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- My God!
- Is anything gone?
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- How can I look? I'm shaking.
- I wanna know if anything's gone.
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- Calm down.
- We could've been killed. The Kandinsky!
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- The Kandinsky!
- It's gone! Oh, my God! Call the police!
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There it is. The silver Victorian inkwell.
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- How can you think about things?!
- There's the inkwell.
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- We could have been murdered!
- Silver jaguar.
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Why?
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- Slashed. Throats slashed.
- There's the Degas.
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Go to bed at night happy and then
murdered. Would we have woken up?
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We're alive.
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- i(dog yelps)/i
- i(both scream)/i
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The dog, the dog, the dog. Oh, God.
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- Oh, my God!
- What is it?
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The wedding.
We have to go to the wedding.
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- I'm in no mood to go.
- We have to.
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- They're your friends.
- I beg to differ...
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- Hello?!
- What?
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You don't call out "hello" unless the...
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I think we could tell
if someone else was here.
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- We didn't all night.
- i(phone rings)/i
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Oh, God. No, don't pick that up! It's him!
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Bride's side or groom's side?
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Either side. I can't even
remember how we met them.
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Why are we here?
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Let's not make a scene.
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The most terrifying words in the world -
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- "Now I lay me down to sleep..." Think.
- "Pray the Lord my soul to keep."
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But then the nightmare part.
"If I should die before I wake..."
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"Pray the Lord my soul to take."
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- Are you OK?
- We were nearly murdered.
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- Throats slashed.
- It was awful.
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- You could've been killed?
- Only hours ago.
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- But we're here.
- We wouldn't miss it.
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Happy the bride the sun shines on.
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i(j& " Here Comes the Bride")/i
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Chaos, control. Chaos, control.
You like? You like?
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- I'll have a gin and tonic, please.
- Tell them.
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We were having
a wonderful evening last night.
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A friend we hadn't seen in years
came by for dinner.
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- Geoffrey Miller. From South Africa.
- Don't say that so portentously.
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- Geoffrey from Serth Efrica.
- Well, don't be gaga!
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- Scotch, please.
- Just something large.
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Geoffrey was in New York
briefly on business,
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and he asked us to ask him for dinner.
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Listen.
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What's wrong?
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It always amazes me
when New York is so quiet.
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Oh! i(laughs)/i
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With the kids away,
we get used to less noise.
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- Geoffrey is King-Midas rich. Gold mines.
- 70,000 workers in one gold mine alone.
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But he's short of cash.
His government won't let its people...
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- Its white people.
- ..take out any money.
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It's like taking in a war baby.
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His call was like a bolt from the blue, as
I had a deal coming up and was short by...
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- Two million.
- The figure is superfluous.
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I hate when you use
the word "superfluous".
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I mean, he needed two million.
We hadn't seen Geoffrey in a long time.
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While he might not have the price
of dinner, he might have $2,000,000.
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It's the awful thing about
having truly rich friends.
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Let's face it, the money does
get in the way. I'll take that one.
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Having a rich friend is like drowning
and he makes lifeboats.
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Only your friend gets very touchy if you
say one word - lifeboat. That is two words.
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We were afraid our friend might say we
were loving him because of his lifeboat.
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We weren't sucking up. We like Geoffrey.
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i(applause)/i
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- Shouldn't we...?
- Not on your life.
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- It was hardly a lifeboat evening.
- Portentous.
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But when Geoffrey called
and asked us to take him for dinner,
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he made a pattern in life's tea leaves,
because who wants to go to banks?
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Why do you stay in South Africa?
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One has to stay there
to educate the black workers.
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We'll know we've been successful
when they kill us.
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- Planning the revolution to destroy you.
- Putting your life on the line.
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You don't think of it like that.
I wish you'd visit.
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Oh, but we'd visit you
and sit in your gorgeous house,
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planning visits to the townships,
demanding to see the poorest of the poor.
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"Are you sure they're the worst off?
I mean, we've come all this way."
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"We don't want to see people just mildly
victimised by apartheid. We want shock."
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It doesn't seem right sitting on
the East Side talking about revolution.
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Only small, murky cafs
for Pp le Moko here.
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No. No. La Pasionaria. We'll build
barricades and lean against them, singing.
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- And the people will follow.
- Follow, follow, follow. What is that song?
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It's our role in history,
and we offer ourselves up to it.
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It's your role in history, it's not our role.
The Fantasticks.
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ij&/i Follow, follow, follow, follow
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A role in history - to say that so easily.
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To lead the people. Like Lech Walesa
and the striking shipyard workers.
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Gorbachev urging on
the striking coal miners.
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The phrase "striking coal miners" -
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I always picture these very striking
coal miners modelling the fall fashion.
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- Why is there a statue of a husky?
- Another drink before we...?
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Where shall we?
God, the restaurants in New York.
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It's like Florence in the 16th century -
genius on every corner.
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- There's good Szechwan. Hunan.
- i(woman laughs)/i
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The sign painter screwed up the sign.
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Instead of painting "The Hunan Wok",
he painted "The Human Wok".
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- We sent it to iThe Times./i
- They have a joke page, and...
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They send you champagne.
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We weren't auditioning, but all I could
think was "$2,000,000. $2,000,000".
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Like when people say "Don't think
about elephants", it's all you think.
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$2,000,000. $2,000,000.
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i(buzzer)/i
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Whatever you do,
don't think about elephants.
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- Elephants?
- Ouisa is a Dada manifesto.
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About the Czanne.
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Unless we're careful,
it'll be sold and never seen again.
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Mid period. Landscape
of a dark green forest.
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In the far distance you see the sunlight.
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One of his first uses of a pale colour being
forced to carry the weight of the picture.
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An experiment that would
pay off in the apples.
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Burst of colour has to carry so much.
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Japanese don't like anything
about it except it's a Czanne.
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I... I'm so sorry to bother you, but...
I've been hurt, and I've lost everything.
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I didn't know where to go. Your children.
I'm a friend of your children.
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- He mentioned our kids' names.
- And their school.
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- Harvard. You can say Harvard.
- I don't want to get into libel.
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I was mugged... out there in Central Park.
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By the statue of that Alaskan husky.
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I was trying to figure out
why there was a statue of a dog
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who saved lives in the Yukon
in the middle of Central Park.
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- When I was trying to puzzle it out...
- Are you OK?
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They took my money and my briefcase.
I said "My thesis..."
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- His shirt's bleeding.
- The shirt isn't bleeding. He's bleeding.
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Oh.
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Sorry. I get this way around blood.
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No! My God, not on the rug, please.
Eddie, get the doctor.
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No. No. I'll survive.
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No doctors. Please?
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All right, Eddie. We'll call you.
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Thank you, Eddie.
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Um...
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i(stranger)/i I don't mind the money.
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But in the age of mechanical reproduction,
they got the only copy of my thesis.
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Ouisa, where's the first-aid book?
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The Red Cross advises
"Press edges of wound firmly together."
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- Yes, I'm doing that.
- i(screams)/i
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Hold on. Ouisa, I need gauze.
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- It's been wonderful seeing you.
- No. Stay.
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My time is so short.
Before I leave America, I really should...
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- Did you see the new book on Czanne?
- Er, no. May I use the phone?
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An absolute revelation.
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I ran down the hall...
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$2,000,000. $2,000,000.
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..got the book on Czanne,
got the gauze from the kitchen,
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gave the Czanne to Flan,
and the gauze to Geoffrey.
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Ouisa!
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$2,000,000. $2,000,000.
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It's a lovely book.
I'll get him a clean shirt. Please stay.
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- And peace was restored.
- And then...
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Your children said you were kind.
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All the kids were sitting around the dorm
dishing the... shit out of their parents.
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But your kids were silent. They said
"No. Not our parents. Not Flan and Ouisa."
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"Not the Kittredges.
The Kittredges are kind."
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So, after the muggers left, I looked up,
saw these Fifth Avenue apartments.
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Mrs Onassis lives there.
I know the Babcocks live over there.
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The Auchinclosses live there.
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But... you lived here.
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I came here.
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Can you believe what the kids said?
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Mm. Well...
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iHe mentioned our kids' names./i
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We can mention our kids' names. They
won't sue us for mentioning their names.
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Talbot and Woody mean the world to me.
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Woody? He lets you call him Woody?
Nobody's called him Woody in years.
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They described this apartment in detail.
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Oh, this is a Kandinsky!
A double - one painted on either side.
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May I see?
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Yes, of course.
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Extraordinary.
What makes it exceptional is that
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Kandinsky painted on either side of the
canvas in two radically different styles.
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One wild and vivid,
the other sombre and geometric.
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My God!
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We flip it around for variety.
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Chaos, control. Chaos, control.
You like? You like?
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It's wonderful.
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i(Flan) Vasili Kandinsky./i
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Born 1866, Moscow.
Blue Rider exhibition, 1914.
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He said "The choice of object that is one
of the elements in the harmony of form
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must be decided only by a corresponding
vibration in the human soul."
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Died 1944, France.
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Everything is just the way
they said it would be.
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Did you bitch your parents?
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As a matter of fact, no.
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Your kids and I, we both liked our -
liked? - iloved/i our parents.
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Am I getting in the way here? I'm sorry.
I burst in here hysterical... blood...
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No. No, no. No, no, no, please.
No, please. Please. Sit down.
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Tell us about our children.
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Three. Two at Harvard,
and a girl at Groton.
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- How is Harvard?
- Well, fine. It's just there.
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Everyone's in a constant
state of luxurious despair
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and constant discovery and paralysis.
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- We asked him where home was.
- "Out West" he said.
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Although I've lived all over.
My folks are divorced. He's remarried.
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00:14:03,400 -- 00:14:07,075
- Actually, he's doing a movie.
- He's in the movies?
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- He's directing this one, but he does act.
- Really? Um...
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- What's he directing?
- iCats./i
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- Someone is directing a film of iCats?/i
- Don't be snooty.
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- You've seen it? TS Eliot?
- i(Flan)/i Yes, years ago.
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It was a benefit for some school...
or disease... What?
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00:14:25,720 -- 00:14:28,598
- They can't make the movie of iCats./i
- Of course they can.
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They're going to try.
My father'll be here, auditioning.
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Cats?
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00:14:35,080 -- 00:14:38,356
- He's going to use people.
- What a courageous stand.
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- They thought of animation...
- Animation would be nice.
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But he found a better way. As a matter
of fact, he turned it down at first.
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He went to tell the producers the reasons
why you couldn't make a movie of iCats./i
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And in going through the reasons why you
couldn't, he suddenly saw how you could.
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Eureka in the bathtub. How wonderful!
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May we ask who?
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And it was then we pulled up -
ever so slightly - pulled up closer.
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And he told us.
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He named the greatest
black star in movies. Sidney...
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No names! No names! We're trying
to keep this abstract. Plus, libel laws.
220
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Sidney Poitier. There. I don't care!
You have to have truth!
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He started out as a lawyer
and is terrified of libel. I'm not.
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Sidney Poitier.
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The future Jackie Robinson of films was
born 24th of February 1927 in Miami
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during a visit his parents made to Florida.
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i(man)/i Legally?
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To sell tomatoes
they had grown in the Bahamas.
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He grew up on Cat Island so poor they
didn't even own dirt, he has said.
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Neglected by his family, my father would
sit on the shore, and, as he's told me:
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"conjure up the worlds that were on
the other side, and what I'd do in them."
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He arrived in New York City from
the Bahamas in the winter of 1943
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at the age of 15 and a half, and lived
in the pay toilet of the bus station
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across from the old Madison
Square Garden at 50th and 8th Avenue.
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He moved to the roof of the Brill Building,
commonly known as Tin Pan Alley,
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washed dishes at the Turf Restaurant
for $4 and 11 cents a night.
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He taught himself to read
by reading the newspaper.
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In the black newspaper, the theatre page
was opposite the want-ad page.
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Among his 42 films are:
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iNo Way Out,/i 1950, iCry, the Beloved/i
iCountry,/i 1952, iBlackboard Jungle,/i 1955,
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iThe Defiant Ones,/i 1958, iA Raisin in/i
ithe Sun,/i 1961, iLilies of the Field,/i 1963,
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iIn the Heat of the Night,/i 1967, iTo Sir,/i
iwith Love,/i 1967, iShoot to Kill,/i 1988,
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and, of course...
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iGuess Who's Coming to Dinner!/i
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He won the Oscar for iLilies of the Field,/i
and was twice named top box-office star.
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My father made no films from 1977 to
1987, but worked as director and author.
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Dad said to me once:
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"I still don't fully understand
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how all this came about
in the sequence it came about."
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i(someone claps)/i
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Dad's not in till tomorrow at the Sherry.
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I came down from Cambridge. I thought
I'd stay at some fleabag for adventure.
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Orwell, iDown and Out.../i
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I don't really know New York. I know
Rome, Paris and Los Angeles a lot better.
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Well, we're going out to dinner.
You'll come.
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- Out to dinner?
- Out to dinner.
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- The new Italian looked cheery.
- Good. We've made reservations.
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- They wrap up ravioli like saltwater taffy.
- Six on a plate for a few hundred dollars.
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But why go out to dinner?
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Because we have reservations. What time
is it? Have we lost the reservations?
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There's nothing in the house. And it's 16th
century Florence, genius on every block.
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- Don't mock.
- You must have something in the fridge.
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A frozen steak from the Ice Age.
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But why spend $100 on a bowl of rice?
Let me into the kitchen.
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Cooking calms me. And what I'd like to do
is calm down. Pay back your kids.
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- Two at Harvard. A daughter at Groton.
- Who've been wonderful.
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- They never mentioned you.
- What'd they say?
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"We know the son of Sidney Poitier,
barrier-breaker of the '50s and '60s"?
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Your father means
a great deal in South Africa.
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I'm glad of that. Dad and I went
to Russia once, to a film festival.
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He was amazed how much
his presence meant.
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No, no. Tell us stories of movie stars
tying up their children, being cruel.
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- I wish.
- You wish?
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If I wanted to write a book about him, I
really can't. No one would want to read it.
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He's decent, and I admire him.
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Oh, he's married to an actress. She was
in... um... um... She's white. Am I right?
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That's not my mother. It's his second wife.
He met Joanna making iThe Lost Man,/i
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and left my mother, who'd stuck by him
in the lean years. I had just been born.
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iThe Lost Man/i is the only film of my
father's I can't bring myself to see.
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- I'm so sorry. We didn't mean...
- No, no, no.
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We're all good friends now, his kids
from that marriage and us - the old kids.
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I'd love to get into that kitchen.
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- What should we do?
- It's Geoffrey's only night in New York.
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- I vote to stay in.
- Good!
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We moved into the kitchen.
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- We watched him cook.
- We watched him chop.
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He did a sort of wizardry.
Leftovers. Onions.
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- i(Ouisa)/i Peppers.
- Tuna. Olives.
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- i(Ouisa) Ajar of sun-dried tomatoes./i
- iIt was wonderful./i
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- So, you're from...?
- Johannesburg.
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My dad took me to a movie
shot in South Africa.
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The camera moves from
this vile rioting in the streets
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to a villa where people picked
at lunch on a terrace.
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The only riot, the flowers and the birds.
Gorgeous plumage and petals.
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I didn't understand.
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Dad said to me "You meet these young
blacks who are having a terrible time."
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"They've had an inadequate education,
yet, in '76, the year of the Soweto riots,
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they took on great political responsibility.
Just makes you wonder at their maturity."
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It makes you realise that
the "crummy-childhood" theory,
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that everything can be blamed in
a Freudian fashion on a bad upbringing,
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just doesn't hold water.
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May I?
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What about being black in America?
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Well, my problem is I've never felt
American. I grew up in Switzerland.
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Boarding school. Villa Rosey.
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There's a boarding school in Switzerland
that will take you at age 18 months.
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No, no, no, no. That's not me. I've never
felt people liked me for my connections.
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And movie-star-kid problems?
None of those.
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I never knew I was black in that racist way
till I was 16 and came back here.
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Very, very protected.
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White servants.
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After the divorce, we moved to
Switzerland - my mother, brother and I.
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I don't feel American. I don't even feel
black. I suppose that's very lucky for me.
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Even though Freud says
there's no such thing as luck.
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Does Freud say that?
I think we're lucky having this dinner.
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- Flan, can we eat in the dining room?
- Dining room.
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Now, now, don't look at
the sewing machine.
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So, is everything OK?
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- This is the best pasta I've ever tasted.
- The best!
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- My father insisted we learn to cook.
- He's from Jamaica, isn't he?
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There's a taste of, um...
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- The islands.
- Yes. Yeah.
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Yes, before he made it,
he ran four restaurants in Harlem.
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- You, sir, have good buds.
- "Good buds?"
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I've never been
complimented on my buds.
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- This is delicious.
- What about you?
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Oh, no, no, no. The cook never eats.
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What a good idea.
That means there's more for us.
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- It's a treat to eat at home.
- We go out every night.
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I have to. Business.
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Have you declared your major yet?
330
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You are like all parents -
"What's your major?"
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Geoffrey, Harvard has all those great titles
the students give the courses.
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"The holocaust and ethics"?
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"Krauts and doubts."
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A toast. To you.
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Oh. No, no, no.
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- To iCats./i
- OK. Yes. To iCats./i
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Isn't this the finest time?
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Hello?
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Hello?
340
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Hello?
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- Seconds?
- Ah!
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Blunt question. What's he like?
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- Oh, let's not be star-fuckers.
- I'm not a star-fucker.
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Well... you know my father. He's... perfect.
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So confident and in control.
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And I used to wonder how could
I ever possibly live up to him.
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And then one night, when I was 16 -
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we were at the Cannes Film Festival,
of all places -
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I looked up and said to him:
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"Wow, Dad, this is all so easy for you."
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Why did I say that?
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He sat me down and set me straight.
353
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Actually, it was a relief for me
to know my father was no superman.
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That he has problems. And there are
moments in his life when he's scared.
355
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And, yes, sometimes
life is whipping his tail.
356
00:24:01,960 -- 00:24:06,431
And he doesn't feel like he can get
through the day. That's refreshing for me.
357
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Because I have times like that myself.
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00:24:10,880 -- 00:24:14,077
I just loved the kid so much.
I wanted to reach out to him.
359
00:24:14,200 -- 00:24:16,839
Then we asked him
what his thesis was on.
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- The one that was stolen.
- Well...
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00:24:20,480 -- 00:24:25,349
A teacher out on Long Island was dropped
from his job for fighting with a student.
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00:24:25,480 -- 00:24:31,396
Weeks later, he returned to the classroom,
shot the student - unsuccessfully,
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held the class hostage,
and then shot himself - successfully.
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This fact caught my eye.
Last sentence, iTimes/i -
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"A neighbour described
the teacher as a nice boy,
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always reading iCatcher in the Rye. "/i
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00:24:47,280 -- 00:24:49,794
This nitwit Chapman,
who shot John Lennon,
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said he did it to draw the attention
of the world to iCatcher in the Rye,/i
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and the reading of this book
would be his defence.
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00:24:57,600 -- 00:25:01,593
Young Hinckley, the whiz kid who shot
Reagan and his press secretary, said:
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"If you want my defence, all you
have to do is read... iCatcher in the Rye. "/i
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- I haven't read it in years.
- Shh.
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I borrowed a copy from a young friend.
I wanted to see what she had underlined.
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And I read this book to find out why
this touching, beautiful, sensitive story,
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published in July 1951,
had turned into this manifesto of hate.
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I started reading. It's exactly as I had
remembered. Everybody's a phoney.
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00:25:29,840 -- 00:25:32,752
Page two - "My brother's
in Hollywood being a prostitute."
378
00:25:32,880 -- 00:25:35,633
Page three -
"What a phoney slob his father was."
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00:25:35,760 -- 00:25:39,275
Page nine -
"People never notice anything."
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00:25:39,400 -- 00:25:42,597
Then, on page 22, my hair stood up.
381
00:25:42,720 -- 00:25:43,630
Well...
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Remember Holden Caulfield, the definitive
sensitive youth wearing his hunter's cap?
383
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A deer hunter's cap?
384
00:25:50,800 -- 00:25:54,588
"Like hell it is. I sort of closed one eye
like I was taking aim at it."
385
00:25:54,720 -- 00:25:57,109
"This is a people shooting hat."
386
00:25:57,240 -- 00:25:59,800
"I shoot people in this hat."
387
00:26:02,400 -- 00:26:06,279
This book is preparing people for bigger
moments than I had ever dreamed of.
388
00:26:06,400 -- 00:26:10,552
Then, on page 89,
"I'd rather push a guy out the window
389
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or chop his head off with an axe
than sock him in the jaw."
390
00:26:14,640 -- 00:26:19,998
"I hate fistfights. What scares
me most is the other guy's face."
391
00:26:21,760 -- 00:26:24,194
I finished the book.
It's touching and comic.
392
00:26:24,320 -- 00:26:27,039
The boy wants to do so much
and can't do anything.
393
00:26:27,160 -- 00:26:29,833
Hates all phoniness
and only lies to others.
394
00:26:29,960 -- 00:26:35,557
Wants everyone to like him but is only
hateful and is completely self involved.
395
00:26:35,680 -- 00:26:40,913
In other words, a pretty accurate
picture of a male adolescent.
396
00:26:42,120 -- 00:26:48,719
What alarms me about the book - not the
book so much as the aura about it - is this.
397
00:26:48,840 -- 00:26:52,196
The book is primarily about paralysis.
The boy can't function.
398
00:26:52,320 -- 00:26:58,509
At the end, before he can run away and
start a new life, it starts to rain. He folds.
399
00:26:58,640 -- 00:27:02,519
There's nothing wrong in writing about
emotional and intellectual paralysis.
400
00:27:02,640 -- 00:27:07,634
It may, thanks to Chekhov and Samuel
Beckett, be the great modern theme.
401
00:27:07,760 -- 00:27:11,036
The extraordinary last lines
of iWaiting for Godot.:/i
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00:27:11,160 -- 00:27:12,639
"Let's go."
403
00:27:12,760 -- 00:27:14,079
"Yes."
404
00:27:14,200 -- 00:27:15,269
"Let's go."
405
00:27:15,400 -- 00:27:17,436
Stage directions:
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00:27:17,560 -- 00:27:19,357
"They do not move."
407
00:27:20,640 -- 00:27:22,312
The aura around Salinger's book -
408
00:27:22,440 -- 00:27:25,671
which, perhaps, should be
read by everyone but young men - is this.
409
00:27:25,800 -- 00:27:27,677
It mirrors like a fun-house mirror,
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00:27:27,800 -- 00:27:32,078
and amplifies like a distorted speaker
one of the great tragedies of our times -
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the death of the imagination.
412
00:27:34,880 -- 00:27:37,553
Because what else is paralysis?
413
00:27:37,680 -- 00:27:43,357
The imagination has been
so debased that imagination...
414
00:27:43,480 -- 00:27:47,109
being imaginative, rather than
being the linchpin of our existence,
415
00:27:47,240 -- 00:27:50,118
now stands as a synonym for
something outside ourselves.
416
00:27:50,240 -- 00:27:51,832
Like science fiction.
417
00:27:51,960 -- 00:27:57,353
Or some new use for tangerine slices
on raw pork chops -
418
00:27:57,480 -- 00:28:02,156
"What an imaginative summer recipe."
And iStar Wars/i - "so imaginative".
419
00:28:02,280 -- 00:28:04,635
And iStar Trek/i - "so imaginative".
420
00:28:04,760 -- 00:28:09,117
And iLord of the Rings,/i
all those dwarves - "so imaginative".
421
00:28:09,240 -- 00:28:12,869
The imagination has moved out
of the realm of being our link,
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00:28:13,000 -- 00:28:16,879
our most personal link, with our inner
lives and the world outside that world,
423
00:28:17,000 -- 00:28:18,558
this world we share.
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00:28:18,680 -- 00:28:21,035
What is schizophrenia
but a horrifying state
425
00:28:21,160 -- 00:28:24,118
where what's in here
doesn't match what's out there?
426
00:28:24,240 -- 00:28:28,518
Why has imagination
become a synonym for style?
427
00:28:28,640 -- 00:28:32,076
I believe the imagination
is the passport that we create
428
00:28:32,200 -- 00:28:34,509
to help take us into the real world.
429
00:28:34,640 -- 00:28:40,476
I believe the imagination is merely another
phrase for what is most uniquely us.
430
00:28:41,120 -- 00:28:46,148
Jung says "The greatest sin
is to be unconscious."
431
00:28:47,040 -- 00:28:51,909
Our boy Holden says "What scares me
most is the other guy's face."
432
00:28:52,440 -- 00:28:57,195
"It wouldn't be so bad
if you could both be blindfolded."
433
00:28:57,320 -- 00:29:02,838
Most of the time, the faces that we face
are not the other guys', but our own faces.
434
00:29:02,960 -- 00:29:07,988
And it is the worst kind of yellowness
to be so scared of yourself
435
00:29:08,120 -- 00:29:12,955
that you put blindfolds on
rather than deal with yourself.
436
00:29:13,960 -- 00:29:18,351
To face ourselves - that's the hard thing.
437
00:29:18,840 -- 00:29:20,796
The imagination...
438
00:29:22,040 -- 00:29:28,309
that's God's gift to make
the act of self-examination bearable.
439
00:29:30,400 -- 00:29:31,958
Well...
440
00:29:33,000 -- 00:29:34,797
Indeed.
441
00:29:35,400 -- 00:29:40,315
- I hope your muggers read every word.
- i(Ouisa laughs)/i Oh, darling!
442
00:29:42,640 -- 00:29:45,996
I'm going to buy iCatcher in the Rye/i
at the airport and read it.
443
00:29:46,120 -- 00:29:48,793
- Cover to cover.
- I'll test you.
444
00:29:50,120 -- 00:29:52,315
- I should be going.
- Where will you stay?
445
00:29:52,440 -- 00:29:54,192
Oh, no, not some fleabag.
446
00:29:54,320 -- 00:29:58,677
No, no, no. I get into the Sherry tomorrow
morning. It's not far off. I can walk around.
447
00:29:58,800 -- 00:30:02,793
- I don't think they'll mug me twice.
- You'll stay here tonight.
448
00:30:02,920 -- 00:30:05,878
No. I have to be at the hotel at 7 am sharp.
449
00:30:06,000 -- 00:30:08,719
- We'll get you up.
- Or Dad will have a fit.
450
00:30:08,840 -- 00:30:11,752
Up at 6.15, which is any moment now.
And we have that wedding.
451
00:30:11,880 -- 00:30:15,270
- There's an alarm by the bed.
- Your feet may hang over the edge...
452
00:30:15,400 -- 00:30:19,632
- If it's any problem...
- The only problem is if you leave.
453
00:30:20,960 -- 00:30:23,474
6.15? I'll tiptoe out.
454
00:30:23,600 -- 00:30:26,433
- And we want to be in iCats./i
- Oh, Flan!
455
00:30:26,560 -- 00:30:29,438
- It's done!
- I'll fly back... with my wife.
456
00:30:29,560 -- 00:30:31,710
Well... Pushy, both of you.
457
00:30:31,840 -- 00:30:37,233
You're not. Dad said I could be in charge
of the extras. That's all I can promise.
458
00:30:37,360 -- 00:30:41,353
- In cat suits?
- No, you can be humans.
459
00:30:41,480 -- 00:30:46,270
That's very important. It has to be
in our contracts. We are humans.
460
00:30:46,400 -- 00:30:48,470
We haven't got any business done.
461
00:30:48,600 -- 00:30:52,388
Oh, forget it.
It was just an evening at home.
462
00:30:52,520 -- 00:30:56,399
Whatever you do,
don't think about elephants.
463
00:30:56,520 -- 00:30:58,033
- Did I intrude?
- No.
464
00:30:58,160 -- 00:31:02,836
There are all ways of doing business.
Flan, walk me to the elevator.
465
00:31:03,200 -- 00:31:05,760
We embraced, and Flan and Geoffrey left.
466
00:31:09,520 -- 00:31:11,954
- Let me clean up.
- No, no. Please leave it.
467
00:31:12,080 -- 00:31:15,356
- Nobody comes in on Sunday.
- No. Yvonne'll be in on Tuesday.
468
00:31:15,480 -- 00:31:17,675
- You'll have every bug in Christendom.
- Let me.
469
00:31:17,800 -- 00:31:20,234
No! You watch.
470
00:31:20,360 -- 00:31:23,318
It gives me a thrill to be looked at.
471
00:31:26,800 -- 00:31:29,553
- Ouisa! He's in.
- He's in?
472
00:31:29,680 -- 00:31:32,717
For two million.
Says the Czanne is a great investment.
473
00:31:32,840 -- 00:31:35,400
We should get six million for it
and sell it for ten.
474
00:31:35,520 -- 00:31:38,512
Happy days! Oh, God!
475
00:31:39,480 -- 00:31:42,995
- Oh, break all those dishes!
- $2,000,000?
476
00:31:43,120 -- 00:31:48,353
Figure it out. He doesn't have the price
of dinner, but he can cough up $2,000,000.
477
00:31:48,480 -- 00:31:52,553
- And the Japanese will go to ten.
- Go to ten? Ten million?
478
00:31:52,680 -- 00:31:55,399
Two million, go to ten,
and we put up nothing.
479
00:31:55,520 -- 00:31:57,590
- Nothing?
- No.
480
00:31:57,720 -- 00:32:01,235
Wildest dreams. Oh, God, Paul. Money.
481
00:32:01,360 -- 00:32:03,316
- Take $50.
- Oh, no.
482
00:32:03,440 -- 00:32:05,510
- It's walking-around money.
- I don't need it.
483
00:32:05,640 -- 00:32:09,519
- What if your father's plane is late?
- A billionth of a per cent commission.
484
00:32:09,640 -- 00:32:13,269
I wouldn't want one of my kids
stuck in the street without a nickel.
485
00:32:13,400 -- 00:32:17,757
Your kids said you were an art dealer, but
you have no gallery. I don't understand.
486
00:32:17,880 -- 00:32:20,269
Come here.
487
00:32:22,400 -- 00:32:26,109
- Some people want to sell privately.
- Divorce, taxes, publicity...
488
00:32:26,240 -- 00:32:29,312
- People ask me for certain schools.
- Modern, Impressionist...
489
00:32:29,440 -- 00:32:32,238
- They don't want museums to know.
- Japanese.
490
00:32:32,360 -- 00:32:36,717
I've got Japanese looking for a Czanne.
I have a syndicate that'll buy the painting.
491
00:32:36,840 -- 00:32:41,311
And there's this great Czanne coming
up for sale in a very messy divorce.
492
00:32:41,440 -- 00:32:43,510
Wife doesn't want hubby to know...
493
00:32:43,640 -- 00:32:48,668
I needed an extra $2,000,000.
Geoffrey called. We invited him for dinner.
494
00:32:48,800 -- 00:32:52,713
- Tonight was a nervous, casual, big thing.
- Oh, boy, oh, boy.
495
00:32:52,840 -- 00:32:55,149
- I couldn't tell.
- All the better.
496
00:32:55,280 -- 00:32:57,589
I'm glad I helped.
497
00:32:57,720 -- 00:32:59,392
You were wonderful.
498
00:32:59,520 -- 00:33:02,353
I'm so pleased I was wonderful.
499
00:33:02,480 -- 00:33:06,712
- All this and a pink shirt.
- Oh, please, keep it. Look at the time.
500
00:33:06,840 -- 00:33:09,559
Oh, God. We should say our good-nights.
501
00:33:09,680 -- 00:33:13,912
Oh, Christ, regretfully.
I want my father to meet you.
502
00:33:14,040 -- 00:33:17,271
- We'd love to. Bring him up for dinner.
- Could I?
503
00:33:17,400 -- 00:33:22,076
- See how easy it is?
- Sure. If Paul does the cooking.
504
00:33:23,120 -- 00:33:25,076
Well, this is it.
505
00:33:26,640 -- 00:33:29,473
- Good night.
- Oh. Good night.
506
00:33:29,600 -- 00:33:31,556
Good night.
507
00:33:35,000 -- 00:33:40,518
I want to get down
on my knees and thank God.
508
00:33:40,640 -- 00:33:42,835
Money!
509
00:33:42,960 -- 00:33:45,838
Who said "When artists dream,
they dream of money"?
510
00:33:45,960 -- 00:33:48,713
God, I must be such an artist.
511
00:33:48,840 -- 00:33:51,479
Bravo. Bravo!
512
00:33:51,600 -- 00:33:53,079
Bravo!
513
00:33:53,200 -- 00:33:55,156
Oh, God!
514
00:33:56,800 -- 00:34:01,794
I don't want to lose our life here. I don't
want all the debt to pile up and crush us.
515
00:34:01,920 -- 00:34:04,354
It won't. We're safe.
516
00:34:05,360 -- 00:34:07,874
For a while.
517
00:34:08,000 -- 00:34:10,594
We almost lost it, Ouis.
518
00:34:10,720 -- 00:34:16,352
If I hadn't gotten this money, I would have
lost the Czanne. I had nowhere to find it.
519
00:34:16,480 -- 00:34:19,677
Why don't you tell me
how much these things mean?
520
00:34:19,800 -- 00:34:22,758
You wait until the last minute.
521
00:34:22,880 -- 00:34:26,429
- I don't want to worry you.
- Not worry me?
522
00:34:26,560 -- 00:34:28,516
I'm your partner.
523
00:34:29,520 -- 00:34:31,750
- There is a God!
- And his name is?
524
00:34:31,880 -- 00:34:34,235
- Geoffrey!
- No! Sidney!
525
00:34:59,960 -- 00:35:04,750
You know, I had the strangest dream.
I dreamt of iCats./i
526
00:35:04,880 -- 00:35:07,030
i(purring and mewing)/i
527
00:35:07,160 -- 00:35:09,390
The movie.
528
00:35:09,520 -- 00:35:12,159
Paul... I'm worried.
529
00:35:12,280 -- 00:35:15,511
Is it right to make a movie of iCats?/i
530
00:35:15,640 -- 00:35:20,555
I'll tell you why there has to be a movie
of iCats,/i Ouisa. May I call you Ouisa?
531
00:35:20,680 -- 00:35:21,795
Yes.
532
00:35:21,920 -- 00:35:24,514
I have no illusions
about the merits of iCats,/i
533
00:35:24,640 -- 00:35:27,677
but the world has been
too heavy with the right-to-lifers -
534
00:35:27,800 -- 00:35:32,237
protect the unborn, constitutional
amendments, when does life begin?
535
00:35:32,360 -- 00:35:37,070
Or the converse - the end of life, the right
to die. Why is life, at this point in time,
536
00:35:37,200 -- 00:35:41,796
so focused upon the very beginning of life
and the very end of life?
537
00:35:41,920 -- 00:35:46,311
What about the 80 years we have to live
between those two inexorable book ends?
538
00:35:46,440 -- 00:35:49,113
And you can get all that into iCats?/i
539
00:35:50,680 -- 00:35:52,636
We're going to try.
540
00:35:52,760 -- 00:35:55,035
Thank you. Thank you.
541
00:35:55,160 -- 00:35:57,116
You shall.
542
00:36:00,920 -- 00:36:04,276
This is what I dreamt.
I didn't dream, so much as realise this.
543
00:36:04,400 -- 00:36:08,757
I feel so close to the paintings.
I'm not just selling, like pieces of meat.
544
00:36:08,880 -- 00:36:12,759
I remembered why I loved paintings
in the first place, what got me into this.
545
00:36:12,880 -- 00:36:14,552
I thought...
546
00:36:14,680 -- 00:36:16,318
dreamt...
547
00:36:18,080 -- 00:36:20,196
remembered...
548
00:36:20,320 -- 00:36:22,834
how easy it is for a painter
to lose a painting.
549
00:36:22,960 -- 00:36:26,350
He paints and paints,
works on a canvas for months,
550
00:36:26,480 -- 00:36:30,189
and then, one day, he loses it.
551
00:36:30,320 -- 00:36:34,472
Loses the structure, loses the sense of it.
You lose the painting.
552
00:36:34,600 -- 00:36:38,912
I remembered asking my kids'
second-grade teacher:
553
00:36:39,040 -- 00:36:42,350
"Why are all your students geniuses?"
554
00:36:42,480 -- 00:36:47,110
Look at the first grade - blotches of green
and black. The third grade - camouflage.
555
00:36:47,240 -- 00:36:50,357
But your grade, the second grade...
556
00:36:50,480 -- 00:36:52,869
Matisses, every one.
557
00:36:53,000 -- 00:36:55,958
You've made my child a Matisse.
558
00:36:59,480 -- 00:37:01,675
Let me study with you.
559
00:37:01,800 -- 00:37:04,712
Let me into the second grade.
560
00:37:04,840 -- 00:37:06,956
What is your secret?
561
00:37:07,080 -- 00:37:12,473
I don't have any secret. I just know when
to take their drawings away from them.
562
00:37:12,600 -- 00:37:14,670
I dreamt of colour.
563
00:37:14,800 -- 00:37:17,473
I dreamt of our son's pink shirt.
564
00:37:17,600 -- 00:37:20,194
I dreamt of pinks and yellows.
565
00:37:20,320 -- 00:37:23,835
And the new Van Gogh
the Museum of Modern Art got.
566
00:37:23,960 -- 00:37:27,350
And the irises that sold for $53.9 million.
567
00:37:27,480 -- 00:37:32,952
And, wishing a Van Gogh was mine,
I looked at my English hand-lasted shoes,
568
00:37:33,080 -- 00:37:38,279
and thought of Van Gogh's tragic shoes,
and remembered ime/i as I was -
569
00:37:38,400 -- 00:37:41,039
a painter losing a painting.
570
00:37:43,240 -- 00:37:44,753
So. This morning.
571
00:37:45,280 -- 00:37:49,034
iI sat in the kitchen, happily doing/i
ithe crossword puzzle in ink./i
572
00:37:49,160 -- 00:37:50,878
iEverybody does it in ink./i
573
00:37:51,000 -- 00:37:54,595
I've never met one person
who didn't say they didn't do it in ink.
574
00:37:54,720 -- 00:37:58,952
iI sat there happily doing the puzzle./i
iI looked at the time. It was nearly seven./i
575
00:37:59,080 -- 00:38:03,756
iAnd Paul had to meet his father,/i
iand I didn't want him to be late./i
576
00:38:04,040 -- 00:38:05,951
i(groaning)/i
577
00:38:06,080 -- 00:38:07,399
Paul?
578
00:38:08,480 -- 00:38:10,516
- Paul?
- i(groaning)/i
579
00:38:10,640 -- 00:38:12,631
Paul, are you OK?
580
00:38:12,760 -- 00:38:14,432
Paul?
581
00:38:15,760 -- 00:38:18,399
What the fuck's goin' on here?
Who the fuck are you?
582
00:38:18,880 -- 00:38:20,711
Flan!
583
00:38:21,960 -- 00:38:23,109
Flan!
584
00:38:23,240 -- 00:38:24,912
i(Flan)/i Ouisa?
585
00:38:25,040 -- 00:38:26,712
What is it?
586
00:38:26,840 -- 00:38:31,516
- God! There's someone in the house.
- Someone's in the...?
587
00:38:31,640 -- 00:38:34,791
- iYes, hello?/i
- Frank? I need help up here right away.
588
00:38:36,280 -- 00:38:39,670
- Hey. How you doin'?
- My God!
589
00:38:41,000 -- 00:38:42,797
Ho-ho-ho!
590
00:38:42,920 -- 00:38:45,309
Nice stuff!
591
00:38:45,440 -- 00:38:48,512
- Fancy chair.
- Oh! Ouisa! Argh!
592
00:38:49,600 -- 00:38:52,398
- I can explain.
- You went out and picked up this thing?
593
00:38:52,520 -- 00:38:57,469
You brought this thing into our house?!
Thing! Thing! Get out of my house!
594
00:38:57,600 -- 00:38:59,989
- Stop it! He might have a gun!
- A gun?!
595
00:39:00,120 -- 00:39:02,759
Yeah, I might have a gun.
I might have a knife!
596
00:39:02,880 -- 00:39:04,393
Oh! Ouisa!
597
00:39:09,160 -- 00:39:11,549
Get out! Get out! Get out!
598
00:39:11,680 -- 00:39:13,989
Take your clothes
and go back to the gutter!
599
00:39:14,120 -- 00:39:16,634
Take it easy with my pants!
600
00:39:20,520 -- 00:39:23,432
- Fuck you!
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
601
00:39:23,560 -- 00:39:25,710
- Please, don't tell my father.
- Just go.
602
00:39:25,840 -- 00:39:28,559
- I got so Ionely and so afraid...
- Give me back my $50.
603
00:39:28,680 -- 00:39:31,194
I spent it. You had so much.
I couldn't be alone!
604
00:39:31,320 -- 00:39:33,470
Get out.
605
00:39:33,600 -- 00:39:35,477
- Get out.
- Everything all right?
606
00:39:35,600 -- 00:39:39,479
Of course everything's all right.
Make sure they leave - by the back door.
607
00:39:39,600 -- 00:39:41,238
I'm so sorry.
608
00:39:42,360 -- 00:39:44,316
i(gasping)/i
609
00:39:45,160 -- 00:39:47,799
- My God!
- Is anything gone?
610
00:39:47,920 -- 00:39:51,151
- How can I look? I'm shaking.
- I wanna know if anything's gone.
611
00:39:51,280 -- 00:39:54,431
- Calm down.
- We could've been killed. The Kandinsky!
612
00:39:54,560 -- 00:39:57,836
Kandinsky! Oh, no, there it is.
The silver Victorian inkwell.
613
00:39:57,960 -- 00:40:01,839
- How can you think about things?!
- Thank God. There's the inkwell.
614
00:40:01,960 -- 00:40:03,916
Silver jaguar.
615
00:40:05,040 -- 00:40:07,998
- Why?
- Slashed. Throats slashed.
616
00:40:09,120 -- 00:40:10,473
There's the Degas.
617
00:40:10,600 -- 00:40:14,036
Go to bed at night happy and then
murdered. Would we have woken up?
618
00:40:14,160 -- 00:40:16,116
We're alive.
619
00:40:17,680 -- 00:40:20,399
And that's that.
620
00:40:20,520 -- 00:40:22,078
Well, it's not.
621
00:40:24,680 -- 00:40:26,716
I think we could tell if someone was here.
622
00:40:26,840 -- 00:40:28,796
- We didn't all night.
- i(phone rings)/i
623
00:40:28,920 -- 00:40:32,879
Oh! No, don't.
Don't pick up that phone. It's him!
624
00:40:35,320 -- 00:40:36,753
- Hello?
- iFlanders?/i
625
00:40:36,880 -- 00:40:37,835
Geoffrey!
626
00:40:37,960 -- 00:40:43,159
I've been thinking. Those Japs
really want the Czanne. They'll pay.
627
00:40:43,280 -- 00:40:46,636
You can depend on me
for an additional overcall of 250.
628
00:40:46,760 -- 00:40:49,399
250,000?
629
00:40:49,520 -- 00:40:54,275
And I was thinking, for South Africa,
what about a black American film festival?
630
00:40:54,400 -- 00:40:56,595
With this Spike Lee you have now.
631
00:40:56,720 -- 00:41:00,110
And, of course, get Poitier down
to be the president of the jury.
632
00:41:00,680 -- 00:41:02,511
iAnd I know Cosby./i
633
00:41:02,640 -- 00:41:05,154
And I love this Eddie Murphy.
634
00:41:05,280 -- 00:41:11,150
And my wife, she went fishing with Diana
Ross and her new Norwegian husband.
635
00:41:11,280 -- 00:41:13,236
And they must have some new blacks.
636
00:41:13,360 -- 00:41:15,635
It sounds a wonderful idea.
637
00:41:15,760 -- 00:41:17,512
I'll call Poitier at the Sherry.
638
00:41:17,640 -- 00:41:21,519
- No! No, no. We'll call.
- iThey're calling my plane./i
639
00:41:21,640 -- 00:41:24,598
- And again, last night...
- iNo need to thank./i
640
00:41:24,720 -- 00:41:26,756
- See you shortly.
- The banks?
641
00:41:26,880 -- 00:41:28,233
My lawyers.
642
00:41:29,280 -- 00:41:30,793
- Thank you, sir.
- Exactly.
643
00:41:30,920 -- 00:41:33,559
- Safe trip.
- Thank you.
644
00:41:33,680 -- 00:41:36,274
i(Ouisa)/i And here we are.
645
00:41:46,360 -- 00:41:47,713
Safe.
646
00:42:16,520 -- 00:42:19,751
- Yoo-hoo! Do we have a story to tell you?
- Whoo!
647
00:42:19,880 -- 00:42:23,509
- Do iwe/i have a story to tell iyou?!/i
- Let us tell you our story first.
648
00:42:23,640 -- 00:42:26,598
- When did your story happen?
- Saturday night.
649
00:42:26,720 -- 00:42:30,315
We win! Our story happened
Friday night, so we go first.
650
00:42:30,440 -- 00:42:33,034
Our two and their son
are at Harvard together.
651
00:42:33,800 -- 00:42:38,954
- We're going to be in the movies.
- We are going to be in the movie of iCats./i
652
00:42:39,080 -- 00:42:41,275
Yes!
653
00:42:41,400 -- 00:42:44,119
You tell your story first.
654
00:42:44,240 -- 00:42:47,277
Friday night we were home.
The door bell rang.
655
00:42:47,400 -- 00:42:50,836
I am not impressed, but it is the son of...
656
00:42:50,960 -- 00:42:51,995
You got it!
657
00:42:52,120 -- 00:42:55,795
The kid was mugged.
We had to go out. We left him.
658
00:42:55,920 -- 00:42:58,878
He was so charming.
659
00:42:59,000 -- 00:43:03,278
His father was taking the redeye.
He couldn't get into the hotel till 7 am.
660
00:43:03,400 -- 00:43:04,958
He stayed with us.
661
00:43:05,080 -- 00:43:08,038
Middle of the night,
somebody screamed "Burglar!"
662
00:43:08,160 -- 00:43:13,757
We came out in the hall. Paul is chasing
this naked blond thief down the corridor.
663
00:43:13,880 -- 00:43:18,670
Blond thief runs out, the alarms go off.
The kid saved our lives.
664
00:43:18,800 -- 00:43:22,475
- That was no burglar.
- You had another house guest.
665
00:43:22,600 -- 00:43:24,192
We feel so guilty.
666
00:43:24,320 -- 00:43:27,995
Paul could've been killed by that intruder.
He was very understanding.
667
00:43:28,120 -- 00:43:30,554
- Was anything missing from your house?
- No.
668
00:43:30,680 -- 00:43:35,515
- Did you give Paul any money?
- $25 till his father arrived.
669
00:43:36,920 -- 00:43:39,070
We told them our story.
670
00:43:39,200 -- 00:43:41,236
Oh!
671
00:43:41,360 -- 00:43:44,238
- Have you talked to your kids?
- Couldn't get through.
672
00:43:44,360 -- 00:43:47,591
We could go back to our place
and phone them.
673
00:43:49,920 -- 00:43:52,878
Hello. Sherry-Netherland?
I'd like to speak to...
674
00:43:53,000 -- 00:43:56,993
- She gave the name.
- No, I'm not a fan. This is not a fan call.
675
00:43:57,120 -- 00:43:59,953
Sidney Poitier must be registered.
His son is...
676
00:44:00,080 -- 00:44:01,832
- i(receptionist hangs up)/i
- Oh!
677
00:44:01,960 -- 00:44:05,350
- Bet he's there under another name.
- i(buzzer)/i
678
00:44:05,480 -- 00:44:07,516
Try Celebrity Service.
679
00:44:10,760 -- 00:44:14,070
Hello, Celebrity Service?
I'm not sure how you work.
680
00:44:14,200 -- 00:44:16,031
Greta Garbo used "Harriet Brown".
681
00:44:16,160 -- 00:44:18,879
- You find celebrities?
- They must've known she was Garbo.
682
00:44:19,000 -- 00:44:21,719
I'd like to know how one
would get in touch with...
683
00:44:21,840 -- 00:44:22,795
Oh!
684
00:44:22,920 -- 00:44:27,994
No, I'm not a press agent. No, I'm not iwith/i
anyone. My husband, Flanders Kittredge...
685
00:44:28,120 -- 00:44:31,715
- i(receptionist hangs up)/i
- They do not give out information.
686
00:44:31,840 -- 00:44:34,832
- Try the public library.
- Try iWho's Who./i
687
00:44:36,320 -- 00:44:39,392
"To thank you for a wonderful time."
688
00:44:39,520 -- 00:44:41,556
"Paul Poitier."
689
00:44:43,160 -- 00:44:46,516
- A pot of jam.
- Pot of jam? Jesus!
690
00:44:48,040 -- 00:44:51,316
I think we should go to the police.
691
00:44:51,440 -- 00:44:54,273
- iWhat are the charges?/i
- iHe came into our house./i
692
00:44:54,400 -- 00:44:58,234
- He told us about iCatcher in the Rye./i
- He said he was the son of Sidney Poitier.
693
00:44:58,360 -- 00:45:00,157
- Sidney Poitier?
- You got it!
694
00:45:00,280 -- 00:45:01,508
- Was he?
- We don't know.
695
00:45:01,640 -- 00:45:03,596
- We gave him $50.
- We gave him 25.
696
00:45:03,720 -- 00:45:05,358
- He picked up a hustler.
- He left.
697
00:45:05,480 -- 00:45:08,153
- He chased the burglar out.
- He didn't steal anything.
698
00:45:08,280 -- 00:45:10,555
- We looked.
- Top to bottom. Nothing gone.
699
00:45:10,680 -- 00:45:13,194
- This does not seem major now...
- Look.
700
00:45:13,320 -- 00:45:15,550
- We are very busy.
- You can't chuck us out.
701
00:45:15,680 -- 00:45:18,240
Come up with some charges,
then I can do something.
702
00:45:21,880 -- 00:45:26,556
- Yes, there is another chapter.
- Our kids came down from Harvard.
703
00:45:26,680 -- 00:45:29,035
i(arguing)/i
704
00:45:32,480 -- 00:45:36,871
The details he knew -
how would he know about the painting?
705
00:45:37,000 -- 00:45:40,629
Although I think it's a very fine Kandinsky.
706
00:45:42,520 -- 00:45:44,636
And none of you know this fellow?
707
00:45:44,760 -- 00:45:50,039
He has this wild quality, yet an elegance.
A real concern. And a real consideration.
708
00:45:50,160 -- 00:45:52,435
i(girl)/i Mom, you should have let him stay.
709
00:45:52,560 -- 00:45:56,838
You should have divorced all your
children and just let this dreamboat stay.
710
00:45:56,960 -- 00:45:59,758
- Plus, he sent you flowers.
- And jam.
711
00:45:59,880 -- 00:46:02,030
Ooh!
712
00:46:02,160 -- 00:46:06,756
If only we could just get in touch with
his father, find out if there's any truth in it.
713
00:46:06,880 -- 00:46:09,952
Who knows Sidney Poitier?
We could just call him up and ask.
714
00:46:10,080 -- 00:46:13,390
- I have a friend who does theatrical law...
- What friend?
715
00:46:13,520 -- 00:46:15,397
- It's nobody.
- I want to know.
716
00:46:15,520 -- 00:46:17,317
Nobody.
717
00:46:17,440 -- 00:46:19,351
- Oh. Oh. Oh.
- Nobody! Nobody!
718
00:46:19,480 -- 00:46:25,430
- I don't want to know.
- Larkin! This is not the time to do this!
719
00:46:25,560 -- 00:46:28,996
Mom, Dad, please! For once! Please!
720
00:46:29,120 -- 00:46:31,076
i(arguing)/i
721
00:46:32,760 -- 00:46:35,320
i(woman)/i It's got nothing
to do with you, Ben.
722
00:46:35,440 -- 00:46:36,998
Tess!
723
00:46:37,920 -- 00:46:43,995
When you see your little sister, don't tell
her that Paul and the hustler used her bed.
724
00:46:44,120 -- 00:46:46,395
You put him in that bed.
725
00:46:46,520 -- 00:46:49,398
I'm not getting involved in any conspiracy.
726
00:46:49,520 -- 00:46:53,559
It's not a conspiracy!
Hello, Alf. It's a family.
727
00:46:58,360 -- 00:47:01,113
The imagination.
728
00:47:01,240 -- 00:47:03,834
It's there to sort out your nightmare.
729
00:47:03,960 -- 00:47:07,157
To show you the exit
from the maze of your nightmare.
730
00:47:07,280 -- 00:47:12,229
To transform the nightmare into
dreams that become your bedrock.
731
00:47:13,440 -- 00:47:17,115
If we do not listen to that voice, it dies.
732
00:47:17,240 -- 00:47:19,196
It shrivels.
733
00:47:20,000 -- 00:47:21,956
It vanishes.
734
00:47:23,840 -- 00:47:26,798
The imagination is not our escape.
735
00:47:27,800 -- 00:47:33,750
On the contrary. The imagination
is the place we are all trying to get to.
736
00:47:34,720 -- 00:47:36,278
i(screams)/i
737
00:47:38,840 -- 00:47:40,796
i(phone rings)/i
738
00:47:46,400 -- 00:47:49,995
- Hello?
- I had a call that might interest you.
739
00:47:50,720 -- 00:47:53,473
i(Flan) And a new character/i
ientered our story./i
740
00:47:59,440 -- 00:48:04,355
Well, it was really quite extraordinary,
very unusual. I was seeing a patient...
741
00:48:04,480 -- 00:48:08,951
Dr Fine, there's a friend
of your son's here. He's hurt.
742
00:48:09,080 -- 00:48:10,559
- My God.
- Hi.
743
00:48:10,680 -- 00:48:12,113
- I was mugged.
- Come in.
744
00:48:12,240 -- 00:48:17,075
He was more scared than hurt.
A knife wound. A few bruises.
745
00:48:17,880 -- 00:48:20,155
- I don't know how to thank you.
- Don't be silly.
746
00:48:20,280 -- 00:48:21,918
My father'll be here tomorrow.
747
00:48:22,040 -- 00:48:24,554
He's making a movie of iCats./i
748
00:48:24,680 -- 00:48:26,238
Yes.
749
00:48:26,360 -- 00:48:30,114
And this man had been
a matine idol of my youth.
750
00:48:30,240 -- 00:48:34,438
Somebody who had really forged ahead
and made new paths for blacks
751
00:48:34,560 -- 00:48:37,916
just by the strength of his own talent.
752
00:48:38,040 -- 00:48:42,750
Strangely, I'd identified with him
before I started medical school.
753
00:48:42,880 -- 00:48:46,998
I mean, I'm a Jew.
My grandparents were killed in the war.
754
00:48:47,120 -- 00:48:51,875
And I had this sense of self-hatred, of fear.
755
00:48:52,000 -- 00:48:54,150
And this kid's father,
756
00:48:54,280 -- 00:48:59,957
the bravery of his films,
gave me a direction, confidence.
757
00:49:01,400 -- 00:49:03,197
Simple as that.
758
00:49:03,320 -- 00:49:05,914
We're always paying off debts.
759
00:49:07,040 -- 00:49:11,636
Then my beeper went off - a patient in
her tenth month. Her water finally broke.
760
00:49:11,760 -- 00:49:13,398
I gave the kid my keys.
761
00:49:13,520 -- 00:49:15,431
- Number 121.
- Thank you.
762
00:49:15,560 -- 00:49:18,597
- Doug told me all about your brownstone.
- Is that right?
763
00:49:18,720 -- 00:49:22,156
How you got it at a great price
because there'd been a murder in it,
764
00:49:22,280 -- 00:49:24,475
and people thought it had a curse.
765
00:49:24,600 -- 00:49:27,558
But you, sir, were a scientific man,
and were courageous.
766
00:49:27,680 -- 00:49:29,352
Well, yes. Courageous.
767
00:49:29,480 -- 00:49:31,471
Very courageous.
768
00:49:31,600 -- 00:49:33,955
I ran off to the delivery room.
769
00:49:34,080 -- 00:49:36,753
- Twins. Two boys.
- i(woman)/i Ahh.
770
00:49:36,880 -- 00:49:40,634
I thought of my son.
I dialled my boy at Dartmouth.
771
00:49:40,760 -- 00:49:44,230
Amazingly, he was in his room.
Doing what, I hate to ask.
772
00:49:44,360 -- 00:49:47,193
You've accused me of having
no interest in your life,
773
00:49:47,320 -- 00:49:50,756
of not doing for your friends,
being a rotten father.
774
00:49:50,880 -- 00:49:53,678
Well, this should make you very happy.
775
00:49:55,440 -- 00:49:58,318
The son of who?
Dad, I never heard of him.
776
00:49:59,240 -- 00:50:03,028
Dad, as usual, you're a real cretin.
You gave him the keys?
777
00:50:03,160 -- 00:50:07,790
You gave a stranger who happens to
mention my name the keys to our house?!
778
00:50:07,920 -- 00:50:11,117
Dad, sometimes it's
so obvious to me why Mom left.
779
00:50:11,240 -- 00:50:14,596
I'm so embarrassed to know you!
780
00:50:14,720 -- 00:50:19,077
You gave the keys to a stranger
who shows up at your office?!
781
00:50:19,200 -- 00:50:23,876
Mom told me you beat her, and you drank
so much your body smelt of cheap wine.
782
00:50:24,000 -- 00:50:28,437
Mom said sleeping with you was like
sleeping with a salad with bad dressing!
783
00:50:28,560 -- 00:50:32,712
- Why did you bring me into this world?!
- There are two sides to every story.
784
00:50:32,840 -- 00:50:34,751
You're an idiot! You're an idiot!
785
00:50:35,320 -- 00:50:37,629
I went home, courageously.
786
00:50:40,200 -- 00:50:42,156
With a policeman.
787
00:50:42,800 -- 00:50:45,234
i(j& string quartet music )/i
788
00:50:50,080 -- 00:50:52,036
i(volume increases)/i
789
00:50:52,160 -- 00:50:55,118
i(door opens and closes)/i
790
00:50:58,040 -- 00:51:00,110
Arrest him!
791
00:51:00,240 -- 00:51:02,231
- Pardon?
- Breaking and entering!
792
00:51:02,360 -- 00:51:05,113
- Breaking and entering?
- You're an impostor!
793
00:51:05,240 -- 00:51:10,473
Officer, Your Honour, Your Eminence, Dr
Fine gave me the keys to his brownstone.
794
00:51:10,600 -- 00:51:14,070
- Isn't that so?
- My son doesn't know you!
795
00:51:14,200 -- 00:51:16,794
This man gave me the keys to his house.
Isn't that so?
796
00:51:16,920 -- 00:51:21,550
- Did you give him your keys?
- Yes, but... but under false pretences.
797
00:51:21,680 -- 00:51:27,391
This... this fucking black kid,
crack addict, comes into my office...
798
00:51:27,520 -- 00:51:30,592
I've taken this much brandy,
but can pour the rest back.
799
00:51:30,720 -- 00:51:35,236
I've used the electricity listening to music,
but nothing's been taken from the house.
800
00:51:35,360 -- 00:51:37,191
Excuse me.
801
00:51:37,320 -- 00:51:39,390
I want you to arrest this fraud!
802
00:51:39,520 -- 00:51:41,670
- I'm sorry.
- Stop him!
803
00:51:41,800 -- 00:51:45,952
A cretin! A creep!
No wonder Mother left you!
804
00:51:47,480 -- 00:51:50,438
Two sides... every story.
805
00:51:54,000 -- 00:51:57,151
We decided to get a copy
of Sidney Poitier's autobiography.
806
00:51:57,280 -- 00:52:00,955
So we go down to the Strand
Book Store - eight miles of books.
807
00:52:01,080 -- 00:52:03,514
i(Flan) Five Sherlock Holmeses./i
808
00:52:04,440 -- 00:52:08,353
I've found it! iThis Life/i by Sidney Poitier.
809
00:52:09,600 -- 00:52:12,353
"Back in New York,
with Juanita and the children,
810
00:52:12,480 -- 00:52:15,677
I became aware that our marriage,
while working on some levels,
811
00:52:15,800 -- 00:52:19,759
was falling apart
in other fundamental areas."
812
00:52:20,600 -- 00:52:25,355
Oh, there's a picture of him
and his four... daughters.
813
00:52:25,480 -- 00:52:28,631
- No sons?
- No sons.
814
00:52:30,760 -- 00:52:33,115
Imagine our surprise.
815
00:52:34,600 -- 00:52:37,273
Well... shall we?
816
00:52:41,640 -- 00:52:44,473
This kid, bulldozing his way into our lives.
817
00:52:44,600 -- 00:52:46,511
We let him into our lives.
818
00:52:46,640 -- 00:52:49,757
I run a foundation,
you're a dealer, you're a doctor.
819
00:52:49,880 -- 00:52:51,950
You'd think we'd be satisfied.
820
00:52:52,080 -- 00:52:55,550
Agatha Christie would ask
"What do we all have in common?"
821
00:52:55,680 -- 00:53:00,310
It seems the common thread linking us all
is a need to be in the movie of iCats./i
822
00:53:00,440 -- 00:53:02,749
Our kids, struggling through their lives.
823
00:53:02,880 -- 00:53:06,395
I don't want to know anything
about the spillover of their lives.
824
00:53:06,520 -- 00:53:11,389
All we have in common is, our children
went to boarding school together.
825
00:53:11,520 -- 00:53:16,275
- Why have we never met?
- His mother had custody. I lived out West.
826
00:53:16,400 -- 00:53:20,678
After Doug graduated high school,
she moved West, I moved East.
827
00:53:20,800 -- 00:53:25,191
- I think we should drop it right here.
- Are you afraid Ben is mixed up in this?
828
00:53:25,320 -- 00:53:29,598
- I don't wanna know too much about him.
- You think Ben is hiding things from us?
829
00:53:29,720 -- 00:53:36,159
I'm getting to the bottom of it. My son has
no involvements with any black frauds.
830
00:53:36,280 -- 00:53:41,798
- Doctor, you said something about crack.
- No, that just leapt out. No proof.
831
00:53:42,560 -- 00:53:44,516
Good God, no proof!
832
00:53:44,640 -- 00:53:48,599
We'll take a vote. Do we pursue this, no
matter what we find out about our kids?
833
00:53:48,720 -- 00:53:51,109
- I vote yes.
- Me too.
834
00:53:51,680 -- 00:53:53,830
- I trust Doug.
- No.
835
00:53:54,440 -- 00:53:55,839
Yes.
836
00:53:56,320 -- 00:54:00,711
Listen to this last page. "We have hidden
too much from our modern children."
837
00:54:00,840 -- 00:54:02,796
"When we are scared,
we tend not to let them know."
838
00:54:02,920 -- 00:54:06,230
"They see the bravest, toughest, and
most impenetrable visage we can muster,
839
00:54:06,360 -- 00:54:09,670
precisely at those times
when we are most afraid."
840
00:54:09,800 -- 00:54:13,475
"We called it making it better for our
children, protecting them. From what?"
841
00:54:13,600 -- 00:54:17,036
"The truth is what we were
protecting those little people from."
842
00:54:28,680 -- 00:54:30,238
What did you do next?
843
00:54:30,360 -- 00:54:32,510
- Went to Harvard.
- To enlist our children.
844
00:54:40,400 -- 00:54:42,789
Why do you keep insisting
it's someone we know?
845
00:54:42,920 -- 00:54:45,354
It's no one from our high school!
846
00:54:45,480 -- 00:54:49,758
It's someone you went to high school
with, since you go to different colleges.
847
00:54:49,880 -- 00:54:53,873
- Doug, I appreciate your coming here.
- Dad, spare me.
848
00:54:54,000 -- 00:54:56,355
He knows the details of our lives.
849
00:54:56,480 -- 00:55:00,393
Who, in your high school, has become
homosexual or is deep into drugs?
850
00:55:00,520 -- 00:55:02,715
- About 15 people.
- I don't want to know.
851
00:55:02,840 -- 00:55:06,071
I find it really insulting that
you assume it has to be a guy.
852
00:55:06,200 -- 00:55:08,919
He could have been
with a girl in high school.
853
00:55:09,040 -- 00:55:11,429
That's your problem. You're so limited.
854
00:55:11,560 -- 00:55:14,791
- That's why I'm going to climb mountains.
- You're not.
855
00:55:14,920 -- 00:55:17,957
We have not invested all this money
in you to scale the face of K2.
856
00:55:18,080 -- 00:55:20,674
Is that all I am? An investment?!
857
00:55:20,800 -- 00:55:24,634
No. Track down everyone
in your class - male, female, whatever.
858
00:55:24,760 -- 00:55:27,513
Not just homosexuals, drug addicts.
He could be a dealer.
859
00:55:27,640 -- 00:55:31,349
Why do you look at me when you say
that? You think I'm an addict? A pusher?
860
00:55:31,480 -- 00:55:33,072
I resent the accusations.
861
00:55:33,200 -- 00:55:35,634
No one is accusing you of anything.
Now, sit down!
862
00:55:35,760 -- 00:55:37,591
I don't wanna know!
863
00:55:37,720 -- 00:55:40,234
Nobody is accusing anyone of anything.
864
00:55:40,360 -- 00:55:44,751
I'm asking you to do a detective search.
Find out from your high-school class
865
00:55:44,880 -- 00:55:48,316
if anyone has met a black kid
pretending to be a movie star's son.
866
00:55:48,440 -- 00:55:50,908
He promised you parts in iCats?/i
867
00:55:51,800 -- 00:55:54,951
It wasn't just that, it was fun!
868
00:55:55,080 -- 00:55:59,995
You went to iCats./i You said it was an
all-time low in a lifetime of theatregoing.
869
00:56:00,120 -- 00:56:03,510
- Film is a different medium.
- You said "Aeschylus didn't invent theatre
870
00:56:03,640 -- 00:56:07,428
to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids
wondering who will go to kitty heaven."
871
00:56:07,560 -- 00:56:10,472
- I don't remember saying that.
- That was iStarlight Express./i
872
00:56:10,600 -- 00:56:14,195
Maybe he'll make a movie of that
and you can all be on roller skates.
873
00:56:14,320 -- 00:56:16,276
- This is so humiliating!
- So pathetic!
874
00:56:16,400 -- 00:56:18,914
- So racist.
- It's not racist!
875
00:56:19,040 -- 00:56:20,917
Douglas!
876
00:56:21,040 -- 00:56:25,477
- If I remember correctly, you loved iCats./i
- I hated it!
877
00:56:25,960 -- 00:56:30,397
Here is a copy of your yearbook. Get the
phone numbers of everyone in your class.
878
00:56:30,520 -- 00:56:33,512
How can I contact anyone from
high school? I've outgrown them.
879
00:56:33,640 -- 00:56:36,279
How can you outgrow them?
You graduated last year.
880
00:56:36,400 -- 00:56:39,392
Charge the calls to my phone.
881
00:56:39,520 -- 00:56:41,511
- Never!
- This is the KGB!
882
00:56:41,640 -- 00:56:45,713
You're always on the phone. Now I ask
you to make calls, you become reticent?
883
00:56:45,840 -- 00:56:47,910
This is the entire McCarthy period.
884
00:56:48,040 -- 00:56:52,511
- I just wanna get one thing straight.
- Finally we hear from the peanut gallery.
885
00:56:52,640 -- 00:56:58,351
You gave him my pink shirt? You gave
a complete stranger my pink shirt?!
886
00:56:58,480 -- 00:57:01,313
That shirt was
a Christmas present from you!
887
00:57:01,440 -- 00:57:05,513
I treasured that shirt! I loved that shirt!
888
00:57:05,640 -- 00:57:09,110
My collar has grown from weightlifting.
You saw my arms had grown,
889
00:57:09,240 -- 00:57:13,199
you saw my neck had grown, and you
bought me that shirt for my new body!
890
00:57:13,320 -- 00:57:18,189
I loved that shirt! My first shirt for my
new body, and you gave that shirt away?!
891
00:57:18,320 -- 00:57:23,553
I can't believe you!
I hate this life, and I hate you!
892
00:57:24,240 -- 00:57:26,708
- You never do anything for me!
- You block me.
893
00:57:26,840 -- 00:57:29,718
I'm a pathetic extension
of your eighth-rate personality.
894
00:57:29,840 -- 00:57:32,229
Social Darwinism
pushed beyond all limits!
895
00:57:32,360 -- 00:57:36,273
- You gave him my pink shirt!
- You want me to be all you weren't!
896
00:57:36,400 -- 00:57:39,153
You said "drugs" and looked at me?!
897
00:57:44,920 -- 00:57:47,480
Oh, God. I know the feeling.
898
00:57:47,600 -- 00:57:50,034
When the children turn.
899
00:57:50,160 -- 00:57:55,359
- At least we inspired them to take action.
- They hunted through the yearbook.
900
00:57:57,320 -- 00:57:59,151
- Oh, my God!
- Did you kiss him?
901
00:57:59,280 -- 00:58:01,191
- N... Well, yeah.
- Oh, come on, Tess!
902
00:58:01,320 -- 00:58:04,198
- What about that guy? Nah!
- No. No.
903
00:58:04,320 -- 00:58:07,790
- No. No, no, no.
- Wait a minute. Trent Conway.
904
00:58:07,920 -- 00:58:09,876
i(boys)/i Trent Conway.
905
00:58:10,000 -- 00:58:13,310
- Look at those beady eyes.
- Trent Conway. He's at MIT.
906
00:58:13,440 -- 00:58:15,749
So I went to MIT.
907
00:58:15,880 -- 00:58:18,348
iHe was there in his computer room./i
908
00:58:18,480 -- 00:58:22,109
iAnd I just pressed him/i
iand pressed him and pressed him./i
909
00:58:22,240 -- 00:58:23,798
Yes. I knew Paul.
910
00:58:24,320 -- 00:58:26,754
I had this strapped to me.
911
00:58:26,880 -- 00:58:29,235
iWhat happened between you?/i
912
00:58:29,360 -- 00:58:31,351
It was...
913
00:58:31,600 -- 00:58:33,352
It was...
914
00:58:34,080 -- 00:58:36,958
iIt was... a rainy night in Boston./i
915
00:58:37,080 -- 00:58:39,230
iHe was in a doorway./i
916
00:58:42,800 -- 00:58:44,313
iI met him./i
917
00:58:44,440 -- 00:58:47,398
iAnd I took him back to my place./i
918
00:58:53,160 -- 00:58:55,230
What's this?
919
00:58:55,360 -- 00:58:58,909
- My address book.
- Damn!
920
00:58:59,040 -- 00:59:04,353
All these names and addresses.
Tell me about these people.
921
00:59:04,480 -- 00:59:08,234
This is where I wanted you to be.
Right here.
922
00:59:09,720 -- 00:59:13,508
- Tell me about these people, man.
- I just wanna look at you.
923
00:59:13,640 -- 00:59:15,710
Sorry!
924
00:59:15,840 -- 00:59:20,675
- Is these all rich people?
- No. Hand-to-mouth. On a higher plateau.
925
00:59:20,800 -- 00:59:23,917
You got to be rough
to be with rich people.
926
00:59:24,040 -- 00:59:28,989
Gotta have money. You gotta be buyin'
'em presents an' everything all the time.
927
00:59:29,120 -- 00:59:35,229
Not at all. When rich people do something
nice for you, you give them a pot of jam.
928
00:59:35,360 -- 00:59:37,316
That's what pots of jam is for?
929
00:59:37,440 -- 00:59:40,193
Orange. Grapefruit. Strawberry.
930
00:59:40,320 -- 00:59:45,838
But fancy. They have entire stores filled
with fancy pots of jam wrapped in cloth.
931
00:59:45,960 -- 00:59:48,235
English or French.
932
00:59:49,600 -- 00:59:54,549
I tell you what I'm gonna do. I pick
a name, you tell me everything about 'em.
933
00:59:54,680 -- 00:59:57,638
Where they live, secrets, everything.
934
00:59:58,680 -- 01:00:01,035
And for every name...
935
01:00:01,160 -- 01:00:03,720
you get a piece of my clothes.
936
01:00:06,640 -- 01:00:08,596
All right.
937
01:00:12,720 -- 01:00:14,312
Kittredge.
938
01:00:14,440 -- 01:00:17,398
Talbot and Woodrow.
939
01:00:18,760 -- 01:00:23,675
Talbot, called "Tess", was anorexic,
and was in a hospital for a while.
940
01:00:23,800 -- 01:00:25,916
Oh, really, now?
941
01:00:28,800 -- 01:00:32,952
Woodrow, known as "Woody",
has barbells for brains.
942
01:00:35,200 -- 01:00:37,316
i(blows)/i
943
01:00:37,440 -- 01:00:39,396
They parents.
944
01:00:40,120 -- 01:00:44,079
Ouisa and Flan, for "Flanders", Kittredge.
945
01:00:44,200 -- 01:00:47,078
Rhode Island, I believe. Newport.
946
01:00:47,200 -- 01:00:51,557
But not along the ocean.
The street behind the ocean.
947
01:00:51,680 -- 01:00:54,831
He's an art dealer. They have a Kandinsky.
948
01:00:57,240 -- 01:00:58,719
Kan-what-sky?
949
01:00:58,840 -- 01:01:00,671
A Kandinsky.
950
01:01:00,800 -- 01:01:01,949
Uh...
951
01:01:02,080 -- 01:01:06,756
A double-sided Kandinsky.
I feel like Scheherazade! i(laughs)/i
952
01:01:12,640 -- 01:01:15,393
I don't want you to leave me, Paul.
953
01:01:17,000 -- 01:01:21,676
I'll go through my address book
and I'll tell you about family after family.
954
01:01:21,800 -- 01:01:24,473
You'll never not fit in again.
955
01:01:25,640 -- 01:01:28,712
We'll even, uh, give you a new identity.
956
01:01:28,840 -- 01:01:32,549
I'll make you the most sought-after
young man in the East.
957
01:01:32,680 -- 01:01:37,231
And then, one day,
I'll come into one of these homes.
958
01:01:37,360 -- 01:01:41,638
And you'll be there.
And I'll be presented to you.
959
01:01:41,760 -- 01:01:45,594
And I'll pretend to meet you
for the first time.
960
01:01:48,320 -- 01:01:51,790
And our friendship'll
be witnessed by my friends.
961
01:01:51,920 -- 01:01:54,753
And our parents' friends.
962
01:01:54,880 -- 01:01:58,429
And if it all happens under their noses...
963
01:01:58,560 -- 01:02:00,710
they can't judge me.
964
01:02:03,360 -- 01:02:05,715
And they can't disparage you.
965
01:02:05,840 -- 01:02:08,877
I'll make you a guest in their houses.
966
01:02:12,360 -- 01:02:14,715
Now ask me another name.
967
01:02:14,840 -- 01:02:17,354
I'd like to try for the shirt.
968
01:02:34,160 -- 01:02:36,151
That's enough for today.
969
01:02:36,280 -- 01:02:38,794
iPaul stayed with me for three months./i
970
01:02:38,920 -- 01:02:41,115
You remember little Trent Conway?
971
01:02:41,240 -- 01:02:43,800
The kid got his address book,
with our names in it.
972
01:02:43,920 -- 01:02:46,195
- Yeah. You could be next.
- Yes.
973
01:02:46,320 -- 01:02:49,312
Now, this is the way you must speak.
974
01:02:49,440 -- 01:02:52,591
Hear my accent. Hear my voice.
975
01:02:53,560 -- 01:02:58,190
Now, you never say
you're going horseback riding.
976
01:02:58,320 -- 01:03:00,880
- You say you're going riding.
- i(grunts)/i
977
01:03:01,000 -- 01:03:03,798
And don't say "couch".
978
01:03:03,920 -- 01:03:05,876
Say "sofa".
979
01:03:07,080 -- 01:03:11,039
And you, you say "boddill".
"Have a boddill o' beer."
980
01:03:11,160 -- 01:03:13,116
It's "bottle".
981
01:03:14,120 -- 01:03:15,917
Say "Bottle of beer".
982
01:03:16,880 -- 01:03:18,836
Boddill o' beer.
983
01:03:20,120 -- 01:03:21,758
Boddill o' beer.
984
01:03:21,880 -- 01:03:23,916
Bottle of beer.
985
01:03:24,800 -- 01:03:26,552
Boddill of beer. What?
986
01:03:27,560 -- 01:03:29,516
Bottle of beer.
987
01:03:31,800 -- 01:03:34,394
Bottle... of beer.
988
01:03:36,400 -- 01:03:38,914
We went through the address book
letter by letter.
989
01:03:39,040 -- 01:03:41,508
Paul vanished by the Ls.
990
01:03:41,640 -- 01:03:44,313
He took the address book with him.
991
01:03:45,240 -- 01:03:48,835
Well... he's already
been in all your houses.
992
01:03:49,760 -- 01:03:54,515
Maybe I will meet him again.
I sure would like to.
993
01:03:54,640 -- 01:03:59,395
- His past? His real name?
- I don't know anything about him.
994
01:03:59,520 -- 01:04:04,036
It was a rainy night in Boston.
He was in a doorway. That's all.
995
01:04:04,160 -- 01:04:06,037
He took stuff from you?
996
01:04:06,160 -- 01:04:07,957
Besides the address book?
997
01:04:08,080 -- 01:04:12,790
He took my stereo,
my sport jacket, my word processor.
998
01:04:12,920 -- 01:04:15,309
And my laser printer.
999
01:04:15,440 -- 01:04:17,396
And my skis.
1000
01:04:19,160 -- 01:04:20,878
And my TV.
1001
01:04:21,000 -- 01:04:23,912
- Will you press charges?
- No.
1002
01:04:24,040 -- 01:04:26,349
It's a felony.
1003
01:04:26,480 -- 01:04:29,995
- Why do they want to find him?
- They say to help him.
1004
01:04:30,120 -- 01:04:33,590
If there's a crime,
the cops will get involved.
1005
01:04:33,720 -- 01:04:38,396
We really must keep in touch. We were
really good friends for a brief bit in school.
1006
01:04:38,520 -- 01:04:40,829
- Really good.
- Won't you press charges?
1007
01:04:40,960 -- 01:04:41,949
Oh, please.
1008
01:04:47,760 -- 01:04:51,548
Can you believe it?
Paul learned all that in three months.
1009
01:04:51,680 -- 01:04:57,676
Who'd have thought it? Trent Conway,
the Henry Higgins of our time.
1010
01:04:57,800 -- 01:05:02,920
Paul must have looked at all those names
in that book and said "I am Columbus."
1011
01:05:03,040 -- 01:05:07,318
"I am Magellan.
I will sail into this new world."
1012
01:05:09,560 -- 01:05:12,552
I read somewhere that
everybody on this planet
1013
01:05:12,680 -- 01:05:16,229
is separated by only six other people.
1014
01:05:16,360 -- 01:05:20,797
Six degrees of separation between us
and everyone else on this planet.
1015
01:05:20,920 -- 01:05:27,075
The president of the United States, a
gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names.
1016
01:05:28,760 -- 01:05:31,558
I find that extremely comforting
that we're so close,
1017
01:05:31,680 -- 01:05:36,834
but... I also find it like Chinese water
torture that we're so close,
1018
01:05:36,960 -- 01:05:43,399
because you have to find the right
six people to make the connection.
1019
01:05:43,520 -- 01:05:45,954
It's not just big names, it's anyone.
1020
01:05:46,080 -- 01:05:50,949
A native in a rainforest,
a Tierra del Fuegan, an Eskimo.
1021
01:05:51,080 -- 01:05:53,799
I am bound - you are bound -
1022
01:05:53,920 -- 01:05:58,072
to everyone on this planet
by a trail of six people.
1023
01:06:01,200 -- 01:06:04,476
It's a profound thought.
1024
01:06:04,600 -- 01:06:07,751
How Paul found us.
1025
01:06:07,880 -- 01:06:14,274
How to find the man whose son he claims
to be, or perhaps is. Although I doubt it.
1026
01:06:14,400 -- 01:06:19,428
How everyone is a new door
opening into other worlds.
1027
01:06:19,560 -- 01:06:25,999
Six degrees of separation between us
and everyone else on this planet.
1028
01:06:27,720 -- 01:06:31,679
But... to find the right six people.
1029
01:06:32,960 -- 01:06:34,916
- Hi, Ouisa.
- Hi!
1030
01:06:35,040 -- 01:06:36,917
- Still going to Rome?
- Tomorrow!
1031
01:06:37,040 -- 01:06:39,554
- Are you going to the Sistine Chapel?
- It's closed.
1032
01:06:39,680 -- 01:06:42,478
- Cleaning it.
- When in Rome...
1033
01:06:42,600 -- 01:06:45,194
You must know these people.
1034
01:06:46,320 -- 01:06:48,959
- Oh!
- Oh, wonderful.
1035
01:06:49,080 -- 01:06:54,029
I've always wanted to meet him.
We'll call him just as soon as we get in.
1036
01:07:11,200 -- 01:07:14,670
i(Flan) Rome is always remarkable,/i
ibut to see the Sistine Chapel like this!/i
1037
01:07:14,800 -- 01:07:17,189
i(Ouisa)/i
iTo stand at the top of the scaffolding!/i
1038
01:07:17,320 -- 01:07:20,995
The colours... are vibrant.
1039
01:07:21,120 -- 01:07:24,112
We went to Rome on business,
but, thanks to Michelangelo...
1040
01:07:24,240 -- 01:07:27,915
- I think I have a buyer for that piece.
- I don't think I want to sell.
1041
01:07:28,040 -- 01:07:30,190
They restored the chapel.
1042
01:07:30,320 -- 01:07:34,711
They've taken off years of smoke
and tourists, and now it's brand-new.
1043
01:07:34,840 -- 01:07:36,796
Staggering.
1044
01:07:37,800 -- 01:07:39,995
But what happened
to Sidney Poitier's son?
1045
01:07:40,120 -- 01:07:43,078
We put all of that out of our heads.
1046
01:07:43,640 -- 01:07:47,315
The package would be more lucrative
for you if you included that piece.
1047
01:07:47,440 -- 01:07:49,715
- I've heard so many stories.
- Like what?
1048
01:07:49,840 -- 01:07:53,310
- That he stole money and jewellery.
- No! Never!
1049
01:07:54,120 -- 01:07:56,680
Can we get down to business, please?
1050
01:07:56,800 -- 01:07:58,552
- Good day.
- Ah!
1051
01:07:59,640 -- 01:08:04,589
All right. I am humiliated,
but what the hell.
1052
01:08:05,640 -- 01:08:09,792
iThe day after we came back from Rome,/i
iwe were stepping out of a taxi from lunch./i
1053
01:08:09,920 -- 01:08:14,152
Our doorman, whom we tip at Christmas
and any time he does anything nice for us,
1054
01:08:14,280 -- 01:08:18,478
our doorman spit at my husband,
J Flanders Kittredge. He spit at him!
1055
01:08:18,600 -- 01:08:20,511
Thank you, Maurice. Ooh!
1056
01:08:20,640 -- 01:08:23,598
Darling, they don't
need to know every detail.
1057
01:08:23,720 -- 01:08:26,234
- I know all about your son.
- What about my son?
1058
01:08:26,360 -- 01:08:29,511
Not the little shit that lives here.
The secret son.
1059
01:08:29,640 -- 01:08:31,870
- The Negro son you deny!
- Negro son?
1060
01:08:32,000 -- 01:08:35,231
The son you make live in Central Park
while you're gallivanting!
1061
01:08:35,360 -- 01:08:38,193
- Do you have a black son?
- No!
1062
01:08:39,520 -- 01:08:42,717
This is how rumours
get started and set in cement.
1063
01:08:42,840 -- 01:08:44,637
- The girl told me everything.
- Who?
1064
01:08:44,760 -- 01:08:46,398
- She wants her money.
- Who?
1065
01:08:46,520 -- 01:08:50,672
I'm keeping her in a safe place.
Come, come, come.
1066
01:09:01,120 -- 01:09:03,236
The next chapter.
1067
01:09:06,360 -- 01:09:09,352
My boyfriend and I
took a picnic into the park.
1068
01:09:09,880 -- 01:09:12,474
So, do they have any
black people in Utah?
1069
01:09:12,600 -- 01:09:15,398
- Maybe two.
- I saw them once. Two black people.
1070
01:09:15,520 -- 01:09:18,159
The Mormons brought in two.
1071
01:09:18,280 -- 01:09:21,158
- Do you think it'll hurt me?
- What'll hurt you?
1072
01:09:21,280 -- 01:09:23,840
My resemblance to Liv Ullmann.
1073
01:09:25,120 -- 01:09:28,635
She won the all-state competition
for comedy and drama.
1074
01:09:28,760 -- 01:09:31,399
Really? My gosh!
1075
01:09:33,240 -- 01:09:36,198
The quality of mercy is not strained.
1076
01:09:36,320 -- 01:09:39,312
It droppeth like
the gentle rain from heaven.
1077
01:09:42,520 -- 01:09:44,238
Yeah.
1078
01:09:44,360 -- 01:09:46,920
And we study. And we wait tables.
1079
01:09:47,040 -- 01:09:49,110
Cos you have to have technique.
1080
01:09:49,240 -- 01:09:50,878
Like the painters.
1081
01:09:51,000 -- 01:09:55,232
Czanne looked for the rules behind
the spontaneity of Impressionism.
1082
01:09:55,360 -- 01:09:58,272
- That's a painter?
- We know nothing about painting.
1083
01:09:58,400 -- 01:10:00,356
My dad loves painting.
1084
01:10:00,480 -- 01:10:03,916
He has a Kandinsky,
but he loves Czanne the most.
1085
01:10:04,040 -- 01:10:06,156
- He lives up there.
- What?
1086
01:10:06,280 -- 01:10:09,955
Yeah. Count. Six windows down.
On the corner.
1087
01:10:10,840 -- 01:10:13,593
John Flanders Kittredge.
1088
01:10:13,720 -- 01:10:16,188
His chums call him "Flan".
1089
01:10:16,320 -- 01:10:20,632
I was the child of Flan's hippie days.
His radical days.
1090
01:10:20,760 -- 01:10:23,911
He went down South as a freedom
marcher to register black voters.
1091
01:10:24,040 -- 01:10:27,112
- You did?
- No!
1092
01:10:27,240 -- 01:10:31,756
Can't you just see me marching
down South for freedom now?
1093
01:10:31,880 -- 01:10:33,677
Yes. Yes, I can.
1094
01:10:33,800 -- 01:10:37,554
His friends were killed.
He met my mother and registered her.
1095
01:10:37,680 -- 01:10:40,752
Married her in a fit of righteousness,
knocked her up with me,
1096
01:10:40,880 -- 01:10:42,950
and came back here and abandoned her.
1097
01:10:43,080 -- 01:10:45,435
You didn't!
1098
01:10:45,560 -- 01:10:47,198
Flan, shame.
1099
01:10:47,320 -- 01:10:50,278
He's now a fancy art dealer.
1100
01:10:51,720 -- 01:10:54,109
Won't see me.
1101
01:10:54,240 -- 01:10:56,515
The new wife, the white wife,
1102
01:10:56,640 -- 01:11:01,395
the Louisa-Kittredge-call-me-Ouisa wife,
the mother-of-the-new-children wife...
1103
01:11:01,520 -- 01:11:03,954
Your brothers and sisters.
1104
01:11:05,600 -- 01:11:10,276
They go to Andover and Exeter
and Harvard and Yale.
1105
01:11:10,400 -- 01:11:14,154
The awful thing is,
my father started out good.
1106
01:11:15,080 -- 01:11:19,039
My mother says "There's a good man
inside J Flanders Kittredge."
1107
01:11:19,160 -- 01:11:23,551
There is, darling. There is.
Flan thinks he's part of some sinister plot.
1108
01:11:23,680 -- 01:11:28,435
No, it's all too creepy.
I don't even like to talk about it.
1109
01:11:29,600 -- 01:11:33,354
He would see you if he's that good.
He can't forget you entirely.
1110
01:11:33,480 -- 01:11:36,472
- I call him, he hangs up.
- Go to his office.
1111
01:11:36,600 -- 01:11:40,479
He doesn't have one. He works there.
They won't even let me in the elevator.
1112
01:11:40,600 -- 01:11:44,275
- Dress up as a messenger.
- Say you got a masterpiece for him.
1113
01:11:44,400 -- 01:11:47,278
Say "I got the Mona Lisa in the truck."
1114
01:11:47,400 -- 01:11:49,789
I don't want to embarrass him.
1115
01:11:49,920 -- 01:11:52,878
Oh, this is so fucking tacky!
1116
01:11:59,280 -- 01:12:01,635
Do you two love each other?
1117
01:12:02,680 -- 01:12:04,636
A lot.
1118
01:12:05,680 -- 01:12:06,829
That's good.
1119
01:12:06,960 -- 01:12:09,713
- These are nice kids.
- Yeah. They work for a living.
1120
01:12:09,840 -- 01:12:11,239
i(laughter)/i
1121
01:12:12,560 -- 01:12:17,270
- I hope we can meet again.
- Yeah. Hey, where do you live?
1122
01:12:17,400 -- 01:12:18,833
Live?
1123
01:12:18,960 -- 01:12:20,837
I'm home.
1124
01:12:20,960 -- 01:12:23,713
You don't live in the streets?
1125
01:12:23,840 -- 01:12:28,356
You guys are such assholes!
I mean, where would I live?
1126
01:12:30,000 -- 01:12:33,834
- You can stay with us.
- We just have a flat in a tenement.
1127
01:12:33,960 -- 01:12:37,157
It's over a roller disco.
The last of the roller discos.
1128
01:12:37,280 -- 01:12:39,748
iBut it's quiet by 5am,/i
iand a great narrow space./i
1129
01:12:39,880 -- 01:12:44,635
i(girl) You have the couch. The tub is in the/i
ikitchen, but there's light in the morning./i
1130
01:12:44,760 -- 01:12:46,273
- Hello.
- Hello.
1131
01:12:46,520 -- 01:12:47,509
- Hello.
- Hello.
1132
01:12:47,640 -- 01:12:50,473
He opened up a whole new world to us.
1133
01:12:52,400 -- 01:12:56,439
It's all anybody wants, isn't it?
A new world?
1134
01:12:58,680 -- 01:13:02,878
- You say... you're going riding.
- Riding.
1135
01:13:03,000 -- 01:13:06,595
And never say "couch". It's "sofa".
1136
01:13:06,720 -- 01:13:08,153
- Sofa.
- Sofa.
1137
01:13:08,280 -- 01:13:10,111
And you say "boddill".
1138
01:13:10,240 -- 01:13:13,596
It's "bottle". Bottle of beer.
1139
01:13:13,720 -- 01:13:16,314
- Boddill of beer.
- No. Bottle of beer.
1140
01:13:16,440 -- 01:13:18,271
- Bottle.
- Boddill of beer.
1141
01:13:18,400 -- 01:13:20,356
Oh. See? Bottle of beer.
1142
01:13:21,120 -- 01:13:24,908
And never be afraid of rich people.
You know what they love?
1143
01:13:25,040 -- 01:13:27,349
A fancy pot of jam.
1144
01:13:27,480 -- 01:13:30,119
Really. That's all.
1145
01:13:30,240 -- 01:13:34,199
Get a patron. That's what you need.
You shouldn't be waiting tables.
1146
01:13:34,320 -- 01:13:39,474
You're going to wake up one day, and that
temporary job will be your full-time life.
1147
01:13:41,640 -- 01:13:43,949
- He stayed with them for...
- Two or three weeks.
1148
01:13:44,080 -- 01:13:45,877
He sunk his heels in.
1149
01:13:48,040 -- 01:13:50,838
- I'm moving out of here.
- You can't.
1150
01:13:50,960 -- 01:13:55,476
My father answered my letter. He's giving
me $1,000, and that's just for starters.
1151
01:13:55,600 -- 01:13:58,797
He sold a Czanne to the Japanese
and made millions.
1152
01:13:58,920 -- 01:14:02,230
Now he can give me money
without her knowing it.
1153
01:14:02,360 -- 01:14:03,475
I knew it.
1154
01:14:03,600 -- 01:14:08,720
I'll give you the money to put on any play.
Agents will come. You'll be discovered.
1155
01:14:08,840 -- 01:14:13,516
And when you win Oscars, both of you,
you'll look in the camera and thank me.
1156
01:14:13,640 -- 01:14:16,757
- I wanna thank Paul Kittredge.
- Thanks, Paul.
1157
01:14:16,880 -- 01:14:19,075
i(Paul laughs)/i
1158
01:14:19,200 -- 01:14:23,751
One hitch - I'm going to meet him
in Maine. He's visiting his parents.
1159
01:14:23,880 -- 01:14:29,079
My grandparents, whom I've never met.
He's finally gonna tell them about me.
1160
01:14:29,200 -- 01:14:35,753
Can you see the look on my parents' face
if a black kid showed up? "Hi, Grandma."
1161
01:14:35,880 -- 01:14:38,519
- Flan, your parents are dead.
- i(laughter)/i
1162
01:14:39,760 -- 01:14:41,318
He's gonna give me money.
1163
01:14:41,440 -- 01:14:44,796
I can get my mama that beauty parlour
she's wanted all her life.
1164
01:14:44,920 -- 01:14:48,629
One problem -
how am I gonna get to Maine?
1165
01:14:48,760 -- 01:14:50,955
The wife checks all the bills.
1166
01:14:51,080 -- 01:14:54,993
Where the hell am I going
to get $250 to get to Maine?
1167
01:14:57,400 -- 01:14:59,356
How long would you need it for?
1168
01:14:59,480 -- 01:15:01,914
I'll be gone a week.
1169
01:15:02,040 -- 01:15:04,349
But I could wire it back to you.
1170
01:15:04,480 -- 01:15:07,472
- We could lend it to him for a week.
- If something happens...
1171
01:15:07,600 -- 01:15:10,319
You're like his stepmother,
holding the purse strings.
1172
01:15:10,440 -- 01:15:13,398
No. We worked too hard to save that.
1173
01:15:15,240 -- 01:15:17,708
I'm sorry, Paul, we just can't.
1174
01:15:17,840 -- 01:15:20,195
Look, no problem. I understand.
1175
01:15:20,320 -- 01:15:22,117
- I'll meet you after work.
- Sure.
1176
01:15:22,240 -- 01:15:24,993
If your dad loves you,
he'll get you the ticket.
1177
01:15:25,120 -- 01:15:27,270
He does. It'll work out.
1178
01:15:29,520 -- 01:15:34,548
Hey. Posture. Stand up straight.
Don't slump. Attitudes of defeat.
1179
01:15:34,680 -- 01:15:37,240
The girl worked just to stay alive.
1180
01:15:37,360 -- 01:15:41,638
She was one of those armies of people
who come to New York filled with dreams,
1181
01:15:41,760 -- 01:15:46,550
and end up on a treadmill, working and
working, forgetting why they came here.
1182
01:15:46,680 -- 01:15:51,834
There must be some mistake. It says my
joint account. Can you see the numbers?
1183
01:15:51,960 -- 01:15:57,193
That's right. That's my name and his
name, my joint account! Who closed it?!
1184
01:15:57,320 -- 01:16:01,108
I was furious.
I can't tell you how furious I was.
1185
01:16:01,240 -- 01:16:06,678
Then I went home to my luxurious
penthouse. And I waited for hours.
1186
01:16:09,880 -- 01:16:11,996
- Where's the money?
- Hi.
1187
01:16:12,120 -- 01:16:16,511
Just let me explain.
Paul found some extra money of his own.
1188
01:16:18,360 -- 01:16:22,069
iSo he took me to the Rainbow Room./i
1189
01:16:22,200 -- 01:16:25,954
iHe would've treated you,/i
ionly you had to work./i
1190
01:16:26,080 -- 01:16:29,993
iWe rented these tuxedos. Isn't it a gas?/i
1191
01:16:30,120 -- 01:16:32,714
How did we get this table?
1192
01:16:32,840 -- 01:16:35,070
I know the right names to drop.
1193
01:16:35,600 -- 01:16:41,596
He's gonna give us the money back. And
then I'm takin' you to the Rainbow Room.
1194
01:16:41,720 -- 01:16:44,314
I brought you matches.
1195
01:16:50,040 -- 01:16:52,554
It's not that expensive for what you get.
1196
01:16:52,680 -- 01:16:56,036
It's not a bargain, but it's worth it.
1197
01:16:57,640 -- 01:17:00,154
Mm. Wonderful bouquet.
1198
01:17:00,280 -- 01:17:01,429
"Bouquet"?
1199
01:17:01,560 -- 01:17:05,473
The taste of wine. Always remember,
the wine from the even-numbered years
1200
01:17:05,600 -- 01:17:08,876
is superior to the wine from
the odd-numbered years.
1201
01:17:09,000 -- 01:17:12,879
- Cheers. Skol. Prosit.
- Mud in your eye.
1202
01:17:13,000 -- 01:17:15,070
You're just about the greatest.
1203
01:17:16,320 -- 01:17:20,313
- You wanna dance?
- Elizabeth hasn't seen anything like here.
1204
01:17:20,440 -- 01:17:22,396
I wish she was...
1205
01:17:23,360 -- 01:17:25,510
Who do we dance with?
1206
01:17:29,840 -- 01:17:31,876
We're guys.
1207
01:17:33,040 -- 01:17:36,396
Every moment in life
is a learning experience.
1208
01:17:36,520 -- 01:17:38,750
Or what good is it? Right?
1209
01:17:39,800 -- 01:17:41,836
- Right?
- Yes.
1210
01:17:41,960 -- 01:17:44,110
Then let this bunch of jerks see class.
1211
01:17:44,880 -- 01:17:47,838
I swear, nothin' like this
ever happened in Utah.
1212
01:17:54,080 -- 01:17:58,153
Nothin' like that must have ever happened
there cos they asked us to leave.
1213
01:18:09,960 -- 01:18:11,552
It was so funny!
1214
01:18:11,680 -- 01:18:13,636
i(laughter)/i
1215
01:18:14,760 -- 01:18:16,716
Around the park, sir!
1216
01:18:17,800 -- 01:18:19,392
We don't have any money.
1217
01:18:19,520 -- 01:18:24,310
Amigo, when will you learn? Money is
the one commodity you can always get.
1218
01:18:24,920 -- 01:18:26,876
i(Paul howls)/i
1219
01:18:28,800 -- 01:18:30,552
Hyah!
1220
01:18:43,080 -- 01:18:46,993
I'm gonna have to explain to Elizabeth
about the money. She gets so nervous.
1221
01:18:47,120 -- 01:18:50,078
Hey, Paul, come on. Stop that.
1222
01:18:50,200 -- 01:18:53,158
I was wondering if I could fuck you.
1223
01:18:54,960 -- 01:18:56,393
I don't do things like that.
1224
01:18:59,800 -- 01:19:01,870
That's what makes it so nice.
1225
01:19:02,000 -- 01:19:04,070
You don't.
1226
01:19:04,680 -- 01:19:06,636
And he did.
1227
01:19:10,040 -- 01:19:11,996
And it was fantastic.
1228
01:19:20,280 -- 01:19:23,238
We came here for experience, right?
1229
01:19:24,760 -- 01:19:26,159
We can use this, right?
1230
01:19:26,280 -- 01:19:29,670
You're a fool!
Your father is right! You are a fool!
1231
01:19:29,800 -- 01:19:34,749
We came here for experience. My father
is not right. I can't have him be right.
1232
01:19:34,880 -- 01:19:36,632
- It's gon...
- Don't touch me.
1233
01:19:41,240 -- 01:19:44,152
i(driver)/i Hey! Hey!
1234
01:19:44,280 -- 01:19:46,396
Hey! Come back here!
1235
01:19:46,520 -- 01:19:47,748
Hey!
1236
01:19:47,880 -- 01:19:49,108
Argh!
1237
01:19:49,640 -- 01:19:50,675
Paul!
1238
01:19:50,920 -- 01:19:52,478
Paul!
1239
01:20:07,080 -- 01:20:09,389
Look at me.
1240
01:20:09,520 -- 01:20:10,999
Elizabeth.
1241
01:20:11,120 -- 01:20:17,070
I didn't come here to do this, or to lose
that, or to be this, or to do this to you.
1242
01:20:18,040 -- 01:20:19,996
Not to you.
1243
01:20:21,360 -- 01:20:23,316
Look at me.
1244
01:20:25,080 -- 01:20:29,471
I couldn't look at him. Spent the night
thinking about having no money.
1245
01:20:29,960 -- 01:20:33,316
About Paul and his father.
So, this morning...
1246
01:20:39,440 -- 01:20:40,998
Sir?
1247
01:20:41,120 -- 01:20:44,749
Sir? I need to get up to see
some people named Kittredge.
1248
01:20:44,880 -- 01:20:46,757
Are they expecting you?
1249
01:20:46,880 -- 01:20:50,509
Kittredge has a black son he makes
live in the park who took money from me.
1250
01:20:50,640 -- 01:20:53,996
- Mr Kittredge has what?!
- His son owes me money!
1251
01:20:54,120 -- 01:20:57,476
You have to call
and write them a letter. Yes?
1252
01:20:57,600 -- 01:21:02,196
"Quality of mercy is not strained."
Well, fuck you, quality of mercy!
1253
01:21:02,320 -- 01:21:07,110
Hey. It's trouble with Mr Kittredge's Negro
son. I take care of it. Don't worry.
1254
01:21:07,240 -- 01:21:12,394
All over the building that I had abandoned
some mistake of my past in Central Park.
1255
01:21:12,520 -- 01:21:15,432
- But it's too fantastic.
- It was so embarrassing.
1256
01:21:15,560 -- 01:21:18,711
- That's horrible.
- It wasn't so embarrassing.
1257
01:21:18,840 -- 01:21:21,115
I bet Flan loves to be outraged.
1258
01:21:21,240 -- 01:21:24,312
- I do not!
- You do too!
1259
01:21:24,440 -- 01:21:29,514
- Flan loves getting into high dudgeon.
- And look at his cheeks turn all rosy.
1260
01:21:29,640 -- 01:21:31,471
Dudgeon becomes him.
1261
01:21:31,600 -- 01:21:33,636
To high dudgeon.
1262
01:21:33,760 -- 01:21:37,196
Now... can we get down to business?
1263
01:21:43,680 -- 01:21:48,196
Do we have a story for you? We were
at the roller disco two clients opened.
1264
01:21:48,320 -- 01:21:51,118
I hadn't skated in
I hate to tell you how many years.
1265
01:21:51,240 -- 01:21:56,109
We came outside giddy and reeling.
And you wouldn't believe what we saw.
1266
01:22:00,800 -- 01:22:05,157
- The blood hadn't yet reached the gutter.
- It was oozing slowly towards the kerb.
1267
01:22:05,280 -- 01:22:07,953
The body must have just
landed there in a clump.
1268
01:22:09,160 -- 01:22:12,675
The boy had just jumped from above.
He could have landed on us.
1269
01:22:14,760 -- 01:22:17,513
i(woman) We just missed it by minutes./i
1270
01:22:20,440 -- 01:22:23,273
Rick! Oh, my God!
1271
01:22:23,400 -- 01:22:25,356
Rick! Rick!
1272
01:22:27,120 -- 01:22:30,715
- She'll press charges.
- I want Paul dead.
1273
01:22:30,840 -- 01:22:34,879
Rick's dead.
You bet your life I'll press charges.
1274
01:22:35,000 -- 01:22:37,912
We're very sorry.
Is there anything we can do to help?
1275
01:22:38,040 -- 01:22:41,919
That Paul's a menace. We could
have been killed. Throats slashed.
1276
01:22:42,040 -- 01:22:45,510
He wasn't going to kill us.
We haven't seen him since that night.
1277
01:22:45,640 -- 01:22:49,633
- Find him. We might have a case.
- Find him?
1278
01:22:49,760 -- 01:22:53,275
- How do we find him?
- We could tell the papers. Call iThe Times./i
1279
01:22:53,400 -- 01:22:57,313
- Ooh, let me. I have friends at iThe Times./i
- I don't wanna know.
1280
01:22:57,440 -- 01:22:59,510
- They'll publish it.
- Someone will see it.
1281
01:22:59,640 -- 01:23:01,437
- And turn him in.
- We'll find him.
1282
01:23:01,560 -- 01:23:02,754
Six degrees.
1283
01:23:02,880 -- 01:23:05,678
"Who says New Yorkers
don't have a heart?"
1284
01:23:05,800 -- 01:23:09,759
"Smart, sophisticated, tough New Yorkers,
such as the J Flanders Kittredges,
1285
01:23:09,880 -- 01:23:13,555
who opened their homes and pocketbooks
to a young man, learned yesterday
1286
01:23:13,680 -- 01:23:18,549
they had been boondoggled by
a confidence man now wanted by police."
1287
01:23:18,680 -- 01:23:21,592
- Did you see the piece in iThe Times?/i
- We were in Squaw Valley.
1288
01:23:21,720 -- 01:23:26,430
We came off very well.
I forgot to mention your foundation.
1289
01:23:26,560 -- 01:23:30,519
You could wallpaper the Empire State
Building with the copies Flan had made.
1290
01:23:30,640 -- 01:23:33,154
- Come to dinner with us after.
- Can't.
1291
01:23:33,280 -- 01:23:34,190
- Work.
- Auction.
1292
01:23:34,320 -- 01:23:35,514
- Matisse.
- Ooh!
1293
01:23:35,640 -- 01:23:39,633
Oh, no. Matisse on an off day. But our
people are prepared to go to well over...
1294
01:23:39,760 -- 01:23:42,957
- Don't tell all the family secrets.
- Well over $12,000,000!
1295
01:23:43,080 -- 01:23:45,548
- Out of which you will keep?
- Not much in these days.
1296
01:23:45,680 -- 01:23:49,195
- Oh, boy. Bring back the '80s.
- Uh-huh.
1297
01:23:50,120 -- 01:23:54,671
We'll have to give most of it away. But
it gives us credibility in this new market.
1298
01:23:54,800 -- 01:23:58,952
It's all outta whack.
Everything's up, everything's down.
1299
01:24:01,000 -- 01:24:03,514
- Did you ever hear from Poitier's son?
- No.
1300
01:24:03,640 -- 01:24:05,995
Did you ever hear from the boy?
1301
01:24:06,120 -- 01:24:10,511
- Oh, we're here to honour your guest.
- But I keep hearing about this story.
1302
01:24:10,640 -- 01:24:13,108
I heard about it last week in Southampton.
1303
01:24:13,240 -- 01:24:16,152
- It's amazing.
- No, really. To get the UN to finally...
1304
01:24:16,280 -- 01:24:20,717
- She can't save the world every day.
- i(all laugh)/i
1305
01:24:21,520 -- 01:24:25,354
This is my supper,
and I command you to sing.
1306
01:24:25,480 -- 01:24:27,835
- This is lunch.
- What happened?
1307
01:24:27,960 -- 01:24:33,353
There is one last chapter,
which happened the other night.
1308
01:24:33,480 -- 01:24:35,994
Ouisa, may I?
1309
01:24:36,360 -- 01:24:42,276
ij&/i The Matisse will be mine
for an hour or so
1310
01:24:42,400 -- 01:24:46,473
ij&/i Then, regrettably, it has to go
1311
01:24:46,600 -- 01:24:51,196
- i(Tess) So, what are you wearing?/i
- I'm totally dolled up. The blue satin.
1312
01:24:51,320 -- 01:24:53,993
iDarling, I have to tell you./i
iA sign I saw today -/i
1313
01:24:54,120 -- 01:24:58,716
"Cruelty-free cosmetics." A store
was selling cruelty-free cosmetics.
1314
01:24:58,840 -- 01:25:00,478
iThat is a beautiful thing./i
1315
01:25:00,600 -- 01:25:05,355
Do you realise the agony companies put
rabbits through just to test eye shadow?
1316
01:25:05,480 -- 01:25:07,471
Oh, darling, I know that.
1317
01:25:07,600 -- 01:25:10,751
I was referring to the phrase -
"cruelty-free cosmetics".
1318
01:25:10,880 -- 01:25:13,269
Should eliminate
all traces of time, cellulite...
1319
01:25:13,400 -- 01:25:15,356
Mother, I'm getting married.
1320
01:25:19,200 -- 01:25:21,031
You were going to Afghanistan.
1321
01:25:21,160 -- 01:25:24,436
I'm going to get married,
and then I'm going to Afghanistan.
1322
01:25:24,560 -- 01:25:27,711
One country at a time.
You're not getting married.
1323
01:25:27,840 -- 01:25:29,319
iImmediately so negative./i
1324
01:25:29,440 -- 01:25:32,352
I know everyone you know,
and you're not marrying any of them.
1325
01:25:32,480 -- 01:25:35,472
The arrogance that you assume
you know everyone I know!
1326
01:25:35,600 -- 01:25:38,478
The way that you say that!
"I know everyone you know."
1327
01:25:38,600 -- 01:25:40,716
Unless you met them in the last two days.
1328
01:25:40,840 -- 01:25:42,831
- i(phone rings)/i
- Wait. Hold on.
1329
01:25:42,960 -- 01:25:46,396
Nobody ever calls on
that number. Mother!
1330
01:25:47,240 -- 01:25:48,832
Hello?
1331
01:25:48,960 -- 01:25:50,712
i(Paul) Hello?/i
1332
01:25:52,400 -- 01:25:53,753
Paul?
1333
01:25:53,880 -- 01:25:55,836
iI saw the story in the paper./i
1334
01:25:55,960 -- 01:25:59,714
I didn't know he killed himself.
He gave me that money. I didn't steal it.
1335
01:25:59,840 -- 01:26:02,195
I'll put you on hold. I'm talking to my child.
1336
01:26:02,320 -- 01:26:05,073
Put me on hold and you'll
never hear from me again.
1337
01:26:05,200 -- 01:26:05,871
Yes...
1338
01:26:06,000 -- 01:26:07,991
- Mother, can I t...?
- i(dialling tone)/i
1339
01:26:10,200 -- 01:26:13,909
You have to turn yourself in.
The boy committed suicide.
1340
01:26:14,640 -- 01:26:17,234
iThe girl is pressing charges./i
iYou stole that money./i
1341
01:26:17,360 -- 01:26:21,273
iTurn yourself in. Make it easy on yourself./i
iThey're gonna get you./i
1342
01:26:21,400 -- 01:26:26,030
Learn when you're trapped.
You have such promise. You need help.
1343
01:26:26,880 -- 01:26:29,758
- Would you help me?
- iWhat do you want me to do?/i
1344
01:26:29,880 -- 01:26:31,518
Stay with you.
1345
01:26:31,640 -- 01:26:33,517
- That is impossible!
- iWhy?/i
1346
01:26:33,640 -- 01:26:35,312
My husband feels you betrayed him.
1347
01:26:35,440 -- 01:26:37,078
- Do you?
- iYou're a lunatic!/i
1348
01:26:37,200 -- 01:26:42,832
Picking up that dreck off the street.
Are you suicidal? Do you have AIDS?
1349
01:26:42,960 -- 01:26:44,837
iAre you infected?/i
1350
01:26:44,960 -- 01:26:48,509
I don't have it. It's a miracle, but I don't.
1351
01:26:49,840 -- 01:26:54,231
Do you feel I betrayed you? If you do,
I will hang up and never bother you again.
1352
01:26:58,560 -- 01:27:00,437
Where have you been?
1353
01:27:00,560 -- 01:27:01,834
Travelling.
1354
01:27:01,960 -- 01:27:04,952
Are you in trouble? I mean, more trouble.
1355
01:27:05,080 -- 01:27:07,116
iNo. I only visited you./i
1356
01:27:07,640 -- 01:27:12,475
I didn't like the first people so much.
They just went out and left me alone.
1357
01:27:12,600 -- 01:27:15,910
I didn't like the doctor.
He was too eager to please.
1358
01:27:16,040 -- 01:27:18,349
And he just left me alone.
1359
01:27:18,480 -- 01:27:21,950
iBut you - you and your husband -/i
iwe all stayed together./i
1360
01:27:22,080 -- 01:27:25,675
- What did you want from us?
- Everlasting friendship.
1361
01:27:25,800 -- 01:27:27,756
Nobody has that.
1362
01:27:27,880 -- 01:27:29,916
- iYou do./i
- What do you think we are?
1363
01:27:30,600 -- 01:27:34,434
Oh. You're going to tell me secrets?
You're not what you appear to be?
1364
01:27:34,560 -- 01:27:38,758
You have no secrets. Trent Conway told
me everything your kids have told him.
1365
01:27:38,880 -- 01:27:42,475
What did our kids tell him about us?
1366
01:27:43,520 -- 01:27:46,114
I don't tell that. Save that for blackmail.
1367
01:27:46,240 -- 01:27:49,755
- Perhaps I'd better hang up.
- No!
1368
01:27:51,040 -- 01:27:54,555
I went to a museum.
I like Toulouse-Lautrec.
1369
01:27:54,680 -- 01:27:56,875
iAs well you should./i
1370
01:27:57,000 -- 01:27:59,355
I read the Andy Warhol diaries.
1371
01:27:59,480 -- 01:28:02,995
I see you're becoming an aesthete.
1372
01:28:03,120 -- 01:28:06,715
- Are you laughing at me?
- No. I read them too.
1373
01:28:06,840 -- 01:28:10,594
iI've read " The Agony and the Ecstasy"/i
iby Irving Stone, about Michelangelo./i
1374
01:28:10,720 -- 01:28:12,836
Oh, well, you're ahead of me there.
1375
01:28:12,960 -- 01:28:14,996
Have you seen the Sistine Chapel?
1376
01:28:15,120 -- 01:28:17,031
Oh, yes.
1377
01:28:17,160 -- 01:28:22,632
I went right to the top in a rickety old
elevator and watched the men clean it.
1378
01:28:22,760 -- 01:28:25,911
You've been to the top
of the Sistine Chapel?
1379
01:28:26,040 -- 01:28:29,077
Stood right under the hand of God
touching the hand of man.
1380
01:28:29,200 -- 01:28:30,679
iBatti! Batti!/i
1381
01:28:30,800 -- 01:28:31,755
Oh!
1382
01:28:31,880 -- 01:28:36,795
One of the workmen said
"Hit it! Hit it! It's only a fresco."
1383
01:28:36,920 -- 01:28:37,591
Hit!
1384
01:28:37,720 -- 01:28:41,190
So I did. I slapped God's hand.
1385
01:28:41,800 -- 01:28:44,473
You... you slapped God's hand?
1386
01:28:44,600 -- 01:28:48,718
Do you know what they clean it with?
All this modern technology.
1387
01:28:48,840 -- 01:28:50,478
- Q-Tips and water.
- iNo!/i
1388
01:28:50,600 -- 01:28:54,229
Clean away the years of soot,
grime, paint-overs.
1389
01:28:54,360 -- 01:28:59,115
Q-Tips and water, changing
the history of Western art. Vivid colour.
1390
01:29:00,840 -- 01:29:04,310
- Take me to see it.
- Take you to see it?
1391
01:29:04,440 -- 01:29:08,274
- They think you murdered someone.
- Can you give me a hand with these?
1392
01:29:08,400 -- 01:29:09,958
- i(whispers)/i Paul.
- Paul?
1393
01:29:10,080 -- 01:29:12,435
- I'll call that detective.
- i(phone rings)/i
1394
01:29:12,560 -- 01:29:14,073
Who's that? Hello?
1395
01:29:14,200 -- 01:29:16,430
- Dad! We were cut off.
- Oh, Tess, hi.
1396
01:29:16,560 -- 01:29:18,471
- iI'm getting married!/i
- Call back.
1397
01:29:18,600 -- 01:29:20,955
I'm getting married
and going to Afghanistan!
1398
01:29:21,080 -- 01:29:24,789
- I can't talk about this...
- iI am gonna ruin my life and get married./i
1399
01:29:24,920 -- 01:29:28,356
Throw away everything you want me
to be. It's the only way to hurt you!
1400
01:29:28,480 -- 01:29:30,914
- i(hangs up)/i
- Jesus.
1401
01:29:31,040 -- 01:29:33,600
- i(phone rings)/i
- Yeah?
1402
01:29:33,720 -- 01:29:36,837
- I have that kid on the line.
- Find out where he is.
1403
01:29:36,960 -- 01:29:38,791
Find out where he is.
1404
01:29:38,920 -- 01:29:41,912
Um, look, why don't you come here?
Where are you?
1405
01:29:42,480 -- 01:29:44,232
You'll have the cops waiting.
1406
01:29:44,360 -- 01:29:46,635
- Tell him he has to trust us.
- You have to trust us!
1407
01:29:46,760 -- 01:29:47,988
- Why?
- Cos we like you!
1408
01:29:48,120 -- 01:29:50,634
- We like him? Where is he?
- Who's there?
1409
01:29:50,760 -- 01:29:51,829
It's, um...
1410
01:29:51,960 -- 01:29:53,598
- It's Flan!
- Oh, God.
1411
01:29:53,720 -- 01:29:57,030
Are you in tonight?
I could come and make a feast for you.
1412
01:29:57,160 -- 01:30:00,516
- No, we're going out tonight.
- Are you crazy?!
1413
01:30:00,640 -- 01:30:03,632
Tell a crook we're going out,
the house is empty?
1414
01:30:03,760 -- 01:30:05,159
- Where are you going?
- Sotheby's.
1415
01:30:05,280 -- 01:30:10,274
- And the key is under the mat.
- Hi! Can I come to Sotheby's?
1416
01:30:10,400 -- 01:30:12,960
- Shoot! I've lost the detective.
- Paul says hi.
1417
01:30:13,080 -- 01:30:14,274
- Hi.
- Sotheby's.
1418
01:30:14,400 -- 01:30:16,516
- Wonderful. I'll come.
- No. You can't.
1419
01:30:16,640 -- 01:30:20,599
- iWhy? I was helpful last time./i
- You were helpful about the Czanne.
1420
01:30:20,720 -- 01:30:24,998
- iReally? You know.../i
- You impressed Geoffrey. Where are you?
1421
01:30:25,120 -- 01:30:28,908
I was thinking maybe that's what
I should do, is what you do, in art,
1422
01:30:29,040 -- 01:30:33,113
but making money out of art, meeting
people, and not working in an office.
1423
01:30:33,240 -- 01:30:37,358
You're just seeing the glamorous side.
There's a whole grotty side that...
1424
01:30:37,480 -- 01:30:39,277
I could easily learn the grotty.
1425
01:30:39,400 -- 01:30:42,756
You have to have art history,
language, economics.
1426
01:30:42,880 -- 01:30:45,633
I'm fast. I could do it.
Do your kids want to?
1427
01:30:45,760 -- 01:30:49,355
It's not that. It's not a profession
you hand down from gen...
1428
01:30:49,480 -- 01:30:53,314
What am I doing talking
career counselling to you?!
1429
01:30:53,440 -- 01:30:57,035
You embarrassed me. You stole money.
There's a warrant for your arrest.
1430
01:30:57,160 -- 01:30:58,639
- Goddammit!
- No, don't!
1431
01:30:58,760 -- 01:31:01,957
- I can't believe he sucked me in again.
- You made him hang up.
1432
01:31:02,080 -- 01:31:03,991
- iI'm here./i
- You are?
1433
01:31:04,560 -- 01:31:07,757
Who are you? What's your real name?
1434
01:31:07,880 -- 01:31:11,555
If you let me stay with you, I'll tell you.
1435
01:31:11,680 -- 01:31:14,353
That night was
the happiest night I ever had.
1436
01:31:14,480 -- 01:31:16,596
That was the happiest night he ever had.
1437
01:31:16,720 -- 01:31:22,033
Oh, please. I'm not a bullshitter,
but never bullshit a bullshitter.
1438
01:31:22,920 -- 01:31:25,639
Now, get rid of him, Ouisa.
1439
01:31:25,760 -- 01:31:30,197
You look great, dear. Tonight's
big business. Get him off the phone.
1440
01:31:30,320 -- 01:31:31,355
Why?
1441
01:31:31,480 -- 01:31:35,268
You let me use all the parts
of myself that night.
1442
01:31:35,400 -- 01:31:37,834
That was magical, that Salinger stuff.
1443
01:31:38,720 -- 01:31:41,188
Graduation speech
at Groton two years ago.
1444
01:31:42,280 -- 01:31:44,635
Your cooking?
1445
01:31:44,760 -- 01:31:47,115
Other people's recipes.
1446
01:31:48,080 -- 01:31:50,799
Did you see Donald Barthelme's obituary?
1447
01:31:50,920 -- 01:31:54,435
He said that collage was
the art form of the 20th century.
1448
01:31:54,560 -- 01:31:56,596
Everything is somebody else's.
1449
01:31:56,720 -- 01:31:59,917
Not your children. Not your life.
1450
01:32:00,040 -- 01:32:01,268
No.
1451
01:32:01,400 -- 01:32:06,315
You got me there. That is mine.
That is nobody else's.
1452
01:32:06,440 -- 01:32:08,795
iYou don't sound happy./i
1453
01:32:09,920 -- 01:32:12,480
There is so much you don't know.
1454
01:32:12,600 -- 01:32:14,511
You are so smart.
1455
01:32:14,640 -- 01:32:18,553
- And so stupid.
- Don't you ever say I'm stupid!
1456
01:32:18,680 -- 01:32:22,275
Have some flexibility. You're stupid
not to realise what you could be.
1457
01:32:22,400 -- 01:32:24,152
- What could I be?
- So much.
1458
01:32:24,280 -- 01:32:26,475
- iWith you behind me./i
- You liked that night?
1459
01:32:26,600 -- 01:32:29,034
I've thought since
that you were laughing at us.
1460
01:32:29,160 -- 01:32:30,070
No!
1461
01:32:30,200 -- 01:32:33,158
iYou picked up that awful thing/i
ito show us your contempt./i
1462
01:32:33,280 -- 01:32:37,319
I was so happy I wanted to add sex to it.
Don't you do that?
1463
01:32:40,640 -- 01:32:41,595
No.
1464
01:32:43,920 -- 01:32:45,911
- iI'll tell you my name./i
- Please.
1465
01:32:46,880 -- 01:32:49,678
It's Paul Poitier-Kittredge.
1466
01:32:49,800 -- 01:32:51,836
iIt's a hyphenated name./i
1467
01:32:51,960 -- 01:32:53,871
Paul...
1468
01:32:54,000 -- 01:32:55,797
listen to me.
1469
01:32:55,920 -- 01:33:01,392
You need help. Go to the police. You'll be
over it all the sooner. You can start...
1470
01:33:01,520 -- 01:33:03,397
- Start what?
- iYour life./i
1471
01:33:03,520 -- 01:33:05,670
Will you help me?
1472
01:33:07,120 -- 01:33:11,432
I will help you. But first, you have
to go to the police, you have to go to jail.
1473
01:33:11,560 -- 01:33:16,554
And will you send me books and Polaroids
of you and cassettes and letters?
1474
01:33:16,680 -- 01:33:18,875
- iYes./i
- Will you visit me?
1475
01:33:19,000 -- 01:33:19,955
I will visit you.
1476
01:33:20,080 -- 01:33:22,548
iAnd wear your best clothes/i
iand knock 'em dead./i
1477
01:33:22,680 -- 01:33:26,753
I'll knock 'em dead. You have to be
careful in prison. Use condoms.
1478
01:33:26,880 -- 01:33:30,111
I won't have sex in prison.
I only have sex when I'm happy.
1479
01:33:30,240 -- 01:33:32,196
- Go to the police.
- Will you take me?
1480
01:33:32,320 -- 01:33:34,675
iI'll give you the name/i
iof the detective to see./i
1481
01:33:34,800 -- 01:33:39,157
I'll be treated with care if you come. If they
don't know you're special, they kill you.
1482
01:33:39,280 -- 01:33:41,032
I don't think they kill you.
1483
01:33:41,160 -- 01:33:44,789
Mrs Louisa Kittredge, I am black.
1484
01:33:46,520 -- 01:33:50,069
I... will deliver you to them,
1485
01:33:50,200 -- 01:33:52,919
with kindness and affection.
1486
01:33:53,480 -- 01:33:56,358
I'll plead guilty and go to prison
and serve a few months.
1487
01:33:56,480 -- 01:33:59,631
- A few months, tops.
- iAnd when I get out, I'll work for you./i
1488
01:33:59,760 -- 01:34:04,470
- No, we'll work all that out.
- No, no, no, no. I want to know now.
1489
01:34:06,040 -- 01:34:09,316
- You'll work for us.
- Learn the trade, not just the grotty part.
1490
01:34:09,440 -- 01:34:11,271
- Top to bottom.
- And live with you.
1491
01:34:11,400 -- 01:34:13,789
- iNo./i
- Why? Your kids are away.
1492
01:34:13,920 -- 01:34:17,071
- You should have your own place.
- iWill you help me find a place?/i
1493
01:34:17,200 -- 01:34:18,997
We'll help you find a place.
1494
01:34:19,120 -- 01:34:22,635
- I have no furniture.
- iWe'll help you out./i
1495
01:34:22,760 -- 01:34:27,754
I made a list of things I liked at
the museum. Philadelphia Chippendale.
1496
01:34:27,880 -- 01:34:31,873
iBelieve it or not, we have two/i
iPhiladelphia Chippendale chairs./i
1497
01:34:32,000 -- 01:34:35,151
I'd rather have one nice piece
than a room full of junk.
1498
01:34:35,280 -- 01:34:36,156
i(laughs)/i
1499
01:34:36,280 -- 01:34:38,032
Quality always.
1500
01:34:38,160 -- 01:34:42,392
You'll have all that.
Philadelphia Chippendale!
1501
01:34:43,440 -- 01:34:45,795
And all I have to do is go to the police.
1502
01:34:45,920 -- 01:34:48,070
Make it all history.
1503
01:34:48,200 -- 01:34:50,156
Put it behind you.
1504
01:34:52,000 -- 01:34:54,673
- iTonight./i
- Oh. No, it can't be tonight.
1505
01:34:54,800 -- 01:34:58,395
I'll take you tomorrow. I have to have
drinks before the auction tonight.
1506
01:34:58,520 -- 01:35:00,875
- Japanese?
- iGermans./i
1507
01:35:01,000 -- 01:35:03,036
You are just like my father.
1508
01:35:03,160 -- 01:35:05,310
- Which father?
- Sidney!
1509
01:35:08,960 -- 01:35:10,712
Paul...
1510
01:35:12,120 -- 01:35:13,872
he's not your father.
1511
01:35:14,520 -- 01:35:16,476
iAnd Flanders.../i
1512
01:35:16,600 -- 01:35:18,511
is not your father.
1513
01:35:18,680 -- 01:35:20,636
Ouisa, for Christ's sakes!
1514
01:35:20,760 -- 01:35:23,991
Are you still on the phone?
We have drinks with the Japanese...
1515
01:35:24,120 -- 01:35:27,715
Is it still that kid? Get him out of our lives!
1516
01:35:27,840 -- 01:35:32,960
Get him off the phone or I'll rip
the fucking line out of the wall!
1517
01:35:33,080 -- 01:35:34,593
Paul?
1518
01:35:34,720 -- 01:35:38,633
I made a mistake. It is not the Germans.
We'll come and get you. Where are you?
1519
01:35:38,760 -- 01:35:41,797
We'll take you to the police.
They'll treat you with dignity.
1520
01:35:41,920 -- 01:35:43,478
Um...
1521
01:35:46,080 -- 01:35:49,117
I'm at the corner of 6th Avenue
and 4th Street.
1522
01:35:49,240 -- 01:35:51,595
But I'll meet you at
the Waverly movie theatre.
1523
01:35:51,720 -- 01:35:55,508
- We'll be there in half an hour.
- I'll give you 15 minutes' grace time.
1524
01:35:55,640 -- 01:35:58,074
We'll be there.
1525
01:35:58,200 -- 01:35:59,519
iPaul.../i
1526
01:35:59,640 -- 01:36:01,596
We love you.
1527
01:36:03,120 -- 01:36:04,109
iOuisa./i
1528
01:36:04,880 -- 01:36:07,633
I love you, Ouisa Kittredge.
1529
01:36:09,320 -- 01:36:10,275
iHey./i
1530
01:36:10,400 -- 01:36:12,550
Bring a pink shirt?
1531
01:36:15,280 -- 01:36:18,272
We'll have a wonderful life.
1532
01:36:24,560 -- 01:36:29,680
We can skip the schmoozing, take the boy
to the police, and be at Sotheby's by nine.
1533
01:36:29,800 -- 01:36:30,755
Sure.
1534
01:36:31,120 -- 01:36:33,190
But we hadn't counted on... traffic.
1535
01:36:33,320 -- 01:36:34,435
i(Flan) Traffic./i
1536
01:36:34,560 -- 01:36:35,595
i(Ouisa) Traffic./i
1537
01:36:37,320 -- 01:36:39,880
iWe'd promised Paul/i
iwe would take him to the police./i
1538
01:36:40,000 -- 01:36:43,470
i(Flan) I called our new best friend,/i
ithe detective./i
1539
01:36:43,600 -- 01:36:48,754
Paul! Officer, please! Let us go with him!
We promised we would go with him!
1540
01:36:48,880 -- 01:36:50,472
- Paul? Paul?
- No, Ouisa.
1541
01:36:50,600 -- 01:36:52,431
Officer, please. Paul!
1542
01:36:52,560 -- 01:36:55,836
The Kandinsky is painted on both sides!
1543
01:36:59,520 -- 01:37:03,149
- There's nothing more you could do.
- i(Flan)/i I didn't think so, no.
1544
01:37:03,280 -- 01:37:06,238
The next day, Ouisa went to the precinct.
1545
01:37:07,960 -- 01:37:10,030
Detective Marino, please.
1546
01:37:10,160 -- 01:37:13,152
- He's transferred.
- Since yesterday?
1547
01:37:13,280 -- 01:37:15,191
He's transferred.
1548
01:37:15,320 -- 01:37:19,279
This is about an arrest that was made
yesterday at the Waverly movie theatre.
1549
01:37:19,400 -- 01:37:21,356
Hold on.
1550
01:37:22,800 -- 01:37:25,268
This precinct didn't go
to the Waverly theatre.
1551
01:37:25,400 -- 01:37:28,756
- I didn't imagine it.
- I'm not sayin' you did.
1552
01:37:28,880 -- 01:37:33,396
- Perhaps you can tell me which precinct...
- Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
1553
01:37:33,520 -- 01:37:35,556
The name?
1554
01:37:35,680 -- 01:37:37,352
Um...
1555
01:37:37,480 -- 01:37:39,630
Poitier. Or Kittredge.
1556
01:37:39,760 -- 01:37:40,397
Uh...
1557
01:37:40,520 -- 01:37:43,353
- Are you family?
- Not exactly.
1558
01:37:43,480 -- 01:37:47,951
The detective told me that I could go with
the young man when he was arraigned,
1559
01:37:48,080 -- 01:37:50,719
so I could tell them that he was... special...
1560
01:37:50,840 -- 01:37:54,389
We have no record of it. Some other
precinct must have made the arrest.
1561
01:37:54,520 -- 01:37:57,796
It sounds like your special friend
was wanted for somethin' else.
1562
01:37:57,920 -- 01:37:59,353
Like what?
1563
01:37:59,480 -- 01:38:04,713
Lady, how can I help you?
You don't even know your friend's name.
1564
01:38:09,800 -- 01:38:11,552
Six degrees.
1565
01:38:13,200 -- 01:38:16,272
We weren't family.
We didn't know Paul's name.
1566
01:38:16,800 -- 01:38:18,950
iI went to the district attorney's office./i
1567
01:38:19,080 -- 01:38:22,550
iWe weren't family./i
iWe didn't know Paul's name./i
1568
01:38:24,120 -- 01:38:29,194
iI called the criminal courts./i
iI wasn't family. I didn't know Paul's name./i
1569
01:38:31,960 -- 01:38:38,718
I read today that a young man
committed suicide in Rikers Island prison,
1570
01:38:38,840 -- 01:38:43,789
and tied a shirt around his neck
and hanged himself.
1571
01:38:44,800 -- 01:38:46,916
Was it the pink shirt?
1572
01:38:47,040 -- 01:38:49,759
A burst of colour. Pink shirt.
1573
01:38:51,480 -- 01:38:55,075
Was it Paul? We never did
find out who he was.
1574
01:38:55,200 -- 01:38:57,236
I'm sure it wasn't him.
1575
01:38:57,360 -- 01:39:00,352
- Yes, I agree.
- Isn't it amazing?
1576
01:39:00,480 -- 01:39:04,519
We haven't seen the last of him,
believe me. He'll be back. He'll find a way.
1577
01:39:04,640 -- 01:39:06,392
The imagination... Oh!
1578
01:39:07,720 -- 01:39:12,032
- Why does it mean so much to you?
- He wanted to be us.
1579
01:39:12,160 -- 01:39:14,390
Everything we are in the world.
1580
01:39:14,520 -- 01:39:19,913
This paltry thing, our life, he wanted it.
He stabbed himself to get into our lives.
1581
01:39:20,040 -- 01:39:23,316
He envied us.
We're not enough to be envied.
1582
01:39:23,440 -- 01:39:26,079
Like the papers said, we do have hearts.
1583
01:39:26,200 -- 01:39:28,270
Having a heart is not the point.
1584
01:39:28,400 -- 01:39:32,632
We were hardly taken in.
We believed him for a few hours.
1585
01:39:32,760 -- 01:39:37,197
He did more for us in a few hours
than our children ever did.
1586
01:39:38,080 -- 01:39:40,640
And he wanted to be your child.
Don't let that go.
1587
01:39:40,760 -- 01:39:44,878
He sat out in that park and said
"That man is my father."
1588
01:39:45,000 -- 01:39:47,514
He's in trouble, and we don't
know how to help him.
1589
01:39:47,640 -- 01:39:52,794
Help him? My God! We could
have been killed. Throats slashed.
1590
01:39:52,920 -- 01:39:54,876
You were attracted to him.
1591
01:39:55,000 -- 01:39:58,879
Oh, please. Cut me out
of that pathology right now.
1592
01:39:59,000 -- 01:40:01,355
Attracted by his youth, his talent,
1593
01:40:01,480 -- 01:40:04,392
and the embarrassing prospect
of being in the movie of iCats./i
1594
01:40:04,520 -- 01:40:07,159
Well... that, yes. Yes.
1595
01:40:07,280 -- 01:40:09,396
Did you put that in your iTimes/i piece?
1596
01:40:09,520 -- 01:40:14,674
And we turn him into an anecdote
to dine out on, like we're doing right now!
1597
01:40:14,800 -- 01:40:19,430
But it was an experience.
I will not turn him into an anecdote.
1598
01:40:19,560 -- 01:40:22,120
How do we keep what happens to us?
1599
01:40:22,240 -- 01:40:26,677
How do we fit it into life
without turning it into an anecdote?
1600
01:40:26,800 -- 01:40:30,190
With no teeth, and a punch line
you'll mouth over and over for years.
1601
01:40:30,320 -- 01:40:33,198
"Oh, that reminds me of that impostor."
1602
01:40:33,320 -- 01:40:35,959
"Oh, tell the one about that boy."
1603
01:40:36,080 -- 01:40:40,596
And we become these human jukeboxes,
spilling out these anecdotes.
1604
01:40:40,720 -- 01:40:43,757
But it was an experience.
1605
01:40:43,880 -- 01:40:46,633
How do we keep the experience?
1606
01:40:52,240 -- 01:40:54,196
That's why I love paintings.
1607
01:40:54,320 -- 01:40:59,155
Czanne, the problems he brought up then
are the problems painters still deal with.
1608
01:40:59,280 -- 01:41:01,157
Colour. Structure.
1609
01:41:01,280 -- 01:41:03,157
Those are problems.
1610
01:41:03,280 -- 01:41:07,273
There is colour in my life,
but I'm not aware of any structure.
1611
01:41:07,400 -- 01:41:09,834
What are you saying, darling?
1612
01:41:11,840 -- 01:41:15,355
Czanne would leave
blank spaces in his canvases
1613
01:41:15,480 -- 01:41:18,756
if he couldn't account
for the brush stroke...
1614
01:41:18,880 -- 01:41:21,997
couldn't... give a reason for the colour.
1615
01:41:22,120 -- 01:41:26,272
Then I am a collage
of unaccounted-for brush strokes.
1616
01:41:26,400 -- 01:41:29,233
I... am all...
1617
01:41:29,360 -- 01:41:30,873
random.
1618
01:41:31,000 -- 01:41:33,560
- Excuse me.
- Ouisa!
1619
01:41:33,680 -- 01:41:35,955
- Do sit down!
- Excuse me, please.
1620
01:41:36,080 -- 01:41:37,638
Ouisa!
1621
01:41:43,320 -- 01:41:45,834
What kind of behaviour is this?
1622
01:41:45,960 -- 01:41:48,872
God, Flan, how much of your life
can you account for?
1623
01:41:49,000 -- 01:41:53,152
Are you drunk? What's wrong with you?
Don't you realise how important she is?
1624
01:41:53,280 -- 01:41:57,159
Why are you unhappy? The Czanne
sale went through, and the Matisse.
1625
01:41:57,280 -- 01:41:59,840
We're rich - enough.
Next month there's a Bonnard.
1626
01:41:59,960 -- 01:42:03,748
These are the times I could take a knife
and dig out your heart. How much of...
1627
01:42:03,880 -- 01:42:07,031
..my life can I account for?! All of it!
1628
01:42:09,640 -- 01:42:12,029
I am a gambler.
1629
01:42:12,160 -- 01:42:14,879
We're a terrible match.
1630
01:42:51,200 -- 01:42:53,634
i(Paul) The Kandinsky./i
1631
01:42:53,760 -- 01:42:56,991
The Kandinsky's painted on two sides.
1632
01:43:12,680 -- 01:43:18,516
i(workman) Batti! Batti!/i
iTanto siamo al fresco. Hit it!/i
1633
01:46:58,640 -- 01:47:02,394
1634
01:47:09,920 -- 01:47:11,876
ENHOH