Broadway Danny Rose Page #5

I'm never gonna be Cary Grant,

I don't care what anybody says.

Can I get a sip of that?

Can I tell you a secret? I'm not just

trying to make you feel good or anything.

Yeah.

A handsome man never did anything

for me. You know what turns me on?

Intellectual. I'm not just saying this

to make you feel good or anything.

You're a smooth talker. Angelina once

even predicted I would marry a Jew.

- Did she happen to say which Jew?

- A Jew or someone musical.

Listen, now we're talking about something

musical, could you go call Lou?

Cos the guy needs you. Give him a call.

Cos it's late. We'll get right outta here.

Please. Please, darling.

No, Lou. No, it's not that I hate you.

It's just that, you know,

you get me angry sometimes.

Yeah. I'm gonna... I was always

gonna be there. I'll be there.

Will you listen to me? I'm coming, OK?

It's just that sometimes you get me crazy.

Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, my God. Look!

It's him! She betrayed me with him.

Danny Rose!

Oh, my God! He drank iodine!

He seduced her away from me!

Were you seeing Tina

while she was going with Johnny?

Would I do something like that? No!

Then who sent the white roses,

one every day?

Johnny! Johnny, what happened?

What happened? Tell Mommy.

My son is sensitive. He's a poet.

un poeta, figlio mo.

He's fantastic. How old are you, Johnny?

- He's 40.

- He's 40. Unbelievable. Are you an Aries?

- Just tell me, are you an Aries?

- Johnny's been made a fool out of.

No! No!

They forced him to wear the horns!

Le corna, capite?

We were engaged

until he put a spell on her!

You know, this man's a beautiful man.

He is a fantastic individual.

Vendetta! Vendetta!

Lo giuro davanti all madonna,

Johnny, lo giura mamma tua.

Boy, that guy Johnny must have

really been crazy about you.

I like to flirt, you know.

Sometimes people take it too seriously.

Johnny's all right. He was really nice

to me when my marriage fell apart.

And what did your husband do?

A little bookmaking,

some loansharking, extortion, like that.

So he's a professional man. You divorced

him or you got a separation or what?

Some guy shot him in the eyes.

- Really? He's blind?

- Dead.

He's dead, of course,

cos the bullets go right through.

Oh, my God, you poor thing.

It must have been a shock.

- He had it coming.

- Oh, I see.

It was one of those. A close marriage.

It was exciting. You never knew

what was gonna happen next.

That kind of excitement I can live without.

He was tough, good-looking.

- What did he tell you he did?

- Juice man for the Mob.

- He made juice for the Mob?

- Juice man.

No. He collected for the loan sharks.

OK, so now Danny's driving along

with Tina. They're talking.

What they don't know is

after they left the party...

... there was this scene with Johnny

Rispoli's brothers, Joe and Vito...

... who are both hit men for the Mob.

Their mother is outraged and humiliated...

... over what's been goin' on with Danny

Rose, who they call Danny White Roses.

Don't worry, Mama.

You just leave him to us.

Your brother is soft. He's sensitive.

Her husband had no respect for us either.

Carmine Vitale, he was no damn good.

He cheated us. And she's no better.

She said one thing to my face

and she betrayed me.

It's the lover.

He's got her under his spell, Johnny.

- We'll fix him.

- We'll chop his legs off.

No. We'll kill him. I don't trust him.

But not Tina. Please, not Tina.

Get rid of the lover.

Get rid of the lover and you get her back.

He's got the evil eye.

C'ha il malocchio.

You understand, figlio mo? Il malocchio.

Mama, he's a dead man.

- I'll just have an iced coffee.

- I'm gonna have a glass of milk. Large.

I got an ulcer. I shouldn't have drank

at the party. That was my mistake.

My ex-husband had an ulcer.

They say it's stress.

It's an entire mental syndrome.

Yeah. Carmine was always afraid

they were gonna shoot him in the back.

He was wrong, so...

So who else have you

handled besides Lou?

Me? I got... I got...

I have various interesting artists.

I got a very wonderful

blind xylophone player, you know, that's...

I got a... I'm currently working with

a parrot that sings "I Gotta Be Me".

And I got some very nice balloon-folders,

you know. It's interesting.

No big shots, right?

I don't know. I've discovered certain

artists that have gone on to better things.

Yeah, but they all leave you, right?

How come?

I got a theory about that, you know.

Thank you.

I think what happens is they get

a swellhead, you know what I mean?

People like to forget their beginnings

and they just split.

You must be doin' somethin' wrong

if everybody leaves you.

How? What am I doing wrong?

I find 'em, I discover 'em,

I breathe life into 'em and then they go.

And no guilt. They don't feel guilty

or anything. They just split.

Guilty? What the hell is that? They see

somethin' better and they grab it.

- Who's got time for guilt?

- Guilt is important.

It's important to feel guilty, otherwise

you're capable of terrible things.

It's very important to be guilty. I'm guilty

all the time and I never did anything.

My rabbi, Rabbi Peristein, used to say

we're all guilty in the eyes of God.

- You believe in God?

- No. But I'm guilty over it.

I never feel guilty. I just think you gotta do

what you gotta do, you know.

Life's short. You don't get

any medals for bein' a boy scout.

Well, do me a favour, darling.

Don't give this information to Lou.

- I got enough problems.

- Don't move.

- What's the matter?

- Just get up slowly and get outta here.

- I don't understand? What's out there?

- Johnny's brothers.

- You mean the guy with the iodine?

- They're crazy, that whole family.

- Why? Because they think I'm your lover?

- They'll tear the tongue outta your head.

I'm just a beard.

They'll tear the tongue outta the beard?

Throw some money down. Let's go.

- What do you mean? I only got 10 bucks.

- Leave it.

- Just leave it. Come on, will ya?

- The check is a dollar and a half.

- An eight-and-a-half-dollar tip.

- There oughta be a delivery entrance.

For that kind of dough

I could get the waitress to sleep with me.

Where's the...? There it is!

Don't get up.

Keep turning out the junk food.

- Come on! This way.

- I don't like this.

Darling, darling, may I interject one

statement? I don't like what's going on.

- Oh, Christ! Better go down there.

- What the hell did you get me into?

Do what I'm telling you.

You'll wind up on a meat hook.

A meat hook? A meat hook?

OK. I'll go first.

- I'm angry. I'm telling you, I'm angry.

- Hurry up and get down.

I'm really fuming.

Just feel free to dig your heel

into my groin like that.

So Danny and Tina, they run.

What's he gonna do? Now he is

not only scared. The man is pissed off.

- Sure. Because he didn't do anything.

- You got it.

Wait, wait, wait. Cut to a half-hour later.

It's a half-hour later. Now they're lost.

They're lost. And he's furious.

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