Saturday Night Fever Page #4

So, maybe you're not sh*t anymore.

Yeah, maybe if you ain't so good,

I ain't so bad, you know?

Yeah.

Ha.

- Give me the groceries, motherf***er.

- Hey, come on.

- Hey, don't take my groceries, man.

- I'm hungry.

- I'm hungry, Gus.

- Hey, what are you doing?

Hey, come on! Hey, come on!

Hey, don't eat the apple!

- Give me... Give me it back.

- Here.

Jesus.

What's the matter with you anyway?

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

My brother, he quit the Church.

You believe that?

- Yeah?

- I feel...

I feel wild. I got all this energy.

I can't believe it.

Yeah?

Hey, listen, I'll call you later tonight,

all right?

Yeah, we'll do... Hey!

- See you later, Gus.

- I'll see you.

Come on, honey, higher with the arms.

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah, do it to me!

Pete, she come in?

I told you on the phone,

she comes in on Tuesday.

- I know. So, did she come in or what?

- And what is it today, huh?

- It's Tuesday.

- Yeah.

Hey, Ton! Watch it, man.

That one's practicing to be a b*tch.

Come on, people!

Good, yeah. Oh, that's good.

You're doing great. Yeah.

Hello, Stephanie Mangano.

I'm Tony Manero.

We both got the same last initials.

How do you like that?

Wow. We get married,

I don't have to change the monogram

on my luggage, huh?

Somebody told me

you was practicing to be a b*tch.

Is that true?

All right, Mr. Manero.

What do you want to ask me?

I would like to take you out to coffee.

Would that be good?

That's it, huh?

You want me to have coffee with you?

I think you're a very good dancer.

You know that 2001 Odyssey,

they got a dance contest now.

And I think that we could be

a dynamite team together.

- How old are you, huh?

- I'm 20.

Well, I'm 19 at the moment,

but I'll be 20 very shortly.

What I think is this.

There's a world of difference

between us, you know?

Not just chronologically,

but emotionally,

culturally, physically, every which way.

And this world would get much bigger

and much worse

with every passing week.

What kind of sh*t is that?

- Coffee, not sex.

- Just coffee, huh?

See, look, where I work,

the people are very remarkable.

They're not like these here

Bay Ridge people at all.

You mean snobs

instead of slobs, right?

- What?

- Nothing.

Hey, you know, Bay Ridge

ain't the worst part of Brooklyn.

You know what I'm talking?

I mean, you know,

it ain't like a hellhole or nothing.

Yeah, well, it ain't Manhattan.

It isn't Manhattan.

You got no idea how it changes,

you know.

Just right over there,

right across the river,

everything is different,

completely different.

It's beautiful, just beautiful.

The people are beautiful,

offices are beautiful.

The secretaries, you know,

they all shop at Bonwit Teller.

Oh, yeah?

And, like, the lunch hours

are beautiful, too.

Like, you know, they'll give you,

like, two hours for lunch

- to do something that's related.

- Oh, yeah?

Like we've seen

Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.

Over here. Romeo and Juliet, yeah?

I read that in high school.

That's... That's Shakespeare, right?

No, it's Zeffirelli,

the director of the movie.

- You know, the movie? Film.

- Yeah.

You know what?

What I never understood

about that Romeo and Juliet,

I never understood why Romeo,

he took the poison so quick, you know?

I feel like he could have waited

or something.

Well, that's the way

they took the poison in those days.

Hey, you gonna eat?

Here, look at a menu.

No, no. I'll just have tea.

Tea with lemon.

I started drinking tea recently, you know.

It's really a lot more refined.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah.

All those women executives

in my office,

they all drink tea with lemon.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah. And you notice that I do, too.

- I like coffee, you know? I drink coffee.

- Yeah.

You see, like, I've only been

at this agency a really short time,

but already I'm functioning in a, kind of,

public relations capacity, you know.

I fill in for the agents

when they're elsewhere.

Like, this week, you know, I had...

I had business lunches

with Eric Clapton at La Cote Basque

- and Cat Stevens at Le Madrigal.

- Oh, far out.

Yeah. You heard of

those restaurants, huh?

No, I don't know

those exact restaurants.

I know the type.

Yeah, but you must have heard

of the artists.

No, I... Not... I don't know... You know.

Not really.

So what did you say "far out" for, huh?

'Cause it sounded, like, far out.

Wasn't it? I mean...

- Well, yeah.

- We'd like a lemon with some tea now.

And I'd like a cheeseburger

and some coffee.

Hey, you know who came

in the office the other day?

- Who?

- Laurence Olivier.

Who's that?

Who's Laurence Olivier?

You don't know who he is?

Laurence Olivier, man!

He's the greatest actor

in the whole world.

Oh, come on, you know who he is.

He's the English actor,

the one on television who does

all those Polaroid commercials.

You know, Laurence Olivier.

- Oh, him. Oh, he's good. He is good.

- Yeah.

Well, anyway,

he comes in the office, right?

So, I just do a few errands for him.

So, he goes around,

he tells everybody in the entire office,

he says I'm the brightest,

I'm the most vivacious thing

in the entire office he's seen in years.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah.

Do you think that you could get, like,

a camera from him at a discount?

I didn't ask him about a camera.

'Cause you got one already, right,

you sly fox, you.

Hey, look, are you enjoying

all this stuff I'm telling you?

Sure. I think it's good.

Well, I just think maybe you can't handle

hearing about a kind of life

that is so completely different

than yours.

- You mean "better," don't you?

- Yes, I mean better. Sure, it's better.

Can I have some ketchup, please?

I mean, I'm out of this scene

almost completely,

you know, this Bay Ridge scene.

I'm moving into Manhattan.

I'm getting my own apartment.

I'm changing.

I'm really changing as a person,

and I'm growing.

You know what I mean? Nobody has

any idea how much I'm growing.

Why don't you go on a diet?

Okay, listen. I like you.

We could dance together.

That's it. We could just dance together

and nothing more.

Nothing personal.

I don't want you coming on to me.

Why not?

Because I don't date guys

like you anymore, for one thing.

You're too young,

you haven't got any class, and, yeah,

I'm sick of jerk-off guys

ain't got their sh*t together!

Oh, come on.

It's easy to get your sh*t together.

All you need is a salad bowl

and a potato masher.

Get your sh*t together.

- Would you like to know what I do?

- It's not necessary.

I'll tell you what I do.

I work in a paint store,

and I got a raise this week.

Right. You work in a paint store, right?

You probably live with your family,

you hang out with your buddies,

and on Saturday night you go,

you blow it all off at 2001, right?

- That's right.

- You're a clich.

You're nowhere,

on your way to no place.

What do you got?

A f***ing stairway to the stars or what?

- Yeah, maybe.

- Yeah.

I'm taking a course, nights,

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