The Public Eye

there might be somethin' in it. 361 00:30:40,088 --> 00:30:42,295 That's it. That's all. 362 00:30:42,299 --> 00:30:44,915 Oh, that's all? Yeah. 363 00:30:47,846 --> 00:30:51,134 How dare you lie to Mel 364 00:30:58,357 --> 00:31:00,313 Okay, Bernzy. Okay. 365 00:31:00,317 --> 00:31:05,152 As it is, I gotta trust you. You never crossed nobody. 366 00:31:05,155 --> 00:31:09,819 You do nothin' but snap pictures noon and night. 367 00:31:10,202 --> 00:31:12,113 What is it with you anyway? 368 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,701 Dope fiends live better than you. 369 00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:14,694 You're a fuckin' freak, you know that? 370 00:31:14,706 --> 00:31:20,997 Yeah? Well, like the guy who used to shovel elephant shit said to the circus owner, 371 00:31:21,004 --> 00:31:22,835 "what, give up showbiz?" 372 00:31:24,716 --> 00:31:27,833 Here. Here's for the camera. 373 00:31:27,886 --> 00:31:28,796 Do me a favor, Bernzy. 374 00:31:28,804 --> 00:31:34,094 Don't go around talkin' about this dead guy, uh, what's-his-name. 375 00:31:34,101 --> 00:31:36,467 All right? Right. 376 00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:40,936 Thank you. Thank you. 377 00:31:48,532 --> 00:31:51,865 I don't know. Maybe he is. He's gettin' in. 378 00:31:51,868 --> 00:31:53,358 See anybody else? 379 00:31:53,370 --> 00:31:56,487 Hey, Bernzy, how do you rate? 380 00:31:57,082 --> 00:32:01,792 I don't understand. The F.B.I.? Think I do? 381 00:32:01,795 --> 00:32:05,788 Look, I don't do favors for people. You see what happens? 382 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:10,213 I walk in here. You give me a drink. I start feelin' good about myself. 383 00:32:10,220 --> 00:32:13,132 The next thing I know, the F.B.I. Calls me a communist, 384 00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:15,176 and some gangster uses me to wax his floor with. 385 00:32:15,183 --> 00:32:18,550 I'm sorry. - Yeah, like you didn't know that guy was mob. 386 00:32:18,562 --> 00:32:21,975 You didn't either. Like there was nobody else you could've asked. 387 00:32:21,982 --> 00:32:24,348 I did ask. Nobody knew him. 388 00:32:26,111 --> 00:32:29,069 Why'd you ever ask me up here in the first place? 389 00:32:29,072 --> 00:32:32,314 Lou trusted you. I told you he said that... 390 00:32:32,325 --> 00:32:36,694 Lou thought I was like those flies outside, buzzin' around to take a picture of Rita Hayworth. 391 00:32:36,705 --> 00:32:40,368 That's not true. A little parasite, preyin' on people's misery. 392 00:32:40,375 --> 00:32:42,866 You're not the only one who knows what people say about you. 393 00:32:42,878 --> 00:32:47,793 It doesn't matter what they say... unless you believe them. 394 00:32:49,551 --> 00:32:50,882 Why do you think I asked you? 395 00:32:50,886 --> 00:32:55,596 I'd be so overwhelmed to be invited into the inner sanctum... 396 00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:57,715 That I would jump into the street to do your dirty work. 397 00:32:57,726 --> 00:33:01,264 You could've asked any one of those schmucks with cameras outside. 398 00:33:01,271 --> 00:33:04,434 I can see you have a high opinion of me. 399 00:33:05,442 --> 00:33:10,778 You're not like those guys outside, Bernzy. You believe in something. Your book. 400 00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:18,784 How do you know about my book? 401 00:33:18,788 --> 00:33:20,369 Lou told me. 402 00:33:20,373 --> 00:33:24,457 And when I knew I needed someone I could trust... 403 00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:29,621 I hope you're not just sayin' this. 404 00:33:29,633 --> 00:33:33,251 Why should I? I don't know. 405 00:33:33,929 --> 00:33:39,970 I mean, this is the first time I heard that, uh, Lou Levitz had an interest in my book. 406 00:33:40,727 --> 00:33:45,266 Lou had every great artist from Paris to Hollywood stopping in here. 407 00:33:45,273 --> 00:33:47,605 He knew they were great because they were rolling in it. 408 00:33:47,609 --> 00:33:51,852 That's all he knew or ever wanted to know about artists. 409 00:33:51,863 --> 00:33:54,479 What do you know about them? 410 00:33:55,283 --> 00:33:57,365 Nothing. 411 00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:00,948 I knew a little something once... 412 00:34:00,956 --> 00:34:03,618 When I wanted to be one... 413 00:34:03,625 --> 00:34:05,741 On the stage. 414 00:34:06,503 --> 00:34:09,370 I still know enough to know you're the real thing, 415 00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:12,339 or you'd have given up long ago. 416 00:34:14,302 --> 00:34:16,588 You see, I never was. 417 00:34:16,846 --> 00:34:21,089 Having this place is the closest I'll ever come to it. 418 00:34:23,562 --> 00:34:27,054 I am sorry for all the trouble. 419 00:34:38,994 --> 00:34:43,613 What's this? Pictures I took in the club. 420 00:34:44,291 --> 00:34:47,078 I see. When? 421 00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:54,380 Thank you. 422 00:34:54,384 --> 00:34:59,299 Yeah. Well, it's not over just because Po