Big Night Page #5

every goddamn thing away. Okay?

Oh, my God.

I really think you need to be

by yourself for a while.

Phyllis. Phyllis.

Great.

Uncle, Uncle, it's Primo.

I'm well.

And how are you?

Yes, I got your letter last week.

Congratulations.

You're a true restaurateur now.

Thanks for the offer.

But I have to talk to Secondo.

Because we came here together.

Let me talk to him.

Let me talk to him,

and then we'll talk, okay?

Yes, I have to go, Uncle.

- Okay, you like it?

- Yeah.

Say hi to everyone.

- Okay, these should be what he wanted.

- Yeah.

If there's a problem, he can call me.

But we will see you tonight, huh?

The party. My brother invite you, right?

No, he didn't.

Signorina, my brother want you to come,

but sometimes he's too...

- You know?

- Yes.

You come tonight.

It would be our honour.

- Thank you, but...

- No, no, no but.

Tonight, 8:
00.

All right. Thank you.

What time is it?

You look beautiful.

I tried to call you.

I was probably in the shower.

I have to talk to my brother

for one second, okay?

I'm glad you're here.

- So, how's everything look, huh?

- Good, good, good.

Go ahead.

- What do you think?

- More time.

- How much?

- Until it's done.

Hey, look.

Do what you want.

No, no, no.

I mean about before.

I'm sorry.

It's all right.

We do what we have to do.

Yes.

After tonight, everything will be different.

I know.

Say formaggio.

Cristiano, come here,

please, please, please.

Do me a favour, go outside

and watch for Louis Prima, okay?

- I don't know what he looks like.

- Here, here.

Like that. Okay. Go.

He says, "It was the first day with milk."

Did you talk to your brother?

Tomorrow.

Hey, what do you got there?

You help yourself, anything you want.

Cristiano, take care of my friend, okay?

Cristiano, right? Do you have a car?

Here, cheers to you.

Eat this, come on. Drink that.

Ah, the reporter. Listen, help yourself

to anything you want, okay?

I'll be back. Thanks a lot.

- Jameson, Daily Sun.

- How are you?

Are you Al Segundo, Gabriella's friend?

- Secondo, Secondo, nice to meet you.

- Glad to know you. Is Mr. Prima here?

No, he's not here yet.

But he will be here soon. Don't worry.

- Is Gabriella here?

- No, she's not here either.

But please come in.

Now can I fix you a drink? Something?

- Have an appetizer.

- No.

I just don't think you can say,

"If I do this, then that will happen."

I mean, you can, but if you do that

all the time, then where would you be?

I mean, personally, I think, nowhere.

This is focaccia, which is nice.

We make that earlier today,

my brother and I.

And this is nice crostini.

Excuse me, don't mean to touch

with my fingers.

- That's okay.

- This is nice.

Inside, it has olive oil

and a little bit of goat cheese.

Hey, your friend is here.

Who?

- The flower lady.

- What?

- Hello. How are you?

- Hi. I'm good, thank you.

So nice to see you.

Thank you for coming.

- Thank you for inviting me.

- You look beautiful.

Thank you.

Hurry up!

Watch the stove.

- Oh, big brother. Here you go.

- Oh, thank you.

How are you?

Hey, look at you.

- Hello.

- Hello.

Oh, my God, I'm so glad you are here.

Now you can see where go

your beautiful flowers.

- Yes. They look beautiful.

- Yes, did you see behind the bar?

- They're beautiful all over.

- It's gorgeous.

- It's a lovely restaurant.

- Thanks.

- I love all the paintings.

- Oh, yes.

- Show the lady.

- Show me one of them?

- Oh, yes, yes.

- All right.

Well, here, we start here with this one.

Here, my aunts and nephews.

She asked me what are...

Hey, f***ing guy!

What a crowd, what a crowd.

Hey. I bring something for you.

- Oh, thank you. Yes.

- You know Gabriella, right?

Yes, yes, sure.

- Phyllis, you are a vision of loveliness.

- Oh, thank you.

Yes, yes.

Phyllis, do you know Gabriella?

Gabriella, Phyllis.

Phyllis is Seco's fiance?

- No, no.

- No, not quite.

What are you waiting for?

A sign from above?

- He's like my mom.

- Come on. Now, am I right?

I love this guy, Phyllis.

Look at that goddamn table.

- It's nice, right? Looks good, huh?

- It's the Last-f***ing-Supper.

And now, we're just waiting

for the guest of honour.

Oh, f***ing musicians, forget about it.

Don't worry. He'll be here.

Where's your brother? I say hi.

- I see him. Hey! Hey, screwball.

- Okay.

- So...

- Wait. I'll come with you.

- Ann. Oh, I love that corsage.

- Thank you.

Gabriella, you know Ann, yes?

- What's wrong?

- Nothing.

Should we start?

We can't.

He's not here yet, the timpano

is drying out, everybody is drunk.

Secondo, it will be fine.

It will be fine. Go. Okay?

Is a party, you know, is fun.

- Good.

- Oh, Mr. Fun. Mr. Fun, yeah.

Come here, come here.

Don't worry about everything.

It's gonna be fine.

- I'm not worried about anything.

- Have a little sip of my drink.

Okay. Cheers.

He plays the trumpet, he sings.

- Isn't he...

- They call him the Lip.

- How are you, sir?

- Hey, where do you go?

- Just going to take test drive.

- Be right back.

- Okay.

- More scotch?

Here, Chubb, here.

Take the bottle. Yeah.

Yeah. Really?

This is a fiorentina sauce, you know,

but quick, fresh, nice. See?

Sometimes you can put in cream,

if you like, but not for me,

because it's no good

for my stomach, so I not like.

My mother put cream in everything.

- Have you ever been to Bologna?

- No.

Oh, I take you someday there.

- I mean, you like cream?

- Yes.

- Yes, I thought you do. Yeah, yes.

- I do, too.

Well, you will love this place.

Bologna is sad, a little, the city is old,

no, old is nice, but it's dark,

but the food, anyway.

They make there a dish called...

Listen, lasagne.

- Lasagne.

- Lasagne.

Lasagne Bolognese,

you can't believe how good this is.

See, and when my uncle, in Rome,

at his restaurant, when he make this,

you eat and then you go and...

You kill yourself.

You have to kill yourself,

because after you eat this,

you can't live. See?

Okay, smell. Smell, here.

- Wow. Oh, that smells good.

- Is nice, huh?

Yeah. All right. Okay, this is done.

- All right.

- Now, taste.

Taste it. No. Here.

Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God.

- Is good, huh? You like?

- Oh, my God.

- "Oh, my God" is right, see?

Now you know.

To eat good food is to be close to God.

See? You know what they say?

To know God, to know,

to have the knowing, the knowing...

- Knowledge. Knowledge.

- Knowledge?

S, the knowledge of God is

the bread of angels.

I'm never sure what that means

but it's true, anyway.

Yes.

Here.

- Thank you.

- Take deep breaths.

You know how they get you,

these people, men, boys?

They make you think

they have secrets they will tell.

But they have nothing to tell.

And then they talk and they talk,

talk, talk, and they keep talking.

- And what do they say?

- Nothing.

Right.

And then they smoke.

And then they talk some more.

And then that's that.

- Have you ever been to the West?

- Out West?

Yes.

- Really? They say it's beautiful.

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