♪ Don't leave me this way ♪
♪ I can't exist ♪
♪ I'll surely miss ♪
♪ Your tender kiss ♪
♪ Don't leave me this way ♪
♪ Baby ♪
♪ I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know ♪
♪ We can make it ♪
♪ I know, I know, I know, I know ♪
♪ I know, I know, I know ♪
♪ We can make it ♪
♪ Don't promise moments forever ♪
♪ This night will fade to haunted memories ♪
♪ Don't relive each kiss ♪
♪ Whispered sigh ♪
♪ Love me then leave before the dawn ♪
♪ Don't believe it's not goodbye ♪
♪ Don't pretend I'll love you ♪
♪ Don't ask if you will stay until tomorrow ♪
♪ Don't stay long enough for me to miss you ♪
♪ Love now then go ♪
♪ Words I do not hear, loneliness ♪
♪ Removes the need for bitter lies ♪
♪ Laughter through each tear ♪
♪ Silently crumbles behind loves shadow dreams ♪
♪ Now don't believe this moment will not mean goodbye ♪
♪ Don't pretend that I'm in love with you ♪
♪ Don't ask to stay until tomorrow ♪
♪ Don't ask to stay ♪
Next June you're supposed to be graduating college,
not high school.
You were supposed to write an essay about personal conflict.
Obviously, most of you never hoped
to write anything more literate than a personal check.
This paper is an exception.
At least, it's legible.
May I?
The last time I went to confession I was fifteen.
The booth was dark and hot.
Of the seven deadly sins I was guilty of three,
envy and lust were my sister's fault.
I envied her beauty and lusted for her boyfriends.
I was afraid to confess, and afraid not to.
I felt no contrition, not even shame.
I still felt the same lust.
Was it in my mind, or my body?
Miss Dunn, Miss Dunn.
You alright?
It's my back.
Oh, it's nothing, professor Engle, really.
For your next assignment,
Describe an irrepressible temptation
and what you did about it.
Yeah?
It's me.
Bullshit!
Why can't you take him to the Christmas play?
He's your son, too.
It's always an emergency.
No, no, no, no.
No.
What you really mean is,
a doctor's indispensable, a teacher is ridiculous.
And you, you want to be a teacher?
Yes.
Huh, It's ridiculous.
I like kids.
Why not?
You don't have any.
Why do you want to waste your time
correcting the drivel of other students?
It can't be for the wages I pay.
Practically every girl in class wants this job.
Without pay.
Just to be here.
But I chose you.
Know why?
Because you're the only girl in class,
who knows syntax and grammar, and can spell.
And that's the only reason.
That bad, huh?
You should've told me.
Isn't it obvious?
Nothing about you is obvious.
Till this morning I didn't know that you were Catholic,
or that you had a sister,
or that you were a dragon lady filled with envy and lust.
So...
your back.
How did it happen?
Car accident?
Polio, when I was six.
It left me with a limp till I was eleven.
That's when they operated to straighten my spine.
Scoliosis, they said.
From the polio.
Papa...
Papa.
After that.
I came home wearing a plaster cast.
They put me on a bed, downstairs,
in the living-room, where everyone could watch.
Day and night.
For one whole year and two days.
They prayed a lot.
It was God's will, they said.
I never did understand what terrible thing I did, you know,
to make God so angry?
- Poor little baby, - No, no, I hate people being sorry.
I was only trying to comfort you.
I'd rather be seduced than comforted.
A perfect opening to your essay on temptation.
How I Lost My Virginity.
Despite the sexual revolution,
not all married men are swingers.
Sex, between teacher and student...
is improper,
immoral, illegal,
and unbelievably tempting.
So easy to yield.
How many lovers have you--
Does it matter?
Right.
Confession might be good for the soul, but it's bad for sex.
Oh, my God,
Oh, my.
Oh, gee.
Oh, dear God,
Don't.
Don't, it's ugly, please, it's.
I love you, oh, I love you.
Ssh.
Oh, sweet god,
I'm not sure that aspirin is the remedy for your problem.
God, no, no.
Oh, dear God.
Did I hurt you?
No.
Uh, no.
No.
Uh-uh.
My god.
Oh god.
Well why did you stop?
Did you?
Is it over?
I'll be late for class.
Oh, it was just getting so nice.
Next time fireworks.
This time it was just a little, uh, premature.
Was it me?
Was it my fault?
Did I do something wrong, or something?
It's just, uh, I never had a virgin before.
You are now a fallen woman.
Thank God.
Hi, Tom.
Ah, Katherine's come home.
More beautiful than ever.
Why can't she be home for Christmas?
A family should be together.
Would you stop that, woman.
She'll be in Puerto Rico, on business.
Your sister's home.
What kind of business?
Stewardess business!
What the hell else?
She flies Chicago, New York, Chicago.
What's in Puerto Rico?
Look, For God's sake will somebody answer that telephone?
Now, Katherine told you, and I told you,
it's a charter flight.
What, what the hell happened?
Hello?
Are you deaf?
That's the FBI, cleaning up the scum of the earth.
Got them surrounded most of the time,
Brigid!
What's keeping your sister?
Any minute, Papa.
You ought to see her underwear!
Wow!
Katherine, phone!
Did you see the presents she brought?
Yeah, generous to a fault.
Who is it?
How can you drink before driving?
Like this.
Can you babysit tonight?
I got a class tonight.
Who is it?
It's Dennis O'Brian.
Not now!
I said hang up.
Dennis the menace.
He's her husband.
Was, woman, was.
No divorce for us.
Annulled!
Do you have any Valium?
Codeine?
Mm.
Aspirin?
Oh.
If I don't take something soon
I'm going to just jump out of my skin.
Why did you and Dennis break up?
Dennis?
Oh, there was nothing he wouldn't do for me, nothing.
But he drove me crazy, I mean,
I just wanted to scream all the time.
He was so dull and boring.
His eyes were always begging.
But you can't get annulled for that.
So...
so you lie, and.
I'm a mess.
Whatever I do, nothing turns out right.
Oh, except you, Katherine,
Oh, you, you're perfect.
You've perfect hair, perfect teeth, perfect legs,
You name it, you got it, you've got everything.
I mean, look, you 747 in here,
packing gifts like Santa Claus and--
Baby, I'm in trouble.
I'm in real trouble.
For the past six, seven months, I've been living with a man.
Well, actually two men.
One in Chicago, and one in New York.
The real problem is that I'm pregnant.
Oh, Kathy.
I don't even know if it was Chicago or New York.
Darling, you'll be late for the plane.
Anyway, I'm getting rid of it in Puerto Rico.
There's a place the girls go.
I told Pa I had to work a charter run.
If he ever found out, he'd just kill me.
He'd never believe it.
Oh, I'm sorry to lay all this on you.
But, you're my Rock of Gibraltar, you really are.
Ever since the polio.
The whole family gave up, even Father Timothy.
But you, you never even cry, not once.
You're the rock, baby.
Ma, Pa, Brigid, they all think I pee perfume.
Well, you know, and I'm a little flaky,
and you never blame me.
We all need somebody who won't blame us.
Do I look okay?
Perfect.
When teaching a deaf child, you must always remember
not to have the light shining in their face.
Always remember to speak to the children
in a normal tone of voice and face them.
Never allow yourself to become
impatient or angry with the children.
How do you get the children's attention?
By tapping on the table, and if you are at a distance,
by blinking the lights.
Superb, perfection, poetry in motion.
But do you love me?
Don't do that.
People who tiptoe are not being considerate,
they're begging for attention.
Damn.
I've got some last minute shopping.
Merry Christmas.
It's, um, a pipe.
Christmas is commercialized crap!
If you want to celebrate the birth of Jesus,
do it in church.
See you after the holidays.
Ciao.
1975 has just become history.
It was only five years ago
that 10,000 women marched for liberation.
They carried books, signs, and babies.
They called for free abortion,
equal education, equal job and pay opportunities
and, sexual freedom.
This was to be the decade of the dames.
Hello?
Katherine?
Nobody's home,
they all went to the Knights of Columbus party.
Where are you?
Honeymoon?
You're married?
I thought you went for an abortion?
Yeah, I'm sure he's terrific,
but if you just met him on the plane two days ago.
Huh?
Of course, I'm happy.
If you're happy, I'm happy.
Is he nice?
Is he also Catholic?
Uh, Uh-huh, uh-huh.
Then you'd better break the news to Papa yourself, huh?
Yeah, Happy New Year to you, too.
Both of you.
Hey, what's his name?
Hello?
Katherine?
Happy New Year!
Hi.
You want to be my fella, huh.
Do you?
No?
Come on.
Do you?
Hello?
Martin?
Yeah?
Happy New--
Hello?
How could you make such a call?
What, were you drunk?
Goofed up?
What the hell were you thinking of?
Nothing, nothing, nothing ever happened between us.
And if it does again, it still never happened.
Do you understand?
I will not be compromised.
Not here on campus, not in my home, not at work.
I will not leave my wife.
I will not allow her to be hurt,
by an occasional afternoon roll in the...
It might be, uh, better for both of us, all round, if, uh,
if we forgot we ever, uh, if we never again.
Oh Christ.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
They're here.
Patrick, put on your coat.
They're here.
Katherine and, him.
He don't look Jewish.
You can't always tell by the nose.
What's he driving?
Mercedes Benz.
Jewish.
Wait till you see her fur coat.
- Without a church wedding. - Mink. Down to here.
They're living in sin.
Congratulations.
Thanks.
Oh, Papa, I love you.
Be nice to him, huh?
Get the phone.
Hello?
Who is it?
Happy Easter.
Happy Passover.
You must be--
Theresa!
He must be married,
Honey, when a guy won't give his name,
Mrs. Dunn.
Hi, Ma.
Mr. Dunn.
Just don't ever call me Dad.
Where?
When?
Baby, baby.
I thought you couldn't get away.
I wonder, why is it after we make love, we never talk,
or touch, or anything?
Now you're angry.
I am not angry.
Disappointed?
I'm not disappointed.
I just can't stand a woman's company
right after I've fucked her.
And, with the backing of Wallace and Jackson,
Good Morning.
Yeah.
You alright?
Nothing wrong at school?
Guess what?
I'm pregnant again.
Number two on the way.
My mother had four, all boys, all perfect.
Five, Papa,
You always forget Aunt Maureen.
God rest her soul and forgive her.
Forgive what?
What'd she do, Papa?
How the hell you expect me to eat runny eggs?
You know I can't even stand to look at runny eggs.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Thank you.
Good, good.
Theresa, will you interpret today?
Huh?
Oh.
I'll take it.
Come on.
You can do it.
So, it's good-bye.
At least, until summer school begins.
I envy your first teaching experience.
If those children are going to learn to read,
to write, to understand, maybe even to speak,
you're their only real hope.
If you can teach a deaf child, you have touched God.
To Joe and Sylvia, married this afternoon.
Congratulations.
Where are you going on your honeymoon?
Las Vegas.
Don't lose too much money.
We didn't tell anyone.
That's great, terrific, yeah.
Yes, dear, yes, it'll all fit in the car, yes.
I hate summer vacations, I hate fishing, I hate the beach.
Reference books, uh, dictionary, notes, carbon paper.
Check, check!
Ah, your last check, paid in full, except for my gratitude.
When will I see you?
Ever?
Never.
Who's taking my place?
No one can take your place.
You're the most dedicated, most efficient.
Just the same, you'll find someone else.
There's always someone else.
Who?
Rhoda?
Now that you fucked her,
you probably can't stand her either.
It's not very sporting for the mistress
of a married man to be jealous.
I can't help it.
And who ever said love is a sport?
Ah, yes, love.
What happened?
What did I do?
Nothing.
Is my breath bad?
Do I use the wrong toothpaste?
Stop it.
Is my sex too straight?
Tell me what you want.
Nothing!
Oh.
It's over, that's all.
We had a long, fine thing together.
Now it's time we moved on, both of us.
Blood pressure dropping.
Anybody notify her family?
On their way.
It's her spine.
Immediate surgery.
Without X-rays?
No time.
Don't touch her!
I love her.
Throw him out. He's contaminating.
It's my fault, all my fault.
Poor thing.
I told you.
It was God's will.
Is she covered by insurance, Blue Cross or hard cash?
I want a Catholic doctor.
Congratulations, your daughter has a beautiful body.
Runs in the family.
My mother had four, all boys, all perfect.
Perfect.
Is she in pain?
Not yet.
She's only two months pregnant.
No.
Ah, yes, love.
Hey, baby.
Still in the first grade?
I graduated today.
I'll get it.
Who is it?
Katherine?
Oh, hi, hon.
Come on up.
Police?
No, it's my sid kister.
Hey, hey, that's expensive grass.
Hi.
Hi!
Gang, I want you to meet real class.
Theresa, a teacher of deaf kids.
How do you like the place, huh?
It's beautiful, you're all beautiful.
A drag of the best?
Oh, no.
Katy said she that couldn't live any place else but here,
well, I can't live without her.
But the place wasn't for rent.
So, we bought the whole damned building.
So, if you ever need an unfurnished apartment.
Or a brilliant lawyer.
Yeah, I'll rob a bank.
No, no, no,
for schoolteachers named Terry, half price.
Oh, I like that, hon.
Saint Theresa by day and, Swinging Terry by night.
Yeah.
To your new job!
To Terry, hmm, by night.
Like home movies?
Mm, yes, I love them.
Let's watch the kiddies play.
Katherine?
Well, so you're alive, are you?
All in one piece, are you?
Where the hell have you been all night?
Well?
Katherine's place.
Liar.
She's away for the summer.
Do you want me to call her?
Do you?
Liar.
I called Brigid, I called the police.
I called the hospitals.
You're so damned busy whoring around
you couldn't spare one minute to phone?
I should have but I couldn't.
Yeah, but you didn't.
I couldn't.
We was afraid something happened.
Not knowing what to do, where to go,
You alright?
I'll fix breakfast.
Ma, I'm sorry for all the trouble.
I didn't think.
Well, you think of this, then.
As long as you live in this house,
you live by the rules of this house, do you understand?
Do you understand?
Yes, Papa.
Go on, go, go fix breakfast.
All right now, before I'm accused of being a tyrant, or a,
by the way, I'm not breaking
any of the rules of the woman's
holy crusade to burn their brassieres?
No, Papa.
All right, fine, all right.
Because I walked to school.
I worked in a coal yard every day after school.
And all day Saturday.
Twelve dollars a week, out of which I kept
two cents a day to put in the poor box, on Sunday.
The rest of the money--
You gave your mother.
That's right.
Which is more than I ever ask you to do.
With you, it's been food, free.
Thread and clothes, free.
Medicine, free.
TV, telephone.
What, what the hell is this supposed to mean?
You're right.
I can't live here by your rules,
And I can't, so it's time I went.
Went, went where?
With who, on what?
Alone, my place, my money, my rules.
Oh, alone in mugger's paradise.
Well, that's great.
Now, we can worry about you day and night.
Oh, make sense girl, be yourself.
I can't stay here and be myself.
Your almighty self, is it?
If it wasn't yourself,
just what the hell have you been around here?
What you wanted me to be.
You're not Katherine, you know?
Not by a long shot.
Mama.
Bye, Papa.
You'll never make it alone.
She's here now.
Yeah, yeah, last night, too.
We had, well, we had sort of a party.
Well, of course she'll pay her own rent.
Oh, Pa, would I lie to you?
Her teaching job starts next week.
Summer school, right?
Yeah, of course, I'll keep an eye on her.
Yeah, I love you too.
Bye-bye, aye ai, ai.
First month's rent.
Now, what you need, first and most, is a bed.
A bed big enough for everything.
Now, some signs look alike but, enjoy, hands open.
Enjoy.
Sorry.
Hungry.
Wish.
♪ Free and easy kind of lady ♪
♪ And the books she reads are good ♪
Class dismissed.
♪ Let me be me kinda lady ♪
♪ And she's bein' what she should ♪
♪ Oh but she lone, hold on, wow, lonely ♪
♪ It's a well kept secret, oh well, lonely ♪
♪ That the girl is lonely, lonely ♪
♪ And go together lonely, lonely ♪
♪ Some flashy lonely, hold on, lonely ♪
♪ Might be lonely for David, hold on, lonely ♪
♪ Might be lonely for Larry, lonely ♪
♪ Might be lonely for Dennis, hold on, lonely ♪
♪ Might be lonely for George, ah ha ha, lonely ♪
♪ Might be a little lonely for Lewis, ah ha, lonely ♪
♪ Might be lonely for Harvey, lonely ♪
♪ Ah but pretty little girl is lonely, lonely ♪
♪ Say the pretty little girl is lonely, well, lonely ♪
Good morning.
My name is Miss Dunn.
Yes.
Thank you.
Once again, please, and speak.
My name is Daniel.
Very good, Daniel.
And your name?
My name is Bonnie Hooper.
Thank you, Bonnie.
I am Daniel Tu.
Excellent but too is spelled T-0-0.
Teacher, my family name is Tu.
Your family name is Tu, I'm sorry, I apologize.
Daniel Tu, right?
Okay, okay.
No name, no name?
Maybe she's dumb.
Oh, no, no, no.
Deaf, not dumb.
Dumb means stupid.
You, all of you, are very bright students.
Her name is Amy.
Oh, thank you, Amy?
Now, every name has a special meaning.
Daniel means judge.
Bonnie means very good.
And Amy, means, beloved.
That means that everyone loves that person.
Jerry and Kevin, what do they mean?
One minute, wait.
Did you forget your hearing aid?
Okay, we'll use the school's, okay?
Three into nine is, right.
Very good, Bonnie, very good.
After we see how good you are at spelling,
then we'll play a game with numbers.
Okay?
I like your name.
You don't have to write it, but, please?
Okay, everybody, it's time to go.
Bye bye.
Bye.
Uh-uh-uh, you forgot, Daniel.
Bye bye.
Okay, Amy.
Let's go.
Oh, are you Amy's brother?
I'm--
I don't read that mess.
Wonderful, Amy.
I love you too.
Let's go.
Bye.
♪ They smilin' in your face ♪
♪ All the time, they want to take your place ♪
♪ The back stabbers, back stabbers ♪
♪ Low-down, dirty ♪
♪ What they do ♪
♪ They smilin' in your face ♪
♪ Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes tell lies ♪
♪ Back stabbers ♪
♪ They smilin' in your face ♪
♪ I don't need low-down, dirty bastards, back stabbers ♪
♪ They smilin' in your face ♪
♪ Might be your neighbor ♪
Okay, now.
Hey!
Yes, yes?
I can feel it.
And say it.
Bul, til, py.
That's better, that's, that's pretty good.
We're going to try again, now, look.
Mul.
Ti.
Ti
Good, ply.
Ply.
That's very good, okay.
Now, mul-ti-ply.
Ply.
♪ What they do ♪
♪ They smilin' in your face ♪
♪ All the time, they want to take your place ♪
♪ The back stabbers, back stabbers ♪
♪ They smilin' in your face ♪
♪ All the time, they want to take your place ♪
♪ The back stabbers, back stabbers ♪
♪ All you fellas who have someone ♪
♪ And you really care, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Then it's all of you fellas who better beware, yeah, yeah ♪
Yeah, I've seen the movie.
Al Pacino is something, huh?
Mm-hm.
You alone?
Uh-huh.
Come here a lot?
Hmm.
You're okay.
You know, most of the others in there are dogs, you know.
But you're okay.
What?
I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse.
Oh, really?
You and me in bed, right?
Yeah?
Why can't I refuse, huh?
Well, you'd be passing up the best fuck of your life.
Oh God.
Uh-huh, okay, well, uh, in that case.
♪ Smiling in your face ♪
♪ All the time, they wanna take your place ♪
♪ The back stabbers ♪
♪ Back stabbers, smiling in your face ♪
Hey, Frankie.
Hey, Ricky, dude.
Man, how's business?
Billy, baby,
Hey, Susan.
I'll catch you later.
See you in September.
Bye-bye, Daniel.
Bye, Erin.
Have a nice summer.
Happy vacation to you.
See you after Labor Day.
Oh, okay, okay.
Amy, these are cookies, for you.
Okay.
My name is Miss Dunn.
Dunn, yeah, you did it, you spoke.
That's wonderful, Amy, that's wonderful.
Now, let's try it again.
My name is Miss Dunn.
She did it, she spoke.
She actually.
Let's go.
This afternoon, do you think she could stay with me?
Today is sort of a special day, for both of us.
Thanks.
Rules, rules, Mrs. Jackson.
I'm late.
Do you call this living?
When you and the children live on welfare.
Oh man, animals in the zoo eat better.
There is not enough for the three of you, right?
So your man friend has to leave.
The man stays.
Or they'll cut off your welfare,
and without welfare, you cannot support your children.
You try to raise two kids.
Their father went someplace, I don't know where on rules.
You try working all day
and half the night out there on your damn rules.
Now, I got a right to something.
And that something is that man.
And that man stays.
Honey, where've you been?
You scared your momma half to death.
Oh, ain't that a pretty thing,
Mrs. Jackson, I'm--
Now what?
She's the teacher, Mama.
My boy said she talked.
See, honey?
Somebody up there loves you.
We'll have a nice long talk in the morning.
Amy, Mrs. Jackson, excuse me,
If, if Amy had her own hearing aid,
I know they're very expensive,
but at school, she'd learn so much faster.
And at home, she wouldn't be shut out.
Can you imagine what it'd be like for her to hear laughter?
Ain't heard it lately myself.
Hey, you're a nice lady.
But you heard the man, he pulls the plug,
no welfare, no school, nothing.
Him?
Him.
What, Mrs. Jackson's got a lover, wait, so what?
You and your welfare got something against fucking too--
I don't care if she's got fifty lovers,
but if one of them starts living off her welfare.
Yeah, little Amy goes down the drain, right?
Look, why are you hanging this on me?
Because you're pulling the strings, that's why.
Love will find a way, right?
You care about Amy?
Why do you think I work in welfare?
Okay, okay, why?
Because I'm a lousy liberal.
I want to save the world.
Oh, come on, screw the world, save Amy.
I don't make the rules.
You make the report?
Yeah, but I reported the truth.
All right, then, lie.
The end justifies the means, right?
If it means Amy stays in school, yes.
Uh, Miss?
I'd like to see you again.
What for?
Hello?
Where are you?
Oh, I don't feel very well.
I couldn't drive anymore.
Is it cold?
No.
I'm so cold.
No.
My Rock of Gibraltar.
You know, the last time I was a mess,
but this doctor was supposed
to be the best safecracker in the business.
Isn't that, isn't that a perfect name for an abortionist?
Did you tell Barney?
Uh-uh.
But he's crazy in love with you.
Mm, he doesn't even know me.
Oh, we started out just great.
No matter what we did, everything was great.
Every day was special.
And then, one day, we couldn't talk.
Couldn't talk or even look at each other.
So, we, we joined the crowd.
Booze, happy dust, uppers, downers,
Then last night, I woke up, in a room full of naked asses.
Mine was one of them.
I guess that's all I've ever been.
Just another piece of ass.
Married?
No.
Presently living with a man?
No.
How frequently do you have intercourse?
Does it matter?
Yes.
There are several methods, diaphragm, IUD, pill.
I just want to make sure of one thing, no kids.
Permanently?
Yes.
May I ask why?
No.
Good morning, class.
Good morning, Miss Dunn.
Look here!
What?
Oh, it's a wonderful morning, Amy.
It's a wonderful morning, come on.
Good evening.
How's little Amy Jackson?
Oh, hey.
All she needed was a chance, and your lie gave it to her.
Well, I didn't exactly lie.
I just didn't tell the whole truth.
I don't know, I just don't know.
And a new hearing aid,
I don't know how you got it or where,
but really, thanks a lot.
Thank Child Welfare.
Yeah, well, so, uh.
So, how about dinner?
I'm taking you, okay?
Now, listen, we'd better move it.
They eat by the clock.
I knew he was a Catholic.
He studied for the priesthood.
Gave it up when his father died
to support his sickly mother.
They all live in the same house.
Family.
If he'd gone to Notre Dame, he could have been canonized.
Yeah.
Your father is an incredible character.
Yup.
Your mother's a fabulous cook.
I bet you're a great cook.
I hate cooking.
I hate baseball, basketball,
and specially, Notre Dame football.
I hate jokes.
Irish, Polish, Italian, I hate jokes, period.
Are you upset?
No, I am not upset.
What is it, me?
Something I said, something I did?
What?
Nothing.
I know someone else who said the same thing once.
I just realized how funny it was.
Looking for me?
Tony Lo Panto.
Sonja Katerina Raskolnikov.
Well, that's okay.
I knew a secretary once, named, named, Sonia,
something, I don't remember.
She used to cry all the time, even when she was happy.
Yeah?
I never cry, even when I'm sad.
Yeah?
Yeah, it's the God's truth.
Nobody tells the truth, ever.
Well, maybe it's better that way.
Yeah, that's the friggin' truth.
Yeah.
Yeah, it sure is.
Yeah.
What is this?
Are you a Bible freak?
It was a different book the last time we met.
When we met where?
Here, here.
Well, I mean, not exactly, met.
You were, uh, you were with a blonde.
You noticed, uh?
Yeah, you were, you were doing, you were doing that.
That's what you were doing.
What, are you putting me on?
Huh?
Oh, no, no.
No, I'm just feeling really good.
Real good.
I guess the wine don't hurt either?
No, the wine don't hurt.
No.
Hey.
You said there was a party.
So where's the party, huh?
Here.
Right, here.
♪ Come, come, come ♪
♪ Come into my arms ♪
♪ Oh baby ♪
Right.
♪ Come, come into my arms ♪
♪ Let me know the wonder of all of you ♪
♪ Baby I want you, no ♪
♪ No, no, no, no fair ♪
♪ Could this be magic at last ♪
♪ Baby I want you, come ♪
♪ Come, come into my arms ♪
♪ Could this be the magic of, I want you ♪
♪ Baby I want you now, now ♪
♪ Now, now, now, no plans ♪
♪ Could this be magic at last ♪
♪ Baby I want you, come ♪
You like that, huh?
Oh yeah, uh huh.
A man is a wonderful thing.
God.
It's still hard.
Why did you stop?
What's the hurry?
How could you hold back?
What are you doing, what?
Oh, very definitely very heavy books, you know.
Myself, I go for poems.
Oh.
Guys always make passes at girls with bare asses.
More!
You'll never have the knack till you make it with a black.
Where did you read that?
In the subway toilet.
Don't.
Kill the light.
Scared you, huh?
Turns you on too, don't it?
Knowing you can't stop it, knowing, you can't run.
Just waiting for it to happen.
Heart pumping a mile a minute, right?
Damn right.
Have you killed anybody?
Sure.
Vietnam.
Is that where you got these?
Where do you think, Miami Beach?
It's a rotten nick.
Nah, got me out of the war.
Can't get enough, huh?
Hey, what's that?
What, why, does it bother you?
No, no, no.
Cheek to cheek.
You like that?
I like it.
In case we fell asleep.
So?
So you'd leave before morning.
Oh, what's that, a house rule?
The only one.
So, what happens in the morning?
Work.
Oh, yeah?
Who is he?
Husband?
Right.
Cabbie, milkman.
Right, right.
Some guy that pays the rent?
Comes daylight work.
I've got to be alone.
Nothing, nothing personal.
Who said I want to stay?
You expect me to believe that alone crap?
Work, what kind of work?
I'm a teacher.
School?
First grade.
I don't believe it.
Teacher of little kids cruising crummy bars?
Jesus Christ.
No wonder this country's all screwed up.
But you liked it, huh?
You're the greatest.
I'll keep in touch.
Sunday night, six sharp.
Suppose I'm busy?
You just be here.
Okay?
Sonja, Bologna?
Hey, hey.
Your fly is open.
Of course, I've got to go to work, too.
God.
Damn, I don't believe it.
I don't, I don't believe it.
Pow, plenty, please, pow.
Those letters make air rush out.
Now, say it.
Park.
Cat.
Two.
Heaven.
Hurry.
Very good.
I want you to think of words that make the air rush out.
Punch, punch, punch.
No, no, no, too much punch, punch, punch.
I want you to try, help.
Help.
Help, help, help.
Yeah, better.
And then, this perfect little gentleman
comes out with the word fuck.
That must have burst the balloon.
So I told him to find another word,
and he said that he tried love.
But that love wouldn't move the balloon.
Never has.
No, it never has.
So, I told him happy would move the balloon.
And he said, he said is happy the same as fuck?
Not with my husband.
Oh, ha ha, I see,
Anyway, it is over, finished, the end.
Tonight, Acapulco, tomorrow, I am free.
Does Papa know?
Oh, yeah.
Naturally, he blamed it on Barney.
As for a Catholic getting divorced,
he said I wasn't married in church,
so it wasn't a marriage in the first place.
How did Barney take it?
Barney?
Oh, Barney took it real hard.
He's already shacked up with
a teenybopper with a maxi mouth, a mini brain, dirty feet.
Oh, yes, they also have his-and-her towels,
his-and-her hairdryers, his-and-her vibrators.
Junk, junk!
Junkyard of a tripped-out marriage!
Here lies love.
And lies and lies and lies.
Yeah?
Taxi.
I'll be right down.
Listen, anything you want, take it, just take it all.
Stay loose, baby.
♪ I know, I know, I know, I know, I know ♪
♪ We can make it ♪
♪ I know, I know, I know, I know, I know ♪
The hopes or dreams, in your own lives,
that you'd like to see realized.
I hope that you'll join me to change
our government for the better.
Vote for Jimmy Carter.
Hello?
James who?
Of course I've been keeping busy.
I'm busy right now.
Frankly, I haven't even had time to think of food.
Well, I'll, can you call back in ten minutes?
No, wait, better make it twenty.
Shit.
One wine, one beer!
Hey, Chuck.
What's happening man?
You got any shit?
You got any bread?
I got the bread, baby.
Over here.
Let me look at it.
Let me smell it.
Smells good.
It is good.
Hey, Chuck.
You bring the shit, man?
Hey, baby, you look full of it, baby.
Come on in, baby.
Oh, Jesus.
Calling for me?
I was, uh, just looking for the ladies' room.
Where's the Ladies?
Are you looking for a shitty white lady named Bernice?
Got a dime?
A dime?
Yes, yes, I have a dime, here.
One jolt enough?
Yes, yes.
In case you got to call Jesus.
Be on TV, be in the mirror.
Be the star.
That's why everybody goes there.
Everybody gets to be somebody.
Like that girl?
She was a terrific kisser, huh?
She's a nice girl.
Yeah, great dancer, I'll say that.
She's like a lot of girls.
Alone, cruises the bars alone.
It's kind of sad.
Cheer up, I mean, they don't always leave alone.
You've never been in that bar before.
Huh?
Right?
Uh, right, right.
So, why did you want to go?
It makes me feel good.
You didn't know anybody there.
It's better that way, you know?
I mean, you drink and you dance,
none of that awful small talk makes for a hell of a time.
Hey, hey.
We haven't had dinner yet.
I'm a great cook.
I'll fry you an egg.
I'll fry you a hot-dog.
Well, it's school tomorrow, so.
Saturday!
Saturday.
Yeah, well, you'd better call first, okay?
♪ Baby's into runnin' around, hangin' with the crowd ♪
♪ Puttin' your business in the street, talkin' out loud ♪
♪ Sayin' you bought her this and that ♪
♪ And how much you done spent ♪
♪ I swear she must believe it's all heaven sent ♪
♪ You better bring the chick around ♪
♪ To the sad, sad truth ♪
♪ The dirty lowdown ♪
Out!
How did you get in here, huh?
What did you do, pick the lock?
I knew it, a burglar.
Just get out from my, what, no!
Get away from me, get away from me!
Hey, wait, wait a minute, what, what is this?
You said six o'clock, didn't you?
So?
So, beat it!
Out!
The man is out!
Tony's going to tell you what it's all about.
Hey, what's your name?
Teriaki?
When did you all get the arty-farty porno?
Where did you get that sudden five-finger licking accent?
Wow!
Mick Jagger, he got one.
Joe Cocker, Elton John, The Beatles.
Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, Black is green,
green is his bread, bread is flash.
♪ Volare ♪
♪ Cantare ♪
Hey, who's the blonde?
Looks good enough to eat.
Out!
Before I call the cops.
Hot, hot, hot.
You know I am.
No, no, it's late.
I'm wired for speed!
Right!
I knew it!
I knew it.
A burglar and a junkie.
Now just, out!
Come on, teach.
You've been snowing me from the start.
Snow, baby.
Dime-bag.
White Lady, Bernice.
Oh.
You're a coke-head.
No!
Yeah.
No, no.
Well, I say, cocaine, cocaine.
♪ Burning all around, pop in my brain ♪
Where did you get this stuff?
You'd never believe it.
Ten dollars for that?
Thirty, for good stuff.
♪ Hey, come here quick ♪
♪ Cocaine going to make your bo-bo so slick ♪
♪ Burning all around my heart, my brain ♪
What does this do, what does it do?
It makes America beautiful.
Okay, okay.
Now, the other one.
Yeah, okay, okay.
Don't stop.
All I want, I want.
What, what do you want?
Everything.
♪ Volare ♪
♪ Cantare ♪
♪ Hiya, suckers ♪
What, what's so important about that ridiculous box?
I mean, how can you, how can you watch that when you know--
That box keeps me company, even when I'm sleeping.
In fact it's the only box
I don't have to screw it all the time to keep it happy.
God, you know, you're crude.
You're a crude bastard.
You're vain and vulgar, you're a liar,
God knows what you are.
Yeah, the perfect gentleman.
What are you, hey, where are you going?
Business.
2:30 in the morning?
What, I don't understand, what kind of business?
Is it woman business, woman?
Here, take this.
No.
Take it.
No, no.
No.
Look, you want to climb walls all night?
You want to drag ass in school?
Is that what you want?
Huh?
What is it?
Take it.
What is it?
Lude.
Oh.
Nice.
Quaalude.
Brings you down fast.
I'll keep in touch.
Well, when?
Whenever.
If you're late again,
Kiss my ass.
I did.
Oh, no.
No.
Oh God.
Explain it to them!
Stop.
Be quiet.
Sit.
I'm sorry.
I apologize, I'm late.
Last night I took a pill to help me sleep.
The pill was so strong, that I--
I don't believe it.
I've got to go home.
How is he?
I've got to go home, I've got to see the baby.
I've been here off and on, for God's sake, since last night.
Why didn't you call me?
I did!
Nine o'clock nobody home.
Later, busy, busy, busy.
So I call the operator, and I and say cut in.
She tells me the phone is off the hook.
I call this morning, still nobody home.
Stay with Mom, huh?
How is he?
Mama?
In God's hands.
Can I see him please?
Well, Theresa, it's been a long time.
Before the operation, we had a nice chat, your father and I.
He told me the good news,
about that wondrous young man of yours.
It seems you picked the right man.
I tried to reach you.
Do they know?
Twenty four hours.
Know what?
What?
It was malignant.
Can I give you a ride home, Mrs. Dunn?
If it's not too much trouble,
I'd like to go to church first.
You're something, you know?
You are really something.
How did you manage it, Jesus!
You're practically one of the family.
Apple of my father's eye, buddies,
my mother's son she never had.
I wanted to help.
Why?
Why is it when there's trouble
you're always Johnny-On-The-Spot?
Is that how you get your kicks?
Feeding off of cripples?
You're upset, I understand,
You're worried and you're lonely.
Alone!
I'm alone, not lonely!
And depressed, and you're depressing me.
Can you understand that?
This place isn't like you at all.
Not at all.
It's exactly like me.
Especially this.
You ever had a woman that way, hm?
You got a woman?
How about some of those welfare cases of yours?
All those scared trembling women begging for favors,
Hm?
I'm going to go to the hospital tomorrow.
Ha, of course you will.
If you want a lift.
Hey.
I want you here.
Right here.
Or maybe you don't like women.
Maybe you go to--
Shut up!
You don't like to hurt people, so why do you do it?
I'll pick you up at six, tomorrow.
Good night,
What?
Malignant, me?
No.
That's rumors, sweetheart.
That's all it is.
Doctors' mumbo-jumbo.
Yeah, I'll be back at work in a week.
Now, Katherine, love, would I lie to you?
No affliction's going to bury me before my time.
That includes the prostate or any other state, eh?
Yes.
Oh, damn!
Oh, God damn it!
Hold on!
Don't, don't go away!
Oh!
Now I'm going to.
Get out!
Hello?
Tony?
Hello?
Are you still there?
Yes, yes, you sound under water too.
Huh?
I can't.
You're, you're, you're gurgling.
What, am I what?
No, no, I'm fine, I'm fine,
but the phone practically drowned.
Don't go away.
Don't you go away.
Okay, can you hear me?
Tony?
Hey.
Tony, can Tony, oh wow, Tony, just don't go away.
Hm, hm?
No.
Just, just barely,
Yeah, barely.
Well, uh, so why don't you come on over?
No, no, it's James.
Huh?
Oh, yuck.
My God.
This is the worst shit,
Hey.
Excuse me.
Do you want a beer?
Tony Lo Panto, seen him around?
Ah, gomer man.
Must be two, three weeks now.
Another one?
Michael?
Martin.
Oh, a professor needs a beard.
Ex, professor.
Teaching is a waste of time.
I'm writing a novel.
Isn't everybody?
I'm getting divorced, too.
Isn't everybody?
If not, why not?
To old times.
Oh, God, no, uh-uh.
I think about you, us, a lot.
Too much.
You were my one true love.
Ah, yes, love.
Forgive me not, but please, oh please, forget me not.
By parted lovers it is writ,
oh, darling, thou art still a shit.
Ciao.
No, that's wrong.
Hello.
Hi.
Everyone, look at me, look at me.
This is Mr--
No, hold it, hold it, hold it.
My name is, J-A-M-E-S.
James.
Very, very good.
It took me four days to learn that.
Maybe sign language would keep us from fighting?
You'd be surprised.
Haven't you had enough?
I mean, I've been so awful
and you keep coming back for more.
You're charming, intelligent, affectionate, sensual.
You're the ideal--
Bitch.
You'd better learn to read Braille.
You're blind as a bat.
Saturday.
Saturday!
You'll be sorry.
That's funny, I don't remember buying any candy.
That's right.
And the pens?
Right.
That's stealing.
Yeah, that's right.
It would've been easier to pay for it.
Yeah, but not as much fun.
You got roaches.
Poor hungry little buggers.
Is that why you don't wash the dishes?
Cause the roaches are hungry?
Why else?
Why else.
Back!
Most guys, first time out, they try to score.
They expect it.
And some of them get pretty nasty if they don't get it.
So by the second or third time,
it's either fuck, fight, or forget it.
But you, we've seen each other, what?
Five or six times, you haven't even tried to kiss me.
Your wine, madam.
In here, please.
Oh, uh, just a second,
Uh, my hands are very soapy here.
Oh, I'm sorry,
Nice.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Why did you want to be a priest?
My father wanted it.
Didn't you?
No.
If he hadn't died, that's what you'd be.
I don't know if he's dead.
What?
I just say he's dead, it stops the questions.
My mother drank.
She doesn't drink anymore.
I was twelve years old when it happened.
One night I heard my mother laughing.
My mother had a beautiful laugh.
Her bedroom door was open.
She was lying on the bed, naked.
Except for a black garter belt.
My father was standing over her.
She was teasing him.
Hey, what's the matter big boy?
Can't you get it up?
My father hit her.
But my mother just kept on laughing,
and he kept hitting her, and hitting her,
and she kept laughing, and laughing.
There was blood all over the bed,
and blood all over my mother.
My father walked right past me,
walked down the stairs and out the door.
I love you.
No, don't love me.
Uh-uh.
Just make love.
Okay, okay.
Let me, let me.
I don't believe this, I don't believe this.
Oh no!
Oh God!
Oh no.
Oh no!
Is this supposed to protect me or you?
Oh, God.
Oh God I'm sorry, oh, I'm very sorry.
That wasn't very funny.
It's just that I never have seen one of these anyway.
Oh, God, go ahead, go ahead.
Hit me, fight back.
Break something.
I'm, I'm sorry.
You're wrong.
It's funny.
The story about my mother and my father, it never happened.
I'm sorry.
Good night!
I've got to get out of here.
Excuse me, hey, excuse me.
Yeah, go on?
I'm looking for Jesus.
Well, ain't you heard, baby?
The pigs got him.
Never fear, the man is here.
Two dime-bags?
♪ Don't let your feelings get in the way ♪
♪ She wants to get on down ♪
♪ You get down, down ♪
♪ You get down down down down down ♪
♪ Down down down down ♪
♪ Never could stand to be tied to a lover alone ♪
♪ Hurry to play but plan it your day to be gone ♪
♪ Gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone ♪
So, I'm back working for the airlines,
but not like before.
Desk job, public relations.
No more wet-nursing a plane-load of drunken ass-grabbers.
Nobody flies me ever again except
if I want it, and only if I want it.
I've quit that too.
The booze, the pills, the grass,
the fifty-dollar-an-hour analyst,
I am through with the whole mind-fucking scene.
Everybody's taking something
or they'd never make it till morning.
Well, I am into group therapy.
It is very in.
Oh, yeah, yeah,
Is that where you all sit around in a circle,
and pick each other apart?
No.
It's where you find out the mess you're in.
How you got into it, and maybe, how to get out of it.
Oh, we all hurt someplace,
and we're all looking for a painkiller.
Well, to the painkillers.
Uh huh.
Hello?
Theresa.
Hello, is this 777-4490?
Yes, James.
You know, I was thinking about us.
Am I interrupting you?
No.
I've just come from church.
You know, whenever I have a problem I go to church.
So I find myself
with this out-of-towner, here for,
I don't know, a furniture convention or something, anyway,
He won't come to my place
and he won't go to his fancy hotel.
It's got to be, for Christ sake's,
a motel, and only this kind of motel.
First thing, on with the TV.
Next, nothing.
Just sits there on the bed, watching the porno movie.
I, honest to God,
expect he's going to bring out a bag of popcorn.
So, finally, the big moment.
He doesn't even take off his pants.
And all the time he's doing it to me,
he's watching them do it on TV.
It's hysterical, right?
No, wait, wait, wait.
When I come out of the can,
Scarlett and Butcher are still cranking it out on TV,
and my furniture freak is gone with the wind.
He left this.
Honey, you're terrific.
And this.
Wild, huh?
Anyhow, this night I connect with this,
detective, and we end up in my place.
And we smoke a little, we laugh a little,
you know, and then ball a little.
We had a real nice time.
I come out of the bathroom, and, guess what?
We'll wait.
Not again.
Right.
Dick Tracy disappeared with my 20 dollars.
I mean, talk about amateur,
played for a hooker by a square,
and ripped off as a sucker by a dick.
♪ Baby ♪
♪ My heart is full of love and it's all for you ♪
♪ Now come on down and do what you got to do ♪
♪ You've started this fire down in my soul ♪
♪ Now can't you see it's burning out of control ♪
♪ Come on satisfy the need in me ♪
♪ With only your good loving can set me free ♪
♪ Don't you leave me this way ♪
♪ Don't you understand ♪
♪ Oh baby please, please ♪
♪ Don't leave me this way ♪
♪ I can't survive, I can't stay alive ♪
♪ With out your love ♪
♪ Baby don't leave me this way ♪
Me, queer?
Jesus, I'm a married man.
I got two kids, and a very expensive mistress.
I'm an animal.
That's why you go to gay bars.
Two kids.
Jesus, who's that?
Me, when I need a fix.
What the hell?
You're a juicer, I'm a junkie.
Yeah?
What are you hooked on?
Anything I can get.
You got something to drink?
Something sweet?
How about me, huh?
Hey, I'm not complaining, but, you know,
you're not very, uh, big.
Yeah?
Neither are you.
Coming up, up, up.
Oh, yeah.
Let's do it.
Jesus.
My God, I knew it.
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.
Who the hell are you?
Who, me?
Yeah, you.
Me?
Yeah, you.
What, are you a deaf faggot?
Me?
Jesus!
Go on, get out of here.
Hello.
You live up there, mama?
Theresa?
Theresa, are you all right?
She's taking a dump.
Before you start, I forgive you.
So relax, okay?
Okay.
So, how've you been?
You missed me, huh?
What's the silent bit?
Bette Davis on The Late Show, right?
You know, you ought to get on one of them TV game shows.
Come on down, Teriaki, come by us.
You'd scream, you'd jump up and down.
You wiggle your butt.
You'd win twenty five grand.
A car, a hundred suitcases,
and a trip to the Honolulu Hilton.
Hula-hula, hallelujah.
Oh, Lord.
What the hell is this, a call house?
Yeah?
Well, maybe she don't want to talk to you.
What the fuck kind of language is that?
Give me that.
Um, Katherine?
Uh, no, no, no problem.
I'll call you back.
You want to know where I've been?
No.
Miami.
Yeah, lost a bundle at the track,
massaged around with a fat Jew broad
till her old man showed up.
Miami.
Tough hustle!
Scrounged my way back up here.
They cut off my welfare,
which I'm told by some nigger clerk, yeah?
Get me a beer, will you, hun?
So, I need a pad till I get something going.
Not here.
What, four or five days.
Even you've got a mother.
She said no.
Go set the world on fire.
What, on a couple of lousy dollars?
Come on!
Find a smaller world.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, relax, come on.
It's Tony boy talking.
Remember?
You're still my girl.
Mine, mine, right?
God damn.
Get this into one of your two heads.
The only one that can think.
I am my own girl.
I belong to me.
Now, get out of here.
Leave.
Go.
Stop.
I don't believe it.
Believe it!
You're throwing me out?
Yes!
You and my mother, the two biggest cunts in the world.
You stupid.
Theresa!
You son of a bitch.
Theresa?
Theresa.
Theresa?
Oh, my God.
I'm fine, I'm fine.
What did he do to you?
I'm fine, it's my.
Come here, come, sit down.
Oh, Jesus.
My teeth, my teeth.
Let me look at.
Oh, my God.
I'll get some ice on it.
Ice, yeah.
How did that creep get in here?
What happened?
It doesn't matter what happened.
Once the cops get their hands on that mother grabber.
That's it!
He was only trying to hurt his mother.
What are you talking about?
What do you have to do with his mother?
Well, we're both didn't let him--
Oh, oh, it's cold!
Just hold it, hold it there.
We're cunts!
Oh God!
Hula Hula, Halleluja, oh my God!
Jesus, my God!
Oh no!
Get them away!
Come here, come here!
It's all right,
The cockroaches are taking over the world!
♪ Silent night ♪
♪ Holy night ♪
♪ All is calm ♪
♪ All is bright ♪
♪ Round yon virgin Mother and Child ♪
♪ Holy infant so tender and mild ♪
♪ Sleep in heavenly peace ♪
Play that verse again.
Again.
♪ Silent night ♪
♪ Holy night ♪
♪ All is calm ♪
♪ All is bright ♪
What, what a jacket.
Give me that coat.
Please, Tony.
No Ole.
Ole.
I'm, don't do that.
Give me my coat.
This is not funny.
Oh, I don't know,
It's going to cost you 300 now, instead of two.
First, I haven't got it.
You'll get it.
Second, I wouldn't give it to you.
You want to bet?
Not three hundred, not three nothing, zero!
Oh, well, I'd hate to see in the newspapers, you know.
Virgin schoolteacher, bar hopping slut.
Pill popper, coke-head, doobee-doo.
All right, Miss Dunn.
Oh, you don't need Tony anymore.
You got yourself a nigger stud, here.
Hello?
You asked for it, bitch.
Tony?
Found it.
A telephone tip, from a mysterious informer
led to her secret life of drugs, bar hopping and sordid sex.
Miss Dunn was fired when she admitted.
Yes, that's it, I'm through.
I don't know what I'm doing.
This is crazy.
You are really sick!
Oh, shit.
Weren't you ever in love?
I was even more unbearable than you.
Quit, will you, hmm?
Will you please quit?
Merry Christmas.
Oh.
Oh, no,
oh no, what is it, oh what is it?
Jeez.
Oh.
Hey, God, this is fantastic.
What, oh jeez, what made you think of this?
You, light and dark, on and off.
Now I see you, now I don't.
To all the lonely people, on Christmas Eve, huh?
With love.
Oh, no, no, I, I don't want that ring.
I, I don't, I don't want to be in love,
not the way you mean.
You want to be married, I don't want to be married.
You want to have kids, I don't want kids.
I didn't say anything about marriage?
It's Christmas.
Christmas makes me feel good.
At the end of a year, you think about the future.
I don't believe in the future.
What do you believe in?
Now!
What happens now.
That's what I believe in.
What have you got now, this place?
Yeah.
Look at it.
What's here when you come home?
Anything that means anything to you?
Family, a dog, a cat?
Friends, do you have one woman friend you can talk to?
Last election, did you even fucking vote?
You got one thing, me.
Oh yeah.
That's what you've got.
And to hold on to me, it's got to be me and only me.
Where are you going?
Out.
Where?
Away from you.
Stupid!
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!
I don't want your Merry Christmas.
I don't want the Saint Judas kiss you give to James.
Not man enough for you, was he?
Not man enough for our gimpy Miss America.
I don't understand you.
I don't understand your crazy world.
I don't understand your crazy talk.
Freedom this and freedom that.
Free to leave your family?
Free to quit the church?
Free love?
Free to abort your own kids.
Free to go to hell.
Will you tell me, for the love of Christ
how can you give new life to them deaf kids.
Teach them, love them, care for them,
when you won't give birth to your own?
Why?
You know why.
You're afraid!
Yes!
Of what, a little pain?
Scoliosis, Papa!
You know about scoliosis, don't you?
Curvature of the spine?
A crooked back?
Paralitic scoliosis?
Inflammatory, myopathic and ocular scoliosis?
The kind you get from rickets and rheumatism and my kind!
Congenital, the kind you're born with.
You had polio!
Never!
Ask the hospital.
I did, congenital, in the blood!
Polio!
Your blood, Papa.
Liar!
Katherine is clean!
Lucky!
Brigid's kids--
Lucky!
They're healthy kids--
Suppose mine are not healthy?
My mother had four, all--
Oh!
Boys.
All perfect.
All but one.
Little Maureen.
More love in that poor twisted little body than
in her perfect brothers.
False as sounding brass.
Ashamed of her.
Shy of cursing her.
She took her own life.
Freedom.
Tell me, girl, how do you get free of the terrible truth?
Back here it's Happy New Year
from Times Square in New York.
Who, who is it?
Telegram.
Telegram?
Your thing is limp.
That's the story of my life.
Happy New Year!
Katherine.
Meet Robert, The Mad Mugger.
Mad, Robert, mad.
Masquerade party.
Do you want to come?
No.
You sure?
Yeah.
Whatever you do, you shouldn't be alone.
Nobody ought to be alone on New Year's Eve.
Be happy, baby.
Okay.
Hey!
What the hell is the idea?
Open up.
Come on, bitch, I know you're in there.
Hey, Sonia Bologna.
Big night tonight, right?
Say, you and me, we'll drink out the old year,
and blow in the new, okay, huh?
Hey, come on, honey, come on, honey.
You got me all worked up.
Oh, too late,
Come on, come on, hurry up.
Hey!
Look, you think this, this lousy
toilet chain is going to keep me out, huh?
Operator?
Get me the police.
Yes.
This is an emergency.
That does it.
You are dead!
Happy new year!
Hey, no tits!
Money!
Where's the goddam money?
Did they hurt you?
No.
Don't you ever ask me to wear this, this crap again.
Never, you hear?
I'm no goddam Nellie, you ought to know that.
Christ, look at us.
You know what we are?
Look at us.
We're a couple of freaks.
We're freaks.
I'm sorry.
Sorry, shit.
I've had it with you.
The fancy pad, the shirts, the shoes,
I'm cutting out of here.
Don't go.
Please, don't go.
Where are you going to go?
Anywhere away from you.
But you'll be back?
I don't know.
I'll wait for you at the apartment.
You'll need some money.
Shove it.
I'll wait for you.
God dammit you're the Nellie, not me.
I'm a pitcher, not a catcher.
And don't you ever forget that, you hear?
This is it.
The last night cruising bars.
Sounds serious.
Well, when your night life interferes with your day life.
Yeah.
Can I buy you a drink?
Not even one for luck?
Confidentially, with me,
one's too many and a million's not enough.
I got the same problem with men.
Nice way to fly.
They say it prolongs sex almost indefinitely.
It makes me absolutely wild.
Hi, I'm Arthur.
How did you do that?
That must really--
You think I'm queer, don't you?
Please, I, I never said,
No, but you thought it.
Didn't you?
Huh?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Freak.
Excuse me, could we talk together for a moment?
Just a moment, there's a guy back there
that won't let me alone.
Probably watching us.
That one?
Yeah.
Seems okay.
Kind of scary.
Why did you pick me?
You seem, uh.
What?
I don't know, friendly.
You got a nice smile.
If you smile maybe he'll go away.
Then what?
It's midnight in San Francisco.
Happy New Year!
♪ Should old acquaintance be forgot ♪
Happy New Year.
♪ And never brought to mind ♪
♪ Should old acquaintance be forgot ♪
♪ In days of auld lang syne ♪
Thanks for seeing me home.
Oh.
I knew it, I knew it.
Yes, indeedy.
Home, sweet home.
Hey.
You need a drink real bad.
Room Service?
Er, you'd better send up a bottle of Wild Turkey, eh?
And make it fast, thank you.
It's nice, real nice.
Before you move in, huh?
One drink, okay, one, then good night?
Okay, huh?
Say, that guy in the bar, bugging you?
I got the same problem.
Regular leech, you know?
All the time, crying and spying, hanging on.
Won't let go.
Day and night, love me, love me.
I can't even go to the can without, what you doing, honey?
Love.
Shit, you know, I practically OD'ed on love.
Wasted, you know?
I'd like to black out for a week.
How long you married?
What the hell kind of crack is that?
I hate, I actually hate this person.
I'd have to be crazy to go back there tonight.
It's been a crazy night all night.
When I get into town, broke, no job, no place to stay,
all I'm looking for is,
get out of the cold, a place to flop for the night, right?
Well, we boozed it up pretty good.
You know, one thing or another.
Anyhow, we've been shacked up ever since.
Sometimes.
Sometimes I think, honest to God,
I was better off in prison.
Were you really in prison?
Yes, ma'am, twice.
What for?
This and that.
Don't people hold it against you?
Being a convict?
Oh, yes, ma'am.
They certainly do.
Not you, though, you're different.
Mm-hm, yeah.
Well, a con gets to know things.
Who cares, who don't.
And you, you really care.
Not a mean bone in your body.
Oh, you're a con man, all right.
I thought you were wasted.
Mm?
Wait.
Wait, wait.
First, I'd better.
Yeah.
Hey, what have we got here?
Oh no, no.
No?
No.
We all carry a scar someplace.
Well, they say we're all born in sin, you know?
Mm-hm.
Yeah, lucky thing, uh?
Now, okay, now,
Now.
You have a, a very nice body.
I admire people who keep in shape.
I work out all the time.
In my neighborhood, if you didn't fight, you were a fruit.
In prison, if you didn't fight, you spread ass.
I shouldn't have drunk so much.
Hey, hey.
I'm not ready.
Damn it, I'm not ready.
Maybe it's me.
Whatever, it's not your fault, it happens.
Goddamn women.
All you've got to do is lay there.
A guy's got to do all the work.
You think that's funny?
Well, I think it's a hell of a way to start the new year.
What's the hurry, we got all night.
No, some other time.
I'll call a taxi, hey.
Hey, listen, don't go to sleep, okay, huh?
Come on.
Will you please get up?
You can't, you can't stay here,
You want to get laid, okay, later.
I want you out of here now.
No.
What, what are you trying to prove?
Prove?
Prove what?
I don't have to prove nothing to you.
You think I'm some kind of a flamin' faggot.
No,
Goddammit.
I'm married to a girl that makes you look like shit.
She's down in Florida, with a belly out to here with my kid.
Mine.
How's that for proof, you candle fucker?
Katherine!
Get off me!
Ow!
Katherine, no, no!
No!
Shut up.
No!
Shut up!
Shut up.
Please don't kill me.
I'm ready now.
That's what you want, right, bitch?
That's what it's all about, right?
Bitch.
That's what you wanted, right?
Do it!
That's what you wanted, right?
Do it, do it!
Bitch.
God, oh, God.
You want it?
Right, right?