
Bird
- R
- Year:
- 1988
- 161 min
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(0.00 / 0 votes)Go, Bird!
You're awake.
I'm glad.
Halfway through the last set,
guess who dropped in on me?
My ulcers.
I gave them some codeine
and they wouldn't go away.
What else happened?
The strings, they went into
the intro to "Easy to Love"...
...and I started playing...
... "If I Should Lose You."
Didn't fit.
Not even when I tried to make it fit.
It wouldn't fit.
Wouldn't nobody have noticed
except for maybe...
...Dizzy Gillespie...
...but Dizzy Gillespie is on the road
somewhere, far as I know.
Is that all?
No.
I'm grateful
that you didn't bolt the door.
I expected
that I was going to have to...
...talk my way back in here.
Did you get my note?
I left it on the refrigerator.
What else happened?
What else?
About what you'd expect.
Steinberg...
...he got one of the camera girls...
...to take a picture of me...
...in the midst of my disorientation.
Something to show the union.
I said:
"You don't give me
that negative back...
...I don't work here no more."
So I don't work there no more.
To hell with them.
I'm hungry.
Are you?
Oh.
We have decided to humor him...
...this evening.
If he says that he's having pain
from his ulcers...
...never mind
that we don't believe it!
I believe it.
Work that psychology on him.
He's just an overgrown,
goddamn adolescent anyway.
Dangerous when contradicted...
...but an adolescent.
God, you're weird.
God, I'm weird?
Is that what they say in Westchester?
I hear that Steinberg...
...he lives in Westchester.
What do you mean,
"To hell with them?"
Why don't you stick up for your own
people? Stick up for somebody!
This is getting ugly again.
Maybe I should have bolted the door.
Don't let me mess up your plans.
I'll bolt the door.
I got him.
I got him.
[BABY CRYING]
- I said I got him!
- Don't touch him!
What you hitting me for like that?
What do you think I had on my mind?
Nothing.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
We just put one child in the grave.
Hey, don't.
What did you think I would do?
Forgive me.
I was humoring you.
I'm sorry.
It's okay. It's okay.
- Guess what I did yesterday.
- What?
I went to the lawyers...
...and I made a will.
And I left everything to you.
There's no harm in
getting your affairs in order.
I don't want to hear about
that will, man.
I can't do anything right anymore.
Do we have any Gelusil?
We sure do. Got a brand-new
50-gallon drum in the bathroom.
Come, fill the cup
And in the fire of spring
Your winter garment
of repentance fling
The bird of time
Has but a little way to flutter
And bird is on the wing.
That was stupid.
Now I'll have to call an ambulance.
Case number 1540:
Patient admitted to psychiatric
at request of wife...
...following suicide attempt
by ingestion of iodine.
Time:
5 a.m., September 1, 1954.Patient has a past history of,
quote, "nervous breakdown," unquote...
...for which he was hospitalized
in California for eight months.
The wife says this attempt
was related to depression...
...over the death of their daughter...
...and also by reverses in, quote,
"his career," end of quote.
Apparently he's a musician.
- Where's he been put?
- PQ-3, semi-agitative.
- What will you recommend?
- His wife's coming in this afternoon.
What do you expect me to recommend?
Charlie Parker.
Let me go! Get off me!
Let me go!
Excuse me.
Too early, and you know it.
Did you see that?
I asked that...
...misguided, officious young woman...
...if she would administer
my paraldehyde...
...and she demurred.
Demurred.
I am not a laboratory animal.
I am in pain here.
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