Guest Artist (2019) EN

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The only reason
I'm here is because I

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have contractual obligations.

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You called me, Joseph.

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You picked
up the phone and you said,

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"Save me. This time I mean it."

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And what did I say to you.

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"I dare you."

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So what stopped you?

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Well, the
drinking's going well, I see.

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I'm cutting back.

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Yeah, so am I. Uh, boy!

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You have a contract
that pays actual money.

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You are going
to God knows where.

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Michigan.

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Wherever that is.

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You will be
adored, you'll be feted.

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Who knows, you may even
fall in love with some farm

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boy and spend the rest of your

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life writing
children's books, hmm?

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I hate children.

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Well, it's not a prerequisite.

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By the way, have you seen what's

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passing for
television these days?

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I don't believe in television.

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Who said you
have to believe in it?

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You don't want
to do TV, fix screenplays.

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No.

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Uncredited.

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Movies are bupkis.

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I don't even
know what that means.

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I'm a playwright,
Helen. I'm a playwright.

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You're a dinosaur.

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And looked
what happened to them.

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Little faster next time.

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I'm afraid to ask, was there a

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particular reason why
you didn't send me your play?

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It's not readable.

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Joseph.

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It's not.

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Please,
and tell me there's a play,

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because I've
already spent the commission.

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There's a play.

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Because the
last time you told me what you

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had wasn't readable-

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There's a play.

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You know, someday, I'm
gonna look down at my phone and

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it's going to say,
"Joseph Harris is dead."

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And I'm gonna cry,
probably a lot. Not for what

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you were, for
what you could have been.

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I have a deathly fear of flying.

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Ah.

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Come on, let's go.

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Ah!

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Uh hi, hello.

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Uh, I'm Kenneth Waters, I'm the
guy who's supposed to be here to

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pick you up 45 minutes ago.

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Uh sir, if I may, it's because
of you that I've decided to live

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my... uh, commit to...
commit my life to the theatre.

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Oh, sorry!

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Oh God!

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I wrote a couple of short plays

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before, but they're only
like 10 or 15 minutes long.

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I got 1st place in like
my high school's play jam.

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Uh, there were only
two entries, but I still won.

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Don't talk.
Don't talk, don't talk.

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Oh no, if you open your mouth,
you'll be stupid, just shut up.

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Just let him talk,
let him... just I'll take him...

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take him to
the hotel and it'll be fine.

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You'll ride in the
car with Joseph Harris.

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Oh! Oh there!
There's the station.

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And here we go.

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Here we go! Here we go!

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What happened to the 565?

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Lower your voice.

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What happened to the 565?

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Lower.

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What happened to the 565?

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Come and gone.

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No.
Yes.

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Was it on time?

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1:30.

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Huh, I'm a dead man.

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Nice knowin' ya.

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Uh, did
anyone get off? An older man?

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Very distinguished looking?

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Wait, wait,
wait, I have a picture.

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First drop off
we've had in months.

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The 565 never stops,

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nor does the 283 or the 112.

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The only train that stops is
the 419, every mornin' at 5:45.

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Here.

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That's him.

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Did he say where he was going?

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To sleep.

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Where? The hotel?

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Hi, my name is Kenneth Waters.

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I'm with the
Lima Theater Company.

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I'm here to
take you to your hotel.

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It's very nice.

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It's right downtown, within
walking distance of the theatre.

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This feels like one of those

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places you
go only if you have to.

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Does it feel
that way to you, Walter?

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Uh, Kenneth. No, not
at all. In fact, I grew up here.

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Escape.

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As soon
as we get you to your hotel,

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I'll make
a run for it, I promise.

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Where's the person who
was supposed to pick me up?

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He was here.

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Uh well, I just said "he".

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I... I... I... I... I meant "me".

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You were here.

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Actually, technically...

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Actually, technically, oh okay...

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you weren't, because when I got
off the train, I stood on the

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platform with my suitcase,

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waiting for someone to...

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waiting for someone to pick me
up, at the very least pick up my

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s... s-suitcase.

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And after waiting
for what seemed like a very long

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time, no one actually
technically came, at which point

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I actually technically
made my way in here,

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dragging my now

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very heavy suitcase, sat down,

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collapsing in this very spot and

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yet still, no one, no one

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from the Lima Bean Repertory...

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Just Lima.

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...Company came forward to
collect me or my suitcase at

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which point I fell asleep on

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this sad excuse for a seating

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device, thoroughly
wrenching my back.

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Here, let me get that for you.

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No!

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I'm sorry, I was just...

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Don't apologize!

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Oh.

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You know any good jokes?

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Jokes?

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I need a laugh.

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You're not serious.

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I'm a playwright,
I'm eternally serious.

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I'm also important.
Which is even worse.

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Uh no, no, I don't.

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Besides even
if I did, I'm afraid I'm not

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very good at telling them.

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Hardly something to
fear, go ask the masses.

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The who?

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The ones who don't go to the
theatre anymore, because they're

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too busy binge
watching the Kardashians.

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O'Neill was so lucky
to have written when he did.

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Look at him in there, huh.

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Trapped inside his little box.

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Of your own making, I might add!

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Yeah, it's okay.
It's okay, we're leaving.

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Well, not until I hear a joke!

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I'm a... I'm a very good laugher.

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Producers count me
into their Opening Nights and

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seat me
right behind the critics.

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It never helps, but long as
there's food, what do I care?

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Well, you know who
knows a lot of jokes?

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Hmm?

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Simon.

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Neil?

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John.

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Simon John. Artistic
Director of the Lima...

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Oh, oh, oh, yes, yes!

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Yes! Mr. John
and I spoke over the phone.

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I'm not sure you're
aware, but the man was born

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without a sense
of humor which I didn't...

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I didn't think was
genetically possible until he

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spent an hour and a
half telling me about himself.

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He can be very funny.

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He's a bore. Why
did the chicken cross the road?

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What?

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No, why.

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I say, "Why
did the chicken cross the road?"

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You say...

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To get to the other side.

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That's the punch line.

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I know.

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Well, you said
you didn't know any jokes.

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Everybody knows that one.

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Ah, ah, you prove my point!

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Granted, you cut
directly to the pay off, but

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then, that's what's wrong
with your generation, isn't it?

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It's all about the
now, the being there,

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not the getting there.

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You have
no use for the journey.

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I have a joke.

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Praise Jesus.

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It's a theatre joke.

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Are you implying
that the theatre is a joke?

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No, of course not. That's
the last thing I would do.

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Well, it is. Trust me,
I've spent my life in it.

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I don't
believe that for a second.

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Well, the sooner
you do, the easier it'll be to

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read your own reviews.

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Is it funny?

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This joke about the theatre?

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Because if it's not, I'm going
to personally see to it that you

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never work
in this business again.

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That was a joke.

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Oh!

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Tell me your joke.

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Right, okay.

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Yes. There was this actor, uh an
old character actor and he was

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playing the doctor
in The Miracle Worker.

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You know, the
famous play about Helen Keller?

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Define famous.

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What?

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What is fame?

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It's well known,
something well known.

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I did not know that.

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Anyway,
this actor was also a drunk and

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his career
had not been going well.

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And in the
first scene of the play,

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he's to come on stage and
inform Mr. and Mrs. Keller that

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their daughter is,
you know, the way she is.

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So before the
curtain goes up, this actor sits

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in front of his
dressing room mirror,

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drinking, staring at himself.

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The curtain goes up,

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this actor steps on stage and he
says, "Mr. and Mrs. Keller, I'm

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sorry to tell you, but
your daughter is dead."

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And he turns
and walks off, out of the

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theatre, never to
set foot on the stage again.

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Why?

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What?

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No.

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Why?

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That's the joke.

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What if I told you that the

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actor's name
was Kensington Malloy.

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And the theatre
was the Morosco in 1973.

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And that I not
only saw that production,

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I was in the audience the very
night that Mr. Malloy walked

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onto a Broadway stage and ended
both the play and his career?

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I'm sorry.

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Don't apologize!
An artist never apologizes!

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I'm sorry.

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Not sorry!

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Not sorry!

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Not sorry!

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Not sorry!

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For the record, that was
not a joke, but an anecdote.

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Hardly comedic.

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Tragic, to be
sure, in the classical sense.

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You're aware of the Greeks?

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Yes, of course.

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Name three.

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What?

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Name three Greek
playwrights whose influence on

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the world of
drama is still felt today.

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Euripides,
Sophocles, and Aristophanes.

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Who said, "Anything
awful makes me laugh"?

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Aristophanes?

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Charles Lamb. You
know who Charles Lamb is?

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Was he Greek?

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Oh God.

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An obscure English author who

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once misbehaved at a funeral,

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laughing during
the eulogy or something.

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He wrote a letter in the form of

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an apology to the appropriately

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appalled widow, stated
with great importance,

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"Anything awful makes me laugh."

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Actually technically, you
know what I would really like?

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Yeah, anything. You name it.

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Oh, you're over here now.

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A drink.

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No. I mean, I can't.

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Have I mentioned
I have won the Pulitzer?

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For Up a Lonely River.

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It's my favorite
play in the whole world.

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I cannot even begin to tell you
how much that play means to me.

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As much as a
drink would mean to me?

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Mr. Harris, Simon
made it very clear, under no

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circumstances was I
to get you liquor of any kind.

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My reputation
arrived before I did.

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Yeah, I'm sorry.

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Not.

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Not sorry.

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What's your name again?

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Kenneth Waters.

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Do you drink, Mr. Waters?

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No.

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Would you like to start?

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I'm sure
the hotel has a mini-bar.

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Yes, I'm sure it does.

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Who told you
about my uh, little problem?

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I can't tell you that.

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The Pulitzer.

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Your agent. She told Simon to

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"treat him
like the alcoholic he is".

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Former agent.

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Oh, I didn't know.

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Neither does she. Tell
me something, did she use the

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line about how I "can't possibly

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write from
the bottom of a bottle"?

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I don't know what she said.

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Pulitzer.

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Yeah, word for word.

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Can we go now?

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She stole that line
from me, I'll have you know.

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This from a wench who can drink
me under any table in New York.

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I'll pull the car up.

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Oh God, how much?

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How much what?

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Over and above whatever it
is, you can round up of course.

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Sir.

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Preferably, gin, though at this
point I'll take anything this

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side of mouthwash.

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I told you. I...

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20 bucks, 20
bucks for one little drink.

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I'm sure once
we get to the hotel...

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Get me a goddamn drink!

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Go.

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What?

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You may go.

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Go where?

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Wherever someone like you goes.

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I'm not going without you.

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Yes, you are.

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You're gonna walk
out that door, you're gonna get

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in your car, drive away.

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Before you do, however, you are
going to book me on the next

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train back to New York.

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Well,
Mr. Harris, you can't do that.

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I can and I will.

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You have rehearsal.

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No, no, no,
no, you have rehearsal.

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I am going back to New York.

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Sir, I'm just
doing what I'm told.

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Not yet, you're not.

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If I don't deliver you
to rehearsal first thing

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tomorrow morning then...

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Oh, oh, now I'm a package, am I?

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No, no, no...

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I'm just,
I'm something to be delivered?

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No, no, no, no, no...

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Just shipped overnight...

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No!

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Because I absolutely,
positively have to be there?

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I'm sure you'll feel differently
once you've talked to Simon.

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He can't wait to meet you.

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Apparently, he can.

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Because otherwise,
he wouldn't have sent you.

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Sir, I'm just an apprentice.

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Apprentice to what?

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Hmm, I'm sorry?

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Stop apologizing!

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I'm sorry.

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Not!

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Not sorry!

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Don't tell me
you're studying to be an actor.

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I don't have the talent.

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You don't need talent.

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All you need is a deep-seated
belief that the whole world's

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as excited about you as you are.

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I wanna be a playwright.

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Someday.

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Not yet, not now.

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I have so much to
learn, but that's why I'm here,

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that's why I wanted to
be the one to pick you up.

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I had to meet you.

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To just... just I don't know, to
just be around you, I guess to

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experience your essence.

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I have an essence?

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No, not... not essence.

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No, no, no, I like...
like having an essence.

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I told Simon,
"I don't care what time he gets

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in, I want to be the one who
gets to pick up the greatest

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playwright in the history
of the American Theatre.

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In
the history of theatre, period."

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Better than O'Neill, better than
Miller, better than William...

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Shakespeare?

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Yes.

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I
have so many questions for you,

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I don't know where to start.

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Questions
are what make art, art.

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Writers on
Writing, published in 1986.

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Very good.

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I've read everything you've ever

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written or
said, for that matter.

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The full lengths, the
one acts, the essays, the

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monologues, even your Op-Ed
pieces in the New York Times.

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One of my favorites was The

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State of the American
Theatre, October, 1998.

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You were so
eloquent about the need for a

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collective voice to speak from
our stage and your prediction

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that Broadway would succumb to

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uh, how did you put it?

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Oh, oh, hang on.

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Joseph Harris, 1998.

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"In our
quest to find new voices,

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the American Stage will turn its

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back on its very own, only to
drop the bar and welcome with

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open arms
anything with an accent,

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preferably ones
spewing Irish blarney,

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Royal
pomposity or Cockney slang.

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Mark my
words..." I love this part,

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"To spend one's life writing for
the American Theatre is to aim

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for a place somewhere between
airport paperbacks and the

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graffiti located
above a dive bar urinal."

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00:25:17,434 --> 00:25:19,270
Yeah,

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I was drunk.

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00:25:22,239 --> 00:25:24,008
Well, I found it prophetic.

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I had just opened a play

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that included a 10-minute
sequence where one of the

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fattest actors you've ever seen
dropped his pants and farted

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into the face of the audience.

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Needless to say, the
critics were not kind.

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So I wrote to the Times,
explaining it was a metaphor for

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the slow,
poisonous disintegration of

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Creative America.

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00:25:53,470 --> 00:25:57,141
I think they
published it out of pity.

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Another American playwright
screaming from the ledge.

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00:26:01,545 --> 00:26:04,114
Yeah, but you were right.

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00:26:04,615 --> 00:26:06,483
Hardly.

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00:26:06,617 --> 00:26:09,453
Though I must say, if
the actor had farted in an

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English accent, the
play would still be running.

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00:26:13,190 --> 00:26:15,593
No one writes for the
theatre anymore, Mr. Waters.

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00:26:15,726 --> 00:26:16,594
No, no, no, that's... that's...

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00:26:16,727 --> 00:26:17,928
No, it's true.

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00:26:18,829 --> 00:26:21,031
It's all
screenplays, and cable deals,

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and getting a
seat at the table with

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a dozen other ex-playwrights.

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00:26:25,936 --> 00:26:27,471
But you can't really
blame them, can you?

431
00:26:27,605 --> 00:26:30,074
I mean the...
the theatre won't support you,

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00:26:30,207 --> 00:26:33,844
you have to follow
the herd out to California,

433
00:26:34,578 --> 00:26:38,115
get paid a king's ransom,
because you can spell your name.

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00:26:38,549 --> 00:26:40,551
Yeah, but... but you didn't.

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00:26:41,085 --> 00:26:43,187
Much to my accountant's dismay.

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00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,690
Active duty military discounts.

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00:26:45,823 --> 00:26:50,160
All active duty military are
entitled to discounts up to 50%.

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When others turned their backs,

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00:26:53,330 --> 00:26:54,231
you nobly clung to your
principles, hanging on to

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what it means
to be a true artist.

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00:26:56,701 --> 00:26:59,970
Call Expedition today.

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00:27:00,204 --> 00:27:01,972
As a relaxing alternative to

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00:27:02,106 --> 00:27:04,275
today's airport
body scan, the latest bomb scans

444
00:27:24,094 --> 00:27:26,063
Stowing away
is against the law.

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00:27:26,196 --> 00:27:28,733
Any activity around
the train that is illegal

446
00:27:28,866 --> 00:27:31,535
please contact
Expedition employees.

447
00:27:31,670 --> 00:27:33,570
Thank you and have a good day.

448
00:27:35,774 --> 00:27:37,709
Hardly noble.

449
00:27:38,342 --> 00:27:41,845
To me, you are. To me,
you are the American Theatre.

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00:27:41,979 --> 00:27:43,213
Strong words, I know.

451
00:27:43,347 --> 00:27:44,248
No, no...

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00:27:45,482 --> 00:27:46,216
But there is no one and I mean
no one with your uncompromising

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commitment to your art.

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00:27:48,018 --> 00:27:49,286
It is because of you that I have

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decided to
commit my life to the theatre.

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It is your art, your
craft, your brilliance that has

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00:27:52,856 --> 00:27:54,358
opened up the creativity...
That lies within my very soul.

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00:27:54,491 --> 00:27:55,526
Here, just
shut up! Just shut up.

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00:27:55,660 --> 00:27:57,094
Just take that.

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00:27:58,763 --> 00:28:00,064
What? What's this?

461
00:28:00,197 --> 00:28:01,465
It's the advance.

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00:28:01,999 --> 00:28:04,001
Much as I love
being paid to write,

463
00:28:04,134 --> 00:28:06,303
I hate
being paid not to even more.

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00:28:07,137 --> 00:28:08,539
I don't understand.

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00:28:09,106 --> 00:28:11,308
There is no play.

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00:28:12,677 --> 00:28:14,545
What?

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00:28:14,679 --> 00:28:16,447
I haven't written a word.

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00:28:17,981 --> 00:28:21,786
I'd apologize,
but I'm in the arts, so...

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00:28:21,919 --> 00:28:23,087
Is this some kind of joke?

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00:28:23,220 --> 00:28:25,122
This is not a joke.

471
00:28:27,558 --> 00:28:29,026
This is not a joke.

472
00:28:29,159 --> 00:28:31,895
I think we've
established this is not a joke.

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00:28:32,329 --> 00:28:33,597
But we have to have a play.

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00:28:33,732 --> 00:28:34,932
Well, if I don't have one,

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00:28:35,065 --> 00:28:36,233
there's no way
you're going to have one.

476
00:28:36,367 --> 00:28:37,401
But
we... we... we commissioned you.

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00:28:38,535 --> 00:28:39,671
I had a couple ideas, a
couple things I thought might

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00:28:41,004 --> 00:28:44,441
have legs enough to sail past
page 20, flourish into something

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00:28:44,575 --> 00:28:47,746
grand, an... an...
an epic drama, perhaps.

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00:28:47,878 --> 00:28:52,416
A comedy! I'd have settled for a
comedy, but in the end, nothing.

481
00:28:52,549 --> 00:28:53,484
Uh, wait.

482
00:28:54,719 --> 00:28:56,721
Though, I did have one idea
about a girl and her dog, and

483
00:28:56,855 --> 00:28:58,122
then the dog died and the girl

484
00:28:59,089 --> 00:29:00,023
turned into a
transvestite and I thought,

485
00:29:00,725 --> 00:29:01,358
Well, that's hardly original.

486
00:29:01,959 --> 00:29:02,926
Mr. Harris!

487
00:29:03,060 --> 00:29:03,961
Make the dog the transvestite.

488
00:29:04,094 --> 00:29:05,162
You sent us a first draft.

489
00:29:05,929 --> 00:29:07,030
Of what?

490
00:29:07,164 --> 00:29:08,599
Simon told the
staff it was brilliant.

491
00:29:08,733 --> 00:29:10,467
The only thing of any brilliance

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00:29:10,601 --> 00:29:15,038
were Simon's efforts
to cover his artistic ass.

493
00:29:16,273 --> 00:29:18,942
I called and told him that
what I had wasn't readable.

494
00:29:19,076 --> 00:29:22,012
Little advice, when a playwright
calls to say that his play isn't

495
00:29:22,146 --> 00:29:24,281
readable, it's 'cause
there's nothing to read.

496
00:29:26,950 --> 00:29:28,051
I'm calling Simon.

497
00:29:28,185 --> 00:29:29,186
Do 'Up a Lonely River'.

498
00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:30,621
We just did it two months ago!

499
00:29:30,755 --> 00:29:31,588
Do it again.

500
00:29:31,723 --> 00:29:32,990
We can't do it again!

501
00:29:33,123 --> 00:29:34,558
Oh, sure you can.
Tell 'em it's a rerun.

502
00:29:34,692 --> 00:29:36,226
You don't understand,
we've announced it to the world!

503
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,061
Oh, good Lord, I hope
you have enough seats.

504
00:29:38,195 --> 00:29:39,563
Mr. Harris, this is
a very big deal for us.

505
00:29:39,697 --> 00:29:41,165
For the first
time in our history,

506
00:29:41,298 --> 00:29:42,801
Variety is
sending their Chicago critic.

507
00:29:42,933 --> 00:29:45,502
Sir, could you please
tell me the estimated time of

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00:29:45,636 --> 00:29:47,571
departure for
the next train to New York?

509
00:29:47,705 --> 00:29:48,605
5:45.

510
00:29:48,740 --> 00:29:49,674
Where do I transfer?

511
00:29:50,875 --> 00:29:52,509
Local stops to Toledo. Transfer
to the Express from there.

512
00:29:52,643 --> 00:29:53,243
I'll take it.

513
00:29:53,377 --> 00:29:54,244
No, he doesn't want it!

514
00:29:54,378 --> 00:29:55,312
- Round trip?
- No!

515
00:29:55,446 --> 00:29:56,513
- God, no.
- Window or aisle?

516
00:29:56,647 --> 00:29:57,548
Neither!
Window.

517
00:29:58,649 --> 00:29:59,651
Mr. Harris, please don't
do this, I'm begging you.

518
00:29:59,784 --> 00:30:00,250
Will you just relax.

519
00:30:01,218 --> 00:30:02,419
Welcome to the
exciting world of train travel.

520
00:30:02,553 --> 00:30:03,954
Not everything
in life is your fault.

521
00:30:04,087 --> 00:30:04,889
By purchasing
a round trip ticket...

522
00:30:05,022 --> 00:30:05,956
Yes, yes, yes, okay.

523
00:30:06,089 --> 00:30:07,224
No, not this shit, trust me.

524
00:30:07,357 --> 00:30:08,025
Seniors, if you
are young at heart...

525
00:30:08,158 --> 00:30:08,860
Okay, somehow...

526
00:30:08,992 --> 00:30:09,928
I'll take it.

527
00:30:10,060 --> 00:30:11,328
get 5% off the regular fare.

528
00:30:11,462 --> 00:30:12,429
Phew, oh my
God, Simon's gonna kill me.

529
00:30:12,563 --> 00:30:13,698
Students, take advantage of...

530
00:30:13,832 --> 00:30:14,598
Do I look like a student to you?

531
00:30:14,732 --> 00:30:15,667
Please, hey, hey!

532
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,234
price of an unrestricted ticket.

533
00:30:17,367 --> 00:30:17,902
Mr. Harris, whatever I
did or didn't do, I'm sorry.

534
00:30:18,035 --> 00:30:18,502
Not.

535
00:30:19,671 --> 00:30:20,270
I'm whatever I have to be
to keep you from doing this!

536
00:30:21,038 --> 00:30:21,873
My stay here is over. Finished.

537
00:30:22,005 --> 00:30:23,140
All military persons...

538
00:30:23,273 --> 00:30:24,274
Listen, just
talk to Simon, okay?

539
00:30:24,408 --> 00:30:25,375
-continental United States.

540
00:30:25,509 --> 00:30:26,310
Military?

541
00:30:26,443 --> 00:30:27,511
Fare may be higher during...

542
00:30:27,644 --> 00:30:29,379
- What's the damage?
- 152 bucks.

543
00:30:30,013 --> 00:30:31,315
Give me 152 bucks.

544
00:30:31,448 --> 00:30:32,583
Do I look rich to you?

545
00:30:32,717 --> 00:30:33,651
Yes.

546
00:30:33,785 --> 00:30:34,786
You want the ticket or not?

547
00:30:34,919 --> 00:30:36,253
No!
He's not going anywhere!

548
00:30:36,386 --> 00:30:37,789
I thought you said you
was takin' him somewhere.

549
00:30:37,922 --> 00:30:41,024
I... I am. Okay, we are
in the process of leaving, okay?

550
00:30:41,158 --> 00:30:42,259
We just haven't left yet.

551
00:30:46,230 --> 00:30:51,134
And you've been
holding out on me? Huh?

552
00:30:51,870 --> 00:30:53,738
I got $3!

553
00:30:54,371 --> 00:30:57,842
And what pray tell is this?

554
00:30:57,976 --> 00:30:58,943
Nothing.

555
00:30:59,076 --> 00:31:00,310
- Give it to me.
- Is this a play?

556
00:31:00,444 --> 00:31:01,813
- Give it back.
- You really are a playwright.

557
00:31:01,946 --> 00:31:04,014
I am not a playwright!

558
00:31:04,849 --> 00:31:07,050
I am not a playwright.

559
00:31:07,551 --> 00:31:12,623
Cancel his ticket. I am
here to pick you up, that's it.

560
00:31:12,757 --> 00:31:14,692
I will be in the car.

561
00:31:14,826 --> 00:31:17,261
You want me to read it?

562
00:31:28,305 --> 00:31:30,140
Yeah. Yeah, right.

563
00:31:43,888 --> 00:31:46,456
You would read my play?

564
00:31:49,159 --> 00:31:52,329
It's why you
brought it, isn't it?

565
00:31:56,968 --> 00:31:58,235
You're serious.

566
00:31:59,603 --> 00:32:01,104
Going once.

567
00:32:01,238 --> 00:32:03,041
Yes, yes! Yes, of course!

568
00:32:03,173 --> 00:32:04,809
While I wait for my train.

569
00:32:04,943 --> 00:32:06,376
Mr. Harris, please.

570
00:32:06,510 --> 00:32:09,513
Have you ever
seen a Pulitzer Prize?

571
00:32:10,213 --> 00:32:13,150
As trophies go,
it's very tasteful.

572
00:32:13,283 --> 00:32:16,654
Elegant,
even distinguished.

573
00:32:17,421 --> 00:32:19,891
Mr. Harris, if you get
on that train, I'll be fired.

574
00:32:20,024 --> 00:32:22,326
I'm proud to say that I have

575
00:32:22,459 --> 00:32:25,362
been banned for life

576
00:32:25,495 --> 00:32:27,197
from
the Cornelia Street Playhouse.

577
00:32:27,331 --> 00:32:28,265
In Philadelphia.

578
00:32:28,398 --> 00:32:29,566
You've been to Philadelphia?

579
00:32:29,701 --> 00:32:30,835
No, but...

580
00:32:30,969 --> 00:32:32,904
As soon as you
arrive, you realize you're the

581
00:32:33,037 --> 00:32:34,371
smartest person in town.

582
00:32:34,504 --> 00:32:35,773
We were doing
The Man Who Died A...

583
00:32:35,907 --> 00:32:36,841
The Man Who Died Again.

584
00:32:36,975 --> 00:32:38,042
Oh, you know this story?

585
00:32:38,175 --> 00:32:39,343
- No, only that...
- Well then, shut up.

586
00:32:40,210 --> 00:32:42,112
I'm waxing poetic about myself.

587
00:32:42,245 --> 00:32:44,514
Much like
with the visiting muse,

588
00:32:44,648 --> 00:32:45,883
it doesn't happen that often,

589
00:32:46,818 --> 00:32:49,721
so you're
aware of writing via the muse.

590
00:32:49,854 --> 00:32:50,788
Yes, of course.

591
00:32:51,254 --> 00:32:52,289
Do you have one?

592
00:32:52,422 --> 00:32:53,858
Doesn't everybody?

593
00:32:53,992 --> 00:32:54,726
Where is it?

594
00:32:54,859 --> 00:32:56,226
Where's what?

595
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,462
Your muse, I'd like to meet him.

596
00:32:58,595 --> 00:33:00,130
Or her.

597
00:33:00,263 --> 00:33:02,132
Maybe it's
her... it. Maybe it's an "it".

598
00:33:02,265 --> 00:33:03,400
I don't...

599
00:33:05,268 --> 00:33:05,837
Not having one myself,

600
00:33:06,671 --> 00:33:09,473
I'm curious as
to what one looks like.

601
00:33:09,606 --> 00:33:12,810
A little bird sits on
your shoulder, chirping its way

602
00:33:12,944 --> 00:33:16,513
through your story like
some know-it-all tour guide.

603
00:33:17,081 --> 00:33:18,382
What about the inner voice?

604
00:33:18,515 --> 00:33:19,751
You're hearing voices?

605
00:33:19,884 --> 00:33:22,654
Simon said every
artist has an inner voice.

606
00:33:24,554 --> 00:33:26,691
If Simon is hearing voices,

607
00:33:26,824 --> 00:33:28,693
he should be
locked in a padded room.

608
00:33:28,826 --> 00:33:31,294
I wrote every one of my
plays without the assistance of

609
00:33:31,428 --> 00:33:32,562
anyone, thank you very much.

610
00:33:32,697 --> 00:33:34,331
Including artistic directors who

611
00:33:34,464 --> 00:33:36,366
were too
important to meet my train.

612
00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:37,434
What are you doing?

613
00:33:37,567 --> 00:33:38,670
I'm calling Simon.

614
00:33:46,044 --> 00:33:48,178
Oh, no, no, no, no!

615
00:33:48,311 --> 00:33:49,212
Oh my God!

616
00:33:49,346 --> 00:33:51,082
Oh my God, stop!

617
00:33:51,214 --> 00:33:53,651
Stop! Oh!

618
00:33:54,719 --> 00:33:56,353
Now give me your credit card.

619
00:33:56,486 --> 00:33:57,789
You broke my phone!

620
00:33:57,922 --> 00:33:58,856
Your credit card!

621
00:33:58,990 --> 00:33:59,957
I don't have a credit card!

622
00:34:00,091 --> 00:34:01,025
Of course, you do!

623
00:34:02,325 --> 00:34:03,995
Every young person in today's
theatre has a credit card, a toy

624
00:34:04,128 --> 00:34:05,529
phone, and a Lamborghini!

625
00:34:05,663 --> 00:34:07,497
Bought and paid for by
well-funded parents who can't

626
00:34:07,631 --> 00:34:09,366
stand the idea of their son

627
00:34:09,499 --> 00:34:11,736
going into such
a vagrant profession!

628
00:34:11,869 --> 00:34:12,602
Let me guess?

629
00:34:12,737 --> 00:34:14,172
Daddy and mommy wanted their son

630
00:34:14,304 --> 00:34:16,140
who's not a
playwright to be a doctor?

631
00:34:16,273 --> 00:34:17,240
No.

632
00:34:17,374 --> 00:34:18,608
A lawyer? How about a lawyer?

633
00:34:19,576 --> 00:34:20,610
How about President
of the United States?

634
00:34:21,478 --> 00:34:22,479
They've lowered
the entry requirements,

635
00:34:22,612 --> 00:34:23,748
I don't know if you've heard!

636
00:34:24,648 --> 00:34:27,151
Wing nuts!
My family's into wing nuts!

637
00:34:27,284 --> 00:34:28,986
It's the small nut

638
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,155
with the little metal
wings on it, so you can screw...

639
00:34:31,288 --> 00:34:32,190
I know what a...

640
00:34:33,356 --> 00:34:35,727
We're the largest wing nut
manufacturer in the Midwest.

641
00:34:41,032 --> 00:34:42,900
Where would the
world be without the wing nut?

642
00:34:43,034 --> 00:34:46,636
Yeah, that's what my
father says every Thanksgiving.

643
00:34:46,771 --> 00:34:50,708
And I nod, answering a question
he never asks, assuring him that

644
00:34:50,842 --> 00:34:53,543
yes, some day I will come
crawling back, begging him to

645
00:34:53,678 --> 00:34:57,882
please let me spend the
rest of my life in wing nuts.

646
00:35:04,321 --> 00:35:07,491
All because you looked down from
your end of the table and said,

647
00:35:07,624 --> 00:35:09,026
"I want to be in the Arts."

648
00:35:10,928 --> 00:35:13,563
I might as well have said I was
running off to join the circus.

649
00:35:14,165 --> 00:35:15,432
You are.

650
00:35:16,466 --> 00:35:17,735
He said "The-a-tre is
no place for a real man.

651
00:35:17,869 --> 00:35:21,471
It's nothing but
lowlifes, misfits, and..."

652
00:35:51,169 --> 00:35:56,573
Does this Simon person, with no
play to direct, have any talent?

653
00:35:57,307 --> 00:36:00,343
Very much so. Yes.

654
00:36:00,878 --> 00:36:04,414
Last season he
won the Lima Award for his

655
00:36:04,548 --> 00:36:05,817
production of Our Town.

656
00:36:06,550 --> 00:36:08,786
He won a what?

657
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,121
A Lima.

658
00:36:10,655 --> 00:36:12,522
It's our local
in-house theatre award.

659
00:36:12,657 --> 00:36:14,225
We have the
ceremony at the end of the year.

660
00:36:14,357 --> 00:36:15,927
Everybody comes. It's nice.

661
00:36:16,060 --> 00:36:18,296
It's not a Tony or a Pulitzer,
but then we're not New York.

662
00:36:18,461 --> 00:36:19,964
You're not even Philadelphia.

663
00:36:20,097 --> 00:36:21,464
Has he read the play?

664
00:36:21,598 --> 00:36:22,867
Oh God, no.

665
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:23,901
And why not?

666
00:36:24,068 --> 00:36:25,169
Well, he was going to.

667
00:36:26,403 --> 00:36:27,839
He really was, and then for
whatever reason, he didn't get

668
00:36:29,106 --> 00:36:29,974
to it, which is completely
understandable. He's very busy.

669
00:36:30,107 --> 00:36:31,408
Winning Limas.

670
00:36:31,976 --> 00:36:33,044
My Mother read it.

671
00:36:33,177 --> 00:36:34,477
Did she love it?

672
00:36:34,611 --> 00:36:37,815
Not really. When I asked her

673
00:36:37,949 --> 00:36:39,116
what she
liked about it, she said,

674
00:36:39,250 --> 00:36:40,685
"The pages were in order."

675
00:36:40,818 --> 00:36:42,220
Hmm.

676
00:36:42,352 --> 00:36:43,587
I thought
that was a little harsh.

677
00:36:44,255 --> 00:36:45,756
Do you have a title?

678
00:36:45,890 --> 00:36:47,058
A title.

679
00:36:47,191 --> 00:36:49,626
For this brilliant
play I'm about to read.

680
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,461
Oh, I'd rather not say.

681
00:36:51,996 --> 00:36:54,932
Oh, I'd Rather
Not Say by Kenneth Waters.

682
00:36:55,066 --> 00:36:55,967
Very funny.

683
00:36:57,001 --> 00:36:58,602
Let's imagine
that up on a marquee, shall we?

684
00:36:58,736 --> 00:37:01,105
That's the first thing I
do whenever I finish a play.

685
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,343
I take a cab up to the Belasco,
still best theatre in New York,

686
00:37:05,475 --> 00:37:10,047
bar none, and I stand on the
opposite side of the street and

687
00:37:10,181 --> 00:37:13,050
I try to picture
my title up in lights.

688
00:37:13,184 --> 00:37:14,618
And if I can envision it...

689
00:37:14,752 --> 00:37:16,220
The Great American Play.

690
00:37:16,354 --> 00:37:17,288
It hasn't been written yet.

691
00:37:17,420 --> 00:37:18,723
Never will be, for that matter.

692
00:37:18,856 --> 00:37:21,158
In art, there can never
be a greatest anything.

693
00:37:21,292 --> 00:37:26,097
Play, novel,
painting, symphony, burger, try

694
00:37:26,230 --> 00:37:29,333
as we might, it will never be
because as soon as one of us

695
00:37:29,466 --> 00:37:31,068
gets close, it will be missed.

696
00:37:31,202 --> 00:37:33,204
Or, more than likely, dismissed.

697
00:37:34,038 --> 00:37:37,675
We are no longer qualified
to recognize greatness.

698
00:37:38,376 --> 00:37:42,713
We have no
idea what it looks like.

699
00:37:45,016 --> 00:37:50,420
To recognize true greatness, one
must be willing to be troubled.

700
00:37:52,056 --> 00:37:54,125
Disturbed.

701
00:37:56,093 --> 00:37:58,696
Changed.

702
00:37:59,297 --> 00:38:03,034
And no one wants to
be any of those things.

703
00:38:05,435 --> 00:38:07,570
That's the title.

704
00:38:10,540 --> 00:38:13,610
Of what?

705
00:38:15,313 --> 00:38:16,681
My play.

706
00:38:17,248 --> 00:38:21,819
The title of your play
is The Great American Play?

707
00:38:23,020 --> 00:38:24,855
Yes.

708
00:38:25,588 --> 00:38:28,759
Out of all the possible titles.

709
00:38:28,893 --> 00:38:29,961
I know.

710
00:38:33,898 --> 00:38:34,832
Is it?

711
00:38:35,433 --> 00:38:37,068
It's just the title.

712
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,271
So it's not
the Great American Play.

713
00:38:40,404 --> 00:38:41,339
Far from it.

714
00:38:42,406 --> 00:38:44,008
And yet, your title
would lead me to believe...

715
00:38:44,141 --> 00:38:45,343
Tentative title.

716
00:38:45,475 --> 00:38:47,411
Well, don't change it
now. It might be perfect.

717
00:38:47,544 --> 00:38:48,645
It's just a play.

718
00:38:57,755 --> 00:38:59,957
There is no such thing

719
00:39:02,660 --> 00:39:04,061
as "just a play".

720
00:39:14,604 --> 00:39:17,808
This is your art. Say it.

721
00:39:18,508 --> 00:39:19,509
Say what?

722
00:39:19,642 --> 00:39:20,878
This is my art.

723
00:39:21,412 --> 00:39:22,813
This is my art.

724
00:39:22,947 --> 00:39:23,948
Louder.

725
00:39:24,081 --> 00:39:25,950
This is my art.

726
00:39:26,083 --> 00:39:27,251
This is my art!

727
00:39:27,385 --> 00:39:28,585
This is my art!

728
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,721
I am an artist
and this is my art!

729
00:39:30,855 --> 00:39:32,555
I am an artist
and this is my art!

730
00:39:32,690 --> 00:39:34,058
I am an artist
and this is my art!

731
00:39:34,191 --> 00:39:35,893
I am an
artist and this is my art!

732
00:39:36,027 --> 00:39:37,728
I am an artist
and this is my art!

733
00:39:37,862 --> 00:39:39,430
I am an artist
and this is my art!

734
00:39:39,562 --> 00:39:40,831
I am an artist
and this is my art!

735
00:39:40,965 --> 00:39:42,066
I am an
artist and this is my art!

736
00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:43,533
I am an
artist and this is my art!

737
00:39:43,667 --> 00:39:44,935
I am an
artist and this is my art!

738
00:39:45,069 --> 00:39:46,536
I am an
artist and this is my art!

739
00:39:46,670 --> 00:39:48,039
I am an
artist and this is my art!

740
00:39:49,206 --> 00:39:50,408
I am an artist, Mr.
Harris! Mr. Harris, Mr. Harris!

741
00:39:51,375 --> 00:39:52,910
Keep off my pew!
This is my pew!

742
00:39:53,044 --> 00:39:54,644
I am
an artist and this is my art!

743
00:39:56,013 --> 00:39:58,983
I am an artist and this is art.

744
00:39:59,116 --> 00:40:01,819
I am an artist
and this is my art!

745
00:40:01,952 --> 00:40:04,155
I am an artist and this is my...

746
00:40:04,288 --> 00:40:06,424
I am an artist
and this is my art!

747
00:40:08,359 --> 00:40:09,527
I am an artist...

748
00:40:09,660 --> 00:40:10,795
Get outta here!

749
00:40:11,829 --> 00:40:14,331
I am an art...
I am an artist. I am an artist.

750
00:40:15,533 --> 00:40:16,834
I am an artist.

751
00:40:16,967 --> 00:40:18,836
Mr. Harris?

752
00:40:19,136 --> 00:40:20,805
I am an artist.

753
00:40:22,006 --> 00:40:25,209
Mr. Harris,
there's a train! Mr. Harris!

754
00:40:26,277 --> 00:40:28,079
Mr. Harris!

755
00:40:41,959 --> 00:40:44,095
Mr. Harris, where are
you... where are you going?

756
00:40:44,228 --> 00:40:45,796
Mr.... Mr. Harris!

757
00:40:48,265 --> 00:40:49,500
I didn't call the cops.

758
00:40:49,632 --> 00:40:50,568
I appreciate it.

759
00:40:51,435 --> 00:40:52,303
Just keep
him the hell off my pews.

760
00:40:52,436 --> 00:40:53,270
I will, I will.

761
00:40:54,305 --> 00:40:54,972
Them come straight
outta the Methodist Church.

762
00:40:55,638 --> 00:40:56,774
Jesus Himself sat in 'em.

763
00:40:58,175 --> 00:41:00,111
Yeah, okay.

764
00:41:00,244 --> 00:41:01,812
Mr. Harris!

765
00:41:02,980 --> 00:41:06,383
Mr. Harris! Mr.
Harris, are you okay?

766
00:41:06,517 --> 00:41:07,918
Mr. Harris!

767
00:41:08,052 --> 00:41:09,487
Do you remember 9/11?

768
00:41:09,619 --> 00:41:11,255
Huh?

769
00:41:11,388 --> 00:41:12,790
Do you remember 9/11?

770
00:41:12,923 --> 00:41:14,391
Yes, of course.

771
00:41:14,525 --> 00:41:15,693
What did you think?

772
00:41:16,427 --> 00:41:17,461
What did I think?

773
00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:19,563
What did you... tell
me what you thought.

774
00:41:20,764 --> 00:41:22,366
I thought it was a tragedy.
It changed the whole world.

775
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,835
I thought it was Shakespearean.

776
00:41:25,970 --> 00:41:27,037
Did you think
it was Shakespearean?

777
00:41:27,171 --> 00:41:28,139
I thought it w...

778
00:41:28,272 --> 00:41:29,173
Yeah, definitely.

779
00:41:30,407 --> 00:41:32,243
I'd like to think if the Bard
had written it, he might've

780
00:41:32,376 --> 00:41:34,211
toned down on some
of the gruesomeness.

781
00:41:35,212 --> 00:41:37,882
Even he
couldn't have written that day.

782
00:41:39,383 --> 00:41:42,353
Look, Mr. Harris,
just talk this out, okay?

783
00:41:42,486 --> 00:41:43,354
We'll get in my car.

784
00:41:43,487 --> 00:41:44,488
Please.

785
00:41:44,622 --> 00:41:45,689
I have a MasterCard.

786
00:41:45,823 --> 00:41:47,791
I have a MasterCard!

787
00:41:47,925 --> 00:41:48,926
You're right!

788
00:41:49,059 --> 00:41:50,694
And I will use that MasterCard

789
00:41:50,828 --> 00:41:54,198
to pay for your
ticket after you read my play.

790
00:41:55,699 --> 00:41:58,536
Before.

791
00:41:58,669 --> 00:42:02,373
After. I'm going to lose
everything, Mr. Harris. My

792
00:42:02,506 --> 00:42:04,341
apprenticeship, my
affiliation with the theatre,

793
00:42:04,475 --> 00:42:07,211
and there's a very good chance
I may wind up back in wing nuts!

794
00:42:07,344 --> 00:42:09,780
So when you say you're gonna
read my play, I need to know

795
00:42:09,914 --> 00:42:11,815
you're really
going to read my play.

796
00:42:13,083 --> 00:42:14,151
Even if it kills me.

797
00:42:14,285 --> 00:42:15,654
Look, on one condition.

798
00:42:15,786 --> 00:42:17,955
You,
you have to tell me the truth.

799
00:42:18,088 --> 00:42:19,256
Huh.

800
00:42:19,990 --> 00:42:21,592
I also have a condition.

801
00:42:21,725 --> 00:42:23,928
Yeah, anything. You name it.

802
00:42:24,628 --> 00:42:26,397
Alcohol.

803
00:42:28,365 --> 00:42:29,466
Okay, alcohol. Okay.

804
00:42:37,575 --> 00:42:38,776
No, no!

805
00:42:53,591 --> 00:42:54,659
Hey, liquor run!

806
00:42:54,792 --> 00:42:55,826
Liquor run!

807
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,528
It's 2:45, we're closed!

808
00:42:57,662 --> 00:42:58,629
Come on, man!

809
00:42:58,762 --> 00:43:00,531
I have never been more closed.

810
00:43:00,665 --> 00:43:01,599
Come on!

811
00:43:02,833 --> 00:43:04,235
I'm more closed than my options
after I failed high school.

812
00:43:04,368 --> 00:43:05,704
I'm desperate.

813
00:43:05,836 --> 00:43:07,972
I'm more closed than the casket
was on my father's funeral.

814
00:43:08,105 --> 00:43:09,440
I'm more closed than the

815
00:43:09,573 --> 00:43:11,442
chance to
reconcile with my girlfriend.

816
00:43:11,575 --> 00:43:14,845
I'm so closed, I
can feel my biological processes

817
00:43:14,979 --> 00:43:15,879
shutting down!

818
00:43:16,013 --> 00:43:17,014
I got it!

819
00:43:32,396 --> 00:43:34,733
Gas station, there is.
Bar's closed, bar's closed now.

820
00:43:34,865 --> 00:43:36,066
Oh, Hope! Hope!

821
00:43:47,645 --> 00:43:50,749
Hope!

822
00:43:50,881 --> 00:43:54,018
Hope! Hope!

823
00:43:56,220 --> 00:44:00,457
Hope! Hope!
Hope, Hope! Hope, Hope, hi!

824
00:44:00,591 --> 00:44:02,359
Step away from the door. 1...

825
00:44:02,493 --> 00:44:03,460
No, no, no, no, wait!

826
00:44:03,594 --> 00:44:04,528
2...

827
00:44:04,663 --> 00:44:05,562
No, it's me! Kenneth Waters!

828
00:44:06,797 --> 00:44:08,399
We dated in high school and
after the Sadie Hawkins Dance,

829
00:44:08,532 --> 00:44:09,266
I told you I loved you
and how I wanted to marry you

830
00:44:12,903 --> 00:44:14,471
Wing nut?

831
00:44:39,698 --> 00:44:42,599
What have you been doing with
yourself other than drinking?

832
00:44:42,734 --> 00:44:43,702
I'm in the theatre.

833
00:44:43,834 --> 00:44:44,902
Cineplex?

834
00:44:45,035 --> 00:44:46,437
No. The legit theatre,

835
00:44:46,570 --> 00:44:48,072
I'm an apprentice
at the Lima Playhouse.

836
00:44:48,205 --> 00:44:50,474
What happened
to making wing nuts?

837
00:44:50,607 --> 00:44:51,909
Yeah, it wasn't for me.

838
00:44:52,476 --> 00:44:54,144
Are you an actor?

839
00:44:54,278 --> 00:44:56,480
Uh, no, I'm... I write.

840
00:44:56,613 --> 00:44:58,282
Write what?

841
00:44:58,415 --> 00:44:59,383
Plays.

842
00:45:00,317 --> 00:45:01,552
You mean like pretend?

843
00:45:01,686 --> 00:45:04,121
Yeah, no.
No, they're real. The plays

844
00:45:04,254 --> 00:45:06,791
are real. Only they're
not. It's hard to explain.

845
00:45:07,358 --> 00:45:09,761
You
should've gone into wing nuts.

846
00:45:09,893 --> 00:45:11,562
Vicki told me
I should reconsider.

847
00:45:11,696 --> 00:45:14,365
I said reconsider
what, we're sophomores in high

848
00:45:14,498 --> 00:45:16,300
school, there's plenty of
fish in the sea, you know?

849
00:45:16,433 --> 00:45:18,569
The
Junior Class alone was loaded.

850
00:45:18,703 --> 00:45:20,839
Yeah, well, we were
kids, what did we know.

851
00:45:20,971 --> 00:45:23,874
I'm not seeing any gin.

852
00:45:24,007 --> 00:45:25,943
All I got is beer and wine.

853
00:45:26,076 --> 00:45:28,479
Yeah, okay.

854
00:45:30,514 --> 00:45:33,450
You would not
believe the night I'm having.

855
00:45:34,084 --> 00:45:35,619
Do you know
who Joseph Harris is?

856
00:45:35,754 --> 00:45:37,054
Was he in our class?

857
00:45:38,222 --> 00:45:40,859
No, he's a playwright
and he's here right now in Lima,

858
00:45:40,991 --> 00:45:42,359
at the train station,

859
00:45:42,493 --> 00:45:43,894
reading my play.

860
00:45:44,863 --> 00:45:47,364
Are you dating anybody?

861
00:45:48,198 --> 00:45:50,601
I got Mondays off.

862
00:45:50,735 --> 00:45:51,703
You could take me to the

863
00:45:52,737 --> 00:45:53,470
playhouse and I can
watch you write somethin'.

864
00:45:54,171 --> 00:45:54,806
Well, it's not that exciting.

865
00:45:56,073 --> 00:45:58,208
Is it more exciting than selling
beer at 3:15 in the morning?

866
00:46:06,818 --> 00:46:09,153
Trapped inside a little box.

867
00:46:09,821 --> 00:46:12,623
Of your own making, I might add.

868
00:46:14,391 --> 00:46:16,326
I know.

869
00:46:17,094 --> 00:46:18,830
You know?

870
00:46:18,962 --> 00:46:22,399
You don't think I do, but I do.

871
00:46:23,133 --> 00:46:25,235
And what is it you know?

872
00:46:25,369 --> 00:46:29,006
I know who said,
the "first sign of

873
00:46:29,139 --> 00:46:32,409
understanding
is the wish to die".

874
00:46:33,912 --> 00:46:36,246
Dostoevsky.

875
00:46:36,848 --> 00:46:39,082
Kafka.

876
00:46:48,158 --> 00:46:49,928
Franz.

877
00:46:50,060 --> 00:46:50,929
Lawrence.

878
00:46:51,061 --> 00:46:51,930
How's it goin'?

879
00:46:52,062 --> 00:46:53,163
Okay.

880
00:46:53,297 --> 00:46:55,532
Like Grand
Central in here tonight.

881
00:46:55,667 --> 00:46:57,301
He's from New York.

882
00:46:57,434 --> 00:46:58,635
What's he doin' here?

883
00:46:58,770 --> 00:46:59,904
Theatre.

884
00:47:00,037 --> 00:47:01,104
Cineplex?

885
00:47:01,238 --> 00:47:02,740
Playhouse.

886
00:47:03,373 --> 00:47:06,109
The wife dragged me to
one of those once. After five

887
00:47:06,243 --> 00:47:07,578
minutes they'd stop doing what

888
00:47:07,712 --> 00:47:09,346
they were
doin' and start singin'.

889
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,248
I said that's
not normal behavior.

890
00:47:11,381 --> 00:47:12,649
She said is it supposed to be?

891
00:47:12,784 --> 00:47:15,152
I said then
what the hell am I watchin'?

892
00:47:16,253 --> 00:47:19,990
It's not just a play, it's art.

893
00:47:20,123 --> 00:47:21,992
And when it works when the

894
00:47:22,125 --> 00:47:25,128
writing, and the
acting, and the directing...

895
00:47:27,164 --> 00:47:30,567
And the writing, and the acting,
and the directing, and the set

896
00:47:30,702 --> 00:47:33,237
design, and the props, and
the writing, when it all comes

897
00:47:33,370 --> 00:47:35,305
together,
it's better than movies.

898
00:47:35,439 --> 00:47:36,640
It's better than TV.

899
00:47:36,774 --> 00:47:38,408
Can I get it on my phone?

900
00:47:38,542 --> 00:47:40,377
No.

901
00:47:49,486 --> 00:47:51,723
Okay, okay. Oh!

902
00:47:53,290 --> 00:47:55,259
Here we go.

903
00:48:03,001 --> 00:48:04,802
So?

904
00:48:04,936 --> 00:48:07,604
Yes. Do you have a...?

905
00:48:07,739 --> 00:48:09,306
Yeah, yes.

906
00:48:13,811 --> 00:48:15,546
Take your time.

907
00:48:16,881 --> 00:48:17,849
Hi!

908
00:48:17,982 --> 00:48:18,917
Hey.

909
00:48:19,049 --> 00:48:20,818
Merry Christmas.

910
00:48:20,952 --> 00:48:23,220
Merry Christmas.

911
00:48:23,353 --> 00:48:24,923
He didn't say anything, did he?

912
00:48:25,055 --> 00:48:26,691
Not about your play.

913
00:48:27,959 --> 00:48:29,226
He's reading my play.

914
00:48:29,359 --> 00:48:31,328
It got singin' in it?

915
00:48:31,461 --> 00:48:34,531
No. Does he look bored to you?

916
00:48:35,165 --> 00:48:37,267
Don't worry about me, I can
take it. I'm used to criticism.

917
00:48:37,401 --> 00:48:39,303
We criticize each other
in the theatre all the time.

918
00:48:39,436 --> 00:48:40,537
That's how we grow.

919
00:48:42,272 --> 00:48:42,941
See ya tomorrow.

920
00:48:43,106 --> 00:48:45,342
See ya tomorrow.

921
00:49:40,197 --> 00:49:41,766
Would you like some coffee?

922
00:49:41,899 --> 00:49:43,300
Something to eat?

923
00:49:43,433 --> 00:49:44,601
I can run out and get
you something real quick,

924
00:49:44,736 --> 00:49:45,837
if you'd like?

925
00:49:45,970 --> 00:49:47,105
I know what
you can do, pay for my ticket.

926
00:49:47,237 --> 00:49:48,271
After we discuss my play.

927
00:49:48,405 --> 00:49:49,539
Play? What play?

928
00:49:49,674 --> 00:49:51,375
I read so many,
it's hard to keep track.

929
00:49:52,043 --> 00:49:54,511
Well, just so you know,
I've never done this before.

930
00:49:54,645 --> 00:49:56,814
That's not to say you can't
be brutally honest with me.

931
00:49:56,948 --> 00:49:58,548
Don't worry about me,
I'm my own worst critic,

932
00:49:58,683 --> 00:49:59,984
so anything you could say I've

933
00:50:00,118 --> 00:50:00,852
probably
already said it to myself.

934
00:50:01,986 --> 00:50:03,387
So that being said,
say anything that comes to mind.

935
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:05,823
Also, this is my first play.

936
00:50:05,957 --> 00:50:06,958
You probably could tell though,

937
00:50:07,091 --> 00:50:08,592
but still, in case you couldn't.

938
00:50:09,526 --> 00:50:11,294
You couldn't, could you?

939
00:50:11,428 --> 00:50:12,764
Or could you?

940
00:50:12,897 --> 00:50:14,032
No, don't answer that.

941
00:50:14,164 --> 00:50:15,565
Also, I
know I have a lot to learn.

942
00:50:15,700 --> 00:50:16,901
And even though
I've never had my

943
00:50:17,035 --> 00:50:18,836
work analyzed by anyone,

944
00:50:19,003 --> 00:50:20,038
certainly by anyone
of your stature, though

945
00:50:21,005 --> 00:50:22,707
I did do a
small reading with some friends

946
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:23,440
of mine and after we were
finished, they really didn't

947
00:50:24,742 --> 00:50:25,275
have anything constructive to
say except for this one actress

948
00:50:26,010 --> 00:50:26,443
who thought her character should

949
00:50:27,277 --> 00:50:27,679
have more lines,
but other than that.

950
00:50:27,979 --> 00:50:28,746
So...

951
00:50:29,681 --> 00:50:30,647
Oh, also if you
could start by telling me

952
00:50:30,782 --> 00:50:31,949
something you liked about it.

953
00:50:32,950 --> 00:50:34,284
It can be a line, a
character, a plot twist.

954
00:50:34,418 --> 00:50:35,720
Anything.
Anything at all.

955
00:50:35,853 --> 00:50:37,354
And then feel
free to tear it to shreds.

956
00:50:37,487 --> 00:50:40,290
Or not. Or whatever.
I'm talking too much.

957
00:50:40,424 --> 00:50:41,491
I'd much rather hear
what you have to say.

958
00:50:41,625 --> 00:50:43,493
Whenever you're ready.

959
00:50:44,561 --> 00:50:47,098
Have you
ever eaten in a restaurant?

960
00:50:47,230 --> 00:50:48,632
What?

961
00:50:49,466 --> 00:50:50,702
Have you ever eaten in...

962
00:50:50,835 --> 00:50:52,103
Yes, of course
I've eaten in a restaurant.

963
00:50:52,235 --> 00:50:53,137
Oh good.

964
00:50:54,371 --> 00:50:55,405
Well... oh... well, eating in
this restaurant, have you ever

965
00:50:56,140 --> 00:50:56,874
experienced someone spending the

966
00:50:57,909 --> 00:50:59,877
entire meal sampling
the food off your plate?

967
00:51:00,011 --> 00:51:01,112
Uh.

968
00:51:01,244 --> 00:51:02,212
Don't you hate that?

969
00:51:02,345 --> 00:51:03,848
My agent is the worst.

970
00:51:05,049 --> 00:51:06,818
I... I'll be sitting there,
minding my own business, next

971
00:51:06,951 --> 00:51:09,586
thing I know she's poking her
way through my pasta like she's

972
00:51:09,721 --> 00:51:11,321
heading some archaeological dig.

973
00:51:11,455 --> 00:51:12,556
What does...

974
00:51:13,390 --> 00:51:13,991
"Just a taste.
Just a little taste."

975
00:51:15,258 --> 00:51:17,061
Swear to God, there are people,
you put 'em in front of food,

976
00:51:17,195 --> 00:51:19,529
they turn into cattle.

977
00:51:19,664 --> 00:51:22,166
Grazing their
way around the table.

978
00:51:22,299 --> 00:51:23,266
Mr. Harris.

979
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:24,869
A restaurant is not a pasture.

980
00:51:25,002 --> 00:51:25,937
God, how I hate that.

981
00:51:26,070 --> 00:51:27,038
Don't you hate that?

982
00:51:27,171 --> 00:51:28,039
Tell me you hate that.

983
00:51:28,172 --> 00:51:29,707
I hate that.

984
00:51:29,841 --> 00:51:30,775
Good.

985
00:51:31,876 --> 00:51:33,310
'Cause as much as
I hate that, it's not nearly as

986
00:51:33,443 --> 00:51:35,278
much as I hated your play.

987
00:51:46,289 --> 00:51:50,928
Yes, hate. I tried to find
something more palatable.

988
00:51:51,829 --> 00:51:55,398
Loathe, despise,

989
00:51:55,532 --> 00:51:57,334
abhor, condemn.

990
00:51:57,467 --> 00:51:58,703
I condemn your play.

991
00:51:58,836 --> 00:52:01,638
But no, in the
end "hate" will have to do.

992
00:52:06,077 --> 00:52:08,212
This, of course,
would be where, in an effort to

993
00:52:08,345 --> 00:52:13,316
extricate us both from a...
an awkward situation, I say,

994
00:52:13,450 --> 00:52:15,753
"Perhaps, I'm being too harsh."

995
00:52:16,586 --> 00:52:18,555
But I don't.

996
00:52:19,289 --> 00:52:21,324
Instead, I turn to you and say,

997
00:52:21,458 --> 00:52:23,393
"Pay for my ticket."

998
00:52:26,596 --> 00:52:30,201
Oh, when you um, hmm... yeah,

999
00:52:30,333 --> 00:52:32,435
well, when...
when you say "hate"...

1000
00:52:33,336 --> 00:52:35,139
Oh God, he wants... wants more.

1001
00:52:35,273 --> 00:52:36,240
Write this down.

1002
00:52:36,373 --> 00:52:37,541
I think I'll remember this.

1003
00:52:37,675 --> 00:52:38,776
I can't hear you.

1004
00:52:39,643 --> 00:52:40,211
I said, I
think I'll remember this.

1005
00:52:41,245 --> 00:52:45,082
In your play.
I cannot hear you in your play.

1006
00:52:45,216 --> 00:52:46,117
Oh, I thought you were...

1007
00:52:46,250 --> 00:52:47,517
For whom are you writing?

1008
00:52:48,351 --> 00:52:49,452
What do you mean?

1009
00:52:49,586 --> 00:52:51,521
For whom are you writing?

1010
00:52:53,124 --> 00:52:54,357
The audience?

1011
00:52:54,491 --> 00:52:55,525
To hell with the audience.

1012
00:52:56,093 --> 00:52:58,062
You put your
little fingers on your

1013
00:52:58,196 --> 00:52:59,730
little keyboard and
you start typing what you

1014
00:52:59,864 --> 00:53:03,600
think, what you
feel, what you want,

1015
00:53:04,302 --> 00:53:05,870
what you love, what you hate,

1016
00:53:06,436 --> 00:53:07,571
what you cannot stand,

1017
00:53:07,705 --> 00:53:09,006
what you refuse to allow,

1018
00:53:09,140 --> 00:53:10,041
what you must change,

1019
00:53:10,174 --> 00:53:11,108
because if you do that,

1020
00:53:11,242 --> 00:53:12,743
you will write who you are.

1021
00:53:13,711 --> 00:53:16,047
That said, you are
the last thing I care about.

1022
00:53:16,180 --> 00:53:17,815
You care about the story.

1023
00:53:17,949 --> 00:53:19,050
Not the story.

1024
00:53:19,183 --> 00:53:20,450
The theme?

1025
00:53:20,584 --> 00:53:21,618
Stop being so academic.

1026
00:53:21,752 --> 00:53:22,920
When the curtain goes up,

1027
00:53:23,955 --> 00:53:26,556
I care about one
thing and one thing only. Me.

1028
00:53:26,691 --> 00:53:28,993
When I'm not
talking about myself,

1029
00:53:29,126 --> 00:53:30,560
I'm thinking about myself.

1030
00:53:30,695 --> 00:53:33,597
Therefore, it would
stand to reason that the only

1031
00:53:33,731 --> 00:53:36,433
person I would want
to know more about would be...

1032
00:53:38,002 --> 00:53:39,103
You.

1033
00:53:39,237 --> 00:53:40,470
Through you.

1034
00:53:40,604 --> 00:53:42,106
Through your play.

1035
00:53:42,639 --> 00:53:45,142
In order to do that,
I have to hear you.

1036
00:53:45,843 --> 00:53:49,146
If as I'm reading your
words, I can hear your voice,

1037
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,182
I will in turn hear mine.

1038
00:53:51,749 --> 00:53:55,987
And when I hear mine,
in concert with yours, you will

1039
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,357
take me to a place that's deep,
some place I may not want to go,

1040
00:53:59,489 --> 00:54:01,325
some place I
may not want to leave.

1041
00:54:01,993 --> 00:54:07,064
And if we're both very,
very lucky, you will have taken

1042
00:54:07,198 --> 00:54:09,033
me some place,

1043
00:54:09,934 --> 00:54:13,004
the only
place worth writing about.

1044
00:54:14,338 --> 00:54:16,774
A place called "human".

1045
00:54:17,975 --> 00:54:22,612
When you write
that, then and only then,

1046
00:54:22,747 --> 00:54:24,348
will you have a play.

1047
00:54:24,949 --> 00:54:28,152
And for God's
sakes, change the title,

1048
00:54:28,286 --> 00:54:30,154
critics will have a field day.

1049
00:54:36,526 --> 00:54:40,998
I'd like
to pay for my ticket.

1050
00:54:46,837 --> 00:54:50,675
Don't be so hard on
yourself, it's your first play.

1051
00:54:52,209 --> 00:54:56,479
Worse, it's the first
draft of your first play.

1052
00:54:56,613 --> 00:54:58,382
You're not
even out of the womb yet.

1053
00:54:58,515 --> 00:54:59,616
Cash or charge?

1054
00:54:59,750 --> 00:55:00,985
Mr. Waters?

1055
00:55:01,986 --> 00:55:05,156
Your presence is requested.

1056
00:55:09,694 --> 00:55:12,562
Mr. Waters,
I need your credit card.

1057
00:55:14,198 --> 00:55:16,734
I am an artist
and this is my art.

1058
00:55:21,038 --> 00:55:23,107
I am an
artist and this is my art.

1059
00:55:23,240 --> 00:55:25,376
Oh, for God's sake.

1060
00:55:25,910 --> 00:55:27,912
I am an artist
and this is my art.

1061
00:55:28,045 --> 00:55:29,612
I'm not in the mood for this.

1062
00:55:29,747 --> 00:55:31,048
I am an artist
and this is my art!

1063
00:55:31,182 --> 00:55:32,817
Mr. Waters,
we have an agreement.

1064
00:55:32,950 --> 00:55:35,152
I am an artist
and this is my art!

1065
00:55:35,286 --> 00:55:36,187
Waters.

1066
00:55:36,988 --> 00:55:37,822
I am an artist
and this is my art!

1067
00:55:38,621 --> 00:55:40,358
I am an artist
and this is my art!

1068
00:55:40,490 --> 00:55:41,392
I... I...

1069
00:55:42,193 --> 00:55:43,260
I am an artist
and this is my art!

1070
00:55:44,061 --> 00:55:44,795
I am an artist
and this is my art!

1071
00:55:45,528 --> 00:55:46,731
Waters, I need your credit card.

1072
00:55:46,864 --> 00:55:48,631
I am an artist
and this is my art!

1073
00:55:48,766 --> 00:55:50,401
Get off my pew!

1074
00:55:50,533 --> 00:55:52,169
I am an artist
and this is my art!

1075
00:55:52,303 --> 00:55:54,005
Get the hell off
my pews or I'm callin' the cops!

1076
00:55:54,138 --> 00:55:55,006
Get off!

1077
00:55:55,139 --> 00:55:57,775
Yeah, okay, okay.

1078
00:55:58,409 --> 00:56:00,144
I gave you a
beer, so unless you want me to

1079
00:56:00,277 --> 00:56:02,512
call the train people and tell
them you drink on the job...

1080
00:56:16,660 --> 00:56:18,628
I got a couple questions!

1081
00:56:19,596 --> 00:56:20,831
Do you?

1082
00:56:20,965 --> 00:56:22,033
Mhmm.

1083
00:56:22,166 --> 00:56:23,134
About?

1084
00:56:23,267 --> 00:56:24,268
All sorts of things.

1085
00:56:24,402 --> 00:56:25,336
Where do I start?

1086
00:56:25,469 --> 00:56:26,871
Well, you could start by telling

1087
00:56:27,004 --> 00:56:29,173
me why you're not
honoring our agreement.

1088
00:56:29,306 --> 00:56:30,708
Oh, I'm going to honor it!

1089
00:56:30,841 --> 00:56:31,909
I may not be able to write,

1090
00:56:32,043 --> 00:56:33,511
but honorable? That I can do!

1091
00:56:34,011 --> 00:56:35,513
I read your play, didn't I?

1092
00:56:35,645 --> 00:56:36,514
Yes, you did!

1093
00:56:36,646 --> 00:56:37,515
And we discussed it.

1094
00:56:37,647 --> 00:56:38,615
Yes, we did!

1095
00:56:38,749 --> 00:56:40,284
So what is it I haven't done?

1096
00:56:40,418 --> 00:56:42,820
Why haven't you written
anything in almost 20 years?

1097
00:56:44,955 --> 00:56:46,457
Pay for my ticket.

1098
00:56:46,589 --> 00:56:48,959
Is it because you're a drunk?

1099
00:56:53,064 --> 00:56:57,902
"Look! Look, I'm Joseph Harris!

1100
00:56:58,035 --> 00:57:00,603
I think I'll sit down
and not write a play!

1101
00:57:00,738 --> 00:57:04,508
Do you care to
join me, Mr. Waters? Yes? No?

1102
00:57:04,675 --> 00:57:06,110
All the more for me.

1103
00:57:06,243 --> 00:57:09,547
I love being me.
You should be so lucky."

1104
00:57:10,647 --> 00:57:14,318
Do you know what's worse than
meeting your inspiration? Huh?

1105
00:57:14,452 --> 00:57:18,122
Coming face to face with
your muse. That's right, Harris.

1106
00:57:18,255 --> 00:57:21,192
I have a muse,
right here in my bag.

1107
00:57:25,496 --> 00:57:28,598
You! You are my muse!

1108
00:57:28,732 --> 00:57:30,901
Not some little bird
who sits on my shoulder!

1109
00:57:31,035 --> 00:57:34,138
You! I know I'm
supposed to have my own voice,

1110
00:57:34,271 --> 00:57:36,240
and truth,
and soul, but I don't.

1111
00:57:36,373 --> 00:57:38,542
I'm not a playwright
and I never will be.

1112
00:57:38,676 --> 00:57:39,642
Tell me the truth!

1113
00:57:39,777 --> 00:57:41,078
Tell me I'm not a playwright!

1114
00:57:45,416 --> 00:57:47,818
Do you want me to fix it?

1115
00:57:50,821 --> 00:57:52,156
What, you're just gonna sit here

1116
00:57:52,289 --> 00:57:53,924
and work some
kind of a miracle, is that it?

1117
00:57:54,592 --> 00:57:56,393
Something like that.

1118
00:57:57,928 --> 00:58:00,397
Pay for my
ticket, I'll fix your play.

1119
00:58:01,765 --> 00:58:03,901
Fix my play and
I'll pay for your ticket.

1120
00:58:06,537 --> 00:58:08,139
Do you have a pen?

1121
00:58:10,374 --> 00:58:14,378
Uh.
I think a lot of what's wrong

1122
00:58:14,512 --> 00:58:15,645
with it is in the Second Act.

1123
00:58:15,779 --> 00:58:17,248
Not that
the First Act is so great, but I

1124
00:58:17,381 --> 00:58:19,049
ran into problems with the
subplot about the brother.

1125
00:58:19,683 --> 00:58:20,951
I just don't know if he's that

1126
00:58:21,085 --> 00:58:21,986
interesting of
a character, to be honest.

1127
00:58:22,119 --> 00:58:23,154
I like the sister, though.

1128
00:58:24,355 --> 00:58:25,089
She's modeled after my own
sister who's this certifiable

1129
00:58:26,290 --> 00:58:27,224
maniac which is why anytime
she opens her mouth, she...

1130
00:58:27,358 --> 00:58:28,826
Done.

1131
00:58:29,627 --> 00:58:31,095
You can't do that.

1132
00:58:31,228 --> 00:58:33,464
Great American
Play by Joseph Harris.

1133
00:58:33,597 --> 00:58:35,266
Some judicious trimming,

1134
00:58:35,399 --> 00:58:37,334
I'm sure it
will be to Simon's liking.

1135
00:58:38,335 --> 00:58:39,637
No.

1136
00:58:39,770 --> 00:58:40,671
You want to be a playwright?

1137
00:58:40,804 --> 00:58:42,339
You're a playwright.

1138
00:58:42,473 --> 00:58:43,641
Not like this.

1139
00:58:44,175 --> 00:58:46,410
Haven't you
heard of collaboration?

1140
00:58:46,544 --> 00:58:48,379
It's the new rage.

1141
00:58:48,946 --> 00:58:50,614
Simon's
gonna wanna know where you are.

1142
00:58:50,748 --> 00:58:53,117
I'll be in New York.

1143
00:58:53,951 --> 00:58:55,753
He's going to
want to talk to you.

1144
00:58:55,886 --> 00:58:57,154
He's going to
want to discuss the play.

1145
00:58:58,422 --> 00:59:01,660
I'm nothing if not eccentric and
my latest eccentricity is that I

1146
00:59:01,792 --> 00:59:04,828
refuse to discuss my play
with anyone other than you.

1147
00:59:04,962 --> 00:59:06,330
Uh, he won't buy that.

1148
00:59:07,231 --> 00:59:09,833
I'll tell him we
have great chemistry.

1149
00:59:09,967 --> 00:59:11,435
He'll know it's not yours.

1150
00:59:11,569 --> 00:59:13,470
He hasn't read it, has he?

1151
00:59:13,604 --> 00:59:14,673
No.

1152
00:59:14,805 --> 00:59:17,174
Ah, perfect. Signed a contract

1153
00:59:17,308 --> 00:59:20,578
for a new play, no one
said it had to be any good.

1154
00:59:21,111 --> 00:59:22,880
But it's not even
in your style, your voice.

1155
00:59:23,013 --> 00:59:24,982
Don't be afraid, Mr. Waters.

1156
00:59:25,449 --> 00:59:29,620
You're about to become the
luckiest apprentice in the

1157
00:59:29,753 --> 00:59:32,156
history of the American Theatre.

1158
00:59:35,993 --> 00:59:37,928
You still
didn't answer my question.

1159
00:59:40,965 --> 00:59:45,769
Yes. I'm a drunk.

1160
00:59:54,278 --> 00:59:56,780
Is that why you
want to kill yourself?

1161
01:00:12,896 --> 01:00:17,768
I am the way I am, because
it makes everything the same.

1162
01:00:20,004 --> 01:00:23,274
Exactly as it should be, exactly

1163
01:00:23,407 --> 01:00:27,911
as it was, and always will be
which is exactly how we like it.

1164
01:00:29,613 --> 01:00:31,148
Isn't it?

1165
01:00:33,083 --> 01:00:34,485
If you say so.

1166
01:00:34,618 --> 01:00:36,020
Oh, I know so.

1167
01:00:36,553 --> 01:00:39,556
Save us all from the
one thing that we don't want to

1168
01:00:39,691 --> 01:00:41,258
face which is what, Mr. Waters?

1169
01:00:41,392 --> 01:00:45,796
What is that thing inside you,
that thing your play lacks?

1170
01:00:47,898 --> 01:00:49,867
The truth?

1171
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,871
Define truth.

1172
01:00:54,004 --> 01:00:55,906
Feeling more
than we want to?

1173
01:00:56,807 --> 01:01:00,811
Feeling all of it.
Every heartache,

1174
01:01:00,944 --> 01:01:04,315
every triumph,

1175
01:01:06,016 --> 01:01:08,319
right, wrong,

1176
01:01:08,452 --> 01:01:09,987
hope, and dream.

1177
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:14,024
Love and loss.

1178
01:01:15,794 --> 01:01:19,196
All I know, all I don't,

1179
01:01:20,631 --> 01:01:23,233
all I am, and all I am not.

1180
01:01:29,106 --> 01:01:32,744
The 4:19 to Toledo
will be arriving shortly.

1181
01:01:32,876 --> 01:01:35,245
Please be
careful near the tracks.

1182
01:02:21,258 --> 01:02:24,027
Ah, mornin', Franz.

1183
01:02:24,161 --> 01:02:25,329
Mornin', Mary.

1184
01:02:25,462 --> 01:02:26,463
Merry Christmas.

1185
01:02:26,597 --> 01:02:27,766
How's your sister?

1186
01:02:29,066 --> 01:02:32,603
Uh, well, between you and me,
if she'd just get it over with.

1187
01:02:32,737 --> 01:02:34,505
I got coffee made.

1188
01:02:34,638 --> 01:02:37,074
Oh no, no. No
thanks, I'm fine.

1189
01:02:48,385 --> 01:02:50,154
Hello.

1190
01:02:50,921 --> 01:02:52,757
Hello.

1191
01:02:53,223 --> 01:02:55,626
You going to Toledo?

1192
01:02:56,627 --> 01:02:59,096
No.

1193
01:02:59,764 --> 01:03:01,733
I'm gonna see my sister.

1194
01:03:02,232 --> 01:03:03,934
She's dying of cancer.

1195
01:03:04,067 --> 01:03:06,303
It's very sad.

1196
01:03:12,209 --> 01:03:15,512
I'm not sorry.

1197
01:03:22,286 --> 01:03:24,488
Neither am I.

1198
01:03:25,355 --> 01:03:27,491
You want the ticket or not?

1199
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,522
One last question.

1200
01:04:03,962 --> 01:04:06,997
Can you still think?

1201
01:04:11,001 --> 01:04:12,503
Answer the question.

1202
01:04:13,103 --> 01:04:15,539
It's not important.

1203
01:04:18,642 --> 01:04:21,445
You've never said anything
unimportant in your life.

1204
01:04:34,659 --> 01:04:37,261
"There comes a time in
the life of every playwright

1205
01:04:37,996 --> 01:04:40,597
when you realize
you've written your great play.

1206
01:04:41,164 --> 01:04:42,734
I've written mine.

1207
01:04:44,002 --> 01:04:45,602
My fear is Up a Lonely River may
not only be the best play I have

1208
01:04:45,737 --> 01:04:48,205
ever written, but it
is quite possibly the best play

1209
01:04:48,338 --> 01:04:49,406
I will ever write.

1210
01:04:50,407 --> 01:04:52,509
Knowing this
is frightening enough, but one's

1211
01:04:52,643 --> 01:04:55,178
only hope of overcoming the
daunting prospect of never being

1212
01:04:55,312 --> 01:04:57,682
able to live up to yourself is

1213
01:04:57,815 --> 01:04:59,249
to sit down at
your desk every morning,

1214
01:04:59,383 --> 01:05:01,118
put your fingers on the keys,

1215
01:05:01,251 --> 01:05:02,553
and type what you think.

1216
01:05:02,687 --> 01:05:05,055
For it matters
not what I have done,

1217
01:05:05,188 --> 01:05:06,991
only what I still have to say

1218
01:05:07,558 --> 01:05:10,227
and there is always
something still to say, because

1219
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,731
as long as I can still
think, I will still write."

1220
01:05:20,337 --> 01:05:22,239
Can you still think?

1221
01:05:47,531 --> 01:05:49,667
All this
time, it didn't make any sense.

1222
01:05:50,167 --> 01:05:53,905
Why would he come all this way
just to return a check for a

1223
01:05:54,038 --> 01:05:55,505
play he never wrote?

1224
01:06:05,515 --> 01:06:08,585
"Untitled New
Play By Joseph Harris."

1225
01:06:13,624 --> 01:06:15,727
Out of
all the possible titles.

1226
01:06:20,197 --> 01:06:21,766
When?

1227
01:06:21,899 --> 01:06:22,967
No, it doesn't matter.

1228
01:06:24,102 --> 01:06:26,904
Oh, it matters, Mr. Waters.
It matters a great deal.

1229
01:06:28,572 --> 01:06:30,173
When you
got on the train to come here.

1230
01:06:30,307 --> 01:06:33,111
You said it yourself, "No one
comes to a place like this

1231
01:06:33,243 --> 01:06:34,645
unless they have to."

1232
01:06:39,483 --> 01:06:41,686
I ran into the street.

1233
01:06:43,688 --> 01:06:47,759
Everyone was pouring out
of the stores, their apartments.

1234
01:06:48,625 --> 01:06:52,130
What was going on?
No one knew a thing.

1235
01:06:52,997 --> 01:06:56,834
A queen on the fourth
floor of a walk up was hanging

1236
01:06:56,968 --> 01:06:59,236
out his window, calling down to

1237
01:06:59,369 --> 01:07:01,571
us about what he
was seeing on television.

1238
01:07:02,172 --> 01:07:07,377
A woman in high heels ran
past me, through me actually,

1239
01:07:07,577 --> 01:07:10,213
screaming into
her cell phone about having

1240
01:07:10,347 --> 01:07:14,686
to get to her daughter's school
all the way up in the East 90s.

1241
01:07:15,218 --> 01:07:20,091
I stepped... I stepped out onto

1242
01:07:20,223 --> 01:07:22,026
7th Avenue and looked south.

1243
01:07:22,592 --> 01:07:24,662
I could see the smoke.

1244
01:07:24,796 --> 01:07:26,064
And the fire.

1245
01:07:26,630 --> 01:07:28,298
And then came the second plane.

1246
01:07:28,432 --> 01:07:30,134
Over the water.

1247
01:07:30,735 --> 01:07:34,038
So low I could see that
brilliant September sun

1248
01:07:34,172 --> 01:07:35,973
reflecting off the fuselage.

1249
01:07:36,506 --> 01:07:38,176
I watched it rumble northward,

1250
01:07:38,308 --> 01:07:41,611
as if pulled by a string
until that guided suicidal roar

1251
01:07:41,746 --> 01:07:43,513
exploded into a giant orange

1252
01:07:43,647 --> 01:07:46,216
ball and then a cloud
of the blackest smoke and

1253
01:07:46,349 --> 01:07:48,452
I swear the ground
underneath me shuddered.

1254
01:07:48,585 --> 01:07:50,387
The queen was
shrieking now, 'We're...'"

1255
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:53,057
HARRIS AND KEnNETH: "'We're under attack.
We're under attack.'"

1256
01:07:53,791 --> 01:07:55,525
And the streets were filled with

1257
01:07:55,660 --> 01:07:57,227
people, all
coming from everywhere

1258
01:07:57,360 --> 01:07:58,495
"Everywhere and nowhere.

1259
01:07:58,628 --> 01:08:01,231
Asking the same
question, over and over.

1260
01:08:01,364 --> 01:08:04,702
'Why?' 'Why?'

1261
01:08:06,671 --> 01:08:09,506
'Why?'

1262
01:08:10,141 --> 01:08:14,812
And I stood there thinking

1263
01:08:17,414 --> 01:08:20,550
this
may be the best thing that had

1264
01:08:20,685 --> 01:08:25,422
ever happened to this fat,
arrogant excuse for a country."

1265
01:08:28,325 --> 01:08:30,527
And I started crying,

1266
01:08:31,095 --> 01:08:32,930
not for those poor people in

1267
01:08:33,064 --> 01:08:35,233
those planes,
in those buildings.

1268
01:08:35,365 --> 01:08:39,603
I started crying, because
I knew I had to write it.

1269
01:08:41,939 --> 01:08:45,342
I knew I had
to turn this... this... this

1270
01:08:45,475 --> 01:08:49,446
horrible, horrible day into art.

1271
01:08:55,519 --> 01:08:57,889
But you can't produce a play

1272
01:08:58,022 --> 01:09:01,759
about 9/11 that
says we deserved it.

1273
01:09:04,628 --> 01:09:07,031
So I threw it in a drawer.

1274
01:09:11,202 --> 01:09:13,004
Is it any good?

1275
01:09:16,540 --> 01:09:18,843
It's the best
thing I ever wrote.

1276
01:09:20,278 --> 01:09:21,813
And I hate every word of it.

1277
01:09:26,918 --> 01:09:28,786
Well,

1278
01:09:29,419 --> 01:09:31,454
with all
due respect, Mr. Harris,

1279
01:09:31,588 --> 01:09:33,456
you're the last
thing I care about.

1280
01:09:36,794 --> 01:09:39,362
You sound
like a playwright.

1281
01:09:41,999 --> 01:09:44,001
I am.

1282
01:09:57,114 --> 01:10:02,286
They say as soon as a playwright
writes "The End", the play is...

1283
01:10:02,419 --> 01:10:04,387
"The play is no
longer his. It's theirs.

1284
01:10:04,521 --> 01:10:05,555
To do with what they will."

1285
01:10:06,057 --> 01:10:09,492
American
Theater Magazine, January, 1991.

1286
01:10:15,199 --> 01:10:17,500
I don't have a title.

1287
01:10:18,035 --> 01:10:19,337
You can borrow mine!

1288
01:10:29,412 --> 01:10:31,883
Get out,
get out, get outta here.

1289
01:11:23,852 --> 01:11:27,452
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