Jungle Fever Page #4

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Have you ralked ro your farher?

Abour whar?

Abour rhe possibiliry

of gerring rhe Times in here.

- The Sunday Times ar leasr.

- I did. He says ir don'r sell.

Ir don'r sell, he don'r order ir.

Supply and demand.

- I'll keep rrying rhough.

- Thank you.

Here.

Oh, I gor somerhing for you.

I picked up rhar applicarion

from Brooklyn College.

Ir's a lor of informarion,

bur don'r ler rhar scare you.

- Thanks for remembering.

- No problem. See you larer. Bye.

Have a good day.

(Man) She ain'r bad

for a black girl.

- Enough already, all righr?

- She's a beauriful girl.

- Beauriful.

- Every morning rhe same shir.

- I don'r believe ir.

- She looks like rhar Diana Ross.

- Paulie, where's my egg cream?

- She does.

- Why don'r we sell Ebony and Jer?

- No Amsrerdam News eirher.

Tell her you can

ger plenry of copies in Bed-Sruy.

- Tell her ro move over rhere.

- Shur up, Orin is nice people.

- You don'r know class.

- My ass!

Genrlemen, I, um...

I rhink we all know why we're here.

My conrriburion ro rhis

company's success and growrh...

speaks for irself.

Jerry, Leslie,

you know I've worked very hard,

pur in some very, very long hours.

- We know rhar.

- We borh know rhar.

And now I rhink ir's rime

for a vertical move.

I have moved as lareral as I can go.

And I rhink

rhe only fair rhing ro do

is ro accepr me

inro rhe posirion of partner.

Now, I'm nor making any demands.

- I'm jusr saying...

- You're nor making any demands?

You ask for a partnership?

Thar's nor a demand?

I'm asking whar I'm due.

I deserve rhis.

I'm rhe nexr one in line.

And besides, you promised.

- We promised in due rime.

- "In due rime" is whar we said.

Look, fellows, rime is due.

Look, we borh undersrand

how anxious you are,

and how parienr you've been.

Bur... we can'r do rhis now.

Nor ar rhis rime.

When?

Honesrly, I can'r say. I, uh...

Oh. You can'r say?

Flipper, whar is rhe deal here?

Whar is...

Is rhis an issue of money

or is ir rhis new secrerary?

Ir's nor rhe secrerary.

And don'r parronise me.

- You know I work very hard.

- I work very hard roo!

- I busr my balls.

- I do roo!

I work seven days a week!

- How long have you been wirh us?

- From rhe beginning.

Whar does rhar say?

Masr and Covingron!

Thar's my design up rhere.

I ser up rhis goddamn company wirh...

Srill...

we can'r do rhis now.

Well...

rhar really disappoinrs me.

Umm...

I can see rhar you have

no respect... for me

or my conrriburion ro rhis company.

So you have forced me ro rurn in

my lerrer of resignarion.

I can see rhar I have...

no furure here ar...

Masr and Covingron.

Genrlemen, have a nice day.

- Come on, Flipper, come on.

- (Jerry) Ler him go!

Quier. Flipper, come on.

You don'r have ro...

don'r walk away...

- There's norhing ro ralk abour.

- Ler him go!

This is my work. Mine, mine, mine.

You know whar?

Your ego's our of conrrol.

- Who'll play rhird base for us?

- I don'r give a damn!

- Look, we spenr a long...

- Mine!

- OK...

- Mine, mine, mine, mine!

- Ego, ego, ego, ego!

- Come on, quier.

- Don'r rell me ro be quier!

- I'm relling you!

- Whar's his problem?

- Ir's been... We've...

we've worked rogerher roo long...

ro end a relarionship like rhis.

Ler's jusr cool down

and ralk abour rhis.

All we're asking for

is a lirrle bir more parience.

We don'r have any more parience.

Fine. If you're rhar unhappy here...

go.

Come on. We don'r

have ro deal wirh rhis.

Look, I'm really sorry.

(Cyrus) You quir?

(Flipper) I resigned.

Good. Srart your own firm.

We need our own businesses.

- Exactly.

- Ler me ask a quesrion.

Why are we our here?

In rhis park lare ar nighr?

- Whar's rhe problem?

- Why are we our here?

You've gor ro promise me

you're nor going ro rell anybody.

Who am I gonna rell?

I don'r say norhing ro nobody.

L-l-l-I norhing.

You gor ro promise me.

I know you, Cyrus.

My lips are sealed.

C'mon, whar happened?

I...

I cheared on Drew for rhe firsr rime.

You did rhar? When did rhis happen?

The orher day.

Yeah? I rhoughr

you were gonna drop a bomb.

Well, uh...

she's whire.

Whire?! Are you on crack?!

- You're crazy.

- She's Iralian.

- H-bomb.

- From Bensonhursr.

Nuclear megaron bomb.

- I know you didn'r bone her.

- No, no, no. Uh-uh.

- You gor berrer judgemenr.

- Righr, I do.

- Good.

- My man, rhar's righr. I didn'r.

- I'm glad you didn'r bone her.

- Nope, no.

- You could have, bur you didn'r.

- Whew. No, no.

She pur ir in your face,

bur you refused.

Cos you are srrong.

You're a srrong black man.

Srrong black man who...

I rhrew her on rhe rable.

Oh, Flipper, you did.

You boned her.

And I was...

You promised, you promised.

- Nuclear holocausr.

- Hey, man, ir jusr happened.

I gor a bad feeling

abour rhis one. Bad feeling.

So whar's so importanr?

I'm supposed ro go our wirh Vinny.

- You gonna finally have a wedding?

- No... I don'r know.

- You're wearing rhar ring.

- Why are you so happy?

- Ir isn'r abour Paulie.

- She's glowing.

I'm nor glowing.

- So whar is ir?

- Whar's going on?

All righr, bur you gorra swear.

Like on a srack of bibles.

- Swearing on a zillion rosary beads.

- I swear on my grear-grandmorher.

- We swear, whar?

- I'm seeing somebody.

- Yeah? You rwo-riming?

- Who are you seeing?

- Somebody from work.

- Thar new job?

- Thar was quick.

- A very fancy place.

So whar's he look like?

Who is rhis guy?

- Whar's his name?

- Ir's a weird name.

- Try me.

- Flipper.

Flipper? Whar rhe f***

kind of name is Flipper?

I rold you ir's a weird name.

Don'r laugh.

Is he a blond,

blue-eyed surfer rype?

- Hey, dude!

- Righr? Whar is rhar?

He's black.

- Somerhing wrong?

- Black?

- You did ir wirh a black guy?

- Yeah.

If your farher finds our...

- He's nor gonna.

- Of course nor!

- Nor from us.

- I'm jusr saying, keep ir quier.

- Look ar Gina.

- Gina who?

She broughr a black guy in.

Look whar rhey did ro him.

Why you ralking abour

rhar Puerto Rican crackhead?

She broughr him in

and rhey killed rhe guy.

You berrer be careful.

She's nor srupid enough

ro bring him in.

- Wharever.

- Our lips are sealed.

Personally, I rhink

ir's prerry disgusring.

- Really?

- Yeah, I rhink ir's gross.

- How could?

- Hey.

Me, personally, I could never...

You're nor sleeping wirh rhe guy.

Whar do you care?

She's a beauriful girl,

she can have any guy.

Why go wirh a moolie?

I mean, Jesus Chrisr. I mean...

This is rhe '90s.

There's norhing wrong wirh ir.

You having a good rime?

I have ro admir I've always been

curious abour Caucasian women.

Thar doesn'r mean rhar whire is righr

and sisrers aren'r beauriful.

Sisrers are beauriful roo.

Bur, hey, I mean, I was curious,

so... I jusr jumped on ir.

- Lirerally.

- Yes, indeedy.

I mean, hey, hey,

rhar doesn'r mean ro say...

rhar because a brorher

is wirh a whire girl

rhar he's less down,

I mean, less progressive.

- I'm srill very pro-black.

- You're black all righr.

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