Where The Truth Lies Page #2
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- Year:
- 2005
- 107 min
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but this schmuck came off personal.
Where did he think I came from?
Bastard! Bastard!
He called me a bastard.
Now, it doesn't show
from the front, Lanny.
Now, please, would you kindly not
mount me? It's very disagreeable.
quoting lines I wrote...
... from a song
from our first motion picture.
I happen to be honored
to work with this jerk
Is that a compliment?
Never, never, never.
I get a kick from this...
... friend of mine
Fine, but don't give
the mike to this kike.
- Well...
- Just relax.
It's not often we get topped by
a member of our audience, but...
...this gentleman has
done the impossible.
What is your name?
- It's Joe.
- Joe...
...we were just wondering
if you'd be a great sport...
...and help us out on stage.
What do you say, folks?
Go on.
Joe here is going to play
a crazy high school professor...
...who's about to give Lanny
and I our final high school exam.
So if you'll just excuse us while
we help Joe change into his...
...crazy-professor outfit.
Lanny, a little
costume-changing music...
...if you please.
Step this way.
I'll have a word with him...
...about the way
he spoke to your wife.
Completely unnecessary.
Just this way.
You call any Jew on this planet
anything you like.
But nobody calls my partner a kike.
Do you understand?
Boffing ladies and
bashing gentlemen.
I tell you, there was
nothing under the sun...
... Vince and I wouldn't do
for each other.
Are you finished?
Thank you, Mamie.
I'm sorry about that, Miss O'Connor.
We just needed to be sure
you didn't take any notes.
Lanny gave me very specific
instructions on that point.
I don't understand why
he'd want me to read this.
Why would he ever want
anyone to see this side of him?
When you contacted us about
meeting Lanny for your book...
...it wasn't simply about letting you
know he didn't want to speak with you.
I believe my client wanted you
to understand that he, in fact...
...was completing a book
of his own which would serve...
...not only as his autobiography...
...but also as the definitive account of
the joint careers of Morris and Collins.
You've had, at first hand,
a sample of Lanny's writing voice.
Yes, I have.
Such a book, Miss O'Connor...
...this raw, this honest...
...would make your own efforts look...
There's been some very nice...
...translations of the Bible
over the centuries...
...but they would run
a very poor second in popularity...
...to the discovery
of the actual Ten Commandments.
Single best part about teaching
grade two is the difference...
...between the bright ones and
the dumb ones isn't so obvious.
- The results of my work...
...as a teacher
aren't so depressing.
Also, there's no homework
to correct in the evenings and...
...well, none of the kids
know how to use drugs.
Bonnie had come from New York
to visit me that summer.
We'd been best friends
since kindergarten.
Lanny and Vince Fan Club...
for that year's telethon.
All of you send in
a bit of your allowance.
Just a little bit.
A dime, a nickel, a penny.
Every bit helps.
The goal of the telethon that year...
... was $3.9 million, which was
a lot of dough at that time.
Thank you, Tom.
Whoa, Lanny. There are
children watching!
Where does he get his energy?
To remind viewers of the goal...
... we agreed the telethon
could run 39 hours nonstop.
The show would begin at 9 p.m. On
Friday and finish at noon on Sunday.
We paced it so that
Vince and I were together...
... for the kickoff,
most of the day Saturday...
... then the big finale
on Sunday with us bleary-eyed...
... and weeping as America
got ready to go to church.
Lanny, Lanny. What are you doing?
I'm ordering a pizza. I'm starving.
No anchovies on mine, Lanny.
Hey, so who are you talking to?
from Whittier, California...
...and she is going to donate
three weeks of allowance.
- How about that, folks?
- Suzie from Whittier, thank you.
Three weeks of allowance.
That's a challenge for all you...
What you have to understand
is that Vince and me...
... were essentially a boy-girl act.
I was the tramp,
ready for any sort of action...
... and Vince was the gentleman...
behave myself.
I was pleasure, and he was control.
I was rock 'n' roll,
and he was class.
His presence gave America
permission to like me.
My deal with the publisher
gave me first-class travel...
... a luxury I'd never enjoyed.
Is there any chance of switching
to a window seat?
Sorry, we're completely booked
in first.
are really wonderful. See...
...if you push here...
Can I show you?
Sure.
The chair swivels
to the left and the right.
And this converts
to a full-sized dining table...
...during our
Pan Am platinum service...
...with damask linen
and silverware by Fornari...
...so you don't have to eat off a tray.
Again, that's only
How does that sound?
At that time, when you
traveled first class...
... people would always ask you if you
met someone famous on the flight.
- Mr. Morris.
- Thank you.
You're welcome.
Though he would later accuse me
of engineering this, I didn't.
It just...
... happened.
Reuben. So they...
...in a studio that I am paying for.
Songs that are recorded for me...
...that they are
contracted to provide.
- Are you with me here?
- Yes, it's just that...
No, it's just that nothing, Irv.
Please, let me finish. They record...
I read an interview where Lanny was
given credit for insisting his butler...
... travel in the same class and stay
at the same hotels as his boss.
The valet's attentiveness
was impressive.
Looks like you'll be having
dinner with Lanny Morris.
- Hello.
- Hi.
We should get a waiter to slide
a matchbook under the airplane.
There we go.
That should hold.
This is my friend Reuben.
- Hi.
- Hi.
And this is also my friend,
technically speaking...
...and business manager, Irv.
- Hi.
My name is Lanny.
And what's your name?
Bonnie. Bonnie Trout.
What do you do, Bonnie?
I teach.
And what do you teach?
- Second grade.
- Well, we have a lot in common.
I went to second grade.
- Irv, you went to second grade too?
- Many times.
Tell me, Miss Trout...
I don't mean to be impolite...
...but I was wondering...
...how a second-grade schoolteacher
affords to fly first class.
Well, I have a pass...
...that allows me free use
of the subway on weekends...
...and the hot lunches
at school are only 50 cents.
And I'm the mistress...
...of a wealthy married man...
...and when he and his wife
go on vacation, he treats me...
...to a first-class trip
in the opposite direction.
But look at me, talking only about
myself. What do you do for a living?
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