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Live, until they drop dead...

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from the beautiful carlou theater

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in the heart of sunny Miami beach, Florida,

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it's the veterans day polio telethon!

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And now, please welcome your hosts,

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the beautiful, the talented, Lanny Morris

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and Vince Collins!

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Do you realize, Lanny,
we have to present ourselves

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in front of these lovely
people for the next three days?

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Hello, lovely people
for the next three days.

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- Look at you. You're a disgrace.
- What?

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Look, your hair's a mess,
your shoes aren't shined,

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your shirt's not pressed.

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Look at your tie.
It's not even straight.

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Look at yours.
It doesn't even clip on.

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Now...

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I'm upset.

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You know what happens when I get upset.

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No, no, no.

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Please. Please
don't hurt me, Vince.

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I've had a terrible day already.

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All sorts of bad things have happened.

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- I don't wanna be hurt again.
- You've been hurt already?

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- Yep, it hurt bad.
- And what happened, pray tell?

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- Want me to pray, want me to tell?
- I think you better pray.

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I don't know whether
you're singing or speaking.

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There's always a woman involved.

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That's what you said last time,
Lanny, and the time before that.

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You have to make sure there's no first time,

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then there can't be a next time.

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Let's hope so, Lanny.

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Lanny Morris, ladies and gentlemen.

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My manager sent me over some of your work.

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It's funny how you're really in them a lot.

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Whenever I read one of these
interviews where the writer says,

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"this is how I felt the morning
I woke up to meet the pope,"

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"this is how I felt when the pope greeted me

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"and how the pope reminded me

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so much of my very best friend Mike,"

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I always think,
"who the fuck is Mike?"

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So who are you?

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I was a young journalist

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with a few awards,

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a couple of cover stories

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and a desperate need to prove myself.

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If you look through my work,

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you'll see I try to present
a balanced view of my subjects.

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I leave the conclusions to the reader.

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I'm not sure we like balance.

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Or leaving the conclusions to the reader.

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I'm used to being publicized, not analyzed.

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It would be your words.

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We'd publish it as a transcript.

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My questions, your answers.

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If you say it, I can use it.
If you don't, I can't.

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And they're gonna pay me
a million dollars for this?

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An excerpt will be published
in a magazine as a way

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of amortizing the investment
they'll be making in the book.

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They're looking for some...

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provocative stories for the first issue.

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Any thoughts on what
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might be about?

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The breakup.

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Why Lanny and you split.

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And the girl.

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Maureen.

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What happened to Maureen o'Flaherty.

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No one had ever been able
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or Vince Collins to the girl's death.

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All that was clear was that Maureen

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was found dead in their hotel suite.

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It was unthinkable to me
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could have had anything to do with it.

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They were my heroes.

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The reason I consider
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is because I had the good fortune

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to meet Lanny and Vince when I was sick.

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Their love of life is what gave me hope.

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And it's hope
that gives us the power to live.

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Thank you, Lanny.

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Thank you, Vince.

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Come on, let's hear it for her.

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Denise handled publicity
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And it was her idea to plug the
girl's story on the telethon.

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The day before,
it was my idea to plug Denise

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at the Miami versailles hotel.

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You could tell a lot about
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when you're having sex,
and room service comes in.

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See, some girls will sit up
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like there's nothing funny in the world

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about her being naked.

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It's obvious we were
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so why not let a complete
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Come on in.

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Then there's the kind
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over their head and act like they're asleep.

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Where would you like it, sir?

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Sweetheart, wherever you'd like it.

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And then, of course, there's
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thinking that the bed will look empty.

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With Denise...

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It was kind of hard
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Can I have your autograph,
Mr. Morris?

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Sure.

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Should I make it out to Maureen?

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I mean your autograph on the bill.

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Okay.

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I-I mean, I'd love
to have your autograph.

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And maybe a few minutes of your time?

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I-I'm a huge fan, and...

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well, I was thinking about

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writing an article on you
for my campus paper.

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I'm the editor.

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Any interview requests

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go through me, honey.

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You know, it's just a college paper.

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Thank you.

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No, thank you.

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Thank you, Maureen.

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I said goodbye to Maureen,
knowing I'd see her again,

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closed the door and then turned to look
at Denise, thinking, "I know this girl"

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from every college town
we have ever played."

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They're called "career girls."

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The absolute easiest lays
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Now, since you're reading this,
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that my favorite catches
were the intellectuals.

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They'd be the ones
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severe black hair,

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your basic neurotic, eyeglasses,

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cool-jazz, liberal,
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"as part of my personal apology
for racism in America" type.

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Anyhow, on this particular night,

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we're in a club in New Jersey,
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and I'm mingling with the crowd.

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Now, when I say mingling, what I mean

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is I was scouting
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Didn't matter if the girls came with dates.

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That was Reuben's job.
Reuben is my valet.

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I never figured out how Reuben
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but they were always
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Reuben could clean up any situation.

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Excuse me, miss.
May I say that I think

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you have the most beautiful eyes
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- Thank you.
- Notice I say, "I think you've got"

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the most beautiful eyes I've seen,"

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because I haven't seen them yet.

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I've been too busy staring at your cans.

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Now, Lanny!

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I can't believe he just said that.

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That is completely unacceptable.

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Madam, I do apologize.
I apologize,

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ladies and gentlemen,
for my friend's behavior.

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You cannot speak that way
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- Look, her husband's not offended.
- It's okay.

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- He's not?
- No, her husband's not offended.

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Her husband's not here.
This lucky guy is her boyfriend.

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And even he's not offended,
and do you know why?

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Well, I can certainly hazard a guess.

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What the hell is "hazard a guess"?

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For chrissake, Vince, this is America.

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We don't say "hazard a guess."
We say "yes," or we say "no."

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Well, I say "no" to you, Morris.

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Excuse me, sir.
Could you repeat that?

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I don't think the entire audience heard you.

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- Go back to where you came from, bastard!
- Let it go.

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I get hecklers all the time,

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but this schmuck came off pretty personal.

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Where did he think I came from?

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"Bastard." "Bastard"!
He called me a "bastard."

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Now, it doesn't show from the front, Lanny.

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Now, please, would you kindly not mount me?
It's very disagreeable.

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Vince plunges straight
into quoting some lines I wrote

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from a song from our first motion picture.

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I happen to be honored
to work with this jerk.

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- Is that a compliment?
- I never frown with this clown.

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Never, never, never.

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I get a kick from this...

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friend of mine.

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Fine, but don't give the Mike to this kike.

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- Well...
- Just relax.

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It's not often we get topped
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but tonight, this gentleman
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What is your name?

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It's Joe.

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Joe, we were just wondering
if you'd be a great sport...

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And help us out onstage.
What do you say, folks?

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Go on, Joe.

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Joe, here, is going to play
a crazy high school Professor

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who's about to give Lanny and I
our final high school exam.

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So if you'll just excuse us while we help
Joe change into his crazy Professor outfit.

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Lanny, a little costume-changing
music, if you please.

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Step this way.

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I'll have a quiet word with my partner

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about the way he spoke to your wife.

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Completely unnecessary.

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Just this way.

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You call any Jew on this
planet anything you like.

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But nobody calls my partner a kike.

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Do you understand?

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Boffing ladies and bashing gentlemen.

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I tell you, there was nothing under the sun

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Vince and I wouldn't do for each other.

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Are you finished?

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Thank you, mamie.

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I'm sorry about that, miss o'Connor.

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We just needed to be sure
you didn't take any notes.

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Lanny gave me very specific
instructions on that point.

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I don't understand why
he'd want me to read this.

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Why would he ever want
anyone to see this side of him?

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When you contacted us about
meeting Lanny for your book,

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it wasn't simply a question
of letting you know

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he wasn't interested in speaking with you.

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I believe my client wanted you to understand

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that he, in fact,
was completing a book of his own

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which would serve
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but also as the definitive
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of Morris and Collins.

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You've had, at first hand,

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a sample of Lanny's writing voice.

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Yes, I have.

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Such a book, miss o'Connor,

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this raw, this honest,

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would make your own efforts look...

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Well, there's been some very
nice translations of the Bible

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over the centuries,

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But they would run a very poor
second in popularity

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to the discovery
of the actual ten commandments.

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Single best part about teaching
grade two is the difference

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between the bright ones and
the dumb ones isn't so obvious.

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- What's so great about that?
- Well, the results of my work

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as a teacher aren't so depressing.

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Also, there's no homework
to correct in the evenings

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and... Well, none of the kids
know how to use drugs.

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Bonnie had come from New York
to visit me that summer.

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We'd been best friends since kindergarten.

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At school we started
the Lanny and Vince fan club,

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raising almost $200
for that year's telethon.

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All of you, send in a bit of your allowance.

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Just a little bit.
A dime, a nickel, a penny.

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Every bit helps.

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The goal of the telethon that year

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was $3.9 million,

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which was a lot of dough at that time.

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Thank you, tom.
You're a prince among men.

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- Lanny!
- There are children watching.

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Where does he get his energy?

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To remind the viewers of the goal,

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we agreed the telethon
could run 39 hours, non-stop.

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00:15:29,902 --> 00:15:33,970
The show would begin at 9 P.M. on
Friday, and finish at noon on Sunday.

251
00:15:33,972 --> 00:15:36,505
We paced it so that Vince and I
were together for the kickoff,

252
00:15:36,507 --> 00:15:38,640
most of the day on Saturday,

253
00:15:38,642 --> 00:15:43,411
then the big finale on Sunday
with us bleary-eyed and weeping

254
00:15:43,413 --> 00:15:45,479
as America got ready to go to church.

255
00:15:45,481 --> 00:15:49,282
- Lanny! Lanny!
- What are you doin'?

256
00:15:49,284 --> 00:15:51,951
I'm ordering a pizza.
I'm starvin'.

257
00:15:51,953 --> 00:15:53,986
No anchovies on mine, Lanny.

258
00:15:53,988 --> 00:15:55,887
Hey, so who are you talkin' to?

259
00:15:55,889 --> 00:15:59,223
I'm talkin' to little Suzie
from whittier, California,

260
00:15:59,225 --> 00:16:02,526
and she is going to donate
three weeks of allowance.

261
00:16:02,528 --> 00:16:03,894
How about that, folks?

262
00:16:03,896 --> 00:16:05,295
Suzie from whittier!

263
00:16:05,297 --> 00:16:07,930
Thank you!
Three weeks of allowance.

264
00:16:07,932 --> 00:16:09,531
Surely, that's a challenge for all you...

265
00:16:09,533 --> 00:16:11,432
See, what you have to understand

266
00:16:11,434 --> 00:16:14,368
is that Vince and me were
essentially a boy-girl act.

267
00:16:14,370 --> 00:16:17,237
I was the tramp,
ready for any sort of action,

268
00:16:17,239 --> 00:16:18,972
and Vince was the gentleman,

269
00:16:18,974 --> 00:16:21,240
always trying to make me behave myself.

270
00:16:21,242 --> 00:16:24,009
I was pleasure, and he was control.

271
00:16:24,011 --> 00:16:26,544
I was rock 'n' roll, and he was class.

272
00:16:26,546 --> 00:16:31,114
His presence gave America
permission to like me.

273
00:16:33,651 --> 00:16:37,486
My deal with the publisher gave
me first-class travel,

274
00:16:37,488 --> 00:16:39,187
a luxury I'd never enjoyed.

275
00:16:39,189 --> 00:16:41,656
Is there any chance
of switching to a window seat?

276
00:16:41,658 --> 00:16:44,258
Sorry, we're completely booked in first.

277
00:16:44,260 --> 00:16:46,526
But these center seats are really wonderful.

278
00:16:46,528 --> 00:16:48,928
See, if you push here...

279
00:16:48,930 --> 00:16:50,195
can I show you?

280
00:16:50,197 --> 00:16:51,462
Sure.

281
00:16:53,132 --> 00:16:56,066
The chair swivels to the left and the right.

282
00:16:56,068 --> 00:16:58,468
And this converts
to a full-size dining table

283
00:16:58,470 --> 00:17:00,436
during our pan am platinum service.

284
00:17:00,438 --> 00:17:03,205
With damask linen and silverware by fornari,

285
00:17:03,207 --> 00:17:05,674
so you don't have to eat off a tray.

286
00:17:05,676 --> 00:17:08,443
Again, that's only for these center seats.

287
00:17:08,445 --> 00:17:10,678
How does that sound?

288
00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,714
At that time,
when you traveled first-class,

289
00:17:13,716 --> 00:17:15,315
people would always ask you

290
00:17:15,317 --> 00:17:18,151
if you met someone famous on the flight.

291
00:17:18,153 --> 00:17:19,152
Mr. Morris.

292
00:17:19,154 --> 00:17:20,286
Thank you.

293
00:17:20,288 --> 00:17:21,453
You're welcome.

294
00:17:30,430 --> 00:17:33,697
Though he would later
accuse me of engineering this,

295
00:17:33,699 --> 00:17:35,432
I didn't.

296
00:17:35,434 --> 00:17:38,735
It just... Happened.

297
00:17:45,176 --> 00:17:48,377
Reuben, so they...
they record these songs

298
00:17:48,379 --> 00:17:50,312
in a studio that I am paying for.

299
00:17:50,314 --> 00:17:52,314
Songs that are recorded for me

300
00:17:52,316 --> 00:17:54,716
that they are contracted to
provide. Are you with me here?

301
00:17:54,718 --> 00:17:56,517
Yes, Lanny, it's just that...

302
00:17:56,519 --> 00:17:58,118
no, it's just that nothing, irv.

303
00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:59,719
Please, let me finish.
So they record...

304
00:17:59,721 --> 00:18:02,455
I read an interview
where Lanny was given credit

305
00:18:02,457 --> 00:18:04,757
for insisting his Butler
travel in the same class

306
00:18:04,759 --> 00:18:08,026
and stay at the same hotels as his boss.

307
00:18:08,028 --> 00:18:12,063
The valet's attentiveness was impressive.

308
00:18:12,065 --> 00:18:15,599
Looks like you'll be having
dinner with Lanny Morris!

309
00:18:18,470 --> 00:18:19,669
Hello.

310
00:18:19,671 --> 00:18:21,470
Hi.

311
00:18:31,381 --> 00:18:34,548
We should get a waiter to slide
a matchbook under the airplane.

312
00:18:35,651 --> 00:18:38,118
There we go.

313
00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:40,153
That should hold.

314
00:18:40,155 --> 00:18:41,554
This is my friend, Reuben.

315
00:18:41,556 --> 00:18:44,123
- Hi.
- Hi.

316
00:18:44,125 --> 00:18:46,258
And this is also my friend,
technically speaking,

317
00:18:46,260 --> 00:18:47,392
and business manager, irv.

318
00:18:47,394 --> 00:18:48,394
Hi.

319
00:18:50,430 --> 00:18:51,762
My name is Lanny.

320
00:18:56,501 --> 00:18:58,200
And what's your name?

321
00:18:59,536 --> 00:19:01,870
Bonnie. Bonnie trout.

322
00:19:01,872 --> 00:19:03,504
What do you do, Bonnie?

323
00:19:03,506 --> 00:19:05,339
I teach.

324
00:19:05,341 --> 00:19:07,207
And what do you teach?

325
00:19:07,209 --> 00:19:09,409
- Second grade.
- Well, we have a lot in common.

326
00:19:09,411 --> 00:19:11,411
You teach second grade,
I went to second grade.

327
00:19:11,413 --> 00:19:14,247
Irv, you went to second grade
too, didn't you?

328
00:19:14,249 --> 00:19:17,383
- Many times.
- Tell me, miss trout,

329
00:19:17,385 --> 00:19:18,884
I don't mean to be impolite

330
00:19:18,886 --> 00:19:20,719
but I was wondering

331
00:19:20,721 --> 00:19:22,721
how a second grade school teacher

332
00:19:22,723 --> 00:19:24,456
affords to fly first class.

333
00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,792
Well... I have a pass

334
00:19:28,794 --> 00:19:32,529
that allows me free use
of the subway on weekends,

335
00:19:32,531 --> 00:19:37,200
and the hot lunches
at school are only 50 cents...

336
00:19:37,202 --> 00:19:41,437
And I'm the mistress
of a wealthy, married man

337
00:19:41,439 --> 00:19:43,505
and when he and his wife go on vacation,

338
00:19:43,507 --> 00:19:48,309
he treats me to a first-class
trip in the opposite direction.

339
00:19:48,311 --> 00:19:50,678
But look at me, talking only about myself.

340
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,947
What do you do for a living?

341
00:19:53,949 --> 00:19:56,716
I'm a French impressionist
painter out of Tahiti, mainly.

342
00:19:56,718 --> 00:19:58,517
But I'm just doing that to pay the bills.

343
00:19:58,519 --> 00:20:01,686
My real ambition is to become
a stockbroker in Paris.

344
00:20:01,688 --> 00:20:03,621
- I don't get it.
- Paul Gauguin.

345
00:20:03,623 --> 00:20:05,656
He gave up being a successful stockbroker

346
00:20:05,658 --> 00:20:09,259
to become a painter in the South seas.

347
00:20:09,261 --> 00:20:11,261
You think the average person knows that?

348
00:20:11,263 --> 00:20:15,465
Well, we're not talking about
the average person, irv.

349
00:20:17,735 --> 00:20:19,468
In some ways,

350
00:20:19,470 --> 00:20:23,271
he had never stopped being a hero to me.

351
00:20:23,273 --> 00:20:25,506
That's why it was impossible to think

352
00:20:25,508 --> 00:20:27,641
he might also be a killer.

353
00:20:34,382 --> 00:20:35,981
Well, this has been great.

354
00:20:35,983 --> 00:20:38,450
I'm gonna see you inside your apartment.

355
00:20:38,452 --> 00:20:39,451
There's really no need.

356
00:20:39,453 --> 00:20:40,985
Don't be silly.

357
00:20:40,987 --> 00:20:43,220
I'm not gonna try to come in.

358
00:20:43,222 --> 00:20:45,455
Promise.

359
00:20:45,457 --> 00:20:48,925
- You've been away from your apartment for how long now?
- Ages.

360
00:20:48,927 --> 00:20:51,894
You never know if somebody's
broken in while you were gone.

361
00:20:51,896 --> 00:20:55,330
I'll just see you inside your door.

362
00:20:55,332 --> 00:20:58,399
Believe me, I'm...
I'm not trying to seduce you.

363
00:20:58,401 --> 00:21:00,534
I have to do
<i>the today show</i> at 7 A.M.

364
00:21:00,536 --> 00:21:03,003
They want me in makeup
at 6:15.

365
00:21:03,005 --> 00:21:05,672
Bonnie had moved to New York
for the teaching job

366
00:21:05,674 --> 00:21:07,707
a little over a year ago.

367
00:21:07,709 --> 00:21:10,009
I had never visited her and had no idea

368
00:21:10,011 --> 00:21:11,844
if this was the right place.

369
00:21:12,980 --> 00:21:14,980
Which floor?

370
00:21:14,982 --> 00:21:16,915
Why...

371
00:21:17,984 --> 00:21:19,483
- 4-d.
- Forty?

372
00:21:19,485 --> 00:21:22,452
It only goes up to six.

373
00:21:24,322 --> 00:21:25,921
Four-d...

374
00:21:25,923 --> 00:21:27,355
Four-d, the fourth floor.

375
00:21:51,309 --> 00:21:53,575
Which way?

376
00:21:53,577 --> 00:21:54,576
Guess.

377
00:21:54,578 --> 00:21:55,577
Why?

378
00:21:55,579 --> 00:21:56,945
It's a test.

379
00:21:56,947 --> 00:21:58,913
A test?

380
00:22:00,549 --> 00:22:02,015
Okay.

381
00:22:02,017 --> 00:22:03,583
This way.

382
00:22:07,055 --> 00:22:09,622
So why didn't we take this elevator?

383
00:22:09,624 --> 00:22:11,423
Doesn't work.

384
00:22:14,493 --> 00:22:17,961
Well... good night.

385
00:22:17,963 --> 00:22:19,896
No, I'm going to see
you into your apartment.

386
00:22:19,898 --> 00:22:22,031
And then I'm gonna leave
you alone until tomorrow.

387
00:22:40,448 --> 00:22:43,081
I never get which key goes
in which lock the first time.

388
00:22:45,418 --> 00:22:47,050
Hey, looks like they fixed it.

389
00:22:59,427 --> 00:23:00,959
You okay?

390
00:23:00,961 --> 00:23:03,527
Maybe we should turn on a light.

391
00:23:06,598 --> 00:23:08,397
Whoops.

392
00:23:17,074 --> 00:23:19,474
Well...

393
00:23:19,476 --> 00:23:20,675
I'm going to leave you now

394
00:23:20,677 --> 00:23:21,909
because I have Reuben and irv

395
00:23:21,911 --> 00:23:23,744
waiting in the limousine downstairs,

396
00:23:23,746 --> 00:23:28,114
and I should get some sleep
for<i> the today show.</i>

397
00:23:30,485 --> 00:23:31,851
So...

398
00:23:36,357 --> 00:23:38,857
It was lovely to meet you, Bonnie.

399
00:23:58,110 --> 00:24:00,777
By the end of the telethon,
we had no voices.

400
00:24:00,779 --> 00:24:04,614
Thirty-nine hours
of non-stop entertainment.

401
00:24:04,616 --> 00:24:07,650
A telethon was a superhuman feat.

402
00:24:07,652 --> 00:24:11,120
We weren't just heroes, we were gods.

403
00:24:13,858 --> 00:24:16,859
A couple of the boys were there
to make sure we got out alive

404
00:24:16,861 --> 00:24:19,161
to make the flight to New York.

405
00:24:23,033 --> 00:24:26,100
Everyone. Listen.
Listen.

406
00:24:26,102 --> 00:24:28,502
Gentlemen...
gentlemen, please.

407
00:24:28,504 --> 00:24:31,872
Gentlemen, if I could
just have your attention.

408
00:24:31,874 --> 00:24:34,107
Everyone, Mr. Collins
and Mr. Morris

409
00:24:34,109 --> 00:24:36,676
will answer no questions
until the press conference

410
00:24:36,678 --> 00:24:38,611
at the palace del sol.

411
00:24:38,613 --> 00:24:40,145
Gentlemen, there will be plenty of time

412
00:24:40,147 --> 00:24:44,482
to answer your questions
at the palace del sol.

413
00:24:44,484 --> 00:24:46,550
Thank you, and we will answer your questions

414
00:24:46,552 --> 00:24:49,686
at the press conference.
Thank you for coming.

415
00:24:55,593 --> 00:24:56,992
We had a full police escort,

416
00:24:56,994 --> 00:24:58,960
along with several bodyguards who were there

417
00:24:58,962 --> 00:25:00,962
to protect us from any thoughts
we might have had

418
00:25:00,964 --> 00:25:03,831
of going awol
prior to this press conference.

419
00:25:03,833 --> 00:25:07,167
A pair of New Jersey's finest
walked on either side of us

420
00:25:07,169 --> 00:25:10,036
as we entered the lobby of the hotel.

421
00:25:10,038 --> 00:25:11,904
See, it was an indication of how legitimate

422
00:25:11,906 --> 00:25:14,072
the mob had gone, that they could bring in

423
00:25:14,074 --> 00:25:18,476
the local police to guard
the facade of their racket.

424
00:25:18,478 --> 00:25:22,680
The local chief was a man
named Jack scaglia.

425
00:25:22,682 --> 00:25:25,783
And of course,
the two gentlemen on my right,

426
00:25:25,785 --> 00:25:29,086
who need no introduction,
have come here directly

427
00:25:29,088 --> 00:25:31,188
from their record-breaking
polio telethon

428
00:25:31,190 --> 00:25:34,191
in Miami, Florida.

429
00:25:34,193 --> 00:25:37,727
So the first thing I'd like to
announce is that Mr. sanmarco...

430
00:25:37,729 --> 00:25:40,663
I wish I could tell you that Sally sanmarco

431
00:25:40,665 --> 00:25:43,532
"was a slim, 6'6" guy
who looked like a prince

432
00:25:43,534 --> 00:25:45,166
and spoke with an English accent.

433
00:25:45,168 --> 00:25:47,935
Then I wouldn't seem to be
falling back on the stereotype.

434
00:25:47,937 --> 00:25:49,236
The trouble was,

435
00:25:49,238 --> 00:25:51,805
Sally was straight out of central casting.

436
00:25:51,807 --> 00:25:54,774
A gangster who looked and talked

437
00:25:54,776 --> 00:25:57,643
just like you would expect from the movies.

438
00:25:57,645 --> 00:26:00,212
How did it feel to raise
all that money for polio?

439
00:26:00,214 --> 00:26:02,881
It felt great. It felt...
felt really great.

440
00:26:02,883 --> 00:26:06,117
From a publicity angle and in
terms of giving him legitimacy,

441
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,686
this was a huge coup for Sally.

442
00:26:08,688 --> 00:26:12,690
Like I said, we were gods.

443
00:26:12,692 --> 00:26:14,958
We'd only been in the New York
area for an hour or so,

444
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,093
during which time we were constantly watched

445
00:26:17,095 --> 00:26:18,761
by police and reporters,

446
00:26:18,763 --> 00:26:21,997
which ended up being a good thing for us.

447
00:26:21,999 --> 00:26:25,000
We got ya our best bridal suite.

448
00:26:25,002 --> 00:26:28,103
Fuckin' nice?

449
00:26:28,105 --> 00:26:31,039
People talk about having fancy
apartments and hotel rooms

450
00:26:31,041 --> 00:26:33,274
on the West Side of Manhattan.
What do they see?

451
00:26:33,276 --> 00:26:36,076
Fuckin' New Jersey.
Here, you see New York City.

452
00:26:43,752 --> 00:26:47,053
Unfortunately, Vince and I were
acquainted with the dead girl

453
00:26:47,055 --> 00:26:51,190
in the bathroom of
our hotel suite in New Jersey.

454
00:26:51,192 --> 00:26:54,927
Her last name was o'Flaherty.

455
00:26:54,929 --> 00:26:59,531
Her first name was Maureen.

456
00:26:59,533 --> 00:27:02,267
Karen, we decided to trade
apartments, not identities.

457
00:27:02,269 --> 00:27:03,901
Why didn't you make up a name?

458
00:27:03,903 --> 00:27:06,703
Bonnie, I was looking
at a five-hour flight.

459
00:27:06,705 --> 00:27:08,671
I-I didn't want to make up
a life story

460
00:27:08,673 --> 00:27:10,072
that wasn't attached to anything.

461
00:27:10,074 --> 00:27:11,840
Well, I returned the offense.

462
00:27:11,842 --> 00:27:14,576
- I got to pretend I was you.
- What do you mean?

463
00:27:14,578 --> 00:27:17,879
You received a package. Messenger service.
I signed your name.

464
00:27:17,881 --> 00:27:20,081
- Who's it from?
- No return address.

465
00:27:20,083 --> 00:27:21,882
- Want me to open it?
- Sure.

466
00:27:21,884 --> 00:27:23,984
That's good. I already did.
It's a manuscript.

467
00:27:23,986 --> 00:27:28,621
Excerpt from the<i> memoirs of Lanny Morris.</i>

468
00:27:28,623 --> 00:27:30,756
Hey, all your dreams are coming true.

469
00:27:30,758 --> 00:27:33,225
He's writing you love letters already.

470
00:27:33,227 --> 00:27:35,026
Bonnie, I need to know what he's written.

471
00:27:35,028 --> 00:27:36,160
Well, I'll send it to you.

472
00:27:36,162 --> 00:27:37,327
No, now.
Before he calls me

473
00:27:37,329 --> 00:27:38,329
tomorrow.

474
00:27:40,298 --> 00:27:42,298
Please?

475
00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:43,766
All right.

476
00:27:45,603 --> 00:27:47,636
All right.

477
00:27:47,638 --> 00:27:49,004
Here we go.

478
00:27:51,274 --> 00:27:54,842
"Let me explain to you
why two very famous guys

479
00:27:54,844 --> 00:27:57,911
"just finishing
a nationally-broadcast telethon

480
00:27:57,913 --> 00:27:59,779
ended up in New Jersey."

481
00:28:04,184 --> 00:28:06,350
For years, the palace del sol

482
00:28:06,352 --> 00:28:09,720
was one of the centers of mob prosperity.

483
00:28:09,722 --> 00:28:11,121
Needless to say,

484
00:28:11,123 --> 00:28:12,889
a major headliner in the showroom

485
00:28:12,891 --> 00:28:16,125
helped legitimize the entire operation.

486
00:28:16,127 --> 00:28:18,127
- Give 'er a kiss.
- Yeah, beautiful.

487
00:28:18,129 --> 00:28:21,330
One more guys. That's it.
That's great. Thank you.

488
00:28:21,332 --> 00:28:24,199
Now, Vince and I needed help
in keeping us up all the time,

489
00:28:24,201 --> 00:28:26,334
and in a way of thinking in the '50s,

490
00:28:26,336 --> 00:28:29,004
anything you didn't take
with a needle was okay.

491
00:28:29,006 --> 00:28:30,839
It wasn't "serious" serious.

492
00:28:30,841 --> 00:28:32,907
It was like running a red light.

493
00:28:32,909 --> 00:28:35,042
Everyone used bennies.

494
00:28:35,044 --> 00:28:37,811
Vince added them to his
morning coffee like sugar.

495
00:28:42,784 --> 00:28:44,850
Not that you could tell.

496
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,820
When we did finally decide to flatten out,

497
00:28:48,822 --> 00:28:52,957
we'd take two or three tuinals,
or three or four "threeinalls."

498
00:28:52,959 --> 00:28:56,961
They were really good. Between the
moment you took them and passing out,

499
00:28:56,963 --> 00:29:00,197
it felt really... Sexy.

500
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,092
Sure.

501
00:29:37,094 --> 00:29:38,159
Enjoy the show.

502
00:29:38,161 --> 00:29:40,327
Thank you.

503
00:29:40,329 --> 00:29:42,395
That must have been good for you.

504
00:29:44,031 --> 00:29:45,497
The walls of the blue grotto

505
00:29:45,499 --> 00:29:48,533
were made of a mixture
of plaster and styrofoam.

506
00:29:48,535 --> 00:29:49,967
Flammable as all hell.

507
00:29:49,969 --> 00:29:52,102
But the boys had learned it was cheaper

508
00:29:52,104 --> 00:29:55,338
to give the inspector $200 and
a ringside table to our show

509
00:29:55,340 --> 00:29:58,874
than to spend thousands
of dollars on fireproofing.

510
00:29:58,876 --> 00:30:02,244
Besides, it was always vital in a
business enterprise of this sort

511
00:30:02,246 --> 00:30:06,147
to have the option to torch
the place at a moment's notice,

512
00:30:06,149 --> 00:30:08,482
should the need present itself.

513
00:30:10,552 --> 00:30:12,552
One night, after our show,

514
00:30:12,554 --> 00:30:14,220
we were taken to Sally's office.

515
00:30:14,222 --> 00:30:15,821
We wondered what we had done wrong,

516
00:30:15,823 --> 00:30:17,455
but what we had done, was done good.

517
00:30:17,457 --> 00:30:20,024
Sally started going on about
how much he liked us,

518
00:30:20,026 --> 00:30:23,260
how he thought we were
a good fit with his crowd,

519
00:30:23,262 --> 00:30:25,962
meaning that we brought in
an audience of heavy drinkers,

520
00:30:25,964 --> 00:30:27,997
adulterers and gamblers.

521
00:30:27,999 --> 00:30:29,398
So, what we want is for you boys

522
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,867
to come back here three months from now,

523
00:30:31,869 --> 00:30:33,535
and open our new showroom for us.

524
00:30:33,537 --> 00:30:37,438
A two week, exclusive, limited engagement

525
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,574
that we want you to do for us for six weeks.

526
00:30:40,576 --> 00:30:43,843
God help you when a killer
takes a shining to you.

527
00:30:43,845 --> 00:30:45,411
I looked at Vince and scratched my nose,

528
00:30:45,413 --> 00:30:48,180
which meant our strongest no.

529
00:30:48,182 --> 00:30:50,949
That's... that's a very great honor, Sally.

530
00:30:50,951 --> 00:30:52,550
You're damn fuckin' right it is.

531
00:30:52,552 --> 00:30:55,019
The thing is, we're just trying to cut down

532
00:30:55,021 --> 00:30:56,954
on the nightclub work at the moment.

533
00:30:56,956 --> 00:30:59,589
We turned down the sands
so we could do a TV special,

534
00:30:59,591 --> 00:31:02,291
and the only reason
we still work the versailles

535
00:31:02,293 --> 00:31:03,858
is out of friendship for you.

536
00:31:07,330 --> 00:31:09,296
What dates were you thinking of?

537
00:31:09,298 --> 00:31:11,031
We open November 15th.

538
00:31:11,033 --> 00:31:13,900
Sally, any other day
we would be here in a flash

539
00:31:13,902 --> 00:31:17,069
but, you know, that's the day right
after the next polio telethon.

540
00:31:17,071 --> 00:31:20,038
I mean, we always take two weeks
off right after that to recover.

541
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,939
- Right, Vince?
- At least.

542
00:31:21,941 --> 00:31:24,508
- I mean, we're tired.
- That's the way I want you.

543
00:31:24,510 --> 00:31:27,911
After the fuckin' telethon,
we fly ya up from Miami,

544
00:31:27,913 --> 00:31:30,847
hold a press conference,
all fuckin' exhausted,

545
00:31:30,849 --> 00:31:32,949
so people know what heroes you are.

546
00:31:32,951 --> 00:31:36,419
I'll keep a suite for ya
with the best hookers I got.

547
00:31:36,421 --> 00:31:38,854
Your own personal cathouse.

548
00:31:38,856 --> 00:31:40,388
And I'll have them send you up

549
00:31:40,390 --> 00:31:42,490
a shipment of lobsters and stone crabs.

550
00:31:42,492 --> 00:31:43,624
You like lobsters?

551
00:31:43,626 --> 00:31:45,192
Love 'em.

552
00:31:45,194 --> 00:31:49,996
And a case of these special grapefruits

553
00:31:49,998 --> 00:31:53,199
that I get special down there.

554
00:31:53,201 --> 00:31:56,302
The most delicious thing
you ever tasted in your life.

555
00:31:56,304 --> 00:31:58,604
Juicy, thin skin.

556
00:31:58,606 --> 00:32:03,141
Months later, on the night
before the telethon in Miami,

557
00:32:03,143 --> 00:32:05,977
we got back to our room and found that Sally

558
00:32:05,979 --> 00:32:09,179
had been more than good to his word.

559
00:32:10,982 --> 00:32:13,916
Laid out around the room were various crates

560
00:32:13,918 --> 00:32:16,485
bearing the addresses of their destination.

561
00:32:16,487 --> 00:32:19,955
Our suite at the palace del sol
hotel in New Jersey.

562
00:32:19,957 --> 00:32:21,990
You like lobsters?

563
00:32:21,992 --> 00:32:23,157
They're wonderful.

564
00:32:23,159 --> 00:32:24,625
See you in New Jersey.

565
00:32:24,627 --> 00:32:26,293
New Jersey.

566
00:32:26,295 --> 00:32:29,362
Thin skin, fuckin' most
delicious fuckin' thing

567
00:32:29,364 --> 00:32:31,297
you ever had in your fuckin' life.

568
00:32:31,299 --> 00:32:33,632
"What I thought was a box
of beach balls turned out"

569
00:32:33,634 --> 00:32:36,968
"to be the thinnest-skinned,
dripping-wet grapefruits"

570
00:32:36,970 --> 00:32:38,602
"I'd ever tasted in my life."

571
00:32:38,604 --> 00:32:41,438
"The six-foot crate was filled
with fruits of the sea"

572
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,407
"slowly shifting
over a bed of ice."

573
00:32:44,409 --> 00:32:48,177
Yeah, this is Lanny Morris. S-send
up three steaks, all right?

574
00:32:48,179 --> 00:32:50,379
- Yeah. Make 'em rare this time?
- Yeah, rare.

575
00:32:50,381 --> 00:32:52,047
- Like, bloody.
- Bloody.

576
00:32:52,049 --> 00:32:54,682
A... Couple of bottles
of that... that champagne.

577
00:32:54,684 --> 00:32:57,551
- Make that three.
- Three bottles of champagne.

578
00:32:57,553 --> 00:33:00,554
And can you make sure
that Maureen delivers 'em?

579
00:33:00,556 --> 00:33:02,389
Yeah, Maureen.

580
00:33:02,391 --> 00:33:04,424
We called down for Maureen,

581
00:33:04,426 --> 00:33:06,459
the room-service girl
I'd met earlier,

582
00:33:06,461 --> 00:33:09,161
who wanted the interview
for her school paper.

583
00:33:09,163 --> 00:33:12,063
She brought up three steaks, one for her,

584
00:33:12,065 --> 00:33:15,099
as her last official delivery of the day.

585
00:33:15,101 --> 00:33:16,700
As much as I love lobster,

586
00:33:16,702 --> 00:33:20,136
seeing all that shellfish
nestled on ice in the crate

587
00:33:20,138 --> 00:33:24,139
put me in the mood for hooves, not claws.

588
00:33:33,550 --> 00:33:36,017
The interview for Maureen's campus paper

589
00:33:36,019 --> 00:33:38,552
went better than expected.

590
00:33:38,554 --> 00:33:41,121
Vince and I popped some tuinals

591
00:33:41,123 --> 00:33:43,523
to insure that we would sleep like babes,

592
00:33:43,525 --> 00:33:46,192
after we wore off the general horniness

593
00:33:46,194 --> 00:33:47,993
that the pills first give you.

594
00:33:47,995 --> 00:33:50,228
Vince bought insurance on his bet

595
00:33:50,230 --> 00:33:53,231
by havin' a few babes on hand.

596
00:33:53,233 --> 00:33:56,367
Well, not exactly on his hand.

597
00:33:56,369 --> 00:33:58,168
That wasn't his preference.

598
00:33:58,170 --> 00:34:00,537
- "Not exactly on his hand."
- That wasn't

599
00:34:00,539 --> 00:34:02,005
his preference."

600
00:34:02,007 --> 00:34:04,307
"Not exactly on his hand"?

601
00:34:04,309 --> 00:34:08,144
"That wasn't his preference"?

602
00:34:08,146 --> 00:34:10,980
"The tuinals, coupled with
a nice amount of booze,

603
00:34:10,982 --> 00:34:13,582
"guaranteed us the sleep of the dead.

604
00:34:13,584 --> 00:34:16,318
"Late the next morning,
Maureen was sent packing

605
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,320
"and Vince and I prepared ourselves

606
00:34:18,322 --> 00:34:23,325
for that night's broadcast."

607
00:34:23,327 --> 00:34:26,995
Well, I guess this is one story my kids
won't have to give a book report on.

608
00:34:30,166 --> 00:34:32,232
Thanks.

609
00:34:32,234 --> 00:34:34,267
Must be weird to find out that the object

610
00:34:34,269 --> 00:34:36,736
of all your adolescent fantasies is a pig.

611
00:34:38,139 --> 00:34:41,006
He's not like that.

612
00:34:41,008 --> 00:34:44,709
So it's just the way he describes himself.

613
00:34:44,711 --> 00:34:47,445
She was right.

614
00:34:47,447 --> 00:34:50,181
Which was the real Lanny?

615
00:34:50,183 --> 00:34:53,717
I'd find out later that the story
of the hookers in the hotel suite

616
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,453
was a complete fabrication.

617
00:34:56,455 --> 00:35:00,055
That night, Maureen was alone.

618
00:35:26,509 --> 00:35:28,208
Hello?

619
00:35:28,210 --> 00:35:29,776
So how did you like the show?

620
00:35:29,778 --> 00:35:31,410
Lanny?

621
00:35:33,414 --> 00:35:36,815
<i>The today show.</i>
You did watch, didn't you?

622
00:35:36,817 --> 00:35:38,550
The show.

623
00:35:38,552 --> 00:35:40,251
You didn't watch.

624
00:35:40,253 --> 00:35:42,486
Wow, that's scary.

625
00:35:44,523 --> 00:35:47,056
You see, when you're a star, you...

626
00:35:47,058 --> 00:35:50,559
you live in terror,
wondering if it's all over yet.

627
00:35:50,561 --> 00:35:53,295
Y-y-you keep
looking for the signs.

628
00:35:53,297 --> 00:35:57,299
You're shooting a scene from a movie on a
New York street, and a crowd doesn't form.

629
00:35:57,301 --> 00:35:59,834
You meet a girl on a plane, and
ya tell her that you're gonna be

630
00:35:59,836 --> 00:36:01,569
on<i> the today show</i> the next morning,

631
00:36:01,571 --> 00:36:04,171
and she doesn't wake up early to watch.

632
00:36:04,173 --> 00:36:07,374
It's... Very scary.

633
00:36:07,376 --> 00:36:10,810
Hey, you know, I mentioned you on the air.

634
00:36:10,812 --> 00:36:12,812
You did?

635
00:36:12,814 --> 00:36:14,847
Yes, I proposed to you on the air.

636
00:36:14,849 --> 00:36:16,548
Your apartment building is probably

637
00:36:16,550 --> 00:36:18,116
surrounded with photographers

638
00:36:18,118 --> 00:36:19,150
at this very moment.

639
00:36:19,152 --> 00:36:21,519
You're kidding.

640
00:36:21,521 --> 00:36:23,821
Yes, I'm kidding.

641
00:36:26,358 --> 00:36:28,424
So...

642
00:36:28,426 --> 00:36:30,325
What time would you like to meet?

643
00:36:54,416 --> 00:36:57,450
Stanley, this is Bonnie.
Bonnie, Stanley.

644
00:36:57,452 --> 00:36:59,185
Nice to meet you.

645
00:36:59,187 --> 00:37:00,653
Is the food almost ready, Stan?

646
00:37:00,655 --> 00:37:04,156
Yep. I'll bring it
right out, Mr. Lanny.

647
00:37:04,158 --> 00:37:07,826
I was very hungry, so I asked Stanley
to prepare us something special.

648
00:37:07,828 --> 00:37:09,861
That sounds great.

649
00:37:11,431 --> 00:37:13,597
Tell me, what kind of a meeting

650
00:37:13,599 --> 00:37:16,232
does a schoolteacher have to go
to during the summer vacation?

651
00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:19,802
I'm exploring the possibility
of another job.

652
00:37:19,804 --> 00:37:21,470
Something in publishing.

653
00:37:21,472 --> 00:37:23,672
How did it go?

654
00:37:23,674 --> 00:37:25,607
Okay.

655
00:37:25,609 --> 00:37:28,876
Have you ever thought about writing a book?

656
00:37:28,878 --> 00:37:30,812
About what?

657
00:37:30,814 --> 00:37:32,413
Your life.

658
00:37:32,415 --> 00:37:34,348
Sure. When I'm dead.

659
00:37:34,350 --> 00:37:36,450
No, seriously.

660
00:37:36,452 --> 00:37:38,718
It would have to be published after I died

661
00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:40,886
when I wouldn't care
what anybody thought about me.

662
00:37:42,623 --> 00:37:44,456
So, what would you write about...

663
00:37:44,458 --> 00:37:46,691
If you were going to tell the truth?

664
00:37:46,693 --> 00:37:48,559
In my book.

665
00:37:48,561 --> 00:37:52,462
Well, the truth is,
I've met four presidents.

666
00:37:52,464 --> 00:37:54,797
Each one of them seemed like
they were totally out of it.

667
00:37:54,799 --> 00:37:56,532
Like they had no idea what was going on.

668
00:37:56,534 --> 00:37:57,966
Even j.F.K.
Left me unimpressed.

669
00:37:57,968 --> 00:38:00,001
I felt like I was with the boss' son.

670
00:38:00,003 --> 00:38:01,902
You don't think you could say that?

671
00:38:01,904 --> 00:38:05,005
Not if I was planning on living
in this country. No, no.

672
00:38:05,007 --> 00:38:08,308
I don't think that Judy garland
was such a great singer

673
00:38:08,310 --> 00:38:09,776
after she turned 16.

674
00:38:09,778 --> 00:38:11,344
That quiver, you know,

675
00:38:11,346 --> 00:38:12,878
it was like... She had
no control over it.

676
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,579
I would get killed for saying that.

677
00:38:16,049 --> 00:38:18,949
Or... or that Marilyn Monroe
was no better an actress

678
00:38:18,951 --> 00:38:22,552
after she studied with
Lee strasberg than before.

679
00:38:22,554 --> 00:38:23,853
Yeah.

680
00:38:25,356 --> 00:38:27,689
I'm saying what really happened.

681
00:38:31,594 --> 00:38:33,794
Having to be a nice guy

682
00:38:33,796 --> 00:38:36,329
is the toughest job in the world
when you're not.

683
00:38:42,869 --> 00:38:45,636
This is, lamb in tea sauce.

684
00:38:45,638 --> 00:38:49,406
This is twice-cooked pork
with shredded, pickled cabbage.

685
00:38:49,408 --> 00:38:51,808
Kung pao chicken.

686
00:38:51,810 --> 00:38:54,076
And this is kung ping loh haa,

687
00:38:54,078 --> 00:38:55,877
lobster in tangerine peel

688
00:38:55,879 --> 00:38:59,347
for you and your lovely lady friend.

689
00:38:59,349 --> 00:39:01,482
You shouldn't have done that, Stanley.

690
00:39:01,484 --> 00:39:02,649
I don't eat lobster.

691
00:39:02,651 --> 00:39:04,550
I'm Jewish.

692
00:39:04,552 --> 00:39:05,851
But you eat pork.

693
00:39:05,853 --> 00:39:07,452
Do you have a problem with that?

694
00:39:07,454 --> 00:39:09,987
- No, I just thought...
- No shrimp, no lobster.

695
00:39:09,989 --> 00:39:12,656
They're disgusting.
Take it away.

696
00:39:12,658 --> 00:39:14,691
I will pay for the dish,
but take it away, please.

697
00:39:14,693 --> 00:39:17,693
I-I... I'll change it.

698
00:39:19,396 --> 00:39:21,396
I'm sorry, I...

699
00:39:21,398 --> 00:39:23,831
I should have asked.
Maybe you love lobster.

700
00:39:23,833 --> 00:39:26,700
I'm fine.

701
00:39:26,702 --> 00:39:28,601
Have you ever had szechwan cuisine before?

702
00:39:28,603 --> 00:39:31,904
It's from the northern part of China.

703
00:39:31,906 --> 00:39:34,740
It must be strange for you.

704
00:39:34,742 --> 00:39:37,075
If you complain to a waiter...

705
00:39:37,077 --> 00:39:39,977
You're not just some jerk at table five.

706
00:39:39,979 --> 00:39:41,645
You're Lanny Morris.

707
00:39:41,647 --> 00:39:45,382
I know that everyone
dreams about being famous,

708
00:39:45,384 --> 00:39:47,417
but it would be really interesting to know

709
00:39:47,419 --> 00:39:49,452
what it's like to relinquish all anonymity.

710
00:39:53,958 --> 00:39:55,424
Gets me a date.

711
00:39:55,426 --> 00:39:57,826
Does that bother you?

712
00:39:57,828 --> 00:40:00,829
That people only wanna be with
you because of who you are?

713
00:40:00,831 --> 00:40:02,063
As opposed to?

714
00:40:02,065 --> 00:40:04,098
Well...

715
00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:05,999
The real you.

716
00:40:07,535 --> 00:40:09,101
The real me.

717
00:40:11,138 --> 00:40:13,371
The real me...

718
00:40:13,373 --> 00:40:16,374
Was brought up
as a nice, middle-class kid

719
00:40:16,376 --> 00:40:18,476
which is not the easiest thing in the world

720
00:40:18,478 --> 00:40:22,446
when you are extremely poor
and living in a slum.

721
00:40:22,448 --> 00:40:25,449
The real me spent most of his time

722
00:40:25,451 --> 00:40:27,551
getting the shit kicked out of him...

723
00:40:27,553 --> 00:40:29,986
And dreaming about something better.

724
00:40:32,156 --> 00:40:34,723
Like being here with someone like you.

725
00:40:35,892 --> 00:40:37,458
Fifteen years ago,

726
00:40:37,460 --> 00:40:39,960
he had, for one brief moment,

727
00:40:39,962 --> 00:40:43,129
made me feel like the most
special person in the world.

728
00:40:43,131 --> 00:40:47,800
The miracle in my life
is not that I survived polio

729
00:40:47,802 --> 00:40:49,868
and am standing here today.

730
00:40:49,870 --> 00:40:54,072
No. The reason I consider myself
to be a miracle girl

731
00:40:54,074 --> 00:40:55,973
is because I had the good fortune

732
00:40:55,975 --> 00:40:58,175
to meet Lanny and Vince when I was sick.

733
00:40:58,177 --> 00:41:02,646
It was a moment seen by millions of people,

734
00:41:02,648 --> 00:41:06,416
but felt only by me.

735
00:41:10,488 --> 00:41:14,423
That moment had changed my life.

736
00:41:17,194 --> 00:41:21,563
I was about to find
my own way into Lanny's book

737
00:41:21,565 --> 00:41:26,200
after he had found
such a powerful way into mine.

738
00:42:40,740 --> 00:42:42,139
Checking out today.

739
00:42:59,522 --> 00:43:01,255
Is there a message for Bonnie trout?

740
00:43:01,257 --> 00:43:02,656
From one of our guests?

741
00:43:02,658 --> 00:43:03,857
Yes, Lanny Morris.

742
00:43:06,995 --> 00:43:08,294
I'm afraid not.

743
00:43:08,296 --> 00:43:09,928
Are you sure?

744
00:43:09,930 --> 00:43:12,730
Yes, I'm sure.

745
00:43:16,669 --> 00:43:18,035
Do you need a cab?

746
00:43:23,308 --> 00:43:27,209
I still don't understand
why Vince Collins is willing

747
00:43:27,211 --> 00:43:30,946
to be involved in such an exposé of himself.

748
00:43:30,948 --> 00:43:32,948
Vince is a realist.

749
00:43:32,950 --> 00:43:35,817
The days of his box-office power
are drawing to a close.

750
00:43:35,819 --> 00:43:38,019
Given the amount of money we're offering...

751
00:43:38,021 --> 00:43:42,957
and it's because the investment
in Mr. Collins is so large,

752
00:43:42,959 --> 00:43:44,892
I've compiled a list of questions

753
00:43:44,894 --> 00:43:47,928
we'd like the miracle girl to ask.

754
00:43:54,903 --> 00:43:58,671
I don't wanna look at your questions.
I have my own approach.

755
00:43:58,673 --> 00:44:02,107
Miss o'Connor, we're not paying a
million dollars for your approach,

756
00:44:02,109 --> 00:44:04,809
we're paying for what
Vince Collins has to say.

757
00:44:04,811 --> 00:44:07,645
To me.
What he has to say to me.

758
00:44:07,647 --> 00:44:09,346
Greg,

759
00:44:09,348 --> 00:44:11,114
this is not as easy as it looks.

760
00:44:11,116 --> 00:44:12,715
If you go to Vince Collins

761
00:44:12,717 --> 00:44:14,650
and ask him a series of questions,

762
00:44:14,652 --> 00:44:16,952
you'll come back here
with a 300-page press book.

763
00:44:16,954 --> 00:44:20,255
Well, as I've always understood
this company's policy,

764
00:44:20,257 --> 00:44:22,590
while the book is being written,
the relationship

765
00:44:22,592 --> 00:44:28,128
between the author and editor is sacrosanct.

766
00:44:28,130 --> 00:44:30,230
This isn't your typical book deal.

767
00:44:30,232 --> 00:44:34,734
We've really just leased
an oil well called Vince Collins

768
00:44:34,736 --> 00:44:38,237
and granted miss o'Connor the right to tap.

769
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,138
I think we have a responsibility

770
00:44:40,140 --> 00:44:42,306
to...

771
00:44:42,308 --> 00:44:44,675
Monitor the drilling.

772
00:45:07,630 --> 00:45:08,729
Hello.

773
00:45:08,731 --> 00:45:10,330
Mrs. o'Flaherty?

774
00:45:10,332 --> 00:45:11,864
Yes.

775
00:45:11,866 --> 00:45:13,899
My name's o'Connor.

776
00:45:13,901 --> 00:45:16,234
I'm the one writing the book.

777
00:45:29,281 --> 00:45:32,815
The book will be centered
around Vince Collins.

778
00:45:32,817 --> 00:45:35,851
I'll be asking him a lot of questions.

779
00:45:35,853 --> 00:45:38,053
I wanted to know if there were any

780
00:45:38,055 --> 00:45:40,155
you'd like to have answered yourself.

781
00:45:44,895 --> 00:45:49,296
Maureen and I planted this tree
on her fifth birthday.

782
00:45:50,799 --> 00:45:54,166
Father did most of the digging, of course.

783
00:45:55,202 --> 00:45:58,236
She'd be 38.

784
00:45:58,238 --> 00:46:01,439
I'm 59, myself.

785
00:46:03,709 --> 00:46:07,677
If she were alive now...

786
00:46:07,679 --> 00:46:11,280
We'd be talking about things,
back and forth,

787
00:46:11,282 --> 00:46:13,882
like two women.

788
00:46:13,884 --> 00:46:16,150
Like you and I are doing.

789
00:46:21,857 --> 00:46:25,024
And Maureen's father?

790
00:46:25,026 --> 00:46:28,160
Frank died six years ago.

791
00:46:28,162 --> 00:46:30,929
He took his own life.

792
00:46:30,931 --> 00:46:34,165
One night, just before he died,

793
00:46:34,167 --> 00:46:37,868
he dug up the earth around this tree.

794
00:46:37,870 --> 00:46:40,937
He took the urn with Maureen's ashes in it

795
00:46:40,939 --> 00:46:43,472
and spread them around its roots.

796
00:46:45,375 --> 00:46:49,209
So this... Is my daughter.

797
00:46:50,912 --> 00:46:54,346
This is what I have of her.

798
00:46:59,786 --> 00:47:01,352
Are you catholic?

799
00:47:01,354 --> 00:47:03,253
My... my mother was.

800
00:47:03,255 --> 00:47:06,489
Then you will understand my dilemma.

801
00:47:06,491 --> 00:47:10,325
Our faith offers an afterlife.

802
00:47:11,428 --> 00:47:15,029
A daughter needs her mother.

803
00:47:15,031 --> 00:47:17,931
So I have to live out this life

804
00:47:17,933 --> 00:47:21,167
as far from sin as I can manage.

805
00:47:24,071 --> 00:47:27,205
I'll never see my husband again.

806
00:47:27,207 --> 00:47:29,574
He's consigned himself to hell.

807
00:47:32,078 --> 00:47:35,478
But what if Maureen killed herself too?

808
00:47:39,183 --> 00:47:42,083
She's in hell with my husband.

809
00:47:42,085 --> 00:47:46,320
The life I'm trying to lead
will bring me to heaven's grace

810
00:47:46,322 --> 00:47:50,524
only to hear their screams of torment.

811
00:47:52,194 --> 00:47:54,527
Chief scaglia, you were in the hotel room

812
00:47:54,529 --> 00:47:56,362
when they found Maureen's body in the tub.

813
00:47:57,965 --> 00:48:03,501
So was Sally, so was Lanny, so was Vince.

814
00:48:03,503 --> 00:48:08,171
And there was also a PR lady
there from the hotel.

815
00:48:08,173 --> 00:48:09,939
How do you think she died?

816
00:48:09,941 --> 00:48:12,207
She died in an auto accident
two weeks later.

817
00:48:12,209 --> 00:48:13,474
It was terrible.

818
00:48:16,979 --> 00:48:18,311
No, Maureen.

819
00:48:18,313 --> 00:48:19,512
H-how did Maureen die?

820
00:48:19,514 --> 00:48:21,146
She drowned.

821
00:48:21,148 --> 00:48:23,381
- Why?
- What do you mean, why?

822
00:48:23,383 --> 00:48:26,217
Well, you and I take baths all the time.
We don't drown in them.

823
00:48:26,219 --> 00:48:29,119
You and I do not mix
sleeping pills with booze.

824
00:48:29,121 --> 00:48:30,186
She committed suicide.

825
00:48:30,188 --> 00:48:33,222
Overdose is the official story.

826
00:48:33,224 --> 00:48:34,890
What's the official story on the fact

827
00:48:34,892 --> 00:48:36,324
that the staff of the hotel in Miami

828
00:48:36,326 --> 00:48:38,292
all seemed to know
she delivered room service

829
00:48:38,294 --> 00:48:41,161
to the boys' suite three days before,

830
00:48:41,163 --> 00:48:42,562
and was never seen alive again?

831
00:48:42,564 --> 00:48:44,230
What happened to her?

832
00:48:44,232 --> 00:48:46,932
How did she end up
in a hotel room in New Jersey?

833
00:48:46,934 --> 00:48:50,969
Sally never had any problem
moving girls around, okay?

834
00:48:50,971 --> 00:48:53,438
- He had two hotels.
- So Sally arranged it?

835
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,508
No, I don't think so. You see, she was
brought up there as a reward for the boys,

836
00:48:57,510 --> 00:49:00,410
and I think she started a party
just a little too early.

837
00:49:00,412 --> 00:49:03,179
She was a student.
This was a summer job.

838
00:49:03,181 --> 00:49:04,513
Listen to me.

839
00:49:04,515 --> 00:49:06,982
The palace del sol

840
00:49:06,984 --> 00:49:10,986
was very important to Sally, okay?

841
00:49:10,988 --> 00:49:14,356
He launched his new wing

842
00:49:14,358 --> 00:49:17,959
with a push from Lanny and Vince.

843
00:49:17,961 --> 00:49:20,161
And this... this...

844
00:49:20,163 --> 00:49:23,564
Stupid girl shows up dead.

845
00:49:23,566 --> 00:49:25,999
She's not gonna come back.

846
00:49:26,001 --> 00:49:28,434
We do the best thing for all of us.

847
00:49:28,436 --> 00:49:33,238
We speed up the investigation,
and we cremate her. Okay?

848
00:49:33,240 --> 00:49:35,406
End of story.

849
00:49:37,676 --> 00:49:39,242
Here you are.

850
00:49:39,244 --> 00:49:42,078
Here's your lobster.
<i>Bon appétit.</i>

851
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:43,479
Enjoy.

852
00:49:43,481 --> 00:49:46,315
Looks great.

853
00:49:46,317 --> 00:49:48,250
"And Sally said, 'I'll have them send you up

854
00:49:48,252 --> 00:49:49,618
"'your own shipment of lobsters.

855
00:49:49,620 --> 00:49:53,021
You like lobster?'"

856
00:49:53,023 --> 00:49:57,058
We said we did because we really did.

857
00:49:57,060 --> 00:50:00,127
You shouldn't have done that,
Stanley. I don't eat lobster.

858
00:50:02,965 --> 00:50:05,398
Were there any signs
of violence on her body?

859
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,299
No, no. There were some,

860
00:50:07,301 --> 00:50:09,701
small scratches on the torso.

861
00:50:11,371 --> 00:50:14,472
Why did my daughter die?

862
00:50:14,474 --> 00:50:18,042
Did she kill herself?

863
00:50:18,044 --> 00:50:21,511
What had they done to her
that would make her do that?

864
00:50:24,182 --> 00:50:26,382
What had they done?

865
00:50:31,322 --> 00:50:33,689
Once upon a time,

866
00:50:33,691 --> 00:50:37,592
when terrible things happened to people,

867
00:50:37,594 --> 00:50:40,261
they were left as a mystery.

868
00:50:42,365 --> 00:50:45,599
Even the tabloids kept a distance.

869
00:50:51,073 --> 00:50:54,474
Some things were allowed to be left

870
00:50:54,476 --> 00:50:56,742
just the way they were.

871
00:51:05,552 --> 00:51:07,585
Any trouble with the directions I gave you?

872
00:51:07,587 --> 00:51:09,420
Only the parts where I had to turn.

873
00:51:09,422 --> 00:51:12,055
Sorry.

874
00:51:12,057 --> 00:51:14,390
It's the price of seclusion.

875
00:51:19,430 --> 00:51:21,530
You haven't switched over to cassette?

876
00:51:21,532 --> 00:51:23,598
Actually, it's my dad's.

877
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,232
And what does he do?

878
00:51:26,768 --> 00:51:29,101
He was a journalist too.

879
00:51:30,137 --> 00:51:32,570
He did a big story on you once.

880
00:51:32,572 --> 00:51:35,573
Followed a little girl who had polio.

881
00:51:35,575 --> 00:51:37,808
You took her under your wing...

882
00:51:39,111 --> 00:51:41,444
And now she's interviewing you.

883
00:51:44,715 --> 00:51:48,316
Your father must be very proud that his
daughter's making such a name for herself.

884
00:51:48,318 --> 00:51:50,751
I'd like to think so.

885
00:51:52,087 --> 00:51:53,753
He died last year.

886
00:51:53,755 --> 00:51:55,588
Sorry to hear that.

887
00:51:57,258 --> 00:51:58,657
Would you like some coffee?

888
00:51:58,659 --> 00:52:00,792
Sure.

889
00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:10,099
Are you alone here?

890
00:52:10,101 --> 00:52:12,401
Yes. The thought
of having live-in help

891
00:52:12,403 --> 00:52:14,269
is a little poisonous to me.

892
00:52:14,271 --> 00:52:15,770
Why's that?

893
00:52:15,772 --> 00:52:17,838
Well, I'd have to talk to them.

894
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,540
Ask them how their family was doing.

895
00:52:20,542 --> 00:52:23,409
Hear about this and that,
introduce them to the guests

896
00:52:23,411 --> 00:52:26,311
and tell them how their family was doing.

897
00:52:26,313 --> 00:52:30,214
All so that I would seem to be a nice guy,

898
00:52:30,216 --> 00:52:31,648
which is an awful lot of work

899
00:52:31,650 --> 00:52:34,584
considering what I cherish
most in life these days

900
00:52:34,586 --> 00:52:36,819
is not to have to be Vince Collins.

901
00:52:36,821 --> 00:52:39,254
No Reuben in your life?

902
00:52:39,256 --> 00:52:41,789
How do you know about Reuben?

903
00:52:41,791 --> 00:52:45,526
He was in a lot of the material
I've been looking at.

904
00:52:45,528 --> 00:52:47,427
No, I never had a Reuben.

905
00:52:47,429 --> 00:52:48,795
Lanny always paid him directly.

906
00:52:48,797 --> 00:52:49,862
He was Lanny's man.

907
00:52:49,864 --> 00:52:51,463
Right.

908
00:52:53,767 --> 00:52:56,367
You know, what I like is to...

909
00:52:56,369 --> 00:52:58,168
Read...

910
00:52:58,170 --> 00:53:00,436
Think.

911
00:53:00,438 --> 00:53:02,738
It's to have the freedom to...

912
00:53:02,740 --> 00:53:05,507
Get up and leave without
telling anyone about it.

913
00:53:05,509 --> 00:53:07,442
Any time of day.

914
00:53:09,446 --> 00:53:11,712
Or even having to say goodbye.

915
00:53:13,816 --> 00:53:15,582
To be backstage,

916
00:53:15,584 --> 00:53:18,184
surrounded by acrobats, actors, magicians,

917
00:53:18,186 --> 00:53:20,252
it was...
it was intoxicating.

918
00:53:20,254 --> 00:53:22,287
You know, I was
only 12-years-old.

919
00:53:22,289 --> 00:53:24,155
That's a...

920
00:53:24,157 --> 00:53:25,689
That's a pretty impressionable age.

921
00:53:25,691 --> 00:53:27,490
To hear all these stories of touring...

922
00:53:27,492 --> 00:53:30,426
My father always told me
that nothing had meaning

923
00:53:30,428 --> 00:53:32,661
unless it could be put on the record.

924
00:53:32,663 --> 00:53:34,129
I also like the idea...

925
00:53:34,131 --> 00:53:36,264
Yet, things had changed.

926
00:53:36,266 --> 00:53:39,500
As Vince had pointed out
at our first meeting,

927
00:53:39,502 --> 00:53:44,438
it had become fashionable
to put yourself into the story.

928
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,840
The question became how far
you were prepared to go.

929
00:54:11,230 --> 00:54:13,496
Excuse me.
That's not mine.

930
00:54:13,498 --> 00:54:15,530
I'm sorry.

931
00:54:18,401 --> 00:54:20,734
Aren't you miss trout?

932
00:54:20,736 --> 00:54:23,837
We've met, on the plane to New York.

933
00:54:23,839 --> 00:54:25,405
- Reuben.
- Excuse me, sir.

934
00:54:25,407 --> 00:54:27,774
Can I leave you for just a second, please?

935
00:54:31,513 --> 00:54:34,447
I'm so deeply sorry, miss trout,
the way you were treated.

936
00:54:34,449 --> 00:54:36,582
He could have left a note.

937
00:54:36,584 --> 00:54:38,417
Of course.

938
00:54:40,387 --> 00:54:44,288
Miss trout, I would like you
to understand something.

939
00:54:44,290 --> 00:54:46,657
I have a great loyalty
to Mr. Morris.

940
00:54:46,659 --> 00:54:49,226
He's treated me very well.

941
00:54:49,228 --> 00:54:52,295
I'm very grateful.

942
00:54:52,297 --> 00:54:55,498
He has done wonderful things
for many people,

943
00:54:55,500 --> 00:54:57,433
and I have been...

944
00:54:57,435 --> 00:55:00,502
Privileged to work for him.

945
00:55:01,938 --> 00:55:04,538
But I do have certain principles,

946
00:55:04,540 --> 00:55:09,276
especially about how women are
to be treated and respected.

947
00:55:09,278 --> 00:55:12,279
Mr. Morris can be
very attentive,

948
00:55:12,281 --> 00:55:14,414
but once he has a woman...

949
00:55:15,683 --> 00:55:18,549
God, I think it's almost a sickness.

950
00:55:20,553 --> 00:55:22,553
When he left you that morning,

951
00:55:22,555 --> 00:55:25,389
you may have felt bad,
but believe me, miss trout,

952
00:55:25,391 --> 00:55:27,457
to have him out of your life

953
00:55:27,459 --> 00:55:31,360
is the best thing that
could have happened to you.

954
00:55:31,362 --> 00:55:34,829
At that point, you may have felt
your life was wounded.

955
00:55:36,432 --> 00:55:38,999
It wasn't.

956
00:55:39,001 --> 00:55:40,500
It was saved.

957
00:55:49,344 --> 00:55:51,977
Vince, I was very clear
about this from the beginning.

958
00:55:51,979 --> 00:55:53,878
I'm not out to play games with you.

959
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:56,513
This is why you're being paid
such a huge amount of money.

960
00:55:56,515 --> 00:55:59,415
This isn't entirely about money, you know.

961
00:55:59,417 --> 00:56:03,085
A million dollars is more than
the gross of your last film.

962
00:56:03,087 --> 00:56:05,087
You know, I was somehow under the impression

963
00:56:05,089 --> 00:56:06,688
that my entire life might have been

964
00:56:06,690 --> 00:56:08,823
of more than passing interest.

965
00:56:08,825 --> 00:56:11,692
But if my fleeting encounter with
a girl named Maureen o'Flaherty

966
00:56:11,694 --> 00:56:13,527
is all you really want to talk about,

967
00:56:13,529 --> 00:56:16,563
then that's what we'll do.

968
00:56:16,565 --> 00:56:18,965
I have to make an appearance
at the clinic tomorrow.

969
00:56:18,967 --> 00:56:21,100
We can come back and talk after that.

970
00:56:22,103 --> 00:56:23,836
It's wonderland.

971
00:56:23,838 --> 00:56:25,838
I imagine you might remember that.

972
00:56:39,418 --> 00:56:41,651
He was right.

973
00:56:41,653 --> 00:56:44,854
I did remember wonderland.

974
00:56:44,856 --> 00:56:46,822
- You ready?
- Ready.

975
00:56:46,824 --> 00:56:48,490
When I was a girl,

976
00:56:48,492 --> 00:56:51,725
the entire hospital was devoted
to children with polio.

977
00:56:53,595 --> 00:56:55,661
Since that time...

978
00:56:55,663 --> 00:56:57,129
It had become a clinic for kids

979
00:56:57,131 --> 00:57:00,765
with a variety of different
physical handicaps.

980
00:57:03,569 --> 00:57:05,135
Once a year,

981
00:57:05,137 --> 00:57:07,570
the children would put on a pageant,

982
00:57:07,572 --> 00:57:10,472
playing different characters
from<i> Alice in wonderland.</i>

983
00:57:11,842 --> 00:57:14,609
Vince, in his continuing
support of the hospital,

984
00:57:14,611 --> 00:57:16,410
had hired a band and a singer.

985
00:57:24,753 --> 00:57:26,486
Who is that?

986
00:57:26,488 --> 00:57:28,054
I don't know.

987
00:57:28,056 --> 00:57:31,490
She's good, whoever she is.

988
00:57:40,767 --> 00:57:45,068
Karen, do you mind if we start
this conversation tomorrow?

989
00:57:45,070 --> 00:57:46,836
I'm just...

990
00:57:46,838 --> 00:57:49,205
I'm not feeling all that well...

991
00:57:49,207 --> 00:57:51,106
- Vince...
- In fact, it won't make

992
00:57:51,108 --> 00:57:53,641
any difference over there.
The office will be closed.

993
00:57:53,643 --> 00:57:55,042
They've been working late.

994
00:57:55,044 --> 00:57:56,910
Then they've been working much too hard.

995
00:57:58,446 --> 00:58:00,979
First thing tomorrow.
First thing.

996
00:58:07,887 --> 00:58:10,120
I hope your editors were reasonable.

997
00:58:10,122 --> 00:58:12,155
Reasonable?

998
00:58:12,157 --> 00:58:13,756
No, they weren't.

999
00:58:13,758 --> 00:58:15,958
We can go as late as you like.

1000
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,194
That's good. It might
take us into the evening.

1001
00:58:19,196 --> 00:58:21,629
I had a feeling that might be the case.

1002
00:58:21,631 --> 00:58:24,531
So I've ordered a hot and cold
smorgasbord to be brought in.

1003
00:58:24,533 --> 00:58:26,065
Can work through dinner if you like.

1004
00:58:26,067 --> 00:58:27,199
We'll be having company?

1005
00:58:27,201 --> 00:58:28,233
Yes.

1006
00:58:29,803 --> 00:58:31,536
I have...

1007
00:58:31,538 --> 00:58:34,205
A surprise for you.

1008
00:58:34,207 --> 00:58:36,840
Actually, this is a fairly
big deal for me as well.

1009
00:58:38,076 --> 00:58:40,009
I've asked Lanny to join us today.

1010
00:58:41,812 --> 00:58:42,911
Lanny?

1011
00:58:44,147 --> 00:58:46,147
Well, this is something.

1012
00:58:46,149 --> 00:58:48,582
Neuman and newberry

1013
00:58:48,584 --> 00:58:50,817
will certainly be getting
their money's worth.

1014
00:58:50,819 --> 00:58:53,219
I thought that if I was going
to discuss something

1015
00:58:53,221 --> 00:58:55,221
that had such an impact on our lives,

1016
00:58:55,223 --> 00:58:58,691
it would be fair for Lanny
to hear what I had to say...

1017
00:58:58,693 --> 00:59:00,559
Given that we've never talked about it.

1018
00:59:00,561 --> 00:59:01,960
I'm sure I'll have lots to ask him.

1019
00:59:01,962 --> 00:59:03,494
When is he coming?

1020
00:59:03,496 --> 00:59:05,896
He should be here any minute now.

1021
00:59:05,898 --> 00:59:08,164
This is very exciting.

1022
00:59:08,166 --> 00:59:09,832
Shit.

1023
00:59:24,780 --> 00:59:27,247
- Yes?
- Bonnie, I have to talk fast.

1024
00:59:27,249 --> 00:59:28,881
I need you to do exactly as I tell you,

1025
00:59:28,883 --> 00:59:30,549
and I can't tell you why, okay?

1026
00:59:30,551 --> 00:59:31,850
Sure.

1027
00:59:31,852 --> 00:59:33,117
Excuse me,

1028
00:59:33,119 --> 00:59:34,651
that might actually be him now.

1029
00:59:35,854 --> 00:59:37,119
Yes, hello?

1030
00:59:49,231 --> 00:59:50,697
Yes, thank you.

1031
00:59:53,101 --> 00:59:54,733
That was my office.

1032
00:59:54,735 --> 00:59:57,302
There's a woman.
A friend or relative of yours?

1033
00:59:57,304 --> 00:59:59,937
She said she called
on a number you gave her.

1034
00:59:59,939 --> 01:00:01,872
She's gonna call back.

1035
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:09,979
Yes?

1036
01:00:09,981 --> 01:00:11,180
Hi, kiddo.

1037
01:00:11,182 --> 01:00:12,915
Now, listen, your brother, Clifford,

1038
01:00:12,917 --> 01:00:14,683
has just been rushed to the hospital.

1039
01:00:14,685 --> 01:00:16,584
He was doing construction when a thing...

1040
01:00:16,586 --> 01:00:18,152
- a steel girder?
- That's it.

1041
01:00:18,154 --> 01:00:19,820
So you better come back to the city

1042
01:00:19,822 --> 01:00:21,154
and make your peace with him.

1043
01:00:21,156 --> 01:00:23,623
I booked you on the next
flight to San Francisco.

1044
01:00:23,625 --> 01:00:26,125
I'm waiting here for you
in front of the terminal.

1045
01:00:26,127 --> 01:00:27,726
They've already reserved me a seat

1046
01:00:27,728 --> 01:00:29,128
on the next flight to San Francisco.

1047
01:00:29,129 --> 01:00:30,661
- I'll drive you there.
- No, no.

1048
01:00:30,663 --> 01:00:32,162
Sharon is waiting at the airport for me.

1049
01:00:32,164 --> 01:00:33,663
You can't stand Lanny up.

1050
01:00:33,665 --> 01:00:36,032
Please give him my deepest apologies.

1051
01:00:44,841 --> 01:00:46,073
Hey.

1052
01:00:46,075 --> 01:00:49,076
- Please, I can explain.
- Hey!

1053
01:00:49,078 --> 01:00:51,645
You've broken the law, Bonnie fucking trout.

1054
01:00:51,647 --> 01:00:54,080
You've assumed another person's
identity for the purposes

1055
01:00:54,082 --> 01:00:56,315
of getting information
from a business competitor.

1056
01:00:56,317 --> 01:00:59,051
Obviously I lied about
who I was. I'm sorry.

1057
01:00:59,053 --> 01:01:01,353
It was a huge untruth.
It wasn't planned.

1058
01:01:01,355 --> 01:01:04,289
I was just freaked out about suddenly being

1059
01:01:04,291 --> 01:01:06,891
on the plane with...

1060
01:01:06,893 --> 01:01:08,726
With you, and...

1061
01:01:08,728 --> 01:01:11,061
And how did you manage to get
the seat behind me on the plane?

1062
01:01:11,063 --> 01:01:12,896
- It was pure coincidence.
- Bullshit.

1063
01:01:12,898 --> 01:01:14,063
It's true.

1064
01:01:17,901 --> 01:01:19,367
How could you...?

1065
01:01:19,369 --> 01:01:22,636
How could you have just
left me at the hotel like that?

1066
01:01:22,638 --> 01:01:25,105
You were asleep.
Reuben woke me

1067
01:01:25,107 --> 01:01:27,273
to say I had to be a substitute performer

1068
01:01:27,275 --> 01:01:29,642
at a charity concert at the Hollywood bowl.

1069
01:01:29,644 --> 01:01:31,377
I had to get the first flight out.

1070
01:01:31,379 --> 01:01:33,379
You could have left me a note or called me.

1071
01:01:33,381 --> 01:01:34,613
I did leave you a note.

1072
01:01:34,615 --> 01:01:35,714
Where?

1073
01:01:37,350 --> 01:01:39,950
I don't know why we're
even talking about this.

1074
01:01:39,952 --> 01:01:41,151
I don't like you.

1075
01:01:41,153 --> 01:01:42,285
All right?

1076
01:01:42,287 --> 01:01:44,220
I wish we had never met.

1077
01:01:50,061 --> 01:01:52,161
Hello, Vince.

1078
01:01:52,163 --> 01:01:53,862
What the fuck's going on?

1079
01:01:55,732 --> 01:01:58,632
Vince, a few days after we first met,

1080
01:01:58,634 --> 01:02:01,668
I found myself next to Lanny
on a flight to New York.

1081
01:02:01,670 --> 01:02:03,302
It was... it was
a complete coincidence.

1082
01:02:03,304 --> 01:02:04,936
- He asked my name...
- And she lied.

1083
01:02:04,938 --> 01:02:06,871
I had just finished reading
the first chapter

1084
01:02:06,873 --> 01:02:08,138
of Lanny's own biography.

1085
01:02:08,140 --> 01:02:09,973
His lawyers had let me see it

1086
01:02:09,975 --> 01:02:12,275
in the hope of discouraging our own project.

1087
01:02:12,277 --> 01:02:14,844
As a reflex, since I knew
he would view me as the enemy,

1088
01:02:14,846 --> 01:02:16,312
I gave him the name of a friend

1089
01:02:16,314 --> 01:02:18,681
whose apartment I was going
to stay at in Manhattan.

1090
01:02:18,683 --> 01:02:20,215
I thought I simply had to get

1091
01:02:20,217 --> 01:02:22,417
through the awkwardness
of the flight itself,

1092
01:02:22,419 --> 01:02:23,751
but the trouble is...

1093
01:02:23,753 --> 01:02:24,852
you slept with him.

1094
01:02:26,689 --> 01:02:28,789
- Vince...
- You slept...

1095
01:02:28,791 --> 01:02:30,257
With my ex-partner.

1096
01:02:31,393 --> 01:02:32,825
Technically.

1097
01:02:34,728 --> 01:02:37,929
Doesn't sound like things
were particularly technical.

1098
01:02:59,152 --> 01:03:01,919
Now, you listen to me, sweetheart.

1099
01:03:01,921 --> 01:03:06,023
Vince doesn't always do
what's best for Vince.

1100
01:03:06,025 --> 01:03:09,126
That's why he needed me here today.

1101
01:03:09,128 --> 01:03:13,730
The story of this girl is the
most painful thing in his life.

1102
01:03:13,732 --> 01:03:15,398
What happened to her, Lanny?

1103
01:03:16,901 --> 01:03:19,768
Well, you're not gonna find out.

1104
01:03:19,770 --> 01:03:21,970
Not now.

1105
01:03:21,972 --> 01:03:24,238
Not after what you've done to him.

1106
01:03:33,349 --> 01:03:35,282
Vince!

1107
01:03:35,284 --> 01:03:36,883
Shit.

1108
01:03:38,453 --> 01:03:40,820
Vince...

1109
01:03:40,822 --> 01:03:43,022
I made a terrible mistake in New York.

1110
01:03:43,024 --> 01:03:46,458
I... I apologize to you more
than I know how to say.

1111
01:03:46,460 --> 01:03:48,159
I'm so sorry.

1112
01:03:58,504 --> 01:04:00,237
Vince...

1113
01:04:00,239 --> 01:04:02,105
The realization of your life's story

1114
01:04:02,107 --> 01:04:04,907
shouldn't be threatened
because of my failings.

1115
01:04:06,977 --> 01:04:10,945
Please, let me continue
to work with you again.

1116
01:04:10,947 --> 01:04:13,279
I'll help you tell your story right.

1117
01:04:15,883 --> 01:04:18,050
Come back tonight.

1118
01:04:19,987 --> 01:04:21,886
Let me think about it.

1119
01:04:33,930 --> 01:04:35,195
How do you like the wine?

1120
01:04:35,197 --> 01:04:38,298
It's magnificent.
What is it?

1121
01:04:38,300 --> 01:04:41,434
1961 haut-brion.

1122
01:04:41,436 --> 01:04:46,972
People make a big deal of 1959, but I don't
think there'll be a year as special as 1961.

1123
01:04:46,974 --> 01:04:49,607
It was a great year for French wines.

1124
01:04:53,079 --> 01:04:55,279
Will you join me?

1125
01:04:55,281 --> 01:04:56,647
What are they?

1126
01:04:57,983 --> 01:04:59,415
They're like...

1127
01:04:59,417 --> 01:05:02,251
Very mild-mannered
quaaludes.

1128
01:05:02,253 --> 01:05:06,088
Must have done a few of those
in your time, right?

1129
01:05:06,090 --> 01:05:07,656
Are you sure they're okay with alcohol?

1130
01:05:07,658 --> 01:05:09,491
They're even better with alcohol.

1131
01:05:09,493 --> 01:05:10,625
Believe me, I'd know.

1132
01:05:17,633 --> 01:05:20,634
Come on in, honey.
The water's fine.

1133
01:05:20,636 --> 01:05:22,502
All my life,

1134
01:05:22,504 --> 01:05:26,205
I've had this idea that I could
always be in control.

1135
01:05:26,207 --> 01:05:28,307
Ever since I was sick, I had this sense

1136
01:05:28,309 --> 01:05:32,077
that I could make my body
do anything I wanted.

1137
01:05:32,079 --> 01:05:37,115
If I could will my polio away, I'd certainly
be able to will away the effect of any drug.

1138
01:05:50,929 --> 01:05:52,995
Do you mind if I close the drapes?

1139
01:05:52,997 --> 01:05:54,429
The sun's in my eyes.

1140
01:05:56,232 --> 01:05:58,131
It's moonlight.

1141
01:05:59,467 --> 01:06:01,133
Go ahead.

1142
01:07:03,053 --> 01:07:05,586
I remember you.

1143
01:07:05,588 --> 01:07:08,155
You're Alice...

1144
01:07:08,157 --> 01:07:09,322
In wonderland.

1145
01:07:10,758 --> 01:07:13,258
I don't know.

1146
01:07:13,260 --> 01:07:15,627
I'm really stoned out of my head already.

1147
01:07:17,063 --> 01:07:18,328
Is it good?

1148
01:07:24,134 --> 01:07:25,666
Jesus, Vince.

1149
01:07:25,668 --> 01:07:28,368
It's like monster grass.

1150
01:07:28,370 --> 01:07:30,737
Do you get this stuff all the time?

1151
01:07:30,739 --> 01:07:32,238
All the time.

1152
01:07:42,181 --> 01:07:43,313
You're Alice.

1153
01:07:47,485 --> 01:07:49,251
You're so beautiful.

1154
01:08:18,215 --> 01:08:20,682
She's ours.

1155
01:08:20,684 --> 01:08:22,483
Isn't that so, Alice?

1156
01:08:24,286 --> 01:08:26,218
I'm yours.

1157
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:08,226
I had always been fascinated

1158
01:09:08,228 --> 01:09:09,827
by how some women could cross the line

1159
01:09:09,829 --> 01:09:11,428
between who they were

1160
01:09:11,430 --> 01:09:15,165
and who they would let themselves become.

1161
01:09:15,167 --> 01:09:17,433
Maureen...

1162
01:09:17,435 --> 01:09:19,835
Alice...

1163
01:09:19,837 --> 01:09:21,670
And now...

1164
01:09:21,672 --> 01:09:23,138
Me.

1165
01:09:29,412 --> 01:09:30,611
Morning.

1166
01:09:30,613 --> 01:09:32,879
That was not a quaalude you gave me.

1167
01:09:32,881 --> 01:09:34,447
I've had quaaludes.

1168
01:09:35,850 --> 01:09:37,416
I said it was like a quaalude.

1169
01:09:37,418 --> 01:09:38,884
And you didn't take one yourself.

1170
01:09:38,886 --> 01:09:40,518
You palmed the pill.

1171
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:43,153
Somebody had to drive.

1172
01:09:43,155 --> 01:09:45,288
Don't worry, you won't get pregnant.

1173
01:09:45,290 --> 01:09:47,123
Not from Alice and certainly not from me.

1174
01:09:47,125 --> 01:09:49,692
I never took off my pants,
as you may or may not remember.

1175
01:09:49,694 --> 01:09:51,627
There are laws against drugging people.

1176
01:09:51,629 --> 01:09:53,695
Please.
You took it voluntarily.

1177
01:09:53,697 --> 01:09:56,764
Nobody slipped it into your drink.

1178
01:09:56,766 --> 01:10:00,467
And you chased it with one of the
most expensive wines in the world.

1179
01:10:00,469 --> 01:10:02,168
I think you're just in a dither

1180
01:10:02,170 --> 01:10:04,370
because you've discovered
you can swing both ways.

1181
01:10:06,340 --> 01:10:10,842
You see... I needed
to get something on you.

1182
01:10:10,844 --> 01:10:13,244
Of course, your behavior
with Lanny might have been

1183
01:10:13,246 --> 01:10:14,878
even better than this, but...

1184
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:16,913
Well, I'd already set the wheels in motion.

1185
01:10:16,915 --> 01:10:19,615
And as I was dying to see you
and Alice get it on...

1186
01:10:21,452 --> 01:10:23,485
Well, these are just a sample.

1187
01:10:31,226 --> 01:10:34,260
Why would she agree to do this?
Doesn't she want a career?

1188
01:10:34,262 --> 01:10:36,929
Well, it's your career I'm worried about.

1189
01:10:36,931 --> 01:10:39,731
You're a journalist
playing loose with the rules.

1190
01:10:39,733 --> 01:10:42,500
She's just a vulnerable
young singer you seduced.

1191
01:10:42,502 --> 01:10:45,836
A promising...
good heavens...

1192
01:10:45,838 --> 01:10:48,772
Promising artist that I happen to manage.

1193
01:10:48,774 --> 01:10:50,740
You met her through me...

1194
01:10:50,742 --> 01:10:52,608
And had your way with her.

1195
01:10:57,480 --> 01:10:59,246
What do you want from me?

1196
01:11:01,950 --> 01:11:04,583
You're going to continue writing the book.

1197
01:11:04,585 --> 01:11:06,885
I'm going to continue
telling you juicy stories,

1198
01:11:06,887 --> 01:11:08,586
funny stories,

1199
01:11:08,588 --> 01:11:10,921
heart-tugging stories.

1200
01:11:10,923 --> 01:11:13,189
And you're not gonna ask me
a single question

1201
01:11:13,191 --> 01:11:16,692
about what happened
to the girl in New Jersey.

1202
01:11:16,694 --> 01:11:18,427
You're going to go to your publisher,

1203
01:11:18,429 --> 01:11:19,828
say you tried every angle,

1204
01:11:19,830 --> 01:11:21,830
but you could find nothing odd or suspicious

1205
01:11:21,832 --> 01:11:22,964
in what I told you.

1206
01:11:29,739 --> 01:11:32,573
I'll even...
Try to spice it up a little.

1207
01:11:32,575 --> 01:11:35,909
Talk about how the night before the
telethon, I wanted to sleep like a babe,

1208
01:11:35,911 --> 01:11:39,345
so to cover my bets,
I kept a few babes on hand.

1209
01:11:39,347 --> 01:11:40,913
Well, not exactly on my hand,

1210
01:11:40,915 --> 01:11:42,447
and that's not my preference,

1211
01:11:42,449 --> 01:11:43,915
as you might have gathered by now.

1212
01:11:53,926 --> 01:11:57,594
So you get your best-seller,
I get my million.

1213
01:11:57,596 --> 01:11:59,662
Everyone goes home happy.

1214
01:11:59,664 --> 01:12:03,298
You've dreaded talking about
Maureen o'Flaherty since we met.

1215
01:12:03,300 --> 01:12:05,333
If it's something
you're so desperate to avoid,

1216
01:12:05,335 --> 01:12:06,975
why would you ever agree to do this book?

1217
01:12:07,970 --> 01:12:09,869
I need the money.

1218
01:12:09,871 --> 01:12:14,406
Vince, anything you say
in my presence is mine to use.

1219
01:12:14,408 --> 01:12:17,475
Everything you said last night and
everything you've just told me.

1220
01:12:17,477 --> 01:12:20,444
And since I'm also allowed to
include contextual background,

1221
01:12:20,446 --> 01:12:22,612
I can write about how you set me up,

1222
01:12:22,614 --> 01:12:24,547
how you tried to blackmail me.

1223
01:12:24,549 --> 01:12:26,315
I'll even include those polaroids.

1224
01:12:26,317 --> 01:12:28,550
It's your word against mine.
We have a contract.

1225
01:12:28,552 --> 01:12:29,717
Everything's in my words.

1226
01:12:29,719 --> 01:12:31,318
We've agreed to your answers,

1227
01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:33,320
but there's nothing to stop me

1228
01:12:33,322 --> 01:12:38,924
from putting any information
I want into a question I ask.

1229
01:12:38,926 --> 01:12:41,993
Information that I'd like
to be public knowledge

1230
01:12:41,995 --> 01:12:45,363
or that the police might want to look into.

1231
01:12:49,936 --> 01:12:53,304
Would you like me to fire
one of my loaded questions

1232
01:12:53,306 --> 01:12:54,505
on the record?

1233
01:12:54,507 --> 01:12:56,340
Sure.

1234
01:13:03,982 --> 01:13:06,582
Vince...

1235
01:13:06,584 --> 01:13:10,652
In your suite at the
versailles hotel in Miami,

1236
01:13:10,654 --> 01:13:14,522
was it your or Lanny's idea
to put Maureen's body

1237
01:13:14,524 --> 01:13:16,757
into the case containing shellfish and ice

1238
01:13:16,759 --> 01:13:18,558
and have it shipped to New Jersey?

1239
01:13:23,364 --> 01:13:24,930
No answer, Mr. Collins?

1240
01:13:24,932 --> 01:13:26,564
So noted.

1241
01:13:26,566 --> 01:13:30,001
And incidentally, by not answering,

1242
01:13:30,003 --> 01:13:33,104
you're in violation of your contract.

1243
01:13:33,106 --> 01:13:34,505
What a shame.

1244
01:13:34,507 --> 01:13:36,540
I understood you needed that money.

1245
01:13:51,421 --> 01:13:57,191
God. God.
God. God.

1246
01:14:05,900 --> 01:14:07,833
Was that how you murdered Maureen?

1247
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,080
Ask Lanny.

1248
01:14:25,784 --> 01:14:27,517
He's the one who knows.

1249
01:14:46,202 --> 01:14:50,170
It wasn't that hard for him
to get the suite he wanted.

1250
01:14:50,172 --> 01:14:52,205
The versailles was still one of the fanciest

1251
01:14:52,207 --> 01:14:54,473
of the hotels along the beach.

1252
01:14:54,475 --> 01:14:57,075
But by then its era had passed.

1253
01:14:58,545 --> 01:14:59,944
Thank you, sir.

1254
01:15:09,554 --> 01:15:12,021
All the furniture was new.

1255
01:15:12,023 --> 01:15:15,057
It had been 15 years...

1256
01:15:15,059 --> 01:15:17,192
But the floor plan...

1257
01:15:17,194 --> 01:15:20,195
Was still the same.

1258
01:15:20,197 --> 01:15:22,830
In that spot,

1259
01:15:22,832 --> 01:15:25,566
that was where the truth had come out.

1260
01:15:26,835 --> 01:15:29,101
That was why she had to die.

1261
01:15:40,513 --> 01:15:42,513
Are you Japanese or Chinese?

1262
01:15:44,149 --> 01:15:46,282
Vietnamese.

1263
01:15:46,284 --> 01:15:49,852
The kitchen tell me you famous person.

1264
01:15:49,854 --> 01:15:52,120
Why you famous?

1265
01:15:52,122 --> 01:15:54,589
They didn't tell you my name?

1266
01:15:54,591 --> 01:15:55,890
No.

1267
01:15:55,892 --> 01:15:57,157
What is it?

1268
01:15:59,694 --> 01:16:01,226
Lanny Morris.

1269
01:16:02,562 --> 01:16:04,261
It's a Jewish name.

1270
01:16:04,263 --> 01:16:07,030
But I'm a nebbish.

1271
01:16:07,032 --> 01:16:09,732
You ordered three bottle of champagne.

1272
01:16:09,734 --> 01:16:11,066
You want me to open one now

1273
01:16:11,068 --> 01:16:13,168
or wait until friend come?

1274
01:16:14,838 --> 01:16:16,037
Open all three.

1275
01:16:17,740 --> 01:16:20,240
Are you really famous,
Mr. Morris?

1276
01:16:21,610 --> 01:16:23,643
In my day.

1277
01:16:23,645 --> 01:16:26,712
Before your time, I suppose.

1278
01:16:26,714 --> 01:16:29,314
I come from the north of Vietnam.

1279
01:16:29,316 --> 01:16:31,883
In my town, there's no television.

1280
01:16:31,885 --> 01:16:34,018
She explained that American movies

1281
01:16:34,020 --> 01:16:36,653
had been banned where she grew up.

1282
01:16:41,593 --> 01:16:44,160
She got better tips pretending
she was madame butterfly

1283
01:16:44,162 --> 01:16:47,029
than by telling people
where she was really from.

1284
01:16:48,632 --> 01:16:51,833
What did you do, Mr. Morris?

1285
01:16:51,835 --> 01:16:54,769
I made Vince Collins's life...

1286
01:16:54,771 --> 01:16:56,904
Very difficult.

1287
01:16:56,906 --> 01:16:58,305
She didn't understand,

1288
01:16:58,307 --> 01:17:00,273
but her policy was
not to linger in the rooms

1289
01:17:00,275 --> 01:17:02,074
of solitary gentlemen.

1290
01:17:03,777 --> 01:17:05,810
He signed the room service check

1291
01:17:05,812 --> 01:17:07,344
under Lanny's name.

1292
01:17:10,048 --> 01:17:11,180
Thank you.

1293
01:17:34,904 --> 01:17:37,170
There was no ice or water
left in the buckets

1294
01:17:37,172 --> 01:17:41,340
when his body was discovered
the next morning.

1295
01:17:41,342 --> 01:17:43,809
He had dumped the ice into the bathtub

1296
01:17:43,811 --> 01:17:46,278
and died in it.

1297
01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:49,080
He must have felt
there was some poetry in it.

1298
01:17:52,919 --> 01:17:55,319
His plan was to drink enough champagne

1299
01:17:55,321 --> 01:17:57,087
with enough sleeping pills

1300
01:17:57,089 --> 01:18:01,758
so that ending things would
become an acceptable idea.

1301
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:03,793
He could manage that.

1302
01:18:03,795 --> 01:18:07,263
He knew for certain he couldn't
manage anything else.

1303
01:18:11,235 --> 01:18:13,401
Hi.

1304
01:18:15,104 --> 01:18:17,137
I thought you were gonna be
out all afternoon.

1305
01:18:22,676 --> 01:18:24,842
I'm sorry.

1306
01:18:24,844 --> 01:18:28,378
It's okay...
This was under the door.

1307
01:18:37,255 --> 01:18:38,721
What is it?

1308
01:18:40,124 --> 01:18:41,124
Chapter three.

1309
01:18:44,027 --> 01:18:46,727
John, as my lawyer, I want you to know

1310
01:18:46,729 --> 01:18:48,428
that this next chapter.

1311
01:18:48,430 --> 01:18:51,764
Is to be read after Vince and my death

1312
01:18:51,766 --> 01:18:53,098
and is only to be used

1313
01:18:53,100 --> 01:18:55,934
under the most extreme of circumstances.

1314
01:18:58,071 --> 01:19:00,071
We knew we wanted to make
an early night of it,

1315
01:19:00,073 --> 01:19:02,006
with the telethon starting the next day,

1316
01:19:02,008 --> 01:19:04,008
so Vince suggested we dine in,

1317
01:19:04,010 --> 01:19:05,776
so Maureen could do the interview

1318
01:19:05,778 --> 01:19:07,177
for her campus paper.

1319
01:19:07,179 --> 01:19:12,882
This is a gift for us from the audience...

1320
01:19:12,884 --> 01:19:15,117
From the people,

1321
01:19:15,119 --> 01:19:17,752
the people that are out there.

1322
01:19:17,754 --> 01:19:20,221
Sooner or later you gotta say,

1323
01:19:20,223 --> 01:19:22,756
"we wanna give
something back."

1324
01:19:22,758 --> 01:19:24,190
I think that's really important.

1325
01:19:24,192 --> 01:19:26,759
Not many people would take
the time out to do that.

1326
01:19:26,761 --> 01:19:28,060
Thank you.

1327
01:19:28,062 --> 01:19:30,028
She actually hid her tape recorder

1328
01:19:30,030 --> 01:19:31,462
in the room-service cart

1329
01:19:31,464 --> 01:19:34,164
because she didn't want
the hotel to find out.

1330
01:19:42,006 --> 01:19:45,306
We finished the interview
and then asked her to stay.

1331
01:19:48,244 --> 01:19:52,446
To help us get into the mood,
I did a tuinal.

1332
01:19:52,448 --> 01:19:54,314
Then she did one.

1333
01:19:54,316 --> 01:19:56,382
And Vince, he did two,

1334
01:19:56,384 --> 01:19:59,318
because he was always doing two.

1335
01:19:59,320 --> 01:20:01,353
We got into the second of the three bottles

1336
01:20:01,355 --> 01:20:03,455
of moët we'd ordered.

1337
01:20:03,457 --> 01:20:06,925
We... Thought it would be better
to keep the action

1338
01:20:06,927 --> 01:20:08,825
to neutral territory.

1339
01:20:12,197 --> 01:20:13,930
God...

1340
01:20:13,932 --> 01:20:15,331
She was beautiful.

1341
01:20:18,235 --> 01:20:20,802
I chain-locked the front door
to the living room

1342
01:20:20,804 --> 01:20:22,436
to make sure that housekeeping,

1343
01:20:22,438 --> 01:20:24,371
eager to turn down our beds,

1344
01:20:24,373 --> 01:20:27,207
didn't walk in on an employee
having a ménage à trois

1345
01:20:27,209 --> 01:20:29,442
with the hotel's headliners.

1346
01:20:29,444 --> 01:20:32,478
Then I went to chain-lock
the door to Vince's room.

1347
01:20:32,480 --> 01:20:34,413
I took a quick shower,

1348
01:20:34,415 --> 01:20:36,415
I put on my robe,

1349
01:20:36,417 --> 01:20:38,083
and brought a robe for Maureen,

1350
01:20:38,085 --> 01:20:40,384
in case she felt a little bashful.

1351
01:20:43,455 --> 01:20:46,956
So much for bashful.

1352
01:20:46,958 --> 01:20:49,925
I threw the robe on the bed
and moved into the room,

1353
01:20:49,927 --> 01:20:53,261
half-worried that
they would finish without me.

1354
01:21:15,116 --> 01:21:18,217
Watch it there, compadre.

1355
01:21:18,219 --> 01:21:21,220
It's a little hard to tell who's
who, under the circumstances.

1356
01:21:21,222 --> 01:21:23,222
I'm the one that's more
than "a little hard,"

1357
01:21:23,224 --> 01:21:25,123
you dumb fuckin' limey.

1358
01:21:25,125 --> 01:21:27,391
Well, I'm... I'm the one
with a foreskin.

1359
01:21:27,393 --> 01:21:28,959
Don't you forget that.

1360
01:21:32,797 --> 01:21:34,463
Hey, watch it. You got
the end zone there, Vince.

1361
01:21:34,465 --> 01:21:36,431
- Come on, come on. Fuck.
- You're gonna like it.

1362
01:21:36,433 --> 01:21:38,099
- What?
- You're gonna like it.

1363
01:21:38,101 --> 01:21:40,067
It's like from another planet when you come.

1364
01:21:40,069 --> 01:21:42,069
- I'd never hurt you.
- Get the fuck off me.

1365
01:21:42,071 --> 01:21:43,937
- I'd never hurt you.
- Get the fuck off me!

1366
01:21:43,939 --> 01:21:45,939
Trust me, trust me.
It's like double the sex...

1367
01:21:45,941 --> 01:21:47,440
get the fuck off me!

1368
01:21:47,442 --> 01:21:50,109
We don't fuck, Vince!

1369
01:21:50,111 --> 01:21:53,912
We're buddies, we're pals,
we're partners, we're a duo.

1370
01:21:53,914 --> 01:21:57,282
We love each other,
but we don't... Fuck!

1371
01:21:57,284 --> 01:22:00,351
We're fucking stars!
We can...

1372
01:22:00,353 --> 01:22:02,019
- we can travel together.
- Okay.

1373
01:22:02,021 --> 01:22:04,521
We can hang out together,
we can live together,

1374
01:22:04,523 --> 01:22:07,023
but we can't be queers!

1375
01:22:07,025 --> 01:22:10,025
It's... Not... Funny!

1376
01:22:32,948 --> 01:22:35,214
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

1377
01:22:35,216 --> 01:22:36,615
About?

1378
01:22:38,952 --> 01:22:40,419
About your nose.

1379
01:22:43,423 --> 01:22:45,289
It's not broken, is it?

1380
01:22:48,093 --> 01:22:49,492
Yeah.

1381
01:22:49,494 --> 01:22:50,693
Guess the question is...

1382
01:22:51,996 --> 01:22:53,595
who's gonna pay me?

1383
01:22:53,597 --> 01:22:56,064
This surprised me.

1384
01:22:56,066 --> 01:22:57,631
The girl was not a hooker.

1385
01:23:08,743 --> 01:23:12,111
My wallet was on top of my robe.

1386
01:23:12,113 --> 01:23:14,446
I took out some money.

1387
01:23:14,448 --> 01:23:16,581
I don't remember how much.

1388
01:23:33,266 --> 01:23:36,166
I don't think so.

1389
01:23:36,168 --> 01:23:38,668
That's more than you would
make in a month of tips.

1390
01:23:38,670 --> 01:23:42,204
I'm not looking for a tip.

1391
01:23:42,206 --> 01:23:44,072
What the hell are you saying?

1392
01:23:44,074 --> 01:23:46,541
Honey, I'm in my last year of college.

1393
01:23:46,543 --> 01:23:48,742
This is a summer job.

1394
01:23:51,113 --> 01:23:52,412
No, I...

1395
01:23:52,414 --> 01:23:54,547
I wanna write.

1396
01:23:54,549 --> 01:23:56,649
I wanna be a journalist.

1397
01:24:01,555 --> 01:24:04,355
So I could either use this information...

1398
01:24:06,025 --> 01:24:07,491
or I could use a lot of money.

1399
01:24:09,728 --> 01:24:12,561
I promise you this will only cost you once.

1400
01:24:15,732 --> 01:24:20,167
I'm so tired, I don't even think
I'm going home.

1401
01:24:20,169 --> 01:24:21,768
I think it's the tuinals.

1402
01:24:24,205 --> 01:24:27,506
Hey, Lanny, don't take it personally.

1403
01:24:27,508 --> 01:24:30,108
You were a great lover.

1404
01:24:30,110 --> 01:24:33,377
You have got the cutest little butt.

1405
01:24:38,183 --> 01:24:40,283
I guess Vince thinks so too.

1406
01:24:45,756 --> 01:24:47,355
Night, Lanny.

1407
01:24:49,659 --> 01:24:53,360
I would never see her alive again.

1408
01:24:55,664 --> 01:24:58,264
I put a "do not disturb" sign on my door,

1409
01:24:58,266 --> 01:25:01,600
fastened the chain lock,
in case the maid didn't read.

1410
01:25:01,602 --> 01:25:03,702
I left a wake-up call for 8,

1411
01:25:03,704 --> 01:25:06,404
and went to sleep knowing that a telethon

1412
01:25:06,406 --> 01:25:09,707
was the least of the ordeals I was
going to have to face in the morning.

1413
01:25:15,447 --> 01:25:17,447
The tuinals had really conked me out,

1414
01:25:17,449 --> 01:25:20,716
and I slept through
my wake-up call that morning.

1415
01:25:20,718 --> 01:25:23,185
The operator had called Reuben down the hall

1416
01:25:23,187 --> 01:25:26,221
to see if he could wake me,
but he couldn't get in

1417
01:25:26,223 --> 01:25:28,690
because we had chain-locked
all the doors.

1418
01:25:28,692 --> 01:25:31,359
Hey, hey, hey.
Reuben!

1419
01:25:31,361 --> 01:25:34,562
I yelled for Reuben to wake up
Vince while I worked on Maureen,

1420
01:25:34,564 --> 01:25:38,299
trying to make myself believe
that she was still sleeping.

1421
01:25:40,636 --> 01:25:42,402
Fuck.

1422
01:25:42,404 --> 01:25:44,570
No, no, no. Fuck.

1423
01:25:44,572 --> 01:25:48,307
The autopsy revealed the drugs
and alcohol in her body, but...

1424
01:25:48,309 --> 01:25:50,442
I knew it wasn't enough to kill her.

1425
01:25:55,248 --> 01:25:57,214
All three doors to the suite

1426
01:25:57,216 --> 01:25:59,182
were chain-locked
from the inside

1427
01:25:59,184 --> 01:26:01,317
when I found her.

1428
01:26:01,319 --> 01:26:03,319
I hadn't touched her.

1429
01:26:03,321 --> 01:26:06,188
That's how I know that my former partner

1430
01:26:06,190 --> 01:26:09,124
and friend, Vince Collins,

1431
01:26:09,126 --> 01:26:12,193
murdered Maureen o'Flaherty.

1432
01:26:16,332 --> 01:26:17,864
You must have guessed by now

1433
01:26:17,866 --> 01:26:19,699
that Vince and I had found a way

1434
01:26:19,701 --> 01:26:22,868
to relocate Maureen's body to New Jersey.

1435
01:26:22,870 --> 01:26:26,638
This is the one criminal act
the both of us committed.

1436
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:28,339
But we were in a panic

1437
01:26:28,341 --> 01:26:30,407
and needed to create an ironclad alibi.

1438
01:26:31,710 --> 01:26:34,210
The crates were delivered to our room.

1439
01:26:34,212 --> 01:26:36,745
The publicist had opened
the crates for a photo op.

1440
01:26:36,747 --> 01:26:41,615
But the official story became that she
found Maureen's overdosed body in the tub.

1441
01:26:41,617 --> 01:26:43,617
A police officer, called scaglia,

1442
01:26:43,619 --> 01:26:45,752
was there to witness the whole thing.

1443
01:26:45,754 --> 01:26:48,354
Live, until they drop dead...

1444
01:26:48,356 --> 01:26:51,223
During the telethon, I kept telling myself

1445
01:26:51,225 --> 01:26:53,758
that I could forgive Vince for two reasons.

1446
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:57,161
First of all, I don't think he could
have known what he was doing.

1447
01:26:57,163 --> 01:27:00,898
He was completely out of it,
even more than usual.

1448
01:27:00,900 --> 01:27:02,699
The second is that he was terrified

1449
01:27:02,701 --> 01:27:05,802
that this incident would become
public knowledge.

1450
01:27:05,804 --> 01:27:09,772
In those days, the slightest hint
that he could swing both ways

1451
01:27:09,774 --> 01:27:14,309
would destroy his show-business
career in an instant.

1452
01:27:14,311 --> 01:27:17,712
As it was, it was only to destroy us.

1453
01:27:17,714 --> 01:27:19,914
We completed the telethon,

1454
01:27:19,916 --> 01:27:23,417
but we both knew we were finished.

1455
01:27:23,419 --> 01:27:26,352
The marriage... Was over.

1456
01:27:28,522 --> 01:27:31,456
There was a moment
in the middle of the telethon

1457
01:27:31,458 --> 01:27:34,292
where I actually broke down.

1458
01:27:34,294 --> 01:27:37,595
I just couldn't control myself.

1459
01:27:37,597 --> 01:27:40,364
I remember I mumbled something

1460
01:27:40,366 --> 01:27:43,500
to a little girl who was
recounting her experiences

1461
01:27:43,502 --> 01:27:45,435
with the disease.

1462
01:27:45,437 --> 01:27:48,371
I don't remember what I said...

1463
01:27:48,373 --> 01:27:50,673
But I do remember feeling worthless.

1464
01:27:52,777 --> 01:27:55,878
Everyone thought that my tears were for her.

1465
01:27:55,880 --> 01:27:58,680
It made for a great picture
in the papers the next day.

1466
01:28:01,317 --> 01:28:02,883
Mr. Morris will see you now.

1467
01:28:27,842 --> 01:28:30,709
I expected to see you at Vince's funeral.

1468
01:28:32,512 --> 01:28:34,712
Kind of heartless of you not to show up,

1469
01:28:34,714 --> 01:28:37,681
don't you think, Karen?

1470
01:28:37,683 --> 01:28:39,949
Considering you're probably the one that...

1471
01:28:41,819 --> 01:28:43,652
drove him to it.

1472
01:28:45,022 --> 01:28:46,488
I won't answer that.

1473
01:28:49,592 --> 01:28:51,625
So don't.

1474
01:28:51,627 --> 01:28:53,593
So get the fuck out of my office.

1475
01:28:53,595 --> 01:28:56,796
Lanny, I have interview material with Vince

1476
01:28:56,798 --> 01:28:58,998
up until the moment he met you.

1477
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:01,600
It would be great if this...

1478
01:29:01,602 --> 01:29:04,336
Warm, funny side of Vince
could reach the public.

1479
01:29:04,338 --> 01:29:05,603
And what the fuck do you know

1480
01:29:05,605 --> 01:29:08,339
about Vince's warm and funny side?

1481
01:29:10,376 --> 01:29:12,909
What about the warm and funny
fact that he killed himself?

1482
01:29:12,911 --> 01:29:14,977
Why would he do that?

1483
01:29:14,979 --> 01:29:16,611
I don't know.

1484
01:29:18,047 --> 01:29:20,614
That's the answer I'm giving you...

1485
01:29:20,616 --> 01:29:22,949
And anyone else that asks.

1486
01:29:22,951 --> 01:29:24,383
I don't know.

1487
01:29:24,385 --> 01:29:26,051
But you do know, don't you, Lanny?

1488
01:29:26,053 --> 01:29:29,821
Whatever I know, sweetheart,
I'm writing in my book.

1489
01:29:29,823 --> 01:29:33,290
Except you're never going
to finish your book.

1490
01:29:34,626 --> 01:29:37,360
You don't have to.

1491
01:29:37,362 --> 01:29:40,696
The person who needed your book is dead.

1492
01:29:40,698 --> 01:29:42,931
You'd always written
the material for your shows.

1493
01:29:42,933 --> 01:29:45,033
Every single word was rehearsed.

1494
01:29:45,035 --> 01:29:46,768
The book was a manual,

1495
01:29:46,770 --> 01:29:49,337
a set of notes so Vince
would get every detail

1496
01:29:49,339 --> 01:29:51,772
of the official story.

1497
01:29:51,774 --> 01:29:54,641
"A couple of extra babes for him
to sleep with that night"?

1498
01:29:54,643 --> 01:29:56,709
"A few of them on hand"?

1499
01:29:56,711 --> 01:29:59,645
"Well, not exactly on his hand.
That wasn't his preference."

1500
01:30:00,981 --> 01:30:02,313
So, what's your point?

1501
01:30:02,315 --> 01:30:04,515
He quoted that very line to me,

1502
01:30:04,517 --> 01:30:06,850
quoted it from your manuscript
as if he were saying it

1503
01:30:06,852 --> 01:30:08,651
for the first time.

1504
01:30:10,855 --> 01:30:12,955
You wrote it because you loved him.

1505
01:30:17,328 --> 01:30:18,927
And feared for him.

1506
01:30:22,065 --> 01:30:23,798
And feared for yourself.

1507
01:30:28,070 --> 01:30:29,836
And then you wrote this.

1508
01:30:33,942 --> 01:30:36,075
Wh...?

1509
01:30:36,077 --> 01:30:37,810
Where the fuck did you get that?

1510
01:30:37,812 --> 01:30:40,546
- Delivered to my room.
- Bullshit. You stole it.

1511
01:30:40,548 --> 01:30:43,415
Maureen o'Flaherty was killed
in the versailles hotel,

1512
01:30:43,417 --> 01:30:44,949
in your room...

1513
01:30:44,951 --> 01:30:47,351
The night before the telethon.

1514
01:30:49,955 --> 01:30:52,555
The night before we met.

1515
01:30:58,829 --> 01:31:00,962
Get out of my office.

1516
01:31:49,478 --> 01:31:52,479
Miss trout?

1517
01:31:52,481 --> 01:31:55,682
We walked through the deserted
backlot of the studio,

1518
01:31:55,684 --> 01:32:00,053
and I confessed
that I wasn't Bonnie trout...

1519
01:32:00,055 --> 01:32:02,488
That I was writing a book
about Vince Collins

1520
01:32:02,490 --> 01:32:04,490
and that I was trying to uncover the secret

1521
01:32:04,492 --> 01:32:07,626
behind what happened to Maureen o'Flaherty.

1522
01:32:07,628 --> 01:32:10,161
I told him what I found out.

1523
01:32:10,163 --> 01:32:11,929
He prayed that he would be forgiven

1524
01:32:11,931 --> 01:32:14,631
for having been there
as the murder was concealed.

1525
01:32:14,633 --> 01:32:16,633
Miss o'Connor...

1526
01:32:16,635 --> 01:32:19,602
I have a tape recording
of the night miss o'Flaherty

1527
01:32:19,604 --> 01:32:21,136
was killed.

1528
01:32:21,138 --> 01:32:24,505
She had...
Brought a machine.

1529
01:32:26,575 --> 01:32:28,741
- For the interview.
- Yes.

1530
01:32:28,743 --> 01:32:32,177
I found it as I was
getting rid of her things.

1531
01:32:33,613 --> 01:32:35,779
She... Kept it on?

1532
01:32:38,084 --> 01:32:41,251
Could you use this tape for your book?

1533
01:32:45,223 --> 01:32:47,623
Of course.

1534
01:32:47,625 --> 01:32:50,125
Miss o'Connor...

1535
01:32:50,127 --> 01:32:52,026
Is it something...?

1536
01:32:53,229 --> 01:32:54,895
My.

1537
01:32:54,897 --> 01:32:57,964
Is it something I could sell?

1538
01:32:57,966 --> 01:33:01,200
Reuben, I can't speak
on behalf of my publishers,

1539
01:33:01,202 --> 01:33:04,036
but I'm sure that we can settle on a price.

1540
01:33:04,038 --> 01:33:05,937
Thank you, miss o'Connor.

1541
01:33:10,143 --> 01:33:12,309
I'll even spice it up a little.

1542
01:33:12,311 --> 01:33:14,611
Talk about how the night
before the telethon,

1543
01:33:14,613 --> 01:33:16,846
I wanted to sleep like a babe,
so to cover my bets,

1544
01:33:16,848 --> 01:33:19,582
I kept a few babes on hand.

1545
01:33:19,584 --> 01:33:21,617
Well, not...
not exactly on my hand.

1546
01:33:21,619 --> 01:33:24,218
That's not my preference,
as you may have gathered by now.

1547
01:33:26,655 --> 01:33:28,821
I need the money.

1548
01:33:30,858 --> 01:33:32,824
Did you have a figure in mind?

1549
01:33:33,827 --> 01:33:35,359
Would...?

1550
01:33:35,361 --> 01:33:39,363
Would you think a million
dollars would be too much?

1551
01:33:39,365 --> 01:33:43,633
Vince was being paid a million
dollars for his life.

1552
01:33:43,635 --> 01:33:45,835
This is one night.

1553
01:33:45,837 --> 01:33:48,704
The most important night.

1554
01:33:48,706 --> 01:33:51,373
You could have left me a note or called me.

1555
01:33:51,375 --> 01:33:52,874
I did leave you a note.

1556
01:33:52,876 --> 01:33:54,675
Where?

1557
01:34:03,952 --> 01:34:07,620
Lanny left this for me at my apartment.

1558
01:34:07,622 --> 01:34:09,822
It's his version
of what happened that night.

1559
01:34:10,991 --> 01:34:12,857
On its own,

1560
01:34:12,859 --> 01:34:15,192
it's absolutely useless to me.

1561
01:34:15,194 --> 01:34:17,260
I could have typed it myself.

1562
01:34:20,999 --> 01:34:25,233
But if it matched
what's recorded on your tape...

1563
01:34:28,271 --> 01:34:30,137
It would make it priceless.

1564
01:34:35,009 --> 01:34:37,009
Which is why you sent it to me.

1565
01:34:39,880 --> 01:34:43,114
You just said Mr. Morris
left it at your apartment.

1566
01:34:43,116 --> 01:34:44,982
He was surprised I had it.

1567
01:34:47,686 --> 01:34:51,421
Like he was surprised that I hadn't found
the note he left for me at the hotel.

1568
01:34:51,423 --> 01:34:54,757
The note you must have disposed
of as you were tidying the room.

1569
01:34:54,759 --> 01:34:57,192
I told you how he deals
with women. I was afraid.

1570
01:34:57,194 --> 01:34:59,127
I was really afraid
of what he might do to you.

1571
01:34:59,129 --> 01:35:01,028
Maybe you were afraid of what I'd...

1572
01:35:01,030 --> 01:35:03,864
I'd do to him. And to you.

1573
01:35:03,866 --> 01:35:06,800
Why would I be afraid of a school teacher...

1574
01:35:06,802 --> 01:35:08,401
Called Bonnie trout?

1575
01:35:08,403 --> 01:35:10,736
Because you knew I was Karen o'Connor.

1576
01:35:10,738 --> 01:35:13,705
When I woke up, you folded my clothes...

1577
01:35:13,707 --> 01:35:15,773
And placed my pocketbook on the bed,

1578
01:35:15,775 --> 01:35:17,241
the pocketbook that had my name

1579
01:35:17,243 --> 01:35:19,142
and the letter from my publisher.

1580
01:35:21,346 --> 01:35:23,079
I was writing about the one thing

1581
01:35:23,081 --> 01:35:25,014
you wanted to have total control over:

1582
01:35:25,016 --> 01:35:26,749
Collins and Morris.

1583
01:35:28,352 --> 01:35:33,221
You made me abandon any thought
of trying to contact Lanny.

1584
01:35:33,223 --> 01:35:35,756
You made me feel like I was
less than nothing to him,

1585
01:35:35,758 --> 01:35:38,091
because you were playing
your own complex game.

1586
01:35:38,093 --> 01:35:39,892
And what exactly

1587
01:35:39,894 --> 01:35:43,428
was this complex game
I was playing, miss o'Connor?

1588
01:36:02,280 --> 01:36:03,479
You were in the room...

1589
01:36:05,349 --> 01:36:07,916
That night.

1590
01:36:07,918 --> 01:36:09,250
Lanny had a robe.

1591
01:36:09,252 --> 01:36:10,784
He dropped it on the bed.

1592
01:36:10,786 --> 01:36:13,820
After Maureen asked for money, the...

1593
01:36:13,822 --> 01:36:15,822
the wallet was on top.
It had been folded.

1594
01:36:15,824 --> 01:36:19,392
I always... always arranged
Mr. Morris's things.

1595
01:36:19,394 --> 01:36:22,395
After he went to bed.
You were there before.

1596
01:36:22,397 --> 01:36:23,796
How would I get out?

1597
01:36:23,798 --> 01:36:26,197
All three doors
were chain-locked.

1598
01:36:44,381 --> 01:36:48,082
Through Vince's room.

1599
01:36:48,084 --> 01:36:51,485
Then the next morning, you must
have chain-locked the door

1600
01:36:51,487 --> 01:36:53,286
before you went to wake him up.

1601
01:36:57,224 --> 01:36:58,389
Fuck!

1602
01:37:02,228 --> 01:37:03,293
Lanny let me

1603
01:37:03,295 --> 01:37:05,094
read the first chapter.

1604
01:37:05,096 --> 01:37:07,229
Vince sent me the second.

1605
01:37:10,033 --> 01:37:12,099
And you stole this...

1606
01:37:12,101 --> 01:37:13,499
To whet my appetite.

1607
01:37:38,024 --> 01:37:39,990
I wanna write.

1608
01:37:39,992 --> 01:37:42,392
I wanna be a journalist.

1609
01:37:42,394 --> 01:37:45,495
So I could either use this information...

1610
01:37:46,865 --> 01:37:48,497
or I could use a lot of money.

1611
01:37:48,499 --> 01:37:50,465
Is that why you killed her?

1612
01:37:52,202 --> 01:37:53,501
To protect them?

1613
01:38:00,876 --> 01:38:04,944
For 15 years,

1614
01:38:04,946 --> 01:38:06,578
he tormented Vince and Lanny.

1615
01:38:11,451 --> 01:38:16,220
He could never blackmail Vince
while Sally sanmarco was alive.

1616
01:38:16,222 --> 01:38:18,121
So he waited until Sally died

1617
01:38:18,123 --> 01:38:20,289
to activate his retirement plan.

1618
01:38:23,360 --> 01:38:26,994
A million dollars from Vince.

1619
01:38:26,996 --> 01:38:29,496
A million dollars for the same tape

1620
01:38:29,498 --> 01:38:31,030
he offered to me.

1621
01:38:36,168 --> 01:38:37,534
He would never get his money,

1622
01:38:37,536 --> 01:38:39,836
and I would never see him again.

1623
01:38:46,110 --> 01:38:48,977
He had taken her life...

1624
01:38:48,979 --> 01:38:52,313
And with it her mother's heart...

1625
01:38:52,315 --> 01:38:54,348
And her father's mind.

1626
01:38:56,285 --> 01:38:58,051
And now...

1627
01:38:58,053 --> 01:39:01,387
All that remained of Maureen o'Flaherty

1628
01:39:01,389 --> 01:39:03,422
was a tree...

1629
01:39:03,424 --> 01:39:05,590
In her mother's garden.

1630
01:39:20,873 --> 01:39:23,573
Your daughter learned something
about Vince Collins

1631
01:39:23,575 --> 01:39:26,475
that he didn't want anyone to know.

1632
01:39:26,477 --> 01:39:30,212
Because of that, she was killed.

1633
01:39:30,214 --> 01:39:33,481
If it's of any small comfort,
she probably didn't suffer.

1634
01:39:33,483 --> 01:39:38,219
I want people to know about this man.

1635
01:39:38,221 --> 01:39:41,121
I want them to know why he killed her.

1636
01:39:46,328 --> 01:39:48,628
There is someone in all this

1637
01:39:48,630 --> 01:39:51,063
who is totally innocent of any involvement

1638
01:39:51,065 --> 01:39:53,131
in the events of that night,

1639
01:39:53,133 --> 01:39:55,466
but whose life will be made infinitely worse

1640
01:39:55,468 --> 01:39:59,036
if I tell the truth at this time.

1641
01:39:59,038 --> 01:40:02,605
I wanna protect this person
from any further pain.

1642
01:40:05,509 --> 01:40:08,109
I promise you...

1643
01:40:08,111 --> 01:40:11,679
I promise you I will write down
the truth that I've learned,

1644
01:40:11,681 --> 01:40:15,049
but I have to let matters lie
until this person has died,

1645
01:40:15,051 --> 01:40:17,284
and the truth can no longer touch them.

1646
01:40:22,390 --> 01:40:25,624
I saw no indication on her face

1647
01:40:25,626 --> 01:40:28,159
that she knew I was talking about her.

1648
01:41:02,092 --> 01:41:04,992
You're a very special girl.

1649
01:41:12,734 --> 01:41:15,434
Forgive me.

1650
01:41:16,305 --> 01:41:22,728
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