"[people chattering] [man chattering]" "♪♪[Uptight by Art Blakey playing]" "♪ Baby ♪" "♪ Everything is all right ♪" "♪ Uptight ♪♪" "(man) All right, who wants to be on American Bandstand?" "Hey, you two." "You beauties right there." "Yeah." "No." "No." "You go see my man up there, all right." "Uh, fellas, fellas, maybe you." "Yeah, you, uh, go ahead." "How you doin', ladies?" "No, not today." "Uh, yeah, the beautiful lady right here." "That's it." "Thanks very much, folks." "Thanks for comin' out." "He ran late today." "We've only got 12 minutes." "Shortcut?" "No choice." "Please excuse me." "Jimmy Riley looked pretty cute." "Roxanne, you saw him?" "No." "And neither will you unless we catch our bus." "Hey, wait!" "Stop, stop, stop, stop!" "Wait!" "[whistling] [bus door opening]" "We're never gonna make it." "Don't worry." "Your mom's still watching that dumb cooking show." "Going to play football." "(Patty) A-D-J-U-D-I..." "Where's my football?" "...C-A-T-E." "Adjudicate." "I found it." "Will, put on a coat before you go out." "(Patty) Mom." "I'm sorry, Patty." "Spell it again." "Never mind." "What's the next word?" "Just a second." "...de Rez de Rez..." "C-O-U-R-O-N-N." "What did she say?" "Rez Clamart." "It means rice something." "Put it in your GE oven for 30 minutes." "And, of course, thanks to the magic of television... [chuckling]" "voila!" "Hey, Mr. Pryor, can we watch a TV in color?" "Show's in black and white, big shot." "Most of the commercials are in color." "Go home." "Your home's in color." "Could we just stay for Bandstand?" "Take this dime, call your parents and tell them to come down here and buy your own television set, color." "So, Eddie, when you're selling one of these newer, smaller models, you tell 'em it's perfect for an Eagles game or Dinah Shore." "Got it." "Hey, speaking' of the Eagles, Mr. P, when are the scouts gonna come look at your boy?" "Two weeks." "He could use the practice." "He's gotta work on those out patterns." "And after that, we say our prayers for Notre Dame 'cause it's up to the Father, the Son and Coach Parseghian." "[whistling]" "Way to go, JJ!" "That was good, JJ." "Much better!" "Okay." "(Bonnie Pratt) Your husband will love you for this dish." "Until next time, Philadelphia." "This is Bonnie Pratt for Pratt-ical Cooking." "Au revoir." "(stage manager) And we're clear." "Studio B, everyone." "Two minutes to Bandstand." "Oh, I hate this stupid show!" "(Meg) We're gonna miss the beginning." "(Roxanne) Like I said, no problem." "Especially if this guy with the briefcase would move out of the way!" "Did you smell the guy sitting next to me?" "I know." "He smelled like a cheesesteak hoagie." "(both) With onions!" "I made her quiche Lorraine last night." "I once dated this chick." "Had a hot little sister named Lorraine." "I added a couple of Roma tomatoes, a dash of Locatelli..." "Hey, Mr. Clark." "(Dick Clark) Hey, see you in a minute." "That was Dick Clark." "(Meg) 90 seconds!" "I'm telling you there's no problem." "Marylou, Gina, look out." "Angel." "Thank you, Chris." "Kelly, have a good show." "You, too." "Much cooler than the clarinet." "You should try it." "Did the kids from East Catholic show up here yet?" "(audience) Yes." "How about West Chester High, huh?" "(audience) Yeah!" "Wait'll you see who we got for you today." "And in 10, 9..." "You're not gonna make it." "(stage manager on TV) ...8, 7..." "I love you, too, Will." "...6, 5, 4, 3, 2..." "Mom, wait!" "Don't turn it off!" "What?" "(Roxanne) Hi, Mrs. Pryor." "Like I said, no problem." "[sighing]" "To announcer." "(announcer) Welcome to American Bandstand." "Now here's your host, Dick Clark!" "♪♪[drum beating] [audience cheering]" "(Dick Clark) Thank you." "Thank you very much, and welcome to American Bandstand." "Outside we have a surprise November snowstorm, but in here it's a heat wave." "Please welcome Martha and The Vandellas." "[audience cheering]" "♪ Whenever I'm with him ♪" "♪ Somethin' inside ♪" "♪ starts to burning' ♪" "Wide shot, camera 2, and go, camera 2." "♪ Could it be a devil in me ♪" "♪ Or is this the way love's supposed to be?" "♪" "♪ Just like a heat wave ♪" "♪ Burning in my heart ♪" "♪ Heatwave ♪" "♪ Can't keep from cryin' ♪" "♪ It's tearing me apart ♪" "♪ Whenever he calls my name ♪" "♪ So slow, sweet and plain ♪" "♪ I feel, yeah, yeah ♪" "♪ I feel that burning flame ♪" "♪ Has my blood pressure got a hold on me ♪" "♪ Or is this the way love's supposed to be ♪" "♪ Just like a heat wave ♪" "♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪" "♪ You're on fire, girl ♪" "♪ Ooh, yeah, girl ♪" "♪ Where is your man?" "♪" "♪ Can't help but be sad, girl ♪" "♪ Don't pass up this chance ♪" "♪ It sounds like a true romance ♪" "♪ Heatwave ♪" "♪ Burnin', yeah ♪" "♪ Burnin', burnin', burnin' ♪" "♪ Heatwave in my heart ♪" "♪♪[Generation by Emerson Hart playing]" "♪ You're comin' up like a flower ♪" "♪ You're comin' up through the cracks ♪" "♪ That live around here ♪" "♪ Everybody knows we have no fear ♪" "♪ This is my generation ♪" "♪ 'Cause we just want to dance all night ♪" "♪ Live inside the spark of life ♪" "♪ This might be the only time around ♪" "♪ We wanna know the face of freedom ♪" "♪ We wanna make a place where we can learn to love ♪" "♪ Build a world that we can be proud of ♪" "♪ This is my generation ♪♪" "Jim Brown's open in the end zone." "The Packers have forgotten he even exists!" "(Will) Jurgensen throws a bullet to Brown." "Oh." "Touchdown." "Touchdown." "Eagles!" "That's right." "You keep that up, we're gonna have two stars at Notre Dame." "Here we go." "He fakes long!" "Touchdown" " Oh." "Fumble." "(Jack) Fumble." "Fumble." "Daddy, Will, we're eating without you." "It's all right, Will." "You and me, we'll go to Bookbinders, all right?" "We'll grab a snapper soup, whoa, a couple of Manhattans." "McDonald, he has him." "He sees the Lions comin'." "10, 9." "No more time on the clock!" "(Jack) You like carrots?" "(Meg) You want another piece of celery?" "Want to come to work with me tomorrow?" "A day off of school?" "Life magazine had this picture of her in Monaco" "And the prince." "More tuna casserole, please." "C-A-S-S-E-R-O-L-E." "Mom?" "How was practice, JJ?" "(Helen) Patty, give it a break." "I'm sort of fed up with football." "What does that suppose to mean?" "Uh, when are semifinals, Patty?" "Two weeks, at the high school." "S-C-H-O-O-L." "Don't give Father Hayden that kind of attitude." "Didn't your parents go to Monaco, Beth?" "Yes, last anniversary." "Mom says if heaven's where you go if you're good on earth, then Monaco's where you go if you're good in heaven." "Where would you go if you're good in Monaco?" "What's that supposed to mean, fed up?" "It's nothing." "Let it go." "What's nothing, JJ?" "Nothin', Thrill." "Nothing's nothing." "(Roxanne) Your parents go away for their anniversary?" "They sound pretty romantic for married people." "The Masons are very cool." "Romantic enough to come home with a little baby Mason?" "How would they get a baby?" "That'll do." "No way." "My mom's on the pill." "(Will) What pill?" "Actually, it's made up of these little" "I said that'll do!" "There is no pill and there is no baby Mason." "And this is not dinner table conversation." "C-O-N-V-E-R-S-A-T-l-O-N." "(Patty) Conversation." "♪♪[music playing]" "So I'm kissing him, and guess what he smells like?" "Fish." "Do you think Gina Rizzelli's boobs are too big?" "Fish?" "Meg, what kind of answer is that?" "Limes." "That's what he smells like." "Limes." "[door knob rattling]" "(Patty) Mom says you're not allowed to lock our door." "It's not locked, Patty." "Try again." "And Gina Rizzelli is a cow." "(Patty) It is so locked." "If she is such a cow, then why do all the boys like her so much?" "Because she puts out." "What are you guys doing?" "Nothing you can do." "So get whatever you need and leave." "(Roxanne) That's what you came in for?" "A pencil?" "Mom said you have to try to be nicer to me." "I am trying." "Try harder." "Starting immediately." "Goodbye, Patty." "She was about to start spelling something." "And who gives a rip about Gina Rizzelli?" "It's just that she gets everything that she wants." "I mean, she's a cheerleader and Frank Romano likes her, and she got to model in that catalog once." "I mean, don't you ever worry you're not gonna get the things that you want?" "No." "I do." "I don't want to be one of those people that nothing special happens to." "You are special." "How?" "Well," "you're super nice." "Nice?" "That's it?" "Come on, if I were to die tomorrow, what would anyone say?" "(Patty) Good riddance." "Brat!" "I wasn't listening." "I'm still hungry." "Of course you are." "We just had dinner." "Are we alone right now?" "'Cause the doctor said in a couple of months we can start tryin' again." "Jack." "[chuckling]" "(Meg) Mom, Patty's not giving me any privacy!" "(Patty) It's my room, too." "Get out!" "Close." "We gotta give them their own rooms." "[laughing] Or I could be like one of those East Catholic girls fawning all over you." "That's not fawning." ""Oh, that JJ Pryor, he's so cute."" "That's not fawning." "That's cheering." "♪ Well, we'll have to wait and see ♪" "♪ Because you can't, you can't, you can't catch me ♪ [sighing]" "European History test tomorrow." "Come on, 5 more minutes." "Besides, Notre Dame doesn't care if you know the Treaty of Versailles." "They just want you to play football." "Yeah." "Call me when you get home safe." "Okay." "JJ." "♪ No matter how you try ♪" "Oh, yeah." "♪Just like a freight train on a never-ending track ♪" "♪ Sit down and wait ♪♪" "You feel that?" "(woman #1) Yeah." "[women chattering]" "Next, we'll read The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West, which has been a bestseller for 14 weeks." "Um, may I suggest a different book?" "It's, uh, Mary McCarthy's The Group." "(Barbara) Rebecca, is it?" "Yes." "We follow the Book of the Month Club newsletter." "I've heard of that book." "Isn't that about a bunch of rich Ivy League girls running around Europe?" "Yes, but the author's actually talking about us." "Oh, not--not us." "Yes, us." "Women." "Whether it's running around Europe or running a household, it's women who stop running long enough to ask:" ""Is there something more than all this?"" "Hmm, Sounds absolutely depressing." "Maybe it would be more depressing if you never even stopped to ask." "Exactly." "Well, just the same, in our group we follow the newsletter." "So, next month, The Shoes of the Fisherman." "Uh, more ambrosia, anyone?" "No." "All right, who's it gonna be today?" "How about you with the hat that's too small?" "You, in your dad's suit?" "Yeah, that's nice." "How about you, beautiful?" "Come with me." "How you guys doing?" "How you doing?" "And then he tells me it was aftershave, but I think really it was his mom's perfume." "Ew!" "I know." "Jimmy Riley." "Rox, Jimmy Riley." "Hey, Jimmy!" "He looks taller in person." "Would you just die to meet him?" "I mean, forget even dancing with him." "All right, that's it for today, folks." "Thanks very much." "Sometimes I don't even think he sees us, the Line Guy." "Okay, we have 20 minutes." "No problem." "Let's go." "♪♪[playing]" "Ask me what I'm doing this Saturday." "l--l--I don't want to play this game." "Ask me." "What are you doing on Saturday?" "Oh, nothing." "Just hanging out with my good friends:" "The Ronettes and The Beach Boys on American Bandstand!" "What?" "How can you guarantee the Line Guy will let you in?" "Because he and I have an understanding." "Since when?" "Since Tuesday night when we made out." "Roxanne!" "Fine." "Don't come with me to Bandstand." "Please, don't come." "Wait, me?" "You think I could get in, too?" "No, wait." "Even if I could, I couldn't." "I'm supposed to watch Patty at the semifinals." "Right." "So you go watch Patty and her spelling B-E-E, and I'll" " I'll just dance with the boys on Bandstand." "Tony DeLuca, that cute little Jimmy Riley." "♪ Ba-da-da-da ♪" "♪ Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, ba-da-da-da ♪" "♪ Ba-da-da-da ♪♪" "Okay, l--I have to ask my dad in just the right way." "Meg, we have been waiting on line for the past 6 weeks." "How come you didn't worry about your dad then?" "Because I never actually thought we'd get in." "Oh, my God!" "We're getting in!" "(band leader) Okay, boys, girls." "Miss Pryor." "Oh, I gotta go." "Bye." "♪♪[playing]" "(Patty) l-N-F-A-M-O-U-S." "Infamous." "S-T-O-P, stop it." "Dad, I have a question." "Can we have dessert now?" "Eat your peas, Will." "Is the book club lady seeing a psychiatrist?" "Sounds like she has a few screws loose." "Lots of normal people are in psychoanalysis, Mr. Pryor." "People like?" "My mother." "Dad, I have something really exciting" "No offense, but if your mother has those kinds of emotional troubles" "Emotional troubles?" "(Jack) What I'm trying to say" "Could everyone please be quiet?" "I just wanted to say me and Roxanne" "Roxanne and I." "...are going to dance on American Bandstand this Saturday." "Uh-uh." "That TV show?" "No, you're not." "Will you pass me the carrots?" "Why not?" "Hon?" "Why not?" "Why can't I dance on Bandstand?" "Because I said so." "Whenever I say that, Mom says it's not a good enough excuse." "Patty, you're excused to go study." "Okay." "(Will) Hey, don't you want dessert?" "(Meg) Why not, Dad?" "I do all my homework, all my chores, usually Patty's, too." "Why can't I do something" "Maybe we can talk about it." "We can talk about it till the Phillies win the pennant." "You are not dancing on that show." "JJ, how was practice?" "Why do we always talk about football?" "This is important to me." "I quit the team." "JJ!" "You what?" "We talked about this in the summer." "Maybe you didn't hear me." "No, I heard you." "Now, you hear me." "You're not quitting." "It's too late." "Too late?" "What is going on in this house?" "Huh?" "Is this your idea, Beth?" "Pardon me?" "It has nothing to do with Beth." "'Cause some people don't have the money to pay for college, so some people need the scholarship they get playing' football." "Even if it's not as classy as getting in on your smarts or donating a science lab." "And thank you for dinner, Mrs. Pryor." "Beth." "Beth." "You just don't get it, Dad!" "Oh, JJ, please." "You don't get it!" "Meg, come and sit down." "Does this mean we're not having dessert?" "(newscaster) In national news," "President Kennedy and the First Lady begin their Texas tour, touching down in San Antonio today." "You forgot your lunch." "Hi, hon." "Thank you." "The Group, huh?" "This month's book?" "Yes." "It's a new one." "Huh." "Cute, isn't it?" "For Patty." "She needs a new one already?" "She's growing." "We gotta stop feeding them." "All right, but if the next one's not a girl," "Will's not gonna be happy with this hand-me-down." "Jack." "Yeah." "I've been thinkin' about that a lot lately." "Yeah?" "Me, too." "[chuckling] Not about that." "About what happened and how it's made me feel." "Look, Helen," "I don't think this is the appropriate place." "Mom, Aunt Janet's on the phone!" "She wants that Bonnie Pratt recipe for beef bourguignon." "B-O-U-R-G" "(Helen) Tell her I'm busy cleaning your room." "Oh, thanks." "It's tomorrow." "But dancing on Bandstand." "He doesn't understand what it means." "And you think I do?" "Imagine what they'd say at school after they all saw me on TV." "Or what if I met a boy on the show?" "Okay, not that." "Isn't there something in your life that you wanted so badly that it actually hurt?" "I will talk to him." "Thanks." "Thank you, Mommy." "Thank you." "But it is still his decision." "(Father Hayden) Your 1963" "East Catholic Fighting Crusaders." "[all cheering]" "As our season continues, let's give thanks to the athletes finishing their high school football careers this year." "Tommy DeFelice!" "[all cheering]" "Frankie O'Donnell!" "Bobby Mahan!" "You don't understand." "They only want me if I'll play ball for them." "Right, and you've been dreamin' about exactly that" "Maybe that wasn't really my dream." "Don't give me that." "You and me have been talking football since you were in diapers." "Kennedy says it's time for new dreams and new frontiers, not just the" "President Kennedy, can I remind you, who both went to college and loves football." "I know!" "And you are going-- No, I'm not!" "Will you let me finish a damn sentence?" "JJ, you have a chance to be something great." "A tailback, an astronaut, or whatever the hell, but great." "Now, I know going to Notre Dame won't guarantee anything." "But it'll give you the best chance anyone could ask for." "And I'm not gonna stand by and let you piss away that chance." "I just won't." "Maybe it's not up to you." "Let me try?" "She won't take my calls, doesn't call back." "Dad's completely ruined it with Beth and me." "She will come around." "Even if she does, Dad owes her a huge apology, but he's too stubborn, always tellin' everybody what to do" "I know it's hard, Jack, doing something you don't want to do." "What do you know?" "You don't." "Of course I do." "Name something." "All right." "How about, uh, cooking?" "You love to cook." "Sometimes." "And then there's those times I don't feel like it at all." "So what do you do then?" "On nights you really hate cooking?" "I make tuna casserole." "We have that all the time." "Mom?" "Shh." "Our secret." "And I don't want you to have to make tuna casserole your whole life." "So you're on my side?" "I am." "Tell him." "And so is your dad." "No, he's not." "You heard him in there." "Oh, JJ, you can go to college, a good college, and football, it's just your way in." "Once you're there," "I believe you can do anything you want." "I do." "But that'd still be giving Dad his way, and that might be okay for you, but I'm not ready to be miserable just yet." "Wait." "I am not miserable." "I'm fine." "I'm not ready to be fine just yet, either." "(Jack) Say something nice to your sister." "(Patty) Do I have to?" "Yes, you do." "(Helen) Here she comes." "Hon, you were so good." "You were really good, Meg." "Thanks, Patty." "Now can we have ice cream?" "Did you talk to him?" "Meg, I'm sorry, but there are more important things in this family right now than you dancing on that show." "(Roxanne) So, I spent the summer in California in this fancy little place called Malibu." "That's where I learned to surf." "Really." "Bye, Michael." "Bye, Sean." "(Michael) Bye, Roxanne." "What?" "I was talking to boys." "I'm going on Bandstand." "Huh?" "Ooh." "(Roxanne) Ankle socks on Bandstand?" "My parents think I'm with you at the library." "You have to wear socks at the library." "Okay, the socks are the least of our problems." "This?" "This is a disaster." "That makes me feel really good." "Okay, you want Turkey in the Straw, stick with the marching band." "You want to dance on TV, you listen to me." "We don't have time to" "Shh." "I'm thinking." "Oh, take off your skirt and your top." "We'll switch." "Here?" "Now?" "No, in your private dressing room at Bandstand." "Yes, here, now." "Can't we go to a bathroom or something?" "Do you want to miss the bus?" "Take it off." "What?" "You've never seen a bra before?" "Turn around!" "[laughing]" "♪♪[music playing] [chattering]" "Hey, hey, come on." "I'm Moses, you're the Red Sea." "Let's go." "How are you, my friend?" "Good to see you." "Wow, it didn't look like that when I wore it." "The skirt's still a little too library." "No offense." "So, are you happy?" "Oh, thank you so much." "See you around." "He's cute." "He got us in." "Oops, I got it." "Roxanne!" "Now, this is not library." "Okay, everybody, listen up." "We got a great show for you today, so I want you all to enjoy yourselves." "All right?" "Now how many new kids we got in the audience here?" "I'm dying." "Are you dying?" "Take your cues from all the regulars." "All right?" "Now, The Beach Boys are here to perform." "He's cute." "Flirt with him." "Ask where the little girls' room is." "He's at least 25." "So, ask for the ladies' room." "All right, so lots of smiles, lots of energy, everybody." "Okay?" "I'll be right back!" "Keep those smiles goin'." "Fellas, you have a good show." "Hey, how you doin'?" "Dibs on Tony DeLuca." "Jimmy Riley's all yours." "(cameraman) Oh, it's like a pastry, but it's not as sweet." "It's like a French pizza or something." "I liked it." "The Beach Boys'll do the song, then you do the interview." "I'd stick with Brian 'cause Mike's a wild card." "Have a good show." "Yeah." "Hey, do you want to be on the show here?" "Stretch, go." "All right, in 10, 9, 8..." "Okay, guys." "Have a good show." "...6, 5, 4, 3, 2... ♪♪[music playing]" "Roxanne, thank you so much." "(announcer) Once again, it is time for American Bandstand." "Here's your host, Dick Clark!" "(Dick Clark) By now, you know our special guests are the gentlemen who have released a brand new record." "This is one side thereof." "It's called Don't Worry Baby." "Ladies and gentlemen, here are The Beach Boys!" "[all cheering]" "♪ Well, it's been building up inside of me ♪" "♪ For, oh, I don't know how long ♪" "♪ I don't know why, but I keep thinkin' ♪" "♪ something's bound to go wrong ♪" "♪ But she looks in my eyes ♪" "♪ And makes me realize ♪" "♪ And she says ♪" "♪ 'Don't worry, baby ♪" "♪ Don't worry, baby ♪" "♪ 'Don't worry, baby ♪♪" "Okay, camera two." "And go." "[sports commentator chattering on TV]" "Hey, Jack." "Your boy Staubach just scored again for Navy." "That's a tough word, evocative." "Good for her." "Call me back the next break." "Only 12 kids left, all of them except three are older than Patty." "And we're back in 10." "Hey, this is a nice look here." "Nice." "Uh, Cue Dick with the Ladies' Choice in 5, 4, 3..." "It's a Ladies' Choice, and The Chiffons sing it." "♪♪[music playing]" "Where are you going?" "Dick said "Ladies' Choice"" "and this lady is asking Tony DeLuca to dance." "He's a regular." "I don't know about you, Meg, but I did not come all the way down here to sit on these bleachers." "I'm dancing on TV." "♪ One fine day ♪" "♪ You're gonna want me for your girl ♪" "♪ The arms I long for ♪♪" "Uh-uh." "It's R-E-l-G-N, just like the queen, not the weather." "But how come you don't want to?" "Say somebody told you you had to play football every day." "I think that would be pretty cool." "Bad example." "Your hands are clean." "Say Dad told you to take out the garbage, 3 times a day." "I'd have to do it." "Why?" "'Cause he's Dad, and he said." "Besides, I hate taking out the garbage and you love football." "I guess it's just not so much fun when someone's making you play." "[all applauding]" "(Dick Clark) Now here's a word from our sponsor." "How's Gina Rizzelli and her big boobs, right about now?" "I don't want it to end." "I just want everything to stop right now." "I can't believe we have to go back to our normal life." "Tell me about it." "Since I got here, I swear," "I am this close to being Princess Grace." "(Tony) Hey, Roxanne." "(stage manager) 5, 4..." "And there's my Prince Rainier." "Two dances and he thinks he owns me." "I already hate this guy." "(Dick Clark) Here's another one I think you'll love," "Dancing in the Street." "Hi." "I'm Jimmy Riley." "Do you like to dance?" "I would." "I'm Meg." "Meg Pryor." "I go to East Catholic." "This isn't roll call." "Just dance with me, Meg Pryor from East Catholic." "Okay." "♪ Summer's here and the time is right ♪" "♪ For dancing' in the streets ♪" "♪ They're dancin' in Chicago ♪" "♪ Down in New Orleans ♪" "♪ Up in New York City ♪" "Hey, look." "Jimmy's dancing with Michael's little cutie." "Keep a lens on her, two." "(Dad) Whoa, Jack, get over here." "You gotta see this on TV." "Your boy Staubach just threw a perfect 15-yard out and--and what's his name..." "Musser." "Musser went out of bounds." "They're gonna show it again." "What do you mean?" "It's that new instant replay they've been talkin' about." "You see that?" "He wasn't out of bounds." "Now what?" "Well, you gotta do it again." "No, the ref made the call and everybody's gotta live with it." "Right or wrong, he's the ref." "You start here, what's next?" "Mr. Pryor, look, it's Meg." "Excuse me?" "On Bandstand." "Meg's dancing with Jimmy Riley on Bandstand." "♪ Baltimore and DC now ♪" "♪ Can't forget the Motor City ♪" "♪ All we need is music ♪" "♪ Sweet music ♪" "♪ There'll be music everywhere ♪" "♪ There'll be swingin', swaying' and records playin' ♪" "♪ Dancin' in the street ♪" "♪ Oh, it doesn't matter what you wear ♪♪" "Okay, what if we took the camera off the ped and shot hand-held?" "Kids' hands, faces?" "No, no, no, music only works in the wide shot." "The wider the better." "And smoke?" "No, thanks." "Take it." "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to touch it. l" "No, no, no." "You have to have something to remember the first day you danced on Bandstand." "Did you have a good time?" "Good?" "That's not the word for it." "I can't imagine anything that I'll ever do, that's so important, so... exactly what I want to do all the time." "Be on TV?" "Yeah, be on it." "Even be around it." "I mean, the--the lights, the music," "Mr. Clark, the kids," "The Beach Boys, everything." "It was just..." "I'm sorry, um, that really sounds silly to you." "No." "No, actually, it sounds a lot like me, my first day." "I am Michael Brooks." "I'm the associate producer of the show." "Meg Pryor." "(Meg) And then he asked for my number." "So did you kiss him?" "No, I didn't kiss him." "He's at least 25." "Okay, we were late because we were studying." "Actually, we were studying about Bull Run and the first 6 weeks of the Civil War." "Good lies are all in the details." "We were at the library and lost track of time." "And we got so caught up in the "Fourscore" thing, that we switched clothes?" "Oh, my God!" "Hurry!" "(Meg) Hurry." "What?" "Haven't you ever seen a bra before?" "Turn around!" "Meg." "Oh, God." "Sorry we're late." "Smells delicious, Mom... (Roxanne) We lost track of time at the library." "Sorry we're late." "Maybe you'd like to find out how your sister did at the Bee today." "Oh, Patty, how'd you do?" "I made it to finals." "Of course you did." "What was the hardest word you had?" "Misandry." "(Roxanne) What's that even mean?" "I'm goin' to my room." "How about some dinner?" "I already ate." "Thank you!" "No, Dad, thank you." "So did you get your studying done?" "Yes, we got caught up in the Battle of Bull Run." "We did take a short break for lunch at about 1:15." "I had a tuna melt." "Mmm." "[phone ringing] I'll get it." "Sit tight." "I will get it." "'Cause, Meg, someone at the store swears they saw a girl who looks exactly like you dancing on American Bandstand today." "Well, you know what they say, everyone has a twin somewhere in the world." "Then, how lucky for you, that your twin happens to live right here in Philadelphia." "(Helen) Meg, telephone." "The string beans are scrumptious." "It's a Michael Brooks from that show you didn't dance on today." "Hello?" "Hello, Meg Pryor." "This is Michael Brooks from American Bandstand." "Yeah, hi, Michael." "(Michael) Hi." "Did you have a good time today?" "Yes, I did." "Good, because we'd like you to come back." "W-W-Wait." "Hold on." "You want me to what?" "We'd like you to come back and dance as a regular on Bandstand." "Oh." "Could you hold on for a minute?" "Sure." "Mom, I did dance on Bandstand today, even though Dad told me not to." "But I got to dance with Jimmy Riley." "And, Michael, he's the associate producer of the show." "He wants us to come back and dance again, to be regulars." "You have to convince Dad to let me do this." "You talk to him yourself." "He's in a bad mood." "Do it after church tomorrow." "But, Mom" "No!" "Please, Mom?" "This is the first great thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life." "Well, then I'm sure you'll take care of it first thing." "On your own." "(Jack) You're grounded." "I deserve it because I did what you told me not to do." "And then lied about it." "And then lied." "But they want me to come back and dance on the show." "I don't care." "You're grounded." "After church, I'll decide for exactly how many years." "(Helen) We're gonna be late!" "I take it you're not joining us for mass this morning." "No, I'm still working on that chair in the garage." "Hey, hey, slow down!" "Rocking chair project's taking longer than the invasion of Normandy." "(Meg) I'd take the risk." "Mom, Will's running across the street." "(Helen) Will, you be careful, hon." "I am." "So you guys finally got on the show." "Roxanne." "Oh." "Yeah, like that." "Sorry about Dad." "Me, too." "Although I kind of hoped he'd be so mad at you, he'd lay off of me." "Me, too." "Only the other way around." "Meg Pryor." "You were on Bandstand!" "Gina Rizzelli." "Was Jimmy Riley so cute in person?" "Did you get Dennis Wilson's autograph?" "Did you get to hold Jimmy's hand?" "[people chattering]" "Hi, Mr. Pryor." "Hello, Beth." "JJ's at church." "I know, I came to talk to you." "Look, my wife tells me that things I said at dinner the other night may be responsible for you and JJ having some problems." "Well, I don't take back what I said, but I do wish" "I would have said them differently." "Is that an apology?" "It's the best I can do." "Well, I'm sorry I walked out of dinner like that, but I wasn't mad at you." "Even though the things you said about my mom's therapy were extremely narrow-minded." "Then you blame me for JJ's quitting football, which was absolutely unfair." "But you weren't mad at me." "No." "It's JJ." "I did not ask him to quit the team because I love watching him play football." "That's why I wasn't speaking to him." "He didn't tell me a thing, and I'm his girlfriend." "But I want to know what makes him happy, and if that means playing football for Notre Dame, I'll help make it happen." "Attagirl." "But if it means not going, you can take it up in your own psychotherapy." "Come on." "Whoa, whoa, service is over, boys." "Not supposed to be in here now." "Off you go." "Scoot." "Coach, Father Hayden, I need to talk with you." "Well, call me old school, but when you're in here," "I think you may want to start with" ""Bless me Father for I have sinned."" "So, JJ, I'll let you back on the team, but you're gonna have to give me three Hail Mary's, four Our Father's, and a 150 of my tricep push-ups." "But I'm not sure if I want to come back on the team." "And I could feel it every game, every practice." "Catchin' the ball even though your--your fingers are freezing' like they're gonna fall off." "No way you're letting go of that thing." "But I loved it." "Then all of a sudden it was about somethin' else," "Notre Dame and--and my dad and the scholarship." "It didn't feel the same anymore." "I didn't feel the same." "I know it doesn't make much sense, Father, but I know in my heart it's right." "Well, I've listened to what you have to say, son." "But you're wrong." "It doesn't matter if you're not feeling in it, not a lick." "What matters is your obligation to your parents, to your teammates and to this parish." "But, Father" "No." "You ask me what to do, I'll tell you." "You put these feelings behind you." "You come and play ball for me." "That's what you do." "[boys chattering]" "It's my mother's recipe." "It's the buttermilk." "Beth, what are you doin' here?" "Hi, JJ." "How was church?" "Same as always." "Man, am I glad to see you." "Where's Meg?" "She's upstairs." "Jack, wait." "Maybe you should let her dance on the show." "She defied my authority and lied about it." "I know." "That's why I think you should let her do it." "Meg's not a liar." "Patty lies." "So if she did" "Helen, I've made up my mind." "♪♪[music playing on radio] [knocking on door]" "Go away, Patty." "♪ It's all right ♪" "♪ It's all right ♪" "It's not Patty." "♪ It's all right ♪" "♪ It's all right ♪" "♪ Have a good time 'cause it's all right ♪♪" "Meg, I'm disappointed in you." "You defied my authority and then you lied about it." "I know it was important to you, but that's no excuse." "So you're grounded for two weeks for going on that show without my permission, and you're grounded for another 4 weeks for lying' about it." "You can go to school and you can go to church." "And you can go to Bandstand, but that's it!" "Dad!" "Thank you!" "Thank you!" "Oh, my God." "No, no, don't thank me." "I'm punishing you." "I know." "I know." "Okay." "Okay." "Okay." "Yes!" "(Helen) Jack?" "Yeah?" "♪♪[music playing]" "The other day at the store, I was trying to tell you" "You know, Helen, maybe this isn't the right time to talk about this" "You're right." "Not at the dinner table, not at the store." "So when?" "When is the appropriate time?" "[sighing]" "Fine." "Go ahead." "Don't snap." "I wasn't." "I just don't want to make a big deal out of this." "I mean, it is a big deal." "Look, I know you're still sad about losin' the baby." "Anybody would be." "I am, but I'm--I'm feeling something else." "What?" "I know I'm a good mother, and I love doing it, but l--I don't want to..." "To what?" "To have another baby." "I don't." "Oh." "What do you want?" "I don't know." "You want to know what I always wanted, Helen?" "My whole life?" "A yard." "With a little grass out front so my kids could play ball in front of their own house." "A green sedan, my own business, two weeks down the shore, and then someday maybe a boat." "And except for the boat, we got it all." "But Meg's unhappy, and JJ's not satisfied and now you." "You, too, Helen." "So I don't know." "When did my dream become not enough?" "(Meg) Mom, Patty's playing my records!" "(Patty) I was just listening!" "We'll talk about this later." "You did the right thing letting Meg dance on that show." "I don't think I did." "Jack." "Yeah." "What kind of boat?" "24-foot Newport with an inboard diesel, teak deck, oiled finish, and a solid brass compass." "So who else is on Bandstand on Saturday night?" "Besides me and Meg, who cares?" "Um, April and Nino." "They're doing Deep Purple." "They want us to come to the main auditorium, something about a special assembly or something." "And the boys are already there." "What do you think this is about?" "Who cares?" "As long as the boys are there." "Do you have any eyeliner?" "In school?" "Girls, please stop your work." "Head to the auditorium in a quiet and orderly fashion." "Thank you." "(Father Hayden) Excuse me, Sister." "It's all right, girls." "Would you take your seats please?" "I have some very bad news." "A terrible thing has happened." "President Kennedy has been shot." "♪ Amazing grace ♪" "♪ How sweet ♪" "♪ the sound ♪" "♪ that saved ♪" "♪ a wretch ♪" "♪ like me ♪" "♪ I once ♪" "♪ was lost ♪" "♪ but now I'm found ♪" "♪ Was blind ♪" "♪ but now ♪" "♪ I see ♪" "♪ I see ♪" "♪ Amazing grace ♪" "♪ How sweet the sound ♪" "♪ that saved ♪" "♪ a wretch ♪" "♪ like me ♪" "♪ I once ♪" "♪ was lost ♪" "♪ but now ♪" "♪ I'm found ♪" "♪ Was blind ♪" "♪ but now I see ♪♪" "(Frank McGee) ...died at approximately 1.:00 Central Standard Time, which was about 35 minutes ago." "(Bob McNeil) After being shot at..." "After being shot by an unknown assailant by an unknown assailant during a motorcade drive through downtown Dallas during a motorcade drive through downtown Dallas the President died the President died approximately 25 minutes approximately 25 minutes after the attack took place." "...after the attack took place." "He had been rushed, bleeding and unconscious..." "He had been rushed, bleeding and unconscious to the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas to the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and was given blood transfusions and was given blood transfusions about 15 minutes ago." "...about 15 minutes ago." "Reports NBC's Bob McNeil from Dallas, to whom I'm talking now."