Love with the Proper Stranger Page #3

Maybe two at the most.

Yeah...

You raise half and I'll try to raise half.

Okay?

I don't know anything about this guy...

...so I'll meet you there 3 o'clock

Sunday afternoon.

Got a piece of paper?

I'm sorry.

Look, if you're not absolutely

sure about this...

...then, I mean, just...

There's only four here.

You'll need another fifty.

- What do you mean, they told me four.

- Right, plus fifty for me.

Yeah? Well I don't have it.

Bring it with you.

Four o'clock.

- But...

- Here's the address.

Third floor, front.

- Yeah, but what happens if I...

- Five minutes late, don't bother coming.

But what happens if I can't go...

Wait a minute!

He says another fifty.

What?

I got thirteen. How much you got?

I think I have about...

...eleven. And some change.

We got about 45 minutes.

You got any ideas?

C'mon.

Where?

To get the money.

All right, lady, drop the gun.

How're you doing, sexy?

Gimme your face to see.

What's the matter?

Postcard once in a year?

Can't you say hello?

Hm? Give me a kiss.

Come on!

Where do you live now?

Milan or someplace, Africa?

Two minutes, you get on a subway,

you pick up the telephone...

Mamma, mamma, I want you to meet

a friend of mine. Angie...

Rossini.

Hi.

Mamma, she's a friend.

Friend? Who says no?

She's an enemy?

Where's poppa?

Where? He's losing the money.

Believe me, they live across the street

by the U.N.

They take everything so serious.

Like my husband.

With the bunch and game? Goodbye, Charlene.

What do you give me, a dollar?

I tell you what he's gonna say.

"What the damn hell, he's home," watch.

Enrico, take my place.

What the damn hell.

- He's home.

- What did I tell you?

He's got a girlfriend.

So what else is new?

Where she work, in a saloon?

- Hey!

- Poppa...

I'm sorry.

I want you to meet a friend of mine,

Angie Rossini.

Excuse my big mouth.

I didn't know he meant a friend in person.

And what I said about the saloon

is because...

...he bring home a girl...

Believe me...

I'd be ashamed to be seen

with the same girl at a party.

Ma questo mascalzone...

...he bring her in the house.

That was ten years ago and he still

put me on a bike.

How're you doing, pop?

- How're you feeling?

- Me, like a horse.

Some horse. He's up all night like a horse

coughing from the cigarette.

Shut up! She talk, eh? Let's take her...

you want something to eat, eh?

- A bottle of wine...

- Si, si, come on, come with me.

How're you doing?

All right?

Okay.

- What do you need, a couple of dollars?

- Can't I come down just to see you, poppa?

Come on, take it, big shot. Take it.

And don't say anything to your mother.

Angie, come on, I want you to meet

some of my friends.

How're you doing, beautiful?

Nothing, not a cent, not a penny,

nothing.

Did I ask? What did I ask?

Rocky.

How are you?

- How've you been?

- Good.

I can't believe it.

Hey, you seen Beetie?

- No, I haven't.

- She's sitting right over there.

Come on over say hello.

Look, I got a couple of things

I gotta do...

Come on, say hello.

It's been a long time.

Beetie, look who's here.

Hi, Maria...

Maria, come here.

How're you doing?

Great.

You're looking great.

I told you not to climb.

Maria.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Hey, she's really big.

You oughta see my older boy.

He's bigger than me.

- My girlfriends are waiting.

- Shut up a minute.

This is Rocky Papasano.

We grew up together.

We went to the same school.

Don't you remember the time I said

thought I saw him...

...on the Lawrence Welk show on television?

Hey, he's been everywhere.

Hollywood, everyplace.

Bye.

Come on eat with us, eh?

- Oh, no, no.

- Oh, come on.

- No, we should stay.

- All right, come on.

Aspetta.

Mamma, I don't need...

Shut up. If you tell your papa,

I break your face.

Oh, no, no.

La signorina prima.

My brother's here.

- Hm?

- My brother's here.

What brother?

In the truck.

Mamma...

What happened?

I have to go, poppa.

Rocky! Rocky!

Guido, go get him.

What're you standing there?

Go get him, go on!

That did it.

I can't even run anymore.

Brothers now.

Quarter to four we're gonna sneak out

the back way and get a cab.

Well, we got the money,

in case you're interested.

Look, I'm gonna leave now.

You don't have to go with me.

I mean it. Just give me the...

...address and tell me where

I'm supposed to go.

Sure, I'm going to let you go

up there alone, huh?

You don't have to worry about protecting me.

Why did you go with me that night

in The Mountains?

Do you mind if I ask you that?

Let's forget about that.

Will you just forget about it?

How do I know why I did it?

I don't know.

I'm just stupid.

It was just a stupid experiment.

The hotel is full of women,

I wind up with Louis Pasteur.

Oh, boy, how they build things up.

In the books, in all the movies.

How the world comes to an end every

time the flame of your lips touches mine.

All I felt was just scared and disgusted

with myself.

Oh, really?

Look, he's insulted.

Don't take it personally.

Thanks.

You uh... you want a little vino?

Man, there's been a lot of vino

under the bridge today.

Just think a pair of nights with a girl.

You know the girl at the park?

My friend the big guy's wife?

You wouldn't believe this.

She's two years younger than me.

Would you believe that?

Man, I hate to come back here.

That girl and I,

we used to break a lot of bread together.

Now we look at each other and

we got nothing to say.

That's what love is?

Bells and banjos play?

How they brainwash you.

And here I spend my whole life like a nut,

waiting for what?

A stranger.

Listen, it's possible.

Don't tell me you believe that.

Well, it's a well-known chemical fact.

Some people, you just have to look at them.

It's kind of kicky.

With other people, chopped liver.

That's true, but...

how come...

You know, my class in high school.

Half a dozen kids,

they couldn't live without each other.

They got married...

...and almost everyone of them now...

...either they're divorced already

or they're miserable.

Well, let's face it. Ever

take a close look at a married man?

Prisoner of Zenda.

Not everybody.

Nine times out of ten.

Maybe.

I don't know.

I used to try to pick out the people

who lived alone

in the subway, in the street...

...and almost everytime they had those...

I don't know, glassy eyes.

Nothing's living in them.

Like...

...I don't know...

...dead.

What are you looking at me for?

Do I look dead to you?

Couldn't resist it.

I don't know.

Hey, you wanna see something?

Come here.

- Is that you?

- Yeah, you like that haircut?

I kinda like the haircut, but those knickers...

Hey, I was a very cool cat.

It seems very funny putting

you together with a family somehow.

What did you think,

I got hatched out of an egg?

In a way they love you.

What are you talking about love?

What's love about it? They're glad to see me?

They haven't seen me for a long time.

Let me hang around here for a couple of months...

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