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I was writing the script as they were filming,
all that time in Italy...
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and I'd work like mad all day long...
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and then dash down to the bar
around midnight...
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to hand in the next day's scenes.
:19:16
And Humphrey had just about
moved into the hotel bar...
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Humphrey Bogart.
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...where he and John...
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John Huston.
:19:23
...had...
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They drank every night.
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And I mean drank, you know,
like famished water buffaloes.
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Well...
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I'd only just handed them the final scene
when the bellhop told me I had a phone call.
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And it was my stepfather, Joe Capote...
:19:41
calling to say that my mother had died.
:19:45
I flew home to New York,
terribly distraught...
:19:50
but when I got to the apartment...
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I could see that Joe
was in even worse shape than I was.
:19:57
He grabbed my hand and he said to me...
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"Talk.
:20:06
"Talk about anything." You know?
:20:11
"I mean, any subject in the world.
:20:14
"Don't worry whether it'll interest me or not.
:20:16
"Just talk...
:20:20
"so I won't break down."
:20:24
He couldn't bear to be alone
with his thoughts.
:20:27
It was too painful.