1 00:00:35,302 --> 00:00:41,075 -I told Martha to throw these goddamn things away. -Happy Rockefeller. 2 00:00:41,175 --> 00:00:44,078 Couldn't just be a girl from the secretarial pool with you. 3 00:00:44,178 --> 00:00:46,780 It always has to be a monument to your fucking ego. 4 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,550 Oh, so it's my fault? I'm not the one who told him everything. 5 00:00:50,650 --> 00:00:52,286 Of course I told him! 6 00:00:53,220 --> 00:00:54,988 He was there for me. Where were you? 7 00:00:55,089 --> 00:00:58,392 Have you ever wanted to have a conversation with me? 8 00:00:58,492 --> 00:01:02,496 No. Your bloated lack of discretion-- 9 00:01:02,595 --> 00:01:04,764 What the fuck did we do to him? 10 00:01:04,864 --> 00:01:06,599 Other than roll out the red carpet 11 00:01:06,699 --> 00:01:09,303 so he could prance on twinkle toes into our world. 12 00:01:09,403 --> 00:01:11,338 He was a fucking guest! 13 00:01:12,006 --> 00:01:16,910 Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Lee. 14 00:01:17,011 --> 00:01:19,913 He leaves them practically alone. 15 00:01:22,149 --> 00:01:25,985 It's hatred. Pure hatred. 16 00:01:27,887 --> 00:01:30,524 I feel like I'm going insane. 17 00:01:30,623 --> 00:01:32,792 He comes off far worse than any of you do. 18 00:01:32,892 --> 00:01:35,463 I need something. I need a pill. Where-- 19 00:01:36,330 --> 00:01:38,299 Martha, would you make Mrs. Paley 20 00:01:38,399 --> 00:01:40,468 -a cup of tea, please? -Yes. You have a phone call, sir. 21 00:01:40,568 --> 00:01:42,103 Thank you. I'll bring you a Valium. 22 00:01:42,203 --> 00:01:45,005 I don't want your fucking help! 23 00:01:49,276 --> 00:01:53,347 You miserable little fuck. Don't call here again. Ever. 24 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:55,949 You might as well move to Patagonia. 25 00:01:56,050 --> 00:02:00,121 That is how isolated you will be, starved of oxygen. 26 00:02:00,221 --> 00:02:04,525 And I will watch. I will watch as you die alone. 27 00:02:04,624 --> 00:02:07,361 So go and die. 28 00:04:57,531 --> 00:05:00,034 It's Truman. You know what to do. 29 00:05:00,134 --> 00:05:03,370 So do it after the beep. Here it comes. 30 00:05:03,470 --> 00:05:05,572 The beep. 31 00:05:05,673 --> 00:05:08,208 Mr. Capote, it's Jimmy Baldwin. 32 00:05:08,309 --> 00:05:11,145 If you are there, hiding behind some hideous piece of ormolu furniture, 33 00:05:11,245 --> 00:05:12,346 please pick up. 34 00:05:13,147 --> 00:05:17,251 I'm counting. One, two... 35 00:05:18,218 --> 00:05:20,920 -Hello, Mr. Baldwin. -Mr. Mailer tells me 36 00:05:21,021 --> 00:05:23,424 - you're despondent. - Is this true? 37 00:05:25,492 --> 00:05:29,663 I mean, stunned, shocked. 38 00:05:30,863 --> 00:05:35,703 I am speechless. This is the worst time in my life, I think. 39 00:05:37,237 --> 00:05:40,107 I may have tried to kill myself last night. 40 00:05:41,075 --> 00:05:42,443 Let me turn this thing off. 41 00:05:42,543 --> 00:05:44,511 It's taping us. I don't need that. 42 00:05:45,945 --> 00:05:49,016 So the ladies who lunch are taking their pounds of flesh, are they? 43 00:05:49,116 --> 00:05:51,285 Oh, no. Not pounds. 44 00:05:52,453 --> 00:05:54,254 All of it. 45 00:05:54,355 --> 00:05:58,058 Flaying me alive. 46 00:05:58,158 --> 00:06:04,131 A concentrated effort to effectively ensure I am a social pariah. 47 00:06:04,897 --> 00:06:06,600 What are you doing right now? 48 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:09,436 Well, I was standing at the window, 49 00:06:09,536 --> 00:06:13,906 thinking about throwing myself into the East River, frankly. 50 00:06:15,376 --> 00:06:17,077 Then you called. 51 00:06:17,745 --> 00:06:19,113 Let's meet for lunch. 52 00:06:21,749 --> 00:06:25,152 The scene of the crime, today, 1:00 sharp. I'll reserve. 53 00:06:25,252 --> 00:06:29,456 I don't wanna go there. It's full of enemies. 54 00:06:31,125 --> 00:06:33,160 They might not even let me in. 55 00:06:33,260 --> 00:06:35,496 What a story that would be. 56 00:06:35,596 --> 00:06:39,133 They can't refuse entry with this Black man, can they? 57 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:48,575 They're all glowering. 58 00:06:49,243 --> 00:06:53,013 What if somebody comes over and starts a ghastly scene? 59 00:06:54,114 --> 00:06:56,116 Well, I'll just beat the living shit out of them. 60 00:06:58,218 --> 00:07:02,489 Besides, you've had ghastly scenes here before, haven't you? 61 00:07:02,589 --> 00:07:05,259 Didn't that murderess spritz you with Chablis once? 62 00:07:05,793 --> 00:07:07,461 Sancerre, actually. 63 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:14,435 Mr. Capote. 64 00:07:15,369 --> 00:07:17,638 Gonna tell you some hard truths today. 65 00:07:17,738 --> 00:07:20,474 You're going to spend the day listening and learning from me. 66 00:07:21,642 --> 00:07:23,544 Class begins henceforth, baby. 67 00:07:23,644 --> 00:07:26,447 I'm not a very quick study, Jimmy. 68 00:07:26,547 --> 00:07:28,148 Then let's order some oysters. 69 00:07:29,817 --> 00:07:32,119 Ah, this is faux Basque shit. 70 00:07:32,219 --> 00:07:34,788 I've been to the Basque coast, darling. This is not Basque. 71 00:07:34,888 --> 00:07:36,723 This is New York continental froufrou. 72 00:07:42,129 --> 00:07:43,963 Why are you being nice to me? 73 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:49,403 We're friends, I mean, but we're not close friends. 74 00:07:50,537 --> 00:07:53,407 Mr. Baldwin, I'm told you have a special request? 75 00:07:53,507 --> 00:07:58,412 Oh, yes. The best thing-- The best thing I ever ate was in a place outside of Biarritz. 76 00:07:58,512 --> 00:08:00,681 Something called Kokotxas. Do you know it? 77 00:08:01,215 --> 00:08:06,253 Kokotxas was cod cheeks in a salsa verde. 78 00:08:06,353 --> 00:08:12,092 There's olive oil, there's fish stock, garlic, finely chopped parsley, 79 00:08:12,192 --> 00:08:15,262 and it comes on this perfect crusty bread. Can you do something like that? 80 00:08:15,362 --> 00:08:19,199 We need to do something to bolster this man's flagging spirits. 81 00:08:19,299 --> 00:08:21,034 Of course, sir. 82 00:08:21,134 --> 00:08:22,736 I've noticed that most minorities-- 83 00:08:22,836 --> 00:08:26,273 Blacks, thank God, Asians, women, Jewish folk-- 84 00:08:26,373 --> 00:08:29,042 they all have a community to turn to in their time of need. 85 00:08:30,077 --> 00:08:32,613 The homosexual, not so much. Not yet. 86 00:08:33,247 --> 00:08:35,182 I mean, what? You, me, Gore, Tenn? 87 00:08:35,282 --> 00:08:38,018 We're the only gay American men of letters, pretty much. 88 00:08:38,118 --> 00:08:43,423 I'm not counting Frank O'Hara and Ginsberg because they are just poets. 89 00:08:45,192 --> 00:08:47,127 Gore hasn't reached out to you, I'm guessing. 90 00:08:47,227 --> 00:08:48,896 Gore? 91 00:08:48,996 --> 00:08:50,764 Are you kidding? 92 00:08:50,864 --> 00:08:54,935 He's dancing in joy at my misfortune. 93 00:08:55,035 --> 00:08:56,904 Voodoo doll in hand. 94 00:08:57,005 --> 00:08:58,705 Well, because he's jealous of you. 95 00:08:59,306 --> 00:09:01,875 I'm not jealous of you. Today, Truman, 96 00:09:01,975 --> 00:09:05,379 I am going to be your community. Because you need one. 97 00:09:06,547 --> 00:09:10,484 You are important to this country. Your words and ideas. 98 00:09:10,584 --> 00:09:12,619 As-- As are yours. 99 00:09:12,719 --> 00:09:15,422 Well, we know that. We're not talking about me today. 100 00:09:15,522 --> 00:09:20,093 Your story is being dismissed as a-- as a small salacious roman à clef. 101 00:09:20,193 --> 00:09:21,929 It is much more than that. 102 00:09:22,030 --> 00:09:23,263 It is? 103 00:09:24,298 --> 00:09:26,733 I mean, it is. 104 00:09:27,734 --> 00:09:29,670 I wanna know what you left out. 105 00:09:29,770 --> 00:09:33,106 All the awful things you could have said about the Swans. 106 00:09:34,508 --> 00:09:36,143 Why do you wanna know that? 107 00:09:37,778 --> 00:09:39,479 Tell you at the end of the day. 108 00:09:41,582 --> 00:09:44,851 Start with Babe. I know she's your favorite. 109 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,622 Can we talk about this in the bedroom? 110 00:09:48,722 --> 00:09:50,090 What is there to talk about? 111 00:09:50,190 --> 00:09:51,758 Everyone overheard 112 00:09:51,858 --> 00:09:53,994 because you happen to slip in that in between 113 00:09:54,094 --> 00:09:57,764 buying a Max Beckmann painting and a Max Ernst painting in Berlin 114 00:09:57,864 --> 00:09:59,967 that you just fucked somebody! Listen to me! 115 00:10:00,068 --> 00:10:02,703 It's the sex stuff that I revealed 116 00:10:02,803 --> 00:10:06,040 in my sneak peek magazine article that's made them mad. 117 00:10:06,139 --> 00:10:09,142 It's not the bang-bang cruelty or even their funny names. 118 00:10:09,242 --> 00:10:11,778 It's the rough truth of it. It's Bill's affairs. 119 00:10:11,878 --> 00:10:13,714 I don't know what matters more to him. 120 00:10:13,814 --> 00:10:16,350 The fuck or me knowing about it. 121 00:10:21,121 --> 00:10:23,857 You think it's harmless, flirting with the help? 122 00:10:23,957 --> 00:10:26,393 Oh, it was hardly flirting, dear. 123 00:10:26,493 --> 00:10:29,529 Well, I was mortified. She had legs like a tree trunk. 124 00:10:29,630 --> 00:10:31,565 Why don't you cut one off and count the rings? 125 00:10:31,665 --> 00:10:34,868 If I wrote a book, it would be called Thieves I've Known. 126 00:10:35,502 --> 00:10:38,505 Starting with Betty Bacall, who stole my look. 127 00:10:38,605 --> 00:10:41,875 The fabric I found, gray flannel that I found. 128 00:10:41,975 --> 00:10:45,379 And any man I ever spent a night with, she had to do the same thing. 129 00:10:45,479 --> 00:10:48,215 Until, finally, I heard from one of these guys that he couldn't tell the difference 130 00:10:48,315 --> 00:10:50,417 who he was fucking, her or me. 131 00:10:50,517 --> 00:10:53,186 And what's left of me after everything's been stolen? 132 00:10:53,286 --> 00:10:55,389 "Formidable excellence" is how I'm described. 133 00:10:55,489 --> 00:10:58,592 That's code for a dry hump. 134 00:10:58,692 --> 00:11:03,330 I was trying to go after the men. Not the women. 135 00:11:03,430 --> 00:11:04,398 Thank you. 136 00:11:05,899 --> 00:11:10,038 The truth, Jimmy. The thing that I could have written but didn't 137 00:11:10,138 --> 00:11:14,008 is that they all fuck everybody and get away with it. 138 00:11:14,108 --> 00:11:15,776 The affairs of the rich are different. 139 00:11:15,876 --> 00:11:18,245 But these women pillory anyone else 140 00:11:18,345 --> 00:11:20,681 who does so, as if they were above it all. 141 00:11:20,781 --> 00:11:23,917 Babe had many affairs in their apartment 142 00:11:24,018 --> 00:11:27,121 when Bill would go to LA for his programming trips. 143 00:11:27,220 --> 00:11:29,556 I even helped her pick out the outfits. 144 00:11:29,656 --> 00:11:33,293 One time she wanted to dress up as an Hermès pirate for a lover. 145 00:11:33,393 --> 00:11:36,863 - The men were always unsuitable. 146 00:11:43,137 --> 00:11:47,041 Lee. Lee plays the part of America's original Pilgrim, 147 00:11:47,141 --> 00:11:50,911 but she's a true slattern, voracious and predatory. 148 00:11:51,012 --> 00:11:52,612 But the worst is Slim. 149 00:11:52,713 --> 00:11:54,448 In the final years of her marriage, 150 00:11:54,548 --> 00:11:56,650 she relegated Kenneth to the guest room 151 00:11:56,750 --> 00:11:59,820 and brazenly paraded in a series of lovers. 152 00:12:01,155 --> 00:12:05,759 And even CZ, who is the human chastity belt, 153 00:12:05,859 --> 00:12:07,961 she had her time as a party girl. 154 00:12:08,062 --> 00:12:11,832 Does she not remember posing nude for Diego Rivera? 155 00:12:12,432 --> 00:12:16,003 Mostly her lovers are the tiny vegetables she tends to. 156 00:12:16,104 --> 00:12:18,972 Because vegetables can't talk or talk back. 157 00:12:19,073 --> 00:12:20,674 And there's a double standard. 158 00:12:21,341 --> 00:12:24,511 When the men get caught, oh, brother, hell to pay. 159 00:12:24,611 --> 00:12:27,814 But what did the men ever get for their women's indiscretions? Nothing. 160 00:12:27,914 --> 00:12:30,417 And in many ways, the women are far, far worse. 161 00:12:30,517 --> 00:12:32,419 - Darling. - They make the men pay 162 00:12:32,519 --> 00:12:35,689 because the ultimate threat to the Swans are younger women. 163 00:12:35,789 --> 00:12:38,126 God, do they hate them. 164 00:12:41,328 --> 00:12:43,530 Please excuse me while I throw up. 165 00:13:03,017 --> 00:13:04,018 Babe? 166 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:09,190 I hope you get this message. I hope Bill... 167 00:13:10,323 --> 00:13:11,691 doesn't erase it. 168 00:13:15,163 --> 00:13:16,863 I'm at Côte. 169 00:13:17,664 --> 00:13:19,299 And without you... 170 00:13:22,170 --> 00:13:23,336 it's nothing. 171 00:13:25,672 --> 00:13:27,574 Nothing even tastes good. 172 00:13:33,814 --> 00:13:35,749 I never meant to hurt you. 173 00:14:04,444 --> 00:14:06,247 And why did you leave all that out? 174 00:14:07,914 --> 00:14:10,350 You know, fascinating fact. 175 00:14:10,450 --> 00:14:13,887 Swans are actually terribly aggressive with one another. 176 00:14:13,987 --> 00:14:16,790 One race of swan hates the other. 177 00:14:16,890 --> 00:14:20,228 I read a bit about them before our lunch, dear man. 178 00:14:20,328 --> 00:14:22,063 The Beswick swan, for example, 179 00:14:22,163 --> 00:14:25,599 hates the whooper with a kind of rabid passion. 180 00:14:25,699 --> 00:14:30,737 A mute swan will do anything to eviscerate a trumpeter swan and take its home 181 00:14:30,837 --> 00:14:33,107 even if the trumpeter lived there first. 182 00:14:33,974 --> 00:14:37,777 A swan... ...it will kill if it can. 183 00:14:37,878 --> 00:14:41,815 Yes, as they are trying to kill me. 184 00:14:42,716 --> 00:14:45,418 My Swans, yes. 185 00:14:45,518 --> 00:14:47,821 And I think they might actually succeed. 186 00:14:47,921 --> 00:14:50,124 No, fuck them. No. 187 00:14:55,929 --> 00:14:57,064 Oh, thank you. 188 00:14:58,932 --> 00:15:01,002 My Swans would never do this. 189 00:15:02,836 --> 00:15:05,239 Have lunch alone with a Black man. 190 00:15:05,339 --> 00:15:07,908 I am aware. This is not news. 191 00:15:08,009 --> 00:15:10,177 Maybe they just never thought they had to, 192 00:15:10,278 --> 00:15:13,247 but they are constitutionally, by nature, 193 00:15:13,347 --> 00:15:18,152 not curious enough to cross the imaginary barriers. 194 00:15:21,122 --> 00:15:23,257 Come out and say it. You can say it. 195 00:15:24,658 --> 00:15:26,127 Well, there is a... 196 00:15:27,861 --> 00:15:32,099 subtle racism below the surface of the water they swim in. 197 00:15:32,199 --> 00:15:35,269 Exactly. Your next chapter. 198 00:15:35,369 --> 00:15:40,007 Well, it's never overt, the racism. Or the classism. 199 00:15:41,675 --> 00:15:45,879 It's subtle, but it's meant to convey one thing: 200 00:15:45,979 --> 00:15:50,784 "I am a privileged, wealthy white woman, and I am better than you." 201 00:15:51,385 --> 00:15:54,188 And the pecking order speaks volumes. 202 00:15:54,288 --> 00:15:56,023 Blacks for labor. 203 00:15:56,123 --> 00:15:57,891 Gays for entertainment. 204 00:15:57,991 --> 00:16:00,560 Women for the men to look at. 205 00:16:00,660 --> 00:16:02,963 And all of us there to serve them. 206 00:16:03,530 --> 00:16:05,498 And the people next to her and Bill? 207 00:16:06,067 --> 00:16:08,468 White, money, power. 208 00:16:09,536 --> 00:16:12,306 Even Jack usually wasn't invited. 209 00:16:12,973 --> 00:16:15,475 Too overtly homosexual. 210 00:16:15,575 --> 00:16:19,347 Us together might upset the other guests. 211 00:16:20,014 --> 00:16:23,483 Oh, it stung me, those parties. It really did. 212 00:16:24,151 --> 00:16:28,688 Okay, let's talk Bianca Jagger. Or rather, let's not. 213 00:16:28,788 --> 00:16:32,326 I say we all get on the same page. Oh, she's fine for a dinner party. 214 00:16:32,426 --> 00:16:35,062 But you don't want her purring on your sofa. 215 00:16:36,663 --> 00:16:38,665 Does this have anything to do 216 00:16:38,765 --> 00:16:42,036 with Bianca's skin not being alabaster white? 217 00:16:43,371 --> 00:16:45,839 Of course, they would argue no. 218 00:16:45,939 --> 00:16:49,377 They don't include Bianca because she's too loud or some such other reason, 219 00:16:49,477 --> 00:16:51,112 but I think it does. 220 00:16:51,945 --> 00:16:55,049 They didn't want to corrupt the pool. 221 00:16:55,149 --> 00:16:57,684 Whites only, WASPs only. 222 00:16:58,752 --> 00:17:00,354 They're not even aware they're doing it. 223 00:17:00,454 --> 00:17:02,522 It's just that this kind of bigotry 224 00:17:02,622 --> 00:17:05,859 is so intrinsic to their world and who they are 225 00:17:05,959 --> 00:17:09,063 that they can't see it even when it's right in front of them. 226 00:17:09,163 --> 00:17:12,400 Let me tell you something. It's impossible for a white person-- 227 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:17,570 or an American white person-- to not be, in some fundamental sense, a racist. 228 00:17:18,972 --> 00:17:19,973 Mmm. 229 00:17:21,475 --> 00:17:25,879 Well, I worry about what I'm not seeing. I spend so much time with them. 230 00:17:26,613 --> 00:17:28,748 How can I not be guilty as well? 231 00:17:28,848 --> 00:17:31,951 Well, you are, of course, but the question is how you address it. 232 00:17:34,422 --> 00:17:36,623 I've always wondered at the great effort 233 00:17:36,723 --> 00:17:40,494 it seems to take a certain segment of society to work so hard 234 00:17:40,593 --> 00:17:42,595 to ignore what was happening. 235 00:17:43,930 --> 00:17:46,434 Their good work, never meant for us. 236 00:17:47,934 --> 00:17:51,105 Well, it's all for their world, no one else's. 237 00:17:52,972 --> 00:17:58,279 The Met, the Botanical Gardens, the New York Public Library, the Frick. 238 00:17:59,180 --> 00:18:02,083 It's for preservation of their monuments. 239 00:18:10,324 --> 00:18:12,826 Come on. Let's go somewhere to brighten up the day a bit, my dear. 240 00:18:31,811 --> 00:18:33,347 So tell me something. 241 00:18:33,447 --> 00:18:36,016 Are you in love or dating anyone? 242 00:18:36,117 --> 00:18:41,489 Me? My love life has been a series of arias, fumbles, 243 00:18:42,523 --> 00:18:46,726 half-finished sentences and a quick amour, and fleeing into the night. 244 00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:49,497 Living in Paris helps. 245 00:18:49,996 --> 00:18:52,133 Exile makes sex more felt. 246 00:18:52,233 --> 00:18:53,967 Mmm. I remember that. 247 00:18:54,068 --> 00:18:56,370 You sleep with a sailor in Marseilles, 248 00:18:56,470 --> 00:18:58,638 and you really get to know what a Frenchman is like, 249 00:18:58,738 --> 00:19:01,542 what he smells of, what he dreams of. 250 00:19:03,077 --> 00:19:04,345 Maybe I could just-- 251 00:19:04,445 --> 00:19:07,481 No, don't go. Stay. Stay here. 252 00:19:09,083 --> 00:19:11,851 It'll feel like surrender to your adversaries. They want you gone. 253 00:19:15,855 --> 00:19:17,558 Why did we never date? 254 00:19:19,026 --> 00:19:20,927 We were in Italy at the same time. 255 00:19:21,028 --> 00:19:22,929 We've circled each other. 256 00:19:24,398 --> 00:19:26,666 We would have murdered each other. 257 00:19:27,667 --> 00:19:30,937 Two flowers, no gardener. That's-- 258 00:19:34,074 --> 00:19:37,178 We are here to talk about the Swans. 259 00:19:38,512 --> 00:19:40,080 Brought you here for a reason. 260 00:19:41,948 --> 00:19:44,018 From the collection of William S. Paley. 261 00:19:44,118 --> 00:19:46,886 Now, you tell me why. Why do they care so much about art? 262 00:19:48,622 --> 00:19:51,458 Well, they're allowed to put their names on things, 263 00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:54,794 but they don't know how to love them, these things. 264 00:19:55,563 --> 00:19:58,065 They collect and collect and collect. 265 00:19:58,165 --> 00:20:02,036 The appetites are insatiable, but the Swans are never full. 266 00:20:02,936 --> 00:20:05,705 They're like a starving person who keeps buying food 267 00:20:05,805 --> 00:20:08,075 only to tuck it away in their pantry. 268 00:20:08,175 --> 00:20:10,644 And then the person says, "Why am I so hungry? 269 00:20:10,743 --> 00:20:15,782 My shelves are positively overflowing with food." 270 00:20:15,882 --> 00:20:18,052 Everything the Swans do is skin-deep. 271 00:20:18,152 --> 00:20:20,287 That's why they're not truly interesting people. 272 00:20:20,387 --> 00:20:23,257 The-Their situations are interesting, sure. 273 00:20:23,357 --> 00:20:27,261 Their lives are fascinating, but they themselves are truly dull. 274 00:20:27,361 --> 00:20:29,230 They don't know what's going on in the world. 275 00:20:29,330 --> 00:20:32,132 They don't read anything except the Ladies' Home Journal 276 00:20:32,233 --> 00:20:33,567 or McCall's. 277 00:20:35,735 --> 00:20:39,406 It's funny, because Lee really wanted to be an artist. 278 00:20:39,506 --> 00:20:41,642 She tried her hand at interior design. 279 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:45,745 She has a great high style and she loved designing her own homes, 280 00:20:45,845 --> 00:20:48,182 ordering people about. It never occurred to her 281 00:20:48,282 --> 00:20:51,918 that designing for other people would involve taking orders. 282 00:20:52,019 --> 00:20:53,153 I don't know, Lee. 283 00:20:53,254 --> 00:20:55,589 It's just not what we discussed. 284 00:21:00,461 --> 00:21:04,531 Well, what would you like me to do? 285 00:21:04,632 --> 00:21:07,000 Would you like me to go back to the garment district 286 00:21:07,101 --> 00:21:10,137 and ask them to cut and hem a whole new set of drapes? 287 00:21:11,105 --> 00:21:15,109 It's not what we discussed. 288 00:21:16,210 --> 00:21:18,545 You know what it is? There's not one ounce 289 00:21:18,646 --> 00:21:21,382 of humility or empathy or compassion. 290 00:21:21,482 --> 00:21:23,183 They don't care about any of that. 291 00:21:23,284 --> 00:21:25,785 They only care that they appear to care about it. 292 00:21:26,654 --> 00:21:30,823 Tell me. In nature, the one thing swans are good at is parenting. 293 00:21:31,525 --> 00:21:33,826 Let me tell you this. 294 00:21:34,628 --> 00:21:37,197 I said one time to CZ, "Doesn't it bother you 295 00:21:37,298 --> 00:21:40,034 that the governess sees your children more than you do?" 296 00:21:42,202 --> 00:21:44,971 And she replied, without batting an eyelash, 297 00:21:45,072 --> 00:21:48,642 "Of course I see my children. I go fox hunting with them." 298 00:21:48,742 --> 00:21:52,146 All my Swans are horrible mothers, all of them. 299 00:21:53,514 --> 00:21:56,816 Babe is an interior woman, sensitive and deep 300 00:21:57,518 --> 00:22:00,020 but also deeply self-absorbed, 301 00:22:00,587 --> 00:22:05,858 ruled by a need for order and perfection that no mortal can ever attain. 302 00:22:10,564 --> 00:22:14,501 I said chrysanthemums, not carnations. 303 00:22:15,269 --> 00:22:16,437 Chrysanthemums. 304 00:22:20,907 --> 00:22:24,445 Amanda, sweetie. Send everyone home now, okay? 305 00:22:24,545 --> 00:22:27,181 I don't feel well. I need some quiet. 306 00:22:28,115 --> 00:22:29,383 Thank you, darling. 307 00:22:29,483 --> 00:22:31,251 The woman is so preoccupied 308 00:22:31,352 --> 00:22:33,620 with her own world, she's not even aware 309 00:22:33,721 --> 00:22:36,457 of the way she's ravaged her children's lives. 310 00:22:36,557 --> 00:22:40,794 And get that buffoon out of my house. 311 00:22:41,295 --> 00:22:42,962 Oh, my God. 312 00:22:43,731 --> 00:22:45,766 But I always felt her pain. 313 00:22:45,865 --> 00:22:48,736 Felt she knew she wasn't cut out for motherhood. 314 00:22:48,836 --> 00:22:53,073 It was too overwhelming, loving messy, living things. 315 00:23:28,142 --> 00:23:32,579 You know, sometimes I'm jealous of people making art like this. 316 00:23:33,180 --> 00:23:36,250 You get to hide in that abstraction. 317 00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:38,819 I much prefer figuration. 318 00:23:40,354 --> 00:23:43,824 You know how the goddamn artist feels about his subject. 319 00:23:44,525 --> 00:23:48,629 Like those wonderful Dick Avedons he has out right now. 320 00:23:48,729 --> 00:23:52,800 He makes the Duchess of Windsor like a cadaver. 321 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:56,036 He even makes his own father a gargoyle. 322 00:23:56,770 --> 00:24:00,507 Maybe this lopsided circle is filled with rage too. 323 00:24:01,308 --> 00:24:04,278 Maybe that's his mother's smile when she's drunk. 324 00:24:04,378 --> 00:24:09,550 Art. Most of the work in this building is about anger, truth 325 00:24:09,650 --> 00:24:11,552 and revenge for something. 326 00:24:12,486 --> 00:24:14,388 Art is revenge, isn't it? 327 00:24:15,689 --> 00:24:17,324 And so you're saying? 328 00:24:17,424 --> 00:24:20,294 Stop apologizing to them, to any of them. 329 00:24:20,394 --> 00:24:21,728 Defy them. 330 00:24:21,829 --> 00:24:23,963 Defy the foul fowls, 331 00:24:24,064 --> 00:24:28,035 the trumpeter swans, the tundra swans, the black-necked swans. 332 00:24:28,135 --> 00:24:30,537 Truman, do you understand? 333 00:24:33,407 --> 00:24:35,509 People think I wanted to hurt them. 334 00:24:35,609 --> 00:24:36,577 And admit you did. 335 00:24:37,311 --> 00:24:40,247 Admit it and keep going because you-- 336 00:24:41,048 --> 00:24:43,750 you are the toughest little faggot in this town, baby. 337 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,224 But I don't like what I'm seeing lately. 338 00:24:50,324 --> 00:24:54,862 I don't like it when I see you on television showboating and incoherent. 339 00:24:55,662 --> 00:24:57,164 You're better than that. 340 00:25:00,734 --> 00:25:02,436 I drink, Jimmy, because... 341 00:25:05,005 --> 00:25:10,344 I've been wounded my entire life over and over. 342 00:25:14,414 --> 00:25:15,916 I'm in pain. 343 00:25:17,551 --> 00:25:18,852 I know you are. 344 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:20,854 Truman, so am I. 345 00:25:21,555 --> 00:25:24,958 So is she and him and them over there. 346 00:25:25,058 --> 00:25:29,229 But none of us end up in a blackout on television, so why are you? 347 00:25:33,734 --> 00:25:35,302 Because I'm afraid. 348 00:25:35,402 --> 00:25:36,403 Of what? 349 00:25:39,406 --> 00:25:40,474 Everything. 350 00:25:43,644 --> 00:25:49,283 Abandonment or acceptance in their world. 351 00:25:52,553 --> 00:25:55,088 Life with them, life without them. 352 00:25:57,424 --> 00:25:59,293 Both are unbearable. 353 00:26:00,827 --> 00:26:03,797 - But, Truman, they have abandoned you. 354 00:26:04,565 --> 00:26:06,767 The worst has happened and here you are. 355 00:26:07,434 --> 00:26:09,136 The rest is up to you. 356 00:26:10,404 --> 00:26:14,575 I really could use a nice pick-me-up. 357 00:26:16,176 --> 00:26:18,445 A little goddamn drinkie. 358 00:26:19,513 --> 00:26:21,114 Come on. 359 00:26:21,214 --> 00:26:22,816 Okay, I do know 360 00:26:22,916 --> 00:26:24,484 a very unlikely place 361 00:26:24,585 --> 00:26:26,420 where the bartender is a shaman 362 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,355 with a maraschino cherry and rye. Mmm. 363 00:26:28,455 --> 00:26:31,358 But, Truman, two drinks only. 364 00:26:32,459 --> 00:26:35,862 Come on, who doesn't love a maraschino? 365 00:26:36,463 --> 00:26:37,464 Mmm. 366 00:26:42,169 --> 00:26:45,939 From Côte to cocksucker bar in one lovely afternoon. 367 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,308 How I love New York. 368 00:26:48,408 --> 00:26:50,277 This day is cheering me up. 369 00:26:51,211 --> 00:26:55,049 Two drinks only, Truman. Really. You've got to get a hold of this booze thing, man. 370 00:26:55,148 --> 00:26:57,184 It's your main problem. 371 00:26:57,284 --> 00:27:00,021 Drags you all the way down to hell. Oh, God, you're right. 372 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:02,623 We would have killed each other if we'd been lovers. 373 00:27:03,123 --> 00:27:05,726 Two drinks. Then we're leaving, Truman. 374 00:27:17,404 --> 00:27:20,507 - Jimmy, I have to say this, because you're a gentleman, 375 00:27:20,607 --> 00:27:23,543 and you haven't brought it up. I-- I am ashamed. 376 00:27:24,045 --> 00:27:25,379 I have been unkind. 377 00:27:25,979 --> 00:27:27,247 About whom? 378 00:27:27,981 --> 00:27:30,417 You. Not really. 379 00:27:30,517 --> 00:27:34,022 A few picayune criticisms of my work here and there, mostly true. 380 00:27:34,755 --> 00:27:39,893 I've criticized you, Truman, but only with the intent to educate and uplift. 381 00:27:40,527 --> 00:27:44,598 Yes, and your words sting because I admire you so. 382 00:27:44,698 --> 00:27:46,867 Well, criticism only hurts if you believe it. 383 00:27:58,278 --> 00:28:01,049 My Swans would never do this, what you're doing. 384 00:28:02,349 --> 00:28:04,951 In a crisis, in a time of treachery. 385 00:28:05,053 --> 00:28:06,453 No, no, no. 386 00:28:08,255 --> 00:28:12,726 Because they compete and they are deeply disloyal. 387 00:28:12,826 --> 00:28:15,629 They may pretend to hate what I wrote about Ann, 388 00:28:15,729 --> 00:28:19,067 but they loathed her and they treated her savagely. 389 00:28:31,545 --> 00:28:33,047 Hello, ladies. 390 00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:36,416 You are exactly who can answer this question. 391 00:28:36,516 --> 00:28:39,053 I'm supposed to be meeting Otto Preminger for lunch. 392 00:28:39,553 --> 00:28:41,955 He's now 20 minutes late. 393 00:28:42,056 --> 00:28:46,460 I mean, at what point do you just give up and order for yourself? 394 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,229 Mind if I sit down? 395 00:28:49,329 --> 00:28:51,331 Oh, I wish you could. 396 00:28:51,431 --> 00:28:53,633 But we're being joined in just a second. 397 00:28:54,468 --> 00:28:57,171 What I would do is not sit and wait, 398 00:28:57,270 --> 00:29:00,507 because clearly you can't dine alone. I would go home. 399 00:29:01,109 --> 00:29:04,911 Yes. What you do in that situation is you send a note. 400 00:29:05,012 --> 00:29:07,115 You write it while you're sitting at home 401 00:29:07,215 --> 00:29:10,118 with your soup and sandwich by yourself. 402 00:29:10,218 --> 00:29:12,519 Yes, that's exactly what you should do. 403 00:29:17,524 --> 00:29:20,327 So, I send a note 404 00:29:21,294 --> 00:29:23,830 in which I tell him to go fuck himself. 405 00:29:24,498 --> 00:29:28,769 And then I heat up some sad soup and eat a half a tuna sandwich. 406 00:29:29,469 --> 00:29:30,771 In other words, 407 00:29:31,805 --> 00:29:33,207 "Get the fuck out of here." 408 00:29:34,208 --> 00:29:37,511 Well... ...I would never have put it like that, 409 00:29:37,611 --> 00:29:41,815 but I forget that you're not afraid to be vivid, are you? 410 00:29:54,694 --> 00:29:57,998 The Swans, they despise growing older. 411 00:29:59,866 --> 00:30:04,172 Once the bloom of youth began to fade, every one of them 412 00:30:04,272 --> 00:30:07,874 either underwent a brutal regime of fetal sheep cell injections 413 00:30:07,974 --> 00:30:11,245 - or went under the knife. - What about yourself? 414 00:30:11,344 --> 00:30:15,016 You've succumbed to the same pressures and vanities, no? 415 00:30:15,116 --> 00:30:17,384 Well, it comes from a very dark place. 416 00:30:17,484 --> 00:30:20,021 Have you seen Bill Blass lately? 417 00:30:20,121 --> 00:30:23,857 He looks like he's just come back from the fountain of youth. 418 00:30:23,957 --> 00:30:27,161 One person gets something done, everyone else has to follow suit. 419 00:30:27,261 --> 00:30:31,765 Are you really relying on your wit to keep you in the game, Truman? 420 00:30:32,332 --> 00:30:34,701 I saw you on Cavett last weekend, 421 00:30:34,801 --> 00:30:37,104 and, Lord knows, I'd want somebody to tell me. 422 00:30:37,771 --> 00:30:41,608 You're looking awfully weathered, to put it politely and-- 423 00:30:42,943 --> 00:30:46,513 and fat. I'm saying this because I love you to death, 424 00:30:46,613 --> 00:30:51,451 and you're so often on television these days, more visible than ever. 425 00:30:53,221 --> 00:30:58,625 I think you might want to do something, my dear. 426 00:30:58,725 --> 00:31:03,097 Someone raises the stakes, you ante up or you risk being thrown from the table. 427 00:31:04,098 --> 00:31:06,067 And they don't eat. None of them eat. 428 00:31:07,068 --> 00:31:12,873 They live on air and water, tiny portions of very rare meats. 429 00:31:45,639 --> 00:31:48,842 A life without appetite is a life without joy. 430 00:31:50,443 --> 00:31:52,812 Cas-- - No. 431 00:31:52,913 --> 00:31:54,248 Oh, come on. 432 00:31:54,348 --> 00:31:56,017 No, it's time to get you home. 433 00:31:56,650 --> 00:31:58,818 Our two drinks are over. 434 00:32:05,592 --> 00:32:07,861 Are you gonna tell me what this day was all about? 435 00:32:09,429 --> 00:32:10,964 All in good time. 436 00:32:27,081 --> 00:32:29,950 Now, it's just grapefruit juice for our little nightcap, right? 437 00:32:30,051 --> 00:32:32,186 Because last call was at the bar, Truman. 438 00:32:32,286 --> 00:32:33,620 Yes, yes. 439 00:32:39,559 --> 00:32:44,031 Shocking how little flavor grapefruit has all by itself, isn't it? 440 00:32:45,498 --> 00:32:47,901 Tell me more swan facts. 441 00:32:48,001 --> 00:32:50,404 I had so much fun at the library. 442 00:32:50,503 --> 00:32:55,076 Well, you-you must know that a full one-fifth of male swans are homosexual. 443 00:32:55,176 --> 00:32:57,711 Mmm. Well, it makes sense. 444 00:32:57,811 --> 00:33:00,714 Swans are so comme il faut. Hmm. 445 00:33:00,814 --> 00:33:04,818 Yes, and they couple, even raise cygnets together 446 00:33:04,918 --> 00:33:07,520 and are far more successful than the straights. 447 00:33:07,620 --> 00:33:10,191 Eighty percent of the children of gay swans live 448 00:33:10,291 --> 00:33:13,394 as opposed to something like thirty percent of the heterosexual ones. 449 00:33:14,028 --> 00:33:17,198 A lady swan might join them, I kid you not, for a ménage 450 00:33:17,298 --> 00:33:21,068 and then go off and the two gents raise the babies. 451 00:33:21,168 --> 00:33:24,005 Why do they thrive so well, their kids? 452 00:33:24,571 --> 00:33:27,074 The gay swans are stronger, you see. 453 00:33:27,174 --> 00:33:30,044 They are more able to provide. 454 00:33:30,144 --> 00:33:31,112 Hmm. 455 00:33:32,946 --> 00:33:39,619 Can you imagine all the successful gay New York artists and writers as swans? 456 00:33:42,089 --> 00:33:44,557 Tenn, Frank O'Hara, 457 00:33:44,657 --> 00:33:48,295 Ginsberg, Albee, even Gore, Andy and so on. 458 00:33:48,396 --> 00:33:52,133 Perhaps your next ball? 459 00:33:52,966 --> 00:33:57,138 - I'm gonna heat up those crab cakes. 460 00:33:57,238 --> 00:33:59,806 Do you need more juice? I'm fine. 461 00:34:01,142 --> 00:34:02,709 Just juice, Tru. 462 00:34:02,809 --> 00:34:05,246 Mmm. 463 00:34:15,622 --> 00:34:16,923 Truman. 464 00:34:17,757 --> 00:34:19,060 Hey, man. 465 00:34:21,495 --> 00:34:22,896 Yes, okay. 466 00:34:25,565 --> 00:34:28,269 I need vodka. I just do. 467 00:34:30,804 --> 00:34:32,906 I know. I understand. 468 00:34:34,308 --> 00:34:35,309 I do. 469 00:34:37,244 --> 00:34:39,080 I understand. 470 00:34:43,616 --> 00:34:45,919 Now sit down and listen to me! 471 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,524 It's time for our eleven o'clock number, Mr. Capote, the reason I gave you this day, 472 00:34:50,623 --> 00:34:54,495 one of my few days in New York before I fuck off back to France. 473 00:34:56,430 --> 00:34:58,965 Close your eyes just for a second, 474 00:34:59,066 --> 00:35:01,601 until you see a glimmer 475 00:35:01,701 --> 00:35:04,871 of your great, gargantuan, enormous worth and gifts, 476 00:35:04,971 --> 00:35:08,175 which you have criminally lost sight of in your sickness, 477 00:35:08,275 --> 00:35:10,344 in your disease, which you reek of. 478 00:35:11,145 --> 00:35:15,682 Yes, you threw away the ten years since you published In Cold Blood. 479 00:35:15,782 --> 00:35:18,319 You jettisoned your unparalleled ability to paint hell. 480 00:35:18,419 --> 00:35:21,955 I cannot blame you. In Cold Blood would have flattened anyone. 481 00:35:22,056 --> 00:35:24,724 I don't know what you sold to the devil to write it. 482 00:35:24,824 --> 00:35:26,494 But let me tell you a secret. 483 00:35:26,594 --> 00:35:31,065 You can steal whatever the devil took right back. 484 00:35:31,898 --> 00:35:36,970 The moment you are born, Mr. Capote, the process of our dying begins. 485 00:35:37,071 --> 00:35:39,739 Ticktock, ticktock. 486 00:35:39,839 --> 00:35:44,677 And as the years go on, the dying accelerates until the final breath and then silence. 487 00:35:45,312 --> 00:35:47,847 That is the order of the universe. 488 00:36:00,327 --> 00:36:05,199 This life, Truman, is vicious and dark. 489 00:36:05,299 --> 00:36:08,602 And you and me, we are angels sent here 490 00:36:08,701 --> 00:36:11,238 to light it on fire and illuminate. 491 00:36:12,206 --> 00:36:14,341 Some of us-- Some of us real swans, 492 00:36:14,441 --> 00:36:18,778 not this fake dime-store porcelain trinkets that you called Swans-- 493 00:36:18,878 --> 00:36:20,614 Some of us, like you and me, 494 00:36:21,681 --> 00:36:25,619 we are given a torch, and your job was to keep it alight. 495 00:36:25,718 --> 00:36:29,190 It was to endure it and write the world. 496 00:36:29,290 --> 00:36:31,258 Goddamn it, Mr. Capote. 497 00:36:32,126 --> 00:36:34,595 Your work isn't even half done. 498 00:36:34,694 --> 00:36:37,298 You have miles to go. 499 00:36:37,797 --> 00:36:39,600 Your fucking torch is still lit. 500 00:36:39,699 --> 00:36:42,769 Faint motherfucking glow, but it is still lit. 501 00:36:43,537 --> 00:36:47,107 Lunches and the trips and the soufflés and the yachts 502 00:36:47,208 --> 00:36:51,378 and the nausea of demented privilege with these pathetic creatures are over. 503 00:36:51,478 --> 00:36:54,615 Their world, you captured it forever 504 00:36:54,714 --> 00:36:58,718 and everybody knows what you wrote. 505 00:36:58,818 --> 00:37:02,056 It's a dictionary of disgust, the thesaurus of American nausea, 506 00:37:02,156 --> 00:37:05,426 and I promise you one day it will be seen. 507 00:37:06,759 --> 00:37:09,496 But you gotta finish what you began, baby. 508 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,342 That is your obligation. 509 00:37:22,109 --> 00:37:27,147 Just as mine is to do everything I can do to change my world. 510 00:37:28,482 --> 00:37:30,184 You gotta do that too. 511 00:37:31,352 --> 00:37:33,487 What is your obligation? 512 00:37:49,336 --> 00:37:50,837 It's not over? 513 00:37:54,108 --> 00:37:56,443 It's not too late? Too late? 514 00:37:56,543 --> 00:37:58,112 Baby, you set the table. 515 00:37:58,646 --> 00:38:00,214 Now have the meal. 516 00:38:02,116 --> 00:38:07,521 "Côte Basque" is to be a chapter in your story of how the ruling class die. 517 00:38:07,621 --> 00:38:11,659 So keep going until you've killed all of them, Truman. 518 00:38:13,127 --> 00:38:16,297 Truman, don't you get it? 519 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:22,469 Your book. 520 00:38:22,569 --> 00:38:26,373 It is your firing squad that killed the Romanovs. 521 00:38:27,174 --> 00:38:28,475 It's your... 522 00:38:29,310 --> 00:38:31,878 guillotine that beheaded Marie Antoinette. 523 00:38:31,978 --> 00:38:35,015 This is your slave revolt. 524 00:38:36,517 --> 00:38:39,753 It's your "Rite of Spring" ushering in a new world. 525 00:38:39,852 --> 00:38:44,824 Your Oppenheimer bomb, your Shiva, "I am destroyer of worlds." 526 00:38:52,999 --> 00:38:57,237 Hmm. Now, go to bed. 527 00:38:57,338 --> 00:38:59,573 You have more bends in your river. 528 00:39:02,776 --> 00:39:04,778 Wake up without your hangover. 529 00:39:07,448 --> 00:39:11,585 Shower, shave and put on the most comfortable sweater. 530 00:39:11,685 --> 00:39:16,223 Have someone go out and get you some great bad bacon, egg and cheese thing 531 00:39:16,323 --> 00:39:17,691 from the nearest deli. 532 00:39:18,759 --> 00:39:19,793 And you... 533 00:39:20,627 --> 00:39:21,928 get back to work. 534 00:39:24,531 --> 00:39:26,100 The light is dimming, 535 00:39:27,368 --> 00:39:28,769 but you're still here. 536 00:39:30,204 --> 00:39:31,971 Your light is still shining. 537 00:39:56,296 --> 00:39:59,500 Vegas, we're back with the electrifying Ann-Marg-- 538 00:40:20,587 --> 00:40:23,290 Did I wake you? 539 00:40:23,390 --> 00:40:26,527 I'm headed back to Paris. I just decided to take the night flight. 540 00:40:26,627 --> 00:40:28,128 You're leaving now? 541 00:40:28,629 --> 00:40:30,164 James, thank you. 542 00:40:30,997 --> 00:40:32,633 I'm getting ready to sleep. 543 00:40:32,733 --> 00:40:35,669 I'm okay, I think. Thank you. 544 00:40:36,537 --> 00:40:40,307 Hey, Truman. There's one final bit of swan lore I forgot to tell you. 545 00:40:40,407 --> 00:40:42,209 Oh, okay. 546 00:40:42,309 --> 00:40:44,778 You see, in England, the Queen owns all the swans, 547 00:40:44,878 --> 00:40:47,848 all of the unmarked mute swans in the wild waters there. 548 00:40:47,947 --> 00:40:50,284 And it's been that way since the 12th century. 549 00:40:50,384 --> 00:40:52,686 It's the rich and the royal, they feasted on so many of them, 550 00:40:52,786 --> 00:40:54,488 they were disappearing. 551 00:40:54,588 --> 00:40:57,291 Served as centerpieces in their skin and feathers, 552 00:40:57,391 --> 00:41:01,061 and with a lump of blazing incense in the beak at Christmas. 553 00:41:01,161 --> 00:41:03,564 With a lump of blazing incense? 554 00:41:03,664 --> 00:41:05,998 If she wanted to now, the Queen is still the only person 555 00:41:06,099 --> 00:41:08,502 who could legally eat a swan in England. 556 00:41:08,602 --> 00:41:10,370 That's wonderful. 557 00:41:10,471 --> 00:41:11,971 I thought you'd appreciate it. 558 00:41:12,673 --> 00:41:15,008 It's time for my flight, Truman. I've gotta go. 559 00:41:15,108 --> 00:41:18,011 But you take care now, you hear? 560 00:41:18,745 --> 00:41:21,181 Remember what I said. Thank you. 561 00:41:56,917 --> 00:41:58,285 Hmm. 562 00:42:14,801 --> 00:42:18,639 What have I been eating? An occasional egg sandwich and some spinach. 563 00:42:18,739 --> 00:42:22,376 I don't know. I've been in a trance for three days, Jack, I tell you. 564 00:42:22,476 --> 00:42:26,747 The words, the-the pain and the rage is just pouring out of me. 565 00:42:26,847 --> 00:42:28,815 About the Swans. 566 00:42:28,916 --> 00:42:33,487 About who they are, who they really are behind the plumage. 567 00:42:34,221 --> 00:42:35,789 It's my best writing. 568 00:42:36,657 --> 00:42:38,725 Jack, I've almost finished the book. 569 00:42:39,993 --> 00:42:42,563 They think "La Côte Basque 1965" was bad? 570 00:42:42,663 --> 00:42:44,598 Just wait for this. 571 00:42:45,232 --> 00:42:48,802 I was reading some passages this morning to Joanne Carson, and she called Johnny, 572 00:42:48,902 --> 00:42:52,839 and he wants me to give an entire week performing morsels every night. 573 00:42:52,940 --> 00:42:54,241 And I said I'd do it. 574 00:42:54,841 --> 00:42:56,910 This is my return. 575 00:42:58,145 --> 00:43:00,981 Jack, I have to call you back. Talk soon. 576 00:43:01,682 --> 00:43:05,185 - Matty, is everything okay in there? - Yeah. All good. Sorry. 577 00:43:05,285 --> 00:43:08,989 Uh, it's-- The thing fell. 578 00:43:09,122 --> 00:43:11,425 Well, are we almost ready? I'm famished. 579 00:43:11,525 --> 00:43:14,161 Yes, I hope it's good. Uh. 580 00:43:14,261 --> 00:43:16,330 I've never made anything like this before. 581 00:43:16,430 --> 00:43:18,799 Uh, but I did my best. 582 00:43:18,899 --> 00:43:20,701 Honey, I'm sure it's divine. 583 00:43:21,201 --> 00:43:24,371 You've been my favorite waiter at Tavern On The Green for years, 584 00:43:24,471 --> 00:43:27,008 and you have aspirations of being a chef, no? 585 00:43:27,541 --> 00:43:30,377 Yes. Uh, I'm going to culinary school. 586 00:43:30,477 --> 00:43:33,447 Well, then this is an opportunity of a lifetime. 587 00:43:35,148 --> 00:43:36,683 Red or white? 588 00:43:36,783 --> 00:43:39,020 Oh. No, thank you, dear. I'm not drinking. 589 00:43:39,686 --> 00:43:41,521 Not until I finish the book. 590 00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,888 Tell me again how you did it. 591 00:44:15,856 --> 00:44:18,325 I want to remember this forever. 592 00:44:19,993 --> 00:44:21,428 Uh, okay. 593 00:44:22,063 --> 00:44:24,431 I went to Central Park, just like you said... 594 00:44:25,099 --> 00:44:27,401 ...in the dead of night. 595 00:44:27,501 --> 00:44:29,070 Um. 596 00:44:29,169 --> 00:44:31,405 And they were all sleeping there together, 597 00:44:31,505 --> 00:44:34,042 but then I saw this big one kinda off to the side. 598 00:44:34,142 --> 00:44:38,211 And I-I snuck up real slow and grabbed it by the neck. 599 00:44:38,311 --> 00:44:41,748 It-- It kept moving even after I, uh, 600 00:44:42,849 --> 00:44:45,385 -snapped it. -Did it attack you? 601 00:44:49,057 --> 00:44:50,390 Um... 602 00:44:50,957 --> 00:44:54,194 I used ginger because the other spice 603 00:44:54,294 --> 00:44:57,065 in the recipe-- "galangala"-- doesn't exist anymore, I think. 604 00:44:57,597 --> 00:44:59,133 Do you mean galangal? 605 00:45:02,136 --> 00:45:03,804 You did well. 606 00:45:04,571 --> 00:45:06,140 Very well. 607 00:45:08,542 --> 00:45:13,747 I'm going to throw in an extra hundred bucks for those war wounds. 608 00:45:19,053 --> 00:45:23,323 ♪ Remember me ♪ 609 00:45:23,423 --> 00:45:26,927 ♪ But ah-ah-ah! ♪ 610 00:45:29,930 --> 00:45:36,503 ♪ Forget my fate ♪