"Okay." "Dr. Pullen?" "Dr. Pullen?" "They are taking Mrs. Petrakis into surgery." "Has she been prepped yet?" "No, she hasn't." "Okay." "And go!" "Did you call Dr. Sherman?" "He's on his way." "Great." "Wait!" "Wait!" "Race ya." "Do you come here often?" "Am I going to die?" "Are you kidding?" "Nobody is going to die," "Mrs. Petrakis, I'm going to clean all of the baklava out of your arteries." "This is the late show." "I do my best work." "Anesthetic, please." "Mrs. Petrakis, I would like you to click your heels together three times." "And when you wake up, you'll be back in your own room in Kansas." "Kansas?" "Sponge." "So Carol, how was your date with big foot last night?" "He paid for the movie, but I had to pay for dinner." "I think you are with the wrong guy." "Retraction here." "Let me get a retraction." "I can't get this..." "She is hemorrhaging, clamp." "I thought that was going to happen." "Suture." "I can't stop this bleeding." "I should be better at this, my grandfather was a Taylor." "Make a 6-0 would work." "Would use a staple gun if I could." "Clamp." "Getting an irregular heart rate, fibrillation." "Heart rate is morning, doctor." "Breathing is labored." "Clamp." "Respiration is normal, doctor." "God, this hurts." "Abbie, she is under." "Loss of feeling in the left arm." "Carol don't go to the." "Bahamas." "Clamp please." "Bleeding is controlled." "Dr. Sherman, would you be so kind?" "Abbie, what is going on?" "I'm having a heart attack." "Dr. Pullen!" "Get me do icu immediately!" "I'll need a blanket and a pillow." "I'm going to need oxygen of 4 liters." "How is the patient?" "No problem here." "Check my pulse, please." "98 and slightly irregular." "That's not too bad, abbie." "Yeah, for a duck." "Scottie give me an iv, and." "Lidocaine with a push." "Hi, boys." "One, two, three." "I'm going to buy you all somebody big." "Don't fight it, abbie." "I'm afraid to go to sleep." "I'll get a hammer." "Dad, I'm afraid to go to sleep!" "Why are you afraid to go to sleep?" "What if I never wake up?" "Then there will be more for me for breakfast." "Daddy, read to me." "The dreams book." "When you can read, you read the dreams book." "But it's my favorite." "All right." "But I want you to know, it's not my favorite." "Okay." "The dreams book." "Sweet dreams to my fingers, sweet dreams to my knees, sweet dreams to belly buttons to go in and out." "Sweet dreams to all of the waitresses in the world, the big ones too, like the waitress at the bowling alley." "That's not the way it goes." "Hey, this is kid's stuff." "You want to hear something that you can put your teeth into?" "Inherit the wind?" "Oh, no, not again." "It's the loneliest feeling in the world to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down." "To have everyone look at you and say, what's the matter with him that very good, dad." "You and me, kido." "I know what it feels like to walk down an empty street, to hear the sound of your own footsteps, shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors closed against you." "I'm asleep, daddy, really." "And you don't know whether you are walking towards something or just walking away." "It's very important that she doesn't miss her physical therapy sessions." "Si." "Si." "Good-bye, matilda." "I checked you out." "How are you doing?" "Abbie?" "Abbie?" "I can hear." "I can hear." "Very funny." "You are funny." "Funny guy." "Come on, let's get out of here." "What are you doing?" "Thank God I'm out of here." "I have such weird dreams here." "Let's get a cab." "No, I really want to walk." "You're going to like it." "I'm going to lean on you, and you lean on me." "Is this good for you?" "This is great." "Look, we're a semicolon walking home." "I have to have my presso." "Salt." "Oh, thank you." "Salt now." "I was not ready for this." "Who is?" "I'm heart surgeon, for." "Christ's sakes." "I should have seen it coming." "Even the Indians warned custer, don't come over here, we're a little cranky." "Look, you had plenty of warning." "You work like a maniac, you don't sleep." "You were so busy being the doctor, the patient almost died." "You are lucky this time." "Why can't you be more straight with me?" "What are you so pissed off about?" "I don't want to lose you." "You were so cute." "Nice hands, doctor." "I still wear that outfit." "Look another me." "Look at me." "This is great." "I couldn't catch a ball." "It's hard to catch with your face." "I had the word spalding written on my forehead until I was about six." "Oh, my God." "Now I see why you always lock the door." "Who took these." "My father." "Your mother is embarrassed too." "How old were you when they broke up?" "Seven." "My favorite toy was a suitcase." "Mine was my father's stethoscope." "Speaking of which..." "It's still ticking!" "I didn't even realize this was on here." "What is this?" "This is music night." "You don't want to see this... wait." "Wait." "Wait." "No, no, abbie." "Wait." "Are you wearing a tuxedo." "Yes." "You look like the world's smallest maitre d'." "He made me wear that." "He wanted me to be a brand leader like Tracy Dean." "He said, kid, you wear a black tuxedo, white carnation, you can fuck Betty grable." "I wish you would play for me." "I can't." "And that's another reason." "You want some tea?" "You know you never talk about your father." "When did he die?" "He's not dead." "What... he... he's alive?" "Your father is alive." "Yes, I haven't checked lately, but he is alive." "You told me he was dead?" "Oh, come on, abbie, every time I would ask you about him you... you... you shrug." "I assume that meant... you take my shrugs too seriously." "Come on, really?" "He is alive?" "Where did he live?" "He is in Los Angeles." "What does he do?" "He's a professional embarrassment." "How come you never talk about him?" "There's nothing to say." "Oh, well, hello, welcome home, Lisa, the turtle is back in his shell." "Some things are personal." "Personal?" "Personal?" "Wait a minute fore three years I assume your father is dead, now" "I find that personal." "Abbie, this is scaring me." "What else have you not told me?" "I'm a transvestite on the weekends." "I knew that." "No, I mean it." "Answer the question." "Let's save this for a rainy day, okay." "My heart has done the mambo, and it's not on my list of things to do, okay?" "Forget the list." "You know I spend a lot of time wondering where I fit in on that list." "Right near the top." "Umm." "You know why we broke up?" "Because you are always hiding from me." "Hello?" "We can have a great time together, abbie." "Why don't you join me?" "You know, I have this patient, a boy, he's 12." "He's terminal, and he tells me something new every day." "He tells me everything." "He is a kid and he is scared." "You want a mirror?" "So what did your father do?" "Did he beat you?" "You know what it is like to go to a father and son dinner with my mother." "With Sylvia pullen in a fox stole?" "She brought cake." "How come you dream about him?" "I don't know." "It was a fluke." "It must have been the iv." "Have you ever thought that maybe you love him?" "No." "No?" "You are a tough piece." "I mean, you are great in bed, but then you don't know how to hold my hand." "Did you come back because I got sick?" "No." "I guess when you find a decent, witty, straight turtle with great potential, not to mention a great ass, you do everything you can to try to make it work." "But I tell you, it's really tiring, trying to do it alone." "I have got rounds." "Abbie!" "Yo, abbie!" "Wave!" "Come on, wave!" "Do something." "This is a moving picture." "Do something funny." "Come on." "Funny." "Guess who?" "Hey!" "Charles lorden, hunchback of notre dame." "Aunt Sophie." "And cut." "Dr. Livingston, I presume." "I'm going to be late getting back to work." "I'll probably get fired." "I'll spend my most productive years waiter for unemployment checks." "I could have taken a cab." "Don't be silly." "Why are you staring at me." "You look different." "What did you do get a haircut or something?" "Yeah, around three years ago." "So how is the hot shot doctor like you get time off to visit his old man." "It's like I told you on the phone, I had a little bit of time off, and I had a lot of friends out here and wanted to get some sun." "It couldn't have come at a worse time." "I'm busy as hell." "Don't worry, I'm not going to stay that long." "Was it something I said?" "Hey, pullen, lunch was an hour." "You can't keep doing this." "I overdid it at the salad bar." "Get a job." "Surrounded by assassins." "Do me a favor, would you punch me up on the monitor." "In case anybody is interested, I brought my own family doctor." "Abbie, do me a favor, help me raise the bed." "So how is your so-called mother?" "You seen her lately with?" "She came to visit me about two weeks ago." "She moved to Vermont, you know?" "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Vermont?" "A woman her age is supposed to live in Florida." "Who moves to Vermont." "She likes the cold." "She should, she invented it." "Okay." "Extras, places right away." "Abe, there is an ugly rumor going around that they are going to let some people go today." "I warned you, never play a coma." "It's deadly, comas are the first to go when they layoff." "Oh, what should I do?" "Come out of your coma." "Thanks." "Vermont?" "You know your so-called mother is crazy." "She was always crazy." "That's why I divorced her." "She said she divorced you." "That's how crazy she is." "How do I look, doctor?" "Don't you feel like a putz?" "A putz?" "Where else could you lay around all day and get paid?" "Would you please clear the set?" "Abbie, stand by the monitor." "Enjoy me." "All right." "You are sick, you are very sick." "Pick a disease." "A quiet one." "I need this bed clear." "See, I think it will work." "I am feeling much better." "No, no, you don't come out of your comma." "You are dead." "You are history." "Let's go." "Five, four, three, two..." "Oh, my God." "I hope he doesn't recognize me." "How could you sleep with your own grandfather?" "Well, I didn't know." "Wait a minute, abbie, when did you start to like sun?" "What are you really doing out here?" "Stop take." "Cut." "Come on, we can't work like this." "I thought I heard a noise coming from this bed." "It was me." "I picked malaria." "I was delirious." "Back to work." "Come on, people, please, please, help me out here." "Second bell, tape is rolling." "And in five, four, three, two..." "There's a funny story, I hope you understand, listen very closely if you possibly can." "The story of two popcorn kernels in a red hot pan." "One turned to the other and said hey man" "I'm too pooped to pop" "I'm playing possum." "Don't like the bottom, wanted to get up on top." "It seems like I'm just too pooped to pop" "I'm too pooped to pop and I ain't lying." "Too pooped to lying, just lay here frying, the fire is ready, it just seems like I'm too pooped to." "Oh, yeah." "No applause, just throw money." "How are you doing?" "Good." "Good." "Come on, abbie, have a drink." "This is fine." "Come on, have a taste." "I'll have an absolute on the rocks." "Absolutely." "Give me one." "I can't fly on one wing, kid." "Am I going to see you." "Wednesday?" "I'll give you a call." "My kid is in town." "Oh, see that you do." "And now for all of the lovers in the room." "I usually play by ear." "You are a plenty popular guy." "These are my people." "Extras of the real Hollywood." "You won't see their names in the credit." "We like to think of ourselves as behind the title." "See this guy over there?" "Yeah." "He is a legend." "He invented the courtroom waller." "Oh, he is that famous." "You know how every courtroom you see a guy finally confesses, and then a murmur goes throughout the courtroom?" "That's a waller." "And that's Dan kantor." "The great man who invented it." "Watch this." "Hey, Stan!" "Isn't it true that you had sexual intercourse with Allison wheatley?" "They got the Brody kid over in the jailhouse!" "Hang him, I say let's hang him!" "Watch this one." "How is your hey fever?" "I love it when you do that." "Thanks." "They are all specialists, kid, just like you." "What is your specialty, Abe?" "Me, I'm a face in a crowd." "Let's talk Turkey." "Why did you really come out here?" "I have been under a lot of pressure lately, and... you want my advise, please on it." "Thank you very much." "Have you tried taking showers." "I get my best ideas in the shower." "Please listen to me." "I got a better one, put on your socks, take off your socks." "Einstein figured out the whole universe putting on his socks." "Abe." "I had a heart attack." "You hold that thought." "Last call?" "I'll see if he is here." "Dr. Pullen, telephone?" "Dr. Pullen?" "Are you sure you said." "Dr. Pullen?" "Yeah, Dr. Pullen." "Hello, this is Dr. Pullen." "When did it happen?" "Where the hell are you?" "Listen, this is a toll call." "You want to just hit the highlights?" "What the hell is the matter with you?" "I caught you at a bad time." "Listen, while you are calming down." "If you want to call to me I'm at 555-4739." "And while you are thinking it over, I want you to know it's not my fault." "Get down here and talk to me." "When the hell did it happen?" "Six weeks ago!" "Six weeks!" "Six weeks, and you wait until now to tell me?" "What am I a passing acquaintance!" "How am I supposed to feel?" "This isn't about you!" "I came out..." "Abe?" "Abe?" "Oh, excuse me." "Abe?" "Your call did it." "I got any job." "Two weeks guaranteed." "Isn't that good news." "Isn't that good news, abbie?" "I'm so nervous, I haven't worked in months." "Hey, come on." "Angels don't cry." "She needed my help." "I pulled a few strings." "Shit!" "Five years you don't see me." "And then you waltz out of here without warning and hit with a heart attack." "What am I chasing you for?" "Where are you going?" "How can a city this big have no cabs?" "Will you listen to me?" "Do you know that you just embarrassed me in front of my friends." "My heart attack embarrassed you?" "What did I say?" "I'm going to the hotel." "You were better on the phone!" "Taxi!" "Taxi!" "Hi, it's me." "It's little bit after midnight for you, which makes it 1958 out here." "Just called to say, I'm fine." "Everything went great." "My dad was really happy to see me." "And we're going to a baseball game tomorrow if you can imagine that." "Otherwise I feel good." "I'm just a little bit tired that's all." "Your voice sounded really sexy on your answering machine." "Well, enough of that." "I'm not allowed to get crazy, am." "I?" "Well, this is your weary traveler saying, good night." "Who is it?" "Room service." "I didn't order any room service." "Complementary fruit for." "Dr. Pullen?" "Say you are stuping some girl in here, and you have another heart attack, and she robs you and she leaves you there, and you can't get to the phone for help." "What do you want?" "Will you stay with me kido." "This trip was a really bad idea." "It was lovely seeing you again, but I'm going home tomorrow." "Going home?" "We just got off to a bad start." "We always just get off to a bad start." "Will you do it for me?" "Just tonight?" "It's pointless." "I'm your father, and I'm asking." "Don't you ever feel like a putz in those costumes?" "Putz?" "I never feel like a putz." "I have lived a thousand different lives in a thousand different places, kid." "Great, when was the last time you opened a window." "Towering inferno, Steve." "McQueen, need a little help." "Hey!" "Hey!" "You going to stay here with me?" "Watch it?" "Nobody tells Abe pullen how to live." "You still have the old chair from Brooklyn?" "Yeah, we watched Johnny beat the Yankees in that chair." "That's the only thing I took with me after the divorce." "I left your mother everything else, including the rumors." "Let me show you something." "You see that?" "Uh-huh." "When I die, I want you to make a mold of that imprint and put it in front of the Chinese theater." "Gables feet, Monroe's hands, and." "Abe pullen's ass." "I'll write that down." "This is an interesting collage." "I couldn't find a picture of us together, so I taped me in." "Well, you would never know." "I did a good job." "You want a beer?" "You got a pill to take or something?" "No, I'm going to turn in." "To what?" "Hey, Abe?" "What?" "Which is my bed?" "What is the difference, take your pick." "Well, I don't want to sleep in your bed." "Your bed, my bed, a bed is a bed is a bed." "It looks like you picked out a bed." "Take it." "Hey, kid, I got an early call at the studio tomorrow." "You want to come to work with me?" "I thought you said if I stayed here, you were going to take some time off?" "Did I say that?" "It's a very important job." "It could be the big one." "Big one?" "But you're an extra." "Didn't you want to be an actor?" "I am an actor." "But it's not really acting." "Anybody can do what you do." "You stand behind the actors." "I could have a hundred speaking parts." "I don't know how many times a director said, Abe, go for a part." "So why haven't you?" "Because I won't take just anything." "There's an art to being incidental." "You know how good I am?" "A laid in that hospital bed every day for two months on that soap opera." "People all over the country sent me get-well cards." "I'm not an extra, I'm the king of the extras." "Good night, Abe." "Yeah, good night." "Any schmuck can get a speaking part." "Speaking part." "Speaking part." "Must have scared the hell out of you, huh?" "I thought it was immortal." "It's like old times, just you and me, talking about our problems." "We never talked about anything." "Why bring up problems?" "Why bring up problems?" "What's the matter?" "You are in my bed." "Thank you." "Hi." "Okay." "People, hold it down!" "Hold it down." "You want to finish that conversation on your own time?" "All right." "A couple of things." "Number one, use the phones outside." "Don't use the phones on the stage." "They are for the actors only." "The bad news is there has been changes and we don't need all of you." "All right." "You are breaking my heart." "Count out the 20, and the rest of you go home." "Go ahead start counting?" "I don't count." "I'm an actor." "He's an actor." "Start counting or get lost." "One." "What did you say?" "Two, three, four, five..." "I really need this." "Six, seven, eight." "Who is it?" "Dr. Pullen, telegram." "Oh." "Dr. Pullen?" "Yeah." "This is your celebrity impressions tapping telegram." "Well, hello you old poop, I just came to get the scoop to see if you are behaving like you should." "You know what I mean." "Are you watching your aorta." "And doing what you otta." "Because doctors who are sick ain't very good." "Thank you." "Thanks very much." "Are you in show business?" "No I'm a doctor." "For one of the studios?" "No." "Well, here is a picture anyway." "You never know." "Who sent you?" "Oh, direct from the big apple, Dr. Lisa McConnell!" "I was in the neighborhood." "Holy shit." "You are so romantic, she said, and he swept her into his arms and carried her off to his bed." "Did I say holy shit?" "You have got to stop threatening to love me, abbie?" "What the hell are you doing here?" "Well, I was sitting home, and listening to the messages on my machine, and all of a sudden, here is your lonely voice saying everything is fine." "You dad went to a baseball game." "Hum." "Schmuck, there is no baseball in January." "Oooooooh." "Umm, how about asking me in." "This is a 3,000-mile house call." "Yeah, sure." "Come in." "Come in." "You don't see very happy to see me." "I'm surprised to see you." "That's all." "Hi." "Could you be a little less emotional when you kiss me." "I'm perspiring, you know." "How is it going?" "I'm in a lot of trouble here." "That may be the most honest thing you have ever said to me." "I was doing good." "I really was." "I was nervous, but I was in control." "And then someplace between baggage claim and the curb, it got all screwed up." "I'm going to take a shower, all right?" "Make yourself at home." "Thank you." "Play it, bill." "Wee, wee." "Excuse me, sorry, can you tell me where stage 13 is?" "Just at the end of the trailer to your right." "Thank you." "Uh-huh." "That was pretty good." "He is either an actor or he isn't?" "Exactly." "Abe said it's not stupid to play broccoli." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "No, I'm an actor." "I play many roles." "I am not a please of meat." "I command respect." "If they catch me using this phone they will kill me." "Excuse me, Ms. Strawberry." "Hey, what is happening?" "Can you tell me where Abe pullen?" "Oh, of course." "He is holding court right on the set there." "Abe, you got visitors." "Oooooooh, look out for people wearing bibs." "This is a really good friend of my, Dr. Lisa McConnell." "This is my pleasure." "It is so nice to meet you." "I have heard so much about you." "I'm glad you came, doctor, maybe you can tell me what is wrong with my hand." "It has been like this for a month." "Have... have you tried soaking it in melted butter?" "Oh, we got a winner here." "Anything off of the top shelf sweetheart." "Don't you feel like a putz." "When was the last time you were a lobster?" "Are you from Hollywood doctor?" "No, New York." "Oh, really?" "That's where I am from, frozen fresh." "Lisa and I are on staff together." "She is one of the best pediatricians in New York." "Nice credit." "What is it you got bored of me already?" "You had to fly in visitors?" "Tango!" "Touch up!" "Shut up." "Get over here." "You remember my late son abbie." "And this is one of only three lady doctors in the world." "Cristian O'Hara." "Lisa McConnell." "Nice to meet you." "Make it special." "It isn't every day my son sees me crawl." "Abe, I'm going to make you look like you just came out of the water." "Who does this skin remind you of?" "Grace Kelly." "Skin like a baby's bottom." "I worked with grace Kelly in to catch a thief." "Remember the ballroom scene?" "I danced right by." "That's the first movie I ever saw." "The state theater, Madison," "Wisconsin." "That's nice." "Abbie do me a favor, would you, rub the shell right above my ear." "You really knew grace Kelly?" "Yes, I knew grace Kelly." "That's it." "Off you go." "Thanks, tiger." "Anybody calls, tell them I'm in." "Maine for the summer." "This thing weighs a ton." "I would like to get some air." "What is the name of this picture?" "Surf and turf." "Babe?" "Is that you?" "Shawn, is that you?" "You look very well." "$12 a pound, mate." "I must get back to work." "Good-bye." "That's Shawn connery." "I know, he's from my own neighborhood." "Let's go." "You know Sean connery?" "Yeah, I know all the greats." "Marlon Brando, Newman." "I worked with Doris day." "Yeah?" "Oh, yeah, I used to walk her cat." "You stay right over here, sweetheart." "You can see everything." "All right." "First team." "Anybody bothers you, you just tell them you are with Abe." "Excuse me." "He's very charming." "Oh, isn't he?" "You okay in here." "You see where you are going?" "Yeah." "Right over here." "Fruits and vegetables stay together!" "You shell fish, you can spread out, but remember this is your first time on land." "You are panicked!" "You can be only think of one thing." "You want revenge!" "Okay." "Everybody ready." "Max, are you ready?" "Yes." "Max is ready." "I'm ready." "You have are ready." "All right." "Let's make this picture." "Let's have a bell." "Let's go!" "Shell fish." "He loneliest feeling in the world to be standing up when everybody else is sitting down." "To have everybody else say what is the matter with him?" "He has a part." "I know." "I know what it is like to walk down an empty street and hear the sound of his own footsteps?" "He must be drunk?" "You want to get him off the set?" "Yeah." "Cut!" "Cut!" "And you aren't sure if you are walking towards something, or just walking away." "Would somebody get rid of the lobster please." "Nurse?" "Is there a nurse on the set?" "I'm a doctor?" "What are you doing?" "Nothing." "Are you all right?" "Of course I'm all right." "Then come down here, please." "Give us just a second, please." "Thank you." "There." "I haven't said that speech in 30 years." "I know." "What's the matter you never saw a lobster talk before." "I'm fine." "I'm okay." "Right here." "Will you stop carrying on." "Come on, I just lost my geography." "For a second there, I thought it was someplace else." "Has this ever happened before, Abe?" "Once in a while I recite the gettysburg address, but that's for practice." "Look up." "No dizziness?" "No sudden blackouts." "You are the doctor, you tell me." "Do this." "He seems to be fine." "Maybe it was dehydration." "It must have been hot as hell in that lobster costume." "What did you have to eat and drink today?" "The usual, a taco, couple of beers." "And this." "This is a good idea." "You don't take care of yourself." "Look who is talking," "Mr. Chest pains." "What was the last time you had a physical, Abe?" "When I needed one." "Now please." "Hey." "Al, you know Dr. And." "Mrs. Wellby." "What the hell happened?" "I faked it." "You do something crazy, it gets in the movie." "You are a sick puppy." "This is where it all happens, kid." "Magic time." "You see that." "Moses parted the red sea right there." "Right there in that parking lot?" "It's a water tank." "It was my first flick." "I played a goat herder, almost didn't make it through." "That's amazing." "You want a bite?" "Why bother eating?" "Why don't you shove it directly into your artery?" "Oooooooh." "Bif is a moody man." "What do you see in him?" "I mean what has he got that I ain't got, only younger?" "Well, to start with more hair." "He was 11 years old." "I took him to sugarman's turkish bath." "He didn't want to go in naked." "He was afraid that everybody would laugh when everybody would see he didn't have any hair on his... you know what I mean." "Uh-huh." "I was afraid they were going to laugh." "Is it such a big deal?" "What the hell are you bringing this up now for?" "Anyway... so tell me more about this tank." "I try to explain to him, you think these guys never saw a little boy before." "It's natural." "You grow up." "Your body starts to change, and then you get... so I trust him, right, and I take off all of my clothes." "I hold his hand, and we go inside." "And then he yells..." "I said... you yelled!" "I said!" "Don't anybody laugh because my son don't have hair on his balls." "Is that so bad." "It's a funny story." "It's a funny story." "If you like that story, you are going to love this story." "After he left us, I would come out to see him like twice a year or so, you know." "And he was always busy working." "I was hot... can I tell my story, please?" "So..." "After a couple of days, you know, he would get bored with me." "And he would send me right back to my mother." "He would put me on a train, give the Porter $12, and tell him, don't let this kid get off before New York." "I still get mail from the." "Porter." "I never gave the Porter less than $25." "He is always making up these kind of stories." "Excuse me, boys, I mean not that this isn't fun, but I'm going to go look around." "Where are you going?" "It is not important where I'm going." "Where are you going?" "You are very funny, very charming, but don't put me in the middle of this." "It's too painful." "You want to know why you got sick?" "I see him." "I see you." "Wait a second." "Wait a second." "Are you saying I'm like my father?" "You want me to say exactly?" "The man is a pitbull, he is suck the oxygen out of a room." "Yes, he is a tough case, but you have never walked away from one before, doctor." "She's still not at this hotel." "What are you worried about?" "She probably went to the movies." "It's your fault?" "Do you love her?" "Leave me alone." "Was that too tough of question?" "Why don't you do what you do best." "Stay the hell out of my life?" "You're getting too personal." "Maybe you ought to get to the phone." "Giants." "They were all giants." "What giants?" "These are gimmicks to get people to come into a theater?" "Gary Cooper was a gimmick," "Humphrey bogart was a gimmick?" "Fonda, Charles boreton," "Edward g Robinson, and..." "They moved Paul uni?" "No, they didn't, it is Jimmy." "Stewart, and it was always Jimmy." "Stewart." "You are telling me..." "I'm telling you, we always played that way." "Come here, I'll show you." "Fonda, lowerton boyay," "Robinson, Stewart." "See." "They moved them." "No, they didn't." "They just never listened to me." "What is to listen?" "You are wrong." "Why are you running?" "You are not supposed to run!" "What happened?" "I'm a doctor, coming through, please." "I'm a doctor?" "Are you okay?" "You stay there, please." "Doc, that guy is bleeding pretty bad right over there." "Doc right there." "It's okay." "I'm a doctor." "Come into my office right here." "Lie down." "All right." "That's good." "Okay." "My name is Dr. Abbie pullen, I'm from New York." "You ever been there?" "Move it." "Move it." "You were in an accident." "Do you understand that?" "Will you step back, please?" "Okay." "You have a compound fracture of your left clavicle." "I don't do that kind of work, we sent it out to the shop." "Okay." "What I'm going to do is remove your tie, which is a lovely fabric, by the way, and I'm sorry... step aside." "Step aside." "Are you a doctor?" "Yeah." "No, he is an electrician, but he is good with his hands." "What are you a wise guy?" "Just step back and let him work." "Yeah, let him work." "Step back." "I want everybody back." "You driving a corvette?" "What kind of mileage you get to that?" "How are you doing?" "You're in my light." "Back up." "Back up." "Okay." "Now, are you feeling any of the pain beside this pressure." "This pressure is only me." "I'm just applying a little pressure here." "You are unbelievable." "What?" "What if the man died?" "If the man dies, you could get sued." "Look at you, you got blood all over your clothes." "That what I do." "I get blood on my clothes." "I'm a doctor." "What the hell did you ever do?" "Or excuse me?" "Did you have a roof over your head?" "Clothes on your back?" "Who the hell do you think sent you through medical school?" "Uncle Dave!" "Well, he could afford it." "What the hell do you want from me?" "What I want from you, you couldn't give me if your life depended on it." "And what is that?" "How about love!" "Love?" "If you love someone, you come and see them a little more often than once every five years!" "Love!" "What the hell would I know about love?" "Because everything I know about love I learned from you." "You know I'm sitting in there things, maybe you might say something good." "You saw me do something." "You might be proud!" "But no, you give me this bullshit about getting sued!" "I was trying to look out for you!" "You never looked out for anybody but yourself!" "Is that why you came out here?" "No, I came out here to either get you in or get you out of my life!" "What conclusion have you come to?" "That you are a fraud." "You are a fraud." "You are a fraud as a father!" "You are a fraud as a husband!" "And you are a fake, Abe!" "You are not an actor!" "Did I ever lay a hand on you?" "At least you would have touched me." "It's not too late." "Let's go." "I have dreamed about hitting you so hard so many times." "Give it your best shot, come on!" "Right now!" "Look at us." "We are pathetic." "I am not a fraud!" "I am an actor!" "Who it is?" "It's me." "What happened?" "Wait a minute, all I said was talk to him." "It's okay." "No more talking." "Just hold me, please." "Can we talk now." "How do you feel?" "I feel very grown up." "I feel very sad for him." "You feel amazing in my arms." "And I have done enough for one trip." "I'm going home." "You want a second opinion?" "Maybe later." "I was looking all over for you." "What are you doing down there?" "I like to watch the sun come up from here." "God does nice lighting." "Why don't you jump in?" "It's a little cold, but you get used to it after a while." "I packed all my stuff." "My plane leaves at 10:00." "It's a nice time to fly." "Where is the other doctor?" "Lisa is waiting in the cab." "At least I got to see your haircut." "Say good-bye to Christian." "Tell her to think about changing her name." "You have my number?" "Yeah." "Hey, don't work too hard, kido." "Okay?" "So long, Abe." "Let me at least drive you to the airport." "We have a cab." "Thanks anyway." "I'm your father, and I'm asking." "I'll meet you out front." "I'm going to take you right to the plane." "You know I'm a little hungry." "Why don't we stop." "I would like to get some breakfast." "You got a plane to catch." "Don't worry." "We'll make it." "Okay." "It's your plane." "It wasn't my call." "How about a taco." "A taco?" "How could you eat a taco this early in the morning?" "It started on the alamo with." "Duke laine." "I worked 28 days on that picture." "The real alamo took 13." "All right." "I'm game." "Where can we get tacos?" "Mexico." "Mexico?" "Me-he-co!" "People, smile." "You are standing on the oldest street in Los Angeles." "Don't you feel like a putz?" "Relax Mr. Fun police." "Excuse me, could you hurry up, the kids are getting cranky cranky?" "He said we were going to Mexico." "Use your imagination." "This is Mexico, only better." "You save a three-hour trip and you can drink the water." "I know you have a smile." "You just have to bring it from here to here." "Last night..." "I don't want it to be like that." "Either do I." "Nothing is worth getting that upset about, accept this girl." "She has nipples the size of the dials on my television set." "Hold it." "Listen, I..." "Yeah, you don't have to apologize." "Not even to me." "How do I look?" "You know how you look." "It wasn't that long ago." "Hey, you said $10 for a color photograph." "Black is a color, and white is a color." "Yeah?" "And five is the number." "And adios is good-bye." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "It's fiesta time." "Excuse me." "I bought one of your cars." "Riva!" "You got good rhythm," "Christian." "Not bad for a schick, huh?" "So what are you doing out here?" "You came out here to gang up on me?" "No, I came out here, because" "I heard you were a terrific dancer." "Did he say that?" "Yeah." "His heart is all right now, huh?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "I think he's getting better every day." "He is right." "You are a great dancer." "I would be better if you let me lead once in a while." "Abbie, come on let's dance." "No, it's way too much fun." "It's great cardiovascular." "Now don't you feel like you are in Mexico." "No." "Nurse!" "Another round for my men." "Make sure that you give me all the checks." "I don't want you to lose it." "What are you talking about?" "I'm so happy that I lived to see your bar mitzvah." "I'm very proud of you abbie." "Thank you." "I think we should go." "I'm getting tired." "Yeah." "No." "No." "No." "I feel like doing a horror." "This doesn't look like a horror crowd?" "I think he is right, Abe." "Listen, I can't do another dance for sure." "Horror is not a dance." "It's a condition." "Maestro!" "Maestro!" "Gracias, have a Tequila!" "Hold it." "How do you do?" "What is your name?" "Jose." "Now, follow me." "Hah-va-LA-gee-ma." "Tee-key-LA." "No, no, no." "No." "Nothing to do with Tequila." "Hah-va-na-gee-LA..." "I know exactly what you want." "Can I borrow your trumpet?" "Oh, si." "Gracias." "That's for Lisa McConnell and all of the gang at the morgue." "You have been practicing." "Follow me." "Andele!" "Ye hah!" "Abe, no." "I don't know how." "Come on!" "Gracias!" "Gracias!" "Ya!" "Come on, let's go!" "Ole!" "Ole!" "If he would have listened to me." "He could have been another Harry." "James!" "Guess who?" "Bandwagon." "No do it again." "Wait." "I have got one." "I have got one." "Okay." "Don't laugh." "Don't laugh." "If only I wasn't in this chair, James!" "But ya are, ya are!" "That's Betty Davis, whatever happened to baby James." "Betty Davis and Joan." "Crawford." "I did both parts." "Oooooooh." "Oooooooh." "All right." "I got one." "You want me to hold the chicken?" "What is this, Abe?" "Is this a foreign movie?" "Listen." "Listen." "You want me to hold the chicken." "Oh, it's the waitress in five easy pieces." "Remember the order, and then." "Jack nicolaus says between your knees." "Between your knees." "Remember?" "The loneliest feeling in the world to be standing up when everybody else is sitting down." "When everybody around you say... to have... to have everybody around you say... wait... wait... it's what his name." "It's what's his name." "He is not playing the game." "What?" "It's just me." "And everybody looks at him and says, what is the matter with him?" "I know." "I know what it is like." "Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps, shutters closed." "Blinds drawn." "Doors locked against you." "And you aren't sure whether you are walking towards something or just walking away." "Oh, really?" "It was good, pop." "It was really, really good." "I hate hospitals." "How could you stand it." "You could catch something here." "What do you got a connection here or something?" "The chief of staff is an old college Professor of mine." "He is doing us a very big favor." "Just relax." "Everything is going to be okay." "Put this on." "Name?" "I know your name." "Date of birth... before your time." "Date of birth is December... march 14th, 1945." "We always celebrated it in." "December." "So I lied." "I liked a lot of gifts for." "Christmas." "Have you ever had... no, I never had anything." "I never even had my own room until I got divorced." "Well?" "How do I like?" "Try to imagine this with jewelry." "Would you get on the scale, please." "Why are you walking like that in here?" "It prevents athletes feet." "Of course." "Why are these things always so cold." "Come on." "Get up here." "5'9"." "I'm shrinking." "By the time I die, you can bury me in a shoebox." "What is the difference." "I didn't come in here for a suit." "I came in here for a physical." "Fill this up." "With what?" "Just fill it up." "Are you okay?" "No." "I can't get the lid off of the goddamn bottle." "Very funny." "Just please try it again." "Thank you." "Abbie, I can't perform in here." "Try running the water." "Ta-da!" "Thank you." "I'll give you 500 for a cigarette, kido." "Okay." "Now you can't move." "Okay." "It's hard for me to do stills." "I'm a motion picture actor." "Just relax." "Don't you come home bill Bailey, won't you come home" "I'll do the dishes, darling, pay the rent." "My mother used to sing that to me." "You didn't know your grandmother, did you, abbie?" "You would have loved her." "She was always singing." "My father was always miserable." "Broke his ass for 40 years in a sweat shop." "All he ever wanted out of life was a sewing machine by the window." "I never heard him laugh." "Okay." "Abe, this isn't going to hurt at all." "But you really have to try to be still now." "Okay?" "Okay." "[ I'll do the dishes ]" "I'll pay the rent." "Okay." "Pop." "Go home." "Go home?" "Uh-huh." "You touched this, you touched that." "You have seen parts of me, you haven't seen, and all you can tell me is go home." "Uh-huh." "Go home." "I'm going to send away for the results of your tests." "They are going to rush them through." "I don't like rushing." "Rushing makes me nervous." "Don't be nervous." "On your way home, get me a sandwich, an Eddie kantor." "You hear me?" "I hear you." "An Eddie kantor." "Thank you." "You are a sentimental gentlemen of song." "In case I burn my pants." "Very funny." "Ed win." "I wanted you to know, you doctors play rough." "My ass looks like a miniature golf course." "Where is Lisa?" "At the hotel." "She said give her a call." "Did you bring what I asked?" "Yeah." "This is not an Eddie kantor." "This is a georgy defer." "What is the difference?" "An Eddie kantor is a meal in itself." "An Ethiopian wouldn't eat this." "Look, I made a mistake." "Just eat the damn thing, huh?" "All right." "I'll eat it." "I'll eat it." "Well, at least you got the pickles right." "Pickles right." "Pickles right." "I failed the test, right?" "You have a blister on a blood vessel in your brain." "It's like what happens to an inner tube when it starts to burst." "So why don't I feel anything?" "Well, you do, actually." "The headaches." "These speeches that you suddenly remember." "It's all part of it." "It's called an aneurysm." "Good word for scrabble." "Probably has double letters in it." "So?" "Who do we do for it?" "It's in a portion of your brain Known as the circle of." "Willis." "We can't get to it surgically." "So what you are saying is don't buy green bananas." "I can't do anything." "How long?" "I don't know." "Come on." "An hour, a day, a week, a month?" "Something?" "There is no way to know." "What is going to happen?" "The headaches will continue, but there's medication for that." "And these episodes, how did you say it at the set?" "You lost your geography?" "What is going to happen if I get lost?" "I'll be here." "That's good." "You know I never had my name in variety?" "Probably now it will be on page 9." "Little box." "It will say Abraham pullen." "63, movie extra." "19th man to yell I'm sparticus." "I guess I'll get some sleep." "I'll see you tomorrow, right?" "Why do you say it like that?" "Because you won't tell me how long." "If this is it, I'll stay up." "Maybe there's a good movie on the late show." "Dad." "Hey, come on, kid." "Don't worry." "It's not your fault." "Things like this happen to fathers." "I'm mad." "I know." "I really wanted an Eddie kantor." "Maybe I shouldn't have told him." "He is your patient." "He has a right to know." "I should have been a dermatologist." "No, you would be a lousy one." "There are 300 skin diseases, and two creams." "Where is the challenge?" "This whole thing could have been avoided!" "You see how he lives." "He takes better care of his goddamn car than he does himself." "Dammit, I feel like I'm his father!" "Don't." "Feel like his son." "Abe?" "Hello!" "Back pass!" "We have got some tacos here." "Abbie!" "Oh, shit." "Eh?" "What the hell are you doing?" "Rehearsing." "That is not funny." "You think it's easy playing dead." "Open your eyes and don't blink?" "That's dying." "Let me show you something." "Let me show you something about dying." "I have been thinking." "Watch." "Who is this?" "Dustin Hoffman in midnight cowboy, he died all the way to." "Florida." "Everybody loves a death scene." "Let me set the scene." "Christian you'll enjoy this." "Just stand right over here." "Now, the man knows he's dying, but he don't know when." "So he decides to come into the kitchen, a coffee and read the trades." "All of a sudden, a busy smell overtakes him." "Beads of perspiration start to dot his forehead." "He grasps!" "He thinks." "This is it." "He decides to give up smoking." "He has only one thought in his mind." "He must get to the phone to reach his son." "He must speak to his son, who is out God knows where, stupping some catholic girl." "The first pain hits him." "You will notice that the picture is slightly askew." "He desperately fights across the room holding on with every bit of strength that he can muster." "He starts to fall again!" "He clings, he clings, he fights his way across the room." "He falls to the floor." "Crawling, scratching." "The morning sun touches his face." "He realizes that will be no more mornings." "He reaches..." "The coupons he was saving to buy his son a hair dryer." "With his last will of strength, he reaches the phone." "He dials desperately." "But it is too late!" "The death rattle." "The number you have reached is not a working number." "Perfect." "Pretty good, huh?" "Bravo!" "It was very good." "It was very good." "Now, listen, go get dressed." "Where are we going?" "I made a list." "Of all of the things that we never had a chance to do." "What are you talking about?" "You just go get dressed." "I'll tell you what I want to do, and you'll get us there, all right." "All right." "He's very good." "He's very crazy." "Yeehaw!" "This is a great idea." "I love this." "They like me, I think." "Hello." "He kisses like aunt Sophie." "Look." "I got one!" "I got one!" "Woo-hoo!" "I have never seen anything like it." "It's a feeding frenzy." "Come on, boys." "Come on, boys." "Eat." "The fish in Europe are starving." "I can't believe that I haven't gotten one yet." "It's all in the wrist, abbie, here, I got a hot pole." "Take mine." "Oh!" "Oh!" "I got another one!" "Woo-hoo!" "Would you please not do that." "Look, I'm going to go here and fish by myself and you two can catch every fish that is left." "Okay?" "You must concentrate, abbie." "I didn't put any bait on his hook." "You catch all of those yourself?" "Yes." "That's great." "Just great." "I got to go back to work." "I understand." "Stay here." "I got to do this." "It's okay." "Stay right here." "Abbie!" "It's okay." "Passing on the left!" "Come on!" "I'm going as fast as I can." "Let's go for the burn!" "Excuse me, ma'am, I'm going into hyper space!" "Ah." "I don't want you to go." "I have to." "My patients need me." "What am I going to do without you?" "You'll do fine." "I love you, Christian." "I love you Jewish." "I'll miss you, Abe." "I'll miss me." "Nice exit." "You know what you need?" "A sequel." "A speaking part." "What are you talking about?" "I don't know." "I..." "I'm not sure yet." "Do you know anybody at Jenny." "Lynn productions?" "They are casting a movie too." "Abbie, please." "You sure you don't want this?" "I only wore it once?" "Once is plenty for that." "It's nice for the summer." "I'm sending some things over to the motion picture home." "It's pretty tough staying home when you are retired." "Do you know a producer Phil." "Mitchell?" "Producer Phil Mitchell." "He started with me 30 years ago." "He is the world's worst extra." "Well, he's producing a movie, and they need all different character types." "Look right here." "Let's give him a call." "It says agent submission only." "I don't have an agent." "They all say agent submission only." "How do you get an agent?" "You got to get a part." "How do you get part?" "You got to get an agent." "Didn't ask me the next question." "It's 30 years and I still don't understand." "Who is a really big agent?" "Woody halverman, the biggest." "Powerful." "He once said to Sinatra, you want to hold it down?" "I'm eating." "That's big." "What are you doing?" "Don't mix up my life." "Shhhh." "Trust me." "Hi, may I help you?" "Less." "I'm less scheckter from Woody halverman's office." "I believe we have an appointment for Mr. Pullen." "Oh, yes." "Mr. Pullen." "You do?" "Of course you do." "Excuse me just a second." "Abe." "Abe." "Abe." "Abe." "Don't be so impairment." "I spoke to Dominic." "He is going to hold a booth for us." "Here you go." "Pages 81-a, 81-b." "The part of Eric." "Eric." "Nice typing." "Abe?" "What are you doing?" "Please." "Maybe... maybe it's the wrong time." "Tell her I have a headache." "Listen, listen." "Listen to me." "What is the worst thing that can happen?" "I'll be discovered." "No." "No." "No." "You are an actor." "You can do this." "You are Eric." "Come on." "Go in there and you break a leg." "I'll mend it." "I'll call you from the car." "Ciao." "Chad?" "Chad hunter?" "This way." "It was very rough today, wasn't it?" "Wasn't it?" "Sit down." "I'll be with you in a minute." "I'll be with you in a minute." "Mr. Pullen?" "You look surprised." "I have always looked like this." "Excuse me, I was expecting somebody younger or somebody different." "I hope I didn't embarrass you." "You think my face is embarrassing, you should see my body." "Please, sit down." "You look familiar, Abe." "Have we worked together, before?" "We're in the same business." "Tell me a little bit about yourself." "I'm 22." "I'm from New York." "I studied with uder, and I'm having trouble adjusting to." "California." "Okay." "Now tell me about you." "I'm 35, I have worked summer stock, regional theater yo, Abe." "I'm 63 years old." "I'm making a complete schmuck out of myself, and I think it's time that I left." "No." "No, don't go." "Please." "Really, I'm glad you came in." "It's actually quite refreshing to find an older leading man type who has a sense of humor about himself." "Did I mention I was dying?" "Don't be so hard on yourself." "You are very charming, Abe." "Would you like something?" "No, thank you." "I'm walking." "I just can't get over it." "You look so familiar." "What movies have I seen you in?" "Oh, I made many." "Too numerous to mention." "Try." "Let's see, I..." "Lost the best years of our lives." "I harvested the grapes of wrath, and I inherited the wind." "Come over here, Abe." "I'm an actor." "You want somebody to cheer?" "I'll cheer." "You want somebody to laugh?" "I'll be hysterical." "You want somebody to cry..." "Believe me, I know about crying." "I can be anybody you want." "Here's a funny story, I hope you understand." "Listen very closely if you possibly can." "Dad, don't do this." "Just tell us all what happened." "I charmed the pants off of her." "And?" "Too pooped to pop, and I am dying." "Please, just tell me what happened." "Ten lines of dialogue." "Double scale!" "You got the job!" "I start tomorrow morning at 6:00." "A toast!" "A toast!" "Here." "Here." "To my son." "Not only a wonderful doctor." "Wa-LA, wa-LA, wa-LA, wa-LA." "And a wonderful agent." "Yeah." "Here here." "He is always paying for the whole party!" "Where are you taking me?" "This is a special occasion." "This is a great day, and I have a surprise for you." "What have you got here?" "The firing squad." "Here we go." "And here." "What?" "This." "Come on, now." "No, we're starting a new tradition." "You are crazier than your so-called mother, you know that." "No, this is for the actors, and who better to do this than you, the actor." "We'll get arrested." "Not if you hurry up." "Come on." "Ah-ha!" "There it is!" "Gables hands!" "Monroe's feet!" "And Abe pullen's ass!" "Give me the towel before it heals." "Come on." "No, no, no, no." "You got to sign it." "Let's get out of here." "Let's do this one last time, and then I..." "I have to get some sleep." "Eric the maitre d' approaches the table." "Good evening, Mr. And." "Mrs. Bellson." "Nice to see you again, Eric." "Would you like to know about the specials tonight?" "We have a lovely sabogu au jus." "We have the fresh catch of the sea." "Hold it please." "All you say is, would you like to see the menu, sir?" "Oh, actors don't pay attention to words." "You got to make the part your own." "How about a nice flounder?" "No, it's... would you like to see the menu... you see if I didn't divorce your mother, we wouldn't be spending the quality time together." "I'm going to sleep." "No, no, no." "Wait." "Wait." "I got to get a couple of things off of my chest, encase we get separated in the crowd." "What is it?" "Well, it's no big news to know." "I was ant great father." "Let's say I was miss cast." "But I want you to do me a big favor." "Sure." "I love you, kid." "But I want you to go home." "Why?" "You are waiting around for this thing to happen." "The pressure is killing me." "I want you to go home." "I'm not going anywhere." "I have known you for 37 years and we just met, and you want to put me on a train again?" "No." "But this time you can get off anyplace you want." "And if I was you, I would get off in New York." "I would Mary the Christian doctor." "I would have a baby, and I would name him after somebody who recently died." "Okay." "That's a deal." "But I'm not going anywhere." "Except to bed." "No, no, you go to sleep." "I just have a small question." "Professional opinion." "Okay." "And don't be my son now." "Be my doctor." "All right." "What do you think the odds are of my dying on a weekend?" "Call your book maker, I don't know." "This is very important!" "If I died during the week, nobody is going to come to my funeral." "Everybody is working." "Why worry about this?" "When you are my age, you worry about two things." "One, you are with a woman and she says let's do it again right now." "And the other is, who is going to come to my funeral." "You have a million friends." "I know a lot of people." "It's different." "My father worked in that shop for 40 years." "Nobody came to his funeral." "But that was him." "And you are you." "And you have a 6:30 call tomorrow." "Would you like to see the menu, sir?" "You are going to be great." "May I have the envelope please." "Can I have stage ten, please?" "Thank you." "Hello, I'm calling for Abe pullen." "He's..." "I know he is late, and he is very, very sorry about that." "But unfortunately, Mr. Pullen will not be able to come in today." "Thank you." "Now is the time to go to sleep, time to slip away." "Time to say sweet dreams to the things that I love today." "Sweet dreams to the stars, sweet dreams to the breeze, sweet dreams to belly buttons that go in and belly buttons that go out." "Sweet dreams to all of the tushies in the world, the little ones, and the fat ones like the waitress at the bowling alley." "Sweet dreams."