Night and the City Page #7

- 7.

- Seven. You got that without me.

You don't have to lay out anything else

till fight night, right?

Give me some time.

Hey, Phil,

you're leaving me with,

like, 500 here, Phil.

Hey, you gonna bust balls, Fabian?

I said I'd give it to you

when you needed it.

Did I not say that?

Yes, OK, yes,

you did say that, and I do believe you.

Nice people.

Nice music.

Y'all got something to

shave with, take a walk now.

These here?

Radar hands.

You got it, I'll find it.

Radar hands.

Nice suit. Where'd you get

it at, Marty's? Let's go.

Yo, what we got here?

Father Time.

Too old to hold your hands up?

Hold your hands up!

You're scaring me, pops,

you're scaring me.

- Scare you.

- Shake a tail feather.

- Prick.

- Radar hands. Let's move it.

We rise above it

We've got to believe

In each other

'Cause we all get lost

Along the way

We all still look

for a better day

We all need help

To find out

where to end it

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Harry, I'm gonna break

that bastard's face.

Forget him.

What do you think?

Big enough or what?

- Forget him?

- Yeah, forget him.

What do you think about the place?

It's great?

What? It's a f***in'

dance hall.

Yeah.

It's great, though.

It's great for a fight.

Let's dance.

Come on, disco buddy.

You know, Harry, I'm starting to

have second thoughts about you.

Yeah, right.

I'm getting loch in kopf

with this hubbub, Harold.

His name is Harry.

- Harry.

- Harry. It's Harry.

I told you three times already.

OK, it's right over here.

Right on the right.

There you go, Frieda.

Hey, shyster,

Boom Boom wants to talk to you.

Now.

I'll be right back.

I just have to do something.

Have the homemade soup. It's very good.

You can order one for me, too.

Homemade? In whose home?

- What are you doing with him?

- With who?

What's he doing with you?

He's got a bum heart.

What are you doing with him?

Boom Boom, Boom Boom, take it easy.

You still got registered hands...

- Harry.

- You know what I mean?

Al.

Let's go, Harry.

Yeah, let's go.

Al...

Donny, I need some help over here.

All right.

Wait a minute.

- Fabian.

- Mr. Resnick.

- How are you?

- How are you?

- All right.

- This is Al Grossman.

OK. Come on down to the office. Boxing?

Yeah. It takes balls,

Mr. Resnick,

and you got balls by the dozen.

- I can tell, I can tell.

- Yeah.

It's a great place.

- Al, give him a hand.

- What am I doing here?

He f***ing wants 5,000 for the night

so I'm giving him the VCRs as collateral.

What the hell is this?

Boy.

Sh*t.

You know, Harry, I...

Champion Enterprises,

can I help you?

Hold on, please.

Listen, tell him we're here.

Mr. Grossman.

Some place.

Big time.

Champion Enterprises, can I help you?

Hey, Boom Boom, long time no see.

Nice place. Hey, Cuda.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda.

Heh. Just kidding.

Listen, kid, I'm only kidding, man.

Listen, you know, that happened,

that's OK.

No hard feelings, OK?

No, you know, it's just...

The way it is.

Hey, take it easy.

Take it easy.

- Easy!

- You make one more f***in' move,

spic, I'll step on your f***in' head.

No.

What are you getting yourself into, Al?

You want to do

strong-arm sh*t, Ira?

You're a very foolish man, Al.

Yeah, well, that's OK.

Come on.

What do you know about this little prick?

He's OK.

Yeah.

Well, I'd like to have

a few words with Harry.

Go ahead.

Alone.

Please.

It's OK, Al.

It's cool.

Don't worry.

Harry, Harry, Harry.

That's my name.

So you're really gonna

go through with this?

Why don't I give you a little money

so you can forget it?

I mean, fight game's tough.

It's not for everybody.

How much do you want, Harry?

I want to tell you something, Boom Boom.

Whatever anybody thinks of me,

I paid my dues.

Six years at Legal Aid,

I must have represented

like 15,000 poor people,

and you know how you do that?

You do it fast.

You never go to trial, you cut

'em the best deal on the spot

and you move on.

But you know what happens when

you go into private practice?

You can't shake

that six-year go-go head.

With civil cases, it's like you

get somebody by the balls,

you make them pay, you get the hell out.

By the balls, you make them

pay, you get the hell out.

Like a machine, like an

animal, like with you. Like...

Now that's all I ever do

is take the money and run.

Take the f***in' money and run.

That's all I ever do.

I never, you know...

One time, about ten years ago,

I had these clients, like a Puerto

Rican family from Bed-Stuy.

And the police, they were like

looking for somebody,

you know, they were looking for a guy.

So they broke in,

and they beat up everybody

in the whole f***ing family...

The kids, the grandmother, everybody.

The whole f***ing family,

looking for this guy.

They had the wrong house.

I took the New York City

Police Department to court.

Me, Harry Fabian, right?

They gave me 10,000 and my

clients 10,000 to go away.

10,000 to each of us to go away.

And I took it.

I took it.

You know, I don't know how much

we could've gotten, you know?

But I don't know, I could've

like... I could've like

taken the New York City

Police Department to court,

and I didn't,

you know? I didn't.

I mean, I could've, like, won.

I could've scored, you know?

Not money, but scored.

Instead, I just took the...

Took what they f***in' gave me,

like a f***in' a**hole.

So, anyways, no, no, Boom Boom.

I'm tired of being an a**hole

and being a schmuck

and laughed at and everybody making fun,

they think I'm just

a little f***ing putz, man.

I'm not like that.

No, no.

You know, why can't I have a piece?

Why can't I be the man for once?

I'm gonna make my stand,

I'm gonna be a f***ing boxing promoter.

If I go all the way, like just

to get you over a barrel,

man, I could do that all the time.

I do it all the time,

right? Right?

So why? Why should I?

Why should I settle for that?

Just for the record, though,

I want to ask you something.

How much were you gonna pay me?

You're not wearing a wire, are you?

No, no, no offense.

I didn't think you were.

You want to go ahead with this,

I can't make you stop.

But my brother Al,

I mean,

he's a world-class putz,

but what are you gonna do?

He's my big brother.

I love him.

I worry about him.

He don't like me.

He thinks I'm bad for

boxing or something,

but who the hell cares, you know?

My point is...

You sure you're not wearing a wire?

I said no.

- Good, good.

- All right?

Good.

'Cause the point is...

that if anything should

happen to my brother,

I mean anything,

if he gets the flu...

a heart attack...

He's had two, you know.

If he gets as much as

a f***in' headache...

I will have you killed, Harry.

F*** you with these registered weapons.

You will die, Harry.

So you take good care of my brother?

Make sure he don't get too excited.

Let's rock 'n' roll, champ.

I've got four f***in' hundred

dollars to my f***ing' name.

I got to pay the printers,

the doctors, the judges.

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