Blue Moon

643 00:33:34,388 --> 00:33:37,724 - Hey, Larr, I get it! -So, listen. 644 00:33:37,725 --> 00:33:40,143 Elizabeth and I had a weekend. 645 00:33:40,144 --> 00:33:41,686 We actually did. 646 00:33:41,687 --> 00:33:46,065 One passionate, transcendent weekend, end of last summer 647 00:33:46,066 --> 00:33:47,735 before she went back to Yale. 648 00:33:48,235 --> 00:33:54,157 It's the closest I've ever felt in my life to pure selflessness. 649 00:33:54,158 --> 00:33:56,534 It was nuanced, it was deep. 650 00:33:56,535 --> 00:33:58,327 How deep exactly? 651 00:33:58,328 --> 00:34:00,830 Listen, clown. I met her, 652 00:34:00,831 --> 00:34:04,209 and the first thing I said to her was, "Excuse me, 653 00:34:04,793 --> 00:34:08,087 "but you have the best style of anyone in this theater." 654 00:34:09,423 --> 00:34:11,466 I wish I had a photograph of that moment. 655 00:34:11,467 --> 00:34:15,052 I wish I had a photograph of every moment I've spent with her. 656 00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:20,434 I'm having trouble getting this right. I'm trying to pin down... 657 00:34:21,435 --> 00:34:23,687 Oh, Andy, help me. What's the right word? 658 00:34:24,396 --> 00:34:25,396 Enchantment? 659 00:34:26,732 --> 00:34:28,400 And you know how hard that is. 660 00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:32,862 I couldn't believe that it was me she wanted to talk to. 661 00:34:32,863 --> 00:34:34,655 I kept looking around the theater, 662 00:34:34,656 --> 00:34:36,949 there must be somebody else she's interested in. 663 00:34:36,950 --> 00:34:40,411 But no! She's plunking herself down in the theater seat right next to me, 664 00:34:40,412 --> 00:34:43,664 as close as modesty will allow. 665 00:34:43,665 --> 00:34:46,751 And my heart is actually racing. 666 00:34:46,752 --> 00:34:50,171 And I don't ever feel this way, not for men or for women. 667 00:34:50,172 --> 00:34:55,092 But she's wearing this yellow sundress, 668 00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,845 and it is hot in the theater. 669 00:34:57,846 --> 00:34:59,889 And she's talking to me for hours. 670 00:34:59,890 --> 00:35:03,059 Bare leg draped over the armrest. 671 00:35:03,060 --> 00:35:05,603 And I know this sounds like I'm some middle-aged putz 672 00:35:05,604 --> 00:35:07,146 with a crush on a pretty co-ed, 673 00:35:07,147 --> 00:35:09,106 and maybe that's what it is. 674 00:35:09,107 --> 00:35:10,359 But you know something? 675 00:35:10,943 --> 00:35:15,446 Maybe that's not what it is. 676 00:35:15,447 --> 00:35:18,534 Sometimes I feel... and don't laugh, 677 00:35:19,201 --> 00:35:23,705 after a lifetime of blindly colliding into strangers, 678 00:35:24,456 --> 00:35:26,041 we've finally found a friend. 679 00:35:27,417 --> 00:35:29,628 Maybe that's the definition of enchantment. 680 00:35:30,462 --> 00:35:33,840 One light-filled weekend! 681 00:35:33,841 --> 00:35:36,801 I've got to finish telling you this before she comes back. 682 00:35:36,802 --> 00:35:38,302 Are you listening to me? 683 00:35:38,303 --> 00:35:40,096 Yeah, she got her legs draped over the thing. 684 00:35:40,097 --> 00:35:42,807 It was as if all the love lyrics I had ever written 685 00:35:42,808 --> 00:35:47,061 had, like, some sort of verbal ectoplasm, suddenly taken human form. 686 00:35:47,062 --> 00:35:48,145 Ecto what? 687 00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:49,230 That might be her mother. 688 00:35:49,231 --> 00:35:50,774 She cannot hear this. 689 00:35:51,859 --> 00:35:52,984 What about me? 690 00:35:52,985 --> 00:35:54,610 You're just an extra. 691 00:35:54,611 --> 00:35:56,195 Okay, but I still get paid, right? 692 00:35:56,196 --> 00:35:57,948 Absolutely. 693 00:35:58,991 --> 00:36:01,577 It's important to me that I nail this down. 694 00:36:02,369 --> 00:36:04,704 It was a boiling hot summer weekend, 695 00:36:04,705 --> 00:36:08,332 and I asked, with all the casualness I could counterfeit, 696 00:36:08,333 --> 00:36:11,961 if she'd like to, you know, escape the heat of the city, 697 00:36:11,962 --> 00:36:14,672 spend the weekend with me on Lake Dunmore in Vermont. 698 00:36:14,673 --> 00:36:18,426 And without a moment's hesitation she said, 699 00:36:18,427 --> 00:36:19,802 "I'd love to, Larry." 700 00:36:21,013 --> 00:36:23,973 Oh, I'm telling you, Andy, this is my type of girl. 701 00:36:23,974 --> 00:36:26,309 I'm sorry, excuse me, I'm babbling, 702 00:36:26,310 --> 00:36:31,772 but how else do you describe the actual present tense 703 00:36:31,773 --> 00:36:33,358 of falling in love? 704 00:36:34,610 --> 00:36:35,819 Is that what this is? 705 00:36:36,945 --> 00:36:40,406 Maybe. I mean, I haven't done anything wrong, okay? 706 00:36:40,407 --> 00:36:44,368 I haven't violated the Mann Act or even the Middle-Aged Man Act. 707 00:36:44,369 --> 00:36:46,329 I bought her this painting of Lake Dunmore, 70