I Never Sang for My Father Page #2
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- Year:
- 1970
- 92 min
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they told me it was worth 4,000.
Whenever I go to see a doctor,
I always turn it around.
I don't want him to think
I'm rolling in money.
It's his favorite occupation,
getting that ring appraised.
gruesome details of his life.
Now wait a minute.
I can't have anyone in.
Your father won't play
bridge or do anything.
Just wants to watch westerns on TV
and tell everyone the story of his life.
Well, people seem to be interested.
That story of your mother's funeral.
I don't remember that one.
Don't get him started.
He keeps telling everyone how he
wouldn't allow his father to come
to his mother's funeral.
Are you suggesting I should have let him?
I'm not saying... He'd run
out on us when we were kids.
Can you imagine going
around telling everyone
how he shoved his father
off the funeral coach?
And I'd do it again.
I was 10 years old.
He hadn't been around
to see us for over a year.
The four of us, living together
in a two-room tenement,
and suddenly he showed up at the funeral,
weeping, begging, drunk as usual.
I shoved him off.
I didn't see him again until years later,
when he was dying in Bellevue, of drink.
- What looks good to you?
- I haven't finished yet.
I went down to see him,
ask if he wanted anything.
He said he wanted an orange.
So I sent him in a half dozen oranges.
I would have sent more,
except I knew he was dying
and there was no point in just
sending oranges to the nurses.
The next morning he died.
Look at your menu, Father.
What looks good to you?
I don't feel like anything.
I have no appetite.
This is the way it's been.
Here we are.
Six to one.
Damn it!
But you always ask for a lemon peel.
But twisted over it, not dumped into it.
It's all right.
It's all right. Well...
He hasn't changed a bit, has he?
I like to get a rise out of them.
If they kid with me,
I give them a good tip.
If not, straight 10 percent.
Now, what's the matter?
If you want to make a fool
of yourself, go right ahead.
It's lovely, dear.
Thank you.
I don't know how he can stand
listening to those
westerns hour after hour.
I think he always wanted to be a cowboy.
He won't listen to
the things I want to hear.
only one TV in the lounge,
and he rode herd on it.
And then he'd go
Still, he's a remarkable man.
Good old Mom.
What a shame that children
can't see their parents
when they're young
and courting and in love.
Gene!
Come and watch this one.
It's a real shoot-'em-up.
I'll be down in a minute, Dad.
Now, tell me about California.
Well, I liked it a lot.
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