at the gallery 527 00:26:15,766 --> 00:26:19,555 and I'll see if I can get him a show. 528 00:26:19,555 --> 00:26:20,423 - Richard. 529 00:26:20,423 --> 00:26:21,931 Richard! 530 00:26:21,931 --> 00:26:25,165 I discovered him, I want to work with him. 531 00:26:25,165 --> 00:26:29,415 - I know Virginia, she's not gonna change her mind. 532 00:26:42,365 --> 00:26:45,169 - Maybe I can sell them myself. 533 00:26:47,677 --> 00:26:52,638 - What do you mean, do you mean open your own gallery? 534 00:26:54,131 --> 00:26:55,664 All right, come on, look. 535 00:26:55,664 --> 00:26:56,818 Just sit down for a second, 536 00:26:56,818 --> 00:27:00,068 and I want to explain something to you. 537 00:27:01,071 --> 00:27:01,904 Mm, okay. 538 00:27:03,306 --> 00:27:06,859 The selling of art is a team sport. 539 00:27:06,859 --> 00:27:10,863 You build your team by picking up restaurant tabs, 540 00:27:10,863 --> 00:27:13,787 and throwing parties, and giving gifts. 541 00:27:13,787 --> 00:27:15,031 - I know that, Richard. 542 00:27:15,031 --> 00:27:16,559 Will you please stop lecturing me 543 00:27:16,559 --> 00:27:18,616 like I'm some kind of college freshman still? 544 00:27:18,616 --> 00:27:19,866 Please, please? 545 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:22,952 Okay. 546 00:27:26,583 --> 00:27:30,466 It could be 10 years before I find a painter 547 00:27:30,466 --> 00:27:32,787 as talented as Leon. 548 00:27:32,787 --> 00:27:36,120 - I have to catch a plane, I have to go. 549 00:27:47,933 --> 00:27:48,766 - Yeah. 550 00:27:49,958 --> 00:27:53,839 I gotta make a phone call, so, I'll be right back. 551 00:28:04,446 --> 00:28:09,113 - I'm the painter that Mimi's putting in the group show. 552 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:11,273 Oh. 553 00:28:12,816 --> 00:28:13,649 Okay. 554 00:28:15,192 --> 00:28:16,275 Yeah, thanks. 555 00:28:18,217 --> 00:28:19,581 That was her boss. 556 00:28:19,581 --> 00:28:21,660 She said there's been a mistake. 557 00:28:21,660 --> 00:28:22,858 The slot's been filled. 558 00:28:22,858 --> 00:28:23,691 - See? 559 00:28:23,691 --> 00:28:26,081 I told you, she was just fucking with you, man. 560 00:28:26,081 --> 00:28:28,501 - She ain't even have the respect to tell me herself. 561 00:28:30,342 --> 00:28:31,558 - There it is! 562 00:28:31,558 --> 00:28:32,558 Stop. 563 00:28:32,558 --> 00:28:34,823 - Look, if I was you, I'd go down to her gallery, 564 00:28:34,823 --> 00:28:35,656 stand across the street, 565 00:28:35,656 --> 00:28:37,578 so every time she come to a window, come to the door, 566 00:28:37,578 --> 00:28:39,360 she gotta see your face. 567 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,428 - Right. 568 00:28:40,428 --> 00:28:41,319 I'm going now, you with it? 569 00:28:41,319 --> 00:28:43,004 - Shit, let's not talk about it. 570 00:28:44,303 --> 00:28:45,136 - Mimi? 571 00:28:45,136 --> 00:28:46,524 - Oh. 572 00:28:46,524 --> 00:28:47,357 Hi, Leon. 573 00:28:48,416 --> 00:28:49,329 I gotta talk to you. 574 00:28:49,329 --> 00:28:51,486 - Look, I really appreciate you coming up here, Mimi, 575 00:28:51,486 --> 00:28:52,762 but I already spoke to your boss 576 00:28:52,762 --> 00:28:54,003 and she gave me the bad news. 577 00:28:54,003 --> 00:28:57,240 - No, I have potentially very good news. 578 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:58,583 Can we sit down? 579 00:28:58,583 --> 00:28:59,416 - In here? 580 00:29:00,716 --> 00:29:02,049 - Sure, why not? 581 00:29:03,157 --> 00:29:04,644 - Well, I was actually on my way out 582 00:29:04,644 --> 00:29:05,944 to get something to eat. 583 00:29:05,944 --> 00:29:07,405 You hungry? 584 00:29:07,405 --> 00:29:08,288 - Yeah. 585 00:29:08,288 --> 00:29:09,204 - I'll take you to the oldest 586 00:29:09,204 --> 00:29:11,797 soul food restaurant in Harlem. 587 00:29:11,797 --> 00:29:12,630 - Oh, yeah? 588 00:29:12,630 --> 00:29:13,535 - You'll love it. 589 00:29:13,535 --> 00:29:15,202 Malcolm X ate there. 590 00:29:20,724 --> 00:29:21,752 - Welcome. 591 00:29:21,752 --> 00:29:22,585 - Hi. 592 00:29:22,585 --> 00:29:23,418 - Welcome. 593 00:29:23,418 --> 00:29:24,415 - How you doin'? 594 00:29:24,415 --> 00:29:26,254 - What could I get you? 595 00:29:26,254 --> 00:29:28,153 - Johnnie Walker Black, straight up. 596 00:29:28,153 --> 00:29:28,986 - Two. 597 00:29:28,986 --> 00:29:29,915 - And for dinner? 598 00:29:29,915 --> 00:29:31,930 - Well, I usually have the chicken and waffles. 599 00:29:31,930 --> 00:29:33,905 - Well, make it two chicken and waffles. 600 00:29:33,905 --> 00:29:35,547 - You got it. 601 00:29:35,547 --> 00:29:36,380 - Thanks. 602 00:29:39,878 --> 00:29:41,617 So, what's up? 603 00:29:41,617 --> 00:29:42,917 - Um... 604 00:29:42,917 --> 00:29:44,841 My boss didn't like your paintings. 605 00:29:44,841 --> 00:29:48,274 Let me tell you, Leon, it's a compliment to them. 606 00:29:48,274 --> 00:29:49,285 - Really? 607 00:29:49,285 --> 00:29:52,702 - Yeah, she only likes conservative crap. 608 00:29:53,643 --> 00:29:57,826 So, I'm thinking of trying to sell them myself. 609 00:29:57,826 --> 00:29:59,531 - And she won't mind? 610 00:29:59,531 --> 00:30:01,499 - I'll have to open my own gallery. 611 00:30:01,499 --> 00:30:02,332 - For you. 612 00:30:02,332 --> 00:30:03,306 - So you're gonna quit your job 613 00:30:03,306 --> 00:30:05,473 just to sell my paintings? 614 00:30:11,693 --> 00:30:13,865 - Leon, is there some reason why you think 615 00:30:13,865 --> 00:30:16,551 that I shouldn't open my own gallery? 616 00:30:16,551 --> 00:30:18,672 - No, not at all, Mimi. 617 00:30:18,672 --> 00:30:19,675 Truthfully, I thought you'd run 618 00:30:19,675 --> 00:30:20,886 with your tail between your legs 619 00:30:20,886 --> 00:30:22,810 at the first sign of trouble. 620 00:30:22,810 --> 00:30:25,978 - Well, I guess you've misjudged me. 621 00:30:25,978 --> 00:30:27,395 - I guess I have. 622 00:30:29,559 --> 00:30:30,478 Hey, you know what? 623 00:30:30,478 --> 00:30:32,434 I think anytime anybody quits a job, 624 00:30:32,434 --> 00:30:33,842 it calls for celebration. 625 00:30:33,842 --> 00:30:35,207 So, let's celebrate. 626 00:30:35,207 --> 00:30:36,261 - I agree. 627 00:31:20,909 --> 00:31:22,335 - That was so great. 628 00:31:22,335 --> 00:31:23,168 - You had a good time? 629 00:31:23,168 --> 00:31:24,055 - Yeah! 630 00:31:24,055 --> 00:31:25,338 - Good. 631 00:31:25,338 --> 00:31:27,098 Let's head back downtown. 632 00:31:27,098 --> 00:31:28,519 - Downtown? 633 00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:30,180 No, let's stay up here. 634 00:31:30,180 --> 00:31:32,183 - Mimi, there's nothing to do up here! 635 00:31:32,183 --> 00:31:34,707 - Aren't there all kinds of jazz and blues clubs? 636 00:31:34,707 --> 00:31:36,804 - Maybe 40-50 years ago. 637 00:31:36,804 --> 00:31:37,936 Now they're all downtown, 638 00:31:37,936 --> 00:31:39,515 let's just go back downtown. 639 00:31:39,515 --> 00:31:42,299 - Let's go to the Dante. 640 00:31:42,299 --> 00:31:46,092 - Mimi, you don't want to go to the Dante. 641 00:31:46,092 --> 00:31:47,576 - You're embarrassed of me. 642 00:31:47,576 --> 00:31:48,409 - No, I'm not! 643 00:31:48,409 --> 00:31:49,242 - Yes, you are. 644 00:31:49,242 --> 00:31:51,636 I saw how fast you shuffled me out of that place. 645 00:31:51,636 --> 00:31:53,669 - The Dante's a dive. 646 00:31:53,669 --> 00:31:56,172 - Well, I love dives. 647 00:31:58,243 --> 00:31:59,871 - Dante's. 648 00:31:59,871 --> 00:32:00,704 Yeah. 649 00:32:00,704 --> 00:32:01,807 Hold on a second. 650 00:32:01,807 --> 00:32:02,640 Mark. 651 00:32:06,494 --> 00:32:07,714 - Yo. 652 00:32:07,714 --> 00:32:08,901 - I need you to help me out. 653 00:32:08,901 --> 00:32:11,215 This girl wants to come to the Dante. 654 00:32:11,215 --> 00:32:12,332 - Why? 655 00:32:12,332 --> 00:32:13,165 - I don't know, man. 656 00:32:13,165 --> 00:32:15,189 I think she's mistaking Harlem for Disneyland or something. 657 00:32:17,026 --> 00:32:17,903 Look. 658 00:32:17,903 --> 00:32:19,588 Just let her hang for the night. 659 00:32:19,588 --> 00:32:20,932 - Yo, I'm with Glinda, man. 660 00:32:20,932 --> 00:32:22,384 - Get Glinda to play along! 661 00:32:22,384 --> 00:32:25,078 Oh, and by the way, my last name is Chame. 662 00:32:25,078 --> 00:32:26,169 - Chame? 663 00:32:26,169 --> 00:32:27,336 - Yeah, Chame. 664 00:32:29,962 --> 00:32:33,746 Yes, and make sure we get a corner table. 665 00:32:33,746 --> 00:32:34,579 Yes. 666 00:32:35,486 --> 00:32:36,319 Okay. 667 00:32:39,237 --> 00:32:40,610 So the Dante it is. 668 00:32:44,802 --> 00:32:46,627 - So, where you from? 669 00:32:46,627 --> 00:32:47,460 - Boston. 670 00:32:49,381 --> 00:32:51,334 Do you have a girlfriend? 671 00:32:52,388 --> 00:32:53,221 - No. 672 00:32:55,545 --> 00:32:57,545 Do you have a boyfriend? 673 00:32:59,034 --> 00:33:00,586 - Kind of. 674 00:33:00,586 --> 00:33:01,873 - You kind of have a boyfriend? 675 00:33:01,873 --> 00:33:03,446 - Yeah, you remember that guy you met 676 00:33:03,446 --> 00:33:05,349 at the art opening, the critic? 677 00:33:06,526 --> 00:33:11,333 - Well, how long have you kind of been going out with him? 678 00:33:11,333 --> 00:33:12,750 - 7 years. 679 00:33:24,556 --> 00:33:25,473 - Hey, hey. 680 00:33:31,177 --> 00:33:32,177 - Over here. 681 00:33:34,190 --> 00:33:36,107 Mimi, meet my best friend, Mark. 682 00:33:36,107 --> 00:33:37,033 - How you doin', Mimi? 683 00:33:37,033 --> 00:33:37,866 - Hey. 684 00:33:37,866 --> 00:33:38,703 - This is my girl, Glinda. 685 00:33:38,703 --> 00:33:39,946 Good witch of Harlem. 686 00:33:41,727 --> 00:33:42,560 - Hi. 687 00:33:43,492 --> 00:33:44,325 - Hello. 688 00:33:45,592 --> 00:33:46,759 - Have a seat. 689 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,877 So, what can I get you? 690 00:33:50,877 --> 00:33:52,602 - Johnnie Walker Black, straight up. 691 00:33:52,602 --> 00:33:55,156 - Uh, we can use a round of that too. 692 00:33:55,156 --> 00:33:56,406 - That's right. 693 00:33:57,397 --> 00:33:58,230 - Woo! 694 00:34:04,516 --> 00:34:06,312 - Hey, Rich. 695 00:34:06,312 --> 00:34:08,285 - What's with the pink toes, brother? 696 00:34:09,363 --> 00:34:10,196 - You know how it is, 697 00:34:10,196 --> 00:34:11,739 she just wants to swing for a night. 698 00:34:11,739 --> 00:34:14,106 - So, Leon tells me you work at an art gallery. 699 00:34:14,106 --> 00:34:14,939 - Ah-uh. 700 00:34:14,939 --> 00:34:16,562 I'm quitting. 701 00:34:16,562 --> 00:34:18,419 - You're not gonna sell his paintings? 702 00:34:18,419 --> 00:34:19,419 - Not there. 703 00:34:21,026 --> 00:34:22,687 I'm quitting because my boss 704 00:34:22,687 --> 00:34:24,306 doesn't want to sell Leon's work. 705 00:34:24,306 --> 00:34:25,294 - Oh. 706 00:34:25,294 --> 00:34:26,127 - Oh. 707 00:34:26,127 --> 00:34:27,506 - I wonder why. 708 00:34:27,506 --> 00:34:28,935 - Exactly. 709 00:34:36,041 --> 00:34:40,310 I'm thinking of opening up my own gallery. 710 00:34:40,310 --> 00:34:43,370 It's really important that Leon's work gets shown. 711 00:34:43,370 --> 00:34:44,479 - Oh, yeah, Mimi? 712 00:34:44,479 --> 00:34:45,525 Now, why is that? 713 00:34:45,525 --> 00:34:46,802 - You know, there are hardly any Black artists 714 00:34:46,802 --> 00:34:49,070 being shown in SoHo at all, 715 00:34:49,070 --> 00:34:50,388 and it's supposed to be one of 716 00:34:50,388 --> 00:34:53,392 the cultural centers of the country? 717 00:34:53,392 --> 00:34:54,559 - I know some artists up here 718 00:34:54,559 --> 00:34:57,759 who are very pissed off about that same shit. 719 00:34:57,759 --> 00:34:59,676 - Well, they should be. 720 00:35:08,859 --> 00:35:09,848 - Fuck it! 721 00:35:09,848 --> 00:35:11,782 - Yeah, fuck it! 722 00:35:11,782 --> 00:35:12,615 Woo! 723 00:35:12,615 --> 00:35:15,365 - I am gonna open my own gallery. 724 00:35:17,072 --> 00:35:20,900 - I'm here to tell you that the Black people of America 725 00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:24,035 appreciate what you try to do. 726 00:35:24,035 --> 00:35:26,988 - And I didn't get into this business to sell Bibles. 727 00:35:26,988 --> 00:35:28,724 - No, you didn't! 728 00:35:28,724 --> 00:35:29,557 - Mm-mm! 729 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,683 You know, it's amazing... 730 00:35:39,824 --> 00:35:44,824 Growing up downtown, you're led to believe so much shit. 731 00:35:45,231 --> 00:35:46,731 - Yeah, like what? 732 00:35:48,227 --> 00:35:49,060 - Nothin'. 733 00:35:50,044 --> 00:35:52,099 - Mm-mm, mm-mm, Mimi. 734 00:35:52,099 --> 00:35:53,432 No, you tell us! 735 00:35:54,444 --> 00:35:55,381 We're all friends here. 736 00:35:55,381 --> 00:35:56,214 - Mhm! 737 00:35:56,214 --> 00:35:58,131 - Yes, we are. 738 00:36:01,509 --> 00:36:06,272 - Harlem's supposed to be this really scary, hostile place. 739 00:36:06,272 --> 00:36:08,173 - Most white people wouldn't get over like this, girl. 740 00:36:08,173 --> 00:36:09,701 - That's right. 741 00:36:09,701 --> 00:36:11,868 Many would be dead by now. 742 00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:33,446 - Hey, could we go dancing next? 743 00:36:33,446 --> 00:36:35,370 I haven't been dancing in years. 744 00:36:35,370 --> 00:36:37,787 - We can dance right in here! 745 00:36:39,277 --> 00:36:42,733 - Well, people don't usually dance here, Glinda. 746 00:36:42,733 --> 00:36:44,512 - Don't even try it, Leon. 747 00:36:44,512 --> 00:36:46,704 You know I dance in here all the time. 748 00:36:46,704 --> 00:36:48,101 - All the time, Leon. 749 00:36:48,101 --> 00:36:49,351 - All the time! 750 00:36:51,104 --> 00:36:52,864 - I'm kind of a horrible dancer. 751 00:36:53,809 --> 00:36:55,769 - Come on, get up! 752 00:36:55,769 --> 00:36:57,144 Get up! 753 00:36:57,144 --> 00:36:58,092 Yeah! 754 00:36:58,092 --> 00:37:00,124 Bust a move, Mimi, get up! 755 00:37:00,124 --> 00:37:01,145 - Bust a move. 756 00:37:01,145 --> 00:37:02,932 - I'm gonna teach you a new step. 757 00:37:02,932 --> 00:37:05,002 Okay, girl, come on. 758 00:37:05,002 --> 00:37:06,856 - Oh, yeah! 759 00:37:06,856 --> 00:37:07,881 - Hey, come here. 760 00:37:07,881 --> 00:37:08,881 Y'all watch. 761 00:37:13,371 --> 00:37:14,204 Yeah! 762 00:37:17,828 --> 00:37:21,106 - That girl is a fool, man. 763 00:37:21,106 --> 00:37:23,939 - Nah, she's just really confused. 764 00:37:24,925 --> 00:37:26,342 - Yeah. 765 00:37:26,342 --> 00:37:29,207 I wouldn't start spending a lot of money, kid. 766 00:37:29,207 --> 00:37:33,374 Looks like homegirl's just slumming for the night. 767 00:37:35,813 --> 00:37:36,646 - Mimi. 768 00:37:39,134 --> 00:37:40,586 Mimi, it's time to go home now. 769 00:37:40,586 --> 00:37:42,367 So, where do you live? 770 00:37:42,367 --> 00:37:44,855 - Mm, where do you live? 771 00:37:44,855 --> 00:37:46,562 - We're not going to my house. 772 00:37:47,902 --> 00:37:49,838 - I just wanna take a peek at where you live. 773 00:37:49,838 --> 00:37:50,850 - Mimi. 774 00:37:50,850 --> 00:37:53,183 We're not going to my house. 775 00:38:01,637 --> 00:38:03,720 Mimi, what are you doing? 776 00:38:04,707 --> 00:38:06,697 What are you doing? 777 00:38:06,697 --> 00:38:07,603 Mimi. 778 00:38:07,603 --> 00:38:09,383 - I guess I'll just have to stay here 779 00:38:09,383 --> 00:38:12,050 until someone nicer comes along. 780 00:38:13,831 --> 00:38:14,756 - Mimi, stop. 781 00:38:14,756 --> 00:38:16,032 Stop, this is not funny. 782 00:38:16,865 --> 00:38:17,698 Stop! 783 00:38:18,625 --> 00:38:19,496 Mimi, this is not funny- 784 00:38:19,496 --> 00:38:20,391 - You need some help, ma'am? 785 00:38:20,391 --> 00:38:21,612 - No, everything's fine. 786 00:38:21,612 --> 00:38:22,523 - Are you sure? 787 00:38:22,523 --> 00:38:23,356 - Hi. 788 00:38:23,356 --> 00:38:24,724 - Yes, everything's fine, thank you. 789 00:38:24,724 --> 00:38:26,641 Okay, okay, okay, okay. 790 00:38:31,504 --> 00:38:32,337 Shh! 791 00:38:36,948 --> 00:38:37,781 - Shh! 792 00:38:41,592 --> 00:38:43,009 You know, Leon... 793 00:38:44,276 --> 00:38:48,116 I don't normally come to a man's room on the first date. 794 00:38:54,792 --> 00:38:57,488 Maybe this wasn't a very good idea. 795 00:38:57,488 --> 00:38:58,776 - I think you're right. 796 00:38:58,776 --> 00:38:59,609 Let's go. 797 00:39:00,852 --> 00:39:01,685 - Leon. 798 00:39:05,024 --> 00:39:07,441 Don't you find me attractive? 799 00:39:10,695 --> 00:39:13,967 Well, I find you very attractive. 800 00:39:13,967 --> 00:39:15,050 I do. - Mimi, stop. 801 00:39:15,050 --> 00:39:17,467 Mimi, Mimi, stop it, stop it. 802 00:39:19,807 --> 00:39:22,273 - Are you afraid your mother will hear us? 803 00:39:22,273 --> 00:39:23,405 - Yeah. 804 00:39:23,405 --> 00:39:24,822 - You can gag me. 805 00:39:26,289 --> 00:39:27,653 - Look... 806 00:39:27,653 --> 00:39:29,246 Mimi. 807 00:39:29,246 --> 00:39:30,469 - Ow! 808 00:39:33,085 --> 00:39:34,713 - Mimi, are you okay? 809 00:39:34,713 --> 00:39:36,925 - The room is spinning. 810 00:39:36,925 --> 00:39:38,583 - Here, come on, come on. 811 00:39:38,583 --> 00:39:41,083 - I'm just gonna lie down now. 812 00:39:43,109 --> 00:39:45,026 Lie down a few minutes. 813 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,267 - Excuse me, ladies. 814 00:40:43,627 --> 00:40:44,781 - Mimi. 815 00:40:44,781 --> 00:40:45,614 Mimi. 816 00:40:45,614 --> 00:40:47,128 - What? 817 00:40:47,128 --> 00:40:47,961 - Quiet. 818 00:40:49,057 --> 00:40:50,185 Get up. 819 00:40:50,185 --> 00:40:51,018 Get up! 820 00:40:53,260 --> 00:40:54,115 Mimi. 821 00:40:54,115 --> 00:40:55,115 Get up! - No! 822 00:40:56,964 --> 00:40:57,920 - Here. 823 00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:59,012 Put your shoes on. - No! 824 00:40:59,012 --> 00:41:00,356 - Shh! 825 00:41:00,356 --> 00:41:01,764 Quiet. 826 00:41:01,764 --> 00:41:02,982 - What's the matter with you? 827 00:41:02,982 --> 00:41:04,116 - My mom is right outside that door, 828 00:41:04,116 --> 00:41:05,524 and she cannot see you in here. 829 00:41:05,524 --> 00:41:06,384 Let's go. 830 00:41:06,384 --> 00:41:07,217 - Your mom? 831 00:41:07,217 --> 00:41:08,050 - Yes. 832 00:41:08,050 --> 00:41:09,258 Out the window. - Out the window? 833 00:41:09,258 --> 00:41:11,583 - Yes, out the window. 834 00:41:11,583 --> 00:41:12,416 - No! 835 00:41:12,416 --> 00:41:13,249 - Out the window! 836 00:41:13,249 --> 00:41:14,082 - It's gonna be fine. 837 00:41:14,082 --> 00:41:14,915 Just go out the window, 838 00:41:14,915 --> 00:41:16,181 I'll meet you down at the bottom in a second. 839 00:41:16,181 --> 00:41:17,014 - All right. 840 00:41:17,014 --> 00:41:17,847 - Okay. 841 00:41:17,847 --> 00:41:19,666 - I'm going. 842 00:41:19,666 --> 00:41:21,065 Ugh. 843 00:41:29,852 --> 00:41:30,685 Oh, shit! 844 00:41:32,746 --> 00:41:33,846 - Hm? 845 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:48,336 - Leon! 846 00:41:48,336 --> 00:41:50,478 Excuse me, ladies. 847 00:41:50,478 --> 00:41:53,836 Leon, you don't have your uniform on. 848 00:41:53,836 --> 00:41:55,012 You're not going to work today? 849 00:41:55,012 --> 00:41:55,845 - Oh, yeah. 850 00:41:55,845 --> 00:41:57,844 I got a better job in a gallery in SoHo. 851 00:42:03,346 --> 00:42:04,316 - Yo! 852 00:42:04,316 --> 00:42:05,149 Juliet! 853 00:42:05,996 --> 00:42:07,496 Jump into my arms. 854 00:42:08,417 --> 00:42:09,250 - Shh. 855 00:42:09,250 --> 00:42:10,083 - Don't you shush me! 856 00:42:10,083 --> 00:42:11,530 Don't you dare shush me. 857 00:42:11,530 --> 00:42:13,030 - Please be quiet. 858 00:42:14,874 --> 00:42:17,125 - No, but I'm gonna get the rent, Ma. 859 00:42:17,125 --> 00:42:17,958 - Leon. 860 00:42:19,021 --> 00:42:21,156 Listen to me now. 861 00:42:21,156 --> 00:42:26,156 If you don't have your rent by tomorrow or the day after... 862 00:42:26,542 --> 00:42:27,911 - What you doin' up there anyway? 863 00:42:27,911 --> 00:42:29,766 - She's obviously a thief! 864 00:42:29,766 --> 00:42:30,842 Call the police! 865 00:42:30,842 --> 00:42:32,503 - Go up and arrest her, Fred. 866 00:42:32,503 --> 00:42:34,298 - Old Fred Harrington got a white woman 867 00:42:34,298 --> 00:42:35,416 on the fire escape. 868 00:42:35,416 --> 00:42:36,298 - What? - What? 869 00:42:43,884 --> 00:42:45,488 - You need some help? 870 00:42:45,488 --> 00:42:48,275 - Hey, don't come up here, I'm warning you! 871 00:42:48,275 --> 00:42:49,689 I'm warning you, I have mace! 872 00:42:49,689 --> 00:42:50,522 - Yeah? 873 00:42:50,522 --> 00:42:51,522 I got a gun! 874 00:42:55,550 --> 00:42:56,577 - Mimi! 875 00:42:56,577 --> 00:42:58,073 Mimi, down here! 876 00:42:58,073 --> 00:43:00,911 - Leon, get me out of here! 877 00:43:00,911 --> 00:43:03,188 - Come on down. 878 00:43:13,422 --> 00:43:15,697 - They were trying to kill me! 879 00:43:15,697 --> 00:43:17,738 You said you'd be back in one minute! 880 00:43:17,738 --> 00:43:20,125 Jesus, where were you, Leon? 881 00:43:20,125 --> 00:43:22,664 Someone was trying to shoot me! 882 00:43:22,664 --> 00:43:24,415 You said you were gonna be back in one minute 883 00:43:24,415 --> 00:43:26,376 and you let me drop down on the fire escape 884 00:43:26,376 --> 00:43:27,795 and someone tried to kill me! 885 00:43:27,795 --> 00:43:28,628 - Nobody- 886 00:43:28,628 --> 00:43:29,497 - They were trying to shoot me! 887 00:43:29,497 --> 00:43:30,330 - Are you all right, honey? 888 00:43:30,330 --> 00:43:31,477 - Just get her a cup of coffee, thank you. 889 00:43:31,477 --> 00:43:32,591 - Where were you, Leon? 890 00:43:32,591 --> 00:43:34,564 - Mimi, nobody's trying to kill you, okay? 891 00:43:34,564 --> 00:43:35,397 - Yes, they were. 892 00:43:35,397 --> 00:43:36,604 - Mimi, if somebody was trying to kill you, 893 00:43:36,604 --> 00:43:37,937 you'd be dead in the street right now. 894 00:43:37,937 --> 00:43:38,770 - Oh. 895 00:43:38,770 --> 00:43:40,295 - They were just fucking with you. 896 00:43:40,295 --> 00:43:41,128 - Oh! 897 00:43:42,803 --> 00:43:43,836 - Hey! 898 00:43:43,836 --> 00:43:45,408 Don't be all pissed off with me. 899 00:43:45,408 --> 00:43:48,039 I warned you not to come up to my house. 900 00:43:48,039 --> 00:43:49,928 I couldn't just leave you tied to a fence 901 00:43:49,928 --> 00:43:53,294 on the corner of 134th and Lenox, could I? 902 00:43:53,294 --> 00:43:54,127 - Oh... 903 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,195 I made a total fool out of myself, didn't I? 904 00:44:01,195 --> 00:44:02,184 - Mhm. 905 00:44:02,184 --> 00:44:04,151 - I'm really sorry, Leon. 906 00:44:04,151 --> 00:44:06,132 You have to believe that I never meant 907 00:44:06,132 --> 00:44:09,002 to offend or embarrass you at all. 908 00:44:13,554 --> 00:44:14,779 Okay, I'm okay. - Mimi. 909 00:44:14,779 --> 00:44:15,779 - I'm sorry. 910 00:44:17,228 --> 00:44:18,251 - Look, I'm gonna run home and see 911 00:44:18,251 --> 00:44:20,384 if I can straighten this mess out, all right? 912 00:44:20,384 --> 00:44:22,399 I'm a little worried my mom's gonna throw me out. 913 00:44:23,783 --> 00:44:25,631 - Because of me? 914 00:44:25,631 --> 00:44:26,464 - No. 915 00:44:26,464 --> 00:44:27,503 No, Mimi. - Yes. 916 00:44:27,503 --> 00:44:30,131 - Mimi, no. - Yes, it's my fault! 917 00:44:30,131 --> 00:44:31,803 - Mimi, it's not your fault. 918 00:44:31,803 --> 00:44:33,232 Believe me, it's not your fault. 919 00:44:33,232 --> 00:44:34,605 - Do you have somewhere to go? 920 00:44:34,605 --> 00:44:36,663 - Yes, yes, I can stay in my studio. 921 00:44:36,663 --> 00:44:38,711 - No, you're gonna come and stay with me. 922 00:44:38,711 --> 00:44:40,395 - Mimi, you don't mean that. 923 00:44:40,395 --> 00:44:42,639 - I will not take no for an answer, Leon. 924 00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:44,519 You're gonna come stay with me. 925 00:44:44,519 --> 00:44:45,352 Sorry. 926 00:44:46,314 --> 00:44:47,147 - Mimi. 927 00:44:47,147 --> 00:44:51,147 - I mean, you'll have to put up with Richard. 928 00:44:51,147 --> 00:44:52,599 I live with him. 929 00:44:52,599 --> 00:44:54,116 - Isn't he gonna be a bit pissed off 930 00:44:54,116 --> 00:44:55,920 you've been hanging out with me all night? 931 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,868 - No, he's in Washington reviewing a show, 932 00:44:58,868 --> 00:44:59,966 he'll never know. 933 00:44:59,966 --> 00:45:02,166 Besides, you'll be staying in my space. 934 00:45:02,166 --> 00:45:05,315 I keep my clothes and junk in there. 935 00:45:05,315 --> 00:45:07,646 - Mimi, I don't mind staying in your closet. 936 00:45:07,646 --> 00:45:10,729 - It's a little bigger than a closet. 937 00:45:11,827 --> 00:45:13,159 - Hello? 938 00:45:13,159 --> 00:45:15,159 - Hello. 939 00:45:27,054 --> 00:45:28,462 - Richard. 940 00:45:28,462 --> 00:45:29,545 Welcome home. 941 00:45:34,049 --> 00:45:34,882 - Leon. 942 00:45:39,638 --> 00:45:40,794 Is Mimi home? 943 00:45:40,794 --> 00:45:42,202 - Yeah. 944 00:45:42,202 --> 00:45:45,047 I think she's in the bedroom. 945 00:45:45,047 --> 00:45:46,047 - Excuse me. 946 00:45:49,827 --> 00:45:52,215 - Okay, tell me the square footage? 947 00:45:52,215 --> 00:45:53,048 Great. 948 00:45:53,954 --> 00:45:56,726 And when could I see it? 949 00:45:56,726 --> 00:45:57,559 Oh, wow. 950 00:46:01,942 --> 00:46:02,775 Right. 951 00:46:03,766 --> 00:46:05,506 Oh, that would be terrific. 952 00:46:05,506 --> 00:46:07,497 Okay, I'll see you then, thanks. 953 00:46:07,497 --> 00:46:09,510 - Mimi, what's going on? 954 00:46:09,510 --> 00:46:10,730 - Leon's staying here, 955 00:46:10,730 --> 00:46:12,006 I'm opening my own gallery, 956 00:46:12,006 --> 00:46:14,097 and we're not gonna have any discussion about it. 957 00:46:14,097 --> 00:46:14,930 Okay? 958 00:46:16,253 --> 00:46:18,530 How was your trip? 959 00:46:18,530 --> 00:46:19,814 You know what the most amazing thing to me 960 00:46:19,814 --> 00:46:20,761 about New York is? 961 00:46:20,761 --> 00:46:21,594 - What? 962 00:46:21,594 --> 00:46:24,493 - That 10 million people have chosen to live here. 963 00:46:24,493 --> 00:46:25,493 - Oh, yeah? - Yeah. 964 00:46:25,493 --> 00:46:26,441 - Yeah, that's true, though. 965 00:46:26,441 --> 00:46:28,240 It's like we can anywhere we want in the world... 966 00:46:28,240 --> 00:46:29,553 Why you going that way? 967 00:46:29,553 --> 00:46:31,129 And we choose to live here. 968 00:46:31,129 --> 00:46:31,962 - I know! 969 00:46:31,962 --> 00:46:33,304 What a bunch of assholes. 970 00:46:33,304 --> 00:46:35,617 - No, we're in SoHo, so that's Soholes. 971 00:46:40,293 --> 00:46:42,537 - Oh, well, you're really acting like 972 00:46:42,537 --> 00:46:45,309 an aphrodisiac on Richard. 973 00:46:45,309 --> 00:46:46,615 He's been trying to sleep with me every night 974 00:46:46,615 --> 00:46:48,025 since you've been here. 975 00:46:48,025 --> 00:46:50,257 - Well, I hope you ain't giving him any. 976 00:46:50,257 --> 00:46:51,852 'Cause he don't deserve none. 977 00:46:51,852 --> 00:46:53,269 - Giving him any? 978 00:46:54,252 --> 00:46:55,845 - Okay. 979 00:46:55,845 --> 00:46:59,762 I hope you're not letting him make love to you. 980 00:47:02,225 --> 00:47:03,116 Are you? 981 00:47:03,116 --> 00:47:03,949 - M16. 982 00:47:05,692 --> 00:47:09,089 And that is none of your business. 983 00:47:09,089 --> 00:47:10,172 - Direct hit. 984 00:47:16,530 --> 00:47:17,852 - Murder! 985 00:47:22,221 --> 00:47:23,054 I'm gonna keep your lock 986 00:47:23,054 --> 00:47:25,756 and you'll never forget it! 987 00:47:31,055 --> 00:47:31,888 - Leon. 988 00:47:31,888 --> 00:47:33,827 Please try to be careful 989 00:47:33,827 --> 00:47:35,209 not to turn that bottle upright. 990 00:47:35,209 --> 00:47:37,256 That's a very valuable bottle of wine. 991 00:47:37,256 --> 00:47:40,506 - Is this a fine premium wine, Richard? 992 00:47:45,983 --> 00:47:47,732 - I found a space. 993 00:47:47,732 --> 00:47:49,668 It's the perfect location. 994 00:47:49,668 --> 00:47:51,168 114 Prince Street. 995 00:47:52,710 --> 00:47:53,819 - What kind of shape is it in? 996 00:47:53,819 --> 00:47:55,940 - Well, I'm gonna have to re-do the whole thing. 997 00:47:55,940 --> 00:47:57,074 - How much is that gonna run you? 998 00:47:57,074 --> 00:47:58,210 - Well, I think I can do 999 00:47:58,210 --> 00:48:00,555 the whole thing for $100,000. 1000 00:48:00,555 --> 00:48:03,722 - Honey, that's your whole trust fund. 1001 00:48:04,647 --> 00:48:05,814 - I know that. 1002 00:48:06,803 --> 00:48:08,463 - Wait a sec. 1003 00:48:08,463 --> 00:48:10,289 You're gonna spend $100,000 1004 00:48:10,289 --> 00:48:13,775 of your own money on this gallery? 1005 00:48:13,775 --> 00:48:14,608 - Yeah. 1006 00:48:27,295 --> 00:48:30,619 - Is Richard planning to review the show? 1007 00:48:30,619 --> 00:48:35,619 - Uh, well he hasn't mentioned anything yet, but maybe. 1008 00:48:35,855 --> 00:48:37,802 - Have you sold any yet? 1009 00:48:37,802 --> 00:48:40,108 - Well, you're the 6th or 7th people 1010 00:48:40,108 --> 00:48:42,818 I've shown them to, so not yet. 1011 00:48:42,818 --> 00:48:43,651 - Mhm. 1012 00:48:44,787 --> 00:48:45,620 - Mimi. 1013 00:48:47,007 --> 00:48:48,142 You know I try to support 1014 00:48:48,142 --> 00:48:50,275 young black painters whenever I can. 1015 00:48:50,275 --> 00:48:52,192 But try and understand, 1016 00:48:53,322 --> 00:48:55,459 if I put one of these paintings on the wall, 1017 00:48:55,459 --> 00:48:58,932 I might as well hang a portrait of Malcolm X next to it. 1018 00:48:58,932 --> 00:49:01,173 - Well, rage may be a fashionable emotion 1019 00:49:01,173 --> 00:49:02,649 in your social circles, 1020 00:49:02,649 --> 00:49:04,816 but it just isn't in ours. 1021 00:49:09,634 --> 00:49:11,996 - Maybe you oughta think about bailing out. 1022 00:49:11,996 --> 00:49:13,360 I mean, if you did, 1023 00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,080 I wouldn't think a dime less of you. 1024 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:17,247 - Gee, thanks. 1025 00:49:18,142 --> 00:49:19,080 - Yeah, I just don't want to see you 1026 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:20,830 burn through your savings, you know? 1027 00:49:20,830 --> 00:49:23,933 - Leon, I'm not a complete fool. 1028 00:49:23,933 --> 00:49:25,593 I'm not gonna start the major renovations 1029 00:49:25,593 --> 00:49:29,269 'til I've sold at least one painting. 1030 00:49:29,269 --> 00:49:31,005 - Well, that's good. 1031 00:49:31,005 --> 00:49:32,789 - I want you to know that the tremendous amount 1032 00:49:32,789 --> 00:49:34,613 of faith and confidence you have in me, 1033 00:49:34,613 --> 00:49:37,101 it's very reassuring, thank you. 1034 00:49:37,101 --> 00:49:38,441 - Mimi, I believe in you when- 1035 00:49:38,441 --> 00:49:40,137 - Oh, come on, Leon! 1036 00:49:40,137 --> 00:49:43,184 You've never taken me even the slightest bit seriously. 1037 00:49:43,184 --> 00:49:44,249 You even said you were surprised 1038 00:49:44,249 --> 00:49:46,033 when I didn't run with my tail between my legs 1039 00:49:46,033 --> 00:49:48,450 at the first sign of trouble. 1040 00:49:54,721 --> 00:49:57,520 - Everything you just said was true. 1041 00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:58,897 I underestimated you. 1042 00:49:58,897 --> 00:50:02,505 But you got a hell of a lot more guts than me. 1043 00:50:02,505 --> 00:50:03,338 Really. 1044 00:50:05,297 --> 00:50:06,130 Yeah. 1045 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:08,629 Yeah. 1046 00:50:08,629 --> 00:50:09,768 Yeah. 1047 00:50:09,768 --> 00:50:10,866 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1048 00:50:42,226 --> 00:50:44,692 - You mind getting a cup of coffee or something? 1049 00:50:44,692 --> 00:50:45,525 - Uh, no. 1050 00:50:47,860 --> 00:50:49,110 Yeah. - Thanks. 1051 00:51:06,019 --> 00:51:06,852 - Mimi. 1052 00:51:09,187 --> 00:51:10,354 - What? 1053 00:51:11,551 --> 00:51:12,384 - Um... 1054 00:51:13,376 --> 00:51:14,907 Just out of curiosity... 1055 00:51:14,907 --> 00:51:16,655 - Yeah? 1056 00:51:16,655 --> 00:51:19,284 - You're not planning on asking him for his help, are you? 1057 00:51:19,284 --> 00:51:22,572 - I think beg is the operative word here, Leon. 1058 00:51:22,572 --> 00:51:25,344 - Well, Mimi, wait a sec. 1059 00:51:25,344 --> 00:51:26,720 Look. 1060 00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:29,040 I know you don't want to do that. 1061 00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:30,183 - Look, I've asked him for his help 1062 00:51:30,183 --> 00:51:32,235 a million times before. 1063 00:51:32,235 --> 00:51:35,068 One more time isn't gonna kill me. 1064 00:51:44,377 --> 00:51:45,210 - Mimi! 1065 00:51:46,841 --> 00:51:49,008 - One second, okay? 1066 00:51:53,023 --> 00:51:54,324 - So, what happened? 1067 00:51:54,324 --> 00:51:56,480 - Well, Richard's gonna take us to a party tonight 1068 00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:58,085 at Jacob Reese's. 1069 00:51:58,085 --> 00:51:59,438 A very prominent painter, 1070 00:51:59,438 --> 00:52:02,300 most of the city's top art collectors will be there. 1071 00:52:02,300 --> 00:52:03,133 - Great. 1072 00:52:03,133 --> 00:52:04,588 - I left the address on the kitchen counter, 1073 00:52:04,588 --> 00:52:07,921 so you should meet us there around30. 1074 00:52:09,138 --> 00:52:10,792 - Well, where are you two going? 1075 00:52:10,792 --> 00:52:13,542 - We're gonna go get some dinner. 1076 00:52:16,046 --> 00:52:17,546 One other thing... 1077 00:52:18,898 --> 00:52:20,408 Starting tomorrow, you're gonna have to find 1078 00:52:20,408 --> 00:52:22,241 another place to stay. 1079 00:52:24,192 --> 00:52:26,964 You can stay in the gallery if you need a roof. 1080 00:52:26,964 --> 00:52:30,857 - No, that's okay, I'll find a place. 1081 00:52:30,857 --> 00:52:33,357 - See you at the party. 1082 00:52:36,260 --> 00:52:37,800 - That's Art Hoarder over there. 1083 00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,088 He's one of the premier art collectors in the world. 1084 00:52:40,088 --> 00:52:41,339 If you could sell him a painter, 1085 00:52:41,339 --> 00:52:43,660 people would kill to buy the other ones. 1086 00:52:43,660 --> 00:52:45,376 Let me go over there, pump him up, 1087 00:52:45,376 --> 00:52:46,424 and then I'll bring him back over here 1088 00:52:46,424 --> 00:52:47,932 and introduce everyone, okay? 1089 00:52:47,932 --> 00:52:48,765 - Thanks. 1090 00:52:48,765 --> 00:52:49,765 - All right. 1091 00:52:54,409 --> 00:52:56,049 - Anything to get you laid, Richard. 1092 00:52:56,049 --> 00:52:56,882 - Thanks. 1093 00:53:00,738 --> 00:53:01,571 Yeah. 1094 00:53:01,571 --> 00:53:03,048 Mimi, Art Hoarder. 1095 00:53:03,048 --> 00:53:04,103 - Good evening. 1096 00:53:04,103 --> 00:53:04,936 - Hi. 1097 00:53:04,936 --> 00:53:05,769 - Nice to meet you. 1098 00:53:05,769 --> 00:53:08,099 - You too, and this is Leon Chame. 1099 00:53:08,099 --> 00:53:08,932 - Very nice to meet you, 1100 00:53:08,932 --> 00:53:10,884 I understand you're opening a little gallery. 1101 00:53:10,884 --> 00:53:11,717 - Yes, that's right. 1102 00:53:11,717 --> 00:53:14,075 And I would love to show you Leon's slides. 1103 00:53:14,075 --> 00:53:16,120 - Well, actually, I've already spent 1104 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,011 this year's allotted money for unknown painters, 1105 00:53:19,011 --> 00:53:21,851 so I'm not really in the market. 1106 00:53:21,851 --> 00:53:22,684 Well- 1107 00:53:22,684 --> 00:53:23,667 - Thanks for stopping by. 1108 00:53:23,667 --> 00:53:24,500 - Surely. 1109 00:53:24,500 --> 00:53:25,333 Good luck. 1110 00:53:27,231 --> 00:53:29,035 - Good friend of yours, huh? 1111 00:53:29,035 --> 00:53:33,368 - Look, I can't help it if he's spent his allotment. 1112 00:53:35,491 --> 00:53:37,217 Look, Jerry Seabrooks is in there. 1113 00:53:37,217 --> 00:53:38,472 Let me go talk to him, 1114 00:53:38,472 --> 00:53:40,859 I'll signal for you to come over, okay? 1115 00:53:40,859 --> 00:53:42,192 - Thanks. 1116 00:53:51,476 --> 00:53:53,851 - Um, I'm gonna go get a drink. 1117 00:53:53,851 --> 00:53:55,127 You want another? 1118 00:53:55,127 --> 00:53:56,294 - Yes, please. 1119 00:53:57,157 --> 00:53:59,205 - She knows that she's draining her trust fund 1120 00:53:59,205 --> 00:54:00,545 to open a gallery, 1121 00:54:00,545 --> 00:54:03,396 and she only willing to show militant Black painters, 1122 00:54:03,396 --> 00:54:06,026 and she's invited one to live in her closet. 1123 00:54:06,026 --> 00:54:09,162 She's thinking of really opening her own gallery. 1124 00:54:09,162 --> 00:54:09,995 - Great. 1125 00:54:09,995 --> 00:54:10,834 - Great, yeah, well, fuck. 1126 00:54:10,834 --> 00:54:12,137 She's found this painter. 1127 00:54:12,137 --> 00:54:13,185 - Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 1128 00:54:13,185 --> 00:54:14,806 Richard, it really doesn't sound like 1129 00:54:14,806 --> 00:54:18,338 you're really too enthusiastic about this gallery. 1130 00:54:18,338 --> 00:54:20,787 - Well, she's acting like a crazy woman. 1131 00:54:20,787 --> 00:54:22,066 - What can I do? 1132 00:54:22,066 --> 00:54:24,275 - Let her send you some slides, 1133 00:54:24,275 --> 00:54:26,150 but you don't even have to open the package 1134 00:54:26,150 --> 00:54:27,746 if you don't want to. 1135 00:54:27,746 --> 00:54:28,579 - Fine. 1136 00:54:28,579 --> 00:54:29,936 - Let me bring her over here, 1137 00:54:29,936 --> 00:54:32,546 introduce you to her painter. 1138 00:54:32,546 --> 00:54:34,030 - Are the paintings any good? 1139 00:54:34,030 --> 00:54:35,494 - Well, there's something that doesn't make any sense 1140 00:54:35,494 --> 00:54:37,626 about them, Jerry. 1141 00:54:37,626 --> 00:54:40,718 Here's a kid, he claims to be completely uneducated, right? 1142 00:54:40,718 --> 00:54:43,220 But he uses every art school trick in the book. 1143 00:54:43,220 --> 00:54:44,053 Meems! 1144 00:54:48,224 --> 00:54:49,696 Jerry Seabrooks, you remember? 1145 00:54:49,696 --> 00:54:50,654 - Hi. 1146 00:54:50,654 --> 00:54:51,487 - Congratulations. 1147 00:54:51,487 --> 00:54:52,320 - Thank you. 1148 00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:53,284 - Burning his ears off about your gallery, 1149 00:54:53,284 --> 00:54:55,783 very interested. - Thanks. 1150 00:54:55,783 --> 00:54:56,827 - Leon. - Leon! 1151 00:54:56,827 --> 00:54:58,478 I want you to meet Jerry Seabrooks. 1152 00:54:58,478 --> 00:55:00,396 He's very interested in seeing your slides. 1153 00:55:00,396 --> 00:55:01,729 - I bet you are. 1154 00:55:02,681 --> 00:55:04,380 - What, is everything okay, Leon? 1155 00:55:04,380 --> 00:55:06,150 - Oh, yeah, fine, I'm fine. 1156 00:55:06,150 --> 00:55:08,231 I always enjoyed being humored, 1157 00:55:08,231 --> 00:55:11,148 especially by the likes of you two. 1158 00:55:12,475 --> 00:55:14,597 - Leon, what are you talking about? 1159 00:55:14,597 --> 00:55:16,580 - Well, Mimi, your boyfriend here 1160 00:55:16,580 --> 00:55:19,011 has been telling this guy that your gallery's a joke. 1161 00:55:19,011 --> 00:55:22,763 - Uh, that's not exactly what I said, Leon. 1162 00:55:22,763 --> 00:55:23,793 - Oh, no? 1163 00:55:23,793 --> 00:55:24,863 - No. 1164 00:55:24,863 --> 00:55:26,855 - I don't understand how you can do this to her, Richie. 1165 00:55:26,855 --> 00:55:27,688 - Wait a minute- 1166 00:55:27,688 --> 00:55:29,998 - Knowing how much this gallery means to her. 1167 00:55:29,998 --> 00:55:32,959 How hard it was for her to ask you to help. 1168 00:55:32,959 --> 00:55:35,485 You don't realize what a jewel you've got here, man. 1169 00:55:35,485 --> 00:55:36,553 - Look. 1170 00:55:36,553 --> 00:55:38,981 First, I do realize how important it is to her, 1171 00:55:38,981 --> 00:55:40,971 and secondly, I think that we should 1172 00:55:40,971 --> 00:55:44,658 have this conversation somewhere else. 1173 00:55:44,658 --> 00:55:46,321 - Oh. 1174 00:55:46,321 --> 00:55:49,144 What, am I embarrassing you, Richie? 1175 00:55:49,977 --> 00:55:52,625 'Cause I wouldn't want to do that. 1176 00:55:52,625 --> 00:55:53,925 - What's going on here? 1177 00:55:53,925 --> 00:55:55,092 - Who are you? 1178 00:55:56,457 --> 00:55:57,821 - I'm the host. 1179 00:55:57,821 --> 00:55:59,273 - The painter? 1180 00:55:59,273 --> 00:56:00,523 - Yeah. 1181 00:56:02,550 --> 00:56:03,662 - You do that? 1182 00:56:03,662 --> 00:56:05,609 - Yeah, I painted that. 1183 00:56:05,609 --> 00:56:08,249 - Did you buy one of his paintings? 1184 00:56:08,249 --> 00:56:10,405 - One small piece. 1185 00:56:16,145 --> 00:56:19,370 - And I bet you wrote a good review of him. 1186 00:56:22,077 --> 00:56:24,910 Hey, let me talk to you for a sec. 1187 00:56:26,850 --> 00:56:27,683 Come on. 1188 00:56:30,928 --> 00:56:32,645 What's this shit about? 1189 00:56:32,645 --> 00:56:35,133 - It's about a lot of things. 1190 00:56:35,133 --> 00:56:37,521 - Like what? 1191 00:56:37,521 --> 00:56:38,739 - It's complicated, all right? 1192 00:56:38,739 --> 00:56:39,698 - Look, fuck you too, man. 1193 00:56:39,698 --> 00:56:40,781 Just tell me. 1194 00:56:42,294 --> 00:56:47,294 - Primary colors and their relationship to convect space. 1195 00:56:47,672 --> 00:56:48,505 - Hm. 1196 00:56:49,513 --> 00:56:54,096 Primary colors and their relationship to convect space! 1197 00:56:55,372 --> 00:56:56,861 Yeah! 1198 00:56:56,861 --> 00:56:59,237 Hey, you try selling this shit up on 125th street? 1199 00:56:59,237 --> 00:57:00,070 You should! 1200 00:57:00,070 --> 00:57:01,720 'Cause a lot of brothers up there are very concerned 1201 00:57:01,720 --> 00:57:03,579 with that same question. 1202 00:57:03,579 --> 00:57:04,412 Really. 1203 00:57:05,517 --> 00:57:06,934 I was sitting on my stoop the other day 1204 00:57:06,934 --> 00:57:09,629 when a friend of mine says to me, he says, 1205 00:57:09,629 --> 00:57:10,462 "Leon! 1206 00:57:11,475 --> 00:57:12,308 Leon! 1207 00:57:14,041 --> 00:57:16,305 I've been searching high and low for paintings 1208 00:57:16,305 --> 00:57:17,934 that deal with primary colors 1209 00:57:17,934 --> 00:57:19,905 and their relationship to convect space! 1210 00:57:19,905 --> 00:57:21,954 I can't find them shits nowhere. 1211 00:57:21,954 --> 00:57:23,281 Nowhere!" 1212 00:57:23,281 --> 00:57:24,534 God damn it, if he don't have this shit 1213 00:57:24,534 --> 00:57:26,701 hanging right on his wall. 1214 00:57:30,102 --> 00:57:34,185 You boys, you're like the God damn culture mafia. 1215 00:57:35,273 --> 00:57:38,690 - We got a call there was a problem here. 1216 00:57:39,597 --> 00:57:41,930 - No problems here, officer. 1217 00:57:44,221 --> 00:57:46,388 - Is there a problem here? 1218 00:57:47,685 --> 00:57:48,565 - Nah. 1219 00:57:48,565 --> 00:57:50,732 We're just having a party. 1220 00:57:57,803 --> 00:57:58,636 - Give me your keys. 1221 00:57:58,636 --> 00:58:00,223 - Look, are you even interested- 1222 00:58:00,223 --> 00:58:01,056 - Now. 1223 00:58:14,983 --> 00:58:16,566 - Got an extra bed? 1224 00:58:17,546 --> 00:58:18,379 - No. 1225 00:58:23,542 --> 00:58:24,542 - Thank you. 1226 00:58:25,825 --> 00:58:29,158 To the memory of the Mimi Furst Gallery. 1227 00:58:30,129 --> 00:58:30,962 - Yeah. 1228 00:58:36,203 --> 00:58:37,036 - Mm. 1229 00:58:38,394 --> 00:58:40,311 Now, that tastes great. 1230 00:58:45,368 --> 00:58:47,404 - Well, it has a nice bouquet, 1231 00:58:47,404 --> 00:58:50,804 but I prefer an '86 Thunderbird. 1232 00:59:15,931 --> 00:59:17,482 - Relax. 1233 00:59:17,482 --> 00:59:20,718 Your mother's not in the next room. 1234 00:59:20,718 --> 00:59:22,366 - My mother's always in the next room. 1235 00:59:23,199 --> 00:59:25,780 And don't kid yourself, so is yours. 1236 00:59:27,824 --> 00:59:29,074 - Yeah, well... 1237 00:59:30,696 --> 00:59:33,113 I'm gonna try to ignore mine. 1238 00:59:33,972 --> 00:59:36,722 Why don't you try to do the same? 1239 01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:04,625 - Good morning. 1240 01:00:04,625 --> 01:00:05,875 - Good morning. 1241 01:00:07,992 --> 01:00:10,839 - Something's very wrong, Leon. 1242 01:00:10,839 --> 01:00:11,672 - What? 1243 01:00:13,470 --> 01:00:16,880 - Well, basically my whole career was ruined last night. 1244 01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,732 I should be devastated, but I'm not. 1245 01:00:19,732 --> 01:00:20,565 - Mhm. 1246 01:00:22,317 --> 01:00:24,695 I know, the best opportunity of my life 1247 01:00:24,695 --> 01:00:27,039 just went down the drain, 1248 01:00:27,039 --> 01:00:28,380 and I feel great. 1249 01:00:32,697 --> 01:00:34,933 So, I'm not the worst thing 1250 01:00:34,933 --> 01:00:37,932 that ever happened in your life? 1251 01:00:37,932 --> 01:00:39,087 - Leon. 1252 01:00:39,087 --> 01:00:43,434 A month ago, I was working in a job that I hated, 1253 01:00:43,434 --> 01:00:47,570 living with a man who didn't respect me. 1254 01:00:47,570 --> 01:00:48,403 - Mhm. 1255 01:00:56,354 --> 01:00:59,006 So, you'd still be glad this happened 1256 01:00:59,006 --> 01:01:02,006 even if I were, say, a truck driver? 1257 01:01:03,990 --> 01:01:06,188 Security guard, maybe? 1258 01:01:06,188 --> 01:01:07,090 Or a cook? 1259 01:01:07,090 --> 01:01:10,019 - What are you talking about? 1260 01:01:10,019 --> 01:01:12,689 - Well, would it matter? 1261 01:01:16,024 --> 01:01:17,462 Why don't you get that? 1262 01:01:17,462 --> 01:01:18,430 - No. 1263 01:01:18,430 --> 01:01:19,882 It's probably Richard. 1264 01:01:19,882 --> 01:01:21,291 Hi, this is Richard and Mimi's, 1265 01:01:21,291 --> 01:01:23,964 please leave a message at the beep. 1266 01:01:23,964 --> 01:01:25,000 - Mimi. 1267 01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:26,112 This is Art Hoarder. 1268 01:01:26,112 --> 01:01:27,564 I called to thank you for bringing 1269 01:01:27,564 --> 01:01:30,488 that charming young man to J.R.'s party last night. 1270 01:01:30,488 --> 01:01:32,852 You know, I'd very much like to see his work 1271 01:01:32,852 --> 01:01:36,046 if you're still interested in showing it to me. 1272 01:01:36,046 --> 01:01:37,296 - Hello? 1273 01:01:38,632 --> 01:01:40,591 I could come right now. 1274 01:01:40,591 --> 01:01:41,424 Yeah. 1275 01:01:41,424 --> 01:01:43,528 I can meet you downtown in 20 minutes. 1276 01:01:43,528 --> 01:01:44,563 That'd be great. 1277 01:01:44,563 --> 01:01:46,235 20 minutes. 1278 01:01:47,221 --> 01:01:49,956 - The critics will be patronized 1279 01:01:49,956 --> 01:01:52,080 to say anything negative about these. 1280 01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:56,357 - Yeah, you see, I think they're gonna wanna like them. 1281 01:01:56,357 --> 01:01:58,029 - Well, how long 'til you think this gallery 1282 01:01:58,029 --> 01:02:00,120 will be ready for opening? 1283 01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:01,197 - About a month? 1284 01:02:01,197 --> 01:02:02,030 - All right. 1285 01:02:02,030 --> 01:02:04,664 This is what I think we should do. 1286 01:02:04,664 --> 01:02:07,270 You sell me six paintings, put the rest in the back. 1287 01:02:07,270 --> 01:02:09,230 Show them to no one until the opening. 1288 01:02:09,230 --> 01:02:10,826 I'll call my connections and tell them 1289 01:02:10,826 --> 01:02:12,682 how wonderful they are. 1290 01:02:12,682 --> 01:02:14,905 Then I'll get Bill Wasserman of the Village Voice 1291 01:02:14,905 --> 01:02:16,182 to write a rave review. 1292 01:02:16,182 --> 01:02:17,885 Maybe I'll throw a cocktail party, 1293 01:02:17,885 --> 01:02:20,438 introduce Leon around. 1294 01:02:20,438 --> 01:02:22,442 Then for the opening we invite 1295 01:02:22,442 --> 01:02:24,937 every important collector in New York, 1296 01:02:24,937 --> 01:02:27,358 including the entire board of directors 1297 01:02:27,358 --> 01:02:29,691 of the Harlem Museum of Art. 1298 01:02:30,934 --> 01:02:33,901 We'll make it the social event of the year. 1299 01:02:33,901 --> 01:02:37,036 Then you and I can pick and choose 1300 01:02:37,036 --> 01:02:39,082 which collections we deem worthy 1301 01:02:39,082 --> 01:02:40,999 of owning a Leon Chame. 1302 01:02:43,404 --> 01:02:45,078 - I'm sorry. 1303 01:02:45,078 --> 01:02:48,446 Did you say that you wanted to buy 6? 1304 01:02:48,446 --> 01:02:50,356 - Well, it'll be worth 10 times whatever I pay for them 1305 01:02:50,356 --> 01:02:51,856 after the opening. 1306 01:02:55,442 --> 01:02:57,442 - Mimi, we have to talk. 1307 01:03:00,797 --> 01:03:01,630 Um... 1308 01:03:02,886 --> 01:03:05,041 I didn't paint those paintings. 1309 01:03:05,041 --> 01:03:05,874 No, no. 1310 01:03:14,598 --> 01:03:15,765 What happened? 1311 01:03:16,977 --> 01:03:18,144 - Oh, nothing. 1312 01:03:19,277 --> 01:03:23,489 Art Hoarder just bought 6 paintings for $30,000. 1313 01:03:23,489 --> 01:03:26,105 I told him that the opening was just a month away, 1314 01:03:26,105 --> 01:03:28,417 so I'm gonna need 6 more goddesses by then. 1315 01:03:28,417 --> 01:03:29,385 - 6 more? 1316 01:03:29,385 --> 01:03:30,617 - Well, you can do that, Leon. 1317 01:03:30,617 --> 01:03:33,377 I have complete confidence in you. 1318 01:03:33,377 --> 01:03:37,765 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! 1319 01:03:37,765 --> 01:03:40,182 For making this all possible. 1320 01:03:41,573 --> 01:03:43,697 - Post-Warholian CoverGirl portraits 1321 01:03:43,697 --> 01:03:46,829 which critique the racism inherent in American imagery 1322 01:03:46,829 --> 01:03:49,625 and attack the objectification of the glamor girl. 1323 01:03:49,625 --> 01:03:54,089 It is this critic's opinion that not since Rousseau in 1898 1324 01:03:54,089 --> 01:03:59,006 has the art world seen such a natural talent as Leon Chame. 1325 01:04:02,369 --> 01:04:04,142 You know what people told me? 1326 01:04:04,142 --> 01:04:06,374 They were too self indulgent. 1327 01:04:06,374 --> 01:04:07,990 - So I just need six more. 1328 01:04:07,990 --> 01:04:09,697 - Why do you need just 6 more? 1329 01:04:09,697 --> 01:04:11,271 - So I can make it through the opening. 1330 01:04:11,271 --> 01:04:13,087 - Why do you want to make it through the opening? 1331 01:04:13,087 --> 01:04:16,300 I mean, the smart thing to do would be to take the 15 grand 1332 01:04:16,300 --> 01:04:18,016 and hit the road. 1333 01:04:18,016 --> 01:04:19,855 - Well, let's just say that somebody could get very hurt 1334 01:04:19,855 --> 01:04:22,175 if the truth got out, okay? 1335 01:04:22,175 --> 01:04:23,008 - Who? 1336 01:04:23,912 --> 01:04:25,151 A girl? 1337 01:04:25,151 --> 01:04:26,582 - Hey, that's none of your business. 1338 01:04:27,559 --> 01:04:29,506 - Are you in love, Leon? 1339 01:04:29,506 --> 01:04:33,102 Are the birds chirpin', the flowers bloomin'? 1340 01:04:33,102 --> 01:04:36,739 Is this the springtime of your life? 1341 01:04:36,739 --> 01:04:38,620 I want all the cash you made. 1342 01:04:38,620 --> 01:04:39,521 - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! 1343 01:04:39,521 --> 01:04:41,503 Hey, this was my idea! 1344 01:04:41,503 --> 01:04:43,530 And you just admitted they're not worth anything 1345 01:04:43,530 --> 01:04:46,246 without my name on 'em. 1346 01:04:46,246 --> 01:04:50,746 So, I'll pay your next two months rent and phone bill. 1347 01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:57,838 - You'll pay my rent for a year, 1348 01:04:57,838 --> 01:04:59,246 it's a $1,000 a month. 1349 01:05:00,079 --> 01:05:01,502 - What? 1350 01:05:01,502 --> 01:05:04,669 Hey, that could leave me with nothing. 1351 01:05:05,738 --> 01:05:09,155 - You don't like it, find another junkie. 1352 01:05:10,534 --> 01:05:14,784 Or you can find some paintings that are less crude. 1353 01:05:22,764 --> 01:05:24,887 - You can have six done in a month? 1354 01:05:24,887 --> 01:05:25,970 - No problem. 1355 01:05:28,528 --> 01:05:29,445 No problem. 1356 01:05:31,168 --> 01:05:34,310 - Let me just say, that I would get to the gallery early. 1357 01:05:34,310 --> 01:05:36,006 Those paintings will fly out the door 1358 01:05:36,006 --> 01:05:37,094 as soon as we open. 1359 01:05:37,094 --> 01:05:37,927 Excuse me. 1360 01:05:40,414 --> 01:05:43,141 - What do you think of Basquiat? 1361 01:05:43,141 --> 01:05:43,974 - Who? 1362 01:05:43,974 --> 01:05:45,324 - Jean-Michel Basquiat. 1363 01:05:45,324 --> 01:05:49,722 - He was the last successful Black painter in SoHo. 1364 01:05:49,722 --> 01:05:51,776 - Oh, well, before I met Mimi, 1365 01:05:51,776 --> 01:05:54,207 I paid almost no attention to SoHo. 1366 01:05:54,207 --> 01:05:56,021 I'm much more involved with the Harlem scene. 1367 01:05:56,021 --> 01:05:57,234 - Who do you predict will be 1368 01:05:57,234 --> 01:06:00,987 the next important painter to emerge from the Harlem scene? 1369 01:06:00,987 --> 01:06:03,154 - Well, I'd have to say... 1370 01:06:06,613 --> 01:06:07,446 Lamp. 1371 01:06:09,736 --> 01:06:10,569 - Yeah. 1372 01:06:11,773 --> 01:06:12,773 I love Lamp. 1373 01:06:15,148 --> 01:06:16,148 - Excuse me. 1374 01:06:16,994 --> 01:06:18,811 - Where did you see a lamp? 1375 01:06:18,811 --> 01:06:21,978 - I think the Museum of Art in Harlem. 1376 01:06:29,155 --> 01:06:31,575 - Hey, you wanna trade places? 1377 01:06:31,575 --> 01:06:32,939 - No, man, no. 1378 01:06:32,939 --> 01:06:33,907 - Hey, I bet you most of these people 1379 01:06:33,907 --> 01:06:35,318 wouldn't know if we did. 1380 01:06:35,318 --> 01:06:36,395 - Sure, they would. 1381 01:06:36,395 --> 01:06:37,968 You can't fix a martini. 1382 01:06:40,022 --> 01:06:41,421 - Leon! 1383 01:06:41,421 --> 01:06:42,254 Come here! 1384 01:06:45,307 --> 01:06:46,759 Come here. 1385 01:06:46,759 --> 01:06:49,042 Leon, I want you to meet Cynthia Smith. 1386 01:06:49,042 --> 01:06:51,946 She's the director of the Harlem Museum of Art. 1387 01:06:51,946 --> 01:06:52,779 - Hi. 1388 01:06:52,779 --> 01:06:54,242 - Hi. 1389 01:06:54,242 --> 01:06:55,385 - Tell him what you told me. 1390 01:06:55,385 --> 01:06:58,534 - Well, I have had 8 calls from SoHo galleries 1391 01:06:58,534 --> 01:07:01,666 requesting submissions for African American painters 1392 01:07:01,666 --> 01:07:02,846 since the article about you 1393 01:07:02,846 --> 01:07:04,914 came out in The Voice last month. 1394 01:07:04,914 --> 01:07:05,803 Good luck. 1395 01:07:05,803 --> 01:07:06,636 - Thank you. 1396 01:07:06,636 --> 01:07:07,469 - Buh-bye. 1397 01:07:07,469 --> 01:07:08,346 - Bye. 1398 01:07:10,731 --> 01:07:13,678 - God, no one's ever said anything like that to me before. 1399 01:07:13,678 --> 01:07:15,027 - Well, you're an important lady now. 1400 01:07:15,027 --> 01:07:16,266 - No, I am not. 1401 01:07:16,266 --> 01:07:18,766 - Yes, you're important to me. 1402 01:07:28,503 --> 01:07:29,823 - Good morning! 1403 01:07:29,823 --> 01:07:33,783 Have you ever heard of a Black painter named Lamp? 1404 01:07:33,783 --> 01:07:36,761 Six people have mentioned him to me in the last day, 1405 01:07:36,761 --> 01:07:38,566 and he's apparently unsigned. 1406 01:07:38,566 --> 01:07:40,691 And I suddenly find myself in desperate need 1407 01:07:40,691 --> 01:07:42,559 of a minority painter. 1408 01:07:42,559 --> 01:07:44,111 All of my fellow gallery owners 1409 01:07:44,111 --> 01:07:45,919 are telling my buyers and my painters 1410 01:07:45,919 --> 01:07:48,362 that the only reason that I refused to show Leon 1411 01:07:48,362 --> 01:07:49,451 was because he was Black. 1412 01:07:49,451 --> 01:07:50,650 You know, being in business with me 1413 01:07:50,650 --> 01:07:52,135 means you're in business with a racist. 1414 01:07:52,135 --> 01:07:54,687 - Oh, they actually believe that shit? 1415 01:07:54,687 --> 01:07:56,203 - Well, why else would I pass on someone 1416 01:07:56,203 --> 01:07:59,142 who's so naturally talented? 1417 01:07:59,142 --> 01:08:02,530 - I've been up all night thinking about this. 1418 01:08:02,530 --> 01:08:05,302 Here's a kid who's read Balzac, 1419 01:08:05,302 --> 01:08:09,459 he uses expressions like "cultural domination", 1420 01:08:09,459 --> 01:08:13,727 he's been to college, and most probably grad school. 1421 01:08:13,727 --> 01:08:15,167 I wouldn't be a bit surprised 1422 01:08:15,167 --> 01:08:18,007 if he'd actually studied the myth of African naturalism 1423 01:08:18,007 --> 01:08:21,424 and then figured out a way to exploit it! 1424 01:08:22,638 --> 01:08:23,471 - What? 1425 01:08:23,471 --> 01:08:25,804 - The first time I met him, 1426 01:08:25,804 --> 01:08:27,860 I asked him what kind of paint he used. 1427 01:08:27,860 --> 01:08:28,963 Do you know what he said to me? 1428 01:08:28,963 --> 01:08:30,183 Do you know what he said? 1429 01:08:30,183 --> 01:08:32,866 He said "regular paint". 1430 01:08:32,866 --> 01:08:34,527 Now, no artist would say that unless 1431 01:08:34,527 --> 01:08:36,266 he was purposefully trying to act like 1432 01:08:36,266 --> 01:08:38,379 a fucking idiot savant. 1433 01:08:38,379 --> 01:08:39,333 - You're a journalist. 1434 01:08:39,333 --> 01:08:40,875 Investigate! 1435 01:08:40,875 --> 01:08:42,667 - I'm an art critic! 1436 01:08:42,667 --> 01:08:44,066 - Okay. 1437 01:08:44,066 --> 01:08:45,549 - I asked him once where he lived, 1438 01:08:45,549 --> 01:08:48,367 and he was really evasive. 1439 01:08:48,367 --> 01:08:51,502 - I know where his studio is, I wrote it down! 1440 01:08:51,502 --> 01:08:52,741 When Mimi went there alone. 1441 01:08:52,741 --> 01:08:54,574 What did I do with it? 1442 01:09:14,248 --> 01:09:15,248 - Excuse me? 1443 01:09:17,032 --> 01:09:19,208 I'm looking for the painter that works here. 1444 01:09:19,208 --> 01:09:21,571 - No painter works here. 1445 01:09:21,571 --> 01:09:23,498 - Well, that's his stuff you're burning. 1446 01:09:23,498 --> 01:09:25,447 - That stuff's been here for a month. 1447 01:09:25,447 --> 01:09:26,854 No one touched it. 1448 01:09:26,854 --> 01:09:28,175 - Nobody. 1449 01:09:28,175 --> 01:09:29,187 - A month? 1450 01:09:29,187 --> 01:09:31,035 - That's how long we've been here. 1451 01:09:31,035 --> 01:09:33,631 - Well, do you know who brought it here? 1452 01:09:33,631 --> 01:09:35,588 - You buying the first bottle? 1453 01:09:35,588 --> 01:09:36,421 - Uh... 1454 01:09:41,394 --> 01:09:44,004 - I said buy, not pay for. 1455 01:09:49,065 --> 01:09:51,315 - You gotta listen, my man! 1456 01:09:56,275 --> 01:09:57,442 - Hello! 1457 01:09:59,929 --> 01:10:00,975 - No. 1458 01:10:00,975 --> 01:10:02,109 - No, what? 1459 01:10:02,109 --> 01:10:03,189 - I don't know him. 1460 01:10:05,152 --> 01:10:07,461 - You're a funny guy. 1461 01:10:07,461 --> 01:10:08,897 - Well, I saw him though. 1462 01:10:08,897 --> 01:10:09,730 - Well, who is he? 1463 01:10:09,730 --> 01:10:11,405 - Is that another question? 1464 01:10:11,405 --> 01:10:13,315 - That is definitely another question. 1465 01:10:13,315 --> 01:10:17,554 - Yeah, sound like a question to me. 1466 01:10:17,554 --> 01:10:20,971 - Three men on a bottle ain't gonna work! 1467 01:10:24,440 --> 01:10:26,032 - My man! 1468 01:10:26,032 --> 01:10:28,689 - This time I want the answer first. 1469 01:10:28,689 --> 01:10:30,104 - Look here, buddy. 1470 01:10:30,104 --> 01:10:31,612 Now, we could beat the fuck outta you 1471 01:10:31,612 --> 01:10:33,568 and take the God damn bottles from ya. 1472 01:10:33,568 --> 01:10:35,954 But since we're fit fellas, we can't do that. 1473 01:10:35,954 --> 01:10:37,516 So why don't you just be a bit friendly to us 1474 01:10:37,516 --> 01:10:40,160 and just hand it on over here. 1475 01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:41,691 Hell, you ain't gonna drink that shit anyway. 1476 01:10:41,691 --> 01:10:43,349 - Aw. 1477 01:10:43,349 --> 01:10:44,267 - There he is! 1478 01:10:44,267 --> 01:10:45,517 My man, my man. 1479 01:10:46,410 --> 01:10:48,644 - None of us know him, so get outta here! 1480 01:10:53,155 --> 01:10:55,155 - Are we having fun yet? 1481 01:10:56,599 --> 01:10:58,266 Stay if you want to! 1482 01:11:06,395 --> 01:11:09,228 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth. 1483 01:11:10,234 --> 01:11:11,102 - You gonna do that shit? 1484 01:11:11,102 --> 01:11:13,602 - I wandered lonely as a cloud 1485 01:11:15,637 --> 01:11:19,054 that floats on high o'er vales and hills, 1486 01:11:19,890 --> 01:11:22,223 when suddenly I saw a crowd, 1487 01:11:24,123 --> 01:11:26,373 a host of golden daffodils. 1488 01:11:27,539 --> 01:11:28,372 - Shut up! 1489 01:11:28,372 --> 01:11:29,205 - Get outta here, man! 1490 01:11:29,205 --> 01:11:30,632 - Until you tell me something about 1491 01:11:30,632 --> 01:11:31,688 the painter who works here, 1492 01:11:31,688 --> 01:11:33,844 I'm going to stand here, and I'm going to recite- 1493 01:11:33,844 --> 01:11:35,129 - Leon Turner, Leon Turner. 1494 01:11:35,129 --> 01:11:35,962 - Turner? 1495 01:11:35,962 --> 01:11:37,251 - Yeah, Leon Turner. 1496 01:11:37,251 --> 01:11:39,277 He lives a few blocks away. 1497 01:11:39,277 --> 01:11:40,576 - You better be telling my the truth 1498 01:11:40,576 --> 01:11:43,962 or I'm gonna be back with Yates. 1499 01:11:43,962 --> 01:11:45,712 - I don't mind Yates. 1500 01:11:46,713 --> 01:11:49,348 - It's that Wordsworth fella I can't stand. 1501 01:11:49,348 --> 01:11:50,586 - Why quit now? 1502 01:11:50,586 --> 01:11:54,334 You and I can go on like this forever. 1503 01:11:54,334 --> 01:11:55,167 - Nah. 1504 01:11:56,930 --> 01:12:01,930 When the opening's over, and all the paintings are sold, 1505 01:12:02,166 --> 01:12:03,583 I'm coming clean. 1506 01:12:05,138 --> 01:12:07,546 It's the only chance I got with her. 1507 01:12:07,546 --> 01:12:08,379 You know? 1508 01:12:10,450 --> 01:12:11,416 - What do you want? - Can I come in? 1509 01:12:11,416 --> 01:12:12,606 5 minutes, I need 5... 1510 01:12:12,606 --> 01:12:14,742 I have some information I think you're gonna wanna... 1511 01:12:14,742 --> 01:12:15,909 Can I come in? 1512 01:12:28,458 --> 01:12:29,678 Mimi, will you come here for a minute? 1513 01:12:29,678 --> 01:12:32,095 I want to show you something. 1514 01:12:36,533 --> 01:12:38,082 You see that signature, you see it? 1515 01:12:38,082 --> 01:12:38,915 - Yes. 1516 01:12:38,915 --> 01:12:40,832 - He painted over someone else's signature. 1517 01:12:40,832 --> 01:12:42,096 That's not- - Get out, Richard! 1518 01:12:42,096 --> 01:12:43,594 - This isn't his painting. - Get out now! 1519 01:12:43,594 --> 01:12:44,761 - You see the white there? 1520 01:12:44,761 --> 01:12:46,322 Why is there white there? - Get out. 1521 01:12:46,322 --> 01:12:47,630 - Why is that the only place? 1522 01:12:47,630 --> 01:12:49,678 - Because it's a brilliant use of white. 1523 01:12:49,678 --> 01:12:51,590 - Mimi, he's not a painter! 1524 01:12:51,590 --> 01:12:53,350 - Painter. 1525 01:12:53,350 --> 01:12:54,842 Painter. 1526 01:12:54,842 --> 01:12:55,675 555-1901. 1527 01:12:58,214 --> 01:13:00,881 - I wonder whose number that is. 1528 01:13:02,098 --> 01:13:04,582 - It's probably some friend of Leon's. 1529 01:13:04,582 --> 01:13:06,582 - Well, call it and see. 1530 01:13:08,992 --> 01:13:10,075 - Okay, fine. 1531 01:13:26,425 --> 01:13:27,272 Hello, yes. 1532 01:13:27,272 --> 01:13:29,593 To whom am I speaking? 1533 01:13:29,593 --> 01:13:30,734 - Mary fuckin' Poppins. 1534 01:13:30,734 --> 01:13:31,637 Who's this? 1535 01:13:31,637 --> 01:13:34,724 - My name is Mimi Furst, I run a gallery in SoHo. 1536 01:13:34,724 --> 01:13:37,753 This is gonna sound absurd, 1537 01:13:37,753 --> 01:13:40,472 but someone suggested that whoever lives at this number 1538 01:13:40,472 --> 01:13:41,957 is the artist who really painted 1539 01:13:41,957 --> 01:13:44,201 one of my artist's paintings. 1540 01:13:44,201 --> 01:13:45,034 - Hey. 1541 01:13:46,543 --> 01:13:47,626 It's for you. 1542 01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:52,407 - I'm holding. 1543 01:14:03,482 --> 01:14:04,315 - Hello? 1544 01:14:07,431 --> 01:14:08,264 - Leon? 1545 01:14:09,995 --> 01:14:10,828 - Mimi? 1546 01:14:16,537 --> 01:14:19,694 - I thought you were going to your studio. 1547 01:14:19,694 --> 01:14:22,699 - Mimi, I'm on my way back now. 1548 01:14:22,699 --> 01:14:24,767 I'll explain everything when I get back. 1549 01:14:24,767 --> 01:14:27,176 - Leon, whose number is this? 1550 01:14:27,176 --> 01:14:28,748 - Just wait there until I get back 1551 01:14:28,748 --> 01:14:30,631 and I'll explain everything. 1552 01:14:30,631 --> 01:14:31,464 - Um. 1553 01:14:33,655 --> 01:14:38,655 You know, Richard says that you didn't paint your paintings. 1554 01:14:39,123 --> 01:14:40,870 That's not true, is it? 1555 01:14:40,870 --> 01:14:44,257 - Mimi, I was gonna explain everything tonight. 1556 01:14:44,257 --> 01:14:45,873 All right? 1557 01:14:49,204 --> 01:14:51,510 - Hello, Mimi? 1558 01:14:56,780 --> 01:14:57,780 - I'm sorry. 1559 01:15:02,060 --> 01:15:03,608 - Did she understand? 1560 01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:22,525 - She doesn't wanna see you right now, Leon. 1561 01:15:22,525 --> 01:15:23,358 - What? 1562 01:15:24,358 --> 01:15:25,845 - I said she doesn't want to see you right now. 1563 01:15:25,845 --> 01:15:26,857 - Just let me talk to her! 1564 01:15:26,857 --> 01:15:27,690 - Why? 1565 01:15:27,690 --> 01:15:28,523 Why do you want to talk to her? 1566 01:15:28,523 --> 01:15:29,356 - Because I care about her! 1567 01:15:29,356 --> 01:15:30,453 - Oh, you care about her? 1568 01:15:30,453 --> 01:15:31,914 She got 500 people showing up here 1569 01:15:31,914 --> 01:15:33,169 tomorrow night for nothing. 1570 01:15:33,169 --> 01:15:34,445 I'll tell her about your concern. 1571 01:15:34,445 --> 01:15:35,587 - We can still go through with the opening. 1572 01:15:35,587 --> 01:15:36,420 - What are you, nuts? 1573 01:15:36,420 --> 01:15:37,646 - Nobody has to know about it! 1574 01:15:37,646 --> 01:15:39,241 - I'm gonna ask you a question, Leon. 1575 01:15:39,241 --> 01:15:40,209 Who painted these paintings? 1576 01:15:40,209 --> 01:15:41,181 - Who cares, Richard! - Who cares? 1577 01:15:41,181 --> 01:15:42,390 I care! 1578 01:15:42,390 --> 01:15:43,807 - Some junkie in SoHo! 1579 01:15:43,807 --> 01:15:44,640 You happy? 1580 01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:45,599 - Did you pay her? 1581 01:15:45,599 --> 01:15:47,521 - Yes, I did that! 1582 01:15:47,521 --> 01:15:48,382 Mimi, can I talk to you? 1583 01:15:48,382 --> 01:15:50,154 - Did it occur to you, Leon, 1584 01:15:50,154 --> 01:15:52,254 that someone might recognize these paintings? 1585 01:15:52,254 --> 01:15:53,477 - Nobody's seen the paintings! 1586 01:15:53,477 --> 01:15:54,310 - How do you know? 1587 01:15:54,310 --> 01:15:55,558 - Mimi, can I talk to you? - Did it ever- 1588 01:15:55,558 --> 01:15:57,212 - Just let me talk to her for a second. 1589 01:15:57,212 --> 01:15:58,295 - Don't do that! 1590 01:15:58,295 --> 01:15:59,128 - Richard- - Don't do it! 1591 01:15:59,128 --> 01:16:00,591 - Richard! - Just stay back. 1592 01:16:00,591 --> 01:16:02,023 You stay back. - Don't touch me, man. 1593 01:16:02,023 --> 01:16:05,023 - What are you gonna do, beat me up? 1594 01:16:10,735 --> 01:16:12,659 - Do you think this woman would tell you 1595 01:16:12,659 --> 01:16:15,871 if she'd shown her paintings all over SoHo? 1596 01:16:15,871 --> 01:16:19,323 There's gonna be no opening, Leon, so go home. 1597 01:16:19,323 --> 01:16:22,490 You've done enough damage around here. 1598 01:16:27,770 --> 01:16:31,911 - Leon, I think you take this a little bit too serious, man. 1599 01:16:31,911 --> 01:16:33,647 - Yo, I gotta do something. 1600 01:16:33,647 --> 01:16:35,883 If I don't, this girl's whole career could be over. 1601 01:16:35,883 --> 01:16:37,079 - Oh, come on, man. 1602 01:16:37,079 --> 01:16:40,008 I really don't think Miss-Help-The-Black-People-Of-America 1603 01:16:40,008 --> 01:16:42,437 is in much danger of starving to death. 1604 01:16:42,437 --> 01:16:43,548 - Her name's Mimi. 1605 01:16:43,548 --> 01:16:44,813 Is it that hard to say? 1606 01:16:44,813 --> 01:16:45,646 Mimi? 1607 01:16:45,646 --> 01:16:46,479 - Look, while you're sitting there 1608 01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:47,991 trying to figure out how to help this broad, 1609 01:16:47,991 --> 01:16:50,609 she's probably somewhere calling the police. 1610 01:16:50,609 --> 01:16:53,508 - Why you always gotta assume the worst about her? 1611 01:16:53,508 --> 01:16:55,453 When I first mentioned her to you, what'd you say? 1612 01:16:55,453 --> 01:16:56,917 "She's full of shit. 1613 01:16:56,917 --> 01:16:58,436 She's just fuckin' with you." 1614 01:16:58,436 --> 01:16:59,936 - Like you didn't! 1615 01:17:00,944 --> 01:17:03,955 - At least I can admit I was wrong. 1616 01:17:03,955 --> 01:17:06,814 - Leon, get on the next bus outta town, man! 1617 01:17:06,814 --> 01:17:09,422 This is the kinda shit end up on 60 Minutes. 1618 01:17:09,422 --> 01:17:11,504 I can hear Ed Bradley now. 1619 01:17:11,504 --> 01:17:13,383 "How'd it happen? 1620 01:17:13,383 --> 01:17:15,245 Who's to blame? 1621 01:17:15,245 --> 01:17:16,780 What's it say about America?" 1622 01:17:19,596 --> 01:17:21,935 - Yo, you fucked up, man. 1623 01:17:21,935 --> 01:17:23,532 - I'm fucked up? 1624 01:17:23,532 --> 01:17:24,765 I'm fucked up? 1625 01:17:24,765 --> 01:17:26,251 Wait, hold up. 1626 01:17:26,251 --> 01:17:29,429 You're sitting here acting all concerned 1627 01:17:29,429 --> 01:17:33,203 after fucking this bitch every way possible. 1628 01:17:33,203 --> 01:17:34,382 What? 1629 01:17:34,382 --> 01:17:35,215 What? 1630 01:17:53,345 --> 01:17:55,976 - Hi, I'm here to see Mr. Hoarder. 1631 01:17:55,976 --> 01:17:59,393 - He won't be back for a couple of hours. 1632 01:18:06,806 --> 01:18:08,322 - Leon? 1633 01:18:08,322 --> 01:18:09,578 Leon! 1634 01:18:09,578 --> 01:18:10,994 Leon, what are you doing here? 1635 01:18:10,994 --> 01:18:12,535 You've got an opening in three hours. 1636 01:18:12,535 --> 01:18:13,999 - Mr. Hoarder, we're in a jam. 1637 01:18:13,999 --> 01:18:15,946 We got big, big problems. 1638 01:18:15,946 --> 01:18:17,542 - Leon, it's a beautiful day, 1639 01:18:17,542 --> 01:18:19,258 you've got your opening tonight, 1640 01:18:19,258 --> 01:18:20,522 there are no problems. 1641 01:18:20,522 --> 01:18:23,272 - I didn't paint those paintings. 1642 01:18:24,679 --> 01:18:26,992 - Maybe there are problems. 1643 01:18:26,992 --> 01:18:28,409 - God damn, Leon! 1644 01:18:34,715 --> 01:18:37,895 I knew you were gonna be entertaining to work with, 1645 01:18:37,895 --> 01:18:40,236 I just never figured how entertaining. 1646 01:18:41,874 --> 01:18:44,671 - I thought you'd be a bit more pissed off about this shit. 1647 01:18:44,671 --> 01:18:46,387 - Oh, I am pissed off. 1648 01:18:46,387 --> 01:18:48,442 But hey, I've been telling people for 20 years 1649 01:18:48,442 --> 01:18:50,500 that I graduated from Harvard, so. 1650 01:18:50,500 --> 01:18:51,667 - And you didn't? 1651 01:18:51,667 --> 01:18:54,219 - Meet Arthur Lefkowitz. 1652 01:18:54,219 --> 01:18:58,519 Graduate of the Tyler School of Art, class of '73. 1653 01:18:58,519 --> 01:18:59,883 - You were a painter? 1654 01:18:59,883 --> 01:19:02,236 - Actually, I figured out long ago 1655 01:19:02,236 --> 01:19:05,932 that I could be much more important as a collector 1656 01:19:05,932 --> 01:19:08,765 than a extremely mediocre painter. 1657 01:19:11,643 --> 01:19:13,435 - Wait a sec. 1658 01:19:13,435 --> 01:19:15,028 You still got your paintings? 1659 01:19:15,028 --> 01:19:16,867 - Yeah, I have some upstairs, why? 1660 01:19:16,867 --> 01:19:17,700 - Can I see them? 1661 01:19:17,700 --> 01:19:18,636 - No! 1662 01:19:18,636 --> 01:19:20,154 No! 1663 01:19:20,154 --> 01:19:21,564 Nobody's seen my paintings in 20 years, 1664 01:19:21,564 --> 01:19:23,706 I don't even show my lovers my paintings. 1665 01:19:23,706 --> 01:19:24,820 - Mr. Hoarder. 1666 01:19:24,820 --> 01:19:26,864 This could be our ticket out of this. 1667 01:19:26,864 --> 01:19:28,416 - Leon, trust me. 1668 01:19:28,416 --> 01:19:30,595 They are not about cultural domination. 1669 01:19:30,595 --> 01:19:33,499 - Hey, let me be the judge of that, all right? 1670 01:19:33,499 --> 01:19:36,711 Look, you wanna end up on 60 Minutes? 1671 01:19:36,711 --> 01:19:38,710 Think about it. 1672 01:19:38,710 --> 01:19:41,460 This is the kinda shit they love. 1673 01:19:43,276 --> 01:19:44,895 - So, what do you think? 1674 01:19:44,895 --> 01:19:46,928 Look, I know I'm no Jackson Pollock. 1675 01:19:46,928 --> 01:19:47,761 - Oh, no, Mr. Hoarder, 1676 01:19:47,761 --> 01:19:49,427 you got a lot of natural talent here. 1677 01:19:49,427 --> 01:19:51,659 I mean, with a few refinements... 1678 01:19:51,659 --> 01:19:52,991 We can use it. 1679 01:19:52,991 --> 01:19:54,851 - A few refinements? 1680 01:19:54,851 --> 01:19:55,719 - Yeah. 1681 01:19:55,719 --> 01:19:57,503 Yeah, just a couple of uptown touches. 1682 01:19:57,503 --> 01:19:59,243 Don't worry about it, I'll handle it. 1683 01:19:59,243 --> 01:20:01,255 I mean, by the time we finish, 1684 01:20:01,255 --> 01:20:02,498 we're gonna be causing revolutions 1685 01:20:02,498 --> 01:20:05,066 in the rhetoric of painting. 1686 01:20:06,386 --> 01:20:07,219 Mimi! 1687 01:20:08,762 --> 01:20:09,595 Shit. 1688 01:20:15,865 --> 01:20:17,078 - Let's get to work. 1689 01:20:26,263 --> 01:20:27,715 - What are these? 1690 01:20:27,715 --> 01:20:28,870 - These are my new paintings. 1691 01:20:28,870 --> 01:20:29,862 - Well, actually I painted them, 1692 01:20:29,862 --> 01:20:30,751 but a long time ago. 1693 01:20:30,751 --> 01:20:32,752 Nobody's seen them, ever. 1694 01:20:32,752 --> 01:20:34,403 - There's a reason for that. 1695 01:20:34,403 --> 01:20:36,085 - Look, no one is gonna believe 1696 01:20:36,085 --> 01:20:37,131 that this is the work of the most 1697 01:20:37,131 --> 01:20:39,720 naturally painter since Rousseau! 1698 01:20:39,720 --> 01:20:41,911 - They will when you tell them they are, Richard. 1699 01:20:41,911 --> 01:20:44,472 - No, no, no way, no way am I getting 1700 01:20:44,472 --> 01:20:46,555 involved with this, Leon. 1701 01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:49,757 - Hi, boys. 1702 01:20:50,995 --> 01:20:52,140 - Mimi. 1703 01:20:52,140 --> 01:20:53,383 Do you see what's going on here? 1704 01:20:53,383 --> 01:20:54,724 They're instigating a coverup. 1705 01:20:54,724 --> 01:20:56,936 - Richard, we're not instigating a coverup. 1706 01:20:56,936 --> 01:20:58,242 I'm painting. 1707 01:20:58,242 --> 01:20:59,895 - I'm just assisting. 1708 01:20:59,895 --> 01:21:00,784 - Mimi, look. 1709 01:21:00,784 --> 01:21:02,392 You don't have to go through with this. 1710 01:21:02,392 --> 01:21:04,590 Up until now, you have done nothing wrong. 1711 01:21:04,590 --> 01:21:07,141 - Mimi, don't listen to him. 1712 01:21:07,141 --> 01:21:09,476 Look, you put too much hard work into this gallery 1713 01:21:09,476 --> 01:21:11,520 to just let it go down the drain. 1714 01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:14,316 - You just go ahead and do whatever you want. 1715 01:21:14,316 --> 01:21:15,724 I was planning on having the opening 1716 01:21:15,724 --> 01:21:17,891 with nothing on the walls. 1717 01:21:20,463 --> 01:21:21,411 - Leon. 1718 01:21:21,411 --> 01:21:22,687 Leon, you'll deal with her later. 1719 01:21:22,687 --> 01:21:23,984 We've got an opening in an hour. 1720 01:21:23,984 --> 01:21:24,952 Come on! 1721 01:21:24,952 --> 01:21:25,920 - You see her, Richard? 1722 01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:27,900 She's a wreck! 1723 01:21:27,900 --> 01:21:29,868 - Hey, I warned her. 1724 01:21:29,868 --> 01:21:32,708 I warned her from the start not to even open this gallery. 1725 01:21:32,708 --> 01:21:34,391 - Well, maybe she wouldn't be involved 1726 01:21:34,391 --> 01:21:35,544 in the art scene period 1727 01:21:35,544 --> 01:21:38,263 if you hadn't plucked her out of your class 7 years ago. 1728 01:21:38,263 --> 01:21:39,930 I think you owe her. 1729 01:21:42,066 --> 01:21:43,649 - Give me a crayon. 1730 01:21:46,600 --> 01:21:48,108 If I'm gonna write a good review, 1731 01:21:48,108 --> 01:21:52,572 I'm at least gonna make sure that this is halfway decent. 1732 01:22:10,005 --> 01:22:10,838 - Shit! 1733 01:22:16,296 --> 01:22:19,129 - We've done about what we can do. 1734 01:22:22,807 --> 01:22:24,140 Mimi, it's time. 1735 01:22:26,943 --> 01:22:28,041 Richard. 1736 01:22:28,041 --> 01:22:30,694 We may be in SoHo, but we are professionals. 1737 01:22:30,694 --> 01:22:32,277 Go home and change. 1738 01:23:04,989 --> 01:23:06,156 - Wow! 1739 01:23:11,655 --> 01:23:13,685 - Pump her nickel. 1740 01:23:13,685 --> 01:23:14,935 I don't get it. 1741 01:23:16,094 --> 01:23:17,734 - There's a side to these paintings 1742 01:23:17,734 --> 01:23:21,186 that you really have to be Black to understand. 1743 01:23:21,186 --> 01:23:22,353 - What's that? 1744 01:23:23,782 --> 01:23:25,331 - It's complicated. 1745 01:23:25,331 --> 01:23:28,335 - One renders these paintings so much more meaningful 1746 01:23:28,335 --> 01:23:32,252 and focused than those of Jean-Michel Basquiat. 1747 01:23:34,995 --> 01:23:38,066 - I knew Basquiat, actually. 1748 01:23:38,066 --> 01:23:39,723 And let me tell you that Leon is 1749 01:23:39,723 --> 01:23:42,056 a much more complex thinker. 1750 01:23:44,857 --> 01:23:46,485 - I heard you bought 6. 1751 01:23:46,485 --> 01:23:48,016 - Yeah. 1752 01:23:48,016 --> 01:23:50,675 I'm planning on donating one to the Whitney, 1753 01:23:50,675 --> 01:23:53,675 one to the MoMA, and one to the Met. 1754 01:23:55,225 --> 01:23:57,877 - This gallery is a huge step 1755 01:23:57,877 --> 01:23:59,448 for cross cultural New York. 1756 01:23:59,448 --> 01:24:00,440 - Isn't it, though? 1757 01:24:00,440 --> 01:24:01,881 - I just wanted to tell you that I'm recommending 1758 01:24:01,881 --> 01:24:04,332 both of you for one of our Paragon Awards. 1759 01:24:04,332 --> 01:24:05,165 - Hey! 1760 01:24:05,165 --> 01:24:06,721 - Well, I just don't know what to say! 1761 01:24:06,721 --> 01:24:08,293 - Please, you deserved it. 1762 01:24:08,293 --> 01:24:10,535 And I've got some painters that I want you to see. 1763 01:24:10,535 --> 01:24:11,869 Perhaps I could give a call next week, 1764 01:24:11,869 --> 01:24:12,989 and we can do lunch. 1765 01:24:12,989 --> 01:24:16,345 - Lunch, breakfast, dinner, let's do all three. 1766 01:24:16,345 --> 01:24:17,776 - Okay, I'll call you. 1767 01:24:17,776 --> 01:24:18,609 - Great! 1768 01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:24,333 - Mimi, what's wrong? 1769 01:24:25,708 --> 01:24:26,541 - Nothing! 1770 01:24:27,411 --> 01:24:30,994 This is the most exciting night of my life. 1771 01:24:42,058 --> 01:24:42,891 - Mimi. 1772 01:24:44,115 --> 01:24:46,368 The stuff Cynthia just said was true. 1773 01:24:46,368 --> 01:24:48,438 You should feel very proud of what's going on down here 1774 01:24:48,438 --> 01:24:50,321 no matter how it happens. 1775 01:24:50,321 --> 01:24:51,154 - $40,000. 1776 01:24:52,224 --> 01:24:53,896 It's half the night's take. 1777 01:24:53,896 --> 01:24:58,063 Your stuff's in the dumpster outside my apartment. 1778 01:25:08,731 --> 01:25:10,231 - Look, I'm sorry! 1779 01:25:11,438 --> 01:25:12,353 I admit. 1780 01:25:12,353 --> 01:25:15,025 When we first met, I had no right to feel 1781 01:25:15,025 --> 01:25:16,828 it was okay to fleece you. 1782 01:25:16,828 --> 01:25:19,437 But you have to admit, you used me too. 1783 01:25:19,437 --> 01:25:20,456 That's right! 1784 01:25:20,456 --> 01:25:21,821 You would've never gotten involved with me 1785 01:25:21,821 --> 01:25:24,661 if you didn't feel that you could in some way 1786 01:25:24,661 --> 01:25:27,661 sell my blackness, whatever that is. 1787 01:25:28,861 --> 01:25:31,349 - I realize that I approached you, 1788 01:25:31,349 --> 01:25:33,626 that I dangled the carrot in front of your face, 1789 01:25:33,626 --> 01:25:34,889 and that I was using you 1790 01:25:34,889 --> 01:25:36,462 as much as you were using me. 1791 01:25:36,462 --> 01:25:37,295 Okay? 1792 01:25:37,295 --> 01:25:38,128 You satisfied? 1793 01:25:38,128 --> 01:25:39,366 - Then what are you so pissed off about? 1794 01:25:39,366 --> 01:25:41,789 - Because I thought you were my friend! 1795 01:25:41,789 --> 01:25:43,447 - Mimi, I wouldn't be standing right here, 1796 01:25:43,447 --> 01:25:45,825 right now if I wasn't. 1797 01:25:45,825 --> 01:25:46,658 I could've stepped the moment 1798 01:25:46,658 --> 01:25:48,325 the first paintings were sold. 1799 01:25:48,325 --> 01:25:50,567 I'm taking a big chance coming down here tonight! 1800 01:25:50,567 --> 01:25:53,594 - Leon, the only reason you came back here 1801 01:25:53,594 --> 01:25:56,498 was to sell more paintings, to cash in. 1802 01:25:56,498 --> 01:25:57,589 - You really think the only reason 1803 01:25:57,589 --> 01:25:59,534 I came back down here is for the money? 1804 01:25:59,534 --> 01:26:00,617 - Yeah, I do. 1805 01:26:08,664 --> 01:26:10,732 Keep the money. 1806 01:26:10,732 --> 01:26:12,065 Keep everything. 1807 01:26:16,425 --> 01:26:18,436 - You'll be back for that check, 1808 01:26:18,436 --> 01:26:20,988 and it'll be right there waiting for you. 1809 01:26:23,014 --> 01:26:25,742 - Keep telling yourself that, Mimi. 1810 01:26:25,742 --> 01:26:26,575 Go ahead. 1811 01:26:26,575 --> 01:26:30,406 Tell yourself every day, "He'll be back. 1812 01:26:30,406 --> 01:26:33,132 He never really gave a damn about me." 1813 01:26:33,132 --> 01:26:35,366 That way, you'll never have to ask yourself 1814 01:26:35,366 --> 01:26:37,884 the difficult question, 1815 01:26:37,884 --> 01:26:41,217 if you ever really gave a damn about me. 1816 01:26:49,355 --> 01:26:50,533 - You know what? 1817 01:26:50,533 --> 01:26:53,347 The more I look at these things, the more I like 'em. 1818 01:26:53,347 --> 01:26:55,968 I think it's because I really believe that this gallery 1819 01:26:55,968 --> 01:26:58,159 is a positive step for SoHo. 1820 01:26:58,159 --> 01:26:59,104 I do. 1821 01:26:59,104 --> 01:27:01,920 - Richard, the idea of selling minority artwork 1822 01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,337 seems a tad absurd right now. 1823 01:27:06,617 --> 01:27:08,277 Don't clean up. 1824 01:27:08,277 --> 01:27:09,751 I can do it. 1825 01:27:09,751 --> 01:27:11,190 - I don't mind. 1826 01:27:11,190 --> 01:27:12,818 - I really appreciate it, Richard, 1827 01:27:12,818 --> 01:27:14,040 but I can handle it. 1828 01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:15,404 - I wanna help! 1829 01:27:15,404 --> 01:27:16,237 - Richard. 1830 01:27:20,057 --> 01:27:24,029 If you're thinking we're gonna get back together, 1831 01:27:24,029 --> 01:27:25,557 it's not gonna happen. 1832 01:27:25,557 --> 01:27:26,724 - Really, why? 1833 01:27:27,757 --> 01:27:30,674 - I'm not in love with you anymore. 1834 01:27:32,465 --> 01:27:33,709 - I can handle that. 1835 01:27:33,709 --> 01:27:35,115 - I don't think you understand, 1836 01:27:35,115 --> 01:27:39,238 I don't think I could ever be in love with you again. 1837 01:27:39,238 --> 01:27:41,071 - No, I do understand, 1838 01:27:43,668 --> 01:27:44,923 and I can handle that too. 1839 01:27:44,923 --> 01:27:46,423 - Richard, please. 1840 01:27:49,302 --> 01:27:50,135 - Okay. 1841 01:27:52,270 --> 01:27:55,967 But don't expect me to stop trying. 1842 01:29:17,180 --> 01:29:18,312 - Hi. 1843 01:29:18,312 --> 01:29:19,145 - Hi! 1844 01:29:20,784 --> 01:29:22,842 - Do you think you could give me a boost? 1845 01:29:22,842 --> 01:29:24,393 - You going up this time? 1846 01:29:24,393 --> 01:29:25,976 - Gonna try. 1847 01:29:29,188 --> 01:29:30,021 - Put your hand here. 1848 01:29:30,021 --> 01:29:31,171 - Okay. 1849 01:29:31,171 --> 01:29:32,004 - Ready? 1850 01:29:32,004 --> 01:29:32,837 - Yeah. 1851 01:29:32,837 --> 01:29:33,811 One, two, three. 1852 01:29:38,676 --> 01:29:39,509 Okay. 1853 01:29:43,312 --> 01:29:44,145 - Ma... 1854 01:29:45,290 --> 01:29:47,777 Can I stay just long enough 'til I save enough 1855 01:29:47,777 --> 01:29:49,444 to get my own place? 1856 01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:52,505 Look. 1857 01:29:52,505 --> 01:29:53,640 I know you're not gonna believe this, 1858 01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:57,057 but I promise, I'll look for a job today. 1859 01:29:58,392 --> 01:30:00,856 I'm sorry if I embarrassed you, 1860 01:30:00,856 --> 01:30:05,166 but I tried everything I could to straighten this out. 1861 01:30:05,166 --> 01:30:07,173 - Everything but yourself. 1862 01:30:07,173 --> 01:30:08,590 - No, no, no way. 1863 01:30:10,332 --> 01:30:12,068 I'm never running another con. 1864 01:30:12,068 --> 01:30:13,456 - Well, I'm glad to hear that. 1865 01:30:13,456 --> 01:30:16,623 - Nah, I ain't got the stomach for it. 1866 01:30:29,206 --> 01:30:30,039 - Mimi. 1867 01:30:32,175 --> 01:30:33,666 - Hi. 1868 01:30:33,666 --> 01:30:34,499 - Hi. 1869 01:30:35,738 --> 01:30:37,194 What are you doing here? 1870 01:30:37,194 --> 01:30:40,382 - Oh, I brought you your check. 1871 01:30:40,382 --> 01:30:41,814 - Mimi, I don't care about the money. 1872 01:30:41,814 --> 01:30:42,802 - Leon, take it. 1873 01:30:42,802 --> 01:30:43,635 - No. 1874 01:30:43,635 --> 01:30:45,052 - You deserve it. 1875 01:30:50,351 --> 01:30:52,964 - What are you doing on the fire escape? 1876 01:30:52,964 --> 01:30:55,182 - Well, there was no buzzer for Chame. 1877 01:30:55,182 --> 01:30:56,015 - Oh. 1878 01:30:57,692 --> 01:31:00,770 That's because my last name's Turner. 1879 01:31:01,870 --> 01:31:03,190 Leon Turner. 1880 01:31:03,190 --> 01:31:06,440 - God, I don't know anything about you. 1881 01:31:08,364 --> 01:31:11,031 - Well, do you want to find out? 1882 01:31:16,347 --> 01:31:17,180 - Yeah. 1883 01:31:24,747 --> 01:31:26,343 - Hey, Miss Fire Escape! 1884 01:31:26,343 --> 01:31:28,951 Hey, Wanda, look who's back! 1885 01:31:34,204 --> 01:31:35,685 - Come on in.