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<p>英文剧本: 绿卡 Green Card&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><br />
Green Card Script</p>
<p>- How much? - $1.50.</p>
<p>Miss? Miss, your change.</p>
<p>If you wish to find the express train...</p>
<p>try the B.M.T.</p>
<p>Spare a little change?</p>
<p>Anybody, spare a little change? Lady?</p>
<p>A little change? I need some lunch.</p>
<p>- Watch where you're going there, man. - Anybody?</p>
<p>... corrupt society</p>
<p>I know the time will be here again</p>
<p>When the taxes are taken You know it will lead to the end</p>
<p>- Look at you. - Hi, Anton. Oh.</p>
<p>- I've never seen you all dressed up like this. - Well, do I look the part?</p>
<p>Sure. Look at me.</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>- Coffee? - Oh. No. Yes! Oh, I'm so nervous.</p>
<p>- Well, you're supposed to be nervous on your wedding day. - Oh, right, right.</p>
<p>- You really look absolutely gorgeous. - Oh, thanks. I borrowed the dress.</p>
<p>- It's a marvelous thing you're doing, Bront? Really. - Oh, Anton, please, no speeches.</p>
<p>- I think you and Georges will... - No speeches. - Okay, no speeches.</p>
<p>Hey, hey, Georges!</p>
<p>Coming?</p>
<p>More! More!</p>
<p>- Nice to meet you. - You too.</p>
<p>- You were very good. - So were you.</p>
<p>Oh, here's Anton.</p>
<p>That's a copy for you, Bront?</p>
<p>- I'll never forget Afrika. - Africa?</p>
<p>Yes, where we met.</p>
<p>Oh, the coffee shop. Right.</p>
<p>Okay, so, uh, good luck with your life.</p>
<p>Et merci, Anton.</p>
<p>- And good luck with your composing. - With what?</p>
<p>Your music.</p>
<p>Oh, yes. Uh, right. Yes. Okay.</p>
<p>- So what happens next? - That's it.</p>
<p>You don't even have to see him again.</p>
<p>- You should take a look at that. - Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>That could potentially be a problem.</p>
<p>Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>Africa?</p>
<p>Yes. That's where we met.</p>
<p>And he's there now again.</p>
<p>Uh, I wish he were here...</p>
<p>but he's not.</p>
<p>He'd love the apartment, though.</p>
<p>He travels a great deal.</p>
<p>But he's the quiet type. We both are, really.</p>
<p>What's he doing there?</p>
<p>He's a composer.</p>
<p>- African music. - Not drums?</p>
<p>We couldn't have someone who played the drums here.</p>
<p>Oh, no. No. He studies their music. He's an academic.</p>
<p>- He, himself, is not African? - He's French.</p>
<p>- Oh, oh, oh, French. Oh. - Oh.</p>
<p>What is this? &quot;Green Guerillas.&quot;</p>
<p>Not some sort of an army, is it?</p>
<p>It's a volunteer garden group, Mrs. Bird.</p>
<p>They do very good work amongst the poor.</p>
<p>And you'll notice that Mrs. Faur?<br />
is also with our city parks department.</p>
<p>Uh, we did have problems with a recent tenant...</p>
<p>a single gentleman, uh, who, uh, neglected the responsibilities...</p>
<p>associated with 12-F.</p>
<p>Mmm, that's why the board feels...</p>
<p>that a young married couple would be more suitable.</p>
<p>Well, I think it's the fact that Mrs. Faur?is a horticulturist that's very much in her favor.</p>
<p>- Yes, but it is highly irregular to give our approval without meeting Mr. Faur? - I like the couple from the bank.</p>
<p>- Not the one with the dog. - Look, I'm very aware of the situation.</p>
<p>It's just that...</p>
<p>well, I could bring the garden back to the way the late professor had it.</p>
<p>I don't want to get too technical, but the moracus syconia needs thinning...</p>
<p>and the crinums and the zamias are sadly neglected.</p>
<p>The chamaedorea's root bound, and special care must be taken...</p>
<p>for the poor cyathaceae dicksonia.</p>
<p>Not to mention the cordyline or the heliconia.</p>
<p>And there's work nurturing the aspidistra...</p>
<p>begonias, the bromeliads.</p>
<p>Oh!</p>
<p>Yo, baby!</p>
<p>Yo, Bront?</p>
<p>The city fathers give their blessing to the project.</p>
<p>- All right! - Yeah. Talk about the 11th hour, huh?</p>
<p>- I've got some good news. - Oh, what's that?</p>
<p>How about 3,000 square feet of quality topsoil?</p>
<p>- You're kidding! - No. Get this.</p>
<p>Burger King does this... this big press hype over at the Sheraton Center.</p>
<p>- Uh-huh. - They recreate Texas or something. - Hey.</p>
<p>A giant burger city in the middle of Texas.</p>
<p>Anyway, they don't know what they're gonna do with the soil when they're all through.</p>
<p>Dave says, &quot;I know just the guy who'll take it off your hands.&quot; Me.</p>
<p>- Uh-huh. - Hey, Harry, how you doin', man?</p>
<p>Look at this. We're officially approved.</p>
<p>Hey, let's go!</p>
<p>All right!</p>
<p>Burger King!</p>
<p>- Burger King! - Let's hear it for Phil!</p>
<p>Who can use a box of periwinkles? Here you go. Tomatoes.</p>
<p>All right, yea!</p>
<p>Italian would be great, but ask Bront?and Phil.</p>
<p>- Yeah, 'cause I'm starved. - I am too.</p>
<p>- Hey, Bront? are you hungry? Wanna get something to eat? How about you? - Yeah? Oh, yeah. Yeah.</p>
<p>- Yeah. - The four of us get something to eat? - Ten minutes? Let's go.</p>
<p>- The All Nations okay? - Yeah.</p>
<p>- Hey. Ah. - Mmm.</p>
<p>- A little pasta. - Like maybe we could think of certain plants that we could put in there.</p>
<p>- Yeah. - Can we order? - I'm not your waiter.</p>
<p>- Great. So who is our waiter? - Yeah. - Well, we'll leave it up to you.</p>
<p>- Hey, man, are you our waiter? - No, sir. Georges, les cartes.</p>
<p>- Do you want an antipasto? - Let's get out of here. It's awful.</p>
<p>I don't think we'll find anyplace else open this time of night.</p>
<p>Look at this. Look at this time. We have been sitting here a long time.</p>
<p>- You have chosen? - Uh... - Somebody else go ahead.</p>
<p>Uh, what are your specials tonight?</p>
<p>Uh, from Switzerland we have, um, calves' liver with our special sauce...</p>
<p>and, uh, from old England, we have roast beef.</p>
<p>- I don't eat meat. - Why not?</p>
<p>Pardon me?</p>
<p>If you don't eat meat, we have, uh, fish.</p>
<p>No, I don't eat fish either. I'm a vegetarian.</p>
<p>- Ah. - Do you have a vegetarian special?</p>
<p>Of course. All Nations vegetables.</p>
<p>- Good. I'll have that, but no oil or salt. - No salt for you. Okay.</p>
<p>- Uh, I think I'll take the fish. - Me too.</p>
<p>Fish. Two for the fish. Okay.</p>
<p>And, uh...</p>
<p>for mademoiselle?</p>
<p>Or is it madame?</p>
<p>It's, uh, just here on the right.</p>
<p>Just right here.</p>
<p>- Let me come up? - Mmm, no.</p>
<p>What is it? A girls' dorm?</p>
<p>I've never even seen your apartment. What's with all the secrecy?</p>
<p>- What secrecy? - Well, most girls I've known...</p>
<p>- have tried to crowd me, except you. - Mm.</p>
<p>I could do with a little crowding from you.</p>
<p>You coming or what?</p>
<p>- Okay. - Okay.</p>
<p>Evening, Mrs. Faur?</p>
<p>- Hello, Oscar. - There's some mail here...</p>
<p>mostly addressed to Miss Parrish.</p>
<p>I guess some folks don't know you're married.</p>
<p>- I still go by the name Parrish. - Women's lib, huh?</p>
<p>- Yes, I guess so. - Nothing from Africa.</p>
<p>- Oh. - I already checked.</p>
<p>- I guess he's still on safari, huh? - Something like that.</p>
<p>- Good night, Mrs. Faur? - Good night, Oscar.</p>
<p>- Hello? - Mrs. Faur?</p>
<p>- Yes? - My name is Gorsky.</p>
<p>I'm with the investigations department of the I.N.S.</p>
<p>- The what? - Immigration.</p>
<p>My partner and I are down in the lobby.</p>
<p>We wondered if we might have a word with you, uh, and, uh, your husband.</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>- What is it you want to know? - I just want to speak with Georges Faur?</p>
<p>- He doesn't work here anymore. - What?</p>
<p>He was rude to a customer. We don't stand for that.</p>
<p>- Excuse me. - No, please. I must find him.</p>
<p>- Do you know where he lives? - Georges Faur?is trouble.</p>
<p>You would do best to avoid him.</p>
<p>Now, if you'll excuse me, young lady. I have customers waiting.</p>
<p>You're a friend of Georges?</p>
<p>Yo. Yo! Where are you going?</p>
<p>- I'm to see Mrs. Faur? - Oh?</p>
<p>- And who are you? - Mr. Faur?</p>
<p>- Mr. Faur? - Yes.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I've never seen you before.</p>
<p>- Welcome back. How was Africa? - Africa?</p>
<p>- Yeah. You got any bags? - No, no. No, just me. Just me.</p>
<p>You know, when I first seen you, I thought to myself...</p>
<p>&quot;This guy just stepped out of the jungle.&quot;</p>
<p>And I was right! Oh, it's great to see you back.</p>
<p>I hate to see a young couple like yourselves, you know, separated like you've been.</p>
<p>- It's bad for the marriage. Call me old-fashioned if you want. - No, no, no, no, no, no.</p>
<p>Oh, but that's what's wrong with this country, you know?</p>
<p>- The family is going down the toilet. - The toilet? What...</p>
<p>- The toilet. Yeah. Fifteen years I'm married to the same woman. - What, uh...</p>
<p>- See? See my kids there? Huh? - Oh, yes. Yeah.</p>
<p>I call her twice a day. I don't go for that women's lib stuff.</p>
<p>- No, sir. Couples living in sin, that sort of thing. - Oh, no.</p>
<p>- Oh, that's no good, no good at all. - Oh, it's terrible, yeah.</p>
<p>So...</p>
<p>Well, come in.</p>
<p>Right. Now, these people are due here any minute, so, um...</p>
<p>Look, I think we'd better talk about the situation, don't you?</p>
<p>You got my note? Of course you did, otherwise you wouldn't be here.</p>
<p>Uh, I spoke to my lawyer.</p>
<p>He said not to panic. It's probably just routine.</p>
<p>- Have you got some coffee? - Coffee?</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>Right! Good idea.</p>
<p>We'll just have coffee like any normal married couple.</p>
<p>How's the composing? Didn't you get the big job in California?</p>
<p>No. I don't like them, you know?</p>
<p>I prefer to be a waiter than work for people like that.</p>
<p>But you're not at the restaurant anymore.</p>
<p>No, I quit.</p>
<p>They said you were fired.</p>
<p>Really? Funny.</p>
<p>I hate that captain, you know?</p>
<p>He's really a snob type. Ah.</p>
<p>These people are due here any minute, and you stroll around my apartment touching my things!</p>
<p>Do you realize the situation that you've put me in? Do you?</p>
<p>I'm sorry, Betty.</p>
<p>It's Bront?</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>This is hopeless.</p>
<p>- The coffee? - The coffee?</p>
<p>- Yes. - I'm about to go to jail, you're gonna be deported. But what about the coffee?</p>
<p>Oh, my God, they're here.</p>
<p>- Wait. Wait! I'll get it. - Yeah?</p>
<p>- Uh, may I speak with Mr. Faur? please? - Yeah, this is Mr. Faur?</p>
<p>- This is Immigration. - Ah, okay. Come on.</p>
<p>What...</p>
<p>- What are you doing? - Better put them in my closet.</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>Oh, God!</p>
<p>Ring. Ring.</p>
<p>- Oh, we have to talk, for God's sake. - Talk about what?</p>
<p>Our story. How we met. They're gonna ask us questions.</p>
<p>No, they just want to see us together, that's all.</p>
<p>This happened to a guy at the restaurant.</p>
<p>They see us, they go. Simple.</p>
<p>Can you get it, ch&eacute;rie? Let me do the talking.</p>
<p>No, I'll do the talking. You don't speak much English. I'll just tell them... I'll just tell...</p>
<p>No! Now, relax. We're together.</p>
<p>Okay? Don't panic.</p>
<p>Now go.</p>
<p>Hello.</p>
<p>Oh, isn't this quaint?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Come on up.</p>
<p>Georges?</p>
<p>This is Mrs. Sheehan and Mr. Gorsky.</p>
<p>- Hi. - Hello.</p>
<p>- Hi. - Hi. Please sit down.</p>
<p>- Mr. Faur? - Georges, please.</p>
<p>Yes. Now, you entered the country...</p>
<p>five months ago according to our records.</p>
<p>Yes, and already I love it. You see?</p>
<p>- Yes, well... - Land of opportunity.</p>
<p>- Such a great country. A-A-Already I feel at home. - Yes.</p>
<p>- Ah. - So lucky.</p>
<p>Beautiful wife.</p>
<p>- Apartment. - Yeah.</p>
<p>- Plants. - Oh.</p>
<p>- So lucky. You see? - Uh, well, um, your visa... a B-2...</p>
<p>a tourist visa... allowed you only six weeks.</p>
<p>Now, that in itself is an offense...</p>
<p>but more recent events have overtaken that.</p>
<p>Your marriage, of course, gives you automatic residency status.</p>
<p>- Now, this is your place of residence? - Of course. - Yes.</p>
<p>- You moved here after the marriage? - Yes. Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>We spoke to the chairperson of the building...</p>
<p>and he said you'd been away, Mr. Faur?</p>
<p>- In Africa. - Yes.</p>
<p>- Shooting elephants. - Oh.</p>
<p>- With a camera. - Ah, a camera. - Oh! - Of course.</p>
<p>And he brought me back some plants. Some violets. African violets.</p>
<p>- The violets. - Mm. - Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>And, uh, where did you live, Mr. Faur? before the marriage?</p>
<p>Oh, all over the place, you see, um...</p>
<p>In the park, one night.</p>
<p>- And, uh, where do you work? - Pardon?</p>
<p>My husband's a composer. He's working on an important composition right now...</p>
<p>based on his African research.</p>
<p>A composer? We don't, uh, have a note of that.</p>
<p>And, uh, you write, what?</p>
<p>Uh, rock 'n' roll?</p>
<p>Ballet. I write for the ballet.</p>
<p>Ballet.</p>
<p>Your statement on your passport application said you had no criminal convictions.</p>
<p>Is that a true and correct statement?</p>
<p>Of course.</p>
<p>You speak French, Mrs. Faur?</p>
<p>Not really. Not exactly.</p>
<p>No barrier to love, though, hmm?</p>
<p>Well, that about does it.</p>
<p>We're sorry to have troubled you.</p>
<p>There's been a major clampdown on illegal aliens...</p>
<p>marrying for residency status and a green card.</p>
<p>It's come down from the top. The White House.</p>
<p>Well, you don't want to get the wrong type.</p>
<p>- Precisely. - We understand.</p>
<p>As a matter of curiosity, how did you two meet?</p>
<p>I'm sure it was very romantic.</p>
<p>- We... You go ahead. - Well, uh... No, you, please.</p>
<p>- We just... - Please, you... We sort of crashed into each other. Boom!</p>
<p>- Like that. - Goodness.</p>
<p>- Yes, I was, uh, carrying a lot of parcels, and... - Parcels?</p>
<p>- Yes, parcels. And then l-I picked them up, and... - A-A-And... And Anton...</p>
<p>- Don't forget about Anton. - Ah, Anton, yes.</p>
<p>- He was with Georges, and I knew him. - Anton, yes. Yes, he also helped pick up the parcels.</p>
<p>Yes, but the point is, darling, is that he introduced us.</p>
<p>Oh, that's right. He did. He did, yes. Anton.</p>
<p>- And? - Well... - So, and...</p>
<p>- Ah, it was raining. And, uh... - Oh, yes! We got soaked.</p>
<p>I took one of her parcels when I pick up mine.</p>
<p>- Oh, you had parcels too? - Ah.</p>
<p>Uh, everyone had parcels. So many parcels.</p>
<p>So, uh, l-l-l... I picked up one of hers.</p>
<p>- By mistake. - Yes, so I had, uh, my parcels...</p>
<p>and, uh, her parcel...</p>
<p>and I was, uhh...</p>
<p>staggering around, like this.</p>
<p>And, uh...</p>
<p>Uh... Uh...</p>
<p>- Somebody better get the telephone. - It couldn't be for me.</p>
<p>Well, it could be, dear, but don't worry. I'll get it.</p>
<p>We don't want to have a husband-and-wife fight in front of our guests.</p>
<p>Hello? Phil!</p>
<p>You're still upstate, aren't you?</p>
<p>- No, I'm not glad you're still there. - Do go on, Mr. Faur?</p>
<p>- Phil, I can't talk right now. - Hmm?</p>
<p>The parcels? You were up to where you had her parcels.</p>
<p>- Oh, yes. Yes. - Oh! I'm excited.</p>
<p>- So I found this extra parcel. - Can I call you back?</p>
<p>I knew I had 9, and now 10. I say, &quot;What was going on?&quot;</p>
<p>I say to myself.</p>
<p>And l-I open it, and it was, um, uh, ladies' underwears.</p>
<p>Ladies' underwear.</p>
<p>- Look, um... Mm-hmm. - So, I called Anton...</p>
<p>and he said, uh, &quot;It must belong to Betty.&quot;</p>
<p>You mean Bront?</p>
<p>Yes. Bront?</p>
<p>But I didn't know her name...</p>
<p>and, uh, so, now I did.</p>
<p>- So, um... Yeah. - That's it.</p>
<p>- May I use your bathroom? - Hmm?</p>
<p>- The bathroom? - What for?</p>
<p>Uh, well, I need to use it.</p>
<p>- Uh, bathroom. - Oh!</p>
<p>- No, please, go ahead. - Where is it?</p>
<p>- What? - Uh, the lavatory.</p>
<p>Could you show me where it is?</p>
<p>- Oh, yes. Please follow me. - Why am I whispering?</p>
<p>Oh, that's great! Just great.</p>
<p>Oh! No, that used to be the bathroom...</p>
<p>before the renovations.</p>
<p>I keep forgetting.</p>
<p>Voil? This was the broom closet, but we made it into the bedroom. You see?</p>
<p>And this door is the bathroom.</p>
<p>Voil?</p>
<p>Let him move into my apartment? I can't believe you're saying this.</p>
<p>Well, don't look so shocked. Frankly, young lady...</p>
<p>I think you have your priorities all wrong, you kno...</p>
<p>You married a man you didn't know in order to get a greenhouse.</p>
<p>That shocked me.</p>
<p>All right, so I'm old-fashioned when it comes to marriage.</p>
<p>I happen to think that falling in love has something to do with it.</p>
<p>You don't? Fine.</p>
<p>But if marrying a stranger doesn't shock you, then letting him move in...</p>
<p>and spend a couple of nights sleeping on the sofa...</p>
<p>- Well, that shouldn't shock you either. - Oh, this isn't happening.</p>
<p>They want a second interview on Monday. This is Friday.</p>
<p>- That gives you the weekend to get your stories straight. - Two days?</p>
<p>Well, I don't see why he has to move in. Why can't he just meet me here in the park or something?</p>
<p>Because this interview's going to be in-depth.</p>
<p>They're gonna question you separately.</p>
<p>They're gonna want to know the color of each other's toothbrush.</p>
<p>Uh, what does he like to eat? I don't know. Does he snore?</p>
<p>You're gonna have to, uh, study each other's habits.</p>
<p>- It's like you're cramming for an exam. - Oh, God!</p>
<p>- Do I have no alternative? - Sure.</p>
<p>You can confess everything now, he'll be deported...</p>
<p>you could face charges, and no more greenhouse.</p>
<p>- It's like living in a police state. - No, no.</p>
<p>It's called breaking the law.</p>
<p>Now, no matter how trivial it may have seemed to you at the time...</p>
<p>that's what you've done.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think you should, uh, introduce Georges to some of your friends.</p>
<p>- My friends? - Let him get to know them. Say he's visiting from Paris or something.</p>
<p>No, I couldn't bear that. He's such a slob.</p>
<p>- I'll do it without anybody knowing. - Well, that's up to you.</p>
<p>But listen, get that story straight.</p>
<p>Oh, by Monday evening this'll all be over...</p>
<p>and we can start planning the divorce.</p>
<p>I can't wait.</p>
<p>For your pond.</p>
<p>Oh. Right. Thank you.</p>
<p>Wait and I'll show you around. Not that there's that much to see.</p>
<p>You do know where the bathroom is.</p>
<p>Shoo, shoo, shoo. Come on.</p>
<p>Shoo. Shoo.</p>
<p>Do you mind not smoking inside?</p>
<p>- What's this? - It's coffee. - No.</p>
<p>Yes, it is. It's decaf.</p>
<p>- Don't you have any real coffee? - I'm afraid not.</p>
<p>I'll make you the best coffee you ever had.</p>
<p>I only drink decaf.</p>
<p>You'll change when you taste this.</p>
<p>Look, I don't want anyone to know about this, okay?</p>
<p>So we have to make up a story in case we run into any of my friends.</p>
<p>Something simple. You're an old friend.</p>
<p>I admire your ballet music.</p>
<p>You're visiting from Paris.</p>
<p>You're staying with me for a couple of nights.</p>
<p>- You're gay. - Gay? I don't want to be gay.</p>
<p>Okay, you're not gay. You're just an old friend...</p>
<p>and the hotels are all booked up, so here you are.</p>
<p>Oh. Not a very good story.</p>
<p>Well, you come up with a better one then.</p>
<p>Well, I don't know. Something political?</p>
<p>Terrorist, maybe? Hmm?</p>
<p>No, not a terrorist. But political's good. A refugee.</p>
<p>That's it. That'll work. Yes.</p>
<p>No, we don't say anything.</p>
<p>Just a friend staying for a couple of nights.</p>
<p>- This is New York. - You're right.</p>
<p>- Mm-hmm. - Okay, you sleep on the couch...</p>
<p>and we split expenses.</p>
<p>I'll cook, hmm? Hmm?</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>Good.</p>
<p>Mm. It doesn't smell good. Put it back, please.</p>
<p>- For your birds? - What? - This is a birdseed, no?</p>
<p>- It's muesli. - Put it back. I'll get some croissants.</p>
<p>But I like birdseed.</p>
<p>- Sure. - No, okay. No, you... - No.</p>
<p>- Go ahead. No, please. No, no. - No, go ahead. Choose, please.</p>
<p>- Come on, honey. - Coming.</p>
<p>B?</p>
<p>Bront? Oh, it is you! Hey!</p>
<p>Lauren, what are you doing here?</p>
<p>What am I doing here? I'm, like, you know, buying food.</p>
<p>Well, it's just not your neighborhood.</p>
<p>Mother's having one of her little musical soirees.</p>
<p>I told her I'd pick up a few things for her. When am I gonna see your new apartment?</p>
<p>Hi.</p>
<p>Hi.</p>
<p>You're together?</p>
<p>Sort of. This is an old friend.</p>
<p>Georges Faur? this is Lauren Adler.</p>
<p>- Hi, Lauren. - Ooh, that accent! You're French, right?</p>
<p>Ooh. This is so weird. Everything in my life has been French lately.</p>
<p>Monday I buy a jacket. It's French. Wednesday I go see a French movie.</p>
<p>And then, last night, Tony says, &quot;Let's eat French.&quot;</p>
<p>It's like CarlJung. What do you call it? A coincidence... something.</p>
<p>- Coincidence. - Uh-huh.</p>
<p>So, nice to meet you, Bront?s French friend.</p>
<p>- Uh-huh. - Well, Lauren...</p>
<p>Look, if you want to eat French again, eh, I'm cooking.</p>
<p>For Bront? Hmm?</p>
<p>- Uh... - Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>I adore Paris. I'd go there all the time if I could.</p>
<p>- Oh, yes, yes, I know. - Oh, thanks. - Teach me, Daddy. Teach me.</p>
<p>Oh, but the last time was for six months.</p>
<p>- Hi, Mrs... - Not right now! - Oh, Mr. Faur?</p>
<p>Mr. Faur? Kids, meet Mr. Faur?</p>
<p>- He's the one that's been in Africa. - Hi.</p>
<p>Huh? My kids. Huh? Kids.</p>
<p>Maybe you two will be thinking about starting a family soon, huh?</p>
<p>- Shh! - Oh, shh, shh! - Georges!</p>
<p>- Yes? - Georges! - Yes, I'm coming.</p>
<p>Hold the elevator! Wait! Going up!</p>
<p>Hold it! Hold it!</p>
<p>Going up! Wait for me!</p>
<p>They should fix those doors.</p>
<p>Somebody'll get killed around here.</p>
<p>What did those government people want?</p>
<p>- It's nothing. - We don't know exactly what they want.</p>
<p>- What's this? - Georges' visa, a minor problem.</p>
<p>They said, does Mr. Faur?do this and that?</p>
<p>And about Mrs. Faur?.. Did she go to Africa? And so on.</p>
<p>Mrs. Faur?</p>
<p>Georges' mother.</p>
<p>- She died in Africa. - Oh, I'm sorry.</p>
<p>- Yes. - Oh.</p>
<p>Killed by the elephants.</p>
<p>I could just sit here and watch you all day, Georges.</p>
<p>Some stroke of luck, huh, B, having a French chef as a guest?</p>
<p>Stop it, Lauren.</p>
<p>So what are you doing in New York, Georges?</p>
<p>- I just crashed and... - Georges is a political...</p>
<p>- You go on. - No, go on. - No, you, please.</p>
<p>A political what?</p>
<p>Political, um, ballet.</p>
<p>I can't imagine a political ballet.</p>
<p>You know, it's sort of a...</p>
<p>Georges writes for the ballet. He's an old friend.</p>
<p>- He's... - Not gay. - Of course not.</p>
<p>- Good. - He just couldn't find a hotel.</p>
<p>- And he's been in Africa. - Look, we old friend.</p>
<p>- Yeah. - So I don't  her. Hmm?</p>
<p>What, did you kill somebody for this place?</p>
<p>You probably cut them up and used them for mulch.</p>
<p>This is amazing!</p>
<p>So is your French friend. I want details later.</p>
<p>Oh, Lauren, please.</p>
<p>My mother would adore this.</p>
<p>Oh, speaking of my mother, guess what!</p>
<p>She and Daddy are leaving New York.</p>
<p>- No! What about her beautiful gardens? - They're leaving.</p>
<p>Anyway, I've told Daddy all about the Green Worms or whatever they are.</p>
<p>- Green Guerillas. - Yeah, well, anyway...</p>
<p>being this great old liberal, he says how he'd like to give you and your group all the plants.</p>
<p>No, not those beautiful trees.</p>
<p>The trees, the plants, everything.</p>
<p>Oh, that's fantastic! Our stocks are so low. We're desperate for plants.</p>
<p>Uh, well, wait a minute. There's a problem.</p>
<p>Mother won't hear of it. But I don't know.</p>
<p>I think if you talked to her, maybe she'd change her mind.</p>
<p>Georges.</p>
<p>- No. - Yeah.</p>
<p>Bront? you didn't eat anything.</p>
<p>- It's not my kind of food. - She likes birdseed.</p>
<p>It's just not healthy, all that butter.</p>
<p>What's the point of life if you don't enjoy yourself? Hmm?</p>
<p>Do you mind?</p>
<p>You're like an old married couple.</p>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p>So how did you two meet?</p>
<p>Well, you know, Lauren, I was, uh, carrying a lot of parcels...</p>
<p>Lauren, it's a long story. Can I tell you later?</p>
<p>- I've got lots of work I need to do, cataloging plants. - I can take a hint.</p>
<p>- No. Oh, finish your wine. It's... - Oh.</p>
<p>A little bit more. Okay?</p>
<p>- Nice to have met you, Georges. - Nice to meet you, Lauren.</p>
<p>Nice... Eh, I see you again. Huh?</p>
<p>- He's gorgeous. - Lauren, look, I...</p>
<p>I can say this now. I did not like Phil.</p>
<p>Oh, so earnest, my God!</p>
<p>Phil and I are still very much together.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm so embarrassed.</p>
<p>I mean, I like Phil. He's very concerned about the environment and all that.</p>
<p>- Yes, he is. - Oh, typical me, putting my foot in it.</p>
<p>- Forget it. - Well, in that case...</p>
<p>I wouldn't mind seeing Georges again myself.</p>
<p>He's dishy. Gardeners are so weird.</p>
<p>- Bye, Lauren. - Ciao.</p>
<p>Why did you ask her to stay for lunch?</p>
<p>This is my apartment. This is not gonna work.</p>
<p>No, it won't work if I don't know everything about you.</p>
<p>That silly story about the parcels!</p>
<p>Your mother, the elephants, lying to my friends. It's all so horrible.</p>
<p>And I know you've got a cigarette, so you can smoke it outside!</p>
<p>You begin the lie when you married. I didn't make you lie.</p>
<p>- Well, I didn't ask her to lunch. - You always blame me. You did it too.</p>
<p>- Did what? - Married me!</p>
<p>I did it for the green card. Why did you do it?</p>
<p>- No one made you! No one! - Outside! Outside!</p>
<p>If you push me to be a beast, I can be a beast, so take care!</p>
<p>Now look what you've done, you silly French oaf!</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>- Hello? - Hey, it's me. I just wanted to thank you for lunch.</p>
<p>And that greenhouse! I'm so jealous!</p>
<p>Oh, Lauren, I'm so sorry about lying to you.</p>
<p>- Lying to me? What are you talking about? - I mean, not telling you...</p>
<p>y-y-you know, not having you over here before.</p>
<p>- You're my oldest friend. - Oh, please, forget it, B.</p>
<p>Oh, I haven't been myself lately. You're right about that.</p>
<p>Things are complicated right now.</p>
<p>You know, Mother's having this dinner party tonight.</p>
<p>Well, I just spoke to her, and she's invited you.</p>
<p>Great chance for you to work on her about the trees.</p>
<p>You could bring Georges.</p>
<p>What are you doing in here?</p>
<p>I went and, uh, I bought some beautiful tomatoes for you.</p>
<p>Look, that's sweet, but...</p>
<p>And outside... Come on. Come outside.</p>
<p>- And look here. We have radishes, peppers, carrots. - Oh, no, my plants!</p>
<p>- Just weeds. I pull... I pulled them out. - No, this is my research!</p>
<p>- Oh, I'm sorry. I bought this for you. - Just don't touch anything, okay?</p>
<p>- Okay, okay. - And don't go in the greenhouse anymore. That's all I ask.</p>
<p>It's my special place. Oh.</p>
<p>- You like your plants better than people. - Some people.</p>
<p>Oh, God.</p>
<p>Look. Truce, okay?</p>
<p>I don't make the war.</p>
<p>You asked me before why I did it... the marriage.</p>
<p>- Well, it was for the greenhouse. - Greenhouse?</p>
<p>I don't expect you to understand, but that's why I did it.</p>
<p>Oh, I understand.</p>
<p>You want something, you take it. Hmm?</p>
<p>We work tonight? Study, just like school?</p>
<p>- I have to go out. - Then I'll come too.</p>
<p>- No. - Why?</p>
<p>- Ah, your boyfriend, the vegetarian. - No, he's away.</p>
<p>- So! - No, it's Lauren's parents' place.</p>
<p>- Snob types, you'd call them. - Oh. I will embarrass you, huh?</p>
<p>- No. - Yes, too much oaf! - No.</p>
<p>S... The Adlers are thinking about giving some trees to a gardening group I'm in.</p>
<p>- What's that? - Oh, it's... it's just a gardening group.</p>
<p>We go into poor areas, like the Lower East Side, and...</p>
<p>I came from that life. You waste your time.</p>
<p>- What? - Yeah. Nothing will change down there.</p>
<p>It will always be that way.</p>
<p>- Better to forget about it. - Forget about it?</p>
<p>Yeah. Look, the trees are very good. Yes, sure, sure.</p>
<p>- But you can't eat the trees. - Well, nothing changes without hope.</p>
<p>- Oh, you think the gardens make hope? - Well, it's something.</p>
<p>The trees are very good, yes, but go to the country if you want trees. Huh?</p>
<p>You try telling that to the children.</p>
<p>They live with chaos, despair.</p>
<p>You may think it's nothing to give them a garden to plant...</p>
<p>or trees to climb, but at least it's doing something.</p>
<p>- If it amuses you, then do it. - Amuses me?</p>
<p>Chaos.</p>
<p>Despair.</p>
<p>- I'll take the mud slide. - Mud slide it is. Okay.</p>
<p>- Yeah! - Oh, Richard!</p>
<p>Now, little fish, swim!</p>
<p>- Better down. - What?</p>
<p>Y-Your hair looks better down.</p>
<p>I'll be back by 10:00. We can work then.</p>
<p>Please don't answer the phone or let anyone in.</p>
<p>Don't be late. Huh?</p>
<p>- Thanks a lot. - Grab it! - Cab! Taxi! Hey!</p>
<p>- Into the garden. - Thank you.</p>
<p>I woke up maybe six weeks ago...</p>
<p>and I said, &quot;Saul, this is it. We're leaving.&quot;</p>
<p>Bront? how exquisite you look.</p>
<p>- Thank you for asking me at the last minute. - No, not at all. Not at all.</p>
<p>It's just so wonderful to see you. It's been so long.</p>
<p>- And Lauren tells us you've got a brilliant new apartment. - Yes. Is she here yet?</p>
<p>My point is, it's not a question of whether or not it's pornographic.</p>
<p>The question is, whether or not it qualifes as art. I mean, pornography is...</p>
<p>But you... I mean, your own daughter! Have you seen the stuff she does?</p>
<p>Lafayette was on the horse and got off the horse...</p>
<p>and saluted my ancestor on both cheeks with a big kiss.</p>
<p>- Did he need to get off the horse? - Now, it's very stupid...</p>
<p>for these environmentalists to plant trees...</p>
<p>when they don't know what they're doing.</p>
<p>They don't listen to me, needless to say.</p>
<p>Of course, I'm just your average layman...</p>
<p>but I have written the appropriate authorities.</p>
<p>Oh, I'll go, Alberto. That'll be Lauren.</p>
<p>As an artist, our daughter reserves the right to be late.</p>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p>- At last! - Hi, Mother.</p>
<p>This is Georges Faur?from Paris.</p>
<p>- Hi. - Oh?</p>
<p>Come on in, Georges. Georges is Bront?s house guest, but she was too shy to bring him.</p>
<p>- You don't mind, do you, Mother? - But of course not.</p>
<p>- I went to pick up Bront?<br />
and found him all alone. - Do come in.</p>
<p>- Georges is a very important composer, Mother, so you two will have lots to talk about. - Oh, no, no, no.</p>
<p>- Oh! - No, no.</p>
<p>Mother plays the piano a little. Get it? A little.</p>
<p>Alberto, another place, if you will.</p>
<p>Everybody, I'd like to present Georges Faur?..</p>
<p>a leading French composer.</p>
<p>- Ah! - Oh, no, no.</p>
<p>Good evening.</p>
<p>- You see the man sitting across from you? - Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>He's very important. He's on the board of trustees.</p>
<p>Do you live in Paris, Georges?</p>
<p>Bront? he was all by himself. I really think he wanted to come out.</p>
<p>It's okay. It's okay.</p>
<p>Simon and Grace are about to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary.</p>
<p>- Aw! - Congratulations!</p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p>- How long have you been married? - I've been married 35 years. Sure.</p>
<p>Are you married, Georges?</p>
<p>Me? Well, uh...</p>
<p>not usually.</p>
<p>Whatever do you mean?</p>
<p>Well, uh, not normally.</p>
<p>- You're getting divorced? - Yes, definitely. - Oh.</p>
<p>B, you'll never get married.</p>
<p>- What makes you say that? - Oh, you've turned down enough offers.</p>
<p>You're gonna wind up some kind of grand old Kate Hepburn, surrounded by lots of beautiful plants.</p>
<p>Most men I know are too boring or too vulgar to spend the rest of your life with.</p>
<p>- You should change your brand of men. - Oh, really?</p>
<p>Really, B. You're nice. You look for the same thing in the man...</p>
<p>and you wind up with two nices.</p>
<p>Nice. What an awful word.</p>
<p>- Well, Phil's nice, isn't he? - Phil's different. He's a gardener.</p>
<p>Are you any relation?</p>
<p>Relation?</p>
<p>- Any relation to the Faur? - Who's that?</p>
<p>The Faur? Gabriel.</p>
<p>I love his chamber music and his compositions for the harp.</p>
<p>They're so sensual.</p>
<p>- We depend on donations, and... - Yeah.</p>
<p>We just don't have any plants. If you could see how these gardens change these children's lives...</p>
<p>- They just don't have... - I hear what you're saying, and I do hope you'll understand, Bront? but...</p>
<p>to break up that garden would be a crime.</p>
<p>See, I just can't do it, dear.</p>
<p>The pleasure it's given me that it'll give to...</p>
<p>well, to whoever buys the place.</p>
<p>You do understand?</p>
<p>- Thank you. - And now, Georges Faur?</p>
<p>- Oh, yeah, Georges. - No. No, no, no, I don't play well. - Please!</p>
<p>- You know, I'm not writing. - Oh, yes. - Please, Georges.</p>
<p>- Well, uh, one of your earlier pieces, perhaps? - We should be going. Uh...</p>
<p>Yes, we really must go. Georges has jet lag.</p>
<p>Oh, why not, Georges? Just one piece.</p>
<p>Oh, do you mind? It isn't often we have a Faur?in the house.</p>
<p>- Yes, that's true. - Please! - Come on, Georges.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>Ah.</p>
<p>It's not Mozart.</p>
<p>I know.</p>
<p>- Would you translate for me, madame? - Would I...</p>
<p>&quot;Once I heard the sound of the wind in the trees.&quot;</p>
<p>I think that's it.</p>
<p>&quot;Once I heard the sound of the laughter of children.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;And I wept warm, salty tears for the lost trees.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;Let the little children come unto the trees...</p>
<p>and I will give them hope,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>&quot;But there are no trees for the poor, lost, poor children.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;Decay is their toy.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;Despair is their game.&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;They have only chaos to climb.&quot;</p>
<p>- Bravo! - Bravo! - Beautiful!</p>
<p>Bravo!</p>
<p>Bravo!</p>
<p>I think you just got your trees.</p>
<p>No, no, no, no.</p>
<p>No. I've got it.</p>
<p>Excuse me.</p>
<p>Ah. Lauren.</p>
<p>Monticello face cream. &quot;Monticello.&quot;</p>
<p>Cream face. Okay.</p>
<p>Face cream. Okay.</p>
<p>- I hope it's okay. - What? - The sofa.</p>
<p>Oh, sure. Sure.</p>
<p>- Thank you. - What for? - For tonight. The song, the poem.</p>
<p>Oh, that. No, I didn't do it for you. I just did it for me.</p>
<p>- Oh. - You were mad when I came with Lauren.</p>
<p>- Yes, I was. - And if you're mad, uh, we don't study, huh?</p>
<p>And if we don't study, I don't get a green card.</p>
<p>- Are you composing something now? - Composing?</p>
<p>Well, you're always humming that little tune.</p>
<p>- Me, hum? I don't hum. - Yes, you do. All the time.</p>
<p>If it bothers you, l-l-I'll stop.</p>
<p>- No, I like it. - Oh, funny. It's the first thing you like about me.</p>
<p>I don't dislike you, Georges. I have no opinion of you.</p>
<p>I just want it over and my life to continue as it was before.</p>
<p>And I am waiting for my life to begin.</p>
<p>Okay. Let's get to work.</p>
<p>And this, uh, was at my grandmother's house.</p>
<p>- She had these beautiful, beautiful rose gardens. - Roses.</p>
<p>Actually, it was my-my grandfather...</p>
<p>who started the rose garden behind her house.</p>
<p>That's at the beach.</p>
<p>We always bought these little hats.</p>
<p>- And this is kindergarten. - Mm.</p>
<p>- Oh, and, uh, these are my brothers and sisters. - Oh.</p>
<p>My dad's a writer. They live in Connecticut.</p>
<p>He named us all after famous writers.</p>
<p>- Kind of puts a curse on your whole life. - Mm.</p>
<p>I think he wanted me to be something artistic.</p>
<p>It was okay when I was a dancer, but he doesn't really care for gardening.</p>
<p>- Hmm. - That's Colette...</p>
<p>- Colette. Mm-hmm. - Austen, Lawrence and Elliot.</p>
<p>- Colette, Austen, Lawrence, Elliot. - This is my dad, but, uh, there's a better picture.</p>
<p>- A strong face. - A strong man.</p>
<p>Very strong opinions. In fact, you and my father...</p>
<p>You couldn't get two people more different.</p>
<p>- Yeah, you'd hate each other. - Why?</p>
<p>Well, you're so right-wing about everything.</p>
<p>I'm not wing. You are the one with the wing.</p>
<p>- All your ideas are from the same place. - That's not true.</p>
<p>Huh?</p>
<p>These are from college, different demonstrations.</p>
<p>- What for? - Oh, everything. - Everything?</p>
<p>- This is Lauren. - Lauren, yeah?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>- And Phil? - Yes, that's Phil.</p>
<p>- Mm-hmm? - Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>You are in love with him? Hmm?</p>
<p>Yes. Yes, I am. He's kind and sensitive.</p>
<p>Vegetarian?</p>
<p>Yes, he cares about what he puts in his body.</p>
<p>Not like me, huh? Big pig.</p>
<p>Oh. I was 12 years old when I made that.</p>
<p>- Didn't the kids at school tease you? - School? No.</p>
<p>I left school at 10 years. This is the same as my father's, see.</p>
<p>He was a mechanic, but he always dreamed of the gypsies.</p>
<p>He would like to be a gypsy, traveling.</p>
<p>This one given to me by the putain. You know &quot;putain&quot;? Prostitute?</p>
<p>Two girls in our town.</p>
<p>Liane and Michelle.</p>
<p>Michelle had lovely red hair, long red hair.</p>
<p>And this is how the heart is. Love and hate.</p>
<p>If some people say they love everything, it's not true, you know?</p>
<p>This is how the heart is. This is my honesty.</p>
<p>And this one when I was a bad boy living in the street.</p>
<p>This is a knife, for revenge.</p>
<p>When someone meant something bad to you, you...</p>
<p>you make this tattoo until you find him and kill him.</p>
<p>Then you... you make another one here with the knife put away.</p>
<p>- But you don't have that one. - I don't find him yet.</p>
<p>- Were you ever in jail? - Yeah.</p>
<p>- What for? - Just kid stuff.</p>
<p>Stealing cars. N-Nothing serious.</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>And, uh, when is your menstruation?</p>
<p>- My... - Menstruation.</p>
<p>Beginning of the month or the end of the month? When?</p>
<p>- Oh. - Huh?</p>
<p>It's at the... It's the beginning of the month.</p>
<p>Beginning. Okay.</p>
<p>I didn't really believe that you were a composer.</p>
<p>I mean, we told so many lies, it's hard to know what the truth is.</p>
<p>You just have to trust your instinct.</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>- This was my, uh, first boyfriend from college. - Hmm.</p>
<p>He was a musician too. He played, uh...</p>
<p>the slide trombone.</p>
<p>And it was he who first kissed those lips?</p>
<p>I don't think they're gonna ask you that.</p>
<p>Good night.</p>
<p>Hmm.</p>
<p>- Bront? - Yes?</p>
<p>What side of the bed do you sleep on?</p>
<p>The right side.</p>
<p>Okay. I'll take the left side.</p>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p>Huh.</p>
<p>Bront? come on. We have, uh, work to do.</p>
<p>Work.</p>
<p>&quot;Africa, Sunday.</p>
<p>&quot;Ch&eacute;rie...</p>
<p>&quot;it is hot here in Africa...</p>
<p>&quot;and very green.</p>
<p>&quot;The elephants have been restless again.</p>
<p>&quot;I think it must be the drums.</p>
<p>&quot;It makes them crazy.</p>
<p>&quot;I miss you every day...</p>
<p>&quot;and I ask the same question:</p>
<p>When are you coming, ch&eacute;rie?&quot;</p>
<p>&quot;Dear Georges...</p>
<p>&quot;the apartment is looking beautiful.</p>
<p>&quot;I only have to look in the fish pond to think of you.</p>
<p>&quot;Hurry home.</p>
<p>&quot;You are never far from my thoughts.</p>
<p>Much love, B.&quot;</p>
<p>- This is ridiculous! - No, no, no. Look.</p>
<p>For the green card, I do anything. Look.</p>
<p>Give me camera, huh?</p>
<p>- We need blue sky. Ah! - Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>We are on honeymoon, and we have to smile like oafs.</p>
<p>Okay, now, do it, yes.</p>
<p>- Do on the skis, okay? - Okay, I'll do one. L-I'll do one.</p>
<p>Okay. On the slaloms, you know? I'm very good on slalom. Will you remember, hmm?</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>- Okay. I need some blue sky. - We're loadin'up our Woody</p>
<p>- With our boards inside and headin'out singin'our song - Okay.</p>
<p>- That's good. - Come on, baby, wait and see</p>
<p>- Okay, that's it. That-That-That's great! - Yes, I'm gonna take you surfin' with me</p>
<p>- Come along, baby, surfin'safari - Okay. That's good.</p>
<p>- Yeah, I'm gonna take you surfin' with me - Surfin'safari</p>
<p>- Let's go surfin'now everybody's learnin'how - Oh, lovely, lovely.</p>
<p>Come on and safari with me</p>
<p>- Okay. - Come on. Political ballet.</p>
<p>- What? - I make the oppressed. You make the victory.</p>
<p>- Okay. - Victory! - Victory.</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>- Victory. - Okay?</p>
<p>- Okay. One more. - Oh!</p>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p>The green... Yes. Put the plant behind you.</p>
<p>Uh, faites attention.</p>
<p>- Put-Put-Put the green plant... - Of course. The green plant...</p>
<p>There. That's-That's good. Okay.</p>
<p>- We feel the elephants? - I feel them, but, oh, maybe with the knife, like you could...</p>
<p>Yes. Ah, uh... Th... Uh, yes.</p>
<p>- This is so silly. - No, no, no, no. That's all right.</p>
<p>- One more. Smile. - Okay.</p>
<p>- Okay. One more. - What now?</p>
<p>- Handyman. - Handyman? - Yes.</p>
<p>The good husband always does handyman things.</p>
<p>- Oh! Okay, okay. - Yes.</p>
<p>How 'bout these?</p>
<p>Oh, great. Great.</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>Smile.</p>
<p>- Okay, do some handyman things. - Yeah?</p>
<p>Stay here.</p>
<p>- Hello? - Surprise! It's us, darling. We're in your lobby.</p>
<p>Mother! Why didn't you call?</p>
<p>- Can we come up? - Of course! I... Look, um...</p>
<p>- You're sure it's all right? - Of course. Come on up.</p>
<p>Georges! Georges, it's my parents.</p>
<p>- This is the worst. You've gotta go. They'll kill me. - Okay. I'll change.</p>
<p>- No, no. There's no time. - Okay. No time.</p>
<p>- Take, uh, the skis. Put them back in the closet. - The skis, yes. The skis.</p>
<p>Open... Open this, please. Fine.</p>
<p>Okay. Thank you.</p>
<p>- Open! - Oh. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.</p>
<p>- It's okay. - Come on.</p>
<p>Just go. I'll make something up.</p>
<p>Could I have a chat with you and your husband, Mrs. Faur?</p>
<p>- He was just leaving, Mrs. Bird. - Yes. - But I want to know about these government people.</p>
<p>- And last night I heard drums, jungle drums. - No, no, no.</p>
<p>- No, no, no. - Not now, Mrs. Bird. Please. - They keep asking all sorts of questions about you and your husband.</p>
<p>He's not a spy or something, is he?</p>
<p>Of course not, Mrs. Bird.</p>
<p>Georges. Oh, Mom, Dad!</p>
<p>- What's going on? - Hello, darling.</p>
<p>- Hi. I'll speak to you later, Mrs. Bird. - How about the drums?</p>
<p>- Later. - What?</p>
<p>I'll talk to you later.</p>
<p>- If you'd have called, I would have prepared something. - I made you something.</p>
<p>Since you never come visit these days, I guess it's up to us.</p>
<p>Oh, no, it's not that. Your father had to see someone.</p>
<p>- Hokey sort of entrance. - Oh, it's lovely.</p>
<p>- This is Georges. - Hello.</p>
<p>Hi.</p>
<p>A handyman.</p>
<p>- Oh. - Ah. - If you could just finish up the work, Georges.</p>
<p>- Yeah. Right. I just finish my work. - Oh, darling, it's beautiful.</p>
<p>- I know now why you were so excited. - It's awfully small.</p>
<p>Did they sign the big contracts, Dad?</p>
<p>- No. We're not gonna talk about that. - Ah, did they sign the contracts?</p>
<p>No! They backed out. Liars!</p>
<p>- They lied to me. - Dear, don't upset yourself.</p>
<p>- One thing I can't stand is a liar. - You read your paper, dear.</p>
<p>We're gonna look at the greenhouse. He's upset.</p>
<p>- Oh, yes. - Oh, it is too beautiful to imagine!</p>
<p>- Do you want a hand, there, Georges? - Oh, no, thanks.</p>
<p>I'm just... just measuring.</p>
<p>Oh. Measuring.</p>
<p>- She's had the baby already. Premature. - Oh? Premature? What'd they name her?</p>
<p>Tiffany. Now they have a Tiffany and a Tarquin.</p>
<p>- Thank you. - Pretentious.</p>
<p>- Dear! - Well, he's a pretentious writer too. - Ho-ho.</p>
<p>Well, he is. Well, don't you think so?</p>
<p>- You are in a bad mood. - I need a screw.</p>
<p>- Pardon? - I really need a screw.</p>
<p>- I thought you were leaving. - I just fixed the door, but I need a...</p>
<p>I heard what you said. In the cupboard under the sink.</p>
<p>I'm gonna help Georges. He seems a bit lost.</p>
<p>Oh, you have to taste this.</p>
<p>Never mind your principles. Taste this.</p>
<p>Let's get those orchids, Mom. I'm sure you want to be on your way.</p>
<p>Oh, no, dear. We're not in a hurry, not at all.</p>
<p>You're not really a handyman, are you Georges?</p>
<p>- No. I'm a composer. - Oh.</p>
<p>I used to be a cleaner when I first started writing.</p>
<p>Long, long time ago. We'd just got married...</p>
<p>against the wishes of my parents, I might add.</p>
<p>Didn't have a bean.</p>
<p>We fell in love right off.</p>
<p>Oh, it was diffcult, very diffcult.</p>
<p>But, yeah, when you're in love, you know.</p>
<p>- Shipboard romance is what it was. - Excuse me.</p>
<p>- Oh, I'll get it. - No. It's okay. It's okay. No.</p>
<p>Bront? come here a minute. What is this?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>It was right in the middle of a lifeboat drill.</p>
<p>We suddenly found ourselves in the same boat.</p>
<p>- Shouldn't you be going, Georges? - Now, you go on outside with your mother. Outside.</p>
<p>- But? - Georges and I have everything under control.</p>
<p>Go on. Out you go.</p>
<p>We've been talking about music and love and skiing...</p>
<p>and all manner of things, haven't we, Georges?</p>
<p>- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. - Sit down.</p>
<p>Oh, I like your Georges, Bront?</p>
<p>- A charming man. - He's not my Georges, Mother.</p>
<p>- He should have left by now. - Well, he's keeping your father happy.</p>
<p>And you know how restless he gets in the city.</p>
<p>So let's be grateful.</p>
<p>Height, five feet seven.</p>
<p>- Five eight. - Five eight.</p>
<p>- Weight, 140 pounds. - No!</p>
<p>- Huh? - No, 125.</p>
<p>- Twenty-five? - Yeah.</p>
<p>Eyes?</p>
<p>- Brown. - Brown, yeah.</p>
<p>- Small scar on your ankle. - How did you know?</p>
<p>I know. I saw it.</p>
<p>Birthday, 24th August, 1959.</p>
<p>Correct. Okay, my turn.</p>
<p>Uh, eyes, green.</p>
<p>- Height... - Nose, big!</p>
<p>- Oh, no! - Yes, sure it is.</p>
<p>- Height, uh, five eleven. - Yeah.</p>
<p>Um, weight?</p>
<p>Oof! Weight! You worry too much about weight.</p>
<p>- Um, at 17, you met Helene. - Yeah.</p>
<p>She was at the University of Paris.</p>
<p>- She taught you to read and write music. - Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>- And you lived together for seven years, until she died. - S-Seven. Seven years, yeah.</p>
<p>And then you gave up your music for many years, right?</p>
<p>Yes, but I don't write any music.</p>
<p>I just play piano, always in the bars.</p>
<p>Yes!</p>
<p>- And Anton heard you one night in Paris... - Yeah.</p>
<p>And said that he would help you start over in America.</p>
<p>Yes! And I wake up in America. Beautiful country, land of opportunity.</p>
<p>Uh-huh, ha, ha, ha.</p>
<p>Okay, back to work.</p>
<p>Um, you live with two men.</p>
<p>First Peter, then Stephen.</p>
<p>- Both nice guy. - Nice?</p>
<p>Yes, that's what you said. Yes.</p>
<p>And Stephen wanted to &quot;marriage&quot; you, but, uh, you think that marriage is boring.</p>
<p>- Ah! Except for ours. - Oh, yeah.</p>
<p>Then you met, uh, Phil.</p>
<p>Phil.</p>
<p>- Him you really love, huh? - But you can't tell them that.</p>
<p>- And I left Phil. - And married me, because...</p>
<p>You're different and funny.</p>
<p>And don't forget a... a good handyman.</p>
<p>Right.</p>
<p>You've had lots of women, but you haven't really loved anyone...</p>
<p>since Helene, except for me.</p>
<p>- And you fell in love with me because... - Ah!</p>
<p>What's a good reason? I just can't think.</p>
<p>It can't be that hard to think of a reason.</p>
<p>Uh, let me see. Ahh!</p>
<p>There must be a reason.</p>
<p>Oh, yes! Yes.</p>
<p>Because I begin to hear music again.</p>
<p>- It's like when I was a little girl. - Yeah?</p>
<p>The same thing.</p>
<p>- The pot. - Sure.</p>
<p>No, I gave you a five, right? Yeah, okay.</p>
<p>- What is it? - Nothing.</p>
<p>- What? What? - Don't wait up for me.</p>
<p>- Phil? Phil! - Hey-hey!</p>
<p>Hey! Oh, ho!</p>
<p>You look beautiful.</p>
<p>- Let's go around to your place. - Wait.</p>
<p>- Or we can go around to Angelo's. - No.</p>
<p>- Oh, God. I'm hungry. Let's go. - No, no, no, no, no. Let's go this way.</p>
<p>No, no. It's all arranged. Come on. I made a reservation. Come here.</p>
<p>- Let's go have dinner around... just around the corner here. - No, no, no, no, no.</p>
<p>- I have it all planned. Let's go this way. - Come on. - No, no, no.</p>
<p>- Oh, come on. - So tell me everything you did while I was away.</p>
<p>- Not much. - Not much? So you missed me?</p>
<p>- Oh, yes. - Yes?</p>
<p>- Yes. - I missed you a lot. You sure you missed me?</p>
<p>- Of course. - You sure? - Yes.</p>
<p>You don't look like you did. No. Looks to me like I missed you more than you missed me.</p>
<p>That's not true.</p>
<p>- You should have been there. It was beautiful. - Three tofus and a brown rice.</p>
<p>I saw us there. Out in the middle of nowhere, grow our own food.</p>
<p>One night there was this incredible moon.</p>
<p>- You should've seen it. Wow! - We had the same moon.</p>
<p>Well, yeah, but you should have seen it without all the crap in the sky.</p>
<p>It was glorious. It was a cloudy night.</p>
<p>Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this giant shaft of moonlight breaks through the clouds.</p>
<p>It was all of a sudden like daytime...</p>
<p>with giant shadows being cast from the trees.</p>
<p>Ohh.</p>
<p>Oh, what a beauty.</p>
<p>- Now go! - No.</p>
<p>- Phil! - The guard isn't here.</p>
<p>Ohh. Look, we'll get together tomorrow, okay? Please.</p>
<p>Just to the door, Bront?</p>
<p>There might be some intruder lurking about.</p>
<p>- Hey, this is nice! - Okay.</p>
<p>- You've seen me to the door. Now go. - No.</p>
<p>No. I can't go until I've seen the greenhouse.</p>
<p>- Oh, Phil, you've had too much to drink. - Yeah.</p>
<p>- Come here. Mmm! - Mmm.</p>
<p>- Oh, you feel so good. - Oh, Phil, no. Please.</p>
<p>- Mmm. - Oh.</p>
<p>Oh, Bront? Oh, oh!</p>
<p>- Phil. - Mmm, mmm.</p>
<p>- Oh. - Phil, no, no!</p>
<p>You heard what she said!</p>
<p>Oh, merde!</p>
<p>- She said go. Okay? - Who's this?</p>
<p>- Go or I'll throw you out. - Georges, how dare you?</p>
<p>- Bront? talk to me. Who is this? - Get out, vegetarian!</p>
<p>- Who the hell do you think you are? - Georges, no! - I'm the husband, that's who.</p>
<p>- What'd you say? - That's my wife you've been grabbing. Now get out.</p>
<p>Bront? Bront? Is this true?</p>
<p>Yes, but it's not the way you think. Oh, God.</p>
<p>- What? - Oh, God! - Out.</p>
<p>- Now wait a minute. - Out, out, out, out.</p>
<p>Hey! You're the waiter from that restaurant.</p>
<p>- Get out! Out. - I don't know what's going on, but I'm gonna find out, pal.</p>
<p>Go on, get out! Carrot! Cucumber!</p>
<p>- No! - Now you go.</p>
<p>- The interview! We're going tomorrow. - Out! Now!</p>
<p>- Are you upset? - Upset? Upset!</p>
<p>- Out, out! - No, no. But the interview!</p>
<p>- I don't care. I don't care what happens. - Bront? please.</p>
<p>Now go or I'll call the police. I'll call Immigration.</p>
<p>Jail would be better than this. At least I'd have a cell to myself!</p>
<p>Oh. Come on. D-Don't be childish.</p>
<p>- Bront? - Ohh!</p>
<p>Bront? Open, Bront?</p>
<p>Bront? Bront? Bront?</p>
<p>Bront?</p>
<p>Get up. Go on. Get up.</p>
<p>Up! Out! Out!</p>
<p>Oh, no.</p>
<p>Up! Out! Back to the subway.</p>
<p>- It's you! - Uh, good morning, Mrs. Bird.</p>
<p>Ever since you people moved in, there's been nothing but trouble.</p>
<p>I didn't want to wake you, ch&eacute;rie.</p>
<p>- You forgot your key again. - Yes. Al-Always forgetting the key.</p>
<p>You should have gone to a hotel, dear!</p>
<p>But the board wouldn't approve of such a thing! Sleeping in the hallways.</p>
<p>- Excuse me. - This isn't Africa, you know.</p>
<p>I realize that, Mrs. Bird. It won't happen again.</p>
<p>Mrs. Bird!</p>
<p>- Why did you do that last night? - I just don't like vegetarians.</p>
<p>- Don't be ridiculous! - The way he was bothering you, I lost control.</p>
<p>- Is that supposed to be an apology? - He's not right for you.</p>
<p>Oh, really? He knows more about people's feelings than you'll ever know.</p>
<p>- Feelings? You don't have feelings at all. - You snore, and your manners are atrocious.</p>
<p>- Ah, if you think that's important, you're a snob. - Well, you're a slob, you're overweight, you're disgusting!</p>
<p>You say you are a rebel, but you are afraid of your father.</p>
<p>- My father's made something of his life. - But you live your life like you got it from a book.</p>
<p>- Well, you're 40, and you sleep in the park. - And Phil?</p>
<p>Oh, yes, you make-a nice love with Phil, like-a vegetables. You need a .</p>
<p>That's the language of the gutter, where you came from and where you'll end up.</p>
<p>I am... I am the gutter, yes. But you... You are like a plant.</p>
<p>A ca-ca... cactus!</p>
<p>I once said I had no opinion of you, and now I do.</p>
<p>- I hate you. I really hate you! - Good, good. Your first feeling. Good.</p>
<p>- Oh, God. The interview! - Oh, my God!</p>
<p>- Oh, oh! Oh! - Do you have... Do you have a...</p>
<p>Yeah. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it.</p>
<p>- Move it, you stupid moron! - I'm stuck. I'm stuck.</p>
<p>- Come on. We'll take the subway. - Well, you can take the subway, lady, but you ain't goin' nowhere.</p>
<p>- The subway? Where? - The water main broke. - The park. The park. Come on!</p>
<p>The whole city's falling apart!</p>
<p>Come on. We'll get a cab on the other side.</p>
<p>But the park is too far, Bront? Bront? it's too far!</p>
<p>Come on. Up there.</p>
<p>- This way. - You're sure? You're sure, huh?</p>
<p>- Yes. - Because we can't get lost.</p>
<p>I'm sure. Of course I'm sure.</p>
<p>- To the right. Right. - Where?</p>
<p>Come on. Come on. Run for it. Take care.</p>
<p>Oh.</p>
<p>Oh. We're nearly there.</p>
<p>- This way? - We're not far. Oh.</p>
<p>Come on!</p>
<p>- Children! - Taxi?</p>
<p>- Taxi! Taxi! Taxi! - Taxi! Taxi!</p>
<p>Number 75.</p>
<p>We're the next.</p>
<p>Father, Sydney.</p>
<p>Face cream, Monticello.</p>
<p>Monticello. Monticello.</p>
<p>Your father's name, was it Bertrand or Bernard?</p>
<p>- Rene. - Oh.</p>
<p>Seventy-six? Seventy-six.</p>
<p>You wait in here, Mr. Faur?</p>
<p>And Mrs. Faur? if you'll follow me.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Mr. Faur? as you know, we have doubts...</p>
<p>that your marriage is bona fide.</p>
<p>I have here a number of detailed questions.</p>
<p>Your answers will help us make a determination.</p>
<p>I want you to be brief and to the point.</p>
<p>I ask you to raise your right hand.</p>
<p>Do you hereby swear that the evidence you're about to give...</p>
<p>is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?</p>
<p>- I do. - I do.</p>
<p>Your name is Bront?Mitchell Faur?</p>
<p>Her father is a writer.</p>
<p>- His name? - Sydney. Sydney Parrish.</p>
<p>He didn't have a formal education.</p>
<p>He ran away from home when he was 12.</p>
<p>Plants. She loves all flowers and weeds. That's her research.</p>
<p>He knows I love salads.</p>
<p>He likes all fatty foods, you know, being French.</p>
<p>She likes to eat such a thing as birdseed.</p>
<p>- Birdseed? - Yes.</p>
<p>Muesli and decaf. Horrible coffee!</p>
<p>He hums all the time.</p>
<p>- Hums? - He's composing.</p>
<p>He hasn't written in a long time.</p>
<p>He says he's not sensitive, but that's not true.</p>
<p>He's a very sensitive man.</p>
<p>He makes me laugh.</p>
<p>She's very kind to people.</p>
<p>Me, I don't think that way.</p>
<p>I don't trust people.</p>
<p>He's had a hard life.</p>
<p>In a way, he hasn't learned to give, but he's got so much to give.</p>
<p>She has peace.</p>
<p>I don't have peace.</p>
<p>He has passion. He eats life.</p>
<p>I'm sure that just about does it. Just a few more details.</p>
<p>- Five, uh, feet eight. - Five eleven.</p>
<p>- Hundred and twenty-five. - He won't tell me how much he weighs.</p>
<p>- She sleeps on the right side of the bed. - He's on the left.</p>
<p>- Her toothbrush? Green. - Mine's green.</p>
<p>Her face cream?</p>
<p>Monticello.</p>
<p>Monaco. No.</p>
<p>Monte Carlo.</p>
<p>That's the only answer I keep forgetting.</p>
<p>You remember all the other answers?</p>
<p>Is not her fault. So, please, don't touch her.</p>
<p>- I was good, I think. - Me too.</p>
<p>I think you're gonna get what you want.</p>
<p>- Your green card. - Oh, yes.</p>
<p>I'll see you again? I mean, I have to get my things.</p>
<p>- Well, I can leave them with Oscar. - Oscar? Uh, good idea.</p>
<p>Yes, right. You're right. Oscar. Yeah.</p>
<p>As soon as we hear something, we can start...</p>
<p>you know, the divorce.</p>
<p>Oh. As soon as possible. Yeah. Mm-hmm.</p>
<p>Good luck with your music.</p>
<p>I hope you get your big trees, huh?</p>
<p>- Good-bye, Georges. - Good-bye, Bront?</p>
<p>Oh! The ring.</p>
<p>No, thank you.</p>
<p>- I... - Good morning, Mrs. Faur?</p>
<p>Mr. Faur?just stopped by. He... He said to give you this.</p>
<p>L-I guess his-his flight was delayed.</p>
<p>Yes. Well, thank you, Oscar.</p>
<p>&quot;Africa, Tuesday.</p>
<p>&quot;Ch&eacute;rie...</p>
<p>&quot;the elephants have been restless again.</p>
<p>&quot;So restless, I just can't sleep.</p>
<p>&quot;I would love to say a last good-bye...</p>
<p>before this next safari.&quot;</p>
<p>Oh!</p>
<p>- It's okay. - What?</p>
<p>Monticello. I think I tried too hard. I blew it.</p>
<p>Oh. Why didn't you tell me?</p>
<p>It's all right.</p>
<p>We made a deal. If I leave quickly...</p>
<p>then you keep your beautiful greenhouse.</p>
<p>I don't care about the greenhouse.</p>
<p>It's time to go, Mr. Faur?</p>
<p>No, no!</p>
<p>- I write. - Let's go!</p>
<p>- I write every day. - Now, Mr. Faur?</p>
<p>And the letters will always say the same thing:</p>
<p>&quot;When are you coming, ch&eacute;rie?&quot;</p>
<p>Last night</p>
<p>- I had a dream - Ooh</p>
<p>- About a home - No!</p>
<p>- No! - That was so bright</p>
<p>I don't know why it has to be a dream</p>
<p>Oh, ch&eacute;rie.</p>
<p>- Why can't I, when will I Lord help me - Do you still have them?</p>
<p>- Oh. Oh, yeah. - Help me find a home</p>
<p>Keep your eyes</p>
<p>On the prize</p>
<p>- Oh. - Don't be dismayed</p>
<p>Don't be dismayed</p>
<p>- I do. - Deep in your heart</p>
<p>You must believe</p>
<p>Everything is gonna be all right</p>
<p>- So do I. - Everything is gonna</p>
<p>Be all right</p>
<p>Everything is gonna be all right</p>
<p>Someday</p>
<p>Sometimes hot</p>
<p>And sometimes cold</p>
<p>Sometimes I'm in Sometimes I'm out</p>
<p>No, I haven't had much to eat</p>
<p>Lord knows</p>
<p>I haven't had much sleep you know</p>
<p>Keep your eyes on the prize</p>
<p>Don't be dismayed</p>
<p>Don't be dismayed</p>
<p>Deep in your heart</p>
<p>You must believe</p>
<p>Everything is gonna be all right</p>
<p>Everything is gonna be all right</p>
<p>Everything is gonna be all right</p>
<p>Someday</p>
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