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He was the phenomenon of the '20s.
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When you think, at the time,
he was as well-known as Lindbergh,
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it's really quite astonishing.
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His story reflected
the nature of our civilization,
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the character of our times,
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yet it was also one man's story.
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And all the themes of our culture
were there.
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Heroism, will, things like that.
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But when you look back on it,
it was very strange.
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Well, it is ironic to see
how quickly he has faded from memory,
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considering what
an astounding record he made.
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He was, of course, very amusing, but at
the same time touched a nerve in people,
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perhaps in a way in which
they would prefer not to be touched.
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It certainly is a very bizarre story.
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The year is 1928.
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America, enjoying a decade
of unequalled prosperity, has gone wild.
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The Jazz Age, it is called.
The rhythms are syncopated,
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the morals are looser,
the liquor is cheaper,
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when you can get it.
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It is a time of diverse heroes
and madcap stunts,
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of speakeasies and flamboyant parties.
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One typical party occurs
at the Long Island estate
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of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Porter Sutton,
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socialites, patrons of the arts.
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Politicians and poets rub elbows
with the cream of high society.
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Present at the party is Scott Fitzgerald,
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who is to cast perspective on the '20s
for all future generations.
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He writes in his notebook about a curious
little man named Leon Selwyn or Zelman,
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who seemed clearly to be an aristocrat,
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and extolled the very rich
as he chatted with socialites.
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He spoke adoringly of Coolidge
and the Republican party,
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all in an upper-class Boston accent.
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"An hour later," writes Fitzgerald,
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"I was stunned to see the same man
speaking with the kitchen help."
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"Now, he claimed to be a Democrat
and his accent seemed to be coarse,
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"as if he were one of the crowd."
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It is the first small notice
taken of Leonard Zelig.
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Florida, one year later.
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An odd incident occurs
at the New York Yankees' training camp.
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Journalists, anxious as always
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to immortalize the exploits
of the great home-run hitters,
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notice a strange new player waiting
his turn at bat after Babe Ruth.
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He is listed on the roster as Lou Zelig,
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but no one on the team has heard of him.
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Security guards are called,
and he is escorted from the premises.
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It appears as a small item
in the next day's newspaper.
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Chicago, Illinois, that same year.
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There is a private party
at a speakeasy on the South Side.
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People from the most respectable
walks of life dance and drink bathtub gin.
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Present that evening
was Calvin Turner, a waiter.
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A lotta customers,
a lotta gangsters came in the place.
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'Cause they always good tippers
and take good care of us,
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and of course we try to take
care of our customers.
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But on this particular night, I looked over
and here's a strange guy comin' in.
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I'd never seen him before,
so I asked one of the others, I say,
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"John, you know this guy?
You ever seen him?"
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So he looks.
"No, I ain't never seen him before."
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"I don't know who he is,
but I know he's a tough-looking hombre."
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So I looked over, and next thing,
the guy had disappeared.
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I don't know where he went to, but about
this time, the music usually gets started.
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And the band started...
Playin', and I looked,
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and here's a colored guy,
a colored boy playin' trumpet.
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Man, he was playin' back.
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I looked at the guy
and said "Well, my goodness.
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"He looks just like that gangster,
but the gangster was white
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"and this guy is black."
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So I don't know what's...
What's happening.
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New York City. It is several months later.
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Police are investigating the disappearance
of a clerk named Leonard Zelig.
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Both his landlady and his employer
have reported him missing.
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They tell police he was
an odd little man who kept to himself.
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Only two clues are found
in Zelig's Greenwich Village flat.
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One, a photograph of Zelig
with Eugene O'Neill,
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and one of him as Pagliacci.
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Acting on a tip, they trace
his whereabouts to Chinatown,
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where, in the rear of a Chinese
establishment, a strange-looking Oriental
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who fits the description
of Leonard Zelig is discovered.
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Suspicious, the detectives
try to pull off his disguise,
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but it is not a disguise,
and a fight breaks out.
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He is removed by force,
and taken to Manhattan Hospital.
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In the ambulance, he rants and curses
in what sounds like authentic Chinese.
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He is restrained with a straitjacket.
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When he emerges from the car
20 minutes later,
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incredibly, he is no longer Chinese,
but Caucasian.
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Bewildered interns place him
in the emergency room for observation.
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At 7:00 a.m., Dr. Eudora Fletcher,
a psychiatrist, makes her usual rounds.
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When I first heard about this
emergency case that had been brought in,
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I didn't think anything peculiar.
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And when I first laid eyes on him,
it was a bit strange,
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because I mistook him for a doctor.
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He had a very professional
demeanor about him.
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As a young psychiatrist,
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Eudora Fletcher is fascinated
by Leonard Zelig.
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She convinces the conservative staff
at the hospital to allow her
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to pursue a study of the new admission.
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- What do you do?
- Oh, me? I'm a psychiatrist.
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- Oh, yes?
- Yes, yes, I work
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mostly with delusional paranoids.
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- Tell me about it.
- Oh, there's not much to tell. I...
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I work mostly on the Continent,
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and I've written quite
a few psychoanalytic papers.
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I've studied a great deal.
I worked with Freud in Vienna.
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Yes, we broke over
the concept of penis envy.
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Freud felt that it
should be limited to women.
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It's not that he was making
any sense at all.
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It was just a conglomeration
of psychological double-talk
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that he had apparently heard, or perhaps
was familiar with through reading.
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The funny thing was
that his delivery was quite fluid,
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and might have been really
quite convincing
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to someone who did not know any better.
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Who was this Leonard Zelig
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that seemed to create
such diverse impressions everywhere?
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All that was known of him was that
he was the son of a Yiddish actor
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named Morris Zelig,
whose performance as Puck
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in the Orthodox version of A Midsummer
Night's Dream, was coolly received.
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The elder Zelig's second marriage is
marked by constant violent quarrelling,
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so much so, that although
the family lives over a bowling alley,
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it is the bowling alley
that complains of noise.
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As a boy, Leonard is
frequently bullied by anti-Semites.
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His parents, who never take his part
and blame him for everything,
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side with the anti-Semites.
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They punish him often
by locking him in a dark closet.
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When they are really angry,
they get into the closet with him.
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On his deathbed,
Morris Zelig tells his son
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that life is a meaningless
nightmare of suffering,
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and the only advice
he gives him is to save string.
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Though brother Jack
has a nervous breakdown,
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and sister Ruth becomes
a shoplifter and alcoholic,
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Leonard Zelig appears
to have adjusted to life.
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Somehow, he seems to have coped.
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And then, suddenly,
increasingly strange behavior.
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Fascinated by the Zelig phenomenon,
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Dr. Fletcher arranges
a series of experiments
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and invites the skeptical staff
to observe.
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With the doctors watching,
Zelig becomes a perfect psychiatrist.
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When two Frenchmen are brought in,
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Zelig assumes their characters
and speaks reasonable French.
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In the company of a Chinese person,
he begins to develop oriental features.
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By now, word has gotten out to the press,
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and a public thirsting for thrills
and novelty is immediately captivated.
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The clamor is so great that Dr. Allan
Sindell is forced to issue a statement.
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We're just beginning
to realize the dimensions
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of what could be the scientific
medical phenomenon of the age,
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and possibly of all time.
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Fresh stories roll off the press every day
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about Zelig and his puzzling condition.
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Although the doctors claim
to have the situation in hand,
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no two can agree on a diagnosis.
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I'm convinced
that it's glandular in nature
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and although there's no evidence now
of any misfunction,
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I'm sure that further tests
will show a problem in the secretions.
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I'm certain it's something
he picked up from eating Mexican food.
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This manifestation
is neurological in origin.
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Now, this patient
is suffering from a brain tumor,
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and I should not be surprised if,
within several weeks, he died.
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Now, we have not as yet
been able to locate the tumor,
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but we're still looking.
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Ironically, within two weeks' time,
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it is Dr. Birsky himself
who dies of a brain tumor.
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Leonard Zelig is fine.
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Throughout the weeks
of testing and speculation,
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Eudora Fletcher begins to feel
that the patient might be suffering
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not from a physiological disorder,
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but from a psychological one.
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It is Zelig's unstable make-up,
she suggests,
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that accounts for his metamorphoses.
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The governing board of doctors
is hostile to her notion.
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They conclude that Zelig's malady can be
traced to poor alignment of the vertebrae.
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Tests prove them wrong, and cause
a temporary problem for the patient.
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Now, the press and public
hang on every bit of news,
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thoroughly absorbed
in the real-life drama.
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The continuing saga
of the strange creature
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at Manhattan Hospital goes on.
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This morning, doctors report,
experiments were conducted
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and several women of varying types were
placed in close proximity to the subject,
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but no change occurred,
leading authorities to conclude
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that the phenomenon
does not occur with women.
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Later today, doctors will be experimenting
with a midget and a chicken.
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Leonard Zelig continues
to astound scientists
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at New York's Manhattan Hospital,
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where numerous tests have led nowhere
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in determining the nature of
this astonishing manifestation.
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He is confronted by two overweight men
at the request of the doctors.
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As the men discuss their obesity,
an initially reticent Zelig joins in,
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swelling himself to
a miraculous 250 pounds.
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Next, in the presence of two Negro men,
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Zelig rapidly becomes one himself.
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What will they think of next?
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Meanwhile, Americans all over
have their own reactions.
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I wish I could be
Lenny Zelig, the changing man.
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I'd be different people, and maybe
someday my wishes will come true.
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Leonard Zelig is
one of the finest gentlemen
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in the United States of America!
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He is the cat's pajamas!
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Trying a new approach, Dr. Fletcher
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places the subject under hypnosis.
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Tell me why you assume the characteristics
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of the person you're with.
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It's safe.
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What do you mean?
What do you mean, "safe"?
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Safe to...
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To be like the others.
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Mmm-hmm. You want to be safe?
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- I wanna be liked.
- Mmm-hmm.
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Probing Zelig's unconscious,
Dr. Fletcher gradually puts together
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the pieces of Zelig's behavioral puzzle.
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Dividing her time between the hospital
and the 42nd Street library,
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she writes her report.
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A closed meeting of doctors listens
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as Dr. Fletcher describes Zelig
as "a human chameleon."
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Like the lizard that is endowed by nature
with a marvelous protective device
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that enables it to change color and
blend in with its immediate surrounding,
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Zelig, too, protects himself
by becoming whoever he is around.
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The doctors listen,
and their reaction is skeptical.
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"Impossible!" they claim."Preposterous!"
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"If he's a lizard," quips one doctor,
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"then we should not spend
good hospital money feeding him,
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"but simply catch him some flies."
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We knew we had a good story
this time 'cause it had everything in it.
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It had romance and it had suspense.
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And then this fella, Zelig,
you know, he grew up poor.
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I remember my city editor came to me.
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He said "Ted, we want this story
on page one every day."
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And in those days,
you'd do anything to sell papers.
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To get a story, you'd jazz it up, exaggerate,
even maybe play with the truth a little bit.
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But here was a story. It was a natural.
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You just told the truth and it sold papers.
It never happened before.
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Overnight, Leonard Zelig has become
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the main topic of conversation everywhere,
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and is discussed
with amusement and wonder.
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No social gathering
is without its Leonard Zelig joke,
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and in a decade of popular dance crazes,
a new one sweeps the nation.
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There's a brand-new dance come up the river
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Just jerk your head and shake your liver
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You're doin' the Chameleon
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Fo-do-do-de-oh,
make a face that's like a lizard
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And feel that beat down in your gizzard
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You're doin' the Chameleon
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Ah!
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Stick out your tongue
the way the reptiles do
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Tryin' to catch a fly
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Inflate your lungs like big crocodiles do
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Hey, hey, my oh my
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Throw your best gal down
right on the floor
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She'll be beggin' you for more
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And you're doin' the Chameleon
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If you hold your breath till you turn blue
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You'll be changing colors like they do
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When you're doin' the Chameleon
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Fo-do-do-de-oh, wiggle like a salamander
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Go this way, that way, all meander
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You're doin' the Chameleon
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Ah!
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Stick out your tongue
the way the reptiles do
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Tryin' to catch a fly
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Inflate your lungs like big crocodiles do
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Hey, hey, my oh my
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Shake your shoulders,
move your seat around
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Get right down and kick your feet around
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Doin' the Chameleon, fo-de-oh-do
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What's brown and white
and yellow and has four eyes?
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Leonard Zelig at the League of Nations.
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Not everyone, however,
was entranced by the human chameleon,
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and amongst the fanatics,
he was a handy symbol of iniquity.
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This creature personifies capitalist man!
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A creature who takes many forms
to achieve ends,
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the exploitation
of the workers by deception.
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To the Ku Klux Klan, Zelig, a Jew
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who was able to transform himself
into a Negro or Indian,
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was a triple threat.
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Meanwhile, Dr. Fletcher,
certain that her findings are correct,
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begs for time with her patient
to put her theories into operation.
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Do you recall the first time
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you began behaving like the
people you were around?
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In school, some very bright people
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asked me if I read Moby Dick.
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Yes?
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I was ashamed to say I never read it.
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- And you pretended?
- Yes.
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When did the changes
begin happening automatically?
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Years ago. St. Patrick's Day.
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Wandered into a bar. Wasn't wearing green.
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They made remarks. I turned Irish.
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You told them you were Irish?
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My hair turned red, my nose turned up.
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Spoke about the great potato famine
and the little people.
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We do not agree with Dr. Fletcher's ideas.
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We believe those ideas are pipe dreams.
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We believe that any change
in Zelig's condition
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is going to be brought about
through certain experimental drugs,
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which, although risky,
have been known to work wonders.
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Zelig is treated with the experimental
drug Somadril hydrate.
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He undergoes severe mood changes,
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and for several days
will not come off the wall.
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Then, suddenly, as Dr. Fletcher
is beginning to make some progress,
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the question of Zelig's fate
takes a new twist
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as his half-sister, Ruth, shocks everyone
by removing him from the hospital.
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He can be better cared for at home,
she tells the doctors.
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He will be looked after, she explains,
by her and her dubious-looking lover,
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Martin Geist, a businessman
and ex-carnival promoter.
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There is very little resistance
amongst the doctors,
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who are relieved
to be rid of the frustrating case.
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00:19:22,871 --> 00:19:26,081
Only Dr. Fletcher cares
about Zelig as a human being.
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She insists he desperately needs
special care, but it is to no avail.
305
00:19:32,297 --> 00:19:35,558
No, no one was questioning
her legal right to Zelig,
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I mean, she was his half-sister
and his guardian,
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00:19:38,803 --> 00:19:41,933
but she had a strange
boyfriend called Geist
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that... He'd been in jail
for real-estate fraud.
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He was selling the same piece of property
to a lot of the same people, and...
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Matter of fact, a congressman
from Delaware bought it twice.
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The crowds that lined the roads
to glimpse the human chameleon
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tie up traffic for days.
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He is a sight to behold
for tourists and children.
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People from all over the country fight for
space to peek at this new wonderment.
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Selling mementos while her brother
is allowed to be on exhibition
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is only the beginning
for Ruth Zelig and Martin Geist.
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Admission is charged
to twice-daily demonstrations
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of Leonard's stunning prowess.
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He does not disappoint, changing
appearance over and over upon demand.
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Overnight, he has become
an attraction, a novelty, a freak.
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In this 1935 film based on the life
of Zelig, called The Changing Man,
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the atmosphere is best summed up.
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We can't give up custody of Leonard.
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I know if I'm given the chance,
I can cure him.
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00:20:56,881 --> 00:20:59,631
It's no use.
Even our attorney says it's hopeless.
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00:20:59,842 --> 00:21:01,102
Really, Dr. Fletcher.
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00:21:01,177 --> 00:21:03,467
Uh... May I call you Eudora?
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00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:08,318
I tell you, somewhere behind
that vacuous face, that zombie-like stare,
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00:21:08,393 --> 00:21:11,063
is a real human being,
and I can bring it out.
330
00:21:11,229 --> 00:21:13,359
- How?
- I'll think up some new way.
331
00:21:13,773 --> 00:21:17,443
Some technique. Whatever it is,
it'll have to be personal.
332
00:21:17,652 --> 00:21:19,954
There's not much I can do legally.
I'll try, but...
333
00:21:20,029 --> 00:21:22,699
They don't care about him.
They'll exploit him.
334
00:21:22,782 --> 00:21:25,872
All they see in him is a chance
to make more money. Look at this.
335
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,369
Already they're selling
this Leonard Zelig doll.
336
00:21:29,247 --> 00:21:32,842
The film did not exaggerate.
There were not only Leonard Zelig pens
337
00:21:32,917 --> 00:21:35,470
and lucky charms, but clocks and toys.
338
00:21:35,545 --> 00:21:39,545
There were Leonard Zelig watches and
books, and a famous Leonard Zelig doll.
339
00:21:39,882 --> 00:21:42,302
There were aprons,
chameleon-shaped earmuffs
340
00:21:42,427 --> 00:21:44,387
and a popular Leonard Zelig game.
341
00:21:45,805 --> 00:21:48,055
Everybody go chameleon
342
00:21:48,141 --> 00:21:50,941
Everybody show chameleon
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Take it fast or slow chameleon,
chameleon, chameleon days
344
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Everybody think chameleon
345
00:21:59,235 --> 00:22:01,895
Every time you blink, chameleon
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In your kitchen sink, chameleon,
chameleon, chameleon days
347
00:22:07,827 --> 00:22:11,617
They're so much fun,
they'll even jump right through a hoop
348
00:22:12,206 --> 00:22:13,549
Oh, boy!
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And they change color
when they're swimming in your soup
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Boo-boop-be-doop
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Flying in the air, chameleon
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00:22:21,257 --> 00:22:23,893
Crawling in your hair, chameleon
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00:22:23,968 --> 00:22:29,388
Take away all your care,
chameleon, chameleon, chameleon days
354
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There were many popular songs
inspired by Leonard Zelig,
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tunes that swept the nation.
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I want you for myself alone
357
00:22:44,238 --> 00:22:48,028
Leonard the Lizard,
see him running across the floor
358
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See him skittering out the door
359
00:22:50,953 --> 00:22:55,173
You have such reptile eyes
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00:22:55,249 --> 00:22:59,709
Eyes like a lizard that weave their spell
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00:23:00,755 --> 00:23:03,125
In addition to the products
and endorsements,
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there are the endless exhibitions.
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00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,560
In Hollywood, he is a great favorite
and is offered a film contract.
364
00:23:09,806 --> 00:23:12,476
Clara Bow invites him
for a private weekend,
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00:23:12,683 --> 00:23:15,653
and tells him to bring
all his personalities.
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00:23:16,604 --> 00:23:19,574
In Chicago, he meets
heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey,
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00:23:19,816 --> 00:23:22,276
who clowns with Zelig
at his training camp.
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00:23:22,902 --> 00:23:28,032
In Washington, DC, he is introduced to
both Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.
369
00:23:28,866 --> 00:23:33,786
In France he is hailed as "Le Lézard." He
is the toast of the Parisian music halls.
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00:23:34,205 --> 00:23:38,075
His performance endears him as well
to many leading French intellectuals,
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00:23:38,292 --> 00:23:41,002
who see in him a symbol for everything.
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00:23:43,131 --> 00:23:46,181
His transformation
into a rabbi is so realistic
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that certain Frenchmen suggest
he be sent to Devil's Island.
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00:23:54,183 --> 00:23:58,353
At the Folies-Bergère, Josephine Baker
does her version of the Chameleon dance,
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00:23:58,646 --> 00:24:03,276
and later tells friends
she finds Zelig amazing, but a little lost.
376
00:24:04,735 --> 00:24:09,365
Everyone used to be at my place,
that is, everyone who was someone.
377
00:24:10,658 --> 00:24:15,118
And occasionally, someone would bring
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00:24:15,830 --> 00:24:17,460
Zelig in... Leonard in.
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00:24:18,374 --> 00:24:21,714
Cole Porter was fascinated by Leonard,
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00:24:22,545 --> 00:24:25,205
and he once wrote a line in a song...
381
00:24:26,716 --> 00:24:30,046
Uh..."You're the tops,
you're Leonard Zelig."
382
00:24:31,596 --> 00:24:34,676
But then he couldn't find
anything to rhyme with "Zelig."
383
00:24:42,398 --> 00:24:44,068
I'm flyin' high
384
00:24:44,525 --> 00:24:47,355
'Cause I've got a feelin' I'm fallin'
385
00:24:47,737 --> 00:24:52,447
Fallin' for nobody else but you
386
00:24:53,910 --> 00:24:55,750
You caught my eye
387
00:24:56,078 --> 00:24:58,788
Now I got a feelin' I'm fallin'
388
00:24:59,457 --> 00:25:03,837
Show me that ring
and I'll jump right through
389
00:25:04,253 --> 00:25:07,883
I used to travel single, oh
390
00:25:07,965 --> 00:25:10,635
We chanced to mingle, oh
391
00:25:11,135 --> 00:25:14,595
Now I'm a-tingle over you
392
00:25:15,932 --> 00:25:18,942
Hey, Mr. Zelig, stand by
393
00:25:19,894 --> 00:25:22,694
'Cause I've got a feelin' I'm fallin'
394
00:25:22,813 --> 00:25:28,693
Fallin' for nobody else but you, wow!
395
00:25:29,695 --> 00:25:32,248
Though the shows
and parties keep Zelig's sister
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00:25:32,323 --> 00:25:33,953
and her lover rich and amused,
397
00:25:34,325 --> 00:25:37,785
Zelig's own existence is a nonexistence.
398
00:25:38,538 --> 00:25:43,288
Devoid of personality, his human qualities
long since lost in the shuffle of life,
399
00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:46,749
he sits alone, quietly staring into space,
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00:25:47,171 --> 00:25:51,131
a cipher, a non-person,
a performing freak.
401
00:25:52,176 --> 00:25:55,346
He who wanted only to fit in, to belong,
402
00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:58,636
to go unseen by his enemies and be loved,
403
00:25:59,392 --> 00:26:03,272
neither fits in nor belongs,
is supervised by enemies,
404
00:26:03,813 --> 00:26:05,823
and remains uncared for.
405
00:26:06,983 --> 00:26:10,153
The board at the hospital
has all but forgotten Zelig.
406
00:26:11,362 --> 00:26:13,822
Only Dr. Fletcher continues
to fight for his custody.
407
00:26:14,782 --> 00:26:17,412
The court turns her final appeal down.
408
00:26:18,661 --> 00:26:20,541
Throughout her valiant legal battle,
409
00:26:20,705 --> 00:26:23,955
she is frequently in the company
of her attorney, Charles Koslow.
410
00:26:24,917 --> 00:26:28,667
He falls in love with her
and presses for her hand in marriage.
411
00:26:29,589 --> 00:26:31,259
She is ambivalent.
412
00:26:31,591 --> 00:26:36,511
Reluctantly, she is beginning to abandon
all hope of recovering Leonard Zelig.
413
00:26:39,515 --> 00:26:42,385
That summer,
Geist has booked them in Spain.
414
00:26:43,185 --> 00:26:47,185
It is the last leg of a European tour
that has been wildly successful.
415
00:26:48,149 --> 00:26:52,649
Relations between Martin Geist
and Ruth Zelig have grown strained.
416
00:26:53,195 --> 00:26:56,735
They have become bored
with one another, and quarrel frequently.
417
00:26:58,075 --> 00:27:01,325
The situation grows worse
when she meets Luis Martinez,
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00:27:01,912 --> 00:27:05,752
a mediocre and cowardly bullfighter
with whom she falls in love.
419
00:27:08,044 --> 00:27:10,346
Though he wishes to impress Ruth Zelig,
420
00:27:10,421 --> 00:27:13,721
Martinez displays
his usual panic in the arena.
421
00:27:14,425 --> 00:27:18,465
Good fortune is with him, however, as
the bull gives himself a brain concussion.
422
00:27:18,971 --> 00:27:22,731
Martinez takes credit for the kill,
and, cutting off the bull's ear,
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00:27:22,933 --> 00:27:25,693
presents it to his lover
with great bravado.
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00:27:27,063 --> 00:27:31,073
That evening, in a jealous rage,
Martin Geist returns to his hotel room
425
00:27:31,233 --> 00:27:35,743
and confronts Ruth Zelig.
He demands that she give him the ear.
426
00:27:36,447 --> 00:27:40,197
She refuses. Geist insists
upon possession of the ear.
427
00:27:40,576 --> 00:27:44,706
They quarrel furiously, and Martinez
is discovered hiding in the closet.
428
00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:47,214
Geist pulls a revolver and shoots him.
429
00:27:47,833 --> 00:27:53,013
He turns the gun on Zelig's half-sister
and kills her, then he takes his own life.
430
00:27:53,506 --> 00:27:55,796
In an orgy of jealous violence,
431
00:27:55,883 --> 00:27:59,303
Leonard Zelig's life
is turned upside down.
432
00:28:15,444 --> 00:28:18,324
At first, the news reverberates
around the world.
433
00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:22,865
Then, just as quickly, the thrill-hungry
public becomes apathetic.
434
00:28:23,953 --> 00:28:26,293
Fresh scandals appear and make headlines.
435
00:28:26,956 --> 00:28:30,666
Events in the Jazz Age
move too rapidly, like Red Grange.
436
00:28:31,669 --> 00:28:35,169
A population glutted with distractions
is quick to forget.
437
00:28:36,006 --> 00:28:41,966
The '20s come to a crashing climax, and
still Leonard Zelig is nowhere to be found.
438
00:28:47,476 --> 00:28:51,146
Dr. Eudora Fletcher
searches in vain to locate him.
439
00:28:51,981 --> 00:28:56,441
When several leads prove disappointing,
she gives up, discouraged.
440
00:28:57,361 --> 00:29:00,411
I felt it was a shame,
because here was this unique case
441
00:29:00,489 --> 00:29:02,319
that I could make my reputation on.
442
00:29:03,033 --> 00:29:05,163
Not that I knew how to cure him,
443
00:29:05,369 --> 00:29:10,829
but if I could have him
alone and feel my way
444
00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:14,090
and be innovative and creative,
445
00:29:14,670 --> 00:29:18,800
I felt that I could change his life,
if I only had the chance.
446
00:29:28,517 --> 00:29:31,517
300,000 of the faithful
are waiting before St. Peter's
447
00:29:31,604 --> 00:29:33,814
for the appearance of Pope Pius XI.
448
00:29:34,190 --> 00:29:36,230
Borne on the shoulders of 12 attendants,
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00:29:36,317 --> 00:29:39,237
the seat of the gestatoria carrying
the Holy Father
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00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:40,950
is drawn out to the central balcony,
451
00:29:41,197 --> 00:29:44,067
where he bestows his blessing
on Rome and all the world.
452
00:29:44,658 --> 00:29:48,198
This is the first time that this ritual
has been performed in 63 years,
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00:29:48,621 --> 00:29:52,791
and brings to a climax on Easter Sunday
the religious ceremonies of Holy Week.
454
00:29:53,292 --> 00:29:56,552
Oh, but what's this?
A commotion next to the Papal Father?
455
00:29:56,962 --> 00:29:58,802
Somebody doesn't belong up there.
456
00:29:59,089 --> 00:30:03,185
The guards are summoned amidst
chaos, as His Holiness Pope Pius XI
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00:30:03,260 --> 00:30:05,810
tries to swat the intruder
with a sacred decree.
458
00:30:06,222 --> 00:30:08,142
The faithful can't believe it.
459
00:30:08,224 --> 00:30:10,314
It is, of course, Zelig.
460
00:30:10,643 --> 00:30:13,903
He is returned to the
United States by Italian authorities
461
00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:16,476
and readmitted to Manhattan Hospital.
462
00:30:19,235 --> 00:30:22,496
"I welcome this opportunity
to treat Leonard Zelig,
463
00:30:22,571 --> 00:30:25,321
"now that he's back
as a ward of the hospital.
464
00:30:25,991 --> 00:30:28,741
"I'm grateful that the board
has given me this chance.
465
00:30:29,662 --> 00:30:35,132
"I sincerely hope to return him to society
a useful, self-possessed citizen
466
00:30:35,751 --> 00:30:38,801
"no longer a curiosity
with no life of his own."
467
00:30:39,421 --> 00:30:42,131
Dr. Fletcher has no time now
to think of marriage.
468
00:30:42,383 --> 00:30:45,343
All her attention
must be devoted to Leonard Zelig.
469
00:30:46,679 --> 00:30:49,469
Her plan is to bring him
to her country home.
470
00:30:50,349 --> 00:30:53,639
She will set up
a neutral environment away from society.
471
00:30:54,270 --> 00:30:57,020
Here, she will begin searching
for some new way to treat him
472
00:30:57,606 --> 00:31:00,066
in the hopes of penetrating
his unique malady.
473
00:31:01,569 --> 00:31:03,819
Aware of the significance of her work,
474
00:31:03,904 --> 00:31:07,494
Eudora Fletcher arranges to keep
a filmed record of the proceedings.
475
00:31:08,325 --> 00:31:12,285
For this, she contacts
her first cousin, Paul Deghuee,
476
00:31:12,872 --> 00:31:15,582
an inventor and part-time photographer.
477
00:31:17,126 --> 00:31:21,416
And she said "I want to make a record
of this case for future generations
478
00:31:21,964 --> 00:31:23,514
"and the world of science,
479
00:31:24,258 --> 00:31:26,178
"and I want you
to keep the camera very quiet."
480
00:31:26,969 --> 00:31:30,349
And I said, "Why don't you
just take notes and write it up?"
481
00:31:31,265 --> 00:31:35,765
She said, "Paul, when a man changes his
physical appearance, you want to see it.
482
00:31:36,478 --> 00:31:40,898
"You can't read about it. Besides which,
I am planning to make history."
483
00:31:42,526 --> 00:31:46,316
The "White Room" is carefully
arranged for maximum serenity.
484
00:31:47,990 --> 00:31:51,660
It is a small study in Dr. Fletcher's
house, sparsely furnished.
485
00:31:53,329 --> 00:31:57,749
Clumsy photographic lights are nailed to
the wall to provide sufficient illumination.
486
00:32:00,002 --> 00:32:03,172
Microphones are hidden
in specially selected places.
487
00:32:04,006 --> 00:32:06,126
The camera shoots through a pane of glass
488
00:32:06,342 --> 00:32:08,682
which renders it relatively unobtrusive.
489
00:32:09,887 --> 00:32:11,847
Only the noise of the motor is a problem,
490
00:32:11,931 --> 00:32:14,851
but this is muffled with a blanket
and anything else handy.
491
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,860
From this cramped vantage point,
photographer Paul Deghuee
492
00:32:20,022 --> 00:32:22,482
will record
the famous "White Room Sessions, "
493
00:32:23,150 --> 00:32:26,360
a remarkable document
in the history of psychotherapy.
494
00:32:27,404 --> 00:32:32,244
By today's standards, the White Room
Sessions would seem very primitive,
495
00:32:33,410 --> 00:32:35,870
and yet they were really quite effective
496
00:32:35,955 --> 00:32:40,825
in developing a very strong personal
relation between doctor and patient.
497
00:32:42,419 --> 00:32:45,129
The question whether Zelig was a psychotic
498
00:32:45,214 --> 00:32:48,474
or merely extremely neurotic
499
00:32:49,510 --> 00:32:53,140
was a question that was endlessly
discussed among us doctors.
500
00:32:54,348 --> 00:32:56,428
Now, I myself felt that, uh...
501
00:32:57,226 --> 00:33:01,266
His feelings were really not
all that different from the normal,
502
00:33:01,522 --> 00:33:05,612
maybe what one would call
the well-adjusted, normal person,
503
00:33:06,151 --> 00:33:09,861
only carried to an extreme degree,
to an extreme extent.
504
00:33:11,115 --> 00:33:16,325
I myself felt that one could really think
of him as the ultimate conformist.
505
00:33:22,001 --> 00:33:23,671
Leonard, do you know why you're here?
506
00:33:26,338 --> 00:33:28,668
To discuss psychiatry, right?
507
00:33:29,091 --> 00:33:30,341
You're a doctor?
508
00:33:31,468 --> 00:33:36,058
Yes, I am. I am. Perhaps you've read
my latest paper on delusional paranoia?
509
00:33:37,099 --> 00:33:38,809
Turns out the entire thing is mental.
510
00:33:40,352 --> 00:33:42,602
Now, suppose
I tell you you're not a doctor.
511
00:33:44,940 --> 00:33:48,780
Well, uh...
I would say that you're making a joke.
512
00:33:51,488 --> 00:33:53,207
Is it always so bright in here?
513
00:33:53,282 --> 00:33:56,792
Oh, I'm recording these sessions on film,
if you don't mind?
514
00:33:57,119 --> 00:33:59,213
- No. Somebody's behind there, right?
- Mmm-hmm. That's right.
515
00:33:59,288 --> 00:34:00,958
- That's a camera.
- Mmm-hmm.
516
00:34:01,415 --> 00:34:05,915
Leonard... Leonard,
why don't we start with simple reality?
517
00:34:06,587 --> 00:34:09,127
- Leonard, you're not a doctor.
- No?
518
00:34:09,465 --> 00:34:12,465
No. You're a patient. I'm the doctor.
519
00:34:13,594 --> 00:34:17,144
Well, I wouldn't tell that
to too many people if I were you.
520
00:34:18,057 --> 00:34:19,727
Leonard, you're not a doctor.
521
00:34:23,145 --> 00:34:24,895
Is she gonna be all right? 'Cause...
Is this a...
522
00:34:25,272 --> 00:34:28,732
I've gotta get back to town.
Really. I have an interesting case,
523
00:34:28,817 --> 00:34:32,357
treating two sets of Siamese twins
with split personalities.
524
00:34:32,696 --> 00:34:34,066
I'm getting paid by eight people.
525
00:34:36,492 --> 00:34:39,292
"The first week's sessions
did not go too well, "
526
00:34:39,578 --> 00:34:41,368
writes Dr. Fletcher in her diary.
527
00:34:42,122 --> 00:34:45,962
"Leonard identifies with me and
is convinced that he is a doctor.
528
00:34:46,376 --> 00:34:48,166
"He is guarded and suspicious.
529
00:34:48,504 --> 00:34:53,014
"There is something appealing about him,
too. He's quick-witted and energetic.
530
00:34:53,759 --> 00:34:56,429
"Perhaps it is
his very helplessness that moves me.
531
00:34:57,179 --> 00:35:00,599
"I must keep flexible
and play the situation by ear."
532
00:35:03,852 --> 00:35:05,192
How are you today, Leonard?
533
00:35:07,147 --> 00:35:10,397
Fine. And I... Uh...
534
00:35:11,026 --> 00:35:12,526
I gotta get back to town soon. You know,
535
00:35:12,945 --> 00:35:14,855
I teach a course
at the psychiatric institute
536
00:35:15,739 --> 00:35:16,909
in masturbation and...
537
00:35:17,116 --> 00:35:18,776
- I see.
- I'm a doctor, you know, and I...
538
00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:22,504
"Guilt-related masturbation."
539
00:35:22,579 --> 00:35:25,289
No, no, not guilt-related.
I... I teach advanced.
540
00:35:27,209 --> 00:35:29,879
- I'm quite a respected doctor there.
- Leonard, I'd like you...
541
00:35:29,962 --> 00:35:33,632
...eyes follow this pen
and just let yourself breathe deeply.
542
00:35:33,841 --> 00:35:35,841
- Why? What...
- Relax.
543
00:35:36,927 --> 00:35:38,637
No.
You're trying to hypnotize me, obviously.
544
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:41,350
- Do you mind?
- Of course I mind. I'm a doctor. I'm...
545
00:35:41,932 --> 00:35:43,772
- Leonard, you're not a doctor.
- I am a doctor!
546
00:35:43,851 --> 00:35:47,362
- Just relax.
- No, I can't. I'm... I'm due back in town.
547
00:35:47,437 --> 00:35:50,567
I... I have this masturbation class.
548
00:35:50,649 --> 00:35:52,729
If I'm not there, they start without me.
549
00:35:54,528 --> 00:35:56,038
As the weeks go by,
550
00:35:56,113 --> 00:35:58,913
Dr. Fletcher grows more
and more frustrated.
551
00:35:59,616 --> 00:36:02,036
"Leonard continues to insist
he is a doctor,
552
00:36:02,536 --> 00:36:05,286
"and even refuses
to let me hypnotize him," she writes.
553
00:36:05,914 --> 00:36:08,509
"I believe his experiences
of the past year
554
00:36:08,584 --> 00:36:12,504
"have made him more defensive than ever.
It is discouraging."
555
00:36:13,338 --> 00:36:15,588
She was under great pressure,
you could tell.
556
00:36:16,008 --> 00:36:19,298
She was moody and nervous. He was fine.
557
00:36:19,928 --> 00:36:24,678
Napping, sitting in his chair reading...
He used to refer to himself as Dr. Zelig.
558
00:36:25,601 --> 00:36:27,561
He was reading books on psychiatry.
559
00:36:28,312 --> 00:36:30,942
I told her "You'd better
get away for a day and relax.
560
00:36:31,732 --> 00:36:33,612
"The strain is becoming too much for you."
561
00:36:34,526 --> 00:36:38,276
Leaving Zelig alone, Dr. Fletcher
takes Paul Deghuee's advice
562
00:36:38,614 --> 00:36:42,034
and she and her fiancé
spend some hours off relaxing.
563
00:36:42,784 --> 00:36:46,164
They go to Broadway,
then to a well-known nightclub,
564
00:36:46,246 --> 00:36:51,626
where, despite a lively stage show,
Dr. Fletcher is distracted and uneasy.
565
00:36:52,211 --> 00:36:54,631
She is unable to think
of anything but her patient.
566
00:36:55,339 --> 00:36:58,929
The atmosphere with her fiancé, Koslow,
is awkward and strained.
567
00:36:59,635 --> 00:37:02,505
He is put off
by her total obsession with Zelig.
568
00:37:03,347 --> 00:37:07,677
Ironically, it is in the noisy and
smoke-filled atmosphere of the nightclub
569
00:37:07,768 --> 00:37:11,808
that Eudora Fletcher is struck
by a brilliant and innovative plan
570
00:37:12,356 --> 00:37:14,776
that will create
a major breakthrough in the case.
571
00:37:24,034 --> 00:37:25,744
- Dr. Zelig?
- Yes?
572
00:37:26,203 --> 00:37:29,253
I... I wonder if you could
help me with a problem.
573
00:37:30,666 --> 00:37:32,666
Well, I'll certainly try.
574
00:37:33,460 --> 00:37:35,880
Of course, we can't promise anything,
you know.
575
00:37:36,171 --> 00:37:40,261
You see, last week I was with
a group of fairly erudite people
576
00:37:40,342 --> 00:37:42,052
who were discussing the novel Moby Dick,
577
00:37:42,761 --> 00:37:46,681
and I... I was afraid to admit
that I hadn't read it, so I lied.
578
00:37:49,851 --> 00:37:51,061
Uh-huh.
579
00:37:52,062 --> 00:37:57,902
You see, I want so badly to be liked, to be
like other people so that I don't stand out.
580
00:38:02,823 --> 00:38:06,873
- That's natural.
- I go to such extreme lengths to blend in.
581
00:38:08,912 --> 00:38:10,122
Well...
582
00:38:11,665 --> 00:38:13,967
You're a doctor, you know?
583
00:38:14,042 --> 00:38:16,302
You... should know how to handle that.
584
00:38:16,378 --> 00:38:19,378
No, but the truth of the matter is,
585
00:38:20,090 --> 00:38:22,880
I... I'm not an actual doctor.
586
00:38:26,054 --> 00:38:27,724
- You're not?
- No, Doctor.
587
00:38:28,849 --> 00:38:34,899
No, I've... I've been pretending to be
a doctor to fit in with my friends.
588
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,900
You see, they're doctors.
589
00:38:39,609 --> 00:38:40,859
That's...
590
00:38:42,321 --> 00:38:43,571
That's something.
591
00:38:45,866 --> 00:38:49,236
But you're a doctor, and you can help me.
You have to help me.
592
00:38:49,828 --> 00:38:53,828
Actually... I don't feel
that well, actually.
593
00:38:54,583 --> 00:38:58,345
But my... My whole life's just been a lie.
594
00:38:58,420 --> 00:39:01,420
I've been posing
as one thing after another.
595
00:39:01,882 --> 00:39:04,592
Well, you... You need help, lady. Um...
596
00:39:05,218 --> 00:39:10,268
Last night... Last night,
I dreamt that I was falling into fire.
597
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:11,849
What does that mean?
598
00:39:11,933 --> 00:39:14,236
That's terrible. I don't know.
You know, I...
599
00:39:14,311 --> 00:39:17,311
Please, Doctor. I know
I'm a very complicated patient.
600
00:39:17,397 --> 00:39:20,817
- Jesus. I don't feel that well.
- What am I suffering from?
601
00:39:20,901 --> 00:39:22,491
How should I know? I'm not a doctor.
602
00:39:23,070 --> 00:39:24,650
- You're not?
- No. Am I?
603
00:39:25,405 --> 00:39:27,735
- Who are you?
- What do you mean, who am I?
604
00:39:28,116 --> 00:39:30,196
- I don't know. These are tough questions.
- Leonard Zelig.
605
00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:33,709
- Yes, definitely. Who is he?
- You.
606
00:39:34,289 --> 00:39:36,459
No. I'm nobody. I'm nothing.
607
00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:38,588
Catch me, I'm falling.
608
00:39:40,629 --> 00:39:43,049
Playing on Zelig's identity disorder,
609
00:39:43,131 --> 00:39:46,931
Dr. Fletcher has manipulated him
into momentary disorientation.
610
00:39:47,302 --> 00:39:50,432
With his guard lowered,
she quickly puts him under hypnosis.
611
00:39:50,722 --> 00:39:55,732
Using posthypnotic suggestion, she will
now be able to induce a trance at will.
612
00:39:56,728 --> 00:39:58,478
My brother beat me.
613
00:40:00,148 --> 00:40:02,188
My sister beat my brother.
614
00:40:03,735 --> 00:40:08,065
My father beat my sister
and my brother and me.
615
00:40:09,991 --> 00:40:14,831
My mother beat my father
and my sister and me and my brother.
616
00:40:16,957 --> 00:40:19,247
The neighbors beat our family.
617
00:40:21,044 --> 00:40:25,134
People down the block beat
the neighbors and our family.
618
00:40:26,842 --> 00:40:28,512
I'm 12 years old.
619
00:40:29,845 --> 00:40:31,755
I run into a synagogue.
620
00:40:33,181 --> 00:40:35,351
I ask the rabbi the meaning of life.
621
00:40:37,477 --> 00:40:39,147
He tells me the meaning of life,
622
00:40:40,647 --> 00:40:42,227
but he tells it to me in Hebrew.
623
00:40:44,192 --> 00:40:45,572
I don't understand Hebrew.
624
00:40:47,696 --> 00:40:51,066
Then he wants to charge me $600
for Hebrew lessons.
625
00:40:53,326 --> 00:40:56,406
Dr. Fletcher's therapy consists
of a two-pronged attack.
626
00:40:57,289 --> 00:41:02,379
In the trance state, the personality will
be deeply probed and then restructured.
627
00:41:03,170 --> 00:41:06,550
In the conscious state,
she will provide love and affection,
628
00:41:06,923 --> 00:41:09,183
unconditional positive regard.
629
00:41:34,034 --> 00:41:36,244
You will be completely honest.
630
00:41:36,745 --> 00:41:38,245
You're in a deep trance.
631
00:41:38,955 --> 00:41:43,245
You will become, not who you think
I want you to be, but you'll be yourself.
632
00:41:44,711 --> 00:41:46,551
Now, how do you feel about it here?
633
00:41:50,008 --> 00:41:51,548
It's the worst.
634
00:41:52,594 --> 00:41:54,304
I hate the country.
635
00:41:55,430 --> 00:41:57,970
I hate the grass and the mosquitoes.
636
00:41:59,893 --> 00:42:02,983
And cooking... Your cooking is terrible.
637
00:42:04,105 --> 00:42:05,685
Your pancakes...
638
00:42:06,399 --> 00:42:08,989
They're... I dump them in the garbage
when you're not looking.
639
00:42:09,945 --> 00:42:13,155
- Uh-huh.
- And the jokes you try and tell when...
640
00:42:13,990 --> 00:42:15,830
When you think you're amusing,
641
00:42:16,743 --> 00:42:20,463
they're long and pointless,
there's no end to them.
642
00:42:21,206 --> 00:42:23,956
I see. And what else?
643
00:42:27,128 --> 00:42:28,708
I wanna go to bed with you.
644
00:42:32,551 --> 00:42:35,301
Oh... That surprises me.
645
00:42:36,137 --> 00:42:38,137
I didn't think you liked me very much.
646
00:42:38,974 --> 00:42:40,314
I love you.
647
00:42:42,519 --> 00:42:43,729
You do?
648
00:42:45,105 --> 00:42:48,015
You're very sweet, 'cause you're...
649
00:42:48,316 --> 00:42:50,686
You're not as clever as you think you are.
650
00:42:51,319 --> 00:42:53,109
You're all mixed up,
651
00:42:53,780 --> 00:42:57,370
and nervous, and you're the worst cook.
652
00:42:57,993 --> 00:42:59,663
Those pancakes...
653
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,870
Oh, I love you.
654
00:43:02,998 --> 00:43:04,498
I wanna take care of you.
655
00:43:06,710 --> 00:43:08,340
No more pancakes.
656
00:43:17,721 --> 00:43:22,271
I started out by trying to use
Leonard to make my reputation,
657
00:43:22,976 --> 00:43:25,646
and then I found that
I had very strong feelings for him.
658
00:43:26,354 --> 00:43:28,490
I never thought I was attractive.
659
00:43:28,565 --> 00:43:30,685
I never had a real romance.
660
00:43:30,859 --> 00:43:34,279
Charles Koslow was the type of man
my mother felt I should marry.
661
00:43:41,036 --> 00:43:43,456
Feeling more confident
every day with her patient,
662
00:43:43,538 --> 00:43:45,788
Dr. Fletcher takes him
for a cautious outing,
663
00:43:46,291 --> 00:43:49,461
an afternoon at
her sister's house in nearby Teaneck.
664
00:43:50,462 --> 00:43:54,552
Meryl Fletcher is an aviatrix,
a fine professional pilot.
665
00:43:55,342 --> 00:43:57,892
Eudora Fletcher is an amateur pilot,
666
00:43:58,053 --> 00:44:02,893
and the afternoon is spent relaxing
and retelling old flying experiences.
667
00:44:05,435 --> 00:44:07,988
As the weeks pass, Zelig is encouraged
668
00:44:08,063 --> 00:44:11,113
to open up more and more,
to give his own opinions.
669
00:44:11,733 --> 00:44:15,243
What was guarded at first
soon becomes expansive.
670
00:44:16,029 --> 00:44:19,569
I hated my stepmother,
and I don't care who knows it.
671
00:44:22,494 --> 00:44:24,084
I love baseball.
672
00:44:24,537 --> 00:44:28,287
You know, it doesn't have to mean
anything, it's just very beautiful to watch.
673
00:44:31,753 --> 00:44:34,803
I'm a Democrat. I always was a Democrat.
674
00:44:37,092 --> 00:44:39,552
Is it okay if I don't agree with you
about that recording?
675
00:44:39,761 --> 00:44:43,721
- Of course.
- I mean, Brahms is just always
676
00:44:44,307 --> 00:44:46,387
too melodramatic for me.
677
00:44:49,479 --> 00:44:52,907
You have to be your own person
and make your own moral choices,
678
00:44:52,982 --> 00:44:58,572
even when they do require real courage,
otherwise you're like a robot, or a lizard.
679
00:45:01,241 --> 00:45:02,991
Are you really gonna
get married to that lawyer?
680
00:45:03,576 --> 00:45:05,746
I... I would much rather you didn't.
681
00:45:07,497 --> 00:45:11,037
No, I don't agree.
I think this guy Mussolini is a loser.
682
00:45:13,837 --> 00:45:16,297
Uh... Are we ever gonna make love?
683
00:45:17,632 --> 00:45:21,092
It has been three months, and the board
wishes to examine the patient.
684
00:45:21,803 --> 00:45:24,603
Dr. Fletcher says
Zelig is not ready to leave the premises.
685
00:45:25,014 --> 00:45:27,024
The doctors agree to visit him there.
686
00:45:27,475 --> 00:45:29,885
The date is set, four days hence.
687
00:45:30,812 --> 00:45:34,942
If progress is insufficient,
she will be removed from the case.
688
00:45:37,652 --> 00:45:40,662
I was very nervous,
because in his waking state
689
00:45:40,989 --> 00:45:43,369
he never remembered
anything from his trance state,
690
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:48,410
and I wondered if there could be some
way of locking these two things together.
691
00:45:49,122 --> 00:45:54,502
And then I also was worried
that if he was with strong personalities,
692
00:45:54,669 --> 00:45:56,379
he might lose his personality.
693
00:45:57,630 --> 00:46:00,130
Sunday at noon. The doctors arrive.
694
00:46:00,842 --> 00:46:04,012
They are greeted
by Eudora Fletcher and Leonard Zelig
695
00:46:04,387 --> 00:46:05,847
and are shown around the grounds.
696
00:46:06,598 --> 00:46:08,942
Though Dr. Fletcher is tense and alert,
697
00:46:09,017 --> 00:46:11,637
Leonard Zelig seems calm and at ease.
698
00:46:12,395 --> 00:46:16,645
Despite the fact that he is surrounded
by physicians, he does not turn into one.
699
00:46:17,901 --> 00:46:21,111
The encounter appears
to be a resounding success,
700
00:46:21,404 --> 00:46:25,034
when Dr. Henry Mayerson comments
innocently about the weather,
701
00:46:25,366 --> 00:46:27,196
saying that it is a nice day.
702
00:46:28,077 --> 00:46:32,617
Zelig tells Dr. Mayerson that
he does not agree that it is a nice day.
703
00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:37,705
Dr. Mayerson is taken aback
at the firmness of Zelig's conviction.
704
00:46:38,630 --> 00:46:42,220
He points out that
the sun is shining and that it is mild.
705
00:46:43,593 --> 00:46:48,563
Zelig, trained to voice his own personal
opinions fearlessly, is too aggressive.
706
00:46:49,057 --> 00:46:51,677
He has been molded
too far in the other direction.
707
00:46:51,976 --> 00:46:53,862
He has become over-opinionated,
708
00:46:53,937 --> 00:46:56,607
and cannot brook
any disagreement with his own views.
709
00:46:58,358 --> 00:47:00,398
I had taken him
too far in the other direction.
710
00:47:01,277 --> 00:47:04,907
He had struck Dr. Mayerson and
several board members with a rake.
711
00:47:05,615 --> 00:47:10,115
This was not what we wanted, and yet
I felt that I had accomplished something.
712
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:15,290
I felt if I could have him for two more
weeks, I could do some fine-tuning
713
00:47:15,708 --> 00:47:18,838
and turn Leonard Zelig
back into his own man.
714
00:47:30,807 --> 00:47:32,427
Dr. Eudora Nesbit Fletcher,
715
00:47:32,517 --> 00:47:35,097
the hero, or should we say heroine,
of the hour.
716
00:47:36,104 --> 00:47:39,824
The beautiful and brilliant psychiatrist
never lost faith in her conviction
717
00:47:39,899 --> 00:47:43,489
that Leonard Zelig, the human chameleon,
was suffering from a mental disorder.
718
00:47:44,195 --> 00:47:46,905
Working with her cousin,
cameraman Paul Deghuee,
719
00:47:46,990 --> 00:47:49,530
the doctor managed to keep
a vital record of the proceedings
720
00:47:49,951 --> 00:47:52,791
including rare footage
of Zelig hypnotized.
721
00:47:53,872 --> 00:47:56,962
The patient and his healer have become
fast friends in the process,
722
00:47:57,292 --> 00:48:00,462
and enjoy one another's company
even when she's not working on him.
723
00:48:01,129 --> 00:48:03,969
The result of maintaining
a courageous minority opinion
724
00:48:04,382 --> 00:48:06,842
is a resounding success for psychiatry.
725
00:48:07,093 --> 00:48:09,763
Who says women are just good for sewing?
726
00:48:10,972 --> 00:48:12,392
Now it's on to City Hall,
727
00:48:12,473 --> 00:48:15,063
where the town's newest celebrities are
given the key to the city.
728
00:48:16,311 --> 00:48:18,561
We're honored to present
this key to New York City
729
00:48:18,646 --> 00:48:19,686
to the two of you.
730
00:48:22,984 --> 00:48:26,534
And, uh... Jimmy Walker
did wanna be here this afternoon
731
00:48:26,696 --> 00:48:29,446
and sing Leonard the Lizard,
but he was just too busy.
732
00:48:33,286 --> 00:48:35,996
After City Hall, Eudora Fletcher,
the beautiful genius
733
00:48:36,331 --> 00:48:38,831
who cured Zelig
of his science-defying condition,
734
00:48:39,167 --> 00:48:42,837
is honored by fellow scientists
at New York's Waldorf-Astoria.
735
00:48:43,046 --> 00:48:45,506
Present are luminaries from
all over the world,
736
00:48:45,590 --> 00:48:47,340
not just in the field of psychiatry,
737
00:48:47,634 --> 00:48:50,854
but physics, biology,
mathematics, and you name it.
738
00:48:51,429 --> 00:48:53,719
Here she is exchanging theories
with Nils Andersen,
739
00:48:53,890 --> 00:48:55,850
the father of modern blood disease.
740
00:48:58,102 --> 00:49:01,652
Later in the week, Dr. Fletcher is again
honored by the greatest city in the world,
741
00:49:01,814 --> 00:49:04,194
as she gets to christen her first ship.
742
00:49:04,275 --> 00:49:07,315
Quite a success story
for a little girl from the backwoods.
743
00:49:08,029 --> 00:49:11,699
Dr. Fletcher has smashed
the bottle, not champagne...
744
00:49:12,367 --> 00:49:15,407
I'm speaking to you from
the home of Mrs. Catherine Fletcher.
745
00:49:15,620 --> 00:49:18,870
She's the mother of Dr. Eudora Fletcher,
746
00:49:18,998 --> 00:49:21,668
the famous psychiatrist
so much in the news these days.
747
00:49:22,043 --> 00:49:24,883
And I'm going to be
asking Mrs. Fletcher to...
748
00:49:25,755 --> 00:49:31,505
To begin with, to tell us something about
what it's like to raise a medical genius.
749
00:49:31,803 --> 00:49:35,723
And I might ask you
about the many sacrifices
750
00:49:35,848 --> 00:49:38,558
that you've made to put your daughter
through medical school.
751
00:49:38,685 --> 00:49:41,029
And could you speak
right into the microphones, please?
752
00:49:41,104 --> 00:49:44,654
Sacrifices, we had none.
John was a stockbroker,
753
00:49:45,066 --> 00:49:48,896
he had plenty of money, and I came
from a wealthy Philadelphia family, so...
754
00:49:49,070 --> 00:49:52,450
Well, I'm sure that your daughter
always wanted to be a doctor,
755
00:49:52,657 --> 00:49:54,027
ever since she could remember.
756
00:49:56,744 --> 00:49:58,084
I don't think so.
757
00:49:58,705 --> 00:50:02,915
I always thought she'd want to be a flier
like her sister Meryl and raise a family.
758
00:50:03,751 --> 00:50:07,921
- But she was a very moody...
- But still, a mother always dreams
759
00:50:08,006 --> 00:50:10,796
for her child to have the kind of success
that your daughter has.
760
00:50:11,259 --> 00:50:14,219
- She was a very difficult girl.
- Well, tell me about your husband.
761
00:50:14,804 --> 00:50:17,104
I understand that
he is a simple businessman.
762
00:50:17,181 --> 00:50:19,181
He must be so thrilled and pleased
763
00:50:19,267 --> 00:50:21,517
to have his daughter
achieve such recognition.
764
00:50:22,937 --> 00:50:26,607
John had problems, depression. He drank.
765
00:50:27,567 --> 00:50:31,737
Well, Mrs. Fletcher, thank you
so much for speaking with us today.
766
00:50:40,872 --> 00:50:42,122
Here at San Simeon,
767
00:50:42,206 --> 00:50:45,626
glorious dreamland of newspaper mogul
William Randolph Hearst,
768
00:50:45,793 --> 00:50:49,463
celebrities from
all walks of society, sun or play.
769
00:50:50,381 --> 00:50:55,301
There's Marie Dressler with Mr. Hearst.
Always a popular guest at San Simeon,
770
00:50:55,762 --> 00:50:58,722
Miss Dressler accepts
a flower from an ardent admirer.
771
00:50:59,974 --> 00:51:02,314
Along with her is Marion Davies.
772
00:51:02,769 --> 00:51:05,899
When she works,
Miss Davies is always dead serious,
773
00:51:06,314 --> 00:51:08,574
but here at this fabulous playground,
774
00:51:08,649 --> 00:51:10,689
she shows us her fun side.
775
00:51:11,986 --> 00:51:16,236
There she is with you-know-who,
Charlie Chaplin, always kidding.
776
00:51:17,658 --> 00:51:20,294
Although New York is 3,000 miles away,
777
00:51:20,369 --> 00:51:24,119
Jimmy Walker somehow appears
through Mr. Hearst's enchanted gateway.
778
00:51:25,458 --> 00:51:27,498
Another New Yorker is Leonard Zelig,
779
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:32,220
here shown clowning with
everybody's favorite cowboy, Tom Mix.
780
00:51:32,673 --> 00:51:34,513
Won't Tony be jealous?
781
00:51:34,759 --> 00:51:39,559
Tony is Tom's horse, and we always
thought they went everywhere together.
782
00:51:40,932 --> 00:51:44,982
There's that fellow Chaplin again,
this time with Adolphe Menjou.
783
00:51:46,437 --> 00:51:49,067
There's Claire Windsor
and Dolores del Rio,
784
00:51:49,190 --> 00:51:51,690
and a very charming Eudora Fletcher
785
00:51:51,984 --> 00:51:56,074
chatting with Hollywood's newest
dancing sensation, James Cagney.
786
00:51:57,323 --> 00:51:59,243
Oh, and what have we here?
787
00:51:59,617 --> 00:52:02,617
Only a beautiful lady
named Carole Lombard.
788
00:52:03,704 --> 00:52:06,374
And there's Dr. Fletcher and Leonard Zelig
789
00:52:06,457 --> 00:52:09,707
hitting a few with Bobby Jones
on Mr. Hearst's golf course.
790
00:52:11,170 --> 00:52:14,307
Unless Leonard can go back
to his old chameleon personality
791
00:52:14,382 --> 00:52:16,092
and turn into a golf pro,
792
00:52:16,175 --> 00:52:18,215
I'd bet my money on Bobby.
793
00:52:18,636 --> 00:52:21,216
But who cares, if they're having fun?
794
00:52:28,729 --> 00:52:31,569
Leonard Zelig, do you want to give
the kids of this country some advice?
795
00:52:32,024 --> 00:52:34,744
I sure do. Kids, you gotta be yourself.
796
00:52:35,528 --> 00:52:37,038
You know, you can't act like anybody else
797
00:52:37,113 --> 00:52:40,073
just because you think that they have
all the answers and you don't.
798
00:52:40,783 --> 00:52:44,163
You have to be your own man and learn
to speak up and say what's on your mind.
799
00:52:44,871 --> 00:52:47,121
Now, maybe they're not free
to do that in foreign countries,
800
00:52:47,206 --> 00:52:48,876
but that's the American way.
801
00:52:49,500 --> 00:52:52,960
And you can take it from me, because I
used to be a member of the reptile family,
802
00:52:53,045 --> 00:52:54,835
but I'm not anymore.
803
00:53:00,261 --> 00:53:04,221
I'm sittin' on top of the world
804
00:53:04,599 --> 00:53:06,349
I'm rollin' along
805
00:53:07,059 --> 00:53:09,229
Just rollin' along
806
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:14,033
Oh boy, I'm quittin'
the blues of the world
807
00:53:14,108 --> 00:53:15,898
I'm singin' a song
808
00:53:16,611 --> 00:53:18,361
Just singin' a song
809
00:53:19,113 --> 00:53:21,993
Glory, hallelujah, I told Leonard Zelig
810
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,490
Hey, Len, get ready to call
811
00:53:25,244 --> 00:53:29,424
Just like Humpty Dumpty, I'm ready to fall
812
00:53:29,582 --> 00:53:32,792
I'm sittin' on top of the world
813
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,630
My, my, my, rollin' along
814
00:53:36,923 --> 00:53:39,933
Rollin' along
815
00:53:40,468 --> 00:53:44,558
Zelig, no longer a chameleon,
is at last his own man.
816
00:53:45,431 --> 00:53:50,651
His point of view on politics, art,
life and love is honest and direct.
817
00:53:51,812 --> 00:53:56,072
Though his taste is described
by many as lowbrow, it is his own.
818
00:53:56,984 --> 00:54:00,074
He is finally an individual,
a human being.
819
00:54:00,154 --> 00:54:02,414
He no longer gives up his own identity
820
00:54:02,490 --> 00:54:05,240
to be a safe and invisible
part of his surroundings.
821
00:54:05,952 --> 00:54:07,372
Oh, his taste wasn't terrible.
822
00:54:07,870 --> 00:54:12,670
He was the kind of man who preferred
watching baseball to reading Moby Dick.
823
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,500
And that got him off on the wrong foot,
or so the legend goes.
824
00:54:18,130 --> 00:54:22,090
It was much more a matter of symbolism.
To the Marxists, he was one thing.
825
00:54:23,803 --> 00:54:27,353
The Catholic Church never
forgave him for the Vatican incident.
826
00:54:29,058 --> 00:54:32,728
The American people, in the throes
of the Depression as they were,
827
00:54:33,688 --> 00:54:38,188
found in him a symbol of possibility,
of self-improvement and self-fulfillment.
828
00:54:38,901 --> 00:54:40,531
And of course, the Freudians had a ball.
829
00:54:40,653 --> 00:54:44,073
They could interpret him
in any way they pleased.
830
00:54:44,573 --> 00:54:47,833
It was all symbolism,
but there were no two intellectuals
831
00:54:47,952 --> 00:54:49,952
who agreed about what it meant.
832
00:54:51,038 --> 00:54:53,538
I don't know if you could call it
a triumph of psychotherapy.
833
00:54:53,624 --> 00:54:56,294
It seems more like
a triumph of aesthetic instincts,
834
00:54:56,377 --> 00:54:59,457
because Dr. Fletcher's
techniques didn't owe anything to
835
00:54:59,755 --> 00:55:01,795
then-current schools of therapy.
836
00:55:02,133 --> 00:55:04,393
But she sensed what was needed
and she provided it,
837
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:08,140
and that was, in its way,
a remarkable creative accomplishment.
838
00:55:09,098 --> 00:55:11,728
When I think about it,
it seems to me that his story
839
00:55:11,809 --> 00:55:15,149
reflected a lot of
the Jewish experience in America,
840
00:55:15,229 --> 00:55:18,866
the great urge to push in
and to find one's place
841
00:55:18,941 --> 00:55:21,651
and then to assimilate into the culture.
842
00:55:22,069 --> 00:55:24,359
I mean, he wanted
to assimilate like crazy.
843
00:55:33,414 --> 00:55:37,594
Eudora Fletcher's life has also
changed from this experience.
844
00:55:38,336 --> 00:55:41,416
For her, fame and recognition
are empty rewards
845
00:55:41,672 --> 00:55:45,432
and do not live up to the adolescent
fantasies that prompted her ambition.
846
00:55:46,594 --> 00:55:49,354
She and her patient have fallen in love,
847
00:55:49,597 --> 00:55:53,847
and it is no surprise when she forsakes
the upwardly mobile attorney Koslow
848
00:55:54,226 --> 00:55:56,936
and announces wedding plans with Zelig.
849
00:55:58,981 --> 00:56:01,821
Now there's one thing
to think of when you're blue
850
00:56:03,319 --> 00:56:06,029
There are others much worse off than you
851
00:56:07,365 --> 00:56:10,525
If a load of trouble should arrive
852
00:56:11,327 --> 00:56:14,787
Laugh and say it's great to be alive
853
00:56:15,456 --> 00:56:18,916
Keep your sunny side up, up
854
00:56:19,043 --> 00:56:22,423
Hide the side that gets blue
855
00:56:23,547 --> 00:56:26,927
If you have nine sons in a row
856
00:56:27,510 --> 00:56:31,060
Baseball teams make money, you know
857
00:56:31,597 --> 00:56:34,977
Keep your funny side up, up
858
00:56:35,309 --> 00:56:38,849
Let your laughter come through, do
859
00:56:39,647 --> 00:56:43,567
Stand up on your legs,
be like two fried eggs
860
00:56:43,651 --> 00:56:47,151
Keep your sunny side up, up
861
00:56:48,072 --> 00:56:51,082
Keep your sunny side up
862
00:56:52,159 --> 00:56:55,499
It was wonderful to see
my sister and Leonard together.
863
00:56:56,414 --> 00:56:58,174
She drew strength from him,
864
00:57:01,293 --> 00:57:03,343
and they were so much
in love with each other.
865
00:57:04,630 --> 00:57:08,010
She looked happier than she had in years.
866
00:57:09,927 --> 00:57:13,807
I remember they decided
to get married in the spring,
867
00:57:15,766 --> 00:57:17,596
and then, of course, the roof fell in.
868
00:57:19,728 --> 00:57:21,438
Two weeks before the wedding,
869
00:57:21,522 --> 00:57:25,032
an ex-showgirl named Lita Fox comes forth
870
00:57:25,359 --> 00:57:28,069
and claims that she is married to Zelig.
871
00:57:29,238 --> 00:57:31,488
She also claims to have had his child.
872
00:57:32,116 --> 00:57:34,196
It is an immediate scandal.
873
00:57:38,122 --> 00:57:41,462
We were married a year ago.
He said he was an actor.
874
00:57:41,876 --> 00:57:45,586
He sounded just like one,
and I'm in show business, too.
875
00:57:47,173 --> 00:57:49,593
So we drove to Baltimore
and we were married,
876
00:57:50,134 --> 00:57:51,684
and I have a license to prove it.
877
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,640
He had married her while
under a different personality.
878
00:57:56,515 --> 00:58:00,095
When she read of the plans for his
forthcoming wedding to Eudora Fletcher,
879
00:58:00,478 --> 00:58:03,478
she was mortified
and decided to take legal action.
880
00:58:04,398 --> 00:58:06,438
Zelig says he will fight it in court,
881
00:58:06,901 --> 00:58:09,951
but public opinion begins
subtly to shift away from him.
882
00:58:11,363 --> 00:58:15,703
Clever attorneys portray Lita Fox
as an abandoned woman.
883
00:58:16,118 --> 00:58:19,038
The child is neglected,
poor and fatherless.
884
00:58:20,372 --> 00:58:23,712
Zelig has sold his life story to Hollywood
for a large sum of money.
885
00:58:24,752 --> 00:58:27,842
When the scandal breaks,
the studio demands its money back.
886
00:58:28,756 --> 00:58:32,636
Zelig can only return half
as the rest has already been spent.
887
00:58:33,594 --> 00:58:38,604
Outraged, the studio gives him half his
life back. They keep the best moments,
888
00:58:39,099 --> 00:58:42,439
and he is left with only
his sleeping hours and mealtimes.
889
00:58:43,395 --> 00:58:47,105
Zelig is shaken by the scandal,
but it is only the beginning.
890
00:58:48,108 --> 00:58:50,369
Now another woman steps forward.
891
00:58:50,444 --> 00:58:53,614
Helen Gray, a salesgirl
from a Wisconsin gift shop
892
00:58:54,031 --> 00:58:56,911
claims that Zelig
is the father of her twins.
893
00:58:57,451 --> 00:59:00,791
She tells her lawyers that he passed
himself off as a fur trapper.
894
00:59:01,956 --> 00:59:03,746
Zelig has no recollection,
895
00:59:04,250 --> 00:59:07,420
but admits it could have happened
when he was under one of his spells.
896
00:59:08,295 --> 00:59:10,505
It is the signal
for the floodgates to open.
897
00:59:11,423 --> 00:59:14,013
He married me up
at the First Church of Harlem.
898
00:59:14,635 --> 00:59:16,795
He told me he was
the brother of Duke Ellington.
899
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:21,980
He was the guy who smashed my car up.
It was brand-new.
900
00:59:22,810 --> 00:59:25,900
Then he backed up over my mother's wrist.
901
00:59:26,647 --> 00:59:30,187
She's elderly, and uses her wrist a lot.
902
00:59:31,485 --> 00:59:34,235
He painted my house a disgusting color.
903
00:59:35,364 --> 00:59:36,824
He said he was a painter.
904
00:59:37,408 --> 00:59:41,158
I couldn't believe the results.
Then he disappeared.
905
00:59:42,246 --> 00:59:44,536
That Zelig could be
responsible for the behavior
906
00:59:44,623 --> 00:59:46,833
of each of the personalities he assumed
907
00:59:47,167 --> 00:59:49,207
means dozens of lawsuits.
908
00:59:49,587 --> 00:59:53,507
He is sued for bigamy,
adultery, automobile accidents,
909
00:59:53,591 --> 00:59:56,602
plagiarism, household damages, negligence,
910
00:59:56,677 --> 01:00:00,427
property damages, and performing
unnecessary dental extractions.
911
01:00:02,057 --> 01:00:04,227
I would like to apologize to everyone.
912
01:00:04,310 --> 01:00:07,350
I'm awfully sorry
for marrying all those women.
913
01:00:07,438 --> 01:00:10,518
It just... I don't know,
it just seemed like the thing to do.
914
01:00:11,317 --> 01:00:14,947
And to the gentleman
whose appendix I took out,
915
01:00:15,279 --> 01:00:16,949
I'm... I don't know what to say.
916
01:00:17,031 --> 01:00:20,991
If it's any consolation, I may still
have it somewhere around the house.
917
01:00:23,037 --> 01:00:26,247
My deepest apology goes
to the Trokman family in Detroit.
918
01:00:27,791 --> 01:00:30,541
I... I never delivered a baby before
in my life,
919
01:00:30,628 --> 01:00:35,088
and I, I just thought
that ice tongs was the way to do it.
920
01:00:36,592 --> 01:00:39,972
Thriving mercilessly
on loopholes and technicalities,
921
01:00:40,054 --> 01:00:42,894
the American legal profession
has a field day.
922
01:00:43,432 --> 01:00:47,732
Zelig is branded a criminal.
Despite Dr. Fletcher's insistence
923
01:00:47,811 --> 01:00:50,197
that he cannot be held
responsible for his actions
924
01:00:50,272 --> 01:00:53,282
while in his chameleon state,
it is no use.
925
01:00:53,901 --> 01:00:57,491
Leonard Zelig sets a bad moral influence.
926
01:00:58,405 --> 01:01:03,485
America is a moral country.
It's a God-fearing country.
927
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:06,910
We don't condone scandals,
928
01:01:07,748 --> 01:01:10,418
scandals of fraud and polygamy.
929
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,250
In keeping with a pure society,
930
01:01:15,089 --> 01:01:18,049
I say lynch the little Hebe!
931
01:01:19,677 --> 01:01:21,847
Throughout the humiliating ordeal,
932
01:01:21,929 --> 01:01:25,429
Eudora Fletcher stands by
the man she loves, valiantly.
933
01:01:26,809 --> 01:01:31,269
Privately, she tells friends that she is
worried about Zelig's emotional condition,
934
01:01:31,563 --> 01:01:33,741
which seems to her to be deteriorating
935
01:01:33,816 --> 01:01:36,106
under the weight of
conservative moral opinion.
936
01:01:37,486 --> 01:01:40,776
In public, he tries to keep up
an appearance of composure,
937
01:01:40,989 --> 01:01:42,659
but it is increasingly difficult.
938
01:01:43,534 --> 01:01:48,294
It is clear he is coming apart when he and
Eudora Fletcher dine at a Greek restaurant,
939
01:01:48,789 --> 01:01:52,459
and in the midst of the meal,
Zelig begins to turn Greek.
940
01:01:59,508 --> 01:02:04,098
He longs desperately to be liked
once again, to be accepted, to fit in.
941
01:02:05,180 --> 01:02:08,640
Public clamor over his morality
reaches a fever pitch,
942
01:02:08,726 --> 01:02:13,306
and on the eve of his sentencing,
Leonard Zelig vanishes.
943
01:02:21,613 --> 01:02:24,073
This is Chief Inspector
of Police Thomas Dowd
944
01:02:24,241 --> 01:02:26,371
with a national broadcasting news break.
945
01:02:26,535 --> 01:02:29,705
Leonard Zelig is missing.
On the eve of his sentencing
946
01:02:30,122 --> 01:02:32,832
for an assortment
of crimes and misdemeanors
947
01:02:33,250 --> 01:02:35,540
ranging from polygamy to fraud,
948
01:02:36,003 --> 01:02:37,596
he has disappeared.
949
01:02:37,671 --> 01:02:41,341
We are searching for clues and
would appreciate speaking with anyone
950
01:02:41,842 --> 01:02:44,932
who might have any information
leading to his apprehension.
951
01:02:46,180 --> 01:02:49,180
My sister was just shattered.
952
01:02:49,850 --> 01:02:54,690
She tried, you know, she tried to keep up
a calm front but she was just too upset.
953
01:02:56,064 --> 01:03:00,614
And she wasn't a person
who usually displayed emotion easily,
954
01:03:01,570 --> 01:03:03,490
except where Leonard was concerned.
955
01:03:07,743 --> 01:03:10,453
Dr. Fletcher and the police confer daily.
956
01:03:10,537 --> 01:03:11,964
Together they make public appeals
957
01:03:12,039 --> 01:03:13,959
to anyone who might know
of his whereabouts.
958
01:03:14,875 --> 01:03:18,875
Apart from several crank telephone calls,
there is little response.
959
01:03:19,671 --> 01:03:22,551
Months go by and Zelig is not heard from.
960
01:03:23,091 --> 01:03:26,681
Cars are searched.
False leads pour in from everywhere.
961
01:03:27,554 --> 01:03:29,523
His jacket is recovered in Texas.
962
01:03:29,598 --> 01:03:32,228
A manhunt in that state proves futile.
963
01:03:33,018 --> 01:03:36,188
He is reported seen
in Chicago, in California.
964
01:03:36,814 --> 01:03:40,200
This still photo appears
to have a man resembling him
965
01:03:40,275 --> 01:03:42,315
with a mariachi band in Mexico.
966
01:03:46,740 --> 01:03:49,580
Dr. Fletcher continues
to search for Zelig,
967
01:03:49,701 --> 01:03:52,291
but hopes fade with each passing day.
968
01:03:52,788 --> 01:03:54,578
All I could think of was Leonard
969
01:03:55,249 --> 01:03:57,419
and how much I missed him and loved him,
970
01:03:58,252 --> 01:04:01,172
and of all the terrific times
we'd spent together.
971
01:04:01,964 --> 01:04:04,764
It was really a very painful time for me.
972
01:04:06,093 --> 01:04:09,723
The year ends, and Zelig is still missing.
973
01:04:13,100 --> 01:04:15,020
I just moped around and wept.
974
01:04:15,644 --> 01:04:18,734
And one night, after a very bad time,
975
01:04:19,106 --> 01:04:22,534
my sister Meryl said to me,
"Come on, let's go out for dinner.
976
01:04:22,609 --> 01:04:24,036
"Let's go to a concert."
977
01:04:24,111 --> 01:04:27,451
I said, "No, I can't do it."
But she insisted.
978
01:04:27,948 --> 01:04:30,698
And we went out
and finally ended up in a movie.
979
01:04:31,368 --> 01:04:34,538
We saw Grand Hotel
and with it, there was a newsreel.
980
01:04:44,882 --> 01:04:47,559
Adolf Hitler and the National
Socialist Party
981
01:04:47,634 --> 01:04:50,804
continue to consolidate gains
in Depression-ridden Berlin.
982
01:04:51,597 --> 01:04:53,398
Denouncing the Treaty of Versailles,
983
01:04:53,473 --> 01:04:57,736
the Nazis make fervent appeals to German
patriotism, promising to rebuild...
984
01:04:57,811 --> 01:05:00,811
Eudora Fletcher is stunned
by what she sees.
985
01:05:01,356 --> 01:05:05,646
Amongst the Brownshirts,
she spots a figure who could be Zelig.
986
01:05:06,653 --> 01:05:09,533
Yes, but then it really made sense,
it made all the sense in the world,
987
01:05:09,656 --> 01:05:14,536
because although he wanted to be loved,
craved to be loved,
988
01:05:14,703 --> 01:05:17,003
there was also something in him
989
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:21,500
that desired immersion
in the mass and anonymity,
990
01:05:21,793 --> 01:05:25,383
and fascism offered Zelig
that kind of opportunity.
991
01:05:25,756 --> 01:05:28,926
So he could make something
anonymous of himself
992
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,720
by belonging to this vast movement.
993
01:05:34,348 --> 01:05:36,598
She sails for Europe the following week.
994
01:05:37,392 --> 01:05:40,152
Ten days later, she arrives in Berlin.
995
01:05:40,854 --> 01:05:44,194
Germany is a country deep
in the throes of the Depression.
996
01:05:44,399 --> 01:05:47,189
Militarism and unrest are in the air.
997
01:05:48,195 --> 01:05:51,695
She searches everywhere and makes
enquiries, but it is impossible.
998
01:05:52,866 --> 01:05:56,536
After three weeks,
the authorities begin to get suspicious.
999
01:05:56,954 --> 01:06:00,254
They watch her. While she is out,
they search her hotel room.
1000
01:06:01,375 --> 01:06:05,375
A fourth week goes by,
and she is about to give up and go home,
1001
01:06:05,462 --> 01:06:09,012
when news of a large rally
at Munich catches her attention.
1002
01:06:10,425 --> 01:06:14,845
It is rumored that it will be the largest
gathering to date of Nazi personnel.
1003
01:06:16,181 --> 01:06:20,481
Eudora Fletcher is counting on
the hope that Zelig may also attend.
1004
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,230
And that if she can confront him,
1005
01:06:22,562 --> 01:06:26,022
the strong feeling he has
always had for her can be awakened.
1006
01:06:27,484 --> 01:06:31,994
At first, all appears hopeless.
The crowd is huge,
1007
01:06:32,364 --> 01:06:35,584
and it seems impossible
to locate any one particular face.
1008
01:06:50,841 --> 01:06:52,351
Then, suddenly,
1009
01:06:52,426 --> 01:06:55,176
a figure flanking
the Chancellor captures her attention.
1010
01:06:55,762 --> 01:06:59,432
Behind and to the right of Hitler,
she spots Zelig.
1011
01:07:00,267 --> 01:07:03,687
Struggling to make contact,
she manages to catch his eye.
1012
01:07:04,938 --> 01:07:08,398
Like a man emerging from a dream,
Zelig notices her.
1013
01:07:09,359 --> 01:07:12,239
In a matter of seconds,
everything comes back to him.
1014
01:07:48,565 --> 01:07:50,605
Leonard! Leonard!
1015
01:07:54,988 --> 01:07:56,198
Leonard!
1016
01:08:11,963 --> 01:08:14,223
It was nothing like
it happened in the movie.
1017
01:08:14,841 --> 01:08:18,141
When Leonard came down from the
podium, they didn't know what to think.
1018
01:08:18,887 --> 01:08:22,467
We couldn't believe our eyes.
Hitler's speech was ruined.
1019
01:08:23,683 --> 01:08:26,023
He wanted to make
a good joke about Poland,
1020
01:08:27,395 --> 01:08:30,765
but just then, Zelig interfered
1021
01:08:31,691 --> 01:08:34,951
and Hitler was extremely upset.
1022
01:08:36,363 --> 01:08:40,703
The SS wanted to grab Zelig,
1023
01:08:41,535 --> 01:08:46,955
but if they would have grabbed him,
they probably would have tortured him,
1024
01:08:47,541 --> 01:08:49,081
or maybe even shot him.
1025
01:08:49,835 --> 01:08:55,755
In the confusion, Fletcher and Zelig got
out of the building through a side door.
1026
01:08:56,466 --> 01:08:59,966
They grabbed a car.
They sped away in the car,
1027
01:09:00,053 --> 01:09:02,353
and the SS after them, shot them...
1028
01:09:04,224 --> 01:09:06,564
In rare German newsreel footage,
1029
01:09:06,726 --> 01:09:08,936
a quick glimpse
of the escape was recorded.
1030
01:09:23,785 --> 01:09:27,245
I was flying!
It was wonderful. And then...
1031
01:09:27,330 --> 01:09:30,040
Suddenly, something happened.
I was frightened.
1032
01:09:30,417 --> 01:09:33,297
I lost control. We went into a dive.
1033
01:09:33,837 --> 01:09:37,467
Leonard was so terrified
that he changed his personality,
1034
01:09:38,008 --> 01:09:42,758
and before my eyes, because
I was a pilot, he turned into one, too.
1035
01:09:44,598 --> 01:09:46,518
Zelig takes control of the airplane.
1036
01:09:47,267 --> 01:09:50,687
Acting the role of pilot,
he struggles valiantly with the aircraft.
1037
01:09:51,271 --> 01:09:54,271
The Germans, who are stunned,
take a full 15 minutes
1038
01:09:54,357 --> 01:09:56,477
before they follow
in hot pursuit of their quarry.
1039
01:09:57,694 --> 01:10:02,874
With Eudora Fletcher unconscious, Zelig,
who had never flown before in his life,
1040
01:10:03,033 --> 01:10:05,083
not only escapes the German pilots,
1041
01:10:05,327 --> 01:10:09,577
but sets a record for flying nonstop
across the Atlantic upside down.
1042
01:10:32,145 --> 01:10:34,805
With a storm of cheers
and a blizzard of ticker tape,
1043
01:10:35,065 --> 01:10:37,315
New York welcomes back Eudora Fletcher
1044
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,530
and Leonard Zelig, the human chameleon.
1045
01:10:40,028 --> 01:10:43,318
His remarkable feat of aviation
fills the nation with pride
1046
01:10:43,490 --> 01:10:45,780
and earns him a full presidential pardon.
1047
01:10:46,368 --> 01:10:48,158
Forgiving multitudes flock to see him
1048
01:10:48,245 --> 01:10:50,955
as he sits by the side of
his plucky bride-to-be.
1049
01:10:51,539 --> 01:10:53,579
Their journey of triumph
leads to City Hall.
1050
01:10:54,167 --> 01:10:56,287
New York's greatest honor,
the Medal of Valor,
1051
01:10:56,378 --> 01:10:58,918
is bestowed on Zelig by Carter Dean.
1052
01:10:59,464 --> 01:11:04,144
You are a great inspiration
to the young of this nation
1053
01:11:04,552 --> 01:11:10,622
who will one day grow up
and be great doctors and great patients.
1054
01:11:18,316 --> 01:11:20,276
This is a great thrill.
1055
01:11:20,860 --> 01:11:23,320
I'm glad we lived to see this day.
1056
01:11:23,989 --> 01:11:27,579
I've never flown before in my life,
and it shows exactly what you can do
1057
01:11:27,659 --> 01:11:29,369
if you're a total psychotic.
1058
01:11:36,710 --> 01:11:39,920
The thing was paradoxical,
because what enabled him
1059
01:11:40,005 --> 01:11:44,875
to perform this astounding feat
was his ability to transform himself.
1060
01:11:45,719 --> 01:11:50,559
Therefore, his sickness
was also at the root of his salvation,
1061
01:11:51,182 --> 01:11:54,312
and I think it's interesting
to view the thing that way,
1062
01:11:54,394 --> 01:11:59,944
that it was his very disorder
that made a hero of him.
1063
01:12:01,693 --> 01:12:03,903
It was really absurd in a way.
1064
01:12:03,987 --> 01:12:08,697
I mean, he had this curious quirk,
this strange characteristic,
1065
01:12:09,826 --> 01:12:11,906
and for a time, everyone loved him,
1066
01:12:12,829 --> 01:12:14,659
and then people stopped loving him,
1067
01:12:15,498 --> 01:12:18,288
and then he did this stunt,
you know, with the airplane,
1068
01:12:19,002 --> 01:12:22,514
and then everybody loved him again,
and that was what the '20s were like.
1069
01:12:22,589 --> 01:12:26,589
When you think about it, has America
changed so much? I don't think so.
1070
01:12:29,846 --> 01:12:32,676
After untangling countless legal details,
1071
01:12:33,016 --> 01:12:35,766
Leonard Zelig and Eudora Fletcher marry.
1072
01:12:36,603 --> 01:12:40,113
It is a simple ceremony,
captured on home movies.
1073
01:12:59,667 --> 01:13:03,957
"Wanting only to be liked,
he distorted himself beyond measure, "
1074
01:13:04,214 --> 01:13:06,134
wrote Scott Fitzgerald.
1075
01:13:06,466 --> 01:13:08,966
"One wonders what would have happened
if, right at the outset,
1076
01:13:09,302 --> 01:13:12,642
"he had had the courage
to speak his mind and not pretend.
1077
01:13:13,848 --> 01:13:16,098
"In the end it was, after all,
1078
01:13:16,309 --> 01:13:21,649
"not the approbation of many, but the love
of one woman that changed his life."
1079
01:13:21,898 --> 01:13:25,688
As long as I have you
1080
01:13:27,529 --> 01:13:33,329
Though there be rain and darkness, too
1081
01:13:34,202 --> 01:13:37,162
I'll not complain
1082
01:13:37,580 --> 01:13:41,210
I'll laugh it through
1083
01:13:41,835 --> 01:13:47,505
Poverty may come to me
1084
01:13:47,674 --> 01:13:50,224
That's true
1085
01:13:51,052 --> 01:13:55,062
But what care, I say
1086
01:13:55,223 --> 01:13:58,063
I'll get by
1087
01:13:58,143 --> 01:14:03,193
As long as I have you
1088
01:15:01,873 --> 01:15:04,173
Everybody go chameleon
1089
01:15:04,250 --> 01:15:06,920
Everybody show chameleon
1090
01:15:07,378 --> 01:15:12,508
Take it fast or slow chameleon,
chameleon, chameleon days
1091
01:15:12,884 --> 01:15:15,094
Everybody think chameleon
1092
01:15:15,595 --> 01:15:17,925
Every time you blink, chameleon
1093
01:15:18,389 --> 01:15:23,479
In your kitchen sink, chameleon,
chameleon, chameleon days
1094
01:15:23,895 --> 01:15:28,145
They're all around us
when we wake up every day
1095
01:15:28,233 --> 01:15:29,283
Ooh!
1096
01:15:29,359 --> 01:15:33,489
I'm glad they found us
'cause they take the blues away
1097
01:15:33,571 --> 01:15:34,821
Hey, hey!
1098
01:15:34,906 --> 01:15:37,196
Everywhere you go, chameleon
1099
01:15:37,283 --> 01:15:39,993
Everything is so chameleon
1100
01:15:40,078 --> 01:15:45,458
Top of your head to your toe,
chameleon, chameleon, chameleon days
1101
01:16:06,563 --> 01:16:10,575
They're so much fun,
they'll even jump right through a hoop
1102
01:16:10,650 --> 01:16:11,951
Oh, boy!
1103
01:16:12,026 --> 01:16:16,080
And they change color
when they're swimming in your soup
1104
01:16:16,155 --> 01:16:17,485
Boo-boop-be-doop
1105
01:16:17,574 --> 01:16:19,874
Flying in the air, chameleon
1106
01:16:20,201 --> 01:16:22,629
Crawling in your hair, chameleon
1107
01:16:22,704 --> 01:16:28,004
Take away all your care,
chameleon, chameleon, chameleon days
1108
01:16:30,587 --> 01:16:32,764
There's a brand-new dance come up the river
1109
01:16:32,839 --> 01:16:34,974
Just jerk your head and shake your liver
1110
01:16:35,049 --> 01:16:37,929
You're doin' the Chameleon
1111
01:16:38,845 --> 01:16:41,773
Fo-do-do-de-oh,
make a face that's like a lizard
1112
01:16:41,848 --> 01:16:44,018
And feel that beat down in your gizzard
1113
01:16:44,100 --> 01:16:47,278
You're doin' the Chameleon
1114
01:16:47,353 --> 01:16:48,483
Ah!
1115
01:16:49,105 --> 01:16:51,225
Stick out your tongue
the way the reptiles do
1116
01:16:51,316 --> 01:16:53,186
Tryin' to catch a fly
1117
01:16:53,526 --> 01:16:55,696
Inflate your lungs like big crocodiles do
1118
01:16:55,778 --> 01:16:57,698
Hey, hey, my oh my
1119
01:16:58,031 --> 01:17:00,166
Throw your best gal down
right on the floor
1120
01:17:00,241 --> 01:17:02,126
She'll be beggin' you for more
1121
01:17:02,201 --> 01:17:05,001
And you're doin' the Chameleon
1122
01:17:06,706 --> 01:17:08,876
If you hold your breath till you turn blue
1123
01:17:08,958 --> 01:17:11,088
You'll be changing colors like they do
1124
01:17:11,169 --> 01:17:14,089
When you're doin' the Chameleon
1125
01:17:15,048 --> 01:17:17,968
Fo-do-do-de-oh, wiggle like a salamander
1126
01:17:18,051 --> 01:17:20,186
Go this way, that way, all meander
1127
01:17:20,261 --> 01:17:23,221
You're doin' the Chameleon
1128
01:17:23,556 --> 01:17:24,676
Ah!
1129
01:17:25,308 --> 01:17:27,388
Stick out your tongue
the way the reptiles do
1130
01:17:27,477 --> 01:17:29,437
Tryin' to catch a fly
1131
01:17:29,729 --> 01:17:31,939
Inflate your lungs like big crocodiles do
1132
01:17:32,023 --> 01:17:33,903
Hey, hey, my oh my
1133
01:17:34,233 --> 01:17:36,536
Shake your shoulders,
move your seat around
1134
01:17:36,611 --> 01:17:38,781
Get right down and kick your feet around
1135
01:17:38,863 --> 01:17:43,123
Doin' the Chameleon, fo-de-oh-do