Manhattan Page #2

Are you telling me that... that I'm...

that you had three affairs before me?

That's really hard to believe.

It's mind-boggling.

When I was your age, I was still being

tucked in by my grandparents.

Well, they were really immature boys.

They were nothing like you.

No? What does that mean?

Well, I told you before.

I think I'm in love with you.

Hey, don't get carried away, OK?

This is... This is a terrific thing -

move over - you know.

And we're having a great time,

but you're a kid

and I never want you to forget that.

You're gonna meet

a lot of terrific men in your life...

...and, you know,

I want you to enjoy me.

My wry sense of humor

and astonishing sexual technique...

...but never forget that you've...

you've got your whole life ahead of you.

Don't you have any feelings for me?

How can you ask that?

I've got nothing but feelings for you...

...but you don't wanna get hung up

with one person at your age.

It's... charming, you know.

Erotic.

No question about that.

As long as the cops don't burst in,

I think we're gonna break

a couple of records.

But you can't, uh, you can't...

it's not a good thing.

You should think of me sort of

as a detour on the highway of life.

- So get dressed because you gotta go.

- Don't you want me to stay over?

I don't want you to get in the habit...

...because first you stay one night,

then two nights,

and then you're living here.

- That doesn't sound too bad.

- It's not a great idea.

You won't like it, believe me.

I'm tough to get along with.

Tomorrow we'll go to the cinema and I'll

show you the Veronica Lake movie. OK?

OK. Veronica Lake's

the pin-up with the red hair?

No, that's Rita Hayworth.

Do we have to go over this all the time?

- Rita who?

- Rita Hayworth. Are you joking with me?

Course I'm joking! You think I'm unaware

of any event pre-Paul McCartney.

- I find these photographs interesting.

- Yes, so do I.

- Do you ever use the camera I got you?

- Oh, yeah, I use it all the time.

I was taking pictures in our drama

class. It's fun, really neat.

You know you sound like

the mouse in Tom And Jerry.

Are you kidding me?

- You should talk! You've a whiny voice!

- Sh! You sound like the mouse.

Well, thanks.

I know, I'm a whiner.

- What are you doing here?

- Hi.

- How long have you been here?

- We were talking about you.

That's hilarious. Wh... What... Were you

walking around behind us or what?

- How are you? Hi.

- Good. That's funny. We were talking...

We're gonna go to

the Shakespeare In The Park thing.

Oh, yeah, right. I wanna do that.

Oh, this is my friend.

Mary Wilke, Isaac Davis and Tracy.

- How do you do?

- Hi. Nice to meet you.

You, too.

- Hello.

- Hi.

We were downstairs.

We saw the photography exhibition.

- Absolutely incredible.

- It's really good.

Really?

- The photographs downstairs?

- Yes.

Great. Absolutely great. Did you?

No, I really felt

it was very derivative.

To me it looked like it was

straight out of Diane Arbus,

but it had none of the wit.

Well, we didn't like it

as much as the Plexiglas sculpture.

You liked the Plexiglas?

You didn't like the Plexiglas either?

Ah, that's interesting.

Nah, no... uh-uh.

It was a lot better than that...

that steel cube. Did you see it?

- Oh, yeah. That was the worst.

- Now that was brilliant to me.

- The cube was brilliant?

- Yes.

To me it was very textural.

You know what I mean?

It was perfectly integrated

and it had a...

a marvelous kind of negative capability.

The rest of the stuff was bullshit.

- You wanna see the Sol Lewitt?

- Sure. That'd be fun.

You wanna see that?

He opens at the Modern soon. I was

gonna do a piece on Sol for Insights.

Do you know that magazine?

It's a little magazine.

They're such schmucks up there.

Really mired in Thirties radicalism.

- What do you do, Tracy?

- I go to high school.

Oh, really. Really. Somewhere Nabokov

is smiling, if you know what I mean.

LeWitt is overrated. In fact,

he may be a candidate for the academy.

Right!

Mary and I have invented the Academy

of the Overrated for such notables as...

...Gustav Mahler...

- Isak Dinesen and Carl Jung.

- ...Scott Fitzgerald.

- Lenny Bruce. Can't forget him, can we?

- How about Norman Mailer?

- I think those people are all terrific.

- Who was that guy you had?

- I didn't. It was yours. Heinrich Boll.

- Overrated?

- Don't wanna leave out Heinrich.

Gee, what about Mozart?

You guys don't wanna leave out Mozart.

- Well, how about Vincent Van Goch?

- She said "Van Goch"?!

- Or Ingmar Bergman?

- You'll get in trouble.

Bergman? Bergman's the only genius

in cinema today, I think.

He's a big Bergman fan.

God, you're so the opposite.

You write that fabulous television show.

It's so funny and

his view is so Scandinavian.

It's bleak, my god.

I mean, all that Kierkegaard, right?

Real adolescent, fashionable pessimism.

I mean, the silence. God's silence.

OK, OK, OK. I mean,

I loved it when I was at Radcliffe,

but, all right, you outgrow it.

Get her away from me. I don't think

I can take too much more of her.

No. Don't you guys see?

It is the dignifying of one's

psychological and sexual hang-ups...

...by attaching them to these

grandiose, philosophical issues?

Here we are.

Uh, listen,

it was very nice meeting you.

It was a pleasure

and a sincere sensation...

...but we have to go.

We gotta do some shopping. I forgot.

Hey, listen, I don't even

wanna have this conversation.

I'm just from Philadelphia, you know.

I mean, we believe in god so, uh... OK?

What the hell does that mean?

What do you mean?

Well, that...

"I'm from Philadelphia.

I believe in god."

Does this make any sense to you?

What a creep. Could you believe her?

- I mean, she was really...

- She seemed nervous.

Nervous? She was overbearing.

She was, you know, terrible!

She was all cerebral.

Where the hell

does a little Radcliffe tootsie

come off rating Scott

Fitzgerald...

...Gustav Mahler and Heinrich Bll?

- Why are you getting so mad?

Because I don't like that

pseudo-intellectual garbage.

"Van Goch!" Did you hear that? She said

Van Goch. Like an Arab she spoke.

One more remark about Bergman, and I'd

have knocked her other contact lens out.

- Is she Yale's mistress?

- That will never cease to mystify me.

I mean, he's got a wonderful wife and

he prefers to... to diddle this yo-yo.

But he was always a sucker

for those kind of women.

The kind that would involve him

in discussions of existential reality.

They probably sit on the floor

with wine and cheese...

...and mispronounce

"allegorical" and "didacticism.

I get the feeling

that Yale really likes her.

Well, I don't believe

in extramarital relationships.

I think people should mate for life

like pigeons or Catholics.

I don't know. Maybe people weren't

meant to have one deep relationship.

Maybe we're meant to have a series

of relationships of different lengths.

- That's gone out of date.

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