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[♪♪♪]

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[APPLAUSE]

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The Words,

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by me.

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHS]

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Part one.

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"The old man stood in the rain.

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[♪♪♪]

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He watched as Rory and Dora Jansen
made their way to the limo.

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Somehow it seemed as if
the raindrops missed them."

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Thank you.
Good night.

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Ah...

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No, no, tell Mom not to worry.
Look, we just want her to feel better, okay?

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All right?

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Yeah. No, no. She brought her camera.
They're gonna take a lot of pictures.

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There's a lot of photographers there.
It's an event, Dad.

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Okay, all right, we got... Yes, yes.

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We love you too.
Love you, Chuckles.

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Bye.

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[GROANS]

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Ha-ha-ha.
My parents are very excited.

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And they love you very much.

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Are you excited?

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Yeah, sure, it's a big night, right?

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DORA:
It's a big honor.

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[RORY SIGHS]

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Baby, it's... You're just nervous.
It's normal.

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I'm just a little overwhelmed,
you know?

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I didn't expect any of this.

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Where are you? Hm?

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It was supposed to be a little book,
you know?

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I know.

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[♪♪♪]

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So nice that you could make time
for our little award.

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We know you're busy.
The pleasure's all ours.

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No. Come now. Your book is fabulous.
But, of course, you know that.

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You've read all the reviews.
Ha, ha, ha!

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NELSON: The Window Tears has introduced
us to the one of the most exciting

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and sensitive young writers

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to appear on the literary horizon
in a very long time.

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We are privileged
to have with us here tonight

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the winner of this year's American
Fellowship of Arts and Letters Award,

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Mr. Rory Jansen.

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[APPLAUSE]

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[EXHALES SHARPLY]

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Thank you.

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RORY: I simply tried to set down
the truth as I imagined it.

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The story of one man,
his wife and child.

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I never thought a little book like this
would affect so many different people.

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I only wish I had an idea
for my second book.

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHS]

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I don't want to take up
any more of your time.

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I'll just end by saying

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that the honor this evening
is truly all mine. Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

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[♪♪♪]

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CLAY: Rory Jansen had everything
he had ever dreamed of.

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But somewhere, the old man was waiting.

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And he would change everything.

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"Right after college,
they moved to Brooklyn.

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They found a first floor loft
in an old factory.

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It was five years before the book
and the awards,

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but Rory already knew what his life
was supposed to look like."

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RORY: So straight back there.
That's it.

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Keep going?
Like two more feet.

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Okay, here?
Yeah.

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Let it go.
Just let go?

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[GASPS]

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[♪♪♪]

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[BOTH GRUNT]

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CLAY:
He loved her.

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RORY:
Dora?

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[DORA LAUGHS]

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CLAY: He loved New York.
You're gonna drop me. Heh-heh-heh.

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He loved fighting to make the rent.

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Fighting to make his art.

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Living like all the great writers
he had idolized.

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Okay, I think we should
put pictures up there.

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RORY:
Mm-hm.

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And I think your desk is fine
where it's at over there.

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And I think we should paint
the bathroom pink.

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RORY: Never.
Ha-ha-ha.

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CLAY: "A young, struggling writer,
fighting to make his voice heard.

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He liked cheap bottles of wine.

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How much is it?
VENDOR: It's 20 dollars.

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CLAY: And nothing to do with his days
but wander the streets.

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Oh.

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It matches my eyes.
What do you want me to do?

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[DORA GIGGLES]

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CLAY: But at night,
when the rest of the city slept,

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he wrote."

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Thanks, babe.

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Just doing a final pass. Ahem.

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And then what?

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And then I'm gonna head into an agent
that Professor Waller recommended.

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And then what?

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And then we're gonna celebrate.

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[RORY SIGHS]

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[WHISPERING]
But we don't have any money.

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Shh. Then we're gonna celebrate.

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Just gotta finish this.

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Babe.
Mm?

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Babe.

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Babe. Come on, I gotta finish this.

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Okay, I gotta finish this. Heh.
Heh-heh. Fine.

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But you're missing out.

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[GROANS]

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Finished.

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JANSEN: Well, if he doesn't want to
do it, he doesn't want to do it.

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Listen, I said I'll try.

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What do you mean?
Of course that's my word.

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I gotta know by Wednesday,
that's when I place the orders.

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I'll call you back. Goodbye.
Working hard?

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All I do is put out fires.
It never stops.

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Listen, I know you're busy, so, uh,
I'm gonna come at you straight, okay?

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Let's go into my office.

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How much?

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Just enough for the
next month to cover us.

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And then what?
You show up again here next month?

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I got my book into an agent,
says it's got potential.

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Did they give you any money?

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No, but, Dad, it doesn't work like that.
It's not like your business, okay?

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It's not like you do work,
you get paid for it, okay?

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I gotta pay my dues.
No, I gotta pay your dues, right?

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Look, I wouldn't ask you
if I didn't need it.

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You think I like coming down here
like this?

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You think I like saying no?

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I feel like I'm hurting you
more than helping you.

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You gotta take responsibility
for your life.

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I've been taking responsibility
for my life.

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I've had a job since I was 15.
I was a busboy.

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Okay, we decided two years ago

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I was gonna dedicate myself
to being a writer.

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We had this conversation
in the living room.

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Mom was right there. She agreed...
But it's been a while.

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So maybe now this should be a hobby

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instead of a profession until you
get your feet on the ground.

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Well, thanks for
the encouragement, Pop.

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What about Dora?
What about Dora?

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Well, I mean, you got to have
money before you get married.

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You know what?
I'm sorry I wasted your time.

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Come here! Hey, sit down! Sit down.

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Talking about marriage...?

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What are you, 11?

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[SIGHS]

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This is the last time.

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You gotta get a job,
something steady, support yourself.

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That's just part of being a man.

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I'm trying to be a man, Dad.

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Another part of being a man,

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no matter how painful it might be,
is accepting your own limitations.

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I love you.
I love you.

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I'm gonna pay you back, you know.
Yeah.

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Yeah. Hey, you can always
work here.

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Ha-ha. We'd kill each other.

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CLAY:
"He continued to write,

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believing he had a story to tell.

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He sent his work anywhere
they might publish him.

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But all he heard back
was rejection, disinterest,

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or the loudest sound of all:

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Silence.

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[♪♪♪]

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Finally, the great writer, Rory Jansen
was forced to take a day job.

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He found a position at one
of the biggest publishing houses

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in New York,
hoping to make some connections."

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I made a million connections here.

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What, you're a writer?
Yeah.

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I got all my stuff into
different agents around here.

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I'm actually glad it's taking me
a while to break through.

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It's given me a chance to develop
my style, understand the market.

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So, what kind of stuff do you write?

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Uh, angry young men, I guess.
Ha-ha-ha.

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I used to be like that.

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Now I write sci-fi.

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You mature, you know.
Just give it time.

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Ah...

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Are you gonna write tonight?
Uh...

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I'll just stay in and watch a movie
or get food or something. Ahem.

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Okay.

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CLAY: "Without even knowing it,
they had settled into their lives.

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And on a Friday afternoon,
they were married at City Hall.

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[CHUCKLES]

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They honeymooned in Paris."

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[♪♪♪]

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You ready?

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Yup.

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DORA:
Two minutes, okay?

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Just two more minutes.
No more antique shops.

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Mm, thank you. Put that down.

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Rory.
[IN OLD MAN'S VOICE] Klondike 474.

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Repeat 47...

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What do you think of this?
It's like some...

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Oh.

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That's nice.

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What do you think of it?

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[IN NORMAL VOICE]
I think it's old.

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I thin1,076 --> 00:03:23,369
I didn't76 --> 00:14:06,678
I feel like if we clean it up,
you can use it for work.

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00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:08,889
Yeah?
It's classy.

202
00:14:09,432 --> 00:14:10,599
I'm gonna get it for you.

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[♪♪♪]

204
00:14:16,898 --> 00:14:18,065
Thank you, Mrs. Jansen.

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00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:20,400
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

206
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36
00k,
and the honeymoon was over.

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All mail and packages
go to the assistants only.

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Hey, Irene.

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CLAY:
"And then, with no warning at all,

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Rory got the call
that he had been waiting for."

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Thank you. Heh-heh-heh. Okay.

212
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Thank you very much. All right, okay.

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CLAY: The agent had a reputation
for impeccable taste

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and discovering young literary stars.

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It's good.

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It's really good. I mean,
it's a beautiful piece of writing,

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and the truth is that you should be
very proud of yourself.

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Thank you very much. Wow. Uh...

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I worked very hard on it.
The work shows.

220
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I look at you,
I can't believe how young you are.

221
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Ha-ha-ha. Well...

222
00:15:12,203 --> 00:15:15,789
I have to tell you, Rory,
I just see so much truth in your work.

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I... I am... I'm so impressed.

224
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Wow, I can't believe this.
This is... Heh-heh.

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Whoo.

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But unfortunately, the nature of
the publishing business right now,

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at this particular time,
is such that I don't know

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how to publish a book like this.

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Look, Rory, no one is gonna support
a book like this.

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Book like this?
From an unknown writer.

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There's just no market for it.

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Now, it's hard for any writer,
under any circumstances,

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without a track record
to get published. And this book...

234
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I mean, it's so interior.

235
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Interior? What is that?

236
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It's artistic, it's subtle. It's...

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It's a piece of art.

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So this book, I should just shelve this
and forget about it.

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I just... I spent three years
working on it.

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I'm just trying to be honest with you.

241
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I'm just telling you
the reality of the situation.

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Have patience.

243
00:16:11,638 --> 00:16:12,679
[SIGHS]

244
00:16:12,847 --> 00:16:16,099
You know, I wouldn't have brought you in
here if I really didn't believe in you.

245
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[♪♪♪]

246
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DORA:
You're gonna be fine.

247
00:16:50,677 --> 00:16:53,637
[♪♪♪]

248
00:17:19,831 --> 00:17:21,498
[SIGHS]

249
00:17:41,644 --> 00:17:43,244
[♪♪♪]

250
00:19:00,389 --> 00:19:01,556
[SIGHS]

251
00:19:06,062 --> 00:19:07,771
[RORY SIGHS]

252
00:19:29,544 --> 00:19:32,170
So we have two weeks in September.
We're planning a trip.

253
00:19:32,338 --> 00:19:35,298
We think we're gonna charter...
What? We're gonna charter a boat.

254
00:19:35,466 --> 00:19:37,634
We're going to Turks,
but we're gonna get a boat.

255
00:19:37,802 --> 00:19:39,344
Like a 50-footer.
Nothing crazy.

256
00:19:39,512 --> 00:19:41,763
Great, but it's the first
two weeks of September.

257
00:19:41,931 --> 00:19:43,557
It's the beginning...
Get a sub.

258
00:19:43,724 --> 00:19:44,933
You don't wanna miss this.

259
00:19:45,101 --> 00:19:47,602
This is gonna be truly great.
CAMY: It's gonna be amazing.

260
00:19:47,770 --> 00:19:49,938
Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
You pull out fish,

261
00:19:50,106 --> 00:19:52,524
right out of the ocean,
they cook them up. It's incredible.

262
00:19:52,692 --> 00:19:55,527
CAMY: Snorkeling, diving.
Totally different on a boat.

263
00:19:56,863 --> 00:19:59,281
CLAY: "He couldn't stop
thinking about that story.

264
00:20:01,284 --> 00:20:03,118
Where did it come from?

265
00:20:04,912 --> 00:20:06,788
Who had written it?

266
00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:12,627
In those words,

267
00:20:12,795 --> 00:20:17,549
he had been confronted by everything
he had ever aspired to be,

268
00:20:17,717 --> 00:20:21,428
and the reality
of what he would never become."

269
00:20:21,596 --> 00:20:23,513
JASON:
Buddy, what's going on with you, man?

270
00:20:23,681 --> 00:20:25,640
You're 100 miles away.
CAMY: We want you to go.

271
00:20:25,808 --> 00:20:27,434
Why don't you shut up?

272
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:32,606
[SIGHS]

273
00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:35,066
DORA:
Rory!

274
00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:37,027
What the hell?
Oh, don't. Just don't.

275
00:20:37,194 --> 00:20:39,988
Really, I can't right now.
What is the matter with you?

276
00:20:41,866 --> 00:20:43,491
I don't...

277
00:20:45,453 --> 00:20:48,204
How the fuck do you end up here?

278
00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:50,373
Rory.

279
00:20:50,541 --> 00:20:53,668
I look at my life, I look at
your life, I look at his life,

280
00:20:53,836 --> 00:20:56,129
I look at my father's,
I look at everybody's,

281
00:20:56,297 --> 00:20:58,965
I don't have a clue how anybody
winds up where they do.

282
00:20:59,133 --> 00:21:01,051
I don't know.
You don't have to know.

283
00:21:01,218 --> 00:21:03,553
I don't know!
It's okay! You don't have to know.

284
00:21:03,721 --> 00:21:05,347
There's so much time, Rory.

285
00:21:05,514 --> 00:21:07,641
I'm talking about my fucking life here!

286
00:21:08,684 --> 00:21:11,853
What about your life?
It's not right!

287
00:21:12,021 --> 00:21:13,313
Nothing's right!

288
00:21:17,485 --> 00:21:20,236
Rory, how is that supposed
to make me feel?

289
00:21:22,573 --> 00:21:25,200
How is that supposed to make me feel?

290
00:21:27,954 --> 00:21:30,997
I'm not who I thought I was, okay?

291
00:21:31,874 --> 00:21:33,291
I'm not.

292
00:21:33,459 --> 00:21:36,586
And I'm terrified that I never will be.

293
00:21:44,804 --> 00:21:47,889
[♪♪♪]

294
00:22:01,946 --> 00:22:03,905
RORY:
I'm sorry.

295
00:22:07,493 --> 00:22:09,093
[♪♪♪]

296
00:22:31,183 --> 00:22:32,434
[GROANS]

297
00:22:35,604 --> 00:22:37,397
It's okay.

298
00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:41,401
[GROANS]

299
00:23:16,020 --> 00:23:17,687
[SIGHS]

300
00:23:36,082 --> 00:23:38,917
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]

301
00:23:39,126 --> 00:23:42,128
[♪♪♪]

302
00:23:54,558 --> 00:23:56,518
CLAY:
"He didn't know why he was doing it.

303
00:23:57,645 --> 00:24:01,815
He just wanted to feel the words
pass through his fingers,

304
00:24:01,982 --> 00:24:03,691
through his mind.

305
00:24:05,361 --> 00:24:07,362
[♪♪♪]

306
00:24:10,449 --> 00:24:14,410
He retyped every word
as it was written on those pages.

307
00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:24,504
He didn't change a period, a comma,
or even correct the spelling mistakes.

308
00:24:48,863 --> 00:24:50,697
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]

309
00:24:53,784 --> 00:24:55,910
[♪♪♪]

310
00:25:06,672 --> 00:25:10,175
He needed to know what it felt like

311
00:25:11,594 --> 00:25:13,469
to touch it,

312
00:25:17,683 --> 00:25:20,143
if only for a moment."

313
00:25:22,771 --> 00:25:23,855
[SIGHS]

314
00:25:33,657 --> 00:25:35,575
[DOOR SCRAPING]

315
00:25:42,374 --> 00:25:44,125
Rory, can you come here?

316
00:25:44,293 --> 00:25:46,085
What's up?

317
00:25:46,253 --> 00:25:49,547
Hey. You all right?

318
00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:52,133
What's wrong, babe?

319
00:25:53,010 --> 00:25:54,135
Hey.

320
00:25:54,303 --> 00:25:56,179
DORA:
Just kiss me.

321
00:26:02,311 --> 00:26:04,520
Hey, what is it?

322
00:26:06,148 --> 00:26:07,982
Oh, my God.
What?

323
00:26:08,192 --> 00:26:09,484
[CHUCKLES]

324
00:26:09,652 --> 00:26:10,777
What?
Are you pregnant?

325
00:26:10,945 --> 00:26:13,238
No, no, no.
I want you to listen to me.

326
00:26:14,114 --> 00:26:17,283
I was working
on the computer today, and, um...

327
00:26:17,451 --> 00:26:20,245
And I swear to you I've never
gone through your things before,

328
00:26:20,412 --> 00:26:22,413
but your book was on the screen

329
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:24,874
and I started reading one sentence,
Oh, no, no, no.

330
00:26:25,042 --> 00:26:27,585
Then I read the second,
and I couldn't put it down.

331
00:26:27,753 --> 00:26:32,423
Listen to me. You are everything
you've always wanted to be.

332
00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:35,343
Dora, you don't under...

333
00:26:35,511 --> 00:26:37,679
Why would you keep this
a secret from me?

334
00:26:37,846 --> 00:26:38,888
No, it's not a secret.

335
00:26:39,056 --> 00:26:43,142
These stories, they're so different
from anything you've ever done before.

336
00:26:43,310 --> 00:26:45,353
It's as if you stopped hiding.

337
00:26:45,521 --> 00:26:49,274
They're fuller, they're truer,
they're more honest.

338
00:26:50,401 --> 00:26:53,569
There are parts of you in this novel
that I always knew were there,

339
00:26:53,737 --> 00:26:55,780
but I had never seen before.

340
00:26:57,074 --> 00:26:59,367
I've never...
What parts?

341
00:27:00,911 --> 00:27:02,745
What parts?

342
00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:04,872
All of you.

343
00:27:06,959 --> 00:27:08,960
All of you, baby.

344
00:27:12,214 --> 00:27:14,549
This has to be seen.

345
00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:22,765
Just listen to me, okay.

346
00:27:22,933 --> 00:27:27,812
You always said that all you ever
wanted to do was be a good writer.

347
00:27:28,314 --> 00:27:30,315
With this, Rory,

348
00:27:30,691 --> 00:27:33,151
you're a great writer.

349
00:27:34,528 --> 00:27:36,321
Baby,

350
00:27:37,531 --> 00:27:40,616
take it to work and show it to someone.

351
00:27:43,954 --> 00:27:46,372
And if you're not gonna do it
for yourself,

352
00:27:46,540 --> 00:27:48,583
then please do it for me.

353
00:27:48,751 --> 00:27:50,351
[♪♪♪]

354
00:28:19,573 --> 00:28:22,533
Sorry to bother you, Mr. Cutler.
Hey, Rory. How are you today?

355
00:28:22,701 --> 00:28:24,202
Good.
Good.

356
00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:25,787
Ahem. Do you have a minute?

357
00:28:26,830 --> 00:28:29,582
Uh, I'm kind of busy here.
What can I do for you?

358
00:28:29,750 --> 00:28:33,211
I've worked here for, uh, over two years.
I haven't asked anybody for anything.

359
00:28:33,379 --> 00:28:37,131
Uh, I have a feeling you're
about to ask for a thing now.

360
00:28:37,299 --> 00:28:40,468
You see, there's this novel, um...

361
00:28:40,636 --> 00:28:44,597
And I know that you get submissions
all the time and you're very busy,

362
00:28:44,765 --> 00:28:47,183
but I don't want anything
other than your opinion.

363
00:28:47,351 --> 00:28:49,519
I would really appreciate it.

364
00:28:55,692 --> 00:28:57,568
CLAY:
Days passed.

365
00:28:58,529 --> 00:29:00,947
Weeks became months.

366
00:29:02,825 --> 00:29:07,578
And by the time autumn arrived, Rory
had all but forgotten about the book.

367
00:29:09,623 --> 00:29:10,748
CUTLER:
Rory.

368
00:29:12,876 --> 00:29:14,335
Can I help you, Mr. Cutler?

369
00:29:14,503 --> 00:29:17,088
Come on in here for a second.
I'm in the middle of training...

370
00:29:17,256 --> 00:29:20,174
Yeah, yeah, he'll find
his way back. Shut the door.

371
00:29:24,388 --> 00:29:26,472
You know what I did last night?

372
00:29:27,182 --> 00:29:31,853
On the absolute insistence of Debra,
and God knows I tried to blow her off,

373
00:29:33,063 --> 00:29:35,106
I read your novel last night.

374
00:29:36,024 --> 00:29:37,108
You did?

375
00:29:38,235 --> 00:29:41,821
Have you, uh, shown this to anyone
else, anyone outside the agency?

376
00:29:41,989 --> 00:29:43,948
No, no, you're the only one
that's seen it.

377
00:29:44,116 --> 00:29:46,284
I mean, uh, outside of my wife.

378
00:29:47,453 --> 00:29:48,661
What does she think?

379
00:29:49,246 --> 00:29:51,205
She was the one that insisted
I show it to you.

380
00:29:51,373 --> 00:29:54,417
Well, I can't wait to meet her
and thank her.

381
00:29:55,752 --> 00:30:00,715
Rory, I would very much
like to represent you

382
00:30:00,883 --> 00:30:02,091
and your work.

383
00:30:02,259 --> 00:30:03,426
[♪♪♪]

384
00:30:03,635 --> 00:30:05,303
You've written

385
00:30:05,596 --> 00:30:08,514
a remarkable work of fiction.

386
00:30:08,682 --> 00:30:10,683
[♪♪♪]

387
00:30:13,896 --> 00:30:16,063
CLAY:
"There was no epiphany.

388
00:30:16,565 --> 00:30:19,734
No sign from the gods
to point him in the right direction

389
00:30:19,902 --> 00:30:23,696
like there had been in all the books
that he had loved growing up.

390
00:30:25,741 --> 00:30:29,494
All he had to do was sign the contract.

391
00:30:31,413 --> 00:30:35,917
The book was a unanimous
critical and commercial success."

392
00:30:39,713 --> 00:30:42,173
Thank you. Hi.

393
00:30:42,925 --> 00:30:46,719
CLAY: "He was the darling of
the New York literary world."

394
00:30:46,887 --> 00:30:51,140
The winner of this year's American
Fellowship of Arts and Letters Award,

395
00:30:51,308 --> 00:30:53,267
Mr. Rory Jansen.

396
00:30:54,811 --> 00:30:56,687
[SIGHS]

397
00:30:56,855 --> 00:31:00,608
Let's raise a glass here
to our son, the writer.

398
00:31:00,776 --> 00:31:02,777
To Rory.
To Rory.

399
00:31:02,986 --> 00:31:06,822
CLAY:
"Rory Jansen had made his choice.

400
00:31:07,032 --> 00:31:10,117
[♪♪♪]

401
00:31:23,048 --> 00:31:25,967
And then he met the old man."

402
00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:30,930
That's, um, the end of part one.

403
00:31:32,683 --> 00:31:34,433
Thank you.

404
00:31:36,311 --> 00:31:37,687
Thank you for coming.

405
00:31:37,854 --> 00:31:40,982
RICHARD: Come along, people.
Give the man some breathing room.

406
00:31:41,149 --> 00:31:42,441
It's his break, after all.

407
00:31:42,609 --> 00:31:44,819
Ah. Heh-heh.
Thank you.

408
00:31:46,822 --> 00:31:49,073
If you want to lie down
or relax for a while,

409
00:31:49,241 --> 00:31:50,616
you know where the room is.

410
00:31:50,784 --> 00:31:53,369
I read that you liked the 2005 Rosé.

411
00:31:53,579 --> 00:31:55,580
[CHATTERING]

412
00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:03,004
Don't forget, Clayton, 30 minutes,
so no time for foreplay.

413
00:32:04,631 --> 00:32:07,550
I'm so sorry.
That's okay, I've read his books.

414
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,135
Ah.
Heh-heh.

415
00:32:09,303 --> 00:32:11,137
So, what'd you say your name was again?

416
00:32:11,305 --> 00:32:13,264
I didn't. It's Daniella.

417
00:32:14,057 --> 00:32:16,726
Mmm. That's a beautiful name.

418
00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:19,437
Oh, can't you think
of something better than that?

419
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:23,232
Well, how about this:

420
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,276
They gave me a little green room
back there.

421
00:32:25,444 --> 00:32:29,113
It's got really great wine and cheese.
And I won't have to sign any more books,

422
00:32:29,281 --> 00:32:32,742
and maybe I'll think of something
more interesting to say.

423
00:32:32,909 --> 00:32:34,201
Wanna go?

424
00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:35,911
Lead the way.
Come on.

425
00:32:36,163 --> 00:32:37,413
[LAUGHS]

426
00:32:37,581 --> 00:32:40,166
Shut up.
CLAY: I have to rest my voice.

427
00:32:40,334 --> 00:32:44,045
It gets really dry when I read,
and I have a whole other section.

428
00:32:44,212 --> 00:32:46,172
Don't bullshit me.
I'm not.

429
00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:48,466
It's okay. I already know
everything about you anyway.

430
00:32:48,634 --> 00:32:50,593
Oh, really? Everything?
Mm-hm.

431
00:32:50,761 --> 00:32:52,595
Everything.

432
00:32:53,221 --> 00:32:54,388
What do you know?

433
00:32:54,973 --> 00:32:57,224
I know you hate tomatoes.

434
00:32:58,143 --> 00:33:00,144
I know

435
00:33:00,437 --> 00:33:04,523
Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
is your favorite jazz recording.

436
00:33:05,233 --> 00:33:08,402
I know you love to watch Cheers reruns.

437
00:33:08,570 --> 00:33:10,863
And I know you took Latin
for seven years

438
00:33:11,031 --> 00:33:13,240
and cheated on every single test.

439
00:33:13,659 --> 00:33:15,451
Wait a minute.
How do you know that?

440
00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:17,870
Esquire, you said it yourself.
Ugh.

441
00:33:18,038 --> 00:33:21,040
I've got to start reading my interviews.
Ha-ha-ha.

442
00:33:21,208 --> 00:33:22,583
So...

443
00:33:24,211 --> 00:33:26,295
what else do you know?

444
00:33:27,631 --> 00:33:31,425
I know that you've been with your wife
since your freshman year of college.

445
00:33:32,844 --> 00:33:36,555
I know that you go to every single
Yankees home game,

446
00:33:36,723 --> 00:33:40,309
and I know that you,
Clayton Hammond, are a genius.

447
00:33:40,477 --> 00:33:43,020
Heh. Shows how much you know.
Why's that?

448
00:33:43,188 --> 00:33:45,106
I missed two Yankee games last year.

449
00:33:45,273 --> 00:33:47,191
Oh, sorry.

450
00:33:48,485 --> 00:33:52,154
And, uh, my wife and I are, um...

451
00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:55,574
separated.

452
00:33:55,742 --> 00:33:59,745
I actually did know that,
but you're wearing a ring.

453
00:34:01,248 --> 00:34:02,748
Yeah.

454
00:34:06,628 --> 00:34:08,587
So, uh, Daniella,

455
00:34:08,755 --> 00:34:11,716
how did you get backstage tonight?

456
00:34:12,259 --> 00:34:16,262
I'm a grad student at Columbia, and I
begged my professor for his ticket.

457
00:34:16,847 --> 00:34:19,014
I won the Elman Fellowship,
just like you.

458
00:34:19,182 --> 00:34:20,224
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

459
00:34:20,392 --> 00:34:22,017
Mr. Hammond, they're ready for you.

460
00:34:22,185 --> 00:34:24,395
Yes, Mr. Hammond,
we're ready for you.

461
00:34:25,731 --> 00:34:27,064
[APPLAUSE]

462
00:34:30,444 --> 00:34:34,655
This is the second and, uh,
final selection of the evening.

463
00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:38,492
"It was a crisp
and clear autumn morning.

464
00:34:38,660 --> 00:34:43,038
The old man was dressed
exactly as the day before."

465
00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:45,791
[♪♪♪]

466
00:34:46,793 --> 00:34:49,378
Can I hail you a cab?
I'm gonna take the bus, thanks.

467
00:34:49,546 --> 00:34:51,255
DOORMAN:
You're welcome.

468
00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:02,975
Go to Central Park? Great.

469
00:35:40,514 --> 00:35:41,555
[GRUNTS]

470
00:35:44,059 --> 00:35:45,684
[SIGHS]

471
00:35:49,564 --> 00:35:51,440
[HUMMING]

472
00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:02,326
How you doing today?

473
00:36:02,702 --> 00:36:05,162
I'm okay. How are you?

474
00:36:05,956 --> 00:36:07,122
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]

475
00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:10,000
You know what I mean?
Sure.

476
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,216
What's that book you're reading?

477
00:36:19,261 --> 00:36:21,637
Ask the Dust, John Fante.

478
00:36:21,805 --> 00:36:24,849
Oh, how did you find him?
Nobody knows him.

479
00:36:25,016 --> 00:36:26,225
You read Fante?

480
00:36:26,393 --> 00:36:28,435
Read him? I knew him.

481
00:36:29,980 --> 00:36:31,146
You knew John Fante.

482
00:36:31,314 --> 00:36:34,441
Met him in Los Angeles.

483
00:36:34,734 --> 00:36:37,194
Must have been 1958.

484
00:36:37,362 --> 00:36:39,613
He should have been someone
that everybody knows.

485
00:36:39,781 --> 00:36:40,865
Yeah.

486
00:36:41,032 --> 00:36:42,199
What happened?

487
00:36:43,368 --> 00:36:45,035
Life.

488
00:36:51,918 --> 00:36:56,046
So how does it feel?

489
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,632
How does what feel?

490
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:03,304
To be somebody everybody knows?

491
00:37:03,763 --> 00:37:05,681
You know,
I don't really think about it.

492
00:37:05,849 --> 00:37:07,975
Oh, come on.

493
00:37:08,143 --> 00:37:11,020
Don't bullshit an old bullshitter.

494
00:37:11,980 --> 00:37:13,689
It feels good, right?

495
00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:17,818
Feels good to have your work
recognized, yeah.

496
00:37:17,986 --> 00:37:21,572
Mm, yeah, heh-heh,
I'm sure it does, yeah, hm.

497
00:37:21,948 --> 00:37:24,325
Bet you get good tables
in restaurants now.

498
00:37:24,701 --> 00:37:25,784
I do.
Mm.

499
00:37:25,952 --> 00:37:27,745
[LAUGHS]

500
00:37:27,913 --> 00:37:29,830
Life was kind to you.

501
00:37:33,001 --> 00:37:34,460
Gods smiled when you were born.

502
00:37:34,628 --> 00:37:39,882
They looked down and they said,
"Ooh, look there, that one is a writer.

503
00:37:40,050 --> 00:37:42,217
His words will be celebrated."

504
00:37:42,385 --> 00:37:46,013
Ha-ha-ha. I don't know if it's that grandiose.
I just got lucky.

505
00:37:46,181 --> 00:37:47,932
I wrote a book,
people happened to like it.

506
00:37:48,099 --> 00:37:50,809
I mean, I don't know how things happen.

507
00:37:51,603 --> 00:37:53,395
I mean, I wrote two books

508
00:37:53,563 --> 00:37:55,648
that wouldn't have gotten published
if that one never did.

509
00:37:56,316 --> 00:37:59,401
Well, I'll bet they'll publish them now.

510
00:38:03,698 --> 00:38:05,658
I read your book.

511
00:38:07,035 --> 00:38:10,287
I liked it very, very much.

512
00:38:10,455 --> 00:38:11,914
Thank you. I appreciate that.

513
00:38:12,082 --> 00:38:14,667
And now forgive an old fan
for a moment.

514
00:38:14,834 --> 00:38:17,127
Just indulge me.

515
00:38:18,964 --> 00:38:20,464
You wrote about Paris

516
00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:22,758
right after the war.
Mm-hm.

517
00:38:22,926 --> 00:38:26,720
And when I read your stories,
I was right there.

518
00:38:27,055 --> 00:38:31,517
I tasted that wine,
the sweetness of that wine.

519
00:38:31,685 --> 00:38:33,394
I...

520
00:38:34,688 --> 00:38:37,022
made love to the girl.

521
00:38:38,024 --> 00:38:40,109
I sat in the cafe that morning

522
00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:45,030
wondering what the future held for me.

523
00:38:45,407 --> 00:38:49,118
Or if it held anything at all for me.

524
00:38:51,287 --> 00:38:53,122
I heard...

525
00:38:53,999 --> 00:38:56,875
that child cry in the night.

526
00:38:58,503 --> 00:39:01,588
And I felt the longing

527
00:39:01,756 --> 00:39:04,675
for my home so far away.

528
00:39:04,843 --> 00:39:06,468
[HUMMING]

529
00:39:08,221 --> 00:39:11,306
You are some writer, my friend.

530
00:39:12,726 --> 00:39:14,476
Thank you.

531
00:39:16,438 --> 00:39:19,398
Wow, thank you.
I really do appreciate that.

532
00:39:19,858 --> 00:39:22,234
I, uh...
Wow, I have to go. My wife...

533
00:39:22,402 --> 00:39:24,319
I know, I know.

534
00:39:24,487 --> 00:39:26,780
Artists always feel uncomfortable
talking about their work.

535
00:39:26,948 --> 00:39:29,283
No, no, no.
I wonder if there's just one thing

536
00:39:29,451 --> 00:39:31,285
you'd do for me.
Sure. Ahem.

537
00:39:31,453 --> 00:39:34,997
I wondered if you'd autograph

538
00:39:35,165 --> 00:39:36,957
my copy of your book.
Ah, of course.

539
00:39:37,834 --> 00:39:39,626
Do you have a pen?

540
00:39:40,962 --> 00:39:42,004
Oh.

541
00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:45,966
A writer without a pen.

542
00:39:46,134 --> 00:39:47,468
Well...

543
00:39:47,635 --> 00:39:49,428
Well, today's a reading day.

544
00:39:49,596 --> 00:39:50,846
Oh, yes.

545
00:39:51,014 --> 00:39:53,223
Well, I have a pen.

546
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:55,100
So...

547
00:39:55,268 --> 00:39:56,935
I do have a story.

548
00:39:57,729 --> 00:39:58,896
A very good story.

549
00:39:59,064 --> 00:40:03,233
Now, I know you get this line all the time,
but I think you'll like the story. Hm?

550
00:40:03,943 --> 00:40:08,197
If I was to tell you the story
and you wrote it,

551
00:40:08,364 --> 00:40:10,199
well, then, maybe

552
00:40:10,366 --> 00:40:12,076
you could give me a little credit?

553
00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:16,705
Well, that wouldn't be fair, would it?

554
00:40:17,457 --> 00:40:19,083
Have a good day.

555
00:40:19,667 --> 00:40:22,377
It's about a man who wrote a book
and then lost it

556
00:40:22,545 --> 00:40:25,506
and the pissant kid who found it.

557
00:40:30,678 --> 00:40:32,513
You still here?

558
00:40:41,523 --> 00:40:43,941
Do you want to hear my story?

559
00:40:46,111 --> 00:40:47,986
Or don't you have the time?

560
00:41:00,375 --> 00:41:02,000
So...

561
00:41:03,461 --> 00:41:08,048
it's 1944,
and there's this 18-year-old kid,

562
00:41:08,216 --> 00:41:12,177
a soldier in the army,
never saw any action.

563
00:41:12,345 --> 00:41:16,640
He was sent to Paris
right at the end of the war.

564
00:41:16,808 --> 00:41:19,309
[♪♪♪]

565
00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:21,103
OLD MAN:
There he is,

566
00:41:21,271 --> 00:41:25,607
a dumb kid with a dumbass grin
on his face.

567
00:41:26,401 --> 00:41:29,069
There he is in Paris.

568
00:41:29,237 --> 00:41:33,532
To him, it might as well have been
the other side of the goddamned world.

569
00:41:35,952 --> 00:41:41,665
It was a joke that his unit was
constantly drawing the worst details.

570
00:41:41,833 --> 00:41:44,293
Most of the time,
they were relaying sewage pipes

571
00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:47,254
blown apart by the Germans
during the occupation.

572
00:41:47,422 --> 00:41:49,089
It was god-awful work.

573
00:41:49,257 --> 00:41:51,216
MAN:
Street smell.

574
00:41:51,426 --> 00:41:53,385
I miss Utah.

575
00:41:53,970 --> 00:41:55,888
[MEN WHOOPING AND LAUGHING]

576
00:41:56,097 --> 00:41:58,724
OLD MAN:
Somehow the kid was happy,

577
00:41:58,892 --> 00:42:00,601
like a pig in shit.

578
00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:06,190
The guys in his unit,
most of them were different

579
00:42:06,357 --> 00:42:09,276
from anybody he'd known
in his neighborhood.

580
00:42:09,444 --> 00:42:14,156
They were from all over,
little towns he'd never even heard of.

581
00:42:14,365 --> 00:42:16,783
[♪♪♪]

582
00:42:21,581 --> 00:42:23,040
Poor kid probably hit a mine.

583
00:42:23,208 --> 00:42:25,375
Let's get the body to the morgue.

584
00:42:25,585 --> 00:42:27,628
[SIREN WAILING]

585
00:42:28,504 --> 00:42:30,756
[♪♪♪]

586
00:42:32,342 --> 00:42:37,429
OLD MAN: That was the only dead body
he saw his whole time in the Army.

587
00:42:39,432 --> 00:42:42,559
There was this one guy in his unit
real different to him,

588
00:42:42,727 --> 00:42:45,604
an intellectual, real bookworm,

589
00:42:45,772 --> 00:42:49,900
and over time,
he became the boy's best friend.

590
00:42:50,068 --> 00:42:51,443
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

591
00:42:51,653 --> 00:42:54,321
OLD MAN:
He lent him some books to read,

592
00:42:54,489 --> 00:42:58,533
the first books
the kid had ever read about anything.

593
00:42:58,701 --> 00:43:01,620
[♪♪♪]

594
00:43:01,788 --> 00:43:03,622
For the first time

595
00:43:03,790 --> 00:43:09,044
he saw a world that was bigger
than the one he'd been born into.

596
00:43:10,713 --> 00:43:13,674
And he wanted more.

597
00:43:17,053 --> 00:43:19,346
He wanted to be something more.

598
00:43:19,514 --> 00:43:21,765
A writer.
Yeah,

599
00:43:21,933 --> 00:43:25,435
but he had no idea
what the word really meant. Heh.

600
00:43:25,603 --> 00:43:29,147
Certainly didn't have a clue
about how to go about it.

601
00:43:31,526 --> 00:43:33,235
You grew up in Philadelphia?
Hm.

602
00:43:33,403 --> 00:43:35,237
Grew up in Philly, but born in London.

603
00:43:35,405 --> 00:43:37,072
London?
Hm.

604
00:43:37,615 --> 00:43:40,284
[CELIA SPEAKING IN FRENCH]

605
00:43:45,623 --> 00:43:47,165
[CELIA SPEAKS IN FRENCH]

606
00:43:48,626 --> 00:43:50,252
What did she just say?

607
00:43:50,670 --> 00:43:52,921
What did she say?
My French is a little weak,

608
00:43:53,089 --> 00:43:55,632
but I'm pretty sure
she said she loves you.

609
00:44:01,389 --> 00:44:04,224
Ha-ha-ha. Go talk to her.
No.

610
00:44:04,392 --> 00:44:05,976
Go. ha-ha.
That's not funny.

611
00:44:06,144 --> 00:44:07,269
Go talk to her.

612
00:44:07,437 --> 00:44:09,104
Come on, if you don't, I will.

613
00:44:12,150 --> 00:44:14,860
OLD MAN: He found out some time later
that what she'd actually said was:

614
00:44:15,028 --> 00:44:17,112
"Pay your check
and get the hell out of here."

615
00:44:18,031 --> 00:44:20,907
But who was he to question fate?

616
00:44:21,075 --> 00:44:22,743
[♪♪♪]

617
00:44:22,952 --> 00:44:26,079
He'd picked up one word of French.

618
00:44:26,998 --> 00:44:28,081
Oui.

619
00:44:28,249 --> 00:44:30,500
OLD MAN:
And she knew one word of English.

620
00:44:30,668 --> 00:44:32,294
Yes.

621
00:44:35,131 --> 00:44:38,216
OLD MAN:
It was the perfect relationship.

622
00:44:39,802 --> 00:44:43,722
[SPEAKING IN BROKEN FRENCH]

623
00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:45,557
What is ice cream?
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]

624
00:44:45,725 --> 00:44:49,853
[BOTH SPEAKING FRENCH]

625
00:44:50,063 --> 00:44:52,230
[♪♪♪]

626
00:44:52,398 --> 00:44:55,025
Oh-oh.
What?

627
00:44:55,193 --> 00:44:57,194
What?
It's cold in my head.

628
00:44:57,362 --> 00:44:59,404
Cold in your head?
Yeah, pain.

629
00:44:59,572 --> 00:45:02,532
Go like this.
Take your finger like this.

630
00:45:02,700 --> 00:45:05,911
Under your tongue. It's a little trick.
It'll make it go away, okay?

631
00:45:08,122 --> 00:45:11,208
It doesn't wanna go.
Give it a second, okay?

632
00:45:12,668 --> 00:45:14,086
Now?

633
00:45:14,837 --> 00:45:16,088
It's gone.

634
00:45:16,255 --> 00:45:17,506
Told you.

635
00:45:18,049 --> 00:45:19,299
Okay, one more.

636
00:45:19,509 --> 00:45:23,095
[LAUGHS]

637
00:45:23,262 --> 00:45:25,931
[♪♪♪]

638
00:45:26,974 --> 00:45:28,392
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

639
00:45:35,525 --> 00:45:37,067
What happened?

640
00:45:38,027 --> 00:45:40,695
He got discharged from the Army.

641
00:45:40,863 --> 00:45:42,989
[♪♪♪]

642
00:45:51,874 --> 00:45:53,166
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS]

643
00:45:59,841 --> 00:46:03,051
[♪♪♪]

644
00:46:15,189 --> 00:46:18,942
OLD MAN: But what once was his
whole world suddenly seemed...

645
00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:21,278
small.

646
00:46:22,488 --> 00:46:25,115
Nothing had changed
since he'd been away.

647
00:46:27,952 --> 00:46:29,828
Except him.

648
00:46:30,997 --> 00:46:32,038
He had changed.

649
00:46:35,251 --> 00:46:36,960
For the first time in his life,

650
00:46:37,670 --> 00:46:39,546
he tried to write.

651
00:46:40,298 --> 00:46:41,381
[CHATTERING]

652
00:46:41,591 --> 00:46:42,924
Tried to write about Paris,

653
00:46:43,092 --> 00:46:45,302
about what he'd seen

654
00:46:45,470 --> 00:46:47,679
and how he'd felt.

655
00:46:48,723 --> 00:46:51,766
But the words just wouldn't come.

656
00:46:54,061 --> 00:46:57,731
[♪♪♪]

657
00:47:04,030 --> 00:47:06,907
He knew the life he wanted.

658
00:47:08,409 --> 00:47:11,411
He knew what he had to do to get it.

659
00:47:19,837 --> 00:47:22,964
[♪♪♪]

660
00:47:26,260 --> 00:47:27,719
[GLASS SHATTERING]

661
00:47:31,015 --> 00:47:33,016
[♪♪♪]

662
00:47:39,398 --> 00:47:40,607
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]

663
00:47:40,775 --> 00:47:44,277
The young man began
his apprenticeship as a writer.

664
00:47:45,238 --> 00:47:49,741
He got a job as a journalist
for a small English-language weekly.

665
00:47:50,326 --> 00:47:53,745
There were a lot of them
springing up for all the expats,

666
00:47:53,913 --> 00:47:58,208
and they'd hire anyone
who could string a few words together.

667
00:47:59,502 --> 00:48:02,504
It was a good place to learn.

668
00:48:02,672 --> 00:48:05,840
[♪♪♪]

669
00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:45,046
He married Celia two weeks later.

670
00:48:45,256 --> 00:48:49,426
[♪♪♪]

671
00:49:05,318 --> 00:49:10,488
Six pounds and three ounces,
eyes like her mother.