I'm Not There. Page #3

Hmm?

When's Daddy coming?

Uh, Saturday, I think.

I only spoke to Sally

because it's impossible

to get your father on the phone.

It's Emily.

Molly, you didn't eat a thing.

Bonjour, Hotel Georges V.

How may I direct your call?

Robbie... how can you whistle?

Who was that on the phone?

President Nixon

has already given advanced word

of what he will say

to Vice President Agnew,

to the Cabinet,

and to the leaders of Congress.

Now, here is the president.

I have asked for this radio

and television time tonight

for the purpose of announcing

that we today have concluded

an agreement to end the war

and bring peace with honor in Vietnam

and in southeast Asia.

The following statement

is being issued at this moment

in Washington and Hanoi.

At 12:
30 Paris time today,

January 23, 1973...

# Ain't it just like

the night to play tricks #

# When you're trying to be so quiet? #

That's when she knew it was over for good.

The longest-running war

in television history.

The war that hung like a shadow

over the same nine years

as her marriage.

Throughout the years

of negotiations,

we have insisted

on peace with honor.

# Lights flicker from the opposite loft #

So why was it suddenly so hard to breathe?

# In this room,

the heat pipes just cough #

# The country music

station plays soft #

# But there's nothing,

really nothing to turn off #

# Just Louise and her lover #

# So entwined #

- # And these visions #

- Thanks.

# Of Johanna #

# That conquer my mind #

More menacing, Gladys.

And... cut!

Check the gate.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I wish to thank each and every one of you.

You made it marvelous for me.

Cheers to all of you.

Hey, Louise! Louise!

# So this is what

salvation must be like #

# After a while #

In entertainment news,

actor Robbie Clark

is finally heading home

after four months abroad

during the filming of Gangplank,

his upcoming thriller.

Rumors linking Clark

to his London co-star,

the lovely newcomer Louise Pickering,

have been brewing for some time.

# She's all right,

she's just near #

# She's delicate

and seems like the mirror #

# But she just makes it #

# All too concise and too clear #

# That Johanna's not here #

# Oh, the ghost of electricity #

# Howls in the bones of her face #

# Where these visions

of Johanna #

# Have now taken my place #

Don't you see, Alice? They took it all away.

It's not about me anymore;

it's all about him.

Your guaranteed,

double-your-money-back

voice of the people.

You didn't answer my question.

Once, maybe, you could sing

about Mary Hamilton and lemon trees,

or you can step out like me

and try and shake this flytrap.

But they took away the meaning, Alice.

I was a pawn in their game.

And cutl

We first met in New York,

in January of '64 in the Village.

They'd just buried their president.

Love was in the air.

- Wait, you're French?

- Yeah, so?

- Well, you gotta be kidding me.

- Why?

No, nothing. It's perfect.

You kidding?

I think you're making a joke.

Oh, no. No, no, no.

No joke.

Then what else

aside from being French

you like so much about me?

Your hair, your mouth,

your eyes, your lips.

I see.

So, um...

You're an actor.

Yeah, yeah. So?

I like what you said in that scene.

Uh, what scene?

But they were just lines from a movie.

- They were not...

- Wait, wait, wait. What scene?

- What did you see?

- The scene in the lane.

Hmm.

I would like to know

what is at the center of your world.

The center of my world?

Uh...

Well, you're no monkeying around.

Why?

It's very simple, this question.

Um... hmm.

Well, I'm 22.

I guess I would say me.

I suppose you're honest.

Well, don't you think

that you're the center

or that you should be the center,

thinking with your own head,

talking with your own mouth?

Yeah.

But there are things in the world, too,

that are important.

I'm not denying that.

That's not what I'm saying.

Okay, thank you.

New York, August 7, 1964.

Congress grants President Johnson

complete authority

over the war in Vietnam

while she studies painting

at Cooper Union

and he completes dubbing

on his first major film.

She tells him she's sure it'll be a hit.

And the cats cross the roof,

mad in love,

scream into drainpipes,

and it's I who am ready.

Ready to listen.

Never tired, never sad, never guilty.

# The guilty undertaker sighs #

# The lonesome

organ-grinder cries #

# The silver saxophones

say I should refuse you #

# The cracked bells and washed out horns #

# Blow into my face with scorn #

# But it's not that way #

# I wasn't born to lose you #

# I want you #

# I want you #

# I want you so bad #

# Honey, I want you #

# The drunken politician leaps #

# Upon the street

where mothers weep #

# And the saviors

who are fast asleep #

# They wait for you #

# And I wait for them to interrupt #

# Me drinking

from my broken cup #

# And ask me to open up

the gate for you #

# I want you #

# I want you #

# Yes, I want you so bad #

# Honey, I want you #

# Now all my fathers,

they've gone down #

# True love, they've been without it #

# But all their daughters

put me down #

# 'Cause I don't think about it #

# Well, I return

to the Queen of Spades #

# And talk with

my chambermaid #

# She knows and she's

not afraid to look at her #

Sh*t! You all right?

# She is good to me

and there's nothing she... #

Watch it!

It's not a f***ing can of tomatoes.

# But it doesn't matter #

# I want you #

# I want you #

# Yes, I want you so bad #

# Honey, I want you #

# Now, your dancing child

with his Chinese suit #

# He spoke to me, I took his flute #

# No, I wasn't very cute

to him, was I? #

Okay, come on, let's go.

# But I did it

because you lied #

# And because

he took you for a ride #

It is my bike, you know.

Of course it is.

# Because I want you #

# I want you #

# Yes, I want you so bad #

All right, here we go.

Watch your leg.

- Change the gear!

- I am, I am!

- Change the gear!

- Yeah, I know, I know.

"It's wrong to say, 'I think. '

"One should say, 'I am thought. '

"I is someone else.

"I am present at the birth

of my thought.

"I watch and I listen.

"I draw a stroke of the bow.

"A symphony stirs in the depths,

"or comes with a leap

to the stage.

"It began with waves of disgust

and it ends... as we can't

immediately seize this eternity...

it ends with a riot of perfumes. "

Grain of Sand had become

the underground hit of 1965,

and Robbie Clark

the new James Dean,

Marlon Brando, and Jack Kerouac

all rolled into one.

But the movie disappointed her.

The more they tried

to make it youthful,

the more the images on screen

seemed out of date.

It wasn't the film they had dreamed,

the film they had

imagined and discussed,

the film they each wanted to live.

Intriguing specimen, really.

Amazing endocrine system.

So, he'll be all right, then?

Oh, he'll be fine.

Just a little water in the lungs.

Oh, my.

Well, what do you know?

Looks like somebody might be able

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