The Trouble with the Truth Page #3

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Four? Five? Oh, yeah, yeah,

that's my way of doing things -- quantity over quality. But, see, there you go again.

Will you take a compliment? I'm sorry. Yeah. I guess I've kind of been

on a roll lately. The only thing that stinks is I don't have a chance

to read for pleasure anymore. I'm too busy working

on my own stuff. You still read a lot? Yeah, I do. I try to plow through

like one or two books a week. -Wow.

-Yeah. -Read anything good lately?

-Mm-hmm. Historical fiction --

this guy Dan Simmons. -Ohh.

-Yeah. No, it's good. And I just reread Updike. Yeah.

I mean, after he died. You hate Updike. Mm. Well, when I was 25. I mean, a guy's entitled to change his opinions

about some things. Sure, but I just remember that when we first got together

you were so vehement. You thought he was an egocentric, self-absorbed

white guy who was obsessed with the

minutiae of his own little life. Yeah, but then I became an egocentric, self-absorbed

white guy, and his stuff started to make

some sense to me. [ Laughs ] Okay, so, um, you want to --

Take our drinks. Let's go upstairs.

Go up there? -Okay?

-EMILY:
Ah, sure. Wow. ROBERT: Yeah. EMILY: [ Sighs ] ROBERT: Here. EMILY:

So, where do you play? Uh, well,

the nights that I play, they set up a little keyboard

right over there -- a little electric. -You like it?

-Yeah. Sure. Yeah. I get to play

almost every night. I get paid for what I do. Hard to beat. EMILY: I guess. What? You know... I just think sometimes you don't

expect very much out of life. I haven't worked at a job

that I hated since I was 20. Now, how many people

can say that? EMILY: You're right.

You're right. You still living

in the same place? ROBERT: Yeah. But not all of us

can live in a palatial estate. Mm-hmm.

Here we go. I just think

there's a middle ground between a studio apartment

the size of a jail cell and a palatial estate. I mean, you think

I'm Imelda Marcos just 'cause I want

my own bathroom. Well, what can I say? I-I-I like to have

a low overhead. I like to have limited expenses and limited involvement

with other people because, for those of us who don't have the option

of marrying into money, it's the only way to sustain

a career in the arts. I think

you're selling yourself short. There must be a lot

of rich widows and divorces coming through here. You could find yourself

a patron. And on that subject...

how's your love life? Are you seeing anyone right now? What happened to that girl?

What was her name? Uh, Tangerine? Pi--

[ Laughs ] -Cherry. Cherry.

-Apple? Cherry. Cherry. Badly.

It ended very badly. Yeah. And it ended a long time ago. And, uh,

there was a lot of drama. I'm so surprised there's a lot

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