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00:00:00Come with me.
00:00:05Mommy's very retreat.
00:00:08You think it will grow?
00:00:11He doesn't love me since you died.
00:00:14That is nonsense.
00:00:16I'm trying.
00:00:18I want to be here forever.
00:00:20...happening.
00:00:22My mama should have been born one of them birds that stick their head in the sand.
00:00:26An ostrich.
00:00:28Yeah, exactly. She should have been born an ostrich.
00:00:32So, your mother ignored what was going on between Crystal and your father?
00:00:42Yeah, just like always.
00:00:44And then Daddy starts telling Crystal how pretty she is,
00:00:48how he bets that all the boys can't hardly keep their hands off of her,
00:00:52and how if he was 16 again, he'd be chasing after her, too.
00:00:55Oh, everything is so elaborate.
00:00:57I mean, at Margolis, we were all sort of shoehorned into these cubbyholes.
00:01:00Oh, Howard's show is a first-class ride. He insists on it. So does Sadie.
00:01:03Are you sure you don't have an appointment?
00:01:05Oh, trust me, it's better this way.
00:01:07It's hot, ain't it? A real torture of the night.
00:01:10A night like this ain't nothing better than an ice cream.
00:01:12Hey, she has her Robert's mustache.
00:01:14And Crystal over here, she says she's the same way.
00:01:21Uh, when it gets hot and close and she gets to feeling sticky all over,
00:01:26and all she can think about is an ice cream,
00:01:28and then the two of them, they go off together like they was on a date or something.
00:01:31I'll have to put the next one, okay?
00:01:33Okay.
00:01:34Okay, we've heard from Lucille Ann.
00:01:36There are two green rooms.
00:01:38Ever since Sadie came on board,
00:01:39she likes to keep the opposing sides separated,
00:01:41so if there's a fight, it happens in front of the camera,
00:01:43it's supposed to back here.
00:01:44You know what? She calls them holding parents.
00:01:47That's terrible.
00:01:48It won't wait until you meet some of the guests.
00:01:52Terry, Sadie needs you on the floor.
00:01:54Okay, 30 seconds, Jim. Just give me 30 seconds.
00:01:56Now, remember, be honest with them.
00:01:57Tell them everything you told me.
00:01:58They'll be with you every step of the way.
00:02:00Oh, Terry, this is Ty.
00:02:02Not me, I'll tell you. Sorry.
00:02:03Hi.
00:02:04Hi.
00:02:05That's Terry. She loves Sadie's people.
00:02:07She's a little tense.
00:02:08Yeah.
00:02:09Oh, I'm starting to feel like I should have stayed in Chicago.
00:02:11Oh, come on. You belong right here in New York with me.
00:02:14All you gotta do is sell yourself to Sadie.
00:02:17It's kind of quite right, it is.
00:02:21Randy, come on, Randy!
00:02:26When is she going to cry?
00:02:28Crying?
00:02:29Damn it, Terry.
00:02:30You want our audience surfing off to Oprah?
00:02:31I have told you.
00:02:32I want tears or a fight within the first segment.
00:02:35Hey.
00:02:36Crystal, be honest.
00:02:37Level with me.
00:02:38You're an attractive young woman...
00:02:39Right. Just between you and me.
00:02:40...you began spending time with a married man almost twice your age.
00:02:44Sadie wants you to stay off Howard's back.
00:02:46His battery pack's showing through his jacket.
00:02:48Sadie wants you on the floor now.
00:02:49Okay.
00:02:50Butt shots.
00:02:51You need lots of butt shots.
00:02:52Really?
00:02:53Howard Grant is wired?
00:02:54Sadie's idea.
00:02:55She's into cue cards, too.
00:02:56And she doesn't like him working with them.
00:02:58Hey, what are you doing?
00:02:59It is a five-minute drive to the Dairy Queen.
00:03:00Okay?
00:03:01You guys are going for it now.
00:03:02Ask him why his wife didn't join him on the show.
00:03:04Howard, come on.
00:03:05This is falling apart.
00:03:06Hey.
00:03:07Hey.
00:03:08Hey.
00:03:09Hey.
00:03:10Hey.
00:03:11Hey.
00:03:12Hey.
00:03:13Hey.
00:03:14Hey, come on.
00:03:15Folks, take a breath now.
00:03:16Wait just a second.
00:03:17Take four.
00:03:18Wasn't that scarecrow here last week?
00:03:19Hello.
00:03:20Are we interrupting your nap?
00:03:21Take three.
00:03:22She's here every week.
00:03:23Hang on.
00:03:24How'd she slip by Ellen?
00:03:25Take two.
00:03:26Ellen loves her.
00:03:27She has great questions.
00:03:28Ready four.
00:03:29Take four.
00:03:30You want nothing but a slut.
00:03:31Okay?
00:03:32You're nothing but a slut.
00:03:33Please don't let me.
00:03:34Take three.
00:03:35Well, we're certainly not shy of our opinions here on the Howard Grant Show.
00:03:38What happens when flirtation becomes seduction?
00:03:40Ready bumper.
00:03:41Take two.
00:03:42Music up.
00:03:43Key bumper.
00:03:44And go with the pain.
00:03:45Yeah.
00:03:46Okay.
00:03:47You're up next.
00:03:48Oh, I don't fucking knew this.
00:03:49Sure you can.
00:03:50You're up next.
00:03:51I can do this.
00:03:52Oh, I can do this.
00:03:53Sure you can.
00:03:55Let's go.
00:03:56I'll do it.
00:03:57Hey.
00:03:58Okay.
00:03:59Okay.
00:04:00You're up next.
00:04:01You're up next.
00:04:02Oh, I don't fucking knew this.
00:04:03Sure you can.
00:04:04I don't know.
00:04:05You're up next.
00:04:06I can do this.
00:04:06Sure you can.
00:04:08You're gonna go out there,
00:04:09you're gonna tell your story,
00:04:10and you're gonna feel a whole lot better for it afterward.
00:04:13I've seen it over and over.
00:04:15People hold a thing inside, it eats away at them.
00:04:17They come on the show, they get it out in the open,
00:04:20they get rid of it.
00:04:22Oh, I don't know.
00:04:23It's gonna be fine, I'll be right there,
00:04:24and I'll support you all the way.
00:04:26But remember, you've gotta get the audience on your side,
00:04:29so be honest, tell them everything you told me, okay?
00:04:33Okay.
00:04:34Okay, good.
00:04:36Look, Dad, you're not even listening to me.
00:04:38I am, and I wanna hear your side of the story,
00:04:39but this isn't the time.
00:04:40Dad!
00:04:41I am not one of your guests,
00:04:42and I'm not gonna let you talk to me like one.
00:04:44Ted, Dad, just do the show.
00:04:47Ted, I'm in.
00:04:48Thank God, you've been saving my life.
00:04:49Hurry, there's no time.
00:04:50Come on, come on.
00:04:51This is Alan, our audience coordinator.
00:04:52Come on, I'm dying here.
00:04:53It's just...
00:04:54Are you okay?
00:04:55Yes.
00:04:56I was just going through something.
00:04:59All right.
00:05:00Let's go.
00:05:01Empty seats, the kiss of death.
00:05:02You know what I mean?
00:05:03Smile.
00:05:04We've been talking to young women whose fathers flirt with their friends.
00:05:08But what happens when Dad's flirtations turn serious?
00:05:09Meet Wanda, whose best friend is now her mother.
00:05:13Oh!
00:05:14Oh!
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00:05:16Oh!
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00:05:42We used to be close, didn't you?
00:05:43We was real close.
00:05:45My mom would die when I was born and all.
00:05:48But that was before him and Thelma started
00:05:51sleeping together.
00:05:54They just tore us apart.
00:05:57And then they got married.
00:06:00I couldn't believe it.
00:06:02They still care.
00:06:03She's going down.
00:06:04She's going down.
00:06:05Tighter.
00:06:07Tighter.
00:06:08Could I wait?
00:06:12It's just that I miss him so much.
00:06:14She's down.
00:06:15She's down.
00:06:19I can't stand back there and listen no more.
00:06:23This is Vernon, Wanda's father, and his wife, Thelma.
00:06:28Oh, my God.
00:06:33And they're anxious to tell their side of the story.
00:06:37I want a story to tell.
00:06:39We met, we fell in love, and we got married.
00:06:43Now, what's the harm in that, huh?
00:06:45Well, I think Wanda here, I think she's just jealous.
00:06:48That's all.
00:06:51Jealous?
00:06:52Hell, yes.
00:06:53She's used to having it all to herself.
00:06:55Just don't sit back with her now.
00:06:57She's got a shower.
00:07:01Are you saying?
00:07:02I'm saying I'm man enough for both of them.
00:07:09Ready to go around, huh?
00:07:10Yeah, yeah.
00:07:22I felt like I was refereeing a wreck.
00:07:26With shows like this, that pay for the ones that really matter.
00:07:28We hooked the audiences, transvestites and strippers, and then hit them with something
00:07:32really thoughtful, like next week's segment on race and intelligence.
00:07:35No, I will never forget the show you did on the Klan.
00:07:37I mean, I saw that one and I knew.
00:07:39What did I have to work and talk?
00:07:41No, I'm really embarrassed about today's show.
00:07:44Oh, excuse me, Howard.
00:07:46Diane's been summoned.
00:07:47Oh, well, it was really, really nice meeting you.
00:07:50You too.
00:07:53Talk to me.
00:07:54What have you done?
00:07:55Well, I majored in communications at Iowa State, and then I did the news at WNXT in Chicago.
00:07:59I'm not interested in news.
00:08:01I'm interested in talk.
00:08:02Dan was an AP at the Margolis show.
00:08:04She'd made producer, but then they got canceled.
00:08:05Oh, we don't do issues here.
00:08:07We don't do issues.
00:08:07Not anymore.
00:08:08We do theater, confrontation, conflict, drama.
00:08:12That's what the audiences are buying.
00:08:13That's what we're selling.
00:08:15You want to do issues, you talk to Bill Moyers.
00:08:18Issues killed Margolis.
00:08:19It almost killed Howard.
00:08:21Look, Jenny says that you're okay, so I'm going to give you a chance.
00:08:24One month, four shows.
00:08:26You deliver your own staff.
00:08:27You let me down, you join Margolis in the unemployment line.
00:08:34I never made producer Margolis.
00:08:36Oh, come on, scruple from someone with a collection of overdue bills.
00:08:39Well, you didn't have the title, but you did the work.
00:08:41Besides, his show is gone.
00:08:42Who is she going to chat with?
00:08:43Oh, you're so bad.
00:08:44And you are a producer.
00:08:50He practically meant to talk, Mom.
00:08:52I know.
00:08:53I know that.
00:08:54He's really embarrassed about that, too.
00:08:55He's just new executive producers that he has.
00:08:58And you know, next week's shows are going to be a lot...
00:09:01Wait, what?
00:09:02I...
00:09:03You know what?
00:09:03I can't hear you very well.
00:09:04Why don't I...
00:09:05I'll call you back when my phone gets hooked back up.
00:09:07Oh, thanks.
00:09:07Yeah, I loved you.
00:09:09I'm going to make the crowd, Mom.
00:09:12Tell Dad I love you, too.
00:09:13Bye.
00:09:21Hey.
00:09:22What'd they say?
00:09:23Well, they said that Howard was beginning to sound a little like Geraldo and maybe I should
00:09:26come home.
00:09:27Oh, yeah.
00:09:28Howard is still Howard.
00:09:29He's just been fighting for his life.
00:09:31I mean, when the ratings come back...
00:09:32Yeah, I know.
00:09:33I know.
00:09:34And in the meantime, I figure I could give Sadie to do anything with a sensationalistic
00:09:37hook to it.
00:09:38Even if it doesn't have some lead on it.
00:09:39I don't know, Diane.
00:09:40And Sadie's not into causes.
00:09:42You do the sort of thing you're pushing at Margolis.
00:09:44Look, I'm going to do the kind of shows I want to do by convincing Sadie that they're
00:09:48the kind of shows that she wants to do.
00:09:50Ooh, who is the punk?
00:09:54Mark Halston.
00:09:57Outside counsel to the show.
00:09:59He just bailed us out of a $10 million lawsuit by taking the plaintiff apart on the stand.
00:10:03Sadie's been panting after him ever since.
00:10:06So he works on Sadie by night and the Lulu Bell Barton case by day.
00:10:11It's kind of like watching Cobra's Vein.
00:10:15What is this?
00:10:16A celebration.
00:10:18It's on Sadie.
00:10:19He just doesn't know it.
00:10:22To money in the bank and life in the fast lane.
00:10:27Don't hang up, okay?
00:10:28No, don't hang up.
00:10:29Look, I don't think you understand the situation here.
00:10:31I told Howard you were coming here.
00:10:33He's dying to meet you.
00:10:34He's...
00:10:35Damn.
00:10:36I don't have a show.
00:10:37What?
00:10:38I don't have a show.
00:10:39Neither do I, Myra.
00:10:40Now go to your kennel and let me slash my wrists in peace.
00:10:43I don't have a...
00:10:44I know, Myra, you don't have a show and neither will I unless you stop pestering me.
00:10:48I don't have a show.
00:10:54I don't have a show.
00:10:56You must be Myra.
00:10:58You're not gonna believe this.
00:10:59Hi, I'm...
00:11:00I'm Diane.
00:11:01Welcome to the rock.
00:11:02Congratulate me, girls.
00:11:03The boy who's given me my release.
00:11:05Oh, God.
00:11:06What are you gonna do, huh?
00:11:09I don't know.
00:11:10Yeah.
00:11:11Big bitches, queen sewers, something with dignity.
00:11:14Tell us another one of Howard's people.
00:11:17It's 11 o'clock, guys.
00:11:18The dragon lady awaits.
00:11:20Terrific.
00:11:21Another great story ruined by checking.
00:11:24We're taping your segment tomorrow, Myra.
00:11:26I'm going to be very annoyed if we don't have anything to put in front of the camera.
00:11:30Alex, talk to me.
00:11:31What have you got?
00:11:32Girls in gangs.
00:11:33Pretty much virgin territory.
00:11:34There's no such thing in talk.
00:11:36Not anymore.
00:11:37You got rival gang members?
00:11:38And their boyfriends.
00:11:39Good.
00:11:40Tell Nick to beef up security.
00:11:41Okay.
00:11:42New girl on the block.
00:11:43Let's hear it.
00:11:47I was looking over last month's shows and I saw that Howard's ratings really went through
00:11:51the roof when he went out on the street and talked to prostitutes.
00:11:54So I thought we could bring back one of those girls and maybe bring back your family.
00:11:57I'm just going to talk to you.
00:11:58He says I can't wait.
00:11:59Back in five, folks.
00:12:05Okay, what's that all about?
00:12:06You should try reading the trades.
00:12:07He's upset about the announcement from United Media.
00:12:10They're giving his son a talk show.
00:12:12Well, why would that make him upset?
00:12:14It's his son.
00:12:15Demographics.
00:12:16He doesn't want to compete with a younger version of himself.
00:12:19Unless I miss my guess, he's out there wringing his hands.
00:12:22A pound of flesh.
00:12:23That's what he's taking from me.
00:12:26All he's out eating meals will take a piece of my heart.
00:12:29Bravo, Alex.
00:12:30But I catch you again and your act's going to get cancelled permanently.
00:12:34Now, prostitutes.
00:12:37Is there one hooker in this entire city that hasn't guessed it on a talk show?
00:12:41We've had most of them right here on our own.
00:12:44But we haven't had their families.
00:12:47Most of these girls are addicts.
00:12:51I mean, we know that.
00:12:52That's why they're out there hooking, right?
00:12:54I mean, that's double impact right there.
00:12:56We bring their families on with them and that dramatizes the human cost.
00:13:00The other victims in this victimless crime.
00:13:03Well, what have we got here, boys and girls?
00:13:08Could it be a new angle?
00:13:10A new angle?
00:13:12That's what I like about fresh blood.
00:13:14Okay, you got it.
00:13:16Now, one last thing for the party Wednesday evening, for the stations that carry the show.
00:13:22Everyone attends.
00:13:23These people are bread and butter folks.
00:13:25And I want every last one of them to feel a part of our happy little family.
00:13:30Understand?
00:13:31Okay, get out of here and get to work.
00:13:34Hey, I've got plenty of action in my room.
00:13:38You know what I mean?
00:13:39Hey, besides, in my line of work, we like to keep what we call a low profile.
00:13:42Oh, yeah.
00:13:43I completely understand that.
00:13:44There would be no cops.
00:13:45Well, probably school in the medicinal temple.
00:13:48But you'll see there's a...
00:13:50There's one other little problem.
00:13:52It's been a while since I've seen my mom.
00:13:54I mean, 10, 12 years, maybe I know.
00:13:56I don't even know what she looks like.
00:13:58You know what?
00:13:59It's okay, thank you.
00:14:00Hey, hey, you're looking for some cells at the night.
00:14:02You hurt!
00:14:03Hey, hey, come on!
00:14:05Money is a career opportunity.
00:14:06He's asking for deals!
00:14:08What?
00:14:09What's up, babe?
00:14:11And?
00:14:13Well, I guess you could say he offered to sponsor me.
00:14:17I'm thrilled for you.
00:14:19But the bottom line is, you don't have a guest.
00:14:22No guest, no show.
00:14:23Sit down.
00:14:25Look, I like you, kid.
00:14:27You got guts.
00:14:28Took guts to lie to me that you produced for Margolis.
00:14:31You thought I wouldn't check.
00:14:33And it took guts for you to go out on the street like that.
00:14:36Look, if you want to be a success in talk, you got to use your head, too.
00:14:41So let me give you some advice.
00:14:43Never tell a lie you can get caught in.
00:14:46Never hit the streets without backup.
00:14:48And never ever admit to failure.
00:14:50Now, uh, this is a good idea you have.
00:14:53But it's not going to amount to much if you go out on the street and you get yourself whacked.
00:14:57I, Jimmy, yank the letters that came in after last month's show on prostitutes.
00:15:03Unless I've missed my guess, what you're looking for you'll find right there.
00:15:07Thanks.
00:15:08Thanks, Ziggy.
00:15:09I don't want thanks.
00:15:10I want a killer show.
00:15:11Hello?
00:15:12Mark Austin on two?
00:15:13Yeah, all right.
00:15:14Put him through.
00:15:15Sure, I can believe it.
00:15:16My girlfriend's the same way.
00:15:18I lie all the time, don't you?
00:15:19No, she doesn't, Alex.
00:15:20And neither should you.
00:15:21No one's calling me back.
00:15:22I might as well start clearing out my desk.
00:15:23Oh, yeah, you should do that, Lyra.
00:15:24They won't call back.
00:15:25I know they won't.
00:15:26Hello?
00:15:27How the hell are you?
00:15:28Listen, I'm so glad you called.
00:15:29That story of yours is the funniest thing I ever heard.
00:15:45Jenny?
00:15:46Listen to this.
00:15:50Dear Howard, I am writing to you because I don't know where to turn.
00:15:55Every day, my daughter breaks my heart.
00:15:57She's only 19, but her life is already over.
00:16:00She's a drug-addicted prostitute and the mother of a two-year-old girl.
00:16:04I am at my wit's end with her, but your show gives me hope.
00:16:08Oh, this is it.
00:16:09I mean, this is the one.
00:16:10I can help these people.
00:16:12I can put the daughter through a treatment program.
00:16:14I can show the audience what the cost of prostitution is,
00:16:16and I can give Sadie ratings to die for.
00:16:22I love subways.
00:16:23You get all those suits down there and the filth and darkness,
00:16:26rubbing elbows with the derelicts
00:16:29and the rest of the sewage from the slums.
00:16:31It's the same thing in talk.
00:16:33We take the audience for a tour of the underbelly, the lower depths,
00:16:37and we introduce them to the ghetto garbage and the trail of trash,
00:16:41and then we send them back to their clean, safe little lives.
00:16:48That's why this piece of yours is perfect.
00:16:51The audience can shake its head.
00:16:52Isn't that tragic?
00:16:54Then go to sleep happy because it's not their daughter who's out hooking for a fix.
00:17:00So, how did you talk this girl into coming on the show?
00:17:04Oh, um, well, I haven't actually spoken with her.
00:17:10I spoke to her mom, and her mom seemed to...
00:17:12Wait a minute.
00:17:13You come in here, and you tell me you want to build a whole show
00:17:16around this girl and her family,
00:17:17and now you're telling me you haven't even talked to her?
00:17:19Sadie, nobody knows exactly where she is.
00:17:21If you just give me a few days, I'm from here.
00:17:23Forget it. Your show tape's on Friday.
00:17:24You find another girl.
00:17:25Shh.
00:17:26Or find another job.
00:17:28I'm in a meeting.
00:17:34It's for you.
00:17:44Hello?
00:17:47Sadie, Sadie, it's the mother. It's her.
00:17:49Yes, um, this, this is Diane Shepard.
00:17:52Oh, thank God.
00:17:53Have you found Kelly yet?
00:17:55Well, she's here about her pimps with her,
00:17:57and I'm scared, and she's looking really sick.
00:17:58I'm trashing the place looking for money.
00:17:59I've never...
00:18:06Okay, this girl may walk at doing the show.
00:18:09All right, then.
00:18:10She does figure out what she wants,
00:18:11and then you offer it to her.
00:18:12Remember to wait for the camera crew.
00:18:14They spend a lot of time on the streets.
00:18:16They know how to handle themselves.
00:18:18So don't, uh, go in without them, okay?
00:18:20Okay.
00:18:21Oh, here.
00:18:23All right.
00:18:24Good luck.
00:18:27Here we go.
00:18:28Bye.
00:18:29Let's get to that.
00:18:29Oh, here.
00:18:30Oh, here.
00:18:31Who's going now?
00:18:32Oh, here.
00:18:33Go.
00:18:34There.
00:18:34Hey.
00:18:35Check it out.
00:18:36Hey.
00:18:38Bye.
00:18:39Bye.
00:18:40Bye.
00:18:41Hey.
00:18:42Bye.
00:18:43Bye.
00:18:44Bye.
00:18:45Bye.
00:18:46Bye.
00:18:47Bye.
00:18:48Bye.
00:18:49Bye.
00:18:49Bye.
00:18:50Bye.
00:18:50And I'll get the next time on this episode.
00:18:52She's watching tomorrow.
00:18:53Bye.
00:18:54Bye.
00:18:55There we go. My fault. It's all over my fault.
00:19:14Oh, it's never your fault.
00:19:17You're the one waiting for us to find you.
00:19:19I don't know why not from you.
00:19:21I don't know why not from you.
00:19:31Yeah?
00:19:32Um, hello. Is this the Riley residence?
00:19:35I don't know. Might be.
00:19:37Hey, uh, uh, Brenda, what's your last name?
00:19:41I want you out of here. Riley.
00:19:44Looks like you came to the right place.
00:19:51I tossed the whole room.
00:19:55Who's that?
00:19:56I don't know.
00:19:57Hi, I'm, uh, Diane Shepard.
00:19:59What do you got? What'd you dick up?
00:20:00Nothing.
00:20:01Nothing.
00:20:02You wouldn't happen to have a little something you could loan us?
00:20:07See, we're experiencing a little cash flow problem.
00:20:10And Kelly here needs some groceries, don't you, honey?
00:20:13Sorry. I, um, I spent all my money on the cab over here.
00:20:16Can't hear. It's terrible, isn't it, with them cabbies charged?
00:20:23Nothing less than highway robbery.
00:20:25I'll tell you what.
00:20:26Why don't you take a little look-see in that purse of yours just to kind of make sure.
00:20:42That's it? That's all?
00:20:46Two rousy dollars?
00:20:48That's why you travel light, don't you, honey?
00:20:50Just like my mama said, you want something done right, do it yourself!
00:20:54Yeah!
00:20:58So what do you say more?
00:21:02Diane Shepard.
00:21:03I'm a producer from the Howard Grant Show.
00:21:05I'd like to talk to you about being a guest.
00:21:11That's real funny, Ma.
00:21:13But I got an even better idea.
00:21:15Why don't we all go on American's Funniest Home Videos
00:21:19and give the folks a real laugh?
00:21:21Kelly, if they want to put you in a treatment program,
00:21:24they can help you get clean, help you get a little joey bag.
00:21:28Oh, my program. I haven't heard that one before.
00:21:34I just want our sweet little girl back again.
00:21:37Well, you know what I want?
00:21:39I just want to get well.
00:21:40Hey, you! Get out of there!
00:21:41You know you're not welcome here.
00:21:43How can nobody do this?
00:21:46I held you and I loved you when you were a baby.
00:21:49When you talked with Jerry, I was always here for you.
00:21:52That's the problem!
00:21:53You weren't always trying to take over it for me,
00:21:55because maybe I never was always fighting with her.
00:21:57Shut up!
00:21:58I'm always doing this!
00:22:00You're tearing me to pieces!
00:22:01I always liked it!
00:22:03Boy, cry!
00:22:04Cry, Mom!
00:22:05Cry, cry!
00:22:06Come on, baby, let's play.
00:22:08Oh, Brenda.
00:22:10Brenda!
00:22:1110, 15, 20.
00:22:1320 bucks.
00:22:14That's a star.
00:22:15All right.
00:22:19What'd you say you did again?
00:22:20She just wants to put me on to the TV show.
00:22:22Oh, yeah?
00:22:23The Howard Grant show.
00:22:24No kidding!
00:22:25I know that show!
00:22:26I know that show!
00:22:27Well, you know you should be talking to me then,
00:22:29because I'm Kelly's...
00:22:30I'm her business manager.
00:22:32How much they pay for one of them, uh...
00:22:33That is none of your business!
00:22:35Hey!
00:22:38Why did I pay for one of those, uh, guest appearances?
00:22:41Well, uh...
00:22:42Ordinarily, we don't pay our guests.
00:22:44We just give them an opportunity to talk about whatever's bothering them.
00:22:47Yeah, yeah, but...
00:22:48I mean, you wouldn't be opposed to, uh, a little, uh...
00:22:50Uh, what's the word?
00:22:51Uh, help me out, please.
00:22:53Honorary.
00:22:54A little honorary.
00:22:55Baby, please.
00:22:56I gotta go.
00:22:57I know!
00:22:58I know!
00:22:59I am just having a little business conversation, all right?
00:23:02No.
00:23:03No, it's not all right.
00:23:04I am sick.
00:23:05I have to go.
00:23:06Okay?
00:23:07Okay.
00:23:08Okay.
00:23:09Hours.
00:23:10We gotta go.
00:23:11We have to, uh, go on a little shopping trip.
00:23:14Why don't you come along with us?
00:23:16This way we can continue our little negotiations.
00:23:19Huh?
00:23:22You want her on the show or not?
00:23:24Oh, maybe, maybe you should wait for my car.
00:23:42I can't wait.
00:23:43I can't wait.
00:23:44I can't wait.
00:23:45You have to have a fail.
00:23:46We don't want a cab.
00:23:47The streets run yellow in the damn thing.
00:23:48Whoa!
00:23:49Am I poisoned?
00:23:55All right, here we go.
00:23:56Whoa, wait a minute.
00:23:57Then, then it's not a cab.
00:23:58No, it's not a cab.
00:23:59No, it's not a cab.
00:24:00This is what you call an entrepreneur.
00:24:02the new law. He doesn't waste the time. I think you tell
00:24:04you about a secret change.
00:24:05But I don't think it's...
00:24:06Avenue M and 14th Street.
00:24:15Now, where were we?
00:24:16Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
00:24:18See, what you've got to realize is that Kelly
00:24:20is special. She's just... She's real
00:24:22class. She does not
00:24:24work the streets anymore. Not since
00:24:26I become her business manager.
00:24:28All of our business is
00:24:30strictly by appointment only.
00:24:32Cash by meeting.
00:24:34It's the way I figure it.
00:24:36She is worth so much more than any
00:24:38garden-variety hooker that you're just
00:24:40going to pick up on some street corner.
00:24:42Now, listen, buddy. I just remembered.
00:24:45They got Central all blocked out.
00:24:46Construction. We're going to have to go the long way around.
00:24:49The long way?
00:24:51We're going to have to charge you more.
00:24:53Really?
00:24:55Point box.
00:24:57No kidding.
00:24:59Well,
00:25:00whatever you think
00:25:01is fair.
00:25:09What are you doing?
00:25:10What are you doing?
00:25:12What is he doing?
00:25:13The only thing I cannot abide by is a cheat.
00:25:15So now I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to pull over.
00:25:16What am I doing?
00:25:21What is he doing?
00:25:26Bingo.
00:25:26Ha ha.
00:25:27Bingo.
00:25:28Are you offering me a cash settlement over our little business dispute?
00:25:32What do we want, mister?
00:25:32You know something?
00:25:33It's not mine.
00:25:34Now, if you were to throw in the car, I might see my way clear of calling us either.
00:25:38Sure, mister.
00:25:39Sure.
00:25:39All right, well, so we have a deal.
00:25:41Whatever you want, my sir.
00:25:42Yeah, dude, just open up your car door there.
00:25:44I'll get yourself out.
00:25:50Pleasure doing business with you.
00:25:55You understand what I'm saying, right?
00:25:56That, uh, Kelly is just a very special girl.
00:26:00And I think that she deserves more than what an ordinary guest would get.
00:26:03Wouldn't you say?
00:26:04I do. I do.
00:26:06But like I was trying to say before, we don't ordinarily...
00:26:11You know what? I am sure that we could come up with some sort of an arrangement.
00:26:15Good. Good.
00:26:17I was thinking...
00:26:19Oh, five.
00:26:22Well, I'd have to talk to my boss, but I...
00:26:24I ain't going on no TV show.
00:26:26Pleasure doing business with you.
00:26:28And now, if you want to excuse us, we have another little piece of business to conduct inside.
00:26:46Hey, wait. Open up.
00:26:47Oh, ho, ho.
00:26:48Hello, my son.
00:26:49Hello, my son.
00:26:50Hey, wait. Open up.
00:26:51Oh!
00:26:52Hey, wait. Open up.
00:26:53Oh!
00:26:54Hey, wait. Open up.
00:26:56Oh!
00:26:57Oh!
00:26:58What's up!
00:26:59Whoa!
00:27:00Oh!
00:27:01Oh!
00:27:02Hey, hey.
00:27:03Help!
00:27:04Help!
00:27:05What...
00:27:06What...
00:27:07Oh!
00:27:08Oh!
00:27:09Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:27:10Hey.
00:27:11Open the door!
00:27:17Jimmy. Hey, Diane.
00:27:22Diane! Are you all right?
00:27:24Yeah, Jimmy, I'm fine. Quick, get out of the car.
00:27:25I want to get some footage to the side.
00:27:27Oh, come on, quick, before he gets away, please. Hurry!
00:27:30Dear Howard,
00:27:32I am writing to you because I don't know where to turn.
00:27:39Todd!
00:27:40What? I'm so sorry.
00:27:42Jimmy, goddammit.
00:27:43What? Hi.
00:27:45Sorry.
00:27:46Diane, it's for you.
00:27:50Shepard? Diane?
00:27:52Oh, Sadie, hi. Yeah, yeah, I've been trying to get in touch with you all morning.
00:27:56Well, I understand you had another little adventure.
00:27:59Yeah, I know, the video crew hadn't shown up.
00:28:02Did we have a conversation about backup or did I just imagine it?
00:28:05I know, I'm sorry, Sadie, I am.
00:28:08Why'd you call?
00:28:09Okay, um, well, Kelly's boyfriend, he wants $500.
00:28:14And I don't know what to do because at Margolis we had a policy never to pay our guests.
00:28:18Yeah, well, uh, the money's on the way. Get back to work.
00:28:24Okay.
00:28:26Where'd she go?
00:28:27She's inside. She's having second thoughts.
00:28:28What?
00:28:29You really think it's best?
00:28:39I know it is.
00:28:41I know it is.
00:28:44This is right for Kelly. It's gonna help her.
00:28:47It's gonna help a lot of people. Jerry, just think about it.
00:28:50Think about the people watching the show.
00:28:52If it turns around just one girl who is heading the direction that Kelly was.
00:29:00Who knows?
00:29:02Maybe it'll keep a Duane out there from exploiting a young girl like Kelly.
00:29:06This is so important, Jerry. It's important for Kelly. It's important for you. It's important for Brenda. It's important for so many people you don't even know.
00:29:15But, you know, I don't read so well. Maybe you could just get Howard to read my letter.
00:29:31Oh, no. You have to read it. You read it so beautifully. They're your words. Just, um, just think about how you felt when you wrote them, okay?
00:29:39You hold on to that and everything will be perfect.
00:29:45You talk to these girls with such understanding and you treat them like human beings instead of garbage that belongs in the gutter.
00:29:55So I know you will hear me too, please, Howard. Help me save my daughter. Help me stop the pain.
00:30:10Cut. Cut.
00:30:12Hey. Are you okay?
00:30:15You're okay? No.
00:30:16No, I just have such a hard time talking about this.
00:30:19You were beautiful. You were just beautiful.
00:30:24Uh, look, why don't you go back up to your apartment, okay? We'll be up to take you and Brenda together.
00:30:29Okay.
00:30:31Okay.
00:30:35All right. Um, let's get some B-roll. Uh, the streets, garbage piles, anything that'll give us a sense of place.
00:30:45Okay.
00:30:46Listen, are you sure she's okay about this?
00:30:47Oh, yeah, of course she is, of course, yeah. If she's in any trouble at all, you just, you know, just talk to me. Good.
00:31:03Sure he talks to me. Nice and sweet. So I don't do it, he'd kill me.
00:31:13Well, he was kidding. Right?
00:31:15I said, uh, what am I, uh, a freak in a sideshow? He says, if you don't do it, you're gonna be a sight of beef in a meat locker.
00:31:25It was a big joke, huh?
00:31:30Look, I'll do it. Get the old broads off my back. I mean, why should I even care, right?
00:31:39Because you should care.
00:31:42Kelly, this is gonna give you a chance to get your life back.
00:31:46You get to where I am, you don't go back.
00:31:50I'm on the express, one way to the end of the line.
00:31:57It don't matter what I do.
00:32:01You're not stopping the train for me.
00:32:06You give me a sec, okay? I gotta fix my face.
00:32:11Kelly?
00:32:12Yeah?
00:32:13Oh, I'm sorry, we just, we really have to roll.
00:32:27Are you okay?
00:32:32I'm fine now.
00:32:35Let's just get this over with.
00:32:37Huh.
00:32:40Smile.
00:32:42Yeah, that's a pretty picture.
00:32:45Hey, is this all there is to this?
00:32:46Jimmy, please, can you take care of this?
00:32:48Ah, I can do this.
00:32:49All right.
00:32:50Okay, Kelly, uh, please sit in the red chair.
00:32:53Oh, God.
00:32:55Kelly, not for the interview.
00:32:57You, you have no respect.
00:33:00You do this terrible thing to yourself in my house, in my bathroom?
00:33:03All right, Brenda, um, Jerry, I need you to wait in the other room, okay?
00:33:07Until we're done.
00:33:09It's just that Kelly's gonna have a really hard time with this,
00:33:10and I don't want her to be distracted.
00:33:13Please.
00:33:23Okay, Kelly.
00:33:24Are we rolling?
00:33:31Mm-hmm.
00:33:32Did you shoot up before this interview?
00:33:34It was good.
00:33:37Why, Kelly?
00:33:39Hmm.
00:33:43Look around you.
00:33:51Kelly?
00:33:52Mm-hmm.
00:33:55Kelly, why are you here?
00:33:59On TV.
00:34:05No, why are you here with your family?
00:34:07I needed some money.
00:34:09Hmm.
00:34:11Does your family give you money to buy drugs?
00:34:15Nope.
00:34:16I take it.
00:34:23Hmm.
00:34:26How do you feel about that?
00:34:33What about prostitution, Kelly?
00:34:35How does that make you feel?
00:34:37Do you ever feel, uh...
00:34:40Why do you keep on asking me how I feel?
00:34:43Hmm.
00:34:49I don't feel anything.
00:34:51Kelly.
00:34:53Kelly.
00:34:55Kelly?
00:35:04What's happening?
00:35:05No, she's fine.
00:35:06Oh, my God.
00:35:07Oh, my God.
00:35:08Oh, my God.
00:35:09Is she overdosing?
00:35:10No, she's fine.
00:35:11Oh, she's fine.
00:35:12Kelly?
00:35:13She's fine.
00:35:14She's fine.
00:35:15What are you...
00:35:17Oh, God, Jimmy!
00:35:18Call 911!
00:35:20She's fine!
00:35:25No, Mom.
00:35:26He was right.
00:35:27She was fine.
00:35:28She just passed out.
00:35:31Well, no, that's...
00:35:32That's the whole point here.
00:35:33We're trying to get her to stop being the victim, Mom.
00:35:35Mom, it's best if I don't talk to you during work, okay?
00:35:37I...
00:35:38Yeah, I'm sorry.
00:35:39I'm just...
00:35:40I'm under a lot of pressure.
00:35:41I was up all night.
00:35:42I was editing the videotape, and...
00:35:44Look, look, my boss is coming in.
00:35:45I gotta go, okay?
00:35:46I'll call you later.
00:35:48Yes, I love you, too.
00:35:49Bye.
00:35:51That's it?
00:35:52Um, well, no, there's...
00:35:53There's more crying at the tail end of the tape.
00:35:54Oh, play it out.
00:35:58Let me some music over it.
00:35:59Something plaintive.
00:36:02You dig up anything on her kid?
00:36:04Well, I spoke with social services, and the record's sealed.
00:36:07Keep pushing.
00:36:08There may be some way around that.
00:36:11Okay, now, I want to intercut some footage of Kelly working on the street.
00:36:15Do you have anything we can use?
00:36:17Not yet, but I am meeting her and Duane tonight at his office.
00:36:19His office?
00:36:21Street corner in the Bronx.
00:36:22What makes you think they'll show?
00:36:23I had to offer a little incentive.
00:36:26Yeah, we'll make sure we get our money's worth.
00:36:31One last thing.
00:36:32I want you to track down a recovered addict that we can plant in the audience.
00:36:36You know, toss him a bone of hope.
00:36:40Three months.
00:36:42Oh, no.
00:36:43Unfortunately, I need somebody who is playing a little longer than just three months.
00:36:47Yes, of course I understand.
00:36:49But if she's willing to come on...
00:36:52Um, can you hold on?
00:36:54You Miriam?
00:36:56Hi, I'm back.
00:36:58Um...
00:37:00Yeah, so if she's willing to appear on the show, it would be great.
00:37:02I'm Lana.
00:37:03Oh, Miriam Reeder.
00:37:04Have a seat.
00:37:06Okay, thanks.
00:37:07So, did, uh, Jimmy explain the segment to you?
00:37:10Yeah.
00:37:11Housewife to, uh, strip?
00:37:12Your kids?
00:37:16Uh-huh.
00:37:17Oh, they're really cute.
00:37:18Yeah.
00:37:19Yeah.
00:37:21So, uh, Jimmy told me that you're the one that did the shows on, uh, body piercing and, uh, boyfriends who couldn't get enough?
00:37:30I really love that one.
00:37:32Yeah.
00:37:33I'm the resident pervert.
00:37:36No kidding.
00:37:37Okay, gang, I'm taking orders.
00:37:38Miriam, what can I get you?
00:37:40Boys to the purple pussycat.
00:37:41They're always rowdy.
00:37:43You got it.
00:37:44You know, for an extra buck, you can upgrade to a combo and get fries and a drink with that.
00:37:46Eh?
00:37:47Diane.
00:37:49I'm sorry.
00:37:50I don't understand.
00:37:51Well, what kind of audience do you want for your hooker show?
00:37:52You know.
00:37:53You're telling me I can specify an audience.
00:37:55Sure.
00:37:56You know, we aim to please and all that, eh?
00:37:57Yeah, but at Margolis we just had to take potluck.
00:37:59Sadie doesn't like to leave anything to chance.
00:38:01You got that right.
00:38:02You want college kids?
00:38:03We got sororities and frat houses we go to.
00:38:05You want the mature conservative types?
00:38:07We go to church groups.
00:38:08You want large people?
00:38:09We hang out at the hot dog vendors.
00:38:10You want John's looking to pick up transvestite prostitutes?
00:38:12We head down to 42nd Street.
00:38:13You want Bible...
00:38:14Jenny?
00:38:15What's with her?
00:38:16Jenny?
00:38:17Was it something I said?
00:38:18They aired the show I did on battered wives.
00:38:23And one of the guests.
00:38:26What is it?
00:38:27Jenny, come on.
00:38:28It's okay.
00:38:29What?
00:38:30It's okay.
00:38:31Her husband saw the show and he beat her up.
00:38:35He is in intensive care.
00:38:37They don't know if she'll make it.
00:38:38No.
00:38:39I'm sorry.
00:38:40I'm sorry.
00:38:41Jenny.
00:38:42What?
00:38:43Did you beat up that woman?
00:38:44Of course you didn't.
00:38:45You placed her in a halfway house.
00:38:46But she ran back to her husband, sweetie.
00:38:58So who's responsible for what happened, huh?
00:38:59She is.
00:39:00She knew what he was.
00:39:01She went back to him anyways.
00:39:03If I have everything you tried to do for her.
00:39:04The people we deal with are victims and they will always be victims.
00:39:10The only mistake you made was to get involved emotionally.
00:39:11Come on.
00:39:12Let's tie one on.
00:39:13Let's tie one on.
00:39:14No.
00:39:15No.
00:39:16No.
00:39:17No.
00:39:18No.
00:39:19No.
00:39:20No.
00:39:21No.
00:39:22No.
00:39:23No.
00:39:24No.
00:39:25No.
00:39:26No.
00:39:27No.
00:39:28No.
00:39:29No.
00:39:30No.
00:39:31No.
00:39:32No.
00:39:33No.
00:39:34No.
00:39:35No.
00:39:36No.
00:39:37No.
00:39:38No.
00:39:39No.
00:39:40I have no idea why.
00:39:41What do you think?
00:39:44Okay.
00:39:49Hey, baby.
00:39:50What do you want, baby?
00:39:54Okay, Pat.
00:39:55What do you say they call it quits?
00:39:57Got enough footage here for a movie.
00:39:58Yeah, yeah.
00:39:59Okay.
00:40:00Let me just try to talk to our friend Wayne one more time.
00:40:04I don't know this.
00:40:05I don't know it because I don't even know what.
00:40:07Okay, let me just try and talk to our friend Dwayne one more time.
00:40:13Dwayne, it's 1.30. Where is she?
00:40:16You kidding me already? I don't have a...
00:40:19Well, it's probably like I told you, she probably got all tied up in a business meeting.
00:40:25Really? Well, that's what you told me two hours ago.
00:40:28Forget it. We're out of here.
00:40:30Wait, wait. Wait.
00:40:33I just had an idea.
00:40:34You don't even really need Kelly.
00:40:36Let me introduce you to Constance. Constance!
00:40:39Now, she's freelance, but she has agreed to commission me on this.
00:40:42Turn around anyway, huh?
00:40:43Forget it, Dwayne. There's no deal.
00:40:45You have to deliver Kelly or the whole thing is off.
00:40:50Tough chick.
00:40:53I'm sorry, but we have a strict policy, Lurleen.
00:40:56No teeth, no talk.
00:40:58Yes, I know. I know, but we can't...
00:41:00As I said, we do have a strict policy.
00:41:02We have standards here at the Howard Grant Show.
00:41:04Producers of this show have only one job, Diane, and that is to make me happy.
00:41:10Do I look happy?
00:41:13I told you. No interruptions.
00:41:16Put her on.
00:41:17I am not interested in sick children, Miriam, yours or anyone else's.
00:41:23I am interested in your show.
00:41:25It is taping tonight at nine.
00:41:27With or without you, which will it be?
00:41:28I am going to give you another chance, Diane.
00:41:35I am going to let you take over Miriam's show.
00:41:39Housewives that strip?
00:41:40Jeffrey Madden from corporate is paying us a surprise visit tonight, and I want this show to be perfect.
00:41:45Understand?
00:41:46Yes, Sadie, but I really...
00:41:48Read Miriam's book and get on it.
00:41:53Okay, Terry, you have to help me out here.
00:41:54Um, Miriam has you down as an expert for the stripper show.
00:41:58Mm-hmm.
00:41:59It's you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
00:42:01One of us comes up short a guest or an expert, and one of the others fills in.
00:42:05I've been a guest twice now, but this is my first time as an expert.
00:42:08Fine, but what makes you an expert?
00:42:10I had breast reduction surgery a few years ago, so Miriam thought that I'd make a perfect candidate for...
00:42:15Come on, Diane.
00:42:16Come on.
00:42:18Hello?
00:42:20Yes, it's Diane.
00:42:23Oh, hi. Yes, of course.
00:42:31Yes, I understand, but how long do you really think you're going to be able to keep this a secret?
00:42:34Can you hold on?
00:42:36I think I'm losing a guest.
00:42:37No, you're not.
00:42:38Open the prize closet.
00:42:40Offer her an extra day or two in the city.
00:42:42If that doesn't work, throw some money at her.
00:42:43But don't even think about telling me you've lost her.
00:42:47Myra.
00:42:52We need to talk.
00:42:53Hi.
00:42:55Um, you know, I'm thinking that it's probably just stage fright.
00:43:00What could I possibly do to make this a little easier for you?
00:43:05Oh, and I want to hear it right on, brother.
00:43:06Tell it like it is, and girl, you better start talking to my hand,
00:43:09because my face, just stop listening and have an hour go to yours or yourself.
00:43:11Okay?
00:43:12I want everyone to say hello to my main man, Keith.
00:43:14My man, Keith.
00:43:16All right.
00:43:16Keith is going to help you out.
00:43:17So every time you see my man, Keith, do this, we expect to hear from you.
00:43:21Ladies and gentlemen of New York City, without further ado, put your hands and feet together
00:43:33for a warm welcome to the one, the only, the dashing, the daring, compassionate, and caring
00:43:37all-around guru of television talk show, Howard Grant.
00:43:41Hammer two, give me a whisk around howard.
00:43:58Take two.
00:43:58A week doesn't go by without one of our competitors staging a show just like this.
00:44:15We've got a few new wrinkles, haven't we, Diane?
00:44:18I better go prep the next guest.
00:44:24I bloomed kind of young, you know, and the guys, I mean,
00:44:28they were always, like, at me, and, you know,
00:44:30I figured, you know, when opportunity knocked, I mean, hello, why not?
00:44:40Why not?
00:44:42Number three's out of focus.
00:44:43That operator's history.
00:44:44I want him off the stage now.
00:44:46Even without knowing your husband, I think we can safely assume
00:44:49he's a very understanding fellow.
00:44:51Let's say hi to Pete.
00:44:52Thanks for joining us, Pete.
00:45:00Now, before we go any further, I have to ask,
00:45:04it doesn't bother you seeing your wife take off her clothes in front of all those other men?
00:45:08She can go right ahead, you know.
00:45:10They can swab her all they want.
00:45:14Because they're just a bunch of hogs gathering at the trough.
00:45:16I can tell you, this old boy's the only one that ever gets the slop.
00:45:22Take that right now.
00:45:25Oh, and I thought romance was dead.
00:45:31Don't worry about it.
00:45:33Well, I guess you could say that Lana here was my birthday present.
00:45:36Ta-da!
00:45:37A bunch of boys got together, you know.
00:45:39They hired her to strip at your party.
00:45:42Uh, actually, it was, uh, a little bit more intimate than that.
00:45:51PJ!
00:45:53There's an idea for a show.
00:45:55Housewives who hook.
00:45:57Or have we already done that one?
00:46:00Yes.
00:46:03I've got something to say to Lana.
00:46:05How can you let him treat you like a piece of meat?
00:46:09You're just jealous!
00:46:10And you, Howard, I used to admire you, but now you're like all the rest.
00:46:16You demean women.
00:46:17You demean the human race.
00:46:19Damn, mark that comment right after piece of meat.
00:46:23We'll cut the rest in post.
00:46:24Be comfortable with her line of work, but...
00:46:27Some of our guests perform without their husband's knowledge.
00:46:32I just don't know how he's going to take it.
00:46:34Um, well, just, um, you know, relax.
00:46:39I'm sure it'll be fine once you get out there.
00:46:42Okay.
00:46:43When we come back, we'll answer the question,
00:46:46what happens when the unsuspecting hubby
00:46:48discovers that the little woman moonlights as a stripper?
00:46:51Ready, one.
00:46:52Ready, one.
00:46:54Ready, two.
00:46:54Ready, two.
00:46:56Ready, two.
00:46:58Let's give a nice hello to Shelly.
00:47:10You'll be great.
00:47:11Come on.
00:47:12Good luck.
00:47:12Hello, Shelly.
00:47:25Welcome to the Howard Grant Show.
00:47:26Now, you're a secretary?
00:47:30Well, it's during the day.
00:47:33I'm curious.
00:47:34How did you go from taking dictation in an office
00:47:36to taking your clothes off in a bar?
00:47:39Oh, wow.
00:47:40It's my surgery, really.
00:47:42Well, you know, it's like when you get a new car.
00:47:45It don't mean much if you can't, you know,
00:47:46show it off a little bit.
00:47:48So, when I got my new boobs,
00:47:50I just sort of wanted to share them.
00:47:57Never been on TV before.
00:48:01But your husband doesn't know.
00:48:03About my boobs?
00:48:04No.
00:48:05You know, about your stripping.
00:48:08Oh, no.
00:48:10No.
00:48:11I, uh, I wasn't sure how he was going to take it.
00:48:14Shall we find out?
00:48:16Yeah!
00:48:18We've had Shelly's husband in isolation backstage,
00:48:25but now we're going to ask him to join us.
00:48:26Ladies and gentlemen,
00:48:27let's give Bill a big round of applause.
00:48:29Yeah!
00:48:29Yeah!
00:48:30Yeah!
00:48:30Yeah!
00:48:30Okay.
00:48:31Yeah!
00:48:31Yeah!
00:48:31Yeah!
00:48:31Yeah!
00:48:31Okay.
00:48:31We're ready to take two.
00:48:40Ambush.
00:48:41Ambush!
00:48:42Here's outlaws up that canyon, cowboy!
00:48:44That's it, Tex.
00:48:45You're on it.
00:48:46Welcome to the Howard Grant show.
00:48:48Move!
00:48:48No, we've asked you here
00:48:49because your wife has a secret
00:48:50that she wants to share with you.
00:48:52Any idea what it is?
00:48:54Do you share?
00:48:56I don't know.
00:48:58I'll give you a hint.
00:49:00Shelly's been moonlighting lately
00:49:01to bring in a little extra cash.
00:49:02Doesn't she?
00:49:04Yep.
00:49:05She's been, uh,
00:49:06waitressing.
00:49:07Pays good.
00:49:09Pays good, too.
00:49:11That's what she's been telling you.
00:49:13How would you like to know
00:49:14what she's really been doing?
00:49:19I don't get it.
00:49:22Why don't we let her show you?
00:49:23Maestro?
00:49:23Maestro!
00:49:25Maestro!
00:49:25Maestro!
00:49:31Maestro!
00:49:35Maestro!
00:49:37Maestro!
00:49:38Maestro!
00:49:38Maestro!
00:49:38Maestro!
00:49:39Maestro!
00:49:40Maestro!
00:49:41Maestro!
00:49:41Maestro!
00:49:41Maestro!
00:49:42Maestro!
00:49:43One, two, three, four.
00:50:13You're not supposed to do that.
00:50:24That's right.
00:50:26Come on, wait a second.
00:50:34This is great.
00:50:36This is what it talks all about.
00:50:38If Howard leads on stage, I will personally murder him.
00:50:43Oh, I told you we had some new rainbows.
00:50:49Camera four, move right in there. Get Howard.
00:51:03Hey, so what are you gonna do with the money?
00:51:08What money?
00:51:09Well, didn't you know?
00:51:10There's a $500 bonus for any on-the-air fights.
00:51:13Keep up the good work and even Sadie will have to start watching her back.
00:51:17Hi.
00:51:18A terrific show.
00:51:20Well, no rest for the wicked.
00:51:25Congratulations.
00:51:28You won Madden's heart.
00:51:31I know it's a very small prize, but it matters.
00:51:38It's gotten to you, hasn't it?
00:51:43You feel what?
00:51:45Unclean?
00:51:48This just isn't what I came here to do.
00:51:50Hmm.
00:51:52You know what your trouble is?
00:51:53You're an idealist.
00:51:54You think that you can do shows to improve people's lives, but you can't.
00:51:58There's no audience for it.
00:52:02Everything in talk is entertainment.
00:52:05Everybody in the business is a whore.
00:52:08But there's a bright side.
00:52:11We're highly paid whores.
00:52:13Dianne.
00:52:14It's wow.
00:52:15I just wanted to remind you about Daddy's birthday.
00:52:16Now, the party's at two, so why don't you call and surprise them when everyone's here, okay?
00:52:30We love you. Bye.
00:52:32Dianne, it's wow.
00:52:34I just wanted to remind you about Daddy's birthday.
00:52:36Now, the party's at two, so why don't you call and surprise them when everyone's here, okay?
00:52:42We love you. Bye.
00:52:44Dianne, it's Jenny.
00:52:47Nothing special.
00:52:50I just felt like talking.
00:52:52I'll catch you at the office.
00:53:01Who is it?
00:53:02Dianne, it's Jimmy.
00:53:04Jimmy?
00:53:08Hi.
00:53:10I was just leaving my studio with you.
00:53:12It's Kelly. She's in jail.
00:53:18It was right after we left the apartment.
00:53:20Dwayne, he sees him coming, and he fades away like he was never there.
00:53:26I figured it was the usual roundup, you know?
00:53:30In and out in a couple of hours, but no.
00:53:33It was that cabbie.
00:53:35Could we get some help?
00:53:38Can somebody help us, please?
00:53:40Can't you get me out of here?
00:53:42I can't.
00:53:44It took me all day just to get in.
00:53:47Are you gonna be okay?
00:53:48Yeah, I feel great.
00:53:52I'm very sorry, Ann.
00:53:54I mean, I really wish there was something I could do for you.
00:53:57There is. You could get me out of here.
00:53:59Mom said you could get me out.
00:54:01I can't get you out.
00:54:03Kelly, if she said that, she just, she misunderstood, alright?
00:54:06I told her that I could propose a satellite remote.
00:54:09What?
00:54:11Well, I could interview you live in jail while talking to your family on the show, but then, you know, we could go in front of the judge and offer to put you in a treatment program, maybe instead of jail time.
00:54:24Yeah, well, what am I supposed to do in the meantime?
00:54:28I don't know.
00:54:30Hang in there, I guess. I don't know what to tell you.
00:54:38Look at this treatment program. They got methadone.
00:54:42I don't know.
00:54:44Forget it. I'm not gonna let you people play God with this girl.
00:54:48But we're not, we're not trying to play God.
00:54:49I'm due in court.
00:54:51Please just hear me out.
00:54:52Look, you wanna help this girl?
00:54:53Yes.
00:54:54Then don't humiliate her by putting her on TV.
00:54:56Let nature and the legal system take their course.
00:54:59Let her go cold turkey.
00:55:00Or give her something to think about next time she feels like sticking a needle in her arm.
00:55:03That's, that's just it. We wanna put her in a treatment program.
00:55:05Hey, look, what, do I look like some kind of idiot here?
00:55:07In a couple of days, the assistant DA is gonna show up and he's gonna say, Jack, what can we do?
00:55:11And I'm gonna say, Mike, the jails are overcrowded.
00:55:14And the only person this girl's ever hurt is herself.
00:55:16So why don't we do everybody a favor and we'll put her into a treatment program in lieu of jail.
00:55:20Great idea, he says. Nice talking to you.
00:55:22By then, she'll have gone cold turkey. Huh?
00:55:25She'll be off the stuff. She'll go in clean.
00:55:28Maybe even have some chance of going all the way.
00:55:30And she won't have the memory of going on TV and rubbing her face in her dirt.
00:55:34What are you gonna call this anyway? I was a teenage junkie.
00:55:46The satellite remotes, it's not happening.
00:55:48Why not?
00:55:49Well, we're public defenders against it and so is the jail.
00:55:52Fail her out.
00:55:53What? Wait a minute, Sadie, wouldn't that be crossing some sort of a line?
00:55:56You going soft on me?
00:55:58You crossed a line when you paid off her pimp.
00:56:00You crossed another line when you witnessed that carjacking.
00:56:03Now you're worried about fronting her bail?
00:56:06I know. It's just that I don't know...
00:56:07I am.
00:56:08If you look at it with a clear head, you'll see that there really aren't any lines.
00:56:11Just frontiers.
00:56:12You want to succeed and talk, you got to keep pushing them back.
00:56:15Bail her out.
00:56:16Okay. Okay, it's just that the court's closed now.
00:56:19Well, then tomorrow. And Diane?
00:56:21Yeah?
00:56:22Yeah?
00:56:23You haven't forgotten about the station manager's party yet.
00:56:32I've always prided myself on being in touch.
00:56:34But the landscape of talk is changing.
00:56:36You can bet the Howard Grant show's gonna change, too.
00:56:38Howard's logic.
00:56:39And the fact that his wings are...
00:56:40I'm telling you.
00:56:41I'm telling you.
00:56:42See, the Democrats get younger every day.
00:56:44They don't want Howard.
00:56:45They want Ricky.
00:56:46Or Howard's son.
00:56:47Yes.
00:56:48Well, you know, what you have to understand is that our owners are farmers.
00:56:53Farmers?
00:56:54We have big farmers.
00:56:56But they're still good old boys with good old-fashioned values.
00:56:59Tell me those old-fashioned values do include an appreciation at the bottom line.
00:57:03Yes, sir, they do.
00:57:05And that's my second point.
00:57:07Our big sponsors are getting cold feet and starting to pull out.
00:57:10Uh-huh.
00:57:11And for everyone that pulls out, there are two or three others standing in line, waiting to step in.
00:57:16Look, everything's always threatening to fall apart, but at the last minute, you managed to pull it out of the toilet.
00:57:21It's a constant rush.
00:57:22I can't wait until I become a producer.
00:57:24The critics can say what they want, but we're dealing with stuff the average Joe cares about.
00:57:28Bosnia, the bomb market, they don't care about that stuff.
00:57:30They care about the stuff that impacts them.
00:57:32The stuff talk deals with.
00:57:34And Sadie, she's tough, but you know what?
00:57:37You gotta be.
00:57:38And she cares, too.
00:57:39When she saw that thing upset Jenny the other day, she took care of her.
00:57:42I tell you, I'm right where I want to be.
00:57:43Right in the...
00:57:44Jimmy, I'm sorry.
00:57:45Can you excuse me?
00:57:46I just want to go talk to Jenny for a minute.
00:57:50Jenny!
00:57:51Oh, I'm not even cute.
00:57:52I'm sorry.
00:57:53Hi.
00:57:54Oh, don't be.
00:57:55I'm grateful.
00:57:56You're grateful?
00:57:57Yes.
00:57:58For the opportunity to meet such a lovely young woman.
00:58:00I'm our callsmith.
00:58:01Diane Shepard.
00:58:02Oh, you're Diane.
00:58:03Oh, I understand Sadie has great hopes for you.
00:58:06Oh, no.
00:58:07I mean, I'm new.
00:58:08I'm just, I'm sort of feeling my way through, you know.
00:58:10Well, we're soulmate.
00:58:11How many?
00:58:12Oh, no.
00:58:13I mean, you're a lawyer.
00:58:14I mean, you don't go through the...
00:58:15Oh.
00:58:16Diane, have we been spying on you?
00:58:18No.
00:58:19No, I just...
00:58:20Well, of course, I know who you are.
00:58:21I mean, I know about the case that you wanted.
00:58:23Okay.
00:58:24I just, I know about you and Sadie.
00:58:27Ah.
00:58:28And you have been spying on me.
00:58:29No.
00:58:30No, no.
00:58:31It's okay.
00:58:32Because we're soulmates, I forgive you.
00:58:33You know, I think you and I should get together.
00:58:36For dinner.
00:58:37Then you could tell me all about yourself.
00:58:38I could tell you all about myself.
00:58:40And then you could give up your career as a spy.
00:58:42That's sweet.
00:58:43I don't think Sadie would like that.
00:58:45Sadie doesn't have to know.
00:58:47Oh, now I couldn't do that, Mar.
00:58:48Oh, for sure you could.
00:58:49You know, people do it all the time.
00:58:51Mar.
00:58:52Sadie!
00:58:53We have to talk.
00:58:55You'll excuse me, won't you?
00:58:56Oh, yes.
00:58:58Ladies and gentlemen.
00:58:59Thank you, Jim.
00:59:02We've got a little program planned,
00:59:03so if you'll gather around the monitors, we'll get started.
00:59:08Maestro?
00:59:09If you will.
00:59:10Where's Sadie?
00:59:11Oh, I'm not sure I just...
00:59:13Find her.
00:59:14She's up right after the clips.
00:59:16For 15 years now, America has trusted Howard Rand
00:59:19to bring in the most compelling programming in talk TV.
00:59:22Whether the issue is race or relationship.
00:59:26You can't talk yourself out of this.
00:59:28Sadie?
00:59:29Don't you think you're overreacting?
00:59:31I had to stand there and listen politely
00:59:34while that tramp bragged about sleeping with you.
00:59:36It meant nothing, all right?
00:59:37It was just sex.
00:59:39How many of these sweet little nothings have you got, Mark?
00:59:42A station manager here?
00:59:43A legal secretary there?
00:59:44Sadie, I'm telling you.
00:59:45No.
00:59:46I am telling you, Mark.
00:59:48You can forget about us if there ever wasn't us.
00:59:51And you can forget about the show, too.
00:59:54Because as of this moment, you are history.
00:59:57You know, you were always history, Sadie.
01:00:01Old.
01:00:02Dusty.
01:00:03Dog.
01:00:04While runners have watched their ratings
01:00:05in the course of the last few years,
01:00:07Howard ratings among women, 18 to 49,
01:00:10have actually risen during the same period of time.
01:00:13A Howard Grant show.
01:00:15It simply doesn't get any better than this.
01:00:17I'm all right.
01:00:18I'm all right.
01:00:19Howard Grant.
01:00:20All right with America.
01:00:27She was saved in jail.
01:00:28From a pimp, from a habit, from herself.
01:00:30Now, you just spent $8,000 to put her at risk again.
01:00:32No, no, no, no.
01:00:33I promise you, she's gonna be safe with us.
01:00:34We're gonna place her to jail.
01:00:35You're gonna place her back in the same hell she just left.
01:00:37Now, that is not bail money.
01:00:38That is blood money.
01:00:50What's this?
01:00:51It's my apartment.
01:00:52The show usually provides the guests in the hotel room.
01:00:53I thought you'd be more comfortable here.
01:00:54What's the matter?
01:00:55You figure I'm gonna run off or something?
01:00:56Look, they told me to keep an eye on you, okay?
01:00:57I could've put you in a hotel room with a bodyguard, all right?
01:00:58Whatever.
01:00:59Ah!
01:01:00Ah!
01:01:01Ah!
01:01:02Nice place.
01:01:03What's this?
01:01:04It's my apartment.
01:01:05The show usually provides the guests in the hotel room.
01:01:06I thought you'd be more comfortable here.
01:01:08What's the matter?
01:01:09You figure I'm gonna run off or something?
01:01:12Look, they told me to keep an eye on you, okay?
01:01:13I could've put you in a hotel room with a bodyguard, all right?
01:01:15Whatever.
01:01:18Ah!
01:01:25Ah!
01:01:26Nice place.
01:01:30Oh, um, thanks.
01:01:32It's, uh, just a subway.
01:01:35Um, listen, make yourself at home, okay?
01:01:38I just, I gotta make a phone call.
01:01:48Happy birthday, Daddy!
01:01:51Oh, yeah, I know.
01:01:52I'm sorry.
01:01:52I missed your party.
01:01:55You what?
01:01:56Oh, I don't believe it.
01:01:59In front of everybody, I can't believe I missed that.
01:02:03Oh, that is so embarrassing.
01:02:08Um, you know what?
01:02:09I have someone here, so I just want to wish you a happy birthday
01:02:12and tell you that I love you very, very much.
01:02:15Yes.
01:02:16Yes, I'll be careful.
01:02:18Yeah.
01:02:19I love you, too.
01:02:20Bye.
01:02:23He sounds like a nice guy or something.
01:02:24Yeah.
01:02:26Yeah, he is.
01:02:27Yeah, well, I don't believe in nice guys.
01:02:30I never met one that didn't want something.
01:02:34You know, not everybody is out for themselves.
01:02:37Yeah?
01:02:38Yeah, well, what about you?
01:02:39Huh?
01:02:39You're being all nicey-nice, but it isn't real.
01:02:44You just want something.
01:02:47You're just like those Johns that tell me how pretty I am
01:02:51and wonder what a girl like me is doing out on the street.
01:02:53No, I mean, yeah, I want you on the show,
01:02:56but I also care about what happens to you.
01:02:58No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:02:59Everybody's the same, all right?
01:03:01I go on the show tomorrow.
01:03:03I do my little act.
01:03:04Your boss pats you on the back, and it's on to the next one.
01:03:08Goodbye, Kelly.
01:03:09Hello, whoever.
01:03:10You got something to eat.
01:03:17I'm starving.
01:03:21Man, it's always like this when I come down.
01:03:23I can never get enough to eat.
01:03:26So you've been clean before?
01:03:30When I was pregnant, I went cold turkey.
01:03:34I didn't want my kid born a junkie.
01:03:38You seen her picture?
01:03:40Yeah.
01:03:43She's cute, isn't she?
01:03:46She's beautiful.
01:03:52So, um, why, uh, why did you go back to the drugs?
01:04:00I mean, how could you let your little girl go like that?
01:04:05What was I going to do for her?
01:04:08You know, me.
01:04:10I'm not a junkie.
01:04:13No job.
01:04:15No education.
01:04:17No home.
01:04:18What was I going to do for her?
01:04:21It doesn't have to be that way.
01:04:23Yes, it does.
01:04:25It does have to be that way.
01:04:26No, it doesn't.
01:04:27You could help yourself.
01:04:29You could go to a treatment program.
01:04:31You could go to school.
01:04:31Hey, what do you know about it?
01:04:32You've never had that needle in your arm.
01:04:36We're sitting here talking about my kid.
01:04:40My child, all right?
01:04:41And what am I thinking about?
01:04:43I'm thinking about that needle.
01:04:46I'm thinking about how just a spoonful of that white sugar would make all of this go away.
01:04:51See, I don't want to care.
01:04:55I don't want to care about anything.
01:04:58But you do.
01:05:02I know that you do.
01:05:03So do I.
01:05:17Hello.
01:05:18Have you suffered brain death?
01:05:20Of course we're going ahead.
01:05:21I am not suggesting that we should.
01:05:23I'm just saying that she seems a little fragile.
01:05:25You know, I'm concerned about what could happen to her afterwards.
01:05:27She's going into a rehab program.
01:05:29Or she could end up back on the streets.
01:05:30That's exactly where you found her.
01:05:32Look, the bottom line, I don't care what happens to her.
01:05:36And neither should you.
01:05:37You book them, interview them, get rid of them.
01:05:39Bing, bang, boom.
01:05:48Jenny?
01:05:49Jenny, hi.
01:05:50Wait a second.
01:05:51I've been really worried about you, you know?
01:05:54I'm fine.
01:05:55Oh, I...
01:05:57I just, I've been feeling like I let you down the other day.
01:05:59I'm fine, really.
01:06:01See, he was right.
01:06:02It was bound to happen anyways.
01:06:04It's just a mistake to get so emotionally involved.
01:06:09I've got to run.
01:06:10I'll catch you later, okay?
01:06:13So I said to him,
01:06:14Ted, don't you have any pride?
01:06:16How could you ride my shirt tails like this?
01:06:20Now, where's the kid, Diane?
01:06:22I don't see any sign of her here.
01:06:24Right, um, I told you the record was sealed.
01:06:27And I told you there was a way around that.
01:06:30Look, Sadie, I thought about it,
01:06:31and I really don't think we should subject Kelly to that kind of emotion.
01:06:34I have already briefed Howard on this one.
01:06:36Uh, could we read through it?
01:06:37As many of you know,
01:06:41I have for years
01:06:42tried to focus attention
01:06:44on the plague of drugs
01:06:45devastating the youth of our nation.
01:06:48It is a plague with many symptoms.
01:06:51AIDS,
01:06:52violent crime,
01:06:53prostitution.
01:06:54Pick up the pace, Howard,
01:06:55and, uh,
01:06:56give me a pause before prostitution.
01:06:58As many of you know,
01:07:03I have for years
01:07:04tried to focus attention
01:07:05on the plague of drugs
01:07:06devastating the youth.
01:07:07Oh, that's all!
01:07:11Hi.
01:07:12You all right?
01:07:13You got any more of those candy bars?
01:07:16All right, I'll talk to Jimmy.
01:07:19You sure you're up to this?
01:07:21What kind of question is that?
01:07:23Like, I'm gonna back out now?
01:07:25Then what?
01:07:26Go back to jail?
01:07:27Well, I'm cool.
01:07:30You just, uh,
01:07:30take care of those candy bars, all right?
01:07:37As many of you know,
01:07:38I have for years now
01:07:39tried to focus attention
01:07:40on the plague of drugs
01:07:41devastating the youth of our nation.
01:07:44It is a plague with many symptoms.
01:07:47AIDS,
01:07:49violent crime,
01:07:52prostitution.
01:07:53In fact,
01:07:54a shockingly high percentage
01:07:56of the prostitutes on our street
01:07:57are there simply to feed their habit.
01:08:01Not long ago,
01:08:01the mother of one such girl
01:08:02wrote me a letter.
01:08:07Dear Howard,
01:08:08I'm writing to you because
01:08:11I don't know where else to turn.
01:08:14Every day,
01:08:16my daughter breaks my heart.
01:08:19She's only 19,
01:08:22but her life is already over.
01:08:23She is a drug-addicted prostitute
01:08:27and the mother of a two-year-old girl.
01:08:29Like so many of our young people today,
01:08:31Kelly started out
01:08:32with the world all before her.
01:08:34Then heroin changed her life.
01:08:36Did you shoot up
01:08:37before this interview?
01:08:38Good stuff, Kelly.
01:08:40Why, Kelly?
01:08:41Look around you.
01:08:44Kelly flies her trade
01:08:45from a corner of the Bronx.
01:08:47Hey, baby,
01:08:47you looking for some company?
01:08:48She feeds her habit here
01:08:49at a nearby crack house.
01:08:51What do you mean?
01:08:53Whatever else,
01:08:54you ain't got to kill her.
01:08:55She has been beaten,
01:08:56intimidated, raped,
01:08:58but nothing slakes her thirst.
01:08:59Nothing keeps her from coming back.
01:09:01Kelly and her boyfriend,
01:09:03Duane,
01:09:03have come home
01:09:04not to see her family,
01:09:05but to scavenge money for drugs.
01:09:06Oh, yeah?
01:09:07Well, how about you?
01:09:08Whose house did she come to
01:09:09to shoot up?
01:09:10Well, where was she gonna go?
01:09:11To you and one of your boyfriends?
01:09:12What?
01:09:13Why are you here now?
01:09:17I needed some money.
01:09:18Your family gives you money for drugs.
01:09:21Oh, I take it.
01:09:23How do you feel about that?
01:09:27What about prostitution?
01:09:29How does that make you feel?
01:09:34Do you ever feel...
01:09:35Why do you keep on asking me
01:09:37how I feel?
01:09:40I don't...
01:09:41I...
01:09:42I don't feel anything.
01:09:46I...
01:09:46You talk to these girls
01:09:49with such understanding
01:09:50and you treat them
01:09:51like human beings
01:09:53instead of garbage
01:09:55that belongs in the gutter.
01:09:57So I know...
01:10:00You will hear me too.
01:10:01Please, Howard.
01:10:05Please, Howard.
01:10:08Help me save my daughter.
01:10:11Help me stop the pain.
01:10:13Ladies and gentlemen,
01:10:28I'd like you to meet Kelly.
01:10:30Kelly, after seeing yourself like that,
01:10:42how does it make you feel?
01:10:46Ashamed.
01:10:49But you're drug-free now.
01:10:52Yes.
01:10:53How did she get started?
01:11:02How did you get started?
01:11:06Um...
01:11:06I knew this girl at school
01:11:09and, um...
01:11:13It was a real rush at first, you know?
01:11:17But now it's not.
01:11:19It's work.
01:11:20It's hard work.
01:11:23You...
01:11:24lie.
01:11:25You cheat.
01:11:27You steal.
01:11:28You turn tricks.
01:11:29You do whatever.
01:11:31And you're gonna stay clean?
01:11:33I'm gonna try.
01:11:41When we come back,
01:11:42we'll talk with two people
01:11:43who are determined
01:11:44to help Kelly keep that vow.
01:11:46This girl is a goldmine
01:11:51and you wanted to give up our claim.
01:11:59Ladies and gentlemen,
01:12:00please welcome Jerry and Brenda.
01:12:02And welcome to the Howard Grant Show.
01:12:21What did you do
01:12:22to try to help Kelly?
01:12:25We tried to talk.
01:12:26We tried to get her
01:12:29into a treatment program,
01:12:30but...
01:12:32they even tried
01:12:33locking her in her room.
01:12:35She's a beautiful girl
01:12:37when she's clean,
01:12:38but, you know,
01:12:38when she's high,
01:12:39she steals.
01:12:41She steals from me
01:12:41and from Jerry
01:12:42and she brings
01:12:43these terrible people
01:12:44into our homes.
01:12:46Kelly,
01:12:46how does that make you feel
01:12:47knowing that you've put
01:12:48your family through that?
01:12:49like garbage.
01:12:53When you're high,
01:12:54you just don't care.
01:12:56But I can.
01:12:59I just don't care about you.
01:13:06You have a child.
01:13:09She's in foster care,
01:13:11but she's clean.
01:13:13I went off the stuff
01:13:14when I found out
01:13:15I was pregnant.
01:13:16You had her
01:13:18for two months
01:13:19and then
01:13:21you went back
01:13:22on the drugs again.
01:13:24Yeah,
01:13:24but I loved her.
01:13:26I still love her.
01:13:27Of course you do, Kelly.
01:13:28I'm just trying
01:13:29to understand here.
01:13:30You think I like
01:13:31knowing that she
01:13:32called someone else mom?
01:13:36I just wasn't strong enough.
01:13:41I just wasn't strong enough.
01:13:46Kelly,
01:13:47would you like to see
01:13:48Joey?
01:13:49Would you like to see
01:13:49your little girl again?
01:13:51Ladies and gentlemen,
01:13:53we've arranged
01:13:53a little surprise
01:13:54for Kelly.
01:13:55Joey's adoptive parents
01:13:56have brought her here
01:13:57to see Kelly.
01:13:58So now,
01:13:58let's please welcome
01:13:59Lee athlete.
01:14:00What?
01:14:01Adoptive parents?
01:14:02These are fucking,
01:14:03two, three, three!
01:14:04What are you doing?
01:14:04What are you doing?
01:14:05Kelly!
01:14:05I don't know.
01:14:06I don't know.
01:14:08Kelly!
01:14:09I don't know.
01:14:09I don't know.
01:14:10I don't know.
01:14:10I don't know.
01:14:11I don't know.
01:14:11I don't know.
01:14:12I don't know.
01:14:12I don't know.
01:14:12I don't know.
01:14:13I don't know.
01:14:14Now, bear in mind, Joey doesn't know that Kelly is her biological mother.
01:14:21She's been told she's here to meet her aunt, so we're depending on your discretion, audience.
01:14:26At two, Joey is a bright, lively child with no sign of addiction.
01:14:32And now let's introduce Joey to Kelly.
01:14:35Kathleen?
01:14:44She isn't very good with strangers.
01:15:02She's probably just upset by the crowd.
01:15:05I'm sure in time, she'll come round.
01:15:08Unfortunately, we're out of time.
01:15:11But before we go, let me just say that what you have seen here today is a cautionary tale, but one that may yet end happily.
01:15:20Lee and Kathleen have told us that if Kelly stays clean and off the streets, they'll consider letting her visit Joey from time to time.
01:15:29Well, until tomorrow, goodbye, and God bless.
01:15:41Why wasn't I told?
01:15:45You were getting cold feet, so I put Jimmy on it.
01:15:48He's not hamstrung by scruple.
01:15:50Sadie, they're people, you know.
01:15:52They're not puppets.
01:15:53That is where you are wrong, Diane.
01:15:54They are nothing but puppets.
01:15:56Puppets jerked around by their pathetic desires.
01:15:58I gotta go check on them.
01:15:58Diane, break the show.
01:16:05When I grow up, I want to be just like you.
01:16:06Where's Kelly?
01:16:07You know that old saying and talk.
01:16:09In a limo out in a taxi, I sent her home.
01:16:11Oh, Kelly!
01:16:13Kelly!
01:16:18What happened?
01:16:19We, uh, we had words.
01:16:22She guessed it.
01:16:24That I agreed to the adoption.
01:16:25I didn't want you, but I couldn't take care of myself.
01:16:31Other pasta hoes were terrible.
01:16:32Okay, okay, just tell me, where did she go?
01:16:34You don't know.
01:16:35She just grabbed that taxi to see when the nice young man just hailed for it.
01:16:44Sure, I know, but I ain't seen her in a couple of weeks.
01:16:48Can I see?
01:16:50Can I see?
01:16:53See you, college girl.
01:16:54Hey!
01:16:55Kelly Lonigan.
01:17:04Look, I know she comes here all the time.
01:17:05You want information?
01:17:07I'll see you.
01:17:08You want relief?
01:17:09Come talk to me.
01:17:12Well, maybe...
01:17:13Maybe you can relieve my ignorance, huh?
01:17:16I'll see you now.
01:17:19I went off to the staff when I found that I was pregnant.
01:17:39And then, you went back on the drugs.
01:17:43Yeah, but I loved her.
01:17:45I still love her.
01:17:46Of course you do, Kelly.
01:17:47You're just trying to understand.
01:17:49You think I like knowing that she called someone else's mom?
01:17:52I just wasn't strong enough.
01:17:57I just wasn't strong enough.
01:18:02Would you like to see Joey?
01:18:04Would you like to see your little girl here?
01:18:10Ladies and gentlemen, we've arranged a little surprise for Kelly.
01:18:13Joey's adoptive parents have brought her here to see Kelly.
01:18:16What?
01:18:17Please welcome Lee, Kathleen, and...
01:18:20Sure.
01:18:21Now, bear in mind, Joey doesn't know that Kelly is her biological mother.
01:18:32She's been told she's here to meet her aunt, so we're depending on your discretion.
01:18:37Now, too, Joey is a bright, lively child with no sign of addiction.
01:18:43And now, let's introduce Joey to Kelly.
01:18:47Kathleen?
01:18:47Kathleen?
01:18:51She's not very good with strangers.
01:19:06She's probably just upset by the crowd.
01:19:09I'm sure in time, she'll come around.
01:19:12Unfortunately, we're out of time.
01:19:16Before we go, let me just say that's what you have seen.
01:19:21Hello?
01:19:31Yes, I ordered it.
01:19:32For the hallway, outside the stage.
01:19:34Does it look like it belongs in an office?
01:19:37Yeah, well, I am not interested in any regulations.
01:19:40I am interested in getting the damn thing out of my office.
01:19:42Diane, we just heard.
01:19:43I'm so sorry.
01:19:44Oh, he put me on hold.
01:19:45We did not kill that girl, Diane.
01:19:51I've heard the speech, Sadie.
01:19:53She killed herself.
01:19:55And she would have done it if she'd never heard of you or of the Howard Grant show.
01:19:59Maybe.
01:20:02We deal with people who are dysfunctional, and there is nothing that anyone can do for them,
01:20:09so let it go.
01:20:10I already have.
01:20:13I'm quitting.
01:20:18What?
01:20:19I'm quitting.
01:20:21I didn't hear that.
01:20:22I refuse to hear that.
01:20:23Well, I guess you'll just have to be surprised when I don't show up for work tomorrow.
01:20:27You want more money.
01:20:29I don't want any more money, Sadie.
01:20:32I just, I don't want any more.
01:20:37How much?
01:20:40Please, who is it?
01:20:44Geraldo, I'll double the offer.
01:20:47Jeffrey, I didn't expect you.
01:20:49Are we losing that girl?
01:20:50No, of course not.
01:20:51She's just negotiating.
01:20:52Like your ex-boyfriend.
01:20:55What's this?
01:20:55That's a $12 million lawsuit for wrongful termination.
01:21:01He couldn't possibly help, not Sadie, for your sake.
01:21:05Because I'm not prepared to pay $12 million for an executive producer.
01:21:10All right.
01:21:10All right.
01:21:11All right.
01:21:15All right.
01:21:16All right.
01:21:16You're on behalf of God.
01:21:19I'm going back to news, it's where I started and it's where I belong.
01:21:46But you're doing such wonderful work with Howard. We'll never forget what you did for us and for Kelly.
01:21:53Never. You and Howard were the only ones who cared.
01:21:57You were the only ones that even noticed that she loved us.
01:22:01You spoke with Howard?
01:22:03Yes, he called to offer his condolences and he invited us to join him on the show again.
01:22:11He said, maybe we could help some other girl in Kelly's situation.
01:22:18I'm so sorry you won't be there.
01:22:36You've treated Kelly like a human being.
01:23:06Dwayne under control.
01:23:19Brenda, thanks for coming.
01:23:20Oh yeah, I've got Jimmy watching.
01:23:21I am so very, very sorry.
01:23:26Before we begin, I'd like to share something with you.
01:23:33You see, the reason I feel so deeply about Kelly's fate is that I nearly lost my son Ted to drugs some years ago.
01:23:45What is he doing?
01:23:47Like...
01:23:48I believe it's called ad libid.
01:23:49...so many other parents, my wife and I ignored the early warning signs, rationalizing...
01:23:53What is that going to do to Ted?
01:23:56Who cares?
01:23:58It's great theater.
01:24:01After all, it's a teenager's job to be...
01:24:03Why?
01:24:04It doesn't get any better than this.
01:24:06Mm-mm.
01:24:07...and secretive.
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