1 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,545 Hello, and good morning. 2 00:01:27,516 --> 00:01:31,316 I am Rabbi lsidor Chemelwitz... 3 00:01:32,321 --> 00:01:35,757 of the Bronx Home for Aged Hebrews. 4 00:01:37,559 --> 00:01:41,017 We are here this morning to pay respect... 5 00:01:41,096 --> 00:01:44,759 for the passing of Sarah lronson... 6 00:01:45,234 --> 00:01:47,464 devoted wife of... 7 00:01:51,407 --> 00:01:53,739 Benjamin lronson. 8 00:01:55,611 --> 00:01:57,101 Also deceased. 9 00:01:58,213 --> 00:02:01,512 Loving and caring mother of their sons... 10 00:02:02,117 --> 00:02:06,019 Morris, Abraham, and Samuel... 11 00:02:06,922 --> 00:02:09,550 and their daughters Esther and Rachel. 12 00:02:11,026 --> 00:02:14,086 Beloved grandmother of Max... 13 00:02:14,530 --> 00:02:18,432 Mark, Louis, Angela... 14 00:02:19,435 --> 00:02:23,769 Doris, Luke, and Eric. 15 00:02:26,141 --> 00:02:29,133 Eric is a Jewish name? 16 00:02:35,951 --> 00:02:38,249 A large and loving family. 17 00:02:39,688 --> 00:02:43,818 We assemble that we may collectively mourn... 18 00:02:44,326 --> 00:02:46,920 this good and righteous woman. 19 00:02:47,930 --> 00:02:49,488 This woman... 20 00:02:50,499 --> 00:02:52,364 I did not know this woman. 21 00:02:53,469 --> 00:02:57,963 I cannot accurately describe her attributes... 22 00:02:58,873 --> 00:03:01,502 nor do justice to her... 23 00:03:02,678 --> 00:03:04,145 dimensions. 24 00:03:04,713 --> 00:03:08,205 She was not a person... 25 00:03:08,550 --> 00:03:11,383 but a whole kind of a person. 26 00:03:11,954 --> 00:03:14,184 The ones that crossed the ocean... 27 00:03:14,590 --> 00:03:16,854 that brought with us to America... 28 00:03:16,925 --> 00:03:20,292 the villages of Russia and Lithuania. 29 00:03:21,363 --> 00:03:23,297 And how we struggled... 30 00:03:23,966 --> 00:03:26,456 and how we fought... 31 00:03:26,802 --> 00:03:28,496 for the family... 32 00:03:29,271 --> 00:03:31,501 for the Jewish home. 33 00:03:33,008 --> 00:03:37,775 Descendents of this immigrant woman... 34 00:03:38,847 --> 00:03:41,338 you do not grow up in America... 35 00:03:44,153 --> 00:03:47,953 you, your children, and their children with the goyish names. 36 00:03:50,526 --> 00:03:53,723 You do not live in America. 37 00:03:55,297 --> 00:03:57,959 No such place exists. 38 00:03:59,468 --> 00:04:02,130 Your clay is the clay... 39 00:04:02,204 --> 00:04:04,467 of some Litvak shtetl. 40 00:04:05,274 --> 00:04:08,471 Your air is the air of the steppes... 41 00:04:09,678 --> 00:04:14,240 because she carried that old world on her back... 42 00:04:14,850 --> 00:04:17,683 across the ocean in a boat... 43 00:04:18,587 --> 00:04:20,555 and she put it down... 44 00:04:21,290 --> 00:04:23,417 on Grand Concourse Avenue. 45 00:04:26,862 --> 00:04:28,329 Or on Flatbush. 46 00:04:30,132 --> 00:04:33,260 You can never make that crossing that she made... 47 00:04:33,936 --> 00:04:38,600 for such great voyages in this world do not anymore exist. 48 00:04:38,674 --> 00:04:41,165 But every day of your lives... 49 00:04:41,243 --> 00:04:45,373 the miles, that voyage from that place to this one... 50 00:04:45,447 --> 00:04:47,074 you cross... 51 00:04:48,016 --> 00:04:49,483 every day. 52 00:04:53,755 --> 00:04:55,381 You understand me? 53 00:04:56,525 --> 00:04:57,651 In you... 54 00:04:59,161 --> 00:05:00,651 that journey... 55 00:05:01,463 --> 00:05:02,555 is. 56 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:05,726 Hold. 57 00:05:06,702 --> 00:05:10,502 I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. 58 00:05:10,572 --> 00:05:13,439 Eight loving arms and all those suckers. Know what I mean? 59 00:05:13,509 --> 00:05:15,568 - No. - You want lunch? 60 00:05:15,644 --> 00:05:17,236 No, that's okay. 61 00:05:17,646 --> 00:05:19,409 Ailene, Roy Cohn. 62 00:05:20,415 --> 00:05:22,349 What kind of greeting is that? 63 00:05:22,717 --> 00:05:24,413 I thought we were friends. 64 00:05:24,486 --> 00:05:26,920 This will take a minute. Here, eat a little something. 65 00:05:26,988 --> 00:05:29,355 What is this? Tasty sandwich here? 66 00:05:32,794 --> 00:05:36,560 I already told you, it wasn't a vacation, it was business. 67 00:05:37,132 --> 00:05:40,067 I have clients in Haiti. 68 00:05:40,335 --> 00:05:43,532 Listen, Ailene, you think I'm the only lawyer in history... 69 00:05:43,605 --> 00:05:46,733 who ever missed a court date? Don't make such a big fuck... 70 00:05:46,808 --> 00:05:47,934 Hold. 71 00:05:48,410 --> 00:05:49,399 You hag. 72 00:05:49,478 --> 00:05:51,639 - if this is a bad time— - No, it's a good time. 73 00:05:51,713 --> 00:05:53,544 Baby doll. Fuck, wait. 74 00:05:54,850 --> 00:05:55,942 Hello? 75 00:05:56,018 --> 00:05:59,078 Sorry to keep you holding, Judge Hollins, I just... 76 00:05:59,154 --> 00:06:01,087 - Mrs. Hollins? - Yeah, it's Mrs. Hollins. 77 00:06:01,156 --> 00:06:03,954 Sorry, dear. What a deep voice you got. 78 00:06:04,026 --> 00:06:05,550 You enjoying your visit? 79 00:06:05,627 --> 00:06:08,425 She sounds like a truck driver, he sounds like Kate Smith. 80 00:06:08,497 --> 00:06:09,862 It's very confusing. 81 00:06:09,932 --> 00:06:13,299 Nixon appointed him. All the geeks are Nixon appointees. 82 00:06:14,469 --> 00:06:17,165 How many tickets, dear? Seven? 83 00:06:17,406 --> 00:06:19,567 For what, Cats, 42nd Street, what? 84 00:06:20,676 --> 00:06:24,133 You wouldn't like La Cage, trust me. Trust me, I know. 85 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,442 For God's sake, hold. 86 00:06:27,149 --> 00:06:29,845 Baby doll, seven for Cats or something. 87 00:06:29,918 --> 00:06:33,046 Anything hard to get. I don't give a fuck what. Neither will they. 88 00:06:33,221 --> 00:06:35,815 - You've seen La Cage Aux Folles? - No. 89 00:06:36,757 --> 00:06:39,318 It's the best thing on Broadway, maybe ever. 90 00:06:40,228 --> 00:06:41,490 Yeah, who? 91 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:53,064 Couldn't find her there. 92 00:06:53,141 --> 00:06:54,438 Couldn't see her. 93 00:06:54,509 --> 00:06:56,875 - At least I didn't see her in there. - She was... 94 00:06:56,945 --> 00:06:59,004 It's all right. I'm gonna take the bus. 95 00:06:59,081 --> 00:07:01,572 What do you mean you're gonna take the bus? 96 00:07:01,717 --> 00:07:03,082 I'll see you there. 97 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,634 How's life in Appeals? How's the judge? 98 00:07:20,702 --> 00:07:23,796 - He sends his best. - He's a good man. Loyal. 99 00:07:24,006 --> 00:07:27,498 Not the brightest man on the bench, although he has manners... 100 00:07:27,575 --> 00:07:31,376 - and a nice head of silver hair. - He gives me a lot of responsibility. 101 00:07:32,981 --> 00:07:35,711 Like writing his decisions and signing his name. 102 00:07:36,551 --> 00:07:39,577 - He's a nice man. You cover admirably. - Thanks, Roy. 103 00:07:40,388 --> 00:07:43,119 Who's this? Well, who the fuck are you? 104 00:07:43,792 --> 00:07:45,089 Hold. 105 00:07:45,827 --> 00:07:47,852 - So, baby doll, what? - It's gonna be Cats. 106 00:07:47,929 --> 00:07:49,020 Cats. 107 00:07:50,666 --> 00:07:54,602 Cats; it's about cats. Singing cats. You'll love it. 108 00:07:55,504 --> 00:07:57,471 8:.00. Theater's always at 8:00. 109 00:07:57,605 --> 00:07:58,937 Fucking tourists. 110 00:07:59,007 --> 00:08:01,271 Eat already, Joe. For Christ's sake, live a little. 111 00:08:01,343 --> 00:08:03,334 - Roy, could you... - Yeah, what? 112 00:08:03,878 --> 00:08:05,107 Mrs. Soffer. 113 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,777 - Oh, God fucking damn it. - Roy, I really... 114 00:08:08,850 --> 00:08:11,842 Baby doll, ring up The Post. Get me Suzy. 115 00:08:12,654 --> 00:08:13,882 - Christ! - Roy. 116 00:08:14,188 --> 00:08:15,247 What? 117 00:08:15,323 --> 00:08:18,156 Could you please not take the Lord's name in vain? 118 00:08:18,359 --> 00:08:20,260 I'm sorry, but please. 119 00:08:21,096 --> 00:08:22,926 At least while I'm... 120 00:08:23,865 --> 00:08:25,092 Right... 121 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:29,094 Sorry, fuck. Only in America. 122 00:08:29,270 --> 00:08:32,399 Baby doll, tell them all to fuck off, tell them I died. 123 00:08:35,077 --> 00:08:36,135 So, Joe. 124 00:08:36,211 --> 00:08:38,475 - I'm sorry, Roy, it's just that— - No, no. 125 00:08:38,547 --> 00:08:41,107 Principles count. I respect principles. 126 00:08:41,183 --> 00:08:44,675 I'm not religious, but I like God, God likes me. 127 00:08:45,153 --> 00:08:47,314 - Baptist, Catholic, what? - Mormon. 128 00:08:47,389 --> 00:08:48,617 Mormon? 129 00:08:50,291 --> 00:08:52,282 Delectable. Absolutely. 130 00:08:52,694 --> 00:08:54,285 Only in America. 131 00:08:56,497 --> 00:08:58,624 So, Joe, what do you think? 132 00:08:59,468 --> 00:09:02,437 - It's a... - It's a crazy life. 133 00:09:02,504 --> 00:09:05,267 - Chaotic. - God bless chaos, though, right? 134 00:09:07,174 --> 00:09:08,437 Mormons? 135 00:09:08,944 --> 00:09:11,845 I knew Mormons in Nevada. 136 00:09:11,913 --> 00:09:14,973 - Utah, mostly. - No, these Mormons were in Vegas. 137 00:09:18,553 --> 00:09:23,115 How would you like to go to Washington and work for the Justice Department? 138 00:09:24,291 --> 00:09:27,227 - Sorry? - How would you like to go to Washington... 139 00:09:27,295 --> 00:09:28,659 work for the Justice Department. 140 00:09:28,730 --> 00:09:32,257 All I got to do is pick up the phone, talk to Ed, and you're in. 141 00:09:32,334 --> 00:09:34,199 In what, exactly? 142 00:09:34,668 --> 00:09:37,000 Associate, Assistant, something big. 143 00:09:37,572 --> 00:09:41,508 Internal Affairs, heart of the woods, something nice, with clout. 144 00:09:41,576 --> 00:09:43,475 - Ed— - Meese, Attorney General. 145 00:09:47,314 --> 00:09:50,182 - All I gotta do is pick up the phone. - But I have to think. 146 00:09:50,252 --> 00:09:53,449 - Okay, great time to be in Washington, Joe. - Roy. 147 00:09:53,788 --> 00:09:54,813 It's incredibly— 148 00:09:54,890 --> 00:09:57,586 It means something to me, too, you understand. 149 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,992 I can't say how much I appreciate this, Roy. I'm sort of stunned. 150 00:10:03,131 --> 00:10:06,497 Thanks, but I have to give it some thought. I have to ask my wife. 151 00:10:06,567 --> 00:10:09,298 - Your wife, of course. - But I really appreciate it. 152 00:10:09,371 --> 00:10:11,031 Of course. Talk to your wife. 153 00:10:21,615 --> 00:10:25,813 To deep-throat a man, to give him intense pleasure... 154 00:10:26,454 --> 00:10:28,820 a woman can simply lick the penis... 155 00:10:28,890 --> 00:10:32,417 without actually putting the whole organ in her mouth... 156 00:10:32,727 --> 00:10:35,889 and still provide the man with a lot of pleasure. 157 00:10:37,065 --> 00:10:40,728 When women tell me that they have a problem with fellatio... 158 00:10:40,802 --> 00:10:45,364 I often tell them to think of the penis as an ice cream cone. 159 00:10:46,507 --> 00:10:49,875 Scientists say the hole in the ozone layer high above the Antarctic... 160 00:10:49,945 --> 00:10:52,243 is now a record at 7 million square miles. 161 00:10:52,314 --> 00:10:55,510 That's three times the size of the whole of the United States. 162 00:10:55,584 --> 00:10:59,542 The hole appears as a giant blue blob totally covering Antarctica... 163 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:02,351 stretching out to the southern tip of South America. 164 00:11:02,424 --> 00:11:05,654 Scientists say that with the hole so big this early in the year... 165 00:11:05,726 --> 00:11:08,389 it could be set to grow even bigger. 166 00:11:12,534 --> 00:11:14,695 I wish I could go traveling. 167 00:11:15,303 --> 00:11:18,101 Things aren't right with me. 168 00:11:25,145 --> 00:11:27,306 Cash, check, or credit card? 169 00:11:27,482 --> 00:11:30,645 - You startled me. - Cash, check... 170 00:11:30,752 --> 00:11:33,983 I remember you. You're from Salt Lake. 171 00:11:34,055 --> 00:11:36,751 You sold us the plane tickets when we flew here. 172 00:11:36,825 --> 00:11:40,090 - What are you doing in Brooklyn? - You said you wanted to travel. 173 00:11:40,161 --> 00:11:41,389 How thoughtful! 174 00:11:41,462 --> 00:11:42,828 Mr. Lies... 175 00:11:42,998 --> 00:11:47,401 of the lnternational Order of Travel Agents. 176 00:11:48,269 --> 00:11:51,364 We mobilize the globe. We set people adrift. 177 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,574 We are adepts of motion... 178 00:11:53,642 --> 00:11:56,110 acolytes of the flocks. 179 00:11:56,177 --> 00:11:59,442 Cash, check, or credit card, name your destination. 180 00:12:00,981 --> 00:12:04,213 Antarctica maybe? I want to see the hole in the ozone. 181 00:12:04,286 --> 00:12:07,619 - I heard on the radio— - We'll arrange a guided tour. 182 00:12:08,556 --> 00:12:11,319 - Now? - Soon, maybe soon. 183 00:12:13,094 --> 00:12:15,153 I'm not safe here, you see. 184 00:12:17,598 --> 00:12:19,498 Weird stuff happens. 185 00:12:21,769 --> 00:12:23,999 - Like? - Like you, for instance. 186 00:12:24,071 --> 00:12:26,905 Just appearing. Or last week. 187 00:12:28,442 --> 00:12:29,808 Never mind. 188 00:12:33,048 --> 00:12:36,108 People are like planets, you need a thick skin. 189 00:12:37,852 --> 00:12:42,255 Joe stays away, and now look, my dreams are talking back to me. 190 00:12:42,524 --> 00:12:45,686 The price of rootlessness, motion sickness. 191 00:12:46,161 --> 00:12:49,618 - Only cure, keep moving. - I'm undecided. 192 00:12:50,598 --> 00:12:53,896 I feel that something's going to give. It's 1985... 193 00:12:54,169 --> 00:12:56,535 fifteen years to the third millennium. 194 00:12:57,472 --> 00:12:59,769 Maybe Christ will come again... 195 00:13:00,074 --> 00:13:03,067 or maybe the troubles will come and the end will come. 196 00:13:03,144 --> 00:13:06,340 The sky will collapse and there'll be terrible rain... 197 00:13:06,413 --> 00:13:08,643 and showers of poison light... 198 00:13:10,651 --> 00:13:13,085 Or maybe my life is really fine... 199 00:13:13,822 --> 00:13:17,382 maybe Joe loves me and I'm only crazy thinking otherwise. 200 00:13:17,926 --> 00:13:19,222 Or maybe not. 201 00:13:19,293 --> 00:13:22,024 Maybe it's even worse than I know. 202 00:13:23,564 --> 00:13:26,193 Maybe I want to know, maybe I don't. 203 00:13:27,267 --> 00:13:30,897 The suspense, Mr. Lies, it's killing me. 204 00:13:30,972 --> 00:13:33,338 I suggest a vacation. 205 00:13:36,410 --> 00:13:39,505 That was the elevator. Oh, God, I should fix myself a... 206 00:13:39,581 --> 00:13:42,845 You have to go. You shouldn't be here. You aren't even real. 207 00:13:42,917 --> 00:13:45,078 - Call me when you decide. - Go. 208 00:13:56,364 --> 00:13:57,763 Hey, buddy. 209 00:13:58,299 --> 00:13:59,788 You're early. 210 00:13:59,868 --> 00:14:02,302 I was just walking... 211 00:14:03,937 --> 00:14:05,768 and I guess I came home. 212 00:14:05,839 --> 00:14:08,239 - Are you... - Yeah, I'm a little anxious. 213 00:14:09,144 --> 00:14:10,543 Buddy kiss. 214 00:14:12,112 --> 00:14:14,273 Nothing to get anxious about. 215 00:14:26,294 --> 00:14:28,761 How would you like to move to Washington? 216 00:14:30,931 --> 00:14:32,331 Washington? 217 00:14:33,300 --> 00:14:34,768 She was pretty crazy. 218 00:14:34,836 --> 00:14:39,135 She was up there in that home for ten years, talking to herself. 219 00:14:39,206 --> 00:14:40,606 I never visited. 220 00:14:40,675 --> 00:14:42,836 She looked too much like my mother. 221 00:14:43,577 --> 00:14:46,045 Poor Louis, I'm sorry your grandma's dead. 222 00:14:46,180 --> 00:14:47,909 Tiny little coffin. 223 00:14:48,583 --> 00:14:49,981 I'm sorry I didn't introduce you. 224 00:14:50,050 --> 00:14:52,382 I always get so closety at these family things. 225 00:14:52,453 --> 00:14:54,421 You're getting butch. 226 00:14:54,488 --> 00:14:58,219 Hey, Cousin Doris, you don't remember me, I'm Lou. 227 00:14:58,392 --> 00:15:01,054 Rachel's boy, Lou. 228 00:15:01,128 --> 00:15:04,121 Not Louis, cause if you say Louis, they'll hear the sibilant "s." 229 00:15:04,199 --> 00:15:07,258 - I don't have a sibilant "s." - I don't blame you hiding. 230 00:15:07,334 --> 00:15:09,735 Bloodlines. Jewish curses are the worst. 231 00:15:09,804 --> 00:15:11,361 I personally would dissolve... 232 00:15:11,438 --> 00:15:14,408 if anyone ever looks me in the eye and said, "Feh." 233 00:15:14,476 --> 00:15:17,376 Fortunately, Wasps don't say, "Feh"... 234 00:15:17,678 --> 00:15:20,203 and by the way, darling... 235 00:15:20,715 --> 00:15:22,512 Cousin Doris is a dyke. 236 00:15:23,617 --> 00:15:25,983 No! Really? 237 00:15:26,487 --> 00:15:27,852 You don't notice anything. 238 00:15:27,921 --> 00:15:30,389 If I hadn't spent the last four years fellating you... 239 00:15:30,457 --> 00:15:32,391 I'd swear you were straight. 240 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,940 You're in a pissy mood. Cat still missing? 241 00:15:48,009 --> 00:15:50,500 - Not a fur ball in sight. It's your fault. - It is? 242 00:15:50,578 --> 00:15:52,910 I warned you, Louis, names are important. 243 00:15:52,981 --> 00:15:56,382 Call an animal Little Sheba, you can't expect it to stick around. 244 00:15:56,451 --> 00:16:00,546 - Besides, that's a dog's name. - I wanted a dog in the first place, not a cat. 245 00:16:00,622 --> 00:16:03,022 - He sprayed my books. - He was a female cat. 246 00:16:03,091 --> 00:16:07,084 Cats are stupid high-strung predators. Babylonians sealed them up in bricks. 247 00:16:07,162 --> 00:16:09,153 - Dogs have brains. - Cats have intuition. 248 00:16:09,230 --> 00:16:12,097 A sharp dog is as smart as a really dull 2-year-old child. 249 00:16:12,167 --> 00:16:15,226 - Cats know when something's wrong. - Only if you stop feeding them. 250 00:16:15,302 --> 00:16:17,897 They know. That's why Sheba left. She knew. 251 00:16:17,972 --> 00:16:19,336 Knew what? 252 00:16:22,477 --> 00:16:25,274 I did my best Shirley Booth this morning. 253 00:16:25,879 --> 00:16:30,009 Floppy slippers, housecoat, curlers, can of Little Friskies. 254 00:16:30,418 --> 00:16:32,214 "Come back, Little Sheba... 255 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:33,884 "come back." 256 00:16:35,023 --> 00:16:36,114 To no avail. 257 00:16:48,969 --> 00:16:50,028 See? 258 00:16:51,038 --> 00:16:52,665 That's just a burst blood vessel. 259 00:16:52,739 --> 00:16:55,435 Not according to the best medical authorities. 260 00:16:59,513 --> 00:17:01,947 What? Tell me. 261 00:17:03,283 --> 00:17:05,717 Chaos, baby. Lesion number one. 262 00:17:06,220 --> 00:17:08,917 The wine-dark kiss of the angel of death. 263 00:17:08,990 --> 00:17:10,651 Oh, please. 264 00:17:11,292 --> 00:17:14,454 I'm a lesionnaire. Foreign lesion. 265 00:17:14,996 --> 00:17:16,758 The American lesion. 266 00:17:16,831 --> 00:17:18,730 - Lesionnaire's disease. - Stop. 267 00:17:18,967 --> 00:17:21,333 - My troubles are lesions. - Will you stop? 268 00:17:21,402 --> 00:17:23,802 Don't you think I'm handling this well? 269 00:17:24,404 --> 00:17:25,929 - I'm gonna die. - Bullshit. 270 00:17:26,007 --> 00:17:27,804 - Let go of my arm. Let go. - No. 271 00:17:28,809 --> 00:17:29,868 No. 272 00:17:35,616 --> 00:17:38,051 I can't find a way to spare you, baby. 273 00:17:40,087 --> 00:17:43,148 No wall like the wall of hard scientific fact. 274 00:17:43,557 --> 00:17:45,787 Chaos, wham. 275 00:17:46,159 --> 00:17:49,129 - Bang your head on that. - Fuck you. 276 00:17:51,532 --> 00:17:54,762 Now that's what I like to hear, a mature reaction. 277 00:17:55,670 --> 00:17:58,137 Let's go see if the cat's come home. 278 00:18:01,376 --> 00:18:02,535 Louis. 279 00:18:02,809 --> 00:18:04,470 When did you find this? 280 00:18:04,611 --> 00:18:06,443 - I couldn't tell you. - Why? 281 00:18:06,513 --> 00:18:08,606 - I was scared, Lou. - Of what? 282 00:18:10,418 --> 00:18:12,113 That you'll leave me. 283 00:18:15,322 --> 00:18:17,790 Bad timing, funeral and all, but... 284 00:18:19,226 --> 00:18:21,524 I figured since we're on the subject of death... 285 00:18:21,595 --> 00:18:24,530 Here's the bus. I have to go bury my grandma. 286 00:18:29,003 --> 00:18:30,128 Lou... 287 00:18:31,372 --> 00:18:34,431 - then you'll come home? - Then I'll come home. 288 00:18:49,523 --> 00:18:50,889 Washington. 289 00:18:51,224 --> 00:18:53,658 - It's an incredible honor— - I have to think. 290 00:18:53,727 --> 00:18:55,490 - Of course. - Say no. 291 00:18:55,962 --> 00:18:59,762 - You said you were gonna think about it. - I don't wanna move to Washington. 292 00:18:59,833 --> 00:19:01,233 Well, I do. 293 00:19:01,302 --> 00:19:05,568 It's a giant cemetery. Huge white graves. Mausoleums everywhere. 294 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,971 We could live in Maryland or Georgetown. 295 00:19:08,041 --> 00:19:10,839 - We're happy here. - That's not really true, buddy. 296 00:19:10,911 --> 00:19:13,972 Happy enough, pretend happy, it's better than nothing. 297 00:19:14,048 --> 00:19:17,711 - It's time we make some changes, Harper. - No changes. Why? 298 00:19:17,785 --> 00:19:19,912 I've been chief clerk for four years. 299 00:19:19,987 --> 00:19:23,046 I make $29,000 a year. That's ridiculous. 300 00:19:23,290 --> 00:19:26,885 I graduated fourth in my class, I make less than anyone I know. 301 00:19:28,396 --> 00:19:30,489 I'm tired of being a clerk. 302 00:19:30,965 --> 00:19:33,160 I wanna go where something good is happening. 303 00:19:33,233 --> 00:19:35,963 Nothing good happens in Washington. 304 00:19:36,603 --> 00:19:38,936 We'll forget Church teachings... 305 00:19:39,573 --> 00:19:42,804 and buy furniture at Conran's... 306 00:19:42,876 --> 00:19:44,537 and become yuppies. 307 00:19:44,611 --> 00:19:47,445 - I have too much to do here. - Like what? 308 00:19:48,015 --> 00:19:50,881 - I do have things. - What things? 309 00:19:51,351 --> 00:19:53,319 I have to finish painting the bedroom. 310 00:19:53,387 --> 00:19:55,514 You've been painting in there for over a year. 311 00:19:55,589 --> 00:19:59,116 I know, it just isn't done, because I never get time to finish it. 312 00:19:59,192 --> 00:20:01,160 That doesn't make sense. 313 00:20:01,428 --> 00:20:03,362 You have all the time in the world. 314 00:20:03,430 --> 00:20:07,026 - You could finish it when I'm at work. - I'm afraid to go in there alone. 315 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:09,466 - Afraid of what? - I heard something in there. 316 00:20:09,536 --> 00:20:12,334 Metal scraping on the wall, a man with a knife, maybe. 317 00:20:12,406 --> 00:20:14,067 There's no one in the bedroom. 318 00:20:14,141 --> 00:20:16,336 - Not now. - Not this morning, either. 319 00:20:16,410 --> 00:20:19,107 How do you know? You were at work this morning. 320 00:20:19,414 --> 00:20:22,576 There's something creepy about this place. Remember Rosemary's Baby? 321 00:20:22,649 --> 00:20:25,243 - Rosemary's Baby? - Our apartment looks like that one. 322 00:20:25,318 --> 00:20:27,047 - Wasn't that apartment in Brooklyn? - No. 323 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:28,951 Well, it looked like this. 324 00:20:29,022 --> 00:20:30,853 - It did. - Then let's move. 325 00:20:30,924 --> 00:20:33,951 Georgetown is worse. The Exorcist was in Georgetown. 326 00:20:34,028 --> 00:20:37,190 - The devil everywhere you turn, buddy? - Yeah, everywhere. 327 00:20:38,166 --> 00:20:39,757 How many pills today, buddy? 328 00:20:40,768 --> 00:20:41,893 None. 329 00:20:44,204 --> 00:20:45,398 One. 330 00:20:47,574 --> 00:20:49,270 Three, only three. 331 00:21:13,266 --> 00:21:15,291 Thank you, that was a lovely... 332 00:21:15,969 --> 00:21:17,960 My grandma, just buried. 333 00:21:23,243 --> 00:21:26,610 Why are there just two little wooden pegs holding the lid down? 334 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,615 So that she can get out easier if she wants to. 335 00:21:29,683 --> 00:21:31,242 I hope she stays put. 336 00:21:31,519 --> 00:21:34,851 I pretended for years that she was already dead. 337 00:21:35,088 --> 00:21:39,184 When they called to say she had died, it was a surprise. I had abandoned her. 338 00:21:46,234 --> 00:21:47,963 I don't speak Yiddish. 339 00:21:48,035 --> 00:21:51,902 Sharper than the serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child. 340 00:21:53,406 --> 00:21:54,840 Shakespeare. 341 00:21:56,243 --> 00:21:57,574 King Lear. 342 00:21:58,478 --> 00:22:00,275 Rabbi, what does the Holy Writ say... 343 00:22:00,347 --> 00:22:02,645 about someone who abandons someone he loves... 344 00:22:02,716 --> 00:22:04,684 at a time of great need? 345 00:22:04,851 --> 00:22:07,320 Why would a person do such a thing? 346 00:22:12,392 --> 00:22:13,758 Because he has to. 347 00:22:13,828 --> 00:22:15,819 Maybe this person can't... 348 00:22:16,796 --> 00:22:20,789 incorporate sickness into his sense of how things are supposed to go. 349 00:22:20,867 --> 00:22:24,598 Maybe vomit and sores and disease really frighten him. 350 00:22:26,107 --> 00:22:28,234 Maybe he isn't so good with death. 351 00:22:33,246 --> 00:22:36,545 The Holy Scripture has nothing to say about such a person. 352 00:22:37,784 --> 00:22:40,218 Rabbi, I'm afraid of the crimes I may commit. 353 00:22:40,287 --> 00:22:44,018 Please, mister, I'm a sick old rabbi... 354 00:22:44,090 --> 00:22:46,752 facing a long drive home to the Bronx. 355 00:22:48,828 --> 00:22:51,923 You want to confess, better you should find a priest. 356 00:22:52,866 --> 00:22:54,925 I'm not a Catholic, I'm a Jew. 357 00:22:55,001 --> 00:22:56,992 Worse luck for you, bubeleh. 358 00:22:57,070 --> 00:23:01,006 Catholics believe in forgiveness. Jews believe in guilt. 359 00:23:02,577 --> 00:23:03,804 Thanks. 360 00:23:04,579 --> 00:23:07,342 You just make sure those pegs are in good and tight. 361 00:23:07,414 --> 00:23:10,976 Don't worry, mister, the life she had, she'll stay put. 362 00:23:12,485 --> 00:23:13,816 She's better off. 363 00:23:28,335 --> 00:23:29,324 Look... 364 00:23:29,937 --> 00:23:33,372 I know this is scary for you, but try to understand what it means to me. 365 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:34,930 - Will you try? - Yes. 366 00:23:35,008 --> 00:23:37,306 Good. Really try. 367 00:23:39,746 --> 00:23:42,010 Things are starting to change in the world. 368 00:23:42,082 --> 00:23:44,779 - I don't wanna— - Wait. For the good. 369 00:23:44,852 --> 00:23:46,045 Change for the good. 370 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,485 America has rediscovered itself. 371 00:23:49,456 --> 00:23:51,754 Its sacred position among nations. 372 00:23:51,825 --> 00:23:54,521 People aren't ashamed of it like they used to be. 373 00:23:54,594 --> 00:23:58,121 This is a great thing. The truth restored, law restored. 374 00:23:58,465 --> 00:24:00,990 That's what President Reagan's done, Harper. 375 00:24:01,234 --> 00:24:04,397 He says truth exists and can be spoken proudly... 376 00:24:04,971 --> 00:24:06,996 and the country responds to him. 377 00:24:07,540 --> 00:24:10,737 We become better, more good. 378 00:24:12,413 --> 00:24:16,315 I need to be a part of that. I need something big to lift me up. 379 00:24:17,217 --> 00:24:20,311 Six years ago, the world seemed in decline... 380 00:24:20,387 --> 00:24:23,254 horrible, hopeless, full of unsolvable problems... 381 00:24:23,323 --> 00:24:25,155 and crime, confusion, hunger... 382 00:24:25,225 --> 00:24:28,126 But it still seems that way, more now than before. 383 00:24:28,194 --> 00:24:29,889 You see the ozone layer... 384 00:24:29,963 --> 00:24:32,124 Today out the window on Atlantic Avenue... 385 00:24:32,198 --> 00:24:35,167 there was this schizophrenic traffic cop who was making— 386 00:24:35,235 --> 00:24:37,294 Will you stop it? I'm trying to make a point. 387 00:24:37,370 --> 00:24:39,531 - So am l. - You aren't even making sense. 388 00:24:39,607 --> 00:24:41,301 My point is the world seems just— 389 00:24:41,374 --> 00:24:44,071 It only seems that way to you because you never go out... 390 00:24:44,145 --> 00:24:46,272 and you have emotional problems. 391 00:24:49,983 --> 00:24:52,612 - I do so get out in the world. - No, you don't. 392 00:24:53,219 --> 00:24:55,847 You stay in all day fretting about imaginary— 393 00:24:55,922 --> 00:24:57,150 I get out. 394 00:24:57,490 --> 00:24:59,617 I do. You don't know what I do. 395 00:24:59,693 --> 00:25:01,854 - You don't stay in all day? - No. 396 00:25:03,630 --> 00:25:05,791 - Yes, you do. - That's what you think. 397 00:25:06,032 --> 00:25:08,500 - Where do you go? - Where do you go when you walk? 398 00:25:08,568 --> 00:25:11,538 - And I do not have emotional problems. - I'm sorry. 399 00:25:11,605 --> 00:25:14,573 If I do have emotional problems, it's from living with you or— 400 00:25:14,641 --> 00:25:15,939 I'm sorry, I didn't mean— 401 00:25:16,009 --> 00:25:19,274 Then you should have never married me. You have all these... 402 00:25:19,345 --> 00:25:21,108 secrets and lies. 403 00:25:22,949 --> 00:25:26,942 - I want to be married to you, Harper. - You shouldn't. You never should... 404 00:25:46,039 --> 00:25:47,530 Hey, buddy. 405 00:25:54,581 --> 00:25:55,981 Buddy kiss. 406 00:26:01,421 --> 00:26:04,357 I heard on the radio how to give a blow job. 407 00:26:05,091 --> 00:26:06,854 - What? - Do you want to try? 408 00:26:06,926 --> 00:26:09,861 - You shouldn't listen to such— - Mormons can give blow jobs. 409 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,666 It was a little Jewish lady with a German accent. 410 00:26:18,071 --> 00:26:20,835 Now is a good time for me to make a baby. 411 00:26:38,792 --> 00:26:42,751 Then they went on to a program about holes in the ozone layer... 412 00:26:43,630 --> 00:26:45,222 over Antarctica. 413 00:26:47,433 --> 00:26:48,901 Skin burns... 414 00:26:50,103 --> 00:26:51,934 birds go blind... 415 00:26:52,639 --> 00:26:54,436 icebergs melt. 416 00:26:57,344 --> 00:26:59,539 The world's coming to an end. 417 00:27:26,739 --> 00:27:29,208 - Morning. - Good morning, Counselor. 418 00:27:30,410 --> 00:27:31,934 Sorry, I don't know your name. 419 00:27:32,011 --> 00:27:35,448 Don't bother. A word processor, the lowest of the low. 420 00:27:35,648 --> 00:27:38,515 - Joe Pitt, I'm with Justice Wilson. - I know that. 421 00:27:38,585 --> 00:27:40,712 Counselor Pitt, Chief Clerk. 422 00:27:41,789 --> 00:27:44,256 - Are you okay? - Yes, thanks. 423 00:27:45,225 --> 00:27:46,783 What a nice man. 424 00:27:47,260 --> 00:27:49,387 - Not so nice. - What? 425 00:27:50,663 --> 00:27:52,858 Not so nice. Nothing. 426 00:28:10,516 --> 00:28:11,574 What's wrong? 427 00:28:11,651 --> 00:28:14,119 - Life just sucks shit. - I'm sorry? 428 00:28:15,421 --> 00:28:16,718 Forget it. 429 00:28:18,358 --> 00:28:20,053 Thanks for asking. 430 00:28:21,494 --> 00:28:24,157 I mean, it really is nice of you. 431 00:28:25,899 --> 00:28:28,993 - Sorry. Sick friend. - I'm sorry. 432 00:28:30,370 --> 00:28:31,632 That's sweet. 433 00:28:31,704 --> 00:28:34,833 Three of your colleagues have preceded you to this baleful sight... 434 00:28:34,908 --> 00:28:36,466 and you're the first one to ask. 435 00:28:36,542 --> 00:28:39,340 The others just opened the door, saw me, and fled. 436 00:28:39,412 --> 00:28:41,778 I hope they had to pee real bad. 437 00:28:41,848 --> 00:28:43,907 They just didn't want to intrude. 438 00:28:43,983 --> 00:28:47,511 Reaganite, heartless, macho, asshole lawyers. 439 00:28:47,587 --> 00:28:49,077 That's unfair. 440 00:28:49,756 --> 00:28:52,316 What is? Heartless, macho, Reaganite... 441 00:28:52,725 --> 00:28:53,852 Iawyer? 442 00:28:54,460 --> 00:28:56,951 - I voted for Reagan. - You did? 443 00:28:58,098 --> 00:29:00,292 - Twice. - Twice! 444 00:29:02,001 --> 00:29:04,162 - Well, oh, boy, a gay Republican. - Excuse me? 445 00:29:04,237 --> 00:29:05,329 Nothing. 446 00:29:05,705 --> 00:29:08,299 I'm not... No, forget it. 447 00:29:08,374 --> 00:29:10,501 Republican, not Republican? 448 00:29:11,110 --> 00:29:12,168 What? 449 00:29:12,245 --> 00:29:14,440 - What? - Not gay. I'm not gay. 450 00:29:16,416 --> 00:29:17,542 Sorry. 451 00:29:21,020 --> 00:29:22,647 It's just that... 452 00:29:23,523 --> 00:29:24,615 Yes? 453 00:29:25,291 --> 00:29:27,726 Sometimes you can tell from the way a person sounds. 454 00:29:27,794 --> 00:29:29,786 - You sound— - No, I don't. 455 00:29:30,163 --> 00:29:32,393 - Like what? - Like a Republican. 456 00:29:35,101 --> 00:29:37,399 Do I sound like a... 457 00:29:38,371 --> 00:29:40,737 What, like a Republican? 458 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,803 Or do l? 459 00:29:43,242 --> 00:29:44,800 - Do you what? - Sound like a— 460 00:29:44,877 --> 00:29:46,469 Yeah, like a... 461 00:29:49,716 --> 00:29:52,241 - I'm confused. - Yes. 462 00:29:53,353 --> 00:29:56,049 My name is Louis, but all my friends call me Louise. 463 00:29:56,122 --> 00:29:59,387 I work in word processing. Thanks for the toilet paper. 464 00:33:20,492 --> 00:33:22,791 "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille." 465 00:33:24,263 --> 00:33:27,699 One wants to move through life with elegance and grace. 466 00:33:28,234 --> 00:33:31,931 Blossoming infrequently, but with exquisite taste... 467 00:33:32,471 --> 00:33:34,234 and perfect timing. 468 00:33:34,974 --> 00:33:36,965 Like a rare bloom... 469 00:33:37,944 --> 00:33:39,878 a zebra orchid. 470 00:33:41,314 --> 00:33:43,077 One wants... 471 00:33:44,250 --> 00:33:48,083 but one so seldom gets what one wants. 472 00:33:48,153 --> 00:33:49,553 Does one? 473 00:33:50,756 --> 00:33:51,848 No. 474 00:33:52,324 --> 00:33:53,883 One does not. 475 00:33:55,995 --> 00:33:58,724 One gets fucked over. 476 00:34:00,433 --> 00:34:02,298 One dies at 30. 477 00:34:03,936 --> 00:34:06,564 Robbed of decades of majesty— 478 00:34:06,639 --> 00:34:08,197 Fuck this shit. 479 00:34:13,578 --> 00:34:15,410 I look like a corpse. 480 00:34:16,449 --> 00:34:17,848 A corpse-ette. 481 00:34:19,718 --> 00:34:21,118 My queen! 482 00:34:22,888 --> 00:34:26,984 You know you've hit rock bottom when even drag is a drag. 483 00:34:44,543 --> 00:34:45,976 Who are you? 484 00:34:46,712 --> 00:34:48,145 Who are you? 485 00:34:49,248 --> 00:34:51,239 What are you doing in my hallucination? 486 00:34:51,317 --> 00:34:54,286 I'm not in your hallucination. You're in my dream. 487 00:34:54,620 --> 00:34:56,212 You're wearing makeup. 488 00:34:56,389 --> 00:34:58,653 - So are you. - But you're a man. 489 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,585 My hands and feet give it away. 490 00:35:06,364 --> 00:35:09,857 There must be some mistake here. I don't recognize you. 491 00:35:13,272 --> 00:35:14,761 Are you my... 492 00:35:15,775 --> 00:35:19,005 - some sort of imaginary friend? - No. 493 00:35:19,077 --> 00:35:21,272 Aren't you too old to have imaginary friends? 494 00:35:21,346 --> 00:35:24,544 I have emotional problems, I took too many pills. 495 00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:26,547 Why are you wearing makeup? 496 00:35:26,852 --> 00:35:30,811 I was in the process of applying the face, trying to make myself feel better. 497 00:35:30,890 --> 00:35:34,382 I swiped the new fall colors at the Clinique counter at Macy's. 498 00:35:34,493 --> 00:35:36,358 You stole these? 499 00:35:36,429 --> 00:35:39,557 I was out of cash, it was an emotional emergency. 500 00:35:40,933 --> 00:35:44,164 Joe will be so angry. I promised him no more pills. 501 00:35:44,402 --> 00:35:46,461 These pills you keep alluding to... 502 00:35:46,538 --> 00:35:49,133 Valium, I take Valium. Lots of Valium. 503 00:35:49,208 --> 00:35:51,004 And you're dancing as fast as you can. 504 00:35:51,077 --> 00:35:55,240 I'm not addicted. I don't believe in addiction and l... 505 00:35:56,215 --> 00:36:00,276 - I never drink and I never take drugs. - Smell you, Nancy Drew. 506 00:36:00,619 --> 00:36:03,986 - Except for Valium. - Except Valium in wee fistfuls. 507 00:36:04,523 --> 00:36:07,650 It's terrible. Mormons are not supposed to be addicted to anything. 508 00:36:07,726 --> 00:36:10,287 - I'm a Mormon. - I'm a homosexual. 509 00:36:13,132 --> 00:36:15,794 In my church, we don't believe in homosexuals. 510 00:36:15,901 --> 00:36:18,368 In my church, we don't believe in Mormons. 511 00:36:18,503 --> 00:36:20,199 What church do... 512 00:36:23,609 --> 00:36:24,597 I get it. 513 00:36:26,878 --> 00:36:28,676 I don't understand this. 514 00:36:28,947 --> 00:36:31,473 If I didn't ever see you before... 515 00:36:32,451 --> 00:36:36,182 and I don't think I did, then I don't think you should be here... 516 00:36:36,856 --> 00:36:38,824 in this hallucination... 517 00:36:40,693 --> 00:36:44,629 because in my experience, the mind, which is where hallucinations come from... 518 00:36:44,697 --> 00:36:48,154 shouldn't be able to make up anything that wasn't there to start with... 519 00:36:48,234 --> 00:36:51,397 that didn't enter it from experience from the real world. 520 00:36:51,670 --> 00:36:54,639 Imagination can't create anything new, can it? 521 00:36:55,908 --> 00:37:00,436 It only recycles bits and pieces from the world... 522 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,673 and reassembles them into visions. Am I making sense right now? 523 00:37:06,051 --> 00:37:08,110 Given the circumstances, yes. 524 00:37:08,454 --> 00:37:12,584 When we think we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness... 525 00:37:15,427 --> 00:37:17,486 and untruthfulness of our lives... 526 00:37:17,562 --> 00:37:20,896 it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged... 527 00:37:20,966 --> 00:37:25,801 into the appearance of novelty and truth. 528 00:37:27,072 --> 00:37:29,131 Nothing unknown is knowable. 529 00:37:33,546 --> 00:37:35,878 Don't you think it's depressing? 530 00:37:36,148 --> 00:37:39,379 - The limitations of the imagination? - Yes. 531 00:37:40,352 --> 00:37:42,876 It's something you learn after your second theme party. 532 00:37:42,954 --> 00:37:45,013 It's all been done before. 533 00:37:46,058 --> 00:37:48,424 The world, finite... 534 00:37:49,394 --> 00:37:50,657 terribly... 535 00:37:53,765 --> 00:37:57,202 This is the most depressing hallucination I ever had. 536 00:37:57,969 --> 00:38:00,461 Apologies. I do try to be amusing. 537 00:38:00,973 --> 00:38:03,100 Don't apologize, you... 538 00:38:04,510 --> 00:38:08,071 I can't expect someone who's really sick to entertain me. 539 00:38:17,857 --> 00:38:20,724 - How on earth did you know? - That happens. 540 00:38:20,793 --> 00:38:24,889 This is the very threshold of revelations sometimes. You can see things. 541 00:38:24,964 --> 00:38:26,625 How sick you are. 542 00:38:28,567 --> 00:38:30,432 Do you see anything about me? 543 00:38:31,803 --> 00:38:33,794 - Yes. - What? 544 00:38:35,907 --> 00:38:39,537 - You are amazingly unhappy. - Big deal. 545 00:38:39,612 --> 00:38:42,239 You meet a Valium addict, you figure out she's unhappy... 546 00:38:42,313 --> 00:38:45,044 that doesn't count. Of course... Something else? 547 00:38:45,117 --> 00:38:47,210 Something surprising? 548 00:38:47,286 --> 00:38:49,049 - Something surprising? - Yes. 549 00:38:49,121 --> 00:38:50,883 Your husband's a homo. 550 00:38:52,324 --> 00:38:53,723 Ridiculous. 551 00:38:58,030 --> 00:39:01,056 - Really? - Threshold of revelation. 552 00:39:03,768 --> 00:39:07,966 I don't like your revelations. I don't think you intuit well at all. 553 00:39:09,074 --> 00:39:11,065 Joe's a very normal man. 554 00:39:13,145 --> 00:39:14,578 Oh, God! 555 00:39:21,453 --> 00:39:25,287 Do homos take, like, lots of long walks? 556 00:39:27,226 --> 00:39:31,322 Yes, we do. In stretch pants with lavender coifs. 557 00:39:32,931 --> 00:39:37,459 - I just looked at you and there was— - A sort of blue streak of recognition. 558 00:39:37,535 --> 00:39:39,765 - Yes. - Like you knew me incredibly well. 559 00:39:39,838 --> 00:39:41,203 - Yes. - Yes. 560 00:39:41,907 --> 00:39:44,705 I have to go now, get back, something just... 561 00:39:45,411 --> 00:39:46,810 fell apart. 562 00:39:48,112 --> 00:39:49,375 Oh, God! 563 00:39:50,214 --> 00:39:52,513 I feel so sad. 564 00:39:56,688 --> 00:39:58,020 I'm sorry. 565 00:39:59,091 --> 00:40:01,321 I usually say fuck the truth. 566 00:40:02,493 --> 00:40:04,791 But mostly the truth fucks you. 567 00:40:07,566 --> 00:40:09,693 I see something else about you. 568 00:40:12,738 --> 00:40:15,706 Deep inside you, there's a part of you... 569 00:40:15,773 --> 00:40:17,638 the most inner part... 570 00:40:19,844 --> 00:40:22,473 entirely free of disease. 571 00:40:25,050 --> 00:40:26,608 I can see that. 572 00:40:28,453 --> 00:40:29,853 Is that... 573 00:40:31,624 --> 00:40:33,216 That isn't true. 574 00:40:33,459 --> 00:40:35,290 Threshold of revelation. 575 00:40:42,767 --> 00:40:46,101 People come and go so strangely here. 576 00:41:05,658 --> 00:41:08,592 I don't think there is any uninfected part of me. 577 00:41:08,660 --> 00:41:11,186 My heart is pumping polluted blood. 578 00:41:13,732 --> 00:41:15,028 I feel dirty. 579 00:41:55,908 --> 00:41:57,397 Look up. 580 00:42:00,045 --> 00:42:01,238 Hello? 581 00:42:01,579 --> 00:42:03,046 Look up! 582 00:42:03,347 --> 00:42:04,713 Who is that? 583 00:42:04,817 --> 00:42:07,751 Look up. Prepare the way. 584 00:42:08,954 --> 00:42:10,251 I don't see any— 585 00:42:10,322 --> 00:42:12,847 Prepare for the parting of the air... 586 00:42:12,925 --> 00:42:15,393 the breath, the ascent. 587 00:42:15,860 --> 00:42:17,726 Glory to— 588 00:42:32,511 --> 00:42:34,035 What the fuck. 589 00:42:36,181 --> 00:42:37,374 Hello! 590 00:42:40,552 --> 00:42:41,882 Is that it? 591 00:42:43,222 --> 00:42:44,382 Hello! 592 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:49,890 Poor me. 593 00:42:51,196 --> 00:42:53,096 Poor, poor me. Why me? 594 00:42:53,599 --> 00:42:55,294 Why poor, poor me? 595 00:42:59,505 --> 00:43:02,065 I don't feel good right now. I really don't. 596 00:43:41,980 --> 00:43:43,207 Harper? 597 00:43:52,825 --> 00:43:54,349 Where were you? 598 00:43:56,395 --> 00:43:58,055 - Where were you? - Out. 599 00:43:58,196 --> 00:44:00,597 - Where? - Just out, thinking. 600 00:44:00,833 --> 00:44:01,821 It's late. 601 00:44:01,899 --> 00:44:04,698 - I had a lot to think about. - I burned dinner. 602 00:44:04,770 --> 00:44:05,793 I'm sorry. 603 00:44:05,870 --> 00:44:08,202 Not my dinner. My dinner was fine. Your dinner. 604 00:44:08,272 --> 00:44:11,299 I put it back in the oven and turned everything up high... 605 00:44:11,376 --> 00:44:13,002 and I watched till it burned black. 606 00:44:13,078 --> 00:44:15,205 It's still hot, very hot, want it? 607 00:44:15,547 --> 00:44:16,877 You didn't have to do that. 608 00:44:16,948 --> 00:44:19,246 I know. It just seemed like the kind of thing... 609 00:44:19,317 --> 00:44:22,912 a mentally deranged, sex-starved, pill-popping housewife would do. 610 00:44:22,987 --> 00:44:25,353 So I did it. Who knows anymore what I have to do? 611 00:44:25,423 --> 00:44:27,984 - How many pills? - A bunch. Don't change the subject. 612 00:44:28,060 --> 00:44:31,517 - I won't talk to you. - No, don't do that. I'm fine. 613 00:44:31,596 --> 00:44:33,564 Pills are not the problem, not our problem. 614 00:44:33,631 --> 00:44:36,999 I wanna know where you've been, and I wanna know what's going on. 615 00:44:37,069 --> 00:44:39,060 - Going on with what? The job? - Not the job. 616 00:44:39,137 --> 00:44:40,398 I said I needed more time. 617 00:44:40,471 --> 00:44:43,407 I talked to Mr. Cohn on the phone, he said that I had to hurry. 618 00:44:43,475 --> 00:44:46,170 - But I can't get you to talk sensibly about— - Shut up! 619 00:44:46,244 --> 00:44:49,476 - Stick to the subject! - I don't know what that is! 620 00:44:49,882 --> 00:44:52,782 You have something you wanna ask me, ask me. 621 00:44:54,485 --> 00:44:56,044 Ask me. Go. 622 00:44:57,789 --> 00:44:59,882 I can't. I'm scared of you. 623 00:45:01,793 --> 00:45:03,954 I'm tired. I'm going to bed. 624 00:45:16,073 --> 00:45:18,166 Tell me without making me ask, please. 625 00:45:18,242 --> 00:45:20,267 This is crazy. I'm not... 626 00:45:26,817 --> 00:45:28,251 When you come through the door... 627 00:45:28,319 --> 00:45:31,915 your face is never exactly the way I remembered it. 628 00:45:34,059 --> 00:45:38,052 I get surprised by something mean and hard about the way you look... 629 00:45:38,130 --> 00:45:41,428 even the weight of you in the bed at night... 630 00:45:41,499 --> 00:45:44,024 the way you breathe in your sleep... 631 00:45:44,803 --> 00:45:48,796 seems unfamiliar. You terrify me. 632 00:45:50,408 --> 00:45:52,171 I know who you are. 633 00:45:52,678 --> 00:45:55,476 Yes, I'm the enemy. That's easy. That doesn't change. 634 00:45:55,547 --> 00:45:58,947 You think you're the only who hates sex? I do. I hate it with you. 635 00:45:59,017 --> 00:46:02,679 I dream that you batter away at me till my joints come apart like wax... 636 00:46:02,753 --> 00:46:05,655 and I fall into pieces. It's like a punishment. 637 00:46:05,724 --> 00:46:08,658 It was wrong of me to marry you. I knew... 638 00:46:14,132 --> 00:46:16,657 It's a sin and it's killing us both. 639 00:46:16,735 --> 00:46:20,865 I can always tell you've taken pills because it makes you red-faced and sweaty. 640 00:46:20,939 --> 00:46:24,305 And frankly, that's very often why I don't want to... 641 00:46:24,609 --> 00:46:27,339 - Because... - Because you aren't pretty. 642 00:46:29,114 --> 00:46:30,603 Not like this. 643 00:46:32,149 --> 00:46:35,210 - I have something I wanna ask— - Then ask! What the hell are you— 644 00:46:35,287 --> 00:46:36,913 Are you a homo? 645 00:46:37,789 --> 00:46:39,016 Are you? 646 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,627 You try to walk out right now... 647 00:46:44,695 --> 00:46:47,722 I'll put your dinner back in the oven and turn it up so high... 648 00:46:47,799 --> 00:46:51,495 the building will fill with smoke, and everyone in it will asphyxiate. 649 00:46:51,569 --> 00:46:54,630 So help me God, I will. Now answer the question. 650 00:46:59,044 --> 00:47:02,946 - What if l... - Then tell me, please, and we'll see. 651 00:47:08,119 --> 00:47:09,109 No. 652 00:47:10,121 --> 00:47:11,419 I'm not. 653 00:47:13,057 --> 00:47:15,652 I don't see what difference it makes. 654 00:47:39,117 --> 00:47:42,677 Jews don't have any clear textual guide to the afterlife. 655 00:47:43,455 --> 00:47:45,446 I mean even that it exists. 656 00:47:46,857 --> 00:47:48,586 I don't think much about it. 657 00:47:48,659 --> 00:47:52,595 I see it as a perpetual rainy Thursday afternoon in March... 658 00:47:53,064 --> 00:47:54,622 dead leaves... 659 00:47:55,433 --> 00:47:56,957 Very Greco-Roman. 660 00:47:57,034 --> 00:48:00,198 For us, it's not the verdict that counts, it's the act of judgment. 661 00:48:00,272 --> 00:48:04,003 That's why I can never be a lawyer. In court, all that matters is the verdict. 662 00:48:04,076 --> 00:48:06,476 You can never be a lawyer because you're oversexed. 663 00:48:06,545 --> 00:48:07,841 And too distracted. 664 00:48:07,912 --> 00:48:10,005 Not distracted, abstracted. 665 00:48:10,081 --> 00:48:12,208 - I'm trying to make a point. - Namely? 666 00:48:12,283 --> 00:48:14,217 The shaping of the law, not its execution. 667 00:48:14,285 --> 00:48:16,116 The point, dear, the point. 668 00:48:16,187 --> 00:48:19,624 That it should be the questions and shape of a life... 669 00:48:19,690 --> 00:48:24,252 its total complexity, gathered, arranged, and considered... 670 00:48:24,328 --> 00:48:26,057 which matters in the end. 671 00:48:26,130 --> 00:48:29,156 Not some stamp of salvation or damnation... 672 00:48:30,234 --> 00:48:34,228 which disperses all the complexity in some unsatisfying little decision. 673 00:48:34,306 --> 00:48:37,138 - The balancing of the scales— - I like this. 674 00:48:37,208 --> 00:48:38,506 Very Zen. 675 00:48:38,610 --> 00:48:41,407 It's reassuringly incomprehensible and useless. 676 00:48:41,479 --> 00:48:44,004 We, who are about to die, thank you. 677 00:48:46,250 --> 00:48:48,241 You are not about to die. 678 00:48:50,387 --> 00:48:52,514 It's not going well, really. 679 00:48:54,291 --> 00:48:55,986 Two new lesions... 680 00:48:56,928 --> 00:49:00,795 my leg hurts, there's protein in my urine, the doctor says... 681 00:49:00,865 --> 00:49:04,266 but who know what the fuck that portends. 682 00:49:04,335 --> 00:49:07,168 Anyway it shouldn't be there. The protein. 683 00:49:09,140 --> 00:49:11,574 My butt is chapped from diarrhea. 684 00:49:12,344 --> 00:49:14,777 And yesterday I shat blood. 685 00:49:19,984 --> 00:49:21,747 I really hate this. 686 00:49:22,854 --> 00:49:25,413 - You don't tell me— - You get too upset. 687 00:49:25,489 --> 00:49:27,616 I wind up comforting you. 688 00:49:28,526 --> 00:49:30,961 - It's easier. - Oh, thanks. 689 00:49:31,129 --> 00:49:33,063 If it's bad, I'll tell you. 690 00:49:34,431 --> 00:49:36,763 Shitting blood sounds bad to me. 691 00:49:37,369 --> 00:49:40,098 - I'm telling you— - And I'm handling it. 692 00:49:40,271 --> 00:49:42,637 Tell me some more about justice. 693 00:49:44,508 --> 00:49:46,170 I am handling it. 694 00:49:47,111 --> 00:49:49,979 Well, Louis, you win trooper of the month. 695 00:49:51,983 --> 00:49:55,042 I take it back. You aren't trooper of the month. 696 00:49:56,922 --> 00:49:58,685 This isn't working. 697 00:50:00,291 --> 00:50:02,521 Tell me some more about justice. 698 00:50:04,461 --> 00:50:06,395 You are not about to die. 699 00:50:08,132 --> 00:50:10,828 - Justice... - ls an immensity, it's confusing. 700 00:50:11,769 --> 00:50:13,761 Vastness, justice is God. 701 00:50:18,076 --> 00:50:19,269 Prior. 702 00:50:23,214 --> 00:50:24,613 You love me? 703 00:50:25,449 --> 00:50:26,508 Yes. 704 00:50:28,253 --> 00:50:30,483 What if I walked out on this? 705 00:50:31,188 --> 00:50:33,213 Would you hate me forever? 706 00:50:41,799 --> 00:50:42,892 Yes. 707 00:51:04,522 --> 00:51:06,547 I think we ought to pray. 708 00:51:07,992 --> 00:51:09,653 Ask God for help. 709 00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:11,821 Ask him together. 710 00:51:12,196 --> 00:51:14,027 God won't talk to me. 711 00:51:14,131 --> 00:51:17,532 - I have to make up people to talk to me. - You have to keep asking. 712 00:51:17,601 --> 00:51:19,467 I forgot the question. 713 00:51:19,670 --> 00:51:23,266 - Oh, yeah. God, is my husband a homo? - Stop it! 714 00:51:24,008 --> 00:51:25,636 I'm warning you! 715 00:51:26,110 --> 00:51:30,206 Does it make any difference that I might be one thing deep within? 716 00:51:30,547 --> 00:51:32,879 No matter how wrong or ugly that thing is... 717 00:51:32,950 --> 00:51:36,387 so long as I have fought with everything I have to kill it? 718 00:51:36,987 --> 00:51:38,818 What do you want from me? 719 00:51:38,889 --> 00:51:42,086 What do you want from me, Harper, more than that? 720 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,651 For God's sake, there's nothing left. 721 00:51:44,729 --> 00:51:47,595 I'm a shell. There's nothing left to kill. 722 00:51:49,700 --> 00:51:53,363 As long as my behavior is what I know it has to be, decent, correct... 723 00:51:53,437 --> 00:51:55,235 that alone in the eyes of God... 724 00:51:55,307 --> 00:51:59,641 No, not that. That's Utah talk, Mormon talk. I hate it, Joe. 725 00:51:59,710 --> 00:52:00,768 Tell me, say it. 726 00:52:00,844 --> 00:52:03,108 All I will say is that I'm a very good man... 727 00:52:03,180 --> 00:52:05,479 who has worked very hard to become good... 728 00:52:05,550 --> 00:52:07,517 and you wanna destroy that. 729 00:52:07,585 --> 00:52:10,712 You wanna destroy me but I am not gonna let you do that. 730 00:52:13,590 --> 00:52:15,455 I'm gonna have a baby. 731 00:52:16,860 --> 00:52:18,725 - Liar. - You liar. 732 00:52:21,332 --> 00:52:23,596 A baby born addicted to pills. 733 00:52:23,767 --> 00:52:26,828 A baby who does not dream, but who hallucinates... 734 00:52:26,905 --> 00:52:30,135 who stares up at us with big mirror eyes... 735 00:52:30,207 --> 00:52:32,607 and who does not know who we are. 736 00:52:35,313 --> 00:52:37,075 - Are you really? - No. 737 00:52:38,515 --> 00:52:39,574 Yes. 738 00:52:41,151 --> 00:52:42,379 No. Yes. 739 00:52:43,053 --> 00:52:44,520 Get away from me. 740 00:52:44,588 --> 00:52:46,613 Now we both have a secret. 741 00:52:52,996 --> 00:52:55,055 Nobody knows what causes it. 742 00:52:55,966 --> 00:52:58,298 And nobody knows how to cure it. 743 00:52:58,969 --> 00:53:01,961 The best theory is that we blame a retrovirus. 744 00:53:02,306 --> 00:53:04,741 The human immunodeficiency virus. 745 00:53:05,275 --> 00:53:08,210 Its presence is made known to us by the useless antibodies... 746 00:53:08,278 --> 00:53:11,907 which appear in reaction to its entrance into the bloodstream through a cut. 747 00:53:11,982 --> 00:53:13,473 Or an orifice. 748 00:53:13,784 --> 00:53:16,582 The antibodies are powerless to protect the body against it. 749 00:53:16,653 --> 00:53:18,678 Why? We don't know. 750 00:53:19,591 --> 00:53:21,889 The body's immune system ceases to function. 751 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,689 Sometimes the body even attacks itself. 752 00:53:25,896 --> 00:53:30,094 At any rate, it's left open to a whole horror house of infections... 753 00:53:30,402 --> 00:53:33,199 from microbes it usually defends against. 754 00:53:34,004 --> 00:53:35,801 Like Kaposi's sarcomas... 755 00:53:35,873 --> 00:53:39,741 those lesions on your arms, or your throat problem. 756 00:53:39,810 --> 00:53:41,334 Or the glands. 757 00:53:42,312 --> 00:53:46,681 We think it may also be able to slip past the blood-brain barrier into the brain. 758 00:53:46,950 --> 00:53:50,078 Which is, of course, very bad news. 759 00:53:51,489 --> 00:53:56,255 It's fatal in we don't know what percent of people with suppressed immune responses. 760 00:54:00,664 --> 00:54:02,326 Very interesting... 761 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:04,965 Mr. Wizard. 762 00:54:06,003 --> 00:54:08,268 Why the fuck are you telling me this? 763 00:54:12,710 --> 00:54:16,702 Well, I have just removed one of three lesions... 764 00:54:17,081 --> 00:54:21,517 which biopsy results will probably tell us is a Kaposi's sarcoma lesion. 765 00:54:22,119 --> 00:54:24,246 And you have a pronounced swelling of glands... 766 00:54:24,321 --> 00:54:26,721 in your neck, groin, and armpits. 767 00:54:27,291 --> 00:54:29,658 Lymphadenopathy is another sign. 768 00:54:29,794 --> 00:54:32,057 And you have oral candidiasis. 769 00:54:32,229 --> 00:54:34,720 And maybe a little more fungus under the fingernails... 770 00:54:34,798 --> 00:54:36,891 of two digits on your right hand. 771 00:54:37,835 --> 00:54:38,859 So? 772 00:54:39,169 --> 00:54:40,568 That's why I'm... 773 00:54:42,673 --> 00:54:44,766 - This disease... - Syndrome. 774 00:54:45,642 --> 00:54:46,904 Whatever. 775 00:54:47,678 --> 00:54:52,377 It afflicts mostly homosexuals and drug addicts. 776 00:54:52,750 --> 00:54:53,977 Mostly. 777 00:54:54,051 --> 00:54:55,985 Hemophiliacs are also at risk. 778 00:54:56,053 --> 00:54:57,987 Homosexuals and drug addicts. 779 00:54:58,055 --> 00:55:01,423 So why are you implying that l... 780 00:55:03,661 --> 00:55:05,822 What are you implying, Henry? 781 00:55:05,963 --> 00:55:09,262 - I don't think I was implying anything. - I'm not a drug addict. 782 00:55:09,333 --> 00:55:12,632 - Come on, Roy. - What? "Come on, Roy" what? 783 00:55:14,005 --> 00:55:16,235 You think I'm a junkie, Henry? 784 00:55:16,407 --> 00:55:18,135 Do you see tracks? 785 00:55:21,345 --> 00:55:22,903 This is absurd. 786 00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:24,646 So say it. 787 00:55:24,948 --> 00:55:26,245 Say what? 788 00:55:27,584 --> 00:55:29,779 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a..." 789 00:55:30,354 --> 00:55:32,754 - Roy. - "You are a..." Go on. 790 00:55:33,857 --> 00:55:37,657 Not, "Roy Cohn, you are a drug fiend." 791 00:55:37,828 --> 00:55:40,422 "Roy Marcus Cohn, you are a..." 792 00:55:41,533 --> 00:55:44,000 Go on, Henry, it starts with an "H." 793 00:55:44,268 --> 00:55:46,702 - I'm not gonna get into— - With an "H," Henry... 794 00:55:46,770 --> 00:55:48,863 and it isn't "hemophiliac." 795 00:55:49,540 --> 00:55:50,768 Come on! 796 00:55:52,343 --> 00:55:55,277 - Why are you doing this, Roy? - No, I mean it. Say it. 797 00:55:55,679 --> 00:55:59,080 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a homosexual." 798 00:56:01,518 --> 00:56:04,544 And I will proceed systematically... 799 00:56:04,621 --> 00:56:07,317 to destroy your reputation. 800 00:56:08,025 --> 00:56:09,492 And your practice. 801 00:56:09,927 --> 00:56:13,158 And your career in the state of New York, Henry. 802 00:56:14,097 --> 00:56:16,065 Which you know I can do. 803 00:56:19,604 --> 00:56:22,902 You have been seeing me since U958. 804 00:56:24,008 --> 00:56:27,636 Apart from the face lifts, I have treated you for everything from syphilis— 805 00:56:27,711 --> 00:56:29,042 From a whore in Dallas. 806 00:56:29,112 --> 00:56:32,980 from syphilis to venereal warts in your rectum... 807 00:56:33,050 --> 00:56:35,814 which you may have gotten from a whore in Dallas. 808 00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,288 But it wasn't a female whore. 809 00:56:39,990 --> 00:56:41,321 So say it. 810 00:56:43,927 --> 00:56:46,725 Roy Cohn, you are... 811 00:56:51,802 --> 00:56:55,431 You have had sex with men. Many, many times, Roy. 812 00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:59,400 And one of those men or any number of them has made you very sick. 813 00:57:00,544 --> 00:57:02,206 You have AlDS. 814 00:57:02,613 --> 00:57:03,705 AlDS? 815 00:57:05,282 --> 00:57:10,185 You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words... 816 00:57:11,755 --> 00:57:13,154 on labels... 817 00:57:13,690 --> 00:57:16,557 that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. 818 00:57:17,027 --> 00:57:19,587 AlDS, homosexual, gay, lesbian. 819 00:57:19,663 --> 00:57:22,655 You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with? 820 00:57:22,733 --> 00:57:24,633 - They don't tell you that. - No? 821 00:57:24,701 --> 00:57:25,861 No. 822 00:57:25,936 --> 00:57:29,030 Like all labels, they tell you one thing and one thing only. 823 00:57:29,773 --> 00:57:34,506 Where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain... 824 00:57:35,479 --> 00:57:37,276 in the pecking order? 825 00:57:37,914 --> 00:57:42,578 Not an ideology or a sexual taste, but something much simpler:. 826 00:57:43,053 --> 00:57:44,179 Clout. 827 00:57:45,055 --> 00:57:48,115 Not who I fuck or who fucks me... 828 00:57:48,191 --> 00:57:51,217 but who will pick up the phone when I call. 829 00:57:51,528 --> 00:57:52,894 Who owes me favors. 830 00:57:52,964 --> 00:57:56,694 This is what a label refers to. 831 00:57:57,534 --> 00:57:59,900 Now, to someone who does not understand this... 832 00:57:59,970 --> 00:58:03,838 homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men. 833 00:58:03,974 --> 00:58:05,999 But really, this is wrong. 834 00:58:06,543 --> 00:58:09,706 Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. 835 00:58:10,547 --> 00:58:12,412 Homosexuals are men... 836 00:58:12,683 --> 00:58:15,208 who, in U5 years of trying... 837 00:58:15,485 --> 00:58:20,286 cannot pass a pissant anti-discrimination bill through city council. 838 00:58:21,158 --> 00:58:25,788 Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. 839 00:58:26,363 --> 00:58:28,832 Who have zero clout. 840 00:58:31,035 --> 00:58:33,094 Does this sound like me, Henry? 841 00:58:33,171 --> 00:58:34,762 - No. - No! 842 00:58:34,905 --> 00:58:37,306 I have clout. Lots. 843 00:58:38,942 --> 00:58:43,642 I pick up this phone, I punch U5 numbers, you know who's on the other end? 844 00:58:44,047 --> 00:58:47,073 - In under five minutes, Henry. - The President. 845 00:58:47,150 --> 00:58:49,277 Better, Henry. His wife. 846 00:58:51,555 --> 00:58:52,749 I'm impressed. 847 00:58:52,823 --> 00:58:56,020 I don't want you to be impressed. I want you to understand. 848 00:58:56,593 --> 00:59:00,051 This is not sophistry and this is not hypocrisy. 849 00:59:00,631 --> 00:59:02,063 This is reality. 850 00:59:03,166 --> 00:59:04,963 I have sex with men... 851 00:59:05,035 --> 00:59:08,163 but unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true... 852 00:59:08,238 --> 00:59:10,798 I bring the guy I'm screwing to the White House. 853 00:59:10,874 --> 00:59:14,742 And President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand... 854 00:59:15,112 --> 00:59:16,340 because... 855 00:59:16,913 --> 00:59:20,974 what I am is defined entirely by who I am. 856 00:59:21,952 --> 00:59:24,318 Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. 857 00:59:25,522 --> 00:59:29,549 Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry... 858 00:59:30,660 --> 00:59:32,753 who fucks around with guys. 859 00:59:34,698 --> 00:59:36,029 Okay, Roy. 860 00:59:36,099 --> 00:59:38,192 And what is my diagnosis, Henry? 861 00:59:39,669 --> 00:59:43,264 - You have AlDS, Roy. - No. Henry, no. 862 00:59:44,541 --> 00:59:47,567 AlDS is what homosexuals have. 863 00:59:49,913 --> 00:59:53,178 I have liver cancer. 864 01:00:04,694 --> 01:00:06,889 Whatever the fuck you have... 865 01:00:07,464 --> 01:00:08,954 it's very serious. 866 01:00:09,366 --> 01:00:11,800 And I haven't got a damn thing for you. 867 01:00:12,402 --> 01:00:15,428 The NlH in Bethesda has a new drug called... 868 01:00:16,006 --> 01:00:17,200 AZT... 869 01:00:17,374 --> 01:00:20,810 with a two-year waiting list that not even I can get you onto. 870 01:00:21,745 --> 01:00:23,713 So pick up the phone, Roy... 871 01:00:24,548 --> 01:00:26,516 and dial the 15 numbers... 872 01:00:26,716 --> 01:00:31,085 and tell the First Lady that you need it on an experimental treatment for liver cancer... 873 01:00:31,154 --> 01:00:33,748 because you can call it any damn thing you want, Roy. 874 01:00:33,824 --> 01:00:35,951 But what it boils down to... 875 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:38,757 is very bad news.