City Island Page #5

posing as a piece of prison garbage.

And it worked.

That was just...acting.

Think about it, right.

Hey, that was terrific.

Hey, how are you doing?

I come here for the movie audition.

- Back of the line.

Do you know anything

about this movie here?

It's for Scorsese and DeNiro.

Where were you?

Funeral?

Yeah.

Hey yourself.

Yeah.

Yeah what?

Relax.

Botero.

Botero! Botero.

It's Botero.

Dude, it's Botero I wikipediad that.

They got the pronunciation

spelled out like, at a dictionary.

I'm making triple braised

baby back ribs...

mix grilled.

sweltered in steaks.

Do you wanna go shopping with me?

Yes.

Yes, I do actually.

Hey, I'm almost done with the thrash.

What do you want me to do next?

Oh I don't know.

What did Vince want done in there?

A toilet, wall, shower stall,

I mean, he wasn't really specific.

You know, we could go to a

bathroom place or something.

Pick some stuff out.

Well, I got no plans. I took a

day off, you know, "family time".

Maybe we should ask

Vince if he has any...

preferences.

Preferences for what?

Toilets and stuff?

That's funny.

Why is that funny?

You know, toilets...

I just wanna go back to work.

And why does this holiday even exist?

It's sucks, you know, my parents

were so freaking toxic. It's just...

I gotta get out of here.

I better call my husband.

- Sure.

No way, no way,

no way, no way...

No, no, no.

No way, no.

Officer Rizzo, please.

Yeah, I'm holding for

my husband, Officer Rizzo.

He called in sick?

Hey sweetie, how are you doing?

Where are you?

Yeah, I'm a...

I'm at work.

I'm on the yards.

Well, I was just wondering...

if you had a preference for toilets.

Toilets?

No preference.

Take Tony with you

he could help.

Yeah, okay. Good idea.

I'll take Tony.

Oh, Vince...

you know, how every cop

always leaves his house with a gun?

Well, my husband swears...

that every car should have

a good pair of handcuffs.

Like he's Joe Justice.

Orchard Beach.

Have you ever been?

I actually considered killing myself.

I considered, you know,

chop off a sexual organ in defiance.

I just gotta to tell you, though

it's my thing...

I need to feed a girl

like a lot of food.

You're a classic feeder, Vinnie.

You gain pleasure by

giving pleasure.

Who was the girl in the

park you were with yesterday?

Oh, that's Sheryl,

she's just a friend from school.

She's a sweet lady.

Try to love her.

So Tony, you do anything else besides...

Boosting a car?

I also get stuff...

all up at the gas station.

Robbed a pharmacy,

couple of jewelry stores.

Are you scared of me?

Oh, yeah.

Sir, follow us.

Sir, this way.

Can you make a line

in the order I called you?

And you, you join us.

Sir, you too. You.

You in the back. This way.

And him.

And you, back of the line.

Thank you very much.

Go home. Come on.

It's okay Tony, it's not like

I'm doing this forever or nothing.

I don't care.

It doesn't matter to me.

Let me ask you if he

wasn't fooling around...

No, no, you don't worry about that.

I mean, these decisions I make are mine.

But I mean, what if he hadn't?

Hadn't what?

Made what you thought he made.

You're having another feeling.

What other feeling?

Like you don't like me?

Definitely not the case.

Good.

Vince Rizzo.

Follow me.

Relax yourself.

Step on the mark.

State yourself.

Say what?

Look into the camera

and say your name.

Oh yeah, Vincent Rizzo

Correctional Officer 426.

No, Joyce, I can't, I can't.

It's not that I don't wanna, I do.

It's not nothing.

Except your husband...

maybe he's got something going on

in his life, maybe it's not a poker game.

but it's doesn't got to be

with another woman, you know.

Really?

Like what he's taking a class?

Please.

Whenever you're ready.

Excuse me?

Start.

Oh, do the thing.

I'm sorry, are you doing

a Marlon Brando impression?

No.

Okay, let's just try again

in your own voice.

So make no mistake Joey!

From now on out, I'm watching you.

What you do, who you do.

Watch it!

Coz Frankie Gunucci has

eyes in the back of his head.

In the back of his head?

In the back? Should it be like

I have eyes in the back...

Thank you, Mr. Rizzo.

Excuse me?

- Thank you.

That's it?

Hold on one second.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

I'll try.

Are you a professional actor?

No, I'm a correctional officer.

Okay, could you come back?

Come back to the mark.

You're a correctional officer.

Is that a prison guard?

Prison guard?

Yeah, I guess you can call it that.

Okay, and where do you work?

Dalegrove Correctional Facility, Westchester.

Is that like one of those

Country Club prisons?

Country Club prisons?

I'm sorry...

...but I wouldn't call it that.

Not by a long shot.

You want me to talk about this?

- Sure.

We got guys in there that if

you see inside their minds

and see what they're thinking,

you wouldn't be thinking of no golf game.

Okay, well, tell me more about what you do?

What's a typical day?

A typical day is no such animal.

I mean, some days

I walk and talk, you know...

you do the count.

You send the guys out in the yard.

But other days.

Other days are trouble.

The gangs are out of control,

you gotta lock down...

The boys and the girls,

they go in a little dispatch.

Kinda like the real world but

here, they jump your bones.

And sometimes I see a new recruit come in

and I'm looking at him I'm going...

"I got two words for you: Bye, bye."

Coz you're not gonna be the same guy coming in

as you are going out, you know what I'm saying.

Okay so, you know, that scene we just

read just do it again in your own words.

Not using the...

Throw the script away.

- Improvisation, it's like an improvisation.

How would you say it?

This Joey Zambuli character...

he thinks he got the goods

on the Frankie Gunucci...

which is the guy I play, right?

Which makes Zambuli like the worst kind of creep.

Why do you say that?

Well, you know, where I work,

everything is about power.

Zambuli they try to intimidate

the new recruits when they come in.

And if you're a new recruit and

you don't get in their face right away

and hold your ground, they're

gonna have you on all fours...

...sucking cement.

You know what sucking cement means, right?

I know what that means.

What do you do with guys like that?

What I would do is I would pretend that...

Bang!, right up, right from the start

when they come to me...

I pretend I'm more psycho than they are

you know, get them off guard.

Look at this guy, get right in his face

and give him a little intimidation like that.

And you say:
"I'm pissed off of you,

and I don't know why. Do I got a reason?"

Something like that.

Look right into the camera

and talk to Joey Zambuli.

Like if Joey Zambuli is in the camera.

- Uh huh, and you are pissed off.

I don't like him

- No.

Yeah, I mean, he's a creep.

Hey Zambuli, I think I'm pissed off of you

and I don't know why. Do I got a reason?

Let me help you out a little bit.

Why don't you give me your

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