Night and the City Page #2

Gorgon. Right.

Yeah, Gorgon.

Come on in.

Come on in. Yeah.

Gorgon.

You see

Dr. Pedro yet?

Yeah, you saw

Dr. Pedro.

Have a seat.

- How do you feel?

- I feel great.

You feel terrible.

You feel like sh*t.

How much is two and two?

Four.

Five. You can't even add.

You can't even add two and two.

- Do you want to make some money?

- OK.

You feel terrible.

You're a no-good

heartbreaker

You're a liar

and you're a cheat

I don't know why...

Marty fat-ass

been looking for you.

He's been in and out of here

like ten times in the last hour.

- Yeah? Where is he?

- I don't know.

Harry, guess what me and Helen are doing.

We're taking off for two weeks.

Yeah?

Where you going?

Jamaica.

You get to Jamaica?

Yeah, Jamaica, Queens.

Nah, the Caribbean.

Got us a bungalow right on the beach.

They come by once a day,

grill your fish, and that's it.

It's gonna be nothing but me,

her, and the moon for two weeks.

Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz.

Sounds like paradise, mon.

I can't wait.

Hell, I ain't even gonna

wear any clothes.

Harry the dancer.

Marty fat-ass!

Dancer, do you got something for me?

I got something for you.

You got something for me?

Look, I only got 1,500.

No problem. I'll get Ray's

right now. No problem.

OK.

- I said two large, right?

- Right.

You show up with 1,500,

that's 3/4, right? OK...

OK, OK!

Goddamn thief!

Me, a thief? You want

a hack license

with three counts of

grand auto behind you,

and I'm a thief?

You know what?

A guy like you I should charge double,

you f***in' loser.

You got some nerve.

All right, I got it.

What am I gonna say?

Me a thief.

Harry, thank you, brother.

You're welcome.

What a deadbeat.

Could you believe getting in a cab

driven by that ton of bad brains?

Harry.

Hey, Tommy.

See the paper?

Tommy's column?

"Bet these teams

"only if you want to retire in Acapulco:

Lakers, Celts,

Knicks, Nets."

Right? Collectively,

they lost by 32 points.

You're a sports writer?

Who you like tonight?

F***in' Tommy, Phil.

He took the Titanic over the iceberg,

plus points.

Here he comes.

Go get him, Harry.

Everybody, say hello.

Wallace "The Hurt" Fuwad,

Alphonse "Downtown" Brown.

Hey, Tessler, come and

join us like a half-hour.

I'll give you an item there.

"I'll give you

an item there."

Another war hero.

- Must be Audie Murphy day.

- Yeah?

I spit on his grave.

Who are you kidding?

You'll be kissing his ass

in exactly 29 minutes.

That is, unless, you know,

you got something, you know...

Somebody tips you about something

for the early-morning

edition.

Yeah? Like what?

Like the kid that got whacked by Sanchez

in that disco was suing Sanchez's ass.

You can bet your ass on that.

Are you kidding me, Harry?

You're taking Sanchez to court?

Boom Boom will eat your eyes out,

plus you'll lose, you jerk-off.

That kid didn't even get hurt.

They said it couldn't be done.

It's your life, Harry.

I'm an undisclosed source, right?

I got to take care of myself.

Totally. I don't know

who the hell you are.

Just say

I'm well-placed.

Well-placed.

Go ahead.

Yes, I'm

the great pretender

Just laughin'

and gay like a clown

I seem to be

What I'm not...

Yeah!

Yeah! Yes!

I'm wearin' my heart

like a crown

Yo.

Hey, a**hole, did I wake you up?

Who's this?

I know this voice.

It's Grossman.

Boom Boom?

- What the f*** are you doing with Sanchez?

- What do you mean?

You know what I mean, a**hole.

The case with this kid.

Boom Boom, Boom Boom,

you want to talk law?

I'm 85 an hour. For you,

you know what? 75.

What the f*** are you doing?

Do you know what I'm gonna do to you,

scumbag, if you don't drop this case?

Wait, wait a second.

Wait a second, Boom Boom.

Wait a minute, I got to turn on the

tape recorder. Hold on, hold on.

There. OK. What are you gonna do

to me, I don't drop this case?

What do you want from me?

No, darling, entrapment

is when they come onto you.

You go up to a cop, you offer to

clean his pipes for 50 bucks,

you're not a plumber.

They got you!

But I don't do that!

I'm you, you're me.

You're a john, OK?

You're me?

Just shut up and watch, OK?

OK.

Do you know where

there's a party tonight?

What you got in there, sweet stuff?

Carmen, I'm serious.

I'm tired of bailing you out.

Yeah?

You, Mother Teresa, hit it.

- Do as I tell ya!

- Don't you touch me!

Hit it! Get out!

Carmen, Carmen, OK.

I'll see you Tuesday morning, 9 A.M.

- OK, Harry.

- That's the court date.

Stay off the street till then.

American!

What is this, Fabian?

You are?

John Bonney, Sanchez' attorney.

What are you pulling?

Hey, my client got whacked by

a world-ranked professional fighter.

- Bullshit!

- Bullshit?

I got his medical right here, Jack.

Who'd you send him to?

Dr. Pedro in East Harlem?

What if I did? The man's got as

much right to practice medicine

as you got to practice law.

No, more like as you got to practice law.

I got six years Bronx

legal aid under my belt.

I represent more guys in a week

than you represent in a year.

And a fine crew of taxpayers

they are too, I bet?

Unlike Cuda Sanchez.

Sanchez is a professional athlete.

My point exactly.

So you want to settle

or you want to go to trial?

You f***ing insect.

You can call me all the names you want.

You want to settle

or you want to go to trial?

- Yeah, yeah!

- Yeah what?

- You want to settle?

- Yeah, let's go to trial.

Is that OK with you, counselor?

Practice a little law?

Hey, you wanna go to trial,

OK, let's go to trial.

That's it!

That's it!

A left and a right.

Big combination.

Yeah.

I need a light-heavy

for a four-rounder!

I need a light-heavy

for a four-rounder!

You know where this kid Sanchez is?

I gotta talk to this kid Sanchez.

- Sanchez?

- Yeah.

His lawyer wants to tie him up in

court for the next six months.

Sanchez!

These kids will tear a

new a**hole for Sanchez.

These are my boys.

Sanchez won't get in the ring with them.

Sanchez won't be able to get

in the ring with anybody.

I mean, your lawyer's supposed

to work for you, right?

Sanchez is pretty good, isn't he?

Don't you listen, or what?

F*** Sanchez!

You watch these kids!

I could beat Sanchez.

Yeah, me.

You could beat Sanchez!

I probably could beat Sanchez.

You know, I used to do a

little boxing myself, you know.

I boxed at Oxford.

Quit when I killed somebody.

Yeah? I went

to Cocksford.

But seriously, is Sanchez around?

When does he come in?

There he goes.

Again with Sanchez!

Look, you see everybody there,

except that guy in the blue?

Everybody there,

when they was in their prime, fighting,

Sanchez couldn't have

even sparred with them,

and they fought when the

days were the days!

They'd fight ten, 20 fights a year.

- No kidding.

- Yeah.

There. See that guy there, with the ears?

He beat Tami Mauriello.

Tami Mauriello?

Tami used to come in here.

Back then, you had ten arenas.

You'd fight ten, 20 times a year.

You'd go around a corner,

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