Viva Las Vegas Page #2

Good, Jimmy. Good, good, good.

Good. All right, that's enough.

You can join the others.

Very good.

- I was watching you teach. Very good.

- Thank you.

I've ordered lunch for us.

Will you join me?

Thank you so much,

but I'm on duty right now.

Too bad.

What's this?

Some kind of American joke?

No, it's not. He lost all our money.

That's not a tragedy, my friend.

Now you can drive for me.

Looks like we got a job here

for a long, long time, Count.

Serve him, Shorty.

Ma'am, would you like a lemonade

on the house?

I heard about your money.

I'm so sorry.

- It's only money.

- Only money?

Do you know how hard it is

to earn money?

- But I won it.

- Not win it, but make it.

Well, now that you've got me told,

how would you like to go out with me?

I'm a working girl.

Not tomorrow. I checked already.

I'm on the shift that gets off too.

And I got a whole day

to spend with you. So?

So all right.

- Meet me at the University of Nevada.

- You must be kidding.

What're they teaching you? How to

stack cards and deal from the bottom?

Rusty, I thought maybe

we could go dancing or something.

- Oh, you want to go dancing?

- Or something.

- Are you a good dancer?

- Try me.

That I will.

Meet me at the university gymnasium

tomorrow morning at 9:00...

...and we'll dance.

Or something.

Okay, kids, relax.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Do you want to join us?

If I'm caught, they'll take my license.

- You wanted to dance.

- Not here.

- Are you gonna chicken out?

- Yeah.

- Let's cut out of here.

- On one condition.

The kids are expecting you

to do something.

So if you don't want to dance, sing.

I know you can do that.

- Okay, but then we cut out, right?

- Right.

- This is fun.

- It's the only way to travel.

That's Hoover Dam.

One of the seven modern civil

engineering wonders of this century.

It's over 700 feet from the Colorado River

below to the top of the dam.

The dam helps make enough electricity

to light up homes 300 miles away.

Fly with Rusty Martin

and complete your education.

I do sound like a guide.

Where are we going?

That way.

That's Lake Mead behind the dam.

Do you see it?

Continue, professor.

All right. The lake has

...and that's the marina

there ahead of us.

And there you can go

sailing, boating, fishing...

...swimming, water-skiing...

You said the magic word.

- I did?

- Yeah. Hang on, here we go.

- Where are you from, Rusty?

- Dubuque.

I've never been, but it's

interesting that you're from there.

Before you get too attached to Dubuque,

we moved there from Chillicothe, Ohio.

How about that.

I've never been there either.

Don't fall in love with Chillicothe.

Before that we lived in Helena,

Arkansas. On the Mississippi.

The Mississippi.

A great place to be born.

I wasn't.

I was born here in Las Vegas.

- You're putting me on?

- No.

- That's a coincidence.

- What?

You were born here, and after

all that traveling I met you here.

It must mean something.

All it means is my father came here

to work on the dam...

...and he liked it and he stayed.

We live right over here.

I sort of remember Las Vegas

was nothing much then.

A place where people came

to get married.

Came to get married.

Still do I guess.

I suppose. It's a thing

I'm not very much interested in.

Me neither. I guess you got big plans

for your future, haven't you?

You'll probably find it

very dull and commonplace...

...but I want to earn enough

to help my father buy a boat.

- A boat?

- Yes.

He runs a sightseeing boat

on the lake now.

My father's the kind of a man who

doesn't like to work for other people.

He wants to work for himself.

He's never had a chance to

because of taking care of me.

For a long time

it's been my father and me.

He's the kind of man

who likes to work for himself.

Sort of like me.

He's entirely different.

He's actually more like me...

...not crazy at all.

- Thank you.

- Honey?

- Dad.

- Can't I be a little bit crazy?

- Hi, Dad.

- Lucky, this is my father.

- Mr. Martin.

- Rusty's talked a lot about you.

- She has?

- I didn't think she'd mention me.

- I mentioned your losing your money.

Had a good day?

- Great. We...

- We went sightseeing.

- The usual things, you know.

- Yeah, sure.

You kids remember to eat lunch?

You didn't.

Come inside the apartment.

We'll throw something together.

Thanks, but I better

get the copter back.

You kids come in a copter?

Don't they cost 10 dollars a minute?

The guy running the field

is an Air Force buddy.

He still lets me order him around.

Well, I'd like to hear what

you have to say about race driving.

Come to think of it, if I were

younger, I'd take it up myself.

Father!

Take it up with your daughter.

She don't think it's safe.

Well, honey, I'll run along.

I promised old Jake Stiles I'd go bowling.

Father, stop torturing me.

I couldn't eat a thing.

- I never had a better day.

- Me too.

Let's don't let it end.

I'll go change.

- Hello, Rusty.

- Pretty car. I love the color.

Thank you.

- You enjoy racing?

- I don't really know.

- I suppose you're very good.

- Well, I hope I am.

Is Lucky good?

He's the best since Cal Howard.

Cal Howard? Is he the champion?

He would have been,

but he had bad luck.

- What do you mean?

- His car crashed over a wall.

So, as you see, the good thing to do

is to avoid bad luck.

I guess so.

- What are you talking about?

- Rusty was asking...

We were just discussing

cars and drivers.

- Let's go for a ride.

- You got the motor?

You better believe it.

You do?

This way.

Okay, now I'm gonna downshift

and bring her up 5700 revs.

- What does that mean?

- We're going into a turn.

Hey, okay.

Here's my shift point.

Watch me burn up the guy ahead.

- Why?

- Because we gotta win, that's why.

Just a few more hundred of these

and I'll be racing again.

Someday.

Someday you'll get smashed up

just like Cal Howard.

How did you know about that?

Oh, look. He was just unlucky,

that's all.

- It's just one of those things.

- Unlucky. That's what everybody says.

Honey, I just don't understand this

part of you. I really don't.

What do you mean "this part of me"?

It is me.

Try to understand, it is me.

Then you've got to understand me.

When I get married...

...I want a little white house...

...with a tree in the front yard.

A real kind of tree...

...with green leaves...

Oh, that.

When I get the money,

we can have 100 trees...

...a big white house with a four-car

garage and everything.

- By then I'll be the champ.

- I don't want you to be champ.

I know that every cent

you get your hands on...

...you'll gamble away,

because it's that motor you want.

The Grand Prix. Any race.

Any fool would know...

...you won't change.

Not for anybody.

Not for anybody.

Well, what are you doing home

this time of day, honey?

- You feel all right?

- I never felt better in my life.

Oh, sure. Of course. I can see that.

Is it so unusual for a girl

to come home...

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