1 00:00:08,842 --> 00:00:10,110 I'm late, I'm late, I know. 2 00:00:10,110 --> 00:00:11,478 My poor Dutch Master daffodils 3 00:00:11,478 --> 00:00:13,480 were positively shivering in this cold. 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,050 I had to get them all in before the deep freeze. 5 00:00:16,050 --> 00:00:18,552 There's still one shivering daffodil who needs you. 6 00:00:18,552 --> 00:00:20,554 I'm sorry, my little flower. 7 00:00:20,554 --> 00:00:22,656 Thank you for running this errand with me. 8 00:00:22,656 --> 00:00:24,792 I need durable straw hats for gardening. 9 00:00:24,792 --> 00:00:27,627 Terry is the only one I trust. 10 00:00:29,529 --> 00:00:31,365 [Terry] Not today. 11 00:00:31,365 --> 00:00:34,268 You'll have to come back for the closeout sale. 12 00:00:34,268 --> 00:00:35,703 [Truman] Terry. 13 00:00:35,703 --> 00:00:39,306 Oh, Mrs. Guest, Mr. Capote. 14 00:00:39,306 --> 00:00:41,408 What... closeout sale? 15 00:00:41,408 --> 00:00:44,211 Terry, no. Galore is an institution, 16 00:00:44,211 --> 00:00:46,647 - and you've been here forever. - 44 years. 17 00:00:46,647 --> 00:00:48,382 Nobody wants hats anymore, I'm afraid. 18 00:00:48,382 --> 00:00:50,284 The end of an era. 19 00:00:50,284 --> 00:00:51,785 I was planning to retire, 20 00:00:51,785 --> 00:00:54,255 but I didn't think it would be like this. 21 00:00:54,255 --> 00:00:57,358 Where am I going to get my good gardening hats now? 22 00:00:57,358 --> 00:00:59,126 Well, how many have you got left, Terry? 23 00:00:59,126 --> 00:01:02,096 Doesn't matter, I'll take them all. 24 00:01:02,096 --> 00:01:04,365 I'll get some for Bunny Mellon as well. 25 00:01:04,365 --> 00:01:06,367 Oh, she's gonna be just sick. 26 00:01:06,367 --> 00:01:08,768 [Terry] I'll go see what we have in the back. 27 00:01:11,338 --> 00:01:14,275 C.Z., do you remember that Easter a few years ago? 28 00:01:14,275 --> 00:01:17,678 You, me, Slim, Lee and Babe had Good Friday lunch 29 00:01:17,678 --> 00:01:20,381 at La Cote and we got so tipsy 30 00:01:20,381 --> 00:01:22,383 we thought we'd be brash and brassy 31 00:01:22,383 --> 00:01:24,385 and buy outlandish Easter bonnets. 32 00:01:24,385 --> 00:01:27,121 And Babe found that towering floral thing 33 00:01:27,121 --> 00:01:28,622 with ribbons flowing down her back. 34 00:01:28,622 --> 00:01:30,591 And it had faux lilies like whipped cream. 35 00:01:30,591 --> 00:01:33,260 She looked like a dessert. I told her so. 36 00:01:33,260 --> 00:01:36,463 [laughs] I've never seen Babe laugh so hard. 37 00:01:36,463 --> 00:01:38,098 [chuckles] 38 00:01:40,067 --> 00:01:42,102 How is she? 39 00:01:46,139 --> 00:01:48,108 Um... 40 00:01:48,108 --> 00:01:50,577 She's good. She's getting the best care. 41 00:01:51,478 --> 00:01:54,048 It hasn't spread to any other organs, so... 42 00:01:54,048 --> 00:01:58,586 Hmm. A heart so cold, even cancer couldn't touch it. 43 00:01:58,586 --> 00:02:00,521 Truman, don't. 44 00:02:00,521 --> 00:02:03,724 Oh, I'm gonna miss hats. 45 00:02:03,724 --> 00:02:07,061 In the South, everyone wore them. 46 00:02:07,061 --> 00:02:09,630 Rich folk, poor folk, white, colored. 47 00:02:09,630 --> 00:02:13,367 A hat was a symbol of hope. 48 00:02:13,367 --> 00:02:16,670 My mother had a marvelous collection. 49 00:02:16,670 --> 00:02:19,673 She used to let me keep the boxes. 50 00:02:19,673 --> 00:02:23,544 The tissue paper, the smells. 51 00:02:23,544 --> 00:02:26,714 - I've got ten left, Mrs. Guest. - Ooh. 52 00:02:26,714 --> 00:02:28,716 I-I can't do delivery anymore. 53 00:02:28,716 --> 00:02:32,085 Oh, no matter. I'll send Luis around. 54 00:02:34,655 --> 00:02:36,156 Should I? 55 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:37,591 - [laughs] - Let's swing by Tiffany's. 56 00:02:37,591 --> 00:02:39,627 Kate's in her final year of school, 57 00:02:39,627 --> 00:02:42,263 and I want to surprise her with a string of pearls. 58 00:02:42,263 --> 00:02:44,665 The real thing for the real thing. 59 00:02:44,665 --> 00:02:46,533 That's what I'm going to write on the card. 60 00:02:46,533 --> 00:02:48,369 So, how's it going with your protégé? 61 00:02:48,369 --> 00:02:50,804 Oh, my God, she's the Second Coming. 62 00:02:50,804 --> 00:02:52,406 And she was born to model. 63 00:02:52,406 --> 00:02:54,441 I'm going to turn her into the next Veruschka. 64 00:02:54,441 --> 00:02:56,744 Veruschka? She's ancient. 65 00:02:56,744 --> 00:02:59,113 All the girls want to be like Christie Brinkley now. 66 00:02:59,113 --> 00:03:01,215 No, but Kate's not like that. 67 00:03:01,215 --> 00:03:05,085 That Colgate smile, vulgar tan nonsense. 68 00:03:05,085 --> 00:03:07,187 She's a classic beauty. 69 00:03:07,187 --> 00:03:08,522 She's beautiful because she's young. 70 00:03:08,522 --> 00:03:10,324 Everybody who's young is beautiful. 71 00:03:10,324 --> 00:03:13,093 I only wish someone had told me that when I was that age. 72 00:03:13,093 --> 00:03:16,029 - Oh, everybody told you. - [laughs softly] 73 00:03:16,830 --> 00:03:19,800 Mm, it's good, 74 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,470 but don't you think you could go a tad higher? 75 00:03:23,470 --> 00:03:25,472 You know, Dusty Springfield 76 00:03:25,472 --> 00:03:29,476 used to tuck a maxi pad under there to give it more oomph. 77 00:03:29,476 --> 00:03:32,046 Where's your pocketbook, Kate? I'll see if you've got one. 78 00:03:32,046 --> 00:03:35,115 No, Truman. 79 00:03:35,115 --> 00:03:37,751 What's got your bonnet in a bunch? 80 00:03:37,751 --> 00:03:40,287 This is your big day. 81 00:03:40,287 --> 00:03:42,289 Girls would be tripping over themselves 82 00:03:42,289 --> 00:03:45,025 to get a photo shoot with Dick Avedon. 83 00:03:45,025 --> 00:03:47,361 - Sorry. - Hmm. 84 00:03:47,361 --> 00:03:50,397 I am grateful. 85 00:03:50,397 --> 00:03:53,400 It's just... 86 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,570 [laughs] Well, I mean, it's a little matronly. 87 00:03:56,570 --> 00:03:58,439 [laughs] 88 00:03:58,439 --> 00:04:01,775 Why don't you leave the styling to the stylists? 89 00:04:01,775 --> 00:04:04,545 [laughs] 90 00:04:04,545 --> 00:04:08,282 Back when I threw my Black and White Ball in 1966, 91 00:04:08,282 --> 00:04:12,586 Mr. Kenneth's salon was hotter than Studio 54. 92 00:04:17,524 --> 00:04:19,727 Thought you were gonna stop drinking. 93 00:04:19,727 --> 00:04:23,497 Champagne isn't drinking. It's good for the stomach. 94 00:04:23,497 --> 00:04:25,465 Like a digestif. 95 00:04:27,434 --> 00:04:32,106 Don't you pull your sourpuss with me, dear. 96 00:04:32,106 --> 00:04:36,377 Dick is going to fawn over you, and so will 97 00:04:36,377 --> 00:04:40,414 all the magazine editors I'm going to hook you up with. 98 00:04:40,414 --> 00:04:45,152 Grace Mirabella at Vogue, she's a dear friend. 99 00:04:45,152 --> 00:04:47,787 By this time next year, you'll be on the cover. 100 00:04:50,190 --> 00:04:52,126 Now, Kenneth, how are we getting along? 101 00:04:52,126 --> 00:04:53,794 - We mustn't be late for lunch. - Yes. 102 00:04:53,794 --> 00:04:56,062 [clears throat] 103 00:04:59,199 --> 00:05:01,234 [mutters softly] 104 00:05:03,437 --> 00:05:05,472 ♪ ♪ 105 00:05:07,608 --> 00:05:09,009 [grunts softly] 106 00:05:11,511 --> 00:05:14,714 - Babe. - Babe. 107 00:05:21,688 --> 00:05:23,723 ♪ ♪ 108 00:05:50,484 --> 00:05:52,519 ♪ ♪ 109 00:06:17,644 --> 00:06:20,146 ♪ ♪ 110 00:06:42,703 --> 00:06:44,738 ♪ ♪ 111 00:07:10,063 --> 00:07:11,365 - Hello. - Hello. 112 00:07:11,365 --> 00:07:13,334 - Welcome to La Cote Basque. - Thank you. 113 00:07:13,334 --> 00:07:15,168 Right this way, please. 114 00:07:25,245 --> 00:07:26,747 [Truman] See? 115 00:07:26,747 --> 00:07:29,650 Not a soul here can take their eyes off you. 116 00:07:29,650 --> 00:07:32,786 - [Kerry] Yes, I am aware of that. - Well, what's the matter? 117 00:07:32,786 --> 00:07:34,488 You're as stiff as a B movie robot. 118 00:07:34,488 --> 00:07:37,057 How many B movie robots went around disguised 119 00:07:37,057 --> 00:07:39,226 like 50-year-old society ladies? 120 00:07:39,226 --> 00:07:40,594 [laughs] 121 00:07:40,594 --> 00:07:43,163 You just need some snails and some oysters 122 00:07:43,163 --> 00:07:45,599 to loosen you up, darling. 123 00:07:45,599 --> 00:07:48,202 Now hold your head high and stop frowning. 124 00:07:48,202 --> 00:07:51,438 You'll get lines like the Mariana Trench. 125 00:07:51,438 --> 00:07:53,039 The what? 126 00:07:55,609 --> 00:07:57,645 "'O Oysters, come and walk with me!' 127 00:07:57,645 --> 00:08:00,214 "The Walrus did beseech. 128 00:08:00,214 --> 00:08:01,649 "'A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, 129 00:08:01,649 --> 00:08:03,517 "'Along the briny beach. 130 00:08:03,517 --> 00:08:06,253 "'We cannot do with more than four, 131 00:08:06,253 --> 00:08:10,124 - To give a hand to each.'" - [laughs] 132 00:08:10,124 --> 00:08:12,359 Mmm. 133 00:08:12,359 --> 00:08:15,729 - Lewis Carroll, my dear. - Mm. 134 00:08:15,729 --> 00:08:17,464 - Bravo. - [laughs] 135 00:08:17,464 --> 00:08:20,034 How do you remember all these poems? 136 00:08:20,034 --> 00:08:21,735 I listen. 137 00:08:23,737 --> 00:08:28,208 Now, I have listened to your complaints about my dragging you 138 00:08:28,208 --> 00:08:30,377 - to too many lunches with my friends. - Oh, good. 139 00:08:30,377 --> 00:08:34,582 And I have come up with the perfect solution, dear Kate. 140 00:08:34,582 --> 00:08:36,450 Eavesdropping. 141 00:08:36,450 --> 00:08:38,752 Eavesdropping? 142 00:08:38,752 --> 00:08:42,089 If you want to be a writer, or any person of note, actually, 143 00:08:42,089 --> 00:08:46,760 you must realize the importance of that which is overheard 144 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,363 the next table over. 145 00:08:49,363 --> 00:08:52,099 Great title, by the way. It's yours, darling. 146 00:08:52,099 --> 00:08:55,502 It's where all the action is if your table is dull. 147 00:08:55,502 --> 00:09:00,708 And you may well be at a dull table in life, I do sympathize. 148 00:09:00,708 --> 00:09:03,477 But you master the art of listening 149 00:09:03,477 --> 00:09:07,448 to who's right over there. 150 00:09:07,448 --> 00:09:09,483 You really, actually don't believe 151 00:09:09,483 --> 00:09:12,620 in privacy at all, do you, Truman? 152 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:14,655 Come on, Truman. Don't be a stick in the mud. 153 00:09:14,655 --> 00:09:18,459 Nobody's more fun than me. 154 00:09:18,459 --> 00:09:21,028 Princess Margaret. Maybe. 155 00:09:21,028 --> 00:09:22,596 [both laugh] 156 00:09:22,596 --> 00:09:24,198 I got you that. 157 00:09:24,198 --> 00:09:26,700 Oh. You. 158 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:29,736 Let's have some île flottante for dessert. 159 00:09:32,139 --> 00:09:34,174 [indistinct chatter] 160 00:09:42,249 --> 00:09:45,052 [Slim] He's starting to sink into himself. 161 00:09:45,052 --> 00:09:49,089 The cost of it, all his betraying and nastiness. 162 00:09:49,089 --> 00:09:51,058 Look at him. 163 00:09:51,058 --> 00:09:53,060 It catches up. 164 00:09:53,060 --> 00:09:55,296 You earn the face you deserve. 165 00:09:55,296 --> 00:09:57,464 That's his new protégé, 166 00:09:57,464 --> 00:10:00,568 that horrible man John's poor daughter. 167 00:10:00,568 --> 00:10:02,736 - He's trying to mold her. - Hmm. 168 00:10:02,736 --> 00:10:06,173 He changed her last name to erase her dad. 169 00:10:06,173 --> 00:10:08,442 Erase. I'd like to warn her. 170 00:10:08,442 --> 00:10:09,743 [Slim] Well, he's got her dressed like 171 00:10:09,743 --> 00:10:11,612 she's at a flower show in Minneapolis. 172 00:10:11,612 --> 00:10:13,480 [Lee] Remember what happened with Eliza Doolittle? 173 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,249 She dumped Henry Higgins. 174 00:10:15,249 --> 00:10:17,351 I think My Fair Lady is the right cautionary tale. 175 00:10:17,351 --> 00:10:19,486 - All right, let's get to brass tacks. - Hmm. 176 00:10:19,486 --> 00:10:22,523 Is Peter Beard really ready to marry you? 177 00:10:22,523 --> 00:10:23,724 Spill the beans. 178 00:10:23,724 --> 00:10:26,727 Yes, I think so. 179 00:10:26,727 --> 00:10:28,596 Well, he's kicked the barbiturates, 180 00:10:28,596 --> 00:10:30,431 he's got enough money to keep us going. 181 00:10:30,431 --> 00:10:32,466 God, he is so sexy, I don't even care about the money. 182 00:10:32,466 --> 00:10:35,069 - It's the sex. - [stifled laugh] 183 00:10:35,069 --> 00:10:37,605 Montauk, those weekends. 184 00:10:37,605 --> 00:10:40,207 Yes, but, Lee, you can't be having money issues. 185 00:10:40,207 --> 00:10:43,344 Sell the place in London. You're never there. 186 00:10:43,344 --> 00:10:46,480 - Or Paris. - I need them in case. 187 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,618 [sighs] I just wish he would fucking stop coming here. 188 00:10:50,618 --> 00:10:52,620 [Slim] I could throw a glass of Prosecco in his face. 189 00:10:52,620 --> 00:10:54,355 Maybe then he'd get the message. 190 00:10:54,355 --> 00:10:56,523 No, he would just lap it up. 191 00:10:56,523 --> 00:10:59,760 We're going to be exemplary, and you know it. 192 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,463 We would be in the Post tomorrow, if not tonight. 193 00:11:02,463 --> 00:11:06,500 Every waiter is a spy and every diner is someone's tipster. 194 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:08,568 [pen scratching] 195 00:11:14,374 --> 00:11:16,343 [sighs] 196 00:11:16,343 --> 00:11:18,445 [Truman] Oh, hi. My God. 197 00:11:18,445 --> 00:11:19,747 I didn't see you back there. 198 00:11:19,747 --> 00:11:23,350 You both look wonderful. So wonderful. 199 00:11:23,350 --> 00:11:26,053 Lee, I need to tell you so much, 200 00:11:26,053 --> 00:11:28,055 your sister... 201 00:11:28,055 --> 00:11:29,356 Oh, well, that's... I'll save it. 202 00:11:29,356 --> 00:11:31,725 Yes. Do. 203 00:11:31,725 --> 00:11:33,227 So... 204 00:11:33,227 --> 00:11:35,629 A new swan? A cygnet in training? 205 00:11:35,629 --> 00:11:38,098 Yes? Hello, dear. 206 00:11:38,098 --> 00:11:39,767 - Hi. - Oh, yes. 207 00:11:39,767 --> 00:11:43,103 We're off to Dick's, he's photographing her. 208 00:11:43,103 --> 00:11:45,272 Kate Harrington, this is Lee Radziwill. 209 00:11:47,808 --> 00:11:51,779 I'd let my hair fall naturally were I you, darling. 210 00:11:51,779 --> 00:11:54,214 I mean, you're not 211 00:11:54,214 --> 00:11:58,052 in the Daughters of the American Revolution. 212 00:11:58,052 --> 00:12:00,720 Send Dicky my best. 213 00:12:02,222 --> 00:12:03,423 Can we have lunch? 214 00:12:06,193 --> 00:12:09,230 Sure, Truman, sure. 215 00:12:09,230 --> 00:12:10,664 Call me. 216 00:12:16,136 --> 00:12:17,404 [sniffles] 217 00:12:19,539 --> 00:12:22,509 Well... [chuckles] 218 00:12:22,509 --> 00:12:26,746 Maybe we don't have dessert before Dick shoots you, my dear. 219 00:12:43,764 --> 00:12:46,400 - [Truman] What? - Jesus, Truman. 220 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,235 You've-you've dressed her for a goddamn 221 00:12:48,235 --> 00:12:51,105 Westport Ladies Auxiliary lunch tea party. 222 00:12:51,105 --> 00:12:53,040 Where's the cucumber sandwiches? 223 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,342 - I told you, Truman. - Yeah, see? 224 00:12:55,342 --> 00:12:57,278 She told you, Truman. Kate, come here. 225 00:12:57,278 --> 00:12:59,213 Follow me, we'll fix this. 226 00:12:59,213 --> 00:13:00,381 Jules, hey. 227 00:13:00,381 --> 00:13:02,516 Yeah, Dick. 228 00:13:02,516 --> 00:13:04,718 Take Kate, and you two find some crap you like 229 00:13:04,718 --> 00:13:08,088 while I explain what year it is to Uncle Truman. 230 00:13:08,088 --> 00:13:11,258 Oh, and, um, let Jules fix your hair. 231 00:13:11,258 --> 00:13:14,428 He's a genius, you're gonna be great. 232 00:13:14,428 --> 00:13:16,664 Nothing here can't be fixed. 233 00:13:16,664 --> 00:13:18,699 [whispers] It's magic land. 234 00:13:18,699 --> 00:13:20,801 What's the matter with you? What do you think you're doing? 235 00:13:20,801 --> 00:13:23,037 It's 1978. 236 00:13:23,037 --> 00:13:24,738 What year are you stuck in? 237 00:13:24,738 --> 00:13:27,541 Well, I can't tell you, honestly. 238 00:13:27,541 --> 00:13:29,276 - [laughs] - Jesus, Tru. 239 00:13:29,276 --> 00:13:32,146 What are you... what are you doing? 240 00:13:32,146 --> 00:13:34,748 - Are you working? - Yes, on the book, Dicky. 241 00:13:34,748 --> 00:13:36,616 Mm. No, you're not. 242 00:13:37,551 --> 00:13:40,354 Well, my confidence took a bit of a knock 243 00:13:40,354 --> 00:13:42,156 after what happened, sure. 244 00:13:42,156 --> 00:13:43,557 Yeah, and wasting more of your time 245 00:13:43,557 --> 00:13:46,060 trying to sell yourself to the movies? 246 00:13:46,060 --> 00:13:49,597 Are you letting all those ladies get to you? 247 00:13:49,597 --> 00:13:51,698 I mean, I told them. 248 00:13:53,233 --> 00:13:54,802 What did you tell them, Dick? 249 00:13:54,802 --> 00:13:58,472 "What did you expect of him? He's a writer. 250 00:13:58,472 --> 00:14:00,174 "You think he was just gonna watch you guys 251 00:14:00,174 --> 00:14:01,542 and not use any of it?" 252 00:14:01,542 --> 00:14:05,279 Thank you, Richard. [chuckles] 253 00:14:05,279 --> 00:14:08,649 It's time to move on, get your fire back. 254 00:14:08,649 --> 00:14:10,384 You want the schadenfreude assholes 255 00:14:10,384 --> 00:14:12,219 who rule this town to win? 256 00:14:12,219 --> 00:14:14,221 Don't let them win. 257 00:14:14,221 --> 00:14:18,358 ["Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" by Indeep playing] 258 00:14:19,393 --> 00:14:21,795 So, what do you want, dear? 259 00:14:21,795 --> 00:14:24,665 - Do you really want to model? - I'm not sure. 260 00:14:24,665 --> 00:14:27,167 I might be better at the styling part. 261 00:14:27,167 --> 00:14:29,069 Yeah? 262 00:14:29,069 --> 00:14:31,538 Dance, would you? 263 00:14:31,538 --> 00:14:33,274 ♪ Last night a DJ saved my life... ♪ 264 00:14:33,274 --> 00:14:34,608 - [laughs] Dance? - Dance. Movement. 265 00:14:34,608 --> 00:14:37,144 Movement is youth, Kate. 266 00:14:37,144 --> 00:14:38,479 ♪ Saved my life... ♪ 267 00:14:38,479 --> 00:14:40,080 - [laughs] - Uh-huh. 268 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,650 Sure. 269 00:14:42,650 --> 00:14:44,485 Movement is what, Dick? 270 00:14:44,485 --> 00:14:47,755 Youth, Truman, movement is youth. 271 00:14:47,755 --> 00:14:49,757 [Truman] You never made me dance or move around. 272 00:14:49,757 --> 00:14:51,759 Well, that's because you were always so drunk, I was afraid 273 00:14:51,759 --> 00:14:53,627 you were gonna fall and break your goddamn neck. 274 00:14:53,627 --> 00:14:55,663 [Richard and Truman laugh] 275 00:14:55,663 --> 00:14:58,032 Oh, Kate, you're beautiful, for sure, 276 00:14:58,032 --> 00:15:00,601 but don't let Truman make you be his little poppet. 277 00:15:00,601 --> 00:15:03,571 He's got ulterior motives. He's got history. 278 00:15:03,571 --> 00:15:05,372 Right, Truman? 279 00:15:05,372 --> 00:15:08,676 ♪ I don't know what I'd do ♪ 280 00:15:08,676 --> 00:15:10,544 ♪ Yeah ♪ 281 00:15:10,544 --> 00:15:15,082 ♪ Last night a DJ saved my life ♪ 282 00:15:15,082 --> 00:15:19,486 ♪ Last night a DJ saved my life from a broken heart ♪ 283 00:15:19,486 --> 00:15:23,057 ♪ Last night a DJ saved my life ♪ 284 00:15:23,057 --> 00:15:27,361 ♪ Last night a DJ saved my life with a song ♪ 285 00:15:27,361 --> 00:15:31,198 ♪ Last night a DJ saved my life... ♪ 286 00:15:31,198 --> 00:15:33,667 Truman, I want to sit down. 287 00:15:33,667 --> 00:15:35,569 Is there anywhere to actually sit? 288 00:15:35,569 --> 00:15:38,639 No, didn't I just tell you, dear heart? 289 00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:41,542 Movement is youth. We got to keep moving, C.Z. 290 00:15:41,542 --> 00:15:43,510 Time never stops. 291 00:15:43,510 --> 00:15:45,079 You can't let it get ahead of you. 292 00:15:45,079 --> 00:15:49,083 If you blink, baby, the world passes you by. 293 00:15:49,083 --> 00:15:51,385 It may be too late, kid. 294 00:15:51,385 --> 00:15:55,255 ♪ Last night a DJ saved my life ♪ 295 00:15:56,790 --> 00:16:00,227 ♪ Last night a DJ saved my life from a broken heart ♪ 296 00:16:00,227 --> 00:16:03,663 ♪ Last night a DJ saved my life. ♪ 297 00:16:08,535 --> 00:16:10,570 - [footsteps approaching] - [C.Z.] I don't like this. 298 00:16:13,607 --> 00:16:15,442 Two sweaty oldies but goodies 299 00:16:15,442 --> 00:16:17,278 puttering around the dance floor. 300 00:16:17,278 --> 00:16:19,580 God, it's unseemly. 301 00:16:19,580 --> 00:16:21,782 I look like the grandmother from The Addams Family. 302 00:16:21,782 --> 00:16:24,451 [Truman] No, you look happy, C.Z. 303 00:16:24,451 --> 00:16:26,487 All publicity's good publicity. 304 00:16:26,487 --> 00:16:29,156 What is it that Andy says? "The only thing that matters 305 00:16:29,156 --> 00:16:32,560 is how many column inches you take up on the page." 306 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,095 If you're an artist, maybe, but in my circles, 307 00:16:35,095 --> 00:16:37,765 it's all about knowing when to enter and when to exit. 308 00:16:37,765 --> 00:16:39,667 We had our time. 309 00:16:39,667 --> 00:16:43,103 The Black and White Ball, the twist, that was ours. 310 00:16:43,103 --> 00:16:44,438 Not disco. 311 00:16:44,438 --> 00:16:46,573 I will not be seen like this again. 312 00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:51,812 You know, I was coming back from Dick's the other day 313 00:16:51,812 --> 00:16:55,616 and I happened to touch Kate's hand in the back of the cab. 314 00:16:55,616 --> 00:16:57,751 It was startling. 315 00:16:57,751 --> 00:17:00,186 Look at these liver spots. 316 00:17:01,622 --> 00:17:03,123 [exhales] 317 00:17:03,123 --> 00:17:05,759 And the thing is, I still feel like I'm 30, 318 00:17:05,759 --> 00:17:08,295 so why shouldn't I act like it? 319 00:17:08,295 --> 00:17:10,664 Everybody gets old and then they just go, 320 00:17:10,664 --> 00:17:15,336 "Oh, I guess I'm old," and so then they shrivel up and die. 321 00:17:15,336 --> 00:17:17,771 But maybe the secret to immortality... 322 00:17:19,106 --> 00:17:21,441 ...is to never admit defeat. 323 00:17:22,476 --> 00:17:24,278 The secret to immortality, 324 00:17:24,278 --> 00:17:27,514 for you, Truman, is to write. 325 00:17:27,514 --> 00:17:29,717 Keep writing. 326 00:17:29,717 --> 00:17:32,319 My God, you've sacrificed so much for this book. 327 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:35,322 Just finish it and you'll live forever. 328 00:17:43,630 --> 00:17:45,332 [Truman] [laughs] Because he won't screw her. 329 00:17:45,332 --> 00:17:48,636 That's why she's wearing that hideous little wrist brace. 330 00:17:48,636 --> 00:17:51,472 No, it's nothing to do with tennis, 331 00:17:51,472 --> 00:17:55,476 it's his endless demand for hand jobs. [laughs] 332 00:17:55,476 --> 00:17:58,212 Mrs. Watson wants to know when you're gonna pay your tab. 333 00:17:58,212 --> 00:18:00,781 It's true, he sits there flipping through... 334 00:18:00,781 --> 00:18:04,218 - You're two months late. - ...the chorus boys' headshots 335 00:18:04,218 --> 00:18:06,220 while she's pumping away. 336 00:18:06,220 --> 00:18:07,755 [laughs] 337 00:18:07,755 --> 00:18:11,292 [cackles] 338 00:18:11,292 --> 00:18:13,027 Oh, for heaven's sake. 339 00:18:13,027 --> 00:18:15,429 [slurring] Diane, I'm going to have to call you back. 340 00:18:15,429 --> 00:18:20,334 The Inquisition has arrived. 341 00:18:20,334 --> 00:18:23,037 Same to you. All right. 342 00:18:23,037 --> 00:18:26,373 That happened to be a very important call, 343 00:18:26,373 --> 00:18:27,741 if you care to know. 344 00:18:27,741 --> 00:18:30,444 Do you even want to stop with this? 345 00:18:30,444 --> 00:18:32,613 I have to drink. 346 00:18:32,613 --> 00:18:35,482 I am going on television tonight. 347 00:18:35,482 --> 00:18:39,086 A talk show, and I get nervous. 348 00:18:39,086 --> 00:18:42,523 I've got to be on, and there's a sweet spot 349 00:18:42,523 --> 00:18:46,627 right around three and a half drinks when I really sing. 350 00:18:46,627 --> 00:18:48,995 You said you were gonna write today. 351 00:18:50,764 --> 00:18:54,235 - You promised me. - Yeah, tell me, what did I promise you? 352 00:18:54,235 --> 00:18:57,238 Paying your bills, getting you headshots by the best, 353 00:18:57,238 --> 00:19:00,608 and an agent and jobs. 354 00:19:00,608 --> 00:19:02,776 Is that not enough? 355 00:19:02,776 --> 00:19:05,345 Hmm? 356 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:11,185 - [crying] - Oh, dear, dear, dear, dear. 357 00:19:11,185 --> 00:19:13,353 I didn't mean... 358 00:19:14,521 --> 00:19:17,458 - [sniffles] - It's just... 359 00:19:17,458 --> 00:19:21,228 I'm doing the best I can, you have to believe me. 360 00:19:21,228 --> 00:19:23,163 Kate, I... 361 00:19:25,766 --> 00:19:28,736 You know, three years ago, I said on Johnny Carson's show 362 00:19:28,736 --> 00:19:33,273 that Jacqueline Susann looked like a truck driver in drag. 363 00:19:34,341 --> 00:19:36,477 - [laughs] - And I am still reaping 364 00:19:36,477 --> 00:19:38,612 the benefits from that one little joke. 365 00:19:38,612 --> 00:19:41,081 All the talk shows want me on. 366 00:19:41,081 --> 00:19:43,217 They want me to talk about my feuds... 367 00:19:43,217 --> 00:19:48,188 ♪ And who I love and who I hate and... ♪ 368 00:19:48,188 --> 00:19:50,257 And that's how I pay the rent now. 369 00:19:50,257 --> 00:19:54,561 It's not through writing, it's through being a persona. 370 00:19:55,596 --> 00:19:58,198 That's my career now. 371 00:20:01,134 --> 00:20:03,303 You're just like him. 372 00:20:04,371 --> 00:20:06,039 Papa. 373 00:20:07,140 --> 00:20:09,175 I thought you were different. 374 00:20:10,377 --> 00:20:13,714 But it's always the same, isn't it? 375 00:20:13,714 --> 00:20:16,216 It's all the same. 376 00:20:16,216 --> 00:20:18,586 [shushes] 377 00:20:18,586 --> 00:20:21,488 You're right, I know, I know, I know. 378 00:20:23,390 --> 00:20:26,694 Just let me get through tonight. 379 00:20:26,694 --> 00:20:30,631 [laughs] I don't know what kind of men are going to be left. 380 00:20:30,631 --> 00:20:33,067 I mean, Peter Beard, you know, he, 381 00:20:33,067 --> 00:20:35,302 he was a throwback to the swashbucklers, 382 00:20:35,302 --> 00:20:37,204 but there's not a lot like him. 383 00:20:37,204 --> 00:20:39,240 I mean, have all the straight men 384 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,108 moved back to Los Angeles? 385 00:20:41,108 --> 00:20:43,477 [laughter] 386 00:20:43,477 --> 00:20:45,479 Ten years is all I can do in a marriage. 387 00:20:45,479 --> 00:20:47,581 - Mm. - Ten with Howard, 388 00:20:47,581 --> 00:20:49,316 ten with Leland and ten with Ken. 389 00:20:49,316 --> 00:20:51,585 - [laughter] - Don't laugh. 390 00:20:51,585 --> 00:20:53,754 Come on, at least, at least now, 391 00:20:53,754 --> 00:20:56,090 divorce is a badge of honor and not a scarlet letter. 392 00:20:56,090 --> 00:20:58,592 Well, it's that we expect it to always stay 393 00:20:58,592 --> 00:21:00,294 magical and exciting. 394 00:21:00,294 --> 00:21:01,462 It doesn't have to be good, Slim, 395 00:21:01,462 --> 00:21:03,197 it just has to be reliable. 396 00:21:03,197 --> 00:21:05,099 No, Cee. 397 00:21:05,099 --> 00:21:08,068 Why can't it be everything all at once? 398 00:21:08,068 --> 00:21:11,338 Sex, money and an endless adventure. 399 00:21:11,338 --> 00:21:14,575 Because that would be yet another story. 400 00:21:14,575 --> 00:21:17,444 Did you catch Truman's talk show appearance? 401 00:21:18,779 --> 00:21:21,215 [Lee] Gore Vidal is suing. 402 00:21:21,215 --> 00:21:23,751 And Truman, in order not to be served papers, 403 00:21:23,751 --> 00:21:26,587 is apparently hiding in a rehab. 404 00:21:26,587 --> 00:21:29,189 [C.Z.] He's trying. He really is. 405 00:21:29,189 --> 00:21:31,325 He told me, Lee, he tried to call you 406 00:21:31,325 --> 00:21:33,694 because you told the story, you can confirm it. 407 00:21:33,694 --> 00:21:36,564 If you testify, you could save him. 408 00:21:36,564 --> 00:21:40,067 His reputation, and what's more is... 409 00:21:40,067 --> 00:21:41,569 he has no money now. 410 00:21:41,569 --> 00:21:44,338 - He could lose it all. - [Lee] The story of Jackie 411 00:21:44,338 --> 00:21:47,207 being manhandled by Gore, I have no recollection of it. 412 00:21:47,207 --> 00:21:49,743 It never happened, I never told it. 413 00:21:49,743 --> 00:21:53,747 Besides, really, I am so tired of it all. 414 00:21:53,747 --> 00:21:55,449 Just two fags fighting. 415 00:21:55,449 --> 00:21:58,151 I'm not getting involved anyway. 416 00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:01,355 [C.Z.] The way she said it. 417 00:22:01,355 --> 00:22:03,657 "Just two fags fighting." 418 00:22:03,657 --> 00:22:05,492 I mean, really, Lee. 419 00:22:05,492 --> 00:22:07,428 We owe them a modicum of respect. 420 00:22:07,428 --> 00:22:09,063 The homosexuals, I mean. 421 00:22:09,063 --> 00:22:11,198 We've all relied on walkers over the years. 422 00:22:11,198 --> 00:22:14,101 A safe man to take us out, laugh with, 423 00:22:14,101 --> 00:22:17,738 a buffer against prying eyes and hands. 424 00:22:17,738 --> 00:22:21,075 What's more, a homosexual won't drop you 425 00:22:21,075 --> 00:22:22,376 after you reach a certain age. 426 00:22:22,376 --> 00:22:25,246 If anything, they lift you higher. 427 00:22:25,246 --> 00:22:27,715 It is a vital relationship. 428 00:22:27,715 --> 00:22:30,084 There's a way one can be in their company 429 00:22:30,084 --> 00:22:32,620 that's different than how you have to be with other women. 430 00:22:32,620 --> 00:22:34,622 You can finally drop the armor. 431 00:22:34,622 --> 00:22:38,092 I don't know if today's women wear armor at all. 432 00:22:38,092 --> 00:22:41,362 [laughs] They don't have to, they're "liberated." 433 00:22:41,362 --> 00:22:45,065 Having to go out with a man, gay or straight, it's over. 434 00:22:45,065 --> 00:22:48,168 - The end of the walker. - [Babe] Oh, gosh, I need gloves. 435 00:22:48,168 --> 00:22:50,070 Yes, with all these treatments, 436 00:22:50,070 --> 00:22:53,574 I'm beginning to understand what a pincushion must feel like. 437 00:22:53,574 --> 00:22:55,609 Needles in my hands, arms. 438 00:22:55,609 --> 00:22:57,111 Bill noticed the bruising 439 00:22:57,111 --> 00:22:59,113 and, of course, had to make a comment. 440 00:22:59,113 --> 00:23:02,716 So, from now on, I'm going to be covered 441 00:23:02,716 --> 00:23:05,786 every hour, every day. 442 00:23:05,786 --> 00:23:07,755 Driving gloves, daywear gloves. 443 00:23:07,755 --> 00:23:11,025 Hell, I'm even going to start a trend: 444 00:23:11,025 --> 00:23:12,726 watching TV wearing gloves. 445 00:23:12,726 --> 00:23:14,428 And you know I can do it. 446 00:23:14,428 --> 00:23:16,096 - [laughs softly] - Darling. 447 00:23:16,096 --> 00:23:19,366 When you have cancer, it's okay to have cancer. 448 00:23:19,366 --> 00:23:21,068 [Babe laughs softly] 449 00:23:21,068 --> 00:23:22,602 [C.Z.] Wait. 450 00:23:24,605 --> 00:23:27,441 - Where... where is it? - Excuse me, dear, 451 00:23:27,441 --> 00:23:29,743 what's happened to the glove department? 452 00:23:29,743 --> 00:23:32,713 - The glove department? - [Babe] Yes. Ms. Pigeon? 453 00:23:32,713 --> 00:23:36,250 Oh, yes. She's retired. 454 00:23:36,250 --> 00:23:39,253 - Hmm. - We may have something 455 00:23:39,253 --> 00:23:41,355 over in hosiery, 456 00:23:41,355 --> 00:23:45,059 but our clientele don't wear a lot of gloves anymore. 457 00:23:45,059 --> 00:23:48,095 We try to keep a very current inventory. 458 00:23:48,095 --> 00:23:49,763 You might try Lord & Taylor. 459 00:23:49,763 --> 00:23:52,032 ♪ ♪ 460 00:24:01,742 --> 00:24:03,611 Palm Springs is the perfect place 461 00:24:03,611 --> 00:24:05,746 to dry out because you never want to go out anywhere. 462 00:24:05,746 --> 00:24:09,450 It's all washed-up starlets and old queens, 463 00:24:09,450 --> 00:24:12,620 prickly as the cacti that stand guard 464 00:24:12,620 --> 00:24:16,257 over their white stucco fortresses. 465 00:24:16,257 --> 00:24:19,093 [Kerry] [over phone] What are you doing right now? 466 00:24:19,093 --> 00:24:21,262 Oh, just writing. 467 00:24:21,262 --> 00:24:23,430 Well, I can go. I don't want to disturb you. 468 00:24:23,430 --> 00:24:25,799 No, no, it's perfect timing, dear. 469 00:24:25,799 --> 00:24:31,272 I've been scribbling away all morning, very Proustian. 470 00:24:31,272 --> 00:24:33,707 That's great. Is the book shaping up as you'd hoped? 471 00:24:33,707 --> 00:24:36,477 - What, honey? - I said is the book shaping up 472 00:24:36,477 --> 00:24:38,178 - as you'd hoped? - Not at all. 473 00:24:38,178 --> 00:24:40,180 And I couldn't be happier. 474 00:24:40,180 --> 00:24:42,182 What do you mean? 475 00:24:42,182 --> 00:24:44,685 Well, you'll find this in your own work. 476 00:24:44,685 --> 00:24:47,154 When you sit down to write, 477 00:24:47,154 --> 00:24:51,025 the book will tell you what it really wants to be about. 478 00:24:51,025 --> 00:24:54,028 - Mm-hmm? - This particular novel Answered Prayers 479 00:24:54,028 --> 00:24:57,531 insists that it's going to be about friendships, 480 00:24:57,531 --> 00:25:00,768 how unlivable life is without them. 481 00:25:00,768 --> 00:25:04,772 Now, I was charged a hefty price for this insight, surely, 482 00:25:04,772 --> 00:25:07,775 but I'm starting to see that maybe it was 483 00:25:07,775 --> 00:25:11,211 what needed to happen in order for me to write. 484 00:25:11,211 --> 00:25:13,414 I'm really happy for you, Truman. 485 00:25:13,414 --> 00:25:15,616 - [man] Kate, get off the phone. - [Kerry] Oh, gosh. 486 00:25:15,616 --> 00:25:17,318 - Just a second. - [chuckles] 487 00:25:17,318 --> 00:25:19,620 I hope you wiped down that telephone receiver. 488 00:25:19,620 --> 00:25:24,091 You never know where anything in Andy's Factory has been. 489 00:25:24,091 --> 00:25:28,429 Go out, be young, paint yourself blue 490 00:25:28,429 --> 00:25:31,398 - and run around in the nude. - Okay. 491 00:25:31,398 --> 00:25:34,335 Once you get to be my age, all you'll want to do is 492 00:25:34,335 --> 00:25:39,106 retreat and never be nude, ever. [laughs] 493 00:25:39,106 --> 00:25:41,075 [doorbell rings] 494 00:25:41,075 --> 00:25:43,277 Oh, that's the handyman, love. 495 00:25:43,277 --> 00:25:44,678 - I got to go. - Okay. 496 00:25:44,678 --> 00:25:47,781 - Hugs and kisses. - Okay, bye. 497 00:25:53,854 --> 00:25:55,488 [chuckles] 498 00:25:57,124 --> 00:25:59,093 [doorbell rings] 499 00:25:59,093 --> 00:26:01,027 Mm, coming. 500 00:26:02,496 --> 00:26:04,297 [doorbell rings] 501 00:26:05,299 --> 00:26:06,467 Howdy. 502 00:26:06,467 --> 00:26:08,235 Here about the garbage disposal. 503 00:26:08,235 --> 00:26:10,670 Howdy yourself. Come right in. 504 00:26:17,577 --> 00:26:20,347 Mm. Well, I never knew the importance 505 00:26:20,347 --> 00:26:22,049 of the garbage disposal. 506 00:26:22,049 --> 00:26:25,786 Who knew it was so essential to modern life? [laughs] 507 00:26:25,786 --> 00:26:29,323 I only encountered it when I was unable to shred 508 00:26:29,323 --> 00:26:31,625 the remains of the coquille Saint Jacques. 509 00:26:31,625 --> 00:26:33,127 [laughs] 510 00:26:33,127 --> 00:26:35,563 When I hit the thing you see here, 511 00:26:35,563 --> 00:26:39,400 it doesn't... do the thing. 512 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,669 Might be the shredding disc. 513 00:26:41,669 --> 00:26:44,138 Did you check if you tripped up the overload protector? 514 00:26:44,138 --> 00:26:48,042 No, it's just, when I hit the thing, 515 00:26:48,042 --> 00:26:51,078 it doesn't do... the thing. 516 00:26:51,078 --> 00:26:53,714 - [chuckles] - I got you, buddy. 517 00:26:53,714 --> 00:26:55,449 Come here, let me show you how it works. 518 00:26:55,449 --> 00:26:58,352 You want to push that red button down, 519 00:26:58,352 --> 00:27:00,321 hold it for about three seconds. 520 00:27:00,321 --> 00:27:01,589 That should reset it. 521 00:27:01,589 --> 00:27:03,390 You want to give it a try? 522 00:27:03,390 --> 00:27:06,026 [chuckles] 523 00:27:06,026 --> 00:27:09,330 If Jack could see me now. 524 00:27:09,330 --> 00:27:11,265 Two, three. 525 00:27:11,265 --> 00:27:14,602 There you go. All right. 526 00:27:14,602 --> 00:27:16,270 Is that it? 527 00:27:16,270 --> 00:27:18,372 Well, I might need to get in there for a second. 528 00:27:18,372 --> 00:27:21,242 Mm. Usually, when something breaks, 529 00:27:21,242 --> 00:27:23,644 I just learn to live around it. 530 00:27:23,644 --> 00:27:26,680 Jack is, um... Oh, never mind. 531 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,682 Tell me about you. Who are you? 532 00:27:28,682 --> 00:27:31,819 Where are you from? Not from Palm Springs? 533 00:27:31,819 --> 00:27:36,090 No. Illinois. Born and bred. 534 00:27:36,090 --> 00:27:38,559 Illinois. Yes, I thought as much. 535 00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:42,363 You're too corn-fed to be a desert rat. 536 00:27:42,363 --> 00:27:44,798 So, did you come out here for a girl? 537 00:27:44,798 --> 00:27:46,567 To get away from one, actually. 538 00:27:46,567 --> 00:27:48,435 Yeah, she was awful pretty. 539 00:27:48,435 --> 00:27:50,704 Almost married her, too. 540 00:27:50,704 --> 00:27:52,706 Dad had a sugar beet factory. 541 00:27:52,706 --> 00:27:55,242 Gonna set me up real good. 542 00:27:55,242 --> 00:27:58,145 Mm, a beautiful girl, a stable job, 543 00:27:58,145 --> 00:28:00,581 and yet you came running out to the desert. 544 00:28:00,581 --> 00:28:05,286 So you're an experiences person. Life over comfort. 545 00:28:05,286 --> 00:28:08,222 I'm exactly the same way. 546 00:28:08,222 --> 00:28:12,192 What's your dream, if you could do anything in the world? 547 00:28:12,192 --> 00:28:13,727 Probably open a hog shop. 548 00:28:13,727 --> 00:28:15,362 A what? 549 00:28:15,362 --> 00:28:19,266 You know, motorcycles. Sell 'em, fix 'em. 550 00:28:19,266 --> 00:28:21,602 That's my Harley-Davidson outside, 551 00:28:21,602 --> 00:28:24,438 1976 Super Glide. 552 00:28:24,438 --> 00:28:28,542 Mmm. Harley-Davidson motorcycles. 553 00:28:28,542 --> 00:28:30,544 - Illinois. - [disposal runs, stops] 554 00:28:30,544 --> 00:28:33,047 How fascinating. 555 00:28:33,047 --> 00:28:36,717 Yeah. All done. 556 00:28:36,717 --> 00:28:39,620 You know, I usually do air condition repair, too. 557 00:28:39,620 --> 00:28:41,721 Marvelous. 558 00:28:45,692 --> 00:28:50,030 Say, Rick, I wonder if you'd be at all interested 559 00:28:50,030 --> 00:28:52,432 in having your cock sucked. 560 00:29:12,452 --> 00:29:15,489 So, have you ever let a man do that to you, 561 00:29:15,489 --> 00:29:18,225 or just plain Jane 562 00:29:18,225 --> 00:29:21,562 in Buckwheat, Illinois? 563 00:29:21,562 --> 00:29:23,697 No, never. 564 00:29:23,697 --> 00:29:25,733 Might have been the best blow job I've ever had 565 00:29:25,733 --> 00:29:28,135 in my life, though. 566 00:29:28,135 --> 00:29:33,039 Well, the secret is to glide with the thumb. 567 00:29:36,109 --> 00:29:39,513 My friend Wallis Simpson summers in Nantes. 568 00:29:39,513 --> 00:29:42,449 She picks up these priceless little nuggets 569 00:29:42,449 --> 00:29:46,253 of wisdom from fishermen. [chuckles] 570 00:29:46,253 --> 00:29:49,423 Nantes. Where's that? 571 00:29:49,423 --> 00:29:53,360 France, dear heart. Have you been to Europe? 572 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,197 Been once. Went to Korea. 573 00:29:57,197 --> 00:30:00,267 Well, that's the best part of Europe. 574 00:30:00,267 --> 00:30:04,505 If you've seen Korea, you've seen the whole place. 575 00:30:04,505 --> 00:30:07,741 You're just darling. Don't ever change. 576 00:30:07,741 --> 00:30:10,277 - Promise me. - Hmm. 577 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,482 You know, a lot of guys have trouble 578 00:30:15,482 --> 00:30:18,385 looking another man in the eyes when they're together, 579 00:30:18,385 --> 00:30:21,488 but you're not afraid of anything, are you? 580 00:30:22,623 --> 00:30:26,260 Hmm. I don't like snakes much. 581 00:30:26,260 --> 00:30:28,595 [Truman laughing] 582 00:30:30,731 --> 00:30:33,601 Well, I don't know about you, 583 00:30:33,601 --> 00:30:36,036 but I've worked up an appetite. 584 00:30:36,036 --> 00:30:38,172 What do you say we go to Hamburger Hamlet? 585 00:30:38,172 --> 00:30:39,607 I'll buy you anything you want. 586 00:30:39,607 --> 00:30:43,811 I bet you can put away three milkshakes, huh? 587 00:30:43,811 --> 00:30:46,347 Mm. 588 00:30:46,347 --> 00:30:48,449 Afraid I got to be hitting the road. 589 00:30:48,449 --> 00:30:53,787 I got a 4:00 in the Movie Colony. AC. 590 00:30:53,787 --> 00:30:56,056 Well... 591 00:30:57,457 --> 00:31:00,261 I'll just have to come with you, then. 592 00:31:00,261 --> 00:31:02,263 [zips pants] 593 00:31:02,263 --> 00:31:04,497 ["Kiss You All Over" by Exile playing] 594 00:31:05,499 --> 00:31:07,167 [chuckles] 595 00:31:07,167 --> 00:31:09,270 ♪ Gonna wrap my arms around you ♪ 596 00:31:09,270 --> 00:31:12,239 ♪ Hold you close to me ♪ 597 00:31:12,239 --> 00:31:14,408 ♪ Oh, babe, I want to taste your lips, I wanna... ♪ 598 00:31:14,408 --> 00:31:17,211 Sing it, man! Scream into the wind. 599 00:31:17,211 --> 00:31:19,513 I don't know it. 600 00:31:19,513 --> 00:31:21,548 Is this a big song right now? 601 00:31:21,548 --> 00:31:23,651 It's the big song. 602 00:31:23,651 --> 00:31:28,555 Well, I guess that makes me officially old. 603 00:31:28,555 --> 00:31:32,159 The lyrics to popular songs are a code for the young 604 00:31:32,159 --> 00:31:34,295 - and the young only. - ♪ Till the night closes in ♪ 605 00:31:34,295 --> 00:31:38,299 Once you don't know them, you're no longer in the club. 606 00:31:38,299 --> 00:31:43,170 ♪ Till the night closes in. ♪ 607 00:31:43,170 --> 00:31:45,639 No, so, socialites, they do shit. 608 00:31:45,639 --> 00:31:47,808 You just don't usually catch them in the act. 609 00:31:47,808 --> 00:31:50,811 However, on a yacht the quarters are very close. 610 00:31:50,811 --> 00:31:52,746 It's much harder to be discreet. 611 00:31:52,746 --> 00:31:56,050 Now, my friend Minnie Peltz, she'd been married ten years, 612 00:31:56,050 --> 00:31:57,618 and as far as her husband knew, 613 00:31:57,618 --> 00:31:58,719 she'd only ever used the toilet 614 00:31:58,719 --> 00:32:00,821 to flush the occasional goldfish. 615 00:32:00,821 --> 00:32:03,290 And she planned to keep that appearance up, 616 00:32:03,290 --> 00:32:04,758 thank you very much. 617 00:32:04,758 --> 00:32:09,263 So, for four weeks at sea, she didn't crap once. 618 00:32:09,263 --> 00:32:11,599 [both laugh] 619 00:32:11,599 --> 00:32:13,601 She was so horribly stopped up, 620 00:32:13,601 --> 00:32:17,037 her belly was sticking out further than her feet. 621 00:32:17,037 --> 00:32:20,040 She was having contractions. 622 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,811 Finally, they were forced to drop anchor, 623 00:32:23,811 --> 00:32:27,181 and a Croatian doctor gave her a suppository. 624 00:32:27,181 --> 00:32:29,583 Yeah, you know what that is? 625 00:32:29,583 --> 00:32:30,751 When they take a big old horse pill 626 00:32:30,751 --> 00:32:32,820 and they slather it in Crisco 627 00:32:32,820 --> 00:32:34,288 - and they stick it up your butthole. - Mm-hmm. 628 00:32:34,288 --> 00:32:37,091 - Mm-hmm. [chuckling] - So that night 629 00:32:37,091 --> 00:32:40,561 she gave birth to a shit baby. 630 00:32:40,561 --> 00:32:42,696 [Rick laughs] 631 00:32:42,696 --> 00:32:47,134 And, honest to God, she dropped 13 pounds. 632 00:32:47,134 --> 00:32:49,703 - 13 pounds? - But here's the kicker. 633 00:32:49,703 --> 00:32:52,172 Guess what the name of the boat was. 634 00:32:52,172 --> 00:32:54,441 - What? - The Royal Flush. 635 00:32:54,441 --> 00:32:56,644 [both laugh] 636 00:32:56,644 --> 00:32:59,346 The Royal Flush! 637 00:32:59,346 --> 00:33:01,548 That can't be true. 638 00:33:01,548 --> 00:33:04,752 - Is it? - Well, if it isn't, it should be. 639 00:33:04,752 --> 00:33:06,287 [laughs] 640 00:33:06,287 --> 00:33:08,755 You're a funny man. Funny man, Truman. 641 00:33:11,625 --> 00:33:14,094 [chuckles] 642 00:33:15,562 --> 00:33:17,631 I'm going back to New York on Monday. 643 00:33:17,631 --> 00:33:19,500 Why don't you come with me? 644 00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:23,537 You're smart, witty, charming. 645 00:33:23,537 --> 00:33:25,706 You're much too big for this town. 646 00:33:25,706 --> 00:33:26,707 Really? 647 00:33:26,707 --> 00:33:28,709 You think? 648 00:33:28,709 --> 00:33:30,744 Isn't New York all fancy? 649 00:33:30,744 --> 00:33:32,780 Oh, fancy's over. 650 00:33:32,780 --> 00:33:36,483 It apparently went out with the pill box hat. 651 00:33:36,483 --> 00:33:41,422 Rosalynn Carter has ushered in a new era. 652 00:33:41,422 --> 00:33:44,124 Real is what's in. 653 00:33:44,124 --> 00:33:46,627 People want salt-of-the-earth 654 00:33:46,627 --> 00:33:50,030 straight shooters. 655 00:33:51,298 --> 00:33:54,735 You know, in high school I won homecoming king 656 00:33:54,735 --> 00:33:57,037 - two years in a row. - You see? 657 00:33:57,037 --> 00:33:59,440 You were born for the society life. 658 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,308 They'll gobble you right up. 659 00:34:01,308 --> 00:34:03,077 What would I talk about? 660 00:34:03,077 --> 00:34:06,313 Well, you can talk about anything you like. 661 00:34:06,313 --> 00:34:08,615 What would you want to talk about? 662 00:34:10,183 --> 00:34:11,552 I don't know. 663 00:34:11,552 --> 00:34:13,520 [Rick] You should see what happens 664 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,455 when people try to fix their own air conditioner. 665 00:34:19,693 --> 00:34:22,496 Very interesting, Rick. 666 00:34:22,496 --> 00:34:25,599 I fail to grasp the basic principle 667 00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:27,434 of cooling air. 668 00:34:27,434 --> 00:34:29,336 These are the mysteries that keep you up at night, Tru? 669 00:34:29,336 --> 00:34:31,305 [laughter] 670 00:34:31,305 --> 00:34:33,107 [Rick] It's all about the Freon, babe. 671 00:34:33,107 --> 00:34:35,242 The gas goes through the condenser, 672 00:34:35,242 --> 00:34:37,811 makes its way through the coil, comes out as liquid. 673 00:34:37,811 --> 00:34:40,447 We should order the gooseberry soufflé for dessert. 674 00:34:40,447 --> 00:34:42,082 It takes a while, so... 675 00:34:42,082 --> 00:34:43,617 [Rick] But you need the right tools. 676 00:34:43,617 --> 00:34:45,352 The gauge for the condenser. 677 00:34:45,352 --> 00:34:48,122 Mallets, hacksaws, chisels, files. 678 00:34:48,122 --> 00:34:50,724 I'm taking Rick to They're Playing Our Song 679 00:34:50,724 --> 00:34:53,093 on Broadway; Lucie Arnaz is in it. 680 00:34:53,093 --> 00:34:55,129 [Rick] Yeah, I know them from Palm Springs. 681 00:34:55,129 --> 00:34:58,499 Lucille Ball, hell of a gal. 682 00:34:58,499 --> 00:35:00,234 Yeah, I met little Lucie swimming laps. 683 00:35:00,234 --> 00:35:03,170 We're gonna go backstage and see them, right, Truman? 684 00:35:03,170 --> 00:35:06,507 [Truman] So, do we know, is Lee in town? 685 00:35:06,507 --> 00:35:09,310 I had to fix Lucy's condenser once. Freon everywhere. 686 00:35:09,310 --> 00:35:12,146 [C.Z.] Palm Springs in summer is wonderful. 687 00:35:12,146 --> 00:35:14,148 We go to the movies every time we go. 688 00:35:14,148 --> 00:35:15,549 It's the only cool place. 689 00:35:15,549 --> 00:35:17,585 Saw That's Entertainment, A Star Is Born, 690 00:35:17,585 --> 00:35:20,054 The Pink Panther Strikes Again all in one day 691 00:35:20,054 --> 00:35:21,488 when it was 120 degrees out. 692 00:35:21,488 --> 00:35:23,824 Guess who keeps those movie theaters cool. 693 00:35:23,824 --> 00:35:27,628 I'm going mad. I'm actually going mad. 694 00:35:27,628 --> 00:35:30,431 C.Z., have you seen Lee? 695 00:35:30,431 --> 00:35:32,399 Because she's going to help me 696 00:35:32,399 --> 00:35:34,401 with this hideous lawsuit of Gore's. 697 00:35:34,401 --> 00:35:37,204 [Rick] You're being sued? Why? 698 00:35:37,204 --> 00:35:41,075 Oh, because, dearest man, I-I went on a talk show 699 00:35:41,075 --> 00:35:45,279 and I dared to tell the truth about Gore Vidal. 700 00:35:45,279 --> 00:35:47,748 Who's Gore Vidal? 701 00:35:47,748 --> 00:35:50,484 Oh, an untalented hack of a writer 702 00:35:50,484 --> 00:35:52,553 who was thrown out of the White House 703 00:35:52,553 --> 00:35:57,057 by Robert Kennedy Jr. for insulting Jackie's mother 704 00:35:57,057 --> 00:35:59,727 Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss. 705 00:35:59,727 --> 00:36:02,196 And then he had the nerve to touch Jackie 706 00:36:02,196 --> 00:36:06,333 violently and inappropriately on the right shoulder. 707 00:36:06,333 --> 00:36:07,601 He was drunk. 708 00:36:07,601 --> 00:36:09,303 [Rick] A man should never touch a girl. 709 00:36:09,303 --> 00:36:10,437 Like, never do that. 710 00:36:10,437 --> 00:36:12,640 But Gore denies all this, you see, 711 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,608 and Lee is Jackie's sister. 712 00:36:14,608 --> 00:36:17,278 And she's going to confirm that what I said 713 00:36:17,278 --> 00:36:19,280 is utterly true. 714 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,050 Oh, just apologize to Gore and it all goes away. 715 00:36:23,050 --> 00:36:24,385 Really, do you, do you actually want to be mired 716 00:36:24,385 --> 00:36:27,488 in a lawsuit with him? 717 00:36:27,488 --> 00:36:29,290 Just be friends, Truman. 718 00:36:29,290 --> 00:36:31,324 Friends? 719 00:36:33,093 --> 00:36:36,564 No, I do feel sad for Gore. 720 00:36:36,564 --> 00:36:39,667 Very sad that he has to breathe every day. 721 00:36:39,667 --> 00:36:41,435 [chuckles] 722 00:36:41,435 --> 00:36:44,638 Never back down when a pretentious toady 723 00:36:44,638 --> 00:36:46,674 spits Freon at you, dear heart, 724 00:36:46,674 --> 00:36:49,510 or they'll just keep doing it. [chuckles] 725 00:36:49,510 --> 00:36:53,380 The wit and wisdom of Truman Capote, part ten. 726 00:37:02,656 --> 00:37:04,658 [Truman] I never met a man who has 727 00:37:04,658 --> 00:37:09,630 a natural aroma like you have. 728 00:37:09,630 --> 00:37:13,167 You smell like some sort of hazelnut patchouli 729 00:37:13,167 --> 00:37:15,803 lemon desert sage. 730 00:37:15,803 --> 00:37:19,406 It oozes out of every pore. 731 00:37:19,406 --> 00:37:22,209 Come on, Truman, that's ticklish. 732 00:37:22,209 --> 00:37:26,280 I know, but I've been looking forward to you loosening me up. 733 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,549 This Gore stuff. 734 00:37:28,549 --> 00:37:30,251 I thought you'd like to do me 735 00:37:30,251 --> 00:37:32,286 like in that porno I showed you, 736 00:37:32,286 --> 00:37:33,754 Boys in the Sand. 737 00:37:33,754 --> 00:37:36,156 Oh, I do, but I'm tired. 738 00:37:36,156 --> 00:37:39,760 All that shopping and that fancy French restaurant. 739 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,696 - Come on. - What do you mean? 740 00:37:42,696 --> 00:37:45,733 Come on. I mean, I have certain needs, you know. 741 00:37:45,733 --> 00:37:48,636 Now we're like an old pair of shoes together 742 00:37:48,636 --> 00:37:50,137 after one month. 743 00:37:50,137 --> 00:37:52,106 Look, your friend Andy's on Love Boat. 744 00:37:52,106 --> 00:37:54,375 [Truman] Ooh, look at him. 745 00:37:54,375 --> 00:37:56,644 Oh, my God, it's a horror show. 746 00:37:56,644 --> 00:38:02,182 They put embalming fluid in his foundation, didn't they? 747 00:38:02,182 --> 00:38:04,251 [laughs] 748 00:38:06,486 --> 00:38:09,590 Well, I should be on this. 749 00:38:09,590 --> 00:38:11,559 They'd love to have me, wouldn't they? 750 00:38:11,559 --> 00:38:13,627 Don't you think, if Andy's doing it? 751 00:38:13,627 --> 00:38:15,462 Yeah. 752 00:38:18,665 --> 00:38:21,235 Look at my skin. 753 00:38:21,235 --> 00:38:24,605 It's all vines, like a map of the Nile. 754 00:38:24,605 --> 00:38:28,642 And yours is plump and fresh as a newborn's. 755 00:38:31,345 --> 00:38:35,182 It's all the vodka. Sucks out the moisture 756 00:38:35,182 --> 00:38:39,720 till you're as dry as an old smoked kipper. 757 00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:41,288 Shh! 758 00:38:41,288 --> 00:38:44,792 Watch the show. It's so good. 759 00:38:44,792 --> 00:38:46,527 Look, you want to, 760 00:38:46,527 --> 00:38:49,697 want me to let you blow me during the commercials? 761 00:38:49,697 --> 00:38:53,234 Yeah? Fantasy Island's on next. 762 00:38:53,234 --> 00:38:55,468 Okay? 763 00:38:59,439 --> 00:39:01,508 [Rick sighs] 764 00:39:08,315 --> 00:39:11,051 Well, it's finally happened. 765 00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:14,454 What's happened? 766 00:39:16,490 --> 00:39:19,059 I've gone out of style. 767 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,831 Truman, the fact is, Gore Vidal has 768 00:39:31,831 --> 00:39:33,366 a good case for defamation. 769 00:39:33,366 --> 00:39:36,970 And Lee Radziwill is not returning my calls. 770 00:39:36,970 --> 00:39:38,304 Lee's not calling you back? 771 00:39:38,304 --> 00:39:40,040 But aren't you her attorney, too? 772 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,108 I handled the divorce, yeah, 773 00:39:42,108 --> 00:39:44,377 but lawsuits make people squeamish. 774 00:39:44,377 --> 00:39:46,179 They behave like you're contagious, 775 00:39:46,179 --> 00:39:48,014 as though it's a leprosy. 776 00:39:48,014 --> 00:39:51,017 I'll write a draft of an apology for you... 777 00:39:51,017 --> 00:39:53,086 No, no apologies. No! 778 00:39:53,086 --> 00:39:56,222 No. If you don't mind, I'm calling C.Z. Guest. 779 00:39:56,222 --> 00:39:57,991 I'm fed up. 780 00:39:57,991 --> 00:40:00,093 Secrets. 781 00:40:00,093 --> 00:40:02,495 These women and their secrets. 782 00:40:02,495 --> 00:40:04,097 [line ringing] 783 00:40:04,097 --> 00:40:05,365 [C.Z.] Hello? 784 00:40:05,365 --> 00:40:07,967 Dear heart, it's Uncle Truman here. 785 00:40:07,967 --> 00:40:10,537 Look, I really need to ask you something. 786 00:40:10,537 --> 00:40:12,105 Well, make it quick, Uncle. 787 00:40:12,105 --> 00:40:13,373 Cornelia and I are making samosas 788 00:40:13,373 --> 00:40:15,442 for her show and tell at school. 789 00:40:15,442 --> 00:40:19,312 Look, why is Lee doing everything she can 790 00:40:19,312 --> 00:40:22,115 not to help me with this wretched Gore situation? 791 00:40:22,115 --> 00:40:23,983 Oh, God, Truman, do I have to be dragged 792 00:40:23,983 --> 00:40:25,318 into the middle of this? 793 00:40:25,318 --> 00:40:27,220 Cornelia, that's enough cumin, darling. 794 00:40:27,220 --> 00:40:29,823 No, you know and you're not telling me. 795 00:40:29,823 --> 00:40:33,293 Truman, okay, here's what it is. 796 00:40:33,293 --> 00:40:35,061 She's not going to help you. 797 00:40:36,062 --> 00:40:38,164 She's not? 798 00:40:38,164 --> 00:40:40,967 She made a nasty remark. 799 00:40:40,967 --> 00:40:43,036 Well, what did Lee say? 800 00:40:43,036 --> 00:40:45,872 They are two fags. 801 00:40:45,872 --> 00:40:48,174 It's the most disgusting... 802 00:40:48,174 --> 00:40:50,176 I'm-I'm not getting involved anyway. 803 00:40:50,176 --> 00:40:51,911 [chuckles] 804 00:40:51,911 --> 00:40:54,147 It's that side of her that's just savage. 805 00:40:54,147 --> 00:40:55,915 I suppose I should have told you, 806 00:40:55,915 --> 00:40:58,018 but it was too ugly, and I thought 807 00:40:58,018 --> 00:41:00,020 you'd have settled it with Gore by now. 808 00:41:00,020 --> 00:41:03,256 Lee said that? 809 00:41:03,256 --> 00:41:05,291 Well, I hope someone's telling her 810 00:41:05,291 --> 00:41:07,827 that her new love interest Mr. Herbert Ross 811 00:41:07,827 --> 00:41:10,096 has sucked more cocks than a deckhand 812 00:41:10,096 --> 00:41:12,232 on the Fire Island Ferry come August. 813 00:41:12,232 --> 00:41:14,901 I have to go. Just apologize to Gore 814 00:41:14,901 --> 00:41:17,269 and move on. 815 00:41:19,605 --> 00:41:22,808 Now that's a kick in the rubber parts, Burt. 816 00:41:24,277 --> 00:41:25,845 Lee. 817 00:41:26,646 --> 00:41:29,382 I'm afraid she's just had too much pain in her life 818 00:41:29,382 --> 00:41:31,851 to help a friend now. 819 00:41:31,851 --> 00:41:36,489 Truman, apologize to Gore Vidal for God's sake. 820 00:41:36,489 --> 00:41:38,358 All this stress is killing you. 821 00:41:38,358 --> 00:41:40,393 You need to finish the book. 822 00:41:40,393 --> 00:41:43,963 I can't keep defending you to Random House. 823 00:41:43,963 --> 00:41:47,133 Go down to my house in Boca, dry out, 824 00:41:47,133 --> 00:41:48,835 and finish Answered Prayers. 825 00:41:48,835 --> 00:41:52,872 Enough with the dramas, please. 826 00:41:52,872 --> 00:41:54,974 Aren't you tired? 827 00:41:54,974 --> 00:41:56,976 Aren't I tired? 828 00:41:58,277 --> 00:42:02,548 Exhausted, Burt. Simply exhausted. 829 00:42:05,051 --> 00:42:07,387 But if everyone's turning against me, 830 00:42:07,387 --> 00:42:10,523 when do I dare sleep? 831 00:42:13,126 --> 00:42:14,561 And it's happened before, 832 00:42:14,561 --> 00:42:16,496 this thing they do, this shaming. 833 00:42:16,496 --> 00:42:18,865 This use of the word "fag." 834 00:42:18,865 --> 00:42:21,101 I don't know why. 835 00:42:21,101 --> 00:42:22,969 Is this what all women do behind the backs 836 00:42:22,969 --> 00:42:24,537 - of their gay friends? - Oh, Truman. 837 00:42:24,537 --> 00:42:27,273 You are talking about Lee Radziwill, 838 00:42:27,273 --> 00:42:30,510 perhaps the unhappiest, most covetous famous sister 839 00:42:30,510 --> 00:42:32,312 in New York, if not America. 840 00:42:32,312 --> 00:42:33,980 And Ann Woodward, 841 00:42:33,980 --> 00:42:35,515 a self-murdering killer, for God's sake. 842 00:42:35,515 --> 00:42:38,284 This is not exactly a representative demographic. 843 00:42:38,284 --> 00:42:41,521 No, I think it's pervasive, Jack. 844 00:42:41,521 --> 00:42:44,491 It's contempt, and we just live with it. 845 00:42:44,491 --> 00:42:47,560 Humming in the background. 846 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,831 Gay men have always had these particular kind of women friends 847 00:42:51,831 --> 00:42:53,833 who all have their odd, arid marriages 848 00:42:53,833 --> 00:42:55,969 and their little affairs. 849 00:42:55,969 --> 00:42:59,572 - And we're sort of Pomeranians to them, aren't we? - [laughs] 850 00:42:59,572 --> 00:43:03,376 There to cuddle when they need something fluffy to hold onto. 851 00:43:03,376 --> 00:43:06,846 But should we growl or show our teeth, 852 00:43:06,846 --> 00:43:09,582 - then it's off to the pound we go. - Yes. 853 00:43:09,582 --> 00:43:12,886 Let me explain something to you, and perhaps you'll hear it. 854 00:43:12,886 --> 00:43:14,521 Whatever force that hypnotized you 855 00:43:14,521 --> 00:43:16,523 about your fucking swans was... 856 00:43:16,523 --> 00:43:20,493 It's a distortion, Truman. This is, this is a mirage. 857 00:43:20,493 --> 00:43:23,430 These are entrapped lost souls, 858 00:43:23,430 --> 00:43:25,865 these ladies of Manhattan that you've collected, 859 00:43:25,865 --> 00:43:29,201 and you're so much better now that the spell is broken. 860 00:43:30,870 --> 00:43:35,108 I don't think that you actually realize that you wrote 861 00:43:35,108 --> 00:43:38,010 "La Cote Basque" in order to free yourself of them. 862 00:43:39,045 --> 00:43:41,314 So what now, what? You're scared? 863 00:43:41,314 --> 00:43:43,849 You amputated them. 864 00:43:45,351 --> 00:43:46,852 You never really needed them. 865 00:43:49,022 --> 00:43:51,024 Jack, Jack, Jack. 866 00:43:51,024 --> 00:43:53,326 So much wisdom in you. 867 00:43:54,861 --> 00:43:57,130 I spend so much time resenting that about you, 868 00:43:57,130 --> 00:43:59,099 and it's the thing I most love about you. 869 00:43:59,099 --> 00:44:01,267 - [laughs] - What? 870 00:44:01,267 --> 00:44:03,336 [Truman chuckles] 871 00:44:05,271 --> 00:44:09,309 Look at them. Babes in arms. 872 00:44:09,309 --> 00:44:12,012 Were we ever that young? 873 00:44:12,012 --> 00:44:13,913 We were younger, actually, when we met. 874 00:44:13,913 --> 00:44:16,082 - Were we? - Mm-hmm. 875 00:44:18,351 --> 00:44:21,954 Do you really have to go back to Switzerland, Jack? 876 00:44:23,990 --> 00:44:28,528 Oh, come on. You've got Kid Freon, okay? 877 00:44:28,528 --> 00:44:32,232 I'm heading back, yes. 878 00:44:32,232 --> 00:44:33,500 Skiing's good right now, 879 00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:35,534 and I have my own book to finish. 880 00:44:40,873 --> 00:44:42,942 We're still us. 881 00:44:44,143 --> 00:44:46,512 Even when I'm not here... 882 00:44:48,281 --> 00:44:50,249 ...we're us. 883 00:44:55,188 --> 00:44:56,356 [Truman chuckles] 884 00:44:56,356 --> 00:44:58,457 ♪ ♪ 885 00:45:01,394 --> 00:45:03,997 [Truman] [on TV] I didn't have a booze problem, 886 00:45:03,997 --> 00:45:06,366 I had a tranquilizing problem. 887 00:45:06,366 --> 00:45:08,902 I was taking a lot of tranquilizers 888 00:45:08,902 --> 00:45:12,505 'cause I'm an extremely highly strung person 889 00:45:12,505 --> 00:45:14,374 and always have been. 890 00:45:14,374 --> 00:45:18,044 And I've, I've been taking, uh, the tranquilizers 891 00:45:18,044 --> 00:45:20,847 for over a period of ten years, 892 00:45:20,847 --> 00:45:22,882 which is a long time. 893 00:45:22,882 --> 00:45:27,520 And it's not how many, it's the cumulative effect of them. 894 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:31,391 I mean, these doctors that had me on these valium 895 00:45:31,391 --> 00:45:33,259 and Librium... 896 00:45:33,259 --> 00:45:35,495 [continues indistinctly] 897 00:45:35,495 --> 00:45:37,530 ♪ ♪ 898 00:45:49,475 --> 00:45:51,110 [crying] 899 00:46:09,595 --> 00:46:10,864 Well, it's a big fall for me. 900 00:46:10,864 --> 00:46:12,232 I'm going to be doing press, 901 00:46:12,232 --> 00:46:14,367 and I have a new fella. 902 00:46:14,367 --> 00:46:16,403 So I just have to look good. 903 00:46:16,403 --> 00:46:17,871 [Norman] Well, it's pretty straightforward. 904 00:46:17,871 --> 00:46:20,807 I go along the natural line here... 905 00:46:20,807 --> 00:46:22,075 Oh. 906 00:46:22,075 --> 00:46:24,377 ...of the upper lid above the eye, 907 00:46:24,377 --> 00:46:26,813 trimming as I go. 908 00:46:26,813 --> 00:46:29,082 And then the lower lid, Tru, I got to cut out the fat 909 00:46:29,082 --> 00:46:31,251 that created these bags, 910 00:46:31,251 --> 00:46:34,888 which are filled with vodka, as far as I can tell. 911 00:46:34,888 --> 00:46:38,258 Look, I've stopped, I've cleaned up, Norman, honestly. 912 00:46:38,258 --> 00:46:39,926 And we got to get the neck, too. 913 00:46:39,926 --> 00:46:41,895 Platysmaplasty is really where it's gonna help 914 00:46:41,895 --> 00:46:44,030 because your neck is in terrible shape. 915 00:46:44,030 --> 00:46:45,231 I know. 916 00:46:46,032 --> 00:46:49,569 You got to take better care of yourself. 917 00:46:49,569 --> 00:46:52,238 Those peels we did, that's all erased 918 00:46:52,238 --> 00:46:54,240 because of your terrible health habit. 919 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:57,911 No, a new leaf, I'm telling you. 920 00:46:57,911 --> 00:47:00,080 Norman, just make me look the way I used to. 921 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,348 Okay. 922 00:47:01,348 --> 00:47:02,515 I want to match on the outside 923 00:47:02,515 --> 00:47:04,584 the way I feel on the inside. 924 00:47:04,584 --> 00:47:07,454 - Okay, well, I'll try. - I want to stun them all. 925 00:47:07,454 --> 00:47:09,289 - I need to. - Hey, babe, 926 00:47:09,289 --> 00:47:12,826 you've stunned them all already with your excerpt, 927 00:47:12,826 --> 00:47:15,061 - which I loved. - Thank you, Norman. 928 00:47:15,061 --> 00:47:16,863 So tell me, when is the book coming out? 929 00:47:16,863 --> 00:47:19,799 Are you close to done? I want to read the rest. 930 00:47:19,799 --> 00:47:22,002 Well, I work every day. 931 00:47:22,002 --> 00:47:25,438 You know, Norman, I went light on them in "Cote Basque." 932 00:47:25,438 --> 00:47:28,274 They were offended, really? 933 00:47:28,274 --> 00:47:31,377 It's so much worse. I was kind. 934 00:47:31,911 --> 00:47:35,215 Please, when I think about what they're putting me through... 935 00:47:35,215 --> 00:47:38,451 This censoriousness, as though I were 936 00:47:38,451 --> 00:47:41,121 some lapdog meant to heel, 937 00:47:41,121 --> 00:47:44,557 like one of Wallis Simpson's fucking pugs. 938 00:47:44,557 --> 00:47:46,960 - [chuckles] - Well, I loved it. 939 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,896 Uh, I can do the surgery next month on the tenth. 940 00:47:49,896 --> 00:47:51,831 That sounds good. 941 00:47:51,831 --> 00:47:53,900 I'm worried about the pain, of course. 942 00:47:53,900 --> 00:47:55,835 - Why? - Well, people think I'm strong, 943 00:47:55,835 --> 00:47:58,538 but I can't bear physical pain, I really can't. 944 00:47:58,538 --> 00:48:00,840 You'll be fine. 945 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,276 What is all this now? 946 00:48:03,276 --> 00:48:07,580 Well, Sunny von Bülow recommended these ones 947 00:48:07,580 --> 00:48:11,184 but told me not to mix 'em with these. 948 00:48:11,184 --> 00:48:14,187 Yeah, Halcion doesn't go well with anything, 949 00:48:14,187 --> 00:48:15,822 let alone Vicodin. 950 00:48:15,822 --> 00:48:18,258 What do you want, respiratory arrest? 951 00:48:18,258 --> 00:48:20,160 - Let me see what else you have in here. - No. 952 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:25,532 Valium, Dilantin, codeine. Tuinal. 953 00:48:25,532 --> 00:48:27,934 Where did you get this one? 954 00:48:27,934 --> 00:48:29,936 This isn't even legal in this country, Truman. 955 00:48:29,936 --> 00:48:32,405 I wish I'd married a nice Jewish doctor like you. 956 00:48:32,405 --> 00:48:34,107 Oh, shut up. 957 00:48:34,107 --> 00:48:36,242 One who'd keep all my pills in order for me 958 00:48:36,242 --> 00:48:37,811 and dispense them properly. 959 00:48:37,811 --> 00:48:39,512 Well, I'm taken. 960 00:48:39,512 --> 00:48:41,848 Promise you'll protect me from the pain. 961 00:48:41,848 --> 00:48:43,583 Would I lie to you? 962 00:48:43,583 --> 00:48:45,318 You think I want to end up in your book? 963 00:48:45,318 --> 00:48:48,387 [both laugh] 964 00:48:51,290 --> 00:48:58,364 Oh... Okay. 965 00:49:01,968 --> 00:49:04,804 Oh, Rick. 966 00:49:04,804 --> 00:49:06,206 Yeah. 967 00:49:06,206 --> 00:49:08,441 Well, you're going sooner than I thought, 968 00:49:08,441 --> 00:49:11,177 but you stayed longer than I expected. 969 00:49:13,946 --> 00:49:15,448 Do you need some money? 970 00:49:15,448 --> 00:49:17,817 Tru, I told you, 971 00:49:17,817 --> 00:49:20,320 air conditioning repair is very lucrative. 972 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:21,988 [Truman chuckles] 973 00:49:21,988 --> 00:49:24,991 Look, I'm just going to say it. 974 00:49:24,991 --> 00:49:27,227 I can't be your boyfriend. 975 00:49:27,227 --> 00:49:28,228 I can't. 976 00:49:28,228 --> 00:49:31,231 No, I guess not. 977 00:49:31,231 --> 00:49:32,798 No. 978 00:49:33,599 --> 00:49:36,236 [Truman sniffles] 979 00:49:36,236 --> 00:49:38,471 I miss my fiancée. 980 00:49:51,117 --> 00:49:54,020 You're engaged? 981 00:49:54,020 --> 00:49:56,022 Gina. 982 00:49:56,022 --> 00:49:58,525 She works at the I. Magnin 983 00:49:58,525 --> 00:50:01,995 at the Desert Fashion Plaza Mall 984 00:50:01,995 --> 00:50:03,963 where you got me this watch. 985 00:50:03,963 --> 00:50:06,833 - Do you want it back? - No, dear, I don't. 986 00:50:06,833 --> 00:50:10,770 Keep the Rolex and think of me as time goes by. 987 00:50:11,537 --> 00:50:14,407 Part of me wants to scream at you 988 00:50:14,407 --> 00:50:17,844 and say you're a lying, rotten user, 989 00:50:17,844 --> 00:50:20,980 and your tumbleweed of a girlfriend is... 990 00:50:20,980 --> 00:50:23,383 department store trash, 991 00:50:23,383 --> 00:50:27,387 and she'll scrape her teeth on your cock 992 00:50:27,387 --> 00:50:30,490 every time she puts it in her mouth. 993 00:50:30,490 --> 00:50:34,961 But for some dumb reason, 994 00:50:34,961 --> 00:50:39,098 I can't quite figure out how to be mad at you. 995 00:50:43,503 --> 00:50:45,171 [Rick laughs softly] 996 00:50:45,171 --> 00:50:47,340 [Truman grunts] 997 00:50:47,340 --> 00:50:49,408 [Rick sighs] 998 00:50:50,376 --> 00:50:52,946 Take care of yourself, Tru. 999 00:50:52,946 --> 00:50:55,114 Don't let the monsters get you. 1000 00:50:57,016 --> 00:50:58,351 [Truman chuckles] 1001 00:51:07,126 --> 00:51:10,463 You know, maybe you should get a teddy bear. 1002 00:51:10,463 --> 00:51:15,402 - [scoffs] - Something to hold onto at night. 1003 00:51:15,402 --> 00:51:18,304 Well, send me one from I. Magnin. 1004 00:51:20,339 --> 00:51:24,010 Make it cute, in a sailor suit. 1005 00:51:26,112 --> 00:51:28,147 I will. 1006 00:51:29,348 --> 00:51:31,350 ["Perfect Day" by Lou Reed playing] 1007 00:51:41,194 --> 00:51:45,231 ♪ Just a perfect day ♪ 1008 00:51:45,231 --> 00:51:49,302 ♪ Drink sangria in the park ♪ 1009 00:51:50,403 --> 00:51:52,172 ♪ And then later ♪ 1010 00:51:52,172 --> 00:51:56,475 ♪ When it gets dark, we go home ♪ 1011 00:52:01,581 --> 00:52:05,485 ♪ Just a perfect day ♪ 1012 00:52:05,485 --> 00:52:08,455 ♪ Feed animals in the zoo... ♪ 1013 00:52:08,455 --> 00:52:11,992 [Truman] Answered Prayers, Chapter 20, "Our Time." 1014 00:52:11,992 --> 00:52:15,128 Being the last will and testament of P.B. Jones. 1015 00:52:15,128 --> 00:52:19,299 My moment was brief in that time. 1016 00:52:19,299 --> 00:52:21,334 My body was lithe enough to attract men 1017 00:52:21,334 --> 00:52:23,503 and women as much as... 1018 00:52:23,503 --> 00:52:25,538 as often as they or I needed. 1019 00:52:25,538 --> 00:52:28,908 And friends, too, came easily. 1020 00:52:28,908 --> 00:52:30,877 Because when you are in your time, 1021 00:52:30,877 --> 00:52:33,446 you attract people to your light. 1022 00:52:33,446 --> 00:52:36,182 You can laugh easily and recover instantly 1023 00:52:36,182 --> 00:52:40,086 from booze and slights and bruises. 1024 00:52:40,086 --> 00:52:43,055 I had that with my friends. 1025 00:52:44,257 --> 00:52:47,327 Now I have only one or two left. 1026 00:52:47,327 --> 00:52:50,130 Friends. Old together. 1027 00:52:50,130 --> 00:52:53,466 As I lay here on a hammock in Tangier, 1028 00:52:53,466 --> 00:52:57,137 alone as far as the eye can see, 1029 00:52:57,137 --> 00:53:01,241 time zones distant from anyone who knows me, 1030 00:53:01,241 --> 00:53:06,513 what I remember is mostly the sun and how it felt on skin. 1031 00:53:06,513 --> 00:53:12,052 That is what friendship, the love of friends, feels like. 1032 00:53:12,052 --> 00:53:13,820 Luck. 1033 00:53:13,820 --> 00:53:17,424 Salt when you lick someone's sun-dappled arm. 1034 00:53:17,424 --> 00:53:18,425 Light. 1035 00:53:18,425 --> 00:53:21,261 And that is what I miss, 1036 00:53:21,261 --> 00:53:23,530 because in this desert heat, 1037 00:53:23,530 --> 00:53:25,432 I do not feel it now. 1038 00:53:25,432 --> 00:53:31,271 ♪ Oh, it's such a perfect day ♪ 1039 00:53:31,271 --> 00:53:37,143 ♪ I'm glad I spent it with you ♪ 1040 00:53:37,143 --> 00:53:40,447 ♪ Oh, such a perfect day ♪ 1041 00:53:40,447 --> 00:53:45,251 ♪ You just keep me hanging on ♪ 1042 00:53:45,251 --> 00:53:50,990 ♪ You just keep me hanging on ♪ 1043 00:54:06,139 --> 00:54:11,978 ♪ You're going to reap just what you sow ♪ 1044 00:54:16,249 --> 00:54:22,154 ♪ You're going to reap just what you sow ♪ 1045 00:54:26,192 --> 00:54:31,064 ♪ You're going to reap just what you sow. ♪ 1046 00:54:31,064 --> 00:54:39,667 Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org