Misery Loves Company: The Life & Death of Bruce Gilden Page #5

Activities came along.

You were born

October 29, 1929,

The day that the--

The day that

The stock market crashed.

Are you gonna something into t

By then, your father

Had started a small business.

The crash wiped him out.

Yeah. The banks

Called in his loans.

He'd bought the brownstone

On grant street,

And he lost it.

He lost everything.

And then what happened?

I could come back tomorrow

After my

If you'd prefer that.

He jumped off

The Brooklyn bridge.

They found his body

Washed up under the pier

The next morning.

Did capitalism

Kill your father?

No. My father

Killed himself.

Did capitalism

Kill your father?

Capitalism in the '20s and '30s

Created conditions

That caused a great many people

To kill themselves,

Including the capitalists,

Who threw themselves out

Wall street windows in 1929.

Are you gonna interrogate

Their sons?

Hmm.

Jim,

My wife is gonna

Start asking questions

When i don't turn up

At home.

By now the director

Will have phoned Adele

And apologized profusely

For packing you off to Asia

On such short notice.

"something's come up,"

He will have told her.

"you'll untandi t

Provide details, Mrs. Kritzky."

Your wife will take

The news bravely, of course.

She will inquire

As to when you

Might be returning.

Well, when might

He be returning?

uh, it could

Take some time.

The director

I've instructed him

To maintain radio silence,

So he may not be able to speak

With you anytime soon.

But rest assured, i will call

U personally, Mrs. Kritzky,

When i have more

To tell you.

She might say, "will he

Be in any danger?"

Will he be in any danger?

None whatsoever.

"none whatsoever,"

The director will assure her.

You have my personal word

On that.

"you have my personal word

Thank you,.

mommy!

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Papa.

Yevgeny.

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olive? Afraid

I'm out at the moment.

Twist? Haven't got that,

Either, old boy.

Got ice--

Plenty of that in Moscow.

Starik sends you around

To check me.

Eugene--is that what

You call yourself?

No. Starik doesn't

Even know that Im here.

I brought you these.

Oh.

Well, that's awfully kind

Of you, Eugene.

I do love to check up

On the ladies from Savile row.

Good lord.

Prices have skyrocketed.

How's Russia treating you?

I can get anything

I want in Moscow.

Easy as falling off a log.

Just draw up

A shopping list--

M-m-mango chutney

From Harrods

And beluga

From the Caspian.

It's more upscale than

Your average English slammer,

Mind you.

I first saw the light

Of communism

Way back in Cambridge,

But never

In my wildest dreams

Did i imagine

I'd be living here.

I never thought

I'd be living in America.

They tell me i need

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