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And I adore theater.
I review plays for a magazine.
Would you like to go with me
sometime to the theater?
- Yes.
- Sorry.
Go to the theater?
- Why don't you take her to the prom?
- I get it.
This girl is...
She's a throw-back to a completely
different time. She has to be wooed.
I thought we were talking about sex.
You know for a Pulitzer Prize winning poet,
sometimes you display a
remarkable lack of imagination.
That's why they gave me the f***ing prize.
Don't tell me you've never been
through the process of talking the talk.
That's why I have a family for
Christ's sake. I talk to them.
Maybe you should get married again.
George!
Talk the talk with your wife if you
feel like it, go to the museums,
look at all the Goyas that you want,
but keep the sex part just for sex.
Alright.
to your wife, George?
No. One all.
I'm not hitting that.
Sneaking off for a smoke?
- You know you shouldn't smoke.
- You tell me that
in this bed, every 3 weeks.
- I'm under a lot of pressure.
- I like to be consistent.
So do I.
You've been trying to get me
to quit smoking for 20 years.
Since the first day of your class.
Oh my God, your class made me smoke.
I'm under a lot of stress.
- Oh, how was Chicago?
- Cleveland.
Chicago was last week.
Atlanta's next week.
You sound like Cary Grant
in "North by Northwest".
Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha!
Ha ha, laugh, just try being a
woman running your own business.
I thought you liked
being your own boss.
I do. Oh, I do, I do.
Thank god for these little interludes.
That's all I can say.
Aren't you going to get that?
There's only one person in the world that
would call me at 2 o'clock in the morning
Leave a message.
Did you get my email?
I really need to talk to you.
Ah, I should have known better than
to think you'd be home at this hour.
Or maybe you are home and listening
to this, all snug and smug.
Well, you ran out on him.
I ran out on a marriage that
I got myself into out of youth
Sometimes you pay for liberation.
That's the price he pays
the heroic...
defender of the abandoned mother.
I mean if any one of us
could make it over the wall.
He sat on my case,
isn't there some statute of limitations?
I've tried.
Really, I've tried.
When he was 12 or 13 one time,
he came to spend the summer
with me, I took him to the Mets.
He spent the next five innings
throwing up in the men's room,
he's been throwing up ever since,
that phone call was him throwing up.
You know what's wild?
He's successful.
Kenny Kepesh,
A well respected doctor,
my son, the doctor.
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