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Isaac Davis:
What are you telling me, that you're going to leave Emily, is this true, and run away with the winner of the Zelda Fitzgerald emotional maturity award?
Yale:
Look, I love her, I've always loved her.
Isaac Davis:
What kind of crazy friend are you?
Yale:
I'm a good friend! I introduced her to you, remember?
Isaac Davis:
Right, what was the point? I don't understand that!
Yale:
Well, I thought you liked her?
Isaac Davis:
Yes, I do like her, now we both like her!
Yale:
Yeah, well I liked her first!
Isaac Davis:
I liked her first? What are you, six years old? Jeezus!
Yale:
Look, I thought it was over. I mean, would I have encouraged you to take her out if I still liked her?
Isaac Davis:
So, what, you like her, now you don't like her, then you did like her, you know it's still early, you can change your mind one more time before dinner!
Yale:
Don't get sarcastic about this. You think I like this?
Isaac Davis:
How long were you going to see her without saying anything to me?
Yale:
Don't turn this into one of your big moral issues!
Isaac Davis:
You could have said, but all you had to do was call me and talk to me. You know, I'm very understanding. I'd have said no, but you'd have felt honest!
Yale:
I wanted to tell you about it, I knew it was going to upset you! We had a few innocent meetings.
Isaac Davis:
A few? She said one! You guys should get your story straight, you know. Don't you rehearse?
Yale:
We met twice for coffee.
Isaac Davis:
Hey come off it, she doesn't drink coffee! What'd you do, meet for Sanka? That's not too romantic, you know, it's a little on the geriatric side.
Yale:
Well, I'm not a saint, okay.
Isaac Davis:
But, you're too easy on yourself! Don't you see that? That's your problem, that's your whole problem. You rationalize everything, you're not honest with yourself. You talk about, you want to write a book, but in the end you'd rather buy the Porsche, you know. Or, you cheat a little bit on Emily and you play around the truth a little with me, and next thing you know, you're in front of a Senate committee and you're naming names, you're informing on your friends!
Yale:
You are so self righteous, you know. We're just people! We're just human beings, you know. You think you're God!
Isaac Davis:
I gotta model myself after someone!
Transcript
What are you telling me? That your
marriage is... I mean, how serious is it?
I don't know, but it's pretty serious.
- But you haven't said anything to Emily?
- No! God, no.
It's amazing. I'm stunned
because, of all the people I know,
I always thought for sure that you
and Emily had one of the best marriages.
We do! I mean, I love her.
- But you're seeing...
- I know it.
But in all the years
that we've been married
I've had, what... one or two
very minor things with other women.
I mean, very... I hate the whole idea. I hate
myself when I'm doing this sort of thing.
But this is just, you know...
This is not like that.
It's terrible. Listen,
you shouldn't ask me for advice.
When it comes to relationships, I'm the
winner of the August Strindberg Award.
Well, I don't think 17 is too young.
Beside that, she's a bright girl.
You'll get no argument from me.
I think she's terrific.
He could do a lot worse.
He has done a lot worse.
I just think he's wasting his life.
He writes that crap for television.
Yale, have you ever thought
any more about having kids?
Oh, my God. Kids.
Listen, I've gotta get this book finished.
It's never gonna get done.
I've gotta get the money
to get this magazine started, huh?
Kids...
We always talk about moving to
Connecticut. You could do it there.
- Connecticut.
- Yeah.
I can't go to Connecticut. It's not practical.
All my stuff's here.
My work's here.
It's just the wrong time.
What about Isaac?
We can't abandon him, you know?
He can't function anywhere
other than New York, you know that.
Very Freudian.
- Are you writing a book on our marriage?
- Leave me alone.
- Are you writing about our break-up?
- We've said all that needs to be said.
I know you are because
I have a friend at Random House.
- I'm free to do as I please.
- Yeah, but this affects me.
So you're gonna tell everybody
everything? Our life, our sexual life?
Do you spy on me?
No. I was at a party and a guy said
he read an advance chapter
of a book my wife was writing,
and it was hot stuff. He said that!
- I spilled wine on my pants.
- I don't care to discuss it.
- You won't discuss it. How's Willie?
- Fine.
Well, give me some details. Does he
play baseball? Wear dresses? What?
He doesn't wear dresses. You'll find out
the details when it's your turn to see him.
Don't write this book.
It's a humiliating experience.
It's an honest account of our break-up.
Jesus, everybody that knows us
is gonna know everything.
Look at you. You're so threatened.
I'm not threatened because I was not
the immoral, psychotic, promiscuous one.
I hope I didn't leave out anything.
Are you telling me that... that... that I'm...
that you had three affairs before me?
That's really hard to believe.
It's mind-boggling.
When I was your age, I was still being
tucked in by my grandparents.
Well, they were really immature boys.
They were nothing like you.
No? What does that mean?
Well, I told you before.
I think I'm in love with you.
Hey, don't get carried away, OK?
This is... This is a terrific thing
- Move over-you know.
And we're having a great time, but you're
a kid and I never want you to forget that.
You're gonna meet
a lot of terrific men in your life
and, you know, I want you to enjoy me.
My wry sense of humour
and astonishing sexual technique,
but never forget that you've...
you've got your whole life ahead of you.
Don't you have any feelings for me?
How can you ask that?
I've got nothing but feelings for you,
but you don't wanna get hung up
with one person at your age.
It's... charming, you know.
Erotic. No question about that.
As long as the cops don't burst in, I think
we're gonna break a couple of records.
But you can't, uh, you can't...
It's not a good thing.
You should think of me sort of
as a detour on the highway of life.
- So get dressed because you gotta go.
- Don't you want me to stay over?
I don't want you to get in the habit
because first you stay one night, then
two nights, and then you're living here.
- That doesn't sound too bad.
- It's not a great idea.
You won't like it, believe me.
I'm tough to get along with.
Tomorrow we'll go to the cinema and I'll
show you the Veronica Lake movie. OK?
OK. Veronica Lake's
the pin-up with the red hair?
No, that's Rita Hayworth.
Do we have to go over this all the time?
- Rita who?
- Rita Hayworth. Are you joking with me?
Course I'm joking! You think I'm unaware
of any event pre-Paul McCartney.
- I find these photographs interesting.
- Yes, so do I.
- Do you ever use the camera I got you?
- Oh, yeah, I use it all the time.
I was taking pictures in our drama class.
It's fun, really neat.
You know you sound like
the mouse in Tom And Jerry.
Are you kidding me?
- You should talk! You've a whiny voice!
- You sound like the mouse.
Well, thanks.
I know, I'm a whiner.
- What are you doing here?
- Hi.
- How long have you been here?
- We were talking about you.
That's hilarious. Wh... What... Were you
walking around behind us or what?
- How are you? Hi.
- Good. That's funny. We were talking...
We're gonna go to
the Shakespeare In The Park thing.
Oh, yeah, right. I wanna do that.
Oh, this is my friend.
Mary Wilke, Isaac Davis and Tracy.
- How do you do?
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
You, too.
- Hello.
- Hi.
We were downstairs.
We saw the photography exhibition.
- Absolutely incredible.
- It's really good.
Clip duration: 377 seconds
Views: 345
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Summary: The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
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