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l never could start
one those fires.

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Dad, are you gonna have
chicken or meat?

3
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Chicken's fine.

4
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This is a brilliant article.
Norman!

5
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-You read Ken's article on China?
-No, l haven't.

6
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Terrific article.

7
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And where is Ken?

8
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He's in the house
watching the Yankee game.

9
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Your husband comes for a day
in the country.

10
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And heads straight
forthe TV set.

11
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Ken, come on honey!

12
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How many chicken?
How many hamburgers?

13
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Two more outs. Three minutes.

14
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Everybody's dying for a libation.

15
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Make some of your famous
Stoli martinis.

16
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Janet, when are you going
to have a child?

17
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You've let your sister have a
big head start.

18
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Let Leslie practice viola 6 hours
a day. lt's not so easy.

19
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Leave her alone.

20
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l came in to make drinks
for everybody.

21
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-What are you doing? Want a drink?
-Sure.

22
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l was.

23
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This is nuts!

24
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We gotta get out of here.

25
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What? No, we'll get caught.

26
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l see them by the lake.

27
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They're deep in conversation.

28
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Wait! There's Janet!

29
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No. lt's okay.

30
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You can't scare me like that.

31
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l grind my teeth. Just don't
scare me like that.

32
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Just a false alarm.

33
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Listen, try not to actually chew.

34
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Wouldn't it be great
to be off alone.

35
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Just relaxed. You and me.

36
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lt'd be so great.

37
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Let's hang in. You never know.

38
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Come on, open wide.

39
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Turn the Yankee game off and
come out here now!

40
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l will. Just one minute.
lt's almost over.

41
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l'm done.

42
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-Come any time you want.
-Can l?

43
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l'm done!

44
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l'm ready!

45
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Leslie, is that you?

46
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Can you lead me
down to the lake?

47
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Just a minute, Grandma.

48
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l'm making some martinis.

49
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-Sure, dear.
-l want to finish.

50
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Ken? ls that you?

51
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Finish what?

52
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Hello!

53
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-Come, Ken.
-Come?

54
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Come, lead me to the lake.

55
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Ever since l lost my second eye...

56
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l feel so frail.

57
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You don't have to moan.
lt's not that terrible.

58
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Ken is hurrying, Grandma.

59
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Would you do the olives?
Could you do them quickly?

60
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You can use onions, too.

61
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l prefer onions,
don't you, Ken?

62
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Yes! Yes! Yes!

63
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Boy, you must really
love onions!

64
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-Lucy?
-You schmuck! You bastard!

65
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l'd like to cut your head off.

66
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You're upset, right?

67
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You knew what'd happen!

68
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What are you talking about?

69
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Don't answer me, prick!

70
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You knew! You just didn't
give a shit!

71
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Take your coat off.

72
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How could you write that book?

73
00:06:03,914 --> 00:06:05,313
Are you so selfish...

74
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you don't give a shit
who you destroy?

75
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-l can tell you're angry.
-You told our whole story!

76
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You gave me away to my sister!

77
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Marvin's left me. He's gone.

78
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lt was loosely based on us.

79
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Don't bullshit me, motherfucker!

80
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Do you think you're talking...

81
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to one ofthose retarded
talk show hosts?

82
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l lived through it with you.
l know how loosely based it is.

83
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What, are you telling me your
blind grandmother...

84
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caught us fucking?

85
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Never!

86
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Of course, you made a few
stupid exaggerations.

87
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or, as the critics say:
"inspired comic flights".

88
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But Jane recognized it.
You'd have to be sub-mental not to.

89
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And Marvin was crushed!

90
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Jane has suspected us for so long.

91
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l know! And l denied it!

92
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And now, you've gone...

93
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and confirmed it all for her!

94
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Big fucking deal!
You made Leslie shorter!

95
00:07:03,517 --> 00:07:05,216
Big fucking deal!

96
00:07:05,217 --> 00:07:06,917
But it's all here!

97
00:07:06,918 --> 00:07:10,117
The schmuck country doctor,
the violinist...

98
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her sister in Connecticut
cheating with her husband.

99
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The picture window, for Chrissake!

100
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Cruel observations about Marvin...

101
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and his barbecue and chef's hat.

102
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And of course, Jane,
or as you so pathetically...

103
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disguise her...

104
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Janet.

105
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Here it is:

106
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"lt was not just that Leslie
was numbed...

107
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with the spate of leaden
perceptions...

108
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that passed for wit from Marvin.

109
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Nor was the image
she shared with Ken...

110
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of Marvin's flaccid
microscopic member...

111
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jiggling up and down
as he tiptoed naked...

112
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across the icy floor
oftheir home...

113
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to close the storm windows.

114
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lt was that she
had never loved him...

115
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but she wanted children to retaliate
against her sister...

116
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who was not maternal, and whose
every inch, Leslie felt...

117
00:08:04,222 --> 00:08:07,120
was occupied by gluttonous
self-love.

118
00:08:07,121 --> 00:08:11,021
Ken fondled Leslie's large breasts,
mounting her from the rear."

119
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Big fucking deal!

120
00:08:12,222 --> 00:08:14,421
-You gave her large breasts!
-Leslie...

121
00:08:14,422 --> 00:08:16,620
Lucy!

122
00:08:16,621 --> 00:08:20,221
l'm Lucy, motherfucker!

123
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Not Leslie!

124
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Except of course,
l am Leslie...

125
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because you didn't disguise it!
You didn't give a fuck!

126
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You didn't care enough
to disguise it!

127
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Please!

128
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You pulled out two years ago.
You broke my fucking heart.

129
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You left yourwife and me...

130
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for some little cooze!

131
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Me and Janet!

132
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Jane. Janet is the character
in the book.

133
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Now...

134
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two years later...

135
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your latest magnum opus...

136
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emerges from this sewer of
an apartment...

137
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where you take our suffering
and turn it into gold...

138
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literary gold!

139
00:09:01,525 --> 00:09:04,224
Everyone's misery,
you even cause misery...

140
00:09:04,225 --> 00:09:05,824
and use your alchemy...

141
00:09:05,825 --> 00:09:09,223
to turn it into gold, like
some fucking black magician!

142
00:09:09,224 --> 00:09:12,324
l'm the one who
wound up in Bellevue.

143
00:09:12,325 --> 00:09:14,224
You deserve it and worse.

144
00:09:14,225 --> 00:09:16,725
You ruined my life!
l'll blow my brains out!

145
00:09:16,726 --> 00:09:18,025
What's wrong with you?

146
00:09:18,026 --> 00:09:20,724
ln front of you...

147
00:09:20,725 --> 00:09:23,825
because you caused it.
My brains on your carpet!

148
00:09:23,826 --> 00:09:25,025
You're unstable!

149
00:09:25,026 --> 00:09:27,026
Will you relax?

150
00:09:27,027 --> 00:09:30,425
That's why l turn you on.
Jane's crazy sister.

151
00:09:30,426 --> 00:09:33,225
You're not going to kill yourself.

152
00:09:33,226 --> 00:09:35,825
No. you're not,
because it's not in you.

153
00:09:35,826 --> 00:09:38,426
You're never were
the dramatic type.

154
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Jane is the dramatic sister.
Jane is the solo violinist.

155
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Relax, for Christ's sake.

156
00:09:48,028 --> 00:09:51,226
You're right.

157
00:09:51,227 --> 00:09:55,727
l don't have the nerve
to kill myself.

158
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l knew it as l came over here...

159
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l said no.

160
00:10:01,627 --> 00:10:06,827
Not me.

161
00:10:06,828 --> 00:10:10,028
Better to kill him.

162
00:10:10,029 --> 00:10:11,527
Pardon me?

163
00:10:11,528 --> 00:10:13,728
Kill the black magician.

164
00:10:13,729 --> 00:10:17,628
So he can't spin any more
gold out of human misery.

165
00:10:17,629 --> 00:10:19,129
What's wrong with you?

166
00:10:19,130 --> 00:10:20,029
Shut up!

167
00:10:20,030 --> 00:10:22,328
-Put it down.
-You're so fucking verbal.

168
00:10:22,329 --> 00:10:24,027
You talked me into giving you..

169
00:10:24,028 --> 00:10:31,029
a blowjob at
my father's funeral!

170
00:10:31,030 --> 00:10:32,628
You stop right there!

171
00:10:32,629 --> 00:10:34,328
Don't pull the trigger!

172
00:10:34,329 --> 00:10:37,929
lf it makes you happy, my life's
been going badly.

173
00:10:37,930 --> 00:10:42,030
l've been miserable. My girl
left me for a friend of mine.

174
00:10:42,031 --> 00:10:43,629
lnsomnia. l've got herpes.

175
00:10:43,630 --> 00:10:46,030
l squandered all l have
on shrinks...

176
00:10:46,031 --> 00:10:47,830
and lawyers and whores.

177
00:10:47,831 --> 00:10:49,230
Fatigue syndrome.

178
00:10:49,231 --> 00:10:52,430
l won't stand up here on this
fucking roof...

179
00:10:52,431 --> 00:10:56,030
with aworld-class meshugana
cunt and beg for my life...

180
00:10:56,031 --> 00:10:58,930
lf you want, shoot me!
You interrupted me...

181
00:10:58,931 --> 00:11:02,431
-Whose life were you exploiting today?
-You'll be happy.

182
00:11:02,432 --> 00:11:03,630
lt was re-writing.

183
00:11:03,631 --> 00:11:08,431
An autobiographical thing from
when l was first married.

184
00:11:08,432 --> 00:11:10,831
Harvey Stern married too young...

185
00:11:10,832 --> 00:11:14,831
to escape his parent's apartment,
arent-controlled cornucopia...

186
00:11:14,832 --> 00:11:18,031
of guilt, and
sou-deadening criticism.

187
00:11:18,032 --> 00:11:21,231
By day, he labored in a shoe store.

188
00:11:21,232 --> 00:11:25,431
By night, he glowed intensely over
his Remington portable.

189
00:11:25,432 --> 00:11:27,832
Are you coming to bed?

190
00:11:27,833 --> 00:11:30,632
l'm in the middle of a sentence.

191
00:11:30,633 --> 00:11:32,433
-l lost my thread.
-l feel rejected.

192
00:11:32,434 --> 00:11:34,632
We never sleep together anymore.

193
00:11:34,633 --> 00:11:37,833
l don't knowwhat it is.
l'm just not attracted to her.

194
00:11:37,834 --> 00:11:41,233
-What does she do to put you off?
-lt's my fault, too.

195
00:11:41,234 --> 00:11:44,433
l lie, telling her
l'm too wrapped up in work...

196
00:11:44,434 --> 00:11:48,733
when l'm actually hyper-sexually
aroused. Just not for her.

197
00:11:48,734 --> 00:11:49,733
Who for?

198
00:11:49,734 --> 00:11:51,033
Anyone else.

199
00:11:51,034 --> 00:11:53,734
Shehas a sister.
l'm dying to fuckher.

200
00:11:53,735 --> 00:11:55,633
A doll, thicklips.

201
00:11:55,634 --> 00:11:58,334
Her friend Jennifer?.
l dream of her.

202
00:11:58,335 --> 00:12:01,934
l never cared about African
history but she's spellbinding.

203
00:12:01,935 --> 00:12:04,435
The truth is,
l never see a woman..

204
00:12:04,436 --> 00:12:11,234
that l don�t wonder
what she's like in bed.

205
00:12:11,235 --> 00:12:13,434
l met a great hooker!

206
00:12:13,435 --> 00:12:15,135
A hooker?

207
00:12:15,136 --> 00:12:17,834
Beautiful. From China.

208
00:12:17,835 --> 00:12:20,035
Unbelievable body.

209
00:12:20,036 --> 00:12:23,835
Schooled by tradition
in the art of pleasing men.

210
00:12:23,836 --> 00:12:26,236
Fifty clams.

211
00:12:26,237 --> 00:12:28,235
lsn't that cheating on your wife?

212
00:12:28,236 --> 00:12:30,836
No. lt's not cheating.
She's a hooker.

213
00:12:30,837 --> 00:12:34,236
lt's not like a love affair.

214
00:12:34,237 --> 00:12:37,835
You don't feel for a professional
like you do for yourwife.

215
00:12:37,836 --> 00:12:40,136
She comes over,
rubs on her oils...

216
00:12:40,137 --> 00:12:41,636
Oils?

217
00:12:41,637 --> 00:12:44,436
lnto the sack.
She takes you to the moon.

218
00:12:44,437 --> 00:12:47,836
Lay half a C-note on her
she's history.

219
00:12:47,837 --> 00:12:49,836
Where would you do it?

220
00:12:49,837 --> 00:12:52,237
l couldn't have her
at my apartment.

221
00:12:52,238 --> 00:12:58,137
You get a hotel room. lt's what
l do when the wife's home.

222
00:12:58,138 --> 00:13:01,037
l don't have the dough.
Fifty's a lot in itself.

223
00:13:01,038 --> 00:13:03,737
Maybe a friend'll let you use
his place.

224
00:13:03,738 --> 00:13:06,438
You're always bitching about
your sex life.

225
00:13:06,439 --> 00:13:09,337
l'm trying to help.

226
00:13:09,338 --> 00:13:12,038
l tell her you
gave me the number?

227
00:13:12,039 --> 00:13:15,138
Not my name!
Don't use your real name.

228
00:13:15,139 --> 00:13:17,039
Of course. Not the real name.

229
00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,638
You borrow a friend's apartment,
you use his name.

230
00:13:20,639 --> 00:13:23,739
That way it'll be on the bell.

231
00:13:23,740 --> 00:13:26,239
Good fortune smiled on Harvey.

232
00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,038
One of his best friends,
Mendel Birnbaum, was hit by a car,

233
00:13:30,039 --> 00:13:33,739
and hovered between life and death
at New York Hospital...

234
00:13:33,740 --> 00:13:35,839
freeing up a great bachelor
apartment...

235
00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,840
for Harvey's tryst.

236
00:13:37,841 --> 00:13:40,039
Donning the otherman's robe...

237
00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,840
Harvey became
the swinger Mendel Birnbaum...

238
00:13:42,841 --> 00:13:44,340
and waited...

239
00:13:44,341 --> 00:13:47,640
his Oriental passport to paradise.

240
00:13:47,641 --> 00:14:01,641
You must be Mendel Birnbaum.

241
00:14:09,943 --> 00:14:11,541
Did you enjoy it?

242
00:14:11,542 --> 00:14:14,542
-Are you kidding? Be right back.
-Where you going?

243
00:14:14,543 --> 00:14:17,242
l'm going to check my pants
for another 50.

244
00:14:17,243 --> 00:14:31,243
l'd like to go again.

245
00:14:31,744 --> 00:14:32,742
Yes?

246
00:14:32,743 --> 00:14:37,443
-Mendel Birnbaum?
-Yes.

247
00:14:37,444 --> 00:14:39,143
Open.

248
00:14:39,144 --> 00:14:45,943
Who is it?

249
00:14:45,944 --> 00:14:47,443
Who are you?

250
00:14:47,444 --> 00:14:50,043
l've come for you.

251
00:14:50,044 --> 00:14:53,143
-What are you talking about?
-l'm Death...

252
00:14:53,144 --> 00:14:56,244
and your name is on my list.

253
00:14:56,245 --> 00:14:57,244
No!

254
00:14:57,245 --> 00:14:59,644
Wait a minute.
You've made a mistake.

255
00:14:59,645 --> 00:15:01,545
You don't have a minute.

256
00:15:01,546 --> 00:15:03,045
l'm not Mendel...

257
00:15:03,046 --> 00:15:05,544
Don't give me that bullshit!

258
00:15:05,545 --> 00:15:07,445
Look at your monogram.

259
00:15:07,446 --> 00:15:08,845
Mendel?

260
00:15:08,846 --> 00:15:10,445
Who are you talking to?

261
00:15:10,446 --> 00:15:11,845
Don't call me Mendel.

262
00:15:11,846 --> 00:15:14,144
-Please. l'm just using his pad.
-Right!

263
00:15:14,145 --> 00:15:16,644
They always have an excuse.

264
00:15:16,645 --> 00:15:18,045
Let's go!

265
00:15:18,046 --> 00:15:21,345
Move it, you little putz!

266
00:15:21,346 --> 00:15:23,946
l'm on the roof.
She's pointing a gun at me...

267
00:15:23,947 --> 00:15:26,645
we're out in the cold
and l'm panicked.

268
00:15:26,646 --> 00:15:29,446
l tell her a story l wrote
when l was younger...

269
00:15:29,447 --> 00:15:32,847
and she found it funny,
thank God.

270
00:15:32,848 --> 00:15:36,946
She laughed and relaxed and
she puts the gun down.

271
00:15:36,947 --> 00:15:39,146
So your writing saved your life.

272
00:15:39,147 --> 00:15:42,146
lt's amazing to me, you know?

273
00:15:42,147 --> 00:15:46,446
The interesting thing apart
from the obvious sexual guilt...

274
00:15:46,447 --> 00:15:48,647
that l had when
l was young in the story...

275
00:15:48,648 --> 00:15:51,147
is that nothing's changed.

276
00:15:51,148 --> 00:15:52,747
lt's years later.

277
00:15:52,748 --> 00:15:54,948
l had a shrink then and now...

278
00:15:54,949 --> 00:15:56,547
l'm six shrinks later...

279
00:15:56,548 --> 00:15:58,848
l'm three wives down the line.

280
00:15:58,849 --> 00:16:01,848
And l still can't get
my love life in order.

281
00:16:01,849 --> 00:16:06,247
l still love whores.

282
00:16:06,248 --> 00:16:10,248
lt's ideal. You pay them, and
they come to the house...

283
00:16:10,249 --> 00:16:14,248
and you don't have to discuss
Proust or films or...

284
00:16:14,249 --> 00:16:19,849
l don't knowwhat's
happening to me.

285
00:16:19,850 --> 00:16:24,349
l just have not grown up
and l feel...

286
00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:26,650
l see other guys my age.

287
00:16:26,651 --> 00:16:28,849
l think of fucking
every woman l meet.

288
00:16:28,850 --> 00:16:31,149
l meet a woman in the bank...

289
00:16:31,150 --> 00:16:32,649
or on the bus...

290
00:16:32,650 --> 00:16:35,650
l think: What's she look like naked?
Can l fuck her?

291
00:16:35,651 --> 00:16:37,250
This is crazy.

292
00:16:37,251 --> 00:16:40,750
l see guys l know that
are lawyers and doctors...

293
00:16:40,751 --> 00:16:42,550
with families and houses.

294
00:16:42,551 --> 00:16:44,250
They're not so...

295
00:16:44,251 --> 00:16:49,050
Does the U.S. President want
to fuck every woman he meets?

296
00:16:49,051 --> 00:16:52,251
Bad example.

297
00:16:52,252 --> 00:16:53,851
l don't know.

298
00:16:53,852 --> 00:16:55,251
Take Raoul Wallenberg...

299
00:16:55,252 --> 00:16:57,851
Did he want to bang every
waitress in Europe?

300
00:16:57,852 --> 00:16:59,150
Probably not.

301
00:16:59,151 --> 00:17:02,551
Tell me about
your honoring ceremony.

302
00:17:02,552 --> 00:17:04,651
That's bullshit.

303
00:17:04,652 --> 00:17:07,252
The same school that
threw me out years ago...

304
00:17:07,253 --> 00:17:08,852
now wants to honor me.

305
00:17:08,853 --> 00:17:10,751
Why'd they throw you out?

306
00:17:10,752 --> 00:17:13,852
Because l was not
interested in college.

307
00:17:13,853 --> 00:17:16,952
l wanted to be a writer.
Writing was all l cared about.

308
00:17:16,953 --> 00:17:19,353
l did not care about
the real world.

309
00:17:19,354 --> 00:17:21,952
l cared only about
the world of fiction.

310
00:17:21,953 --> 00:17:23,952
Plus l tried to give...

311
00:17:23,953 --> 00:17:28,253
the dean's wife and enema.
They didn't like that.

312
00:17:28,254 --> 00:17:29,653
The sad thing is...

313
00:17:29,654 --> 00:17:33,053
l've gotta drive way
upstate to be honored...

314
00:17:33,054 --> 00:17:41,353
and l have to go alone.
l got nobody to go with...

315
00:17:41,354 --> 00:17:43,654
What about bringing
your son with you?

316
00:17:43,655 --> 00:17:45,754
l can't. lt's not
my visiting time.

317
00:17:45,755 --> 00:17:48,154
Joan is completely
inflexible, so...

318
00:17:48,155 --> 00:17:50,654
She won't trade dates with you?

319
00:17:50,655 --> 00:17:52,453
l can't even get her
on the phone.

320
00:17:52,454 --> 00:17:56,254
She hates me and...

321
00:17:56,255 --> 00:17:59,555
for the first time in my life
l have writer's block.

322
00:17:59,556 --> 00:18:01,754
Now this, to me, is unheard of.

323
00:18:01,755 --> 00:18:05,355
l start these short stories
and l can't finish them.

324
00:18:05,356 --> 00:18:07,555
l can't get into my novel...

325
00:18:07,556 --> 00:18:11,556
because l took an advance.

326
00:18:11,557 --> 00:18:13,755
l don't know.

327
00:18:13,756 --> 00:18:17,655
l find l'm taking more pills
and medicine and...

328
00:18:17,656 --> 00:18:20,856
You remind me of that story
you were working on...

329
00:18:20,857 --> 00:18:22,355
two months ago...

330
00:18:22,356 --> 00:18:24,655
"The Actor"...

331
00:18:24,656 --> 00:18:26,556
Something's wrong with this lens.

332
00:18:26,557 --> 00:18:28,256
This one, too? l changed lenses!

333
00:18:28,257 --> 00:18:30,356
What do you mean?
Focus is off!

334
00:18:30,357 --> 00:18:33,756
-l don't know why it's a problem.
-The center's out of focus.

335
00:18:33,757 --> 00:18:36,257
l checked all the lenses,
they can't be soft.

336
00:18:36,258 --> 00:18:37,757
Let's move it. lt's late.

337
00:18:37,758 --> 00:18:40,257
l'm tryin' to shoot Mel
and he's soft.

338
00:18:40,258 --> 00:18:41,257
What?

339
00:18:41,258 --> 00:18:45,556
-Where do you rent these lenses?
-The lenses are fine!

340
00:18:45,557 --> 00:18:48,257
-Mel's out of focus!
-That's what l said.

341
00:18:48,258 --> 00:18:50,557
Not the lens.
l mean Mel himself.

342
00:18:50,558 --> 00:18:52,258
Let me see!
Get the hell out.

343
00:18:52,259 --> 00:18:54,457
You're right. Mel's out of focus.

344
00:18:54,458 --> 00:18:55,757
What are you saying?

345
00:18:55,758 --> 00:18:58,058
l said the actor's out of focus.

346
00:18:58,059 --> 00:18:59,958
How can this be?

347
00:18:59,959 --> 00:19:01,458
ls something wrong?

348
00:19:01,459 --> 00:19:03,159
Mel, come here.

349
00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,458
l don't know how to say this...

350
00:19:05,459 --> 00:19:06,857
but you're soft.

351
00:19:06,858 --> 00:19:08,258
l've gained some weight.

352
00:19:08,259 --> 00:19:11,158
lt's not that. You're soft.

353
00:19:11,159 --> 00:19:12,459
You're out of focus.

354
00:19:12,460 --> 00:19:15,258
l don't knowwhy.
ls there anything we can do?

355
00:19:15,259 --> 00:19:17,058
l can't adjust forthis.

356
00:19:17,059 --> 00:19:20,559
Look at yourself.

357
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,860
You sure you're okay?

358
00:19:22,861 --> 00:19:24,160
lt's fuzzy.

359
00:19:24,161 --> 00:19:26,159
All right, look...

360
00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,060
Mel's out of focus.

361
00:19:28,061 --> 00:19:29,560
You're not in focus.

362
00:19:29,561 --> 00:19:30,860
Nothing to do.

363
00:19:30,861 --> 00:19:33,460
lt's 4 o'clock, anyway.
Why don't we just wrap?

364
00:19:33,461 --> 00:19:36,359
We'll wrap and
we'll see what happens

365
00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:39,060
Now look. l want you
to go home.

366
00:19:39,061 --> 00:19:41,260
And l want you to rest.

367
00:19:41,261 --> 00:19:49,161
And see if you can
sharpen up.

368
00:19:49,162 --> 00:19:50,761
Grace, l'm home.

369
00:19:50,762 --> 00:19:53,861
Hi, honey.

370
00:19:53,862 --> 00:19:56,761
What's the matter?
You look strange.

371
00:19:56,762 --> 00:19:58,361
l'm out of focus.

372
00:19:58,362 --> 00:19:59,461
Yeah...

373
00:19:59,462 --> 00:20:01,961
You are. Just a little bit.
You are.

374
00:20:01,962 --> 00:20:03,561
And you look pale.

375
00:20:03,562 --> 00:20:06,062
Daddy, you're all blurry!

376
00:20:06,063 --> 00:20:07,661
Maybe you should lie down.

377
00:20:07,662 --> 00:20:10,062
-l'll bring tea and toast?
-Daddy's out of focus!

378
00:20:10,063 --> 00:20:11,562
Daddy doesn't need that, okay?

379
00:20:11,563 --> 00:20:13,362
Come on now, you be nice.

380
00:20:13,363 --> 00:20:15,263
What happened at work today?

381
00:20:15,264 --> 00:20:17,063
First they thought
it was the camera...

382
00:20:17,064 --> 00:20:19,362
Reuben! Stop it!

383
00:20:19,363 --> 00:20:22,263
They thought it was the camera...
but it was me!

384
00:20:22,264 --> 00:20:23,663
-Really?
-They send me home.

385
00:20:23,664 --> 00:20:27,463
-lt's humiliating.
-You eat anything strange? Shellfish?

386
00:20:27,464 --> 00:20:29,962
No. This is not
an allergic reaction.

387
00:20:29,963 --> 00:20:30,963
You know what?

388
00:20:30,964 --> 00:20:33,363
l just need to get a good
night's sleep.

389
00:20:33,364 --> 00:20:36,564
-l'm sure that's all it is.
-What happened to you?

390
00:20:36,565 --> 00:20:39,063
Get a good night's sleep.
Turn in early...

391
00:20:39,064 --> 00:20:41,163
and tomorrow you'll be fine.

392
00:20:41,164 --> 00:20:44,464
But the following morning
things did not improve.

393
00:20:44,465 --> 00:20:46,865
ln fact, the situation was worse.

394
00:20:46,866 --> 00:20:49,464
Mel was more out of focus
than ever.

395
00:20:49,465 --> 00:20:52,464
l gotta get to the doctor.

396
00:20:52,465 --> 00:20:54,764
Never seen anything like this.

397
00:20:54,765 --> 00:20:58,565
Nothing's wrong with you,
except you're out of focus.

398
00:20:58,566 --> 00:20:59,764
What's the matter?

399
00:20:59,765 --> 00:21:02,465
lt's from looking at Mel.
l'm a little seasick.

400
00:21:02,466 --> 00:21:06,765
That's why l want everyone
to try these.

401
00:21:06,766 --> 00:21:09,266
-l don't wear glasses.
-Wait, let's see.

402
00:21:09,267 --> 00:21:10,465
l don't want glasses.

403
00:21:10,466 --> 00:21:13,066
-Put 'em on so you can see me.
-Better!

404
00:21:13,067 --> 00:21:16,066
-l look stupid with these on.
-Come on. Put 'em on.

405
00:21:16,067 --> 00:21:19,066
-Daddy'll be much sharper.
-Want to see Daddy?

406
00:21:19,067 --> 00:21:22,965
Put those on and
we won't get headaches.

407
00:21:22,966 --> 00:21:26,166
Despite the fact children
don't want to wear glasses...

408
00:21:26,167 --> 00:21:28,467
they're forced to.

409
00:21:28,468 --> 00:21:30,666
You expect the world to adjust...

410
00:21:30,667 --> 00:21:33,066
to the distortion
you've become.

411
00:21:33,067 --> 00:21:35,667
l don't expect anything.

412
00:21:35,668 --> 00:21:37,467
l'm going through something.

413
00:21:37,468 --> 00:21:41,267
Forthe first time in my life
l can't seem to write.

414
00:21:41,268 --> 00:21:44,367
lt's not coming.
And for me...

415
00:21:44,368 --> 00:21:47,467
all l have in life
is my imagination.

416
00:21:47,468 --> 00:21:49,268
Ourtime is up.

417
00:21:49,269 --> 00:21:51,567
Have fun at the honoring ceremony.

418
00:21:51,568 --> 00:21:57,468
lt'd be good if you took
your son with you.

419
00:21:57,469 --> 00:21:58,868
Joan!

420
00:21:58,869 --> 00:22:00,869
-You never return calls.
-Leave me alone!

421
00:22:00,870 --> 00:22:03,268
-How do l reach you?
-Shall l call the police?

422
00:22:03,269 --> 00:22:04,668
l've got a question.

423
00:22:04,669 --> 00:22:07,069
-Will you stop?
-No. l won't listen.

424
00:22:07,070 --> 00:22:11,069
Tomorrow they honor me at my old
school. l want to take Hilly.

425
00:22:11,070 --> 00:22:13,868
-He has school tomorrow.
-Trade a visitation day.

426
00:22:13,869 --> 00:22:16,069
No! l have plans with him.

427
00:22:16,070 --> 00:22:18,269
lt'd be good for him
to see me honored.

428
00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:20,970
l don't want him to.
l don't want him to see you ever!

429
00:22:20,971 --> 00:22:23,969
He'll have a day in the country.
Will you stop?

430
00:22:23,970 --> 00:22:26,370
A day in the country.
What is so bad?

431
00:22:26,371 --> 00:22:27,670
He is 9 years old.

432
00:22:27,671 --> 00:22:31,471
Where does he learn phrases like
"banging beaver" and " fuck God"?

433
00:22:31,472 --> 00:22:32,871
What are you saying?
From me?

434
00:22:32,872 --> 00:22:34,770
Do l look like an imbecile?

435
00:22:34,771 --> 00:22:36,470
l know your conversations with him...

436
00:22:36,471 --> 00:22:38,770
and l heard about "Open School Week".

437
00:22:38,771 --> 00:22:41,470
Beth Kramer was appalled.

438
00:22:41,471 --> 00:22:42,571
Dad?

439
00:22:42,572 --> 00:22:45,270
Why doesn't my penis
look like yours?

440
00:22:45,271 --> 00:22:47,671
Why doesn't your penis
look like mine?

441
00:22:47,672 --> 00:22:49,971
Because your mother and l...

442
00:22:49,972 --> 00:22:52,072
never had you circumcised.

443
00:22:52,073 --> 00:22:55,171
When l was your age, you know
what kids used to do?

444
00:22:55,172 --> 00:22:57,071
They used to name their penises.

445
00:22:57,072 --> 00:22:58,972
l'm going to name mine Dillinger.

446
00:22:58,973 --> 00:23:01,971
Dillinger is perfect!
Dillinger is great!

447
00:23:01,972 --> 00:23:03,972
Hilly, you're inspired.
A genius.

448
00:23:03,973 --> 00:23:07,271
Dillingerwas a genius
in his chosen profession...

449
00:23:07,272 --> 00:23:08,772
like Willy Sutton.

450
00:23:08,773 --> 00:23:11,072
Remember how we
discussed Freud once?

451
00:23:11,073 --> 00:23:14,673
Freud said the two most important
things in life...

452
00:23:14,674 --> 00:23:17,572
are the work that you chose
and sex.

453
00:23:17,573 --> 00:23:18,873
Those two things.

454
00:23:18,874 --> 00:23:20,173
Women...

455
00:23:20,174 --> 00:23:21,573
are God.

456
00:23:21,574 --> 00:23:22,773
God's awoman?

457
00:23:22,774 --> 00:23:24,374
No. l'm not saying that.

458
00:23:24,375 --> 00:23:27,173
We don't know ifthere's
a God...

459
00:23:27,174 --> 00:23:29,073
but there are women.

460
00:23:29,074 --> 00:23:32,073
Not in some imaginary heaven,
but right here on earth.

461
00:23:32,074 --> 00:23:34,274
And some of them...
some of them...

462
00:23:34,275 --> 00:23:36,773
shop at Victoria's Secret...

463
00:23:36,774 --> 00:23:40,674
Beth Kramer has never been
so mortified in her entire life.

464
00:23:40,675 --> 00:23:43,874
Beth Kramer's a tight-assed,
busy body cunt...

465
00:23:43,875 --> 00:23:46,974
and it's none of her business
how l speak to my son.

466
00:23:46,975 --> 00:23:49,675
She is a decent parent
and great friend.

467
00:23:49,676 --> 00:23:52,675
Bullshit!
Just change one visitation day.

468
00:23:52,676 --> 00:23:54,374
What is so terrible?

469
00:23:54,375 --> 00:23:56,475
No! He is not going to miss school!

470
00:23:56,476 --> 00:23:59,274
lf Hilly was sick
he would miss school!

471
00:23:59,275 --> 00:24:01,775
Yes, he would.
But he's not sick...

472
00:24:01,776 --> 00:24:05,075
and he's not spending the day
with his pill-popping...

473
00:24:05,076 --> 00:24:06,676
alcoholic...

474
00:24:06,677 --> 00:24:09,475
beaver-banging
excuse for a father.

475
00:24:09,476 --> 00:24:12,476
Years ago you didn't say that
about me.

476
00:24:12,477 --> 00:24:15,677
-You were an easy-going spirit...
-Put it in a book.

477
00:24:15,678 --> 00:24:16,777
What am l saying?

478
00:24:16,778 --> 00:24:19,376
You already did.

479
00:24:19,377 --> 00:24:21,976
"Epstein had married
his third shrink.

480
00:24:21,977 --> 00:24:24,676
He'd confessed his
feelings for her often.

481
00:24:24,677 --> 00:24:27,277
She seemed to put it down
to transference

482
00:24:27,278 --> 00:24:29,776
But one day she surprised him."

483
00:24:29,777 --> 00:24:31,477
l think it best...

484
00:24:31,478 --> 00:24:34,677
that we terminate your
treatment.

485
00:24:34,678 --> 00:24:36,678
And then, l think we should...

486
00:24:36,679 --> 00:24:40,077
give it a substantial
period oftime.

487
00:24:40,078 --> 00:24:42,478
Then, if we both feel
the same way...

488
00:24:42,479 --> 00:24:45,778
l think we can begin
to see each other again...

489
00:24:45,779 --> 00:24:48,878
socially.

490
00:24:48,879 --> 00:24:50,877
"lt was, to Epstein thinking...

491
00:24:50,878 --> 00:24:52,978
a match made in Heaven.

492
00:24:52,979 --> 00:24:56,078
Here, at last, was a woman who
understood him."

493
00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:58,079
You know all my secrets,

494
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,178
every nuance of my psychic life.

495
00:25:00,179 --> 00:25:03,179
l've admitted every feeling
and desire in therapy.

496
00:25:03,180 --> 00:25:05,479
Now it's your turn
to explore me.

497
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,280
Yeah, but you accept
all my perversions.

498
00:25:08,281 --> 00:25:11,079
Being tied up, watching you
with other women.

499
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,479
Feeling your spike heels
in my mouth.

500
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,979
Non one can say l didn't know...

501
00:25:15,980 --> 00:25:19,780
what l was letting myself in for.

502
00:25:19,781 --> 00:25:22,079
The first two years
were amazing.

503
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,680
They moved to a West
Side apartment.

504
00:25:24,681 --> 00:25:26,880
He wrote.
She saw patients.

505
00:25:26,881 --> 00:25:29,881
But her best insights
were into his work.

506
00:25:29,882 --> 00:25:33,280
What one comes away with
is your total isolation.

507
00:25:33,281 --> 00:25:36,481
Your fear of people,
your panic over closeness.

508
00:25:36,482 --> 00:25:39,581
And that's why your real life
is so chaotic...

509
00:25:39,582 --> 00:25:41,580
and your writing
is so much more...

510
00:25:41,581 --> 00:25:44,380
controlled and stable.
You're unable to..

511
00:25:44,381 --> 00:25:46,181
lt all went quite well...

512
00:25:46,182 --> 00:25:49,081
until Helen became pregnant
and gave birth.

513
00:25:49,082 --> 00:25:53,081
From then on, as if she'd
had a divine revelation...

514
00:25:53,082 --> 00:25:56,582
She became what Epstein
referred to angrily...

515
00:25:56,583 --> 00:25:58,782
as "Jewish with a vengeance."

516
00:25:58,783 --> 00:26:00,483
l rue the day
l listened to you...

517
00:26:00,484 --> 00:26:03,082
and l didn't have him
circumcised.

518
00:26:03,083 --> 00:26:04,582
Are you nuts?

519
00:26:04,583 --> 00:26:06,282
We can still do it.

520
00:26:06,283 --> 00:26:07,082
No!

521
00:26:07,083 --> 00:26:08,582
He's too old.

522
00:26:08,583 --> 00:26:11,983
-Sure. Now he's too old.
-What is wrong with you?

523
00:26:11,984 --> 00:26:15,082
You're like a born-again Christian
except you're aJew.

524
00:26:15,083 --> 00:26:18,483
l see my father's face in Hillel.

525
00:26:18,484 --> 00:26:20,983
Hilliard. His name is Hilliard.

526
00:26:20,984 --> 00:26:24,483
We didn't name him Hillel.
Not after some rabbi.

527
00:26:24,484 --> 00:26:26,283
Hilliard Epstein.

528
00:26:26,284 --> 00:26:29,484
l'm sick of smug cynicism.
There's value in tradition.

529
00:26:29,485 --> 00:26:32,984
l thought it meant nothing,
but nowthat l'm a mother, it does.

530
00:26:32,985 --> 00:26:37,084
l see not only meaning
in Judaism, but true beauty.

531
00:26:37,085 --> 00:26:38,584
You're a scientist!

532
00:26:38,585 --> 00:26:40,084
Einstein was a scientist!

533
00:26:40,085 --> 00:26:42,885
And he was a Jew!
And he was religious!

534
00:26:42,886 --> 00:26:46,584
"Helen had taken on
the obligation of daily prayers.

535
00:26:46,585 --> 00:26:50,285
Jews, of course, fearing
a wrathful and vengefulgod...

536
00:26:50,286 --> 00:26:53,186
give praise and thanks
for everything."

537
00:26:53,187 --> 00:26:56,385
Baruch atah adonai elohenu melech
ha-olam...

538
00:26:56,386 --> 00:27:00,685
borei pree hagofen.

539
00:27:00,686 --> 00:27:02,185
Hamotzi lechem...

540
00:27:02,186 --> 00:27:04,186
min ha-oretz.

541
00:27:04,187 --> 00:27:07,485
Vitzi-vonu l'hadlik nair
shel shabat.

542
00:27:07,486 --> 00:27:11,086
Boreh pree ha...blowjob.

543
00:27:11,087 --> 00:27:13,787
And one day the inevitable
happened.

544
00:27:13,788 --> 00:27:16,486
A patient of Helen's,
an lsraeli...

545
00:27:16,487 --> 00:27:20,087
who had come to her, depressed
that his wife had left him...

546
00:27:20,088 --> 00:27:22,087
captured Helen's heart."

547
00:27:22,088 --> 00:27:23,486
l think it best...

548
00:27:23,487 --> 00:27:25,587
that we terminate your
treatment,...

549
00:27:25,588 --> 00:27:27,486
give it a substantial time.

550
00:27:27,487 --> 00:27:29,887
Then, if we feel the same way...

551
00:27:29,888 --> 00:27:31,987
start to see each other...

552
00:27:31,988 --> 00:27:41,488
socially.

553
00:27:41,489 --> 00:27:43,088
Lost in thought, l think.

554
00:27:43,089 --> 00:27:46,389
l was just, l was thinking
about a book l wrote.

555
00:27:46,390 --> 00:27:48,388
-Well, l'm a mess.
-What's the matter?

556
00:27:48,389 --> 00:27:52,188
l'm going to the doctor.
l have pains in my chest.

557
00:27:52,189 --> 00:27:53,488
lt's nothing.

558
00:27:53,489 --> 00:27:56,589
lt's indigestion or gallbladder
or acid reflux...

559
00:27:56,590 --> 00:27:59,988
l've got a family history.
My dad died of heart attack...

560
00:27:59,989 --> 00:28:02,089
my mother died
of a massive coronary.

561
00:28:02,090 --> 00:28:05,789
Both brothers died before they
were 50 from heart failure.

562
00:28:05,790 --> 00:28:08,389
Why waste time talking?
Get an ambulance.

563
00:28:08,390 --> 00:28:10,289
Are you busy?

564
00:28:10,290 --> 00:28:12,090
l was going to see my editor.

565
00:28:12,091 --> 00:28:14,090
l just hate going alone.

566
00:28:14,091 --> 00:28:17,590
My mother died
giving birth to me.

567
00:28:17,591 --> 00:28:19,889
For which my father
never forgave me.

568
00:28:19,890 --> 00:28:23,790
lt's funny. l wish before he died,
l had forgiven him.

569
00:28:23,791 --> 00:28:27,191
But we're morbid. You think
you're dying but you're not.

570
00:28:27,192 --> 00:28:29,490
Today they got lasers,
all kinds of...

571
00:28:29,491 --> 00:28:32,191
Yeah, you and science, right?

572
00:28:32,192 --> 00:28:33,991
Nothing wrong with science.

573
00:28:33,992 --> 00:28:37,292
Between air-conditioning and the
Pope, l'll take air-conditioning.

574
00:28:37,293 --> 00:28:39,591
l'm scared.
l'm really scared.

575
00:28:39,592 --> 00:28:43,491
Can l change the subject?
You know l have writer's block?

576
00:28:43,492 --> 00:28:44,391
l know.

577
00:28:44,392 --> 00:28:45,391
l have awriter's block.

578
00:28:45,392 --> 00:28:46,891
First time in my life...

579
00:28:46,892 --> 00:28:50,091
l can't come up with an idea,
something to hold my interest.

580
00:28:50,092 --> 00:28:52,791
Since Fay left you you've been
having trouble.

581
00:28:52,792 --> 00:28:54,892
l'm seeing Fay later
for a drink.

582
00:28:54,893 --> 00:28:56,892
l think is very good.

583
00:28:56,893 --> 00:29:00,092
She's good for you.
She's a lot better than...

584
00:29:00,093 --> 00:29:03,092
a lot of those other
crazies that...

585
00:29:03,093 --> 00:29:04,993
My God! My arm!

586
00:29:04,994 --> 00:29:08,092
l'm telling you it's nothing.
Nothing.

587
00:29:08,093 --> 00:29:10,492
l'm not scared.

588
00:29:10,493 --> 00:29:13,192
-You're in great shape.
-Really?

589
00:29:13,193 --> 00:29:15,893
You just have a little
bursitis in your arm.

590
00:29:15,894 --> 00:29:18,693
That's fantastic!
My God, thank you!

591
00:29:18,694 --> 00:29:21,793
The loveliest words
to hear are not, "l love you"...

592
00:29:21,794 --> 00:29:23,193
but "lt's benign."

593
00:29:23,194 --> 00:29:26,494
We could do more tests,
but l don't think so.

594
00:29:26,495 --> 00:29:28,494
Your heart's in great shape.

595
00:29:28,495 --> 00:29:32,094
l hurt my back some weeks a go
opening a sub-zero refrigerator.

596
00:29:32,095 --> 00:29:34,693
-Let me buy a cup of coffee.
-Let me schedule you.

597
00:29:34,694 --> 00:29:36,294
-No. l don't have time.
-Let me schedule you.

598
00:29:36,295 --> 00:29:38,094
What are you doing tomorrow?

599
00:29:38,095 --> 00:29:39,294
l'm busy. Why?

600
00:29:39,295 --> 00:29:42,394
l'm going to my old school.
The honoring me.

601
00:29:42,395 --> 00:29:44,194
l'd like someone
to come with me.

602
00:29:44,195 --> 00:29:46,395
l can't get out of this thing...

603
00:29:46,396 --> 00:29:48,695
but that's great.

604
00:29:48,696 --> 00:30:02,696
Congratulations.

605
00:30:07,797 --> 00:30:09,896
-You look great.
-Thank you.

606
00:30:09,897 --> 00:30:11,397
You look a little tired.

607
00:30:11,398 --> 00:30:14,496
l'm struggling with this book.

608
00:30:14,497 --> 00:30:17,097
Naturally, l spent the advance...

609
00:30:17,098 --> 00:30:20,097
and l'm having atough...

610
00:30:20,098 --> 00:30:21,697
a tough time.

611
00:30:21,698 --> 00:30:23,897
l wanted to have
this drink because...

612
00:30:23,898 --> 00:30:25,497
Can l get a red wine?

613
00:30:25,498 --> 00:30:27,397
Same thing she has, please?

614
00:30:27,398 --> 00:30:29,997
l wanted to be the first
to tell you that...

615
00:30:29,998 --> 00:30:32,498
l'm getting married.

616
00:30:32,499 --> 00:30:34,297
Don't say that!

617
00:30:34,298 --> 00:30:36,097
-Why?
-What do you mean?

618
00:30:36,098 --> 00:30:37,898
Because...

619
00:30:37,899 --> 00:30:40,498
l love you.
How can you get married?

620
00:30:40,499 --> 00:30:41,698
Don't!

621
00:30:41,699 --> 00:30:43,699
-Who? ls it Larry?
-Yes, it's Larry!

622
00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:44,998
l knew it!

623
00:30:44,999 --> 00:30:47,498
l don't fucking believe this!

624
00:30:47,499 --> 00:30:50,999
This guy's allegedly
a friend of mine.

625
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,299
lt's the Devil.
And l introduced you.

626
00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:56,698
When Larry's around.
l smell burning sulfur.

627
00:30:56,699 --> 00:30:59,099
Can we have your blessing?

628
00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:02,399
No! You certainly
don't have my blessing!

629
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,600
l don't want you
to get married.

630
00:31:04,601 --> 00:31:06,499
l don't want you to.

631
00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:07,499
l should go.

632
00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:08,699
l was your pupil.

633
00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:11,600
lt was Henry Higgins
and Eliza Doolittle.

634
00:31:11,601 --> 00:31:13,900
That's what it was,
and that's what you loved.

635
00:31:13,901 --> 00:31:17,000
But it didn't work that way.
What can l say?

636
00:31:17,001 --> 00:31:18,799
Why did you
fall in love with me?

637
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:23,100
You gave me endless lectures
on love in the Western world.

638
00:31:23,101 --> 00:31:28,300
l didn't think l could.
l thought l was too damaged.

639
00:31:28,301 --> 00:31:32,601
l woke up one morning, and
l looked at you over breakfast...

640
00:31:32,602 --> 00:31:34,601
and l thought to myself...

641
00:31:34,602 --> 00:31:37,101
God, this is what they mean.

642
00:31:37,102 --> 00:31:39,101
This is what they were
talking about.

643
00:31:39,102 --> 00:31:42,002
All those warnings not to
fall in love with you!

644
00:31:42,003 --> 00:31:44,402
But then l fell in love with you.

645
00:31:44,403 --> 00:31:46,602
Thought you were
another jerk fan...

646
00:31:46,603 --> 00:31:47,901
l'd fuck you...

647
00:31:47,902 --> 00:31:51,902
and move on to the next fan.
But that didn't happen.

648
00:31:51,903 --> 00:31:54,302
You were a fan...

649
00:31:54,303 --> 00:31:56,003
and a follower...

650
00:31:56,004 --> 00:31:57,503
and then a pupil...

651
00:31:57,504 --> 00:31:59,702
and then you were a roommate.

652
00:31:59,703 --> 00:32:01,703
And before l knew it...

653
00:32:01,704 --> 00:32:10,403
you had control
ofthe channel changer.

654
00:32:10,404 --> 00:32:12,203
l loved you.

655
00:32:12,204 --> 00:32:14,203
l was in awe of you.

656
00:32:14,204 --> 00:32:17,704
But it wasn't in love with you.

657
00:32:17,705 --> 00:32:21,703
My old university is honoring me,
if you can believe that.

658
00:32:21,704 --> 00:32:24,704
Come with me, let me try
to talk you out of it...

659
00:32:24,705 --> 00:32:26,104
Just one day.

660
00:32:26,105 --> 00:32:28,105
l'm getting married tomorrow.

661
00:32:28,106 --> 00:32:31,604
-Tomorrow? The day l'm honored?
-Yes! Tomorrow!

662
00:32:31,605 --> 00:32:33,505
l can't fucking believe this.

663
00:32:33,506 --> 00:32:35,505
You're getting married tomorrow?

664
00:32:35,506 --> 00:32:37,704
Yes. lt's been planned for months!

665
00:32:37,705 --> 00:32:45,405
Don't do it!

666
00:32:45,406 --> 00:32:47,505
"While Goldberg was asleep
onenight...

667
00:32:47,506 --> 00:32:49,706
the devil entered his apartment...

668
00:32:49,707 --> 00:32:52,005
abducted his beautiful
blonde love...

669
00:32:52,006 --> 00:32:53,506
and took her to hell.

670
00:32:53,507 --> 00:32:55,406
The next morning...

671
00:32:55,407 --> 00:33:04,306
Goldberg noticed the odd smell of
burning sulfur".

672
00:33:04,307 --> 00:33:06,106
Harry Block?

673
00:33:06,107 --> 00:33:07,506
You're Cookie?

674
00:33:07,507 --> 00:33:08,706
Cookie Williams.

675
00:33:08,707 --> 00:33:17,307
You wanted me here at ten?

676
00:33:17,308 --> 00:33:20,008
You wanna, shall we get to it?

677
00:33:20,009 --> 00:33:22,807
You don't want to talk
a little first?

678
00:33:22,808 --> 00:33:24,707
Talk? Why?

679
00:33:24,708 --> 00:33:27,408
Really? Most guys don't
like to jump into bed...

680
00:33:27,409 --> 00:33:30,708
without talking. They think it's
too businesslike.

681
00:33:30,709 --> 00:33:31,907
Not me. l'm not...

682
00:33:31,908 --> 00:33:33,307
that you'd tie me up.

683
00:33:33,308 --> 00:33:36,908
Whatever you want! Let's settle
the monetary part and then relax.

684
00:33:36,909 --> 00:33:38,308
Absolutely.

685
00:33:38,309 --> 00:33:40,108
-You get $200?
-That's right.

686
00:33:40,109 --> 00:33:42,308
So you want me to tie you up?

687
00:33:42,309 --> 00:33:43,608
Yeah, tie me up.

688
00:33:43,609 --> 00:33:45,108
l'd like you to hit me...

689
00:33:45,109 --> 00:33:46,909
and give me a blowjob.

690
00:33:46,910 --> 00:33:48,909
A blowjob, then you hit you.

691
00:33:48,910 --> 00:33:50,109
No.

692
00:33:50,110 --> 00:33:51,810
Hit me and then the blowjob.

693
00:33:51,811 --> 00:33:53,709
lf the order's not right,
it's no fun.

694
00:33:53,710 --> 00:33:56,008
Tie me up, hit me,
give me a blowjob.

695
00:33:56,009 --> 00:33:57,909
What should l tie you with?

696
00:33:57,910 --> 00:34:01,510
The truth is l thought you
were going to wear stockings.

697
00:34:01,511 --> 00:34:04,109
Cookie,
you're a definite artist.

698
00:34:04,110 --> 00:34:06,609
They should put your lips
in the Smithsonian.

699
00:34:06,610 --> 00:34:09,410
lt took you awhile.
l didn't think you'd make it.

700
00:34:09,411 --> 00:34:12,011
l was having a little
problem focusing.

701
00:34:12,012 --> 00:34:14,310
Finally, l got the right fantasy.

702
00:34:14,311 --> 00:34:17,110
l thought of awoman l saw
in the Sixth Avenue...

703
00:34:17,111 --> 00:34:19,711
and l coupled herwith
Svetlana Stalin.

704
00:34:19,712 --> 00:34:22,411
lt's the daughter of the dictator.
lt worked.

705
00:34:22,412 --> 00:34:25,410
What do you take medicine for?

706
00:34:25,411 --> 00:34:27,210
Me? Depression.

707
00:34:27,211 --> 00:34:29,111
What are you depressed about?

708
00:34:29,112 --> 00:34:31,711
Depressed. Don't you ever get
depressed?

709
00:34:31,712 --> 00:34:33,912
Doesn't yourwork get you down?

710
00:34:33,913 --> 00:34:36,611
lt's okay. Beats the hell out of
waitressing.

711
00:34:36,612 --> 00:34:37,711
lt's funny.

712
00:34:37,712 --> 00:34:41,312
Every hooker l meet says it
beats the hell out of waitressing.

713
00:34:41,313 --> 00:34:44,313
Waitressing's got to be
the worst job in the world.

714
00:34:44,314 --> 00:34:45,712
lt's unbelievable.

715
00:34:45,713 --> 00:34:48,111
What are you sad about?

716
00:34:48,112 --> 00:34:50,712
l'm spiritually bankrupt.
l'm empty.

717
00:34:50,713 --> 00:34:52,312
What do you mean?

718
00:34:52,313 --> 00:34:54,913
l'm frightened.

719
00:34:54,914 --> 00:34:57,312
l got no soul.
Knowwhat l mean?

720
00:34:57,313 --> 00:35:00,413
See, when l was younger,
it was less scary...

721
00:35:00,414 --> 00:35:03,513
waiting for Lefty than it is
waiting for Godot.

722
00:35:03,514 --> 00:35:04,914
You lost me.

723
00:35:04,915 --> 00:35:08,913
You know that the universe is
coming apart?

724
00:35:08,914 --> 00:35:11,114
You know what a black hole is?

725
00:35:11,115 --> 00:35:14,213
Yeah.
That's how l make my living.

726
00:35:14,214 --> 00:35:17,813
l gotta tell you, a great writer
named Sophocles...

727
00:35:17,814 --> 00:35:20,914
said it was probably best
not to be born al all.

728
00:35:20,915 --> 00:35:23,314
Honey, it's a little
too late forthat.

729
00:35:23,315 --> 00:35:28,314
l didn't want to come out.
They had to come in and get me.

730
00:35:28,315 --> 00:35:31,315
You want another blowjob?

731
00:35:31,316 --> 00:35:32,515
How come?

732
00:35:32,516 --> 00:35:34,115
On the house. No charge.

733
00:35:34,116 --> 00:35:37,315
Because them pills you takin'
sure ain't working.

734
00:35:37,316 --> 00:35:39,715
l'm just in a peculiar mood
tonight.

735
00:35:39,716 --> 00:35:42,715
Because l had
some bad news today.

736
00:35:42,716 --> 00:35:46,116
Let me ask you,
what are you doing tomorrow.

737
00:35:46,117 --> 00:35:47,516
Hustlin'.

738
00:35:47,517 --> 00:35:50,015
Yeah?
Why don't you come with me?

739
00:35:50,016 --> 00:35:51,215
Where?

740
00:35:51,216 --> 00:35:54,316
l'm going to my old school.
They're honoring me.

741
00:35:54,317 --> 00:35:56,516
l got nobody to share it with.

742
00:35:56,517 --> 00:35:59,116
l'm serious. Come with me.

743
00:35:59,117 --> 00:36:00,916
l'll give you 500 bucks.

744
00:36:00,917 --> 00:36:03,217
Sleep here,
come up with me tomorrow.

745
00:36:03,218 --> 00:36:04,817
Why you got all this money?

746
00:36:04,818 --> 00:36:07,117
l always have
hooker money because...

747
00:36:07,118 --> 00:36:21,118
l once paid by check years ago
and the lRS killed me.

748
00:36:23,619 --> 00:36:27,118
Fay, when you get this message,
if it's not too late...

749
00:36:27,119 --> 00:36:28,919
don't get married...

750
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,618
because l love you...

751
00:36:31,619 --> 00:36:35,318
and l want to marry you.

752
00:36:35,319 --> 00:36:37,318
l was looking at...

753
00:36:37,319 --> 00:36:39,019
my last book...

754
00:36:39,020 --> 00:36:42,318
at the part where we met.

755
00:36:42,319 --> 00:36:45,519
l tried to exaggerate it
to make it funny...

756
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,920
but it was actually
very romantic.

757
00:36:49,921 --> 00:36:51,819
-She can't hear.
-l'm in town.

758
00:36:51,820 --> 00:36:55,620
Norman's meeting me for "Les Mis."
l have a free hour.

759
00:36:55,621 --> 00:36:57,320
l don't know if l can.

760
00:36:57,321 --> 00:37:01,719
l got our usual place at the
Wyndham. lt's been 2 weeks ago.

761
00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:10,221
We gotta be fast. l can't make it
believable for so long.

762
00:37:10,222 --> 00:37:11,920
You'll be back in an hour.

763
00:37:11,921 --> 00:37:13,920
l have to be done by then anyway.

764
00:37:13,921 --> 00:37:19,921
Think l'll take awalk.

765
00:37:19,922 --> 00:37:22,421
Now?

766
00:37:22,422 --> 00:37:25,921
Yes, l thought that l would just...

767
00:37:25,922 --> 00:37:30,822
just get some fresh air.

768
00:37:30,823 --> 00:37:44,823
Okay.

769
00:37:58,124 --> 00:37:59,723
Excuse me.

770
00:37:59,724 --> 00:38:01,723
Are you Harry Block?

771
00:38:01,724 --> 00:38:03,424
Yes.

772
00:38:03,425 --> 00:38:07,223
-Your writing's so meaningful to me.
-Thank you.

773
00:38:07,224 --> 00:38:10,024
l can't believe l'm in
the elevator with you.

774
00:38:10,025 --> 00:38:12,024
lt's no big deal.

775
00:38:12,025 --> 00:38:13,925
Are you staying here?

776
00:38:13,926 --> 00:38:27,124
No. l'm meeting someone.

777
00:38:27,125 --> 00:38:28,925
What is this?

778
00:38:28,926 --> 00:38:30,925
lt's stuck again.

779
00:38:30,926 --> 00:38:34,926
lfthis was one of my stories,
this elevator would get stuck...

780
00:38:34,927 --> 00:38:48,925
and you and l would start a major
affair, and fall in love.

781
00:38:48,926 --> 00:38:51,826
Promise you won't
fall in love with me.

782
00:38:51,827 --> 00:38:53,726
No?

783
00:38:53,727 --> 00:38:56,226
Definitely not.
Not a good idea.

784
00:38:56,227 --> 00:38:57,426
Why?

785
00:38:57,427 --> 00:38:58,526
Because...

786
00:38:58,527 --> 00:39:01,927
l'm too screwed up.

787
00:39:01,928 --> 00:39:03,527
l have...

788
00:39:03,528 --> 00:39:08,327
too many quirks.

789
00:39:08,328 --> 00:39:11,227
l have trouble being faithful.

790
00:39:11,228 --> 00:39:14,127
l have too many phobias.
l'm crazy.

791
00:39:14,128 --> 00:39:17,427
Yeah, but l fell in love with you
before l met you.

792
00:39:17,428 --> 00:39:19,227
When l read you.

793
00:39:19,228 --> 00:39:21,928
Yes, but you fell in love
with my work.

794
00:39:21,929 --> 00:39:24,428
That's a different thing.

795
00:39:24,429 --> 00:39:28,128
l love yourwork.
l love your imagination.

796
00:39:28,129 --> 00:39:29,628
l love it.

797
00:39:29,629 --> 00:39:33,529
But this is not a book.
You know what l mean.

798
00:39:33,530 --> 00:39:38,128
We're not characters
in a fictional thing.

799
00:39:38,129 --> 00:39:40,528
-So don't fall in love with me.
-Kiss me.

800
00:39:40,529 --> 00:39:44,029
-Promise you won't.
-No, kiss me.

801
00:39:44,030 --> 00:39:58,030
l promise.

802
00:40:00,531 --> 00:40:04,930
Thank you.

803
00:40:04,931 --> 00:40:07,931
The subway took forever. Sorry.

804
00:40:07,932 --> 00:40:10,130
You said you weren't coming.

805
00:40:10,131 --> 00:40:11,130
What do you mean?

806
00:40:11,131 --> 00:40:13,131
-We said 10. l'm sure.
-No.

807
00:40:13,132 --> 00:40:15,831
l called last night,
to say l got out of my thing.

808
00:40:15,832 --> 00:40:17,131
You called? When?

809
00:40:17,132 --> 00:40:19,631
At 9.30 last night.
You don't remember?

810
00:40:19,632 --> 00:40:21,331
l interrupted you writing.

811
00:40:21,332 --> 00:40:24,132
-We spoke on the phone.
-Absolutely.

812
00:40:24,133 --> 00:40:26,532
My mind has been playing tricks.

813
00:40:26,533 --> 00:40:28,532
This is Cookie Williams,
Richard.

814
00:40:28,533 --> 00:40:29,832
How ya doing?

815
00:40:29,833 --> 00:40:31,131
What's so special
about this honor?

816
00:40:31,132 --> 00:40:34,032
He's being honored by
the school that expelled him.

817
00:40:34,033 --> 00:40:36,532
lf only Hilly could see me,
he'd be so proud.

818
00:40:36,533 --> 00:40:41,532
lt's sad, but short of kidnapping,
he ain't coming.

819
00:40:41,533 --> 00:40:52,433
Oh, dear!

820
00:40:52,434 --> 00:40:53,732
Dad?

821
00:40:53,733 --> 00:40:56,933
-Hilly, Where you going?
-What are you doing?

822
00:40:56,934 --> 00:40:58,033
Stop it!

823
00:40:58,034 --> 00:40:59,133
lt's an emergency.

824
00:40:59,134 --> 00:41:02,833
What are you doing?
Come on!

825
00:41:02,834 --> 00:41:04,433
You can't do this!

826
00:41:04,434 --> 00:41:08,334
Hilly, get out ofthe car!

827
00:41:08,335 --> 00:41:11,135
Somebody stop this man!
He's a deviant!

828
00:41:11,136 --> 00:41:12,634
Somebody stop him!

829
00:41:12,635 --> 00:41:26,635
Somebody call the police!

830
00:41:40,437 --> 00:41:42,637
-lt's fabulous up here.
-Beautiful.

831
00:41:42,638 --> 00:41:45,136
Look, a ferris wheel!

832
00:41:45,137 --> 00:41:46,935
-Look at the swings!
-Want to go?

833
00:41:46,936 --> 00:41:53,736
Yeah!

834
00:41:53,737 --> 00:41:56,336
Very good!

835
00:41:56,337 --> 00:41:57,937
Would you like this?

836
00:41:57,938 --> 00:42:06,837
Dad, high-five!

837
00:42:06,838 --> 00:42:08,538
You want some ofthis joint?

838
00:42:08,539 --> 00:42:11,238
No. l can't stand that stuff.

839
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,138
You see that place there?

840
00:42:13,139 --> 00:42:15,137
That Red Apple Rest?

841
00:42:15,138 --> 00:42:16,437
Years ago...

842
00:42:16,438 --> 00:42:19,038
my then wife, Jane,
and l...

843
00:42:19,039 --> 00:42:21,938
were coming back from
her sister's house...

844
00:42:21,939 --> 00:42:23,338
and we had a fight.

845
00:42:23,339 --> 00:42:26,838
She had her period, and we
stopped to get water for Midol.

846
00:42:26,839 --> 00:42:28,738
l don't want a child!

847
00:42:28,739 --> 00:42:31,139
And don't bring it up
in front of my parents!

848
00:42:31,140 --> 00:42:34,140
-l don't understand.
-We've discussed it!

849
00:42:34,141 --> 00:42:36,439
-Don't l get a vote?
-You have a child!

850
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,238
-Who l never get to see!
-That's not my fault!

851
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:40,839
l like being a father.

852
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,839
l'm not Lucy. You knew
that when you married me!

853
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,539
So your work means no children.

854
00:42:46,540 --> 00:42:48,539
Since when are you a family man?

855
00:42:48,540 --> 00:42:51,540
Don't think l don't see
you staring at my sister Lucy.

856
00:42:51,541 --> 00:42:52,740
What?

857
00:42:52,741 --> 00:42:54,340
Don't play ignorant.

858
00:42:54,341 --> 00:42:56,141
You watch her walk and sit.

859
00:42:56,142 --> 00:42:58,340
You can't keep
your eyes off hertoes!

860
00:42:58,341 --> 00:43:01,541
Are you fucking nuts?
What are you suggesting?

861
00:43:01,542 --> 00:43:05,941
l wouldn't put it past you if you
wanted to have athing with her.

862
00:43:05,942 --> 00:43:08,540
She's a neurotic, suburban Hausfrau!

863
00:43:08,541 --> 00:43:11,041
l have no interest in her.
Zero. Nothing.

864
00:43:11,042 --> 00:43:13,541
You're level of denial
is a little intense.

865
00:43:13,542 --> 00:43:17,841
You're suffering from
a pre-menstrual nuclear meltdown.

866
00:43:17,842 --> 00:43:20,241
You want a hit?

867
00:43:20,242 --> 00:43:24,442
No. That smoke is killing me.

868
00:43:24,443 --> 00:43:38,443
l'm going to go to the bathroom.
Catch you later.

869
00:43:40,843 --> 00:43:43,143
Cold fish, your third ex-wife.

870
00:43:43,144 --> 00:43:45,543
She never would have made
a good mother.

871
00:43:45,544 --> 00:43:47,344
Who are you?

872
00:43:47,345 --> 00:43:51,743
lt's me. Ken!

873
00:43:51,744 --> 00:43:55,744
Look at this guy! You created me,
now you don't recognize me?

874
00:43:55,745 --> 00:43:58,544
l'm a little bit high because
of her smoke...

875
00:43:58,545 --> 00:44:00,843
How'd you ever
hook up with Jane?

876
00:44:00,844 --> 00:44:04,544
Jane was fine. Jane was just
having her period. She was...

877
00:44:04,545 --> 00:44:06,544
lt wasn't just her period.

878
00:44:06,545 --> 00:44:08,845
She was a cold, selfish woman.

879
00:44:08,846 --> 00:44:13,244
She's so self-involved she doesn't
realize her sister hates her.

880
00:44:13,245 --> 00:44:15,745
How do you know so much?

881
00:44:15,746 --> 00:44:18,345
l'm just you, thinly disguised.

882
00:44:18,346 --> 00:44:22,345
You gave me a little more
maturity and a different name.

883
00:44:22,346 --> 00:44:24,645
Are you saying that l knowthis?

884
00:44:24,646 --> 00:44:26,545
Yes!
That's why you picked her!

885
00:44:26,546 --> 00:44:29,346
So it wouldn't work, and you'd
never have to give up...

886
00:44:29,347 --> 00:44:33,145
sport-fucking and chronic
dissatisfaction and grow up.

887
00:44:33,146 --> 00:44:36,546
l won't stand here and get
lectured by my own creation.

888
00:44:36,547 --> 00:44:38,446
You can't fool me.

889
00:44:38,447 --> 00:44:41,746
l'm not your shrink.
He only knows what you tell him.

890
00:44:41,747 --> 00:44:42,846
l knowthe truth.

891
00:44:42,847 --> 00:44:44,746
And her sister, Lucy.

892
00:44:44,747 --> 00:44:46,947
Another head-case.

893
00:44:46,948 --> 00:44:48,846
You sure can pick them.

894
00:44:48,847 --> 00:44:50,947
But even she was better
than Jane.

895
00:44:50,948 --> 00:44:53,646
More maternal and she loved you.

896
00:44:53,647 --> 00:44:56,747
You weren't there the day your
bomb dropped on her...

897
00:44:56,748 --> 00:45:00,247
but take a look.

898
00:45:00,248 --> 00:45:01,748
He left me!

899
00:45:01,749 --> 00:45:04,047
Our marriage is finished!

900
00:45:04,048 --> 00:45:06,748
l'm sorry to hear that.

901
00:45:06,749 --> 00:45:08,048
You shocked?

902
00:45:08,049 --> 00:45:09,948
Yes and no.

903
00:45:09,949 --> 00:45:13,148
Things have not been very good
for some time.

904
00:45:13,149 --> 00:45:15,647
l knew he played around.

905
00:45:15,648 --> 00:45:17,948
Did you?
You never mentioned that.

906
00:45:17,949 --> 00:45:21,048
l don't like to discuss
my private life.

907
00:45:21,049 --> 00:45:24,248
First suspected Lynn, his editor.
Then l thought...

908
00:45:24,249 --> 00:45:27,849
it might be Allison Davis,
a friend of ours.

909
00:45:27,850 --> 00:45:31,149
l even thought he might have
a crush on you.

910
00:45:31,150 --> 00:45:32,650
Me?

911
00:45:32,651 --> 00:45:36,549
You're beautiful and we've spent
a lot oftime together...

912
00:45:36,550 --> 00:45:38,850
and you two get along very well.

913
00:45:38,851 --> 00:45:43,250
Obviously l knew you never would
in a million years...

914
00:45:43,251 --> 00:45:46,249
but l imagined he longed for you.

915
00:45:46,250 --> 00:45:50,950
l even heard him mention
your name in his sleep once.

916
00:45:50,951 --> 00:45:56,550
My goodness.

917
00:45:56,551 --> 00:45:59,551
That's absurd!

918
00:45:59,552 --> 00:46:02,151
Really!

919
00:46:02,152 --> 00:46:03,952
You're all red!

920
00:46:03,953 --> 00:46:07,950
No!

921
00:46:07,951 --> 00:46:11,751
Are you okay?

922
00:46:11,752 --> 00:46:15,151
Since we're talking openly...

923
00:46:15,152 --> 00:46:18,151
l have a confession to make.

924
00:46:18,152 --> 00:46:22,452
Yes?

925
00:46:22,453 --> 00:46:26,452
Life sometimes takes very
strange twists and turns.

926
00:46:26,453 --> 00:46:29,553
lt overwhelms us, and we can't
help our feelings.

927
00:46:29,554 --> 00:46:31,153
Our feelings are irrational.

928
00:46:31,154 --> 00:46:35,952
But to hear from your husband
that he found another woman!

929
00:46:35,953 --> 00:46:37,452
He said that?

930
00:46:37,453 --> 00:46:45,354
He said his future
is all mapped out.

931
00:46:45,355 --> 00:46:48,053
l'm going to be totally
frank with you.

932
00:46:48,054 --> 00:46:50,954
-Try to hang on and understand.
-What? l'm being replaced.

933
00:46:50,955 --> 00:46:52,954
But it doesn't have to be
a nightmare...

934
00:46:52,955 --> 00:46:55,354
ifwe're all just mature about it.

935
00:46:55,355 --> 00:46:59,154
Replaced by a 25-year-old.

936
00:46:59,155 --> 00:47:01,054
-Excuse me?
-A 25-year-old.

937
00:47:01,055 --> 00:47:06,855
A wanna-be writer. Fay Sexton is her
sexy name.

938
00:47:06,856 --> 00:47:12,155
What's the matter?
Now you're white!

939
00:47:12,156 --> 00:47:17,656
Lucy have you
eaten anything today?

940
00:47:17,657 --> 00:47:20,655
Have a drink.
Finish that.

941
00:47:20,656 --> 00:47:27,456
-How could l believe such a liar.
-l'm weak!

942
00:47:27,457 --> 00:47:29,155
What's wrong?

943
00:47:29,156 --> 00:47:31,655
You'd think he dumped you.

944
00:47:31,656 --> 00:47:34,956
-You feel bad, but can handle it.
-Air!

945
00:47:34,957 --> 00:47:38,257
l'm in shock today, but...

946
00:47:38,258 --> 00:47:40,056
l want to speak to Fay.

947
00:47:40,057 --> 00:47:43,157
lt's Harry Block. l've been trying
to reach her.

948
00:47:43,158 --> 00:47:46,157
No, it's an emergency.
l gotta talk...

949
00:47:46,158 --> 00:47:49,757
Tell her to call me back.
lt's the car number.

950
00:47:49,758 --> 00:47:51,257
Yes. The car!

951
00:47:51,258 --> 00:47:54,657
-She's in love with someone else.
-This guy is too old for her.

952
00:47:54,658 --> 00:47:56,157
Younger than you.

953
00:47:56,158 --> 00:47:58,958
l'm much too old for her.
lt's ridiculous.

954
00:47:58,959 --> 00:48:02,857
-But my immaturity makes me boyish.
-ls it much longer, Dad?

955
00:48:02,858 --> 00:48:05,458
-We just got done at the fair.
-You're speeding.

956
00:48:05,459 --> 00:48:08,458
-About how much longer is it?
-lt won't be long.

957
00:48:08,459 --> 00:48:11,758
Okay, my sister lives
ten minutes from here.

958
00:48:11,759 --> 00:48:13,758
We'll surprise her.
lt'll be fun.

959
00:48:13,759 --> 00:48:16,359
-You can eat and walk around.
-She's your half-sister.

960
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,758
But it'll still be 10 minutes...

961
00:48:18,759 --> 00:48:25,659
not 5, 'cause she's
a half-sister.

962
00:48:25,660 --> 00:48:27,959
lt's wonderful!

963
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:29,760
-lt is so funny.
-Do you think?

964
00:48:29,761 --> 00:48:31,659
-And it's so sad.
-You're so sweet.

965
00:48:31,660 --> 00:48:32,659
l love it.

966
00:48:32,660 --> 00:48:35,060
You're so great.
You're so kind to me.

967
00:48:35,061 --> 00:48:38,960
You have such a sweet,
kind instinct.

968
00:48:38,961 --> 00:48:41,261
Don't do that.

969
00:48:41,262 --> 00:48:43,760
l count on you
to be critical...

970
00:48:43,761 --> 00:48:46,960
to really be tough.
You're too easy on me.

971
00:48:46,961 --> 00:48:48,560
What's wrong with this?

972
00:48:48,561 --> 00:48:50,761
What's wrong is that it had...

973
00:48:50,762 --> 00:48:52,760
it had no energy.

974
00:48:52,761 --> 00:48:54,860
l became discouraged with it.

975
00:48:54,861 --> 00:48:57,561
lt doesn't release any power.
lt's nothing.

976
00:48:57,562 --> 00:49:00,461
l thought it was really touching.

977
00:49:00,462 --> 00:49:04,161
You knew when the boy grew up
he would never learn to love.

978
00:49:04,162 --> 00:49:06,161
l think your problem is...

979
00:49:06,162 --> 00:49:08,762
that you love too easily,
and too much.

980
00:49:08,763 --> 00:49:11,862
l think you're beautiful,
and great...

981
00:49:11,863 --> 00:49:15,261
and too kind to me, and lovely.

982
00:49:15,262 --> 00:49:17,662
But you're not in love with me.

983
00:49:17,663 --> 00:49:21,362
l told you not to fall
in love with me.

984
00:49:21,363 --> 00:49:25,062
But still haven't
figured out why.

985
00:49:25,063 --> 00:49:28,563
Why? Because l'm the boy
in that story...

986
00:49:28,564 --> 00:49:30,463
and l can't love.

987
00:49:30,464 --> 00:49:32,664
So, l don't want you to
get into anything.

988
00:49:32,665 --> 00:49:34,963
You love Hilly.

989
00:49:34,964 --> 00:49:36,362
What?

990
00:49:36,363 --> 00:49:40,363
You love Hilly.

991
00:49:40,364 --> 00:49:42,363
Sure. l love Hilly.

992
00:49:42,364 --> 00:49:46,063
He's my son. lt's easy to love
a little kid.

993
00:49:46,064 --> 00:49:48,164
You love music.

994
00:49:48,165 --> 00:49:50,364
And you love baseball.

995
00:49:50,365 --> 00:49:53,865
Baseball's also easy,
because it has rules, foul lines...

996
00:49:53,866 --> 00:49:58,665
but women are complicated.

997
00:49:58,666 --> 00:50:00,065
Happy birthday.

998
00:50:00,066 --> 00:50:01,565
You're kidding!

999
00:50:01,566 --> 00:50:03,865
Come on, open it up.

1000
00:50:03,866 --> 00:50:06,864
You didn't have to
get me anything.

1001
00:50:06,865 --> 00:50:10,365
Another sweater, right?

1002
00:50:10,366 --> 00:50:13,765
A baseball signed by
the 1951 Giants.

1003
00:50:13,766 --> 00:50:16,065
Really! That's so great!

1004
00:50:16,066 --> 00:50:18,165
Bobby Thomson!

1005
00:50:18,166 --> 00:50:21,066
They were the one genuine miracle
of my lifetime!

1006
00:50:21,067 --> 00:50:22,966
When he hit that home run...

1007
00:50:22,967 --> 00:50:28,466
it was the only hint l've had
there may be a God.

1008
00:50:28,467 --> 00:50:30,666
What made you think of it?

1009
00:50:30,667 --> 00:50:34,166
lt was easy.

1010
00:50:34,167 --> 00:50:35,967
You are the greatest.

1011
00:50:35,968 --> 00:50:38,366
lt's your birthday,
so you get awish.

1012
00:50:38,367 --> 00:50:42,767
Anything at all that'll make
your day special.

1013
00:50:42,768 --> 00:50:46,268
You are the greatest.
l don't deserve you.

1014
00:50:46,269 --> 00:50:47,567
You're too...

1015
00:50:47,568 --> 00:50:56,668
Too what?

1016
00:50:56,669 --> 00:50:59,567
-We thought we'd stop in to see you.
-Come in!

1017
00:50:59,568 --> 00:51:02,368
This is Richard.
This is Cookie.

1018
00:51:02,369 --> 00:51:04,768
l'm your Aunt Doris.
You won't remember me.

1019
00:51:04,769 --> 00:51:06,268
Remember Uncle Burt?

1020
00:51:06,269 --> 00:51:07,968
You haven't seen him
in awhile.

1021
00:51:07,969 --> 00:51:09,368
lt's been a long while.

1022
00:51:09,369 --> 00:51:12,669
Something to eat?
A cookie or something?

1023
00:51:12,670 --> 00:51:14,869
Come in the kitchen.

1024
00:51:14,870 --> 00:51:17,770
l gotta go to the bathroom.
Where's the john?

1025
00:51:17,771 --> 00:51:21,068
The bathroom! You just go right
through there.

1026
00:51:21,069 --> 00:51:25,969
So, l thought we'd drop in.

1027
00:51:25,970 --> 00:51:28,969
You're the last person
l ever expected to see.

1028
00:51:28,970 --> 00:51:30,869
Don't say that, Doris.

1029
00:51:30,870 --> 00:51:33,770
-And what's with Cookie?
-Cookie's the nanny.

1030
00:51:33,771 --> 00:51:36,270
You get her from an agency
or massage parlor?

1031
00:51:36,271 --> 00:51:38,371
What are you picking on...

1032
00:51:38,372 --> 00:51:41,770
Still with the sex pots,
the tramps, the vilda chayes.

1033
00:51:41,771 --> 00:51:43,671
She's got a Ph.D.

1034
00:51:43,672 --> 00:51:47,770
l bet she got an "A" on her
oral exam.

1035
00:51:47,771 --> 00:51:50,170
Give me a break!
l drive upstate...

1036
00:51:50,171 --> 00:51:52,870
and take the time to drop in
to say hello.

1037
00:51:52,871 --> 00:51:56,071
Can you believe they're
honoring me at Adair? l can't.

1038
00:51:56,072 --> 00:51:59,672
Not that l care, but it's great
for Hilly to see me.

1039
00:51:59,673 --> 00:52:02,371
The last time l saw him
he was six years old.

1040
00:52:02,372 --> 00:52:04,772
You don't exactly contact me either.

1041
00:52:04,773 --> 00:52:06,472
l know what you think of me.

1042
00:52:06,473 --> 00:52:08,972
Please Doris, don't start in.

1043
00:52:08,973 --> 00:52:11,272
Am l wrong?
lt's all in your book.

1044
00:52:11,273 --> 00:52:13,771
"Too Jewish",
"professional Jewish".

1045
00:52:13,772 --> 00:52:17,772
You attributed it to your ex-wife,
but used the details of my life...

1046
00:52:17,773 --> 00:52:20,273
to depict herwith contempt.

1047
00:52:20,274 --> 00:52:23,672
-What are you talking about?
-What am l talking about?

1048
00:52:23,673 --> 00:52:25,873
You portrayed your 'ex'
as a horror.

1049
00:52:25,874 --> 00:52:29,473
And to make her unsympathetic,
you used some of her,...

1050
00:52:29,474 --> 00:52:33,273
but mostly you caricatured
my religious dedication.

1051
00:52:33,274 --> 00:52:37,174
Because it always enraged you that
l returned to my roots.

1052
00:52:37,175 --> 00:52:40,573
What roots? You were a wonderful,
sweet kid.

1053
00:52:40,574 --> 00:52:43,673
You got me through my childhood.

1054
00:52:43,674 --> 00:52:45,673
Then you go to Fort Lauderdale...

1055
00:52:45,674 --> 00:52:49,174
and you meet this fanatic,
this zealot.

1056
00:52:49,175 --> 00:52:51,975
He fills you full of superstition.

1057
00:52:51,976 --> 00:52:53,474
lt's tradition.

1058
00:52:53,475 --> 00:52:56,074
Tradition is the illusion
of permanence.

1059
00:52:56,075 --> 00:52:57,875
You have no values.
Your life...

1060
00:52:57,876 --> 00:53:01,375
it's nihilism, cynicism,
sarcasm and orgasm.

1061
00:53:01,376 --> 00:53:05,374
ln France l could run on
that slogan and win.

1062
00:53:05,375 --> 00:53:09,175
l'm aJew. l was born aJew.
Do you hate me because ofthat?

1063
00:53:09,176 --> 00:53:11,375
And if our parents converted...

1064
00:53:11,376 --> 00:53:14,975
to Catholicism a month before you
were born, we'd be Catholics.

1065
00:53:14,976 --> 00:53:18,976
They're clubs.
They're exclusionary.

1066
00:53:18,977 --> 00:53:21,776
They foster the concept of
"the other"...

1067
00:53:21,777 --> 00:53:23,776
so you know who to hate.

1068
00:53:23,777 --> 00:53:25,476
That's enough!

1069
00:53:25,477 --> 00:53:27,977
A question: lf a Jew
gets massacred...

1070
00:53:27,978 --> 00:53:31,177
does it bother you more than
if it's a Gentile...

1071
00:53:31,178 --> 00:53:33,977
or a black or a Bosnian?

1072
00:53:33,978 --> 00:53:36,576
Yes, it does. l can't help it.
lt's my people.

1073
00:53:36,577 --> 00:53:38,276
They're all your people.

1074
00:53:38,277 --> 00:53:42,177
Burt is right about you.
You're a self-hating Jew.

1075
00:53:42,178 --> 00:53:44,977
l may hate myself,
but not because l'm Jewish.

1076
00:53:44,978 --> 00:53:46,577
Not a self-hating Jew,...

1077
00:53:46,578 --> 00:53:50,778
but look how he talks about them
in his stories.

1078
00:53:50,779 --> 00:53:54,179
Max and Dolly Pincus
were married for 30 years.

1079
00:53:54,180 --> 00:53:55,878
They raised two children...

1080
00:53:55,879 --> 00:53:59,678
participated generously at
family weddings and bar mitzvahs.

1081
00:53:59,679 --> 00:54:02,078
Max, How are you?

1082
00:54:02,079 --> 00:54:05,179
Mazel tov. Here, for Donald.

1083
00:54:05,180 --> 00:54:10,979
Thank you, Max.

1084
00:54:10,980 --> 00:54:12,679
Dolly!

1085
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:14,579
You got a private minute?

1086
00:54:14,580 --> 00:54:19,379
Sure. We're leaving anyhow
in a few minutes.

1087
00:54:19,380 --> 00:54:21,280
l don't know if
l should tell you.

1088
00:54:21,281 --> 00:54:23,280
What? Tell me what?

1089
00:54:23,281 --> 00:54:26,080
Tell me, and l'll tell you
if you should tell me.

1090
00:54:26,081 --> 00:54:27,779
My heart is heavy.

1091
00:54:27,780 --> 00:54:31,280
Nothing terrible happened
to your husband Phil, did it?

1092
00:54:31,281 --> 00:54:35,080
He's been dead for so many years.

1093
00:54:35,081 --> 00:54:37,680
When l was in Florida last week...

1094
00:54:37,681 --> 00:54:39,180
l ran into a man...

1095
00:54:39,181 --> 00:54:42,581
who heard from someone
who knew someone who...

1096
00:54:42,582 --> 00:54:43,781
Anyway...

1097
00:54:43,782 --> 00:54:48,081
it seems Max has some secret
from his past.

1098
00:54:48,082 --> 00:54:49,980
You're talking about my Max?

1099
00:54:49,981 --> 00:54:52,081
-A dark secret.
-What kind of a dark secret?

1100
00:54:52,082 --> 00:54:53,081
Dark!

1101
00:54:53,082 --> 00:54:55,381
What is by you dark?

1102
00:54:55,382 --> 00:54:56,581
l don't know.

1103
00:54:56,582 --> 00:55:00,481
What kind of dark secret?
We've been married for 30 years.

1104
00:55:00,482 --> 00:55:02,382
You're his first wife?

1105
00:55:02,383 --> 00:55:04,282
Sure l'm his first wife.

1106
00:55:04,283 --> 00:55:07,182
Before me, he worked for...

1107
00:55:07,183 --> 00:55:08,382
What?

1108
00:55:08,383 --> 00:55:10,782
You heard something different?

1109
00:55:10,783 --> 00:55:13,983
l heard only a dark secret.
Do l knowwhat?

1110
00:55:13,984 --> 00:55:16,582
Who told you?

1111
00:55:16,583 --> 00:55:18,882
Wolf Fishbein.

1112
00:55:18,883 --> 00:55:20,882
Be careful, Dolly.

1113
00:55:20,883 --> 00:55:23,483
That's all l want to say.

1114
00:55:23,484 --> 00:55:26,583
Dolly tried putting Elsie's words
out of her mind...

1115
00:55:26,584 --> 00:55:29,383
but Max's dark secret
plagued her.

1116
00:55:29,384 --> 00:55:32,483
Then one day she ran into
Wolf Fishbein...

1117
00:55:32,484 --> 00:55:34,984
and the truth was revealed.

1118
00:55:34,985 --> 00:55:37,584
Try to breathe deeply.

1119
00:55:37,585 --> 00:55:39,784
Elsie, you were right.

1120
00:55:39,785 --> 00:55:42,683
Fishbein told me a tale.

1121
00:55:42,684 --> 00:55:46,484
Max, before l met him,
lived in Florida.

1122
00:55:46,485 --> 00:55:49,785
He had a store. Groceries.

1123
00:55:49,786 --> 00:55:51,884
He was married.

1124
00:55:51,885 --> 00:55:54,184
Now it comes out!

1125
00:55:54,185 --> 00:55:55,985
To a woman...

1126
00:55:55,986 --> 00:55:57,585
with two children.

1127
00:55:57,586 --> 00:55:59,686
Max had other children?

1128
00:55:59,687 --> 00:56:01,885
No. The woman's children.

1129
00:56:01,886 --> 00:56:06,386
From a prior marriage.

1130
00:56:06,387 --> 00:56:08,286
He began an affair...

1131
00:56:08,287 --> 00:56:11,085
with the downstairs neighbor,
a widow.

1132
00:56:11,086 --> 00:56:13,985
He probably had all his hair then.

1133
00:56:13,986 --> 00:56:16,286
Meanwhile, he got into debt.

1134
00:56:16,287 --> 00:56:19,086
Deeper and deeper.

1135
00:56:19,087 --> 00:56:21,886
And then carry on
with the neighbor.

1136
00:56:21,887 --> 00:56:26,387
Oy, my heart!

1137
00:56:26,388 --> 00:56:29,987
He can't get himself out
of a predicament.

1138
00:56:29,988 --> 00:56:31,887
So what does he do?

1139
00:56:31,888 --> 00:56:33,587
He stole money.

1140
00:56:33,588 --> 00:56:35,586
l should be so lucky!

1141
00:56:35,587 --> 00:56:38,387
He killed his wife!

1142
00:56:38,388 --> 00:56:40,387
No!

1143
00:56:40,388 --> 00:56:42,487
The man purchased an ax.

1144
00:56:42,488 --> 00:56:43,887
With an ax?

1145
00:56:43,888 --> 00:56:46,487
You know Max.
He's nothing with tools.

1146
00:56:46,488 --> 00:56:48,888
He can't even hang a picture.

1147
00:56:48,889 --> 00:56:50,488
l'm dropping dead!

1148
00:56:50,489 --> 00:56:53,288
Plus her children!

1149
00:56:53,289 --> 00:56:55,188
Plus the neighbor!

1150
00:56:55,189 --> 00:56:56,388
Four.

1151
00:56:56,389 --> 00:56:59,389
Four people he killed
in one night with an ax.

1152
00:56:59,390 --> 00:57:01,588
Your Max?

1153
00:57:01,589 --> 00:57:04,688
-And this is not the capper.
-There's more?

1154
00:57:04,689 --> 00:57:07,488
More!

1155
00:57:07,489 --> 00:57:10,389
What more?

1156
00:57:10,390 --> 00:57:12,089
He ate them.

1157
00:57:12,090 --> 00:57:14,689
What, are you talking crazy?

1158
00:57:14,690 --> 00:57:17,089
He devoured them.

1159
00:57:17,090 --> 00:57:20,390
l can't breathe.
Everything is closing in.

1160
00:57:20,391 --> 00:57:22,690
Whatever you do...

1161
00:57:22,691 --> 00:57:25,090
first hear Max's side.

1162
00:57:25,091 --> 00:57:26,690
Max has a side?

1163
00:57:26,691 --> 00:57:29,390
He kills his family
and eats them up.

1164
00:57:29,391 --> 00:57:30,790
The man has a side?

1165
00:57:30,791 --> 00:57:34,690
He was a good husband and
loving father for 30 years.

1166
00:57:34,691 --> 00:57:37,090
You have a daughter who
went to college.

1167
00:57:37,091 --> 00:57:39,891
You have a son who's awriter.

1168
00:57:39,892 --> 00:57:45,191
Maybe the best course of action
is to let sleeping dogs lie.

1169
00:57:45,192 --> 00:57:52,292
Honey, would you
pass the sour cream?

1170
00:57:52,293 --> 00:57:56,091
You haven't touched a thing.

1171
00:57:56,092 --> 00:57:58,391
Nice weather.

1172
00:57:58,392 --> 00:57:59,491
lt's okay.

1173
00:57:59,492 --> 00:58:02,492
lt's not just okay.
lt's nice.

1174
00:58:02,493 --> 00:58:05,992
All right. What are you getting
so steamed up about?

1175
00:58:05,993 --> 00:58:08,592
What makes you such an
authority on the weather?

1176
00:58:08,593 --> 00:58:09,692
Me?

1177
00:58:09,693 --> 00:58:13,193
-All l said was...
-l know what you said.

1178
00:58:13,194 --> 00:58:15,193
The fish is delicious.

1179
00:58:15,194 --> 00:58:17,493
Wouldn't you rather have meat?

1180
00:58:17,494 --> 00:58:19,692
Since when do l eat meat?

1181
00:58:19,693 --> 00:58:24,193
With my arteries, you gotta
watch the cholesterol.

1182
00:58:24,194 --> 00:58:27,193
-Uh-huh.
-What is the "uh-huh"?

1183
00:58:27,194 --> 00:58:30,193
You've been very touchy lately.

1184
00:58:30,194 --> 00:58:32,194
Don't interrogate me...

1185
00:58:32,195 --> 00:58:40,294
Mr. Max Pinchick!

1186
00:58:40,295 --> 00:58:42,495
Where did you hearthat name?

1187
00:58:42,496 --> 00:58:45,594
Did you kill your first wife
with an ax?

1188
00:58:45,595 --> 00:58:47,495
l got a headache.

1189
00:58:47,496 --> 00:58:52,295
Did you chop her up?
Along with your mistress?

1190
00:58:52,296 --> 00:58:53,795
Okay.

1191
00:58:53,796 --> 00:58:57,496
lf l tell you why l did it,
do you promise not to nudge me?

1192
00:58:57,497 --> 00:59:00,995
Wolf Fishbein said,
in orderto hide the bodies...

1193
00:59:00,996 --> 00:59:02,596
you ate them!

1194
00:59:02,597 --> 00:59:05,496
So, what are you making a fuss?

1195
00:59:05,497 --> 00:59:08,097
Some bury,
some burn...

1196
00:59:08,098 --> 00:59:09,996
l ate!

1197
00:59:09,997 --> 00:59:12,595
l remember "Max Pincus's
Dark Secret".

1198
00:59:12,596 --> 00:59:15,796
And you don't see your
sick view of our parents?

1199
00:59:15,797 --> 00:59:17,696
l wrote it when l was young.

1200
00:59:17,697 --> 00:59:20,396
The first of many anti-Semitic
pieces ofwork.

1201
00:59:20,397 --> 00:59:22,596
Direct from the Wailing Wall.

1202
00:59:22,597 --> 00:59:24,297
Disrespectful.
Shameful.

1203
00:59:24,298 --> 00:59:27,997
The Jews haven't suffered enough,
you depict us as cannibals?

1204
00:59:27,998 --> 00:59:31,397
No spiritual center.
He's betting on physics and pussy.

1205
00:59:31,398 --> 00:59:32,997
Excuse the expression.

1206
00:59:32,998 --> 00:59:36,898
He gets cancer, he's straight to
the synagogue in a yarmulke.

1207
00:59:36,899 --> 00:59:39,398
Why should l get cancer?
l eat broccoli.

1208
00:59:39,399 --> 00:59:43,397
You care about the Holocaust?
Or you think it never happened?

1209
00:59:43,398 --> 00:59:45,798
Not only do l know that
we lost 6 million...

1210
00:59:45,799 --> 00:59:49,598
the scary thing is that
records are made to be broken.

1211
00:59:49,599 --> 00:59:51,698
l know what's out there.
Do you?

1212
00:59:51,699 --> 00:59:55,399
He creates offensive Jewish
stereotypes, like in "Der Sturmer".

1213
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,999
Max is a version of Daddy,
who you hated.

1214
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,999
A man you accuse of being
aterrible parent.

1215
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:03,798
He was aterrible parent.

1216
01:00:03,799 --> 01:00:05,399
Thank you for dropping by.

1217
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,799
Come again in another 4 years.

1218
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,600
Wouldn't it be a better world
if not every group...

1219
01:00:10,601 --> 01:00:12,599
thought they had a direct line
to God.

1220
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,900
He thinks l'm all
Jewish paranoia.

1221
01:00:15,901 --> 01:00:18,600
No. l think you're the
opposite of a paranoid.

1222
01:00:18,601 --> 01:00:31,601
l think you have the delusion
that people like you.

1223
01:00:31,602 --> 01:00:33,400
-What's the matter?
-Son of a bitch!

1224
01:00:33,401 --> 01:00:34,800
What's wrong?

1225
01:00:34,801 --> 01:00:36,600
You sick, sick, sick,...

1226
01:00:36,601 --> 01:00:38,401
fucking bastard!

1227
01:00:38,402 --> 01:00:40,001
What's wrong?

1228
01:00:40,002 --> 01:00:44,401
What's wrong? You've been having
an affair with one of my patients.

1229
01:00:44,402 --> 01:00:45,601
Who?

1230
01:00:45,602 --> 01:00:48,402
You know what
l'm talking about!

1231
01:00:48,403 --> 01:00:49,802
Don't speak!

1232
01:00:49,803 --> 01:00:52,102
She just told me
the whole thing.

1233
01:00:52,103 --> 01:00:54,402
-Who?
-Who? Who! Who!

1234
01:00:54,403 --> 01:00:56,601
Mrs. Pollack. Amy Pollack.

1235
01:00:56,602 --> 01:00:58,402
Can l explain something?

1236
01:00:58,403 --> 01:01:01,002
No. You cannot explain anything!

1237
01:01:01,003 --> 01:01:02,402
Will you calm down?

1238
01:01:02,403 --> 01:01:04,602
Don't tell me to calm down!

1239
01:01:04,603 --> 01:01:06,002
What's wrong with you?

1240
01:01:06,003 --> 01:01:07,602
What is wrong?

1241
01:01:07,603 --> 01:01:10,303
l treat this woman
and she exits.

1242
01:01:10,304 --> 01:01:13,103
You meet her and you fuck her!

1243
01:01:13,104 --> 01:01:16,103
Suppose l told you that
my fucking Amy Pollack...

1244
01:01:16,104 --> 01:01:19,304
was a disguised plea for
more closeness with you?

1245
01:01:19,305 --> 01:01:21,404
l'd say you're a mental case!

1246
01:01:21,405 --> 01:01:24,803
This is like your first wife.
You claimed you loved her.

1247
01:01:24,804 --> 01:01:27,503
All the while, you were
having affairs.

1248
01:01:27,504 --> 01:01:30,304
My first wife. l told you...

1249
01:01:30,305 --> 01:01:33,104
we were in bed one night.
l turned off her...

1250
01:01:33,105 --> 01:01:37,004
because the way the light was,
she looked like Max Schmeling.

1251
01:01:37,005 --> 01:01:39,004
What do you want me to say?

1252
01:01:39,005 --> 01:01:42,405
She was pretty, but l couldn't
get an erection after that.

1253
01:01:42,406 --> 01:01:46,205
Stop this tap-dancing.
This is bullshit, understand me?

1254
01:01:46,206 --> 01:01:49,204
With you it's a different story.
You turned off me!

1255
01:01:49,205 --> 01:01:51,705
That's what happened
since Hilly was born.

1256
01:01:51,706 --> 01:01:54,505
We live platonically,
like brother and sister.

1257
01:01:54,506 --> 01:01:56,405
Don't play "blame the victim"!

1258
01:01:56,406 --> 01:01:58,405
What are you talking about?

1259
01:01:58,406 --> 01:02:00,606
l'm as much a victim as you!

1260
01:02:00,607 --> 01:02:02,906
You think getting a blowjob...

1261
01:02:02,907 --> 01:02:06,906
from a big-bosomed 26 year old
is pleasurable for me.

1262
01:02:06,907 --> 01:02:11,207
You're making me sick!
l can't believe this!

1263
01:02:11,208 --> 01:02:14,207
-You're overreacting.
-l'm not overreacting!

1264
01:02:14,208 --> 01:02:17,206
Are you telling me that
every week for 4 months...

1265
01:02:17,207 --> 01:02:19,906
you've been with her in a hotel?

1266
01:02:19,907 --> 01:02:23,207
That's so crazy.
No, of course not!

1267
01:02:23,208 --> 01:02:25,407
l rented an apartment.

1268
01:02:25,408 --> 01:02:29,807
l'm going to kill you!

1269
01:02:29,808 --> 01:02:32,408
Hello, Doctor.
Sorry l'm late.

1270
01:02:32,409 --> 01:02:33,908
Mr. Farber.

1271
01:02:33,909 --> 01:02:47,909
Take off your coat.
Come in.

1272
01:02:49,809 --> 01:02:52,809
l've been losing sleep at night.

1273
01:02:52,810 --> 01:02:55,809
l can't shut my eyes at night.

1274
01:02:55,810 --> 01:03:00,309
l think l should quit my job,
but l can't bring myselfto do it.

1275
01:03:00,310 --> 01:03:03,610
Maybe because my brother-in-law
treats me kindly.

1276
01:03:03,611 --> 01:03:07,809
But working for him is taking
it's toll on me emotionally.

1277
01:03:07,810 --> 01:03:09,609
Could you excuse me?

1278
01:03:09,610 --> 01:03:14,410
What?

1279
01:03:14,411 --> 01:03:16,710
You fucked-up fuck!

1280
01:03:16,711 --> 01:03:20,010
l can't believe you did this.
You fucking asshole!

1281
01:03:20,011 --> 01:03:24,111
You fucked my patient!
You don't fuck somebody's patient.

1282
01:03:24,112 --> 01:03:34,811
Fuck you!

1283
01:03:34,812 --> 01:03:41,111
Continue, Mr. Farber.

1284
01:03:41,112 --> 01:03:44,311
Lost your thread? You were talking
about quitting yourjob.

1285
01:03:44,312 --> 01:03:48,612
Right.

1286
01:03:48,613 --> 01:03:51,312
l discussed it with my wife.

1287
01:03:51,313 --> 01:03:53,712
While she seems to be supportive...

1288
01:03:53,713 --> 01:03:55,913
l know she'd rather l stay on.

1289
01:03:55,914 --> 01:03:58,113
She idolizes Gordon.

1290
01:03:58,114 --> 01:04:02,812
All she does is spend time
with him anyway.

1291
01:04:02,813 --> 01:04:05,812
Excuse me one more second,
Mr. Farber.

1292
01:04:05,813 --> 01:04:06,913
Again?

1293
01:04:06,914 --> 01:04:11,414
Continue. l can hear you
from the hallway. Loudly.

1294
01:04:11,415 --> 01:04:13,113
l want you to get out of here.

1295
01:04:13,114 --> 01:04:15,513
Get all of your
goddamn stuff together...

1296
01:04:15,514 --> 01:04:17,414
and get out of here.

1297
01:04:17,415 --> 01:04:21,314
l cannot understand why
the most sophisticated of women...

1298
01:04:21,315 --> 01:04:23,214
can't tell the difference between...

1299
01:04:23,215 --> 01:04:26,013
a meaningless, hot, passionate
sexual affair...

1300
01:04:26,014 --> 01:04:29,114
and a nice, solid, tranquil,
routine marriage.

1301
01:04:29,115 --> 01:04:32,415
Tell me, was she the only one,
orwere there others?

1302
01:04:32,416 --> 01:04:35,914
Amy Pollack was the only one.
May God strike me dead if l lie.

1303
01:04:35,915 --> 01:04:38,415
You're an atheist, Harry!

1304
01:04:38,416 --> 01:04:42,515
We're alone in the universe.
Gonna blame that on me too?

1305
01:04:42,516 --> 01:04:44,815
You turned off me first.

1306
01:04:44,816 --> 01:04:47,115
Oh, please!

1307
01:04:47,116 --> 01:04:50,216
No. l gave birth.
When women give birth...

1308
01:04:50,217 --> 01:04:54,115
there's a period when
their hormones go crazy.

1309
01:04:54,116 --> 01:04:55,915
But they settle.

1310
01:04:55,916 --> 01:04:59,416
So, if you're telling me
you're settling, l accept that.

1311
01:04:59,417 --> 01:05:01,016
You accept that!

1312
01:05:01,017 --> 01:05:03,517
You are so fucking nuts!

1313
01:05:03,518 --> 01:05:05,116
Take it easy!

1314
01:05:05,117 --> 01:05:08,016
lf you're not happy
in a marriage...

1315
01:05:08,017 --> 01:05:09,717
you don't cheat.

1316
01:05:09,718 --> 01:05:11,617
And with my patient!

1317
01:05:11,618 --> 01:05:14,218
That is a sacred trust!
My patient!

1318
01:05:14,219 --> 01:05:16,117
What do you want?
Who else do l meet?

1319
01:05:16,118 --> 01:05:19,617
l'm working here. We have the baby.
You're always practising.

1320
01:05:19,618 --> 01:05:21,617
We never socialize.

1321
01:05:21,618 --> 01:05:23,317
So now you're blaming me...

1322
01:05:23,318 --> 01:05:25,717
because we don't go out
enough places where you can...

1323
01:05:25,718 --> 01:05:32,118
meet strangers to fuck!

1324
01:05:32,119 --> 01:05:34,418
l was merely explaining...

1325
01:05:34,419 --> 01:05:36,818
why my choice, of necessity,...

1326
01:05:36,819 --> 01:05:40,419
is confined to your practice.

1327
01:05:40,420 --> 01:05:43,618
l knew you were mentally ill
before we were married...

1328
01:05:43,619 --> 01:05:49,918
but l thought, as atrained
professional, l could help you.

1329
01:05:49,919 --> 01:05:55,719
Now, please don't get down
on yourself as a therapist.

1330
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:59,419
Get your shit and your
goddamn clothes...

1331
01:05:59,420 --> 01:06:01,620
and get the fuck out of here!

1332
01:06:01,621 --> 01:06:04,220
You are the most
irresponsible person...

1333
01:06:04,221 --> 01:06:06,221
l've seen in my entire life!

1334
01:06:06,222 --> 01:06:11,019
Get out!

1335
01:06:11,020 --> 01:06:14,220
Continue, Mr. Farber.

1336
01:06:14,221 --> 01:06:15,520
Doctor!

1337
01:06:15,521 --> 01:06:25,921
And l mean tonight,
motherfucker!

1338
01:06:25,922 --> 01:06:35,022
Dad! My Pepsi!

1339
01:06:35,023 --> 01:06:39,121
So you got even with your
exwife and sister and l was born.

1340
01:06:39,122 --> 01:06:40,321
What do you mean?

1341
01:06:40,322 --> 01:06:42,922
From your pen. From your
fertile imagination.

1342
01:06:42,923 --> 01:06:44,622
And l mean, imagination.

1343
01:06:44,623 --> 01:06:46,522
l wasn't getting even with Joan.

1344
01:06:46,523 --> 01:06:49,322
You created me as the
shrewish, Jewish hybrid...

1345
01:06:49,323 --> 01:06:51,022
who goes off with a patient.

1346
01:06:51,023 --> 01:06:53,923
An Orthodox divorcee
from Tel Aviv.

1347
01:06:53,924 --> 01:06:57,423
She shouldn't have married Burt.
He's turned her into a zealot.

1348
01:06:57,424 --> 01:07:00,823
She loves you. lt's not her fault
your father persecuted you.

1349
01:07:00,824 --> 01:07:03,122
She was fine until
she wound up...

1350
01:07:03,123 --> 01:07:05,623
with this right-wing hawk.

1351
01:07:05,624 --> 01:07:08,823
So she disappointed you
in her choice of husbands?

1352
01:07:08,824 --> 01:07:10,723
Fuck you! She loves Burt.

1353
01:07:10,724 --> 01:07:13,423
She was a great kid.
She had a flair for physics.

1354
01:07:13,424 --> 01:07:14,924
Suddenly, she's kosher.

1355
01:07:14,925 --> 01:07:16,424
She loves you still...

1356
01:07:16,425 --> 01:07:19,124
despite your condescension
towards her life.

1357
01:07:19,125 --> 01:07:20,324
Does she love me?

1358
01:07:20,325 --> 01:07:22,924
Want to hearwhat
she says about you?

1359
01:07:22,925 --> 01:07:26,025
He's not so bad.
He was a very good brother.

1360
01:07:26,026 --> 01:07:28,824
But Father never forgave him
when his wife died.

1361
01:07:28,825 --> 01:07:31,724
The man is not aJewish man,
that's all!

1362
01:07:31,725 --> 01:07:33,024
All right!

1363
01:07:33,025 --> 01:07:35,625
Poor Harry, he was always lost.

1364
01:07:35,626 --> 01:07:39,625
He never accepted there are
some things you can't know.

1365
01:07:39,626 --> 01:07:42,725
The man is incapable
of an act of faith.

1366
01:07:42,726 --> 01:07:44,725
Forthat, l pity him.

1367
01:07:44,726 --> 01:07:47,426
l'd like to hug him,
like when we were kids.

1368
01:07:47,427 --> 01:07:50,726
lf l was upset, he was
a real comfort to me.

1369
01:07:50,727 --> 01:07:52,926
What happens to us?

1370
01:07:52,927 --> 01:07:56,226
She can't hear you.

1371
01:07:56,227 --> 01:07:58,126
And as for Joan...

1372
01:07:58,127 --> 01:08:00,026
Joan hates me.

1373
01:08:00,027 --> 01:08:01,627
Shouldn't she?

1374
01:08:01,628 --> 01:08:04,226
Why? Because l was unfaithful?

1375
01:08:04,227 --> 01:08:07,627
No, because when she caught you,
you weren't a man.

1376
01:08:07,628 --> 01:08:10,227
You turned into this
double-talking,

1377
01:08:10,228 --> 01:08:12,627
wise-cracking, tap-dancing liar.

1378
01:08:12,628 --> 01:08:16,227
lf she hadn't been so enraged,
we might have patched things up.

1379
01:08:16,228 --> 01:08:18,128
Listen to him delude himself!

1380
01:08:18,129 --> 01:08:20,427
Maybe it had tapered a bit
after Hilly was born...

1381
01:08:20,428 --> 01:08:22,428
but you had sex pretty regularly.

1382
01:08:22,429 --> 01:08:24,827
l've no idea why l
took up with her patient.

1383
01:08:24,828 --> 01:08:27,227
She was available and adorable.

1384
01:08:27,228 --> 01:08:29,428
My marriage was droning on.

1385
01:08:29,429 --> 01:08:32,028
What you call "droning on",
most people would call "working".

1386
01:08:32,029 --> 01:08:34,328
lf that's "working",
marriage isn't for me.

1387
01:08:34,329 --> 01:08:35,828
lt's not for everyone.

1388
01:08:35,829 --> 01:08:38,129
But then l get lonely.

1389
01:08:38,130 --> 01:08:40,029
What do you want me to say?

1390
01:08:40,030 --> 01:08:43,430
She gave me Hilly and for that
l'm eternally grateful...

1391
01:08:43,431 --> 01:08:45,529
'cause l love him so much.

1392
01:08:45,530 --> 01:08:47,328
You can have any one you want.

1393
01:08:47,329 --> 01:08:48,429
Can l get two?

1394
01:08:48,430 --> 01:08:50,929
Tell you what,
you can get three presents.

1395
01:08:50,930 --> 01:08:54,629
Pick any three presents you want.
Satisfied?

1396
01:08:54,630 --> 01:08:56,629
Look what l found.

1397
01:08:56,630 --> 01:08:58,029
lsn't that cool?

1398
01:08:58,030 --> 01:09:01,930
This is the chemistry set
you always wanted. lt's perfect.

1399
01:09:01,931 --> 01:09:09,631
Don't open it yet.
Let me buy it first.

1400
01:09:09,632 --> 01:09:12,031
Larry! What are you doing here?

1401
01:09:12,032 --> 01:09:14,030
Buying my nephew
a Power Ranger.

1402
01:09:14,031 --> 01:09:19,931
-When did you get back?
-A couple of days ago.

1403
01:09:19,932 --> 01:09:22,231
This is Larry.
l told you about Larry.

1404
01:09:22,232 --> 01:09:25,032
He's an old friend,
colleague, peer.

1405
01:09:25,033 --> 01:09:27,431
-So you got back, when?
-Two days ago.

1406
01:09:27,432 --> 01:09:29,831
l took a boat trip
down the Amazon.

1407
01:09:29,832 --> 01:09:31,532
-Sounds exciting.
-Unbelievable.

1408
01:09:31,533 --> 01:09:33,232
lf you don't mind malaria.

1409
01:09:33,233 --> 01:09:36,932
Butterflies the size of doves.
Never seen anything like it.

1410
01:09:36,933 --> 01:09:39,231
l can live without that.

1411
01:09:39,232 --> 01:09:41,132
lt was astounding.

1412
01:09:41,133 --> 01:09:42,332
Sounds it.

1413
01:09:42,333 --> 01:09:44,232
So you got back two days ago?

1414
01:09:44,233 --> 01:09:45,933
We go back a long way.

1415
01:09:45,934 --> 01:09:48,532
We both wanted to be Kafka.

1416
01:09:48,533 --> 01:09:51,133
You got slightly closer
than l did.

1417
01:09:51,134 --> 01:09:53,133
Yeah. l became the insect.

1418
01:09:53,134 --> 01:09:56,534
l'm very excited.
l'm amazed.

1419
01:09:56,535 --> 01:09:58,033
We should go out.

1420
01:09:58,034 --> 01:10:01,533
Why not come to my house
in East Hampton for a weekend?

1421
01:10:01,534 --> 01:10:04,134
Let's not get hysterical.

1422
01:10:04,135 --> 01:10:07,034
-l'd love to. lt'd be fun.
-lt's beautiful.

1423
01:10:07,035 --> 01:10:09,433
lt's sand in the crotch, ticks...

1424
01:10:09,434 --> 01:10:11,533
You get this guy
to leave his room.

1425
01:10:11,534 --> 01:10:12,934
He's never had atan.

1426
01:10:12,935 --> 01:10:15,434
l've always wanted
to learn how to snorkel.

1427
01:10:15,435 --> 01:10:19,334
Snorkel! Where he lives,
there are sharks.

1428
01:10:19,335 --> 01:10:22,735
You see photos of guys
with stumps for legs and arms.

1429
01:10:22,736 --> 01:10:25,235
-Am l lying?
-Yes. lt's fabulous there.

1430
01:10:25,236 --> 01:10:26,635
l'll take you to dinner.

1431
01:10:26,636 --> 01:10:28,635
No! We'll take you to dinner.

1432
01:10:28,636 --> 01:10:31,134
l'll tell you about the Amazon.

1433
01:10:31,135 --> 01:10:33,435
l'd love to hear it.
Sounds amazing.

1434
01:10:33,436 --> 01:10:36,135
l'm writing a novel.
l'll tell you about it.

1435
01:10:36,136 --> 01:10:38,835
l'm not into the Amazon.
Know what the Amazon is?

1436
01:10:38,836 --> 01:10:42,035
Tiny little heads with
lips sewn together.

1437
01:10:42,036 --> 01:10:45,636
Can you picture him this way?

1438
01:10:45,637 --> 01:10:48,436
We'll take you to dinner tonight.

1439
01:10:48,437 --> 01:10:51,936
l'm single, available,
with the soul of a black man!

1440
01:10:51,937 --> 01:10:54,837
l smell sulfur.
Do you smell sulfur?

1441
01:10:54,838 --> 01:10:58,036
Hilly, did you open
the chemistry set?

1442
01:10:58,037 --> 01:11:00,836
Look!
We're almost there.

1443
01:11:00,837 --> 01:11:02,236
Hilly, wake up.

1444
01:11:02,237 --> 01:11:05,237
Wake up. We're almost
at the university.

1445
01:11:05,238 --> 01:11:08,337
Dad's being honored.
Limited as my curriculum was.

1446
01:11:08,338 --> 01:11:12,837
-Richard, we're there. 5 minutes.
-Wake up.

1447
01:11:12,838 --> 01:11:14,237
Something's wrong.

1448
01:11:14,238 --> 01:11:15,438
What's the matter?

1449
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:17,538
l don't think he's breathing!

1450
01:11:17,539 --> 01:11:18,838
He's dead!

1451
01:11:18,839 --> 01:11:20,039
What?

1452
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:23,937
l was at the doctor's with him.
They said his heart was fine.

1453
01:11:23,938 --> 01:11:25,438
l'm scared.

1454
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:26,938
Don't be scared, Hilly.

1455
01:11:26,939 --> 01:11:28,338
l'm fine, Dad.

1456
01:11:28,339 --> 01:11:32,038
Death is a natural part of life.
You have to embrace them both.

1457
01:11:32,039 --> 01:11:33,438
What are we gonna do?

1458
01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:35,839
l don't know.
Get back in the car.

1459
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:42,139
l don't want to
sit next to him.

1460
01:11:42,140 --> 01:11:45,739
Welcome to Adair University.
l'm Professor Higgins.

1461
01:11:45,740 --> 01:11:49,339
We certainly hope you had
a very pleasant trip here.

1462
01:11:49,340 --> 01:11:51,239
Would you like some refreshments?

1463
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:52,939
ls he all right?

1464
01:11:52,940 --> 01:11:56,239
He's dead. You got one of
them rubber bags?

1465
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:59,140
We've made arrangements
forthe body...

1466
01:11:59,141 --> 01:12:02,940
to be delivered to New York City.

1467
01:12:02,941 --> 01:12:07,441
l don't think he has
any immediate family.

1468
01:12:07,442 --> 01:12:08,841
lf you prefer,...

1469
01:12:08,842 --> 01:12:12,041
we can call off the proceedings.

1470
01:12:12,042 --> 01:12:13,941
-l think that's the best idea.
-No!

1471
01:12:13,942 --> 01:12:15,640
l do.

1472
01:12:15,641 --> 01:12:23,641
He'll be all right.
He's here for a purpose.

1473
01:12:23,642 --> 01:12:27,941
l'll see that...

1474
01:12:27,942 --> 01:12:30,342
the funeral comes off.

1475
01:12:30,343 --> 01:12:32,642
l'll see that he's buried...

1476
01:12:32,643 --> 01:12:33,842
properly.

1477
01:12:33,843 --> 01:12:38,042
l understand.

1478
01:12:38,043 --> 01:12:40,643
Poor Richard!

1479
01:12:40,644 --> 01:12:44,942
The poor guy!

1480
01:12:44,943 --> 01:12:47,142
l'm not gonna make it.
l can't go on.

1481
01:12:47,143 --> 01:12:49,443
Not if you keep drinking
and popping those pills.

1482
01:12:49,444 --> 01:12:50,943
l can't believe this.

1483
01:12:50,944 --> 01:12:54,444
My school honors me. l turn up
with a hooker and a dead body.

1484
01:12:54,445 --> 01:12:58,343
Take it easy. You're getting
all wound up about nothing.

1485
01:12:58,344 --> 01:12:59,444
Look at me.

1486
01:12:59,445 --> 01:13:01,644
Look! l'm out of focus!

1487
01:13:01,645 --> 01:13:04,244
You look a little pale,
but you're all right.

1488
01:13:04,245 --> 01:13:06,144
l'm out of focus. l'm soft!

1489
01:13:06,145 --> 01:13:09,143
Calm down. They'll be here
any minute.

1490
01:13:09,144 --> 01:13:12,544
lt's humiliating. They're gonna
honor me and l'm a blob.

1491
01:13:12,545 --> 01:13:14,344
You look fine.

1492
01:13:14,345 --> 01:13:16,844
l'll be sitting
on the dais there, eating.

1493
01:13:16,845 --> 01:13:18,644
They'll get seasick
and throw up.

1494
01:13:18,645 --> 01:13:20,845
Hold my hand.
Now, relax.

1495
01:13:20,846 --> 01:13:23,445
You wanted your son
to see you get honored...

1496
01:13:23,446 --> 01:13:25,646
and now you're acting
like a jackass.

1497
01:13:25,647 --> 01:13:28,445
But don't you see?
l'm a huge blur.

1498
01:13:28,446 --> 01:13:30,545
You're gonna be all right.
l'll talk you down.

1499
01:13:30,546 --> 01:13:34,345
l've seen all kinds of guys O.D.
Heroin, acid, crack.

1500
01:13:34,346 --> 01:13:36,945
l didn't take any ofthat.
l have nothing.

1501
01:13:36,946 --> 01:13:38,545
But you're a pill popper.

1502
01:13:38,546 --> 01:13:40,145
That's not what it is.

1503
01:13:40,146 --> 01:13:42,346
lt's me. l'm OD'ing on myself.

1504
01:13:42,347 --> 01:13:44,246
-l'm a shit.
-Have some coffee.

1505
01:13:44,247 --> 01:13:46,446
l don't want any coffee.
l'm a shit.

1506
01:13:46,447 --> 01:13:47,946
Talk to me about something.

1507
01:13:47,947 --> 01:13:49,346
You like sports?

1508
01:13:49,347 --> 01:13:51,546
Sports? Yeah.
l was a pitcher.

1509
01:13:51,547 --> 01:13:54,447
When the guy crowded the plate,
l'd throw at his head.

1510
01:13:54,448 --> 01:13:56,147
l'm the worst person
in the world.

1511
01:13:56,148 --> 01:13:59,447
-Honey, l've seen worse.
-Who's worse than me?

1512
01:13:59,448 --> 01:14:01,246
Hitler!

1513
01:14:01,247 --> 01:14:04,847
Maybe Hitler, Goering
and Goebbels, but l'm fourth.

1514
01:14:04,848 --> 01:14:06,847
Come on. Hold my hand.

1515
01:14:06,848 --> 01:14:09,547
-Can you feel my hand?
-Yes, it's warm.

1516
01:14:09,548 --> 01:14:12,347
See? lt's just panic.
You're not a blob.

1517
01:14:12,348 --> 01:14:14,648
l'm going to get over this.

1518
01:14:14,649 --> 01:14:16,648
l'm having a panic attack.

1519
01:14:16,649 --> 01:14:18,948
What sports do you like?

1520
01:14:18,949 --> 01:14:22,448
l like them all. l like baseball,
l like basketball.

1521
01:14:22,449 --> 01:14:26,648
l was married to a woman
who looked like Max Schmeling.

1522
01:14:26,649 --> 01:14:29,148
No, l'm not joking.

1523
01:14:29,149 --> 01:14:30,848
All right. lt's time.

1524
01:14:30,849 --> 01:14:33,849
l can't get through this
without you. l mean it.

1525
01:14:33,850 --> 01:14:35,449
Don't worry about it.

1526
01:14:35,450 --> 01:14:38,249
-lf you didn't come with me...
-Don't worry. Come on.

1527
01:14:38,250 --> 01:14:40,149
Straighten up.

1528
01:14:40,150 --> 01:14:42,349
l gotta get atie.
l gotta get my tie.

1529
01:14:42,350 --> 01:14:47,950
All right. Let's go.

1530
01:14:47,951 --> 01:14:51,150
Are you ready to be
immortalized by Adair?

1531
01:14:51,151 --> 01:14:54,449
We all know your work and characters.
Even the obscure ones.

1532
01:14:54,450 --> 01:15:00,650
Good reading is
a creative act.

1533
01:15:00,651 --> 01:15:02,150
Are you working on anything...

1534
01:15:02,151 --> 01:15:04,450
something we can
sink our teeth into?

1535
01:15:04,451 --> 01:15:06,451
l'm in the midst of writing...

1536
01:15:06,452 --> 01:15:10,252
a thing on the Devil
who kidnaps a man's true love...

1537
01:15:10,253 --> 01:15:12,851
and takes her down to Hell...

1538
01:15:12,852 --> 01:15:14,451
and he goes to retrieve her.

1539
01:15:14,452 --> 01:15:16,352
Since it's Hell, l'm able to...

1540
01:15:16,353 --> 01:15:18,951
settle lots of old scores.

1541
01:15:18,952 --> 01:15:20,752
What's the man like?

1542
01:15:20,753 --> 01:15:23,551
lt's me, thinly disguised.

1543
01:15:23,552 --> 01:15:27,652
ln fact, l don't think l should
disguise it anymore.

1544
01:15:27,653 --> 01:15:30,252
lt's me.

1545
01:15:30,253 --> 01:15:31,652
Floor five...

1546
01:15:31,653 --> 01:15:35,852
muggers, aggressive panhandlers
and bookcritics.

1547
01:15:35,853 --> 01:15:37,053
Floor six...

1548
01:15:37,054 --> 01:15:41,854
right wing extremists, killers,
lawyers who appearon TV.

1549
01:15:41,855 --> 01:15:43,053
Floor seven...

1550
01:15:43,054 --> 01:15:44,453
the media.

1551
01:15:44,454 --> 01:15:46,752
Sorry, that floor is
all filled up.

1552
01:15:46,753 --> 01:15:47,953
Floor eight...

1553
01:15:47,954 --> 01:15:51,853
escaped war criminals,
TV evangelists and the NRA.

1554
01:15:51,854 --> 01:15:53,253
Lowest level...

1555
01:15:53,254 --> 01:16:07,254
everybody off.

1556
01:16:24,656 --> 01:16:26,155
What did you do?

1557
01:16:26,156 --> 01:16:40,156
l invented aluminum siding.

1558
01:16:44,658 --> 01:16:45,656
Dad!

1559
01:16:45,657 --> 01:16:47,756
Get me out. This is terrible.

1560
01:16:47,757 --> 01:16:49,757
You know how l hate
hot weather.

1561
01:16:49,758 --> 01:16:51,257
What is he doing here?

1562
01:16:51,258 --> 01:16:53,457
He's condemned to
eternal suffering.

1563
01:16:53,458 --> 01:16:54,657
Help me!

1564
01:16:54,658 --> 01:16:57,857
l don't understand.
l demand to know the charges.

1565
01:16:57,858 --> 01:17:00,458
"Behaved unconscionably
toward his son.

1566
01:17:00,459 --> 01:17:04,057
Said the boy committed a
capital crime by being born."

1567
01:17:04,058 --> 01:17:06,157
Your wife, they told me,
is dead.

1568
01:17:06,158 --> 01:17:08,657
But your son, he's thriving.

1569
01:17:08,658 --> 01:17:12,358
Why did he fight
not to be born?

1570
01:17:12,359 --> 01:17:14,958
Look, l forgive him.

1571
01:17:14,959 --> 01:17:17,358
What's over is over.

1572
01:17:17,359 --> 01:17:20,658
lt's finished. Let him
go to heaven, please.

1573
01:17:20,659 --> 01:17:23,859
l'm a Jew! We don't
believe in heaven.

1574
01:17:23,860 --> 01:17:26,959
-Where do you want to go?
-To a Chinese restaurant.

1575
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:40,960
Take him to Joy Luck.
l love him despite everything.

1576
01:17:51,061 --> 01:17:54,561
Looking for someone?

1577
01:17:54,562 --> 01:17:56,360
l'm here to get Fay.

1578
01:17:56,361 --> 01:17:58,160
She's not coming with you.

1579
01:17:58,161 --> 01:18:01,460
Because you're the head
of the underworld...

1580
01:18:01,461 --> 01:18:04,361
you can abduct her
and get away with it?

1581
01:18:04,362 --> 01:18:06,061
l'm going to kidnap her back.

1582
01:18:06,062 --> 01:18:09,161
-What are you laughing at?
-You match your powers against mine?

1583
01:18:09,162 --> 01:18:11,661
-You want to knowwhy?
-Yeah, l do.

1584
01:18:11,662 --> 01:18:14,162
l'm sorry. Forgive me
for laughing.

1585
01:18:14,163 --> 01:18:17,162
Why?

1586
01:18:17,163 --> 01:18:19,862
l'm more powerful because
l'm a bigger sinner.

1587
01:18:19,863 --> 01:18:22,661
Because you're a fallen angel...

1588
01:18:22,662 --> 01:18:26,262
and l never believed in
God or Heaven of any of it.

1589
01:18:26,263 --> 01:18:30,162
l'm strictly quarks
and particles and black holes.

1590
01:18:30,163 --> 01:18:32,862
All the other stuff
is junk to me.

1591
01:18:32,863 --> 01:18:34,863
And also l do terrible things.

1592
01:18:34,864 --> 01:18:38,263
l've cheated on all my wives
and none ofthem deserved it.

1593
01:18:38,264 --> 01:18:40,163
l sleep with whores.

1594
01:18:40,164 --> 01:18:42,563
l drink too much and
l take pills...

1595
01:18:42,564 --> 01:18:45,764
and l lie and l'm
vain and cowardly...

1596
01:18:45,765 --> 01:18:48,463
and l'm prone to violence.

1597
01:18:48,464 --> 01:18:51,963
l once almost ran over
a book critic.

1598
01:18:51,964 --> 01:18:53,663
But l swerved at the last second.

1599
01:18:53,664 --> 01:18:55,764
You ever had two women at once?

1600
01:18:55,765 --> 01:18:58,464
Yes, l did. And l'll tell you
something else.

1601
01:18:58,465 --> 01:19:01,664
l didn't care it was exploitive.
And something else...

1602
01:19:01,665 --> 01:19:03,664
-They were sisters.
-Really?

1603
01:19:03,665 --> 01:19:06,265
Yes! They were two
blond WASP sisters.

1604
01:19:06,266 --> 01:19:10,265
-Not the Sherman twins?
-Yes, the Sherman twins!

1605
01:19:10,266 --> 01:19:11,465
They're here.

1606
01:19:11,466 --> 01:19:13,365
The Sherman twins are here?

1607
01:19:13,366 --> 01:19:15,764
Unbelievable!
Do you know Sandra Pepkin?

1608
01:19:15,765 --> 01:19:19,265
Do l know Sandra Pepkin? Only the
best blowjob in the Hadassah.

1609
01:19:19,266 --> 01:19:21,266
So, if you know
Sandra Pepkin...

1610
01:19:21,267 --> 01:19:24,365
l fucked her best friend,
the cripple. Pearl.

1611
01:19:24,366 --> 01:19:26,466
-Pearl in the wheelchair?
-Exactly.

1612
01:19:26,467 --> 01:19:28,966
Speaking of handicaps,
do you know Marie Taylor?

1613
01:19:28,967 --> 01:19:32,566
Yes, but her l don't count.
Marie Taylor is dyslexic.

1614
01:19:32,567 --> 01:19:34,666
She put her Tampax
in her nose.

1615
01:19:34,667 --> 01:19:38,267
-Ever fuck a blind girl?
-No, that l never did.

1616
01:19:38,268 --> 01:19:40,366
Oh, they're so grateful.

1617
01:19:40,367 --> 01:19:42,566
-Would you like a drink?
-You're terrible.

1618
01:19:42,567 --> 01:19:44,866
Could l get some tequila?

1619
01:19:44,867 --> 01:19:47,567
l've got great tequila.
Make yourself at home.

1620
01:19:47,568 --> 01:19:49,167
Want the air conditioner on?

1621
01:19:49,168 --> 01:19:52,467
-You're air-conditioned here?
-Sure. Fucks up the ozone layer.

1622
01:19:52,468 --> 01:19:54,867
l could be very comfortable here.

1623
01:19:54,868 --> 01:19:57,667
l'll tell you something:
l love it here.

1624
01:19:57,668 --> 01:19:59,568
l wouldn't be any place else.

1625
01:19:59,569 --> 01:20:01,168
-There you go.
-Thank you.

1626
01:20:01,169 --> 01:20:05,268
l've had job offers in your world,
but why be an employee?

1627
01:20:05,269 --> 01:20:07,167
Here, l'm my own boss.
l'm free.

1628
01:20:07,168 --> 01:20:08,568
What jobs did they offer?

1629
01:20:08,569 --> 01:20:10,968
For two years l ran
a Hollywood studio...

1630
01:20:10,969 --> 01:20:12,868
but you can't trust those people.

1631
01:20:12,869 --> 01:20:15,268
l agree. Better to rule
down here...

1632
01:20:15,269 --> 01:20:17,868
than to serve in heaven.
That's Milton.

1633
01:20:17,869 --> 01:20:21,169
To evil!
lt keeps everything humming.

1634
01:20:21,170 --> 01:20:23,069
So you kidnapped Fay?

1635
01:20:23,070 --> 01:20:24,070
Yes, l did.

1636
01:20:24,071 --> 01:20:27,069
Some women are turned on
by aggressive behavior.

1637
01:20:27,070 --> 01:20:29,470
So, if l kidnapped her back?

1638
01:20:29,471 --> 01:20:30,570
You, kidnap?

1639
01:20:30,571 --> 01:20:32,869
Not your style.
You're not a fun guy.

1640
01:20:32,870 --> 01:20:35,869
You're too serious.
Too angry at life.

1641
01:20:35,870 --> 01:20:37,469
l got a lot to be angry at.

1642
01:20:37,470 --> 01:20:38,469
Who doesn't?

1643
01:20:38,470 --> 01:20:41,070
But sooner or later,
you gotta back off.

1644
01:20:41,071 --> 01:20:44,070
lt's like Vegas.
You're up, you're down.

1645
01:20:44,071 --> 01:20:46,670
But in the end,
the house always wins.

1646
01:20:46,671 --> 01:20:48,770
Doesn't mean you
didn't have fun.

1647
01:20:48,771 --> 01:20:51,671
No, one thing you're not
is a kidnapper.

1648
01:20:51,672 --> 01:20:53,571
Kidnapper!

1649
01:20:53,572 --> 01:20:55,071
Listen to me!

1650
01:20:55,072 --> 01:20:58,970
Out of my way! Can't you see
you're with a kidnapper!

1651
01:20:58,971 --> 01:21:02,571
You're going to have to
come with me.

1652
01:21:02,572 --> 01:21:05,071
You're under arrest, Mr. Block

1653
01:21:05,072 --> 01:21:07,071
l gotta put the cuffs on you.

1654
01:21:07,072 --> 01:21:11,872
-He's about to be honored.
-How can l kidnap my own son?

1655
01:21:11,873 --> 01:21:13,872
We got drugs!

1656
01:21:13,873 --> 01:21:16,772
Let me go, bitch!
Let me go!

1657
01:21:16,773 --> 01:21:21,973
-Get them in the car.
-Get off me, bitch!

1658
01:21:21,974 --> 01:21:24,173
Can't l be honored,
then arrested?

1659
01:21:24,174 --> 01:21:27,272
We can't do that. Sorry.

1660
01:21:27,273 --> 01:21:28,872
Kidnapping.

1661
01:21:28,873 --> 01:21:32,373
Prostitute in your car
in possession of marijuana.

1662
01:21:32,374 --> 01:21:35,173
Possession of an
unlicensed firearm.

1663
01:21:35,174 --> 01:21:39,273
l told you about the firearm.
A crazy woman shot at me.

1664
01:21:39,274 --> 01:21:42,974
l got it away from her.
l was gonna hand it in.

1665
01:21:42,975 --> 01:21:45,674
-l gotta make a phone call.
-You made your call.

1666
01:21:45,675 --> 01:21:49,174
Doesn't count. lt was to my
girlfriend's answering service.

1667
01:21:49,175 --> 01:21:52,273
-To stop her marrying.
-You also called your sister.

1668
01:21:52,274 --> 01:21:54,174
My sister wasn't in.

1669
01:21:54,175 --> 01:21:55,474
You called your lawyer.

1670
01:21:55,475 --> 01:21:58,674
He was at Canyon Ranch.
l can never get my lawyer!

1671
01:21:58,675 --> 01:22:00,774
Can l give you some advice?

1672
01:22:00,775 --> 01:22:10,675
You're in deep shit.

1673
01:22:10,676 --> 01:22:15,776
This time l think
you've really had it.

1674
01:22:15,777 --> 01:22:19,076
-lt was your ideato kidnap Hilly.
-lt wasn't my idea.

1675
01:22:19,077 --> 01:22:22,775
l made a joke. You don't act
on every impulse.

1676
01:22:22,776 --> 01:22:26,176
You gotta tell me the truth.
ls it better being dead?

1677
01:22:26,177 --> 01:22:29,076
No, it's not really.
But there's one good thing.

1678
01:22:29,077 --> 01:22:32,676
You don't get jury duty.
But you have no options.

1679
01:22:32,677 --> 01:22:34,777
lt's not for you.

1680
01:22:34,778 --> 01:22:36,477
l'm no good at life.

1681
01:22:36,478 --> 01:22:38,077
No, but you write well.

1682
01:22:38,078 --> 01:22:41,677
That's different. l can manipulate
characters and plots.

1683
01:22:41,678 --> 01:22:45,877
You create your own universe,
nicer than the world we have.

1684
01:22:45,878 --> 01:22:49,377
l can't function in this world.
l'm a failure at life.

1685
01:22:49,378 --> 01:22:53,277
l don't know. l think you bring
pleasure to a lot of people.

1686
01:22:53,278 --> 01:22:55,377
But even that's drying up.

1687
01:22:55,378 --> 01:22:57,078
Forthe last months...

1688
01:22:57,079 --> 01:23:01,478
l've been unable to come up
with a meaningful idea.

1689
01:23:01,479 --> 01:23:04,278
Make peace with your demons...

1690
01:23:04,279 --> 01:23:06,479
and your block will pass.

1691
01:23:06,480 --> 01:23:08,479
lt sounds so trite...

1692
01:23:08,480 --> 01:23:10,978
but l just want to be happy.

1693
01:23:10,979 --> 01:23:17,079
To be alive is to be happy.
Take it from me.

1694
01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:21,279
Block? Come on.

1695
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:23,479
Some people put up your bail.

1696
01:23:23,480 --> 01:23:24,579
My bail?

1697
01:23:24,580 --> 01:23:27,080
That's right. This way.

1698
01:23:27,081 --> 01:23:27,980
You?

1699
01:23:27,981 --> 01:23:32,180
-We got the phone message.
-Came right from our wedding.

1700
01:23:32,181 --> 01:23:35,079
-You did?
-We're on our way to our honeymoon.

1701
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:37,780
-You got married?
-You have to ask?

1702
01:23:37,781 --> 01:23:41,780
l can't believe it! ln the end
you chose him over me!

1703
01:23:41,781 --> 01:23:43,880
-l can't fathom this!
-You'd insult me...

1704
01:23:43,881 --> 01:23:46,680
after we ran from the altar
to bail you out.

1705
01:23:46,681 --> 01:23:48,681
l know you're claustrophobic.

1706
01:23:48,682 --> 01:23:51,881
Plus, you'll get buggered by
every con in the cell block.

1707
01:23:51,882 --> 01:23:54,281
You should be in there!

1708
01:23:54,282 --> 01:23:56,381
Because you stole her from me.

1709
01:23:56,382 --> 01:23:58,381
He did not steal me.

1710
01:23:58,382 --> 01:24:00,082
l love him.

1711
01:24:00,083 --> 01:24:02,681
l can't fathom this.

1712
01:24:02,682 --> 01:24:05,081
l appreciate your coming, but...

1713
01:24:05,082 --> 01:24:06,681
why? Why not me?

1714
01:24:06,682 --> 01:24:09,482
You told me not to fall in love
with you, so l didn't.

1715
01:24:09,483 --> 01:24:12,482
How could you listen to me?
You know l'm crazy!

1716
01:24:12,483 --> 01:24:14,882
You were my mentor. That's why.

1717
01:24:14,883 --> 01:24:17,382
But you were sleeping
with you mentor.

1718
01:24:17,383 --> 01:24:19,883
So? l slept with
my gynecologist.

1719
01:24:19,884 --> 01:24:22,083
What has that
got to do with it?

1720
01:24:22,084 --> 01:24:26,083
You gonna snorkel down the Amazon
with him when you could've had me?

1721
01:24:26,084 --> 01:24:29,582
l'll never be the writer you are.
l know that.

1722
01:24:29,583 --> 01:24:32,683
You put art into yourwork.
l put it into my life.

1723
01:24:32,684 --> 01:24:34,383
l can make her happier.

1724
01:24:34,384 --> 01:24:36,083
l love you.

1725
01:24:36,084 --> 01:24:40,984
l do. lt's just that
l'm in love with Larry.

1726
01:24:40,985 --> 01:24:42,384
l'm his wife.

1727
01:24:42,385 --> 01:24:45,084
l love you too, Harry.
Give us your blessing...

1728
01:24:45,085 --> 01:24:47,884
so we can go and enjoy our
honeymoon. Okay?

1729
01:24:47,885 --> 01:24:50,584
We'll be in Santa Fe a month.
When we come back...

1730
01:24:50,585 --> 01:24:52,485
we'll go out.
We're friends.

1731
01:24:52,486 --> 01:24:55,284
He's taking you to the desert
for your honeymoon?

1732
01:24:55,285 --> 01:24:57,884
Yeah. You'd never take me
to the desert.

1733
01:24:57,885 --> 01:24:59,484
The desert is cactus.

1734
01:24:59,485 --> 01:25:02,785
lt's Heela monsters, Gila monsters.
Lizards, is the desert.

1735
01:25:02,786 --> 01:25:05,885
-Harry, please!
-Give us your blessing, please?

1736
01:25:05,886 --> 01:25:07,885
Give 'em your blessings...

1737
01:25:07,886 --> 01:25:14,086
before l throw you back in the
fucking cell and l bugger you!

1738
01:25:14,087 --> 01:25:16,686
l don't know what to say.
l love you.

1739
01:25:16,687 --> 01:25:18,086
This guy...

1740
01:25:18,087 --> 01:25:21,785
l've loved...

1741
01:25:21,786 --> 01:25:25,686
l give up.

1742
01:25:25,687 --> 01:25:28,886
-We'll get you home.
-What am l going to say?

1743
01:25:28,887 --> 01:25:42,887
Santa Fe you're going to take her?
With the tacos?

1744
01:25:54,489 --> 01:25:59,088
What about the honoring ceremony?

1745
01:25:59,089 --> 01:26:00,888
We haven't had the ceremony.

1746
01:26:00,889 --> 01:26:04,689
The police interrupted.

1747
01:26:04,690 --> 01:26:06,289
What, am l dreaming?

1748
01:26:06,290 --> 01:26:07,489
Everybody dreams.

1749
01:26:07,490 --> 01:26:08,589
Come on!

1750
01:26:08,590 --> 01:26:13,488
Professor Clark
has everything planned.

1751
01:26:13,489 --> 01:26:15,289
Can l bring Hilly?

1752
01:26:15,290 --> 01:26:18,289
lt's your dream.

1753
01:26:18,290 --> 01:26:20,089
Stebbins Hall?

1754
01:26:20,090 --> 01:26:22,489
Everyone is waiting
to honor you.

1755
01:26:22,490 --> 01:26:36,490
After all, you created them.

1756
01:27:30,095 --> 01:27:32,093
l love all of you. Really.

1757
01:27:32,094 --> 01:27:36,093
You've given me some of the
happiest moments of my life...

1758
01:27:36,094 --> 01:27:38,994
You've even saved
my life at times.

1759
01:27:38,995 --> 01:27:42,094
And now, you've actually
taught me things.

1760
01:27:42,095 --> 01:27:43,694
And l completely grateful.

1761
01:27:43,695 --> 01:27:45,294
The author's message is...

1762
01:27:45,295 --> 01:27:47,494
"know yourself",
stop kidding yourself.

1763
01:27:47,495 --> 01:27:50,695
Accept your limitations
and get on with your life.

1764
01:27:50,696 --> 01:27:52,395
lt's amazing. To me...

1765
01:27:52,396 --> 01:27:54,995
it's a really
interesting character.

1766
01:27:54,996 --> 01:27:56,295
A guy...

1767
01:27:56,296 --> 01:27:59,195
who can't function well in life...

1768
01:27:59,196 --> 01:28:02,095
but can only function in art.

1769
01:28:02,096 --> 01:28:05,395
lt's sad in away and also funny.
Good for a novel.

1770
01:28:05,396 --> 01:28:07,795
Your books all seem sad
on the surface.

1771
01:28:07,796 --> 01:28:10,096
Which is why l.
like deconstructing them.

1772
01:28:10,097 --> 01:28:14,496
Underneath they're happy.
You just don't know it.

1773
01:28:14,497 --> 01:28:17,296
l tell you.
l feel like l'm in a dream.

1774
01:28:17,297 --> 01:28:20,697
This, for me, is like the best dream
l've had in months.

1775
01:28:20,698 --> 01:28:23,596
The happiest dream.

1776
01:28:23,597 --> 01:28:26,796
l like it!

1777
01:28:26,797 --> 01:28:29,196
A character who's too...

1778
01:28:29,197 --> 01:28:32,097
neurotic to function in life...

1779
01:28:32,098 --> 01:28:37,197
but can only function in art.

1780
01:28:37,198 --> 01:28:39,197
Notes for anovel.

1781
01:28:39,198 --> 01:28:41,698
Opening possibility:

1782
01:28:41,699 --> 01:28:43,398
Rifkin led a...

1783
01:28:43,399 --> 01:28:44,198
fragmented...

1784
01:28:44,199 --> 01:28:45,198
disjointed...

1785
01:28:45,199 --> 01:28:46,198
existence.

1786
01:28:46,199 --> 01:28:49,197
He had long ago come
to this conclusion:

1787
01:28:49,198 --> 01:28:51,698
All people know the same truth.

1788
01:28:51,699 --> 01:28:55,298
Our lives consist of how
we choose to distort it.

1789
01:28:55,299 --> 01:28:58,098
Only his writing was calm...

1790
01:28:58,099 --> 01:29:01,799
his writing, whichhad,
in more ways than one...

1791
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:15,800
saved his life.