:04:01
I hadn't seen him since
graduation day 16 years ago.
:04:03
I promised I'd keep in touch,
but I got busy dancing my own dance.
:04:07
It's a zoo... Walter, it's a zoo here.
Just hold a space for me, okay?
:04:11
Give me a break!
Have I ever missed a deadline?
:04:13
- [All Yelling]
- Janine, hi. Did I wake you, honey?
:04:17
- Everything I did I did on deadline.
- It's crazy here.
:04:19
- Everything.
- I just wanna say
I love you and I'm sorry.
:04:22
Coach said no media
until he talks to the team.
:04:25
Should've talked to them
before the game.
:04:27
Yeah... No, we definitely have to talk,
I know. Hang on one second.
:04:31
- [All Yelling]
- Baby, I gotta go. I love you. Bye-bye.
:04:34
[Man]
No press.!
:04:37
Coach, Coach.
Coach, what did you say to the team?
Did the word "discipline"come up?
:04:41
- [Laughter]
- How about the word "maturity"?
:04:47
[Mitch Narrating] Sports are always
in season in this country...
:04:50
and I covered them all...
:04:52
living in planes and hotels
with a laptop and a cell phone.
:04:55
I might never have known
what happened to Morrie if I wasn't
always doing six things at once.
:04:59
Janine, come on. Because I've
been in love with you for seven years.
:05:02
Doesn't that... Yeah, but in my book,
that is a commitment.
:05:06
Yeah. Do we have to talk
about this now?
:05:08
This is the only thing
we ever fight about.
:05:11
Yeah, because look at what
marriage does to people.
:05:13
I'm not watching it.
It's just on.
:05:16
Look at what marriage does.
Look at our married friends.
Look at our divorced friends.
:05:19
Look, I'll be back in Detroit tomorrow.
We'll talk about this then, okay?
:05:23
Yeah, well, I'll make time.
:05:27
- [Laughing]
- [Ted Koppel On TV]
Just who is Morrie Schwartz?
:05:29
And why,
by the end of the night...
:05:31
are so many of you
going to care about him?
:05:34
Janine, hang on one second.
:05:37
[Announcer On TV]
This is ABC News Nightline.
:05:39
- One second.
- Reporting from Washington, Ted Koppel.
:05:42
[Ted Koppel]
Tonight, Morrie... Lessons on Living.
:05:47
Morrie is going to die.
:05:50
He suffers from a disease
called ALS...
:05:53
better known
as Lou Gehrig's disease.
:05:55
Morrie Schwartz is
a retired sociology professor...
:05:59
from Brandeis University
who is dying of ALS.