1 00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:07,925 Hello, and good morning. 2 00:03:08,896 --> 00:03:12,696 I am Rabbi lsidor Chemelwitz... 3 00:03:13,701 --> 00:03:17,137 of the Bronx Home for Aged Hebrews. 4 00:03:18,939 --> 00:03:22,397 We are here this morning to pay respect... 5 00:03:22,476 --> 00:03:26,139 for the passing of Sarah lronson... 6 00:03:26,614 --> 00:03:28,844 devoted wife of... 7 00:03:32,787 --> 00:03:35,119 Benjamin lronson. 8 00:03:36,991 --> 00:03:38,481 Also deceased. 9 00:03:39,593 --> 00:03:42,892 Loving and caring mother of their sons... 10 00:03:43,497 --> 00:03:47,399 Morris, Abraham, and Samuel... 11 00:03:48,302 --> 00:03:50,930 and their daughters Esther and Rachel. 12 00:03:52,406 --> 00:03:55,466 Beloved grandmother of Max... 13 00:03:55,910 --> 00:03:59,812 Mark, Louis, Angela... 14 00:04:00,815 --> 00:04:05,149 Doris, Luke, and Eric. 15 00:04:07,521 --> 00:04:10,513 Eric is a Jewish name? 16 00:04:17,331 --> 00:04:19,629 A large and loving family. 17 00:04:21,068 --> 00:04:25,198 We assemble that we may collectively mourn... 18 00:04:25,706 --> 00:04:28,300 this good and righteous woman. 19 00:04:29,310 --> 00:04:30,868 This woman... 20 00:04:31,879 --> 00:04:33,744 I did not know this woman. 21 00:04:34,849 --> 00:04:39,343 I cannot accurately describe her attributes... 22 00:04:40,253 --> 00:04:42,882 nor do justice to her... 23 00:04:44,058 --> 00:04:45,525 dimensions. 24 00:04:46,093 --> 00:04:49,585 She was not a person... 25 00:04:49,930 --> 00:04:52,763 but a whole kind of a person. 26 00:04:53,334 --> 00:04:55,564 The ones that crossed the ocean... 27 00:04:55,970 --> 00:04:58,234 that brought with us to America... 28 00:04:58,305 --> 00:05:01,672 the villages of Russia and Lithuania. 29 00:05:02,743 --> 00:05:04,677 And how we struggled... 30 00:05:05,346 --> 00:05:07,836 and how we fought... 31 00:05:08,182 --> 00:05:09,876 for the family... 32 00:05:10,651 --> 00:05:12,881 for the Jewish home. 33 00:05:14,388 --> 00:05:19,155 Descendents of this immigrant woman... 34 00:05:20,227 --> 00:05:22,718 you do not grow up in America... 35 00:05:25,533 --> 00:05:29,333 you, your children, and their children with the goyish names. 36 00:05:31,906 --> 00:05:35,103 You do not live in America. 37 00:05:36,677 --> 00:05:39,339 No such place exists. 38 00:05:40,848 --> 00:05:43,510 Your clay is the clay... 39 00:05:43,584 --> 00:05:45,847 of some Litvak shtetl. 40 00:05:46,654 --> 00:05:49,851 Your air is the air of the steppes... 41 00:05:51,058 --> 00:05:55,620 because she carried that old world on her back... 42 00:05:56,230 --> 00:05:59,063 across the ocean in a boat... 43 00:05:59,967 --> 00:06:01,935 and she put it down... 44 00:06:02,670 --> 00:06:04,797 on Grand Concourse Avenue. 45 00:06:08,242 --> 00:06:09,709 Or on Flatbush. 46 00:06:11,512 --> 00:06:14,640 You can never make that crossing that she made... 47 00:06:15,316 --> 00:06:19,980 for such great voyages in this world do not anymore exist. 48 00:06:20,054 --> 00:06:22,545 But every day of your lives... 49 00:06:22,623 --> 00:06:26,753 the miles, that voyage from that place to this one... 50 00:06:26,827 --> 00:06:28,454 you cross... 51 00:06:29,396 --> 00:06:30,863 every day. 52 00:06:35,135 --> 00:06:36,761 You understand me? 53 00:06:37,905 --> 00:06:39,031 In you... 54 00:06:40,541 --> 00:06:42,031 that journey... 55 00:06:42,843 --> 00:06:43,935 is. 56 00:06:45,980 --> 00:06:47,106 Hold. 57 00:06:48,082 --> 00:06:51,882 I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. 58 00:06:51,952 --> 00:06:54,819 Eight loving arms and all those suckers. Know what I mean? 59 00:06:54,889 --> 00:06:56,948 - No. - You want lunch? 60 00:06:57,024 --> 00:06:58,616 No, that's okay. 61 00:06:59,026 --> 00:07:00,789 Ailene, Roy Cohn. 62 00:07:01,795 --> 00:07:03,729 What kind of greeting is that? 63 00:07:04,097 --> 00:07:05,793 I thought we were friends. 64 00:07:05,866 --> 00:07:08,300 This will take a minute. Here, eat a little something. 65 00:07:08,368 --> 00:07:10,735 What is this? Tasty sandwich here? 66 00:07:14,174 --> 00:07:17,940 I already told you, it wasn't a vacation, it was business. 67 00:07:18,512 --> 00:07:21,447 I have clients in Haiti. 68 00:07:21,715 --> 00:07:24,912 Listen, Ailene, you think I'm the only lawyer in history... 69 00:07:24,985 --> 00:07:28,113 who ever missed a court date? Don't make such a big fuck... 70 00:07:28,188 --> 00:07:29,314 Hold. 71 00:07:29,790 --> 00:07:30,779 You hag. 72 00:07:30,858 --> 00:07:33,019 - if this is a bad time— - No, it's a good time. 73 00:07:33,093 --> 00:07:34,924 Baby doll. Fuck, wait. 74 00:07:36,230 --> 00:07:37,322 Hello? 75 00:07:37,398 --> 00:07:40,458 Sorry to keep you holding, Judge Hollins, I just... 76 00:07:40,534 --> 00:07:42,467 - Mrs. Hollins? - Yeah, it's Mrs. Hollins. 77 00:07:42,536 --> 00:07:45,334 Sorry, dear. What a deep voice you got. 78 00:07:45,406 --> 00:07:46,930 You enjoying your visit? 79 00:07:47,007 --> 00:07:49,805 She sounds like a truck driver, he sounds like Kate Smith. 80 00:07:49,877 --> 00:07:51,242 It's very confusing. 81 00:07:51,312 --> 00:07:54,679 Nixon appointed him. All the geeks are Nixon appointees. 82 00:07:55,849 --> 00:07:58,545 How many tickets, dear? Seven? 83 00:07:58,786 --> 00:08:00,947 For what, Cats, 42nd Street, what? 84 00:08:02,056 --> 00:08:05,513 You wouldn't like La Cage, trust me. Trust me, I know. 85 00:08:06,060 --> 00:08:07,822 For God's sake, hold. 86 00:08:08,529 --> 00:08:11,225 Baby doll, seven for Cats or something. 87 00:08:11,298 --> 00:08:14,426 Anything hard to get. I don't give a fuck what. Neither will they. 88 00:08:14,601 --> 00:08:17,195 - You've seen La Cage Aux Folles? - No. 89 00:08:18,137 --> 00:08:20,698 It's the best thing on Broadway, maybe ever. 90 00:08:21,608 --> 00:08:22,870 Yeah, who? 91 00:08:33,420 --> 00:08:34,444 Couldn't find her there. 92 00:08:34,521 --> 00:08:35,818 Couldn't see her. 93 00:08:35,889 --> 00:08:38,255 - At least I didn't see her in there. - She was... 94 00:08:38,325 --> 00:08:40,384 It's all right. I'm gonna take the bus. 95 00:08:40,461 --> 00:08:42,952 What do you mean you're gonna take the bus? 96 00:08:43,097 --> 00:08:44,462 I'll see you there. 97 00:08:59,580 --> 00:09:02,014 How's life in Appeals? How's the judge? 98 00:09:02,082 --> 00:09:05,176 - He sends his best. - He's a good man. Loyal. 99 00:09:05,386 --> 00:09:08,878 Not the brightest man on the bench, although he has manners... 100 00:09:08,955 --> 00:09:12,756 - and a nice head of silver hair. - He gives me a lot of responsibility. 101 00:09:14,361 --> 00:09:17,091 Like writing his decisions and signing his name. 102 00:09:17,931 --> 00:09:20,957 - He's a nice man. You cover admirably. - Thanks, Roy. 103 00:09:21,768 --> 00:09:24,499 Who's this? Well, who the fuck are you? 104 00:09:25,172 --> 00:09:26,469 Hold. 105 00:09:27,207 --> 00:09:29,232 - So, baby doll, what? - It's gonna be Cats. 106 00:09:29,309 --> 00:09:30,400 Cats. 107 00:09:32,046 --> 00:09:35,982 Cats; it's about cats. Singing cats. You'll love it. 108 00:09:36,884 --> 00:09:38,851 8:.00. Theater's always at 8:00. 109 00:09:38,985 --> 00:09:40,317 Fucking tourists. 110 00:09:40,387 --> 00:09:42,651 Eat already, Joe. For Christ's sake, live a little. 111 00:09:42,723 --> 00:09:44,714 - Roy, could you... - Yeah, what? 112 00:09:45,258 --> 00:09:46,487 Mrs. Soffer. 113 00:09:47,460 --> 00:09:50,157 - Oh, God fucking damn it. - Roy, I really... 114 00:09:50,230 --> 00:09:53,222 Baby doll, ring up The Post. Get me Suzy. 115 00:09:54,034 --> 00:09:55,262 - Christ! - Roy. 116 00:09:55,568 --> 00:09:56,627 What? 117 00:09:56,703 --> 00:09:59,536 Could you please not take the Lord's name in vain? 118 00:09:59,739 --> 00:10:01,640 I'm sorry, but please. 119 00:10:02,476 --> 00:10:04,306 At least while I'm... 120 00:10:05,245 --> 00:10:06,472 Right... 121 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,474 Sorry, fuck. Only in America. 122 00:10:10,650 --> 00:10:13,779 Baby doll, tell them all to fuck off, tell them I died. 123 00:10:16,457 --> 00:10:17,515 So, Joe. 124 00:10:17,591 --> 00:10:19,855 - I'm sorry, Roy, it's just that— - No, no. 125 00:10:19,927 --> 00:10:22,487 Principles count. I respect principles. 126 00:10:22,563 --> 00:10:26,055 I'm not religious, but I like God, God likes me. 127 00:10:26,533 --> 00:10:28,694 - Baptist, Catholic, what? - Mormon. 128 00:10:28,769 --> 00:10:29,997 Mormon? 129 00:10:31,671 --> 00:10:33,662 Delectable. Absolutely. 130 00:10:34,074 --> 00:10:35,665 Only in America. 131 00:10:37,877 --> 00:10:40,004 So, Joe, what do you think? 132 00:10:40,848 --> 00:10:43,817 - It's a... - It's a crazy life. 133 00:10:43,884 --> 00:10:46,647 - Chaotic. - God bless chaos, though, right? 134 00:10:48,554 --> 00:10:49,817 Mormons? 135 00:10:50,324 --> 00:10:53,225 I knew Mormons in Nevada. 136 00:10:53,293 --> 00:10:56,353 - Utah, mostly. - No, these Mormons were in Vegas. 137 00:10:59,933 --> 00:11:04,495 How would you like to go to Washington and work for the Justice Department? 138 00:11:05,671 --> 00:11:08,607 - Sorry? - How would you like to go to Washington... 139 00:11:08,675 --> 00:11:10,039 work for the Justice Department. 140 00:11:10,110 --> 00:11:13,637 All I got to do is pick up the phone, talk to Ed, and you're in. 141 00:11:13,714 --> 00:11:15,579 In what, exactly? 142 00:11:16,048 --> 00:11:18,380 Associate, Assistant, something big. 143 00:11:18,952 --> 00:11:22,888 Internal Affairs, heart of the woods, something nice, with clout. 144 00:11:22,956 --> 00:11:24,855 - Ed— - Meese, Attorney General. 145 00:11:28,694 --> 00:11:31,562 - All I gotta do is pick up the phone. - But I have to think. 146 00:11:31,632 --> 00:11:34,829 - Okay, great time to be in Washington, Joe. - Roy. 147 00:11:35,168 --> 00:11:36,193 It's incredibly— 148 00:11:36,270 --> 00:11:38,966 It means something to me, too, you understand. 149 00:11:40,140 --> 00:11:44,372 I can't say how much I appreciate this, Roy. I'm sort of stunned. 150 00:11:44,511 --> 00:11:47,877 Thanks, but I have to give it some thought. I have to ask my wife. 151 00:11:47,947 --> 00:11:50,678 - Your wife, of course. - But I really appreciate it. 152 00:11:50,751 --> 00:11:52,411 Of course. Talk to your wife. 153 00:12:02,995 --> 00:12:07,193 To deep-throat a man, to give him intense pleasure... 154 00:12:07,834 --> 00:12:10,200 a woman can simply lick the penis... 155 00:12:10,270 --> 00:12:13,797 without actually putting the whole organ in her mouth... 156 00:12:14,107 --> 00:12:17,269 and still provide the man with a lot of pleasure. 157 00:12:18,445 --> 00:12:22,108 When women tell me that they have a problem with fellatio... 158 00:12:22,182 --> 00:12:26,744 I often tell them to think of the penis as an ice cream cone. 159 00:12:27,887 --> 00:12:31,255 Scientists say the hole in the ozone layer high above the Antarctic... 160 00:12:31,325 --> 00:12:33,623 is now a record at 7 million square miles. 161 00:12:33,694 --> 00:12:36,890 That's three times the size of the whole of the United States. 162 00:12:36,964 --> 00:12:40,922 The hole appears as a giant blue blob totally covering Antarctica... 163 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,731 stretching out to the southern tip of South America. 164 00:12:43,804 --> 00:12:47,034 Scientists say that with the hole so big this early in the year... 165 00:12:47,106 --> 00:12:49,769 it could be set to grow even bigger. 166 00:12:53,914 --> 00:12:56,075 I wish I could go traveling. 167 00:12:56,683 --> 00:12:59,481 Things aren't right with me. 168 00:13:06,525 --> 00:13:08,686 Cash, check, or credit card? 169 00:13:08,862 --> 00:13:12,025 - You startled me. - Cash, check... 170 00:13:12,132 --> 00:13:15,363 I remember you. You're from Salt Lake. 171 00:13:15,435 --> 00:13:18,131 You sold us the plane tickets when we flew here. 172 00:13:18,205 --> 00:13:21,470 - What are you doing in Brooklyn? - You said you wanted to travel. 173 00:13:21,541 --> 00:13:22,769 How thoughtful! 174 00:13:22,842 --> 00:13:24,208 Mr. Lies... 175 00:13:24,378 --> 00:13:28,781 of the lnternational Order of Travel Agents. 176 00:13:29,649 --> 00:13:32,744 We mobilize the globe. We set people adrift. 177 00:13:33,020 --> 00:13:34,954 We are adepts of motion... 178 00:13:35,022 --> 00:13:37,490 acolytes of the flocks. 179 00:13:37,557 --> 00:13:40,822 Cash, check, or credit card, name your destination. 180 00:13:42,361 --> 00:13:45,593 Antarctica maybe? I want to see the hole in the ozone. 181 00:13:45,666 --> 00:13:48,999 - I heard on the radio— - We'll arrange a guided tour. 182 00:13:49,936 --> 00:13:52,699 - Now? - Soon, maybe soon. 183 00:13:54,474 --> 00:13:56,533 I'm not safe here, you see. 184 00:13:58,978 --> 00:14:00,878 Weird stuff happens. 185 00:14:03,149 --> 00:14:05,379 - Like? - Like you, for instance. 186 00:14:05,451 --> 00:14:08,285 Just appearing. Or last week. 187 00:14:09,822 --> 00:14:11,188 Never mind. 188 00:14:14,428 --> 00:14:17,488 People are like planets, you need a thick skin. 189 00:14:19,232 --> 00:14:23,635 Joe stays away, and now look, my dreams are talking back to me. 190 00:14:23,904 --> 00:14:27,066 The price of rootlessness, motion sickness. 191 00:14:27,541 --> 00:14:30,998 - Only cure, keep moving. - I'm undecided. 192 00:14:31,978 --> 00:14:35,276 I feel that something's going to give. It's 1985... 193 00:14:35,549 --> 00:14:37,915 fifteen years to the third millennium. 194 00:14:38,852 --> 00:14:41,149 Maybe Christ will come again... 195 00:14:41,454 --> 00:14:44,447 or maybe the troubles will come and the end will come. 196 00:14:44,524 --> 00:14:47,720 The sky will collapse and there'll be terrible rain... 197 00:14:47,793 --> 00:14:50,023 and showers of poison light... 198 00:14:52,031 --> 00:14:54,465 Or maybe my life is really fine... 199 00:14:55,202 --> 00:14:58,762 maybe Joe loves me and I'm only crazy thinking otherwise. 200 00:14:59,306 --> 00:15:00,602 Or maybe not. 201 00:15:00,673 --> 00:15:03,404 Maybe it's even worse than I know. 202 00:15:04,944 --> 00:15:07,573 Maybe I want to know, maybe I don't. 203 00:15:08,647 --> 00:15:12,277 The suspense, Mr. Lies, it's killing me. 204 00:15:12,352 --> 00:15:14,718 I suggest a vacation. 205 00:15:17,790 --> 00:15:20,885 That was the elevator. Oh, God, I should fix myself a... 206 00:15:20,961 --> 00:15:24,225 You have to go. You shouldn't be here. You aren't even real. 207 00:15:24,297 --> 00:15:26,458 - Call me when you decide. - Go. 208 00:15:37,744 --> 00:15:39,143 Hey, buddy. 209 00:15:39,679 --> 00:15:41,168 You're early. 210 00:15:41,248 --> 00:15:43,682 I was just walking... 211 00:15:45,317 --> 00:15:47,148 and I guess I came home. 212 00:15:47,219 --> 00:15:49,619 - Are you... - Yeah, I'm a little anxious. 213 00:15:50,524 --> 00:15:51,923 Buddy kiss. 214 00:15:53,492 --> 00:15:55,653 Nothing to get anxious about. 215 00:16:07,674 --> 00:16:10,141 How would you like to move to Washington? 216 00:16:12,311 --> 00:16:13,711 Washington? 217 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:16,148 She was pretty crazy. 218 00:16:16,216 --> 00:16:20,515 She was up there in that home for ten years, talking to herself. 219 00:16:20,586 --> 00:16:21,986 I never visited. 220 00:16:22,055 --> 00:16:24,216 She looked too much like my mother. 221 00:16:24,957 --> 00:16:27,425 Poor Louis, I'm sorry your grandma's dead. 222 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,289 Tiny little coffin. 223 00:16:29,963 --> 00:16:31,361 I'm sorry I didn't introduce you. 224 00:16:31,430 --> 00:16:33,762 I always get so closety at these family things. 225 00:16:33,833 --> 00:16:35,801 You're getting butch. 226 00:16:35,868 --> 00:16:39,599 Hey, Cousin Doris, you don't remember me, I'm Lou. 227 00:16:39,772 --> 00:16:42,434 Rachel's boy, Lou. 228 00:16:42,508 --> 00:16:45,501 Not Louis, cause if you say Louis, they'll hear the sibilant "s." 229 00:16:45,579 --> 00:16:48,638 - I don't have a sibilant "s." - I don't blame you hiding. 230 00:16:48,714 --> 00:16:51,115 Bloodlines. Jewish curses are the worst. 231 00:16:51,184 --> 00:16:52,741 I personally would dissolve... 232 00:16:52,818 --> 00:16:55,788 if anyone ever looks me in the eye and said, "Feh." 233 00:16:55,856 --> 00:16:58,756 Fortunately, Wasps don't say, "Feh"... 234 00:16:59,058 --> 00:17:01,583 and by the way, darling... 235 00:17:02,095 --> 00:17:03,892 Cousin Doris is a dyke. 236 00:17:04,997 --> 00:17:07,363 No! Really? 237 00:17:07,867 --> 00:17:09,232 You don't notice anything. 238 00:17:09,301 --> 00:17:11,769 If I hadn't spent the last four years fellating you... 239 00:17:11,837 --> 00:17:13,771 I'd swear you were straight. 240 00:17:27,420 --> 00:17:29,320 You're in a pissy mood. Cat still missing? 241 00:17:29,389 --> 00:17:31,880 - Not a fur ball in sight. It's your fault. - It is? 242 00:17:31,958 --> 00:17:34,290 I warned you, Louis, names are important. 243 00:17:34,361 --> 00:17:37,762 Call an animal Little Sheba, you can't expect it to stick around. 244 00:17:37,831 --> 00:17:41,926 - Besides, that's a dog's name. - I wanted a dog in the first place, not a cat. 245 00:17:42,002 --> 00:17:44,402 - He sprayed my books. - He was a female cat. 246 00:17:44,471 --> 00:17:48,464 Cats are stupid high-strung predators. Babylonians sealed them up in bricks. 247 00:17:48,542 --> 00:17:50,533 - Dogs have brains. - Cats have intuition. 248 00:17:50,610 --> 00:17:53,477 A sharp dog is as smart as a really dull 2-year-old child. 249 00:17:53,547 --> 00:17:56,606 - Cats know when something's wrong. - Only if you stop feeding them. 250 00:17:56,682 --> 00:17:59,277 They know. That's why Sheba left. She knew. 251 00:17:59,352 --> 00:18:00,716 Knew what? 252 00:18:03,857 --> 00:18:06,654 I did my best Shirley Booth this morning. 253 00:18:07,259 --> 00:18:11,389 Floppy slippers, housecoat, curlers, can of Little Friskies. 254 00:18:11,798 --> 00:18:13,594 "Come back, Little Sheba... 255 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:15,264 "come back." 256 00:18:16,403 --> 00:18:17,494 To no avail. 257 00:18:30,349 --> 00:18:31,408 See? 258 00:18:32,418 --> 00:18:34,045 That's just a burst blood vessel. 259 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,815 Not according to the best medical authorities. 260 00:18:40,893 --> 00:18:43,327 What? Tell me. 261 00:18:44,663 --> 00:18:47,097 Chaos, baby. Lesion number one. 262 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,297 The wine-dark kiss of the angel of death. 263 00:18:50,370 --> 00:18:52,031 Oh, please. 264 00:18:52,672 --> 00:18:55,834 I'm a lesionnaire. Foreign lesion. 265 00:18:56,376 --> 00:18:58,138 The American lesion. 266 00:18:58,211 --> 00:19:00,110 - Lesionnaire's disease. - Stop. 267 00:19:00,347 --> 00:19:02,713 - My troubles are lesions. - Will you stop? 268 00:19:02,782 --> 00:19:05,182 Don't you think I'm handling this well? 269 00:19:05,784 --> 00:19:07,309 - I'm gonna die. - Bullshit. 270 00:19:07,387 --> 00:19:09,184 - Let go of my arm. Let go. - No. 271 00:19:10,189 --> 00:19:11,248 No. 272 00:19:16,996 --> 00:19:19,431 I can't find a way to spare you, baby. 273 00:19:21,467 --> 00:19:24,528 No wall like the wall of hard scientific fact. 274 00:19:24,937 --> 00:19:27,167 Chaos, wham. 275 00:19:27,539 --> 00:19:30,509 - Bang your head on that. - Fuck you. 276 00:19:32,912 --> 00:19:36,142 Now that's what I like to hear, a mature reaction. 277 00:19:37,050 --> 00:19:39,517 Let's go see if the cat's come home. 278 00:19:42,756 --> 00:19:43,915 Louis. 279 00:19:44,189 --> 00:19:45,850 When did you find this? 280 00:19:45,991 --> 00:19:47,823 - I couldn't tell you. - Why? 281 00:19:47,893 --> 00:19:49,986 - I was scared, Lou. - Of what? 282 00:19:51,798 --> 00:19:53,493 That you'll leave me. 283 00:19:56,702 --> 00:19:59,170 Bad timing, funeral and all, but... 284 00:20:00,606 --> 00:20:02,904 I figured since we're on the subject of death... 285 00:20:02,975 --> 00:20:05,910 Here's the bus. I have to go bury my grandma. 286 00:20:10,383 --> 00:20:11,508 Lou... 287 00:20:12,752 --> 00:20:15,811 - then you'll come home? - Then I'll come home. 288 00:20:30,903 --> 00:20:32,269 Washington. 289 00:20:32,604 --> 00:20:35,038 - It's an incredible honor— - I have to think. 290 00:20:35,107 --> 00:20:36,870 - Of course. - Say no. 291 00:20:37,342 --> 00:20:41,142 - You said you were gonna think about it. - I don't wanna move to Washington. 292 00:20:41,213 --> 00:20:42,613 Well, I do. 293 00:20:42,682 --> 00:20:46,948 It's a giant cemetery. Huge white graves. Mausoleums everywhere. 294 00:20:47,020 --> 00:20:49,351 We could live in Maryland or Georgetown. 295 00:20:49,421 --> 00:20:52,219 - We're happy here. - That's not really true, buddy. 296 00:20:52,291 --> 00:20:55,352 Happy enough, pretend happy, it's better than nothing. 297 00:20:55,428 --> 00:20:59,091 - It's time we make some changes, Harper. - No changes. Why? 298 00:20:59,165 --> 00:21:01,292 I've been chief clerk for four years. 299 00:21:01,367 --> 00:21:04,426 I make $29,000 a year. That's ridiculous. 300 00:21:04,670 --> 00:21:08,265 I graduated fourth in my class, I make less than anyone I know. 301 00:21:09,776 --> 00:21:11,869 I'm tired of being a clerk. 302 00:21:12,345 --> 00:21:14,540 I wanna go where something good is happening. 303 00:21:14,613 --> 00:21:17,343 Nothing good happens in Washington. 304 00:21:17,983 --> 00:21:20,316 We'll forget Church teachings... 305 00:21:20,953 --> 00:21:24,184 and buy furniture at Conran's... 306 00:21:24,256 --> 00:21:25,917 and become yuppies. 307 00:21:25,991 --> 00:21:28,825 - I have too much to do here. - Like what? 308 00:21:29,395 --> 00:21:32,261 - I do have things. - What things? 309 00:21:32,731 --> 00:21:34,699 I have to finish painting the bedroom. 310 00:21:34,767 --> 00:21:36,894 You've been painting in there for over a year. 311 00:21:36,969 --> 00:21:40,496 I know, it just isn't done, because I never get time to finish it. 312 00:21:40,572 --> 00:21:42,540 That doesn't make sense. 313 00:21:42,808 --> 00:21:44,742 You have all the time in the world. 314 00:21:44,810 --> 00:21:48,406 - You could finish it when I'm at work. - I'm afraid to go in there alone. 315 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,846 - Afraid of what? - I heard something in there. 316 00:21:50,916 --> 00:21:53,714 Metal scraping on the wall, a man with a knife, maybe. 317 00:21:53,786 --> 00:21:55,447 There's no one in the bedroom. 318 00:21:55,521 --> 00:21:57,716 - Not now. - Not this morning, either. 319 00:21:57,790 --> 00:22:00,487 How do you know? You were at work this morning. 320 00:22:00,794 --> 00:22:03,956 There's something creepy about this place. Remember Rosemary's Baby? 321 00:22:04,029 --> 00:22:06,623 - Rosemary's Baby? - Our apartment looks like that one. 322 00:22:06,698 --> 00:22:08,427 - Wasn't that apartment in Brooklyn? - No. 323 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:10,331 Well, it looked like this. 324 00:22:10,402 --> 00:22:12,233 - It did. - Then let's move. 325 00:22:12,304 --> 00:22:15,331 Georgetown is worse. The Exorcist was in Georgetown. 326 00:22:15,408 --> 00:22:18,570 - The devil everywhere you turn, buddy? - Yeah, everywhere. 327 00:22:19,546 --> 00:22:21,137 How many pills today, buddy? 328 00:22:22,148 --> 00:22:23,273 None. 329 00:22:25,584 --> 00:22:26,778 One. 330 00:22:28,954 --> 00:22:30,650 Three, only three. 331 00:22:54,646 --> 00:22:56,671 Thank you, that was a lovely... 332 00:22:57,349 --> 00:22:59,340 My grandma, just buried. 333 00:23:04,623 --> 00:23:07,990 Why are there just two little wooden pegs holding the lid down? 334 00:23:08,060 --> 00:23:10,995 So that she can get out easier if she wants to. 335 00:23:11,063 --> 00:23:12,622 I hope she stays put. 336 00:23:12,899 --> 00:23:16,231 I pretended for years that she was already dead. 337 00:23:16,468 --> 00:23:20,564 When they called to say she had died, it was a surprise. I had abandoned her. 338 00:23:27,614 --> 00:23:29,343 I don't speak Yiddish. 339 00:23:29,415 --> 00:23:33,282 Sharper than the serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child. 340 00:23:34,786 --> 00:23:36,220 Shakespeare. 341 00:23:37,623 --> 00:23:38,954 King Lear. 342 00:23:39,858 --> 00:23:41,655 Rabbi, what does the Holy Writ say... 343 00:23:41,727 --> 00:23:44,025 about someone who abandons someone he loves... 344 00:23:44,096 --> 00:23:46,064 at a time of great need? 345 00:23:46,231 --> 00:23:48,700 Why would a person do such a thing? 346 00:23:53,772 --> 00:23:55,138 Because he has to. 347 00:23:55,208 --> 00:23:57,199 Maybe this person can't... 348 00:23:58,176 --> 00:24:02,169 incorporate sickness into his sense of how things are supposed to go. 349 00:24:02,247 --> 00:24:05,978 Maybe vomit and sores and disease really frighten him. 350 00:24:07,487 --> 00:24:09,614 Maybe he isn't so good with death. 351 00:24:14,626 --> 00:24:17,925 The Holy Scripture has nothing to say about such a person. 352 00:24:19,164 --> 00:24:21,598 Rabbi, I'm afraid of the crimes I may commit. 353 00:24:21,667 --> 00:24:25,398 Please, mister, I'm a sick old rabbi... 354 00:24:25,470 --> 00:24:28,132 facing a long drive home to the Bronx. 355 00:24:30,208 --> 00:24:33,303 You want to confess, better you should find a priest. 356 00:24:34,246 --> 00:24:36,305 I'm not a Catholic, I'm a Jew. 357 00:24:36,381 --> 00:24:38,372 Worse luck for you, bubeleh. 358 00:24:38,450 --> 00:24:42,386 Catholics believe in forgiveness. Jews believe in guilt. 359 00:24:43,957 --> 00:24:45,184 Thanks. 360 00:24:45,959 --> 00:24:48,722 You just make sure those pegs are in good and tight. 361 00:24:48,794 --> 00:24:52,356 Don't worry, mister, the life she had, she'll stay put. 362 00:24:53,865 --> 00:24:55,196 She's better off. 363 00:25:09,715 --> 00:25:10,704 Look... 364 00:25:11,317 --> 00:25:14,752 I know this is scary for you, but try to understand what it means to me. 365 00:25:14,820 --> 00:25:16,310 - Will you try? - Yes. 366 00:25:16,388 --> 00:25:18,686 Good. Really try. 367 00:25:21,126 --> 00:25:23,390 Things are starting to change in the world. 368 00:25:23,462 --> 00:25:26,159 - I don't wanna— - Wait. For the good. 369 00:25:26,232 --> 00:25:27,425 Change for the good. 370 00:25:27,499 --> 00:25:29,865 America has rediscovered itself. 371 00:25:30,836 --> 00:25:33,134 Its sacred position among nations. 372 00:25:33,205 --> 00:25:35,901 People aren't ashamed of it like they used to be. 373 00:25:35,974 --> 00:25:39,501 This is a great thing. The truth restored, law restored. 374 00:25:39,845 --> 00:25:42,370 That's what President Reagan's done, Harper. 375 00:25:42,614 --> 00:25:45,777 He says truth exists and can be spoken proudly... 376 00:25:46,351 --> 00:25:48,376 and the country responds to him. 377 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,117 We become better, more good. 378 00:25:53,793 --> 00:25:57,695 I need to be a part of that. I need something big to lift me up. 379 00:25:58,597 --> 00:26:01,691 Six years ago, the world seemed in decline... 380 00:26:01,767 --> 00:26:04,634 horrible, hopeless, full of unsolvable problems... 381 00:26:04,703 --> 00:26:06,535 and crime, confusion, hunger... 382 00:26:06,605 --> 00:26:09,506 But it still seems that way, more now than before. 383 00:26:09,574 --> 00:26:11,269 You see the ozone layer... 384 00:26:11,343 --> 00:26:13,504 Today out the window on Atlantic Avenue... 385 00:26:13,578 --> 00:26:16,547 there was this schizophrenic traffic cop who was making— 386 00:26:16,615 --> 00:26:18,674 Will you stop it? I'm trying to make a point. 387 00:26:18,750 --> 00:26:20,911 - So am l. - You aren't even making sense. 388 00:26:20,987 --> 00:26:22,681 My point is the world seems just— 389 00:26:22,754 --> 00:26:25,451 It only seems that way to you because you never go out... 390 00:26:25,525 --> 00:26:27,652 and you have emotional problems. 391 00:26:31,363 --> 00:26:33,992 - I do so get out in the world. - No, you don't. 392 00:26:34,599 --> 00:26:37,227 You stay in all day fretting about imaginary— 393 00:26:37,302 --> 00:26:38,530 I get out. 394 00:26:38,870 --> 00:26:40,997 I do. You don't know what I do. 395 00:26:41,073 --> 00:26:43,234 - You don't stay in all day? - No. 396 00:26:45,010 --> 00:26:47,171 - Yes, you do. - That's what you think. 397 00:26:47,412 --> 00:26:49,880 - Where do you go? - Where do you go when you walk? 398 00:26:49,948 --> 00:26:52,918 - And I do not have emotional problems. - I'm sorry. 399 00:26:52,985 --> 00:26:55,953 If I do have emotional problems, it's from living with you or— 400 00:26:56,021 --> 00:26:57,319 I'm sorry, I didn't mean— 401 00:26:57,389 --> 00:27:00,654 Then you should have never married me. You have all these... 402 00:27:00,725 --> 00:27:02,488 secrets and lies. 403 00:27:04,329 --> 00:27:08,322 - I want to be married to you, Harper. - You shouldn't. You never should... 404 00:27:27,419 --> 00:27:28,910 Hey, buddy. 405 00:27:35,961 --> 00:27:37,361 Buddy kiss. 406 00:27:42,801 --> 00:27:45,737 I heard on the radio how to give a blow job. 407 00:27:46,471 --> 00:27:48,234 - What? - Do you want to try? 408 00:27:48,306 --> 00:27:51,241 - You shouldn't listen to such— - Mormons can give blow jobs. 409 00:27:54,180 --> 00:27:57,046 It was a little Jewish lady with a German accent. 410 00:27:59,451 --> 00:28:02,215 Now is a good time for me to make a baby. 411 00:28:20,172 --> 00:28:24,131 Then they went on to a program about holes in the ozone layer... 412 00:28:25,010 --> 00:28:26,602 over Antarctica. 413 00:28:28,813 --> 00:28:30,281 Skin burns... 414 00:28:31,483 --> 00:28:33,314 birds go blind... 415 00:28:34,019 --> 00:28:35,816 icebergs melt. 416 00:28:38,724 --> 00:28:40,919 The world's coming to an end. 417 00:29:08,119 --> 00:29:10,588 - Morning. - Good morning, Counselor. 418 00:29:11,790 --> 00:29:13,314 Sorry, I don't know your name. 419 00:29:13,391 --> 00:29:16,828 Don't bother. A word processor, the lowest of the low. 420 00:29:17,028 --> 00:29:19,895 - Joe Pitt, I'm with Justice Wilson. - I know that. 421 00:29:19,965 --> 00:29:22,092 Counselor Pitt, Chief Clerk. 422 00:29:23,169 --> 00:29:25,636 - Are you okay? - Yes, thanks. 423 00:29:26,605 --> 00:29:28,163 What a nice man. 424 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,767 - Not so nice. - What? 425 00:29:32,043 --> 00:29:34,238 Not so nice. Nothing. 426 00:29:51,896 --> 00:29:52,954 What's wrong? 427 00:29:53,031 --> 00:29:55,499 - Life just sucks shit. - I'm sorry? 428 00:29:56,801 --> 00:29:58,098 Forget it. 429 00:29:59,738 --> 00:30:01,433 Thanks for asking. 430 00:30:02,874 --> 00:30:05,537 I mean, it really is nice of you. 431 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:10,373 - Sorry. Sick friend. - I'm sorry. 432 00:30:11,750 --> 00:30:13,012 That's sweet. 433 00:30:13,084 --> 00:30:16,213 Three of your colleagues have preceded you to this baleful sight... 434 00:30:16,288 --> 00:30:17,846 and you're the first one to ask. 435 00:30:17,922 --> 00:30:20,720 The others just opened the door, saw me, and fled. 436 00:30:20,792 --> 00:30:23,158 I hope they had to pee real bad. 437 00:30:23,228 --> 00:30:25,287 They just didn't want to intrude. 438 00:30:25,363 --> 00:30:28,891 Reaganite, heartless, macho, asshole lawyers. 439 00:30:28,967 --> 00:30:30,457 That's unfair. 440 00:30:31,136 --> 00:30:33,696 What is? Heartless, macho, Reaganite... 441 00:30:34,105 --> 00:30:35,232 Iawyer? 442 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,331 - I voted for Reagan. - You did? 443 00:30:39,478 --> 00:30:41,672 - Twice. - Twice! 444 00:30:43,381 --> 00:30:45,542 - Well, oh, boy, a gay Republican. - Excuse me? 445 00:30:45,617 --> 00:30:46,709 Nothing. 446 00:30:47,085 --> 00:30:49,679 I'm not... No, forget it. 447 00:30:49,754 --> 00:30:51,881 Republican, not Republican? 448 00:30:52,490 --> 00:30:53,548 What? 449 00:30:53,625 --> 00:30:55,820 - What? - Not gay. I'm not gay. 450 00:30:57,796 --> 00:30:58,922 Sorry. 451 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,027 It's just that... 452 00:31:04,903 --> 00:31:05,995 Yes? 453 00:31:06,671 --> 00:31:09,106 Sometimes you can tell from the way a person sounds. 454 00:31:09,174 --> 00:31:11,166 - You sound— - No, I don't. 455 00:31:11,543 --> 00:31:13,773 - Like what? - Like a Republican. 456 00:31:16,481 --> 00:31:18,779 Do I sound like a... 457 00:31:19,751 --> 00:31:22,117 What, like a Republican? 458 00:31:22,420 --> 00:31:24,183 Or do l? 459 00:31:24,622 --> 00:31:26,180 - Do you what? - Sound like a— 460 00:31:26,257 --> 00:31:27,849 Yeah, like a... 461 00:31:31,096 --> 00:31:33,621 - I'm confused. - Yes. 462 00:31:34,733 --> 00:31:37,429 My name is Louis, but all my friends call me Louise. 463 00:31:37,502 --> 00:31:40,767 I work in word processing. Thanks for the toilet paper. 464 00:35:01,872 --> 00:35:04,171 "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille." 465 00:35:05,643 --> 00:35:09,079 One wants to move through life with elegance and grace. 466 00:35:09,614 --> 00:35:13,311 Blossoming infrequently, but with exquisite taste... 467 00:35:13,851 --> 00:35:15,614 and perfect timing. 468 00:35:16,354 --> 00:35:18,345 Like a rare bloom... 469 00:35:19,324 --> 00:35:21,258 a zebra orchid. 470 00:35:22,694 --> 00:35:24,457 One wants... 471 00:35:25,630 --> 00:35:29,463 but one so seldom gets what one wants. 472 00:35:29,533 --> 00:35:30,933 Does one? 473 00:35:32,136 --> 00:35:33,228 No. 474 00:35:33,704 --> 00:35:35,263 One does not. 475 00:35:37,375 --> 00:35:40,104 One gets fucked over. 476 00:35:41,813 --> 00:35:43,678 One dies at 30. 477 00:35:45,316 --> 00:35:47,944 Robbed of decades of majesty— 478 00:35:48,019 --> 00:35:49,577 Fuck this shit. 479 00:35:54,958 --> 00:35:56,790 I look like a corpse. 480 00:35:57,829 --> 00:35:59,228 A corpse-ette. 481 00:36:01,098 --> 00:36:02,498 My queen! 482 00:36:04,268 --> 00:36:08,364 You know you've hit rock bottom when even drag is a drag. 483 00:36:25,923 --> 00:36:27,356 Who are you? 484 00:36:28,092 --> 00:36:29,525 Who are you? 485 00:36:30,628 --> 00:36:32,619 What are you doing in my hallucination? 486 00:36:32,697 --> 00:36:35,666 I'm not in your hallucination. You're in my dream. 487 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,592 You're wearing makeup. 488 00:36:37,769 --> 00:36:40,033 - So are you. - But you're a man. 489 00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:44,965 My hands and feet give it away. 490 00:36:47,744 --> 00:36:51,237 There must be some mistake here. I don't recognize you. 491 00:36:54,652 --> 00:36:56,141 Are you my... 492 00:36:57,155 --> 00:37:00,385 - some sort of imaginary friend? - No. 493 00:37:00,457 --> 00:37:02,652 Aren't you too old to have imaginary friends? 494 00:37:02,726 --> 00:37:05,924 I have emotional problems, I took too many pills. 495 00:37:06,130 --> 00:37:07,927 Why are you wearing makeup? 496 00:37:08,232 --> 00:37:12,191 I was in the process of applying the face, trying to make myself feel better. 497 00:37:12,270 --> 00:37:15,762 I swiped the new fall colors at the Clinique counter at Macy's. 498 00:37:15,873 --> 00:37:17,738 You stole these? 499 00:37:17,809 --> 00:37:20,937 I was out of cash, it was an emotional emergency. 500 00:37:22,313 --> 00:37:25,544 Joe will be so angry. I promised him no more pills. 501 00:37:25,782 --> 00:37:27,841 These pills you keep alluding to... 502 00:37:27,918 --> 00:37:30,513 Valium, I take Valium. Lots of Valium. 503 00:37:30,588 --> 00:37:32,384 And you're dancing as fast as you can. 504 00:37:32,457 --> 00:37:36,620 I'm not addicted. I don't believe in addiction and l... 505 00:37:37,595 --> 00:37:41,656 - I never drink and I never take drugs. - Smell you, Nancy Drew. 506 00:37:41,999 --> 00:37:45,366 - Except for Valium. - Except Valium in wee fistfuls. 507 00:37:45,903 --> 00:37:49,030 It's terrible. Mormons are not supposed to be addicted to anything. 508 00:37:49,106 --> 00:37:51,667 - I'm a Mormon. - I'm a homosexual. 509 00:37:54,512 --> 00:37:57,174 In my church, we don't believe in homosexuals. 510 00:37:57,281 --> 00:37:59,748 In my church, we don't believe in Mormons. 511 00:37:59,883 --> 00:38:01,579 What church do... 512 00:38:04,989 --> 00:38:05,977 I get it. 513 00:38:08,258 --> 00:38:10,056 I don't understand this. 514 00:38:10,327 --> 00:38:12,853 If I didn't ever see you before... 515 00:38:13,831 --> 00:38:17,562 and I don't think I did, then I don't think you should be here... 516 00:38:18,236 --> 00:38:20,204 in this hallucination... 517 00:38:22,073 --> 00:38:26,009 because in my experience, the mind, which is where hallucinations come from... 518 00:38:26,077 --> 00:38:29,534 shouldn't be able to make up anything that wasn't there to start with... 519 00:38:29,614 --> 00:38:32,777 that didn't enter it from experience from the real world. 520 00:38:33,050 --> 00:38:36,019 Imagination can't create anything new, can it? 521 00:38:37,288 --> 00:38:41,816 It only recycles bits and pieces from the world... 522 00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:47,053 and reassembles them into visions. Am I making sense right now? 523 00:38:47,431 --> 00:38:49,490 Given the circumstances, yes. 524 00:38:49,834 --> 00:38:53,964 When we think we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness... 525 00:38:56,807 --> 00:38:58,866 and untruthfulness of our lives... 526 00:38:58,942 --> 00:39:02,276 it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged... 527 00:39:02,346 --> 00:39:07,181 into the appearance of novelty and truth. 528 00:39:08,452 --> 00:39:10,511 Nothing unknown is knowable. 529 00:39:14,926 --> 00:39:17,258 Don't you think it's depressing? 530 00:39:17,528 --> 00:39:20,759 - The limitations of the imagination? - Yes. 531 00:39:21,732 --> 00:39:24,256 It's something you learn after your second theme party. 532 00:39:24,334 --> 00:39:26,393 It's all been done before. 533 00:39:27,438 --> 00:39:29,804 The world, finite... 534 00:39:30,774 --> 00:39:32,037 terribly... 535 00:39:35,145 --> 00:39:38,582 This is the most depressing hallucination I ever had. 536 00:39:39,349 --> 00:39:41,841 Apologies. I do try to be amusing. 537 00:39:42,353 --> 00:39:44,480 Don't apologize, you... 538 00:39:45,890 --> 00:39:49,451 I can't expect someone who's really sick to entertain me. 539 00:39:59,237 --> 00:40:02,104 - How on earth did you know? - That happens. 540 00:40:02,173 --> 00:40:06,269 This is the very threshold of revelations sometimes. You can see things. 541 00:40:06,344 --> 00:40:08,005 How sick you are. 542 00:40:09,947 --> 00:40:11,812 Do you see anything about me? 543 00:40:13,183 --> 00:40:15,174 - Yes. - What? 544 00:40:17,287 --> 00:40:20,917 - You are amazingly unhappy. - Big deal. 545 00:40:20,992 --> 00:40:23,619 You meet a Valium addict, you figure out she's unhappy... 546 00:40:23,693 --> 00:40:26,424 that doesn't count. Of course... Something else? 547 00:40:26,497 --> 00:40:28,590 Something surprising? 548 00:40:28,666 --> 00:40:30,429 - Something surprising? - Yes. 549 00:40:30,501 --> 00:40:32,263 Your husband's a homo. 550 00:40:33,704 --> 00:40:35,103 Ridiculous. 551 00:40:39,410 --> 00:40:42,436 - Really? - Threshold of revelation. 552 00:40:45,148 --> 00:40:49,346 I don't like your revelations. I don't think you intuit well at all. 553 00:40:50,454 --> 00:40:52,445 Joe's a very normal man. 554 00:40:54,525 --> 00:40:55,958 Oh, God! 555 00:41:02,833 --> 00:41:06,667 Do homos take, like, lots of long walks? 556 00:41:08,606 --> 00:41:12,702 Yes, we do. In stretch pants with lavender coifs. 557 00:41:14,311 --> 00:41:18,839 - I just looked at you and there was— - A sort of blue streak of recognition. 558 00:41:18,915 --> 00:41:21,145 - Yes. - Like you knew me incredibly well. 559 00:41:21,218 --> 00:41:22,583 - Yes. - Yes. 560 00:41:23,287 --> 00:41:26,085 I have to go now, get back, something just... 561 00:41:26,791 --> 00:41:28,190 fell apart. 562 00:41:29,492 --> 00:41:30,755 Oh, God! 563 00:41:31,594 --> 00:41:33,893 I feel so sad. 564 00:41:38,068 --> 00:41:39,400 I'm sorry. 565 00:41:40,471 --> 00:41:42,701 I usually say fuck the truth. 566 00:41:43,873 --> 00:41:46,171 But mostly the truth fucks you. 567 00:41:48,946 --> 00:41:51,073 I see something else about you. 568 00:41:54,118 --> 00:41:57,086 Deep inside you, there's a part of you... 569 00:41:57,153 --> 00:41:59,018 the most inner part... 570 00:42:01,224 --> 00:42:03,853 entirely free of disease. 571 00:42:06,430 --> 00:42:07,988 I can see that. 572 00:42:09,833 --> 00:42:11,233 Is that... 573 00:42:13,004 --> 00:42:14,596 That isn't true. 574 00:42:14,839 --> 00:42:16,670 Threshold of revelation. 575 00:42:24,147 --> 00:42:27,481 People come and go so strangely here. 576 00:42:47,038 --> 00:42:49,972 I don't think there is any uninfected part of me. 577 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,566 My heart is pumping polluted blood. 578 00:42:55,112 --> 00:42:56,408 I feel dirty. 579 00:43:37,288 --> 00:43:38,777 Look up. 580 00:43:41,425 --> 00:43:42,618 Hello? 581 00:43:42,959 --> 00:43:44,426 Look up! 582 00:43:44,727 --> 00:43:46,093 Who is that? 583 00:43:46,197 --> 00:43:49,131 Look up. Prepare the way. 584 00:43:50,334 --> 00:43:51,631 I don't see any— 585 00:43:51,702 --> 00:43:54,227 Prepare for the parting of the air... 586 00:43:54,305 --> 00:43:56,773 the breath, the ascent. 587 00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:59,106 Glory to— 588 00:44:13,891 --> 00:44:15,415 What the fuck. 589 00:44:17,561 --> 00:44:18,754 Hello! 590 00:44:21,932 --> 00:44:23,262 Is that it? 591 00:44:24,602 --> 00:44:25,762 Hello! 592 00:44:29,940 --> 00:44:31,270 Poor me. 593 00:44:32,576 --> 00:44:34,476 Poor, poor me. Why me? 594 00:44:34,979 --> 00:44:36,674 Why poor, poor me? 595 00:44:40,885 --> 00:44:43,445 I don't feel good right now. I really don't. 596 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:24,587 Harper? 597 00:45:34,205 --> 00:45:35,729 Where were you? 598 00:45:37,775 --> 00:45:39,435 - Where were you? - Out. 599 00:45:39,576 --> 00:45:41,977 - Where? - Just out, thinking. 600 00:45:42,213 --> 00:45:43,201 It's late. 601 00:45:43,279 --> 00:45:46,078 - I had a lot to think about. - I burned dinner. 602 00:45:46,150 --> 00:45:47,173 I'm sorry. 603 00:45:47,250 --> 00:45:49,582 Not my dinner. My dinner was fine. Your dinner. 604 00:45:49,652 --> 00:45:52,679 I put it back in the oven and turned everything up high... 605 00:45:52,756 --> 00:45:54,382 and I watched till it burned black. 606 00:45:54,458 --> 00:45:56,585 It's still hot, very hot, want it? 607 00:45:56,927 --> 00:45:58,257 You didn't have to do that. 608 00:45:58,328 --> 00:46:00,626 I know. It just seemed like the kind of thing... 609 00:46:00,697 --> 00:46:04,292 a mentally deranged, sex-starved, pill-popping housewife would do. 610 00:46:04,367 --> 00:46:06,733 So I did it. Who knows anymore what I have to do? 611 00:46:06,803 --> 00:46:09,364 - How many pills? - A bunch. Don't change the subject. 612 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,897 - I won't talk to you. - No, don't do that. I'm fine. 613 00:46:12,976 --> 00:46:14,944 Pills are not the problem, not our problem. 614 00:46:15,011 --> 00:46:18,379 I wanna know where you've been, and I wanna know what's going on. 615 00:46:18,449 --> 00:46:20,440 - Going on with what? The job? - Not the job. 616 00:46:20,517 --> 00:46:21,778 I said I needed more time. 617 00:46:21,851 --> 00:46:24,787 I talked to Mr. Cohn on the phone, he said that I had to hurry. 618 00:46:24,855 --> 00:46:27,550 - But I can't get you to talk sensibly about— - Shut up! 619 00:46:27,624 --> 00:46:30,856 - Stick to the subject! - I don't know what that is! 620 00:46:31,262 --> 00:46:34,162 You have something you wanna ask me, ask me. 621 00:46:35,865 --> 00:46:37,424 Ask me. Go. 622 00:46:39,169 --> 00:46:41,262 I can't. I'm scared of you. 623 00:46:43,173 --> 00:46:45,334 I'm tired. I'm going to bed. 624 00:46:57,453 --> 00:46:59,546 Tell me without making me ask, please. 625 00:46:59,622 --> 00:47:01,647 This is crazy. I'm not... 626 00:47:08,197 --> 00:47:09,631 When you come through the door... 627 00:47:09,699 --> 00:47:13,295 your face is never exactly the way I remembered it. 628 00:47:15,439 --> 00:47:19,432 I get surprised by something mean and hard about the way you look... 629 00:47:19,510 --> 00:47:22,808 even the weight of you in the bed at night... 630 00:47:22,879 --> 00:47:25,404 the way you breathe in your sleep... 631 00:47:26,183 --> 00:47:30,176 seems unfamiliar. You terrify me. 632 00:47:31,788 --> 00:47:33,551 I know who you are. 633 00:47:34,058 --> 00:47:36,856 Yes, I'm the enemy. That's easy. That doesn't change. 634 00:47:36,927 --> 00:47:40,327 You think you're the only who hates sex? I do. I hate it with you. 635 00:47:40,397 --> 00:47:44,059 I dream that you batter away at me till my joints come apart like wax... 636 00:47:44,133 --> 00:47:47,035 and I fall into pieces. It's like a punishment. 637 00:47:47,104 --> 00:47:50,038 It was wrong of me to marry you. I knew... 638 00:47:55,512 --> 00:47:58,037 It's a sin and it's killing us both. 639 00:47:58,115 --> 00:48:02,245 I can always tell you've taken pills because it makes you red-faced and sweaty. 640 00:48:02,319 --> 00:48:05,685 And frankly, that's very often why I don't want to... 641 00:48:05,989 --> 00:48:08,719 - Because... - Because you aren't pretty. 642 00:48:10,494 --> 00:48:11,983 Not like this. 643 00:48:13,529 --> 00:48:16,590 - I have something I wanna ask— - Then ask! What the hell are you— 644 00:48:16,667 --> 00:48:18,293 Are you a homo? 645 00:48:19,169 --> 00:48:20,396 Are you? 646 00:48:24,540 --> 00:48:26,007 You try to walk out right now... 647 00:48:26,075 --> 00:48:29,102 I'll put your dinner back in the oven and turn it up so high... 648 00:48:29,179 --> 00:48:32,875 the building will fill with smoke, and everyone in it will asphyxiate. 649 00:48:32,949 --> 00:48:36,010 So help me God, I will. Now answer the question. 650 00:48:40,424 --> 00:48:44,326 - What if l... - Then tell me, please, and we'll see. 651 00:48:49,499 --> 00:48:50,489 No. 652 00:48:51,501 --> 00:48:52,799 I'm not. 653 00:48:54,437 --> 00:48:57,032 I don't see what difference it makes. 654 00:49:20,497 --> 00:49:24,057 Jews don't have any clear textual guide to the afterlife. 655 00:49:24,835 --> 00:49:26,826 I mean even that it exists. 656 00:49:28,237 --> 00:49:29,966 I don't think much about it. 657 00:49:30,039 --> 00:49:33,975 I see it as a perpetual rainy Thursday afternoon in March... 658 00:49:34,444 --> 00:49:36,002 dead leaves... 659 00:49:36,813 --> 00:49:38,337 Very Greco-Roman. 660 00:49:38,414 --> 00:49:41,578 For us, it's not the verdict that counts, it's the act of judgment. 661 00:49:41,652 --> 00:49:45,383 That's why I can never be a lawyer. In court, all that matters is the verdict. 662 00:49:45,456 --> 00:49:47,856 You can never be a lawyer because you're oversexed. 663 00:49:47,925 --> 00:49:49,221 And too distracted. 664 00:49:49,292 --> 00:49:51,385 Not distracted, abstracted. 665 00:49:51,461 --> 00:49:53,588 - I'm trying to make a point. - Namely? 666 00:49:53,663 --> 00:49:55,597 The shaping of the law, not its execution. 667 00:49:55,665 --> 00:49:57,496 The point, dear, the point. 668 00:49:57,567 --> 00:50:01,004 That it should be the questions and shape of a life... 669 00:50:01,070 --> 00:50:05,632 its total complexity, gathered, arranged, and considered... 670 00:50:05,708 --> 00:50:07,437 which matters in the end. 671 00:50:07,510 --> 00:50:10,536 Not some stamp of salvation or damnation... 672 00:50:11,614 --> 00:50:15,608 which disperses all the complexity in some unsatisfying little decision. 673 00:50:15,686 --> 00:50:18,518 - The balancing of the scales— - I like this. 674 00:50:18,588 --> 00:50:19,886 Very Zen. 675 00:50:19,990 --> 00:50:22,787 It's reassuringly incomprehensible and useless. 676 00:50:22,859 --> 00:50:25,384 We, who are about to die, thank you. 677 00:50:27,630 --> 00:50:29,621 You are not about to die. 678 00:50:31,767 --> 00:50:33,894 It's not going well, really. 679 00:50:35,671 --> 00:50:37,366 Two new lesions... 680 00:50:38,308 --> 00:50:42,175 my leg hurts, there's protein in my urine, the doctor says... 681 00:50:42,245 --> 00:50:45,646 but who know what the fuck that portends. 682 00:50:45,715 --> 00:50:48,548 Anyway it shouldn't be there. The protein. 683 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,954 My butt is chapped from diarrhea. 684 00:50:53,724 --> 00:50:56,157 And yesterday I shat blood. 685 00:51:01,364 --> 00:51:03,127 I really hate this. 686 00:51:04,234 --> 00:51:06,793 - You don't tell me— - You get too upset. 687 00:51:06,869 --> 00:51:08,996 I wind up comforting you. 688 00:51:09,906 --> 00:51:12,341 - It's easier. - Oh, thanks. 689 00:51:12,509 --> 00:51:14,443 If it's bad, I'll tell you. 690 00:51:15,811 --> 00:51:18,143 Shitting blood sounds bad to me. 691 00:51:18,749 --> 00:51:21,478 - I'm telling you— - And I'm handling it. 692 00:51:21,651 --> 00:51:24,017 Tell me some more about justice. 693 00:51:25,888 --> 00:51:27,550 I am handling it. 694 00:51:28,491 --> 00:51:31,359 Well, Louis, you win trooper of the month. 695 00:51:33,363 --> 00:51:36,422 I take it back. You aren't trooper of the month. 696 00:51:38,302 --> 00:51:40,065 This isn't working. 697 00:51:41,671 --> 00:51:43,901 Tell me some more about justice. 698 00:51:45,841 --> 00:51:47,775 You are not about to die. 699 00:51:49,512 --> 00:51:52,208 - Justice... - ls an immensity, it's confusing. 700 00:51:53,149 --> 00:51:55,141 Vastness, justice is God. 701 00:51:59,456 --> 00:52:00,649 Prior. 702 00:52:04,594 --> 00:52:05,993 You love me? 703 00:52:06,829 --> 00:52:07,888 Yes. 704 00:52:09,633 --> 00:52:11,863 What if I walked out on this? 705 00:52:12,568 --> 00:52:14,593 Would you hate me forever? 706 00:52:23,179 --> 00:52:24,272 Yes. 707 00:52:45,902 --> 00:52:47,927 I think we ought to pray. 708 00:52:49,372 --> 00:52:51,033 Ask God for help. 709 00:52:51,540 --> 00:52:53,201 Ask him together. 710 00:52:53,576 --> 00:52:55,407 God won't talk to me. 711 00:52:55,511 --> 00:52:58,912 - I have to make up people to talk to me. - You have to keep asking. 712 00:52:58,981 --> 00:53:00,847 I forgot the question. 713 00:53:01,050 --> 00:53:04,646 - Oh, yeah. God, is my husband a homo? - Stop it! 714 00:53:05,388 --> 00:53:07,016 I'm warning you! 715 00:53:07,490 --> 00:53:11,586 Does it make any difference that I might be one thing deep within? 716 00:53:11,927 --> 00:53:14,259 No matter how wrong or ugly that thing is... 717 00:53:14,330 --> 00:53:17,767 so long as I have fought with everything I have to kill it? 718 00:53:18,367 --> 00:53:20,198 What do you want from me? 719 00:53:20,269 --> 00:53:23,466 What do you want from me, Harper, more than that? 720 00:53:23,540 --> 00:53:26,031 For God's sake, there's nothing left. 721 00:53:26,109 --> 00:53:28,975 I'm a shell. There's nothing left to kill. 722 00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,743 As long as my behavior is what I know it has to be, decent, correct... 723 00:53:34,817 --> 00:53:36,615 that alone in the eyes of God... 724 00:53:36,687 --> 00:53:41,021 No, not that. That's Utah talk, Mormon talk. I hate it, Joe. 725 00:53:41,090 --> 00:53:42,148 Tell me, say it. 726 00:53:42,224 --> 00:53:44,488 All I will say is that I'm a very good man... 727 00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,859 who has worked very hard to become good... 728 00:53:46,930 --> 00:53:48,897 and you wanna destroy that. 729 00:53:48,965 --> 00:53:52,092 You wanna destroy me but I am not gonna let you do that. 730 00:53:54,970 --> 00:53:56,835 I'm gonna have a baby. 731 00:53:58,240 --> 00:54:00,105 - Liar. - You liar. 732 00:54:02,712 --> 00:54:04,976 A baby born addicted to pills. 733 00:54:05,147 --> 00:54:08,208 A baby who does not dream, but who hallucinates... 734 00:54:08,285 --> 00:54:11,515 who stares up at us with big mirror eyes... 735 00:54:11,587 --> 00:54:13,987 and who does not know who we are. 736 00:54:16,693 --> 00:54:18,455 - Are you really? - No. 737 00:54:19,895 --> 00:54:20,954 Yes. 738 00:54:22,531 --> 00:54:23,759 No. Yes. 739 00:54:24,433 --> 00:54:25,900 Get away from me. 740 00:54:25,968 --> 00:54:27,993 Now we both have a secret. 741 00:54:34,376 --> 00:54:36,435 Nobody knows what causes it. 742 00:54:37,346 --> 00:54:39,678 And nobody knows how to cure it. 743 00:54:40,349 --> 00:54:43,341 The best theory is that we blame a retrovirus. 744 00:54:43,686 --> 00:54:46,121 The human immunodeficiency virus. 745 00:54:46,655 --> 00:54:49,590 Its presence is made known to us by the useless antibodies... 746 00:54:49,658 --> 00:54:53,287 which appear in reaction to its entrance into the bloodstream through a cut. 747 00:54:53,362 --> 00:54:54,853 Or an orifice. 748 00:54:55,164 --> 00:54:57,962 The antibodies are powerless to protect the body against it. 749 00:54:58,033 --> 00:55:00,058 Why? We don't know. 750 00:55:00,971 --> 00:55:03,269 The body's immune system ceases to function. 751 00:55:03,340 --> 00:55:06,069 Sometimes the body even attacks itself. 752 00:55:07,276 --> 00:55:11,474 At any rate, it's left open to a whole horror house of infections... 753 00:55:11,782 --> 00:55:14,579 from microbes it usually defends against. 754 00:55:15,384 --> 00:55:17,181 Like Kaposi's sarcomas... 755 00:55:17,253 --> 00:55:21,121 those lesions on your arms, or your throat problem. 756 00:55:21,190 --> 00:55:22,714 Or the glands. 757 00:55:23,692 --> 00:55:28,061 We think it may also be able to slip past the blood-brain barrier into the brain. 758 00:55:28,330 --> 00:55:31,458 Which is, of course, very bad news. 759 00:55:32,869 --> 00:55:37,635 It's fatal in we don't know what percent of people with suppressed immune responses. 760 00:55:42,044 --> 00:55:43,706 Very interesting... 761 00:55:44,980 --> 00:55:46,345 Mr. Wizard. 762 00:55:47,383 --> 00:55:49,648 Why the fuck are you telling me this? 763 00:55:54,090 --> 00:55:58,082 Well, I have just removed one of three lesions... 764 00:55:58,461 --> 00:56:02,897 which biopsy results will probably tell us is a Kaposi's sarcoma lesion. 765 00:56:03,499 --> 00:56:05,626 And you have a pronounced swelling of glands... 766 00:56:05,701 --> 00:56:08,101 in your neck, groin, and armpits. 767 00:56:08,671 --> 00:56:11,038 Lymphadenopathy is another sign. 768 00:56:11,174 --> 00:56:13,437 And you have oral candidiasis. 769 00:56:13,609 --> 00:56:16,100 And maybe a little more fungus under the fingernails... 770 00:56:16,178 --> 00:56:18,271 of two digits on your right hand. 771 00:56:19,215 --> 00:56:20,239 So? 772 00:56:20,549 --> 00:56:21,948 That's why I'm... 773 00:56:24,053 --> 00:56:26,146 - This disease... - Syndrome. 774 00:56:27,022 --> 00:56:28,284 Whatever. 775 00:56:29,058 --> 00:56:33,757 It afflicts mostly homosexuals and drug addicts. 776 00:56:34,130 --> 00:56:35,357 Mostly. 777 00:56:35,431 --> 00:56:37,365 Hemophiliacs are also at risk. 778 00:56:37,433 --> 00:56:39,367 Homosexuals and drug addicts. 779 00:56:39,435 --> 00:56:42,803 So why are you implying that l... 780 00:56:45,041 --> 00:56:47,202 What are you implying, Henry? 781 00:56:47,343 --> 00:56:50,642 - I don't think I was implying anything. - I'm not a drug addict. 782 00:56:50,713 --> 00:56:54,012 - Come on, Roy. - What? "Come on, Roy" what? 783 00:56:55,385 --> 00:56:57,615 You think I'm a junkie, Henry? 784 00:56:57,787 --> 00:56:59,515 Do you see tracks? 785 00:57:02,725 --> 00:57:04,283 This is absurd. 786 00:57:04,660 --> 00:57:06,026 So say it. 787 00:57:06,328 --> 00:57:07,625 Say what? 788 00:57:08,964 --> 00:57:11,159 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a..." 789 00:57:11,734 --> 00:57:14,134 - Roy. - "You are a..." Go on. 790 00:57:15,237 --> 00:57:19,037 Not, "Roy Cohn, you are a drug fiend." 791 00:57:19,208 --> 00:57:21,802 "Roy Marcus Cohn, you are a..." 792 00:57:22,913 --> 00:57:25,380 Go on, Henry, it starts with an "H." 793 00:57:25,648 --> 00:57:28,082 - I'm not gonna get into— - With an "H," Henry... 794 00:57:28,150 --> 00:57:30,243 and it isn't "hemophiliac." 795 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:32,148 Come on! 796 00:57:33,723 --> 00:57:36,657 - Why are you doing this, Roy? - No, I mean it. Say it. 797 00:57:37,059 --> 00:57:40,460 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a homosexual." 798 00:57:42,898 --> 00:57:45,924 And I will proceed systematically... 799 00:57:46,001 --> 00:57:48,697 to destroy your reputation. 800 00:57:49,405 --> 00:57:50,872 And your practice. 801 00:57:51,307 --> 00:57:54,538 And your career in the state of New York, Henry. 802 00:57:55,477 --> 00:57:57,445 Which you know I can do. 803 00:58:00,984 --> 00:58:04,282 You have been seeing me since U958. 804 00:58:05,388 --> 00:58:09,016 Apart from the face lifts, I have treated you for everything from syphilis— 805 00:58:09,091 --> 00:58:10,422 From a whore in Dallas. 806 00:58:10,492 --> 00:58:14,360 from syphilis to venereal warts in your rectum... 807 00:58:14,430 --> 00:58:17,194 which you may have gotten from a whore in Dallas. 808 00:58:17,700 --> 00:58:19,668 But it wasn't a female whore. 809 00:58:21,370 --> 00:58:22,701 So say it. 810 00:58:25,307 --> 00:58:28,105 Roy Cohn, you are... 811 00:58:33,182 --> 00:58:36,811 You have had sex with men. Many, many times, Roy. 812 00:58:37,220 --> 00:58:40,780 And one of those men or any number of them has made you very sick. 813 00:58:41,924 --> 00:58:43,586 You have AlDS. 814 00:58:43,993 --> 00:58:45,085 AlDS? 815 00:58:46,662 --> 00:58:51,565 You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words... 816 00:58:53,135 --> 00:58:54,534 on labels... 817 00:58:55,070 --> 00:58:57,937 that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. 818 00:58:58,407 --> 00:59:00,967 AlDS, homosexual, gay, lesbian. 819 00:59:01,043 --> 00:59:04,035 You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with? 820 00:59:04,113 --> 00:59:06,013 - They don't tell you that. - No? 821 00:59:06,081 --> 00:59:07,241 No. 822 00:59:07,316 --> 00:59:10,410 Like all labels, they tell you one thing and one thing only. 823 00:59:11,153 --> 00:59:15,886 Where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain... 824 00:59:16,859 --> 00:59:18,656 in the pecking order? 825 00:59:19,294 --> 00:59:23,958 Not an ideology or a sexual taste, but something much simpler:. 826 00:59:24,433 --> 00:59:25,559 Clout. 827 00:59:26,435 --> 00:59:29,495 Not who I fuck or who fucks me... 828 00:59:29,571 --> 00:59:32,597 but who will pick up the phone when I call. 829 00:59:32,908 --> 00:59:34,274 Who owes me favors. 830 00:59:34,344 --> 00:59:38,074 This is what a label refers to. 831 00:59:38,914 --> 00:59:41,280 Now, to someone who does not understand this... 832 00:59:41,350 --> 00:59:45,218 homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men. 833 00:59:45,354 --> 00:59:47,379 But really, this is wrong. 834 00:59:47,923 --> 00:59:51,086 Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. 835 00:59:51,927 --> 00:59:53,792 Homosexuals are men... 836 00:59:54,063 --> 00:59:56,588 who, in U5 years of trying... 837 00:59:56,865 --> 01:00:01,666 cannot pass a pissant anti-discrimination bill through city council. 838 01:00:02,538 --> 01:00:07,168 Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. 839 01:00:07,743 --> 01:00:10,212 Who have zero clout. 840 01:00:12,415 --> 01:00:14,474 Does this sound like me, Henry? 841 01:00:14,551 --> 01:00:16,142 - No. - No! 842 01:00:16,285 --> 01:00:18,686 I have clout. Lots. 843 01:00:20,322 --> 01:00:25,022 I pick up this phone, I punch U5 numbers, you know who's on the other end? 844 01:00:25,427 --> 01:00:28,453 - In under five minutes, Henry. - The President. 845 01:00:28,530 --> 01:00:30,657 Better, Henry. His wife. 846 01:00:32,935 --> 01:00:34,129 I'm impressed. 847 01:00:34,203 --> 01:00:37,400 I don't want you to be impressed. I want you to understand. 848 01:00:37,973 --> 01:00:41,431 This is not sophistry and this is not hypocrisy. 849 01:00:42,011 --> 01:00:43,443 This is reality. 850 01:00:44,546 --> 01:00:46,343 I have sex with men... 851 01:00:46,415 --> 01:00:49,543 but unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true... 852 01:00:49,618 --> 01:00:52,178 I bring the guy I'm screwing to the White House. 853 01:00:52,254 --> 01:00:56,122 And President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand... 854 01:00:56,492 --> 01:00:57,720 because... 855 01:00:58,293 --> 01:01:02,354 what I am is defined entirely by who I am. 856 01:01:03,332 --> 01:01:05,698 Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. 857 01:01:06,902 --> 01:01:10,929 Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry... 858 01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,133 who fucks around with guys. 859 01:01:16,078 --> 01:01:17,409 Okay, Roy. 860 01:01:17,479 --> 01:01:19,572 And what is my diagnosis, Henry? 861 01:01:21,049 --> 01:01:24,644 - You have AlDS, Roy. - No. Henry, no. 862 01:01:25,921 --> 01:01:28,947 AlDS is what homosexuals have. 863 01:01:31,293 --> 01:01:34,558 I have liver cancer. 864 01:01:46,074 --> 01:01:48,269 Whatever the fuck you have... 865 01:01:48,844 --> 01:01:50,334 it's very serious. 866 01:01:50,746 --> 01:01:53,180 And I haven't got a damn thing for you. 867 01:01:53,782 --> 01:01:56,808 The NlH in Bethesda has a new drug called... 868 01:01:57,386 --> 01:01:58,580 AZT... 869 01:01:58,754 --> 01:02:02,190 with a two-year waiting list that not even I can get you onto. 870 01:02:03,125 --> 01:02:05,093 So pick up the phone, Roy... 871 01:02:05,928 --> 01:02:07,896 and dial the 15 numbers... 872 01:02:08,096 --> 01:02:12,465 and tell the First Lady that you need it on an experimental treatment for liver cancer... 873 01:02:12,534 --> 01:02:15,128 because you can call it any damn thing you want, Roy. 874 01:02:15,204 --> 01:02:17,331 But what it boils down to... 875 01:02:18,340 --> 01:02:20,137 is very bad news.