Cafe Society Page #10

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A real long.

A real long.

For me, it's a really long time.

So good that you finally made on your promise.

And cooked for me.

Good wine here.

Such a great idea.

Taste it.

Ok.

You don't have to lie. But...

It was superb.

Ok.

It was absolutely superb.

Vito, tell her.

Delicious.

Thank you. I'm not, would he lie?

Will I lie?

I don't think so.

Where are we going next now?

I don't wanna go home yet.

Ah! Vito, anything?

The craps game in Brooklyn.

The craps game?

If you are lucky?

That's amazing!

Load the dice!

This is beginner's luck.

It was second in a row.

So I just keep going and going?

Yes, if you do one up...

New York really is fabulous.

I wouldn't know it either way.

I'm traveling quite a lot.

I know that. You've mentioned that.

Why would you possible choose anywhere else?

I know Hollywood is occasionally exciting,

but nothing beats Broadway or

he cheesecake at Lindy's.

Come listen to you...

Drinking wine in Central Park,

and we haven't slept yet.

You really always had a touch of a poet in you.

Really?

Well, I'm really not...like everybody.

What could I do?

I had to choose.

As my brother-law said:

Alternatives exclude.

Yeah, I loved you and I loved Phil.

I was with him for a year and a half

and you this...

awkward but adorable,

frantic,

young, romantic, trying to find yourself.

And I had this big shot.

It was difficult.

I didn't know if it work out,

or we just both...

I just thought maybe

if you didn't make it the way you wanna make it,

you would be resentful and we be unhappy.

Who knows? I don't know.

You know, I never stopped thinking about you.

Not...not for one day.

I still dream about you.

But...

I am Phil's wife.

He's been very good to me, he loves me,

changed his life for me.

I've been a good wife to him.

And yet you dream about me.

Well you're a happily

married man, with a child.

You said it yourself.

I know what I said.

But we are alone in Central Park.

The light reflecting off the building.

Satisfied?

As the investigation of Ben proceeded,

there was no shortage of evidence or informers,

and indictments followed,

including murder one.

I can't get my mind around it.

The whole thing is so horrible!

I am firmly against all executions.

Thank God they never found

the the neighbor's body.

What difference does that make?

Oh!

We may not be criminally liable,

but we need to live with our conscience!

I only said Ben should talk to him.

Evelyn. Evelyn.

Don't be naive. You wanted him threatened.

Warned!

I wanted him warned, but...

Evelyn, calm down!

What difference does that make?

You called your brother?

Leave me alone.

Somebody had to take care

of that crazy next door...

It was becoming intolerable.

You don't kill a man, Bobby,

because he plays his radio too loud.

Calm down! She did not realize and they had

more on Ben with or without your neighbor..

Well..that is a different issue.

Meanwhile, there is a blood sin on our hands.

Oh Christ!

Don't get so biblical.

Evelyn, calm down. Ok?

Take an aspirin.

I'm gonna give you the name of

a very good criminal lawyer,

Jake Murray.

He's the best you can do.

Hmm.

Thank you so much.

She is devastated. I think she's

gonna have a nervous breakdown.

Its driving me crazy.

As if I'm not upset enough.

Christ! What the hell did you think, Rose?

Everybody seemed to know he was involved in shady activities.

I don't believe he killed anybody.

Father knew he was a wheeler-dealer but when

the details come out, it gets more worse.

What we need here is a great criminal lawyer,

and I know just the guy.

My old pal Peter Bryce.

What? But no Jake Murray?

Look! Bryce never loses.

But if you like Murray, we'll take him as well.

I don't know if Bryce can get him to walk but the

trick now is to spare him the electric chair.

The trial went as anticipated.

The evidence against Ben Dorfman

was overwhelming.

And he was found guilty on all charges,

including murder in the first degree.

Despite the efforts of

two high-priced lawyers,

he was sentenced to die

in the electric chair at Sing Sing.

This is father Brolian.

He's guiding me down the stand to Christianity.

Today, we discussed the six Psalm.

O Lord! Do not punish me in anger.

Do not chastise me in anger, right father?

Ben, Ben, I'm flabbergasted!

You know, we didn't have time for this bullshit,

but when the ends near, you need somethin'.

Yeah! And you don't wanna be buried

as a Jew in a Jewish cemetery?

The Jewish religion doesn't

believe in an afterlife.

Right. I guess but I don't believe

what I am hearing from you.

I just have to know that all this just doesn't end.

You know what do I mean?

I need to believe that a part

of me keeps goin'.

We all gotta soul.

Right, Father?

First a murderer,

then he becomes a Christian.

What did I do to deserve this?

Which is worse?

He explained it to you.

The Jews don't have an afterlife.

We are all afraid of dying, Marty!

But we don't give up the

religion we are born into.

I'm not afraid to die.

You're too stupid to appreciate the implications.

I didn't say I like the idea.

And I will resist death

with everything I have.

But when the Angel of Death

comes down to cut me down,

I'll go.

I'll protest.

I'll curse.

You hear me?

I will go under protest.

Protest to who?

What the hell are you gonna do??

Write a letter to the Times?

I will protest in silence.

Because my whole life,

I pray and I pray

and there's never an answer!

What are you saying?

No answer, is also an answer.

Too bad the Jewish religion

doesn't have an afterlife.

They get a lot more customers.

In late July, Ben was executed at Sing Sing.

He died a Christian and

he wanted to be cremated.

Ben had requested his ashes

be scattered in Manhattan.

And Bobby scattered them

outside an establishment

that had give Ben many evenings of pleasure.

(JEEPERS CREEPERS BY FRANK SINATRA)

Jeepers creepers where'd you get those peepers?

Jeepers creepers where'd you get those eyes?

Bobby's friends, Rad Taylor and her husband,

stepped up to help Bobby

and arranged financially for him

to take over the club and run it.

And the scandal of the gangster charisma

actually increased the

publics fascination with it.

When you turn those heaters on

Woe is me ,Got to put my cheaters on

Jeepers creepers here'd you get those steepers

Oh, those weepers, here'd you get those eyes yeah?

How they hypnotize...

Certain investors asked him

to go out to California

and explore the idea of opening

a nightclub in Hollywood.

This time, he could afford to stay

at the same exclusive place

where Rad and Steve always stopped at.

Of course, he looked up Vonnie.

This is exactly the table

where I took your hand,

and you told me you have a

journalist boyfriend named Doug.

Oh! I remember.

Remember that?

Yes!

Wow! So you will be opening

a club here as well?

No, Hollywood already has it's great clubs.

I don't wanna compete with Coconut Grove.

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