Tootsie Page #10

You're right.

Okay. Okay.

I'm not gonna lie to you anymore.

I'm gonna tell you the truth.

Sandy...

I'm in love with another woman.

What are you saying?!

- Sandy, please. Don't...

- You liar!

We never said "I love you."

- We went to bed one time.

- I don't care.

You're a dear friend. But let's not

pretend it was something else!

We're gonna lose everything!

I don't care about "I love you!"

I read The Second Sex...

...and The Cinderella Complex!

I'm responsible for my own orgasms!

I just don't like to be lied to!

You asked me

to be straight with you.

I didn't say

how I'd feel about it.

- What can I do?

- There's nothing you can do for me.

I just have to feel like this...

...and you have to know

you made me feel this way!

- Aren't we still friends?

- No!

I don't take this sh*t from friends,

only from lovers.

- Wait, what about the play?

- What about it?

I should tell you to shove your play.

But I won't, because

I never allow personal despair...

...to ruin my

professional commitments.

I am a professional actress!

So, are these real

chocolate-covered cherries?

I think so.

- See you at rehearsal.

- Oh, Sandy...

Don't call me.

It's 2 a.m.

Can't this wait?

I don't care.

Get me off this show in 10 days.

- It's impossible.

- Then I'm getting a new agent.

You hurt my feelings.

What happened?

I told her about Julie.

She thinks I'm gay.

- Julie thinks your gay?

- No, my friend Sandy.

Well, sleep with her.

- I did and she still thinks I'm gay.

- Oh, that's not so good.

I gotta get back to my life.

You got lots of lawyers...

...there must be a way to get

me out of this show.

- We've been through this.

- Why can't Dorothy have an accident?

We can use our imaginations.

This isn't too tough.

Kill somebody and bring back the stiff,

but she'd better look like you.

- They don't miss a trick.

- These are nice, good people.

Since when do you care so much

about what other people feel?

You should have seen Julie's face

when she thought I was a lesbian.

Lesbian?

You just said "gay."

Sandy thinks I'm gay.

Julie thinks I'm a lesbian.

- I thought Dorothy was straight.

- She is.

Les, the sweetest man in the world,

asked me to marry him.

A guy named Les

wants to marry you?

Yeah.

No, wants to marry Dorothy.

- He knows she's a lesbian?

- She's not!

- I know that, but does he?

- Know what?

That...

Well, I don't know.

You know he gave me a ring?

He gave me a diamond ring.

What did you say?

"I got to think it over."

I went in the ladies' room

and almost pissed in the sink.

Thirteen's up.

Ready 14.

Widen E.

Pull three to 130.

- Cut it.

- Stop tape.

We're gonna take

a short break, people.

Hold it, hold it!

Slight change of plans, children.

Our future ex-tape editor spilled

a bottle of celery tonic...

...on the second reel

of the show airing today.

So we have to redo

Emily's party scene, live.

- Live?

- Quick, like bunnies.

You have 26 minutes.

Get into wardrobe.

- But Rita...

- You've only got a few lines.

Well, I don't see

why we can't use the tape.

Just because it's a little sticky.

Explain to them that

the hours have to be flexible.

No...

And I would...

Can I call you back?

Thank you.

My God, Dorothy! I just...

Really, I can't.

It's for Amy.

Oh, thanks.

That's nice.

- I don't know how to say this...

- I wish you wouldn't.

I understand that you weren't able

to tell my dad last night.

So it'd be better for all of us

if I tried to explain it to him.

Look, I wouldn't be honest

if I didn't tell you...

...how much you've meant to me

these past couple weeks.

You taught me how to stand up

for myself because you always do.

You taught me to stop hiding

and just be myself...

...because you're always yourself.

I'm grateful to you.

But...

Well, I just...

I just can't see you anymore,

you know?

I just feel it would be leading you on.

It wouldn't be fair to you.

I really love you, Dorothy.

But I can't...

I can't love you.

Places, everybody.

Immediately!

Fifteen seconds to commercial.

I don't care how you get there.

This is the most important night

in Emily's life.

We're all going to be there

to honor her, including you.

Stand by.

Quiet, please, on the floor.

Stand by.

Twenty-two and 23

come down to 18.

Hold it.

That's good.

Five, four, three...

Let's raise our glasses to our

guest of honor, Ms. Emily Kimberly.

We're looking forward to having

you grace us with your presence...

...for many years to come.

Thank you, Gordon.

I can't tell you all how moved I am.

I never in my wildest dreams...

...imagined that I would be the object

of so much genuine affection.

It makes it more difficult for

me to say what I'm now going to say.

I do feel it's time

to set the record straight.

I didn't come here

just as an administrator.

I came to this hospital

to settle a score.

What score?

My father built

this hospital.

But to his family...

...he was an unmerciful tyrant.

An absolute dodo bird.

Oh, no! Not live.

Let's see where she goes.

He drove my mother to drink.

In fact, she went riding one time

and lost all her teeth.

What? What?

- the oldest daughter, the pretty,

charming one, became pregnant...

...at 15 and was driven

out of the house.

She was so terrified that her daughter

would bear the stigma of illegitimacy...

...she changed her name and contracted

a disfiguring disease...

...after moving to Tangiers, where

she raised the girl as her sister.

But her one ambition...

Any preference of shots

on this one?

- was to become a nurse.

So she returned to the States

and joined the staff right here...

...at Southwest General.

She worked here

and had to speak out...

...wherever she saw injustice

and inhumanity.

Don't you understand that,

Dr. Brewster?

I never laid a hand on her.

Yes, you did. She was shunned

by all you nurses too.

Give me something, one.

Not backs.

Two and three go left and right.

No, two go left!

Three go right!

Her outspokenness threatened

you doctors.

But she was deeply, deeply,

deeply loved...

...by her brother.

- Her brother?

This brother,

on the day of her death...

...swore to the good Lord above

he'd follow in her footsteps.

And, and, and...

...just, just, just...

Don't, don't, don't panic.

...owe it all up to her!

But on her terms!

Here come the terms.

As a woman...

...and just as proud to be a woman...

...as she ever was...

...for I am not Emily Kimberly...

...the daughter of Dwayne...

...and Alma Kimberly.

No, I'm not.

I'm Edward Kimberly,

Anthea's reckless brother.

Holy Christ!

Edward Kimberly, who's finally

vindicated his sister's good name.

I'm Edward Kimberly.

Edward Kimberly.

- I'll be damned.

- I'm not mentally ill, but proud...

...and lucky to be the woman

that was the best part of my manhood.

The best part of myself.

That is one nutty hospital.

I knew there was a reason

she didn't like me!

Cut it!

Cut!

Does Jeff know?

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