1 00:00:09,009 --> 00:00:11,011 [clicking] 2 00:00:11,469 --> 00:00:13,471 [sad music playing] 3 00:00:15,807 --> 00:00:17,017 [Claire weeping] 4 00:00:35,035 --> 00:00:36,453 [dirt thuds] 5 00:00:43,043 --> 00:00:45,187 [Jack] Feels like part of my insides have been ripped out. 6 00:00:45,211 --> 00:00:46,046 [Archie] Hmm. 7 00:00:46,129 --> 00:00:48,548 Ace was a good man. It's okay to be sad, Jack. 8 00:00:49,299 --> 00:00:51,444 I'm not talking about Ace, I'm talking about our movie. 9 00:00:51,468 --> 00:00:52,594 I'm talking about Meg. 10 00:00:53,303 --> 00:00:55,013 Destroying a print, it's a sin. 11 00:00:55,096 --> 00:00:56,973 It's like... it's like burning The Mona Lisa. 12 00:00:57,057 --> 00:00:58,725 Can we not talk about that, please? 13 00:00:58,808 --> 00:00:59,893 It's over. It's all over. 14 00:00:59,976 --> 00:01:02,812 Nah, hold on, hold on. Avis is running the studio now. 15 00:01:03,188 --> 00:01:05,148 You know, she fired the lawyers that did it. 16 00:01:05,398 --> 00:01:07,233 This was her passion project. 17 00:01:07,776 --> 00:01:10,153 I just think we should talk to her, you know? 18 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:12,200 Tell her we're going to reshoot the whole thing. 19 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,074 Half a million dollars just went up in smoke. 20 00:01:14,157 --> 00:01:16,743 Now we're going to go back and ask for the same amount again? 21 00:01:16,826 --> 00:01:17,827 Never gonna happen. 22 00:01:18,453 --> 00:01:21,331 Look, it was an honor working with you fellas. 23 00:01:21,831 --> 00:01:22,957 I'm proud of you. 24 00:01:25,168 --> 00:01:26,168 [Jack] So long, fellas. 25 00:01:26,211 --> 00:01:27,670 See you, Jack. 26 00:01:27,754 --> 00:01:28,922 - See you around. - Archie. 27 00:01:30,507 --> 00:01:31,507 [Harry] Raymond! 28 00:01:33,176 --> 00:01:34,176 Ray! 29 00:01:34,761 --> 00:01:35,595 Harry! 30 00:01:35,678 --> 00:01:37,097 Come on, walk with me. 31 00:01:37,972 --> 00:01:39,224 I wanted to tell you something. 32 00:01:39,307 --> 00:01:42,519 You remember me bragging about giving it to... 33 00:01:43,103 --> 00:01:44,354 Gloria Swanson? 34 00:01:44,437 --> 00:01:46,189 That was way out of line. 35 00:01:46,272 --> 00:01:48,274 Joe Kennedy had just dumped her. 36 00:01:48,775 --> 00:01:51,194 We never really shtupped anyway. 37 00:01:51,319 --> 00:01:55,698 - It was just, uh, straight-up cunnilingus. - Is that what you wanted to tell me? 38 00:01:55,782 --> 00:01:57,784 No, I gotta ask you a question. 39 00:01:58,034 --> 00:02:00,995 Avis is now in full control of the studio, right? 40 00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:02,747 - Yeah. - Good. 41 00:02:07,752 --> 00:02:10,755 When that slimy piece of garbage, Henry Willson, 42 00:02:10,839 --> 00:02:12,340 started fucking with your film, 43 00:02:13,216 --> 00:02:16,719 I knew I had to make a copy of your cut for safekeeping. 44 00:02:17,387 --> 00:02:19,722 I did the same thing for Wizard of Oz, 45 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:23,434 when some idiot producer wanted to cut Somewhere Over the Rainbow, 46 00:02:23,518 --> 00:02:24,602 if you could believe it. 47 00:02:24,686 --> 00:02:28,064 I made a print, took it home, it stayed in the picture. 48 00:02:31,442 --> 00:02:32,694 That's your movie, kid. 49 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:34,821 You know what this means, don't you? 50 00:02:35,196 --> 00:02:36,489 You're still in the game. 51 00:02:36,573 --> 00:02:37,824 [laughing] 52 00:02:38,491 --> 00:02:40,076 [big band music playing] 53 00:03:26,581 --> 00:03:27,581 [bell dings] 54 00:03:35,924 --> 00:03:37,926 - [cork pops] - [Avis laughing] Oh! 55 00:03:38,509 --> 00:03:41,471 You don't think that this is just a bit premature? 56 00:03:41,554 --> 00:03:43,598 Dick, why can't I have a little fun? 57 00:03:43,681 --> 00:03:45,934 Our passion project is back from the dead. 58 00:03:46,017 --> 00:03:48,978 I fired every one of those lawyers who stood in my way. 59 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:50,229 A toast! 60 00:03:51,898 --> 00:03:53,566 Here's to my late husband, 61 00:03:54,192 --> 00:03:57,320 who, in the end, loved what we did. 62 00:03:58,696 --> 00:04:00,740 - To Ace. - [all] To Ace. 63 00:04:03,743 --> 00:04:05,161 Right, let's get to it. 64 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,706 What's the plan? How do we release this picture? 65 00:04:08,831 --> 00:04:10,708 Well, there's been a lot of hand-wringing 66 00:04:10,792 --> 00:04:13,503 how this film will be received in the South. 67 00:04:13,586 --> 00:04:15,463 A lot of theaters there said they won't run it, 68 00:04:15,546 --> 00:04:17,298 but some major cities will, 69 00:04:17,382 --> 00:04:21,177 and I've promised to cover the cost of security to keep those theaters open. 70 00:04:21,261 --> 00:04:23,388 It's a cost that I think that we can recoup 71 00:04:23,471 --> 00:04:26,349 with a larger-than-usual nationwide release. 72 00:04:26,432 --> 00:04:28,559 - How many theaters? - [Ellen chuckles] 73 00:04:28,643 --> 00:04:30,561 Six hundred and seventy-five. 74 00:04:30,645 --> 00:04:32,063 Has that ever been done? 75 00:04:32,146 --> 00:04:33,940 No, it has never been done. 76 00:04:34,524 --> 00:04:36,859 I'm calling it a "wide release." 77 00:04:36,943 --> 00:04:40,571 A print of this picture will be sent to every theater in this country. 78 00:04:41,114 --> 00:04:43,908 We're also going to lower ticket prices by five cents. 79 00:04:43,992 --> 00:04:46,786 It will fill all those seats with people 80 00:04:46,869 --> 00:04:49,247 who maybe haven't seen a movie for a while. 81 00:04:49,330 --> 00:04:50,873 Perhaps never seen one. 82 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:53,793 You're gonna have a lot of poor colored folks 83 00:04:53,876 --> 00:04:56,004 moving heaven and earth to come see this movie. 84 00:04:56,087 --> 00:04:58,089 Exactly. It's going to be expensive... 85 00:04:58,172 --> 00:05:00,883 But it's going to be a story in and of itself. 86 00:05:00,967 --> 00:05:04,012 There won't be a single man, woman, or child in America 87 00:05:04,095 --> 00:05:05,972 who doesn't hear about this. 88 00:05:06,055 --> 00:05:08,099 It's going to be a national conversation. 89 00:05:08,182 --> 00:05:11,102 I, for one, think that's a good bet. 90 00:05:11,894 --> 00:05:13,813 Let's do it. What's next? 91 00:05:14,230 --> 00:05:16,691 Well, I just spoke to my dear friend Hedda Hopper, 92 00:05:16,774 --> 00:05:19,068 and I told her that last night in Pasadena, 93 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:24,657 Meg reported the highest test score in Ace Pictures history. 94 00:05:24,741 --> 00:05:27,160 Now, now, Miss Kincaid, that wouldn't happen to be 95 00:05:27,243 --> 00:05:28,494 a little white lie, would it? 96 00:05:28,578 --> 00:05:31,015 Well, it was an enormous white lie, and I'm quite proud of it. 97 00:05:31,039 --> 00:05:32,332 [all laughing] 98 00:05:32,415 --> 00:05:36,210 How about this idea? I announce that I'm green-lighting another picture 99 00:05:36,294 --> 00:05:37,754 by Raymond Ainsley, 100 00:05:37,837 --> 00:05:40,882 written by Archie Coleman, starring Camille Washington! 101 00:05:41,424 --> 00:05:42,424 You have another idea? 102 00:05:43,009 --> 00:05:45,303 - Yes... - Sold, I'll announce it today. 103 00:05:45,386 --> 00:05:46,721 This is exciting! 104 00:05:46,804 --> 00:05:49,182 - I think another toast is in order. - [Raymond] I'll say. 105 00:05:49,265 --> 00:05:53,686 In two weeks, either we'll all be looked at as the smartest people in Hollywood, 106 00:05:54,437 --> 00:05:56,314 or we'll never work again. 107 00:05:57,857 --> 00:05:59,776 To never working again. 108 00:05:59,901 --> 00:06:01,944 - [all] To never working again! - [clinking] 109 00:06:02,028 --> 00:06:04,030 [music playing] 110 00:06:08,159 --> 00:06:09,285 Hey, baby doll! 111 00:06:10,119 --> 00:06:12,413 Get in here. Come feed me. 112 00:06:13,331 --> 00:06:14,916 I ain't talking about pancakes. 113 00:06:16,125 --> 00:06:18,878 - You think my hair just does this? - [chuckles] 114 00:06:18,961 --> 00:06:20,630 Here's what we're going to do. 115 00:06:20,713 --> 00:06:23,758 I am going to whip up a couple of pot pies, 116 00:06:24,342 --> 00:06:26,177 and we're gonna go to the picture show, 117 00:06:26,260 --> 00:06:29,472 and then when we come back, we're going to wreck this bed again. 118 00:06:29,722 --> 00:06:31,557 - Ah. - That's my idea of a Sunday. 119 00:06:32,016 --> 00:06:33,351 Sounds like a plan! 120 00:06:35,186 --> 00:06:37,730 - What are you looking at? - I got to tell you, kid... 121 00:06:38,648 --> 00:06:42,193 I've been with a lot of women in my time. I mean a lot. 122 00:06:42,276 --> 00:06:44,070 You got a point you're going to get to? 123 00:06:44,153 --> 00:06:46,489 But I can't say, other than my late wife, 124 00:06:46,823 --> 00:06:50,076 God rest her soul, that I had feelings for any of them. 125 00:06:50,827 --> 00:06:51,827 Except you. 126 00:06:53,746 --> 00:06:55,373 I'm not sure I know what to say. 127 00:06:56,332 --> 00:06:57,834 Then let me do the saying. 128 00:06:59,669 --> 00:07:00,669 I'm saying... 129 00:07:03,589 --> 00:07:04,757 I love you, kid. 130 00:07:05,508 --> 00:07:07,176 Oh, Ernie... 131 00:07:10,388 --> 00:07:11,597 Mmm. 132 00:07:13,349 --> 00:07:14,642 I have another plan. 133 00:07:14,725 --> 00:07:17,228 - Not pot pies. Cherry. - Oh-ho-ho! 134 00:07:17,311 --> 00:07:19,397 After the movies, we'll stop by House of Pies 135 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,109 and get the biggest, grandest cherry pie, and that's what we're gonna eat 136 00:07:23,192 --> 00:07:24,444 all day long. 137 00:07:24,527 --> 00:07:26,195 I'll just wear some heels and... 138 00:07:26,946 --> 00:07:29,615 maybe I'll slip on a fur coat over this little thing. 139 00:07:30,074 --> 00:07:33,536 Then, when we're at the movies, we can sneak in the men's room 140 00:07:33,619 --> 00:07:34,829 and have a quickie! 141 00:07:35,163 --> 00:07:36,163 - [coughing] - [Ellen] Oh! 142 00:07:36,205 --> 00:07:38,791 I think I've even got a trench coat for you to put on. 143 00:07:42,420 --> 00:07:45,089 Hey, Ellen, stop for a sec. Come here. 144 00:07:49,927 --> 00:07:52,138 - What? - You're my gal now... 145 00:07:53,598 --> 00:07:54,599 wouldn't you say? 146 00:07:55,016 --> 00:07:56,767 Yeah, I'd say. 147 00:07:57,310 --> 00:07:58,310 Well, then... 148 00:07:59,145 --> 00:08:00,730 there's something you need to know. 149 00:08:01,814 --> 00:08:03,483 Something I ain't told nobody yet. 150 00:08:04,942 --> 00:08:06,027 This cough of mine... 151 00:08:06,819 --> 00:08:10,281 the one that kept blowing all those takes, I've had it for years. 152 00:08:11,532 --> 00:08:12,992 I went to the doc last week. 153 00:08:14,827 --> 00:08:15,827 It's cancer. 154 00:08:18,748 --> 00:08:21,000 - I'm headed for the old dirt pile. - [sighs] 155 00:08:23,294 --> 00:08:24,294 How long? 156 00:08:25,004 --> 00:08:26,004 Two months? 157 00:08:27,465 --> 00:08:28,465 Two years? 158 00:08:29,717 --> 00:08:32,345 So if you want me to throw on my trousers and walk out that door, 159 00:08:32,428 --> 00:08:34,055 I'll do it, because at some point... 160 00:08:38,476 --> 00:08:40,811 At some point, I'm going to be a real mess. 161 00:08:40,895 --> 00:08:43,147 No, we don't need to talk about this now. 162 00:08:43,231 --> 00:08:44,231 In fact... 163 00:08:46,234 --> 00:08:48,694 In fact, we don't need to talk about it at all. 164 00:08:49,445 --> 00:08:50,696 You're my home, Ernie. 165 00:08:51,989 --> 00:08:53,491 And I'm not giving that up. 166 00:08:56,827 --> 00:08:58,246 Love came late to me... 167 00:09:00,331 --> 00:09:05,253 and I am going to enjoy every single second of it. 168 00:09:09,757 --> 00:09:10,967 And you're sure, kid? 169 00:09:11,801 --> 00:09:13,052 I'm more than sure. 170 00:09:13,219 --> 00:09:15,263 [chuckling] I'm happy. 171 00:09:15,346 --> 00:09:17,682 I'm happier than I've ever been in my life. 172 00:09:19,308 --> 00:09:21,185 I love you, Ernest West. 173 00:09:21,602 --> 00:09:22,895 I love you, kid. 174 00:09:24,230 --> 00:09:26,107 - I'm gonna go see about a coat. - Hmm. 175 00:09:27,733 --> 00:09:29,277 I'm in the mood for pie. 176 00:09:31,070 --> 00:09:32,070 Me too. 177 00:09:44,333 --> 00:09:45,793 [Claire] What are you doing? 178 00:09:45,876 --> 00:09:47,753 - Staring at you. - Well, stop it. 179 00:09:47,837 --> 00:09:49,839 I can't. I can't stop staring at you. 180 00:09:50,047 --> 00:09:52,508 Let's go downstairs and get some breakfast. 181 00:09:52,592 --> 00:09:54,302 Wait a minute, I gotta tell you something. 182 00:09:54,385 --> 00:09:56,863 I shoulda told you a long time ago, but I'm gonna tell you now, 183 00:09:56,887 --> 00:09:59,567 even though I think it's gonna mean you'll never wanna see me again. 184 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,642 When I was first working at the gas station, 185 00:10:01,726 --> 00:10:05,229 - your mother came by, and she and I... - I know you slept with her. 186 00:10:05,313 --> 00:10:06,856 - What? - She told me. 187 00:10:06,939 --> 00:10:08,983 We've hated each other for most of my life, 188 00:10:09,066 --> 00:10:11,944 but ever since she took over the studio, we're as thick as thieves. 189 00:10:12,278 --> 00:10:14,989 Wait, so, are you okay with this? Is she okay with us? 190 00:10:15,072 --> 00:10:16,157 Well, not at first. 191 00:10:16,407 --> 00:10:18,127 - I thought she was having a stroke. - Yeah. 192 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:19,744 Oh, and then she had a crying jag 193 00:10:19,827 --> 00:10:21,746 about how I was sucking the life out of her. 194 00:10:21,829 --> 00:10:23,414 But, yeah, now she's fine. 195 00:10:23,497 --> 00:10:26,792 She thinks you and me as an item is good PR for the movie. 196 00:10:27,293 --> 00:10:29,462 Are you okay? Do you not wanna... 197 00:10:29,545 --> 00:10:30,671 [phone rings] 198 00:10:30,796 --> 00:10:31,796 ...be with me? 199 00:10:33,591 --> 00:10:34,675 [Avis screaming] 200 00:10:35,092 --> 00:10:36,092 Mother? 201 00:10:36,927 --> 00:10:38,346 - Oh, God. - Mother? 202 00:10:38,429 --> 00:10:39,847 Oh, God, she knows I'm here. 203 00:10:46,270 --> 00:10:47,271 Mother? 204 00:10:47,897 --> 00:10:49,217 What happened? Are you all right? 205 00:10:49,690 --> 00:10:53,069 I just got off the phone with Dick. The first receipts are in. 206 00:10:55,029 --> 00:10:57,114 Look, listen, um, we always knew... 207 00:10:57,657 --> 00:11:00,326 - that the odds... would be against us. - Exactly. 208 00:11:00,701 --> 00:11:02,495 It doesn't matter what the movie makes, 209 00:11:02,578 --> 00:11:05,018 - it's about what the movie means. - We broke all the records. 210 00:11:05,414 --> 00:11:06,582 - What? - What? 211 00:11:06,666 --> 00:11:07,666 That's what I said. 212 00:11:08,125 --> 00:11:09,525 I told them that couldn't be right. 213 00:11:09,585 --> 00:11:13,589 But they double-checked the numbers. We're the biggest hit in seven years. 214 00:11:13,923 --> 00:11:15,633 [both chuckling] 215 00:11:15,716 --> 00:11:17,593 - [Claire squealing] - Whoopee! [laughing] 216 00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:19,470 Congratulations, Mrs. Amberg! 217 00:11:19,553 --> 00:11:21,889 - [Claire shrieking] - We're a hit! Meg is a hit! 218 00:11:23,182 --> 00:11:25,768 ["How 'Bout That" by Louis Jordan playing] 219 00:11:26,477 --> 00:11:29,730 ♪ If I take you to Hollywood ♪ 220 00:11:30,189 --> 00:11:33,442 ♪ Put you in the movies And you make good ♪ 221 00:11:33,734 --> 00:11:37,196 ♪ Would you say you were misunderstood ♪ 222 00:11:37,446 --> 00:11:39,990 ♪ Baby, how 'bout that? ♪ 223 00:11:41,325 --> 00:11:44,495 [introductory trumpet fanfare playing] 224 00:11:44,578 --> 00:11:46,831 [man] Everyone's talking about Meg. 225 00:11:46,914 --> 00:11:49,917 It's the first so-called "wide release," and audiences are flocking to see 226 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,670 the harrowing story of a girl who lands in Tinseltown 227 00:11:52,753 --> 00:11:54,130 and hits the skids. 228 00:11:54,213 --> 00:11:55,482 - Hey, look, it's you. - It's me! 229 00:11:55,506 --> 00:11:58,926 [man] The biggest hit of the decade stars, guess who? Camille Washington. 230 00:11:59,009 --> 00:12:02,054 She's an overnight sensation! But she's not playing a housekeeper, 231 00:12:02,179 --> 00:12:05,015 she's would-be movie maven Meg Ennis. 232 00:12:05,099 --> 00:12:07,810 Racial protests across the country simply melted away 233 00:12:07,893 --> 00:12:10,604 as thousands rushed out to see a new kind of motion picture, 234 00:12:10,688 --> 00:12:13,566 and moviegoers of every color have fallen in love. 235 00:12:13,649 --> 00:12:15,860 Every woman I know who saw it cried. 236 00:12:15,943 --> 00:12:17,695 We understood how she was feeling. 237 00:12:17,778 --> 00:12:20,048 [man] Could one movie change the way a nation sees itself? 238 00:12:20,072 --> 00:12:24,034 Who knows? But one thing's for sure, America's mad for... 239 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:25,619 [all] Meg! 240 00:12:25,703 --> 00:12:27,788 [music crescendo] 241 00:12:30,291 --> 00:12:32,376 [overlapping chatter] 242 00:12:33,335 --> 00:12:35,212 [all applauding] 243 00:12:46,265 --> 00:12:48,350 [chuckling] I don't think I'll ever get used to that. 244 00:12:48,893 --> 00:12:51,228 I could get used to it, I'll tell you that. 245 00:12:51,645 --> 00:12:52,646 Well... 246 00:12:53,230 --> 00:12:56,150 I am so glad that we've made this a regular thing. 247 00:12:56,233 --> 00:12:57,568 - Mmm. - Without your advice, 248 00:12:57,651 --> 00:12:59,862 I don't know how I would've gotten through the premiere 249 00:12:59,945 --> 00:13:01,906 and the press junkets... 250 00:13:01,989 --> 00:13:03,669 Oscar nominations are coming out next week. 251 00:13:03,699 --> 00:13:05,034 Oh, they are? I didn't realize. 252 00:13:05,409 --> 00:13:06,619 Don't bullshit a bullshitter. 253 00:13:07,036 --> 00:13:10,539 [chuckles] I know you've been counting the days off on that calendar. 254 00:13:10,623 --> 00:13:12,208 It's gonna be a tough year. 255 00:13:12,291 --> 00:13:15,127 You know, Rosalind Russell thinks she got the thing in the bag, 256 00:13:15,211 --> 00:13:16,337 and I don't blame her. 257 00:13:16,420 --> 00:13:18,756 Murder, incest... 258 00:13:18,839 --> 00:13:21,079 I mean, they might as well have just handed her the Oscar 259 00:13:21,133 --> 00:13:23,636 - and not even bothered to make the movie. - [both chuckling] 260 00:13:24,261 --> 00:13:25,596 From what I hear... 261 00:13:26,013 --> 00:13:27,973 you got a really good shot. 262 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:31,810 We'll see. 263 00:13:31,852 --> 00:13:32,853 So listen, 264 00:13:33,729 --> 00:13:35,356 if you get nominated, 265 00:13:35,439 --> 00:13:37,900 I want you to campaign hard. 266 00:13:38,984 --> 00:13:40,945 None of this shrinking violet bullshit. 267 00:13:41,028 --> 00:13:44,323 You will go to every opening, you show up at every luncheon, 268 00:13:44,406 --> 00:13:45,658 and answer every question 269 00:13:45,741 --> 00:13:49,161 as if it was the most profound query you have ever heard in your life. 270 00:13:49,245 --> 00:13:51,956 You got it? And don't let anybody shame you for doing it. 271 00:13:52,623 --> 00:13:55,626 Now I took my lumps, but I had to shut it all out. 272 00:13:56,252 --> 00:13:58,254 I'd worked my whole life so hard, 273 00:13:58,337 --> 00:14:02,633 and I knew I was going to have to work really hard to do this. 274 00:14:02,716 --> 00:14:04,468 - [Camilla] Mm-hmm. - To be the first. 275 00:14:05,344 --> 00:14:06,387 So I did. 276 00:14:09,223 --> 00:14:11,809 And do you know what happened when I got to the ceremony? 277 00:14:12,643 --> 00:14:15,145 The hotel had a "no colored" policy. 278 00:14:15,229 --> 00:14:17,356 They told me I could wait in the lobby, 279 00:14:18,232 --> 00:14:20,568 and if I won, somebody would come tell me, 280 00:14:21,026 --> 00:14:22,403 and then I could go in. 281 00:14:22,695 --> 00:14:23,779 And I backed down. 282 00:14:25,406 --> 00:14:26,490 I said, "Okay, 283 00:14:27,241 --> 00:14:28,409 I'll wait out here." 284 00:14:30,369 --> 00:14:34,164 Somebody leaked that I was gonna win, so just before they announced my name, 285 00:14:34,957 --> 00:14:37,543 they shuffled me in the back and sat me in there. 286 00:14:38,669 --> 00:14:41,356 You best mind me, sister, 'cause I'ma tell you right here, right now, 287 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:43,173 when you go to that ceremony, 288 00:14:44,216 --> 00:14:46,260 you sit right down in that front row. 289 00:14:46,343 --> 00:14:50,472 You scream, you shout, you scratch somebody's eyes out if you have to. 290 00:14:50,556 --> 00:14:52,600 But you demand the respect that you're owed. 291 00:14:53,934 --> 00:14:56,020 It ain't about whether you win or lose. 292 00:14:56,604 --> 00:15:01,609 There's something more important at stake. What's important... is being in the room. 293 00:15:04,111 --> 00:15:07,656 - I've been wanting to ask you something... - We ain't got no secrets at this point. 294 00:15:10,117 --> 00:15:11,117 When you won... 295 00:15:12,328 --> 00:15:13,829 what did that feel like? 296 00:15:14,538 --> 00:15:15,789 I couldn't believe it. 297 00:15:16,749 --> 00:15:19,835 I mean, I cried. I got off that stage and I cried. 298 00:15:20,377 --> 00:15:21,587 I couldn't imagine it. 299 00:15:23,047 --> 00:15:26,592 I was the daughter of two slaves, and here I was... 300 00:15:28,719 --> 00:15:30,262 with an Academy Award. 301 00:15:32,181 --> 00:15:35,851 I only played that role because my grandmother worked on a plantation, 302 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:38,187 and I knew who that woman was. 303 00:15:38,562 --> 00:15:39,855 I knew Mammy. 304 00:15:40,648 --> 00:15:41,899 I did it in tribute. 305 00:15:47,237 --> 00:15:49,365 You know, I thought winning was gonna... 306 00:15:50,491 --> 00:15:51,700 change things for me. 307 00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:54,453 No more goddamn maids. 308 00:15:54,536 --> 00:15:57,081 Maybe I get to play somebody romantic or... 309 00:15:57,748 --> 00:16:00,042 a comedy part. You know, some funny, rich... 310 00:16:00,834 --> 00:16:03,170 lady in New York with a feather in her cap. 311 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:07,841 But... fucking no. 312 00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:10,302 The roles never came. 313 00:16:12,346 --> 00:16:13,722 It was like the town 314 00:16:14,223 --> 00:16:16,976 made me feel like I'd done something wrong by winning... 315 00:16:17,935 --> 00:16:19,395 By walking across that 316 00:16:19,853 --> 00:16:21,689 all-white auditorium and... 317 00:16:22,314 --> 00:16:24,191 taking my place on that stage. 318 00:16:26,527 --> 00:16:28,946 No great roles ever came after that. 319 00:16:29,822 --> 00:16:31,532 And I never got back in that room. 320 00:16:33,325 --> 00:16:36,245 So you get in that room, and you own it. 321 00:16:38,747 --> 00:16:39,747 For me. 322 00:16:42,501 --> 00:16:43,501 For all of us. 323 00:16:45,421 --> 00:16:48,549 [phone ringing] 324 00:16:49,425 --> 00:16:50,425 Hello. 325 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:52,510 Thank you. 326 00:16:53,095 --> 00:16:54,095 [Raymond] Yes. Goodbye. 327 00:16:54,138 --> 00:16:56,682 ["Bounce Me Brother with a Solid Four" playing] 328 00:16:56,765 --> 00:16:58,642 Mister, if you are pulling my leg... 329 00:17:00,019 --> 00:17:01,019 [chuckling] 330 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,939 We just got nominated for an Academy Award. 331 00:17:06,233 --> 00:17:08,068 [screaming] 332 00:17:09,111 --> 00:17:11,030 Mister, if I'm dreaming, don't wake me up. 333 00:17:11,113 --> 00:17:12,113 [Camille] Anybody else? 334 00:17:12,531 --> 00:17:14,533 Um, Best Editing. 335 00:17:15,075 --> 00:17:17,327 Uh, Best Sound Recording, 336 00:17:17,453 --> 00:17:19,705 Best Supporting Actress for Anna May Wong, 337 00:17:19,788 --> 00:17:21,790 Best Supporting Actor for Jack, 338 00:17:21,874 --> 00:17:24,585 Best Screenplay for Archie, Best Picture... 339 00:17:27,004 --> 00:17:28,088 and Best Director. 340 00:17:31,633 --> 00:17:34,928 [screaming and laughing] 341 00:17:35,012 --> 00:17:36,138 [breathing heavily] 342 00:17:36,221 --> 00:17:37,221 What's the matter? 343 00:17:37,639 --> 00:17:40,893 All my life, I thought I knew the country I lived in, 344 00:17:40,976 --> 00:17:43,187 what it was always gonna be... 345 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:45,647 but now... 346 00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:49,193 I feel like this ain't the place I thought it was. 347 00:17:51,153 --> 00:17:52,404 Well, that's good, right? 348 00:17:52,488 --> 00:17:53,655 [chuckles softly] 349 00:17:55,115 --> 00:17:56,200 - Right? - That's real good. 350 00:17:56,283 --> 00:17:57,701 - Yeah. - That's real good. 351 00:17:57,785 --> 00:17:58,785 That's real... 352 00:18:01,622 --> 00:18:02,456 good. 353 00:18:02,539 --> 00:18:04,541 [laughing] 354 00:18:04,625 --> 00:18:05,751 Oh! 355 00:18:05,834 --> 00:18:07,503 [phone rings] 356 00:18:08,921 --> 00:18:10,297 [Stinson] Yes, Mrs. Amberg. 357 00:18:11,590 --> 00:18:12,590 He's here. 358 00:18:14,927 --> 00:18:17,679 I'll send him right in. Mrs. Amberg will see you now. 359 00:18:19,431 --> 00:18:20,431 If you'd sign here. 360 00:18:22,184 --> 00:18:24,728 [Archie] Look, the reason I'm here is because... 361 00:18:25,938 --> 00:18:28,232 well, because I owe you a great deal of respect. 362 00:18:29,441 --> 00:18:33,529 I'm grateful because I finally feel like there's somebody in a position of power 363 00:18:33,612 --> 00:18:35,531 who is trying to understand me... 364 00:18:35,864 --> 00:18:39,034 being homosexual, and a black man on top of that. 365 00:18:39,618 --> 00:18:41,787 I don't think it's so hard to understand you. 366 00:18:41,870 --> 00:18:44,164 You and I are both outsiders. 367 00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:46,333 It's different, I know. 368 00:18:46,416 --> 00:18:48,961 I hardly know what it feels like to walk in your shoes. 369 00:18:49,044 --> 00:18:50,044 Oh... 370 00:18:50,212 --> 00:18:52,172 That's the thing. I don't think you could know. 371 00:18:54,007 --> 00:18:57,469 I still can't walk down the street and hold hands with the man I love. 372 00:18:59,221 --> 00:19:01,098 Ace and I never held hands either. 373 00:19:01,849 --> 00:19:04,226 He had this habit of walking ten feet ahead of me. 374 00:19:04,309 --> 00:19:05,811 But you could've held hands. 375 00:19:07,229 --> 00:19:10,983 Me, every time I step out my door, I start lying to the world. 376 00:19:11,066 --> 00:19:12,317 It's weighing on me. 377 00:19:12,401 --> 00:19:13,902 I ain't gonna do it no more. 378 00:19:15,362 --> 00:19:16,655 [Archie sighs] 379 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:19,366 I'm here to tell you, 380 00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:21,535 I'm going to do something. 381 00:19:22,369 --> 00:19:24,413 What are we talking about here, Archie? 382 00:19:24,496 --> 00:19:26,081 [Archie's breath shuddering] 383 00:19:27,374 --> 00:19:28,667 Rock Hudson... 384 00:19:30,127 --> 00:19:31,795 He's the man I'm in love with. 385 00:19:34,298 --> 00:19:35,382 We live together 386 00:19:36,216 --> 00:19:37,216 and... 387 00:19:40,637 --> 00:19:42,723 I'm showing up to the Oscars with him 388 00:19:43,515 --> 00:19:44,808 on my arm. 389 00:19:44,892 --> 00:19:48,604 He and I holding hands together, getting photographed, 390 00:19:49,229 --> 00:19:52,441 telling the world we refuse to hide, 391 00:19:52,524 --> 00:19:54,860 and I know it may not seem important to you, 392 00:19:55,944 --> 00:19:59,281 but opening up a newspaper and seeing something like that, when... 393 00:19:59,364 --> 00:20:01,366 [voice breaking]...when I was a boy... 394 00:20:02,951 --> 00:20:04,244 that I wasn't alone, 395 00:20:05,412 --> 00:20:10,792 that there were folks out there who had the same thing going on inside... 396 00:20:14,129 --> 00:20:16,131 That would have made all the difference. 397 00:20:19,134 --> 00:20:20,177 Rock is an actor. 398 00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:23,931 He'll never work again. He'll be throwing it all away. 399 00:20:24,014 --> 00:20:25,098 He knows that. 400 00:20:25,182 --> 00:20:26,182 And you, Archie? 401 00:20:26,225 --> 00:20:29,353 The retribution will be swift and merciless. 402 00:20:30,437 --> 00:20:32,564 At best, protests, at worst, 403 00:20:33,148 --> 00:20:34,608 violence against you. 404 00:20:35,525 --> 00:20:36,525 I understand. 405 00:20:39,571 --> 00:20:40,697 Still, we're doing it. 406 00:20:42,783 --> 00:20:44,117 I just wanted to tell you. 407 00:20:46,328 --> 00:20:49,039 I'm sorry, Miss Amberg, for putting you in this position. 408 00:20:49,539 --> 00:20:52,834 I know you'll be under some pressure to release me from contract. 409 00:20:53,752 --> 00:20:56,588 But whatever you have to do, I understand. 410 00:20:59,049 --> 00:21:01,093 I just wanted you to hear it from me first. 411 00:21:07,474 --> 00:21:09,810 [introductory music playing] 412 00:21:09,893 --> 00:21:11,770 [man] News of the Day. 413 00:21:13,063 --> 00:21:16,692 It's the 20th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, 414 00:21:16,775 --> 00:21:19,778 where the stars come down from the sky to walk amongst us. 415 00:21:20,112 --> 00:21:22,614 Who's that handsome soldier on the red carpet? 416 00:21:22,698 --> 00:21:27,369 Why, none other than our evening's host, Robert Montgomery, in naval uniform. 417 00:21:27,452 --> 00:21:29,913 And here's another veteran, Jack Castello, 418 00:21:29,997 --> 00:21:32,374 plucked from obscurity and now a first-time nominee 419 00:21:32,457 --> 00:21:34,084 for Best Supporting Actor. 420 00:21:34,626 --> 00:21:38,046 And who's that gal on his arm looking like the cat who got the cream? 421 00:21:38,547 --> 00:21:42,676 That's Claire Wood, daughter of the late studio head, Ace Amberg. 422 00:21:43,051 --> 00:21:45,887 They're the Hollywood couple everybody's talking about. 423 00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:49,182 Here's Rosalind Russell, nominated for Best Actress. 424 00:21:49,266 --> 00:21:52,269 Well, watch out Rosalind, because that's your competition: 425 00:21:52,352 --> 00:21:55,314 Camille Washington, star of hit motion picture Meg, 426 00:21:55,397 --> 00:21:57,149 who could be the first colored woman 427 00:21:57,232 --> 00:21:59,109 to take home the Oscar for leading actress. 428 00:21:59,192 --> 00:22:01,862 [reporter] Congratulations, Miss Washington. Think you'll win? 429 00:22:01,945 --> 00:22:03,947 It's honestly an honor just to be nominated. 430 00:22:04,031 --> 00:22:06,241 Why, sure, but it'd be even more of an honor to win. 431 00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:08,910 [man] Here she is with her beau, director Raymond Ainsley. 432 00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:11,394 [reporter] Mr. West, anything you'd like to say to your fans? 433 00:22:11,455 --> 00:22:13,290 I've been in this biz since the silents. 434 00:22:13,457 --> 00:22:15,083 - [Ellen chuckling] - It's magic! 435 00:22:15,625 --> 00:22:17,044 I love the Oscars! 436 00:22:17,127 --> 00:22:20,172 [man] Here's Anna May Wong, who's nominated for an Oscar. 437 00:22:20,255 --> 00:22:22,591 Some would say a nomination long overdue. 438 00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:25,427 And here's Meg screenwriter, Archie Coleman. 439 00:22:26,136 --> 00:22:27,679 And whose hand is he holding? 440 00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:32,142 Why, it's not a "she" but a "he"! It's newcomer Rock Hudson. 441 00:22:32,225 --> 00:22:34,311 Some reporters are refusing to speak to them. 442 00:22:34,394 --> 00:22:36,688 - [crowd booing] - [overlapping chatter] 443 00:22:37,689 --> 00:22:40,650 - [Archie] Are we doing the right thing? - Absolutely, we are. 444 00:22:41,985 --> 00:22:43,695 So you're a producer now, is that right? 445 00:22:43,779 --> 00:22:47,074 That's right, Miss Hopper, no more cattle driving. 446 00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:48,867 That's what I call managing actors. 447 00:22:48,950 --> 00:22:52,537 I'm making movies now, and, you know, I got final cut on the movie. 448 00:22:53,038 --> 00:22:54,956 - Really? - Yes, that's right. So you be sure 449 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,833 - and put that in there, you hear? - I will. 450 00:22:57,501 --> 00:22:58,627 What the fuck? 451 00:23:00,003 --> 00:23:02,130 - The hell are you doing? - Get your hands off of him. 452 00:23:02,214 --> 00:23:03,256 Kiss my ass. 453 00:23:03,340 --> 00:23:05,759 You think Henry Willson is going to clean this up for you? 454 00:23:05,842 --> 00:23:07,803 No, that's it for you. You're done. It's over. 455 00:23:07,886 --> 00:23:09,930 - It's over for both of you. - I don't care, Henry. 456 00:23:10,013 --> 00:23:12,307 Well, you're gonna care when you're living in a boxcar, 457 00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:14,017 sucking dick for loose change. 458 00:23:14,101 --> 00:23:16,103 What a fucking waste of my time. 459 00:23:16,353 --> 00:23:18,021 What a fucking waste of dentistry. 460 00:23:18,105 --> 00:23:20,941 - Go fuck yourself, Henry. - What did you just say to me? 461 00:23:21,024 --> 00:23:22,442 I'm not gonna be like you, 462 00:23:23,026 --> 00:23:24,194 hiding under a rock, 463 00:23:24,277 --> 00:23:27,447 preying on guys who are too afraid to tell folks who they are... 464 00:23:27,739 --> 00:23:28,865 and what you are. 465 00:23:30,033 --> 00:23:32,369 You're fucking slime, Henry, and that ain't news. 466 00:23:32,452 --> 00:23:34,621 Everybody knows it, and you know it. 467 00:23:34,704 --> 00:23:37,582 Living like you do, I'd blow my goddamn head off. 468 00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:39,835 You're fired. 469 00:23:42,045 --> 00:23:43,045 Let's go. 470 00:23:47,134 --> 00:23:49,136 [photographers chattering] 471 00:23:50,512 --> 00:23:52,180 [photographer] Show me that smile! 472 00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:54,182 [photographer 2] Hey, Henry! Let's get a pose! 473 00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:56,268 - Right over here! - [photographer 3] Mr. Willson! 474 00:23:57,894 --> 00:23:59,896 [dramatic music playing] 475 00:24:04,234 --> 00:24:06,236 [camera bulbs echoing] 476 00:24:15,537 --> 00:24:16,537 Good evening. 477 00:24:17,038 --> 00:24:18,415 - Good evening. - Hello. 478 00:24:18,498 --> 00:24:21,668 And if you'll follow me, Miss, I'll show you where you'll be sitting. 479 00:24:22,085 --> 00:24:25,505 Sir, I prefer to sit in row A, which is what it says on my ticket. 480 00:24:25,589 --> 00:24:28,175 It's not my decision, Miss. It's the producers'. 481 00:24:28,258 --> 00:24:29,801 I'm just doing what I was told. 482 00:24:29,885 --> 00:24:31,565 Excuse me, what the hell is going on here? 483 00:24:31,595 --> 00:24:34,347 She's up for Best Actress. You're letting her in that room. 484 00:24:34,598 --> 00:24:37,726 Thank you, but I don't need you to fight my battles for me. 485 00:24:37,809 --> 00:24:40,979 Sir, I don't know what you've been told, but I'm going to count to three 486 00:24:41,062 --> 00:24:44,191 then I'm going to walk into that ceremony and take my seat in the front row. 487 00:24:44,274 --> 00:24:45,567 Now, if you don't let me in, 488 00:24:46,151 --> 00:24:48,320 I'm going to start yelling "fire" in this theater, 489 00:24:48,653 --> 00:24:50,155 and there won't be a ceremony. 490 00:24:50,238 --> 00:24:54,117 So you think for a minute about what those producers of yours are going to prefer. 491 00:24:56,203 --> 00:24:59,206 You do not want to fuck with me, sir. I promise you that. 492 00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:08,840 Good luck tonight, Miss. I hope you win. 493 00:25:08,924 --> 00:25:10,175 Thank you so much. 494 00:25:14,012 --> 00:25:16,014 [uplifting orchestral music playing] 495 00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:40,664 That's more like it. 496 00:25:44,292 --> 00:25:47,504 [woman] And the Academy Award for Best Editing goes to... 497 00:25:49,089 --> 00:25:52,133 Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish for Body and Soul. 498 00:25:52,509 --> 00:25:54,469 Are you kidding me? That piece of shit? 499 00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:55,720 Fuck this night. 500 00:25:55,804 --> 00:25:59,099 - Avis, darling, have a drink. - We're gonna get swept. 501 00:25:59,599 --> 00:26:02,852 First, Sound Recording, and now this. They're punishing me being a woman, 502 00:26:02,978 --> 00:26:05,397 and I'm not going to sit in my chair while they do it. 503 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,607 [Ellen] That's why we're in the green room, darling. 504 00:26:07,691 --> 00:26:09,818 [man] Now, from the upcoming motion picture 505 00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:11,403 For All the World to See, 506 00:26:11,695 --> 00:26:14,155 please welcome Jeanne Crandall. 507 00:26:14,239 --> 00:26:16,241 [applause] 508 00:26:19,369 --> 00:26:20,369 [Jeanne] Thank you! 509 00:26:20,912 --> 00:26:24,124 What an incredible year for supporting talent. 510 00:26:24,207 --> 00:26:28,086 As the star of the upcoming Ace Pictures movie about Lee Miller, 511 00:26:28,169 --> 00:26:31,965 where I play Lee Miller, I know how important support can be. 512 00:26:32,048 --> 00:26:36,678 That said, I'd like to thank my darling young co-star Elizabeth Taylor, 513 00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:38,597 who always had a kind word. 514 00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:41,224 "That was wonderful, Miss Crandall." 515 00:26:41,308 --> 00:26:43,727 - [all laughing] - "You're a real star, Miss Crandall." 516 00:26:43,810 --> 00:26:45,145 So important. 517 00:26:46,730 --> 00:26:50,400 And now the nominees for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: 518 00:26:51,276 --> 00:26:52,277 Celeste Holm, 519 00:26:52,819 --> 00:26:53,987 Gentleman's Agreement, 520 00:26:54,487 --> 00:26:57,282 Anne Revere, Gentleman's Agreement, 521 00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:00,535 Gloria Grahame, Crossfire, 522 00:27:01,411 --> 00:27:03,747 Anna May Wong, Meg, 523 00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:08,084 Marjorie Main, The Egg and I. 524 00:27:08,168 --> 00:27:09,461 [speaking Chinese] 525 00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:11,671 - Sh. Shh. - [Jeanne] And the Oscar goes to... 526 00:27:14,049 --> 00:27:15,300 [paper rustling] 527 00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:19,721 Anna May Wong for Meg! 528 00:27:19,804 --> 00:27:21,973 [applause] 529 00:27:22,057 --> 00:27:23,808 - [gasps] - [speaking Chinese] 530 00:27:23,892 --> 00:27:25,143 [all cheering] 531 00:27:35,528 --> 00:27:37,947 - Congratulations! - Oh, my God! 532 00:27:38,031 --> 00:27:39,699 - [chuckling] - How wonderful. 533 00:27:39,783 --> 00:27:41,284 [applause continues] 534 00:27:45,372 --> 00:27:48,083 [chatter and cheering] 535 00:27:52,045 --> 00:27:54,047 [cheering and applause halt] 536 00:27:59,803 --> 00:28:01,429 [Anna May on radio] What an honor... 537 00:28:02,055 --> 00:28:03,765 to be standing here, 538 00:28:03,848 --> 00:28:08,645 as the first actress of Chinese descent to win this award. 539 00:28:09,437 --> 00:28:14,067 Not for putting on yellow face and playing an oriental caricature... 540 00:28:16,236 --> 00:28:17,862 but for playing a woman. 541 00:28:19,489 --> 00:28:22,450 A complex woman with a heart and a soul. 542 00:28:24,577 --> 00:28:29,040 Thank you, Avis Amberg, Ace Pictures, and especially... 543 00:28:29,874 --> 00:28:33,211 Dick Samuels and Raymond Ainsley. 544 00:28:34,838 --> 00:28:37,006 You gave my life purpose again. 545 00:28:38,341 --> 00:28:39,341 Thank you. 546 00:28:39,968 --> 00:28:41,594 [all applauding] 547 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,516 [crying, laughing and chattering] 548 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,602 Thank God this isn't televised. 549 00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:56,151 [man] And now, to present the award for 550 00:28:56,234 --> 00:29:00,697 Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Ernest Borgnine. 551 00:29:01,656 --> 00:29:02,657 Here we go. 552 00:29:04,701 --> 00:29:05,994 It's gonna be you. 553 00:29:06,661 --> 00:29:08,413 And the nominees are: 554 00:29:09,122 --> 00:29:10,874 Jack Castello, Meg, 555 00:29:11,499 --> 00:29:14,043 Charles Bickford, The Farmer's Daughter, 556 00:29:14,836 --> 00:29:17,088 Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death, 557 00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:20,675 Thomas Gomez, Ride the Pink Horse, 558 00:29:21,092 --> 00:29:24,596 Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street. 559 00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:26,264 And the winner is... 560 00:29:28,183 --> 00:29:29,184 [envelope rips open] 561 00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:32,228 Edmund Gwenn, Miracle on 34th Street. 562 00:29:32,687 --> 00:29:33,730 What? 563 00:29:33,813 --> 00:29:35,940 [instrumental "Here Comes Santa Claus"] 564 00:29:40,028 --> 00:29:41,488 It's not my night, kid. 565 00:29:44,991 --> 00:29:45,991 [whistles] 566 00:29:46,034 --> 00:29:48,536 Fuck, Jack, I thought you had it in the bag. 567 00:29:48,995 --> 00:29:50,455 Thanks, Ern, it's, uh, it's okay. 568 00:29:50,538 --> 00:29:53,249 No, fuck that guy. He was a real prick to work with, too. 569 00:29:53,333 --> 00:29:54,973 - Ernie. - I swear to God. If I see him... 570 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:56,001 Ernie! 571 00:29:56,628 --> 00:29:57,628 It's Santa Claus. 572 00:29:58,838 --> 00:29:59,838 I'm glad he won. 573 00:30:00,298 --> 00:30:02,008 Oh, Jack, why? 574 00:30:02,091 --> 00:30:04,511 'Cause if he'd lost, I might've stopped believing in him. 575 00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:05,970 [laughing] 576 00:30:06,346 --> 00:30:07,346 Listen, uh... 577 00:30:08,723 --> 00:30:09,808 could I ask a favor? 578 00:30:09,891 --> 00:30:10,975 Anything. 579 00:30:11,768 --> 00:30:14,896 I, uh, I wrote a little something and I'd hate for it to go to waste. 580 00:30:15,522 --> 00:30:18,042 Could I read it to you all? Maybe it's too much. I don't know... 581 00:30:18,066 --> 00:30:21,528 - [all overlapping] - Jack, come on. We'd love to hear it. 582 00:30:21,611 --> 00:30:23,011 - Come on. - As long as we're in it. 583 00:30:23,112 --> 00:30:25,657 I'd just like to thank the Academy of Motion Pictures 584 00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:27,492 for honoring our film, Meg. 585 00:30:27,951 --> 00:30:30,703 But I cannot possibly accept this award 586 00:30:31,162 --> 00:30:32,080 myself. 587 00:30:32,163 --> 00:30:36,417 Camille, Rock, Claire, Ray, Archie, Ernie... 588 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:38,545 - Here, here. - [Jack chuckles] 589 00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:41,214 - ...Dick Samuels, Ellen Kincaid... - Oh! 590 00:30:41,714 --> 00:30:43,842 ...Avis Amberg, this award belongs to you. 591 00:30:46,636 --> 00:30:49,013 All my life, I wanted to be somebody. 592 00:30:50,723 --> 00:30:54,894 But winning this award, I realized that being somebody doesn't mean a thing 593 00:30:54,978 --> 00:30:56,688 unless you're somebody to someone. 594 00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:01,275 Claire... 595 00:31:07,740 --> 00:31:09,284 will you make me somebody? 596 00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:11,869 What? 597 00:31:12,203 --> 00:31:14,789 I promise I was going to do this up there in front of everybody. 598 00:31:26,050 --> 00:31:27,468 Claire, will you marry me? 599 00:31:29,012 --> 00:31:30,847 [shouting] Yes! Yes! Of course I will! 600 00:31:30,930 --> 00:31:31,806 [all applauding] 601 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:33,600 [cheering and laughing] 602 00:31:34,767 --> 00:31:37,562 [man] We now return to the 20th Academy Awards. 603 00:31:38,855 --> 00:31:41,691 [man 2] The nominees for Best Original Screenplay are: 604 00:31:42,525 --> 00:31:45,153 Sidney Sheldon, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, 605 00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:48,281 Archie Coleman, Meg... 606 00:31:48,364 --> 00:31:50,825 - Mm! - ...Abraham Polonsky, Body and Soul... 607 00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:54,370 - I love you. - ...Charlie Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux... 608 00:31:54,454 --> 00:31:55,330 I love you, too. 609 00:31:55,413 --> 00:31:58,875 Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, A Double Life. 610 00:31:59,834 --> 00:32:02,378 And the Oscar goes to... 611 00:32:05,798 --> 00:32:07,175 Archie Coleman for Meg. 612 00:32:07,258 --> 00:32:08,468 [applause] 613 00:32:08,551 --> 00:32:10,303 - Oh, my God! - [laughing and cheering] 614 00:32:10,386 --> 00:32:12,472 [applause over radio] 615 00:32:12,555 --> 00:32:13,973 [laughing] 616 00:32:21,564 --> 00:32:22,649 [attendees gasp] 617 00:32:22,732 --> 00:32:24,609 - [chuckles] - [attendees murmuring] 618 00:32:26,819 --> 00:32:28,780 [cheering and applause resume] 619 00:32:33,242 --> 00:32:35,244 [Archie panting over radio] 620 00:32:35,703 --> 00:32:36,871 I'm speechless. 621 00:32:40,249 --> 00:32:42,669 I would like to thank Miss Amberg. 622 00:32:43,127 --> 00:32:46,464 Without your bravery, I am not standing here right now. 623 00:32:46,547 --> 00:32:49,801 Dick Samuels, thank you for keeping me in this movie 624 00:32:49,884 --> 00:32:52,324 when everybody was telling you it'd be the end of your career. 625 00:32:52,387 --> 00:32:55,598 Raymond, I couldn't imagine doing this with anybody else. 626 00:32:55,682 --> 00:32:58,351 To my buddies, Jack, Ernie... 627 00:32:58,434 --> 00:33:01,896 And Henry Willson, who fucking produced this thing. 628 00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:05,566 To my boyfriend, Rock Hudson, 629 00:33:06,567 --> 00:33:08,069 you are the love of my life. 630 00:33:08,152 --> 00:33:09,404 [attendees murmuring] 631 00:33:09,487 --> 00:33:10,863 [attendees jeering] 632 00:33:10,947 --> 00:33:13,282 Yeah, say whatever you want, I'm too happy. 633 00:33:13,366 --> 00:33:14,806 - [chuckles] - [attendees applauding] 634 00:33:15,451 --> 00:33:16,995 And to everybody listening, 635 00:33:17,912 --> 00:33:19,372 your story is important. 636 00:33:20,373 --> 00:33:23,334 Don't go thinking otherwise, don't let your story go untold. 637 00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:25,128 - [weeping] - You are important. 638 00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:27,588 Your life has value. 639 00:33:28,631 --> 00:33:33,219 You go out and you live your life with your head held high, 640 00:33:33,302 --> 00:33:36,389 and you tell your story, 'cause I'm proof... 641 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,934 that there are folks out there who want to hear it. 642 00:33:48,651 --> 00:33:50,403 [applauding over radio] 643 00:33:50,778 --> 00:33:55,491 [man] And now, to present the nominees for Best Director, Donald Crisp. 644 00:33:55,575 --> 00:33:57,577 [sobbing] 645 00:34:02,081 --> 00:34:03,708 [Donald] And the nominees are: 646 00:34:04,459 --> 00:34:06,794 Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement, 647 00:34:07,336 --> 00:34:09,881 George Cukor, A Double Life, 648 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:12,800 Henry Koster, The Bishop's Wife, 649 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,345 David Lean, Great Expectations, 650 00:34:16,554 --> 00:34:19,682 and Raymond Ainsley, Meg. 651 00:34:22,477 --> 00:34:25,229 And the Academy Award goes to... 652 00:34:28,941 --> 00:34:31,027 [big band music playing] 653 00:34:47,710 --> 00:34:50,213 [man] Ladies and gentlemen, Vivien Leigh. 654 00:34:54,801 --> 00:34:55,927 [Vivien] Thank you. 655 00:34:56,844 --> 00:35:00,014 There were so many outstanding performances this year, 656 00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:05,561 and five of the most moving came from this year's nominees for Best Actress. 657 00:35:06,020 --> 00:35:07,480 We met a farm girl, 658 00:35:08,147 --> 00:35:11,109 a school teacher, a jilted lover, 659 00:35:11,734 --> 00:35:15,446 an aspiring actress, and a nightclub singer. 660 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,658 And each one of them made us think, 661 00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:20,243 made us feel, 662 00:35:20,701 --> 00:35:23,162 made us better people than we were before. 663 00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:27,166 It is my honor to present this year's nominees. 664 00:35:28,417 --> 00:35:29,460 They are... 665 00:35:29,836 --> 00:35:32,088 Loretta Young, The Farmer's Daughter, 666 00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:35,383 Joan Crawford, Possessed, 667 00:35:35,466 --> 00:35:38,427 Rosalind Russell, Mourning Becomes Electra, 668 00:35:38,886 --> 00:35:41,013 Camille Washington, Meg, 669 00:35:41,722 --> 00:35:45,560 and Susan Hayward, Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman. 670 00:35:46,894 --> 00:35:48,271 And the winner is... 671 00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:03,452 Ladies and gentlemen, the winner is... 672 00:36:03,953 --> 00:36:06,372 for Meg, Camille Washington. 673 00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:10,376 [all gasping] 674 00:36:11,919 --> 00:36:13,838 - [girl] She won! - [gasping, crying] 675 00:36:14,922 --> 00:36:16,507 [speaking Chinese] 676 00:36:17,842 --> 00:36:19,343 [squealing] 677 00:36:25,725 --> 00:36:27,685 [heartbeat thumping] 678 00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:30,438 [sound of applause fades] 679 00:36:44,118 --> 00:36:46,120 Thank you all so much. 680 00:36:48,706 --> 00:36:51,375 This is very humbling for a kid from Altoona. 681 00:36:51,459 --> 00:36:52,460 [chuckles] 682 00:36:52,543 --> 00:36:54,962 When I was a little girl walking down the street, 683 00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:57,131 I was called a lot of things. 684 00:36:57,965 --> 00:36:59,717 "Movie star" wasn't one of them. 685 00:37:00,301 --> 00:37:03,596 My daddy worked in the coal mines, but every time he could spare a quarter, 686 00:37:03,679 --> 00:37:05,014 I'd escape to the movies. 687 00:37:05,389 --> 00:37:07,725 I loved looking up at that screen... 688 00:37:08,601 --> 00:37:09,644 and... 689 00:37:09,727 --> 00:37:13,189 I kept waiting to see someone show up onscreen who looked like me. 690 00:37:14,482 --> 00:37:16,275 A girl who was smart, 691 00:37:16,984 --> 00:37:18,277 and strong, 692 00:37:19,278 --> 00:37:21,447 and glamorous. [chuckles softly] 693 00:37:23,282 --> 00:37:24,492 [chuckles] 694 00:37:24,951 --> 00:37:25,951 Thank you 695 00:37:26,452 --> 00:37:30,748 to the Academy for making sure that no little girl staring up at that screen 696 00:37:31,707 --> 00:37:35,253 will ever again be told that there are limits to what you can achieve. 697 00:37:39,173 --> 00:37:41,509 [all applauding] 698 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,098 [orchestral music swells] 699 00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:51,978 Congratulations. 700 00:37:53,187 --> 00:37:54,897 [overlapping chatter] 701 00:37:55,398 --> 00:37:58,234 My God, you have no one to thank but yourself. 702 00:37:58,317 --> 00:37:59,917 - No, thank you. - You earned everything. 703 00:37:59,986 --> 00:38:01,112 So exciting! 704 00:38:02,780 --> 00:38:03,823 [clapping halts] 705 00:38:13,582 --> 00:38:15,668 They let me in the room this time. 706 00:38:16,294 --> 00:38:17,461 [chuckling] 707 00:38:21,841 --> 00:38:23,426 - Whoo! - [both laughing] 708 00:38:23,509 --> 00:38:24,719 Mm-mm-mm. 709 00:38:26,137 --> 00:38:29,807 - [exhales] Whoo! - [man] The nominees for Best Picture are: 710 00:38:29,890 --> 00:38:33,894 Avis Amberg and Henry Willson with Ace Pictures for Meg, 711 00:38:34,854 --> 00:38:39,066 and Ronald Neame and Universal Studios for Great Expectations, 712 00:38:39,775 --> 00:38:41,485 - and the winner... - [drumroll] 713 00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:44,447 ...for Best Motion Picture is... 714 00:38:44,530 --> 00:38:45,906 [suspenseful music playing] 715 00:38:50,911 --> 00:38:52,231 [man 1] Miss Amberg! Miss Amberg! 716 00:38:52,288 --> 00:38:54,608 [man 2] Mr. Ainsley, how does it feel to win Best Director? 717 00:38:55,541 --> 00:38:57,460 Mr. Coleman, congratulations. 718 00:38:57,543 --> 00:39:00,838 - I'm a producer, it's my turn to hold it. - I'm never letting you hold it. 719 00:39:00,921 --> 00:39:02,298 How does it feel, Avis? 720 00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:04,717 I'll tell you how it feels, Hedda. 721 00:39:05,009 --> 00:39:07,011 I say if you want something done, 722 00:39:07,845 --> 00:39:09,055 let a woman do it. 723 00:39:09,138 --> 00:39:10,138 Here, here. 724 00:39:10,723 --> 00:39:11,723 So true. 725 00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:12,767 [chuckles] 726 00:39:13,309 --> 00:39:15,311 [man] Miss Washington! Miss Washington! 727 00:39:15,895 --> 00:39:17,897 Archie. Archie, come here. 728 00:39:21,233 --> 00:39:23,361 I'm extending your contract five years, 729 00:39:23,444 --> 00:39:26,072 and doubling your salary. Write whatever you want. 730 00:39:26,697 --> 00:39:28,497 You don't have to have to worry about a thing. 731 00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:31,702 Not a thing. 732 00:39:31,786 --> 00:39:35,706 ♪ I'm on the mellow side ♪ 733 00:39:38,626 --> 00:39:39,752 [Henry] Hello, Rock. 734 00:39:39,835 --> 00:39:42,213 What do you want? I didn't invite you to sit down. 735 00:39:42,296 --> 00:39:44,673 I know. Listen, I get it, you're mad at me. 736 00:39:44,757 --> 00:39:45,758 I behaved badly. 737 00:39:46,258 --> 00:39:49,929 Not just with you, but with others, and for a long time. 738 00:39:50,471 --> 00:39:53,391 Look, point is I am here to say I'm sorry 739 00:39:54,058 --> 00:39:55,309 for what I did to you. 740 00:39:56,227 --> 00:39:59,563 I mean, I also got you your start in this town, but still I am sorry. 741 00:39:59,647 --> 00:40:00,647 I really am. 742 00:40:00,898 --> 00:40:02,483 I don't know whether you can... 743 00:40:03,651 --> 00:40:04,819 get over it or not. 744 00:40:05,444 --> 00:40:07,279 Yeah, Henry, I don't know if I can either. 745 00:40:07,363 --> 00:40:08,363 Okay. 746 00:40:09,657 --> 00:40:11,325 I've been sober for six months. 747 00:40:12,785 --> 00:40:14,787 I've been going to these men's meetings 748 00:40:15,788 --> 00:40:18,040 and not just about the booze, but about... 749 00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:20,917 you know... 750 00:40:23,087 --> 00:40:25,631 [sighs] About being like you and me. 751 00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:29,718 About how it ain't some... perversion, you know? 752 00:40:30,136 --> 00:40:33,597 So I ain't got to act like I'm some kind of degenerate, you know what I mean? 753 00:40:33,973 --> 00:40:35,516 And I met somebody. 754 00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:37,893 I've been seeing him for a while now, so it's serious. 755 00:40:38,394 --> 00:40:40,855 Yeah, he's my age, in case you were wondering. 756 00:40:41,272 --> 00:40:42,815 And I took a vow. 757 00:40:42,898 --> 00:40:44,692 I took, like, a solemn vow. 758 00:40:44,775 --> 00:40:47,194 Like, a get-on-my-knees vow, 759 00:40:47,778 --> 00:40:51,323 that I will never take advantage of another person ever again, okay? 760 00:40:51,407 --> 00:40:52,407 I mean it. 761 00:40:53,742 --> 00:40:55,202 I'm asking you to forgive me. 762 00:40:57,246 --> 00:40:59,123 I'm begging you, as a matter of fact. 763 00:41:03,210 --> 00:41:04,587 I don't know if I can do that. 764 00:41:07,256 --> 00:41:08,256 Okay. 765 00:41:09,842 --> 00:41:12,595 - I still have nightmares about you, Henry. - Okay. 766 00:41:13,220 --> 00:41:14,220 Okay? 767 00:41:17,266 --> 00:41:19,477 [weeping] Thank you for saying all that, but... 768 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:22,563 forgive you? 769 00:41:25,816 --> 00:41:27,776 I don't... I don't think I can. 770 00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:28,944 I understand. 771 00:41:32,781 --> 00:41:34,325 Thank you for hearing me out. 772 00:41:42,666 --> 00:41:44,460 I want to try and make it up to you. 773 00:41:46,378 --> 00:41:49,065 - Honestly, Henry, I don't... - Wait, don't, Rock. Listen to me. Listen. 774 00:41:49,089 --> 00:41:53,219 Ever since you and Archie walked the red carpet at the Oscars together, 775 00:41:53,302 --> 00:41:54,303 you've struggled. 776 00:41:55,721 --> 00:41:57,806 You haven't had any good parts, have you? 777 00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:01,393 I think folks knowing I'm queer, that just means... 778 00:42:02,436 --> 00:42:04,939 there's only so many parts I can play, you know? 779 00:42:05,022 --> 00:42:06,899 And with the death threats and all... 780 00:42:08,859 --> 00:42:10,945 [sniffles] But I don't really care anymore. 781 00:42:12,154 --> 00:42:13,906 And I've gotten into bonsai lately. 782 00:42:15,616 --> 00:42:17,993 You know, those little Japanese trees? 783 00:42:18,077 --> 00:42:21,288 Well, you really take care of them, you know, and it's meditative. 784 00:42:21,372 --> 00:42:23,791 Okay, fuck that. You listen to me. 785 00:42:23,874 --> 00:42:25,584 I am developing a movie. 786 00:42:25,668 --> 00:42:27,670 It's a love story between two men. 787 00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:31,340 It's gonna be the first homo love story ever made. 788 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,927 But not a porno, mind you, this is a genuine love story. 789 00:42:35,010 --> 00:42:36,010 The lead role... 790 00:42:38,722 --> 00:42:40,140 The lead role is for you. 791 00:42:41,517 --> 00:42:42,517 Oh, Henry... 792 00:42:43,269 --> 00:42:45,104 They would never make a movie like that. 793 00:42:45,229 --> 00:42:46,229 Well... 794 00:42:46,730 --> 00:42:47,730 we'll see. 795 00:42:48,232 --> 00:42:49,483 [church bell tolling] 796 00:42:51,485 --> 00:42:52,861 [Jack] Changed my life... 797 00:42:52,987 --> 00:42:55,340 - more than anyone, I think. - [Archie] The man was a legend. 798 00:42:55,364 --> 00:42:57,366 [Raymond] He stood up for all of us. 799 00:43:10,045 --> 00:43:11,797 Thanks to all of you for coming. 800 00:43:13,007 --> 00:43:14,383 Standing room only. 801 00:43:15,926 --> 00:43:17,970 So many familiar faces. 802 00:43:19,013 --> 00:43:23,392 That we're all here is a testament to the person we're remembering today. 803 00:43:25,227 --> 00:43:27,187 His humor. His temper. 804 00:43:28,230 --> 00:43:29,773 His joie de vivre. 805 00:43:31,108 --> 00:43:32,776 Really, just one of the... 806 00:43:33,110 --> 00:43:36,864 funniest, most alive people you'd... 807 00:43:37,364 --> 00:43:39,408 ever have the pleasure to know. 808 00:43:40,117 --> 00:43:45,414 I think he thought that he could lick it by sheer force of will. 809 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,751 And by God, if anybody could, it would have been him. 810 00:43:50,419 --> 00:43:53,130 But cancer won the day. 811 00:43:54,632 --> 00:43:57,343 Dick Samuels was a giant to me. 812 00:43:57,801 --> 00:44:02,806 I worked alongside him for 27 years, so I think it's fair for me to say 813 00:44:03,682 --> 00:44:05,643 that he changed this town. 814 00:44:05,976 --> 00:44:07,478 Without Dick Samuels... 815 00:44:09,146 --> 00:44:11,482 you just don't have Meg. 816 00:44:12,232 --> 00:44:13,484 And since Meg, 817 00:44:14,443 --> 00:44:17,946 we have seen the face of Hollywood change. 818 00:44:19,365 --> 00:44:21,367 Many of the films in production 819 00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:24,662 will star women and people of color. 820 00:44:25,037 --> 00:44:28,332 Without Dick Samuels, this just doesn't happen. 821 00:44:29,083 --> 00:44:31,001 There's been a sea change, 822 00:44:31,418 --> 00:44:32,419 hasn't there? 823 00:44:32,878 --> 00:44:33,878 Finally. 824 00:44:34,963 --> 00:44:36,048 Thank you, Richard... 825 00:44:37,049 --> 00:44:38,049 for that 826 00:44:38,676 --> 00:44:40,511 and for all the rest. 827 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:45,891 And now, I would like to introduce John Banks, 828 00:44:45,974 --> 00:44:48,352 who was Richard's partner in life. 829 00:44:48,936 --> 00:44:51,188 He'd like to share a few words with us. 830 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,023 Thank you. Thank you, John. 831 00:44:56,944 --> 00:44:57,944 [John] Thank you. 832 00:44:59,822 --> 00:45:00,989 On the night he died... 833 00:45:02,908 --> 00:45:05,077 it was one of the last things he said to me... 834 00:45:07,246 --> 00:45:09,707 "I die an honest man." 835 00:45:10,916 --> 00:45:12,418 That's what we all hope for, 836 00:45:13,752 --> 00:45:16,380 to be able to say that about the lives we've lived 837 00:45:17,339 --> 00:45:18,799 when our final day arrives. 838 00:45:21,927 --> 00:45:23,971 I think it gives us all something to... 839 00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:26,598 strive after, 840 00:45:27,558 --> 00:45:28,934 to hope for. 841 00:45:37,276 --> 00:45:40,320 Avis, can I have a word with you for a moment? 842 00:45:41,947 --> 00:45:43,741 We have to do something, don't you think? 843 00:45:43,824 --> 00:45:44,824 About what? 844 00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:46,910 To memorialize Dick. 845 00:45:46,994 --> 00:45:48,454 What do you suggest? 846 00:45:51,790 --> 00:45:53,167 I want to make a picture. 847 00:45:53,834 --> 00:45:56,587 I want to make the first romantic movie about two men. 848 00:45:57,671 --> 00:45:59,298 Two men who fall in love. 849 00:45:59,757 --> 00:46:02,259 And I want Archie Coleman to write it. 850 00:46:02,342 --> 00:46:04,344 I've already talked to Ray Ainsley about directing, 851 00:46:04,428 --> 00:46:07,389 Jack Castello says he's on board, and I want Rock Hudson to play the lead. 852 00:46:08,182 --> 00:46:09,182 What do you say? 853 00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:12,311 I am aware that there will be protests. 854 00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:15,022 - And death threats. - Yes. 855 00:46:15,105 --> 00:46:16,231 But then I think, 856 00:46:17,608 --> 00:46:18,859 what would Dick say? 857 00:46:20,444 --> 00:46:21,487 What would he do? 858 00:46:23,447 --> 00:46:25,407 I think Dick would say, "Fuck them." 859 00:46:29,203 --> 00:46:30,203 Yes. 860 00:46:36,752 --> 00:46:37,753 Keep it under budget. 861 00:46:39,338 --> 00:46:41,089 Consider it green-lit. 862 00:46:50,015 --> 00:46:52,810 [Henry] Hey, what are these things that look like big rubber bands? 863 00:46:52,893 --> 00:46:54,228 Those are fan belts. 864 00:46:54,311 --> 00:46:56,355 Connects the cooling fan to the crankshaft. 865 00:46:57,022 --> 00:46:59,022 Don't tell me you never worked on an engine before. 866 00:46:59,066 --> 00:47:01,985 Well, God, no. I don't even know how to pop the hood. 867 00:47:02,069 --> 00:47:03,070 [Ernie chuckling] 868 00:47:03,153 --> 00:47:05,656 Hey, since the movie, I see you're working all the time. 869 00:47:05,739 --> 00:47:08,116 - Mmm. - [Henry] Great parts, too. Well done. 870 00:47:08,951 --> 00:47:09,951 I, um... 871 00:47:11,912 --> 00:47:13,497 I heard the station's for sale. 872 00:47:15,624 --> 00:47:16,624 Who told you that? 873 00:47:17,084 --> 00:47:18,335 Friends in high places. 874 00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:22,130 I also heard from a mouthy little bird 875 00:47:22,214 --> 00:47:25,092 that you're selling 'cause most days you don't feel so great, 876 00:47:25,175 --> 00:47:27,010 and I'm sorry for that, Ernie. 877 00:47:27,427 --> 00:47:28,428 I really am. 878 00:47:30,180 --> 00:47:31,265 [scoffs] 879 00:47:33,392 --> 00:47:34,392 Well... 880 00:47:35,018 --> 00:47:36,270 you're wrong about that. 881 00:47:36,728 --> 00:47:39,356 Really? Well, do tell, I'm all ears. 882 00:47:40,107 --> 00:47:42,693 I'm selling 'cause... Actually, since Meg, 883 00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,113 with all the headlines, success and scandal of Archie and Rock 884 00:47:46,196 --> 00:47:47,739 lip-locking on the red carpet, 885 00:47:48,448 --> 00:47:49,783 business is down... 886 00:47:50,617 --> 00:47:52,077 with the queer clientele. 887 00:47:52,953 --> 00:47:54,955 That's 75% of my business. 888 00:47:55,747 --> 00:47:57,666 Yeah, I've been feeling that around town myself. 889 00:47:58,166 --> 00:47:59,877 I've even felt it a little, 890 00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:03,088 this refusal to accept shame any longer. 891 00:48:03,171 --> 00:48:05,883 You know, some guys, made out of my kind of shoe leather, 892 00:48:05,966 --> 00:48:07,843 they've been pretty vocal about the fact 893 00:48:07,926 --> 00:48:10,053 that they're tired of skulking in the shadows. 894 00:48:10,137 --> 00:48:12,764 I guess that Archie and Rock showed them there's another path. 895 00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:13,891 [Ernie] Hmm. 896 00:48:14,224 --> 00:48:15,475 Well, it's a start. 897 00:48:15,559 --> 00:48:17,436 Yeah, sure. 898 00:48:18,896 --> 00:48:21,356 Holding a guy's hand in public, 899 00:48:21,815 --> 00:48:23,609 walking down the street, you know, 900 00:48:23,692 --> 00:48:25,694 you wait for a brick in the back of the head. 901 00:48:26,653 --> 00:48:27,863 It doesn't come. 902 00:48:28,447 --> 00:48:30,991 Well, then, before you know it, your guy wants to play house. 903 00:48:32,326 --> 00:48:33,660 Have you ever spent a Saturday 904 00:48:33,744 --> 00:48:37,789 picking out some cheerful, daffodil-colored linoleum for the kitchen? 905 00:48:39,333 --> 00:48:40,334 I have, Ernie. 906 00:48:41,627 --> 00:48:45,005 And it is enough to make you wistful for the days of secretive sodomy 907 00:48:45,088 --> 00:48:46,590 and late-night crocheting. 908 00:48:46,965 --> 00:48:49,134 [chuckling] 909 00:48:49,843 --> 00:48:50,844 I have a suggestion. 910 00:48:51,678 --> 00:48:52,678 [Ernie] Shoot. 911 00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:55,682 What do you say you and me go out back to that old shed, 912 00:48:55,766 --> 00:48:57,267 you slap me around a little bit 913 00:48:57,351 --> 00:48:59,978 and shove that big pickle in my mouth and call me Betty. 914 00:49:03,982 --> 00:49:04,982 Henry, baby... 915 00:49:06,151 --> 00:49:07,151 I'm in love 916 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:09,320 with Kincaid. 917 00:49:09,363 --> 00:49:10,197 Aww. 918 00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:11,573 And I'm retired. 919 00:49:12,366 --> 00:49:13,700 But in another life... 920 00:49:14,618 --> 00:49:15,452 I was kidding. 921 00:49:15,535 --> 00:49:17,037 [laughing] 922 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,247 Gentlemen, you're in the shot. 923 00:49:19,331 --> 00:49:20,331 [Ernie] Oh. 924 00:49:24,878 --> 00:49:26,630 Knock 'em dead, kid. 925 00:49:27,214 --> 00:49:29,549 Nothing like the first shot of a movie, huh? 926 00:49:30,509 --> 00:49:32,177 Dreamland. 927 00:49:36,682 --> 00:49:38,308 Hey, thanks for doing this, Archie. 928 00:49:38,392 --> 00:49:41,395 This is... this is really fantastic. This script is just great. 929 00:49:41,478 --> 00:49:43,021 Yeah, what can I say? 930 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,065 Write what you know. 931 00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,860 All right, everyone, roll cameras! 932 00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:50,988 Dreamland, scene four, take one! 933 00:49:51,530 --> 00:49:53,532 And... action! 934 00:49:56,868 --> 00:49:58,161 [bell dings] 935 00:50:02,457 --> 00:50:03,625 [Rock] Howdy, sailor. 936 00:50:04,167 --> 00:50:06,211 - What can I do for you? - I'd, uh... 937 00:50:08,672 --> 00:50:10,298 I'd like to go to Dreamland. 938 00:50:10,382 --> 00:50:11,675 I'll take you there. 939 00:50:27,274 --> 00:50:28,191 [bell dings] 940 00:50:28,275 --> 00:50:30,652 [music swells and crescendos] 941 00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:35,782 [big band music playing]