You are the worst the doorkeeper I've seen in my life!
I don't want you to work here again. Take off your uniform.
You don't even know how to wear a uniform Someone told me that night...
You killed his appetite for my New York cream cheesecake.
Really a first-class French restaurant Don't bring a New York cream cheesecake.
Change your clothes and get out!
- I have to have money. - Money for what?
I don't pay for holidays.
You owe me money because I worked last night until 4:00 a.m., and I work tonight...
Get out of here! I call the police
I called 9-1-1. They come very fast for business!
- You can't pay me - Return where you are, in Greenwich Village.
You don't have an class to be a doorman for uptown!
And you wrote something in your book.
What did you write? all the time?
- I hope you won't grouse on me. - Joanna
I love you.
I love you too.
- Why don't you answer the phone? - Did I not answer the phone?
Alright. I come.
Our being tonight.
Why are you shaking
- What am I - Shaking. You are trembling
- Why are you trembling? - I'm not shaking You shake the phone when you call me
Well, I'm a lot shaky.
- Do you get my money? - Your money?
- You owe a lot of money! - Who are you clearly still obsessed.
Well, how long do you owe me?
I really heard your teeth Scratch together on the phone.
You owe that money since May 28. You think it's true
You owe someone like me that much money, who doesn't have a dime?
Who is scrounging, instead friction his teeth are joined to the telephone...
... because you owe him the dough?
Do you think it's worth it? You are a dog, You owe someone like me that much money.
You owe someone like me who is good money when it's very cold out...
When I'm walking around freezing Because I don't have money?
- Can I buy a cup of coffee? - No, I don't want coffee!
No! I want what happens to me? I don't want to go for a walk with a mantle.
See? I want something warm and decent
Harry, you're not shaking because I owe you that money.
- No? Why am I trembling? - Because you are out of control.
I'm not out of... Don't Jake, don't do it
You change the subject, then attack, then I psychologically disembowel.
I let you go psychologically?
- Don't do it, Jake. - Harry, you're not angry with the money.
I am clearly very disappointed with that.
You are always upset and angry, and you think it gives you rights...
usual hysterics.
- I think it's boring - You think it's boring, I brush my teeth on the phone?
Yes, right, Harry. Almost everyone has problems with their teeth.
That's not an achievement.
- Why is it so suffocating here? - Absolutely not suffocating here.
that It's thick. It's solid here.
So open a window.
- Harry, you're hysterical. - I'm not hysterical.
I'm angry.
And you only care a little about the money.
What you have in mind is whether or not, I have read your valuable new book.
That's not what... what's on my mind
Oh, alright, because I haven't read it yet.
I gave you this book a month ago, Jake. A month ago.
Where have you been for more than a month? I'm starting to worry about you.
- Why don't you read it? - But it's not in your mind.
- Why don't you read it? - Listen, let's go back to the money.
Why don't you read this book?
Because reading every new business by Harry Levine...
not everything I have to do in life.
I'll take it back. Well.
- where? - I don't know It's under something.
Listen, I'll find it and I'll read it, so relax.
- Don't make love to me, Jake. - There's nothing bad with you.
- Don't make love to my mind! - Nobody makes love to your mind.
I won't have you fucking with my mind I don't want to make love with your mind.
Things are a little busy around here.
Hekta? What is the busy way?
- Hectum, busy - What do you mean, busy?
- Do you have sittings? - There are several activities, huh.
- You have sittings. - In other words, we make money again.
- I think we - But you are not sure
- I'm sure - Are you sure?
- yes - Not why did you come?
Why did I come?
did you come to find money? Or did you read about the book?
- I'm coming. Yes. - Yes, what?
I came for something. -II... what are you...
- You are trembling again - I am not shaking - Your knees are trembling. - Your legs are trembling.
- This is your nerve, baby - This is my nerve - Calm yourself - I'm great
So, what, do you have sittings?
Alright. OK.
You want to know whether or not I've made money, right?
Good. Sit down, sit down.
Let's put this thing to rest forever.
Now, how exactly do I have to owe you?
On May 28, on my MasterCharge card...
You borrowed 500 dollars for that... That equipment right?
- if you say that - Do you argue?
Take it easy. I don't debate anything.
You say I am in debt, I am in debt. Continue. Continue.
Good.
- You get paid in July - Just relax.
This will be very complicated Financial discourse, I know.
Good. You are paid July.
- Do you want coffee? - No, no. There is no coffee You are paid July. Yes.
- No? Not? Yes? - Yes, I will drink coffee - How do you want it? - I want it with milk - I don't have it - You don't have milk?
- No, no milk - What do you have for that?
I have nothing. I drink black coffee.
- Do you have tea? - How do you want it?
- Do you drink tea? - I don't believe I did it, but I might.
- Give me coffee - very good
Good. Continue about the money.
Okay, you pay July, You pay August, September.
Twenty dollars every time plus one and a half percent interest...
on outstanding balance.
Now, for five months, from now on February, you haven't paid a dime...
So you owe me $ 440...
plus interest for five months...
which is five times $ 6.60...
or $ 33.
So owed me, all say...
$ 473, all of them.
Fork it over.
I will see the numbers, if I may.
So, uh, who made the payment for the last five months?
I have to make a payment.
- Doesn't that attract attention every month? - Indeed
- So how can I owe $ 33... - Let's cut the flower in half.
- We may need a computer. - Forget your interest We will release him.
No, I don't release it in any way.
I want to pay you what I owe you
No more, but certainly no less.
Unfortunately, I have absolutely no money.
Jake, I walked around without a penny
- Don't be dramatic. - I got $ 1.50 for my name
Hey, hey. I'm dry as a Steinbeck dust bowl.
The last leaf is fascinated. That's from O. Henry.
Sometimes he talks the way some people write.
This person I started working for last night... Is it okay if I talk?
Sure.
- He has the lowest value... - Who?
The man I started working for last night where I took photos at the nightclub...
people who have concessions
- How about him? - His name is Jacob Manheim.
He is very, very serious, but really crazy I think you will be happy to meet him.
What is the credit card limit?
The limit is $ 500.
Now, you are a mean person! Only you are owed 340, so you still have 160 to draw.
You don't think I'm up to the limit anymore?
- You say that you have sittings. - Question.
But you are too busy to read my manuscript
I have never read a vein.
- No? Have you opened it? - Not.
- I don't believe it - Why don't you believe it?
Because it's not like you. And if you want to open it, you must have finished it.
You are a little cocksure from yourself - I don't believe you haven't read it. - I haven't opened it yet I haven't read it yet. I have no money Anything else?
- Do you have sedatives? - I don't take tranquilizers.
What happens to your sedatives?
Going Tonight.
You don't swallow it at once, What are you?
No. If I do it, will I be here? asking for more?
- Ever thought of something like that? - Not.
- have you ever thought about it? - Not.
- Everyone thinks about it - Then everyone thinks...
- From time to time. - I did not commit suicide.
- So what happened to your sedative? - I opened the bottle
My hands are trembling so badly, I spilled everything into the drain.
- So go back to your doctor. - This is my dentist My grinder Says one morning I will Wake up with a mouth full of white dust.
I owe him too much.
I have to get some money.
Wait a minute. What are you doing here tonight?
Your Arrest should work Thursday, Friday and Saturday night?
- I was fired. - When?
- Tonight - Morris fired you
- Maurice, yeah - You don't do what the doorman does!
- "Do." - What?
- "Do," not "do." - don't do anything
Didn't do what you didn't do? You don't do anything
You have to bow. You must scrape it.
"Good evening sir." "Want a taxi, sir?"
"Please, sir, do I respect him? goes on my face."
"Bonsoir, madame, Bonsoir, Monsieur." That's the doorman!
- Fucking French. - What are you doing?
None.
He said I wasn't lazy enough.
I don't humble myself at all in a way that matches the doorman...
from a chic French restaurant.
- He wants me to bend over and scrape more. - He doesn't really say that
- He said it right. - You fabricated it
I didn't fabricate it. That's what he said.
There is a point in life when someone will do it no longer bends and erodes, not there?
Oh, I don't know. Is there a time when someone says, "I will no longer whine"?
Who is whining? Where were you last night? I called until 2:00 a.m.
I didn't hear anything except the usual faintly clanged in my head
- Are you dating - Dating?
Yes, you came out with a girl, spent my money Listen, if I talk so much to a girl...
He laughs and runs or runs laughing.
- Thank you. I called until 2:00 a.m. - I did not answer
- Why not? - The same reason you called There is no money.
How do you know I'm calling about money?
What else have people asked for? Certainly not offering it.
Besides that, I'm too depressed, and I don't answer the phone because...
because nobody called!
Don't persecute me I am part of shreds and patches.
- I'm a dying person - And me... what am I?
- Is this a contest of dying people? - I'm really torn and patched.
Seeing. Look at this coat. Ratty, aimlessly. I hate it.
So it's old. I can still see where it has been a coat of real difference.
Difference? This is a lap. It has never been a coat of difference.
Even at first, this is a capless coat.
- I hate that damn coat - Lift it.
- Lift! - I hate this coat!
Choose the coat! I don't want it on my floor! I rubbed the floor today.
No wonder if you drive away your woman.
You throw objects on the floor like that when are you and Joanna together?
- What's the difference? - Stop! Ooh!
How you have to be terrorized by that poor angel.
I have to wear this pesky sweater below just to keep warm
That's beautiful clothes. That's a Mexican sweater.
Now that's valuable. This is pre-Columbian.
- This is really dethreaded. - And so are you
I can't even determine how much I lost You got a credit card, a Mexican sweater. The world is at your feet.
You laze around, write a few lines...
did some conversations in the coffee shop.
I will say that you have completed everything is good enough for yourself.
What is it? I don't see anything
- Like a bag - A What?
- bag - What is it?
A bag under my eyes, okay?
That's scary. I don't know how to get rid of it.
It should have been called the Marsupial Society.
I wash my clothes.
What happened to the bag?
That's gone, I thought. I go to the supermarket.
Big bag, laundry bag, canvas bag.
- He thinks, uh... - Who thinks?
He thinks... Supermarket cashier.
- He said... - We didn't take the can until 10:00.
I said...
This is my laundry. I want to buy soap.
- He said... - We didn't redeem the cans until 10:00.
This is not a can. It's... it's my laundry I want to buy soap.
- We don't redeem the cans until 10:00. - This isn't a can.
I experienced this anger.
I looked at him. He looks at me.
Really looked at me.
I thought, "He saw his bag."
So I feel my face.
It's gone, but he stares.
Jake, that episode confused me.
I sat for a full hour afterwards...
Abingdon Square playground... felt my face, cold.
I'm sure has been a kind of damage.
As is, I think people see me.
Anyway, this woman... I entered this supermarket for years. He knows me.
I am the person who thanked everyone the person who should say thank you
This morning, he didn't know me.
I thought Washington Street could be a collector.
- Then this afternoon, on the way to Chinatown... - What?
- Forget it. - Not. What?
I just don't know if I have enough money to buy Gai-mai bao.
- What is it? - Hey, young man You are Gai-mai bao?
- Do you want to share Gai-mai bao? - Sure.
- One Gai-mai bao. - Oh, sure
- Do I only put sugar here? - I don't know Anyway, forgive me What are you saying?
It's just him... he's really kind of going down, depressed...
Gai-mai bao! No more Har Gau? No shumai No juk today?
- no, no - You're not hungry today?
- not today - Ahh.
He's upset. So what is he doing?
He has a very strict opinion from everything he reads...
and he can be very negative, spicy...
like a critic
- Do you want to meet him? - Not.
This is coconut jam bread.
How did you get it? credit card in the first place?
I don't know You live long enough
You never applied for one, and then they looked as if by magic.
You really don't have money.
Jar full of cents.
- My parents always drag hidden money. - this
Mi money, su money.
Oh, that's impressive, Jake.
A month before my mother died, He said to me, "Harry, you are 43.
" You will know before you know it. Enter a few cents.
You will be like your father. " This is great, Jake. Who knows Maybe you will make some dough with your new book.
- Thinking that has a chance? - I don't know. That's why I came here.
- I want your opinion about that - Don't rush me
As Tolstoy said, "Everything comes to him who waits."
It's okay for General Tolstoy. He has nothing but time.
- Uh oh. What - What's with your feet?
Muscle tension Oh!
I had a seizure in the middle of the night, almost made me scream.
- Hmm. - I don't know what I will do if I don't get some money.
You don't understand What did I not get?
You don't get me 42 and I don't have anything...
and I have never had anything...
and every time I wake up, I think...
"I will be exactly what it is. My sister tells me about my father."
- What did he say? - "Nothing but a long failure record."
She's a fool.
My brother. Oh, my God. How nervous.
- Oh, please. Don't start with your sister right now. - Why don't I have to start?
All combined and wretched prophets heart disease and stroke...
only to support Vile sense of art and aesthetics.
Not a penny to feed my talent. Not that I also want it.
- This is just a thought. - Forget about him, right? Will you let go?
- what do you get here - Hey, don't go in there
- I'm only Ohh! Jake. - Nothing there There is only... Please.
Please, stay there, huh, Harry?
Until the day they die, My parents are proud of me as a writer.
They will brag to anyone who wants to listen I am a writer.
Unlike my brother, who suffered for me, Because of what? I am not a winner.
- Let him go! - He did not let me go.
He came and he cried.
Real tears.
He came to my room, he said...
"When I think of the way You must live...
" without home, house, furniture...
"I woke up all night, crying, thinking about you again...
into this dark and quiet room without furniture "
I don't know I don't have furniture until he tells me
You think he will cough up a chair or something.
Maybe he can't cough seat or something
Maybe a chair or something A stick in his throat. Maybe he also went bankrupt.
She's a heart surgeon.
He gave his heart to science.
Why don't you leave the poor person calmly? So he has a few dollars.
So he didn't read New York Review of Books.
What an amazing idea...
someone's relatives should support a person's aesthetics.
And financially support. Even more extraordinary.
He behaves the same as my father, and the old man is not an artist.
Please, don't go about things You don't know.
- Why don't you finish the coffee and go home? - I don't want to go home.
"I don't want to go home."
Don't you have a support system somewhere?
What does that mean? I hear it constantly.
"Support system." I do not understand. What does it mean?
Meaning, don't you have someone? the ball you can break...
because your friend doesn't want you to break it?
- What friend? - Did you read the Times today?
- Only comics. - Armand Gottlieb won the National Book Award.
I can't finish it.
Hey, don't do it! You want to blow us up Why don't you put some of them 8-10 on the envelope?
Armand Gottlieb saves an award-winning company
What does that mean?
Gottlieb is a total fraud.
He stole the front story from Balzac, story back from Conrad...
He won everything that was seen, but everything he saw stole.
Who knows that?
I do
What do you want to do, sit here all night? Because you can't.
I was wiped out.
I'm tired from fatigue.
What does it mean when you can't fall asleep?
Severe depression.
- when do you wake up? - Severe anxiety
- What medicine? - Death
- Something less exotic. - Doesn't sound exotic to me.
- Let's drink coffee. - Why, Harry?
Because we are young, it is a village, we are happy, we fall in love
Are we, Jake?
Want to take a trip to Chinatown?
- Chinatown? No, I'm obviously not. - Why not?
Because it's 1:30 in the morning.
Because it's February. Because it's cold outside.
Because I don't like Chinatown. Because we don't have money.
This is fast. This is a good way.
Come on. We will drink coffee with milk. We have enough money for that.
You don't need coffee, Chinese or vice versa. Give me that cup.
- Look at you. - The worst coffee I've ever had.
You are trembling, trembling. You need to be beaten, not provoked.
- Chinese coffee calms me down. - Oh, Please.
I once drank a cup of java there. Anything but makes me calm.
My stomach has been experiencing flip-flops for days.
You must be in the border area. What way are you?
Road? What? Who knows? Chinatown... sour.
You must be in the border area.
I don't read maps. What I know is me You could open the drain with the items.
That's the point. If the coffee contains acid, You cannot be in Chinatown.
You are clearly in the border area.
Some Chinese just sit around joints. The Greeks run it.
- Do you know that for a fact? - Yes.
- How? - Chinese worship their stomachs and everything they put in them.
When it comes to coffee, it's fresh.
- Oh, I understand They grind it from beans. - That's pretentious.
Only those who use the best nuts.
And it's brewed fresh, only in Silex pots.
Glass, there's never a jar.
Do you know the final touch?
Ketchup.
Cream.
real cream Some places, not many... half and half.
That's as far as they will go down.
But most places? Cream. Throw the whole quart on you Does it give a ride?
No, for me Chinese people are not runaway entertainment
They are crammed into sweatshops...
and unclear poverty
They must be depressed and depressed. This makes me depressed.
They have hope. They inspired me. I admire them, really.
You don't. You feel superior to them. Isn't that it?
- No matter how broken you are. - nonsense
- I like their enthusiasm - Please.
So you have a wrapper for this money?
There are paper bags around here somewhere.
No, I don't want to take a walk with a paper bag full of cents.
Who will see you? It's 1:30 in the morning.
I'll see me Others are... This is New York at 1.30.
I don't want a bag I think you should go, Harry.
- Why? What is the rush - I have customers who come. I sit down.
- At this hour? - She's a bit late - what time is it due? - 6:00.
- It's almost 2:00. - She's an actress.
He works in Jersey as a go-go dancer while he perfects his theater hysteria.
Have you been waiting here for him since 6:00?
- That's right - Doing what?
- Readings. - Readings.
But you are hesitant in reading veins, I think.
One does not need to read the vein for Tolstoy's Letters.
Tolstoy puts civilized people in blood vessels.
Am I confused you?
You have that capacity, huh.
- I met two of your friends the other day. - I feel very doubtful.
Two Irvings. Your boss is from the club, remember?
They ask how are you in theatrical photography.
They want me to reopen the concession.
Listen, someone is asking how I am, You said that I did very well...
I like theatrical photography...
and I will never be interested again night card ownership concessions.
Why not? At least you have a place to go, people to see, besides me
For 30 years I lived in a nightclub hell.
Is this supposed to happen? shit photo?
My grandmother took a better picture with Brownie!
I finally got up.
Do you know Sarah, belly dancer?
He told the two Irvings he came here to be photographed...
and you complain all during the session.
Because he killed me - Stop moaning. - Stop belching
I pay I can belch
I got too much falafel last night.
And I pay for it tonight.
That's it. Place your cloth. Session complete.
Wow, do I have a stomach full of you?
- He said the phone rang, you answered... - house of death Because he killed me!
Jake, when was the last time Do you have a customer?
I mean, someone who really shows up...
other than Sarah
Two months ago.
And since you left the club six months ago to enter theatrical photography...
how many customers have you been at all?
Four.
- But you like these people, this shows people. - I hate them Oh, I think you like them.
- I hate them - really?
At worst, nightclub customers are just drunk and vomiting...
but actors and actresses!
Amazing!
You split my heart with your Elizabeth tragedy!
I can really see open graves.
Now let me hear it open. Speak to me, Hamlet. Speaking!
To be or...
not to be.
Ah, bravo, noble prince! Bravo!
Now dagger. Take it up to your heart. There he is.
Now press the deeper point.
Deeper Deeper
Sometimes I really dream of slipping chisel...
under screening their choppers and removing them one by one.
How did they come with this? unforgiving enthusiasm for misery?
Grace, dear Arert you even a little nervous
- I just do the mask. - Only the mask?
What is a Greek tragedy? without mask?
He went bankrupt. He is all singing. He just hid it well.
How your work develops, I'm sure they will be truly noble.
I just want to present the game.
Dear, you are on the doorstep an artistic breakthrough I can feel it.
- I told Jake... - Do you have magnolia juice?
He has never been to a plantation.
Jake, why are they using it? is that mask?
They are visual aids, and also they contain a kind of sound box...
so the audience of up to 10,000 can see and hear.
This theater really only applies to...
- Thirty people, I guess. - Thirty.
- So what is this production? - pretensions
It's about giving artists like Joanna, You know, there is a chance to do things.
- Easy there, Hotspur. We know you love him. - Yeah, good
- Your lover wants to swing me. - Shhh.
You are a citizen of Cadmus!
He must speak at home, that on board prow...
watching shows...
and steering guide!
- Why is he screaming? - Hush, honey I like your mask.
Prince of the Cadmaeans, I, a messenger...
came carrying a clear word from the army affairs there.
I myself have also seen the things I'm talking about.
O Zeus and Earth and God who guard the city...
my father's curse, great evil spirit!
This killed my eardrum. This is all a mistake of rock and roll.
- Your mask is very beautiful. - They are amazing They are amazing.
The choir of the Theban woman must be heard.
- Not by me - My sadness is very big and scary...
Therefore, I cried loudly.
The army has left the camp and is gone!
- Me too. - I think they're just trying to be authentic.
I know. I like your mask They are great, really.
He will take it costume picture after the show
Look at the heavy river, a big wave of horsemen.
- I will be at the Acropolis, a restaurant round the corner. - shh!
O misery!
Maybe you prefer them if more of them come
Yes, of course.
I need bigger ads. I have to increase my price.
Jake, I think you should learn a little something about theatrical photography first.
Hey, guys, don't get a hat high on me. This is America.
- You are what you say you are. - OK
Uh, don't give me "alright." You are what you say you are.
You must learn that too because You really die the wrong bat.
Oh really? How?
You think a writer only writes, and that's naive nonsense.
The main activity of the writer is promoting
no Look at Norman Mailer.
You roam in Chinatown. Who will see you? Not even Chinese people.
- That's how I like it. - Get your hands on some money.
- money - Then promote yourself, and the rest will follow.
And I mean real money, is not a little money that I owe you.
Look, you can't sleep in bohemia and go to the real world.
It doesn't work like that. And don't give me that blank stare!
There is real money out there for you. I wish I could say the same thing.
- really? - Yeah, big money practically looks at your face.
Have you ever seen your love lost lately?
No, why is that?
What did Joanna take with her? When did he run out of you?
Joanna... alright At least wait for your key.
None.
- I don't want the key. - Wait a minute. Wait. Here. You will be in the neighborhood.
- Then I'll call you - Joanna, just take the key.
- You will need it - How will I need them?
You will meet another sweet thing.
- No. - Joanna Jo...
Guilt. He runs away with guilt...
which is one step removed from the gelt.
What do you suggest? I cheat money guilty from Joanna?
Now, you have to make a dishonorable business.
- can you - Sure.
- Sure? - Harry, you sit in a very high moral field.
I'm just trying to get along.
Well, why not? extorted money from Mavis?
You like to tell how much he is loaded. Why don't you extort from him?
Mavis is, yes, very rich.
Unfortunately, he did not begin to appreciate the concept of "guilt."
Maybe it's because you left it.
- There is another guild, Harry. - Is it true?
He just didn't take the signal, and I gave it to him.
Endlessly telling him that he is guilty.
- From what? - What is the difference? No problem.
The important thing is there are no real results.
And I have to sleep with him for a poor C note.
He gave you a hundred to sleep with him I found it in my pocket on the way home, along with chocolate caramel.
But it's not easy money, I guarantee.
And more than that, I have to go back.
- Jake, do you want to get a divorce? - Not.
- Do you want to move back? - Not.
Do you still love me?
I don't know what you mean with that question
- How much did he scream? - Stop peeping. Many
- Only you will not enter to get it. - Me, aren't you horde?
Why? Because it's a compromise?
Well, this is a compromise I'm not ready to make it.
Not that I'm against compromise per se, but...
I am against compromise per se.
Once you start, You must turn into phlegm.
- Where did you hear that? - What?
The "phlegm" business. You heard it from me.
I did it? When?
A few years ago. That's something I said a lot two years ago.
- You stole it from me - I stole your phlegm business.
- get out of my mouth - do you want it back?
- Yes, exactly. I want it back. - I have used it.
But you have no right to use it.
This is not at all the public domain.
My words are my words, always!
They are not free for random manipulation...
and tacky circulation!
In other words, there is no season open to my words!
No more!
You're very upset, Manheim.
I will not use that expression again.
Listen, uh, I don't know how to do it...
without looking too painful...
which I don't tend to be...
but, uh...
I think I should tell you frankly what I think about your new job
Sure. Why not?
- It doesn't satisfy me - But you haven't read it yet
I gave Jake the two books.
He compared them to the first two books of Nathanael West.
He didn't enter it, but...
he wants you to read two short stories he wrote when he was a child.
I think the time has come for you to try another.
- Do you have a suggestion? - About what?
- About the book - About your new book, I don't have a suggestion.
Then why did you say it? "try something else"?
- I mean exactly what I said - You mean try another book?
I mean, try another one.
- try what - Harry, it's almost 2:00 in the morning.
I haven't paid my rent in three months.
Landlords are waiting for me with stones and sling.
- I can't afford to have you here kicking in a row. - Don't make love to my mind!
- what will you have - Uh, double espresso.
Whoa! Are you not brave? I will drink American coffee.
We don't drink American coffee. This is Caf Dante.
Oh, this is Caf Dante.
Do you have anything? like Caf Americano?
- Cream shake? - Whipped? No, I think light discipline will be done.
You understand Not one of your shelters, this place.
No, I really for one armed Greek visitor.
But your woman said you like it here.
- I like the painting. - Ahh.
Dante when he first saw Beatrice.
But you noticed, He looked at the two dames.
It only looks like that.
- Yeah, he checked them both out. - No, not for me What are you doing, City College of New York?
Not going to college No.
- Oh, I'm really nervous now - Not really?
Harry, I like your first two books. You know that.
I mean, they're sharp, flinty, crazy in all the right ways
And like workers. You are a worker, so you deserve a break.
But I can't give you this nod.
me - messy Everything is washed away.
This failed completely.
Why? Why?
- Joanna says you work day and night - I'm not too good.
Hmm. Why isn't it more like Trollope?
- Anthony Trollope? - Yeah.
Trollope wrote more words in his life than all the other English writers put together.
This is his unwavering routine.
7:00 to 11:00 every morning, he works without rest.
Then the rest of the day, he had fun.
I really like both, uh, the story that you gave Joanna Oh, just autobiography.
No, II really... The writing is amazing.
My writing is always beautiful. It's just not enough.
That is why I still take it dispeptic pictures in insolent nightclubs.
- So what else did you write? - There is no.
Nothing?
You wrote those two stories when you were young... boy, right?
Yes, I have been a little from a block since then.
Harry, pull the zinger.
- I tell you as a friend. - What?
Zinger, poison arrow.
Look at it sticking out of you a mile away. That's why you can't write or think.
I don't know what happened you talked about.
Your love is dear... he put it on you, and now you are stuck with it.
- Get rid of it. - Why are you lying... about reading a book?
Are you in any form when you walk here to handle anything?
- When did you read it? - I read it, I read it. Does that matter when?
I don't know Maybe.
Maybe not.
Can you say something to me? Speak to me honestly about that.
This is full of chaos. This seeps disease.
That's very helpful.
So, uh, not much has happened with those two books?
Well, last week I was on the Strand.
You know, a nine mile book.
The largest collection in the world from books that are not printed?
They don't know me Want to know if Harry Levine is a living writer.
- Listen, do you mind if I'm honest? - Not.
I think your job might be a little more personal.
- well... - That's really your type of writer, you know.
- You're right - After all, this is what made Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe.
This is clearly Hemingway's attraction.
Not appreciation of forgiveness to Gertrude Stein's dilettante maunderings
And that's what ultimately changed the table for Nathanael West...
and, without a doubt, Henry Miller.
I wrote in the first person.
Now, that's a style decision.
Do you mind if I'm a little pushy?
Harry, the answer to love is love.
- Pull out zinger - I don't have zinger inside me
- Have you ever met a woman? - A few knockouts per day
- I don't see that proof. - I met a woman, Jake.
- I don't see that proof. - Well, I found them.
They usually say something that turns me off Like he never heard from Theodore Dreiser?
No. Usually a few cracks about how small my room is.
- What Joanna never cared about. - No, he adores it.
You are just a grouse.
I'm not a grouse. Do you know that grouse is a bird? I'm a grouser.
Well, stop it. I think this place is great.
You know, it's not small, it's comfortable.
- I can do amazing things with that. - Like what?
- I can paint it - Yeah.
- Yes, paint the ceiling - That's the beginning.
Can paint the floor.
- Paint the floor? - The paint is yellow.
- The paint is yellow? - Yes, like van Gogh's painting that you really like.
He likes it. He used to say, "We have a beautiful life."
We have a beautiful life.
Anyway, for him it's a room he passed.
For you it is a closet that is nailed.
Our little cave.
Speaking of court news, right? Who is on, who is out
How did it go from King Lear...
when he talked to Cordelia, his daughter?
Like two creatures in a cage gilded with gold will say about what the world is...
and things like that.
How are you? This is a cookbook.
- I'm getting older - Poor baby.
Most men my age are experiencing Their first heart attack.
They start reducing.
You don't need to worry about heart disease. You have never eaten well enough.
Harry likes cream cheese and turnip sandwiches on white bread.
- Oh, honey! - This city, this wretched metropolitan city looks like you like it.
- It feeds me - It feeds you.
To all of us, and it comes out of attraction...
that doesn't fertilize anything at all.
- But there is a place. - really Where?
You know what you can still with three dollars a week...
- in some parts of Central America? - Not.
You can buy a 12-year-old certified virgin...
who will cook for you, clean for you, respect you...
meets all your erotic needs.
Yes, there are still truly civilized places in the world.
- Do I hear "Central America"? - Not.
He went there two years ago, lived for two days.
The heat is unbearable and what is called cuisine is under humiliation.
- Oh, oh, oh! Do you see that house? - Yeah.
That is the house where, supposedly...
- Booth planned the murder of Lincoln. - grace
- I'm sick. - Is it true?
A terrible pain.
- Where? - Forget it.
No, please, tell me Where?
You really want to know
I sit in a chair, and I can swear there are tactics...
fiery tactics, sticking to my ass.
As if someone took a tactic, grilled it hot red...
and put it on the chair so I can sit on it.
This is like a shot that climbs me.
Like a shot.
It feels like a shot up my body.
Like a shot went over me.
But I don't think it's a heart attack.
Or I'm out on the road, walking.
My leg starts cramping in the back, just above the knee...
like an attractive visa.
I can't walk. I will go to the doctor if I can afford it.
But I know it's nothing. You think it's nothing
Do you think that's something? What do you think? Be honest.
You don't mind me being honest?
- No. - Some people know it.
Generally, I don't mind.
- Who is your first book about, your father? - My uncle is actually.
An event in his life.
- And the second is your brother. - No, actually, he's my friend.
A close friend of mine.
And next?
I was thinking about this political matter it was on my mind Apolitic objects? Write a letter to the Times instead.
Then sit down and write a memoir to the third person about you...
and about all the people you love and hate.
Don't be ashamed of the poison.
That's what I will do if I become you, The lucky one for you, I don't.
Joanna said that you have taken some photos of extraordinary parents - very old people - Jews without money There are some, you know.
- I've heard - So, uh, are you two going to get married?
I don't know Maybe.
- I need a bigger place. - Why?
That sounds fun, from what he said to me.
- Beloved. Beloved. - Hah?
Do you think you might be able to adjust, like, do, uh, maybe two chips are less...
per every 15-second interval?
Your behavior when he left is really crazy.
I have to tell you, I'm seriously considering it trying to make you commit.
- I am heartbroken. - Don't give me an alibi.
How many times have I found you sitting in Sheridan Square Park turn off your eyes?
Once.
How many times have you stumbled into me dark room at the club 2:00 in the morning...
tears run down your face Once. Twice.
Twice too often Not fair to me too.
There are only so many friends who should be expected to survive for friends.
But you don't see beyond your own needs.
You really have cruelty in you.
Maybe why Joanna left you.
- Do you have five tables? - Just come out of the dryer.
Give me a hand Are you, uh... do you want to drink when we close?
What about our child? Where is she?
I don't know Home, I guess.
You are sure he will not mind you stepping out with me Maybe he should, uh, live alone.
That's what I keep thinking. What do you think?
Well, it might solve your problem, but it won't solve it.
- What do you mean? - He has a well-placed agent.
He sells several books. He is making good progress.
Someone printed it. These things happen.
But it doesn't seem to happen again.
What I'm saying is, he might won't be happier...
that brings us back to you.
- Why? - Why? You know why.
Smile, I know, is your weapon of choice...
and I don't think anyone has the right to take it from you.
I have never been cruel.
I'm angry, huh...
because living a penny in Greenwich Village at the age of 42...
Not my romance idea and joy.
One winter he wore a coat so it beat fast, he had to put it in three parts.
He likes it. I don't like it.
For me, La Boh me is just another opera at Lincoln Center I was unable to see.
Hey, come on, wait! I do not mean evil.
- I know. - Am I a bad person?
Just because I say something that makes you angry, It doesn't make me a bad person.
- No. - But I always edge all the time.
I am afraid to speak because I never know when you will explode
Come here You know, Joanna...
Told me that day F. Scott Fitzgerald died...
only 40 copies of the book were sold...
while today Gatsby alone sells 300,000 one year does not make me feel good.
I just meant to spend time working on everything, and I just...
I took the wrong example for what I wanted to say.
Why are you wearing that coat?
I mean, why do you insist? wearing that coat?
- We can't afford it... - I'm sure I can sew it better.
Yes, well, the point is, He is not happy, and now he is happy.
Guy he is with is a palooka.
In essence, you two can't do each other...
and he made a connection with him well, palooka or not...
I think because he loves her.
You don't know that
- He is with him - You don't know that he loves him.
- He is with him - He is not honest with him.
Come on. Stop being like ingenue.
He wants it. Let him go.
Made believes he doesn't have a penny Because he knows...
it will work on romantic sympathy.
Yes, so he moved with him, and it turns out he has a few dollars.
- Millions. - He doesn't have millions.
He has hundreds of thousands, has hidden shares, apartments.
I warned him. He managed to drive him to become a big romantic loser.
He doesn't. He is fake. He is the winner of with money and a penthouse.
So! And he lives with him. How stupid.
He can still be in the room without air with you always raging at him.
I have nothing, and I have never had anything!
- I'm not always angry with him. - You are very angry with him.
Hi honey.
It's really busy tonight.
New students Girls with nuts in their hair.
Jake said that he started a new story.
You're embarrassing it I'm looking for some notes on an envelope...
so I can't find it.
I like what you do my paintings at the exhibition
Everything was tightly squeezed.
Yes. I can make some interesting boxes
I think that might be a good idea.
I can move.
There is a residence on 11th Street for unmarried women...
small ballet dancers, things like that.
And come and see.
Why do we have sheets in the window?
Because, my darling, that old curtain You have fallen apart.
So you throw it away, put up sheets?
Why do we have to have an sheet in the window?
You know what happened to me...
have sheets on the window?
Others have nuances. They have curtains.
I have sheets!
Do you understand what makes me feel?
I am not one of those special bad boys from Westchester...
who think life is down and out in Greenwich Village is indeed cool!
No, I'm an adult!
- I don't understand - You never did it I don't think. Tomorrow I can go and buy some nice shades worth five dollars.
- You don't understand - Yes, I do.
- No. - I really.
I don't think so.
I'm not always angry with him. Fuck, Don't wipe me about Joanna like that.
Am I giving you about Mavis?
- Do I rub your nose in it? And I can. - You can't.
- I won't - You can't, boychik, because I'm in control.
- From who? - from myself.
Do you think I'll let Mavis do it to me? What did Joanna do to you?
Just last week he was here with one of his horrible dinner dinners.
I pinned it to the chair for four solid hours.
I spilled a lot of abuse on him ... so heavy and so endless...
finally he has to crawl out the door on all fours.
And I have never repeated a word. And he deserves it, you know?
He always starts this little truth delivery session...
But I finished it, friend.
I feed him for the heat and lots.
I constantly hit it with...
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
- From what? - He ruined my life Did he destroy your life?
Hah. You think I must be that year-old nightclub photographer...
is that for him?
I'm definitely a writer.
- I mean, I'm a writer, but I definitely... - Professional writer.
Yes, exactly.
The problem is, even if you have the coins needed...
actually there is no place to go, there?
- well... - come on. Let's face it, kid.
Everywhere you go, you've already
Every door you rap is the one you just left.
These are all the same stale hashes.
- well... - What is life like?
What is it, after all? You throw and turn.
You scratch and wheeze a little, then one The morning you wake up dies, if you're lucky.
- well... - So what's the point, huh?
I mean, it's of no use.
And if there's no use, and there Actually no, then what's the point?
- alright - Oh, you see this house?
Hart Crane lives in that house...
just before he killed himself.
Before he killed himself.
Jake, you are the brightest...
You are certainly the most learned person I once knew You are not a writer.
I'm sorry to say this. It really hurts me to say it.
You are a photographer, which is amazing if you want to be.
But two six-page stories don't make a writer
- Two issues published. - 19. Nothing.
Because he sucked my life, dried me dry Bringing me to the whole world Moving, moving all the time.
Round the party endlessly. Ships, trains, airplanes.
Makes me unable to move now...
artistic or physical.
And you like it. The way you and Mavis live in it...
You often tell me about cars, apartments...
clothes that are tailored to taste, travel anywhere
Okay good. You have it You enjoy it. Great.
But now these wild wrinkles are you I could be a writer if only.
Jake, never Can never be a writer.
Have you ever lived like me? For years, being a writer, Jake?
Oh, that's how it is. No?
- You have to think about it - Magic, secret and hidden words.
Say, and duck down.
- You mean, I won't suffer? - No, I didn't mean that.
Yes, you did You mean exactly.
You mean I won't have it is subject to your badge...
goodness badges from bohemian starvation old writer Greenwich Village...
- Yes. - Who, by the way, is at least 40 years old...
and who is still the only big hero tragically very small.
Jake, do you want to write? There is a typewriter.
Turn it on.
That's what caused it to go down.
That's easy.
What if I finally clear the air...
and say exactly what I think about this from your new book?
What?
I think it's a warning...
a warning that you are sick, beaten and ready to go right on the edge...
That's why, as your friend, I advise you...
Submit this game. Just throw it away and find new ones while you still can.
Because you can't... will never succeed in this market.
Are you serious about saying it I have no talent No, I say something far worse.
You don't have money, and you don't have money for so long...
it has greatly influenced your mind.
This has made a hash from your soul...
that's why your love for women can to get to you is very toxic.
The book you wrote is a terrible proof.
I don't say these things happily.
Look... Look at your shoelace.
I have a shoelace.
Yes, but look at them.
Beaten, desperate, tearing itself up with utmost despair...
and embarrassing fatigue.
I tie broken pieces together because...
Because this is a big crisis to buy a new partner.
Because you can't face the realization that even a new pair of shoelaces...
shopping comparison!
You said I look like a man's bag.
Who says you look like a man's bag?
This afternoon, on the way to Chinatown...
- I was thrown against the wall... - Fight against the wall!
With five plainclothes police...
then dragged to the police station...
like a part of Times Square that is a bastard...
because, it turns out...
I look like horror...
who killed five people in Queens.
Showing photos to me.
"Type of meaning," I said.
"Means?" This cop said to me.
He is practically a subhuman, and you are his twin.
Jake, this person is the meanest, seediest...
the most critical creature I've seen.
I said yes, after I left there, I started looking in the mirror.
I passed the mirror I didn't know there was.
I arrived home, I started looking for in every mirror in my house
But the mirror is lying, isn't it?
Whoever sees himself in the mirror?
Pictures, they don't lie.
- The camera tells everything. - That's what I thought.
So I went to the middle of the city, one of them was a penny arcade...
where everything costs one and a half dollars.
Enter the photo booth there.
You turn the stool to the right height, The flash continues and you die.
Taking my picture for hours.
Change my hair different ways...
see what will be done.
People at arcade think I was really crazy...
who really said something, when you consider where I am.
I got half a dollar. I can't go home.
So I started walking in the city.
At least you will go up. Right?
Strips and these strands the horrible faceless photo I just took...
out of my pocket.
Have you been in town lately, Jake? Have you ever seen it?
- What happened? - 80s, Harry.
That's what happened.
Hundreds and hundreds of from this crafty cafe...
and extensive restaurants...
fully filled with this bright-eyed young person...
living a high life, laughing, feeling beautiful...
eating salad...
and saw me looking inside...
like me is something that crawls from a half-opened can.
So I started walking downtown.
I thought the way would calm me down.
I arrived home, I was trembling.
Jake, I'm trembling.
My whole body trembles so badly I have to lie down.
Then I wake up...
go to work and get fired...
because it doesn't bend and scratch enough.
I mean, what am I, a monkey?
But this person...
in police photos...
I mean, he really has the appearance of subhuman
Whatever it means.
I should be his twin.
Could something like that develop, you think?
I mean...
What happened to me, Jake?
What happened is, You will be 50 before you know it...
and you know it.
You won't have a penny, and you know it.
It would be like Mama said... like Pop...
and you know that!
And that's what's on your face.
- How much money do you need? - More!
The truth is, you are getting older.
I'm old.
In 10 years you will really grow older, and maybe I will be five years old.
I don't know.
Many important artists don't arrive later.
Yes, Europeans.
And one American... Grandma Musa.
You should go to college, get a degree
At least, you can teach something, Even if you don't know anything.
I always think that business has something to fall back on...
shows a little obsession.
Listen, it might not be too late to change, try something else.
Try advertising
I hate advertising.
Bunch of trendy fucks in running clothes...
spread disease and dementia.
- Someone has to do it - Not me!
Besides that, I have already done it. I tried to enter. They did not allow me to enter.
I'm too old for them.
What about the television drama that afternoon? What is the age limit of the author?
You need real deep charges that. It takes years to develop.
What about Hollywood? There are many gray wonders out there.
Hollywood? You can't grow old out there unless you are young out there.
- Besides that, I don't have r sum. - There is no r sum?
You have published two remaining novels, even though they cannot be found...
a collection of stories, several fellowships.
And you've worked in 29 restaurants.
You know, everything I really want to do writes what is in my heart What is an inappropriate idea...
especially at your age.
If writing what is in your heart means writes your heart for nothing...
What do you want to be in 10 years, Harry?
One of them is autodidact Greenwich Village dishwasher
Some pearl divers on Bleecker Street with your hands in boiling hot water...
while you mouth off about Shaw and Proust?
This is a possibility, you know.
Out there, looms in the distance
Try another one! Anything!
You don't think my book can make dough, right?
The whole scene is barren and pedestrian...
ensemble of players, uh...
monumental collection of being bored unbearable
I think they are colorful.
original, maybe. Reproduction is washed and dull.
Not... Not even the two main characters.
No, you are right. I am wrong.
Your two main inventions are not boring They, however, are even more artistic than others.
- In what way? - That they are unreasonable, not real...
and totally contrary to nature.
Show me Give me an example where there is something in the book...
extraordinary or whatever you say... goes against nature.
The character of Abraham Singer, for example.
He doesn't have reality in everything.
He is a truly unique character, But he is a real character.
He is luxurious and high-fussy and unimaginably childish.
I mean, this is supposed to be a 50 year old man?
How is it? Like not 50 years I've met.
- He has a certain... - And the sidekick!
Mr. Frankel is cretin!
This should have happened a 44 year old man?
He speaks, behaves like a 44-month-old defender.
Do you really believe this book really works?
- I think it works, huh. - I do not see it.
Two characters You should be based on us...
they are just like that phenomenal laughable!
Well, I didn't see it at all like that, Jake.
Singer, my shadow, There is no end to his oral pretensions.
Ohh, let me have it, Jake.
Like breathing, hairy prose is just a problem from him
- I want my book back - What makes you think you can get away with it?
- It works. - What makes you... - It works.
Doesn't work!
I mean, this person really like that expands, blows, complains...
endlessly breathing, postprandial fart!
A- Do I like that?
Who knows? Maybe me too. I don't know
A- And this other nitwit... your character.
What a way. Once poured and clear.
"We sit in a bagel cafe...
" talking about art and literature...
"Henry Miller and Anais Nin in Paris.
"We started chewing each other's fingers...
" and through their fingers, through cream cheese...
I can feel his body temperature rising. "
What is that? Is that art? Is that sex?
Is it halal cuisine, or home call?
Are you not shy?
Do you know, I really think, Jake...
that you will, uh...
- What? - Touched by both of us.
Even amused. Glad.
You trapped me as a couple of arrogant, coffee- fake house...
some gas and insult failure...
and you think I'll be touched, amused, happy?
Well, I don't see it like that, so it's possible, uh...
You don't see it that way because it will require a little empathy.
You say that I don't have empathy?
You are a pathological hypochondriac...
meaning, you really and really obsessed yourself.
I am not pathological.
You might be without parallel in the Encyclopedia of Abnormal Psychology.
- not true - Not true?
What about your time almost drives me crazy for a month...
worry whether you will die because your father has high blood pressure.
Get out and buy the ridiculous blood pressure machine...
take your blood pressure overnight to above normal.
Then you came here the next day spots on your arms from the cuff...
and think it's a kind of red gangrene.
- My father did experience high blood pressure. - When he was 82 years old!
A-A-And the knuckle cancer?
- Cancer? - Ehhh
We spent the whole weekend looking for for knuckle specialists... a "knuckelist"?
Oh, oh, oh, and palm cancer?
- Keep on growing - That's callus!
Jesus Christ, if I have a 10/10 date from your physical stamina...
I will rise above every obstacle to become a great novelist.
- Transfer alibi - Alibi? Ali...
Tolstoy, at the age of 80, can run a mile in full clip
- It's there in letters. - OK
There is no muscleless art.
There's nothing wrong with your health, Jake.
I'm dying at my feet.
I rot in my socks.
And you, you... you are perfect. You're perfect.
You walk through the streets...
dragging you around like some haunted shadow characters...
from some Dostoyevskian netherworld
But it's all fake romantic poses.
Empathy? Your own brother, when he read this book, he will never talk to you again.
And you don't care.
- He will handle it - And will I?
I wish I said I would do it never talked to you again
I can't imagine it.
It never occurred to you that I might feel...
slandered, broken, betrayed?
Jake, you know from the start this book shows our lives.
You forever ask me...
- So, how did the book come from? - What book is that, baby
Oh, he wrote Valentine for both of us
I'm sorry, my darling I don't understand that.
This is a little jokey novel with a partner type of Greenwich Village that is crazy.
- Based on you two? - Well, so he claims, but he will never catch me really.
Is this one of the your funnier attempts?
Uh, well, maybe. I hope so.
I'm in it
I am a struggling artist who lives with his girlfriend, a writer who is very struggling.
really? Have you seen it?
- I've seen it write it. - And I.
- Am I in it - Uh...
Can be set.
- Oh, I want to be in it Please! - Well.
Harry, how do you describe me?
Now, how are you? Want to be photographed, mav?
As your anchor
Uh, make my weight.
But I never dreamed... I mean...
What?
The things you say, the things you quote...
things that don't have a license, no rights to quote...
Like what?
Personal items about my mother and my father...
that sad Bronx apartment...
a disease that I suffered as a child and the sign they left me later...
the whole part My mother screamed in pain...
like, night after night, my dad loves him...
the whole embarrassing thing when he threw my book out the window.
My books.
How should I leave school at 15, the school that I love so much...
going to work in the dark Copa room...
makes more money in a week than my parents.
The things I say to you in... are passing...
on... personally.
I mean, how do you even remember Those things really are?
I have talent for that kind of thing.
You have talent.
You have the talent to become a palace stenographer.
You stole my life How do I steal your li... How can someone do that I-I don't understand.
I don't know How do you do it? What, do you use wire?
Are you connected now? Do I read everything? I say tonight in your next draft?
How can I steal? What really happened?
You're a hypocritical hypocrite I can squeeze your fucking neck!
You will throw anyone and everyone into the dog to make money quickly.
No no There are two motives here.
The first is fast profits. The second is to punish everyone...
What are all these "business" advantages? What are you talking about?
Nobody reads that damn thing except you.
We don't know who the person is will publish it now, right?
When a writer cleverly squeezes it nonsense like this...
there is always someone who will hurry to put it on paper
Obscene. How do you feel sorry for?
You have Greenwich Village sex and chaos...
intimate and devastating family relations...
And... and more Greenwich Village sex and chaos.
- And? - And nothing. You know what you write.
Do you say you think I can make money with this book?
Well, there's always a possibility.
- How much? - Eight million dollars.
What am I, prophecy at Delphi?
So you said that you thought I might have it really wrote a popular book here?
So of course there is a possibility of popularity.
So, why do I have to enter the ad...
to continue winding in Greenwich Village dishwasher, Bleecker Street pearl diver?
Why?
- I want you to draw this book. - Oh, that's good talk.
Pull out of what? Of whom?
From a fight.
This is not debated.
But you think only a few cents You will make from this...
Will make up for all the pain Will it cause it to come out?
Pain?
I'm taking a walk with $ 1.50 for my name, Jake.
- No, there are other concerns. - To others, of course.
Look, what I'm saying is just waiting a little more to be successful.
But I walked around with $ 1.50!
You have survived all this time. You can last a little longer.
For the last, what's up, one hour and a half...
is to stop everything and go after money.
- But it's not like this. - nothing like
Not... cynical!
Oh. I have to go to advertising.
Jake, you really took a breath.
I mean, with all your heart you believe there is only one way to make money.
- Oh? Oh? What is that? - Any way.
- No. I did not subscribe to it. - Why? Because of principle?
- Exactly. - But you don't have principles. Where are they?
- And what do you do? You tried to persuade me not to do it. - Because of the damage you will do.
Oh, you liar, Jake!
- A li... - I never knew about you, that you really are a liar!
but I believe everything you say has weight and is honest.
But you lie, Jake. You lie.
You lied tonight You lied about what You thought maybe my book might be.
You lie about reading it.
Besides other things... other things... it's bad writing!
- Maybe this is the best thing I will write, Jake. - But it's not good!
The work is bad, that's all.
- I like that. - Sure, you like it. You think you will make money with it.
No, no I like the book.
I like what this is. I like the people in it.
Even people I don't love, I love, but not as much as people I love.
And you think you will make money with it!
No, you think I'll make money with it!
I hope I make money with that. I will enjoy making money with it I don't go to m...
And what's the difference, However, if I do it?
This means that you have done it intentionally departing to benefit from the pain of others!
You prove it
You said something like that... prove it.
- I don't need to prove anything - No, you have to prove it.
Do you see this? This is a movie.
This is negative. I can change this to be positive.
Positive evidence. Proof
Is that a play on words? Am I a sophist? Am I giving bullshit?
No! This, you prove everything.
But if you can prove it, Jake... That's all I say.
If you can prove it.
- Prove what? - That I wrote this book with a dangerous advantage in my heart.
If you can prove it, and prove it with an argument that I can swallow...
Not all of this wind... something that is substance
Yes? Then?
Then I will take this manuscript and burn it.
I will burn it.
I will walk on ash.
But you have to hold your end. You must make sure... What do you do?
I try to keep my hands and eyes busy...
because what I have left of my brain knows nothing is worth listening to.
All right, I didn't write this book...
with evil advantages in my heart...
I also did not write this book To get money.
But I will tell you something, if there is something... at all...
I will do whatever I can to push it...
to push it, to move it out...
because I can't live like this, Jake, one more day...
a few moments than I really have to.
I can't, Jake!
- And how do you want to live, a word? - In short?
How do I want to live, a word? Space.
I want space
half a dozen times?
I went out, I came a dozen times overnight. This is the room.
- All rooms. - Oh no. No, Jake.
You don't understand This is no longer a room for me.
This has become, for me, oppression.
I can't fix it.
I can't lower it. I can't paint on it.
I can't live in it anymore.
Half the people in the world will kill for your room Every room
I know that, Jake.
I see them every day on the road.
- This has nothing to do with me. - Why? Because you call yourself an "artist"?
You want to know where I was the last four weeks? I will tell you.
I've been with a girl.
The first girl since Joanna. A golden girl from West Gold. Now he's gone.
Bimbos tends to be a fleet of legs.
He is not bimbo. He attracts people. I met him at the library.
What, did he see for reference?
He said that he was in New York on the last and desperate search for fiber.
- But he didn't really use those words. - He did it. Something like that.
He stayed with me in my room for almost five weeks...
and then one day he said, "Listen, baby, I think you swell in many ways...
but how much fiber can one person have a stomach?"
He said I would always live like this... in a room without sun...
because I have a habit
Telling me that I look pretty funny under a thin sheet...
but that every time he sees me with clothes...
a stronger slice is pushed between us...
that there is no amount of sexual madness on its part...
can redeem it lack of cabinets in the mine.
Told me the first time he saw me enter the library...
He said, "Harry, how are you - a successful writer without clothes?
Harry, how are you going to win? without clothes?"
He said, "Harry, I don't think you want to win,"
this girl from L.A
The last thing he told me before he left...
He gently grabs my hand, he sees In my eyes gently, he says, "Harry..."
Harry, I love you I really love you.
Get some money.
But what he said or not said is not a problem
- But he... - The only thing that matters...
He said what you said for the last one and a half hours. That's what he said.
Yes, but he is just as confused as me, right?
No! He is right, Jake. Look at me.
I am not 18 years old with a guide from Greenwich Village on my mitt...
and six pack of Trojans in my wallet...
try nickel-and-dime on Pepsi and pizza.
Look at me! I'm a middle-aged man.
I mean, suppose I'm sick. I mean, it really hurts.
Where do I go? Public clinics
Clogged to suffocation.
You have been dead since the previous delay Have traveled around to maltreating you.
I have to think of things like... I am old!
I have to stop joking myself, romancing my...
You are right, myself, Jake.
That's all with Chinese people.
Kicking the old gong around there in Chinatown...
while the world passed me by...
kidding myself I am somehow part of the spirit...
Nobody judge me there for my money...
when in fact every time I enter one of the joints on Mott Street...
This is really the price of drinks that's important
That's all I admit!
Because I can't squeeze a single drop of dark chocolate juice...
out of my exotic Oriental collection...
if I don't have coppers
Joanna... the same thing
Living with me for six and a half years...
But when he walks, He walks up.
He lives in the penthouse. I am not wrong.
She's a good girl. More than that, He is the love of my life.
But he didn't leave me for another basement!
Call it all the sour wine you want, Jake, and lots of it...
but I will tell you something... I put it on time...
and a lot of my best time I still don't have it five damn dollars at hand!
And except for me somehow...
manage to recut stone...
it looks like I'm scheduled to go out of here without a penny
Just like Mom and Pop.
Because I get zinger inside me, kid.
Now, that's not news.
No, no, I didn't mean that You're talking about it.
I don't mean romantic.
I'm talking about what you live. You know what I mean.
Or you have to know. Which is there.
Deep inside.
Who keeps telling you again and again and again...
that no matter what you do, how hard you try, how long do you do it?
nothing good has ever happened, must happen for you.
And unless I do something...
to disperse it... This thing, this zinger...
to waste it...
and unless I do it now, while I can...
This will waste me, Jake!
This will kill me.
This will kill all the good ones around me, Jake.
I know that.
And the one thing I have that might make a difference...
I'm here
And you want to take it from me?
Why?
Because you are angry. Because you are angry.
Because maybe you are a little jealous.
- This is not sentimental nonsense. - Is this bullshit?
- Yes. - What do you mean, bullshit?
- You stole my life - I stole your life And no amount of overwrought rationalization will change that fact.
I didn't steal your life, Jake.
I only use it imaginatively.
Shouldn't I first handle it?
I thought that you had for 50 years!
Jake, isn't this all because I did it?
I mean, I can actually...
write this book
And if so, Jake, and I think that...
then I understand But I can't do anything about it How can I do something like that? if that means hurting the book?
Are you?
Will you?
I never meant wrong, Jake...
or hurt you, to use you forever.
I mean, that's certain.
I am just...
I don't know how to improve things with you, Jake. I just don't know how to do it.
Get out of here.
- OK. - I mean, Harry. Get out of here.
- But I'm not done yet - Yes, you.
Completed completely Outside.
We both don't know anything will happen with this book
It won't produce a penny, Jake.
I mean what I'm saying, Harry. I want you to get out of here
But if a miracle happens and something... anything must happen...
You don't think I'll take care of you?
That I will share with you? I will write it in writing.
Now do you want to pay me?
- This is not payment - No, this is the result.
- No, no, Jake. What are you talking about? - No, come on Come on!
- I want you to get out of here - This is for whatever you consider your material.
I don't want your money!
I don't want your scummy money! Exit!
- Why is it scummy now? - Exit!
I hope you won't Be cruel, Jake.
Uh, I took my manuscript
Do you want your script?
Here! This is your manuscript! Continue! Take!
- That's very good of you. - Don't bother picking up your garbage. I'll take care of it.
You will find it in your trash tomorrow
- I have another copy - You like a dog
No, no, no, because a dog is a man's best friend.
Your best friend's worst enemy Best friend, jake
Jake, I don't think we've ever been friends.
Are you my friend tonight?
There is nothing in your heart but money
Everything on the block is for sale.
- Only the items. - Ha! Who told you you have goods?
- Who do you think? - You have no items
You only have booty.
Whatever.
At least I'm not trembling anymore.
How are you, Levine?
You don't need to answer. I know how are you You did it very badly.
Come on. Sit down, lift a waiter and let's talk about everything.
- How do you know it's me? - Oh, I will see you in a million.
Yes?
Like looking into my own cracked mirror You've been desperately scratched Your entire New York cup.
- Hello, kid. - Hello, Barney.
- Nice to meet you, friend. - You too.
What about drinks? Coffee? Little seltzer
Eh, seltzer will be fine.
A beautiful note that you sent to me I am very flattered.
Oh. Poems are good, Barney.
I am honored that you sent them to me. They must be printed.
Atlantic publishing which is about my father.
Oh. That's beautiful poetry.
- I did it for six months. - It shows.
And some press that is unclear and stupid...
want to republish my book sea poetry
It should never be printed, the poem.
Barney, is there work around here?
They are always looking for servants who don't want to make money.
I mean for me Oh. Well...
There's something like last night.
- really - But I don't know if you want it
Why? Is that a porter
- Not really. - Wash the dishes?
- That's all we have now. - Can I get it?
Of course, you can get it. But...
- But what? - Wash the dishes?
You have two book jackets on the wall of insult
- Is that what you call it? - Yeah.
- I joined. - Well, then I'm in a good company.
Ah.
- So, who will I see for this? - Shows around 4:00 and talks with Lester.
- Oh that's good. - If you want it.
I want it.
So, uh... what should I owe you?
One hundred dollars.
- Nice to see you. - Nice to meet you again, friend.
Hey, wait a minute Wait a minute.
Look, this isn't fun. I think Maybe it's fun, but it's not fun.
Maybe I'll laugh about this later, but now I can't even smile...
because I will end with rictus frozen
- my rictus doesn't freeze Come on. Let's go. - Come on. Let's turn around.
Spin? We've arrived in Brooklyn!
- And what happens when we get there? - We turned and walked back.
- No, we take a taxi back. - Oh, how are you...
If Thomas Wolfe can do it, I can do it, you can do it.
- The question is, why should I do it? - Why?
Because you passed your block and you can write again.
will go back and forth on the night of this bridge after...
and he wrote, uh, Time and River.
Listen to: "Stone, leaves...
" an unfounded door.
"From a stone, leaves...
What's the difference? Still Wolfe!