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I telegraphed and phoned

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I sent air mail special, too

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Yeah, I know.

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Answer was goodbye
There was even postage due

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I fell in love just once

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And then it had to be with you

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Triple rhyme.

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Everything happens to me

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Fuck.

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Yeah.

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WQXR notes the passing
of one of America's foremost songwriters,

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Lorenz Hart, who died last night
at Doctors Hospital in Manhattan

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from complications of pneumonia.

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Mr. Hart was 48 years old.

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For over 20 years,
Hart and his partner, Richard Rodgers,

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Rodgers wrote the music, Hart the words,

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combined their respective geniuses
to create a string of musical-comedy hits.

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Often referred to as America's
Gilbert and Sullivan,

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Rodgers and Hart will be remembered
for such songs as,

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My Funny Valentine,
The Lady Is A Tramp,

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Where or When, With A Song In My Heart,
isn't It Romantic?,

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My Heart Stood Still, Bewitched,

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I Didn't Know What Time It Was,
Manhattan,

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and Blue Moon.

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Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla

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Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla

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We know we belong to the land

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Here comes "grand."

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And the land we belong to is grand
And when we say

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Yow! Ayipioeeay!

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We're only ea yin'
"You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!"

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I need a drink.

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- Lorry.
- I'll see you later, Mom.

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L-A-H-O-M-A

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Oklahoma!

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Yow!

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All right. For the last time,
put the letters on the table.

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"If Laszlo and the cause
mean that much to you,

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"you won't stop at anything."

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All right, I'll make it easy on you.

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"Go ahead, shoot.
You'd be doing me a favor."

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Just remember,
I got this gun pointed at your dick.

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That's my least vulnerable spot.

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Jesus Christ! How many times
have we seen that picture?

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Worst line in Casablanca?

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"Well, a precedent is being broken."

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"A precedent is being broken"?
How can you break a goddamn precedent?

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Do they even speak English over there
in Hollywood?

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Still, you have to love Claude Rains.

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He makes that picture.

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- Sure.
- You know why he's so great?

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He's a leading man, and he's short,

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which proves you can be both.

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And I love this.

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He says to Ilsa,

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"Mademoiselle, he's the kind of man that,
if I were a woman

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"and I were not around,
I should be in love with Rick."

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Think about it. Whom does he end up with
at the end of the picture?

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Who's strolling away together arm in arm
into the fog?

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You're saying Rick and Captain Renault...

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What do you think goes on over there

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at the Free French garrison
in Brazzaville?

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That is a scene they can't show you.

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Okay. Best line in Casablanca?

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- "Nobody ever loved me that much."
- "Nobody ever loved me that much."

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Isn't that magnificent?

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Six words.
"Nobody ever loved me that much."

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And, really, who's ever been loved enough?
Who's ever been loved half enough?

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Would you get me a shot?

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Larry, you told me
under no circumstances...

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I'm just going to look at it.

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Take the measure of its amber heft
in my hand.

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- You told me not...
- Just give me the drink.

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Did I tell you what Elizabeth told me?

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That's the girl I'm meeting here tonight.

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- You mean the one you...
- Eddie, Eddie, Eddie.

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- What?
- Show some class, all right?

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Her mother is going to come
walking in here any second.

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- Sorry.
- Seriously.

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I... I adore this girl.
And, I'm telling you, this is beyond sex.

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- What's beyond sex?
- I don't understand it.

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She's completely undeserving,
but isn't that the way it always is?

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"Irrational adoration."
That's the phrase she came up with.

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She's a poet, too. Did I tell you that?

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And would you give me
a shot of club soda?

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I'll drink one and admire the other.

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So, this girl...

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You really, you know,

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with a 20-year-old college girl, huh?

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It is more complicated
than you could possibly imagine.

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Leave the bottle.

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It's a visual poem.

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You're not giving me any details here.

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You know what my secret goal is
for the rest of this year?

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- What?
- I'm serious. Really.

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My secret goal is to stop being so scared.

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- Elizabeth Wetland. For...
- Those are mine!

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Jesus! That is all you get
for five dollars?

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Plus delivery, yes.

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Lorenz Hart?

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You know, I kind of think
I've heard that name before.

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You just earned yourself
a dollar tip, kid.

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A precedent is being broken.

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Hey, she gave this to me.
Mailed it all the way from New Haven

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because I said I wanted something
she'd actually touched.

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Christ! It's like I'm 17 again,

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except I never was 17.

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I went directly from childhood
to washed-up.

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- Eddie, get the kid a drink, would you?
- No thanks. I'm... I'm working.

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Christ, that's when
you should be drinking.

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What's your name? Sven, am I right?

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- Troy.
- Even better.

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Listen, Sven, are you free tonight?

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Eddie, would you get the kid
a goddamn shot?

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- Yeah.
- 'Cause I am throwing

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an enormous party at my place.

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All of show business is going to be there.

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I've booked the Golden Gate Quartet.
I'm serious.

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I want you to show up, bring a friend,

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bring a dozen friends.

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It's going to be like
nothing you've ever seen before.

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I'm up at the Ardsley, you know?
91st, on the Park.

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Just tell the desk clerk
that you're with Lorenz Hart's party.

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You're going to need to know the password.
Are you ready for the password?

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"Nobody ever loved me that much."

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Slow!

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Now that is a beautiful sight.

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What, you don't drink?

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After one whole quart of brandy
Like a daisy I awake

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You know that song?

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No, no.

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My funny Valentine
Sweet comic Valentine...

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I really don't listen to the radio
that much.

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You said you know my name!

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- You don't know one Rodgers and Hart song?
- I know...

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- I just can't really remember...
- I'll take Manhattan

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The Bronx and Staten...

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We were on the cover of Time Magazine!

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My picture is on the wall right...

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Eddie, where's my picture?

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They move 'em around.

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- What do you...
- Well, how about this one?

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Blue moon

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I know that one!

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You saw me standing alone

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Without a dream in my heart

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Without a love of my own

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Worst goddamn lyric I ever wrote!

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- You wrote that?
- Wasn't even supposed to be the title.

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I like that song.

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I'll take my tip back.

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I want you at my party, Sven!

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Doc Bender said to me the other night,

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after I told him I'd proposed
to Vivienne again,

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"She turned me down, again,"

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he said, "Larry, make up your mind.

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"Are you homosexual or heterosexual?"

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I said, "Doc, I'm am bisexual."

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He said, "What the hell
does that even mean?"

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I said, "It means I can jerk off
equally well with either hand."

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Larry! There's a lady present.

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Well, women can use either hand, too.

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But to be a writer, you have
to be kind of omni-sexual, don't you?

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You have to have, inside yourself,
you know, everyone on earth.

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Men, women, horses.

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How can you give voice
to the whole chorus of the world

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if the whole chorus of the world
isn't already inside you?

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Eddie, what do you call a tireless,
relentless homosexual?

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"Indefagitable."

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To the great and glorious past,
when it all mattered so much.

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Keep playing. You're good.

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- Thank you. I'm an aspiring composer.
- "Aspiring"?

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That means you're breathing, right?

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I better take your name down
in case I need a new partner.

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Hey, did you go to the opening tonight?

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Oklahoma! With an exclamation point,
no less.

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Fact. Any title that feels the need
for an exclamation point,

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you want to steer clear of.

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What did you say
your name was again?

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Morty Rifkin. But I go by the name
of Morty Rafferty.

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No one could possibly guess you're Jewish.

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Wha'dja think of Oklahoma?

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What did I think of Oklahoma?

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Well, Knuckles,

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Knuckles O'Rifkin,
that's what I'm going to call you,

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I saw the show a couple of times
in previews in New Haven,

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back when they were still calling it
Away We Go! Exclamation point.

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And I felt sure Dick was gonna call me,

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"Larry, we're in big trouble.

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"I need you to funny up the show.
We need some big comedy numbers."

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And I was all ready to say,

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"Dick, instead of all this
corn-pone Americana,

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"let's do a send-up
of corn-pone Americana!"

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I was already writing lyrics in my head.
I couldn't stop.

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And did he call you?

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Are you kidding?
He was too busy writing more hits.

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I sat in my box seat tonight
and watched "Oklahomo, exclamation point"

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down there,
glittering in all its pink lights

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and all those cowboy hats
and twirling lassos,

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and I knew two things
with absolute certainty.

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It was a 14-karat hit

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00:12:23,826 --> 00:12:27,247
and it was a 14-karat piece of shit.

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Friend of mine saw it in previews,

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said it was one of the best shows
he's ever seen.

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The show is fraudulent
on every possible level.

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And this is not jealousy speaking, okay?

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I watched that show tonight
and I felt this great sinking in my heart.

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And all around me people are roaring.
They are roaring at third-rate jokes.

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I wanted to grab the audience
by the shoulders and say,

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"What are you laughing at?
Come on! Demand more!" And...

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Rodgers is a genius.

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I say that without
one second's hesitation.

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You're a piano player.
You know that I'm right.

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Yeah, he's pretty good.

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Pretty good?

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There is no one with his range,
his inventiveness,

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great soaring masculine melodies
building like pile drivers.

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I mean, Rodgers is a cold-hearted
son of a bitch,

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but he can get a melody to levitate,

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and that is the hallmark
of great art, levitation.

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I've got a beautiful feeling

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That's the moment. You hear that?

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When your spine glows

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and the whole apparatus of song writing
suddenly breaks free from gravity.

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There's maybe five people on the planet
that can pull that off,

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and that son of a bitch is one of 'em.

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And then, words by Oscar Hammerstein ll.

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What can I say about Oscar?

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He's going to come striding in here
any second,

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all seven and a half feet of him,

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and, you know, Dick deliberately went
with somebody tall this time,

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you know that.

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But what can I say about Oscar?

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He's so earthbound,

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and let's face it,
most of us are earthbound.

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But there are moments, I swear to God,

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there are moments in my work

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when I have made something bigger
than myself.

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I agree, definitely.

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Thank you. The words were bigger
than the music,

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bigger than the characters
who sang them,

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and they approached, for maybe
one-half second, something immortal.

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Excuse my limitless self-regard,
but they did,

244
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and if nobody else is going to say it,
then I'm going to.

245
00:14:37,460 --> 00:14:40,713
I have written a handful of words
that are going to cheat death.

246
00:14:40,838 --> 00:14:43,341
Spoken with the modesty of a true lunatic.

247
00:14:43,424 --> 00:14:45,551
Hey! When Shakespeare wrote,

248
00:14:45,635 --> 00:14:47,845
"Not marble nor gilded monuments

249
00:14:47,929 --> 00:14:50,640
"Of princes
shall outlive this powerful rhyme,"

250
00:14:50,723 --> 00:14:53,267
did people say, "My God, what an ego"?

251
00:14:53,351 --> 00:14:57,897
No, they said he is a genius,
and he knows his work is going to last.

252
00:14:57,980 --> 00:14:59,107
So now you're Shakespeare?

253
00:14:59,190 --> 00:15:02,693
Look, Oklahoma! is going to win
the goddamn Pulitzer. I know that.

254
00:15:02,777 --> 00:15:05,071
High schools are going to put it on
from now till doomsday,

255
00:15:05,154 --> 00:15:07,949
because it is so inoffensive.

256
00:15:08,032 --> 00:15:11,160
But really, who wants inoffensive art?

257
00:15:11,244 --> 00:15:14,580
Knuckles, are you listening to me?
I'm trying to answer your question.

258
00:15:14,664 --> 00:15:17,667
Is that why God put us on the planet,
to not offend people?

259
00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:20,503
The problem with Oklahoma! is this,

260
00:15:20,586 --> 00:15:23,464
and the problem was right there
in the original play,

261
00:15:23,548 --> 00:15:25,133
Green Grow the Fucking Lilacs.

262
00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:27,844
And Dick first showed that play to me,
all right?

263
00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:30,346
He asked me to adapt it first,
and I said no,

264
00:15:30,430 --> 00:15:32,181
and I don't mind that it's nostalgic,

265
00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:34,142
but Oklahoma!, exclamation point,

266
00:15:34,225 --> 00:15:37,437
is nostalgic for a world
that never existed,

267
00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,525
and do you really want to write a show
where the main character's name is Curly?

268
00:15:43,484 --> 00:15:45,069
Here's an idea for a song.

269
00:15:45,153 --> 00:15:47,447
"Hey, Moe! Hey, Larry!
I Just Stepped in Cow Shit!"

270
00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:53,035
I mean, am I bitter?

271
00:15:54,787 --> 00:15:57,373
We write together for a quarter a century,

272
00:15:57,915 --> 00:16:00,918
and the first show
he writes with someone else

273
00:16:01,002 --> 00:16:04,046
is gonna be the biggest hit he ever had.
Am I bitter?

274
00:16:04,130 --> 00:16:05,756
- Larry...
- Fuck yes.

275
00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,469
But I need to tell you about Elizabeth.

276
00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:10,887
I need to cleanse my heart.

277
00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:12,847
Here we go. The 20-year-old...

278
00:16:12,930 --> 00:16:14,474
She's going to come in here any second.

279
00:16:15,516 --> 00:16:17,351
Rodgers is gonna be here tonight, right?

280
00:16:17,435 --> 00:16:20,521
- Don't worry, I'll introduce you.
- That'd be great.

281
00:16:20,605 --> 00:16:22,231
I'm trying to get somebody
to listen to my songs.

282
00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:24,609
Well, listen and learn.

283
00:16:24,692 --> 00:16:27,862
I'm telling you about Elizabeth.

284
00:16:28,946 --> 00:16:31,032
There's something appealingly...

285
00:16:32,033 --> 00:16:34,202
ethereal about her face.

286
00:16:34,285 --> 00:16:35,536
What the fuck does that mean?

287
00:16:35,620 --> 00:16:38,247
Look, I got her all these presents.

288
00:16:38,331 --> 00:16:40,458
You bought her something from Klein's?

289
00:16:41,209 --> 00:16:42,293
She's gonna love this.

290
00:16:42,376 --> 00:16:44,128
Yeah, but that's used shit.
What are you doing?

291
00:16:44,212 --> 00:16:47,131
This is an authentic first-edition.
You don't understand the magic

292
00:16:47,215 --> 00:16:48,382
and the mystery of this girl.

293
00:16:48,466 --> 00:16:51,719
"I have been waiting for this
my whole life."

294
00:16:52,261 --> 00:16:54,889
It's what Somerset Maugham
says in that thing, you remember?

295
00:16:56,724 --> 00:16:57,725
- Me?
- Yeah.

296
00:16:57,808 --> 00:17:01,646
"There's always one who loves
and one who lets himself be loved."

297
00:17:02,730 --> 00:17:03,898
That's the truth, isn't it?

298
00:17:03,981 --> 00:17:05,149
Of course, you know you're in trouble

299
00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:06,651
when you're looking
for the meaning of life

300
00:17:06,734 --> 00:17:09,237
in a book with the word "bondage"
in the title.

301
00:17:10,571 --> 00:17:11,781
Larry...

302
00:17:14,784 --> 00:17:16,077
She's a girl. Right?

303
00:17:16,619 --> 00:17:19,956
Okay. See, I always thought
that your interests went more towards...

304
00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:21,666
My interests?

305
00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:24,794
So now you're going to analyze me?

306
00:17:25,378 --> 00:17:27,255
Thank you, Doctor Bacardi.

307
00:17:28,089 --> 00:17:30,508
Look, I met her at rehearsals
for By Jupiter.

308
00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:31,759
And she's not an actress.

309
00:17:31,842 --> 00:17:34,554
She's a college student. Sophomore.

310
00:17:34,637 --> 00:17:37,557
Yale. Not the general school,
that's for the guys.

311
00:17:37,682 --> 00:17:40,851
This is the School of Fine Arts!

312
00:17:40,935 --> 00:17:44,397
Bohemian goddesses in gray smocks

313
00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,024
mixing paint in morning light.

314
00:17:47,942 --> 00:17:49,902
She's all of 20 years old.

315
00:17:50,444 --> 00:17:51,571
And you're what?

316
00:17:51,654 --> 00:17:53,281
A youthful 47!

317
00:17:55,408 --> 00:17:57,034
You know what I call her in my letters?

318
00:17:57,118 --> 00:18:00,371
"My irreplaceable Elizabeth!"
Can you believe it?

319
00:18:00,454 --> 00:18:02,999
If I could write what's in my heart
this second,

320
00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:05,960
I would have the entire audience
levitating.

321
00:18:06,043 --> 00:18:08,045
Oklahoma! would close in shame

322
00:18:08,129 --> 00:18:10,798
if it could hear eight bars
of what's in my heart.

323
00:18:10,881 --> 00:18:13,134
And I've been in eight bars tonight,
so I know what I'm talking about.

324
00:18:13,217 --> 00:18:14,468
Go!

325
00:18:15,136 --> 00:18:18,306
Last summer, I found myself awake
at 4:30 in the morning.

326
00:18:18,389 --> 00:18:20,266
And all I had done
the previous five hours...

327
00:18:20,349 --> 00:18:23,394
What the hell
are you lookin' at your watch for?

328
00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:26,522
- Larry, I'm working here.
- What the hell do you think I'm doing?

329
00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:28,566
And I'm not even getting paid. All right.

330
00:18:32,194 --> 00:18:33,195
More flowers...

331
00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:34,864
Eddie, get Sven another drink!

332
00:18:34,947 --> 00:18:36,365
...for Richard Rodgers.

333
00:18:36,449 --> 00:18:38,492
Jesus, how much did those cost?

334
00:18:38,576 --> 00:18:41,078
Sixteen dollars. Plus delivery.

335
00:18:42,705 --> 00:18:45,875
"Dick, I've got a beautiful feeling,
everything's going your way.

336
00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:47,209
"Love, Dorothy."

337
00:18:47,293 --> 00:18:48,878
She's quoting Oscar?

338
00:18:55,926 --> 00:18:59,930
I write with her husband for 24 years,

339
00:19:00,014 --> 00:19:02,016
and she's quoting Oscar?

340
00:19:02,099 --> 00:19:05,728
91st on the Park, The Ardsley.
We'll be going late.

341
00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:07,730
All right. Well, thanks again, fellas.

342
00:19:11,859 --> 00:19:12,860
Good evening.

343
00:19:25,081 --> 00:19:28,042
Indulge me for one second.

344
00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:30,586
Let me recreate for you, Elizabeth.

345
00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:32,963
Enough! Did you screw her or not?

346
00:19:33,422 --> 00:19:36,592
Show some class, Eddie.
Knuckles, may I speak with you?

347
00:19:36,676 --> 00:19:37,968
Sure, yeah.

348
00:19:38,636 --> 00:19:40,096
So, did you screw her or not?

349
00:19:45,768 --> 00:19:47,144
Elizabeth!

350
00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:49,188
Larry!

351
00:19:49,271 --> 00:19:51,691
My irreplaceable Elizabeth!

352
00:19:51,816 --> 00:19:53,025
I'm so happy to see you.

353
00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,821
- Do you like the hair?
- I love it.

354
00:19:56,904 --> 00:19:59,156
- It's much better than the red.
- I think so.

355
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,993
I mean, I liked the red, too.
But this is much more other-worldly.

356
00:20:03,077 --> 00:20:04,286
I have to go set up for the party.

357
00:20:04,370 --> 00:20:06,497
No, no, no. I got you some flowers!

358
00:20:07,957 --> 00:20:10,626
- I'm overwhelmed.
- Well, I have that effect on people.

359
00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:13,087
- I have so much to tell you.
- Like what?

360
00:20:13,170 --> 00:20:15,798
- I've been writing in my journal again.
- I hope you let me read it.

361
00:20:15,881 --> 00:20:17,675
No, no, no, no. The big one.

362
00:20:21,303 --> 00:20:22,722
And these are what
Richard Rodgers is getting?

363
00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:27,101
Larry, my mother would die
if she saw this.

364
00:20:27,184 --> 00:20:29,395
- With your permission.
- Permission granted.

365
00:20:31,647 --> 00:20:34,233
- That guy I told you about?
- Cooper?

366
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:36,986
- It finally happened.
- No!

367
00:20:37,111 --> 00:20:38,362
Yes.

368
00:20:39,155 --> 00:20:43,075
On my birthday.
The night of my 20th birthday.

369
00:20:43,159 --> 00:20:45,369
Pretty dramatic actually.
You could write a play about it.

370
00:20:45,453 --> 00:20:47,455
A musical. He Has Risen.

371
00:20:48,038 --> 00:20:50,082
- Larry...
- It's an Easter musical!

372
00:20:50,166 --> 00:20:51,584
It's very religious!

373
00:20:53,002 --> 00:20:54,920
Let me clarify by saying
it almost happened.

374
00:20:55,004 --> 00:20:56,213
Clarify immediately!

375
00:20:56,297 --> 00:20:58,466
- I'm gonna tell you the whole story later.
- No, no, I demand

376
00:20:58,549 --> 00:21:00,718
to know the shorthand version now.

377
00:21:01,469 --> 00:21:03,262
The shorthand version? Okay.

378
00:21:05,389 --> 00:21:07,808
The skin on his back was flawless.

379
00:21:08,350 --> 00:21:09,351
Gotta run.

380
00:21:10,519 --> 00:21:13,272
You're going to introduce me
to Richard Rodgers, right?

381
00:21:13,355 --> 00:21:14,356
Before the evening is over,

382
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,650
you're going to get a huge handful
of Dick.

383
00:21:16,734 --> 00:21:18,569
Larry! You're so vulgar!

384
00:21:20,154 --> 00:21:22,990
Handful of Dick, that's funny. Hey...

385
00:21:25,951 --> 00:21:28,537
I'm writing an entire musical about her.

386
00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:32,416
It's inspired by those Frank Capra
war pictures Why We Fight.

387
00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:33,751
This one will be called

388
00:21:34,376 --> 00:21:36,587
Why We Fuck.

389
00:21:36,670 --> 00:21:39,340
And the big ballad at the end will be

390
00:21:39,423 --> 00:21:42,134
The Skin On His Back Was Flawless.

391
00:21:44,345 --> 00:21:46,138
Of course, when you're 20,

392
00:21:46,222 --> 00:21:49,475
what other commodity do you have
to trade in on except your body?

393
00:21:49,558 --> 00:21:51,852
You haven't done anything, right?

394
00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:56,273
Can you imagine what Elizabeth would write
if she saw my back?

395
00:21:57,566 --> 00:21:59,527
"The skin on his back

396
00:21:59,610 --> 00:22:02,947
"looked like a white bed sheet
someone had thrown-up on.

397
00:22:03,030 --> 00:22:07,076
"His pecker looked like the horn
of a retarded unicorn."

398
00:22:10,621 --> 00:22:11,789
Just one...

399
00:22:12,915 --> 00:22:15,042
to get me through congratulating him.

400
00:22:15,125 --> 00:22:16,377
Larry.

401
00:22:17,628 --> 00:22:22,716
To the skin on her back
like every other part of her,

402
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,385
flawless.

403
00:22:27,304 --> 00:22:28,639
Wow.

404
00:22:28,722 --> 00:22:34,186
How can so much pleasure be compressed
into so small a container?

405
00:22:34,270 --> 00:22:37,481
That's it. Absolutely no more. Agreed?

406
00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:45,239
God! I miss Gershwin.

407
00:22:49,285 --> 00:22:53,914
I bet I saw Porgy and Bess more times
than any other person in this city.

408
00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:55,958
Best line in Porgy,

409
00:22:56,041 --> 00:22:59,962
"When Gawd made cripple,
He mean him to be lonely."

410
00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:04,925
Did you ever think
your entire life is a play

411
00:23:05,843 --> 00:23:08,178
and that, you know,
99% of the people in it,

412
00:23:08,262 --> 00:23:09,680
they got no lines, you know?

413
00:23:09,763 --> 00:23:12,349
They're just like extras.

414
00:23:12,433 --> 00:23:17,021
And you,
you're just an extra in their play.

415
00:23:17,521 --> 00:23:19,565
Deep. Very deep.

416
00:23:19,648 --> 00:23:21,525
- I got thoughts, too, you know.
- Really?

417
00:23:21,609 --> 00:23:22,860
I thought you were just an extra.

418
00:23:22,943 --> 00:23:25,404
Will somebody get these fucking flowers
off my bar?

419
00:23:25,946 --> 00:23:26,947
Okay!

420
00:23:30,534 --> 00:23:32,369
You've got to see her as I did.

421
00:23:33,287 --> 00:23:35,915
- I just seen her.
- No, the first time.

422
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,708
If you can't see that,

423
00:23:37,791 --> 00:23:40,836
you can't understand
what this whole night is about.

424
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,504
I'm beginning to think
you didn't screw her.

425
00:23:42,588 --> 00:23:46,342
I want to practice this trick on you
before I do it for her.

426
00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:48,010
And I'm not showing it to her as a trick.

427
00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:52,264
I'm showing it to her
as an experiment to prove

428
00:23:52,348 --> 00:23:54,725
there's an extra-sensory link
between us.

429
00:23:54,808 --> 00:23:56,435
She believes in all that horseshit,
you know,

430
00:23:56,518 --> 00:23:58,646
talking for 20 minutes
about psychokinesis.

431
00:23:58,729 --> 00:24:00,439
I don't understand a fucking word
she's saying.

432
00:24:00,522 --> 00:24:02,650
I'm sitting there, nodding, thinking,

433
00:24:02,733 --> 00:24:05,319
"Is she really wearing
a grape-colored brassiere?"

434
00:24:08,030 --> 00:24:11,075
And later, I'm going to teach you boys
my own card game.

435
00:24:11,158 --> 00:24:13,994
- Cocksucker's Rummy!
- Larry, language.

436
00:24:14,078 --> 00:24:15,955
You're offended by the word "cocksucker"?

437
00:24:16,038 --> 00:24:18,207
All right, I won't use it.
I give you my word

438
00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:23,379
as a cocksucker. But let me tell you
about the first time I saw her.

439
00:24:23,504 --> 00:24:25,089
I think I'd rather see the card trick.

440
00:24:25,172 --> 00:24:26,590
Me, too.

441
00:24:26,674 --> 00:24:29,510
You know what the sexiest thing
on the planet earth is?

442
00:24:30,427 --> 00:24:32,096
A half-erect penis.

443
00:24:32,179 --> 00:24:34,014
Jesus Christ, Larry,
nobody wants to hear this.

444
00:24:34,098 --> 00:24:35,182
I'm not talking to you.

445
00:24:35,265 --> 00:24:36,517
- Who you talking to?
- Me.

446
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,644
I got to talk to somebody interesting.
I mean it, though.

447
00:24:38,727 --> 00:24:41,105
A half-erect penis is a promise.

448
00:24:41,188 --> 00:24:44,233
A fully-erect penis
is an exclamation point.

449
00:24:44,316 --> 00:24:47,820
As a writer, it offends me.
It's too loud, it's too adolescent.

450
00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:49,321
The story's already over.

451
00:24:49,405 --> 00:24:53,993
But a half-erect penis,
is it going or is it coming?

452
00:24:56,704 --> 00:25:01,291
But women appeal to me precisely
for their absence of penises.

453
00:25:01,375 --> 00:25:02,376
Me, too.

454
00:25:03,085 --> 00:25:06,922
They live in a much more interesting
emotional landscape than we do.

455
00:25:07,006 --> 00:25:09,675
A landscape we can only dream about.

456
00:25:09,758 --> 00:25:12,678
But this evening
is not about landscapes.

457
00:25:12,761 --> 00:25:15,806
It's a portrait of Elizabeth,
and only Elizabeth.

458
00:25:15,889 --> 00:25:16,932
Here we fucking go again.

459
00:25:17,016 --> 00:25:18,726
Wait, you saw
that she was beautiful, right?

460
00:25:18,809 --> 00:25:22,771
I mean, if not classically beautiful,
then, what's the right word...

461
00:25:25,733 --> 00:25:26,775
Nice tits.

462
00:25:27,693 --> 00:25:31,196
Small but very inviting.

463
00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:33,949
I wish I could paint her.

464
00:25:34,033 --> 00:25:38,162
That seems to me the most intimate way
of looking at a person.

465
00:25:38,245 --> 00:25:39,747
At the same time, the least sentimental.

466
00:25:39,830 --> 00:25:42,624
To accurately reproduce
the planes of her face,

467
00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:45,836
the two tiny freckles on her left cheek.

468
00:25:47,629 --> 00:25:50,591
You look familiar.
I've seen your picture somewhere.

469
00:25:52,051 --> 00:25:53,052
You're a writer?

470
00:25:55,304 --> 00:25:58,057
Well, then you will appreciate this story.

471
00:25:58,140 --> 00:25:59,975
Because it concerns the...

472
00:26:03,395 --> 00:26:04,396
Ineffable?

473
00:26:05,439 --> 00:26:07,316
That's the perfect word.

474
00:26:07,399 --> 00:26:10,360
Christ! You're E.B. White!
You're "Andy" White!

475
00:26:12,321 --> 00:26:16,200
I cannot tell you
how much I enjoy your essays.

476
00:26:16,283 --> 00:26:18,660
Nothing has given me more pleasure.

477
00:26:18,744 --> 00:26:21,080
- I'm in love with your language.
- Thank you.

478
00:26:21,163 --> 00:26:22,372
I'm in love with your punctuation.

479
00:26:22,456 --> 00:26:24,041
You can't move a single comma. Am I right?

480
00:26:24,124 --> 00:26:26,460
I mean, you're a musician, White.

481
00:26:26,543 --> 00:26:27,669
You're the musician.

482
00:26:27,753 --> 00:26:32,216
You know, you, above all people,
will appreciate this story.

483
00:26:32,341 --> 00:26:34,635
This girl, Elizabeth.

484
00:26:34,718 --> 00:26:37,429
I... I can't do my act for her.
You know what I mean?

485
00:26:37,513 --> 00:26:40,474
She wouldn't be interested.
She never asks me about me.

486
00:26:40,557 --> 00:26:43,477
Never. And it isn't so much indifference,
I think,

487
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,145
as much as we both recognize

488
00:26:45,229 --> 00:26:47,314
that she's legitimately
more interesting than I am.

489
00:26:47,397 --> 00:26:49,108
And I genuinely mean that.

490
00:26:49,191 --> 00:26:51,026
Did you guys see her hair?

491
00:26:51,110 --> 00:26:54,780
That's what I first noticed when
she walked into the theater last July.

492
00:26:54,863 --> 00:26:57,908
It was as if she were breathing
different air than I was.

493
00:26:58,826 --> 00:27:01,078
- I like that.
- I'm telling you, White,

494
00:27:01,161 --> 00:27:03,455
she would make a great musical!

495
00:27:03,539 --> 00:27:06,875
And not one goddamn corn stalk
in the whole show!

496
00:27:06,959 --> 00:27:09,711
And, hey, fellas, just for the record,

497
00:27:09,795 --> 00:27:13,006
"The corn is as high as an elephant's eye"

498
00:27:13,090 --> 00:27:17,344
is the stupidest lyric in the history
of American songwriting.

499
00:27:17,469 --> 00:27:19,930
Yes, it makes perfect sense,
and, yes, it scans,

500
00:27:20,013 --> 00:27:23,976
but the image of an Oklahoma cornfield

501
00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:26,854
with a fucking elephant
standing in the middle of it?

502
00:27:26,937 --> 00:27:29,398
- I like elephants.
- Yeah, we all like elephants, Eddie.

503
00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:31,316
Look, Andy, I need you to see this.

504
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,026
I'm listening to her talk,

505
00:27:33,110 --> 00:27:35,112
but I couldn't tell you
a single word she said

506
00:27:35,195 --> 00:27:37,156
'cause all I'm really thinking is,

507
00:27:37,239 --> 00:27:39,825
"Wait till you feel the warmth
of her glance,

508
00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:42,703
"pensive and sweet and wise."

509
00:27:42,786 --> 00:27:46,999
I was writing about her
when I wrote that lyric.

510
00:27:47,082 --> 00:27:50,878
Three perfect words, in the perfect order.

511
00:27:51,545 --> 00:27:55,716
And, you tell me, what other lyricist
could've gotten away with "pensive"?

512
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:56,800
What song was that?

513
00:27:57,467 --> 00:27:59,595
Just telling you,
when I'm good, I'm really good.

514
00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:02,139
Just the sound of it!
That's what a writer does.

515
00:28:02,264 --> 00:28:07,186
We wear our vulnerability like a cloak
for all the world to witness.

516
00:28:07,936 --> 00:28:09,396
I like the word "cloak."

517
00:28:09,479 --> 00:28:11,356
That's 'cause it's an antique like us.

518
00:28:12,107 --> 00:28:13,442
Can I get you another drink?

519
00:28:16,028 --> 00:28:17,070
Sure. Why not?

520
00:28:17,154 --> 00:28:19,364
I can think of a thousand reasons why not,

521
00:28:19,448 --> 00:28:21,617
but they can't compete
with the reasons why.

522
00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:24,328
Eddie, pass the Lord
and praise the house physician!

523
00:28:24,411 --> 00:28:26,747
Another round! Just a little, just...

524
00:28:28,749 --> 00:28:32,461
You know what I loved in that essay
you wrote about Florida?

525
00:28:32,544 --> 00:28:33,545
That line.

526
00:28:34,254 --> 00:28:40,677
"The sea answers all questions
and always the same way... 'So soon?"'

527
00:28:41,887 --> 00:28:43,305
Jesus.

528
00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:47,184
To take a sound
and transform it into what?

529
00:28:48,352 --> 00:28:50,437
A sigh of eternity.

530
00:28:51,647 --> 00:28:53,106
My diminutive gift.

531
00:28:54,233 --> 00:28:59,738
To the poetry that pours down on us
from a thousand unexpected sources.

532
00:28:59,821 --> 00:29:01,156
To your poetry.

533
00:29:07,204 --> 00:29:10,123
Look, she's 20, I'm 47.

534
00:29:10,207 --> 00:29:13,085
Let's discuss this
like two sensible alcoholics.

535
00:29:13,168 --> 00:29:16,964
It was in the beginning,
everything was exactly as it seemed.

536
00:29:17,047 --> 00:29:19,841
I was her mentor,
and I suppose I was, you know,

537
00:29:19,925 --> 00:29:22,261
the "grand old man" of the theater
in her eyes.

538
00:29:22,344 --> 00:29:25,013
I'm over at the Shubert
rehearsing By Jupiter,

539
00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:27,140
the show is a holy mess.

540
00:29:27,224 --> 00:29:29,434
And I'm having this debate
with Johnny Green

541
00:29:29,518 --> 00:29:31,228
about the lyrics
to Give My Regards to Broadway.

542
00:29:31,353 --> 00:29:35,607
I remember, as a kid,
falling in love with that song.

543
00:29:35,691 --> 00:29:38,610
Give my regards to old Broadway

544
00:29:38,694 --> 00:29:41,363
And say that I'll be there 'ere long

545
00:29:41,446 --> 00:29:44,324
I knew instantly, even as a kid,

546
00:29:44,408 --> 00:29:48,203
that what gave that line its speed,
its inevitability, was the inner rhyme.

547
00:29:48,287 --> 00:29:50,956
And not just the "there, 'ere."
But the other one. The "way, say."

548
00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:52,708
The line should logically be,

549
00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:55,544
"Give my regards to old Broadway
and tell them that I'll be there."

550
00:29:55,627 --> 00:29:58,213
But to change the verb to "say,"

551
00:29:59,589 --> 00:30:00,799
it made all the difference.

552
00:30:01,466 --> 00:30:03,135
Knuckles, do you know any Cohan?

553
00:30:04,886 --> 00:30:08,849
Over there!
Over there!

554
00:30:08,932 --> 00:30:12,769
Send the word, send the word
Over there

555
00:30:12,853 --> 00:30:17,357
That the Yanks are coming!
The Yanks are coming!

556
00:30:17,482 --> 00:30:21,361
The drum drum-drumming everywhere...

557
00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:25,407
We'll be over
We're coming over!

558
00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:30,245
And we won't come back
'till it's over, over there!

559
00:30:30,329 --> 00:30:32,497
You know what the Yanks really sang
in the Great War?

560
00:30:32,581 --> 00:30:35,792
"We won't come back.
We'll be buried over there!"

561
00:30:37,586 --> 00:30:38,837
And they were.

562
00:30:39,504 --> 00:30:43,467
Total number of deaths in the Great War,
37 million.

563
00:30:45,010 --> 00:30:49,264
I think maybe the adjective "great"
should never precede the word "war."

564
00:30:49,348 --> 00:30:50,557
Amen to that.

565
00:30:51,266 --> 00:30:54,311
What does God think
when he looks down on his creation

566
00:30:54,394 --> 00:30:56,480
and sees that under
the noblest of motives,

567
00:30:56,563 --> 00:30:59,399
we sent 37 million people to their grave?

568
00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:02,194
That's why it's raining all the time.
God is weeping.

569
00:31:03,028 --> 00:31:04,988
Well, I'm a patriot. I am.

570
00:31:05,072 --> 00:31:07,115
I mean, you're a soldier. God bless you.

571
00:31:07,199 --> 00:31:09,659
But how many are going to die
this time around?

572
00:31:09,743 --> 00:31:11,578
Will we even be able
to put a number on it?

573
00:31:12,371 --> 00:31:15,040
I'm on leave. Taking care of my mother.

574
00:31:15,123 --> 00:31:16,750
She's more terrified than I am.

575
00:31:16,833 --> 00:31:18,043
When do you ship out?

576
00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:21,380
In two weeks, they're sending me back
to that hotbed of enemy activity.

577
00:31:22,214 --> 00:31:23,507
Bradley Beach, New Jersey.

578
00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:25,425
I'm teaching Morse code
at the Hotel Grossman.

579
00:31:25,509 --> 00:31:29,721
Bradley Beach, where enemy agents
stroll the boardwalk

580
00:31:29,805 --> 00:31:33,058
disguised as elderly Jewish women in furs.

581
00:31:33,141 --> 00:31:36,019
I used to play hide the sausage
with a girl from Bradley Beach.

582
00:31:36,103 --> 00:31:37,104
Yeah?

583
00:31:37,687 --> 00:31:40,232
Did you read that piece
in Life about Guadalcanal?

584
00:31:41,274 --> 00:31:42,359
How before the battle,

585
00:31:42,442 --> 00:31:44,444
the soldiers were skipping
silver dollars in the water

586
00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:45,821
instead of stones

587
00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:48,532
'cause they knew
they were never coming back.

588
00:31:51,701 --> 00:31:54,037
I couldn't enlist. My eyes.

589
00:31:54,121 --> 00:31:56,081
What's the matter? They open?

590
00:31:57,707 --> 00:32:00,877
Speaking of people
who are not coming back,

591
00:32:00,961 --> 00:32:02,462
I would like you to read this.

592
00:32:03,088 --> 00:32:04,673
It's from the By Jupiter playbill.

593
00:32:11,346 --> 00:32:12,347
Out loud!

594
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,896
"Rodgers and Hart,

595
00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:21,898
"they're as different as a dachshund
and a dromedary.

596
00:32:22,566 --> 00:32:26,194
"One likes opera and home life,
the other goes for night clubs and people.

597
00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:28,363
"One is married and has two children,

598
00:32:28,488 --> 00:32:30,490
"the other is single
and supports bartenders."

599
00:32:30,574 --> 00:32:31,992
You're welcome, Eddie.

600
00:32:33,452 --> 00:32:35,912
"The little fella, that's Larry,
smokes cigars,

601
00:32:35,996 --> 00:32:38,582
"big, black, small, brown, any kind.

602
00:32:38,665 --> 00:32:41,251
"While Dick, that's Rodgers,
only uses cigarettes.

603
00:32:41,835 --> 00:32:45,714
"One goes to bed about 4:30 every morning,
the other never dissipates."

604
00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:47,007
Perfect verb, right?

605
00:32:48,925 --> 00:32:51,261
"Despite their physical
and temperamental differences, however,

606
00:32:51,344 --> 00:32:53,972
"their intellects complement each other
like ham and eggs.

607
00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:57,601
"Their individual songs
number well over a thousand."

608
00:32:57,684 --> 00:32:58,685
A thousand songs?

609
00:32:59,603 --> 00:33:01,521
"They disagree violently,
but they never fight,

610
00:33:01,605 --> 00:33:04,608
"and in the 20-odd years
they've been practicing their craft,

611
00:33:04,691 --> 00:33:06,776
"they have never worked with anyone
but each other..."

612
00:33:06,860 --> 00:33:07,861
Until now.

613
00:33:09,112 --> 00:33:10,280
Impressive.

614
00:33:10,822 --> 00:33:12,157
I wrote it myself.

615
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:16,328
And not one single mention
of Blue fucking Moon.

616
00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:21,500
I sent Elizabeth some of my sheet music.
No response. I don't get it.

617
00:33:21,583 --> 00:33:22,584
She's a bitch.

618
00:33:22,667 --> 00:33:25,212
That's what they're gonna put
on my tombstone.

619
00:33:25,295 --> 00:33:28,548
- "She's a bitch"?
- "Lorenz Milton Hart.

620
00:33:29,216 --> 00:33:30,258
"He didn't get it."

621
00:33:30,342 --> 00:33:32,177
And people will come to my grave site
and say, "You know what?

622
00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:34,554
- "I didn't get it either."
- I definitely didn't get it.

623
00:33:34,638 --> 00:33:37,891
- Hey, Larr, I get it!
- So, listen.

624
00:33:37,974 --> 00:33:41,853
Elizabeth and I had a weekend.
We actually did.

625
00:33:41,937 --> 00:33:46,233
One passionate, transcendent weekend,
end of last summer

626
00:33:46,316 --> 00:33:47,901
before she went back to Yale.

627
00:33:48,401 --> 00:33:54,324
It's the closest I've ever felt in my life
to pure selflessness.

628
00:33:54,407 --> 00:33:56,701
It was nuanced, it was deep.

629
00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:58,495
How deep exactly?

630
00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:01,039
Listen, clown. I met her,

631
00:34:01,122 --> 00:34:04,417
and the first thing I said to her was,
"Excuse me,

632
00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:08,296
"but you have the best style of anyone
in this theater."

633
00:34:09,673 --> 00:34:11,633
I wish I had a photograph
of that moment.

634
00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:15,220
I wish I had a photograph
of every moment I've spent with her.

635
00:34:16,304 --> 00:34:20,600
I'm having trouble getting this right.
I'm trying to pin down...

636
00:34:21,601 --> 00:34:23,853
Andy, help me. What's the right word?

637
00:34:24,563 --> 00:34:25,564
Enchantment?

638
00:34:26,982 --> 00:34:28,567
And you know how hard that is.

639
00:34:29,526 --> 00:34:33,029
I couldn't believe that it was me
she wanted to talk to.

640
00:34:33,113 --> 00:34:34,823
I kept looking around the theater,

641
00:34:34,906 --> 00:34:37,117
there must be somebody else
she's interested in.

642
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,579
But no! She's plunking herself down
in the theater seat right next to me,

643
00:34:40,662 --> 00:34:43,832
as close as modesty will allow.

644
00:34:43,957 --> 00:34:46,960
And my heart is actually racing.

645
00:34:47,043 --> 00:34:50,380
And I don't ever feel this way,
not for men or for women.

646
00:34:50,463 --> 00:34:55,260
But she's wearing this yellow sundress,

647
00:34:55,343 --> 00:34:58,013
and it is hot in the theater.

648
00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:00,056
And she's talking to me for hours.

649
00:35:00,140 --> 00:35:03,226
Bare leg draped over the armrest.

650
00:35:03,310 --> 00:35:05,770
And I know this sounds like
I'm some middle-aged putz

651
00:35:05,854 --> 00:35:07,314
with a crush on a pretty co-ed,

652
00:35:07,397 --> 00:35:09,274
and maybe that's what it is.

653
00:35:09,357 --> 00:35:10,525
But you know something?

654
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:14,696
Maybe that's not what it is.

655
00:35:15,697 --> 00:35:18,700
Sometimes I feel... and don't laugh,

656
00:35:19,367 --> 00:35:23,872
after a lifetime of blindly colliding
into strangers,

657
00:35:24,623 --> 00:35:26,207
we've finally found a friend.

658
00:35:27,626 --> 00:35:29,836
Maybe that's the definition
of enchantment.

659
00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:34,007
One light-filled weekend!

660
00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:36,968
I've got to finish telling you this
before she comes back.

661
00:35:37,052 --> 00:35:38,470
Are you listening to me?

662
00:35:38,553 --> 00:35:40,263
Yeah, she got her legs draped over
the thing.

663
00:35:40,347 --> 00:35:42,974
It was as if all the love lyrics
I had ever written

664
00:35:43,058 --> 00:35:47,228
had, like, some sort of verbal ectoplasm,
suddenly taken human form.

665
00:35:47,312 --> 00:35:49,397
- Ecto what?
- That might be her mother.

666
00:35:49,481 --> 00:35:50,940
She cannot hear this.

667
00:35:52,025 --> 00:35:53,151
What about me?

668
00:35:53,234 --> 00:35:54,778
You're just an extra.

669
00:35:54,861 --> 00:35:57,364
- Okay, but I still get paid, right?
- Absolutely.

670
00:35:59,157 --> 00:36:01,743
It's important to me
that I nail this down.

671
00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:04,871
It was a boiling hot summer weekend,

672
00:36:04,954 --> 00:36:08,500
and I asked, with all the casualness
I could counterfeit,

673
00:36:08,583 --> 00:36:12,128
if she'd like to, you know,
escape the heat of the city,

674
00:36:12,253 --> 00:36:14,839
spend the weekend with me
on Lake Dunmore in Vermont.

675
00:36:14,923 --> 00:36:18,593
And without a moment's hesitation
she said,

676
00:36:18,677 --> 00:36:19,969
"I'd love to, Larry."

677
00:36:21,554 --> 00:36:24,140
I'm telling you, Andy,
this is my type of girl.

678
00:36:24,224 --> 00:36:26,476
I'm sorry, excuse me, I'm babbling,

679
00:36:26,559 --> 00:36:31,940
but how else do you describe
the actual present tense

680
00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:33,525
of falling in love?

681
00:36:34,776 --> 00:36:35,985
Is that what this is?

682
00:36:37,112 --> 00:36:40,573
Maybe. I mean, I haven't done
anything wrong, okay?

683
00:36:40,657 --> 00:36:44,536
I haven't violated the Mann Act
or even the Middle-Aged Man Act.

684
00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:46,496
I bought her this painting
of Lake Dunmore,

685
00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:48,415
bought it off this old salt Vermonter.

686
00:36:48,498 --> 00:36:51,376
I bought it so that she might remember.

687
00:36:51,459 --> 00:36:53,420
I once did a little canoeing
up around there.

688
00:36:54,129 --> 00:36:55,255
Hey, Larry!

689
00:36:59,718 --> 00:37:00,719
And then?

690
00:37:01,594 --> 00:37:04,472
Act Three. Later that day,

691
00:37:05,181 --> 00:37:06,891
she's in the warmth of the cabin.

692
00:37:06,975 --> 00:37:10,270
There's a pennant from Fort Ticonderoga
pinned to the wall.

693
00:37:10,353 --> 00:37:14,941
She's wearing this blue men's work shirt
with the sleeves rolled up.

694
00:37:15,024 --> 00:37:18,737
All of her suddenly available to me,

695
00:37:18,820 --> 00:37:22,574
this gift of youth and brain

696
00:37:22,657 --> 00:37:24,284
and clavicle.

697
00:37:24,367 --> 00:37:26,619
I touched her shoulder,

698
00:37:27,787 --> 00:37:30,415
and as some hack once scribbled,

699
00:37:30,498 --> 00:37:32,375
"My heart stood still."

700
00:37:33,418 --> 00:37:36,379
She took my hand and said, "Larry,

701
00:37:37,046 --> 00:37:39,883
"let's save this for another day."

702
00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:43,052
And all I can tell you, my friend,

703
00:37:43,136 --> 00:37:48,975
is there is a real possibility
that tonight is "another day."

704
00:37:54,481 --> 00:37:57,734
Clearing back a little bit.
Ladies, beautiful, beautiful!

705
00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:01,571
Rodgers! Rodgers!

706
00:38:01,988 --> 00:38:03,239
Yeah, beautiful!

707
00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:04,991
Okay.

708
00:38:05,784 --> 00:38:08,119
I appreciate that. Thanks.
Hey, thank you so much.

709
00:38:08,203 --> 00:38:09,621
I appreciate it. Thank you.

710
00:38:09,704 --> 00:38:10,705
Bravo!

711
00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:13,792
Thank you so much.

712
00:38:14,793 --> 00:38:17,629
Now, time for the real performance
of the evening.

713
00:38:26,471 --> 00:38:28,848
Eddie, Eddie. Eddie, get rid of this!

714
00:38:33,394 --> 00:38:34,646
Hey.

715
00:38:34,729 --> 00:38:35,980
So, did he fuck her or not?

716
00:38:36,064 --> 00:38:37,440
He thinks tonight might be the night.

717
00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:41,444
Larry. Larry, Larry.

718
00:38:42,111 --> 00:38:43,947
What do you think she sees in him?

719
00:38:44,489 --> 00:38:47,617
I think she sees a rich and famous guy
who can help her career.

720
00:38:48,952 --> 00:38:51,329
I think she recognizes she's being adored

721
00:38:51,412 --> 00:38:54,123
by one of the great appreciators
of beauty.

722
00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:57,168
- You know what else I think?
- Yeah?

723
00:38:58,086 --> 00:39:00,338
I think she is wearing
a grape-colored brassiere.

724
00:39:00,421 --> 00:39:03,216
All right, Rodgers.
Gentlemen, please let's get one.

725
00:39:04,092 --> 00:39:06,553
Beautiful. Come on. All right, big smile!

726
00:39:07,428 --> 00:39:09,514
- Beautiful.
- Dick! Dick!

727
00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:13,309
My God!
The show is going to run 20 years!

728
00:39:13,393 --> 00:39:16,104
It's going to be bigger
than Abie's Irish Rose!

729
00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:18,940
- We'll see.
- And much more goyish, so it can tour.

730
00:39:19,774 --> 00:39:20,775
Well, thanks for coming, Larry.

731
00:39:20,859 --> 00:39:22,402
- Oscar!
- Larry.

732
00:39:22,485 --> 00:39:24,237
You get taller every time I see you.

733
00:39:25,321 --> 00:39:28,032
What can I say? The lyrics are brilliant.

734
00:39:28,116 --> 00:39:31,661
Poetic when they need to be poetic,
funny when they need to be funny.

735
00:39:31,744 --> 00:39:35,081
Not a rhyme out of place, easy on the ear.

736
00:39:35,164 --> 00:39:38,209
I'm just a fool when lights are low

737
00:39:38,293 --> 00:39:40,920
Perfect! Did you hear me applauding?

738
00:39:41,004 --> 00:39:43,006
I think you were the loudest person
in the entire theater!

739
00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:45,800
That's because I loved it more than
anyone else in the entire theater!

740
00:39:45,884 --> 00:39:47,802
- Let me get you boys a drink.
- No, thank you.

741
00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:51,264
Larry, you got two minutes?
Give us a minute.

742
00:39:51,347 --> 00:39:52,515
Excuse us, Oscar.

743
00:40:00,231 --> 00:40:03,401
So, Dwight Wiman and I have been talking
about bringing back A Connecticut Yankee.

744
00:40:03,484 --> 00:40:04,485
Terrific!

745
00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:07,113
Yeah, I'm thinking of asking
Vivienne Segal.

746
00:40:07,196 --> 00:40:10,116
Mein Gott! It's gonna run longer
than Oklahoma!

747
00:40:10,199 --> 00:40:11,826
I'll buy 50 seats myself.

748
00:40:11,910 --> 00:40:14,704
I've got a new title, Ohh, Camelot!

749
00:40:16,039 --> 00:40:17,874
Well, I think we're gonna stick with
A Connecticut Yankee.

750
00:40:17,957 --> 00:40:19,667
Camelot Exclamation Point?

751
00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:21,669
Okay, come on. I'm being serious here.

752
00:40:21,753 --> 00:40:24,172
I'm always serious.
That's why people find me so funny.

753
00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:26,925
So I was thinking, if you feel
up to working, then maybe...

754
00:40:27,008 --> 00:40:28,635
- I've never felt better in my life, Dick.
- Congratulations, Dick.

755
00:40:28,718 --> 00:40:32,138
I don't want to bother you.
I just... We all just loved it.

756
00:40:32,221 --> 00:40:33,473
- You did?
- It's going to be a big hit.

757
00:40:33,556 --> 00:40:34,766
Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that.

758
00:40:34,849 --> 00:40:36,267
- It's Gladys, right? Yes.
- Yes! Yeah.

759
00:40:36,351 --> 00:40:37,352
Yes, nice to see you.

760
00:40:40,396 --> 00:40:43,816
Yeah, I was... I was thinking,
not just a revival,

761
00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:45,109
I was thinking a whole new book.

762
00:40:45,193 --> 00:40:47,695
We were thinking four or five new numbers.

763
00:40:48,696 --> 00:40:49,739
That I write?

764
00:40:49,822 --> 00:40:51,532
Of course, that you write.
That we write together.

765
00:40:51,616 --> 00:40:54,035
It's been 16 years, you know that,
since we did that show?

766
00:40:54,118 --> 00:40:57,413
- It needs updating, don't you think?
- 1927! The Vanderbilt!

767
00:40:57,497 --> 00:40:59,916
Yeah, it can be the new
Rodgers and Hart show for the fall.

768
00:40:59,999 --> 00:41:02,085
- New gags, new songs.
- New references.

769
00:41:02,168 --> 00:41:04,045
We'll satirize the whole war.

770
00:41:04,128 --> 00:41:06,005
Rationing, rubber drives, nylon drives,

771
00:41:06,089 --> 00:41:07,966
a new number for Vivienne.

772
00:41:08,049 --> 00:41:09,092
- Go easy with the satire, Larry.
- Very nice job.

773
00:41:09,175 --> 00:41:10,218
- Hello, nice to see you.
- Very nice piece.

774
00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:11,302
Appreciate it. Thank you.

775
00:41:11,386 --> 00:41:14,097
There came a lull then Cordell Hull
sent orders from above

776
00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:17,892
I'm sorry, girls, put down your pearls
'Cause now we're rationing love

777
00:41:17,976 --> 00:41:19,394
And how do we get Cordell Hull
into Camelot?

778
00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:20,478
Who cares? It's funny!

779
00:41:20,561 --> 00:41:23,356
Dick! From the New York Journal-American.

780
00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:27,610
"As enchanting to the eye
as Richard Rodgers' music is to the ear."

781
00:41:27,694 --> 00:41:28,695
- Okay.
- Yeah, it's nice.

782
00:41:28,778 --> 00:41:29,862
That's good. Good start.

783
00:41:29,946 --> 00:41:31,948
So, are you up for that?
Are you feeling healthy?

784
00:41:32,031 --> 00:41:33,616
Is that something
you could take seriously?

785
00:41:33,700 --> 00:41:36,411
Yeah. I'm on the wagon, Dick. I'm serious.

786
00:41:37,078 --> 00:41:39,414
Been drinking ginger ale all night.

787
00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:42,917
Well, except for this second
'cause this second we have to celebrate.

788
00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:46,045
This is the greatest musical
in the history of American theater.

789
00:41:46,129 --> 00:41:48,297
No, no. I'm not drinking with you, Larry.

790
00:41:48,381 --> 00:41:49,882
Okay, okay, all right.

791
00:41:49,966 --> 00:41:51,926
Weegee! Weegee! Shoot this!

792
00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:55,179
- What? No. Larry, I got to...
- No, no, no. Hey.

793
00:41:55,263 --> 00:41:57,348
Rodgers and Hart, together again!

794
00:41:57,974 --> 00:41:59,976
All right, closer! Come on, closer!

795
00:42:03,563 --> 00:42:04,772
I want ten copies of that.

796
00:42:04,856 --> 00:42:06,607
Great. Write me a check.

797
00:42:06,691 --> 00:42:08,026
Yeah.

798
00:42:08,151 --> 00:42:09,444
So, you think you're up to that?

799
00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:11,571
It's the best idea I've heard in 16 years.

800
00:42:11,654 --> 00:42:16,242
At the same time, I think we should be
dreaming about something completely new.

801
00:42:16,325 --> 00:42:17,368
Don't you agree?

802
00:42:17,452 --> 00:42:19,495
New Rodgers and Hart,
something people haven't seen before.

803
00:42:19,579 --> 00:42:20,580
Something big!

804
00:42:21,164 --> 00:42:22,498
Let's start with the revival first.

805
00:42:23,332 --> 00:42:24,792
- Absolutely.
- We'll take it one step at a time...

806
00:42:24,876 --> 00:42:26,210
- Yeah, but...
- ...because I really think

807
00:42:26,294 --> 00:42:27,712
- Hear me out.
- ...we can have a future together.

808
00:42:27,795 --> 00:42:29,589
Who doesn't think that?

809
00:42:30,465 --> 00:42:34,886
But I want to be one of those composers
who works with, you know,

810
00:42:34,969 --> 00:42:35,970
other lyricists.

811
00:42:36,054 --> 00:42:37,722
Like Arlen, Kern. You love Kern.

812
00:42:37,805 --> 00:42:39,348
I love Kern. I wanted to be Kern.

813
00:42:39,432 --> 00:42:41,100
But we have to work
like professionals, Larry.

814
00:42:41,184 --> 00:42:42,643
Since when haven't I worked
like a professional?

815
00:42:42,727 --> 00:42:45,563
I want to work at specific times
in the morning, at my office.

816
00:42:45,646 --> 00:42:48,107
- I want to adhere to a schedule.
- Yeah. That's what we do.

817
00:42:48,191 --> 00:42:49,692
I don't want to spend any more time
looking for you, Larry.

818
00:42:49,776 --> 00:42:51,360
- Well, I'm right here. Small as life!
- You know what I mean.

819
00:42:51,444 --> 00:42:52,862
I don't want to be calling up your mother

820
00:42:52,987 --> 00:42:54,363
at nine o'clock in the morning, so that,

821
00:42:54,447 --> 00:42:55,823
maybe, you might
roll out of bed at noon. Right?

822
00:42:55,907 --> 00:42:57,742
- Dick...
- I just don't want to do what we did.

823
00:42:57,825 --> 00:42:59,243
That's all I'm saying.

824
00:42:59,327 --> 00:43:00,787
It's a business, that's all.

825
00:43:01,621 --> 00:43:03,081
Maybe I shouldn't bring it up tonight,
but I don't know,

826
00:43:03,164 --> 00:43:04,791
- I wanted... I wanted to...
- All I want is to...

827
00:43:04,874 --> 00:43:08,086
- That was your best one yet. Really.
- All right, thank you.

828
00:43:08,169 --> 00:43:09,504
- Who is that?
- All I want is to write a show

829
00:43:09,587 --> 00:43:10,755
we both love.

830
00:43:13,216 --> 00:43:14,217
Yeah, I feel the same way.

831
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,844
Dick! Burns Mantle just called it

832
00:43:16,928 --> 00:43:20,723
"The most thoroughly and attractively
American musical comedy

833
00:43:20,807 --> 00:43:21,808
"since Show Boat."

834
00:43:21,891 --> 00:43:23,017
- Since Show Boat?
- Yeah.

835
00:43:23,101 --> 00:43:24,977
Wow. That's good.

836
00:43:25,061 --> 00:43:26,979
- Truly spectacular.
- Thank you, nice to see you.

837
00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:29,398
I have to fall in love with a show, Dick.

838
00:43:29,482 --> 00:43:31,818
I have to want to write that show
more than anything in the world,

839
00:43:31,901 --> 00:43:35,696
to be in that audience,
sitting there not missing a single word.

840
00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:37,490
All right, well, we start with
A Connecticut Yankee,

841
00:43:37,615 --> 00:43:39,575
- four or five numbers, and we go...
- Okay, look.

842
00:43:39,659 --> 00:43:42,411
Here's what I'm thinking.
The Adventures of Marco Polo.

843
00:43:42,495 --> 00:43:44,622
Dick, Dick! Wonderful show.

844
00:43:44,705 --> 00:43:46,541
Thank you so much. Nice to see you.

845
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:49,127
Just... just big. Bigger than Jumbo. Epic.

846
00:43:49,210 --> 00:43:51,212
A three-ring musical circus.

847
00:43:51,295 --> 00:43:53,714
The show lasts four hours
with a dinner break!

848
00:43:53,798 --> 00:43:58,594
It's grand comic opera.
And the stage set is the world!

849
00:43:58,678 --> 00:44:01,139
We satirize everybody.

850
00:44:01,222 --> 00:44:03,224
And you get to satirize them musically.

851
00:44:03,307 --> 00:44:05,726
We send up every national musical cliche
there is.

852
00:44:05,810 --> 00:44:08,312
The France number, the Italian number,

853
00:44:08,396 --> 00:44:10,314
when they get to the Heart of Darkness,

854
00:44:10,398 --> 00:44:12,191
the cannibals are doing Porgy and Bess.

855
00:44:13,234 --> 00:44:15,695
Bess, you is my dinner now!

856
00:44:15,778 --> 00:44:16,779
Jesus, Larry. Come on.

857
00:44:16,863 --> 00:44:19,657
This show is going to have
the scope of a novel.

858
00:44:19,740 --> 00:44:23,202
It will be the greatest challenge
you've ever had as a composer.

859
00:44:23,327 --> 00:44:27,248
And what grounds it all,
what lets the audience enter this story

860
00:44:27,331 --> 00:44:28,332
is the girl.

861
00:44:28,416 --> 00:44:32,253
This ethereal girl
whom Marco Polo has left behind.

862
00:44:32,336 --> 00:44:33,838
She's half his age,

863
00:44:34,672 --> 00:44:39,552
but it's the first time he's felt
that inkling of love in years, maybe ever.

864
00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:41,095
He swears in the first scene.

865
00:44:41,179 --> 00:44:43,222
We set this up like Benedick
in Much Ado...

866
00:44:43,306 --> 00:44:45,474
- Right.
- He swears that he's beyond

867
00:44:45,558 --> 00:44:47,685
the reach of any woman. He scorns love.

868
00:44:47,768 --> 00:44:49,687
And we do a whole number
satirizing love songs.

869
00:44:49,770 --> 00:44:53,524
No. Larry, I want to write shows
that have some emotional core to them...

870
00:44:53,608 --> 00:44:55,943
- Dick, great music. Great show!
- Hello, how are you?

871
00:44:56,027 --> 00:44:57,904
Thank you. I'll take that.
You're a tough critic.

872
00:44:57,987 --> 00:44:58,988
- Thank you.
- Thank you.

873
00:44:59,071 --> 00:45:02,200
Remember, we established
in the first scene that he's anti-love?

874
00:45:02,283 --> 00:45:04,744
Then he meets the girl.
She's a sort of free-spirit,

875
00:45:04,827 --> 00:45:08,539
Scandinavian-looking
with two freckles on her left cheek,

876
00:45:08,664 --> 00:45:10,249
- it's absurd.
- Don't do that.

877
00:45:10,333 --> 00:45:13,211
She lives socially,
psychologically, sexually

878
00:45:13,294 --> 00:45:17,089
in another universe than he does,
but he is slain.

879
00:45:17,882 --> 00:45:22,762
He stands there paralyzed
in the light of her pale green eyes.

880
00:45:22,845 --> 00:45:26,432
This is the greatest explorer
in the history of the world,

881
00:45:26,515 --> 00:45:31,020
and none of it means anything to him
unless it's a way to make her see him.

882
00:45:31,687 --> 00:45:34,732
That is the emotional core of the story.

883
00:45:34,815 --> 00:45:36,442
- Okay.
- We take this legendary,

884
00:45:36,525 --> 00:45:37,652
larger-than-life man,

885
00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:39,278
and we make him bleed.

886
00:45:39,362 --> 00:45:43,658
Mr. Rodgers, my name is Robert Heffner.
I'm the Mayor of Oklahoma City.

887
00:45:43,741 --> 00:45:45,618
Eve and I have traveled
all the way to New York

888
00:45:45,701 --> 00:45:46,911
- just to see the show.
- Okay. You know...

889
00:45:46,994 --> 00:45:49,163
Welcome to New York.
We're finishing a conversation.

890
00:45:49,247 --> 00:45:51,666
He'll be with you in two minutes.
Does that sound good?

891
00:45:51,791 --> 00:45:54,168
Two minutes, I'll be right with you.
Thank you, I hope it was worth it.

892
00:45:54,252 --> 00:45:56,462
- It certainly was.
- Good to see you. Thank you.

893
00:45:56,545 --> 00:45:58,089
All right, so come on.
Come on, come on, come on.

894
00:45:58,172 --> 00:46:00,841
And they end up together? Come on.

895
00:46:01,842 --> 00:46:04,804
That's what the audience
is waiting around to find out!

896
00:46:04,887 --> 00:46:06,597
That's the engine
that's driving the whole story.

897
00:46:06,681 --> 00:46:08,015
All right, well, look, Larry,

898
00:46:08,099 --> 00:46:09,433
if you're willing to write it,

899
00:46:09,517 --> 00:46:11,435
really write it,
and rewrite it, and rewrite it again,

900
00:46:11,519 --> 00:46:12,812
then, you know, it could work.

901
00:46:12,895 --> 00:46:15,356
But I'm not gonna beg you for this, Larry.
You know?

902
00:46:15,439 --> 00:46:16,482
We work for 15 minutes,

903
00:46:16,565 --> 00:46:17,858
you're out the door
looking for a cigar store.

904
00:46:17,942 --> 00:46:18,985
- It drives me...
- Okay.

905
00:46:19,068 --> 00:46:20,486
It drives me really crazy.
I don't like it.

906
00:46:20,569 --> 00:46:22,655
- I don't want to do it anymore.
- We've worked like that for 24 years.

907
00:46:22,738 --> 00:46:23,739
Congratulations, Dick!

908
00:46:23,823 --> 00:46:24,907
That's exactly what we've done
for 24 years.

909
00:46:24,991 --> 00:46:26,575
- Thank you.
- About time the Guild had a goddamned hit.

910
00:46:26,659 --> 00:46:28,536
Yeah. You're absolutely, absolutely right.

911
00:46:28,619 --> 00:46:30,705
Anyway, I'm not going to...
I'm not going to fight with you, Larry.

912
00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:32,707
- Who's fighting?
- I don't know.

913
00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:33,791
With a war on,

914
00:46:33,874 --> 00:46:36,794
do audiences really want to watch
cannibals singing Porgy and Bess?

915
00:46:36,919 --> 00:46:38,671
And what do audiences want to watch?

916
00:46:38,754 --> 00:46:41,465
Cowboys a-whoopin'-it-up
at the box social?

917
00:46:43,009 --> 00:46:44,593
Well, yes. Apparently.

918
00:46:44,677 --> 00:46:45,928
That's right, I forgot.

919
00:46:46,012 --> 00:46:49,348
Oklahoma, exclamation point,
addresses the urgency of a nation at war.

920
00:46:49,432 --> 00:46:52,685
I think every serviceman
in that audience tonight

921
00:46:52,768 --> 00:46:54,020
thought about what we're fighting for,

922
00:46:54,103 --> 00:46:55,771
even for a second or two,
he thought about it.

923
00:46:55,855 --> 00:46:57,440
And what is it we're fighting for,
exactly?

924
00:46:57,523 --> 00:47:00,526
Feisty little girls in gingham dresses
who can't say no?

925
00:47:01,944 --> 00:47:04,280
- Okay. All right.
- Dick, Dick, Dick. Come on.

926
00:47:04,363 --> 00:47:06,490
Just between you and me,

927
00:47:06,574 --> 00:47:09,952
those characters are unrecognizable
as human beings.

928
00:47:10,036 --> 00:47:12,288
I think plenty of people recognized them.
They recognized love.

929
00:47:12,371 --> 00:47:13,789
He needs rescuing, big time.

930
00:47:13,873 --> 00:47:16,834
They recognized family.
They recognized pride in their country.

931
00:47:16,917 --> 00:47:19,003
You're starting to sound like
Yankee Doodle Dandy.

932
00:47:19,086 --> 00:47:21,088
I think there's significantly more there
to recognize, Larry,

933
00:47:21,213 --> 00:47:22,548
than a bunch of singing cannibals.

934
00:47:22,631 --> 00:47:24,383
But cannibals are much funnier,
admit it.

935
00:47:24,467 --> 00:47:26,135
Dick, you want to come and read these!

936
00:47:26,218 --> 00:47:27,720
- Yeah, hang on! Hang on. Be right there.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.

937
00:47:27,803 --> 00:47:30,473
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
I know exactly what you mean.

938
00:47:30,556 --> 00:47:32,433
Just tell me... What do you
really want to write?

939
00:47:32,516 --> 00:47:34,268
What's your dream show?

940
00:47:34,352 --> 00:47:35,353
- My dream show?
- Yeah.

941
00:47:35,436 --> 00:47:36,645
Oklahoma!

942
00:47:40,066 --> 00:47:41,067
I mean, next.

943
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:46,739
We're talking about
getting the rights to Liliom.

944
00:47:48,157 --> 00:47:49,617
- The Molnár play?
- Yeah.

945
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:51,410
- That was cornball in 1909.
- Yeah?

946
00:47:51,494 --> 00:47:53,621
You really want to write a musical
about a carnival barker

947
00:47:53,704 --> 00:47:55,289
who beats up his girlfriend,

948
00:47:55,373 --> 00:47:57,124
- dies, comes back...
- I think it'll work.

949
00:47:57,208 --> 00:47:59,710
Yeah, and at the end, all the dead people
could take off their halos and go,

950
00:47:59,794 --> 00:48:01,295
"Purgatory!"

951
00:48:01,879 --> 00:48:03,589
Look, I will do it if you force me to.

952
00:48:03,714 --> 00:48:05,049
- It's just in my heart of...
- No, I'm not forcing you to.

953
00:48:05,132 --> 00:48:06,342
Oscar's going to do it.

954
00:48:08,594 --> 00:48:11,680
What does Oscar know
about turn-of-the-century Budapest?

955
00:48:12,515 --> 00:48:14,642
He's going to Americanize it.

956
00:48:15,434 --> 00:48:16,852
He's going to modernize it.

957
00:48:17,728 --> 00:48:18,896
We're going to set it in Maine.

958
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,650
Maine? Right, with all due respect,
modernizing Molnár

959
00:48:22,733 --> 00:48:24,568
- is a deeply...
- You got to read this!

960
00:48:24,652 --> 00:48:25,653
Is it the Times?

961
00:48:26,445 --> 00:48:28,697
Burton Rascoe's World-Telegram review.

962
00:48:28,781 --> 00:48:29,824
- It's a rave.
- Good.

963
00:48:29,907 --> 00:48:32,118
- We'll have the Times any moment.
- Okay.

964
00:48:32,201 --> 00:48:33,994
Larry, I've got to go.
The Times is coming.

965
00:48:34,078 --> 00:48:35,079
Okay, okay.

966
00:48:35,162 --> 00:48:37,248
- Wish me luck.
- Mazel tov!

967
00:48:37,331 --> 00:48:38,499
As they say in Maine.

968
00:48:40,835 --> 00:48:43,045
- Hey, Dick. That was perfect.
- Thank you.

969
00:48:43,129 --> 00:48:44,713
Nice to see you. Did you enjoy it?

970
00:49:00,104 --> 00:49:04,150
What does Dick Rodgers know of Maine?
He was bar-mitzvahed for Christ's sake!

971
00:49:04,233 --> 00:49:06,444
How long are they going to keep selling
that fairy tale?

972
00:49:06,527 --> 00:49:09,363
"Have faith, have hope,
the dead will arise to comfort us!"

973
00:49:09,447 --> 00:49:10,906
Like fuck they will.

974
00:49:11,407 --> 00:49:13,576
Give me another shot, Eddie. A real one.

975
00:49:16,454 --> 00:49:18,664
Join me for a shot, Andy? Please.

976
00:49:23,627 --> 00:49:24,962
How ya holding up?

977
00:49:25,921 --> 00:49:29,300
You know how in a marriage they say
"for better or for worse"?

978
00:49:29,383 --> 00:49:33,012
I think in terms of my life,
I've entered the "for worse" part.

979
00:49:33,137 --> 00:49:37,516
And it happened so quietly
I didn't even recognize it.

980
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:38,809
Have you ever felt that way?

981
00:49:39,685 --> 00:49:41,187
Every day of my life.

982
00:49:43,481 --> 00:49:44,940
Thank you.

983
00:49:45,024 --> 00:49:47,109
Sometimes I think,
"Even God is finished with me."

984
00:49:47,193 --> 00:49:48,694
I've had my hits,

985
00:49:48,777 --> 00:49:51,822
I've loved a small,
dear collection of people.

986
00:49:51,906 --> 00:49:53,782
And now he's turned the page.

987
00:49:54,533 --> 00:49:55,951
I feel superannuated.

988
00:49:56,785 --> 00:49:59,330
"Superannuated."
That's a good thing, isn't it?

989
00:49:59,413 --> 00:50:01,081
It means your dick doesn't work.

990
00:50:02,833 --> 00:50:04,168
Must be why I don't know that word.

991
00:50:08,047 --> 00:50:09,381
Put me on the list.

992
00:50:20,351 --> 00:50:22,520
You notice the birds are back
in Central Park?

993
00:50:24,688 --> 00:50:26,440
What are you working on these days?

994
00:50:26,524 --> 00:50:28,067
Children's book.

995
00:50:29,193 --> 00:50:31,195
Must have burned myself out
writing those essays,

996
00:50:31,278 --> 00:50:32,279
it's not going well.

997
00:50:33,322 --> 00:50:34,823
I think, as far as my writing goes,

998
00:50:34,907 --> 00:50:36,659
I've also entered the "for worse" part.

999
00:50:37,785 --> 00:50:38,911
What's your story about?

1000
00:50:38,994 --> 00:50:40,329
I wish I knew.

1001
00:50:41,664 --> 00:50:43,415
The journey everybody takes?

1002
00:50:44,750 --> 00:50:48,212
Searching for what's perfect
and unattainable?

1003
00:50:48,963 --> 00:50:49,964
The ineffable!

1004
00:50:50,548 --> 00:50:53,592
Probably too elusive an idea
to put into a children's book.

1005
00:50:53,676 --> 00:50:55,052
I have a line for you.

1006
00:50:56,345 --> 00:51:00,015
"He chased her around the bed all night
before concluding

1007
00:51:00,099 --> 00:51:01,392
"she was ineffable."

1008
00:51:01,475 --> 00:51:03,102
Sure you don't mean "uneffable"?

1009
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:05,521
Better.

1010
00:51:08,315 --> 00:51:09,608
You know, I'm in the park every morning,

1011
00:51:09,692 --> 00:51:12,069
liberating this mouse
I keep catching in my kitchen.

1012
00:51:12,152 --> 00:51:14,822
- Yeah?
- I have this little glass box

1013
00:51:14,905 --> 00:51:17,658
that captures the mouse
but doesn't kill him.

1014
00:51:17,741 --> 00:51:19,827
And every morning I walk into my kitchen,

1015
00:51:19,910 --> 00:51:22,037
and there he is,
at the bottom of the refrigerator.

1016
00:51:22,121 --> 00:51:25,958
My little brown mouse,
happily eating the cracker I left for him.

1017
00:51:26,041 --> 00:51:28,335
And every morning,
I carry him down to the park,

1018
00:51:28,419 --> 00:51:31,797
open the box. He leaps out ten feet,
scurries into the underbrush.

1019
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,717
And then the next morning, I'll be damned,

1020
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,885
he is back in the box!

1021
00:51:36,969 --> 00:51:38,554
How do you know it's the same mouse?

1022
00:51:38,637 --> 00:51:39,638
Well, he certainly looks the same.

1023
00:51:39,722 --> 00:51:44,018
He has that same New York look
of doomed hopefulness.

1024
00:51:45,060 --> 00:51:48,188
But how does he get up the 19 floors?

1025
00:51:49,523 --> 00:51:50,899
Maybe he's tipping the doorman.

1026
00:51:53,652 --> 00:51:55,404
You know, this morning he wasn't there.

1027
00:51:56,071 --> 00:51:59,241
Just the cracker lying in the box.

1028
00:52:00,326 --> 00:52:02,244
I actually missed the little fella,
I really did.

1029
00:52:02,328 --> 00:52:04,538
I think I've started to identify with him.

1030
00:52:04,622 --> 00:52:06,415
Does he have a name?

1031
00:52:07,416 --> 00:52:09,168
I'm calling him Stuart.

1032
00:52:09,752 --> 00:52:11,337
With a "W" or a "U"?

1033
00:52:13,505 --> 00:52:16,925
A "U." Nothing fancy.
Just a regular middle-class mouse.

1034
00:52:20,763 --> 00:52:22,973
I think you'll have to excuse me.

1035
00:52:23,057 --> 00:52:26,268
All this jubilation
has gone to my bladder.

1036
00:52:29,396 --> 00:52:32,149
"Agnes de Mille works small miracles

1037
00:52:32,274 --> 00:52:36,487
"and devising original dances
that fit the story and the tunes.

1038
00:52:36,570 --> 00:52:38,656
"Oklahoma! is fresh..."

1039
00:52:38,739 --> 00:52:40,407
Okay, I got something funny.

1040
00:52:40,949 --> 00:52:43,369
What do you call a tired homosexual?

1041
00:52:44,370 --> 00:52:45,371
I don't know.

1042
00:52:47,623 --> 00:52:48,832
Fuck, I forgot.

1043
00:52:49,625 --> 00:52:50,918
That's really funny.

1044
00:52:53,045 --> 00:52:56,548
"The play's spine-tingling,
out of this world!"

1045
00:53:04,515 --> 00:53:07,976
You know, when Atkinson wrote that review
for Pal Joey, you remember that?

1046
00:53:08,644 --> 00:53:10,813
"Drab and mirthless.

1047
00:53:10,896 --> 00:53:14,400
"Can one draw sweet water
from a foul well?"

1048
00:53:15,526 --> 00:53:18,779
I cried. That's how hurt I was.

1049
00:53:18,862 --> 00:53:22,449
I cried in Vivienne Segal's arms.

1050
00:53:22,533 --> 00:53:23,951
She hugged me and said,

1051
00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:27,663
"History is going to prove him wrong,
darling."

1052
00:53:27,746 --> 00:53:29,581
Wasn't that
the sweetest thing in the world

1053
00:53:29,665 --> 00:53:30,833
for someone to say?

1054
00:53:32,251 --> 00:53:34,169
And she actually calls me "darling."

1055
00:53:35,129 --> 00:53:36,130
Wow.

1056
00:53:36,213 --> 00:53:37,423
Time magazine wrote,

1057
00:53:37,506 --> 00:53:39,633
"For those who can park their morals
in the lobby,

1058
00:53:39,717 --> 00:53:41,260
"Pal Joey is a wow."

1059
00:53:42,261 --> 00:53:44,722
What kind of piece-of-shit praise is that?

1060
00:53:47,224 --> 00:53:49,518
- I'm talking about Pal Joey.
- Right.

1061
00:53:49,601 --> 00:53:50,728
I didn't see that one.

1062
00:53:51,353 --> 00:53:54,648
Wolcott Gibbs, he loved the show.

1063
00:53:55,232 --> 00:53:57,776
He said it was,
"Asong and dance production

1064
00:53:57,860 --> 00:54:01,363
"with living three-dimensional figures,

1065
00:54:01,488 --> 00:54:04,992
"talking and behaving like human beings."

1066
00:54:05,701 --> 00:54:07,327
See? There you go.

1067
00:54:08,537 --> 00:54:10,748
You're still going to introduce me
to Rodgers tonight, right?

1068
00:54:10,831 --> 00:54:14,001
Urination for me
has turned into a two-act play

1069
00:54:14,084 --> 00:54:15,377
with a brief intermission.

1070
00:54:18,881 --> 00:54:22,009
I love Vivienne. God help me.

1071
00:54:24,178 --> 00:54:25,637
Her compassion.

1072
00:54:26,638 --> 00:54:28,140
Did I tell you she calls me "darling"?

1073
00:54:29,057 --> 00:54:31,435
We were up at the Starlight Roof.

1074
00:54:31,518 --> 00:54:36,607
I turned to her and I said,
"Vivienne, will you please marry me?"

1075
00:54:36,690 --> 00:54:39,401
That's what I told her. Right to her face.

1076
00:54:39,485 --> 00:54:43,071
Can you imagine having the courage
to say that to a woman?

1077
00:54:43,864 --> 00:54:46,116
I've never had the courage
to even dream of saying that.

1078
00:54:46,241 --> 00:54:47,743
Yeah. It was a moment.

1079
00:54:47,826 --> 00:54:52,790
Let me tell you. 2:00 a.m., the band
was playing I've Heard That Song Before.

1080
00:54:53,499 --> 00:54:56,543
She said, "I love you, darling,

1081
00:54:57,336 --> 00:54:58,837
"just not that way."

1082
00:55:01,089 --> 00:55:03,509
"Not that way."

1083
00:55:04,134 --> 00:55:06,762
Three little words.

1084
00:55:06,845 --> 00:55:10,390
Ten little letters that mean,

1085
00:55:11,141 --> 00:55:12,768
"Game over, schmuck."

1086
00:55:15,854 --> 00:55:17,648
"Think it over," I told her.

1087
00:55:17,731 --> 00:55:21,902
I took her hand in mine,
her nail polish was pale gray...

1088
00:55:28,492 --> 00:55:31,578
Now... I can drink.

1089
00:55:34,706 --> 00:55:38,460
May I remind everybody what Mike Todd
said about Oklahoma! in New Haven,

1090
00:55:38,544 --> 00:55:41,129
"No laughs, no tits, no chance"?

1091
00:55:41,922 --> 00:55:45,133
We have a chance now.
All right, read that out. Okay, wow.

1092
00:55:45,926 --> 00:55:48,887
Wonderful. This is what
Nichols said in the Times.

1093
00:55:48,971 --> 00:55:51,390
"Wonderful is the nearest adjective,

1094
00:55:51,473 --> 00:55:53,433
"for this excursion of the Guild

1095
00:55:53,517 --> 00:55:57,396
"combines a fresh and infectious gaiety,
a charm of manner,

1096
00:55:57,479 --> 00:55:59,857
"beautiful acting, dancing and singing,

1097
00:55:59,940 --> 00:56:04,361
"and a score by Richard Rodgers
which doesn't do any harm either,

1098
00:56:04,444 --> 00:56:06,905
"since it is one of his best.

1099
00:56:12,286 --> 00:56:15,956
"Mr. Rodgers's scores never lack grace,

1100
00:56:16,081 --> 00:56:21,420
"but seldom have they been
so well-integrated as this for Oklahoma!

1101
00:56:21,503 --> 00:56:27,426
"He has turned out waltzes, love songs,
comic songs and a title number

1102
00:56:27,509 --> 00:56:30,888
"which the State in question
would do well to adopt

1103
00:56:30,971 --> 00:56:32,598
"as its anthem forthwith.

1104
00:56:37,311 --> 00:56:41,273
"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,
and People Will Say We're in Love

1105
00:56:41,356 --> 00:56:44,693
"are headed for countless jukeboxes
across the land.

1106
00:56:47,946 --> 00:56:52,784
"And a dirge called 'Pore Jud',
in which the hero of the fable

1107
00:56:52,868 --> 00:56:55,954
"tries to persuade his rival
to hang himself

1108
00:56:56,038 --> 00:56:57,789
is amazingly comic.

1109
00:56:58,957 --> 00:57:03,545
"The Farmer and the Cowman
and The Surrey with the Fringe on the Top

1110
00:57:03,629 --> 00:57:09,676
"also deserve mention only because
they quite clearly approach perfection."

1111
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:11,136
Read that part again.

1112
00:57:12,846 --> 00:57:16,391
"...because they quite clearly
approach perfection."

1113
00:57:16,475 --> 00:57:18,060
Put that on the marquee!

1114
00:57:18,644 --> 00:57:21,271
"Quite clearly approaches perfection."

1115
00:57:24,483 --> 00:57:28,528
Come on, everybody! Party upstairs!
Cake and champagne.

1116
00:57:38,956 --> 00:57:41,416
Oscar! Bravo, bravo.

1117
00:57:41,500 --> 00:57:42,709
Congratulations.

1118
00:57:48,966 --> 00:57:50,467
Can I speak with you for a moment?

1119
00:57:50,550 --> 00:57:51,551
Can we talk later, Larry?

1120
00:57:51,635 --> 00:57:54,096
No, no, no. It's just a second.
I have something important to say.

1121
00:57:54,179 --> 00:57:56,014
Just a moment with the musical genius.

1122
00:57:58,767 --> 00:58:01,895
I just have one thing
I want to tell you, Dick.

1123
00:58:03,188 --> 00:58:06,108
Just one second, Dick. It's important.

1124
00:58:06,733 --> 00:58:08,527
I remember when I first heard about you,

1125
00:58:08,610 --> 00:58:11,238
you were just Morty Rodger's
little brother.

1126
00:58:11,321 --> 00:58:13,323
- What, were you 17?
- 16.

1127
00:58:13,407 --> 00:58:14,950
- Yeah, I was 23.
- Swell job.

1128
00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:16,493
Yeah, you were the wise old man
on the mountain.

1129
00:58:16,576 --> 00:58:18,704
But when I first heard you
play your stuff,

1130
00:58:18,787 --> 00:58:21,581
I knew you had it.

1131
00:58:21,665 --> 00:58:23,542
I wasn't entirely convinced that I had it,

1132
00:58:23,625 --> 00:58:26,086
but I heard something that afternoon.

1133
00:58:28,171 --> 00:58:31,383
Originality, melody, grace...

1134
00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:37,931
Come on. Come on, Larry. Stop it.
Come on, what's the matter with you?

1135
00:58:38,015 --> 00:58:41,810
You worked your whole life
for this night, Dick.

1136
00:58:41,893 --> 00:58:44,771
Nobody's worked harder.
And nobody deserves it more.

1137
00:58:44,855 --> 00:58:46,565
All right, thanks. Thanks, Larry.
Thank you.

1138
00:58:46,648 --> 00:58:51,069
All right, that's what I wanted...
Just go... enjoy your party.

1139
00:58:51,153 --> 00:58:52,863
Hey, look at me. Look at me.

1140
00:58:52,946 --> 00:58:55,198
We're going to do
A Connecticut Yankee, all new.

1141
00:58:55,282 --> 00:58:57,325
- Yeah, yeah.
- We're gonna write four or five new songs.

1142
00:58:57,409 --> 00:58:58,660
- I have ideas already.
- Right?

1143
00:58:58,744 --> 00:59:01,288
Yeah, yeah. And if I get some pages down
for Marco Polo,

1144
00:59:01,371 --> 00:59:02,372
can I send them over?

1145
00:59:03,790 --> 00:59:07,753
You have to ask me that?
Larry, I owe my professional life to you.

1146
00:59:11,339 --> 00:59:14,843
Summer journeys to Niagara
And to other places

1147
00:59:14,968 --> 00:59:17,763
Aggravate all our cares...

1148
00:59:17,846 --> 00:59:19,681
You remember we heard that on the radio
for the first time?

1149
00:59:19,765 --> 00:59:22,350
In your parents' living room.
Our first hit.

1150
00:59:22,434 --> 00:59:25,145
That was one of the most
astonishing moments of my life, Larry.

1151
00:59:25,228 --> 00:59:29,107
- I was 22.
- And I'm telling you, I swear to God,

1152
00:59:29,191 --> 00:59:31,610
our best work is still ahead of us.

1153
00:59:31,693 --> 00:59:33,695
Yes, the new Connecticut Yankee!

1154
00:59:33,779 --> 00:59:35,322
Yeah, yeah. And bigger stuff.

1155
00:59:35,405 --> 00:59:37,240
- Dick, get up here.
- All right. I'm coming!

1156
00:59:37,324 --> 00:59:39,701
I mean, Marco Polo is going to be
a show about joy...

1157
00:59:40,368 --> 00:59:44,122
but a hard-earned joy,
an unsentimental joy.

1158
00:59:44,998 --> 00:59:47,334
- Something wrong with sentimental?
- What? It's too easy.

1159
00:59:50,378 --> 00:59:51,838
Oklahoma! is too easy?

1160
00:59:52,839 --> 00:59:55,217
The guy actually getting the girl
at the end is too easy?

1161
00:59:55,300 --> 00:59:57,928
You've just eliminated
every successful musical comedy

1162
00:59:58,053 --> 00:59:59,179
ever written, Larry.

1163
00:59:59,262 --> 01:00:00,263
Then it's too easy for me.

1164
01:00:00,347 --> 01:00:01,681
Did you hear the audience tonight?

1165
01:00:02,307 --> 01:00:03,308
Yes.

1166
01:00:04,351 --> 01:00:06,728
Sixteen hundred people
didn't think it was too easy.

1167
01:00:06,812 --> 01:00:08,563
You're telling me 1,600 people are wrong?

1168
01:00:08,647 --> 01:00:10,023
I'm just saying...

1169
01:00:11,149 --> 01:00:17,155
that you and I can do something
so much more emotionally complicated.

1170
01:00:17,239 --> 01:00:19,366
We don't have to pander
to what audiences...

1171
01:00:19,449 --> 01:00:21,409
- Oscar and I are pandering?
- No. I didn't say that.

1172
01:00:21,493 --> 01:00:23,662
- Irving Berlin is pandering?
- I love Berlin.

1173
01:00:23,745 --> 01:00:26,414
- White Christmas is pandering?
- Well, I don't believe White Christmas.

1174
01:00:26,498 --> 01:00:27,499
Okay.

1175
01:00:28,583 --> 01:00:30,293
Well, maybe audiences have changed.

1176
01:00:30,377 --> 01:00:32,212
Well, they still want to laugh.

1177
01:00:32,295 --> 01:00:33,964
They want to laugh, but not in that way.

1178
01:00:34,047 --> 01:00:35,549
- Not in what way?
- In your way.

1179
01:00:36,633 --> 01:00:38,468
They want to laugh,
but they also want to cry a little.

1180
01:00:38,552 --> 01:00:41,388
They want to... they want to feel.

1181
01:00:44,724 --> 01:00:46,476
You're my oldest friend.

1182
01:00:47,269 --> 01:00:48,353
You're...

1183
01:00:50,605 --> 01:00:51,606
you're unique.

1184
01:00:52,566 --> 01:00:54,067
Sounds like you're writing my obituary.

1185
01:00:55,068 --> 01:00:57,946
- I'm just saying.
- I'm right here, right now.

1186
01:00:58,029 --> 01:01:00,949
- Ready to work.
- Yeah?

1187
01:01:02,367 --> 01:01:04,619
And you're willing to go back
to Doctors Hospital?

1188
01:01:05,745 --> 01:01:08,415
I don't need to go back
to Doctors Hospital,

1189
01:01:08,498 --> 01:01:11,668
and I don't need a psychiatrist either.

1190
01:01:11,751 --> 01:01:13,712
- Thank you very much.
- We were just trying to help you, Larry.

1191
01:01:13,795 --> 01:01:15,839
Who's we? You and Oscar? Help me?

1192
01:01:15,922 --> 01:01:17,340
Oscar? You think Oscar
had anything to do with it?

1193
01:01:17,424 --> 01:01:20,760
Oklahoma! is going to be the biggest hit
of your career.

1194
01:01:20,844 --> 01:01:23,138
- You don't know that. You don't know that.
- You got that asshole Kron

1195
01:01:23,221 --> 01:01:25,098
to manage my money.
Now I'm incapable...

1196
01:01:25,182 --> 01:01:26,892
I did that at the insistence
of your brother, Larry.

1197
01:01:27,017 --> 01:01:28,018
Teddy literally begged me...

1198
01:01:28,101 --> 01:01:30,270
Well, maybe you and Teddy
should write the lyrics.

1199
01:01:30,353 --> 01:01:31,897
I did write the lyrics.

1200
01:01:32,981 --> 01:01:34,107
What is that supposed to mean?

1201
01:01:34,191 --> 01:01:36,943
By Jupiter? Have you conveniently
blocked that out?

1202
01:01:37,027 --> 01:01:38,236
Blocked what out?

1203
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:41,698
How Logan and I begged you
for extra choruses, extra verses,

1204
01:01:41,781 --> 01:01:44,868
and you were so drunk
that you didn't even show up.

1205
01:01:44,951 --> 01:01:46,703
So, yes, I had to write the lyrics.

1206
01:01:46,786 --> 01:01:49,581
- You didn't write one fucking word...
- How would you know?

1207
01:01:49,664 --> 01:01:51,291
- ...of that show.
- How would you know, Larry?

1208
01:01:51,374 --> 01:01:53,084
You weren't around to even...

1209
01:01:53,168 --> 01:01:54,169
You know what?

1210
01:01:54,252 --> 01:01:56,213
I'm actually not going to argue
with you tonight,

1211
01:01:56,296 --> 01:01:57,297
- if that's all right with you.
- I like to argue.

1212
01:01:57,380 --> 01:01:59,132
Well I don't. I don't.

1213
01:01:59,216 --> 01:02:00,508
Look, I am sorry.

1214
01:02:01,551 --> 01:02:04,137
I don't care if somebody attacks me.

1215
01:02:04,221 --> 01:02:06,431
It doesn't mean anything to me.

1216
01:02:06,514 --> 01:02:10,310
But nobody can attack my work.
It is all I've got.

1217
01:02:10,435 --> 01:02:12,354
Your work is brilliant.
That's not the problem.

1218
01:02:15,357 --> 01:02:18,735
Your work has been brilliant
since the day I met you.

1219
01:02:19,986 --> 01:02:21,321
Do you still remember that?

1220
01:02:22,405 --> 01:02:24,783
You, standing there in your
carpet slippers and your stripy bathrobe?

1221
01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:30,956
Yeah, with the five o'clock shadow
at 11:00 a.m.

1222
01:02:33,458 --> 01:02:36,544
I'll remember that
till the last day of my life.

1223
01:02:40,131 --> 01:02:41,132
Okay.

1224
01:02:48,306 --> 01:02:49,391
- Larry, I got to go upstairs.
- I know.

1225
01:02:49,474 --> 01:02:51,559
- The whole company's waiting.
- Of course. Of course.

1226
01:02:53,144 --> 01:02:54,646
Four or five songs, yes?

1227
01:02:54,771 --> 01:02:56,815
I'm telling you, I'm having ideas already!

1228
01:02:57,857 --> 01:02:59,859
A big comedy solo for Vivienne

1229
01:02:59,943 --> 01:03:03,655
about how she's killed off
every single one of her previous husbands.

1230
01:03:05,031 --> 01:03:06,032
Might be funny.

1231
01:03:06,116 --> 01:03:08,910
We can call it To Keep Our Love Alive!

1232
01:03:23,925 --> 01:03:24,926
You okay, Larry?

1233
01:03:30,515 --> 01:03:31,641
What happened to White?

1234
01:03:31,725 --> 01:03:34,060
- Left.
- "So soon?"

1235
01:03:34,602 --> 01:03:37,022
There was so much more
I wanted to say to him.

1236
01:03:37,105 --> 01:03:38,481
Maybe he was an extra, too.

1237
01:03:40,025 --> 01:03:41,067
One more?

1238
01:03:41,943 --> 01:03:43,028
Last one, Larry.

1239
01:03:45,113 --> 01:03:47,741
Do you know the ineffectual blues?

1240
01:03:50,076 --> 01:03:52,162
That's because I haven't written it yet.

1241
01:03:56,249 --> 01:03:58,501
They should put my picture on that bottle.

1242
01:03:58,585 --> 01:04:02,589
"The Whiskey That Made
Lorenz Hart Unemployable.

1243
01:04:03,381 --> 01:04:04,549
"Buy War Bonds."

1244
01:04:11,181 --> 01:04:13,683
You know, I've started
to hear things wrong.

1245
01:04:13,767 --> 01:04:16,770
The other night,
I was listening to this singer go on

1246
01:04:16,853 --> 01:04:18,438
about "her cigarette heart."

1247
01:04:18,980 --> 01:04:21,900
And I thought,
"Now that is an original metaphor,

1248
01:04:21,983 --> 01:04:23,610
"'My cigarette heart."'

1249
01:04:24,361 --> 01:04:26,821
Then I realized she was singing
"My secret heart."

1250
01:04:27,614 --> 01:04:30,492
I can't remember anything anymore either.

1251
01:04:30,575 --> 01:04:33,036
That should be the title
of my autobiography,

1252
01:04:33,119 --> 01:04:35,622
"Stop Me If I've Told You This Already."

1253
01:04:36,289 --> 01:04:38,333
And we'll print the entire text twice.

1254
01:04:45,590 --> 01:04:47,926
No, I'm serious.
I've seen her do it before.

1255
01:04:48,009 --> 01:04:50,845
As long as there's no dancing
later on in the night.

1256
01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:54,140
You better watch yourself...

1257
01:04:54,224 --> 01:04:57,060
My irreplaceable Elizabeth!

1258
01:04:57,143 --> 01:04:58,144
Larry!

1259
01:04:59,104 --> 01:05:00,939
- Do you like it?
- It's...

1260
01:05:01,022 --> 01:05:02,982
Oscar Hammerstein just said I was a gem!

1261
01:05:03,650 --> 01:05:06,486
He has such a way with words.

1262
01:05:07,237 --> 01:05:09,155
George, this is Lorenz Hart.

1263
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,574
I am legitimately honored to meet you.

1264
01:05:11,658 --> 01:05:15,120
Would you mind if I spoke to Elizabeth
alone for two minutes?

1265
01:05:15,203 --> 01:05:16,871
And then she's all yours.

1266
01:05:16,955 --> 01:05:18,123
It would be perfectly all right

1267
01:05:18,206 --> 01:05:21,000
as long as you promise me
your autograph before I go.

1268
01:05:21,084 --> 01:05:22,377
George is a senior at Yale.

1269
01:05:22,502 --> 01:05:25,004
He's studying music,
but he wants to be a director.

1270
01:05:25,130 --> 01:05:26,506
A director. Well, what's your name?

1271
01:05:26,589 --> 01:05:27,590
George Hill.

1272
01:05:27,674 --> 01:05:31,594
Here's my advice to you,
future director, George Hill.

1273
01:05:31,678 --> 01:05:32,929
Do you want my advice?

1274
01:05:33,012 --> 01:05:34,013
I'd be honored.

1275
01:05:35,098 --> 01:05:37,642
Be careful of love stories.

1276
01:05:38,393 --> 01:05:41,187
Think about friendship stories.

1277
01:05:41,271 --> 01:05:44,774
That's where
the really enduring stuff lives.

1278
01:05:45,859 --> 01:05:47,193
Thank you. I'll remember that.

1279
01:05:51,197 --> 01:05:52,699
Catch up with you later, George.

1280
01:05:55,243 --> 01:05:56,619
My mother just gave me this.

1281
01:05:56,703 --> 01:05:58,371
I was really touched she gave it to me.

1282
01:05:59,497 --> 01:06:01,624
My well-tempered clavicle.

1283
01:06:01,708 --> 01:06:03,293
Careful. My mother...

1284
01:06:04,085 --> 01:06:05,670
Okay. All right...

1285
01:06:05,753 --> 01:06:10,008
Sorry. Now, I know your birthday
isn't until November 19th.

1286
01:06:10,091 --> 01:06:11,092
I'm a scorpion.

1287
01:06:11,176 --> 01:06:13,970
I never doubted that for a second.

1288
01:06:14,053 --> 01:06:16,264
Did you get the sheet music I sent you?

1289
01:06:16,931 --> 01:06:20,435
I was so busy with exams,
I put them away, honestly, and...

1290
01:06:20,518 --> 01:06:23,980
And then I kind of forgot about them.
But now I've got the time. I promise you.

1291
01:06:24,063 --> 01:06:25,565
I'm going to get a friend of mine

1292
01:06:25,648 --> 01:06:27,442
to play every single one
of those songs for me.

1293
01:06:27,525 --> 01:06:29,235
Take your time.

1294
01:06:29,319 --> 01:06:31,696
That's the wonderful thing
about art, isn't it?

1295
01:06:31,779 --> 01:06:32,906
It waits for you.

1296
01:06:33,907 --> 01:06:36,075
Thank you for all the letters
you wrote me.

1297
01:06:36,159 --> 01:06:37,952
I really enjoyed reading them.

1298
01:06:38,077 --> 01:06:41,122
My roommate couldn't believe I was
actually corresponding with Lorenz Hart.

1299
01:06:41,206 --> 01:06:43,875
I remember in Vermont,
you were drinking red wine.

1300
01:06:44,751 --> 01:06:47,795
Malbec. It's a big Yale drink.

1301
01:06:48,546 --> 01:06:52,050
You ask for the French Malbec,
and then you act

1302
01:06:52,133 --> 01:06:54,260
as if you can actually tell
which vineyard it came from.

1303
01:06:56,763 --> 01:06:59,432
Don't mention Vermont
around my mother, okay?

1304
01:06:59,516 --> 01:07:01,267
She doesn't know anything
about our little getaway.

1305
01:07:02,435 --> 01:07:04,354
Actually, thank goodness.

1306
01:07:04,437 --> 01:07:07,524
She doesn't know about 90%
of what's going on in my life.

1307
01:07:07,607 --> 01:07:10,193
Well, I feel privileged that I do.

1308
01:07:10,276 --> 01:07:12,487
Or that I did, back in August.

1309
01:07:13,404 --> 01:07:15,907
I've got much more stuff
to report on since then.

1310
01:07:15,990 --> 01:07:19,619
Well, tell me about the guys.
That's what I'm interested in.

1311
01:07:20,537 --> 01:07:24,457
Honestly, I'm much smarter
than most of them.

1312
01:07:24,582 --> 01:07:27,961
So I sort of sit back and watch them
trying to impress me.

1313
01:07:28,044 --> 01:07:29,546
It's pretty entertaining.

1314
01:07:29,629 --> 01:07:31,923
If I were a college guy,
I think I would be afraid of you.

1315
01:07:32,006 --> 01:07:35,051
This intelligent, mercilessly observant,

1316
01:07:35,134 --> 01:07:37,679
wickedly unsentimental beauty
sitting there,

1317
01:07:37,762 --> 01:07:40,723
evaluating me from somewhere
behind those green eyes,

1318
01:07:40,807 --> 01:07:42,433
annotating all my gaucheries.

1319
01:07:42,517 --> 01:07:44,394
My God, I would be terrified.

1320
01:07:44,477 --> 01:07:46,312
Hey, I'm not that intimidating.

1321
01:07:47,522 --> 01:07:49,941
Tell me more about this Cooper.

1322
01:07:52,235 --> 01:07:53,361
This is embarrassing.

1323
01:07:53,444 --> 01:07:54,654
I love it when you're embarrassed,

1324
01:07:54,737 --> 01:07:57,532
you get this scarlet blush
that washes up over you,

1325
01:07:57,615 --> 01:07:59,742
and a second later it's gone.

1326
01:08:00,243 --> 01:08:02,412
This one might last considerably longer.

1327
01:08:02,495 --> 01:08:04,539
- I'd love to...
- Elizabeth. Hello, Larry.

1328
01:08:04,622 --> 01:08:07,667
I hope I'm not
interrupting anything too weighty.

1329
01:08:07,792 --> 01:08:10,169
Well, weighty affairs will have to wait.

1330
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:12,463
She's a gem, isn't she?

1331
01:08:12,547 --> 01:08:13,881
Please, Mr. Hammerstein.

1332
01:08:13,965 --> 01:08:15,717
I'll only bother you for a moment.

1333
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:17,844
Larry, I just wanted to say...

1334
01:08:18,553 --> 01:08:21,639
Well, firstly, I recognize this must be
a difficult night for you.

1335
01:08:21,723 --> 01:08:25,143
No, I'm a professional, Oscar.
We're both professionals,

1336
01:08:25,226 --> 01:08:27,186
we understand the nature of our business.

1337
01:08:27,270 --> 01:08:31,608
Larry, did you really like the show?
I don't think I do the comedy numbers

1338
01:08:31,691 --> 01:08:33,860
half as well as you do.
They're not my strength.

1339
01:08:33,943 --> 01:08:37,864
I laughed my ass off.
I had to have it re-attached.

1340
01:08:39,198 --> 01:08:41,743
Larry, we're the same age,
but you were always the teacher.

1341
01:08:41,826 --> 01:08:44,120
- No, Oscar. I...
- No, your whole career,

1342
01:08:44,203 --> 01:08:45,830
- you showed us the way.
- Well, I doubt...

1343
01:08:45,913 --> 01:08:47,457
You liberated us all.

1344
01:08:47,540 --> 01:08:51,044
You made American songs
finally sound like American speech.

1345
01:08:51,169 --> 01:08:53,796
Stop. I dislike eulogies,
especially my own.

1346
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,049
Oscar, tonight is your night.

1347
01:08:56,674 --> 01:09:00,345
A hit for you and Dick
is a hit for all of us.

1348
01:09:00,428 --> 01:09:03,097
People finally want to go see shows again.

1349
01:09:03,181 --> 01:09:06,017
Real shows. Dick and I
were just tossing around a few ideas.

1350
01:09:06,100 --> 01:09:09,646
- Wonderful.
- Yeah, we have this idea for a big...

1351
01:09:10,730 --> 01:09:14,233
Marco Polo show... huge...
a kind of musical circus.

1352
01:09:14,317 --> 01:09:16,986
Dick's excited about it.

1353
01:09:17,070 --> 01:09:18,529
He said you're adapting Liliom.

1354
01:09:18,613 --> 01:09:20,323
Well, if we can finagle the rights.

1355
01:09:20,406 --> 01:09:21,407
Sounds exciting.

1356
01:09:21,532 --> 01:09:24,327
- Elizabeth told me she's your protégé.
- Stop.

1357
01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:29,082
"She's the promised kiss of springtime
that makes the lonely winter seem long."

1358
01:09:29,165 --> 01:09:30,166
Please.

1359
01:09:30,249 --> 01:09:33,670
- You wrote a great lyric.
- For a show that didn't run three months.

1360
01:09:33,753 --> 01:09:35,838
- I saw it twice.
- You...

1361
01:09:35,963 --> 01:09:38,257
You know what
we're talking about here, Stevie?

1362
01:09:38,341 --> 01:09:40,677
Very Warm for May.
Produced by Max Gordon.

1363
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:42,053
Music by Jerome Kern.

1364
01:09:42,136 --> 01:09:44,681
Alvin Theatre. 59 performances.

1365
01:09:46,140 --> 01:09:50,103
This is my neighbor. He's a kind of
a walking encyclopedia of musical theater.

1366
01:09:50,186 --> 01:09:52,980
Well, I'm a kind of walking pneumonia
for musical theater.

1367
01:09:53,064 --> 01:09:55,024
- Nice to meet you.
- Pleasure to meet you.

1368
01:09:55,108 --> 01:09:57,026
He wants to write musicals
when he grows up.

1369
01:09:57,110 --> 01:09:58,611
Who's your favorite lyricist?

1370
01:09:58,695 --> 01:09:59,779
Oscar.

1371
01:10:00,530 --> 01:10:02,824
Of course.
And what do you think of my work?

1372
01:10:02,907 --> 01:10:04,450
I like it. It's funny.

1373
01:10:04,534 --> 01:10:05,618
Thank you.

1374
01:10:05,702 --> 01:10:06,994
Can be a little sloppy at times.

1375
01:10:07,870 --> 01:10:10,289
He's very tired. It's been a long day.

1376
01:10:10,373 --> 01:10:13,459
Come on, Stevie.
It's a long ride back to Doylestown.

1377
01:10:13,543 --> 01:10:15,628
- You want to go to the bathroom?
- I'm not tired.

1378
01:10:15,712 --> 01:10:17,672
He asked me what I thought of his work.

1379
01:10:17,755 --> 01:10:19,966
"Weighty affairs will just have to wait"?

1380
01:10:20,091 --> 01:10:22,135
I so regret not having children.

1381
01:10:22,927 --> 01:10:23,928
Cooper.

1382
01:10:25,346 --> 01:10:27,432
- I can't believe I'm telling you this.
- Tell me.

1383
01:10:27,515 --> 01:10:29,851
You have to remember,
I've had a hopeless crush on this guy

1384
01:10:29,934 --> 01:10:30,977
for over a year.

1385
01:10:31,060 --> 01:10:32,562
Hold this. Come here.

1386
01:10:33,730 --> 01:10:38,192
Renee, may I buy five minutes
of privacy, please?

1387
01:10:39,110 --> 01:10:40,528
Anything for you, Larry.

1388
01:10:50,580 --> 01:10:51,706
Thank you.

1389
01:10:53,916 --> 01:10:56,961
Tell me what he looks like,
I'm trying to visualize him.

1390
01:10:57,879 --> 01:11:00,173
Apollo? Blue eyes. Tall.

1391
01:11:00,256 --> 01:11:02,467
So, basically, the skin on his back

1392
01:11:02,550 --> 01:11:04,093
- was flawless...
- Stop.

1393
01:11:04,177 --> 01:11:08,055
It's the night of your birthday.
Tell me everything.

1394
01:11:08,181 --> 01:11:11,851
- A group of my friends are taking...
- Boyfriends, girlfriends?

1395
01:11:12,477 --> 01:11:13,728
- Mixed.
- Okay.

1396
01:11:13,811 --> 01:11:16,105
Come on, Larry, I'm a college lady.

1397
01:11:17,482 --> 01:11:21,360
So they're taking me to Mory's,
which is technically no women allowed,

1398
01:11:21,944 --> 01:11:25,531
but they smuggle us up those backstairs
like so much heavily-scented contraband,

1399
01:11:25,615 --> 01:11:30,953
and, of course, one of the girls
has brought along her date.

1400
01:11:31,037 --> 01:11:32,038
Cooper?

1401
01:11:32,622 --> 01:11:36,250
Which is both destroying me
and exhilarating me.

1402
01:11:36,334 --> 01:11:40,046
I mean, he's there. Near me.

1403
01:11:42,048 --> 01:11:43,508
The evening is getting late,

1404
01:11:43,591 --> 01:11:45,593
empty wine bottles
are filling up the table.

1405
01:11:46,594 --> 01:11:48,679
Half of us are underage,

1406
01:11:48,763 --> 01:11:51,682
but we're flirting so shamelessly
with the waiter that nobody seems to care.

1407
01:11:51,808 --> 01:11:54,811
- Drinking your French Malbec.
- Exactly.

1408
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,605
I'm nothing if not a good student.

1409
01:11:58,189 --> 01:12:01,859
That's why everybody loves you, Larry.
You're the best listener I ever met.

1410
01:12:01,943 --> 01:12:05,404
That's because I have absolutely
no interest in myself whatsoever.

1411
01:12:05,488 --> 01:12:07,740
Back to your tale of natal debauchery.

1412
01:12:07,824 --> 01:12:09,826
Empty wine bottles filling the table...

1413
01:12:11,160 --> 01:12:12,495
So it's late.

1414
01:12:13,037 --> 01:12:15,957
- And Marjorie...
- The girl who came with Cooper?

1415
01:12:16,833 --> 01:12:18,543
She's left to go home and study.

1416
01:12:20,002 --> 01:12:22,255
People are staggering out one by one.

1417
01:12:23,047 --> 01:12:24,257
It's midnight.

1418
01:12:25,258 --> 01:12:27,802
And I find myself sitting
right next to him.

1419
01:12:27,885 --> 01:12:29,262
Take your time.

1420
01:12:30,012 --> 01:12:33,641
You know, there's no place else
on earth I'd rather be

1421
01:12:33,766 --> 01:12:36,310
than sitting right here with you.

1422
01:12:36,394 --> 01:12:38,646
Did you get my letter?
There's a party at my place tonight.

1423
01:12:38,729 --> 01:12:40,898
I think I've got to stay here
and help my mother...

1424
01:12:40,982 --> 01:12:42,316
It's not getting started till late.

1425
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:45,236
You'll have plenty of time
to work the room here.

1426
01:12:45,945 --> 01:12:49,615
I've got the Golden Gate Quartet
showing up. Promise me you'll come.

1427
01:12:49,699 --> 01:12:51,284
320 Central Park West.

1428
01:12:51,367 --> 01:12:54,662
You said you wanted
to design sets and costumes,

1429
01:12:54,745 --> 01:12:56,956
everybody in New York theater
is gonna be there.

1430
01:12:57,039 --> 01:12:58,291
Okay, back to Cooper.

1431
01:12:59,625 --> 01:13:00,626
Okay.

1432
01:13:02,336 --> 01:13:03,713
We leave Mory's together.

1433
01:13:04,589 --> 01:13:08,134
It's a perfect November night.
A fingernail clipping of a moon.

1434
01:13:09,093 --> 01:13:12,555
He's got his arm around me.
We're both a little drunk,

1435
01:13:12,638 --> 01:13:15,516
stumbling in and out of each other's arms.

1436
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:18,895
He's wearing this red and green
flannel shirt with the sleeves rolled up.

1437
01:13:19,020 --> 01:13:20,271
Not that you noticed.

1438
01:13:21,230 --> 01:13:22,440
He's looking good!

1439
01:13:22,523 --> 01:13:23,608
And you?

1440
01:13:25,943 --> 01:13:26,986
It's my birthday, right?

1441
01:13:27,778 --> 01:13:30,281
- I'm supposed to be looking good.
- Tasty.

1442
01:13:31,657 --> 01:13:34,702
So I'm leaning
against that flannel work shirt,

1443
01:13:34,785 --> 01:13:36,370
and I'm telling you,

1444
01:13:37,038 --> 01:13:39,665
I can smell the maleness
coming off of him.

1445
01:13:41,042 --> 01:13:45,463
I remember thinking that huge purple
letters should have lit up the sky...

1446
01:13:46,923 --> 01:13:48,299
- "Desire."
- Okay.

1447
01:13:48,382 --> 01:13:49,383
Hold on one second.

1448
01:13:49,467 --> 01:13:51,761
I have to go find some ice-water
and pour it down my trousers.

1449
01:13:51,844 --> 01:13:53,512
You may need some extra ice.

1450
01:13:54,221 --> 01:13:57,058
We end up in the basement
of his fraternity,

1451
01:13:57,141 --> 01:14:00,311
in this tawdry sort of derelict bar.

1452
01:14:00,394 --> 01:14:03,397
God only knows how many acts of depravity
have taken place down there.

1453
01:14:03,522 --> 01:14:05,066
And here comes one more.

1454
01:14:05,149 --> 01:14:06,233
Yeah.

1455
01:14:08,819 --> 01:14:11,322
So I've been watching this guy for a year,

1456
01:14:12,406 --> 01:14:16,619
dreaming about him, and now, here it is.

1457
01:14:17,495 --> 01:14:19,997
The night of my birthday,

1458
01:14:20,081 --> 01:14:22,833
the only light is coming
from this dim little lamp

1459
01:14:22,917 --> 01:14:25,544
with horses and jockeys
printed on the shade.

1460
01:14:26,253 --> 01:14:28,214
I mean, really, Larry,
what's a girl to do?

1461
01:14:29,048 --> 01:14:30,257
Happy birthday!

1462
01:14:32,969 --> 01:14:34,971
He begins to take off his clothes.

1463
01:14:41,769 --> 01:14:43,521
You really want to hear this?

1464
01:14:43,604 --> 01:14:45,648
I'm mildly interested.

1465
01:14:47,858 --> 01:14:48,943
It's humiliating.

1466
01:14:50,403 --> 01:14:51,946
'Cause basically nothing happened.

1467
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:54,407
Nothing?

1468
01:14:56,283 --> 01:14:58,077
Like you and me at the lake house?

1469
01:14:58,160 --> 01:14:59,161
No.

1470
01:15:00,204 --> 01:15:02,206
That was a deliberate decision
we made, right?

1471
01:15:02,915 --> 01:15:07,086
Based on what? Rationality?
I mean, as rational as you and I ever get.

1472
01:15:09,630 --> 01:15:10,756
But this...

1473
01:15:13,050 --> 01:15:15,511
This was based on the fact
that he couldn't get the rubber on.

1474
01:15:16,470 --> 01:15:18,014
No.

1475
01:15:18,097 --> 01:15:19,306
He tried.

1476
01:15:20,224 --> 01:15:21,684
- He tried again.
- No.

1477
01:15:22,601 --> 01:15:23,978
- I tried.
- Stop.

1478
01:15:25,396 --> 01:15:27,314
It was the worst 10 minutes of my life.

1479
01:15:27,398 --> 01:15:29,483
It felt like 10 hours.

1480
01:15:29,567 --> 01:15:30,568
I'm sorry.

1481
01:15:30,651 --> 01:15:33,195
And you know what the worst part was?

1482
01:15:35,656 --> 01:15:38,117
He just wasn't there, you know?

1483
01:15:39,577 --> 01:15:42,329
He kept mumbling that it was the wine.

1484
01:15:42,413 --> 01:15:43,456
That...

1485
01:15:45,374 --> 01:15:47,710
the rubber was too small,
if you can believe that.

1486
01:15:49,128 --> 01:15:51,964
And this whole time what's clear to me

1487
01:15:52,048 --> 01:15:56,844
is that he just... hasn't sufficiently...

1488
01:15:58,471 --> 01:16:01,098
I don't know
what the right word is. Maybe...

1489
01:16:03,017 --> 01:16:06,103
"he-just-doesn't-love-you-enough"
is the right word.

1490
01:16:07,271 --> 01:16:10,107
I mean, there's no way
around that one, is there?

1491
01:16:10,983 --> 01:16:13,903
When the girl loves the guy
with all of her heart,

1492
01:16:14,987 --> 01:16:17,448
and he just doesn't return her feeling?

1493
01:16:18,699 --> 01:16:21,243
Do you have any idea what that feels like?

1494
01:16:21,327 --> 01:16:23,370
"Nobody ever loved me that much."

1495
01:16:24,663 --> 01:16:28,417
I brought into that basement
a year's worth of a do ration,

1496
01:16:29,460 --> 01:16:31,462
yeah, studying his photograph,

1497
01:16:32,630 --> 01:16:34,673
memorizing his phone number.

1498
01:16:34,757 --> 01:16:38,511
And there he was, this half-drunk junior

1499
01:16:39,595 --> 01:16:41,472
who couldn't even pretend to love me...

1500
01:16:42,932 --> 01:16:46,602
And... I wouldn't have minded
if there'd been...

1501
01:16:47,686 --> 01:16:49,939
some... passion underneath.

1502
01:16:50,606 --> 01:16:52,566
Or even empathy.

1503
01:16:55,736 --> 01:16:56,821
There was nothing.

1504
01:16:57,655 --> 01:17:01,408
Just... that lamp with the horses on it.

1505
01:17:02,618 --> 01:17:07,039
You deserve so much better.

1506
01:17:07,123 --> 01:17:08,165
Yeah.

1507
01:17:10,167 --> 01:17:12,044
I asked my roommate about it
the next morning,

1508
01:17:12,711 --> 01:17:14,463
you know, girl to girl.

1509
01:17:15,548 --> 01:17:20,302
She said that men sometimes can't
perform because they're too nervous.

1510
01:17:23,389 --> 01:17:26,350
I wish I could believe that to feel
a little bit better about myself.

1511
01:17:26,433 --> 01:17:27,810
But..

1512
01:17:28,310 --> 01:17:31,188
...he was not nervous.
Not in the least.

1513
01:17:31,272 --> 01:17:32,356
He had his eyes shut.

1514
01:17:32,439 --> 01:17:35,568
As if he were trying to dream me
into somebody he really wanted.

1515
01:17:36,152 --> 01:17:37,570
I felt stupid.

1516
01:17:37,653 --> 01:17:39,029
I felt debased.

1517
01:17:39,113 --> 01:17:41,699
I felt furious at myself
that I could allow him

1518
01:17:41,782 --> 01:17:43,492
to make me feel so worthless.

1519
01:17:46,036 --> 01:17:48,247
We tried a few creative alternatives.

1520
01:17:48,330 --> 01:17:49,331
No.

1521
01:17:51,208 --> 01:17:53,794
It got uglier and uglier.

1522
01:17:54,503 --> 01:17:58,632
Finally, he said,
"Elizabeth, I owe you a rain check."

1523
01:18:00,593 --> 01:18:01,927
And that...

1524
01:18:02,553 --> 01:18:04,722
That was my 20th birthday.

1525
01:18:06,098 --> 01:18:07,308
Ta-da.

1526
01:18:07,391 --> 01:18:08,475
Jesus wept.

1527
01:18:11,312 --> 01:18:12,521
But it gets worse.

1528
01:18:12,605 --> 01:18:13,731
I don't think I can take it.

1529
01:18:13,814 --> 01:18:15,149
Okay, I can take it.

1530
01:18:15,232 --> 01:18:19,445
But just tell me in a way that doesn't
make me ashamed to be a human being.

1531
01:18:21,655 --> 01:18:22,740
That's going to be difficult.

1532
01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:25,492
About a week later,

1533
01:18:26,660 --> 01:18:28,537
everybody's leaving for Thanksgiving.

1534
01:18:29,872 --> 01:18:32,625
He gives me a call.
Would I like to have dinner with him?

1535
01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:35,377
You know me. No pride.

1536
01:18:36,253 --> 01:18:40,007
I say, "Sure," and make my way over
to his fraternity again,

1537
01:18:41,175 --> 01:18:43,928
which sits under this huge gingko tree.

1538
01:18:44,678 --> 01:18:46,889
The leaves have turned yellow,

1539
01:18:46,972 --> 01:18:49,642
the trunk of the tree
is black from the rain.

1540
01:18:50,351 --> 01:18:53,354
I'm thinking this is the most
beautiful thing I've ever seen.

1541
01:18:54,271 --> 01:18:55,940
I remember saying to myself,

1542
01:18:56,774 --> 01:18:58,859
"God is giving you a second chance."

1543
01:18:59,818 --> 01:19:00,986
We go up to his room,

1544
01:19:01,070 --> 01:19:03,447
his roommate has already left
for the holiday.

1545
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:05,658
The door clicks shut,

1546
01:19:06,825 --> 01:19:07,826
and suddenly...

1547
01:19:09,245 --> 01:19:11,956
there's no more discussion about dinner.

1548
01:19:12,039 --> 01:19:13,916
Rain check cashed!

1549
01:19:13,999 --> 01:19:15,292
In spades.

1550
01:19:15,417 --> 01:19:17,127
I mean, it's suddenly pouring.

1551
01:19:17,211 --> 01:19:19,463
We're practically
tearing each other's clothes off.

1552
01:19:19,546 --> 01:19:21,173
There is no conversation.

1553
01:19:22,049 --> 01:19:23,300
And this time...

1554
01:19:24,718 --> 01:19:26,262
there is no difficulty.

1555
01:19:27,388 --> 01:19:30,724
Not the first time.
Not the second time.

1556
01:19:30,808 --> 01:19:32,309
Stop it.

1557
01:19:34,186 --> 01:19:38,190
He says to me,
"Happy belated birthday, Elizabeth."

1558
01:19:40,943 --> 01:19:44,905
And you want to hear the unbelievable
ending to this sordid little story?

1559
01:19:46,699 --> 01:19:48,409
That was the last time I saw him.

1560
01:19:50,494 --> 01:19:53,789
That was November. Over four months ago.

1561
01:19:55,249 --> 01:19:59,461
I was absolutely sure he'd call.
If only to have sex again, right?

1562
01:19:59,586 --> 01:20:01,714
No. Never.

1563
01:20:02,548 --> 01:20:04,341
I thought he'd write.

1564
01:20:04,425 --> 01:20:05,551
No.

1565
01:20:06,302 --> 01:20:07,928
So I call him, of course.

1566
01:20:09,263 --> 01:20:11,098
He couldn't get off the phone fast enough.

1567
01:20:12,641 --> 01:20:14,059
So I wrote to him.

1568
01:20:15,644 --> 01:20:18,230
- A four-page typed letter. Single-spaced.
- No.

1569
01:20:18,314 --> 01:20:19,648
No response.

1570
01:20:20,274 --> 01:20:24,320
I tell myself it was like a fever dream,
you know?

1571
01:20:25,279 --> 01:20:27,489
And maybe the fever finally broke.

1572
01:20:28,615 --> 01:20:31,618
And it all sounds sane and sensible.

1573
01:20:34,038 --> 01:20:35,456
But you know something?

1574
01:20:36,915 --> 01:20:40,502
If he called me right now,
right this very second,

1575
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:43,922
I'd drop everything in my life and...

1576
01:20:45,090 --> 01:20:49,386
drive three hours, drive 30 hours
just to spend one more night with him.

1577
01:20:49,470 --> 01:20:51,430
What is the matter with me, Larry?

1578
01:20:51,513 --> 01:20:55,351
Why would you drive 30 hours to see
someone who treated you like that?

1579
01:20:58,270 --> 01:20:59,980
Because I'm in love with him?

1580
01:21:01,148 --> 01:21:02,149
You are?

1581
01:21:03,108 --> 01:21:06,695
It's illogical. Obsessional. Pathetic.

1582
01:21:07,696 --> 01:21:09,823
And this is not the first time
this has happened to me.

1583
01:21:11,116 --> 01:21:12,618
It keeps happening to me.

1584
01:21:14,411 --> 01:21:16,872
I feel like I can't see people clearly.

1585
01:21:18,165 --> 01:21:21,085
I wrote a song once, years ago,

1586
01:21:21,168 --> 01:21:23,253
called The Heart is Quicker
Than the Eye.

1587
01:21:23,337 --> 01:21:25,631
It's not a great song,
but it's a good title.

1588
01:21:25,714 --> 01:21:27,800
And it's true, I think.

1589
01:21:28,675 --> 01:21:34,515
The head has nothing to do
with the madness of love.

1590
01:21:35,641 --> 01:21:36,642
And...

1591
01:21:37,184 --> 01:21:40,562
It doesn't matter at all
about worthiness, does it?

1592
01:21:40,646 --> 01:21:44,191
We invest our hearts in worthless stocks.

1593
01:21:44,274 --> 01:21:46,443
And we know they're worthless.

1594
01:21:46,527 --> 01:21:50,656
But we cling to them like little children
clutching their little stuffed bears.

1595
01:21:53,617 --> 01:21:54,785
Elizabeth.

1596
01:21:56,829 --> 01:21:58,080
Tell me truthfully.

1597
01:22:00,124 --> 01:22:01,625
How do you feel about me?

1598
01:22:04,962 --> 01:22:06,046
How do you mean?

1599
01:22:07,172 --> 01:22:08,173
I mean,

1600
01:22:09,174 --> 01:22:12,428
at the lake house,
with the light burning off the water,

1601
01:22:14,096 --> 01:22:16,098
we talked through half the night,

1602
01:22:17,266 --> 01:22:19,059
and I touched your shoulder...

1603
01:22:19,852 --> 01:22:22,479
Did you actually love me
a little bit that night?

1604
01:22:23,772 --> 01:22:25,357
You know I love you, Larry.

1605
01:22:27,985 --> 01:22:29,194
You do?

1606
01:22:32,531 --> 01:22:35,826
Just... not that way.

1607
01:22:43,834 --> 01:22:48,005
You said you'd drive 30 hours
to see Cooper.

1608
01:22:49,298 --> 01:22:51,758
How many hours would you drive to see me?

1609
01:22:54,052 --> 01:22:55,304
My hands are shaking.

1610
01:22:56,930 --> 01:22:59,433
I feel something wiser and deeper for you.

1611
01:23:00,267 --> 01:23:01,894
- Respect.
- Thank you.

1612
01:23:01,977 --> 01:23:05,939
Gratitude for the generosity
and selflessness you've shown me.

1613
01:23:06,023 --> 01:23:08,942
No one has ever been more interested
in my life than you have.

1614
01:23:09,026 --> 01:23:12,613
I don't deserve a friendship like yours.
I am so grateful for you.

1615
01:23:12,696 --> 01:23:14,781
I will be grateful forever.

1616
01:23:14,865 --> 01:23:17,534
I'm grateful to you, too,
for resurrecting me.

1617
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:19,161
Stop.

1618
01:23:19,244 --> 01:23:20,537
Larry! There's people out here.

1619
01:23:20,621 --> 01:23:22,080
One second!

1620
01:23:27,085 --> 01:23:28,670
Can I ask you something?

1621
01:23:30,172 --> 01:23:32,633
Something that's probably
too personal for me to ask?

1622
01:23:32,716 --> 01:23:36,094
Too personal is the only thing
that I'm interested in.

1623
01:23:38,597 --> 01:23:39,598
My mother...

1624
01:23:40,307 --> 01:23:43,352
You know, she works for the Guild,
she knows everybody.

1625
01:23:43,477 --> 01:23:46,271
So she saw us spending time together
last summer...

1626
01:23:46,355 --> 01:23:48,232
I see where this is headed.

1627
01:23:49,483 --> 01:23:52,736
She said to me... I don't...
I don't know how to say this.

1628
01:23:52,819 --> 01:23:53,820
Just say it.

1629
01:23:56,114 --> 01:23:57,115
Okay.

1630
01:23:58,575 --> 01:24:00,536
She said to me, more than once,

1631
01:24:00,619 --> 01:24:03,413
"Elizabeth, not only is he twice your age,

1632
01:24:04,498 --> 01:24:08,418
"but I don't think
his primary interest is women."

1633
01:24:08,502 --> 01:24:09,628
What did you say?

1634
01:24:10,754 --> 01:24:13,173
I said, "Look, Mother, I know what I know.

1635
01:24:13,257 --> 01:24:14,800
"And I know what we're both feeling."

1636
01:24:15,551 --> 01:24:17,052
What are we both feeling?

1637
01:24:21,348 --> 01:24:23,058
"Irrational adoration?"

1638
01:24:25,143 --> 01:24:30,315
And what may I ask does your mother
think she knows of my primary interest?

1639
01:24:31,525 --> 01:24:34,278
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said anything.

1640
01:24:35,112 --> 01:24:36,280
Please forgive me.

1641
01:24:37,739 --> 01:24:42,452
To all our mothers.
May they remain mercifully silent.

1642
01:24:43,704 --> 01:24:45,914
I apologize.
That was stupid of me to have asked.

1643
01:24:45,998 --> 01:24:48,000
And I do know what I know,
and what I feel.

1644
01:24:48,792 --> 01:24:50,961
Here's what you tell that mother of yours,

1645
01:24:51,044 --> 01:24:52,504
as she sits by the fire,

1646
01:24:52,588 --> 01:24:55,465
wistfully counting up her royalties
from Oklahoma!

1647
01:24:55,549 --> 01:24:59,219
You tell her that Larry Hart
is drunk with beauty.

1648
01:25:00,304 --> 01:25:02,389
And italicize the word "drunk."

1649
01:25:02,889 --> 01:25:05,601
Drunk with beauty, wherever he finds it.

1650
01:25:05,684 --> 01:25:10,230
In men, in women,
in the smell of cigar stores,

1651
01:25:10,314 --> 01:25:15,110
in the impossible beauty
of a 20-year-old poet

1652
01:25:15,235 --> 01:25:19,990
with pale green eyes and two tiny freckles
on her left cheek.

1653
01:25:24,786 --> 01:25:25,871
Are you all right?

1654
01:25:26,913 --> 01:25:30,792
It's... my cigarette heart.

1655
01:25:31,501 --> 01:25:33,795
Larry, Dick Rodgers
is looking for his coat.

1656
01:25:33,879 --> 01:25:35,047
Coming.

1657
01:25:51,938 --> 01:25:53,148
Introduce me?

1658
01:25:54,399 --> 01:25:56,276
Thank you, Renee.

1659
01:25:56,401 --> 01:25:58,528
Wonderful, thank you so much.

1660
01:25:59,196 --> 01:26:03,492
Dick, I want to introduce you
to my protégé, Elizabeth Wetland.

1661
01:26:04,910 --> 01:26:06,078
Your protégé?

1662
01:26:06,953 --> 01:26:08,330
- Hello.
- Hello.

1663
01:26:08,413 --> 01:26:10,791
Well, you've got yourself
a damn good role model there

1664
01:26:10,874 --> 01:26:13,251
if you can stay away from the bourbon.

1665
01:26:14,252 --> 01:26:18,006
She's interested in writing
and set design and costumes.

1666
01:26:18,090 --> 01:26:19,424
Okay, really?

1667
01:26:19,549 --> 01:26:21,718
Mr. Rodgers, the show tonight,

1668
01:26:22,427 --> 01:26:24,012
I thought it was magnificent.

1669
01:26:24,096 --> 01:26:25,180
Well, thank you.

1670
01:26:25,263 --> 01:26:27,432
It was as perfect a musical show
as I've ever seen.

1671
01:26:27,516 --> 01:26:29,851
Well, that's a lovely compliment.

1672
01:26:29,935 --> 01:26:31,978
Your mother's with the Guild, am I right?

1673
01:26:32,062 --> 01:26:34,398
- Yes, Theresa Wetland.
- Yeah, Theresa, yeah.

1674
01:26:34,481 --> 01:26:37,234
- Right, so you've seen a lot of shows.
- Too many shows.

1675
01:26:39,194 --> 01:26:40,195
Yeah.

1676
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:41,321
I know what you mean.

1677
01:26:41,905 --> 01:26:44,616
But tonight what I saw was what I'd
always hoped a show might be.

1678
01:26:44,700 --> 01:26:47,452
Uplifting. Smart. Magical.

1679
01:26:47,577 --> 01:26:50,997
Larry, this is the most perceptive young
woman you've ever introduced me to.

1680
01:26:52,541 --> 01:26:54,042
I've had a good teacher.

1681
01:26:54,835 --> 01:26:56,503
So, what do you write?

1682
01:26:56,586 --> 01:26:58,422
At this point, poetry mostly.

1683
01:26:58,839 --> 01:27:00,716
It's very strong.

1684
01:27:00,799 --> 01:27:02,509
And you do set design, too?

1685
01:27:02,592 --> 01:27:03,969
- I'm studying.
- Right.

1686
01:27:04,052 --> 01:27:07,931
Well, I'd love to...
read some of your poems.

1687
01:27:09,641 --> 01:27:13,103
See your sketches. This is my...
This is my private number.

1688
01:27:14,604 --> 01:27:15,689
I'm flattered.

1689
01:27:16,398 --> 01:27:19,901
I haven't seen Dorothy around.
Is... Is... Is your wife here?

1690
01:27:19,985 --> 01:27:22,279
No, she's headed back to the apartment.
We're all going to meet up there

1691
01:27:22,362 --> 01:27:24,239
to look at the late reviews, Larry.

1692
01:27:24,364 --> 01:27:27,784
Yeah, so I'd love for you
to join us, Elizabeth.

1693
01:27:27,868 --> 01:27:30,704
It would be refreshing to have someone
of the younger generation amongst us.

1694
01:27:30,787 --> 01:27:32,789
And maybe you can
explain to me, Elizabeth,

1695
01:27:32,873 --> 01:27:35,333
why exactly the young girls
scream over Sinatra.

1696
01:27:35,959 --> 01:27:37,753
I don't scream over Sinatra.

1697
01:27:37,836 --> 01:27:39,880
No, she screams under Sinatra.

1698
01:27:39,963 --> 01:27:41,631
Okay, Larry!

1699
01:27:43,258 --> 01:27:45,385
Larry, of course, you're welcome to come.

1700
01:27:45,469 --> 01:27:49,139
I'm going to try to make it, I'm just
throwing a little soirée over at my place.

1701
01:27:49,222 --> 01:27:50,599
I've got the Golden Gate Quartet coming...

1702
01:27:50,682 --> 01:27:54,478
Well, I can't compete with Larry
in the soirée department.

1703
01:27:54,561 --> 01:27:56,646
- I'd love to stop over.
- You would?

1704
01:27:56,730 --> 01:27:58,273
Dick, you coming?

1705
01:27:58,356 --> 01:27:59,733
Yep, yep.

1706
01:27:59,816 --> 01:28:01,026
Do you have a ride?

1707
01:28:01,109 --> 01:28:02,736
You know what,
I can take her in a cab later.

1708
01:28:02,819 --> 01:28:04,446
We're going right now
if you want to come with us?

1709
01:28:04,529 --> 01:28:06,156
- I'd love to.
- Great.

1710
01:28:06,948 --> 01:28:09,326
Just let me inform my mom.

1711
01:28:09,451 --> 01:28:11,244
The dutiful daughter.

1712
01:28:14,664 --> 01:28:17,417
She is... She is so lovely, right?

1713
01:28:18,585 --> 01:28:20,462
She's really striking.

1714
01:28:20,545 --> 01:28:22,798
Are you... Are you and she...

1715
01:28:22,881 --> 01:28:26,718
No, no. I mean, I'm in love with her,

1716
01:28:27,385 --> 01:28:30,305
but everybody's in love with her.

1717
01:28:31,515 --> 01:28:33,308
Just not that way.

1718
01:28:33,391 --> 01:28:34,392
Okay.

1719
01:28:43,985 --> 01:28:45,529
So we'll see you later on tonight?

1720
01:28:45,612 --> 01:28:46,863
Absolutely.

1721
01:28:53,870 --> 01:28:55,247
Thank you for everything.

1722
01:28:56,957 --> 01:28:58,583
Mr. Rodgers.

1723
01:28:58,667 --> 01:28:59,918
Miss Wetland.

1724
01:29:02,003 --> 01:29:03,046
Thank you.

1725
01:29:03,839 --> 01:29:05,257
And we'll see you later, Larry, right?

1726
01:29:08,885 --> 01:29:12,848
"With a song in my heart,
I behold your adorable face!"

1727
01:29:35,203 --> 01:29:38,540
You ever meet someone,
and you know instantly

1728
01:29:38,665 --> 01:29:42,878
that both your lives
are going to be irretrievably altered?

1729
01:29:42,961 --> 01:29:46,882
Just as I suspected.
You are a sentimentalist.

1730
01:29:48,884 --> 01:29:50,093
When do you get off work?

1731
01:29:50,176 --> 01:29:51,720
I got to lock this joint up.

1732
01:29:51,803 --> 01:29:54,639
What about you, Knuckles,
you're done here, right?

1733
01:29:54,723 --> 01:29:56,099
Not yet.

1734
01:29:56,182 --> 01:29:59,728
'Cause I am throwing an enormous party
at my place tonight.

1735
01:30:02,856 --> 01:30:04,691
I forgot to give her the presents.

1736
01:30:07,903 --> 01:30:10,071
I'm having such trouble
with sleeves recently.

1737
01:30:10,155 --> 01:30:12,365
I have arthritis in this shoulder.

1738
01:30:13,325 --> 01:30:15,201
I'm going to have to start
wearing a cloak.

1739
01:30:15,827 --> 01:30:19,789
I mean it. Single-handedly,
I'm going to bring back the cloak.

1740
01:30:24,753 --> 01:30:30,133
You're going to see me
on opening nights with a top hat

1741
01:30:30,216 --> 01:30:35,096
and a cloak, flitting through the fog
with a silver-tipped cane.

1742
01:30:35,889 --> 01:30:38,016
You boys are coming tonight, right?

1743
01:30:38,099 --> 01:30:41,186
She's going to be there.
I'm telling you, she will.

1744
01:30:41,811 --> 01:30:43,188
She'll arrive late.

1745
01:30:43,271 --> 01:30:47,442
And get this,
'cause this is the remarkable part,

1746
01:30:47,525 --> 01:30:51,029
sometime late, maybe around 5:00 a.m.,

1747
01:30:51,112 --> 01:30:53,448
after a little too much Malbec,

1748
01:30:53,531 --> 01:30:56,618
she's going to turn to me and say,

1749
01:30:56,701 --> 01:30:59,829
"Hey, Larry, what are you reading?

1750
01:30:59,913 --> 01:31:02,248
"Hey, Larry, when's your birthday?"

1751
01:31:02,332 --> 01:31:04,960
For the first time in her life,

1752
01:31:05,043 --> 01:31:08,880
she's going to be interested in me.

1753
01:31:09,756 --> 01:31:12,008
It has to happen sometime, right?

1754
01:31:12,092 --> 01:31:14,344
All the other guys have disappointed her.

1755
01:31:14,427 --> 01:31:17,472
But I never will. I'm just...

1756
01:31:18,515 --> 01:31:20,934
a little touch of Larry in the night.

1757
01:31:22,519 --> 01:31:25,063
Knuckles. Some travelin' music.

1758
01:31:29,526 --> 01:31:30,527
Blue moon

1759
01:31:32,821 --> 01:31:36,157
You saw me standing alone

1760
01:31:36,783 --> 01:31:37,784
Wise guy.

1761
01:31:37,867 --> 01:31:41,162
Without a dream in my heart

1762
01:31:42,831 --> 01:31:45,875
Without a love of my own

1763
01:31:47,168 --> 01:31:51,297
Well, it's a helluva lot better than
The Surrey With the Fucking Fringe on Top.

1764
01:31:52,132 --> 01:31:55,218
Larry, you coming uptown
to Dick's with us?

1765
01:31:55,635 --> 01:31:57,846
No, you go on ahead,
I'll be up there later.

1766
01:31:58,972 --> 01:32:03,435
You knew just what I was there for

1767
01:32:03,518 --> 01:32:07,313
You heard me saying a prayer for

1768
01:32:08,732 --> 01:32:11,985
Someone I really could care for

1769
01:32:12,068 --> 01:32:16,406
That's not bad. Triple feminine rhymes,
and they all make sense.

1770
01:32:16,489 --> 01:32:19,242
And then suddenly you appeared before me

1771
01:32:20,368 --> 01:32:23,955
The only one my arms will ever hold

1772
01:32:25,040 --> 01:32:27,417
And I heard somebody whisper

1773
01:32:27,500 --> 01:32:29,627
Please adore me

1774
01:32:29,711 --> 01:32:34,674
And when I looked
The moon had turned to gold

1775
01:32:34,758 --> 01:32:36,342
Blue moon

1776
01:32:43,767 --> 01:32:48,521
Larry, I think this is the beginning
of a beautiful friendship.

1777
01:32:49,105 --> 01:32:50,523
"Isn't it romantic?"

1778
01:32:51,399 --> 01:32:52,567
Not really, no.

1779
01:32:56,613 --> 01:32:59,949
You know, it wasn't even supposed to
be called Blue Moon.

1780
01:33:00,033 --> 01:33:03,411
I called it The Bad in Every Man.

1781
01:33:03,495 --> 01:33:06,289
We wrote it for this movie,
Manhattan Melodrama.

1782
01:33:06,372 --> 01:33:10,293
Jack Robbins, formerly "Rabinowitz,"
he had his name circumcised over at MGM,

1783
01:33:10,376 --> 01:33:12,295
he hears the song,
he calls us into his office,

1784
01:33:12,378 --> 01:33:17,008
he lowers his pastrami, says,
"Dick, I love the melody.

1785
01:33:17,092 --> 01:33:19,469
"Strong as anything you've ever written.

1786
01:33:19,552 --> 01:33:23,932
"But, Larry, those words,
they're too artsy-fartsy!

1787
01:33:24,057 --> 01:33:27,477
"They're not too artsy-fartsy for me.
I know how brilliant you guys are.

1788
01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:30,021
"But you have to write
for the schmucks in the dark.

1789
01:33:30,105 --> 01:33:31,606
"Nobody's going to sing that lyric."

1790
01:33:31,689 --> 01:33:33,358
So I said, "What's wrong with it?"

1791
01:33:33,441 --> 01:33:36,277
He said, "I can't even
remember the fucking title!

1792
01:33:36,361 --> 01:33:39,197
"Boys, give me
something I can promote."

1793
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:41,616
So I say,
"What do you want me to call it?"

1794
01:33:41,699 --> 01:33:42,700
Blue Moon?

1795
01:33:42,784 --> 01:33:45,745
Punchline, biggest hit we ever wrote.