:27:02
If you work with him,
I'll buy you a padded undershirt.
:27:05
You think I didn't try?
Once I put a steel plate under my shirt.
:27:08
He gave me the finger,
he had it in a splint for a month.
:27:12
Willy, what if I set up a meeting
between you two, maybe lunch at Sardi's.
:27:15
To talk things out?
I'll be there all the time.
:27:18
Want to hear other things?
He used to spit in my face.
:27:20
- On stage, the man would spit in my face.
- Not on purpose.
:27:24
He tells me not on purpose.
:27:25
If I could have saved the spit,
I'd show you.
:27:27
He would stand there
and spit in your face?
:27:29
You think he's stupid?
He'd work it into the act.
:27:31
He would stand
with his nose under my nose...
:27:34
and he would purposely say words
only that began with a "T."
:27:37
Tootsie roll. Tinkertoy.
:27:40
- Typing on the typewriter.
- Would you please sign in your guest, sir?
:27:43
He's not my guest. He's my nephew.
Some nights I thought I would drown.
:27:47
I don't know where he got it all from.
:27:48
I think he would drink all day
and save it up for the night.
:27:51
Don't put this near the steam.
It's corned beef.
:27:53
What if I put it into the contract...
:27:55
if he pokes you or spits at you,
he doesn't get paid?
:27:57
He doesn't care.
He would spit at me for free.
:28:01
Then will you answer me one question?
:28:03
If it was all that bad,
why did you stick together for 43 years?
:28:07
- Why?
- Yes, why?
:28:09
Because he was terrific.
There'll never be another one like him.
:28:12
Nobody could time a joke
the way he could time a joke.
:28:15
Nobody could say a line the way he said it.
:28:17
We each knew
what the other was thinking.
:28:19
One person, that's what we were.
No, no...
:28:22
Al Lewis was the best.
The best, you understand?
:28:25
- I understand.
- As an actor, no one could touch him.
:28:28
As a human being,
no one wanted to touch him.
:28:31
Uncle Willy, people do change.
:28:34
You know his wife died three years ago?
:28:37
He lives with his daughter now,
somewhere in New Jersey.
:28:40
He doesn't do anything anymore.
:28:41
He's got very bad arthritis,
he's got poor blood circulation.
:28:44
I'll send him a pump.
He'll outlive you, believe me.
:28:47
I spoke to his daughter.
He wants very much to do this show.
:28:50
With arthritis? Forget it.
:28:51
Instead of a finger,
he'll poke me with a cane.
:28:54
What if I went out to New Jersey
and spoke to him...
:28:57
explained how you felt,
see if we could work things out?