Born Guilty Page #5

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- I think Papa

Smurf wants to play.

- Yeah, well, Smurfette

is going to sleep.

- How about one little kiss?

- Just give me a kiss,

Marty, don't announce it.

- Rawr!

(LAUGHS)

(KISSES)

- I'm still going to sleep.

- Baby.

It's been a while.

- You always get me

at the wrong time.

Sunsets are my time,

that's when I feel sexy.

- Wake up, the

sunset, it's killer.

- Honey, I've just gotten up.

- Look.

(LAUGHS)

- Marty.

Oh.

That's beautiful.

That's so sweet honey.

Come here.

Get on top of me.

Oh sh*t.

Oh.

F***.

(PHONE RINGING)

Oh sh*t.

- [RECORDING] You've

got Marty's home phone,

tell me something good!

- I'm f***ing you, I'm

- [JUDITH] Marty,

Marty, it's me.

Please pick up the

phone, it's an emergency,

I really need to talk to you.

Marty!

- Wait, wait.

- [JUDITH] Marty, I

know you're there.

Please answer the phone.

I know you're there and

I really, really need

to talk to you,

it's very important.

Please answer the phone!

It's your mother, I really

need to talk to you.

Please answer the phone,

it's very, very important.

- Oh my god, Marty!

- No!

- [JUDITH] You are so

selfish, it's your mother.

Damn it, I really

need to talk to you.

Will you please

answer the phone.

- No!

- [JUDITH] Marty, I am really,

really in trouble here.

I need you to pick

up the phone now!

- Sorry.

I'm sorry.

(MOANS)

- Marty?

Marty?

- Oh sh*t.

- Marty?

Oh my god, Marty, are

you being attacked?

Should I call the police?

- Oh, sh*t, I got it.

- [JUDITH] Marty!

- Hello?

- Marty?

- Yeah, just, the TV.

TV was on too loud.

- What, you couldn't turn off

the TV to talk to your mother?

- PBS doc, you know.

- What's wrong with you?

- Couldn't finish

f***ing your girlfriend?

What is wrong with you?

Get off of me.

- What's the emergency?

- I have been working

on this report all week

and the printer that you told

me to buy, it's not printing.

It's not working, I'm

pressing the button

and it's not working and

I really need it to work.

It's not printing.

- The printer won't work?

- I've gotta be at work

and I need to turn it in.

- Oh god, 4:
00 a.m.

in the morning.

- Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom.

We can solve this.

- I really need your help!

- What color lights are

flashing on the printer?

- What lights?

There are no lights.

There's no flashing

f***ing lights.

- On the power strip.

The orange light, is it on?

- Oh.

- What's going on?

- Oh.

I see green lights!

Okay.

(SCREAMS) It's

printing, it's printing!

Oh, thank you, honey.

Thank you so much.

Oh, it must be really

early in the morning there.

I'm so sorry.

- No, no, no, it's okay, really.

- Thank you so much.

I'm sorry, honey,

I'm really sorry.

- No, it's fine.

When you're tired

and you need love

- Eat a Twister, a taffy

coated pretzel, a real gift

From above

- Cute.

Shouldn't you be working

on Midway Investments?

They want proposals by

the end of the week.

Not to mention Gummy

Rats, Bigkidsworld.com.

- How was the jingle?

(PHONE RINGING)

- Hi.

- Just calling to see

how that report went.

- Huh, what?

Oh, the report, yes, yes.

It went fine, thank you.

- You know, I'm just wondering

if there was anything going on,

anything freaking

you out, you know?

- Well, yeah.

I fell into a conversation

with this young man

at a diner and he casually

asked me out for a drink.

So probably being polite or

stroking his ego, I don't know,

but I knew he would never show.

I mean, who am I kidding?

- Wait, wait, wait.

So this joker didn't show

up for a drink at the bar?

- No.

Well, maybe he

did, but I didn't.

- Oh, Mom.

Why not?

- I'm old and unattractive.

Nobody's interested in that.

And if, if I find someone

who is interested,

I mean, guess what?

They screw you because

they've just been screwed.

- Come on, what do

you have to lose?

- My sanity, for one.

If another man pisses on me,

I don't think I'll

survive the humiliation.

- Mom, it's a date,

not an attack.

- Yeah, well, maybe.

I blew it.

I mean, nothing ever

works out for me.

- Well, hey, wait a

minute, wait a minute.

What if it did?

What if you go back to

the diner and he's there?

Maybe it's a place

he frequents a lot

and he works in the area.

I mean, you go there,

you say it was a mistake,

and ask if he'll

take a rain check.

- Yeah, well, even if I

did, why would he want to?

- Because you're

great, you know.

You're intelligent and

vivacious and opinionated.

Some guys like the insides too.

( CALM MUSIC)

- Thank you, sir.

Here, keep the change.

Thank you so much.

- [RAWL] I've always wanted

to breathe in this space.

The spirits here helped

shape our culture.

- Yes, the Algonquin.

This was the breeding ground

for some of our

greatest literati.

This is the room where

Dorothy Parker said

"You can lead a whore

to culture,

but you cannot make her think."

- We're all whores.

I was told that in Algiers.

- Algiers.

It's funny it took coming to

New York to really understand

what that meant.

- Well, guess New

York is a place

where people do have to

sell their souls sometimes

just to pay the rent.

(POPS)

- I was requested

to bring our best.

- Oh, champagne.

Can you afford this?

- Sometimes when I let myself

go, I really let myself go.

Thank you.

- Well, here's to

letting yourself go.

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

- It's a common Romanian toast.

To this day, this

year, this world.

- Usually when I drink, I

drink to forget this world.

- Too many do.

People dwell on success but

success is just an outcome,

a concept, it's trivial.

Why focus on a goal

instead of reality?

I mean, what's real, what's

crucial is right here right now.

You and I here together,

not desiring anything else.

Know this.

- Know this.

So what brings you to New York?

- Curiosity.

I've never been.

I'm gonna be here

for two months,

but I don't really have

anyone to show me around,

show me the sights.

I was hoping maybe you could.

Be my friend.

- Your friend?

What does that

mean, your friend?

You want something from me,

I want something from you.

Usually someone is

always taken for a ride.

- Maybe you've never

had the right friend.

- That is for sure.

- A real friendship is

one mind in two bodies.

- Let's toast to

real friendship.

- To real friendship.

- Real friendship.

- I never even left Australia

until I went to college

in California.

At about 21, I soon realized

just how self-serving

people were, you know?

Felt like I had no purpose

in life, no reason to be.

So right before I was

ready to end it all

and throw myself off a

roof, I had this thought.

I at least owe it to

myself to see the world

before I leave it, right?

So I set off on a

journey, adventures.

Set out to see the world,

suck the life out of the world

instead of letting the world

suck the life out of me.

- So becoming a global hobo

saved you from yourself?

- I guess so.

- Why'd you wanna die?

- That was my birthright.

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