New York, New York (1977)

Liza Minnelli: Francine Evans

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• Jimmy : I guess a little small talk's in order here now.

  Francine : Can it get any smaller?

  Jimmy : Now look I can take a hint.

  Francine : Can you also take a walk?

  Jimmy : Do you want me to leave?

  Francine : YES!

  Jimmy : I'll leave right now.

  Francine : BYE

  Jimmy : You expect me to leave after the way you just talked to me?

  Francine : Will you go away?

  Jimmy : I don't want to. I want to stay here and annoy you.

• Jimmy : I know you from some place.

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : You don't remember me?

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : You don't remember we met a few years ago? It was at a party or a dance. We had a long conversation. You can't remember that?

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : I just want to explain to you, first of all, my parents are over there, my mother and father, my brother and sister. So I got to see them because I just was two years in the service, you know, so they haven't see me. Now, I want to get your phone number so I can tell you tomorrow about what I was thinking about. There's something very, very important I've got to talk to you about.

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : No what? No what?

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : No?

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : No, no, no. You don't understand. Give me your number. You got a pencil or something?

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : All right. I have a photographic memory. Just give me your number, and I'll remember it.

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : Yes.

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : Yes.

  Francine : No.

  Jimmy : Can I meet you at Central Park? I'm serious.

  Francine : I know. No.

  Jimmy : I mean, come on. There's no way...

  Francine : No!

• Francine : That was it! That was you proposal, get your coat on, put your shoes on, lets go, lets go, lets go, that was it!

  Jimmy : Whats wrong with that?

• Jimmy : Will you marry me? Will you marry me? I love you. Will you marry me? I don't want anybody else to be with you. I don't want anybody else. I want to be with you, do you understand? I don't want anybody else to be with you except me. I love you. I love you. Look at me. I love you.

  Francine : Oh, I love you, too.

• Francine : What's the Theory of Relativity, that light is curved?

  Jimmy : I don't know.

  Francine : They say that only five people in the whole world, you know, know really what it's about.

  Jimmy : Well, the Japs understand, from what I know.

• Jimmy Doyle : You want to know what interests me the most, Frances? One is music, number two is money, and number three is

  [five air kisses] 

  Francine Evans : I got it.

  [Jimmy kisses her shoulder] 

  Francine Evans : Uh-huh. Got it!

  Jimmy Doyle : What's the matter?

  Francine Evans : I don't want it. They're always in that order?

  Jimmy Doyle : Sure they're always in that order, unless - you happen to come across someone who grooves you and you want to groove with. Say, you. And if things work out, and you start acting a little more intelligent, then possibly, then I'll make number three number one, number one number three, and - number two... Now, wait. Now, now I'm getting confused. You put it where, uh..

  Francine Evans : You put it where number three is.

  Jimmy Doyle : And that's the way it would be. Let me start all over again, because, I don't wanna get this wrong. Number three would be number one.

  Francine Evans : And number two and number three.

  Jimmy Doyle : Exactly. And when you have that, you have what you call a major chord.

  Francine Evans : What's a major chord?

  Jimmy Doyle : A major chord is when everything in your life works out perfectly. When you have everything you could ever possibly want. Everything! You have the woman you want, you have the music you want, and you have enough money to live comfortably. And that's a major chord,

• Ellen Flannery : Francine, I want you to meet my new monkey, This is Eddie DiMaggio.

  Eddie Di Muzio : That's Di Muzio.

  Francine Evans : Only you don't look like a Di Muzio. I said, it's funny, you don't look like - Skip it.

  Ellen Flannery : Oh, but he's a territic dancer, I mean, he dips and everything. Don't you, honey?

  Eddie Di Muzio : You better believe it, baby,

• Francine Evans : All right, you're upset because I didn't come to you in person and say good-bye, right?

  Jimmy Doyle : Right! Which brings up another thing, you don't say good-bye to me, I say good-bye to you. In no way, shape, or form do you say good-bye to me. I say good-bye to you.

  Francine Evans : Oh. Fine! Go ahead and say it.

  Jimmy Doyle : Say what?

  Francine Evans : Say good-bye. Go ahead.

• Francine Evans : You said he's good. You think he's - good,

  Frankie Harte : He's not only good, baby, he's a bitch! He blows a barrel full of tenor. Oh, but he's some kind of pain in the ass.

  Francine Evans : I don't want to start this argument.

  Frankie Harte : All right, okay, all right, all right. But he's a top pain in the ass and that's the truth. A top pain in the ass.

  Francine Evans : Let's see, that's twice. You want to say it once more? Three times for luck?

  Frankie Harte : Three would groove me. It's my favorite number. Top pain in the ass!

  Francine Evans : Well, maybe you're right, but he's good.

• Francine Evans : One of the nicest things in the world is waking up knowing somebody loves you.

• Jimmy Doyle : Look, I didn't send a telegram. I just really wanted to be alone for a while, by myself, that's all. I wanted to figure some things out. I stayed down South for a while and that was it.

  Francine Evans : Well, that's normal. I understand that.

  Jimmy Doyle : No, you don't understand that. Don't tell me you do. 'Cause you don't really understand it. But I had to do it, baby.

  Francine Evans : Well, I understand that I don't understand.

  Jimmy Doyle : Okay, that's being better about it.

• Jimmy Doyle : I saw "Sappy Endings" the other night.

  Francine Evans : "Happy Endings".

  Jimmy Doyle : Yeah, "Happy Endings".

• Eddie Di Muzio : Come on, honey. Let's go.

  Ellen Flannery : He's such an animal.

  Francine Evans : Where are you going - be careful.

  Ellen Flannery : I'll be right back, I'll be right back,

• Francine Evans : [singing]  You opened heaven's portal, Here on earth, For this poor mortal...

• Francine Evans : [singing]  Once in a while, Won't you think of the moments, I shared with you, Moments before we two drifted apart...

• Francine Evans : [singing]  If the sandman brought me dreams of you, I'd want to dream my whole life through, 'Cause you brought a new kind of love to me, I know that I'm a queen and you're a king, Still I understand that underneath it all, I'm a girl, and you, you are a man, I'll work and slave my whole life through, If I could hurry home to you, 'Cause you brought a new kind of love...

• Francine Evans : [singing]  Although I realize as well as you, It is seldom that a dream comes true, To me, it's clear, That he'll appear, Someday he'll come along, The man I love, And he'll be big and strong, The man I love, And when he comes my way, I'll do my best to make him stay...

• Francine Evans : [singing]  There goes the ballgame, I lost, and how, Came to bat at the beginning, Thinking that my team was winning, Now I'm at the final inning, Score! A big, fat nothing...

• Francine Evans : I just want you to be happy.

  Jimmy Doyle : I'm happy.

  Francine Evans : I just want you to be so happy so much.

  Jimmy Doyle : I'm happy, baby.

  Francine Evans : Are you really?

• Francine Evans : I know we've all been working hard, and we've been working too hard. But like the man says, if we get this thing right, we'll blow the roof off this place, you know? So why don't we really try?

• Francine Evans : [singing]  Sometimes you're happy, And sometimes you're sad, But the world goes round, Sometimes you lose, Every nickel you've had, But the world goes round, Sometimes your dreams get broken in pieces, But that doesn't alter a thing, Take it from me, There's still gonna be, A Summer, a Winter, a Fall, and a Spring...

• Francine Evans : [singing]  Happy endings, all around me, Happy endings, all I see are, Happy endings on a silver screen, That's Hollywood, Lovely lady, gallant fellow, Meet one evening, hear that cello, Troubles come between, But in that final scene, Count on a happy ending, By a river, Happy ending, on a mountain, Happy ending, in a Broadway show, But, oh, the life I lead is less dramatic, Not remotely cinematic, Happy endings, far as I can see, Are only for the stars, Not in the stars for me...

• Francine Evans : I'd like to sing a song - now. It was written by a friend of mine - who is a great believer - in major chords.

  [singing] 

  Francine Evans : Start spreadin' the news, I'm leavin' today, I wanna be a part of it, New York, New York, These vagabond shoes, Are longin' to stray, And step around the heart of it, New York, New York, I wanna wake up In the city that doesn't sleep, To find I'm King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, My little-town blues, Are meltin' away, I'll make a brand-new start of it In old New York, If I can make it there, I'd make it anywhere, It's up to you, New York, New York...