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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,000 I love money. 2 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:45,200 I love money more than I love the things it can buy. 3 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,000 Does that surprise you? 4 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,100 Money. It don't care whether I'm good or not. 5 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,900 It don't care whether I snore or not. 6 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:57,800 It don't care which god I pray to. 7 00:00:57,900 --> 00:01:03,600 There are only three things in this world with that kind of unconditional acceptance. 8 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,000 Dogs... 9 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,300 ...doughnuts... 10 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:07,900 ...and money. 11 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,100 Only money is better. 12 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:12,200 You know why? 13 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:14,000 Because it don't make you fat... 14 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,600 ...and it don't poop all over the living-room floor. 15 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,500 There's only one thing I like better: 16 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:26,100 Other people's money. 17 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,300 Hey, guys. 18 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:50,000 Come on. 19 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,800 All right. Now, squeeze in over here. 20 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:21,500 That's it. I've got to see all your faces. 21 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,800 - How you doing, Tom? - Happy Thanksgiving, Jorgy! 22 00:02:28,900 --> 00:02:32,300 Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! 23 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,500 - Happy Thanksgiving. - Smile, everybody! 24 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,300 Take a good one, Elton. The stock is up another point and a half! 25 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,700 Somebody's up to something, Jorgy. 26 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:57,600 Good news. Stock is up. Don't worry about it. 27 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:00,700 - Gus, you got your teeth in? - Ready now! 28 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,400 Cheeks up! 29 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,100 New England Wire and Cable! 30 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,800 New England Wire and Cable! 31 00:03:12,100 --> 00:03:14,000 Up two points. 32 00:03:14,100 --> 00:03:17,600 Wire and Cable up two points. 33 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:25,300 Wire and Cable up two points. 34 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:42,600 - Morning, Mr. Garfield. - Good morning, Arthur. 35 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:46,600 Say good morning to Carmen. She's very happy today, aren't you, my sweet? 36 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:47,800 Good morning, Carmen. 37 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:51,400 - Cranberry juice is fresh today, boss. - Oh, good. 38 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,600 You never let me down, Arthur. 39 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,000 You never let me down. 40 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,400 - Good morning, sir. - Samuels. 41 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,000 - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. 42 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:37,700 - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. - Good morning. 43 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,300 - Good morning. - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. 44 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,300 - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. - Good morning. 45 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,300 - Morning. - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. 46 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,300 Work, work! 47 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,900 - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. - Morning. 48 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,600 - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. - Yeah. 49 00:04:56,700 --> 00:04:58,900 Good morning, Mr. Garfield. You look nice today. 50 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,300 I'm not paying you to be polite, Harriet. What's happening? 51 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,400 - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. 52 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:07,600 Morning. Morning. 53 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,600 Mr. Holt wants to see you for dinner... 54 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:13,500 ...and the Overly brothers will fly you to Texas or come here, whichever you want. 55 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,900 When I die, put it on my gravestone: 56 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 - "He never went to Texas." - Yes, sir. I'll call the engraver. 57 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,200 - Where's the cinnamon? - Out of cinnamon. 58 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:23,000 If I can't count on Dunkin' Donuts... 59 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,100 ...who do I count on? - Well, you can count on me, sir. 60 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,600 Granger, Trundel Canning. Tell me. 61 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:30,900 Trundel is being sued by the townspeople, sir. 62 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,400 Failed to comply with environmental restrictions. 63 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,900 And there are claims of illness from the citizenry. 64 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,500 Good. 65 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,500 Just before they're carted off to jail, make a bid. 66 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,600 - Yes, sir. - Angeli. 67 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,600 - Yo. - Eastern Motels. Outstanding shares. 68 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,300 Six million, Mr. Garfield. Slate owns 2 and a half million. 69 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:53,500 Mr. Morganstern wants to talk to you. 70 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:55,300 I'd rather talk to my mother. 71 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:57,300 - Pfeiffer! - Yeah. 72 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,700 What about this New England Wire and Cable? 73 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:02,300 It's too beautiful. Is it booby-trapped? 74 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:04,800 I... 75 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,300 I... 76 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:09,400 I... 77 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:11,000 I... 78 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:16,500 ...can't seem to find any problems, Mr. Garfield. 79 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,100 Neither can I. 80 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:20,500 - Richardson. - Yes, sir. 81 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:21,900 Let's talk to these people. 82 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,900 Call the man in charge, whoever he is. 83 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,700 Yes, sir. We'll get right on it. 84 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,300 New England Wire and Cable. Good morning. 85 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:35,600 The general manager, please, 86 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:37,700 That would be Mr. Coles. 87 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,000 - Who shall I say is calling? - Lawrence Garfield, 88 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:42,400 Just one moment, please. 89 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:46,200 - What did he want? - He wants to come up and see us. 90 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:47,900 Look the place over, he said. 91 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,300 Well, what's wrong with that? He's a shareholder. 92 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:51,800 Well, it's not that simple. 93 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:54,100 What this man does is no secret. 94 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,800 Bill, you got the jitters. 95 00:06:56,700 --> 00:07:01,000 Wall Street's in the liquidation business these days, Jorgy. 96 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,900 My father founded this company 81 years ago. 97 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:05,900 - I took over 28 years ago... - I know. 98 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,800 I control this company, and nobody's gonna liquidate us. 99 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:44,000 What a shit pit. 100 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:56,300 Look at this. 101 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,700 Look at this. 102 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:04,600 I haven't seen a place this classy since I left the Bronx. 103 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,600 Welcome to New England Wire and Cable. 104 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:40,700 I'm Bea Sullivan, Mr. Jorgenson's assistant. 105 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:42,300 - How do you do? - I do good. 106 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,900 Would you like to invite your chauffeur in to keep warm? 107 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,500 No, no. He's a yard chauffeur, honey. 108 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:50,400 Bring him inside, you spoil him. 109 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:52,500 Is there a Dunkin' Donuts in this town? 110 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,900 Dunkin' Donuts? No, I don't think so. 111 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,900 - Krispy Kreme, something? - I'm afraid not. 112 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:01,300 But we have coffee, and Emma might have a breakfast roll. 113 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:02,800 Breakfast roll? 114 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:05,000 Do you have an elevator? 115 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,700 I'm embarrassed to tell you, it's out of order. You know elevators. 116 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:11,300 Any oxygen? 117 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:17,100 You should have warned me. I'd have brought a paramedic. 118 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:20,700 Is it much further? I'd like to get there before dark. 119 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:23,800 Jorgy, this is Mr. Garfield. 120 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:26,900 Mr. Garfield, Andrew Jorgenson, our chairman. 121 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,800 Call me Jorgy. Everybody else does. Sorry about the elevator. 122 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:33,000 - It has a mind of its own. - Mr. Coles, president and general manager. 123 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,100 - Emma, bring in the coffee! - Nice to meet you. 124 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:37,100 Last limousine we saw here was in '48... 125 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,800 ...when Truman was running for president. - That's right. 126 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:42,900 He stood right out there on those stairs, exactly where you were. 127 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:44,500 - Is that so? - Yep. 128 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,700 That was the golden age. Rebuilding America and all that. 129 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,700 Old Harry made a great speech that day. 130 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,500 - Is that so? - Oh, yes. He was very impressive. 131 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:56,800 He's the only Democrat Bea and I ever voted for. 132 00:09:56,900 --> 00:10:00,100 Do you know much about the wire and cable business, Mr. Garfield? 133 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,800 I know if the cable's out of whack, the elevator don't go up. 134 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,600 - I'm thinking about the doughnuts. - Doughnuts? 135 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:09,600 Mr. Garfield was wondering if we had any. 136 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:12,600 - Bill, do we have doughnuts? - I don't think so. 137 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,200 How's that coffee coming along? 138 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,900 - Here we are, Mr. Garfield. - Thank you. 139 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:22,100 - Sugar and cream? - Sugar. I'll take care of it. 140 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:24,500 - Thank you, Emma. - I could have Emma get doughnuts. 141 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:28,200 No, no. Why don't we get down to business. 142 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,700 What's the matter? You're not interested in doughnuts? 143 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,300 - Would you like me to get some doughnuts? - No. Never mind, Emma. 144 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,200 You're right. 145 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:42,300 - Let's talk business. - Good idea. 146 00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:44,700 What business are we talking about? 147 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:48,200 Good coffee. 148 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:50,200 Well, let's put it this way: 149 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,400 Back in New York, I got a computer. Her name is Carmen. 150 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:56,900 Every morning, right after I brush my teeth, I punch out: 151 00:10:56,900 --> 00:11:01,300 "Carmen, computer on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" 152 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:06,800 Now, most mornings, she spits out, "Garfield, you're the fairest." 153 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:10,500 But three weeks ago, she said: 154 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,800 "Garfield, Garfield, scratch your balls. 155 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:19,600 New England..." Pardon me. "New England Wire and Cable is the fairest of them all." 156 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,900 New England Wire and Cable? 157 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,400 I said, "What's it worth?" So she showed me the numbers. 158 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,600 You got equipment here that costs $ 1 2O million. 159 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:36,800 Even at salvage, it's worth 3O, 35 million. 160 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,500 - Can I use that blackboard over there? - Yeah, go ahead. 161 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,100 Thank you. 162 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:44,200 Come with me. Carmen will educate us. 163 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:48,000 Gonna erase this stuff here. 164 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,200 Here. 165 00:11:50,500 --> 00:11:54,300 Let's put down 3O million. 166 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,600 - How many acres you got? - A hundred and ten. 167 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,000 Carmen and I figure, even as farmland, grazing land... 168 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,300 ...it's worth 1 O million. 169 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,200 - Is that fair? - Yeah. 170 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:10,200 Let's lay the 1 O under the 3O. That makes 4O million. 171 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,600 You bought some other companies, didn't you, Bill? 172 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:16,900 You have a plumbing, an electrical and some kind of adhesive company. 173 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:19,100 Boring, but all making a decent profit. 174 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:21,400 Carmen says they're worth another 8O mil. 175 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:23,300 Let's put the 8O under the 4O. 176 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,900 And you have working capital of 25 million, 1 O of it in cash. 177 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:31,900 Let's put down 25 million, add them up and see what you got. 178 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,900 $ 1 25 million. 179 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,600 The only bad news is... 180 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:42,100 ...that this wire and cable division isn't making a profit... 181 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:44,400 ...and all the other divisions have to support you. 182 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:47,900 Now, as a stockholder, that doesn't make me very happy. 183 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:49,600 Are you finished, Mr. Garfield? 184 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:50,900 No, I'm not, Bill. 185 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:53,900 Let's say Carmen was suffering from premenstrual syndrome. 186 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:55,400 No offense. A little nuts. 187 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,500 Let's say she was too optimistic. 188 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,400 Let's knock off 25 million. Here we go. 189 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,400 Let's make it... 190 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,000 ...$ 1 OO million. 191 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:07,500 A nice round number. I like nice round numbers. 192 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,700 Any debt? No. 193 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:12,100 Any lawsuits? Any environmental bullshit? 194 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,600 You throwing your garbage in the water? Of course not. Not you. 195 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:17,300 What about pension liabilities? 196 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:19,300 Carmen says you're fully funded. 197 00:13:19,900 --> 00:13:21,600 You people are dreams. 198 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:24,300 - I think this meeting is over. - No, no, wait a minute. 199 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:25,600 Here comes the fun part. 200 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,200 - How many shares outstanding you got? - Four million. 201 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:30,600 Divide 4 million into 1 OO million, what do you get? 202 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:31,900 - Twenty-five. - Good. 203 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,100 That means each share is worth $ 25. 204 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,900 But that was all foreplay. Let's go for the real thing. 205 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:44,800 The stock was 1 O when I woke up three weeks ago. 206 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:47,900 That's a 1 O for a $ 25 item. 207 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:49,200 What a sale. 208 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,400 Something worth $ 25, I can buy it for 1 O. 209 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,900 The company's not for sale, Mr. Garfield. 210 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,600 I don't want your company, Jorgy. 211 00:13:56,900 --> 00:13:59,200 I just want what every other stockholder wants: 212 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:02,400 - I wanna make money. - You are making money, Mr. Garfield. 213 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,900 You bought the stock at 1 O. It's now 14. 214 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:07,800 The stock is 14 because I'm buying it. 215 00:14:07,900 --> 00:14:10,700 I'm doing my part. Now you do yours. 216 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,900 Get rid of this wire and cable division. It's a financial cancer. 217 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,200 Would you excuse us, please? I want to talk to Mr. Garfield alone. 218 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:25,900 What the hell do you think you're doing, you little son of a bitch? 219 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,000 You can't come into my town, my plant, take my company. 220 00:14:29,900 --> 00:14:33,100 - You can't do that. - What, you been living on Mars, Jorgy? 221 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,700 It's called a corporate takeover. 222 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,400 I know what it's called, and I'm not gonna let you do it. 223 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:39,800 It's simple. I do it all the time. 224 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:43,300 Well, do it someplace else. I'm not gonna commit suicide. 225 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,500 Don't think of it as suicide. 226 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,100 Think of it as euthanasia. 227 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,500 Get out. 228 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,300 Get out. 229 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:55,200 Get out before I throw you out. 230 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:57,500 Where are you going? We're just doing business. 231 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,800 Business? With you? 232 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:02,800 I got a company to run. 233 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,300 Yeah, well, that's my point. 234 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:07,400 I don't like the way my company's being run! 235 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:09,400 And you better get your elevator fixed! 236 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,400 There's a goddamn fire raging here, and this whole industry's up in flames! 237 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,600 And you call the fire department, and who shows up? Nobody. 238 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,500 Because they're all in Japan and Singapore and Malaysia... 239 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,700 ...and Taiwan and every other shithole where they're crazy about pollution. 240 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:29,400 And while that inferno is raging, you're out in front... 241 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:35,200 ...mowing the lawn, tidying up, playing with your putz on my money! 242 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:41,500 - You'd think I was asking him for a loan. - Good day, Mr. Garfield. 243 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:44,800 I'm not a long-term player. 244 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,900 They give us trouble today? 245 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:03,400 They're not gonna send us back to the Bronx, Arthur. 246 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:05,500 Don't scare me there, Mr. G. 247 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:08,500 Richardson, I wanna buy up New England Wire and Cable. 248 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:09,900 Buy everything you can. 249 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,500 File a goddamned 1 3D. 250 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,700 - I wanna finish this one quick. - We're on it, 251 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:29,800 Well, it's official. 252 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:32,800 Our friend Garfield's intent is to take over the company. 253 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,700 He's filed his 1 3D with the SEC. 254 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:39,300 He now owns 1 2 percent of us. 255 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,000 What do you wanna do? 256 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,800 I own 2O percent. 257 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,000 Jorgy, we've got to protect ourselves. 258 00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:51,900 - We need legal advice. - We have lawyers. 259 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,500 They're not equipped for this. 260 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:56,400 - We need the best. - We want to call Kate. 261 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,100 Let me. 262 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:01,500 What makes you think she'll come? 263 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:03,600 I'll tell her we need her. 264 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:05,800 We're family. 265 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:58,500 Flamboyant L's and M's. 266 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:02,000 Loves to write "million," doesn't he? 267 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,700 We've never seen a man like that. 268 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:06,800 He's like something out of a comic book. 269 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,200 So they say. 270 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,300 - Hello, Kate. - Jorgy. 271 00:18:11,700 --> 00:18:13,200 Thanks for coming. 272 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:14,700 Doesn't she look splendid? 273 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:19,100 I have to be back in the city by 5. Would you mind if we get right down to it? 274 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:21,300 You're in charge, Kate. 275 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,900 Given that someone is interested in moving in on you... 276 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 ...you've no choice but to protect yourself. 277 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:27,700 You have some options. 278 00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:30,700 For openers, I recommend changing your state of incorporation... 279 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,300 ...from Rhode Island to Delaware. - Why Delaware? 280 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,000 That's a good idea. Strong anti-takeover legislation in Delaware. 281 00:18:37,300 --> 00:18:39,500 And that way we're not playing dead. 282 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,800 - Who the hell is playing dead? - You have to protect yourself. 283 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,400 - By running away to Delaware? - Jorgy, it's only on paper. 284 00:18:46,300 --> 00:18:50,800 This company was founded in Rhode Island. It will remain in Rhode Island. 285 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,900 I'm talking about Delaware, not Nairobi. Come on. 286 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:56,500 I own 2O percent of this company. 287 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,500 The board owns another 5, the employees another 5 percent. 288 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,700 That's 3O percent. Now, how can this man get control? 289 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,800 What do you want? Do you want me to negotiate a deal or not? 290 00:19:06,900 --> 00:19:09,100 But there's no deal to be made. 291 00:19:09,100 --> 00:19:10,500 He's knocking at your door. 292 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,200 If you don't answer it, it's the same as inviting him in. 293 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:14,500 Listen to her, Jorgy. 294 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,800 There's no deal to be made with predators. 295 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:20,100 You kill it, or it kills you. 296 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,000 Well, what do you suggest? 297 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:23,600 Make it worth his while to leave. 298 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:24,900 How? How? What do you mean? 299 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:28,100 Pay him off. Buy him out at a profit. 300 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:30,400 It's greenmail, Jorgy, but it's done all the time. 301 00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:33,800 - It's terrorism, and I won't do it! - We have other options, don't we? 302 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:35,600 Well, you're gonna lose your company. 303 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:37,600 Like hell I am. 304 00:19:37,700 --> 00:19:41,300 You, as they say in the street, are in play. 305 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:43,800 Garfield put you there. 306 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:46,800 And now I'm here as your lawyer. 307 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,300 Isn't that a hell of an irony? 308 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,700 Me trying to save your company. 309 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,300 Well, I can do it. 310 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:07,700 Yeah? 311 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,300 A Miss Sullivan from Hudson, Bradley and Flint is here, 312 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,400 And Granger wants to see you about Trundel, 313 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:15,200 Your suits are ready for a fitting, Can they come up at 5? 314 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:19,300 Yeah, 5:OO is okay. But tell them not to send the blind son of a bitch with the pins. 315 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:22,000 - Right, no pins, - And tell Granger, if he wants to see me... 316 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,500 ...he better make more sense than last time, or he can get on unemployment. 317 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,400 Shall I use those exact words, sir? 318 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,800 Send in Hudson, Bradley and Flint. 319 00:20:47,100 --> 00:20:48,800 Wow. 320 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,200 You know what kills me? I've done maybe seven, eight deals like this before... 321 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:56,000 ...and you know who I negotiate with? 322 00:20:56,100 --> 00:20:59,800 Skinny little joggers with contact lenses, all stinking from the same aftershave. 323 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,100 - I'm Kate Sullivan. - I know. 324 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:03,200 - Want a cigarette? - No, thank you. 325 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:05,600 Don't let me stop you. 326 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,300 Why would you stop me? 327 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,300 What are you, a fucking lawyer? 328 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:12,900 Depends on who I'm with. 329 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,900 Welcome to my life. 330 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,600 So, what's it gonna be? 331 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:20,300 Sue, settle, defend? 332 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,900 I came to talk. 333 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:24,800 Oh, that's trouble. 334 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:28,000 Lawyers wanna talk, nothing but trouble. 335 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:30,600 - How about a doughnut? - No, thanks. 336 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:34,600 - Why, are you a health-food freak? - No, just not hungry. 337 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,100 - You have to be hungry to eat a doughnut? - You don't? 338 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:38,600 What, are you shitting me? 339 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:41,200 I never heard of such a thing, have to be hungry. 340 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:43,300 Why? It don't taste better that way. 341 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,700 - How would you know? - What do you want? 342 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,500 - I need a month. - Get lost. 343 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,300 I just got involved. I need time to get everybody's act together. 344 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:53,700 My act is together. 345 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,700 If you give me some time, I think we can work something out. 346 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,100 Settle? 347 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,400 Work something out. 348 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:06,100 - I only settle when I'm in trouble. - Or when it makes sense. 349 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:08,600 It only makes sense when I'm in trouble. 350 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,600 Well, if you prefer, we'll go to court. 351 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:15,600 Get an injunction, have a fight. All kinds of allegations. 352 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,800 Costs them, costs you, and for what? 353 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:20,400 I live in court. You gotta do better than that. 354 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,300 I won't love you anymore. 355 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:33,000 - Two weeks. - Standstill agreement. 356 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:35,500 - Both sides. - No more buying. 357 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,000 - Two weeks. - Thank you. 358 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,300 Whoa, where are you going? 359 00:22:39,300 --> 00:22:42,000 We haven't talked about what I wanna talk about. 360 00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:46,900 - What's that? - You and me sweating between satin sheets. 361 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:52,300 Garfield, put your hand between your legs. 362 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,300 Do it! 363 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,200 Good. Now look directly down at that little guy... 364 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,700 ...and you say, "You must behave yourself when you're in the presence of a lady." 365 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:07,900 Garfield, if you don't say exactly that right now, I'm resigning from this case. 366 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:14,900 - You must behave yourself... - You must behave yourself... 367 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:18,100 ...when you're in the presence... ...when you're in the presence... 368 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,200 ...of a lady. 369 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,100 See? Not so hard. 370 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,700 See you in two weeks. 371 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,700 Wow! Did you see that, Carmen? 372 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:45,600 I'm in love, I'm in love. 373 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,900 - Goodbye, Miss Sullivan. - Goodbye. 374 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:06,400 Call Erickson. Tell him to arrange some money through the Royal Bank. 375 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,700 Don't pay more than we did on Fleetwood Furniture. 376 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:10,100 Then call Hathaway. 377 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,400 Tell him I want to make a tender offer for New England Wire and Cable. 378 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:14,700 Don't put it under our name. 379 00:24:14,900 --> 00:24:17,100 Label it OPM Holdings. 380 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:19,500 But what if she finds out we broke the agreement? 381 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,300 Richardson, what were you, born yesterday? 382 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,100 What do you think she's doing? 383 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,200 That kewpie doll's up to no good. Do it. 384 00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:32,100 I got us an extra two weeks. Now we have to move fast. 385 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,600 Get the board to buy up as many shares as they can. 386 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:36,500 Use your own working capital. 387 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,500 No, that's not what those dollars are for, 388 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:41,200 - That's our safety net, - Then borrow the money. 389 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,800 - No borrowing. - Andrew, listen to her. She's making sense. 390 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:48,800 For every share you acquire, it's one less for Garfield, 391 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:51,300 The more we buy, the less for him. 392 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:54,200 The more it costs, the less profit he makes. 393 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:55,700 So get the stock up. 394 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,600 And, Mom, make sure to buy it through an out-of-state broker. 395 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:03,000 I don't wanna borrow money. We've been debt-free since the depression. 396 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,900 But see, that's the trouble, Jorgy. 397 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,600 It's your gorgeous balance sheet that makes you so attractive. 398 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:11,000 And, Mom, get letters out to the shareholders. 399 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,700 Tell them how great business is and how wonderful the future looks, 400 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,300 - I'll do it. - Great, 401 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:19,800 I'll call you tomorrow. Good night. 402 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,300 Good morning, honey. 403 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:55,200 How you doing this morning, huh? 404 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:04,400 You got it up again. 405 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:07,200 Another point and a half. 406 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:09,500 - Pfeiffer. - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. 407 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,300 - Woody. - Good morning, Mr. Garfield. 408 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:12,700 - Harriet. - Good morning. 409 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,900 Miss Sullivan is gonna call tomorrow morning. 410 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:17,000 You tell her I'm not taking calls. 411 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:20,200 Then, when she comes over here and tries to storm into the office... 412 00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:22,800 ...you try to keep her out. But then let her push past. 413 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:27,900 Don't worry, she's desperate but harmless. Find out where she lives and call a florist. 414 00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:29,600 - Florist? - Florist. 415 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,800 You have a good evening, Miss Sullivan. 416 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,100 - Hello, Michael. - Oh, Miss Sullivan, here. 417 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:45,100 - Somebody brought these by for you. - Oh, thank you. 418 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:47,100 - Good night. - Good night. 419 00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:37,900 - Good morning. - Good morning. 420 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:46,500 - You ruthless son of a bitch! - Excuse me? 421 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,200 Jeez, I wonder what her problem is. 422 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,800 All right, all right. 423 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:15,700 Excuse me. 424 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:19,400 - Hello, Miss Sullivan, may I help you? - No, I'm sorry. I don't care. I will... 425 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,600 - I don't care! I'm not gonna... - It's all right, Harriet. 426 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:26,700 - You can't go in. - It's not all right, you hypocrite! You lied! 427 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,600 - But, baby-poo... - We had an agreement. 428 00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:32,400 We had a standstill! No more buying! 429 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:35,900 - OPM Holdings? You know nothing about it? - OPM? 430 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:38,700 - Not a lot to know. - You broke the agreement! 431 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:42,000 You embarrassed me with my firm. You embarrassed me with my clients! 432 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:43,700 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 433 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,100 Don't come on so holier-than-thou with me. 434 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:49,400 What am I supposed to do, sit here while you drive up the stock? 435 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:52,300 - I did no such thing. - You're full of shit. 436 00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:56,200 All that buying coming from some little cockamamie brokerage firm in Rhode Island? 437 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,200 You'd think you'd use an out-of-state firm. 438 00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:00,000 I know nothing about that. 439 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:01,300 Give me a break. 440 00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:03,700 Who am I dealing with here, Mother Teresa? 441 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,100 You want to play the game, learn to play it right. 442 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,900 Oh, is that what you call it, a game? 443 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,600 You're damn right. The best game in the world. 444 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,600 I'll teach you. It's easy. 445 00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:16,300 You make as much as you can for as long as you can. 446 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,700 And then what? 447 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:19,400 "And then what?" 448 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:21,800 Whoever has the most when he dies, wins. 449 00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:24,700 Look. It's the American way. 450 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,100 I'm doing my job. 451 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,700 I'm a capitalist. 452 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:31,600 I'm simply following the law of free enterprise. 453 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,100 What law is that? 454 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:34,800 Survival of the fittest. 455 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,700 Maybe some people don't see it that way. 456 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:40,100 Maybe they don't see it as survival of the fittest. 457 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:44,400 - Maybe they see it as survival of the fattest! - Oh, Katie, why are you so hard on me? 458 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:45,900 Because you're not nice. 459 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:48,200 Since when do you have to be nice to be right? 460 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:50,600 You're not right. You're what's happening. 461 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,300 One day we'll smarten up and pass some laws and put you out of business. 462 00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:57,800 They can pass all the laws they want. 463 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,000 All they can do is change the rules. 464 00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:02,400 They can never stop the game. 465 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:05,300 I don't go away. I adapt. 466 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:08,300 Ten years from now, they'll be studying you at the Wharton School. 467 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,100 They'll call it the Garfield Era... 468 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,800 ...and rinse their mouths out when they leave the room! 469 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:14,900 - I'll see you in court! - Oh, Katie. 470 00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:17,500 Don't leave. We haven't talked about sex yet. 471 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,600 - At least have a doughnut. - Stuff it! 472 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:21,500 Come on. Don't be a poor loser! 473 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,100 Lying to protect your client is just doing a good job. I understand that. 474 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:28,600 You didn't even ask me what OPM stands for. 475 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Other people's money! 476 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:37,600 All right, come on, come on! Let's go! 477 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:40,000 - Work, work, work! - Yes, sir! 478 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,500 Gotcha! Oh, yes. 479 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,500 How do you have them? 480 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,800 Two years ago, he tried to take over Westridge Corporation. 481 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:20,400 He was put under indictment for failing to disclose his 1 3D. 482 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:21,800 - What's this? - Christmas list. 483 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:24,300 - What did they do? - Nothing. Dropped the charges. 484 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:25,900 - Investors get hurt? - Nope. 485 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:28,500 If the charges were dropped, it's a technicality. 486 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,800 He was required to disclose. 487 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:32,200 Gerber's in prison, Richard. 488 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:36,600 Judge Pollard ain't gonna give you a restraining order based on a technicality. 489 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:41,100 We are a nation of laws, Marcia. 490 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,600 Ultimately, those laws come down to technicalities. 491 00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:47,000 Without those technicalities, what do we have? 492 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,400 Anarchy. 493 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:50,300 Garfield. 494 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,200 - Anarchy? That's the basis for your brief? - Correct. 495 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,900 Honeybunch, you better write a fantastic brief. 496 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,600 - I intend to. - You wanna send anything to Garfield? 497 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,100 Yeah. A court order. 498 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,500 Do the Japanese celebrate Christmas? 499 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,100 No, but I hear they're buying it. 500 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,500 I had nothing to do with any of this. 501 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:20,600 Pfeiffer comes walking in... 502 00:32:26,300 --> 00:32:28,700 TRO. 503 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:32,600 Temporary restraining order. 504 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,200 Thank you very much. 505 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:43,500 Some crew I've got. 506 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,100 Seventeen lawyers... 507 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,800 ...on retainer. 508 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,400 And you manage to work it out... 509 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:54,300 ...so that in a free market... 510 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,200 ...a so-called free country... 511 00:32:57,300 --> 00:33:03,700 ...I can't buy some shit-ass stock every other asshole can buy. 512 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,000 Congratulations. 513 00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:09,000 You're destroying the capitalist system. 514 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:11,800 While everybody else in the world is embracing it... 515 00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:15,200 ...my boys and girls are fucking it up! 516 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,100 You know what happens when capitalism gets fucked up? 517 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:20,800 The communists come back. 518 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:23,500 They come out of the bushes. Don't kid yourself. 519 00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:25,600 They're waiting in there. 520 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,700 But maybe that's not so bad. 521 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,700 Because you know what happens when the commies take over? 522 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:36,900 The first thing they do is shoot all the lawyers! 523 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,100 And if they miss any of you, I'll do it myself! 524 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,800 Now let's see if we can get this small-town judge... 525 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:45,600 ...to change his fucking mind! 526 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,700 Come on. 527 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,600 It wasn't me! I was in San Francisco! 528 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,700 Mr, Garfield, a Miss Sullivan is on the line, 529 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:04,600 - Yes. - Hello, Lawrence. 530 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:08,500 We're here in the office, toasting Judge Pollard's decision, 531 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:10,800 Stop gloating. It doesn't become you. 532 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:12,600 Don't be a poor loser, 533 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:17,500 I got you on a technicality. Not bad for some broad wet behind the ears. 534 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:19,100 I'd like to talk, 535 00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:22,200 I have no time for talk. My days are full. 536 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,900 - I'll buy you a doughnut. - I'm not hungry. 537 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,800 Since when do you have to be hungry to have a doughnut? 538 00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:29,600 Shut up, 539 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:32,000 Stop pouting. I'll buy you dinner. 540 00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:35,900 Name the place. I have a proposition for you. 541 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,200 You're trying to seduce me. 542 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,100 You have a nice laugh. 543 00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:43,700 My house, 8: OO. 544 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,800 How about Lutece? 545 00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:48,000 I wanna talk to somebody, I go to them. 546 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:51,200 You wanna talk, come to me, 8: OO. 547 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:55,400 I'll come for 2O minutes. That's all I need. Strictly business. 548 00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:57,900 Twenty minutes, my place, 8:OO, 549 00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:00,500 - 5:3O - 5:3O? 550 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:03,000 - Funerals are at 5:3O. Seven. - Six, 551 00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:06,200 - I gotta wash my face. - 8:3O. 552 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:08,300 - Deal. - Deal. 553 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,500 Harriet! 554 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,900 Get me my barber. Get me my manicurist. 555 00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:16,900 Call Arthur. She's coming to the house. 556 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,500 - Miss Sullivan. - That's me. 557 00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:43,800 - Come on in. The boss is expecting you. - Thank you. 558 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,700 - Mr. G will be right with you. - Thank you. 559 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,000 Gloria Taylor. 560 00:37:04,100 --> 00:37:05,800 Quarterback's girlfriend. 561 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,500 All that putz wanted to do was take her pants off in the back seat... 562 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:13,500 ...while I was ready to feed her... 563 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:18,000 ...protect her, put jewels around her neck. 564 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,900 I sent her poetry. 565 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000 Longfellow. 566 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:25,400 Can't go wrong with Longfellow. 567 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:32,300 Day by day I gazed upon her 568 00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:39,300 Day by day I sighed with passion 569 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:42,700 Day by day my heart within me 570 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:46,000 Grew more hot with love and longing 571 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,900 I gave her "Hiawatha." 572 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:54,100 All she wanted was a touchdown. 573 00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:57,000 Yeah. 574 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:00,200 To the quarterback's girlfriend. 575 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:02,500 To Gloria. 576 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,900 Drink, drink. It's the best. 577 00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:18,400 - You look terrific. - Thank you. 578 00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:22,300 How about some mushroom dip? 579 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:26,700 I thought this was a business meeting. 580 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,300 What's wrong with a little dip? 581 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,300 I never met a person so hard to feed. 582 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,000 Who are you mad at? 583 00:38:34,100 --> 00:38:37,100 Come on, have some dip. 584 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,600 Swallow. 585 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:04,900 Nice. 586 00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:07,300 I think we should talk business. 587 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,000 You have an exquisite neck. 588 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:12,100 I have to leave by 7. I have another engagement. 589 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:15,600 Oh, right. I forgot. 590 00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:18,600 - You got a "proposition." - Thank you. 591 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,200 - Shoot. - What will it take for you to go away? 592 00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:31,100 Greenmail? 593 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:32,900 You're offering to buy me out? 594 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,800 Why so uptight? It's not illegal. 595 00:39:36,300 --> 00:39:38,100 It's immoral. 596 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,300 A distinction that has no relevance for lawyers. 597 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:44,500 But it matters to me. 598 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,500 Well, for someone who has nothing nice to say about lawyers... 599 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,600 ...you certainly have plenty of them around. 600 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:53,700 They're like nuclear warheads. 601 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,100 They have theirs, so I have mine. 602 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,700 Once you use them, they fuck up everything. 603 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,200 Let me ask you: 604 00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:03,000 Do you have authorization to offer me greenmail? 605 00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:07,300 Of course not. 606 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,800 It's a lawyer's scheme. 607 00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:11,800 Everybody walks out happy. 608 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,400 I get paid off. 609 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,800 Jorgy keeps his company. 610 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,200 The employees keep their jobs. 611 00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:20,900 The lawyer gets a big fat fee. 612 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,000 Everybody walks out. Yumpin' yiminy. 613 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,000 Sounds pretty good to me. 614 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,900 - Except for the stockholders. - Their stock falls out of bed... 615 00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:32,400 ...they don't know what hit them. - Now you're Albert Schweitzer. 616 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,700 No, not Albert Schweitzer, Robin Hood. 617 00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:38,600 I take from the rich, and I give to the middle class. 618 00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:40,100 Well, the upper middle class. 619 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,600 - Would you care for some caviar? - The stock is 18. 620 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,000 Do you like music? The violin? 621 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,200 - Let's be serious. - Come on, let's change the subject. 622 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,500 - Arthur. - The stock is 18. We'll buy it back at 18. 623 00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:54,400 - First you laugh at me, then you insult me. - Then name your number. 624 00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:56,400 - What will you take? - Twenty-five. 625 00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:58,400 The stock hasn't seen 25 in years. 626 00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:00,800 You want history? The stock was once 8O. 627 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,300 Take 2O. 628 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,800 Such a high achiever. 629 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,200 If you're mad at somebody, don't take it out on me. 630 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,300 Twenty-five is my number, and that's a favor. 631 00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:11,500 Well, I don't like your number, and I don't need to be analyzed. 632 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,000 Do we have a deal or not? 633 00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:14,400 Let's discuss it over dinner. 634 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,100 - Good night. Your 2O minutes are up. - Wait a minute. I want us to be friends. 635 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:21,200 Let's segue into some soup and french bread. 636 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,400 Come on. Don't go away mad. 637 00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:27,100 I didn't buy your proposition. Come back with another one. 638 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,500 You're an emancipated woman. Learn to lose. 639 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,000 - I haven't lost. - Wait, wait! 640 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,400 I got a proposition for you. Hold on, you gotta listen. 641 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,400 You come on back up. 642 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,400 We have a nice dinner. 643 00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:44,400 We make passionate love for the rest of the night. 644 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,700 The first one who comes, loses. 645 00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:50,800 - Loses what? - The deal. 646 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,500 I come first, I sell you back my shares at cost. 647 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,800 You come first, you buy them at 25. 648 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,700 I think you're serious. 649 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,200 So how do you suggest we write this up? 650 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:07,400 Delicately. 651 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,400 Under the heading, "Easy come, easy go." 652 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:15,500 What do you got to lose, your virginity? I could lose millions. 653 00:42:16,900 --> 00:42:19,900 So, what happens if we come together? 654 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,800 I never thought of that. 655 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,700 Well... 656 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,900 ...think about it, honey. 657 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,500 I will. I will. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 658 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,700 Come on. Don't go. 659 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,600 I haven't played my violin yet. 660 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:38,700 Oh, God. 661 00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:43,000 Hello? 662 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,000 I just wanted to see if you got home safe. 663 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,300 Thank you. 664 00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:52,800 In your beddy-bye? 665 00:44:53,500 --> 00:44:55,400 I am. 666 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,300 - Did I wake you? - No. 667 00:44:58,400 --> 00:44:59,800 No. 668 00:45:01,300 --> 00:45:04,600 - Did you have dinner? - Yes. 669 00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:06,700 With who? 670 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,200 None of your business. 671 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,500 - Are you thinking about me? - No. 672 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,000 Well, how could you possibly manage that? 673 00:45:17,900 --> 00:45:21,300 Pills, whiskey, self-help tapes. 674 00:45:25,500 --> 00:45:27,700 I got another proposition for you. 675 00:45:27,700 --> 00:45:29,900 Oh, yeah? I can't wait, 676 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,600 We swap. 677 00:45:33,300 --> 00:45:36,200 Swap what, dirty jokes? 678 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,700 No. I give you all my shares... 679 00:45:39,700 --> 00:45:42,100 ...you give me the wire and cable division. 680 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:45,900 Hello? 681 00:45:46,300 --> 00:45:48,100 Hello? You like? 682 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,300 - I'll ask them. - Good. 683 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,800 All right, now wait. Don't go away. Don't hang up. Don't hang up. 684 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,300 Stay right where you are. All right. 685 00:45:59,100 --> 00:46:00,600 Okay. 686 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,100 Here comes the bridge. 687 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:27,800 That was very good. 688 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,000 - Thank you. - You're welcome, 689 00:47:30,100 --> 00:47:31,500 That was just for you. 690 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,300 Well, I appreciate it. 691 00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:34,800 Sweet dreams, 692 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,500 - Okay. Good night. - Bye-bye. 693 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,000 Oh, God. 694 00:48:08,300 --> 00:48:09,800 Forget it. 695 00:48:09,900 --> 00:48:12,200 Tell him to go to hell. 696 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,400 He spends $ 1 3 million for this place... 697 00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:17,400 ...then he sells it for 35. 698 00:48:17,500 --> 00:48:21,200 My guys are out of work, and he's made $ 22 million. 699 00:48:21,300 --> 00:48:24,500 - Now how do I live with that? - We eliminate a losing division. 700 00:48:24,500 --> 00:48:26,900 The other divisions don't have to support us anymore. 701 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,400 - I don't wanna hear that. - You still control the company. 702 00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:32,600 - You just don't have the cable division. - Why is it so difficult... 703 00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:34,200 ...for everybody to understand... 704 00:48:34,300 --> 00:48:37,300 ...why I can't kill these people and this town... 705 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:41,000 ...to enrich some son of a bitch who's trying to destroy me? 706 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,500 I can't play with him in the courts forever. 707 00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:46,500 He'll get the injunction lifted and buy more shares. 708 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,500 Don't be a pigheaded fool. 709 00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:51,900 He deserves to lose this company. 710 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,600 - Good night, Mr. Jorgenson. - Good night, Gus. 711 00:49:05,700 --> 00:49:07,800 Everything going along okay, Mr. Jorgenson? 712 00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:09,600 Everything's moving right along, Gus. 713 00:49:09,700 --> 00:49:12,300 Everything's gonna be okay, isn't it, at the plant? 714 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,700 - I mean, at the plant and everything? - Everything's gonna be just fine. 715 00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,300 We'll be making wire and cable for a long time. 716 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,400 - Yes, sir. Good night, sir. - Good night. 717 00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,100 Jorgy? 718 00:49:27,100 --> 00:49:29,800 - Have you got a minute? - Sure, Bill. 719 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,500 Do you mind if I speak frankly to you, Jorgy? 720 00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:37,200 You always have, haven't you? 721 00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:39,700 You know... 722 00:49:39,700 --> 00:49:43,000 ...I'm trained to think in contingency. 723 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,600 You know I've spent my life managing businesses, and... 724 00:49:46,100 --> 00:49:47,500 And... 725 00:49:47,700 --> 00:49:50,300 Bill, you're in a panic. 726 00:49:50,700 --> 00:49:53,100 Well, you know how it is with business, Jorgy. 727 00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,800 When things don't work out quite right... 728 00:49:55,900 --> 00:50:00,300 ...and people have invested a lot of time, a lot of their energy, a lot of themselves... 729 00:50:00,300 --> 00:50:03,400 ...management takes care of its own, Jorgy. It happens all the time. 730 00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:08,500 And given the uncertainty surrounding us these days... 731 00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:13,900 ...and the fact that you haven't set up any financial guarantees for us, Jorgy... 732 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,900 Lord, I hate... Hate giving this speech. 733 00:50:19,900 --> 00:50:24,400 When I retire in two years, I've told you, you're taking over the business. 734 00:50:24,300 --> 00:50:25,800 I promised you that. 735 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,200 There won't be any business in two years, Jorgy. 736 00:50:29,300 --> 00:50:31,900 There won't be any business in one year. 737 00:50:32,700 --> 00:50:34,600 You're holding on to a dream. 738 00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:37,700 Go home, Bill. Have a drink. 739 00:50:37,700 --> 00:50:40,300 Give my best to Jeanette. 740 00:50:40,700 --> 00:50:44,300 I don't want the rug pulled out from under me so close to the finish line. 741 00:50:45,300 --> 00:50:47,300 Good night. 742 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,200 Jorgy, I've been here 1 5 years. I have a family. Something's due me. 743 00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,500 Now, I've worked my ass off for 1 5 years... 744 00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:57,500 ...and you're gonna let that man come in and take over the company. It's not right. 745 00:50:59,300 --> 00:51:01,000 I'm sorry, Bill. 746 00:51:01,100 --> 00:51:05,200 Up here we don't plan the funeral until the body is dead. 747 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,200 Sounds like everybody's hungry. 748 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,300 Well, let's eat. 749 00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,700 - Sit down, darling. - Happy Thanksgiving. 750 00:51:26,700 --> 00:51:29,500 Thank thee, Father, for thy care, for thy bounty everywhere. 751 00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:33,400 For this and every other gift, our grateful hearts to thee we lift. 752 00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:34,900 Amen. 753 00:51:44,700 --> 00:51:46,700 Second down and 1 O, Lions at their 49, 754 00:51:46,700 --> 00:51:49,600 I don't know why you watch this. It's so stupid! 755 00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,300 Maybe if you'd watch, you'd see. See, he's going right now. 756 00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:54,700 Yes. Go, go, go! 757 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,200 I told you. My money was on Detroit. 758 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,200 Have to admit, we still have fresh air up here. 759 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:21,600 Feels good, all right. 760 00:52:24,100 --> 00:52:27,200 I'm awfully glad you came, Kate. 761 00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,800 It means a hell of a lot to your mother. 762 00:52:30,700 --> 00:52:32,200 I love your mother. 763 00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:36,600 I can't say I'm sorry for that, but I am sorry for whatever it is... 764 00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,800 ...that it's done to you in the last 21 - Odd years. 765 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,300 I'm okay, Jorgy. 766 00:52:43,300 --> 00:52:44,800 Good. 767 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,400 Now let's talk a little business. 768 00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,400 Let's quit talking about what I won't do. 769 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,200 Let's talk about what I will do. 770 00:52:54,500 --> 00:52:56,100 I have a problem. 771 00:52:57,100 --> 00:52:59,200 I'm a good lawyer. I'm a lousy mind reader. 772 00:52:59,300 --> 00:53:03,200 I wanna put it to a vote. Annual meeting in four weeks. 773 00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,600 Wanna put it in the hands of the stockholders. 774 00:53:05,700 --> 00:53:08,300 Can't do that. It's too risky. We could lose everything. 775 00:53:08,300 --> 00:53:11,600 - You're a fighter. I'm a fighter. - It's too dangerous. 776 00:53:12,100 --> 00:53:15,500 There's no other choice that I can live with. 777 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,200 This 3O percent, this faithful 3O percent... 778 00:53:20,300 --> 00:53:22,000 ...can you absolutely count on them? 779 00:53:22,100 --> 00:53:24,300 They haven't let me down so far. 780 00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,900 Awful lot of Ozzies on our side. 781 00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:29,600 Don't trust Ozzie. He's a banker. 782 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,700 I have to trust my friends, Kate. 783 00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:40,800 This is gonna be tough. 784 00:53:40,900 --> 00:53:42,900 I have to get Garfield to buy this. 785 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,500 He won't want to. It's not to his advantage. 786 00:53:49,700 --> 00:53:51,500 Talk nice. 787 00:53:52,300 --> 00:53:54,600 Give him your best smile. 788 00:53:56,100 --> 00:53:58,700 Come on, Kate. 789 00:53:58,700 --> 00:54:00,800 Let's take on the little son of a bitch. 790 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,600 Let's kick his ass all the way back to Wall Street. 791 00:54:31,700 --> 00:54:34,200 It's a quiet place. 792 00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:38,000 I thought it would be a good idea if we calmed down a bit. 793 00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:40,500 Do you like Japanese? 794 00:54:40,500 --> 00:54:42,500 I'd like to have Sony. 795 00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,600 Could you bring me a knife and fork? 796 00:54:50,300 --> 00:54:52,300 So, what do you say? 797 00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:56,900 A proxy fight? I'd have to be nuts. 798 00:54:57,700 --> 00:55:00,500 I could sit on my ass and wait for the injunction to lift... 799 00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:01,900 ...buy all the shares I need. 800 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,600 Anybody else, I wouldn't even come to lunch. 801 00:55:05,900 --> 00:55:07,700 You look very nice today. 802 00:55:08,500 --> 00:55:12,200 But if you win, Lawrence, it speeds up the process. 803 00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:16,500 You get what you want in three months instead of a year, maybe two. 804 00:55:17,100 --> 00:55:19,100 I love it when you call me Lawrence. 805 00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:20,400 Say it again. 806 00:55:23,900 --> 00:55:27,000 There's a lot can stand in your way, Lawrence. 807 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,900 Anti-takeover legislation's in the works. 808 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,200 Drexel's gone under. Milken's in jail. 809 00:55:31,300 --> 00:55:32,900 Trump's waiting tables. 810 00:55:33,100 --> 00:55:34,400 Don't threaten me. 811 00:55:34,500 --> 00:55:38,900 And just maybe you're over-leveraged, and you can't afford to wait. 812 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,400 - Thank you. You got any bread? - No bread. 813 00:55:42,500 --> 00:55:44,100 No bread. 814 00:55:44,700 --> 00:55:46,400 They got no bread. 815 00:55:46,500 --> 00:55:49,200 They wanna run the world, they got no bread. 816 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:56,200 In three weeks, you present your own slate. If you win, you buy everybody out at 2O. 817 00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,600 If you lose, you sell us back your shares at 1 5. 818 00:55:58,700 --> 00:56:01,900 Worst-case scenario, you still make a couple million. 819 00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,400 Amazing people, the Japanese. 820 00:56:05,900 --> 00:56:07,200 We blow the hell out of them. 821 00:56:07,300 --> 00:56:10,300 They go back to school, learn English and start to run the world. 822 00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:11,600 What do we do? 823 00:56:11,700 --> 00:56:14,400 We get bigheaded, start living the good life. 824 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:15,800 Forget about schools. 825 00:56:15,900 --> 00:56:17,800 People can't read. People can't write. 826 00:56:17,900 --> 00:56:20,200 Country's full of dropouts. 827 00:56:20,300 --> 00:56:22,200 Education. 828 00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,400 Who needs education as long as you can blow up the world? 829 00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:29,300 Meanwhile, I got everybody in my office learning Japanese. 830 00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,600 I've never seen such a beautiful lawyer. 831 00:56:35,500 --> 00:56:37,200 Come on, Lawrence. 832 00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,100 This is your game. 833 00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:42,800 Winner takes all. 834 00:56:45,700 --> 00:56:47,800 Rumor has it, you got balls. 835 00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,800 I've been trying to show you for weeks. 836 00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,000 Well, here's your opportunity. 837 00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:58,800 All right. 838 00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,700 I can always use a good proxy bloodbath. 839 00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,000 After all, I wanna give you a fighting chance. 840 00:57:04,100 --> 00:57:06,200 I love you. 841 00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:09,800 Of course you do. 842 00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,000 Because we're the same. 843 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:17,900 We are not the same, Lawrence. 844 00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,700 Now, don't go spreading that around. 845 00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:21,700 You know what makes us the same... 846 00:57:21,700 --> 00:57:23,800 ...what sets us apart? 847 00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:28,200 We care more about the game than we do the players. 848 00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:31,700 Oh, is that so? 849 00:57:32,500 --> 00:57:34,300 Yeah... 850 00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,500 ...that's so. 851 00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:50,800 I'm gonna nail you, Lawrence... 852 00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:53,500 ...and everybody on Wall Street's gonna know... 853 00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:55,900 ...some broad did you in. 854 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,400 You're so perfect for me. 855 00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,700 - I have to go. - Don't go. 856 00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,100 Lunch is on me, baby-poo. 857 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:15,400 Where you going? 858 00:58:15,700 --> 00:58:17,700 I have to go back to the office. 859 00:58:18,700 --> 00:58:21,300 Don't go back to the office. Come and work for me. 860 00:58:32,100 --> 00:58:34,900 Lady said to say, "We have no doughnuts." 861 00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:06,200 Here's your coffee, boss. 862 00:59:12,500 --> 00:59:15,100 You make me feel like a dirty crook. 863 00:59:15,100 --> 00:59:18,400 Sneaking off to Jersey is not my style. 864 00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,200 Can we speak frankly? 865 00:59:23,900 --> 00:59:25,200 No. Lie to me. 866 00:59:25,300 --> 00:59:27,800 Tell me how thrilled you are to know me. 867 00:59:27,900 --> 00:59:32,600 I always speak frankly. I hate people who say, "Can we speak frankly?" 868 00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,900 It means they're bullshitting me the rest of the time. 869 00:59:37,700 --> 00:59:39,600 I'm listening. 870 00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:44,100 Now... 871 00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:50,900 ...as you know, I had 8O, OOO shares of New England stock when we first met. 872 00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,600 What am I getting, a history lesson here? Get to the point. 873 00:59:55,500 --> 01:00:01,500 Since becoming aware of your investments... 874 01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:06,200 ...I bought an additional 4O, OOO shares. I now have 1 OO, OOO shares. 875 01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,700 Congratulations. 876 01:00:09,500 --> 01:00:11,800 I'm prepared... 877 01:00:13,700 --> 01:00:16,300 ...to sell you the right... 878 01:00:16,700 --> 01:00:20,100 ...to vote those shares at the annual meeting. 879 01:00:21,300 --> 01:00:23,400 How much? 880 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,800 - A million. - Too much. 881 01:00:28,900 --> 01:00:32,400 You need a million shares more than you already own. 882 01:00:33,100 --> 01:00:37,100 Now, I can get you 1 O percent of the way there in one transaction. 883 01:00:37,100 --> 01:00:40,600 Better still, it's votes they're counting on for themselves. 884 01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,900 They lose 1 O percent, you gain 1 O percent. 885 01:00:43,900 --> 01:00:45,600 If you make a difference... 886 01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:49,000 ...if I win by less than 1 OO, OOO votes, you got your million. 887 01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,800 Otherwise, I don't need them, I won't vote them. 888 01:00:51,900 --> 01:00:53,800 I'm not selling you an option. 889 01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:55,900 I'm selling you the right to vote the shares. 890 01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,800 If they make a difference, you got a million. 891 01:00:58,900 --> 01:01:02,400 If they don't, half a million. 892 01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,000 I've prepared the papers. 893 01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:14,500 Left the numbers blank. You can have your lawyers look at them. 894 01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:19,800 Everybody looks out for their own self-interest, don't they? 895 01:01:20,500 --> 01:01:24,100 "What's in it for me?" Isn't that what it's finally all about? 896 01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:42,500 Yes. Very good. Very good. 897 01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:44,300 - When do we run in the Times? - Tomorrow. 898 01:01:44,500 --> 01:01:47,200 - Times, Barron's, Forbes... - Boston Herald. 899 01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:50,100 - Next week, major cities in New England. - Great. 900 01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,600 Take this copy and slide it all over to the right. 901 01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:55,900 And up in the corner here, put that picture of me. 902 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,100 - You know? - You look good in that shot. 903 01:01:58,500 --> 01:02:00,700 Oh, God. Look at him. 904 01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,300 He's trying to look like Desmond Tutu. 905 01:02:10,100 --> 01:02:11,900 All right, Richard, get our ad agency. 906 01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:14,200 - Call Barbaro. Call Pinelli. - Barbaro, Pinelli. 907 01:02:14,300 --> 01:02:17,400 - Yeah. Where's that phone call from Tokyo? - I'm on it, 908 01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,300 Taxi. Taxi! 909 01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:51,000 Thanks, Ron. 910 01:02:55,100 --> 01:02:57,300 Mr. Garfield's office. 911 01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,000 I expect him back at 5:3O. Thanks, Connie. 912 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,700 I'll ask him to phone you. Bye-bye. 913 01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:13,500 Look, I found it. I found it. 914 01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,400 Mrs. Sullivan. She insisted on waiting for you. 915 01:03:19,100 --> 01:03:22,200 I would appreciate a few moments of your time. 916 01:03:22,700 --> 01:03:25,400 Certainly. Hey, come on in the office. 917 01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,400 - Hold my calls. - Will do. 918 01:03:29,500 --> 01:03:31,900 Come on in. Have a seat right there. 919 01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:34,700 Did your daughter send you? Because she's full of clever moves. 920 01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:38,200 No, she didn't. She would be very upset with me if she knew. 921 01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,600 I like Kate. She's quite the tomato. 922 01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:43,300 She must have taken after you, huh? 923 01:03:43,500 --> 01:03:44,800 You're very kind. 924 01:03:44,900 --> 01:03:48,600 I would hope this meeting will be held in confidence. 925 01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:51,400 Everybody's looking for confidence these days. 926 01:03:51,500 --> 01:03:53,400 You want a cup of coffee? 927 01:03:54,100 --> 01:03:57,300 - Cup of tea? Glass of water? - You needn't be sociable, Mr. Garfield. 928 01:03:57,300 --> 01:03:58,800 - Harriet, cup of coffee. - Yes. 929 01:03:58,900 --> 01:04:00,400 You mind if I smoke? 930 01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:04,500 I'd like to tell you why I'm here. 931 01:04:05,500 --> 01:04:07,800 Good. Shoot. 932 01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,300 I'm here to plead for our company. 933 01:04:16,500 --> 01:04:20,800 I want to talk to you about hopes and dreams... 934 01:04:20,900 --> 01:04:22,900 ...traditions. 935 01:04:23,500 --> 01:04:26,100 Would you care for a doughnut, Mrs. Sullivan? 936 01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:29,000 We've worked so hard to build this company. 937 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,400 We're debt-free... 938 01:04:31,500 --> 01:04:34,500 ...and we don't deserve to lose it. 939 01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:37,700 I want you to call off your fight with us. 940 01:04:40,500 --> 01:04:43,800 There's a trust fund in my name with a million dollars in it. 941 01:04:43,900 --> 01:04:46,600 I'll turn it over to you if you go away. 942 01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:48,600 You don't wanna do that. 943 01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:53,500 We'll buy back your shares at cost, plus you'll have a million dollars profit. 944 01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:56,400 Interesting. 945 01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:59,900 I know a million dollars isn't much money to you... 946 01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,400 ...but if I had more, I'd give it to you. 947 01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:04,400 Who are you doing it for? 948 01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:07,100 Money's not that important to me. 949 01:05:07,500 --> 01:05:11,200 - Well, it is to me. - Then accept my offer. 950 01:05:11,300 --> 01:05:15,300 You'll have more money than most people make in a lifetime. 951 01:05:15,300 --> 01:05:17,100 A million dollars. 952 01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:19,500 It's not enough. 953 01:05:20,700 --> 01:05:22,200 Go home, Mrs. Sullivan. 954 01:05:23,500 --> 01:05:26,300 I'd hoped to appeal to your sense of decency. 955 01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:28,900 I'm sorry. 956 01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:32,900 I don't take money from widows or orphans. I make them money. 957 01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:37,000 Before or after you put them out of business? 958 01:05:55,900 --> 01:05:57,900 What a woman. 959 01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:02,200 Harriet, why do I always bring out the best in people? 960 01:06:49,300 --> 01:06:50,800 Hello? 961 01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:53,500 Hello? 962 01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:56,200 Oh, please, 963 01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:01,300 Arthur! 964 01:07:01,500 --> 01:07:04,600 Get the car. Arthur. 965 01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:13,300 I'm sorry, sir. There's no answer in Miss Sullivan's apartment. 966 01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,200 Well, try it again. Maybe you dialed it wrong. 967 01:07:21,500 --> 01:07:23,200 No! 968 01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,400 Excuse me, Bart. What are you doing here? 969 01:07:28,500 --> 01:07:31,300 - Who's Bart? - I'm on my way out. You should've called. 970 01:07:31,300 --> 01:07:33,500 - I need to talk to you. - I don't have time... 971 01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:36,300 I have something important to tell you. I need to talk now. 972 01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:39,800 - You look beautiful. Who's this guy? - Excuse me, Lawrence. Call me tomorrow. 973 01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:42,700 I can't talk tomorrow. It won't keep. 974 01:07:44,300 --> 01:07:46,300 I want you to marry me. 975 01:07:46,300 --> 01:07:47,800 Let me put it another way. 976 01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:50,100 I wanna marry you. 977 01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:52,800 You thinking it over? 978 01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:56,100 - What are you talking about? - What do you mean? 979 01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:59,500 I want you to be my wife. We belong together. 980 01:08:00,100 --> 01:08:02,900 - I'm going to the opera. I gotta go. - No, no, Kate. 981 01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:08,200 You're the last thought I have when I fall asleep at night... 982 01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:11,100 ...and the first when I wake up in the morning. 983 01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:14,300 I wanna be with you forever and ever. 984 01:08:14,900 --> 01:08:17,400 I wanna have babies with you. 985 01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:20,800 - Babies? - Yeah. 986 01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:25,700 You see, I gotta do this now, because after I win... 987 01:08:25,700 --> 01:08:29,400 ...maybe you won't wanna speak to me. - You can't win. I'm gonna win. 988 01:08:29,300 --> 01:08:32,700 I know how important it is to you, but you're not gonna win. 989 01:08:32,900 --> 01:08:34,600 This is what's killing me. 990 01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:38,300 I want you. I need you. I love you. I just don't wanna lose you. 991 01:08:38,300 --> 01:08:41,100 - Katherine. - Keep your pants on, will you, Bart? 992 01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,500 - I've gotta go. - All right, the opera. La Traviata. 993 01:08:44,500 --> 01:08:48,000 You don't wanna miss the first act. It sets up the whole thing. 994 01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,000 It's a wonderful production. 995 01:09:07,300 --> 01:09:09,200 Have a good time. 996 01:09:53,900 --> 01:09:56,200 I'm gonna lose her, Arthur. 997 01:10:27,900 --> 01:10:29,900 Oh, I've been looking for you. 998 01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:32,700 Anytime you're ready. 999 01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:35,900 You okay? 1000 01:10:36,900 --> 01:10:38,300 Yeah. 1001 01:10:38,500 --> 01:10:41,200 Just going over in my mind what I wanna say. 1002 01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:43,400 They're putting speakers outside. 1003 01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:47,500 I think every shareholder within driving distance is coming. 1004 01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:51,000 I feel as if we're Harry and Bess on election night. 1005 01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:55,000 Harry Truman was a better man than me. He slept on election night. 1006 01:10:55,100 --> 01:10:57,900 I haven't slept in days. 1007 01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:02,100 Talk to me. Tell me. 1008 01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:06,300 I'm scared. 1009 01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:09,500 I'm scared that... 1010 01:11:11,900 --> 01:11:14,500 ...time has passed us by. 1011 01:11:17,100 --> 01:11:20,500 I'm scared I don't know this new environment. 1012 01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:24,800 I'm scared that what I do know doesn't count for anything anymore. 1013 01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:26,900 Things have changed. 1014 01:11:27,900 --> 01:11:32,100 Whatever happened to people serving each other? 1015 01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:38,600 I don't want this man to win. 1016 01:11:40,300 --> 01:11:42,100 I'm not scared. 1017 01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,300 I'm just proud. 1018 01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:49,100 I'm proud of the business we've built. 1019 01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,100 I'm so proud of you. 1020 01:11:52,900 --> 01:11:56,100 And if what we are counts for nothing anymore... 1021 01:11:56,100 --> 01:11:58,500 ...then that's their failing, not ours. 1022 01:12:01,500 --> 01:12:03,400 It'll be all right. 1023 01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:06,500 Just go out and tell the truth. 1024 01:12:09,500 --> 01:12:12,000 Go out and give them hell, Harry. 1025 01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:22,300 Good luck to us all today, Bill. 1026 01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:25,600 I feel we're gonna be just fine. 1027 01:12:30,500 --> 01:12:34,300 Looks like they've come from everywhere. New York, Boston. 1028 01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:38,300 - There's Ozzie. - Happening all over, isn't it? 1029 01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:40,700 Everybody looking out for themselves. 1030 01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,600 So did you get your golden parachute, Bill? 1031 01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:49,600 Did he finally promise to take care of you? 1032 01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,500 Lord of the manor, house on the hill. 1033 01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:59,200 Said he didn't want to talk about a funeral while there was no corpse. 1034 01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:09,700 Well, time to go. 1035 01:13:11,100 --> 01:13:12,700 Bill. 1036 01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:16,300 How you gonna vote? 1037 01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,700 Oh, boy. They're out in droves, Arthur. They got the kids here. 1038 01:13:39,700 --> 01:13:41,900 Why do they always bring the kids, Arthur? 1039 01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:49,100 That's right. Hooray, hooray. Down with Garfield. 1040 01:14:00,300 --> 01:14:01,900 Okay, TV crews. 1041 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:03,900 Financial News Network, here we come. 1042 01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:11,600 Mr. Garfield! 1043 01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:14,000 What are your plans for New England Wire and Cable? 1044 01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:15,400 Make the stockholders richer. 1045 01:14:15,500 --> 01:14:19,600 Will you liquidate New England Wire and Cable? And if so, what about the workers? 1046 01:14:19,500 --> 01:14:23,600 My obligation is to the stockholders. The board of directors make that decision. 1047 01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:25,300 Oh, come on! 1048 01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:29,900 What about the workers? 1049 01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:32,800 Are they gonna lose their jobs? Come on, answer the question. 1050 01:14:32,900 --> 01:14:34,800 Come on, Mr. Garfield! 1051 01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:38,700 How do you feel about the outcome of today's proxy vote? 1052 01:14:38,700 --> 01:14:42,200 I feel confident that the shareholders will vote their consciences. 1053 01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:44,400 I have every confidence in this company's future. 1054 01:15:23,500 --> 01:15:25,800 Could I have your attention, please? 1055 01:15:25,900 --> 01:15:27,500 Welcome to... 1056 01:15:27,500 --> 01:15:31,600 ...New England Wire and Cable's annual stockholders' meeting. 1057 01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:35,800 I'm William J. Coles, your president, and I'm sure... 1058 01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:41,000 I'm sure that everyone here realizes the most important item on the agenda... 1059 01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:43,800 ...is the election of the board of directors. 1060 01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:49,100 Now, there are staff members passing out the ballots. 1061 01:15:49,300 --> 01:15:52,800 Right now, I am very proud to introduce to you... 1062 01:15:52,900 --> 01:15:58,200 ...a man who could accurately be characterized as a legend... 1063 01:15:58,100 --> 01:16:00,200 ...in the wire and cable industry. 1064 01:16:00,500 --> 01:16:04,400 The chairman of the board of New England Wire and Cable... 1065 01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:06,000 ...Mr. Andrew Jorgenson. 1066 01:16:27,700 --> 01:16:29,000 Give them hell, Andy! 1067 01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:33,500 It's good to see so many... 1068 01:16:33,500 --> 01:16:36,900 ...familiar faces, so many old friends. 1069 01:16:37,300 --> 01:16:40,200 Some of you I haven't seen in years. 1070 01:16:40,300 --> 01:16:42,300 Thank you for coming. 1071 01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:47,100 Bill Coles, our able president, in the annual report, has told you... 1072 01:16:47,100 --> 01:16:50,900 ...of our year, of what we accomplished, of the need for further improvements... 1073 01:16:50,900 --> 01:16:55,900 ...our business goals for next year and the years beyond. 1074 01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,800 I'd like to talk to you about something else. 1075 01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:07,900 I want to share with you some of my thoughts... 1076 01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:13,600 ...concerning the vote that you're going to make in the company that you own. 1077 01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:19,100 This proud company, which has survived the death of its founder,,, 1078 01:17:19,100 --> 01:17:24,400 ,,, numerous recessions, one major depression and two world wars,,, 1079 01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:30,500 ,,, is in imminent danger of self-destructing, 1080 01:17:30,900 --> 01:17:35,400 On this day, in the town of its birth, 1081 01:17:39,100 --> 01:17:43,100 There is the instrument of our destruction. 1082 01:17:44,100 --> 01:17:49,000 I want you to look at him in all of his glory. "Larry the Liquidator." 1083 01:17:49,100 --> 01:17:55,000 The entrepreneur of post-industrial America playing God... 1084 01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:57,800 ...with other people's money. 1085 01:17:59,500 --> 01:18:05,200 The robber barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake. 1086 01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:08,600 A coal mine, a railroad, banks. 1087 01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:11,500 This man leaves nothing. 1088 01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:14,800 He creates nothing. He builds nothing. 1089 01:18:14,900 --> 01:18:17,300 He runs nothing. 1090 01:18:18,700 --> 01:18:24,000 And in his wake lies nothing but a blizzard of paper to cover the pain. 1091 01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:30,000 Oh, if he said, "I know how to run your business better than you"... 1092 01:18:29,900 --> 01:18:32,500 ...that would be something worth talking about... 1093 01:18:32,600 --> 01:18:34,500 ...but he's not saying that. 1094 01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:40,400 He's saying, "I'm gonna kill you because at this particular moment in time... 1095 01:18:40,300 --> 01:18:43,000 ...you're worth more dead than alive." 1096 01:18:43,100 --> 01:18:44,600 Well... 1097 01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:48,500 ...maybe that's true, but it is also true... 1098 01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:52,500 ...that one day this industry will turn. 1099 01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:57,600 One day when the yen is weaker, the dollar is stronger... 1100 01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:03,000 ...or when we finally begin to rebuild our roads, our bridges... 1101 01:19:02,900 --> 01:19:07,500 ...the infrastructure of our country, demand will skyrocket. 1102 01:19:07,500 --> 01:19:12,100 And when those things happen, we will still be here... 1103 01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:17,600 ...stronger because of our ordeal, stronger because we have survived. 1104 01:19:17,500 --> 01:19:23,300 And the price of our stock will make his offer pale by comparison. 1105 01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:29,200 God save us if we vote to take his paltry few dollars and run. 1106 01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:35,100 God save this country if that is truly the wave of the future. 1107 01:19:35,100 --> 01:19:38,300 We will then have become a nation that makes nothing but hamburgers... 1108 01:19:38,300 --> 01:19:43,300 ...creates nothing but lawyers and sells nothing but tax shelters. 1109 01:19:43,200 --> 01:19:47,900 And if we are at that point in this country where we kill something... 1110 01:19:47,900 --> 01:19:53,400 ...because at the moment it's worth more dead than alive... 1111 01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:54,800 ...well... 1112 01:19:55,100 --> 01:19:58,500 ...take a look around. Look at your neighbor. Look at your neighbor. 1113 01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:01,600 You won't kill him, will you? No. 1114 01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:04,500 It's called murder, and it's illegal. 1115 01:20:04,500 --> 01:20:08,600 Well, this, too, is murder, on a mass scale. 1116 01:20:08,500 --> 01:20:14,900 Only on Wall Street, they call it maximizing shareholder value... 1117 01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:17,100 ...and they call it legal. 1118 01:20:17,100 --> 01:20:21,500 And they substitute dollar bills where a conscience should be. 1119 01:20:22,100 --> 01:20:23,700 Damn it! 1120 01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:28,100 A business is worth more than the price of its stock. 1121 01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:32,600 It's the place where we earn our living, where we meet our friends... 1122 01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:35,000 ...dream our dreams. 1123 01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:40,500 It is, in every sense, the very fabric that binds our society together. 1124 01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:43,800 So let us now, at this meeting... 1125 01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:47,500 ...say to every Garfield in the land... 1126 01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:52,700 ...here, we build things, we don't destroy them. 1127 01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:56,900 Here, we care about more than the price of our stock. 1128 01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:58,800 Here... 1129 01:21:00,100 --> 01:21:02,200 ...we care about people. 1130 01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:27,200 Thank you. 1131 01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:33,200 And now I'd like to introduce Mr. Lawrence Garfield. 1132 01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:36,200 Mr. Gar... Excuse... Please. 1133 01:21:36,300 --> 01:21:39,300 Let's show a little courtesy, ladies and gentlemen. 1134 01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:43,900 Mr. Garfield is the president and the chairman of the board... 1135 01:21:44,100 --> 01:21:46,300 ...of Garfield Investments. 1136 01:21:46,400 --> 01:21:48,300 Mr. Garfield. 1137 01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:10,700 Amen. 1138 01:22:11,900 --> 01:22:13,700 And amen. 1139 01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:16,100 And amen. 1140 01:22:16,300 --> 01:22:20,000 You have to forgive me. I'm not familiar with the local custom. 1141 01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:24,700 Where I come from, you always say amen after you hear a prayer. 1142 01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:27,900 Because that's what you just heard. 1143 01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:29,700 A prayer. 1144 01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:33,500 Where I come from... 1145 01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:39,600 ...that particular prayer is called the prayer for the dead. 1146 01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:45,500 You just heard the prayer for the dead, my fellow stockholders... 1147 01:22:45,500 --> 01:22:48,000 ...and you didn't say amen. 1148 01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:51,500 This company is dead. 1149 01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:54,900 I didn't kill it. Don't blame me. 1150 01:22:54,900 --> 01:22:57,600 It was dead when I got here. 1151 01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:03,300 It's too late for prayers. 1152 01:23:05,900 --> 01:23:09,800 For even if the prayers were answered and a miracle occurred... 1153 01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,300 ...and the yen did this and the dollar did that... 1154 01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:16,500 ...and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead. 1155 01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:18,400 You know why? 1156 01:23:19,700 --> 01:23:21,800 Fiber optics. 1157 01:23:22,100 --> 01:23:24,600 New technologies. 1158 01:23:26,100 --> 01:23:28,600 Obsolescence. 1159 01:23:29,700 --> 01:23:31,400 We're dead, all right. 1160 01:23:31,500 --> 01:23:33,300 We're just not broke. 1161 01:23:33,500 --> 01:23:36,900 And do you know the surest way to go broke? 1162 01:23:36,900 --> 01:23:40,600 Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. 1163 01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:42,500 Down the tubes. 1164 01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:45,700 Slow but sure. 1165 01:23:45,700 --> 01:23:47,400 You know, at one time... 1166 01:23:47,600 --> 01:23:51,400 ...there must have been dozens of companies making buggy whips. 1167 01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:56,200 And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made... 1168 01:23:56,300 --> 01:23:59,500 ...the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. 1169 01:23:59,500 --> 01:24:03,400 Now, how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? 1170 01:24:04,500 --> 01:24:08,100 You invested in a business, and this business is dead. 1171 01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:11,600 Let's have the intelligence, let's have the decency... 1172 01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:14,900 ...to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance... 1173 01:24:14,900 --> 01:24:18,000 ...and invest in something with a future. 1174 01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:23,000 "But we can't," goes the prayer. 1175 01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:27,800 We can't, because we have a responsibility... 1176 01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:32,200 ...a responsibility to our employees, to our community. 1177 01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:33,600 What will happen to them? 1178 01:24:34,500 --> 01:24:36,900 I got two words for that: 1179 01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:39,400 Who cares? 1180 01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:42,300 Care about them? Why? 1181 01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:44,400 They didn't care about you. 1182 01:24:44,500 --> 01:24:46,800 They sucked you dry. 1183 01:24:47,300 --> 01:24:49,300 You have no responsibility to them. 1184 01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:54,000 For the last 1 O years, this company bled your money. 1185 01:24:54,300 --> 01:24:58,200 Did this community ever say, "We know times are tough. 1186 01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:02,100 We'll lower taxes, reduce water and sewer"? 1187 01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:05,900 Check it out. You're paying twice what you did 1 O years ago. 1188 01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:10,900 And our devoted employees who have taken no increases for the past three years... 1189 01:25:10,900 --> 01:25:13,800 ...are still making twice what they made 1 O years ago. 1190 01:25:13,900 --> 01:25:19,400 And our stock, one-sixth what it was 1 O years ago. 1191 01:25:21,300 --> 01:25:23,200 Who cares? 1192 01:25:23,700 --> 01:25:25,600 I'll tell you. 1193 01:25:25,700 --> 01:25:27,300 Me. 1194 01:25:28,300 --> 01:25:30,900 I'm not your best friend. 1195 01:25:31,300 --> 01:25:33,500 I'm your only friend. 1196 01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:37,800 I don't make anything? 1197 01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:39,800 I'm making you money. 1198 01:25:39,900 --> 01:25:42,300 And lest we forget, that's the only reason... 1199 01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:45,700 ...any of you became stockholders in the first place. 1200 01:25:45,700 --> 01:25:47,700 You want to make money. 1201 01:25:47,700 --> 01:25:54,100 You don't care if they manufacture wire and cable, fried chicken or grow tangerines! 1202 01:25:53,900 --> 01:25:56,300 You wanna make money! 1203 01:25:57,300 --> 01:26:01,700 I'm the only friend you've got. I'm making you money. 1204 01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:03,900 Take the money. 1205 01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:06,400 Invest it somewhere else. 1206 01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:08,500 Maybe... 1207 01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:12,000 Maybe you'll get lucky, and it'll be used productively. 1208 01:26:12,900 --> 01:26:17,500 And if it is, you'll create new jobs and provide a service for the economy... 1209 01:26:17,500 --> 01:26:21,600 ...and, God forbid, even make a few bucks for yourselves. 1210 01:26:24,300 --> 01:26:29,400 And if anybody asks, tell them you gave at the plant. 1211 01:26:30,900 --> 01:26:32,100 And by the way... 1212 01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:38,300 ...it pleases me that I am called "Larry the Liquidator." 1213 01:26:38,500 --> 01:26:40,700 You know why, fellow stockholders? 1214 01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:42,700 Because at my funeral... 1215 01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:47,300 ...you'll leave with a smile on your face and a few bucks in your pocket. 1216 01:26:47,300 --> 01:26:49,700 Now, that's a funeral worth having. 1217 01:27:04,300 --> 01:27:05,900 The ballots will be marked... 1218 01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:11,000 ...and deposited in the ballot boxes at the rear of the hall. Thank you. 1219 01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:59,600 Ladies and gentlemen, please. 1220 01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,100 May I have your attention, please? 1221 01:28:03,100 --> 01:28:05,900 I will now read the results of the balloting. 1222 01:28:17,600 --> 01:28:20,400 To retain the present board: 1223 01:28:20,500 --> 01:28:25,100 1,741, 418. 1224 01:28:25,100 --> 01:28:30,900 For the opposition: 2,21 9,9O1. 1225 01:28:30,700 --> 01:28:36,000 Not voting: 1 78, 111. 1226 01:28:35,900 --> 01:28:39,500 Mr. Garfield, your slate is elected. 1227 01:29:03,200 --> 01:29:05,600 Congratulations, Mr. Garfield. 1228 01:29:05,700 --> 01:29:06,900 Congratulations, Lawrence. 1229 01:30:47,900 --> 01:30:50,000 You okay, boss? 1230 01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:57,200 You want some chicken soup or something? 1231 01:30:57,300 --> 01:30:58,800 No. 1232 01:30:58,900 --> 01:31:00,400 Pie? 1233 01:31:00,500 --> 01:31:02,200 No. 1234 01:31:03,900 --> 01:31:06,300 How about some of that carrot cake you like so much? 1235 01:31:10,300 --> 01:31:11,500 No. 1236 01:31:59,300 --> 01:32:02,000 Well, Carmen, we did it again. 1237 01:32:02,400 --> 01:32:05,200 I can always count on you, can't I? 1238 01:32:05,700 --> 01:32:08,200 Another barrelful of money. 1239 01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:11,900 Not bad for a kid from the Bronx. 1240 01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:17,600 I love money. 1241 01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:20,500 I love money. 1242 01:32:20,600 --> 01:32:24,500 Mr, Garfield, Kate Sullivan is on the line, 1243 01:32:27,500 --> 01:32:30,100 Are you in or out, Mr, Garfield? 1244 01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:37,200 - Hello? - You're a greedy, arrogant, self-absorbed... 1245 01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:39,300 - ,,, overbearing... - Avaricious? 1246 01:32:39,400 --> 01:32:41,000 I have a proposition for you, 1247 01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,800 Are you ready, Lawrence? 1248 01:32:43,900 --> 01:32:45,600 Ready, 1249 01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:47,900 Air bags. 1250 01:32:48,500 --> 01:32:50,300 Air bags? 1251 01:32:50,400 --> 01:32:52,800 Every car in America is about to have one, 1252 01:32:52,900 --> 01:32:56,600 Did you know that air bags are made from stainless-steel wire cloth? 1253 01:32:57,400 --> 01:32:58,800 Did you dump Bart? 1254 01:33:00,700 --> 01:33:04,600 The Mitsushimi Company of Japan is ready to make a long-term deal... 1255 01:33:04,700 --> 01:33:06,600 ...with New England Wire and Cable... 1256 01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:10,800 ,,, for the production of air bags, 1257 01:33:11,100 --> 01:33:13,400 I love the sound of your voice. 1258 01:33:13,500 --> 01:33:16,300 Well, here comes the best part, Lawrence, 1259 01:33:16,500 --> 01:33:20,200 You sell Wire and Cable back to the employees. 1260 01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:26,300 They modernize and re-equip the plant and turn out air bags. 1261 01:33:26,200 --> 01:33:28,100 What's in it for me? 1262 01:33:28,100 --> 01:33:31,000 They'll pay 28 bucks a share, 1263 01:33:31,200 --> 01:33:32,900 You like? 1264 01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:35,500 They'll go to 3O. 1265 01:33:35,800 --> 01:33:38,300 Thirty? You think so? 1266 01:33:38,700 --> 01:33:41,700 Why not? We'll talk about it at dinner. I'll see you in an hour. 1267 01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:45,100 Lunch, tomorrow, 1: OO. 1268 01:33:45,100 --> 01:33:48,100 You know where. Strictly business. 1269 01:33:48,100 --> 01:33:50,300 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Strictly business. 1270 01:33:50,400 --> 01:33:52,200 Wow, did you hear that, Carmen? 1271 01:33:52,400 --> 01:33:56,300 Harriet! Call my manicurist, call the barber, call the florist... 1272 01:33:56,400 --> 01:33:59,700 ...tell Arthur I want two tickets to the opera tomorrow night. Puccini. 1273 01:33:59,700 --> 01:34:02,000 We're back in business! 1274 01:34:06,000 --> 01:34:08,600 It's money that I love. 99825