1 00:00:35,735 --> 00:00:38,204 I telegraphed and phoned 2 00:00:38,338 --> 00:00:43,760 I sent air mail special, too 3 00:00:43,677 --> 00:00:44,678 Yeah, I know. 4 00:00:44,744 --> 00:00:51,551 Answer was goodbye There was even postage due 5 00:00:55,388 --> 00:00:58,858 I fell in love just once 6 00:00:59,559 --> 00:01:02,262 And then it had to be with you 7 00:01:03,290 --> 00:01:04,364 Triple rhyme. 8 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:12,539 Everything happens to me 9 00:01:17,577 --> 00:01:18,945 ****. 10 00:01:22,615 --> 00:01:23,783 Yeah. 11 00:01:23,883 --> 00:01:28,254 WQXR notes the passing of one of America's foremost songwriters, 12 00:01:28,388 --> 00:01:32,625 Lorenz Hart, who died last night at Doctors Hospital in Manhattan 13 00:01:32,726 --> 00:01:34,761 from complications of pneumonia. 14 00:01:34,828 --> 00:01:37,597 Mr. Hart was 48 years old. 15 00:01:37,664 --> 00:01:41,434 For over 20 years, Hart and his partner, Richard Rodgers, 16 00:01:41,501 --> 00:01:44,170 Rodgers wrote the music, Hart the words, 17 00:01:44,304 --> 00:01:49,442 combined their respective geniuses to create a string of musical-comedy hits. 18 00:01:49,509 --> 00:01:52,679 Often referred to as America's Gilbert and Sullivan, 19 00:01:52,779 --> 00:01:55,982 Rodgers and Hart will be remembered for such songs as, 20 00:01:56,820 --> 00:01:58,952 My Funny Valentine, The Lady Is A Tramp, 21 00:01:58,985 --> 00:02:03,289 Where or When, With A Song In My Heart, Isn't It Romantic?, 22 00:02:03,423 --> 00:02:05,792 My Heart Stood Still, Bewitched, 23 00:02:05,825 --> 00:02:08,862 I Didn't Know What Time It Was, Manhattan, 24 00:02:08,962 --> 00:02:10,296 and Blue Moon. 25 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:16,770 Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla 26 00:02:16,836 --> 00:02:19,139 Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla 27 00:02:19,272 --> 00:02:22,308 We know we belong to the land 28 00:02:22,375 --> 00:02:23,543 Here comes "grand." 29 00:02:23,643 --> 00:02:27,380 And the land we belong to is grand And when we say 30 00:02:27,947 --> 00:02:31,685 Yow! Ayipioeeay! 31 00:02:31,818 --> 00:02:35,188 We're only sayin' "You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!" 32 00:02:35,288 --> 00:02:37,223 I need a drink. 33 00:02:37,323 --> 00:02:39,492 - Lorry. - I'll see you later, Mom. 34 00:02:39,659 --> 00:02:41,161 L-A-H-O-M-A 35 00:02:41,294 --> 00:02:46,900 Oklahoma! 36 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,340 Yow! 37 00:03:31,244 --> 00:03:35,782 All right. For the last time, put the letters on the table. 38 00:03:35,882 --> 00:03:38,885 "If Laszlo and the cause mean that much to you, 39 00:03:38,952 --> 00:03:40,687 "you won't stop at anything." 40 00:03:41,554 --> 00:03:44,524 All right, I'll make it easy on you. 41 00:03:45,291 --> 00:03:48,561 "Go ahead, shoot. You'd be doing me a favor." 42 00:03:48,628 --> 00:03:51,264 Just remember, I got this gun pointed at your ****. 43 00:03:52,532 --> 00:03:53,800 That's my least vulnerable spot. 44 00:03:55,735 --> 00:03:58,104 Jesus Christ! How many times have we seen that picture? 45 00:03:58,271 --> 00:04:00,540 Worst line in Casablanca? 46 00:04:00,573 --> 00:04:03,710 "Well, a precedent is being broken." 47 00:04:04,444 --> 00:04:09,820 "A precedent is being broken"? How can you break a goddamn precedent? 48 00:04:09,149 --> 00:04:12,452 Do they even speak English over there in Hollywood? 49 00:04:13,530 --> 00:04:15,622 Still, you have to love Claude Rains. 50 00:04:15,722 --> 00:04:18,291 He makes that picture. 51 00:04:18,391 --> 00:04:20,160 - Sure. - You know why he's so great? 52 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:22,962 He's a leading man, and he's short, 53 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:25,565 which proves you can be both. 54 00:04:25,632 --> 00:04:26,833 And I love this. 55 00:04:26,933 --> 00:04:28,501 He says to llsa, 56 00:04:28,601 --> 00:04:33,573 "Mademoiselle, he's the kind of man that, if I were a woman 57 00:04:33,606 --> 00:04:36,576 "and I were not around, I should be in love with Rick." 58 00:04:37,610 --> 00:04:40,914 Think about it. Whom does he end up with at the end of the picture? 59 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:44,918 Who's strolling away together arm in arm into the fog? 60 00:04:44,984 --> 00:04:46,586 You're saying Rick and Captain Renault... 61 00:04:46,619 --> 00:04:47,921 What do you think goes on over there 62 00:04:47,987 --> 00:04:50,323 at the Free French garrison in Brazzaville? 63 00:04:50,457 --> 00:04:52,625 That is a scene they can't show you. 64 00:04:53,126 --> 00:04:55,662 Okay. Best line in Casablanca? 65 00:04:58,131 --> 00:05:00,333 - "Nobody ever loved me that much." - "Nobody ever loved me that much." 66 00:05:00,467 --> 00:05:02,135 Isn't that magnificent? 67 00:05:02,168 --> 00:05:05,338 Six words. "Nobody ever loved me that much." 68 00:05:06,139 --> 00:05:09,420 And, really, who's ever been loved enough? Who's ever been loved half enough? 69 00:05:09,142 --> 00:05:10,176 Would you get me a shot? 70 00:05:11,511 --> 00:05:12,545 Larry, you told me under no circumstances... 71 00:05:12,645 --> 00:05:13,680 I'm just going to look at it. 72 00:05:14,447 --> 00:05:17,283 Take the measure of its amber heft in my hand. 73 00:05:17,350 --> 00:05:19,819 - You told me not... - Just give me the drink. 74 00:05:25,325 --> 00:05:27,600 Did I tell you what Elizabeth told me? 75 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:28,962 That's the girl I'm meeting here tonight. 76 00:05:29,290 --> 00:05:30,864 - You mean the one you... - Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. 77 00:05:30,964 --> 00:05:34,200 - What? - Show some class, all right? 78 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:36,636 Her mother is going to come walking in here any second. 79 00:05:36,703 --> 00:05:38,338 - Sorry. - Seriously. 80 00:05:38,371 --> 00:05:42,976 l... I adore this girl. And, I'm telling you, this is beyond ***. 81 00:05:43,430 --> 00:05:45,211 - What's beyond ***? - I don't understand it. 82 00:05:45,311 --> 00:05:49,382 She's completely undeserving, but isn't that the way it always is? 83 00:05:49,516 --> 00:05:52,318 "Irrational adoration." That's the phrase she came up with. 84 00:05:52,385 --> 00:05:54,220 She's a poet, too. Did I tell you that? 85 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,856 And would you give me a shot of club soda? 86 00:05:56,890 --> 00:06:00,694 I'll drink one and admire the other. 87 00:06:01,227 --> 00:06:02,996 So, this girl... 88 00:06:04,831 --> 00:06:07,233 You really, you know, 89 00:06:08,168 --> 00:06:10,403 with a 20-year-old college girl, huh? 90 00:06:10,537 --> 00:06:13,406 It is more complicated than you could possibly imagine. 91 00:06:13,540 --> 00:06:14,941 Leave the bottle. 92 00:06:15,508 --> 00:06:17,410 It's a visual poem. 93 00:06:17,510 --> 00:06:19,450 You're not giving me any details here. 94 00:06:19,112 --> 00:06:21,381 You know what my secret goal is for the rest of this year? 95 00:06:21,514 --> 00:06:23,116 - What? - I'm serious. Really. 96 00:06:23,216 --> 00:06:26,386 My secret goal is to stop being so scared. 97 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,357 - Elizabeth Weiland. For... - Those are mine! 98 00:06:30,423 --> 00:06:33,893 Jesus! That is all you get for five dollars? 99 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,562 Plus delivery, yes. 100 00:06:37,364 --> 00:06:38,898 Lorenz Hart? 101 00:06:38,932 --> 00:06:42,350 You know, I kind of think I've heard that name before. 102 00:06:42,102 --> 00:06:45,905 You just earned yourself a dollar tip, kid. 103 00:06:45,939 --> 00:06:48,274 A precedent is being broken. 104 00:06:49,876 --> 00:06:54,214 Hey, she gave this to me. Mailed it all the way from New Haven 105 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:56,983 because I said I wanted something she'd actually touched. 106 00:06:57,117 --> 00:06:58,952 Christ! It's like I'm 17 again, 107 00:06:59,452 --> 00:07:00,587 except I never was 17. 108 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:03,623 I went directly from childhood to washed-up. 109 00:07:04,791 --> 00:07:08,940 - Eddie, get the kid a drink, would you? - No thanks. I'm... I'm working. 110 00:07:08,728 --> 00:07:10,797 Christ, that's when you should be drinking. 111 00:07:10,897 --> 00:07:12,999 What's your name? Sven, am I right? 112 00:07:13,990 --> 00:07:15,635 - Troy. - Even better. 113 00:07:15,735 --> 00:07:17,637 Listen, Sven, are you free tonight? 114 00:07:17,737 --> 00:07:19,506 Eddie, would you get the kid a goddamn shot? 115 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:20,807 - Yeah. - 'Cause I am throwing 116 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:23,309 an enormous party at my place. 117 00:07:23,410 --> 00:07:25,512 All of show business is going to be there. 118 00:07:25,612 --> 00:07:29,282 I've booked the Golden Gate Quartet. I'm serious. 119 00:07:29,349 --> 00:07:31,351 I want you to show up, bring a friend, 120 00:07:31,451 --> 00:07:32,652 bring a dozen friends. 121 00:07:32,752 --> 00:07:35,622 It's going to be like nothing you've ever seen before. 122 00:07:35,755 --> 00:07:39,592 I'm up at the Ardsley, you know? 91st, on the Park. 123 00:07:39,659 --> 00:07:43,830 Just tell the desk clerk that you're with Lorenz Hart's party. 124 00:07:43,930 --> 00:07:47,701 You're going to need to know the password. Are you ready for the password? 125 00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:53,873 "Nobody ever loved me that much." 126 00:07:54,974 --> 00:07:55,975 Slow! 127 00:07:57,277 --> 00:07:59,679 Now that is a beautiful sight. 128 00:08:02,282 --> 00:08:03,283 What, you don't drink? 129 00:08:03,850 --> 00:08:09,322 After one whole quart of brandy Like a daisy I awake 130 00:08:09,856 --> 00:08:11,240 You know that song? 131 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:12,792 No, no. 132 00:08:12,826 --> 00:08:18,531 My funny Valentine Sweet comic Valentine... 133 00:08:18,665 --> 00:08:20,700 I really don't listen to the radio that much. 134 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:21,868 You said you know my name! 135 00:08:21,968 --> 00:08:23,370 - You don't know one Rodgers and Hart song? - I know... 136 00:08:23,503 --> 00:08:25,138 - l just can't really remember... - I'll take Manhattan 137 00:08:25,205 --> 00:08:28,675 The Bronx and Staten... 138 00:08:28,742 --> 00:08:31,845 We were on the cover of Time Magazine! 139 00:08:31,911 --> 00:08:34,581 My picture is on the wall right... 140 00:08:35,682 --> 00:08:37,650 Eddie, where's my picture? 141 00:08:37,717 --> 00:08:38,718 They move 'em around. 142 00:08:38,818 --> 00:08:40,720 - What do you... - Well, how about this one? 143 00:08:43,323 --> 00:08:45,392 Blue moon 144 00:08:45,492 --> 00:08:46,593 I know that one! 145 00:08:46,693 --> 00:08:50,300 You saw me standing alone 146 00:08:51,197 --> 00:08:54,534 Without a dream in my heart 147 00:08:55,168 --> 00:08:57,904 Without a love of my own 148 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,407 Worst goddamn lyric I ever wrote! 149 00:09:00,540 --> 00:09:03,443 - You wrote that? - Wasn't even supposed to be the title. 150 00:09:03,943 --> 00:09:05,111 I like that song. 151 00:09:05,211 --> 00:09:07,470 I'll take my tip back. 152 00:09:09,916 --> 00:09:12,850 I want you at my party, Sven! 153 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:21,610 To the great and glorious past, when it all mattered so much. 154 00:09:23,596 --> 00:09:25,265 Keep playing. You're good. 155 00:09:25,799 --> 00:09:29,703 - Thank you. I'm an aspiring composer. - "Aspiring"? 156 00:09:29,769 --> 00:09:31,738 That means you're breathing, right? 157 00:09:32,405 --> 00:09:35,308 I better take your name down in case I need a new partner. 158 00:09:35,408 --> 00:09:37,477 Hey, did you go to the opening tonight? 159 00:09:38,780 --> 00:09:41,748 Oklahoma! With an exclamation point, no less. 160 00:09:41,781 --> 00:09:45,251 Fact. Any title that feels the need for an exclamation point, 161 00:09:45,385 --> 00:09:47,530 you want to steer clear of. 162 00:09:48,922 --> 00:09:50,423 What did you say your name was again? 163 00:09:50,457 --> 00:09:53,793 Morty Rifkin. But I go by the name of Morty Rafferty. 164 00:09:53,893 --> 00:09:56,329 No one could possibly guess you're Jewish. 165 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:05,305 Wha'dja think of Oklahoma? 166 00:10:06,639 --> 00:10:09,576 What did I think of Oklahoma? 167 00:10:11,110 --> 00:10:12,779 Well, Knuckles, 168 00:10:12,812 --> 00:10:15,982 Knuckles O'Rifkin, that's what I'm going to call you, 169 00:10:16,783 --> 00:10:19,619 I saw the show a couple of times in previews in New Haven, 170 00:10:19,652 --> 00:10:23,623 back when they were still calling it Away We Go! Exclamation point. 171 00:10:23,690 --> 00:10:26,659 And I felt sure **** was gonna call me, 172 00:10:27,494 --> 00:10:30,196 "Larry, we're in big trouble. 173 00:10:30,296 --> 00:10:33,867 "I need you to funny up the show. We need some big comedy numbers." 174 00:10:33,967 --> 00:10:35,301 And I was all ready to say, 175 00:10:35,368 --> 00:10:39,706 "****, instead of all this corn-pone Americana, 176 00:10:39,806 --> 00:10:42,876 "let's do a send-up of corn-pone Americana!" 177 00:10:42,976 --> 00:10:45,845 I was already writing lyrics in my head. I couldn't stop. 178 00:10:45,945 --> 00:10:47,470 And did he call you? 179 00:10:47,180 --> 00:10:49,816 Are you kidding? He was too busy writing more hits. 180 00:10:51,818 --> 00:10:57,824 I sat in my box seat tonight and watched "Oklahomo, exclamation point" 181 00:10:57,857 --> 00:11:00,600 down there, glittering in all its pink lights 182 00:11:00,193 --> 00:11:03,496 and all those cowboy hats and twirling lassos, 183 00:11:03,563 --> 00:11:07,901 and I knew two things with absolute certainty. 184 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:09,869 It was a 14-karat hit 185 00:11:09,903 --> 00:11:13,373 and it was a 14-karat piece of shit. 186 00:11:13,506 --> 00:11:15,742 Friend of mine saw it in previews, 187 00:11:15,875 --> 00:11:17,744 said it was one of the best shows he's ever seen. 188 00:11:18,211 --> 00:11:22,182 The show is fraudulent on every possible level. 189 00:11:22,215 --> 00:11:24,384 And this is not jealousy speaking, okay? 190 00:11:24,417 --> 00:11:30,924 I watched that show tonight and I felt this great sinking in my heart. 191 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:35,929 And all around me people are roaring. They are roaring at third-rate jokes. 192 00:11:36,620 --> 00:11:38,898 I wanted to grab the audience by the shoulders and say, 193 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,103 "What are you laughing at? Come on! Demand more!" And... 194 00:11:44,104 --> 00:11:46,390 Rodgers is a genius. 195 00:11:46,106 --> 00:11:48,708 I say that without one second's hesitation. 196 00:11:48,742 --> 00:11:50,410 You're a piano player. You know that I'm right. 197 00:11:50,443 --> 00:11:51,578 Yeah, he's pretty good. 198 00:11:52,212 --> 00:11:53,446 Pretty good? 199 00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:57,951 There is no one with his range, his inventiveness, 200 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:03,623 great soaring masculine melodies building like pile drivers. 201 00:12:03,723 --> 00:12:05,859 I mean, Rodgers is a cold-hearted son of a *****, 202 00:12:05,925 --> 00:12:07,627 but he can get a melody to levitate, 203 00:12:07,727 --> 00:12:12,399 and that is the hallmark of great art, levitation. 204 00:12:12,465 --> 00:12:17,704 I've got a beautiful feeling 205 00:12:17,771 --> 00:12:20,106 That's the moment. You hear that? 206 00:12:20,774 --> 00:12:22,142 When your spine glows 207 00:12:22,242 --> 00:12:26,546 and the whole apparatus of songwriting suddenly breaks free from gravity. 208 00:12:26,613 --> 00:12:30,483 There's maybe five people on the planet that can pull that off, 209 00:12:30,583 --> 00:12:32,952 and that son of a ***** is one of 'em. 210 00:12:33,820 --> 00:12:39,426 And then, words by Oscar Hammerstein II. 211 00:12:41,127 --> 00:12:42,896 What can I say about Oscar? 212 00:12:42,962 --> 00:12:45,298 He's going to come striding in here any second, 213 00:12:45,432 --> 00:12:46,633 all seven and a half feet of him, 214 00:12:46,733 --> 00:12:49,436 and, you know, **** deliberately went with somebody tall this time, 215 00:12:49,502 --> 00:12:50,503 you know that. 216 00:12:51,338 --> 00:12:52,906 But what can I say about Oscar? 217 00:12:52,972 --> 00:12:56,443 He's so earthbound, 218 00:12:56,509 --> 00:12:59,779 and let's face it, most of us are earthbound. 219 00:12:59,813 --> 00:13:02,315 But there are moments, I swear to God, 220 00:13:02,415 --> 00:13:04,417 there are moments in my work 221 00:13:04,484 --> 00:13:06,586 when I have made something bigger than myself. 222 00:13:06,653 --> 00:13:08,121 I agree, definitely. 223 00:13:08,188 --> 00:13:11,191 Thank you. The words were bigger than the music, 224 00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:12,959 bigger than the characters who sang them, 225 00:13:13,260 --> 00:13:16,529 and they approached, for maybe one-half second, something immortal. 226 00:13:17,530 --> 00:13:20,467 Excuse my limitless self-regard, but they did, 227 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:23,503 and if nobody else is going to say it, then I'm going to. 228 00:13:23,536 --> 00:13:26,840 I have written a handful of words that are going to cheat death. 229 00:13:26,973 --> 00:13:29,476 Spoken with the modesty of a true lunatic. 230 00:13:29,542 --> 00:13:31,678 Hey! When Shakespeare wrote, 231 00:13:31,778 --> 00:13:33,980 "Not marble nor gilded monuments 232 00:13:34,140 --> 00:13:36,783 "Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme," 233 00:13:36,850 --> 00:13:39,386 did people say, "My God, what an ego"? 234 00:13:39,486 --> 00:13:44,240 No, they said he is a genius, and he knows his work is going to last. 235 00:13:44,570 --> 00:13:45,225 So now you're Shakespeare? 236 00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:48,828 Look, Oklahoma! is going to win the goddamn Pulitzer. I know that. 237 00:13:48,862 --> 00:13:51,197 High schools are going to put it on from now till doomsday, 238 00:13:51,297 --> 00:13:54,670 because it is so inoffensive. 239 00:13:54,167 --> 00:13:57,303 But really, who wants inoffensive art? 240 00:13:57,370 --> 00:14:00,707 Knuckles, are you listening to me? I'm trying to answer your question. 241 00:14:00,740 --> 00:14:03,743 Is that why God put us on the planet, to not offend people? 242 00:14:03,877 --> 00:14:06,579 The problem with Oklahoma! is this, 243 00:14:06,713 --> 00:14:09,582 and the problem was right there in the original play, 244 00:14:09,683 --> 00:14:11,217 Green Grow the ****ing Lilacs. 245 00:14:11,384 --> 00:14:13,987 And **** first showed that play to me, all right? 246 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,423 He asked me to adapt it first, and I said no, 247 00:14:16,556 --> 00:14:18,258 and I don't mind that it's nostalgic, 248 00:14:18,391 --> 00:14:20,260 but Oklahomal!, exclamation point, 249 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,563 is nostalgic for a world that never existed, 250 00:14:23,663 --> 00:14:28,668 and do you really want to write a show where the main character's name is Curly? 251 00:14:29,602 --> 00:14:31,204 Here's an idea for a song. 252 00:14:31,271 --> 00:14:33,573 "Hey, Moe! Hey, Larry! I Just Stepped in Cow Shit!" 253 00:14:37,277 --> 00:14:39,179 I mean, am I bitter? 254 00:14:40,914 --> 00:14:43,450 We write together for a quarter a century, 255 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:47,530 and the first show he writes with someone else 256 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,190 is gonna be the biggest hit he ever had. Am I bitter? 257 00:14:50,223 --> 00:14:51,891 - Larry... - **** yes. 258 00:14:51,958 --> 00:14:55,595 But I need to tell you about Elizabeth. 259 00:14:55,729 --> 00:14:57,300 I need to cleanse my heart. 260 00:14:57,630 --> 00:14:58,965 Here we go. The 20-year-old... 261 00:14:59,650 --> 00:15:00,600 She's going to come in here any second. 262 00:15:01,634 --> 00:15:03,470 Rodgers is gonna be here tonight, right? 263 00:15:03,570 --> 00:15:06,639 - Don't worry, I'll introduce you. - That'd be great. 264 00:15:06,773 --> 00:15:08,375 I'm trying to get somebody to listen to my songs. 265 00:15:08,441 --> 00:15:10,744 Well, listen and learn. 266 00:15:10,777 --> 00:15:13,980 I'm telling you about Elizabeth. 267 00:15:15,810 --> 00:15:17,150 There's something appealingly... 268 00:15:18,151 --> 00:15:20,320 ethereal about her face. 269 00:15:20,453 --> 00:15:21,621 What the **** does that mean? 270 00:15:21,755 --> 00:15:24,324 Look, I got her all these presents. 271 00:15:24,424 --> 00:15:26,593 You bought her something from Klein's? 272 00:15:27,293 --> 00:15:28,428 She's gonna love this. 273 00:15:28,461 --> 00:15:30,263 Yeah, but that's used shit. What are you doing? 274 00:15:30,296 --> 00:15:33,266 This is an authentic first-edition. You don't understand the magic 275 00:15:33,299 --> 00:15:34,501 and the mystery of this girl. 276 00:15:34,601 --> 00:15:37,837 "I have been waiting for this my whole life." 277 00:15:38,338 --> 00:15:40,974 It's what Somerset Maugham says in that thing, you remember? 278 00:15:42,842 --> 00:15:43,843 - Me? - Yeah. 279 00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:47,781 "There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved." 280 00:15:48,815 --> 00:15:49,983 That's the truth, isn't it? 281 00:15:50,116 --> 00:15:51,284 Of course, you know you're in trouble 282 00:15:51,351 --> 00:15:52,786 when you're looking for the meaning of life 283 00:15:52,819 --> 00:15:55,355 in a book with the word "bondage" in the title. 284 00:15:56,656 --> 00:15:57,857 Larry... 285 00:16:00,860 --> 00:16:02,195 She's a girl. Right? 286 00:16:02,696 --> 00:16:06,990 Okay. See, I always thought that your interests went more towards... 287 00:16:06,666 --> 00:16:07,801 My interests? 288 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,937 So now you're going to analyze me? 289 00:16:11,504 --> 00:16:13,340 Thank you, Doctor Bacardi. 290 00:16:14,174 --> 00:16:16,643 Look, I met her at rehearsals for By Jupiter. 291 00:16:16,710 --> 00:16:17,877 And she's not an actress. 292 00:16:17,977 --> 00:16:20,680 She's a college student. Sophomore. 293 00:16:20,780 --> 00:16:23,683 Yale. Not the general school, that's for the guys. 294 00:16:23,817 --> 00:16:26,986 This is the School of Fine Arts! 295 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,523 Bohemian goddesses in gray smocks 296 00:16:30,623 --> 00:16:33,159 mixing paint in morning light. 297 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,290 She's all of 20 years old. 298 00:16:36,563 --> 00:16:37,664 And you're what? 299 00:16:37,731 --> 00:16:39,399 A youthful 47! 300 00:16:41,501 --> 00:16:43,169 You know what I call her in my letters? 301 00:16:43,236 --> 00:16:46,506 "My irreplaceable Elizabeth!" Can you believe it? 302 00:16:46,539 --> 00:16:49,142 If I could write what's in my heart this second, 303 00:16:49,209 --> 00:16:52,780 I would have the entire audience levitating. 304 00:16:52,178 --> 00:16:54,214 Oklahoma! would close in shame 305 00:16:54,214 --> 00:16:56,916 if it could hear eight bars of what's in my heart. 306 00:16:57,170 --> 00:16:59,219 And I've been in eight bars tonight, so I know what I'm talking about. 307 00:16:59,352 --> 00:17:00,587 Go! 308 00:17:01,221 --> 00:17:04,424 Last summer, I found myself awake at 4:30 in the morning. 309 00:17:04,524 --> 00:17:06,393 And all I had done the previous five hours... 310 00:17:06,426 --> 00:17:09,529 What the hell are you lookin' at your watch for? 311 00:17:09,662 --> 00:17:12,665 - Larry, I'm working here. - What the hell do you think I'm doing? 312 00:17:12,732 --> 00:17:14,701 And I'm not even getting paid. All right. 313 00:17:18,338 --> 00:17:19,339 More flowers... 314 00:17:19,406 --> 00:17:20,940 Eddie, get Sven another drink! 315 00:17:21,740 --> 00:17:22,509 ...for Richard Rodgers. 316 00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:24,577 Jesus, how much did those cost? 317 00:17:24,711 --> 00:17:27,213 Sixteen dollars. Plus delivery. 318 00:17:28,782 --> 00:17:32,180 "****, I've got a beautiful feeling, everything's going your way. 319 00:17:32,850 --> 00:17:33,286 "Love, Dorothy." 320 00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:35,210 She's quoting Oscar? 321 00:17:42,620 --> 00:17:46,660 I write with her husband for 24 years, 322 00:17:46,990 --> 00:17:48,101 and she's quoting Oscar? 323 00:17:48,234 --> 00:17:51,805 91st on the Park, The Ardsley. We'll be going late. 324 00:17:51,905 --> 00:17:53,807 All right. Well, thanks again, fellas. 325 00:17:57,944 --> 00:17:58,945 Good evening. 326 00:18:11,224 --> 00:18:14,160 Indulge me for one second. 327 00:18:14,294 --> 00:18:16,663 Let me recreate for you, Elizabeth. 328 00:18:16,796 --> 00:18:19,990 Enough! Did you screw her or not? 329 00:18:19,499 --> 00:18:22,736 Show some class, Eddie. Knuckles, may I speak with you? 330 00:18:22,802 --> 00:18:24,104 Sure, yeah. 331 00:18:24,771 --> 00:18:26,172 So, did you screw her or not? 332 00:18:31,845 --> 00:18:33,279 Elizabeth! 333 00:18:34,314 --> 00:18:35,315 Larry! 334 00:18:35,415 --> 00:18:37,784 My irreplaceable Elizabeth! 335 00:18:37,951 --> 00:18:39,152 I'm so happy to see you. 336 00:18:40,487 --> 00:18:42,956 - Do you like the hair? - I love it. 337 00:18:43,230 --> 00:18:45,291 - It's much better than the red. - I think so. 338 00:18:45,358 --> 00:18:49,129 I mean, I liked the red, too. But this is much more other-worldly. 339 00:18:49,195 --> 00:18:50,430 I have to go set up for the party. 340 00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:52,632 No, no, no. I got you some flowers! 341 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:56,703 - I'm overwhelmed. - Well, I have that effect on people. 342 00:18:56,836 --> 00:18:59,205 - l have so much to tell you. - Like what? 343 00:18:59,305 --> 00:19:01,941 - I've been writing in my journal again. - I hope you let me read it. 344 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:03,810 No, no, no, no. The big one. 345 00:19:07,380 --> 00:19:08,848 And these are what Richard Rodgers is getting? 346 00:19:10,183 --> 00:19:13,186 Larry, my mother would die if she saw this. 347 00:19:13,319 --> 00:19:15,522 - With your permission. - Permission granted. 348 00:19:17,791 --> 00:19:20,360 - That guy I told you about? - Cooper? 349 00:19:21,494 --> 00:19:23,630 - It finally happened. - No! 350 00:19:23,229 --> 00:19:24,497 Yes. 351 00:19:25,298 --> 00:19:29,202 On my birthday. The night of my 20th birthday. 352 00:19:29,302 --> 00:19:31,504 Pretty dramatic actually. You could write a play about it. 353 00:19:31,538 --> 00:19:33,540 A musical. He Has Risen. 354 00:19:34,174 --> 00:19:36,209 - Larry... - It's an Easter musical! 355 00:19:36,309 --> 00:19:37,711 It's very religious! 356 00:19:39,145 --> 00:19:41,470 Let me clarify by saying it almost happened. 357 00:19:41,147 --> 00:19:42,349 Clarify immediately! 358 00:19:42,382 --> 00:19:44,584 - I'm gonna tell you the whole story later. - No, no, I demand 359 00:19:44,684 --> 00:19:46,853 to know the shorthand version now. 360 00:19:47,587 --> 00:19:49,389 The shorthand version? Okay. 361 00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:53,893 The skin on his back was flawless. 362 00:19:54,494 --> 00:19:55,495 Gotta run. 363 00:19:56,663 --> 00:19:59,399 You're going to introduce me to Richard Rodgers, right? 364 00:19:59,499 --> 00:20:00,500 Before the evening is over, 365 00:20:00,567 --> 00:20:02,736 you're going to get a huge handful of ****. 366 00:20:02,869 --> 00:20:04,704 Larry! You're so vulgar! 367 00:20:06,272 --> 00:20:09,109 Handful of ****, that's funny. Hey... 368 00:20:12,780 --> 00:20:14,614 I'm writing an entire musical about her. 369 00:20:14,748 --> 00:20:18,551 It's inspired by those Frank Capra war pictures Why We Fight. 370 00:20:18,585 --> 00:20:19,886 This one will be called 371 00:20:20,453 --> 00:20:22,722 Why We ****. 372 00:20:22,789 --> 00:20:25,425 And the big ballad at the end will be 373 00:20:25,558 --> 00:20:28,261 The Skin On His Back Was Flawless. 374 00:20:30,463 --> 00:20:32,265 Of course, when you're 20, 375 00:20:32,298 --> 00:20:35,602 what other commodity do you have to trade in on except your body? 376 00:20:35,702 --> 00:20:37,937 You haven't done anything, right? 377 00:20:39,105 --> 00:20:42,409 Can you imagine what Elizabeth would write if she saw my back? 378 00:20:43,710 --> 00:20:45,645 "The skin on his back 379 00:20:45,745 --> 00:20:49,820 "looked like a white bed sheet someone had thrown-up on. 380 00:20:49,149 --> 00:20:53,219 "His pecker looked like the horn of a retarded unicorn." 381 00:20:56,756 --> 00:20:57,924 Just one... 382 00:20:59,590 --> 00:21:01,161 to get me through congratulating him. 383 00:21:01,294 --> 00:21:02,462 Larry. 384 00:21:03,763 --> 00:21:08,835 To the skin on her back like every other part of her, 385 00:21:08,935 --> 00:21:10,503 flawless. 386 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:14,774 Wow. 387 00:21:14,841 --> 00:21:20,313 How can so much pleasure be compressed into so small a container? 388 00:21:20,413 --> 00:21:23,616 That's it. Absolutely no more. Agreed? 389 00:21:29,489 --> 00:21:31,358 God! I miss Gershwin. 390 00:21:35,428 --> 00:21:40,330 I bet I saw Porgy and Bess more times than any other person in this city. 391 00:21:40,166 --> 00:21:42,102 Best line in Porgy, 392 00:21:42,168 --> 00:21:46,106 "When Gawd made cripple, He mean him to be lonely." 393 00:21:48,842 --> 00:21:51,440 Did you ever think your entire life is a play 394 00:21:51,978 --> 00:21:54,314 and that, you know, 99% of the people in it, 395 00:21:54,381 --> 00:21:55,815 they got no lines, you know? 396 00:21:55,882 --> 00:21:58,485 They're just like extras. 397 00:21:58,551 --> 00:22:03,156 And you, you're just an extra in their play. 398 00:22:03,656 --> 00:22:05,692 Deep. Very deep. 399 00:22:05,725 --> 00:22:07,694 - I got thoughts, too, you know. - Really? 400 00:22:07,694 --> 00:22:08,995 I thought you were just an extra. 401 00:22:09,620 --> 00:22:11,531 Will somebody get these ****ing flowers off my bar? 402 00:22:12,650 --> 00:22:13,660 Okay! 403 00:22:16,670 --> 00:22:18,505 You've got to see her as I did. 404 00:22:19,406 --> 00:22:22,420 - l just seen her. - No, the first time. 405 00:22:22,175 --> 00:22:23,843 If you can't see that, 406 00:22:23,910 --> 00:22:26,980 you can't understand what this whole night is about. 407 00:22:27,470 --> 00:22:28,581 I'm beginning to think you didn't screw her. 408 00:22:28,715 --> 00:22:32,419 I want to practice this trick on you before I do it for her. 409 00:22:32,552 --> 00:22:34,870 And I'm not showing it to her as a trick. 410 00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:38,391 I'm showing it to her as an experiment to prove 411 00:22:38,425 --> 00:22:40,894 there's an extra-sensory link between us. 412 00:22:40,894 --> 00:22:42,562 She believes in all that horseshit, you know, 413 00:22:42,662 --> 00:22:44,764 talking for 20 minutes about psychokinesis. 414 00:22:44,864 --> 00:22:46,566 I don't understand a ****ing word she's saying. 415 00:22:46,666 --> 00:22:48,735 I'm sitting there, nodding, thinking, 416 00:22:48,868 --> 00:22:51,438 "Is she really wearing a grape-colored brassiere?" 417 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,780 They live in a much more interesting emotional landscape than we do. 418 00:22:58,178 --> 00:23:00,847 A landscape we can only dream about. 419 00:23:00,914 --> 00:23:03,850 But this evening is not about landscapes. 420 00:23:03,917 --> 00:23:07,200 It's a portrait of Elizabeth, and only Elizabeth. 421 00:23:07,530 --> 00:23:08,880 Here we ****ing go again. 422 00:23:08,221 --> 00:23:09,889 Wait, you saw that she was beautiful, right? 423 00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:13,927 I mean, if not classically beautiful, then, what's the right word... 424 00:23:16,896 --> 00:23:17,931 Nice ****. 425 00:23:18,898 --> 00:23:22,369 Small but very inviting. 426 00:23:23,536 --> 00:23:25,105 I wish I could paint her. 427 00:23:25,205 --> 00:23:29,376 That seems to me the most intimate way of looking at a person. 428 00:23:29,409 --> 00:23:30,910 At the same time, the least sentimental. 429 00:23:30,977 --> 00:23:33,780 To accurately reproduce the planes of her face, 430 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,983 the two tiny freckles on her left cheek. 431 00:23:38,785 --> 00:23:41,755 You look familiar. I've seen your picture somewhere. 432 00:23:43,256 --> 00:23:44,257 You're a writer? 433 00:23:46,426 --> 00:23:49,262 Well, then you will appreciate this story. 434 00:23:49,262 --> 00:23:51,131 Because it concerns the... 435 00:23:54,567 --> 00:23:55,568 Ineffable? 436 00:23:56,603 --> 00:23:58,471 That's the perfect word. 437 00:23:58,571 --> 00:24:01,574 Christ! You're E.B. White! You're "Andy" White! 438 00:24:03,476 --> 00:24:07,414 I cannot tell you how much I enjoy your essays. 439 00:24:07,447 --> 00:24:09,783 Nothing has given me more pleasure. 440 00:24:09,916 --> 00:24:12,252 - I'm in love with your language. - Thank you. 441 00:24:12,318 --> 00:24:13,586 I'm in love with your punctuation. 442 00:24:13,653 --> 00:24:15,255 You can't move a single comma. Am I right? 443 00:24:15,288 --> 00:24:17,624 I mean, you're a musician, White. 444 00:24:17,691 --> 00:24:18,825 You're the musician. 445 00:24:18,925 --> 00:24:23,430 You know, you, above all people, will appreciate this story. 446 00:24:23,463 --> 00:24:25,799 This girl, Elizabeth. 447 00:24:25,865 --> 00:24:28,601 l... I can't do my act for her. You know what I mean? 448 00:24:28,668 --> 00:24:31,638 She wouldn't be interested. She never asks me about me. 449 00:24:31,705 --> 00:24:34,641 Never. And it isn't so much indifference, I think, 450 00:24:34,774 --> 00:24:36,309 as much as we both recognize 451 00:24:36,376 --> 00:24:38,478 that she's legitimately more interesting than I am. 452 00:24:38,545 --> 00:24:40,280 And I genuinely mean that. 453 00:24:40,347 --> 00:24:42,182 Did you guys see her hair? 454 00:24:42,282 --> 00:24:45,952 That's what I first noticed when she walked into the theater last July. 455 00:24:45,985 --> 00:24:49,550 It was as if she were breathing different air than I was. 456 00:24:49,989 --> 00:24:52,225 - I like that. - I'm telling you, White, 457 00:24:52,325 --> 00:24:54,661 she would make a great musical! 458 00:24:54,694 --> 00:24:58,310 And not one goddamn corn stalk in the whole show! 459 00:24:58,131 --> 00:25:00,867 And, hey, fellas, just for the record, 460 00:25:00,967 --> 00:25:04,170 "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye" 461 00:25:04,304 --> 00:25:08,508 is the stupidest lyric in the history of American songwriting. 462 00:25:08,641 --> 00:25:11,144 Yes, it makes perfect sense, and, yes, it scans, 463 00:25:11,177 --> 00:25:15,181 but the image of an Oklahoma cornfield 464 00:25:15,215 --> 00:25:18,180 with a ****ing elephant standing in the middle of it? 465 00:25:18,151 --> 00:25:20,553 - I like elephants. - Yeah, we all like elephants, Eddie. 466 00:25:20,653 --> 00:25:22,489 Look, Andy, I need you to see this. 467 00:25:22,555 --> 00:25:24,190 I'm listening to her talk, 468 00:25:24,257 --> 00:25:26,259 but I couldn't tell you a single word she said 469 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,328 'cause all I'm really thinking is, 470 00:25:28,395 --> 00:25:30,997 "Wait till you feel the warmth of her glance, 471 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,867 "pensive and sweet and wise." 472 00:25:33,933 --> 00:25:38,171 I was writing about her when I wrote that lyric. 473 00:25:38,238 --> 00:25:42,420 Three perfect words, in the perfect order. 474 00:25:42,709 --> 00:25:46,880 And, you tell me, what other lyricist could've gotten away with "pensive"? 475 00:25:47,130 --> 00:25:48,140 What song was that? 476 00:25:48,615 --> 00:25:50,750 Just telling you, when I'm good, I'm really good. 477 00:25:50,850 --> 00:25:53,286 Just the sound of it! That's what a writer does. 478 00:25:53,420 --> 00:25:58,358 We wear our vulnerability like a cloak for all the world to witness. 479 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:00,560 I like the word "cloak." 480 00:26:00,694 --> 00:26:02,529 That's 'cause it's an antique like us. 481 00:26:03,263 --> 00:26:04,597 Can I get you another drink? 482 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,234 Sure. Why not? 483 00:26:08,301 --> 00:26:10,537 I can think of a thousand reasons why not, 484 00:26:10,603 --> 00:26:12,772 but they can't compete with the reasons why. 485 00:26:12,872 --> 00:26:15,542 Eddie, pass the Lord and praise the house physician! 486 00:26:15,575 --> 00:26:17,911 Another round! Just a little, just... 487 00:26:19,913 --> 00:26:23,583 You know what I loved in that essay you wrote about Florida? 488 00:26:23,717 --> 00:26:24,718 That line. 489 00:26:25,418 --> 00:26:31,825 "The sea answers all questions and always the same way... 'So soon?" 490 00:26:33,590 --> 00:26:34,461 Jesus. 491 00:26:34,561 --> 00:26:38,331 To take a sound and transform it into what? 492 00:26:39,499 --> 00:26:41,601 A sigh of eternity. 493 00:26:42,802 --> 00:26:44,270 My diminutive gift. 494 00:26:45,405 --> 00:26:50,910 To the poetry that pours down on us from a thousand unexpected sources. 495 00:26:50,944 --> 00:26:52,312 To your poetry. 496 00:26:58,418 --> 00:27:01,287 Look, she's 20, I'm 47. 497 00:27:01,421 --> 00:27:04,257 Let's discuss this like two sensible alcoholics. 498 00:27:04,324 --> 00:27:08,128 It was in the beginning, everything was exactly as it seemed. 499 00:27:08,261 --> 00:27:10,997 I was her mentor, and I suppose I was, you know, 500 00:27:11,970 --> 00:27:13,433 the "grand old man" of the theater in her eyes. 501 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,169 I'm over at the Shubert rehearsing By Jupiter, 502 00:27:16,302 --> 00:27:18,304 the show is a holy mess. 503 00:27:18,371 --> 00:27:20,607 And I'm having this debate with Johnny Green 504 00:27:20,674 --> 00:27:22,375 about the lyrics to Give My Regards to Broadway. 505 00:27:22,509 --> 00:27:26,813 I remember, as a kid, falling in love with that song. 506 00:27:26,846 --> 00:27:29,816 Give my regards to old Broadway 507 00:27:29,849 --> 00:27:32,519 And say that I'll be there 'ere long 508 00:27:32,619 --> 00:27:35,488 I knew instantly, even as a kid, 509 00:27:35,622 --> 00:27:39,359 that what gave that line its speed, its inevitability, was the inner rhyme. 510 00:27:39,459 --> 00:27:42,128 And not just the "there, 'ere." But the other one. The "way, say." 511 00:27:42,195 --> 00:27:43,863 The line should logically be, 512 00:27:43,963 --> 00:27:46,700 "Give my regards to old Broadway and tell them that I'll be there." 513 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,369 But to change the verb to "say," 514 00:27:50,737 --> 00:27:51,971 it made all the difference. 515 00:27:52,639 --> 00:27:54,341 Knuckles, do you know any Cohan? 516 00:27:56,420 --> 00:28:00,130 Over there! Over there! 517 00:28:00,146 --> 00:28:03,983 Send the word, send the word Over there 518 00:28:04,170 --> 00:28:08,521 That the Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming! 519 00:28:08,655 --> 00:28:12,525 The drum drum-drumming everywhere... 520 00:28:12,659 --> 00:28:16,563 We'll be over We're coming over! 521 00:28:16,696 --> 00:28:21,401 And we won't come back till it's over, over there! 522 00:28:21,534 --> 00:28:23,703 You know what the Yanks really sang in the Great War? 523 00:28:23,703 --> 00:28:26,940 "We won't come back. We'll be buried over there!" 524 00:28:28,742 --> 00:28:30,100 And they were. 525 00:28:30,677 --> 00:28:34,614 Total number of deaths in the Great War, 37 million. 526 00:28:36,216 --> 00:28:40,420 I think maybe the adjective "great" should never precede the word "war." 527 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:41,721 Amen to that. 528 00:28:42,422 --> 00:28:45,458 What does God think when he looks down on his creation 529 00:28:45,558 --> 00:28:47,694 and sees that under the noblest of motives, 530 00:28:47,727 --> 00:28:50,563 we sent 37 million people to their grave? 531 00:28:50,697 --> 00:28:53,366 That's why it's raining all the time. God is weeping. 532 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,136 Well, I'm a patriot. I am. 533 00:28:56,236 --> 00:28:58,271 I mean, you're a soldier. God bless you. 534 00:28:58,371 --> 00:29:00,807 But how many are going to die this time around? 535 00:29:00,907 --> 00:29:02,742 Will we even be able to put a number on it? 536 00:29:03,576 --> 00:29:06,212 I'm on leave. Taking care of my mother. 537 00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:07,914 She's more terrified than I am. 538 00:29:07,981 --> 00:29:09,215 When do you ship out? 539 00:29:09,282 --> 00:29:12,552 In two weeks, they're sending me back to that hotbed of enemy activity. 540 00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:14,654 Bradley Beach, New Jersey. 541 00:29:14,754 --> 00:29:16,589 I'm teaching Morse code at the Hotel Grossman. 542 00:29:16,656 --> 00:29:20,894 Bradley Beach, where enemy agents stroll the boardwalk 543 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,230 disguised as elderly Jewish women in furs. 544 00:29:24,264 --> 00:29:27,167 I used to play hide the sausage with a girl from Bradley Beach. 545 00:29:27,267 --> 00:29:28,268 Yeah? 546 00:29:28,902 --> 00:29:31,404 Did you read that piece in Life about Guadalcanal? 547 00:29:32,439 --> 00:29:33,573 How before the battle, 548 00:29:33,606 --> 00:29:35,608 the soldiers were skipping silver dollars in the water 549 00:29:35,775 --> 00:29:36,943 instead of stones 550 00:29:37,444 --> 00:29:39,746 'cause they knew they were never coming back. 551 00:29:42,849 --> 00:29:45,185 I couldn't enlist. My eyes. 552 00:29:45,285 --> 00:29:47,253 What's the matter? They open? 553 00:29:48,855 --> 00:29:52,250 Speaking of people who are not coming back, 554 00:29:52,125 --> 00:29:53,626 I would like you to read this. 555 00:29:54,294 --> 00:29:55,829 It's from the By Jupiter playbill. 556 00:30:02,502 --> 00:30:03,503 Out loud! 557 00:30:09,676 --> 00:30:11,111 "Rodgers and Hart, 558 00:30:11,144 --> 00:30:13,460 "they're as different as a dachshund and a dromedary. 559 00:30:13,780 --> 00:30:17,350 "One likes opera and home life, the other goes for night clubs and people. 560 00:30:17,951 --> 00:30:19,519 "One is married and has two children, 561 00:30:19,652 --> 00:30:21,654 "the other is single and supports bartenders." 562 00:30:21,788 --> 00:30:23,156 You're welcome, Eddie. 563 00:30:24,657 --> 00:30:27,600 "The little fella, that's Larry, smokes cigars, 564 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,729 "big, black, small, brown, any kind. 565 00:30:29,829 --> 00:30:32,465 "While ****, that's Rodgers, only uses cigarettes. 566 00:30:32,999 --> 00:30:36,870 "One goes to bed about 4:30 every morning, the other never dissipates." 567 00:30:36,970 --> 00:30:38,171 Perfect verb, right? 568 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:42,409 "Despite their physical and temperamental differences, however, 569 00:30:42,509 --> 00:30:45,178 "their intellects complement each other like ham and eggs. 570 00:30:45,979 --> 00:30:48,815 "Their individual songs number well over a thousand." 571 00:30:48,848 --> 00:30:49,849 A thousand songs? 572 00:30:50,817 --> 00:30:52,686 "They disagree violently, but they never fight, 573 00:30:52,819 --> 00:30:55,822 "and in the 20-odd years they've been practicing their craft, 574 00:30:55,855 --> 00:30:57,991 "they have never worked with anyone but each other..." 575 00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,250 Until now. 576 00:31:00,260 --> 00:31:01,494 Impressive. 577 00:31:01,995 --> 00:31:03,329 I wrote it myself. 578 00:31:03,396 --> 00:31:07,534 And not one single mention of Blue ****ing Moon. 579 00:31:08,535 --> 00:31:12,672 I sent Elizabeth some of my sheet music. No response. I don't get it. 580 00:31:12,706 --> 00:31:13,740 She's a *****. 581 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,376 That's what they're gonna put on my tombstone. 582 00:31:16,509 --> 00:31:19,713 - "She's a *****"? - "Lorenz Milton Hart. 583 00:31:20,413 --> 00:31:21,414 "He didn't get it." 584 00:31:21,514 --> 00:31:23,383 And people will come to my gravesite and say, "You know what? 585 00:31:23,383 --> 00:31:25,719 - "l didn't get it either." - I definitely didn't get it. 586 00:31:25,785 --> 00:31:29,550 - Hey, Larr, I get it! - So, listen. 587 00:31:29,189 --> 00:31:33,590 Elizabeth and I had a weekend. We actually did. 588 00:31:33,930 --> 00:31:37,397 One passionate, transcendent weekend, end of last summer 589 00:31:37,464 --> 00:31:39,650 before she went back to Yale. 590 00:31:39,566 --> 00:31:45,538 It's the closest I've ever felt in my life to pure selflessness. 591 00:31:45,572 --> 00:31:47,874 It was nuanced, it was deep. 592 00:31:47,941 --> 00:31:49,709 How deep exactly? 593 00:31:49,743 --> 00:31:52,212 Listen, clown. I met her, 594 00:31:52,278 --> 00:31:55,615 and the first thing I said to her was, "Excuse me, 595 00:31:56,216 --> 00:31:59,452 "but you have the best style of anyone in this theater." 596 00:32:00,820 --> 00:32:02,789 I wish I had a photograph of that moment. 597 00:32:02,889 --> 00:32:06,393 I wish I had a photograph of every moment I've spent with her. 598 00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:11,765 I'm having trouble getting this right. I'm trying to pin down... 599 00:32:12,766 --> 00:32:15,680 Andy, help me. What's the right word? 600 00:32:15,735 --> 00:32:16,736 Enchantment? 601 00:32:18,104 --> 00:32:19,739 And you know how hard that is. 602 00:32:20,740 --> 00:32:24,177 I couldn't believe that it was me she wanted to talk to. 603 00:32:24,277 --> 00:32:25,945 I kept looking around the theater, 604 00:32:26,790 --> 00:32:28,281 there must be somebody else she's interested in. 605 00:32:28,415 --> 00:32:31,751 But no! She's plunking herself down in the theater seat right next to me, 606 00:32:31,785 --> 00:32:34,988 as close as modesty will allow. 607 00:32:35,121 --> 00:32:38,124 And my heart is actually racing. 608 00:32:38,258 --> 00:32:41,528 And I don't ever feel this way, not for men or for women. 609 00:32:41,628 --> 00:32:46,433 But she's wearing this yellow sundress, 610 00:32:46,466 --> 00:32:49,169 and it is hot in the theater. 611 00:32:49,302 --> 00:32:51,271 And she's talking to me for hours. 612 00:32:51,304 --> 00:32:54,374 Bare leg draped over the armrest. 613 00:32:54,474 --> 00:32:56,976 And I know this sounds like I'm some middle-aged putz 614 00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:58,478 with a crush on a pretty co-ed, 615 00:32:58,545 --> 00:33:00,447 and maybe that's what it is. 616 00:33:00,513 --> 00:33:01,681 But you know something? 617 00:33:02,282 --> 00:33:05,852 Maybe that's not what it is. 618 00:33:06,853 --> 00:33:09,823 Sometimes I feel... and don't laugh, 619 00:33:10,523 --> 00:33:15,280 after a lifetime of blindly colliding into strangers, 620 00:33:15,795 --> 00:33:17,364 we've finally found a friend. 621 00:33:18,798 --> 00:33:21,000 Maybe that's the definition of enchantment. 622 00:33:21,835 --> 00:33:25,171 One light-filled weekend! 623 00:33:25,305 --> 00:33:28,174 I've got to finish telling you this before she comes back. 624 00:33:28,208 --> 00:33:29,642 Are you listening to me? 625 00:33:29,709 --> 00:33:31,411 Yeah, she got her legs draped over the thing. 626 00:33:31,511 --> 00:33:34,180 It was as if all the love lyrics I had ever written 627 00:33:34,214 --> 00:33:38,385 had, like, some sort of verbal ectoplasm, suddenly taken human form. 628 00:33:38,485 --> 00:33:40,553 - Ecto what? - That might be her mother. 629 00:33:40,653 --> 00:33:42,880 She cannot hear this. 630 00:33:43,189 --> 00:33:44,324 What about me? 631 00:33:44,391 --> 00:33:45,992 You're just an extra. 632 00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:48,528 - Okay, but I still get paid, right? - Absolutely. 633 00:33:50,330 --> 00:33:52,866 It's important to me that I nail this down. 634 00:33:53,733 --> 00:33:56,360 It was a boiling hot summer weekend, 635 00:33:56,102 --> 00:33:59,673 and I asked, with all the casualness I could counterfeit, 636 00:33:59,706 --> 00:34:03,343 if she'd like to, you know, escape the heat of the city, 637 00:34:03,410 --> 00:34:06,120 spend the weekend with me on Lake Dunmore in Vermont. 638 00:34:06,790 --> 00:34:09,749 And without a moment's hesitation she said, 639 00:34:09,849 --> 00:34:11,184 "I'd love to, Larry." 640 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,288 I'm telling you, Andy, this is my type of girl. 641 00:34:15,388 --> 00:34:17,624 I'm sorry, excuse me, I'm babbling, 642 00:34:17,724 --> 00:34:23,630 but how else do you describe the actual present tense 643 00:34:23,196 --> 00:34:24,698 of falling in love? 644 00:34:25,932 --> 00:34:27,133 Is that what this is? 645 00:34:28,268 --> 00:34:31,738 Maybe. I mean, I haven't done anything wrong, okay? 646 00:34:31,871 --> 00:34:35,742 I haven't violated the Mann Act or even the Middle-Aged Man Act. 647 00:34:35,775 --> 00:34:37,711 I bought her this painting of Lake Dunmore, 648 00:34:37,744 --> 00:34:39,579 bought it off this old salt Vermonter. 649 00:34:39,646 --> 00:34:42,582 I bought it so that she might remember. 650 00:34:42,615 --> 00:34:44,584 I once did a little canoeing up around there. 651 00:34:45,285 --> 00:34:46,419 Hey, Larry! 652 00:34:50,890 --> 00:34:51,891 And then? 653 00:34:52,759 --> 00:34:55,628 Act Three. Later that day, 654 00:34:56,329 --> 00:34:58,980 she's in the warmth of the cabin. 655 00:34:58,131 --> 00:35:01,434 There's a pennant from Fort Ticonderoga pinned to the wall. 656 00:35:01,501 --> 00:35:06,106 She's wearing this blue men's work shirt with the sleeves rolled up. 657 00:35:06,172 --> 00:35:09,943 All of her suddenly available to me, 658 00:35:09,943 --> 00:35:13,780 this gift of youth and brain 659 00:35:13,813 --> 00:35:15,448 and clavicle. 660 00:35:15,582 --> 00:35:17,784 I touched her shoulder, 661 00:35:18,952 --> 00:35:21,621 and as some hack once scribbled, 662 00:35:21,654 --> 00:35:23,590 "My heart stood still." 663 00:35:24,624 --> 00:35:27,527 She took my hand and said, "Larry, 664 00:35:28,261 --> 00:35:31,970 "let's save this for another day." 665 00:35:32,465 --> 00:35:34,267 And all I can tell you, my friend, 666 00:35:34,334 --> 00:35:40,173 is there is a real possibility that tonight is "another day." 667 00:35:45,645 --> 00:35:48,948 Clearing back a little bit. Ladies, beautiful, beautiful! 668 00:35:49,983 --> 00:35:52,786 Rodgers! Rodgers! 669 00:35:53,153 --> 00:35:54,454 Yeah, beautiful! 670 00:35:55,155 --> 00:35:56,156 Okay. 671 00:35:56,956 --> 00:35:59,292 I appreciate that. Thanks. Hey, thank you so much. 672 00:35:59,359 --> 00:36:00,794 I appreciate it. Thank you. 673 00:36:00,860 --> 00:36:01,861 Bravo! 674 00:36:03,663 --> 00:36:04,964 Thank you so much. 675 00:36:05,965 --> 00:36:08,802 Now, time for the real performance of the evening. 676 00:36:17,644 --> 00:36:20,130 Eddie, Eddie. Eddie, get rid of this! 677 00:36:24,551 --> 00:36:25,819 Hey. 678 00:36:25,885 --> 00:36:27,153 So, did he **** her or not? 679 00:36:27,220 --> 00:36:28,655 He thinks tonight might be the night. 680 00:36:29,489 --> 00:36:32,659 Larry. Larry, Larry. 681 00:36:33,259 --> 00:36:35,950 What do you think she sees in him? 682 00:36:35,695 --> 00:36:38,832 I think she sees a rich and famous guy who can help her career. 683 00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:42,535 I think she recognizes she's being adored 684 00:36:42,569 --> 00:36:45,338 by one of the great appreciators of beauty. 685 00:36:46,206 --> 00:36:48,375 - You know what else I think? - Yeah? 686 00:36:49,242 --> 00:36:51,511 I think she is wearing a grape-colored brassiere. 687 00:36:51,544 --> 00:36:54,414 All right, Rodgers. Gentlemen, please let's get one. 688 00:36:55,248 --> 00:36:57,717 Beautiful. Come on. All right, big smile! 689 00:36:58,585 --> 00:37:00,687 - Beautiful. - ****! ****! 690 00:37:00,854 --> 00:37:04,457 My God! The show is going to run 20 years! 691 00:37:04,557 --> 00:37:07,260 It's going to be bigger than Abie's Irish Rose! 692 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,630 - We'll see. - And much more goyish, so it can tour. 693 00:37:10,930 --> 00:37:11,931 Well, thanks for coming, Larry. 694 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:13,566 - Oscar! - Larry. 695 00:37:13,700 --> 00:37:15,402 You get taller every time I see you. 696 00:37:16,536 --> 00:37:19,205 What can I say? The lyrics are brilliant. 697 00:37:19,272 --> 00:37:22,809 Poetic when they need to be poetic, funny when they need to be funny. 698 00:37:22,909 --> 00:37:26,246 Not a rhyme out of place, easy on the ear. 699 00:37:26,379 --> 00:37:29,416 I'm just a fool when lights are low 700 00:37:29,449 --> 00:37:32,850 Perfect! Did you hear me applauding? 701 00:37:32,218 --> 00:37:34,220 I think you were the loudest person in the entire theater! 702 00:37:34,254 --> 00:37:36,956 That's because I loved it more than anyone else in the entire theater! 703 00:37:37,570 --> 00:37:38,958 - Let me get you boys a drink. - No, thank you. 704 00:37:40,126 --> 00:37:42,429 Larry, you got two minutes? Give us a minute. 705 00:37:42,495 --> 00:37:43,663 Excuse us, Oscar. 706 00:37:51,404 --> 00:37:54,574 So, Dwight Wiman and I have been talking about bringing back A Connecticut Yankee. 707 00:37:54,641 --> 00:37:55,642 Terrific! 708 00:37:55,775 --> 00:37:58,278 Yeah, I'm thinking of asking Vivienne Segal. 709 00:37:58,345 --> 00:38:01,281 Mein Gott! It's gonna run longer than Oklahoma! 710 00:38:01,414 --> 00:38:02,982 I'll buy 50 seats myself. 711 00:38:03,830 --> 00:38:05,852 I've got a new title, Ohh, Camelot! 712 00:38:07,253 --> 00:38:09,220 Well, I think we're gonna stick with A Connecticut Yankee. 713 00:38:09,122 --> 00:38:10,824 Camelot Exclamation Point? 714 00:38:10,924 --> 00:38:12,826 Okay, come on. I'm being serious here. 715 00:38:12,926 --> 00:38:15,328 I'm always serious. That's why people find me so funny. 716 00:38:15,462 --> 00:38:18,980 So I was thinking, if you feel up to working, then maybe... 717 00:38:18,164 --> 00:38:19,799 - I've never felt better in my life, ****. - Congratulations, ****. 718 00:38:19,866 --> 00:38:23,303 I don't want to bother you. I just... We all just loved it. 719 00:38:23,370 --> 00:38:24,637 - You did? - It's going to be a big hit. 720 00:38:24,704 --> 00:38:25,939 Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. 721 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:27,440 - It's Gladys, right? Yes. - Yes! Yeah. 722 00:38:27,507 --> 00:38:28,508 Yes, nice to see you. 723 00:38:31,544 --> 00:38:35,150 Yeah, I was... I was thinking, not just a revival, 724 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,282 I was thinking a whole new book. 725 00:38:36,349 --> 00:38:38,852 We were thinking four or five new numbers. 726 00:38:39,853 --> 00:38:40,887 That I write? 727 00:38:40,987 --> 00:38:42,689 Of course, that you write. That we write together. 728 00:38:42,822 --> 00:38:45,191 It's been 16 years, you know that, since we did that show? 729 00:38:45,291 --> 00:38:48,628 - It needs updating, don't you think? - 1927! The Vanderbilt! 730 00:38:48,695 --> 00:38:51,640 Yeah, it can be the new Rodgers and Hart show for the fall. 731 00:38:51,164 --> 00:38:53,299 - New gags, new songs. - New references. 732 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:55,201 We'll satirize the whole war. 733 00:38:55,335 --> 00:38:57,170 Rationing, rubber drives, nylon drives, 734 00:38:57,303 --> 00:38:59,139 a new number for Vivienne. 735 00:38:59,205 --> 00:39:00,306 - Go easy with the satire, Larry. - Very nice job. 736 00:39:00,373 --> 00:39:01,374 - Hello, nice to see you. - Very nice piece. 737 00:39:01,474 --> 00:39:02,475 Appreciate it. Thank you. 738 00:39:02,542 --> 00:39:05,311 There came a lull then Cordell Hull sent orders from above 739 00:39:05,345 --> 00:39:09,490 I'm sorry, girls, put down your pearls 'Cause now we're rationing love 740 00:39:09,182 --> 00:39:10,550 And how do we get Cordell Hull into Camelot? 741 00:39:10,650 --> 00:39:11,651 Who cares? It's funny! 742 00:39:11,718 --> 00:39:14,521 ****! From the New York Journal-American. 743 00:39:14,654 --> 00:39:18,825 "As enchanting to the eye as Richard Rodgers' music is to the ear." 744 00:39:18,858 --> 00:39:19,859 - Okay. - Yeah, it's nice. 745 00:39:19,993 --> 00:39:21,270 That's good. Good start. 746 00:39:21,940 --> 00:39:23,960 So, are you up for that? Are you feeling healthy? 747 00:39:23,196 --> 00:39:24,831 Is that something you could take seriously? 748 00:39:24,864 --> 00:39:27,567 Yeah. I'm on the wagon, ****. I'm serious. 749 00:39:28,234 --> 00:39:30,570 Been drinking ginger ale all night. 750 00:39:30,704 --> 00:39:34,740 Well, except for this second 'cause this second we have to celebrate. 751 00:39:34,174 --> 00:39:37,210 This is the greatest musical in the history of American theater. 752 00:39:37,344 --> 00:39:39,512 No, no. I'm not drinking with you, Larry. 753 00:39:39,546 --> 00:39:41,470 Okay, okay, all right. 754 00:39:41,181 --> 00:39:43,830 Weegee! Weegee! Shoot this! 755 00:39:44,384 --> 00:39:46,353 - What? No. Larry, I got to... - No, no, no. Hey. 756 00:39:46,386 --> 00:39:48,521 Rodgers and Hart, together again! 757 00:39:49,189 --> 00:39:51,191 All right, closer! Come on, closer! 758 00:39:54,728 --> 00:39:55,929 I want ten copies of that. 759 00:39:56,620 --> 00:39:57,764 Great. Write me a check. 760 00:39:57,897 --> 00:39:59,199 Yeah. 761 00:39:59,299 --> 00:40:00,600 So, you think you're up to that? 762 00:40:00,734 --> 00:40:02,736 It's the best idea I've heard in 16 years. 763 00:40:02,869 --> 00:40:07,407 At the same time, I think we should be dreaming about something completely new. 764 00:40:07,540 --> 00:40:08,575 Don't you agree? 765 00:40:08,608 --> 00:40:10,710 New Rodgers and Hart, something people haven't seen before. 766 00:40:10,744 --> 00:40:11,745 Something big! 767 00:40:12,379 --> 00:40:13,646 Let's start with the revival first. 768 00:40:14,547 --> 00:40:15,949 - Absolutely. - We'll take it one step at a time... 769 00:40:16,490 --> 00:40:17,417 - Yeah, but... - ...because I really think 770 00:40:17,450 --> 00:40:18,885 - Hear me out. - ...we can have a future together. 771 00:40:18,952 --> 00:40:20,754 Who doesn't think that? 772 00:40:21,621 --> 00:40:26,590 But I want to be one of those composers who works with, you know, 773 00:40:26,126 --> 00:40:27,127 other lyricists. 774 00:40:27,260 --> 00:40:28,895 Like Arlen, Kern. You love Kern. 775 00:40:28,962 --> 00:40:30,497 I love Kern. I wanted to be Kern. 776 00:40:30,597 --> 00:40:32,265 But we have to work like professionals, Larry. 777 00:40:32,332 --> 00:40:33,800 Since when haven't I worked like a professional? 778 00:40:33,933 --> 00:40:36,736 I want to work at specific times in the morning, at my office. 779 00:40:36,803 --> 00:40:39,272 - I want to adhere to a schedule. - Yeah. That's what we do. 780 00:40:39,339 --> 00:40:40,907 I don't want to spend any more time looking for you, Larry. 781 00:40:40,974 --> 00:40:42,575 - Well, I'm right here. Small as life! - You know what I mean. 782 00:40:42,609 --> 00:40:44,100 I don't want to be calling up your mother 783 00:40:44,144 --> 00:40:45,578 at nine o'clock in the morning, so that, 784 00:40:45,612 --> 00:40:46,980 maybe, you might roll out of bed at noon. Right? 785 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:48,915 - ****... - l just don't want to do what we did. 786 00:40:48,982 --> 00:40:50,417 That's all I'm saying. 787 00:40:50,483 --> 00:40:51,951 It's a business, that's all. 788 00:40:52,786 --> 00:40:54,254 Maybe I shouldn't bring it up tonight, but I don't know, 789 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:55,955 - I wanted... I wanted to... - All I want is to... 790 00:40:56,220 --> 00:40:59,259 - That was your best one yet. Really. - All right, thank you. 791 00:40:59,325 --> 00:41:00,660 - Who is that? - All I want is to write a show 792 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:01,928 we both love. 793 00:41:04,431 --> 00:41:05,432 Yeah, I feel the same way. 794 00:41:05,465 --> 00:41:08,100 ****! Burns Mantle just called it 795 00:41:08,134 --> 00:41:11,938 "The most thoroughly and attractively American musical comedy 796 00:41:11,971 --> 00:41:12,972 "since Show Boat." 797 00:41:13,106 --> 00:41:14,174 - Since Show Boat? - Yeah. 798 00:41:14,274 --> 00:41:16,176 Wow. That's good. 799 00:41:16,209 --> 00:41:18,144 - Truly spectacular. - Thank you, nice to see you. 800 00:41:18,778 --> 00:41:20,613 I have to fall in love with a show, ****. 801 00:41:20,647 --> 00:41:23,160 I have to want to write that show more than anything in the world, 802 00:41:23,490 --> 00:41:26,853 to be in that audience, sitting there not missing a single word. 803 00:41:26,953 --> 00:41:28,655 All right, well, we start with A Connecticut Yankee, 804 00:41:28,822 --> 00:41:30,790 - four or five numbers, and we go... - Okay, look. 805 00:41:30,824 --> 00:41:33,626 Here's what I'm thinking. The Adventures of Marco Polo. 806 00:41:33,693 --> 00:41:35,795 ****, ****! Wonderful show. 807 00:41:35,862 --> 00:41:37,664 Thank you so much. Nice to see you. 808 00:41:37,797 --> 00:41:40,333 Just... just big. Bigger than Jumbo. Epic. 809 00:41:40,367 --> 00:41:42,369 A three-ring musical circus. 810 00:41:42,502 --> 00:41:44,871 The show lasts four hours with a dinner break! 811 00:41:44,971 --> 00:41:49,743 It's grand comic opera. And the stage set is the world! 812 00:41:49,843 --> 00:41:52,312 We satirize everybody. 813 00:41:52,345 --> 00:41:54,381 And you get to satirize them musically. 814 00:41:54,481 --> 00:41:56,883 We send up every national musical cliche there is. 815 00:41:57,170 --> 00:41:59,486 The France number, the Italian number, 816 00:41:59,552 --> 00:42:01,488 when they get to the Heart of Darkness, 817 00:42:01,554 --> 00:42:03,356 the cannibals are doing Porgy and Bess. 818 00:42:04,391 --> 00:42:06,893 Bess, you is my dinner now! 819 00:42:06,993 --> 00:42:07,927 Jesus, Larry. Come on. 820 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,864 This show is going to have the scope of a novel. 821 00:42:10,864 --> 00:42:14,367 It will be the greatest challenge you've ever had as a composer. 822 00:42:14,534 --> 00:42:18,405 And what grounds it all, what lets the audience enter this story 823 00:42:18,538 --> 00:42:19,539 is the girl. 824 00:42:19,572 --> 00:42:23,410 This ethereal girl whom Marco Polo has left behind. 825 00:42:23,543 --> 00:42:25,110 She's half his age, 826 00:42:25,845 --> 00:42:30,717 but it's the first time he's felt that inkling of love in years, maybe ever. 827 00:42:30,784 --> 00:42:32,252 He swears in the first scene. 828 00:42:32,352 --> 00:42:34,387 We set this up like Bene**** in Much Ado... 829 00:42:34,454 --> 00:42:36,623 - Right. - He swears that he's beyond 830 00:42:36,723 --> 00:42:38,858 the reach of any woman. He scorns love. 831 00:42:38,925 --> 00:42:40,894 And we do a whole number satirizing love songs. 832 00:42:40,927 --> 00:42:44,698 No. Larry, I want to write shows that have some emotional core to them... 833 00:42:44,764 --> 00:42:47,100 - ****, great music. Great show! - Hello, how are you? 834 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,690 Thank you. I'll take that. You're a tough critic. 835 00:42:49,135 --> 00:42:50,136 - Thank you. - Thank you. 836 00:42:50,236 --> 00:42:53,373 Remember, we established in the first scene that he's anti-love? 837 00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,909 Then he meets the girl. She's a sort of free-spirit, 838 00:42:55,975 --> 00:42:59,713 Scandinavian-looking with two freckles on her left cheek, 839 00:42:59,813 --> 00:43:01,414 - it's absurd. - Don't do that. 840 00:43:01,548 --> 00:43:04,417 She lives socially, psychologically, ***ually 841 00:43:04,451 --> 00:43:08,254 in another universe than he does, but he is slain. 842 00:43:09,550 --> 00:43:13,927 He stands there paralyzed in the light of her pale green eyes. 843 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,597 This is the greatest explorer in the history of the world, 844 00:43:17,664 --> 00:43:22,168 and none of it means anything to him unless it's a way to make her see him. 845 00:43:22,902 --> 00:43:25,939 That is the emotional core of the story. 846 00:43:25,972 --> 00:43:27,607 - Okay. - We take this legendary, 847 00:43:27,741 --> 00:43:28,808 larger-than-life man, 848 00:43:28,942 --> 00:43:30,443 and we make him bleed. 849 00:43:30,577 --> 00:43:34,814 Mr. Rodgers, my name is Robert Heffner. I'm the Mayor of Oklahoma City. 850 00:43:34,914 --> 00:43:36,816 Eve and I have traveled all the way to New York 851 00:43:36,850 --> 00:43:38,840 - just to see the show. - Okay. You know... 852 00:43:38,151 --> 00:43:40,320 Welcome to New York. We're finishing a conversation. 853 00:43:40,453 --> 00:43:42,822 He'll be with you in two minutes. Does that sound good? 854 00:43:42,956 --> 00:43:45,325 Two minutes, I'll be right with you. Thank you, I hope it was worth it. 855 00:43:45,458 --> 00:43:47,627 - It certainly was. - Good to see you. Thank you. 856 00:43:47,694 --> 00:43:49,295 All right, so come on. Come on, come on, come on. 857 00:43:49,329 --> 00:43:51,998 And they end up together? Come on. 858 00:43:52,999 --> 00:43:55,969 That's what the audience is waiting around to find out! 859 00:43:56,102 --> 00:43:57,771 That's the engine that's driving the whole story. 860 00:43:57,837 --> 00:43:59,172 All right, well, look, Larry, 861 00:43:59,272 --> 00:44:00,607 if you're willing to write it, 862 00:44:00,674 --> 00:44:02,609 really write it, and rewrite it, and rewrite it again, 863 00:44:02,676 --> 00:44:03,977 then, you know, it could work. 864 00:44:04,110 --> 00:44:06,513 But I'm not gonna beg you for this, Larry. You know? 865 00:44:06,613 --> 00:44:07,647 We work for 15 minutes, 866 00:44:07,781 --> 00:44:09,150 you're out the door looking for a cigar store. 867 00:44:09,115 --> 00:44:10,150 - It drives me... - Okay. 868 00:44:10,216 --> 00:44:11,651 It drives me really crazy. I don't like it. 869 00:44:11,785 --> 00:44:13,853 - l don't want to do it anymore. - We've worked like that for 24 years. 870 00:44:13,953 --> 00:44:14,888 Congratulations, ****! 871 00:44:14,988 --> 00:44:16,560 That's exactly what we've done for 24 years. 872 00:44:16,156 --> 00:44:17,791 - Thank you. - About time the Guild had a goddamned hit. 873 00:44:17,824 --> 00:44:19,693 Yeah. You're absolutely, absolutely right. 874 00:44:19,793 --> 00:44:21,861 Anyway, I'm not going to... I'm not going to fight with you, Larry. 875 00:44:21,961 --> 00:44:23,863 - Who's fighting? - I don't know. 876 00:44:23,963 --> 00:44:24,964 With a war on, 877 00:44:25,310 --> 00:44:27,967 do audiences really want to watch cannibals singing Porgy and Bess? 878 00:44:28,134 --> 00:44:29,836 And what do audiences want to watch? 879 00:44:29,903 --> 00:44:32,639 Cowboys a-whoopin'-it-up at the box social? 880 00:44:34,174 --> 00:44:35,742 Well, yes. Apparently. 881 00:44:35,842 --> 00:44:37,143 That's right, I forgot. 882 00:44:37,177 --> 00:44:40,513 Oklahoma, exclamation point, addresses the urgency of a nation at war. 883 00:44:40,580 --> 00:44:43,850 I think every serviceman in that audience tonight 884 00:44:43,983 --> 00:44:45,185 thought about what we're fighting for, 885 00:44:45,251 --> 00:44:46,986 even for a second or two, he thought about it. 886 00:44:47,530 --> 00:44:48,655 And what is it we're fighting for, exactly? 887 00:44:48,688 --> 00:44:51,691 Feisty little girls in gingham dresses who can't say no? 888 00:44:53,930 --> 00:44:55,495 - Okay. All right. - ****, ****, ****. Come on. 889 00:44:55,528 --> 00:44:57,697 Just between you and me, 890 00:44:57,731 --> 00:45:01,101 those characters are unrecognizable as human beings. 891 00:45:01,201 --> 00:45:03,503 I think plenty of people recognized them. They recognized love. 892 00:45:03,536 --> 00:45:04,938 He needs rescuing, big time. 893 00:45:05,380 --> 00:45:08,800 They recognized family. They recognized pride in their country. 894 00:45:08,740 --> 00:45:10,176 You're starting to sound like Yankee Doodle Dandy. 895 00:45:10,243 --> 00:45:12,245 I think there's significantly more there to recognize, Larry, 896 00:45:12,379 --> 00:45:13,713 than a bunch of singing cannibals. 897 00:45:13,780 --> 00:45:15,548 But cannibals are much funnier, admit it. 898 00:45:15,615 --> 00:45:17,350 ****, you want to come and read these! 899 00:45:17,384 --> 00:45:18,885 - Yeah, hang on! Hang on. Be right there. - Okay, okay, okay, okay. 900 00:45:19,190 --> 00:45:21,621 Okay, okay, okay, okay. I know exactly what you mean. 901 00:45:21,721 --> 00:45:23,590 Just tell me... What do you really want to write? 902 00:45:23,690 --> 00:45:25,425 What's your dream show? 903 00:45:25,525 --> 00:45:26,526 - My dream show? - Yeah. 904 00:45:26,593 --> 00:45:27,861 Oklahoma! 905 00:45:31,231 --> 00:45:32,232 I mean, next. 906 00:45:35,969 --> 00:45:37,904 We're talking about getting the rights to Liliom. 907 00:45:39,305 --> 00:45:40,774 - The Molnar play? - Yeah. 908 00:45:40,874 --> 00:45:42,575 - That was cornball in 1909. - Yeah? 909 00:45:42,709 --> 00:45:44,744 You really want to write a musical about a carnival barker 910 00:45:44,878 --> 00:45:46,446 who beats up his girlfriend, 911 00:45:46,579 --> 00:45:48,281 - dies, comes back... - I think it'll work. 912 00:45:48,415 --> 00:45:50,884 Yeah, and at the end, all the dead people could take off their halos and go, 913 00:45:50,950 --> 00:45:52,452 "Purgatory!" 914 00:45:53,530 --> 00:45:54,754 Look, I will do it if you force me to. 915 00:45:54,888 --> 00:45:56,256 - It's just in my heart of... - No, I'm not forcing you to. 916 00:45:56,289 --> 00:45:57,490 Oscar's going to do it. 917 00:45:59,759 --> 00:46:02,896 What does Oscar know about turn-of-the-century Budapest? 918 00:46:03,663 --> 00:46:05,799 He's going to Americanize it. 919 00:46:06,599 --> 00:46:08,680 He's going to modernize it. 920 00:46:08,935 --> 00:46:10,103 We're going to set it in Maine. 921 00:46:10,637 --> 00:46:13,807 Maine? Right, with all due respect, modernizing Molnar 922 00:46:13,940 --> 00:46:15,775 - is a deeply... - You got to read this! 923 00:46:15,809 --> 00:46:16,810 Is it the Times? 924 00:46:17,610 --> 00:46:19,913 Burton Rascoe's World-Telegram review. 925 00:46:19,946 --> 00:46:20,980 - It's a rave. - Good. 926 00:46:21,810 --> 00:46:23,283 - We'll have the Times any moment. - Okay. 927 00:46:23,416 --> 00:46:25,151 Larry, I've got to go. The Times is coming. 928 00:46:25,251 --> 00:46:26,252 Okay, okay. 929 00:46:26,319 --> 00:46:28,455 - Wish me luck. - Mazel tov! 930 00:46:28,488 --> 00:46:29,656 As they say in Maine. 931 00:46:31,991 --> 00:46:34,260 - Hey, ****. That was perfect. - Thank you. 932 00:46:34,294 --> 00:46:35,862 Nice to see you. Did you enjoy it? 933 00:46:51,277 --> 00:46:55,315 What does **** Rodgers know of Maine? He was bar-mitzvahed for Christ's sake! 934 00:46:55,382 --> 00:46:57,617 How long are they going to keep selling that fairy tale? 935 00:46:57,684 --> 00:47:00,520 "Have faith, have hope, the dead will arise to comfort us!" 936 00:47:00,653 --> 00:47:02,550 Like **** they will. 937 00:47:02,622 --> 00:47:04,791 Give me another shot, Eddie. A real one. 938 00:47:07,660 --> 00:47:09,829 Join me for a shot, Andy? Please. 939 00:47:14,801 --> 00:47:16,136 How ya holding up? 940 00:47:17,137 --> 00:47:20,473 You know how in a marriage they say "for better or for worse"? 941 00:47:20,540 --> 00:47:24,177 I think in terms of my life, I've entered the "for worse" part. 942 00:47:24,344 --> 00:47:28,682 And it happened so quietly I didn't even recognize it. 943 00:47:28,815 --> 00:47:30,160 Have you ever felt that way? 944 00:47:30,850 --> 00:47:32,352 Every day of my life. 945 00:47:34,654 --> 00:47:36,890 Thank you. 946 00:47:36,189 --> 00:47:38,258 Sometimes I think, "Even God is finished with me." 947 00:47:38,358 --> 00:47:39,859 I've had my hits, 948 00:47:39,993 --> 00:47:42,996 I've loved a small, dear collection of people. 949 00:47:43,630 --> 00:47:44,931 And now he's turned the page. 950 00:47:45,699 --> 00:47:47,100 I feel superannuated. 951 00:47:47,934 --> 00:47:50,537 "Superannuated." That's a good thing, isn't it? 952 00:47:50,570 --> 00:47:52,238 It means your **** doesn't work. 953 00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:55,375 Must be why I don't know that word. 954 00:47:59,212 --> 00:48:00,547 Put me on the list. 955 00:48:11,524 --> 00:48:13,693 You notice the birds are back in Central Park? 956 00:48:15,895 --> 00:48:17,597 What are you working on these days? 957 00:48:17,697 --> 00:48:19,232 Children's book. 958 00:48:20,367 --> 00:48:22,369 Must have burned myself out writing those essays, 959 00:48:22,435 --> 00:48:23,436 it's not going well. 960 00:48:24,537 --> 00:48:25,972 I think, as far as my writing goes, 961 00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:27,807 I've also entered the "for worse" part. 962 00:48:28,942 --> 00:48:30,760 What's your story about? 963 00:48:30,143 --> 00:48:31,544 I wish I knew. 964 00:48:32,812 --> 00:48:34,614 The journey everybody takes? 965 00:48:35,915 --> 00:48:39,419 Searching for what's perfect and unattainable? 966 00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:41,121 The ineffable! 967 00:48:41,721 --> 00:48:44,758 Probably too elusive an idea to put into a children's book. 968 00:48:44,824 --> 00:48:46,259 I have a line for you. 969 00:48:47,494 --> 00:48:51,231 "He chased her around the bed all night before concluding 970 00:48:51,264 --> 00:48:52,565 "she was ineffable." 971 00:48:52,632 --> 00:48:54,267 Sure you don't mean "uneffable"? 972 00:48:55,735 --> 00:48:56,736 Better. 973 00:48:59,472 --> 00:49:00,774 You know, I'm in the park every morning, 974 00:49:00,907 --> 00:49:03,243 liberating this mouse I keep catching in my kitchen. 975 00:49:03,309 --> 00:49:05,945 - Yeah? - I have this little glass box 976 00:49:06,790 --> 00:49:08,815 that captures the mouse but doesn't kill him. 977 00:49:08,915 --> 00:49:10,984 And every morning I walk into my kitchen, 978 00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,186 and there he is, at the bottom of the refrigerator. 979 00:49:13,286 --> 00:49:17,123 My little brown mouse, happily eating the cracker I left for him. 980 00:49:17,257 --> 00:49:19,492 And every morning, I carry him down to the park, 981 00:49:19,592 --> 00:49:22,962 open the box. He leaps out ten feet, scurries into the underbrush. 982 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:25,865 And then the next morning, I'll be damned, 983 00:49:25,965 --> 00:49:28,101 he is back in the box! 984 00:49:28,134 --> 00:49:29,703 How do you know it's the same mouse? 985 00:49:29,803 --> 00:49:30,804 Well, he certainly looks the same. 986 00:49:30,937 --> 00:49:35,175 He has that same New York look of doomed hopefulness. 987 00:49:36,209 --> 00:49:39,346 But how does he get up the 19 floors? 988 00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,480 Maybe he's tipping the doorman. 989 00:49:44,818 --> 00:49:46,619 You know, this morning he wasn't there. 990 00:49:47,220 --> 00:49:50,457 Just the cracker lying in the box. 991 00:49:51,491 --> 00:49:53,460 I actually missed the little fella, I really did. 992 00:49:53,493 --> 00:49:55,695 I think I've started to identify with him. 993 00:49:55,795 --> 00:49:57,630 Does he have a name? 994 00:49:58,631 --> 00:50:00,333 I'm calling him Stuart. 995 00:50:00,900 --> 00:50:02,535 With a "W" or a "U"? 996 00:50:04,671 --> 00:50:08,141 A "U." Nothing fancy. Just a regular middle-class mouse. 997 00:50:11,978 --> 00:50:14,180 I think you'll have to excuse me. 998 00:50:14,214 --> 00:50:17,417 All this jubilation has gone to my bladder. 999 00:50:20,553 --> 00:50:23,323 "Agnes de Mille works small miracles 1000 00:50:23,423 --> 00:50:27,694 "and devising original dances that fit the story and the tunes. 1001 00:50:27,727 --> 00:50:29,863 "Oklahoma! is fresh..." 1002 00:50:29,896 --> 00:50:31,564 Okay, I got something funny. 1003 00:50:32,980 --> 00:50:34,534 What do you call a tired **********? 1004 00:50:35,535 --> 00:50:36,536 I don't know. 1005 00:50:38,772 --> 00:50:40,600 ****, I forgot. 1006 00:50:40,774 --> 00:50:42,750 That's really funny. 1007 00:50:44,210 --> 00:50:47,714 "The play's spine-tingling, out of this world!" 1008 00:50:51,551 --> 00:50:55,255 "Mr. Rodgers's scores never lack grace, 1009 00:50:55,355 --> 00:51:00,694 "but seldom have they been so well-integrated as this for Oklahoma! 1010 00:51:00,794 --> 00:51:06,733 "He has turned out waltzes, love songs, comic songs and a title number 1011 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:10,136 "which the State in question would do well to adopt 1012 00:51:10,236 --> 00:51:11,905 "as its anthem forthwith. 1013 00:51:16,576 --> 00:51:20,580 "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning, and People Will Say We're in Love 1014 00:51:20,647 --> 00:51:23,983 "are headed for countless jukeboxes across the land. 1015 00:51:27,253 --> 00:51:32,580 "And a dirge called 'Pore Jud', in which the hero of the fable 1016 00:51:32,158 --> 00:51:35,261 "tries to persuade his rival to hang himself 1017 00:51:35,328 --> 00:51:37,970 is amazingly comic. 1018 00:51:38,264 --> 00:51:42,836 "The Farmer and the Cowman and The Surrey with the Fringe on the Top 1019 00:51:42,936 --> 00:51:48,975 "also deserve mention only because they quite clearly approach perfection." 1020 00:51:49,900 --> 00:51:50,410 Read that part again. 1021 00:51:52,112 --> 00:51:55,682 "...because they quite clearly approach perfection." 1022 00:51:55,782 --> 00:51:57,350 Put that on the marquee! 1023 00:51:57,917 --> 00:52:00,587 "Quite clearly approaches perfection." 1024 00:52:03,757 --> 00:52:07,794 Come on, everybody! Party upstairs! Cake and champagne. 1025 00:52:18,271 --> 00:52:20,707 Oscar! Bravo, bravo. 1026 00:52:20,774 --> 00:52:21,975 Congratulations. 1027 00:52:28,214 --> 00:52:29,783 Can I speak with you for a moment? 1028 00:52:29,816 --> 00:52:30,817 Can we talk later, Larry? 1029 00:52:30,950 --> 00:52:33,386 No, no, no. It's just a second. I have something important to say. 1030 00:52:33,453 --> 00:52:35,288 Just a moment with the musical genius. 1031 00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:41,161 I just have one thing I want to tell you, ****. 1032 00:52:42,495 --> 00:52:45,398 Just one second, ****. It's important. 1033 00:52:45,999 --> 00:52:47,801 I remember when I first heard about you, 1034 00:52:47,901 --> 00:52:50,537 you were just Morty Rodger's little brother. 1035 00:52:50,570 --> 00:52:52,572 - What, were you 177? - 16. 1036 00:52:52,672 --> 00:52:54,240 - Yeah, I was 23. - Swell job. 1037 00:52:54,341 --> 00:52:55,742 Yeah, you were the wise old man on the mountain. 1038 00:52:55,842 --> 00:52:57,977 But when I first heard you play your stuff, 1039 00:52:58,780 --> 00:53:00,847 I knew you had it. 1040 00:53:00,980 --> 00:53:02,816 I wasn't entirely convinced that I had it, 1041 00:53:02,916 --> 00:53:05,352 but I heard something that afternoon. 1042 00:53:07,420 --> 00:53:10,657 Originality, melody, grace... 1043 00:53:13,860 --> 00:53:17,197 Come on. Come on, Larry. Stop it. Come on, what's the matter with you? 1044 00:53:17,263 --> 00:53:21,101 You worked your whole life for this night, ****. 1045 00:53:21,167 --> 00:53:24,370 Nobody's worked harder. And nobody deserves it more. 1046 00:53:24,104 --> 00:53:25,839 All right, thanks. Thanks, Larry. Thank you. 1047 00:53:25,905 --> 00:53:30,377 All right, that's what I wanted... Just go... enjoy your party. 1048 00:53:30,443 --> 00:53:32,178 Hey, look at me. Look at me. 1049 00:53:32,212 --> 00:53:34,514 We're going to do A Connecticut Yankee, all new. 1050 00:53:34,547 --> 00:53:36,583 - Yeah, yeah. - We're gonna write four or five new songs. 1051 00:53:36,683 --> 00:53:37,951 - l have ideas already. - Right? 1052 00:53:38,180 --> 00:53:40,553 Yeah, yeah. And if I get some pages down for Marco Polo, 1053 00:53:40,620 --> 00:53:41,621 can I send them over? 1054 00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:47,600 You have to ask me that? Larry, I owe my professional life to you. 1055 00:53:50,630 --> 00:53:54,100 Summer journeys to Niagara And to other places 1056 00:53:54,234 --> 00:53:57,370 Aggravate all our cares... 1057 00:53:57,103 --> 00:53:58,938 You remember we heard that on the radio for the first time? 1058 00:53:59,390 --> 00:54:01,641 In your parents' living room. Our first hit. 1059 00:54:01,741 --> 00:54:04,411 That was one of the most astonishing moments of my life, Larry. 1060 00:54:04,544 --> 00:54:08,415 - l was 22. - And I'm telling you, I swear to God, 1061 00:54:08,481 --> 00:54:10,884 our best work is still ahead of us. 1062 00:54:10,984 --> 00:54:12,986 Yes, the new Connecticut Yankee! 1063 00:54:13,530 --> 00:54:14,587 Yeah, yeah. And bigger stuff. 1064 00:54:14,654 --> 00:54:16,489 - ****, get up here. - All right. I'm coming! 1065 00:54:16,589 --> 00:54:18,992 I mean, Marco Polo is going to be a show about joy... 1066 00:54:19,626 --> 00:54:23,396 but a hard-earned joy, an unsentimental joy. 1067 00:54:24,297 --> 00:54:26,599 - Something wrong with sentimental? - What? It's too easy. 1068 00:54:29,669 --> 00:54:31,137 Oklahoma! is too easy? 1069 00:54:32,105 --> 00:54:34,507 The guy actually getting the girl at the end is too easy? 1070 00:54:34,574 --> 00:54:37,177 You've just eliminated every successful musical comedy 1071 00:54:37,344 --> 00:54:38,445 ever written, Larry. 1072 00:54:38,578 --> 00:54:39,579 Then it's too easy for me. 1073 00:54:39,612 --> 00:54:40,947 Did you hear the audience tonight? 1074 00:54:41,614 --> 00:54:42,615 Yes. 1075 00:54:43,616 --> 00:54:45,985 Sixteen hundred people didn't think it was too easy. 1076 00:54:46,860 --> 00:54:47,821 You're telling me 1,600 people are wrong? 1077 00:54:47,921 --> 00:54:49,289 I'm just saying... 1078 00:54:50,457 --> 00:54:56,463 that you and I can do something so much more emotionally complicated. 1079 00:54:56,529 --> 00:54:58,631 We don't have to pander to what audiences... 1080 00:54:58,698 --> 00:55:00,700 - Oscar and I are pandering? - No. I didn't say that. 1081 00:55:00,767 --> 00:55:02,936 - Irving Berlin is pandering? - I love Berlin. 1082 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,705 - White Christmas is pandering? - Well, I don't believe White Christmas. 1083 00:55:05,772 --> 00:55:06,773 Okay. 1084 00:55:07,874 --> 00:55:09,542 Well, maybe audiences have changed. 1085 00:55:09,642 --> 00:55:11,478 Well, they still want to laugh. 1086 00:55:11,544 --> 00:55:13,213 They want to laugh, but not in that way. 1087 00:55:13,313 --> 00:55:14,814 - Not in what way? - In your way. 1088 00:55:15,949 --> 00:55:17,784 They want to laugh, but they also want to cry a little. 1089 00:55:17,817 --> 00:55:20,653 They want to... they want to feel. 1090 00:55:23,990 --> 00:55:25,792 You're my oldest friend. 1091 00:55:26,559 --> 00:55:27,660 You're... 1092 00:55:29,863 --> 00:55:30,864 you're unique. 1093 00:55:31,831 --> 00:55:33,333 Sounds like you're writing my obituary. 1094 00:55:34,334 --> 00:55:37,237 - I'm just saying. - I'm right here, right now. 1095 00:55:37,337 --> 00:55:40,240 - Ready to work. - Yeah? 1096 00:55:41,641 --> 00:55:43,910 And you're willing to go back to Doctors Hospital? 1097 00:55:45,110 --> 00:55:47,681 I don't need to go back to Doctors Hospital, 1098 00:55:47,814 --> 00:55:50,984 and I don't need a psychiatrist either. 1099 00:55:51,170 --> 00:55:53,190 - Thank you very much. - We were just trying to help you, Larry. 1100 00:55:53,860 --> 00:55:55,155 Who's we? You and Oscar? Help me? 1101 00:55:55,188 --> 00:55:56,656 Oscar? You think Oscar had anything to do with it? 1102 00:55:56,690 --> 00:56:00,260 Oklahoma! is going to be the biggest hit of your career. 1103 00:56:00,930 --> 00:56:02,429 - You don't know that. You don't know that. - You got that ******* Kron 1104 00:56:02,495 --> 00:56:04,364 to manage my money. Now I'm incapable... 1105 00:56:04,497 --> 00:56:06,166 I did that at the insistence of your brother, Larry. 1106 00:56:06,266 --> 00:56:07,333 Teddy literally begged me... 1107 00:56:07,367 --> 00:56:09,536 Well, maybe you and Teddy should write the lyrics. 1108 00:56:09,669 --> 00:56:11,171 I did write the lyrics. 1109 00:56:12,272 --> 00:56:13,373 What is that supposed to mean? 1110 00:56:13,506 --> 00:56:16,209 By Jupiter? Have you conveniently blocked that out? 1111 00:56:16,343 --> 00:56:17,544 Blocked what out? 1112 00:56:17,577 --> 00:56:21,140 How Logan and I begged you for extra choruses, extra verses, 1113 00:56:21,470 --> 00:56:24,184 and you were so drunk that you didn't even show up. 1114 00:56:24,217 --> 00:56:26,190 So, yes, I had to write the lyrics. 1115 00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,855 - You didn't write one ****ing word... - How would you know? 1116 00:56:28,955 --> 00:56:30,557 - ...of that show. - How would you know, Larry? 1117 00:56:30,623 --> 00:56:32,359 You weren't around to even... 1118 00:56:32,425 --> 00:56:33,460 You know what? 1119 00:56:33,526 --> 00:56:35,462 I'm actually not going to argue with you tonight, 1120 00:56:35,562 --> 00:56:36,563 - if that's all right with you. - I like to argue. 1121 00:56:36,696 --> 00:56:38,398 Well I don't. I don't. 1122 00:56:38,465 --> 00:56:39,799 Look, I am sorry. 1123 00:56:40,867 --> 00:56:43,403 I don't care if somebody attacks me. 1124 00:56:43,536 --> 00:56:45,739 It doesn't mean anything to me. 1125 00:56:45,805 --> 00:56:49,576 But nobody can attack my work. Itis all I've got. 1126 00:56:49,743 --> 00:56:51,644 Your work is brilliant. That's not the problem. 1127 00:56:54,647 --> 00:56:57,984 Your work has been brilliant since the day I met you. 1128 00:56:59,252 --> 00:57:00,587 Do you still remember that? 1129 00:57:01,654 --> 00:57:04,570 You, standing there in your carpet slippers and your stripy bathrobe? 1130 00:57:05,992 --> 00:57:10,263 Yeah, with the five o'clock shadow at 11:00 a.m. 1131 00:57:12,732 --> 00:57:15,835 I'll remember that till the last day of my life. 1132 00:57:19,406 --> 00:57:20,407 Okay. 1133 00:57:27,614 --> 00:57:28,682 - Larry, I got to go upstairs. - I know. 1134 00:57:28,782 --> 00:57:30,817 - The whole company's waiting. - Of course. Of course. 1135 00:57:32,419 --> 00:57:33,920 Four or five songs, yes? 1136 00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,890 I'm telling you, I'm having ideas already! 1137 00:57:37,123 --> 00:57:39,125 A big comedy solo for Vivienne 1138 00:57:39,259 --> 00:57:42,929 about how she's killed off every single one of her previous husbands. 1139 00:57:44,297 --> 00:57:45,298 Might be funny. 1140 00:57:45,432 --> 00:57:48,201 We can call it To Keep Our Love Alive! 1141 00:58:03,183 --> 00:58:04,184 You okay, Larry? 1142 00:58:09,823 --> 00:58:10,890 What happened to White? 1143 00:58:10,990 --> 00:58:13,326 - Left. - "So soon?" 1144 00:58:13,860 --> 00:58:16,296 There was so much more I wanted to say to him. 1145 00:58:16,396 --> 00:58:17,731 Maybe he was an extra, too. 1146 00:58:19,299 --> 00:58:20,333 One more? 1147 00:58:21,234 --> 00:58:22,335 Last one, Larry. 1148 00:58:24,404 --> 00:58:27,700 Do you know the ineffectual blues? 1149 00:58:29,376 --> 00:58:31,411 That's because I haven't written it yet. 1150 00:58:35,515 --> 00:58:37,817 They should put my picture on that bottle. 1151 00:58:37,851 --> 00:58:41,855 "The Whiskey That Made Lorenz Hart Unemployable. 1152 00:58:42,655 --> 00:58:43,857 "Buy War Bonds." 1153 00:58:50,497 --> 00:58:52,932 You know, I've started to hear things wrong. 1154 00:58:53,330 --> 00:58:56,360 The other night, I was listening to this singer go on 1155 00:58:56,102 --> 00:58:57,737 about "her cigarette heart." 1156 00:58:58,271 --> 00:59:01,174 And I thought, "Now that is an original metaphor, 1157 00:59:01,274 --> 00:59:02,876 "My cigarette heart." 1158 00:59:03,610 --> 00:59:06,112 Then I realized she was singing "My secret heart." 1159 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,783 I can't remember anything anymore either. 1160 00:59:09,849 --> 00:59:12,352 That should be the title of my autobiography, 1161 00:59:12,385 --> 00:59:14,888 "Stop Me If I've Told You This Already." 1162 00:59:15,555 --> 00:59:17,624 And we'll print the entire text twice. 1163 00:59:24,898 --> 00:59:27,200 No, I'm serious. I've seen her do it before. 1164 00:59:27,300 --> 00:59:30,103 As long as there's no dancing later on in the night. 1165 00:59:31,871 --> 00:59:33,406 You better watch yourself... 1166 00:59:33,540 --> 00:59:36,376 My irreplaceable Elizabeth! 1167 00:59:36,409 --> 00:59:37,410 Larry! 1168 00:59:38,378 --> 00:59:40,213 - Do you like it? - It's... 1169 00:59:40,313 --> 00:59:42,248 Oscar Hammerstein just said I was a gem! 1170 00:59:42,916 --> 00:59:45,752 He has such a way with words. 1171 00:59:46,553 --> 00:59:48,455 George, this is Lorenz Hart. 1172 00:59:48,555 --> 00:59:50,824 I am legitimately honored to meet you. 1173 00:59:50,924 --> 00:59:54,394 Would you mind if I spoke to Elizabeth alone for two minutes? 1174 00:59:54,461 --> 00:59:56,162 And then she's all yours. 1175 00:59:56,262 --> 00:59:57,397 It would be perfectly all right 1176 00:59:57,464 --> 01:00:00,266 as long as you promise me your autograph before I go. 1177 01:00:00,333 --> 01:00:01,668 George is a senior at Yale. 1178 01:00:01,768 --> 01:00:04,270 He's studying music, but he wants to be a director. 1179 01:00:04,404 --> 01:00:05,772 A director. Well, what's your name? 1180 01:00:05,905 --> 01:00:06,906 George Hill. 1181 01:00:06,973 --> 01:00:10,910 Here's my advice to you, future director, George Hill. 1182 01:00:10,977 --> 01:00:12,178 Do you want my advice? 1183 01:00:12,278 --> 01:00:13,279 I'd be honored. 1184 01:00:14,414 --> 01:00:16,916 Be careful of love stories. 1185 01:00:17,684 --> 01:00:20,453 Think about friendship stories. 1186 01:00:20,587 --> 01:00:24,240 That's where the really enduring stuff lives. 1187 01:00:25,125 --> 01:00:26,459 Thank you. I'll remember that. 1188 01:00:30,497 --> 01:00:31,965 Catch up with you later, George. 1189 01:00:34,501 --> 01:00:35,935 My mother just gave me this. 1190 01:00:35,969 --> 01:00:37,637 I was really touched she gave it to me. 1191 01:00:38,772 --> 01:00:40,940 My well-tempered clavicle. 1192 01:00:40,974 --> 01:00:42,542 Careful. My mother... 1193 01:00:43,343 --> 01:00:44,978 Okay. All right... 1194 01:00:45,450 --> 01:00:49,282 Sorry. Now, I know your birthday isn't until November 19th. 1195 01:00:49,382 --> 01:00:50,383 I'm a scorpion. 1196 01:00:50,450 --> 01:00:53,219 I never doubted that for a second. 1197 01:00:53,319 --> 01:00:55,555 Did you get the sheet music I sent you? 1198 01:00:56,222 --> 01:00:59,726 I was so busy with exams, I put them away, honestly, and... 1199 01:00:59,826 --> 01:01:03,296 And then I kind of forgot about them. But now I've got the time. I promise you. 1200 01:01:03,329 --> 01:01:04,831 I'm going to get a friend of mine 1201 01:01:04,898 --> 01:01:06,700 to play every single one of those songs for me. 1202 01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:08,535 Take your time. 1203 01:01:08,635 --> 01:01:10,970 That's the wonderful thing about art, isn't it? 1204 01:01:11,710 --> 01:01:12,172 It waits for you. 1205 01:01:13,173 --> 01:01:15,375 Thank you for all the letters you wrote me. 1206 01:01:15,475 --> 01:01:17,243 I really enjoyed reading them. 1207 01:01:17,377 --> 01:01:20,380 My roommate couldn't believe I was actually corresponding with Lorenz Hart. 1208 01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:23,183 I remember in Vermont, you were drinking red wine. 1209 01:01:24,170 --> 01:01:27,870 Malbec. It's a big Yale drink. 1210 01:01:27,854 --> 01:01:31,324 You ask for the French Malbec, and then you act 1211 01:01:31,424 --> 01:01:33,526 as if you can actually tell which vineyard it came from. 1212 01:01:36,290 --> 01:01:38,698 Don't mention Vermont around my mother, okay? 1213 01:01:38,832 --> 01:01:40,533 She doesn't know anything about our little getaway. 1214 01:01:41,735 --> 01:01:43,670 Actually, thank goodness. 1215 01:01:43,737 --> 01:01:46,773 She doesn't know about 90% of what's going on in my life. 1216 01:01:46,873 --> 01:01:49,509 Well, I feel privileged that I do. 1217 01:01:49,576 --> 01:01:51,745 Or that I did, back in August. 1218 01:01:52,679 --> 01:01:55,215 I've got much more stuff to report on since then. 1219 01:01:55,281 --> 01:01:58,885 Well, tell me about the guys. That's what I'm interested in. 1220 01:01:59,786 --> 01:02:03,723 Honestly, I'm much smarter than most of them. 1221 01:02:03,857 --> 01:02:07,227 So I sort of sit back and watch them trying to impress me. 1222 01:02:07,293 --> 01:02:08,862 It's pretty entertaining. 1223 01:02:08,895 --> 01:02:11,197 If I were a college guy, I think I would be afraid of you. 1224 01:02:11,264 --> 01:02:14,300 This intelligent, mercilessly observant, 1225 01:02:14,401 --> 01:02:16,970 wickedly unsentimental beauty sitting there, 1226 01:02:17,370 --> 01:02:19,973 evaluating me from somewhere behind those green eyes, 1227 01:02:20,730 --> 01:02:21,741 annotating all my gaucheries. 1228 01:02:21,808 --> 01:02:23,710 My God, I would be terrified. 1229 01:02:23,777 --> 01:02:25,578 Hey, I'm not that intimidating. 1230 01:02:26,780 --> 01:02:29,215 Tell me more about this Cooper. 1231 01:02:31,551 --> 01:02:32,619 This is embarrassing. 1232 01:02:32,719 --> 01:02:33,920 I love it when you're embarrassed, 1233 01:02:34,540 --> 01:02:36,823 you get this scarlet blush that washes up over you, 1234 01:02:36,890 --> 01:02:39,590 and a second later it's gone. 1235 01:02:39,492 --> 01:02:41,661 This one might last considerably longer. 1236 01:02:41,761 --> 01:02:43,830 - I'd love to... - Elizabeth. Hello, Larry. 1237 01:02:43,897 --> 01:02:46,933 I hope I'm not interrupting anything too weighty. 1238 01:02:47,100 --> 01:02:49,436 Well, weighty affairs will have to wait. 1239 01:02:50,170 --> 01:02:51,738 She's a gem, isn't she? 1240 01:02:51,838 --> 01:02:53,139 Please, Mr. Hammerstein. 1241 01:02:53,239 --> 01:02:55,800 I'll only bother you for a moment. 1242 01:02:55,750 --> 01:02:57,110 Larry, I just wanted to say... 1243 01:02:57,844 --> 01:03:00,947 Well, firstly, I recognize this must be a difficult night for you. 1244 01:03:00,980 --> 01:03:04,417 No, I'm a professional, Oscar. We're both professionals, 1245 01:03:04,517 --> 01:03:06,453 we understand the nature of our business. 1246 01:03:06,586 --> 01:03:10,857 Larry, did you really like the show? I don't think I do the comedy numbers 1247 01:03:10,957 --> 01:03:13,126 half as well as you do. They're not my strength. 1248 01:03:13,259 --> 01:03:17,130 I laughed my *** off. I had to have it re-attached. 1249 01:03:18,498 --> 01:03:21,340 Larry, we're the same age, but you were always the teacher. 1250 01:03:21,134 --> 01:03:23,370 - No, Oscar. I... - No, your whole career, 1251 01:03:23,470 --> 01:03:25,138 - you showed us the way. - Well, I doubt... 1252 01:03:25,205 --> 01:03:26,773 You liberated us all. 1253 01:03:26,806 --> 01:03:30,310 You made American songs finally sound like American speech. 1254 01:03:30,443 --> 01:03:33,113 Stop. I dislike eulogies, especially my own. 1255 01:03:33,146 --> 01:03:35,315 Oscar, tonight is your night. 1256 01:03:35,982 --> 01:03:39,619 A hit for you and **** is a hit for all of us. 1257 01:03:39,719 --> 01:03:42,389 People finally want to go see shows again. 1258 01:03:42,455 --> 01:03:45,291 Real shows. **** and I were just tossing around a few ideas. 1259 01:03:45,392 --> 01:03:48,895 - Wonderful. - Yeah, we have this idea for a big... 1260 01:03:49,996 --> 01:03:53,533 Marco Polo show... huge... a kind of musical circus. 1261 01:03:53,633 --> 01:03:56,302 ****'s excited about it. 1262 01:03:56,336 --> 01:03:57,804 He said you're adapting Liliom. 1263 01:03:57,904 --> 01:03:59,572 Well, if we can finagle the rights. 1264 01:03:59,673 --> 01:04:00,674 Sounds exciting. 1265 01:04:00,807 --> 01:04:03,576 - Elizabeth told me she's your protégé. - Stop. 1266 01:04:03,677 --> 01:04:08,348 "She's the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long." 1267 01:04:08,415 --> 01:04:09,416 Please. 1268 01:04:09,516 --> 01:04:12,986 - You wrote a great lyric. - For a show that didn't run three months. 1269 01:04:13,190 --> 01:04:15,155 - I saw it twice. - You... 1270 01:04:15,221 --> 01:04:17,524 You know what we're talking about here, Stevie? 1271 01:04:17,657 --> 01:04:19,993 Very Warm for May. Produced by Max Gordon. 1272 01:04:20,260 --> 01:04:21,327 Music by Jerome Kern. 1273 01:04:21,428 --> 01:04:23,930 Alvin Theatre. 59 performances. 1274 01:04:25,432 --> 01:04:29,369 This is my neighbor. He's a kind of a walking encyclopedia of musical theater. 1275 01:04:29,502 --> 01:04:32,272 Well, I'm a kind of walking pneumonia for musical theater. 1276 01:04:32,339 --> 01:04:34,341 - Nice to meet you. - Pleasure to meet you. 1277 01:04:34,374 --> 01:04:36,343 He wants to write musicals when he grows up. 1278 01:04:36,376 --> 01:04:37,877 Who's your favorite lyricist? 1279 01:04:37,944 --> 01:04:39,450 Oscar. 1280 01:04:39,779 --> 01:04:42,115 Of course. And what do you think of my work? 1281 01:04:42,215 --> 01:04:43,717 I like it. It's funny. 1282 01:04:43,783 --> 01:04:44,884 Thank you. 1283 01:04:45,180 --> 01:04:46,286 Can be a little sloppy at times. 1284 01:04:47,187 --> 01:04:49,556 He's very tired. It's been a long day. 1285 01:04:49,622 --> 01:04:52,726 Come on, Stevie. It's a long ride back to Doylestown. 1286 01:04:52,859 --> 01:04:54,894 - You want to go to the bathroom? - I'm not tired. 1287 01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:56,963 He asked me what I thought of his work. 1288 01:04:57,630 --> 01:04:59,232 "Weighty affairs will just have to wait"? 1289 01:04:59,366 --> 01:05:01,401 I so regret not having children. 1290 01:05:02,202 --> 01:05:03,203 Cooper. 1291 01:05:04,637 --> 01:05:06,740 - l can't believe I'm telling you this. - Tell me. 1292 01:05:06,806 --> 01:05:09,142 You have to remember, I've had a hopeless crush on this guy 1293 01:05:09,209 --> 01:05:10,243 for over a year. 1294 01:05:10,377 --> 01:05:11,811 Hold this. Come here. 1295 01:05:12,979 --> 01:05:17,484 Renee, may I buy five minutes of privacy, please? 1296 01:05:18,418 --> 01:05:19,786 Anything for you, Larry. 1297 01:05:29,896 --> 01:05:30,997 Thank you. 1298 01:05:33,233 --> 01:05:36,236 Tell me what he looks like, I'm trying to visualize him. 1299 01:05:37,170 --> 01:05:39,439 Apollo? Blue eyes. Tall. 1300 01:05:39,506 --> 01:05:41,775 So, basically, the skin on his back 1301 01:05:41,841 --> 01:05:43,343 - was flawless... - Stop. 1302 01:05:43,443 --> 01:05:47,347 It's the night of your birthday. Tell me everything. 1303 01:05:47,447 --> 01:05:51,117 - A group of my friends are taking... - Boyfriends, girlfriends? 1304 01:05:51,785 --> 01:05:52,986 - Mixed. - Okay. 1305 01:05:53,860 --> 01:05:55,422 Come on, Larry, I'm a college lady. 1306 01:05:56,756 --> 01:06:00,627 So they're taking me to Mory's, which is technically no women allowed, 1307 01:06:01,261 --> 01:06:04,798 but they smuggle us up those backstairs like so much heavily-scented contraband, 1308 01:06:04,864 --> 01:06:10,270 and, of course, one of the girls has brought along her date. 1309 01:06:10,336 --> 01:06:11,338 Cooper? 1310 01:06:11,938 --> 01:06:15,542 Which is both destroying me and exhilarating me. 1311 01:06:15,608 --> 01:06:19,312 I mean, he's there. Near me. 1312 01:06:21,314 --> 01:06:22,816 The evening is getting late, 1313 01:06:22,882 --> 01:06:24,884 empty wine bottles are filling up the table. 1314 01:06:25,885 --> 01:06:27,987 Half of us are underage, 1315 01:06:28,210 --> 01:06:30,957 but we're flirting so shamelessly with the waiter that nobody seems to care. 1316 01:06:31,570 --> 01:06:34,600 - Drinking your French Malbec. - Exactly. 1317 01:06:34,794 --> 01:06:36,863 I'm nothing if not a good student. 1318 01:06:37,497 --> 01:06:41,134 That's why everybody loves you, Larry. You're the best listener I ever met. 1319 01:06:41,234 --> 01:06:44,671 That's because I have absolutely no interest in myself whatsoever. 1320 01:06:44,738 --> 01:06:47,700 Back to your tale of natal debauchery. 1321 01:06:47,140 --> 01:06:49,142 Empty wine bottles filling the table... 1322 01:06:50,410 --> 01:06:51,745 So it's late. 1323 01:06:52,345 --> 01:06:55,248 - And Marjorie... - The girl who came with Cooper? 1324 01:06:56,149 --> 01:06:57,817 She's left to go home and study. 1325 01:06:59,252 --> 01:07:01,521 People are staggering out one by one. 1326 01:07:02,322 --> 01:07:03,523 It's midnight. 1327 01:07:04,524 --> 01:07:07,600 And I find myself sitting right next to him. 1328 01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:08,528 Take your time. 1329 01:07:09,262 --> 01:07:12,899 You know, there's no place else on earth I'd rather be 1330 01:07:13,330 --> 01:07:15,602 than sitting right here with you. 1331 01:07:15,702 --> 01:07:17,904 Did you get my letter? There's a party at my place tonight. 1332 01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:20,173 I think I've got to stay here and help my mother... 1333 01:07:20,273 --> 01:07:21,608 It's not getting started till late. 1334 01:07:21,675 --> 01:07:24,544 You'll have plenty of time to work the room here. 1335 01:07:25,211 --> 01:07:28,882 I've got the Golden Gate Quartet showing up. Promise me you'll come. 1336 01:07:29,150 --> 01:07:30,550 320 Central Park West. 1337 01:07:30,617 --> 01:07:33,953 You said you wanted to design sets and costumes, 1338 01:07:34,540 --> 01:07:36,256 everybody in New York theater is gonna be there. 1339 01:07:36,356 --> 01:07:37,557 Okay, back to Cooper. 1340 01:07:38,892 --> 01:07:39,893 Okay. 1341 01:07:41,628 --> 01:07:43,290 We leave Mory's together. 1342 01:07:43,897 --> 01:07:47,400 It's a perfect November night. A fingernail clipping of a moon. 1343 01:07:48,368 --> 01:07:51,871 He's got his arm around me. We're both a little drunk, 1344 01:07:51,938 --> 01:07:54,808 stumbling in and out of each other's arms. 1345 01:07:54,874 --> 01:07:58,144 He's wearing this red and green flannel shirt with the sleeves rolled up. 1346 01:07:58,311 --> 01:07:59,579 Not that you noticed. 1347 01:08:00,547 --> 01:08:01,715 He's looking good! 1348 01:08:01,781 --> 01:08:02,882 And you? 1349 01:08:05,218 --> 01:08:06,252 It's my birthday, right? 1350 01:08:07,530 --> 01:08:09,556 - I'm supposed to be looking good. - Tasty. 1351 01:08:10,924 --> 01:08:13,993 So I'm leaning against that flannel work shirt, 1352 01:08:14,940 --> 01:08:15,662 and I'm telling you, 1353 01:08:16,329 --> 01:08:18,932 I can smell the maleness coming off of him. 1354 01:08:20,300 --> 01:08:24,738 I remember thinking that huge purple letters should have lit up the sky... 1355 01:08:26,172 --> 01:08:27,574 "Desire." - Okay. 1356 01:08:27,674 --> 01:08:28,675 Hold on one second. 1357 01:08:28,775 --> 01:08:31,110 I have to go find some ice-water and pour it down my trousers. 1358 01:08:31,111 --> 01:08:32,779 You may need some extra ice. 1359 01:08:33,513 --> 01:08:36,349 We end up in the basement of his fraternity, 1360 01:08:36,416 --> 01:08:39,619 in this tawdry sort of derelict bar. 1361 01:08:39,686 --> 01:08:42,689 God only knows how many acts of depravity have taken place down there. 1362 01:08:42,789 --> 01:08:44,357 And here comes one more. 1363 01:08:44,457 --> 01:08:45,525 Yeah. 1364 01:08:48,940 --> 01:08:50,597 So I've been watching this guy for a year, 1365 01:08:51,664 --> 01:08:55,935 dreaming about him, and now, here it is. 1366 01:08:56,770 --> 01:08:59,305 The night of my birthday, 1367 01:08:59,339 --> 01:09:02,142 the only light is coming from this dim little lamp 1368 01:09:02,208 --> 01:09:04,811 with horses and jockeys printed on the shade. 1369 01:09:05,545 --> 01:09:07,480 I mean, really, Larry, what's a girl to do? 1370 01:09:08,314 --> 01:09:09,549 Happy birthday! 1371 01:09:12,218 --> 01:09:14,220 He begins to take off his clothes. 1372 01:09:21,610 --> 01:09:22,796 You really want to hear this? 1373 01:09:22,862 --> 01:09:24,898 I'm mildly interested. 1374 01:09:27,133 --> 01:09:28,234 It's humiliating. 1375 01:09:29,669 --> 01:09:31,237 'Cause basically nothing happened. 1376 01:09:32,539 --> 01:09:33,673 Nothing? 1377 01:09:35,542 --> 01:09:37,377 Like you and me at the lake house? 1378 01:09:37,410 --> 01:09:38,411 No. 1379 01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:41,481 That was a deliberate decision we made, right? 1380 01:09:42,215 --> 01:09:46,353 Based on what? Rationality? I mean, as rational as you and I ever get. 1381 01:09:48,922 --> 01:09:50,560 But this... 1382 01:09:52,325 --> 01:09:54,828 This was based on the fact that he couldn't get the rubber on. 1383 01:09:55,762 --> 01:09:57,263 No. 1384 01:09:57,364 --> 01:09:58,598 He tried. 1385 01:09:59,499 --> 01:10:00,934 - He tried again. - No. 1386 01:10:01,868 --> 01:10:03,269 - I tried. - Stop. 1387 01:10:04,704 --> 01:10:06,606 It was the worst 10 minutes of my life. 1388 01:10:06,706 --> 01:10:08,742 It felt like 10 hours. 1389 01:10:08,842 --> 01:10:09,843 I'm sorry. 1390 01:10:09,943 --> 01:10:12,512 And you know what the worst part was? 1391 01:10:14,948 --> 01:10:17,417 He just wasn't there, you know? 1392 01:10:18,852 --> 01:10:21,621 He kept mumbling that it was the wine. 1393 01:10:21,688 --> 01:10:22,722 That... 1394 01:10:24,624 --> 01:10:27,270 the rubber was too small, if you can believe that. 1395 01:10:28,395 --> 01:10:31,231 And this whole time what's clear to me 1396 01:10:31,297 --> 01:10:36,102 is that he just... hasn't sufficiently... 1397 01:10:37,737 --> 01:10:40,373 I don't know what the right word is. Maybe... 1398 01:10:42,308 --> 01:10:45,378 "he-just-doesn't-love-you-enough" is the right word. 1399 01:10:46,579 --> 01:10:49,416 I mean, there's no way around that one, is there? 1400 01:10:50,250 --> 01:10:53,219 When the girl loves the guy with all of her heart, 1401 01:10:54,254 --> 01:10:56,723 and he just doesn't return her feeling? 1402 01:10:57,991 --> 01:11:00,493 Do you have any idea what that feels like? 1403 01:11:00,593 --> 01:11:02,662 "Nobody ever loved me that much." 1404 01:11:03,930 --> 01:11:07,734 I brought into that basement a year's worth of adoration, 1405 01:11:08,735 --> 01:11:10,737 yeah, studying his photograph, 1406 01:11:11,938 --> 01:11:13,973 memorizing his phone number. 1407 01:11:14,740 --> 01:11:17,777 And there he was, this half-drunk junior 1408 01:11:18,912 --> 01:11:20,780 who couldn't even pretend to love me... 1409 01:11:22,182 --> 01:11:25,852 And... I wouldn't have minded if there'd been... 1410 01:11:26,953 --> 01:11:29,255 some... passion underneath. 1411 01:11:29,856 --> 01:11:31,825 Or even empathy. 1412 01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:36,960 There was nothing. 1413 01:11:36,930 --> 01:11:40,700 Just... that lamp with the horses on it. 1414 01:11:41,935 --> 01:11:46,339 You deserve so much better. 1415 01:11:46,373 --> 01:11:47,440 Yeah. 1416 01:11:49,442 --> 01:11:51,311 I asked my roommate about it the next morning, 1417 01:11:51,978 --> 01:11:53,780 you know, girl to girl. 1418 01:11:54,814 --> 01:11:59,619 She said that men sometimes can't perform because they're too nervous. 1419 01:12:02,655 --> 01:12:05,658 I wish I could believe that to feel a little bit better about myself. 1420 01:12:05,725 --> 01:12:07,600 But.. 1421 01:12:07,627 --> 01:12:10,497 ...he was not nervous. Not in the least. 1422 01:12:10,563 --> 01:12:11,664 He had his eyes shut. 1423 01:12:11,731 --> 01:12:14,834 As if he were trying to dream me into somebody he really wanted. 1424 01:12:15,468 --> 01:12:16,836 I felt stupid. 1425 01:12:16,903 --> 01:12:18,338 I felt debased. 1426 01:12:18,405 --> 01:12:20,974 I felt furious at myself that I could allow him 1427 01:12:21,740 --> 01:12:22,742 to make me feel so worthless. 1428 01:12:25,345 --> 01:12:27,514 We tried a few creative alternatives. 1429 01:12:27,580 --> 01:12:28,581 No. 1430 01:12:30,483 --> 01:12:33,860 It got uglier and uglier. 1431 01:12:33,820 --> 01:12:37,924 Finally, he said, "Elizabeth, I owe you a rain check." 1432 01:12:39,859 --> 01:12:41,194 And that... 1433 01:12:41,861 --> 01:12:43,997 That was my 20th birthday. 1434 01:12:45,365 --> 01:12:46,599 Ta-da. 1435 01:12:46,700 --> 01:12:47,767 Jesus wept. 1436 01:12:50,603 --> 01:12:51,771 But it gets worse. 1437 01:12:51,871 --> 01:12:53,600 I don't think I can take it. 1438 01:12:53,106 --> 01:12:54,441 Okay, I can take it. 1439 01:12:54,541 --> 01:12:58,712 But just tell me in a way that doesn't make me ashamed to be a human being. 1440 01:13:00,947 --> 01:13:02,150 That's going to be difficult. 1441 01:13:03,516 --> 01:13:04,784 About a week later, 1442 01:13:05,952 --> 01:13:07,854 everybody's leaving for Thanksgiving. 1443 01:13:09,189 --> 01:13:11,891 He gives me a call. Would I like to have dinner with him? 1444 01:13:12,692 --> 01:13:14,694 You know me. No pride. 1445 01:13:15,528 --> 01:13:19,265 I say, "Sure," and make my way over to his fraternity again, 1446 01:13:20,467 --> 01:13:23,203 which sits under this huge gingko tree. 1447 01:13:23,970 --> 01:13:26,139 The leaves have turned yellow, 1448 01:13:26,239 --> 01:13:28,908 the trunk of the tree is black from the rain. 1449 01:13:29,642 --> 01:13:32,645 I'm thinking this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. 1450 01:13:33,580 --> 01:13:35,215 I remember saying to myself, 1451 01:13:36,490 --> 01:13:38,151 "God is giving you a second chance." 1452 01:13:39,850 --> 01:13:40,253 We go up to his room, 1453 01:13:40,387 --> 01:13:42,722 his roommate has already left for the holiday. 1454 01:13:43,556 --> 01:13:44,924 The door clicks shut, 1455 01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:47,930 and suddenly... 1456 01:13:48,495 --> 01:13:51,264 there's no more discussion about dinner. 1457 01:13:51,331 --> 01:13:53,233 Rain check cashed! 1458 01:13:53,299 --> 01:13:54,567 In spades. 1459 01:13:54,734 --> 01:13:56,403 I mean, it's suddenly pouring. 1460 01:13:56,503 --> 01:13:58,738 We're practically tearing each other's clothes off. 1461 01:13:58,838 --> 01:14:00,440 There is no conversation. 1462 01:14:01,341 --> 01:14:02,575 And this time... 1463 01:14:04,100 --> 01:14:05,578 there is no difficulty. 1464 01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:09,983 Not the first time. Not the second time. 1465 01:14:10,830 --> 01:14:11,618 Stop it. 1466 01:14:13,453 --> 01:14:17,457 He says to me, "Happy belated birthday, Elizabeth." 1467 01:14:20,260 --> 01:14:24,197 And you want to hear the unbelievable ending to this sordid little story? 1468 01:14:25,965 --> 01:14:27,701 That was the last time I saw him. 1469 01:14:29,769 --> 01:14:33,106 That was November. Over four months ago. 1470 01:14:34,541 --> 01:14:38,778 I was absolutely sure he'd call. If only to have *** again, right? 1471 01:14:38,878 --> 01:14:41,140 No. Never. 1472 01:14:41,815 --> 01:14:43,616 I thought he'd write. 1473 01:14:43,717 --> 01:14:44,818 No. 1474 01:14:45,618 --> 01:14:47,220 So I call him, of course. 1475 01:14:48,555 --> 01:14:50,390 He couldn't get off the phone fast enough. 1476 01:14:51,891 --> 01:14:53,326 So I wrote to him. 1477 01:14:54,894 --> 01:14:57,497 - A four-page typed letter. Single-spaced. - No. 1478 01:14:57,630 --> 01:14:58,898 No response. 1479 01:14:59,566 --> 01:15:03,636 I tell myself it was like a fever dream, you know? 1480 01:15:04,571 --> 01:15:06,740 And maybe the fever finally broke. 1481 01:15:07,907 --> 01:15:10,910 And it all sounds sane and sensible. 1482 01:15:13,346 --> 01:15:14,748 But you know something? 1483 01:15:16,216 --> 01:15:19,819 If he called me right now, right this very second, 1484 01:15:21,187 --> 01:15:23,189 I'd drop everything in my life and... 1485 01:15:24,357 --> 01:15:28,695 drive three hours, drive 30 hours just to spend one more night with him. 1486 01:15:28,762 --> 01:15:30,697 What is the matter with me, Larry? 1487 01:15:30,830 --> 01:15:34,667 Why would you drive 30 hours to see someone who treated you like that? 1488 01:15:37,537 --> 01:15:39,272 Because I'm in love with him? 1489 01:15:40,440 --> 01:15:41,441 You are? 1490 01:15:42,375 --> 01:15:45,945 It's illogical. Obsessional. Pathetic. 1491 01:15:47,130 --> 01:15:49,115 And this is not the first time this has happened to me. 1492 01:15:50,417 --> 01:15:51,885 It keeps happening to me. 1493 01:15:53,687 --> 01:15:56,189 I feel like I can't see people clearly. 1494 01:15:57,424 --> 01:16:00,360 I wrote a song once, years ago, 1495 01:16:00,460 --> 01:16:02,529 called The Heart is Quicker Than the Eye. 1496 01:16:02,629 --> 01:16:04,898 It's not a great song, but it's a good title. 1497 01:16:05,310 --> 01:16:07,100 And it's true, I think. 1498 01:16:07,967 --> 01:16:13,807 The head has nothing to do with the madness of love. 1499 01:16:14,908 --> 01:16:15,909 And... 1500 01:16:16,476 --> 01:16:19,813 It doesn't matter at all about worthiness, does it? 1501 01:16:19,913 --> 01:16:23,483 We invest our hearts in worthless stocks. 1502 01:16:23,583 --> 01:16:25,719 And we know they're worthless. 1503 01:16:25,785 --> 01:16:29,923 But we cling to them like little children clutching their little stuffed bears. 1504 01:16:32,892 --> 01:16:34,940 Elizabeth. 1505 01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:37,397 Tell me truthfully. 1506 01:16:39,399 --> 01:16:40,934 How do you feel about me? 1507 01:16:44,237 --> 01:16:45,305 How do you mean? 1508 01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:47,440 I mean, 1509 01:16:48,441 --> 01:16:51,745 at the lake house, with the light burning off the water, 1510 01:16:53,413 --> 01:16:55,415 we talked through half the night, 1511 01:16:56,583 --> 01:16:58,351 and I touched your shoulder... 1512 01:16:59,119 --> 01:17:01,788 Did you actually love me a little bit that night? 1513 01:17:03,230 --> 01:17:04,657 You know I love you, Larry. 1514 01:17:07,293 --> 01:17:08,495 You do? 1515 01:17:11,798 --> 01:17:15,135 Just... not that way. 1516 01:17:23,143 --> 01:17:27,247 You said you'd drive 30 hours to see Cooper. 1517 01:17:28,581 --> 01:17:31,510 How many hours would you drive to see me? 1518 01:17:33,319 --> 01:17:34,587 My hands are shaking. 1519 01:17:36,222 --> 01:17:38,725 I feel something wiser and deeper for you. 1520 01:17:39,559 --> 01:17:41,161 - Respect. - Thank you. 1521 01:17:41,261 --> 01:17:45,231 Gratitude for the generosity and selflessness you've shown me. 1522 01:17:45,265 --> 01:17:48,234 No one has ever been more interested in my life than you have. 1523 01:17:48,334 --> 01:17:51,905 I don't deserve a friendship like yours. I am so grateful for you. 1524 01:17:51,938 --> 01:17:54,740 I will be grateful forever. 1525 01:17:54,174 --> 01:17:56,776 I'm grateful to you, too, for resurrecting me. 1526 01:17:57,444 --> 01:17:58,411 Stop. 1527 01:17:58,511 --> 01:17:59,779 Larry! There's people out here. 1528 01:17:59,913 --> 01:18:01,348 One second! 1529 01:18:06,353 --> 01:18:07,954 Can I ask you something? 1530 01:18:09,422 --> 01:18:11,925 Something that's probably too personal for me to ask? 1531 01:18:12,250 --> 01:18:15,362 Too personal is the only thing that I'm interested in. 1532 01:18:17,897 --> 01:18:18,898 My mother... 1533 01:18:19,599 --> 01:18:22,635 You know, she works for the Guild, she knows everybody. 1534 01:18:22,769 --> 01:18:25,538 So she saw us spending time together last summer... 1535 01:18:25,638 --> 01:18:27,540 I see where this is headed. 1536 01:18:28,742 --> 01:18:31,978 She said to me... I don't... I don't know how to say this. 1537 01:18:32,112 --> 01:18:33,113 Just say it. 1538 01:18:35,415 --> 01:18:36,416 Okay. 1539 01:18:37,817 --> 01:18:39,786 She said to me, more than once, 1540 01:18:39,886 --> 01:18:42,655 "Elizabeth, not only is he twice your age, 1541 01:18:43,790 --> 01:18:47,660 "but I don't think his primary interest is women." 1542 01:18:47,794 --> 01:18:48,895 What did you say? 1543 01:18:50,630 --> 01:18:52,465 I said, "Look, Mother, I know what I know. 1544 01:18:52,499 --> 01:18:54,100 "And I know what we're both feeling." 1545 01:18:54,834 --> 01:18:56,302 What are we both feeling? 1546 01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:02,342 "Irrational adoration?" 1547 01:19:04,411 --> 01:19:09,616 And what may I ask does your mother think she knows of my primary interest? 1548 01:19:10,784 --> 01:19:13,586 I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said anything. 1549 01:19:14,421 --> 01:19:15,588 Please forgive me. 1550 01:19:17,230 --> 01:19:21,695 To all our mothers. May they remain mercifully silent. 1551 01:19:22,996 --> 01:19:25,198 I apologize. That was stupid of me to have asked. 1552 01:19:25,298 --> 01:19:27,300 And I do know what I know, and what I feel. 1553 01:19:28,101 --> 01:19:30,203 Here's what you tell that mother of yours, 1554 01:19:30,303 --> 01:19:31,771 as she sits by the fire, 1555 01:19:31,871 --> 01:19:34,774 wistfully counting up her royalties from Oklahoma! 1556 01:19:34,841 --> 01:19:38,511 You tell her that Larry Hart is drunk with beauty. 1557 01:19:39,546 --> 01:19:41,681 And italicize the word "drunk." 1558 01:19:42,182 --> 01:19:44,851 Drunk with beauty, wherever he finds it. 1559 01:19:44,951 --> 01:19:49,522 In men, in women, in the smell of cigar stores, 1560 01:19:49,622 --> 01:19:54,394 in the impossible beauty of a 20-year-old poet 1561 01:19:54,527 --> 01:19:59,299 with pale green eyes and two tiny freckles on her left cheek. 1562 01:20:04,700 --> 01:20:05,138 Are you all right? 1563 01:20:06,206 --> 01:20:10,760 It's... my cigarette heart. 1564 01:20:10,744 --> 01:20:13,790 Larry, **** Rodgers is looking for his coat. 1565 01:20:13,179 --> 01:20:14,314 Coming. 1566 01:20:31,231 --> 01:20:32,432 Introduce me? 1567 01:20:33,700 --> 01:20:35,568 Thank you, Renee. 1568 01:20:35,668 --> 01:20:37,771 Wonderful, thank you so much. 1569 01:20:38,505 --> 01:20:42,742 ****, I want to introduce you to my protégé, Elizabeth Weiland. 1570 01:20:44,177 --> 01:20:45,378 Your protege? 1571 01:20:46,246 --> 01:20:47,580 - Hello. - Hello. 1572 01:20:47,681 --> 01:20:50,830 Well, you've got yourself a damn good role model there 1573 01:20:50,183 --> 01:20:52,519 if you can stay away from the bourbon. 1574 01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:57,257 She's interested in writing and set design and costumes. 1575 01:20:57,357 --> 01:20:58,692 Okay, really? 1576 01:20:58,858 --> 01:21:01,270 Mr. Rodgers, the show tonight, 1577 01:21:01,695 --> 01:21:03,263 I thought it was magnificent. 1578 01:21:03,363 --> 01:21:04,464 Well, thank you. 1579 01:21:04,531 --> 01:21:06,733 It was as perfect a musical show as I've ever seen. 1580 01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,102 Well, that's a lovely compliment. 1581 01:21:09,202 --> 01:21:11,271 Your mother's with the Guild, am I right? 1582 01:21:11,304 --> 01:21:13,707 - Yes, Theresa Weiland. - Yeah, Theresa, yeah. 1583 01:21:13,740 --> 01:21:16,543 - Right, so you've seen a lot of shows. - Too many shows. 1584 01:21:18,478 --> 01:21:19,479 Yeah. 1585 01:21:19,612 --> 01:21:20,580 I know what you mean. 1586 01:21:21,214 --> 01:21:23,883 But tonight what I saw was what I'd always hoped a show might be. 1587 01:21:23,983 --> 01:21:26,720 Uplifting. Smart. Magical. 1588 01:21:26,820 --> 01:21:30,290 Larry, this is the most perceptive young woman you've ever introduced me to. 1589 01:21:31,825 --> 01:21:33,293 I've had a good teacher. 1590 01:21:34,127 --> 01:21:35,795 So, what do you write? 1591 01:21:35,895 --> 01:21:37,664 At this point, poetry mostly. 1592 01:21:38,131 --> 01:21:39,999 It's very strong. 1593 01:21:40,100 --> 01:21:41,801 And you do set design, too? 1594 01:21:41,901 --> 01:21:43,236 - I'm studying. - Right. 1595 01:21:43,303 --> 01:21:47,173 Well, I'd love to... read some of your poems. 1596 01:21:48,908 --> 01:21:52,345 See your sketches. This is my... This is my private number. 1597 01:21:53,847 --> 01:21:54,981 I'm flattered. 1598 01:21:55,682 --> 01:21:59,185 I haven't seen Dorothy around. Is... Is... Is your wife here? 1599 01:21:59,252 --> 01:22:01,588 No, she's headed back to the apartment. We're all going to meet up there 1600 01:22:01,621 --> 01:22:03,523 to look at the late reviews, Larry. 1601 01:22:03,623 --> 01:22:07,930 Yeah, so I'd love for you to join us, Elizabeth. 1602 01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:09,996 It would be refreshing to have someone of the younger generation amongst us. 1603 01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:12,980 And maybe you can explain to me, Elizabeth, 1604 01:22:12,165 --> 01:22:14,601 why exactly the young girls scream over Sinatra. 1605 01:22:15,268 --> 01:22:17,370 I don't scream over Sinatra. 1606 01:22:17,137 --> 01:22:19,172 No, she screams under Sinatra. 1607 01:22:19,205 --> 01:22:20,940 Okay, Larry! 1608 01:22:22,542 --> 01:22:24,678 Larry, of course, you're welcome to come. 1609 01:22:24,778 --> 01:22:28,381 I'm going to try to make it, I'm just throwing a little soirée over at my place. 1610 01:22:28,515 --> 01:22:29,883 I've got the Golden Gate Quartet coming... 1611 01:22:29,949 --> 01:22:33,787 Well, I can't compete with Larry in the soirée department. 1612 01:22:33,820 --> 01:22:35,889 - I'd love to stop over. - You would? 1613 01:22:36,220 --> 01:22:37,557 ****, you coming? 1614 01:22:37,657 --> 01:22:39,250 Yep, yep. 1615 01:22:39,590 --> 01:22:40,293 Do you have a ride? 1616 01:22:40,393 --> 01:22:42,280 You know what, I can take her in a cab later. 1617 01:22:42,620 --> 01:22:43,697 We're going right now if you want to come with us? 1618 01:22:43,797 --> 01:22:45,465 - I'd love to. - Great. 1619 01:22:46,232 --> 01:22:48,568 Just let me inform my mom. 1620 01:22:48,702 --> 01:22:50,503 The dutiful daughter. 1621 01:22:53,973 --> 01:22:56,710 She is... She is so lovely, right? 1622 01:22:57,877 --> 01:22:59,746 She's really striking. 1623 01:22:59,813 --> 01:23:02,820 Are you... Are you and she... 1624 01:23:02,148 --> 01:23:06,190 No, no. I mean, I'm in love with her, 1625 01:23:06,653 --> 01:23:09,589 but everybody's in love with her. 1626 01:23:10,824 --> 01:23:12,592 Just not that way. 1627 01:23:12,659 --> 01:23:13,693 Okay. 1628 01:23:23,269 --> 01:23:24,771 So we'll see you later on tonight? 1629 01:23:24,904 --> 01:23:26,106 Absolutely. 1630 01:23:33,179 --> 01:23:34,514 Thank you for everything. 1631 01:23:36,249 --> 01:23:37,851 Mr. Rodgers. 1632 01:23:37,951 --> 01:23:39,219 Miss Weiland. 1633 01:23:41,254 --> 01:23:42,288 Thank you. 1634 01:23:43,123 --> 01:23:44,524 And we'll see you later, Larry, right? 1635 01:23:48,128 --> 01:23:52,980 "With a song in my heart, I behold your adorable face!" 1636 01:24:14,454 --> 01:24:17,824 You ever meet someone, and you know instantly 1637 01:24:17,957 --> 01:24:22,162 that both your lives are going to be irretrievably altered? 1638 01:24:22,228 --> 01:24:26,132 Just as I suspected. You are a sentimentalist. 1639 01:24:28,134 --> 01:24:29,335 When do you get off work? 1640 01:24:29,469 --> 01:24:31,400 I got to lock this joint up. 1641 01:24:31,710 --> 01:24:33,940 What about you, Knuckles, you're done here, right? 1642 01:24:33,973 --> 01:24:35,342 Not yet. 1643 01:24:35,475 --> 01:24:38,978 'Cause I am throwing an enormous party at my place tonight. 1644 01:24:42,148 --> 01:24:43,983 I forgot to give her the presents. 1645 01:24:47,187 --> 01:24:49,356 I'm having such trouble with sleeves recently. 1646 01:24:49,456 --> 01:24:51,624 I have arthritis in this shoulder. 1647 01:24:52,592 --> 01:24:54,461 I'm going to have to start wearing a cloak. 1648 01:24:55,950 --> 01:24:59,990 I mean it. Single-handedly, I'm going to bring back the cloak. 1649 01:25:04,370 --> 01:25:09,376 You're going to see me on opening nights with a top hat 1650 01:25:09,509 --> 01:25:14,381 and a cloak, flitting through the fog with a silver-tipped cane. 1651 01:25:15,181 --> 01:25:17,283 You boys are coming tonight, right? 1652 01:25:17,384 --> 01:25:20,453 She's going to be there. I'm telling you, she will. 1653 01:25:21,540 --> 01:25:22,455 She'll arrive late. 1654 01:25:22,555 --> 01:25:26,693 And get this, 'cause this is the remarkable part, 1655 01:25:26,793 --> 01:25:30,296 sometime late, maybe around 5:00 a.m., 1656 01:25:30,397 --> 01:25:32,699 after a little too much Malbec, 1657 01:25:32,799 --> 01:25:35,902 she's going to turn to me and say, 1658 01:25:35,969 --> 01:25:39,139 "Hey, Larry, what are you reading? 1659 01:25:39,205 --> 01:25:41,541 "Hey, Larry, when's your birthday?" 1660 01:25:41,574 --> 01:25:44,244 For the first time in her life, 1661 01:25:44,310 --> 01:25:48,181 she's going to be interested in me. 1662 01:25:49,490 --> 01:25:51,251 It has to happen sometime, right? 1663 01:25:51,384 --> 01:25:53,653 All the other guys have disappointed her. 1664 01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:56,756 But I never will. I'm just... 1665 01:25:57,824 --> 01:26:00,226 a little touch of Larry in the night. 1666 01:26:01,828 --> 01:26:04,330 Knuckles. Some travelin' music. 1667 01:26:08,768 --> 01:26:09,769 Blue moon 1668 01:26:12,105 --> 01:26:15,442 You saw me standing alone 1669 01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:17,770 Wise guy. 1670 01:26:17,177 --> 01:26:20,413 Without a dream in my heart 1671 01:26:22,115 --> 01:26:25,185 Without a love of my own 1672 01:26:26,419 --> 01:26:30,590 Well, it's a helluva lot better than The Surrey With the ****ing Fringe On Top. 1673 01:26:31,424 --> 01:26:34,461 Larry, you coming uptown to ****'s with us? 1674 01:26:34,928 --> 01:26:37,970 No, you go on ahead, I'll be up there later. 1675 01:26:38,264 --> 01:26:42,736 You knew just what I was there for 1676 01:26:42,802 --> 01:26:46,606 You heard me saying a prayer for 1677 01:26:47,974 --> 01:26:51,277 Someone I really could care for 1678 01:26:51,378 --> 01:26:55,648 That's not bad. Triple feminine rhymes, and they all make sense. 1679 01:26:55,782 --> 01:26:58,485 And then suddenly you appeared before me 1680 01:26:59,619 --> 01:27:03,256 The only one my arms will ever hold 1681 01:27:04,324 --> 01:27:06,659 And I heard somebody whisper 1682 01:27:06,793 --> 01:27:08,895 Please adore me 1683 01:27:08,995 --> 01:27:13,967 And when I looked The moon had turned to gold 1684 01:27:14,670 --> 01:27:15,635 Blue moon 1685 01:27:23,900 --> 01:27:27,781 Larry, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. 1686 01:27:28,415 --> 01:27:29,783 "Isn't it romantic?" 1687 01:27:30,684 --> 01:27:31,818 Not really, no. 1688 01:27:35,855 --> 01:27:39,259 You know, it wasn't even supposed to be called Blue Moon. 1689 01:27:39,325 --> 01:27:42,662 I called it The Bad in Every Man. 1690 01:27:42,762 --> 01:27:45,532 We wrote it for this movie, Manhattan Melodrama. 1691 01:27:45,665 --> 01:27:49,536 Jack Robbins, formerly "Rabinowitz," he had his name circumcised over at MGM, 1692 01:27:49,669 --> 01:27:51,538 he hears the song, he calls us into his office, 1693 01:27:51,671 --> 01:27:56,276 he lowers his pastrami, says, "****, I love the melody. 1694 01:27:56,343 --> 01:27:58,778 "Strong as anything you've ever written. 1695 01:27:58,845 --> 01:28:03,183 "But, Larry, those words, they're too artsy-fartsy! 1696 01:28:03,350 --> 01:28:06,786 "They're not too artsy-fartsy for me. I know how brilliant you guys are. 1697 01:28:06,853 --> 01:28:09,289 "But you have to write for the schmucks in the dark. 1698 01:28:09,389 --> 01:28:10,857 "Nobody's going to sing that lyric." 1699 01:28:10,957 --> 01:28:12,659 So I said, "What's wrong with it?" 1700 01:28:12,692 --> 01:28:15,562 He said, "I can't even remember the ****ing title! 1701 01:28:15,628 --> 01:28:18,498 "Boys, give me something I can promote." 1702 01:28:18,565 --> 01:28:20,900 So I say, "What do you want me to call it?" 1703 01:28:20,967 --> 01:28:21,968 Blue Moon? 1704 01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:25,380 Punchline, biggest hit we ever wrote.