"Hello, Sam." "Hi, Marty." "Thanks." "Your kid brother got married sunday, huh, Marty?" "That's right, mrs." "Fusari." "It was a very nice affair." "The tall fella with the mustache?" "That's my other brother, Freddie." "He got married 4 years ago." "He lives on Webb Avenue." "The one who got married sunday is Nicky." "Didn't I meet him here one time?" "A big, tall, fat fella, tried to sell me life insurance?" "No." "That's my sister Margaret's husband, Frank." "Margaret married the insurance salesman my sister, Rose, married the contractor." "They moved to Detroit last year." "My other sister, Frances, got married about 21/2 years ago in st." "John's church." "Oh, that was a very nice affair." "Well, let's see, now." "That'll be $1.79." "How's that with you, mrs." "Fusari?" "Well..." "Marty, I'm in a hurry." "You're next, mrs." "Canduso." "When are you getting married?" "All your brothers and sisters younger than you." "They get married." "They got children." "I met your mother in the fruit store." "She asked me," ""you know a nice girl for Marty?"" "What's the matter with you?" "Mrs. Fusari- you get married." "You hear what I say?" "My boy, Frank, was 19 years old when he get married." "That's swell, mrs." "Fusari." "You should be shame yourself." "Marty, I want a nice, big, fat pullet, about 4 pounds." "Your kid brother got married last sunday?" "That's right." "It was a very nice affair." "You should be ashamed of yourself." "All your brothers and sisters married and got children." "When are you gonna get married?" "Over in the national league, double-headers everywhere except in Milwaukee." "Giants are playing st." "Louis." "The giants are going to wind up in the cellar." "Hey, Lou, turn on the dodger game." "The Giants took the first game, 3-2 in 10 innings." "The game over?" "Yanks won 'em both." "They murdered 'em." "Any homers whoo!" "Leo and me were in the bar, and these two girls... hey, Angie come in yet?" "Hey, Angie- you want a beer?" "I look over..." "Lou... hiya, Marty." "Hi, Ralph." "Leo and me picked up two nurses" "Lou, two beers." "Marty, let me tell you about these two nurses." "Man, oh, man." "What'd you read there, Joe?" "They shouldn't sell magazines like this." "S imagine the effect this ha on adolescents now that's something, huh?" "I went out with a girl that looked like that." "Hey, Richie - the yankees took two today." "Hey, Marty." "Leo and me got a date with these two nurses tonight." "We got to take them somewheres first." "I'm kind of hard up for cash right now, and i..." "I owe you 10 bucks already, don't i?" "I'll find it somewhere else." "Hey, hey, Richie." "That Ralph, boy." "He's always got girls but no money." "cut it out, will you?" "See you, Ralph." "What do you feel like doing tonight" "I don't know, Ange." "What do you feel like doing?" "We ought to do something." "It's saturday night." "I don't wanna go bowling like last saturday." "Hey, how about calling up that big girl we picked up in the movies a month ago?" "Which one was that?" "That big girl sitting in front of us with the skinny friend oh, yeah, yeah." "Her name was Mary Feeney." "We took them home to Brooklyn." "You think we ought to call them?" "I'll take the skinny one she maybe got a date already." "What can we lose?" "I didn't like her." "I don't feel like calling her up." "Well, what do you feel like doing tonight?" "I don't know, Ange." "What do you feel like doing?" "We're back to that" "I say, "what do you feel like doing?"" "And you say back, "I don't know."" ""What do you feel like doing?"" "Then we wind up at your house with a couple of cans of beer, watching hit parade on television." "I'll tell you what I feel like doing." "I feel like going up to see Mary Feeney." "She likes you." "What makes you say that?" "Man, I could see she likes you." "Yeah, sure." "Call her." "You call her yourself." "I don't wanna call her." "Well, how about going down 72nd street?" "See what we can find down there?" "Ralph says you got to beat them off with clubs." "Boy, you're getting to be a real drag!" "I've been looking for a girl every saturday night." "I'm 34." "I'm tired of looking." "I'd like to find a girl." "Everybody's always telling me, "get married."" "I wanna get married." "Everybody drives me crazy!" "I don't wanna wreck your saturday night." "You go ahead." "I don't wanna go." "My old lady, too." "Every word out of her mouth" ""when you gonna get married?"" "My mother drives me crazy!" "So... what do you feel like doing tonight?" "I don't know, Ange." "What do you feel like doing?" "Hello?" "Yeah, he's here." "Marty, your mother's on the phone." "My mother?" "He's coming now, mrs." "Piletti." "Marty, I'm going home." "Ange, come on over about 7:30." "We'll think of something." "Hello, ma." "What's the matter?" "Your cousin, Thomas, and his wife, Virginia- they're here." "They're waiting to see you." "I'll be over in 2 or 3 minutes." "Tell Thomas to stick around." "Ok." "You come on home, huh?" "Ok." "Marty's coming right home." "So what happened, aunt Theresa, about this milk bottle, with my mother-in-law- she begins poking her head over my shoulder and she tells me I waste money, I can't cook, and I'm raising my baby all wrong." "She got me so nervous, I spilled the baby's milk." "Tommy, your mother, she's my sister, but sometimes- she kept talking about these drops of milk I spilled." "I got so mad I said," ""you want to see me really spill some milk?"" "So I threw the bottle against the door." "I didn't throw it at her." "She tells everybody I threw a bottle of milk at her." "I didn't throw it anywhere near her." "I was sorry right away, but she ran out of the house" "I don't know what you want me to do." "If you want me to, I'll talk to her tonight." "Aunt Theresa, we- let me tell it, Tommy." "Ok aunt Theresa, we want you to do us a big favor." "Sure." "You got this big house just for you and Marty." "I thought maybe Tommy's mother could come here and live with you and Marty." "Well..." "I talked to Tommy's brother, Joe." "I said, "she's driving me crazy!"" ""You got to take her."" "He says, "oh, no!"" "I may sound like a terrible woman" "I know just how you feel." "I can't stand it anymore." "Every minute of the day- "do this, do that."" "We don't have any privacy." "We can't even have a fight." "Everybody's miserable at our house." "Ginnie, don't get so excited she's right." "She's right, Tommy." "Young husband and wife should have their own home." "My sister, Catherina, she's my sister, but I must say she's an old goat." "Plenty of time I feel like throwing the milk bottle at her, myself." "But, I tell you right now, if Catherina wants to come and live here with Marty and me, it's all right with me." "That's very nice of you, aunt Theresa." "We got to ask Marty first." "Sure." "You just sit here." "I go turn a little fire under the cooking." "That's very nice of you." "How's Marty been, aunt Theresa?" "Oh, he's fine." "You know a nice girl he can marry?" "Oh, don't worry." "He'll get married, aunt Theresa." "I don't know." "He sits around the house all the time." "You know a nice place where he can get a bride?" "Well, there's the stardust ballroom." "That's a big dance hall." "Every saturday night it's loaded with girls it used to be 77 cents." "Probably $1.50 now you go there and ask some girl to dance with you." "That's where I met Virginia tell Marty to go to the stardust ballroom." "It's loaded with tomatoes." "The stardust ballroom." "It's loaded with tomatoes." "Right." "This is so nice of you." "I want you to know we appreciate it." "He's here." "Hello, Marty." "Hello, ma." "Thomas and Virginia are here." "They had another big fight with your aunt Catherina they ask me if it's ok" "Catherina come live here." "I say, all right with me, but we got to ask you." "Marty, she's a lonely old woman everybody's throwing her out the house." "Sure, ma." "It's ok with me." "You got a good heart." "Marty say it's all right." "That sure takes a load off my mind." "We got plenty of room." "It's going to be nice." "I come over your house tonight." "Everything will work out ok." "The situation was becoming impossible." "Sit down, Thomas." "I appreciate what you're doing." "Things that were happening at our house" "Virginia was making milk for the baby, and my mother comes in" "I promised the babysitter 6:00." "Before you go, I need a little advice." "Sure, what you're the accountant in the family." "My boss wants to sell his shop to me." "Yeah?" "His kids are married, and him and his wife live alone." "They want to move to california." "So he wants to sell me his shop." "He wants $5,000 down, although I think I can knock him down to 4." "Marty, I got to run." "I'll meet you at mass tomorrow, and afterwards we'll sit down and discuss it." "It sounds like a good proposition he wants an answer by monday." "Sure." "We'll work out an arrangement about my mother." "I want to pay you for her." "We'll talk later." "Thanks again." "Goodbye, Virginia." "Goodbye, aunt Theresa." "Goodbye, Tommy." "Goodbye, Virginia." "Hello." "Is this Mary Feeney?" "Well, could I speak to miss Mary Feeney?" "Just tell her an old friend." "Oh, hello there." "Is this Mary Feeney?" "This is Marty Piletti." "I wonder if you recall me." "I'm kind of a stocky guy." "The last time we met was in the RKO Chester." "You was with a friend." "I was with a friend of mine named Angie." "This was about a month ago." "The RKO Chester on West Farms Square." "You was sitting in front of us." "We was annoying you, and you got mad, and..." "I'm the fella who works in the butcher shop." "Oh, come on." "You know who I am." "That's right." "We went to Howard Johnson and had hamburgers." "You had a milk shake." "Yeah, that's right." "I'm the stocky one, the heavyset fella." "Yeah." "Well, I'm glad you recall me because I had a nice time that night, and I was wondering how everything was with you." "How's everything?" "That's swell." "Yeah, well, I'll tell you why I called." "I was figuring on taking in a movie tonight, and I was wondering if you and your friend would see a movie tonight with me and my friend." "Yeah, tonight." "I know it's a little late to call for a date, but I didn't know myself till... yeah, I know." "Yeah, what about- well, how about next saturday night?" "Are you free next saturday night?" "Well, what about the saturday after that?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I know." "Oh, I mean, I understand that... yeah." "Yeah." "So, what are you gonna do tonight, Marty?" "I don't know, ma." "I'm all knocked out." "I may just han g around the house." "Why don't you go to the stardust ballroom?" "What?" "Go to the stardust ballroom." "It's loaded with tomatoes." "It's loaded with what?" "Tomatoes?" "Who told you about the stardust ballroom?" "Tommy." "He say it's very nice place." "Oh, Thomas ma, it's just a big dance hall." "I've been there a 100 times." "Loaded with tomatoes." "You're funny, ma." "I don't want you hanging around the house tonight." "Shave and go dance." "Ma, when will you give up?" "I ain't never getting married." "You're gonna get married." "Sooner or later, a man's got to face some facts." "Whatever it is that women like," "I ain't got it" "I went to enough dances." "I got hurt enough." "I just called up a girl this afternoon." "I got a real brush-off" "I thought I was past being hurt, but that hurt." "Some stupid woman who i didn't even want to call up, she gave me the brush." "I don't want to go to the stardust ballroom." "Girls there made me feel like I was a bug." "I got feelings." "I had enough pain." "No thanks, ma." "Marty" "I'm gonna stay home tonight watch the hit parade." "You'll die without a son." "So be it." "Put on the blue suit." "Blue suit." "Gray suit." "I'm just a fat, ugly man." "You not ugly." "I'm ugly, I'm ugly, I'm ugly!" "Leave me alone ma, what do you want from me?" "I'm miserable enough as it is." "So I'll go to the stardust ballroom." "I'll put on a blue suit and go you know what I'll get for my trouble?" "A big night of heartache." "Loaded with tomatoes." "Boy, that's rich." "Not a bad crowd tonight, you know?" "Yeah." "There's a nice-looking one over there with the black dress and the beads on, but she's dancing now." "There's a nice-looking short one for you down there." "Where?" "That little one down there." "Oh, yeah." "What do you say?" "Wanna ask 'em?" "I'll take the one with the flowers on her dress." "I think this music's a little fast." "Just a minute." "Yeah, I think it's all right." "They still over there?" "What do you say?" "You want to dance?" "Excuse me, would you care to dance?" "I don't feel like dancing just yet." "Sure." "Clara, have you decided about tomorrow afternoon?" "You know I go to the movies with papa on sunday." "But you could have a lot of fun." "Herb, she isn't especially attractive, but she has a good deal of charm." "She's really a nice girl." "She's all right, Andy." "It's just I get one saturday night off every 3 weeks." "I was expecting something better." "Do you like him, Clara yes." "He seems very nice." "Millie's been after me to fix her up- all right." "I'm having a fair time." "I get one saturday night off in 3 weeks." "I wanted to wind up with something tonight." "So I'm sorry." "I came up with- what's her name?" "Herbie, have you ever been here before?" "Hey!" "Herbie!" "What are you doing here?" "I come up to dance." "What do you think?" "You here with somebody?" "With another girl." "Where are you going now?" "To get some cigarettes from my coat." "I'll see you around." "Yeah, I'll see you." "Oh, that's a girl I used to know." "Boy, it's sure packed in here, huh?" "Some of these kids are awfully young." "Aren't you afraid you'll run into your students?" "I wouldn't think so." "I teach in brooklyn." "You've been here before, Clara?" "Yes, twice." "You want to get a table, or you want to start dancing?" "Well, Herb?" "Herb!" "Want to grab a table, have a drink first?" "You people go grab a table." "I'll be back in a minute." "Come on." "We'll grab a table." "You here stag or with a girl?" "You say something?" "You here stag or with a girl?" "Oh, I'm stag." "I got stuck on a blind date with a dog, and I just met a girl I used to know, and I'm wondering how to lose the girl I'm with." "I need somebody to take her home." "I'll pay you 5 bucks if you take her home for me." "What?" "I'll introduce you as an army buddy of mine, and then I'll cut out." "I've got this other girl waitin' for me at the hat check." "I'll pay you 5 bucks." "Are you kidding?" "No, I'm not kidding." "You just can't walk off on a girl like that." "In that case, as long as she's going home alone, give me the 5 bucks back." "You paid me the 5 bucks." "The 5 bucks is mine." "Excuse me, miss." "Would you care to dance?" "Miss?" "You come up here often?" "Twice before." "Once I came up with a friend of mine, and once alone." "The last time... do you see that girl sitting over there in the gray dress?" "Yeah." "The last time I was here, that's where I sat" "I sat there for an hour and a half without moving a muscle." "Now and then some fellow would come up to me and then change his mind." "I'll never forget sitting there for an hour and a half with my hands in my lap." "Then I began to cry." "I had to get up and go home." "I've begun to cry a lot lately." "I cry a lot, too." "I'm a big crier." "This is very recent with me- bursting into tears at the slightest thing." "I cry all the time, any little thing." "My brothers, my brothers-in-law always tell me what a good-hearted guy I am." "You don't get that by accident." "You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a professor of pain." "I know exactly how you feel." "I also want you to know I'm really enjoying myself." "You see, you're not such a dog as you think you are." "I'm having a very good time, too." "So there you are." "I guess I'm not such a dog as I think I am." "You're a very nice guy." "I don't know why some girl hasn't grabbed you off long ago." "I don't know either." "I think I'm a nice guy" "I also think I'm smart, in my own way." "Excuse me." "You know, 2 people get married, and they'll live together 40, 50 years." "It's got to be more than whether they're good-looking or not." "You think you're not so good-looking." "My father was an ugly man, but my mother adored him." "She used to get miserable sometimes, like everybody and my father always tried to understand." "I used to see them sitting in the living room, talking and talking." "I used to adore my old man because he was always so kind that's one of the most beautiful things in my life- the way my parents were." "And my father was a real ugly man." "It doesn't matter if you look like a gorilla." "We ain't such dogs as we think we are" "I'm 29 years old." "How old are you?" "I'm 34" "aunt Theresa, come in." "Is Catherina here?" "We didn't tell her anything yet." "We thought you'd put it like how you were lonely, and why doesn't she come and live with you." "It'll look like she's doing you a favor instead of being thrown out." "And it won't be so cruel on her." "You want Tommy and me to stay with you?" "You and Tommy go out." "Otherwise, she might start to fight with you." "Hello, aunt Theresa." "Hello, Thomas." "Who's there?" "Who's there?" "It's me, Catherina." "What are you doing here?" "I come to see you." "How you feel?" "I got pain on my left side." "My leg throb like a drum." "I've been getting pain in my shoulder." "Me, too." "I got pain in my hip my right arm aches so much I can't sleep." "It's a curse to be old." "We got a postcard from my son, Nicky, and his bride." "They're in Florida on their honeymoon." "I got a letter from my husband's cousin in abruzzi." "His mother die oh." "You remember Emilio di Giorgio, who own a tavern in Abruzzi?" "He die." "Oh." "You know who else die?" "Who?" "You know, the old man who live upstairs in this house." "Old irishman, always drunk." "He gets pleurisy." "He stay 2 weeks in a hospital." "Yesterday, he die." "I like to visit you, Catherina, because you always got such cheerful news." "Hey, kids, why don't you 2 kids go to the movies?" "We be babysitter." "Let's go down to Kaplans'." "Sure." "Sure ma, we'll be down at the Kaplans' if you want us for anything, ok?" "I wake up this morning." "I hear the baby cry, so I wake up." "I come in their room, and that girl is shaking her hand at the baby." "I said, "don't you strike my son's baby!"" "That's her baby, too." "That's Thomas's baby." "But it's not your baby she throw a bottle of milk at me." "I know." "I tell you wha t she do yesterday?" "She give m e the evil eye." "I keep one eye open when I sleep, because she's gonna stab me in my bed." "Catherina." "I want you to come and live with me." "Hmm?" "Thomas and his wife, they come to my house today." "They say things are no good in this house." "Catherina, your son is married." "Leave them in peace." "He wants to be alone with his wife." "They don't want no old woman." "My son Thomas come to see you this afternoon, and he say to you he's gonna throw his mother from this house?" "Catherina, don't make an opera out of this." "The 3 of you and a little baby in 3 little rooms." "You know this is no good, old woman living with a husband and wife." "2 women in the Same kitchen, and the house burns up." "So I'm a garbage bag put in the street!" "Catherina, don't make a tragedy." "Come and live in my house where you know you'll be happier yourself." "It pains they should do this." "I know it pains." "These are the worst years, I tell you." "Catherina, you are very dear to me." "We cried lots of times together." "When my poor husband die," "I would be crazy if not for you." "I ask you to come to my house because I know I can make you happy." "Please come to my house." "These are the worst years, I tell you." "It's gonna happen to you." "I'm afraid to look in the mirror and see an old lady with white hair like the old ladies in the park- little bundles in black shawl waiting for the coffin" "I'm 56 years old." "What I got to do with myself?" "I got strength in my hands." "I want to make dinner for my children." "Am I an old dog to lay near the fire till my eyes close?" "These are terrible years, Theresa, terrible years" "Catherina, listen to me." "It's gonna happen to you." "It's gonna happen to you!" "What are you gonna do if Marty gets married?" "What are you gonna cook?" "Where's all the children playing in all the rooms?" "Where's the noise?" "It's a curse to be a widow, a curse." "What are you gonna do if Marty gets married?" "What are you gonna do?" "I'm gonna put my things in a bag, and I come to you tomorrow." "Don't worry about your sister." "We'll get some coffee and come right back." "You teach chemistry." "What school?" "Benjamin Franklin high school." "Where's that, Brooklyn?" "I went to Theodore Roosevelt." "It's around the corner from my house." "My cousin's a teacher." "He teaches latin in Chicago." "He was studying to be a priest, but he gave it up." "I was pretty good in high school." "I sound like a jerk now, but I graduated with an 82 average." "I was accepted at city college, but my old man died, so I had to work." "You want some cigarettes?" "German was my best class." "Der, die, das." "Des, der, des." "I still remember." "I was good in math in high school." "You know how long ago I graduated?" "June 1937." "Holy cow!" "What is that?" "15, 17 years ago!" "Holy cow!" "17- let's see, is that right?" "Yeah, 17. that's right." "Where did it all go?" "I'm getting old." "I'll be 35 years old november the 8th." "35!" "Wow." "Time goes on, boy." "Yeah, june 1937." "My old man died december 1937." "2:00 in the morning he died." "Front doorbell rings, and I knew something was wrong right away because I had to answer the door, and there was mr." "Stern." "He lived down a block." "He moved out, though." "My old man used to play cards with him and some other old guys." "He was a jewish fella." "He said, "is your mother home?"" "I knew there was something wrong." "I turned exactly 18 years old the month before." "I said, "is something wrong?"" "I was in my pajamas, you know, so he said," ""Marty, your father died."" "My father died in the middle of playing cards." "He had a heart attack." "He had low blood pressure." "He used to faint a lot." "Boy, am I talking!" "Excuse me." "I never talked so much before." "Usually everybody tells me their troubles." "I'll shut up now and let you talk." "Yeah, 17 years ago what I been doing with myself all that time?" "There I go again." "I must be driving you crazy!" "Most of the time with girls," "I can't find a word to say." "I'm going to shut up now and let you get a word in." "Usually I'm not like this." "Usually, I- there I go again." "I'm on a jag, for pete's sakes." "You'd think I was loaded!" "Like I started to say" "I..." "I can't stop my mouth!" "Isn't this stupid?" "You got a real nice face, you know?" "Really, a nice face." "Thank you." "Hey, Mac, anything good inside?" "Oh, a bunch of dogs." "Hey, Marty." "Marty, you in here?" "So I'm in a kneeling position." "If you try shooting a b.a.r. That way- you know what I mean?" "I can't hold a steady position." "I'm wavering back and forth." "So the guy next to me, he's shooting from a prone position, and he's cross-eyed like I told you." "So just then- so just then I hear 5 shots go off from the guy next to me." "My target goes down." "The flag comes up." "I got 5 bull's eyes!" "That's how I got the reputation of being the best shot in the whole battalion." "So when I got out of the army," "I was lost." "I didn't know what I wanted to do." "I was 25 years old." "I couldn't go back to my old job at 40 cents an hour." "I thought I'd go to college under the GI Bill, but my brother Freddie, he wanted to get married, and I had 3 unmarried sisters." "In an italian house, that's a terrible thing." "So I just went to pieces." "I used to walk the streets till 3:00, 4:00 in the morning." "My poor mother used to be so worried about me." "God forgive me what I'm gonna say now, but I used to think of doing away with myself." "I used to stand in the subway sometimes, and god forgive me, I used to feel the tracks sucking me down under the wheels." "I'm catholic, you know." "Even to think about suicide is a terrible sin." "Yes, I know." "So then mr." "Otari, he offered me this job in his butcher shop." "Everybody pleaded with me to take it." "So that's what happened." "I didn't want to be a butcher." "There's nothing wrong with being a butcher." "Why, it's not an elegant profession." "It's in a lower social scale." "People look down on butchers." "I-I don't the point is, mr." "Otari wants to sell his shop because... why, it's a nice little shop." "I handle his books for him, so I know he has a 35 markup, which is not unreasonable." "Takes home net maybe 100, 150 bucks a week." "Of course, you gotta worry about the supermarkets." "There's 2 in the neighborhood now and an ap coming in." "Marty, it's my feeling that you really want to buy this shop." "Well, that's true." "I do." "But it means I got to take a loan of $8,000." "That's a big note to carry." "Marty, I've known you for 3 hours, but I know you're a good butcher." "You're an intelligent, decent, sensitive man, and, well, I have a feeling about you." "Like, well, like sometimes one of my kids comes in to see me about something or other, and some of these kids in my classes, they have so much warmth and so much capacity." "Well, that's the feeling I have about you." "If you were one of my students," "I'd say, "go ahead and buy the butcher shop."" ""You're a good butcher."" "There's lots of things I could do with this shop." "I could organize my own supermarket, get a bunch of neighborhood merchants together." "That's what a lot of them are doing." "What do you think?" "I think anything you want to do you'll do well." "I'm catholic." "Are you catholic?" "Yes, I am." "Look, I only got about 3 bucks on me now, but I only live about 8 blocks away." "Why don't we walk back to my house?" "I'll get some dough, and we'll step out." "I should get home." "It's only 11:45." "The clock's right up there." "I really should get home." "I told my father... well, I suppose a little while longer." "Do you suppose there's someplace around here" "I could put on some makeup?" "Hey, mac-you got a ladies' room around here?" "In the back." "So she told me, at the risk of her life." "She was always a little thin in the hips." "The doctor said if she had any more babies, she'd risk her life." "When she told me, she already had 6." "She was always going to the hospital or coming from it." "She was hatching them out like eggs." "Her husband's a skinny fellow." "I saw her." "She was big as a barrel." "Hey, Lou." "You seen Marty?" "No." "I ain't seen him all night." "Where is everybody?" "Didn't you tell me having another would kill you?" "And her husband's a little bit of a man." "Last tuesday she gave birth to her baby a fine, healthy boy." "9 pounds." "So the doctor was wrong." "Oh, no." "She died there in the hospital." "Oh, that's a sad story." "And her husband's that little fellow, works in peter reeves?" "That's the one oh, that's a sad story." "It would mean moving out to port chester." "It's silly to think of commuting." "I'd have to take the subway to 125th, then the bus to the railroad, then take the new haven out to port chester." "Then I have a 20-minute bus ride out of port chester." "Somebody suggested that I buy a car, but I'm terrified of cars." "I'm always afraid I'll kill someone." "Of course, it is a fine opportunity for me." "I could never hope to be the head of a department in the new york city system, especially in science." "Of course, I'm not sure i want to be a department head." "It's mostly executive and administrative work." "On the other hand- well, anyway, I told you about my father." "And, well, he depends on me a great deal." "Let me tell you, Clara" "I think you're kidding yourself." "I used to thin k about leaving home that's what I would say - "my mother needs me."" "But when you really come down to it, that ain't it at all." "We're afraid to go out on our own." "It's a big step to go out on your own." "I think you're kidding yourself when you say your father needs you." "Actually, you need your father." "You know what I mean?" "You're living at home now, and you got your father and mother there." "You could go o n being a little girl." "I'm afraid of being lonely." "You won't be so lonely you'll make friends right away." "Well, actually, I don't make friends easily." "What are you talking about?" "You're a real likeable person." "You'll make friends in port chester, 1, 2, 3." "You'll have people visiting you all the time." "I'll come up and visit you." "I'll get m y brother's car, or you can call me when you feel blue, or I'll call you." "It'll be real nice don't be so afraid" "hey, Marty!" "Marty, over here!" "Hello, Ralph." "Come over here a minute!" "Excuse me a minute sure." "You'll like this guy." "He's a nice guy." "Who's this Marty?" "This guy's a nice guy." "Hi, Ralph." "Hello, Leo hey, come here a minute." "We got an odd squirrel." "You interested?" "What do you mean, Ralph?" "Hey, Louise, I want you to meet Marty Piletti." "That's Louise Kelly." "Hiya." "Are we gonna sit around all night?" "Listen, Marty, these here squirrels are nurses." "Money in the bank, man." "We're all going over to Leo's house later because there's nobody there." "These are the girls I told you about." "Wanna get in the car?" "She's a nice-looking doll." "I'm with a girl, Ralph get rid of her." "This is money in the bank." "I can't." "Somebody already brushed her off tonight." "This is a good deal here." "I can't do it, Ralph." "Thanks anyway, huh nice seeing y'all." "Let's get out of here." "We might as well get going, Ralph." "See you, Leo." "So long, Ralph so long, Marty." "Wait a minute." "I'll find the light." "I guess my mother ain't home yet." "My cousin, Thomas, and Virginia- they won't be home till 1:00." "This is the kitchen." "Yes, I know." "Come on in the dining room." "Sit down." "You want something to eat?" "We've got a whole half chicken in the ice box." "No, thanks." "I shouldn't stay long." "Oh, sure." "Just take off your coat a minute." "My kid brother, Nicky, got married last sunday." "They had this statue of some woman." "There was whiskey spouting out of her mouth." "I never saw anything so grand." "And what a meal." "I know a good hunk of meat when I see it, and this was choice filet," "$1.80 a pound." "For a cheaper cut of meat, get rib steak." "It comes to $1.25 a pound, if it's trimmed." "Listen, Clara, make yourself comfortable." "You look all tense." "No, I'm fine." "You want me to take you home," "I'll take you home." "Maybe it would be a good idea." "No, Marty, please." "I like you." "I been telling you all night." "All I want's a little kiss." "All right!" "I'll take you home." "All I wanted was a Lousy kiss." "You think I'd try something serious?" "My mother coming home any minute." "I just didn't feel like it, that's all." "Well..." "I'm old enough to know better comes New Year's Eve, everybody starts arranging parties." "I'm the guy they got to dig up a date for." "I'll just get a pack of cigarettes and take" "I'd like to see you again... very much." "The reason I didn't let you kiss me was because I just didn't know how to... handle the situation." "You're the kindest man I ever met." "The reason I tell you this is because I want to see you again... very much." "I know that when you take me home," "I'm just going to lie on my bed and think about you." "I want very much to see you again." "What are you doing tomorrow night?" "Nothing." "I'll call you up tomorrow." "Maybe we'll go see a movie" "I'd like that very much." "The reason I can't be more definite now is because my aunt Catherine' probably coming over tomorrow." "I may have to help out." "I'll wait for your call." "I better take you home now." "It's getting late, and the buses only run about one an hour." "All right." "I'll just get a pack of cigarettes." "What are you doing New Year's Eve?" "Nothing." "Hello?" "Hello Marty?" "Hello, Marty." "When you come home?" "We just got here about 10 minutes ago." "Ma, I want you to meet miss Clara Snyder." "She's a graduate of New York University she teaches chemistry at benjamin Franklin high school." "Sit down, sit down." "You want some chicken?" "We got some chicken in the icebox." "No, thank you." "We were just going." "Well, sit down just a minute." "I just come in." "How'd you come home?" "Thomas give you a ride sure." "Is a sad business." "My sister Catherina, she no get along with her daughter-in-law, so she gonna come live with us." "She's coming, ma?" "Sure." "Sit down." "Marty, tell her sit down." "Might as well sit down a minute." "You offer young lady some fruit?" "Yes." "She don't want nothing." "No, thank you." "Is a very sad business, I tell you." "A woman, 56 years old, all her life she had her own house." "Now she's just an old woman sleeping on her daughter-in-law couch." "It's a curse to be a mother, I tell you." "Your children grow up, and what is left for you to do?" "What's a mother's life but her children?" "Is a very sad thing when your son has no place for you in his house." "Couldn't she find a hobby to fill out her time?" "Hobby?" "What can she do?" "She cook and she clean." "But you gotta have a house to clean." "You gotta have children to cook for." "These are the terrible years for a mother, the terrible years." "You mustn't feel too harshly against her daughter-in-law." "She probably also wants a house to clean and children to cook for." "You don't think my sister, Catherina, should live in her daughter-in-law house?" "I don't know them, but as a rule," "I don't think a mother-in-law should live with a young couple." "Where you think a mother-in-law should go?" "I don't think a mother should depend upon her children for her rewards in life." "Well, that's what they teach you in New York University." "In real life, it no work out like this." "You wait till you are a mother." "It's silly of me to argue about it." "I don't know the people involved." "It's getting late," "I better take her home." "The buses only run about one an hour." "Good night, mrs." "Piletti." "I hope I see you again." "I'll be back in about an hour, an hour and a half." "Good night, mrs." "Piletti." "Good night." "Hey!" "Hey, Marty!" "Hey!" "Hey, Ange!" "Where you been, for pete's sake?" "I been looking for you!" "Well, I looked for you." "Well, I was looking for you." "We thought we were going for a walk and come right back, but we got to talking." "Angie, meet Clara." "Clara, this is my best friend, Angie." "Yes." "How do you do?" "Hello." "What are we gonna do now?" "I'm taking Clara home." "It's close to 1:00." "You want me to ride down with you?" "What for?" "It's early it must be 1:00." "It's saturday night." "There's still plenty of action around." "By the time I get Clara home, it'll be 1:30." "When I get home, it'll be 2:00." "I gotta get up for 10:00 mass tomorrow." "Ok." "I'll see you." "Hey, well, where you goin'?" "Hey, Ange!" "Hey, I'll see you tomorrow after mass, huh?" "You got an elevator in this house?" "We only live one flight up." "Ok, so, I'll see ya tomorrow." "Ok." "I'll give you a call about 11:00, 11:30- as soon as I get out of mass." "Well, you better make it around 2:30 because, well," "I won't be home from my aunt's till then." "Oh, ok." "Ok, so I'll see you tomorrow night." "Ok." "Good night." "Good night" "taxi!" "Hey, taxi!" "Taxi!" "Hey, taxi!" "Hey!" "Hey, ma, you know what I'm gonna do?" "I think I'm gonna buy Patsy's shop." "You hear what I said, ma?" "Because this is how I figure- we got $33-odd hundred in the bank." "I'll have to take it out to buy the shop." "I don't know." "I'm a good butcher." "I'll make out pretty good." "I want to ask Thomas, but I got my own ideas." "Hurry because it's 9:00." "Ma, you mind coming home alone from church?" "I want to find Angie." "I think he's sore at me." "Ma, is Thomas bringing aunt catherine over here?" "I want to see him." "I think Thomas is bringing aunt Catherina here, but I don't know." "Now go outside." "I got to put on my clothes." "What are you getting so sore about?" "Marty, please excuse what I say." "Ok, ma." "I feel Lousy about this, too." "Virginia, I don't want to talk any more about it!" "I don't think I got an hour's sleep." "Last night was the first time" "I ever heard my mother cry." "Tommy, I- I don't want to talk about it." "I know what you're gonna say- a man can't be his mother's baby forever." "She's my mother." "I have some feeling about her." "You make me the Louse!" "I love you, and I know you feel lousy, but we're never gonna be happy unless we can work out our own lives." "We can't keep talking in whispers like this." "We gotta have some privacy!" "Can't you wait five minutesI'll drive you." "I just got to put on a shirt." "Go to mass." "I'll go to 11:00 mass." "Let me drive you over." "Thomas, leave me alone" "get dressed because we're driving my mother over." "Why couldn't you get along with her why couldn't you make just a little effort?" "She's a little hard to get along with." "All I asked you was to try." "Tommy!" "I don't want to hear any more about it" "hello, aunt Theresa." "Hello, Tommy." "How you feel?" "Ah, my mother drives me crazy." "I begged her to let me drive her here." "She's always the big Martyr please, go to mass, huh?" "He wake up this morning with salt in his nose- do this, do that!" "Please leave me alone, huh?" "Oh, hello, Thomas." "Hello, aunt catherine." "You going to mass with us?" "I was to mass already." "Just make yourself at home." "The refrigerator's loaded." "Take any room you want." "Thomas." "You want a cup of coffee?" "Oh, hi, Virginia!" "You brought him over, huh?" "Let me hold him a minute." "Hey, petey boy!" "Yeah!" "You're sure getting fat, you know that?" "You're bigger than a leg of lamb now." "Oh, tom, like I was telling you yesterday, mr." "Otari, my boss, wants to sell his shop because he wants to move out to california- what are you sore about?" "Oh, shut up!" "He does about 1,200, 1,300 gross." "The rent's 102." "The problem is the supermarkets." "If I get together with some other merchants- what about when you wouldn't let her make dinner for my brother?" "What are you talking about?" "Once a month she couldn't use the kitchen?" "She could use the kitchen any time she wanted!" "You had to be boss listen, she won't use my pots and pans!" "Should I buy some more?" "Give me a few minutes." "I promised mr." "Otari I'd tell him tomorrow." "You can fight any time." "I want to know about individualized markups." "Now, say I'm the butcher, and aldo capellI's the dairyman and the grocer." "I work on a 35markup- do you know what you're talking about?" "No." "That's why I'm asking you." "What do you want a shop for?" "You got a job, no wife, no responsibilities!" "I wish I was you!" "Take the baby, will you?" "He wants 5,000 down?" "You'll need a mortgage - $60, $70 a month." "You're single with no responsibilities!" "Stay that way!" "Don't yell at him." "He's only asking advice." "Patsy's shop-that's a specialized trade." "Supermarkets don't carry italian meat who buys italian meat anymore?" "My wife goes to the ap, gets a lamb chop, opens a can, and that's dinner!" "All right!" "I understand the supermarkets problem, but I was talking to this girl and- will you see that my mother is comfortable?" "Sure." "This girl- what does she know?" "Marty, take care of my mother, will you?" "Ma, get ready because I'll be down in a minute!" "Hey, Catherina" "Huh?" "Last night, when i come home from your house," "Marty was here with a girl." "Who?" "Marty." "Your son Marty?" "Well, which Marty you think would be here with a girl?" "Were the lights on?" "Oh, sure." "This girl is a college graduate." "They're the worst." "College girls are one step from the street," "I tell you." "My son, joseph, wife, you know, she type on a typewriter." "Pff!" "One step from the street." "This is the first time Marty brang home a girl." "She look like a nice girl." "You know, I think Marty has a feeling for this girl." "You heard him sing?" "Sing like that all morning well, that's all." "You'll see." "Today, tomorrow, in a week, he's gonna say to you," ""hey, ma." "I'm tired of running around."" ""It's no good to be a single man."" "Then he'll say to you," ""ma, why do we need this old house?" ""Let's sell this house and move in a nicer part of town," ""nice little apartment?"" "I don't sell this house!" "This is my husband's house." "I had 6 children in this house." "You'll see." "In a couple of months, you're gonna be an old lady sleeping on a couch in your daughter-in-law's house." "Ah, Catherina!" "Where you go, rain go." "Someday, you're gonna smile." "We'll have a big holiday." "Ma, it's getting a little late, huh?" "Boy, this place is really coming to pieces." "You know, ma, I think we ought to sell this place." "The whole joint's going to pieces." "Plumbing's rusty- everything." "Now I'm gonna have to replaster this whole place." "You know what we ought to do, ma we ought to get one of those new apartments they're building on southern boulevard a nicer part of town." "You all set, ma?" "I'm set." "Goodbye, aunt catherine." "Goodbye." "We got a couple of minutes yet, ma." "Hi, Marty." "Hi." "Ma, fix your collar." "We'll sit in the back on account of the baby." "We'll see you afterwards." "That was a nice-looking girl last night, huh?" "She wasn't a very good-looking girl, but she look like a nice girl." "I said she wasn't a very good-looking girl, not pretty." "I heard you, ma." "She look a little bit old for you- about 35, 40 years old." "She's 29, ma." "She's more than 29 years old, Marty." "That's what she tells you." "She look 35, 40 years old." "She don't look like italian girl." "I say, is she italian girl?" "Well, I don't know." "I don't think so, ma." "She don't look like italian to me." "What family she comes from?" "Tch!" "I don't know." "Something about her I don't like." "It's funny." "The first time you meet the girl, she comes to your empty house alone." "These college girls, they all one step from the street." "What are you talking about?" "She's a nice girl." "She don't look italian to me." "I don't like her." "Oh, you only met her for 2 minutes!" "Don't bring her up to the house no more." "Well, what didn't you like?" "She don't look like italian." "Plenty nice italian girls around." "Let's not fight about it what are you getting so worked up about?" "I only met her last night." "Probably not gonna see her again anyhow." "Come on." "Hello, Lou." "Hi, Marty." "Hi, Ralph." "Lou, let me have a coke." "Marty, I hear you really got stuck with a dog last night." "Who told you that?" "Angie." "Said she was a scrawny-looking thing." "She wasn't so bad." "Was Angie here already he was here last night till about 2:00." "Oh." "Hey, Ralph, how did you make out with those nurses last night?" "Oh, Marty." "Man, didn't I tell you?" "You know that one that was for you?" "We went over to Leo's house, so she got loaded drunk." "You should have seen what she was doing." "The people downstairs started banging on the walls." "So, in the middle of it, the landlord comes in." "These crazy girls are running around drunk, so we got to get rid of her." "Leo's talking to the landlord in the kitchen while we're trying to get her out the window." "This crazy girl, she even left her shoes up there." "Heh heh heh!" "Heh heh heh!" "So how'd you make out?" "I had a nice time." "Yeah?" "She's a nice girl." "I didn't try anything." "I just met her last night, you know." "She's a nice girl." "We just talked." "Uh... w-w-we just talked" "uh, listen, Ralph- if you see Angie, tell him I went home." "I'll see him after lunch, huh?" "Marty, I want to talk" "I don't want to talk now." "So the book winds up" "Marty hey, Marty?" "So the book winds up, mike hammer's in there with this doll." "So he says, "you rat." "You're the murderer."" "She begins to con him." "She tells him she loves him." "Then bam!" "He shoots her in the stomach." "So she's laying there gasping, and she says, "how could you do that?"" "He says, "it was easy."" "Boy, that mickey spillane, boy." "He could write." "I read everything he ever wrote." "We got a whole pot in the kitchen!" "I couldn't eat nothing." "My mother stuffed me up to the gills." "Mickey spillane knows how to handle women." "In one book, he picks up this tomato." "She's been hit by a car." "She throws a pass at him." "He meets two beautiful twins, and they throw a pass." "He meets a beautiful society dame, and she throws a pass." "Boy, he could really write." "Anybody want to watch the ball games?" "It's only a little bit after 2:00." "Where are you going?" "To call that girl." "Thought I'd take her to a movie." "You kidding?" "Listen, Angie." "You were very impolite last night." "I introduced you to that girl." "You just turned right around and walked off." "You got me mad hey, Jerry." "Show Marty that picture." "Put it away!" "My mother's on the porch!" "I wonder where they find those girls." "They're Hollywood starlets." "My mother will walk in!" "Marty, let's go down 72nd street area tonight." "I thought I'd take this girl to a movie." "You must have made out good." "We just talked." "She must be some talker." "She must've been about 50 years old." "A guy should marry a girl 20 years younger than he is." "When he's 40, she's a pretty doll of 21." "He'd have to marry her when she was 1." "You're right." "I never thought of that." "She wasn't so bad-looking." "She must have kept you in the shadows." "Don't hang around with dogs." "Gives you a bad reputation." "Let's go to 72nd street." "I told this dog I'd call her up today." "Brush her!" "Want to come with me or that dog?" "I looked all over for you last night another book I rea d by mickey spillane" "I can't remember the name of it." "He finds this redheaded doll in the street." "He gives her some dough because he feels sorry for her." "Wait a minute." "I think that's the Same book" "I was telling you about before." "You didn't like her at all?" "A nothing." "A real nothing you know something?" "This mickey spillane, boy, he sure can write." "So what are you gonna do tonight, Marty?" "I don't know, ma." "I'm all knocked out." "I may just hang around the house and... maybe I'll go down and see what Angie and the boys are doing." "I'll see you later, ma." "So we had" "I don't want to talk like that fellow, now." "We had the extreme privilege of having jackie gleason make his tv debut on our show." "So, tonight on our anniversary show..." "I'm doing it, huh?" "Aw, now, leave me alone, will you?" "You know, he scares the life out of me." "What time is it?" "About 8:00." "You don't feel like going to 72nd street?" "It'll take an hour." "The whole evening's gone." "What's playing on fordham road?" "There's a good picture in the loew's paradise." "You guys feel like a game of cards?" "Let's go to 72nd street." "We'll wind up with something." "I'll never forgive la guardia for cutting burlesque out of new york city." "There's a burlesque in union city." "Let's go." "You don't want to ride a 1/2 hour on the subway." "Now you want to go to union city?" "I feel like playing cards." "That's what richie rizzo feels like doing." "I don't feel like playing cards." "What do you feel like doing, Angie?" "I don't know." "What do you feel like doing?" "George, what are you doing tonight?" ""What are you doing tonight?" "I don't know."" "The burlesque!" "Loew's paradise!" "Miserable and lonely and stupid!" "What am I, crazy or something?" "I got something good here!" "Why am I hanging around with you guys?" "What's the matter?" "What's the matter with you?" "You don't like her!" "Ma don't like her!" "She's a dog, and I'm a fat, ugly man!" "Well, I had a good time last night!" "I'll have a good time tonight!" "If we have enough good times," "I'll beg her to marry me!" "If we make a new year's party, I got a date!" "You don't like her, that's too bad!" "Hey, Ange - when are you gonna get married?" "You oughta be ashamed of yourself." "You're 33 years old." "Your kid brothers are married." "You oughta be ashamed of yourself." "Hello?" "Excuse me, Ange." "Hello, Clara?" "What happened?" "Hey, Marty?" "Hey, Marty, what happened with you?" "Saturday, we had a party?" "A party?" "Frankie and Lou?" "Everybody but you?" "Where was you thursday?" "Hey, Marty?" "Hey, Marty?" "For our bowling game?" "It seems like a year?" "Since we've chug-a-lugged a beer?" "Hey, Marty, you must have a dame?" "A dame?" "Hey, Marty, you must have a dame?"