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Live, until they drop dead...
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... from the beautiful
Carlou Theater...
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... in the heart of sunny
Miami Beach, Florida...
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... it's the Veterans Day
Polio Telethon!
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And now, please
welcome your hosts...
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... the beautiful, the talented,
Lanny Morris...
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... and Vince Collins!
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Do you realize
we have to present ourselves...
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...in front of these lovely
people for the next three days?
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Hello, lovely people
for the next three days.
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- Look at you. You're a disgrace.
- What?
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Look, your hair's a mess, your shoes
aren't shined, your shirt's not pressed.
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- Look at your tie. It�s not even straight.
- Look at yours. It doesn't even clip on.
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Now...
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...I'm upset.
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You know what
happens when I get upset.
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No, no, no. Please.
Please don't hurt me, Vince.
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I've had a terrible day already.
All sorts of bad things have happened.
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I don't wanna be hurt again.
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- You've been hurt already, have you?
- Been hurt real bad.
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And what happened,
pray tell?
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- Want me to pray or want me to tell?
- I think you better pray.
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- I saw this stranger
- I don't know whether you're...
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...singing or speaking.
- Leave my pad
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- One thing I do know...
- And I said, "Baby...
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- ... what explanation do you have?"
- There's always a woman involved.
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And she said:
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- Next time?
- next time
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And I said, "There will be
no next time"
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That's what you said last time,
Lanny, and the time before that.
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You have to make sure there's no first
time, then there can't be a next time.
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Or a last time.
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- That was the last time for me
- Let's hope so, Lanny.
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Lanny Morris,
ladies and gentlemen.
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Y manager sent me over
some of your work.
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It�s funny how you're
really in them a lot.
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Whenever I read these
interviews where the writer says:
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"This is how I felt the morning
I woke up to meet the pope"...
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..."how I felt when the pope greeted
me, how he reminded me...
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...so much of my friend Mike"...
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...I always think,
"Who the fuck is Mike?"
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So who are you?
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I was a young journalist...
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... with a few awards...
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... a couple of cover stories...
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... and a desperate need
to prove myself.
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If you look through my work,
you'll see I try to present...
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...a balanced view of my subjects.
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I leave the conclusions
to the reader.
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L�m not sure we like balance.
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Or leaving
the conclusions to the reader.
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L�m used to being publicized,
not analyzed.
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It would be your words.
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We'd publish it as a transcript:
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Y questions, your answers.
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If you say it, I can use it.
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If you don't, I can't.
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And they're gonna pay me
a million for this?
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An excerpt will be published
in a magazine as a way...
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...of amortizing the investment
they'll be making in the book.
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They're looking for some...
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...provocative stories
for the first issue.
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Any thoughts on what these
provocative stories might be about?
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The breakup.
Why Lanny and you split.
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And the girl.
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Maureen.
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What happened
to Maureen O'Flaherty.
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No one had ever been able
to pin Lanny Morris...
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... or Vince Collins
to the girl's death.
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All that was clear...
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... was that Maureen was
found dead in their hotel suite.
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It was unthinkable to me
that Lanny and Vince...
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... could have had
anything to do with it.
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They were my heroes.
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"The reason I consider
myself to be a miracle girl...
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...is because
I had the good fortune...
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...to meet Lanny and Vince
when I was sick.
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Their love of life
is what gave me hope...
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...and it's hope
that gives us the power to live."
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Thank you, Lanny.
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Thank you, Vince.
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Come on, let's hear it for her.
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Denise handled publicity
for the polio foundation.
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And it was her idea to plug
the girl's story on the telethon.
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The day before, it was my idea to plug
Denise at the Miami Versailles Hotel.
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Don't stop! Don't stop!
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Don't stop!
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You can tell a lot about a woman
by the way she acts...
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... when you're having sex
and room service comes in.
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Some girls will sit up
and light a cigarette...
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... like there's nothing funny
in the world about her being naked.
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"It's obvious we were
in the process of screwing...
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... so why not let
a stranger into the room?"
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Come on in.
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Then there's the kind that will
pull the sheets up...
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... and act like they're asleep.
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Where would you like it, sir?
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Sweetheart, wherever you'd like it.
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Then, of course, there's
the ones who scrunch real flat...
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... thinking that the bed
will look empty.
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With Denise, it was kind of hard
to tell which way she'd go.
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Can I have your autograph,
Mr. Morris?
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Sure.
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Should I make it out to Maureen?
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I mean, your autograph on the bill.
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Okay.
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I mean, I'd love
to have your autograph.
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And maybe a few minutes
of your time.
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L�m a huge fan and...
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...well, I was thinking about...
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...writing an article on you
for my campus paper.
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L�m the editor.
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Any interview requests
go through me, honey.
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You know, it's just a college paper.
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Thank you.
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No, thank you.
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Thank you, Maureen.
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I say goodbye to Maureen,
knowing I'd see her again...
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... close the door and
then turn to look at Denise...
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... thinking, "I know this girl from every
college town we have ever played. "
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They're called career girls.
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The absolute easiest lays...
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... in this great nation of ours.
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Since you're reading this,
you'd be interested to know...
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... that my favorite catches
were the intellectuals.
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They'd be the ones in the straight
black dresses, severe black hair.
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Your basic neurotic,
eyeglasses, cool jazz, liberal...
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..."I'll fuck any black guy as
part of my personal apology...
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... for racism in America" type.
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Anyhow, on this particular night,
we're in a club in new Jersey...
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... it's the '50s, and I'm mingling
with the crowd.
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Now, when I say "mingling,"
what I mean is...
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... I was scouting
for who I would sleep with.
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Didn't matter if the girls
came with dates.
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That was Reuben's job.
Reuben is my valet.
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I never figured out how he
helped them get rid of their dates...
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... but they were always gone
by the second show.
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Reuben could clean up
any situation.
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Excuse me, miss.
Ay I say that I think...
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...you have the most beautiful eyes
I have ever seen.
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Notice I say, "I think you've got the
most beautiful eyes l�ve ever seen."
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I haven't seen them yet.
L�ve been staring at your cans.
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Now, Lanny.
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- I can't believe he just said that.
- That is completely unacceptable.
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Madam, I apologize.
I apologize, ladies and gentlemen...
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...for my friend. You cannot
speak that way to a stranger.
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Look, her husband's not offended.
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- He's not?
- No, her husband's not offended.
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Her husband's not here.
This lucky guy is her boyfriend.
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And even he's not offended,
and do you know why?
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Well, I can certainly hazard a guess.
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What the hell is that? For chrissake,
Vince, this is America.
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We don't say, "hazard a guess."
We say "yes" or we say "no."
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Well, I say "no" to you, Morris.
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Excuse me?
Could you repeat that?
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I don't think
the entire audience heard you.
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Go back to where
you came from, bastard!
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I get hecklers all the time,
but this schmuck came off personal.
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Where did he think I came from?
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Bastard! Bastard!
He called me a bastard.
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Now, it doesn't show
from the front, Lanny.
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Now, please, would you kindly not
mount me? It�s very disagreeable.
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Vince plunges straight into
quoting lines I wrote...
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... from a song
from our first motion picture.
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I happen to be honored
to work with this jerk
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Is that a compliment?
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I never frown with this clown
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Never, never, never.
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I get a kick from this...
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... friend of mine
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Fine, but don't give
the mike to this kike.
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- Well...
- Just relax.
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It�s not often we get topped by
a member of our audience, but...
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...this gentleman has
done the impossible.
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What is your name?
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- It�s Joe.
- Joe...
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...we were just wondering
if you'd be a great sport...
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...and help us out on stage.
What do you say, folks?
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Go on.
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Joe here is going to play
a crazy high school professor...
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...who's about to give Lanny
and I our final high school exam.
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So if you'll just excuse us while
we help Joe change into his...
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...crazy-professor outfit.
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Lanny, a little
costume-changing music...
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...if you please.
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Step this way.
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I'll have a word with him...
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...about the way
he spoke to your wife.
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Completely unnecessary.
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Just this way.
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You call any Jew on this planet
anything you like.
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But nobody calls my partner a kike.
Do you understand?
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Boffing ladies and
bashing gentlemen.
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I tell you, there was
nothing under the sun...
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... Vince and I wouldn't do
for each other.
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Are you finished?
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Thank you, Mamie.
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L�m sorry about that, Miss O'Connor.
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We just needed to be sure
you didn't take any notes.
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Lanny gave me very specific
instructions on that point.
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I don't understand why
he'd want me to read this.
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Why would he ever want
anyone to see this side of him?
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When you contacted us about
meeting Lanny for your book...
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...it wasn't simply about letting you
know he didn't want to speak with you.
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I believe my client wanted you
to understand that he, in fact...
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...was completing a book
of his own which would serve...
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...not only as his autobiography...
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...but also as the definitive account of
the joint careers of Morris and Collins.
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You've had, at first hand,
a sample of Lanny's writing voice.
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Yes, I have.
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Such a book, Miss O'Connor...
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...this raw, this honest...
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...would make your own efforts look...
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There's been some very nice...
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...translations of the Bible
over the centuries...
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...but they would run
a very poor second in popularity...
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...to the discovery
of the actual Ten Commandments.
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Single best part about teaching
grade two is the difference...
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...between the bright ones and
the dumb ones isn't so obvious.
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- What's so great about that?
- The results of my work...
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...as a teacher
aren't so depressing.
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Also, there's no homework
to correct in the evenings and...
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...well, none of the kids
know how to use drugs.
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Bonnie had come from new York
to visit me that summer.
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We'd been best friends
since kindergarten.
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At school we started the
Lanny and Vince Fan Club...
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... raising almost $200
for that year's telethon.
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All of you send in
a bit of your allowance.
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Just a little bit.
A dime, a nickel, a penny.
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Every bit helps.
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The goal of the telethon that year...
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... was $3.9 million, which was
a lot of dough at that time.
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Thank you, Tom.
You're a prince among men.
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Whoa, Lanny. There are
children watching!
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Where does he get his energy?
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To remind viewers of the goal...
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... we agreed the telethon
could run 39 hours nonstop.
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The show would begin at 9 p.m. On
Friday and finish at noon on Sunday.
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00:15:43,709 --> 00:15:46,041
We paced it so that
Vince and I were together...
240
00:15:46,245 --> 00:15:48,338
... for the kickoff,
most of the day Saturday...
241
00:15:48,547 --> 00:15:52,039
... then the big finale
on Sunday with us bleary-eyed...
242
00:15:52,251 --> 00:15:55,186
... and weeping as America
got ready to go to church.
243
00:15:55,387 --> 00:15:58,754
Lanny, Lanny. What are you doing?
244
00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:01,324
L�m ordering a pizza. L�m starving.
245
00:16:01,527 --> 00:16:05,258
No anchovies on mine, Lanny.
Hey, so who are you talking to?
246
00:16:05,464 --> 00:16:08,627
L�m talking to little Suzie
from Whittier, California...
247
00:16:08,834 --> 00:16:12,326
...and she is going to donate
three weeks of allowance.
248
00:16:12,538 --> 00:16:15,701
- How about that, folks?
- Suzie from Whittier, thank you.
249
00:16:15,908 --> 00:16:17,398
Three weeks of allowance.
250
00:16:17,609 --> 00:16:19,008
That's a challenge for all you...
251
00:16:19,211 --> 00:16:21,441
What you have to understand
is that Vince and me...
252
00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:23,808
... were essentially a boy-girl act.
253
00:16:24,016 --> 00:16:26,576
I was the tramp,
ready for any sort of action...
254
00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:28,377
... and Vince was the gentleman...
255
00:16:28,587 --> 00:16:30,714
... always trying to make me
behave myself.
256
00:16:30,923 --> 00:16:33,414
I was pleasure, and he was control.
257
00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:36,819
I was rock 'n' roll,
and he was class.
258
00:16:37,029 --> 00:16:41,363
His presence gave America
permission to like me.
259
00:16:43,802 --> 00:16:46,828
My deal with the publisher
gave me first-class travel...
260
00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:48,563
... a luxury I'd never enjoyed.
261
00:16:48,774 --> 00:16:51,174
Is there any chance of switching
to a window seat?
262
00:16:51,377 --> 00:16:53,641
Sorry, we're completely booked
in first.
263
00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:56,815
But these center seats
are really wonderful. See...
264
00:16:57,016 --> 00:16:59,143
...if you push here...
Can I show you?
265
00:16:59,351 --> 00:17:01,080
Sure.
266
00:17:02,788 --> 00:17:05,416
The chair swivels
to the left and the right.
267
00:17:05,624 --> 00:17:07,922
And this converts
to a full-sized dining table...
268
00:17:08,127 --> 00:17:09,890
...during our
Pan Am platinum service...
269
00:17:10,095 --> 00:17:12,655
...with damask linen
and silverware by Fornari...
270
00:17:12,865 --> 00:17:15,095
...so you don't have to eat off a tray.
271
00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:17,962
Again, that's only
for these center seats.
272
00:17:18,937 --> 00:17:20,234
How does that sound?
273
00:17:20,606 --> 00:17:23,234
At that time, when you
traveled first class...
274
00:17:23,442 --> 00:17:27,538
... people would always ask you if you
met someone famous on the flight.
275
00:17:27,746 --> 00:17:29,680
- Mr. Morris.
- Thank you.
276
00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:31,042
You're welcome.
277
00:17:40,626 --> 00:17:44,960
Though he would later accuse me
of engineering this, I didn't.
278
00:17:45,164 --> 00:17:46,529
It just...
279
00:17:46,732 --> 00:17:48,427
... happened.
280
00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:57,800
Reuben. So they...
They record these songs...
281
00:17:58,010 --> 00:17:59,739
...in a studio that I am paying for.
282
00:17:59,945 --> 00:18:01,776
Songs that are recorded for me...
283
00:18:01,980 --> 00:18:03,675
...that they are
contracted to provide.
284
00:18:03,882 --> 00:18:05,850
- Are you with me here?
- Yes, it's just that...
285
00:18:06,051 --> 00:18:09,248
No, it's just that nothing, Irv.
Please, let me finish. They record...
286
00:18:09,455 --> 00:18:12,891
I read an interview where Lanny was
given credit for insisting his butler...
287
00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:16,960
... travel in the same class and stay
at the same hotels as his boss.
288
00:18:17,563 --> 00:18:20,964
The valet's attentiveness
was impressive.
289
00:18:21,934 --> 00:18:25,267
Looks like you'll be having
dinner with Lanny Morris.
290
00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:31,070
- Hello.
- Hi.
291
00:18:41,386 --> 00:18:44,184
We should get a waiter to slide
a matchbook under the airplane.
292
00:18:45,357 --> 00:18:46,915
There we go.
293
00:18:47,126 --> 00:18:48,821
That should hold.
294
00:18:50,362 --> 00:18:51,556
This is my friend Reuben.
295
00:18:51,763 --> 00:18:52,991
- Hi.
- Hi.
296
00:18:53,198 --> 00:18:55,758
And this is also my friend,
technically speaking...
297
00:18:55,968 --> 00:18:57,936
...and business manager, Irv.
- Hi.
298
00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:01,436
Y name is Lanny.
299
00:19:06,178 --> 00:19:07,736
And what's your name?
300
00:19:09,214 --> 00:19:11,375
Bonnie. Bonnie Trout.
301
00:19:11,583 --> 00:19:12,914
What do you do, Bonnie?
302
00:19:13,218 --> 00:19:14,685
I teach.
303
00:19:14,887 --> 00:19:16,514
And what do you teach?
304
00:19:16,722 --> 00:19:18,952
- Second grade.
- Well, we have a lot in common.
305
00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:21,649
You teach second grade,
I went to second grade.
306
00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:25,023
- Irv, you went to second grade too?
- Any times.
307
00:19:25,230 --> 00:19:26,697
Tell me, Miss Trout...
308
00:19:26,899 --> 00:19:28,332
I don't mean to be impolite...
309
00:19:28,534 --> 00:19:30,092
...but I was wondering...
310
00:19:30,302 --> 00:19:33,863
...how a second-grade schoolteacher
affords to fly first class.
311
00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:38,203
Well, I have a pass...
312
00:19:38,410 --> 00:19:41,868
...that allows me free use
of the subway on weekends...
313
00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,243
...and the hot lunches
at school are only 50 cents.
314
00:19:46,652 --> 00:19:49,086
And l�m the mistress...
315
00:19:49,288 --> 00:19:50,755
...of a wealthy married man...
316
00:19:50,956 --> 00:19:53,584
...and when he and his wife
go on vacation, he treats me...
317
00:19:53,792 --> 00:19:56,955
...to a first-class trip
in the opposite direction.
318
00:19:57,796 --> 00:20:02,233
But look at me, talking only about
myself. What do you do for a living?
319
00:20:03,602 --> 00:20:06,093
L�m a French impressionist
painter out of Tahiti, mainly.
320
00:20:06,305 --> 00:20:08,739
L�m doing that to pay the bills.
Y ambition is to be...
321
00:20:08,941 --> 00:20:11,000
...a stockbroker in Paris.
322
00:20:11,310 --> 00:20:12,937
- I don't get it.
- Paul Gauguin.
323
00:20:13,145 --> 00:20:15,113
He gave up being
a successful stockbroker...
324
00:20:15,314 --> 00:20:17,748
...to become a painter
in the South Seas.
325
00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:20,615
You think the average
person knows that?
326
00:20:20,819 --> 00:20:24,186
Well, we're not talking about
the average person, Irv.
327
00:20:27,326 --> 00:20:28,793
In some ways...
328
00:20:28,994 --> 00:20:32,191
... he had never stopped
being a hero to me.
329
00:20:33,031 --> 00:20:37,161
That's why it was impossible
to think he might also be a killer.
330
00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:45,433
Well, this has been great.
331
00:20:45,644 --> 00:20:47,771
L�m gonna see you
inside your apartment.
332
00:20:47,980 --> 00:20:50,448
- There's really no need.
- Don't be silly.
333
00:20:50,649 --> 00:20:52,480
L�m not gonna try to come in.
334
00:20:52,684 --> 00:20:54,208
Promise.
335
00:20:54,987 --> 00:20:57,581
You've been away from your
apartment for how long now?
336
00:20:57,789 --> 00:20:59,450
- Ages.
- You never know if somebody's...
337
00:20:59,658 --> 00:21:01,250
...broken in while you were gone.
338
00:21:01,460 --> 00:21:04,122
L�ll just see you inside your door.
339
00:21:04,830 --> 00:21:07,697
Believe me, l�m...
l�m not trying to seduce you.
340
00:21:07,899 --> 00:21:09,867
I have to do the Today show
at 7 a.m.
341
00:21:10,068 --> 00:21:12,468
They want me in Makeup at 6:15.
342
00:21:12,671 --> 00:21:14,935
Bonnie had moved to new York
for the teaching job...
343
00:21:15,140 --> 00:21:17,108
... a little over a year ago.
344
00:21:17,309 --> 00:21:21,336
I had never visited her and had
no idea if this was the right place.
345
00:21:22,614 --> 00:21:24,047
Which floor?
346
00:21:24,650 --> 00:21:26,515
Why...
347
00:21:27,653 --> 00:21:28,881
- Four-D.
- Forty?
348
00:21:29,421 --> 00:21:31,286
It only goes up to six.
349
00:21:33,792 --> 00:21:35,350
Four-D...
350
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,790
Four-D, the fourth floor.
351
00:22:00,786 --> 00:22:02,117
Which way?
352
00:22:03,121 --> 00:22:04,918
- Guess.
- Why?
353
00:22:05,123 --> 00:22:06,385
It�s a test.
354
00:22:06,591 --> 00:22:08,115
A test?
355
00:22:09,895 --> 00:22:11,487
Okay.
356
00:22:11,697 --> 00:22:13,096
This way.
357
00:22:16,735 --> 00:22:18,965
So why didn't we take this elevator?
358
00:22:19,171 --> 00:22:20,798
Doesn't work.
359
00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:25,475
Well...
360
00:22:26,345 --> 00:22:27,710
...good night.
361
00:22:27,913 --> 00:22:29,881
No, l�m going to see you
into your apartment.
362
00:22:30,082 --> 00:22:32,607
And then l�m gonna leave you
alone until tomorrow.
363
00:22:49,968 --> 00:22:52,732
I never get which key goes in
which lock the first time.
364
00:22:55,273 --> 00:22:57,571
Hey, looks like they fixed it.
365
00:23:08,954 --> 00:23:10,421
You okay?
366
00:23:10,622 --> 00:23:13,022
Maybe we should turn on a light.
367
00:23:26,772 --> 00:23:28,103
Well...
368
00:23:29,274 --> 00:23:30,832
l�m going to leave you now.
369
00:23:31,042 --> 00:23:34,375
I have Reuben and Irv waiting
in the limousine downstairs...
370
00:23:34,813 --> 00:23:37,782
...and I should get some sleep
for the Today show.
371
00:23:40,018 --> 00:23:41,451
So...
372
00:23:46,224 --> 00:23:48,454
it was lovely to meet you, Bonnie.
373
00:24:07,879 --> 00:24:10,177
By the end of the telethon,
we had no voices.
374
00:24:10,382 --> 00:24:13,977
Thirty-nine hours
of nonstop entertainment.
375
00:24:14,186 --> 00:24:17,019
A telethon was a superhuman feat.
376
00:24:17,222 --> 00:24:20,680
We weren't just heroes,
we were gods.
377
00:24:23,495 --> 00:24:26,293
A couple of the boys were there
to make sure we got out alive...
378
00:24:26,498 --> 00:24:28,830
... to make the flight to new York.
379
00:24:32,704 --> 00:24:35,639
Everyone. Listen. Listen.
380
00:24:35,841 --> 00:24:37,934
Gentlemen. Gentlemen, please.
381
00:24:38,343 --> 00:24:41,369
Gentlemen, if I could just
have your attention.
382
00:24:41,746 --> 00:24:43,577
Everyone, Mr. Collins
and Mr. Morris...
383
00:24:43,782 --> 00:24:46,046
...will answer questions
at the press conference...
384
00:24:46,251 --> 00:24:47,946
...at the Palace Del Sol.
385
00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:50,121
Gentlemen, there will be
plenty of time...
386
00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:53,780
...to answer your questions
at the Palace Del Sol.
387
00:24:53,992 --> 00:24:57,052
Thank you, we will answer your
questions at the press conference.
388
00:24:57,262 --> 00:24:59,230
Thank you for coming.
389
00:25:05,237 --> 00:25:08,229
We had a full police escort, along
with bodyguards who were there...
390
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,341
... to protect us from any thoughts
we might have of going AWOL...
391
00:25:11,543 --> 00:25:13,306
... prior to this press conference.
392
00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:16,640
A pair of new Jersey's finest
walked on either side of us...
393
00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:19,408
... as we entered
the lobby of the hotel.
394
00:25:19,618 --> 00:25:22,348
It was an indication of how
legitimate the Mob had gone...
395
00:25:22,554 --> 00:25:24,749
... that they could
bring in the local police...
396
00:25:24,956 --> 00:25:27,424
... to guard the facade of their racket.
397
00:25:27,993 --> 00:25:32,123
The local chief was a man
named Jack Scaglia.
398
00:25:32,330 --> 00:25:35,231
And of course, the two
gentlemen on my right...
399
00:25:35,433 --> 00:25:38,732
...who need no introduction,
have come here directly...
400
00:25:38,937 --> 00:25:42,600
...from their record-breaking
polio telethon in Miami, Florida.
401
00:25:43,675 --> 00:25:47,133
So the first thing l�d like to announce
is that Mr. Sanmarco...
402
00:25:47,612 --> 00:25:48,874
I wish I could tell you...
403
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,640
... that Sally Sanmarco
was a slim, 6-foot-6 guy...
404
00:25:51,850 --> 00:25:54,842
... who looked like a prince
and spoke with an English accent.
405
00:25:55,053 --> 00:25:57,419
Then I wouldn't be
falling back on the stereotype.
406
00:25:57,722 --> 00:26:01,283
The trouble was, Sally was
straight out of central casting.
407
00:26:02,127 --> 00:26:04,152
A gangster
who looked and talked...
408
00:26:04,362 --> 00:26:06,990
... just like you would expect
from the movies.
409
00:26:07,198 --> 00:26:09,792
How did it feel to raise
all that money for polio?
410
00:26:10,335 --> 00:26:12,530
It felt great. It felt really great.
411
00:26:12,737 --> 00:26:15,604
From a publicity angle, and in
terms of giving him legitimacy...
412
00:26:15,807 --> 00:26:18,037
... this was a huge coup for Sally.
413
00:26:18,243 --> 00:26:20,711
Like I said, we were gods.
414
00:26:22,013 --> 00:26:25,608
We'd only been in the new York area
for an hour or so, during which time...
415
00:26:25,817 --> 00:26:28,581
... we were constantly watched
by police and reporters...
416
00:26:28,787 --> 00:26:31,517
... which ended up being
a good thing for us.
417
00:26:31,723 --> 00:26:34,157
We got you our best bridal suite.
418
00:26:34,659 --> 00:26:36,650
Fucking nice, huh?
419
00:26:37,796 --> 00:26:40,492
People talk about having fancy
apartments and hotel rooms...
420
00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:42,792
...on the West Side of Manhattan.
What do they see?
421
00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:46,164
Fucking New Jersey.
Here, you see New York City.
422
00:26:53,411 --> 00:26:55,845
Unfortunately,
Vince and I were acquainted...
423
00:26:56,047 --> 00:27:00,347
... with the dead girl in the bathroom
of our hotel suite in new Jersey.
424
00:27:00,885 --> 00:27:04,116
Her last name was O'Flaherty.
425
00:27:04,556 --> 00:27:07,684
Her first name was Maureen.
426
00:27:07,926 --> 00:27:11,589
Karen, we decided to trade
apartments, not identities.
427
00:27:11,796 --> 00:27:13,320
Why didn't you make up a name?
428
00:27:13,531 --> 00:27:16,056
Bonnie, I was looking
at a five-hour flight.
429
00:27:16,267 --> 00:27:19,395
I didn't wanna make up a life story
that wasn't attached to anything.
430
00:27:19,604 --> 00:27:23,096
Well, I returned the offense.
I got to pretend I was you.
431
00:27:23,308 --> 00:27:24,866
- What?
- You received a package.
432
00:27:25,076 --> 00:27:27,374
Messenger service.
I signed your name.
433
00:27:27,579 --> 00:27:30,207
- Who's it from?
- No address. Want me to open it?
434
00:27:30,415 --> 00:27:31,939
- Sure.
- That's good. I already did.
435
00:27:32,150 --> 00:27:33,412
It�s a manuscript.
436
00:27:33,618 --> 00:27:36,052
"Excerpt From the Memoirs of...
437
00:27:36,254 --> 00:27:38,017
...Lanny Morris."
438
00:27:38,223 --> 00:27:42,216
Hey, all your dreams are coming true.
He's writing you love letters already.
439
00:27:42,427 --> 00:27:44,395
Bonnie, I need
to know what he's written.
440
00:27:44,596 --> 00:27:48,555
- Well, l�ll send it to you.
- Now. Before he calls me tomorrow.
441
00:27:50,802 --> 00:27:53,737
- Please?
- All right.
442
00:27:55,140 --> 00:27:56,971
All right.
443
00:27:57,175 --> 00:27:58,608
Here we go.
444
00:28:00,979 --> 00:28:04,915
"Let me explain to you why two
very famous guys just finishing...
445
00:28:05,116 --> 00:28:09,246
...a nationally broadcast telethon
ended up in New Jersey."
446
00:28:13,892 --> 00:28:19,091
For years, the Palace Del Sol was
one of the centers of Mob prosperity.
447
00:28:19,297 --> 00:28:22,289
Needless to say, a major
headliner in the showroom...
448
00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:25,663
... helped legitimize
the entire operation.
449
00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:27,599
Give her a kiss. Yeah, beautiful.
450
00:28:27,806 --> 00:28:30,832
One more, guys. That's it.
That's great. Thank you.
451
00:28:31,042 --> 00:28:33,476
Vince and I needed help
in keeping us up all the time...
452
00:28:33,678 --> 00:28:35,873
... and in the way of thinking
in the '50s...
453
00:28:36,081 --> 00:28:38,311
... anything you didn't take
with a needle was okay.
454
00:28:38,516 --> 00:28:42,179
It wasn't "serious" serious.
It was like running a red light.
455
00:28:42,387 --> 00:28:47,256
Everyone used bennies. Vince added
them to his morning coffee like sugar.
456
00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:54,289
Not that you could tell.
457
00:28:56,101 --> 00:28:58,092
When we did finally
decide to flatten out...
458
00:28:58,303 --> 00:29:02,262
... we'd take two or three Tuinals,
or three or four "Threeinals."
459
00:29:02,474 --> 00:29:03,771
They were really good.
460
00:29:03,975 --> 00:29:06,273
Between the moment you took them
and passing out...
461
00:29:06,478 --> 00:29:09,641
... it felt really sexy.
462
00:29:45,216 --> 00:29:46,410
Sure.
463
00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:48,745
- Enjoyed the show.
- Thank you.
464
00:29:53,591 --> 00:29:55,115
The walls of the Blue Grotto...
465
00:29:55,326 --> 00:29:57,988
... were made of a mixture
of plaster and Styrofoam.
466
00:29:58,196 --> 00:30:01,063
Flammable as all hell. But the boys
had learned it was cheaper...
467
00:30:01,266 --> 00:30:04,724
... to give the inspector 200 bucks
and a ringside table to our show...
468
00:30:04,936 --> 00:30:08,167
... than to spend thousands
of dollars on fireproofing.
469
00:30:08,373 --> 00:30:11,604
Besides, it was always vital in
a business enterprise of this sort...
470
00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:15,507
... to have the option to torch the place
at a moment's notice...
471
00:30:15,713 --> 00:30:18,079
... should the need present itself.
472
00:30:20,218 --> 00:30:23,278
One night, after our show,
we were taken to Sally's office.
473
00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:25,046
We wondered
what we had done wrong...
474
00:30:25,256 --> 00:30:26,883
... but what we had done
was done good.
475
00:30:27,091 --> 00:30:29,355
Sally started going on about
how much he liked us...
476
00:30:29,561 --> 00:30:32,325
... how he thought we were
a good fit with his crowd...
477
00:30:32,530 --> 00:30:35,260
... meaning that we brought in
an audience of heavy drinkers...
478
00:30:35,466 --> 00:30:37,331
... adulterers and gamblers.
479
00:30:37,535 --> 00:30:40,026
So, what we want is for you boys
to come back here...
480
00:30:40,238 --> 00:30:43,036
...three months from now
and open our new showroom for us.
481
00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:47,008
A two-week,
exclusive limited engagement...
482
00:30:47,212 --> 00:30:50,113
...that we want you to do for us
for six weeks.
483
00:30:50,582 --> 00:30:53,244
God help you when a killer
takes a shining to you.
484
00:30:53,451 --> 00:30:58,388
I looked at Vince and scratched my
nose, which meant our strongest "no."
485
00:30:58,590 --> 00:31:00,319
That's a very great honor, Sally.
486
00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:02,993
- You're damn fucking right it is.
- The thing is...
487
00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:06,254
...we're just trying to cut down on
the nightclub work at the moment.
488
00:31:06,464 --> 00:31:09,058
We turned down the Sands
so we could do a TV special...
489
00:31:09,267 --> 00:31:13,294
...and the only reason we still work the
Versailles is out of friendship for you.
490
00:31:17,408 --> 00:31:20,343
- What dates were you thinking of?
- We open November 15th.
491
00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:23,173
Sally, any other day
we would be here in a flash...
492
00:31:23,381 --> 00:31:26,407
...but, you know, that's the day
right after the next polio telethon.
493
00:31:26,618 --> 00:31:29,678
I mean, we always take two weeks off
right after that to recover.
494
00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:31,082
- Right, Vince?
- At least.
495
00:31:31,289 --> 00:31:33,382
- I mean, we're tired.
- That's the way I want you.
496
00:31:33,591 --> 00:31:37,220
After the fucking telethon,
we fly you up from Miami...
497
00:31:37,428 --> 00:31:40,124
...hold a press conference,
all fucking exhausted...
498
00:31:40,331 --> 00:31:42,322
...so people know
what heroes you are.
499
00:31:43,368 --> 00:31:45,836
L�ll keep a suite for you
with the best hookers I got.
500
00:31:46,037 --> 00:31:48,130
Your own personal cathouse.
501
00:31:48,339 --> 00:31:49,806
And l�ll have them send you up...
502
00:31:50,008 --> 00:31:51,942
...a shipment of lobsters
and stone crabs.
503
00:31:52,143 --> 00:31:54,577
- You like lobsters?
- Love them.
504
00:31:54,779 --> 00:31:56,474
And a case of these...
505
00:31:56,681 --> 00:31:59,309
...special grapefruits...
506
00:31:59,517 --> 00:32:02,350
...that I get special down there.
507
00:32:02,787 --> 00:32:05,688
The most delicious thing
you ever tasted in your life.
508
00:32:05,890 --> 00:32:08,154
Juicy, thin skin.
509
00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:12,723
Months later, on the night
before the telethon in Miami...
510
00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:15,297
... we got back to our room
and found that Sally...
511
00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,697
... had been more than good
to his word.
512
00:32:20,505 --> 00:32:23,201
Laid out around the room
were various crates...
513
00:32:23,408 --> 00:32:25,899
... bearing the addresses
of their destination:
514
00:32:26,110 --> 00:32:29,477
Our suite at the Palace Del Sol
hotel in new Jersey.
515
00:32:29,681 --> 00:32:34,675
"You like lobsters?
See you in New Jersey."
516
00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:38,919
"Thin skin, fucking most delicious
fucking thing...
517
00:32:39,123 --> 00:32:40,784
...you ever had in your fucking life."
518
00:32:40,992 --> 00:32:43,790
"What I thought was a box
of beach balls turned out to be...
519
00:32:43,995 --> 00:32:46,259
...the thinnest-skinned,
dripping-wet grapefruits...
520
00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:48,056
...l�d ever tasted in my life.
521
00:32:48,266 --> 00:32:50,860
The 6-foot crate was filled
with fruits of the sea...
522
00:32:51,069 --> 00:32:53,902
...slowly shifting over a bed of ice."
523
00:32:54,105 --> 00:32:57,700
Yeah, this is Lanny Morris.
Send up three steaks, all right?
524
00:32:57,909 --> 00:32:59,240
Yeah. Make them rare this time.
525
00:32:59,444 --> 00:33:00,775
- Yeah, rare.
- Like bloody.
526
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:04,244
Bloody. And a couple of bottles
of that champagne.
527
00:33:04,449 --> 00:33:06,417
- Make that three.
- Three bottles of champagne.
528
00:33:06,617 --> 00:33:10,018
And can you make sure
that Maureen delivers them?
529
00:33:10,221 --> 00:33:11,848
Yeah, Maureen.
530
00:33:12,357 --> 00:33:13,847
We called down for Maureen...
531
00:33:14,058 --> 00:33:15,889
... the room-service girl
I'd met earlier...
532
00:33:16,094 --> 00:33:18,585
... who wanted the interview
for her school paper.
533
00:33:18,796 --> 00:33:21,390
She brought up three steaks,
one for her...
534
00:33:21,599 --> 00:33:24,432
... as her last official delivery
of the day.
535
00:33:24,635 --> 00:33:26,193
As much as I love lobster...
536
00:33:26,404 --> 00:33:29,464
... seeing all that shellfish
nestled on ice in the crate...
537
00:33:29,674 --> 00:33:33,633
... put me in the mood
for hooves, not claws.
538
00:33:51,262 --> 00:33:56,097
The interview for Maureen's campus
paper went better than expected.
539
00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:58,530
Vince and I popped some Tuinals...
540
00:33:58,736 --> 00:34:01,034
... to insure that
we would sleep like babes...
541
00:34:01,239 --> 00:34:06,108
... after we wore off the general
horniness that the pills first give you.
542
00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:12,176
Vince bought insurance on his bet
by having a few babes on hand.
543
00:34:12,383 --> 00:34:15,546
Well, not exactly on his hand.
544
00:34:15,753 --> 00:34:17,118
That wasn't his preference.
545
00:34:17,321 --> 00:34:20,722
"Not exactly on his hand.
That wasn't his preference."
546
00:34:20,925 --> 00:34:26,056
"Not exactly on his hand"?
"That wasn't his preference"?
547
00:34:27,098 --> 00:34:29,692
"The Tuinals, coupled with
a nice amount of booze...
548
00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:32,426
...guaranteed us
the sleep of the dead.
549
00:34:32,637 --> 00:34:35,105
Late the next morning,
Maureen was sent packing...
550
00:34:35,306 --> 00:34:41,245
...and Vince and I prepared ourselves
for that night's broadcast."
551
00:34:42,346 --> 00:34:45,804
Well, I guess this is one story my kids
won't have to give a book report on.
552
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,451
Thanks.
553
00:34:50,655 --> 00:34:51,849
Must be weird to find out...
554
00:34:52,056 --> 00:34:55,787
...that the object of all your
adolescent fantasies is a pig.
555
00:34:57,128 --> 00:34:59,824
He's not like that.
556
00:35:00,031 --> 00:35:03,694
Oh, so it's just the way
he describes himself.
557
00:35:04,535 --> 00:35:06,298
She was right.
558
00:35:06,504 --> 00:35:09,029
Which was the real Lanny?
559
00:35:09,574 --> 00:35:12,634
I'd find out later that the story
of the hookers in the hotel suite...
560
00:35:12,844 --> 00:35:15,312
... was a complete fabrication.
561
00:35:15,513 --> 00:35:18,243
That night, Maureen was alone.
562
00:35:46,210 --> 00:35:48,701
- Hello?
- So how did you like the show?
563
00:35:48,913 --> 00:35:50,437
Lanny?
564
00:35:52,483 --> 00:35:54,280
The Today show.
565
00:35:54,485 --> 00:35:55,850
You did watch, didn't you?
566
00:35:56,654 --> 00:35:59,088
- The show.
- You didn't watch.
567
00:35:59,290 --> 00:36:01,451
Wow, that's scary.
568
00:36:03,494 --> 00:36:06,224
You see, when you're a star...
569
00:36:06,430 --> 00:36:09,456
...you live in terror,
wondering if it's all over yet.
570
00:36:09,667 --> 00:36:11,498
You keep looking for the signs.
571
00:36:11,702 --> 00:36:14,762
You're shooting a scene from a movie
on a New York street...
572
00:36:14,972 --> 00:36:16,166
...and a crowd doesn't form.
573
00:36:16,374 --> 00:36:18,171
You meet a girl on a plane
and tell her...
574
00:36:18,376 --> 00:36:21,038
...that you're gonna be on the
Today show the next morning...
575
00:36:21,245 --> 00:36:24,009
...and she doesn't
wake up early to watch.
576
00:36:24,215 --> 00:36:25,978
It�s very scary.
577
00:36:26,417 --> 00:36:29,818
Hey, you know,
I mentioned you on the air.
578
00:36:30,988 --> 00:36:33,889
- You did?
- Yes, I proposed to you on the air.
579
00:36:34,091 --> 00:36:36,958
Your building is probably
surrounded with photographers...
580
00:36:37,161 --> 00:36:39,857
- ... at this very moment.
- You're kidding.
581
00:36:40,064 --> 00:36:42,965
Yes, l�m kidding.
582
00:36:45,403 --> 00:36:46,893
So...
583
00:36:47,471 --> 00:36:49,268
...what time would you like to meet?
584
00:37:13,464 --> 00:37:16,297
Stanley, this is Bonnie.
Bonnie, Stanley.
585
00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:17,990
Nice to meet you.
586
00:37:18,202 --> 00:37:19,567
Is the food almost ready, Stan?
587
00:37:19,770 --> 00:37:22,671
Yeah. L�ll bring it right out,
Mr. Lanny.
588
00:37:23,140 --> 00:37:26,769
I was very hungry, so I asked Stanley
to prepare us something special.
589
00:37:26,978 --> 00:37:28,969
That sounds great.
590
00:37:30,881 --> 00:37:32,371
Tell me, what kind of a meeting...
591
00:37:32,583 --> 00:37:35,450
...does a schoolteacher have to go to
during the summer vacation?
592
00:37:35,653 --> 00:37:38,747
L�m exploring the possibility
of another job.
593
00:37:38,956 --> 00:37:42,585
- Something in publishing.
- How did it go?
594
00:37:42,793 --> 00:37:44,260
Okay.
595
00:37:44,762 --> 00:37:47,390
Have you ever thought
about writing a book?
596
00:37:48,065 --> 00:37:51,125
- About what?
- Your life.
597
00:37:51,335 --> 00:37:53,132
Sure. When l�m dead.
598
00:37:53,838 --> 00:37:55,169
No, seriously.
599
00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:57,500
It would have to be published
after I died...
600
00:37:57,708 --> 00:38:00,609
...when I wouldn't care what
anybody thought about me.
601
00:38:01,045 --> 00:38:05,482
So, what would you write about,
if you were going to tell the truth?
602
00:38:05,683 --> 00:38:07,378
In my book?
603
00:38:07,752 --> 00:38:11,210
Well, the truth is,
l�ve met four presidents.
604
00:38:11,422 --> 00:38:13,185
They all seemed like
they were out of it.
605
00:38:13,391 --> 00:38:15,325
Like they had no idea
what was going on.
606
00:38:15,526 --> 00:38:18,825
Even J.F.K. Left me unimpressed.
I felt like I was with the boss' son.
607
00:38:19,030 --> 00:38:20,588
You don't think you could say that?
608
00:38:20,798 --> 00:38:23,858
Not if I was planning
on living in this country. No, no.
609
00:38:24,068 --> 00:38:27,003
I don't think that Judy Garland
was such a great singer...
610
00:38:27,204 --> 00:38:28,603
...after she turned 16.
611
00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:32,173
That quiver, you know,
it was like she had no control over it.
612
00:38:32,376 --> 00:38:34,344
I would get killed for saying that.
613
00:38:34,545 --> 00:38:37,810
Or that Marilyn Monroe
was no better an actress...
614
00:38:38,015 --> 00:38:41,507
...after she studied with
Lee Strasberg than before.
615
00:38:44,288 --> 00:38:46,654
L�m saying what really happened.
616
00:38:50,561 --> 00:38:52,620
Having to be a nice guy...
617
00:38:52,830 --> 00:38:55,128
...is the toughest job in the world
when you're not.
618
00:39:01,906 --> 00:39:04,397
This is a lamb in tea sauce.
619
00:39:04,608 --> 00:39:07,406
This is twice-cooked pork
with shredded, pickled cabbage.
620
00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:10,280
Kung Pao chicken.
621
00:39:10,848 --> 00:39:13,043
And this is Kung Ping Loh Haa...
622
00:39:13,250 --> 00:39:17,846
...lobster in tangerine peel
for you and your lovely lady friend.
623
00:39:18,255 --> 00:39:20,223
You shouldn't have
done that, Stanley.
624
00:39:20,424 --> 00:39:23,325
I don't eat lobster. L�m Jewish.
625
00:39:23,527 --> 00:39:24,755
But you eat pork.
626
00:39:25,096 --> 00:39:27,587
- Do you have a problem with that?
- No, I just thought...
627
00:39:27,798 --> 00:39:31,666
No shrimp, no lobster.
They're disgusting. Take it away.
628
00:39:31,869 --> 00:39:34,565
I will pay for the dish,
but take it away, please.
629
00:39:35,005 --> 00:39:36,666
L�ll change it.
630
00:39:38,342 --> 00:39:40,139
L�m sorry, I...
631
00:39:40,344 --> 00:39:42,676
I should have asked.
Maybe you love lobster.
632
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,609
L�m fine.
633
00:39:45,816 --> 00:39:48,011
Have you ever had
Szechwan cuisine before?
634
00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:50,744
It�s from the northern part of China.
635
00:39:50,955 --> 00:39:53,321
It must be strange for you.
636
00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:59,094
If you complain to a waiter,
you're not just some jerk at table five...
637
00:39:59,296 --> 00:40:00,490
...you're Lanny Morris.
638
00:40:01,165 --> 00:40:04,157
I know that everyone
dreams about being famous...
639
00:40:04,368 --> 00:40:06,131
...but it would be interesting
to know...
640
00:40:06,337 --> 00:40:08,305
...what it's like
to relinquish all anonymity.
641
00:40:13,043 --> 00:40:16,638
- Gets me a date.
- Does that bother you?
642
00:40:16,847 --> 00:40:19,680
That people only wanna be with you
because of who you are?
643
00:40:19,884 --> 00:40:22,978
- As opposed to?
- Well...
644
00:40:23,187 --> 00:40:25,052
...the real you.
645
00:40:26,490 --> 00:40:28,151
The real me.
646
00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:35,392
The real me was brought up
as a nice middle-class kid...
647
00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:37,226
...which is not the easiest thing...
648
00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:40,871
...when you are extremely poor
and living in a slum.
649
00:40:41,472 --> 00:40:46,307
The real me spent most of his time
getting the shit kicked out of him...
650
00:40:46,510 --> 00:40:49,035
...and dreaming about
something better.
651
00:40:51,282 --> 00:40:53,648
Like being here
with someone like you.
652
00:40:54,919 --> 00:40:58,946
Fifteen years ago, he had,
for one brief moment...
653
00:40:59,156 --> 00:41:02,023
... made me feel like
the most special person in the world.
654
00:41:02,226 --> 00:41:06,629
"The miracle in my life
is not that I survived polio...
655
00:41:06,831 --> 00:41:08,731
...and am standing here today.
656
00:41:08,933 --> 00:41:12,960
No. The reason I consider myself
to be a miracle girl...
657
00:41:13,170 --> 00:41:14,831
...is because I had
the good fortune...
658
00:41:15,039 --> 00:41:17,166
...to meet Lanny and Vince
when I was sick."
659
00:41:17,842 --> 00:41:21,437
It was a moment
seen by millions of people...
660
00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:25,308
... but felt only by me.
661
00:41:29,420 --> 00:41:33,254
That moment had changed my life.
662
00:41:36,527 --> 00:41:40,395
I was about to find my own way
into Lanny's book...
663
00:41:41,031 --> 00:41:45,297
... after he had found
such a powerful way into mine.
664
00:42:59,743 --> 00:43:01,142
Checking out today?
665
00:43:18,462 --> 00:43:20,191
Is there a message
for Bonnie Trout?
666
00:43:20,397 --> 00:43:22,797
- From one of our guests?
- Yes, Lanny Morris.
667
00:43:26,070 --> 00:43:27,298
L�m afraid not.
668
00:43:27,571 --> 00:43:31,667
- Are you sure?
- Oh, yes, l�m sure.
669
00:43:35,646 --> 00:43:37,011
Do you need a cab?
670
00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:46,116
I still don't understand
why Vince Collins is willing...
671
00:43:46,323 --> 00:43:49,781
...to be involved in such
an expose of himself.
672
00:43:49,994 --> 00:43:51,791
Vince is a realist.
673
00:43:51,996 --> 00:43:54,692
The days of his box-office
power are drawing to a close.
674
00:43:55,099 --> 00:43:56,896
Given the amount of money
we're offering...
675
00:43:57,101 --> 00:44:00,730
And it's because the investment
in Mr. Collins is so large...
676
00:44:00,938 --> 00:44:06,877
...l�ve compiled a list of questions
we'd like the miracle girl to ask.
677
00:44:13,951 --> 00:44:17,443
I don't wanna look at your questions.
I have my own approach.
678
00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:20,715
S. O'Connor, we're not paying
a million dollars for your approach...
679
00:44:20,924 --> 00:44:23,085
...we're paying for what
Vince Collins has to say.
680
00:44:23,293 --> 00:44:26,456
To me. What he has to say to me.
681
00:44:27,297 --> 00:44:30,061
Greg, this is not as easy as it looks.
682
00:44:30,634 --> 00:44:33,398
If you go to Vince Collins
and ask him a series of questions...
683
00:44:33,604 --> 00:44:35,868
...you'll come back here
with a 300-page press book.
684
00:44:36,073 --> 00:44:39,167
Well, as l�ve always understood
this company's policy...
685
00:44:39,376 --> 00:44:41,401
...while the book is being written...
686
00:44:41,612 --> 00:44:46,049
...the relationship between the author
and editor is sacrosanct.
687
00:44:47,117 --> 00:44:49,210
This isn't your typical book deal.
688
00:44:49,620 --> 00:44:53,579
We've really just leased
an oil well called Vince Collins...
689
00:44:53,791 --> 00:44:57,124
...and granted s. O'Connor
the right to tap.
690
00:44:57,361 --> 00:45:00,819
I think we have a responsibility to...
691
00:45:01,298 --> 00:45:03,596
...monitor the drilling.
692
00:45:26,824 --> 00:45:29,315
- Hello.
- Mrs. O'Flaherty?
693
00:45:29,927 --> 00:45:31,417
Yes.
694
00:45:31,662 --> 00:45:35,291
Y name's O'Connor.
L�m the one writing the book.
695
00:45:48,412 --> 00:45:51,609
The book will be
centered around Vince Collins.
696
00:45:51,815 --> 00:45:54,648
L�ll be asking him a lot of questions.
697
00:45:54,852 --> 00:45:59,880
I wanted to know if there were any
you'd like to have answered yourself.
698
00:46:03,794 --> 00:46:08,322
Maureen and I planted this tree
on her fifth birthday.
699
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,236
Father did most of the digging,
of course.
700
00:46:14,304 --> 00:46:16,465
She'd be 38.
701
00:46:17,341 --> 00:46:20,367
L�m 59 myself.
702
00:46:22,679 --> 00:46:25,239
If she were alive now...
703
00:46:26,650 --> 00:46:30,211
...we'd be talking about things,
back and forth...
704
00:46:30,420 --> 00:46:32,217
...like two women.
705
00:46:32,890 --> 00:46:35,222
Like you and I are doing.
706
00:46:40,864 --> 00:46:43,059
And tureen�s father?
707
00:46:44,067 --> 00:46:46,592
Frank died six years ago.
708
00:46:47,237 --> 00:46:49,364
He took his own life.
709
00:46:49,973 --> 00:46:53,033
One night, just before he died...
710
00:46:53,243 --> 00:46:56,371
...he dug up the earth
around this tree...
711
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,678
...he took the urn
with tureen�s ashes in it...
712
00:46:59,883 --> 00:47:02,613
...and spread them around its roots.
713
00:47:04,521 --> 00:47:08,287
So this is my daughter.
714
00:47:09,927 --> 00:47:12,521
This is what I have of her.
715
00:47:19,503 --> 00:47:22,233
- Are you Catholic?
- My... My mother was.
716
00:47:23,006 --> 00:47:25,531
Then you will understand
my dilemma.
717
00:47:25,742 --> 00:47:29,439
Our faith offers an afterlife.
718
00:47:30,647 --> 00:47:32,979
A daughter needs her mother.
719
00:47:34,084 --> 00:47:40,080
So I have to live out this life
as far from sin as I can manage.
720
00:47:43,026 --> 00:47:45,654
I'll never see my husband again.
721
00:47:46,196 --> 00:47:48,596
He's consigned himself to hell.
722
00:47:51,034 --> 00:47:54,492
But what if Maureen
killed herself too?
723
00:47:58,208 --> 00:48:00,836
She's in hell, with my husband.
724
00:48:01,044 --> 00:48:05,174
The life l�m trying to lead
will bring me to heaven's grace...
725
00:48:06,250 --> 00:48:09,617
...only to hear
their screams of torment.
726
00:48:11,154 --> 00:48:13,384
Chief Scaglia,
you were in the hotel room...
727
00:48:13,590 --> 00:48:16,753
... when they found
Maureen's body in the tub.
728
00:48:17,194 --> 00:48:21,096
So was Sally, so was Lanny,
so was Vince.
729
00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:26,730
And there was also
a PR lady there from the hotel.
730
00:48:27,137 --> 00:48:28,695
How do you think she died?
731
00:48:29,373 --> 00:48:32,433
She died in an auto accident
two weeks later. It was terrible.
732
00:48:35,913 --> 00:48:37,107
No, Maureen.
733
00:48:37,314 --> 00:48:39,976
- How did Maureen die?
- She drowned.
734
00:48:40,183 --> 00:48:41,980
- Why?
- What do you mean, why?
735
00:48:42,185 --> 00:48:44,710
You and I take baths all the time.
We don't drown in them.
736
00:48:44,922 --> 00:48:47,948
You and I do not mix
sleeping pills with booze.
737
00:48:48,158 --> 00:48:51,093
- She committed suicide?
- Overdose is the official story.
738
00:48:51,295 --> 00:48:55,129
What's the official story on the fact
that the staff of the hotel in Miami...
739
00:48:55,332 --> 00:48:58,392
... all seemed to know she delivered
room service to the boys' suite...
740
00:48:58,602 --> 00:49:01,435
...three days before
and was never seen alive again?
741
00:49:01,638 --> 00:49:02,969
What happened to her?
742
00:49:03,173 --> 00:49:05,641
How did she end up
in a hotel room in New Jersey?
743
00:49:05,842 --> 00:49:09,710
Sally never had any problem
moving girls around. Okay?
744
00:49:09,913 --> 00:49:11,107
He had two hotels.
745
00:49:11,315 --> 00:49:13,306
- So Sally arranged it?
- No, I don't think so.
746
00:49:13,517 --> 00:49:16,384
You see, she was brought up there
as a reward for the boys...
747
00:49:16,586 --> 00:49:19,248
...and I think she started
to party just a little too early.
748
00:49:19,456 --> 00:49:21,947
She was a student.
This was a summer job.
749
00:49:22,159 --> 00:49:23,421
Listen to me...
750
00:49:23,860 --> 00:49:29,799
...the Palace Del Sol was very
important to Sally, okay?
751
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,163
He launched his new wing...
752
00:49:33,370 --> 00:49:36,669
...with a push
from Lanny and Vince...
753
00:49:36,873 --> 00:49:42,505
...and this stupid girl
shows up dead.
754
00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:47,341
She's not gonna come back.
We do the best thing for all of us.
755
00:49:47,551 --> 00:49:52,011
We speed up the investigation
and we cremate her. Okay?
756
00:49:52,222 --> 00:49:54,417
End of story.
757
00:49:57,227 --> 00:50:00,822
- Here you are.
- Here's your lobster.
758
00:50:01,031 --> 00:50:03,966
- Enjoy.
- Looks great.
759
00:50:05,402 --> 00:50:09,168
"Sally said, 'l�ll have them send you
up your own shipment of lobsters.
760
00:50:09,373 --> 00:50:11,398
You like lobster?"'
761
00:50:11,975 --> 00:50:15,274
We said we did
because we really did.
762
00:50:16,046 --> 00:50:18,947
You shouldn't have done that,
Stanley. I don't eat lobster.
763
00:50:21,885 --> 00:50:24,285
Were there any signs of violence
on her body?
764
00:50:24,488 --> 00:50:28,788
No, no. There were some
small scratches on the torso.
765
00:50:30,694 --> 00:50:36,064
Why did my daughter die?
Did she kill herself?
766
00:50:36,967 --> 00:50:40,528
What had they done to her
that would make her do that?
767
00:50:43,140 --> 00:50:45,370
What had they done?
768
00:50:50,313 --> 00:50:52,577
Once upon a time...
769
00:50:52,783 --> 00:50:56,446
... when terrible things
happened to people...
770
00:50:56,653 --> 00:50:59,213
... they were left as a mystery.
771
00:51:01,391 --> 00:51:04,622
Even the tabloids kept a distance.
772
00:51:10,033 --> 00:51:15,801
Some things were allowed
to be left just the way they were.
773
00:51:24,614 --> 00:51:26,445
Any trouble with the directions
I gave you?
774
00:51:26,650 --> 00:51:30,086
- Only the parts where I had to turn.
- Sorry.
775
00:51:30,987 --> 00:51:33,387
It�s the price of seclusion.
776
00:51:38,462 --> 00:51:40,453
You haven't switched over
to cassette?
777
00:51:40,664 --> 00:51:44,532
- Actually, it's my dad's.
- And what does he do?
778
00:51:45,902 --> 00:51:48,029
He was a journalist too.
779
00:51:49,106 --> 00:51:51,438
He did a big story on you once.
780
00:51:51,641 --> 00:51:54,303
Followed a little girl who had polio.
781
00:51:54,644 --> 00:51:56,908
You took her under your wing...
782
00:51:58,048 --> 00:52:00,380
...and now she's interviewing you.
783
00:52:03,954 --> 00:52:07,185
He must be proud that his daughter's
making such a name for herself.
784
00:52:07,724 --> 00:52:09,817
L�d like to think so.
785
00:52:11,027 --> 00:52:14,622
- He died last year.
- Sorry to hear that.
786
00:52:16,266 --> 00:52:19,895
- Would you like some coffee?
- Sure.
787
00:52:26,977 --> 00:52:28,842
Are you alone here?
788
00:52:29,045 --> 00:52:33,072
Yes. The thought of having live-in help
is a little poisonous to me.
789
00:52:33,283 --> 00:52:34,682
Why's that?
790
00:52:34,885 --> 00:52:36,785
Well, l�d have to talk to them...
791
00:52:36,987 --> 00:52:39,421
...ask them how
their family was doing...
792
00:52:39,623 --> 00:52:42,251
...hear about this and that,
introduce them to the guests...
793
00:52:42,459 --> 00:52:45,121
...and tell them
how their family was doing.
794
00:52:45,328 --> 00:52:49,025
All so that I would
seem to be a nice guy...
795
00:52:49,232 --> 00:52:50,824
...which is an awful lot of work...
796
00:52:51,034 --> 00:52:53,468
...considering what I cherish
most in life these days...
797
00:52:53,670 --> 00:52:55,729
...is not to have to be Vince Collins.
798
00:52:55,939 --> 00:52:57,372
No Reuben in your life?
799
00:52:58,675 --> 00:53:00,666
How do you know about Reuben?
800
00:53:01,044 --> 00:53:04,571
He was in a lot of the material
l�ve been looking at.
801
00:53:04,781 --> 00:53:06,248
No, I never had a Reuben.
802
00:53:06,449 --> 00:53:08,815
Lanny always paid him directly.
He was Lanny's man.
803
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:10,486
Right.
804
00:53:12,889 --> 00:53:14,948
You know, what I like is to...
805
00:53:15,158 --> 00:53:16,750
...read...
806
00:53:17,861 --> 00:53:19,260
...think.
807
00:53:19,462 --> 00:53:21,657
It�s to have the freedom...
808
00:53:21,865 --> 00:53:24,356
...to get up and leave
without telling anyone about it...
809
00:53:24,568 --> 00:53:26,468
...any time of day.
810
00:53:28,471 --> 00:53:30,803
Or even having to say goodbye.
811
00:53:33,009 --> 00:53:36,968
To be backstage, surrounded
by acrobats, actors, magicians...
812
00:53:37,180 --> 00:53:39,045
...it was intoxicating.
813
00:53:39,249 --> 00:53:41,080
You know, I was only 12 years old.
814
00:53:41,284 --> 00:53:42,911
That's a...
815
00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:44,643
That's a pretty impressionable age.
816
00:53:44,854 --> 00:53:47,914
- To hear all these stories of touring...
- My father always told me...
817
00:53:48,124 --> 00:53:51,616
... that nothing had meaning
unless it could be put on the record.
818
00:53:53,096 --> 00:53:55,121
Yet things had changed.
819
00:53:56,266 --> 00:53:58,359
As Vince had pointed out
at our first meeting...
820
00:53:58,568 --> 00:54:02,868
... it had become fashionable
to put yourself into the story.
821
00:54:03,540 --> 00:54:06,873
The question became
how far you were prepared to go.
822
00:54:30,166 --> 00:54:34,500
- Excuse me. That's not mine.
- Oh, l�m sorry.
823
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,635
Aren't you Miss Trout?
824
00:54:39,843 --> 00:54:42,471
We've met,
on the plane to New York.
825
00:54:42,679 --> 00:54:43,873
- Reuben.
- Excuse me, sir.
826
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,844
Can I leave you
for just a second, please?
827
00:54:50,620 --> 00:54:53,350
L�m so deeply sorry, Miss Trout,
the way you were treated.
828
00:54:53,556 --> 00:54:57,583
- He could have left a note.
- Of course.
829
00:54:58,862 --> 00:55:02,423
Miss Trout, I would like you
to understand something.
830
00:55:03,266 --> 00:55:07,999
I have a great loyalty to Mr. Morris.
He's treated me very well.
831
00:55:08,204 --> 00:55:09,899
L�m very grateful.
832
00:55:11,308 --> 00:55:14,334
He has done wonderful things
for many people...
833
00:55:14,544 --> 00:55:19,504
...and I have been privileged
to work for him.
834
00:55:21,084 --> 00:55:23,382
But I do have certain principles...
835
00:55:23,586 --> 00:55:27,818
...especially about how women
are to be treated and respected.
836
00:55:28,224 --> 00:55:33,628
Mr. Morris can be very attentive,
but once he has a woman...
837
00:55:34,798 --> 00:55:37,596
Oh, God, I think
it's almost a sickness.
838
00:55:39,602 --> 00:55:41,433
When he left you that morning...
839
00:55:41,638 --> 00:55:44,266
...you may have felt bad,
but believe me, Miss Trout...
840
00:55:44,474 --> 00:55:46,305
...to have him out of your life...
841
00:55:46,509 --> 00:55:49,205
...is the best thing that
could have happened to you.
842
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,943
At that point, you may have felt
your life was wounded.
843
00:55:55,485 --> 00:55:57,316
It wasn't.
844
00:55:58,188 --> 00:55:59,450
It was saved.
845
00:56:08,565 --> 00:56:10,931
Vince, I was very clear about this
from the beginning.
846
00:56:11,134 --> 00:56:12,726
I'm not out to play games with you.
847
00:56:12,936 --> 00:56:15,302
This is why you're being paid
a huge amount of money.
848
00:56:16,306 --> 00:56:18,137
This isn't entirely about money,
you know.
849
00:56:18,341 --> 00:56:20,901
A million dollars is more than
the gross of your last film.
850
00:56:22,212 --> 00:56:24,476
I was somehow
under the impression that my life...
851
00:56:24,681 --> 00:56:27,650
...might have been of more than
passing interest.
852
00:56:27,851 --> 00:56:30,843
But if my fleeting encounter with
a girl named Maureen O'Flaherty...
853
00:56:31,054 --> 00:56:33,989
...is all you really want to talk about,
then that's what we'll do.
854
00:56:35,492 --> 00:56:37,790
I have to make an appearance
at the clinic tomorrow.
855
00:56:37,994 --> 00:56:40,121
We can come back
and talk after that.
856
00:56:41,164 --> 00:56:42,893
It�s Wonderland.
857
00:56:43,099 --> 00:56:44,691
I imagine you might remember that.
858
00:56:58,882 --> 00:57:03,012
He was right.
I did remember Wonderland.
859
00:57:03,887 --> 00:57:05,616
- You ready?
- Ready.
860
00:57:05,822 --> 00:57:11,089
When I was a girl, the entire hospital
was devoted to children with polio.
861
00:57:12,762 --> 00:57:15,959
Since that time,
it had become a clinic for kids...
862
00:57:16,166 --> 00:57:19,397
... with a variety of different
physical handicaps.
863
00:57:23,006 --> 00:57:26,373
Once a year, the children
would put on a pageant...
864
00:57:26,576 --> 00:57:29,909
... playing different characters
from Alice in Wonderland.
865
00:57:30,914 --> 00:57:33,348
Vince, in his continuing support
of the hospital...
866
00:57:33,550 --> 00:57:36,041
... had hired a band and a singer.
867
00:57:43,526 --> 00:57:45,221
Who is that?
868
00:57:45,428 --> 00:57:49,262
I don't know.
She's good, whoever she is.
869
00:58:00,710 --> 00:58:03,941
Karen, do you mind if we start
this conversation tomorrow?
870
00:58:04,147 --> 00:58:07,776
L�m just...
l�m not feeling all that well.
871
00:58:08,451 --> 00:58:09,941
- Vince...
- In fact, it won't make...
872
00:58:10,153 --> 00:58:12,417
...any difference over there.
The office is closed.
873
00:58:12,622 --> 00:58:13,816
They've been working late.
874
00:58:14,023 --> 00:58:16,014
Then they've been working
much too hard.
875
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,988
First thing tomorrow. First thing.
876
00:58:26,970 --> 00:58:29,370
I hope your editors were reasonable.
877
00:58:29,572 --> 00:58:32,541
Reasonable? No, they weren't.
878
00:58:32,742 --> 00:58:34,801
We can go as late as you like.
879
00:58:35,011 --> 00:58:36,273
That's good.
880
00:58:36,479 --> 00:58:37,912
It might take us
into the evening.
881
00:58:38,114 --> 00:58:40,082
I had a feeling
that might be the case.
882
00:58:40,583 --> 00:58:43,245
So l�ve ordered a hot and cold
smorgasbord to be brought in.
883
00:58:43,453 --> 00:58:44,920
We can work through dinner.
884
00:58:45,121 --> 00:58:47,316
- We'll be having company?
- Yes.
885
00:58:48,791 --> 00:58:50,315
I have...
886
00:58:50,527 --> 00:58:52,222
...a surprise for you.
887
00:58:53,162 --> 00:58:55,926
Actually, this is a fairly big deal
for me as well.
888
00:58:57,133 --> 00:58:59,533
L�ve asked Lanny to join us today.
889
00:59:00,837 --> 00:59:01,861
Lanny?
890
00:59:03,239 --> 00:59:05,366
Well, this is something.
891
00:59:06,242 --> 00:59:09,268
Neuman and Newberry will certainly
be getting their money's worth.
892
00:59:09,846 --> 00:59:12,144
I thought that if I was
going to discuss something...
893
00:59:12,348 --> 00:59:14,145
...that had such an impact
on our lives...
894
00:59:14,350 --> 00:59:16,944
...it would be fair for Lanny
to hear what I had to say.
895
00:59:17,654 --> 00:59:19,349
Given that we've
never talked about it.
896
00:59:19,556 --> 00:59:22,218
L�m sure l�ll have lots to ask him.
When is he coming?
897
00:59:22,425 --> 00:59:24,359
He should be here any minute now.
898
00:59:24,928 --> 00:59:26,759
This is very exciting.
899
00:59:27,330 --> 00:59:29,127
Shit.
900
00:59:43,780 --> 00:59:46,010
- Yes?
- Bonnie, I have to talk fast.
901
00:59:46,215 --> 00:59:49,275
I need you to do exactly as I tell you
and I can't tell you why, okay?
902
00:59:49,485 --> 00:59:50,713
Sure.
903
00:59:51,454 --> 00:59:53,820
Excuse me, that might actually
be him now.
904
00:59:54,857 --> 00:59:56,552
Yes, hello?
905
01:00:08,938 --> 01:00:10,496
Yes, thank you.
906
01:00:12,241 --> 01:00:13,572
That was my office.
907
01:00:13,776 --> 01:00:16,244
There's a woman...
A friend, a relative of yours?
908
01:00:16,446 --> 01:00:18,846
She said she called
on a number you gave her.
909
01:00:19,515 --> 01:00:21,415
She's gonna call back.
910
01:00:27,890 --> 01:00:30,017
- Yes?
- Hi, kiddo.
911
01:00:30,226 --> 01:00:33,354
Listen, your brother Clifford
has just been rushed to the hospital.
912
01:00:33,563 --> 01:00:35,326
He was doing construction
when a thing...
913
01:00:35,531 --> 01:00:37,328
- A steel girder?
- That's it.
914
01:00:37,533 --> 01:00:40,024
You better come to the city
and make your peace with him.
915
01:00:40,236 --> 01:00:42,397
You're booked on the next
flight to San Francisco.
916
01:00:42,605 --> 01:00:44,766
I'm waiting here for you
in front of the terminal.
917
01:00:45,274 --> 01:00:47,674
They reserved me a seat
on the next flight to San Francisco.
918
01:00:47,877 --> 01:00:49,174
- L�ll drive you there.
- No, no.
919
01:00:49,379 --> 01:00:52,439
Sharon is waiting at the airport for me.
You can't stand Lanny up.
920
01:00:52,649 --> 01:00:55,083
Please give him
my deepest apologies.
921
01:01:04,127 --> 01:01:07,324
- Hey.
- Please, I can explain.
922
01:01:08,164 --> 01:01:10,428
You've broken the law,
Bonnie-fucking-Trout.
923
01:01:10,633 --> 01:01:12,464
You've assumed
another person's identity...
924
01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:15,035
...to get information
from a business competitor.
925
01:01:15,238 --> 01:01:17,900
Obviously I lied about who I was.
L�m sorry.
926
01:01:18,107 --> 01:01:20,302
It was a huge untruth.
It wasn't planned.
927
01:01:20,510 --> 01:01:25,038
I was just freaked out about
suddenly being on the plane with...
928
01:01:26,082 --> 01:01:27,447
With you...
929
01:01:27,650 --> 01:01:29,948
How did you get the seat
behind me on the plane?
930
01:01:30,153 --> 01:01:31,780
- It was pure coincidence.
- Bullshit!
931
01:01:31,988 --> 01:01:33,421
It�s true.
932
01:01:37,460 --> 01:01:41,191
How could you...? How could you have
just left me at the hotel like that?
933
01:01:41,597 --> 01:01:42,791
You were asleep.
934
01:01:42,999 --> 01:01:46,196
Reuben woke me to say
I had to be a substitute performer...
935
01:01:46,402 --> 01:01:50,634
...at a charity concert at the Hollywood
Bowl. I had to get the first flight out.
936
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:52,398
You could have left a note
or called.
937
01:01:52,608 --> 01:01:54,667
- I did leave you a note.
- Where?
938
01:01:56,512 --> 01:02:00,107
I don't know why we're even talking
about this. I don't like you.
939
01:02:00,316 --> 01:02:03,251
All right? I wish we had never met.
940
01:02:09,125 --> 01:02:10,319
Hello, Vince.
941
01:02:11,094 --> 01:02:12,789
What the fuck's going on?
942
01:02:14,731 --> 01:02:17,393
Vince, a few days after we first met...
943
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,433
...I found myself next to Lanny
on a flight to New York.
944
01:02:20,636 --> 01:02:22,263
It was a complete coincidence.
945
01:02:22,472 --> 01:02:24,133
- He asked my name...
- And she lied.
946
01:02:24,340 --> 01:02:27,605
I had just finished reading the first
chapter of Lanny's own biography.
947
01:02:27,810 --> 01:02:31,211
His lawyers had let me see it in the
hope of discouraging our own project.
948
01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:33,939
As a reflex, since I knew he
would view me as the enemy...
949
01:02:34,150 --> 01:02:35,777
...I gave him the name of a friend...
950
01:02:35,985 --> 01:02:38,078
...whose apartment I was
staying at in Manhattan.
951
01:02:38,287 --> 01:02:41,586
I thought I just had to get through
the awkwardness of the flight itself...
952
01:02:41,791 --> 01:02:43,782
...but the trouble is...
- You slept with him.
953
01:02:45,661 --> 01:02:49,028
- Vince...
- You slept with my ex-partner.
954
01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:51,728
Technically.
955
01:02:53,736 --> 01:02:56,330
Doesn't sound like things were
particularly technical.
956
01:03:18,161 --> 01:03:20,152
Now, you listen to me, sweetheart.
957
01:03:20,963 --> 01:03:24,865
Vince doesn't always do
what's best for Vince.
958
01:03:25,067 --> 01:03:27,661
That's why he needed me
here today.
959
01:03:28,371 --> 01:03:32,330
The story of this girl is the
most painful thing in his life.
960
01:03:32,542 --> 01:03:34,703
What happened to her, Lanny?
961
01:03:35,878 --> 01:03:37,778
Well, you're not gonna find out.
962
01:03:38,714 --> 01:03:40,272
Not now.
963
01:03:41,017 --> 01:03:43,178
Not after what you've done to him.
964
01:03:52,562 --> 01:03:54,189
Vince.
965
01:03:54,397 --> 01:03:55,694
Oh, shit.
966
01:03:57,633 --> 01:03:59,692
Vince...
967
01:03:59,902 --> 01:04:01,870
...I made a terrible mistake
in New York.
968
01:04:02,071 --> 01:04:05,438
I apologize to you
more than I know how to say.
969
01:04:05,641 --> 01:04:07,871
L�m so sorry.
970
01:04:17,687 --> 01:04:20,986
Vince, the realization
of your life story...
971
01:04:21,190 --> 01:04:23,818
...shouldn't be threatened
because of my failings.
972
01:04:26,028 --> 01:04:28,758
Please let me continue
to work with you again.
973
01:04:29,966 --> 01:04:32,298
L�ll help you tell your story right.
974
01:04:34,904 --> 01:04:36,838
Come back tonight.
975
01:04:38,908 --> 01:04:40,569
Let me think about it.
976
01:04:53,222 --> 01:04:57,090
- How do you like the wine?
- It�s magnificent. What is it?
977
01:04:57,293 --> 01:04:59,784
1961 Haut-Brion.
978
01:04:59,996 --> 01:05:01,725
People make a big deal of 1959...
979
01:05:01,931 --> 01:05:05,264
...but I don't think there'll be
a year as special as 1961.
980
01:05:05,902 --> 01:05:08,666
It was a great year for French wines.
981
01:05:12,008 --> 01:05:13,942
Will you join me?
982
01:05:14,777 --> 01:05:16,369
What are they?
983
01:05:16,913 --> 01:05:21,077
They're like very mild-mannered
Quaaludes.
984
01:05:21,317 --> 01:05:23,410
Must've done a few of those
in your time, right?
985
01:05:24,887 --> 01:05:26,616
Are you sure they're okay
with alcohol?
986
01:05:26,822 --> 01:05:30,349
Oh, they're even better with alcohol.
Believe me, l�d know.
987
01:05:36,565 --> 01:05:38,658
Come on in, honey. The water's fine.
988
01:05:39,735 --> 01:05:44,570
All my life, I've had this idea
that I could always be in control.
989
01:05:45,174 --> 01:05:47,108
Ever since I was sick,
I had this sense...
990
01:05:47,310 --> 01:05:50,473
... that I could make my body
do anything I wanted.
991
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:52,341
If I could will my polio away...
992
01:05:52,548 --> 01:05:56,006
... I'd certainly be able to will away
the effect of any drug.
993
01:06:09,765 --> 01:06:13,428
Do you mind if I close the drapes?
The sun's in my eyes.
994
01:06:15,204 --> 01:06:17,069
It�s moonlight.
995
01:06:18,507 --> 01:06:20,031
Go ahead.
996
01:07:21,971 --> 01:07:24,030
I remember you.
997
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:26,369
You're Alice.
998
01:07:27,009 --> 01:07:29,170
In Wonderland.
999
01:07:29,879 --> 01:07:32,074
Oh, I don't know.
1000
01:07:32,281 --> 01:07:34,681
L�m really stoned
out of my head already.
1001
01:07:35,985 --> 01:07:37,543
Is it good?
1002
01:07:43,092 --> 01:07:47,188
Jesus, Vince. It�s like monster grass.
1003
01:07:47,396 --> 01:07:49,660
Do you get this stuff all the time?
1004
01:07:49,865 --> 01:07:51,856
All the time.
1005
01:08:01,210 --> 01:08:03,644
You're Alice.
1006
01:08:06,482 --> 01:08:08,143
You're so beautiful.
1007
01:08:37,179 --> 01:08:39,079
She's ours.
1008
01:08:39,782 --> 01:08:41,773
Isn't that so, Alice?
1009
01:08:43,285 --> 01:08:45,150
L�m yours.
1010
01:09:18,454 --> 01:09:20,285
I like you.
1011
01:09:32,935 --> 01:09:36,200
I had always been fascinated by how
some women could cross the line...
1012
01:09:36,405 --> 01:09:41,035
... between who they were and who
they would let themselves become.
1013
01:09:41,744 --> 01:09:43,439
Maureen...
1014
01:09:44,180 --> 01:09:46,011
... Alice...
1015
01:09:46,682 --> 01:09:48,240
... and now...
1016
01:09:48,450 --> 01:09:50,008
... me.
1017
01:09:56,525 --> 01:09:57,856
Morning.
1018
01:09:58,060 --> 01:10:01,359
That was not a Quaalude you
gave me. L�ve had Quaaludes.
1019
01:10:02,665 --> 01:10:03,996
I said it was like a Quaalude.
1020
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:06,566
And you didn't take one yourself.
You palmed the pill.
1021
01:10:06,769 --> 01:10:08,760
Somebody had to drive.
1022
01:10:09,738 --> 01:10:11,535
Don't worry, you won't get pregnant.
1023
01:10:11,740 --> 01:10:13,571
Not from Alice,
and certainly not from me.
1024
01:10:13,776 --> 01:10:16,336
I never took off my pants,
as you may or may not remember.
1025
01:10:16,545 --> 01:10:18,206
There are laws against
drugging people.
1026
01:10:18,414 --> 01:10:22,407
Oh, please. You took it voluntarily.
Nobody slipped it into your drink.
1027
01:10:23,986 --> 01:10:27,387
And you chased it with one of the most
expensive wines in the world.
1028
01:10:27,590 --> 01:10:30,991
You're just in a dither because you've
discovered you can swing both ways.
1029
01:10:33,295 --> 01:10:35,126
You see...
1030
01:10:36,198 --> 01:10:38,063
...I needed to get something on you.
1031
01:10:38,267 --> 01:10:41,532
Of course, your behavior with Lanny
might have been even better than this.
1032
01:10:41,737 --> 01:10:43,500
But l�d already set the wheels
in motion.
1033
01:10:43,706 --> 01:10:47,699
And as I was dying to see
you and Alice get it on...
1034
01:10:48,177 --> 01:10:50,304
Well, these are just a sample.
1035
01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:00,753
Why would she agree to do this?
Doesn't she want a career?
1036
01:11:00,956 --> 01:11:03,220
Well, it's your career
l�m worried about.
1037
01:11:03,792 --> 01:11:06,124
You're a journalist
playing loose with the rules.
1038
01:11:06,528 --> 01:11:09,053
She's just a vulnerable young singer
you seduced.
1039
01:11:09,265 --> 01:11:12,291
A promising... Oh, good heavens.
1040
01:11:12,668 --> 01:11:15,398
Promising artist
that I happen to manage.
1041
01:11:15,604 --> 01:11:17,401
You met her through me...
1042
01:11:17,606 --> 01:11:19,506
...and had your way with her.
1043
01:11:24,213 --> 01:11:25,840
What do you want from me?
1044
01:11:28,817 --> 01:11:31,149
You're going to continue
writing the book.
1045
01:11:31,353 --> 01:11:35,255
L�m going to continue telling you
juicy stories, funny stories...
1046
01:11:35,457 --> 01:11:37,550
...heart-tugging stories.
1047
01:11:37,793 --> 01:11:40,023
And you're not going to ask me
a single question...
1048
01:11:40,229 --> 01:11:42,459
...about what happened
to the girl in New Jersey.
1049
01:11:43,565 --> 01:11:46,591
You're going to go to your publisher,
say you tried every angle...
1050
01:11:46,802 --> 01:11:49,737
...but you could find nothing odd
or suspicious in what I told you.
1051
01:11:56,545 --> 01:11:59,446
L�ll even try to spice it up a little,
talk about how...
1052
01:11:59,648 --> 01:12:02,617
...the night before the telethon,
I wanted to sleep like a babe...
1053
01:12:02,818 --> 01:12:05,082
...so to cover my bets,
I kept a few babes on hand.
1054
01:12:06,055 --> 01:12:07,613
Well, not exactly on my hand...
1055
01:12:07,823 --> 01:12:11,190
...and that's not my preference,
as you might have gathered by now.
1056
01:12:20,769 --> 01:12:24,671
So you get your bestseller,
I get my million.
1057
01:12:24,873 --> 01:12:26,135
Everyone goes home happy.
1058
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:29,573
You've dreaded talking about
Maureen O'Flaherty since we met.
1059
01:12:29,778 --> 01:12:31,939
If it's something you're so
desperate to avoid...
1060
01:12:32,147 --> 01:12:34,138
...why would you ever agree
to do this book?
1061
01:12:34,850 --> 01:12:36,511
I need the money.
1062
01:12:36,719 --> 01:12:40,120
Vince, anything you say
in my presence is mine to use.
1063
01:12:41,123 --> 01:12:44,024
Everything you said last night
and everything you've just told me.
1064
01:12:44,226 --> 01:12:46,956
And since l�m also allowed to include
contextual background...
1065
01:12:47,162 --> 01:12:49,187
...I can write about
how you set me up...
1066
01:12:49,398 --> 01:12:52,765
...how you tried to blackmail me.
L�ll even include those Polaroids.
1067
01:12:52,968 --> 01:12:56,301
It�s your word against mine. We have
a contract. Everything's in my words.
1068
01:12:56,505 --> 01:12:59,804
We've agreed to your answers,
but there's nothing to stop me...
1069
01:13:00,008 --> 01:13:04,707
...from putting any information I want
into a question I ask.
1070
01:13:05,781 --> 01:13:08,750
Information that l�d like to be
public knowledge...
1071
01:13:09,685 --> 01:13:12,153
...or that the police
might wanna look into.
1072
01:13:16,792 --> 01:13:21,126
Would you like me to fire one of my
loaded questions, on the record?
1073
01:13:21,997 --> 01:13:23,760
Sure.
1074
01:13:30,839 --> 01:13:32,830
Vince...
1075
01:13:33,342 --> 01:13:36,778
...in your suite
at the Versailles Hotel in Miami...
1076
01:13:37,446 --> 01:13:39,812
...was it your or Lanny's idea...
1077
01:13:40,015 --> 01:13:43,348
...to put tureen�s body into the case
containing shellfish and ice...
1078
01:13:43,552 --> 01:13:45,213
...and have it shipped
to New Jersey?
1079
01:13:50,092 --> 01:13:52,959
No answer, r. Collins?
So noted.
1080
01:13:53,595 --> 01:13:56,462
Oh, and incidentally,
by not answering...
1081
01:13:56,665 --> 01:13:59,259
...you're in violation of your contract.
1082
01:13:59,868 --> 01:14:03,065
What a shame.
I understood you needed that money.
1083
01:14:17,786 --> 01:14:19,947
Oh, no. Oh, God.
1084
01:14:20,155 --> 01:14:23,852
Oh, God.
Oh, God. Oh, God!
1085
01:14:32,634 --> 01:14:34,397
Was that how
you murdered Maureen?
1086
01:14:47,850 --> 01:14:49,681
Ask Lanny.
1087
01:14:52,454 --> 01:14:54,479
He's the one who knows.
1088
01:15:12,975 --> 01:15:16,672
It wasn't that hard for him
to get the suite he wanted.
1089
01:15:16,879 --> 01:15:20,872
The Versailles was still one of the
fanciest of the hotels along the beach.
1090
01:15:21,083 --> 01:15:23,745
But by then, its era had passed.
1091
01:15:25,153 --> 01:15:26,745
Thank you, sir.
1092
01:15:36,198 --> 01:15:38,530
All the furniture was new.
1093
01:15:38,767 --> 01:15:41,099
It had been 15 years...
1094
01:15:41,803 --> 01:15:43,794
... but the floor plan...
1095
01:15:44,006 --> 01:15:46,167
... was still the same.
1096
01:15:46,975 --> 01:15:49,205
In that spot...
1097
01:15:49,545 --> 01:15:52,446
... that was where the truth
had come out.
1098
01:15:53,515 --> 01:15:56,279
That was why she had to die.
1099
01:16:07,129 --> 01:16:09,689
Are you Japanese or Chinese?
1100
01:16:10,933 --> 01:16:12,628
Vietnamese.
1101
01:16:13,101 --> 01:16:16,366
The kitchen tell me
you famous person.
1102
01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:18,506
Why you famous?
1103
01:16:18,874 --> 01:16:21,001
They didn't tell you my name?
1104
01:16:21,209 --> 01:16:22,403
No.
1105
01:16:22,611 --> 01:16:24,306
What is it?
1106
01:16:26,715 --> 01:16:28,444
Lanny Morris.
1107
01:16:29,184 --> 01:16:30,845
It�s a Jewish name...
1108
01:16:31,053 --> 01:16:32,520
...but l�m a nebbish.
1109
01:16:33,789 --> 01:16:36,223
You ordered three bottle
of champagne.
1110
01:16:36,425 --> 01:16:37,687
You want me to open one now?
1111
01:16:38,393 --> 01:16:40,418
Or wait until friend come?
1112
01:16:41,530 --> 01:16:43,054
Open all three.
1113
01:16:44,700 --> 01:16:46,998
Are you really famous, Mr. Morris?
1114
01:16:48,236 --> 01:16:49,863
In my day.
1115
01:16:50,305 --> 01:16:52,364
Before your time, I suppose.
1116
01:16:53,375 --> 01:16:55,935
I come from the north of Vietnam.
1117
01:16:56,144 --> 01:16:58,476
In my town, there is no television.
1118
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:02,980
She explained that American movies
had been banned where she grew up.
1119
01:17:08,223 --> 01:17:10,885
She got better tips pretending
she was Madame Butterfly...
1120
01:17:11,093 --> 01:17:14,153
... than by telling people
where she was really from.
1121
01:17:15,297 --> 01:17:17,390
What did you do, Mr. Morris?
1122
01:17:18,467 --> 01:17:20,992
I made Vince Collins' life...
1123
01:17:21,436 --> 01:17:23,529
...very difficult.
1124
01:17:23,739 --> 01:17:26,936
She didn't understand, but her policy
was not to linger in the rooms...
1125
01:17:27,142 --> 01:17:29,076
... of solitary gentlemen.
1126
01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:34,779
He signed the room-service check
under Lanny's name.
1127
01:17:37,019 --> 01:17:38,543
Thank you.
1128
01:18:01,610 --> 01:18:03,874
There was no ice or water
left in the buckets...
1129
01:18:04,079 --> 01:18:06,877
... when his body was discovered
the next morning.
1130
01:18:08,150 --> 01:18:11,881
He had dumped the ice into
the bathtub and died in it.
1131
01:18:13,121 --> 01:18:16,215
He must have felt
there was some poetry in it.
1132
01:18:19,628 --> 01:18:21,994
His plan was to drink
enough champagne...
1133
01:18:22,197 --> 01:18:23,596
... with enough sleeping pills...
1134
01:18:23,799 --> 01:18:27,701
... so that ending things would
become an acceptable idea.
1135
01:18:28,437 --> 01:18:30,337
He could manage that.
1136
01:18:31,139 --> 01:18:34,472
He knew for certain
he couldn't manage anything else.
1137
01:18:38,046 --> 01:18:39,604
Hi.
1138
01:18:41,883 --> 01:18:44,579
I thought you were
gonna be out all afternoon.
1139
01:18:49,324 --> 01:18:51,087
L�m sorry.
1140
01:18:51,526 --> 01:18:53,391
It�s okay.
1141
01:18:54,362 --> 01:18:56,387
This was under the door.
1142
01:19:03,972 --> 01:19:05,234
What is it?
1143
01:19:06,875 --> 01:19:09,002
Chapter three.
1144
01:19:10,779 --> 01:19:15,079
John, as my lawyer, I want you
to know that this next chapter...
1145
01:19:15,283 --> 01:19:18,252
... is to be read
after Vince and my death...
1146
01:19:18,453 --> 01:19:23,117
... and is only to be used under
the most extreme of circumstances.
1147
01:19:24,826 --> 01:19:26,919
We knew we wanted to make
an early night of it...
1148
01:19:27,129 --> 01:19:30,565
... with the telethon starting the next
day, so Vince suggested we dine in...
1149
01:19:30,766 --> 01:19:33,758
... so Maureen could do
the interview for her campus paper.
1150
01:19:33,969 --> 01:19:38,963
This is a gift for us
from the audience...
1151
01:19:39,608 --> 01:19:43,544
...from the people,
the people that are out there.
1152
01:19:44,412 --> 01:19:48,644
Sooner or later you gotta say,
"We wanna give something back."
1153
01:19:48,917 --> 01:19:50,509
I think that's really important.
1154
01:19:50,719 --> 01:19:55,019
Not many people would take
the time out to do that. Thank you.
1155
01:19:55,223 --> 01:19:57,953
She actually hid her tape recorder
in the room-service cart...
1156
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:00,924
... because she didn't want
the hotel to find out.
1157
01:20:08,737 --> 01:20:11,968
We finished the interview
and then asked her to stay.
1158
01:20:15,043 --> 01:20:19,104
To help us get into the mood,
I did a Tuinal...
1159
01:20:19,314 --> 01:20:20,941
... then she did one...
1160
01:20:21,149 --> 01:20:25,279
... and Vince, he did two,
because he was always doing two.
1161
01:20:26,154 --> 01:20:30,113
We got into the second of the
three bottles of Moet we'd ordered.
1162
01:20:30,325 --> 01:20:35,490
We thought it would be better to keep
the action to neutral territory.
1163
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:40,365
God...
1164
01:20:40,669 --> 01:20:42,364
... she was beautiful.
1165
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,270
I chain-locked the front door
to the living room...
1166
01:20:47,475 --> 01:20:51,002
... to make sure that housekeeping,
eager to turn down our beds...
1167
01:20:51,213 --> 01:20:53,773
... didn't walk in on an employee
having a m�nage a trois...
1168
01:20:53,982 --> 01:20:56,075
... with the hotel's headliners.
1169
01:20:56,284 --> 01:20:59,117
Then I went to chain-lock
the door to Vince's room.
1170
01:20:59,321 --> 01:21:02,654
I took a quick shower,
I put on my robe...
1171
01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:07,090
... and brought a robe for Maureen,
in case she felt a little bashful.
1172
01:21:10,699 --> 01:21:12,997
So much for bashful.
1173
01:21:13,702 --> 01:21:16,830
I threw the robe on the bed
and moved into the room...
1174
01:21:17,038 --> 01:21:20,030
... half-worried that they would
finish without me.
1175
01:21:26,781 --> 01:21:29,944
I've always preferred
the missionary position.
1176
01:21:30,151 --> 01:21:33,814
I have to see their faces,
look into their eyes.
1177
01:21:34,022 --> 01:21:38,220
Unless they're acting, and I'd like
to think I can tell the difference...
1178
01:21:38,426 --> 01:21:40,485
... there comes that moment...
1179
01:21:40,695 --> 01:21:42,720
... when, if you're looking...
1180
01:21:42,931 --> 01:21:45,399
... if you're really looking...
1181
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:48,933
... you'll see exactly who she is.
1182
01:21:50,205 --> 01:21:52,002
This was different.
1183
01:21:52,207 --> 01:21:55,973
It was like
she saw exactly who I was.
1184
01:22:14,396 --> 01:22:16,762
Watch it there, compadre.
1185
01:22:17,565 --> 01:22:20,329
It�s a little hard to tell who's who,
under the circumstances.
1186
01:22:20,535 --> 01:22:23,936
L�m the one that's more than
a little hard, you dumb fucking limey.
1187
01:22:24,406 --> 01:22:28,172
Well, l�m... l�m the one with a foreskin.
Don't you forget that.
1188
01:22:31,746 --> 01:22:33,646
Watch it. You got the end zone
there, Vince.
1189
01:22:33,848 --> 01:22:36,840
- Come on, come on. Fuck.
- You're gonna like it.
1190
01:22:37,052 --> 01:22:39,145
It�s like from another planet
when you come.
1191
01:22:39,354 --> 01:22:41,151
- Get the fuck off me.
- L�d never hurt you.
1192
01:22:41,356 --> 01:22:43,187
- L�d never hurt you.
- Get the fuck off me!
1193
01:22:43,391 --> 01:22:46,622
- No, trust me. It�s like double the sex...
- Get the fuck off me!
1194
01:22:46,828 --> 01:22:49,319
We don't fuck, Vince!
1195
01:22:49,931 --> 01:22:53,059
We're buddies, we're pals,
we're partners, we're a duo.
1196
01:22:53,268 --> 01:22:56,499
We love each other,
but we don't fuck!
1197
01:22:57,339 --> 01:22:59,569
We're fucking stars!
1198
01:22:59,774 --> 01:23:01,173
- We can travel together.
- Okay.
1199
01:23:01,376 --> 01:23:06,177
We can hang out together, we can live
together, but we can't be queers!
1200
01:23:06,381 --> 01:23:09,373
It�s not funny!
1201
01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:34,367
L�m sorry. L�m so sorry.
1202
01:23:34,576 --> 01:23:36,043
About?
1203
01:23:38,246 --> 01:23:40,271
About your nose.
1204
01:23:42,684 --> 01:23:44,652
It�s not broken, is it?
1205
01:23:47,288 --> 01:23:48,778
It�s how I am.
1206
01:23:48,990 --> 01:23:52,721
Guess the question is,
who's gonna pay me?
1207
01:23:52,927 --> 01:23:55,054
This surprised me.
1208
01:23:55,263 --> 01:23:57,663
The girl was not a hooker.
1209
01:24:08,109 --> 01:24:10,839
My wallet was on top of my robe.
1210
01:24:11,312 --> 01:24:13,303
I took out some money.
1211
01:24:13,715 --> 01:24:15,876
I don't remember how much.
1212
01:24:32,500 --> 01:24:33,933
I don't think so.
1213
01:24:35,236 --> 01:24:37,864
That's more than you would
make in a month of tips.
1214
01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,371
L�m not looking for a tip.
1215
01:24:41,443 --> 01:24:43,070
What the hell are you saying?
1216
01:24:43,278 --> 01:24:45,644
Honey, l�m in my last year
of college.
1217
01:24:45,847 --> 01:24:48,543
This is a summer job.
1218
01:24:51,686 --> 01:24:53,654
I wanna write.
1219
01:24:53,855 --> 01:24:56,415
I wanna be a journalist.
1220
01:25:00,862 --> 01:25:03,956
So I could either
use this information...
1221
01:25:05,133 --> 01:25:06,691
...or I could use a lot of money.
1222
01:25:09,070 --> 01:25:11,868
I promise you
this will only cost you once.
1223
01:25:15,076 --> 01:25:18,375
L�m so tired, I don't even think
l�m going home.
1224
01:25:19,380 --> 01:25:21,041
I think it's the Tuinals.
1225
01:25:23,418 --> 01:25:26,615
Hey, Lanny, don't take it personally.
1226
01:25:26,821 --> 01:25:29,187
You were a great lover.
1227
01:25:29,390 --> 01:25:32,826
You have got the cutest little butt.
1228
01:25:37,398 --> 01:25:40,094
I guess Vince thinks so too.
1229
01:25:45,106 --> 01:25:46,971
Night, Lanny.
1230
01:25:49,010 --> 01:25:52,502
I would never see her alive again.
1231
01:25:54,983 --> 01:25:57,315
I put a "Do not Disturb" sign
on my door...
1232
01:25:57,519 --> 01:26:00,716
... fastened the chain lock,
in case the maid didn't read.
1233
01:26:00,922 --> 01:26:02,856
I left a wake-up call for 8...
1234
01:26:03,057 --> 01:26:05,491
... and went to sleep
knowing that a telethon...
1235
01:26:05,693 --> 01:26:09,686
... was the least of the ordeals I was
going to have to face in the morning.
1236
01:26:14,736 --> 01:26:16,533
The Tuinals had really
conked me out...
1237
01:26:16,738 --> 01:26:19,866
... and I slept through
my wake-up call that morning.
1238
01:26:20,074 --> 01:26:22,201
The operator had called Reuben
down the hall...
1239
01:26:22,410 --> 01:26:24,105
... to see if he could wake me...
1240
01:26:24,312 --> 01:26:27,509
... but he couldn't get in because
we had chain-locked all the doors.
1241
01:26:28,650 --> 01:26:30,413
Reuben!
1242
01:26:30,618 --> 01:26:33,485
I yelled for Reuben to wake up Vince
while I worked on Maureen...
1243
01:26:33,688 --> 01:26:37,488
... trying to make myself believe
that she was still sleeping.
1244
01:26:40,161 --> 01:26:41,594
Fuck.
1245
01:26:42,030 --> 01:26:43,657
No, no. Fuck.
1246
01:26:43,865 --> 01:26:47,357
The autopsy revealed the drugs
and alcohol in her body...
1247
01:26:47,569 --> 01:26:50,265
... but I knew
it wasn't enough to kill her.
1248
01:26:54,475 --> 01:26:56,238
All three doors to the suite...
1249
01:26:56,444 --> 01:27:00,005
... were chain-locked from the inside
when I found her.
1250
01:27:00,582 --> 01:27:01,879
I hadn't touched her.
1251
01:27:02,083 --> 01:27:08,181
That's how I know that my former
partner and friend, Vince Collins...
1252
01:27:08,389 --> 01:27:11,620
... murdered Maureen O'Flaherty.
1253
01:27:15,630 --> 01:27:18,827
You must have guessed by now
that Vince and I had found a way...
1254
01:27:19,033 --> 01:27:22,025
... to relocate Maureen's body
to new Jersey.
1255
01:27:22,237 --> 01:27:25,764
This is the one criminal act
the both of us committed...
1256
01:27:25,974 --> 01:27:30,536
... but we were in a panic and
needed to create an ironclad alibi.
1257
01:27:30,745 --> 01:27:33,236
The crates were delivered
to our room.
1258
01:27:33,448 --> 01:27:36,144
The publicist had opened the crates
for a photo op.
1259
01:27:36,351 --> 01:27:37,875
But the official story became...
1260
01:27:38,086 --> 01:27:40,748
... that she found Maureen's
overdosed body in the tub.
1261
01:27:40,955 --> 01:27:44,948
A police officer called Scaglia
was there to witness the whole thing.
1262
01:27:45,159 --> 01:27:47,184
Live, until they drop dead...
1263
01:27:47,395 --> 01:27:48,760
During the telethon...
1264
01:27:48,963 --> 01:27:52,990
... I kept telling myself that I could
forgive Vince for two reasons.
1265
01:27:53,201 --> 01:27:56,102
First of all, I don't think he could
have known what he was doing.
1266
01:27:56,304 --> 01:27:59,637
He was completely out of it,
even more than usual.
1267
01:27:59,841 --> 01:28:01,706
The second is that he was terrified...
1268
01:28:01,909 --> 01:28:05,037
... that this incident would become
public knowledge.
1269
01:28:05,246 --> 01:28:08,909
In those days, the slightest hint
that he could swing both ways...
1270
01:28:09,117 --> 01:28:12,678
... would destroy his
show-business career in an instant.
1271
01:28:13,554 --> 01:28:16,455
As it was, it was only to destroy us.
1272
01:28:17,058 --> 01:28:19,117
We completed the telethon...
1273
01:28:19,327 --> 01:28:21,921
... but we both knew
we were finished.
1274
01:28:22,697 --> 01:28:24,130
The marriage...
1275
01:28:24,599 --> 01:28:26,328
... was over.
1276
01:28:27,802 --> 01:28:30,532
There was a moment
in the middle of the telethon...
1277
01:28:30,738 --> 01:28:33,332
... where I actually broke down.
1278
01:28:33,541 --> 01:28:36,704
I just couldn't control myself.
1279
01:28:36,911 --> 01:28:39,402
I remember I mumbled something...
1280
01:28:39,614 --> 01:28:44,108
... to a little girl who was recounting
her experiences with the disease.
1281
01:28:44,719 --> 01:28:47,153
I don't remember what I said...
1282
01:28:47,622 --> 01:28:50,455
... but I do remember
feeling worthless.
1283
01:28:52,126 --> 01:28:54,890
Everyone thought that my tears
were for her.
1284
01:28:55,263 --> 01:28:58,596
It made for a great picture
in the papers the next day.
1285
01:29:00,935 --> 01:29:02,800
Mr. Morris will see you now.
1286
01:29:27,228 --> 01:29:30,391
I expected to see you
at Vince's funeral.
1287
01:29:31,799 --> 01:29:36,065
Kind of heartless of you not to
show up, don't you think, Karen?
1288
01:29:37,004 --> 01:29:39,632
Considering you're probably
the one that...
1289
01:29:41,209 --> 01:29:43,074
...drove him to it.
1290
01:29:44,645 --> 01:29:46,237
I won't answer that.
1291
01:29:48,883 --> 01:29:50,612
So don't.
1292
01:29:50,952 --> 01:29:52,783
So get the fuck out of my office.
1293
01:29:53,488 --> 01:29:58,221
Lanny, I have interview material with
Vince up until the moment he met you.
1294
01:29:58,426 --> 01:30:00,587
It would be great if this...
1295
01:30:00,928 --> 01:30:03,488
...warm, funny side of Vince
could reach the public.
1296
01:30:03,698 --> 01:30:07,259
And what the fuck do you know
about Vince's warm and funny side?
1297
01:30:09,637 --> 01:30:12,162
What about the warm and funny fact
that he killed himself?
1298
01:30:12,607 --> 01:30:15,838
- Why would he do that?
- I don't know.
1299
01:30:17,478 --> 01:30:19,708
That's the answer l�m giving you...
1300
01:30:19,914 --> 01:30:22,007
...and anyone else that asks.
1301
01:30:22,717 --> 01:30:25,277
- "I don't know."
- But you do know, don't you, Lanny?
1302
01:30:25,486 --> 01:30:27,545
Whatever I know, sweetheart...
1303
01:30:27,755 --> 01:30:29,052
...l�m writing in my book.
1304
01:30:30,158 --> 01:30:33,491
Except you're never
going to finish your book.
1305
01:30:33,928 --> 01:30:35,520
You don't have to.
1306
01:30:36,597 --> 01:30:38,565
The person who needed
your book is dead.
1307
01:30:40,234 --> 01:30:42,202
You always wrote the material
for your shows.
1308
01:30:42,403 --> 01:30:44,234
Every single word was rehearsed.
1309
01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:46,907
The book was a manual,
a set of notes...
1310
01:30:47,108 --> 01:30:49,941
...so Vince would get
every detail of the official story.
1311
01:30:51,112 --> 01:30:53,740
"A couple of extra babes for him
to sleep with that night.
1312
01:30:53,948 --> 01:30:55,916
A few of them on hand.
1313
01:30:56,117 --> 01:30:58,881
Well, not exactly on his hand.
That wasn't his preference."
1314
01:31:00,555 --> 01:31:03,615
- So, what's your point?
- He quoted that very line to me.
1315
01:31:03,825 --> 01:31:08,023
Quoted it from your manuscript as if
he were saying it for the first time.
1316
01:31:10,231 --> 01:31:12,597
You wrote it because you loved him.
1317
01:31:16,504 --> 01:31:18,631
And feared for him.
1318
01:31:21,476 --> 01:31:23,068
And feared for yourself.
1319
01:31:27,982 --> 01:31:29,916
And then you wrote this:
1320
01:31:35,490 --> 01:31:36,957
Where the fuck did you get that?
1321
01:31:37,158 --> 01:31:39,683
- Delivered to my room.
- Bullshit. You stole it.
1322
01:31:39,894 --> 01:31:44,194
Maureen O'Flaherty was killed
in the Versailles Hotel, in your room...
1323
01:31:44,398 --> 01:31:46,958
...the night before the telethon.
1324
01:31:49,370 --> 01:31:51,736
The night before we met.
1325
01:31:58,212 --> 01:32:00,305
Get out of my office.
1326
01:32:48,796 --> 01:32:50,593
Miss Trout?
1327
01:32:51,732 --> 01:32:54,792
We walked through the deserted
backlot of the studio...
1328
01:32:55,002 --> 01:32:59,268
... and I confessed
that I wasn't Bonnie Trout.
1329
01:32:59,473 --> 01:33:01,566
That I was writing a book
about Vince Collins.
1330
01:33:01,776 --> 01:33:03,903
And that I was trying
to uncover the secret...
1331
01:33:04,111 --> 01:33:06,443
... behind what happened
to Maureen O'Flaherty.
1332
01:33:06,914 --> 01:33:09,405
I told him what I found out.
1333
01:33:09,617 --> 01:33:11,244
He prayed that he would
be forgiven...
1334
01:33:11,452 --> 01:33:13,750
... for having been there
as the murder was concealed.
1335
01:33:13,955 --> 01:33:15,650
Miss O'Connor...
1336
01:33:15,957 --> 01:33:19,916
...I have a tape recording of
the night Miss O'Flaherty was killed.
1337
01:33:20,561 --> 01:33:23,724
She had brought a machine.
1338
01:33:25,866 --> 01:33:27,857
- For the interview.
- Yes.
1339
01:33:28,069 --> 01:33:31,163
I found it as I was
getting rid of her things.
1340
01:33:32,907 --> 01:33:35,569
She kept it on?
1341
01:33:37,378 --> 01:33:40,370
Could you use this tape
for your book?
1342
01:33:44,552 --> 01:33:46,179
Of course.
1343
01:33:46,821 --> 01:33:48,482
Miss O'Connor...
1344
01:33:49,423 --> 01:33:51,254
...is it something?
1345
01:33:52,560 --> 01:33:53,959
Oh, my.
1346
01:33:54,161 --> 01:33:56,186
Is it something I could sell?
1347
01:33:57,231 --> 01:34:00,325
Reuben, I can't speak
on behalf of my publishers...
1348
01:34:00,534 --> 01:34:03,094
...but l�m sure that we can
settle on a price.
1349
01:34:03,304 --> 01:34:05,670
Oh, thank you, Miss O'Connor.
1350
01:34:09,443 --> 01:34:12,003
I'll even spice it up a little,
talk about how...
1351
01:34:12,213 --> 01:34:15,239
... the night before the telethon,
I wanted to sleep like a babe.
1352
01:34:15,449 --> 01:34:18,179
So to cover my bets,
I kept a few babes on hand.
1353
01:34:18,753 --> 01:34:20,584
Well, not exactly on my hand.
1354
01:34:20,788 --> 01:34:24,087
That's not my preference,
as you may have gathered by now.
1355
01:34:26,227 --> 01:34:27,956
I need the money.
1356
01:34:29,864 --> 01:34:32,560
Did you have a figure in mind?
1357
01:34:34,669 --> 01:34:37,797
Would you think a million dollars
would be too much?
1358
01:34:38,739 --> 01:34:42,607
Vince was being paid
a million dollars for his life.
1359
01:34:42,810 --> 01:34:44,107
This is one night.
1360
01:34:45,079 --> 01:34:47,104
The most important night.
1361
01:34:48,549 --> 01:34:50,540
You could have left me a note
or called me.
1362
01:34:50,751 --> 01:34:53,447
- I did leave you a note.
- Where?
1363
01:35:03,197 --> 01:35:05,461
Lanny left this for me
at my apartment.
1364
01:35:06,567 --> 01:35:09,229
It�s his version
of what happened that night.
1365
01:35:10,571 --> 01:35:14,302
On its own,
it's absolutely useless to me.
1366
01:35:14,508 --> 01:35:16,874
I could have typed it myself.
1367
01:35:20,281 --> 01:35:24,809
But if it matched
what's recorded on your tape...
1368
01:35:27,621 --> 01:35:29,350
...it would make it priceless.
1369
01:35:34,295 --> 01:35:36,195
Which is why you sent it to me.
1370
01:35:39,133 --> 01:35:42,261
You just said
Mr. Morris left it at your apartment.
1371
01:35:42,470 --> 01:35:44,904
He was surprised I had it.
1372
01:35:47,074 --> 01:35:50,601
Like he was surprised I hadn't found
the note he left for me at the hotel.
1373
01:35:50,811 --> 01:35:53,541
The note you must've disposed of
as you were tidying the room.
1374
01:35:53,748 --> 01:35:55,875
I told you how he deals with women.
I was afraid.
1375
01:35:56,083 --> 01:35:57,846
Really afraid of what
he might do to you.
1376
01:35:58,052 --> 01:36:00,179
Maybe you were afraid of what I'd...
1377
01:36:00,387 --> 01:36:02,878
l�d do to him. And to you.
1378
01:36:03,090 --> 01:36:06,992
Why would I be afraid of
a schoolteacher called Bonnie Trout?
1379
01:36:07,194 --> 01:36:09,754
Because you knew I was
Karen O'Connor.
1380
01:36:09,964 --> 01:36:12,694
When I woke up,
you folded my clothes...
1381
01:36:12,900 --> 01:36:14,800
...and placed my pocketbook
on the bed.
1382
01:36:15,002 --> 01:36:18,995
The pocketbook that had my name
and the letter from my publisher.
1383
01:36:20,708 --> 01:36:24,007
I was writing about the one thing
you wanted to have total control over:
1384
01:36:24,211 --> 01:36:26,202
Collins and Morris.
1385
01:36:27,715 --> 01:36:31,811
You made me abandon any thought
of trying to contact Lanny.
1386
01:36:32,419 --> 01:36:34,819
You made me feel like I was
less than nothing to him...
1387
01:36:35,022 --> 01:36:37,183
...because you were playing
your own complex game.
1388
01:36:37,391 --> 01:36:43,091
And what exactly was this complex
game I was playing, Miss O'Connor?
1389
01:37:01,715 --> 01:37:03,376
You were in the room.
1390
01:37:04,718 --> 01:37:06,447
That night.
1391
01:37:07,188 --> 01:37:09,884
Lanny had a robe.
He dropped it on the bed.
1392
01:37:10,090 --> 01:37:12,684
After Maureen asked for money...
1393
01:37:12,893 --> 01:37:14,861
...the wallet was on top.
It had been folded.
1394
01:37:15,062 --> 01:37:18,554
Well, I always, always arranged
Mr. Morris' things.
1395
01:37:18,766 --> 01:37:22,031
After he went to bed.
You were there before.
1396
01:37:22,236 --> 01:37:25,433
How would I get out?
All three doors were chain-locked.
1397
01:37:43,757 --> 01:37:45,952
Through Vince's room.
1398
01:37:47,394 --> 01:37:48,952
Then, the next morning...
1399
01:37:49,163 --> 01:37:52,462
... you must have chain-locked the
door before you went to wake him up.
1400
01:37:56,570 --> 01:37:58,697
Fuck!
1401
01:38:01,775 --> 01:38:04,175
Lanny let me read the first chapter.
1402
01:38:04,378 --> 01:38:06,710
Vince sent me the second.
1403
01:38:09,316 --> 01:38:11,181
And you stole this.
1404
01:38:11,385 --> 01:38:12,784
To whet my appetite.
1405
01:38:37,311 --> 01:38:39,040
I wanna write.
1406
01:38:39,246 --> 01:38:41,146
I wanna be a journalist.
1407
01:38:41,782 --> 01:38:44,842
So I could either
use this information...
1408
01:38:45,686 --> 01:38:47,677
... or I could use a lot of money.
1409
01:38:47,888 --> 01:38:50,254
Is that why you killed her?
1410
01:38:51,525 --> 01:38:52,787
To protect them?
1411
01:39:00,134 --> 01:39:04,002
For 15 years...
1412
01:39:04,204 --> 01:39:07,264
... he tormented Vince and Lanny.
1413
01:39:10,844 --> 01:39:14,541
He could never blackmail Vince
while Sally Sanmarco was alive...
1414
01:39:15,449 --> 01:39:19,818
... so he waited until Sally died
to activate his retirement plan:
1415
01:39:22,423 --> 01:39:25,483
A million dollars from Vince.
1416
01:39:26,260 --> 01:39:30,594
A million dollars for the same tape
he offered to me.
1417
01:39:35,502 --> 01:39:39,370
He would never get his money,
and I would never see him again.
1418
01:39:45,412 --> 01:39:48,040
He had taken her life...
1419
01:39:48,248 --> 01:39:51,012
... and with it her mother's heart...
1420
01:39:51,685 --> 01:39:53,983
... and her father's mind.
1421
01:39:55,622 --> 01:39:57,112
And now...
1422
01:39:57,324 --> 01:40:00,555
... all that remained
of Maureen O'Flaherty...
1423
01:40:00,761 --> 01:40:04,788
... was a tree
in her mother's garden.
1424
01:40:19,546 --> 01:40:22,777
Your daughter learned something
about Vince Collins...
1425
01:40:22,983 --> 01:40:25,611
...that he didn't want anyone to know.
1426
01:40:25,886 --> 01:40:27,581
Because of that...
1427
01:40:27,788 --> 01:40:29,346
...she was killed.
1428
01:40:29,556 --> 01:40:32,719
If it's of any small comfort,
she probably didn't suffer.
1429
01:40:33,327 --> 01:40:36,922
I want people
to know about this man.
1430
01:40:37,531 --> 01:40:40,329
I want them to know
why he killed her.
1431
01:40:45,672 --> 01:40:47,833
There is someone in all this...
1432
01:40:48,042 --> 01:40:50,135
...who is totally innocent
of any involvement...
1433
01:40:50,344 --> 01:40:52,244
...in the events of that night...
1434
01:40:52,446 --> 01:40:57,281
...but whose life will be made infinitely
worse if I tell the truth at this time.
1435
01:40:58,318 --> 01:41:01,845
I wanna protect this person
from any further pain.
1436
01:41:04,892 --> 01:41:06,860
I promise you...
1437
01:41:07,428 --> 01:41:10,920
I promise you I will write down
the truth that l�ve learned...
1438
01:41:11,131 --> 01:41:14,123
...but I have to let matters lie
until this person has died...
1439
01:41:14,334 --> 01:41:16,529
...and the truth
can no longer touch them.
1440
01:41:21,742 --> 01:41:24,836
I saw no indication on her face...
1441
01:41:25,045 --> 01:41:27,605
... that she knew
I was talking about her.
1442
01:42:01,381 --> 01:42:03,975
You're a very special girl.
1443
01:42:12,126 --> 01:42:14,594
Forgive me.