Good Girls Revolt (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - Puff Piece - full transcript
Patti's birthday party devolves into chaos and Jane feels excluded from the other girls. Finn and his new editor let loose on a boy's trip.
♪ Yellow is the color
Of my true love's hair I
♪ In the morning when we rise' ♪
♪ In the morning ♪
- Hey.
- Hi.
Hi.
You wanna hear something
fucking beautiful?
Okay.
"Graffiti is a twilight means
of communication...
...between the anonymous man
and the world."
- Wow.
- Yeah.
Who wrote that?
A guy named Robert Reisner.
Good night.
♪ That's the time A'
♪ That's the time A'
♪ I love the best F
- Happy birthday.
- Thank you.
♪ Green's the color
Of the sparklin' corn I'
I'm really glad you opened the door
Saturday night.
♪ In the momin" ♪
I feel like we've been on vacation.
♪ That's the time I love the best S
♪ Mellow is the feeling that I get ♪
♪ When I see her, mm-hm I
♪ When I see her, uh-huh N'
Oh!
That'll get my day going.
Me too, honey.
- You're different.
- What?
No. Heh.
Just, uh, same old Cindy.
Hey, whip up some of those
butter pastrami sandwiches...
...for poker tonight, will you?
Yep.
- Morning, Daddy.
- Morning, sweetheart.
Sorry I'm late. I had to pick up
a birthday card for a friend.
Oh. may I?
Later.
So, what did you wanna talk
to me about?
Are you getting eight hours?
We just closed an issue.
Sam and I have had a few late sessions,
but I'll make up for them.
Now that you and Chad are broken up,
what about a job somewhere else?
I've got a lead on a great position
at a white-shoe law firm.
With more suitable men.
News of the Week's changed.
They're putting black murderers
on the cover.
- It's not what we signed up for.
- That was one cover.
Mudge Rose Guthrie will put
your talents to good use.
They have
a rigorous Research Department.
Mudge Rose?
You already set this up.
I bumped into Randolph Guthrie.
We had a conversation.
- Daddy--
- All I ask is that you meet us for dinner.
Just a meal. Nothing formal.
If you don't like what Randolph has to say,
that's the end of it.
Okay-
He'll love you. How could he not?
Well, it's foxy.
- I'm just not sure it's allowed.
- Of course it is.
Charlotte Reid wore pants
on the floor of the Senate in December.
- Hm.
- Don't you think it's professional?
- Absolutely.
- Good, because I am 25 today...
...and I am going to start
taking myself more seriously.
Hm.
That thing at the Chelsea
was kind of a wake-up call.
For all of us.
Think you could pick up beer
before you come over tonight?
I'm not sure if I got enough.
You really wanna have a dinner party
for your 25th birthday?
Yes. It feels grown-up.
Nora's making a duck mousse.
I can think of a few other grown-up ways
to celebrate.
- After.
- Mmm.
Oh, there it is again.
Novo 22. Guy's prolific.
The cop I talked to said
these guys are hard to catch.
They do it after school
when tunnels are jammed, or at night.
Maybe your article will help
to put him behind bars.
I hope not. I'm rooting for him.
I may have defaced
a building or two in my time.
What?
Yeah, a black coffee and a bear claw.
- Here you go.
- Thanks.
Thank you.
Hey, I gotta go. Where are
the girls taking you for breakfast?
I don't know. Just some hole in the wall
that Cindy found.
It's your birthday. Enjoy it.
A warm welcome
to the new faces this morning.
Denise, Laura, June.
I know everyone's very grateful
you're here.
Nice pantsuit.
- Oh, happy birthday.
- Thanks.
That makes 13.
Not bad.
How are we doing
on the men's salaries?
- How'd you get past Angie?
- When did you get those?
I snuck into Finn's office
on Saturday night after I saw you.
She's a regular Mata Hari.
These numbers are going
to make you feel things.
But you go right ahead
and feel them, okay?
It's a part of it.
"Benjamin Collingsworth,
hired in 1967...
...$20,000 a year.
Gabriel Greenstone, 1969, 17,000.
Douglas Rhodes, 1968, 21,000.
Samuel Rosenberg, 1968...
...$20,000 a year."
- Imagine what we could do with that.
- I wouldn't have to live with my mother.
I knew that Doug made more,
but $21 ,OOO is three times what I make.
- And we work just as many hours.
- More.
Injustice hurts, doesn't it?
It should. It's your evidence
that something is wrong. Don't ignore it.
We are too close
to be seduced by a raise...
...or a juicy story,
or some fun in the sack.
I mean it, ladies.
You cannot be sleeping with the enemy.
No reporters. No editors.
What does that have to do
with anything?
It can be used to discredit you
in a court of law.
- But what if they're our boyfriends?
- Well, once we file this complaint...
...every job that's given to one of you
is one that's taken from one of them.
They're gonna hate us.
They probably will.
But we are putting the world on notice.
Women will not tolerate being
second-class citizens anymore.
Not at News of the Week...
...or the post office...
...or the bank.
There will be blood spilled, women.
This is war.
- Cindy.
- Yeah.
Do you know
what happened to Mata Hari?
Um...
She was shot.
They found her out.
Look, stealing the salaries
may have been necessary...
-...but it was dangerous.
- Yeah.
And we're too close
to start feeling powerful.
That's what causes us to make mistakes.
Yeah.
_OkflY-
_OkflY-
- Morning.
- Morning.
Where is everyone?
I think the two of us can put out
the magazine this week.
I'll start sharpening my pencils.
Hello.
It's stuck. I can't get it out.
- It's 10 o'clock.
- It's Monday.
- Start time's 9:30.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
A few of us met up with Patti
for her birthday.
Well, it was just coffee and doughnuts...
...but I'm having a dinner party tonight.
I'd love it if you could be there.
Thank you,
but I have a prior engagement.
Oh, thank God.
Are you finished with that?
- Yeah. I was just copying this for Ned.
- Lucky you.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Ha-ha-ha!
- Hey.
He's in the alley.
Oh.
Oh, yeah. I just needed to--
Um...
Thank you.
Hello.
Hey.
- What are you doing out here?
- This is where I do my thinking.
Oh!
And occasionally catch criminals.
Oh.
Well, as a criminal myself...
...I can see how this would be
a good place to hide evidence.
That sounds like an admission.
Maybe it is.
I'm gonna have to ask you
to turn around.
Hands up.
Can I search you?
Excuse me, miss. What are these?
"Too controversial."
Who the hell do they think they are,
dictating the stories I run?
Cheer up. You used to love making
the money guys squirm.
- Back in the day, that was the point.
- That was eons ago.
Now I spend half my day
blowing advertisers.
This is not what I thought
I'd be doing with my life.
When's the last time you had any fun?
Fun? Years. Decades. I don't know.
One of Jann's investors is having
a little shindig out at Long Island tonight.
We should go. Drive out there,
make a day of it, you know?
- It'll be like old times.
- I've got a magazine to run.
Not if you don't start schmoozing
the money guys.
Look, Doug's working on graffiti,
Sam's doing the vet piece.
It's gonna be a solid issue.
There's nothing for you to do
but look over their shoulders.
- Listen to him, Finn.
- Excuse me?
Thank you, Angie.
If there were ever a day to play hooky,
this is it.
I don't schmooze.
You don't have to do anything
but stand next to me and be pretty.
From now on,
I'll handle all these assholes.
And all I have to do is go to a party?
I will hold down the fort.
You were a great goddamn hire,
you know that?
You too.
Nixon's planning
to cut Veteran services.
I can't believe you read the Journal
before I do.
Breakfast with Daddy.
He's my researcher.
Well, maybe it makes sense,
cutting services.
Look, it says here,
none of the hospitals are at capacity.
There just isn't as much need
as people think.
I'm seeing Noah tonight. I'll get his take.
And maybe we'll go to Patti's after,
if he's up to it.
- You going?
- I have a family dinner.
Patti.
I just did it with Ned.
Again.
And I know what Eleanor said, but I--
I don't know how to stop.
And that is, um, ahem--
That is two different men
that I have had sex with today...
...if you were counting.
But I did shower in between, so...
Can I ask you something?
Do you have to...
...with Lenny?
Oh. Well, he's my husband.
Have you thought about leaving him?
I wouldn't know how.
Well, Doug and I got back together.
What, like, "together" together?
It felt like it.
That is wonderful, Patti.
Is it?
Eleanor.
Oh, right. Stop talking as soon I appear.
Very decent of you.
Oh, no, no. We-- We were--
We were just leaving.
- Is everything okay?
- Mm-hm.
Hey, why don't you come by tonight
after your thing?
You should. It'll be fun.
According to Rapid Transit...
...the Sharpie has been
the vandals' preferred tool...
...since it was invented in '64.
Well, spray paint's gotta be catching up.
Between the two of them, they cost
the city $500,000 to clean up last year.
I wanna know why they do it.
Why risk getting caught and--? And--?
And messing everything up for yourself?
Just so the world can see
your name on a wall?
Why did you do it?
I don't know. Heh.
Maybe just to tick off my old man.
I painted "Bad Dog"
on our garage one night.
- Why "bad dog"? Oh.
- That's what I called myself. Bad dog.
Well, maybe your meeting at the Transit
Authority can lead you to Novo 22.
- Shit.
- And then you two can compare notes.
So I'll see you tonight, Bad Dog?
- Ruff!
- Grrr!
Douglas Rhodes.
No kidding? Thank you.
Yeah, I'd be happy to.
Tonight?
A Corvette Stingray?
And Chevrolet went for this?
Well, I take offense at the implication.
It's an honest test drive.
Head down. I'll meet you out front.
You're the first woman
to wear pants in this office.
- It's your birthday. I'll let it slide.
- How did you know it was my birthday?
Angie knows everything.
Oh.
So, what's it feel like being 25?
I feel old for the first time.
Here's some perspective. By your age,
Michelangelo had sculpted the Pieté.
Orson Welles made Citizen Kane.
Keats was dead.
- I made coffee this morning. A whole pot.
- All by yourself?
- All by myself.
- Very good.
Look, I spent my 25th
drawing up that list, so I know.
About the same time that I realized
there was a clock ticking on my life.
I first noticed mine
my senior year at Vassar...
...when every girl I knew
was getting engaged.
Every girl but Patti Robinson.
Right.
I think there might
be something wrong with me.
It's possible.
It would be so much easier.
It would be.
But easy doesn't get you the Pieté.
- We're talking pantsuits tomorrow.
- Okay.
All right, where is she?
- Aha!
- Oh. Ha-ha!
- What'd I tell you?
- Holy crap, she's a cherry.
Think she's sexy enough to make
the public forget about Ralph Nader?
He said they cut corners
on safety in the Corvair.
If that's true,
Chevy got what they deserved.
- Wait. No.
- Yes.
Lydia starts driving three years from now.
I'm never gonna sleep again.
Nothing like a little bad press
to make a company do the right thing.
Okay. Agh!
All right, gentlemen...
...start your engines.
I didn't know
my little mouse could be so ravishing.
Thought it was just dinner
at some girl's apartment.
Yeah, it's Patti's.
It's her 25th birthday...
...so a bunch of people from work
will be there.
So you're wearing a dirty little get-up?
It's just a dress, Lenny.
Take it off.
No.
Now, where's my sports coat?
But you don't need a sports coat...
...for poker.
If I never see Gabe Greenstone again...
...it'll be too soon.
Leaving that magazine was
the best move I ever made.
Yesterday I covered a homicide
on the Upper West Side.
You don't need experience for that?
My last article was about
a pair of seals refusing to mate.
The Post trusts me
on relationships gone sour.
Huh.
Hows News of the Week?
Doug and I just had
our second cover in a month.
Good for Doug.
What's the latest on the EEOC thing?
Well, as of today we're no longer allowed
to sleep with reporters...
...for credibility reasons, and...
...Doug and I just got back together,
kind of.
Have you told him?
Mm-mm.
I just can't believe that losing Doug
is what it's gonna take...
...for me to become a writer.
I didn't break up with Doug
and I'm a writer.
Writing makes you a writer.
This complaint's important...
...but what happens
when they start hiring women?
I get to write.
- Or they hire two or three to fill their quota.
- That's so cynical.
Hopefully.
But if I were you...
...I'd knock out a great sample
so that they know you can write.
Besides, if it's good,
I'll give it to my editor at the Post.
- Really?
- Mm-hm.
We need to make sure nobody steals
your opportunity out from under you.
Whoa!
Whoa-hon!
What'd I tell you, huh?
Oh, man. You weren't kidding.
Whoa! Ha-ha-ha!
How's Talia?
When's the last time we were
all together? Was that Cape Cod?
Can that have been two years ago?
Remember Bonnie
and Talia's clambake?
They damn near torched the town.
Yes, they did, but dinner,
dinner was cooked perfectly.
That was a really fun summer.
Yes, it was.
Yes, it was.
Hey!
- You coming?
- Yeah.
Wherever the road may lead.
Hi, gorgeous.
Hi.
What are you doing down here?
Just waiting on a buddy.
We're going to see a new band
at the Fillmore later.
The Allman Brothers.
- Ever hear of them?
- Mm-mm.
Kind of a southern, bluesy rock.
You'd like them.
How do you know that?
I'm guessing.
You have good taste.
I, uh, knocked on your door last night.
- I've been avoiding you.
- Oh!
Honesty.
I like that.
Damn.
I guess that means that...
...New Year's wasn't as good for you
as it was for me. Huh?
Max, I wanna thank you so much
for being such a gentleman that night.
You are certainly are welcome, Jane.
If you could just write a thank-you note
on fancy stationery...
...I would be much obliged.
Ha-ha. Okay, you.
How are you doing?
I feel like I'm in a strange land.
I was saving myself for marriage.
Ah, but you changed your mind.
I did.
Well...
...I was honored.
And, you know,
things don't have to be funky.
You know, you don't have to avoid me.
Okay-
Good.
And I think the next time that I, um...
-...you know...
- Mm-hm.
...I think I wanna be in love.
Yeah, it's...
It's nice that way too.
Now, you're sure you don't wanna
go check out the Allman Brothers?
Not for me.
- Uh, Jane.
- Mm-hm?
You're a cool woman.
♪ Ge!' I!' ♪
♪ Hey, hey, he)' 3
♪ Everybody say we good as gold I'
♪ Hey, hey, hey N'
Thank you.
- There once was a woman named Jill--
- Who tried a dynamite stick for a thrill.
- They found her vagina--
- In South Carolina.
And bits of her tits in Brazil.
Excellent to see you.
Oh. Girls like that are
what keeps guys like us young.
I'm sure Bonnie'd be thrilled
to hear you say that.
I'm away for the night. So are you.
Thank you.
Groupies aren't my style.
That's right.
That's right.
You go in for the brainy redheads
in pantsuits.
I don't go in for anyone.
I'm married.
And Patti Robinson, she's a child.
- I can't believe his gall, showing up here.
- It's my apartment.
- I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind.
- Nora, don't. Let it go.
They'll never ban smoking
on airplanes. That's ridiculous.
Maybe, but the FAA's considering it.
Stewardesses are having lung problems.
They're shooting it into their veins,
200 died in the city last year.
- Happy birthday. You look great.
- Ha-ha! Hi.
- I hope you can smoke now.
- I'll do that one.
You're out of your mind.
Five dollars says Newsday's work
on Long Island wins.
It's local.
Guys went to jail. That's how you win
a Pulitzer for public service.
- Nobody's beating Carl Rowan.
- Five dollars.
You're both wrong.
Seymour Hersh is a ringer for My Lai.
Sorry. I know how you like to be right.
What are you even doing here?
I catered this event.
Here, try some duck mousse.
Cindy. Lenny.
Jane! You made it.
Lenny insisted on coming.
- Ned's here.
- Oh!
What happened
to your prior engagement?
Oh, um...
I'm standing him up.
Like on a street corner?
No, no. I called and left a message
at the restaurant.
Jane. Come in.
Do you want a greyhound?
Why don't you put our coats down
and I'll make it?
Yeah, okay.
Not too much grapefruit.
Oh, the coat check is in the bedroom.
Oh...
- Here we go.
- Whoo!
Oh, I got her.
- Is that you?
- Come here.
Charlie, I got her. Come and get her.
Keep QOiFIQ- Go-
He was supposed to be
at poker tonight. I'm sorry.
He's your husband.
He can change his mind.
- I know, but I--
- Today we caught criminals.
Tonight we're friends.
Cat wins.
This isn't for me. Ha-ha-ha!
Well, you know,
my sister doesn't even shave.
All of her friends at Barnard,
they just stopped shaving.
What?
Yeah. Everything.
I thought you weren't coming.
Oh, I changed my mind.
So come toke with us.
I'd love to.
Have you done this before?
Hm? Oh. Heh.
Yeah. Heh.
Holly Hobbie's smoking out.
They should make a doll for that.
Holly Hobbie Smoke-Out.
I'd buy that.
She's really stoned.
Oh, heh-heh.
Oh, no!
I'm okay.
Here, have some more of this.
I feel better now.
I don't know what to say.
As I see it, you're sitting
in a front-row seat to the revolution.
Why not capitalize on it?
That sounds incredible.
Holy shit.
Boola-boola!
- Come on!
- You can do it!
Four, three, two, one!
Mouse wins!
- I'm running the games?
- Of course you are.
Okay, who's next?
Cindy?
Wanna try life as Miss Linnaeus,
species Rodentia?
It is your thing, honey.
I just wrote an article about city mice.
- Ask me anything.
- Was it assigned to someone else?
I'll do it.
- Okay. Well, come in.
- Come on.
Lenny will be the cat.
He seems to really enjoy
putting mice in their place.
I'll sit this one out.
How about you? Noah, is it?
Yeah.
I can do that.
So you know, I ran track in high school.
I can beat any cat.
Pretty fascinating, actually.
Getting in a room
with one of these geniuses.
You sit down,
and you're looking across from them.
Most of the time,
the questions go out of my head...
...but in this particular instance,
we'd been getting along...
...there'd been some alcohol involved.
He stops the interview,
right in the middle, picks up his trumpet...
...and improvises a song
right there on the spot.
Jimmy Page plays the trumpet?
Excuse me. I heard...
Do the words "Miles Davis" sound
anything like "Jimmy Page" to you?
Yeah.
- Kind of.
- Right.
I'm gonna get some air,
and I'm taking this with me.
You're a goddamn saint. That's what
makes you a terrible wingman.
I think I have an idea for my article.
Dinner parties. The history, the trends.
You can have them
even in small spaces.
You're better than that.
No.
- Oh! Hal
- Take all your clothes off.
- Hi.
- Come here.
- Oh, hi.
- You came. Hi.
- What?
- I'm sorry I'm late.
It's fine. It's not like you're my boyfriend.
Where were you?
How would you feel if your not-boyfriend
became an author?
What?
I had drinks at the Yale Club
with a literary agent.
They make women use
the servants' entrance there.
Don't get hung up on that.
He thinks there's a book
in the Panther movement.
He thinks I can write it. Or as he put it,
"I have a front-row seat to a revolution."
Heh. What do you think?
Wow! Heh.
Congratulations.
I'm really grateful for everything
you did on that story, by the way.
It wouldn't even be in print
if it weren't for you.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
And if this book does happen...
...I want you to be my researcher.
♪ 'Cause my baby loves me, yeah I'
♪ Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah I
No, it's gonna be so great.
Yeah, it's gonna happen. Oh, it is.
I'm telling you, Betty Friedan is planning
the march for August 26th.
We're gonna take over 5th Avenue.
- So disruptive.
- I think that's the point.
- How many women are gonna do it?
- Thousands, maybe millions. Men too.
- I'll make sure to call in sick.
- You should call in sick.
- You should go.
- Maybe I will.
Yeah, don't listen to him.
♪ She loves me good N'
♪ One, two, three! I
All right.
Hey there, Mouseketeer. Time to dance.
♪ Good Iovin" ♪
♪ I was feelin' so bad S
♪ I asked my family doctor
Just what I had ♪
♪ I said, "Doctor"
Doctor I'
♪ Mr. M.D.
Doctor I'
♪ Now can you tell me, yeah
What's ailin' me?" ♪
♪ Doctor
He said, "Yeah I
- I love this song.
- Me too!
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
♪ All I really need is
Good lovin' ♪
♪ Come on, give me good Iovin'
Good lovin' I'
♪ AN I want is Iovin'
Good lovin' I'
♪ Give me your Iovin', baby
Good lovin' I'
♪ Come on, give me good Iovin'
Good lovin' I'
♪ AH I want is Iovin' J
A good song doesn't make up
for $12,000.
♪ Good Iovin' N'
Oh, sweet girl, you are going
to hate yourself tomorrow.
I'll feel exactly the same
as I do right now.
Cindy said you're a Marine?
First Division. Two tours.
Sorry you had to go through it.
What a goddamn boondoggle.
We went there to help.
It got messy, but we wanted to help.
- Of course.
- Nobody's questioning that.
- Actually, Lenny was.
- Cindy.
My position on the war has nothing
to do with the soldiers.
You're heroes fighting
for your country. I respect that.
He just thinks you were sold
a bill of goods.
- He is very antiwar.
- Stop telling people what I think.
- You're not even supposed to be here.
- So I can't speak?
- You saying we're dupes?
- No.
Heh. Good heavens.
Cindy misinterpreted what I said.
My point was...
...no one risks their lives
to defend economic interests.
So we tell them they're saving humanity
from communism.
So you think if we lost Southeast Asia
to Stalinism...
...it wouldn't cause
humanitarian problems?
It'd be a disaster.
But propping up a dictatorship
in South Vietnam is not the answer.
So we win the Cold War
by not fighting?
We have no reason being there
if we don't have a solution.
It's immoral.
Hey, let's take a walk.
I'm sorry, but it's-- It's funny.
I mean, it's funny,
Lenny telling us what's immoral...
...when he is, ugh,
the least moral person that I know.
- Get our coats. I've had enough.
- No.
Whatever this is,
it's between you and Lenny.
You know what this is, Nora.
You know what this is!
You know,
Lenny told me that I had a year.
A year at News of the Week
before I had to start a family.
And then a few months in...
...I find a hole in my diaphragm.
Does that sound very moral
to you guys?
He put a hole in my diaphragm.
You're my wife.
I am.
And I fucked someone else.
OM!
- Hey.
- Oh, my God.
- Hey, take it easy.
- Noah.
- Hey, guys.
- Noah! Noah.
- Guys, take it easy.
- What is he doing?
Lenny, are you okay?
Cindy.
You belong here,
with the drunks and the bums.
Hey. Honey, it's okay.
- Look at her.
- Hey.
- Come here. Are you all right?
- I'm okay.
- I'm okay.
- Okay, you're gonna sleep over tonight.
I got her.
Why don't you come stay
with me tonight?
I'm gonna go home with Ned.
It's okay.
Thank you.
Good night, everybody.
Hey, let's-- Let's get out of here.
Let's go grab a beer. Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll see you tomorrow?
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
Those girls, man.
Those girls, they needed us.
When did you become
such an old fuddy-duddy?
I've always been a fuddy-duddy.
That is not true.
In college, you used to be
the craziest bastard I knew.
It was Maine, man.
Turned you into a square.
Almost dying has a way of doing that.
I still don't know what I was thinking,
jumping off that cliff.
If you hadn't have been there...
Strangest sensation realizing
you shouldn't be here.
Man, none of us should be here.
It's all a fucking crapshoot.
Maybe.
You know, maybe 15 years ago,
you would have stripped off...
...that beautiful $50 tie you're wearing
and dived right into that drink.
But now, because you hit your head
on a rock somewhere in Maine...
...now you wanna stand around
and think about doing things instead?
- Are you challenging me to something?
- I would never expect you to risk that tie.
That water is freezing.
That water could kill you.
That is the point, my friend.
But it is better just to stand here
thinking about it, right?
The same way
that you are undoubtedly thinking...
...about making love
to that sweet little redhead.
- You're an asshole, you know that?
- Ha-ha-ha!
Goddamn asshole.
I'm gonna go in to shut you up.
Go in the water.
I'm just going for a swim.
We are doing this.
- You can't go anywhere without me.
- All right.
What a mess. Is Cindy okay?
I don't know. I-- I don't know.
I'm gonna hit the BQE in Brooklyn.
Rumor has it Novo 22 hangs out there.
Should I come back after?
Did I do something, Patti?
I like you so much, Doug.
No, that's not the right word.
I sort of love you.
A few months ago,
you said that without qualifying it.
I know.
Fair enough.
Well, "sort of" love seems
like a good thing, right?
It would be if...
If what, Patti?
If I didn't want what you have.
God, Doug.
When you told me
about the Black Panther book...
I did the research for that.
I wrote some of the copy,
and I sold Finn on the angle.
- And I thanked you for that.
- Yeah, but nobody else knows that.
So you want credit?
Doug, I wanna be a reporter.
I wanna be a reporter.
That's what I want.
Even if it means
I have to go somewhere else to do it.
And I know that now.
And you think I'll get in your way.
If you wanna be a reporter...
Hey.
I wanna help you.
I don't wanna be the enemy. I--
I want you to have everything
you could possibly want.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Mmm.
Doug!
- It's green.
- It's green.
Aha!
Thank you, Doug.
Oh. I almost forgot.
Our graffiti story might have
a surprise ending.
Our transit contact...
...swears Novo 22's a girl.
Our anonymous man is a woman?!
It's non-responsive. Finn didn't ask you
to cover reactions to the earthquake.
- He asked you to cover the earthquake.
- You could've done it better?
You know I could've.
Yes, please.
♪ 'Cause I give you all my Iovin" ♪
- Don't be so prickly.
- I'm prickly?
I think you have
a hard time accepting criticism.
- You're unbelievable.
- You're inflexible.
That's a dangerous thing as a journalist.
♪ Girl, what you tryin' to do?' ♪
What is this?
Gabe asked what it would take
for me to make him pancakes.
- Can I talk to you for a second?
- Mm-hm.
♪ Why do you make me do bad? N'
Okay-
What about a little story
on the EEOC filing?
A first-person account from someone
with a front-row seat to the revolution.
It could be a window into a wider spread
on Women's Lib.
Don't call it that.
That's not such a little idea.
Really?
I think you just struck gold.
Ha-ha! Good writing.
- Hey!
- Go.
- Hey!
- Come on.
- Grab your bag.
- Now.
I had so much fun tonight.
- I'm so glad you stood up your date.
- Ha-ha-ha!
My dad is gonna be livid.
You stood up your dad?
It was a job interview.
Since I'm not marrying Chad...
...Daddy thinks I need to work somewhere
with more appropriate men.
What do you think?
I love my job.
Jane...
...are you becoming a career girl?
Maybe I always was.
Hey, everybody!
Jane Hollander is a career girl!
- Patti.
- Jane.
- I'm a career girl!
- Whoo!
New of the Week is the best magazine!
- I love my job!
- It's my birthday!
And I'm not having a white wedding!
Whoa! What?
I lost my virginity to my neighbor.
I had sex with my dad's best friend
when I was in college.
I-
I lost my mother's bracelet once
and I blamed it on my grandmother.
Oh, I've wanted to tell you
about something for the longest time.
Some of the other girls and I are filing
an Equal Employment claim.
It's illegal for them not to let us write,
and we want the policy changed.
What?
You're suing News of the Week?
No. No, not suing.
We are complaining, officially.
And I'm gonna write an article about it.
Is this why you've been so secretive
at the office?
- You and Cindy and all the other girls?
- Yeah.
- Oh.
- Come on, be a part of it with us.
You deserve it.
You know, I've had
a really lovely time tonight, but...
...I am way too high to think about
whatever it is you're saying.
Hey!
Next time you write about the Panthers,
remember whose fucking side you're on!
Translated by:
Frank Bowden
Of my true love's hair I
♪ In the morning when we rise' ♪
♪ In the morning ♪
- Hey.
- Hi.
Hi.
You wanna hear something
fucking beautiful?
Okay.
"Graffiti is a twilight means
of communication...
...between the anonymous man
and the world."
- Wow.
- Yeah.
Who wrote that?
A guy named Robert Reisner.
Good night.
♪ That's the time A'
♪ That's the time A'
♪ I love the best F
- Happy birthday.
- Thank you.
♪ Green's the color
Of the sparklin' corn I'
I'm really glad you opened the door
Saturday night.
♪ In the momin" ♪
I feel like we've been on vacation.
♪ That's the time I love the best S
♪ Mellow is the feeling that I get ♪
♪ When I see her, mm-hm I
♪ When I see her, uh-huh N'
Oh!
That'll get my day going.
Me too, honey.
- You're different.
- What?
No. Heh.
Just, uh, same old Cindy.
Hey, whip up some of those
butter pastrami sandwiches...
...for poker tonight, will you?
Yep.
- Morning, Daddy.
- Morning, sweetheart.
Sorry I'm late. I had to pick up
a birthday card for a friend.
Oh. may I?
Later.
So, what did you wanna talk
to me about?
Are you getting eight hours?
We just closed an issue.
Sam and I have had a few late sessions,
but I'll make up for them.
Now that you and Chad are broken up,
what about a job somewhere else?
I've got a lead on a great position
at a white-shoe law firm.
With more suitable men.
News of the Week's changed.
They're putting black murderers
on the cover.
- It's not what we signed up for.
- That was one cover.
Mudge Rose Guthrie will put
your talents to good use.
They have
a rigorous Research Department.
Mudge Rose?
You already set this up.
I bumped into Randolph Guthrie.
We had a conversation.
- Daddy--
- All I ask is that you meet us for dinner.
Just a meal. Nothing formal.
If you don't like what Randolph has to say,
that's the end of it.
Okay-
He'll love you. How could he not?
Well, it's foxy.
- I'm just not sure it's allowed.
- Of course it is.
Charlotte Reid wore pants
on the floor of the Senate in December.
- Hm.
- Don't you think it's professional?
- Absolutely.
- Good, because I am 25 today...
...and I am going to start
taking myself more seriously.
Hm.
That thing at the Chelsea
was kind of a wake-up call.
For all of us.
Think you could pick up beer
before you come over tonight?
I'm not sure if I got enough.
You really wanna have a dinner party
for your 25th birthday?
Yes. It feels grown-up.
Nora's making a duck mousse.
I can think of a few other grown-up ways
to celebrate.
- After.
- Mmm.
Oh, there it is again.
Novo 22. Guy's prolific.
The cop I talked to said
these guys are hard to catch.
They do it after school
when tunnels are jammed, or at night.
Maybe your article will help
to put him behind bars.
I hope not. I'm rooting for him.
I may have defaced
a building or two in my time.
What?
Yeah, a black coffee and a bear claw.
- Here you go.
- Thanks.
Thank you.
Hey, I gotta go. Where are
the girls taking you for breakfast?
I don't know. Just some hole in the wall
that Cindy found.
It's your birthday. Enjoy it.
A warm welcome
to the new faces this morning.
Denise, Laura, June.
I know everyone's very grateful
you're here.
Nice pantsuit.
- Oh, happy birthday.
- Thanks.
That makes 13.
Not bad.
How are we doing
on the men's salaries?
- How'd you get past Angie?
- When did you get those?
I snuck into Finn's office
on Saturday night after I saw you.
She's a regular Mata Hari.
These numbers are going
to make you feel things.
But you go right ahead
and feel them, okay?
It's a part of it.
"Benjamin Collingsworth,
hired in 1967...
...$20,000 a year.
Gabriel Greenstone, 1969, 17,000.
Douglas Rhodes, 1968, 21,000.
Samuel Rosenberg, 1968...
...$20,000 a year."
- Imagine what we could do with that.
- I wouldn't have to live with my mother.
I knew that Doug made more,
but $21 ,OOO is three times what I make.
- And we work just as many hours.
- More.
Injustice hurts, doesn't it?
It should. It's your evidence
that something is wrong. Don't ignore it.
We are too close
to be seduced by a raise...
...or a juicy story,
or some fun in the sack.
I mean it, ladies.
You cannot be sleeping with the enemy.
No reporters. No editors.
What does that have to do
with anything?
It can be used to discredit you
in a court of law.
- But what if they're our boyfriends?
- Well, once we file this complaint...
...every job that's given to one of you
is one that's taken from one of them.
They're gonna hate us.
They probably will.
But we are putting the world on notice.
Women will not tolerate being
second-class citizens anymore.
Not at News of the Week...
...or the post office...
...or the bank.
There will be blood spilled, women.
This is war.
- Cindy.
- Yeah.
Do you know
what happened to Mata Hari?
Um...
She was shot.
They found her out.
Look, stealing the salaries
may have been necessary...
-...but it was dangerous.
- Yeah.
And we're too close
to start feeling powerful.
That's what causes us to make mistakes.
Yeah.
_OkflY-
_OkflY-
- Morning.
- Morning.
Where is everyone?
I think the two of us can put out
the magazine this week.
I'll start sharpening my pencils.
Hello.
It's stuck. I can't get it out.
- It's 10 o'clock.
- It's Monday.
- Start time's 9:30.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
A few of us met up with Patti
for her birthday.
Well, it was just coffee and doughnuts...
...but I'm having a dinner party tonight.
I'd love it if you could be there.
Thank you,
but I have a prior engagement.
Oh, thank God.
Are you finished with that?
- Yeah. I was just copying this for Ned.
- Lucky you.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Ha-ha-ha!
- Hey.
He's in the alley.
Oh.
Oh, yeah. I just needed to--
Um...
Thank you.
Hello.
Hey.
- What are you doing out here?
- This is where I do my thinking.
Oh!
And occasionally catch criminals.
Oh.
Well, as a criminal myself...
...I can see how this would be
a good place to hide evidence.
That sounds like an admission.
Maybe it is.
I'm gonna have to ask you
to turn around.
Hands up.
Can I search you?
Excuse me, miss. What are these?
"Too controversial."
Who the hell do they think they are,
dictating the stories I run?
Cheer up. You used to love making
the money guys squirm.
- Back in the day, that was the point.
- That was eons ago.
Now I spend half my day
blowing advertisers.
This is not what I thought
I'd be doing with my life.
When's the last time you had any fun?
Fun? Years. Decades. I don't know.
One of Jann's investors is having
a little shindig out at Long Island tonight.
We should go. Drive out there,
make a day of it, you know?
- It'll be like old times.
- I've got a magazine to run.
Not if you don't start schmoozing
the money guys.
Look, Doug's working on graffiti,
Sam's doing the vet piece.
It's gonna be a solid issue.
There's nothing for you to do
but look over their shoulders.
- Listen to him, Finn.
- Excuse me?
Thank you, Angie.
If there were ever a day to play hooky,
this is it.
I don't schmooze.
You don't have to do anything
but stand next to me and be pretty.
From now on,
I'll handle all these assholes.
And all I have to do is go to a party?
I will hold down the fort.
You were a great goddamn hire,
you know that?
You too.
Nixon's planning
to cut Veteran services.
I can't believe you read the Journal
before I do.
Breakfast with Daddy.
He's my researcher.
Well, maybe it makes sense,
cutting services.
Look, it says here,
none of the hospitals are at capacity.
There just isn't as much need
as people think.
I'm seeing Noah tonight. I'll get his take.
And maybe we'll go to Patti's after,
if he's up to it.
- You going?
- I have a family dinner.
Patti.
I just did it with Ned.
Again.
And I know what Eleanor said, but I--
I don't know how to stop.
And that is, um, ahem--
That is two different men
that I have had sex with today...
...if you were counting.
But I did shower in between, so...
Can I ask you something?
Do you have to...
...with Lenny?
Oh. Well, he's my husband.
Have you thought about leaving him?
I wouldn't know how.
Well, Doug and I got back together.
What, like, "together" together?
It felt like it.
That is wonderful, Patti.
Is it?
Eleanor.
Oh, right. Stop talking as soon I appear.
Very decent of you.
Oh, no, no. We-- We were--
We were just leaving.
- Is everything okay?
- Mm-hm.
Hey, why don't you come by tonight
after your thing?
You should. It'll be fun.
According to Rapid Transit...
...the Sharpie has been
the vandals' preferred tool...
...since it was invented in '64.
Well, spray paint's gotta be catching up.
Between the two of them, they cost
the city $500,000 to clean up last year.
I wanna know why they do it.
Why risk getting caught and--? And--?
And messing everything up for yourself?
Just so the world can see
your name on a wall?
Why did you do it?
I don't know. Heh.
Maybe just to tick off my old man.
I painted "Bad Dog"
on our garage one night.
- Why "bad dog"? Oh.
- That's what I called myself. Bad dog.
Well, maybe your meeting at the Transit
Authority can lead you to Novo 22.
- Shit.
- And then you two can compare notes.
So I'll see you tonight, Bad Dog?
- Ruff!
- Grrr!
Douglas Rhodes.
No kidding? Thank you.
Yeah, I'd be happy to.
Tonight?
A Corvette Stingray?
And Chevrolet went for this?
Well, I take offense at the implication.
It's an honest test drive.
Head down. I'll meet you out front.
You're the first woman
to wear pants in this office.
- It's your birthday. I'll let it slide.
- How did you know it was my birthday?
Angie knows everything.
Oh.
So, what's it feel like being 25?
I feel old for the first time.
Here's some perspective. By your age,
Michelangelo had sculpted the Pieté.
Orson Welles made Citizen Kane.
Keats was dead.
- I made coffee this morning. A whole pot.
- All by yourself?
- All by myself.
- Very good.
Look, I spent my 25th
drawing up that list, so I know.
About the same time that I realized
there was a clock ticking on my life.
I first noticed mine
my senior year at Vassar...
...when every girl I knew
was getting engaged.
Every girl but Patti Robinson.
Right.
I think there might
be something wrong with me.
It's possible.
It would be so much easier.
It would be.
But easy doesn't get you the Pieté.
- We're talking pantsuits tomorrow.
- Okay.
All right, where is she?
- Aha!
- Oh. Ha-ha!
- What'd I tell you?
- Holy crap, she's a cherry.
Think she's sexy enough to make
the public forget about Ralph Nader?
He said they cut corners
on safety in the Corvair.
If that's true,
Chevy got what they deserved.
- Wait. No.
- Yes.
Lydia starts driving three years from now.
I'm never gonna sleep again.
Nothing like a little bad press
to make a company do the right thing.
Okay. Agh!
All right, gentlemen...
...start your engines.
I didn't know
my little mouse could be so ravishing.
Thought it was just dinner
at some girl's apartment.
Yeah, it's Patti's.
It's her 25th birthday...
...so a bunch of people from work
will be there.
So you're wearing a dirty little get-up?
It's just a dress, Lenny.
Take it off.
No.
Now, where's my sports coat?
But you don't need a sports coat...
...for poker.
If I never see Gabe Greenstone again...
...it'll be too soon.
Leaving that magazine was
the best move I ever made.
Yesterday I covered a homicide
on the Upper West Side.
You don't need experience for that?
My last article was about
a pair of seals refusing to mate.
The Post trusts me
on relationships gone sour.
Huh.
Hows News of the Week?
Doug and I just had
our second cover in a month.
Good for Doug.
What's the latest on the EEOC thing?
Well, as of today we're no longer allowed
to sleep with reporters...
...for credibility reasons, and...
...Doug and I just got back together,
kind of.
Have you told him?
Mm-mm.
I just can't believe that losing Doug
is what it's gonna take...
...for me to become a writer.
I didn't break up with Doug
and I'm a writer.
Writing makes you a writer.
This complaint's important...
...but what happens
when they start hiring women?
I get to write.
- Or they hire two or three to fill their quota.
- That's so cynical.
Hopefully.
But if I were you...
...I'd knock out a great sample
so that they know you can write.
Besides, if it's good,
I'll give it to my editor at the Post.
- Really?
- Mm-hm.
We need to make sure nobody steals
your opportunity out from under you.
Whoa!
Whoa-hon!
What'd I tell you, huh?
Oh, man. You weren't kidding.
Whoa! Ha-ha-ha!
How's Talia?
When's the last time we were
all together? Was that Cape Cod?
Can that have been two years ago?
Remember Bonnie
and Talia's clambake?
They damn near torched the town.
Yes, they did, but dinner,
dinner was cooked perfectly.
That was a really fun summer.
Yes, it was.
Yes, it was.
Hey!
- You coming?
- Yeah.
Wherever the road may lead.
Hi, gorgeous.
Hi.
What are you doing down here?
Just waiting on a buddy.
We're going to see a new band
at the Fillmore later.
The Allman Brothers.
- Ever hear of them?
- Mm-mm.
Kind of a southern, bluesy rock.
You'd like them.
How do you know that?
I'm guessing.
You have good taste.
I, uh, knocked on your door last night.
- I've been avoiding you.
- Oh!
Honesty.
I like that.
Damn.
I guess that means that...
...New Year's wasn't as good for you
as it was for me. Huh?
Max, I wanna thank you so much
for being such a gentleman that night.
You are certainly are welcome, Jane.
If you could just write a thank-you note
on fancy stationery...
...I would be much obliged.
Ha-ha. Okay, you.
How are you doing?
I feel like I'm in a strange land.
I was saving myself for marriage.
Ah, but you changed your mind.
I did.
Well...
...I was honored.
And, you know,
things don't have to be funky.
You know, you don't have to avoid me.
Okay-
Good.
And I think the next time that I, um...
-...you know...
- Mm-hm.
...I think I wanna be in love.
Yeah, it's...
It's nice that way too.
Now, you're sure you don't wanna
go check out the Allman Brothers?
Not for me.
- Uh, Jane.
- Mm-hm?
You're a cool woman.
♪ Ge!' I!' ♪
♪ Hey, hey, he)' 3
♪ Everybody say we good as gold I'
♪ Hey, hey, hey N'
Thank you.
- There once was a woman named Jill--
- Who tried a dynamite stick for a thrill.
- They found her vagina--
- In South Carolina.
And bits of her tits in Brazil.
Excellent to see you.
Oh. Girls like that are
what keeps guys like us young.
I'm sure Bonnie'd be thrilled
to hear you say that.
I'm away for the night. So are you.
Thank you.
Groupies aren't my style.
That's right.
That's right.
You go in for the brainy redheads
in pantsuits.
I don't go in for anyone.
I'm married.
And Patti Robinson, she's a child.
- I can't believe his gall, showing up here.
- It's my apartment.
- I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind.
- Nora, don't. Let it go.
They'll never ban smoking
on airplanes. That's ridiculous.
Maybe, but the FAA's considering it.
Stewardesses are having lung problems.
They're shooting it into their veins,
200 died in the city last year.
- Happy birthday. You look great.
- Ha-ha! Hi.
- I hope you can smoke now.
- I'll do that one.
You're out of your mind.
Five dollars says Newsday's work
on Long Island wins.
It's local.
Guys went to jail. That's how you win
a Pulitzer for public service.
- Nobody's beating Carl Rowan.
- Five dollars.
You're both wrong.
Seymour Hersh is a ringer for My Lai.
Sorry. I know how you like to be right.
What are you even doing here?
I catered this event.
Here, try some duck mousse.
Cindy. Lenny.
Jane! You made it.
Lenny insisted on coming.
- Ned's here.
- Oh!
What happened
to your prior engagement?
Oh, um...
I'm standing him up.
Like on a street corner?
No, no. I called and left a message
at the restaurant.
Jane. Come in.
Do you want a greyhound?
Why don't you put our coats down
and I'll make it?
Yeah, okay.
Not too much grapefruit.
Oh, the coat check is in the bedroom.
Oh...
- Here we go.
- Whoo!
Oh, I got her.
- Is that you?
- Come here.
Charlie, I got her. Come and get her.
Keep QOiFIQ- Go-
He was supposed to be
at poker tonight. I'm sorry.
He's your husband.
He can change his mind.
- I know, but I--
- Today we caught criminals.
Tonight we're friends.
Cat wins.
This isn't for me. Ha-ha-ha!
Well, you know,
my sister doesn't even shave.
All of her friends at Barnard,
they just stopped shaving.
What?
Yeah. Everything.
I thought you weren't coming.
Oh, I changed my mind.
So come toke with us.
I'd love to.
Have you done this before?
Hm? Oh. Heh.
Yeah. Heh.
Holly Hobbie's smoking out.
They should make a doll for that.
Holly Hobbie Smoke-Out.
I'd buy that.
She's really stoned.
Oh, heh-heh.
Oh, no!
I'm okay.
Here, have some more of this.
I feel better now.
I don't know what to say.
As I see it, you're sitting
in a front-row seat to the revolution.
Why not capitalize on it?
That sounds incredible.
Holy shit.
Boola-boola!
- Come on!
- You can do it!
Four, three, two, one!
Mouse wins!
- I'm running the games?
- Of course you are.
Okay, who's next?
Cindy?
Wanna try life as Miss Linnaeus,
species Rodentia?
It is your thing, honey.
I just wrote an article about city mice.
- Ask me anything.
- Was it assigned to someone else?
I'll do it.
- Okay. Well, come in.
- Come on.
Lenny will be the cat.
He seems to really enjoy
putting mice in their place.
I'll sit this one out.
How about you? Noah, is it?
Yeah.
I can do that.
So you know, I ran track in high school.
I can beat any cat.
Pretty fascinating, actually.
Getting in a room
with one of these geniuses.
You sit down,
and you're looking across from them.
Most of the time,
the questions go out of my head...
...but in this particular instance,
we'd been getting along...
...there'd been some alcohol involved.
He stops the interview,
right in the middle, picks up his trumpet...
...and improvises a song
right there on the spot.
Jimmy Page plays the trumpet?
Excuse me. I heard...
Do the words "Miles Davis" sound
anything like "Jimmy Page" to you?
Yeah.
- Kind of.
- Right.
I'm gonna get some air,
and I'm taking this with me.
You're a goddamn saint. That's what
makes you a terrible wingman.
I think I have an idea for my article.
Dinner parties. The history, the trends.
You can have them
even in small spaces.
You're better than that.
No.
- Oh! Hal
- Take all your clothes off.
- Hi.
- Come here.
- Oh, hi.
- You came. Hi.
- What?
- I'm sorry I'm late.
It's fine. It's not like you're my boyfriend.
Where were you?
How would you feel if your not-boyfriend
became an author?
What?
I had drinks at the Yale Club
with a literary agent.
They make women use
the servants' entrance there.
Don't get hung up on that.
He thinks there's a book
in the Panther movement.
He thinks I can write it. Or as he put it,
"I have a front-row seat to a revolution."
Heh. What do you think?
Wow! Heh.
Congratulations.
I'm really grateful for everything
you did on that story, by the way.
It wouldn't even be in print
if it weren't for you.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
And if this book does happen...
...I want you to be my researcher.
♪ 'Cause my baby loves me, yeah I'
♪ Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah I
No, it's gonna be so great.
Yeah, it's gonna happen. Oh, it is.
I'm telling you, Betty Friedan is planning
the march for August 26th.
We're gonna take over 5th Avenue.
- So disruptive.
- I think that's the point.
- How many women are gonna do it?
- Thousands, maybe millions. Men too.
- I'll make sure to call in sick.
- You should call in sick.
- You should go.
- Maybe I will.
Yeah, don't listen to him.
♪ She loves me good N'
♪ One, two, three! I
All right.
Hey there, Mouseketeer. Time to dance.
♪ Good Iovin" ♪
♪ I was feelin' so bad S
♪ I asked my family doctor
Just what I had ♪
♪ I said, "Doctor"
Doctor I'
♪ Mr. M.D.
Doctor I'
♪ Now can you tell me, yeah
What's ailin' me?" ♪
♪ Doctor
He said, "Yeah I
- I love this song.
- Me too!
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
♪ All I really need is
Good lovin' ♪
♪ Come on, give me good Iovin'
Good lovin' I'
♪ AN I want is Iovin'
Good lovin' I'
♪ Give me your Iovin', baby
Good lovin' I'
♪ Come on, give me good Iovin'
Good lovin' I'
♪ AH I want is Iovin' J
A good song doesn't make up
for $12,000.
♪ Good Iovin' N'
Oh, sweet girl, you are going
to hate yourself tomorrow.
I'll feel exactly the same
as I do right now.
Cindy said you're a Marine?
First Division. Two tours.
Sorry you had to go through it.
What a goddamn boondoggle.
We went there to help.
It got messy, but we wanted to help.
- Of course.
- Nobody's questioning that.
- Actually, Lenny was.
- Cindy.
My position on the war has nothing
to do with the soldiers.
You're heroes fighting
for your country. I respect that.
He just thinks you were sold
a bill of goods.
- He is very antiwar.
- Stop telling people what I think.
- You're not even supposed to be here.
- So I can't speak?
- You saying we're dupes?
- No.
Heh. Good heavens.
Cindy misinterpreted what I said.
My point was...
...no one risks their lives
to defend economic interests.
So we tell them they're saving humanity
from communism.
So you think if we lost Southeast Asia
to Stalinism...
...it wouldn't cause
humanitarian problems?
It'd be a disaster.
But propping up a dictatorship
in South Vietnam is not the answer.
So we win the Cold War
by not fighting?
We have no reason being there
if we don't have a solution.
It's immoral.
Hey, let's take a walk.
I'm sorry, but it's-- It's funny.
I mean, it's funny,
Lenny telling us what's immoral...
...when he is, ugh,
the least moral person that I know.
- Get our coats. I've had enough.
- No.
Whatever this is,
it's between you and Lenny.
You know what this is, Nora.
You know what this is!
You know,
Lenny told me that I had a year.
A year at News of the Week
before I had to start a family.
And then a few months in...
...I find a hole in my diaphragm.
Does that sound very moral
to you guys?
He put a hole in my diaphragm.
You're my wife.
I am.
And I fucked someone else.
OM!
- Hey.
- Oh, my God.
- Hey, take it easy.
- Noah.
- Hey, guys.
- Noah! Noah.
- Guys, take it easy.
- What is he doing?
Lenny, are you okay?
Cindy.
You belong here,
with the drunks and the bums.
Hey. Honey, it's okay.
- Look at her.
- Hey.
- Come here. Are you all right?
- I'm okay.
- I'm okay.
- Okay, you're gonna sleep over tonight.
I got her.
Why don't you come stay
with me tonight?
I'm gonna go home with Ned.
It's okay.
Thank you.
Good night, everybody.
Hey, let's-- Let's get out of here.
Let's go grab a beer. Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll see you tomorrow?
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
Those girls, man.
Those girls, they needed us.
When did you become
such an old fuddy-duddy?
I've always been a fuddy-duddy.
That is not true.
In college, you used to be
the craziest bastard I knew.
It was Maine, man.
Turned you into a square.
Almost dying has a way of doing that.
I still don't know what I was thinking,
jumping off that cliff.
If you hadn't have been there...
Strangest sensation realizing
you shouldn't be here.
Man, none of us should be here.
It's all a fucking crapshoot.
Maybe.
You know, maybe 15 years ago,
you would have stripped off...
...that beautiful $50 tie you're wearing
and dived right into that drink.
But now, because you hit your head
on a rock somewhere in Maine...
...now you wanna stand around
and think about doing things instead?
- Are you challenging me to something?
- I would never expect you to risk that tie.
That water is freezing.
That water could kill you.
That is the point, my friend.
But it is better just to stand here
thinking about it, right?
The same way
that you are undoubtedly thinking...
...about making love
to that sweet little redhead.
- You're an asshole, you know that?
- Ha-ha-ha!
Goddamn asshole.
I'm gonna go in to shut you up.
Go in the water.
I'm just going for a swim.
We are doing this.
- You can't go anywhere without me.
- All right.
What a mess. Is Cindy okay?
I don't know. I-- I don't know.
I'm gonna hit the BQE in Brooklyn.
Rumor has it Novo 22 hangs out there.
Should I come back after?
Did I do something, Patti?
I like you so much, Doug.
No, that's not the right word.
I sort of love you.
A few months ago,
you said that without qualifying it.
I know.
Fair enough.
Well, "sort of" love seems
like a good thing, right?
It would be if...
If what, Patti?
If I didn't want what you have.
God, Doug.
When you told me
about the Black Panther book...
I did the research for that.
I wrote some of the copy,
and I sold Finn on the angle.
- And I thanked you for that.
- Yeah, but nobody else knows that.
So you want credit?
Doug, I wanna be a reporter.
I wanna be a reporter.
That's what I want.
Even if it means
I have to go somewhere else to do it.
And I know that now.
And you think I'll get in your way.
If you wanna be a reporter...
Hey.
I wanna help you.
I don't wanna be the enemy. I--
I want you to have everything
you could possibly want.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Mmm.
Doug!
- It's green.
- It's green.
Aha!
Thank you, Doug.
Oh. I almost forgot.
Our graffiti story might have
a surprise ending.
Our transit contact...
...swears Novo 22's a girl.
Our anonymous man is a woman?!
It's non-responsive. Finn didn't ask you
to cover reactions to the earthquake.
- He asked you to cover the earthquake.
- You could've done it better?
You know I could've.
Yes, please.
♪ 'Cause I give you all my Iovin" ♪
- Don't be so prickly.
- I'm prickly?
I think you have
a hard time accepting criticism.
- You're unbelievable.
- You're inflexible.
That's a dangerous thing as a journalist.
♪ Girl, what you tryin' to do?' ♪
What is this?
Gabe asked what it would take
for me to make him pancakes.
- Can I talk to you for a second?
- Mm-hm.
♪ Why do you make me do bad? N'
Okay-
What about a little story
on the EEOC filing?
A first-person account from someone
with a front-row seat to the revolution.
It could be a window into a wider spread
on Women's Lib.
Don't call it that.
That's not such a little idea.
Really?
I think you just struck gold.
Ha-ha! Good writing.
- Hey!
- Go.
- Hey!
- Come on.
- Grab your bag.
- Now.
I had so much fun tonight.
- I'm so glad you stood up your date.
- Ha-ha-ha!
My dad is gonna be livid.
You stood up your dad?
It was a job interview.
Since I'm not marrying Chad...
...Daddy thinks I need to work somewhere
with more appropriate men.
What do you think?
I love my job.
Jane...
...are you becoming a career girl?
Maybe I always was.
Hey, everybody!
Jane Hollander is a career girl!
- Patti.
- Jane.
- I'm a career girl!
- Whoo!
New of the Week is the best magazine!
- I love my job!
- It's my birthday!
And I'm not having a white wedding!
Whoa! What?
I lost my virginity to my neighbor.
I had sex with my dad's best friend
when I was in college.
I-
I lost my mother's bracelet once
and I blamed it on my grandmother.
Oh, I've wanted to tell you
about something for the longest time.
Some of the other girls and I are filing
an Equal Employment claim.
It's illegal for them not to let us write,
and we want the policy changed.
What?
You're suing News of the Week?
No. No, not suing.
We are complaining, officially.
And I'm gonna write an article about it.
Is this why you've been so secretive
at the office?
- You and Cindy and all the other girls?
- Yeah.
- Oh.
- Come on, be a part of it with us.
You deserve it.
You know, I've had
a really lovely time tonight, but...
...I am way too high to think about
whatever it is you're saying.
Hey!
Next time you write about the Panthers,
remember whose fucking side you're on!
Translated by:
Frank Bowden