The Humbling Page #5

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- Yeah.

- There.

Theater, acting, scenic design.

- Family trade.

- Precisely.

You know, your mother and I co-starred

when she played Pegeen Mike

- at the Bramford Theater.

- Yes, I know.

I've heard all of the stories.

Old theater friends. Long before my time.

So...

Do you remember

the last time you saw me?

Yes.

- You must have been 10, 11 years old.

- You remember what you gave me?

I gave you the wedding ring

I wore in Streetcar.

I slept with that wedding ring

under my pillow for...

What?

I thought that it meant

that you would marry me.

But then a couple of decades

went by and you never showed up.

Well, you all moved 3,000

miles away, you know.

So, tell me, how are you parents doing?

I don't know.

I mostly try to avoid them.

Why?

They don't approve

of who I'm living with.

Oh, yeah?

Who is he? What is he?

It's a she.

She? Whoa.

Well, that's okay.

Great.

Sh*t.

I got to take this sh*t. Sorry.

Okay.

Hello?

Oh, hi, yeah. No, I just...

I stopped by his house and we talked.

Yes, we're talking. We're talking.

No, I just got back. It's a nice house.

It's a really nice house. Yeah.

Because basically it's none of

your goddamn business, okay?

Okay, I'll talk to you

when I talk to you.

I'll talk to you when I

talk to you. Okay, bye.

Oh, God.

Everything all right?

Yeah, it's just someone's freaking out

about casting for Tuesday.

- This is Sunday.

- I know. They were just being annoying.

- Yeah.

- Oh, you know, maybe you could help.

We're doing a contemporary

adaptation of Macbeth

- and I cannot think of another actor...

- No.

I'd like to try it out on more than you.

- Not a good idea.

- Why not?

I get anxious.

And here I was thinking you were

getting back your killer charisma.

- Oh, no.

- This is all very unlike you.

- It is?

- Yeah.

You know what's like me?

Yeah, I'm starting to figure it out.

Well...

We should get this to

run all over the house.

Want to stay for dinner?

- Yeah, okay.

- Good.

Oh, no.

- It's okay.

- Oh, the waiter in me.

- Have some.

- Wow.

We're brilliant engineers

and we didn't even have

to employ... abused labor.

So, what happened with your acting?

I don't know.

Just it's just too tedious to discuss.

Well, did something happen

or did you retire?

Would you...

please don't ask me about that.

You know, I've been really...

spending, like, 30 days

talking about nothing else, so...

- Okay, well...

- ...if we could just, you know.

What do you want to talk about?

Well, there's the...

the signing of...

- I thought you slept with women.

- I do.

What do you think of her?

Well, she's my friend's daughter.

And she's a lesbian.

You never been with a man?

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