Where The Truth Lies
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- 2005
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Live, until they drop dead...
... from the beautiful
Carlou Theater...
... in the heart of sunny
Miami Beach, Florida...
... it's the Veterans Day
Polio Telethon!
And now, please
welcome your hosts...
... the beautiful, the talented,
Lanny Morris...
... and Vince Collins!
Do you realize
we have to present ourselves...
people for the next three days?
Hello, lovely people
for the next three days.
- Look at you. You're a disgrace.
- What?
Look, your hair's a mess, your shoes
aren't shined, your shirt's not pressed.
- Look at your tie. It's not even straight.
- Look at yours. It doesn't even clip on.
Now...
...I'm upset.
You know what
happens when I get upset.
No, no, no. Please.
Please don't hurt me, Vince.
I've had a terrible day already.
All sorts of bad things have happened.
I don't wanna be hurt again.
- You've been hurt already, have you?
- Been hurt real bad.
And what happened,
pray tell?
- Want me to pray or want me to tell?
- I saw this stranger
- I don't know whether you're...
...singing or speaking.
- Leave my pad
- One thing I do know...
- And I said, "Baby...
- ... what explanation do you have?"
- There's always a woman involved.
And she said:
- Next time?
- Next time
And I said, "There will be
No next time"
That's what you said last time,
Lanny, and the time before that.
You have to make sure there's no first
time, then there can't be a next time.
Or a last time.
- That was the last time for me
- Let's hope so, Lanny.
Lanny Morris,
ladies and gentlemen.
My manager sent me over
some of your work.
It's funny how you're
really in them a lot.
Whenever I read these
interviews where the writer says:
"This is how I felt the morning
I woke up to meet the pope"...
..."how I felt when the pope greeted
me, how he reminded me...
...so much of my friend Mike"...
...I always think,
"Who the f*** is Mike?"
So who are you?
I was a young journalist...
... with a few awards...
... a couple of cover stories...
... and a desperate need
to prove myself.
If you look through my work,
you'll see I try to present...
...a balanced view of my subjects.
I leave the conclusions
to the reader.
I'm not sure we like balance.
Or leaving
the conclusions to the reader.
I'm used to being publicized,
not analyzed.
It would be your words.
We'd publish it as a transcript
My questions, your answers.
If you say it, I can use it.
If you don't, I can't.
And they're gonna pay me
a million for this?
An excerpt will be published
in a magazine as a way...
...of amortizing the investment
they'll be making in the book.
They're looking for some...
...provocative stories
for the first issue.
Any thoughts on what these
provocative stories might be about?
The breakup.
Why Lanny and you split.
And the girl.
Maureen.
What happened
to Maureen O'Flaherty.
No one had ever been able
to pin Lanny Morris...
... or Vince Collins
to the girl's death.
All that was clear...
... was that Maureen was
found dead in their hotel suite.
It was unthinkable to me
that Lanny and Vince...
... could have had
anything to do with it.
They were my heroes.
"The reason I consider
myself to be a miracle girl...
...is because
I had the good fortune...
...to meet Lanny and Vince
when I was sick.
Their love of life
is what gave me hope...
...and it's hope
that gives us the power to live."
Thank you, Lanny.
Thank you, Vince.
Come on, let's hear it for her.
Denise handled publicity
for the polio foundation.
And it was her idea to plug
the girl's story on the telethon.
The day before, it was my idea to plug
Denise at the Miami Versailles Hotel.
Don't stop! Don't stop!
Don't stop!
You can tell a lot about a woman
by the way she acts...
... when you're having sex
Some girls will sit up
and light a cigarette...
... like there's nothing funny
in the world about her being naked.
"It's obvious we were
in the process of screwing...
... so why not let
a stranger into the room?"
Come on in.
Then there's the kind that will
pull the sheets up...
... and act like they're asleep.
Where would you like it, sir?
Sweetheart, wherever you'd like it.
Then, of course, there's
the ones who scrunch real flat...
... thinking that the bed
will look empty.
With Denise, it was kind of hard
to tell which way she'd go.
Can I have your autograph,
Mr. Morris?
Sure.
Should I make it out to Maureen?
I mean, your autograph on the bill.
Okay.
I mean, I'd love
to have your autograph.
And maybe a few minutes
of your time.
I'm a huge fan and...
...well, I was thinking about...
...writing an article on you
for my campus paper.
I'm the editor.
Any interview requests
go through me, honey.
You know, it's just a college paper.
Thank you.
No, thank you.
Thank you, Maureen.
I say goodbye to Maureen,
knowing I'd see her again...
... close the door and
then turn to look at Denise...
... thinking, "I know this girl from every
college town we have ever played. "
... in this great nation of ours.
Since you're reading this,
you'd be interested to know...
... that my favorite catches
were the intellectuals.
They'd be the ones in the straight
black dresses, severe black hair.
Your basic neurotic,
eyeglasses, cool jazz, liberal...
..."I'll f*** any black guy as
part of my personal apology...
... for racism in America" type.
Anyhow, on this particular night,
we're in a club in New Jersey...
... it's the '50s, and I'm mingling
with the crowd.
Now, when I say "mingling,"
what I mean is...
... I was scouting
Didn't matter if the girls
came with dates.
That was Reuben's job.
Reuben is my valet.
helped them get rid of their dates...
... but they were always gone
by the second show.
any situation.
Excuse me, miss.
May I say that I think...
...you have the most beautiful eyes
I have ever seen.
Notice I say, "I think you've got the
most beautiful eyes I've ever seen."
I haven't seen them yet.
I've been staring at your cans.
Now, Lanny.
- I can't believe he just said that.
- That is completely unacceptable.
Madam, I apologize.
I apologize, ladies and gentlemen...
...for my friend. You cannot
speak that way to a stranger.
Look, her husband's not offended.
- He's not?
- No, her husband's not offended.
Her husband's not here.
This lucky guy is her boyfriend.
And even he's not offended,
and do you know why?
Well, I can certainly hazard a guess.
What the hell is that? For chrissake,
Vince, this is America.
We don't say, "hazard a guess."
We say "yes" or we say "no."
Well, I say "no" to you, Morris.
Excuse me?
Could you repeat that?
I don't think
the entire audience heard you.
Go back to where
you came from, bastard!
I get hecklers all the time,
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