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Jimmy: I guess a little small talk's in order here now.
Francine: Can it get any smaller?
Jimmy: Now look I can take a hint.
Francine: Can you also take a walk?
Jimmy: Do you want me to leave?
Francine: YES!
Jimmy: I'll leave right now.
Francine: BYE
Jimmy: You expect me to leave after the way you just talked to me?
Francine: Will you go away?
Jimmy: I don't want to. I want to stay here and annoy you.
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Jimmy: Do I look like a gentleman to you in this shirt and these pants?
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Francine: That was it! That was you proposal, get your coat on, put your shoes on, lets go, lets go, lets go, that was it!
Jimmy: Whats wrong with that?
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Jimmy: I know you from some place.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: You don't remember me?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: You don't remember we met a few years ago? It was at a party or a dance. We had a long conversation. You can't remember that?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: I just want to explain to you, first of all, my parents are over there, my mother and father, my brother and sister. So I got to see them because I just was two years in the service, you know, so they haven't see me. Now, I want to get your phone number so I can tell you tomorrow about what I was thinking about. There's something very, very important I've got to talk to you about.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: No what? No what?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: No?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: No, no, no. You don't understand. Give me your number. You got a pencil or something?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: All right. I have a photographic memory. Just give me your number, and I'll remember it.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: Yes.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: Yes.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: Can I meet you at Central Park? I'm serious.
Francine: I know. No.
Jimmy: I mean, come on. There's no way...
Francine: No!
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Jimmy: You're an agent?
Tony Harwell: I reiterate, yes.
Jimmy: If I went down there, would you be my agent?
Tony Harwell: No.
Tony Harwell: Why not?
Tony Harwell: I ain't interested. I'm satisfied with the list of clients I got now.
Jimmy: You're makin' a mistake, but okay, you know.
Tony Harwell: I made a lot of mistakes. So I'll make another one. This one's on me.
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Frankie Harte: Jay, will you please? It's slippery out there. We don't want to slide into town, we want to drive in.
Frankie Harte's Bus Driver: Leave me alone. I'm tryin' to take a nap.
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Jimmy: Will you marry me? Will you marry me? I love you. Will you marry me? I don't want anybody else to be with you. I don't want anybody else. I want to be with you, do you understand? I don't want anybody else to be with you except me. I love you. I love you. Look at me. I love you.
Francine: Oh, I love you, too.
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Francine: What's the Theory of Relativity, that light is curved?
Jimmy: I don't know.
Francine: They say that only five people in the whole world, you know, know really what it's about.
Jimmy: Well, the Japs understand, from what I know.
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Jimmy: Where is she?
Tony Harwell: Why should I tell you where she is if she doesn't tell you where she is in the letter?
Jimmy: Then why do you take the time to come out to Brooklyn to give me this letter if you don't think she cares enough about me to let me know where she is, or to let you know to let me know where she is? Doesn't that makes sense to you?
Tony Harwell: It should, but it don't.
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Jimmy: Let me ask you something. You got any other advice for me?
Tony Harwell: Yes. Stay off the junk, and you'll go far.
Jimmy: Fine. Thanks a lot. Swell of you to say that.
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[first lines]
Voice from the Crowd on V-J Day: God bless America! We made it back!
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Jimmy Doyle: If I leave now, I'll never get to know you. I'll never get to know what a wonderful, beautiful chick you are.
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Jimmy Doyle: I've been looking all over for you. We're over there. The guys are waiting for you. Where are the broads?
Eddie Di Muzio: They're over there,
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Eddie Di Muzio: I gotta ask you a favor first. You using your room tonight or what?
Jimmy Doyle: Of course I'm using my room tonight. Why? You want to use the room?
Eddie Di Muzio: Yeah, I fell in love about a half hour ago with this chick over there, I think she's a professional dancer. She's got some pair of legs. You know, very leggy. You know what I mean, don't you?
Jimmy Doyle: How long you gonna be?
Eddie Di Muzio: Maybe an hour, maybe two, maybe less.
Jimmy Doyle: All right, but use the bathroom.
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Jimmy Doyle: You got the blonde? That means I have the brunette,
Eddie Di Muzio: Right.
Jimmy Doyle: Ah, she's a total pain in the ass, man, You know how much time I just spent trying to make her? I spent 20 minutes giving her every routine I knew. It didn't even work. There was nothing! Nothing!
Eddie Di Muzio: The one over there?
Jimmy Doyle: Yeah, the one over there. That one, the WAC. What's the matter with you? Maybe the other one will go. You know how girls are, one goes, the other doesn't. It's the same story. You got the good one, I got the bad one. I'm excited. It's V-J Day, man! You know, I want to get laid! What's happening here?
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Ellen Flannery: Francine, I want you to meet my new monkey, This is Eddie DiMaggio.
Eddie Di Muzio: That's Di Muzio.
Francine Evans: Only you don't look like a Di Muzio. I said, it's funny, you don't look like - Skip it.
Ellen Flannery: Oh, but he's a territic dancer, I mean, he dips and everything. Don't you, honey?
Eddie Di Muzio: You better believe it, baby,
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Eddie Di Muzio: Come on, honey. Let's go.
Ellen Flannery: He's such an animal.
Francine Evans: Where are you going - be careful.
Ellen Flannery: I'll be right back, I'll be right back,
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Jimmy Doyle: She's a little crazy. She's wacky. You know, in the WACs?
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Jimmy Doyle: Oh, why are you so serious? Oh, come on, loosen up. Come on, you gave me a hard time last night, really a hard time. Loosen up a little bit. Oh, come, come. At least have some gum. This way, you keep your mouth shut. It'll keep you occupied.
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Jimmy Doyle: You want to know what interests me the most, Frances? One is music, number two is money, and number three is
[five air kisses]
Francine Evans: I got it.
[Jimmy kisses her shoulder]
Francine Evans: Uh-huh. Got it!
Jimmy Doyle: What's the matter?
Francine Evans: I don't want it. They're always in that order?
Jimmy Doyle: Sure they're always in that order, unless - you happen to come across someone who grooves you and you want to groove with. Say, you. And if things work out, and you start acting a little more intelligent, then possibly, then I'll make number three number one, number one number three, and - number two... Now, wait. Now, now I'm getting confused. You put it where, uh..
Francine Evans: You put it where number three is.
Jimmy Doyle: And that's the way it would be. Let me start all over again, because, I don't wanna get this wrong. Number three would be number one.
Francine Evans: And number two and number three.
Jimmy Doyle: Exactly. And when you have that, you have what you call a major chord.
Francine Evans: What's a major chord?
Jimmy Doyle: A major chord is when everything in your life works out perfectly. When you have everything you could ever possibly want. Everything! You have the woman you want, you have the music you want, and you have enough money to live comfortably. And that's a major chord,
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Francine Evans: [singing] If the sandman brought me dreams of you, I'd want to dream my whole life through, 'Cause you brought a new kind of love to me, I know that I'm a queen and you're a king, Still I understand that underneath it all, I'm a girl, and you, you are a man, I'll work and slave my whole life through, If I could hurry home to you, 'Cause you brought a new kind of love...
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Jimmy Doyle: Where is Asheville?
Tony Harwell: Where God lost His shoes,
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Francine Evans: [singing] Once in a while, Won't you think of the moments, I shared with you, Moments before we two drifted apart...
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Francine Evans: [singing] You opened heaven's portal, Here on earth, For this poor mortal...
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Francine Evans: All right, you're upset because I didn't come to you in person and say good-bye, right?
Jimmy Doyle: Right! Which brings up another thing, you don't say good-bye to me, I say good-bye to you. In no way, shape, or form do you say good-bye to me. I say good-bye to you.
Francine Evans: Oh. Fine! Go ahead and say it.
Jimmy Doyle: Say what?
Francine Evans: Say good-bye. Go ahead.
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Jimmy Doyle: Didn't you understand when I said "major chord" that I meant it about you?
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Jimmy Doyle: I love you. I mean, I don't love you, I dig you. I like you a lot.
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Frankie Harte: It's slippery out there. We don't want to slide into town, we want to drive in.
Bus Driver: Leave me alone, I'm tryin' to take a nap,
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Manager of South Bend Ballroom: You missing a man?
Frankie Harte: Yeah, Fowler, Did you find him?
Manager of South Bend Ballroom: The house dick did. Caught him in his room with a local chick.
Frankie Harte: Big deal. So what?
Manager of South Bend Ballroom: What do you mean big deal? She's 13.
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Francine Evans: You said he's good. You think he's - good,
Frankie Harte: He's not only good, baby, he's a bitch! He blows a barrel full of tenor. Oh, but he's some kind of pain in the ass.
Francine Evans: I don't want to start this argument.
Frankie Harte: All right, okay, all right, all right. But he's a top pain in the ass and that's the truth. A top pain in the ass.
Francine Evans: Let's see, that's twice. You want to say it once more? Three times for luck?
Frankie Harte: Three would groove me. It's my favorite number. Top pain in the ass!
Francine Evans: Well, maybe you're right, but he's good.
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Jimmy Doyle: I know it's not Frankie Harte. We can do that stuff too, man. But this is a different sound. I think you should listen to it. Just give us another chance.
Horace Morris: This guy must be crazy. I made a deal with Frankie Harte and his Orchestra, not Jimmy Doyle and his Flying Sack of Maniacs!
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Jimmy Doyle: What do you have to lose? Come on, give me a chance.
Horace Morris: What do I have to lose? What does this look like to you, a peanut gallery here?
Jimmy Doyle: Looks like a place that needs someone like me, that's what it looks like.
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Francine Evans: [singing] Although I realize as well as you, It is seldom that a dream comes true, To me, it's clear, That he'll appear, Someday he'll come along, The man I love, And he'll be big and strong, The man I love, And when he comes my way, I'll do my best to make him stay...
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Horace Morris: Of course I'm crazy. How do you think I wound up in this business?
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Nicky: Listen, I studied at Brooklyn Conservatory and the Staten Island Conservatory of Music for three years!
Jimmy Doyle: You did? Well, it doesn't show, man!
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Francine Evans: I know we've all been working hard, and we've been working too hard. But like the man says, if we get this thing right, we'll blow the roof off this place, you know? So why don't we really try?
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Francine Evans: I just want you to be happy.
Jimmy Doyle: I'm happy.
Francine Evans: I just want you to be so happy so much.
Jimmy Doyle: I'm happy, baby.
Francine Evans: Are you really?
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Jimmy Doyle: [singing] Blue moon, You saw me standing alone, Without a dream in my heart, Without a love of my own...
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Francine Evans: [singing] There goes the ballgame, I lost, and how, Came to bat at the beginning, Thinking that my team was winning, Now I'm at the final inning, Score! A big, fat nothing...
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Bernice Bennett: I'm no bimbo, you know. I can see the writing on the wall, Jimmy,
Jimmy Doyle: What writing can you see on the wall? Did I ever call you a bimbo? After all we've been through. Is that what you're gonna say? How could you say that?
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Francine Evans: One of the nicest things in the world is waking up knowing somebody loves you.
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Jimmy Doyle: Look, I didn't send a telegram. I just really wanted to be alone for a while, by myself, that's all. I wanted to figure some things out. I stayed down South for a while and that was it.
Francine Evans: Well, that's normal. I understand that.
Jimmy Doyle: No, you don't understand that. Don't tell me you do. 'Cause you don't really understand it. But I had to do it, baby.
Francine Evans: Well, I understand that I don't understand.
Jimmy Doyle: Okay, that's being better about it.
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Jimmy Doyle: I was working with bad musicians. I mean, you can't pitch new cats in Scranton or Allentown, PA, right? You got to come back to the Apple.
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Cecil Powell: Listen, man, if you get it together again, Jimmy, I got this little thing going over at the Harlem Club, man.
Jimmy Doyle: Oh, yeah,
Cecil Powell: Some really good - some really good cats over there, man, You got to come over there.
Jimmy Doyle: I will. I'll come up. I heard a lot about it.
Cecil Powell: Yeah.
Jimmy Doyle: There's only one problem, though,
Cecil Powell: What's that?
Jimmy Doyle: Do they let white cats in?
Cecil Powell: If you come around the back.
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Artie Kirks: Give this lady a pink squirrel. You got it?
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Harlem Club Singer: [singing] Every honey bee, Fills with jealousy, When they see you out with me, I don't blame them, goodness knows, Honeysuckle rose...
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Harlem Club Singer: [singing] I don't buy sugar, You just have to touch my cup, You're my sugar, It's sweet - when you stir it up, When I'm taking sips from your tasty lips, Seems the honey fairly drips, You're confection, goodness knows...
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Francine Evans: [singing] Sometimes you're happy, And sometimes you're sad, But the world goes round, Sometimes you lose, Every nickel you've had, But the world goes round, Sometimes your dreams get broken in pieces, But that doesn't alter a thing, Take it from me, There's still gonna be, A Summer, a Winter, a Fall, and a Spring...
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Francine Evans: [singing] Happy endings, all around me, Happy endings, all I see are, Happy endings on a silver screen, That's Hollywood, Lovely lady, gallant fellow, Meet one evening, hear that cello, Troubles come between, But in that final scene, Count on a happy ending, By a river, Happy ending, on a mountain, Happy ending, in a Broadway show, But, oh, the life I lead is less dramatic, Not remotely cinematic, Happy endings, far as I can see, Are only for the stars, Not in the stars for me...
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D.J. aka Midnight Bird: Good morning, New York. Twelve midnight, and time for the Midnight Bird to be with you from now until 5 am. For those of you who are wondering about my new theme song, and I think you are, because a lot of people have been calling in, night after night, asking, "What is that record?" Well, it's by Jimmy Doyle. It's the theme from "New York, New York", the Jimmy Doyle Sextet. I'll play it as my theme song from now, who knows till when? That's the Jimmy Doyle Sextet, a little bit later on in the show, the entire theme from "New York, New York".
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Francine Evans: I'd like to sing a song - now. It was written by a friend of mine - who is a great believer - in major chords.
[singing]
Francine Evans: Start spreadin' the news, I'm leavin' today, I wanna be a part of it, New York, New York, These vagabond shoes, Are longin' to stray, And step around the heart of it, New York, New York, I wanna wake up In the city that doesn't sleep, To find I'm King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, My little-town blues, Are meltin' away, I'll make a brand-new start of it In old New York, If I can make it there, I'd make it anywhere, It's up to you, New York, New York...
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Jimmy Doyle: I saw "Sappy Endings" the other night.
Francine Evans: "Happy Endings".
Jimmy Doyle: Yeah, "Happy Endings".
New York, New York Quotes
Extended Reading
