Sex and the Other Woman Page #2

[CHUCKLES]

Life is long, child.

I hate shad.

I prefer the roe.

- Roe! Ecch!

- [LAUGHS]

Like polliwog eggs.

Such a face!

Dushechka, you are a clown.

Why do you boys

not play together?

Holland doesn't like

Piggy Lookadoo.

Does he not?

Perhaps summer is long

for Russell too.

Why doesn't Holland

like Russell?

Child?

Answer me.

Do sunflowers

really follow the sun all day?

[CHUCKLES]

A Russian superstition, perhaps.

You miss Russia, don't you?

Sometimes.

But God does not mean that we should

miss too much what he takes from us.

Besides, now...

I have other sunflowers.

Ada...

can I be something else today?

Bigger than a flower.

Please?

Let's play the game.

The great game.

The great game, is it?

Please? Please?

Very well.

The great game it shall be.

- Oh, boy!

- Come on.

[BELLS TOLLING]

[BIRD CAWING]

Look there, child.

Look.

Try to be.

- [CAWING]

- Now think as I have taught you.

Look hard.

Feel inside it...

into its head, its heart.

- [CAWS]

- Imagine it, dushechka.

Imagine it.

With all your being...

you do feel.

- [INHALES] Now.

- [EXHALES]

[CAWS]

Now!

[CAWING]

Then fly!

[EXHALES]

Away! Away!

Away, child.

[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]

[NILES BREATHING HEAVILY]

- [ADA SPEAKS RUSSIAN]

- It's scary!

Don't be frightened.

What is it like? Tell me!

Free!

Mr. Angelini!

Look! Look at me!

[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]

[NILES CONTINUES BREATHING HEAVILY]

- [CAWS]

- Niles, what is it?

- It hurt.

- Where does it hurt? Tell me.

[EXHALES]

It-

It was just sh-

pointy, all sharp- pointy.

[EXHALES]

Here.

- Oh.

- I-It's all right, Ada. Honest.

Did I do good?

Oh, very good.

- Good as Holland?

- Better than anyone.

I love you.

Oh, I love you too.

Come now. Let us get you

some root beer.

I'm gonna catch a shad

with lots of roe for you!

[RAVEN CAWING]

I'm king of the mountain!

[SCREAMING]

[RUSSELL CONTINUES SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING STOPS]

[RAVEN CAWING]

[SCREEN DOOR SLAMS]

[ENGINE STARTS]

I'm sorry, boy.

[SOBBING]

I'm just so sorry.

It's all right, Mr. Angelini.

It wasn't your fault.

It was an accident.

[HEARSE PULLING AWAY]

[SCREEN DOOR OPENS]

[SCREEN DOOR SLAMS]

Oh. Are we going to be able

to go to the firemen's carnival?

Geez! Why not?

Ada says we're in mourning again.

"Ada says. Ada says."

[GLASS SHATTERS]

There's seven years bad luck.

See what Ada says

about that.

[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING CONTINUES]

[BARKER #1]

Hurry, folks!

Take home

a five-pound box of candy!

Here it is!

Take home some candy!

[BARKER #2]

All rides are 10 cents!

Don't you ever get hungry

Get a Coney Island red hot!

- And help yourself to the mustard!

- [SCREAMING CONTINUES]

Big, fat and juicy Coney Island red hots!

And cold drinks, folks!

[BARKER #3]

All right, folks, come over!

Tell you what you're

gonna see on this side!

From the four corners of the world,

and at great expense to the management...

we have brought together some of the most

unusual attractions ever seen under one roof...

and all for the price

of one admission.

You're going to meet Big Bertha!

Four hundred and fifty pounds

of beauty on the hoof.

Yes, sir, she shimmies,

she shakes like a bowl of jelly.

And as an extra added attraction,

ladies and gentlemen...

we're going to bring to you

nature's cruelest trick-

the hydrocephalic baby,

ladies and gentlemen.

Plus Mr. And Mrs. Katz-

- [HOLLAND] Niles! Come on!

- [BARKER CONTINUES]

- Plus Bo-Jo, the dog-faced boy!

- Come on!

Plus the two-faced man!

All on the inside, ladies and gentlemen!

All for the price

of one admission!

- We're gonna get caught!

- Damn it, Niles. Come on!

Oh, damn!

[BARKER #3]

Hurry, hurry, hurry,!

[BARKER #4] Fun house!

More fun than a circus!

Come in! Stay as long as you like!

Come out when you're ready!

[BARKER CONTINUES, INDISTINCT]

Come on, Holland. Let's scram.

[LAUGHS]

[GASPS]

- Holland! Holland! Wait!

- [RIDERS SCREAMING]

- [FAUX CHINESE]

- [APPLAUSE]

[RUNS DOWN, STOPS]

[CONTINUES, FULL SPEED]

[AUDIENCE CHEERING]

- [WOMAN] Hold on!

- [RIDERS CONTINUE SCREAMING]

- Shh.

- What's going on?

I'm waiting for her

to disappear.

Don't be a dumbbell.

No one can do that.

I know! I wanna find out

how he does it.

[CONTINUES]

It's just a stupid trick.

He ain't even a Chinese.

[GIGGLES]

He's got tape on his eyes.

So? Come on. Let's go.

No, wait!

I gotta figure it out.

- Yeah? How?

- I'll play the game on him.

[RIDERS SCREAMING]

[CONTINUES]

[GASPING, MURMURING]

[AUDIENCE GASPING, APPLAUSE CONTINUES]

Damn phony.

- [NILES] We saw a magician today.

- [ADA] Oh, did you, now?

Only it was a dumb fake.

How do you know this?

I played the game on him

and figured out the trick.

Holland didn't believe me.

But I really did. It was easy.

I mean, sometimes

it's so easy...

it doesn't seem like

I'm doing it at all.

It is a special game

for special people.

My baboushka taught me,

and I taught you children.

But sometimes

I don't know how I do it.

Of course you know.

I've told you.

There is no trick to it. Just imagination.

But do not play the game

too much, dushechka. Da?

There are other things

in life besides the game.

And children should play

with other children.

But I like to play

with Holland.

But you should make

other friends.

Holland's my friend.

Sing to me, please.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

Oh.

[SINGING IN RUSSIAN]

[CLOCK CHIMING]

Now it is time for

all good boys to be in bed.

Butterfly kiss?

And tomorrow...

it will be time for all bad boys...

to make apologies to Mrs. Rowe.

I saw her today.

And in the morning...

her damaged preserves

will be replaced in person...

by the one responsible.

I'll tell Holland.

Please be sure he understands.

[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]

[REPEATS RUSSIAN PHRASE]

[RAGTIME]

[CONTINUES]

[RINGS]

[STOPS]

- [RINGS]

- [MRS. ROWE] I'm coming!

Good afternoon, madam.

What is this? Halloween?

- This is for you.

- For me?

What is it?

- For the piccalilli I broke.

- Piccalilli?

- And I came to apologize.

- Oh, I remember you.

- Where's the other one?

- Niles won't come.

He says I broke it,

so I had to apologize.

Huh. I accept it.

May I come in, please?

- You want to come in?

- Yes, please.

Well, all right.

You can come in.

My, my.

You boys have grown so.

- Here you are.

- Thank you, ma'am.

[HARMONICA]

You're musical!

[GASPS]

I play the piano.

- I can do tricks too.

- What kind of tricks?

Shh. [WHISPERING]

I'll show you.

[WHISPERING]

All right.

What are you doing there, Holland?

Shh. It's a better light

for the trick.

Oh.

Shh.

You're very mysterious, aren't you?

Shh.

You're not going to pull

a rabbit out of there, are you?

No. Guess again.

[SCREAMING]

- [SQUEAKING]

- [SCREAMING CONTINUES]

[CRASHING, CLATTERING]

I got your pain pills.

Oh, my child, thank you.

Why do people have to die?

Well, all of life must die.

'Tis nature's way.

Every bird...

every tree, every flower...

has its time.

They put you in the ground.

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