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American Classic - Season 1 - Episode 05: Schicklgruber
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00:16Previously on American Classic
00:19I'm producing and directing Thornton Wilder's Our Town
00:22We do not have the money for original productions
00:25What would it take to finance this whole endeavor myself?
00:28A miracle?
00:30You are an artist and you need your own restaurant
00:32You come to see me and I will make this happen
00:34Polly's going to oversee the whole design
00:36Mom wants me to go to Penn
00:38What do you want?
00:39I want to act
00:39Holy shit, you got into Penn
00:41Do not tell my mom, okay?
00:43It's been dream of life to see Paris in France
00:47I much would it cost to put her into the show
00:49Can we just keep this between the two of us?
01:01Hello
01:02Hi
01:02Nadia
01:03Pat
01:04Pat
01:05Nice to meet you
01:06Hi
01:07Nadia
01:07Pat
01:08Pat
01:08Pat and Pat
01:10Yes
01:10Do it
01:11Do it
01:11Talk soon
01:12You gave him your phone number?
01:13You bet
01:14No
01:16What is this?
01:19Oh John
01:22This is Hugo, my right hand
01:24Yes, the one who doesn't always know what the left hand is doing
01:28Richard, the proper espresso machine arrives tomorrow
01:31Bigger one
01:32And it will need to be plumbed in
01:33Okay, not a problem
01:35Whatever that is
01:36We can afford it
01:37We can afford artisans of every stripe
01:39Painters, carpenters
01:40I told Kristen it was only a phone call away
01:43Who's paying for this?
01:44Oh, this is a
01:45This is a result of a very delicate back channel operation with the Nederlanders
01:52I'm sorry, which Nederlanders are we talking about?
01:55Richard, be in a meeting your dad
01:57He's like old you
01:58Hello
02:00Yes, he went that way after all
02:02He's got hidden resources
02:03Yes
02:07Our town
02:09What is it?
02:12It's
02:13Randall?
02:14It's a play
02:15Exactly
02:16It's a play
02:18Set in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire
02:21At the turn of the last century
02:23It is a moving portrait of what it means to be human
02:32Now traditionally productions adhere to the first stage direction in the text
02:36No curtains, no scenery, no, the audience arrives and sees an empty stage
02:43Well that, my friends, is the past
02:49I have a vision for another town, I see it as full of sensuous detail
03:01Richard Bean, are these people in this photo naked?
03:06What?
03:07What?
03:08No, no, they're not naked
03:09What the?
03:11Hugo?
03:12It's sex workers in a bordello in Boston 1905
03:16So you will ask us, maybe all to be naked
03:19No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
03:21called uh mood boards because you are great artist richard bean i will be naked for this art now who
03:28is with me no one is naked in my vision no but what i do see are sunflowers and heliotropes
03:40and
03:40mud real mud in the cemetery i see a real working soda fountain i see a horse i see real
03:48rain
03:50yes is this rehearsal deal going to be during the daytime hugo uh yes 10 till 6. yeah i can't
03:58quit my job for play practice what i can't quit my job for play practice but i would remind you
04:05that
04:05you're going to be paid for it uh hugo what is the current uh broadway minimum just now it's
04:12two thousand four hundred and thirty nine us dollars per week look that's what you'll be paid
04:19this is the magic ball what makes it magic is that you can only speak when you hold it in
04:28your hand
04:29you will tell us your name the role that you play in the show your astrological sign and um
04:39something about you and something about me no no something about them selves and something something
04:46about yourself so i have the ball so i might as well begin richard bean
04:53i am the director i am a scorpio i've been praised as an actor my whole life but i really
05:01just consider
05:02myself a humble storyteller
05:08i'm pat patterson i play mrs webb i'm an aries people see me as kind of maybe buttoned up but
05:17inside i'm this massive romantic i'm also pat patterson um i play her husband and i'm her real
05:28husband and i'm a cancer you're actually a leo july is cancer i was born in july you were born
05:35on the
05:35cusp you're leo fine i'm a leo but if you ask me all this astrology it's just a bunch of
05:40bull crap
05:40pardon my french you're really married not fake married you know intimately and uh somewhat
05:47passive aggressively and meshed i'm dr derek seal i play dot gibbs and um i'm a leo i'm recently divorced
05:58my daughter said i should do something so i'm doing this
06:04oh i don't have the ball sorry yes and i also don't have the ball
06:11hi uh i'm miranda bean i play emily uh i'm a gemini i'm an actor and a singer and newly
06:20vegetarian
06:21uh i'm a gemini too we're twins excuse me dude you don't have the ball either randall chill
06:28i'm chill he doesn't have the ball jesus um heath heath mccardo
06:37uh george emily's love interest jim and i has we already said before and i uh i have my equity
06:45card
06:46what's an equity card um i'm randall potts i play wally webb who's like 11 years old and dead for
06:56most of
06:56play so whatever um but i am miranda's real life a lot of interest because i'm her boyfriend and i
07:05am
07:05a sagittarius so i'm also creative and a warrior take fast
07:11oh
07:12Oh, my God.
07:14Oh, my God.
07:14All right, all right.
07:16All right, all right.
07:16All right, all right.
07:16All right, in town.
07:18Oh, my God.
07:19Are you OK?
07:20That's all right.
07:22What are you doing?
07:24Oh, no.
07:26Pitch his nose.
07:27Pitch his nose.
07:29Now that the bleeding has stopped, let's read the play.
07:34Hugo will read the stage directions.
07:37Our Town.
07:38Act One.
07:39No curtain.
07:40No seam.
07:41Oh, lots of scenery.
07:44This is the first act.
07:49I boshed and ironed the blue gingham for you special.
07:56Gingham.
07:57Gingham.
07:59Gingham.
08:00Gingham.
08:02Gingham.
08:04Gingham.
08:04Gingham.
08:05Perfect.
08:13Great work.
08:14Yeah!
08:17Mother Gibbs.
08:18It's George.
08:21Chh!
08:21Dear, just rest yourself.
08:24Mother Gibbs?
08:25Yes?
08:26Emily?
08:28they don't understand do they no dear they don't understand oh take a break wonderful work give
08:43them a 10 yeah take 10 minutes everyone yeah just 10 minutes thanks dad is doing unbelievable work
08:49and miranda's gonna be a better emily than you yeah you should come and join in maybe come on monday
08:58and join our circle of truth you know something i don't miss theater games i honestly can't think
09:06of anything i'd rather do less so this is the temple of art who do i give my my cabaret
09:18seat
09:18oh uh oh there he is hi polly good to see you go hi thank you for doing this uh
09:26this is uh this is
09:29polly kristen oh my god this is the famous kristen it's very nice to to finally meet you i've i've
09:41of
09:41course i'm a big fan and i can't wait to see what you what you do with richard's vision oh
09:46let me too
09:47thank you no thank you darling oh can i just just a you are gorgeous and b you don't know
09:57what it
09:58means to me to meet another person who has had to live with this man did he ever steal your
10:04concealer
10:05borrowed never stole oh come on but you're not you're not to be trusted around reflective surfaces
10:12are you no no are you darling papa says you spend hours in the bathroom my son is an actor
10:19his face
10:20is important to him it's important to many why don't we change the subject from me to well the play
10:26for instance yes let's move on from my big brother's eccentricities and just take a moment you're good
10:33i'm gonna take a moment to marvel at the fact that he has managed to secure a blank check from
10:40the
10:41niederlanders the niederlanders yes and it's not just for the play he is spreading money all over
10:48this town like like fairy dust the niederlanders yes they're backing our town you have to admit that's
10:56pretty incredible incredible yes because i was with james niederlander at the jimmy awards last week
11:03and he told me that you called and asked him to invest and he told you that he was just
11:08dying to get
11:09into bed with a raging psychopath didn't you darling yes that was the general thrust of what
11:15listen i didn't want to bring this up i didn't want to make it all about me but i've decided
11:20to
11:20pay for the production myself but with what i mean no i don't mean to sound bleak pet but
11:29you have no money i mean at least that's what you claimed when we got divorced don't forget i i
11:34have it was the art collection i have the years wasn't it richard i believe he got that in the
11:39settlement you sold our art collection so the whole art collection darling no don't be silly i only sold
11:46uh the uh the uh shickle gruber the shickle gruber wait which one was that the shickle gruber was the
11:54big the big moody dark doctor crazy crazy crazy expressionistic ish um yeah it was uh i sold it to
12:06a
12:08very moody uh japanese uh business man from uh japan somewhere yeah for a very good price
12:18shickle gruber is adolf hitler's family name no no relation no no no these um these shickle grubers
12:27were from lichtenstein yeah the lichtensteinian shickle grubers i don't remember the shickle gruber
12:33oh darling since it was in storage most of the time because they did it troubled people you would
12:39have hated it i come seeking refuge put me to work you here can juice these lemons and oranges
12:55sure you know it's funny even my whole family beating up on me all at once i i'm happier now
13:01than i've been in years here
13:06try these they're very hot glamorous peas
13:17the hell good good they're um magnificent
13:25you make perfect food little brother here's a question for you
13:32would you consider coming back here i am back here no no i i mean
13:41i mean staying in millersburg the running the theater yeah you might want to run that idea by
13:47kristen first she sees what you're pulling off you know you've got the talent and uh you clearly have
13:54some resources now and well you know you gotta make a success out of this show i know that and
14:01if things
14:01go back to how they were i mean not a dinner theater a lot of things become possible for everybody
14:09like what
14:13boil
14:15has offered to build a restaurant
14:17for me in the casino for me the chef oh i see you know making real money yeah making the
14:24food i want
14:25to make and that would be incredible right you know miranda she goes to college in the fall and that
14:31we got a little bit put away but you know four years that's a massive whack and i just i
14:37want to
14:37give her every opportunity and i mean i'm not saying i take boil up on the deal i just i
14:43know you don't
14:44trust him you're always saying how he's buying up all these properties he's he's feasting on people's
14:49broken dreams i mean you talk about him like he's satan yes exactly satan you know he offers you what
14:55you want but he always wants something in return usually it's your soul that's not a good thing
15:00maybe a time when you and the devil want sort of the same thing and so in that case it
15:06might be all
15:06right then so you're saying the devil wants you in hell but you don't mind being in hell because there's
15:14this fabulous restaurant in hell and you are the head chef we're not getting any younger uh i would say
15:24go for it that makes a lot of sense carpe diem carpe diem how many of these are
15:32come on here let me do this uh just you know like this you make it look so easy
15:42good of you to have the x over oh you know i must say this is kind of my weird
15:50confession
15:52i always wondered if i'd like you
15:56well the the reviews are mixed no but i i do i mean i i really do and you were
16:04always you were always
16:05so good to miranda when she was in the city she'd come back just you know full of all the
16:10wonderful
16:10times you had and you know i must say i i hope it's okay i say this but you know
16:17i was i was surprised
16:18when i heard that you and richard were getting divorced
16:22well i am yeah i guess i just don't like playing second fiddle
16:27yeah i know the career the fans the mirror
16:40no no darling i was i was fine with all of that second fiddle to you
16:49you were the great love of his life
16:53that was just someone to drink with
17:01speaking of which
17:04i forgot my bottle
17:23yeah
17:24yeah
17:25no
17:26no i don't want him
17:28ah he's a total gobshite yeah never liked him catch you there bye bye
17:34thank thank you for seeing me mr boyle connor and it is a treat to have you here
17:39so uh how's our resident genius this fine day oh he's well he's well you know the show looks
17:45terrific oh i'm not talking about your brother mate i'm talking about you oh hey oh thanks i'm
17:53i'm good thank you thank you um so i um
18:00i've been thinking about your uh restaurant proposal and i would love
18:06i guess to uh
18:09move forward
18:12you guess
18:14you guess
18:16no geniuses don't guess
18:18i mean your your brother is gifted but what you do with food is of far greater value than what
18:25he does play and make believe all day long you know people are going to spend a lot of money
18:30eating the food that you make listen can i offer you a wee nip well it's a little early to
18:35so
18:36i mean all i'm saying is
18:40i'm all in so i've got investors who want to meet you wait investors yeah so we're going to drive
18:45down
18:45to atlantic city tomorrow after lunch you know you fix them a meal they fall in love write big checks
18:50we're at the crap tables by 10 shit face by midnight what do you think i should call richard
18:57because you know i'm doing company management you know what your brother's grand but he's all about
19:02richard which is all right and do you know how i know that john is because i'm all about me
19:11now what we need to do is to make you a little bit more about yourself
19:22well i guess i could do that but i mean i can do that
19:29i'm in good luck
19:33i do love craps
19:38this is the circle of truth as the stage manager says people in our town want to know the facts
19:48about
19:48everyone since our play is about people living together on this earth given the brief amount of
19:55time that we have here i thought it would be good to learn some truths about each other i would
20:05stress that anything that is said in the circle of truth stays in the circle of truth okay so who
20:16wants
20:16to start to start i'll go this probably won't come as a surprise for some of you here but i
20:26want to
20:26move to new york i want to be an actor uh you can uh you can stay in my alcove
20:32studio in brooklyn
20:33yeah dude i'm pretty sure it's not your turn right now
20:37the thing is my mom doesn't want me to be an actor she wants me to go to college and
20:44i just got in i got accepted congratulations but my mom doesn't know about it and she also
20:52doesn't know that i'm going to turn it down interesting yes so now that we're playing husband
21:02and wife i really feel that we're complete opposites on almost every level we're fine i never said we
21:12weren't fine i said we're different people can i fire myself i mean can i play another character in
21:16the play here it comes i mean one where i'm not married to her the the choir director that kills
21:21himself yeah well if we're picking parts i want that guy to play my husband oh my god
21:31oh my god i just feel totally completely alone wow thank you this is great this is marriage
21:42kenny has something to say kenny uh this is crazy i think i'm kind of afraid of dying but aren't
21:54you
21:54like the undertaker i know it makes no sense but being around so much death and now working on this
22:02play just makes me extra aware that time is running out this is fucking depressing yes isn't it
22:14i want to speak from the heart go ahead
22:19i am a gay man i was always a gay man
22:27oh boy this is harder than i thought it doesn't have to be a track casters are fine most of
22:36the actors
22:36love pushing things on if i do improve and make a big change
22:44would you be i mean could you be i am now i always have been well i love her but
22:53she's not a horse
22:55oh no no she's a pony we couldn't fit a real horse in the wings could we oh
23:03hey has anyone seen my backpack no
23:14and oats miranda oh thank you i was sitting on it nice listen did you uh say no to pen
23:23not yet
23:24i'm not crazy am i no you want to be an actress so i made a couple of calls and
23:32um there's an
23:33internship if you're interested at mcc in the fall so it's not the lead in a broadway play but it's
23:39working in the theater in new york so it's a start you know thank you so much i'd love it
23:47my pleasure
23:47thank you you're very welcome okay okay
24:02good on you johnny you're gonna win time i'm excited
24:11well so let's do an exercise forget about the lines you're just mrs gibbs uh turn of the century
24:18wife of the town doctor um and um we're just going to chat okay all right so good morning how
24:30are you
24:30mrs gibbs how are you hello hi you guy
24:37yeah what did you do this morning
24:43i i wake up okay now remember you're a real person yeah you do real things chores any chores be
24:52specific details are important i wash it and ironed the flag you what i'm washing the flag and i'm
25:03ironing the stars and the stripes so they lying perfectly straight i see okay uh
25:15one last question would you say you're a happy person oh yeah yeah i'm a happy american woman
25:25one lady girl woman and i'm wearing ginnom ginnom yes been working on that one
25:44mr bean hello where am i atlantic city who who is it mel your driver wait just a second
26:00i'm so sorry i overslept is mr boyle ready to go no bother he left hours ago well but he
26:06uh he
26:07wasn't as wasted as he were what time is it uh 2 35 in the afternoon jesus christ you had
26:14yourself
26:14quite a night i did i don't remember yeah it's probably not a bad thing you hit a hot streak
26:20and
26:20you won and you won why wouldn't i want to remember that because then you lost and you lost lost
26:26what
26:27like what like i couldn't keep track you kept running to the atm and then you started talking
26:32routing numbers and wire instructions and finally i just i just got depressed and went to bed
26:39i'll wait for you downstairs okay take your time
26:56oh
27:11who told you does it matter does it matter who betrays me yes it does it was randall wasn't it
27:16do you ever stop to think that just maybe people are trying to do what's best for you do you
27:20ever
27:20just think that maybe i know what's best for me you know what fuck mirandall and
27:27fuck penn because i'm going to new york no no you are not why not you know how much acting
27:33means to
27:33me because it meant the same thing to you new york will eat you alive oh uh sorry um did
27:38i interrupt
27:39something uncle richard found me a job what do you mean he found you a job well uh i made
27:44a couple of
27:45calls about an internship and i offered her a place to stay with me that's not a job it is
27:53all i have done is listen to your daughter you ought to try that yourself she wants to be an
28:01actress
28:01please stay out of this she has the talent she has the passion so why shouldn't she because it will
28:08make her miserable because it made you miserable acting didn't make me miserable you did you gave up
28:13you gave up on yourself and your talent and you left that's on you
28:28hey hey i just came up with the sickest baseline for best of me what you're a total betrayer
28:38i'm a what you told my mom about school and new york and now she's losing it and and you
28:43betrayed the
28:44circle of truth you're the betrayer you're betraying me with mr actor man heath yeah what come to my
28:50tiny alcove in brooklyn oh my god randall nothing is going on with heath you guys are always hanging
28:56out it's like you're a couple we're playing a couple we're playing emily and george i don't like it i
29:01don't
29:01care go be a crazy jealous person somewhere else don't go telling my mother my personal
29:06shit where are you going are you going to see him jesus christ what about morandal
29:20hello richard b oh jesus how did you get in here i'm climbing like monkey
29:32you are wanting to kiss me now no no niet don't want to kiss you i'm your mentor i'm your
29:39director
29:40and your boyfriend he seems like a very violent type if you're worried about connor you must know
29:46that he's not understanding how it is you touch me i am dreaming all my life to be actress and
29:52now
29:53i want everything that you can give me there is genius in your fluids
29:58it's wow that's uh that's that's very high praise i'm sure yeah but it's probably a weird
30:06translation of a russian idiom that sounds just sounds like a bad idea
30:13you're always talking about how you want these special alone times together and i'm thinking oh my
30:20gosh this guy he has feelings for me you are always telling me i am great no i don't think
30:29i
30:29you said i am big actress you said i am huge yes when i said that i meant that some
30:35of the choices
30:35you make are a girl growing a little too large they're outsized they're not natural so if i am not
30:43great then what am i you must tell me the truth you you cannot just you cannot beat my bush
30:50around
30:51oh you're the truth yes you are my mentor i'm your protege what we have if we don't have truth
30:56you know so mentor me now go tell me all right well you um shape me coach me change my
31:04life go
31:05yeah okay don't get shy on me little guy what's that i can't hear you you're mumbling because you're
31:14always telling me articulate but you're not doing that you can't act what you are not an actress that
31:32you're you're in the wrong line of work you can't act how do you mean you can't act you can't
31:39act
31:41it's not your thing i can't act no
31:46you wanted the truth that's the truth you're not an actress
31:54so fire me then i can't fire you i mean i wouldn't think of firing you
32:00i can't right because then you lose the rain and a little horse and the fountain of soda i understand
32:08why i am in show now richard bean there's another possibility you could uh of your own volition
32:14simply quit just walk away you insult me richard bean you insult my spirit no one talking to russian
32:25women in this way nadia i'm known when it is i'm not wanted richard bean no nadia good evening
32:32nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia i'm fucked
32:43fuck
32:44so
32:53so
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