1 00:02:30,190 --> 00:02:32,055 Hello, and good morning. 2 00:02:33,026 --> 00:02:36,826 I am Rabbi lsidor Chemelwitz... 3 00:02:37,831 --> 00:02:41,267 of the Bronx Home for Aged Hebrews. 4 00:02:43,069 --> 00:02:46,527 We are here this morning to pay respect... 5 00:02:46,606 --> 00:02:50,269 for the passing of Sarah lronson... 6 00:02:50,744 --> 00:02:52,974 devoted wife of... 7 00:02:56,917 --> 00:02:59,249 Benjamin lronson. 8 00:03:01,121 --> 00:03:02,611 Also deceased. 9 00:03:03,723 --> 00:03:07,022 Loving and caring mother of their sons... 10 00:03:07,627 --> 00:03:11,529 Morris, Abraham, and Samuel... 11 00:03:12,432 --> 00:03:15,060 and their daughters Esther and Rachel. 12 00:03:16,536 --> 00:03:19,596 Beloved grandmother of Max... 13 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,942 Mark, Louis, Angela... 14 00:03:24,945 --> 00:03:29,279 Doris, Luke, and Eric. 15 00:03:31,651 --> 00:03:34,643 Eric is a Jewish name? 16 00:03:41,461 --> 00:03:43,759 A large and loving family. 17 00:03:45,198 --> 00:03:49,328 We assemble that we may collectively mourn... 18 00:03:49,836 --> 00:03:52,430 this good and righteous woman. 19 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:54,998 This woman... 20 00:03:56,009 --> 00:03:57,874 I did not know this woman. 21 00:03:58,979 --> 00:04:03,473 I cannot accurately describe her attributes... 22 00:04:04,383 --> 00:04:07,012 nor do justice to her... 23 00:04:08,188 --> 00:04:09,655 dimensions. 24 00:04:10,223 --> 00:04:13,715 She was not a person... 25 00:04:14,060 --> 00:04:16,893 but a whole kind of a person. 26 00:04:17,464 --> 00:04:19,694 The ones that crossed the ocean... 27 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:22,364 that brought with us to America... 28 00:04:22,435 --> 00:04:25,802 the villages of Russia and Lithuania. 29 00:04:26,873 --> 00:04:28,807 And how we struggled... 30 00:04:29,476 --> 00:04:31,966 and how we fought... 31 00:04:32,312 --> 00:04:34,006 for the family... 32 00:04:34,781 --> 00:04:37,011 for the Jewish home. 33 00:04:38,518 --> 00:04:43,285 Descendents of this immigrant woman... 34 00:04:44,357 --> 00:04:46,848 you do not grow up in America... 35 00:04:49,663 --> 00:04:53,463 you, your children, and their children with the goyish names. 36 00:04:56,036 --> 00:04:59,233 You do not live in America. 37 00:05:00,807 --> 00:05:03,469 No such place exists. 38 00:05:04,978 --> 00:05:07,640 Your clay is the clay... 39 00:05:07,714 --> 00:05:09,977 of some Litvak shtetl. 40 00:05:10,784 --> 00:05:13,981 Your air is the air of the steppes... 41 00:05:15,188 --> 00:05:19,750 because she carried that old world on her back... 42 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,193 across the ocean in a boat... 43 00:05:24,097 --> 00:05:26,065 and she put it down... 44 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,927 on Grand Concourse Avenue. 45 00:05:32,372 --> 00:05:33,839 Or on Flatbush. 46 00:05:35,642 --> 00:05:38,770 You can never make that crossing that she made... 47 00:05:39,446 --> 00:05:44,110 for such great voyages in this world do not anymore exist. 48 00:05:44,184 --> 00:05:46,675 But every day of your lives... 49 00:05:46,753 --> 00:05:50,883 the miles, that voyage from that place to this one... 50 00:05:50,957 --> 00:05:52,584 you cross... 51 00:05:53,526 --> 00:05:54,993 every day. 52 00:05:59,265 --> 00:06:00,891 You understand me? 53 00:06:02,035 --> 00:06:03,161 In you... 54 00:06:04,671 --> 00:06:06,161 that journey... 55 00:06:06,973 --> 00:06:08,065 is. 56 00:06:10,110 --> 00:06:11,236 Hold. 57 00:06:12,212 --> 00:06:16,012 I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. 58 00:06:16,082 --> 00:06:18,949 Eight loving arms and all those suckers. Know what I mean? 59 00:06:19,019 --> 00:06:21,078 - No. - You want lunch? 60 00:06:21,154 --> 00:06:22,746 No, that's okay. 61 00:06:23,156 --> 00:06:24,919 Ailene, Roy Cohn. 62 00:06:25,925 --> 00:06:27,859 What kind of greeting is that? 63 00:06:28,227 --> 00:06:29,923 I thought we were friends. 64 00:06:29,996 --> 00:06:32,430 This will take a minute. Here, eat a little something. 65 00:06:32,498 --> 00:06:34,865 What is this? Tasty sandwich here? 66 00:06:38,304 --> 00:06:42,070 I already told you, it wasn't a vacation, it was business. 67 00:06:42,642 --> 00:06:45,577 I have clients in Haiti. 68 00:06:45,845 --> 00:06:49,042 Listen, Ailene, you think I'm the only lawyer in history... 69 00:06:49,115 --> 00:06:52,243 who ever missed a court date? Don't make such a big fuck... 70 00:06:52,318 --> 00:06:53,444 Hold. 71 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:54,909 You hag. 72 00:06:54,988 --> 00:06:57,149 - if this is a bad time— - No, it's a good time. 73 00:06:57,223 --> 00:06:59,054 Baby doll. Fuck, wait. 74 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:01,452 Hello? 75 00:07:01,528 --> 00:07:04,588 Sorry to keep you holding, Judge Hollins, I just... 76 00:07:04,664 --> 00:07:06,597 - Mrs. Hollins? - Yeah, it's Mrs. Hollins. 77 00:07:06,666 --> 00:07:09,464 Sorry, dear. What a deep voice you got. 78 00:07:09,536 --> 00:07:11,060 You enjoying your visit? 79 00:07:11,137 --> 00:07:13,935 She sounds like a truck driver, he sounds like Kate Smith. 80 00:07:14,007 --> 00:07:15,372 It's very confusing. 81 00:07:15,442 --> 00:07:18,809 Nixon appointed him. All the geeks are Nixon appointees. 82 00:07:19,979 --> 00:07:22,675 How many tickets, dear? Seven? 83 00:07:22,916 --> 00:07:25,077 For what, Cats, 42nd Street, what? 84 00:07:26,186 --> 00:07:29,643 You wouldn't like La Cage, trust me. Trust me, I know. 85 00:07:30,190 --> 00:07:31,952 For God's sake, hold. 86 00:07:32,659 --> 00:07:35,355 Baby doll, seven for Cats or something. 87 00:07:35,428 --> 00:07:38,556 Anything hard to get. I don't give a fuck what. Neither will they. 88 00:07:38,731 --> 00:07:41,325 - You've seen La Cage Aux Folles? - No. 89 00:07:42,267 --> 00:07:44,828 It's the best thing on Broadway, maybe ever. 90 00:07:45,738 --> 00:07:47,000 Yeah, who? 91 00:07:57,550 --> 00:07:58,574 Couldn't find her there. 92 00:07:58,651 --> 00:07:59,948 Couldn't see her. 93 00:08:00,019 --> 00:08:02,385 - At least I didn't see her in there. - She was... 94 00:08:02,455 --> 00:08:04,514 It's all right. I'm gonna take the bus. 95 00:08:04,591 --> 00:08:07,082 What do you mean you're gonna take the bus? 96 00:08:07,227 --> 00:08:08,592 I'll see you there. 97 00:08:23,710 --> 00:08:26,144 How's life in Appeals? How's the judge? 98 00:08:26,212 --> 00:08:29,306 - He sends his best. - He's a good man. Loyal. 99 00:08:29,516 --> 00:08:33,008 Not the brightest man on the bench, although he has manners... 100 00:08:33,085 --> 00:08:36,886 - and a nice head of silver hair. - He gives me a lot of responsibility. 101 00:08:38,491 --> 00:08:41,221 Like writing his decisions and signing his name. 102 00:08:42,061 --> 00:08:45,087 - He's a nice man. You cover admirably. - Thanks, Roy. 103 00:08:45,898 --> 00:08:48,629 Who's this? Well, who the fuck are you? 104 00:08:49,302 --> 00:08:50,599 Hold. 105 00:08:51,337 --> 00:08:53,362 - So, baby doll, what? - It's gonna be Cats. 106 00:08:53,439 --> 00:08:54,530 Cats. 107 00:08:56,176 --> 00:09:00,112 Cats; it's about cats. Singing cats. You'll love it. 108 00:09:01,014 --> 00:09:02,981 8:.00. Theater's always at 8:00. 109 00:09:03,115 --> 00:09:04,447 Fucking tourists. 110 00:09:04,517 --> 00:09:06,781 Eat already, Joe. For Christ's sake, live a little. 111 00:09:06,853 --> 00:09:08,844 - Roy, could you... - Yeah, what? 112 00:09:09,388 --> 00:09:10,617 Mrs. Soffer. 113 00:09:11,590 --> 00:09:14,287 - Oh, God fucking damn it. - Roy, I really... 114 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,352 Baby doll, ring up The Post. Get me Suzy. 115 00:09:18,164 --> 00:09:19,392 - Christ! - Roy. 116 00:09:19,698 --> 00:09:20,757 What? 117 00:09:20,833 --> 00:09:23,666 Could you please not take the Lord's name in vain? 118 00:09:23,869 --> 00:09:25,770 I'm sorry, but please. 119 00:09:26,606 --> 00:09:28,436 At least while I'm... 120 00:09:29,375 --> 00:09:30,602 Right... 121 00:09:31,010 --> 00:09:34,604 Sorry, fuck. Only in America. 122 00:09:34,780 --> 00:09:37,909 Baby doll, tell them all to fuck off, tell them I died. 123 00:09:40,587 --> 00:09:41,645 So, Joe. 124 00:09:41,721 --> 00:09:43,985 - I'm sorry, Roy, it's just that— - No, no. 125 00:09:44,057 --> 00:09:46,617 Principles count. I respect principles. 126 00:09:46,693 --> 00:09:50,185 I'm not religious, but I like God, God likes me. 127 00:09:50,663 --> 00:09:52,824 - Baptist, Catholic, what? - Mormon. 128 00:09:52,899 --> 00:09:54,127 Mormon? 129 00:09:55,801 --> 00:09:57,792 Delectable. Absolutely. 130 00:09:58,204 --> 00:09:59,795 Only in America. 131 00:10:02,007 --> 00:10:04,134 So, Joe, what do you think? 132 00:10:04,978 --> 00:10:07,947 - It's a... - It's a crazy life. 133 00:10:08,014 --> 00:10:10,777 - Chaotic. - God bless chaos, though, right? 134 00:10:12,684 --> 00:10:13,947 Mormons? 135 00:10:14,454 --> 00:10:17,355 I knew Mormons in Nevada. 136 00:10:17,423 --> 00:10:20,483 - Utah, mostly. - No, these Mormons were in Vegas. 137 00:10:24,063 --> 00:10:28,625 How would you like to go to Washington and work for the Justice Department? 138 00:10:29,801 --> 00:10:32,737 - Sorry? - How would you like to go to Washington... 139 00:10:32,805 --> 00:10:34,169 work for the Justice Department. 140 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,767 All I got to do is pick up the phone, talk to Ed, and you're in. 141 00:10:37,844 --> 00:10:39,709 In what, exactly? 142 00:10:40,178 --> 00:10:42,510 Associate, Assistant, something big. 143 00:10:43,082 --> 00:10:47,018 Internal Affairs, heart of the woods, something nice, with clout. 144 00:10:47,086 --> 00:10:48,985 - Ed— - Meese, Attorney General. 145 00:10:52,824 --> 00:10:55,692 - All I gotta do is pick up the phone. - But I have to think. 146 00:10:55,762 --> 00:10:58,959 - Okay, great time to be in Washington, Joe. - Roy. 147 00:10:59,298 --> 00:11:00,323 It's incredibly— 148 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,096 It means something to me, too, you understand. 149 00:11:04,270 --> 00:11:08,502 I can't say how much I appreciate this, Roy. I'm sort of stunned. 150 00:11:08,641 --> 00:11:12,007 Thanks, but I have to give it some thought. I have to ask my wife. 151 00:11:12,077 --> 00:11:14,808 - Your wife, of course. - But I really appreciate it. 152 00:11:14,881 --> 00:11:16,541 Of course. Talk to your wife. 153 00:11:27,125 --> 00:11:31,323 To deep-throat a man, to give him intense pleasure... 154 00:11:31,964 --> 00:11:34,330 a woman can simply lick the penis... 155 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,927 without actually putting the whole organ in her mouth... 156 00:11:38,237 --> 00:11:41,399 and still provide the man with a lot of pleasure. 157 00:11:42,575 --> 00:11:46,238 When women tell me that they have a problem with fellatio... 158 00:11:46,312 --> 00:11:50,874 I often tell them to think of the penis as an ice cream cone. 159 00:11:52,017 --> 00:11:55,385 Scientists say the hole in the ozone layer high above the Antarctic... 160 00:11:55,455 --> 00:11:57,753 is now a record at 7 million square miles. 161 00:11:57,824 --> 00:12:01,020 That's three times the size of the whole of the United States. 162 00:12:01,094 --> 00:12:05,052 The hole appears as a giant blue blob totally covering Antarctica... 163 00:12:05,130 --> 00:12:07,861 stretching out to the southern tip of South America. 164 00:12:07,934 --> 00:12:11,164 Scientists say that with the hole so big this early in the year... 165 00:12:11,236 --> 00:12:13,899 it could be set to grow even bigger. 166 00:12:18,044 --> 00:12:20,205 I wish I could go traveling. 167 00:12:20,813 --> 00:12:23,611 Things aren't right with me. 168 00:12:30,655 --> 00:12:32,816 Cash, check, or credit card? 169 00:12:32,992 --> 00:12:36,155 - You startled me. - Cash, check... 170 00:12:36,262 --> 00:12:39,493 I remember you. You're from Salt Lake. 171 00:12:39,565 --> 00:12:42,261 You sold us the plane tickets when we flew here. 172 00:12:42,335 --> 00:12:45,600 - What are you doing in Brooklyn? - You said you wanted to travel. 173 00:12:45,671 --> 00:12:46,899 How thoughtful! 174 00:12:46,972 --> 00:12:48,338 Mr. Lies... 175 00:12:48,508 --> 00:12:52,911 of the lnternational Order of Travel Agents. 176 00:12:53,779 --> 00:12:56,874 We mobilize the globe. We set people adrift. 177 00:12:57,150 --> 00:12:59,084 We are adepts of motion... 178 00:12:59,152 --> 00:13:01,620 acolytes of the flocks. 179 00:13:01,687 --> 00:13:04,952 Cash, check, or credit card, name your destination. 180 00:13:06,491 --> 00:13:09,723 Antarctica maybe? I want to see the hole in the ozone. 181 00:13:09,796 --> 00:13:13,129 - I heard on the radio— - We'll arrange a guided tour. 182 00:13:14,066 --> 00:13:16,829 - Now? - Soon, maybe soon. 183 00:13:18,604 --> 00:13:20,663 I'm not safe here, you see. 184 00:13:23,108 --> 00:13:25,008 Weird stuff happens. 185 00:13:27,279 --> 00:13:29,509 - Like? - Like you, for instance. 186 00:13:29,581 --> 00:13:32,415 Just appearing. Or last week. 187 00:13:33,952 --> 00:13:35,318 Never mind. 188 00:13:38,558 --> 00:13:41,618 People are like planets, you need a thick skin. 189 00:13:43,362 --> 00:13:47,765 Joe stays away, and now look, my dreams are talking back to me. 190 00:13:48,034 --> 00:13:51,196 The price of rootlessness, motion sickness. 191 00:13:51,671 --> 00:13:55,128 - Only cure, keep moving. - I'm undecided. 192 00:13:56,108 --> 00:13:59,406 I feel that something's going to give. It's 1985... 193 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,045 fifteen years to the third millennium. 194 00:14:02,982 --> 00:14:05,279 Maybe Christ will come again... 195 00:14:05,584 --> 00:14:08,577 or maybe the troubles will come and the end will come. 196 00:14:08,654 --> 00:14:11,850 The sky will collapse and there'll be terrible rain... 197 00:14:11,923 --> 00:14:14,153 and showers of poison light... 198 00:14:16,161 --> 00:14:18,595 Or maybe my life is really fine... 199 00:14:19,332 --> 00:14:22,892 maybe Joe loves me and I'm only crazy thinking otherwise. 200 00:14:23,436 --> 00:14:24,732 Or maybe not. 201 00:14:24,803 --> 00:14:27,534 Maybe it's even worse than I know. 202 00:14:29,074 --> 00:14:31,703 Maybe I want to know, maybe I don't. 203 00:14:32,777 --> 00:14:36,407 The suspense, Mr. Lies, it's killing me. 204 00:14:36,482 --> 00:14:38,848 I suggest a vacation. 205 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,015 That was the elevator. Oh, God, I should fix myself a... 206 00:14:45,091 --> 00:14:48,355 You have to go. You shouldn't be here. You aren't even real. 207 00:14:48,427 --> 00:14:50,588 - Call me when you decide. - Go. 208 00:15:01,874 --> 00:15:03,273 Hey, buddy. 209 00:15:03,809 --> 00:15:05,298 You're early. 210 00:15:05,378 --> 00:15:07,812 I was just walking... 211 00:15:09,447 --> 00:15:11,278 and I guess I came home. 212 00:15:11,349 --> 00:15:13,749 - Are you... - Yeah, I'm a little anxious. 213 00:15:14,654 --> 00:15:16,053 Buddy kiss. 214 00:15:17,622 --> 00:15:19,783 Nothing to get anxious about. 215 00:15:31,804 --> 00:15:34,271 How would you like to move to Washington? 216 00:15:36,441 --> 00:15:37,841 Washington? 217 00:15:38,810 --> 00:15:40,278 She was pretty crazy. 218 00:15:40,346 --> 00:15:44,645 She was up there in that home for ten years, talking to herself. 219 00:15:44,716 --> 00:15:46,116 I never visited. 220 00:15:46,185 --> 00:15:48,346 She looked too much like my mother. 221 00:15:49,087 --> 00:15:51,555 Poor Louis, I'm sorry your grandma's dead. 222 00:15:51,690 --> 00:15:53,419 Tiny little coffin. 223 00:15:54,093 --> 00:15:55,491 I'm sorry I didn't introduce you. 224 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,892 I always get so closety at these family things. 225 00:15:57,963 --> 00:15:59,931 You're getting butch. 226 00:15:59,998 --> 00:16:03,729 Hey, Cousin Doris, you don't remember me, I'm Lou. 227 00:16:03,902 --> 00:16:06,564 Rachel's boy, Lou. 228 00:16:06,638 --> 00:16:09,631 Not Louis, cause if you say Louis, they'll hear the sibilant "s." 229 00:16:09,709 --> 00:16:12,768 - I don't have a sibilant "s." - I don't blame you hiding. 230 00:16:12,844 --> 00:16:15,245 Bloodlines. Jewish curses are the worst. 231 00:16:15,314 --> 00:16:16,871 I personally would dissolve... 232 00:16:16,948 --> 00:16:19,918 if anyone ever looks me in the eye and said, "Feh." 233 00:16:19,986 --> 00:16:22,886 Fortunately, Wasps don't say, "Feh"... 234 00:16:23,188 --> 00:16:25,713 and by the way, darling... 235 00:16:26,225 --> 00:16:28,022 Cousin Doris is a dyke. 236 00:16:29,127 --> 00:16:31,493 No! Really? 237 00:16:31,997 --> 00:16:33,362 You don't notice anything. 238 00:16:33,431 --> 00:16:35,899 If I hadn't spent the last four years fellating you... 239 00:16:35,967 --> 00:16:37,901 I'd swear you were straight. 240 00:16:51,550 --> 00:16:53,450 You're in a pissy mood. Cat still missing? 241 00:16:53,519 --> 00:16:56,010 - Not a fur ball in sight. It's your fault. - It is? 242 00:16:56,088 --> 00:16:58,420 I warned you, Louis, names are important. 243 00:16:58,491 --> 00:17:01,892 Call an animal Little Sheba, you can't expect it to stick around. 244 00:17:01,961 --> 00:17:06,056 - Besides, that's a dog's name. - I wanted a dog in the first place, not a cat. 245 00:17:06,132 --> 00:17:08,532 - He sprayed my books. - He was a female cat. 246 00:17:08,601 --> 00:17:12,594 Cats are stupid high-strung predators. Babylonians sealed them up in bricks. 247 00:17:12,672 --> 00:17:14,663 - Dogs have brains. - Cats have intuition. 248 00:17:14,740 --> 00:17:17,607 A sharp dog is as smart as a really dull 2-year-old child. 249 00:17:17,677 --> 00:17:20,736 - Cats know when something's wrong. - Only if you stop feeding them. 250 00:17:20,812 --> 00:17:23,407 They know. That's why Sheba left. She knew. 251 00:17:23,482 --> 00:17:24,846 Knew what? 252 00:17:27,987 --> 00:17:30,784 I did my best Shirley Booth this morning. 253 00:17:31,389 --> 00:17:35,519 Floppy slippers, housecoat, curlers, can of Little Friskies. 254 00:17:35,928 --> 00:17:37,724 "Come back, Little Sheba... 255 00:17:38,030 --> 00:17:39,394 "come back." 256 00:17:40,533 --> 00:17:41,624 To no avail. 257 00:17:54,479 --> 00:17:55,538 See? 258 00:17:56,548 --> 00:17:58,175 That's just a burst blood vessel. 259 00:17:58,249 --> 00:18:00,945 Not according to the best medical authorities. 260 00:18:05,023 --> 00:18:07,457 What? Tell me. 261 00:18:08,793 --> 00:18:11,227 Chaos, baby. Lesion number one. 262 00:18:11,730 --> 00:18:14,427 The wine-dark kiss of the angel of death. 263 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:16,161 Oh, please. 264 00:18:16,802 --> 00:18:19,964 I'm a lesionnaire. Foreign lesion. 265 00:18:20,506 --> 00:18:22,268 The American lesion. 266 00:18:22,341 --> 00:18:24,240 - Lesionnaire's disease. - Stop. 267 00:18:24,477 --> 00:18:26,843 - My troubles are lesions. - Will you stop? 268 00:18:26,912 --> 00:18:29,312 Don't you think I'm handling this well? 269 00:18:29,914 --> 00:18:31,439 - I'm gonna die. - Bullshit. 270 00:18:31,517 --> 00:18:33,314 - Let go of my arm. Let go. - No. 271 00:18:34,319 --> 00:18:35,378 No. 272 00:18:41,126 --> 00:18:43,561 I can't find a way to spare you, baby. 273 00:18:45,597 --> 00:18:48,658 No wall like the wall of hard scientific fact. 274 00:18:49,067 --> 00:18:51,297 Chaos, wham. 275 00:18:51,669 --> 00:18:54,639 - Bang your head on that. - Fuck you. 276 00:18:57,042 --> 00:19:00,272 Now that's what I like to hear, a mature reaction. 277 00:19:01,180 --> 00:19:03,647 Let's go see if the cat's come home. 278 00:19:06,886 --> 00:19:08,045 Louis. 279 00:19:08,319 --> 00:19:09,980 When did you find this? 280 00:19:10,121 --> 00:19:11,953 - I couldn't tell you. - Why? 281 00:19:12,023 --> 00:19:14,116 - I was scared, Lou. - Of what? 282 00:19:15,928 --> 00:19:17,623 That you'll leave me. 283 00:19:20,832 --> 00:19:23,300 Bad timing, funeral and all, but... 284 00:19:24,736 --> 00:19:27,034 I figured since we're on the subject of death... 285 00:19:27,105 --> 00:19:30,040 Here's the bus. I have to go bury my grandma. 286 00:19:34,513 --> 00:19:35,638 Lou... 287 00:19:36,882 --> 00:19:39,941 - then you'll come home? - Then I'll come home. 288 00:19:55,033 --> 00:19:56,399 Washington. 289 00:19:56,734 --> 00:19:59,168 - It's an incredible honor— - I have to think. 290 00:19:59,237 --> 00:20:01,000 - Of course. - Say no. 291 00:20:01,472 --> 00:20:05,272 - You said you were gonna think about it. - I don't wanna move to Washington. 292 00:20:05,343 --> 00:20:06,743 Well, I do. 293 00:20:06,812 --> 00:20:11,078 It's a giant cemetery. Huge white graves. Mausoleums everywhere. 294 00:20:11,150 --> 00:20:13,481 We could live in Maryland or Georgetown. 295 00:20:13,551 --> 00:20:16,349 - We're happy here. - That's not really true, buddy. 296 00:20:16,421 --> 00:20:19,482 Happy enough, pretend happy, it's better than nothing. 297 00:20:19,558 --> 00:20:23,221 - It's time we make some changes, Harper. - No changes. Why? 298 00:20:23,295 --> 00:20:25,422 I've been chief clerk for four years. 299 00:20:25,497 --> 00:20:28,556 I make $29,000 a year. That's ridiculous. 300 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:32,395 I graduated fourth in my class, I make less than anyone I know. 301 00:20:33,906 --> 00:20:35,999 I'm tired of being a clerk. 302 00:20:36,475 --> 00:20:38,670 I wanna go where something good is happening. 303 00:20:38,743 --> 00:20:41,473 Nothing good happens in Washington. 304 00:20:42,113 --> 00:20:44,446 We'll forget Church teachings... 305 00:20:45,083 --> 00:20:48,314 and buy furniture at Conran's... 306 00:20:48,386 --> 00:20:50,047 and become yuppies. 307 00:20:50,121 --> 00:20:52,955 - I have too much to do here. - Like what? 308 00:20:53,525 --> 00:20:56,391 - I do have things. - What things? 309 00:20:56,861 --> 00:20:58,829 I have to finish painting the bedroom. 310 00:20:58,897 --> 00:21:01,024 You've been painting in there for over a year. 311 00:21:01,099 --> 00:21:04,626 I know, it just isn't done, because I never get time to finish it. 312 00:21:04,702 --> 00:21:06,670 That doesn't make sense. 313 00:21:06,938 --> 00:21:08,872 You have all the time in the world. 314 00:21:08,940 --> 00:21:12,536 - You could finish it when I'm at work. - I'm afraid to go in there alone. 315 00:21:12,610 --> 00:21:14,976 - Afraid of what? - I heard something in there. 316 00:21:15,046 --> 00:21:17,844 Metal scraping on the wall, a man with a knife, maybe. 317 00:21:17,916 --> 00:21:19,577 There's no one in the bedroom. 318 00:21:19,651 --> 00:21:21,846 - Not now. - Not this morning, either. 319 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,617 How do you know? You were at work this morning. 320 00:21:24,924 --> 00:21:28,086 There's something creepy about this place. Remember Rosemary's Baby? 321 00:21:28,159 --> 00:21:30,753 - Rosemary's Baby? - Our apartment looks like that one. 322 00:21:30,828 --> 00:21:32,557 - Wasn't that apartment in Brooklyn? - No. 323 00:21:32,630 --> 00:21:34,461 Well, it looked like this. 324 00:21:34,532 --> 00:21:36,363 - It did. - Then let's move. 325 00:21:36,434 --> 00:21:39,461 Georgetown is worse. The Exorcist was in Georgetown. 326 00:21:39,538 --> 00:21:42,700 - The devil everywhere you turn, buddy? - Yeah, everywhere. 327 00:21:43,676 --> 00:21:45,267 How many pills today, buddy? 328 00:21:46,278 --> 00:21:47,403 None. 329 00:21:49,714 --> 00:21:50,908 One. 330 00:21:53,084 --> 00:21:54,780 Three, only three. 331 00:22:18,776 --> 00:22:20,801 Thank you, that was a lovely... 332 00:22:21,479 --> 00:22:23,470 My grandma, just buried. 333 00:22:28,753 --> 00:22:32,120 Why are there just two little wooden pegs holding the lid down? 334 00:22:32,190 --> 00:22:35,125 So that she can get out easier if she wants to. 335 00:22:35,193 --> 00:22:36,752 I hope she stays put. 336 00:22:37,029 --> 00:22:40,361 I pretended for years that she was already dead. 337 00:22:40,598 --> 00:22:44,694 When they called to say she had died, it was a surprise. I had abandoned her. 338 00:22:51,744 --> 00:22:53,473 I don't speak Yiddish. 339 00:22:53,545 --> 00:22:57,412 Sharper than the serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child. 340 00:22:58,916 --> 00:23:00,350 Shakespeare. 341 00:23:01,753 --> 00:23:03,084 King Lear. 342 00:23:03,988 --> 00:23:05,785 Rabbi, what does the Holy Writ say... 343 00:23:05,857 --> 00:23:08,155 about someone who abandons someone he loves... 344 00:23:08,226 --> 00:23:10,194 at a time of great need? 345 00:23:10,361 --> 00:23:12,830 Why would a person do such a thing? 346 00:23:17,902 --> 00:23:19,268 Because he has to. 347 00:23:19,338 --> 00:23:21,329 Maybe this person can't... 348 00:23:22,306 --> 00:23:26,299 incorporate sickness into his sense of how things are supposed to go. 349 00:23:26,377 --> 00:23:30,108 Maybe vomit and sores and disease really frighten him. 350 00:23:31,617 --> 00:23:33,744 Maybe he isn't so good with death. 351 00:23:38,756 --> 00:23:42,055 The Holy Scripture has nothing to say about such a person. 352 00:23:43,294 --> 00:23:45,728 Rabbi, I'm afraid of the crimes I may commit. 353 00:23:45,797 --> 00:23:49,528 Please, mister, I'm a sick old rabbi... 354 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,262 facing a long drive home to the Bronx. 355 00:23:54,338 --> 00:23:57,433 You want to confess, better you should find a priest. 356 00:23:58,376 --> 00:24:00,435 I'm not a Catholic, I'm a Jew. 357 00:24:00,511 --> 00:24:02,502 Worse luck for you, bubeleh. 358 00:24:02,580 --> 00:24:06,516 Catholics believe in forgiveness. Jews believe in guilt. 359 00:24:08,087 --> 00:24:09,314 Thanks. 360 00:24:10,089 --> 00:24:12,852 You just make sure those pegs are in good and tight. 361 00:24:12,924 --> 00:24:16,486 Don't worry, mister, the life she had, she'll stay put. 362 00:24:17,995 --> 00:24:19,326 She's better off. 363 00:24:33,845 --> 00:24:34,834 Look... 364 00:24:35,447 --> 00:24:38,882 I know this is scary for you, but try to understand what it means to me. 365 00:24:38,950 --> 00:24:40,440 - Will you try? - Yes. 366 00:24:40,518 --> 00:24:42,816 Good. Really try. 367 00:24:45,256 --> 00:24:47,520 Things are starting to change in the world. 368 00:24:47,592 --> 00:24:50,289 - I don't wanna— - Wait. For the good. 369 00:24:50,362 --> 00:24:51,555 Change for the good. 370 00:24:51,629 --> 00:24:53,995 America has rediscovered itself. 371 00:24:54,966 --> 00:24:57,264 Its sacred position among nations. 372 00:24:57,335 --> 00:25:00,031 People aren't ashamed of it like they used to be. 373 00:25:00,104 --> 00:25:03,631 This is a great thing. The truth restored, law restored. 374 00:25:03,975 --> 00:25:06,500 That's what President Reagan's done, Harper. 375 00:25:06,744 --> 00:25:09,907 He says truth exists and can be spoken proudly... 376 00:25:10,481 --> 00:25:12,506 and the country responds to him. 377 00:25:13,050 --> 00:25:16,247 We become better, more good. 378 00:25:17,923 --> 00:25:21,825 I need to be a part of that. I need something big to lift me up. 379 00:25:22,727 --> 00:25:25,821 Six years ago, the world seemed in decline... 380 00:25:25,897 --> 00:25:28,764 horrible, hopeless, full of unsolvable problems... 381 00:25:28,833 --> 00:25:30,665 and crime, confusion, hunger... 382 00:25:30,735 --> 00:25:33,636 But it still seems that way, more now than before. 383 00:25:33,704 --> 00:25:35,399 You see the ozone layer... 384 00:25:35,473 --> 00:25:37,634 Today out the window on Atlantic Avenue... 385 00:25:37,708 --> 00:25:40,677 there was this schizophrenic traffic cop who was making— 386 00:25:40,745 --> 00:25:42,804 Will you stop it? I'm trying to make a point. 387 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,041 - So am l. - You aren't even making sense. 388 00:25:45,117 --> 00:25:46,811 My point is the world seems just— 389 00:25:46,884 --> 00:25:49,581 It only seems that way to you because you never go out... 390 00:25:49,655 --> 00:25:51,782 and you have emotional problems. 391 00:25:55,493 --> 00:25:58,122 - I do so get out in the world. - No, you don't. 392 00:25:58,729 --> 00:26:01,357 You stay in all day fretting about imaginary— 393 00:26:01,432 --> 00:26:02,660 I get out. 394 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,127 I do. You don't know what I do. 395 00:26:05,203 --> 00:26:07,364 - You don't stay in all day? - No. 396 00:26:09,140 --> 00:26:11,301 - Yes, you do. - That's what you think. 397 00:26:11,542 --> 00:26:14,010 - Where do you go? - Where do you go when you walk? 398 00:26:14,078 --> 00:26:17,048 - And I do not have emotional problems. - I'm sorry. 399 00:26:17,115 --> 00:26:20,083 If I do have emotional problems, it's from living with you or— 400 00:26:20,151 --> 00:26:21,449 I'm sorry, I didn't mean— 401 00:26:21,519 --> 00:26:24,784 Then you should have never married me. You have all these... 402 00:26:24,855 --> 00:26:26,618 secrets and lies. 403 00:26:28,459 --> 00:26:32,452 - I want to be married to you, Harper. - You shouldn't. You never should... 404 00:26:51,549 --> 00:26:53,040 Hey, buddy. 405 00:27:00,091 --> 00:27:01,491 Buddy kiss. 406 00:27:06,931 --> 00:27:09,867 I heard on the radio how to give a blow job. 407 00:27:10,601 --> 00:27:12,364 - What? - Do you want to try? 408 00:27:12,436 --> 00:27:15,371 - You shouldn't listen to such— - Mormons can give blow jobs. 409 00:27:18,310 --> 00:27:21,176 It was a little Jewish lady with a German accent. 410 00:27:23,581 --> 00:27:26,345 Now is a good time for me to make a baby. 411 00:27:44,302 --> 00:27:48,261 Then they went on to a program about holes in the ozone layer... 412 00:27:49,140 --> 00:27:50,732 over Antarctica. 413 00:27:52,943 --> 00:27:54,411 Skin burns... 414 00:27:55,613 --> 00:27:57,444 birds go blind... 415 00:27:58,149 --> 00:27:59,946 icebergs melt. 416 00:28:02,854 --> 00:28:05,049 The world's coming to an end. 417 00:28:32,249 --> 00:28:34,718 - Morning. - Good morning, Counselor. 418 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,444 Sorry, I don't know your name. 419 00:28:37,521 --> 00:28:40,958 Don't bother. A word processor, the lowest of the low. 420 00:28:41,158 --> 00:28:44,025 - Joe Pitt, I'm with Justice Wilson. - I know that. 421 00:28:44,095 --> 00:28:46,222 Counselor Pitt, Chief Clerk. 422 00:28:47,299 --> 00:28:49,766 - Are you okay? - Yes, thanks. 423 00:28:50,735 --> 00:28:52,293 What a nice man. 424 00:28:52,770 --> 00:28:54,897 - Not so nice. - What? 425 00:28:56,173 --> 00:28:58,368 Not so nice. Nothing. 426 00:29:16,026 --> 00:29:17,084 What's wrong? 427 00:29:17,161 --> 00:29:19,629 - Life just sucks shit. - I'm sorry? 428 00:29:20,931 --> 00:29:22,228 Forget it. 429 00:29:23,868 --> 00:29:25,563 Thanks for asking. 430 00:29:27,004 --> 00:29:29,667 I mean, it really is nice of you. 431 00:29:31,409 --> 00:29:34,503 - Sorry. Sick friend. - I'm sorry. 432 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,142 That's sweet. 433 00:29:37,214 --> 00:29:40,343 Three of your colleagues have preceded you to this baleful sight... 434 00:29:40,418 --> 00:29:41,976 and you're the first one to ask. 435 00:29:42,052 --> 00:29:44,850 The others just opened the door, saw me, and fled. 436 00:29:44,922 --> 00:29:47,288 I hope they had to pee real bad. 437 00:29:47,358 --> 00:29:49,417 They just didn't want to intrude. 438 00:29:49,493 --> 00:29:53,021 Reaganite, heartless, macho, asshole lawyers. 439 00:29:53,097 --> 00:29:54,587 That's unfair. 440 00:29:55,266 --> 00:29:57,826 What is? Heartless, macho, Reaganite... 441 00:29:58,235 --> 00:29:59,362 Iawyer? 442 00:29:59,970 --> 00:30:02,461 - I voted for Reagan. - You did? 443 00:30:03,608 --> 00:30:05,802 - Twice. - Twice! 444 00:30:07,511 --> 00:30:09,672 - Well, oh, boy, a gay Republican. - Excuse me? 445 00:30:09,747 --> 00:30:10,839 Nothing. 446 00:30:11,215 --> 00:30:13,809 I'm not... No, forget it. 447 00:30:13,884 --> 00:30:16,011 Republican, not Republican? 448 00:30:16,620 --> 00:30:17,678 What? 449 00:30:17,755 --> 00:30:19,950 - What? - Not gay. I'm not gay. 450 00:30:21,926 --> 00:30:23,052 Sorry. 451 00:30:26,530 --> 00:30:28,157 It's just that... 452 00:30:29,033 --> 00:30:30,125 Yes? 453 00:30:30,801 --> 00:30:33,236 Sometimes you can tell from the way a person sounds. 454 00:30:33,304 --> 00:30:35,296 - You sound— - No, I don't. 455 00:30:35,673 --> 00:30:37,903 - Like what? - Like a Republican. 456 00:30:40,611 --> 00:30:42,909 Do I sound like a... 457 00:30:43,881 --> 00:30:46,247 What, like a Republican? 458 00:30:46,550 --> 00:30:48,313 Or do l? 459 00:30:48,752 --> 00:30:50,310 - Do you what? - Sound like a— 460 00:30:50,387 --> 00:30:51,979 Yeah, like a... 461 00:30:55,226 --> 00:30:57,751 - I'm confused. - Yes. 462 00:30:58,863 --> 00:31:01,559 My name is Louis, but all my friends call me Louise. 463 00:31:01,632 --> 00:31:04,897 I work in word processing. Thanks for the toilet paper. 464 00:34:26,002 --> 00:34:28,301 "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille." 465 00:34:29,773 --> 00:34:33,209 One wants to move through life with elegance and grace. 466 00:34:33,744 --> 00:34:37,441 Blossoming infrequently, but with exquisite taste... 467 00:34:37,981 --> 00:34:39,744 and perfect timing. 468 00:34:40,484 --> 00:34:42,475 Like a rare bloom... 469 00:34:43,454 --> 00:34:45,388 a zebra orchid. 470 00:34:46,824 --> 00:34:48,587 One wants... 471 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,593 but one so seldom gets what one wants. 472 00:34:53,663 --> 00:34:55,063 Does one? 473 00:34:56,266 --> 00:34:57,358 No. 474 00:34:57,834 --> 00:34:59,393 One does not. 475 00:35:01,505 --> 00:35:04,234 One gets fucked over. 476 00:35:05,943 --> 00:35:07,808 One dies at 30. 477 00:35:09,446 --> 00:35:12,074 Robbed of decades of majesty— 478 00:35:12,149 --> 00:35:13,707 Fuck this shit. 479 00:35:19,088 --> 00:35:20,920 I look like a corpse. 480 00:35:21,959 --> 00:35:23,358 A corpse-ette. 481 00:35:25,228 --> 00:35:26,628 My queen! 482 00:35:28,398 --> 00:35:32,494 You know you've hit rock bottom when even drag is a drag. 483 00:35:50,053 --> 00:35:51,486 Who are you? 484 00:35:52,222 --> 00:35:53,655 Who are you? 485 00:35:54,758 --> 00:35:56,749 What are you doing in my hallucination? 486 00:35:56,827 --> 00:35:59,796 I'm not in your hallucination. You're in my dream. 487 00:36:00,130 --> 00:36:01,722 You're wearing makeup. 488 00:36:01,899 --> 00:36:04,163 - So are you. - But you're a man. 489 00:36:07,070 --> 00:36:09,095 My hands and feet give it away. 490 00:36:11,874 --> 00:36:15,367 There must be some mistake here. I don't recognize you. 491 00:36:18,782 --> 00:36:20,271 Are you my... 492 00:36:21,285 --> 00:36:24,515 - some sort of imaginary friend? - No. 493 00:36:24,587 --> 00:36:26,782 Aren't you too old to have imaginary friends? 494 00:36:26,856 --> 00:36:30,054 I have emotional problems, I took too many pills. 495 00:36:30,260 --> 00:36:32,057 Why are you wearing makeup? 496 00:36:32,362 --> 00:36:36,321 I was in the process of applying the face, trying to make myself feel better. 497 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,892 I swiped the new fall colors at the Clinique counter at Macy's. 498 00:36:40,003 --> 00:36:41,868 You stole these? 499 00:36:41,939 --> 00:36:45,067 I was out of cash, it was an emotional emergency. 500 00:36:46,443 --> 00:36:49,674 Joe will be so angry. I promised him no more pills. 501 00:36:49,912 --> 00:36:51,971 These pills you keep alluding to... 502 00:36:52,048 --> 00:36:54,643 Valium, I take Valium. Lots of Valium. 503 00:36:54,718 --> 00:36:56,514 And you're dancing as fast as you can. 504 00:36:56,587 --> 00:37:00,750 I'm not addicted. I don't believe in addiction and l... 505 00:37:01,725 --> 00:37:05,786 - I never drink and I never take drugs. - Smell you, Nancy Drew. 506 00:37:06,129 --> 00:37:09,496 - Except for Valium. - Except Valium in wee fistfuls. 507 00:37:10,033 --> 00:37:13,160 It's terrible. Mormons are not supposed to be addicted to anything. 508 00:37:13,236 --> 00:37:15,797 - I'm a Mormon. - I'm a homosexual. 509 00:37:18,642 --> 00:37:21,304 In my church, we don't believe in homosexuals. 510 00:37:21,411 --> 00:37:23,878 In my church, we don't believe in Mormons. 511 00:37:24,013 --> 00:37:25,709 What church do... 512 00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:30,107 I get it. 513 00:37:32,388 --> 00:37:34,186 I don't understand this. 514 00:37:34,457 --> 00:37:36,983 If I didn't ever see you before... 515 00:37:37,961 --> 00:37:41,692 and I don't think I did, then I don't think you should be here... 516 00:37:42,366 --> 00:37:44,334 in this hallucination... 517 00:37:46,203 --> 00:37:50,139 because in my experience, the mind, which is where hallucinations come from... 518 00:37:50,207 --> 00:37:53,664 shouldn't be able to make up anything that wasn't there to start with... 519 00:37:53,744 --> 00:37:56,907 that didn't enter it from experience from the real world. 520 00:37:57,180 --> 00:38:00,149 Imagination can't create anything new, can it? 521 00:38:01,418 --> 00:38:05,946 It only recycles bits and pieces from the world... 522 00:38:07,190 --> 00:38:11,183 and reassembles them into visions. Am I making sense right now? 523 00:38:11,561 --> 00:38:13,620 Given the circumstances, yes. 524 00:38:13,964 --> 00:38:18,094 When we think we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness... 525 00:38:20,937 --> 00:38:22,996 and untruthfulness of our lives... 526 00:38:23,072 --> 00:38:26,406 it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged... 527 00:38:26,476 --> 00:38:31,311 into the appearance of novelty and truth. 528 00:38:32,582 --> 00:38:34,641 Nothing unknown is knowable. 529 00:38:39,056 --> 00:38:41,388 Don't you think it's depressing? 530 00:38:41,658 --> 00:38:44,889 - The limitations of the imagination? - Yes. 531 00:38:45,862 --> 00:38:48,386 It's something you learn after your second theme party. 532 00:38:48,464 --> 00:38:50,523 It's all been done before. 533 00:38:51,568 --> 00:38:53,934 The world, finite... 534 00:38:54,904 --> 00:38:56,167 terribly... 535 00:38:59,275 --> 00:39:02,712 This is the most depressing hallucination I ever had. 536 00:39:03,479 --> 00:39:05,971 Apologies. I do try to be amusing. 537 00:39:06,483 --> 00:39:08,610 Don't apologize, you... 538 00:39:10,020 --> 00:39:13,581 I can't expect someone who's really sick to entertain me. 539 00:39:23,367 --> 00:39:26,234 - How on earth did you know? - That happens. 540 00:39:26,303 --> 00:39:30,399 This is the very threshold of revelations sometimes. You can see things. 541 00:39:30,474 --> 00:39:32,135 How sick you are. 542 00:39:34,077 --> 00:39:35,942 Do you see anything about me? 543 00:39:37,313 --> 00:39:39,304 - Yes. - What? 544 00:39:41,417 --> 00:39:45,047 - You are amazingly unhappy. - Big deal. 545 00:39:45,122 --> 00:39:47,749 You meet a Valium addict, you figure out she's unhappy... 546 00:39:47,823 --> 00:39:50,554 that doesn't count. Of course... Something else? 547 00:39:50,627 --> 00:39:52,720 Something surprising? 548 00:39:52,796 --> 00:39:54,559 - Something surprising? - Yes. 549 00:39:54,631 --> 00:39:56,393 Your husband's a homo. 550 00:39:57,834 --> 00:39:59,233 Ridiculous. 551 00:40:03,540 --> 00:40:06,566 - Really? - Threshold of revelation. 552 00:40:09,278 --> 00:40:13,476 I don't like your revelations. I don't think you intuit well at all. 553 00:40:14,584 --> 00:40:16,575 Joe's a very normal man. 554 00:40:18,655 --> 00:40:20,088 Oh, God! 555 00:40:26,963 --> 00:40:30,797 Do homos take, like, lots of long walks? 556 00:40:32,736 --> 00:40:36,832 Yes, we do. In stretch pants with lavender coifs. 557 00:40:38,441 --> 00:40:42,969 - I just looked at you and there was— - A sort of blue streak of recognition. 558 00:40:43,045 --> 00:40:45,275 - Yes. - Like you knew me incredibly well. 559 00:40:45,348 --> 00:40:46,713 - Yes. - Yes. 560 00:40:47,417 --> 00:40:50,215 I have to go now, get back, something just... 561 00:40:50,921 --> 00:40:52,320 fell apart. 562 00:40:53,622 --> 00:40:54,885 Oh, God! 563 00:40:55,724 --> 00:40:58,023 I feel so sad. 564 00:41:02,198 --> 00:41:03,530 I'm sorry. 565 00:41:04,601 --> 00:41:06,831 I usually say fuck the truth. 566 00:41:08,003 --> 00:41:10,301 But mostly the truth fucks you. 567 00:41:13,076 --> 00:41:15,203 I see something else about you. 568 00:41:18,248 --> 00:41:21,216 Deep inside you, there's a part of you... 569 00:41:21,283 --> 00:41:23,148 the most inner part... 570 00:41:25,354 --> 00:41:27,983 entirely free of disease. 571 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,118 I can see that. 572 00:41:33,963 --> 00:41:35,363 Is that... 573 00:41:37,134 --> 00:41:38,726 That isn't true. 574 00:41:38,969 --> 00:41:40,800 Threshold of revelation. 575 00:41:48,277 --> 00:41:51,611 People come and go so strangely here. 576 00:42:11,168 --> 00:42:14,102 I don't think there is any uninfected part of me. 577 00:42:14,170 --> 00:42:16,696 My heart is pumping polluted blood. 578 00:42:19,242 --> 00:42:20,538 I feel dirty. 579 00:43:01,418 --> 00:43:02,907 Look up. 580 00:43:05,555 --> 00:43:06,748 Hello? 581 00:43:07,089 --> 00:43:08,556 Look up! 582 00:43:08,857 --> 00:43:10,223 Who is that? 583 00:43:10,327 --> 00:43:13,261 Look up. Prepare the way. 584 00:43:14,464 --> 00:43:15,761 I don't see any— 585 00:43:15,832 --> 00:43:18,357 Prepare for the parting of the air... 586 00:43:18,435 --> 00:43:20,903 the breath, the ascent. 587 00:43:21,370 --> 00:43:23,236 Glory to— 588 00:43:38,021 --> 00:43:39,545 What the fuck. 589 00:43:41,691 --> 00:43:42,884 Hello! 590 00:43:46,062 --> 00:43:47,392 Is that it? 591 00:43:48,732 --> 00:43:49,892 Hello! 592 00:43:54,070 --> 00:43:55,400 Poor me. 593 00:43:56,706 --> 00:43:58,606 Poor, poor me. Why me? 594 00:43:59,109 --> 00:44:00,804 Why poor, poor me? 595 00:44:05,015 --> 00:44:07,575 I don't feel good right now. I really don't. 596 00:44:47,490 --> 00:44:48,717 Harper? 597 00:44:58,335 --> 00:44:59,859 Where were you? 598 00:45:01,905 --> 00:45:03,565 - Where were you? - Out. 599 00:45:03,706 --> 00:45:06,107 - Where? - Just out, thinking. 600 00:45:06,343 --> 00:45:07,331 It's late. 601 00:45:07,409 --> 00:45:10,208 - I had a lot to think about. - I burned dinner. 602 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:11,303 I'm sorry. 603 00:45:11,380 --> 00:45:13,712 Not my dinner. My dinner was fine. Your dinner. 604 00:45:13,782 --> 00:45:16,809 I put it back in the oven and turned everything up high... 605 00:45:16,886 --> 00:45:18,512 and I watched till it burned black. 606 00:45:18,588 --> 00:45:20,715 It's still hot, very hot, want it? 607 00:45:21,057 --> 00:45:22,387 You didn't have to do that. 608 00:45:22,458 --> 00:45:24,756 I know. It just seemed like the kind of thing... 609 00:45:24,827 --> 00:45:28,422 a mentally deranged, sex-starved, pill-popping housewife would do. 610 00:45:28,497 --> 00:45:30,863 So I did it. Who knows anymore what I have to do? 611 00:45:30,933 --> 00:45:33,494 - How many pills? - A bunch. Don't change the subject. 612 00:45:33,570 --> 00:45:37,027 - I won't talk to you. - No, don't do that. I'm fine. 613 00:45:37,106 --> 00:45:39,074 Pills are not the problem, not our problem. 614 00:45:39,141 --> 00:45:42,509 I wanna know where you've been, and I wanna know what's going on. 615 00:45:42,579 --> 00:45:44,570 - Going on with what? The job? - Not the job. 616 00:45:44,647 --> 00:45:45,908 I said I needed more time. 617 00:45:45,981 --> 00:45:48,917 I talked to Mr. Cohn on the phone, he said that I had to hurry. 618 00:45:48,985 --> 00:45:51,680 - But I can't get you to talk sensibly about— - Shut up! 619 00:45:51,754 --> 00:45:54,986 - Stick to the subject! - I don't know what that is! 620 00:45:55,392 --> 00:45:58,292 You have something you wanna ask me, ask me. 621 00:45:59,995 --> 00:46:01,554 Ask me. Go. 622 00:46:03,299 --> 00:46:05,392 I can't. I'm scared of you. 623 00:46:07,303 --> 00:46:09,464 I'm tired. I'm going to bed. 624 00:46:21,583 --> 00:46:23,676 Tell me without making me ask, please. 625 00:46:23,752 --> 00:46:25,777 This is crazy. I'm not... 626 00:46:32,327 --> 00:46:33,761 When you come through the door... 627 00:46:33,829 --> 00:46:37,425 your face is never exactly the way I remembered it. 628 00:46:39,569 --> 00:46:43,562 I get surprised by something mean and hard about the way you look... 629 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,938 even the weight of you in the bed at night... 630 00:46:47,009 --> 00:46:49,534 the way you breathe in your sleep... 631 00:46:50,313 --> 00:46:54,306 seems unfamiliar. You terrify me. 632 00:46:55,918 --> 00:46:57,681 I know who you are. 633 00:46:58,188 --> 00:47:00,986 Yes, I'm the enemy. That's easy. That doesn't change. 634 00:47:01,057 --> 00:47:04,457 You think you're the only who hates sex? I do. I hate it with you. 635 00:47:04,527 --> 00:47:08,189 I dream that you batter away at me till my joints come apart like wax... 636 00:47:08,263 --> 00:47:11,165 and I fall into pieces. It's like a punishment. 637 00:47:11,234 --> 00:47:14,168 It was wrong of me to marry you. I knew... 638 00:47:19,642 --> 00:47:22,167 It's a sin and it's killing us both. 639 00:47:22,245 --> 00:47:26,375 I can always tell you've taken pills because it makes you red-faced and sweaty. 640 00:47:26,449 --> 00:47:29,815 And frankly, that's very often why I don't want to... 641 00:47:30,119 --> 00:47:32,849 - Because... - Because you aren't pretty. 642 00:47:34,624 --> 00:47:36,113 Not like this. 643 00:47:37,659 --> 00:47:40,720 - I have something I wanna ask— - Then ask! What the hell are you— 644 00:47:40,797 --> 00:47:42,423 Are you a homo? 645 00:47:43,299 --> 00:47:44,526 Are you? 646 00:47:48,670 --> 00:47:50,137 You try to walk out right now... 647 00:47:50,205 --> 00:47:53,232 I'll put your dinner back in the oven and turn it up so high... 648 00:47:53,309 --> 00:47:57,005 the building will fill with smoke, and everyone in it will asphyxiate. 649 00:47:57,079 --> 00:48:00,140 So help me God, I will. Now answer the question. 650 00:48:04,554 --> 00:48:08,456 - What if l... - Then tell me, please, and we'll see. 651 00:48:13,629 --> 00:48:14,619 No. 652 00:48:15,631 --> 00:48:16,929 I'm not. 653 00:48:18,567 --> 00:48:21,162 I don't see what difference it makes. 654 00:48:44,627 --> 00:48:48,187 Jews don't have any clear textual guide to the afterlife. 655 00:48:48,965 --> 00:48:50,956 I mean even that it exists. 656 00:48:52,367 --> 00:48:54,096 I don't think much about it. 657 00:48:54,169 --> 00:48:58,105 I see it as a perpetual rainy Thursday afternoon in March... 658 00:48:58,574 --> 00:49:00,132 dead leaves... 659 00:49:00,943 --> 00:49:02,467 Very Greco-Roman. 660 00:49:02,544 --> 00:49:05,708 For us, it's not the verdict that counts, it's the act of judgment. 661 00:49:05,782 --> 00:49:09,513 That's why I can never be a lawyer. In court, all that matters is the verdict. 662 00:49:09,586 --> 00:49:11,986 You can never be a lawyer because you're oversexed. 663 00:49:12,055 --> 00:49:13,351 And too distracted. 664 00:49:13,422 --> 00:49:15,515 Not distracted, abstracted. 665 00:49:15,591 --> 00:49:17,718 - I'm trying to make a point. - Namely? 666 00:49:17,793 --> 00:49:19,727 The shaping of the law, not its execution. 667 00:49:19,795 --> 00:49:21,626 The point, dear, the point. 668 00:49:21,697 --> 00:49:25,134 That it should be the questions and shape of a life... 669 00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,762 its total complexity, gathered, arranged, and considered... 670 00:49:29,838 --> 00:49:31,567 which matters in the end. 671 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,666 Not some stamp of salvation or damnation... 672 00:49:35,744 --> 00:49:39,738 which disperses all the complexity in some unsatisfying little decision. 673 00:49:39,816 --> 00:49:42,648 - The balancing of the scales— - I like this. 674 00:49:42,718 --> 00:49:44,016 Very Zen. 675 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,917 It's reassuringly incomprehensible and useless. 676 00:49:46,989 --> 00:49:49,514 We, who are about to die, thank you. 677 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:53,751 You are not about to die. 678 00:49:55,897 --> 00:49:58,024 It's not going well, really. 679 00:49:59,801 --> 00:50:01,496 Two new lesions... 680 00:50:02,438 --> 00:50:06,305 my leg hurts, there's protein in my urine, the doctor says... 681 00:50:06,375 --> 00:50:09,776 but who know what the fuck that portends. 682 00:50:09,845 --> 00:50:12,678 Anyway it shouldn't be there. The protein. 683 00:50:14,650 --> 00:50:17,084 My butt is chapped from diarrhea. 684 00:50:17,854 --> 00:50:20,287 And yesterday I shat blood. 685 00:50:25,494 --> 00:50:27,257 I really hate this. 686 00:50:28,364 --> 00:50:30,923 - You don't tell me— - You get too upset. 687 00:50:30,999 --> 00:50:33,126 I wind up comforting you. 688 00:50:34,036 --> 00:50:36,471 - It's easier. - Oh, thanks. 689 00:50:36,639 --> 00:50:38,573 If it's bad, I'll tell you. 690 00:50:39,941 --> 00:50:42,273 Shitting blood sounds bad to me. 691 00:50:42,879 --> 00:50:45,608 - I'm telling you— - And I'm handling it. 692 00:50:45,781 --> 00:50:48,147 Tell me some more about justice. 693 00:50:50,018 --> 00:50:51,680 I am handling it. 694 00:50:52,621 --> 00:50:55,489 Well, Louis, you win trooper of the month. 695 00:50:57,493 --> 00:51:00,552 I take it back. You aren't trooper of the month. 696 00:51:02,432 --> 00:51:04,195 This isn't working. 697 00:51:05,801 --> 00:51:08,031 Tell me some more about justice. 698 00:51:09,971 --> 00:51:11,905 You are not about to die. 699 00:51:13,642 --> 00:51:16,338 - Justice... - ls an immensity, it's confusing. 700 00:51:17,279 --> 00:51:19,271 Vastness, justice is God. 701 00:51:23,586 --> 00:51:24,779 Prior. 702 00:51:28,724 --> 00:51:30,123 You love me? 703 00:51:30,959 --> 00:51:32,018 Yes. 704 00:51:33,763 --> 00:51:35,993 What if I walked out on this? 705 00:51:36,698 --> 00:51:38,723 Would you hate me forever? 706 00:51:47,309 --> 00:51:48,402 Yes. 707 00:52:10,032 --> 00:52:12,057 I think we ought to pray. 708 00:52:13,502 --> 00:52:15,163 Ask God for help. 709 00:52:15,670 --> 00:52:17,331 Ask him together. 710 00:52:17,706 --> 00:52:19,537 God won't talk to me. 711 00:52:19,641 --> 00:52:23,042 - I have to make up people to talk to me. - You have to keep asking. 712 00:52:23,111 --> 00:52:24,977 I forgot the question. 713 00:52:25,180 --> 00:52:28,776 - Oh, yeah. God, is my husband a homo? - Stop it! 714 00:52:29,518 --> 00:52:31,146 I'm warning you! 715 00:52:31,620 --> 00:52:35,716 Does it make any difference that I might be one thing deep within? 716 00:52:36,057 --> 00:52:38,389 No matter how wrong or ugly that thing is... 717 00:52:38,460 --> 00:52:41,897 so long as I have fought with everything I have to kill it? 718 00:52:42,497 --> 00:52:44,328 What do you want from me? 719 00:52:44,399 --> 00:52:47,596 What do you want from me, Harper, more than that? 720 00:52:47,670 --> 00:52:50,161 For God's sake, there's nothing left. 721 00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,105 I'm a shell. There's nothing left to kill. 722 00:52:55,210 --> 00:52:58,873 As long as my behavior is what I know it has to be, decent, correct... 723 00:52:58,947 --> 00:53:00,745 that alone in the eyes of God... 724 00:53:00,817 --> 00:53:05,151 No, not that. That's Utah talk, Mormon talk. I hate it, Joe. 725 00:53:05,220 --> 00:53:06,278 Tell me, say it. 726 00:53:06,354 --> 00:53:08,618 All I will say is that I'm a very good man... 727 00:53:08,690 --> 00:53:10,989 who has worked very hard to become good... 728 00:53:11,060 --> 00:53:13,027 and you wanna destroy that. 729 00:53:13,095 --> 00:53:16,222 You wanna destroy me but I am not gonna let you do that. 730 00:53:19,100 --> 00:53:20,965 I'm gonna have a baby. 731 00:53:22,370 --> 00:53:24,235 - Liar. - You liar. 732 00:53:26,842 --> 00:53:29,106 A baby born addicted to pills. 733 00:53:29,277 --> 00:53:32,338 A baby who does not dream, but who hallucinates... 734 00:53:32,415 --> 00:53:35,645 who stares up at us with big mirror eyes... 735 00:53:35,717 --> 00:53:38,117 and who does not know who we are. 736 00:53:40,823 --> 00:53:42,585 - Are you really? - No. 737 00:53:44,025 --> 00:53:45,084 Yes. 738 00:53:46,661 --> 00:53:47,889 No. Yes. 739 00:53:48,563 --> 00:53:50,030 Get away from me. 740 00:53:50,098 --> 00:53:52,123 Now we both have a secret. 741 00:53:58,506 --> 00:54:00,565 Nobody knows what causes it. 742 00:54:01,476 --> 00:54:03,808 And nobody knows how to cure it. 743 00:54:04,479 --> 00:54:07,471 The best theory is that we blame a retrovirus. 744 00:54:07,816 --> 00:54:10,251 The human immunodeficiency virus. 745 00:54:10,785 --> 00:54:13,720 Its presence is made known to us by the useless antibodies... 746 00:54:13,788 --> 00:54:17,417 which appear in reaction to its entrance into the bloodstream through a cut. 747 00:54:17,492 --> 00:54:18,983 Or an orifice. 748 00:54:19,294 --> 00:54:22,092 The antibodies are powerless to protect the body against it. 749 00:54:22,163 --> 00:54:24,188 Why? We don't know. 750 00:54:25,101 --> 00:54:27,399 The body's immune system ceases to function. 751 00:54:27,470 --> 00:54:30,199 Sometimes the body even attacks itself. 752 00:54:31,406 --> 00:54:35,604 At any rate, it's left open to a whole horror house of infections... 753 00:54:35,912 --> 00:54:38,709 from microbes it usually defends against. 754 00:54:39,514 --> 00:54:41,311 Like Kaposi's sarcomas... 755 00:54:41,383 --> 00:54:45,251 those lesions on your arms, or your throat problem. 756 00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:46,844 Or the glands. 757 00:54:47,822 --> 00:54:52,191 We think it may also be able to slip past the blood-brain barrier into the brain. 758 00:54:52,460 --> 00:54:55,588 Which is, of course, very bad news. 759 00:54:56,999 --> 00:55:01,765 It's fatal in we don't know what percent of people with suppressed immune responses. 760 00:55:06,174 --> 00:55:07,836 Very interesting... 761 00:55:09,110 --> 00:55:10,475 Mr. Wizard. 762 00:55:11,513 --> 00:55:13,778 Why the fuck are you telling me this? 763 00:55:18,220 --> 00:55:22,212 Well, I have just removed one of three lesions... 764 00:55:22,591 --> 00:55:27,027 which biopsy results will probably tell us is a Kaposi's sarcoma lesion. 765 00:55:27,629 --> 00:55:29,756 And you have a pronounced swelling of glands... 766 00:55:29,831 --> 00:55:32,231 in your neck, groin, and armpits. 767 00:55:32,801 --> 00:55:35,168 Lymphadenopathy is another sign. 768 00:55:35,304 --> 00:55:37,567 And you have oral candidiasis. 769 00:55:37,739 --> 00:55:40,230 And maybe a little more fungus under the fingernails... 770 00:55:40,308 --> 00:55:42,401 of two digits on your right hand. 771 00:55:43,345 --> 00:55:44,369 So? 772 00:55:44,679 --> 00:55:46,078 That's why I'm... 773 00:55:48,183 --> 00:55:50,276 - This disease... - Syndrome. 774 00:55:51,152 --> 00:55:52,414 Whatever. 775 00:55:53,188 --> 00:55:57,887 It afflicts mostly homosexuals and drug addicts. 776 00:55:58,260 --> 00:55:59,487 Mostly. 777 00:55:59,561 --> 00:56:01,495 Hemophiliacs are also at risk. 778 00:56:01,563 --> 00:56:03,497 Homosexuals and drug addicts. 779 00:56:03,565 --> 00:56:06,933 So why are you implying that l... 780 00:56:09,171 --> 00:56:11,332 What are you implying, Henry? 781 00:56:11,473 --> 00:56:14,772 - I don't think I was implying anything. - I'm not a drug addict. 782 00:56:14,843 --> 00:56:18,142 - Come on, Roy. - What? "Come on, Roy" what? 783 00:56:19,515 --> 00:56:21,745 You think I'm a junkie, Henry? 784 00:56:21,917 --> 00:56:23,645 Do you see tracks? 785 00:56:26,855 --> 00:56:28,413 This is absurd. 786 00:56:28,790 --> 00:56:30,156 So say it. 787 00:56:30,458 --> 00:56:31,755 Say what? 788 00:56:33,094 --> 00:56:35,289 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a..." 789 00:56:35,864 --> 00:56:38,264 - Roy. - "You are a..." Go on. 790 00:56:39,367 --> 00:56:43,167 Not, "Roy Cohn, you are a drug fiend." 791 00:56:43,338 --> 00:56:45,932 "Roy Marcus Cohn, you are a..." 792 00:56:47,043 --> 00:56:49,510 Go on, Henry, it starts with an "H." 793 00:56:49,778 --> 00:56:52,212 - I'm not gonna get into— - With an "H," Henry... 794 00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,373 and it isn't "hemophiliac." 795 00:56:55,050 --> 00:56:56,278 Come on! 796 00:56:57,853 --> 00:57:00,787 - Why are you doing this, Roy? - No, I mean it. Say it. 797 00:57:01,189 --> 00:57:04,590 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a homosexual." 798 00:57:07,028 --> 00:57:10,054 And I will proceed systematically... 799 00:57:10,131 --> 00:57:12,827 to destroy your reputation. 800 00:57:13,535 --> 00:57:15,002 And your practice. 801 00:57:15,437 --> 00:57:18,668 And your career in the state of New York, Henry. 802 00:57:19,607 --> 00:57:21,575 Which you know I can do. 803 00:57:25,114 --> 00:57:28,412 You have been seeing me since U958. 804 00:57:29,518 --> 00:57:33,146 Apart from the face lifts, I have treated you for everything from syphilis— 805 00:57:33,221 --> 00:57:34,552 From a whore in Dallas. 806 00:57:34,622 --> 00:57:38,490 from syphilis to venereal warts in your rectum... 807 00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,324 which you may have gotten from a whore in Dallas. 808 00:57:41,830 --> 00:57:43,798 But it wasn't a female whore. 809 00:57:45,500 --> 00:57:46,831 So say it. 810 00:57:49,437 --> 00:57:52,235 Roy Cohn, you are... 811 00:57:57,312 --> 00:58:00,941 You have had sex with men. Many, many times, Roy. 812 00:58:01,350 --> 00:58:04,910 And one of those men or any number of them has made you very sick. 813 00:58:06,054 --> 00:58:07,716 You have AlDS. 814 00:58:08,123 --> 00:58:09,215 AlDS? 815 00:58:10,792 --> 00:58:15,695 You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words... 816 00:58:17,265 --> 00:58:18,664 on labels... 817 00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:22,067 that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. 818 00:58:22,537 --> 00:58:25,097 AlDS, homosexual, gay, lesbian. 819 00:58:25,173 --> 00:58:28,165 You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with? 820 00:58:28,243 --> 00:58:30,143 - They don't tell you that. - No? 821 00:58:30,211 --> 00:58:31,371 No. 822 00:58:31,446 --> 00:58:34,540 Like all labels, they tell you one thing and one thing only. 823 00:58:35,283 --> 00:58:40,016 Where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain... 824 00:58:40,989 --> 00:58:42,786 in the pecking order? 825 00:58:43,424 --> 00:58:48,088 Not an ideology or a sexual taste, but something much simpler:. 826 00:58:48,563 --> 00:58:49,689 Clout. 827 00:58:50,565 --> 00:58:53,625 Not who I fuck or who fucks me... 828 00:58:53,701 --> 00:58:56,727 but who will pick up the phone when I call. 829 00:58:57,038 --> 00:58:58,404 Who owes me favors. 830 00:58:58,474 --> 00:59:02,204 This is what a label refers to. 831 00:59:03,044 --> 00:59:05,410 Now, to someone who does not understand this... 832 00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:09,348 homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men. 833 00:59:09,484 --> 00:59:11,509 But really, this is wrong. 834 00:59:12,053 --> 00:59:15,216 Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. 835 00:59:16,057 --> 00:59:17,922 Homosexuals are men... 836 00:59:18,193 --> 00:59:20,718 who, in U5 years of trying... 837 00:59:20,995 --> 00:59:25,796 cannot pass a pissant anti-discrimination bill through city council. 838 00:59:26,668 --> 00:59:31,298 Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. 839 00:59:31,873 --> 00:59:34,342 Who have zero clout. 840 00:59:36,545 --> 00:59:38,604 Does this sound like me, Henry? 841 00:59:38,681 --> 00:59:40,272 - No. - No! 842 00:59:40,415 --> 00:59:42,816 I have clout. Lots. 843 00:59:44,452 --> 00:59:49,152 I pick up this phone, I punch U5 numbers, you know who's on the other end? 844 00:59:49,557 --> 00:59:52,583 - In under five minutes, Henry. - The President. 845 00:59:52,660 --> 00:59:54,787 Better, Henry. His wife. 846 00:59:57,065 --> 00:59:58,259 I'm impressed. 847 00:59:58,333 --> 01:00:01,530 I don't want you to be impressed. I want you to understand. 848 01:00:02,103 --> 01:00:05,561 This is not sophistry and this is not hypocrisy. 849 01:00:06,141 --> 01:00:07,573 This is reality. 850 01:00:08,676 --> 01:00:10,473 I have sex with men... 851 01:00:10,545 --> 01:00:13,673 but unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true... 852 01:00:13,748 --> 01:00:16,308 I bring the guy I'm screwing to the White House. 853 01:00:16,384 --> 01:00:20,252 And President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand... 854 01:00:20,622 --> 01:00:21,850 because... 855 01:00:22,423 --> 01:00:26,484 what I am is defined entirely by who I am. 856 01:00:27,462 --> 01:00:29,828 Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. 857 01:00:31,032 --> 01:00:35,059 Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry... 858 01:00:36,170 --> 01:00:38,263 who fucks around with guys. 859 01:00:40,208 --> 01:00:41,539 Okay, Roy. 860 01:00:41,609 --> 01:00:43,702 And what is my diagnosis, Henry? 861 01:00:45,179 --> 01:00:48,774 - You have AlDS, Roy. - No. Henry, no. 862 01:00:50,051 --> 01:00:53,077 AlDS is what homosexuals have. 863 01:00:55,423 --> 01:00:58,688 I have liver cancer. 864 01:01:10,204 --> 01:01:12,399 Whatever the fuck you have... 865 01:01:12,974 --> 01:01:14,464 it's very serious. 866 01:01:14,876 --> 01:01:17,310 And I haven't got a damn thing for you. 867 01:01:17,912 --> 01:01:20,938 The NlH in Bethesda has a new drug called... 868 01:01:21,516 --> 01:01:22,710 AZT... 869 01:01:22,884 --> 01:01:26,320 with a two-year waiting list that not even I can get you onto. 870 01:01:27,255 --> 01:01:29,223 So pick up the phone, Roy... 871 01:01:30,058 --> 01:01:32,026 and dial the 15 numbers... 872 01:01:32,226 --> 01:01:36,595 and tell the First Lady that you need it on an experimental treatment for liver cancer... 873 01:01:36,664 --> 01:01:39,258 because you can call it any damn thing you want, Roy. 874 01:01:39,334 --> 01:01:41,461 But what it boils down to... 875 01:01:42,470 --> 01:01:44,267 is very bad news.