:46:01
Thanks very much for your Philadelphia Story, Wick. Nice try.
:46:06
That looks so silly on you.
:46:07
- Don't listen to him.
- You don't even have to. Just look at the two of us.
:46:11
Yes. What is all this covering up?
:46:13
All that happened is that Don was nervous at the idea
of meeting your parents and so he took a couple of drinks.
:46:17
Come on, Wick, she'd have found out sooner or later.
:46:20
Stop it, both of you.
:46:23
Don's a little tight.
:46:24
Most people drink a little.
A lot of them get tight once in a while.
:46:27
Sure. The lucky ones who can take it or leave it.
:46:29
But then there are the ones who can't take it
and leave it either.
:46:33
What I'm trying to say is I'm not a drinker.
:46:35
I'm a drunk.
:46:37
They had to put me away once.
:46:39
- He went to a cure.
- Which didn't take.
:46:42
You see, that first time we met,
I should have had the decency to get drunk...
:46:45
just for your sake.
:46:46
For my sake? We're talking about you.
:46:49
Is it really that bad, Wick?
:46:51
Yes, it is.
:46:53
Can't we go over this tomorrow, Don,
when you're feeling more like yourself?
:46:55
Helen's heard the facts. That's all there is to it.
:46:58
Yes, I've heard them and they're not very pleasant.
:47:01
But they could be worse. After all,
you're not an embezzler or a murderer.
:47:04
You drink too much and that's not fatal.
:47:06
One cure didn't take. There are others.
:47:08
Of course there are.
:47:09
This has a familiar ring.
:47:12
But, there must be a reason why you drink Don.
The right doctor could find it.
:47:15
Look, I'm way ahead of the right doctor.
:47:18
I know the reason. The reason is me. What I am.
:47:20
Or, rather, what I'm not.
What I wanted to become and didn't.
:47:24
What is it you want to be so much that you're not?
:47:28
A writer.
:47:30
Silly, isn't it?
:47:35
You know, in college I passed for a genius.
:47:37
They couldn't get out the college magazine
without one of my stories.
:47:41
Boy, was I hot, Hemingway stuff.
:47:44
I reached my peak when I was nineteen.
:47:46
Sold a piece to the Atlantic Monthly.
Reprinted in the Readers' Digest.
:47:50
Who wants to stay in college when he's Hemingway?
:47:53
My mother bought me a brand new typewriter, and...
:47:57
I moved right in on New York.
:47:59
Well, the first thing I wrote, that didn't quite come off.