1 00:02:25,210 --> 00:02:27,075 Hello, and good morning. 2 00:02:28,046 --> 00:02:31,846 I am Rabbi lsidor Chemelwitz... 3 00:02:32,851 --> 00:02:36,287 of the Bronx Home for Aged Hebrews. 4 00:02:38,089 --> 00:02:41,547 We are here this morning to pay respect... 5 00:02:41,626 --> 00:02:45,289 for the passing of Sarah lronson... 6 00:02:45,764 --> 00:02:47,994 devoted wife of... 7 00:02:51,937 --> 00:02:54,269 Benjamin lronson. 8 00:02:56,141 --> 00:02:57,631 Also deceased. 9 00:02:58,743 --> 00:03:02,042 Loving and caring mother of their sons... 10 00:03:02,647 --> 00:03:06,549 Morris, Abraham, and Samuel... 11 00:03:07,452 --> 00:03:10,080 and their daughters Esther and Rachel. 12 00:03:11,556 --> 00:03:14,616 Beloved grandmother of Max... 13 00:03:15,060 --> 00:03:18,962 Mark, Louis, Angela... 14 00:03:19,965 --> 00:03:24,299 Doris, Luke, and Eric. 15 00:03:26,671 --> 00:03:29,663 Eric is a Jewish name? 16 00:03:36,481 --> 00:03:38,779 A large and loving family. 17 00:03:40,218 --> 00:03:44,348 We assemble that we may collectively mourn... 18 00:03:44,856 --> 00:03:47,450 this good and righteous woman. 19 00:03:48,460 --> 00:03:50,018 This woman... 20 00:03:51,029 --> 00:03:52,894 I did not know this woman. 21 00:03:53,999 --> 00:03:58,493 I cannot accurately describe her attributes... 22 00:03:59,403 --> 00:04:02,032 nor do justice to her... 23 00:04:03,208 --> 00:04:04,675 dimensions. 24 00:04:05,243 --> 00:04:08,735 She was not a person... 25 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,913 but a whole kind of a person. 26 00:04:12,484 --> 00:04:14,714 The ones that crossed the ocean... 27 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,384 that brought with us to America... 28 00:04:17,455 --> 00:04:20,822 the villages of Russia and Lithuania. 29 00:04:21,893 --> 00:04:23,827 And how we struggled... 30 00:04:24,496 --> 00:04:26,986 and how we fought... 31 00:04:27,332 --> 00:04:29,026 for the family... 32 00:04:29,801 --> 00:04:32,031 for the Jewish home. 33 00:04:33,538 --> 00:04:38,305 Descendents of this immigrant woman... 34 00:04:39,377 --> 00:04:41,868 you do not grow up in America... 35 00:04:44,683 --> 00:04:48,483 you, your children, and their children with the goyish names. 36 00:04:51,056 --> 00:04:54,253 You do not live in America. 37 00:04:55,827 --> 00:04:58,489 No such place exists. 38 00:04:59,998 --> 00:05:02,660 Your clay is the clay... 39 00:05:02,734 --> 00:05:04,997 of some Litvak shtetl. 40 00:05:05,804 --> 00:05:09,001 Your air is the air of the steppes... 41 00:05:10,208 --> 00:05:14,770 because she carried that old world on her back... 42 00:05:15,380 --> 00:05:18,213 across the ocean in a boat... 43 00:05:19,117 --> 00:05:21,085 and she put it down... 44 00:05:21,820 --> 00:05:23,947 on Grand Concourse Avenue. 45 00:05:27,392 --> 00:05:28,859 Or on Flatbush. 46 00:05:30,662 --> 00:05:33,790 You can never make that crossing that she made... 47 00:05:34,466 --> 00:05:39,130 for such great voyages in this world do not anymore exist. 48 00:05:39,204 --> 00:05:41,695 But every day of your lives... 49 00:05:41,773 --> 00:05:45,903 the miles, that voyage from that place to this one... 50 00:05:45,977 --> 00:05:47,604 you cross... 51 00:05:48,546 --> 00:05:50,013 every day. 52 00:05:54,285 --> 00:05:55,911 You understand me? 53 00:05:57,055 --> 00:05:58,181 In you... 54 00:05:59,691 --> 00:06:01,181 that journey... 55 00:06:01,993 --> 00:06:03,085 is. 56 00:06:05,130 --> 00:06:06,256 Hold. 57 00:06:07,232 --> 00:06:11,032 I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. 58 00:06:11,102 --> 00:06:13,969 Eight loving arms and all those suckers. Know what I mean? 59 00:06:14,039 --> 00:06:16,098 - No. - You want lunch? 60 00:06:16,174 --> 00:06:17,766 No, that's okay. 61 00:06:18,176 --> 00:06:19,939 Ailene, Roy Cohn. 62 00:06:20,945 --> 00:06:22,879 What kind of greeting is that? 63 00:06:23,247 --> 00:06:24,943 I thought we were friends. 64 00:06:25,016 --> 00:06:27,450 This will take a minute. Here, eat a little something. 65 00:06:27,518 --> 00:06:29,885 What is this? Tasty sandwich here? 66 00:06:33,324 --> 00:06:37,090 I already told you, it wasn't a vacation, it was business. 67 00:06:37,662 --> 00:06:40,597 I have clients in Haiti. 68 00:06:40,865 --> 00:06:44,062 Listen, Ailene, you think I'm the only lawyer in history... 69 00:06:44,135 --> 00:06:47,263 who ever missed a court date? Don't make such a big fuck... 70 00:06:47,338 --> 00:06:48,464 Hold. 71 00:06:48,940 --> 00:06:49,929 You hag. 72 00:06:50,008 --> 00:06:52,169 - if this is a bad time— - No, it's a good time. 73 00:06:52,243 --> 00:06:54,074 Baby doll. Fuck, wait. 74 00:06:55,380 --> 00:06:56,472 Hello? 75 00:06:56,548 --> 00:06:59,608 Sorry to keep you holding, Judge Hollins, I just... 76 00:06:59,684 --> 00:07:01,617 - Mrs. Hollins? - Yeah, it's Mrs. Hollins. 77 00:07:01,686 --> 00:07:04,484 Sorry, dear. What a deep voice you got. 78 00:07:04,556 --> 00:07:06,080 You enjoying your visit? 79 00:07:06,157 --> 00:07:08,955 She sounds like a truck driver, he sounds like Kate Smith. 80 00:07:09,027 --> 00:07:10,392 It's very confusing. 81 00:07:10,462 --> 00:07:13,829 Nixon appointed him. All the geeks are Nixon appointees. 82 00:07:14,999 --> 00:07:17,695 How many tickets, dear? Seven? 83 00:07:17,936 --> 00:07:20,097 For what, Cats, 42nd Street, what? 84 00:07:21,206 --> 00:07:24,663 You wouldn't like La Cage, trust me. Trust me, I know. 85 00:07:25,210 --> 00:07:26,972 For God's sake, hold. 86 00:07:27,679 --> 00:07:30,375 Baby doll, seven for Cats or something. 87 00:07:30,448 --> 00:07:33,576 Anything hard to get. I don't give a fuck what. Neither will they. 88 00:07:33,751 --> 00:07:36,345 - You've seen La Cage Aux Folles? - No. 89 00:07:37,287 --> 00:07:39,848 It's the best thing on Broadway, maybe ever. 90 00:07:40,758 --> 00:07:42,020 Yeah, who? 91 00:07:52,570 --> 00:07:53,594 Couldn't find her there. 92 00:07:53,671 --> 00:07:54,968 Couldn't see her. 93 00:07:55,039 --> 00:07:57,405 - At least I didn't see her in there. - She was... 94 00:07:57,475 --> 00:07:59,534 It's all right. I'm gonna take the bus. 95 00:07:59,611 --> 00:08:02,102 What do you mean you're gonna take the bus? 96 00:08:02,247 --> 00:08:03,612 I'll see you there. 97 00:08:18,730 --> 00:08:21,164 How's life in Appeals? How's the judge? 98 00:08:21,232 --> 00:08:24,326 - He sends his best. - He's a good man. Loyal. 99 00:08:24,536 --> 00:08:28,028 Not the brightest man on the bench, although he has manners... 100 00:08:28,105 --> 00:08:31,906 - and a nice head of silver hair. - He gives me a lot of responsibility. 101 00:08:33,511 --> 00:08:36,241 Like writing his decisions and signing his name. 102 00:08:37,081 --> 00:08:40,107 - He's a nice man. You cover admirably. - Thanks, Roy. 103 00:08:40,918 --> 00:08:43,649 Who's this? Well, who the fuck are you? 104 00:08:44,322 --> 00:08:45,619 Hold. 105 00:08:46,357 --> 00:08:48,382 - So, baby doll, what? - It's gonna be Cats. 106 00:08:48,459 --> 00:08:49,550 Cats. 107 00:08:51,196 --> 00:08:55,132 Cats; it's about cats. Singing cats. You'll love it. 108 00:08:56,034 --> 00:08:58,001 8:.00. Theater's always at 8:00. 109 00:08:58,135 --> 00:08:59,467 Fucking tourists. 110 00:08:59,537 --> 00:09:01,801 Eat already, Joe. For Christ's sake, live a little. 111 00:09:01,873 --> 00:09:03,864 - Roy, could you... - Yeah, what? 112 00:09:04,408 --> 00:09:05,637 Mrs. Soffer. 113 00:09:06,610 --> 00:09:09,307 - Oh, God fucking damn it. - Roy, I really... 114 00:09:09,380 --> 00:09:12,372 Baby doll, ring up The Post. Get me Suzy. 115 00:09:13,184 --> 00:09:14,412 - Christ! - Roy. 116 00:09:14,718 --> 00:09:15,777 What? 117 00:09:15,853 --> 00:09:18,686 Could you please not take the Lord's name in vain? 118 00:09:18,889 --> 00:09:20,790 I'm sorry, but please. 119 00:09:21,626 --> 00:09:23,456 At least while I'm... 120 00:09:24,395 --> 00:09:25,622 Right... 121 00:09:26,030 --> 00:09:29,624 Sorry, fuck. Only in America. 122 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,929 Baby doll, tell them all to fuck off, tell them I died. 123 00:09:35,607 --> 00:09:36,665 So, Joe. 124 00:09:36,741 --> 00:09:39,005 - I'm sorry, Roy, it's just that— - No, no. 125 00:09:39,077 --> 00:09:41,637 Principles count. I respect principles. 126 00:09:41,713 --> 00:09:45,205 I'm not religious, but I like God, God likes me. 127 00:09:45,683 --> 00:09:47,844 - Baptist, Catholic, what? - Mormon. 128 00:09:47,919 --> 00:09:49,147 Mormon? 129 00:09:50,821 --> 00:09:52,812 Delectable. Absolutely. 130 00:09:53,224 --> 00:09:54,815 Only in America. 131 00:09:57,027 --> 00:09:59,154 So, Joe, what do you think? 132 00:09:59,998 --> 00:10:02,967 - It's a... - It's a crazy life. 133 00:10:03,034 --> 00:10:05,797 - Chaotic. - God bless chaos, though, right? 134 00:10:07,704 --> 00:10:08,967 Mormons? 135 00:10:09,474 --> 00:10:12,375 I knew Mormons in Nevada. 136 00:10:12,443 --> 00:10:15,503 - Utah, mostly. - No, these Mormons were in Vegas. 137 00:10:19,083 --> 00:10:23,645 How would you like to go to Washington and work for the Justice Department? 138 00:10:24,821 --> 00:10:27,757 - Sorry? - How would you like to go to Washington... 139 00:10:27,825 --> 00:10:29,189 work for the Justice Department. 140 00:10:29,260 --> 00:10:32,787 All I got to do is pick up the phone, talk to Ed, and you're in. 141 00:10:32,864 --> 00:10:34,729 In what, exactly? 142 00:10:35,198 --> 00:10:37,530 Associate, Assistant, something big. 143 00:10:38,102 --> 00:10:42,038 Internal Affairs, heart of the woods, something nice, with clout. 144 00:10:42,106 --> 00:10:44,005 - Ed— - Meese, Attorney General. 145 00:10:47,844 --> 00:10:50,712 - All I gotta do is pick up the phone. - But I have to think. 146 00:10:50,782 --> 00:10:53,979 - Okay, great time to be in Washington, Joe. - Roy. 147 00:10:54,318 --> 00:10:55,343 It's incredibly— 148 00:10:55,420 --> 00:10:58,116 It means something to me, too, you understand. 149 00:10:59,290 --> 00:11:03,522 I can't say how much I appreciate this, Roy. I'm sort of stunned. 150 00:11:03,661 --> 00:11:07,027 Thanks, but I have to give it some thought. I have to ask my wife. 151 00:11:07,097 --> 00:11:09,828 - Your wife, of course. - But I really appreciate it. 152 00:11:09,901 --> 00:11:11,561 Of course. Talk to your wife. 153 00:11:22,145 --> 00:11:26,343 To deep-throat a man, to give him intense pleasure... 154 00:11:26,984 --> 00:11:29,350 a woman can simply lick the penis... 155 00:11:29,420 --> 00:11:32,947 without actually putting the whole organ in her mouth... 156 00:11:33,257 --> 00:11:36,419 and still provide the man with a lot of pleasure. 157 00:11:37,595 --> 00:11:41,258 When women tell me that they have a problem with fellatio... 158 00:11:41,332 --> 00:11:45,894 I often tell them to think of the penis as an ice cream cone. 159 00:11:47,037 --> 00:11:50,405 Scientists say the hole in the ozone layer high above the Antarctic... 160 00:11:50,475 --> 00:11:52,773 is now a record at 7 million square miles. 161 00:11:52,844 --> 00:11:56,040 That's three times the size of the whole of the United States. 162 00:11:56,114 --> 00:12:00,072 The hole appears as a giant blue blob totally covering Antarctica... 163 00:12:00,150 --> 00:12:02,881 stretching out to the southern tip of South America. 164 00:12:02,954 --> 00:12:06,184 Scientists say that with the hole so big this early in the year... 165 00:12:06,256 --> 00:12:08,919 it could be set to grow even bigger. 166 00:12:13,064 --> 00:12:15,225 I wish I could go traveling. 167 00:12:15,833 --> 00:12:18,631 Things aren't right with me. 168 00:12:25,675 --> 00:12:27,836 Cash, check, or credit card? 169 00:12:28,012 --> 00:12:31,175 - You startled me. - Cash, check... 170 00:12:31,282 --> 00:12:34,513 I remember you. You're from Salt Lake. 171 00:12:34,585 --> 00:12:37,281 You sold us the plane tickets when we flew here. 172 00:12:37,355 --> 00:12:40,620 - What are you doing in Brooklyn? - You said you wanted to travel. 173 00:12:40,691 --> 00:12:41,919 How thoughtful! 174 00:12:41,992 --> 00:12:43,358 Mr. Lies... 175 00:12:43,528 --> 00:12:47,931 of the lnternational Order of Travel Agents. 176 00:12:48,799 --> 00:12:51,894 We mobilize the globe. We set people adrift. 177 00:12:52,170 --> 00:12:54,104 We are adepts of motion... 178 00:12:54,172 --> 00:12:56,640 acolytes of the flocks. 179 00:12:56,707 --> 00:12:59,972 Cash, check, or credit card, name your destination. 180 00:13:01,511 --> 00:13:04,743 Antarctica maybe? I want to see the hole in the ozone. 181 00:13:04,816 --> 00:13:08,149 - I heard on the radio— - We'll arrange a guided tour. 182 00:13:09,086 --> 00:13:11,849 - Now? - Soon, maybe soon. 183 00:13:13,624 --> 00:13:15,683 I'm not safe here, you see. 184 00:13:18,128 --> 00:13:20,028 Weird stuff happens. 185 00:13:22,299 --> 00:13:24,529 - Like? - Like you, for instance. 186 00:13:24,601 --> 00:13:27,435 Just appearing. Or last week. 187 00:13:28,972 --> 00:13:30,338 Never mind. 188 00:13:33,578 --> 00:13:36,638 People are like planets, you need a thick skin. 189 00:13:38,382 --> 00:13:42,785 Joe stays away, and now look, my dreams are talking back to me. 190 00:13:43,054 --> 00:13:46,216 The price of rootlessness, motion sickness. 191 00:13:46,691 --> 00:13:50,148 - Only cure, keep moving. - I'm undecided. 192 00:13:51,128 --> 00:13:54,426 I feel that something's going to give. It's 1985... 193 00:13:54,699 --> 00:13:57,065 fifteen years to the third millennium. 194 00:13:58,002 --> 00:14:00,299 Maybe Christ will come again... 195 00:14:00,604 --> 00:14:03,597 or maybe the troubles will come and the end will come. 196 00:14:03,674 --> 00:14:06,870 The sky will collapse and there'll be terrible rain... 197 00:14:06,943 --> 00:14:09,173 and showers of poison light... 198 00:14:11,181 --> 00:14:13,615 Or maybe my life is really fine... 199 00:14:14,352 --> 00:14:17,912 maybe Joe loves me and I'm only crazy thinking otherwise. 200 00:14:18,456 --> 00:14:19,752 Or maybe not. 201 00:14:19,823 --> 00:14:22,554 Maybe it's even worse than I know. 202 00:14:24,094 --> 00:14:26,723 Maybe I want to know, maybe I don't. 203 00:14:27,797 --> 00:14:31,427 The suspense, Mr. Lies, it's killing me. 204 00:14:31,502 --> 00:14:33,868 I suggest a vacation. 205 00:14:36,940 --> 00:14:40,035 That was the elevator. Oh, God, I should fix myself a... 206 00:14:40,111 --> 00:14:43,375 You have to go. You shouldn't be here. You aren't even real. 207 00:14:43,447 --> 00:14:45,608 - Call me when you decide. - Go. 208 00:14:56,894 --> 00:14:58,293 Hey, buddy. 209 00:14:58,829 --> 00:15:00,318 You're early. 210 00:15:00,398 --> 00:15:02,832 I was just walking... 211 00:15:04,467 --> 00:15:06,298 and I guess I came home. 212 00:15:06,369 --> 00:15:08,769 - Are you... - Yeah, I'm a little anxious. 213 00:15:09,674 --> 00:15:11,073 Buddy kiss. 214 00:15:12,642 --> 00:15:14,803 Nothing to get anxious about. 215 00:15:26,824 --> 00:15:29,291 How would you like to move to Washington? 216 00:15:31,461 --> 00:15:32,861 Washington? 217 00:15:33,830 --> 00:15:35,298 She was pretty crazy. 218 00:15:35,366 --> 00:15:39,665 She was up there in that home for ten years, talking to herself. 219 00:15:39,736 --> 00:15:41,136 I never visited. 220 00:15:41,205 --> 00:15:43,366 She looked too much like my mother. 221 00:15:44,107 --> 00:15:46,575 Poor Louis, I'm sorry your grandma's dead. 222 00:15:46,710 --> 00:15:48,439 Tiny little coffin. 223 00:15:49,113 --> 00:15:50,511 I'm sorry I didn't introduce you. 224 00:15:50,580 --> 00:15:52,912 I always get so closety at these family things. 225 00:15:52,983 --> 00:15:54,951 You're getting butch. 226 00:15:55,018 --> 00:15:58,749 Hey, Cousin Doris, you don't remember me, I'm Lou. 227 00:15:58,922 --> 00:16:01,584 Rachel's boy, Lou. 228 00:16:01,658 --> 00:16:04,651 Not Louis, cause if you say Louis, they'll hear the sibilant "s." 229 00:16:04,729 --> 00:16:07,788 - I don't have a sibilant "s." - I don't blame you hiding. 230 00:16:07,864 --> 00:16:10,265 Bloodlines. Jewish curses are the worst. 231 00:16:10,334 --> 00:16:11,891 I personally would dissolve... 232 00:16:11,968 --> 00:16:14,938 if anyone ever looks me in the eye and said, "Feh." 233 00:16:15,006 --> 00:16:17,906 Fortunately, Wasps don't say, "Feh"... 234 00:16:18,208 --> 00:16:20,733 and by the way, darling... 235 00:16:21,245 --> 00:16:23,042 Cousin Doris is a dyke. 236 00:16:24,147 --> 00:16:26,513 No! Really? 237 00:16:27,017 --> 00:16:28,382 You don't notice anything. 238 00:16:28,451 --> 00:16:30,919 If I hadn't spent the last four years fellating you... 239 00:16:30,987 --> 00:16:32,921 I'd swear you were straight. 240 00:16:46,570 --> 00:16:48,470 You're in a pissy mood. Cat still missing? 241 00:16:48,539 --> 00:16:51,030 - Not a fur ball in sight. It's your fault. - It is? 242 00:16:51,108 --> 00:16:53,440 I warned you, Louis, names are important. 243 00:16:53,511 --> 00:16:56,912 Call an animal Little Sheba, you can't expect it to stick around. 244 00:16:56,981 --> 00:17:01,076 - Besides, that's a dog's name. - I wanted a dog in the first place, not a cat. 245 00:17:01,152 --> 00:17:03,552 - He sprayed my books. - He was a female cat. 246 00:17:03,621 --> 00:17:07,614 Cats are stupid high-strung predators. Babylonians sealed them up in bricks. 247 00:17:07,692 --> 00:17:09,683 - Dogs have brains. - Cats have intuition. 248 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:12,627 A sharp dog is as smart as a really dull 2-year-old child. 249 00:17:12,697 --> 00:17:15,756 - Cats know when something's wrong. - Only if you stop feeding them. 250 00:17:15,832 --> 00:17:18,427 They know. That's why Sheba left. She knew. 251 00:17:18,502 --> 00:17:19,866 Knew what? 252 00:17:23,007 --> 00:17:25,804 I did my best Shirley Booth this morning. 253 00:17:26,409 --> 00:17:30,539 Floppy slippers, housecoat, curlers, can of Little Friskies. 254 00:17:30,948 --> 00:17:32,744 "Come back, Little Sheba... 255 00:17:33,050 --> 00:17:34,414 "come back." 256 00:17:35,553 --> 00:17:36,644 To no avail. 257 00:17:49,499 --> 00:17:50,558 See? 258 00:17:51,568 --> 00:17:53,195 That's just a burst blood vessel. 259 00:17:53,269 --> 00:17:55,965 Not according to the best medical authorities. 260 00:18:00,043 --> 00:18:02,477 What? Tell me. 261 00:18:03,813 --> 00:18:06,247 Chaos, baby. Lesion number one. 262 00:18:06,750 --> 00:18:09,447 The wine-dark kiss of the angel of death. 263 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,181 Oh, please. 264 00:18:11,822 --> 00:18:14,984 I'm a lesionnaire. Foreign lesion. 265 00:18:15,526 --> 00:18:17,288 The American lesion. 266 00:18:17,361 --> 00:18:19,260 - Lesionnaire's disease. - Stop. 267 00:18:19,497 --> 00:18:21,863 - My troubles are lesions. - Will you stop? 268 00:18:21,932 --> 00:18:24,332 Don't you think I'm handling this well? 269 00:18:24,934 --> 00:18:26,459 - I'm gonna die. - Bullshit. 270 00:18:26,537 --> 00:18:28,334 - Let go of my arm. Let go. - No. 271 00:18:29,339 --> 00:18:30,398 No. 272 00:18:36,146 --> 00:18:38,581 I can't find a way to spare you, baby. 273 00:18:40,617 --> 00:18:43,678 No wall like the wall of hard scientific fact. 274 00:18:44,087 --> 00:18:46,317 Chaos, wham. 275 00:18:46,689 --> 00:18:49,659 - Bang your head on that. - Fuck you. 276 00:18:52,062 --> 00:18:55,292 Now that's what I like to hear, a mature reaction. 277 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,667 Let's go see if the cat's come home. 278 00:19:01,906 --> 00:19:03,065 Louis. 279 00:19:03,339 --> 00:19:05,000 When did you find this? 280 00:19:05,141 --> 00:19:06,973 - I couldn't tell you. - Why? 281 00:19:07,043 --> 00:19:09,136 - I was scared, Lou. - Of what? 282 00:19:10,948 --> 00:19:12,643 That you'll leave me. 283 00:19:15,852 --> 00:19:18,320 Bad timing, funeral and all, but... 284 00:19:19,756 --> 00:19:22,054 I figured since we're on the subject of death... 285 00:19:22,125 --> 00:19:25,060 Here's the bus. I have to go bury my grandma. 286 00:19:29,533 --> 00:19:30,658 Lou... 287 00:19:31,902 --> 00:19:34,961 - then you'll come home? - Then I'll come home. 288 00:19:50,053 --> 00:19:51,419 Washington. 289 00:19:51,754 --> 00:19:54,188 - It's an incredible honor— - I have to think. 290 00:19:54,257 --> 00:19:56,020 - Of course. - Say no. 291 00:19:56,492 --> 00:20:00,292 - You said you were gonna think about it. - I don't wanna move to Washington. 292 00:20:00,363 --> 00:20:01,763 Well, I do. 293 00:20:01,832 --> 00:20:06,098 It's a giant cemetery. Huge white graves. Mausoleums everywhere. 294 00:20:06,170 --> 00:20:08,501 We could live in Maryland or Georgetown. 295 00:20:08,571 --> 00:20:11,369 - We're happy here. - That's not really true, buddy. 296 00:20:11,441 --> 00:20:14,502 Happy enough, pretend happy, it's better than nothing. 297 00:20:14,578 --> 00:20:18,241 - It's time we make some changes, Harper. - No changes. Why? 298 00:20:18,315 --> 00:20:20,442 I've been chief clerk for four years. 299 00:20:20,517 --> 00:20:23,576 I make $29,000 a year. That's ridiculous. 300 00:20:23,820 --> 00:20:27,415 I graduated fourth in my class, I make less than anyone I know. 301 00:20:28,926 --> 00:20:31,019 I'm tired of being a clerk. 302 00:20:31,495 --> 00:20:33,690 I wanna go where something good is happening. 303 00:20:33,763 --> 00:20:36,493 Nothing good happens in Washington. 304 00:20:37,133 --> 00:20:39,466 We'll forget Church teachings... 305 00:20:40,103 --> 00:20:43,334 and buy furniture at Conran's... 306 00:20:43,406 --> 00:20:45,067 and become yuppies. 307 00:20:45,141 --> 00:20:47,975 - I have too much to do here. - Like what? 308 00:20:48,545 --> 00:20:51,411 - I do have things. - What things? 309 00:20:51,881 --> 00:20:53,849 I have to finish painting the bedroom. 310 00:20:53,917 --> 00:20:56,044 You've been painting in there for over a year. 311 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,646 I know, it just isn't done, because I never get time to finish it. 312 00:20:59,722 --> 00:21:01,690 That doesn't make sense. 313 00:21:01,958 --> 00:21:03,892 You have all the time in the world. 314 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,556 - You could finish it when I'm at work. - I'm afraid to go in there alone. 315 00:21:07,630 --> 00:21:09,996 - Afraid of what? - I heard something in there. 316 00:21:10,066 --> 00:21:12,864 Metal scraping on the wall, a man with a knife, maybe. 317 00:21:12,936 --> 00:21:14,597 There's no one in the bedroom. 318 00:21:14,671 --> 00:21:16,866 - Not now. - Not this morning, either. 319 00:21:16,940 --> 00:21:19,637 How do you know? You were at work this morning. 320 00:21:19,944 --> 00:21:23,106 There's something creepy about this place. Remember Rosemary's Baby? 321 00:21:23,179 --> 00:21:25,773 - Rosemary's Baby? - Our apartment looks like that one. 322 00:21:25,848 --> 00:21:27,577 - Wasn't that apartment in Brooklyn? - No. 323 00:21:27,650 --> 00:21:29,481 Well, it looked like this. 324 00:21:29,552 --> 00:21:31,383 - It did. - Then let's move. 325 00:21:31,454 --> 00:21:34,481 Georgetown is worse. The Exorcist was in Georgetown. 326 00:21:34,558 --> 00:21:37,720 - The devil everywhere you turn, buddy? - Yeah, everywhere. 327 00:21:38,696 --> 00:21:40,287 How many pills today, buddy? 328 00:21:41,298 --> 00:21:42,423 None. 329 00:21:44,734 --> 00:21:45,928 One. 330 00:21:48,104 --> 00:21:49,800 Three, only three. 331 00:22:13,796 --> 00:22:15,821 Thank you, that was a lovely... 332 00:22:16,499 --> 00:22:18,490 My grandma, just buried. 333 00:22:23,773 --> 00:22:27,140 Why are there just two little wooden pegs holding the lid down? 334 00:22:27,210 --> 00:22:30,145 So that she can get out easier if she wants to. 335 00:22:30,213 --> 00:22:31,772 I hope she stays put. 336 00:22:32,049 --> 00:22:35,381 I pretended for years that she was already dead. 337 00:22:35,618 --> 00:22:39,714 When they called to say she had died, it was a surprise. I had abandoned her. 338 00:22:46,764 --> 00:22:48,493 I don't speak Yiddish. 339 00:22:48,565 --> 00:22:52,432 Sharper than the serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child. 340 00:22:53,936 --> 00:22:55,370 Shakespeare. 341 00:22:56,773 --> 00:22:58,104 King Lear. 342 00:22:59,008 --> 00:23:00,805 Rabbi, what does the Holy Writ say... 343 00:23:00,877 --> 00:23:03,175 about someone who abandons someone he loves... 344 00:23:03,246 --> 00:23:05,214 at a time of great need? 345 00:23:05,381 --> 00:23:07,850 Why would a person do such a thing? 346 00:23:12,922 --> 00:23:14,288 Because he has to. 347 00:23:14,358 --> 00:23:16,349 Maybe this person can't... 348 00:23:17,326 --> 00:23:21,319 incorporate sickness into his sense of how things are supposed to go. 349 00:23:21,397 --> 00:23:25,128 Maybe vomit and sores and disease really frighten him. 350 00:23:26,637 --> 00:23:28,764 Maybe he isn't so good with death. 351 00:23:33,776 --> 00:23:37,075 The Holy Scripture has nothing to say about such a person. 352 00:23:38,314 --> 00:23:40,748 Rabbi, I'm afraid of the crimes I may commit. 353 00:23:40,817 --> 00:23:44,548 Please, mister, I'm a sick old rabbi... 354 00:23:44,620 --> 00:23:47,282 facing a long drive home to the Bronx. 355 00:23:49,358 --> 00:23:52,453 You want to confess, better you should find a priest. 356 00:23:53,396 --> 00:23:55,455 I'm not a Catholic, I'm a Jew. 357 00:23:55,531 --> 00:23:57,522 Worse luck for you, bubeleh. 358 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,536 Catholics believe in forgiveness. Jews believe in guilt. 359 00:24:03,107 --> 00:24:04,334 Thanks. 360 00:24:05,109 --> 00:24:07,872 You just make sure those pegs are in good and tight. 361 00:24:07,944 --> 00:24:11,506 Don't worry, mister, the life she had, she'll stay put. 362 00:24:13,015 --> 00:24:14,346 She's better off. 363 00:24:28,865 --> 00:24:29,854 Look... 364 00:24:30,467 --> 00:24:33,902 I know this is scary for you, but try to understand what it means to me. 365 00:24:33,970 --> 00:24:35,460 - Will you try? - Yes. 366 00:24:35,538 --> 00:24:37,836 Good. Really try. 367 00:24:40,276 --> 00:24:42,540 Things are starting to change in the world. 368 00:24:42,612 --> 00:24:45,309 - I don't wanna— - Wait. For the good. 369 00:24:45,382 --> 00:24:46,575 Change for the good. 370 00:24:46,649 --> 00:24:49,015 America has rediscovered itself. 371 00:24:49,986 --> 00:24:52,284 Its sacred position among nations. 372 00:24:52,355 --> 00:24:55,051 People aren't ashamed of it like they used to be. 373 00:24:55,124 --> 00:24:58,651 This is a great thing. The truth restored, law restored. 374 00:24:58,995 --> 00:25:01,520 That's what President Reagan's done, Harper. 375 00:25:01,764 --> 00:25:04,927 He says truth exists and can be spoken proudly... 376 00:25:05,501 --> 00:25:07,526 and the country responds to him. 377 00:25:08,070 --> 00:25:11,267 We become better, more good. 378 00:25:12,943 --> 00:25:16,845 I need to be a part of that. I need something big to lift me up. 379 00:25:17,747 --> 00:25:20,841 Six years ago, the world seemed in decline... 380 00:25:20,917 --> 00:25:23,784 horrible, hopeless, full of unsolvable problems... 381 00:25:23,853 --> 00:25:25,685 and crime, confusion, hunger... 382 00:25:25,755 --> 00:25:28,656 But it still seems that way, more now than before. 383 00:25:28,724 --> 00:25:30,419 You see the ozone layer... 384 00:25:30,493 --> 00:25:32,654 Today out the window on Atlantic Avenue... 385 00:25:32,728 --> 00:25:35,697 there was this schizophrenic traffic cop who was making— 386 00:25:35,765 --> 00:25:37,824 Will you stop it? I'm trying to make a point. 387 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:40,061 - So am l. - You aren't even making sense. 388 00:25:40,137 --> 00:25:41,831 My point is the world seems just— 389 00:25:41,904 --> 00:25:44,601 It only seems that way to you because you never go out... 390 00:25:44,675 --> 00:25:46,802 and you have emotional problems. 391 00:25:50,513 --> 00:25:53,142 - I do so get out in the world. - No, you don't. 392 00:25:53,749 --> 00:25:56,377 You stay in all day fretting about imaginary— 393 00:25:56,452 --> 00:25:57,680 I get out. 394 00:25:58,020 --> 00:26:00,147 I do. You don't know what I do. 395 00:26:00,223 --> 00:26:02,384 - You don't stay in all day? - No. 396 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,321 - Yes, you do. - That's what you think. 397 00:26:06,562 --> 00:26:09,030 - Where do you go? - Where do you go when you walk? 398 00:26:09,098 --> 00:26:12,068 - And I do not have emotional problems. - I'm sorry. 399 00:26:12,135 --> 00:26:15,103 If I do have emotional problems, it's from living with you or— 400 00:26:15,171 --> 00:26:16,469 I'm sorry, I didn't mean— 401 00:26:16,539 --> 00:26:19,804 Then you should have never married me. You have all these... 402 00:26:19,875 --> 00:26:21,638 secrets and lies. 403 00:26:23,479 --> 00:26:27,472 - I want to be married to you, Harper. - You shouldn't. You never should... 404 00:26:46,569 --> 00:26:48,060 Hey, buddy. 405 00:26:55,111 --> 00:26:56,511 Buddy kiss. 406 00:27:01,951 --> 00:27:04,887 I heard on the radio how to give a blow job. 407 00:27:05,621 --> 00:27:07,384 - What? - Do you want to try? 408 00:27:07,456 --> 00:27:10,391 - You shouldn't listen to such— - Mormons can give blow jobs. 409 00:27:13,330 --> 00:27:16,196 It was a little Jewish lady with a German accent. 410 00:27:18,601 --> 00:27:21,365 Now is a good time for me to make a baby. 411 00:27:39,322 --> 00:27:43,281 Then they went on to a program about holes in the ozone layer... 412 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:45,752 over Antarctica. 413 00:27:47,963 --> 00:27:49,431 Skin burns... 414 00:27:50,633 --> 00:27:52,464 birds go blind... 415 00:27:53,169 --> 00:27:54,966 icebergs melt. 416 00:27:57,874 --> 00:28:00,069 The world's coming to an end. 417 00:28:27,269 --> 00:28:29,738 - Morning. - Good morning, Counselor. 418 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:32,464 Sorry, I don't know your name. 419 00:28:32,541 --> 00:28:35,978 Don't bother. A word processor, the lowest of the low. 420 00:28:36,178 --> 00:28:39,045 - Joe Pitt, I'm with Justice Wilson. - I know that. 421 00:28:39,115 --> 00:28:41,242 Counselor Pitt, Chief Clerk. 422 00:28:42,319 --> 00:28:44,786 - Are you okay? - Yes, thanks. 423 00:28:45,755 --> 00:28:47,313 What a nice man. 424 00:28:47,790 --> 00:28:49,917 - Not so nice. - What? 425 00:28:51,193 --> 00:28:53,388 Not so nice. Nothing. 426 00:29:11,046 --> 00:29:12,104 What's wrong? 427 00:29:12,181 --> 00:29:14,649 - Life just sucks shit. - I'm sorry? 428 00:29:15,951 --> 00:29:17,248 Forget it. 429 00:29:18,888 --> 00:29:20,583 Thanks for asking. 430 00:29:22,024 --> 00:29:24,687 I mean, it really is nice of you. 431 00:29:26,429 --> 00:29:29,523 - Sorry. Sick friend. - I'm sorry. 432 00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:32,162 That's sweet. 433 00:29:32,234 --> 00:29:35,363 Three of your colleagues have preceded you to this baleful sight... 434 00:29:35,438 --> 00:29:36,996 and you're the first one to ask. 435 00:29:37,072 --> 00:29:39,870 The others just opened the door, saw me, and fled. 436 00:29:39,942 --> 00:29:42,308 I hope they had to pee real bad. 437 00:29:42,378 --> 00:29:44,437 They just didn't want to intrude. 438 00:29:44,513 --> 00:29:48,041 Reaganite, heartless, macho, asshole lawyers. 439 00:29:48,117 --> 00:29:49,607 That's unfair. 440 00:29:50,286 --> 00:29:52,846 What is? Heartless, macho, Reaganite... 441 00:29:53,255 --> 00:29:54,382 Iawyer? 442 00:29:54,990 --> 00:29:57,481 - I voted for Reagan. - You did? 443 00:29:58,628 --> 00:30:00,822 - Twice. - Twice! 444 00:30:02,531 --> 00:30:04,692 - Well, oh, boy, a gay Republican. - Excuse me? 445 00:30:04,767 --> 00:30:05,859 Nothing. 446 00:30:06,235 --> 00:30:08,829 I'm not... No, forget it. 447 00:30:08,904 --> 00:30:11,031 Republican, not Republican? 448 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:12,698 What? 449 00:30:12,775 --> 00:30:14,970 - What? - Not gay. I'm not gay. 450 00:30:16,946 --> 00:30:18,072 Sorry. 451 00:30:21,550 --> 00:30:23,177 It's just that... 452 00:30:24,053 --> 00:30:25,145 Yes? 453 00:30:25,821 --> 00:30:28,256 Sometimes you can tell from the way a person sounds. 454 00:30:28,324 --> 00:30:30,316 - You sound— - No, I don't. 455 00:30:30,693 --> 00:30:32,923 - Like what? - Like a Republican. 456 00:30:35,631 --> 00:30:37,929 Do I sound like a... 457 00:30:38,901 --> 00:30:41,267 What, like a Republican? 458 00:30:41,570 --> 00:30:43,333 Or do l? 459 00:30:43,772 --> 00:30:45,330 - Do you what? - Sound like a— 460 00:30:45,407 --> 00:30:46,999 Yeah, like a... 461 00:30:50,246 --> 00:30:52,771 - I'm confused. - Yes. 462 00:30:53,883 --> 00:30:56,579 My name is Louis, but all my friends call me Louise. 463 00:30:56,652 --> 00:30:59,917 I work in word processing. Thanks for the toilet paper. 464 00:34:21,022 --> 00:34:23,321 "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille." 465 00:34:24,793 --> 00:34:28,229 One wants to move through life with elegance and grace. 466 00:34:28,764 --> 00:34:32,461 Blossoming infrequently, but with exquisite taste... 467 00:34:33,001 --> 00:34:34,764 and perfect timing. 468 00:34:35,504 --> 00:34:37,495 Like a rare bloom... 469 00:34:38,474 --> 00:34:40,408 a zebra orchid. 470 00:34:41,844 --> 00:34:43,607 One wants... 471 00:34:44,780 --> 00:34:48,613 but one so seldom gets what one wants. 472 00:34:48,683 --> 00:34:50,083 Does one? 473 00:34:51,286 --> 00:34:52,378 No. 474 00:34:52,854 --> 00:34:54,413 One does not. 475 00:34:56,525 --> 00:34:59,254 One gets fucked over. 476 00:35:00,963 --> 00:35:02,828 One dies at 30. 477 00:35:04,466 --> 00:35:07,094 Robbed of decades of majesty— 478 00:35:07,169 --> 00:35:08,727 Fuck this shit. 479 00:35:14,108 --> 00:35:15,940 I look like a corpse. 480 00:35:16,979 --> 00:35:18,378 A corpse-ette. 481 00:35:20,248 --> 00:35:21,648 My queen! 482 00:35:23,418 --> 00:35:27,514 You know you've hit rock bottom when even drag is a drag. 483 00:35:45,073 --> 00:35:46,506 Who are you? 484 00:35:47,242 --> 00:35:48,675 Who are you? 485 00:35:49,778 --> 00:35:51,769 What are you doing in my hallucination? 486 00:35:51,847 --> 00:35:54,816 I'm not in your hallucination. You're in my dream. 487 00:35:55,150 --> 00:35:56,742 You're wearing makeup. 488 00:35:56,919 --> 00:35:59,183 - So are you. - But you're a man. 489 00:36:02,090 --> 00:36:04,115 My hands and feet give it away. 490 00:36:06,894 --> 00:36:10,387 There must be some mistake here. I don't recognize you. 491 00:36:13,802 --> 00:36:15,291 Are you my... 492 00:36:16,305 --> 00:36:19,535 - some sort of imaginary friend? - No. 493 00:36:19,607 --> 00:36:21,802 Aren't you too old to have imaginary friends? 494 00:36:21,876 --> 00:36:25,074 I have emotional problems, I took too many pills. 495 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,077 Why are you wearing makeup? 496 00:36:27,382 --> 00:36:31,341 I was in the process of applying the face, trying to make myself feel better. 497 00:36:31,420 --> 00:36:34,912 I swiped the new fall colors at the Clinique counter at Macy's. 498 00:36:35,023 --> 00:36:36,888 You stole these? 499 00:36:36,959 --> 00:36:40,087 I was out of cash, it was an emotional emergency. 500 00:36:41,463 --> 00:36:44,694 Joe will be so angry. I promised him no more pills. 501 00:36:44,932 --> 00:36:46,991 These pills you keep alluding to... 502 00:36:47,068 --> 00:36:49,663 Valium, I take Valium. Lots of Valium. 503 00:36:49,738 --> 00:36:51,534 And you're dancing as fast as you can. 504 00:36:51,607 --> 00:36:55,770 I'm not addicted. I don't believe in addiction and l... 505 00:36:56,745 --> 00:37:00,806 - I never drink and I never take drugs. - Smell you, Nancy Drew. 506 00:37:01,149 --> 00:37:04,516 - Except for Valium. - Except Valium in wee fistfuls. 507 00:37:05,053 --> 00:37:08,180 It's terrible. Mormons are not supposed to be addicted to anything. 508 00:37:08,256 --> 00:37:10,817 - I'm a Mormon. - I'm a homosexual. 509 00:37:13,662 --> 00:37:16,324 In my church, we don't believe in homosexuals. 510 00:37:16,431 --> 00:37:18,898 In my church, we don't believe in Mormons. 511 00:37:19,033 --> 00:37:20,729 What church do... 512 00:37:24,139 --> 00:37:25,127 I get it. 513 00:37:27,408 --> 00:37:29,206 I don't understand this. 514 00:37:29,477 --> 00:37:32,003 If I didn't ever see you before... 515 00:37:32,981 --> 00:37:36,712 and I don't think I did, then I don't think you should be here... 516 00:37:37,386 --> 00:37:39,354 in this hallucination... 517 00:37:41,223 --> 00:37:45,159 because in my experience, the mind, which is where hallucinations come from... 518 00:37:45,227 --> 00:37:48,684 shouldn't be able to make up anything that wasn't there to start with... 519 00:37:48,764 --> 00:37:51,927 that didn't enter it from experience from the real world. 520 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,169 Imagination can't create anything new, can it? 521 00:37:56,438 --> 00:38:00,966 It only recycles bits and pieces from the world... 522 00:38:02,210 --> 00:38:06,203 and reassembles them into visions. Am I making sense right now? 523 00:38:06,581 --> 00:38:08,640 Given the circumstances, yes. 524 00:38:08,984 --> 00:38:13,114 When we think we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness... 525 00:38:15,957 --> 00:38:18,016 and untruthfulness of our lives... 526 00:38:18,092 --> 00:38:21,426 it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged... 527 00:38:21,496 --> 00:38:26,331 into the appearance of novelty and truth. 528 00:38:27,602 --> 00:38:29,661 Nothing unknown is knowable. 529 00:38:34,076 --> 00:38:36,408 Don't you think it's depressing? 530 00:38:36,678 --> 00:38:39,909 - The limitations of the imagination? - Yes. 531 00:38:40,882 --> 00:38:43,406 It's something you learn after your second theme party. 532 00:38:43,484 --> 00:38:45,543 It's all been done before. 533 00:38:46,588 --> 00:38:48,954 The world, finite... 534 00:38:49,924 --> 00:38:51,187 terribly... 535 00:38:54,295 --> 00:38:57,732 This is the most depressing hallucination I ever had. 536 00:38:58,499 --> 00:39:00,991 Apologies. I do try to be amusing. 537 00:39:01,503 --> 00:39:03,630 Don't apologize, you... 538 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,601 I can't expect someone who's really sick to entertain me. 539 00:39:18,387 --> 00:39:21,254 - How on earth did you know? - That happens. 540 00:39:21,323 --> 00:39:25,419 This is the very threshold of revelations sometimes. You can see things. 541 00:39:25,494 --> 00:39:27,155 How sick you are. 542 00:39:29,097 --> 00:39:30,962 Do you see anything about me? 543 00:39:32,333 --> 00:39:34,324 - Yes. - What? 544 00:39:36,437 --> 00:39:40,067 - You are amazingly unhappy. - Big deal. 545 00:39:40,142 --> 00:39:42,769 You meet a Valium addict, you figure out she's unhappy... 546 00:39:42,843 --> 00:39:45,574 that doesn't count. Of course... Something else? 547 00:39:45,647 --> 00:39:47,740 Something surprising? 548 00:39:47,816 --> 00:39:49,579 - Something surprising? - Yes. 549 00:39:49,651 --> 00:39:51,413 Your husband's a homo. 550 00:39:52,854 --> 00:39:54,253 Ridiculous. 551 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,586 - Really? - Threshold of revelation. 552 00:40:04,298 --> 00:40:08,496 I don't like your revelations. I don't think you intuit well at all. 553 00:40:09,604 --> 00:40:11,595 Joe's a very normal man. 554 00:40:13,675 --> 00:40:15,108 Oh, God! 555 00:40:21,983 --> 00:40:25,817 Do homos take, like, lots of long walks? 556 00:40:27,756 --> 00:40:31,852 Yes, we do. In stretch pants with lavender coifs. 557 00:40:33,461 --> 00:40:37,989 - I just looked at you and there was— - A sort of blue streak of recognition. 558 00:40:38,065 --> 00:40:40,295 - Yes. - Like you knew me incredibly well. 559 00:40:40,368 --> 00:40:41,733 - Yes. - Yes. 560 00:40:42,437 --> 00:40:45,235 I have to go now, get back, something just... 561 00:40:45,941 --> 00:40:47,340 fell apart. 562 00:40:48,642 --> 00:40:49,905 Oh, God! 563 00:40:50,744 --> 00:40:53,043 I feel so sad. 564 00:40:57,218 --> 00:40:58,550 I'm sorry. 565 00:40:59,621 --> 00:41:01,851 I usually say fuck the truth. 566 00:41:03,023 --> 00:41:05,321 But mostly the truth fucks you. 567 00:41:08,096 --> 00:41:10,223 I see something else about you. 568 00:41:13,268 --> 00:41:16,236 Deep inside you, there's a part of you... 569 00:41:16,303 --> 00:41:18,168 the most inner part... 570 00:41:20,374 --> 00:41:23,003 entirely free of disease. 571 00:41:25,580 --> 00:41:27,138 I can see that. 572 00:41:28,983 --> 00:41:30,383 Is that... 573 00:41:32,154 --> 00:41:33,746 That isn't true. 574 00:41:33,989 --> 00:41:35,820 Threshold of revelation. 575 00:41:43,297 --> 00:41:46,631 People come and go so strangely here. 576 00:42:06,188 --> 00:42:09,122 I don't think there is any uninfected part of me. 577 00:42:09,190 --> 00:42:11,716 My heart is pumping polluted blood. 578 00:42:14,262 --> 00:42:15,558 I feel dirty. 579 00:42:56,438 --> 00:42:57,927 Look up. 580 00:43:00,575 --> 00:43:01,768 Hello? 581 00:43:02,109 --> 00:43:03,576 Look up! 582 00:43:03,877 --> 00:43:05,243 Who is that? 583 00:43:05,347 --> 00:43:08,281 Look up. Prepare the way. 584 00:43:09,484 --> 00:43:10,781 I don't see any— 585 00:43:10,852 --> 00:43:13,377 Prepare for the parting of the air... 586 00:43:13,455 --> 00:43:15,923 the breath, the ascent. 587 00:43:16,390 --> 00:43:18,256 Glory to— 588 00:43:33,041 --> 00:43:34,565 What the fuck. 589 00:43:36,711 --> 00:43:37,904 Hello! 590 00:43:41,082 --> 00:43:42,412 Is that it? 591 00:43:43,752 --> 00:43:44,912 Hello! 592 00:43:49,090 --> 00:43:50,420 Poor me. 593 00:43:51,726 --> 00:43:53,626 Poor, poor me. Why me? 594 00:43:54,129 --> 00:43:55,824 Why poor, poor me? 595 00:44:00,035 --> 00:44:02,595 I don't feel good right now. I really don't. 596 00:44:42,510 --> 00:44:43,737 Harper? 597 00:44:53,355 --> 00:44:54,879 Where were you? 598 00:44:56,925 --> 00:44:58,585 - Where were you? - Out. 599 00:44:58,726 --> 00:45:01,127 - Where? - Just out, thinking. 600 00:45:01,363 --> 00:45:02,351 It's late. 601 00:45:02,429 --> 00:45:05,228 - I had a lot to think about. - I burned dinner. 602 00:45:05,300 --> 00:45:06,323 I'm sorry. 603 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,732 Not my dinner. My dinner was fine. Your dinner. 604 00:45:08,802 --> 00:45:11,829 I put it back in the oven and turned everything up high... 605 00:45:11,906 --> 00:45:13,532 and I watched till it burned black. 606 00:45:13,608 --> 00:45:15,735 It's still hot, very hot, want it? 607 00:45:16,077 --> 00:45:17,407 You didn't have to do that. 608 00:45:17,478 --> 00:45:19,776 I know. It just seemed like the kind of thing... 609 00:45:19,847 --> 00:45:23,442 a mentally deranged, sex-starved, pill-popping housewife would do. 610 00:45:23,517 --> 00:45:25,883 So I did it. Who knows anymore what I have to do? 611 00:45:25,953 --> 00:45:28,514 - How many pills? - A bunch. Don't change the subject. 612 00:45:28,590 --> 00:45:32,047 - I won't talk to you. - No, don't do that. I'm fine. 613 00:45:32,126 --> 00:45:34,094 Pills are not the problem, not our problem. 614 00:45:34,161 --> 00:45:37,529 I wanna know where you've been, and I wanna know what's going on. 615 00:45:37,599 --> 00:45:39,590 - Going on with what? The job? - Not the job. 616 00:45:39,667 --> 00:45:40,928 I said I needed more time. 617 00:45:41,001 --> 00:45:43,937 I talked to Mr. Cohn on the phone, he said that I had to hurry. 618 00:45:44,005 --> 00:45:46,700 - But I can't get you to talk sensibly about— - Shut up! 619 00:45:46,774 --> 00:45:50,006 - Stick to the subject! - I don't know what that is! 620 00:45:50,412 --> 00:45:53,312 You have something you wanna ask me, ask me. 621 00:45:55,015 --> 00:45:56,574 Ask me. Go. 622 00:45:58,319 --> 00:46:00,412 I can't. I'm scared of you. 623 00:46:02,323 --> 00:46:04,484 I'm tired. I'm going to bed. 624 00:46:16,603 --> 00:46:18,696 Tell me without making me ask, please. 625 00:46:18,772 --> 00:46:20,797 This is crazy. I'm not... 626 00:46:27,347 --> 00:46:28,781 When you come through the door... 627 00:46:28,849 --> 00:46:32,445 your face is never exactly the way I remembered it. 628 00:46:34,589 --> 00:46:38,582 I get surprised by something mean and hard about the way you look... 629 00:46:38,660 --> 00:46:41,958 even the weight of you in the bed at night... 630 00:46:42,029 --> 00:46:44,554 the way you breathe in your sleep... 631 00:46:45,333 --> 00:46:49,326 seems unfamiliar. You terrify me. 632 00:46:50,938 --> 00:46:52,701 I know who you are. 633 00:46:53,208 --> 00:46:56,006 Yes, I'm the enemy. That's easy. That doesn't change. 634 00:46:56,077 --> 00:46:59,477 You think you're the only who hates sex? I do. I hate it with you. 635 00:46:59,547 --> 00:47:03,209 I dream that you batter away at me till my joints come apart like wax... 636 00:47:03,283 --> 00:47:06,185 and I fall into pieces. It's like a punishment. 637 00:47:06,254 --> 00:47:09,188 It was wrong of me to marry you. I knew... 638 00:47:14,662 --> 00:47:17,187 It's a sin and it's killing us both. 639 00:47:17,265 --> 00:47:21,395 I can always tell you've taken pills because it makes you red-faced and sweaty. 640 00:47:21,469 --> 00:47:24,835 And frankly, that's very often why I don't want to... 641 00:47:25,139 --> 00:47:27,869 - Because... - Because you aren't pretty. 642 00:47:29,644 --> 00:47:31,133 Not like this. 643 00:47:32,679 --> 00:47:35,740 - I have something I wanna ask— - Then ask! What the hell are you— 644 00:47:35,817 --> 00:47:37,443 Are you a homo? 645 00:47:38,319 --> 00:47:39,546 Are you? 646 00:47:43,690 --> 00:47:45,157 You try to walk out right now... 647 00:47:45,225 --> 00:47:48,252 I'll put your dinner back in the oven and turn it up so high... 648 00:47:48,329 --> 00:47:52,025 the building will fill with smoke, and everyone in it will asphyxiate. 649 00:47:52,099 --> 00:47:55,160 So help me God, I will. Now answer the question. 650 00:47:59,574 --> 00:48:03,476 - What if l... - Then tell me, please, and we'll see. 651 00:48:08,649 --> 00:48:09,639 No. 652 00:48:10,651 --> 00:48:11,949 I'm not. 653 00:48:13,587 --> 00:48:16,182 I don't see what difference it makes. 654 00:48:39,647 --> 00:48:43,207 Jews don't have any clear textual guide to the afterlife. 655 00:48:43,985 --> 00:48:45,976 I mean even that it exists. 656 00:48:47,387 --> 00:48:49,116 I don't think much about it. 657 00:48:49,189 --> 00:48:53,125 I see it as a perpetual rainy Thursday afternoon in March... 658 00:48:53,594 --> 00:48:55,152 dead leaves... 659 00:48:55,963 --> 00:48:57,487 Very Greco-Roman. 660 00:48:57,564 --> 00:49:00,728 For us, it's not the verdict that counts, it's the act of judgment. 661 00:49:00,802 --> 00:49:04,533 That's why I can never be a lawyer. In court, all that matters is the verdict. 662 00:49:04,606 --> 00:49:07,006 You can never be a lawyer because you're oversexed. 663 00:49:07,075 --> 00:49:08,371 And too distracted. 664 00:49:08,442 --> 00:49:10,535 Not distracted, abstracted. 665 00:49:10,611 --> 00:49:12,738 - I'm trying to make a point. - Namely? 666 00:49:12,813 --> 00:49:14,747 The shaping of the law, not its execution. 667 00:49:14,815 --> 00:49:16,646 The point, dear, the point. 668 00:49:16,717 --> 00:49:20,154 That it should be the questions and shape of a life... 669 00:49:20,220 --> 00:49:24,782 its total complexity, gathered, arranged, and considered... 670 00:49:24,858 --> 00:49:26,587 which matters in the end. 671 00:49:26,660 --> 00:49:29,686 Not some stamp of salvation or damnation... 672 00:49:30,764 --> 00:49:34,758 which disperses all the complexity in some unsatisfying little decision. 673 00:49:34,836 --> 00:49:37,668 - The balancing of the scales— - I like this. 674 00:49:37,738 --> 00:49:39,036 Very Zen. 675 00:49:39,140 --> 00:49:41,937 It's reassuringly incomprehensible and useless. 676 00:49:42,009 --> 00:49:44,534 We, who are about to die, thank you. 677 00:49:46,780 --> 00:49:48,771 You are not about to die. 678 00:49:50,917 --> 00:49:53,044 It's not going well, really. 679 00:49:54,821 --> 00:49:56,516 Two new lesions... 680 00:49:57,458 --> 00:50:01,325 my leg hurts, there's protein in my urine, the doctor says... 681 00:50:01,395 --> 00:50:04,796 but who know what the fuck that portends. 682 00:50:04,865 --> 00:50:07,698 Anyway it shouldn't be there. The protein. 683 00:50:09,670 --> 00:50:12,104 My butt is chapped from diarrhea. 684 00:50:12,874 --> 00:50:15,307 And yesterday I shat blood. 685 00:50:20,514 --> 00:50:22,277 I really hate this. 686 00:50:23,384 --> 00:50:25,943 - You don't tell me— - You get too upset. 687 00:50:26,019 --> 00:50:28,146 I wind up comforting you. 688 00:50:29,056 --> 00:50:31,491 - It's easier. - Oh, thanks. 689 00:50:31,659 --> 00:50:33,593 If it's bad, I'll tell you. 690 00:50:34,961 --> 00:50:37,293 Shitting blood sounds bad to me. 691 00:50:37,899 --> 00:50:40,628 - I'm telling you— - And I'm handling it. 692 00:50:40,801 --> 00:50:43,167 Tell me some more about justice. 693 00:50:45,038 --> 00:50:46,700 I am handling it. 694 00:50:47,641 --> 00:50:50,509 Well, Louis, you win trooper of the month. 695 00:50:52,513 --> 00:50:55,572 I take it back. You aren't trooper of the month. 696 00:50:57,452 --> 00:50:59,215 This isn't working. 697 00:51:00,821 --> 00:51:03,051 Tell me some more about justice. 698 00:51:04,991 --> 00:51:06,925 You are not about to die. 699 00:51:08,662 --> 00:51:11,358 - Justice... - ls an immensity, it's confusing. 700 00:51:12,299 --> 00:51:14,291 Vastness, justice is God. 701 00:51:18,606 --> 00:51:19,799 Prior. 702 00:51:23,744 --> 00:51:25,143 You love me? 703 00:51:25,979 --> 00:51:27,038 Yes. 704 00:51:28,783 --> 00:51:31,013 What if I walked out on this? 705 00:51:31,718 --> 00:51:33,743 Would you hate me forever? 706 00:51:42,329 --> 00:51:43,422 Yes. 707 00:52:05,052 --> 00:52:07,077 I think we ought to pray. 708 00:52:08,522 --> 00:52:10,183 Ask God for help. 709 00:52:10,690 --> 00:52:12,351 Ask him together. 710 00:52:12,726 --> 00:52:14,557 God won't talk to me. 711 00:52:14,661 --> 00:52:18,062 - I have to make up people to talk to me. - You have to keep asking. 712 00:52:18,131 --> 00:52:19,997 I forgot the question. 713 00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,796 - Oh, yeah. God, is my husband a homo? - Stop it! 714 00:52:24,538 --> 00:52:26,166 I'm warning you! 715 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:30,736 Does it make any difference that I might be one thing deep within? 716 00:52:31,077 --> 00:52:33,409 No matter how wrong or ugly that thing is... 717 00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,917 so long as I have fought with everything I have to kill it? 718 00:52:37,517 --> 00:52:39,348 What do you want from me? 719 00:52:39,419 --> 00:52:42,616 What do you want from me, Harper, more than that? 720 00:52:42,690 --> 00:52:45,181 For God's sake, there's nothing left. 721 00:52:45,259 --> 00:52:48,125 I'm a shell. There's nothing left to kill. 722 00:52:50,230 --> 00:52:53,893 As long as my behavior is what I know it has to be, decent, correct... 723 00:52:53,967 --> 00:52:55,765 that alone in the eyes of God... 724 00:52:55,837 --> 00:53:00,171 No, not that. That's Utah talk, Mormon talk. I hate it, Joe. 725 00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:01,298 Tell me, say it. 726 00:53:01,374 --> 00:53:03,638 All I will say is that I'm a very good man... 727 00:53:03,710 --> 00:53:06,009 who has worked very hard to become good... 728 00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,047 and you wanna destroy that. 729 00:53:08,115 --> 00:53:11,242 You wanna destroy me but I am not gonna let you do that. 730 00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:15,985 I'm gonna have a baby. 731 00:53:17,390 --> 00:53:19,255 - Liar. - You liar. 732 00:53:21,862 --> 00:53:24,126 A baby born addicted to pills. 733 00:53:24,297 --> 00:53:27,358 A baby who does not dream, but who hallucinates... 734 00:53:27,435 --> 00:53:30,665 who stares up at us with big mirror eyes... 735 00:53:30,737 --> 00:53:33,137 and who does not know who we are. 736 00:53:35,843 --> 00:53:37,605 - Are you really? - No. 737 00:53:39,045 --> 00:53:40,104 Yes. 738 00:53:41,681 --> 00:53:42,909 No. Yes. 739 00:53:43,583 --> 00:53:45,050 Get away from me. 740 00:53:45,118 --> 00:53:47,143 Now we both have a secret. 741 00:53:53,526 --> 00:53:55,585 Nobody knows what causes it. 742 00:53:56,496 --> 00:53:58,828 And nobody knows how to cure it. 743 00:53:59,499 --> 00:54:02,491 The best theory is that we blame a retrovirus. 744 00:54:02,836 --> 00:54:05,271 The human immunodeficiency virus. 745 00:54:05,805 --> 00:54:08,740 Its presence is made known to us by the useless antibodies... 746 00:54:08,808 --> 00:54:12,437 which appear in reaction to its entrance into the bloodstream through a cut. 747 00:54:12,512 --> 00:54:14,003 Or an orifice. 748 00:54:14,314 --> 00:54:17,112 The antibodies are powerless to protect the body against it. 749 00:54:17,183 --> 00:54:19,208 Why? We don't know. 750 00:54:20,121 --> 00:54:22,419 The body's immune system ceases to function. 751 00:54:22,490 --> 00:54:25,219 Sometimes the body even attacks itself. 752 00:54:26,426 --> 00:54:30,624 At any rate, it's left open to a whole horror house of infections... 753 00:54:30,932 --> 00:54:33,729 from microbes it usually defends against. 754 00:54:34,534 --> 00:54:36,331 Like Kaposi's sarcomas... 755 00:54:36,403 --> 00:54:40,271 those lesions on your arms, or your throat problem. 756 00:54:40,340 --> 00:54:41,864 Or the glands. 757 00:54:42,842 --> 00:54:47,211 We think it may also be able to slip past the blood-brain barrier into the brain. 758 00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,608 Which is, of course, very bad news. 759 00:54:52,019 --> 00:54:56,785 It's fatal in we don't know what percent of people with suppressed immune responses. 760 00:55:01,194 --> 00:55:02,856 Very interesting... 761 00:55:04,130 --> 00:55:05,495 Mr. Wizard. 762 00:55:06,533 --> 00:55:08,798 Why the fuck are you telling me this? 763 00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:17,232 Well, I have just removed one of three lesions... 764 00:55:17,611 --> 00:55:22,047 which biopsy results will probably tell us is a Kaposi's sarcoma lesion. 765 00:55:22,649 --> 00:55:24,776 And you have a pronounced swelling of glands... 766 00:55:24,851 --> 00:55:27,251 in your neck, groin, and armpits. 767 00:55:27,821 --> 00:55:30,188 Lymphadenopathy is another sign. 768 00:55:30,324 --> 00:55:32,587 And you have oral candidiasis. 769 00:55:32,759 --> 00:55:35,250 And maybe a little more fungus under the fingernails... 770 00:55:35,328 --> 00:55:37,421 of two digits on your right hand. 771 00:55:38,365 --> 00:55:39,389 So? 772 00:55:39,699 --> 00:55:41,098 That's why I'm... 773 00:55:43,203 --> 00:55:45,296 - This disease... - Syndrome. 774 00:55:46,172 --> 00:55:47,434 Whatever. 775 00:55:48,208 --> 00:55:52,907 It afflicts mostly homosexuals and drug addicts. 776 00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:54,507 Mostly. 777 00:55:54,581 --> 00:55:56,515 Hemophiliacs are also at risk. 778 00:55:56,583 --> 00:55:58,517 Homosexuals and drug addicts. 779 00:55:58,585 --> 00:56:01,953 So why are you implying that l... 780 00:56:04,191 --> 00:56:06,352 What are you implying, Henry? 781 00:56:06,493 --> 00:56:09,792 - I don't think I was implying anything. - I'm not a drug addict. 782 00:56:09,863 --> 00:56:13,162 - Come on, Roy. - What? "Come on, Roy" what? 783 00:56:14,535 --> 00:56:16,765 You think I'm a junkie, Henry? 784 00:56:16,937 --> 00:56:18,665 Do you see tracks? 785 00:56:21,875 --> 00:56:23,433 This is absurd. 786 00:56:23,810 --> 00:56:25,176 So say it. 787 00:56:25,478 --> 00:56:26,775 Say what? 788 00:56:28,114 --> 00:56:30,309 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a..." 789 00:56:30,884 --> 00:56:33,284 - Roy. - "You are a..." Go on. 790 00:56:34,387 --> 00:56:38,187 Not, "Roy Cohn, you are a drug fiend." 791 00:56:38,358 --> 00:56:40,952 "Roy Marcus Cohn, you are a..." 792 00:56:42,063 --> 00:56:44,530 Go on, Henry, it starts with an "H." 793 00:56:44,798 --> 00:56:47,232 - I'm not gonna get into— - With an "H," Henry... 794 00:56:47,300 --> 00:56:49,393 and it isn't "hemophiliac." 795 00:56:50,070 --> 00:56:51,298 Come on! 796 00:56:52,873 --> 00:56:55,807 - Why are you doing this, Roy? - No, I mean it. Say it. 797 00:56:56,209 --> 00:56:59,610 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a homosexual." 798 00:57:02,048 --> 00:57:05,074 And I will proceed systematically... 799 00:57:05,151 --> 00:57:07,847 to destroy your reputation. 800 00:57:08,555 --> 00:57:10,022 And your practice. 801 00:57:10,457 --> 00:57:13,688 And your career in the state of New York, Henry. 802 00:57:14,627 --> 00:57:16,595 Which you know I can do. 803 00:57:20,134 --> 00:57:23,432 You have been seeing me since U958. 804 00:57:24,538 --> 00:57:28,166 Apart from the face lifts, I have treated you for everything from syphilis— 805 00:57:28,241 --> 00:57:29,572 From a whore in Dallas. 806 00:57:29,642 --> 00:57:33,510 from syphilis to venereal warts in your rectum... 807 00:57:33,580 --> 00:57:36,344 which you may have gotten from a whore in Dallas. 808 00:57:36,850 --> 00:57:38,818 But it wasn't a female whore. 809 00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:41,851 So say it. 810 00:57:44,457 --> 00:57:47,255 Roy Cohn, you are... 811 00:57:52,332 --> 00:57:55,961 You have had sex with men. Many, many times, Roy. 812 00:57:56,370 --> 00:57:59,930 And one of those men or any number of them has made you very sick. 813 00:58:01,074 --> 00:58:02,736 You have AlDS. 814 00:58:03,143 --> 00:58:04,235 AlDS? 815 00:58:05,812 --> 00:58:10,715 You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words... 816 00:58:12,285 --> 00:58:13,684 on labels... 817 00:58:14,220 --> 00:58:17,087 that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. 818 00:58:17,557 --> 00:58:20,117 AlDS, homosexual, gay, lesbian. 819 00:58:20,193 --> 00:58:23,185 You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with? 820 00:58:23,263 --> 00:58:25,163 - They don't tell you that. - No? 821 00:58:25,231 --> 00:58:26,391 No. 822 00:58:26,466 --> 00:58:29,560 Like all labels, they tell you one thing and one thing only. 823 00:58:30,303 --> 00:58:35,036 Where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain... 824 00:58:36,009 --> 00:58:37,806 in the pecking order? 825 00:58:38,444 --> 00:58:43,108 Not an ideology or a sexual taste, but something much simpler:. 826 00:58:43,583 --> 00:58:44,709 Clout. 827 00:58:45,585 --> 00:58:48,645 Not who I fuck or who fucks me... 828 00:58:48,721 --> 00:58:51,747 but who will pick up the phone when I call. 829 00:58:52,058 --> 00:58:53,424 Who owes me favors. 830 00:58:53,494 --> 00:58:57,224 This is what a label refers to. 831 00:58:58,064 --> 00:59:00,430 Now, to someone who does not understand this... 832 00:59:00,500 --> 00:59:04,368 homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men. 833 00:59:04,504 --> 00:59:06,529 But really, this is wrong. 834 00:59:07,073 --> 00:59:10,236 Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. 835 00:59:11,077 --> 00:59:12,942 Homosexuals are men... 836 00:59:13,213 --> 00:59:15,738 who, in U5 years of trying... 837 00:59:16,015 --> 00:59:20,816 cannot pass a pissant anti-discrimination bill through city council. 838 00:59:21,688 --> 00:59:26,318 Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. 839 00:59:26,893 --> 00:59:29,362 Who have zero clout. 840 00:59:31,565 --> 00:59:33,624 Does this sound like me, Henry? 841 00:59:33,701 --> 00:59:35,292 - No. - No! 842 00:59:35,435 --> 00:59:37,836 I have clout. Lots. 843 00:59:39,472 --> 00:59:44,172 I pick up this phone, I punch U5 numbers, you know who's on the other end? 844 00:59:44,577 --> 00:59:47,603 - In under five minutes, Henry. - The President. 845 00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:49,807 Better, Henry. His wife. 846 00:59:52,085 --> 00:59:53,279 I'm impressed. 847 00:59:53,353 --> 00:59:56,550 I don't want you to be impressed. I want you to understand. 848 00:59:57,123 --> 01:00:00,581 This is not sophistry and this is not hypocrisy. 849 01:00:01,161 --> 01:00:02,593 This is reality. 850 01:00:03,696 --> 01:00:05,493 I have sex with men... 851 01:00:05,565 --> 01:00:08,693 but unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true... 852 01:00:08,768 --> 01:00:11,328 I bring the guy I'm screwing to the White House. 853 01:00:11,404 --> 01:00:15,272 And President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand... 854 01:00:15,642 --> 01:00:16,870 because... 855 01:00:17,443 --> 01:00:21,504 what I am is defined entirely by who I am. 856 01:00:22,482 --> 01:00:24,848 Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. 857 01:00:26,052 --> 01:00:30,079 Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry... 858 01:00:31,190 --> 01:00:33,283 who fucks around with guys. 859 01:00:35,228 --> 01:00:36,559 Okay, Roy. 860 01:00:36,629 --> 01:00:38,722 And what is my diagnosis, Henry? 861 01:00:40,199 --> 01:00:43,794 - You have AlDS, Roy. - No. Henry, no. 862 01:00:45,071 --> 01:00:48,097 AlDS is what homosexuals have. 863 01:00:50,443 --> 01:00:53,708 I have liver cancer. 864 01:01:05,224 --> 01:01:07,419 Whatever the fuck you have... 865 01:01:07,994 --> 01:01:09,484 it's very serious. 866 01:01:09,896 --> 01:01:12,330 And I haven't got a damn thing for you. 867 01:01:12,932 --> 01:01:15,958 The NlH in Bethesda has a new drug called... 868 01:01:16,536 --> 01:01:17,730 AZT... 869 01:01:17,904 --> 01:01:21,340 with a two-year waiting list that not even I can get you onto. 870 01:01:22,275 --> 01:01:24,243 So pick up the phone, Roy... 871 01:01:25,078 --> 01:01:27,046 and dial the 15 numbers... 872 01:01:27,246 --> 01:01:31,615 and tell the First Lady that you need it on an experimental treatment for liver cancer... 873 01:01:31,684 --> 01:01:34,278 because you can call it any damn thing you want, Roy. 874 01:01:34,354 --> 01:01:36,481 But what it boils down to... 875 01:01:37,490 --> 01:01:39,287 is very bad news.