Jimmy Hollywood Page #8

I get up a little earlier in the morning

and feed the hostages.

-Is that it?

-No, no.

This is a one-day thing.

Im letting this guy go.

I want him to go back into the community

and spread the message. Intimidation.

To think, a couple of days' work

on a soap opera or something

might have prevented this.

Jimmy, where are we

supposed to go from here?

Well, listen,

Im going to get rid of this scumbag

right after dark,

but I don't know

what's going to happen from there.

You're becoming

another one of those media freaks,

those people

they keep making into celebrities.

This is not about celebrityism.

This is about the craft of acting.

Its not a vigilante who's popular,

it's an actor portraying a vigilante.

The people believe Jericho.

That's like the true tribute

to my acting ability.

Lorraine, look...

I love you, but...

Let me at least enjoy the fame a little.

You stay down for five minutes.

Otherwise, Ill be back. You got it?

-Yeah, man.

-Okay, man.

This was supposed to have been

Errol Flynn's house.

Can you imagine overlooking Hollywood?

Looking right down on it.

Warner Brothers right over the hill.

You finish Captain Blood, you come home,

you got a nice living room, you sit down,

the butler gives you

the new script from the studio,

go dancing at Ciro's,

all those things.

Imagine me coming home

in the evening, Lorraine?

We get ready to go out.

You put on a gown,

I put on a tuxedo.

Dancing with the big dance bands.

Going to some grand premiere

at the Grauman's Chinese.

Imagine if I was here back then?

Id be as big as Cagney,

as big as Edward G. Robinson.

Id have been right there with them at Ciro's

and the Brown Derby, schmoozing.

"Hey, Eddie G., how you doing?"

"Who's that? Oh, it's Jimmy Alto!

Hey, Jimmy, how you doing?"

"Sit down. You know Cagney."

"Hey, how you doing?"

Id have been right there with them.

Rubbing shoulders with the best of them.

But there's nothing there anymore.

Its over.

There's nothing down there now

but a bunch of dead stars in cement.

In Madrid,

all I ever dream about was Hollywood.

This is not the Hollywood

I see in the movies.

Its not.

Salud.

Hear that music?

You don't hear that dance band?

-Oh, yeah.

-Let's dance.

Do you have any idea

why a black Range Rover

was parked in your parking space

last Friday, August 6th?

No.

In fact, I haven't even been back there

a few days.

-Do you have a car?

-Yes.

Well, why don't you park your car there?

Because it's... Its a new one.

I mean, I just picked it up today,

as a matter of fact.

So, until today,

you didn't have a car?

That's... Exactly. l had a car.

I mean, it burned. It caught fire.

-Burned?

-Burned.

Deader than a doornail.

Remember that?

No.

The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Johnny Garfield.

Remember he said that to the cop?

That's why I said it to you. You're a cop.

I said to you. He said it to the cop.

The cop said it to him. He said it back.

"Deader than a doornail." Remember?

Don't you remember in Body and Soul

he said,

"What are you going to do, kill me?

Everybody dies."

A lot of people say

Im reminiscent of Garfield, too.

Yeah, well, you're pretty good.

Yeah.

What you do,

I guess you guys are good, too.

Hey, who knows, maybe we'll work

together again sometime.

Bang, bang.

Yeah.

Well, they're obviously on to us.

They must have a little bit more

than they're making on to, you know?

What do we do? What's the next step?

I don't know. Im not sure.

Ive never been in a spot like this before.

Sure gets your adrenaline going, doesn't it?

Gets you all pumped up?

I feel like we're making

some momentum now.

I mean, they're snooping. We're moving.

Id like to try something new,

rather than just

making statements all the time.

A monologue, a soliloquy,

some sh*t like that.

Maybe I just got

to reinvent myself a little bit.

Reinvent yourself?

How do you reinvent yourself?

That's deep acting stuff.

Its past Strasberg and...

What's the Russian, the Russian...

This Russian guy.

-The other method...

-Gretzky?

Gretzky? That's hockey.

Stanislavsky. That's it.

Hockey. Gretzky.

Its not your fault.

You're not supposed to know anyway.

Its my backyard. Im supposed to know.

It just slipped my mind.

The name slipped my mind.

Stanislavsky. Yeah, it's deep.

Worry about the camera.

You worry about the camera.

Just get that camera right when I nail it,

'cause I got them right now. I know I do.

F***.

I think those detectives are following me.

Don't turn around.

They're following me around now.

So, I think the time has come.

Yeah, what we're figuring is

we're going to get out of town a little bit.

All right, look, meet me at

the Errol Flynn house at 8:30.

Errol Flynn. Okay.

Hey, William.

You want a hot dog? Ill treat you.

Let me have two dogs

and a couple of lemonades.

I don't want a... I don't want a lemonade.

You don't want lemonade?

No, no. My father, he gave me a lemonade

when I was a little kid. He let me

stay up and watch Fright Night.

You know, this might be

a good time to split up, Will.

You and Lorraine?

No, me and you.

You see, if I get in the car and drive away,

those cops will follow me.

You can just walk away, home free.

No.

They'll never find you.

No.

I feel responsible.

I mean Im the one that got us into this.

You shouldn't have to go through this.

I started the S.O.S.

That's right.

I forgot. You're the founder.

You sure?

Yeah, I want to stay with you.

Thanks.

Hey, where'd you go for those dogs,

the ASPCA?

Let's go. We got cops chasing us over here.

Shake them up a little.

They still there?

These guys must know more

than they're letting on.

They must not have enough, though.

They'd pull us over, right?

Are you going to try and lose them?

Yeah. We got to lose them.

How do they lose those cops

in all those f***ing movies?

They always lose them.

Wait, f***. We just did. We just lost them.

They're at the light.

They got caught in the light.

If I was a cop, Id go through it.

F***ing dopes.

So this is for the best, don't you think?

I could've been good for this town.

I think I could've been a hell of an actor.

It takes more than talent, Jimmy.

Im sorry I didn't take you dancing to Ciro's.

I would've liked to have seen you

in a tuxedo, just once.

It would've been fantastic.

Its just a little too overwhelming.

I don't know what I should do.

Kiss you, hug you,

or slap the sh*t out of you.

I got to go.

Go.

I can't believe I didn't make it.

I used to visualize

the people back east saying,

"Remember Jimmy Alto?

We used to call him Jimmy Hollywood?

"Went out to California and made it big."

I just can't believe it.

I really feel bad for Lorraine, you know.

She had her heart set

on the whole beauty salon thing.

With my contacts,

she could've became

the first woman hairdresser to the stars.

She could've been as big as

Christophe or Jose Eber, I mean...

She had a great name for it, too,

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