Good Girls Revolt (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript
♪ Is that all there is? S
♪ Is that all there is? S
♪ If that's all there is, my friends I'
♪ Then let's keep dancing I'
♪ Let's break out the booze S
♪ And have a ball S
♪ If that's all S
♪ There is)'
Uh-huh. Oh, my-- Oh.
Happy New Year.
Oh, it's cool.
Everyone's got their thing.
♪ If that's all S
♪ There is N'
Hey.
Hey.
- Bye.
- Goodbye.
Okay-
- Oh.
- Yeah.
Bye.
Oh.
Mm.
Um, my brother and Candace
invited us over tonight.
She asked me to bring something,
so I thought I'd make a JELL-O mold.
But I have to stop by the market,
and pick up some mayonnaise.
But I know you like that
and so does Candace, so...
Can you get the radio?
I wanna hear the weather.
Mm-hm.
It's New Year's Eve,
New York. Be safe out there tonight.
But right now,
we've got one more song...
...then we'll have traffic
and the weather.
There are only seven names here.
There are only seven editors
at the top 20 papers...
-...who have a magazine background.
- They're all over 50.
Steve Tilton from
the Dallas Morning News isn't.
He's 49.
It's the 1970s. I need someone
who can still get a hard-on.
You said you wanted "sophisticated
with management chops...
...and a strong sense of narrative."
Doesn't say anything here
about tumescence.
I never thought I'd ask this,
but find out who's restless over at Time.
Sure.
Good word, "tumescence."
- Good morning, Viv.
- Good morning.
I'd like you to distribute
the new desk calendars.
I'm-- I'm on my way
to the little girls room.
Okay, well, after that.
Go ahead.
Here's my résumé, Patti.
I don't wanna get
a typewriter thrown at my head.
The second we file this complaint,
they can't fire us.
I hope you're right.
I am.
I am.
- Thank you for spearheading this, Patti.
- No, it's all of us.
So, what's next?
Next, we party-
- Do you wanna go to the Chelsea?
- I wouldn't miss it.
I hear people run around naked there.
- I'm counting you in.
- No, not me, I-- I'm still in mourning.
- Peter broke up with her.
- Reporters don't break up with you.
They just take a posting in Moscow.
- I thought you were going with him.
- Me too.
Look, all the more reason
for you to come out.
You don't have to think
about him all night.
How do you think
I'm getting over Doug?
Dottie brought another dress.
I can never make up my mind.
- I would just be a wet blanket.
- Come on.
Oh, she said no, Patti.
Come on. There are doughnuts
in the break room.
That'll help.
Do you really think going to a party
is gonna help you get over Doug?
Yeah.
That and some other things I'm trying.
Mm.
I need to move on.
When Doug was arguing with me
about that Panther article...
...and I couldn't get him
to see it my way, I just--
Something died.
Why don't you let me
take the résumés to Eleanor?
Ned has a vacation day,
so there's not much to do.
That would be great.
We're waiting on Doug's edit.
Eleanor's office is closed.
You have to take it to her house.
- Okay.
- In Harlem.
- Hello.
- Hi, Jane.
- What's going on?
- We were just plotting.
Plotting revelry worthy of the night.
I'm going to do mind-bending drugs.
I am going to Harlem.
To see a friend.
And-- And then I'm gonna make
a JELL-O mold.
Ooh.
- Ah, heh.
- What about you, Jane?
I am going to the mayor's
Young Society Ball with my boyfriend.
Ooh. Sounds so elegant. Heh.
Did you know that New Year's Eve...
...is one of the most popular days
for proposals?
Making memories
and making babies, that's what I heard.
I didn't know that.
We've been the last two years,
so it's a tradition.
Well, you know,
it's not just a new year, Jane.
It's a new decade, so...
...I wouldn't be afraid
of trying at least one new thing tonight.
You know,
I've never been to Harlem...
...so that's new.
They asked me to deliver the body.
Son of a bitch.
Patti.
Bring your story file.
Did it register on the Richter scale?
I'm not a geologist.
We just know the ground shook
for several seconds.
- Get a domestic angle.
- Do we have an idea of the scope?
- Finn--
- We just know it was big.
So I have "a big earthquake" to go on?
Till you find out more, yes.
But Nixon can't get
reliable information out of China.
How long have you been here,
Greenstone?
- Uh, well, almost--
- My point being...
...I should have been dazzled by now.
Get out of here.
- What can I do for you?
- You wanna kill my story?
- For now, yeah. It's uninspired.
- Why?
Doug, the rise of the Black Panthers
is compelling stuff.
Race, power, violence,
everything that sells a magazine.
- What? Speak.
- That's true.
The Panthers are
the most exciting thing...
...to happen to the counterculture
since the summer of love.
See, that's what I want.
To whites, to America,
the Panthers are Mandingo with a gun.
They wanna steal white women.
- That's not what I see.
- No, of course not.
You see aviators and berets,
a crack in the establishment...
...because you're young and hip.
Like we should be.
So you want me to write
a love letter to the Panthers?
- Now you're talking.
- It's sensationalism.
That's the point.
The Panthers themselves...
...have meticulously crafted
a sensational image.
Let's do it justice.
And the next time you wanna talk,
you call Angie and set a time.
You don't just waltz into my office.
Anything big?
An assassin who tried to kill
the president of Panama...
...last New Year's Eve
was just gunned down.
You reap what you sow.
Three women are in labor
at Mount Sinai.
Are you covering
baby New Year again?
Ever since I started here...
...I've loved meeting the first baby
born closest to midnight.
Reginald Adam Oaks
was born at exactly midnight in 1961.
He had these rolls of fat
on his forearms...
...like someone had tied
dental floss around him.
- Ha-ha-ha.
- That sounds irresistible.
I'll keep checking back.
Yes.
Yes. Oh...
- I see you're mad.
- Yeah, well, that's what happens...
...when you're supposed to be
on one team...
...and suddenly you start
scoring points for the other side.
I'm on your team.
People on my team
don't cheer on the editor...
...when he's killing my story.
I wasn't cheering him on.
I do think he has a point.
Okay? It's what I was trying to tell you
after the funeral.
There's a better angle on this thing.
So you followed me in here
to tell me "I told you so"?
Heh. That's what I thought.
I called the Chinatown
Merchants Association.
- And?
- Closed for the holiday.
I also called the embassy.
- And?
- They're denying...
-...there was an earthquake.
- They're lying.
It was reported in the AFP.
They felt it in Hanoi.
- Denise.
- Yes?
What do you have?
I'll keep trying-
News of the Week, this is Patti.
Yes, I'll be right up.
Have a seat.
Is this about the Black Panther story...
...because Doug's working on it
right now, and I think you're gonna--
I'm about to write my first editor's page
of the new decade, and, uh, well...
I thought you'd be
a good person to talk to.
- You like 20-year-old Scotch?
- I'm sure that I would if I had ever tried it.
Oh.
You're in for a treat.
You can only get this in Europe.
It's like Cuban cigars, except legal.
Mm.
If life had a taste, this would be it.
So, so far, I'm mulling over the idea...
...that the '60s were
a decade of repression.
In my freshman year
psychology course...
...we learned suppression is conscious
but repression is unconscious.
I like that.
You start the decade off
with John F. Kennedy in Camelot...
...everything appears perfect
only because so much is repressed.
- Right.
- As the decade proceeds...
...everything that's painful
and unresolved about American life...
...just pushes to the surface.
Okay, yeah.
So, what if the '70s are
a decade about expansion?
So the country's moving
from repression to expansion?
- Mm-hm.
- That's good.
Looks like it stopped raining
out there finally.
Oh, yeah, it's--
It's clearing up very nicely.
You have a beautiful home, Mrs. Norton.
Please don't call me that. I don't belong
to my father or my husband.
Call me Eleanor.
Eleanor.
Ahem. Uh, uh--
We-- We got 36 resumes,
18 researchers and 18 reporters.
Now we're starting to get somewhere.
This gal went to
the University of Pennsylvania...
...graduated with honors.
Her reporter went to
City College for two years.
Never graduated.
This is what I've been talking about.
You can take your coat off, Cindy.
Heh. Ahem.
I was just about to
fix myself my second lunch.
- Are you hungry?
- Oh, no, thank you.
Oh... Oh, ooh.
Ooh. Oh. Uh...
This baby's got me
a little lightheaded today.
Mrs. Norton-- Uh, um, sorry. Eleanor.
You are expecting.
Please stay there
and let me fix you something.
Thank you. Thank you, Cindy.
- Will you run this to the copy desk?
- Of course.
So you have any special
young people plans for New Year's Eve?
I am going to the Chelsea.
There are some parties there.
I have heard some shocking
sordid tales about that place.
Well, they're only shocking if you're old.
- Or if you don't read Rolling Stone.
- Well, I've always been old.
- How's that?
- Before I left for New York...
...my father showed me a picture
of the Empire State Building, and said:
"Win or don't come home."
No time to relax with a mandate like that.
I have some good news.
You've won.
You can party now.
What'd you think of the Scotch?
I think I would've rather had the cigar.
I have more names for you.
I know exactly who I need.
Thirty-six.
Twenty-four.
Thirty-four.
Almost.
That's what my mother says
about my ratio.
"Almost."
No, hip is perfect.
Oh, no, I'm not complaining,
it's just that...
-...that's what she always says, is all.
- I do this long time.
Heh. Oh...
Sweet or salty?
Excuse me?
Oh. Um...
I think my fiance
would probably prefer sweet.
- It's going to be our first time.
- Oh.
We need the most beautiful.
Thank you.
I don't know why I'm so nervous.
You lose virginity only once.
Oh...
Chad will love it.
He says blue brings out my eyes.
Everything change after tonight.
I will be right outside.
If you need anything, tell me. Okay?
I'm so far from dazzling Finn.
Chinese food.
I just ate.
You know how there's
Hunan, Mandarin, Cantonese?
- I said I'm not hungry.
- That's not what I mean.
Where did the earthquake happen?
Um...
Closest guess is Chengdu.
Okay, that's the city,
but what's the region?
Szechuan.
Szechuan.
Szechuan.
You know what?
- I am kind of hungry.
- Ha, ha.
- Grab your coat.
- Okay.
Just kill it.
Do you barge into other places like this?
I don't wanna spend three days
on a story you don't wanna run.
Will you...
Well, I'd offer you a drink,
but I'm afraid it'll only make you angrier.
- I just--
- Look, six months ago--
Hell, three weeks ago,
I would have published your article as is.
Proudly. But the times,
they are a-changing, Doug.
- Who said that?
- Bob Dylan.
- Correct.
- Off his 1964 album of the same name.
Well, he was prescient,
things are changing now.
And this magazine needs to change
along with them.
Don't tell them
what they've already heard.
Walter Cronkite didn't visit
their headquarters, you did.
You saw them feed their children.
You've seen their offices.
You know what kind of cologne
their leader wears.
And you're the best writer I have.
At least you could be...
...if you could
get out of your comfort zone.
- Let me take another pass at it.
- Good.
Because I want to run that version
two weeks from now.
As a cover.
Close the door.
Got it.
I remember Gloria.
She had the biggest bouffant in the pit.
Her reporter took her to Mexico City
where he's bureau chief.
You're still in love with him, aren't you?
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I'll tell you what you're gonna do.
You are gonna come to
the Chelsea tonight...
...because it'll be fun and distracting.
My mom was gonna take me
to see Hello, Dolly!
- Mm.
- Doesn't that sound festive?
Yeah, for a Wednesday.
I don't know. Am I a Chelsea girl?
I think you are.
Trust me, it'll be groovy.
We're out of coffee.
I'll make a pot.
And there's something sticky
on the refrigerator handle.
It's honey or something.
Here we go.
Amen to this.
My mother calls it shit on a shingle.
Don't let that ruin it for you.
I'll try not to.
You don't want any?
Oh, no, Lenny and I are going over
to my brother's later.
Mm. It's delicious.
- Thank you.
- Heh-heh-heh.
Um, do you--
Do you have anything to drink?
You mean, like, liquor?
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's New Year's.
Oh, yes, of course.
There should be a bottle of brandy
on the counter. Help yourself.
Thanks.
You know what I wanna know?
Uh, what?
What it's like to be Cindy.
Uh,well...
Um, uh...
- I'm just a regular person.
- What does regular mean to you?
Um,well...
Uh...
I grew up in Rye.
Yeah, my dad worked for IBM...
-...and my mom was a mom.
- I have another question for you.
Of all the men in the world,
why did you pick your husband?
God, I'm not sure that I did.
I think Lenny might have picked me.
What does he think of the lawsuit?
Oh, he's-- You know, he thinks--
He thinks that it is good.
Really good.
Huh.
So when are you planning to tell him?
I'm not sure that I am going to.
So would you say that
you're not sure if you're...
...committed to this lawsuit,
or to your husband?
My mother-in-law is staying until 1.
Oh, that's nice.
My shoes won't stay on.
I'm gonna have to shuffle my way
into the new year.
Oh, I can help you with that.
- Give me your foot.
- Eww.
I'm letting you in
on an old pageant secret.
I don't usually tell anyone...
...but I was Miss Ocean City, New Jersey.
- You were in pageants?
- Oh, yeah.
What was your talent?
Spying again?
- Oh...
- Wow.
I like your dress.
You look great.
No, really, I like your dress.
Thank you.
The last Panther file.
- Do you need anything else from me?
- That'll be it. Thank you.
Is this what you're doing
for New Year's Eve?
If I wanna get drunk...
...I'll wait till tomorrow
when there's less competition.
You okay?
You going to the Chelsea thing
with everybody?
Yes.
Everyone just leaves their door open...
...and you dive into whatever scene
looks good to you.
- Andy Warhol's gonna be there.
- Andy Warhol, the boxer?
No, Andy Warhol the quarterback.
Doug...
You know, next year...
You mean tomorrow?
I mean tomorrow.
I would understand if you wanted
to pick a new researcher.
Now, why would I wanna do that?
Go to your party.
Have fun.
How's my baby?
- And how's Delores? Ha-ha-ha.
- Oh.
Can you believe my husband
wants to name our girl Delores?
I think it's glamorous.
Edward, this is Cindy
from News of the Week.
Cindy, Edward.
- Hi.
- Hi.
I heard you're about to make history.
That's what I've been trying to tell her.
- It's a pleasure to meet you.
- You too.
Hey, I brought a little
something special for New Year's.
Ah... Spearmint leaves.
- My favorite.
- Just taking care of my baby.
What-- What is your boy name?
Langston.
We can agree on that. Heh, heh.
Langston Hughes Norton.
- His first two words are gonna rhyme.
- Uh-uh. Uh-uh.
His middle name
is not gonna be Hughes.
Langston is a great name.
Strong.
Strong.
Can I get either of you two
anything to drink?
No, I'm good, thanks.
Oh, no.
- No?
- I'm good.
Cindy, could you pass me that
candy dish over there, please?
Oh, of course.
It's gorgeous.
- Thank you. All right.
- You're very welcome.
Smile, sweetie, Suzanne Winchester
is right over there.
- Right?
- Oh, yes.
I thought you didn't care
what she thinks.
I don't, I'm just surprised
how many people read her newsletter.
There's Dave up there.
David.
- Well, Iookie here.
- There he is.
- Happy New Year.
- Happy New Year.
If it isn't the most
beautiful couple in New York.
I was going to say the same of you.
She was.
She said as much on the way over.
What is this dress?
I dragged Daddy
all the way to Bergdorf's...
...because I knew if I tried it on,
he wouldn't be able to say no.
- Ha, ha.
- Of course not. Ha, ha.
Ladies.
- Shall we?
- Mm-hm.
Douglas.
What the hell are you still doing here?
Working.
Deli guy will be up any minute
with my last meal of the '60's.
The story's not due for
another couple of weeks.
You're not going to
the shindig at the Chelsea?
Oh, I might head over to Cole's
before the kissing starts...
...more my speed.
You're gonna spend New Year's Eve
at the news room watering hole...
...with five reporters you drink with
every other day of the year.
That sounds, uh...
...comfortable? Happy New Year.
Come on, you two.
What are you putting on there?
Come on, my baby.
♪ Inquisitive friends' ♪
♪ Are asking me
What's come over me I'
♪ A change, there's been a change I'
♪ And it's, oh, so plain to see I'
Come on.
- Oh.
- Oh, yes.
- No.
- Get on up, girl.
Come on, now.
Come on, it's New Year's Eve.
- Come on.
- Join the party.
♪ I wanna testify ♪
Mm-hm.
- Uh-huh.
Yeah, there you go.
- Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Yeah.
♪ Was incomplete
I was down ♪
Uh-huh.
- Ha-ha-ha!
♪ So doggone low I'
♪ Had to look up at my feet N'
- The wood.
- The stove.
- Happy New Year.
- Happy New Year.
- Good to see you. Wow. Ah...
- Jesus, you're still a handsome bastard.
Now you stink of power too, man.
You make the establishment
look good, man.
Carol. This is Carol.
- Pleasure.
- Finn and I worked together...
...at The Boston Globe
right out of Princeton.
- Those were the days.
- Those were the days.
Where's that gorgeous wife of yours?
She's too good for you, you know.
This is a business call.
She's got the champagne on ice
for when I get home.
- In that case, let's get you started.
- Sounds good.
Hold it right there.
Okay, you can drop the cloth.
Love that. Love that. Perfect.
There we go.
Before you know it,
Peter is gonna be a distant memory.
What's it gonna feel like?
You know how since kindergarten...
...you've been told to get in line
and raise your hand...
...and take turns and sit down,
and do as you're told?
- I guess.
- In 20 minutes...
...all of that is just gonna disappear.
I hadn't met his wife before.
I've been thinking about it.
And I have a surprise for you later.
I'm ready.
For what?
I'm ready to make love.
Jane.
You don't have to do that.
Well, I know I don't have to. I want to.
I know it's something you've wanted.
I care about you, Jane.
We grew up together.
You gave me that ultimatum,
and I've been thinking.
If I have to decide...
We've been together for so long,
and I know what this is.
You're not breaking up with me.
Yeah.
If you were gonna break up with me,
then why did you bring me here?
I wanted you to have a good New Year's.
I'm sorry. Let's go sit down.
Don't you dare.
Well, the circulation, obviously.
Prestige, which I know
you don't give a damn about.
And then there's the money.
Whatever Jann Wenner's paying you,
I'll probably quadruple it.
With your own car.
What did they give you,
a scooter over there at Rolling Stone?
I can get Hunter S. Thompson...
...changing the whole fucking
journalism world, man.
You really want me to
walk away from that?
Leave it behind?
No. I want you to bring it with you.
♪ In a white room
With black curtains I'
♪ Near the station ♪
♪ Black roof country I'
♪ No gold pavements I'
♪ Tired starlings I'
♪ Silver horses A'
♪ Ran down moonbeams S
♪ In your dark eyes I'
♪ Dawnlight smiles' ♪
♪ on you leaving
My contentment I
- That works.
- Right.
- You just have to let him know.
- Yeah, right.
I promised him everything he needs.
♪ You said no strings I'
♪ Could secure you
At the station I'
Oh, easy, baby.
♪ Goodbye windows I'
♪ I walked into
Such a sad time' ♪
♪ At the station A'
♪ As I walked out S
♪ Felt my own need
Just beginning I'
♪ I'll wait in the queue' ♪
Go on.
♪ When the trains come back S
♪ Lie with you' ♪
♪ Where the shadows run
From themselves I'
Patti.
- Hey.
_Um__
Excuse me.
Oh, yeah, baby, love that.
♪ At the party
She was kindness I'
♪ In the hard crowd F
♪ Consolation for the old wound S
♪ Now forgotten N'
I don't feel so good.
♪ In her dark eyes I'
♪ She's just dressing' ♪
♪ Goodbye windows I'
Hey. Hey.
Something happened to your friend.
♪ I'll sleep in this place
With the N'
He raised money.
All right, what next?
How about, he was one of 10 Szechuan
restaurant owners in Manhattan...
...who in the space of an afternoon--
Yes. In the space of an afternoon...
...Lee collected $3300...
-...from members of the community.
- Okay, hang on.
- Okay, go.
- Lee stuffed the small bills...
...into a large white cotton pillowcase.
And the image of Lee holding
the bulging pillowcase...
...was made all the more tragic
because he had no way to deliver it.
Oh.
It sounds like an O. Henry story.
Hear that?
Does O. Henry dazzle you, huh?
It's good. It really is.
- Thank you.
- Ha, ha.
No need to thank me.
- This is my job.
- I know, but...
I think maybe you're better at your job
than I am at mine.
I just got lucky.
I see what you did. Heh.
You're...
...not like the other girls, are you?
You're not uptight or selfish or immature.
And you're so pretty.
- Here we go.
- Ten, nine, eight...
...seven, six, five...
...four, three, two, one.
Happy New Year!
Good evening.
- After you.
- Oh, thank you.
Oh...
Happy New Year, neighbor.
Happy New Year.
Did you have a nice evening?
I always make
such a big deal about New Year's...
...and then it turns out to be
just like any other night.
Mm.
Well, maybe the '70s will be better.
Good night.
Can you help me with something?
- Diane, I'm so sorry.
- You ready?
I'm so sorry, Diane.
♪ But I can't seem to find S
♪ My way over' ♪
♪ Wandering, I am lost I'
♪ As I travel along' ♪
♪ The white cliffs of Dover S
♪ Many rivers to cross' ♪
♪ And it's only my will' ♪
♪ That keeps me alive' ♪
♪ I've been licked
Washed up for years I'
♪ And I merely survive
Because of my pride I
♪ And this loneliness
Won't leave me alone I'
♪ It's such a drag
To be on your own I
♪ My woman left
And she didn't say why ♪
♪ We", I guess I'll have to cry' ♪
J Many rivers to cross I
J Many rivers to cross I'
♪ But just where to begin ♪
♪ I'm playing for time I'
♪ There have been times
I find myself I
♪ Rivers to cross F
♪ Thinking of committing' ♪
♪ Some dreadful crime F
- ♪ Yes, I got many rivers to cross ♪
J Many rivers to cross I'
♪ But I can't seem to find S
♪ My way over' ♪
J Wandering, I am lost I
J Many rivers to cross I'
♪ As I travel along' ♪
♪ The white cliffs of Dover S
- ♪ Yes, I got many rivers to cross ♪
J Many rivers to cross I'
♪ But I can't seem to find S
♪ My way over' ♪
- ♪ I've got many rivers to cross ♪
J Wandering, I am lost I
♪ As I travel along' ♪
♪ The white cliffs of Dover S
- ♪ Yes, I got many rivers to cross ♪
J Many rivers to cross N'
Translated by:
Yong Chavez
♪ Is that all there is? S
♪ If that's all there is, my friends I'
♪ Then let's keep dancing I'
♪ Let's break out the booze S
♪ And have a ball S
♪ If that's all S
♪ There is)'
Uh-huh. Oh, my-- Oh.
Happy New Year.
Oh, it's cool.
Everyone's got their thing.
♪ If that's all S
♪ There is N'
Hey.
Hey.
- Bye.
- Goodbye.
Okay-
- Oh.
- Yeah.
Bye.
Oh.
Mm.
Um, my brother and Candace
invited us over tonight.
She asked me to bring something,
so I thought I'd make a JELL-O mold.
But I have to stop by the market,
and pick up some mayonnaise.
But I know you like that
and so does Candace, so...
Can you get the radio?
I wanna hear the weather.
Mm-hm.
It's New Year's Eve,
New York. Be safe out there tonight.
But right now,
we've got one more song...
...then we'll have traffic
and the weather.
There are only seven names here.
There are only seven editors
at the top 20 papers...
-...who have a magazine background.
- They're all over 50.
Steve Tilton from
the Dallas Morning News isn't.
He's 49.
It's the 1970s. I need someone
who can still get a hard-on.
You said you wanted "sophisticated
with management chops...
...and a strong sense of narrative."
Doesn't say anything here
about tumescence.
I never thought I'd ask this,
but find out who's restless over at Time.
Sure.
Good word, "tumescence."
- Good morning, Viv.
- Good morning.
I'd like you to distribute
the new desk calendars.
I'm-- I'm on my way
to the little girls room.
Okay, well, after that.
Go ahead.
Here's my résumé, Patti.
I don't wanna get
a typewriter thrown at my head.
The second we file this complaint,
they can't fire us.
I hope you're right.
I am.
I am.
- Thank you for spearheading this, Patti.
- No, it's all of us.
So, what's next?
Next, we party-
- Do you wanna go to the Chelsea?
- I wouldn't miss it.
I hear people run around naked there.
- I'm counting you in.
- No, not me, I-- I'm still in mourning.
- Peter broke up with her.
- Reporters don't break up with you.
They just take a posting in Moscow.
- I thought you were going with him.
- Me too.
Look, all the more reason
for you to come out.
You don't have to think
about him all night.
How do you think
I'm getting over Doug?
Dottie brought another dress.
I can never make up my mind.
- I would just be a wet blanket.
- Come on.
Oh, she said no, Patti.
Come on. There are doughnuts
in the break room.
That'll help.
Do you really think going to a party
is gonna help you get over Doug?
Yeah.
That and some other things I'm trying.
Mm.
I need to move on.
When Doug was arguing with me
about that Panther article...
...and I couldn't get him
to see it my way, I just--
Something died.
Why don't you let me
take the résumés to Eleanor?
Ned has a vacation day,
so there's not much to do.
That would be great.
We're waiting on Doug's edit.
Eleanor's office is closed.
You have to take it to her house.
- Okay.
- In Harlem.
- Hello.
- Hi, Jane.
- What's going on?
- We were just plotting.
Plotting revelry worthy of the night.
I'm going to do mind-bending drugs.
I am going to Harlem.
To see a friend.
And-- And then I'm gonna make
a JELL-O mold.
Ooh.
- Ah, heh.
- What about you, Jane?
I am going to the mayor's
Young Society Ball with my boyfriend.
Ooh. Sounds so elegant. Heh.
Did you know that New Year's Eve...
...is one of the most popular days
for proposals?
Making memories
and making babies, that's what I heard.
I didn't know that.
We've been the last two years,
so it's a tradition.
Well, you know,
it's not just a new year, Jane.
It's a new decade, so...
...I wouldn't be afraid
of trying at least one new thing tonight.
You know,
I've never been to Harlem...
...so that's new.
They asked me to deliver the body.
Son of a bitch.
Patti.
Bring your story file.
Did it register on the Richter scale?
I'm not a geologist.
We just know the ground shook
for several seconds.
- Get a domestic angle.
- Do we have an idea of the scope?
- Finn--
- We just know it was big.
So I have "a big earthquake" to go on?
Till you find out more, yes.
But Nixon can't get
reliable information out of China.
How long have you been here,
Greenstone?
- Uh, well, almost--
- My point being...
...I should have been dazzled by now.
Get out of here.
- What can I do for you?
- You wanna kill my story?
- For now, yeah. It's uninspired.
- Why?
Doug, the rise of the Black Panthers
is compelling stuff.
Race, power, violence,
everything that sells a magazine.
- What? Speak.
- That's true.
The Panthers are
the most exciting thing...
...to happen to the counterculture
since the summer of love.
See, that's what I want.
To whites, to America,
the Panthers are Mandingo with a gun.
They wanna steal white women.
- That's not what I see.
- No, of course not.
You see aviators and berets,
a crack in the establishment...
...because you're young and hip.
Like we should be.
So you want me to write
a love letter to the Panthers?
- Now you're talking.
- It's sensationalism.
That's the point.
The Panthers themselves...
...have meticulously crafted
a sensational image.
Let's do it justice.
And the next time you wanna talk,
you call Angie and set a time.
You don't just waltz into my office.
Anything big?
An assassin who tried to kill
the president of Panama...
...last New Year's Eve
was just gunned down.
You reap what you sow.
Three women are in labor
at Mount Sinai.
Are you covering
baby New Year again?
Ever since I started here...
...I've loved meeting the first baby
born closest to midnight.
Reginald Adam Oaks
was born at exactly midnight in 1961.
He had these rolls of fat
on his forearms...
...like someone had tied
dental floss around him.
- Ha-ha-ha.
- That sounds irresistible.
I'll keep checking back.
Yes.
Yes. Oh...
- I see you're mad.
- Yeah, well, that's what happens...
...when you're supposed to be
on one team...
...and suddenly you start
scoring points for the other side.
I'm on your team.
People on my team
don't cheer on the editor...
...when he's killing my story.
I wasn't cheering him on.
I do think he has a point.
Okay? It's what I was trying to tell you
after the funeral.
There's a better angle on this thing.
So you followed me in here
to tell me "I told you so"?
Heh. That's what I thought.
I called the Chinatown
Merchants Association.
- And?
- Closed for the holiday.
I also called the embassy.
- And?
- They're denying...
-...there was an earthquake.
- They're lying.
It was reported in the AFP.
They felt it in Hanoi.
- Denise.
- Yes?
What do you have?
I'll keep trying-
News of the Week, this is Patti.
Yes, I'll be right up.
Have a seat.
Is this about the Black Panther story...
...because Doug's working on it
right now, and I think you're gonna--
I'm about to write my first editor's page
of the new decade, and, uh, well...
I thought you'd be
a good person to talk to.
- You like 20-year-old Scotch?
- I'm sure that I would if I had ever tried it.
Oh.
You're in for a treat.
You can only get this in Europe.
It's like Cuban cigars, except legal.
Mm.
If life had a taste, this would be it.
So, so far, I'm mulling over the idea...
...that the '60s were
a decade of repression.
In my freshman year
psychology course...
...we learned suppression is conscious
but repression is unconscious.
I like that.
You start the decade off
with John F. Kennedy in Camelot...
...everything appears perfect
only because so much is repressed.
- Right.
- As the decade proceeds...
...everything that's painful
and unresolved about American life...
...just pushes to the surface.
Okay, yeah.
So, what if the '70s are
a decade about expansion?
So the country's moving
from repression to expansion?
- Mm-hm.
- That's good.
Looks like it stopped raining
out there finally.
Oh, yeah, it's--
It's clearing up very nicely.
You have a beautiful home, Mrs. Norton.
Please don't call me that. I don't belong
to my father or my husband.
Call me Eleanor.
Eleanor.
Ahem. Uh, uh--
We-- We got 36 resumes,
18 researchers and 18 reporters.
Now we're starting to get somewhere.
This gal went to
the University of Pennsylvania...
...graduated with honors.
Her reporter went to
City College for two years.
Never graduated.
This is what I've been talking about.
You can take your coat off, Cindy.
Heh. Ahem.
I was just about to
fix myself my second lunch.
- Are you hungry?
- Oh, no, thank you.
Oh... Oh, ooh.
Ooh. Oh. Uh...
This baby's got me
a little lightheaded today.
Mrs. Norton-- Uh, um, sorry. Eleanor.
You are expecting.
Please stay there
and let me fix you something.
Thank you. Thank you, Cindy.
- Will you run this to the copy desk?
- Of course.
So you have any special
young people plans for New Year's Eve?
I am going to the Chelsea.
There are some parties there.
I have heard some shocking
sordid tales about that place.
Well, they're only shocking if you're old.
- Or if you don't read Rolling Stone.
- Well, I've always been old.
- How's that?
- Before I left for New York...
...my father showed me a picture
of the Empire State Building, and said:
"Win or don't come home."
No time to relax with a mandate like that.
I have some good news.
You've won.
You can party now.
What'd you think of the Scotch?
I think I would've rather had the cigar.
I have more names for you.
I know exactly who I need.
Thirty-six.
Twenty-four.
Thirty-four.
Almost.
That's what my mother says
about my ratio.
"Almost."
No, hip is perfect.
Oh, no, I'm not complaining,
it's just that...
-...that's what she always says, is all.
- I do this long time.
Heh. Oh...
Sweet or salty?
Excuse me?
Oh. Um...
I think my fiance
would probably prefer sweet.
- It's going to be our first time.
- Oh.
We need the most beautiful.
Thank you.
I don't know why I'm so nervous.
You lose virginity only once.
Oh...
Chad will love it.
He says blue brings out my eyes.
Everything change after tonight.
I will be right outside.
If you need anything, tell me. Okay?
I'm so far from dazzling Finn.
Chinese food.
I just ate.
You know how there's
Hunan, Mandarin, Cantonese?
- I said I'm not hungry.
- That's not what I mean.
Where did the earthquake happen?
Um...
Closest guess is Chengdu.
Okay, that's the city,
but what's the region?
Szechuan.
Szechuan.
Szechuan.
You know what?
- I am kind of hungry.
- Ha, ha.
- Grab your coat.
- Okay.
Just kill it.
Do you barge into other places like this?
I don't wanna spend three days
on a story you don't wanna run.
Will you...
Well, I'd offer you a drink,
but I'm afraid it'll only make you angrier.
- I just--
- Look, six months ago--
Hell, three weeks ago,
I would have published your article as is.
Proudly. But the times,
they are a-changing, Doug.
- Who said that?
- Bob Dylan.
- Correct.
- Off his 1964 album of the same name.
Well, he was prescient,
things are changing now.
And this magazine needs to change
along with them.
Don't tell them
what they've already heard.
Walter Cronkite didn't visit
their headquarters, you did.
You saw them feed their children.
You've seen their offices.
You know what kind of cologne
their leader wears.
And you're the best writer I have.
At least you could be...
...if you could
get out of your comfort zone.
- Let me take another pass at it.
- Good.
Because I want to run that version
two weeks from now.
As a cover.
Close the door.
Got it.
I remember Gloria.
She had the biggest bouffant in the pit.
Her reporter took her to Mexico City
where he's bureau chief.
You're still in love with him, aren't you?
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I'll tell you what you're gonna do.
You are gonna come to
the Chelsea tonight...
...because it'll be fun and distracting.
My mom was gonna take me
to see Hello, Dolly!
- Mm.
- Doesn't that sound festive?
Yeah, for a Wednesday.
I don't know. Am I a Chelsea girl?
I think you are.
Trust me, it'll be groovy.
We're out of coffee.
I'll make a pot.
And there's something sticky
on the refrigerator handle.
It's honey or something.
Here we go.
Amen to this.
My mother calls it shit on a shingle.
Don't let that ruin it for you.
I'll try not to.
You don't want any?
Oh, no, Lenny and I are going over
to my brother's later.
Mm. It's delicious.
- Thank you.
- Heh-heh-heh.
Um, do you--
Do you have anything to drink?
You mean, like, liquor?
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's New Year's.
Oh, yes, of course.
There should be a bottle of brandy
on the counter. Help yourself.
Thanks.
You know what I wanna know?
Uh, what?
What it's like to be Cindy.
Uh,well...
Um, uh...
- I'm just a regular person.
- What does regular mean to you?
Um,well...
Uh...
I grew up in Rye.
Yeah, my dad worked for IBM...
-...and my mom was a mom.
- I have another question for you.
Of all the men in the world,
why did you pick your husband?
God, I'm not sure that I did.
I think Lenny might have picked me.
What does he think of the lawsuit?
Oh, he's-- You know, he thinks--
He thinks that it is good.
Really good.
Huh.
So when are you planning to tell him?
I'm not sure that I am going to.
So would you say that
you're not sure if you're...
...committed to this lawsuit,
or to your husband?
My mother-in-law is staying until 1.
Oh, that's nice.
My shoes won't stay on.
I'm gonna have to shuffle my way
into the new year.
Oh, I can help you with that.
- Give me your foot.
- Eww.
I'm letting you in
on an old pageant secret.
I don't usually tell anyone...
...but I was Miss Ocean City, New Jersey.
- You were in pageants?
- Oh, yeah.
What was your talent?
Spying again?
- Oh...
- Wow.
I like your dress.
You look great.
No, really, I like your dress.
Thank you.
The last Panther file.
- Do you need anything else from me?
- That'll be it. Thank you.
Is this what you're doing
for New Year's Eve?
If I wanna get drunk...
...I'll wait till tomorrow
when there's less competition.
You okay?
You going to the Chelsea thing
with everybody?
Yes.
Everyone just leaves their door open...
...and you dive into whatever scene
looks good to you.
- Andy Warhol's gonna be there.
- Andy Warhol, the boxer?
No, Andy Warhol the quarterback.
Doug...
You know, next year...
You mean tomorrow?
I mean tomorrow.
I would understand if you wanted
to pick a new researcher.
Now, why would I wanna do that?
Go to your party.
Have fun.
How's my baby?
- And how's Delores? Ha-ha-ha.
- Oh.
Can you believe my husband
wants to name our girl Delores?
I think it's glamorous.
Edward, this is Cindy
from News of the Week.
Cindy, Edward.
- Hi.
- Hi.
I heard you're about to make history.
That's what I've been trying to tell her.
- It's a pleasure to meet you.
- You too.
Hey, I brought a little
something special for New Year's.
Ah... Spearmint leaves.
- My favorite.
- Just taking care of my baby.
What-- What is your boy name?
Langston.
We can agree on that. Heh, heh.
Langston Hughes Norton.
- His first two words are gonna rhyme.
- Uh-uh. Uh-uh.
His middle name
is not gonna be Hughes.
Langston is a great name.
Strong.
Strong.
Can I get either of you two
anything to drink?
No, I'm good, thanks.
Oh, no.
- No?
- I'm good.
Cindy, could you pass me that
candy dish over there, please?
Oh, of course.
It's gorgeous.
- Thank you. All right.
- You're very welcome.
Smile, sweetie, Suzanne Winchester
is right over there.
- Right?
- Oh, yes.
I thought you didn't care
what she thinks.
I don't, I'm just surprised
how many people read her newsletter.
There's Dave up there.
David.
- Well, Iookie here.
- There he is.
- Happy New Year.
- Happy New Year.
If it isn't the most
beautiful couple in New York.
I was going to say the same of you.
She was.
She said as much on the way over.
What is this dress?
I dragged Daddy
all the way to Bergdorf's...
...because I knew if I tried it on,
he wouldn't be able to say no.
- Ha, ha.
- Of course not. Ha, ha.
Ladies.
- Shall we?
- Mm-hm.
Douglas.
What the hell are you still doing here?
Working.
Deli guy will be up any minute
with my last meal of the '60's.
The story's not due for
another couple of weeks.
You're not going to
the shindig at the Chelsea?
Oh, I might head over to Cole's
before the kissing starts...
...more my speed.
You're gonna spend New Year's Eve
at the news room watering hole...
...with five reporters you drink with
every other day of the year.
That sounds, uh...
...comfortable? Happy New Year.
Come on, you two.
What are you putting on there?
Come on, my baby.
♪ Inquisitive friends' ♪
♪ Are asking me
What's come over me I'
♪ A change, there's been a change I'
♪ And it's, oh, so plain to see I'
Come on.
- Oh.
- Oh, yes.
- No.
- Get on up, girl.
Come on, now.
Come on, it's New Year's Eve.
- Come on.
- Join the party.
♪ I wanna testify ♪
Mm-hm.
- Uh-huh.
Yeah, there you go.
- Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Yeah.
♪ Was incomplete
I was down ♪
Uh-huh.
- Ha-ha-ha!
♪ So doggone low I'
♪ Had to look up at my feet N'
- The wood.
- The stove.
- Happy New Year.
- Happy New Year.
- Good to see you. Wow. Ah...
- Jesus, you're still a handsome bastard.
Now you stink of power too, man.
You make the establishment
look good, man.
Carol. This is Carol.
- Pleasure.
- Finn and I worked together...
...at The Boston Globe
right out of Princeton.
- Those were the days.
- Those were the days.
Where's that gorgeous wife of yours?
She's too good for you, you know.
This is a business call.
She's got the champagne on ice
for when I get home.
- In that case, let's get you started.
- Sounds good.
Hold it right there.
Okay, you can drop the cloth.
Love that. Love that. Perfect.
There we go.
Before you know it,
Peter is gonna be a distant memory.
What's it gonna feel like?
You know how since kindergarten...
...you've been told to get in line
and raise your hand...
...and take turns and sit down,
and do as you're told?
- I guess.
- In 20 minutes...
...all of that is just gonna disappear.
I hadn't met his wife before.
I've been thinking about it.
And I have a surprise for you later.
I'm ready.
For what?
I'm ready to make love.
Jane.
You don't have to do that.
Well, I know I don't have to. I want to.
I know it's something you've wanted.
I care about you, Jane.
We grew up together.
You gave me that ultimatum,
and I've been thinking.
If I have to decide...
We've been together for so long,
and I know what this is.
You're not breaking up with me.
Yeah.
If you were gonna break up with me,
then why did you bring me here?
I wanted you to have a good New Year's.
I'm sorry. Let's go sit down.
Don't you dare.
Well, the circulation, obviously.
Prestige, which I know
you don't give a damn about.
And then there's the money.
Whatever Jann Wenner's paying you,
I'll probably quadruple it.
With your own car.
What did they give you,
a scooter over there at Rolling Stone?
I can get Hunter S. Thompson...
...changing the whole fucking
journalism world, man.
You really want me to
walk away from that?
Leave it behind?
No. I want you to bring it with you.
♪ In a white room
With black curtains I'
♪ Near the station ♪
♪ Black roof country I'
♪ No gold pavements I'
♪ Tired starlings I'
♪ Silver horses A'
♪ Ran down moonbeams S
♪ In your dark eyes I'
♪ Dawnlight smiles' ♪
♪ on you leaving
My contentment I
- That works.
- Right.
- You just have to let him know.
- Yeah, right.
I promised him everything he needs.
♪ You said no strings I'
♪ Could secure you
At the station I'
Oh, easy, baby.
♪ Goodbye windows I'
♪ I walked into
Such a sad time' ♪
♪ At the station A'
♪ As I walked out S
♪ Felt my own need
Just beginning I'
♪ I'll wait in the queue' ♪
Go on.
♪ When the trains come back S
♪ Lie with you' ♪
♪ Where the shadows run
From themselves I'
Patti.
- Hey.
_Um__
Excuse me.
Oh, yeah, baby, love that.
♪ At the party
She was kindness I'
♪ In the hard crowd F
♪ Consolation for the old wound S
♪ Now forgotten N'
I don't feel so good.
♪ In her dark eyes I'
♪ She's just dressing' ♪
♪ Goodbye windows I'
Hey. Hey.
Something happened to your friend.
♪ I'll sleep in this place
With the N'
He raised money.
All right, what next?
How about, he was one of 10 Szechuan
restaurant owners in Manhattan...
...who in the space of an afternoon--
Yes. In the space of an afternoon...
...Lee collected $3300...
-...from members of the community.
- Okay, hang on.
- Okay, go.
- Lee stuffed the small bills...
...into a large white cotton pillowcase.
And the image of Lee holding
the bulging pillowcase...
...was made all the more tragic
because he had no way to deliver it.
Oh.
It sounds like an O. Henry story.
Hear that?
Does O. Henry dazzle you, huh?
It's good. It really is.
- Thank you.
- Ha, ha.
No need to thank me.
- This is my job.
- I know, but...
I think maybe you're better at your job
than I am at mine.
I just got lucky.
I see what you did. Heh.
You're...
...not like the other girls, are you?
You're not uptight or selfish or immature.
And you're so pretty.
- Here we go.
- Ten, nine, eight...
...seven, six, five...
...four, three, two, one.
Happy New Year!
Good evening.
- After you.
- Oh, thank you.
Oh...
Happy New Year, neighbor.
Happy New Year.
Did you have a nice evening?
I always make
such a big deal about New Year's...
...and then it turns out to be
just like any other night.
Mm.
Well, maybe the '70s will be better.
Good night.
Can you help me with something?
- Diane, I'm so sorry.
- You ready?
I'm so sorry, Diane.
♪ But I can't seem to find S
♪ My way over' ♪
♪ Wandering, I am lost I'
♪ As I travel along' ♪
♪ The white cliffs of Dover S
♪ Many rivers to cross' ♪
♪ And it's only my will' ♪
♪ That keeps me alive' ♪
♪ I've been licked
Washed up for years I'
♪ And I merely survive
Because of my pride I
♪ And this loneliness
Won't leave me alone I'
♪ It's such a drag
To be on your own I
♪ My woman left
And she didn't say why ♪
♪ We", I guess I'll have to cry' ♪
J Many rivers to cross I
J Many rivers to cross I'
♪ But just where to begin ♪
♪ I'm playing for time I'
♪ There have been times
I find myself I
♪ Rivers to cross F
♪ Thinking of committing' ♪
♪ Some dreadful crime F
- ♪ Yes, I got many rivers to cross ♪
J Many rivers to cross I'
♪ But I can't seem to find S
♪ My way over' ♪
J Wandering, I am lost I
J Many rivers to cross I'
♪ As I travel along' ♪
♪ The white cliffs of Dover S
- ♪ Yes, I got many rivers to cross ♪
J Many rivers to cross I'
♪ But I can't seem to find S
♪ My way over' ♪
- ♪ I've got many rivers to cross ♪
J Wandering, I am lost I
♪ As I travel along' ♪
♪ The white cliffs of Dover S
- ♪ Yes, I got many rivers to cross ♪
J Many rivers to cross N'
Translated by:
Yong Chavez