1 00:01:50,810 --> 00:01:52,675 Hello, and good morning. 2 00:01:53,646 --> 00:01:57,446 I am Rabbi lsidor Chemelwitz... 3 00:01:58,451 --> 00:02:01,887 of the Bronx Home for Aged Hebrews. 4 00:02:03,689 --> 00:02:07,147 We are here this morning to pay respect... 5 00:02:07,226 --> 00:02:10,889 for the passing of Sarah lronson... 6 00:02:11,364 --> 00:02:13,594 devoted wife of... 7 00:02:17,537 --> 00:02:19,869 Benjamin lronson. 8 00:02:21,741 --> 00:02:23,231 Also deceased. 9 00:02:24,343 --> 00:02:27,642 Loving and caring mother of their sons... 10 00:02:28,247 --> 00:02:32,149 Morris, Abraham, and Samuel... 11 00:02:33,052 --> 00:02:35,680 and their daughters Esther and Rachel. 12 00:02:37,156 --> 00:02:40,216 Beloved grandmother of Max... 13 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:44,562 Mark, Louis, Angela... 14 00:02:45,565 --> 00:02:49,899 Doris, Luke, and Eric. 15 00:02:52,271 --> 00:02:55,263 Eric is a Jewish name? 16 00:03:02,081 --> 00:03:04,379 A large and loving family. 17 00:03:05,818 --> 00:03:09,948 We assemble that we may collectively mourn... 18 00:03:10,456 --> 00:03:13,050 this good and righteous woman. 19 00:03:14,060 --> 00:03:15,618 This woman... 20 00:03:16,629 --> 00:03:18,494 I did not know this woman. 21 00:03:19,599 --> 00:03:24,093 I cannot accurately describe her attributes... 22 00:03:25,003 --> 00:03:27,632 nor do justice to her... 23 00:03:28,808 --> 00:03:30,275 dimensions. 24 00:03:30,843 --> 00:03:34,335 She was not a person... 25 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,513 but a whole kind of a person. 26 00:03:38,084 --> 00:03:40,314 The ones that crossed the ocean... 27 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,984 that brought with us to America... 28 00:03:43,055 --> 00:03:46,422 the villages of Russia and Lithuania. 29 00:03:47,493 --> 00:03:49,427 And how we struggled... 30 00:03:50,096 --> 00:03:52,586 and how we fought... 31 00:03:52,932 --> 00:03:54,626 for the family... 32 00:03:55,401 --> 00:03:57,631 for the Jewish home. 33 00:03:59,138 --> 00:04:03,905 Descendents of this immigrant woman... 34 00:04:04,977 --> 00:04:07,468 you do not grow up in America... 35 00:04:10,283 --> 00:04:14,083 you, your children, and their children with the goyish names. 36 00:04:16,656 --> 00:04:19,853 You do not live in America. 37 00:04:21,427 --> 00:04:24,089 No such place exists. 38 00:04:25,598 --> 00:04:28,260 Your clay is the clay... 39 00:04:28,334 --> 00:04:30,597 of some Litvak shtetl. 40 00:04:31,404 --> 00:04:34,601 Your air is the air of the steppes... 41 00:04:35,808 --> 00:04:40,370 because she carried that old world on her back... 42 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:43,813 across the ocean in a boat... 43 00:04:44,717 --> 00:04:46,685 and she put it down... 44 00:04:47,420 --> 00:04:49,547 on Grand Concourse Avenue. 45 00:04:52,992 --> 00:04:54,459 Or on Flatbush. 46 00:04:56,262 --> 00:04:59,390 You can never make that crossing that she made... 47 00:05:00,066 --> 00:05:04,730 for such great voyages in this world do not anymore exist. 48 00:05:04,804 --> 00:05:07,295 But every day of your lives... 49 00:05:07,373 --> 00:05:11,503 the miles, that voyage from that place to this one... 50 00:05:11,577 --> 00:05:13,204 you cross... 51 00:05:14,146 --> 00:05:15,613 every day. 52 00:05:19,885 --> 00:05:21,511 You understand me? 53 00:05:22,655 --> 00:05:23,781 In you... 54 00:05:25,291 --> 00:05:26,781 that journey... 55 00:05:27,593 --> 00:05:28,685 is. 56 00:05:30,730 --> 00:05:31,856 Hold. 57 00:05:32,832 --> 00:05:36,632 I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. 58 00:05:36,702 --> 00:05:39,569 Eight loving arms and all those suckers. Know what I mean? 59 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:41,698 - No. - You want lunch? 60 00:05:41,774 --> 00:05:43,366 No, that's okay. 61 00:05:43,776 --> 00:05:45,539 Ailene, Roy Cohn. 62 00:05:46,545 --> 00:05:48,479 What kind of greeting is that? 63 00:05:48,847 --> 00:05:50,543 I thought we were friends. 64 00:05:50,616 --> 00:05:53,050 This will take a minute. Here, eat a little something. 65 00:05:53,118 --> 00:05:55,485 What is this? Tasty sandwich here? 66 00:05:58,924 --> 00:06:02,690 I already told you, it wasn't a vacation, it was business. 67 00:06:03,262 --> 00:06:06,197 I have clients in Haiti. 68 00:06:06,465 --> 00:06:09,662 Listen, Ailene, you think I'm the only lawyer in history... 69 00:06:09,735 --> 00:06:12,863 who ever missed a court date? Don't make such a big fuck... 70 00:06:12,938 --> 00:06:14,064 Hold. 71 00:06:14,540 --> 00:06:15,529 You hag. 72 00:06:15,608 --> 00:06:17,769 - if this is a bad time— - No, it's a good time. 73 00:06:17,843 --> 00:06:19,674 Baby doll. Fuck, wait. 74 00:06:20,980 --> 00:06:22,072 Hello? 75 00:06:22,148 --> 00:06:25,208 Sorry to keep you holding, Judge Hollins, I just... 76 00:06:25,284 --> 00:06:27,217 - Mrs. Hollins? - Yeah, it's Mrs. Hollins. 77 00:06:27,286 --> 00:06:30,084 Sorry, dear. What a deep voice you got. 78 00:06:30,156 --> 00:06:31,680 You enjoying your visit? 79 00:06:31,757 --> 00:06:34,555 She sounds like a truck driver, he sounds like Kate Smith. 80 00:06:34,627 --> 00:06:35,992 It's very confusing. 81 00:06:36,062 --> 00:06:39,429 Nixon appointed him. All the geeks are Nixon appointees. 82 00:06:40,599 --> 00:06:43,295 How many tickets, dear? Seven? 83 00:06:43,536 --> 00:06:45,697 For what, Cats, 42nd Street, what? 84 00:06:46,806 --> 00:06:50,263 You wouldn't like La Cage, trust me. Trust me, I know. 85 00:06:50,810 --> 00:06:52,572 For God's sake, hold. 86 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,975 Baby doll, seven for Cats or something. 87 00:06:56,048 --> 00:06:59,176 Anything hard to get. I don't give a fuck what. Neither will they. 88 00:06:59,351 --> 00:07:01,945 - You've seen La Cage Aux Folles? - No. 89 00:07:02,887 --> 00:07:05,448 It's the best thing on Broadway, maybe ever. 90 00:07:06,358 --> 00:07:07,620 Yeah, who? 91 00:07:18,170 --> 00:07:19,194 Couldn't find her there. 92 00:07:19,271 --> 00:07:20,568 Couldn't see her. 93 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:23,005 - At least I didn't see her in there. - She was... 94 00:07:23,075 --> 00:07:25,134 It's all right. I'm gonna take the bus. 95 00:07:25,211 --> 00:07:27,702 What do you mean you're gonna take the bus? 96 00:07:27,847 --> 00:07:29,212 I'll see you there. 97 00:07:44,330 --> 00:07:46,764 How's life in Appeals? How's the judge? 98 00:07:46,832 --> 00:07:49,926 - He sends his best. - He's a good man. Loyal. 99 00:07:50,136 --> 00:07:53,628 Not the brightest man on the bench, although he has manners... 100 00:07:53,705 --> 00:07:57,506 - and a nice head of silver hair. - He gives me a lot of responsibility. 101 00:07:59,111 --> 00:08:01,841 Like writing his decisions and signing his name. 102 00:08:02,681 --> 00:08:05,707 - He's a nice man. You cover admirably. - Thanks, Roy. 103 00:08:06,518 --> 00:08:09,249 Who's this? Well, who the fuck are you? 104 00:08:09,922 --> 00:08:11,219 Hold. 105 00:08:11,957 --> 00:08:13,982 - So, baby doll, what? - It's gonna be Cats. 106 00:08:14,059 --> 00:08:15,150 Cats. 107 00:08:16,796 --> 00:08:20,732 Cats; it's about cats. Singing cats. You'll love it. 108 00:08:21,634 --> 00:08:23,601 8:.00. Theater's always at 8:00. 109 00:08:23,735 --> 00:08:25,067 Fucking tourists. 110 00:08:25,137 --> 00:08:27,401 Eat already, Joe. For Christ's sake, live a little. 111 00:08:27,473 --> 00:08:29,464 - Roy, could you... - Yeah, what? 112 00:08:30,008 --> 00:08:31,237 Mrs. Soffer. 113 00:08:32,210 --> 00:08:34,907 - Oh, God fucking damn it. - Roy, I really... 114 00:08:34,980 --> 00:08:37,972 Baby doll, ring up The Post. Get me Suzy. 115 00:08:38,784 --> 00:08:40,012 - Christ! - Roy. 116 00:08:40,318 --> 00:08:41,377 What? 117 00:08:41,453 --> 00:08:44,286 Could you please not take the Lord's name in vain? 118 00:08:44,489 --> 00:08:46,390 I'm sorry, but please. 119 00:08:47,226 --> 00:08:49,056 At least while I'm... 120 00:08:49,995 --> 00:08:51,222 Right... 121 00:08:51,630 --> 00:08:55,224 Sorry, fuck. Only in America. 122 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,529 Baby doll, tell them all to fuck off, tell them I died. 123 00:09:01,207 --> 00:09:02,265 So, Joe. 124 00:09:02,341 --> 00:09:04,605 - I'm sorry, Roy, it's just that— - No, no. 125 00:09:04,677 --> 00:09:07,237 Principles count. I respect principles. 126 00:09:07,313 --> 00:09:10,805 I'm not religious, but I like God, God likes me. 127 00:09:11,283 --> 00:09:13,444 - Baptist, Catholic, what? - Mormon. 128 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:14,747 Mormon? 129 00:09:16,421 --> 00:09:18,412 Delectable. Absolutely. 130 00:09:18,824 --> 00:09:20,415 Only in America. 131 00:09:22,627 --> 00:09:24,754 So, Joe, what do you think? 132 00:09:25,598 --> 00:09:28,567 - It's a... - It's a crazy life. 133 00:09:28,634 --> 00:09:31,397 - Chaotic. - God bless chaos, though, right? 134 00:09:33,304 --> 00:09:34,567 Mormons? 135 00:09:35,074 --> 00:09:37,975 I knew Mormons in Nevada. 136 00:09:38,043 --> 00:09:41,103 - Utah, mostly. - No, these Mormons were in Vegas. 137 00:09:44,683 --> 00:09:49,245 How would you like to go to Washington and work for the Justice Department? 138 00:09:50,421 --> 00:09:53,357 - Sorry? - How would you like to go to Washington... 139 00:09:53,425 --> 00:09:54,789 work for the Justice Department. 140 00:09:54,860 --> 00:09:58,387 All I got to do is pick up the phone, talk to Ed, and you're in. 141 00:09:58,464 --> 00:10:00,329 In what, exactly? 142 00:10:00,798 --> 00:10:03,130 Associate, Assistant, something big. 143 00:10:03,702 --> 00:10:07,638 Internal Affairs, heart of the woods, something nice, with clout. 144 00:10:07,706 --> 00:10:09,605 - Ed— - Meese, Attorney General. 145 00:10:13,444 --> 00:10:16,312 - All I gotta do is pick up the phone. - But I have to think. 146 00:10:16,382 --> 00:10:19,579 - Okay, great time to be in Washington, Joe. - Roy. 147 00:10:19,918 --> 00:10:20,943 It's incredibly— 148 00:10:21,020 --> 00:10:23,716 It means something to me, too, you understand. 149 00:10:24,890 --> 00:10:29,122 I can't say how much I appreciate this, Roy. I'm sort of stunned. 150 00:10:29,261 --> 00:10:32,627 Thanks, but I have to give it some thought. I have to ask my wife. 151 00:10:32,697 --> 00:10:35,428 - Your wife, of course. - But I really appreciate it. 152 00:10:35,501 --> 00:10:37,161 Of course. Talk to your wife. 153 00:10:47,745 --> 00:10:51,943 To deep-throat a man, to give him intense pleasure... 154 00:10:52,584 --> 00:10:54,950 a woman can simply lick the penis... 155 00:10:55,020 --> 00:10:58,547 without actually putting the whole organ in her mouth... 156 00:10:58,857 --> 00:11:02,019 and still provide the man with a lot of pleasure. 157 00:11:03,195 --> 00:11:06,858 When women tell me that they have a problem with fellatio... 158 00:11:06,932 --> 00:11:11,494 I often tell them to think of the penis as an ice cream cone. 159 00:11:12,637 --> 00:11:16,005 Scientists say the hole in the ozone layer high above the Antarctic... 160 00:11:16,075 --> 00:11:18,373 is now a record at 7 million square miles. 161 00:11:18,444 --> 00:11:21,640 That's three times the size of the whole of the United States. 162 00:11:21,714 --> 00:11:25,672 The hole appears as a giant blue blob totally covering Antarctica... 163 00:11:25,750 --> 00:11:28,481 stretching out to the southern tip of South America. 164 00:11:28,554 --> 00:11:31,784 Scientists say that with the hole so big this early in the year... 165 00:11:31,856 --> 00:11:34,519 it could be set to grow even bigger. 166 00:11:38,664 --> 00:11:40,825 I wish I could go traveling. 167 00:11:41,433 --> 00:11:44,231 Things aren't right with me. 168 00:11:51,275 --> 00:11:53,436 Cash, check, or credit card? 169 00:11:53,612 --> 00:11:56,775 - You startled me. - Cash, check... 170 00:11:56,882 --> 00:12:00,113 I remember you. You're from Salt Lake. 171 00:12:00,185 --> 00:12:02,881 You sold us the plane tickets when we flew here. 172 00:12:02,955 --> 00:12:06,220 - What are you doing in Brooklyn? - You said you wanted to travel. 173 00:12:06,291 --> 00:12:07,519 How thoughtful! 174 00:12:07,592 --> 00:12:08,958 Mr. Lies... 175 00:12:09,128 --> 00:12:13,531 of the lnternational Order of Travel Agents. 176 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:17,494 We mobilize the globe. We set people adrift. 177 00:12:17,770 --> 00:12:19,704 We are adepts of motion... 178 00:12:19,772 --> 00:12:22,240 acolytes of the flocks. 179 00:12:22,307 --> 00:12:25,572 Cash, check, or credit card, name your destination. 180 00:12:27,111 --> 00:12:30,343 Antarctica maybe? I want to see the hole in the ozone. 181 00:12:30,416 --> 00:12:33,749 - I heard on the radio— - We'll arrange a guided tour. 182 00:12:34,686 --> 00:12:37,449 - Now? - Soon, maybe soon. 183 00:12:39,224 --> 00:12:41,283 I'm not safe here, you see. 184 00:12:43,728 --> 00:12:45,628 Weird stuff happens. 185 00:12:47,899 --> 00:12:50,129 - Like? - Like you, for instance. 186 00:12:50,201 --> 00:12:53,035 Just appearing. Or last week. 187 00:12:54,572 --> 00:12:55,938 Never mind. 188 00:12:59,178 --> 00:13:02,238 People are like planets, you need a thick skin. 189 00:13:03,982 --> 00:13:08,385 Joe stays away, and now look, my dreams are talking back to me. 190 00:13:08,654 --> 00:13:11,816 The price of rootlessness, motion sickness. 191 00:13:12,291 --> 00:13:15,748 - Only cure, keep moving. - I'm undecided. 192 00:13:16,728 --> 00:13:20,026 I feel that something's going to give. It's 1985... 193 00:13:20,299 --> 00:13:22,665 fifteen years to the third millennium. 194 00:13:23,602 --> 00:13:25,899 Maybe Christ will come again... 195 00:13:26,204 --> 00:13:29,197 or maybe the troubles will come and the end will come. 196 00:13:29,274 --> 00:13:32,470 The sky will collapse and there'll be terrible rain... 197 00:13:32,543 --> 00:13:34,773 and showers of poison light... 198 00:13:36,781 --> 00:13:39,215 Or maybe my life is really fine... 199 00:13:39,952 --> 00:13:43,512 maybe Joe loves me and I'm only crazy thinking otherwise. 200 00:13:44,056 --> 00:13:45,352 Or maybe not. 201 00:13:45,423 --> 00:13:48,154 Maybe it's even worse than I know. 202 00:13:49,694 --> 00:13:52,323 Maybe I want to know, maybe I don't. 203 00:13:53,397 --> 00:13:57,027 The suspense, Mr. Lies, it's killing me. 204 00:13:57,102 --> 00:13:59,468 I suggest a vacation. 205 00:14:02,540 --> 00:14:05,635 That was the elevator. Oh, God, I should fix myself a... 206 00:14:05,711 --> 00:14:08,975 You have to go. You shouldn't be here. You aren't even real. 207 00:14:09,047 --> 00:14:11,208 - Call me when you decide. - Go. 208 00:14:22,494 --> 00:14:23,893 Hey, buddy. 209 00:14:24,429 --> 00:14:25,918 You're early. 210 00:14:25,998 --> 00:14:28,432 I was just walking... 211 00:14:30,067 --> 00:14:31,898 and I guess I came home. 212 00:14:31,969 --> 00:14:34,369 - Are you... - Yeah, I'm a little anxious. 213 00:14:35,274 --> 00:14:36,673 Buddy kiss. 214 00:14:38,242 --> 00:14:40,403 Nothing to get anxious about. 215 00:14:52,424 --> 00:14:54,891 How would you like to move to Washington? 216 00:14:57,061 --> 00:14:58,461 Washington? 217 00:14:59,430 --> 00:15:00,898 She was pretty crazy. 218 00:15:00,966 --> 00:15:05,265 She was up there in that home for ten years, talking to herself. 219 00:15:05,336 --> 00:15:06,736 I never visited. 220 00:15:06,805 --> 00:15:08,966 She looked too much like my mother. 221 00:15:09,707 --> 00:15:12,175 Poor Louis, I'm sorry your grandma's dead. 222 00:15:12,310 --> 00:15:14,039 Tiny little coffin. 223 00:15:14,713 --> 00:15:16,111 I'm sorry I didn't introduce you. 224 00:15:16,180 --> 00:15:18,512 I always get so closety at these family things. 225 00:15:18,583 --> 00:15:20,551 You're getting butch. 226 00:15:20,618 --> 00:15:24,349 Hey, Cousin Doris, you don't remember me, I'm Lou. 227 00:15:24,522 --> 00:15:27,184 Rachel's boy, Lou. 228 00:15:27,258 --> 00:15:30,251 Not Louis, cause if you say Louis, they'll hear the sibilant "s." 229 00:15:30,329 --> 00:15:33,388 - I don't have a sibilant "s." - I don't blame you hiding. 230 00:15:33,464 --> 00:15:35,865 Bloodlines. Jewish curses are the worst. 231 00:15:35,934 --> 00:15:37,491 I personally would dissolve... 232 00:15:37,568 --> 00:15:40,538 if anyone ever looks me in the eye and said, "Feh." 233 00:15:40,606 --> 00:15:43,506 Fortunately, Wasps don't say, "Feh"... 234 00:15:43,808 --> 00:15:46,333 and by the way, darling... 235 00:15:46,845 --> 00:15:48,642 Cousin Doris is a dyke. 236 00:15:49,747 --> 00:15:52,113 No! Really? 237 00:15:52,617 --> 00:15:53,982 You don't notice anything. 238 00:15:54,051 --> 00:15:56,519 If I hadn't spent the last four years fellating you... 239 00:15:56,587 --> 00:15:58,521 I'd swear you were straight. 240 00:16:12,170 --> 00:16:14,070 You're in a pissy mood. Cat still missing? 241 00:16:14,139 --> 00:16:16,630 - Not a fur ball in sight. It's your fault. - It is? 242 00:16:16,708 --> 00:16:19,040 I warned you, Louis, names are important. 243 00:16:19,111 --> 00:16:22,512 Call an animal Little Sheba, you can't expect it to stick around. 244 00:16:22,581 --> 00:16:26,676 - Besides, that's a dog's name. - I wanted a dog in the first place, not a cat. 245 00:16:26,752 --> 00:16:29,152 - He sprayed my books. - He was a female cat. 246 00:16:29,221 --> 00:16:33,214 Cats are stupid high-strung predators. Babylonians sealed them up in bricks. 247 00:16:33,292 --> 00:16:35,283 - Dogs have brains. - Cats have intuition. 248 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,227 A sharp dog is as smart as a really dull 2-year-old child. 249 00:16:38,297 --> 00:16:41,356 - Cats know when something's wrong. - Only if you stop feeding them. 250 00:16:41,432 --> 00:16:44,027 They know. That's why Sheba left. She knew. 251 00:16:44,102 --> 00:16:45,466 Knew what? 252 00:16:48,607 --> 00:16:51,404 I did my best Shirley Booth this morning. 253 00:16:52,009 --> 00:16:56,139 Floppy slippers, housecoat, curlers, can of Little Friskies. 254 00:16:56,548 --> 00:16:58,344 "Come back, Little Sheba... 255 00:16:58,650 --> 00:17:00,014 "come back." 256 00:17:01,153 --> 00:17:02,244 To no avail. 257 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:16,158 See? 258 00:17:17,168 --> 00:17:18,795 That's just a burst blood vessel. 259 00:17:18,869 --> 00:17:21,565 Not according to the best medical authorities. 260 00:17:25,643 --> 00:17:28,077 What? Tell me. 261 00:17:29,413 --> 00:17:31,847 Chaos, baby. Lesion number one. 262 00:17:32,350 --> 00:17:35,047 The wine-dark kiss of the angel of death. 263 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:36,781 Oh, please. 264 00:17:37,422 --> 00:17:40,584 I'm a lesionnaire. Foreign lesion. 265 00:17:41,126 --> 00:17:42,888 The American lesion. 266 00:17:42,961 --> 00:17:44,860 - Lesionnaire's disease. - Stop. 267 00:17:45,097 --> 00:17:47,463 - My troubles are lesions. - Will you stop? 268 00:17:47,532 --> 00:17:49,932 Don't you think I'm handling this well? 269 00:17:50,534 --> 00:17:52,059 - I'm gonna die. - Bullshit. 270 00:17:52,137 --> 00:17:53,934 - Let go of my arm. Let go. - No. 271 00:17:54,939 --> 00:17:55,998 No. 272 00:18:01,746 --> 00:18:04,181 I can't find a way to spare you, baby. 273 00:18:06,217 --> 00:18:09,278 No wall like the wall of hard scientific fact. 274 00:18:09,687 --> 00:18:11,917 Chaos, wham. 275 00:18:12,289 --> 00:18:15,259 - Bang your head on that. - Fuck you. 276 00:18:17,662 --> 00:18:20,892 Now that's what I like to hear, a mature reaction. 277 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,267 Let's go see if the cat's come home. 278 00:18:27,506 --> 00:18:28,665 Louis. 279 00:18:28,939 --> 00:18:30,600 When did you find this? 280 00:18:30,741 --> 00:18:32,573 - I couldn't tell you. - Why? 281 00:18:32,643 --> 00:18:34,736 - I was scared, Lou. - Of what? 282 00:18:36,548 --> 00:18:38,243 That you'll leave me. 283 00:18:41,452 --> 00:18:43,920 Bad timing, funeral and all, but... 284 00:18:45,356 --> 00:18:47,654 I figured since we're on the subject of death... 285 00:18:47,725 --> 00:18:50,660 Here's the bus. I have to go bury my grandma. 286 00:18:55,133 --> 00:18:56,258 Lou... 287 00:18:57,502 --> 00:19:00,561 - then you'll come home? - Then I'll come home. 288 00:19:15,653 --> 00:19:17,019 Washington. 289 00:19:17,354 --> 00:19:19,788 - It's an incredible honor— - I have to think. 290 00:19:19,857 --> 00:19:21,620 - Of course. - Say no. 291 00:19:22,092 --> 00:19:25,892 - You said you were gonna think about it. - I don't wanna move to Washington. 292 00:19:25,963 --> 00:19:27,363 Well, I do. 293 00:19:27,432 --> 00:19:31,698 It's a giant cemetery. Huge white graves. Mausoleums everywhere. 294 00:19:31,770 --> 00:19:34,101 We could live in Maryland or Georgetown. 295 00:19:34,171 --> 00:19:36,969 - We're happy here. - That's not really true, buddy. 296 00:19:37,041 --> 00:19:40,102 Happy enough, pretend happy, it's better than nothing. 297 00:19:40,178 --> 00:19:43,841 - It's time we make some changes, Harper. - No changes. Why? 298 00:19:43,915 --> 00:19:46,042 I've been chief clerk for four years. 299 00:19:46,117 --> 00:19:49,176 I make $29,000 a year. That's ridiculous. 300 00:19:49,420 --> 00:19:53,015 I graduated fourth in my class, I make less than anyone I know. 301 00:19:54,526 --> 00:19:56,619 I'm tired of being a clerk. 302 00:19:57,095 --> 00:19:59,290 I wanna go where something good is happening. 303 00:19:59,363 --> 00:20:02,093 Nothing good happens in Washington. 304 00:20:02,733 --> 00:20:05,066 We'll forget Church teachings... 305 00:20:05,703 --> 00:20:08,934 and buy furniture at Conran's... 306 00:20:09,006 --> 00:20:10,667 and become yuppies. 307 00:20:10,741 --> 00:20:13,575 - I have too much to do here. - Like what? 308 00:20:14,145 --> 00:20:17,011 - I do have things. - What things? 309 00:20:17,481 --> 00:20:19,449 I have to finish painting the bedroom. 310 00:20:19,517 --> 00:20:21,644 You've been painting in there for over a year. 311 00:20:21,719 --> 00:20:25,246 I know, it just isn't done, because I never get time to finish it. 312 00:20:25,322 --> 00:20:27,290 That doesn't make sense. 313 00:20:27,558 --> 00:20:29,492 You have all the time in the world. 314 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,156 - You could finish it when I'm at work. - I'm afraid to go in there alone. 315 00:20:33,230 --> 00:20:35,596 - Afraid of what? - I heard something in there. 316 00:20:35,666 --> 00:20:38,464 Metal scraping on the wall, a man with a knife, maybe. 317 00:20:38,536 --> 00:20:40,197 There's no one in the bedroom. 318 00:20:40,271 --> 00:20:42,466 - Not now. - Not this morning, either. 319 00:20:42,540 --> 00:20:45,237 How do you know? You were at work this morning. 320 00:20:45,544 --> 00:20:48,706 There's something creepy about this place. Remember Rosemary's Baby? 321 00:20:48,779 --> 00:20:51,373 - Rosemary's Baby? - Our apartment looks like that one. 322 00:20:51,448 --> 00:20:53,177 - Wasn't that apartment in Brooklyn? - No. 323 00:20:53,250 --> 00:20:55,081 Well, it looked like this. 324 00:20:55,152 --> 00:20:56,983 - It did. - Then let's move. 325 00:20:57,054 --> 00:21:00,081 Georgetown is worse. The Exorcist was in Georgetown. 326 00:21:00,158 --> 00:21:03,320 - The devil everywhere you turn, buddy? - Yeah, everywhere. 327 00:21:04,296 --> 00:21:05,887 How many pills today, buddy? 328 00:21:06,898 --> 00:21:08,023 None. 329 00:21:10,334 --> 00:21:11,528 One. 330 00:21:13,704 --> 00:21:15,400 Three, only three. 331 00:21:39,396 --> 00:21:41,421 Thank you, that was a lovely... 332 00:21:42,099 --> 00:21:44,090 My grandma, just buried. 333 00:21:49,373 --> 00:21:52,740 Why are there just two little wooden pegs holding the lid down? 334 00:21:52,810 --> 00:21:55,745 So that she can get out easier if she wants to. 335 00:21:55,813 --> 00:21:57,372 I hope she stays put. 336 00:21:57,649 --> 00:22:00,981 I pretended for years that she was already dead. 337 00:22:01,218 --> 00:22:05,314 When they called to say she had died, it was a surprise. I had abandoned her. 338 00:22:12,364 --> 00:22:14,093 I don't speak Yiddish. 339 00:22:14,165 --> 00:22:18,032 Sharper than the serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child. 340 00:22:19,536 --> 00:22:20,970 Shakespeare. 341 00:22:22,373 --> 00:22:23,704 King Lear. 342 00:22:24,608 --> 00:22:26,405 Rabbi, what does the Holy Writ say... 343 00:22:26,477 --> 00:22:28,775 about someone who abandons someone he loves... 344 00:22:28,846 --> 00:22:30,814 at a time of great need? 345 00:22:30,981 --> 00:22:33,450 Why would a person do such a thing? 346 00:22:38,522 --> 00:22:39,888 Because he has to. 347 00:22:39,958 --> 00:22:41,949 Maybe this person can't... 348 00:22:42,926 --> 00:22:46,919 incorporate sickness into his sense of how things are supposed to go. 349 00:22:46,997 --> 00:22:50,728 Maybe vomit and sores and disease really frighten him. 350 00:22:52,237 --> 00:22:54,364 Maybe he isn't so good with death. 351 00:22:59,376 --> 00:23:02,675 The Holy Scripture has nothing to say about such a person. 352 00:23:03,914 --> 00:23:06,348 Rabbi, I'm afraid of the crimes I may commit. 353 00:23:06,417 --> 00:23:10,148 Please, mister, I'm a sick old rabbi... 354 00:23:10,220 --> 00:23:12,882 facing a long drive home to the Bronx. 355 00:23:14,958 --> 00:23:18,053 You want to confess, better you should find a priest. 356 00:23:18,996 --> 00:23:21,055 I'm not a Catholic, I'm a Jew. 357 00:23:21,131 --> 00:23:23,122 Worse luck for you, bubeleh. 358 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:27,136 Catholics believe in forgiveness. Jews believe in guilt. 359 00:23:28,707 --> 00:23:29,934 Thanks. 360 00:23:30,709 --> 00:23:33,472 You just make sure those pegs are in good and tight. 361 00:23:33,544 --> 00:23:37,106 Don't worry, mister, the life she had, she'll stay put. 362 00:23:38,615 --> 00:23:39,946 She's better off. 363 00:23:54,465 --> 00:23:55,454 Look... 364 00:23:56,067 --> 00:23:59,502 I know this is scary for you, but try to understand what it means to me. 365 00:23:59,570 --> 00:24:01,060 - Will you try? - Yes. 366 00:24:01,138 --> 00:24:03,436 Good. Really try. 367 00:24:05,876 --> 00:24:08,140 Things are starting to change in the world. 368 00:24:08,212 --> 00:24:10,909 - I don't wanna— - Wait. For the good. 369 00:24:10,982 --> 00:24:12,175 Change for the good. 370 00:24:12,249 --> 00:24:14,615 America has rediscovered itself. 371 00:24:15,586 --> 00:24:17,884 Its sacred position among nations. 372 00:24:17,955 --> 00:24:20,651 People aren't ashamed of it like they used to be. 373 00:24:20,724 --> 00:24:24,251 This is a great thing. The truth restored, law restored. 374 00:24:24,595 --> 00:24:27,120 That's what President Reagan's done, Harper. 375 00:24:27,364 --> 00:24:30,527 He says truth exists and can be spoken proudly... 376 00:24:31,101 --> 00:24:33,126 and the country responds to him. 377 00:24:33,670 --> 00:24:36,867 We become better, more good. 378 00:24:38,543 --> 00:24:42,445 I need to be a part of that. I need something big to lift me up. 379 00:24:43,347 --> 00:24:46,441 Six years ago, the world seemed in decline... 380 00:24:46,517 --> 00:24:49,384 horrible, hopeless, full of unsolvable problems... 381 00:24:49,453 --> 00:24:51,285 and crime, confusion, hunger... 382 00:24:51,355 --> 00:24:54,256 But it still seems that way, more now than before. 383 00:24:54,324 --> 00:24:56,019 You see the ozone layer... 384 00:24:56,093 --> 00:24:58,254 Today out the window on Atlantic Avenue... 385 00:24:58,328 --> 00:25:01,297 there was this schizophrenic traffic cop who was making— 386 00:25:01,365 --> 00:25:03,424 Will you stop it? I'm trying to make a point. 387 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:05,661 - So am l. - You aren't even making sense. 388 00:25:05,737 --> 00:25:07,431 My point is the world seems just— 389 00:25:07,504 --> 00:25:10,201 It only seems that way to you because you never go out... 390 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:12,402 and you have emotional problems. 391 00:25:16,113 --> 00:25:18,742 - I do so get out in the world. - No, you don't. 392 00:25:19,349 --> 00:25:21,977 You stay in all day fretting about imaginary— 393 00:25:22,052 --> 00:25:23,280 I get out. 394 00:25:23,620 --> 00:25:25,747 I do. You don't know what I do. 395 00:25:25,823 --> 00:25:27,984 - You don't stay in all day? - No. 396 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,921 - Yes, you do. - That's what you think. 397 00:25:32,162 --> 00:25:34,630 - Where do you go? - Where do you go when you walk? 398 00:25:34,698 --> 00:25:37,668 - And I do not have emotional problems. - I'm sorry. 399 00:25:37,735 --> 00:25:40,703 If I do have emotional problems, it's from living with you or— 400 00:25:40,771 --> 00:25:42,069 I'm sorry, I didn't mean— 401 00:25:42,139 --> 00:25:45,404 Then you should have never married me. You have all these... 402 00:25:45,475 --> 00:25:47,238 secrets and lies. 403 00:25:49,079 --> 00:25:53,072 - I want to be married to you, Harper. - You shouldn't. You never should... 404 00:26:12,169 --> 00:26:13,660 Hey, buddy. 405 00:26:20,711 --> 00:26:22,111 Buddy kiss. 406 00:26:27,551 --> 00:26:30,487 I heard on the radio how to give a blow job. 407 00:26:31,221 --> 00:26:32,984 - What? - Do you want to try? 408 00:26:33,056 --> 00:26:35,991 - You shouldn't listen to such— - Mormons can give blow jobs. 409 00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:41,796 It was a little Jewish lady with a German accent. 410 00:26:44,201 --> 00:26:46,965 Now is a good time for me to make a baby. 411 00:27:04,922 --> 00:27:08,881 Then they went on to a program about holes in the ozone layer... 412 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,352 over Antarctica. 413 00:27:13,563 --> 00:27:15,031 Skin burns... 414 00:27:16,233 --> 00:27:18,064 birds go blind... 415 00:27:18,769 --> 00:27:20,566 icebergs melt. 416 00:27:23,474 --> 00:27:25,669 The world's coming to an end. 417 00:27:52,869 --> 00:27:55,338 - Morning. - Good morning, Counselor. 418 00:27:56,540 --> 00:27:58,064 Sorry, I don't know your name. 419 00:27:58,141 --> 00:28:01,578 Don't bother. A word processor, the lowest of the low. 420 00:28:01,778 --> 00:28:04,645 - Joe Pitt, I'm with Justice Wilson. - I know that. 421 00:28:04,715 --> 00:28:06,842 Counselor Pitt, Chief Clerk. 422 00:28:07,919 --> 00:28:10,386 - Are you okay? - Yes, thanks. 423 00:28:11,355 --> 00:28:12,913 What a nice man. 424 00:28:13,390 --> 00:28:15,517 - Not so nice. - What? 425 00:28:16,793 --> 00:28:18,988 Not so nice. Nothing. 426 00:28:36,646 --> 00:28:37,704 What's wrong? 427 00:28:37,781 --> 00:28:40,249 - Life just sucks shit. - I'm sorry? 428 00:28:41,551 --> 00:28:42,848 Forget it. 429 00:28:44,488 --> 00:28:46,183 Thanks for asking. 430 00:28:47,624 --> 00:28:50,287 I mean, it really is nice of you. 431 00:28:52,029 --> 00:28:55,123 - Sorry. Sick friend. - I'm sorry. 432 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:57,762 That's sweet. 433 00:28:57,834 --> 00:29:00,963 Three of your colleagues have preceded you to this baleful sight... 434 00:29:01,038 --> 00:29:02,596 and you're the first one to ask. 435 00:29:02,672 --> 00:29:05,470 The others just opened the door, saw me, and fled. 436 00:29:05,542 --> 00:29:07,908 I hope they had to pee real bad. 437 00:29:07,978 --> 00:29:10,037 They just didn't want to intrude. 438 00:29:10,113 --> 00:29:13,641 Reaganite, heartless, macho, asshole lawyers. 439 00:29:13,717 --> 00:29:15,207 That's unfair. 440 00:29:15,886 --> 00:29:18,446 What is? Heartless, macho, Reaganite... 441 00:29:18,855 --> 00:29:19,982 Iawyer? 442 00:29:20,590 --> 00:29:23,081 - I voted for Reagan. - You did? 443 00:29:24,228 --> 00:29:26,422 - Twice. - Twice! 444 00:29:28,131 --> 00:29:30,292 - Well, oh, boy, a gay Republican. - Excuse me? 445 00:29:30,367 --> 00:29:31,459 Nothing. 446 00:29:31,835 --> 00:29:34,429 I'm not... No, forget it. 447 00:29:34,504 --> 00:29:36,631 Republican, not Republican? 448 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:38,298 What? 449 00:29:38,375 --> 00:29:40,570 - What? - Not gay. I'm not gay. 450 00:29:42,546 --> 00:29:43,672 Sorry. 451 00:29:47,150 --> 00:29:48,777 It's just that... 452 00:29:49,653 --> 00:29:50,745 Yes? 453 00:29:51,421 --> 00:29:53,856 Sometimes you can tell from the way a person sounds. 454 00:29:53,924 --> 00:29:55,916 - You sound— - No, I don't. 455 00:29:56,293 --> 00:29:58,523 - Like what? - Like a Republican. 456 00:30:01,231 --> 00:30:03,529 Do I sound like a... 457 00:30:04,501 --> 00:30:06,867 What, like a Republican? 458 00:30:07,170 --> 00:30:08,933 Or do l? 459 00:30:09,372 --> 00:30:10,930 - Do you what? - Sound like a— 460 00:30:11,007 --> 00:30:12,599 Yeah, like a... 461 00:30:15,846 --> 00:30:18,371 - I'm confused. - Yes. 462 00:30:19,483 --> 00:30:22,179 My name is Louis, but all my friends call me Louise. 463 00:30:22,252 --> 00:30:25,517 I work in word processing. Thanks for the toilet paper. 464 00:33:46,622 --> 00:33:48,921 "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. De Mille." 465 00:33:50,393 --> 00:33:53,829 One wants to move through life with elegance and grace. 466 00:33:54,364 --> 00:33:58,061 Blossoming infrequently, but with exquisite taste... 467 00:33:58,601 --> 00:34:00,364 and perfect timing. 468 00:34:01,104 --> 00:34:03,095 Like a rare bloom... 469 00:34:04,074 --> 00:34:06,008 a zebra orchid. 470 00:34:07,444 --> 00:34:09,207 One wants... 471 00:34:10,380 --> 00:34:14,213 but one so seldom gets what one wants. 472 00:34:14,283 --> 00:34:15,683 Does one? 473 00:34:16,886 --> 00:34:17,978 No. 474 00:34:18,454 --> 00:34:20,013 One does not. 475 00:34:22,125 --> 00:34:24,854 One gets fucked over. 476 00:34:26,563 --> 00:34:28,428 One dies at 30. 477 00:34:30,066 --> 00:34:32,694 Robbed of decades of majesty— 478 00:34:32,769 --> 00:34:34,327 Fuck this shit. 479 00:34:39,708 --> 00:34:41,540 I look like a corpse. 480 00:34:42,579 --> 00:34:43,978 A corpse-ette. 481 00:34:45,848 --> 00:34:47,248 My queen! 482 00:34:49,018 --> 00:34:53,114 You know you've hit rock bottom when even drag is a drag. 483 00:35:10,673 --> 00:35:12,106 Who are you? 484 00:35:12,842 --> 00:35:14,275 Who are you? 485 00:35:15,378 --> 00:35:17,369 What are you doing in my hallucination? 486 00:35:17,447 --> 00:35:20,416 I'm not in your hallucination. You're in my dream. 487 00:35:20,750 --> 00:35:22,342 You're wearing makeup. 488 00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:24,783 - So are you. - But you're a man. 489 00:35:27,690 --> 00:35:29,715 My hands and feet give it away. 490 00:35:32,494 --> 00:35:35,987 There must be some mistake here. I don't recognize you. 491 00:35:39,402 --> 00:35:40,891 Are you my... 492 00:35:41,905 --> 00:35:45,135 - some sort of imaginary friend? - No. 493 00:35:45,207 --> 00:35:47,402 Aren't you too old to have imaginary friends? 494 00:35:47,476 --> 00:35:50,674 I have emotional problems, I took too many pills. 495 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:52,677 Why are you wearing makeup? 496 00:35:52,982 --> 00:35:56,941 I was in the process of applying the face, trying to make myself feel better. 497 00:35:57,020 --> 00:36:00,512 I swiped the new fall colors at the Clinique counter at Macy's. 498 00:36:00,623 --> 00:36:02,488 You stole these? 499 00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:05,687 I was out of cash, it was an emotional emergency. 500 00:36:07,063 --> 00:36:10,294 Joe will be so angry. I promised him no more pills. 501 00:36:10,532 --> 00:36:12,591 These pills you keep alluding to... 502 00:36:12,668 --> 00:36:15,263 Valium, I take Valium. Lots of Valium. 503 00:36:15,338 --> 00:36:17,134 And you're dancing as fast as you can. 504 00:36:17,207 --> 00:36:21,370 I'm not addicted. I don't believe in addiction and l... 505 00:36:22,345 --> 00:36:26,406 - I never drink and I never take drugs. - Smell you, Nancy Drew. 506 00:36:26,749 --> 00:36:30,116 - Except for Valium. - Except Valium in wee fistfuls. 507 00:36:30,653 --> 00:36:33,780 It's terrible. Mormons are not supposed to be addicted to anything. 508 00:36:33,856 --> 00:36:36,417 - I'm a Mormon. - I'm a homosexual. 509 00:36:39,262 --> 00:36:41,924 In my church, we don't believe in homosexuals. 510 00:36:42,031 --> 00:36:44,498 In my church, we don't believe in Mormons. 511 00:36:44,633 --> 00:36:46,329 What church do... 512 00:36:49,739 --> 00:36:50,727 I get it. 513 00:36:53,008 --> 00:36:54,806 I don't understand this. 514 00:36:55,077 --> 00:36:57,603 If I didn't ever see you before... 515 00:36:58,581 --> 00:37:02,312 and I don't think I did, then I don't think you should be here... 516 00:37:02,986 --> 00:37:04,954 in this hallucination... 517 00:37:06,823 --> 00:37:10,759 because in my experience, the mind, which is where hallucinations come from... 518 00:37:10,827 --> 00:37:14,284 shouldn't be able to make up anything that wasn't there to start with... 519 00:37:14,364 --> 00:37:17,527 that didn't enter it from experience from the real world. 520 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,769 Imagination can't create anything new, can it? 521 00:37:22,038 --> 00:37:26,566 It only recycles bits and pieces from the world... 522 00:37:27,810 --> 00:37:31,803 and reassembles them into visions. Am I making sense right now? 523 00:37:32,181 --> 00:37:34,240 Given the circumstances, yes. 524 00:37:34,584 --> 00:37:38,714 When we think we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness... 525 00:37:41,557 --> 00:37:43,616 and untruthfulness of our lives... 526 00:37:43,692 --> 00:37:47,026 it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged... 527 00:37:47,096 --> 00:37:51,931 into the appearance of novelty and truth. 528 00:37:53,202 --> 00:37:55,261 Nothing unknown is knowable. 529 00:37:59,676 --> 00:38:02,008 Don't you think it's depressing? 530 00:38:02,278 --> 00:38:05,509 - The limitations of the imagination? - Yes. 531 00:38:06,482 --> 00:38:09,006 It's something you learn after your second theme party. 532 00:38:09,084 --> 00:38:11,143 It's all been done before. 533 00:38:12,188 --> 00:38:14,554 The world, finite... 534 00:38:15,524 --> 00:38:16,787 terribly... 535 00:38:19,895 --> 00:38:23,332 This is the most depressing hallucination I ever had. 536 00:38:24,099 --> 00:38:26,591 Apologies. I do try to be amusing. 537 00:38:27,103 --> 00:38:29,230 Don't apologize, you... 538 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,201 I can't expect someone who's really sick to entertain me. 539 00:38:43,987 --> 00:38:46,854 - How on earth did you know? - That happens. 540 00:38:46,923 --> 00:38:51,019 This is the very threshold of revelations sometimes. You can see things. 541 00:38:51,094 --> 00:38:52,755 How sick you are. 542 00:38:54,697 --> 00:38:56,562 Do you see anything about me? 543 00:38:57,933 --> 00:38:59,924 - Yes. - What? 544 00:39:02,037 --> 00:39:05,667 - You are amazingly unhappy. - Big deal. 545 00:39:05,742 --> 00:39:08,369 You meet a Valium addict, you figure out she's unhappy... 546 00:39:08,443 --> 00:39:11,174 that doesn't count. Of course... Something else? 547 00:39:11,247 --> 00:39:13,340 Something surprising? 548 00:39:13,416 --> 00:39:15,179 - Something surprising? - Yes. 549 00:39:15,251 --> 00:39:17,013 Your husband's a homo. 550 00:39:18,454 --> 00:39:19,853 Ridiculous. 551 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,186 - Really? - Threshold of revelation. 552 00:39:29,898 --> 00:39:34,096 I don't like your revelations. I don't think you intuit well at all. 553 00:39:35,204 --> 00:39:37,195 Joe's a very normal man. 554 00:39:39,275 --> 00:39:40,708 Oh, God! 555 00:39:47,583 --> 00:39:51,417 Do homos take, like, lots of long walks? 556 00:39:53,356 --> 00:39:57,452 Yes, we do. In stretch pants with lavender coifs. 557 00:39:59,061 --> 00:40:03,589 - I just looked at you and there was— - A sort of blue streak of recognition. 558 00:40:03,665 --> 00:40:05,895 - Yes. - Like you knew me incredibly well. 559 00:40:05,968 --> 00:40:07,333 - Yes. - Yes. 560 00:40:08,037 --> 00:40:10,835 I have to go now, get back, something just... 561 00:40:11,541 --> 00:40:12,940 fell apart. 562 00:40:14,242 --> 00:40:15,505 Oh, God! 563 00:40:16,344 --> 00:40:18,643 I feel so sad. 564 00:40:22,818 --> 00:40:24,150 I'm sorry. 565 00:40:25,221 --> 00:40:27,451 I usually say fuck the truth. 566 00:40:28,623 --> 00:40:30,921 But mostly the truth fucks you. 567 00:40:33,696 --> 00:40:35,823 I see something else about you. 568 00:40:38,868 --> 00:40:41,836 Deep inside you, there's a part of you... 569 00:40:41,903 --> 00:40:43,768 the most inner part... 570 00:40:45,974 --> 00:40:48,603 entirely free of disease. 571 00:40:51,180 --> 00:40:52,738 I can see that. 572 00:40:54,583 --> 00:40:55,983 Is that... 573 00:40:57,754 --> 00:40:59,346 That isn't true. 574 00:40:59,589 --> 00:41:01,420 Threshold of revelation. 575 00:41:08,897 --> 00:41:12,231 People come and go so strangely here. 576 00:41:31,788 --> 00:41:34,722 I don't think there is any uninfected part of me. 577 00:41:34,790 --> 00:41:37,316 My heart is pumping polluted blood. 578 00:41:39,862 --> 00:41:41,158 I feel dirty. 579 00:42:22,038 --> 00:42:23,527 Look up. 580 00:42:26,175 --> 00:42:27,368 Hello? 581 00:42:27,709 --> 00:42:29,176 Look up! 582 00:42:29,477 --> 00:42:30,843 Who is that? 583 00:42:30,947 --> 00:42:33,881 Look up. Prepare the way. 584 00:42:35,084 --> 00:42:36,381 I don't see any— 585 00:42:36,452 --> 00:42:38,977 Prepare for the parting of the air... 586 00:42:39,055 --> 00:42:41,523 the breath, the ascent. 587 00:42:41,990 --> 00:42:43,856 Glory to— 588 00:42:58,641 --> 00:43:00,165 What the fuck. 589 00:43:02,311 --> 00:43:03,504 Hello! 590 00:43:06,682 --> 00:43:08,012 Is that it? 591 00:43:09,352 --> 00:43:10,512 Hello! 592 00:43:14,690 --> 00:43:16,020 Poor me. 593 00:43:17,326 --> 00:43:19,226 Poor, poor me. Why me? 594 00:43:19,729 --> 00:43:21,424 Why poor, poor me? 595 00:43:25,635 --> 00:43:28,195 I don't feel good right now. I really don't. 596 00:44:08,110 --> 00:44:09,337 Harper? 597 00:44:18,955 --> 00:44:20,479 Where were you? 598 00:44:22,525 --> 00:44:24,185 - Where were you? - Out. 599 00:44:24,326 --> 00:44:26,727 - Where? - Just out, thinking. 600 00:44:26,963 --> 00:44:27,951 It's late. 601 00:44:28,029 --> 00:44:30,828 - I had a lot to think about. - I burned dinner. 602 00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:31,923 I'm sorry. 603 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,332 Not my dinner. My dinner was fine. Your dinner. 604 00:44:34,402 --> 00:44:37,429 I put it back in the oven and turned everything up high... 605 00:44:37,506 --> 00:44:39,132 and I watched till it burned black. 606 00:44:39,208 --> 00:44:41,335 It's still hot, very hot, want it? 607 00:44:41,677 --> 00:44:43,007 You didn't have to do that. 608 00:44:43,078 --> 00:44:45,376 I know. It just seemed like the kind of thing... 609 00:44:45,447 --> 00:44:49,042 a mentally deranged, sex-starved, pill-popping housewife would do. 610 00:44:49,117 --> 00:44:51,483 So I did it. Who knows anymore what I have to do? 611 00:44:51,553 --> 00:44:54,114 - How many pills? - A bunch. Don't change the subject. 612 00:44:54,190 --> 00:44:57,647 - I won't talk to you. - No, don't do that. I'm fine. 613 00:44:57,726 --> 00:44:59,694 Pills are not the problem, not our problem. 614 00:44:59,761 --> 00:45:03,129 I wanna know where you've been, and I wanna know what's going on. 615 00:45:03,199 --> 00:45:05,190 - Going on with what? The job? - Not the job. 616 00:45:05,267 --> 00:45:06,528 I said I needed more time. 617 00:45:06,601 --> 00:45:09,537 I talked to Mr. Cohn on the phone, he said that I had to hurry. 618 00:45:09,605 --> 00:45:12,300 - But I can't get you to talk sensibly about— - Shut up! 619 00:45:12,374 --> 00:45:15,606 - Stick to the subject! - I don't know what that is! 620 00:45:16,012 --> 00:45:18,912 You have something you wanna ask me, ask me. 621 00:45:20,615 --> 00:45:22,174 Ask me. Go. 622 00:45:23,919 --> 00:45:26,012 I can't. I'm scared of you. 623 00:45:27,923 --> 00:45:30,084 I'm tired. I'm going to bed. 624 00:45:42,203 --> 00:45:44,296 Tell me without making me ask, please. 625 00:45:44,372 --> 00:45:46,397 This is crazy. I'm not... 626 00:45:52,947 --> 00:45:54,381 When you come through the door... 627 00:45:54,449 --> 00:45:58,045 your face is never exactly the way I remembered it. 628 00:46:00,189 --> 00:46:04,182 I get surprised by something mean and hard about the way you look... 629 00:46:04,260 --> 00:46:07,558 even the weight of you in the bed at night... 630 00:46:07,629 --> 00:46:10,154 the way you breathe in your sleep... 631 00:46:10,933 --> 00:46:14,926 seems unfamiliar. You terrify me. 632 00:46:16,538 --> 00:46:18,301 I know who you are. 633 00:46:18,808 --> 00:46:21,606 Yes, I'm the enemy. That's easy. That doesn't change. 634 00:46:21,677 --> 00:46:25,077 You think you're the only who hates sex? I do. I hate it with you. 635 00:46:25,147 --> 00:46:28,809 I dream that you batter away at me till my joints come apart like wax... 636 00:46:28,883 --> 00:46:31,785 and I fall into pieces. It's like a punishment. 637 00:46:31,854 --> 00:46:34,788 It was wrong of me to marry you. I knew... 638 00:46:40,262 --> 00:46:42,787 It's a sin and it's killing us both. 639 00:46:42,865 --> 00:46:46,995 I can always tell you've taken pills because it makes you red-faced and sweaty. 640 00:46:47,069 --> 00:46:50,435 And frankly, that's very often why I don't want to... 641 00:46:50,739 --> 00:46:53,469 - Because... - Because you aren't pretty. 642 00:46:55,244 --> 00:46:56,733 Not like this. 643 00:46:58,279 --> 00:47:01,340 - I have something I wanna ask— - Then ask! What the hell are you— 644 00:47:01,417 --> 00:47:03,043 Are you a homo? 645 00:47:03,919 --> 00:47:05,146 Are you? 646 00:47:09,290 --> 00:47:10,757 You try to walk out right now... 647 00:47:10,825 --> 00:47:13,852 I'll put your dinner back in the oven and turn it up so high... 648 00:47:13,929 --> 00:47:17,625 the building will fill with smoke, and everyone in it will asphyxiate. 649 00:47:17,699 --> 00:47:20,760 So help me God, I will. Now answer the question. 650 00:47:25,174 --> 00:47:29,076 - What if l... - Then tell me, please, and we'll see. 651 00:47:34,249 --> 00:47:35,239 No. 652 00:47:36,251 --> 00:47:37,549 I'm not. 653 00:47:39,187 --> 00:47:41,782 I don't see what difference it makes. 654 00:48:05,247 --> 00:48:08,807 Jews don't have any clear textual guide to the afterlife. 655 00:48:09,585 --> 00:48:11,576 I mean even that it exists. 656 00:48:12,987 --> 00:48:14,716 I don't think much about it. 657 00:48:14,789 --> 00:48:18,725 I see it as a perpetual rainy Thursday afternoon in March... 658 00:48:19,194 --> 00:48:20,752 dead leaves... 659 00:48:21,563 --> 00:48:23,087 Very Greco-Roman. 660 00:48:23,164 --> 00:48:26,328 For us, it's not the verdict that counts, it's the act of judgment. 661 00:48:26,402 --> 00:48:30,133 That's why I can never be a lawyer. In court, all that matters is the verdict. 662 00:48:30,206 --> 00:48:32,606 You can never be a lawyer because you're oversexed. 663 00:48:32,675 --> 00:48:33,971 And too distracted. 664 00:48:34,042 --> 00:48:36,135 Not distracted, abstracted. 665 00:48:36,211 --> 00:48:38,338 - I'm trying to make a point. - Namely? 666 00:48:38,413 --> 00:48:40,347 The shaping of the law, not its execution. 667 00:48:40,415 --> 00:48:42,246 The point, dear, the point. 668 00:48:42,317 --> 00:48:45,754 That it should be the questions and shape of a life... 669 00:48:45,820 --> 00:48:50,382 its total complexity, gathered, arranged, and considered... 670 00:48:50,458 --> 00:48:52,187 which matters in the end. 671 00:48:52,260 --> 00:48:55,286 Not some stamp of salvation or damnation... 672 00:48:56,364 --> 00:49:00,358 which disperses all the complexity in some unsatisfying little decision. 673 00:49:00,436 --> 00:49:03,268 - The balancing of the scales— - I like this. 674 00:49:03,338 --> 00:49:04,636 Very Zen. 675 00:49:04,740 --> 00:49:07,537 It's reassuringly incomprehensible and useless. 676 00:49:07,609 --> 00:49:10,134 We, who are about to die, thank you. 677 00:49:12,380 --> 00:49:14,371 You are not about to die. 678 00:49:16,517 --> 00:49:18,644 It's not going well, really. 679 00:49:20,421 --> 00:49:22,116 Two new lesions... 680 00:49:23,058 --> 00:49:26,925 my leg hurts, there's protein in my urine, the doctor says... 681 00:49:26,995 --> 00:49:30,396 but who know what the fuck that portends. 682 00:49:30,465 --> 00:49:33,298 Anyway it shouldn't be there. The protein. 683 00:49:35,270 --> 00:49:37,704 My butt is chapped from diarrhea. 684 00:49:38,474 --> 00:49:40,907 And yesterday I shat blood. 685 00:49:46,114 --> 00:49:47,877 I really hate this. 686 00:49:48,984 --> 00:49:51,543 - You don't tell me— - You get too upset. 687 00:49:51,619 --> 00:49:53,746 I wind up comforting you. 688 00:49:54,656 --> 00:49:57,091 - It's easier. - Oh, thanks. 689 00:49:57,259 --> 00:49:59,193 If it's bad, I'll tell you. 690 00:50:00,561 --> 00:50:02,893 Shitting blood sounds bad to me. 691 00:50:03,499 --> 00:50:06,228 - I'm telling you— - And I'm handling it. 692 00:50:06,401 --> 00:50:08,767 Tell me some more about justice. 693 00:50:10,638 --> 00:50:12,300 I am handling it. 694 00:50:13,241 --> 00:50:16,109 Well, Louis, you win trooper of the month. 695 00:50:18,113 --> 00:50:21,172 I take it back. You aren't trooper of the month. 696 00:50:23,052 --> 00:50:24,815 This isn't working. 697 00:50:26,421 --> 00:50:28,651 Tell me some more about justice. 698 00:50:30,591 --> 00:50:32,525 You are not about to die. 699 00:50:34,262 --> 00:50:36,958 - Justice... - ls an immensity, it's confusing. 700 00:50:37,899 --> 00:50:39,891 Vastness, justice is God. 701 00:50:44,206 --> 00:50:45,399 Prior. 702 00:50:49,344 --> 00:50:50,743 You love me? 703 00:50:51,579 --> 00:50:52,638 Yes. 704 00:50:54,383 --> 00:50:56,613 What if I walked out on this? 705 00:50:57,318 --> 00:50:59,343 Would you hate me forever? 706 00:51:07,929 --> 00:51:09,022 Yes. 707 00:51:30,652 --> 00:51:32,677 I think we ought to pray. 708 00:51:34,122 --> 00:51:35,783 Ask God for help. 709 00:51:36,290 --> 00:51:37,951 Ask him together. 710 00:51:38,326 --> 00:51:40,157 God won't talk to me. 711 00:51:40,261 --> 00:51:43,662 - I have to make up people to talk to me. - You have to keep asking. 712 00:51:43,731 --> 00:51:45,597 I forgot the question. 713 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,396 - Oh, yeah. God, is my husband a homo? - Stop it! 714 00:51:50,138 --> 00:51:51,766 I'm warning you! 715 00:51:52,240 --> 00:51:56,336 Does it make any difference that I might be one thing deep within? 716 00:51:56,677 --> 00:51:59,009 No matter how wrong or ugly that thing is... 717 00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,517 so long as I have fought with everything I have to kill it? 718 00:52:03,117 --> 00:52:04,948 What do you want from me? 719 00:52:05,019 --> 00:52:08,216 What do you want from me, Harper, more than that? 720 00:52:08,290 --> 00:52:10,781 For God's sake, there's nothing left. 721 00:52:10,859 --> 00:52:13,725 I'm a shell. There's nothing left to kill. 722 00:52:15,830 --> 00:52:19,493 As long as my behavior is what I know it has to be, decent, correct... 723 00:52:19,567 --> 00:52:21,365 that alone in the eyes of God... 724 00:52:21,437 --> 00:52:25,771 No, not that. That's Utah talk, Mormon talk. I hate it, Joe. 725 00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:26,898 Tell me, say it. 726 00:52:26,974 --> 00:52:29,238 All I will say is that I'm a very good man... 727 00:52:29,310 --> 00:52:31,609 who has worked very hard to become good... 728 00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,647 and you wanna destroy that. 729 00:52:33,715 --> 00:52:36,842 You wanna destroy me but I am not gonna let you do that. 730 00:52:39,720 --> 00:52:41,585 I'm gonna have a baby. 731 00:52:42,990 --> 00:52:44,855 - Liar. - You liar. 732 00:52:47,462 --> 00:52:49,726 A baby born addicted to pills. 733 00:52:49,897 --> 00:52:52,958 A baby who does not dream, but who hallucinates... 734 00:52:53,035 --> 00:52:56,265 who stares up at us with big mirror eyes... 735 00:52:56,337 --> 00:52:58,737 and who does not know who we are. 736 00:53:01,443 --> 00:53:03,205 - Are you really? - No. 737 00:53:04,645 --> 00:53:05,704 Yes. 738 00:53:07,281 --> 00:53:08,509 No. Yes. 739 00:53:09,183 --> 00:53:10,650 Get away from me. 740 00:53:10,718 --> 00:53:12,743 Now we both have a secret. 741 00:53:19,126 --> 00:53:21,185 Nobody knows what causes it. 742 00:53:22,096 --> 00:53:24,428 And nobody knows how to cure it. 743 00:53:25,099 --> 00:53:28,091 The best theory is that we blame a retrovirus. 744 00:53:28,436 --> 00:53:30,871 The human immunodeficiency virus. 745 00:53:31,405 --> 00:53:34,340 Its presence is made known to us by the useless antibodies... 746 00:53:34,408 --> 00:53:38,037 which appear in reaction to its entrance into the bloodstream through a cut. 747 00:53:38,112 --> 00:53:39,603 Or an orifice. 748 00:53:39,914 --> 00:53:42,712 The antibodies are powerless to protect the body against it. 749 00:53:42,783 --> 00:53:44,808 Why? We don't know. 750 00:53:45,721 --> 00:53:48,019 The body's immune system ceases to function. 751 00:53:48,090 --> 00:53:50,819 Sometimes the body even attacks itself. 752 00:53:52,026 --> 00:53:56,224 At any rate, it's left open to a whole horror house of infections... 753 00:53:56,532 --> 00:53:59,329 from microbes it usually defends against. 754 00:54:00,134 --> 00:54:01,931 Like Kaposi's sarcomas... 755 00:54:02,003 --> 00:54:05,871 those lesions on your arms, or your throat problem. 756 00:54:05,940 --> 00:54:07,464 Or the glands. 757 00:54:08,442 --> 00:54:12,811 We think it may also be able to slip past the blood-brain barrier into the brain. 758 00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:16,208 Which is, of course, very bad news. 759 00:54:17,619 --> 00:54:22,385 It's fatal in we don't know what percent of people with suppressed immune responses. 760 00:54:26,794 --> 00:54:28,456 Very interesting... 761 00:54:29,730 --> 00:54:31,095 Mr. Wizard. 762 00:54:32,133 --> 00:54:34,398 Why the fuck are you telling me this? 763 00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,832 Well, I have just removed one of three lesions... 764 00:54:43,211 --> 00:54:47,647 which biopsy results will probably tell us is a Kaposi's sarcoma lesion. 765 00:54:48,249 --> 00:54:50,376 And you have a pronounced swelling of glands... 766 00:54:50,451 --> 00:54:52,851 in your neck, groin, and armpits. 767 00:54:53,421 --> 00:54:55,788 Lymphadenopathy is another sign. 768 00:54:55,924 --> 00:54:58,187 And you have oral candidiasis. 769 00:54:58,359 --> 00:55:00,850 And maybe a little more fungus under the fingernails... 770 00:55:00,928 --> 00:55:03,021 of two digits on your right hand. 771 00:55:03,965 --> 00:55:04,989 So? 772 00:55:05,299 --> 00:55:06,698 That's why I'm... 773 00:55:08,803 --> 00:55:10,896 - This disease... - Syndrome. 774 00:55:11,772 --> 00:55:13,034 Whatever. 775 00:55:13,808 --> 00:55:18,507 It afflicts mostly homosexuals and drug addicts. 776 00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,107 Mostly. 777 00:55:20,181 --> 00:55:22,115 Hemophiliacs are also at risk. 778 00:55:22,183 --> 00:55:24,117 Homosexuals and drug addicts. 779 00:55:24,185 --> 00:55:27,553 So why are you implying that l... 780 00:55:29,791 --> 00:55:31,952 What are you implying, Henry? 781 00:55:32,093 --> 00:55:35,392 - I don't think I was implying anything. - I'm not a drug addict. 782 00:55:35,463 --> 00:55:38,762 - Come on, Roy. - What? "Come on, Roy" what? 783 00:55:40,135 --> 00:55:42,365 You think I'm a junkie, Henry? 784 00:55:42,537 --> 00:55:44,265 Do you see tracks? 785 00:55:47,475 --> 00:55:49,033 This is absurd. 786 00:55:49,410 --> 00:55:50,776 So say it. 787 00:55:51,078 --> 00:55:52,375 Say what? 788 00:55:53,714 --> 00:55:55,909 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a..." 789 00:55:56,484 --> 00:55:58,884 - Roy. - "You are a..." Go on. 790 00:55:59,987 --> 00:56:03,787 Not, "Roy Cohn, you are a drug fiend." 791 00:56:03,958 --> 00:56:06,552 "Roy Marcus Cohn, you are a..." 792 00:56:07,663 --> 00:56:10,130 Go on, Henry, it starts with an "H." 793 00:56:10,398 --> 00:56:12,832 - I'm not gonna get into— - With an "H," Henry... 794 00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:14,993 and it isn't "hemophiliac." 795 00:56:15,670 --> 00:56:16,898 Come on! 796 00:56:18,473 --> 00:56:21,407 - Why are you doing this, Roy? - No, I mean it. Say it. 797 00:56:21,809 --> 00:56:25,210 Say, "Roy Cohn, you are a homosexual." 798 00:56:27,648 --> 00:56:30,674 And I will proceed systematically... 799 00:56:30,751 --> 00:56:33,447 to destroy your reputation. 800 00:56:34,155 --> 00:56:35,622 And your practice. 801 00:56:36,057 --> 00:56:39,288 And your career in the state of New York, Henry. 802 00:56:40,227 --> 00:56:42,195 Which you know I can do. 803 00:56:45,734 --> 00:56:49,032 You have been seeing me since U958. 804 00:56:50,138 --> 00:56:53,766 Apart from the face lifts, I have treated you for everything from syphilis— 805 00:56:53,841 --> 00:56:55,172 From a whore in Dallas. 806 00:56:55,242 --> 00:56:59,110 from syphilis to venereal warts in your rectum... 807 00:56:59,180 --> 00:57:01,944 which you may have gotten from a whore in Dallas. 808 00:57:02,450 --> 00:57:04,418 But it wasn't a female whore. 809 00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:07,451 So say it. 810 00:57:10,057 --> 00:57:12,855 Roy Cohn, you are... 811 00:57:17,932 --> 00:57:21,561 You have had sex with men. Many, many times, Roy. 812 00:57:21,970 --> 00:57:25,530 And one of those men or any number of them has made you very sick. 813 00:57:26,674 --> 00:57:28,336 You have AlDS. 814 00:57:28,743 --> 00:57:29,835 AlDS? 815 00:57:31,412 --> 00:57:36,315 You know, your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words... 816 00:57:37,885 --> 00:57:39,284 on labels... 817 00:57:39,820 --> 00:57:42,687 that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. 818 00:57:43,157 --> 00:57:45,717 AlDS, homosexual, gay, lesbian. 819 00:57:45,793 --> 00:57:48,785 You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with? 820 00:57:48,863 --> 00:57:50,763 - They don't tell you that. - No? 821 00:57:50,831 --> 00:57:51,991 No. 822 00:57:52,066 --> 00:57:55,160 Like all labels, they tell you one thing and one thing only. 823 00:57:55,903 --> 00:58:00,636 Where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain... 824 00:58:01,609 --> 00:58:03,406 in the pecking order? 825 00:58:04,044 --> 00:58:08,708 Not an ideology or a sexual taste, but something much simpler:. 826 00:58:09,183 --> 00:58:10,309 Clout. 827 00:58:11,185 --> 00:58:14,245 Not who I fuck or who fucks me... 828 00:58:14,321 --> 00:58:17,347 but who will pick up the phone when I call. 829 00:58:17,658 --> 00:58:19,024 Who owes me favors. 830 00:58:19,094 --> 00:58:22,824 This is what a label refers to. 831 00:58:23,664 --> 00:58:26,030 Now, to someone who does not understand this... 832 00:58:26,100 --> 00:58:29,968 homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men. 833 00:58:30,104 --> 00:58:32,129 But really, this is wrong. 834 00:58:32,673 --> 00:58:35,836 Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. 835 00:58:36,677 --> 00:58:38,542 Homosexuals are men... 836 00:58:38,813 --> 00:58:41,338 who, in U5 years of trying... 837 00:58:41,615 --> 00:58:46,416 cannot pass a pissant anti-discrimination bill through city council. 838 00:58:47,288 --> 00:58:51,918 Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. 839 00:58:52,493 --> 00:58:54,962 Who have zero clout. 840 00:58:57,165 --> 00:58:59,224 Does this sound like me, Henry? 841 00:58:59,301 --> 00:59:00,892 - No. - No! 842 00:59:01,035 --> 00:59:03,436 I have clout. Lots. 843 00:59:05,072 --> 00:59:09,772 I pick up this phone, I punch U5 numbers, you know who's on the other end? 844 00:59:10,177 --> 00:59:13,203 - In under five minutes, Henry. - The President. 845 00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,407 Better, Henry. His wife. 846 00:59:17,685 --> 00:59:18,879 I'm impressed. 847 00:59:18,953 --> 00:59:22,150 I don't want you to be impressed. I want you to understand. 848 00:59:22,723 --> 00:59:26,181 This is not sophistry and this is not hypocrisy. 849 00:59:26,761 --> 00:59:28,193 This is reality. 850 00:59:29,296 --> 00:59:31,093 I have sex with men... 851 00:59:31,165 --> 00:59:34,293 but unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true... 852 00:59:34,368 --> 00:59:36,928 I bring the guy I'm screwing to the White House. 853 00:59:37,004 --> 00:59:40,872 And President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand... 854 00:59:41,242 --> 00:59:42,470 because... 855 00:59:43,043 --> 00:59:47,104 what I am is defined entirely by who I am. 856 00:59:48,082 --> 00:59:50,448 Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. 857 00:59:51,652 --> 00:59:55,679 Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry... 858 00:59:56,790 --> 00:59:58,883 who fucks around with guys. 859 01:00:00,828 --> 01:00:02,159 Okay, Roy. 860 01:00:02,229 --> 01:00:04,322 And what is my diagnosis, Henry? 861 01:00:05,799 --> 01:00:09,394 - You have AlDS, Roy. - No. Henry, no. 862 01:00:10,671 --> 01:00:13,697 AlDS is what homosexuals have. 863 01:00:16,043 --> 01:00:19,308 I have liver cancer. 864 01:00:30,824 --> 01:00:33,019 Whatever the fuck you have... 865 01:00:33,594 --> 01:00:35,084 it's very serious. 866 01:00:35,496 --> 01:00:37,930 And I haven't got a damn thing for you. 867 01:00:38,532 --> 01:00:41,558 The NlH in Bethesda has a new drug called... 868 01:00:42,136 --> 01:00:43,330 AZT... 869 01:00:43,504 --> 01:00:46,940 with a two-year waiting list that not even I can get you onto. 870 01:00:47,875 --> 01:00:49,843 So pick up the phone, Roy... 871 01:00:50,678 --> 01:00:52,646 and dial the 15 numbers... 872 01:00:52,846 --> 01:00:57,215 and tell the First Lady that you need it on an experimental treatment for liver cancer... 873 01:00:57,284 --> 01:00:59,878 because you can call it any damn thing you want, Roy. 874 01:00:59,954 --> 01:01:02,081 But what it boils down to... 875 01:01:03,090 --> 01:01:04,887 is very bad news.