I'II give you the Cowboys and three.
- Three and a haIf. - Take three, be happy.
Three and a haIf. I'm ecstatic.
Is this visit a one time shot
or wiII you surprise me aII the time?
If I said, it wouIdn't be a surprise.
I'II buy you a beer.
Jake, sit down and pIay a game.
If I come up with a scoop on her, I get DaIIas and three and a haIf.
If you come up with anything on her, I'II give you six.
Number 17 4, 63, 1503.
Pete, I don't want her zip code.
It's her sociaI security number, asshoIe.
She works for you .
One cheese, medium. Fries.
Two pIain, rare, tomato and onions.
One pastrami on kaiser. Mayo, no mustard.
- What's a pimpIe on a PoIack's ass? - I need that B.L.T on rye, Richie.
A brain tumour.
What's this?
Come on, Richie.
A Iesbian with a hard-on.
I'm terrific, right? You can teII me. I can take it.
Mayo, no mustard.
Can't you see me opening up in L.A?
Direct from Pittsburgh, it's Richie BIazik, Iadies and gentIemen.
L.A? What's aII this taIk about L.A?
You 've been on the stage two times.
I give you two Iousy shots and you 're taIking about going to L.A.!
Come on. What are you , crazy? Besides, you 're too short anyway.
They don't Iet short peopIe into HoIIywood.
And you 're making the hamburgers too big again.
Make 'em smaIIer.
I'II give you smaII.
This pIace is so smaII you have to go outside to change your mind.
My turn.
Ring, damn you . I can't beIieve he didn't caII.
- He'II caII. - Do you think so?
- Of course. Why wouIdn't he? - Yeah, why wouIdn't he!
Maybe he'II caII, I don't know.
When I taIked to him, he seemed funny. Like, ''I'II caII you Iater, babe.''
I don't think he'II caII.
- Don't worry, he'II caII. - You reaIIy think so?
- Why wouIdn't he? - You 're right. He'II caII.
If he doesn't caII, shouId I caII him?
He'II caII.
I Iove how you aIways try to straighten out other peopIe's Iives.
Any time you want me to straighten out yours, Iet me know.
PersonaIIy, I never caII. Because I don't have to.
- But if you want my advice... - Not reaIIy.
- Hi, girIs! - Hi, Richie.
- Can I heIp? A foot massage? - Get out of here!
- It's been Iong since he's had some. - I bet.
Hi.
Do you read Iips?
What?
I saw you dance Iast night.
- I just wanted to say hi. - Hi.
You 're AIex.
I know.
- I'm Nick HurIey. - ReaIIy?
I've seen your name on my pay cheques.
What's a dancer doing working as a weIder?
A girI's got to make a Iiving.
- You speak French? - No. I just Iike the pictures.
Me too.
- Nick. They need you on ten. - I'II be right there.
- You read Vogue? - I used to.
My wife does. I mean, my ex-wife.
I'm divorced. We're divorced.
Sorry.
Listen, I got to get to work.
You never know when the boss is going to be around.
You forgot your thermos.
Hi, Grunt.
So, did you get Iaid today?
And now, news headIines with Kevin Evans.
Good evening. In the news, a fire caused extensive damage
to the High View Lumber Company, a dairy store
and an American Motors deaIership in McDonaId,
Washington County, this morning...
Putting you down to deaI with DaIIas. Do we have a deaI?
I got to go. I have a caII coming up. Disconnecting...
Shit!
Excuse me. Do you know where the admissions office is?
The door on the Ieft.
- Come on, where is the focus? - Where is it?
Where is the centre?
Look up.
When you fiII out...
When you fiII out this appIication,
be sure and Iist aII your years of dance education.
Starting with the most recent pIace you 've studied,
and the number of years at each institution.
AIso, if you have any professionaI
or other repertory experience, pIease, Iist those.
When you fiII out this appIication,
be sure to Iist aII your years of dance education.
And the number of years you 've spent at each institution.
- I got to go, you guys. - See you , AIex. Don't get dirty.
- HeIIo, dancer. - Hi.
- Want a hand? - No, thanks.
You know, I have this cIose, personaI reIationship
with the Iady who drives the Iunch truck.
I can get her to make us anything we want.
- As Iong as it's on the menu . - I'm not having Iunch.
- How about dinner? - I can't. I don't have dinner with the boss.
Thanks anyway.
No Iunch, no dinner.
How about a snack? MiIk and cookies?
I Iove this dress. It's exactIy Iike the picture I showed you .
Thanks so much for making it.
Now, more important, did you go to the repertory?
I meant to. I was going to go yesterday, but I didn't have time.
- You must make the time, chiId. - I know.
Remember the first time you took me to see them dance?
I have dreams about it.
Dreaming is wonderfuI, but it won't get you cIoser to what you want.
But I've saved money, so if they take me, I can support myseIf.
But, chiId, they won't take you unIess you appIy and audition.
- I know, but sometimes... - AIexandra, you are 18 years oId.
Do it now! Do it!
OK.
You are a good girI.
May the Lord be in your heart and mind that you confess your sins
in the name of the father, the son and the hoIy spirit.
BIess me father, for I have sinned.
It's been two weeks since my Iast confession.
I'm doing OK. Sort of.
I've been thinking about sex a Iot.
But you can't heIp thinking about sex.
You probabIy can... HeIp it, I mean.
AIso, I toId a Iie.
I had to... WeII, I didn't have to, but...
AII I wanted to do is to make her happy.
Hanna wanted me to get the appIication.
I couIdn't teII her that I didn't have the courage to go through with it.
If you had seen aII those dancers...
There is no way I beIong there.
I want to make something out of my Iife.
I want to do so much, and sometimes...
Sometimes I think that it's just not going to happen.
Six beautifuI girIs! AII nude!
Hi, baby, how are you doing?
Five doIIars, right this way! Five doIIars! AII nude aII the time!
AII nude, aII the time!
CeciI, Iook at you .
Buy some threads, I'm running a cIass act here.
You Iook Iike a one-man-sIum.
AII nude, aII the time! Right here, Iive!
Six beautifuI girIs! Right here! Live!
Five doIIars! Right this way!
Five doIIars! Live! Nude! AII girIs, aII the time!
Live! Nude! Right this way! Right through the door!
Straighten yourseIf up. Attract some customers.
WeII, weII, weII, what are these?
They are very cute. Very, very cute.
AIex! Come on, give them back.
They are Richie's.
My dad's breathing down my neck. He says Richie is no good.
If he ain't asked me to marry him by now, he ain't gonna.
No kidding!
Did it take you Iong to Iearn how to dance that way?
About 25 years.
- WiII you teach me how? - Yeah.
- If you teach me how to skate. - Yeah.
Good evening, Iadies.
Look at that. $21 321, aII Ieather, push-buttons.
You wanna go for a ride?
Jeanie, are you stiII fuckin' that cook?
Listen. Come see my cIub. I just put this new PA system in.
The fIoor's Iit up where you 're going to dance.
I want you to see what you 're going to caII home.
Did you know that the smaIIest penis ever measured was 1.1 inches?
You are some pair of cunts!
I can't beIieve I'm working out with this hangover.
Wait. I've Iost my keys.
I can't beIieve this.
- Hank! You moron! - Come on, Iet's go work out.
He didn't caII.
He'II caII.
I don't think so, AIex.
He'II caII, Tina.
- I don't know. - Look. Just caII the man.
Say, ''Hey, baby, what's happening?''
Your Iife's going to be over before you make up your mind.
Just get up and caII the dude.
Yeah? You reaIIy think so?
God, I'm gIad I ain't no honky.
You girIs eat Iike pigs. What happened to the diet?
I didn't eat anything yesterday.
We'II go over to the rink and work it off.
Richie going to be there? There's a reaI winner.
No, we're gonna work.
- She thinks she'II be on the ice show. - What's wrong with that?
- I'd make a Iot of money. - You 're costing me a Iot of money.
I'd just Iike to try it again, Daddy.
She's reaIIy good. You ought to see her.
- She'II faII on her ass. - She's got a tough ass.
Yeah, I've got a tough ass.
It's not her ass I'm worried about.
Where are you ?
Come here.
Here we go.
No, don't.
You Iook great.
Don't stop.
Do it again!
Shit, I can't do this.
No, go do your turn.
Do you know the tripIe one?
Hi. I'm Richie BIazik.
Hi. I'm Richie BIazik. Did you hear about the PoIack bank robber?
He tied up the safe, bIew the guard.
Tied up the safe, bIew the guard.
Tied up the safe and bIew the guard.
Kid! Come here.
Come here!
- What's the matter? - I'm nervous, Jake.
Now you ain't nervous any more. Now you 're pissed off.
Good Iuck, baby.
Hi. How are you doing?
I'm Richie BIazik.
Did you hear about the PoIack bank robber?
He tied up the safe and bIew the guard.
So, the Iady says to the waiter,
''Excuse me, sir, do you have frogs Iegs?''
The waiter says, ''No, that's just the way I waIk.''
You want to taIk about boogers? I know a Iot about them.
How about boogers? Sports for fifty?
What's a pimpIe on a PoIack's ass?
A brain tumour.
Take a waIk!
Bring on the bimbos.
Come on, guys. CouId you give me a break?
I'm just a cook. I'm just a cook, aII right?
This is my big chance, so if you screw it up for me,
I'II put cockroaches in your hamburgers, you got it?
MiracIes do happen, I guess.
It took the SteeIers 40 years to win a championship, didn't it?
SteeIers!
I feeI Iike Franco Harris when he made the ImmacuIate Reception.
It was amazing!
Hear about the PoIack, who Iocked his keys in the car?
He used a coat hanger to get his famiIy out.
Did you hear about the PoIack who died drinking miIk?
The cow feII on him.
A PoIish terrorist tried to bIow up a car
and he burned his Iips on the exhaust pipe.
You guys have been reaI nice. I've gotta go cook the hamburgers.
No roaches, I promise.
Let me bring out our next act.
Direct from Mawby's. It's Tina Tech, Iadies and gentIemen.
One, two, three, four!
AIex, sit down here a minute.
CeciI, this is a nice ass.
Soft...
Round. Snug.
She Iikes it.
Bimbo! Whore.
Fuck off!
Night, kids.
- Night. - Night, Jake.
Richie, no more jokes about cockroaches.
One of these days I want to be Iike...
Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin.
- UntiI that day comes... - You 'II just steaI aII their materiaI.
- AIex. - Let me go.
- What are you doing? - Nothing to fight about.
- We're gonna go to CeciI's pIace. - Let me go!
Drink a IittIe wine. Do a IittIe weed.
You and me. How about CeciI? You Iike CeciI?
- Get off of me! - AII three of us, reaI friendIy.
Why don't you Ieave her aIone!
The comedian is going to be a hero.
CeciI, what the fuck is wrong with you ?
Let her go, Johnny.
What are you doing here, Nick? SIumming?
This ain't your neighbourhood no more.
I didn't mean nothing. I just got pissed off.
- Send me a biII, kid. - Let me see.
- Is it bIeeding? Jesus. - Yeah.
Come on.
Here's your hat.
- Are you OK? - Yeah.
- Are you sure? - I'm OK. It'II Iook good on stage.
- It's going to be fine. - Are you sure?
- Sure you 're going to be OK? - Yeah, fine.
Listen, what can I say? Thanks a Iot.
I'II give you a Iift home.
It's OK. I've got a ride. Thanks anyway.
- What's his name? - Grunt.
- Grunt? - Yeah.
I can see that I don't have to worry about you .
What was he before he became a dog?
He gets upset when peopIe he doesn't know foIIow me home.
This is the man that feeds you , Grunt.
TeII you what...
I'II bring him a doggy bag if you 'II have dinner with me.
I toId you I don't think it's a good idea to go out with the boss.
OK. Have it your way.
You 're fired. I'II pick you up tomorrow at eight.
How Iong does this thing Iast?
It's coId.
- How's the nose? - It's broken.
Broke mine three times.
It was big in the '50s, wasn't it? Busting noses?
'60s.
Think she can beat her?
Miss Szabo.
You 're going to do great.
Go Jeanie! Come on!
Look at that one.
There you were 20 years ago, sweetheart.
There we go. Come on.
Come on, Jeanie!
Get up, Jeanie.
It's going to be OK.
AII that time and practice. What a waste.
- Goddamn waste of time. - It was not.
It wasn't.
You went out there, didn't you ?
At Ieast you had the guts to try.
How are you doing, sport?
I'm sorry, Daddy.
I Iove you more than I've ever Ioved anything in my whoIe Iife.
What the heII. You bounced pretty good.
She practised for two years.
- She'II do better next time. - There won't be any next time.
Thank you .
What do you feeI Iike, fish, chicken, steak?
- I know this terrific IittIe... - Pizza.
...Pizza pIace.
- You reaIIy Iive here? - Yeah.
It used to be a warehouse before I moved in.
It's different. Very different.
A whoIe Iot different than where I'm from.
Where is that?
AItoona, PennsyIvania.
AItoona.
I was thinking more aIong the Iines of Jupiter.
ActuaIIy, they're very cIose.
It's just the next IifeIess pIanet over.
ReaIIy, it was boring. Except for maybe music.
- They have music in AItoona? - WeII, my father, he Ioves music.
This one time, he took us aII to the symphony, my whoIe famiIy.
It was supposed to be this reaIIy big deaI.
At first I didn't Iike it very much.
There is nothing to do with your feet and there's nothing to Iook at.
It's boring.
I was ready to nod out, or something.
He said, ''If you cIose your eyes, you can see the music.''
You can, too.
Did you ever try?
See the music?
Come on, try.
CIose your eyes.
WeII?
WeII...
I had a great time. It was a terrific evening.
Don't you want some pizza?
Hey! A IittIe Iate, aren't you ?
What was that for?
I wanted to see how fast you couId run.
- How did I do? - Fair.
Do that again.
- What? - That dance step you just did.
I can't, I was just fooIing around. I'm not a dancer Iike that.
- What do you mean? - I've never studied before.
I mean, I read books and stuff and I watch.
But I've never taken dance cIasses.
There's aII those dancers in one room
watching each other and watching you .
But you dance in front of an audience at the cIub every night.
It's different. I never see them.
You go out there, the music starts and you begin to feeI it.
And your body just starts to move.
I know it sounds reaIIy siIIy.
But something inside of you just cIicks.
You just take off and you 're gone.
It's Iike you 're somebody eIse for a second.
Some nights, I...
Some nights I just can't wait to get out there...
Just so I can disappear.
How come you don't go up there and dance?
You Iook Iike you couId dance reaI good.
I'm practising.
Yeah? You know how to do the horizontaI mambo?
Jeanie, I just kid around. I don't mean nothing. Keep that.
That's $100. I can't take this.
Keep it. It's my way of saying I'm sorry.
Thanks.
Hanna!
DarIing, here you are.
Bravo! Bravo!
At the end of every performance, does the Iead dancer aIways get fIowers?
- AIways. - Did you get fIowers Iike that?
- Not aIways. - But once, right? At Ieast once?
- How does that make you feeI? - You wiII Iet me know.
- Now, sIeep weII. - You too.
You son of a bitch!
Was that you or the radiator, Grunt?
Oh, shit.
Shut up, Grunt.
- Hey, it's Richie! - Hi.
The stupid radiator broke.
- I just wanted to say goodbye. - Where are you going?
L.A.
- L.A? - Got my car aII packed.
I'm just going to get on the turnpike. That's it. I'm gone.
What about Jeanie?
Look, I Iove Jeanie. But I don't have it to give to her right now.
She's going to be aII right. She'II be fine.
Don't go yet. I'II make some coffee, we can taIk.
What am I going to do here?
Cook hamburgers and pretend I'm a comedian?
I'II miss you .
Can't forget my hat.
Good Iuck.
Give me a turkey sandwich and a diet 7-Up.
- I've got that. - Save your money.
- I was buying you Iunch. - I don't want you buying me anything.
- I don't want you buying me, period. - What's the matter?
- I've got eyes. - What are you taIking about?
I didn't know you were a baIIet fan, I thought you Iiked it private.
What?
How quickIy they forget. At the dance benefit.
The bIonde in the white dress. Who's the goddamn bIonde?
BIonde?
Wait a minute. WiII you wait a minute?
Wait a minute! What's going on? Is everybody crazy?
Last night, some idiot throws a rock through my window...
- I broke your fucking window! - You what?
You heard me. I smashed your stupid window.
Are you crazy? Are you out of your mind?
Maybe.
It cost me a $170. I had to speciaI order it.
You 've got the money! Go fuck the bIonde!
She's my ex-wife. We have friends on the Arts CounciI.
I see her once a year to take her to the stupid benefit!
Why am I expIaining myseIf?
You didn't have to break my window.
I did it because...you pissed me off.
When I was a kid aII I wanted was to afford to eat in restaurants Iike this.
Were you poor?
I was so poor I had hand-me-down Iunches.
It was rough in the oId days.
I used to steaI hubcaps with Johnny C.
You did?
How's the Iobster?
It sucks.
Want some of mine?
I'm not hungry, thanks.
Whatever turns you on.
What turns you on?
You Iike phone booths?
Phone booths?
You probabIy just Iike doing it in bed, right?
- You two Iook cosy. - AIex, this is Katie.
HeIIo. Nick has toId me aII about you .
Hi.
- You 're not reaIIy a weIder, are you ? - Yes, I reaIIy am.
And you reaIIy take your cIothes off at night?
- I don't reaIIy take them off. - I was under the impression that you did.
You Iook great.
You didn't Iook this good when we were married.
- It was the company I was keeping. - That was good. That's funny.
Has he taken you to the steeI miII? He Iikes to go there on his first date.
- That was your first date, wasn't it? - Yeah, it was.
As a matter of fact... I fucked his brains out.
ObviousIy, you did.
Charmed, dear.
You Ioved her once, didn't you ?
I thought I did in the beginning.
She was different from anyone I had gone out with before, she was...
WeII educated. Came from a reaI good famiIy.
I figured that I had reaIIy made it.
And one day, I reaIised that...
I'd just taken the safe route.
When I reaIised that, it made it easier for me to do what I had to do.
What was that?
Let go. Start over again.
Figure out what it was I wanted to do and go after it.
You got it, didn't you ?
How did you do it?
I took a deep breath and jumped.
HeIIo.
I'd Iike to appIy for admission to the Repertory Company.
When you fiII out this appIication,
write down aII your years of previous dance training.
Starting with the Iast schooI you attended.
I know that part.
Auditions are by invitation onIy
and are performed before the committee
and seIect members of the Repertory Company.
Thank you .
You 're weIcome.
Good morning.
May I heIp you ?
Yes. There was a young woman here a short time ago, wearing an army jacket.
She was here. I was taIking to her...
about admission to the Repertory Company.
Mr BradIey, pIease.
Nick HurIey.
Larry! Hey.
Great. Great.
Listen, are you stiII on the Arts CounciI?
I need a favour for a speciaI friend.
He caIIed.
Trick or treat?
Hey, throw that bum out!
I toId you they didn't Iike short peopIe down there.
Richie!
- Did you check out the cIubs there? - Yeah.
- Come on, what happened? - One of them offered me a job.
That's great.
As a waiter. I said, ''Me, a waiter? You got to be crazy.
''I can't take a job as a waiter. I'm a cook.''
Hi, Richie.
Hi, Jeanie.
- I missed you . - AII those girIs out there?
There were no girIs out there.
That's why you caIIed me every night?
Hey, it's the cook!
Or is it the comedian? Nice suit, Richie.
- Let's go, Jeanie. - See you Iater, Richie.
See you around.
The audition! I got it! I got it!
Nick, wait up!
- Look! Wait! - What's going on?
- Read it. - What?
I got the audition, Iook. I appIied for the Repertory Company.
You have to be invited before you can audition and they invited me.
That's wonderfuI. We have to do something about it.
When?
- How about tonight? - Yes.
Hanna?
WeII... I did it.
I knew you wouId. CongratuIations.
I'm so excited I can't stop shaking.
But what if I don't make it?
You wiII. I know you wiII.
What wouId I do without you ?
I Ioved the dinner.
And I Ioved the way they sat us right away.
I Ioved that there were 50 peopIe waiting and we just whizzed in.
I caIIed the restaurant Iast night...
and toId them it was a very speciaI occasion.
What do you mean you caIIed them Iast night?
- Stop the car. - Why?
Stop the goddamn car!
You caIIed them Iast night
but I didn't teII you I got the audition untiI this morning.
So how the heII did you know?
- Listen. - Friends on the committee?
AsshoIe! Stop the car!
- AIex! - Let me go.
You have no right to heIp me! I don't want you to heIp me!
You 're going to get yourseIf kiIIed!
AII I did was to make a phone caII.
I got you the audition, the rest is up to you .
The whoIe thing has to be up to me! I'm not going to the audition!
Good evening, Mawby's.
- Is Jeanie there? - AIex, where have you been aII week?
Come on, Jake, I don't want to hear it. Is she there?
She doesn't work for me any more. She's over at the Zanzibar.
- What? - You heard me.
Come on, Jeanie.
We're getting out of here.
No!
AIex! AIex! Jesus Christ!
AIex! What the fuck! What are you doing?
You want to make a Iiving roIIing around on your back?
I make good money.
I thought you wanted to be a dancer. You caII that dancing?
- What's this shit? - Stop it, that's mine.
Why did you come here?
Because you 're my friend. Jerk!
- I'm coId. - So am I.
- You don't say heIIo? - No.
You didn't show up at work, I was worried about you .
- You Iook Iike shit. - Thanks a Iot.
You 're weIcome.
Listen, I didn't come here to fight, I came to see if you were OK.
Forget it, it doesn't matter.
- What doesn't matter? - The audition. I don't care.
- You do care. - I don't care.
If you can't be honest with yourseIf, you can't with me.
I don't need you teIIing me what to do. I don't need to hear your shit.
I'm not a baby!
Get out of here! Go pIay with your fucking Porsche.
What you need is a kick in the ass.
You 're not grown-up enough to smoke.
The truth is, you 're scared shitIess of going to that pIace, aren't you ?
- I am not. - Yes, you are.
You 're using me as an excuse not to go.
Get out.
You 're just going to piss it aII away, AIex.
Don't you understand? When you give up your dream, you die.
See you .
Hanna?
She died.
Yesterday.
- Where have you been? - No pIace.
- What are you doing? - Getting my stuff.
What are you getting your stuff for?
If it's that bad, why don't you sIit your wrists and get it over with?
I thought nothing ever got you down.
You know, when I started out, I was 17.
I used to work in these oId movie theatres.
Every cent I had, I spent on costumes.
I had more fancy costumes and dresses than you do.
When I went on that stage I was Iooking so good.
One day I just stopped buying them.
I don't even know what happened.
I thought about it a Iot.
I just can't seem to pin it down.
The dresses got oId and I just stopped wearing them.
I got some in a trunk. I'II show you sometime.
OK.
What the heII.
It's show time.
May the Lord be in your heart and mind that you confess your sins
in the name of the father, the son and the hoIy spirit.
BIess me father for I have sinned.
It's been a Iong time since my Iast confession.
I want... I want so much.
Can I start again?