1 00:03:06,140 --> 00:03:08,005 Hello, and good morning. 2 00:03:08,976 --> 00:03:12,776 I am Rabbi lsidor Chemelwitz... 3 00:03:13,781 --> 00:03:17,217 of the Bronx Home for Aged Hebrews. 4 00:03:19,019 --> 00:03:22,477 We are here this morning to pay respect... 5 00:03:22,556 --> 00:03:26,219 for the passing of Sarah lronson... 6 00:03:26,694 --> 00:03:28,924 devoted wife of... 7 00:03:32,867 --> 00:03:35,199 Benjamin lronson. 8 00:03:37,071 --> 00:03:38,561 Also deceased. 9 00:03:39,673 --> 00:03:42,972 Loving and caring mother of their sons... 10 00:03:43,577 --> 00:03:47,479 Morris, Abraham, and Samuel... 11 00:03:48,382 --> 00:03:51,010 and their daughters Esther and Rachel. 12 00:03:52,486 --> 00:03:55,546 Beloved grandmother of Max... 13 00:03:55,990 --> 00:03:59,892 Mark, Louis, Angela... 14 00:04:00,895 --> 00:04:05,229 Doris, Luke, and Eric. 15 00:04:07,601 --> 00:04:10,593 Eric is a Jewish name? 16 00:04:17,411 --> 00:04:19,709 A large and loving family. 17 00:04:21,148 --> 00:04:25,278 We assemble that we may collectively mourn... 18 00:04:25,786 --> 00:04:28,380 this good and righteous woman. 19 00:04:29,390 --> 00:04:30,948 This woman... 20 00:04:31,959 --> 00:04:33,824 I did not know this woman. 21 00:04:34,929 --> 00:04:39,423 I cannot accurately describe her attributes... 22 00:04:40,333 --> 00:04:42,962 nor do justice to her... 23 00:04:44,138 --> 00:04:45,605 dimensions. 24 00:04:46,173 --> 00:04:49,665 She was not a person... 25 00:04:50,010 --> 00:04:52,843 but a whole kind of a person. 26 00:04:53,414 --> 00:04:55,644 The ones that crossed the ocean... 27 00:04:56,050 --> 00:04:58,314 that brought with us to America... 28 00:04:58,385 --> 00:05:01,752 the villages of Russia and Lithuania. 29 00:05:02,823 --> 00:05:04,757 And how we struggled... 30 00:05:05,426 --> 00:05:07,916 and how we fought... 31 00:05:08,262 --> 00:05:09,956 for the family... 32 00:05:10,731 --> 00:05:12,961 for the Jewish home. 33 00:05:14,468 --> 00:05:19,235 Descendents of this immigrant woman... 34 00:05:20,307 --> 00:05:22,798 you do not grow up in America... 35 00:05:25,613 --> 00:05:29,413 you, your children, and their children with the goyish names. 36 00:05:31,986 --> 00:05:35,183 You do not live in America. 37 00:05:36,757 --> 00:05:39,419 No such place exists. 38 00:05:40,928 --> 00:05:43,590 Your clay is the clay... 39 00:05:43,664 --> 00:05:45,927 of some Litvak shtetl. 40 00:05:46,734 --> 00:05:49,931 Your air is the air of the steppes... 41 00:05:51,138 --> 00:05:55,700 because she carried that old world on her back... 42 00:05:56,310 --> 00:05:59,143 across the ocean in a boat... 43 00:06:00,047 --> 00:06:02,015 and she put it down... 44 00:06:02,750 --> 00:06:04,877 on Grand Concourse Avenue. 45 00:06:08,322 --> 00:06:09,789 Or on Flatbush. 46 00:06:11,592 --> 00:06:14,720 You can never make that crossing that she made... 47 00:06:15,396 --> 00:06:20,060 for such great voyages in this world do not anymore exist. 48 00:06:20,134 --> 00:06:22,625 But every day of your lives... 49 00:06:22,703 --> 00:06:26,833 the miles, that voyage from that place to this one... 50 00:06:26,907 --> 00:06:28,534 you cross... 51 00:06:29,476 --> 00:06:30,943 every day. 52 00:06:35,215 --> 00:06:36,841 You understand me? 53 00:06:37,985 --> 00:06:39,111 In you... 54 00:06:40,621 --> 00:06:42,111 that journey... 55 00:06:42,923 --> 00:06:44,015 is. 56 00:06:46,060 --> 00:06:47,186 Hold. 57 00:06:48,162 --> 00:06:51,962 I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. 58 00:06:52,032 --> 00:06:54,899 Eight loving arms and all those suckers. Know what I mean? 59 00:06:54,969 --> 00:06:57,028 - No. - You want lunch? 60 00:06:57,104 --> 00:06:58,696 No, that's okay. 61 00:06:59,106 --> 00:07:00,869 Ailene, Roy Cohn. 62 00:07:01,875 --> 00:07:03,809 What kind of greeting is that? 63 00:07:04,177 --> 00:07:05,873 I thought we were friends. 64 00:07:05,946 --> 00:07:08,380 This will take a minute. Here, eat a little something. 65 00:07:08,448 --> 00:07:10,815 What is this? Tasty sandwich here? 66 00:07:14,254 --> 00:07:18,020 I already told you, it wasn't a vacation, it was business. 67 00:07:18,592 --> 00:07:21,527 I have clients in Haiti. 68 00:07:21,795 --> 00:07:24,992 Listen, Ailene, you think I'm the only lawyer in history... 69 00:07:25,065 --> 00:07:28,193 who ever missed a court date? Don't make such a big fuck... 70 00:07:28,268 --> 00:07:29,394 Hold. 71 00:07:29,870 --> 00:07:30,859 You hag. 72 00:07:30,938 --> 00:07:33,099 - if this is a bad time— - No, it's a good time. 73 00:07:33,173 --> 00:07:35,004 Baby doll. Fuck, wait. 74 00:07:36,310 --> 00:07:37,402 Hello? 75 00:07:37,478 --> 00:07:40,538 Sorry to keep you holding, Judge Hollins, I just... 76 00:07:40,614 --> 00:07:42,547 - Mrs. Hollins? - Yeah, it's Mrs. Hollins. 77 00:07:42,616 --> 00:07:45,414 Sorry, dear. What a deep voice you got. 78 00:07:45,486 --> 00:07:47,010 You enjoying your visit? 79 00:07:47,087 --> 00:07:49,885 She sounds like a truck driver, he sounds like Kate Smith. 80 00:07:49,957 --> 00:07:51,322 It's very confusing. 81 00:07:51,392 --> 00:07:54,759 Nixon appointed him. All the geeks are Nixon appointees. 82 00:07:55,929 --> 00:07:58,625 How many tickets, dear? Seven? 83 00:07:58,866 --> 00:08:01,027 For what, Cats, 42nd Street, what? 84 00:08:02,136 --> 00:08:05,593 You wouldn't like La Cage, trust me. Trust me, I know. 85 00:08:06,140 --> 00:08:07,902 For God's sake, hold. 86 00:08:08,609 --> 00:08:11,305 Baby doll, seven for Cats or something. 87 00:08:11,378 --> 00:08:14,506 Anything hard to get. I don't give a fuck what. Neither will they. 88 00:08:14,681 --> 00:08:17,275 - You've seen La Cage Aux Folles? - No. 89 00:08:18,217 --> 00:08:20,778 It's the best thing on Broadway, maybe ever. 90 00:08:21,688 --> 00:08:22,950 Yeah, who? 91 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:34,524 Couldn't find her there. 92 00:08:34,601 --> 00:08:35,898 Couldn't see her. 93 00:08:35,969 --> 00:08:38,335 - At least I didn't see her in there. - She was... 94 00:08:38,405 --> 00:08:40,464 It's all right. I'm gonna take the bus. 95 00:08:40,541 --> 00:08:43,032 What do you mean you're gonna take the bus? 96 00:08:43,177 --> 00:08:44,542 I'll see you there. 97 00:08:59,660 --> 00:09:02,094 How's life in Appeals? How's the judge? 98 00:09:02,162 --> 00:09:05,256 - He sends his best. - He's a good man. Loyal. 99 00:09:05,466 --> 00:09:08,958 Not the brightest man on the bench, although he has manners... 100 00:09:09,035 --> 00:09:12,836 - and a nice head of silver hair. - He gives me a lot of responsibility. 101 00:09:14,441 --> 00:09:17,171 Like writing his decisions and signing his name. 102 00:09:18,011 --> 00:09:21,037 - He's a nice man. You cover admirably. - Thanks, Roy. 103 00:09:21,848 --> 00:09:24,579 Who's this? Well, who the fuck are you? 104 00:09:25,252 --> 00:09:26,549 Hold. 105 00:09:27,287 --> 00:09:29,312 - So, baby doll, what? - It's gonna be Cats. 106 00:09:29,389 --> 00:09:30,480 Cats. 107 00:09:32,126 --> 00:09:36,062 Cats; it's about cats. Singing cats. You'll love it. 108 00:09:36,964 --> 00:09:38,931 8:.00. Theater's always at 8:00. 109 00:09:39,065 --> 00:09:40,397 Fucking tourists. 110 00:09:40,467 --> 00:09:42,731 Eat already, Joe. For Christ's sake, live a little. 111 00:09:42,803 --> 00:09:44,794 - Roy, could you... - Yeah, what? 112 00:09:45,338 --> 00:09:46,567 Mrs. Soffer. 113 00:09:47,540 --> 00:09:50,237 - Oh, God fucking damn it. - Roy, I really... 114 00:09:50,310 --> 00:09:53,302 Baby doll, ring up The Post. Get me Suzy. 115 00:09:54,114 --> 00:09:55,342 - Christ! - Roy. 116 00:09:55,648 --> 00:09:56,707 What? 117 00:09:56,783 --> 00:09:59,616 Could you please not take the Lord's name in vain? 118 00:09:59,819 --> 00:10:01,720 I'm sorry, but please. 119 00:10:02,556 --> 00:10:04,386 At least while I'm... 120 00:10:05,325 --> 00:10:06,552 Right... 121 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,554 Sorry, fuck. Only in America. 122 00:10:10,730 --> 00:10:13,859 Baby doll, tell them all to fuck off, tell them I died. 123 00:10:16,537 --> 00:10:17,595 So, Joe. 124 00:10:17,671 --> 00:10:19,935 - I'm sorry, Roy, it's just that— - No, no. 125 00:10:20,007 --> 00:10:22,567 Principles count. I respect principles. 126 00:10:22,643 --> 00:10:26,135 I'm not religious, but I like God, God likes me. 127 00:10:26,613 --> 00:10:28,774 - Baptist, Catholic, what? - Mormon. 128 00:10:28,849 --> 00:10:30,077 Mormon? 129 00:10:31,751 --> 00:10:33,742 Delectable. Absolutely. 130 00:10:34,154 --> 00:10:35,745 Only in America. 131 00:10:37,957 --> 00:10:40,084 So, Joe, what do you think? 132 00:10:40,928 --> 00:10:43,897 - It's a... - It's a crazy life. 133 00:10:43,964 --> 00:10:46,727 - Chaotic. - God bless chaos, though, right? 134 00:10:48,634 --> 00:10:49,897 Mormons? 135 00:10:50,404 --> 00:10:53,305 I knew Mormons in Nevada. 136 00:10:53,373 --> 00:10:56,433 - Utah, mostly. - No, these Mormons were in Vegas. 137 00:11:00,013 --> 00:11:04,575 How would you like to go to Washington and work for the Justice Department? 138 00:11:05,751 --> 00:11:08,687 - Sorry? - How would you like to go to Washington... 139 00:11:08,755 --> 00:11:10,119 work for the Justice Department. 140 00:11:10,190 --> 00:11:13,717 All I got to do is pick up the phone, talk to Ed, and you're in. 141 00:11:13,794 --> 00:11:15,659 In what, exactly? 142 00:11:16,128 --> 00:11:18,460 Associate, Assistant, something big. 143 00:11:19,032 --> 00:11:22,968 Internal Affairs, heart of the woods, something nice, with clout. 144 00:11:23,036 --> 00:11:24,935 - Ed— - Meese, Attorney General. 145 00:11:28,774 --> 00:11:31,642 - All I gotta do is pick up the phone. - But I have to think. 146 00:11:31,712 --> 00:11:34,909 - Okay, great time to be in Washington, Joe. - Roy. 147 00:11:35,248 --> 00:11:36,273 It's incredibly— 148 00:11:36,350 --> 00:11:39,046 It means something to me, too, you understand. 149 00:11:40,220 --> 00:11:44,452 I can't say how much I appreciate this, Roy. I'm sort of stunned. 150 00:11:44,591 --> 00:11:47,957 Thanks, but I have to give it some thought. I have to ask my wife. 151 00:11:48,027 --> 00:11:50,758 - Your wife, of course. - But I really appreciate it. 152 00:11:50,831 --> 00:11:52,491 Of course. Talk to your wife. 153 00:12:03,075 --> 00:12:07,273 To deep-throat a man, to give him intense pleasure... 154 00:12:07,914 --> 00:12:10,280 a woman can simply lick the penis... 155 00:12:10,350 --> 00:12:13,877 without actually putting the whole organ in her mouth... 156 00:12:14,187 --> 00:12:17,349 and still provide the man with a lot of pleasure. 157 00:12:18,525 --> 00:12:22,188 When women tell me that they have a problem with fellatio... 158 00:12:22,262 --> 00:12:26,824 I often tell them to think of the penis as an ice cream cone. 159 00:12:27,967 --> 00:12:31,335 Scientists say the hole in the ozone layer high above the Antarctic... 160 00:12:31,405 --> 00:12:33,703 is now a record at 7 million square miles. 161 00:12:33,774 --> 00:12:36,970 That's three times the size of the whole of the United States. 162 00:12:37,044 --> 00:12:41,002 The hole appears as a giant blue blob totally covering Antarctica... 163 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,811 stretching out to the southern tip of South America. 164 00:12:43,884 --> 00:12:47,114 Scientists say that with the hole so big this early in the year... 165 00:12:47,186 --> 00:12:49,849 it could be set to grow even bigger. 166 00:12:53,994 --> 00:12:56,155 I wish I could go traveling. 167 00:12:56,763 --> 00:12:59,561 Things aren't right with me. 168 00:13:06,605 --> 00:13:08,766 Cash, check, or credit card? 169 00:13:08,942 --> 00:13:12,105 - You startled me. - Cash, check... 170 00:13:12,212 --> 00:13:15,443 I remember you. You're from Salt Lake. 171 00:13:15,515 --> 00:13:18,211 You sold us the plane tickets when we flew here. 172 00:13:18,285 --> 00:13:21,550 - What are you doing in Brooklyn? - You said you wanted to travel. 173 00:13:21,621 --> 00:13:22,849 How thoughtful! 174 00:13:22,922 --> 00:13:24,288 Mr. Lies... 175 00:13:24,458 --> 00:13:28,861 of the lnternational Order of Travel Agents. 176 00:13:29,729 --> 00:13:32,824 We mobilize the globe. We set people adrift. 177 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:35,034 We are adepts of motion... 178 00:13:35,102 --> 00:13:37,570 acolytes of the flocks. 179 00:13:37,637 --> 00:13:40,902 Cash, check, or credit card, name your destination. 180 00:13:42,441 --> 00:13:45,673 Antarctica maybe? I want to see the hole in the ozone. 181 00:13:45,746 --> 00:13:49,079 - I heard on the radio— - We'll arrange a guided tour. 182 00:13:50,016 --> 00:13:52,779 - Now? - Soon, maybe soon. 183 00:13:54,554 --> 00:13:56,613 I'm not safe here, you see. 184 00:13:59,058 --> 00:14:00,958 Weird stuff happens. 185 00:14:03,229 --> 00:14:05,459 - Like? - Like you, for instance. 186 00:14:05,531 --> 00:14:08,365 Just appearing. Or last week. 187 00:14:09,902 --> 00:14:11,268 Never mind. 188 00:14:14,508 --> 00:14:17,568 People are like planets, you need a thick skin. 189 00:14:19,312 --> 00:14:23,715 Joe stays away, and now look, my dreams are talking back to me. 190 00:14:23,984 --> 00:14:27,146 The price of rootlessness, motion sickness. 191 00:14:27,621 --> 00:14:31,078 - Only cure, keep moving. - I'm undecided. 192 00:14:32,058 --> 00:14:35,356 I feel that something's going to give. It's 1985... 193 00:14:35,629 --> 00:14:37,995 fifteen years to the third millennium. 194 00:14:38,932 --> 00:14:41,229 Maybe Christ will come again... 195 00:14:41,534 --> 00:14:44,527 or maybe the troubles will come and the end will come. 196 00:14:44,604 --> 00:14:47,800 The sky will collapse and there'll be terrible rain... 197 00:14:47,873 --> 00:14:50,103 and showers of poison light... 198 00:14:52,111 --> 00:14:54,545 Or maybe my life is really fine... 199 00:14:55,282 --> 00:14:58,842 maybe Joe loves me and I'm only crazy thinking otherwise. 200 00:14:59,386 --> 00:15:00,682 Or maybe not. 201 00:15:00,753 --> 00:15:03,484 Maybe it's even worse than I know. 202 00:15:05,024 --> 00:15:07,653 Maybe I want to know, maybe I don't. 203 00:15:08,727 --> 00:15:12,357 The suspense, Mr. Lies, it's killing me. 204 00:15:12,432 --> 00:15:14,798 I suggest a vacation. 205 00:15:17,870 --> 00:15:20,965 That was the elevator. Oh, God, I should fix myself a... 206 00:15:21,041 --> 00:15:24,305 You have to go. You shouldn't be here. You aren't even real. 207 00:15:24,377 --> 00:15:26,538 - Call me when you decide. - Go. 208 00:15:37,824 --> 00:15:39,223 Hey, buddy. 209 00:15:39,759 --> 00:15:41,248 You're early. 210 00:15:41,328 --> 00:15:43,762 I was just walking... 211 00:15:45,397 --> 00:15:47,228 and I guess I came home. 212 00:15:47,299 --> 00:15:49,699 - Are you... - Yeah, I'm a little anxious. 213 00:15:50,604 --> 00:15:52,003 Buddy kiss. 214 00:15:53,572 --> 00:15:55,733 Nothing to get anxious about. 215 00:16:07,754 --> 00:16:10,221 How would you like to move to Washington? 216 00:16:12,391 --> 00:16:13,791 Washington? 217 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:16,228 She was pretty crazy. 218 00:16:16,296 --> 00:16:20,595 She was up there in that home for ten years, talking to herself. 219 00:16:20,666 --> 00:16:22,066 I never visited. 220 00:16:22,135 --> 00:16:24,296 She looked too much like my mother. 221 00:16:25,037 --> 00:16:27,505 Poor Louis, I'm sorry your grandma's dead. 222 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,369 Tiny little coffin. 223 00:16:30,043 --> 00:16:31,441 I'm sorry I didn't introduce you. 224 00:16:31,510 --> 00:16:33,842 I always get so closety at these family things. 225 00:16:33,913 --> 00:16:35,881 You're getting butch. 226 00:16:35,948 --> 00:16:39,679 Hey, Cousin Doris, you don't remember me, I'm Lou. 227 00:16:39,852 --> 00:16:42,514 Rachel's boy, Lou. 228 00:16:42,588 --> 00:16:45,581 Not Louis, cause if you say Louis, they'll hear the sibilant "s." 229 00:16:45,659 --> 00:16:48,718 - I don't have a sibilant "s." - I don't blame you hiding. 230 00:16:48,794 --> 00:16:51,195 Bloodlines. Jewish curses are the worst. 231 00:16:51,264 --> 00:16:52,821 I personally would dissolve... 232 00:16:52,898 --> 00:16:55,868 if anyone ever looks me in the eye and said, "Feh." 233 00:16:55,936 --> 00:16:58,836 Fortunately, Wasps don't say, "Feh"... 234 00:16:59,138 --> 00:17:01,663 and by the way, darling... 235 00:17:02,175 --> 00:17:03,972 Cousin Doris is a dyke. 236 00:17:05,077 --> 00:17:07,443 No! Really? 237 00:17:07,947 --> 00:17:09,312 You don't notice anything. 238 00:17:09,381 --> 00:17:11,849 If I hadn't spent the last four years fellating you... 239 00:17:11,917 --> 00:17:13,851 I'd swear you were straight. 240 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:29,400 You're in a pissy mood. Cat still missing? 241 00:17:29,469 --> 00:17:31,960 - Not a fur ball in sight. It's your fault. - It is? 242 00:17:32,038 --> 00:17:34,370 I warned you, Louis, names are important. 243 00:17:34,441 --> 00:17:37,842 Call an animal Little Sheba, you can't expect it to stick around. 244 00:17:37,911 --> 00:17:42,006 - Besides, that's a dog's name. - I wanted a dog in the first place, not a cat. 245 00:17:42,082 --> 00:17:44,482 - He sprayed my books. - He was a female cat. 246 00:17:44,551 --> 00:17:48,544 Cats are stupid high-strung predators. Babylonians sealed them up in bricks. 247 00:17:48,622 --> 00:17:50,613 - Dogs have brains. - Cats have intuition. 248 00:17:50,690 --> 00:17:53,557 A sharp dog is as smart as a really dull 2-year-old child. 249 00:17:53,627 --> 00:17:56,686 - Cats know when something's wrong. - Only if you stop feeding them. 250 00:17:56,762 --> 00:17:59,357 They know. That's why Sheba left. She knew. 251 00:17:59,432 --> 00:18:00,796 Knew what? 252 00:18:03,937 --> 00:18:06,734 I did my best Shirley Booth this morning. 253 00:18:07,339 --> 00:18:11,469 Floppy slippers, housecoat, curlers, can of Little Friskies. 254 00:18:11,878 --> 00:18:13,674 "Come back, Little Sheba... 255 00:18:13,980 --> 00:18:15,344 "come back." 256 00:18:16,483 --> 00:18:17,574 To no avail. 257 00:18:30,429 --> 00:18:31,488 See? 258 00:18:32,498 --> 00:18:34,125 That's just a burst blood vessel. 259 00:18:34,199 --> 00:18:36,895 Not according to the best medical authorities. 260 00:18:40,973 --> 00:18:43,407 What? Tell me. 261 00:18:44,743 --> 00:18:47,177 Chaos, baby. Lesion number one. 262 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,377 The wine-dark kiss of the angel of death. 263 00:18:50,450 --> 00:18:52,111 Oh, please. 264 00:18:52,752 --> 00:18:55,914 I'm a lesionnaire. Foreign lesion. 265 00:18:56,456 --> 00:18:58,218 The American lesion. 266 00:18:58,291 --> 00:19:00,190 - Lesionnaire's disease. - Stop. 267 00:19:00,427 --> 00:19:02,793 - My troubles are lesions. - Will you stop? 268 00:19:02,862 --> 00:19:05,262 Don't you think I'm handling this well? 269 00:19:05,864 --> 00:19:07,389 - I'm gonna die. - Bullshit. 270 00:19:07,467 --> 00:19:09,264 - Let go of my arm. Let go. - No. 271 00:19:10,269 --> 00:19:11,328 No. 272 00:19:17,076 --> 00:19:19,511 I can't find a way to spare you, baby. 273 00:19:21,547 --> 00:19:24,608 No wall like the wall of hard scientific fact. 274 00:19:25,017 --> 00:19:27,247 Chaos, wham. 275 00:19:27,619 --> 00:19:30,589 - Bang your head on that. - Fuck you. 276 00:19:32,992 --> 00:19:36,222 Now that's what I like to hear, a mature reaction. 277 00:19:37,130 --> 00:19:39,597 Let's go see if the cat's come home. 278 00:19:42,836 --> 00:19:43,995 Louis. 279 00:19:44,269 --> 00:19:45,930 When did you find this? 280 00:19:46,071 --> 00:19:47,903 - I couldn't tell you. - Why? 281 00:19:47,973 --> 00:19:50,066 - I was scared, Lou. - Of what? 282 00:19:51,878 --> 00:19:53,573 That you'll leave me. 283 00:19:56,782 --> 00:19:59,250 Bad timing, funeral and all, but... 284 00:20:00,686 --> 00:20:02,984 I figured since we're on the subject of death... 285 00:20:03,055 --> 00:20:05,990 Here's the bus. I have to go bury my grandma. 286 00:20:10,463 --> 00:20:11,588 Lou... 287 00:20:12,832 --> 00:20:15,891 - then you'll come home? - Then I'll come home. 288 00:20:30,983 --> 00:20:32,349 Washington. 289 00:20:32,684 --> 00:20:35,118 - It's an incredible honor— - I have to think. 290 00:20:35,187 --> 00:20:36,950 - Of course. - Say no. 291 00:20:37,422 --> 00:20:41,222 - You said you were gonna think about it. - I don't wanna move to Washington. 292 00:20:41,293 --> 00:20:42,693 Well, I do. 293 00:20:42,762 --> 00:20:47,028 It's a giant cemetery. Huge white graves. Mausoleums everywhere. 294 00:20:47,100 --> 00:20:49,431 We could live in Maryland or Georgetown. 295 00:20:49,501 --> 00:20:52,299 - We're happy here. - That's not really true, buddy. 296 00:20:52,371 --> 00:20:55,432 Happy enough, pretend happy, it's better than nothing. 297 00:20:55,508 --> 00:20:59,171 - It's time we make some changes, Harper. - No changes. Why? 298 00:20:59,245 --> 00:21:01,372 I've been chief clerk for four years. 299 00:21:01,447 --> 00:21:04,506 I make $29,000 a year. That's ridiculous. 300 00:21:04,750 --> 00:21:08,345 I graduated fourth in my class, I make less than anyone I know. 301 00:21:09,856 --> 00:21:11,949 I'm tired of being a clerk. 302 00:21:12,425 --> 00:21:14,620 I wanna go where something good is happening. 303 00:21:14,693 --> 00:21:17,423 Nothing good happens in Washington. 304 00:21:18,063 --> 00:21:20,396 We'll forget Church teachings... 305 00:21:21,033 --> 00:21:24,264 and buy furniture at Conran's... 306 00:21:24,336 --> 00:21:25,997 and become yuppies. 307 00:21:26,071 --> 00:21:28,905 - I have too much to do here. - Like what? 308 00:21:29,475 --> 00:21:32,341 - I do have things. - What things? 309 00:21:32,811 --> 00:21:34,779 I have to finish painting the bedroom. 310 00:21:34,847 --> 00:21:36,974 You've been painting in there for over a year. 311 00:21:37,049 --> 00:21:40,576 I know, it just isn't done, because I never get time to finish it. 312 00:21:40,652 --> 00:21:42,620 That doesn't make sense. 313 00:21:42,888 --> 00:21:44,822 You have all the time in the world. 314 00:21:44,890 --> 00:21:48,486 - You could finish it when I'm at work. - I'm afraid to go in there alone. 315 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,926 - Afraid of what? - I heard something in there. 316 00:21:50,996 --> 00:21:53,794 Metal scraping on the wall, a man with a knife, maybe. 317 00:21:53,866 --> 00:21:55,527 There's no one in the bedroom. 318 00:21:55,601 --> 00:21:57,796 - Not now. - Not this morning, either. 319 00:21:57,870 --> 00:22:00,567 How do you know? You were at work this morning. 320 00:22:00,874 --> 00:22:04,036 There's something creepy about this place. Remember Rosemary's Baby? 321 00:22:04,109 --> 00:22:06,703 - Rosemary's Baby? - Our apartment looks like that one. 322 00:22:06,778 --> 00:22:08,507 - Wasn't that apartment in Brooklyn? - No. 323 00:22:08,580 --> 00:22:10,411 Well, it looked like this. 324 00:22:10,482 --> 00:22:12,313 - It did. - Then let's move. 325 00:22:12,384 --> 00:22:15,411 Georgetown is worse. The Exorcist was in Georgetown. 326 00:22:15,488 --> 00:22:18,650 - The devil everywhere you turn, buddy? - Yeah, everywhere. 327 00:22:19,626 --> 00:22:21,217 How many pills today, buddy? 328 00:22:22,228 --> 00:22:23,353 None. 329 00:22:25,664 --> 00:22:26,858 One. 330 00:22:29,034 --> 00:22:30,730 Three, only three. 331 00:22:54,726 --> 00:22:56,751 Thank you, that was a lovely... 332 00:22:57,429 --> 00:22:59,420 My grandma, just buried. 333 00:23:04,703 --> 00:23:08,070 Why are there just two little wooden pegs holding the lid down? 334 00:23:08,140 --> 00:23:11,075 So that she can get out easier if she wants to. 335 00:23:11,143 --> 00:23:12,702 I hope she stays put. 336 00:23:12,979 --> 00:23:16,311 I pretended for years that she was already dead. 337 00:23:16,548 --> 00:23:20,644 When they called to say she had died, it was a surprise. I had abandoned her. 338 00:23:27,694 --> 00:23:29,423 I don't speak Yiddish. 339 00:23:29,495 --> 00:23:33,362 Sharper than the serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child. 340 00:23:34,866 --> 00:23:36,300 Shakespeare. 341 00:23:37,703 --> 00:23:39,034 King Lear. 342 00:23:39,938 --> 00:23:41,735 Rabbi, what does the Holy Writ say... 343 00:23:41,807 --> 00:23:44,105 about someone who abandons someone he loves... 344 00:23:44,176 --> 00:23:46,144 at a time of great need? 345 00:23:46,311 --> 00:23:48,780 Why would a person do such a thing? 346 00:23:53,852 --> 00:23:55,218 Because he has to. 347 00:23:55,288 --> 00:23:57,279 Maybe this person can't... 348 00:23:58,256 --> 00:24:02,249 incorporate sickness into his sense of how things are supposed to go. 349 00:24:02,327 --> 00:24:06,058 Maybe vomit and sores and disease really frighten him. 350 00:24:07,567 --> 00:24:09,694 Maybe he isn't so good with death. 351 00:24:14,706 --> 00:24:18,005 The Holy Scripture has nothing to say about such a person. 352 00:24:19,244 --> 00:24:21,678 Rabbi, I'm afraid of the crimes I may commit. 353 00:24:21,747 --> 00:24:25,478 Please, mister, I'm a sick old rabbi... 354 00:24:25,550 --> 00:24:28,212 facing a long drive home to the Bronx. 355 00:24:30,288 --> 00:24:33,383 You want to confess, better you should find a priest. 356 00:24:34,326 --> 00:24:36,385 I'm not a Catholic, I'm a Jew. 357 00:24:36,461 --> 00:24:38,452 Worse luck for you, bubeleh. 358 00:24:38,530 --> 00:24:42,466 Catholics believe in forgiveness. Jews believe in guilt. 359 00:24:44,037 --> 00:24:45,264 Thanks. 360 00:24:46,039 --> 00:24:48,802 You just make sure those pegs are in good and tight. 361 00:24:48,874 --> 00:24:52,436 Don't worry, mister, the life she had, she'll stay put. 362 00:24:53,945 --> 00:24:55,276 She's better off. 363 00:25:09,795 --> 00:25:10,784 Look... 364 00:25:11,397 --> 00:25:14,832 I know this is scary for you, but try to understand what it means to me. 365 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:16,390 - Will you try? - Yes. 366 00:25:16,468 --> 00:25:18,766 Good. Really try. 367 00:25:21,206 --> 00:25:23,470 Things are starting to change in the world. 368 00:25:23,542 --> 00:25:26,239 - I don't wanna— - Wait. For the good. 369 00:25:26,312 --> 00:25:27,505 Change for the good. 370 00:25:27,579 --> 00:25:29,945 America has rediscovered itself. 371 00:25:30,916 --> 00:25:33,214 Its sacred position among nations. 372 00:25:33,285 --> 00:25:35,981 People aren't ashamed of it like they used to be. 373 00:25:36,054 --> 00:25:39,581 This is a great thing. The truth restored, law restored. 374 00:25:39,925 --> 00:25:42,450 That's what President Reagan's done, Harper. 375 00:25:42,694 --> 00:25:45,857 He says truth exists and can be spoken proudly... 376 00:25:46,431 --> 00:25:48,456 and the country responds to him. 377 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,197 We become better, more good. 378 00:25:53,873 --> 00:25:57,775 I need to be a part of that. I need something big to lift me up. 379 00:25:58,677 --> 00:26:01,771 Six years ago, the world seemed in decline... 380 00:26:01,847 --> 00:26:04,714 horrible, hopeless, full of unsolvable problems... 381 00:26:04,783 --> 00:26:06,615 and crime, confusion, hunger... 382 00:26:06,685 --> 00:26:09,586 But it still seems that way, more now than before. 383 00:26:09,654 --> 00:26:11,349 You see the ozone layer... 384 00:26:11,423 --> 00:26:13,584 Today out the window on Atlantic Avenue... 385 00:26:13,658 --> 00:26:16,627 there was this schizophrenic traffic cop who was making— 386 00:26:16,695 --> 00:26:18,754 Will you stop it? I'm trying to make a point. 387 00:26:18,830 --> 00:26:20,991 - So am l. - You aren't even making sense. 388 00:26:21,067 --> 00:26:22,761 My point is the world seems just— 389 00:26:22,834 --> 00:26:25,531 It only seems that way to you because you never go out... 390 00:26:25,605 --> 00:26:27,732 and you have emotional problems. 391 00:26:31,443 --> 00:26:34,072 - I do so get out in the world. - No, you don't. 392 00:26:34,679 --> 00:26:37,307 You stay in all day fretting about imaginary— 393 00:26:37,382 --> 00:26:38,610 I get out. 394 00:26:38,950 --> 00:26:41,077 I do. You don't know what I do. 395 00:26:41,153 --> 00:26:43,314 - You don't stay in all day? - No. 396 00:26:45,090 --> 00:26:47,251 - Yes, you do. - That's what you think. 397 00:26:47,492 --> 00:26:49,960 - Where do you go? - Where do you go when you walk? 398 00:26:50,028 --> 00:26:52,998 - And I do not have emotional problems. - I'm sorry. 399 00:26:53,065 --> 00:26:56,033 If I do have emotional problems, it's from living with you or— 400 00:26:56,101 --> 00:26:57,399 I'm sorry, I didn't mean— 401 00:26:57,469 --> 00:27:00,734 Then you should have never married me. You have all these... 402 00:27:00,805 --> 00:27:02,568 secrets and lies. 403 00:27:04,409 --> 00:27:08,402 - I want to be married to you, Harper. - You shouldn't. You never should... 404 00:27:27,499 --> 00:27:28,990 Hey, buddy. 405 00:27:36,041 --> 00:27:37,441 Buddy kiss. 406 00:27:42,881 --> 00:27:45,817 I heard on the radio how to give a blow job. 407 00:27:46,551 --> 00:27:48,314 - What? - Do you want to try? 408 00:27:48,386 --> 00:27:51,321 - You shouldn't listen to such— - Mormons can give blow jobs. 409 00:27:54,260 --> 00:27:57,126 It was a little Jewish lady with a German accent. 410 00:27:59,531 --> 00:28:02,295 Now is a good time for me to make a baby. 411 00:28:20,252 --> 00:28:24,211 Then they went on to a program about holes in the ozone layer... 412 00:28:25,090 --> 00:28:26,682 over Antarctica. 413 00:28:28,893 --> 00:28:30,361 Skin burns... 414 00:28:31,563 --> 00:28:33,394 birds go blind... 415 00:28:34,099 --> 00:28:35,896 icebergs melt. 416 00:28:38,804 --> 00:28:40,999 The world's coming to an end. 417 00:29:08,199 --> 00:29:10,668 - Morning. - Good morning, Counselor. 418 00:29:11,870 --> 00:29:13,394 Sorry, I don't know your name. 419 00:29:13,471 --> 00:29:16,908 Don't bother. A word processor, the lowest of the low. 420 00:29:17,108 --> 00:29:19,975 - Joe Pitt, I'm with Justice Wilson. - I know that. 421 00:29:20,045 --> 00:29:22,172 Counselor Pitt, Chief Clerk. 422 00:29:23,249 --> 00:29:25,716 - Are you okay? - Yes, thanks. 423 00:29:26,685 --> 00:29:28,243 What a nice man. 424 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,847 - Not so nice. - What? 425 00:29:32,123 --> 00:29:34,318 Not so nice. Nothing. 426 00:29:51,976 --> 00:29:53,034 What's wrong? 427 00:29:53,111 --> 00:29:55,579 - Life just sucks shit. - I'm sorry? 428 00:29:56,881 --> 00:29:58,178 Forget it. 429 00:29:59,818 --> 00:30:01,513 Thanks for asking. 430 00:30:02,954 --> 00:30:05,617 I mean, it really is nice of you. 431 00:30:07,359 --> 00:30:10,453 - Sorry. Sick friend. - I'm sorry. 432 00:30:11,830 --> 00:30:13,092 That's sweet. 433 00:30:13,164 --> 00:30:16,293 Three of your colleagues have preceded you to this baleful sight... 434 00:30:16,368 --> 00:30:17,926 and you're the first one to ask. 435 00:30:18,002 --> 00:30:20,800 The others just opened the door, saw me, and fled. 436 00:30:20,872 --> 00:30:23,238 I hope they had to pee real bad. 437 00:30:23,308 --> 00:30:25,367 They just didn't want to intrude. 438 00:30:25,443 --> 00:30:28,971 Reaganite, heartless, macho, asshole lawyers. 439 00:30:29,047 --> 00:30:30,537 That's unfair. 440 00:30:31,216 --> 00:30:33,776 What is? Heartless, macho, Reaganite... 441 00:30:34,185 --> 00:30:35,312 Iawyer? 442 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,411 - I voted for Reagan. - You did? 443 00:30:39,558 --> 00:30:41,752 - Twice. - Twice! 444 00:30:43,461 --> 00:30:45,622 - Well, oh, boy, a gay Republican. - Excuse me? 445 00:30:45,697 --> 00:30:46,789 Nothing. 446 00:30:47,165 --> 00:30:49,759 I'm not... No, forget it. 447 00:30:49,834 --> 00:30:51,961 Republican, not Republican? 448 00:30:52,570 --> 00:30:53,628 What? 449 00:30:53,705 --> 00:30:55,900 - What? - Not gay. I'm not gay. 450 00:30:57,876 --> 00:30:59,002 Sorry. 451 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,107 It's just that... 452 00:31:04,983 --> 00:31:06,075 Yes? 453 00:31:06,751 --> 00:31:09,186 Sometimes you can tell from the way a person sounds. 454 00:31:09,254 --> 00:31:11,246 - You sound— - No, I don't. 455 00:31:11,623 --> 00:31:13,853 - Like what? - Like a Republican. 456 00:31:16,561 --> 00:31:18,859 Do I sound like a... 457 00:31:19,831 --> 00:31:22,197 What, like a Republican? 458 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:24,263 Or do l? 459 00:31:24,702 --> 00:31:26,260 - Do you what? - Sound like a— 460 00:31:26,337 --> 00:31:27,929 Yeah, like a... 461 00:31:31,176 --> 00:31:33,701 - I'm confused. - Yes. 462 00:31:34,813 --> 00:31:37,509 My name is Louis, but all my friends call me Louise. 463 00:31:37,582 --> 00:31:40,847 I work in word processing. Thanks for the toilet paper. 464 00:35:01,952 --> 00:35:04,251 "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille." 465 00:35:05,723 --> 00:35:09,159 One wants to move through life with elegance and grace. 466 00:35:09,694 --> 00:35:13,391 Blossoming infrequently, but with exquisite taste... 467 00:35:13,931 --> 00:35:15,694 and perfect timing. 468 00:35:16,434 --> 00:35:18,425 Like a rare bloom... 469 00:35:19,404 --> 00:35:21,338 a zebra orchid. 470 00:35:22,774 --> 00:35:24,537 One wants... 471 00:35:25,710 --> 00:35:29,543 but one so seldom gets what one wants. 472 00:35:29,613 --> 00:35:31,013 Does one? 473 00:35:32,216 --> 00:35:33,308 No. 474 00:35:33,784 --> 00:35:35,343 One does not. 475 00:35:37,455 --> 00:35:40,184 One gets fucked over. 476 00:35:41,893 --> 00:35:43,758 One dies at 30. 477 00:35:45,396 --> 00:35:48,024 Robbed of decades of majesty— 478 00:35:48,099 --> 00:35:49,657 Fuck this shit. 479 00:35:55,038 --> 00:35:56,870 I look like a corpse. 480 00:35:57,909 --> 00:35:59,308 A corpse-ette. 481 00:36:01,178 --> 00:36:02,578 My queen! 482 00:36:04,348 --> 00:36:08,444 You know you've hit rock bottom when even drag is a drag. 483 00:36:26,003 --> 00:36:27,436 Who are you? 484 00:36:28,172 --> 00:36:29,605 Who are you? 485 00:36:30,708 --> 00:36:32,699 What are you doing in my hallucination? 486 00:36:32,777 --> 00:36:35,746 I'm not in your hallucination. You're in my dream. 487 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:37,672 You're wearing makeup. 488 00:36:37,849 --> 00:36:40,113 - So are you. - But you're a man. 489 00:36:43,020 --> 00:36:45,045 My hands and feet give it away. 490 00:36:47,824 --> 00:36:51,317 There must be some mistake here. I don't recognize you. 491 00:36:54,732 --> 00:36:56,221 Are you my... 492 00:36:57,235 --> 00:37:00,465 - some sort of imaginary friend? - No. 493 00:37:00,537 --> 00:37:02,732 Aren't you too old to have imaginary friends? 494 00:37:02,806 --> 00:37:06,004 I have emotional problems, I took too many pills. 495 00:37:06,210 --> 00:37:08,007 Why are you wearing makeup? 496 00:37:08,312 --> 00:37:12,271 I was in the process of applying the face, trying to make myself feel better. 497 00:37:12,350 --> 00:37:15,842 I swiped the new fall colors at the Clinique counter at Macy's. 498 00:37:15,953 --> 00:37:17,818 You stole these? 499 00:37:17,889 --> 00:37:21,017 I was out of cash, it was an emotional emergency. 500 00:37:22,393 --> 00:37:25,624 Joe will be so angry. I promised him no more pills. 501 00:37:25,862 --> 00:37:27,921 These pills you keep alluding to... 502 00:37:27,998 --> 00:37:30,593 Valium, I take Valium. Lots of Valium. 503 00:37:30,668 --> 00:37:32,464 And you're dancing as fast as you can. 504 00:37:32,537 --> 00:37:36,700 I'm not addicted. I don't believe in addiction and l... 505 00:37:37,675 --> 00:37:41,736 - I never drink and I never take drugs. - Smell you, Nancy Drew. 506 00:37:42,079 --> 00:37:45,446 - Except for Valium. - Except Valium in wee fistfuls. 507 00:37:45,983 --> 00:37:49,110 It's terrible. Mormons are not supposed to be addicted to anything. 508 00:37:49,186 --> 00:37:51,747 - I'm a Mormon. - I'm a homosexual. 509 00:37:54,592 --> 00:37:57,254 In my church, we don't believe in homosexuals. 510 00:37:57,361 --> 00:37:59,828 In my church, we don't believe in Mormons. 511 00:37:59,963 --> 00:38:01,659 What church do... 512 00:38:05,069 --> 00:38:06,057 I get it. 513 00:38:08,338 --> 00:38:10,136 I don't understand this. 514 00:38:10,407 --> 00:38:12,933 If I didn't ever see you before... 515 00:38:13,911 --> 00:38:17,642 and I don't think I did, then I don't think you should be here... 516 00:38:18,316 --> 00:38:20,284 in this hallucination... 517 00:38:22,153 --> 00:38:26,089 because in my experience, the mind, which is where hallucinations come from... 518 00:38:26,157 --> 00:38:29,614 shouldn't be able to make up anything that wasn't there to start with... 519 00:38:29,694 --> 00:38:32,857 that didn't enter it from experience from the real world. 520 00:38:33,130 --> 00:38:36,099 Imagination can't create anything new, can it? 521 00:38:37,368 --> 00:38:41,896 It only recycles bits and pieces from the world... 522 00:38:43,140 --> 00:38:47,133 and reassembles them into visions. Am I making sense right now? 523 00:38:47,511 --> 00:38:49,570 Given the circumstances, yes. 524 00:38:49,914 --> 00:38:54,044 When we think we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness... 525 00:38:56,887 --> 00:38:58,946 and untruthfulness of our lives... 526 00:38:59,022 --> 00:39:02,356 it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged... 527 00:39:02,426 --> 00:39:07,261 into the appearance of novelty and truth. 528 00:39:08,532 --> 00:39:10,591 Nothing unknown is knowable. 529 00:39:15,006 --> 00:39:17,338 Don't you think it's depressing? 530 00:39:17,608 --> 00:39:20,839 - The limitations of the imagination? - Yes. 531 00:39:21,812 --> 00:39:24,336 It's something you learn after your second theme party. 532 00:39:24,414 --> 00:39:26,473 It's all been done before. 533 00:39:27,518 --> 00:39:29,884 The world, finite... 534 00:39:30,854 --> 00:39:32,117 terribly... 535 00:39:35,225 --> 00:39:38,662 This is the most depressing hallucination I ever had. 536 00:39:39,429 --> 00:39:41,921 Apologies. I do try to be amusing. 537 00:39:42,433 --> 00:39:44,560 Don't apologize, you... 538 00:39:45,970 --> 00:39:49,531 I can't expect someone who's really sick to entertain me. 539 00:39:59,317 --> 00:40:02,184 - How on earth did you know? - That happens. 540 00:40:02,253 --> 00:40:06,349 This is the very threshold of revelations sometimes. You can see things. 541 00:40:06,424 --> 00:40:08,085 How sick you are. 542 00:40:10,027 --> 00:40:11,892 Do you see anything about me? 543 00:40:13,263 --> 00:40:15,254 - Yes. - What? 544 00:40:17,367 --> 00:40:20,997 - You are amazingly unhappy. - Big deal. 545 00:40:21,072 --> 00:40:23,699 You meet a Valium addict, you figure out she's unhappy... 546 00:40:23,773 --> 00:40:26,504 that doesn't count. Of course... Something else? 547 00:40:26,577 --> 00:40:28,670 Something surprising? 548 00:40:28,746 --> 00:40:30,509 - Something surprising? - Yes. 549 00:40:30,581 --> 00:40:32,343 Your husband's a homo. 550 00:40:33,784 --> 00:40:35,183 Ridiculous. 551 00:40:39,490 --> 00:40:42,516 - Really? - Threshold of revelation. 552 00:40:45,228 --> 00:40:49,426 I don't like your revelations. I don't think you intuit well at all. 553 00:40:50,534 --> 00:40:52,525 Joe's a very normal man. 554 00:40:54,605 --> 00:40:56,038 Oh, God! 555 00:41:02,913 --> 00:41:06,747 Do homos take, like, lots of long walks? 556 00:41:08,686 --> 00:41:12,782 Yes, we do. In stretch pants with lavender coifs. 557 00:41:14,391 --> 00:41:18,919 - I just looked at you and there was— - A sort of blue streak of recognition. 558 00:41:18,995 --> 00:41:21,225 - Yes. - Like you knew me incredibly well. 559 00:41:21,298 --> 00:41:22,663 - Yes. - Yes. 560 00:41:23,367 --> 00:41:26,165 I have to go now, get back, something just... 561 00:41:26,871 --> 00:41:28,270 fell apart. 562 00:41:29,572 --> 00:41:30,835 Oh, God! 563 00:41:31,674 --> 00:41:33,973 I feel so sad. 564 00:41:38,148 --> 00:41:39,480 I'm sorry. 565 00:41:40,551 --> 00:41:42,781 I usually say fuck the truth. 566 00:41:43,953 --> 00:41:46,251 But mostly the truth fucks you. 567 00:41:49,026 --> 00:41:51,153 I see something else about you. 568 00:41:54,198 --> 00:41:57,166 Deep inside you, there's a part of you... 569 00:41:57,233 --> 00:41:59,098 the most inner part... 570 00:42:01,304 --> 00:42:03,933 entirely free of disease. 571 00:42:06,510 --> 00:42:08,068 I can see that. 572 00:42:09,913 --> 00:42:11,313 Is that... 573 00:42:13,084 --> 00:42:14,676 That isn't true. 574 00:42:14,919 --> 00:42:16,750 Threshold of revelation. 575 00:42:24,227 --> 00:42:27,561 People come and go so strangely here. 576 00:42:47,118 --> 00:42:50,052 I don't think there is any uninfected part of me. 577 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,646 My heart is pumping polluted blood. 578 00:42:55,192 --> 00:42:56,488 I feel dirty. 579 00:43:37,368 --> 00:43:38,857 Look up. 580 00:43:41,505 --> 00:43:42,698 Hello? 581 00:43:43,039 --> 00:43:44,506 Look up! 582 00:43:44,807 --> 00:43:46,173 Who is that? 583 00:43:46,277 --> 00:43:49,211 Look up. Prepare the way. 584 00:43:50,414 --> 00:43:51,711 I don't see any— 585 00:43:51,782 --> 00:43:54,307 Prepare for the parting of the air... 586 00:43:54,385 --> 00:43:56,853 the breath, the ascent. 587 00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,186 Glory to— 588 00:44:13,971 --> 00:44:15,495 What the fuck. 589 00:44:17,641 --> 00:44:18,834 Hello! 590 00:44:22,012 --> 00:44:23,342 Is that it? 591 00:44:24,682 --> 00:44:25,842 Hello! 592 00:44:30,020 --> 00:44:31,350 Poor me. 593 00:44:32,656 --> 00:44:34,556 Poor, poor me. Why me? 594 00:44:35,059 --> 00:44:36,754 Why poor, poor me? 595 00:44:40,965 --> 00:44:43,525 I don't feel good right now. I really don't. 596 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:24,667 Harper? 597 00:45:34,285 --> 00:45:35,809 Where were you? 598 00:45:37,855 --> 00:45:39,515 - Where were you? - Out. 599 00:45:39,656 --> 00:45:42,057 - Where? - Just out, thinking. 600 00:45:42,293 --> 00:45:43,281 It's late. 601 00:45:43,359 --> 00:45:46,158 - I had a lot to think about. - I burned dinner. 602 00:45:46,230 --> 00:45:47,253 I'm sorry. 603 00:45:47,330 --> 00:45:49,662 Not my dinner. My dinner was fine. Your dinner. 604 00:45:49,732 --> 00:45:52,759 I put it back in the oven and turned everything up high... 605 00:45:52,836 --> 00:45:54,462 and I watched till it burned black. 606 00:45:54,538 --> 00:45:56,665 It's still hot, very hot, want it? 607 00:45:57,007 --> 00:45:58,337 You didn't have to do that. 608 00:45:58,408 --> 00:46:00,706 I know. It just seemed like the kind of thing... 609 00:46:00,777 --> 00:46:04,372 a mentally deranged, sex-starved, pill-popping housewife would do. 610 00:46:04,447 --> 00:46:06,813 So I did it. Who knows anymore what I have to do? 611 00:46:06,883 --> 00:46:09,444 - How many pills? - A bunch. Don't change the subject. 612 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,977 - I won't talk to you. - No, don't do that. I'm fine. 613 00:46:13,056 --> 00:46:15,024 Pills are not the problem, not our problem. 614 00:46:15,091 --> 00:46:18,459 I wanna know where you've been, and I wanna know what's going on. 615 00:46:18,529 --> 00:46:20,520 - Going on with what? The job? - Not the job. 616 00:46:20,597 --> 00:46:21,858 I said I needed more time. 617 00:46:21,931 --> 00:46:24,867 I talked to Mr. Cohn on the phone, he said that I had to hurry. 618 00:46:24,935 --> 00:46:27,630 - But I can't get you to talk sensibly about— - Shut up! 619 00:46:27,704 --> 00:46:30,936 - Stick to the subject! - I don't know what that is! 620 00:46:31,342 --> 00:46:34,242 You have something you wanna ask me, ask me. 621 00:46:35,945 --> 00:46:37,504 Ask me. Go. 622 00:46:39,249 --> 00:46:41,342 I can't. I'm scared of you. 623 00:46:43,253 --> 00:46:45,414 I'm tired. I'm going to bed. 624 00:46:57,533 --> 00:46:59,626 Tell me without making me ask, please. 625 00:46:59,702 --> 00:47:01,727 This is crazy. I'm not... 626 00:47:08,277 --> 00:47:09,711 When you come through the door... 627 00:47:09,779 --> 00:47:13,375 your face is never exactly the way I remembered it. 628 00:47:15,519 --> 00:47:19,512 I get surprised by something mean and hard about the way you look... 629 00:47:19,590 --> 00:47:22,888 even the weight of you in the bed at night... 630 00:47:22,959 --> 00:47:25,484 the way you breathe in your sleep... 631 00:47:26,263 --> 00:47:30,256 seems unfamiliar. You terrify me. 632 00:47:31,868 --> 00:47:33,631 I know who you are. 633 00:47:34,138 --> 00:47:36,936 Yes, I'm the enemy. That's easy. That doesn't change. 634 00:47:37,007 --> 00:47:40,407 You think you're the only who hates sex? I do. I hate it with you. 635 00:47:40,477 --> 00:47:44,139 I dream that you batter away at me till my joints come apart like wax... 636 00:47:44,213 --> 00:47:47,115 and I fall into pieces. It's like a punishment. 637 00:47:47,184 --> 00:47:50,118 It was wrong of me to marry you. I knew... 638 00:47:55,592 --> 00:47:58,117 It's a sin and it's killing us both. 639 00:47:58,195 --> 00:48:02,325 I can always tell you've taken pills because it makes you red-faced and sweaty. 640 00:48:02,399 --> 00:48:05,765 And frankly, that's very often why I don't want to... 641 00:48:06,069 --> 00:48:08,799 - Because... - Because you aren't pretty. 642 00:48:10,574 --> 00:48:12,063 Not like this. 643 00:48:13,609 --> 00:48:16,670 - I have something I wanna ask— - Then ask! What the hell are you— 644 00:48:16,747 --> 00:48:18,373 Are you a homo? 645 00:48:19,249 --> 00:48:20,476 Are you? 646 00:48:24,620 --> 00:48:26,087 You try to walk out right now... 647 00:48:26,155 --> 00:48:29,182 I'll put your dinner back in the oven and turn it up so high... 648 00:48:29,259 --> 00:48:32,955 the building will fill with smoke, and everyone in it will asphyxiate. 649 00:48:33,029 --> 00:48:36,090 So help me God, I will. Now answer the question. 650 00:48:40,504 --> 00:48:44,406 - What if l... - Then tell me, please, and we'll see. 651 00:48:49,579 --> 00:48:50,569 No. 652 00:48:51,581 --> 00:48:52,879 I'm not. 653 00:48:54,517 --> 00:48:57,112 I don't see what difference it makes. 654 00:49:20,577 --> 00:49:24,137 Jews don't have any clear textual guide to the afterlife. 655 00:49:24,915 --> 00:49:26,906 I mean even that it exists. 656 00:49:28,317 --> 00:49:30,046 I don't think much about it. 657 00:49:30,119 --> 00:49:34,055 I see it as a perpetual rainy Thursday afternoon in March... 658 00:49:34,524 --> 00:49:36,082 dead leaves... 659 00:49:36,893 --> 00:49:38,417 Very Greco-Roman. 660 00:49:38,494 --> 00:49:41,658 For us, it's not the verdict that counts, it's the act of judgment. 661 00:49:41,732 --> 00:49:45,463 That's why I can never be a lawyer. In court, all that matters is the verdict. 662 00:49:45,536 --> 00:49:47,936 You can never be a lawyer because you're oversexed. 663 00:49:48,005 --> 00:49:49,301 And too distracted. 664 00:49:49,372 --> 00:49:51,465 Not distracted, abstracted. 665 00:49:51,541 --> 00:49:53,668 - I'm trying to make a point. - Namely? 666 00:49:53,743 --> 00:49:55,677 The shaping of the law, not its execution. 667 00:49:55,745 --> 00:49:57,576 The point, dear, the point. 668 00:49:57,647 --> 00:50:01,084 That it should be the questions and shape of a life... 669 00:50:01,150 --> 00:50:05,712 its total complexity, gathered, arranged, and considered... 670 00:50:05,788 --> 00:50:07,517 which matters in the end. 671 00:50:07,590 --> 00:50:10,616 Not some stamp of salvation or damnation... 672 00:50:11,694 --> 00:50:15,688 which disperses all the complexity in some unsatisfying little decision. 673 00:50:15,766 --> 00:50:18,598 - The balancing of the scales— - I like this. 674 00:50:18,668 --> 00:50:19,966 Very Zen. 675 00:50:20,070 --> 00:50:22,867 It's reassuringly incomprehensible and useless. 676 00:50:22,939 --> 00:50:25,464 We, who are about to die, thank you. 677 00:50:27,710 --> 00:50:29,701 You are not about to die. 678 00:50:31,847 --> 00:50:33,974 It's not going well, really. 679 00:50:35,751 --> 00:50:37,446 Two new lesions... 680 00:50:38,388 --> 00:50:42,255 my leg hurts, there's protein in my urine, the doctor says... 681 00:50:42,325 --> 00:50:45,726 but who know what the fuck that portends. 682 00:50:45,795 --> 00:50:48,628 Anyway it shouldn't be there. The protein. 683 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,034 My butt is chapped from diarrhea. 684 00:50:53,804 --> 00:50:56,237 And yesterday I shat blood. 685 00:51:01,444 --> 00:51:03,207 I really hate this. 686 00:51:04,314 --> 00:51:06,873 - You don't tell me— - You get too upset. 687 00:51:06,949 --> 00:51:09,076 I wind up comforting you. 688 00:51:09,986 --> 00:51:12,421 - It's easier. - Oh, thanks. 689 00:51:12,589 --> 00:51:14,523 If it's bad, I'll tell you. 690 00:51:15,891 --> 00:51:18,223 Shitting blood sounds bad to me. 691 00:51:18,829 --> 00:51:21,558 - I'm telling you— - And I'm handling it. 692 00:51:21,731 --> 00:51:24,097 Tell me some more about justice. 693 00:51:25,968 --> 00:51:27,630 I am handling it. 694 00:51:28,571 --> 00:51:31,439 Well, Louis, you win trooper of the month. 695 00:51:33,443 --> 00:51:36,502 I take it back. You aren't trooper of the month. 696 00:51:38,382 --> 00:51:40,145 This isn't working. 697 00:51:41,751 --> 00:51:43,981 Tell me some more about justice. 698 00:51:45,921 --> 00:51:47,855 You are not about to die. 699 00:51:49,592 --> 00:51:52,288 - Justice... - ls an immensity, it's confusing. 700 00:51:53,229 --> 00:51:55,221 Vastness, justice is God. 701 00:51:59,536 --> 00:52:00,729 Prior. 702 00:52:04,674 --> 00:52:06,073 You love me? 703 00:52:06,909 --> 00:52:07,968 Yes. 704 00:52:09,713 --> 00:52:11,943 What if I walked out on this? 705 00:52:12,648 --> 00:52:14,673 Would you hate me forever? 706 00:52:23,259 --> 00:52:24,352 Yes. 707 00:52:45,982 --> 00:52:48,007 I think we ought to pray. 708 00:52:49,452 --> 00:52:51,113 Ask God for help. 709 00:52:51,620 --> 00:52:53,281 Ask him together. 710 00:52:53,656 --> 00:52:55,487 God won't talk to me. 711 00:52:55,591 --> 00:52:58,992 - I have to make up people to talk to me. - You have to keep asking. 712 00:52:59,061 --> 00:53:00,927 I forgot the question. 713 00:53:01,130 --> 00:53:04,726 - Oh, yeah. God, is my husband a homo? - Stop it! 714 00:53:05,468 --> 00:53:07,096 I'm warning you! 715 00:53:07,570 --> 00:53:11,666 Does it make any difference that I might be one thing deep within? 716 00:53:12,007 --> 00:53:14,339 No matter how wrong or ugly that thing is... 717 00:53:14,410 --> 00:53:17,847 so long as I have fought with everything I have to kill it? 718 00:53:18,447 --> 00:53:20,278 What do you want from me? 719 00:53:20,349 --> 00:53:23,546 What do you want from me, Harper, more than that? 720 00:53:23,620 --> 00:53:26,111 For God's sake, there's nothing left. 721 00:53:26,189 --> 00:53:29,055 I'm a shell. There's nothing left to kill. 722 00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,823 As long as my behavior is what I know it has to be, decent, correct... 723 00:53:34,897 --> 00:53:36,695 that alone in the eyes of God... 724 00:53:36,767 --> 00:53:41,101 No, not that. That's Utah talk, Mormon talk. I hate it, Joe. 725 00:53:41,170 --> 00:53:42,228 Tell me, say it. 726 00:53:42,304 --> 00:53:44,568 All I will say is that I'm a very good man... 727 00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,939 who has worked very hard to become good... 728 00:53:47,010 --> 00:53:48,977 and you wanna destroy that. 729 00:53:49,045 --> 00:53:52,172 You wanna destroy me but I am not gonna let you do that. 730 00:53:55,050 --> 00:53:56,915 I'm gonna have a baby. 731 00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,185 - Liar. - You liar. 732 00:54:02,792 --> 00:54:05,056 A baby born addicted to pills. 733 00:54:05,227 --> 00:54:08,288 A baby who does not dream, but who hallucinates... 734 00:54:08,365 --> 00:54:11,595 who stares up at us with big mirror eyes... 735 00:54:11,667 --> 00:54:14,067 and who does not know who we are. 736 00:54:16,773 --> 00:54:18,535 - Are you really? - No. 737 00:54:19,975 --> 00:54:21,034 Yes. 738 00:54:22,611 --> 00:54:23,839 No. Yes. 739 00:54:24,513 --> 00:54:25,980 Get away from me. 740 00:54:26,048 --> 00:54:28,073 Now we both have a secret. 741 00:54:34,456 --> 00:54:36,515 Nobody knows what causes it. 742 00:54:37,426 --> 00:54:39,758 And nobody knows how to cure it. 743 00:54:40,429 --> 00:54:43,421 The best theory is that we blame a retrovirus. 744 00:54:43,766 --> 00:54:46,201 The human immunodeficiency virus. 745 00:54:46,735 --> 00:54:49,670 Its presence is made known to us by the useless antibodies... 746 00:54:49,738 --> 00:54:53,367 which appear in reaction to its entrance into the bloodstream through a cut. 747 00:54:53,442 --> 00:54:54,933 Or an orifice. 748 00:54:55,244 --> 00:54:58,042 The antibodies are powerless to protect the body against it. 749 00:54:58,113 --> 00:55:00,138 Why? We don't know. 750 00:55:01,051 --> 00:55:03,349 The body's immune system ceases to function. 751 00:55:03,420 --> 00:55:06,149 Sometimes the body even attacks itself. 752 00:55:07,356 --> 00:55:11,554 At any rate, it's left open to a whole horror house of infections... 753 00:55:11,862 --> 00:55:14,659 from microbes it usually defends against. 754 00:55:15,464 --> 00:55:17,261 Like Kaposi's sarcomas... 755 00:55:17,333 --> 00:55:21,201 those lesions on your arms, or your throat problem. 756 00:55:21,270 --> 00:55:22,794 Or the glands. 757 00:55:23,772 --> 00:55:28,141 We think it may also be able to slip past the blood-brain barrier into the brain. 758 00:55:28,410 --> 00:55:31,538 Which is, of course, very bad news. 759 00:55:32,949 --> 00:55:37,715 It's fatal in we don't know what percent of people with suppressed immune responses. 760 00:55:42,124 --> 00:55:43,786 Very interesting... 761 00:55:45,060 --> 00:55:46,425 Mr. Wizard. 762 00:55:47,463 --> 00:55:49,728 Why the fuck are you telling me this? 763 00:55:54,170 --> 00:55:58,162 Well, I have just removed one of three lesions... 764 00:55:58,541 --> 00:56:02,977 which biopsy results will probably tell us is a Kaposi's sarcoma lesion. 765 00:56:03,579 --> 00:56:05,706 And you have a pronounced swelling of glands... 766 00:56:05,781 --> 00:56:08,181 in your neck, groin, and armpits. 767 00:56:08,751 --> 00:56:11,118 Lymphadenopathy is another sign. 768 00:56:11,254 --> 00:56:13,517 And you have oral candidiasis. 769 00:56:13,689 --> 00:56:16,180 And maybe a little more fungus under the fingernails... 770 00:56:16,258 --> 00:56:18,351 of two digits on your right hand. 771 00:56:19,295 --> 00:56:20,319 So? 772 00:56:20,629 --> 00:56:22,028 That's why I'm... 773 00:56:24,133 --> 00:56:26,226 - This disease... - Syndrome. 774 00:56:27,102 --> 00:56:28,364 Whatever. 775 00:56:29,138 --> 00:56:33,837 It afflicts mostly homosexuals and drug addicts. 776 00:56:34,210 --> 00:56:35,437 Mostly. 777 00:56:35,511 --> 00:56:37,445 Hemophiliacs are also at risk. 778 00:56:37,513 --> 00:56:39,447 Homosexuals and drug addicts. 779 00:56:39,515 --> 00:56:42,883 So why are you implying that l... 780 00:56:45,121 --> 00:56:47,282 What are you implying, Henry? 781 00:56:47,423 --> 00:56:50,722 - I don't think I was implying anything. - I'm not a drug addict. 782 00:56:50,793 --> 00:56:54,092 - Come on, Roy. - What? "Come on, Roy" what? 783 00:56:55,465 --> 00:56:57,695 You think I'm a junkie, Henry? 784 00:56:57,867 --> 00:56:59,595 Do you see tracks? 785 00:57:02,805 --> 00:57:04,363 This is absurd. 786 00:57:04,740 --> 00:57:06,106 So say it. 787 00:57:06,408 --> 00:57:07,705 Say what? 788 00:57:09,044 --> 00:57:11,239 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a..." 789 00:57:11,814 --> 00:57:14,214 - Roy. - "You are a..." Go on. 790 00:57:15,317 --> 00:57:19,117 Not, "Roy Cohn, you are a drug fiend." 791 00:57:19,288 --> 00:57:21,882 "Roy Marcus Cohn, you are a..." 792 00:57:22,993 --> 00:57:25,460 Go on, Henry, it starts with an "H." 793 00:57:25,728 --> 00:57:28,162 - I'm not gonna get into— - With an "H," Henry... 794 00:57:28,230 --> 00:57:30,323 and it isn't "hemophiliac." 795 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,228 Come on! 796 00:57:33,803 --> 00:57:36,737 - Why are you doing this, Roy? - No, I mean it. Say it. 797 00:57:37,139 --> 00:57:40,540 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a homosexual." 798 00:57:42,978 --> 00:57:46,004 And I will proceed systematically... 799 00:57:46,081 --> 00:57:48,777 to destroy your reputation. 800 00:57:49,485 --> 00:57:50,952 And your practice. 801 00:57:51,387 --> 00:57:54,618 And your career in the state of New York, Henry. 802 00:57:55,557 --> 00:57:57,525 Which you know I can do. 803 00:58:01,064 --> 00:58:04,362 You have been seeing me since U958. 804 00:58:05,468 --> 00:58:09,096 Apart from the face lifts, I have treated you for everything from syphilis— 805 00:58:09,171 --> 00:58:10,502 From a whore in Dallas. 806 00:58:10,572 --> 00:58:14,440 from syphilis to venereal warts in your rectum... 807 00:58:14,510 --> 00:58:17,274 which you may have gotten from a whore in Dallas. 808 00:58:17,780 --> 00:58:19,748 But it wasn't a female whore. 809 00:58:21,450 --> 00:58:22,781 So say it. 810 00:58:25,387 --> 00:58:28,185 Roy Cohn, you are... 811 00:58:33,262 --> 00:58:36,891 You have had sex with men. Many, many times, Roy. 812 00:58:37,300 --> 00:58:40,860 And one of those men or any number of them has made you very sick. 813 00:58:42,004 --> 00:58:43,666 You have AlDS. 814 00:58:44,073 --> 00:58:45,165 AlDS? 815 00:58:46,742 --> 00:58:51,645 You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words... 816 00:58:53,215 --> 00:58:54,614 on labels... 817 00:58:55,150 --> 00:58:58,017 that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. 818 00:58:58,487 --> 00:59:01,047 AlDS, homosexual, gay, lesbian. 819 00:59:01,123 --> 00:59:04,115 You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with? 820 00:59:04,193 --> 00:59:06,093 - They don't tell you that. - No? 821 00:59:06,161 --> 00:59:07,321 No. 822 00:59:07,396 --> 00:59:10,490 Like all labels, they tell you one thing and one thing only. 823 00:59:11,233 --> 00:59:15,966 Where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain... 824 00:59:16,939 --> 00:59:18,736 in the pecking order? 825 00:59:19,374 --> 00:59:24,038 Not an ideology or a sexual taste, but something much simpler:. 826 00:59:24,513 --> 00:59:25,639 Clout. 827 00:59:26,515 --> 00:59:29,575 Not who I fuck or who fucks me... 828 00:59:29,651 --> 00:59:32,677 but who will pick up the phone when I call. 829 00:59:32,988 --> 00:59:34,354 Who owes me favors. 830 00:59:34,424 --> 00:59:38,154 This is what a label refers to. 831 00:59:38,994 --> 00:59:41,360 Now, to someone who does not understand this... 832 00:59:41,430 --> 00:59:45,298 homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men. 833 00:59:45,434 --> 00:59:47,459 But really, this is wrong. 834 00:59:48,003 --> 00:59:51,166 Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. 835 00:59:52,007 --> 00:59:53,872 Homosexuals are men... 836 00:59:54,143 --> 00:59:56,668 who, in U5 years of trying... 837 00:59:56,945 --> 01:00:01,746 cannot pass a pissant anti-discrimination bill through city council. 838 01:00:02,618 --> 01:00:07,248 Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. 839 01:00:07,823 --> 01:00:10,292 Who have zero clout. 840 01:00:12,495 --> 01:00:14,554 Does this sound like me, Henry? 841 01:00:14,631 --> 01:00:16,222 - No. - No! 842 01:00:16,365 --> 01:00:18,766 I have clout. Lots. 843 01:00:20,402 --> 01:00:25,102 I pick up this phone, I punch U5 numbers, you know who's on the other end? 844 01:00:25,507 --> 01:00:28,533 - In under five minutes, Henry. - The President. 845 01:00:28,610 --> 01:00:30,737 Better, Henry. His wife. 846 01:00:33,015 --> 01:00:34,209 I'm impressed. 847 01:00:34,283 --> 01:00:37,480 I don't want you to be impressed. I want you to understand. 848 01:00:38,053 --> 01:00:41,511 This is not sophistry and this is not hypocrisy. 849 01:00:42,091 --> 01:00:43,523 This is reality. 850 01:00:44,626 --> 01:00:46,423 I have sex with men... 851 01:00:46,495 --> 01:00:49,623 but unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true... 852 01:00:49,698 --> 01:00:52,258 I bring the guy I'm screwing to the White House. 853 01:00:52,334 --> 01:00:56,202 And President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand... 854 01:00:56,572 --> 01:00:57,800 because... 855 01:00:58,373 --> 01:01:02,434 what I am is defined entirely by who I am. 856 01:01:03,412 --> 01:01:05,778 Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. 857 01:01:06,982 --> 01:01:11,009 Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry... 858 01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,213 who fucks around with guys. 859 01:01:16,158 --> 01:01:17,489 Okay, Roy. 860 01:01:17,559 --> 01:01:19,652 And what is my diagnosis, Henry? 861 01:01:21,129 --> 01:01:24,724 - You have AlDS, Roy. - No. Henry, no. 862 01:01:26,001 --> 01:01:29,027 AlDS is what homosexuals have. 863 01:01:31,373 --> 01:01:34,638 I have liver cancer. 864 01:01:46,154 --> 01:01:48,349 Whatever the fuck you have... 865 01:01:48,924 --> 01:01:50,414 it's very serious. 866 01:01:50,826 --> 01:01:53,260 And I haven't got a damn thing for you. 867 01:01:53,862 --> 01:01:56,888 The NlH in Bethesda has a new drug called... 868 01:01:57,466 --> 01:01:58,660 AZT... 869 01:01:58,834 --> 01:02:02,270 with a two-year waiting list that not even I can get you onto. 870 01:02:03,205 --> 01:02:05,173 So pick up the phone, Roy... 871 01:02:06,008 --> 01:02:07,976 and dial the 15 numbers... 872 01:02:08,176 --> 01:02:12,545 and tell the First Lady that you need it on an experimental treatment for liver cancer... 873 01:02:12,614 --> 01:02:15,208 because you can call it any damn thing you want, Roy. 874 01:02:15,284 --> 01:02:17,411 But what it boils down to... 875 01:02:18,420 --> 01:02:20,217 is very bad news.