:39:00
Mike taught me football, taught me
music, taught me how to drive.
:39:03
[Chuckles] We used to drive around
this empty lot for hours.
:39:07
Yeah, he was 42
when he died. Cancer.
:39:10
And you never
talked about it?
:39:12
We did what people do, you know?
We pretended nothing was wrong.
:39:15
- Hmm.
- That's actually when I gave up
music, when Mike died.
:39:18
- Oh, yeah, when you grew up, huh?
- When I woke up, Coach.
:39:21
Saw I better get moving if I'm
gonna make anything out of my life.
:39:25
Well, you made a big success.
I always knew you would. But you ran.
:39:29
Did you ever stop to think
about what you're running from?
:39:32
[Turns On Recorder,
Clears Throat]
:39:35
Okay, what do you want
to tackle first here?
:39:38
Death? Love? What about
marriage? That's a good one.
:39:41
- Stickball.
- Stickball?
:39:44
- Yeah. Did you ever play stickball?
- Uh, no.
:39:46
Kids don't play stickball anymore,
really. I played Little League.
:39:49
They don't play anymore?
Oh, that's too bad.
:39:51
Stickball was what
all the slum kids played.
:39:54
You know, where I grew up.
Manhattan, the Lower East Side.
:39:57
- [Children Chattering]
- A broom handle and a rubber ball
was all you needed.
:40:01
You could play anywhere.
:40:04
Best place to play was
right outside the candy store
my mother ran for the landlord.
:40:08
[Woman Shouting In Russian]
:40:11
- My mother was only 25.
- Moyshe!
:40:14
- But she was sick
as long as I could remember.
- Moyshe! Moyshe!
:40:17
I felt if I ignored it, maybe
the sickness would go away.
:40:22
What happened to her?
:40:24
She went to the hospital,
and she died there.
:40:30
[Sobbing]
:40:33
They sent us a telegram.
:40:38
My father couldn't read English,
so I had to read it.
:40:45
[Reading In Yiddish]