The Dog Page #11

Well, I told her, I said, "Liz,

you wanted to get married."

"Oh, thank you,

thanks a lot."

Liz was talking about how the sex change really

wasn't what she should have done to herself

and how she thought

it would make her happy

and it didn't make her happy,

and it opened up a new series

of problems for her.

She started prostituting, and she

moved to Rochester eventually,

and she hustled there

until she got AIDS.

She would write to me,

and I says, "Are you ill?"

"No, I'm fine.

I've been diagnosed.

I'm fine."

And then, time just moved ahead

and she was dead, you

know, and that was it.

LOWENKOPF:
At that point,

it was a question

of how he was going

to live his life.

He settled into this pattern,

sleeping most of the day,

going out late, and going

down to West Street

where there were lots of

transsexuals

and regarded himself as a kind of

protector, watching out for them.

WOJTOWICZ:
When crack

took over the Village,

that's when I started getting

people I never got before.

They would come to

my mother's house a lot.

Then they would eat

spaghetti dinner a lot.

They used to sleep over, because

most of them were street people.

LOWENKOPF:

Terry really didn't care.

She was like fairy

godmother to these guys.

I never got a clear-cut idea of

what the father was like.

Almost like he was the little

man that wasn't there.

He worked, he came home, he watched

television, he had dinner.

Whereas, the mother was a much

more vibrant force in John's life.

It was a mother/son combo,

and if you want to talk

about his great love,

that's the great love

of his life.

His mother.

[Bell dings]

WOJTOWICZ:
Ma!

What?

Come here!

HEATH:
John and Terry were

like husband and wife.

[Bell dinging]

Terry would button up his coat,

help him with his clothes,

and when he wanted something,

he rang a bell.

TERRY:

I got a good memory.

WOMAN:

OK.

Quiet on the set.

1, 2, 3,Action.

Good morning.

I'm "Dog Day Afternoon,"

the real one,

who Al Pacino portrayed in the

movie "Dog Day Afternoon."

BIFULCO:
He always wanted

to impress people.

He always wanted to look like

he was the main character,

but after all that he put me

through, he's my past.

That's all I can say.

KAPPSTATTER:
Here's a guy who

probably had a hard life

but really led a twisted life.

I think for his own

sense of self-worth,

this is what he spun

in his own mind.

That here is someone,

you know, what I did, wow.

But you know, give us

a break, he robbed a bank.

He was a criminal...

a romantic criminal,

but he was a criminal.

He had to make it

a fantasy in his mind,

because what else

did he have in reality?

It's what you do

to survive mentally.

There.

There's your autograph.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Have a nice day.

I'm going to frame this.

And don't rob

no banks without me.

All right. Ha ha!

HEATH:
I think that John

wanted to be somebody,

but I don't think that he

really ever found himself.

Thank you very much.

Any time.

HEATH:
At the end, he may have

come to a confession with saying,

"Well, I'm sorry for this, I'm sorry

for that," but John was always John.

He would never change.

How are you, buddy?

How are you?

Not so good.

How you been?

How are you?

Not good, not good, not good.

WOJTOWICZ:
I talk to Tony, but

he don't understand nothing.

He doesn't understand

what dying is.

He doesn't understand

about cancer.

That's why nuts have more fun.

Come on, you a**hole.

Get up here.

Ha ha ha!

That's so funny.

I'll blow you,

if you come back.

OK. here he is.

Come on, you know you

want that blow job!

Yes, you do, you big devil.

See that, see that?

Bent over right in front of me.

Yeah, don't tell me

I ain't got it.

All right, let's go.

WOJTOWICZ, VOICE-OVER: Life is too short.

So there is no "no."

Thank you...

[indistinct]

If you want to

do something, do it.

Don't let anybody tell you, "No you

can't do this, you can't be that,

you're no good,

you're rotten."

Whatever they say to

you, f*** them.

Do what you want to do, because

tomorrow you could be dead.

So live every day as if it's your

last, and whoever don't like it

can go f*** themselves

and a rubber duck.

TERRY:

OK?

You understand?

T REX Moves:

Strange

Life is strange

Life is strange

Oh, life is strange

Oh, God,

life is strange...

WOJTOWICZ:
A man doesn't

regret what he does.

And I used to tell everybody, "if I had a

dream the night before, and in that dream

"I saw everything that happened,

exactly how it happened,

"would I still

go out and do it?

You're damn right I would

still go out and do it."

T. REX:

Strange

Life is strange

Life is strange

Life is strange

Oh, my life is strange

Cut.

[Rock music playing]

ELTON JOHN:
Lately,

I been thinking

Just how much

I miss my lady

Amoreena's

in the corn field

Brightenin' the daybreak

Livin' like a lusty flower

Runnin' through

the grass for hours

Rollin' through the hay

Whoa, like a puppy child

And when it rains,

the rain falls down

Washin' out the cattle town

And she's

far away somewhere

In her eiderdown

And she dreams

of crystal streams

Of days gone by

when we would lean

Laughing fit to burst

upon each other

And when it rains,

the rain falls down

Washin' out the cattle town

And she's

far away somewhere

In her eiderdown

And she dreams

of crystal streams

Of days gone by

when we would lean

Laughing fit to burst

upon each other, whoa

Lately,

I been thinking, whoa

Just how much

I miss my lady

Amoreena's

in the corn field, whoa

Brightenin' the daybreak

Livin' like a lusty flower

Runnin' through

the grass for hours

Rollin' through

the hay, whoa

Like a PUPPY 5

Like a puppy child

Whoa

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