Rosemary's Baby Page #3

Really, I do.

Be my good deed for today.

Okay, but only if you want to.

And we'll make it clear

it's just for this one night...

and not the beginning of anything, right?

Ah, perfect timing!

Come on in.

Roman's fixing some vodka blushes.

My, I'm glad you could come, Guy.

I'm fixin' to tell everybody

that I knew you when.

Look, dinner isn't ready just yet,

but sit down there anywhere, love.

Take a seat on the couch.

You're gonna find yourself very...

I seem to have overfilled the glasses.

No, no, no. Don't get up.

Generally I pour these out precisely

as a bartender. Don't I, Minnie?

- Just watch the carpet.

- But this evening I made a little too much...

Ah, there we are.

No, no, no. Sit down, please.

- Now, Mrs. Woodhouse.

- Thank you.

Mr. Woodhouse,

uh, vodka blush?

- Yes, thanks.

- Have you ever tasted one?

- No, no, I haven't.

- It looks delicious.

Minnie.

They're very popular in Australia.

Now, to our guests.

Welcome to our home.

- Hear, hear.

- Cheers.

- -

The carpet!

- Oh, dear.

- Brand-new carpet.

This man's so clumsy!

- Do you come from Australia?

- Oh, no, no.

I'm from right here in New York City.

I've been there, though.

I've been everywhere, literally.

You name a place, and I've been there.

- Go ahead. Name a place.

- Fairbanks, Alaska.

I've been there.

Been all over Alaska.

Yes, Fairbanks, Juneau, Anchorage...

Nome, Sitka, Seward.

- I spent four months there in '38.

- Where are you folks from?

- Well...

- Well, I...

I'm from Omaha.

Guy's from Baltimore.

Omaha's a good city.

Baltimore is too.

- Do you travel for business?

- Well, business and pleasure both.

I'm 79, and I've been going

one place or another since I was ten.

You name a place, I've been there.

Ah! Steak's ready.

Don't rush your drinks, now.

Roman, take your pill.

No pope ever visits a city

where the newspapers are on strike.

I heard he's gonna postpone

and wait till it's over.

Well, that's showbiz.

That's exactly what it is.

All the costumes, the rituals...

all religions.

Oh, oh, I think we're offendin' Rosemary.

- No. No.

- You're not religious, my dear, are you?

Well, I-I was brought up a Catholic.

Now I don't know.

- Yeah. You looked uncomfortable.

- Well, he is the pope.

Well, now, you don't need

to have respect for him...

because he pretends that he's holy.

Now, that's a good point.

When I think what they spend

on robes and jewels!

A good picture of the hypocrisy

behind organized religion...

was given, I thought, in Luther.

Did you ever get to play that leading part, Guy?

Me? No.

Well, weren't you Albert Finney's understudy?

- No.

- Well, that's strange.

I remember being struck by a gesture you made...

and checking in the program to see who you were.

- Thank you.

- Um, what gesture was that?

Well, I'm not sure now.

It was a reaction, uh...

I did a thing with my arms

when Luther was having a fit.

- It was a kind of involuntary reaching.

- That's it. That's it.

- It had a wonderful authenticity to it.

- Come on, now.

No, no. I mean it.

My father was a theatrical producer...

and my early years were spent in the company...

of Mrs. Fiske,

Forbes-Robertson, Modjeska.

- Guy?

- Oh, yes, please.

You have a most interesting inner quality, Guy.

It appears in your television work too.

It should take you a long way indeed...

provided, of course,

that you get those initial breaks.

Are you preparing for a show now?

Um, well, I'm up for a couple parts.

- Well, I can't believe

that you won't get them.

- Well, I can.

I'd like to have a spice garden someday.

I guess I'm a country girl at heart.

- You come from a big family?

- Mm-hmm. Three brothers and two sisters.

- Your sisters married?

- Mm-hmm.

- They have children?

- One has two. The other has four.

Well, there's a chance

you'll have lots of children too.

Oh, we're fertile, all right.

I've got 16 nieces and nephews.

My goodness!

Would you like me to wash,

and you can wipe for a while?

Oh, no. This is fine, dear.

Now, Roman, will you stop bending

Guy's ears with your Modjeska stories?

He's only listening 'cause he's polite.

No, no, no, no.

It's very interesting, Mrs. Castevet.

- You see?

- Minnie. I'm Minnie, he's Roman. Okay?

- Okay?

- Okay.

Okay.

Terrific. Just terrific.

- Good-bye, darlin'. Good-bye.

- Thank you for having us.

- Yeah, it was lovely. Bless you.

- Minnie!

Minnie! Ya great kid, ya!

Whoo!

About that steak, huh?

Oh, my God! And the cake!

How did you eat two pieces?

- It was weird!

- Out of politeness.

That's how I ate two pieces...

out of politeness.

- Only three dinner plates that match...

- Shh!

And all that beautiful, beautiful silver.

- We'll be nice. Maybe they'll will it to us.

- Oh!

Yeah.

- Guess what they have in their bathroom.

- A bidet.

- Jokes for the John.

- No.

A book on a hook, right next to the toilet.

Roman's stories are pretty

damned interesting, though.

Never even heard

of Forbes-Robertson before.

I'm gonna go over there again

tomorrow night and hear some more.

- You are?

- Yeah. He asked me.

Here, do this damn thing for me, will you?

I thought we were gonna do something

with Joan and Dick Jellico.

- Was that definite?

- Well, it wasn't definite.

We'll see them next week.

You don't have to come along

if you don't want to, you know.

You can stay here.

I think I will stay here.

He knew Henry Irving too.

I mean, really interesting, huh?

Why did they take their pictures down?

- What do you mean?

- Their pictures... they took them down.

There are hooks in the wall and clean spaces...

and the one picture that is there doesn't fit.

I didn't notice that.

Hi, dear.

We're not botherin' ya, are we?

This is my dear friend

Laura-Louise McBurney. Lives up on 12.

Laura-Louise,

this is Guy's wife, Rosemary.

Hello, Rosemary.

Welcome to the Bram.

Laura-Louise just met Guy.

She wanted to meet you too.

- Could we come in?

- Uh, of... of course. Please do.

Well, there you are.

Go ahead.

Look at the...

Oh! Gosh!

Isn't that beautiful?

- It came this morning.

- Are you all right, dear? You look worn.

Oh, no. I'm fine.

It's the first day of my period.

And you're up and around?

On my first day...

I experienced such pain,

I couldn't move, eat, or anything.

Dan used to give me gin

through a straw to kill the pain.

Girls today take things

much more in their stride.

They're much healthier than we were...

Thanks to vitamins, better medical care...

What are those things over there?

Seat covers?

Um, cushions for the window seats.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, before I forget...

this is for you, from Roman and me.

For me?

It's just a little present, is all.

For movin' in.

- There's no reason...

- It's real old. It's over 300 years.

It's lovely.

Yeah. The green inside

is called tannis root.

That's for good luck.

It's lovely, but I can't accept it.

- You already have. Put it on.

- Yeah.

You'll get used to the smell before you know it.

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