The Last Days of Disco Page #8

and say things they ordinarily wouldn't.

It's very disarming.

Phew! What happened?

I was having drinks with some friends

in the Village, and there was this terrible guy...

really bothering this girl,

so I decided to intervene...

but it turns out they were married.

What's this now?

You're not here on official business, are you?

Knowing that we went to college together,

they asked me to talk to you.

Who is they?

I can't tell you.

I couldn't believe you'd be involved in the kinds

of things that have been going on here...

and told them so.

I consider you a person of some integrity,

except, you know, in your relations with women.

[ New Disco Song]

No, I don't know if it's right,r

To let you make love to me

Tonight

I don't know if I should

Give my love to you

When I know you're no good

- No, I don't wanna play that stuff.

- All right. I'll let him know.

Take the tortoise and the hare.

Okay, the tortoise won one race.

Do you think that hare is really gonna lose

any more races to turtles? Not on your life.

- I like that tortoise.

- So do /.

But if you were a betting person,

would you say...

That tortoise won against the hare.

In future races, I'm backing him? No.

That race was almost certainly a fluke,

and afterwards...

the tortoise is still a tortoise,

and the hare a hare.

- [Dan] Domestic beer. A Bud.

- [ Woman ] Mm-hmm.

Vodka tonic, please.

Um, I'll just have a Coca-Cola.

You're not drinking?

Alice is not having a cocktail?

I can't believe it.

- Well, I'm not.

- What is it?

Do you have strep throat, or some flu

you're taking antibiotics for?

[ Continues]

Oh, my God.

You have the clap, don't you?

You're on antibiotics, and the doctor

told you not to drink or something.

That's why you're not drinking.

Usually there's no coming

between Alice and a cocktail.

[ Mutters ]

Oh, my God.

[ Continues]

No, I'm sure I'm right.

The bottle of tetracycline on her bureau top.

Tetracycline's specific for the clap.

How could you say that?

Come on.

Everyone gets something.

Love's gone behind

Lost inside

Adorable illusion

and I cannot hide

I'm the one you're using

Please don't push me aside

We could have made it cruising

Yeah

Alice.

I am so, so sorry.

I should never have said that.

I have some sort of sick compulsion

to say everything that occurs to me.

I just want to let you know, as soon as I can find

a new rooming situation, I'm moving out.

- I can't take it anymore.

- That's not possible. You're not serious.

- Just let me know when you're ready to go.

- Okay.

Please, Alice.

Rooming with you and Holly has been the most

important thing to happen to me in my life.

You're the first women friends

I've ever had.

[ Sighs ] The anger you're feeling now

is actually more justified than you know.

When we were at Hampshire,

I really hated you.

You seemed so moralistic

and judgmental.

I had no idea then

how you really were.

When guys wanted to ask you out,

I talked them out of it.

Oh, my God. I can't believe how evil I was.

But I've completely changed.

If you'll give me another chance,

I'll be the best friend you've ever had.

If the apartment situation weren't so impossible,

I'd move out now.

I can understand how you'd feel that way.

You're right to.

But things aren't always as they seem.

Bad and inexcusable as what I said back there

might have been...

I think you'll find it'll actually improve

your reputation with these guys enormously.

You'll be more popular than ever.

Watch.

V.D.'s not all bad.

You'll find there are actually

positive aspects to it.

[Whispers ]

What?

Well, you know that please inform

all previous partners thing?

It's actually a terrific way...

to get back in touch with guys you might

have liked but have lost contact with.

Just in my own experience,

it's twice led to renewed relationships...

with guys that lasted quite a while

and were really sweet.

I'm not talking about herpes infections,

which are far more serious and apparently incurable.

Just standard V.D. and other conditions

easily treatable with antibiotics.

- [Toilet Flushes ]

- [ Disco, Faint]

[ Clears Throat]

God, are you following me

or something?

You said you weren't taking anything.

Well, I'm not. It was a gift.

I never buy the stuff.

- Anyway, it hardly affects me.

- Oh, no.

Actually, what I'm high about

is the situation with Alice.

This makes her seem

much more accessible.

She's not operating on a plane

so far removed from the rest of us.

There's hope for me.

What did Josh want to talk to you about?

ls everything okay?

Uh, no.

Not exactly.

[ Flushes ]

I'm sorry to bug you about this, but I'd be

really grateful if we could talk with Van soon.

The way it's going, if I can't get people in here,

I'm gonna lose my job.

[ Continues]

Des! You lied to me!

I thought you were a wonderful man,

but it was all lies!

- No.

- You said you loved me!

And then you said you were gay!

But you're not!

Everyone knew but me!

You completely humiliated me!

I could be gay.

You're saying again you're Gay?

Tell me honestly.

Have you had sex with men?

[ Continues]

Well, that's defining it

rather narrowly.

Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!

Bullshit!

I want to give it

I want to get some too

I-I, I-I, Ohh-Oh-Oh-Oh, I

- [ Fades]

- [ Female Reporter] Between games, as planned...

a huge box containing thousands

of disco records was blown up.

[ Crowd Cheering ]

[ Loud Cheering]

[ Man Shouts]

[ Reporter]

The rest was unplanned.

Fans stormed out onto the field

in the thousands...

disco records were hurled like Frisbees,

bonfires were set, bottles were thrown.

The batting cage was torn down and destroyed.

Fistfights broke out.

[ Female Reporter #2] Manhattan district attorney

Robert Morgenthau, at his press conference...

congratulated prosecutors

on their successful convictions in the probe of -

...impact whatsoever, except that -

[ Male Reporter] ...first time on his real estate

task force's 18 convictions of executives...

at six commercial brokerages...

promised a vigorous prosecution...

that would end white-collar crime

in a wide -ranging series of investigations -

[ Reporter Fades ]

I'll just be a second.

- Alice, congratulations on the TV sale.

- Thanks.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- How's Holly?

- Fine.

Is she, um, going out with anyone?

Yeah, this really nice guy who went to

Denver University and works in real estate.

He found her

this incredibly cheap apartment.

She no longer lives with you guys?

You hold what happened against me.

Not that you broke up, just that you go out

with people based primarily on looks.

Holly's also very nice.

A lot of people are nice. You only asked out

the fabulously good-looking one.

You hold that against me.

Well, pretty shallow.

You know, Alice, except for politics,

we've got a lot in common.

We're both pretty serious and, I think,

respect each other's bases for judgment.

Occasionally

I get reactionary thoughts too.

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