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here in Reata.

Just like we Benedicts found it.

The Lord was good to you, to set

the swimming pool in your own front yard.

Hey, come on in.

Not now, Luz.

It's good for the young folks.

We'd have made improvements

around here, oil or no oil.

But that 27.5 percent tax exemption

on oil helped, didn't it?

Bale, I'll tell you what old Pinky thinks.

What?

That oil tax exemption is the best thing

to hit Texas since we whooped Geronimo.

One of the finest laws ever passed

in Washington.

And all joking aside, Bick...

we're not adverse to accepting

a share of the credit for it.

Not at all.

How about an exemption for depreciation

of first-class brains, Senator?

Whose? Yours?

My father's, for instance. He spent his life

saving other people's lives.

How about some tax exemption there?

Leslie has always been a real sharp talker,

ain't she?

Fair enough, Judge. You've always been

smooth enough for two.

"Do you take each other

for better or for worse...

"for richer or for poorer...

"in sickness and in health, until death?

"Jordan Benedict, wilt thou take...

"Juana Villalobos here present...

"for your lawful wife, according to

the rite of our Holy Mother the Church?"

I will.

"Juana Villalobos, wilt thou take...

"Jordan Benedict here present...

"for your lawful husband, according to

the rite of our Holy Mother the Church?"

I will.

Join your hands and kneel down.

What did they say?

Friends and neighbors...

I want you all to meet my wife.

Mrs. Jordan Benedict III.

Congratulations!

He was the first Reata baby I ever saw.

I remember it as if it were yesterday.

He had a fever.

I didn't think he was going

to live the day out.

On behalf of the U.S. Army, I am proud

to present to you the flag of our nation...

which your son defended so gallantly.

Everyone in the world's gonna be there.

I'm gonna fly up to Dallas,

and I'm going to Neiman's.

I'll buy myself

a starlight-white evening dress.

Very plain and simple and deadly.

Before you get so elaborate and simple...

you'd better hear

what your father has to say.

We're certainly going. I promised Jett.

Jett! What are you talking about?

He likes me. He likes my family, too.

He's always talking about you.

My dear, darling Luz...

if I didn't know you had a level Benedict

head on those immature shoulders...

I'd prescribe a good spanking.

He's dreamy. Ask the Snythe girls.

Ask anyone.

He's just a rough diamond.

He's a rough rhinestone.

He's old enough to be your father.

What are you six evil men up to now?

Honey, it's a coronation.

Jett plans to get himself crowned king.

You got to have $10 million

to be on the guest list.

The most important people

in the country will be there.

Coast-to-coast broadcast.

Jett's gonna make a magnificent speech.

I know.

I'm going to write it for him.

It'll be heard across the nation

by everyone.

Eliminating one. That's me.

If you people stay away, Leslie, you'll be

the only folks in Texas who ain't there.

You'll be roped in with the herd.

You'll be putting on your pink shoes and

dancing to Jett's fiddles like the rest of us.

If we go then we'll do it right.

We're oil rich, like the rest of them.

We'll go like the rest of them! Only better.

Now you're talking like my father.

The old Benedict spirit.

You set up one of your great weekends.

Invite everybody.

We'll take them all with us.

We'll show that so-and-so

who's top people around here.

I'll even buy the four-engine Douglas.

Fly in some orchids from Hawaii.

We'll fly in low and shake the tiles

off that hotel roof.

There's Lola Lane!

I bet even Hollywood isn't this exciting.

- Isn't this something?

- It's perfectly fabulous!

Jett always tries to do things

in a bigger way...

and spend more money than anybody else.

Really? What does he do?

To some folks, he's just

a no-good wildcatting so-and-so.

There he is.

There's the emperor himself.

Isn't this terrific?

Look at Luz, she's queen of the parade.

You didn't tell me.

Did you know about this, Leslie?

No, I didn't.

My daughter, queen of Jett Rink Day!

What is this?

I don't know, Jordan.

She's done things before I haven't

gone along with, but this...

She's never been sneaky.

It's not exactly sneaky,

appearing in a parade.

Don't try to be funny.

I'm not. I'm just as upset as you are.

But Luz is intelligent enough

not to be imposed on by him or anyone.

Give me the desk.

It's Bick Benedict.

Did my daughter

Luz Benedict come in yet?

Get this. As soon as she comes in,

have her call me.

You know what I think I'll do?

I'm going to keep it just like this.

I'll keep all those people, send them home.

I'm not even gonna open up this place.

Some girls might like a hotel

all to themselves.

Me, I like company, Jett.

I like lots of people.

All right.

You want lots of people?

I don't see any problem there.

If there's anything you want,

just say it, and you've got it.

All right, I'd like a Coke.

No, that's impossible.

That's just impossible.

You know as well as I do, Cokes are taboo.

All soft drinks.

You make the rules.

You like things your own way, don't you?

Let me ask you something.

Do you like things your way?

Not many people have things their way.

No, I don't get them my way very often.

And you won't either,

until you get married...

and get your man

to give you what you want.

So?

So if I was you,

I'd start thinking about getting married.

You know, that's an idea.

You looked like a queen

in that parade today.

That was my job.

It's just what you are.

Luz Benedict II.

You could be the head lady

of this part of the whole country...

if you wanted to.

If you married the right man.

That's a sweet idea.

Why don't I just announce it tonight...

with all them thousands

of people listening?

The whole of Texas.

Wouldn't that blow the roof off?

Jett, tell me something.

Is this a proposal?

Does it sound like one?

After a fashion, but not quite.

You want me to say something

you can laugh at?

No.

I just think you're a wonderful girl.

And I do think you're beautiful.

You're fascinating to me.

I've always been looking for...

a girl like you.

Sure would blow the roof off, wouldn't it?

You've got a long way to go tonight.

I'm very flattered. Any girl would be.

You be a good boy now.

I'll see you later.

I hope this storm doesn't louse up

your party.

A slip-up, boy. I just forgot

to order the right kind of weather!

I heard a twister hit Waco.

What's wrong with you?

Can't you talk United States?

You're talking to my wife.

I'm Jordan Benedict,

if that means anything to you.

I'm just following orders.

Mr. Rink said he'd have my neck

if I let any of the wrong people in.

You Benedicts are all close together.

They've got the Coronado suite.

You're in the Filando suite.

I'm a mess. I must go to the beauty parlor.

Hurry before they close.

Grand opening of the Jett Rink Airport

and Emperador Hotel...

is the latest milestone in the dramatic

life of this virile son of Texas.

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