:48:03
and how, on the night of the murder, she
not only smashed his radio, but hit him.
:48:09
But if I had to write down what
no actress should ever make public,
:48:14
I would copy Maria's testimony
in her father's defence.
:48:18
She left out nothing.
:48:20
She told about the squalor and filth
into which she and her brother were born,
:48:24
and how they grew up like animals.
:48:27
She told about a mother
who was full of hate,
:48:29
and how she got back the hate she gave.
:48:32
Maria handed Mom a rough time
on that witness stand.
:48:36
I couldn't help wondering how
this would go in box-office heaven,
:48:39
where Mom is the commanding saint.
:48:42
But that courtroom
was with her all the way.
:48:45
Some of them cried, even the judges.
:48:48
They must be appointed in Spain,
because I don't know of anybody
:48:51
ever getting elected
whose mother was not an angel.
:48:55
And, as it turned out,
:48:57
the audiences of the whole world
could have been sitting in that courtroom.
:49:05
From Scarsdale to Singapore,
they loved her.
:49:08
Her father beat the rap,
of course. Self-defence.
:49:12
And Maria walked out
of that courthouse a bigger star
:49:15
than when she broke all the rules
by walking into it.
:49:19
So how are you going to figure it?
:49:25
Suppose you're me, and what the public
wants and thinks is your business.
:49:30
You're standing in the middle of them,
:49:33
asking yourself "Where
did I lose these people?"
:49:37
You realise maybe the public knows more
about public relations than you do.
:49:42
Maybe the public heart is
something you can't put on a chart,
:49:45
or penetrate with just money.
:49:47
You begin to think that maybe, after all,
:49:50
Kirk Edwards couldn't really
walk across the English Channel
:49:54
any time he wanted to.