(slow mellow piano)
(door clicks)
- Get it?
- Hi, how's she doing?
- I'm glad to see you, she's in the kitchen there,
it's the same thing, same thing.
She promises, promises, it's all lies, always.
- [Hannah] Don't make it worse Dad.
Hi Mom, how ya doing?
Let me get you some coffee, that's enough of that.
What triggered it?
- We were making a commercial down at the mayor's office
and there was this young, good-looking salesman
and your mother was throwing herself at him
in a disgusting way and when she found
she was too old to seduce him,
that was just embarrassed by her.
- Liar! Liar!
- Then at lunch she got drunker and drunker
and finally she became Joan Collins.
- [Norma] All my life I'd had to put up with
insults from this non-person,
this, th- th- this haircut that passes for a man.
He could never support us.
It's a good thing we had a talented daughter.
- I can only hope that she was mine,
with you as her mother, her father could be
anybody in Actors' Equity!
- She's talented, so it's not likely she's yours!
- Dad, could you just please stay in the other room
and let me take care of her?
- [Evan] You never know when she's gonna
fall off the wagon and humiliate everybody.
- Here, Mom, drink this.
You know, you're awful, you probably were flirting.
- No, I like to joke around and have fun,
and he gets angry because I get the attention.
He's gotten sourer as he's gotten older,
and I've tried to stay young, at heart.
- You promised to stay on the wagon.
- The sacrifices I've made because of that man.
He's ruined me with his ego, his philandering,
his-his-his-his mediocrity!
- Okay, stop being so dramatic.
- He's the one that's made every ingenue in stock!
- Okay, okay.
- (gasps) Th-th-they, they wanted me for screen test.
- Yeah, I know, Mom.
- But I, I knew that he'd get up there
and he'd flounder around with his expensive haircuts
and hairdos and clothes, and he's all show.
(gasps)
Now how can you act when there's
nothing inside to come out?
(whimpering gasps)
(piano playing)
(pill bottle clicks)
- [Hannah Voiceover] She was so beautiful at one time,
and he was so dashing.
Both of them just full of promise
and hopes that never materialized.
And the fights and the constant infidelities
to prove themselves, and blaming each other, it's so sad.
(melancholy piano)
They loved the idea of having us kids,
but raising us didn't interest them much.
But it's impossible to hold it against them,
they didn't know anything else.
- You know, of all of us in the family,
you were the one blessed with the true gift.
- Oh, my true gift is luck, Mom.
I just had a lot of luck, from my first show, you know?
I've always thought Lee was the
one destined for great things.
- Yes, she's lovely, but she doesn't have your spark.
She knows it, she worships you.
She wouldn't dare get up there on stage.
- Now, Holly's not shy.
- No, Holly's game for anything, Holly takes after me.
- True.
- I'd have been a great dope addict.
(snorting laugh)
(melancholy piano continues)
- Remember this, Hannah?
(melodious piano)
(piano plays "You Are Too Beautiful")
(jazz piano arpeggio)
(doleful piano)