:04:02
What, a father's not allowed
to talk about his son?
:04:05
l'm a footnote in that story, Dad...
:04:07
...the context for your great adventure,
which never happened, incidentally.
:04:12
You were selling novelty products
in Wichita when l was born.
:04:16
Come on, Will.
Everyone loves that story!
:04:18
They don't. l don't love that story. Not
anymore. Not after a thousand times!
:04:23
l know every punch line, Dad.
l can tell them as well as you can!
:04:27
For one night,
one night in your entire life...
:04:30
...the universe did not revolve
around Edward Bloom.
:04:33
-How can you not understand that?
-l'm sorry to embarrass you.
:04:37
You're embarrassing yourself, Dad.
You just don't see it.
:04:43
After that night, I didn't speak
to my father again for three years.
:04:52
William Bloom, United Press
lnternational. lf l could just--
:05:00
We communicated indirectly, I guess.
:05:02
In her letters and Christmas cards,
my mother wrote for both of them.
:05:06
And when I'd call, she'd say Dad was
out driving or swimming in the pool.
:05:11
True to form, we never
talked about not talking.
:05:17
The truth is, I didn't see anything
of myself in my father.
:05:21
And I don't think he saw anything
of himself in me.
:05:27
We were like strangers
who knew each other very well.
:05:36
In telling the story
of my father's life...
:05:38
...it's impossible to separate fact
from fiction, the man from the myth.
:05:46
The best I can do
is to tell it the way he told me.
:05:51
It doesn't always make sense,
and most of it never happened.