Crooklyn Page #4

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- Go home.

- No, you go home. Don't push me!

- Go home!

- Go home!

- Go home.

- [Jessica] Come on!

He wasn't doing anything!

Vic, don't worry. I'm gonna

come visit you tomorrow, okay?

[Jessica] Hey, Papi, don't worry.

I'll get you out of there.

- Man, what's your problem?

You and that stinking house!

- [Tony] Prostitute!

[Jessica]

Prostitute? I'm not a prostitute!

[Television]

I don't even want to think about it.

Hey, what are you all doin' in here?

Get off my bed.

The cops came and took Vic away.

- I know. Want some candy?

- What's in that bag?

- Psych your mind. Make you booty shine.

- Eggies. Thumbs up.

- I called no eggies first. Thumbs down.

- When?

- When I bought it.

- That don't count 'cause

we couldn't hear it. Eggies!

- Y'all never give me nothin'.

- Shut up, you evil, flat-chested wench.

You're not getting any,

and I'm telling Ma you called me

an evil, flat-chested wench.

Go ahead. Tell.

You are an evil, flat-chested wench.

- I'll tell her you

went out to the store.

- N*gger.

- Pop-eyed heifer.

- All right, you greedy pigs!

- ## [Indistinct]

- [Clinton] Give me the Lemonheads.

I throwed you the only red one. Can you

please chew with your mouth closed?

- Yeah!

- Don't start with me.

- I don't need you to fight my battles.

- Fool.

- Quiet. It's the good part.

- Let's watch the Knicks.

# I woke up in love this mornin' #

- Y'all are turnin' so white.

- # I woke up in love this mornin' #

- # Went to sleep with you #

- Oreos.

# On my mind #

# Nate woke up in pee

this mornin' #

# I woke up in love

this mornin' #

# Went to sleep with you

on my mind #

Is the TV on?

I said is the TV on!

- No!

- No!

- Be quiet.

- # Not just for a night but for #

- Don't turn it off.

- #... my whole life through #

- I'm just turning it down.

# I woke up in love

this mornin' #

# I woke up

in love this mornin' #

- [Indistinct]

- Come on. Let's watch the Knicks.

Joseph, how can you live with this?

Please change your vote.

- No, I'm watching The Partridge Family.

- Joseph is not changing his vote.

- Besides, we outnumber you.

- After this show,

we'll be watching the Knicks.

- [Chattering]

- Okay, okay! Come on. Get out.

A fuera. Out, out.

Let's go. Out.

We didn't want to buy nothin' anyway.

[Girl]

Hi.

- [Indistinct Spanish]

- Dejame, estupido!

- A un besito.

- Dejame!

- I'm gonna tell your mother.

- Tell her.

[Indistinct Spanish]

[Speaking Spanish]

Hey! What are you doing?

Huh? I'm talking to you.

What are you doing?

Huh? You think you can come

into my store and steal?

Huh? Do I go into

your house and take things?

- No.

- No.

Ten cents. Ten cents!

I don't have any money.

What? No money?

[Speaking Spanish]

Send her to jail.

No money, huh?

Then get outta here, and don't come back

until you got some money, okay?

What took you so long?

You let him catch you?

- What was I supposed to do?

- You should have told him...

"I don't have to steal nothin' from you.

I just forgot my money."

- Oh.

- Next time, steal somethin' easier.

Yeah! My main man!

Walt "Clyde" Frazier.

We better win tonight.

- [Sportscaster]

It's a very important game.

- Stupid!

Why you go and pass the ball to him?

Jackson ain't nothin'.

Lucky rebound.

He can't even dribble.

Pass it to Frazier

before it passes to anybody.

- Come on.

- Yeah, stupid.

Pass it to Frazier!

- Come on.

- [Sportscaster] Five seconds.

- Take it to the hoop!

- Jump shot!

[Shouting]

I knew he are makin' it.

That's number one right there.

[Sportscaster]

Frazier with 24 points.

- [Clinton] Oh, man!

- [Game Continues Indistinctly]

Only one way to find out.

[Clinton] Get the ball.

What you waiting for, stupid?

Damn it, Woody,

you bounced another check.

I thought we had it covered.

[Sighs] I'll get some money.

- When?

- When? What do you think

I'm doin' right here?

Gem, let me just

finish this music.

That's what I've always done.

The problem is...

your music's not bringin'

anything into the house but music.

Gem, the money will come.

I'm waitin'.

I'm back teachin' school again,

and I am waitin', Woody.

Just keep doin'

what you're doin', Gem.

Now you know it wasn't always like this.

I made money before.

I'll make money again.

I trust you,

but you have got to realize...

we are on a limited budget.

I am trying to balance everything,

and when you write checks

and don't tell me about it,

it makes it extremely difficult.

As God is my witness, I want the best

for you and the children.

But I have got to do it

in my own way.

Look it...

- Cool?

- Cool. I went out and opened

a separate bank account.

That supposed to get

some kind of reaction from me?

What is that supposed to prove?

I don't know what it proves.

I'm interested in putting

food on the table and keepin' a roof

over our kids' heads.

Boy! You know,

y-y-you really kill me.

I mean, on the one hand,

you come down here...

tellin' me about

yet another mistake Woody done made.

But when I'm sittin'

at that piano, tryin' to do my work,

tryin' to concentrate,

you won't let me do that neither.

You got a beef with that.

I don't know what to do.

You can get up off my chair.

I don't want to talk about

your mistakes. You keep track of those.

I don't have time.

All I ask you is to write down

when you spend the money I am making.

- I told you it was a legitimate mistake.

- I appreciate that,

but you have made that mistake

five times this month.

- I just want you to change the pattern.

- I don't need no lecture...

- about how to conduct

myself in this house.

- I am asking you...

- to help me conduct

the business affairs of this family!

- What the hell...

- do you think I'm tryin' to do?

- I don't know what you're doin'.

Well, let me tell you. I got to be like

a thief in the night in this house...

every time I want

some privacy to do my work.

You selfish child!

Don't tell me about privacy.

- Selfish nothin'!

- I can't even take a piss...

without six people

hangin' off my tits.

- You a big saint around here,

and I ain't sh*t.

- Call yourself what you want to.

- I just asked you

to write down the check.

- I wrote the check, right?

- I wrote the stupid thing.

- I think you can do two things at once:

Make music and write.

Woody... wrote...

a... bum...

check.

- Here.

- That's very cute.

You remember to write it down

before it bounces next time.

You know,

you seem to forget...

I'm the one used to pay for you and

the children to go to Bloomingdale's...

and Lord & Taylor to get

what you wanted when you wanted.

- [Clinton Shouting]

- You ain't the only one

contributed to this family.

- It's a foul! Where the referee?

- [Indistinct]

- Clinton!

- What?

Don't answer me "what."

Turn the goddamn TV off.

- I'm watchin' the Knicks!

- I don't care what it is.

No TV on a school night!

She can scream all she want.

I'm watchin' this game.

- Hey! No TV! Turn it off!

- Mom, it's just a game.

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