The Fabelmans

899 00:45:12,874 --> 00:45:15,960 - <b>[SIGHS]</b> You're having a bad dream. - <b>[WHIMPERS]</b> 900 00:45:18,921 --> 00:45:20,923 <b>[MITZI BREATHING SHAKILY]</b> 901 00:45:34,395 --> 00:45:37,814 - This is a lot of food, Mom. - <b>[MITZI SIGHS, CLEARS THROAT]</b> 902 00:45:37,815 --> 00:45:40,358 Well, I'm upset. 903 00:45:40,359 --> 00:45:42,611 Oh, my God. That crazy dream. 904 00:45:42,612 --> 00:45:44,779 I can't get it out of my head. 905 00:45:44,780 --> 00:45:48,617 Uh, last night, I dreamed I got a call from my mama. 906 00:45:48,618 --> 00:45:50,785 <b>[LAUGHS]</b> And she wanted to warn me. 907 00:45:50,786 --> 00:45:53,538 - That's silly. Grandma died. - <b>REGGIE:</b> About what? 908 00:45:53,539 --> 00:45:54,915 <b>MITZI:</b> Well, something's coming. 909 00:45:54,916 --> 00:45:56,833 She wants me to batten down the hatches. 910 00:45:56,834 --> 00:45:59,252 We're never going to be able to eat all of this. 911 00:45:59,253 --> 00:46:02,172 <b>[BRAKES SQUEAL OUTSIDE]</b> 912 00:46:02,173 --> 00:46:04,299 <b>[ENGINE IDLING]</b> 913 00:46:04,300 --> 00:46:05,718 Who is that? 914 00:46:17,271 --> 00:46:19,105 It's Uncle Boris. 915 00:46:19,106 --> 00:46:20,106 <b>SAMMY:</b> Hmm? 916 00:46:20,107 --> 00:46:21,776 Uncle who? 917 00:46:22,985 --> 00:46:24,654 Mom? 918 00:46:26,697 --> 00:46:29,367 That's who she meant! <b>[GASPS]</b> 919 00:46:31,452 --> 00:46:33,955 My-- That's my-my mama's brother! 920 00:46:39,252 --> 00:46:43,839 Oh, he scared the crap out of her when they were kids! 921 00:46:51,514 --> 00:46:54,725 - Don't let him in! - <b>[REGGIE GASPS]</b> 922 00:46:58,229 --> 00:46:59,688 You were in the circus? 923 00:46:59,689 --> 00:47:01,398 Mama said you were the lion tamer. 924 00:47:01,399 --> 00:47:02,983 <b>BORIS:</b> No, not at first. 925 00:47:02,984 --> 00:47:06,987 At first, it was, "Podgorny, pound in the tent pegs. 926 00:47:06,988 --> 00:47:09,990 Podgorny, muck out the pachyderms." <b>[CLEARS THROAT]</b> 927 00:47:09,991 --> 00:47:13,535 And then, one night, the big cat act, 928 00:47:13,536 --> 00:47:16,037 he comes down with the flu bug, so it was, uh, 929 00:47:16,038 --> 00:47:18,498 "Boris Podgorny, in with the lions." 930 00:47:18,499 --> 00:47:20,208 - <b>[SAMMY CHUCKLES]</b> - He's lying, right? 931 00:47:20,209 --> 00:47:23,378 - No, he's telling you a story. - Know what it's like, huh? 932 00:47:23,379 --> 00:47:25,422 <b>[CHUCKLES]</b> Pain in the ass, sisters. 933 00:47:25,423 --> 00:47:26,715 <b>[CHUCKLES]</b> 934 00:47:26,716 --> 00:47:28,216 - That's rude. - He said "ass"! 935 00:47:28,217 --> 00:47:29,634 <b>[SHUSHES]</b> I know. 936 00:47:29,635 --> 00:47:32,929 But when did you start working in the movies? 937 00:47:32,930 --> 00:47:34,889 1927. 938 00:47:34,890 --> 00:47:36,474 1927-- that was The Jazz Singer. 939 00:47:36,475 --> 00:47:37,767 That's the year that talkies started. 940 00:47:37,768 --> 00:47:39,561 Yeah, sure, talkies. But me, no. 941 00:47:39,562 --> 00:47:42,063 I started with, um, Uncle Tom's Cabin. 942 00:47:42,064 --> 00:47:43,732 Not a talkie. 943 00:47:43,733 --> 00:47:46,234 It was Harry Pollard. 944 00:47:46,235 --> 00:47:47,861 He acted for Selig Polyscope. 945 00:47:47,862 --> 00:47:50,739 He, uh, married Maggie what's-her-name. 946 00:47:50,740 --> 00:47:52,741 - Mm-hmm. - He directed Uncle Tom. 947 00:47:52,742 --> 00:47:54,284 Lift up your plate. 948 00:47:54,285 --> 00:47:57,746 So, Pollard needed help with the bloodhounds. 949 00:47:57,747 --> 00:48:01,291 So, my pal Fleischaker was a big name in dog acts. 950 00:48:01,292 --> 00:48:02,751 - Poodles, mainly. - <b>[SAMMY CHUCKLES]</b> 951 00:48:02,752 --> 00:48:06,004 But, "Sure," Fleischaker says to Pollard. 952 00:48:06,005 --> 00:48:08,632 "Yeah. Bloodhounds, poodles, what's the difference?" 953 00:48:08,633 --> 00:48:10,091 <b>LISA:</b> Ooh. 954 00:48:10,092 --> 00:48:11,801 So, he went. <b>[CHUCKLES]</b> 955 00:48:11,802 --> 00:48:15,764 But, uh, by this time, uh, Fleischaker, 956 00:48:15,765 --> 00:48:17,974 he had it up to here with the Jew-haters. 957 00:48:17,975 --> 00:48:21,561 There was a lot of that kind in the circuses. 958 00:48:21,562 --> 00:48:23,521 Not many Jews, lots of Jew-haters. 959 00:48:23,522 --> 00:48:25,357 - Right. - But the movies... 960 00:48:25,358 --> 00:48:27,776 <b>[LAUGHS]</b> Oy vavoy! 961 00:48:27,777 --> 00:48:29,736 Fleischaker writes to me, "Boris," he writes. 962 00:48:29,737 --> 00:48:31,946 "Boris," he writes, <b>[CHUCKLES]</b> 963 00:48:31,947 --> 00:48:34,366 "Hollywood is heimish, heimishe. 964 00:48:34,367 --> 00:48:38,036 I'm in a minyan with Douglas Fairbanks and Ricardo Cortez." 965 00:48:38,037 --> 00:48:39,245 - Whoa. - "Come to Hollywood." 966 00:48:39,246 --> 00:48:40,622 So, <b>[G