Fame Page #7

You got to understand

the Puerto Rican woman.

She thinks about the kids...

...how they gotta have a father.

Love has nothing to do with it.

My mom has an extra room.

She rents it out.

Next thing you know,

I've got a new father.

They're all right, mostly.

They may stay a day...

...or a week or a month,

if we're lucky.

Sometimes they even pay the rent.

They keep out all the rats.

Not animal-type rats.

I'm talking about real rats...

...the junkies and the winos...

...and the shitheads

and the people who beat up...

...little 5-year-old kids.

I got three sisters, see?

One of them, Maria, she's

in kind of a special place.

We see her a couple times a year.

She's got a birth defect.

That's a goddamn lie.

That's a goddamn lie!

Want to know about my father?

My first f***ing father?

He ain't no special sh*t.

He's in New York State Penitentiary.

He's doing time.

I remember this one night

he got bothered...

...because I was making her laugh.

I was telling her stories.

It was just kid stuff.

Flying carpets and dragons.

And he got mad

because she was laughing!

And he said I was telling her lies.

And this one night...

...he got bothered.

He's beating me

and coming down on me...

...I said, "I make her laugh. "

That's not a lie, that's a gift,

goddamn it.

He can't do it.

He said if he can't do it,

he sure as sh*t's gonna stop it.

And he went for me, and...

...she got in the way

all of a sudden, and...

...he put her head inside a f***ing wall.

If it was my f***ing head,

it would've been all right...

...but it wasn't. It was hers!

If it was my f***ing fat head,

it would've been all right.

She's a beautiful kid.

She's 5 f***ing years old.

She's got a pretty little laugh.

She still laughs, as a matter of fact.

Barbra Streisand didn't change her name.

I don't want to talk about it.

- I'll call you Doris, like always.

I won't answer.

It's a perfectly good name.

- For a perfectly good person.

A skinny, boring, nondescript,

perfectly good person.

I have a lot of friends named Doris,

and they are none of those things.

- Yeah, but they're all

- What?

No, no, no. Say it. Go ahead. Say it!

I would like to know what my daughter

thinks is wrong with my friends.

I don't want a middle-aged name.

I can't relate to it.

You can call me Dominique.

Dominique.

- That's ridiculous.

- It's French.

- I know what it is, but it's not you.

I'll grow into it.

Dominique Finsecker?

- No. Dominique Dupont.

- Sounds like a hooker.

- Oh, Mama.

I don't know what's happening to you.

Tell me what's happening to you.

Where did my Doris go?

Something wonderful is happening

to me, Mama. I'm growing up.

You're becoming somebody else.

- I'm becoming an actress.

- I want you to be the Doris that I know.

That I love. That helps

me with the groceries.

Makes me birthday cards...

...out of Cheerio packets, huh?

Not Dominique...

...who stays out all night.

Oh, Mama.

And gets pregnant.

Or has an abortion, God forbid.

Now, Dominique, she'd be smart.

But my Doris...

...she's dumb enough

to get knocked up-

Mama, it was just one night!

That's all it takes.

We'd like to welcome everyone to

The Rocky Horror Picture Show...

...here at the 8th Street Playhouse!

And our regulars would

like to wish a warm welcome...

...to all you virgins!

We have some special occasions tonight.

Tonight is Gail's birthday.

We have a special button

for a special young lady.

Tonight is Christine's 150th time!

Let's hear it for her! Come on!

Now, we have a special warning

from the management.

No lit candles. No throwing

food at the screen. Understand?

Get on with the show!

This is the f***ing show!

If you don't like it...

...you can go see the movie

in Staten Island!

Boy, is he in for a surprise tonight.

All right, for the cheers!

- Give me an R!

R!

- Give me an O!

- O!

- Give me a C!

- C!

- Give me a K!

- K!

- Give me a Y!

- Y!

- What's it spell?

Rocky!

- I can't hear you!

- Rocky!

- One more time!

- Rocky!

- Give me an E!

- E!

- Give me an A!

- A!

- What kind of time we gonna have?

- E-A!

What does that mean?

Is it okay if I call you mine?

Just for a time

And I will be just fine

If I know that you know that I'm

Wanting, needing your love

Oh

If I ask of you, is it all right

If I ask you to hold me tight

Through a cold, dark night

'Cause there may be

A cloudy day in sight

And I need to let you know that I might

Be needing your love

Oh

And what I'm trying to say

Isn't really new

It's just the things that happen to me

When I'm reminded of you

Where did that

motorcyclist come from?

/ guess we'll have to turn back.

- What was that bang?

Must have a blowout.

Damn it!

- / should have gotten that spare fixed.

A**hole!

Stay here and keep warm.

I'll go for help.

Where will you go

in the middle of nowhere?

What's white and sells hamburgers?

Didn't we pass a castle down the road?

Maybe they have a telephone.

I'm going with you.

Kick it!

Hey, Janet! How about fries

to go with that shake?

Take the risk!

Hey, Riff, show us your mother!

It's astounding, time is fleeting

Madness takes its toll

But listen closely

Not for very much longer

Watch the film.

I've got to keep control

Lose it!

- / remember

- A lot.

- Doing the Time Warp

- One, two.

Drinking those moments when

The blackness would hit me

And the void would be calling

Let's do the Time Warp again

Let's do the Time Warp again

How's it go?

It's just a jump to the left.

And then a step to the right

With your hands on your hips.

And bring your knees in tight

But it's the pelvic thrust

That really drives you insane

Oh, my God.

Let's do the Time Warp again

Let's do the Time Warp again

- You did what?

- I got stoned.

Took her top off,

played with her bongos.

- I did not!

- It was incredible!

It was more than incredible, it was fun.

I felt naked when people looked at me

before. But they weren't looking at me...

...they were looking at someone

I put on. Like a costume.

If I don't have a personality, so what?

I'm an actress.

I can put on

as many personalities as I want.

- To schizophrenia!

- Abso-f***ing-lutely!

- Abso-f***ing-what?

- You kids ready to order now?

- Michael?

- Yeah.

You don't remember?

Two years ago. I'm Doris Fin-

I was Doris Finsecker, when

you were a senior at P.A.

- Yeah. Around the corner.

- You remember Montgomery MacNeil...

...and Ralph Garci.

- Sure. Good old days.

How was Hollywood?

Slow.

I met some people,

went to some parties.

- I did a pilot for a series.

- I didn't see it.

Nobody saw it.

Sorry.

I did a couple of days as a male nurse.

- Oh, yeah?

- Did you?

- On a soap.

- Oh.

- I didn't like L.A. Too much.

- It sucks out there.

- Are you studying?

- I catch a class when I can.

Hard times, you know?

- I read for a showcase.

- Oh, really?

I got a callback next week.

- Hope you get it.

- Hey, good luck.

Yeah.

Yeah. Well...

What you kids having?

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