:14:01
that enables it
to change color...
:14:03
and blend in with
its immediate surrounding...
:14:06
Zelig, too, protects himself...
:14:08
by becoming
whoever he is around.
:14:12
The doctors listen,
and their reaction is skeptical.
:14:15
"Impossible," they claim.
"Preposterous."
:14:17
"If he's a lizard,"
quips one doctor...
:14:20
"then we shouldn't spend
hospital money feeding him...
:14:23
"but simply catch him
some flies."
:14:35
We knew we had
a good story this time...
:14:38
because it had everything in it.
:14:40
It had romance.
It had suspense.
:14:43
This fellow Zelig,
he grew up poor.
:14:46
My city editor said, "Ted...
:14:48
"we want this story
on page one every day."
:14:52
In those days, you'd do anything
to sell papers.
:14:56
To get a story,
you'd jazz it up...
:14:59
you'd exaggerate,
play with the truth.
:15:02
Here was a story.
It was a natural.
:15:05
You told the truth,
and it sold papers.
:15:08
It never happened before.
:15:09
Overnight,
Leonard Zelig has become...
:15:11
the main topic
of conversation everywhere...
:15:14
and is discussed with amusement
and wonder.
:15:17
No social gathering is without
its Leonard Zelig joke...
:15:21
and in a decade
of popular dance crazes...
:15:24
a new one
sweeps the nation.