:34:04
- What ya thinking?
- Oh, just about Eugene O'Neill
and Max Anderson, you know.
:34:08
Yeah. You've been rewriting all night
and it's only just the first day.
:34:11
- Is that a bad sign?
- No. I just think that
I might have made...
:34:14
the character of Sylvia Poston
a bit too antiseptic.
:34:16
- She's gotta have a sexual side to her.
- No.
:34:19
- I think she's the best female
character you've written in a long time.
- Says who?
:34:23
David, you know you always have
problems getting into the female mind.
:34:26
- I know that you think that.
- You've said so yourself before.
We've had this discussion.
:34:30
All your friends are men. You-- You've
always had problems writing for women.
:34:35
Witness your relationship
with your mother, your grandmother...
:34:38
- your two aunts, your sister--
- I think I try to factor that
into my work.
:34:41
But to be honest with you...
:34:43
at this moment, I don't think
you really understand my work at all.
:34:45
- Oh! Don't be so defensive.
- I'm not being defensive.
:34:47
Perhaps my opinions just aren't
intellectual enough for you.
Maybe they're just not--
:34:51
That's a horrible thing to say.
When you have a good idea,
I listen to it. I'm responsive.
:34:56
- In this case, I think you're
wrong. That's about it.
- When am I right?
:34:59
You're right about other things, but not
about Sylvia Poston and her sexuality.
:35:03
[ David ] September 17.
The first week is behind me now...
:35:06
and apart from a few minor incidents,
things seemed to go okay.
:35:10
There was that moment
between Helen and Eden.
:35:13
I can't do that speech if she's
going to be fidgeting around upstage!
:35:17
- Well, that's why I think
I should sit. I'll sit.
- Oh, God!
:35:19
Sylvia would never ask her to sit
in her own house. She despises her!
:35:23
She doesn't want me to sit. She doesn't
want me to stand. I guess I could squat.
:35:27
David, do you realize you're asking an
audience to believe that my husband...
:35:30
would leave me
for this woman?
:35:32
- Come along.
- Excuse me. Excuse me, but
I think it's made very clear...
:35:36
in the speech about erotic attraction,
why he does that.
:35:39
You fool! He's thinking of me
when he does that speech.
Don't you know anything?
:35:41
- Only the part about the liver spots.
- Listen.
:35:44
How long has it been since
you've had a real hemorrhage?
:35:48
David, I wonder if now would be a moment
to do my soliloquy from Act ll?
:35:52
- [ Crying ] Did you hear what she--
- Please. Aspirin!
:35:57
[ David ] All right, yes, why don't we?
And, Eden, just take five.