Intolerable Cruelty Page #2

Let me finish, please.

I'm not concerned

with who slapped whom first.

Your husband, who had beaten you repeatedly...

No, he never...

Please... repeatedly, was at the time

brandishing your firearm.

- It was his gun.

- And we'll get it back for you.

Trying, in his rage,

to shoot an acquaintance,

a friend of long standing.

They never really cared

for each other.

And if not for your

cool-headed intervention,

his tantrum might have ended this

schmo's life and ruined his own.

As for the sexual indiscretion

which he imagined took place,

wasn't it in fact he...

who was sleeping with the pool man?

No?

Am I going too far here?

Were his sexual... No.

I don't...

Sorry. I'm not omniscient.

The point is that he acted upon an

assumption which he cannot prove,

and I take it you deny.

- Well...

- Fine. I'll take the case.

It's imperative that I meet with Oliver Olerud

before we proceed any further...

so that I can massage the kinks

out of our testimony.

Do you really think

we can put all this across?

The truth is so self-evident

to me, Mrs. Donaly,

that I'm sure I'll be able to make it

equally as transparent to anyjury,

should your husband

decide to take it that far.

We'll need to caucus again to draw up

a picture of your husband's net worth.

A map of enemy territory,

so to speak.

You said he's a television producer?

He has a soap opera... The Sands of Time.

It's a silly show.

Well, it'll be yours soon.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Massey.

Yeah. Bye-bye.

Still, you have to admire him

for taking those pictures.

Now, Mrs. Gutman,

you testified that you were

your husband's sexual slave...

for 36 years during

your marriage.

Except for two years when he was

in the navy in Southeast Asia.

And before your marriage,

what was your profession?

I was a hostess for Braniff Airlines.

And what is your husband's profession?

He manufactures staples

and industrial brad tacks.

He's very successful.

How would you describe

your husband's sexual proclivities?

Well, at first he was

a very gentle and tender lover.

But then he became

more and more fixated...

on toys and machinery

and devices of various kinds.

I can't help it.

You don't decide to become bored.

It just happens.

You're just looking for trouble.

It's a midlife crisis.

Look, get yourself a new car.

I have a new car.

I have two new cars and a tab

at the Mercedes dealership.

Torn the house down

twice,

rebuilt

the cabin in Vail,

got three of those, uh...

yard people...

Gardeners? Gardeners. I've

got a man who waxes my jet.

These encounters

were videotaped.

Sometimes

there would be a gizmo.

A gizmo?

He had a device he

called the Intruder.

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