The Last Days of Disco Page #7

I didn't mean to say anything

anybody could be offended by.

Oh, thank God. He's here.

Des, Bernie regrets what happened.

It was a mistake,

and he wants you back.

I'm sorry.

I know why you're so upset.

- I mean, I know what really happened with Tom.

- What?

That he thought you were really slutty

or something. That's so stupid.

You can't worry about

what misinterpreters think.

That's so unfair.

Come back to my place.

We should talk.

There - Nothing will happen. I just need

somebody to talk to. Maybe you do too.

Eighty-ninth and First.

[ Windshield Wipers Whirring]

- [Disco ]

- [Door Opens ]

- Hi.

- [Door Closes ]

Hi.

[ Recording:
Woman Vocalizing]

- [Jimmy] Oh, Wail. Uh -

- [ Charlotte Chuckles ]

[ Jimmy] My goodness.

[ Continues Speaking, indistinct]

Sexy baby

Good lovin' daddy

- Ooh, let me be your rockin' chair

- [ Whispering]

Just a-rock me away from here

- Let's get it on

- [ Knocks]

- Come to me, baby,

- Alice.

What would your dream book to publish be,

if you could publish any book ?

- Anything that might become a best seller.

- Aside from that. Your dream book.

I'd say a collection of new

J.D. Salinger stories...

but more in the direction of The Laughing Man

or Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters...

not Hapworth 16

or Seymour:
An Introduction.

Did you know that, in his own day...

Mary McCarthy and Alfred Kazin

wrote devastating pieces on Salinger?

- No.

- Yeah. They really destroyed him.

Sexy baby

- [ Sighs]

- Good lovin' daddy

- God.

Let me be your rockin' chair

Just a-rock me away from here

Let's get it on

Come to me, baby

Ooh

- [ Charlotte And Jimmy Whispering]

- Let me be your rockin' chair

Just a-rock me away from here

Rock me gently

Make me feel like a cloud in the sky

[ Dan, Whispering]

Maybe we should go the outside way, like Alice.

[ Holly, Whispering]

I'm sure it was Jimmy. It's very quiet.

[ Door Hinges Squeak]

[ Charlotte]

Get out! Get out!

- [ Door Slams]

- [ Dan] That was pretty bad.

[ Sloshing, Spits 1

[ Spits ]

[ Door Opens ]

- What's the matter now?

- What?

All the noise -

clomping around, banging pans.

- Sorry. I didn't realize it.

- You obviously intended it.

What do you mean?

It's very aggressive. You don't clomp around

banging pans for no reason.

- Like what reason?

- You know perfectly well.

- Because I only bang pans?

- [ Scoffs ]

Well, frankly,

that's not what I heard.

Okay, anything I did that was wrong

I apologize for.

But anything I did that was not wrong,

I don't apologize for.

[ Sighs ]

God, Alice is such a Scorpio.

I. I Reggae ]

Sweet majesty,r

[ Continues]

- [Dog Growling]

Come on, boy. Did she hurt you?

You okay? Let's see. Let's see.

Aw. We'll fix it.

- So much I've longed

- I've longed,

- To speak to you

- [ Dog Barkmg]

- [ Continues ]

- Rufus! Rufus!

Come here, boy.

- Rufus! Come here! Hey!

- [ Kicks]

- [Sharp Yelping ]

- Never do that!

How dare you!

Shame on you! B*tch!

[ Alice] I decided to go ahead

with the Tibet book proposal.

- What?

- The memoir about the Dalai Lama's older brother?

Oh.

I'd like to bring it up

at Wednesday's editorial meeting.

You really like that?

- Other people liked it too?

- Yeah.

Okay, I'll take another look.

You know, it's considered

a little self-indulgent...

to read too much of a manuscript

if it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Have you known Holly long?

Just since we found

the apartment. Why?

She's very, uh... quiet, isn't she?

Well, I would say

not more than normal.

Your standard of normal

could be different from other people's.

How do you mean?

I don't understand that.

I guess what I'm asking is -

- You do like Holly, don't you?

- Yeah, of course.

But she is intelligent, isn't she?

Sometimes I question

her dating choices.

- God, you're tough.

- I'm not tough in the least.

No, you're really tough.

Halston, Gucci;

Fiorucci

He looks like a still

The! men is dressed to kill 'P

Oh, What, wow,

He's the greatest dancer

Oh, what, wow

That I've ever seen

I've ever seen

- Congratulations, Alice.

- Yeah, your first book. Great.

It could be a best seller.

[ Woman]

Charlotte. Oh, Charlotte.

That was so moving, what you said

about our obligation to writers.

- Thanks.

- And how often we fall short of that.

Well, let's face it.

Most authors are still conceited dopes.

You - You can't say that.

You're an editor. You don't have to

deal with them on a daily basis.

When you're an assistant,

it's harder to dodge the calls.

Good going, Alice.

I'm really glad we got this book.

I understand that you know

some people at the club.

Do you think that maybe, uh, sometime

you could get us in there some night?

- [ Charlotte ] Yeah, certainly. We'll arrange that.

- [ Chuckling ] Great. Thanks.

- Thanks a lot, Dan.

- Sure.

Do you have any idea why Jimmy's

suddenly so interested in your social life?

- No. He's interested in my social life?

- Haven't you noticed?

He's always wondering

why you don't go out or go to the club.

He is?

You know, Alice, you've been

hanging around the apartment a lot.

You've kind of set up office there.

None of the rest of us has any privacy.

- The railroad apartment wasn't my idea.

- Yeah, that's true...

but it's just odd that you're

so much friendlier to Jimmy now he's with me.

I just think the situation 's

kind of awkward.

What do you want me to do,

promise not to talk to him anymore?

I'm sure you know perfectly well how to subtly

get a guy to cool it if you really wanted to.

[ Singers ]

Turn it upside down

[ Woman]

Hey, yeah

- Love to hear percussion

- Hey.

- Whoa

- Love to hear it

Flute player, play your flute

'Cause I know that you want

to get your thing off,

- Oh, damn.

- [ Continues ]

Oh, damn? Thanks.

- You're here to see Van?

- You don 7 mind, do you?

Well, I sorta do.

I hate asking that guy for favours.

They're not gonna keep me on much longer

if I can't get clients into the club.

It's that important to you

to stay in advertising?

Okay. Better see him

while he's still on his upswing.

- [ Continues ]

- Drink chip?

[ Josh ]

Hey, Des.

- Hi.

- God. What happened to you?

- Jesus, Josh. You're a mess.

- I'm a mess.

- I gotta talk to you.

- You sure you don't want to clean up a little?

It's kinda serious.

I'll look for Alice and Charlotte,

see if they've come in.

- Whoa-ohh-ohh

- Love to hear it, love to hear it

Hey-ey-ey-ey

- [ Continues ]

- That's Audrey Rouget.

The youngest person ever to be made an editor

in the history of Farrar, Straus.

- How do you know her?

- She interviewed me.

How did it go?

Have you ever been in an interview and gotten

the impression they see through you completely?

Turn the beat around

I didn't get an offer.

- You don't want to clean up a little?

- No.

You know, you look really bad.

I know. That's actually good in my work.

It puts people at ease.

Looking like this, they feel, frankly, superior to me

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