Born to Be Blue

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[projector whirring]

[soft vocal and string music]

II:

- Sunk.

- K5.

[soft music]

II:

- [sighs]

[low dramatic music]

II:

[breathing heavily]

[music intensifies]

II:

[door opens]

- [speaking in foreign language]

[jazz music]

II:

[women screaming]

[indistinct chatter]

- Are you coming to the show?

Who do you like better,

me or Miles Davis?

- We're proud

to present the man

who's been voted number one

in the nation

for both trumpet and vocals.

All the way from the sunny

shores of California,

the James Dean of jazz,

the Prince of Cool,

the man "Time" magazine credits

with inventing West Coast Swing.

[cheers and applause]

That's right, folks.

And he's here

playing a double bill

with our very own Miles Davis

and Dizzy Gillespie.

Making his Birdland debut,

Chet Baker

and his quartet!

[cheers and applause]

- It's gonna be great.

It's gonna be great.

- How do I look?

- Perfect.

[cheers and applause]

[jazz music]

[audience cheering]

II:

[lively trumpet melody]

II:

II:

II:

II:

[cheers and applause]

- Yeah, baby!

Yeah!

- Thank you.

Thank you very much.

- We love you, Chet!

[frantic jazz music]

II:

II:

[indistinct chatter]

- Shh!

Elaine? Honey?

[music continues]

II:

[both laugh]

Yeah!

II:

- And then you wait

till it melts.

I can't believe

you never tried before.

You're so square.

- I hate needles.

Will you do it for me?

- Yeah.

Hello, fear.

- Hello, fear.

Aah!

- Get it tight.

Hello, death.

- Hello, death.

- F*** you.

- F*** you.

II:

[door opens]

Oh, hey, babe.

Hey, hey.

- Get out.

Get out!

Take your sh*t with you!

And you too!

I should have known.

Stop it!

God damn it!

- I'm so sorry.

- It was, like, a week.

That is your child.

- [indistinct mumbling]

- What is this sh*t?

What is this sh*t?

[breathing heavily]

You did this

because of Miles?

Chet, say something!

- Shh.

Shh!

See, once you're here,

it's like you're crawling back

inside your mama's womb

clinking and clanging.

It all melts away,

and you can hear.

- This is the scene

where you're meant

to do heroin

for the first time.

- I know what scene it is.

- Those are not the lines.

- Well, he told me

to make up lines.

He said he wanted it

to be improve.

- But that's way off script.

Come on.

- Well, the whole thing

is fake.

I mean, if you want it

to be real,

there should just be puke

everywhere.

It wasn't like this at all.

I was 22, for f***'s sake.

- That's going way, way off

script, Chet.

- I don't know

what the f*** I'm doing.

Can we just

do the make-out part again?

- I lost a nail.

- All right, guys.

- Yeah.

[telephone ringing]

- Do you want

to rehearse the scene,

or do you want to pick up

on Monday?

- We'll pick up on Monday.

- All right, folks, that's

a wrap. See you next week.

- That's unprofessional, Chet.

- Jane?

- Yeah.

- Jane, that was great.

- I don't think so.

- Keep doing what you're doing.

- Okay, you sure?

- Yeah, just keep improvising.

You'll be okay.

- All right.

Appreciate it.

Oh, thanks, Ellie.

[indistinct chatter]

- What I'm doing is trying to

make him look like a nice guy.

- No, no, what you're doing

is making me look

like a clown.

- Oh, are you Dick Bock?

- Yeah, yeah, I-

Chettie!

- Hey, Dick.

- Why didn't you tell me

you were back in the US

and now you're shooting

a movie?

- Well, I...

- I thought you had

another couple of years in jail.

- Well, I-I was supposed to,

you know,

but then this director, he's

like, he's super talented-

- Oh, and he offered you

a lot of money?

- Well, he paid somebody;

that's for sure.

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