:15:00
'Cause the Pope was looking
:15:01
for the best guy he could find
:15:03
to paint the ceiling
of his church in Rome.
:15:05
Don't sound like that big a job.
:15:07
To Michelangelo it was.
:15:09
Michelangelo needed the
job 'cause it paid more money
:15:11
than he ever had in his life.
:15:12
So he could pay off the loan
sharks chasing his father.
:15:15
What's his father?
:15:17
He was, like,
a low-level con guy
:15:19
who conned people out of money,
goats, sheep...
:15:21
Goats?
:15:22
Chickens, whatever he could.
:15:23
Chickens?
:15:24
- You know what happened?
- What?
:15:26
He painted a ceiling
no-one will ever forget.
:15:28
Painted like it was
touched by the hand of God.
:15:30
Did he pay off the loans?
:15:32
Every single one.
:15:34
Hey, how long did it take him?
:15:37
Took him about 9 years.
:15:38
Nine years?
:15:39
That's right.
:15:41
I had a Puerto Rican guy do
my whole apartment in 2 days -
:15:43
and he had a bum leg.
:15:45
I don't know what I'm gonna do
with you guys.
:15:47
Just give us a job
and leave the rest to us.
:15:50
You know what it was?
The Sistine Chapel.
:15:52
- 16th chapel?
- Sistine Chapel.
:15:54
Who painted the other 15?
:16:03
Outside events meant little.
:16:05
In a society changing
radically by the hour,
:16:07
we watched the images scatter
nightly across the TV screens.
:16:10
Young protesters spoke about how
they were gonna change our lives
:16:13
and fix the world.
:16:15
But while they shouted
their slogans,
:16:17
my friends and I went
to funeral services
:16:20
for the young men
of Hell's Kitchen
:16:21
who came back from Vietnam
in body bags.
:16:24
We viewed with scepticism
the faces on television -
:16:27
those protected by money
and upper middle-class standing.
:16:33
A growing army of feminists
marched across the country,
:16:36
demanding equality...
:16:38
Yet our mothers
still cooked and cared
:16:41
for men who abused them
mentally and physically.
:16:44
For me and my friends,
:16:46
these developments
carried no weight.
:16:48
They might as well have
occurred in another country,
:16:51
in another century.
:16:53
Our attention was elsewhere.
:16:54
We sat with Father Bobby
visiting John,
:16:56
hoping he would recover
from a punctured lung -
:16:59
a gift from one of his mother's
overzealous boyfriends.