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I telegraphed and phoned
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I sent air mail special, too
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Yeah, I know.
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Answer was goodbye
There was even postage due
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I fell in love just once
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And then it had to be with you
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Triple rhyme.
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Everything happens to me
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Oh, fuck.
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Yeah.
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WQXR notes the passing
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of one of America's foremost songwriters,
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Lorenz Hart, who died last night
at Doctors Hospital in Manhattan
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from complications of pneumonia.
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Mr. Hart was 48 years old.
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For over 20 years,
Hart and his partner, Richard Rodgers,
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Rodgers wrote the music, Hart the words,
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combined their respective geniuses
to create a string of musical-comedy hits.
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Often referred to as America's
Gilbert and Sullivan,
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Rodgers and Hart will be remembered
for such songs as,
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My Funny Valentine,
The Lady Is A Tramp,
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Where or When, With A Song In My Heart,
Isn't It Romantic?,
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My Heart Stood Still, Bewitched,
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I Didn't Know What Time It Was,
Manhattan,
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and Blue Moon.
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Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla
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We know we belong to the land
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Here comes "grand."
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And the land we belong to is grand
And when we say
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Yow! Ayipioeeay!
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We're only sayin'
"You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!"
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I need a drink.
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- Lorry.
- I'll see you later, Mom.
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L-A-H-O-M-A
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Oklahoma!
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Yow!
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All right. For the last time,
put the letters on the table.
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"If Laszlo and the cause
mean that much to you,
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"you won't stop at anything."
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All right, I'll make it easy on you.
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"Go ahead, shoot.
You'd be doing me a favor."
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Just remember,
I got this gun pointed at your dick.
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Oh. That's my least vulnerable spot.
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Jesus Christ! How many times
have we seen that picture?
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Worst line in Casablanca?
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"Well, a precedent is being broken."
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"A precedent is being broken"?
How can you break a goddamn precedent?
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Do they even speak English over there
in Hollywood?
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Still, you have to love Claude Rains.
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He makes that picture.
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- Sure.
- You know why he's so great?
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He's a leading man, and he's short,
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which proves you can be both.
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And I love this.
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He says to Ilsa,
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"Mademoiselle, he's the kind of man that,
if I were a woman
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"and I were not around,
I should be in love with Rick."
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Think about it. Whom does he end up with
at the end of the picture?
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Who's strolling away together arm in arm
into the fog?
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You're saying Rick and Captain Renault...
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What do you think goes on over there
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at the Free French garrison
in Brazzaville?
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That is a scene they can't show you.
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Okay. Best line in Casablanca?
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"Nobody ever
loved me that much."
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Isn't that magnificent?
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Six words.
"Nobody ever loved me that much."
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And, really,
who's ever been loved enough?
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Who's ever been loved half enough?
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Would you get me a shot?
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Larry, you told me
under no circumstances...
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I'm just going to look at it.
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Take the measure
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of its amber heft in my hand.
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- You told me not...
- Just give me the drink.
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Did I tell you what Elizabeth told me?
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That's the girl I'm meeting here tonight.
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- You mean the one you...
- Eddie, Eddie, Eddie.
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- What?
- Show some class, all right?
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Her mother is going to come
walking in here any second.
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- Sorry.
- Seriously.
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I... I adore this girl.
And, I'm telling you, this is beyond sex.
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- What's beyond sex?
- I don't understand it.
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She's completely undeserving,
but isn't that the way it always is?
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"Irrational adoration."
That's the phrase she came up with.
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She's a poet, too. Did I tell you that?
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Oh, and would you give me
a shot of club soda?
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I'll drink one and admire the other.
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So, this girl...
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You really, you know,
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with a 20-year-old college girl, huh?
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It is more complicated
than you could possibly imagine.
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Uh, leave the bottle.
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It's a visual poem.
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You're not giving me any details here.
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You know what my secret goal is
for the rest of this year?
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- What?
- I'm serious. Really.
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My secret goal is to stop being so scared.
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- Elizabeth Weiland. For...
- Those are mine!
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Jesus! That is all you get
for five dollars?
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Plus delivery, yes.
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Lorenz Hart?
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You know, I kind of think
I've heard that name before.
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You just earned yourself
a dollar tip, kid.
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A precedent is being broken.
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Hey, she gave this to me.
Mailed it all the way from New Haven
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because I said I wanted something
she'd actually touched.
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Christ! It's like I'm 17 again,
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except I never was 17.
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I went directly from childhood
to washed-up.
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- Eddie, get the kid a drink, would you?
- No thanks. I'm... I'm working.
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Oh, Christ, that's when
you should be drinking.
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What's your name? Sven, am I right?
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- Troy.
- Ooh, even better.
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Listen, Sven, are you free tonight?
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Eddie, would you get the kid
a goddamn shot?
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- Yeah.
- 'Cause I am throwing
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an enormous party at my place.
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All of show business is going to be there.
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I've booked the Golden Gate Quartet.
I'm serious.
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I want you to show up, bring a friend,
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bring a dozen friends.
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It's going to be like
nothing you've ever seen before.
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I'm up at the Ardsley, you know?
91st, on the Park.
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Just tell the desk clerk
that you're with Lorenz Hart's party.
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You're going to need to know the password.
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- Are you ready for the password?
- Mmm-hmm.
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"Nobody ever loved me that much."
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Slow! Oh.
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Now that is a beautiful sight.
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What, you don't drink?
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After one whole quart of brandy
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Like a daisy I awake
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You know that song?
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Uh, no, no.
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My funny Valentine
Sweet comic Valentine...
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I really don't listen to the radio
that much.
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You said you know my name!
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- You don't know one Rodgers and Hart song?
- I know...
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I just can't really remember...
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I'll take Manhattan
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The Bronx and Staten...
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We were on the cover of Time Magazine!
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My picture is on the wall right...
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Eddie, where's my picture?
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They move 'em around.
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- What do you...
- Well, how about this one?
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Blue moon
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I know that one!
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You saw me standing alone
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Without a dream in my heart
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Without a love of my own
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Worst goddamn lyric I ever wrote!
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- You wrote that?
- Wasn't even supposed to be the title.
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I like that song.
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Hmm. I'll take my tip back.
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I want you at my party, Sven!
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Doc Bender said to me the other night,
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after I told him I'd proposed
to Vivienne again,
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"She turned me down, again,"
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he said...
"Larry, make up your mind.
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"Are you homosexual or heterosexual?"
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I said, "Doc, I'm ambisexual."
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He said...
"What the hell does that even mean?"
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I said,
"It means I can jerk off
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"equally well with either hand."
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Oh, Larry! There's a lady present.
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Well, women can use either hand, too.
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But to be a writer, you have
to be kind of omni-sexual, don't you?
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You have to have, inside yourself,
you know, everyone on earth.
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Men, women, horses.
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How can you give voice
to the whole chorus of the world
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if the whole chorus of the world
isn't already inside you?
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Eddie, what do you call a tireless,
relentless homosexual?
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"Indefagitable."
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To the great and glorious past,
when it all mattered so much.
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Mmm.
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Keep playing. You're good.
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- Oh, thank you. I'm an aspiring composer.
- "Aspiring"?
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- That means you're breathing, right?
- Mmm.
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I better take your name down
in case I need a new partner.
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Hey, did you go to the opening tonight?
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Oklahoma! With an exclamation point,
no less.
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Fact. Any title that feels the need
for an exclamation point,
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you want to steer clear of.
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What did you say
your name was again?
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Uh, Morty Rifkin. But I go by the name
of Morty Rafferty.
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No one could possibly
guess you're Jewish.
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Wha'dja think of Oklahoma?
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What did I think of Oklahoma?
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Well, Knuckles,
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Knuckles O'Rifkin,
that's what I'm going to call you,
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I saw the show a couple of times
in previews in New Haven,
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back when they were still calling it
Away We Go! Exclamation point.
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And I felt sure Dick was gonna call me,
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"Larry, we're in big trouble.
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"I need you to funny up the show.
We need some big comedy numbers."
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And I was all ready to say,
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"Dick, instead of all this
corn-pone Americana,
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"let's do a send-up
of corn-pone Americana!"
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I was already writing lyrics in my head.
I couldn't stop.
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And did he call you?
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Are you kidding?
He was too busy writing more hits. Huh.
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I sat in my box seat tonight and watched
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"Oklahomo, exclamation point"...
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...down there,
glittering in all its pink lights
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and all those cowboy hats
and twirling lassos,
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and I knew two things
with absolute certainty.
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It was a 14-karat hit
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and it was a 14-karat piece of shit.
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Oh. Friend of mine saw it in previews,
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said it was one of the best shows
he's ever seen.
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The show is fraudulent
on every possible level.
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And this is not jealousy speaking, okay?
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I watched that show tonight
and I felt this great sinking in my heart.
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And all around me people are roaring.
They are roaring at third-rate jokes.
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I wanted to grab the audience
by the shoulders and say,
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"What are you laughing at?
Come on! Demand more!" And...
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Rodgers is a genius.
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I say that without
one second's hesitation.
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You're a piano player.
You know that I'm right.
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Yeah, he's pretty good.
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Pretty good?
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There is no one with his range,
his inventiveness,
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great soaring masculine melodies
building like pile drivers.
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I mean, Rodgers is a cold-hearted
son of a bitch,
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but he can get a melody to levitate,
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and that is the hallmark
of great art, levitation.
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I've got a beautiful feeling
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That's the moment. You hear that?
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When your spine glows
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and the whole apparatus of songwriting
suddenly breaks free from gravity.
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There's maybe five people on the planet
that can pull that off,
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and that son of a bitch is one of 'em.
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And then, oy...
Words by Oscar Hammerstein II.
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What can I say about Oscar?
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He's going to come striding in here
any second,
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all seven and a half feet of him,
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and, you know, Dick deliberately went
with somebody tall this time,
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you know that.
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But what can I say about Oscar?
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He's so earthbound,
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and let's face it,
most of us are earthbound.
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But there are moments, I swear to God,
247
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there are moments in my work
248
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when I have made something bigger
than myself.
249
00:14:20,486 --> 00:14:22,028
I agree, definitely.
250
00:14:22,029 --> 00:14:25,115
Thank you. The words were bigger
than the music,
251
00:14:25,116 --> 00:14:26,866
bigger than the characters
who sang them,
252
00:14:26,867 --> 00:14:30,413
and they approached, for maybe
one-half second, something immortal.
253
00:14:31,414 --> 00:14:34,374
Excuse my limitless self-regard,
but they did,
254
00:14:34,375 --> 00:14:37,419
and if nobody else is going to say it,
then I'm going to.
255
00:14:37,420 --> 00:14:40,755
I have written a handful of words
that are going to cheat death.
256
00:14:40,756 --> 00:14:43,383
Spoken with the modesty of a true lunatic.
257
00:14:43,384 --> 00:14:45,593
Hey! When Shakespeare wrote,
258
00:14:45,594 --> 00:14:47,887
"Not marble nor gilded monuments
259
00:14:47,888 --> 00:14:50,682
"Of princes
shall outlive this powerful rhyme,"
260
00:14:50,683 --> 00:14:53,309
did people say, "My God, what an ego"?
261
00:14:53,310 --> 00:14:57,939
No, they said he is a genius,
and he knows his work is going to last.
262
00:14:57,940 --> 00:14:59,149
So now you're Shakespeare?
263
00:14:59,150 --> 00:15:02,736
Look, Oklahoma! is going to win
the goddamn Pulitzer. I know that.
264
00:15:02,737 --> 00:15:05,113
High schools are going to put it on
from now till doomsday,
265
00:15:05,114 --> 00:15:07,991
because it is so inoffensive.
266
00:15:07,992 --> 00:15:11,202
But really, who wants inoffensive art?
267
00:15:11,203 --> 00:15:12,454
Knuckles...
268
00:15:12,455 --> 00:15:14,622
...are you listening to me?
I'm trying to answer your question.
269
00:15:14,623 --> 00:15:17,709
Is that why God put us on the planet,
to not offend people?
270
00:15:17,710 --> 00:15:20,545
The problem with Oklahoma! is this,
271
00:15:20,546 --> 00:15:23,548
and the problem was right there
in the original play,
272
00:15:23,549 --> 00:15:25,216
Green Grow the Fucking Lilacs.
273
00:15:25,217 --> 00:15:27,886
And Dick first showed that play to me,
all right?
274
00:15:27,887 --> 00:15:30,388
He asked me to adapt it first,
and I said no,
275
00:15:30,389 --> 00:15:32,223
and I don't mind that it's nostalgic,
276
00:15:32,224 --> 00:15:34,184
but Oklahoma!, exclamation point,
277
00:15:34,185 --> 00:15:37,479
is nostalgic for a world
that never existed,
278
00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:42,567
and do you really want to write a show
where the main character's name is Curly?
279
00:15:42,568 --> 00:15:45,111
Oh, here's an idea for a song.
280
00:15:45,112 --> 00:15:47,406
"Hey, Moe! Hey, Larry!
I Just Stepped in Cow Shit!"
281
00:15:51,118 --> 00:15:52,995
I mean, am I bitter?
282
00:15:54,747 --> 00:15:57,333
We write together for a quarter a century,
283
00:15:57,875 --> 00:16:00,960
and the first show
he writes with someone else
284
00:16:00,961 --> 00:16:04,089
is gonna be the biggest hit he ever had.
Am I bitter?
285
00:16:04,090 --> 00:16:05,840
- Larry...
- Fuck yes.
286
00:16:05,841 --> 00:16:09,552
But I need to tell you about Elizabeth.
287
00:16:09,553 --> 00:16:10,929
I need to cleanse my heart.
288
00:16:10,930 --> 00:16:12,430
Here we go. The 20-year-old...
289
00:16:12,431 --> 00:16:14,433
She's going to come in here
any second.
290
00:16:15,184 --> 00:16:17,394
Uh, Rodgers is gonna
be here tonight, right?
291
00:16:17,395 --> 00:16:20,563
- Don't worry, I'll introduce you.
- Oh, that'd be great.
292
00:16:20,564 --> 00:16:22,273
I'm trying to get somebody
to listen to my songs.
293
00:16:22,274 --> 00:16:24,651
Well, listen and learn.
294
00:16:24,652 --> 00:16:27,822
I'm telling you about Elizabeth.
295
00:16:28,906 --> 00:16:30,991
There's something appealingly...
296
00:16:31,992 --> 00:16:34,244
ethereal about her face.
297
00:16:34,245 --> 00:16:35,578
What the fuck does that mean?
298
00:16:35,579 --> 00:16:38,289
Look, I got her all these presents.
299
00:16:38,290 --> 00:16:40,500
You bought her something from Klein's?
300
00:16:40,501 --> 00:16:42,335
She's gonna love this.
301
00:16:42,336 --> 00:16:43,878
Yeah, but that's used shit.
What are you doing?
302
00:16:43,879 --> 00:16:45,296
This is an authentic
first-edition.
303
00:16:45,297 --> 00:16:47,215
You don't understand the magic
304
00:16:47,216 --> 00:16:48,466
and the mystery of this girl.
305
00:16:48,467 --> 00:16:51,721
"I have been waiting for this
my whole life."
306
00:16:52,263 --> 00:16:54,890
It's what Somerset Maugham
says in that thing, you remember?
307
00:16:56,684 --> 00:16:57,767
- Me?
- Yeah.
308
00:16:57,768 --> 00:17:01,605
"There's always one who loves
and one who lets himself be loved."
309
00:17:02,690 --> 00:17:03,940
That's the truth, isn't it?
310
00:17:03,941 --> 00:17:05,191
Of course, you know you're in trouble
311
00:17:05,192 --> 00:17:06,692
when you're looking
for the meaning of life
312
00:17:06,693 --> 00:17:09,196
in a book with the word "bondage"
in the title.
313
00:17:10,530 --> 00:17:11,949
Larry...
314
00:17:14,744 --> 00:17:16,036
She's a girl. Right?
315
00:17:16,578 --> 00:17:19,914
Okay. See, I always thought
that your interests went more towards...
316
00:17:20,499 --> 00:17:21,624
My interests?
317
00:17:22,835 --> 00:17:24,754
So now you're going to analyze me?
318
00:17:25,336 --> 00:17:27,214
Thank you, Doctor Bacardi.
319
00:17:28,090 --> 00:17:30,592
Look, I met her at rehearsals
for By Jupiter.
320
00:17:30,593 --> 00:17:31,843
And she's not an actress.
321
00:17:31,844 --> 00:17:34,637
She's a college student. Sophomore.
322
00:17:34,638 --> 00:17:37,640
Yale. Not the general school,
that's for the guys.
323
00:17:37,641 --> 00:17:40,894
This is the School of Fine Arts!
324
00:17:40,895 --> 00:17:44,439
Bohemian goddesses in gray smocks
325
00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,901
mixing paint in morning light.
326
00:17:47,902 --> 00:17:49,862
She's all of 20 years old.
327
00:17:50,404 --> 00:17:51,613
And you're what?
328
00:17:51,614 --> 00:17:53,240
A youthful 47!
329
00:17:55,367 --> 00:17:57,077
You know what I call her in my letters?
330
00:17:57,078 --> 00:18:00,413
"My irreplaceable Elizabeth!"
Can you believe it?
331
00:18:00,414 --> 00:18:03,041
If I could write what's in my heart
this second,
332
00:18:03,042 --> 00:18:06,002
I would have the entire audience
levitating.
333
00:18:06,003 --> 00:18:08,088
Oklahoma! would close in shame
334
00:18:08,089 --> 00:18:10,882
if it could hear eight bars
of what's in my heart.
335
00:18:10,883 --> 00:18:13,218
And I've been in eight bars tonight,
so I know what I'm talking about.
336
00:18:13,219 --> 00:18:14,470
Go!
337
00:18:15,137 --> 00:18:18,390
Last summer, I found myself awake
at 4:30 in the morning.
338
00:18:18,391 --> 00:18:20,350
And all I had done
the previous five hours...
339
00:18:20,351 --> 00:18:23,478
What the hell
are you lookin' at your watch for?
340
00:18:23,479 --> 00:18:26,564
- Larry, I'm working here.
- What the hell do you think I'm doing?
341
00:18:26,565 --> 00:18:28,526
And I'm not even getting paid. All right.
342
00:18:32,154 --> 00:18:33,238
More flowers...
343
00:18:33,239 --> 00:18:34,906
Oh. Eddie, get Sven another drink!
344
00:18:34,907 --> 00:18:36,408
...for Richard Rodgers.
345
00:18:36,409 --> 00:18:38,535
Jesus, how much did those cost?
346
00:18:38,536 --> 00:18:41,038
Sixteen dollars. Plus delivery.
347
00:18:42,665 --> 00:18:45,917
"Dick, I've got a beautiful feeling,
everything's going your way.
348
00:18:45,918 --> 00:18:47,252
"Love, Dorothy."
349
00:18:47,253 --> 00:18:48,838
She's quoting Oscar?
350
00:18:55,928 --> 00:19:00,014
I write with her husband for 24 years,
351
00:19:00,015 --> 00:19:02,100
and she's quoting Oscar?
352
00:19:02,101 --> 00:19:05,812
91st on the Park, The Ardsley.
We'll be going late.
353
00:19:05,813 --> 00:19:07,732
All right. Well, thanks again, fellas.
354
00:19:11,819 --> 00:19:12,820
Good evening.
355
00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,084
Indulge me for one second.
356
00:19:28,085 --> 00:19:30,628
Let me recreate for you, Elizabeth.
357
00:19:30,629 --> 00:19:32,923
Enough! Did you screw her or not?
358
00:19:33,424 --> 00:19:36,676
Show some class, Eddie.
Knuckles, may I speak with you?
359
00:19:36,677 --> 00:19:38,053
Oh, sure, yeah.
360
00:19:38,054 --> 00:19:40,097
So,
did you screw her or not?
361
00:19:45,770 --> 00:19:47,146
Elizabeth!
362
00:19:48,189 --> 00:19:49,272
Larry!
363
00:19:49,273 --> 00:19:51,775
My irreplaceable Elizabeth!
364
00:19:51,776 --> 00:19:53,068
I'm so happy to see you.
365
00:19:53,069 --> 00:19:54,319
Ah...
366
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,863
- Do you like the hair?
- I love it.
367
00:19:56,864 --> 00:19:59,199
- It's much better than the red.
- I think so.
368
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,036
I mean, I liked the red, too.
But this is much more other-worldly.
369
00:20:03,037 --> 00:20:04,329
I have to go set up for the party.
370
00:20:04,330 --> 00:20:06,539
No, no, no. I got you some flowers!
371
00:20:06,540 --> 00:20:07,916
Aww.
372
00:20:07,917 --> 00:20:10,668
- I'm overwhelmed.
- Well, I have that effect on people.
373
00:20:10,669 --> 00:20:13,129
- I have so much to tell you.
- Like what?
374
00:20:13,130 --> 00:20:15,882
- I've been writing in my journal again.
- I hope you let me read it.
375
00:20:15,883 --> 00:20:17,676
No, no, no, no. The big one.
376
00:20:21,305 --> 00:20:22,723
And these are what
Richard Rodgers is getting?
377
00:20:24,058 --> 00:20:27,185
Larry, my mother would die
if she saw this.
378
00:20:27,186 --> 00:20:29,397
- With your permission.
- Permission granted.
379
00:20:31,649 --> 00:20:34,235
- That guy I told you about?
- Cooper?
380
00:20:35,361 --> 00:20:37,070
- It finally happened.
- No!
381
00:20:37,071 --> 00:20:38,322
Yes.
382
00:20:39,115 --> 00:20:43,118
On my birthday.
The night of my 20th birthday.
383
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,412
Pretty dramatic actually.
You could write a play about it.
384
00:20:45,413 --> 00:20:47,415
A musical. He Has Risen.
385
00:20:47,998 --> 00:20:50,125
- Larry...
- It's an Easter musical!
386
00:20:50,126 --> 00:20:51,544
It's very religious!
387
00:20:52,962 --> 00:20:54,963
Let me clarify by saying
it almost happened.
388
00:20:54,964 --> 00:20:56,256
Clarify immediately!
389
00:20:56,257 --> 00:20:58,550
- I'm gonna tell you the whole story later.
- No, no, I demand
390
00:20:58,551 --> 00:21:00,720
to know the shorthand version now.
391
00:21:01,470 --> 00:21:03,264
- The shorthand version? Okay.
- Mmm-hmm.
392
00:21:05,391 --> 00:21:07,810
The skin on his back was flawless.
393
00:21:08,352 --> 00:21:09,353
Gotta run.
394
00:21:10,521 --> 00:21:13,356
You're going to introduce me
to Richard Rodgers, right?
395
00:21:13,357 --> 00:21:14,441
Before the evening is over,
396
00:21:14,442 --> 00:21:16,735
you're going to get a huge handful
of Dick.
397
00:21:16,736 --> 00:21:18,571
Larry! You're so vulgar!
398
00:21:20,156 --> 00:21:22,490
Handful of Dick, that's funny.
399
00:21:22,491 --> 00:21:23,617
- Hey...
- Hmm.
400
00:21:25,911 --> 00:21:28,580
I'm writing an entire musical about her.
401
00:21:28,581 --> 00:21:32,459
It's inspired by those Frank Capra
war pictures Why We Fight.
402
00:21:32,460 --> 00:21:33,711
This one will be called
403
00:21:34,336 --> 00:21:36,629
Why We Fuck.
404
00:21:36,630 --> 00:21:39,424
And the big ballad at the end will be
405
00:21:39,425 --> 00:21:42,136
The Skin On His Back Was Flawless.
406
00:21:44,346 --> 00:21:46,222
Of course, when you're 20,
407
00:21:46,223 --> 00:21:49,559
what other commodity do you have
to trade in on except your body?
408
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,854
You haven't done anything, right?
409
00:21:52,980 --> 00:21:56,275
Can you imagine what Elizabeth would write
if she saw my back?
410
00:21:57,568 --> 00:21:59,611
"The skin on his back
411
00:21:59,612 --> 00:22:03,031
"looked like a white bed sheet
someone had thrown-up on.
412
00:22:03,032 --> 00:22:07,078
"His pecker looked like the horn
of a retarded unicorn."
413
00:22:10,581 --> 00:22:11,749
Just one...
414
00:22:12,875 --> 00:22:15,085
to get me through congratulating him.
415
00:22:15,086 --> 00:22:16,337
Larry.
416
00:22:17,588 --> 00:22:22,801
To the skin on her back
like every other part of her,
417
00:22:22,802 --> 00:22:24,387
flawless.
418
00:22:27,306 --> 00:22:28,723
Wow.
419
00:22:28,724 --> 00:22:34,270
How can so much pleasure be compressed
into so small a container?
420
00:22:34,271 --> 00:22:37,483
That's it. Absolutely no more. Agreed?
421
00:22:43,364 --> 00:22:45,241
God! I miss Gershwin.
422
00:22:49,286 --> 00:22:53,998
I bet I saw Porgy and Bess more times
than any other person in this city.
423
00:22:53,999 --> 00:22:56,000
Best line in Porgy,
424
00:22:56,001 --> 00:22:59,922
"When Gawd made cripple,
He mean him to be lonely."
425
00:23:02,717 --> 00:23:05,009
Did you ever think
your entire life is a play...
426
00:23:05,010 --> 00:23:06,678
- Hmm.
- ...and that, you know,
427
00:23:06,679 --> 00:23:08,263
99% of the people in it,
428
00:23:08,264 --> 00:23:09,764
they got no lines, you know?
429
00:23:09,765 --> 00:23:12,434
They're just like extras.
430
00:23:12,435 --> 00:23:17,022
And you,
you're just an extra in their play.
431
00:23:17,523 --> 00:23:19,649
Deep. Very deep.
432
00:23:19,650 --> 00:23:21,609
- I got thoughts, too, you know.
- Really?
433
00:23:21,610 --> 00:23:22,944
I thought you were just an extra.
434
00:23:22,945 --> 00:23:25,406
Will somebody get these fucking flowers
off my bar?
435
00:23:25,948 --> 00:23:26,949
Okay!
436
00:23:30,536 --> 00:23:32,371
You've got to see her as I did.
437
00:23:33,289 --> 00:23:35,999
- I just seen her.
- No, the first time.
438
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,751
If you can't see that,
439
00:23:37,752 --> 00:23:40,879
you can't understand
what this whole night is about.
440
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,547
I'm beginning to think
you didn't screw her.
441
00:23:42,548 --> 00:23:46,426
I want to practice this trick on you
before I do it for her.
442
00:23:46,427 --> 00:23:48,094
And I'm not showing it to her as a trick.
443
00:23:48,095 --> 00:23:52,348
I'm showing it to her
as an experiment to prove
444
00:23:52,349 --> 00:23:54,809
there's an extra-sensory link
between us.
445
00:23:54,810 --> 00:23:56,519
She believes in all that horseshit,
you know,
446
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,730
talking for 20 minutes
about psychokinesis.
447
00:23:58,731 --> 00:24:00,523
I don't understand a fucking word
she's saying.
448
00:24:00,524 --> 00:24:02,734
I'm sitting there, nodding, thinking,
449
00:24:02,735 --> 00:24:05,321
"Is she really wearing
a grape-colored brassiere?"
450
00:24:08,032 --> 00:24:11,159
And later, I'm going to teach you boys
my own card game.
451
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,079
- Cocksucker's Rummy!
- Larry, language.
452
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,039
Ooh, you're offended
by the word "cocksucker"?
453
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,291
All right, I won't use it.
I give you my word
454
00:24:18,292 --> 00:24:19,751
as a cocksucker.
455
00:24:19,752 --> 00:24:23,463
But let me tell you
about the first time I saw her.
456
00:24:23,464 --> 00:24:25,173
I think I'd rather see the card trick.
457
00:24:25,174 --> 00:24:26,674
Me, too.
458
00:24:26,675 --> 00:24:29,512
You know what the sexiest thing
on the planet earth is?
459
00:24:30,429 --> 00:24:32,180
A half-erect penis.
460
00:24:32,181 --> 00:24:34,099
Jesus Christ, Larry,
nobody wants to hear this.
461
00:24:34,100 --> 00:24:35,266
I'm not talking to you.
462
00:24:35,267 --> 00:24:36,601
- Who you talking to?
- Me.
463
00:24:36,602 --> 00:24:38,728
I got to talk to somebody interesting.
I mean it, though.
464
00:24:38,729 --> 00:24:41,189
A half-erect penis is a promise.
465
00:24:41,190 --> 00:24:44,317
A fully-erect penis
is an exclamation point.
466
00:24:44,318 --> 00:24:47,904
As a writer, it offends me.
It's too loud, it's too adolescent.
467
00:24:47,905 --> 00:24:49,406
The story's already over.
468
00:24:49,407 --> 00:24:53,994
But a half-erect penis,
is it going or is it coming?
469
00:24:56,705 --> 00:25:01,376
But women appeal to me precisely
for their absence of penises.
470
00:25:01,377 --> 00:25:02,378
Me, too.
471
00:25:02,962 --> 00:25:07,006
Oh, they live in a much more interesting
emotional landscape than we do.
472
00:25:07,007 --> 00:25:09,759
A landscape we can only dream about.
473
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,762
But this evening
is not about landscapes.
474
00:25:12,763 --> 00:25:15,890
It's a portrait of Elizabeth,
and only Elizabeth.
475
00:25:15,891 --> 00:25:17,016
Here we fucking go again.
476
00:25:17,017 --> 00:25:18,810
Wait, you saw
that she was beautiful, right?
477
00:25:18,811 --> 00:25:22,773
I mean, if not classically beautiful,
then, what's the right word...
478
00:25:25,735 --> 00:25:26,777
Nice tits.
479
00:25:27,695 --> 00:25:31,198
Small but very inviting.
480
00:25:32,366 --> 00:25:34,033
I wish I could paint her.
481
00:25:34,034 --> 00:25:38,246
That seems to me the most intimate way
of looking at a person.
482
00:25:38,247 --> 00:25:39,831
At the same time, the least sentimental.
483
00:25:39,832 --> 00:25:42,709
To accurately reproduce
the planes of her face,
484
00:25:42,710 --> 00:25:45,838
the two tiny freckles on her left cheek.
485
00:25:47,590 --> 00:25:50,593
You look familiar.
I've seen your picture somewhere.
486
00:25:52,053 --> 00:25:53,054
You're a writer?
487
00:25:55,306 --> 00:25:58,141
Well, then you will appreciate this story.
488
00:25:58,142 --> 00:25:59,977
Because it concerns the...
489
00:26:03,397 --> 00:26:04,398
Ineffable?
490
00:26:05,441 --> 00:26:07,400
That's the perfect word.
491
00:26:07,401 --> 00:26:10,029
Christ! You're E.B. White!
You're "Andy" White!
492
00:26:12,323 --> 00:26:16,284
I cannot tell you
how much I enjoy your essays.
493
00:26:16,285 --> 00:26:18,745
Nothing has given me more pleasure.
494
00:26:18,746 --> 00:26:21,164
- I'm in love with your language.
- Thank you.
495
00:26:21,165 --> 00:26:22,457
I'm in love with your punctuation.
496
00:26:22,458 --> 00:26:24,125
You can't move a single comma. Am I right?
497
00:26:24,126 --> 00:26:26,544
I mean, you're a musician, White.
498
00:26:26,545 --> 00:26:27,754
You're the musician.
499
00:26:27,755 --> 00:26:32,342
You know, you, above all people,
will appreciate this story.
500
00:26:32,343 --> 00:26:34,719
This girl, Elizabeth.
501
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,514
I... I can't do my act for her.
You know what I mean?
502
00:26:37,515 --> 00:26:40,558
She wouldn't be interested.
She never asks me about me.
503
00:26:40,559 --> 00:26:43,561
Never. And it isn't so much indifference,
I think,
504
00:26:43,562 --> 00:26:45,230
as much as we both recognize
505
00:26:45,231 --> 00:26:47,399
that she's legitimately
more interesting than I am.
506
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,192
And I genuinely mean that.
507
00:26:49,193 --> 00:26:51,111
Did you guys see her hair?
508
00:26:51,112 --> 00:26:54,864
That's what I first noticed when
she walked into the theater last July.
509
00:26:54,865 --> 00:26:57,910
It was as if she were breathing
different air than I was.
510
00:26:58,828 --> 00:27:01,162
- I like that.
- I'm telling you, White,
511
00:27:01,163 --> 00:27:03,540
she would make a great musical!
512
00:27:03,541 --> 00:27:06,960
And not one goddamn corn stalk
in the whole show!
513
00:27:06,961 --> 00:27:09,796
And, hey, fellas, just for the record,
514
00:27:09,797 --> 00:27:13,133
"The corn is as high as an elephant's eye"
515
00:27:13,134 --> 00:27:17,470
is the stupidest lyric in the history
of American songwriting.
516
00:27:17,471 --> 00:27:20,014
Yes, it makes perfect sense,
and, yes, it scans,
517
00:27:20,015 --> 00:27:24,060
but the image of an Oklahoma cornfield
518
00:27:24,061 --> 00:27:26,938
with a fucking elephant
standing in the middle of it?
519
00:27:26,939 --> 00:27:29,482
- I like elephants.
- Yeah, we all like elephants, Eddie.
520
00:27:29,483 --> 00:27:31,401
Look, Andy, I need you to see this.
521
00:27:31,402 --> 00:27:33,111
I'm listening to her talk,
522
00:27:33,112 --> 00:27:35,196
but I couldn't tell you
a single word she said
523
00:27:35,197 --> 00:27:37,240
'cause all I'm really thinking is,
524
00:27:37,241 --> 00:27:39,909
"Wait till you feel the warmth
of her glance,
525
00:27:39,910 --> 00:27:42,787
"pensive and sweet and wise."
526
00:27:42,788 --> 00:27:47,083
I was writing about her
when I wrote that lyric.
527
00:27:47,084 --> 00:27:50,880
Three perfect words, in the perfect order.
528
00:27:51,547 --> 00:27:55,842
And, you tell me, what other lyricist
could've gotten away with "pensive"?
529
00:27:55,843 --> 00:27:56,844
What song was that?
530
00:27:57,511 --> 00:27:59,721
Just telling you,
when I'm good, I'm really good.
531
00:27:59,722 --> 00:28:02,265
Just the sound of it!
That's what a writer does.
532
00:28:02,266 --> 00:28:07,188
We wear our vulnerability like a cloak
for all the world to witness.
533
00:28:07,938 --> 00:28:09,481
I like the word "cloak."
534
00:28:09,482 --> 00:28:11,358
That's 'cause it's an antique like us.
535
00:28:12,109 --> 00:28:13,444
Can I get you another drink?
536
00:28:16,030 --> 00:28:17,155
Sure. Why not?
537
00:28:17,156 --> 00:28:19,449
I can think of a thousand reasons why not,
538
00:28:19,450 --> 00:28:21,701
but they can't compete
with the reasons why.
539
00:28:21,702 --> 00:28:24,412
Eddie, pass the Lord
and praise the house physician!
540
00:28:24,413 --> 00:28:26,749
Another round! Just a little, just...
541
00:28:28,751 --> 00:28:32,545
You know what I loved in that essay
you wrote about Florida?
542
00:28:32,546 --> 00:28:33,547
That line.
543
00:28:34,256 --> 00:28:39,511
"The sea answers all questions
and always the same way...
544
00:28:39,512 --> 00:28:41,930
"'So soon?'"
545
00:28:41,931 --> 00:28:43,431
Jesus.
546
00:28:43,432 --> 00:28:47,228
To take a sound
and transform it into what?
547
00:28:48,354 --> 00:28:50,439
A sigh of eternity.
548
00:28:51,649 --> 00:28:53,109
My diminutive gift.
549
00:28:54,235 --> 00:28:59,823
To the poetry that pours down on us
from a thousand unexpected sources.
550
00:28:59,824 --> 00:29:01,158
To your poetry.
551
00:29:02,034 --> 00:29:02,993
Hmm.
552
00:29:07,206 --> 00:29:10,208
Look, she's 20, I'm 47.
553
00:29:10,209 --> 00:29:13,169
Let's discuss this
like two sensible alcoholics.
554
00:29:13,170 --> 00:29:17,048
It was in the beginning,
everything was exactly as it seemed.
555
00:29:17,049 --> 00:29:19,968
I was her mentor,
and I suppose I was, you know,
556
00:29:19,969 --> 00:29:22,387
the "grand old man" of the theater
in her eyes.
557
00:29:22,388 --> 00:29:25,140
I'm over at the Shubert
rehearsing By Jupiter,
558
00:29:25,141 --> 00:29:27,267
the show is a holy mess.
559
00:29:27,268 --> 00:29:29,561
And I'm having this debate
with Johnny Green
560
00:29:29,562 --> 00:29:31,354
about the lyrics
to Give My Regards to Broadway.
561
00:29:31,355 --> 00:29:35,692
I remember, as a kid,
falling in love with that song.
562
00:29:35,693 --> 00:29:38,695
Give my regards to old Broadway
563
00:29:38,696 --> 00:29:41,448
And say that I'll be there 'ere long
564
00:29:41,449 --> 00:29:44,409
I knew instantly, even as a kid,
565
00:29:44,410 --> 00:29:48,288
that what gave that line its speed,
its inevitability, was the inner rhyme.
566
00:29:48,289 --> 00:29:51,040
And not just the "there, 'ere."
But the other one. The "way, say."
567
00:29:51,041 --> 00:29:52,792
The line should logically be,
568
00:29:52,793 --> 00:29:55,628
"Give my regards to old Broadway
and tell them that I'll be there."
569
00:29:55,629 --> 00:29:58,215
But to change the verb to "say,"
570
00:29:59,633 --> 00:30:00,843
it made all the difference.
571
00:30:01,510 --> 00:30:03,179
Knuckles, do you know any Cohan?
572
00:30:04,930 --> 00:30:08,975
Over there!
Over there!
573
00:30:08,976 --> 00:30:12,896
Send the word, send the word
Over there
574
00:30:12,897 --> 00:30:17,484
That the Yanks are coming!
The Yanks are coming!
575
00:30:17,485 --> 00:30:21,446
The drum drum-drumming everywhere...
576
00:30:21,447 --> 00:30:25,492
We'll be over
We're coming over!
577
00:30:25,493 --> 00:30:30,330
And we won't come back
'till it's over, over there!
578
00:30:30,331 --> 00:30:32,582
You know what the Yanks really sang
in the Great War?
579
00:30:32,583 --> 00:30:35,795
"We won't come back.
We'll be buried over there!"
580
00:30:37,588 --> 00:30:38,839
And they were.
581
00:30:39,507 --> 00:30:43,511
Total number of deaths in the Great War,
37 million.
582
00:30:45,054 --> 00:30:49,391
I think maybe the adjective "great"
should never precede the word "war."
583
00:30:49,392 --> 00:30:51,309
Amen to that.
584
00:30:51,310 --> 00:30:54,437
What does God think
when he looks down on his creation
585
00:30:54,438 --> 00:30:56,606
and sees that under
the noblest of motives,
586
00:30:56,607 --> 00:30:59,526
we sent 37 million people to their grave?
587
00:30:59,527 --> 00:31:02,196
That's why it's raining all the time.
God is weeping.
588
00:31:03,030 --> 00:31:05,073
Well, I'm a patriot. I am.
589
00:31:05,074 --> 00:31:07,200
I mean, you're a soldier. God bless you.
590
00:31:07,201 --> 00:31:09,744
But how many are going to die
this time around?
591
00:31:09,745 --> 00:31:11,580
Will we even be able
to put a number on it?
592
00:31:12,373 --> 00:31:15,125
I'm on leave. Taking care of my mother.
593
00:31:15,126 --> 00:31:16,835
She's more terrified than I am.
594
00:31:16,836 --> 00:31:18,128
When do you ship out?
595
00:31:18,129 --> 00:31:21,382
In two weeks, they're sending me back
to that hotbed of enemy activity.
596
00:31:22,216 --> 00:31:23,633
Bradley Beach, New Jersey.
597
00:31:23,634 --> 00:31:25,552
I'm teaching Morse code
at the Hotel Grossman.
598
00:31:25,553 --> 00:31:29,848
Bradley Beach, where enemy agents
stroll the boardwalk
599
00:31:29,849 --> 00:31:33,184
disguised as elderly Jewish women in furs.
600
00:31:33,185 --> 00:31:34,269
I used to play hide the sausage
601
00:31:34,270 --> 00:31:36,146
with a girl from Bradley Beach.
602
00:31:36,147 --> 00:31:37,148
Oh, yeah?
603
00:31:37,732 --> 00:31:40,358
Did you read that piece
in Life about Guadalcanal?
604
00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:42,485
- Mm-mm.
- How before the battle,
605
00:31:42,486 --> 00:31:44,571
the soldiers were skipping
silver dollars in the water
606
00:31:44,572 --> 00:31:45,823
instead of stones
607
00:31:46,282 --> 00:31:48,534
'cause they knew
they were never coming back.
608
00:31:51,704 --> 00:31:54,122
I couldn't enlist. My eyes.
609
00:31:54,123 --> 00:31:56,083
What's the matter? They open?
610
00:31:57,710 --> 00:32:00,962
Speaking of people
who are not coming back,
611
00:32:00,963 --> 00:32:02,465
I would like you to read this.
612
00:32:03,090 --> 00:32:04,717
It's from the By Jupiter playbill.
613
00:32:11,390 --> 00:32:12,391
Out loud!
614
00:32:17,313 --> 00:32:18,563
Uh...
615
00:32:18,564 --> 00:32:20,023
"Rodgers and Hart,
616
00:32:20,024 --> 00:32:21,942
"they're as different as a dachshund
and a dromedary.
617
00:32:22,610 --> 00:32:26,238
"One likes opera and home life,
the other goes for night clubs and people.
618
00:32:26,822 --> 00:32:28,490
"One is married and has two children,
619
00:32:28,491 --> 00:32:30,575
"the other is single
and supports bartenders."
620
00:32:30,576 --> 00:32:31,994
You're welcome, Eddie.
621
00:32:33,454 --> 00:32:35,997
"The little fella,
that's Larry, smokes cigars,
622
00:32:35,998 --> 00:32:38,666
"big, black, small, brown, any kind.
623
00:32:38,667 --> 00:32:41,253
"While Dick, that's Rodgers,
only uses cigarettes.
624
00:32:41,837 --> 00:32:45,840
"One goes to bed about 4:30 every morning,
the other never dissipates."
625
00:32:45,841 --> 00:32:48,010
Perfect verb, right?
Mmm.
626
00:32:48,969 --> 00:32:51,388
"Despite their physical
and temperamental differences, however,
627
00:32:51,389 --> 00:32:54,016
"their intellects complement each other
like ham and eggs.
628
00:32:54,850 --> 00:32:57,727
"Their individual songs
number well over a thousand."
629
00:32:57,728 --> 00:32:58,729
A thousand songs?
630
00:32:59,647 --> 00:33:01,648
"They disagree violently,
but they never fight,
631
00:33:01,649 --> 00:33:04,734
"and in the 20-odd years
they've been practicing their craft,
632
00:33:04,735 --> 00:33:06,903
"they have never worked with anyone
but each other..."
633
00:33:06,904 --> 00:33:07,905
Until now.
634
00:33:09,156 --> 00:33:10,324
Impressive.
635
00:33:10,866 --> 00:33:12,283
I wrote it myself.
636
00:33:12,284 --> 00:33:16,372
And not one single mention
of Blue fucking Moon.
637
00:33:17,373 --> 00:33:21,584
I sent Elizabeth some of my sheet music.
No response. I don't get it.
638
00:33:21,585 --> 00:33:22,669
She's a bitch.
639
00:33:22,670 --> 00:33:25,296
That's what they're gonna put
on my tombstone.
640
00:33:25,297 --> 00:33:28,592
- "She's a bitch"?
- "Lorenz Milton Hart.
641
00:33:29,260 --> 00:33:30,385
"He didn't get it."
642
00:33:30,386 --> 00:33:32,303
And people will come to my gravesite
and say, "You know what?
643
00:33:32,304 --> 00:33:34,681
- "I didn't get it either."
- I definitely didn't get it.
644
00:33:34,682 --> 00:33:38,017
- Hey, Larr, I get it!
- So, listen.
645
00:33:38,018 --> 00:33:40,437
Elizabeth and I had a weekend.
646
00:33:40,438 --> 00:33:41,980
We actually did.
647
00:33:41,981 --> 00:33:46,359
One passionate, transcendent weekend,
end of last summer
648
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:47,945
before she went back to Yale.
649
00:33:48,446 --> 00:33:54,451
It's the closest I've ever felt in my life
to pure selflessness.
650
00:33:54,452 --> 00:33:56,828
It was nuanced, it was deep.
651
00:33:56,829 --> 00:33:58,621
How deep exactly?
652
00:33:58,622 --> 00:34:01,124
Listen, clown. I met her,
653
00:34:01,125 --> 00:34:04,420
and the first thing I said to her was,
"Excuse me,
654
00:34:05,004 --> 00:34:08,299
"but you have the best style of anyone
in this theater."
655
00:34:09,716 --> 00:34:11,760
I wish I had a photograph
of that moment.
656
00:34:11,761 --> 00:34:15,263
I wish I had a photograph
of every moment I've spent with her.
657
00:34:16,348 --> 00:34:20,644
I'm having trouble getting this right.
I'm trying to pin down...
658
00:34:21,645 --> 00:34:23,897
Oh, Andy, help me. What's the right word?
659
00:34:24,607 --> 00:34:25,608
Enchantment?
660
00:34:27,026 --> 00:34:28,611
And you know how hard that is.
661
00:34:29,569 --> 00:34:33,155
I couldn't believe that it was me
she wanted to talk to.
662
00:34:33,156 --> 00:34:34,949
I kept looking around the theater,
663
00:34:34,950 --> 00:34:37,242
there must be somebody else
she's interested in.
664
00:34:37,243 --> 00:34:40,704
But no! She's plunking herself down
in the theater seat right next to me,
665
00:34:40,705 --> 00:34:43,958
as close as modesty will allow.
666
00:34:43,959 --> 00:34:47,045
And my heart is actually racing.
667
00:34:47,046 --> 00:34:50,465
And I don't ever feel this way,
not for men or for women.
668
00:34:50,466 --> 00:34:55,387
But she's wearing this yellow sundress,
669
00:34:55,388 --> 00:34:58,139
and it is hot in the theater.
670
00:34:58,140 --> 00:35:00,183
And she's talking to me for hours.
671
00:35:00,184 --> 00:35:03,353
Bare leg draped over the armrest.
672
00:35:03,354 --> 00:35:05,897
And I know this sounds like
I'm some middle-aged putz
673
00:35:05,898 --> 00:35:07,440
with a crush on a pretty co-ed,
674
00:35:07,441 --> 00:35:09,401
and maybe that's what it is.
675
00:35:09,402 --> 00:35:10,569
But you know something?
676
00:35:11,153 --> 00:35:15,740
Maybe that's not what it is.
677
00:35:15,741 --> 00:35:18,744
Sometimes I feel... and don't laugh,
678
00:35:19,412 --> 00:35:23,916
after a lifetime of blindly colliding
into strangers,
679
00:35:24,667 --> 00:35:26,252
we've finally found a friend.
680
00:35:27,628 --> 00:35:29,839
Maybe that's the definition
of enchantment.
681
00:35:30,673 --> 00:35:34,134
One light-filled weekend!
682
00:35:34,135 --> 00:35:37,095
I've got to finish telling you this
before she comes back.
683
00:35:37,096 --> 00:35:38,596
Are you listening to me?
684
00:35:38,597 --> 00:35:40,390
Yeah, she got her legs draped over
the thing.
685
00:35:40,391 --> 00:35:43,101
It was as if all the love lyrics
I had ever written
686
00:35:43,102 --> 00:35:47,355
had, like, some sort of verbal ectoplasm,
suddenly taken human form.
687
00:35:47,356 --> 00:35:48,440
Ecto what?
688
00:35:48,441 --> 00:35:49,524
That might be her mother.
689
00:35:49,525 --> 00:35:50,985
She cannot hear this.
690
00:35:52,069 --> 00:35:53,278
What about me?
691
00:35:53,279 --> 00:35:54,904
You're just an extra.
692
00:35:54,905 --> 00:35:56,489
Okay, but I still get paid, right?
693
00:35:56,490 --> 00:35:58,159
Absolutely.
694
00:35:59,201 --> 00:36:01,787
It's important to me
that I nail this down.
695
00:36:02,580 --> 00:36:04,998
It was a boiling hot summer weekend,
696
00:36:04,999 --> 00:36:08,626
and I asked, with all the casualness
I could counterfeit,
697
00:36:08,627 --> 00:36:12,255
if she'd like to, you know,
escape the heat of the city,
698
00:36:12,256 --> 00:36:14,966
spend the weekend with me
on Lake Dunmore in Vermont.
699
00:36:14,967 --> 00:36:18,720
And without a moment's hesitation
she said,
700
00:36:18,721 --> 00:36:20,014
"I'd love to, Larry."
701
00:36:21,307 --> 00:36:24,267
Oh, I'm telling you, Andy,
this is my type of girl.
702
00:36:24,268 --> 00:36:26,603
I'm sorry, excuse me, I'm babbling,
703
00:36:26,604 --> 00:36:32,067
but how else do you describe
the actual present tense
704
00:36:32,068 --> 00:36:33,569
of falling in love?
705
00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:36,030
Is that what this is?
706
00:36:37,156 --> 00:36:40,700
Maybe. I mean, I haven't done
anything wrong, okay?
707
00:36:40,701 --> 00:36:44,662
I haven't violated the Mann Act
or even the Middle-Aged Man Act.
708
00:36:44,663 --> 00:36:46,623
I bought her this painting
of Lake Dunmore,
709
00:36:46,624 --> 00:36:48,541
bought it off this old salt Vermonter.
710
00:36:48,542 --> 00:36:51,503
I bought it so that she might remember.
711
00:36:51,504 --> 00:36:53,464
I once did a little canoeing
up around there.
712
00:36:54,173 --> 00:36:55,800
Hey, Larry!
713
00:36:59,762 --> 00:37:00,763
And then?
714
00:37:01,639 --> 00:37:04,517
Act Three. Later that day,
715
00:37:05,226 --> 00:37:07,018
she's in the warmth of the cabin.
716
00:37:07,019 --> 00:37:10,397
There's a pennant from Fort Ticonderoga
pinned to the wall.
717
00:37:10,398 --> 00:37:15,068
She's wearing this blue men's work shirt
with the sleeves rolled up.
718
00:37:15,069 --> 00:37:18,863
All of her suddenly available to me,
719
00:37:18,864 --> 00:37:22,700
this gift of youth and brain
720
00:37:22,701 --> 00:37:24,411
and clavicle.
721
00:37:24,412 --> 00:37:26,664
I touched her shoulder,
722
00:37:27,832 --> 00:37:30,542
and as some hack once scribbled,
723
00:37:30,543 --> 00:37:32,420
"My heart stood still."
724
00:37:33,462 --> 00:37:36,424
She took my hand and said, "Larry,
725
00:37:37,091 --> 00:37:39,969
"let's save this for another day."
726
00:37:41,387 --> 00:37:43,179
And all I can tell you, my friend,
727
00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:49,019
is there is a real possibility
that tonight is "another day."
728
00:37:54,525 --> 00:37:57,778
Clearing back a little bit.
Ladies, beautiful, beautiful!
729
00:37:58,946 --> 00:38:01,615
Rodgers! Rodgers!
730
00:38:02,032 --> 00:38:03,284
Yeah, beautiful!
731
00:38:04,034 --> 00:38:05,035
Okay.
732
00:38:05,828 --> 00:38:06,829
I appreciate that. Thanks.
733
00:38:07,037 --> 00:38:08,246
Hey, thank you so much.
734
00:38:08,247 --> 00:38:09,748
I appreciate it. Thank you.
735
00:38:09,749 --> 00:38:10,750
Bravo!
736
00:38:12,585 --> 00:38:14,836
Thank you so much.
737
00:38:14,837 --> 00:38:17,673
Now, time for the real performance
of the evening.
738
00:38:26,515 --> 00:38:28,893
Eddie, Eddie. Eddie, get rid of this!
739
00:38:33,439 --> 00:38:34,773
Hey.
740
00:38:34,774 --> 00:38:36,107
So, did he fuck her or not?
741
00:38:36,108 --> 00:38:37,567
He thinks tonight might be the night.
742
00:38:37,568 --> 00:38:41,489
Oh... Larry. Larry, Larry.
743
00:38:42,156 --> 00:38:43,991
What do you think she sees in him?
744
00:38:44,533 --> 00:38:47,661
I think she sees a rich and famous guy
who can help her career.
745
00:38:48,996 --> 00:38:51,456
I think she recognizes she's being adored
746
00:38:51,457 --> 00:38:54,168
by one of the great appreciators
of beauty.
747
00:38:55,086 --> 00:38:57,213
- You know what else I think?
- Yeah?
748
00:38:58,130 --> 00:39:00,465
I think she is wearing
a grape-colored brassiere.
749
00:39:00,466 --> 00:39:03,302
All right, Rodgers.
Gentlemen, please let's get one.
750
00:39:04,178 --> 00:39:06,639
Beautiful. Come on. All right, big smile!
751
00:39:07,515 --> 00:39:09,682
- Beautiful.
- Dick! Dick!
752
00:39:09,683 --> 00:39:13,436
My God!
The show is going to run 20 years!
753
00:39:13,437 --> 00:39:16,231
It's going to be bigger
than Abie's Irish Rose!
754
00:39:16,232 --> 00:39:19,067
- We'll see.
- And much more goyish, so it can tour.
755
00:39:19,068 --> 00:39:20,902
Well, thanks for coming, Larry.
756
00:39:20,903 --> 00:39:22,529
- Oh, Oscar!
- Larry.
757
00:39:22,530 --> 00:39:25,365
You get taller
every time I see you.
758
00:39:25,366 --> 00:39:28,159
What can I say? The lyrics are brilliant.
759
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,788
Poetic when they need to be poetic,
funny when they need to be funny.
760
00:39:31,789 --> 00:39:35,208
Not a rhyme out of place, easy on the ear.
761
00:39:35,209 --> 00:39:38,336
I'm just a fool
when lights are low
762
00:39:38,337 --> 00:39:41,047
Perfect!
Did you hear me applauding?
763
00:39:41,048 --> 00:39:43,174
I think you were the loudest person
in the entire theater!
764
00:39:43,175 --> 00:39:45,969
That's because I loved it more than
anyone else in the entire theater!
765
00:39:45,970 --> 00:39:47,971
- Let me get you boys a drink.
- Oh, no, thank you.
766
00:39:47,972 --> 00:39:50,181
- Um...
- Larry, you got two minutes?
767
00:39:50,182 --> 00:39:51,433
Give us a minute.
768
00:39:51,434 --> 00:39:52,601
Excuse us, Oscar.
769
00:39:57,815 --> 00:39:58,816
Um...
770
00:40:00,276 --> 00:40:01,609
So, uh, Dwight Wiman and I
771
00:40:01,610 --> 00:40:03,528
have been talking about bringing back
A Connecticut Yankee.
772
00:40:03,529 --> 00:40:04,612
Terrific!
773
00:40:04,613 --> 00:40:07,240
Yeah, I'm thinking of asking
Vivienne Segal.
774
00:40:07,241 --> 00:40:10,243
Oh! Mein Gott! Oh, it's gonna run longer
than Oklahoma!
775
00:40:10,244 --> 00:40:11,953
I'll buy 50 seats myself.
776
00:40:11,954 --> 00:40:14,749
I've got a new title,
Ohh, Camelot!
777
00:40:16,083 --> 00:40:18,001
Well, I think we're gonna stick with
A Connecticut Yankee.
778
00:40:18,002 --> 00:40:19,794
Camelot Exclamation Point?
779
00:40:19,795 --> 00:40:21,796
Okay, come on.
I'm being serious here.
780
00:40:21,797 --> 00:40:24,299
I'm always serious.
That's why people find me so funny.
781
00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:27,093
So I was thinking, if you feel
up to working, then maybe...
782
00:40:27,094 --> 00:40:28,803
- I've never felt better in my life, Dick.
- Congratulations, Dick.
783
00:40:28,804 --> 00:40:32,307
I don't want to bother you.
I just... We all just loved it.
784
00:40:32,308 --> 00:40:33,641
- Oh, you did?
- It's going to be a big hit.
785
00:40:33,642 --> 00:40:34,934
Oh, thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that.
786
00:40:34,935 --> 00:40:36,436
- It's Gladys, right? Yes.
- Yes! Yeah.
787
00:40:36,437 --> 00:40:38,481
Yes, nice to see you. Um...
788
00:40:40,441 --> 00:40:43,943
Yeah, I was... I was thinking, um,
not just a revival,
789
00:40:43,944 --> 00:40:45,236
I was thinking a whole new book.
790
00:40:45,237 --> 00:40:47,740
We were thinking four or five new numbers.
791
00:40:48,741 --> 00:40:49,866
That I write?
792
00:40:49,867 --> 00:40:51,659
Of course, that you write.
That we write together.
793
00:40:51,660 --> 00:40:54,162
It's been 16 years, you know that,
since we did that show?
794
00:40:54,163 --> 00:40:57,540
- It needs updating, don't you think?
- 1927! The Vanderbilt!
795
00:40:57,541 --> 00:41:00,043
Yeah, it can be the new
Rodgers and Hart show for the fall.
796
00:41:00,044 --> 00:41:02,212
- New gags, new songs.
- New references.
797
00:41:02,213 --> 00:41:04,172
We'll satirize the whole war.
798
00:41:04,173 --> 00:41:06,132
Rationing, rubber drives, nylon drives,
799
00:41:06,133 --> 00:41:08,134
a new number for Vivienne.
800
00:41:08,135 --> 00:41:09,260
- Go easy with the satire, Larry.
- Very nice job.
801
00:41:09,261 --> 00:41:10,387
- Hello, nice to see you.
- Very nice piece.
802
00:41:10,388 --> 00:41:11,471
Appreciate it. Thank you.
803
00:41:11,472 --> 00:41:14,265
There came a lull
then Cordell Hull sent orders from above
804
00:41:14,266 --> 00:41:18,061
I'm sorry, girls, put down your pearls
'Cause now we're rationing love
805
00:41:18,062 --> 00:41:19,562
And how do we get Cordell Hull
into Camelot?
806
00:41:19,563 --> 00:41:20,647
Who cares? It's funny!
807
00:41:20,648 --> 00:41:23,525
Dick! From the New York Journal-American.
808
00:41:23,526 --> 00:41:27,737
"As enchanting to the eye
as Richard Rodgers' music is to the ear."
809
00:41:27,738 --> 00:41:28,822
- Okay.
- Yeah, it's nice.
810
00:41:28,823 --> 00:41:29,989
That's good. Good start.
811
00:41:29,990 --> 00:41:32,075
So, uh, are you up for that?
Are you feeling healthy?
812
00:41:32,076 --> 00:41:33,743
Is that something
you could take seriously?
813
00:41:33,744 --> 00:41:36,538
Yeah. I'm on the wagon, Dick. I'm serious.
814
00:41:36,539 --> 00:41:39,541
Been drinking ginger ale
all night.
815
00:41:39,542 --> 00:41:43,044
Well, except for this second
'cause this second we have to celebrate.
816
00:41:43,045 --> 00:41:46,172
This is the greatest musical
in the history of American theater.
817
00:41:46,173 --> 00:41:48,466
No, no. I'm not drinking with you, Larry.
818
00:41:48,467 --> 00:41:50,051
Okay, okay, all right.
819
00:41:50,052 --> 00:41:52,012
Weegee! Weegee! Shoot this!
820
00:41:53,264 --> 00:41:55,348
- What? Oh, no. Larry, I got to...
- No, no, no. Hey.
821
00:41:55,349 --> 00:41:57,435
Rodgers and Hart, together again!
822
00:41:58,060 --> 00:42:00,062
All right, closer!
Come on, closer!
823
00:42:03,649 --> 00:42:04,941
I want ten copies of that.
824
00:42:04,942 --> 00:42:06,776
Great. Write me a check.
825
00:42:06,777 --> 00:42:08,194
Yeah.
826
00:42:08,195 --> 00:42:09,571
So, you... you think you're up to that?
827
00:42:09,572 --> 00:42:11,698
It's the best idea I've heard in 16 years.
828
00:42:11,699 --> 00:42:16,369
At the same time, I think we should be
dreaming about something completely new.
829
00:42:16,370 --> 00:42:17,495
Don't you agree?
830
00:42:17,496 --> 00:42:19,622
New Rodgers and Hart,
something people haven't seen before.
831
00:42:19,623 --> 00:42:20,624
Something big!
832
00:42:21,208 --> 00:42:22,625
Let's start with the revival first.
833
00:42:22,626 --> 00:42:24,919
- Absolutely.
- We'll take it one step at a time...
834
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,337
- Yeah, but...
- ...because I really think
835
00:42:26,338 --> 00:42:27,839
- Hear me out.
- ...we can have a future together.
836
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,675
Who doesn't think that?
837
00:42:30,551 --> 00:42:35,055
But I want to be one of those composers
who works with, uh, you know,
838
00:42:35,056 --> 00:42:36,139
other lyricists.
839
00:42:36,140 --> 00:42:37,891
Like Arlen, Kern. You love Kern.
840
00:42:37,892 --> 00:42:39,517
I love Kern. I wanted to be Kern.
841
00:42:39,518 --> 00:42:41,269
But we have to work
like professionals, Larry.
842
00:42:41,270 --> 00:42:42,812
Since when haven't I worked
like a professional?
843
00:42:42,813 --> 00:42:45,732
I want to work at specific times
in the morning, at my office.
844
00:42:45,733 --> 00:42:48,276
- I want to adhere to a schedule.
- Yeah. That's what we do.
845
00:42:48,277 --> 00:42:49,861
I don't want to spend any more time
looking for you, Larry.
846
00:42:49,862 --> 00:42:51,529
- Well, I'm right here. Small as life!
- You know what I mean.
847
00:42:51,530 --> 00:42:53,031
I don't want to be calling up your mother
848
00:42:53,032 --> 00:42:54,491
at nine o'clock in the morning, so that,
849
00:42:54,492 --> 00:42:55,950
maybe, you might
roll out of bed at noon. Right?
850
00:42:55,951 --> 00:42:57,869
- Dick...
- I just don't want to do what we did.
851
00:42:57,870 --> 00:42:59,370
That's all I'm saying.
852
00:42:59,371 --> 00:43:00,831
It's a business, that's all.
853
00:43:01,665 --> 00:43:03,208
Maybe I shouldn't bring it up tonight,
but I don't know,
854
00:43:03,209 --> 00:43:04,918
- I wanted... I wanted to...
- All I want is to...
855
00:43:04,919 --> 00:43:06,586
That was your best one yet.
856
00:43:06,587 --> 00:43:08,213
- Really.
- All right, thank you.
857
00:43:08,214 --> 00:43:09,631
- Who is that?
- All I want is to write a show
858
00:43:09,632 --> 00:43:10,800
we both love.
859
00:43:13,136 --> 00:43:14,220
Yeah, I feel the same way.
860
00:43:14,221 --> 00:43:16,847
Dick! Burns Mantle just called it
861
00:43:16,848 --> 00:43:20,726
"The most thoroughly and attractively
American musical comedy
862
00:43:20,727 --> 00:43:21,810
"since Show Boat."
863
00:43:21,811 --> 00:43:23,020
- Since Show Boat?
- Yeah.
864
00:43:23,021 --> 00:43:24,980
Wow. That's good.
865
00:43:24,981 --> 00:43:26,900
- Truly spectacular.
- Thank you, nice to see you.
866
00:43:27,525 --> 00:43:29,401
I have to fall in love with a show, Dick.
867
00:43:29,402 --> 00:43:31,820
I have to want to write that show
more than anything in the world,
868
00:43:31,821 --> 00:43:35,699
to be in that audience,
sitting there not missing a single word.
869
00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:37,493
All right, well, we start with
A Connecticut Yankee,
870
00:43:37,494 --> 00:43:39,536
- four or five numbers, and we go...
- Okay, look.
871
00:43:39,537 --> 00:43:42,373
Here's what I'm thinking.
The Adventures of Marco Polo.
872
00:43:42,374 --> 00:43:44,583
Dick, Dick! Wonderful show.
873
00:43:44,584 --> 00:43:46,502
Oh, thank you so much. Nice to see you.
874
00:43:46,503 --> 00:43:49,088
Just... just big. Bigger than Jumbo. Epic.
875
00:43:49,089 --> 00:43:51,173
A three-ring musical circus.
876
00:43:51,174 --> 00:43:53,717
The show lasts four hours
with a dinner break!
877
00:43:53,718 --> 00:43:58,597
It's grand comic opera.
And the stage set is the world!
878
00:43:58,598 --> 00:44:01,141
- Uh-huh.
- We satirize everybody.
879
00:44:01,142 --> 00:44:03,227
And you get to satirize them musically.
880
00:44:03,228 --> 00:44:05,729
We send up every national musical cliche
there is.
881
00:44:05,730 --> 00:44:08,315
The France number,
the Italian number,
882
00:44:08,316 --> 00:44:10,317
when they get
to the Heart of Darkness,
883
00:44:10,318 --> 00:44:13,153
the cannibals are doing Porgy and Bess.
Boom, boom.
884
00:44:13,154 --> 00:44:15,698
Bess, you is my dinner now!
885
00:44:15,699 --> 00:44:16,782
Jesus, Larry. Come on.
886
00:44:16,783 --> 00:44:19,660
This show is going
to have the scope of a novel.
887
00:44:19,661 --> 00:44:23,205
It will be the greatest challenge
you've ever had as a composer.
888
00:44:23,206 --> 00:44:27,209
And what grounds it all,
what lets the audience enter this story
889
00:44:27,210 --> 00:44:28,294
is the girl.
890
00:44:28,295 --> 00:44:30,045
- Uh-huh.
- This ethereal girl
891
00:44:30,046 --> 00:44:32,214
whom Marco Polo has left behind.
892
00:44:32,215 --> 00:44:34,550
She's half his age...
893
00:44:34,551 --> 00:44:39,555
...but it's the first time he's felt
that inkling of love in years, maybe ever.
894
00:44:39,556 --> 00:44:41,098
He swears in the first scene.
895
00:44:41,099 --> 00:44:43,225
We set this up like Benedick
in Much Ado...
896
00:44:43,226 --> 00:44:45,477
- Right.
- He swears that he's beyond
897
00:44:45,478 --> 00:44:47,688
the reach of any woman. He scorns love.
898
00:44:47,689 --> 00:44:49,690
And we do a whole number
satirizing love songs.
899
00:44:49,691 --> 00:44:53,527
No. Larry, I want to write shows
that have some emotional core to them...
900
00:44:53,528 --> 00:44:55,946
- Dick, great music. Great show!
- Hello, how are you?
901
00:44:55,947 --> 00:44:57,907
Thank you. I'll take that.
You're a tough critic.
902
00:44:57,908 --> 00:44:58,991
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
903
00:44:58,992 --> 00:45:02,202
Remember, we established
in the first scene that he's anti-love?
904
00:45:02,203 --> 00:45:04,747
Then he meets the girl.
She's a sort of free-spirit,
905
00:45:04,748 --> 00:45:08,542
Scandinavian-looking
with two freckles on her left cheek,
906
00:45:08,543 --> 00:45:10,211
- it's absurd.
- Don't do that.
907
00:45:10,212 --> 00:45:13,172
She lives socially,
psychologically, sexually
908
00:45:13,173 --> 00:45:17,010
in another universe than he does,
but he is slain.
909
00:45:17,802 --> 00:45:22,765
He stands there paralyzed
in the light of her pale green eyes.
910
00:45:22,766 --> 00:45:26,435
This is the greatest explorer
in the history of the world,
911
00:45:26,436 --> 00:45:31,023
and none of it means anything to him
unless it's a way to make her see him.
912
00:45:31,024 --> 00:45:34,735
That is the emotional core
of the story.
913
00:45:34,736 --> 00:45:36,445
- Okay.
- We take this legendary,
914
00:45:36,446 --> 00:45:37,655
larger-than-life man,
915
00:45:37,656 --> 00:45:39,281
and we make him bleed.
916
00:45:39,282 --> 00:45:43,661
Mr. Rodgers, my name is Robert Heffner.
I'm the Mayor of Oklahoma City.
917
00:45:43,662 --> 00:45:45,621
Eve and I have traveled
all the way to New York
918
00:45:45,622 --> 00:45:46,914
- just to see the show.
- Okay. You know...
919
00:45:46,915 --> 00:45:49,166
Welcome to New York.
We're finishing a conversation.
920
00:45:49,167 --> 00:45:51,669
He'll be with you in two minutes.
Does that sound good?
921
00:45:51,670 --> 00:45:54,129
Two minutes, I'll be right with you.
Thank you, I hope it was worth it.
922
00:45:54,130 --> 00:45:56,423
- It certainly was.
- Good to see you. Thank you.
923
00:45:56,424 --> 00:45:58,092
All right, so come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
924
00:45:58,093 --> 00:46:00,762
And they end up together? Come on.
925
00:46:01,763 --> 00:46:04,807
That's what the audience
is waiting around to find out!
926
00:46:04,808 --> 00:46:06,600
That's the engine
that's driving the whole story.
927
00:46:06,601 --> 00:46:08,018
All right, well, look, Larry,
928
00:46:08,019 --> 00:46:09,436
if you're willing to write it,
929
00:46:09,437 --> 00:46:11,438
really write it,
and rewrite it, and rewrite it again,
930
00:46:11,439 --> 00:46:12,815
then, you know, it could work.
931
00:46:12,816 --> 00:46:15,359
But I'm not gonna beg you for this, Larry.
You know?
932
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:16,485
We work for 15 minutes,
933
00:46:16,486 --> 00:46:17,861
you're out the door
looking for a cigar store.
934
00:46:17,862 --> 00:46:18,988
- It drives me...
- Okay.
935
00:46:18,989 --> 00:46:20,489
It drives me really crazy.
I don't like it.
936
00:46:20,490 --> 00:46:22,658
- I don't want to do it anymore.
- We've worked like that for 24 years.
937
00:46:22,659 --> 00:46:23,742
Congratulations, Dick!
938
00:46:23,743 --> 00:46:24,910
That's exactly what we've done
for 24 years.
939
00:46:24,911 --> 00:46:26,579
- Thank you.
- About time the Guild had a goddamned hit.
940
00:46:26,580 --> 00:46:28,539
Yeah. You're absolutely, absolutely right.
941
00:46:28,540 --> 00:46:30,708
Anyway, I'm not going to...
I'm not going to fight with you, Larry.
942
00:46:30,709 --> 00:46:32,710
- Who's fighting?
- I don't know.
943
00:46:32,711 --> 00:46:33,794
With a war on,
944
00:46:33,795 --> 00:46:36,797
do audiences really want to watch
cannibals singing Porgy and Bess?
945
00:46:36,798 --> 00:46:38,632
And what do audiences want to watch?
946
00:46:38,633 --> 00:46:41,386
Cowboys a-whoopin'-it-up
at the box social?
947
00:46:42,929 --> 00:46:44,597
Well, yes. Apparently.
948
00:46:44,598 --> 00:46:45,931
Oh, that's right, I forgot.
949
00:46:45,932 --> 00:46:49,351
Oklahoma, exclamation point,
addresses the urgency of a nation at war.
950
00:46:49,352 --> 00:46:52,688
I think every serviceman
in that audience tonight
951
00:46:52,689 --> 00:46:54,023
thought about what we're fighting for,
952
00:46:54,024 --> 00:46:55,774
even for a second or two,
he thought about it.
953
00:46:55,775 --> 00:46:57,443
And what is it we're fighting for, exactly?
954
00:46:57,444 --> 00:47:00,447
Feisty little girls in gingham dresses
who can't say no?
955
00:47:01,865 --> 00:47:04,283
- Okay. All right.
- Dick, Dick, Dick. Come on.
956
00:47:04,284 --> 00:47:06,493
Just between you and me,
957
00:47:06,494 --> 00:47:09,955
those characters are unrecognizable
as human beings.
958
00:47:09,956 --> 00:47:12,291
I think plenty of people recognized them.
They recognized love.
959
00:47:12,292 --> 00:47:13,792
He needs rescuing, big time.
960
00:47:13,793 --> 00:47:16,837
They recognized, uh, family.
They recognized pride in their country.
961
00:47:16,838 --> 00:47:19,006
You're starting to sound like
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
962
00:47:19,007 --> 00:47:21,091
I think there's significantly more there
to recognize, Larry,
963
00:47:21,092 --> 00:47:22,551
than a bunch of singing cannibals.
964
00:47:22,552 --> 00:47:24,386
But cannibals are much funnier,
admit it.
965
00:47:24,387 --> 00:47:26,138
Dick, you want to come
and read these!
966
00:47:26,139 --> 00:47:27,723
- Yeah, hang on! Hang on. Be right there.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
967
00:47:27,724 --> 00:47:30,476
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
I know exactly what you mean.
968
00:47:30,477 --> 00:47:32,436
Just tell me... What do you
really want to write?
969
00:47:32,437 --> 00:47:34,271
What's your dream show?
970
00:47:34,272 --> 00:47:35,356
- My dream show?
- Yeah.
971
00:47:35,357 --> 00:47:36,566
Oklahoma!
972
00:47:39,986 --> 00:47:40,987
I mean, next.
973
00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:46,660
Uh... We're talking about
getting the rights to Liliom.
974
00:47:48,078 --> 00:47:49,620
- The Molnár play?
- Yeah.
975
00:47:49,621 --> 00:47:51,413
- That was cornball in 1909.
- Yeah?
976
00:47:51,414 --> 00:47:53,624
You really want to write a musical
about a carnival barker
977
00:47:53,625 --> 00:47:55,292
who beats up his girlfriend,
978
00:47:55,293 --> 00:47:57,127
- dies, comes back...
- I think it'll work.
979
00:47:57,128 --> 00:47:59,713
Yeah, and at the end, all the dead people
could take off their halos and go,
980
00:47:59,714 --> 00:48:01,298
"Oh... Purgatory!"
981
00:48:01,299 --> 00:48:03,634
Look,
I will do it if you force me to.
982
00:48:03,635 --> 00:48:05,052
- It's just in my heart of...
- No, I'm not forcing you to.
983
00:48:05,053 --> 00:48:06,263
Oscar's going to do it.
984
00:48:08,515 --> 00:48:11,601
What does Oscar know
about turn-of-the-century Budapest?
985
00:48:12,435 --> 00:48:14,563
He's going to Americanize it.
986
00:48:15,355 --> 00:48:16,773
He's going to modernize it.
987
00:48:17,649 --> 00:48:18,817
We're going to set it in Maine.
988
00:48:19,401 --> 00:48:22,653
Maine? Right, with all due respect,
modernizing Molnár
989
00:48:22,654 --> 00:48:24,572
- is a deeply...
- You got to read this!
990
00:48:24,573 --> 00:48:25,574
Is it the Times?
991
00:48:26,366 --> 00:48:28,701
Burton Rascoe's World-Telegram review.
992
00:48:28,702 --> 00:48:29,827
- It's a rave.
- Good.
993
00:48:29,828 --> 00:48:32,121
- We'll have the Times any moment.
- Okay.
994
00:48:32,122 --> 00:48:33,998
Larry, I've got to go.
The Times is coming.
995
00:48:33,999 --> 00:48:35,082
Okay, okay.
996
00:48:35,083 --> 00:48:37,251
- Wish me luck.
- Mazel tov!
997
00:48:37,252 --> 00:48:38,420
As they say in Maine.
998
00:48:40,755 --> 00:48:43,048
Hey, Dick. That was perfect.
Oh, thank you.
999
00:48:43,049 --> 00:48:44,634
Nice to see you. Did you enjoy it?
1000
00:49:00,025 --> 00:49:04,153
What does Dick Rodgers know of Maine?
He was bar-mitzvahed for Christ's sake!
1001
00:49:04,154 --> 00:49:06,447
How long are they going to keep selling
that fairy tale?
1002
00:49:06,448 --> 00:49:09,366
"Have faith, have hope,
the dead will arise to comfort us!"
1003
00:49:09,367 --> 00:49:10,827
Like fuck they will.
1004
00:49:11,328 --> 00:49:13,496
Give me another shot, Eddie. A real one.
1005
00:49:16,374 --> 00:49:18,585
Join me for a shot, Andy? Please.
1006
00:49:23,548 --> 00:49:24,883
How ya holding up?
1007
00:49:25,842 --> 00:49:29,345
You know how in a marriage they say
"for better or for worse"?
1008
00:49:29,346 --> 00:49:33,057
I think in terms of my life,
I've entered the "for worse" part.
1009
00:49:33,058 --> 00:49:37,519
And it happened so quietly
I didn't even recognize it.
1010
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:38,730
Have you ever felt that way?
1011
00:49:39,606 --> 00:49:41,107
Every day of my life.
1012
00:49:43,401 --> 00:49:44,944
Thank you.
1013
00:49:44,945 --> 00:49:47,112
Sometimes I think,
"Even God is finished with me."
1014
00:49:47,113 --> 00:49:48,697
I've had my hits,
1015
00:49:48,698 --> 00:49:51,825
I've loved a small,
dear collection of people.
1016
00:49:51,826 --> 00:49:53,786
And now he's turned the page.
1017
00:49:53,787 --> 00:49:55,872
I feel superannuated.
1018
00:49:56,706 --> 00:49:59,333
"Superannuated."
That's a good thing, isn't it?
1019
00:49:59,334 --> 00:50:01,002
It means your dick doesn't work.
1020
00:50:02,754 --> 00:50:04,673
- Must be why I don't know that word.
- Hmm.
1021
00:50:07,968 --> 00:50:09,344
Put me on the list.
1022
00:50:20,272 --> 00:50:22,440
You notice the birds
are back in Central Park?
1023
00:50:23,608 --> 00:50:26,443
Hmm. What are you working on these days?
1024
00:50:26,444 --> 00:50:27,988
Children's book.
1025
00:50:29,114 --> 00:50:31,198
Must have burned myself out
writing those essays,
1026
00:50:31,199 --> 00:50:32,200
it's not going well.
1027
00:50:33,243 --> 00:50:34,827
I think, as far as my writing goes,
1028
00:50:34,828 --> 00:50:36,662
I've also entered the "for worse" part.
1029
00:50:36,663 --> 00:50:38,914
What's your story about?
1030
00:50:38,915 --> 00:50:40,250
I wish I knew.
1031
00:50:41,585 --> 00:50:43,336
The journey everybody takes?
1032
00:50:44,671 --> 00:50:48,133
Searching for what's perfect
and unattainable?
1033
00:50:48,884 --> 00:50:49,926
The ineffable!
1034
00:50:50,510 --> 00:50:53,637
Probably too elusive an idea
to put into a children's book.
1035
00:50:53,638 --> 00:50:55,015
I have a line for you.
1036
00:50:56,308 --> 00:51:00,060
"He chased her around the bed all night
before concluding
1037
00:51:00,061 --> 00:51:01,437
"she was ineffable."
1038
00:51:01,438 --> 00:51:03,064
Sure you don't mean "uneffable"?
1039
00:51:03,607 --> 00:51:05,442
Better.
1040
00:51:08,236 --> 00:51:09,612
You know, I'm in the park every morning,
1041
00:51:09,613 --> 00:51:12,072
liberating this mouse
I keep catching in my kitchen.
1042
00:51:12,073 --> 00:51:14,825
- Yeah?
- I have this little glass box
1043
00:51:14,826 --> 00:51:17,661
that captures the mouse
but doesn't kill him.
1044
00:51:17,662 --> 00:51:19,830
And every morning I walk into my kitchen,
1045
00:51:19,831 --> 00:51:22,041
and there he is,
at the bottom of the refrigerator.
1046
00:51:22,042 --> 00:51:25,961
My little brown mouse,
happily eating the cracker I left for him.
1047
00:51:25,962 --> 00:51:28,339
And every morning,
I carry him down to the park,
1048
00:51:28,340 --> 00:51:31,842
open the box. He leaps out ten feet,
scurries into the underbrush.
1049
00:51:31,843 --> 00:51:34,762
And then the next morning, I'll be damned,
1050
00:51:34,763 --> 00:51:36,931
he is back in the box!
1051
00:51:36,932 --> 00:51:38,599
How do you know it's the same mouse?
1052
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:39,683
Well, he certainly looks the same.
1053
00:51:39,684 --> 00:51:43,980
He has that same New York look
of doomed hopefulness.
1054
00:51:45,023 --> 00:51:48,151
But how does he get up the 19 floors?
1055
00:51:49,444 --> 00:51:50,820
Maybe he's tipping the doorman.
1056
00:51:53,573 --> 00:51:55,325
You know, this morning he wasn't there.
1057
00:51:55,992 --> 00:51:59,162
Just the cracker lying in the box.
1058
00:52:00,247 --> 00:52:02,248
I actually missed the little fella,
I really did.
1059
00:52:02,249 --> 00:52:04,541
I think I've started to identify with him.
1060
00:52:04,542 --> 00:52:06,336
Does he have a name?
1061
00:52:07,337 --> 00:52:09,171
I'm calling him Stuart.
1062
00:52:09,172 --> 00:52:11,258
With a "W" or a "U"?
1063
00:52:12,259 --> 00:52:16,888
Hmm. A "U." Nothing fancy.
Just a regular middle-class mouse.
1064
00:52:20,725 --> 00:52:23,018
I think you'll have to excuse me.
1065
00:52:23,019 --> 00:52:26,231
All this jubilation
has gone to my bladder.
1066
00:52:29,359 --> 00:52:32,194
"Agnes de Mille
works small miracles
1067
00:52:32,195 --> 00:52:36,490
"and devising original dances
that fit the story and the tunes.
1068
00:52:36,491 --> 00:52:38,659
"Oklahoma! is fresh..."
1069
00:52:38,660 --> 00:52:40,869
- Okay, I got something funny.
- Hmm.
1070
00:52:40,870 --> 00:52:43,372
What do you call a tired homosexual?
1071
00:52:43,373 --> 00:52:45,292
I don't know.
1072
00:52:47,544 --> 00:52:48,753
Fuck, I forgot.
1073
00:52:49,546 --> 00:52:50,839
That's really funny.
1074
00:52:52,966 --> 00:52:56,511
"The play's spine-tingling,
out of this world!"
1075
00:53:04,477 --> 00:53:07,939
You know, when Atkinson wrote that
review for Pal Joey, you remember that?
1076
00:53:08,607 --> 00:53:10,858
"Drab and mirthless.
1077
00:53:10,859 --> 00:53:14,362
"Can one draw sweet water
from a foul well?"
1078
00:53:15,447 --> 00:53:18,782
I cried. That's how hurt I was.
1079
00:53:18,783 --> 00:53:22,453
I cried in Vivienne Segal's arms.
1080
00:53:22,454 --> 00:53:23,954
She hugged me and said,
1081
00:53:23,955 --> 00:53:27,666
"History is going to prove him wrong,
darling."
1082
00:53:27,667 --> 00:53:29,585
Wasn't that
the sweetest thing in the world
1083
00:53:29,586 --> 00:53:30,754
for someone to say?
1084
00:53:32,172 --> 00:53:34,090
And she actually calls me "darling." Hmph.
1085
00:53:34,674 --> 00:53:36,133
Wow.
1086
00:53:36,134 --> 00:53:37,468
Time magazine wrote,
1087
00:53:37,469 --> 00:53:39,678
"For those who can park their morals
in the lobby,
1088
00:53:39,679 --> 00:53:41,223
"Pal Joey is a wow."
1089
00:53:42,224 --> 00:53:44,684
What kind of piece-of-shit praise is that?
1090
00:53:46,478 --> 00:53:49,563
- I'm talking about Pal Joey.
- Right.
1091
00:53:49,564 --> 00:53:50,690
I didn't see that one.
1092
00:53:51,316 --> 00:53:54,611
Wolcott Gibbs, he loved the show.
1093
00:53:55,195 --> 00:53:57,821
He said it was,
"A song and dance production
1094
00:53:57,822 --> 00:54:01,408
"with living three-dimensional figures,
1095
00:54:01,409 --> 00:54:04,995
"talking and behaving like human beings."
1096
00:54:04,996 --> 00:54:07,249
- Ah, see? There you go.
- Mmm-hmm.
1097
00:54:08,458 --> 00:54:10,751
You're still going to introduce me
to Rodgers tonight, right?
1098
00:54:10,752 --> 00:54:14,004
Urination for me
has turned into a two-act play
1099
00:54:14,005 --> 00:54:15,298
with a brief intermission.
1100
00:54:18,843 --> 00:54:23,473
Oh, I love Vivienne. God help me.
1101
00:54:24,140 --> 00:54:25,600
Her compassion.
1102
00:54:26,601 --> 00:54:28,103
Oh, did I tell you she calls me "darling"?
1103
00:54:29,020 --> 00:54:31,480
We were up at the Starlight Roof.
1104
00:54:31,481 --> 00:54:36,652
I turned to her and I said,
"Vivienne, will you please marry me?"
1105
00:54:36,653 --> 00:54:39,446
That's what I told her. Right to her face.
1106
00:54:39,447 --> 00:54:43,034
Can you imagine having the courage
to say that to a woman?
1107
00:54:43,827 --> 00:54:46,161
I've never had the courage
to even dream of saying that.
1108
00:54:46,162 --> 00:54:47,746
Mmm-hmm. Yeah. It was a moment.
1109
00:54:47,747 --> 00:54:52,711
Let me tell you. 2:00 a.m., the band
was playing I've Heard That Song Before.
1110
00:54:53,420 --> 00:54:56,464
She said, "I love you, darling,
1111
00:54:57,257 --> 00:54:58,758
"just not that way."
1112
00:55:01,052 --> 00:55:03,471
"Not that way."
1113
00:55:04,097 --> 00:55:06,807
Three little words.
1114
00:55:06,808 --> 00:55:10,353
Ten little letters that mean,
1115
00:55:11,104 --> 00:55:13,940
"Game over, schmuck."
1116
00:55:14,816 --> 00:55:17,693
Ah, "Think it over," I told her.
1117
00:55:17,694 --> 00:55:21,865
I took her hand in mine,
her nail polish was pale gray...
1118
00:55:27,662 --> 00:55:31,541
Now... I can drink.
1119
00:55:34,628 --> 00:55:38,464
May I remind everybody what Mike Todd
said about Oklahoma! in New Haven,
1120
00:55:38,465 --> 00:55:41,842
"No laughs, no tits, no chance"?
1121
00:55:41,843 --> 00:55:45,096
We have a chance now.
All right, read that out. Okay, wow.
1122
00:55:45,889 --> 00:55:48,933
Wonderful. This is what
Nichols said in the Times.
1123
00:55:48,934 --> 00:55:51,435
"Wonderful is the nearest adjective,
1124
00:55:51,436 --> 00:55:53,479
"for this excursion of the Guild
1125
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:57,441
"combines a fresh and infectious gaiety,
a charm of manner,
1126
00:55:57,442 --> 00:55:59,902
"beautiful acting, dancing and singing,
1127
00:55:59,903 --> 00:56:04,406
"and a score by Richard Rodgers
which doesn't do any harm either,
1128
00:56:04,407 --> 00:56:06,868
"since it is one of his best.
1129
00:56:12,249 --> 00:56:16,001
"Mr. Rodgers's scores never lack grace,
1130
00:56:16,002 --> 00:56:21,423
"but seldom have they been
so well-integrated as this for Oklahoma!
1131
00:56:21,424 --> 00:56:27,471
"He has turned out waltzes, love songs,
comic songs and a title number
1132
00:56:27,472 --> 00:56:30,933
"which the State in question
would do well to adopt
1133
00:56:30,934 --> 00:56:32,561
"as its anthem forthwith.
1134
00:56:37,274 --> 00:56:41,318
"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,
and People Will Say We're in Love
1135
00:56:41,319 --> 00:56:44,656
"are headed for countless jukeboxes
across the land.
1136
00:56:47,909 --> 00:56:52,830
"And a dirge called 'Pore Jud',
in which the hero of the fable
1137
00:56:52,831 --> 00:56:56,000
"tries to persuade his rival
to hang himself
1138
00:56:56,001 --> 00:56:58,878
is amazingly comic.
1139
00:56:58,879 --> 00:57:03,549
"The Farmer and the Cowman
and The Surrey with the Fringe on the Top
1140
00:57:03,550 --> 00:57:09,722
"also deserve mention only because
they quite clearly approach perfection."
1141
00:57:09,723 --> 00:57:11,099
Read that part again.
1142
00:57:12,809 --> 00:57:16,437
"...because they quite clearly
approach perfection."
1143
00:57:16,438 --> 00:57:18,023
Put that on the marquee!
1144
00:57:18,607 --> 00:57:21,234
"Quite clearly approaches perfection."
1145
00:57:24,446 --> 00:57:28,491
Come on, everybody! Party upstairs!
Cake and champagne.
1146
00:57:38,919 --> 00:57:41,462
Oh, Oscar! Bravo, bravo.
1147
00:57:41,463 --> 00:57:43,423
Congratulations. Oh...
1148
00:57:48,929 --> 00:57:50,512
Can I speak with you for a moment?
1149
00:57:50,513 --> 00:57:51,597
Can we talk later, Larry?
1150
00:57:51,598 --> 00:57:54,141
No, no, no. It's just a second.
I have something important to say.
1151
00:57:54,142 --> 00:57:55,977
Just a moment with the musical genius.
1152
00:57:58,730 --> 00:58:01,941
I just have one thing
I want to tell you, Dick.
1153
00:58:01,942 --> 00:58:06,071
Uh... Just one second, Dick.
It's important.
1154
00:58:06,696 --> 00:58:08,572
I remember when I first heard about you,
1155
00:58:08,573 --> 00:58:11,283
you were just Morty Rodger's
little brother.
1156
00:58:11,284 --> 00:58:13,369
- What, were you 17?
- 16.
1157
00:58:13,370 --> 00:58:14,995
- Yeah, I was 23.
- Swell job.
1158
00:58:14,996 --> 00:58:16,538
Yeah, you were the wise old man
on the mountain.
1159
00:58:16,539 --> 00:58:18,749
But when I first heard you
play your stuff,
1160
00:58:18,750 --> 00:58:21,627
I knew you had it.
1161
00:58:21,628 --> 00:58:23,587
I wasn't entirely convinced that I had it,
1162
00:58:23,588 --> 00:58:26,049
but I heard something that afternoon.
1163
00:58:28,093 --> 00:58:31,346
Originality, melody, grace...
1164
00:58:32,806 --> 00:58:34,515
Oh...
1165
00:58:34,516 --> 00:58:37,977
Come on. Come on, Larry. Stop it.
Come on, what's the matter with you?
1166
00:58:37,978 --> 00:58:41,855
You worked your whole life
for this night, Dick.
1167
00:58:41,856 --> 00:58:44,817
Nobody's worked harder.
And nobody deserves it more.
1168
00:58:44,818 --> 00:58:46,610
All right, thanks. Thanks, Larry.
Thank you.
1169
00:58:46,611 --> 00:58:49,238
All right, that's what I wanted...
Just go...
1170
00:58:49,239 --> 00:58:51,115
...enjoy your party.
1171
00:58:51,116 --> 00:58:52,908
- Hey, look at me. Look at me.
- Mmm-hmm?
1172
00:58:52,909 --> 00:58:55,244
We're going to do
A Connecticut Yankee, all new.
1173
00:58:55,245 --> 00:58:57,371
- Yeah, yeah.
- We're gonna write four or five new songs.
1174
00:58:57,372 --> 00:58:58,706
- I have ideas already.
- Right?
1175
00:58:58,707 --> 00:59:01,333
Yeah, yeah. And if I get some pages down
for Marco Polo,
1176
00:59:01,334 --> 00:59:02,335
can I send them over?
1177
00:59:03,753 --> 00:59:07,716
You have to ask me that?
Larry, I owe my professional life to you.
1178
00:59:11,344 --> 00:59:14,930
Summer journeys to Niagara
And to other places
1179
00:59:14,931 --> 00:59:17,808
Aggravate all our cares...
1180
00:59:17,809 --> 00:59:19,727
You remember we heard that on the radio
for the first time?
1181
00:59:19,728 --> 00:59:22,396
In your parents' living room.
Our first hit.
1182
00:59:22,397 --> 00:59:25,190
That was one of the most
astonishing moments of my life, Larry.
1183
00:59:25,191 --> 00:59:29,153
- I was 22.
- And I'm telling you, I swear to God,
1184
00:59:29,154 --> 00:59:31,655
our best work is still ahead of us.
1185
00:59:31,656 --> 00:59:33,741
Yes, the new Connecticut Yankee!
1186
00:59:33,742 --> 00:59:35,367
Yeah, yeah. And bigger stuff.
1187
00:59:35,368 --> 00:59:37,286
- Dick, get up here.
- All right. I'm coming!
1188
00:59:37,287 --> 00:59:39,664
I mean, Marco Polo is going to be
a show about joy...
1189
00:59:40,332 --> 00:59:44,085
but a hard-earned joy,
an unsentimental joy.
1190
00:59:44,961 --> 00:59:47,297
- Something wrong with sentimental?
- What? It's too easy.
1191
00:59:50,342 --> 00:59:52,093
Oklahoma! is too easy?
1192
00:59:52,844 --> 00:59:55,304
The guy actually getting the girl
at the end is too easy?
1193
00:59:55,305 --> 00:59:58,015
You've just eliminated
every successful musical comedy...
1194
00:59:58,016 --> 00:59:59,225
...ever written, Larry.
1195
00:59:59,226 --> 01:00:00,309
Then it's too easy for me.
1196
01:00:00,310 --> 01:00:01,645
Did you hear the audience tonight?
1197
01:00:02,270 --> 01:00:03,271
Yes.
1198
01:00:04,314 --> 01:00:06,774
Sixteen hundred people
didn't think it was too easy.
1199
01:00:06,775 --> 01:00:08,609
You're telling me 1,600 people are wrong?
1200
01:00:08,610 --> 01:00:09,986
I'm just saying...
1201
01:00:11,112 --> 01:00:17,201
that you and I can do something
so much more emotionally complicated.
1202
01:00:17,202 --> 01:00:19,411
We don't have to pander
to what audiences...
1203
01:00:19,412 --> 01:00:21,455
- Oscar and I are pandering?
- No. I didn't say that.
1204
01:00:21,456 --> 01:00:23,707
- Irving Berlin is pandering?
- I love Berlin.
1205
01:00:23,708 --> 01:00:26,460
- White Christmas is pandering?
- Well, I don't believe White Christmas.
1206
01:00:26,461 --> 01:00:28,546
Okay.
1207
01:00:28,547 --> 01:00:30,339
Well, maybe audiences have changed.
1208
01:00:30,340 --> 01:00:32,258
Well, they still want to laugh.
1209
01:00:32,259 --> 01:00:34,051
They want to laugh, but not in that way.
1210
01:00:34,052 --> 01:00:35,554
- Not in what way?
- In your way.
1211
01:00:36,638 --> 01:00:38,556
They want to laugh,
but they also want to cry a little.
1212
01:00:38,557 --> 01:00:41,475
They want to... they want to feel.
1213
01:00:41,476 --> 01:00:42,435
Hmm.
1214
01:00:44,688 --> 01:00:46,522
You're my oldest friend.
1215
01:00:46,523 --> 01:00:49,276
You're...
1216
01:00:50,569 --> 01:00:52,528
- you're unique.
- Hmm.
1217
01:00:52,529 --> 01:00:54,030
Sounds like you're writing my obituary.
1218
01:00:55,031 --> 01:00:57,992
- I'm just saying.
- I'm right here, right now.
1219
01:00:57,993 --> 01:01:00,995
- Ready to work.
- Yeah?
1220
01:01:00,996 --> 01:01:02,329
Hmm.
1221
01:01:02,330 --> 01:01:04,583
And you're willing to go
back to Doctors Hospital?
1222
01:01:05,709 --> 01:01:08,460
I don't need to go back
to Doctors Hospital,
1223
01:01:08,461 --> 01:01:11,714
and I don't need a psychiatrist either.
1224
01:01:11,715 --> 01:01:13,757
- Thank you very much.
- We were just trying to help you, Larry.
1225
01:01:13,758 --> 01:01:15,926
Who's we? You and Oscar? Help me?
1226
01:01:15,927 --> 01:01:17,428
Oscar? You think Oscar
had anything to do with it?
1227
01:01:17,429 --> 01:01:20,848
Oklahoma! is going to be the biggest hit
of your career.
1228
01:01:20,849 --> 01:01:23,225
- You don't know that. You don't know that.
- You got that asshole Kron
1229
01:01:23,226 --> 01:01:25,185
to manage my money.
Now I'm incapable...
1230
01:01:25,186 --> 01:01:26,979
I did that at the insistence
of your brother, Larry.
1231
01:01:26,980 --> 01:01:28,063
Teddy literally begged me...
1232
01:01:28,064 --> 01:01:30,316
Well, maybe you and Teddy
should write the lyrics.
1233
01:01:30,317 --> 01:01:31,860
I did write the lyrics.
1234
01:01:32,944 --> 01:01:34,153
What is that supposed to mean?
1235
01:01:34,154 --> 01:01:36,989
By Jupiter? Have you conveniently
blocked that out?
1236
01:01:36,990 --> 01:01:38,282
Blocked what out?
1237
01:01:38,283 --> 01:01:41,744
How Logan and I begged you
for extra choruses, extra verses,
1238
01:01:41,745 --> 01:01:44,914
and you were so drunk
that you didn't even show up.
1239
01:01:44,915 --> 01:01:46,749
So, yes, I had to write the lyrics.
1240
01:01:46,750 --> 01:01:49,627
- You didn't write one fucking word...
- How would you know?
1241
01:01:49,628 --> 01:01:51,337
- ...of that show.
- How would you know, Larry?
1242
01:01:51,338 --> 01:01:53,130
You weren't around to even...
1243
01:01:53,131 --> 01:01:54,215
You know what?
1244
01:01:54,216 --> 01:01:56,258
I'm actually not going to argue
with you tonight,
1245
01:01:56,259 --> 01:01:57,384
- if that's all right with you.
- I like to argue.
1246
01:01:57,385 --> 01:01:59,220
Well I don't. I don't.
1247
01:01:59,221 --> 01:02:00,513
Look, I am sorry.
1248
01:02:01,556 --> 01:02:04,225
I don't care if somebody attacks me.
1249
01:02:04,226 --> 01:02:06,518
It doesn't mean anything to me.
1250
01:02:06,519 --> 01:02:10,397
But nobody can attack my work.
It is all I've got.
1251
01:02:10,398 --> 01:02:12,317
Your work is brilliant.
That's not the problem.
1252
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:18,698
Your work has been brilliant
since the day I met you.
1253
01:02:19,950 --> 01:02:21,284
Do you still remember that?
1254
01:02:22,369 --> 01:02:24,746
You, standing there in your
carpet slippers and your stripy bathrobe?
1255
01:02:26,665 --> 01:02:30,919
Yeah, with the five o'clock shadow
at 11:00 a.m.
1256
01:02:33,421 --> 01:02:36,508
I'll remember that
till the last day of my life.
1257
01:02:39,344 --> 01:02:41,137
Okay.
1258
01:02:48,311 --> 01:02:49,478
- Larry, I got to go upstairs.
- I know.
1259
01:02:49,479 --> 01:02:51,565
- The whole company's waiting.
- Of course. Of course.
1260
01:02:53,149 --> 01:02:54,733
Four or five songs, yes?
1261
01:02:54,734 --> 01:02:56,778
I'm telling you, I'm having ideas already!
1262
01:02:57,821 --> 01:02:59,905
A big comedy solo for Vivienne
1263
01:02:59,906 --> 01:03:03,618
about how she's killed off
every single one of her previous husbands.
1264
01:03:04,995 --> 01:03:06,078
Might be funny.
1265
01:03:06,079 --> 01:03:08,873
We can call it To Keep Our Love Alive!
1266
01:03:23,930 --> 01:03:25,640
- You okay, Larry?
- Mmm-hmm.
1267
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:31,729
What happened to White?
1268
01:03:31,730 --> 01:03:34,065
- Left.
- "So soon?"
1269
01:03:34,608 --> 01:03:37,109
There was so much more
I wanted to say to him.
1270
01:03:37,110 --> 01:03:39,029
Maybe he was an extra, too.
1271
01:03:39,988 --> 01:03:41,031
One more?
1272
01:03:41,907 --> 01:03:42,991
Last one, Larry.
1273
01:03:45,076 --> 01:03:47,704
Do you know the ineffectual blues?
1274
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,125
That's because I haven't written it yet.
1275
01:03:55,003 --> 01:03:58,547
They should put
my picture on that bottle.
1276
01:03:58,548 --> 01:04:02,676
"The Whiskey That Made
Lorenz Hart Unemployable."
1277
01:04:02,677 --> 01:04:04,554
"Buy War Bonds."
1278
01:04:11,186 --> 01:04:13,771
You know, I've started
to hear things wrong.
1279
01:04:13,772 --> 01:04:16,857
The other night,
I was listening to this singer go on
1280
01:04:16,858 --> 01:04:18,443
about "her cigarette heart."
1281
01:04:18,985 --> 01:04:21,987
And I thought,
"Now that is an original metaphor,
1282
01:04:21,988 --> 01:04:23,615
"'My cigarette heart.'"
1283
01:04:24,324 --> 01:04:26,785
Then I realized she was singing
"My secret heart."
1284
01:04:27,577 --> 01:04:30,537
I can't remember anything anymore either.
1285
01:04:30,538 --> 01:04:33,082
That should be the title
of my autobiography,
1286
01:04:33,083 --> 01:04:35,585
"Stop Me If I've Told You This Already."
1287
01:04:36,253 --> 01:04:39,130
And we'll print the entire text twice.
1288
01:04:45,595 --> 01:04:48,013
No, I'm serious.
I've seen her do it before.
1289
01:04:48,014 --> 01:04:50,850
As long as there's
no dancing later on in the night.
1290
01:04:52,561 --> 01:04:54,228
You better watch yourself...
1291
01:04:54,229 --> 01:04:57,147
My irreplaceable Elizabeth!
1292
01:04:57,148 --> 01:04:58,149
Larry!
1293
01:04:59,109 --> 01:05:01,026
- Do you like it?
- It's...
1294
01:05:01,027 --> 01:05:02,988
Oscar Hammerstein just said I was a gem!
1295
01:05:03,655 --> 01:05:06,491
He has such a way with words.
1296
01:05:07,242 --> 01:05:09,243
George, this is Lorenz Hart.
1297
01:05:09,244 --> 01:05:11,620
I am legitimately honored to meet you.
1298
01:05:11,621 --> 01:05:15,165
Would you mind if I spoke to Elizabeth
alone for two minutes?
1299
01:05:15,166 --> 01:05:16,917
And then she's all yours.
1300
01:05:16,918 --> 01:05:18,168
It would be perfectly all right
1301
01:05:18,169 --> 01:05:21,046
as long as you promise me
your autograph before I go.
1302
01:05:21,047 --> 01:05:22,340
George is a senior at Yale.
1303
01:05:22,465 --> 01:05:24,968
He's studying music,
but he wants to be a director.
1304
01:05:25,093 --> 01:05:26,594
A director. Well, what's your name?
1305
01:05:26,595 --> 01:05:27,678
George Hill.
1306
01:05:27,679 --> 01:05:31,682
Here's my advice to you,
future director, George Hill.
1307
01:05:31,683 --> 01:05:33,017
Do you want my advice?
1308
01:05:33,018 --> 01:05:34,019
I'd be honored.
1309
01:05:35,103 --> 01:05:37,647
Be careful of love stories.
1310
01:05:38,398 --> 01:05:41,275
Think about friendship stories.
1311
01:05:41,276 --> 01:05:44,779
That's where
the really enduring stuff lives.
1312
01:05:45,864 --> 01:05:48,033
- Thank you. I'll remember that.
- Hmm!
1313
01:05:51,202 --> 01:05:52,704
Catch up with you later, George.
1314
01:05:55,206 --> 01:05:56,665
My mother just gave me this.
1315
01:05:56,666 --> 01:05:58,335
I was really touched she gave it to me.
1316
01:05:59,461 --> 01:06:01,670
My well-tempered clavicle.
1317
01:06:01,671 --> 01:06:03,256
Careful. My mother...
1318
01:06:04,049 --> 01:06:05,716
Okay. All right...
1319
01:06:05,717 --> 01:06:10,095
Sorry. Now, I know your birthday
isn't until November 19th.
1320
01:06:10,096 --> 01:06:11,180
I'm a scorpion.
1321
01:06:11,181 --> 01:06:14,058
I never doubted that for a second.
1322
01:06:14,059 --> 01:06:16,352
Did you get the sheet music I sent you?
1323
01:06:16,353 --> 01:06:20,522
Ah, I was so busy with exams,
I put them away, honestly, and...
1324
01:06:20,523 --> 01:06:24,068
And then I kind of forgot about them.
But now I've got the time. I promise you.
1325
01:06:24,069 --> 01:06:25,653
I'm going to get a friend of mine
1326
01:06:25,654 --> 01:06:27,529
to play every single one
of those songs for me.
1327
01:06:27,530 --> 01:06:29,323
Take your time.
1328
01:06:29,324 --> 01:06:31,784
That's the wonderful thing
about art, isn't it?
1329
01:06:31,785 --> 01:06:32,911
It waits for you.
1330
01:06:33,912 --> 01:06:36,163
Thank you for all the letters
you wrote me.
1331
01:06:36,164 --> 01:06:38,040
I really enjoyed reading them.
1332
01:06:38,041 --> 01:06:41,168
My roommate couldn't believe I was
actually corresponding with Lorenz Hart.
1333
01:06:41,169 --> 01:06:43,838
I remember in Vermont,
you were drinking red wine.
1334
01:06:44,714 --> 01:06:47,759
Malbec. It's a big Yale drink.
1335
01:06:48,510 --> 01:06:52,137
You ask for the French Malbec,
and then you act
1336
01:06:52,138 --> 01:06:54,390
as if you can actually tell
which vineyard it came from.
1337
01:06:54,391 --> 01:06:55,976
Oh...
1338
01:06:56,768 --> 01:06:59,520
Don't mention Vermont
around my mother, okay?
1339
01:06:59,521 --> 01:07:01,273
She doesn't know anything
about our little getaway.
1340
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:04,441
Actually, thank goodness.
1341
01:07:04,442 --> 01:07:07,611
She doesn't know about 90%
of what's going on in my life.
1342
01:07:07,612 --> 01:07:10,281
Well, I feel privileged that I do.
1343
01:07:10,282 --> 01:07:12,492
Or that I did, back in August.
1344
01:07:13,410 --> 01:07:15,995
I've got much more stuff to
report on since then.
1345
01:07:15,996 --> 01:07:19,707
Well, tell me about the guys.
That's what I'm interested in.
1346
01:07:19,708 --> 01:07:24,545
Honestly,
I'm much smarter than most of them.
1347
01:07:24,546 --> 01:07:28,007
So I sort of sit back and watch them
trying to impress me.
1348
01:07:28,008 --> 01:07:29,592
It's pretty entertaining.
1349
01:07:29,593 --> 01:07:32,011
If I were a college guy,
I think I would be afraid of you.
1350
01:07:32,012 --> 01:07:35,139
This intelligent, mercilessly observant,
1351
01:07:35,140 --> 01:07:37,766
wickedly unsentimental beauty
sitting there,
1352
01:07:37,767 --> 01:07:40,811
evaluating me from somewhere
behind those green eyes,
1353
01:07:40,812 --> 01:07:42,521
annotating all my gaucheries.
1354
01:07:42,522 --> 01:07:44,481
My God, I would be terrified.
1355
01:07:44,482 --> 01:07:46,318
Hey, I'm not that intimidating.
1356
01:07:47,527 --> 01:07:49,946
Tell me more about this Cooper.
1357
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:53,449
This is embarrassing.
1358
01:07:53,450 --> 01:07:54,742
I love it when you're embarrassed,
1359
01:07:54,743 --> 01:07:57,620
you get this scarlet blush
that washes up over you,
1360
01:07:57,621 --> 01:07:59,748
and a second later it's gone.
1361
01:08:00,248 --> 01:08:02,499
This one might last considerably longer.
1362
01:08:02,500 --> 01:08:04,627
- I'd love to...
- Elizabeth. Hello, Larry.
1363
01:08:04,628 --> 01:08:07,755
I hope I'm not
interrupting anything too weighty.
1364
01:08:07,756 --> 01:08:10,133
Well, weighty affairs will have to wait.
1365
01:08:10,884 --> 01:08:12,509
She's a gem, isn't she?
1366
01:08:12,510 --> 01:08:13,969
Please, Mr. Hammerstein.
1367
01:08:13,970 --> 01:08:15,804
I'll only bother you for a moment.
1368
01:08:15,805 --> 01:08:17,848
Larry, I just wanted to say...
1369
01:08:18,558 --> 01:08:21,727
Well, firstly, I recognize this must be
a difficult night for you.
1370
01:08:21,728 --> 01:08:25,231
No, I'm a professional, Oscar.
We're both professionals,
1371
01:08:25,232 --> 01:08:27,274
we understand the nature of our business.
1372
01:08:27,275 --> 01:08:31,695
Larry, did you really like the show?
I don't think I do the comedy numbers
1373
01:08:31,696 --> 01:08:33,948
half as well as you do.
They're not my strength.
1374
01:08:33,949 --> 01:08:37,869
I laughed my ass off.
I had to have it re-attached.
1375
01:08:39,204 --> 01:08:41,829
Larry, we're the same age,
but you were always the teacher.
1376
01:08:41,830 --> 01:08:44,208
- No, Oscar. I...
- No, your whole career,
1377
01:08:44,209 --> 01:08:45,918
- you showed us the way.
- Well, I doubt...
1378
01:08:45,919 --> 01:08:47,544
You liberated us all.
1379
01:08:47,545 --> 01:08:51,131
You made American songs
finally sound like American speech.
1380
01:08:51,132 --> 01:08:53,842
Stop. I dislike eulogies,
especially my own.
1381
01:08:53,843 --> 01:08:56,054
Oscar, tonight is your night.
1382
01:08:56,679 --> 01:09:00,432
A hit for you and Dick
is a hit for all of us.
1383
01:09:00,433 --> 01:09:03,185
People finally want to go see shows again.
1384
01:09:03,186 --> 01:09:06,105
Real shows. Dick and I
were just tossing around a few ideas.
1385
01:09:06,106 --> 01:09:09,651
- Wonderful.
- Yeah, we have this idea for a big...
1386
01:09:10,735 --> 01:09:12,611
Marco Polo show... huge...
1387
01:09:12,612 --> 01:09:14,321
- Wow.
- ...a kind of musical circus.
1388
01:09:14,322 --> 01:09:17,074
Dick's excited about it.
1389
01:09:17,075 --> 01:09:18,617
He said you're adapting Liliom.
1390
01:09:18,618 --> 01:09:20,410
Well, if we can finagle the rights.
1391
01:09:20,411 --> 01:09:21,413
Sounds exciting.
1392
01:09:21,538 --> 01:09:24,414
- Elizabeth told me she's your protégé.
- Stop.
1393
01:09:24,415 --> 01:09:29,169
"She's the promised kiss of springtime
that makes the lonely winter seem long."
1394
01:09:29,170 --> 01:09:30,254
Oh, please.
1395
01:09:30,255 --> 01:09:33,757
- You wrote a great lyric.
- For a show that didn't run three months.
1396
01:09:33,758 --> 01:09:35,926
- I saw it twice.
- You...
1397
01:09:35,927 --> 01:09:38,345
You know what
we're talking about here, Stevie?
1398
01:09:38,346 --> 01:09:40,763
Very Warm for May.
Produced by Max Gordon.
1399
01:09:40,764 --> 01:09:42,141
Music by Jerome Kern.
1400
01:09:42,142 --> 01:09:44,686
Alvin Theatre. 59 performances.
1401
01:09:46,146 --> 01:09:50,190
This is my neighbor. He's a kind of
a walking encyclopedia of musical theater.
1402
01:09:50,191 --> 01:09:53,068
Well, I'm a kind of walking pneumonia
for musical theater.
1403
01:09:53,069 --> 01:09:55,112
- Nice to meet you.
- Pleasure to meet you.
1404
01:09:55,113 --> 01:09:57,114
He wants to write musicals
when he grows up.
1405
01:09:57,115 --> 01:09:58,699
Who's your favorite lyricist?
1406
01:09:58,700 --> 01:09:59,784
- Oscar.
- Mmm-hmm.
1407
01:10:00,535 --> 01:10:02,912
Of course.
And what do you think of my work?
1408
01:10:02,913 --> 01:10:04,538
I like it. It's funny.
1409
01:10:04,539 --> 01:10:05,706
Thank you.
1410
01:10:05,707 --> 01:10:07,000
Can be a little sloppy at times.
1411
01:10:07,876 --> 01:10:10,377
He's very tired.
It's been a long day.
1412
01:10:10,378 --> 01:10:13,547
Come on, Stevie.
It's a long ride back to Doylestown.
1413
01:10:13,548 --> 01:10:15,716
- You want to go to the bathroom?
- I'm not tired.
1414
01:10:15,717 --> 01:10:17,801
He asked me what I thought of his work.
1415
01:10:17,802 --> 01:10:20,095
"Weighty affairs will just have to wait"?
1416
01:10:20,096 --> 01:10:22,140
I so regret not having children.
1417
01:10:22,933 --> 01:10:25,351
Cooper.
1418
01:10:25,352 --> 01:10:27,519
- I can't believe I'm telling you this.
- Tell me.
1419
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,939
You have to remember,
I've had a hopeless crush on this guy
1420
01:10:29,940 --> 01:10:31,065
for over a year.
1421
01:10:31,066 --> 01:10:32,567
Hold this. Come here.
1422
01:10:33,735 --> 01:10:38,198
Renee, may I buy five minutes
of privacy, please?
1423
01:10:39,115 --> 01:10:40,533
{\an8}Anything for you, Larry.
1424
01:10:50,585 --> 01:10:51,711
Thank you.
1425
01:10:53,922 --> 01:10:56,967
Tell me what he looks like,
I'm trying to visualize him.
1426
01:10:57,884 --> 01:11:00,302
Apollo? Blue eyes. Tall.
1427
01:11:00,303 --> 01:11:02,596
So, basically, the skin on his back
1428
01:11:02,597 --> 01:11:04,223
- was flawless...
- Stop.
1429
01:11:04,224 --> 01:11:08,185
It's the night of your birthday.
Tell me everything.
1430
01:11:08,186 --> 01:11:11,856
- A group of my friends are taking...
- Boyfriends, girlfriends?
1431
01:11:12,482 --> 01:11:13,816
- Mixed.
- Okay.
1432
01:11:13,817 --> 01:11:16,111
Come on, Larry, I'm a college lady.
1433
01:11:17,487 --> 01:11:21,366
So they're taking me to Mory's,
which is technically no women allowed,
1434
01:11:21,950 --> 01:11:25,619
but they smuggle us up those backstairs
like so much heavily-scented contraband,
1435
01:11:25,620 --> 01:11:31,041
and, of course, one of the girls
has brought along her date.
1436
01:11:31,042 --> 01:11:32,043
Cooper?
1437
01:11:32,627 --> 01:11:36,338
Which is both destroying me
and exhilarating me.
1438
01:11:36,339 --> 01:11:40,051
I mean, he's there. Near me.
1439
01:11:42,095 --> 01:11:43,637
The evening is getting late,
1440
01:11:43,638 --> 01:11:45,640
empty wine bottles
are filling up the table.
1441
01:11:46,641 --> 01:11:48,809
Half of us are underage,
1442
01:11:48,810 --> 01:11:51,812
but we're flirting so shamelessly
with the waiter that nobody seems to care.
1443
01:11:51,813 --> 01:11:54,816
- Drinking your French Malbec.
- Exactly.
1444
01:11:55,525 --> 01:11:57,611
I'm nothing if not a good student.
1445
01:11:58,194 --> 01:12:01,947
That's why everybody loves you, Larry.
You're the best listener I ever met.
1446
01:12:01,948 --> 01:12:05,492
That's because I have absolutely
no interest in myself whatsoever.
1447
01:12:05,493 --> 01:12:07,828
Back to your tale of natal debauchery.
1448
01:12:07,829 --> 01:12:09,831
Empty wine bottles filling the table...
1449
01:12:11,166 --> 01:12:12,500
- So it's late.
- Mmm-hmm.
1450
01:12:13,043 --> 01:12:15,962
- And Marjorie...
- The girl who came with Cooper?
1451
01:12:16,838 --> 01:12:18,631
She's left to go home and study.
1452
01:12:18,632 --> 01:12:20,007
Aww...
1453
01:12:20,008 --> 01:12:22,260
People are staggering out one by one.
1454
01:12:23,094 --> 01:12:24,304
It's midnight.
1455
01:12:25,305 --> 01:12:27,932
And I find myself sitting
right next to him.
1456
01:12:27,933 --> 01:12:29,309
Take your time.
1457
01:12:30,060 --> 01:12:33,771
You know, there's no place else
on earth I'd rather be
1458
01:12:33,772 --> 01:12:36,398
than sitting right here with you.
1459
01:12:36,399 --> 01:12:38,734
Oh, did you get my letter?
There's a party at my place tonight.
1460
01:12:38,735 --> 01:12:40,986
Oh, I think I've got to stay here
and help my mother...
1461
01:12:40,987 --> 01:12:42,404
It's not getting started till late.
1462
01:12:42,405 --> 01:12:45,242
You'll have plenty of time
to work the room here.
1463
01:12:45,951 --> 01:12:49,703
I've got the Golden Gate Quartet
showing up. Promise me you'll come.
1464
01:12:49,704 --> 01:12:51,372
320 Central Park West.
1465
01:12:51,373 --> 01:12:54,750
You said you wanted
to design sets and costumes,
1466
01:12:54,751 --> 01:12:57,044
everybody in New York theater
is gonna be there.
1467
01:12:57,045 --> 01:12:58,296
Okay, back to Cooper.
1468
01:12:59,631 --> 01:13:01,633
Okay.
1469
01:13:02,342 --> 01:13:03,718
We leave Mory's together.
1470
01:13:04,636 --> 01:13:08,181
It's a perfect November night.
A fingernail clipping of a moon.
1471
01:13:09,140 --> 01:13:12,685
He's got his arm around me.
We're both a little drunk,
1472
01:13:12,686 --> 01:13:15,646
stumbling in and out of each other's arms.
1473
01:13:15,647 --> 01:13:19,024
He's wearing this red and green
flannel shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
1474
01:13:19,025 --> 01:13:20,277
Not that you noticed.
1475
01:13:21,236 --> 01:13:22,528
He's looking good!
1476
01:13:22,529 --> 01:13:24,489
- And you?
- Um...
1477
01:13:25,949 --> 01:13:26,992
It's my birthday, right?
1478
01:13:27,784 --> 01:13:30,287
- I'm supposed to be looking good.
- Tasty.
1479
01:13:31,663 --> 01:13:34,790
So I'm leaning
against that flannel work shirt,
1480
01:13:34,791 --> 01:13:36,376
and I'm telling you,
1481
01:13:37,043 --> 01:13:39,671
I can smell the maleness
coming off of him.
1482
01:13:41,047 --> 01:13:45,468
I remember thinking that huge purple
letters should have lit up the sky...
1483
01:13:46,970 --> 01:13:48,429
- "Desire."
- Okay.
1484
01:13:48,430 --> 01:13:49,513
Hold on one second.
1485
01:13:49,514 --> 01:13:51,891
I have to go find some ice-water
and pour it down my trousers.
1486
01:13:51,892 --> 01:13:53,560
You may need some extra ice.
1487
01:13:54,269 --> 01:13:57,187
We end up in the basement
of his fraternity,
1488
01:13:57,188 --> 01:14:00,441
in this tawdry sort of derelict bar.
1489
01:14:00,442 --> 01:14:03,527
God only knows how many acts of depravity
have taken place down there.
1490
01:14:03,528 --> 01:14:05,154
And here comes one more.
1491
01:14:05,155 --> 01:14:06,239
Oh, yeah.
1492
01:14:08,825 --> 01:14:11,328
So I've been watching this guy for a year,
1493
01:14:12,412 --> 01:14:16,625
dreaming about him, and now, here it is.
1494
01:14:17,500 --> 01:14:20,085
The night of my birthday,
1495
01:14:20,086 --> 01:14:22,922
the only light is coming
from this dim little lamp
1496
01:14:22,923 --> 01:14:25,550
with horses and jockeys
printed on the shade.
1497
01:14:26,259 --> 01:14:28,261
I mean, really, Larry,
what's a girl to do?
1498
01:14:29,095 --> 01:14:30,305
Happy birthday!
1499
01:14:33,016 --> 01:14:35,018
He begins to take off his clothes.
1500
01:14:41,816 --> 01:14:43,651
You really want to hear this?
1501
01:14:43,652 --> 01:14:45,695
Uh, I'm mildly interested.
1502
01:14:47,864 --> 01:14:48,949
It's humiliating.
1503
01:14:50,408 --> 01:14:51,952
'Cause basically nothing happened.
1504
01:14:53,286 --> 01:14:54,412
Nothing?
1505
01:14:56,289 --> 01:14:58,165
Like you and me at the lake house?
1506
01:14:58,166 --> 01:14:59,167
No.
1507
01:15:00,210 --> 01:15:02,212
That was a deliberate decision
we made, right?
1508
01:15:02,921 --> 01:15:07,092
Based on what? Rationality?
I mean, as rational as you and I ever get.
1509
01:15:09,636 --> 01:15:10,804
But this...
1510
01:15:12,055 --> 01:15:15,559
This was based on the fact
that he couldn't get the rubber on.
1511
01:15:16,184 --> 01:15:18,143
Oh, no.
1512
01:15:18,144 --> 01:15:19,354
He tried.
1513
01:15:20,272 --> 01:15:21,731
- He tried again.
- No.
1514
01:15:22,649 --> 01:15:25,442
- I tried.
- Oh, stop.
1515
01:15:25,443 --> 01:15:27,444
It was the worst 10 minutes of my life.
1516
01:15:27,445 --> 01:15:29,613
It felt like 10 hours.
1517
01:15:29,614 --> 01:15:30,698
Oh, I'm sorry.
1518
01:15:30,699 --> 01:15:33,243
And you know what the worst part was?
1519
01:15:35,662 --> 01:15:38,123
He just wasn't there, you know?
1520
01:15:39,583 --> 01:15:42,418
He kept mumbling that it was,
um, the wine.
1521
01:15:42,419 --> 01:15:43,461
That, um...
1522
01:15:44,254 --> 01:15:47,716
...the rubber was too small,
if you can believe that.
1523
01:15:49,134 --> 01:15:52,094
And this whole time what's clear to me
1524
01:15:52,095 --> 01:15:56,892
is that he just... hasn't sufficiently...
1525
01:15:58,518 --> 01:16:01,146
I don't know
what the right word is. Maybe...
1526
01:16:03,064 --> 01:16:06,151
"he-just-doesn't-love-you-enough"
is the right word.
1527
01:16:07,319 --> 01:16:10,155
I mean, there's no way
around that one, is there?
1528
01:16:11,031 --> 01:16:13,950
When the girl loves the guy
with all of her heart,
1529
01:16:15,035 --> 01:16:17,495
and he just doesn't return her feeling?
1530
01:16:18,705 --> 01:16:21,332
Do you have any idea what that feels like?
1531
01:16:21,333 --> 01:16:23,376
"Nobody ever loved me that much."
1532
01:16:24,669 --> 01:16:28,423
I brought into that basement
a year's worth of adoration,
1533
01:16:29,466 --> 01:16:31,468
yeah, studying his photograph,
1534
01:16:32,636 --> 01:16:34,803
memorizing his phone number.
1535
01:16:34,804 --> 01:16:38,558
And there he was, this half-drunk junior
1536
01:16:39,643 --> 01:16:42,978
who couldn't even pretend to love me...
1537
01:16:42,979 --> 01:16:46,650
And... I wouldn't have minded
if there'd been...
1538
01:16:47,734 --> 01:16:50,069
some... passion underneath.
1539
01:16:50,070 --> 01:16:52,614
Or even empathy.
1540
01:16:54,115 --> 01:16:56,868
There was nothing.
1541
01:16:57,702 --> 01:17:01,456
Just... that lamp with the horses on it.
1542
01:17:02,624 --> 01:17:07,127
You deserve so much better.
1543
01:17:07,128 --> 01:17:08,171
Yeah.
1544
01:17:10,173 --> 01:17:12,050
I asked my roommate about it
the next morning,
1545
01:17:12,717 --> 01:17:14,469
you know, girl to girl.
1546
01:17:15,595 --> 01:17:20,350
She said that men sometimes can't
perform because they're too nervous.
1547
01:17:23,436 --> 01:17:26,480
I wish I could believe that to feel
a little bit better about myself.
1548
01:17:26,481 --> 01:17:27,857
But...
1549
01:17:28,358 --> 01:17:31,318
...he was not nervous. Not in the least.
1550
01:17:31,319 --> 01:17:32,486
He had his eyes shut.
1551
01:17:32,487 --> 01:17:35,698
As if he were trying to dream me
into somebody he really wanted.
1552
01:17:35,699 --> 01:17:37,700
I felt stupid.
1553
01:17:37,701 --> 01:17:39,159
I felt debased.
1554
01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:41,829
I felt furious at myself
that I could allow him
1555
01:17:41,830 --> 01:17:44,708
to make me feel so worthless.
1556
01:17:46,042 --> 01:17:48,335
We tried
a few creative alternatives.
1557
01:17:48,336 --> 01:17:49,880
Oh, no.
1558
01:17:51,214 --> 01:17:53,800
It got uglier and uglier.
1559
01:17:54,509 --> 01:17:58,680
Finally, he said,
"Elizabeth, I owe you a rain check."
1560
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:01,975
And that...
1561
01:18:02,601 --> 01:18:04,769
That was my 20th birthday.
1562
01:18:06,146 --> 01:18:07,438
Ta-da.
1563
01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:08,523
Jesus wept.
1564
01:18:11,359 --> 01:18:12,651
But it gets worse.
1565
01:18:12,652 --> 01:18:13,861
I don't think I can take it.
1566
01:18:13,862 --> 01:18:15,279
Okay, I can take it.
1567
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:19,492
But just tell me in a way that doesn't
make me ashamed to be a human being.
1568
01:18:21,703 --> 01:18:22,787
That's going to be difficult.
1569
01:18:24,247 --> 01:18:26,707
About a week later...
1570
01:18:26,708 --> 01:18:28,585
...everybody's leaving for Thanksgiving.
1571
01:18:29,878 --> 01:18:32,631
He gives me a call.
Would I like to have dinner with him?
1572
01:18:33,423 --> 01:18:36,258
You know me. No pride.
1573
01:18:36,259 --> 01:18:40,055
I say, "Sure," and make my way over
to his fraternity again,
1574
01:18:41,223 --> 01:18:43,975
which sits under this huge gingko tree.
1575
01:18:44,726 --> 01:18:47,019
The leaves have turned yellow,
1576
01:18:47,020 --> 01:18:49,689
the trunk of the tree
is black from the rain.
1577
01:18:50,398 --> 01:18:53,401
I'm thinking this is the most
beautiful thing I've ever seen.
1578
01:18:54,319 --> 01:18:55,987
I remember saying to myself,
1579
01:18:56,821 --> 01:18:58,907
"God is giving you
a second chance."
1580
01:18:59,866 --> 01:19:01,116
We go up to his room,
1581
01:19:01,117 --> 01:19:03,495
his roommate has already left
for the holiday.
1582
01:19:04,287 --> 01:19:05,705
The door clicks shut,
1583
01:19:06,873 --> 01:19:07,874
and suddenly...
1584
01:19:09,292 --> 01:19:12,086
there's no more discussion about dinner.
1585
01:19:12,087 --> 01:19:14,046
Rain check cashed!
1586
01:19:14,047 --> 01:19:15,422
In spades.
1587
01:19:15,423 --> 01:19:17,216
I mean, it's suddenly pouring.
1588
01:19:17,217 --> 01:19:19,552
We're practically
tearing each other's clothes off.
1589
01:19:19,553 --> 01:19:21,221
There is no conversation.
1590
01:19:22,097 --> 01:19:23,348
And this time...
1591
01:19:24,766 --> 01:19:26,309
there is no difficulty.
1592
01:19:27,435 --> 01:19:30,854
Not the first time.
Not the second time.
1593
01:19:30,855 --> 01:19:32,357
Stop it.
1594
01:19:34,234 --> 01:19:38,320
He says to me,
"Happy belated birthday, Elizabeth."
1595
01:19:38,321 --> 01:19:39,322
Mmm.
1596
01:19:40,991 --> 01:19:44,953
And you want to hear the unbelievable
ending to this sordid little story?
1597
01:19:46,746 --> 01:19:48,456
That was the last time I saw him.
1598
01:19:50,542 --> 01:19:53,837
That was November. Over four months ago.
1599
01:19:55,297 --> 01:19:59,592
I was absolutely sure he'd call.
If only to have sex again, right?
1600
01:19:59,593 --> 01:20:01,761
No. Never.
1601
01:20:02,596 --> 01:20:04,471
I thought he'd write.
1602
01:20:04,472 --> 01:20:05,599
No.
1603
01:20:06,349 --> 01:20:08,058
So I call him, of course.
1604
01:20:08,059 --> 01:20:09,310
Mmm.
1605
01:20:09,311 --> 01:20:11,146
He couldn't get off the phone fast enough.
1606
01:20:12,689 --> 01:20:14,107
So I wrote to him.
1607
01:20:15,692 --> 01:20:18,360
- A four-page typed letter. Single-spaced.
- Oh, no.
1608
01:20:18,361 --> 01:20:19,696
No response.
1609
01:20:20,322 --> 01:20:24,367
I tell myself it was like a fever dream,
you know?
1610
01:20:25,327 --> 01:20:27,537
And maybe the fever finally broke.
1611
01:20:28,663 --> 01:20:31,666
And it all sounds sane and sensible.
1612
01:20:34,085 --> 01:20:35,503
But you know something?
1613
01:20:36,963 --> 01:20:40,550
If he called me right now,
right this very second,
1614
01:20:41,968 --> 01:20:44,012
I'd drop everything in my life and...
1615
01:20:45,138 --> 01:20:49,516
drive three hours, drive 30 hours
just to spend one more night with him.
1616
01:20:49,517 --> 01:20:51,560
What is the matter with me, Larry?
1617
01:20:51,561 --> 01:20:55,398
Why would you drive 30 hours to see
someone who treated you like that?
1618
01:20:58,318 --> 01:21:00,028
Because I'm in love with him?
1619
01:21:01,196 --> 01:21:02,197
You are?
1620
01:21:03,156 --> 01:21:06,743
It's illogical. Obsessional. Pathetic.
1621
01:21:07,744 --> 01:21:09,871
And this is not the first time
this has happened to me.
1622
01:21:11,164 --> 01:21:12,666
It keeps happening to me.
1623
01:21:14,459 --> 01:21:16,920
I feel like I can't see people clearly.
1624
01:21:18,213 --> 01:21:21,215
I wrote a song once, years ago,
1625
01:21:21,216 --> 01:21:23,384
called The Heart is Quicker
Than the Eye.
1626
01:21:23,385 --> 01:21:25,803
It's not a great song,
but it's a good title.
1627
01:21:25,804 --> 01:21:27,889
And it's true, I think.
1628
01:21:28,723 --> 01:21:34,645
The head has nothing to do
with the madness of love.
1629
01:21:34,646 --> 01:21:36,690
And...
1630
01:21:37,232 --> 01:21:40,693
It doesn't matter at all
about worthiness, does it?
1631
01:21:40,694 --> 01:21:44,321
We invest our hearts in worthless stocks.
1632
01:21:44,322 --> 01:21:46,574
And we know they're worthless.
1633
01:21:46,575 --> 01:21:50,704
But we cling to them like little children
clutching their little stuffed bears.
1634
01:21:51,788 --> 01:21:54,833
Oh, Elizabeth.
1635
01:21:56,877 --> 01:21:58,128
Tell me truthfully.
1636
01:22:00,171 --> 01:22:01,673
How do you feel about me?
1637
01:22:05,010 --> 01:22:06,094
How do you mean?
1638
01:22:07,262 --> 01:22:08,263
I mean,
1639
01:22:09,264 --> 01:22:12,517
at the lake house,
with the light burning off the water,
1640
01:22:14,144 --> 01:22:16,146
we talked through half the night,
1641
01:22:17,314 --> 01:22:19,107
and I touched your shoulder...
1642
01:22:19,900 --> 01:22:22,527
Did you actually love me
a little bit that night?
1643
01:22:23,820 --> 01:22:25,405
You know I love you, Larry.
1644
01:22:28,033 --> 01:22:29,242
You do?
1645
01:22:32,579 --> 01:22:35,874
Just... not that way.
1646
01:22:43,882 --> 01:22:48,053
You said you'd drive 30 hours
to see Cooper.
1647
01:22:49,387 --> 01:22:51,848
How many hours would you drive to see me?
1648
01:22:52,682 --> 01:22:55,393
Oh. My hands are shaking.
1649
01:22:57,020 --> 01:22:59,605
I feel something wiser
and deeper for you.
1650
01:22:59,606 --> 01:23:02,024
- Mmm. Thank you.
- Respect.
1651
01:23:02,025 --> 01:23:06,070
Gratitude for the generosity
and selflessness you've shown me.
1652
01:23:06,071 --> 01:23:09,073
No one has ever been more interested
in my life than you have.
1653
01:23:09,074 --> 01:23:12,743
I don't deserve a friendship like yours.
I am so grateful for you.
1654
01:23:12,744 --> 01:23:14,912
I will be grateful forever.
1655
01:23:14,913 --> 01:23:17,665
I'm grateful to you, too,
for resurrecting me.
1656
01:23:17,666 --> 01:23:19,291
Stop.
1657
01:23:19,292 --> 01:23:20,668
Larry! There's people out here.
1658
01:23:20,669 --> 01:23:22,128
One second!
1659
01:23:27,133 --> 01:23:29,094
Can I ask you something?
1660
01:23:30,262 --> 01:23:32,805
Something that's probably
too personal for me to ask?
1661
01:23:32,806 --> 01:23:36,184
Too personal is the only thing
that I'm interested in.
1662
01:23:36,851 --> 01:23:39,688
Uh... My mother...
1663
01:23:40,397 --> 01:23:43,524
You know, she works for the Guild,
she knows everybody.
1664
01:23:43,525 --> 01:23:46,402
So she saw us spending time together
last summer...
1665
01:23:46,403 --> 01:23:48,280
I see where this is headed.
1666
01:23:49,531 --> 01:23:52,866
She said to me... I don't...
I don't know how to say this.
1667
01:23:52,867 --> 01:23:53,868
Just say it.
1668
01:23:56,162 --> 01:23:57,163
Okay.
1669
01:23:58,623 --> 01:24:00,666
She said to me, more than once,
1670
01:24:00,667 --> 01:24:03,461
"Elizabeth, not only is he twice your age,
1671
01:24:04,546 --> 01:24:08,549
"but I don't think
his primary interest is women."
1672
01:24:08,550 --> 01:24:09,676
What did you say?
1673
01:24:10,802 --> 01:24:13,345
I said, "Look, Mother, I know what I know.
1674
01:24:13,346 --> 01:24:14,972
"And I know what we're both feeling."
1675
01:24:14,973 --> 01:24:17,142
Mmm-hmm. What are we both feeling?
1676
01:24:21,438 --> 01:24:23,148
"Irrational adoration?"
1677
01:24:25,233 --> 01:24:30,405
And what may I ask does your mother
think she knows of my primary interest?
1678
01:24:31,573 --> 01:24:34,326
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said anything.
1679
01:24:35,160 --> 01:24:36,328
Please forgive me.
1680
01:24:37,787 --> 01:24:42,500
To all our mothers.
May they remain mercifully silent.
1681
01:24:43,752 --> 01:24:46,045
I apologize.
That was stupid of me to have asked.
1682
01:24:46,046 --> 01:24:48,048
And I do know what I know,
and what I feel.
1683
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:51,091
Here's what you tell that mother of yours,
1684
01:24:51,092 --> 01:24:52,635
as she sits by the fire,
1685
01:24:52,636 --> 01:24:55,638
wistfully counting up her royalties
from Oklahoma!
1686
01:24:55,639 --> 01:24:59,309
You tell her that Larry Hart
is drunk with beauty.
1687
01:25:00,393 --> 01:25:02,479
And italicize the word "drunk."
1688
01:25:02,979 --> 01:25:05,773
Drunk with beauty, wherever he finds it.
1689
01:25:05,774 --> 01:25:10,402
In men, in women,
in the smell of cigar stores,
1690
01:25:10,403 --> 01:25:15,282
in the impossible beauty
of a 20-year-old poet
1691
01:25:15,283 --> 01:25:20,038
with pale green eyes and two tiny freckles
on her left cheek.
1692
01:25:24,834 --> 01:25:25,919
Are you all right?
1693
01:25:26,962 --> 01:25:29,547
It's...
1694
01:25:29,548 --> 01:25:31,549
...my cigarette heart.
1695
01:25:31,550 --> 01:25:33,926
Larry, Dick Rodgers
is looking for his coat.
1696
01:25:33,927 --> 01:25:35,095
Coming.
1697
01:25:52,028 --> 01:25:53,320
Introduce me?
1698
01:25:53,321 --> 01:25:56,448
Thank you, Renee.
1699
01:25:56,449 --> 01:25:58,577
Wonderful, thank you so much.
1700
01:25:59,244 --> 01:26:03,540
Dick, I want to introduce you
to my protégé, Elizabeth Weiland.
1701
01:26:04,958 --> 01:26:06,126
Your protégé?
1702
01:26:07,002 --> 01:26:08,460
- Hello.
- Hello.
1703
01:26:08,461 --> 01:26:10,921
Well, you've got yourself
a damn good role model there
1704
01:26:10,922 --> 01:26:13,382
if you can stay away from the bourbon.
1705
01:26:13,383 --> 01:26:18,178
Mmm. She's interested in writing
and set design and costumes.
1706
01:26:18,179 --> 01:26:19,514
Okay, really?
1707
01:26:19,639 --> 01:26:21,808
Mr. Rodgers, the show tonight,
1708
01:26:22,517 --> 01:26:24,184
I thought it was magnificent.
1709
01:26:24,185 --> 01:26:25,352
Well, thank you.
1710
01:26:25,353 --> 01:26:27,605
It was as perfect a musical show
as I've ever seen.
1711
01:26:27,606 --> 01:26:30,024
Well, that's a lovely compliment.
1712
01:26:30,025 --> 01:26:32,151
Your mother's with the Guild, am I right?
1713
01:26:32,152 --> 01:26:34,570
- Yes, Theresa Weiland.
- Yeah, Theresa, yeah.
1714
01:26:34,571 --> 01:26:37,282
- Right, so you've seen a lot of shows.
- Too many shows.
1715
01:26:39,284 --> 01:26:40,367
Yeah.
1716
01:26:40,368 --> 01:26:41,369
I know what you mean.
1717
01:26:41,953 --> 01:26:44,747
But tonight what I saw was what
I'd always hoped a show might be.
1718
01:26:44,748 --> 01:26:47,500
Uplifting. Smart. Magical.
1719
01:26:47,626 --> 01:26:51,046
Larry, this is the most perceptive young
woman you've ever introduced me to.
1720
01:26:52,589 --> 01:26:54,090
- I've had a good teacher.
- Mmm-hmm.
1721
01:26:54,883 --> 01:26:56,634
So, what do you write?
1722
01:26:56,635 --> 01:26:58,470
At this point, poetry mostly.
1723
01:26:58,929 --> 01:27:00,888
It's very strong.
1724
01:27:00,889 --> 01:27:02,681
And you do set design, too?
1725
01:27:02,682 --> 01:27:04,141
- I'm studying.
- Right.
1726
01:27:04,142 --> 01:27:08,103
Well, I'd love to...
read some of your poems.
1727
01:27:08,104 --> 01:27:13,193
Uh... See your sketches. This is my...
This is my private number.
1728
01:27:14,694 --> 01:27:15,779
I'm flattered.
1729
01:27:16,488 --> 01:27:20,074
I haven't seen Dorothy around.
Is... Is... Is your wife here?
1730
01:27:20,075 --> 01:27:22,451
No, she's headed back to the apartment.
We're all going to meet up there
1731
01:27:22,452 --> 01:27:24,411
to look at the late reviews, Larry.
1732
01:27:24,412 --> 01:27:27,915
Yeah, so I'd love for you
to join us, Elizabeth.
1733
01:27:27,916 --> 01:27:30,834
It would be refreshing to have someone
of the younger generation amongst us.
1734
01:27:30,835 --> 01:27:32,920
And maybe you can
explain to me, Elizabeth,
1735
01:27:32,921 --> 01:27:35,382
why exactly the young girls
scream over Sinatra.
1736
01:27:36,007 --> 01:27:37,883
I don't scream over Sinatra.
1737
01:27:37,884 --> 01:27:40,010
No, she screams under Sinatra.
1738
01:27:40,011 --> 01:27:41,721
Okay, Larry!
1739
01:27:43,348 --> 01:27:45,558
Larry, of course, you're welcome to come.
1740
01:27:45,559 --> 01:27:49,311
Oh, I'm going to try to make it, I'm just
throwing a little soirée over at my place.
1741
01:27:49,312 --> 01:27:50,771
I've got the Golden Gate Quartet coming...
1742
01:27:50,772 --> 01:27:54,650
Well, I can't compete with Larry
in the soirée department.
1743
01:27:54,651 --> 01:27:56,819
- I'd love to stop over.
- You would?
1744
01:27:56,820 --> 01:27:58,445
Dick, you coming?
1745
01:27:58,446 --> 01:27:59,905
Yep, yep.
1746
01:27:59,906 --> 01:28:01,198
Do you have a ride?
1747
01:28:01,199 --> 01:28:02,908
You know what,
I can take her in a cab later.
1748
01:28:02,909 --> 01:28:04,618
We're going right now
if you want to come with us?
1749
01:28:04,619 --> 01:28:06,246
- I'd love to.
- Great.
1750
01:28:07,038 --> 01:28:09,498
Just let me inform my mom.
1751
01:28:09,499 --> 01:28:11,293
The dutiful daughter.
1752
01:28:14,087 --> 01:28:17,465
Wow. She is...
She is so lovely, right?
1753
01:28:18,633 --> 01:28:20,593
She's really striking.
1754
01:28:20,594 --> 01:28:22,970
Are you... Are you and she...
1755
01:28:22,971 --> 01:28:26,808
Oh, no, no. I mean, I'm in love with her,
1756
01:28:27,475 --> 01:28:30,395
but, uh, everybody's in love with her.
1757
01:28:31,605 --> 01:28:33,480
Just not that way.
1758
01:28:33,481 --> 01:28:34,482
Okay.
1759
01:28:38,570 --> 01:28:39,696
Hmm.
1760
01:28:44,075 --> 01:28:45,701
So we'll see you later on tonight?
1761
01:28:45,702 --> 01:28:46,953
Absolutely.
1762
01:28:48,955 --> 01:28:50,540
Mmm-hmm.
1763
01:28:51,541 --> 01:28:52,709
Hmm.
1764
01:28:53,919 --> 01:28:55,295
Thank you for everything.
1765
01:28:57,005 --> 01:28:58,714
Mr. Rodgers.
1766
01:28:58,715 --> 01:28:59,966
Miss Weiland.
1767
01:29:02,052 --> 01:29:03,094
Thank you.
1768
01:29:03,887 --> 01:29:05,347
And we'll see you later, Larry, right?
1769
01:29:08,975 --> 01:29:12,938
"With a song in my heart,
I behold your adorable face!"
1770
01:29:35,293 --> 01:29:38,712
You ever meet someone,
and you know instantly
1771
01:29:38,713 --> 01:29:43,008
that both your lives
are going to be irretrievably altered?
1772
01:29:43,009 --> 01:29:46,972
Just as I suspected.
You are a sentimentalist.
1773
01:29:48,974 --> 01:29:50,266
When do you get off work?
1774
01:29:50,267 --> 01:29:51,892
I got to lock this joint up.
1775
01:29:51,893 --> 01:29:54,812
Ah, what about you, Knuckles,
you're done here, right?
1776
01:29:54,813 --> 01:29:56,272
Not yet.
1777
01:29:56,273 --> 01:29:59,818
Oh, 'cause I am throwing an enormous party
at my place tonight.
1778
01:30:02,946 --> 01:30:04,781
I forgot to give her the presents.
1779
01:30:07,993 --> 01:30:10,244
I'm having such trouble
with sleeves recently.
1780
01:30:10,245 --> 01:30:12,455
I have arthritis in this shoulder.
1781
01:30:13,415 --> 01:30:15,292
I'm going to have to start
wearing a cloak.
1782
01:30:15,917 --> 01:30:19,880
I mean it. Single-handedly,
I'm going to bring back the cloak.
1783
01:30:24,801 --> 01:30:30,306
You're going to see me
on opening nights with a top hat
1784
01:30:30,307 --> 01:30:35,186
and a cloak, flitting through the fog
with a silver-tipped cane.
1785
01:30:35,979 --> 01:30:38,188
You boys are coming tonight, right?
1786
01:30:38,189 --> 01:30:41,276
She's going to be there.
I'm telling you, she will.
1787
01:30:41,902 --> 01:30:43,360
She'll arrive late.
1788
01:30:43,361 --> 01:30:47,615
And get this,
'cause this is the remarkable part,
1789
01:30:47,616 --> 01:30:51,201
sometime late, maybe around 5:00 a.m.,
1790
01:30:51,202 --> 01:30:53,621
after a little too much Malbec,
1791
01:30:53,622 --> 01:30:56,790
she's going to turn to me and say,
1792
01:30:56,791 --> 01:31:00,002
"Hey, Larry, what are you reading?
1793
01:31:00,003 --> 01:31:02,421
"Hey, Larry, when's your birthday?"
1794
01:31:02,422 --> 01:31:05,132
For the first time in her life,
1795
01:31:05,133 --> 01:31:09,012
she's going to be interested in me.
1796
01:31:09,846 --> 01:31:12,181
It has to happen sometime, right?
1797
01:31:12,182 --> 01:31:14,516
All the other guys have disappointed her.
1798
01:31:14,517 --> 01:31:17,562
But I never will. I'm just...
1799
01:31:18,605 --> 01:31:21,024
a little touch of Larry in the night.
1800
01:31:22,609 --> 01:31:25,153
Knuckles. Some travelin' music.
1801
01:31:29,616 --> 01:31:30,617
Blue moon
1802
01:31:32,911 --> 01:31:36,248
You saw me standing alone
1803
01:31:36,873 --> 01:31:37,957
Wise guy.
1804
01:31:37,958 --> 01:31:41,253
Without a dream in my heart
1805
01:31:42,921 --> 01:31:45,966
Without a love of my own
1806
01:31:47,259 --> 01:31:51,429
Well, it's a helluva lot better than
The Surrey With the Fucking Fringe On Top.
1807
01:31:52,222 --> 01:31:55,308
Larry, you coming uptown
to Dick's with us?
1808
01:31:55,475 --> 01:31:58,019
Oh, no, you go on ahead,
I'll be up there later.
1809
01:31:59,062 --> 01:32:03,607
You knew just what I was there for
1810
01:32:03,608 --> 01:32:07,404
{\an8}You heard me saying a prayer for
1811
01:32:08,822 --> 01:32:12,157
Someone I really could care for
1812
01:32:12,158 --> 01:32:16,579
That's not bad. Triple feminine rhymes,
and they all make sense.
1813
01:32:16,580 --> 01:32:19,332
And then suddenly you appeared before me
1814
01:32:20,458 --> 01:32:24,045
The only one my arms will ever hold
1815
01:32:25,130 --> 01:32:27,590
And I heard somebody whisper
1816
01:32:27,591 --> 01:32:29,800
Please adore me
1817
01:32:29,801 --> 01:32:34,889
And when I looked
The moon had turned to gold
1818
01:32:34,890 --> 01:32:36,474
Blue moon
1819
01:32:43,857 --> 01:32:48,612
Larry, I think this is the beginning
of a beautiful friendship.
1820
01:32:49,195 --> 01:32:50,614
"Isn't it romantic?"
1821
01:32:51,489 --> 01:32:52,657
Not really, no.
1822
01:32:56,703 --> 01:33:00,122
You know, it wasn't even supposed to
be called Blue Moon.
1823
01:33:00,123 --> 01:33:03,584
I called it The Bad in Every Man.
1824
01:33:03,585 --> 01:33:06,462
We wrote it for this movie,
Manhattan Melodrama.
1825
01:33:06,463 --> 01:33:10,466
Jack Robbins, formerly "Rabinowitz,"
he had his name circumcised over at MGM,
1826
01:33:10,467 --> 01:33:12,468
he hears the song,
he calls us into his office,
1827
01:33:12,469 --> 01:33:14,136
he lowers his pastrami, says...
1828
01:33:14,137 --> 01:33:17,223
"Dick, I love the melody.
1829
01:33:17,224 --> 01:33:19,683
"Strong as anything you've ever written.
1830
01:33:19,684 --> 01:33:24,146
"But, Larry, those words,
they're too artsy-fartsy!
1831
01:33:24,147 --> 01:33:27,650
"They're not too artsy-fartsy for me.
I know how brilliant you guys are.
1832
01:33:27,651 --> 01:33:30,194
"But you have to write
for the schmucks in the dark.
1833
01:33:30,195 --> 01:33:31,779
"Nobody's going to sing that lyric."
1834
01:33:31,780 --> 01:33:33,530
So I said,
"What's wrong with it?"
1835
01:33:33,531 --> 01:33:36,450
He said... [IN NASAL VOICE] "I can't even
remember the fucking title!
1836
01:33:36,451 --> 01:33:39,370
"Boys, give me
something I can promote."
1837
01:33:39,371 --> 01:33:41,789
So I say,
"What do you want me to call it?"
1838
01:33:41,790 --> 01:33:42,873
Blue Moon?
1839
01:33:42,874 --> 01:33:45,835
Punchline, biggest hit we ever wrote.