I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, directed by Hy Averback

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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, directed by Hy Averback

Postby admin » Wed May 22, 2019 5:48 am

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas -- Illustrated Screenplay
directed by Hy Averback
written by Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker
© 1968, Renewed 1996

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Re: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, directed by Hy Averback

Postby admin » Wed May 22, 2019 5:54 am

Part 1 of 6

Screenplay

[Guru] Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies.
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, little flower.
But if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all
I should know what God and man is.

[Girl] Beautiful. Is that Ginsberg?

[Guru] No, Tennyson.
But if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all
I should know what God and man is.
So, to know God, to know man,
you first have to know what a flower is.
A flower.
But how can you know what a flower is
unless you know who you are?
Who are you? Do you know who you are?

***

Peter Sellers

in a Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker Production

"I love you, Alice B. Toklas!"

co-starring Jo Van Fleet

Joyce Van Patten
David Arkin
Herbert Edelman

with Salem Ludwig
Louis Gottlieb
Grady Sutton
Janet Clark
Jorge Moreno

and introducing
Leigh Taylor-Young

Technicolor

Director of Photography
Philip Lathrop, A.S.C.

Production and Designed by
Pato Guzman

Film Editor
Robert G. Jones

Set Decorator: Audrey Blasdel
Assistant Director: Jack Cunningham
Sound by: Everett A. Hughes
Dialogue Supervisor: Bert Steinberger
Special scenes filmed at Leo Carrillo State Beach through the courtesy of the State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Beaches and Parks

Costumes Designed by: Theadora Van Runkle
Makeup Supervisor: Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Supervising Hair Stylist: Jean Burt Reilly, C.H.S.
Orchestrations by Leo Shuken, Jack Hayes

Executive Producers: Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker

Music: Elmer Bernstein

Produced by: Charles Maguire

Written by: Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker

Directed by Hy Averback

***

[Guru] We must find a way
to send our love messages to them
before it's too late.
We must turn them on to love.
Send them love flowers.

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Turn them into love junkies.
We must hug and kiss them in the streets,
in their houses, in their offices, in their minds.

***

[Joyce] Harold
Do you know what happened this time?

[Harold] What?

[Joyce] The earth moved for me.
Like in Hemingway.
Did the earth move for you?

[Harold] No, I don't think so.

[Joyce] I didn't satisfy you?

[Harold] Of course you satisfied me.
It was just that the earth didn't move this time, that's all.

[Joyce] But it has moved in the past?

[Harold] Oh, Joyce, you know, many times, many times.

[Joyce] When?

[Harold] Well,
you know, a couple of weeks ago, it moved.

***

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[Guru] We must psychedelicize their impoverished dreams.
Teach them how to live again.
Make them stop playing the ego game.
Teach them how to die so that they can be born again.
So that they can become a flower again.

***

[Joyce] Harold?
Is your asthma bothering you?

[Harold] I have a little tickle right now, yeah.

[Joyce] Harold?
Do you wanna get married or not?

[Harold] Sure.

[Joyce] Well, then let's name a date.

[Harold] I gave you an area.

[Joyce] An area is certainly not a date.
I know what an area is, and I know what a date is,
and an area is not a date.

[Harold] All right.

[Joyce] I'll tell you something.
You've given me enough areas in my life,
but I have yet to get a date from you.
I know from areas, but what I want is a date.

[Harold] Okay, when do you wanna get married?

[Joyce] How about Thanksgiving?

[Harold] Hey, look at that.
What is that?

[Joyce] Somebody --

[Harold] Whose car is that? I'm pinned in here. I can't get out.

[Joyce] Oh, my goodness. Who would do a dumb thing like that?

[Harold] Well, that's stupid.

[Joyce] Terrible.
You could maybe try to get out, do you think, Harold?
Harold?

[Harold] Help me back up.

[Joyce] Sure, I will, darling.

[Harold] Because I'll never make it.

[Joyce] You know, Harold, my parents were married on Thanksgiving.
I thought maybe it would make them happy
if we had the same anniversary.

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Go right, Harold. Try to go right.

[Harold] Yeah, okay.

[Joyce] Turn to the right.
Gee, I don't think you're gonna make it.

[Harold] I'll try.

[Joyce] Well, try. Yes.

[Harold] Well, I can get right up close to it.

[Joyce] All right, keep going to the right. [Screams]

[Harold] What?

[Joyce] Harold, come on, now.
You're gonna hit that car.

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[Harold] Where is that son of a bitch?
Look at that. I'm pinned in.

[Joyce] Harold, what about Thanksgiving?

[Harold] For what?

[Joyce] For what? For our wedding.

[Harold] Can you imagine somebody
leaving a car like that in a situation like this?

[Joyce] Boy, that is really smart.
Boy, that is really a clever way to change the subject.

[Harold] Don't be paranoid, Joyce. I didn't make this situation.
Are you crazy or something?

[Joyce] Take me home.

[Harold] Oh, that's great. That's great.

[Joyce] What?

[Harold] I'm pinned in. I can't move.
Take her home. [Honks horn] Where are you?

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[Joyce] Harold, you could move if you wanted to move,
because man is the master of his own existence.

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You're afraid. You are afraid to move, Harold.
Now, look, Harold.
Harold, I have made my commitment to you.
I have given you my mind, [Sniffles],
and my body.

[Harold] Joyce.

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[Joyce] I am 33 years old. Now, that's not an easy thing for me to say.

[Harold] Will you please stop talking for just one minute?
Help me push this car out of the way.

[Joyce] I just wanna know one thing, Harold.
One thing, is all I wanna know.

[Harold] What?

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[Joyce] Am I going to be your wife, or am I going to continue to be your concubine?

[Harold] Don't give me that concubine stuff.

[Joyce] It's all right.
What is it going to be?

[Harold] You think I'm an Arab or something?

[Joyce] That's funny. Just to be funny now. I'm asking you to answer my question.
Harold, you give me an answer now or it's over.

[Harold] Will you just help me?
Otherwise, we're gonna be stuck here.

[Joyce] Self. You are always thinking of yourself.
I'm helping you now.

[Harold] You're not helping me.
Put your hand behind --

[Joyce] I had my hand here.
What do you want me to do?

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[Harold] When I tell you, push.

[Joyce] [Sobbing]

[Harold] Now, push when I say push.

[Joyce] I'm doing that.

[Harold] Now, I'm releasing the hand brake.
Now, push.

[Crash]

***

[Harold] How about Labor Day?

[Joyce] For what?

[Harold] For getting married.

[Joyce] Harold!
Oh, Harold!
We're getting married. Labor Day?
You happy?
Are you happy?

[Harold] Yeah, yeah.

***

[Mechanic] I can let you use this until we fix you up.

[Harold] You sure this is all you have?

[Mechanic] Yep. Belongs to my kid.
He was supposed to take the night shift.
Big shot ran off to San Francisco with a colored girl.
My wife's going crazy.

[Harold] But, I mean, I can't drive around in this.
I have to go to my office. I have to go to court tomorrow.

[Mechanic] I'm sorry, that's all I've got, Mr. Fine.

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[Joyce] And then suddenly, tonight it all fell into place.
And he was ...
He was like a man, Mama. You know what I mean?
He was a man who knew what he wanted.

[Mechanic] Look, relax, she'll run fine.
She'll run fine, don't worry about it.

[Harold] Yeah.

[Mechanic] And jiggle the key when you get in.

[Joyce] Harold, my mother is hysterical.

[Harold] Yeah?

[Joyce] What kind of a car is this?

[Harold] It's all they have.

[Joyce] What? Are you telling me that this is all that you have?

[Mechanic] I'm sorry. That's all we've got.

[Joyce] Harold, come on, this is ridiculous.

[Harold] It's only for two days, Joyce.

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[Joyce] Well, you live long enough, you see everything.
Listen, Harold --

[Harold] Make sure you have my car soon.

[Mechanic] Leave that to me.

[Joyce] Maybe we can get her to cater a dinner.

[Mechanic] She may smoke a little, but don't worry about it.

[Joyce] I was thinking maybe a wedding breakfast.
You know, like Marilyn Bachrach had.

***

[Parking Attendant] Good morning, Mr. Fine.

[Murray] Hiya, Harold.

[Harold] Good morning, Murray.

[Murray] Hey, I finally beat Jerry Ritzlin, 7-5.
My serve is starting to work for me.
And my elbow doesn't hurt anymore, which means I am now hitting it right.
You know I was serving with a bent elbow?
That's what screwed me up.
But now ... coming straight over.
You okay, kid?

[Harold] I'm fine.
No, I'm okay.

[Murray] You've got that look.

[Harold] What look?

[Murray] You know, when you get fakakta.

[Harold] Joyce and I are getting married Labor Day.

[Murray] That's great. That is just great.

[Harold] I think it's the right move.

[Murray] The right move? You should've done it two years ago.
Labor Day, huh? No harm.
You are getting a wonderful woman in Joycie.
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Re: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, directed by Hy Averback

Postby admin » Wed May 22, 2019 5:55 am

Part 2 of 6

[Joyce] Good morning, Mr. Burns. Good morning, Mr. Fine.

[Murray] Good morning. Come here, you beautiful creature.

[Joyce] Oh, Murray.

[Murray] I'm gonna attack you before the wedding.

[Joyce] Oh, he told you. He told you.

[Murray] Half a cup of black, Joycie.

[Joyce] Alrighty.

[Harold] Are the Rodriguezes here?

[Joyce] They're in the other office.

[Harold] All right.

[Joyce] Could I see you for a minute?

[Harold] Would you prepare the Rodriguez file, please, Joyce.

[Joyce] I've already done that.
Would you just read this for a moment, Mr. Fine?
There you are.

[Harold] "Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Miller request the honor of your presence" --
They've got them already, huh?

[Joyce] But read on, read on.

[Harold] "-- at the marriage of their daughter Joyce to Mr. Harold Fine --"

[Joyce] At the Twin Cantors.

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[Harold] They really twins?

[Joyce] Oh, yes.
Harold, they're very expensive ...
... but they perform the most beautiful ceremony.

[Harold] Are they fraternal or identical?

[Joyce] Well, they're not identical.
No, I don't think that they are.
I'm just doing it for my father.
You see, I felt that that's the least that we could do.
I feel that you really don't want them.
If you don't want them, I want you to tell me --

[Harold] The very thought of cantors in stereo ...
... instead of a mono cantor appeals to me.

[Joyce] Oh, Harold.
Oh, I love you.

[Murray] Hey, Joyce, where's my coffee?

[Joyce] I love you.

[Harold] Please, no sex in the office.

[Joyce] Oh, Murray.
Honestly.

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[Harold] Would you send in the Rodriguez twins -- Family, please?

[Joyce] Yes, sir, Mr. Fine.
You sure?

[Harold] Yeah, I'm sure.

[Joyce] Mr. Fine will see you now. This way.

[Grandfather Rodriguez] Thank you.

[Joyce] You're welcome.

[Harold] Hello, Mr. Rodriguez.
Well, I'm sorry about the shortage of chairs ...
... but this won't take too long. Perhaps you'd be ...
... able to sit over here.
Good, good.
Right, right. Now, then ...
Mr. Rodriguez, I'm going down to court in a few minutes.
I am going down to court in a few minutes ...
... and before I go, I would like you all to know ...
... to comprendo ...
... the insurance company want to settle out of court.

[Mr. Rodriguez] How much money, Senor Fine?

[Harold] Well ...
I would think it's safe to assume that we'll get ...
... about $500 per person.
Now, there were 11 of you in the car, so that would be around $5,500.

[Mr. Rodriguez] I ain't going to do it. You told me $100,000.

[Harold] I told you we would sue for $100,000.
We're lucky to get that amount.
Remember, there were 11 of you in that car.
If that ever came out in court, we might lose the case.

[Mr. Rodriguez] But he hit us from behind.

[Harold] Yeah, but you had no rearview vision.
You couldn't see out the back.

[Mr. Rodriguez] Of course I couldn't. The chickens were in the back seat.

[Harold] That is also illegal.
It is not permitted in this country to carry poultry in a passenger car.
No gallinas are allowed in this country in a passenger car.
You've gotta have them in --

[Joyce] Harold

[Harold] Ma?
Ma?
What's the matter?

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[Mother] Yesterday, a living, breathing man ...
... the picture of health.

[Harold] Oh, Ma, no.
No, no, no.
Mama ...

[Mother] Sixty-one years old and they took him.

[Harold] My father! My poor, sweet old father.

[Mother] What father? No.
Mr. Foley, Ed Foley, the butcher. He had a coronary.

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[Harold] What are you trying to do to me?
You tell me a 61-year-old man has just died.
I thought it was Papa.

[Grandfather Rodriguez] [Speaks Spanish]

[Harold] I don't understand what he's talking about.

[Mr. Rodriguez] My father says he mourns the death of your father.

[Harold] It's a mistake, Mr. Rodriguez.

[Mother] I see you want me to leave.

[Harold] I didn't say that. You can stay as long as you like.

[Mother] No, I haven't time.
I have to help Mrs. Foley with the funeral arrangements.

[Harold] Who?

[Mother] Bite your tongue.
He doesn't remember Ed Foley. You hear, Joycie?
He doesn't remember how Ed Foley saved his life.
When you were two years old, we had a candy store in Boyle Heights.
You fell off the stool. You turned blue in the face.
We took you for dead, you don't remember?
And then Ed Foley came and --- God bless his soul. God rest him.

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-- and he took you in his hands, and he breathed life into your mouth.
He saved your life and you don't remember.

[Harold] Yeah, I remember now. I remember Ed Foley now.

[Mother] Oh, you see, now he remembers.

[Harold] Leave it there, will you, Mama?

[Mother] All right, I'm going.
You'll come to the funeral tomorrow.

[Harold] Yeah. Yeah, okay.

[Joyce] The wedding is September the 5th at 2:00.

[Mother] Wedding?
What wedding?

[Harold] We're getting married, Ma.

[Mother] I have a daughter. Now I have a daughter.

[Mr. Rodriguez] My father congratulates you on your wedding.

[Harold] Very kind of you.

[Grandfather Rodriguez] [Speaks Spanish]

[Harold] See, I didn't understand that.

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[Mr. Rodriguez] My grandfather says it is too bad your father couldn't have lived to see it.

[Harold] The whole thing is a misunderstanding.

[Joyce] You get to invite 100, and we get to invite 100.

[Mother] One hundred?
Harold you heard? Harold? One hundred.
My people in Los Angeles alone, I got more than 100.
and what about my mishpokhe in Philadelphia?

[Grandfather Rodriguez] [Speaking in Spanish: "What is mishpokhe?"]

[Mr. Rodriguez] Quien sabe.

[Mother] Speak to your father. Maybe I could get 20, 30 more.

[Harold] You've got one extra now that Mr. Foley can't come.

[Mother] Mrs. Foley, I forgot she's waiting for me downstairs.
Harold, you'll come to the funeral.

[Harold] Yes, Mother.

[Mother] And bring your brother. Bring Herbie.

[Harold] I don't know where he is. I haven't seen him in three months.

[Mother] Herbie is with the bums in Venice.

***

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[Harold] Well, anyway, I'm glad you're coming to the funeral.
It's gonna make Mama very happy.

[Herbie] Hey, I'm going to the funeral because it's making me happy.
A funeral is a happy thing, Harold.
In death, there is always rebirth.

[Harold] Yeah, well ...
What is this, a hippie supermarket?

[Herbie] Yeah. See --
See, these things are for sale. You can buy these things here.
See the clothes?
There, those clothes are free.

[Harold] They're old.

[Herbie] They're new to him.

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[Harold] Really what you're trying to say, it's a form of Communism.

[Herbie] No, no, no, it's like love.

[Harold] You think I should buy something?

[Herbie] Only if you need something, Harold.

[Harold] Yeah, well, maybe I'll buy a book.

[Herbie] Hey, Harold, this is a groovy book.

[Harold] "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong."

[Herbie] Yeah.

[Harold] How much is that?

[Shopgirl] That'll be a dollar, please.

[Harold] I'll take it.

[Shopgirl] Thank you.

[Harold] It's for you.

[Herbie] Oh, thank you.

[Harold] Incidentally, I almost forgot to tell you ...
... that I'm ...
I'm getting married.

[Herbie] Oh, that's groovy. That's so groovy.

[Harold] To Joyce.

[Herbie] Oh, Harold, that's great.
That's great.

***

[Murray] He's just a kid. It's a stage.
When I was at NYU Law, I lived in Greenwich Village.
Hippies. Used to be beatniks.
I saw those kids. It's an act of rebellion.

[Harold] I hope that's all it is.

[Murray] He's probably got a different girl every night.
I should have it so bad.

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Look at that. Look at that one.
Unbelievable.
Oh, my darling, a year's salary for 10 minutes.

[Harold] Murray.
Murray.

[Murray] What?

[Harold] What is your definition of love?

[Murray] What?

[Harold] In relationship to marriage.

[Murray] What love? Love is 10 minutes. Love is before. Marriage is after.
You meet a girl one night, don't know if you'll make it, that's love.
When you wake up in the morning, that's marriage.

[Harold] Now you're talking about sex.

[Murray] Oh, no, Harold.
Marriage offers a man the most beautiful moments in life.
You don't know what a family is like.
Nobody can describe to you the feeling when you see your first kid.
It's like ... it's like nobody ever had one before.
It's -- Oh, my God.

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Oh, I'd like to lily your lollies.
Oh, where do they come from? What do they want from me?

[Harold] Can't you stop for a second, Murray?

[Murray] When they stop, I'll stop.
They know you're looking at them, driving you crazy, and they love it.

[Harold] How can you tell me how beautiful marriage is ...
... when you mentally rape every woman who passes by?

[Murray] What has my looking have to do with my marriage?

[Harold] It's dishonest, Murray.

[Murray] No, it's not, Harold. No, it is not.
I love my wife and I love my kids.
And I love you.

[Harold] You're an animal, Murray. You're an animal.

***

[Nancy] Herbie will be right out.
I'm Nancy.

[Harold] How do you do?

[Nancy] Groovy car.

[Harold] Glad somebody likes it.

[Nancy] What a beautiful day for a funeral.
Mars and Neptune are at the 10th angle.
You're lucky. And Mr. Foley's lucky ...
... because by tomorrow Saturn starts ingressing into Aries.

[Harold] Pardon me, did you just say that you knew Mr. Foley?

[Nancy] No. Herbie told me.
And he sounds like a beautiful man.
He picked Herbie up in his arms and he breathed life into him.
It's a beautiful thing to do.

[Harold] What are you talking about?

[Nancy] When Herbie fell off the stool when you had a store in Boyle Heights.
He saved Herbie's life.

[Harold] He saved my life.

[Nancy] You too?
That man was a saint.

[Harold] Where did you get all this from?

[Nancy] You don't know how much this funeral means to him.
Herbie is the most sensitive man I've ever known.
But then, all Scorpios are sensitive.

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[Herbie] Hiya, Harold.

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[Harold] What--? What--?
What are you trying to do to me, kill your mother?

[Herbie] I'm wearing the traditional burial outfit of the Hopi Indians.

[Nancy] It's beautiful.

[Harold] Foley was a Catholic, not an Indian.

[Herbie] It's all the same. It's all man and God. It's love.

[Harold] Herbie.
Herbie.
Let me buy you a nice new suit.
Just for the funeral.

[Herbie] This is what I'm wearing, Harold.

[Harold] Herbie, look ...
I realize that I'm a square.

[Herbie] I know that, I know that.

[Harold] Yeah.
But you gotta understand that there could be two sides to this.
I mean, you think ...?
How is Mrs. Foley gonna feel --?
I mean, how is she gonna feel when she sees ...
... Tonto at the cemetery?

[Herbie] Hey, Harold, I am not wearing this to bug anybody.
I'm wearing it because it's the right thing to wear.

[Harold] Well, take that fakakta feather out of your hair ...
... and wash that stupid paint off your face!

[Herbie] Really uptight!

[Harold] I am!
Uptight, or whatever that is.

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[Herbie] Okay, okay. I'll tell you what.
I'll let you have the feather or the paint.

[Harold] You'll let me have the feather or the paint?
Right.
Take the feather out of your hair.
Okay, put the feather back and cover up the paint with your hands.

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What do you think?
I'm asking her.
Okay, get rid of the paint.
Wash it off. Hurry.

[Herbie] I'm doing this because I love you.

[Harold] Yeah, fine. Great.
Where are you going?

[Nancy] To the funeral.

[Harold] But you've never met Mr. Foley.

[Nancy] But I've never been to a funeral.

[Harold] We are not going to the Ice Capades.
A man -- A man, a human being, is being buried under the ground.

[Nancy] But death can be a beautiful experience.
And I want to experience everything that's beautiful.

[Harold] You're going crazy.
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Re: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, directed by Hy Averback

Postby admin » Wed May 22, 2019 5:55 am

Part 3 of 6

[HEARSE DRIVERS ON STRIKE, INTERNATIONAL DRIVERS LOCAL 108]

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[DON'T BURY US! ON STRIKE INTERNATIONAL DRIVERS LOCAL 108; GIVE THE DRIVERS A LIVING WAGE ON STRIKE INTERNATIONAL DRIVERS LOCAL 108]

[Funeral Director] Mrs. Foley, we'll have transportation within the hour.

[Mrs. Foley] Oh, I hope so.

[Funeral Director] They're in arbitration right now.

[Mother] They wouldn't let him live in peace, now they won't let him die in peace.

[Funeral Director] God help me. I don't know what to do.
Forty years I've taken care of people in their hour of need.

[Father] If you ask me, the unions are getting as bad as management.
In the beginning, we needed unions. Roosevelt understood that.

[Funeral Director] Some man, that Roosevelt.
Would you take care of Mrs. Foley for a minute, please?
Excuse me, dear.

[Mother] I can still see him standing behind the counter.
God bless him.
He loved his work so much.

[Mrs. Foley] Oh, yes, yes.

[Funeral Director] I'm sorry to have to burden you with these details.
Oh, where is the deceased now?
That's in the Valley, isn't it?
North on the San Diego Freeway.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Vincent ...
... we are having a slight transportation problem.
The drivers are out on strike.

[Mother] Think of him. I'll never forget. God rest his soul.
He'd never let me buy anything a day old.

[Mrs. Foley] Oh, my Ed ...

[Harold] Hello, Papa.

[Mother] I loved him like a brother.

[Mrs. Foley] I know. I loved him like a husband.

[Mother] I know.

[Harold] Dear Mrs. Foley ...
... I am truly very sorry indeed.
I would like you to accept my sincere condolences.

[Mother] You remember my son Harold?

[Mrs. Foley] Yes.

[Mother] And this is my --

[Mrs. Foley] [Screams]

[Mother] What kind of meshuggenah outfit is this?

[Herbie] I'm wearing the traditional burial outfit of the Hopi Indians.

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[Mother] -- what LSD clothes he's wearing.
Now LSD clothes he's wearing to a funeral.
To a funeral, he wears his Indian suit.
You hate me that much?

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[Herbie] I love you, Mom. I love you.

[Father] Don't contradict your mother.

[Herbie] I'm not contradicting her.

[Mother] I could die right here. He wants me in a box like that.
You'd be happy if I'm in a box like that.

[Funeral Director] Would you have any way of getting the deceased over here to our premises?
A Volkswagen?
I see.
Well, we'll do the best we can, Mrs. Vincent.
Thank you.

[Mother] You hate me, that's why.

[Harold] Mama! Mama! Mama, not in front of Mrs. Foley!

[Father] Everything is gonna be just fine now.

[Mother] Oh, yes, you'll see, Edna.
We'll be there in a few minutes. My Harold will take care of everything.

[Mrs. Foley] [Screams]

[Father] Let's get in the car.

[Mother] Don't worry, Edna.

[Striker] You rotten scab!
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You hippie scab!

***

[Harold] I was doing 35, officer.

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[1st Patrolman] What happened, a hippie die?

[Harold] We're part of a funeral procession. This is all perfectly legal.
I'm a lawyer.

[1st Patrolman] Do you have a smog device?

[Harold] I don't think so. This is a loaner.

[1st Patrolman] You have seven days to get one.

[Harold] Right.

[1st Patrolman] Have a good day.

[Harold] Thanks.

[Herbie] I love you, sir.

[Harold] He's only doing his job, Herbie.

[Herbie] I'm only doing mine.

[Harold] Well ...
we lost the procession.
We're gonna have to hurry.
What--? What cemetery is it at?

[Herbie] I don't know.

[Nancy] Maybe there's an address on the casket.

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[Harold] Is this the Foley funeral?

[Cemetery Guard] No, sir.
You can get out that way.

[Joyce] Oh, now, there's a cemetery on Centinela.

[Harold] Tell me when we get there.

[Joyce] Oh, I think that's Centinela.

[Harold] No, no, that's Florence.

[Joyce] Well, it looks like Centinela.

[Nancy] Let's give them a lift.

[Harold] No, we have no room.

[Nancy] But they could sit in the back.

[Harold] Yeah, that's all I have to do, give hippies and weirdoes lifts.

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[Joyce] Don't you worry, we'll find it.

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Don't you worry, we'll find it.
Don't you worry, we'll find it.

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[Harold] Oh, shit.
If this isn't it, I have to get some gas.

[Mrs. Foley] [Screams]

[Harold] This is it.

[Funeral Director] See, I told you he'd make it.

[Mother] My goodness.

***

[Joyce] Herbie, this was not the happiest of circumstances ...
... but I'm glad that I saw you.
And I'll see you at the wedding.

[Herbie] Oh, yeah. Yeah, sure. I'll be there.

[Joyce] Oh, good.
And be sure to bring your friend with you.

[Harold] Joyce, would you come on?

[Joyce] Good night, now.

[Herbie] Good night.

[Joyce] I'm coming, I'm coming, Harold.
Good night.

[Herbie] Good night.

[Joyce] Oh, darling, I hope your headache is better in the morning.
I love you.

***

[Nancy] Going to Laurel Canyon?

[Woman] Oh, aren't they lovely.

[Nancy] Hello. Are you going down to Laurel Canyon?

[Harold] [Honks, honks]

[Mr. Rodriguez] Yes.

[Nancy] Oh, thank you, but I see a friend.
Bye-bye.

[Hitchhiker] You guys going down to La Brea?

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[Mr. Rodriguez] Yes, but we only have room for one.

[Hitchhiker] All right. Thanks.

[Mr. Rodriguez] Buenos Noches.

[Nancy] Hi.

[Harold] Hi.
Where's Herbie?

[Nancy] Herbie met Love Lady.

[Harold] What, and he just left you alone like that?

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Don't you know it's dangerous to hitch by yourself out here at night?

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There are sex maniacs driving in cars.
Perverts. I see them in court every day, believe me.

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You'll sleep in here, and I'll sleep on the couch.
Plenty of room. Total privacy.
Just like a private room in a hotel.
The bathroom is off the bedroom, so there can be total privacy.

[Nancy] This is going to be nice. And it's right near the Pleasure Dome.

[Harold] What's that?

[Nancy] Oh, it's a dress shop.
I work there on Saturdays.

[Harold] I didn't know you worked.

[Nancy] Is this interesting?

[Harold] What's that?

[Nancy] "Sexual Aberrations in the Human Male."

[Harold] Well ...
Interesting?
My first year out of law school, I did research for a firm ...
... that was defending a homosexual.
A very prominent man.

[Nancy] Did he get off?

[Harold] Fortunately, yes.

[Nancy] What's a shoe fetishist?

[Harold] A shoe fetishist?
Well, generally speaking, a shoe fetishist ...
... is a person who has a sexual problem in relation to shoes.
Boots and shoes, you know.

[Nancy] That's illegal?

[Harold] In public it is, yes. It's a perversion.

[Nancy] Next step, they'll be taking teddy bears away from babies.

[Harold] Oh, well, I don't know about that.
Listen, would you like to have a drink?

[Nancy] I don't drink.

[Harold] Well, I do. It's been a long day for me, and I have a very busy day tomorrow.
And my bed is made up.

[Nancy] I'd rather sleep in here, Harold, because I'd like to watch TV.

[Harold] Are you sure?

[Nancy] This is cool, right here.

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[Harold] Right. Right.
You know, you can turn the sound right up.
It won't bother me.

[Nancy] Oh, no. I just watch the pictures.
I don't dig the sound.

[Harold] You have a picture fetish, huh?

[Nancy] I guess.

[Harold] Well ...
... good night.

[Nancy] Good night.

[Harold] Now, look ...
... you have my personal guarantee that this --
Oh, I beg your pardon.

[Nancy] That's all right.

[Harold] Just want you to know that you have my personal guarantee ...
... that door will not open tonight.
I mean, you know, you have no need to worry.
You're in here and I'm in there, and you have no cause for concern.

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[Nancy] Why are you afraid of me?

[Harold] Who's afraid? I'm not afraid.

[Nancy] I won't come in.

[Harold] Well, I'll say good night.

[Nancy] Good night.

***

[Nancy] Hi.
I wanted to make you some breakfast.

[Harold] Fine.
But I have some things to clear up at the office.
And I don't need any breakfast.
Thanks very -- You better go. You better go.

[Nancy] Well, I don't have to be at work until 7.
Can I hang around and listen to some music?

[Harold] Yes. Yes, okay.
But if the phone rings ...
... don't answer it. Don't answer the phone if it rings.

[Nancy] All right. Bye.

HASCHICH FUDGE
(which anyone could whip up on a rainy day)

This is the food of Paradise -- of Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises: it might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR. In Morocco it is thought to be good for warding off the common cold in damp winter weather and is, indeed, more effective if taken with large quantities of hot mint tea. Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by 'un evanouissement reveilli.'

Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverised in a mortar. About a handful each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverised. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.

Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties, but the variety known as canibus sativa grows as a common weed, often unrecognised, everywhere in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for the manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin, called canibus indica, has been observed even in city window boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green.

-- The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, by Alice B. Toklas


I love you Alice B. Toklas
And so does Gertrude Stein
I love you Alice B. Toklas
I'm going to change your name to mine
Red velvet trees and lions grinning lions
Candy witches eating lychee leaves spinning rainbowing light
Green lily golden gardens Marvin gardens
coriander baby elephants singing silent night
Sweet cinnamon and nutmeg shake the powder tell your teeth what [inaudible]
Clean cannabis sativa, sweet sativa chocolate melting so
I love you Alice B. Toklas
And so does Gertrude Stein
I love you Alice B. Toklas
I'm going to change your name to mine
I love you Alice B. Toklas
And so does Gertrude Stein
I love you Alice B. Toklas

[Harold] Yeah, very nice, very nice.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Better get a smog device. I got a warning.
Here.

[Mechanic] That all the cops got to do?
Why don't they find my kid?
Ran off to San Francisco with a colored girl.
My wife's going crazy.

[Harold] Yeah, I know.

[Mechanic] I don't know what to do.
I don't know where to look.

***

[Father] Here he is.

[Harold] What's the matter?

[Joyce] Hi.
Nothing's the matter, darling. We came to see you.

[Mother] We have to finalize the seating.

[Joyce] We called you on the phone, but you didn't answer.

[Harold] I went to pick up my car.

[Father] Yeah, what'd they charge you?

[Harold] Eighty-nine bucks.

[Father] For a fender?

[Mother] He can afford it.

[Father] Yeah, when Roosevelt was alive, you could buy a whole car for $89.

[Mother] Come on, come on. Let's go in already.
I don't get it.

[Joyce] All right.

[Mother] I know.

[Joyce] I know, I know.

[Mother] Oh, Harold, they had a sale today on instant at the Safeway.
Here, I bought you a jar.

[Harold] Thanks.

[Mother] Oy, my feet are killing me.
Here, help me with my coat, will you, Ben?
Place looks nice.

[Father] Really nice.

[Joyce] Harold?
I didn't see you all day.

[Harold] Well, I was very tired after the funeral, you know.
My mother's in there.

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[Joyce] Oh, let's live dangerously, huh?

[Mother] Plenty of time for that after the wedding.

[Harold] I told you so.

[Joyce] Her ears.

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I love you.

[Father] You got some ice water, Harold?

[Harold] Sure, Pop. I'll get some for you.

[Father] Thank you.

[Mother] I love this sofa.
Let me know when you don't want it anymore, Harold.

[Mother] Joycie, have you given any thought to redecorating, you know?

[Joyce] Well, why? We'll probably be buying a house right away, anyway.

[Mother] Where exactly are you thinking of looking?

[Joyce] Oh, Beverly Hills. They have the best school system.

[Mother] Absolutely.

[Father] In Beverly Hills you pay through the nose.
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Re: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, directed by Hy Averback

Postby admin » Wed May 22, 2019 5:56 am

Part 4 of 6

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[Nancy] I decided to split -- Made you some groovy brownies. Love, Nancy.

[Mother] Now, Ben!

[Father] But your taxes are very low.

[Mother] I've decided I'm putting Aunt Tanya next to Murray.
She doesn't talk to the rest of the family ...
... so maybe she'll get along with Murray.

[Joyce] Let me just see the list for a minute.

[Harold] Here, Pop.

[Father] If they charged for ice water, I'd be a pauper.

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[Harold] Remember the candy store --?

[Mother] Better get down to work.
Now, we're inviting the Twin Cantors to the dinner.
So our side of the family gives up a seat for one cantor ...
... and Joycie's side gives up a seat for the other cantor.

[Harold] Great.

[Mother] Oh, it is.
It'll be a great honor to you and Joycie.
Now, where should we seat them, do you think?

[Harold] Mama, are you planning to go through the entire list now?

[Mother] Well, I'm not leaving the seating to the caterers.
I've got enough troubles without that.

[Father] We had 40 people at our wedding.

[Harold] Yeah?
I don't even know half the people that are coming to this one.

[Joyce] Look. Look, I found some brownies.

[Father] They look fresh baked.

[Mother] Do you have saccharine, Harold?

[Joyce] Oh, I have some in my purse.

[Mother] Oh, you're a darling. Thank you.
Well, looks like a nice brownie, Harold.
From Rubins?

[Harold] I don't remember.
A small bakery on Fairfax.

[Mother] Better than Rubins.

[Father] Better than Rubins? That's a brownie.

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[Joyce] This is delicious.

[Harold] They're very good.
They're ...
They're groovy.

[Father] I wish Herbie was here with us now. He loves sweets.

[Joyce] Herbie is a very sweet boy. Do you know what I think?
I think that this is just a stage that he's going through, that's all.

[Mother] To a funeral he wears his Indian suit.

[Harold] Oh, these are really good.

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[Joyce] Thank you.

[Father] One more.

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[Mother] Ben.

[Father] My last one.

[Mother] All right.

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[Mother] Ben.
Benjie.
What was his name?
What was his name, your cousin from Milwaukee?

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You know what he did?

[Harold] What did he do?

[Mother] He came out of the bathroom.

[Joyce] What did he do when he came out of the bathroom?

[Mother] Don't say bathroom and I won't laugh.
I said it!

[Joyce] Take me.
Take me.

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[Mother] Remember? Remember?

[Joyce] Oh, Harold, take me.
Harold.

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[Father] I wanna play miniature golf.

***

[Joyce] Where's Harold?

***

[Anita] You know, I just can't. I've tried. I can't take the pills.
I blow up like a house.
It's really such a drag. These pills are so groovy.
But a diaphragm, forget it. It's just the worse.
Listen, thanks for coming in.

[Nancy] Harold!

[Harold] Hey. Hi.

[Nancy] Harold, this is Anita.

[Anita] Oh, my God, you look just like a guy I used to go with.

[Harold] Yeah?

[Anita] You're a little better-looking.

[Harold] Oh, thanks.

[Anita] Nice.

[Harold] Um.

[Nancy] What?

[Harold] I came to thank you for the brownies.

[Nancy] You're welcome.

[Harold] I came to see you.

[Nancy] Groovy.

[Harold] Yeah. Groovy.
You're very pretty.

[Nancy] And so are you.

[Harold] Yeah?
You should've told me what was in those brownies.

[Nancy] Thank Alice B. Toklas. It's her recipe.

[Harold] Yeah?

[Nancy] She wrote a freaky cookbook.

[Harold] And she turned my parents into junkies.

[Nancy] She did?

[Harold] Oh, yeah.
They were --

[Nancy] Excuse me. I'll be right back.
Can I help you, sir?

[Man in Dress Shop] Yes.
I'd like to see something in a minidress. Something lightweight.

[Nancy] These just came in. What size does she wear?

[Man in Dress Shop] It's for me.

[Nancy] Well, I don't know if we happen to have your size.

[Man in Dress Shop] I'm a perfect 12.

[Nancy] These are 12's.

[Man in Dress Shop] Thank you.

[Harold] Don't look at me.

[Nancy] I think he wants it to go to a Halloween party.

[Harold] I hope so.

[Man in Dress Shop] Miss.

[Nancy] Did you find something you like?

[Man in Dress Shop] Yes.
Yes, I like this one. Is there any place I can try it on?

[Nancy] Right over there.

[Man in Dress Shop] Oh, thank you.

[Harold] I can't help it. I can't.

[Nancy] Have a cookie.

[Harold] Alice Toklas?

[Nancy] Chocolate chip.

[Man in Dress Shop] Miss?

[Nancy] Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

[Man in Dress Shop] Do you do alterations here in the shop?

[Nancy] Yes, we do. Anita!

[Man in Dress Shop] What I'd like to get would be to get this just about two inches shorter.
About like that.

[Nancy] Well, Anita does the alterations.
Anita, can we shorten this about --?

[Man in Dress Shop] No, that's it. Right there.

[Nancy] Two inches?

[Anita] No, no, no.
That's not your color.

***

[Nancy] I have a butterfly.

[Harold] I know.
It's a monarch, isn't it?

[Nancy] Yeah.
Yeah.

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[Harold] I never got that close to a butterfly.
Wait a second.

[Mother] Hello, Harold?

[Harold] Yes, Ma.

[Mother] You sound like your asthma is worse.

[Harold] No, Mama, the earth just moved.

[Mother] So where did you disappear to?

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Stop it.
Oh, listen, I changed my mind.
I'm not putting Aunt Tanya next to Uncle Murray.
She's got that bladder trouble, poor thing ...
... so I'm gonna put her closer to the door.
Listen, Harold, I picked up some of those --
Go to sleep.
I picked up some of those brownies. You know, it must be a different bakery.
Oh, they're terrible. Rubins is better than those.
So anyway, I ordered the Jello-O-mold.
It's gonna be a green Jell-o with cherries.

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[Rabbi] Blessed be you, Harold and Joyce, who come in the name of the Lord.
We bless you with the blessings of God.
We pray that these blessings may rest gently and lovingly upon you both.
Praised be thou, O Lord, who has blessed these children of Israel ...
... through the covenant of holy wedlock ...
... and beneath this chuppah canopy --

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[Harold] You look very pretty, Joyce.
You do. You look very pretty.
This means a lot to you, doesn't it?

[Mother] Shhh -- Harold!

[Harold] Wait a second, Mama. I'm talking to Joyce.
I'm sorry, Joyce.

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This is wrong.
I know I shouldn't do this, but I have to do it.
It's better.
It is better.

[Mother] Better?

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[Harold] You don't really know me.
I don't know me.
I know I should've thought of all of this before, but I didn't.

[Murray] Stop it, Harold. You'll never forgive yourself.

[Harold] I'd never forgive myself if I ruined her life.

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Dear Joyce.

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[Mrs. Foley] [Screams]

***

[Guru] It's not in there.
There's nothing to find in there.
There are no people there, only machines.
Garbage-disposing machines, dishwashing machines ...

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... television machines being watched by people machines.
We have left the machine.
And by so doing, we are opting for survival.

***
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Postby admin » Wed May 22, 2019 5:57 am

Part 5 of 6

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[Guru] Flower in the crannied wall. I pluck you out of the crannies.
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, little flower --

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But how can you know what a flower is, Harold ...
... if you don't know who you are?
Who are you? Do you know who you are?

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[Harold] I'm trying. Guru, I'm really trying.

[Guru] When you stop trying, then you'll know who you are.

[Harold] Well, I ...
I'm trying to stop trying.

[Guru] Good.
I'm reminded of the story of a holy man in India.
One afternoon, Siddhartha ...
returned from a nearby village, and he had gained an insight ...
... how the excretory force had to be reversed, actually ...
... so that the relationship of the apana, the excretory energy ...
... to this basic contraction of the hatha yoga.
One must never overlook the importance ...
... of the control of the excretory energy.
The Mula Bandha, which had puzzled him for years ...
... the root contraction, famous heart of the hatha yoga ...
... had opened as a new wave.

***

[Harold] This is beautiful.
Kiss me.
First time in my life I feel free.

[Nancy] Not hung up on possessions.

[Harold] We just need natural things.
Oh, get that out, we don't need that.
We don't need all this.
Am I being real?

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[Nancy] You're being real.

[Harold] Am I being a real person?

[Nancy] So real.

[Harold] Now I know it. Got it.

[Nancy] Harold?

[Harold] Oh, my God, I gotta be real.
Kiss me.
Kiss my eyes.
Kiss my neck.
Kiss my ankh.

[Nancy] You sure?

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[Harold] Yes. Kiss it.
Kiss my ankh. Kiss it now.

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[Cop] What's going on here?

[Harold] Oh, just two people enjoying each other's company.
Just being, that's all.

[Cop] Girl looks pretty young.
Will you step outside, please?

[Harold] Certainly, certainly. Be a pleasure to.
Excuse me. Lovely evening.

[Cop] Check the car out, Harry.
And how old are you, miss?

[Nancy] Twenty.

[Cop] And how old are you, kid?

[Harold] I'm 35 years of age, sir.
Thirty-five years old, that is my age.

[Cop 2] Car's almost brand-new. Registered in the name of Harold Fine.

[Harold] Yes, that is me. My name is Harold Fine.
allow me to show you my driver's license.
I have it here. It's my car.
All this fur is -- There.
There's a photograph of me to prove what I'm saying.
It's not stolen. It's my own car.

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I bought it with money I earned when I was leading a terrible life.

[Cop] This doesn't look like you.

[Harold] No, that is because, if you'll permit me, my hair is longer now.
Before, it was short, as in the photograph.
So there's little resemblance.

[Cop] Take off the headband, please.

[Harold] It'd be a pleasure to take it off for you.
There. There, it's off.

[Cop] Pull the hair back so it looks shorter.

[Harold] Yes. I'm doing this because I love you, sir.

[Cop] It's him, all right. And he is 35.

[Harold] Yeah, I am. I'm 35, Harold Fine.
Thank you very much indeed. It's lovely to see you.

[Cop] Let's go, Harry.

[Harold] No, wait, please. Wait, please.
You don't have to do what you're doing, you know?
Thank you very much. It's very kind of you, officer.
You don't have to do what you're doing.
You know, you don't have to wear a gun.
I used to wear a gun, in my heart, not on my hip.

[Cop] Let's go, Harry.

[Harold] I had hatred and violence in me. Didn't I, sweetheart?
You know that. I had hatred and violence in me.
Now, listen ...
Don't go. Do you know where you're going?
Do you know who you are, where you are?
Flower in the crannied walls, I pluck you out of the crannies --

[Cop] Oh, pluck yourself, Jack.
Why don't you get a haircut and an apartment?

[Harold] But I have an apartment.
I mean, I choose to live here. I don't have to live here.

[Cop] Well, you'd better not be here when we come back.

***

[Murray] Well, listen, you've been through a lot.
You have been through hell, Joyce.

[Joyce] Yeah.
You know, Murray, I've been thinking.
This may sound silly to you, but maybe what I should do ...
... is go to one of those computer mating places.
Where you just fill out a form, then they handle ...
... the whole thing impersonally.
Now, what do you think?

[Murray] Totally wrong.

[Joyce] Totally wrong?

[Murray] In my opinion, you have just gotten over a long-term engagement.
What you need now is a nice, hot affair.

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Forget the intellect. Enjoy yourself.
Have some sex.

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[Joyce] I'm gonna keep my eyes open.

[Murray] That's a healthy attitude.

[Joyce] You know something?
At my age, I finally know what I don't want.
This is growth, isn't it?
I know what I don't want.
I don't want another Harold Fine.
That's what I don't need, another Harold Fine.

[Hippie Girl] Free Press?

[Joyce] Just ignore her.
Turn your stomach.
She looks like a gypsy, for heaven's sake.
Some kind of perverse need to cause attention.

[Harold] Would you like to buy a Free Press?
Hey, Murray.

[Murray] Harold.

[Harold] Hey, Joyce. Joyce, you look groovy.

[Joyce] Harold! Oh, Harold!
I forgive you everything. Come back to me.

[Harold] You're a sweet person. You have love in your heart.

[Joyce] I love you, Harold. I love you.

[Harold] Joyce --

[Man] [Honks horn] Beat it, you weirdo hippy freak!

Harold] I love you, sir!

[Murray] We have to go.

[Joyce] Harold, come back to me.
Come back to me. I love you!

[Harold] Joyce. Joyce!
You love Harold Fine. He no longer exists. Let go of my beads, Joyce!

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[Joyce] He exists. You're standing right here. I love you.
Come back to me.

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[Harold] Joyce, let go of my beads.
You're hurting my neck.

[Joyce] Harold, I love you.

[Harold] Joyce --

[Joyce] Oh, please, Harold. I love you.

[Harold] Let go of my beads.

[Joyce] Let's start from the beginning.
Let's start all over again, Harold! I love you, Harold! Harold!

***

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[Harold] This -- Nancy.

[Nancy] Yes, darling?

[Harold] There's nothing about Warhol in here.

[Nancy] You know, Herbie said it's the best picture he's ever made.

[Harold] Who's in it?

[Nancy] Nobody. Just teeth.

[Harold] Just teeth?
Whose teeth?

[Nancy] You know, teeth.
Animal teeth, insect teeth, false teeth.
Just shots of teeth.

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[Harold] Oh, what a fantastic idea.
What an incredible conception.
Teeth, teeth and yet more teeth.
Teeth.
Is it in black and white or color or what?

[Nancy] That's what's so groovy about it, Harold.
I think it's whatever you want to see in it.
I think he's a genius, Harold.

[Harold] Yes, yes.
Yes, he's a genius.

[Nancy] Herbie said that there's one sequence ...
... in which they split the screen about 32 times.

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[Harold] One for each tooth.

[Nancy] Let's go tonight, Harold.

[Harold] Listen, I'd sooner take a bath.
I'd like you --

[Nancy] You know what --

[Harold] I wanna take a bath.

[Nancy] No.

[Harold] Yeah, I really wanna take a bath, Nancy.
Hey, come here, baby.

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I wanna have a bath with you.

[Nancy] [Dials telephone] Yes, could you tell me what time Mondo Teeth starts?

[Harold] Time?

[Nancy] Groovy.

[Nancy to Harold] Are you sure you don't wanna go?

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[Harold] I want you to take a bath with me.
Rub my neck in the bath.

[Nancy] Hey, Harold. Harold.
I want to see Mondo Teeth.

[Harold] How long is the movie?

[Nancy] Six hours.

[Harold] Six hours?

[Nancy] I'll see you after the movie.
I'll rub you after the movie.

[Harold] I can't stay in a bath for six ...
How are you gonna get there, anyway?

[Nancy] Hitch.

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[Harold] Hitch?
Nancy, you know I don't like you to hitch.

[Nancy] Don't get uptight, Harold.

[Harold] I'm not getting uptight. I just don't like you to hitch, that's all.
Anyway, if you get a hitch, get a hitch from a lady.
Make sure she's not a dyke.

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Mondo Teeth ...
Oh, I could give her a mondo.

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Hey, honey.

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Oh, I'm so glad you changed your mind.
It's so groovy in here. It's totally groovy.
Oh, it's much better than Mondo Teeth.
I'm totally immersed.
Totally immersed in liquid. It's fantastic.
Oh, honey, you're gonna love this.

[Big Bear] Hey, you're beautiful.
I just wanna shake your hand.
I'm Big Bear.

[Harold] I don't think I know you.

[Big Bear] I know you. What a beautiful thing you've done.

[Harold] Oh, that's very nice of you.

[Big Bear] Hey, this is Love Lady and El Greco.

[Love Lady] You're beautiful, Harold Fine.

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[Harold] Actually -- it's very nice of you. I'm trying to take a bath.

[El Greco] Can I join you, man?

[Harold] No.

[Big Bear] I didn't know it was a bath.

[Harold] Yeah, that's what it is.

[Love Lady] Harold Fine, you're beautiful.

[Harold] Thank you, you're very sweet.
Would somebody get that?

[Big Bear] What is it?

[Harold] It's a telephone.

[Big Bear] Oh, I'm sorry, man. I've taken a vow against machinery.

[Harold] Maybe --? could somebody could --? I'll get it. I'll get it.
Just a second. I'll get it. I'll get it.

[Love Lady] What, is this a water trip?

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Re: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, directed by Hy Averback

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Part 6 of 6

[Harold] Excuse me.
Hello?
Hello. Yes. Oh, hi, Murray. Hi, hi.
The Rodriguezes? Listen, Murray, listen.
I am truly sorry about that.

[Man] Here he is.

[Harold] I'd appreciate if you'd handle that for me.

[Man] That's the man I was telling you about.

[Harold] Hello.

[Love Lady] There you are.

[Harold] Okay, Murray, whatever you want.

[El Greco] That's man in the water.

[Big Bear] He's a water tripper.

[Harold] How are you?

[Girl] How are you? Yeah.

[Big Bear] You that guy, man?

[Harold] Thanks very much.

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[Joyce] I considered his manhood at all times. I really did.
That was always in my mind.

[Mother] I know.

[Joyce] Well, you know that.

[Mother] You're a gem. You're a gem. Listen.

[Joyce] It's over. I know that.

[Mother] What? You think Harold is the first man who ever did this?
Believe me, it happens every day.
I never told you this, Joycella, but my Ben had his fling too.

[Joyce] Really?

[Mother] We were only two months married.

[Joyce] What happened?

[Mother] Well, this fancy governess --
Oh, what am I --? "Governess." What? She was a maid, you know.
Well, she used to wheel this baby around in the park.

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And while she was wheeling ...
... she was wiggling her behind at my Ben.
Oh, Ben was a handsome man in those days.

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[Joyce] He ran off with a governess?

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[Mother] Maid. Maid.

[Joyce] But he came back.

[Mother] Well ...
They all come back.

[Joyce] Oh, you must have been so terribly hurt.

[Mother] Joycella, women are built for hurt.
Don't worry.

[George] The hood's okay, Mrs. Fine. That'll be 3.20.

[Mother] Thank you, George. So how's the family?

[George] Well, to tell you the truth, Mrs. Fine ...
... I've been having a little trouble with my daughter.

[Mother] Why? What's the matter?

[George] Well, about a month ago, she ran off to San Francisco with a white boy.
My wife's going crazy.

[Mother] Yeah.

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[Nancy] Good morning, darling.

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[Harold] Good morning.

[Big Bear] Good morning, Harold.

[Harold] Oh, hi. Hi.
Good morning.

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[Woman] "That which is called ego-death is coming to you.
Remember, this is now the hour of death and rebirth.
Take advantage of this temporary opportunity ...
... to obtain the perfect state, enlightenment.

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Concentrate on the unity of all living beings.
Hold onto the clear light.
Use it to attain understanding and love.
If you cannot maintain the bliss of illumination ...

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... and if you are slipping back into contact with the external world" ...

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[Nancy] Oh, hi, Harold. Wanna get in?

[Harold] On, no, thanks. No.
Groovy, groovy.

[Harold] Hey, look what you've done to the rug.

[Nancy] I'm sorry.

[Harold] Why are you painting him?

[Nancy] Because I like him.

[Harold] Yeah? What about me?

[Nancy] I like you too.

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[Harold] Is there anybody you don't like?

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[Herbie] Hey, Harold.

[Harold] Hey, Herbie.
When did you get here?

[Herbie] Last Thursday.
Very, very, very groovy scene.

[Harold] Yeah, groovy.
Yeah.
Yeah, very groovy, yeah. Yeah, this is really groovy.

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Groovy. This is groovy.
This is really --

[Nancy] Harold.

[Harold] Very groovy.

[Nancy] I'm really dragged. That was a bad scene in there.

[Harold] What?

[Nancy] I can paint anybody I want to.

[Harold] Yeah?

[Nancy] You're really uptight about me.

[Harold] I dig you.

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[Nancy] You're making a marriage scene.
I thought you wanted to be free, Harold.

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[Harold] You bet I wanna be free. But I wanna be free with you alone.

[Nancy] But you're so possessive you're making me uptight about us.
Your attitude is very unhip.

[Harold] My attitude is unhip?
Don't give me that.
Don't -- Listen, I'm probably the hippest guy around here.
I got a house full of strangers.
I got cats, I got dogs, I got pot, I got acid ...
... I got LSD cubes.
I've got this thing here. Don't tell me about hip.

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I am so hip it hurts. That's how hip I am.

[Nancy] It's very unhip to say you're hip, Harold.

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[Harold] And it's very unhip of you to tell me that I am unhip.
All right, come on in, everybody! Come in.
Come in! It's open house. Come in! Come -- Ma?
Ma. Ma.

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[Mother] Where's the telephone?

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[Harold] Ma.

[Mother] Where's the telephone?
There used to be a phone over here. Did you see it?
Where?

[Harold] Ma, don't do that. That's bad scene.
Ma, what are you doing?

[Mother] What am I doing?
I'm calling the Veteran's Administration. They'll know what to do about you.
It happened in Korea, who am I kidding?

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Information, give me the V.A. I'm calling Section Eight.

[Harold] Don't do it, Ma, please!

[Mother] "Don't do it. Ma, please"?
Look at this place. I never saw such a mess.
It's a pigsty.

[Harold] No, Ma, listen --

[Dog] Screech.

[Mother] That'll teach you to run around barefoot.
What is this? Who is this? What is this?
Is this one of your new friends? Shame on you. Go on a diet.

[Man] All I eat is grass and acid.

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[Harold] He eats grass and acid.

[Herbie] Hi, Mom.

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[Mother] [Slaps Herbie]

[Harold] Oh, dear, Ma, that's very bad.
Why did you hit Herbie like -- ?

[Mother] Don't argue with me!
Take these. I'm cleaning up.

[Harold] Great for you to visit --

[Mother] Cats, he's got in here.

[Harold] but don't give me orders in my own home.

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[Mother] This is a stove, not a bed.

[Harold] This is a hip home, Ma. I don't like --

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[Hunter S. Thompson] Bad trip. Bad trip.

[Harold] Ma.
Don't give me orders here.

[Mother] Oh, brownies!

[Harold] Hey, don't eat those, Ma. They're Alice B. Toklas brownies.

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[Mother] I love you, Alice B. Toklas. Who is Alice B. Toklas?

[Harold] Gertrude Stein's friend.

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[Mother] Oh, yeah, Gertrude Stein.
She used to live on Oakwood.

[Harold] Oh, hi, Mr. Rodriguez.

[Mr. Rodriguez] Good morning, Senor Fine.
We hate to bother you in your house --

[Harold] Come in, man. Come in.

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[Mother] Hello, hi, how are you?

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Herbie, baby.
Come on.

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Have some brownies.

[Herbie] That's okay.

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[Rabbi] "Blessed be you, Harold and Joyce, who come in the name of the Lord.
We bless you with the blessings of God.
We pray that these blessings may rest gently and lovingly upon you both.
Praised be thou, O Lord, who has blessed these children of Israel ...
... through the covenant of holy wedlock ...
... and beneath this chuppah canopy of marriage.
As by the wedding ring you symbolize your marriage bond" --

[Harold] Excuse me. Excuse me.
Excuse me.

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[Mrs. Foley] Screams.

[Mother] Ben!

[Joyce] I knew it.
I knew it.
I knew it.

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[Man] Hey, where are you going, man?

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[Harold] I don't know.
I don't know!
I don't know and I don't care!
I don't care!

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But there's gotta be something beautiful out there!
There's got to be.
I know it!
Hey! Hey, I know it!

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Cast of Characters
Harold: Peter Sellers
Mother: Jo van Fleet
Nancy: Leigh Taylor-Young
Joyce: Joyce van Patten
Herbie: David Arkin
Murray: Herb Edelman
Father: Salem Ludwig

Guru: Louis Gottlieb
Funeral Director: Grady Sutton
Mrs. Foley: Janet Clark
Mr. Rodriguez: Jorge Moreno
Man in Dress Shop: Ed Peck
Big Bear: Jack Margolis
Love Lady: Eddra Gale
Anita: Carol O'Leary

El Greco: Gary Brown
Mechanic: Sid Clute
Gas Station Attendant: Roy Glenn
Grandfather Rodriguez: Joe Dominguez
1st Patrolman: William Bramley
2nd Patrolman: Vincent Howard
Crying Hippie: Robert Miller Driscoll
Crying Hippie's Wife: Karen Mickievic

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