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Listen, I'm getting to believe that the

heaviest thing in the world is psychology 126.

Do you know that my head shrinker said that everyone should fulfill his essential needs

and that you really find your heaven or hell right here on earth?

Sounds right on.

Gabriela, do you suppose there really is a heaven or a hell?

I guess so.

What about God?

What about him?

Is he for real?

Sure, there's a God.

How do you know?

I just know. I mean, I believe that there's a God and that Jesus is the son of God.

Can I ask you something?

Sure, go ahead.

Would you give yourself to Jesus? I mean, not spiritually, but physically.

You're kidding.

No. If you wanted his body, would you go to bed with him?

Maggie, you are out of your... Look, your first need is to love, okay?

Okay. What's the second?

To be loved. I'm just saying that my basic need is to love.

You want to know something else?

What else?

I'll bet you that if the man himself were in the rack right now,

he'd get so nervous he wouldn't be able to perform.

Maggie!

So he kept pouring and I kept drinking.

Oh, God, have I ever got a headache.

Where'd you go?

Where else does a research biologist take you? Home. His home.

To meet his mother, but of course she wasn't there.

What's he like?

Weird. I mean, this guy is definitely a freak.

I can't imagine the things he asked me to do.

What things?

Wild things. I mean, look, you know I'm a screaming liberal, right?

Right.

I mean, I dig the whites, the chicanos.

They do only some perversion.

But, honey, Hitler's child takes the cake.

Come on, Carla, tell me what he did.

Well, first the Aryan got all sweaty.

You know, sweaty palms, sweaty face, sweaty mouth.

And then he just took off his clothes and he stood there.

Then what?

Well, he asked me if I wanted pleasures beyond sex, beyond the aboriginal urges.

So he took my head in his hands and he looked

deep in my eyes and he said he wanted to... ...stimulate my pleasure center.

I told him to take his voodoo ass and get out.

He acts like some kind of a homofuturist.

Well, I'd like to take his DNA and just shove it.

I think that a black professor would try harder

not to be an ordinary animal like the rest of them.

Well, I hate his guts.

Then why did you do it?

Because I thought if I balled him it would make things easier, that's all.

He said that it takes practice like anything else.

And people have to learn to get used to each other.

Screwing is going to bring the races closer together, right?

Justice, human rights, equality.

Boy, was he crude.

Oh, Heather, and your bill was to whittle your middle-class virtues at him...

...and then take the black man to your beautiful breast and love him.

Black or white, it doesn't make any difference.

It's the system.

Well, screw it, no more.

We're going to be chased by the hounds.

You know, they think that a see-through blouse

is just an open invitation to get raped.

Well, it's about time that these males learn the facts of life, Gabriella...

...because it's going to be a new day.

Oh, it's going to be a new day.

A castle stone in a noble land Can be so fragile just like one made of sand

When the walls and roofs crack and leak It makes a foundation a little bit too weak

A castle a crumble in a matter of time Like every building down here

Don't you know you're gonna find That nothing's ever lasting unless you love, oh no

Nothing's ever lasting unless you love I heard about treasures and the lies they cost

The treasures that are found are so sick, so lost

I heard a wise man, I swear on that star above

That the only lasting treasure is just a little

love A broken money will buy us cars and clothes

We will spend a fortune on the best of those A lifetime guarantee

will calm our fears Still a lifetime only means a little yes

If money could buy me love, I'd buy just love, no doubt

I'd own one of the cars and clothes, going even on where I'm from

Nothing's ever lasting unless you love, oh yeah

Nothing's ever lasting unless you love, love, love

Nothing's ever lasting unless you love, could have

this world Oh, give me, give me love, love, love

I really don't get it. You guys are always complaining about men.

Why bother with them if it's such a drag?

Oh, it's not a drag. I mean, I dig men. It's just that it's

up to us to find the real freaks and expose them to the world.

No, seriously, why should we always be inhibited? Why should we be the sex objects

and passively lie on our backs and let every little boy reach out for his manhood?

Hell, I'm for making love, but under my terms.

Look, I don't want to get into the psychiatrist's

couch bit, but life's a big, fat game.

Survival's a better word. Listen to me, Gabriella.

The sooner you wise up, the better you can play.

Play? The game. Ever since we've lived in caves,

we've followed the man around like some trained seal.

He set the rules, and we pan it with our tongues out.

You see, baby, when man said jump, woman said how high.

Now, come on, do you really want to live life that way?

No. Life is more than a game. I mean, there's love.

What about love? Love is beautiful. Black is beautiful. But I want it my way.

Look, baby, you're white and I'm black. Could you love me?

I do. You're my friend.

I mean, love me. Live with me. Go to bed with me. Love me.

I'm sorry, Coller, but I don't think I'm ready for that kind of love yet.

This girl needs therapy. Look, she's not saying that you have

to be a lesbian. All she's saying is that you do your thing.

Whatever you want, you do. Whatever.

And that means that you get what you want, not the leftovers.

And you do what you want to do. If you want to be

Victorian, okay. But do it your way. You understand?

I'm afraid I've got a lot of catching up to do.

Look, I've got a great idea.

Not the Jesus Christ bit again.

No. But how better can three young women of today's

world better serve their womankind? Who can tell me?

Well, we could do the Rosemary's baby bit if we could find the devil.

No. But we can take this tender young lamb under our wings and

teach her everything we know about how to get the most out of men.

Fantastic. When do we start?

I'm afraid she's got a long way to go.

How do you teach a conservative about progressive liberal sex?

Come on, you guys. You're kidding.

No. Maggie's got a great idea. How about it, Carla?

Well, it's okay with me if it's okay with Gabriella.

I don't know. We're offering our services, which includes our minds and our bodies, in

dedication to the development and the fulfillment of our best friend as a modern woman.

But you have to agree to everything we say, or I'm afraid it won't work.

Listen, Gabriella, we're the foxes.

Whatever we want, we go after. We outsmart men and we use them.

Hounds, that's what they are.

What do you say?

All right. I'll do it.

Now, there's no turning back once you start. It's body and soul.

And it's groovy, too.

And it's the only way to go.

Maggie, I really should have gone to my two classes this afternoon.

Lesson number one. Gabriella, you have to make up

your mind to be absolutely free, with no regrets.

I'll try, but it's not going to be easy.

But that's good. Think of all the wonderful temptations, starting

with the beautiful stranger who owns his own beach pad in Malibu.

That's what I'm afraid of. What's he like?

Way too medium. Tony's the perfect example of what every woman should have.

Number one, he's agreeable. Number two, he's useful.

And number three, he's very lovable.

It's the most exciting feeling I've ever had to think that

thousands, maybe millions of people are going to be looking at me.

My God, just the thought that I could be the most

photographed woman in the world is really a mind buster.

You think that could really happen?

Tony says it could. He's done layouts and publicity

on some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Like who?

Like Raquel Welch and Angie Dickinson. Lots of women.

Tony says that your body is really where it's at

and that you can create a face with just makeup.

Besides, men dig good-looking bodies. And if you have one, I say use it.

You want to be an actress?

Maybe. It all depends.

You laugh, but I was going to be in a movie once.

You're kidding.

No, I'm not kidding.

What happened?

Well, it was sort of weird. I mean, you know,

I've never done anything like that before.

Like what?

Well, here's this friend of mine, Carol Young. I guess I've known her all my life.

Anyhow, she was going to do a film on young love, pure love.

I guess you could even call it virgin love.

It was really fun. I mean, it wasn't like work at all.

Stefan and I had a ball doing it.

Who's Stefan?

Well, he was a boy I used to go with.

Carol and Schelling, that was her cameraman, said

that they only wanted to photograph the truth.

Well, what do you think, Schelling?

Can we use some of those beautiful shots?

Yeah, it looks great, but I wish you'd tell me exactly what we're shooting and why.

Just trust me, baby.

After all, we're in the movie.

We're in the movie.

I'm in the movie.

Baby?

After what we just saw, I know I'm right.

When we get that all together, you'll agree.

You see, I've known those kids since they

were little babies, and my gut feeling tells

me we can get more truth out of them on screen

than any of those phony encounter groups we've been shooting.

So you just hang loose, okay?

Maggie, that was the beginning of something really far out.

And kind of wild.

Ah-ha.

Besides being one of the world's great

photographers, I'm also a very fine martini maker.

Here you go, my lovely.

One for you, and for the little princess.

Thank you.

You see the technique, Gabriella.

First booze, and then the question, what's a

nice girl like you doing in a pad like this?

Tony, you are a wicked man.

True, I'm a very wicked man.

But then it's a very wicked world.

Oh, hush now.

We're about to hear how the Virgin Star was born.

Maggie, it really wasn't that much.

Now that I think about it, it's kind of silly.

Gabriella, this is do-it-yourself encounter time.

Touch and tell.

Okay.

It's kind of wooly, that's all.

Anyway, Carol said she wanted us to act natural and be ourselves.

We took these long walks in the park, and I guess Stephanie and I really were in love.

But Carol said she didn't care how long it took.

She wanted us to be ourselves, and she wanted it to be right.

Hi, pretty people.

Jump in.

We must have covered a hundred locations every

day looking for the right places to film.

After a while, I began to think that making

a movie was just getting in and out of cars.

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It was really quite an experience because sometimes we do other things.

Like one night we all went to this lecture.

Can you believe it?

It was called Eros, eternal rights of sexuality.

I really didn't know what to believe or what to expect.

Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated.

Thank you.

Thank you.

After we were seated, we went through the usual

preliminaries and the usual introductions.

Then the author of some bestselling book was introduced.

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She was attractive and blonde and very Swedish.

Welcome to "Challenged Slave Forever Kid,"

which of course translated into English is the internal rights of sexuality.

Tonight we will have a demonstration by one of the couples in our organization,

which will visually illustrate what some people in

our antiqued society call the forbidden areas of sex.

Now we, my fellow psychologists and most of the rest of us here tonight, feel that sex

is clean, exciting, stimulating, fun, beautiful, and most of all, completely normal.

Most of us here tonight have probably never witnessed sex as an observer.

I didn't know whether to be eager, wary, or uncomfortable.

I mean, I never witnessed sex before.

Now what you see here tonight might astonish some of you.

For those of you who honestly dislike the idea of seeing sex lose its aura...

Finally, she introduced the boy and girl who are going to give the demonstration.

They were absolutely beautiful, both of them.

They began by touching each other.

And we in our organization, including the couple you are now watching,

do not claim to be free of sexual inhibitions,

but we do feel that we are starting to open up.

We are becoming able to express ourselves openly without embarrassment.

I couldn't take my eyes off them, like I was

spellbound and turned on at the same time.

I was really involved in everything they were

doing, and I didn't find it was wrong or unnatural.

Only I felt that no one else was in that room except Stefan and myself.

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la...

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la...

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la...

It was strange. I really didn't want it to end. I wanted it to go on and on.

Believe me, it was an experience I'll never forget.

But really, you know, they are great.

I mean, they really are getting into some very heavy things.

I thought, I don't know, it was incredible.

You know, that group is really trying for a sense of freedom.

And we could have joined in if we wanted to,

but that might have meant a legal hassle.

Who needs it?

And don't forget, we aren't in the organization anyway.

Yeah, right. And we had to get back here for when Xavier arrives.

When you hear his story, you'll really realize how

much bullshit this society puts people through.

And baby, if you're a homosexual, it's worse than being a typhoid carrier.

You know, that lecture reminded me of a classroom, like a biology class.

Right.

Really, though, one of the wild aspects of what we saw

tonight was the ease and grace with which everything was done.

Christ, it could have been like a lush Las Vegas stag show.

But the way Eero's handled it, I thought it was beautiful.

Excuse me.

Hi.

Trick or treat.

Hi, it's good to see you. We've been waiting for you.

Come on in.

Xavier, this is Gabriella.

Hi.

Stefan.

Hi, hi.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the star of tonight's film interview.

Ta-da.

Shelly, would you set up the cameras, please?

Sure, boss.

Honey, has he ever done anything like this before?

One of my favorite people.

Sit down, Xavier. Let it all hang out.

Well, the first part was the same for me as it

was for all the other struggling souls, I suppose.

You know, the dreaming, floating along.

A sense of actual good that could be felt or touched and sustained.

Oh, my childhood was okay.

Hey, boy.

The change came for me at the usual turning point

when you either make the transition successfully... Hey, boy.

...or you spend the rest of your time in a nightmare.

Hey, boy. How's the hell of a game you played?

In junior high school.

No kid like you could make the big leagues?

I didn't feel good or... I'm telling you, you really could.

Bad?

Of course, you're a little skinny right now, but I know you're gonna grow anyway.

A right?

I'll tell you one other thing.

A wrong.

You're good-looking, kid. You're really good-looking.

Well, maybe a little withdrawn.

God, I bet you wild in bed, ain't you?

What blows my mind, though, is that I was aware, even then...

I bet you got a lot of chicks, too, haven't you?

...of the dividing point between men and women.

No matter how close a male and female become,

there's always a little invisible wall between them.

Check divorce statistics.

Anyway, it really started to bug the shit out of

me, because on the surface I pretended to go along.

I found myself in strange places like locker rooms,

standing around listening to assholes in sweaty jock straps

sprouting such great lines as, "Hey, Janak, that broad up, Jack?"

Or, "Who cares if she is a nigger? She's a great head job.

" You see, when women aren't around, guys speak

differently, and it's the same with women.

There's always a difference in the air when guys are

speaking with guys and women are speaking with women.

The dialogue doesn't necessarily have to be gross or even have anything to do with sex.

Now, that crap just amounted to verbal and physical ugliness.

Even the autistic people I know are just preoccupied with who's bawling whom.

Well, anyway, I felt like I had to try.

Even when I'd get a relationship started back in

my nervous days of puberty, I always screwed up.

I found girls all right, it's just I never felt the sexual drive with them.

That I felt with a guy.

I bet you when those chickies get a hold of you and your thing...

It became a fantasy world with me.

I bet you they never let go when they do that.

I bet you they stay with you all night.

They want to stay with you all the time, don't they?

Half horror and just half wonder. Everybody masturbates.

But with me, it became my whole world.

Shit, baby, between my parents screaming at me... Stop that, Xavier!

Every time I was pulling my pudding in society, I was so guilt-ridden.

God, I thought I was cracking.

I can remember my mom yelling lines at me like,

"Javier, keep that up and you'll go crazy!

" And another one was... Stop that, Xavier, or you'll go blind.

One day in the middle of pulling my pudding, I shouted back,

"How about letting me keep going until I need glasses?

" Xavier, that's no way to talk to your mother.

How much more of this do you want, honey? I have to pick up Bruce in a half an hour.

Not really, I'm just getting a little uptight.

We can stop right now. We'll pick it up another time.

But I really appreciate your coming over and

letting me do this whole shtick with you.

Okay, what'll it be, gang? Coffee, tea, or grass?

Thank you, Shelley.

I know you'll really be happy with what we shot tonight.

Carol, darling, if I didn't dig you so much, I'd

never do this corny "this is your life" thing.

It's too much of an emotional bloodbath for me.

Baby...

You know, that's exactly why I'm so involved in my work.

But if you get an honest film, somebody, somewhere will see it.

And maybe they'll do something to help someone get equal rights.

Far out. You keep rocking, I'll keep rolling, and maybe we'll make it.

God, I'm getting maudlin. I better split before

I drown everyone in the room in my tears.

And that's not ladylike.

Okay, butch, keep in touch and watch those glorios.

You never know what sits on the other side of those doors.

Good night, all. Ciao.

Ciao.

Parents, it's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?

Kids, before you leave, I want to impress upon you

both how important tomorrow's session will be to you.

Be prepared to experience something that you've never felt before.

In fact, most people go through their whole lives without ever

really knowing the joy and beauty there is in the world for them.

If only they'd reach out for it.

You're both beautiful, you've got everything.

You're pure, you're natural, and you're full of love.

So when you go home tonight, Carol was one of the few people

I'd ever met who really understood what love was all about.

Love for her was something to share.

Hold me.

Oh, I need you close to me.

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You're a very noiseless little lady.

And your skin is like, uh...

Rose petals? Last time you said it was like a baby's.

Well this time it's just sexy.

Skin turns you on.

Uh-huh. Some men dig legs, some dig curvy behinds, but me, I like skin.

Lots and lots of skin.

Tony, if I left school, could I live here with you?

No.

Why not? We're friends, aren't we?

Yeah.

Then why not?

Maggie, if we lived together we wouldn't be friends.

Look, I have no intentions of falling in love with you if that's what you mean.

Maggie, what do you want? A male doll that you wind up in a place lover?

I'm looking for a thrill a minute. Have you got one?

Maggie, why in the hell can't you be satisfied with the way life is?

What do you got to make it out to be something it isn't?

You know what life is. It stinks!

That's why I drink cheap wine, ball over sex surfers, and play movie star.

I'm going to be somebody important. Somebody you won't forget.

Satisfied? How the hell do you get satisfied?

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I've got a great idea.

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Why don't we both drink some of that cheap red wine?

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Tony, what was the name of that friend of yours with that dumpy wife?

Which one?

You know, the agent. The one you said wanted to go to bed with me.

Well, I know three agents with dumpy wives, honey.

Each one wanted to go to bed with you.

Well, this one was about so high, wore tight pants, and smelled of Noxzema.

Noxzema? Oh, you mean Joe Kelly?

Yes, that's his name. I don't suppose you'd give

him a call from me. I mean, as a good friend?

Oh, for Christ sakes, Maggie. Why don't you just go

through my VIP list and pick out whatever you want?

Money, position, influence?

Lover, if I'm going to be living here with you,

I want to get to know all your close friends.

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What do you say?

I told you it'd be easy.

Well, Maggie, it's a great place to live.

What do you have to do?

Do? You know, I told you, always say what you mean.

Do you have to go to bed with him?

If I want. Try the wine.

Thanks.

Tony's really very nice. I think he likes you.

Well, I like him.

Tastes good.

Tastes bad. But it does something for me.

You know, men like Tony can be very convenient friends.

They know all the right people, take you to all the in places.

It doesn't hurt to make them happy. For a while, anyway.

You know, Maggie, it's really exciting watching the things that you do.

I mean, it really is.

You always are so sure of yourself. You always know exactly where you're going.

Right now, I'm going into the other room and make a down payment on some insurance.

La, la, la.

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

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Hello there.

Gabriella.

I was getting my suit. It was wet.

Were you watching?

Yeah.

For long?

A little while.

Gabriella, give me your hand.

I thought I'd get some more wine.

No, you didn't.

Yeah, I thought if I...

Gabriella, say it like it is. Say what you really want.

I... Maggie, I don't want... You're turned on, aren't you, Gabriella?

Tell Tony what you want.

Remember, it's like a down payment.

I want to make love.

I want a ball.

It's beautiful.

Carla's told me a lot about you.

Oh, not too much.

How do you like the university?

It's fine, if you dig universities.

Listen, Carla, I'm going to split now.

I'll see you later.

Oh, baby, listen.

Will you move some of your gear out of that spare bedroom?

Gabriella's going to stay with us for the weekend.

Look, you two, I don't want to be any trouble.

What trouble?

No trouble. It'll be groovy.

See you later.

Later.

What do you think of him?

Big boy.

Boy or man, my dear?

Nature has decreed that the male, generally speaking, is larger and more muscular.

So in that sense, he's physically stronger.

But number-wise, it... You mean like a woman?

Mm-hmm.

I don't think there's any question about that.

Women are better able to tolerate exposures to heat and cold, starvation, shock.

And we're less susceptible to things like baldness,

color blindness, skin cysts, stomach ulcers, heart attacks.

That's the one, in fact, that we women live longer than them.

We got everything going.

But I don't get it, Carla.

You've got everything going.

You've got looks, brains, money.

Why a boy like Bollie?

Hey.

Hey, you don't think I'm in love with that freshman, do you?

Oh, honey.

Bollie's barely 18.

He's fresh, unjaded and kept.

Mm-mm.

No, I just give him a roof over his head

and put some money in his pocket every now

and then and kiss him goodnight. That's all.

But you could have any man.

I still do.

It's just that there's this great excitement

in being the lion instead of the lamb.

The aggressor, the one who makes love will change.

Carla, you sleep with him?

All the time.

Gabrielle, Gabrielle, don't you understand?

You know, I'm not trying to cultivate a farm system

or program a sex machine.

I'm making love happen, not absorbing it like some sponge

or some clam that gets its kicks every now and then.

It's beautiful.

It's exciting.

And it's the wildest kick I've ever had.

Oh, and baby, I'm going to share it all with you.

I was talking to this guy.

His sister works over at one of those massage parlors

in the area.

Well, it's an honorable profession.

Yeah, well, she's a part-time student,

so she just sits around and reads most of the time.

Then these guys come in.

They get all turned on in the nude.

Then they pay 40 bucks for a bath and a rubdown.

40 bucks?

Well, Wally, what the hell do you expect for 40 bucks?

Personality and companionship?

I don't know, but they ought to get something.

I mean, 40 bucks?

We're not intoxicated with sexual desires.

Puritanism is not around the corner.

And puritanism is not going to change our sexual behavior

or the way we think.

Or the way we feel, or the way we touch, or the way we taste.

Yeah, what do you want to bet?

Black or white, I guess we're all the same.

Sometimes.

But black girls have to work a little harder at it.

You know something, honey?

The sooner you realize that it's all wrapped up

in the sex game we play, the better off you'll be.

The better the body, the better the brakes.

Got it?

Why can't the joining of a man and a woman

add up to something more than two?

Because it never will.

Because we either go topless or bottomless

with a plastic object.

And the sisters that participate, either for the buck or just to rip off the system,

well, they betray you.

You believe in women's lip?

I believe in me, my body, my brains.

Black is beautiful, you're beautiful.

Take the Playboy Bunny, the one-night stand swinger,

the who-needs-a-man radical femme or the double-standard chauvinist male.

Pornobuyers and sellers, dirty books, filthy movies.

God, they all add up to one great mechanical orgy or the

unpardonable thing of one person making love to himself.

Now, why don't you and Wally go for a long, long walk, hmm?

Before I can work threesome into this conversation.

I guess it all started that day I was playing volleyball on the beach.

She kept looking at me, like, uh, like she knew something I didn't.

Then we just met.

Wow, I mean, how did you meet?

I was body-surfing,

and I finally caught this really good one.

It turned out to be all whitewater.

But when I reached the beach, she was there, standing by me, looking down.

What did she say?

She didn't have to say anything.

The potty like she has.

I guess all I wanted to do was look.

Uh, how did you become friends?

Well, I admit it was kind of heavy.

I mean, Carla being four years older and all.

Not that that has a lot to do with it,

but, I don't know,

chicks like you usually want to be with older guys, I guess.

Well, sometimes, Wally, we really don't know what we want.

Carla does, and that's for sure.

It's a fantastic relationship.

Do you dig relationships?

It depends.

Got a girl?

I see her a lot.

Do you like her a lot?

She's a lot of fun.

You want to know something?

What?

You kind of remind me of her.

I do?

Both kind of quiet.

Well, maybe that's because we're both good listeners.

Or maybe it's because we both know what men like.

You know what you like?

Oh, I like cheeseburgers a lot.

No.

I mean, we're the opposite sex.

Yes, ma'am, I like sex, yes.

You know, Wally, you remind me of someone I used to go with, too.

I do?

Uh-huh.

Someone I was very fond of.

He's kind, sensitive, a very gentle human being.

Wally, are you gentle?

I guess. Why?

Because I like men to be kind of gentle.

My father was just the opposite.

He was always loud.

Beautiful!

You forgot to give me the message.

Now you've probably lost me the goddamn account.

My mother and he used to yell at each other, and it was one argument after another.

And I'd die if I didn't get out of there.

All I could think of or wanted was to be with Stephanie

and to run, run away and be free and to be loved.

♪ There's a new world to be found ♪

♪ New world to be found ♪

♪ Take a look ♪

♪ Settle down ♪

♪ There's a new world ♪

♪ To be found ♪

♪ There's a new world waiting behind ♪

♪ Open for you to see ♪

♪ With every atom there's a sign ♪

♪ Find it and you can be ♪

♪ Take one step ♪

♪ Advance one pace and fly ♪

♪ Fly ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ You'll circle around the congo sunrise ♪

♪ Winging your way to the light ♪

♪ Within every moment there lies its shine ♪

♪ Secrets long seemingly tried ♪

♪ There's a new world waiting behind ♪

♪ Open for you to see ♪

♪ With every atom there's a sign ♪

♪ Find it and you can be ♪

♪ Take one step ♪

♪ Advance one pace and fly ♪

♪ Fly ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

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(singing in foreign language)

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- Welcome sister, nothing that is done with tenderness,

with affection, with love is wrong.

It's only harshness, and coldness, and cruelty that's wrong.

And remember, nothing, nothing's everlasting.

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♪ Nothing everlasting, unless you love, love, love ♪

♪ Nothing everlasting, unless you love, love, love ♪

♪ Nothing everlasting, unless you love ♪

♪ I heard about treasures ♪

♪ The light they call, the treasure caught a pound ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, I heard a wise man ♪

- Hi.

- Oh, I'm so glad to see you.

- Me too, I couldn't resist the invitation.

- Well, I promise you won't be sorry, you hungry?

- Starved.

- Well, John will be down soon and we'll meet him after lunch, okay?

- Okay.

- Well, this is really nice, who belongs to it?

- You and me, if we want it.

Come on, let's go, I've got a million things to tell you.

- Okay.

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- I don't know what's worse for you, nicotine or Benz Green.

What do you think?

- I don't know.

- I don't remember which girl's school it was,

but we had this big bottle of Yellow Uppers.

Oh, I do, it was in Zurich.

My best friend was a girl named Amy.

- How old were you then?

- Oh, I was about 13.

Amy was a year older.

She was from New York and I was from nowhere.

You know, I went to a lot of very straight and fashionable schools for young ladies,

only I wasn't so straight and fashionable

sometimes, so I was politely asked to leave.

I wonder whatever became of Amy.

- Heather, what about your people?

- Divorced.

Mother lives in Paris and father plays with dolls.

- You believe in marriage?

- Yeah, I believe in marriage.

- Without the license?

- I don't know.

If it was the right man and I really loved him, yeah.

- Yeah, but why do you need a minister

to say it's cool for two people to live together?

I mean, nothing is permanent except your freedom.

Nothing lasts forever.

- Well, you're right about that.

- I know I am.

Look, when I was 17, I lived with this guy.

His name was Howard.

He had blue eyes and one dozen freckles and he chain-smoked her, but tarantins.

He was 25 and a career student that bit his nails and drank coffee non-stop.

I really liked that bastard.

He cared about me.

- But what happened?

- Well, because of his expert carnal knowledge,

we remained sexually faithful to each other, totally free and independent.

That is until my folks caught up with me and gave me that classic speech about

what is a nice girl like me doing in a place like this?

And then off to a very fashionable girls' school I went.

- Did you ever see him again?

- No, but we really didn't have one of those

heavy breathing, heart-clutching type of romances anyway.

It was just sort of convenient for me, that's all.

Listen, I bored you to death with my cosmopolitan magazine story.

Now let's go have some fun.

- Hey, Heather, he didn't bore me.

I was interested.

I really wanted to hear what you told him.

- Listen, Gabriella, there's just one thing for you to remember.

Have a ball, 'cause life's just one great big celebration,

as long as you're the one that's giving the party.

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Gabriella, did you ever make up dreams?

- No, I don't think so.

- Why?

- Well, ever since puberty, I used to make up these wild, pornographic dreams.

I was the centerfold playgirl, and all these men would kiss me and fondle my body.

- What kind of men?

- Well, he used to look like Woody Allen.

But as I grew up, it was Paul Newman or Richard Burton.

I guess I just happened to dig older type men, that's all.

How about you?

- Me?

Oh, I don't know.

- Well, how about your old man?

I mean, most girls have a crush on their fathers at one time or another.

- Well, I'm one girl that didn't get that hangup.

- Wow, I really dislike that man.

- You really mean that, don't you?

- My parents always disliked each other.

In fact, I can't remember them ever saying one nice thing to one another.

Well, it'll never rank as one of the classic

love affairs of all time, that's for sure.

My mother and father had absolutely no relationship to anything they did together.

And I think the only common denominator they had was making love.

Dropped you, you creep.

- Hey, kid, I wanna tell you something.

- Then my father always gave me his pearls of wisdom for the day.

Like, good girls don't play around, or if I ever got pregnant with some boy,

don't come crawling to him for help.

My dear father's morals were really something.

Like all men, he set his own double standards.

And his idea of a big night in the town

was to cruise Sunset Boulevard looking for action.

- Gazari's, baby, that's where it's all at.

Psychedelic sounds, psychedelic sights, and the people.

Well, you name your type, and it's sure to be floating around

somewhere at Gazari's, where everybody comes sooner or later.

We're located at 9039 West Sunset Boulevard on the better side of the Sunset Strip.

Now, you get it all together and bring it to Gazari's.

That's 9039 West Sunset Boulevard.

And we'll see you over there.

Right now, we'd like to play the number four

tune on the charts in this really a while.

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- Hey, uh, free press, man, here's your coffee.

It's, uh, 25 cents, look at that.

Spaced out, yeah, yeah, here it is.

Pictures of broads in the back, yeah.

25 cent, come on, do you want the paper?

No, wait, you forgot to give me the bread for it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh.

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He usually tried to pick up some young, tender body that was thumb-tripping.

Besides a ride, they usually needed money and usually they'd do anything for it.

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His usual routine was to drop into a few go-go clubs looking for young females.

And you know something?

You always find them.

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I think you're beautiful and I'm gonna help you too.

That's right, wait a minute.

Hey waitress, make that a double on the martinis, right.

Charlie, two double martinis, extra dry.

Mr. Charr is going through another one of his numbers.

Getting whacked out of his gourd.

You know, uh, speaking of love,

why don't you bring a change of clothes tonight when you come to my place?

The wife and kids are in San Diego for the weekend.

Well I need clothes for, I never get out of bed anyway.

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Frank, are you really going to help me?

Baby, I'm gonna make you a superstar.

So my dear beloved father scored and another young, tender girl bit the dust.

My good father passed away over a year ago.

You want to know something?

He cried at his funeral.

Well he wasn't father.

I didn't cry 'cause of that.

I cried 'cause I never had him.

Ah, how's me proud beauty?

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You'll excuse me.

No, John.

No I can't, I'm obsessed by your body and I've got to bite your nose off your face.

I know that John, but let me go.

This is my friend, Gabrielle.

Hello, hello.

Welcome, welcome to Sin City.

My house is your house.

Thank you.

Ah, don't thank me.

Because I'm thinking of mad, crazy, delightful things

like chaining your lovely body below deck and giving you to the crew.

That's because you're mad, crazy, and impossible.

That's because I had an impossible childhood.

I discovered scotch when I was six years old.

All right, down to the business at hand.

Dave and Marcia, topside, soaking up all the sun

and discussing all my evil and vile qualities.

Anything I should hear?

Only that I'm a villainous and immoral man who devours young and virtuous maidens.

Gabrielle, he sounds dangerous.

Ah, dangerous?

No.

Intoxicated?

Yes.

And I have this bad, bad habit.

What's that?

I want to make love to every woman I meet.

I really don't know what all the fuss is about.

So few more people are unemployed and the business

rates go up and down like a bitch in heat.

But it always seems to work out all right.

True, true.

Dying, what I meant was money investments today

can be a bit more precarious, that's all.

Well, with a fluctuating dollar.

Did you know that the German mark is,

you are undoubtedly the great investment broker of all time.

Thank you, John.

Now here we are, you and I.

Two men of the world with three of the loveliest creatures on the face of the earth.

And you're talking about recession, gross national debt, and figures.

I don't mind, really.

I'd like to hear more about it.

Well, I don't mind figures either when they look like yours.

John, you may be an expert, but you don't understand women.

Today's modern woman's educated.

It's just a matter of time and two you males will all be in our fiscal control.

Well, maybe, but I'm from the old school.

I prefer my women soft, squeezy.

And tender, and loving, and full of pleasure.

Yes, yes.

Speaking of all that, the bottle is empty.

My dear, I think we should wind our way to the cellar and find wine for my friends.

He may never return.

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♪ Gabriella's every fellow's ideal ♪

♪ Everything that you feel ♪

♪ Everything that is real ♪

John's right, Gabriella.

You do have a beautiful body.

Hasn't she, Dave?

Do you exercise?

A little, but I enjoy being active.

You go to school with Heather, don't you?

Yes, I live at the university.

Oh, and one of those coeducational dormitories?

Yeah, it's really wild.

I'll bet.

How do you manage to get any sleep?

Much less any studying done with all those young bulls on the loose.

My God, must be like Disneyland.

You wanna know something?

Yes.

It's much better.

When I was young, somebody said it was just kid stuff to talk about sex.

That it was much more fun to do it.

That somebody should get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Well, I thought that was the cleverest remark I'd ever heard, but it was wrong.

It is fun to talk about it.

All right, as long as we're on the topic of sex,

we're opening a new club in Jamaica next month.

Why don't you come down with me?

And what would I be, Miss September or Miss November, or just one of the girls?

You could have the whole calendar if you wanted, you know that.

I don't think I wanna share all those months with just one man.

You're fantastic.

You know that you're really something.

If I could package you,

you'd be the centerfold of all centerfolds.

That's really a great achievement.

Miss centerfold, isn't that something to shoot for?

I know a lot of girls who haven't done bad by it.

Well, I'm not a lot of other girls.

I'm me.

And my idea of success is not to have a picture

of my body hanging in some adolescent locker room.

Oh, I see.

Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

Exactly.

All you have to do is treat me with tender loving care.

Now, if you follow through with a low shot,

using the backhand, it's a devastating stroke.

I see what you mean.

That's far out.

I was turning my wrist too far.

Let's try it again.

Gabriella, why don't you come out to our place for the weekend?

We have our own tennis court and we'd love to have you.

Thank you.

Hey, that's a terrific idea.

You know, Marsha's even a better player than I am.

Really?

Not physically, darling, but I do play to win.

Oh, darling, would you mind?

I seem to be out of cigarettes.

I quit.

Never felt better in my whole life.

You know, I'm beginning to smell things that--

Darling, please, would you get some for me?

One of these days, I'm gonna get you to stop.

Gotta build up that old endurance.

Look what it's done for you.

Dave likes you.

I like him.

He's very nice.

No, I mean, he really does.

I think I should feel jealous.

Beautiful young girl involved with my husband.

Involved?

You know, an older man can be very interesting to a bright young woman.

I suppose he could.

I wish we'd known each other last Christmas.

You'd have made a wonderful gift for Dave.

I never knew what to buy him.

You mean for the man who has everything?

Marsha, you're putting me on.

A little bit.

But if I were serious, I'd have no objections

if Dave wanted to have an affair with you or you with him.

I mean, as long as it didn't get out of hand.

You're saying that it's okay with you

if your husband and I make love?

Honey, love has nothing to do with it.

He's obviously physically attracted to you.

And he's a perfect gentleman, both in and out of bed.

Well, supposing I don't feel the same way.

I mean, supposing I tell your husband to go to hell.

You'd hurt his feelings.

And I wouldn't want you to do that.

Gabriella, listen to me.

I have everything a woman can want.

Money, security, a certain freedom and independence,

and a social life that you'd say was out of sight.

I have friends on every continent.

And I summer on the Mediterranean and I winter in our house in Acapulco.

Now, what would have happened to all those beautiful

things if 10 years ago, I told Dave to go to hell?

You know, when I first met you,

I had visions of long lines of virgins and non-virgins

banging on your door every night.

After all, I'd never met a millionaire flesh peddler before.

- Competition scare you? - No.

Because I never intended getting in line.

Besides, Mr. Hammond, what can you offer me?

A Greek island?

Make me Princess of Monaco?

No, no, I'm afraid not.

But I can offer you experience, excitement,

all expenses paid.

Anything else?

I'll even throw in an incestuous father's wisdom and concern.

They say that daughters are always in love with their fathers.

Do you think I have a father hang up about you?

I'm too young to be your father.

Besides, daughters always outgrow their fathers.

I should think it would be very difficult to outgrow you.

Hi.

Hello. Would you like a drink?

No, thanks. I don't drink.

I've been wondering, Gabriella, how do you get along?

- Along? How do you mean? - Financially.

After all, tuition, clothes, and all the necessities a girl likes,

- cost a lot of money? - Yeah, well, I could buy.

I mean, I work at the library at the university.

You know, a girl like you has great potential.

- In what way? - Poise, personality, intelligence.

Obviously, sex appeal.

You really should put it to work for you. Market it.

Well, you're the businessman. What do you suggest?

There are two or three things.

Number one, I find you attractive.

Attractive to me.

Number two, Marcia and you and I could become very good friends.

Number three, I could help you financially and in many other ways.

Dave, do you want to keep me?

Well, I think arrangement is a better word for it.

That is, if you think you'd be happy with it.

I don't know. Nobody's ever offered to have an arrangement with me before.

- Do you use the pill? - No.

- Can I have ramp? - Afraid not.

- Would you mind? - Me and my top?

Please.

All right.

- You're a lovely girl. - Thank you.

And beautifully girls.

Well, what do you say?

Of course, if you think you need time to think it over...

Dave, I don't need any time to think that.

My answer is yes.

I'm looking forward to being your friend and Marcia's.

Dave, are you coming up?

Yes, darling.

Gabriella and I will be up in a minute.

Hey, Dave, I think this is going to be a very far-out arrangement.

You know, I'm really in a rut.

I mean, like, here it is, the second semester,

and I'm still doing the same old things.

I'd like to do all of those things usually, you know?

Like, you're always going to fun places like Jamaica and Al Capulco,

and you're always doing exciting things and

meeting, like, new, interesting people, and...

Oh, well, you know. I'm really jealous of you.

Look, Susan, you can do it too. It's really simple.

I was in your place a year ago, and I learned that whatever you want, you can do.

Well, I'm afraid it's not that easy.

I mean, take men, for instance.

I don't know how to handle them.

Okay, I know what they always want, but I mean, let's face it, I'm chicken.

I know. I went through the same trip.

But I learned that it's not what they want that matters.

It's what you want.

Susan, listen to me.

You've got to understand the game before you can play it.

And then you can get the most out of men.

Well, I'm afraid I've got a lot to learn.

With your face and your figure, you won't have any problems.

I'll help you.

You will?

But you've got to agree to do anything I say, because otherwise it won't work.

You've got to commit your mind and your body.

Gabriella, I will do anything you say.

Okay.

The most important thing you've got to learn

is you've got to be free and independent, because that's what it's all about.

Doing what you want to do.

Sue, loving is beautiful.

And we're beautiful.

And it works.

Oh, wow.

It really stretches the mind.

Okay, we'll start tonight.

I want you to meet a good friend of mine.

He's in the music business, and he's really a far-out man with a far-out house.

Now, he may seem a bit older to you at first, but after a while, Susan,

you'll find that they're really all the same from 18 to 50.

Because once you understand men, they're really a very useful animal.

♪ A castle stone ♪ In a noble land

♪ Can be so fragile ♪ Just like one made of sand

♪ When the walls and roof ♪ Crack and leak

♪ It makes the foundation ♪ A little bit too weak

♪ A castle crumble ♪ In a matter of time

♪ Like every building down here ♪ Don't you know you're gonna find

♪ That nothing's everlasting ♪ Unless you love

♪ Oh, no

♪ Nothing's everlasting ♪ Unless you love

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