"* time is a stealer * a stacked deck dealer * deals you time * then takes time away * you learn if you're lucky * you never waste a day * time is a racer * a comet chaser" "* stops for no one in its quest * * and thinks nothing of it * to pass you by * leave you stranded * with all the rest * what about that bride tomorrow?" "* * all those best laid plans * what about the time you counted upon * * the time that was in * now is gone" "Bob, we picked up a little eight-unit deal out there in Taylor." "Yeah?" "You need some work, though, if you can get to it." "Okay, I'll take a look." "Good to see you." "See you, Mr. McHenry." "Tommy." "Hi, dad." "Get the stick." "Get the stick." "Good boy." "You got him trained?" "Sort of." "It just must be the center of our concerns, but we will not permit those who fire upon us in Vietnam to win a victory over the desires and the intentions of all the American people." "Smells good, Ruth." "They only got a few years to go to end this war before Tommy's old enough to go." "Mr. McHenry, it'll just about end about then, I'm telling you." "I don't see it lasting till 1970." "Do you, Ruth?" "Lord, I hope not." "Are you going to be here for supper tonight, Mr. McHenry?" "No, I've got to go into town." "I'll pick up something." "* if you're lucky that love is a thing * * you don't save for a rainy day *" "* you don't save love for a rainy day * excuse me, are you Mr. McHenry?" "Yes, ma'am." "Well, hello." "How do you do?" "My name is Carol Fritz Simmons, and I just wanted to congratulate you and your new store." "I think it's really good for the town." "Thank you." "Lt was kind of handed to me." "Well, actually, do you know, I'm a seamstress myself, and I'm a very good one, and I was just thinking that if you'd recommend mote any of your customers who might need some alterations," "I'd be very happy to give you a percentage of what I charge them because I'm... well, anyway, I'm raising a daughter by myself, and I'm just..." "I'm trying to make ends meet." "Fucking sack of shit." "Typical... typical raise." "Anti up." "Name was Clayton," "Clayton Fritz Simmons." "Crazy son of a bitch, real sharp looking piece of shit." "Drunk all the time." "Fuck anything." "Had what he had at home, go out and fuck anything." "Wild temper." "Wild man." "Could play cards with you." "Drove like a maniac." "It finally killed him a few years back." "I didn't ask about him." "I asked about her." "I dated her once." "She went out with you?" "Fuck you, yes." "Well, wasn't exactly a date." "We had coffee in a diner." "She was sitting therewith a cup of coffee." "I sat down." "Highly attractive." "Jay, she's too pretty for you." "You the big winner?" "Tonight I was." "You always win." "Nobody wins all the time, Joleen." "That's why they call it gambling." "It's too early to go home." "Where are we going?" "Look." "Louis is going to be walking out the door any second now." "Now, come on." "Why don't you just get out of the car and go on home with him." "Okay?" "I'd rather not." "Get down." "Get down." "Joleen." "I got a feeling here." "I can't keep going on with you." "Why not?" "It's not right." "God's going to punish you' cause of your wife?" "Yeah, maybe, and your husband." "Honey, she is never going to know." "And she's never coming out of that home." "You know it." "I'm going to tell Louis all about us." "That's right." "All about us." "How do you like that?" "You think that you can just use me like some dish rag and then toss me when you're finished?" "Like I got no feelings about this, no say in the matter?" "Well, I can be a bitter and a vengeful woman, Reece." "You have misjudged me." "I don't think I have." "That wife of yours is a perfect shield against me." "Isn't she?" "Against Carol Fitzsimmons." "What do you know about Carol?" "I know that she's been coming around you and insinuating herself into your life." "But you want to be free." "Free?" "I'm not free." "Yes, you are." "Nobody's figured that out yet but me and you, and that's the beauty of it." "Isn't it?" "You can cat around without having to report to anybody." "But if somebody starts getting too close, you have got the perfect excuse, the perfect responsibility, just lying up therein that hospital bed, and you can't deny it." "It's the truth, and you know it is." "Look, let's get something straight." "All right?" "I am not leaving the woman I married, even if she lays in that hospital bed for the rest of my life." "What a waste, Reece." "You're younger than me, a lot younger." "And I'm not burdened by pesky traits like morality and strength of character." "Yeah, I've got a lot of those, obviously." "I'm here with another man's wife." "Where you going now?" "You going to the little shop?" "I might." "You might?" "You might?" "You might see Carol." "Tell me something, Reece." "Have you slept with the poor widow already, or are you just working up to it?" "Audios." "Are you going to buy this outfit?" "My... what are you..." "I'm sorry." "Excuse me." "What are you going here?" "I brought my boy down here for the weekend." "Your boy." "Yeah, I've got a 15-year-old son." "I..." "I have a 13-year-old daughter." "Is that right?" "Yeah, I do." "Well, where is she?" "She's around here someplace." "I brought her up here for the weekend." "Look, why don't we find her, and we can all go have lunch together?" "Actually I... she's at the lake swimming, so I..." "So is mine." "Really?" "Yeah." "Why don't I buy you lunch, then?" "Well, I... come on." "You're not going to buy this outfit." "No." "No, no, not this." "I could make this thing in an afternoon." "Where... you all staying at the cabins?" "Yes... actually, yes, I'm staying at..." "I'm cabin five." "Really?" "I'll be darned." "I'm in seven." "No, are you really?" "Coincidence." "How did that happen?" "Thank you." "Hot dog?" "Sure, I'd love a hot dog." "That would be good." "And also a beer." "Couple hot dogs?" "Yeah, and a beer." "I always said words funny." "You did?" "What do you mean?" "I thought that bouillabaisse was pronounced "boolabase."" "I thought it was a soup, boolabase." "Boola." "I had no idea what"boola" was, "boo."" "Boola, boola." "I don't..." "What... what became of your husband?" "Well, he was killed in a car wreck off the highway about four years ago." "Sorry to hear that." "Yeah." "Your wife?" "She... do you want another beer?" "Do know who Vin Scully is?" "Baseball guy?" "Yes, sports announcer." "I thought his name was pronounced Vince Kully." "Vince Kully." "Dear." "It's hopeless." "I can understand." "Are you having any luck with that?" "Turned out to be little bit tougher than I thought it was." "Really?" "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't have asked you." "You didn't ask." "I volunteered." "Really, no." "No, I should've called the plumber." "No, I can..." "I can fix it, but..." "You can?" "Plumber would probably fix it right." "Yeah?" "What?" "Wait, you know I'm still married." "I mean, you know the circumstances." "I'm still married." "What, are you afraid your wife's suddenly going to wake up?" "No." "Things are going to be back to normal?" "She's going to walk in on us or something like that?" "No, but..." "What?" "To have a steady girlfriend, you think that's the right thing to do?" "Wait a minute." "Have I missed something here?" "Who asked you if you wanted a steady girlfriend?" "I just thought it was in the air." "Don't try and read my mind." "Okay?" "I'm sorry." "You should be." "You should be really sorry because I have a boyfriend." "You do?" "You don't." "He's so surprised." "You can't believe it?" "No, I mean I... that's right." "I have a boyfriend." "I didn't know." "Well, now you know." "And I don't need you to make any phone calls for me either because I can call Mr. Quillet myself." "You see, I'm not helpless." "Right." "Because you know what?" "We're not living in the dark ages." "This is the 1960s, so you better wake up because women can call their own plumbers and women, too... can enjoy themselves with their... you know, their... their boyfriends and..." "Somebody who isn't their... what are you doing?" "Their boyfriends." "What's going on?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, what the hell's going on?" "Your boyfriend here or something?" "I have company, yes." "Carol?" "What?" "What about this afternoon?" "You know, the plumbing and every... what are you talking about?" "I mean, I... you know what I'm talking about." "No, I don't know what you're talking..." "Vin Scully and..." "We had sex on the bathroom floor." "You barely said a word to me." "You left." "I had no idea you were coming over here." "Well, I'm here now." "I'm here now." "Well, you're here, and I have a guest." "Okay?" "Excuse me." "Hey!" "No." "I mean it." "Good-bye." "Getting wet?" "Look, is there any reason why we can't be friends?" "I just..." "Well, no." "I'd like that." "Well, I mean, there, for a while, you were coming around, and..." "I don't you know... you stopped and..." "I thought we had a fight." "Well, that was a..." "A fight is when you and your husband exchange blows, when the house is destroyed, when the horrible words you scream at each other echo years and years later, when he gets into a canard drives it off into the night" "to burn to death off some old highway, and your only daughter forever has screaming nightmares, Reece." "That's what a fight is." "What did we have then?" "We had a few words." "Well, here's a few more." "I don't particularly like Gene Hamlin." "I recognized his car." "Gene Hamlin happens to be a very nice man." "Don't tell me about him." "You play poker with a man, you get to know him pretty fast." "Well, I'm sorry if you don't approve, so..." "Look, I don't wanna argue with you." "Well, anyway, look, I should be going." "So... friends or..." "Look, it's Wednesday afternoon, it's raining, and I already let my girl go." "Why don't I just close shop, and we could, take a little drive?" "What do you say?" "Do you ever go to the movies?" "No." "I never do." "Do you know that one of my favorite things in life is to go to the movies in the afternoon?" "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Especially if it's raining." "What was I saying?" "Sex." "Yes." "I was hoping you'd forgotten." "Well, we just had do you see that couple?" "A pretty good sex life, you know?" "It just was very..." "I just..." "I enjoy sex." "It was nice." "We were pretty wild, Martin and me." "Tell me what you mean by that." "What do you mean you were pretty wild?" "Well..." "We had a good sex life." "Come on." "Reece, what are you doing?" "Nothing." "You were waiting to see them, weren't you?" "No, no, no." "Yes, you were." "No." "Look, aren't you curious?" "Do you wanna stay and see who they are?" "I think we should tell the manager that if we wanna see that kind of thing, we can just go to the drive-in." "We were young once." "Okay." "Okay, we forgive them." "We won't tell the manager." "Okay." "Now, do you think they're gonna stay and see the whole movie?" "Yes, if they didn't see it the first time." "Look it." "You see that?" "You know what that is?" "What?" "No." "What is that?" "That is a Sony Betamax machine." "What's it do?" "Well, it shows you movies at home." "Home movies?" "Yep." "Wow." "Well, no." "You have a motion picture on a videocassette tape." "And you stick it in that thing, and it shows you the movie on your T.V. screen." "I don't understand that." "Why would you wanna do that?" "It's like... it's like... no, I mean, it's like a record of a song." "Where are you gonna buy a movie?" "You can buy them now." "You can rent them." "I really don't understand what you're talking about." "It's in the future." "It's coming." "If I wanna watch T.V., then I watch T.V." "If I wanna go to the movies, then I do that." "But this combines them both." "Why?" "Why?" "Tell me why." "Come on, Reece." "Tell me why." "Thanks, Phil." "Yeah." "I'm good to go?" "Yes, sir." "All right." "Thank you." "See ya." "You know, one of these days, they're gonna discontinue the Wednesday matinees." "Why would they do that?" "'Cause nobody comes." "Well, we do." "Yeah, but we're not enough." "Yeah." "And how was the movie today?" "It was good." "We enjoyed it." "Yes." "She was really good, I thought." "Thank you, Mike." "You bet." "I can't stay long today because I have a thing back at the house." "You don't work on Wednesday afternoon." "I know, but this girl is getting married, and this was the only time she had, so..." "Wait a minute, wait a minute.." "George Segaland Glenda Jackson.." "Okay." "God." "A touch of class." "I got one." "Wait a second." "No." "All right." "I know." "I got a better one." "All right." "Okay." "Okay." "Steve McQueen and Sharon Farrell." "All right." "Wait." "This is eight or nine years ago." "You're so... no." "Wait a minute." "Sharon Farrell... sad." "Sad." "The Reivers, they called it." "You're good." "Okay." "You're very good." "I'm just trying to keep up with you." "Hey, Mike, have you ever heard of this machine that plays movies at home?" "What do you mean, like a little movie projector?" "No." "This is different." "We had a bell  Howell." "See what I mean?" "No..." "Mike, this is by Sony." "Hell, I don't know what you're talking about." "Never." "It'll never work." "Because that just worries me, you know what I mean?" "Oops." "Looks like they're here." "What do you mean?" "No." "They're waiting on me." "All right." "Okay, you going back to the store?" "Look at her." "Yeah, I think I'm gonna go back there and move things around a little bit." "Do you want some supper?" "Sure." "Okay." "Well, I'll come by, and we'll go out, okay?" "Sounds good." "Like we've done every Wednesday for the past 12 years." "You complaining?" "No." "You know that Ronnie's older sister... yeah?" "Got married seven years ago in San Francisco, California, out of doors, in the nude?" "Mary Anne, I wouldn't go around telling people that." "But why not?" "All right." "Where's the..." "I'll be right back." "Let me look at you." "You're fabulous." "Yes." "It looks good." "Hello?" "Dottie, hi." "What..." "I don't understand." "Honey, what's the matter?" "You don't sound good at all." "Would you excuse me for a minute?" "It's my sister from Canada." "She lives there, of all places." "What is it, dottie?" "What?" "Boy." "Nipples." "Lisa Freelander." "Lisa Freelander?" "Nipples?" "You always said she had no nipples." "Well, she had very, very small nipples, that's right." "I said best nipples of all time." "But Lisa had enormous tits." "I'm not talking about the whole tit." "Well, something about those enormous tits made those tiny nipples very special." "I see." "I understand." "Now, those nipples by themselves... no, I don't think they'd do anything for you." "But in context... world's best nipples." "Right." "Feet." "Feet." "Jennifer Schneider from law school." "Small, beautifully done, immaculate feet." "Great-looking toes." "Nails polished just right." "I used to beg her to walk on my back with those feet." "Now, tell me about the girl you met." "Well, it's the craziest thing." "Her mother and my dad been friends for years." "But you never met?" "Well, once years and years ago, but she doesn't remember." "Just the one time?" "Guess I was away or she was away or we were both away, but I never forgot her." "Now you're both in town and you hook up." "What'd you do?" "Well, I took her to lunch, caught an afternoon movie." "Touchy-feely." "Of course, we got all worked up." "Took her back to somebody's place?" "I took her home, and I dropped her." "She shot you down?" "No, Eddie." "I just didn't feel like closing the deal yet." "Well, why not?" "I guess the mother and your father thing?" "Yeah, some of that." "And I liked her." "You liked her?" "Yeah." "So, show some respect." "A little." "Yeah." "I see." "I understand." "Next time." "Next time, maybe, yeah." "Which is tonight, 'cause I'm going over there." "Not wasting any time." "No." "I understand." "This time, she's had it." "This time, she's gonna get what's coming to her." "Any potential for this one?" "Yes, lots of potential." "For a body part award?" "Well, it's early yet, but I think so." "What's her name?" "Katherine Fritz Simmons." "Don't know her." "Good." "**" "That didn't take long." "No." "What's the matter?" "Nothing." "Something's the matter." "Boy, can I just be read like a book?" "Well, I can read you." "You know, the mother of this bride-to-be told me that her daughter had not been promiscuous because men like girls who are chaste." "So, of course, I get this picture of this pack of roving men chasing this girl all over the place." ""Chaste"... c-h-a-s-t-e." "I know." "It's c-h-a..." "I know." "I finally figured that out." "And "bouillabaisse." Yeah, right." "But you know me with the words.." "Reece?" "I got a phone call from my sister up in Canada." "And, well, her health has fallen to pieces, and she's... she's desperate." "For what?" "For somebody." "Who?" "Me." "I'm the only person she's got." "Well, how sick is she?" "She's sick." "She's very sick." "So you might have Togo up there for awhile?" "I might have Togo up there to live." "You mean forever?" "Well, she's not gonna live forever, but for as long as she does, she needs me." "Wait." "You're gonna move up to Canada to live?" "Reece, you asked me what was the matter." "Well, isn't there somebody else that could be with her?" "I'm her only family." "A friend or something?" "She needs more than a friend dropping by." "She needs somebody full time." "Well, she can't ask you to change your whole life." "She didn't come right out and ask me, but... maybe you misunderstood her." "No." "No." "I know what the situation is." "So, I mean, how soon does she need somebody?" "Now." "You mean, I'm gonna lose my best friend in the whole world?" "Is that what I am, your best friend?" "Yeah, you are." "You're the best friend I've got." "Well, maybe you're just gonna have to pack right up and move on up to Canada, too, Reece." "I'm not moving to Canada." "It's cold up there." "You can't either." "I don't know what to do." "Well, don't move to Canada." "They ice fish up there." "Well, I'm not gonna turn my back on my sister." "You're not mad at me, are you?" "No." "Of course not." "I'm racking my brains trying to figure out what to do." "Louis." "What are you doing open this afternoon?" "Hi, Louis." "Well, actually, I'm not open, Lou." "What'd you two do, go to the movies?" "You two and Wednesday matinees." "Whole town knows about you two." "Knows what?" "Hell with them." "Don't misunderstand me, Reece." "Nobody blames you." "People understand." "They do?" "What brings you in, Lou?" "You wanna sell these?" "Or make a trade for a suit, Reece." "Carol?" "You remember this you made for me?" "For Joleen." "God, yes, I do remember that." "Look at that." "Well, I guess I could give you about five bucks." "Is that fair?" "That sounds fair." "And what kind of suit did you have in mind?" "Dark." "Black, I guess." "You're, 44 long?" "I used to have a black suit once." "It might still be in here somewhere, Reece." "What do you want with a black suit for?" "Who died?" "Joleen." "What?" "What?" "Joleen." "What are you talking about?" "Joleen died." "What... what happened?" "She died yesterday at noon, straight up and down." "How?" "Her heart." "She had a defect in therefrom birth." "Louis." "I didn't know." "She died at the ironing board." "She was ironing me a shirt." "She just fell." "Her heart stopped." "Didn't make a big deal about it." "It just... quit." "My God." "You two are being awfully kind to me." "Well..." "Well, especially you, Carol." "I mean, after some of the things Joleen said about you." "What?" "Well, you know." "No, I don't know." "I'm sorry." "I mean, I don't know why she didn't care for you." "She probably saw you wearing a dress sometime that she thought would look better on her." "She didn't like me?" "I mean, everybody likes me." "I got a big mouth." "Excuse me." "Another round, please." "Thank you." "I'm sorry that hurt your feelings." "Well, a person likes to be liked." "It's funny, isn't it?" "I mean, we assume everybody likes us, but maybe they don't." "Well, I like you." "Please don't say that to me again, all right?" "You remind me of Kenneth Meade." "I don't know who that is." "You don't know him." "Why should you?" "He's a young man I dated a few years back in San Francisco." "Don't tell me I remind you of some guy you dated." "Why not?" "You do." "Yeah, but don't tell me I do." "What, you wanna be unique in all the world?" "Yes." "What an insensitive thing to do." "I didn't realize." "No?" "What if I told you you had lips like Gretchen Miller?" "What if you did?" "How do I remind you of Kenneth?" "Forget it." "How?" "You said you didn't wanna know." "Well, is it the way I look?" "No." "Well, what then?" "I wonder what ever happened to Kenneth Meade." "Was he a magnificent lover or something?" "I don't remember." "All right." "I'm gonna tell you." "Sometimes, your eyes get really big all of a sudden, and you swallow hard." "Like a little boy." "Like Kenneth." "It's sort of like an involuntary expression of innocence." "I like it." "You have great ears." "I do?" "They're beauties." "The greatest ears of all time?" "The greatest ears of all time?" "Why'd you ask it like that?" "Why'd you use those words?" "Like what? "The greatest ears of all time"?" "You think I don't know how men talk?" "I think I do." "My God, the things men say." "They just kill me." "They absolutely kill me." "I'm right, aren't I?" "I can't tell you the details about her yet, Eddie." "Why not?" "Well, what if she's the one?" "What does that mean?" "The one." "What if she turns out to be the one for me?" "And then you told me all her secrets?" "That's right." "And I wouldn't like that." "I understand." "But tell me anyway." "What if it turned out I married her?" "Don't even mention that word to me." "Well, then you'd know all these secrets about my wife." "You met this girl24 hours ago." "What the hell's the matter with you?" "I've been looking for her all my life." "What has she done to you?" "I think she's the end of the prey." "Stop." "Stop." "I'm..." "I'm ill." "All right." "Just tell me... just tell me the area between... between the navel and the pubes." "Her tummy?" "Yeah." "Below the tummy." "Below the naval?" "But above the pubes." "It's real white." "She got great skin." "She must take after her mother, I guess." "Her mother's got great skin." "You leave the lights on?" "For awhile." "So she's white, totally milky?" "No tan there at all?" "Not below the navel, above the pubes." "Come on." "Tell me more." "No." "Okay." "Come on, chick!" "And to think I called you friend once." "How long have you known Carol Fritz Simmons?" "About 12 years, I guess." "And in all that time, why didn't you ever introduce me to her daughter?" "Why should I unleash you on Carol's daughter?" "Well, we met yesterday at the market totally by accident." "Now, don't fool around with her daughter, all right?" "Why not?" "Because you go through womanlike water, and I don't want you to hurt her or her mother." "Now, wait a minute." "I'm not kidding." "Hi, tom." "Why haven't you ever introduced your daughter to me?" "I don't know." "They met yesterday by accident." "Yeah, we went out." "I really like Katherine... you went out already?" "Yeah, we had a couple dates." "What do you mean?" "You just met her yesterday, and you already had two dates?" "Yeah." "I took her to the movies yesterday afternoon." "Then we got together again last night." "You took her to the movies yesterday afternoon?" "Yeah." "Come on." "What?" "Okay, wait a minute." "What did you see?" "Well, we saw that thing over at the Baker." "My God." "Yesterday afternoon?" "Yeah." "Were you sitting down there in front, on the left there?" "Now, don't lie to me." "There was only four people in the theater." "We... we thought we... we were alone." "Well, that was grossly apparent." "Why can't your sister move down here?" "Because she can't, Reece." "Why not?" "Because she's dying, and I don't want to put her through that kind of ordeal." "How long has she got, Carol?" "How long does anybody have?" "I don't know." "All I know is I'm healthy and she's not, and she should be where she wants to be." "Besides, I ordered her to come down here, and she said no." "Well, I just thought maybe you hadn't thought of it." "Did you drive all the way over here at 10:30 at night to ask me that?" "Well, what if we hired a nurse, okay?" "And she could stay herewith her all day and all night and holidays." "I know it'd be expensive, but I'll pay for it." "You'd do that for her?" "Well, I'd do that for you and... and me." "So..." "I don't know." "Look, I don't know how many more ideas I can come up with." "Yeah." "Were you sleeping?" "Watching t.V." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Well, good night." "The late show is on at 11:00." "You gonna watch it?" "**" "Now, see, this is a movie, but we're watching t." "V.Not..." "Reece... yeah, like that machine I showed you." "Movies should be seen in the movie theaters, where the screen is big, there's no ads, you have aisles and ushers, and that's my opinion." "Can't you see that?" "I finally thought..." "Reece?" "You're right." "Reece?" "How badly do you not want me to move?" "Well, you could leave tonight if you want." "Do you know something I'd always regret?" "What?" "That... that we never went away together." "Do you know?" "You mean on vacation, or what?" "A weekend." "A long weekend away." "We never did that." "No, thanks." "Well, how come you never mentioned this before?" "Why didn't you?" "I'm not a traveler." "Well, I didn't know how to mention it." "How difficult could it have been?" "Very." "Don't sing that, please." "You know what I would like to see one of these days is a good old Western." "Yeah." "They're not making those anymore." "I'd love to see a Western." "They're not." "I know." "You know, like, the outlaw Josey wales a couple years ago." "You see yourself as a bit of an outlaw." "What?" "Yeah, you see yourself as a bit of an outlaw." "I have no idea what you mean by that." "The renegade." "Yeah, and the person who doesn't do things like the way they're done." "I'm a solid citizen." "What do you mean?" "Okay." "Most men get up in the morning, they go to work at a job, and 5:00... yeah?" "They go home." "You've never done that, Reece." "I've got the store." "That store is a toy." "I know." "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid." "You know the one." "Where they jump off the cliff." "And they say, "shit."" "Shit!" "Shit." "It's too embarrassing." "It's kind of embarrassing, but we're alone." "So what do you think?" "I don't know." "I bet they're together somewhere, those two." "Maybe." "It's not movie day." "They'll be back in awhile, I guess." "I wouldn't worry." "This place is amazing." "You see anything you like?" "Everything." "You never been in here before?" "No." "I've only driven by." "Well, you should have come by years ago." "I might've been here." "I never knew it was such a candy box." "My mother never told me much about this place." "Wow." "Our parents must be in love, don't you think?" "I'm not sure." "Besides, my dad would never use that word." "Well, did he use it with your mother?" "I don't know." "I doubt it." "I can't believe she might go to Toronto." "She might never see him again." "And if she were to go, you know what the reason is?" "Her sister." "Yeah." "But not only that." "She's testing him." "She's testing their relationship." "That'd be a dangerous thing to do." "I wanna watch you undress and dress." "Pervert." "You can make mes pervert." "That's a lovely thing to say." "Hello, Louis." "Where's your daddy?" "He's not here today." "Or he's gone." "We're not sure." "Louis, I heard about your wife." "I'm awfully sorry." "I picked me out a suit yesterday." "I need it for tomorrow." "Here it is." "Ta-da!" "Louis, this is Katherine Fritz Simmons." "What you got on?" "It's a dress." "Why you wearing it?" "Well, usually, it's easier to meet someone when you have clothes on." "Get that dress off!" "Aahh!" "What the hell's the matter with you?" "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "He didn't hurt you, did he?" "No." "The dress..." "Joleen..." "Was that Joleen's dress, Louis?" "All those years," "I was living with somebody I didn't know." "Hey, Phil." "Hello, tom." "Hey, did you see my dad today?" "Yeah." "Came in this morning to fill up." "Him and the Fritz Simmons woman." "Did they say where the were going?" "Cabin somewhere." "That cabin up in hill country?" "Yeah." "They were going to hill country." "All right." "All right." "Be cool, Phil." "Okay." "I'll see y'all." "Take me to my truck." "Well, I know where they are, Louis." "I can drive us up there." "Just take me to my truck." "Reece?" "Yeah?" "Wait." "Look." "You see the ducks?" "Ducks?" "Wait." "Let me get this." "Okay." "Hey, what are you doing?" "Quit." "What?" "What?" "I've never had my picture taken." "What are you talking about?" "I've never had any pictures taken of me." "Since when?" "Ever." "I don't understand." "What kind of a lie is that anyway?" "No, no." "I'm not kidding you." "I've never had a picture." "What about your family album?" "There is no family album." "Okay, well, then, you were in the army." "Yeah." "Three years in the pacific." "So, they took your picture in the army, didn't they?" "No." "They missed me." "Reece, you're pulling my leg?" "Well, then, what did you look like, Reece, when you were a little boy?" "I don't know." "I've got no idea." "I don't care." "I'm doing it." "No." "Come on." "No." "Quit it now." "Cut it out." "No, wait." "Please, let me just take one." "No." "Reece... no, please." "No." "I'm gonna get a picture of you." "I am." "No." "I am." "What if we separate or something happens to us?" "I'm gonna have a picture where I can look back on." "You don't need it." "Yes, I do." "I need it." "Hey, Alpha!" "Zeus!" "Come on, Zeus!" "She here?" "Yeah, she's inside there." "Amanda McKay?" "No." "Louise Duffy?" "No." "Well, who do you know around here?" "Well, I don't remember names much." "Yeah." "Now, Katherine..." "Tom here thinks he likes you." "And that's all Welland good." "But it's my job to make sure that if he likes you, he knows what he's doing." "I understand." "Do you?" "I think I do." "You think you do?" "See, tom and I know women." "You know what I mean?" "It's what we do." "I can see this situation so much more clearly than he can." "Look, if you and I had a thing, he would be the one asking the questions." "Well, of course." "See, what I'm looking for is an ulterior motive." "I don't have any motives, ulterior or otherwise." "Well, what the hell you doing here?" "I'm just along for the ride." "Is it your plan to cut tom off from other women, and by doing so, sabotage our friendship?" "No." "This man was once a marine." "He fought gooks in the jungle." "You care to comment on that?" "No, I'd rather not." "Miss..." "Fritz Simmons." "Fritz Simmons." "Is there a specific part of your body that is perhaps the greatest of its kind?" "My ears." "May I see them?" "All right." "I have no further questions." "How do you work this?" "No." "Here." "Look it... no." "Here." "Let me get you coming off the canyon." "Come on." "No, I don't wanna." "Such a cute hat." "Every age I hit seems younger than it did before." "I'm 54.So I remember when I was 20, 30,god, even 40," "I thought 54was really ancient." "54's not that old." "No, no." "It doesn't seem like it's old, but it actually is." "I mean, I know what you're talking about." "But it's old, and you know it." "I remember when I was 35," "I really pitied those poor old people who were 40." "But when I was 45,I would've killed to have been 40." "40?" "You're 56, right?" "So wouldn't it be great to be 45?" "Well... it would." "Are you bushed?" "No." "I'm fine." "No?" "You didn't sleep much last night." "Neither did you." "What does that mean?" "Look at this." "My God!" "Please don't.Reece, don't." "Don't." "Get away from there." "I'm all right." "It's kind of thrilling, actually." "Aahh!" "Better hold me." "Come here." "Don't do that." "Don't do that." "You know what?" "You're the only thrill I need.." "You are." "You two!" "What?" "Louis!" "You two can be hard to find when you wanna be." "Louis, what's the problem?" "I tracked you down." "Lou, what the hell are you doing up here?" "Louis, get away from there!" "Come on, Louis." "Don't." "I'm not gonna jump." "No, but you could fall." "Louis!" "Lou, come on." "Aahh!" "You know, I heard by the year 2040, there's not gonna be a single tree left on this planet." "Lou..." "I wonder what people are gonna do without trees." "Lou, what did you come up here for?" "Yeah, Louis." "Get away from there." "Come on." "Come on." "Why'd you do it, Reece?" "Do what?" "I was looking through some of Joleen's things." "I found this." "What is it?" "It's a letter she wrote, never mailed." "Look, Lou, come on away from the edge there, would you?" "I'll read you the letter." "Lou..." ""Dearest Reece," ""as long as I live," "I will never forget what you have done for me."" "Lou, would you please... "I was yours."" ""I came to you." "I wanted you." "I was yours."" ""But you said no,"" ""you would not have me."" ""Not even for one night."" ""In your kind rejection, yet understanding,"" ""you have taught me honor."" ""Thank you, Reece." "Love, Joleen."" "Like I said, why'd you do it, Reece?" "There were many times years back when I thought she was fooling around on me, but I never knew for sure who with." "This letter clears you, of course." "Doesn't it?" "I owe you." "Lou..." "I'm selling my house, Reece." "I'm going to my sister's." "**" "I'm dancing with her." "No, I'm dancing with her." "Hey, isn't this a little unethical, Eddie... you and Lola being here?" "What wouldn't be ethical about it?" "Hi." "How are you?" "Well, the obvious." "I mean, you represent her in divorce, and now here you are." "Yeah, but divorce is final and everything." "Tom, because I choose a certain profession, certain people are suddenly off-limits to me in life?" "I hope that is not how our judicial system works." "Listen, I wouldn't, like, have gone out with him while the case was still in progress." "Of course not." "I can see how certain small-minded individuals could misconstrue." "Except that one time and everything." "What time was that, Lola?" "Should I tell them?" "Admit nothing." "We had a sexual encounter in his office first day I, like, came in to see him and everything." "How'd that happen, Eddie?" "Remind me." "On your desk!" "Like you don't remember." "Mwah!" "Now I remember." "* I'm sitting on a bar stool acting like a darn fool * * that's what I'm a-doing today * * and I'm a-sitting here drinking, trying to keep from thinking *" "* I'm a-boozing my troubles away *" "* so pour me another one, I'm finished with the other one *" "* I'm drinking my baby good-bye *" "* I said pour me another one, I'm finished with the other one *" "* I'm drinking my baby good-bye *" "* I said pour me another one, I'm finished with the other one *" "* I'm drinking my baby good-bye *" "**" "Thanks." "I got a call today..." "From a director." "He's directing a play, and he wants me to come to Tennessee and be in a show." "Yeah?" "When?" "Tomorrow." "He wants you to come tomorrow?" "Yeah, somebody got fired and he needs a replacement." "Well, I hope you told him you had other things in your life." "Like what?" "Me." "I'm going, tom." "Come on." "Yeah, I leave first thing." "Well, I thought we had something developing here, Katherine." "Look, it's a good part in a play." "You know I enjoy doing that." "I'm going." "It's a dinner theater in Tennessee." "Sounds like a real career move." "It's only for three months." "Two months." "Well, that could be worse." "And then it tours for six." "You can't go." "I mean, you absolutely can't go." "Look, don't tell Mei can't do a thing... all right?" "I can't stand it." "I'm like a child that way." "Well then I'll go with you." "Tom, you're such a sweet guy." "And you know I'm attracted to you, obviously." "But, I don't want you trailing along behind me." "Well, I won't be trailing along behind you." "I'll be right there with you." "Let me be with you." "No." "Why not?" "Because." "I like being on my own." "How can I explain that?" "Why should I have to?" "I've got you." "You're here and I've got you." "What the hell would I do without you... for eight months?" "Come on." "You've lived this long." "You'll be fine." "Don't be so flip when I'm trying to tell you how I feel about you, damn it." "Lola went to powder her labia." "Where's yours?" "Tennessee." "All right." "I know you're dying." "Lola... her neck." "World-class neck." "I just wish I could get her whole neck in my mouth." "It took you a while, but you finally came." "Well, now that I've gotten up here to visit you, when are you gonna come back home and see me?" "I don't know." "Did you see... which one, now?" "Well, listen, here's what..." "I'm not gonna go see smokey and the bandit." "No." "Can I just sit over there?" "You all right?" "Yes..." "Thank you... good." "It's buttered." "It's buttered." "What?" "It tastes like Styrofoam." "Well, it has a little styrofoam taste." "Canadian popcorn." "Do you want to take off your coat?" "Nope." "You're just a big baby, aren't you?" "The heater's broke or something... you know?" "You're still punishing me for leaving, aren't you?" "What?" "You hardly ever call me." "Now you come up here, you act like you're freezing to death." "Go ahead, Reece..." "You made me pay for... hey, you wanna get into this?" "You wanna get into this?" "You couldn't possibly think I could have moved up here with you?" "You knew you were breaking us up." "No, I didn't." "You didn't?" "I thought... what did you think?" "I... well, I thought..." "That some miracle might happen?" "Dare I say this?" "Dare I say this?" "Yeah." "Dare." "I thought you might realize that you love me." "All right." "Okay." "Just forget it." "We'll watch the movie." "Let's watch the movie, Reece." "Okay?" "Reece?" "Reece?" "Do you remember that hill country weekend before I moved?" "Hill country?" "Nope." "Doesn't ring a bell." "Yeah." "I'm going go to my lawyer's and have lunch." "Okay." "I'll be back later." "Sure." "Sally?" "Is he here?" "Counselor?" "I thought you were going to close the deal on that store at the mall." "I've got 4,0oovideo cassettes sitting around waiting to get into that space." "What did she say to you?" "Who?" "Sally." "Outside." "She didn't say anything." "We're having a silent row." "A row?" "You know, under the surface." "We're... we're at pizza hut... and, she comes in... she comes in with this asshole." "Wait a minute." "Who's at pizza hut?" "Me, Bonnie, and... me, Bonnie, and the kids." "So, you're at the pizza hut with your family..." "We're at the pizza hut and she comes in with this asshole, and they sit at the table right next to our booth and they're all kissy-face and holding hands across the table." "She's doing this just to aggravate me." "You've got a wife and four kids." "You're popping your secretary, who is single." "And you see her out on a date and you get jealous." "Don't try to make me out like some sort of freak." "Any man would feel the same way." "What about this lease in the mall?" "What about it?" "Hey, Greg." "Hey, tom." "You should let me get somebody in here to clean this place up." "Well, Ruth was my housekeeper." "Yeah, well..." "Ruth's long gone, dad." "Besides, she'd have a fit at this mess." "Would you like to go out to the hill country, dad?" "And spend the night?" "What?" "You used to like to go out there, and you haven't been out there in years." "I don't care anything about it." "I'd like to see you get out of this store every once in a while." "Why?" "You've gotten so damn sedentary, dad." "There's nowhere to go." "Well, there's lots of places to go and I just told you one place..." "I don't care anything about it." "You know, I'm not sure, but I think I saw Katherine Fritz Simmons downtown on the street today." "You remember her?" "Little bit." "At least I believe it was her." "Wonder what in the world might bring her back to town." "Hello?" "Yeah." "Hold on a second." "I'll go get him." "Yeah, I remember her." "You two came in here every Wednesday." "Yeah, after the matinees.." "And she moved away." "Yeah, she did." "She moved to Canada." "Is she back now?" "Apparently so." "Have you two kept up over the years?" "No, no, we haven't." "So you haven't seen her in..." "Ten years." "Well, my goodness, Reece." "You two used to be inseparable, didn't you?" "Yes, sir." "We were good friends." "Reece." "Well, hello." "It's our table." "Yeah." "Well..." "What?" "Reece." "What?" "Do you remember me?" "Mike." "Mike." "Yeah." "See?" "She's still a regular." "She drops by every tenor 15 years just like clockwork." "What'll you have?" "I'm gonna have a glass of white wine." "Make that two." "All right." "Thanks, Mike." "Mike." "Well..." "I've been reading about how to write a mystery novel." "Why?" "I don't know." "I thought that I might try and write one." "Agatha Christie?" "Well, she wrote 200." "I might write one." "You still sew?" "Sure." "So you're gonna write a mystery and sew?" "Well, I like to keep busy, don't you?" "No, no." "I don't like to keep busy." "I like to hardly do anything." "Thank you." "Well..." "What do you do, Reece?" "Nothing." "You still go to the movies?" "Hardly ever." "I watch them on tapes." "My son owns ten video stores." "Tom?" "Yeah." "He brings me bags full of tapes." "Well, that's convenient." "So you watch them at home?" "No, at the store." "I don't go home much." "The store is home." "I spend most of the time there." "At the store." "Yeah." "More comfortable." "It's smaller." "I like a smaller place to live in, you know." "You still do good business?" "No, no." "I'd be lying if I said I did." "It's slacked off some." "Really?" "'Cause I would've thought that the used clothing part of your business would've skyrocketed." "Why is that?" "'Cause the times." "I mean, you know, used clothes are really popular." "New clothes have these holes in them." "Well, you can't Leta business go, and I kind of let mine go over the millennium." "Yeah." "Boy." "Reece." "When I first met you, you drove a Cadillac." "Yeah." "Yeah." "You were really expansive." "Yeah." "By the time I moved, you'd gotten smaller." "Well, I only liked being around the store 'cause that's where you were, you know." "Me?" "I somewhat scaled down." "So now you're smaller still." "I'm tiny now." "I got rid of almost everything." "So, how long do you think you're gonna live in that hotel?" "Well, until I can find the right apartment to buy." "Well, maybe I can help you look for an apartment." "I'd like that." "Yeah." "You still know just about everyone there is?" "No." "Hardly anybody." "Your, sister hung on a long time, didn't she?" "Well, not as long as some." "You gave up a lot for her." "I didn't really feel as though I had a choice." "You're a very good person." "Tell me something." "How was Tennessee?" "Tennessee?" "Yeah." "The play." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Well, the last time I saw you, you were getting ready to go to Tennessee and act in a play." "Okay." "Yeah, I remember." "Every time I thought of Tennessee," "I mean, over the years," "I would think of you." "I was Tennessee to you?" "That's funny." "Nah, I was only there five minutes." "Five minutes?" "Well, yeah." "I got up there, and, the theater went broke, something." "I don't know." "Anyway, I went out to California." "Lived with some girlfriends, got married." "So what do you mean, the theater closed or something?" "I mean I was in Tennessee for five minutes." "I went up thereto see you in that play." "To surprise you." "Well, then, you know." "You bastard." "I was never in that play." "I wasn't right for the role." "You persistent little swine!" "God." "By mutual agreement, I left..." "And I went to California." "So by mutual agreement, you weren't right for the role." "That's right." "They fired you." "That's right." "So how long were you married?" "First time?" "Two years." "I married a coke head." "And I divorced him." "And then I married his dealer." "So you did you have a bout with drugs yourself?" ""A bout with drugs."" "That's a pretty compact little way to put it." "Yes, I had one." "Yes, I did." "The '80s were a, world championship bout with drugs." "How come you never married?" "You." "You knew me a week." "What can I tell you?" "That's the craziest thing I ever heard." "Don't tell me what I saw." "I'm telling you..." "I got eyes, Buster." "What you got is like a mother-daughter envy thing." "I don't know." "What?" "How dare you?" "It's normal." "Hey, you two." "You remember Lola?" "I don't think I can stay, Eddie." "You better take me home." "What's going on?" "Too embarrassed to tell you..." "Eddie comes to pick me up." "While I'm getting ready, I'm come out." "He's, like, on the couch with my 15-year-old daughter." "I didn't know I wasn't supposed to sit down." "I saw what you were doing." "I met the girl20 seconds before." "Like, you know, I work that fast." "Hi." "It's you two." "Gosh, it's been awhile." "Didn't we go out one night?" "The four of us?" "Yeah." "It was a long time ago, hon." "Right." "How ya been?" "There she was in the phone book, and her name just sort of jumped off the page at me." "I want y'all to know I do not go outwith married men." "Why didn't you tell me to bring a suit?" "I'd love to go swimming." "Well, go swimming." "You don't need a suit." "Yeah, right." "I'll make us all some drinks." "Well, I'll help you." "She comes into my office for her first divorce." "You know, way back." "I boff her on my desk." "And now she needs a suit to go swimming." "She still looks pretty good, though?" "Yeah, looks good." "Yours looks good." "You don't mind us popping in like this, do you?" "Yeah." "But what am I gonna do about it?" "Well, we won't stay." "Good." "You know, I used to own this place." "You did?" "Yeah." "Built it." "It was all rental units back then." "Been remodeled a bunch." "I don't know why I'm so surprised." "I mean, I hardly even knew you, Reece." "You showed me just enough to keep me interested, and then you... you just kept me out." "You told me nothing." "Well, it's a pretty good view." "It'd be a nice place for you." "Good price." "Awfully high up." "Yeah." "In Canada, you were on the ground floor." "I'm surprised you remember." "Well, at least I came to visit." "Once." "One time." "How come you never came back down to visit me?" "Well, I wasn't a schoolgirl hopping on airplanes every weekend to go see my boyfriend, Reece." "I had a responsibility. "Boyfriend"?" "What about your responsibility toward us?" "What "us"?" "There was no "us."" "I realized that pretty soon after I moved away." ""There was no us." You're lying." "Now you're really lying." "You moved." "That's what happened." "We had a life, and you left it." "What kind of a life did we have?" "A pretty darn good one." "Lt was casual, easy." "Casual?" "Brother, was it casual, yes." "I don't remember you hating it so much way back then." "I did." "You did?" "You hated the... yes, I hated it!" "I hate something that starts out good, and just stays there, Reece, and it doesn't move forward into something better." "Casual and good..." "Reece, that just wasn't good enough for me." "Well..." "I didn't take you out dancing every night." "Not every night, no." "Why didn't you express your grievances... why didn't you express your grievances?" "Because that's not something I do." "I'm not very expressive." "Well, I was the one who said we should go away for a weekend, because we've never even gone away for one weekend, Reece." "And when you did, what did I do?" "I took you." "Yes, but where were your ideas?" "My God, you were young, you were vital." "You could've had a thought." ""Young and vital"... yes." "You were young." "You were vital." "I don't know when it ended." "Well, it's ended." "Yeah, I can see that." "I'm just saying I don't know when it ended, because I wasn't thereto see it end, Reece." "I wasn't thereto see you end." "It started to end when you left." "I shouldn't have to tell you that." "Go ahead and tell me." "Just rub it in my face." "Go ahead." "Well, look, it's nobody's fault, I guess." "You couldn't have it both ways forever." "You couldn't have me sort of on the side forever, and I should've said that point-blank." "I should've come right out, and I should've spoken my mind." "Yeah, you should have." "You're speaking it now." "Yeah." "I mean, everything is easier to do when you do it too late." "Basically, what happened was you..." "Left the country." "Not believing that you wouldn't let me go." "You said you had to go." "There was no other way." "What was I supposed to do, chase after you?" "I expected you to leave her, okay?" "Her life was over, over, over, the day she sat at that red light." "Years before I even met you, Reece, her life was over." "Damn it!" "Damn you, Reece!" "I expected you to face that." "I expected you to face me." "And..." "I don't know." "One place, another place, both places, we'd be together somehow, some way." "Reece..." "Look, we can argue till we're blue in the face, and it's not gonna bring back those years, so I should just... shut up." "When I first went up there to live with dottie, do you know I used to lie in bed at night thinking, how did this happen?" "Yeah, I had nights like that too." "You knew how I felt about you." "I know." "There was me, but there was Joleen quillet too." "Yeah, I knew about her, Reece." "I could tell when Louis was reading his letter, because I was reading your face." "The letter didn't fool me." "She must've loved you..." "Very much." "Look, I was with Hera couple of times." "She was very lonely." "She threw herself at me." "Didn't we all?" "Then I met you, and that was the end of that." "You mean you weren't fooling around with both of us at one time?" "No, I was not." "Well, I didn't know that." "I didn't know that." "Back then on that hill, when we took that little trip, you know?" "When you..." "Made it up in your mind that you were gonna move..." "You weren't thinking that... that I was carrying on with Joleen as well as you at the same time?" "All those years?" "Partially that, yes." "God, Carol, no." "God almighty." "I'm gonna ask you a question." "Reece..." "Reece..." "Reece..." "Reece..." "Who was the love of your life?" "Who was she?" "Please, who?" "You know what I want you to say to me, so say it." "Who was the love of your life?" "Tell me." "Who?" "M... my wife." "Yeah." "Thank you." "That helps." "We're almost our parents' age." "What the hell does that mean?" "Well, when they met, they were our age." "I mean, we're a little bit younger, but..." "Yeah." "Wow." "Well, there's something you don't know." "What?" "About them?" "About us." "We met a long time ago." "Well, yeah." "I know." "Right before my Tennessee debut." "Before that." "What are you talking about?" "We were in our teens." "I was 15." "I don't remember that." "I know you don't." "Well?" "Tell me." "What?" "You lied to me." "Well, I can't deny that until I've heard the facts." "Well, we met one summer out at the lake, and you told me your name was Sharon Childress, and that you were from Washington, D.C. My God." "And that your dad was a foreign agent." "My God!" "And it was very, very hush-hush and secretive." "My God." "My God, my God." "I was such a screwed-up little girl." "Wait a minute." "We went out in the woods that afternoon, and we made out like a couple of banshees." "Then it turns out our folks were together for lunch." "Wow." "That was you?" "Seriously?" "Well, why didn't you tell me this before, when we met again?" "Well, I was going to." "I was gonna tell you one night in bed, but I decided..." "I decided to wait, or maybe you'd remember or..." "I don't know." "I just was waiting for the right moment or something." "But then, you got gone so fast." "I was wild." "What's changed?" "Well, I still do crazy things." "I always have." "I'm so embarrassed." "I'm trying to picture you living in my house as my husband, being a father to my kids..." "Like telling them about how we first met." "Wouldn't give them too many details though." "Would you be a good husband to me?" "A good daddy to my kids?" "We'll never know." "Wh... hey, let's go swimming." "Well, if you'd just told me to bring my suit..." "Well, it doesn't matter." "Come on." "Come on." "Who wants to go swimming?" "Fine." "It's warm." "Come on out, Katherine." "You're gonna swim naked, aren't you, Eddie?" "I'm a man." "I don't swim naked." "The women swim naked." "You're sexist." "You figured me out." "You better change your ways, Buster." "Lola, the seasons may change, the world may change, but I will never change, my darling." "Hallelujah." "He's gonna change." "You're not gonna stay around here, are you?" "No." "I can't." "You know me." "But I'll be back though." "Come on in the water, tom." "You know you want to." "Come on!" "Do it!" "You made it!" "They're not coming." "They're coming." "They'll be here." "How'd they know which exact place and so on?" "Well, I was very specific." "Where'd you get the beer?" "I brought them." "Give me a beer." "You quit drinking a long time ago." "Yeah." "I quit drinking, I quit smoking, quit working." "I quit just about everything." "Now just give me a damn beer." "And a cigarette." "You got a cigarette?" "I quit smoking." "You did?" "A very long time ago." "Twist-off." "I can't remember anything anymore." "Well, hell, dad, I'm in my 40s, and I don't remember anything either." "And you say that kidding." "See, but I'm not kidding." "When was the last time I saw Carol?" "About six years ago." "She was... she was gonna move into a condo we were looking at." "What ever happened with that?" "What do you mean, "we were looking at"?" "I was helping her find a condo." "You weren't going to move in with her?" "What do you mean, "move in with her"?" "No." "Why not?" "What's the matter with you?" "What's the matter with you?" "There's nothing the matter with me." "Well, her daughter, Katherine, moved down to the Gulf, and Carol went with her." "Yeah." "Seems like I can remember something like that." "Well, she sent you postcards for awhile." "Who did?" "Carol." "I don't remember if she did or not." "Well, she did, dad, and you know it." "Yeah." "She was a funny woman." "What was funny about her?" "Well, you never knew what Carol was thinking." "That works both ways." "What... what's it been, five, six years?" "Seven?" "Well, she thought she could make it up here, but after the ride over from the beach, she's not up to it." "She wanted me to ask you two if you'd meet up at the hotel, follow me up there." "Something wrong with her?" "Well, sir, to tell you the truth, mom's got what her sister had." "She's had it for years and never let on." "Of the two, my mother was never one to complain." "Dad?" "How bad is she?" "She's dying?" "Yeah." "You give my dad one of those when he comes back?" "Yeah." "Sure." "So, you wake up every morning hearing the ocean?" "Yeah." "Walk on the beach, bundle up in winter." "Mom used to go with me, but she can't anymore." "Yeah, I like the beach." "I'm kind of like my dad." "I..." "Could never live anywhere but here, I guess." "Yeah, sure." "I know." "But I don't think of you as much like your father." "Maybe you are." "You kind of grow into being like your dad." "So, who's your latest lady?" "Nobody, really." "You should be married, have a big old family by now." "Yeah." "There's this... there's this old Robert Mitchum movie." "It was on t.V.And he's some detective or something, and, the woman he's with is talking about her family and her husband." "She drones on, and finally she stops talking." "He sort of looks at her and says," ""I never married."" "I don't know." "But, wow, did that line pack a wall up to me." "I mean, maybe nobody else in the world got it." "Who's your latest?" "You." "Me?" "Yeah, I'm herewith you right now, so I'm your latest." "Same old Katherine." "No." "No." "I mean, you grow up some, whether you want to or not." "I always went for you." "I just couldn't stop long enough..." "To love me?" "Well, yeah." "I just couldn't stop long enough." "You have always loved me, haven't you?" "Since I was 15." "God!" "What a sucker." "I didn't mind." "There you are." "How is everything." "Fine, thanks." "God!" "You're the love of my life." "You are." "You left early." "Where's Katherine?" "She's headed back over to the beach." "What do you mean?" "That's where she lives." "I thought you two had finally hooked it up." "Well, I didn't wanna push her." "You didn't wanna push her?" "You didn't wanna push her?" "You push her, boy!" "Goddamn it!" "You push her!" "Now go on, get in that car!" "Get in the car!" "What the hell's gotten into you?" "Get in the car!" "Let's take my car." "Get in the goddamn car!" "Well, let me drive." "Jesus, dad, I'm not even in the car yet!" "Goddamn!" "What the hell's the matter with you?" "What the hell are you doing?" "What do you think I'm doing?" "Let me drive." "I'm driving!" "Let me drive the car." "I'm driving the goddamn car!" "Jesus, dad, did you see that stop sign?" "How much head start she got?" "It doesn't matter." "You're gonna kill us before we catch her." "I cannot believe that you let her go again." "What the hell's wrong with you?" "Well, I told you." "It's all gonna work out." "Just a little more time." "How would you know anything?" "Things don't work out by themselves." "You gotta make them work out." "Watch the road!" "Time is laughing at you, boy." "You want things to turn around, you gotta turn them around!" "Turn around." "If I gotta lead you by the nose, I'm gonna lead you." "I said turn around." "Tom, don't be a goddamn fool." "I'm not gonna let you be a fool the second half of your life." "She's back at the service station filling up with gas." "We just passed her." "Come... come on, dad." "Have you lost your mind?" "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Stop it, dad." "I'm not a little boy." "Son, that is the point!" "That's exactly the point!" "What?" "I love you." "Don't go away." "Stay here with me." "This is a toy from Kodak, dad." "I think you'd be surprised." "What does it do?" "Watch." "It puts your pictures on the T.V." "I don't get it." "You see your photographs on the screen." "That's a slide projector." "No, no." "This is different." "This is a photo CD-player." "Just watch." "Who the hell is that?" "Who's that?" "That's Eddie." "You remember Eddie." "Who's Eddie?" "He got caught in a motel room with judge Harlan's wife." "Sells cars now." "No, dad, I'm not gonna show you just pictures of our wedding." "Mother treasured these photographs, Reece." "She just loved them more than you'll ever know." "Well..." "That's enough for now." "Come on, chick." "**" "* love never tasted * is love that's wasted * leaving regret to haunt your way * * you learn if you're lucky * that love is a thing * you don't save for a rainy day *" "* you learn if you're lucky * that love is a thing * you don't save for a rainy day *" "* you don't save love * for a rainy * day" "**" "* time is a stealer * a stacked deck dealer * deals you time * then takes time away * you learn if you're lucky * you never waste a day * time is a racer * a comet chaser" "* stops for no one in its quest * * and thinks nothing of it * to pass you by * leave you stranded with all the rest * * what about that bride tomorrow?" "* * all those best laid plans * what about the time you counted upon * * time that was endless but now is gone * * love never tasted * is love that's wasted * leaving regret to haunt your way *" "* you learn if you're lucky * that love is a thing * you don't save for a rainy day *" "* you learn if you're lucky * that love is a thing * you don't save for a rainy day *" "* you don't save love * for a rainy * day" "**"