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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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My 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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I'm not sure we like balance.
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Or leaving
the conclusions to the reader.
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I'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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My 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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I'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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I'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.
May 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 I've ever seen."
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I haven't seen them yet.
I'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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I'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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We paced it so that
Vince and I were together...
240
00:15:01,150 --> 00:15:03,157
... for the kickoff,
most of the day Saturday...
241
00:15:03,357 --> 00:15:06,706
... then the big finale
on Sunday with us bleary-eyed...
242
00:15:06,909 --> 00:15:09,724
... and weeping as America
got ready to go to church.
243
00:15:09,917 --> 00:15:13,146
Lanny, Lanny. What are you doing?
244
00:15:13,342 --> 00:15:15,610
I'm ordering a pizza. I'm starving.
245
00:15:15,805 --> 00:15:19,384
No anchovies on mine, Lanny.
Hey, so who are you talking to?
246
00:15:19,581 --> 00:15:22,614
I'm talking to little Suzie
from Whittier, California...
247
00:15:22,813 --> 00:15:26,161
...and she is going to donate
three weeks of allowance.
248
00:15:26,365 --> 00:15:29,398
- How about that, folks?
- Suzie from Whittier, thank you.
249
00:15:29,597 --> 00:15:31,026
Three weeks of allowance.
250
00:15:31,229 --> 00:15:32,570
That's a challenge for all you...
251
00:15:32,764 --> 00:15:34,903
What you have to understand
is that Vince and me...
252
00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:37,173
... were essentially a boy-girl act.
253
00:15:37,373 --> 00:15:39,827
I was the tramp,
ready for any sort of action...
254
00:15:40,061 --> 00:15:41,554
... and Vince was the gentleman...
255
00:15:41,756 --> 00:15:43,796
... always trying to make me
behave myself.
256
00:15:43,996 --> 00:15:46,385
I was pleasure, and he was control.
257
00:15:46,716 --> 00:15:49,651
I was rock 'n' roll,
and he was class.
258
00:15:49,852 --> 00:15:54,009
His presence gave America
permission to like me.
259
00:15:56,349 --> 00:15:59,251
My deal with the publisher
gave me first-class travel...
260
00:15:59,452 --> 00:16:00,914
... a luxury I'd never enjoyed.
261
00:16:01,116 --> 00:16:03,417
Is there any chance of switching
to a window seat?
262
00:16:03,612 --> 00:16:05,783
Sorry, we're completely booked
in first.
263
00:16:05,979 --> 00:16:08,827
But these center seats
are really wonderful. See...
264
00:16:09,020 --> 00:16:11,059
...if you push here...
Can I show you?
265
00:16:11,259 --> 00:16:12,917
Sure.
266
00:16:14,555 --> 00:16:17,076
The chair swivels
to the left and the right.
267
00:16:17,275 --> 00:16:19,479
And this converts
to a full-sized dining table...
268
00:16:19,675 --> 00:16:21,366
...during our
Pan Am platinum service...
269
00:16:21,563 --> 00:16:24,018
...with damask linen
and silverware by Fornari...
270
00:16:24,220 --> 00:16:26,358
...so you don't have to eat off a tray.
271
00:16:26,556 --> 00:16:29,108
Again, that's only
for these center seats.
272
00:16:30,043 --> 00:16:31,287
How does that sound?
273
00:16:31,643 --> 00:16:34,163
At that time, when you
traveled first class...
274
00:16:34,362 --> 00:16:38,291
... people would always ask you if you
met someone famous on the flight.
275
00:16:38,491 --> 00:16:40,345
- Mr. Morris.
- Thank you.
276
00:16:40,539 --> 00:16:41,651
You're welcome.
277
00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:54,999
Though he would later accuse me
of engineering this, I didn't.
278
00:16:55,195 --> 00:16:56,503
It just...
279
00:16:56,698 --> 00:16:58,323
... happened.
280
00:17:04,377 --> 00:17:07,312
Reuben. So they...
They record these songs...
281
00:17:07,514 --> 00:17:09,172
...in a studio that I am paying for.
282
00:17:09,370 --> 00:17:11,125
Songs that are recorded for me...
283
00:17:11,322 --> 00:17:12,947
...that they are
contracted to provide.
284
00:17:13,146 --> 00:17:15,033
- Are you with me here?
- Yes, it's just that...
285
00:17:15,225 --> 00:17:18,291
No, it's just that nothing, Irv.
Please, let me finish. They record...
286
00:17:18,489 --> 00:17:21,785
I read an interview where Lanny was
given credit for insisting his butler...
287
00:17:21,978 --> 00:17:25,687
... travel in the same class and stay
at the same hotels as his boss.
288
00:17:26,265 --> 00:17:29,527
The valet's attentiveness
was impressive.
289
00:17:30,457 --> 00:17:33,654
Looks like you'll be having
dinner with Lanny Morris.
290
00:17:36,601 --> 00:17:39,219
- Hello.
- Hi.
291
00:17:49,112 --> 00:17:51,796
We should get a waiter to slide
a matchbook under the airplane.
292
00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:54,414
There we go.
293
00:17:54,617 --> 00:17:56,242
That should hold.
294
00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:58,865
This is my friend Reuben.
295
00:17:59,064 --> 00:18:00,243
- Hi.
- Hi.
296
00:18:00,439 --> 00:18:02,895
And this is also my friend,
technically speaking...
297
00:18:03,096 --> 00:18:04,984
...and business manager, Irv.
- Hi.
298
00:18:07,097 --> 00:18:08,340
My name is Lanny.
299
00:18:12,888 --> 00:18:14,382
And what's your name?
300
00:18:15,799 --> 00:18:17,872
Bonnie. Bonnie Trout.
301
00:18:18,072 --> 00:18:19,349
What do you do, Bonnie?
302
00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,046
I teach.
303
00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:22,800
And what do you teach?
304
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,138
- Second grade.
- Well, we have a lot in common.
305
00:18:25,336 --> 00:18:27,725
You teach second grade,
I went to second grade.
306
00:18:27,927 --> 00:18:30,961
- Irv, you went to second grade too?
- Many times.
307
00:18:31,158 --> 00:18:32,566
Tell me, Miss Trout...
308
00:18:32,759 --> 00:18:34,134
I don't mean to be impolite...
309
00:18:34,328 --> 00:18:35,821
...but I was wondering...
310
00:18:36,023 --> 00:18:39,437
...how a second-grade schoolteacher
affords to fly first class.
311
00:18:41,495 --> 00:18:43,600
Well, I have a pass...
312
00:18:43,798 --> 00:18:47,115
...that allows me free use
of the subway on weekends...
313
00:18:47,319 --> 00:18:50,352
...and the hot lunches
at school are only 50 cents.
314
00:18:51,703 --> 00:18:54,037
And I'm the mistress...
315
00:18:54,231 --> 00:18:55,638
...of a wealthy married man...
316
00:18:55,830 --> 00:18:58,351
...and when he and his wife
go on vacation, he treats me...
317
00:18:58,550 --> 00:19:01,584
...to a first-class trip
in the opposite direction.
318
00:19:02,390 --> 00:19:06,645
But look at me, talking only about
myself. What do you do for a living?
319
00:19:07,958 --> 00:19:10,347
I'm a French impressionist
painter out of Tahiti, mainly.
320
00:19:10,550 --> 00:19:12,884
I'm doing that to pay the bills.
My ambition is to be...
321
00:19:13,078 --> 00:19:15,053
...a stockbroker in Paris.
322
00:19:15,350 --> 00:19:16,910
- I don't get it.
- Paul Gauguin.
323
00:19:17,109 --> 00:19:18,998
He gave up being
a successful stockbroker...
324
00:19:19,190 --> 00:19:21,524
...to become a painter
in the South Seas.
325
00:19:22,486 --> 00:19:24,275
You think the average
person knows that?
326
00:19:24,469 --> 00:19:27,698
Well, we're not talking about
the average person, Irv.
327
00:19:30,709 --> 00:19:32,116
In some ways...
328
00:19:32,309 --> 00:19:35,375
... he had never stopped
being a hero to me.
329
00:19:36,182 --> 00:19:40,142
That's why it was impossible
to think he might also be a killer.
330
00:19:46,581 --> 00:19:48,075
Well, this has been great.
331
00:19:48,277 --> 00:19:50,316
I'm gonna see you
inside your apartment.
332
00:19:50,517 --> 00:19:52,884
- There's really no need.
- Don't be silly.
333
00:19:53,077 --> 00:19:54,832
I'm not gonna try to come in.
334
00:19:55,028 --> 00:19:56,490
Promise.
335
00:19:57,237 --> 00:19:59,725
You've been away from your
apartment for how long now?
336
00:19:59,925 --> 00:20:01,518
- Ages.
- You never know if somebody's...
337
00:20:01,716 --> 00:20:03,243
...broken in while you were gone.
338
00:20:03,445 --> 00:20:05,997
I'll just see you inside your door.
339
00:20:06,677 --> 00:20:09,426
Believe me, I'm...
I'm not trying to seduce you.
340
00:20:09,621 --> 00:20:11,508
I have to do the Today show
at 7 a.m.
341
00:20:11,701 --> 00:20:14,002
They want me in Makeup at 6:15.
342
00:20:14,196 --> 00:20:16,367
Bonnie had moved to New York
for the teaching job...
343
00:20:16,563 --> 00:20:18,451
... a little over a year ago.
344
00:20:18,644 --> 00:20:22,505
I had never visited her and had
no idea if this was the right place.
345
00:20:23,731 --> 00:20:25,106
Which floor?
346
00:20:25,684 --> 00:20:27,472
Why...
347
00:20:28,564 --> 00:20:29,742
- Four-D.
- Forty?
348
00:20:30,259 --> 00:20:32,048
It only goes up to six.
349
00:20:34,452 --> 00:20:35,945
Four-D...
350
00:20:36,148 --> 00:20:38,286
Four-D, the fourth floor.
351
00:21:00,338 --> 00:21:01,616
Which way?
352
00:21:02,580 --> 00:21:04,302
- Guess.
- Why?
353
00:21:04,499 --> 00:21:05,709
It's a test.
354
00:21:05,907 --> 00:21:07,369
A test?
355
00:21:09,074 --> 00:21:10,602
Okay.
356
00:21:10,802 --> 00:21:12,144
This way.
357
00:21:15,634 --> 00:21:17,773
So why didn't we take this elevator?
358
00:21:17,971 --> 00:21:19,530
Doesn't work.
359
00:21:22,642 --> 00:21:24,016
Well...
360
00:21:24,850 --> 00:21:26,159
...good night.
361
00:21:26,354 --> 00:21:28,241
No, I'm going to see you
into your apartment.
362
00:21:28,434 --> 00:21:30,855
And then I'm gonna leave you
alone until tomorrow.
363
00:21:47,505 --> 00:21:50,155
I never get which key goes in
which lock the first time.
364
00:21:52,594 --> 00:21:54,797
Hey, looks like they fixed it.
365
00:22:05,713 --> 00:22:07,120
You okay?
366
00:22:07,312 --> 00:22:09,614
Maybe we should turn on a light.
367
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,077
Well...
368
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:26,694
I'm going to leave you now.
369
00:22:26,896 --> 00:22:30,093
I have Reuben and Irv waiting
in the limousine downstairs...
370
00:22:30,512 --> 00:22:33,359
...and I should get some sleep
for the Today show.
371
00:22:35,504 --> 00:22:36,878
So...
372
00:22:41,456 --> 00:22:43,595
It was lovely to meet you, Bonnie.
373
00:23:02,224 --> 00:23:04,427
By the end of the telethon,
we had no voices.
374
00:23:04,623 --> 00:23:08,071
Thirty-nine hours
of nonstop entertainment.
375
00:23:08,271 --> 00:23:10,987
A telethon was a superhuman feat.
376
00:23:11,182 --> 00:23:14,499
We weren't just heroes,
we were gods.
377
00:23:17,199 --> 00:23:19,882
A couple of the boys were there
to make sure we got out alive...
378
00:23:20,078 --> 00:23:22,314
... to make the flight to New York.
379
00:23:26,030 --> 00:23:28,845
Everyone. Listen. Listen.
380
00:23:29,038 --> 00:23:31,045
Gentlemen. Gentlemen, please.
381
00:23:31,438 --> 00:23:34,339
Gentlemen, if I could just
have your attention.
382
00:23:34,702 --> 00:23:36,458
Everyone, Mr. Collins
and Mr. Morris...
383
00:23:36,654 --> 00:23:38,825
...will answer questions
at the press conference...
384
00:23:39,021 --> 00:23:40,648
...at the Palace Del Sol.
385
00:23:40,845 --> 00:23:42,733
Gentlemen, there will be
plenty of time...
386
00:23:42,925 --> 00:23:46,242
...to answer your questions
at the Palace Del Sol.
387
00:23:46,446 --> 00:23:49,379
Thank you, we will answer your
questions at the press conference.
388
00:23:49,581 --> 00:23:51,469
Thank you for coming.
389
00:23:57,229 --> 00:24:00,099
We had a full police escort, along
with bodyguards who were there...
390
00:24:00,302 --> 00:24:03,083
... to protect us from any thoughts
we might have of going AWOI...
391
00:24:03,277 --> 00:24:04,967
... prior to this press conference.
392
00:24:05,165 --> 00:24:08,165
A pair of New Jersey's finest
walked on either side of us...
393
00:24:08,364 --> 00:24:10,820
... as we entered
the lobby of the hotel.
394
00:24:11,021 --> 00:24:13,639
It was an indication of how
legitimate the Mob had gone...
395
00:24:13,837 --> 00:24:15,942
... that they could
bring in the local police...
396
00:24:16,142 --> 00:24:18,508
... to guard the fa�ade of their racket.
397
00:24:19,053 --> 00:24:23,014
The local chief was a man
named Jack Scaglia.
398
00:24:23,213 --> 00:24:25,995
And of course, the two
gentlemen on my right...
399
00:24:26,188 --> 00:24:29,353
...who need no introduction,
have come here directly...
400
00:24:29,549 --> 00:24:33,061
...from their record-breaking
polio telethon in Miami, Florida.
401
00:24:34,092 --> 00:24:37,408
So the first thing I'd like to announce
is that Mr. Sanmarco...
402
00:24:37,867 --> 00:24:39,078
I wish I could tell you...
403
00:24:39,276 --> 00:24:41,732
... that Sally Sanmarco
was a slim, 6-foot-6 guy...
404
00:24:41,931 --> 00:24:44,801
... who looked like a prince
and spoke with an English accent.
405
00:24:45,004 --> 00:24:47,273
Then I wouldn't be
falling back on the stereotype.
406
00:24:47,564 --> 00:24:50,980
The trouble was, Sally was
straight out of central casting.
407
00:24:51,788 --> 00:24:53,730
A gangster
who looked and talked...
408
00:24:53,932 --> 00:24:56,452
... just like you would expect
from the movies.
409
00:24:56,651 --> 00:24:59,139
How did it feel to raise
all that money for polio?
410
00:24:59,660 --> 00:25:01,764
It felt great. It felt really great.
411
00:25:01,964 --> 00:25:04,713
From a publicity angle, and in
terms of giving him legitimacy...
412
00:25:04,907 --> 00:25:07,045
... this was a huge coup for Sally.
413
00:25:07,243 --> 00:25:09,610
Like I said, we were gods.
414
00:25:10,859 --> 00:25:14,307
We'd only been in the New York area
for an hour or so, during which time...
415
00:25:14,507 --> 00:25:17,157
... we were constantly watched
by police and reporters...
416
00:25:17,355 --> 00:25:19,973
... which ended up being
a good thing for us.
417
00:25:20,171 --> 00:25:22,504
We got you our best bridal suite.
418
00:25:22,986 --> 00:25:24,896
Fucking nice, huh?
419
00:25:25,994 --> 00:25:28,580
People talk about having fancy
apartments and hotel rooms...
420
00:25:28,779 --> 00:25:30,786
...on the West Side of Manhattan.
What do they see?
421
00:25:30,987 --> 00:25:34,019
Fucking New Jersey.
Here, you see New York City.
422
00:25:40,970 --> 00:25:43,305
Unfortunately,
Vince and I were acquainted...
423
00:25:43,498 --> 00:25:47,621
... with the dead girl in the bathroom
of our hotel suite in New Jersey.
424
00:25:48,138 --> 00:25:51,236
Her last name was O'Flaherty.
425
00:25:51,658 --> 00:25:54,658
Her first name was Maureen.
426
00:25:54,889 --> 00:25:58,402
Karen, we decided to trade
apartments, not identities.
427
00:25:58,602 --> 00:26:00,063
Why didn't you make up a name?
428
00:26:00,266 --> 00:26:02,688
Bonnie, I was looking
at a five-hour flight.
429
00:26:02,890 --> 00:26:05,890
I didn't wanna make up a life story
that wasn't attached to anything.
430
00:26:06,089 --> 00:26:09,438
Well, I returned the offense.
I got to pretend I was you.
431
00:26:09,641 --> 00:26:11,135
- What?
- You received a package.
432
00:26:11,337 --> 00:26:13,541
Messenger service.
I signed your name.
433
00:26:13,737 --> 00:26:16,257
- Who's it from?
- No address. Want me to open it?
434
00:26:16,457 --> 00:26:17,919
- Sure.
- That's good. I already did.
435
00:26:18,121 --> 00:26:19,331
It's a manuscript.
436
00:26:19,529 --> 00:26:21,862
"Excerpt From the Memoirs of...
437
00:26:22,056 --> 00:26:23,748
...Lanny Morris."
438
00:26:23,944 --> 00:26:27,774
Hey, all your dreams are coming true.
He's writing you love letters already.
439
00:26:27,977 --> 00:26:29,864
Bonnie, I need
to know what he's written.
440
00:26:30,057 --> 00:26:33,854
- Well, I'll send it to you.
- Now. Before he calls me tomorrow.
441
00:26:36,008 --> 00:26:38,822
- Please?
- All right.
442
00:26:40,168 --> 00:26:41,925
All right.
443
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:43,495
Here we go.
444
00:26:45,768 --> 00:26:49,543
"Let me explain to you why two
very famous guys just finishing...
445
00:26:49,735 --> 00:26:53,696
...a nationally broadcast telethon
ended up in New Jersey."
446
00:26:58,152 --> 00:27:03,137
For years, the Palace Del Sol was
one of the centers of Mob prosperity.
447
00:27:03,335 --> 00:27:06,205
Needless to say, a major
headliner in the showroom...
448
00:27:06,408 --> 00:27:09,442
... helped legitimize
the entire operation.
449
00:27:09,639 --> 00:27:11,298
Give her a kiss. Yeah, beautiful.
450
00:27:11,496 --> 00:27:14,397
One more, guys. That's it.
That's great. Thank you.
451
00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:16,933
Vince and I needed help
in keeping us up all the time...
452
00:27:17,127 --> 00:27:19,232
... and in the way of thinking
in the '50s...
453
00:27:19,431 --> 00:27:21,570
... anything you didn't take
with a needle was okay.
454
00:27:21,767 --> 00:27:25,280
It wasn't "serious" serious.
It was like running a red light.
455
00:27:25,478 --> 00:27:30,148
Everyone used bennies. Vince added
them to his morning coffee like sugar.
456
00:27:34,918 --> 00:27:36,893
Not that you could tell.
457
00:27:38,630 --> 00:27:40,540
When we did finally
decide to flatten out...
458
00:27:40,743 --> 00:27:44,539
... we'd take two or three Tuinals,
or three or four "Threeinals."
459
00:27:44,743 --> 00:27:45,986
They were really good.
460
00:27:46,182 --> 00:27:48,385
Between the moment you took them
and passing out...
461
00:27:48,582 --> 00:27:51,616
... it felt really sexy.
462
00:28:25,734 --> 00:28:26,879
Sure.
463
00:28:27,077 --> 00:28:29,117
- Enjoyed the show.
- Thank you.
464
00:28:33,765 --> 00:28:35,227
The walls of the Blue Grotto...
465
00:28:35,429 --> 00:28:37,982
... were made of a mixture
of plaster and Styrofoam.
466
00:28:38,180 --> 00:28:40,930
Flammable as all hell. But the boys
had learned it was cheaper...
467
00:28:41,125 --> 00:28:44,441
... to give the inspector 200 bucks
and a ringside table to our show...
468
00:28:44,644 --> 00:28:47,742
... than to spend thousands
of dollars on fireproofing.
469
00:28:47,940 --> 00:28:51,039
Besides, it was always vital in
a business enterprise of this sort...
470
00:28:51,236 --> 00:28:54,782
... to have the option to torch the place
at a moment's notice...
471
00:28:54,981 --> 00:28:57,250
... should the need present itself.
472
00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:02,235
One night, after our show,
we were taken to Sally's office.
473
00:29:02,436 --> 00:29:03,930
We wondered
what we had done wrong...
474
00:29:04,132 --> 00:29:05,693
... but what we had done
was done good.
475
00:29:05,892 --> 00:29:08,064
Sally started going on about
how much he liked us...
476
00:29:08,259 --> 00:29:10,911
... how he thought we were
a good fit with his crowd...
477
00:29:11,108 --> 00:29:13,725
... meaning that we brought in
an audience of heavy drinkers...
478
00:29:13,924 --> 00:29:15,712
... adulterers and gamblers.
479
00:29:15,907 --> 00:29:18,296
So, what we want is for you boys
to come back here...
480
00:29:18,499 --> 00:29:21,183
...three months from now
and open our new showroom for us.
481
00:29:21,795 --> 00:29:24,992
A two-week,
exclusive limited engagement...
482
00:29:25,188 --> 00:29:27,970
...that we want you to do for us
for six weeks.
483
00:29:28,420 --> 00:29:30,972
God help you when a killer
takes a shining to you.
484
00:29:31,171 --> 00:29:35,905
I looked at Vince and scratched my
nose, which meant our strongest "no."
485
00:29:36,099 --> 00:29:37,757
That's a very great honor, Sally.
486
00:29:37,954 --> 00:29:40,322
- You're damn fucking right it is.
- The thing is...
487
00:29:40,515 --> 00:29:43,449
...we're just trying to cut down on
the nightclub work at the moment.
488
00:29:43,650 --> 00:29:46,138
We turned down the Sands
so we could do a TV special...
489
00:29:46,338 --> 00:29:50,200
...and the only reason we still work the
Versailles is out of friendship for you.
490
00:29:54,147 --> 00:29:56,962
- What dates were you thinking of?
- We open November 15th.
491
00:29:57,154 --> 00:29:59,674
Sally, any other day
we would be here in a flash...
492
00:29:59,874 --> 00:30:02,776
...but, you know, that's the day
right after the next polio telethon.
493
00:30:02,978 --> 00:30:05,913
I mean, we always take two weeks off
right after that to recover.
494
00:30:06,114 --> 00:30:07,259
- Right, Vince?
- At least.
495
00:30:07,457 --> 00:30:09,465
- I mean, we're tired.
- That's the way I want you.
496
00:30:09,666 --> 00:30:13,145
After the fucking telethon,
we fly you up from Miami...
497
00:30:13,346 --> 00:30:15,931
...hold a press conference,
all fucking exhausted...
498
00:30:16,130 --> 00:30:18,040
...so people know
what heroes you are.
499
00:30:19,041 --> 00:30:21,408
I'll keep a suite for you
with the best hookers I got.
500
00:30:21,601 --> 00:30:23,608
Your own personal cathouse.
501
00:30:23,810 --> 00:30:25,217
And I'll have them send you up...
502
00:30:25,410 --> 00:30:27,264
...a shipment of lobsters
and stone crabs.
503
00:30:27,457 --> 00:30:29,791
- You like lobsters?
- Love them.
504
00:30:29,985 --> 00:30:31,611
And a case of these...
505
00:30:31,809 --> 00:30:34,330
...special grapefruits...
506
00:30:34,528 --> 00:30:37,246
...that I get special down there.
507
00:30:37,665 --> 00:30:40,447
The most delicious thing
you ever tasted in your life.
508
00:30:40,641 --> 00:30:42,812
Juicy, thin skin.
509
00:30:43,681 --> 00:30:47,194
Months later, on the night
before the telethon in Miami...
510
00:30:47,393 --> 00:30:49,662
... we got back to our room
and found that Sally...
511
00:30:49,856 --> 00:30:52,923
... had been more than good
to his word.
512
00:30:54,657 --> 00:30:57,242
Laid out around the room
were various crates...
513
00:30:57,441 --> 00:30:59,830
... bearing the addresses
of their destination:
514
00:31:00,033 --> 00:31:03,261
Our suite at the Palace Del Sol
hotel in New Jersey.
515
00:31:03,456 --> 00:31:08,246
"You like lobsters?
See you in New Jersey."
516
00:31:09,152 --> 00:31:12,316
"Thin skin, fucking most delicious
fucking thing...
517
00:31:12,513 --> 00:31:14,105
...you ever had in your fucking life."
518
00:31:14,304 --> 00:31:16,987
"What I thought was a box
of beach balls turned out to be...
519
00:31:17,184 --> 00:31:19,355
...the thinnest-skinned,
dripping-wet grapefruits...
520
00:31:19,551 --> 00:31:21,078
...I�d ever tasted in my life.
521
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:23,767
The 6-foot crate was filled
with fruits of the sea...
522
00:31:23,968 --> 00:31:26,685
...slowly shifting over a bed of ice."
523
00:31:26,879 --> 00:31:30,327
Yeah, this is Lanny Morris.
Send up three steaks, all right?
524
00:31:30,527 --> 00:31:31,803
Yeah. Make them rare this time.
525
00:31:31,999 --> 00:31:33,275
- Yeah, rare.
- Like bloody.
526
00:31:33,471 --> 00:31:36,603
Bloody. And a couple of bottles
of that champagne.
527
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,687
- Make that three.
- Three bottles of champagne.
528
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,141
And can you make sure
that Maureen delivers them?
529
00:31:42,335 --> 00:31:43,895
Yeah, Maureen.
530
00:31:44,383 --> 00:31:45,812
We called down for Maureen...
531
00:31:46,014 --> 00:31:47,771
... the room-service girl
I'd met earlier...
532
00:31:47,967 --> 00:31:50,356
... who wanted the interview
for her school paper.
533
00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:53,047
She brought up three steaks,
one for her...
534
00:31:53,247 --> 00:31:55,963
... as her last official delivery
of the day.
535
00:31:56,159 --> 00:31:57,654
As much as I love lobster...
536
00:31:57,854 --> 00:32:00,789
... seeing all that shellfish
nestled on ice in the crate...
537
00:32:00,990 --> 00:32:04,787
... put me in the mood
for hooves, not claws.
538
00:32:21,694 --> 00:32:26,330
The interview for Maureen's campus
paper went better than expected.
539
00:32:26,526 --> 00:32:28,664
Vince and I popped some Tuinals...
540
00:32:28,861 --> 00:32:31,065
... to insure that
we would sleep like babes...
541
00:32:31,261 --> 00:32:35,931
... after we wore off the general
horniness that the pills first give you.
542
00:32:36,830 --> 00:32:41,750
Vince bought insurance on his bet
by having a few babes on hand.
543
00:32:41,949 --> 00:32:44,983
Well, not exactly on his hand.
544
00:32:45,181 --> 00:32:46,489
That wasn't his preference.
545
00:32:46,685 --> 00:32:49,947
"Not exactly on his hand.
That wasn't his preference."
546
00:32:50,140 --> 00:32:55,061
"Not exactly on his hand"?
"That wasn't his preference"?
547
00:32:56,061 --> 00:32:58,549
"The Tuinals, coupled with
a nice amount of booze...
548
00:32:58,749 --> 00:33:01,170
...guaranteed us
the sleep of the dead.
549
00:33:01,372 --> 00:33:03,739
Late the next morning,
Maureen was sent packing...
550
00:33:03,932 --> 00:33:09,628
...and Vince and I prepared ourselves
for that night's broadcast."
551
00:33:10,685 --> 00:33:14,001
Well, I guess this is one story my kids
won't have to give a book report on.
552
00:33:17,180 --> 00:33:18,457
Thanks.
553
00:33:18,652 --> 00:33:19,797
Must be weird to find out...
554
00:33:19,996 --> 00:33:23,574
...that the object of all your
adolescent fantasies is a pig.
555
00:33:24,860 --> 00:33:27,445
He's not like that.
556
00:33:27,644 --> 00:33:31,157
Oh, so it's just the way
he describes himself.
557
00:33:31,964 --> 00:33:33,655
She was right.
558
00:33:33,851 --> 00:33:36,273
Which was the real Lanny?
559
00:33:36,796 --> 00:33:39,730
I'd find out later that the story
of the hookers in the hotel suite...
560
00:33:39,932 --> 00:33:42,298
... was a complete fabrication.
561
00:33:42,491 --> 00:33:45,110
That night, Maureen was alone.
562
00:34:11,930 --> 00:34:14,319
- Hello?
- So how did you like the show?
563
00:34:14,522 --> 00:34:15,984
Lanny?
564
00:34:17,945 --> 00:34:19,669
The Today show.
565
00:34:19,866 --> 00:34:21,175
You did watch, didn't you?
566
00:34:21,946 --> 00:34:24,280
- The show.
- You didn't watch.
567
00:34:24,474 --> 00:34:26,546
Wow, that's scary.
568
00:34:28,505 --> 00:34:31,124
You see, when you're a star...
569
00:34:31,322 --> 00:34:34,224
...you live in terror,
wondering if it's all over yet.
570
00:34:34,426 --> 00:34:36,182
You keep looking for the signs.
571
00:34:36,378 --> 00:34:39,312
You're shooting a scene from a movie
on a New York street...
572
00:34:39,514 --> 00:34:40,659
...and a crowd doesn't form.
573
00:34:40,858 --> 00:34:42,581
You meet a girl on a plane
and tell her...
574
00:34:42,777 --> 00:34:45,331
...that you're gonna be on the
Today show the next morning...
575
00:34:45,529 --> 00:34:48,180
...and she doesn't
wake up early to watch.
576
00:34:48,377 --> 00:34:50,068
It's very scary.
577
00:34:50,489 --> 00:34:53,751
Hey, you know,
I mentioned you on the air.
578
00:34:54,874 --> 00:34:57,655
- You did?
- Yes, I proposed to you on the air.
579
00:34:57,849 --> 00:35:00,598
Your building is probably
surrounded with photographers...
580
00:35:00,792 --> 00:35:03,378
- ... at this very moment.
- You're kidding.
581
00:35:03,577 --> 00:35:06,359
Yes, I'm kidding.
582
00:35:08,697 --> 00:35:10,126
So...
583
00:35:10,681 --> 00:35:12,404
...what time would you like to meet?
584
00:35:35,608 --> 00:35:38,324
Stanley, this is Bonnie.
Bonnie, Stanley.
585
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:39,949
Nice to meet you.
586
00:35:40,151 --> 00:35:41,460
Is the food almost ready, Stan?
587
00:35:41,656 --> 00:35:44,438
Yeah. I'll bring it right out,
Mr. Lanny.
588
00:35:44,888 --> 00:35:48,368
I was very hungry, so I asked Stanley
to prepare us something special.
589
00:35:48,568 --> 00:35:50,477
That sounds great.
590
00:35:52,312 --> 00:35:53,741
Tell me, what kind of a meeting...
591
00:35:53,943 --> 00:35:56,692
...does a schoolteacher have to go to
during the summer vacation?
592
00:35:56,887 --> 00:35:59,854
I'm exploring the possibility
of another job.
593
00:36:00,054 --> 00:36:03,535
- Something in publishing.
- How did it go?
594
00:36:03,736 --> 00:36:05,143
Okay.
595
00:36:05,623 --> 00:36:08,143
Have you ever thought
about writing a book?
596
00:36:08,791 --> 00:36:11,726
- About what?
- Your life.
597
00:36:11,926 --> 00:36:13,650
Sure. When I'm dead.
598
00:36:14,326 --> 00:36:15,604
No, seriously.
599
00:36:15,798 --> 00:36:17,839
It would have to be published
after I died...
600
00:36:18,039 --> 00:36:20,820
...when I wouldn't care what
anybody thought about me.
601
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:25,493
So, what would you write about,
if you were going to tell the truth?
602
00:36:25,686 --> 00:36:27,312
In my book?
603
00:36:27,670 --> 00:36:30,987
Well, the truth is,
I've met four presidents.
604
00:36:31,190 --> 00:36:32,881
They all seemed like
they were out of it.
605
00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:34,933
Like they had no idea
what was going on.
606
00:36:35,126 --> 00:36:38,289
Even J.F.K. Left me unimpressed.
I felt like I was with the boss' son.
607
00:36:38,486 --> 00:36:39,981
You don't think you could say that?
608
00:36:40,182 --> 00:36:43,116
Not if I was planning
on living in this country. No, no.
609
00:36:43,317 --> 00:36:46,133
I don't think that Judy Garland
was such a great singer...
610
00:36:46,326 --> 00:36:47,668
...after she turned 16.
611
00:36:47,862 --> 00:36:51,090
That quiver, you know,
it was like she had no control over it.
612
00:36:51,285 --> 00:36:53,172
I would get killed for saying that.
613
00:36:53,365 --> 00:36:56,496
Or that Marilyn Monroe
was no better an actress...
614
00:36:56,693 --> 00:37:00,042
...after she studied with
Lee Strasberg than before.
615
00:37:02,709 --> 00:37:04,978
I'm saying what really happened.
616
00:37:08,725 --> 00:37:10,700
Having to be a nice guy...
617
00:37:10,901 --> 00:37:13,105
...is the toughest job in the world
when you're not.
618
00:37:19,605 --> 00:37:21,994
This is a lamb in tea sauce.
619
00:37:22,197 --> 00:37:24,880
This is twice-cooked pork
with shredded, pickled cabbage.
620
00:37:25,781 --> 00:37:27,635
Kung Pao chicken.
621
00:37:28,180 --> 00:37:30,285
And this is Kung Ping Loh Haa...
622
00:37:30,484 --> 00:37:34,892
...lobster in tangerine peel
for you and your lovely lady friend.
623
00:37:35,285 --> 00:37:37,172
You shouldn't have
done that, Stanley.
624
00:37:37,364 --> 00:37:40,146
I don't eat lobster. I'm Jewish.
625
00:37:40,340 --> 00:37:41,519
But you eat pork.
626
00:37:41,844 --> 00:37:44,233
- Do you have a problem with that?
- No, I just thought...
627
00:37:44,435 --> 00:37:48,145
No shrimp, no lobster.
They're disgusting. Take it away.
628
00:37:48,340 --> 00:37:50,925
I will pay for the dish,
but take it away, please.
629
00:37:51,348 --> 00:37:52,941
I'll change it.
630
00:37:54,547 --> 00:37:56,271
I'm sorry, I...
631
00:37:56,467 --> 00:37:58,704
I should have asked.
Maybe you love lobster.
632
00:37:58,899 --> 00:38:00,558
I'm fine.
633
00:38:01,715 --> 00:38:03,820
Have you ever had
Szechwan cuisine before?
634
00:38:04,020 --> 00:38:06,441
It's from the northern part of China.
635
00:38:06,643 --> 00:38:08,912
It must be strange for you.
636
00:38:09,331 --> 00:38:14,449
If you complain to a waiter,
you're not just some jerk at table five...
637
00:38:14,643 --> 00:38:15,789
...you're Lanny Morris.
638
00:38:16,435 --> 00:38:19,304
I know that everyone
dreams about being famous...
639
00:38:19,507 --> 00:38:21,197
...but it would be interesting
to know...
640
00:38:21,395 --> 00:38:23,282
...what it's like
to relinquish all anonymity.
641
00:38:27,827 --> 00:38:31,275
- Gets me a date.
- Does that bother you?
642
00:38:31,474 --> 00:38:34,191
That people only wanna be with you
because of who you are?
643
00:38:34,387 --> 00:38:37,354
- As opposed to?
- Well...
644
00:38:37,554 --> 00:38:39,342
...the real you.
645
00:38:40,722 --> 00:38:42,315
The real me.
646
00:38:44,338 --> 00:38:49,259
The real me was brought up
as a nice middle-class kid...
647
00:38:49,459 --> 00:38:51,018
...which is not the easiest thing...
648
00:38:51,218 --> 00:38:54,513
...when you are extremely poor
and living in a slum.
649
00:38:55,090 --> 00:38:59,727
The real me spent most of his time
getting the shit kicked out of him...
650
00:38:59,922 --> 00:39:02,342
...and dreaming about
something better.
651
00:39:04,498 --> 00:39:06,766
Like being here
with someone like you.
652
00:39:07,985 --> 00:39:11,848
Fifteen years ago, he had,
for one brief moment...
653
00:39:12,049 --> 00:39:14,799
... made me feel like
the most special person in the world.
654
00:39:14,994 --> 00:39:19,216
"The miracle in my life
is not that I survived polio...
655
00:39:19,409 --> 00:39:21,231
...and am standing here today.
656
00:39:21,425 --> 00:39:25,287
No. The reason I consider myself
to be a miracle girl...
657
00:39:25,488 --> 00:39:27,082
...is because I had
the good fortune...
658
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,321
...to meet Lanny and Vince
when I was sick."
659
00:39:29,969 --> 00:39:33,416
It was a moment
seen by millions of people...
660
00:39:33,617 --> 00:39:37,129
... but felt only by me.
661
00:39:41,072 --> 00:39:44,750
That moment had changed my life.
662
00:39:47,888 --> 00:39:51,597
I was about to find my own way
into Lanny's book...
663
00:39:52,208 --> 00:39:56,300
... after he had found
such a powerful way into mine.
664
00:41:07,694 --> 00:41:09,035
Checking out today?
665
00:41:25,645 --> 00:41:27,303
Is there a message
for Bonnie Trout?
666
00:41:27,501 --> 00:41:29,803
- From one of our guests?
- Yes, Lanny Morris.
667
00:41:32,941 --> 00:41:34,118
I'm afraid not.
668
00:41:34,381 --> 00:41:38,309
- Are you sure?
- Oh, yes, I'm sure.
669
00:41:42,125 --> 00:41:43,434
Do you need a cab?
670
00:41:48,653 --> 00:41:52,166
I still don't understand
why Vince Collins is willing...
671
00:41:52,364 --> 00:41:55,680
...to be involved in such
an expos� of himself.
672
00:41:55,884 --> 00:41:57,608
Vince is a realist.
673
00:41:57,805 --> 00:42:00,390
The days of his box-office
power are drawing to a close.
674
00:42:00,781 --> 00:42:02,503
Given the amount of money
we're offering...
675
00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:06,181
And it's because the investment
in Mr. Collins is so large...
676
00:42:06,380 --> 00:42:12,076
...I�ve compiled a list of questions
we'd like the miracle girl to ask.
677
00:42:18,860 --> 00:42:22,209
I don't wanna look at your questions.
I have my own approach.
678
00:42:22,412 --> 00:42:25,346
Ms. O'Connor, we're not paying
a million dollars for your approach...
679
00:42:25,547 --> 00:42:27,620
...we're paying for what
Vince Collins has to say.
680
00:42:27,820 --> 00:42:30,853
To me. What he has to say to me.
681
00:42:31,660 --> 00:42:34,310
Greg, this is not as easy as it looks.
682
00:42:34,859 --> 00:42:37,510
If you go to Vince Collins
and ask him a series of questions...
683
00:42:37,707 --> 00:42:39,879
...you'll come back here
with a 300-page press book.
684
00:42:40,074 --> 00:42:43,042
Well, as I've always understood
this company's policy...
685
00:42:43,243 --> 00:42:45,184
...while the book is being written...
686
00:42:45,387 --> 00:42:49,642
...the relationship between the author
and editor is sacrosanct.
687
00:42:50,666 --> 00:42:52,673
This isn't your typical book deal.
688
00:42:53,066 --> 00:42:56,863
We've really just leased
an oil well called Vince Collins...
689
00:42:57,067 --> 00:43:00,263
...and granted Ms. O'Connor
the right to tap.
690
00:43:00,490 --> 00:43:03,807
I think we have a responsibility to...
691
00:43:04,266 --> 00:43:06,469
...monitor the drilling.
692
00:43:28,746 --> 00:43:31,135
- Hello.
- Mrs. O'Flaherty?
693
00:43:31,722 --> 00:43:33,151
Yes.
694
00:43:33,385 --> 00:43:36,866
My name's O'Connor.
I'm the one writing the book.
695
00:43:49,449 --> 00:43:52,515
The book will be
centered around Vince Collins.
696
00:43:52,712 --> 00:43:55,429
I'll be asking him a lot of questions.
697
00:43:55,625 --> 00:44:00,446
I wanted to know if there were any
you'd like to have answered yourself.
698
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,543
Maureen and I planted this tree
on her fifth birthday.
699
00:44:09,961 --> 00:44:13,255
Father did most of the digging,
of course.
700
00:44:14,281 --> 00:44:16,352
She'd be 38.
701
00:44:17,192 --> 00:44:20,094
I'm 59 myself.
702
00:44:22,312 --> 00:44:24,767
If she were alive now...
703
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,534
...we'd be talking about things,
back and forth...
704
00:44:29,736 --> 00:44:31,459
...like two women.
705
00:44:32,104 --> 00:44:34,340
Like you and I are doing.
706
00:44:39,751 --> 00:44:41,856
And Maureen's father?
707
00:44:42,824 --> 00:44:45,245
Frank died six years ago.
708
00:44:45,863 --> 00:44:47,903
He took his own life.
709
00:44:48,487 --> 00:44:51,422
One night, just before he died...
710
00:44:51,623 --> 00:44:54,623
...he dug up the earth
around this tree...
711
00:44:55,111 --> 00:44:57,794
...he took the urn
with Maureen's ashes in it...
712
00:44:57,990 --> 00:45:00,608
...and spread them around its roots.
713
00:45:02,438 --> 00:45:06,050
So this is my daughter.
714
00:45:07,622 --> 00:45:10,110
This is what I have of her.
715
00:45:16,806 --> 00:45:19,425
- Are you Catholic?
- My... My mother was.
716
00:45:20,166 --> 00:45:22,588
Then you will understand
my dilemma.
717
00:45:22,790 --> 00:45:26,336
Our faith offers an afterlife.
718
00:45:27,495 --> 00:45:29,731
A daughter needs her mother.
719
00:45:30,789 --> 00:45:36,540
So I have to live out this life
as far from sin as I can manage.
720
00:45:39,366 --> 00:45:41,886
I'll never see my husband again.
721
00:45:42,405 --> 00:45:44,707
He's consigned himself to hell.
722
00:45:47,046 --> 00:45:50,362
But what if Maureen
killed herself too?
723
00:45:53,925 --> 00:45:56,445
She's in hell, with my husband.
724
00:45:56,646 --> 00:46:00,606
The life I'm trying to lead
will bring me to heaven's grace...
725
00:46:01,637 --> 00:46:04,866
...only to hear
their screams of torment.
726
00:46:06,341 --> 00:46:08,480
Chief Scaglia,
you were in the hotel room...
727
00:46:08,677 --> 00:46:11,709
... when they found
Maureen's body in the tub.
728
00:46:12,133 --> 00:46:15,874
So was Sally, so was Lanny,
so was Vince.
729
00:46:17,284 --> 00:46:21,278
And there was also
a PR lady there from the hotel.
730
00:46:21,667 --> 00:46:23,162
How do you think she died?
731
00:46:23,813 --> 00:46:26,746
She died in an auto accident
two weeks later. It was terrible.
732
00:46:30,084 --> 00:46:31,229
No, Maureen.
733
00:46:31,428 --> 00:46:33,981
- How did Maureen die?
- She drowned.
734
00:46:34,180 --> 00:46:35,904
- Why?
- What do you mean, why?
735
00:46:36,100 --> 00:46:38,521
You and I take baths all the time.
We don't drown in them.
736
00:46:38,724 --> 00:46:41,625
You and I do not mix
sleeping pills with booze.
737
00:46:41,827 --> 00:46:44,642
- She committed suicide?
- Overdose is the official story.
738
00:46:44,836 --> 00:46:48,512
What's the official story on the fact
that the staff of the hotel in Miami...
739
00:46:48,707 --> 00:46:51,642
... all seemed to know she delivered
room service to the boys' suite...
740
00:46:51,843 --> 00:46:54,560
...three days before
and was never seen alive again?
741
00:46:54,755 --> 00:46:56,031
What happened to her?
742
00:46:56,227 --> 00:46:58,594
How did she end up
in a hotel room in New Jersey?
743
00:46:58,787 --> 00:47:02,496
Sally never had any problem
moving girls around. Okay?
744
00:47:02,690 --> 00:47:03,836
He had two hotels.
745
00:47:04,035 --> 00:47:05,944
- So Sally arranged it?
- No, I don't think so.
746
00:47:06,146 --> 00:47:08,897
You see, she was brought up there
as a reward for the boys...
747
00:47:09,091 --> 00:47:11,644
...and I think she started
to party just a little too early.
748
00:47:11,843 --> 00:47:14,232
She was a student.
This was a summer job.
749
00:47:14,435 --> 00:47:15,644
Listen to me...
750
00:47:16,067 --> 00:47:21,762
...the Palace Del Sol was very
important to Sally, okay?
751
00:47:21,955 --> 00:47:24,987
He launched his new wing...
752
00:47:25,186 --> 00:47:28,350
...with a push
from Lanny and Vince...
753
00:47:28,547 --> 00:47:33,948
...and this stupid girl
shows up dead.
754
00:47:34,242 --> 00:47:38,584
She's not gonna come back.
We do the best thing for all of us.
755
00:47:38,786 --> 00:47:43,063
We speed up the investigation
and we cremate her. Okay?
756
00:47:43,265 --> 00:47:45,371
End of story.
757
00:47:48,065 --> 00:47:51,513
- Here you are.
- Here's your lobster.
758
00:47:51,714 --> 00:47:54,528
- Enjoy.
- Looks great.
759
00:47:55,905 --> 00:47:59,516
"Sally said, 'I'll have them send you
up your own shipment of lobsters.
760
00:47:59,713 --> 00:48:01,656
You like lobster?"'
761
00:48:02,208 --> 00:48:05,373
We said we did
because we really did.
762
00:48:06,113 --> 00:48:08,895
You shouldn't have done that,
Stanley. I don't eat lobster.
763
00:48:11,713 --> 00:48:14,014
Were there any signs of violence
on her body?
764
00:48:14,209 --> 00:48:18,333
No, no. There were some
small scratches on the torso.
765
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:25,310
Why did my daughter die?
Did she kill herself?
766
00:48:26,176 --> 00:48:29,592
What had they done to her
that would make her do that?
767
00:48:32,096 --> 00:48:34,235
What had they done?
768
00:48:38,977 --> 00:48:41,147
Once upon a time...
769
00:48:41,344 --> 00:48:44,857
... when terrible things
happened to people...
770
00:48:45,055 --> 00:48:47,511
... they were left as a mystery.
771
00:48:49,599 --> 00:48:52,698
Even the tabloids kept a distance.
772
00:48:57,887 --> 00:49:03,419
Some things were allowed
to be left just the way they were.
773
00:49:11,871 --> 00:49:13,627
Any trouble with the directions
I gave you?
774
00:49:13,823 --> 00:49:17,118
- Only the parts where I had to turn.
- Sorry.
775
00:49:17,983 --> 00:49:20,285
It's the price of seclusion.
776
00:49:25,151 --> 00:49:27,061
You haven't switched over
to cassette?
777
00:49:27,263 --> 00:49:30,972
- Actually, it's my dad's.
- And what does he do?
778
00:49:32,286 --> 00:49:34,327
He was a journalist too.
779
00:49:35,359 --> 00:49:37,595
He did a big story on you once.
780
00:49:37,791 --> 00:49:40,343
Followed a little girl who had polio.
781
00:49:40,671 --> 00:49:42,841
You took her under your wing...
782
00:49:43,934 --> 00:49:46,170
...and now she's interviewing you.
783
00:49:49,598 --> 00:49:52,696
He must be proud that his daughter's
making such a name for herself.
784
00:49:53,214 --> 00:49:55,220
I'd like to think so.
785
00:49:56,382 --> 00:49:59,830
- He died last year.
- Sorry to hear that.
786
00:50:01,405 --> 00:50:04,885
- Would you like some coffee?
- Sure.
787
00:50:11,677 --> 00:50:13,465
Are you alone here?
788
00:50:13,661 --> 00:50:17,523
Yes. The thought of having live-in help
is a little poisonous to me.
789
00:50:17,724 --> 00:50:19,067
Why's that?
790
00:50:19,262 --> 00:50:21,083
Well, I'd have to talk to them...
791
00:50:21,277 --> 00:50:23,611
...ask them how
their family was doing...
792
00:50:23,805 --> 00:50:26,325
...hear about this and that,
introduce them to the guests...
793
00:50:26,525 --> 00:50:29,078
...and tell them
how their family was doing.
794
00:50:29,277 --> 00:50:32,823
All so that I would
seem to be a nice guy...
795
00:50:33,020 --> 00:50:34,547
...which is an awful lot of work...
796
00:50:34,749 --> 00:50:37,083
...considering what I cherish
most in life these days...
797
00:50:37,276 --> 00:50:39,250
...is not to have to be Vince Collins.
798
00:50:39,452 --> 00:50:40,826
No Reuben in your life?
799
00:50:42,076 --> 00:50:43,985
How do you know about Reuben?
800
00:50:44,348 --> 00:50:47,730
He was in a lot of the material
I've been looking at.
801
00:50:47,931 --> 00:50:49,339
No, I never had a Reuben.
802
00:50:49,533 --> 00:50:51,801
Lanny always paid him directly.
He was Lanny's man.
803
00:50:51,996 --> 00:50:53,403
Right.
804
00:50:55,707 --> 00:50:57,682
You know, what I like is to...
805
00:50:57,883 --> 00:50:59,410
...read...
806
00:51:00,475 --> 00:51:01,818
...think.
807
00:51:02,012 --> 00:51:04,117
It's to have the freedom...
808
00:51:04,316 --> 00:51:06,704
...to get up and leave
without telling anyone about it...
809
00:51:06,908 --> 00:51:08,730
...any time of day.
810
00:51:10,652 --> 00:51:12,888
Or even having to say goodbye.
811
00:51:15,003 --> 00:51:18,800
To be backstage, surrounded
by acrobats, actors, magicians...
812
00:51:19,003 --> 00:51:20,791
...it was intoxicating.
813
00:51:20,987 --> 00:51:22,743
You know, I was only 12 years old.
814
00:51:22,939 --> 00:51:24,498
That's a...
815
00:51:24,699 --> 00:51:26,161
That's a pretty impressionable age.
816
00:51:26,363 --> 00:51:29,298
- To hear all these stories of touring...
- My father always told me...
817
00:51:29,499 --> 00:51:32,848
... that nothing had meaning
unless it could be put on the record.
818
00:51:34,267 --> 00:51:36,208
Yet things had changed.
819
00:51:37,307 --> 00:51:39,313
As Vince had pointed out
at our first meeting...
820
00:51:39,514 --> 00:51:43,638
... it had become fashionable
to put yourself into the story.
821
00:51:44,282 --> 00:51:47,479
The question became
how far you were prepared to go.
822
00:52:09,818 --> 00:52:13,974
- Excuse me. That's not mine.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
823
00:52:16,793 --> 00:52:18,899
Aren't you Miss Trout?
824
00:52:19,098 --> 00:52:21,617
We've met,
on the plane to New York.
825
00:52:21,817 --> 00:52:22,962
- Reuben.
- Excuse me, sir.
826
00:52:23,162 --> 00:52:25,812
Can I leave you
for just a second, please?
827
00:52:29,432 --> 00:52:32,051
I'm so deeply sorry, Miss Trout,
the way you were treated.
828
00:52:32,250 --> 00:52:36,111
- He could have left a note.
- Of course.
829
00:52:37,337 --> 00:52:40,752
Miss Trout, I would like you
to understand something.
830
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:46,099
I have a great loyalty to Mr. Morris.
He's treated me very well.
831
00:52:46,296 --> 00:52:47,922
I'm very grateful.
832
00:52:49,273 --> 00:52:52,174
He has done wonderful things
for many people...
833
00:52:52,376 --> 00:52:57,133
...and I have been privileged
to work for him.
834
00:52:58,648 --> 00:53:00,852
But I do have certain principles...
835
00:53:01,048 --> 00:53:05,107
...especially about how women
are to be treated and respected.
836
00:53:05,496 --> 00:53:10,678
Mr. Morris can be very attentive,
but once he has a woman...
837
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,483
Oh, God, I think
it's almost a sickness.
838
00:53:16,407 --> 00:53:18,164
When he left you that morning...
839
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,879
...you may have felt bad,
but believe me, Miss Trout...
840
00:53:21,079 --> 00:53:22,835
...to have him out of your life...
841
00:53:23,032 --> 00:53:25,618
...is the best thing that
could have happened to you.
842
00:53:26,647 --> 00:53:30,160
At that point, you may have felt
your life was wounded.
843
00:53:31,639 --> 00:53:33,395
It wasn't.
844
00:53:34,231 --> 00:53:35,441
It was saved.
845
00:53:44,182 --> 00:53:46,452
Vince, I was very clear about this
from the beginning.
846
00:53:46,647 --> 00:53:48,173
I'm not out to play games with you.
847
00:53:48,375 --> 00:53:50,644
This is why you're being paid
a huge amount of money.
848
00:53:51,607 --> 00:53:53,362
This isn't entirely about money,
you know.
849
00:53:53,558 --> 00:53:56,013
A million dollars is more than
the gross of your last film.
850
00:53:57,270 --> 00:53:59,442
I was somehow
under the impression that my life...
851
00:53:59,638 --> 00:54:02,486
...might have been of more than
passing interest.
852
00:54:02,679 --> 00:54:05,547
But if my fleeting encounter with
a girl named Maureen O'Flaherty...
853
00:54:05,750 --> 00:54:08,564
...is all you really want to talk about,
then that's what we'll do.
854
00:54:10,006 --> 00:54:12,210
I have to make an appearance
at the clinic tomorrow.
855
00:54:12,405 --> 00:54:14,445
We can come back
and talk after that.
856
00:54:15,446 --> 00:54:17,104
It's Wonderland.
857
00:54:17,302 --> 00:54:18,828
I imagine you might remember that.
858
00:54:32,438 --> 00:54:36,398
He was right.
I did remember Wonderland.
859
00:54:37,237 --> 00:54:38,895
- You ready?
- Ready.
860
00:54:39,093 --> 00:54:44,144
When I was a girl, the entire hospital
was devoted to children with polio.
861
00:54:45,749 --> 00:54:48,814
Since that time,
it had become a clinic for kids...
862
00:54:49,013 --> 00:54:52,111
... with a variety of different
physical handicaps.
863
00:54:55,572 --> 00:54:58,802
Once a year, the children
would put on a pageant...
864
00:54:58,996 --> 00:55:02,193
... playing different characters
from Alice in Wonderland.
865
00:55:03,157 --> 00:55:05,491
Vince, in his continuing support
of the hospital...
866
00:55:05,684 --> 00:55:08,073
... had hired a band and a singer.
867
00:55:15,252 --> 00:55:16,877
Who is that?
868
00:55:17,076 --> 00:55:20,752
I don't know.
She's good, whoever she is.
869
00:55:31,731 --> 00:55:34,829
Karen, do you mind if we start
this conversation tomorrow?
870
00:55:35,027 --> 00:55:38,508
I'm just...
I'm not feeling all that well.
871
00:55:39,155 --> 00:55:40,584
- Vince...
- In fact, it won't make...
872
00:55:40,787 --> 00:55:42,958
...any difference over there.
The office is closed.
873
00:55:43,154 --> 00:55:44,300
They've been working late.
874
00:55:44,500 --> 00:55:46,408
Then they've been working
much too hard.
875
00:55:47,699 --> 00:55:50,218
First thing tomorrow. First thing.
876
00:55:56,914 --> 00:55:59,217
I hope your editors were reasonable.
877
00:55:59,410 --> 00:56:02,258
Reasonable? No, they weren't.
878
00:56:02,450 --> 00:56:04,424
We can go as late as you like.
879
00:56:04,626 --> 00:56:05,836
That's good.
880
00:56:06,034 --> 00:56:07,408
It might take us
into the evening.
881
00:56:07,602 --> 00:56:09,489
I had a feeling
that might be the case.
882
00:56:09,969 --> 00:56:12,523
So I've ordered a hot and cold
smorgasbord to be brought in.
883
00:56:12,722 --> 00:56:14,129
We can work through dinner.
884
00:56:14,322 --> 00:56:16,427
- We'll be having company?
- Yes.
885
00:56:17,842 --> 00:56:19,304
I have...
886
00:56:19,506 --> 00:56:21,131
...a surprise for you.
887
00:56:22,034 --> 00:56:24,685
Actually, this is a fairly big deal
for me as well.
888
00:56:25,841 --> 00:56:28,143
I've asked Lanny to join us today.
889
00:56:29,394 --> 00:56:30,375
Lanny?
890
00:56:31,697 --> 00:56:33,736
Well, this is something.
891
00:56:34,577 --> 00:56:37,479
Neuman and Newberry will certainly
be getting their money's worth.
892
00:56:38,033 --> 00:56:40,238
I thought that if I was
going to discuss something...
893
00:56:40,433 --> 00:56:42,157
...that had such an impact
on our lives...
894
00:56:42,353 --> 00:56:44,841
...it would be fair for Lanny
to hear what I had to say.
895
00:56:45,522 --> 00:56:47,147
Given that we've
never talked about it.
896
00:56:47,346 --> 00:56:49,898
I'm sure I'll have lots to ask him.
When is he coming?
897
00:56:50,097 --> 00:56:51,951
He should be here any minute now.
898
00:56:52,497 --> 00:56:54,254
This is very exciting.
899
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:56,524
Shit.
900
00:57:10,576 --> 00:57:12,715
- Yes?
- Bonnie, I have to talk fast.
901
00:57:12,913 --> 00:57:15,847
I need you to do exactly as I tell you
and I can't tell you why, okay?
902
00:57:16,049 --> 00:57:17,226
Sure.
903
00:57:17,936 --> 00:57:20,205
Excuse me, that might actually
be him now.
904
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:22,826
Yes, hello?
905
00:57:34,703 --> 00:57:36,198
Yes, thank you.
906
00:57:37,872 --> 00:57:39,149
That was my office.
907
00:57:39,344 --> 00:57:41,711
There's a woman...
A friend, a relative of yours?
908
00:57:41,903 --> 00:57:44,205
She said she called
on a number you gave her.
909
00:57:44,848 --> 00:57:46,670
She's gonna call back.
910
00:57:52,879 --> 00:57:54,919
- Yes?
- Hi, kiddo.
911
00:57:55,118 --> 00:57:58,118
Listen, your brother Clifford
has just been rushed to the hospital.
912
00:57:58,319 --> 00:58:00,010
He was doing construction
when a thing...
913
00:58:00,207 --> 00:58:01,930
- A steel girder?
- That's it.
914
00:58:02,127 --> 00:58:04,516
You better come to the city
and make your peace with him.
915
00:58:04,718 --> 00:58:06,791
You're booked on the next
flight to San Francisco.
916
00:58:06,990 --> 00:58:09,063
I'm waiting here for you
in front of the terminal.
917
00:58:09,550 --> 00:58:11,853
They reserved me a seat
on the next flight to San Francisco.
918
00:58:12,047 --> 00:58:13,290
- I'll drive you there.
- No, no.
919
00:58:13,487 --> 00:58:16,421
Sharon is waiting at the airport for me.
You can't stand Lanny up.
920
00:58:16,623 --> 00:58:18,957
Please give him
my deepest apologies.
921
00:58:27,631 --> 00:58:30,696
- Hey.
- Please, I can explain.
922
00:58:31,502 --> 00:58:33,673
You've broken the law,
Bonnie-fucking-Trout.
923
00:58:33,869 --> 00:58:35,625
You've assumed
another person's identity...
924
00:58:35,822 --> 00:58:38,091
...to get information
from a business competitor.
925
00:58:38,285 --> 00:58:40,839
Obviously I lied about who I was.
I'm sorry.
926
00:58:41,038 --> 00:58:43,143
It was a huge untruth.
It wasn't planned.
927
00:58:43,342 --> 00:58:47,684
I was just freaked out about
suddenly being on the plane with...
928
00:58:48,685 --> 00:58:49,994
With you...
929
00:58:50,189 --> 00:58:52,393
How did you get the seat
behind me on the plane?
930
00:58:52,589 --> 00:58:54,150
- It was pure coincidence.
- Bullshit!
931
00:58:54,349 --> 00:58:55,724
It's true.
932
00:58:59,597 --> 00:59:03,175
How could you..? How could you have
just left me at the hotel like that?
933
00:59:03,565 --> 00:59:04,711
You were asleep.
934
00:59:04,909 --> 00:59:07,975
Reuben woke me to say
I had to be a substitute performer...
935
00:59:08,172 --> 00:59:12,231
...at a charity concert at the Hollywood
Bowl. I had to get the first flight out.
936
00:59:12,429 --> 00:59:13,922
You could have left a note
or called.
937
00:59:14,125 --> 00:59:16,099
- I did leave you a note.
- Where?
938
00:59:17,869 --> 00:59:21,317
I don't know why we're even talking
about this. I don't like you.
939
00:59:21,516 --> 00:59:24,331
All right? I wish we had never met.
940
00:59:29,964 --> 00:59:31,109
Hello, Vince.
941
00:59:31,852 --> 00:59:33,477
What the fuck's going on?
942
00:59:35,340 --> 00:59:37,893
Vince, a few days after we first met...
943
00:59:38,091 --> 00:59:40,809
...I found myself next to Lanny
on a flight to New York.
944
00:59:41,005 --> 00:59:42,564
It was a complete coincidence.
945
00:59:42,764 --> 00:59:44,357
- He asked my name...
- And she lied.
946
00:59:44,555 --> 00:59:47,686
I had just finished reading the first
chapter of Lanny's own biography.
947
00:59:47,883 --> 00:59:51,144
His lawyers had let me see it in the
hope of discouraging our own project.
948
00:59:51,339 --> 00:59:53,761
As a reflex, since I knew he
would view me as the enemy...
949
00:59:53,963 --> 00:59:55,523
...I gave him the name of a friend...
950
00:59:55,723 --> 00:59:57,730
...whose apartment I was
staying at in Manhattan.
951
00:59:57,932 --> 01:00:01,095
I thought I just had to get through
the awkwardness of the flight itself...
952
01:00:01,291 --> 01:00:03,201
...but the trouble is...
- You slept with him.
953
01:00:05,003 --> 01:00:08,233
- Vince...
- You slept with my ex-partner.
954
01:00:09,643 --> 01:00:10,821
Technically.
955
01:00:12,747 --> 01:00:15,234
Doesn't sound like things were
particularly technical.
956
01:00:36,170 --> 01:00:38,080
Now, you listen to me, sweetheart.
957
01:00:38,858 --> 01:00:42,601
Vince doesn't always do
what's best for Vince.
958
01:00:42,794 --> 01:00:45,281
That's why he needed me
here today.
959
01:00:45,962 --> 01:00:49,759
The story of this girl is the
most painful thing in his life.
960
01:00:49,962 --> 01:00:52,034
What happened to her, Lanny?
961
01:00:53,161 --> 01:00:54,983
Well, you're not gonna find out.
962
01:00:55,882 --> 01:00:57,376
Not now.
963
01:00:58,090 --> 01:01:00,161
Not after what you've done to him.
964
01:01:09,162 --> 01:01:10,721
Vince.
965
01:01:10,921 --> 01:01:12,165
Oh, shit.
966
01:01:14,025 --> 01:01:16,000
Vince...
967
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,087
...I made a terrible mistake
in New York.
968
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,510
I apologize to you
more than I know how to say.
969
01:01:21,705 --> 01:01:23,844
I'm so sorry.
970
01:01:33,256 --> 01:01:36,421
Vince, the realization
of your life story...
971
01:01:36,615 --> 01:01:39,136
...shouldn't be threatened
because of my failings.
972
01:01:41,257 --> 01:01:43,874
Please let me continue
to work with you again.
973
01:01:45,032 --> 01:01:47,268
I'll help you tell your story right.
974
01:01:49,767 --> 01:01:51,622
Come back tonight.
975
01:01:53,608 --> 01:01:55,200
Let me think about it.
976
01:02:07,334 --> 01:02:11,044
- How do you like the wine?
- It's magnificent. What is it?
977
01:02:11,239 --> 01:02:13,628
1961 Haut-Brion.
978
01:02:13,831 --> 01:02:15,489
People make a big deal of 1959...
979
01:02:15,687 --> 01:02:18,883
...but I don't think there'll be
a year as special as 1961.
980
01:02:19,495 --> 01:02:22,146
It was a great year for French wines.
981
01:02:25,351 --> 01:02:27,206
Will you join me?
982
01:02:28,006 --> 01:02:29,534
What are they?
983
01:02:30,055 --> 01:02:34,048
They're like very mild-mannered
Quaaludes.
984
01:02:34,278 --> 01:02:36,286
Must've done a few of those
in your time, right?
985
01:02:37,702 --> 01:02:39,360
Are you sure they're okay
with alcohol?
986
01:02:39,559 --> 01:02:42,941
Oh, they're even better with alcohol.
Believe me, I'd know.
987
01:02:48,902 --> 01:02:50,910
Come on in, honey. The water's fine.
988
01:02:51,942 --> 01:02:56,579
All my life, I've had this idea
that I could always be in control.
989
01:02:57,158 --> 01:02:59,012
Ever since I was sick,
I had this sense...
990
01:02:59,206 --> 01:03:02,240
... that I could make my body
do anything I wanted.
991
01:03:02,438 --> 01:03:04,031
If I could will my polio away...
992
01:03:04,229 --> 01:03:07,545
... I'd certainly be able to will away
the effect of any drug.
993
01:03:20,741 --> 01:03:24,254
Do you mind if I close the drapes?
The sun's in my eyes.
994
01:03:25,957 --> 01:03:27,745
It's moonlight.
995
01:03:29,125 --> 01:03:30,587
Go ahead.
996
01:04:29,987 --> 01:04:31,962
I remember you.
997
01:04:32,546 --> 01:04:34,205
You're Alice.
998
01:04:34,818 --> 01:04:36,891
In Wonderland.
999
01:04:37,571 --> 01:04:39,676
Oh, I don't know.
1000
01:04:39,874 --> 01:04:42,176
I'm really stoned
out of my head already.
1001
01:04:43,426 --> 01:04:44,921
Is it good?
1002
01:04:50,243 --> 01:04:54,170
Jesus, Vince. It's like monster grass.
1003
01:04:54,370 --> 01:04:56,541
Do you get this stuff all the time?
1004
01:04:56,739 --> 01:04:58,648
All the time.
1005
01:05:07,618 --> 01:05:09,952
You're Alice.
1006
01:05:12,673 --> 01:05:14,267
You're so beautiful.
1007
01:05:42,112 --> 01:05:43,934
She's ours.
1008
01:05:44,608 --> 01:05:46,518
Isn't that so, Alice?
1009
01:05:47,969 --> 01:05:49,758
I'm yours.
1010
01:06:21,696 --> 01:06:23,451
I like you.
1011
01:06:35,583 --> 01:06:38,714
I had always been fascinated by how
some women could cross the line...
1012
01:06:38,911 --> 01:06:43,351
... between who they were and who
they would let themselves become.
1013
01:06:44,031 --> 01:06:45,657
Maureen...
1014
01:06:46,367 --> 01:06:48,123
... Alice...
1015
01:06:48,767 --> 01:06:50,260
... and now...
1016
01:06:50,463 --> 01:06:51,957
... me.
1017
01:06:58,206 --> 01:06:59,482
Morning.
1018
01:06:59,678 --> 01:07:02,842
That was not a Quaalude you
gave me. I've had Quaaludes.
1019
01:07:04,095 --> 01:07:05,371
I said it was like a Quaalude.
1020
01:07:05,567 --> 01:07:07,835
And you didn't take one yourself.
You palmed the pill.
1021
01:07:08,030 --> 01:07:09,940
Somebody had to drive.
1022
01:07:10,878 --> 01:07:12,601
Don't worry, you won't get pregnant.
1023
01:07:12,798 --> 01:07:14,554
Not from Alice,
and certainly not from me.
1024
01:07:14,750 --> 01:07:17,205
I never took off my pants,
as you may or may not remember.
1025
01:07:17,405 --> 01:07:18,998
There are laws against
drugging people.
1026
01:07:19,198 --> 01:07:23,027
Oh, please. You took it voluntarily.
Nobody slipped it into your drink.
1027
01:07:24,541 --> 01:07:27,803
And you chased it with one of the most
expensive wines in the world.
1028
01:07:27,997 --> 01:07:31,260
You're just in a dither because you've
discovered you can swing both ways.
1029
01:07:33,469 --> 01:07:35,225
You see...
1030
01:07:36,253 --> 01:07:38,041
...I needed to get something on you.
1031
01:07:38,237 --> 01:07:41,368
Of course, your behavior with Lanny
might have been even better than this.
1032
01:07:41,565 --> 01:07:43,256
But I'd already set the wheels
in motion.
1033
01:07:43,453 --> 01:07:47,282
And as I was dying to see
you and Alice get it on...
1034
01:07:47,741 --> 01:07:49,780
Well, these are just a sample.
1035
01:07:57,084 --> 01:07:59,802
Why would she agree to do this?
Doesn't she want a career?
1036
01:07:59,996 --> 01:08:02,167
Well, it's your career
I'm worried about.
1037
01:08:02,717 --> 01:08:04,953
You're a journalist
playing loose with the rules.
1038
01:08:05,341 --> 01:08:07,763
She's just a vulnerable young singer
you seduced.
1039
01:08:07,965 --> 01:08:10,867
A promising... Oh, good heavens.
1040
01:08:11,228 --> 01:08:13,846
Promising artist
that I happen to manage.
1041
01:08:14,043 --> 01:08:15,767
You met her through me...
1042
01:08:15,963 --> 01:08:17,786
...and had your way with her.
1043
01:08:22,300 --> 01:08:23,860
What do you want from me?
1044
01:08:26,716 --> 01:08:28,953
You're going to continue
writing the book.
1045
01:08:29,147 --> 01:08:32,889
I'm going to continue telling you
juicy stories, funny stories...
1046
01:08:33,084 --> 01:08:35,091
...heart-tugging stories.
1047
01:08:35,323 --> 01:08:37,462
And you're not going to ask me
a single question...
1048
01:08:37,659 --> 01:08:39,798
...about what happened
to the girl in New Jersey.
1049
01:08:40,859 --> 01:08:43,762
You're going to go to your publisher,
say you tried every angle...
1050
01:08:43,963 --> 01:08:46,778
...but you could find nothing odd
or suspicious in what I told you.
1051
01:08:53,307 --> 01:08:56,088
I'll even try to spice it up a little,
talk about how...
1052
01:08:56,282 --> 01:08:59,129
...the night before the telethon,
I wanted to sleep like a babe...
1053
01:08:59,322 --> 01:09:01,494
...so to cover my bets,
I kept a few babes on hand.
1054
01:09:02,427 --> 01:09:03,921
Well, not exactly on my hand...
1055
01:09:04,123 --> 01:09:07,351
...and that's not my preference,
as you might have gathered by now.
1056
01:09:16,538 --> 01:09:20,280
So you get your bestseller,
I get my million.
1057
01:09:20,475 --> 01:09:21,684
Everyone goes home happy.
1058
01:09:21,882 --> 01:09:24,980
You've dreaded talking about
Maureen O'Flaherty since we met.
1059
01:09:25,177 --> 01:09:27,250
If it's something you're so
desperate to avoid...
1060
01:09:27,450 --> 01:09:29,360
...why would you ever agree
to do this book?
1061
01:09:30,041 --> 01:09:31,634
I need the money.
1062
01:09:31,834 --> 01:09:35,096
Vince, anything you say
in my presence is mine to use.
1063
01:09:36,058 --> 01:09:38,839
Everything you said last night
and everything you've just told me.
1064
01:09:39,033 --> 01:09:41,652
And since I'm also allowed to include
contextual background...
1065
01:09:41,850 --> 01:09:43,792
...I can write about
how you set me up...
1066
01:09:43,993 --> 01:09:47,222
...how you tried to blackmail me.
I'll even include those Polaroids.
1067
01:09:47,417 --> 01:09:50,613
It's your word against mine. We have
a contract. Everything's in my words.
1068
01:09:50,809 --> 01:09:53,972
We've agreed to your answers,
but there's nothing to stop me...
1069
01:09:54,169 --> 01:09:58,676
...from putting any information I want
into a question I ask.
1070
01:09:59,704 --> 01:10:02,552
Information that I'd like to be
public knowledge...
1071
01:10:03,449 --> 01:10:05,816
...or that the police
might wanna look into.
1072
01:10:10,264 --> 01:10:14,421
Would you like me to fire one of my
loaded questions, on the record?
1073
01:10:15,256 --> 01:10:16,947
Sure.
1074
01:10:23,735 --> 01:10:25,645
Vince...
1075
01:10:26,136 --> 01:10:29,432
...in your suite
at the Versailles Hotel in Miami...
1076
01:10:30,072 --> 01:10:32,341
...was it your or Lanny's idea...
1077
01:10:32,536 --> 01:10:35,732
...to put Maureen's body into the case
containing shellfish and ice...
1078
01:10:35,928 --> 01:10:37,520
...and have it shipped
to New Jersey?
1079
01:10:42,199 --> 01:10:44,949
No answer, Mr. Collins?
So noted.
1080
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:48,309
Oh, and incidentally,
by not answering...
1081
01:10:48,503 --> 01:10:50,990
...you're in violation of your contract.
1082
01:10:51,576 --> 01:10:54,642
What a shame.
I understood you needed that money.
1083
01:11:08,758 --> 01:11:10,831
Oh, no. Oh, God.
1084
01:11:11,030 --> 01:11:14,576
Oh, God.
Oh, God. Oh, God!
1085
01:11:22,999 --> 01:11:24,690
Was that how
you murdered Maureen?
1086
01:11:37,590 --> 01:11:39,346
Ask Lanny.
1087
01:11:42,005 --> 01:11:43,947
He's the one who knows.
1088
01:12:01,685 --> 01:12:05,230
It wasn't that hard for him
to get the suite he wanted.
1089
01:12:05,429 --> 01:12:09,259
The Versailles was still one of the
fanciest of the hotels along the beach.
1090
01:12:09,461 --> 01:12:12,014
But by then, its era had passed.
1091
01:12:13,365 --> 01:12:14,892
Thank you, sir.
1092
01:12:23,956 --> 01:12:26,193
All the furniture was new.
1093
01:12:26,420 --> 01:12:28,657
It had been 15 years...
1094
01:12:29,333 --> 01:12:31,242
... but the floor plan...
1095
01:12:31,445 --> 01:12:33,516
... was still the same.
1096
01:12:34,293 --> 01:12:36,431
In that spot...
1097
01:12:36,756 --> 01:12:39,538
... that was where the truth
had come out.
1098
01:12:40,563 --> 01:12:43,214
That was why she had to die.
1099
01:12:53,619 --> 01:12:56,075
Are you Japanese or Chinese?
1100
01:12:57,267 --> 01:12:58,893
Vietnamese.
1101
01:12:59,348 --> 01:13:02,479
The kitchen tell me
you famous person.
1102
01:13:02,676 --> 01:13:04,530
Why you famous?
1103
01:13:04,883 --> 01:13:06,923
They didn't tell you my name?
1104
01:13:07,123 --> 01:13:08,269
No.
1105
01:13:08,467 --> 01:13:10,093
What is it?
1106
01:13:12,403 --> 01:13:14,061
Lanny Morris.
1107
01:13:14,771 --> 01:13:16,363
It's a Jewish name...
1108
01:13:16,563 --> 01:13:17,970
...but I'm a nebbish.
1109
01:13:19,187 --> 01:13:21,521
You ordered three bottle
of champagne.
1110
01:13:21,715 --> 01:13:22,925
You want me to open one now?
1111
01:13:23,603 --> 01:13:25,545
Or wait until friend come?
1112
01:13:26,610 --> 01:13:28,072
Open all three.
1113
01:13:29,651 --> 01:13:31,854
Are you really famous, Mr. Morris?
1114
01:13:33,043 --> 01:13:34,602
In my day.
1115
01:13:35,026 --> 01:13:37,001
Before your time, I suppose.
1116
01:13:37,970 --> 01:13:40,425
I come from the north of Vietnam.
1117
01:13:40,626 --> 01:13:42,863
In my town, there is no television.
1118
01:13:43,058 --> 01:13:47,181
She explained that American movies
had been banned where she grew up.
1119
01:13:52,209 --> 01:13:54,762
She got better tips pretending
she was Madame Butterfly...
1120
01:13:54,961 --> 01:13:57,896
... than by telling people
where she was really from.
1121
01:13:58,994 --> 01:14:01,000
What did you do, Mr. Morris?
1122
01:14:02,034 --> 01:14:04,455
I made Vince Collins' life...
1123
01:14:04,882 --> 01:14:06,889
...very difficult.
1124
01:14:07,089 --> 01:14:10,156
She didn't understand, but her policy
was not to linger in the rooms...
1125
01:14:10,352 --> 01:14:12,208
... of solitary gentlemen.
1126
01:14:13,554 --> 01:14:17,677
He signed the room-service check
under Lanny's name.
1127
01:14:19,825 --> 01:14:21,287
Thank you.
1128
01:14:43,408 --> 01:14:45,579
There was no ice or water
left in the buckets...
1129
01:14:45,776 --> 01:14:48,459
... when his body was discovered
the next morning.
1130
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:53,258
He had dumped the ice into
the bathtub and died in it.
1131
01:14:54,447 --> 01:14:57,414
He must have felt
there was some poetry in it.
1132
01:15:00,688 --> 01:15:02,956
His plan was to drink
enough champagne...
1133
01:15:03,151 --> 01:15:04,493
... with enough sleeping pills...
1134
01:15:04,688 --> 01:15:08,429
... so that ending things would
become an acceptable idea.
1135
01:15:09,135 --> 01:15:10,958
He could manage that.
1136
01:15:11,727 --> 01:15:14,923
He knew for certain
he couldn't manage anything else.
1137
01:15:18,351 --> 01:15:19,845
Hi.
1138
01:15:22,031 --> 01:15:24,617
I thought you were
gonna be out all afternoon.
1139
01:15:29,167 --> 01:15:30,857
I'm sorry.
1140
01:15:31,279 --> 01:15:33,067
It's okay.
1141
01:15:33,999 --> 01:15:35,941
This was under the door.
1142
01:15:43,214 --> 01:15:44,424
What is it?
1143
01:15:45,998 --> 01:15:48,038
Chapter three.
1144
01:15:49,742 --> 01:15:53,866
John, as my lawyer, I want you
to know that this next chapter...
1145
01:15:54,062 --> 01:15:56,910
... is to be read
after Vince and my death...
1146
01:15:57,102 --> 01:16:01,574
... and is only to be used under
the most extreme of circumstances.
1147
01:16:03,213 --> 01:16:05,221
We knew we wanted to make
an early night of it...
1148
01:16:05,422 --> 01:16:08,717
... with the telethon starting the next
day, so Vince suggested we dine in...
1149
01:16:08,909 --> 01:16:11,779
... so Maureen could do
the interview for her campus paper.
1150
01:16:11,982 --> 01:16:16,771
This is a gift for us
from the audience...
1151
01:16:17,389 --> 01:16:21,164
...from the people,
the people that are out there.
1152
01:16:21,997 --> 01:16:26,056
Sooner or later you gotta say,
"We wanna give something back."
1153
01:16:26,317 --> 01:16:27,843
I think that's really important.
1154
01:16:28,045 --> 01:16:32,168
Not many people would take
the time out to do that. Thank you.
1155
01:16:32,364 --> 01:16:34,983
She actually hid her tape recorder
in the room-service cart...
1156
01:16:35,181 --> 01:16:37,832
... because she didn't want
the hotel to find out.
1157
01:16:45,324 --> 01:16:48,422
We finished the interview
and then asked her to stay.
1158
01:16:51,372 --> 01:16:55,266
To help us get into the mood,
I did a Tuinal...
1159
01:16:55,468 --> 01:16:57,028
... then she did one...
1160
01:16:57,228 --> 01:17:01,188
... and Vince, he did two,
because he was always doing two.
1161
01:17:02,027 --> 01:17:05,824
We got into the second of the
three bottles of Mo�t we'd ordered.
1162
01:17:06,027 --> 01:17:10,981
We thought it would be better to keep
the action to neutral territory.
1163
01:17:14,348 --> 01:17:15,657
God...
1164
01:17:15,948 --> 01:17:17,574
... she was beautiful.
1165
01:17:20,139 --> 01:17:22,278
I chain-locked the front door
to the living room...
1166
01:17:22,475 --> 01:17:25,858
... to make sure that housekeeping,
eager to turn down our beds...
1167
01:17:26,060 --> 01:17:28,514
... didn't walk in on an employee
having a m�nage � trois...
1168
01:17:28,715 --> 01:17:30,723
... with the hotel's headliners.
1169
01:17:30,924 --> 01:17:33,640
Then I went to chain-lock
the door to Vince's room.
1170
01:17:33,835 --> 01:17:37,032
I took a quick shower,
I put on my robe...
1171
01:17:37,227 --> 01:17:41,286
... and brought a robe for Maureen,
in case she felt a little bashful.
1172
01:17:44,747 --> 01:17:46,950
So much for bashful.
1173
01:17:47,626 --> 01:17:50,627
I threw the robe on the bed
and moved into the room...
1174
01:17:50,826 --> 01:17:53,696
... half-worried that they would
finish without me.
1175
01:18:00,170 --> 01:18:03,204
I've always preferred
the missionary position.
1176
01:18:03,402 --> 01:18:06,915
I have to see their faces,
look into their eyes.
1177
01:18:07,113 --> 01:18:11,140
Unless they're acting, and I'd like
to think I can tell the difference...
1178
01:18:11,338 --> 01:18:13,312
... there comes that moment...
1179
01:18:13,514 --> 01:18:15,457
... when, if you're looking...
1180
01:18:15,657 --> 01:18:18,024
... if you're really looking...
1181
01:18:18,217 --> 01:18:21,414
... you'll see exactly who she is.
1182
01:18:22,634 --> 01:18:24,357
This was different.
1183
01:18:24,554 --> 01:18:28,165
It was like
she saw exactly who I was.
1184
01:18:45,833 --> 01:18:48,101
Watch it there, compadre.
1185
01:18:48,873 --> 01:18:51,524
It's a little hard to tell who's who,
under the circumstances.
1186
01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:54,982
I'm the one that's more than
a little hard, you dumb fucking limey.
1187
01:18:55,433 --> 01:18:59,044
Well, I'm... I'm the one with a foreskin.
Don't you forget that.
1188
01:19:02,472 --> 01:19:04,294
Watch it. You got the end zone
there, Vince.
1189
01:19:04,488 --> 01:19:07,358
- Come on, come on. Fuck.
- You're gonna like it.
1190
01:19:07,561 --> 01:19:09,567
It's like from another planet
when you come.
1191
01:19:09,768 --> 01:19:11,491
- Get the fuck off me.
- I'd never hurt you.
1192
01:19:11,688 --> 01:19:13,444
- I'd never hurt you.
- Get the fuck off me!
1193
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:16,738
- No, trust me. It's like double the sex...
- Get the fuck off me!
1194
01:19:16,935 --> 01:19:19,324
We don't fuck, Vince!
1195
01:19:19,911 --> 01:19:22,911
We're buddies, we're pals,
we're partners, we're a duo.
1196
01:19:23,112 --> 01:19:26,210
We love each other,
but we don't fuck!
1197
01:19:27,016 --> 01:19:29,154
We're fucking stars!
1198
01:19:29,352 --> 01:19:30,693
- We can travel together.
- Okay.
1199
01:19:30,887 --> 01:19:35,492
We can hang out together, we can live
together, but we can't be queers!
1200
01:19:35,687 --> 01:19:38,556
It's not funny!
1201
01:20:00,486 --> 01:20:02,526
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
1202
01:20:02,726 --> 01:20:04,133
About?
1203
01:20:06,246 --> 01:20:08,188
About your nose.
1204
01:20:10,502 --> 01:20:12,389
It's not broken, is it?
1205
01:20:14,918 --> 01:20:16,347
It's how I am.
1206
01:20:16,549 --> 01:20:20,128
Guess the question is,
who's gonna pay me?
1207
01:20:20,326 --> 01:20:22,366
This surprised me.
1208
01:20:22,566 --> 01:20:24,867
The girl was not a hooker.
1209
01:20:34,884 --> 01:20:37,503
My wallet was on top of my robe.
1210
01:20:37,958 --> 01:20:39,867
I took out some money.
1211
01:20:40,261 --> 01:20:42,333
I don't remember how much.
1212
01:20:58,276 --> 01:20:59,650
I don't think so.
1213
01:21:00,901 --> 01:21:03,421
That's more than you would
make in a month of tips.
1214
01:21:03,620 --> 01:21:05,825
I'm not looking for a tip.
1215
01:21:06,853 --> 01:21:08,413
What the hell are you saying?
1216
01:21:08,613 --> 01:21:10,881
Honey, I'm in my last year
of college.
1217
01:21:11,076 --> 01:21:13,662
This is a summer job.
1218
01:21:16,675 --> 01:21:18,563
I wanna write.
1219
01:21:18,755 --> 01:21:21,211
I wanna be a journalist.
1220
01:21:25,476 --> 01:21:28,443
So I could either
use this information...
1221
01:21:29,571 --> 01:21:31,066
...or I could use a lot of money.
1222
01:21:33,347 --> 01:21:36,031
I promise you
this will only cost you once.
1223
01:21:39,107 --> 01:21:42,271
I'm so tired, I don't even think
I'm going home.
1224
01:21:43,236 --> 01:21:44,829
I think it's the Tuinals.
1225
01:21:47,107 --> 01:21:50,173
Hey, Lanny, don't take it personally.
1226
01:21:50,371 --> 01:21:52,640
You were a great lover.
1227
01:21:52,836 --> 01:21:56,130
You have got the cutest little butt.
1228
01:22:00,515 --> 01:22:03,101
I guess Vince thinks so too.
1229
01:22:07,906 --> 01:22:09,695
Night, Lanny.
1230
01:22:11,650 --> 01:22:14,999
I would never see her alive again.
1231
01:22:17,378 --> 01:22:19,615
I put a "Do Not Disturb" sign
on my door...
1232
01:22:19,811 --> 01:22:22,876
... fastened the chain lock,
in case the maid didn't read.
1233
01:22:23,074 --> 01:22:24,929
I left a wake-up call for 8...
1234
01:22:25,122 --> 01:22:27,456
... and went to sleep
knowing that a telethon...
1235
01:22:27,650 --> 01:22:31,480
... was the least of the ordeals I was
going to have to face in the morning.
1236
01:22:36,322 --> 01:22:38,045
The Tuinals had really
conked me out...
1237
01:22:38,242 --> 01:22:41,242
... and I slept through
my wake-up call that morning.
1238
01:22:41,442 --> 01:22:43,482
The operator had called Reuben
down the hall...
1239
01:22:43,681 --> 01:22:45,307
... to see if he could wake me...
1240
01:22:45,505 --> 01:22:48,571
... but he couldn't get in because
we had chain-locked all the doors.
1241
01:22:49,666 --> 01:22:51,356
Reuben!
1242
01:22:51,554 --> 01:22:54,303
I yelled for Reuben to wake up Vince
while I worked on Maureen...
1243
01:22:54,497 --> 01:22:58,141
... trying to make myself believe
that she was still sleeping.
1244
01:23:00,704 --> 01:23:02,079
Fuck.
1245
01:23:02,496 --> 01:23:04,057
No, no. Fuck.
1246
01:23:04,257 --> 01:23:07,606
The autopsy revealed the drugs
and alcohol in her body...
1247
01:23:07,809 --> 01:23:10,394
... but I knew
it wasn't enough to kill her.
1248
01:23:14,433 --> 01:23:16,124
All three doors to the suite...
1249
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:19,735
... were chain-locked from the inside
when I found her.
1250
01:23:20,289 --> 01:23:21,532
I hadn't touched her.
1251
01:23:21,728 --> 01:23:27,576
That's how I know that my former
partner and friend, Vince Collins...
1252
01:23:27,776 --> 01:23:30,875
... murdered Maureen O'Flaherty.
1253
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:37,785
You must have guessed by now
that Vince and I had found a way...
1254
01:23:37,984 --> 01:23:40,854
... to relocate Maureen's body
to New Jersey.
1255
01:23:41,056 --> 01:23:44,438
This is the one criminal act
the both of us committed...
1256
01:23:44,639 --> 01:23:49,015
... but we were in a panic and
needed to create an ironclad alibi.
1257
01:23:49,216 --> 01:23:51,604
The crates were delivered
to our room.
1258
01:23:51,808 --> 01:23:54,393
The publicist had opened the crates
for a photo op.
1259
01:23:54,591 --> 01:23:56,053
But the official story became...
1260
01:23:56,255 --> 01:23:58,809
... that she found Maureen's
overdosed body in the tub.
1261
01:23:59,006 --> 01:24:02,836
A police officer called Scaglia
was there to witness the whole thing.
1262
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:04,981
Live, until they drop dead...
1263
01:24:05,183 --> 01:24:06,492
During the telethon...
1264
01:24:06,687 --> 01:24:10,549
... I kept telling myself that I could
forgive Vince for two reasons.
1265
01:24:10,751 --> 01:24:13,532
First of all, I don't think he could
have known what he was doing.
1266
01:24:13,726 --> 01:24:16,923
He was completely out of it,
even more than usual.
1267
01:24:17,119 --> 01:24:18,907
The second is that he was terrified...
1268
01:24:19,103 --> 01:24:22,102
... that this incident would become
public knowledge.
1269
01:24:22,302 --> 01:24:25,815
In those days, the slightest hint
that he could swing both ways...
1270
01:24:26,014 --> 01:24:29,430
... would destroy his
show-business career in an instant.
1271
01:24:30,270 --> 01:24:33,053
As it was, it was only to destroy us.
1272
01:24:33,630 --> 01:24:35,604
We completed the telethon...
1273
01:24:35,806 --> 01:24:38,293
... but we both knew
we were finished.
1274
01:24:39,038 --> 01:24:40,412
The marriage...
1275
01:24:40,862 --> 01:24:42,520
... was over.
1276
01:24:43,933 --> 01:24:46,552
There was a moment
in the middle of the telethon...
1277
01:24:46,750 --> 01:24:49,237
... where I actually broke down.
1278
01:24:49,438 --> 01:24:52,470
I just couldn't control myself.
1279
01:24:52,669 --> 01:24:55,058
I remember I mumbled something...
1280
01:24:55,261 --> 01:24:59,571
... to a little girl who was recounting
her experiences with the disease.
1281
01:25:00,157 --> 01:25:02,492
I don't remember what I said...
1282
01:25:02,942 --> 01:25:05,658
... but I do remember
feeling worthless.
1283
01:25:07,262 --> 01:25:09,912
Everyone thought that my tears
were for her.
1284
01:25:10,269 --> 01:25:13,466
It made for a great picture
in the papers the next day.
1285
01:25:15,709 --> 01:25:17,497
Mr. Morris will see you now.
1286
01:25:40,924 --> 01:25:43,957
I expected to see you
at Vince's funeral.
1287
01:25:45,308 --> 01:25:49,399
Kind of heartless of you not to
show up, don't you think, Karen?
1288
01:25:50,300 --> 01:25:52,820
Considering you're probably
the one that...
1289
01:25:54,332 --> 01:25:56,120
...drove him to it.
1290
01:25:57,628 --> 01:25:59,155
I won't answer that.
1291
01:26:01,692 --> 01:26:03,349
So don't.
1292
01:26:03,676 --> 01:26:05,431
So get the fuck out of my office.
1293
01:26:06,108 --> 01:26:10,646
Lanny, I have interview material with
Vince up until the moment he met you.
1294
01:26:10,843 --> 01:26:12,916
It would be great if this...
1295
01:26:13,243 --> 01:26:15,698
...warm, funny side of Vince
could reach the public.
1296
01:26:15,899 --> 01:26:19,314
And what the fuck do you know
about Vince's warm and funny side?
1297
01:26:21,595 --> 01:26:24,016
What about the warm and funny fact
that he killed himself?
1298
01:26:24,443 --> 01:26:27,542
- Why would he do that?
- I don't know.
1299
01:26:29,114 --> 01:26:31,253
That's the answer I'm giving you...
1300
01:26:31,451 --> 01:26:33,457
...and anyone else that asks.
1301
01:26:34,139 --> 01:26:36,594
- "I don't know."
- But you do know, don't you, Lanny?
1302
01:26:36,794 --> 01:26:38,769
Whatever I know, sweetheart...
1303
01:26:38,970 --> 01:26:40,213
...I�m writing in my book.
1304
01:26:41,274 --> 01:26:44,471
Except you're never
going to finish your book.
1305
01:26:44,890 --> 01:26:46,416
You don't have to.
1306
01:26:47,451 --> 01:26:49,338
The person who needed
your book is dead.
1307
01:26:50,938 --> 01:26:52,826
You always wrote the material
for your shows.
1308
01:26:53,017 --> 01:26:54,773
Every single word was rehearsed.
1309
01:26:54,970 --> 01:26:57,336
The book was a manual,
a set of notes...
1310
01:26:57,529 --> 01:27:00,247
...so Vince would get
every detail of the official story.
1311
01:27:01,370 --> 01:27:03,889
"A couple of extra babes for him
to sleep with that night.
1312
01:27:04,089 --> 01:27:05,977
A few of them on hand.
1313
01:27:06,169 --> 01:27:08,820
Well, not exactly on his hand.
That wasn't his preference."
1314
01:27:10,425 --> 01:27:13,360
- So, what's your point?
- He quoted that very line to me.
1315
01:27:13,561 --> 01:27:17,587
Quoted it from your manuscript as if
he were saying it for the first time.
1316
01:27:19,705 --> 01:27:21,974
You wrote it because you loved him.
1317
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:27,761
And feared for him.
1318
01:27:30,489 --> 01:27:32,015
And feared for yourself.
1319
01:27:36,728 --> 01:27:38,583
And then you wrote this:
1320
01:27:43,929 --> 01:27:45,336
Where the fuck did you get that?
1321
01:27:45,529 --> 01:27:47,949
- Delivered to my room.
- Bullshit. You stole it.
1322
01:27:48,152 --> 01:27:52,275
Maureen O'Flaherty was killed
in the Versailles Hotel, in your room...
1323
01:27:52,472 --> 01:27:54,928
...the night before the telethon.
1324
01:27:57,239 --> 01:27:59,509
The night before we met.
1325
01:28:05,719 --> 01:28:07,727
Get out of my office.
1326
01:28:54,230 --> 01:28:55,953
Miss Trout?
1327
01:28:57,046 --> 01:28:59,981
We walked through the deserted
backlot of the studio...
1328
01:29:00,183 --> 01:29:04,273
... and I confessed
that I wasn't Bonnie Trout.
1329
01:29:04,470 --> 01:29:06,478
That I was writing a book
about Vince Collins.
1330
01:29:06,678 --> 01:29:08,718
And that I was trying
to uncover the secret...
1331
01:29:08,918 --> 01:29:11,155
... behind what happened
to Maureen O'Flaherty.
1332
01:29:11,605 --> 01:29:13,994
I told him what I found out.
1333
01:29:14,198 --> 01:29:15,757
He prayed that he would
be forgiven...
1334
01:29:15,957 --> 01:29:18,161
... for having been there
as the murder was concealed.
1335
01:29:18,358 --> 01:29:19,983
Miss O'Connor...
1336
01:29:20,278 --> 01:29:24,074
...I have a tape recording of
the night Miss O'Flaherty was killed.
1337
01:29:24,692 --> 01:29:27,726
She had brought a machine.
1338
01:29:29,782 --> 01:29:31,690
- For the interview.
- Yes.
1339
01:29:31,893 --> 01:29:34,861
I found it as I was
getting rid of her things.
1340
01:29:36,533 --> 01:29:39,086
She kept it on?
1341
01:29:40,820 --> 01:29:43,690
Could you use this tape
for your book?
1342
01:29:47,701 --> 01:29:49,260
Of course.
1343
01:29:49,876 --> 01:29:51,470
Miss O'Connor...
1344
01:29:52,373 --> 01:29:54,129
...is it something?
1345
01:29:55,380 --> 01:29:56,722
Oh, my.
1346
01:29:56,917 --> 01:29:58,858
Is it something I could sell?
1347
01:29:59,860 --> 01:30:02,826
Reuben, I can't speak
on behalf of my publishers...
1348
01:30:03,028 --> 01:30:05,484
...but I'm sure that we can
settle on a price.
1349
01:30:05,684 --> 01:30:07,952
Oh, thank you, Miss O'Connor.
1350
01:30:11,572 --> 01:30:14,027
I'll even spice it up a little,
talk about how...
1351
01:30:14,228 --> 01:30:17,130
... the night before the telethon,
I wanted to sleep like a babe.
1352
01:30:17,332 --> 01:30:19,950
So to cover my bets,
I kept a few babes on hand.
1353
01:30:20,500 --> 01:30:22,255
Well, not exactly on my hand.
1354
01:30:22,451 --> 01:30:25,615
That's not my preference,
as you may have gathered by now.
1355
01:30:27,668 --> 01:30:29,325
I need the money.
1356
01:30:31,155 --> 01:30:33,740
Did you have a figure in mind?
1357
01:30:35,763 --> 01:30:38,763
Would you think a million dollars
would be too much?
1358
01:30:39,666 --> 01:30:43,376
Vince was being paid
a million dollars for his life.
1359
01:30:43,571 --> 01:30:44,814
This is one night.
1360
01:30:45,747 --> 01:30:47,689
The most important night.
1361
01:30:49,074 --> 01:30:50,984
You could have left me a note
or called me.
1362
01:30:51,186 --> 01:30:53,772
- I did leave you a note.
- Where?
1363
01:31:03,122 --> 01:31:05,293
Lanny left this for me
at my apartment.
1364
01:31:06,354 --> 01:31:08,907
It's his version
of what happened that night.
1365
01:31:10,194 --> 01:31:13,772
On its own,
it's absolutely useless to me.
1366
01:31:13,971 --> 01:31:16,239
I could have typed it myself.
1367
01:31:19,506 --> 01:31:23,848
But if it matched
what's recorded on your tape...
1368
01:31:26,546 --> 01:31:28,204
...it would make it priceless.
1369
01:31:32,945 --> 01:31:34,767
Which is why you sent it to me.
1370
01:31:37,585 --> 01:31:40,585
You just said
Mr. Morris left it at your apartment.
1371
01:31:40,786 --> 01:31:43,120
He was surprised I had it.
1372
01:31:45,201 --> 01:31:48,583
Like he was surprised I hadn't found
the note he left for me at the hotel.
1373
01:31:48,784 --> 01:31:51,403
The note you must've disposed of
as you were tidying the room.
1374
01:31:51,601 --> 01:31:53,641
I told you how he deals with women.
I was afraid.
1375
01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:55,531
Really afraid of what
he might do to you.
1376
01:31:55,729 --> 01:31:57,768
Maybe you were afraid of what I'd...
1377
01:31:57,969 --> 01:32:00,358
I'd do to him. And to you.
1378
01:32:00,560 --> 01:32:04,302
Why would I be afraid of
a schoolteacher called Bonnie Trout?
1379
01:32:04,497 --> 01:32:06,952
Because you knew I was
Karen O'Connor.
1380
01:32:07,152 --> 01:32:09,770
When I woke up,
you folded my clothes...
1381
01:32:09,968 --> 01:32:11,790
...and placed my pocketbook
on the bed.
1382
01:32:11,984 --> 01:32:15,814
The pocketbook that had my name
and the letter from my publisher.
1383
01:32:17,456 --> 01:32:20,620
I was writing about the one thing
you wanted to have total control over:
1384
01:32:20,815 --> 01:32:22,725
Collins and Morris.
1385
01:32:24,175 --> 01:32:28,104
You made me abandon any thought
of trying to contact Lanny.
1386
01:32:28,688 --> 01:32:30,989
You made me feel like I was
less than nothing to him...
1387
01:32:31,183 --> 01:32:33,256
...because you were playing
your own complex game.
1388
01:32:33,455 --> 01:32:38,922
And what exactly was this complex
game I was playing, Miss O'Connor?
1389
01:32:56,783 --> 01:32:58,376
You were in the room.
1390
01:32:59,663 --> 01:33:01,321
That night.
1391
01:33:02,031 --> 01:33:04,617
Lanny had a robe.
He dropped it on the bed.
1392
01:33:04,815 --> 01:33:07,303
After Maureen asked for money...
1393
01:33:07,501 --> 01:33:09,390
...the wallet was on top.
It had been folded.
1394
01:33:09,582 --> 01:33:12,931
Well, I always, always arranged
Mr. Morris' things.
1395
01:33:13,134 --> 01:33:16,265
After he went to bed.
You were there before.
1396
01:33:16,462 --> 01:33:19,528
How would I get out?
All three doors were chain-locked.
1397
01:33:37,101 --> 01:33:39,207
Through Vince's room.
1398
01:33:40,590 --> 01:33:42,084
Then, the next morning...
1399
01:33:42,285 --> 01:33:45,449
... you must have chain-locked the
door before you went to wake him up.
1400
01:33:49,388 --> 01:33:51,429
Fuck!
1401
01:33:54,382 --> 01:33:56,683
Lanny let me read the first chapter.
1402
01:33:56,877 --> 01:33:59,113
Vince sent me the second.
1403
01:34:01,613 --> 01:34:03,401
And you stole this.
1404
01:34:03,596 --> 01:34:04,938
To whet my appetite.
1405
01:34:28,460 --> 01:34:30,117
I wanna write.
1406
01:34:30,315 --> 01:34:32,137
I wanna be a journalist.
1407
01:34:32,747 --> 01:34:35,682
So I could either
use this information...
1408
01:34:36,491 --> 01:34:38,401
... or I could use a lot of money.
1409
01:34:38,604 --> 01:34:40,872
Is that why you killed her?
1410
01:34:42,091 --> 01:34:43,301
To protect them?
1411
01:34:50,347 --> 01:34:54,057
For 15 years...
1412
01:34:54,252 --> 01:34:57,186
... he tormented Vince and Lanny.
1413
01:35:00,619 --> 01:35:04,165
He could never blackmail Vince
while Sally Sanmarco was alive...
1414
01:35:05,034 --> 01:35:09,225
... so he waited until Sally died
to activate his retirement plan:
1415
01:35:11,723 --> 01:35:14,658
A million dollars from Vince.
1416
01:35:15,402 --> 01:35:19,559
A million dollars for the same tape
he offered to me.
1417
01:35:24,267 --> 01:35:27,976
He would never get his money,
and I would never see him again.
1418
01:35:33,769 --> 01:35:36,290
He had taken her life...
1419
01:35:36,490 --> 01:35:39,141
... and with it her mother's heart...
1420
01:35:39,786 --> 01:35:41,989
... and her father's mind.
1421
01:35:43,562 --> 01:35:44,991
And now...
1422
01:35:45,193 --> 01:35:48,292
... all that remained
of Maureen O'Flaherty...
1423
01:35:48,489 --> 01:35:52,351
... was a tree
in her mother's garden.
1424
01:36:06,506 --> 01:36:09,604
Your daughter learned something
about Vince Collins...
1425
01:36:09,801 --> 01:36:12,320
...that he didn't want anyone to know.
1426
01:36:12,584 --> 01:36:14,209
Because of that...
1427
01:36:14,408 --> 01:36:15,903
...she was killed.
1428
01:36:16,105 --> 01:36:19,139
If it's of any small comfort,
she probably didn't suffer.
1429
01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:23,168
I want people
to know about this man.
1430
01:36:23,752 --> 01:36:26,435
I want them to know
why he killed her.
1431
01:36:31,560 --> 01:36:33,633
There is someone in all this...
1432
01:36:33,832 --> 01:36:35,839
...who is totally innocent
of any involvement...
1433
01:36:36,040 --> 01:36:37,862
...in the events of that night...
1434
01:36:38,056 --> 01:36:42,692
...but whose life will be made infinitely
worse if I tell the truth at this time.
1435
01:36:43,688 --> 01:36:47,071
I wanna protect this person
from any further pain.
1436
01:36:49,991 --> 01:36:51,879
I promise you...
1437
01:36:52,424 --> 01:36:55,773
I promise you I will write down
the truth that I've learned...
1438
01:36:55,975 --> 01:36:58,845
...but I have to let matters lie
until this person has died...
1439
01:36:59,048 --> 01:37:01,153
...and the truth
can no longer touch them.
1440
01:37:06,151 --> 01:37:09,118
I saw no indication on her face...
1441
01:37:09,319 --> 01:37:11,774
... that she knew
I was talking about her.
1442
01:37:44,166 --> 01:37:46,654
You're a very special girl.
1443
01:37:54,470 --> 01:37:56,837
Forgive me.