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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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Fuck.
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Yeah.
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WQXR notes the passing
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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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 favour."
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Just remember,
I got this gun pointed at your dick.
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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."
-"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?
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 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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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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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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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.
-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.
Are you ready for the password?
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"Nobody ever loved me that much."
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Slow!
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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
Like a daisy I awake
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You know that song?
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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...
-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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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
equally well with either hand."
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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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Keep playing. You're good.
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-Thank you. I'm an aspiring composer.
-"Aspiring"?
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That means you're breathing, right?
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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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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.
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I sat in my box seat tonight
and watched "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-carat hit
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and it was a 14-carat piece of shit.
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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, 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,
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there are moments in my work
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when I have made something bigger
than myself.
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I agree, definitely.
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Thank you. The words were bigger
than the music,
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bigger than the characters
who sang them,
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and they approached, for maybe
one-half second, something immortal.
245
00:14:31,455 --> 00:14:34,332
Excuse my limitless self-regard,
but they did,
246
00:14:34,416 --> 00:14:37,377
and if nobody else is going to say it,
then I'm going to.
247
00:14:37,461 --> 00:14:40,714
I have written a handful of words
that are going to cheat death.
248
00:14:40,797 --> 00:14:43,341
Spoken with the modesty of a true lunatic.
249
00:14:43,425 --> 00:14:45,552
Hey! When Shakespeare wrote,
250
00:14:45,635 --> 00:14:47,846
"Not marble nor gilded monuments
251
00:14:47,929 --> 00:14:50,640
"Of princes
shall outlive this powerful rhyme,"
252
00:14:50,724 --> 00:14:53,268
did people say, "My God, what an ego"?
253
00:14:53,351 --> 00:14:57,898
No, they said he is a genius,
and he knows his work is going to last.
254
00:14:57,981 --> 00:14:59,107
So now you're Shakespeare?
255
00:14:59,191 --> 00:15:02,694
Look, Oklahoma! is going to win
the goddamn Pulitzer. I know that.
256
00:15:02,778 --> 00:15:05,071
High schools are going to put it on
from now till doomsday,
257
00:15:05,155 --> 00:15:07,949
because it is so inoffensive.
258
00:15:08,033 --> 00:15:11,161
But really, who wants inoffensive art?
259
00:15:11,244 --> 00:15:14,581
Knuckles, are you listening to me?
I'm trying to answer your question.
260
00:15:14,664 --> 00:15:17,667
Is that why God put us on the planet,
to not offend people?
261
00:15:17,751 --> 00:15:20,504
The problem with Oklahoma! is this,
262
00:15:20,587 --> 00:15:23,507
and the problem was right there
in the original play,
263
00:15:23,590 --> 00:15:25,175
Green Grow the Fucking Lilacs.
264
00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:27,844
And Dick first showed that play to me,
all right?
265
00:15:27,928 --> 00:15:30,347
He asked me to adapt it first,
and I said no,
266
00:15:30,430 --> 00:15:32,182
and I don't mind that it's nostalgic,
267
00:15:32,265 --> 00:15:34,142
but Oklahoma!, exclamation point,
268
00:15:34,226 --> 00:15:37,437
is nostalgic for a world
that never existed,
269
00:15:37,521 --> 00:15:42,526
and do you really want to write a show
where the main character's name is Curly?
270
00:15:43,485 --> 00:15:45,070
Here's an idea for a song.
271
00:15:45,153 --> 00:15:47,447
"Hey, Moe! Hey, Larry!
I Just Stepped in Cow Shit!"
272
00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:53,036
I mean, am I bitter?
273
00:15:54,788 --> 00:15:57,374
We write together for a quarter a century,
274
00:15:57,916 --> 00:16:00,919
and the first show
he writes with someone else
275
00:16:01,002 --> 00:16:04,047
is gonna be the biggest hit he ever had.
Am I bitter?
276
00:16:04,131 --> 00:16:05,799
-Larry...
-Fuck yes.
277
00:16:05,882 --> 00:16:09,511
But I need to tell you about Elizabeth.
278
00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:10,887
I need to cleanse my heart.
279
00:16:10,971 --> 00:16:12,848
Here we go. The 20-year-old...
280
00:16:12,931 --> 00:16:14,474
She's going to come in here any second.
281
00:16:15,517 --> 00:16:17,352
Rodgers is gonna be here tonight, right?
282
00:16:17,436 --> 00:16:20,522
-Don't worry, I'll introduce you.
-That'd be great.
283
00:16:20,605 --> 00:16:22,232
I'm trying to get somebody
to listen to my songs.
284
00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:24,609
Well, listen and learn.
285
00:16:24,693 --> 00:16:27,863
I'm telling you about Elizabeth.
286
00:16:28,947 --> 00:16:31,032
There's something appealingly...
287
00:16:32,033 --> 00:16:34,202
ethereal about her face.
288
00:16:34,286 --> 00:16:35,537
What the fuck does that mean?
289
00:16:35,620 --> 00:16:38,248
Look, I got her all these presents.
290
00:16:38,331 --> 00:16:40,459
You bought her something from Klein's?
291
00:16:41,209 --> 00:16:42,294
She's gonna love this.
292
00:16:42,377 --> 00:16:43,837
Yeah, but that's used shit.
What are you doing?
293
00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,174
This is an authentic first-edition.
You don't understand the magic
294
00:16:47,257 --> 00:16:48,425
and the mystery of this girl.
295
00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:51,762
"I have been waiting for this
my whole life."
296
00:16:52,304 --> 00:16:54,931
It's what Somerset Maugham
says in that thing, you remember?
297
00:16:56,725 --> 00:16:57,726
-Me?
-Yeah.
298
00:16:57,809 --> 00:17:01,646
"There's always one who loves
and one who lets himself be loved."
299
00:17:02,731 --> 00:17:03,899
That's the truth, isn't it?
300
00:17:03,982 --> 00:17:05,150
Of course, you know you're in trouble
301
00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:06,651
when you're looking
for the meaning of life
302
00:17:06,734 --> 00:17:09,237
in a book with the word "bondage"
in the title.
303
00:17:10,571 --> 00:17:11,781
Larry...
304
00:17:14,785 --> 00:17:16,077
She's a girl. Right?
305
00:17:16,619 --> 00:17:19,955
Okay. See, I always thought
that your interests went more towards...
306
00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:21,665
My interests?
307
00:17:22,876 --> 00:17:24,795
So now you're going to analyse me?
308
00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:27,255
Thank you, Doctor Bacardi.
309
00:17:28,131 --> 00:17:30,550
Look, I met her at rehearsals
for By Jupiter.
310
00:17:30,634 --> 00:17:31,802
And she's not an actress.
311
00:17:31,885 --> 00:17:34,596
She's a college student. Sophomore.
312
00:17:34,679 --> 00:17:37,599
Yale. Not the general school,
that's for the guys.
313
00:17:37,682 --> 00:17:40,852
This is the School of Fine Arts!
314
00:17:40,936 --> 00:17:44,397
Bohemian goddesses in grey smocks
315
00:17:44,481 --> 00:17:47,025
mixing paint in morning light.
316
00:17:47,943 --> 00:17:49,903
She's all of 20 years old.
317
00:17:50,445 --> 00:17:51,571
And you're what?
318
00:17:51,655 --> 00:17:53,281
A youthful 47!
319
00:17:55,408 --> 00:17:57,035
You know what I call her in my letters?
320
00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:00,372
"My irreplaceable Elizabeth!"
Can you believe it?
321
00:18:00,455 --> 00:18:02,999
If I could write what's in my heart
this second,
322
00:18:03,083 --> 00:18:05,961
I would have the entire audience
levitating.
323
00:18:06,044 --> 00:18:08,046
Oklahoma! would close in shame
324
00:18:08,130 --> 00:18:10,841
if it could hear eight bars
of what's in my heart.
325
00:18:10,924 --> 00:18:13,176
And I've been in eight bars tonight,
so I know what I'm talking about.
326
00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:14,511
Go!
327
00:18:15,178 --> 00:18:18,348
Last summer, I found myself awake
at 4:30 in the morning.
328
00:18:18,432 --> 00:18:20,308
And all I had done
the previous five hours...
329
00:18:20,392 --> 00:18:23,437
What the hell
are you lookin' at your watch for?
330
00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,523
-Larry, I'm working here.
-What the hell do you think I'm doing?
331
00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:28,567
And I'm not even getting paid. All right.
332
00:18:32,195 --> 00:18:33,196
More flowers...
333
00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:34,865
Eddie, get Sven another drink!
334
00:18:34,948 --> 00:18:36,366
...for Richard Rodgers.
335
00:18:36,450 --> 00:18:38,493
Jesus, how much did those cost?
336
00:18:38,577 --> 00:18:41,079
Sixteen dollars. Plus delivery.
337
00:18:42,706 --> 00:18:45,876
"Dick, I've got a beautiful feeling,
everything's going your way.
338
00:18:45,959 --> 00:18:47,210
"Love, Dorothy."
339
00:18:47,294 --> 00:18:48,879
She's quoting Oscar?
340
00:18:55,969 --> 00:18:59,973
I write with her husband for 24 years,
341
00:19:00,056 --> 00:19:02,058
and she's quoting Oscar?
342
00:19:02,142 --> 00:19:05,771
91st on the Park, The Ardsley.
We'll be going late.
343
00:19:05,854 --> 00:19:07,773
All right. Well, thanks again, fellas.
344
00:19:11,860 --> 00:19:12,861
Good evening.
345
00:19:25,081 --> 00:19:28,043
Indulge me for one second.
346
00:19:28,126 --> 00:19:30,587
Let me recreate for you, Elizabeth.
347
00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:32,964
Enough! Did you screw her or not?
348
00:19:33,465 --> 00:19:36,635
Show some class, Eddie.
Knuckles, may I speak with you?
349
00:19:36,718 --> 00:19:38,011
Sure, yeah.
350
00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:40,138
So, did you screw her or not?
351
00:19:45,811 --> 00:19:47,187
Elizabeth!
352
00:19:48,230 --> 00:19:49,231
Larry!
353
00:19:49,314 --> 00:19:51,733
My irreplaceable Elizabeth!
354
00:19:51,817 --> 00:19:53,026
I'm so happy to see you.
355
00:19:54,361 --> 00:19:56,822
-Do you like the hair?
-I love it.
356
00:19:56,905 --> 00:19:59,157
-It's much better than the red.
-I think so.
357
00:19:59,241 --> 00:20:02,994
I mean, I liked the red, too.
But this is much more other-worldly.
358
00:20:03,078 --> 00:20:04,287
I have to go set up for the party.
359
00:20:04,371 --> 00:20:06,498
No, no, no. I got you some flowers!
360
00:20:07,958 --> 00:20:10,627
-I'm overwhelmed.
-Well, I have that effect on people.
361
00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:13,088
-I have so much to tell you.
-Like what?
362
00:20:13,171 --> 00:20:15,841
-I've been writing in my journal again.
-I hope you let me read it.
363
00:20:15,924 --> 00:20:17,717
No, no, no, no. The big one.
364
00:20:21,346 --> 00:20:22,764
And these are what
Richard Rodgers is getting?
365
00:20:24,099 --> 00:20:27,144
Larry, my mother would die
if she saw this.
366
00:20:27,227 --> 00:20:29,438
-With your permission.
-Permission granted.
367
00:20:31,690 --> 00:20:34,276
-That guy I told you about?
-Cooper?
368
00:20:35,402 --> 00:20:37,028
-It finally happened.
-No!
369
00:20:37,112 --> 00:20:38,363
Yes.
370
00:20:39,156 --> 00:20:43,076
On my birthday.
The night of my 20th birthday.
371
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,370
Pretty dramatic actually.
You could write a play about it.
372
00:20:45,454 --> 00:20:47,456
A musical. He Has Risen.
373
00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:50,083
-Larry...
-It's an Easter musical!
374
00:20:50,167 --> 00:20:51,585
It's very religious!
375
00:20:53,003 --> 00:20:54,921
Let me clarify by saying
it almost happened.
376
00:20:55,005 --> 00:20:56,214
Clarify immediately!
377
00:20:56,298 --> 00:20:58,508
-I'm gonna tell you the whole story later.
-No, no, I demand
378
00:20:58,592 --> 00:21:00,761
to know the shorthand version now.
379
00:21:01,511 --> 00:21:03,305
The shorthand version? Okay.
380
00:21:05,432 --> 00:21:07,851
The skin on his back was flawless.
381
00:21:08,393 --> 00:21:09,394
Gotta run.
382
00:21:10,562 --> 00:21:13,315
You're going to introduce me
to Richard Rodgers, right?
383
00:21:13,398 --> 00:21:14,399
Before the evening is over,
384
00:21:14,483 --> 00:21:16,693
you're going to get a huge handful
of Dick.
385
00:21:16,777 --> 00:21:18,612
Larry! You're so vulgar!
386
00:21:20,197 --> 00:21:23,033
Handful of Dick, that's funny. Hey...
387
00:21:25,952 --> 00:21:28,538
I'm writing an entire musical about her.
388
00:21:28,622 --> 00:21:32,417
It's inspired by those Frank Capra
war pictures Why We Fight.
389
00:21:32,501 --> 00:21:33,752
This one will be called
390
00:21:34,377 --> 00:21:36,588
Why We Fuck.
391
00:21:36,671 --> 00:21:39,382
And the big ballad at the end will be
392
00:21:39,466 --> 00:21:42,177
The Skin On His Back Was Flawless.
393
00:21:44,387 --> 00:21:46,181
Of course, when you're 20,
394
00:21:46,264 --> 00:21:49,518
what other commodity do you have
to trade in on except your body?
395
00:21:49,601 --> 00:21:51,895
You haven't done anything, right?
396
00:21:53,021 --> 00:21:56,316
Can you imagine what Elizabeth would write
if she saw my back?
397
00:21:57,609 --> 00:21:59,569
"The skin on his back
398
00:21:59,653 --> 00:22:02,989
"looked like a white bed sheet
someone had thrown-up on.
399
00:22:03,073 --> 00:22:07,119
"His pecker looked like the horn
of a retarded unicorn."
400
00:22:10,622 --> 00:22:11,790
Just one...
401
00:22:12,916 --> 00:22:15,043
to get me through congratulating him.
402
00:22:15,127 --> 00:22:16,378
Larry.
403
00:22:17,629 --> 00:22:22,759
To the skin on her back
like every other part of her,
404
00:22:22,843 --> 00:22:24,428
flawless.
405
00:22:27,347 --> 00:22:28,682
Wow.
406
00:22:28,765 --> 00:22:34,229
How can so much pleasure be compressed
into so small a container?
407
00:22:34,312 --> 00:22:37,524
That's it. Absolutely no more. Agreed?
408
00:22:43,405 --> 00:22:45,282
God! I miss Gershwin.
409
00:22:49,327 --> 00:22:53,957
I bet I saw Porgy and Bess more times
than any other person in this city.
410
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:55,959
Best line in Porgy,
411
00:22:56,042 --> 00:22:59,963
"When Gawd made cripple,
He mean him to be lonely."
412
00:23:02,758 --> 00:23:04,968
Did you ever think
your entire life is a play
413
00:23:05,886 --> 00:23:08,221
and that, you know,
99% of the people in it,
414
00:23:08,305 --> 00:23:09,723
they got no lines, you know?
415
00:23:09,806 --> 00:23:12,392
They're just like extras.
416
00:23:12,476 --> 00:23:17,063
And you,
you're just an extra in their play.
417
00:23:17,564 --> 00:23:19,608
Deep. Very deep.
418
00:23:19,691 --> 00:23:21,568
-I got thoughts, too, you know.
-Really?
419
00:23:21,651 --> 00:23:22,903
I thought you were just an extra.
420
00:23:22,986 --> 00:23:25,447
Will somebody get these fucking flowers
off my bar?
421
00:23:25,989 --> 00:23:26,990
Okay!
422
00:23:30,577 --> 00:23:32,412
You've got to see her as I did.
423
00:23:33,330 --> 00:23:35,957
-I just seen her.
-No, the first time.
424
00:23:36,041 --> 00:23:37,709
If you can't see that,
425
00:23:37,793 --> 00:23:40,837
you can't understand
what this whole night is about.
426
00:23:40,921 --> 00:23:42,506
I'm beginning to think
you didn't screw her.
427
00:23:42,589 --> 00:23:46,384
I want to practise this trick on you
before I do it for her.
428
00:23:46,468 --> 00:23:48,053
And I'm not showing it to her as a trick.
429
00:23:48,136 --> 00:23:52,307
I'm showing it to her
as an experiment to prove
430
00:23:52,390 --> 00:23:54,768
there's an extra-sensory link
between us.
431
00:23:54,851 --> 00:23:56,478
She believes in all that horseshit,
you know,
432
00:23:56,561 --> 00:23:58,688
talking for 20 minutes
about psychokinesis.
433
00:23:58,772 --> 00:24:00,482
I don't understand a fucking word
she's saying.
434
00:24:00,565 --> 00:24:02,692
I'm sitting there, nodding, thinking,
435
00:24:02,776 --> 00:24:05,362
"Is she really wearing
a grape-coloured brassiere?"
436
00:24:08,073 --> 00:24:11,118
And later, I'm going to teach you boys
my own card game.
437
00:24:11,201 --> 00:24:14,037
-Cocksucker's Rummy!
-Larry, language.
438
00:24:14,121 --> 00:24:15,997
You're offended by the word "cocksucker"?
439
00:24:16,081 --> 00:24:18,250
All right, I won't use it.
I give you my word
440
00:24:18,333 --> 00:24:23,422
as a cocksucker. But let me tell you
about the first time I saw her.
441
00:24:23,505 --> 00:24:25,132
I think I'd rather see the card trick.
442
00:24:25,215 --> 00:24:26,633
Me, too.
443
00:24:26,716 --> 00:24:29,553
You know what the sexiest thing
on the planet earth is?
444
00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:32,139
A half-erect penis.
445
00:24:32,222 --> 00:24:34,057
Jesus Christ, Larry,
nobody wants to hear this.
446
00:24:34,141 --> 00:24:35,225
I'm not talking to you.
447
00:24:35,308 --> 00:24:36,560
-Who you talking to?
-Me.
448
00:24:36,643 --> 00:24:38,687
I got to talk to somebody interesting.
I mean it, though.
449
00:24:38,770 --> 00:24:41,148
A half-erect penis is a promise.
450
00:24:41,231 --> 00:24:44,276
A fully-erect penis
is an exclamation point.
451
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,863
As a writer, it offends me.
It's too loud, it's too adolescent.
452
00:24:47,946 --> 00:24:49,364
The story's already over.
453
00:24:49,448 --> 00:24:54,035
But a half-erect penis,
is it going or is it coming?
454
00:24:56,746 --> 00:25:01,334
But women appeal to me precisely
for their absence of penises.
455
00:25:01,418 --> 00:25:02,419
Me, too.
456
00:25:03,086 --> 00:25:06,965
They live in a much more interesting
emotional landscape than we do.
457
00:25:07,048 --> 00:25:09,718
A landscape we can only dream about.
458
00:25:09,801 --> 00:25:12,721
But this evening
is not about landscapes.
459
00:25:12,804 --> 00:25:15,849
It's a portrait of Elizabeth,
and only Elizabeth.
460
00:25:15,932 --> 00:25:16,975
Here we fucking go again.
461
00:25:17,058 --> 00:25:18,769
Wait, you saw
that she was beautiful, right?
462
00:25:18,852 --> 00:25:22,814
I mean, if not classically beautiful,
then, what's the right word...
463
00:25:25,776 --> 00:25:26,818
Nice tits.
464
00:25:27,736 --> 00:25:31,239
Small but very inviting.
465
00:25:32,407 --> 00:25:33,992
I wish I could paint her.
466
00:25:34,075 --> 00:25:38,205
That seems to me the most intimate way
of looking at a person.
467
00:25:38,288 --> 00:25:39,790
At the same time, the least sentimental.
468
00:25:39,873 --> 00:25:42,667
To accurately reproduce
the planes of her face,
469
00:25:42,751 --> 00:25:45,879
the two tiny freckles on her left cheek.
470
00:25:47,631 --> 00:25:50,634
You look familiar.
I've seen your picture somewhere.
471
00:25:52,094 --> 00:25:53,095
You're a writer?
472
00:25:55,347 --> 00:25:58,100
Well, then you will appreciate this story.
473
00:25:58,183 --> 00:26:00,018
Because it concerns the...
474
00:26:03,438 --> 00:26:04,439
Ineffable?
475
00:26:05,482 --> 00:26:07,359
That's the perfect word.
476
00:26:07,442 --> 00:26:10,403
Christ! You're E.B. White!
You're "Andy" White!
477
00:26:12,364 --> 00:26:16,243
I cannot tell you
how much I enjoy your essays.
478
00:26:16,326 --> 00:26:18,703
Nothing has given me more pleasure.
479
00:26:18,787 --> 00:26:21,123
-I'm in love with your language.
-Thank you.
480
00:26:21,206 --> 00:26:22,415
I'm in love with your punctuation.
481
00:26:22,499 --> 00:26:24,084
You can't move a single comma. Am I right?
482
00:26:24,167 --> 00:26:26,503
I mean, you're a musician, White.
483
00:26:26,586 --> 00:26:27,712
You're the musician.
484
00:26:27,796 --> 00:26:32,300
You know, you, above all people,
will appreciate this story.
485
00:26:32,384 --> 00:26:34,678
This girl, Elizabeth.
486
00:26:34,761 --> 00:26:37,472
I... I can't do my act for her.
You know what I mean?
487
00:26:37,556 --> 00:26:40,517
She wouldn't be interested.
She never asks me about me.
488
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,520
Never. And it isn't so much indifference,
I think,
489
00:26:43,603 --> 00:26:45,188
as much as we both recognise
490
00:26:45,272 --> 00:26:47,357
that she's legitimately
more interesting than I am.
491
00:26:47,441 --> 00:26:49,151
And I genuinely mean that.
492
00:26:49,234 --> 00:26:51,069
Did you guys see her hair?
493
00:26:51,153 --> 00:26:54,823
That's what I first noticed when
she walked into the theatre last July.
494
00:26:54,906 --> 00:26:57,951
It was as if she were breathing
different air than I was.
495
00:26:58,869 --> 00:27:01,121
-I like that.
-I'm telling you, White,
496
00:27:01,204 --> 00:27:03,498
she would make a great musical!
497
00:27:03,582 --> 00:27:06,918
And not one goddamn corn stalk
in the whole show!
498
00:27:07,002 --> 00:27:09,755
And, hey, fellas, just for the record,
499
00:27:09,838 --> 00:27:13,091
"The corn is as high as an elephant's eye"
500
00:27:13,175 --> 00:27:17,429
is the stupidest lyric in the history
of American songwriting.
501
00:27:17,512 --> 00:27:19,973
Yes, it makes perfect sense,
and, yes, it scans,
502
00:27:20,056 --> 00:27:24,019
but the image of an Oklahoma cornfield
503
00:27:24,102 --> 00:27:26,897
with a fucking elephant
standing in the middle of it?
504
00:27:26,980 --> 00:27:29,441
-I like elephants.
-Yeah, we all like elephants, Eddie.
505
00:27:29,524 --> 00:27:31,359
Look, Andy, I need you to see this.
506
00:27:31,443 --> 00:27:33,069
I'm listening to her talk,
507
00:27:33,153 --> 00:27:35,155
but I couldn't tell you
a single word she said
508
00:27:35,238 --> 00:27:37,199
'cause all I'm really thinking is,
509
00:27:37,282 --> 00:27:39,868
"Wait till you feel the warmth
of her glance,
510
00:27:39,951 --> 00:27:42,746
"pensive and sweet and wise."
511
00:27:42,829 --> 00:27:47,042
I was writing about her
when I wrote that lyric.
512
00:27:47,125 --> 00:27:50,921
Three perfect words, in the perfect order.
513
00:27:51,588 --> 00:27:55,801
And, you tell me, what other lyricist
could've gotten away with "pensive"?
514
00:27:55,884 --> 00:27:56,885
What song was that?
515
00:27:57,552 --> 00:27:59,679
Just telling you,
when I'm good, I'm really good.
516
00:27:59,763 --> 00:28:02,224
Just the sound of it!
That's what a writer does.
517
00:28:02,307 --> 00:28:07,229
We wear our vulnerability like a cloak
for all the world to witness.
518
00:28:07,979 --> 00:28:09,439
I like the word "cloak".
519
00:28:09,523 --> 00:28:11,399
That's 'cause it's an antique like us.
520
00:28:12,150 --> 00:28:13,485
Can I get you another drink?
521
00:28:16,071 --> 00:28:17,114
Sure. Why not?
522
00:28:17,197 --> 00:28:19,407
I can think of a thousand reasons why not,
523
00:28:19,491 --> 00:28:21,660
but they can't compete
with the reasons why.
524
00:28:21,743 --> 00:28:24,371
Eddie, pass the Lord
and praise the house physician!
525
00:28:24,454 --> 00:28:26,790
Another round! Just a little, just...
526
00:28:28,792 --> 00:28:32,504
You know what I loved in that essay
you wrote about Florida?
527
00:28:32,587 --> 00:28:33,588
That line.
528
00:28:34,297 --> 00:28:40,762
"The sea answers all questions
and always the same way... 'So soon?'"
529
00:28:41,972 --> 00:28:43,390
Jesus.
530
00:28:43,473 --> 00:28:47,269
To take a sound
and transform it into what?
531
00:28:48,395 --> 00:28:50,480
A sigh of eternity.
532
00:28:51,690 --> 00:28:53,150
My diminutive gift.
533
00:28:54,276 --> 00:28:59,781
To the poetry that pours down on us
from a thousand unexpected sources.
534
00:28:59,865 --> 00:29:01,199
To your poetry.
535
00:29:07,247 --> 00:29:10,167
Look, she's 20, I'm 47.
536
00:29:10,250 --> 00:29:13,128
Let's discuss this
like two sensible alcoholics.
537
00:29:13,211 --> 00:29:17,007
It was in the beginning,
everything was exactly as it seemed.
538
00:29:17,090 --> 00:29:19,926
I was her mentor,
and I suppose I was, you know,
539
00:29:20,010 --> 00:29:22,345
the "grand old man" of the theatre
in her eyes.
540
00:29:22,429 --> 00:29:25,098
I'm over at the Shubert
rehearsing By Jupiter,
541
00:29:25,182 --> 00:29:27,225
the show is a holy mess.
542
00:29:27,309 --> 00:29:29,519
And I'm having this debate
with Johnny Green
543
00:29:29,603 --> 00:29:31,313
about the lyrics
to Give My Regards to Broadway.
544
00:29:31,396 --> 00:29:35,650
I remember, as a kid,
falling in love with that song.
545
00:29:35,734 --> 00:29:38,653
Give my regards to old Broadway
546
00:29:38,737 --> 00:29:41,406
And say that I'll be there 'ere long
547
00:29:41,490 --> 00:29:44,367
I knew instantly, even as a kid,
548
00:29:44,451 --> 00:29:48,246
that what gave that line its speed,
its inevitability, was the inner rhyme.
549
00:29:48,330 --> 00:29:50,999
And not just the "there, 'ere".
But the other one. The "way, say".
550
00:29:51,082 --> 00:29:52,751
The line should logically be,
551
00:29:52,834 --> 00:29:55,587
"Give my regards to old Broadway
and tell them that I'll be there."
552
00:29:55,670 --> 00:29:58,256
But to change the verb to "say",
553
00:29:59,674 --> 00:30:00,884
it made all the difference.
554
00:30:01,551 --> 00:30:03,220
Knuckles, do you know any Cohan?
555
00:30:04,971 --> 00:30:08,934
Over there!
Over there!
556
00:30:09,017 --> 00:30:12,854
Send the word, send the word
Over there
557
00:30:12,938 --> 00:30:17,442
That the Yanks are coming!
The Yanks are coming!
558
00:30:17,526 --> 00:30:21,404
The drum drum-drumming everywhere...
559
00:30:21,488 --> 00:30:25,450
We'll be over
We're coming over!
560
00:30:25,534 --> 00:30:30,288
And we won't come back
'till it's over, over there!
561
00:30:30,372 --> 00:30:32,541
You know what the Yanks really sang
in the Great War?
562
00:30:32,624 --> 00:30:35,836
"We won't come back.
We'll be buried over there!"
563
00:30:37,629 --> 00:30:38,880
And they were.
564
00:30:39,548 --> 00:30:43,552
Total number of deaths in the Great War,
37 million.
565
00:30:45,095 --> 00:30:49,349
I think maybe the adjective "great"
should never precede the word "war".
566
00:30:49,433 --> 00:30:50,642
Amen to that.
567
00:30:51,351 --> 00:30:54,396
What does God think
when he looks down on his creation
568
00:30:54,479 --> 00:30:56,565
and sees that under
the noblest of motives,
569
00:30:56,648 --> 00:30:59,484
we sent 37 million people to their grave?
570
00:30:59,568 --> 00:31:02,237
That's why it's raining all the time.
God is weeping.
571
00:31:03,071 --> 00:31:05,031
Well, I'm a patriot. I am.
572
00:31:05,115 --> 00:31:07,159
I mean, you're a soldier. God bless you.
573
00:31:07,242 --> 00:31:09,703
But how many are going to die
this time around?
574
00:31:09,786 --> 00:31:11,621
Will we even be able
to put a number on it?
575
00:31:12,414 --> 00:31:15,083
I'm on leave. Taking care of my mother.
576
00:31:15,167 --> 00:31:16,793
She's more terrified than I am.
577
00:31:16,877 --> 00:31:18,086
When do you ship out?
578
00:31:18,170 --> 00:31:21,423
In two weeks, they're sending me back
to that hotbed of enemy activity.
579
00:31:22,125 --> 00:31:23,460
Bradley Beach, New Jersey.
580
00:31:23,543 --> 00:31:25,378
I'm teaching Morse code
at the Hotel Grossman.
581
00:31:25,462 --> 00:31:29,674
Bradley Beach, where enemy agents
stroll the boardwalk
582
00:31:29,758 --> 00:31:33,011
disguised as elderly Jewish women in furs.
583
00:31:33,094 --> 00:31:35,972
I used to play hide the sausage
with a girl from Bradley Beach.
584
00:31:36,056 --> 00:31:37,057
Yeah?
585
00:31:37,641 --> 00:31:40,185
Did you read that piece
in Life about Guadalcanal?
586
00:31:41,227 --> 00:31:42,312
How before the battle,
587
00:31:42,395 --> 00:31:44,397
the soldiers were skipping
silver dollars in the water
588
00:31:44,481 --> 00:31:45,732
instead of stones
589
00:31:46,191 --> 00:31:48,443
'cause they knew
they were never coming back.
590
00:31:51,613 --> 00:31:53,948
I couldn't enlist. My eyes.
591
00:31:54,032 --> 00:31:55,992
What's the matter? They open?
592
00:31:57,619 --> 00:32:00,789
Speaking of people
who are not coming back,
593
00:32:00,872 --> 00:32:02,374
I would like you to read this.
594
00:32:02,999 --> 00:32:04,626
It's from the By Jupiter playbill.
595
00:32:11,299 --> 00:32:12,300
Out loud!
596
00:32:18,473 --> 00:32:19,849
"Rodgers and Hart,
597
00:32:19,933 --> 00:32:21,851
"they're as different as a dachshund
and a dromedary.
598
00:32:22,519 --> 00:32:26,147
"One likes opera and home life,
the other goes for night clubs and people.
599
00:32:26,731 --> 00:32:28,316
"One is married and has two children,
600
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,402
"the other is single
and supports bartenders."
601
00:32:30,485 --> 00:32:31,903
You're welcome, Eddie.
602
00:32:33,363 --> 00:32:35,824
"The little fella, that's Larry,
smokes cigars,
603
00:32:35,907 --> 00:32:38,493
"big, black, small, brown, any kind.
604
00:32:38,576 --> 00:32:41,162
"While Dick, that's Rodgers,
only uses cigarettes.
605
00:32:41,746 --> 00:32:45,667
"One goes to bed about 4:30 every morning,
the other never dissipates."
606
00:32:45,750 --> 00:32:46,960
Perfect verb, right?
607
00:32:48,878 --> 00:32:51,214
"Despite their physical
and temperamental differences, however,
608
00:32:51,298 --> 00:32:53,925
"their intellects complement each other
like ham and eggs.
609
00:32:54,759 --> 00:32:57,554
"Their individual songs
number well over a thousand."
610
00:32:57,637 --> 00:32:58,638
A thousand songs?
611
00:32:59,556 --> 00:33:01,474
"They disagree violently,
but they never fight,
612
00:33:01,558 --> 00:33:04,561
"and in the 20-odd years
they've been practising their craft,
613
00:33:04,644 --> 00:33:06,730
"they have never worked with anyone
but each other..."
614
00:33:06,813 --> 00:33:07,814
Until now.
615
00:33:09,065 --> 00:33:10,233
Impressive.
616
00:33:10,775 --> 00:33:12,110
I wrote it myself.
617
00:33:12,193 --> 00:33:16,281
And not one single mention
of Blue fucking Moon.
618
00:33:17,282 --> 00:33:21,411
I sent Elizabeth some of my sheet music.
No response. I don't get it.
619
00:33:21,494 --> 00:33:22,495
She's a bitch.
620
00:33:22,579 --> 00:33:25,123
That's what they're gonna put
on my tombstone.
621
00:33:25,206 --> 00:33:28,501
-"She's a bitch"?
-"Lorenz Milton Hart.
622
00:33:29,169 --> 00:33:30,211
"He didn't get it."
623
00:33:30,295 --> 00:33:32,130
And people will come to my gravesite
and say, "You know what?
624
00:33:32,213 --> 00:33:34,507
-"I didn't get it either."
-I definitely didn't get it.
625
00:33:34,591 --> 00:33:37,844
-Hey, Larr, I get it!
-So, listen.
626
00:33:37,927 --> 00:33:41,806
Elizabeth and I had a weekend.
We actually did.
627
00:33:41,890 --> 00:33:46,186
One passionate, transcendent weekend,
end of last summer
628
00:33:46,269 --> 00:33:47,854
before she went back to Yale.
629
00:33:48,355 --> 00:33:54,277
It's the closest I've ever felt in my life
to pure selflessness.
630
00:33:54,361 --> 00:33:56,655
It was nuanced, it was deep.
631
00:33:56,738 --> 00:33:58,448
How deep exactly?
632
00:33:58,531 --> 00:34:00,950
Listen, clown. I met her,
633
00:34:01,034 --> 00:34:04,329
and the first thing I said to her was,
"Excuse me,
634
00:34:04,913 --> 00:34:08,208
"but you have the best style of anyone
in this theatre."
635
00:34:09,625 --> 00:34:11,585
I wish I had a photograph
of that moment.
636
00:34:11,670 --> 00:34:15,172
I wish I had a photograph
of every moment I've spent with her.
637
00:34:16,257 --> 00:34:20,553
I'm having trouble getting this right.
I'm trying to pin down...
638
00:34:21,554 --> 00:34:23,806
Andy, help me. What's the right word?
639
00:34:24,516 --> 00:34:25,517
Enchantment?
640
00:34:26,935 --> 00:34:28,520
And you know how hard that is.
641
00:34:29,478 --> 00:34:32,982
I couldn't believe that it was me
she wanted to talk to.
642
00:34:33,065 --> 00:34:34,776
I kept looking around the theatre,
643
00:34:34,859 --> 00:34:37,070
there must be somebody else
she's interested in.
644
00:34:37,152 --> 00:34:40,532
But no! She's plonking herself down
in the theatre seat right next to me,
645
00:34:40,614 --> 00:34:43,785
as close as modesty will allow.
646
00:34:43,868 --> 00:34:46,871
And my heart is actually racing.
647
00:34:46,955 --> 00:34:50,292
And I don't ever feel this way,
not for men or for women.
648
00:34:50,375 --> 00:34:55,212
But she's wearing this yellow sundress,
649
00:34:55,297 --> 00:34:57,966
and it is hot in the theatre.
650
00:34:58,049 --> 00:35:00,010
And she's talking to me for hours.
651
00:35:00,093 --> 00:35:03,179
Bare leg draped over the armrest.
652
00:35:03,263 --> 00:35:05,724
And I know this sounds like
I'm some middle-aged putz
653
00:35:05,807 --> 00:35:07,267
with a crush on a pretty co-ed,
654
00:35:07,350 --> 00:35:09,227
and maybe that's what it is.
655
00:35:09,311 --> 00:35:10,478
But you know something?
656
00:35:11,062 --> 00:35:14,649
Maybe that's not what it is.
657
00:35:15,650 --> 00:35:18,653
Sometimes I feel... and don't laugh,
658
00:35:19,321 --> 00:35:23,825
after a lifetime of blindly colliding
into strangers,
659
00:35:24,576 --> 00:35:26,161
we've finally found a friend.
660
00:35:27,537 --> 00:35:29,748
Maybe that's the definition
of enchantment.
661
00:35:30,582 --> 00:35:33,960
One light-filled weekend!
662
00:35:34,044 --> 00:35:36,921
I've got to finish telling you this
before she comes back.
663
00:35:37,005 --> 00:35:38,423
Are you listening to me?
664
00:35:38,506 --> 00:35:40,216
Yeah, she got her legs draped over
the thing.
665
00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:42,927
It was as if all the love lyrics
I had ever written
666
00:35:43,011 --> 00:35:47,182
had, like, some sort of verbal ectoplasm,
suddenly taken human form.
667
00:35:47,265 --> 00:35:49,351
-Ecto what?
-That might be her mother.
668
00:35:49,434 --> 00:35:50,894
She cannot hear this.
669
00:35:51,978 --> 00:35:53,104
What about me?
670
00:35:53,188 --> 00:35:54,731
You're just an extra.
671
00:35:54,814 --> 00:35:57,317
-Okay, but I still get paid, right?
-Absolutely.
672
00:35:59,110 --> 00:36:01,696
It's important to me
that I nail this down.
673
00:36:02,489 --> 00:36:04,824
It was a boiling hot summer weekend,
674
00:36:04,908 --> 00:36:08,453
and I asked, with all the casualness
I could counterfeit,
675
00:36:08,536 --> 00:36:12,082
if she'd like to, you know,
escape the heat of the city,
676
00:36:12,165 --> 00:36:14,793
spend the weekend with me
on Lake Dunmore in Vermont.
677
00:36:14,876 --> 00:36:18,546
And without a moment's hesitation
she said,
678
00:36:18,630 --> 00:36:19,923
"I'd love to, Larry."
679
00:36:21,508 --> 00:36:24,094
I'm telling you, Andy,
this is my type of girl.
680
00:36:24,177 --> 00:36:26,429
I'm sorry, excuse me, I'm babbling,
681
00:36:26,513 --> 00:36:31,893
but how else do you describe
the actual present tense
682
00:36:31,977 --> 00:36:33,478
of falling in love?
683
00:36:34,729 --> 00:36:35,939
Is that what this is?
684
00:36:37,065 --> 00:36:40,527
Maybe. I mean, I haven't done
anything wrong, okay?
685
00:36:40,610 --> 00:36:44,489
I haven't violated the Mann Act
or even the Middle-Aged Man Act.
686
00:36:44,572 --> 00:36:46,449
I bought her this painting
of Lake Dunmore,
687
00:36:46,533 --> 00:36:48,368
bought it off this old salt Vermonter.
688
00:36:48,451 --> 00:36:51,329
I bought it so that she might remember.
689
00:36:51,413 --> 00:36:53,373
I once did a little canoeing
up around there.
690
00:36:54,082 --> 00:36:55,208
Hey, Larry!
691
00:36:59,671 --> 00:37:00,672
And then?
692
00:37:01,548 --> 00:37:04,426
Act Three. Later that day,
693
00:37:05,135 --> 00:37:06,845
she's in the warmth of the cabin.
694
00:37:06,928 --> 00:37:10,223
There's a pennant from Fort Ticonderoga
pinned to the wall.
695
00:37:10,307 --> 00:37:14,894
She's wearing this blue men's work shirt
with the sleeves rolled up.
696
00:37:14,978 --> 00:37:18,690
All of her suddenly available to me,
697
00:37:18,773 --> 00:37:22,527
this gift of youth and brain
698
00:37:22,610 --> 00:37:24,237
and clavicle.
699
00:37:24,321 --> 00:37:26,573
I touched her shoulder,
700
00:37:27,741 --> 00:37:30,368
and as some hack once scribbled,
701
00:37:30,452 --> 00:37:32,329
"My heart stood still."
702
00:37:33,371 --> 00:37:36,333
She took my hand and said, "Larry,
703
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,878
"let's save this for another day."
704
00:37:41,296 --> 00:37:43,006
And all I can tell you, my friend,
705
00:37:43,089 --> 00:37:48,928
is there is a real possibility
that tonight is "another day".
706
00:37:54,434 --> 00:37:57,687
Clearing back a little bit.
Ladies, beautiful, beautiful!
707
00:37:58,813 --> 00:38:01,524
Rodgers! Rodgers!
708
00:38:01,941 --> 00:38:03,193
Yeah, beautiful!
709
00:38:03,943 --> 00:38:04,944
Okay.
710
00:38:05,737 --> 00:38:08,073
I appreciate that. Thanks.
Hey, thank you so much.
711
00:38:08,156 --> 00:38:09,574
I appreciate it. Thank you.
712
00:38:09,658 --> 00:38:10,659
Bravo!
713
00:38:12,494 --> 00:38:13,745
Thank you so much.
714
00:38:14,746 --> 00:38:17,582
Now, time for the real performance
of the evening.
715
00:38:26,424 --> 00:38:28,802
Eddie, Eddie. Eddie, get rid of this!
716
00:38:33,348 --> 00:38:34,599
Hey.
717
00:38:34,683 --> 00:38:35,934
So, did he fuck her or not?
718
00:38:36,017 --> 00:38:37,394
He thinks tonight might be the night.
719
00:38:38,269 --> 00:38:41,398
Larry. Larry, Larry.
720
00:38:42,065 --> 00:38:43,900
What do you think she sees in him?
721
00:38:44,442 --> 00:38:47,570
I think she sees a rich and famous guy
who can help her career.
722
00:38:48,905 --> 00:38:51,282
I think she recognises she's being adored
723
00:38:51,366 --> 00:38:54,077
by one of the great appreciators
of beauty.
724
00:38:54,995 --> 00:38:57,122
-You know what else I think?
-Yeah?
725
00:38:58,039 --> 00:39:00,292
I think she is wearing
a grape-coloured brassiere.
726
00:39:00,375 --> 00:39:03,211
All right, Rodgers.
Gentlemen, please let's get one.
727
00:39:04,087 --> 00:39:06,548
Beautiful. Come on. All right, big smile!
728
00:39:07,424 --> 00:39:09,509
-Beautiful.
-Dick! Dick!
729
00:39:09,592 --> 00:39:13,263
My God!
The show is going to run 20 years!
730
00:39:13,346 --> 00:39:16,057
It's going to be bigger
than Abie's Irish Rose!
731
00:39:16,141 --> 00:39:18,893
-We'll see.
-And much more goyish, so it can tour.
732
00:39:19,728 --> 00:39:20,729
Well, thanks for coming, Larry.
733
00:39:20,812 --> 00:39:22,355
-Oscar!
-Larry.
734
00:39:22,439 --> 00:39:24,190
You get taller every time I see you.
735
00:39:25,275 --> 00:39:27,986
What can I say? The lyrics are brilliant.
736
00:39:28,069 --> 00:39:31,614
Poetic when they need to be poetic,
funny when they need to be funny.
737
00:39:31,698 --> 00:39:35,035
Not a rhyme out of place, easy on the ear.
738
00:39:35,118 --> 00:39:38,163
I'm just a fool when lights are low
739
00:39:38,246 --> 00:39:40,874
Perfect! Did you hear me applauding?
740
00:39:40,957 --> 00:39:43,001
I think you were the loudest person
in the entire theatre!
741
00:39:43,084 --> 00:39:45,795
That's because I loved it more than
anyone else in the entire theatre!
742
00:39:45,879 --> 00:39:47,797
-Let me get you boys a drink.
-No, thank you.
743
00:39:48,965 --> 00:39:51,259
Larry, you got two minutes?
Give us a minute.
744
00:39:51,343 --> 00:39:52,510
Excuse us, Oscar.
745
00:40:00,185 --> 00:40:03,355
So, Dwight Wiman and I have been talking
about bringing back A Connecticut Yankee.
746
00:40:03,438 --> 00:40:04,439
Terrific!
747
00:40:04,522 --> 00:40:07,067
Yeah, I'm thinking of asking
Vivienne Segal.
748
00:40:07,150 --> 00:40:10,070
Mein Gott! It's gonna run longer
than Oklahoma!
749
00:40:10,153 --> 00:40:11,780
I'll buy 50 seats myself.
750
00:40:11,863 --> 00:40:14,658
I've got a new title, Ohh, Camelot!
751
00:40:15,992 --> 00:40:17,827
Well, I think we're gonna stick with
A Connecticut Yankee.
752
00:40:17,911 --> 00:40:19,621
Camelot Exclamation Point?
753
00:40:19,704 --> 00:40:21,623
Okay, come on. I'm being serious here.
754
00:40:21,706 --> 00:40:24,125
I'm always serious.
That's why people find me so funny.
755
00:40:24,209 --> 00:40:26,920
So I was thinking, if you feel
up to working, then maybe...
756
00:40:27,003 --> 00:40:28,630
-I've never felt better in my life, Dick.
-Congratulations, Dick.
757
00:40:28,713 --> 00:40:32,133
I don't want to bother you.
I just... We all just loved it.
758
00:40:32,217 --> 00:40:33,468
-You did?
-It's going to be a big hit.
759
00:40:33,551 --> 00:40:34,761
Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that.
760
00:40:34,844 --> 00:40:36,262
-It's Gladys, right? Yes.
-Yes! Yeah.
761
00:40:36,346 --> 00:40:37,347
Yes, nice to see you.
762
00:40:40,350 --> 00:40:43,770
Yeah, I was... I was thinking,
not just a revival,
763
00:40:43,853 --> 00:40:45,063
I was thinking a whole new book.
764
00:40:45,146 --> 00:40:47,649
We were thinking four or five new numbers.
765
00:40:48,650 --> 00:40:49,693
That I write?
766
00:40:49,776 --> 00:40:51,486
Of course, that you write.
That we write together.
767
00:40:51,569 --> 00:40:53,989
It's been 16 years, you know that,
since we did that show?
768
00:40:54,072 --> 00:40:57,367
-It needs updating, don't you think?
-1927! The Vanderbilt!
769
00:40:57,450 --> 00:40:59,869
Yeah, it can be the new
Rodgers and Hart show for the fall.
770
00:40:59,953 --> 00:41:02,038
-New gags, new songs.
-New references.
771
00:41:02,122 --> 00:41:03,999
We'll satirise the whole war.
772
00:41:04,082 --> 00:41:05,959
Rationing, rubber drives, nylon drives,
773
00:41:06,042 --> 00:41:07,961
a new number for Vivienne.
774
00:41:08,044 --> 00:41:09,087
-Go easy with the satire, Larry.
-Very nice job.
775
00:41:09,170 --> 00:41:10,213
-Hello, nice to see you.
-Very nice piece.
776
00:41:10,297 --> 00:41:11,298
Appreciate it. Thank you.
777
00:41:11,381 --> 00:41:14,092
There came a lull then Cordell Hull
sent orders from above
778
00:41:14,175 --> 00:41:17,887
I'm sorry, girls, put down your pearls
'Cause now we're rationing love
779
00:41:17,971 --> 00:41:19,389
And how do we get Cordell Hull
into Camelot?
780
00:41:19,472 --> 00:41:20,473
Who cares? It's funny!
781
00:41:20,557 --> 00:41:23,351
Dick! From the New York Journal-American.
782
00:41:23,435 --> 00:41:27,564
"As enchanting to the eye
as Richard Rodgers' music is to the ear."
783
00:41:27,647 --> 00:41:28,648
-Okay.
-Yeah, it's nice.
784
00:41:28,732 --> 00:41:29,816
That's good. Good start.
785
00:41:29,899 --> 00:41:31,901
So, are you up for that?
Are you feeling healthy?
786
00:41:31,985 --> 00:41:33,570
Is that something
you could take seriously?
787
00:41:33,653 --> 00:41:36,364
Yeah. I'm on the wagon, Dick. I'm serious.
788
00:41:37,032 --> 00:41:39,367
Been drinking ginger ale all night.
789
00:41:39,451 --> 00:41:42,871
Well, except for this second
'cause this second we have to celebrate.
790
00:41:42,954 --> 00:41:45,999
This is the greatest musical
in the history of American theatre.
791
00:41:46,082 --> 00:41:48,293
No, no. I'm not drinking with you, Larry.
792
00:41:48,376 --> 00:41:49,878
Okay, okay, all right.
793
00:41:49,961 --> 00:41:51,921
Weegee! Weegee! Shoot this!
794
00:41:53,173 --> 00:41:55,175
-What? No. Larry, I got to...
-No, no, no. Hey.
795
00:41:55,258 --> 00:41:57,344
Rodgers and Hart, together again!
796
00:41:57,969 --> 00:41:59,971
All right, closer! Come on, closer!
797
00:42:03,558 --> 00:42:04,768
I want ten copies of that.
798
00:42:04,851 --> 00:42:06,603
Great. Write me a cheque.
799
00:42:06,686 --> 00:42:08,021
Yeah.
800
00:42:08,104 --> 00:42:09,397
So, you think you're up to that?
801
00:42:09,481 --> 00:42:11,524
It's the best idea I've heard in 16 years.
802
00:42:11,608 --> 00:42:16,196
At the same time, I think we should be
dreaming about something completely new.
803
00:42:16,279 --> 00:42:17,322
Don't you agree?
804
00:42:17,405 --> 00:42:19,449
New Rodgers and Hart,
something people haven't seen before.
805
00:42:19,532 --> 00:42:20,533
Something big!
806
00:42:21,117 --> 00:42:22,452
Let's start with the revival first.
807
00:42:23,286 --> 00:42:24,746
-Absolutely.
-We'll take it one step at a time...
808
00:42:24,829 --> 00:42:26,164
-Yeah, but...
-...because I really think
809
00:42:26,247 --> 00:42:27,666
-Hear me out.
-...we can have a future together.
810
00:42:27,749 --> 00:42:29,584
Who doesn't think that?
811
00:42:30,460 --> 00:42:34,881
But I want to be one of those composers
who works with, you know,
812
00:42:34,965 --> 00:42:35,966
other lyricists.
813
00:42:36,049 --> 00:42:37,717
Like Arlen, Kern. You love Kern.
814
00:42:37,801 --> 00:42:39,344
I love Kern. I wanted to be Kern.
815
00:42:39,427 --> 00:42:41,096
But we have to work
like professionals, Larry.
816
00:42:41,179 --> 00:42:42,639
Since when haven't I worked
like a professional?
817
00:42:42,722 --> 00:42:45,558
I want to work at specific times
in the morning, at my office.
818
00:42:45,642 --> 00:42:48,103
-I want to adhere to a schedule.
-Yeah. That's what we do.
819
00:42:48,186 --> 00:42:49,688
I don't want to spend any more time
looking for you, Larry.
820
00:42:49,771 --> 00:42:51,356
-Well, I'm right here. Small as life!
-You know what I mean.
821
00:42:51,439 --> 00:42:52,857
I don't want to be calling up your mother
822
00:42:52,941 --> 00:42:54,317
at nine o'clock in the morning, so that,
823
00:42:54,401 --> 00:42:55,777
maybe, you might
roll out of bed at noon. Right?
824
00:42:55,860 --> 00:42:57,696
-Dick...
-I just don't want to do what we did.
825
00:42:57,779 --> 00:42:59,197
That's all I'm saying.
826
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:00,740
It's a business, that's all.
827
00:43:01,574 --> 00:43:03,034
Maybe I shouldn't bring it up tonight,
but I don't know,
828
00:43:03,118 --> 00:43:04,744
-I wanted... I wanted to...
-All I want is to...
829
00:43:04,828 --> 00:43:08,039
-That was your best one yet. Really.
-All right, thank you.
830
00:43:08,123 --> 00:43:09,457
-Who is that?
-All I want is to write a show
831
00:43:09,541 --> 00:43:10,709
we both love.
832
00:43:13,211 --> 00:43:14,212
Yeah, I feel the same way.
833
00:43:14,296 --> 00:43:16,840
Dick! Burns Mantle just called it
834
00:43:16,923 --> 00:43:20,719
"The most thoroughly and attractively
American musical comedy
835
00:43:20,802 --> 00:43:21,803
"since Show Boat."
836
00:43:21,886 --> 00:43:23,013
-Since Show Boat?
-Yeah.
837
00:43:23,096 --> 00:43:24,973
Wow. That's good.
838
00:43:25,056 --> 00:43:26,975
-Truly spectacular.
-Thank you, nice to see you.
839
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,394
I have to fall in love with a show, Dick.
840
00:43:29,477 --> 00:43:31,813
I have to want to write that show
more than anything in the world,
841
00:43:31,896 --> 00:43:35,692
to be in that audience,
sitting there not missing a single word.
842
00:43:35,775 --> 00:43:37,485
All right, well, we start with
A Connecticut Yankee,
843
00:43:37,569 --> 00:43:39,529
-four or five numbers, and we go...
-Okay, look.
844
00:43:39,612 --> 00:43:42,365
Here's what I'm thinking.
The Adventures of Marco Polo.
845
00:43:42,449 --> 00:43:44,576
Dick, Dick! Wonderful show.
846
00:43:44,659 --> 00:43:46,494
Thank you so much. Nice to see you.
847
00:43:46,578 --> 00:43:49,080
Just... just big. Bigger than Jumbo. Epic.
848
00:43:49,164 --> 00:43:51,166
A three-ring musical circus.
849
00:43:51,249 --> 00:43:53,710
The show lasts four hours
with a dinner break!
850
00:43:53,793 --> 00:43:58,590
It's grand comic opera.
And the stage set is the world!
851
00:43:58,673 --> 00:44:01,134
We satirise everybody.
852
00:44:01,217 --> 00:44:03,219
And you get to satirise them musically.
853
00:44:03,303 --> 00:44:05,722
We send up every national musical cliche
there is.
854
00:44:05,805 --> 00:44:08,308
The France number, the Italian number,
855
00:44:08,391 --> 00:44:10,310
when they get to the Heart of Darkness,
856
00:44:10,393 --> 00:44:12,187
the cannibals are doing Porgy and Bess.
857
00:44:13,229 --> 00:44:15,690
Bess, you is my dinner now!
858
00:44:15,774 --> 00:44:16,775
Jesus, Larry. Come on.
859
00:44:16,858 --> 00:44:19,653
This show is going to have
the scope of a novel.
860
00:44:19,736 --> 00:44:23,198
It will be the greatest challenge
you've ever had as a composer.
861
00:44:23,281 --> 00:44:27,202
And what grounds it all,
what lets the audience enter this story
862
00:44:27,285 --> 00:44:28,286
is the girl.
863
00:44:28,370 --> 00:44:32,207
This ethereal girl
whom Marco Polo has left behind.
864
00:44:32,290 --> 00:44:33,792
She's half his age,
865
00:44:34,626 --> 00:44:39,547
but it's the first time he's felt
that inkling of love in years, maybe ever.
866
00:44:39,631 --> 00:44:41,091
He swears in the first scene.
867
00:44:41,174 --> 00:44:43,218
We set this up like Benedick
in Much Ado...
868
00:44:43,301 --> 00:44:45,470
-Right.
-He swears that he's beyond
869
00:44:45,553 --> 00:44:47,681
the reach of any woman. He scorns love.
870
00:44:47,764 --> 00:44:49,683
And we do a whole number
satirising love songs.
871
00:44:49,766 --> 00:44:53,520
No. Larry, I want to write shows
that have some emotional core to them...
872
00:44:53,603 --> 00:44:55,939
-Dick, great music. Great show!
-Hello, how are you?
873
00:44:56,022 --> 00:44:57,899
Thank you. I'll take that.
You're a tough critic.
874
00:44:57,983 --> 00:44:58,984
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
875
00:44:59,067 --> 00:45:02,195
Remember, we established
in the first scene that he's anti-love?
876
00:45:02,278 --> 00:45:04,739
Then he meets the girl.
She's a sort of free-spirit,
877
00:45:04,823 --> 00:45:08,535
Scandinavian-looking
with two freckles on her left cheek,
878
00:45:08,618 --> 00:45:10,203
-it's absurd.
-Don't do that.
879
00:45:10,287 --> 00:45:13,164
She lives socially,
psychologically, sexually
880
00:45:13,248 --> 00:45:17,085
in another universe than he does,
but he is slain.
881
00:45:17,877 --> 00:45:22,757
He stands there paralysed
in the light of her pale green eyes.
882
00:45:22,841 --> 00:45:26,428
This is the greatest explorer
in the history of the world,
883
00:45:26,511 --> 00:45:31,016
and none of it means anything to him
unless it's a way to make her see him.
884
00:45:31,683 --> 00:45:34,728
That is the emotional core of the story.
885
00:45:34,811 --> 00:45:36,438
-Okay.
-We take this legendary,
886
00:45:36,521 --> 00:45:37,647
larger-than-life man,
887
00:45:37,731 --> 00:45:39,274
and we make him bleed.
888
00:45:39,357 --> 00:45:43,653
Mr Rodgers, my name is Robert Heffner.
I'm the Mayor of Oklahoma City.
889
00:45:43,737 --> 00:45:45,613
Eve and I have travelled
all the way to New York
890
00:45:45,697 --> 00:45:46,906
-just to see the show.
-Okay. You know...
891
00:45:46,990 --> 00:45:49,159
Welcome to New York.
We're finishing a conversation.
892
00:45:49,242 --> 00:45:51,661
He'll be with you in two minutes.
Does that sound good?
893
00:45:51,745 --> 00:45:54,122
Two minutes, I'll be right with you.
Thank you, I hope it was worth it.
894
00:45:54,205 --> 00:45:56,416
-It certainly was.
-Good to see you. Thank you.
895
00:45:56,499 --> 00:45:58,084
All right, so come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
896
00:45:58,168 --> 00:46:00,837
And they end up together? Come on.
897
00:46:01,838 --> 00:46:04,799
That's what the audience
is waiting around to find out!
898
00:46:04,883 --> 00:46:06,593
That's the engine
that's driving the whole story.
899
00:46:06,676 --> 00:46:08,011
All right, well, look, Larry,
900
00:46:08,094 --> 00:46:09,429
if you're willing to write it,
901
00:46:09,512 --> 00:46:11,431
really write it,
and rewrite it, and rewrite it again,
902
00:46:11,514 --> 00:46:12,807
then, you know, it could work.
903
00:46:12,891 --> 00:46:15,352
But I'm not gonna beg you for this, Larry.
You know?
904
00:46:15,435 --> 00:46:16,478
We work for 15 minutes,
905
00:46:16,561 --> 00:46:17,854
you're out the door
looking for a cigar store.
906
00:46:17,937 --> 00:46:18,980
-It drives me...
-Okay.
907
00:46:19,064 --> 00:46:20,482
It drives me really crazy.
I don't like it.
908
00:46:20,565 --> 00:46:22,651
-I don't want to do it any more.
-We've worked like that for 24 years.
909
00:46:22,734 --> 00:46:23,735
Congratulations, Dick!
910
00:46:23,818 --> 00:46:24,903
That's exactly what we've done
for 24 years.
911
00:46:24,986 --> 00:46:26,571
-Thank you.
-About time the Guild had a goddamned hit.
912
00:46:26,655 --> 00:46:28,531
Yeah. You're absolutely, absolutely right.
913
00:46:28,615 --> 00:46:30,700
Anyway, I'm not going to...
I'm not going to fight with you, Larry.
914
00:46:30,784 --> 00:46:32,702
-Who's fighting?
-I don't know.
915
00:46:32,786 --> 00:46:33,787
With a war on,
916
00:46:33,870 --> 00:46:36,790
do audiences really want to watch
cannibals singing Porgy and Bess?
917
00:46:36,873 --> 00:46:38,625
And what do audiences want to watch?
918
00:46:38,708 --> 00:46:41,461
Cowboys a-whoopin'-it-up
at the box social?
919
00:46:43,004 --> 00:46:44,589
Well, yes. Apparently.
920
00:46:44,673 --> 00:46:45,924
That's right, I forgot.
921
00:46:46,007 --> 00:46:49,344
Oklahoma, exclamation point,
addresses the urgency of a nation at war.
922
00:46:49,427 --> 00:46:52,681
I think every serviceman
in that audience tonight
923
00:46:52,764 --> 00:46:54,015
thought about what we're fighting for,
924
00:46:54,099 --> 00:46:55,767
even for a second or two,
he thought about it.
925
00:46:55,850 --> 00:46:57,435
And what is it we're fighting for,
exactly?
926
00:46:57,519 --> 00:47:00,522
Feisty little girls in gingham dresses
who can't say no?
927
00:47:01,940 --> 00:47:04,275
-Okay. All right.
-Dick, Dick, Dick. Come on.
928
00:47:04,359 --> 00:47:06,486
Just between you and me,
929
00:47:06,569 --> 00:47:09,948
those characters are unrecognisable
as human beings.
930
00:47:10,031 --> 00:47:12,283
I think plenty of people recognised them.
They recognised love.
931
00:47:12,367 --> 00:47:13,785
He needs rescuing, big time.
932
00:47:13,868 --> 00:47:16,830
They recognised family.
They recognised pride in their country.
933
00:47:16,913 --> 00:47:18,999
You're starting to sound like
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
934
00:47:19,082 --> 00:47:21,084
I think there's significantly more there
to recognise, Larry,
935
00:47:21,167 --> 00:47:22,544
than a bunch of singing cannibals.
936
00:47:22,627 --> 00:47:24,379
But cannibals are much funnier,
admit it.
937
00:47:24,462 --> 00:47:26,131
Dick, you want to come and read these!
938
00:47:26,214 --> 00:47:27,716
-Yeah, hang on! Hang on. Be right there.
-Okay, okay, okay, okay.
939
00:47:27,799 --> 00:47:30,468
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
I know exactly what you mean.
940
00:47:30,552 --> 00:47:32,429
Just tell me... What do you
really want to write?
941
00:47:32,512 --> 00:47:34,264
What's your dream show?
942
00:47:34,347 --> 00:47:35,348
-My dream show?
-Yeah.
943
00:47:35,432 --> 00:47:36,641
Oklahoma!
944
00:47:40,061 --> 00:47:41,062
I mean, next.
945
00:47:44,816 --> 00:47:46,735
We're talking about
getting the rights to Liliom.
946
00:47:48,153 --> 00:47:49,612
-The Molnár play?
-Yeah.
947
00:47:49,696 --> 00:47:51,406
-That was cornball in 1909.
-Yeah?
948
00:47:51,489 --> 00:47:53,616
You really want to write a musical
about a carnival barker
949
00:47:53,700 --> 00:47:55,285
who beats up his girlfriend,
950
00:47:55,368 --> 00:47:57,120
-dies, comes back...
-I think it'll work.
951
00:47:57,203 --> 00:47:59,706
Yeah, and at the end, all the dead people
could take off their halos and go,
952
00:47:59,789 --> 00:48:01,291
"Purgatory!"
953
00:48:01,875 --> 00:48:03,627
Look, I will do it if you force me to.
954
00:48:03,710 --> 00:48:05,045
-It's just in my heart of...
-No, I'm not forcing you to.
955
00:48:05,128 --> 00:48:06,338
Oscar's going to do it.
956
00:48:08,590 --> 00:48:11,676
What does Oscar know
about turn-of-the-century Budapest?
957
00:48:12,510 --> 00:48:14,638
He's going to Americanise it.
958
00:48:15,430 --> 00:48:16,848
He's going to modernise it.
959
00:48:17,724 --> 00:48:18,892
We're going to set it in Maine.
960
00:48:19,476 --> 00:48:22,646
Maine? Right, with all due respect,
modernising Molnár
961
00:48:22,729 --> 00:48:24,564
-is a deeply...
-You got to read this!
962
00:48:24,648 --> 00:48:25,649
Is it the Times?
963
00:48:26,441 --> 00:48:28,693
Burton Rascoe's World-Telegram review.
964
00:48:28,777 --> 00:48:29,819
-It's a rave.
-Good.
965
00:48:29,903 --> 00:48:32,113
-We'll have the Times any moment.
-Okay.
966
00:48:32,197 --> 00:48:33,990
Larry, I've got to go.
The Times is coming.
967
00:48:34,074 --> 00:48:35,075
Okay, okay.
968
00:48:35,158 --> 00:48:37,243
-Wish me luck.
-Mazel tov!
969
00:48:37,327 --> 00:48:38,495
As they say in Maine.
970
00:48:40,830 --> 00:48:43,041
-Hey, Dick. That was perfect.
-Thank you.
971
00:48:43,124 --> 00:48:44,709
Nice to see you. Did you enjoy it?
972
00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:04,145
What does Dick Rodgers know of Maine?
He was bar-mitzvahed for Christ's sake!
973
00:49:04,229 --> 00:49:06,439
How long are they going to keep selling
that fairy tale?
974
00:49:06,523 --> 00:49:09,359
"Have faith, have hope,
the dead will arise to comfort us!"
975
00:49:09,442 --> 00:49:10,902
Like fuck they will.
976
00:49:11,403 --> 00:49:13,571
Give me another shot, Eddie. A real one.
977
00:49:16,449 --> 00:49:18,660
Join me for a shot, Andy? Please.
978
00:49:23,623 --> 00:49:24,958
How ya holding up?
979
00:49:25,917 --> 00:49:29,337
You know how in a marriage they say
"for better or for worse"?
980
00:49:29,421 --> 00:49:33,049
I think in terms of my life,
I've entered the "for worse" part.
981
00:49:33,133 --> 00:49:37,512
And it happened so quietly
I didn't even recognise it.
982
00:49:37,595 --> 00:49:38,805
Have you ever felt that way?
983
00:49:39,681 --> 00:49:41,182
Every day of my life.
984
00:49:43,476 --> 00:49:44,936
Thank you.
985
00:49:45,020 --> 00:49:47,105
Sometimes I think,
"Even God is finished with me."
986
00:49:47,188 --> 00:49:48,690
I've had my hits,
987
00:49:48,773 --> 00:49:51,818
I've loved a small,
dear collection of people.
988
00:49:51,901 --> 00:49:53,778
And now he's turned the page.
989
00:49:54,529 --> 00:49:55,947
I feel superannuated.
990
00:49:56,781 --> 00:49:59,326
"Superannuated".
That's a good thing, isn't it?
991
00:49:59,409 --> 00:50:01,077
It means your dick doesn't work.
992
00:50:02,829 --> 00:50:04,164
Must be why I don't know that word.
993
00:50:08,043 --> 00:50:09,419
Put me on the list.
994
00:50:20,347 --> 00:50:22,515
You notice the birds are back
in Central Park?
995
00:50:24,684 --> 00:50:26,436
What are you working on these days?
996
00:50:26,519 --> 00:50:28,063
Children's book.
997
00:50:29,189 --> 00:50:31,191
Must have burned myself out
writing those essays,
998
00:50:31,274 --> 00:50:32,275
it's not going well.
999
00:50:33,318 --> 00:50:34,819
I think, as far as my writing goes,
1000
00:50:34,903 --> 00:50:36,655
I've also entered the "for worse" part.
1001
00:50:37,781 --> 00:50:38,907
What's your story about?
1002
00:50:38,990 --> 00:50:40,325
I wish I knew.
1003
00:50:41,660 --> 00:50:43,411
The journey everybody takes?
1004
00:50:44,746 --> 00:50:48,208
Searching for what's perfect
and unattainable?
1005
00:50:48,959 --> 00:50:50,001
The ineffable!
1006
00:50:50,585 --> 00:50:53,630
Probably too elusive an idea
to put into a children's book.
1007
00:50:53,713 --> 00:50:55,090
I have a line for you.
1008
00:50:56,383 --> 00:51:00,053
"He chased her around the bed all night
before concluding
1009
00:51:00,136 --> 00:51:01,429
"she was ineffable."
1010
00:51:01,513 --> 00:51:03,139
Sure you don't mean "uneffable"?
1011
00:51:04,516 --> 00:51:05,517
Better.
1012
00:51:08,311 --> 00:51:09,604
You know, I'm in the park every morning,
1013
00:51:09,688 --> 00:51:12,065
liberating this mouse
I keep catching in my kitchen.
1014
00:51:12,148 --> 00:51:14,818
-Yeah?
-I have this little glass box
1015
00:51:14,901 --> 00:51:17,654
that captures the mouse
but doesn't kill him.
1016
00:51:17,737 --> 00:51:19,823
And every morning I walk into my kitchen,
1017
00:51:19,906 --> 00:51:22,033
and there he is,
at the bottom of the refrigerator.
1018
00:51:22,117 --> 00:51:25,954
My little brown mouse,
happily eating the cracker I left for him.
1019
00:51:26,037 --> 00:51:28,331
And every morning,
I carry him down to the park,
1020
00:51:28,415 --> 00:51:31,835
open the box. He leaps out ten feet,
scurries into the underbrush.
1021
00:51:31,918 --> 00:51:34,754
And then the next morning, I'll be damned,
1022
00:51:34,838 --> 00:51:36,923
he is back in the box!
1023
00:51:37,007 --> 00:51:38,591
How do you know it's the same mouse?
1024
00:51:38,675 --> 00:51:39,676
Well, he certainly looks the same.
1025
00:51:39,759 --> 00:51:44,055
He has that same New York look
of doomed hopefulness.
1026
00:51:45,098 --> 00:51:48,226
But how does he get up the 19 floors?
1027
00:51:49,519 --> 00:51:50,895
Maybe he's tipping the doorman.
1028
00:51:53,648 --> 00:51:55,400
You know, this morning he wasn't there.
1029
00:51:56,067 --> 00:51:59,237
Just the cracker lying in the box.
1030
00:52:00,322 --> 00:52:02,240
I actually missed the little fella,
I really did.
1031
00:52:02,324 --> 00:52:04,534
I think I've started to identify with him.
1032
00:52:04,617 --> 00:52:06,411
Does he have a name?
1033
00:52:07,412 --> 00:52:09,164
I'm calling him Stuart.
1034
00:52:09,748 --> 00:52:11,333
With a "W" or a "U"?
1035
00:52:13,543 --> 00:52:16,963
A "U". Nothing fancy.
Just a regular middle-class mouse.
1036
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,011
I think you'll have to excuse me.
1037
00:52:23,094 --> 00:52:26,306
All this jubilation
has gone to my bladder.
1038
00:52:29,434 --> 00:52:32,187
"Agnes de Mille works small miracles
1039
00:52:32,270 --> 00:52:36,483
"and devising original dances
that fit the story and the tunes.
1040
00:52:36,566 --> 00:52:38,652
"Oklahoma! is fresh..."
1041
00:52:38,735 --> 00:52:40,403
Okay, I got something funny.
1042
00:52:40,945 --> 00:52:43,365
What do you call a tired homosexual?
1043
00:52:44,366 --> 00:52:45,367
I don't know.
1044
00:52:47,619 --> 00:52:48,828
Fuck, I forgot.
1045
00:52:49,621 --> 00:52:50,914
That's really funny.
1046
00:52:53,041 --> 00:52:56,586
"The play's spine-tingling,
out of this world!"
1047
00:53:04,552 --> 00:53:08,014
You know, when Atkinson wrote that review
for Pal Joey, you remember that?
1048
00:53:08,682 --> 00:53:10,850
"Drab and mirthless.
1049
00:53:10,934 --> 00:53:14,437
"Can one draw sweet water
from a foul well?"
1050
00:53:15,522 --> 00:53:18,775
I cried. That's how hurt I was.
1051
00:53:18,858 --> 00:53:22,445
I cried in Vivienne Segal's arms.
1052
00:53:22,529 --> 00:53:23,947
She hugged me and said,
1053
00:53:24,030 --> 00:53:27,659
"History is going to prove him wrong,
darling."
1054
00:53:27,742 --> 00:53:29,577
Wasn't that
the sweetest thing in the world
1055
00:53:29,661 --> 00:53:30,829
for someone to say?
1056
00:53:32,247 --> 00:53:34,165
And she actually calls me "darling".
1057
00:53:35,125 --> 00:53:36,126
Wow.
1058
00:53:36,209 --> 00:53:37,460
Time magazine wrote,
1059
00:53:37,544 --> 00:53:39,671
"For those who can park their morals
in the lobby,
1060
00:53:39,754 --> 00:53:41,298
"Pal Joey is a wow."
1061
00:53:42,299 --> 00:53:44,759
What kind of piece-of-shit praise is that?
1062
00:53:47,262 --> 00:53:49,556
-I'm talking about Pal Joey.
-Right.
1063
00:53:49,639 --> 00:53:50,765
I didn't see that one.
1064
00:53:51,391 --> 00:53:54,686
Wolcott Gibbs, he loved the show.
1065
00:53:55,270 --> 00:53:57,814
He said it was,
"A song and dance production
1066
00:53:57,897 --> 00:54:01,401
"with living three-dimensional figures,
1067
00:54:01,484 --> 00:54:04,988
"talking and behaving like human beings."
1068
00:54:05,697 --> 00:54:07,324
See? There you go.
1069
00:54:08,533 --> 00:54:10,744
You're still going to introduce me
to Rodgers tonight, right?
1070
00:54:10,827 --> 00:54:13,997
Urination for me
has turned into a two-act play
1071
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:15,373
with a brief intermission.
1072
00:54:18,918 --> 00:54:22,047
I love Vivienne. God help me.
1073
00:54:24,215 --> 00:54:25,675
Her compassion.
1074
00:54:26,676 --> 00:54:28,178
Did I tell you she calls me "darling"?
1075
00:54:29,095 --> 00:54:31,473
We were up at the Starlight Roof.
1076
00:54:31,556 --> 00:54:36,645
I turned to her and I said,
"Vivienne, will you please marry me?"
1077
00:54:36,728 --> 00:54:39,439
That's what I told her. Right to her face.
1078
00:54:39,522 --> 00:54:43,109
Can you imagine having the courage
to say that to a woman?
1079
00:54:43,902 --> 00:54:46,154
I've never had the courage
to even dream of saying that.
1080
00:54:46,237 --> 00:54:47,739
Yeah. It was a moment.
1081
00:54:47,822 --> 00:54:52,786
Let me tell you. 2:00 a.m., the band
was playing I've Heard That Song Before.
1082
00:54:53,495 --> 00:54:56,539
She said, "I love you, darling,
1083
00:54:57,332 --> 00:54:58,833
"just not that way."
1084
00:55:01,127 --> 00:55:03,546
"Not that way."
1085
00:55:04,172 --> 00:55:06,800
Three little words.
1086
00:55:06,883 --> 00:55:10,428
Ten little letters that mean,
1087
00:55:11,179 --> 00:55:12,806
"Game over, schmuck."
1088
00:55:15,892 --> 00:55:17,686
"Think it over," I told her.
1089
00:55:17,769 --> 00:55:21,940
I took her hand in mine,
her nail polish was pale grey...
1090
00:55:28,530 --> 00:55:31,616
Now... I can drink.
1091
00:55:34,703 --> 00:55:38,456
May I remind everybody what Mike Todd
said about Oklahoma! in New Haven,
1092
00:55:38,540 --> 00:55:41,126
"No laughs, no tits, no chance"?
1093
00:55:41,918 --> 00:55:45,171
We have a chance now.
All right, read that out. Okay, wow.
1094
00:55:45,964 --> 00:55:48,925
Wonderful. This is what
Nichols said in the Times.
1095
00:55:49,009 --> 00:55:51,428
"Wonderful is the nearest adjective,
1096
00:55:51,511 --> 00:55:53,471
"for this excursion of the Guild
1097
00:55:53,555 --> 00:55:57,434
"combines a fresh and infectious gaiety,
a charm of manner,
1098
00:55:57,517 --> 00:55:59,894
"beautiful acting, dancing and singing,
1099
00:55:59,978 --> 00:56:04,399
"and a score by Richard Rodgers
which doesn't do any harm either,
1100
00:56:04,482 --> 00:56:06,943
"since it is one of his best.
1101
00:56:12,324 --> 00:56:15,994
"Mr Rodgers's scores never lack grace,
1102
00:56:16,077 --> 00:56:21,416
"but seldom have they been
so well-integrated as this for Oklahoma!
1103
00:56:21,499 --> 00:56:27,464
"He has turned out waltzes, love songs,
comic songs and a title number
1104
00:56:27,547 --> 00:56:30,925
"which the State in question
would do well to adopt
1105
00:56:31,009 --> 00:56:32,636
"as its anthem forthwith.
1106
00:56:37,349 --> 00:56:41,311
"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,
and People Will Say We're in Love
1107
00:56:41,394 --> 00:56:44,731
"are headed for countless jukeboxes
across the land.
1108
00:56:47,984 --> 00:56:52,822
"And a dirge called 'Pore Jud',
in which the hero of the fable
1109
00:56:52,906 --> 00:56:55,992
"tries to persuade his rival
to hang himself
1110
00:56:56,076 --> 00:56:57,827
is amazingly comic.
1111
00:56:58,954 --> 00:57:03,541
"The Farmer and the Cowman
and The Surrey with the Fringe on the Top
1112
00:57:03,625 --> 00:57:09,714
"also deserve mention only because
they quite clearly approach perfection."
1113
00:57:09,798 --> 00:57:11,174
Read that part again.
1114
00:57:12,884 --> 00:57:16,429
"...because they quite clearly
approach perfection."
1115
00:57:16,513 --> 00:57:18,098
Put that on the marquee!
1116
00:57:18,682 --> 00:57:21,309
"Quite clearly approaches perfection."
1117
00:57:24,521 --> 00:57:28,566
Come on, everybody! Party upstairs!
Cake and champagne.
1118
00:57:38,994 --> 00:57:41,454
Oscar! Bravo, bravo.
1119
00:57:41,538 --> 00:57:42,747
Congratulations.
1120
00:57:49,004 --> 00:57:50,505
Can I speak with you for a moment?
1121
00:57:50,588 --> 00:57:51,589
Can we talk later, Larry?
1122
00:57:51,673 --> 00:57:54,134
No, no, no. It's just a second.
I have something important to say.
1123
00:57:54,217 --> 00:57:56,052
Just a moment with the musical genius.
1124
00:57:58,805 --> 00:58:01,933
I just have one thing
I want to tell you, Dick.
1125
00:58:03,226 --> 00:58:06,146
Just one second, Dick. It's important.
1126
00:58:06,771 --> 00:58:08,565
I remember when I first heard about you,
1127
00:58:08,648 --> 00:58:11,276
you were just Morty Rodger's
little brother.
1128
00:58:11,359 --> 00:58:13,361
-What, were you 17?
-16.
1129
00:58:13,445 --> 00:58:14,988
-Yeah, I was 23.
-Swell job.
1130
00:58:15,071 --> 00:58:16,531
Yeah, you were the wise old man
on the mountain.
1131
00:58:16,614 --> 00:58:18,742
But when I first heard you
play your stuff,
1132
00:58:18,825 --> 00:58:21,620
I knew you had it.
1133
00:58:21,703 --> 00:58:23,580
I wasn't entirely convinced that I had it,
1134
00:58:23,663 --> 00:58:26,124
but I heard something that afternoon.
1135
00:58:28,168 --> 00:58:31,421
Originality, melody, grace...
1136
00:58:34,591 --> 00:58:37,969
Come on. Come on, Larry. Stop it.
Come on, what's the matter with you?
1137
00:58:38,053 --> 00:58:41,848
You worked your whole life
for this night, Dick.
1138
00:58:41,931 --> 00:58:44,809
Nobody's worked harder.
And nobody deserves it more.
1139
00:58:44,893 --> 00:58:46,603
All right, thanks. Thanks, Larry.
Thank you.
1140
00:58:46,686 --> 00:58:51,107
All right, that's what I wanted...
Just go... enjoy your party.
1141
00:58:51,191 --> 00:58:52,901
Hey, look at me. Look at me.
1142
00:58:52,984 --> 00:58:55,236
We're going to do
A Connecticut Yankee, all new.
1143
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:57,364
-Yeah, yeah.
-We're gonna write four or five new songs.
1144
00:58:57,447 --> 00:58:58,698
-I have ideas already.
-Right?
1145
00:58:58,782 --> 00:59:01,326
Yeah, yeah. And if I get some pages down
for Marco Polo,
1146
00:59:01,409 --> 00:59:02,410
can I send them over?
1147
00:59:03,828 --> 00:59:07,791
You have to ask me that?
Larry, I owe my professional life to you.
1148
00:59:11,419 --> 00:59:14,923
Summer journeys to Niagara
And to other places
1149
00:59:15,006 --> 00:59:17,801
Aggravate all our cares...
1150
00:59:17,884 --> 00:59:19,719
You remember we heard that on the radio
for the first time?
1151
00:59:19,803 --> 00:59:22,389
In your parents' living room.
Our first hit.
1152
00:59:22,472 --> 00:59:25,183
That was one of the most
astonishing moments of my life, Larry.
1153
00:59:25,266 --> 00:59:29,145
-I was 22.
-And I'm telling you, I swear to God,
1154
00:59:29,229 --> 00:59:31,648
our best work is still ahead of us.
1155
00:59:31,731 --> 00:59:33,733
Yes, the new Connecticut Yankee!
1156
00:59:33,817 --> 00:59:35,360
Yeah, yeah. And bigger stuff.
1157
00:59:35,443 --> 00:59:37,278
-Dick, get up here.
-All right. I'm coming!
1158
00:59:37,362 --> 00:59:39,739
I mean, Marco Polo is going to be
a show about joy...
1159
00:59:40,407 --> 00:59:44,160
but a hard-earned joy,
an unsentimental joy.
1160
00:59:45,036 --> 00:59:47,372
-Something wrong with sentimental?
-What? It's too easy.
1161
00:59:50,417 --> 00:59:51,876
Oklahoma! is too easy?
1162
00:59:52,919 --> 00:59:55,297
The guy actually getting the girl
at the end is too easy?
1163
00:59:55,380 --> 00:59:58,008
You've just eliminated
every successful musical comedy
1164
00:59:58,091 --> 00:59:59,217
ever written, Larry.
1165
00:59:59,301 --> 01:00:00,302
Then it's too easy for me.
1166
01:00:00,385 --> 01:00:01,720
Did you hear the audience tonight?
1167
01:00:02,345 --> 01:00:03,346
Yes.
1168
01:00:04,389 --> 01:00:06,766
Sixteen hundred people
didn't think it was too easy.
1169
01:00:06,850 --> 01:00:08,601
You're telling me 1,600 people are wrong?
1170
01:00:08,685 --> 01:00:10,061
I'm just saying...
1171
01:00:11,187 --> 01:00:17,193
that you and I can do something
so much more emotionally complicated.
1172
01:00:17,277 --> 01:00:19,404
We don't have to pander
to what audiences...
1173
01:00:19,487 --> 01:00:21,448
-Oscar and I are pandering?
-No. I didn't say that.
1174
01:00:21,531 --> 01:00:23,700
-Irving Berlin is pandering?
-I love Berlin.
1175
01:00:23,783 --> 01:00:26,453
-White Christmas is pandering?
-Well, I don't believe White Christmas.
1176
01:00:26,536 --> 01:00:27,537
Okay.
1177
01:00:28,622 --> 01:00:30,332
Well, maybe audiences have changed.
1178
01:00:30,415 --> 01:00:32,250
Well, they still want to laugh.
1179
01:00:32,334 --> 01:00:34,044
They want to laugh, but not in that way.
1180
01:00:34,127 --> 01:00:35,629
-Not in what way?
-In your way.
1181
01:00:36,713 --> 01:00:38,548
They want to laugh,
but they also want to cry a little.
1182
01:00:38,632 --> 01:00:41,468
They want to... they want to feel.
1183
01:00:44,763 --> 01:00:46,514
You're my oldest friend.
1184
01:00:47,307 --> 01:00:48,391
You're...
1185
01:00:50,644 --> 01:00:51,645
you're unique.
1186
01:00:52,604 --> 01:00:54,105
Sounds like you're writing my obituary.
1187
01:00:55,106 --> 01:00:57,984
-I'm just saying.
-I'm right here, right now.
1188
01:00:58,068 --> 01:01:00,987
-Ready to work.
-Yeah?
1189
01:01:02,405 --> 01:01:04,658
And you're willing to go back
to Doctors Hospital?
1190
01:01:05,784 --> 01:01:08,453
I don't need to go back
to Doctors Hospital,
1191
01:01:08,536 --> 01:01:11,706
and I don't need a psychiatrist either.
1192
01:01:11,790 --> 01:01:13,750
-Thank you very much.
-We were just trying to help you, Larry.
1193
01:01:13,833 --> 01:01:15,919
Who's we? You and Oscar? Help me?
1194
01:01:16,002 --> 01:01:17,420
Oscar? You think Oscar
had anything to do with it?
1195
01:01:17,504 --> 01:01:20,840
Oklahoma! is going to be the biggest hit
of your career.
1196
01:01:20,924 --> 01:01:23,218
-You don't know that. You don't know that.
-You got that asshole Kron
1197
01:01:23,301 --> 01:01:25,178
to manage my money.
Now I'm incapable...
1198
01:01:25,261 --> 01:01:26,972
I did that at the insistence
of your brother, Larry.
1199
01:01:27,055 --> 01:01:28,056
Teddy literally begged me...
1200
01:01:28,139 --> 01:01:30,308
Well, maybe you and Teddy
should write the lyrics.
1201
01:01:30,392 --> 01:01:31,935
I did write the lyrics.
1202
01:01:33,019 --> 01:01:34,145
What is that supposed to mean?
1203
01:01:34,229 --> 01:01:36,982
By Jupiter? Have you conveniently
blocked that out?
1204
01:01:37,065 --> 01:01:38,274
Blocked what out?
1205
01:01:38,358 --> 01:01:41,736
How Logan and I begged you
for extra choruses, extra verses,
1206
01:01:41,820 --> 01:01:44,906
and you were so drunk
that you didn't even show up.
1207
01:01:44,990 --> 01:01:46,741
So, yes, I had to write the lyrics.
1208
01:01:46,825 --> 01:01:49,619
-You didn't write one fucking word...
-How would you know?
1209
01:01:49,703 --> 01:01:51,329
-...of that show.
-How would you know, Larry?
1210
01:01:51,413 --> 01:01:53,123
You weren't around to even...
1211
01:01:53,206 --> 01:01:54,207
You know what?
1212
01:01:54,291 --> 01:01:56,251
I'm actually not going to argue
with you tonight,
1213
01:01:56,334 --> 01:01:57,377
-if that's all right with you.
-I like to argue.
1214
01:01:57,460 --> 01:01:59,212
Well I don't. I don't.
1215
01:01:59,296 --> 01:02:00,588
Look, I am sorry.
1216
01:02:01,631 --> 01:02:04,217
I don't care if somebody attacks me.
1217
01:02:04,301 --> 01:02:06,511
It doesn't mean anything to me.
1218
01:02:06,594 --> 01:02:10,390
But nobody can attack my work.
It is all I've got.
1219
01:02:10,473 --> 01:02:12,392
Your work is brilliant.
That's not the problem.
1220
01:02:15,395 --> 01:02:18,773
Your work has been brilliant
since the day I met you.
1221
01:02:20,025 --> 01:02:21,359
Do you still remember that?
1222
01:02:22,444 --> 01:02:24,821
You, standing there in your
carpet slippers and your stripy bathrobe?
1223
01:02:26,740 --> 01:02:30,994
Yeah, with the five o'clock shadow
at 11:00 a.m.
1224
01:02:33,496 --> 01:02:36,583
I'll remember that
till the last day of my life.
1225
01:02:40,211 --> 01:02:41,212
Okay.
1226
01:02:48,386 --> 01:02:49,471
-Larry, I got to go upstairs.
-I know.
1227
01:02:49,554 --> 01:02:51,640
-The whole company's waiting.
-Of course. Of course.
1228
01:02:53,224 --> 01:02:54,726
Four or five songs, yes?
1229
01:02:54,809 --> 01:02:56,853
I'm telling you, I'm having ideas already!
1230
01:02:57,896 --> 01:02:59,898
A big comedy solo for Vivienne
1231
01:02:59,981 --> 01:03:03,693
about how she's killed off
every single one of her previous husbands.
1232
01:03:05,070 --> 01:03:06,071
Might be funny.
1233
01:03:06,154 --> 01:03:08,948
We can call it To Keep Our Love Alive!
1234
01:03:24,005 --> 01:03:25,006
You okay, Larry?
1235
01:03:30,595 --> 01:03:31,721
What happened to White?
1236
01:03:31,805 --> 01:03:34,140
-Left.
-"So soon?"
1237
01:03:34,683 --> 01:03:37,102
There was so much more
I wanted to say to him.
1238
01:03:37,185 --> 01:03:38,561
Maybe he was an extra, too.
1239
01:03:40,063 --> 01:03:41,106
One more?
1240
01:03:41,982 --> 01:03:43,066
Last one, Larry.
1241
01:03:45,151 --> 01:03:47,779
Do you know the ineffectual blues?
1242
01:03:50,115 --> 01:03:52,200
That's because I haven't written it yet.
1243
01:03:56,288 --> 01:03:58,540
They should put my picture on that bottle.
1244
01:03:58,623 --> 01:04:02,669
"The Whisky That Made
Lorenz Hart Unemployable.
1245
01:04:03,461 --> 01:04:04,629
"Buy War Bonds."
1246
01:04:11,261 --> 01:04:13,763
You know, I've started
to hear things wrong.
1247
01:04:13,847 --> 01:04:16,850
The other night,
I was listening to this singer go on
1248
01:04:16,933 --> 01:04:18,518
about "her cigarette heart".
1249
01:04:19,060 --> 01:04:21,980
And I thought,
"Now that is an original metaphor,
1250
01:04:22,063 --> 01:04:23,690
"'My cigarette heart'".
1251
01:04:24,399 --> 01:04:26,860
Then I realised she was singing
"My secret heart".
1252
01:04:27,652 --> 01:04:30,530
I can't remember anything any more either.
1253
01:04:30,613 --> 01:04:33,074
That should be the title
of my autobiography,
1254
01:04:33,158 --> 01:04:35,660
"Stop Me If I've Told You This Already".
1255
01:04:36,328 --> 01:04:38,371
And we'll print the entire text twice.
1256
01:04:45,670 --> 01:04:48,006
No, I'm serious.
I've seen her do it before.
1257
01:04:48,089 --> 01:04:50,925
As long as there's no dancing
later on in the night.
1258
01:04:52,636 --> 01:04:54,220
You better watch yourself...
1259
01:04:54,304 --> 01:04:57,140
My irreplaceable Elizabeth!
1260
01:04:57,223 --> 01:04:58,224
Larry!
1261
01:04:59,184 --> 01:05:01,019
-Do you like it?
-It's...
1262
01:05:01,102 --> 01:05:03,063
Oscar Hammerstein just said I was a gem!
1263
01:05:03,730 --> 01:05:06,566
He has such a way with words.
1264
01:05:07,317 --> 01:05:09,235
George, this is Lorenz Hart.
1265
01:05:09,319 --> 01:05:11,613
I am legitimately honoured to meet you.
1266
01:05:11,696 --> 01:05:15,158
Would you mind if I spoke to Elizabeth
alone for two minutes?
1267
01:05:15,241 --> 01:05:16,910
And then she's all yours.
1268
01:05:16,993 --> 01:05:18,161
It would be perfectly all right
1269
01:05:18,244 --> 01:05:21,039
as long as you promise me
your autograph before I go.
1270
01:05:21,122 --> 01:05:22,415
George is a senior at Yale.
1271
01:05:22,540 --> 01:05:25,043
He's studying music,
but he wants to be a director.
1272
01:05:25,043 --> 01:05:26,461
A director. Well, what's your name?
1273
01:05:26,545 --> 01:05:27,546
George Hill.
1274
01:05:27,629 --> 01:05:31,550
Here's my advice to you,
future director, George Hill.
1275
01:05:31,633 --> 01:05:32,884
Do you want my advice?
1276
01:05:32,968 --> 01:05:33,969
I'd be honoured.
1277
01:05:35,053 --> 01:05:37,597
Be careful of love stories.
1278
01:05:38,348 --> 01:05:41,142
Think about friendship stories.
1279
01:05:41,226 --> 01:05:44,729
That's where
the really enduring stuff lives.
1280
01:05:45,814 --> 01:05:47,148
Thank you. I'll remember that.
1281
01:05:51,152 --> 01:05:52,654
Catch up with you later, George.
1282
01:05:55,156 --> 01:05:56,533
My mother just gave me this.
1283
01:05:56,616 --> 01:05:58,285
I was really touched she gave it to me.
1284
01:05:59,411 --> 01:06:01,538
My well-tempered clavicle.
1285
01:06:01,621 --> 01:06:03,206
Careful. My mother...
1286
01:06:03,999 --> 01:06:05,584
Okay. All right...
1287
01:06:05,667 --> 01:06:09,963
Sorry. Now, I know your birthday
isn't until November 19th.
1288
01:06:10,046 --> 01:06:11,047
I'm a scorpion.
1289
01:06:11,131 --> 01:06:13,925
I never doubted that for a second.
1290
01:06:14,009 --> 01:06:16,219
Did you get the sheet music I sent you?
1291
01:06:16,887 --> 01:06:20,390
I was so busy with exams,
I put them away, honestly, and...
1292
01:06:20,473 --> 01:06:23,935
And then I kind of forgot about them.
But now I've got the time. I promise you.
1293
01:06:24,019 --> 01:06:25,520
I'm going to get a friend of mine
1294
01:06:25,604 --> 01:06:27,397
to play every single one
of those songs for me.
1295
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:29,191
Take your time.
1296
01:06:29,274 --> 01:06:31,651
That's the wonderful thing
about art, isn't it?
1297
01:06:31,735 --> 01:06:32,861
It waits for you.
1298
01:06:33,862 --> 01:06:36,031
Thank you for all the letters
you wrote me.
1299
01:06:36,114 --> 01:06:37,908
I really enjoyed reading them.
1300
01:06:37,991 --> 01:06:41,036
My roommate couldn't believe I was
actually corresponding with Lorenz Hart.
1301
01:06:41,119 --> 01:06:43,788
I remember in Vermont,
you were drinking red wine.
1302
01:06:44,664 --> 01:06:47,709
Malbec. It's a big Yale drink.
1303
01:06:48,460 --> 01:06:52,005
You ask for the French Malbec,
and then you act
1304
01:06:52,088 --> 01:06:54,216
as if you can actually tell
which vineyard it came from.
1305
01:06:56,718 --> 01:06:59,387
Don't mention Vermont
around my mother, okay?
1306
01:06:59,471 --> 01:07:01,223
She doesn't know anything
about our little getaway.
1307
01:07:02,390 --> 01:07:04,309
Actually, thank goodness.
1308
01:07:04,392 --> 01:07:07,479
She doesn't know about 90%
of what's going on in my life.
1309
01:07:07,562 --> 01:07:10,148
Well, I feel privileged that I do.
1310
01:07:10,232 --> 01:07:12,442
Or that I did, back in August.
1311
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,862
I've got much more stuff
to report on since then.
1312
01:07:15,946 --> 01:07:19,574
Well, tell me about the guys.
That's what I'm interested in.
1313
01:07:20,492 --> 01:07:24,412
Honestly, I'm much smarter
than most of them.
1314
01:07:24,496 --> 01:07:27,874
So I sort of sit back and watch them
trying to impress me.
1315
01:07:27,958 --> 01:07:29,459
It's pretty entertaining.
1316
01:07:29,543 --> 01:07:31,878
If I were a college guy,
I think I would be afraid of you.
1317
01:07:31,962 --> 01:07:35,006
This intelligent, mercilessly observant,
1318
01:07:35,090 --> 01:07:37,634
wickedly unsentimental beauty
sitting there,
1319
01:07:37,717 --> 01:07:40,679
evaluating me from somewhere
behind those green eyes,
1320
01:07:40,762 --> 01:07:42,389
annotating all my gaucheries.
1321
01:07:42,472 --> 01:07:44,349
My God, I would be terrified.
1322
01:07:44,432 --> 01:07:46,268
Hey, I'm not that intimidating.
1323
01:07:47,477 --> 01:07:49,896
Tell me more about this Cooper.
1324
01:07:52,190 --> 01:07:53,316
This is embarrassing.
1325
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:54,609
I love it when you're embarrassed,
1326
01:07:54,693 --> 01:07:57,487
you get this scarlet blush
that washes up over you,
1327
01:07:57,571 --> 01:07:59,698
and a second later it's gone.
1328
01:08:00,198 --> 01:08:02,367
This one might last considerably longer.
1329
01:08:02,450 --> 01:08:04,494
-I'd love to...
-Elizabeth. Hello, Larry.
1330
01:08:04,578 --> 01:08:07,622
I hope I'm not
interrupting anything too weighty.
1331
01:08:07,706 --> 01:08:10,083
Well, weighty affairs will have to wait.
1332
01:08:10,834 --> 01:08:12,377
She's a gem, isn't she?
1333
01:08:12,460 --> 01:08:13,837
Please, Mr Hammerstein.
1334
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:15,672
I'll only bother you for a moment.
1335
01:08:15,755 --> 01:08:17,798
Larry, I just wanted to say...
1336
01:08:18,508 --> 01:08:21,595
Well, firstly, I recognise this must be
a difficult night for you.
1337
01:08:21,678 --> 01:08:25,097
No, I'm a professional, Oscar.
We're both professionals,
1338
01:08:25,182 --> 01:08:27,142
we understand the nature of our business.
1339
01:08:27,225 --> 01:08:31,562
Larry, did you really like the show?
I don't think I do the comedy numbers
1340
01:08:31,646 --> 01:08:33,815
half as well as you do.
They're not my strength.
1341
01:08:33,899 --> 01:08:37,819
I laughed my ass off.
I had to have it re-attached.
1342
01:08:39,154 --> 01:08:41,698
Larry, we're the same age,
but you were always the teacher.
1343
01:08:41,780 --> 01:08:44,075
-No, Oscar. I...
-No, your whole career,
1344
01:08:44,159 --> 01:08:45,785
-you showed us the way.
-Well, I doubt...
1345
01:08:45,869 --> 01:08:47,412
You liberated us all.
1346
01:08:47,495 --> 01:08:50,999
You made American songs
finally sound like American speech.
1347
01:08:51,082 --> 01:08:53,709
Stop. I dislike eulogies,
especially my own.
1348
01:08:53,793 --> 01:08:56,004
Oscar, tonight is your night.
1349
01:08:56,629 --> 01:09:00,300
A hit for you and Dick
is a hit for all of us.
1350
01:09:00,383 --> 01:09:03,053
People finally want to go see shows again.
1351
01:09:03,136 --> 01:09:05,972
Real shows. Dick and I
were just tossing around a few ideas.
1352
01:09:06,056 --> 01:09:09,601
-Wonderful.
-Yeah, we have this idea for a big...
1353
01:09:10,685 --> 01:09:14,189
Marco Polo show... huge...
a kind of musical circus.
1354
01:09:14,272 --> 01:09:16,941
Dick's excited about it.
1355
01:09:17,025 --> 01:09:18,485
He said you're adapting Liliom.
1356
01:09:18,568 --> 01:09:20,278
Well, if we can finagle the rights.
1357
01:09:20,361 --> 01:09:21,363
Sounds exciting.
1358
01:09:21,488 --> 01:09:24,281
-Elizabeth told me she's your protégé.
-Stop.
1359
01:09:24,365 --> 01:09:29,037
"She's the promised kiss of springtime
that makes the lonely winter seem long."
1360
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:30,120
Please.
1361
01:09:30,205 --> 01:09:33,624
-You wrote a great lyric.
-For a show that didn't run three months.
1362
01:09:33,708 --> 01:09:35,794
-I saw it twice.
-You...
1363
01:09:35,877 --> 01:09:38,213
You know what
we're talking about here, Stevie?
1364
01:09:38,296 --> 01:09:40,632
Very Warm for May.
Produced by Max Gordon.
1365
01:09:40,714 --> 01:09:42,008
Music by Jerome Kern.
1366
01:09:42,092 --> 01:09:44,636
Alvin Theatre. 59 performances.
1367
01:09:46,096 --> 01:09:50,057
This is my neighbour. He's a kind of
a walking encyclopedia of musical theatre.
1368
01:09:50,141 --> 01:09:52,936
Well, I'm a kind of walking pneumonia
for musical theatre.
1369
01:09:53,019 --> 01:09:54,980
-Nice to meet you.
-Pleasure to meet you.
1370
01:09:55,063 --> 01:09:56,982
He wants to write musicals
when he grows up.
1371
01:09:57,065 --> 01:09:58,567
Who's your favourite lyricist?
1372
01:09:58,650 --> 01:09:59,734
Oscar.
1373
01:10:00,485 --> 01:10:02,779
Of course.
And what do you think of my work?
1374
01:10:02,863 --> 01:10:04,406
I like it. It's funny.
1375
01:10:04,489 --> 01:10:05,574
Thank you.
1376
01:10:05,657 --> 01:10:06,950
Can be a little sloppy at times.
1377
01:10:07,826 --> 01:10:10,245
He's very tired. It's been a long day.
1378
01:10:10,328 --> 01:10:13,415
Come on, Stevie.
It's a long ride back to Doylestown.
1379
01:10:13,498 --> 01:10:15,584
-You want to go to the bathroom?
-I'm not tired.
1380
01:10:15,667 --> 01:10:17,669
He asked me what I thought of his work.
1381
01:10:17,752 --> 01:10:19,963
"Weighty affairs will just have to wait"?
1382
01:10:20,046 --> 01:10:22,090
I so regret not having children.
1383
01:10:22,883 --> 01:10:23,884
Cooper.
1384
01:10:25,302 --> 01:10:27,387
-I can't believe I'm telling you this.
-Tell me.
1385
01:10:27,470 --> 01:10:29,806
You have to remember,
I've had a hopeless crush on this guy
1386
01:10:29,890 --> 01:10:30,932
for over a year.
1387
01:10:31,016 --> 01:10:32,517
Hold this. Come here.
1388
01:10:33,685 --> 01:10:38,148
Renee, may I buy five minutes
of privacy, please?
1389
01:10:39,065 --> 01:10:40,483
{\an8}Anything for you, Larry.
1390
01:10:50,535 --> 01:10:51,661
Thank you.
1391
01:10:53,872 --> 01:10:56,917
Tell me what he looks like,
I'm trying to visualise him.
1392
01:10:57,834 --> 01:11:00,170
Apollo? Blue eyes. Tall.
1393
01:11:00,253 --> 01:11:02,464
So, basically, the skin on his back
1394
01:11:02,547 --> 01:11:04,090
-was flawless...
-Stop.
1395
01:11:04,174 --> 01:11:08,053
It's the night of your birthday.
Tell me everything.
1396
01:11:08,136 --> 01:11:11,806
-A group of my friends are taking...
-Boyfriends, girlfriends?
1397
01:11:12,432 --> 01:11:13,683
-Mixed.
-Okay.
1398
01:11:13,767 --> 01:11:16,061
Come on, Larry, I'm a college lady.
1399
01:11:17,437 --> 01:11:21,316
So they're taking me to Mory's,
which is technically no women allowed,
1400
01:11:21,900 --> 01:11:25,487
but they smuggle us up those backstairs
like so much heavily-scented contraband,
1401
01:11:25,570 --> 01:11:30,909
and, of course, one of the girls
has brought along her date.
1402
01:11:30,992 --> 01:11:31,993
Cooper?
1403
01:11:32,577 --> 01:11:36,206
Which is both destroying me
and exhilarating me.
1404
01:11:36,289 --> 01:11:40,001
I mean, he's there. Near me.
1405
01:11:42,045 --> 01:11:43,505
The evening is getting late,
1406
01:11:43,588 --> 01:11:45,590
empty wine bottles
are filling up the table.
1407
01:11:46,591 --> 01:11:48,677
Half of us are underage,
1408
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:51,680
but we're flirting so shamelessly
with the waiter that nobody seems to care.
1409
01:11:51,763 --> 01:11:54,766
-Drinking your French Malbec.
-Exactly.
1410
01:11:55,475 --> 01:11:57,561
I'm nothing if not a good student.
1411
01:11:58,144 --> 01:12:01,815
That's why everybody loves you, Larry.
You're the best listener I ever met.
1412
01:12:01,898 --> 01:12:05,360
That's because I have absolutely
no interest in myself whatsoever.
1413
01:12:05,443 --> 01:12:07,696
Back to your tale of natal debauchery.
1414
01:12:07,779 --> 01:12:09,781
Empty wine bottles filling the table...
1415
01:12:11,116 --> 01:12:12,450
So it's late.
1416
01:12:12,993 --> 01:12:15,912
-And Marjorie...
-The girl who came with Cooper?
1417
01:12:16,788 --> 01:12:18,498
She's left to go home and study.
1418
01:12:19,958 --> 01:12:22,210
People are staggering out one by one.
1419
01:12:23,044 --> 01:12:24,254
It's midnight.
1420
01:12:25,255 --> 01:12:27,799
And I find myself sitting
right next to him.
1421
01:12:27,883 --> 01:12:29,259
Take your time.
1422
01:12:30,010 --> 01:12:33,638
You know, there's no place else
on earth I'd rather be
1423
01:12:33,722 --> 01:12:36,266
than sitting right here with you.
1424
01:12:36,349 --> 01:12:38,602
Did you get my letter?
There's a party at my place tonight.
1425
01:12:38,685 --> 01:12:40,854
I think I've got to stay here
and help my mother...
1426
01:12:40,937 --> 01:12:42,272
It's not getting started till late.
1427
01:12:42,355 --> 01:12:45,192
You'll have plenty of time
to work the room here.
1428
01:12:45,901 --> 01:12:49,571
I've got the Golden Gate Quartet
showing up. Promise me you'll come.
1429
01:12:49,654 --> 01:12:51,239
320 Central Park West.
1430
01:12:51,323 --> 01:12:54,618
You said you wanted
to design sets and costumes,
1431
01:12:54,701 --> 01:12:56,912
everybody in New York theatre
is gonna be there.
1432
01:12:56,995 --> 01:12:58,246
Okay, back to Cooper.
1433
01:12:59,581 --> 01:13:00,582
Okay.
1434
01:13:02,292 --> 01:13:03,668
We leave Mory's together.
1435
01:13:04,586 --> 01:13:08,131
It's a perfect November night.
A fingernail clipping of a moon.
1436
01:13:09,090 --> 01:13:12,552
He's got his arm around me.
We're both a little drunk,
1437
01:13:12,636 --> 01:13:15,514
stumbling in and out of each other's arms.
1438
01:13:15,597 --> 01:13:18,892
He's wearing this red and green
flannel shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
1439
01:13:18,975 --> 01:13:20,227
Not that you noticed.
1440
01:13:21,186 --> 01:13:22,395
He's looking good!
1441
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:23,563
And you?
1442
01:13:25,899 --> 01:13:26,942
It's my birthday, right?
1443
01:13:27,734 --> 01:13:30,237
-I'm supposed to be looking good.
-Tasty.
1444
01:13:31,613 --> 01:13:34,658
So I'm leaning
against that flannel work shirt,
1445
01:13:34,741 --> 01:13:36,326
and I'm telling you,
1446
01:13:36,993 --> 01:13:39,621
I can smell the maleness
coming off of him.
1447
01:13:40,997 --> 01:13:45,418
I remember thinking that huge purple
letters should have lit up the sky...
1448
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:48,296
-"Desire".
-Okay.
1449
01:13:48,380 --> 01:13:49,381
Hold on one second.
1450
01:13:49,464 --> 01:13:51,758
I have to go find some ice-water
and pour it down my trousers.
1451
01:13:51,842 --> 01:13:53,510
You may need some extra ice.
1452
01:13:54,219 --> 01:13:57,055
We end up in the basement
of his fraternity,
1453
01:13:57,138 --> 01:14:00,308
in this tawdry sort of derelict bar.
1454
01:14:00,392 --> 01:14:03,395
God only knows how many acts of depravity
have taken place down there.
1455
01:14:03,478 --> 01:14:05,021
And here comes one more.
1456
01:14:05,105 --> 01:14:06,189
Yeah.
1457
01:14:08,775 --> 01:14:11,278
So I've been watching this guy for a year,
1458
01:14:12,362 --> 01:14:16,575
dreaming about him, and now, here it is.
1459
01:14:17,450 --> 01:14:19,953
The night of my birthday,
1460
01:14:20,036 --> 01:14:22,789
the only light is coming
from this dim little lamp
1461
01:14:22,873 --> 01:14:25,500
with horses and jockeys
printed on the shade.
1462
01:14:26,209 --> 01:14:28,211
I mean, really, Larry,
what's a girl to do?
1463
01:14:29,045 --> 01:14:30,255
Happy birthday!
1464
01:14:32,966 --> 01:14:34,968
He begins to take off his clothes.
1465
01:14:41,766 --> 01:14:43,518
You really want to hear this?
1466
01:14:43,602 --> 01:14:45,645
I'm mildly interested.
1467
01:14:47,814 --> 01:14:48,899
It's humiliating.
1468
01:14:50,358 --> 01:14:51,902
'Cause basically nothing happened.
1469
01:14:53,236 --> 01:14:54,362
Nothing?
1470
01:14:56,239 --> 01:14:58,033
Like you and me at the lake house?
1471
01:14:58,116 --> 01:14:59,117
No.
1472
01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:02,162
That was a deliberate decision
we made, right?
1473
01:15:02,871 --> 01:15:07,042
Based on what? Rationality?
I mean, as rational as you and I ever get.
1474
01:15:09,586 --> 01:15:10,754
But this...
1475
01:15:13,048 --> 01:15:15,509
This was based on the fact
that he couldn't get the rubber on.
1476
01:15:16,468 --> 01:15:18,011
No.
1477
01:15:18,094 --> 01:15:19,304
He tried.
1478
01:15:20,222 --> 01:15:21,681
-He tried again.
-No.
1479
01:15:22,599 --> 01:15:23,975
-I tried.
-Stop.
1480
01:15:25,393 --> 01:15:27,312
It was the worst 10 minutes of my life.
1481
01:15:27,395 --> 01:15:29,481
It felt like 10 hours.
1482
01:15:29,564 --> 01:15:30,565
I'm sorry.
1483
01:15:30,649 --> 01:15:33,193
And you know what the worst part was?
1484
01:15:35,612 --> 01:15:38,073
He just wasn't there, you know?
1485
01:15:39,533 --> 01:15:42,285
He kept mumbling that it was the wine.
1486
01:15:42,369 --> 01:15:43,411
That...
1487
01:15:45,330 --> 01:15:47,666
the rubber was too small,
if you can believe that.
1488
01:15:49,084 --> 01:15:51,962
And this whole time what's clear to me
1489
01:15:52,045 --> 01:15:56,842
is that he just... hasn't sufficiently...
1490
01:15:58,468 --> 01:16:01,096
I don't know
what the right word is. Maybe...
1491
01:16:03,014 --> 01:16:06,101
"he-just-doesn't-love-you-enough"
is the right word.
1492
01:16:07,269 --> 01:16:10,105
I mean, there's no way
around that one, is there?
1493
01:16:10,981 --> 01:16:13,900
When the girl loves the guy
with all of her heart,
1494
01:16:14,985 --> 01:16:17,445
and he just doesn't return her feeling?
1495
01:16:18,655 --> 01:16:21,199
Do you have any idea what that feels like?
1496
01:16:21,283 --> 01:16:23,326
"Nobody ever loved me that much."
1497
01:16:24,619 --> 01:16:28,373
I brought into that basement
a year's worth of adoration,
1498
01:16:29,416 --> 01:16:31,418
yeah, studying his photograph,
1499
01:16:32,586 --> 01:16:34,671
memorising his phone number.
1500
01:16:34,754 --> 01:16:38,508
And there he was, this half-drunk junior
1501
01:16:39,593 --> 01:16:41,469
who couldn't even pretend to love me...
1502
01:16:42,929 --> 01:16:46,600
And... I wouldn't have minded
if there'd been...
1503
01:16:47,684 --> 01:16:49,936
some... passion underneath.
1504
01:16:50,604 --> 01:16:52,564
Or even empathy.
1505
01:16:55,734 --> 01:16:56,818
There was nothing.
1506
01:16:57,652 --> 01:17:01,406
Just... that lamp with the horses on it.
1507
01:17:02,574 --> 01:17:06,995
You deserve so much better.
1508
01:17:07,078 --> 01:17:08,121
Yeah.
1509
01:17:10,123 --> 01:17:12,000
I asked my roommate about it
the next morning,
1510
01:17:12,667 --> 01:17:14,419
you know, girl to girl.
1511
01:17:15,545 --> 01:17:20,300
She said that men sometimes can't
perform because they're too nervous.
1512
01:17:23,386 --> 01:17:26,348
I wish I could believe that to feel
a little bit better about myself.
1513
01:17:26,431 --> 01:17:27,807
But..
1514
01:17:28,308 --> 01:17:31,186
...he was not nervous.
Not in the least.
1515
01:17:31,269 --> 01:17:32,354
He had his eyes shut.
1516
01:17:32,437 --> 01:17:35,565
As if he were trying to dream me
into somebody he really wanted.
1517
01:17:36,149 --> 01:17:37,567
I felt stupid.
1518
01:17:37,651 --> 01:17:39,027
I felt debased.
1519
01:17:39,110 --> 01:17:41,696
I felt furious at myself
that I could allow him
1520
01:17:41,780 --> 01:17:43,490
to make me feel so worthless.
1521
01:17:45,992 --> 01:17:48,203
We tried a few creative alternatives.
1522
01:17:48,286 --> 01:17:49,287
No.
1523
01:17:51,164 --> 01:17:53,750
It got uglier and uglier.
1524
01:17:54,459 --> 01:17:58,630
Finally, he said,
"Elizabeth, I owe you a rain check."
1525
01:18:00,590 --> 01:18:01,925
And that...
1526
01:18:02,551 --> 01:18:04,719
That was my 20th birthday.
1527
01:18:06,096 --> 01:18:07,305
Ta-da.
1528
01:18:07,389 --> 01:18:08,473
Jesus wept.
1529
01:18:11,309 --> 01:18:12,519
But it gets worse.
1530
01:18:12,602 --> 01:18:13,728
I don't think I can take it.
1531
01:18:13,812 --> 01:18:15,146
Okay, I can take it.
1532
01:18:15,230 --> 01:18:19,442
But just tell me in a way that doesn't
make me ashamed to be a human being.
1533
01:18:21,653 --> 01:18:22,737
That's going to be difficult.
1534
01:18:24,197 --> 01:18:25,490
About a week later,
1535
01:18:26,658 --> 01:18:28,535
everybody's leaving for Thanksgiving.
1536
01:18:29,828 --> 01:18:32,581
He gives me a call.
Would I like to have dinner with him?
1537
01:18:33,373 --> 01:18:35,333
You know me. No pride.
1538
01:18:36,209 --> 01:18:40,005
I say, "Sure," and make my way over
to his fraternity again,
1539
01:18:41,173 --> 01:18:43,925
which sits under this huge gingko tree.
1540
01:18:44,676 --> 01:18:46,887
The leaves have turned yellow,
1541
01:18:46,970 --> 01:18:49,639
the trunk of the tree
is black from the rain.
1542
01:18:50,348 --> 01:18:53,351
I'm thinking this is the most
beautiful thing I've ever seen.
1543
01:18:54,269 --> 01:18:55,937
I remember saying to myself,
1544
01:18:56,771 --> 01:18:58,857
"God is giving you a second chance."
1545
01:18:59,816 --> 01:19:00,984
We go up to his room,
1546
01:19:01,067 --> 01:19:03,445
his roommate has already left
for the holiday.
1547
01:19:04,237 --> 01:19:05,655
The door clicks shut,
1548
01:19:06,823 --> 01:19:07,824
and suddenly...
1549
01:19:09,242 --> 01:19:11,953
there's no more discussion about dinner.
1550
01:19:12,037 --> 01:19:13,914
Rain check cashed!
1551
01:19:13,997 --> 01:19:15,290
In spades.
1552
01:19:15,373 --> 01:19:17,083
I mean, it's suddenly pouring.
1553
01:19:17,167 --> 01:19:19,419
We're practically
tearing each other's clothes off.
1554
01:19:19,503 --> 01:19:21,171
There is no conversation.
1555
01:19:22,047 --> 01:19:23,298
And this time...
1556
01:19:24,716 --> 01:19:26,259
there is no difficulty.
1557
01:19:27,385 --> 01:19:30,722
Not the first time.
Not the second time.
1558
01:19:30,805 --> 01:19:32,307
Stop it.
1559
01:19:34,184 --> 01:19:38,188
He says to me,
"Happy belated birthday, Elizabeth."
1560
01:19:40,941 --> 01:19:44,903
And you want to hear the unbelievable
ending to this sordid little story?
1561
01:19:46,696 --> 01:19:48,406
That was the last time I saw him.
1562
01:19:50,492 --> 01:19:53,787
That was November. Over four months ago.
1563
01:19:55,247 --> 01:19:59,459
I was absolutely sure he'd call.
If only to have sex again, right?
1564
01:19:59,543 --> 01:20:01,711
No. Never.
1565
01:20:02,546 --> 01:20:04,339
I thought he'd write.
1566
01:20:04,422 --> 01:20:05,549
No.
1567
01:20:06,299 --> 01:20:07,926
So I call him, of course.
1568
01:20:09,261 --> 01:20:11,096
He couldn't get off the phone fast enough.
1569
01:20:12,639 --> 01:20:14,057
So I wrote to him.
1570
01:20:15,642 --> 01:20:18,228
-A four-page typed letter. Single-spaced.
-No.
1571
01:20:18,311 --> 01:20:19,646
No response.
1572
01:20:20,272 --> 01:20:24,317
I tell myself it was like a fever dream,
you know?
1573
01:20:25,277 --> 01:20:27,487
And maybe the fever finally broke.
1574
01:20:28,613 --> 01:20:31,616
And it all sounds sane and sensible.
1575
01:20:34,035 --> 01:20:35,453
But you know something?
1576
01:20:36,913 --> 01:20:40,500
If he called me right now,
right this very second,
1577
01:20:41,918 --> 01:20:43,962
I'd drop everything in my life and...
1578
01:20:45,088 --> 01:20:49,384
drive three hours, drive 30 hours
just to spend one more night with him.
1579
01:20:49,467 --> 01:20:51,428
What is the matter with me, Larry?
1580
01:20:51,511 --> 01:20:55,348
Why would you drive 30 hours to see
someone who treated you like that?
1581
01:20:58,268 --> 01:20:59,978
Because I'm in love with him?
1582
01:21:01,146 --> 01:21:02,147
You are?
1583
01:21:03,106 --> 01:21:06,693
It's illogical. Obsessional. Pathetic.
1584
01:21:07,694 --> 01:21:09,821
And this is not the first time
this has happened to me.
1585
01:21:11,114 --> 01:21:12,616
It keeps happening to me.
1586
01:21:14,409 --> 01:21:16,870
I feel like I can't see people clearly.
1587
01:21:18,163 --> 01:21:21,082
I wrote a song once, years ago,
1588
01:21:21,166 --> 01:21:23,251
called The Heart is Quicker
Than the Eye.
1589
01:21:23,335 --> 01:21:25,670
It's not a great song,
but it's a good title.
1590
01:21:25,754 --> 01:21:27,839
And it's true, I think.
1591
01:21:28,673 --> 01:21:34,513
The head has nothing to do
with the madness of love.
1592
01:21:35,639 --> 01:21:36,640
And...
1593
01:21:37,182 --> 01:21:40,560
It doesn't matter at all
about worthiness, does it?
1594
01:21:40,644 --> 01:21:44,189
We invest our hearts in worthless stocks.
1595
01:21:44,272 --> 01:21:46,441
And we know they're worthless.
1596
01:21:46,525 --> 01:21:50,654
But we cling to them like little children
clutching their little stuffed bears.
1597
01:21:53,615 --> 01:21:54,783
Elizabeth.
1598
01:21:56,827 --> 01:21:58,078
Tell me truthfully.
1599
01:22:00,121 --> 01:22:01,623
How do you feel about me?
1600
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:06,044
How do you mean?
1601
01:22:07,212 --> 01:22:08,213
I mean,
1602
01:22:09,214 --> 01:22:12,467
at the lake house,
with the light burning off the water,
1603
01:22:14,094 --> 01:22:16,096
we talked through half the night,
1604
01:22:17,264 --> 01:22:19,057
and I touched your shoulder...
1605
01:22:19,850 --> 01:22:22,477
Did you actually love me
a little bit that night?
1606
01:22:23,770 --> 01:22:25,355
You know I love you, Larry.
1607
01:22:27,983 --> 01:22:29,192
You do?
1608
01:22:32,529 --> 01:22:35,824
Just... not that way.
1609
01:22:43,832 --> 01:22:48,003
You said you'd drive 30 hours
to see Cooper.
1610
01:22:49,337 --> 01:22:51,798
How many hours would you drive to see me?
1611
01:22:54,092 --> 01:22:55,343
My hands are shaking.
1612
01:22:56,970 --> 01:22:59,472
I feel something wiser and deeper for you.
1613
01:23:00,265 --> 01:23:01,892
-Respect.
-Thank you.
1614
01:23:01,975 --> 01:23:05,937
Gratitude for the generosity
and selflessness you've shown me.
1615
01:23:06,021 --> 01:23:08,940
No one has ever been more interested
in my life than you have.
1616
01:23:09,024 --> 01:23:12,611
I don't deserve a friendship like yours.
I am so grateful for you.
1617
01:23:12,694 --> 01:23:14,779
I will be grateful forever.
1618
01:23:14,863 --> 01:23:17,532
I'm grateful to you, too,
for resurrecting me.
1619
01:23:18,158 --> 01:23:19,159
Stop.
1620
01:23:19,242 --> 01:23:20,535
Larry! There's people out here.
1621
01:23:20,619 --> 01:23:22,078
One second!
1622
01:23:27,083 --> 01:23:28,668
Can I ask you something?
1623
01:23:30,212 --> 01:23:32,672
Something that's probably
too personal for me to ask?
1624
01:23:32,756 --> 01:23:36,134
Too personal is the only thing
that I'm interested in.
1625
01:23:38,637 --> 01:23:39,638
My mother...
1626
01:23:40,347 --> 01:23:43,391
You know, she works for the Guild,
she knows everybody.
1627
01:23:43,475 --> 01:23:46,269
So she saw us spending time together
last summer...
1628
01:23:46,353 --> 01:23:48,230
I see where this is headed.
1629
01:23:49,481 --> 01:23:52,734
She said to me... I don't...
I don't know how to say this.
1630
01:23:52,817 --> 01:23:53,818
Just say it.
1631
01:23:56,112 --> 01:23:57,113
Okay.
1632
01:23:58,573 --> 01:24:00,534
She said to me, more than once,
1633
01:24:00,617 --> 01:24:03,411
"Elizabeth, not only is he twice your age,
1634
01:24:04,496 --> 01:24:08,416
"but I don't think
his primary interest is women."
1635
01:24:08,500 --> 01:24:09,626
What did you say?
1636
01:24:10,752 --> 01:24:13,213
I said, "Look, Mother, I know what I know.
1637
01:24:13,296 --> 01:24:14,840
"And I know what we're both feeling."
1638
01:24:15,590 --> 01:24:17,092
What are we both feeling?
1639
01:24:21,388 --> 01:24:23,098
"Irrational adoration?"
1640
01:24:25,183 --> 01:24:30,355
And what may I ask does your mother
think she knows of my primary interest?
1641
01:24:31,523 --> 01:24:34,276
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said anything.
1642
01:24:35,110 --> 01:24:36,278
Please forgive me.
1643
01:24:37,737 --> 01:24:42,450
To all our mothers.
May they remain mercifully silent.
1644
01:24:43,702 --> 01:24:45,912
I apologise.
That was stupid of me to have asked.
1645
01:24:45,996 --> 01:24:47,998
And I do know what I know,
and what I feel.
1646
01:24:48,790 --> 01:24:50,959
Here's what you tell that mother of yours,
1647
01:24:51,042 --> 01:24:52,502
as she sits by the fire,
1648
01:24:52,586 --> 01:24:55,505
wistfully counting up her royalties
from Oklahoma!
1649
01:24:55,589 --> 01:24:59,259
You tell her that Larry Hart
is drunk with beauty.
1650
01:25:00,343 --> 01:25:02,429
And italicise the word "drunk".
1651
01:25:02,929 --> 01:25:05,640
Drunk with beauty, wherever he finds it.
1652
01:25:05,724 --> 01:25:10,270
In men, in women,
in the smell of cigar stores,
1653
01:25:10,353 --> 01:25:15,150
in the impossible beauty
of a 20-year-old poet
1654
01:25:15,233 --> 01:25:19,988
with pale green eyes and two tiny freckles
on her left cheek.
1655
01:25:24,784 --> 01:25:25,869
Are you all right?
1656
01:25:26,912 --> 01:25:30,790
It's... my cigarette heart.
1657
01:25:31,500 --> 01:25:33,793
Larry, Dick Rodgers
is looking for his coat.
1658
01:25:33,877 --> 01:25:35,045
Coming.
1659
01:25:51,978 --> 01:25:53,188
Introduce me?
1660
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:56,316
Thank you, Renee.
1661
01:25:56,399 --> 01:25:58,527
Wonderful, thank you so much.
1662
01:25:59,194 --> 01:26:03,490
Dick, I want to introduce you
to my protégé, Elizabeth Weiland.
1663
01:26:04,908 --> 01:26:06,076
Your protégé?
1664
01:26:06,952 --> 01:26:08,328
-Hello.
-Hello.
1665
01:26:08,411 --> 01:26:10,789
Well, you've got yourself
a damn good role model there
1666
01:26:10,872 --> 01:26:13,250
if you can stay away from the bourbon.
1667
01:26:14,251 --> 01:26:18,046
She's interested in writing
and set design and costumes.
1668
01:26:18,129 --> 01:26:19,464
Okay, really?
1669
01:26:19,589 --> 01:26:21,758
Mr Rodgers, the show tonight,
1670
01:26:22,467 --> 01:26:24,052
I thought it was magnificent.
1671
01:26:24,135 --> 01:26:25,220
Well, thank you.
1672
01:26:25,303 --> 01:26:27,472
It was as perfect a musical show
as I've ever seen.
1673
01:26:27,556 --> 01:26:29,891
Well, that's a lovely compliment.
1674
01:26:29,975 --> 01:26:32,018
Your mother's with the Guild, am I right?
1675
01:26:32,102 --> 01:26:34,437
-Yes, Theresa Weiland.
-Yeah, Theresa, yeah.
1676
01:26:34,521 --> 01:26:37,274
-Right, so you've seen a lot of shows.
-Too many shows.
1677
01:26:39,234 --> 01:26:40,235
Yeah.
1678
01:26:40,318 --> 01:26:41,319
I know what you mean.
1679
01:26:41,903 --> 01:26:44,614
But tonight what I saw was what I'd
always hoped a show might be.
1680
01:26:44,698 --> 01:26:47,450
Uplifting. Smart. Magical.
1681
01:26:47,576 --> 01:26:50,996
Larry, this is the most perceptive young
woman you've ever introduced me to.
1682
01:26:52,539 --> 01:26:54,040
I've had a good teacher.
1683
01:26:54,833 --> 01:26:56,501
So, what do you write?
1684
01:26:56,585 --> 01:26:58,420
At this point, poetry mostly.
1685
01:26:58,879 --> 01:27:00,755
It's very strong.
1686
01:27:00,839 --> 01:27:02,549
And you do set design, too?
1687
01:27:02,632 --> 01:27:04,009
-I'm studying.
-Right.
1688
01:27:04,092 --> 01:27:07,971
Well, I'd love to...
read some of your poems.
1689
01:27:09,681 --> 01:27:13,143
See your sketches. This is my...
This is my private number.
1690
01:27:14,644 --> 01:27:15,729
I'm flattered.
1691
01:27:16,438 --> 01:27:19,941
I haven't seen Dorothy around.
Is... Is... Is your wife here?
1692
01:27:20,025 --> 01:27:22,319
No, she's headed back to the apartment.
We're all going to meet up there
1693
01:27:22,402 --> 01:27:24,279
to look at the late reviews, Larry.
1694
01:27:24,362 --> 01:27:27,782
Yeah, so I'd love for you
to join us, Elizabeth.
1695
01:27:27,866 --> 01:27:30,702
It would be refreshing to have someone
of the younger generation amongst us.
1696
01:27:30,785 --> 01:27:32,787
And maybe you can
explain to me, Elizabeth,
1697
01:27:32,871 --> 01:27:35,332
why exactly the young girls
scream over Sinatra.
1698
01:27:35,957 --> 01:27:37,751
I don't scream over Sinatra.
1699
01:27:37,834 --> 01:27:39,878
No, she screams under Sinatra.
1700
01:27:39,961 --> 01:27:41,671
Okay, Larry!
1701
01:27:43,298 --> 01:27:45,425
Larry, of course, you're welcome to come.
1702
01:27:45,509 --> 01:27:49,179
I'm going to try to make it, I'm just
throwing a little soirée over at my place.
1703
01:27:49,262 --> 01:27:50,639
I've got the Golden Gate Quartet coming...
1704
01:27:50,722 --> 01:27:54,518
Well, I can't compete with Larry
in the soirée department.
1705
01:27:54,601 --> 01:27:56,686
-I'd love to stop over.
-You would?
1706
01:27:56,770 --> 01:27:58,313
Dick, you coming?
1707
01:27:58,396 --> 01:27:59,773
Yep, yep.
1708
01:27:59,856 --> 01:28:01,066
Do you have a ride?
1709
01:28:01,149 --> 01:28:02,776
You know what,
I can take her in a cab later.
1710
01:28:02,859 --> 01:28:04,486
We're going right now
if you want to come with us?
1711
01:28:04,569 --> 01:28:06,196
-I'd love to.
-Great.
1712
01:28:06,988 --> 01:28:09,366
Just let me inform my mom.
1713
01:28:09,449 --> 01:28:11,243
The dutiful daughter.
1714
01:28:14,663 --> 01:28:17,415
She is... She is so lovely, right?
1715
01:28:18,583 --> 01:28:20,460
She's really striking.
1716
01:28:20,544 --> 01:28:22,838
Are you... Are you and she...
1717
01:28:22,921 --> 01:28:26,758
No, no. I mean, I'm in love with her,
1718
01:28:27,425 --> 01:28:30,345
but everybody's in love with her.
1719
01:28:31,555 --> 01:28:33,348
Just not that way.
1720
01:28:33,431 --> 01:28:34,432
Okay.
1721
01:28:44,025 --> 01:28:45,569
So we'll see you later on tonight?
1722
01:28:45,652 --> 01:28:46,903
Absolutely.
1723
01:28:53,869 --> 01:28:55,245
Thank you for everything.
1724
01:28:56,955 --> 01:28:58,582
Mr Rodgers.
1725
01:28:58,665 --> 01:28:59,916
Miss Weiland.
1726
01:29:02,002 --> 01:29:03,044
Thank you.
1727
01:29:03,837 --> 01:29:05,297
And we'll see you later, Larry, right?
1728
01:29:08,925 --> 01:29:12,888
"With a song in my heart,
I behold your adorable face!"
1729
01:29:35,243 --> 01:29:38,580
You ever meet someone,
and you know instantly
1730
01:29:38,663 --> 01:29:42,876
that both your lives
are going to be irretrievably altered?
1731
01:29:42,959 --> 01:29:46,922
Just as I suspected.
You are a sentimentalist.
1732
01:29:48,924 --> 01:29:50,133
When do you get off work?
1733
01:29:50,217 --> 01:29:51,760
I got to lock this joint up.
1734
01:29:51,843 --> 01:29:54,679
What about you, Knuckles,
you're done here, right?
1735
01:29:54,763 --> 01:29:56,139
Not yet.
1736
01:29:56,223 --> 01:29:59,768
'Cause I am throwing an enormous party
at my place tonight.
1737
01:30:02,896 --> 01:30:04,731
I forgot to give her the presents.
1738
01:30:07,943 --> 01:30:10,111
I'm having such trouble
with sleeves recently.
1739
01:30:10,195 --> 01:30:12,405
I have arthritis in this shoulder.
1740
01:30:13,365 --> 01:30:15,242
I'm going to have to start
wearing a cloak.
1741
01:30:15,867 --> 01:30:19,830
I mean it. Single-handedly,
I'm going to bring back the cloak.
1742
01:30:24,751 --> 01:30:30,173
You're going to see me
on opening nights with a top hat
1743
01:30:30,257 --> 01:30:35,136
and a cloak, flitting through the fog
with a silver-tipped cane.
1744
01:30:35,929 --> 01:30:38,056
You boys are coming tonight, right?
1745
01:30:38,139 --> 01:30:41,226
She's going to be there.
I'm telling you, she will.
1746
01:30:41,852 --> 01:30:43,228
She'll arrive late.
1747
01:30:43,311 --> 01:30:47,482
And get this,
'cause this is the remarkable part,
1748
01:30:47,566 --> 01:30:51,069
sometime late, maybe around 5:00 a.m.,
1749
01:30:51,152 --> 01:30:53,488
after a little too much Malbec,
1750
01:30:53,572 --> 01:30:56,658
she's going to turn to me and say,
1751
01:30:56,741 --> 01:30:59,870
"Hey, Larry, what are you reading?
1752
01:30:59,953 --> 01:31:02,289
"Hey, Larry, when's your birthday?"
1753
01:31:02,372 --> 01:31:05,000
For the first time in her life,
1754
01:31:05,083 --> 01:31:08,962
she's going to be interested in me.
1755
01:31:09,796 --> 01:31:12,048
It has to happen sometime, right?
1756
01:31:12,132 --> 01:31:14,384
All the other guys have disappointed her.
1757
01:31:14,467 --> 01:31:17,512
But I never will. I'm just...
1758
01:31:18,555 --> 01:31:20,974
a little touch of Larry in the night.
1759
01:31:22,559 --> 01:31:25,103
Knuckles. Some travellin' music.
1760
01:31:29,566 --> 01:31:30,567
Blue moon
1761
01:31:32,861 --> 01:31:36,198
You saw me standing alone
1762
01:31:36,823 --> 01:31:37,824
Wise guy.
1763
01:31:37,908 --> 01:31:41,203
Without a dream in my heart
1764
01:31:42,871 --> 01:31:45,916
Without a love of my own
1765
01:31:47,209 --> 01:31:51,379
Well, it's a helluva lot better than
The Surrey With the Fucking Fringe On Top.
1766
01:31:52,172 --> 01:31:55,258
Larry, you coming uptown
to Dick's with us?
1767
01:31:55,675 --> 01:31:57,886
No, you go on ahead,
I'll be up there later.
1768
01:31:59,012 --> 01:32:03,475
You knew just what I was there for
1769
01:32:03,558 --> 01:32:07,354
{\an8}You heard me saying a prayer for
1770
01:32:08,772 --> 01:32:12,025
Someone I really could care for
1771
01:32:12,108 --> 01:32:16,446
That's not bad. Triple feminine rhymes,
and they all make sense.
1772
01:32:16,530 --> 01:32:19,282
And then suddenly you appeared before me
1773
01:32:20,408 --> 01:32:23,995
The only one my arms will ever hold
1774
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:27,457
And I heard somebody whisper
1775
01:32:27,541 --> 01:32:29,668
Please adore me
1776
01:32:29,751 --> 01:32:34,756
And when I looked
The moon had turned to gold
1777
01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:36,424
Blue moon
1778
01:32:43,807 --> 01:32:48,562
Larry, I think this is the beginning
of a beautiful friendship.
1779
01:32:49,145 --> 01:32:50,564
"Isn't it romantic?"
1780
01:32:51,439 --> 01:32:52,607
Not really, no.
1781
01:32:56,653 --> 01:32:59,990
You know, it wasn't even supposed to
be called Blue Moon.
1782
01:33:00,073 --> 01:33:03,451
I called it The Bad in Every Man.
1783
01:33:03,535 --> 01:33:06,329
We wrote it for this movie,
Manhattan Melodrama.
1784
01:33:06,413 --> 01:33:10,333
Jack Robbins, formerly "Rabinowitz",
he had his name circumcised over at MGM,
1785
01:33:10,417 --> 01:33:12,335
he hears the song,
he calls us into his office,
1786
01:33:12,419 --> 01:33:17,090
he lowers his pastrami, says,
"Dick, I love the melody.
1787
01:33:17,174 --> 01:33:19,551
"Strong as anything you've ever written.
1788
01:33:19,634 --> 01:33:24,014
"But, Larry, those words,
they're too artsy-fartsy!
1789
01:33:24,097 --> 01:33:27,517
"They're not too artsy-fartsy for me.
I know how brilliant you guys are.
1790
01:33:27,601 --> 01:33:30,061
"But you have to write
for the schmucks in the dark.
1791
01:33:30,145 --> 01:33:31,646
"Nobody's going to sing that lyric."
1792
01:33:31,730 --> 01:33:33,398
So I said, "What's wrong with it?"
1793
01:33:33,481 --> 01:33:36,318
He said, "I can't even
remember the fucking title!
1794
01:33:36,401 --> 01:33:39,237
"Boys, give me
something I can promote."
1795
01:33:39,321 --> 01:33:41,656
So I say,
"What do you want me to call it?"
1796
01:33:41,740 --> 01:33:42,741
Blue Moon?
1797
01:33:42,824 --> 01:33:45,785
Punchline, biggest hit we ever wrote.