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- Corrected by darthfrede -
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When last we left me...
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Cue music.
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As 1966 began,
I was determined
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to bring my studio,
Pinnacle Pictures,
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an Academy Award.
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First,
I needed the material.
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"She Cried for Justice"
was the novel of 1966.
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It told the story
of a Jewish girl
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who escapes Hungary
during the Holocaust
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and comes to America.
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Years later,
she sees her former Nazi guard
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living under an assumed name
in New York City.
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I knew from the moment
I read the first page
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this story had Oscar
written all over it.
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I called the author,
Edna Bach,
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and convinced her to meet.
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She was a recluse
who was not interested
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in dealing with Hollywood.
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So I wined and dined her.
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We sat at my favorite table
in the candlelit gardens
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of the Chateau Marmont
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and I laid on
the Wallach charm.
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"Edna, I simply must have the
rights to your memoir."
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She was tough,
"This is a sacred story
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"of my life, Mr. Wallach.
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"Why would I ever trust
a Hollywood producer
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to do it justice?"
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"Because I promise
to treat your story
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with the utmost respect.
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You will be involved
every step of the way.
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Your novel is beautiful.
Just like you."
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"Oh, Jerry,
I haven't had a warm embrace
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since the Taft Administration."
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By the next morning,
she had agreed.
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Then I got to work.
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For the lead role
of the Jewish refugee,
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Hannah Novak,
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I wanted to find an actress
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who was vulnerable,
yet resilient.
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Someone who, when the audience
looked into her eyes,
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they saw the horrors
of the Holocaust.
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But she had to be hot.
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Bridget Bailey
was the "It Girl" of 1967.
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She drove men
wa-wa-wa-wild.
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She was like whipped cream
and whiskey.
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Fluffy,
and God damn dangerous.
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She had just the right
va-va-voom
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to play
a Holocaust survivor.
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And for the male lead,
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the Gestapo officer,
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I was blessed with
the best method actor
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of his generation.
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You better believe
I went with my main wop,
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Enzo Entolini.
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At first,
Enzo wasn't up for it
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so I called him up.
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Enzo, wipe that spaghetti sauce
off your mouth,
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because I got
another project for you."
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But Jerry, I too common,
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I don't know nothing
about no Nazi.
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Enzo, I own the property.
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We can have our way
with this book
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the way we did
with those girls from Reseda.
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I like that memory.
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I had the cast
of my dreams,
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and we were ready
to bring the novel to life.
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Sometimes you throw
in the right ingredients,
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and out of the oven
comes a perfect movie.
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Hannah Novak
escaped Nazi Poland
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only to find
her tormenter here.
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This young,
Jewish refugee
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comes to this court
seeking justice.
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You say my client
was a war criminal?
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That man.
That man was Gestapo.
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And I know because
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I am a Jewish refugee.
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Can't you see...
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that I love you?
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Come here, ma.
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Their chemistry
was undeniable.
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There was just one problem.
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Our corporate owners
had no interest in owning
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an art house studio.
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Pinnacle Pictures
was independent for 40 years.
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But in 1951,
it was bought as a tax shelter
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by the CIA to funnel
South American money.
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It was an open secret
in Hollywood.
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Like how Kevin Costner
is three different people.
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Officially,
United Papaya of Uruguay
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controlled the studio.
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They didn't want me
futzing with
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their slush funds
and assassinations
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just to win an Oscar.
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They wanted to dump
Pinnacle Pictures all together.
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And sell off everything
I had built.
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But I knew how
to appeal to them.
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Through the magic of movies.
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I called down
to the sound stage
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and told them
to get the cameras ready.
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Hello, agents of the CIA.
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Seņores.
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I'd like to tell you
a little bit about
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Pinnacle Pictures,
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and what we have
going on here,
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and why we think
this movie studio isn't a front,
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but something with a front
and a back and sides.
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We have a lot of films
coming up on our slate
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at Pinnacle Pictures.
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One of which
is "Swashbuckler's Island,"
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a children's movie.
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And here's
one of the stars, now.
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Puffin, the bird.
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Puffin says he hopes
you like the film.
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And that it comes out in June
of this year.
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We're very proud of it.
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Puffin's proud of it, too.
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Another picture we're very...
proud of
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is "She Cried for Justice,"
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and Oscar contender starring
Bridget Bailey
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and Enzo Entolini.
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Now I want to show you
one clip from it.
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Just one.
And you'll see
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why Pinnacle Pictures
is the bet to make.
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It speaks for itself.
We need your money.
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But I promise you,
your name will be
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on an Academy Award.
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Or if you don't want your name
on any documents,
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that's fine, too.
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Maybe that's how
you guys work.
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The next morning,
we had the money
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in a black duffel bag,
all cash.
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Had some blood on it.
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Very upsetting
for the woman at reception.
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The movie opened
just in time for nominations.
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And sure enough,
we were in the running
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for Best Picture of 1967
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Two years of work,
assembling the finest cast,
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changing most of
the plot of the novel,
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banning Edna Bach
from the set
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and completely
changing the title
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but we were here.
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I knew we had the most
revolutionary film of the year.
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We've seen excerpts
from the five films nominated
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for Best Picture.
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For the record,
they are:
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"Bonnie and Clyde,"
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"Doctor Dolittle,"
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"The Graduate,"
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"In the Heat of the Night,"
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and "Blondes, Blondes, Blondes,
and a Millionaire!"
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Based on the novel,
"She Cried for Justice."
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And now for
the Best Picture.
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May I have
the envelope, please?
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Thank you.
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The winner is...
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"In the Heat of the Night,"
Walter Mirisch.
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Mary Poppins screwed me.
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I was so distraught
at the after party,
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I could barely speak.
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The only highlight
of the evening
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was that I discovered flan.
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"Blondes, Blondes, Blondes,
and a Millionaire!"
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was a victim of its time.
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I'll be honest,
I had no idea
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there was all this,
"young people are angry
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and Black people
are this and that" going on.
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I hung out with Enzo
and Playboy Bunnies
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and wealthy crooners.
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We talked about boats
most of the time.
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But I vowed never again
to be behind the times.
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I would dive into
the changing America.
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At age 41,
I embraced the revolution.
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I started smoking pot
and wearing leather vests.
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And that was it.
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So I...
I think it was late '67.
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It was just after Jerry had done
"She Cried for Justice."
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At any rate, I...
I came up and I said to Jerry,
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"A writer writes, a director
directs an actor acts.
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Tell me, just what is it
that you do?"
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And he just laughed and said,
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"Snakes..."
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He called me Snakes
for no reason.
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I don't get it.
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"Snakes, I'm the guy
who keeps the money men hard
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while making sure
you don't get fucked."
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I always liked that answer.
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Far out.
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As a new decade began,
I was more determined than ever
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to bring home an Oscar
by any means necessary.
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The 1970s saw the greatest
cinema boom in history.
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"The Godfather,"
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"Annie Hall,"
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"Jaws,"
and 700 other movies
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that don't hold up at all.
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And the Oscars
were changing, too.
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Oh, my God.
The winners is
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George C. Scott in Patton.
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Accepting the coveted award
for Mr. George C. Scott
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is the film's producer,
Mr. Frank McCarthy.
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George C. Scott
boycotted the Oscars
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and the son of a bitch
still won!
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Meanwhile,
Pinnacle Pictures continued
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to turn out
cutting edge films.
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I was determined
to keep up with the times
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by telling the grittiest,
most progressive stories
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about a year after they were
told in different movies.
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"French Connection"
too intense?
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How about
the heavily focus grouped,
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"Plan to Sell Dope"?
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"Love Story" too sad?
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Try "Going Steady,"
where no one dies at the end.
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"The Exorcist" too scary?
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How about
"Detective Rabbi"?
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He'll chase the Dybbuk
right out of your room.
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The Academy loved
a political film.
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But more importantly,
it loved a political protest
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on Oscar night.
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When Marlon Brando sent the
Land-O-Lakes Butter mascot
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to refuse his Oscar,
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I knew the bar had been set.
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If he was gonna
bring one Native American,
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I was gonna show up
with a whole tribe.
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When a Pinnacle film
was nominated in 1975,
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I arrived
with seven Brazilian men
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from the indigenous
Yanomami Tribe.
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If we won,
I promised the fellas
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they could rush the stage,
grab the award,
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and say whatever the hell
about the rain forest.
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The nominees for
the Best Picture of the year are...
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"Chinatown,"
a Robert Evans production,
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Robert Evans producing.
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"The Conversation,"
a Directors Company production,
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Fred Roos, co-producer.
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"The Godfather: Part II,"
A Coppola Company production,
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Francis Ford Coppola,
producer.
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"Lenny,"
a Marvin Worth production,
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Marvin Worth, producer.
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And "Kenny,"
a Pinnacle Production
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Jerry Wallach, producer.
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And the winner is...
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- "Godfather: Part II."
- God damn it!
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Francis Ford Coppola,
Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos.
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I'd been making films
for almost ten years.
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And not a single statue
graced my mantle.
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It was at that low moment
that my indigenous friends
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introduced me
to the cocaine leaf.
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Ten times more potent
than the stepped-on powder
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sold in L.A.
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For the rest of the 70s,
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I lived like
a jacked-up koala.
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I felt great.
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And a little violent
all day.
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I worked harder
than I ever had,
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turning out more and more
Oscar contenders.
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In 1977, Oscar-winning
screenwriter Michael Walters
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told me about a new
psycho-sexual drama
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he was writing.
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Walters was a mad genius,
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writing only at night
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and only typing with
the front ends of handguns.
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I bought the script
sight-unseen.
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And then I called
the one guy I knew
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who could direct it.
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The Roman Polanski...
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of Italy.
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My best friend,
Enzo Entolini,
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who had never directed
anything before.
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Entolini needed money.
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He'd invested
every dime he had
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in the sparking water
business.
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The Caps weren't shut
tight enough,
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and the whole supply
went flat.
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They worked
night and night
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in a special mirrored office
I had made for them.
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We were determined to make
the coke-iest movie ever.
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In an effort
to add to the whole,
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"What the fuck?"
of this production,
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we decided to cast
no-name actors
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who can
improvise dialogue.
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And on top of that,
Enzo and Walters
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insisted on shooting
on real locations
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with no permits
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and with no green lights
at crosswalks.
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I put every dollar we had
behind the project.
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The press was
gunning for me.
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We were now in the era when
overages and release dates
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were the stuff of
the nightly news.
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Still, I knew
we had the goods.
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A bondage-themed,
improvised movie
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with borderline-unattractive
no-name actors.
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The anticipation
for our masterpiece
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kept growing and growing.
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On May 25th, 1977,
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"Fisting"
opened worldwide...
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the same day as
"Star Wars."
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Was "Fisting"
a better movie?
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You bet it was.
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Can you rent it anywhere?
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Not really.
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One store has it.
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The point is,
we lost a ton of dough
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and once again,
I had to go beg for money
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to keep Pinnacle running.
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Hello, agents of the CIA.
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Seņores.
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Me and the fellas
would just like to apologize
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for...
not getting you the Oscar.
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Look, if it isn't Puffin.
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From our newest film,
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"Swashbuckler Island,"
from 12 years ago.
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Puffin...
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You're the only one
I trust, Puffin.
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Rosie, Dale.
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This is the the team
that's gonna put
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Pinnacle Pictures
back on the map.
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This time,
the film didn't work.
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And I got the shock
of my life.
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After 13 years
working to rig
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an Oscar
for Pinnacle Pictures,
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I was fired.
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Some men would see this
as a bottom.
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I saw it as the top
of a new and weirder mountain.
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I was going solo.
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I ran my production company
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out of my beautiful home,
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Villa Casalati.
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The future looked as good
as a blonde
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with long,
flat buttocks.
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Little did I know,
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what lay ahead of me
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was 10 more years of losing.
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The winner is...
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"Chariots of Fire."
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In '82, I lost
to "Chariots of Fire,"
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which is, at best,
a soundtrack
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that your mother has
in her car.
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In 1988, I made $200 million
with "Robot Bachelor."
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And the winner is...
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"Rain Man,"
Mark Johnson, producer.
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00:16:15,390 --> 00:16:19,258
And lost to "Tootsie Counts
Cards in Vegas."
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Throughout the 1980s and '90s,
I made millions
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as I pivoted
to win the gold.
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Here's a period piece.
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No dice?
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All right, a biopic.
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00:16:28,803 --> 00:16:30,803
Not this year?
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How about
an underdog sports movie
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with Meat Loaf as the coach?
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Get out of your office?
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Whatever you say, lady.
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00:16:37,745 --> 00:16:39,879
The breaking point
was in the mid-1990s,
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when my Wyatt Earp movie,
"Mr. Old West"
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went head to head
with "Tombstone"
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and "Wyatt Earp."
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None of us were nominated
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and "Forrest Gump"
won Best Picture.
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"Forrest Gump."
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I'm sorry,
but what the fuck
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00:16:54,862 --> 00:16:56,762
is the message of that movie?
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If you're dumb enough,
you can meet three presidents?
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00:16:59,767 --> 00:17:01,567
It was all too much.
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00:17:01,569 --> 00:17:03,736
My heart couldn't take it.
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00:17:03,738 --> 00:17:05,605
My doctor told me
I could be happy
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00:17:05,607 --> 00:17:07,974
with the millions
of dollars I had,
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00:17:07,976 --> 00:17:11,477
or I could
chase Oscars and die.
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00:17:11,479 --> 00:17:13,379
My life was a mess.
368
00:17:13,381 --> 00:17:14,814
I needed to get smart,
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00:17:14,816 --> 00:17:16,616
wisen up,
kick the stupid
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00:17:16,618 --> 00:17:18,884
out of my brain
and rev the Corvette.
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00:17:18,886 --> 00:17:21,387
Clean and sober,
I dedicated my life
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00:17:21,389 --> 00:17:23,022
to doing good.
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00:17:23,024 --> 00:17:24,590
Here we go, everybody.
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We're doing charity work.
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With some donations
from AFI
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00:17:28,363 --> 00:17:29,996
and every major studio,
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00:17:29,998 --> 00:17:32,265
I started
Lights, Camera, Hope!
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00:17:32,267 --> 00:17:33,966
The first charity
to give state of the art
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00:17:33,968 --> 00:17:38,537
cameras and boom mics
to L.A.'s most dangerous gangs.
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00:17:38,539 --> 00:17:40,006
Something magical
is happening down here
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00:17:40,008 --> 00:17:42,675
in God knows where,
South Los Angeles.
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00:17:42,677 --> 00:17:44,610
Hardened youths
are putting down their guns
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00:17:44,612 --> 00:17:46,545
and picking up
a different kinda weapon:
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A movie camera.
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00:17:48,049 --> 00:17:50,449
It's Lights, Camera, Hope!
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00:17:52,853 --> 00:17:54,353
Lights, Camera, Hope!
helped me
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00:17:54,355 --> 00:17:56,422
get over
my Oscar obsession.
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00:17:56,424 --> 00:17:58,858
All I wanted to do
was charity work.
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00:17:58,860 --> 00:18:00,793
So much so,
that I simultaneously
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00:18:00,795 --> 00:18:02,995
lobbied the Academy
to make a special award
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00:18:02,997 --> 00:18:05,831
for showbiz people
who do charity work.
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00:18:05,833 --> 00:18:07,767
The proudest moment
of my life
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00:18:07,769 --> 00:18:10,436
was when the Jerry Wallach
Humanitarian Oscar
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00:18:10,438 --> 00:18:13,572
was presented
for the first time.
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00:18:13,574 --> 00:18:15,474
And now, presenting
the Jerry Wallach
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00:18:15,476 --> 00:18:16,976
Humanitarian Award,
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00:18:16,978 --> 00:18:18,844
please welcome,
Anne Hathaway.
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00:18:23,584 --> 00:18:25,351
Hello.
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00:18:25,353 --> 00:18:28,421
It is my honor
to present the first ever
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00:18:28,423 --> 00:18:31,390
Jerry Wallach
Humanitarian Award.
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00:18:31,392 --> 00:18:33,459
- We at the Academy...
- I was about to
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00:18:33,461 --> 00:18:35,061
receive an Oscar.
403
00:18:35,063 --> 00:18:37,863
The bald boy from Brooklyn
who only wanted
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00:18:37,865 --> 00:18:39,465
to make people smile.
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00:18:39,467 --> 00:18:42,468
It was finally
Jerry Wallach's night.
406
00:18:42,470 --> 00:18:43,903
To read the nominees
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00:18:43,905 --> 00:18:49,008
for the Jerry Wallach
Humanitarian Award.
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00:18:49,010 --> 00:18:50,576
Sidney Poitier,
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00:18:50,578 --> 00:18:53,412
for the Poitier Center
for Racial Harmony.
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00:18:57,884 --> 00:19:01,454
Paul Newman, for the
Newman's Own Foundation.
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00:19:01,456 --> 00:19:04,857
Hey, Paul.
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00:19:04,859 --> 00:19:07,626
Jerry Wallach,
producer of "Fisting."
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00:19:10,498 --> 00:19:15,768
And Enzo Entolini for his
Italian Don't Litter campaign.
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00:19:18,773 --> 00:19:21,907
And the Jerry Wallach
Oscar goes to,
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00:19:21,909 --> 00:19:24,410
of course,
Enzo Entolini.
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00:19:36,523 --> 00:19:38,524
Leave it to Julie Andrews'
little minion
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00:19:38,526 --> 00:19:40,760
to fuck me over.
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00:19:47,902 --> 00:19:49,668
Grazie mille.
Grazie.
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00:19:49,670 --> 00:19:51,070
Was I mad at Enzo?
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00:19:52,540 --> 00:19:54,173
Not on your life.
421
00:19:54,175 --> 00:19:57,676
Enzo saved my ass
many times.
422
00:19:57,678 --> 00:20:00,679
Enzo was the longest
relationship of my life.
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00:20:00,681 --> 00:20:01,914
Forget my money.
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00:20:01,916 --> 00:20:03,182
Forget my wives.
425
00:20:03,184 --> 00:20:04,884
Forget my four sons.
426
00:20:04,886 --> 00:20:09,188
Enzo was truly
my best friend.
427
00:20:09,190 --> 00:20:11,690
And I miss him
every God damn day.
428
00:20:15,663 --> 00:20:19,198
Now I spend my days
awash in a cologne cold memory.
429
00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,802
It stinks of regret
like a diaper in a hot car.
430
00:20:22,804 --> 00:20:25,704
Each spray
a jolt to the past.
431
00:20:25,706 --> 00:20:28,007
So many missed opportunities.
432
00:20:28,009 --> 00:20:30,876
So many awards
given to my lessers.
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00:20:30,878 --> 00:20:33,879
My career is in the past.
434
00:20:33,881 --> 00:20:35,648
The door is closing.
435
00:20:35,650 --> 00:20:37,183
The curtain is falling.
436
00:20:37,185 --> 00:20:39,185
The waiter
is bringing the check.
437
00:20:39,187 --> 00:20:41,620
The masseuse has stepped out
of the room
438
00:20:41,622 --> 00:20:45,524
and reminded me
where my robe is.
439
00:20:45,526 --> 00:20:48,027
I will never make
another movie again.
440
00:20:48,029 --> 00:20:49,562
It's over.
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00:20:49,564 --> 00:20:52,097
Fin.
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00:20:52,099 --> 00:20:53,799
Next stop...
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00:20:53,801 --> 00:20:55,134
death.
444
00:20:59,974 --> 00:21:01,540
Or...
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00:21:01,542 --> 00:21:03,008
Hold on.
Hold on everybody,
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00:21:03,010 --> 00:21:04,844
I got an idea
for a movie.
447
00:21:04,846 --> 00:21:06,512
Racism.
448
00:21:06,514 --> 00:21:08,113
We do a movie
about different people
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00:21:08,115 --> 00:21:10,516
of different races
not getting along.
450
00:21:10,518 --> 00:21:11,884
Put a lot of
movie stars in it.
451
00:21:11,886 --> 00:21:13,786
Right?
That's a thing.
452
00:21:13,788 --> 00:21:14,920
Right?
Am I right?
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00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,800
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