:18:02
Dad's not in till tomorrow at the Sherry.
:18:05
I came down from Cambridge. I thought
I'd stay at some fleabag for adventure.
:18:10
Orwell, Down and Out...
:18:12
I don't really know New York. I know
Rome, Paris and Los Angeles a lot better.
:18:18
Well, we're going out to dinner.
You'll come.
:18:21
- Out to dinner?
- Out to dinner.
:18:24
- The new ltalian looked cheery.
- Good. We've made reservations.
:18:28
- They wrap up ravioli like saltwater taffy.
- Six on a plate for a few hundred dollars.
:18:33
But why go out to dinner?
:18:35
Because we have reservations. What time
is it? Have we lost the reservations?
:18:39
There's nothing in the house. And it's 16th
century Florence, genius on every block.
:18:44
- Don't mock.
- You must have something in the fridge.
:18:47
A frozen steak from the lce Age.
:18:49
But why spend $100 on a bowl of rice?
Let me into the kitchen.
:18:53
Cooking calms me. And what I'd like to do
is calm down. Pay back your kids.
:18:59
- Two at Harvard. A daughter at Groton.
- Who've been wonderful.
:19:03
- They never mentioned you.
- What'd they say?
:19:06
"We know the son of Sidney Poitier,
barrier-breaker of the '50s and '60s"?
:19:12
Your father means
a great deal in South Africa.
:19:15
I'm glad of that. Dad and I went
to Russia once, to a film festival.
:19:18
He was amazed how much
his presence meant.
:19:21
No, no. Tell us stories of movie stars
tying up their children, being cruel.
:19:27
- I wish.
- You wish?
:19:30
If I wanted to write a book about him, I
really can't. No one would want to read it.
:19:35
He's decent, and I admire him.
:19:36
Oh, he's married to an actress. She was
in... um... um... She's white. Am I right?
:19:42
That's not my mother. It's his second wife.
He met Joanna making The Lost Man,
:19:46
and left my mother, who'd stuck by him
in the lean years. I had just been born.
:19:51
The Lost Man is the only film of my
father's I can't bring myself to see.
:19:56
- I'm so sorry. We didn't mean...
- No, no, no.
:19:58
We're all good friends now, his kids
from that marriage and us - the old kids.