‘Fat Pig’ (Tom): “I guess I do care what my peers feel about me”
Tom finally breaks down and confesses everything to Helen
Plays
‘Fat Pig’ (Carter): “All I’m saying is this…”
Carter tries to convince Tom that he’s only young once
‘Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune’ (Johnny Talks Kids)
Johnny dreams of the kids he and Frankie could have
‘The Columnist’ (Halberstam): “We did it! It’s all our fault!”
A bar in Saigon. Halberstam carries a sheet of teletype paper as he talks to Stewart.
‘The Lisbon Traviata’ (Stephen): “I’ll never forget the night she did this at the old Met”
STEPHEN: I’ll never forget the night she did this at the old Met. The excitement in the air. Everybody was there. Jackie Kennedy was in a box with Leonard Bernstein. No, that was for the return as Tosca seven years later and she was Jackie Onassis and she was with
‘The Lisbon Traviata’ (Mike)
MIKE: I’m tired. Stephen. I’m tired of saying I’m sorry all the time. I’m tired of tiptoeing through my life because it might interfere with yours. I’m tired of being told what opera to like, what book to read, what movies to go to, I’m tired of being your father,
‘Other Desert Cities’ (Trip)
Trip: You know, let me just like preface this with – uh, I’ve lived most of my life in the shadow of a brother I barely knew – and I have about “this much” left – ok? That said – the people in this book are not the same as
