Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Dana?
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Dana, can you hear me?
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Just follow the instructions.
Is that so difficult?
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No, no, "N"!
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Harold.
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It's very becoming. I like that.
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Guys, there's nothing
I can do, all right?
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The meeting's gonna be canceled.
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The building's being evacuated.
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Top four floors are closed off.
I don't know what's going on.
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It doesn't matter.
Nobody's supposed to be there.
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Just follow the instructions.
Is that so difficult?
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Clifford, it's 2:37
and my interns are stranded.
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- Where the fuck is he?
- He's coming.
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- He's coming?
- He's coming.
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I think we got something.
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Oh, my God. Is that him?
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South side of the building.
Do you see it?
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- That's him! He's here!
- Oh, my God!
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He's landing! Clear the roof!
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- Get your things. Go! Come on!
- Quickly.
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He keeps his promises.
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Fake.
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- Fake.
- Yes.
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Malika, Clifford is the man
who wrote Fake.
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An excellent book
about the guy, artist...
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I'm blanking... Who was it?
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- Art forger.
- The art forger.
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- Exactly. Elmyr de Hory was his name.
- Okay.
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He forged Picassos, Matisses,
Modiglianis...
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The whole theory of forgery as art.
What is art?
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Very subversive kind of act.
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The book sold poorly.
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- Well, it could've done better.
- Let's not talk about that today.
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Regardless. The new one. Fiction.
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- Yes.
- Rudnick's Problem.
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I like it. You're right.
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- I like it. Malika liked it, too.
- MALIKA: Yeah.
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Yes, I did. I loved it. It was stunning.
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It scared the hell out of me, actually,
to tell you the truth.
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- It's an angry book.
- ALBERT: But funny!
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I mean, I read it,
I thought it was hilarious.
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It wasn't angry to me.
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It was nice to me. It made me laugh.
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But anger's important. We need anger.
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Which I think will help us in Germany.
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Regardless,
marry us and have our children?
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Brad Silber at Life is reading it
right now for serialization rights.
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Great.
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Harold McGraw himself
is reading it this weekend.
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- You're kidding.
- That's just a formality.
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You have waited, Cliff.
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You've watched as less talented writers
have bypassed you.
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But now, justice at last.
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They're going to push this one hard.
They're going to bet the bank.
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- Is that a promise?
- You can set your watch by it.
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Andrea, I don't have a watch.
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Then buy one.
Trust me, you can afford it.
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HERE COMES THE SUN PLAYING
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Calls unreturned, they don't read you
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for six months, they're indifferent.
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Then overnight... God.
Dick, can you hear me?
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Dick! Here, try these. They're bigger.
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No, they're fine.
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We're doing a vacation,
a gentleman's celebration kind of thing.
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You got harpoons?
The ones that shoot?
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- Yeah, most of them shoot.
- Good.
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He looks like a sausage.
All right, I'll take the whole outfit.
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Set me up as a regular account.
I prefer monthly payments.
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You're a prick, Robert, you are such
a prick. You played me like a harp.
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Whitewalls, leather...
Is this guy a salesman?
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Now, when my accountant comes by
with the check,
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should he talk to you directly?
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He should speak to me directly, yeah,
with the check, yeah.
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Call the police, there's a
beautiful woman in front of my house!
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SCREAMING WITH JOY
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What's the matter, pear?
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You haven't seen
a bestselling author before?
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- Oh, Cliff.
- Yes.
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You didn't think I was going to do it,
did you?
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Stop, Cliff, stop.
Look, they're taking the sofa.
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Oh, I love that sofa.
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Hey, guys. How are you doing?
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Hey, guys. How are you doing?
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Ah, fuck the sofa.
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- Close your eyes. Close, close.
- What?
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- Okay.
- Oh, Cliff.
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Cliff!
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There, perfect.
You are a beautiful man.
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I am sure you would desert me.
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No, will desert you,
the tense is future active.
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Don't correct the grammar of it.
You are not this perfect person.
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Honey, it's finished.
I told you it was finished.
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It's finished with her.
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- Good night.
- Cliff...
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- Keys to my new car.
- Yeah, got it. Bye, honey.
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Have fun.
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Andrea!
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Andrea! Hi, isn't this amazing?
Isn't this wild?
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- Can I talk to you a second?
- Let's talk on Monday, Cliff.
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No, just for a second.
It's really important. I'd like to...
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Look, 30,000 copies is not gonna do it.
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A short run like that,
it sends out a message,
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and it's not a good one.
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- We're not publishing the book.
- Exactly, exactly.
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With 30,000 copies, it's like
we're not really publishing the book...
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Brad Silber at Life magazine hated it.
He called it,
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"A third-rate Philip Roth knock-off."
And he told Harold. And it was awful.
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It just rolled like a snowball.
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I wanted to tell you on Monday.
I'm sorry.
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Fine, we'll do The New Yorker.
The New Yorker's better anyway...
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You're not listening to me, Cliff.
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McGraw-Hill is not publishing
your book.
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Book, gone. The bomb has dropped.
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It's over.
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Andrea, you said
that this was a formality.
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Well, apparently, I was mistaken.
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Look, if you have other ideas,
my door is always open to you.
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The enemy, very deceitfully,
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has taken advantage of the troops...
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They are potatoes, all of them.
Potato people.
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And you are a brilliant, strong man
who will have all his dreams.
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All of them.
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You know what I'm getting
for dinner? Swordfish steak.
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It sounds good. Sounds enticing.
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Oh, come on, Cliff. Forget it, forget it.
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All right. Enough, enough.
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I want to talk about my friend.
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Tell me about the children's book
you're working on.
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Oh, Richard the Lionhearted.
That's going okay.
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I should be done
by the end of the year.
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You know, it's a great subject.
War, sodomy.
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I mean, the war part's great.
Kids love war.
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But what do you do with the sodomy?
You know?
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You see, I want it to be
historically accurate.
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And you will make it so
because you are a superb researcher,
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and a fine writer.
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Thank you.
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Bumped by this adolescent coffee boy.
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My lit professor at Cornell
compared me to Hemingway.
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The middle of my life is at hand.
I don't have a couch.
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Think about this.
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Henry Miller was 38 years old,
unpublished.
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His wife left him for a lesbian.
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You're kind to tell me that, Dick.
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You're a very good man.
You're a good friend.
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- Need a loan?
- Always.
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- No, no. I was kidding, Cliff.
- You got a pen, kid?
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I was kidding.
Your house is going into foreclosure.
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- I'm post-dating it.
- Stop that. Stop being the hero.
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- Go to bed.
- I got it, I got it. Walk away. Go.
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- I got it.
- All right.
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- Go to bed.
- I will.
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Everyone's being relocated
to another hotel.
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Please stay calm and follow me.
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- Excuse me. Can you...
- MAN: Follow me, please!
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Somebody told me
that Howard Hughes is
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moving into this hotel.
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What is this? What's going on?
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It's an executive decision
to close the facility for the weekend, sir.
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- You're being relocated.
- Executive decision?
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Howard Hughes
wants the pool to himself,
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so he's kicking everyone out
at 1:00 a.m.?
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I don't know about that, sir.
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That's power.
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It's a friendship
between Tom Mix and Pancho Villa.
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Revolution, Mexican revolution.
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Men were men.
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- Friendship and...
- Mr. Clifford?
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Andrea's running late, so she said
that we should just go ahead
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and start the meeting without her.
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"Mr. Clifford"? Wait a minute.
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I'm meeting with you?
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Oh, no. Excuse me.
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Mr. Clifford...
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Excuse me!
Hello, I'm sorry, everybody. Andrea...
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I'm sorry. I did tell him, but...
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Cliff, I'm in the middle
of a conference meeting.
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Cliff, I'm in the middle
of a conference meeting.
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Andrea, our personal history demands
that I bring this to you first.
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Bring what?
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I'm working on the most important book
of the 20th century.
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It's unprecedented.
I'm gonna discuss it tomorrow.
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I'm gonna present the details
about it tomorrow.
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- Okay.
- Morning, 9:00 a.m.
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- Thank you.
- At Nathan's Bowling Alley in Queens.
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- Did I ever take you there before?
- Sir?
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Okay, yeah, I'm going, I'm going.
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You'd better be sure, Andrea,
that I don't have anything,
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'cause Simon and Schuster is coming.
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"Of the century"? Couldn't you
have just said "of the decade"?
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All right, all right.
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- And why a bowling alley?
- Please, make a contribution here.
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Just open your mind.
The first thing that comes to your mind.
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- Potato famine.
- Too Irish.
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- A history of agriculture.
- Oh, that's a bestseller.
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- Shedding new light on World War I.
- What's the new light?
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Write about Picasso.
Everyone loves Picasso.
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- I don't.
- Charlemagne?
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- Too French.
- History of the Vatican.
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- I'm dying.
- Give me a clue here.
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- I'm being self-destructive.
- I gotta call Barbara.
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I'm burning bridges, Edith.
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They never appreciated you there.
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I need lunch.
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I'm having a breakdown.
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- My gallery show's in three weeks.
- I know.
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I don't have time
for the drama now, darling.
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Shit.
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HERE COMES THE SUN PLAYING
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Dick!
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Size 7.
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How?
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No one knows where he is.
I show up, I've seen him.
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I've seen the snowman.
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I send him my de Hory book.
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He reads it.
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It's a positive portrayal
of a very complex man.
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Oh, my God, I get a response.
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Correspondence. Sparks fly.
Personal connection.
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We become best of friends.
What do you think?
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- What is it? What's the book?
- Wait, wait.
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Where's Simon and Schuster, Tolstoy?
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This is the key to it.
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Have a strong, continuous line,
keep the pen on the paper.
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Just like that.
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All these articles say the same thing.
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Hughes runs
a billion-dollar network of companies,
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but he only communicates
with handwritten memos.
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He doesn't even talk to his top guys.
There's no direct contact anywhere.
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That's why it's gonna work.
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Fine. Tell me my dick grew
five inches last night.
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I'll still use a ruler.
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Howard Hughes?
Howard Hughes, the billionaire?
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His exclusive,
authorized autobiography.
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He wants Cliff to write it with him.
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And they want us to publish it.
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Handwriting analysis? Right away.
Can we bring it over right now?
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"It would not suit me to die without
having stated the truth about my life."
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"My life."
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"I therefore authorize Clifford Irving
to act as intermediary
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"as to any arrangements regarding
the publishing of my memoir."
243
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ANDREA: "It would not suit me to die
244
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"without having
certain misconceptions cleared up
245
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"and without having stated
the truth about my life."
246
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So,
247
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taking you at your word...
248
00:17:23,496 --> 00:17:24,589
Yeah.
249
00:17:25,299 --> 00:17:27,892
How does Mr. Hughes propose
we proceed?
250
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I...
251
00:17:33,540 --> 00:17:35,200
Look, this is all very strange.
252
00:17:35,308 --> 00:17:37,776
I'm just getting
the lay of the land here myself.
253
00:17:37,877 --> 00:17:39,003
But what...
254
00:17:40,713 --> 00:17:45,150
What I can gather so far
is that he refuses to go outdoors.
255
00:17:45,884 --> 00:17:49,548
He will only initiate,
never accept, phone calls.
256
00:17:49,656 --> 00:17:52,454
Those two particular rumors
seem to be true.
257
00:17:52,558 --> 00:17:54,992
But he did say that he would provide
258
00:17:55,094 --> 00:17:57,790
handwritten contracts
for legal purposes.
259
00:17:58,464 --> 00:18:01,058
And... Whatever questions you...
260
00:18:02,001 --> 00:18:03,127
You know, you give them to me,
261
00:18:03,236 --> 00:18:04,533
I'll pass them on
when he makes contact with me.
262
00:18:04,638 --> 00:18:07,629
But beyond that,
I don't know what to say, really.
263
00:18:09,142 --> 00:18:10,803
Why you, Cliff?
264
00:18:11,844 --> 00:18:13,868
He could have any writer in the world
do this for him.
265
00:18:13,980 --> 00:18:16,504
Albert, I have absolutely no idea.
266
00:18:16,616 --> 00:18:19,414
This is the strangest thing
that has ever happened to me.
267
00:18:19,518 --> 00:18:22,317
Best guess, he likes me.
268
00:18:24,558 --> 00:18:28,584
So, the matching against the reprinted
letters from Newsweek magazine,
269
00:18:29,195 --> 00:18:31,788
Osborn Associates' preliminary opinion
270
00:18:32,098 --> 00:18:35,329
is that the handwriting samples
are genuine.
271
00:18:39,071 --> 00:18:41,267
- Okay, well, all right...
- Excuse me one second.
272
00:18:41,375 --> 00:18:42,635
Yeah, sure.
273
00:18:42,742 --> 00:18:43,731
Yeah?
274
00:18:53,619 --> 00:18:55,314
- Clifford?
- Yeah?
275
00:18:55,421 --> 00:19:00,016
Did you and Howard discuss
how much you both wanted?
276
00:19:00,126 --> 00:19:04,460
Because we would like
to make you an offer today.
277
00:19:09,634 --> 00:19:12,161
We did. We did. We...
278
00:19:13,973 --> 00:19:15,600
We did discuss it.
279
00:19:16,174 --> 00:19:16,576
UP AROUND THE BEND PLAYING
280
00:19:26,752 --> 00:19:28,277
- Can I weigh in here?
- No.
281
00:19:28,387 --> 00:19:32,720
A man walks in, he says something
completely implausible,
282
00:19:32,824 --> 00:19:35,292
and for that exact reason,
he is believed.
283
00:19:35,394 --> 00:19:38,157
No, it's an Aquarian phenomenon.
284
00:19:38,263 --> 00:19:41,721
- Very, very spiritual.
- Lawyers are not spiritual.
285
00:19:42,134 --> 00:19:44,034
Presumably, this is gonna make news.
286
00:19:44,136 --> 00:19:46,798
Howard Hughes hasn't spoken
to the press in 15 years.
287
00:19:46,905 --> 00:19:48,737
What are you so nervous about?
288
00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,276
- You can't think, Dick. No thinking.
- All I'm saying is, once this gets out,
289
00:19:52,377 --> 00:19:54,902
what's gonna stop this guy
from suing our asses off?
290
00:19:55,013 --> 00:19:58,471
Three words. TWA shareholder lawsuit.
291
00:19:59,752 --> 00:20:03,916
Howard has a judgment of
137 million bucks waiting to hit him
292
00:20:04,022 --> 00:20:05,683
if he walks into any courtroom.
293
00:20:05,791 --> 00:20:07,851
So the book comes out,
it doesn't matter. He can't sue.
294
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:09,483
He can still say it's a fake.
295
00:20:09,595 --> 00:20:11,960
He doesn't say anything
about anything. This guy...
296
00:20:12,063 --> 00:20:16,057
He uses ripped-up Kleenex boxes
for slippers and he drinks his own piss.
297
00:20:16,168 --> 00:20:19,297
- He's psychotic.
- DICK: Have you heard of Intertel?
298
00:20:19,405 --> 00:20:22,396
He has his own private CIA.
Ruthless advisors.
299
00:20:22,506 --> 00:20:24,771
His advisors don't know anything
about the book
300
00:20:24,877 --> 00:20:27,368
because he's too paranoid to tell them.
301
00:20:27,479 --> 00:20:31,006
And he'll never come out of hiding
long enough to denounce me
302
00:20:31,115 --> 00:20:33,949
because he's a lunatic hermit.
303
00:20:34,052 --> 00:20:37,852
And I am the spokesperson
for the lunatic hermit.
304
00:20:37,956 --> 00:20:40,789
So the more outrageous I sound,
the more convincing I am.
305
00:20:40,893 --> 00:20:43,383
Do you believe this, the perfection?
306
00:20:45,029 --> 00:20:48,226
- They offered half a million.
- Half a million dollars?
307
00:20:48,333 --> 00:20:50,631
Four-hundred grand for Howard
and a hundred grand for us!
308
00:20:50,734 --> 00:20:53,431
Oh, I thought you meant
just a half a million for us.
309
00:20:53,537 --> 00:20:56,837
Schmuck, it's all for us.
There is no Howard Hughes.
310
00:20:57,442 --> 00:21:00,036
- Dick, are you paying attention to me?
- Yeah.
311
00:21:00,145 --> 00:21:01,611
The problem is this.
312
00:21:01,980 --> 00:21:02,969
It's an oral agreement.
313
00:21:03,081 --> 00:21:04,775
Their lawyers are gonna
jump all over this,
314
00:21:04,883 --> 00:21:06,510
which is why
we have to leave right now.
315
00:21:06,618 --> 00:21:09,451
We gotta become experts
on this man's life.
316
00:21:09,554 --> 00:21:13,422
And if we find dirt and it rings true,
the top guys will shove this deal
317
00:21:13,524 --> 00:21:15,584
right down the lawyers' throats.
318
00:21:16,828 --> 00:21:17,795
Cliff,
319
00:21:19,430 --> 00:21:22,423
no visits with special friends, right?
320
00:21:25,203 --> 00:21:29,970
I'm not going to do anything
to jeopardize what we've rebuilt, okay?
321
00:21:30,508 --> 00:21:33,534
You just said to warn you
when you get excited.
322
00:21:33,845 --> 00:21:36,369
- You seem excited.
- Well...
323
00:21:42,420 --> 00:21:43,785
I love you.
324
00:21:46,858 --> 00:21:48,257
I love you.
325
00:22:19,391 --> 00:22:22,417
Cliff, Howard Hughes' testimony
326
00:22:22,527 --> 00:22:25,018
at the Senate committee hearings
in 1947.
327
00:22:25,462 --> 00:22:29,091
It's got his speech patterns,
his syntax, everything. It's perfect.
328
00:22:34,571 --> 00:22:36,062
Take a picture.
329
00:22:37,374 --> 00:22:39,740
You can't photograph
a government document, it's a felony.
330
00:22:39,843 --> 00:22:41,641
You gonna memorize it?
Take a picture. Take a picture.
331
00:22:41,745 --> 00:22:43,576
I'm a researcher, Cliff.
I am not a jewel thief.
332
00:22:43,682 --> 00:22:45,672
You own 25 percent of this book.
333
00:22:45,783 --> 00:22:48,411
You want it to be good?
You take a picture.
334
00:22:56,094 --> 00:22:58,152
DICK: You know, I've always had
a dangerous side.
335
00:22:58,263 --> 00:23:00,730
Barbara has often remarked on it.
336
00:23:00,831 --> 00:23:04,233
But to take down the Library
of Congress. God, the adrenaline.
337
00:23:04,336 --> 00:23:07,032
You took a nice picture
of your leg here.
338
00:23:07,738 --> 00:23:09,502
- Or is that your ankle? I can't tell.
- Where?
339
00:23:09,606 --> 00:23:10,971
Right there.
340
00:23:12,277 --> 00:23:15,735
- It's my ankle.
- It's all out of focus anyway.
341
00:23:15,913 --> 00:23:17,505
- Jesus.
- Want another drink?
342
00:23:17,615 --> 00:23:19,377
- Yeah.
- Yeah, me, too.
343
00:23:20,117 --> 00:23:21,346
Oh, fuck.
344
00:23:33,664 --> 00:23:37,100
Harold, this book will sell more copies
than the Bible.
345
00:23:37,335 --> 00:23:40,236
And our competitors will kill to get it,
and if they can't get it,
346
00:23:40,337 --> 00:23:43,272
they will do anything they can
to destroy it.
347
00:23:43,374 --> 00:23:48,505
I say we sign this contract immediately,
and institute absolute, total secrecy.
348
00:23:48,612 --> 00:23:51,081
Total. Not even wives can know.
349
00:23:53,384 --> 00:23:54,374
Within reason.
350
00:23:54,485 --> 00:23:58,421
From now on,
we refer to Hughes as "Octavio."
351
00:23:59,423 --> 00:24:02,358
The book is called "Project Octavio."
352
00:24:03,028 --> 00:24:04,186
HAROLD:
Get Ralph Graves on the phone.
353
00:24:04,294 --> 00:24:05,318
That's the code name.
354
00:24:05,429 --> 00:24:07,397
I want our journalist friends
to weigh in on this
355
00:24:07,498 --> 00:24:10,228
before I sign
Mr. Hughes' piece of paper.
356
00:24:14,405 --> 00:24:16,066
Look at all this security personnel.
357
00:24:17,340 --> 00:24:18,865
This is a secure facility.
358
00:24:18,976 --> 00:24:21,671
We need the information
in portable form.
359
00:24:24,048 --> 00:24:26,312
Just look comfortable, be buoyant.
360
00:24:26,416 --> 00:24:28,408
Hell, they can let anybody in here.
361
00:24:28,518 --> 00:24:31,954
- What if I'm a Russian?
- Be a buoyant Russian.
362
00:24:32,055 --> 00:24:34,853
Records? What for?
363
00:24:34,992 --> 00:24:38,450
You don't know what the hell's going on
with your own company?
364
00:24:40,130 --> 00:24:43,588
Well, to be honest with you, Sergeant,
no, actually, we don't.
365
00:24:43,967 --> 00:24:45,935
Mr. Hughes doesn't like
to share information.
366
00:24:46,035 --> 00:24:48,094
It's very frustrating for us.
367
00:24:48,204 --> 00:24:49,573
You want frustration?
368
00:24:49,573 --> 00:24:49,970
You want frustration?
369
00:24:50,074 --> 00:24:53,907
Call Hughes Aircraft and try to find out
when your plane's gonna be ready.
370
00:24:54,010 --> 00:24:57,309
I've seen decorated individuals
sobbing like six-year-old girls
371
00:24:57,414 --> 00:24:59,472
after dealing with you people.
372
00:24:59,582 --> 00:25:02,312
Could my associate
use your facilities, Sergeant?
373
00:25:02,418 --> 00:25:03,681
Could he?
374
00:25:07,491 --> 00:25:09,550
- Thank you for that.
- To your left.
375
00:25:09,660 --> 00:25:11,422
I'll level with you.
We've had some problems.
376
00:25:11,528 --> 00:25:13,120
Everyone has told us stories
about delays.
377
00:25:13,230 --> 00:25:14,856
Well, I can't get anybody on the phone,
for one thing.
378
00:25:14,965 --> 00:25:17,091
- I had no idea it was this serious.
- It's very serious.
379
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,191
- Frustrating.
- Can you go into any more detail?
380
00:25:19,302 --> 00:25:20,564
Well, the only details I can tell you
381
00:25:20,671 --> 00:25:23,434
is that I've been on the phone
three times today to one girl,
382
00:25:23,539 --> 00:25:25,006
who doesn't know
what she's talking about,
383
00:25:25,108 --> 00:25:26,474
can't tell me when
I'm gonna get my airplanes.
384
00:25:26,577 --> 00:25:29,044
Which office were you talking to?
Do you mind if I write something down?
385
00:25:29,145 --> 00:25:31,340
- Sure.
- This was the complaint department?
386
00:25:31,447 --> 00:25:32,846
- No, acquisitions.
- Acquisitions?
387
00:25:32,948 --> 00:25:35,544
Acquisitions, as far as I know.
388
00:25:35,651 --> 00:25:38,676
My people been dealing with her,
or somebody down there,
389
00:25:38,788 --> 00:25:41,019
for the last three months,
trying to get two aircrafts.
390
00:25:41,125 --> 00:25:42,785
This is an outrage.
391
00:25:42,892 --> 00:25:45,657
An outrage,
the military should be treated that way.
392
00:25:48,197 --> 00:25:50,165
No. No. I'm not doing it.
393
00:25:57,574 --> 00:25:58,562
Hi.
394
00:26:11,688 --> 00:26:12,984
Thank you.
395
00:26:20,097 --> 00:26:21,723
- Hey, Dick. You all right?
- Yeah.
396
00:26:21,831 --> 00:26:23,525
Okay. Keep moving, keep moving.
397
00:26:23,633 --> 00:26:26,124
- Just fine, just fine.
- It's palpitations.
398
00:26:26,269 --> 00:26:29,295
It's okay. A little bit more,
a little bit more. Keep moving.
399
00:26:29,404 --> 00:26:31,032
Sit down here. That's good.
400
00:26:32,207 --> 00:26:33,506
You all right?
401
00:26:33,643 --> 00:26:35,473
You're fine. You're fine.
402
00:26:35,578 --> 00:26:36,977
Fight or flight. It's an animal thing.
403
00:26:37,079 --> 00:26:39,480
It's like you're being chased
by a cheetah or something.
404
00:26:39,582 --> 00:26:41,675
Okay, okay. I'll be fine.
405
00:26:48,024 --> 00:26:49,958
- You okay?
- Yeah, I'm good.
406
00:26:50,059 --> 00:26:53,187
Look, Noah Dietrich, on the right.
407
00:26:53,297 --> 00:26:55,388
Howard Hughes' right-hand man
for over 30 years.
408
00:26:55,498 --> 00:26:57,329
Retired to Vegas.
The other guy, I don't know.
409
00:26:57,432 --> 00:26:58,559
Vegas?
410
00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:03,531
You know, my guess is this guy,
Dietrich, is going to be really cagey.
411
00:27:05,341 --> 00:27:07,809
Information?
Las Vegas, Nevada, please.
412
00:27:14,584 --> 00:27:15,812
Hello?
Mr. Dietrich?
413
00:27:15,919 --> 00:27:19,318
- Yeah?
- Yeah, I'm sorry to bother you at home.
414
00:27:19,421 --> 00:27:21,686
My name is Clifford Irving
and I'm writing a book
415
00:27:21,791 --> 00:27:23,884
about the history of aviation.
416
00:27:23,993 --> 00:27:27,327
I'd be really grateful if you'd share
some of your expertise with me.
417
00:27:27,597 --> 00:27:29,565
Oh, great. Come on over.
418
00:27:33,969 --> 00:27:35,801
You like geranium tea?
419
00:27:37,907 --> 00:27:40,205
It helps your bowels. Follow me.
420
00:27:40,843 --> 00:27:42,400
Watch your step.
421
00:27:42,877 --> 00:27:45,778
- Hey, you're a writer.
- Yes, I am.
422
00:27:46,649 --> 00:27:48,742
I should show you something.
423
00:27:48,851 --> 00:27:51,546
This is an account
of my years at Tool Co.
424
00:27:52,087 --> 00:27:55,421
You know Tool Co.?
Howard Hughes' company.
425
00:28:00,863 --> 00:28:03,127
Has anyone seen this?
426
00:28:03,633 --> 00:28:06,032
Nobody's seen it. It's sensitive.
427
00:28:06,768 --> 00:28:08,703
Listen, I'll come right to the point.
428
00:28:08,804 --> 00:28:11,534
I'll give you $500
to clean up the grammar,
429
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,575
'cause I'm bad with spelling.
430
00:28:13,675 --> 00:28:17,806
Yeah, well, I'd have to read it first.
When can I get it back to you?
431
00:28:17,978 --> 00:28:21,142
No, no, no,
I can't let it out of the house.
432
00:28:21,249 --> 00:28:24,218
Why don't you read it right now,
sitting here?
433
00:28:25,321 --> 00:28:27,015
- Now?
- Now.
434
00:28:28,891 --> 00:28:30,482
Right here? Okay.
435
00:28:34,262 --> 00:28:37,060
- NOAH: Take your time. See you later.
- Thank you.
436
00:28:40,735 --> 00:28:44,136
You know what this is?
Do you understand what this means?
437
00:28:44,239 --> 00:28:47,140
- This is exactly... It's gold.
- It's perfect.
438
00:28:47,877 --> 00:28:50,640
We have to find a way
to get it out of the house.
439
00:28:50,912 --> 00:28:52,345
Copy, we need a copy.
440
00:28:52,447 --> 00:28:55,348
Okay, get up. Stand in front of me.
Come over here.
441
00:28:55,450 --> 00:28:57,816
- It's great in the water!
- Keep smiling. What's he doing?
442
00:28:57,919 --> 00:29:00,217
- Oh, yeah.
- Tell me if he can see it.
443
00:29:00,321 --> 00:29:01,755
Grab it.
444
00:29:01,856 --> 00:29:04,792
Tell your friend to come in.
The water's beautiful.
445
00:29:04,893 --> 00:29:07,555
Copy that and get back here,
right away.
446
00:29:34,556 --> 00:29:35,614
Thank you!
447
00:29:44,631 --> 00:29:46,827
Sit down, sit down. Thank you.
448
00:29:47,735 --> 00:29:49,727
All right? Are you ready?
449
00:29:51,373 --> 00:29:53,135
All right. I'm done.
450
00:29:54,041 --> 00:29:56,066
Sir, honesty is my policy.
451
00:29:56,611 --> 00:29:58,408
This is atrocious. It's not publishable.
452
00:29:58,514 --> 00:30:01,778
It's run-on sentences,
it's mangled verbiage...
453
00:30:01,883 --> 00:30:03,407
I'm very sorry.
454
00:30:03,518 --> 00:30:07,009
You benefit and I benefit from honesty.
God bless.
455
00:30:09,657 --> 00:30:13,457
This is badly spelled gossip
from someone absolutely in the know.
456
00:30:13,561 --> 00:30:16,028
This is perfect. Perfect! Oh, my...
457
00:30:17,131 --> 00:30:19,464
You know what we should
do? Let's give Andrea some good news.
458
00:30:34,482 --> 00:30:37,246
This is amazing.
Everybody hates Howard Hughes.
459
00:30:37,352 --> 00:30:39,912
They call him cheap, everything else.
460
00:30:40,020 --> 00:30:42,750
But, you know, they're in his thrall.
They can't stop talking about him.
461
00:30:42,857 --> 00:30:44,653
He's Howard Hughes.
Who the fuck are they?
462
00:30:44,759 --> 00:30:47,319
Listen. "He rarely took vacations.
463
00:30:47,762 --> 00:30:48,096
"But when he did,
he usually booked a remote hotel
464
00:30:48,096 --> 00:30:50,860
"But when he did,
he usually booked a remote hotel
465
00:30:50,964 --> 00:30:54,196
"in the Juchitán mountains
called the Salina Cruz."
466
00:30:54,568 --> 00:30:58,026
- Remote. R-E-M-O-A-T. Vacation...
- I'm going for a walk.
467
00:30:58,205 --> 00:30:59,833
- I'll be back in a little bit.
- Okay.
468
00:31:02,376 --> 00:31:03,707
What is it?
469
00:31:07,182 --> 00:31:10,412
Look, you told me
not to call you ever again, so I didn't.
470
00:31:11,652 --> 00:31:15,110
- I say a lot of stupid things, you know?
- Yeah.
471
00:31:16,957 --> 00:31:19,050
It was funny seeing you the other night.
472
00:31:20,794 --> 00:31:25,924
I would have given anything
to get this call a year ago.
473
00:31:28,235 --> 00:31:30,896
- It's too late. I...
- Clifford...
474
00:31:31,004 --> 00:31:33,802
- You ran out of time. Sorry.
- Clifford, wait. I need to see you.
475
00:31:33,907 --> 00:31:34,931
Bye.
476
00:31:51,892 --> 00:31:55,624
Cliff, listen to this.
This is from the Dietrich manuscript.
477
00:31:55,829 --> 00:31:59,424
There's a full transcription here of a
conversation between Howard Hughes
478
00:31:59,533 --> 00:32:01,364
and Frank McCullough
from Time magazine.
479
00:32:01,469 --> 00:32:06,736
They mention Intertel, the Mormon guy,
George Gordon Holmes.
480
00:32:06,974 --> 00:32:09,273
- It's fantastic.
- Stop, listen to me.
481
00:32:09,376 --> 00:32:12,835
- Nina called from New York last night.
- Oh, here we go.
482
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:17,810
Dick, it took me a year
to make things right with Edith.
483
00:32:17,918 --> 00:32:19,886
- Keep an eye on me, will you?
- Keep an eye?
484
00:32:19,987 --> 00:32:21,921
It's my second profession.
485
00:32:26,361 --> 00:32:28,191
- Here you are.
- Thanks.
486
00:32:31,632 --> 00:32:32,826
Cliff...
487
00:32:34,735 --> 00:32:36,430
I've been talking to Barbara,
488
00:32:36,537 --> 00:32:40,668
and she's found some kind of
publishing contract.
489
00:32:41,173 --> 00:32:44,302
And I was wondering
if maybe we could talk about,
490
00:32:44,478 --> 00:32:46,810
you know, some kind of credit deal,
491
00:32:46,914 --> 00:32:49,438
or just some more money for me.
492
00:32:51,686 --> 00:32:53,084
You're not happy
with what we talked about?
493
00:32:53,185 --> 00:32:55,449
- No, no, no, it's not that.
- What? What is it?
494
00:32:55,555 --> 00:32:57,080
Well, it's just like...
I sort of feel that, you know...
495
00:32:58,424 --> 00:33:00,392
Don't answer that! Don't...
496
00:33:00,493 --> 00:33:03,223
Hello, darling. It's Ms. Tate calling.
We have a bit of a problem.
497
00:33:03,329 --> 00:33:07,323
- Andrea thinks it's just me...
- Hello! Hi, Andrea, this...
498
00:33:08,201 --> 00:33:10,362
- Who is this?
- You can't say her name.
499
00:33:10,470 --> 00:33:12,664
- This is Dick.
- No, no, don't give your name.
500
00:33:12,773 --> 00:33:14,240
Dick Suskind.
501
00:33:14,540 --> 00:33:16,236
Dick, how do you know my name?
502
00:33:16,343 --> 00:33:19,470
- Don't tell her!
- Cliff mentioned you.
503
00:33:19,580 --> 00:33:22,208
What are you doing out there
with Clifford?
504
00:33:24,351 --> 00:33:29,583
- I am the...
- Co-coordinator of...
505
00:33:30,157 --> 00:33:34,058
- I'm the coauthor of Project Octavio.
- Excuse me?
506
00:33:35,328 --> 00:33:38,161
- Is Cliff there?
- Yes, certainly. He's right here.
507
00:33:38,264 --> 00:33:41,666
- Put him on the phone, please.
- I didn't know what else to say.
508
00:33:41,768 --> 00:33:43,633
- I heard you talking...
- I know what you're doing.
509
00:33:43,737 --> 00:33:45,226
- I know what you're doing.
- What?
510
00:33:45,338 --> 00:33:47,306
I know what you're doing.
511
00:33:47,406 --> 00:33:48,498
Hi, Andrea.
512
00:33:48,608 --> 00:33:50,235
Who the hell was that, Clifford?
513
00:33:50,344 --> 00:33:53,507
That is my associate.
514
00:33:53,613 --> 00:33:55,547
I was intending
to talk to you about him.
515
00:33:55,649 --> 00:33:57,513
He's working with me on this.
516
00:33:57,617 --> 00:34:00,780
All right. You need to be in New York
at 9:00 on Monday morning.
517
00:34:00,886 --> 00:34:02,718
You're meeting with Ralph Graves.
518
00:34:02,822 --> 00:34:05,450
He's the editor-in-chief
of Life magazine.
519
00:34:06,225 --> 00:34:07,886
Yeah, I know who he is.
520
00:34:07,994 --> 00:34:11,452
You need to go over all your contacts
with Octavio.
521
00:34:11,564 --> 00:34:16,228
Life knows a lot about him, so get
your memory clear and be specific.
522
00:34:16,335 --> 00:34:19,099
I don't want to lose the deal
over their knee-jerk suspicions.
523
00:34:19,205 --> 00:34:21,935
What do you... Wait, wait, wait.
What do you mean, "lose the deal"?
524
00:34:22,041 --> 00:34:23,599
What suspicions?
525
00:34:24,011 --> 00:34:26,002
Just tell them the truth.
526
00:34:40,026 --> 00:34:44,155
He gave me a prune.
He gave me a prune.
527
00:34:45,164 --> 00:34:47,222
Visualize the Mediterranean
or something.
528
00:34:47,333 --> 00:34:49,267
You're sweating like an animal.
529
00:34:49,368 --> 00:34:51,303
You know, it's pretty nervy
of these publishers
530
00:34:51,404 --> 00:34:52,701
to put us through this inquisition.
531
00:34:52,804 --> 00:34:56,332
Well, you can't sit it out now.
You're a coauthor.
532
00:34:59,779 --> 00:35:00,972
History.
533
00:35:02,181 --> 00:35:04,081
Quite a responsibility.
534
00:35:05,184 --> 00:35:07,209
The second handwriting analysis
told us
535
00:35:07,319 --> 00:35:11,187
your letters from Mr. Hughes
are authentic.
536
00:35:11,424 --> 00:35:13,654
ANDREA: 100 percent.
RALPH: No surprise there.
537
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,492
Experts want to provide their employers
with good news.
538
00:35:18,497 --> 00:35:20,124
He gave me a prune.
539
00:35:22,768 --> 00:35:23,734
What?
540
00:35:31,378 --> 00:35:33,845
Right... In a bag.
541
00:35:34,479 --> 00:35:37,039
He gave me a prune. Howard Hughes.
542
00:35:37,148 --> 00:35:40,983
Dick is jumping forward a little bit.
It was a memorable moment for him.
543
00:35:41,087 --> 00:35:44,921
- Anyway, Ralph, how can we help?
- You know, no one likes to be accused.
544
00:35:46,125 --> 00:35:48,456
I really don't think anyone's
making accusations here, Dick.
545
00:35:48,561 --> 00:35:50,256
Are we going to stand around all day
looking at photographs?
546
00:35:50,362 --> 00:35:52,330
We came here to talk about
Howard Hughes. Let's talk about him.
547
00:35:52,430 --> 00:35:53,625
He gave me a prune.
548
00:35:53,733 --> 00:35:56,667
Howard Hughes gave me a prune
on the beach at Nassau.
549
00:35:57,302 --> 00:36:00,636
I thought you met Hughes
the first time in Mexico.
550
00:36:04,877 --> 00:36:07,675
Ralph, what happened was this.
I got a phone call.
551
00:36:07,780 --> 00:36:09,371
Really, out of the blue.
552
00:36:09,482 --> 00:36:12,918
From a man
named George Gordon Holmes.
553
00:36:13,085 --> 00:36:15,212
Longtime associate of Howard Hughes.
554
00:36:15,488 --> 00:36:18,149
He says he wants us
to fly down to Mexico City,
555
00:36:18,758 --> 00:36:21,625
wait for a call,
so we go ahead and do this.
556
00:36:21,727 --> 00:36:25,128
We fly down there,
we check into this fleabag hotel.
557
00:36:25,997 --> 00:36:27,965
Eighteen hours we wait,
no air conditioning,
558
00:36:28,066 --> 00:36:31,160
sand crabs in the bathtub,
I say, "The hell with him,"
559
00:36:31,270 --> 00:36:32,965
when we spot an envelope,
560
00:36:34,973 --> 00:36:36,201
shoved under the door.
561
00:36:36,307 --> 00:36:37,707
He rarely went on vacation,
but when he did,
562
00:36:37,810 --> 00:36:39,243
he usually booked into a remote hotel
563
00:36:39,344 --> 00:36:41,479
- in the mountains of Juchitán.
- It says,
564
00:36:41,479 --> 00:36:41,706
- in the mountains of Juchitán.
- It says,
565
00:36:41,813 --> 00:36:44,680
"There's a pilot waiting
to take you to Juchitán."
566
00:36:47,018 --> 00:36:51,717
So it's 6:00 a.m.,
we're flying low over the mountains,
567
00:36:52,024 --> 00:36:53,251
and I'm nervous.
568
00:36:53,358 --> 00:36:55,155
But he's got a touch, this bush pilot.
569
00:36:55,261 --> 00:36:58,957
He brings it right down
onto a gray pebble landing strip.
570
00:36:59,063 --> 00:37:00,793
Just as it comes down,
I see out of the corner of my eye,
571
00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:03,833
there's a jeep that's coming down
from the mountains.
572
00:37:04,269 --> 00:37:05,862
Mexican military?
573
00:37:06,805 --> 00:37:07,932
No.
574
00:37:08,807 --> 00:37:09,796
It's Holmes.
575
00:37:09,908 --> 00:37:13,901
- Mr. Irving?
- Yes, that's right. Mr. Holmes?
576
00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:16,012
- Who is this?
- Dick Suskind, sir.
577
00:37:16,114 --> 00:37:18,309
So, he's a little surprised to see Dick,
578
00:37:18,416 --> 00:37:20,782
but I explained that Dick
was my researcher and friend,
579
00:37:20,885 --> 00:37:23,183
and that's why he was there
and I couldn't do without him.
580
00:37:23,289 --> 00:37:24,346
We get in the jeep,
581
00:37:24,455 --> 00:37:27,891
and he takes us on this endless ride,
up through the mountains.
582
00:37:28,526 --> 00:37:32,121
We circled around the top of this hill
and we got to the hotel,
583
00:37:32,497 --> 00:37:34,055
which was called
584
00:37:34,933 --> 00:37:36,333
Salina Cruz.
585
00:37:38,903 --> 00:37:41,201
Holmes motions for us to follow.
586
00:37:43,675 --> 00:37:45,234
It's quiet.
587
00:37:50,315 --> 00:37:53,284
There's a room
way in the back, like a hut.
588
00:37:54,886 --> 00:37:57,115
Doesn't even have
a view of the ocean.
589
00:38:01,059 --> 00:38:02,493
We can barely see.
590
00:38:04,730 --> 00:38:10,497
There's a little slip of a man on a bed,
sitting like a monk.
591
00:38:14,706 --> 00:38:16,230
Howard Hughes.
592
00:38:20,979 --> 00:38:22,536
Howard Hughes.
593
00:38:23,514 --> 00:38:25,744
Howard Hughes is sitting right there.
594
00:38:28,553 --> 00:38:29,986
My heart...
595
00:38:33,024 --> 00:38:37,654
And then he was reaching out
through the mosquito netting,
596
00:38:38,730 --> 00:38:41,460
and he offered Dick a...
597
00:38:42,834 --> 00:38:44,028
A prune.
598
00:38:44,435 --> 00:38:45,663
A prune.
599
00:38:48,338 --> 00:38:49,806
Dick takes the prune,
600
00:39:00,585 --> 00:39:01,915
eats the prune...
601
00:39:03,955 --> 00:39:05,080
Not bad.
602
00:39:07,057 --> 00:39:11,050
And he started talking about
the extraordinary value of Mexican soil,
603
00:39:11,162 --> 00:39:13,026
organic farming, organic food,
et cetera, et cetera.
604
00:39:13,131 --> 00:39:15,655
The two of them started jabbering
like old friends.
605
00:39:15,767 --> 00:39:19,863
We ended up talking a little bit about
business, then Dick and I went home.
606
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:23,799
- I'm a little hungry.
- Let's eat.
607
00:39:25,776 --> 00:39:28,438
Ralph, will you pick
something fabulous?
608
00:39:29,346 --> 00:39:31,314
The Latour please, '61.
609
00:39:31,416 --> 00:39:34,180
- That'll get us started. Thank you.
- Oh, yes.
610
00:39:34,284 --> 00:39:36,275
And some beluga,
shall we, gentlemen?
611
00:39:36,387 --> 00:39:37,648
MAN: Sounds good.
612
00:39:38,923 --> 00:39:41,618
You know, Howard Hughes
doesn't like caviar.
613
00:39:41,726 --> 00:39:42,715
Really?
614
00:39:42,827 --> 00:39:45,886
Really. In fact, he made a special point
of saying so.
615
00:39:46,096 --> 00:39:47,563
I remember that. I...
616
00:39:47,664 --> 00:39:49,359
It was such a non sequitur.
It was a strange thing.
617
00:39:49,466 --> 00:39:53,266
It was just after Clifford
finished talking about the...
618
00:39:54,905 --> 00:39:56,395
- The crash.
- That's right. The crash.
619
00:39:56,507 --> 00:39:59,135
The one in Beverly Hills.
He nearly hit the top of that house,
620
00:39:59,242 --> 00:40:02,406
parked it right on top of the house, hurt
his back, but he walked away from it.
621
00:40:02,512 --> 00:40:05,708
And he said that people
in Beverly Hills eat caviar,
622
00:40:05,816 --> 00:40:08,751
and he doesn't like it
and then he crashed his plane.
623
00:40:11,955 --> 00:40:16,325
Okay, then let's make it
two beluga appetizers, please.
624
00:40:16,426 --> 00:40:20,453
- Three maybe.
- Three, yeah. Make it three.
625
00:40:20,564 --> 00:40:22,793
- Andrea, yeah?
- Thank you. Okay. Good.
626
00:40:24,768 --> 00:40:28,101
Did you get any sense
of his business acumen?
627
00:40:29,006 --> 00:40:30,030
Go ahead.
628
00:40:30,141 --> 00:40:32,506
It's interesting. He said that...
629
00:40:33,276 --> 00:40:37,838
Very interesting. He said that people
often think of business as business,
630
00:40:37,948 --> 00:40:41,282
which of course it is, but also...
Within business, there is also pleasure.
631
00:40:41,385 --> 00:40:43,649
You know, business is pleasure.
Pleasure can be a business.
632
00:40:43,754 --> 00:40:47,190
Business has pleasure.
It's both. It's both at the same time.
633
00:40:47,691 --> 00:40:50,592
I didn't really understand it,
but after a while it sunk in,
634
00:40:50,694 --> 00:40:55,290
and I realized, you know,
that's his genius.
635
00:41:05,375 --> 00:41:07,934
This is your check for writing services.
636
00:41:08,045 --> 00:41:11,776
The second check for Mr. Hughes,
or, Octavio, sorry...
637
00:41:11,882 --> 00:41:14,680
It's gonna take
a little longer to process.
638
00:41:14,785 --> 00:41:18,084
I understand you're authorized
to receive Mr. Hughes' payment?
639
00:41:18,188 --> 00:41:21,384
Yeah, I am, I am, thank you.
But don't take too long, all right?
640
00:41:21,490 --> 00:41:24,551
Life magazine is prepared
to offer $250,000
641
00:41:24,660 --> 00:41:28,961
for worldwide exclusive rights
to serialize the Howard Hughes story.
642
00:41:32,203 --> 00:41:34,136
That's a record, Harold.
643
00:41:36,138 --> 00:41:39,700
I'm wondering if it's enough of a record,
Ralph.
644
00:41:43,813 --> 00:41:45,441
Oh, jeez.
The money makes this real.
645
00:41:46,649 --> 00:41:49,083
You can still back out,
but you gotta tell me now.
646
00:41:49,185 --> 00:41:50,175
- Back out?
- Yeah.
647
00:41:50,286 --> 00:41:52,811
Fuck, no!
We're the goddamn Musketeers.
648
00:41:52,923 --> 00:41:55,447
Good. That's good.
Don't spend any money, though.
649
00:41:55,559 --> 00:41:57,355
Better we keep it for later,
in case we need it.
650
00:41:57,461 --> 00:41:58,427
Absolutely.
651
00:41:58,528 --> 00:42:00,155
In other news,
the Supreme Court has agreed to hear
652
00:42:00,263 --> 00:42:04,756
the TWA shareholders' case against
reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
653
00:42:04,968 --> 00:42:09,267
A loss could cost Hughes
$ 137,000,000
654
00:42:09,371 --> 00:42:11,532
and devastate his financial empire.
655
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,472
The Nixon Justice Department
has thus far refused...
656
00:42:13,577 --> 00:42:14,736
We gotta reach big.
657
00:42:14,844 --> 00:42:17,837
We'll go for texture, gritty details,
we need blood, we need money,
658
00:42:17,947 --> 00:42:20,973
we need real juicy,
Shakespearean, big stuff...
659
00:42:21,083 --> 00:42:23,779
You want to critique a sitting president
who's also a war criminal?
660
00:42:23,886 --> 00:42:25,046
- No, no, no.
- You can do anything you want.
661
00:42:25,155 --> 00:42:27,146
You can impact culture
with something like this.
662
00:42:27,256 --> 00:42:29,247
"Lmpact culture." I want to make
some money and not get caught.
663
00:42:29,358 --> 00:42:31,121
You know,
we've got to make this plausible.
664
00:42:31,227 --> 00:42:33,627
Dick, I handed them
three yellow letters.
665
00:42:33,730 --> 00:42:36,720
They gave me $500,000.
Is that plausible?
666
00:42:36,832 --> 00:42:38,424
I don't think so.
667
00:42:42,571 --> 00:42:43,971
- You want to get a drink?
- Okay.
668
00:42:44,073 --> 00:42:46,541
I'm gonna change my shirt.
I'll be right out.
669
00:42:47,477 --> 00:42:50,843
- I'm heading home.
- You go. I'm sticking for a while.
670
00:42:51,847 --> 00:42:53,838
- See you, Tom.
- Good night.
671
00:43:13,836 --> 00:43:16,930
- Tommy, can I use your phone?
- Yeah, sure, go right ahead.
672
00:43:21,110 --> 00:43:23,374
I saw Elmyr a few months ago in lbiza.
673
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,204
So, how is our old friend Elmyr?
674
00:43:26,615 --> 00:43:28,480
Well, I was having dinner with friends,
675
00:43:28,584 --> 00:43:31,382
and he was at the bar,
sitting all alone, drinking.
676
00:43:31,654 --> 00:43:32,916
He came up to me and he said,
677
00:43:33,022 --> 00:43:37,391
"I have always found your affair with
Clifford to be common and immoral."
678
00:43:37,493 --> 00:43:39,017
And he stormed out.
679
00:43:40,429 --> 00:43:42,727
You're lying. Elmyr didn't say that.
680
00:43:43,199 --> 00:43:43,365
Oh, I'm the liar?
681
00:43:43,365 --> 00:43:44,889
Oh, I'm the liar?
682
00:43:44,999 --> 00:43:49,061
And who's writing a fake book about
the most famous man in the world?
683
00:43:51,774 --> 00:43:53,298
Gotta get back.
684
00:43:53,542 --> 00:43:57,069
No! No, the clock is broken. You stay.
685
00:43:59,648 --> 00:44:01,308
Just to confirm,
686
00:44:01,749 --> 00:44:04,685
he's still rich
and you're still not gonna leave him.
687
00:44:05,221 --> 00:44:07,485
Oh, I want to, Cliff, I want to.
688
00:44:08,023 --> 00:44:11,151
But, no, I'm not going to.
689
00:44:15,898 --> 00:44:17,592
I'm shallow, Cliff.
690
00:44:19,435 --> 00:44:22,893
My greatest desire
is to be an American movie star.
691
00:44:23,504 --> 00:44:25,768
- How shallow is that?
- Pretty shallow.
692
00:44:27,042 --> 00:44:30,340
And besides, why does it bother you
so much that I'm your mistress?
693
00:44:30,446 --> 00:44:33,006
Brecht, Hemingway,
they all had mistresses.
694
00:44:33,115 --> 00:44:36,812
The lying gives me a headache,
if you want to know the truth.
695
00:44:37,085 --> 00:44:39,350
Oh, I forgot. You're a devoted husband.
696
00:44:39,622 --> 00:44:42,489
I think I forgot
while you were screwing me.
697
00:44:46,027 --> 00:44:47,255
Sorry.
698
00:44:49,063 --> 00:44:51,623
Sorry.
I know I should have not called you.
699
00:44:51,733 --> 00:44:54,430
I'm not gonna go through
this whole thing again.
700
00:44:55,504 --> 00:44:58,472
I can't do it to her. I can't.
701
00:45:00,341 --> 00:45:01,969
I'll see you next time?
702
00:45:07,549 --> 00:45:10,416
Oh, Dick, Nina!
There's no future with her.
703
00:45:10,918 --> 00:45:13,546
- She weakens me.
- Okay, all right. That's very helpful.
704
00:45:13,655 --> 00:45:16,145
Edith is stability, Dick. She's my rock.
705
00:45:16,257 --> 00:45:18,351
Give me a break, will you, please?
706
00:45:18,826 --> 00:45:20,886
Did you tell Nina about the book?
707
00:45:22,597 --> 00:45:24,031
Are you out of your fucking mind?
708
00:45:24,133 --> 00:45:26,829
I've got the "I'm an asshole" part
down pretty good.
709
00:45:26,935 --> 00:45:29,232
It's the "What do I do now?" part
I need help with.
710
00:45:29,338 --> 00:45:31,363
Please? Be my friend?
711
00:45:31,472 --> 00:45:33,565
- Are you my friend?
- Yeah, I'm your friend.
712
00:45:33,675 --> 00:45:37,237
I don't know what I'm gonna do
if she asks me where I went.
713
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,010
Come clean.
714
00:45:40,448 --> 00:45:42,439
She'll leave me, for good.
715
00:45:43,418 --> 00:45:46,013
It's the best I got.
What else can I tell you?
716
00:45:47,655 --> 00:45:49,122
You wanna hear this?
717
00:45:50,391 --> 00:45:51,358
Yeah.
718
00:45:51,459 --> 00:45:54,019
All right,
this is the Senate hearings, 1947.
719
00:45:54,362 --> 00:45:57,331
I'm not even sure
that's a correct statement,
720
00:45:57,432 --> 00:46:02,028
but the fact remains
that if I made 15 million dollars,
721
00:46:02,136 --> 00:46:05,628
I made it selling oil well tools
and beer,
722
00:46:05,740 --> 00:46:08,835
Grand Prize beer,
to people down in Texas.
723
00:46:08,943 --> 00:46:10,706
"Beer down in Texas."
724
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:16,073
And I don't think the public
should be led to believe...
725
00:46:16,184 --> 00:46:17,912
"Led to believe."
726
00:46:18,019 --> 00:46:21,181
... on war contracts while I did not.
Now, furthermore...
727
00:46:21,289 --> 00:46:23,121
"Now, furthermore..."
728
00:46:23,256 --> 00:46:25,521
- "Furthermore, Senator..."
- "Furthermore..."
729
00:46:25,627 --> 00:46:28,823
... a little money somewhere.
How could I put nine million dollars...
730
00:46:28,929 --> 00:46:30,454
A little pocket change
731
00:46:30,565 --> 00:46:33,694
worth five million dollars in my pocket.
732
00:46:36,170 --> 00:46:38,138
Mr. Hughes, where would you
like to begin?
733
00:46:40,507 --> 00:46:43,033
- Family, friends, father...
- Yeah.
734
00:46:43,143 --> 00:46:45,009
My father. We'll do father.
735
00:46:49,984 --> 00:46:54,044
People called my father Big Howard.
736
00:46:55,857 --> 00:46:57,119
Big Howard...
737
00:46:57,991 --> 00:47:02,827
Big Howard made his money
leasing drilling bits in the oil business.
738
00:47:05,298 --> 00:47:07,563
He said to me... He said, "Sonny..."
739
00:47:10,438 --> 00:47:13,339
"Sonny, these drill bits
are your bread and butter.
740
00:47:13,441 --> 00:47:15,271
"Don't ever let 'em go."
741
00:47:18,445 --> 00:47:22,677
Big Howard died when I was 18.
742
00:47:25,652 --> 00:47:31,352
His bunch of Texas roughneck friends
tried to sell his company.
743
00:47:33,727 --> 00:47:36,821
Pushed me out of the picture.
I don't like being pushed.
744
00:47:38,732 --> 00:47:44,637
Now, when two parties negotiate,
you got a lion and a donkey.
745
00:47:48,242 --> 00:47:51,938
One party, through bluster or leverage,
746
00:47:53,447 --> 00:47:56,940
claims control of
the situation right away. That's the lion.
747
00:47:59,086 --> 00:48:00,485
At 18,
748
00:48:00,988 --> 00:48:03,821
I sued these men
trying to sell my father's company.
749
00:48:03,924 --> 00:48:06,450
I sued them, I attacked them,
I blackmailed them,
750
00:48:06,561 --> 00:48:10,189
I pushed every which way I could!
751
00:48:12,265 --> 00:48:14,131
I learned to be a lion.
752
00:48:28,783 --> 00:48:30,215
Jesus, Cliff.
753
00:48:39,727 --> 00:48:42,126
- Read the women's rags lately?
- Hi.
754
00:48:42,897 --> 00:48:45,798
Excerpts from
Howard Hughes' autobiography
755
00:48:45,899 --> 00:48:49,596
in Ladies Home Journal
from the book by Robert Eaton.
756
00:48:51,872 --> 00:48:54,533
Life's lawyers are gnawing
the flesh from my bones.
757
00:48:54,641 --> 00:48:57,011
Would you like to tell me, Clifford,
what the fuck is going on here?
758
00:48:57,011 --> 00:48:57,669
Would you like to tell me, Clifford,
what the fuck is going on here?
759
00:48:57,776 --> 00:48:59,039
I don't know anything about this.
760
00:48:59,145 --> 00:49:01,169
This goddamn Eaton
supposedly has memos,
761
00:49:01,281 --> 00:49:04,444
the same handwritten memos
that you've got, so...
762
00:49:04,918 --> 00:49:07,854
Either you're selling this twice and
using Robert Eaton as a pen name...
763
00:49:07,955 --> 00:49:10,081
I won't even dignify that
with a response.
764
00:49:10,191 --> 00:49:15,685
Or, more likely, your demigod
lunatic friend is using two writers.
765
00:49:15,795 --> 00:49:16,853
You get it?
766
00:49:16,962 --> 00:49:19,022
All the sharks at my company
have is you,
767
00:49:19,132 --> 00:49:23,864
which means they will sue your skinny
ass for every cent of the advance,
768
00:49:23,970 --> 00:49:26,632
plus damages,
for making false representations...
769
00:49:26,740 --> 00:49:28,001
No, I made no false representations!
770
00:49:28,108 --> 00:49:31,076
...about an exclusive book
you said you could deliver.
771
00:49:31,176 --> 00:49:33,872
So she said that they said
that they would sue us both?
772
00:49:33,979 --> 00:49:35,003
- Yeah.
- Both of us?
773
00:49:35,115 --> 00:49:37,173
- I mean, she mentioned me by name?
- Yes.
774
00:49:37,284 --> 00:49:39,478
Can you believe this son of a bitch
had the same idea?
775
00:49:39,585 --> 00:49:41,383
But I spent the money.
776
00:49:41,921 --> 00:49:44,947
I told you we might have to give it back!
Jeez, Dick.
777
00:49:45,058 --> 00:49:47,391
Well, it wasn't exactly
a huge percentage to begin with.
778
00:49:47,493 --> 00:49:48,688
Look, just pay the money.
779
00:49:48,795 --> 00:49:51,787
Tell them that Hughes
has changed his mind.
780
00:49:51,897 --> 00:49:55,630
- And I'll owe you the difference.
- I can't. I'm down most of it myself.
781
00:49:55,735 --> 00:49:59,135
Yeah, well, borrow it.
This isn't a prank anymore, Cliff.
782
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,104
If they go to the press with this,
783
00:50:01,207 --> 00:50:03,539
we're gonna have
Howard fucking Hughes chasing us.
784
00:50:03,643 --> 00:50:04,836
And Intertel.
785
00:50:04,945 --> 00:50:07,742
Remember, they'll stab us
with sodium pentothal?
786
00:50:07,847 --> 00:50:11,543
They'll kill us or tie us up or something.
787
00:50:11,884 --> 00:50:15,912
Howard won't be coming after us.
His advisors maybe, but he won't.
788
00:50:16,021 --> 00:50:17,079
- Oh, really?
- Yeah.
789
00:50:17,190 --> 00:50:18,714
- What, he tell you that over breakfast?
- Yeah.
790
00:50:18,824 --> 00:50:20,952
And what about this other book?
What if that's the real thing, huh?
791
00:50:21,060 --> 00:50:22,653
You thought about that?
792
00:50:23,095 --> 00:50:24,221
All right, the question is,
793
00:50:24,330 --> 00:50:26,458
what would Howard do
in a situation like this?
794
00:50:26,566 --> 00:50:28,726
I don't know. Buy a fucking airline.
795
00:50:30,769 --> 00:50:34,365
Diversion, end run, surprise.
796
00:50:36,543 --> 00:50:38,534
Who are you now? General Patton?
797
00:50:38,979 --> 00:50:42,573
Viruses and bacteria
are the most powerful enemies...
798
00:50:46,852 --> 00:50:48,081
Luce.
799
00:50:49,455 --> 00:50:52,185
the human body has got.
You look at the fingernail clippings...
800
00:50:52,291 --> 00:50:54,020
Henry Luce.
801
00:50:57,363 --> 00:50:59,991
Dick, I think you should
take a little holiday.
802
00:51:00,499 --> 00:51:02,058
You got everything?
You got your passport?
803
00:51:02,169 --> 00:51:03,567
- You got the letter? Okay, great.
- Yeah, I'm fine...
804
00:51:03,669 --> 00:51:05,228
You're gonna be fine. Bye.
805
00:51:05,338 --> 00:51:06,771
ONLY YOU KNOW
AND I KNOW PLAYING
806
00:51:39,538 --> 00:51:41,597
- Hello, this is Andrea.
- Yeah, Andrea, it's Cliff.
807
00:51:41,707 --> 00:51:43,937
Yeah, one more thing, Shelton Fisher
needs to be at the meeting.
808
00:51:44,043 --> 00:51:45,271
Do you know who he is?
809
00:51:45,378 --> 00:51:47,039
Chairman of McGraw-Hill, yes.
810
00:51:47,147 --> 00:51:49,411
- Has to be at the meeting.
- All right, I'll see what I can do.
811
00:51:49,515 --> 00:51:53,450
It's not me. It's him.
No negotiation. No Fisher, no meeting.
812
00:52:04,530 --> 00:52:08,591
Mr. Irving, it would appear
that either you
813
00:52:08,701 --> 00:52:12,466
or your illustrious sponsor
is jerking someone's chain.
814
00:52:12,938 --> 00:52:16,634
Let me assure you that chain
will not be connected to Life magazine.
815
00:52:17,843 --> 00:52:22,246
So, why don't you begin by telling us
who Robert Eaton is
816
00:52:22,348 --> 00:52:25,909
and why he's selling the book
you're supposed to be writing?
817
00:52:28,421 --> 00:52:30,889
Shelton, have you received
your mail today?
818
00:52:33,258 --> 00:52:34,557
Excuse me?
819
00:52:35,327 --> 00:52:37,319
Ralph, I was talking to Shelton.
820
00:52:37,631 --> 00:52:40,030
As a side comment,
watch your tone with me.
821
00:52:40,132 --> 00:52:43,589
I've been up for two nights negotiating
with a very stubborn billionaire,
822
00:52:43,703 --> 00:52:46,364
and my quota for verbal abuse
has been reached.
823
00:52:50,042 --> 00:52:52,010
Could you get the mail, please?
824
00:52:52,711 --> 00:52:55,077
Life magazine has been known
825
00:52:55,181 --> 00:52:58,513
to have a slight impact
on writers' careers, my friend.
826
00:52:58,617 --> 00:53:02,348
And we...
We are not afraid of civil litigation.
827
00:53:02,598 --> 00:53:05,863
That's the tone, right there.
You got that? Watch it.
828
00:53:16,813 --> 00:53:18,212
Is that it?
829
00:53:19,049 --> 00:53:20,881
All right, Shelton,
while you're reading this,
830
00:53:20,984 --> 00:53:23,714
assuming that Howard wrote
what he told me he was gonna write,
831
00:53:23,821 --> 00:53:26,187
I will give a summary to the group here.
832
00:53:26,290 --> 00:53:30,284
Howard doesn't know who Eaton is.
The book is a fake.
833
00:53:31,262 --> 00:53:32,593
But that doesn't really matter now
834
00:53:32,698 --> 00:53:35,495
because when he found out
that McGraw-Hill sold
835
00:53:35,601 --> 00:53:39,731
the serialization rights to Life magazine
without his authorization,
836
00:53:40,373 --> 00:53:44,672
he became...
What's the word? Apoplectic.
837
00:53:46,945 --> 00:53:48,937
You got a problem, Ralph.
838
00:53:49,047 --> 00:53:52,176
Your magazine is owned
by Henry Luce.
839
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,914
What's the matter with Henry Luce?
840
00:53:55,021 --> 00:53:56,785
According to Howard?
841
00:53:56,890 --> 00:53:59,519
Well, Luce is in bed with Juan Trippe
at Pan Am.
842
00:53:59,626 --> 00:54:03,028
He's a goddamn socialist
and he's a lousy golfer.
843
00:54:03,130 --> 00:54:05,030
It's just... It's a rant.
844
00:54:05,599 --> 00:54:09,660
It's basically a three-page rant
about what a bastard Luce is.
845
00:54:09,771 --> 00:54:13,103
That's Howard's words, it's not mine.
I don't have a problem with Luce at all.
846
00:54:13,208 --> 00:54:16,268
And the postmark is Nassau.
847
00:54:16,611 --> 00:54:19,102
That is completely irrelevant.
848
00:54:20,183 --> 00:54:22,776
And we are talking about
a business agreement
849
00:54:22,884 --> 00:54:24,648
that will hold up in a court of law.
850
00:54:24,754 --> 00:54:28,588
We had a business agreement.
Not anymore.
851
00:54:30,993 --> 00:54:35,453
I pleaded with him to reconsider,
but I was unsuccessful, so...
852
00:54:38,602 --> 00:54:44,336
Per Howard's instructions,
I am returning
853
00:54:46,144 --> 00:54:48,704
his $ 100,000 advance check to you.
854
00:54:52,617 --> 00:54:55,018
Now, if you want to,
you can chase us around in court.
855
00:54:55,119 --> 00:54:56,643
Meanwhile, we're gonna look
for another publisher.
856
00:54:56,754 --> 00:54:58,523
Wait, no, Clifford.
857
00:54:58,523 --> 00:54:58,887
Wait, no, Clifford.
858
00:54:59,558 --> 00:55:02,755
Mr. Irving, we have a contract with you,
859
00:55:02,995 --> 00:55:05,521
which means that our company
owns the property.
860
00:55:05,631 --> 00:55:06,757
Wrong.
861
00:55:07,466 --> 00:55:12,369
Through all of my pleading, hours of it,
believe me, it could be yours, Shelton.
862
00:55:12,472 --> 00:55:15,771
It could. You could make a public
announcement within the week.
863
00:55:15,876 --> 00:55:17,400
You know, and he's all right, actually,
864
00:55:17,511 --> 00:55:19,672
with Ralph still being involved
with this thing,
865
00:55:19,779 --> 00:55:23,147
provided you increase his advance
866
00:55:23,251 --> 00:55:25,742
to one million dollars,
and not a penny less.
867
00:55:27,955 --> 00:55:30,219
- What? A million dollars?
- Yes.
868
00:55:31,158 --> 00:55:32,147
A million dollars?
869
00:55:32,260 --> 00:55:35,560
Wait, I think we should try
to maintain an atmosphere
870
00:55:35,663 --> 00:55:37,255
of goodwill and trust here.
871
00:55:37,366 --> 00:55:38,525
- Trust?
- Yeah.
872
00:55:38,634 --> 00:55:41,398
The man's a Texan copperhead.
"Trust."
873
00:55:42,337 --> 00:55:43,305
Thank you.
874
00:55:43,406 --> 00:55:46,898
Where are you going?
Where are you going? Wait a minute.
875
00:55:47,010 --> 00:55:50,809
Let me tell you something.
That book is mine, signed and sealed!
876
00:55:50,914 --> 00:55:53,644
And I'm not paying any goddamn
million dollars for it.
877
00:55:53,750 --> 00:55:55,082
You understand that?
878
00:55:55,184 --> 00:55:57,176
You listen to me,
Mr. Clifford fucking Irving.
879
00:55:57,287 --> 00:55:59,279
- You go and tell...
- I'm not Clifford Irving.
880
00:55:59,389 --> 00:56:03,120
I'm Howard Hughes!
Howard's mouth, Howard's words.
881
00:56:03,427 --> 00:56:05,658
One million dollars, or we walk
across the street to Doubleday.
882
00:56:05,763 --> 00:56:07,230
It's your choice.
883
00:56:10,101 --> 00:56:11,260
All right.
884
00:56:14,405 --> 00:56:16,203
You know, Shelton,
I just want to share this with you.
885
00:56:16,307 --> 00:56:18,173
You know, one of Howard's
alternate ideas,
886
00:56:18,276 --> 00:56:23,077
he said, "Why don't I just buy
a controlling interest in McGraw-Hill?"
887
00:56:24,417 --> 00:56:25,384
What was it he said?
888
00:56:25,484 --> 00:56:29,511
"I'll just keep the printing presses
and get rid of the idiots."
889
00:56:29,622 --> 00:56:31,487
That's an exact quote.
890
00:56:32,224 --> 00:56:33,191
Bye.
891
00:56:40,767 --> 00:56:43,396
UP AROUND THE BEND PLAYING
892
00:56:52,013 --> 00:56:54,208
- That's it. Thank you.
- Sure.
893
00:57:06,462 --> 00:57:08,521
Why are the boys so glum?
894
00:57:09,165 --> 00:57:11,928
In the midst of our brilliant scheme,
we forgot to figure out
895
00:57:12,034 --> 00:57:14,629
how to cash a check
made out to Howard Hughes.
896
00:57:17,907 --> 00:57:21,343
Open up a Swiss account in his name
for yourself.
897
00:57:21,444 --> 00:57:22,706
We were going to do that.
898
00:57:22,813 --> 00:57:25,246
And then we found out
that you need social security numbers.
899
00:57:25,349 --> 00:57:27,715
And it's traceable, even in Switzerland.
900
00:57:27,818 --> 00:57:30,378
Trust me, we've gone over everything.
901
00:57:32,124 --> 00:57:34,921
What if a woman deposits the check?
902
00:57:35,293 --> 00:57:36,954
No, no. The same person
who opens the account
903
00:57:37,061 --> 00:57:38,722
has to be the same person
that cashes the check.
904
00:57:38,830 --> 00:57:41,230
Howard Hughes. It has to be a man.
905
00:57:42,801 --> 00:57:45,793
Tell his publishers
he changed his mind.
906
00:57:48,341 --> 00:57:52,743
He wants the checks written
to his initials now. H.R. Hughes.
907
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:59,416
Then, a fake passport, a fake name,
Harriet Rhonda Hughes,
908
00:57:59,620 --> 00:58:01,850
Helga Rhinoceros Hughes,
909
00:58:03,791 --> 00:58:05,759
And I can cash the check.
910
00:58:06,694 --> 00:58:09,629
- No, you're not going to Switzerland.
- Oh, Jesus. That's a great idea.
911
00:58:09,730 --> 00:58:11,323
Cliff, that's gonna work.
She can cash the check.
912
00:58:11,432 --> 00:58:12,957
- She's my wife, Dick.
- Yeah, I know she's your wife.
913
00:58:13,067 --> 00:58:16,128
I've reminded you of that fact
from time to time.
914
00:58:18,473 --> 00:58:21,637
You know, when he doesn't call,
stuff like that.
915
00:58:25,247 --> 00:58:26,235
We've talked about it already.
916
00:58:26,348 --> 00:58:27,405
No, I'm...
917
00:58:27,516 --> 00:58:30,246
- It's just about anonymity, that's all it is.
- I wouldn't...
918
00:58:30,352 --> 00:58:33,321
- Great. Which one's mine?
- That... No, that's the old one.
919
00:58:33,422 --> 00:58:34,548
So you're gonna destroy this?
920
00:58:34,657 --> 00:58:36,285
- Okay, very good, thanks.
- Okay.
921
00:58:37,894 --> 00:58:40,488
It's gonna take at least a week
for the check to clear,
922
00:58:40,597 --> 00:58:43,828
so you're gonna have plenty of time
to enjoy Zurich.
923
00:58:44,669 --> 00:58:46,727
The McGraw-Hill
Book Company and Life magazine
924
00:58:46,838 --> 00:58:49,602
announced the publication
of the Hughes' autobiography...
925
00:58:49,706 --> 00:58:51,971
... that he interviewed
Hughes on many occasions.
926
00:58:52,075 --> 00:58:55,512
... autobiography, urging
buyers to place an order now
927
00:58:55,614 --> 00:58:59,413
for what may prove to be the most
controversial book of the century.
928
00:58:59,518 --> 00:59:04,319
I have phone calls, I have telegrams,
I have cease-and-desist orders.
929
00:59:04,423 --> 00:59:07,586
Miss Tate, am I going to pay this man
a million dollars
930
00:59:07,693 --> 00:59:11,060
for a book that he is going to sue me
for publishing?
931
00:59:12,231 --> 00:59:15,861
My back is broken.
What did you order?
932
00:59:16,769 --> 00:59:20,035
If you were concerned,
maybe you can ask Howard
933
00:59:20,774 --> 00:59:24,073
to stop the more adamant denials.
934
00:59:24,845 --> 00:59:28,246
Yeah, yeah. I gotta run.
935
00:59:30,451 --> 00:59:32,612
Let me see if I can do
something about that, okay?
936
00:59:38,226 --> 00:59:41,023
"Hughes' lawyer
calls book complete fabrication."
937
00:59:41,129 --> 00:59:43,723
That's it, we're liars.
Hughes' lawyers calling us liars.
938
00:59:43,832 --> 00:59:45,629
We knew this would
happen. Why are you so nervous?
939
00:59:45,735 --> 00:59:47,531
My name's in the goddamn newspaper!
940
00:59:49,438 --> 00:59:50,666
Barbara's very concerned about this.
941
00:59:50,772 --> 00:59:52,707
A month ago, you wanted more credit.
942
00:59:52,809 --> 00:59:55,004
Yeah, well, you know, Hughes' people,
they're all ex-CIA.
943
00:59:55,111 --> 00:59:57,603
Did you know that?
They're all trained in martial arts.
944
00:59:57,713 --> 01:00:00,877
Good, good. I hope they drop-kick
some sense into you.
945
01:00:01,919 --> 01:00:04,683
- Shit. What is that about?
- Is it over with her?
946
01:00:04,787 --> 01:00:06,915
- Over with her?
- I don't know what this is.
947
01:00:07,991 --> 01:00:11,086
Edith, she did this
deliberately, maliciously,
948
01:00:11,195 --> 01:00:13,561
because I cut off
communication with her.
949
01:00:13,765 --> 01:00:15,289
She wants this to separate us.
950
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:20,235
Did you see her? No, don't, don't...
I don't want to know.
951
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:23,402
I don't want to know.
952
01:00:25,243 --> 01:00:27,576
I don't want you to go to Switzerland.
953
01:00:27,679 --> 01:00:29,944
It might be dangerous.
I don't care about the money.
954
01:00:30,049 --> 01:00:32,882
Bullshit.
You care only about the money.
955
01:00:33,519 --> 01:00:35,544
Oh, and being a famous man.
956
01:00:35,955 --> 01:00:38,185
Anyway, fuck you. It is my money, too.
957
01:00:42,028 --> 01:00:43,256
Fuck you!
958
01:01:37,154 --> 01:01:38,246
Oh, my God.
959
01:01:39,291 --> 01:01:40,815
We got him.
960
01:01:44,762 --> 01:01:45,730
We got him.
961
01:01:46,331 --> 01:01:48,390
- Dick! Dick!
- What?
962
01:01:48,500 --> 01:01:50,469
- Dick, we got it. We got it.
- Got what?
963
01:01:50,569 --> 01:01:52,001
You won't believe this.
964
01:01:52,104 --> 01:01:54,595
Okay, listen. Rebozo...
965
01:01:56,876 --> 01:02:00,608
"Rebozo accepted $ 100,000 in cash
to redecorate Nixon's home.
966
01:02:00,713 --> 01:02:04,081
"The acceptance was understood
to mean that our TWA appeal
967
01:02:04,183 --> 01:02:07,711
"and the Airwest matter
would be of highest priority."
968
01:02:07,820 --> 01:02:13,192
And also, in 1956, Hughes gave
Nixon's brother $205,000 dollars
969
01:02:13,361 --> 01:02:15,090
to secure Pentagon contracts.
970
01:02:15,196 --> 01:02:17,756
This is money-laundering. It's bribery.
971
01:02:17,864 --> 01:02:19,765
It's the end. This is...
972
01:02:20,368 --> 01:02:21,926
We publish this,
973
01:02:23,071 --> 01:02:27,532
Nixon... Nixon, the president,
is impeached.
974
01:02:28,977 --> 01:02:31,412
Do you understand
the power this gives us?
975
01:02:42,392 --> 01:02:44,121
Cliff, I'm not sure
I want the power this gives us.
976
01:02:44,227 --> 01:02:45,524
Yeah, well, I do.
977
01:02:46,364 --> 01:02:50,733
Cliff, you publish this, you will have
a storm of shit rain down on you.
978
01:02:52,470 --> 01:02:55,098
And there are people now,
God knows who,
979
01:02:55,305 --> 01:02:59,003
Nixon's political enemies, Hughes'
advisors, they know where you live.
980
01:02:59,110 --> 01:03:00,077
Yes.
981
01:03:01,012 --> 01:03:03,846
- I say you forget you ever saw this.
- Forget it?
982
01:03:03,981 --> 01:03:08,214
This is like a Torah
sent down from God
983
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:11,687
to make us part of history,
and you want to forget it, Dick?
984
01:03:11,791 --> 01:03:12,985
Come here.
Let me show you something.
985
01:03:13,091 --> 01:03:15,389
It's postmarked from Nevada.
That's Hughes country.
986
01:03:15,495 --> 01:03:17,223
What are you saying?
987
01:03:17,630 --> 01:03:23,569
He wants us to help him bust Nixon.
He's with us, Dick! Howard is with us.
988
01:03:33,747 --> 01:03:35,009
How did you know the Dillon Read
989
01:03:35,115 --> 01:03:36,639
hydraulic systems were faulty?
990
01:03:36,751 --> 01:03:38,081
You're not listening,
991
01:03:38,185 --> 01:03:39,676
Clifford, goddamn it.
992
01:03:40,221 --> 01:03:44,214
I made sure they were faulty
through a couple of well-placed bribes.
993
01:03:44,325 --> 01:03:46,384
So, why didn't you just go to
Defense with the information
994
01:03:46,494 --> 01:03:47,620
and get the contract?
995
01:03:47,729 --> 01:03:48,753
Well,
996
01:03:48,863 --> 01:03:50,798
I couldn't have
handled the contracts then.
997
01:03:52,401 --> 01:03:55,392
So instead of tattling on them,
I fixed their planes.
998
01:03:56,572 --> 01:03:59,803
I intertwined our technologies.
999
01:03:59,910 --> 01:04:02,434
I ate that company from within,
1000
01:04:02,778 --> 01:04:05,942
and they let me
because they were hypnotized.
1001
01:04:06,283 --> 01:04:07,681
That's the way, Clifford.
1002
01:04:07,784 --> 01:04:11,311
When your rival is powerful,
find an opportunity.
1003
01:04:11,421 --> 01:04:13,355
Create a crisis for him.
1004
01:04:14,025 --> 01:04:16,822
But instead of taking
short-term advantage,
1005
01:04:17,462 --> 01:04:19,258
save the day for him.
1006
01:04:21,165 --> 01:04:25,499
Nothing confuses a man more
than a kind gesture from his enemy.
1007
01:04:25,971 --> 01:04:29,532
Nothing renders him more vulnerable.
1008
01:04:32,444 --> 01:04:35,004
It's Edith. Turn it off, turn it off.
1009
01:04:41,821 --> 01:04:43,948
I made sure they were faulty
through a couple of...
1010
01:04:44,057 --> 01:04:46,048
It was Andrea. We got a problem.
1011
01:04:52,867 --> 01:04:55,893
Keep it down, guys,
you're going to wake the neighbors.
1012
01:04:56,703 --> 01:04:59,468
Clifford, I don't believe
you've met Frank McCullough.
1013
01:04:59,573 --> 01:05:01,336
- No. Hi, Frank.
- How are you?
1014
01:05:01,442 --> 01:05:03,376
Dick Suskind. Dick?
1015
01:05:04,679 --> 01:05:05,645
Hello.
1016
01:05:06,647 --> 01:05:09,673
I got a phone call yesterday
from Chester Davis,
1017
01:05:09,784 --> 01:05:12,776
- who's Hughes' personal attorney.
- Yes, yes, yes.
1018
01:05:13,688 --> 01:05:18,887
Apparently at 1:00 p.m., our time,
Howard Hughes is going to call
1019
01:05:18,995 --> 01:05:21,361
to speak to an intermediary
by telephone.
1020
01:05:21,763 --> 01:05:26,360
And as the last journalist
to have spoken to Mr. Hughes,
1021
01:05:26,470 --> 01:05:27,629
we mutually agreed
1022
01:05:27,738 --> 01:05:30,171
that Mr. McCullough
should receive the call,
1023
01:05:30,274 --> 01:05:33,334
because of his ability
to identify Mr. Hughes by voice.
1024
01:05:33,443 --> 01:05:36,880
Mr. McCullough has also assured us,
at least for the moment,
1025
01:05:36,980 --> 01:05:39,915
that all of this will remain off the record.
1026
01:05:40,017 --> 01:05:43,545
And Mr. Davis also insisted
that Ralph Graves be present
1027
01:05:43,654 --> 01:05:45,554
and in the room
at the time of the phone call,
1028
01:05:45,657 --> 01:05:48,558
which I have to say, Cliff,
that one kind of surprised me,
1029
01:05:48,660 --> 01:05:50,855
given Hughes' representations of Life
1030
01:05:50,962 --> 01:05:54,023
in your alleged communications
with him.
1031
01:05:58,437 --> 01:06:01,634
If you'll excuse me,
I have to go to the bathroom.
1032
01:06:08,782 --> 01:06:10,340
Shelton, this...
1033
01:06:10,550 --> 01:06:12,609
What am I supposed to say?
This is an ambush.
1034
01:06:12,719 --> 01:06:15,348
You know exactly what the guy is
gonna say on the other end of this line.
1035
01:06:15,455 --> 01:06:17,686
But that's why Mr. McCullough is here,
1036
01:06:17,792 --> 01:06:20,920
to identify the voice
of the man in question.
1037
01:06:21,295 --> 01:06:23,195
I'm neutral here, Mr. Irving.
1038
01:06:26,867 --> 01:06:29,496
So, now we wait.
1039
01:06:46,089 --> 01:06:49,616
Can't watch this charade.
You can find me in the lobby.
1040
01:06:52,028 --> 01:06:53,518
Stay close, Clifford.
1041
01:06:53,630 --> 01:06:54,620
Hello?
1042
01:07:19,357 --> 01:07:21,883
It says exit, there's no exit.
Oh, my God.
1043
01:07:21,994 --> 01:07:22,961
Shit!
1044
01:07:24,597 --> 01:07:28,363
We can't get out.
Howard Hughes. My God.
1045
01:07:28,467 --> 01:07:31,437
We have no reason
to believe that that was him.
1046
01:07:31,537 --> 01:07:35,304
McCullough hasn't heard from him.
He hasn't spoken to him in 12 years.
1047
01:07:35,409 --> 01:07:36,535
Breathe. Listen, Dick.
1048
01:07:36,643 --> 01:07:37,905
There's an angry billionaire.
1049
01:07:38,011 --> 01:07:40,207
- He's chasing me, he's hating me.
- You're hyperventilating.
1050
01:07:40,314 --> 01:07:41,282
- Go on.
- No.
1051
01:07:41,381 --> 01:07:43,350
Walk. We're going up here.
1052
01:07:49,057 --> 01:07:51,617
Keep moving, come on. Come on.
1053
01:07:52,627 --> 01:07:55,255
Cliff, I can't... I gotta take a piss.
1054
01:07:56,098 --> 01:08:00,125
I'll confess, I'll do anything they want.
I just have to use the bathroom.
1055
01:08:00,235 --> 01:08:01,533
- Okay, right here, right here.
- What?
1056
01:08:01,637 --> 01:08:03,298
Look, hide in there.
1057
01:08:03,405 --> 01:08:04,998
Watch your head.
1058
01:08:05,141 --> 01:08:07,268
Hide there.
If you've got to, piss in your pants.
1059
01:08:07,376 --> 01:08:11,143
- You just go ahead and you stay there.
- I'll stay right here.
1060
01:08:23,728 --> 01:08:25,195
What happened?
1061
01:08:25,496 --> 01:08:26,554
We don't know yet.
1062
01:08:26,665 --> 01:08:29,225
McCullough asked us
to leave the room.
1063
01:08:34,673 --> 01:08:36,868
The man I just spoke to
was Howard Hughes.
1064
01:08:36,975 --> 01:08:41,036
His speech patterns and inflections
would be impossible to imitate.
1065
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:44,875
And he told me
that he's never met you,
1066
01:08:46,319 --> 01:08:48,549
and that your book is a fraud.
1067
01:08:49,188 --> 01:08:50,348
A hoax.
1068
01:08:52,225 --> 01:08:53,522
Mr. Irving?
1069
01:08:54,694 --> 01:08:56,162
I'm listening.
1070
01:08:56,697 --> 01:09:00,224
Now, knowing Howard,
I don't find this to be conclusive at all.
1071
01:09:00,334 --> 01:09:02,393
I mean, he is a very strange man.
1072
01:09:04,004 --> 01:09:06,996
But considering the scarcity of proof
that you've provided,
1073
01:09:07,108 --> 01:09:11,602
my best guess at this moment
is that you are a charlatan.
1074
01:09:12,781 --> 01:09:15,682
If there is even a whiff
of impropriety to this,
1075
01:09:15,917 --> 01:09:19,409
if you have exaggerated
or changed even the slightest detail,
1076
01:09:19,522 --> 01:09:22,047
I will prosecute you
to the full extent of the law
1077
01:09:22,158 --> 01:09:24,126
for grand larceny and mail fraud,
1078
01:09:24,226 --> 01:09:28,162
unless you tell me right now
just what the ballfuck is going on.
1079
01:09:31,233 --> 01:09:32,427
I have...
1080
01:09:37,874 --> 01:09:40,274
I have betrayed your trust.
1081
01:09:42,779 --> 01:09:45,340
The book, the entire story, is false.
1082
01:09:48,619 --> 01:09:51,987
I have lied to the entire world.
1083
01:09:53,225 --> 01:09:57,662
And no matter what happens now,
I am so relieved.
1084
01:10:03,869 --> 01:10:09,307
I have off-the-record material
on that two-faced prick,
1085
01:10:09,408 --> 01:10:11,377
puts him in fucking jail.
1086
01:10:12,245 --> 01:10:16,011
I'm going to tell Howard,
either he shows his ant-bitten face,
1087
01:10:17,183 --> 01:10:18,741
or I release it!
1088
01:10:21,054 --> 01:10:22,420
I've had it!
1089
01:10:25,259 --> 01:10:29,162
You have three days to produce
Howard Hughes and the manuscript.
1090
01:10:29,830 --> 01:10:32,425
Grand larceny, Cliff? Mail fraud?
1091
01:10:33,100 --> 01:10:35,797
Jesus... No way.
This is just too much! Too much!
1092
01:10:35,904 --> 01:10:38,498
We've got a move, there is
a move here, we're just not seeing it yet.
1093
01:10:38,607 --> 01:10:40,973
Stop the car. Pull over. Stop the car.
1094
01:10:41,077 --> 01:10:43,067
- I've gotta make a phone call.
- What are you doing?
1095
01:10:43,179 --> 01:10:45,010
What am I doing? I'm calling Barbara.
That's what I'm doing.
1096
01:10:51,121 --> 01:10:52,087
Yeah, it's me.
1097
01:10:59,428 --> 01:11:00,521
What?
1098
01:11:02,466 --> 01:11:05,026
It's over, Cliff. I can't go to jail.
1099
01:11:06,303 --> 01:11:08,464
Now, with you or without you,
1100
01:11:08,639 --> 01:11:11,165
I'm gonna tell them tomorrow
that Howard Hughes called
1101
01:11:11,275 --> 01:11:14,734
and he pulled out of the deal.
You can pay them back the money.
1102
01:11:15,513 --> 01:11:17,038
I talked to Barbara.
1103
01:11:17,148 --> 01:11:18,638
She had very strong feelings
about this.
1104
01:11:18,750 --> 01:11:20,342
I'm sure she did.
1105
01:11:23,556 --> 01:11:25,751
You're an honorable man, Dick.
1106
01:11:28,028 --> 01:11:30,519
Aren't you?
Are you an honorable man?
1107
01:11:30,729 --> 01:11:33,028
Did you make
a commitment to me, Dick?
1108
01:11:33,133 --> 01:11:34,691
Did you say you were in this
till the end?
1109
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:36,826
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1110
01:11:37,804 --> 01:11:40,967
Reaching a worldwide audience,
taking down a corrupt President.
1111
01:11:41,074 --> 01:11:43,043
That's the end! Not this!
1112
01:11:44,911 --> 01:11:47,937
- It's finished, Cliff. It's finished.
- Yeah, right. Sure.
1113
01:11:48,049 --> 01:11:50,347
- I'm sorry I disappointed you.
- Good.
1114
01:12:41,373 --> 01:12:42,738
Do you read? Yeah.
1115
01:12:42,842 --> 01:12:44,571
I encourage people to read, because I...
1116
01:12:44,677 --> 01:12:46,872
- Right.
- That way, they read my books,
1117
01:12:46,978 --> 01:12:49,140
and I sell books
and I can make some money.
1118
01:12:49,247 --> 01:12:51,512
That is why I love it when people say,
"I'm a reader."
1119
01:12:51,617 --> 01:12:54,450
I say, "Good for you, and good for me."
1120
01:12:54,588 --> 01:12:56,680
- I bet you are a good...
- Hey, cowboy. We gotta go.
1121
01:12:56,790 --> 01:12:58,484
- No, no, I don't wanna go.
- Yes, you do.
1122
01:12:58,592 --> 01:13:00,355
We gotta go.
1123
01:13:00,459 --> 01:13:03,224
I've just been having a very interesting
conversation with these lovely ladies.
1124
01:13:03,330 --> 01:13:05,628
- Come sit, have a drink, have a drink.
- WOMAN: It's true.
1125
01:13:05,733 --> 01:13:09,396
No, you can't jazz anything up.
You have to be historically accurate.
1126
01:13:10,471 --> 01:13:13,804
I need to find a great book.
The one book...
1127
01:13:13,908 --> 01:13:17,366
- Tommy, two. Two more doubles.
- TOM: Yeah, sure.
1128
01:13:17,879 --> 01:13:20,712
His two main preoccupations...
Am I right?
1129
01:13:20,815 --> 01:13:23,842
Were war and sodomy.
1130
01:13:26,555 --> 01:13:29,285
Now, this is my problem.
It's a hazardous business, sodomy.
1131
01:13:29,391 --> 01:13:32,383
- Yes, this is what I hear.
- "What you hear..."
1132
01:13:34,363 --> 01:13:36,059
It's what you hear.
1133
01:13:36,900 --> 01:13:37,867
That's the way.
1134
01:13:37,967 --> 01:13:41,425
When your rival is powerful,
find an opportunity.
1135
01:13:41,539 --> 01:13:44,405
Create a crisis for him.
1136
01:13:45,076 --> 01:13:47,873
But instead of taking
short term advantage,
1137
01:13:49,513 --> 01:13:51,276
save the day for him.
1138
01:14:01,026 --> 01:14:01,993
Hi.
1139
01:14:13,371 --> 01:14:14,532
Cliff?
1140
01:14:34,362 --> 01:14:36,296
What happened last night?
1141
01:14:38,065 --> 01:14:39,363
I smell...
1142
01:14:45,540 --> 01:14:46,837
I smell...
1143
01:14:50,446 --> 01:14:51,606
Oh, no.
1144
01:14:56,485 --> 01:14:58,477
Oh, God. No, I didn't...
1145
01:15:00,856 --> 01:15:02,290
Oh, I didn't.
1146
01:15:06,363 --> 01:15:08,558
I did, didn't I?
1147
01:15:16,207 --> 01:15:17,674
It's all right.
1148
01:15:19,811 --> 01:15:21,507
Dick, listen to me.
1149
01:15:23,447 --> 01:15:24,683
It was a mistake.
1150
01:15:24,683 --> 01:15:25,047
It was a mistake.
1151
01:15:27,953 --> 01:15:30,513
She's wanted security for a long time,
hasn't she?
1152
01:15:30,622 --> 01:15:32,522
- Yes.
- Yes, she has.
1153
01:15:35,394 --> 01:15:40,628
Well, you can give her that now.
I promise you, I will make this work.
1154
01:15:42,635 --> 01:15:45,230
I will make this work. I promise.
1155
01:15:50,510 --> 01:15:53,503
I intertwined our technologies.
1156
01:15:54,181 --> 01:15:55,809
I ate that company
1157
01:16:07,295 --> 01:16:08,660
from within.
1158
01:16:09,598 --> 01:16:12,534
And they let me
because they were hypnotized.
1159
01:16:19,909 --> 01:16:22,504
HERE COMES THE SUN PLAYING
1160
01:16:26,083 --> 01:16:29,416
The Mayor of New York planned this
parade through his voting precinct...
1161
01:16:29,519 --> 01:16:32,215
... and Owen Brewster was
a thieving, lying jackal.
1162
01:16:32,323 --> 01:16:34,119
If you've got a jackal after you...
1163
01:16:34,225 --> 01:16:36,352
I flew around the world in 1938,
1164
01:16:36,460 --> 01:16:38,691
for the only decent reason
a young man does anything.
1165
01:16:38,796 --> 01:16:40,787
Because he feels like it.
1166
01:16:55,314 --> 01:16:59,182
They set a meeting for Mr. Octavio
and he's gonna show up here.
1167
01:17:00,086 --> 01:17:04,580
This is perhaps the most bizarre
communiqué I have ever received.
1168
01:17:05,025 --> 01:17:08,427
And I need your help
in implementing its requirements.
1169
01:17:08,795 --> 01:17:11,890
At 1:00 p.m. Tomorrow,
the top four floors of this building
1170
01:17:11,998 --> 01:17:13,659
are to be evacuated.
1171
01:17:13,768 --> 01:17:18,102
All the carpeting on the 14th floor
is to be removed.
1172
01:17:18,205 --> 01:17:20,503
Floors are to be washed and waxed.
1173
01:17:20,608 --> 01:17:23,840
All the windows are to be covered
with black material,
1174
01:17:23,945 --> 01:17:26,675
a kind which does not accumulate dust.
1175
01:17:27,249 --> 01:17:29,717
Does that apply to my windows also,
Mr. Irving?
1176
01:17:29,818 --> 01:17:32,286
Yeah. I'd go ahead
and cover them up, Harold.
1177
01:17:32,388 --> 01:17:34,378
I think it's the best thing. Play it safe.
1178
01:17:35,257 --> 01:17:37,419
This is sensitive material.
1179
01:17:37,526 --> 01:17:40,985
I'm still deciding whether or not
to put this in the book, but...
1180
01:17:41,864 --> 01:17:43,559
I think you should put it
somewhere safe.
1181
01:17:43,666 --> 01:17:45,657
- Of course, Cliff.
- Okay.
1182
01:17:46,202 --> 01:17:47,829
All right, then...
1183
01:17:49,406 --> 01:17:51,237
Here's our manuscript.
1184
01:17:57,445 --> 01:17:58,706
Hope you like it.
1185
01:17:58,813 --> 01:18:00,644
Hope to God I do, too.
1186
01:18:01,649 --> 01:18:05,210
All right, I'll bring down Howard
as soon as he gets here.
1187
01:18:06,521 --> 01:18:07,545
All right.
1188
01:18:11,726 --> 01:18:14,160
All right, check the western...
1189
01:18:14,262 --> 01:18:16,128
Make sure that the diameter
is exactly right.
1190
01:18:16,232 --> 01:18:17,358
It's okay?
1191
01:18:17,466 --> 01:18:20,196
- Yeah, don't worry about me.
- You're doing good.
1192
01:18:20,903 --> 01:18:24,704
Yes, on the spot. Correct.
You see and...
1193
01:18:27,743 --> 01:18:29,575
MAN: He doesn't like fumes.
1194
01:18:29,980 --> 01:18:32,505
We might not wanna
let this fly off the building.
1195
01:18:32,616 --> 01:18:34,345
- What do you think?
- Give me that.
1196
01:18:34,452 --> 01:18:36,044
- Did you copy this, by hand?
- Yes.
1197
01:18:36,152 --> 01:18:37,142
- From the original.
- Cliff!
1198
01:18:37,255 --> 01:18:38,847
- No photocopy, right?
- No!
1199
01:18:38,955 --> 01:18:41,083
I kept...
I am fully aware of the restrictions, Cliff.
1200
01:18:41,192 --> 01:18:42,159
- All right?
- Brad?
1201
01:18:42,260 --> 01:18:43,818
- I did it by hand.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
1202
01:18:43,928 --> 01:18:47,763
Why do I always want to strangle Brad?
Every time.
1203
01:18:50,135 --> 01:18:51,533
Is that him?
1204
01:18:51,637 --> 01:18:53,127
Do you see it?
1205
01:18:53,272 --> 01:18:55,604
- That's him! He's here!
- Oh, my God!
1206
01:18:56,876 --> 01:18:58,399
He's landing! Clear the roof!
1207
01:18:58,511 --> 01:19:01,173
- Get your things. Go! Come on!
- Quickly.
1208
01:19:37,118 --> 01:19:39,053
Where's he going?
I don't know.
1209
01:19:39,155 --> 01:19:41,350
Oh, no. This is not happening.
1210
01:19:45,561 --> 01:19:47,189
Can we head back?
1211
01:19:51,268 --> 01:19:53,963
He was 50 feet
from the fucking building.
1212
01:19:54,504 --> 01:19:57,439
All right? My diagram is fine.
It's not outside of...
1213
01:19:57,541 --> 01:19:58,633
- Andrea, do you have the original?
- Yes.
1214
01:19:58,742 --> 01:20:01,438
It's not outside the scope
of my capabilities, diagramming
1215
01:20:01,545 --> 01:20:03,776
- a simple copy of what he wrote.
- We'll find out.
1216
01:20:03,880 --> 01:20:06,281
- I can do that.
- You switched east and west. Why?
1217
01:20:06,384 --> 01:20:07,612
Why did you do... Look!
1218
01:20:07,719 --> 01:20:09,278
No, I wrote
what was on the damn page.
1219
01:20:09,387 --> 01:20:11,355
No, you didn't.
Look, he's an eccentric genius.
1220
01:20:11,456 --> 01:20:14,358
He likes things the way he wants them.
Why did you change it?
1221
01:20:14,459 --> 01:20:16,758
A three-year-old wouldn't have
fucked that up.
1222
01:20:16,862 --> 01:20:20,958
- Doesn't know east from west.
- Pray that you die, you sniveling twat.
1223
01:20:21,066 --> 01:20:23,091
I swear to Christ,
I wrote what was on his page.
1224
01:20:23,202 --> 01:20:25,569
Right the same. Exactly the same.
1225
01:20:36,684 --> 01:20:38,378
Your book is genuine.
1226
01:20:38,486 --> 01:20:40,009
There's no way your material
1227
01:20:40,121 --> 01:20:43,090
could have come from anyone
but Howard Hughes.
1228
01:20:43,524 --> 01:20:47,153
The colloquialisms,
the idiosyncratic philosophies.
1229
01:20:47,696 --> 01:20:50,220
Heck, you have got
a near-perfect account
1230
01:20:50,332 --> 01:20:51,629
of a conversation I had with Howard
1231
01:20:51,732 --> 01:20:53,199
that I didn't tell
another living soul about.
1232
01:20:53,301 --> 01:20:55,428
- Really?
- It's typical Howard Hughes.
1233
01:20:55,537 --> 01:20:58,995
- You write it, then deny it.
- It was so... I was having such... Yeah.
1234
01:21:00,042 --> 01:21:01,771
He really put you on one hell of a limb,
didn't he, Cliff?
1235
01:21:01,877 --> 01:21:05,814
It wasn't easy. No, it wasn't.
But I've had a lot of help.
1236
01:21:06,282 --> 01:21:07,977
- It's a masterpiece, Cliff.
- Really?
1237
01:21:08,084 --> 01:21:09,073
A masterpiece.
1238
01:21:09,185 --> 01:21:10,414
- You liked it?
- I loved it.
1239
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:12,955
Oh, yes! Yes!
1240
01:21:36,715 --> 01:21:39,650
Davis is threatening
civil action if the book is published.
1241
01:21:39,751 --> 01:21:41,982
Why is he fighting so hard
if the book is authentic?
1242
01:21:47,861 --> 01:21:49,851
I wouldn't be surprised
if they got surveillance devices
1243
01:21:49,962 --> 01:21:51,988
all over my home, right now,
this second.
1244
01:21:52,099 --> 01:21:54,624
The controversy over the
Clifford Irving book on Howard Hughes
1245
01:21:54,734 --> 01:21:56,497
is apparently of little concern to those
1246
01:21:56,603 --> 01:21:58,662
who stand to profit
from high sales of that book.
1247
01:22:00,408 --> 01:22:03,536
If you ask my advice,
the election of George Bush
1248
01:22:03,643 --> 01:22:07,102
as United States Senator
will be good for Texas.
1249
01:22:07,615 --> 01:22:09,480
I know it will be good for America.
1250
01:22:09,884 --> 01:22:12,375
But in any event, he pulled out a bag,
1251
01:22:12,487 --> 01:22:15,047
reached in and he pulled out a prune,
1252
01:22:16,390 --> 01:22:20,293
and he looked at Dick and offered it
and said, "Would you like a prune?"
1253
01:22:20,529 --> 01:22:23,987
And Dick took the prune,
tasted it and he said,
1254
01:22:24,333 --> 01:22:26,164
"That's an organic prune."
1255
01:22:26,268 --> 01:22:27,826
When this book comes out,
1256
01:22:27,937 --> 01:22:31,270
all the naysayers will be amazed
at the wealth,
1257
01:22:31,374 --> 01:22:33,899
the depth, the quality, of the material
that's been given to us.
1258
01:22:34,010 --> 01:22:36,774
You are so royally full of shit.
1259
01:22:36,881 --> 01:22:40,339
I mean, I feel very humble
in this situation of being a conduit,
1260
01:22:40,985 --> 01:22:45,547
for this kind of revelation
that is not just about this man,
1261
01:22:45,656 --> 01:22:48,989
but about our age
and who we are as a people.
1262
01:22:52,296 --> 01:22:54,697
- Hello?
- Clifford, I have the money.
1263
01:22:54,799 --> 01:22:55,891
I am safe now.
1264
01:22:56,001 --> 01:22:59,437
- Edith, where are you?
- I'm at the airport.
1265
01:22:59,538 --> 01:23:01,733
But they're watching.
Someone is watching me,
1266
01:23:01,841 --> 01:23:03,705
and following me and...
1267
01:23:05,111 --> 01:23:07,806
Edith? Edith!
1268
01:24:10,615 --> 01:24:12,105
Where's Howard?
1269
01:24:12,516 --> 01:24:15,680
You know, Clifford, I have worked
in various capacities for Mr. Hughes
1270
01:24:15,786 --> 01:24:17,378
for 19 years now,
1271
01:24:17,622 --> 01:24:21,115
and never once have I referred to him
by his first name.
1272
01:24:22,995 --> 01:24:25,260
You don't seem to abide
such formalities.
1273
01:24:25,364 --> 01:24:26,525
He and I wrote a book together.
1274
01:24:26,632 --> 01:24:29,067
Assume for a moment
that I know you didn't,
1275
01:24:29,168 --> 01:24:32,001
and that it's not
the topic of the evening.
1276
01:24:32,472 --> 01:24:33,734
What is?
1277
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,207
The world Mr. Hughes has created
is vast, Clifford.
1278
01:24:37,310 --> 01:24:40,211
It covers many industries
and many endeavors.
1279
01:24:40,947 --> 01:24:44,406
There are fiefdoms and factions,
1280
01:24:45,152 --> 01:24:47,347
traitors and minor rebellions.
1281
01:24:48,289 --> 01:24:52,226
You see, Clifford, the men Mr. Hughes
uses as his instruments in the world
1282
01:24:52,326 --> 01:24:55,353
are often themselves
the makers of history.
1283
01:24:57,032 --> 01:24:58,433
You mean Nixon?
1284
01:24:59,167 --> 01:25:01,898
Mr. Hughes wants to know
if you included the information
1285
01:25:02,003 --> 01:25:04,871
sent to you in the galleys of your book.
1286
01:25:08,077 --> 01:25:10,568
Howard wants to bury Nixon,
doesn't he?
1287
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:12,978
Because his dog
isn't doing tricks anymore,
1288
01:25:13,083 --> 01:25:16,483
on TWA, on the Airwest merger,
on anything.
1289
01:25:16,585 --> 01:25:19,851
I'm not arrogant enough to speculate
on Mr. Hughes' motives, Clifford.
1290
01:25:19,956 --> 01:25:22,550
We just want an answer
to the question.
1291
01:25:23,727 --> 01:25:25,423
I'll just say this.
1292
01:25:26,363 --> 01:25:29,026
Nothing stops this book
from being published
1293
01:25:29,133 --> 01:25:31,226
exactly the way I wrote it.
1294
01:25:33,938 --> 01:25:35,565
He wants my help?
1295
01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:37,338
He has to speak to me directly.
1296
01:25:37,442 --> 01:25:40,502
Are you dictating terms
to Howard Hughes?
1297
01:25:40,612 --> 01:25:42,670
I'm the messenger for Howard Hughes.
1298
01:25:42,781 --> 01:25:45,614
Why such a burning commitment
to a man you don't know?
1299
01:25:45,718 --> 01:25:47,481
But I do know him.
1300
01:25:49,054 --> 01:25:51,079
And I deserve to see him.
1301
01:25:55,095 --> 01:25:58,394
Presidents have said the same thing
to me, Clifford.
1302
01:25:59,099 --> 01:26:01,533
I will tell you what I told them.
1303
01:26:02,702 --> 01:26:05,695
It's not a matter of
getting through a door, Clifford.
1304
01:26:06,474 --> 01:26:08,772
There is no door to get through.
1305
01:26:10,378 --> 01:26:13,814
Lf, though, Clifford, if there were a door,
1306
01:26:15,383 --> 01:26:18,512
you would now be hearing
the sound of it closing.
1307
01:26:46,550 --> 01:26:50,009
Mr. Hughes wants that information
in the book, Clifford.
1308
01:26:51,423 --> 01:26:52,753
I knew it.
1309
01:26:53,924 --> 01:26:58,259
So, I put the dirt in, Howard will
let the book go forward, right?
1310
01:26:59,330 --> 01:27:00,922
That's the deal.
1311
01:27:03,536 --> 01:27:05,526
Do I have any assurances?
1312
01:27:08,039 --> 01:27:10,133
Take it on faith, Clifford.
1313
01:27:41,543 --> 01:27:45,343
There is a perfect logic to it,
as everything Hughes does has.
1314
01:27:45,447 --> 01:27:47,608
It makes sense
that he would choose Cliff
1315
01:27:47,716 --> 01:27:51,174
and not someone like Mailer
because then it would be Mailer's book.
1316
01:27:51,287 --> 01:27:53,517
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
1317
01:27:54,290 --> 01:27:56,121
There are claims from some corners
1318
01:27:56,226 --> 01:27:59,787
that Mr. Irving has concocted this book
from whole cloth.
1319
01:28:00,331 --> 01:28:02,891
Well, for those of us who have read it,
1320
01:28:02,999 --> 01:28:06,662
we know that only a Shakespeare
could have accomplished such a feat,
1321
01:28:06,770 --> 01:28:11,070
and while Mr. Irving is a fine man,
he is no Shakespeare.
1322
01:28:14,612 --> 01:28:17,081
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Clifford Irving.
1323
01:28:29,028 --> 01:28:30,791
Thank you, thank you.
1324
01:28:41,141 --> 01:28:42,870
We could change the world
with this, Harold.
1325
01:28:42,976 --> 01:28:44,637
I want this chapter in the book.
1326
01:28:44,745 --> 01:28:47,339
Cliff, we will be sued for libel
by the President.
1327
01:28:48,682 --> 01:28:51,583
- You'll win. You will win. I promise you.
- Excuse me. Yes?
1328
01:28:51,685 --> 01:28:55,520
To put this out unsubstantiated
is at best unwise,
1329
01:28:55,623 --> 01:28:57,022
and at worst unethical.
1330
01:28:57,124 --> 01:28:58,422
Wait, wait.
1331
01:28:58,526 --> 01:29:01,017
Could you give me
a moment, Cliff, please?
1332
01:29:01,129 --> 01:29:02,994
- Yeah, sure.
- Thank you.
1333
01:29:05,467 --> 01:29:08,129
Ralph, if the President took
cash bribes, then we have every...
1334
01:29:09,538 --> 01:29:11,005
Harold, I'm sorry to interrupt,
1335
01:29:11,106 --> 01:29:13,370
but the Zurich District Attorney's office
is on the line.
1336
01:29:13,475 --> 01:29:16,001
Hang on, Ralph. I'll take it.
Yes, this is Harold McGraw.
1337
01:29:16,111 --> 01:29:18,910
Something to do with
a Swiss bank account.
1338
01:29:19,181 --> 01:29:22,345
Who told you that?
Where did you hear that?
1339
01:29:29,492 --> 01:29:32,859
This latest puzzle in the
case involves a Swiss bank in Zurich
1340
01:29:32,964 --> 01:29:35,558
where the checks were cashed
by H.R. Hughes.
1341
01:29:35,665 --> 01:29:38,191
That H.R. Hughes was
a mysterious lady
1342
01:29:38,303 --> 01:29:40,099
named Helga R. Hughes.
1343
01:29:40,205 --> 01:29:42,105
The police are looking for her,
1344
01:29:42,207 --> 01:29:44,869
and the normally silent Swiss bankers
are talking about the case.
1345
01:29:44,976 --> 01:29:46,945
Mr. Irving, who cashed the checks, sir?
1346
01:29:47,045 --> 01:29:49,206
Who opened up
the Swiss bank account?
1347
01:29:51,283 --> 01:29:54,377
The account holder in Switzerland
is a woman named Helga Hughes.
1348
01:29:54,820 --> 01:29:57,186
They suspect
she forged the endorsements.
1349
01:29:57,690 --> 01:30:00,056
This has become sleazy
and demeaning.
1350
01:30:00,159 --> 01:30:03,219
- I'm a publisher, Shelton.
- You're an employee, Harold.
1351
01:30:03,329 --> 01:30:05,593
I don't care what your name is.
1352
01:30:05,765 --> 01:30:08,495
We paid for a book
and we're going to publish it.
1353
01:30:08,602 --> 01:30:11,298
Just roll the goddamn presses.
1354
01:30:14,875 --> 01:30:16,867
Why are you calling us about this?
1355
01:30:16,977 --> 01:30:22,075
I'm doing this, sir, because I felt
the President deserved a warning.
1356
01:30:22,717 --> 01:30:25,208
- Anybody else have this information?
- No, of course not.
1357
01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:28,221
- Absolutely nobody?
- Absolutely no one.
1358
01:30:28,424 --> 01:30:30,186
Where's the book now?
1359
01:30:30,526 --> 01:30:33,051
You should receive it by messenger
this afternoon.
1360
01:30:33,162 --> 01:30:34,629
I'D LIKE TO TEACH
THE WORLD TO SING PLAYING
1361
01:30:49,946 --> 01:30:53,383
Thank God.
Honey, you okay? Are you all right?
1362
01:30:54,317 --> 01:30:57,947
- Let me help you with this...
- I am not staying!
1363
01:31:24,984 --> 01:31:27,248
What's in the book?
Everything.
1364
01:31:28,088 --> 01:31:31,490
Hughes' loans to the President.
The real amounts of the loans.
1365
01:31:32,625 --> 01:31:34,525
The shit about Bebe in Florida.
1366
01:31:34,628 --> 01:31:37,062
And you're saying
the President thinks this is authentic?
1367
01:31:37,164 --> 01:31:40,259
- How else could they know?
- We've got to talk to this guy, Fisher.
1368
01:31:40,367 --> 01:31:41,766
He's gotta kill the book.
1369
01:31:41,870 --> 01:31:43,564
Hughes is just using it
to get to the chief.
1370
01:31:43,672 --> 01:31:46,197
In fact, the President hit the roof
this morning.
1371
01:31:46,308 --> 01:31:49,300
He's terrified the book's been leaked
to the Democratic National Committee.
1372
01:31:49,411 --> 01:31:50,400
Shit.
1373
01:31:50,512 --> 01:31:54,279
He thinks they're sipping tea at the
Watergate Hotel reading it, right now.
1374
01:31:54,382 --> 01:31:57,215
All right, I'll call Hunt
and have him send his guys in
1375
01:31:57,319 --> 01:31:59,514
to see if the DNC has a copy yet.
1376
01:31:59,622 --> 01:32:02,113
And prepare something
for the President, if this breaks early,
1377
01:32:02,225 --> 01:32:04,352
if he has to address the nation.
1378
01:32:04,460 --> 01:32:05,860
To say what?
1379
01:32:06,130 --> 01:32:09,257
Checkers had puppies.
How the fuck should I know?
1380
01:32:10,700 --> 01:32:14,694
I was on the plane
and I was thinking for a long time.
1381
01:32:14,805 --> 01:32:18,970
I was thinking about all of your lies
from before.
1382
01:32:19,743 --> 01:32:23,008
I guess, maybe, I am not beautiful
1383
01:32:23,114 --> 01:32:27,141
- or very sexual enough for you...
- No, honey, no. It's not true.
1384
01:32:27,252 --> 01:32:29,311
You have made me feel that.
1385
01:32:30,089 --> 01:32:32,784
So, I'm leaving.
1386
01:32:33,692 --> 01:32:38,095
And I'm giving back all of the money,
all of the book money.
1387
01:32:40,633 --> 01:32:43,966
Look, you've worked so hard on us,
on the book...
1388
01:32:45,437 --> 01:32:47,303
Punish me, but don't punish yourself.
1389
01:32:47,407 --> 01:32:51,708
You're always so careful when you talk,
always so
1390
01:32:54,181 --> 01:32:57,583
soft like a cushion for what you want.
1391
01:32:58,753 --> 01:33:00,311
But I am leaving.
1392
01:33:02,757 --> 01:33:05,351
But before I go, I give you something.
1393
01:33:06,761 --> 01:33:09,127
You are exhausted from your lies.
1394
01:33:13,802 --> 01:33:15,429
So tell the truth.
1395
01:33:17,706 --> 01:33:22,370
Tell me the truth about
what you did with her this time.
1396
01:33:25,014 --> 01:33:28,381
It is your moment to be clean.
1397
01:33:40,531 --> 01:33:41,829
I saw her.
1398
01:33:45,135 --> 01:33:46,194
When?
1399
01:33:46,503 --> 01:33:47,868
Last month.
1400
01:33:52,544 --> 01:33:56,002
It was in town, down in the Village.
1401
01:34:01,587 --> 01:34:06,719
We were talking about the past, and I...
1402
01:34:08,628 --> 01:34:10,095
I was tempted.
1403
01:34:11,765 --> 01:34:13,960
I was tempted enough that I...
1404
01:34:16,370 --> 01:34:17,929
I went with her,
1405
01:34:18,839 --> 01:34:20,637
back to her apartment,
1406
01:34:25,313 --> 01:34:26,940
and I kissed her.
1407
01:34:29,183 --> 01:34:30,445
And...
1408
01:34:44,633 --> 01:34:46,898
And something happened. I...
1409
01:34:50,607 --> 01:34:54,839
Something physically...
I just recoiled and...
1410
01:34:58,883 --> 01:35:01,613
I couldn't go through with it.
I couldn't do it.
1411
01:35:01,719 --> 01:35:07,282
I just left her standing there
and I ran down the stairs.
1412
01:35:10,462 --> 01:35:12,191
I know you're making
a really big decision.
1413
01:35:12,297 --> 01:35:14,288
I know. I understand that.
1414
01:35:14,700 --> 01:35:15,689
I...
1415
01:35:18,170 --> 01:35:21,868
I just want you to know, that's the truth.
That's the truth.
1416
01:35:38,425 --> 01:35:39,790
I hate you.
1417
01:35:43,163 --> 01:35:44,495
And I love you.
1418
01:35:45,632 --> 01:35:47,259
I hate you.
1419
01:35:48,969 --> 01:35:51,461
I think I'm coming down
with something.
1420
01:36:14,498 --> 01:36:17,467
Human relationships are impossible.
1421
01:36:18,135 --> 01:36:20,570
Especially with females, Clifford.
1422
01:36:21,238 --> 01:36:26,768
We try, of course, to police ourselves,
so that they might be happy,
1423
01:36:27,912 --> 01:36:31,713
believing that their happiness
might become our own.
1424
01:36:33,751 --> 01:36:37,209
We're intertwined now, son,
and I'm glad.
1425
01:36:38,490 --> 01:36:40,151
It's for the best.
1426
01:37:02,450 --> 01:37:03,439
Hi.
1427
01:37:05,986 --> 01:37:07,420
You're broke?
1428
01:37:10,425 --> 01:37:14,088
Why don't you ask your friend
for another birthday present?
1429
01:37:20,502 --> 01:37:21,969
2,400 of our boys...
1430
01:37:22,071 --> 01:37:23,503
Twelve years.
1431
01:37:23,672 --> 01:37:27,039
Twelve years I have been doing
free research for you.
1432
01:37:27,977 --> 01:37:29,945
I cover up all your sleazy affairs. Why?
1433
01:37:30,046 --> 01:37:31,274
Because I thought
it was an investment,
1434
01:37:31,381 --> 01:37:33,872
I thought there was someone in there.
Jesus Christ!
1435
01:37:36,519 --> 01:37:39,978
You paid her. You paid that hooker.
1436
01:37:41,625 --> 01:37:43,719
I could lose my wife, Cliff.
1437
01:37:44,661 --> 01:37:47,495
Always the Cassandra,
always bad news.
1438
01:37:47,665 --> 01:37:50,259
Cliff, I'm not like you. I confessed.
1439
01:37:50,568 --> 01:37:54,937
- You need your freedom, Dick.
- What's that? Your opinion?
1440
01:37:55,039 --> 01:37:57,064
You ruin my life
because of your fucking opinion?
1441
01:37:57,176 --> 01:38:00,737
I wanted this for you more than for me.
The whole thing. I always did.
1442
01:38:00,845 --> 01:38:04,304
And we did it, Dick.
Damn it, we did it. Look at this.
1443
01:38:09,489 --> 01:38:10,819
And look at that.
1444
01:38:12,424 --> 01:38:14,085
- I don't care about that.
- It's yours. Take it.
1445
01:38:14,194 --> 01:38:16,830
- I don't care about that.
- It's all yours. Take it. It's yours.
1446
01:38:16,830 --> 01:38:17,854
- I don't care about that.
- It's all yours. Take it. It's yours.
1447
01:38:18,665 --> 01:38:20,429
What's going on here?
1448
01:38:33,681 --> 01:38:34,943
Intertel.
1449
01:38:38,420 --> 01:38:40,217
Intertel, sons of bitches.
1450
01:38:40,322 --> 01:38:43,052
Motherfuck. They came in.
They broke into my house last night.
1451
01:38:43,158 --> 01:38:45,092
They were here. They abducted me.
1452
01:38:45,195 --> 01:38:47,253
They took me in a car,
and they flew me to Nassau.
1453
01:38:47,363 --> 01:38:49,626
And there, they threatened me.
1454
01:38:49,732 --> 01:38:51,699
They beat me up
and they chucked me out of a window.
1455
01:38:51,801 --> 01:38:55,737
I said, "No, this book goes...
Our book goes forward.
1456
01:38:55,838 --> 01:38:58,500
"Nothing is gonna stop it."
I was firm. Assurances were made.
1457
01:38:58,609 --> 01:39:01,543
"This Howard Hughes will not
be interfered with."
1458
01:39:01,644 --> 01:39:03,977
- This Howard Hughes?
- This Howard Hughes...
1459
01:39:04,081 --> 01:39:06,072
Cliff, Clifford Irving.
1460
01:39:06,550 --> 01:39:09,281
Intertel kidnapped you
and flew you to Nassau?
1461
01:39:09,386 --> 01:39:14,154
Yes! CIA, ex-CIA henchmen!
Martial arts! You were absolutely right.
1462
01:39:14,259 --> 01:39:15,385
I was here last night, Cliff.
1463
01:39:15,492 --> 01:39:17,620
I came here for lessons on
how to lie to my wife,
1464
01:39:17,729 --> 01:39:20,028
you being an expert in that field.
1465
01:39:20,131 --> 01:39:22,862
Jesus Christ, I was outside
that fucking window.
1466
01:39:22,968 --> 01:39:23,936
I saw you in here.
1467
01:39:24,036 --> 01:39:27,472
You were sitting on the floor,
drunk out of your head.
1468
01:39:27,872 --> 01:39:29,670
You don't believe me.
1469
01:39:31,911 --> 01:39:33,970
You, of all people.
1470
01:39:42,089 --> 01:39:44,057
Take your fucking money.
Take your money.
1471
01:39:44,157 --> 01:39:45,625
- Take your money!
- Oh, fuck you!
1472
01:39:45,727 --> 01:39:48,218
Take your fucking money,
all the fucking percentage you got!
1473
01:39:48,328 --> 01:39:49,295
Fuck you!
1474
01:39:49,396 --> 01:39:51,558
- Fuck you!
- Get out, go!
1475
01:39:51,665 --> 01:39:53,030
Take your fucking money
and get out of here!
1476
01:39:53,134 --> 01:39:55,068
Don't throw money at me.
1477
01:39:56,070 --> 01:39:59,472
You stay away from me,
you son of a fucking... Stay away!
1478
01:40:11,020 --> 01:40:13,421
No one flew you to Nassau, Cliff.
1479
01:40:15,659 --> 01:40:17,650
You're not that important.
1480
01:40:25,703 --> 01:40:27,432
One moment, please.
1481
01:40:30,074 --> 01:40:31,302
- Sir?
- MAN: Yes.
1482
01:40:31,409 --> 01:40:34,640
Chester Davis,
Howard Hughes' attorney on Line 1.
1483
01:40:37,182 --> 01:40:40,049
Okay. You're sure?
1484
01:40:42,387 --> 01:40:44,355
What time will it be on?
1485
01:40:45,791 --> 01:40:48,191
I can't thank you enough, Chester.
1486
01:40:48,627 --> 01:40:50,323
The President owes you one.
1487
01:40:50,896 --> 01:40:53,297
Of course, I have massive files
1488
01:40:53,700 --> 01:40:58,638
of photographs
and other recorded material
1489
01:40:58,738 --> 01:41:01,206
tracing my life from an early age.
1490
01:41:01,307 --> 01:41:04,766
I have volumes and volumes
and rooms full of...
1491
01:41:05,211 --> 01:41:09,876
Mr. Hughes, did you cooperate,
or do you know...
1492
01:41:12,921 --> 01:41:14,888
Congratulations, again.
Thank you.
1493
01:41:14,989 --> 01:41:17,856
- Wonderful evening.
- Thank you. Thank you very much.
1494
01:41:23,631 --> 01:41:27,068
I want to know why the hell
we weren't warned about this.
1495
01:41:28,604 --> 01:41:30,663
Why weren't we warned? Clara!
1496
01:41:35,812 --> 01:41:39,270
I have volumes and volumes
and rooms full of...
1497
01:41:39,683 --> 01:41:44,620
Mr. Hughes, did you cooperate,
or do you know
1498
01:41:44,721 --> 01:41:46,552
a man named Irving,
1499
01:41:46,657 --> 01:41:50,057
who claims to have taped
this biography with you?
1500
01:41:50,828 --> 01:41:53,523
Well, this must go down in history.
1501
01:41:53,931 --> 01:41:56,263
I only wish I were still
in the movie business
1502
01:41:56,367 --> 01:42:00,098
because I don't remember
any scripts as wild
1503
01:42:00,571 --> 01:42:04,564
or as stretching of the imagination
as this yarn has turned out to be.
1504
01:42:04,676 --> 01:42:07,804
I take it, sir, you do not know a man
named Clifford Irving, then?
1505
01:42:07,913 --> 01:42:10,474
No, I never saw him.
I never even heard of him
1506
01:42:10,582 --> 01:42:14,678
until a matter of days ago when
this thing first came to my attention.
1507
01:42:14,788 --> 01:42:16,653
It is so fantastic
1508
01:42:16,755 --> 01:42:21,159
and so utterly beyond the bounds
of anyone's imagination...
1509
01:42:23,096 --> 01:42:26,361
I mean, it seems to me
the motive for Irving could be money.
1510
01:42:26,467 --> 01:42:32,667
But McGraw-Hill and Time Life
don't have to deal in fake manuscripts.
1511
01:42:32,773 --> 01:42:37,734
They surely have a business that
operates at a higher plane than that.
1512
01:42:37,846 --> 01:42:41,373
There's gotta be a bank record
somewhere of this transaction.
1513
01:42:41,483 --> 01:42:43,747
So, I just don't have any idea.
1514
01:42:46,622 --> 01:42:49,249
There have been reports
that you have had dealings with...
1515
01:42:49,358 --> 01:42:50,324
He just lied.
1516
01:42:50,426 --> 01:42:53,452
... President Nixon's friend
Bebe Rebozo,
1517
01:42:53,562 --> 01:42:56,464
and also dealings with
the President himself.
1518
01:42:56,699 --> 01:42:58,291
Do you care to comment
on those reports?
1519
01:43:00,938 --> 01:43:02,268
A warrant was issued today
1520
01:43:02,372 --> 01:43:04,863
for the arrest of
Clifford Irving's wife, Edith.
1521
01:43:04,974 --> 01:43:07,603
She is charged with fraud and forgery.
1522
01:43:07,778 --> 01:43:11,806
She deposited in a Swiss bank
money intended for Howard Hughes,
1523
01:43:11,950 --> 01:43:14,008
whose autobiography
her husband says he wrote.
1524
01:43:14,118 --> 01:43:17,109
No, no, no, no!
1525
01:43:18,256 --> 01:43:19,381
Edith?
1526
01:43:24,363 --> 01:43:26,489
Martin Ackerman,
attorney for Clifford Irving,
1527
01:43:26,599 --> 01:43:28,066
who claims that he compiled the book,
1528
01:43:28,167 --> 01:43:31,136
reaffirms his conviction
that it is authentic.
1529
01:43:31,237 --> 01:43:32,704
Ackerman issued that statement
1530
01:43:32,805 --> 01:43:35,103
after a story
in this morning's New York Times,
1531
01:43:35,208 --> 01:43:38,142
a story reportedly saying
Irving may have been duped.
1532
01:43:38,244 --> 01:43:39,473
Edith?
1533
01:43:41,681 --> 01:43:42,806
Edith?
1534
01:43:43,817 --> 01:43:46,445
- Edith?
- Nina!
1535
01:43:48,655 --> 01:43:52,057
Is it safe to say
this was an intimate relationship?
1536
01:43:52,159 --> 01:43:54,922
Yes, the relationship was physical.
1537
01:43:55,029 --> 01:43:58,760
And you can confirm that Mr. Irving,
in fact, did not meet with Mr. Hughes
1538
01:43:58,866 --> 01:44:00,766
on the date in question?
1539
01:44:01,102 --> 01:44:03,901
He could not have met
Howard Hughes in Nassau
1540
01:44:04,006 --> 01:44:06,566
because he was with me
at The Plaza Hotel.
1541
01:44:06,675 --> 01:44:09,041
Well, did he confide in you
regarding the book?
1542
01:44:09,144 --> 01:44:11,442
No. I knew nothing about it.
1543
01:44:12,015 --> 01:44:16,417
I'm completely flabbergasted
by all of this attention and...
1544
01:44:16,518 --> 01:44:19,283
What exactly do you do,
Miss Van Pallandt?
1545
01:44:20,290 --> 01:44:21,780
I'm an actress,
1546
01:44:23,159 --> 01:44:24,593
and a singer.
1547
01:44:27,730 --> 01:44:28,789
Nina.
1548
01:44:30,768 --> 01:44:31,702
Always the details that undo us.
1549
01:44:31,702 --> 01:44:34,227
Always the details that undo us.
1550
01:44:37,107 --> 01:44:39,269
Can I run something by you, George?
1551
01:44:39,376 --> 01:44:40,866
Certainly, Clifford.
That's what I'm here for.
1552
01:44:40,979 --> 01:44:43,743
This was a really bad year for Howard,
wasn't it?
1553
01:44:43,847 --> 01:44:48,649
The TWA thing,
the Airwest merger unraveling.
1554
01:44:50,289 --> 01:44:53,747
He lost control of Nixon,
his fixer, too, didn't he?
1555
01:44:54,927 --> 01:44:58,920
He needed something.
He needed some leverage
1556
01:44:59,999 --> 01:45:02,024
to keep him back in line.
1557
01:45:02,135 --> 01:45:06,037
A loss could cost Hughes
$ 137 million...
1558
01:45:06,139 --> 01:45:09,575
So one day he opens his
disinfected newspaper,
1559
01:45:09,676 --> 01:45:11,268
and there we are,
1560
01:45:11,578 --> 01:45:13,170
us, with our little book.
1561
01:45:13,280 --> 01:45:15,374
When your rival is powerful,
1562
01:45:15,649 --> 01:45:16,742
find an opportunity.
1563
01:45:16,850 --> 01:45:19,615
Create a crisis for him.
1564
01:45:20,755 --> 01:45:23,724
Hardly had to do anything.
Just a little push.
1565
01:45:25,860 --> 01:45:29,058
Then he fed us some dirt.
1566
01:45:29,163 --> 01:45:30,222
The shit about Bebe and...
1567
01:45:30,331 --> 01:45:32,027
Just to get Nixon's
attention, a little more dirt.
1568
01:45:32,134 --> 01:45:33,863
The President thinks this is authentic?
1569
01:45:33,969 --> 01:45:34,958
How else could they know?
1570
01:45:35,070 --> 01:45:37,834
Nixon gets hysterical.
He thinks the book is real.
1571
01:45:37,941 --> 01:45:40,738
But instead of taking
short-term advantage,
1572
01:45:42,612 --> 01:45:44,409
save the day for him.
1573
01:45:45,482 --> 01:45:48,281
And then Howard makes it good
for the President,
1574
01:45:48,385 --> 01:45:50,081
cashes in his chip,
1575
01:45:51,088 --> 01:45:52,555
and we get buried.
1576
01:45:52,656 --> 01:45:56,058
I take it, sir, you do not know a man
named Clifford Irving, then?
1577
01:45:56,160 --> 01:45:59,618
No, I never saw him.
I never even heard of him until...
1578
01:45:59,730 --> 01:46:01,562
I'm not angry, George.
1579
01:46:03,201 --> 01:46:04,827
I'm disappointed.
1580
01:46:05,404 --> 01:46:07,770
You know, I thought that maybe...
1581
01:46:09,808 --> 01:46:12,504
I thought we were partners,
Howard and I.
1582
01:46:13,146 --> 01:46:16,172
Well, you mustn't
take it personally, Clifford.
1583
01:46:16,783 --> 01:46:19,877
Just as the trees
mustn't take it personally
1584
01:46:19,986 --> 01:46:22,478
when a forest is razed for lumber.
1585
01:46:23,389 --> 01:46:25,653
They're part of a grand design.
1586
01:46:27,795 --> 01:46:29,456
I played it good for a while,
though, didn't I?
1587
01:46:29,562 --> 01:46:33,556
You were tremendous, Clifford.
Mr. Hughes commented on that.
1588
01:46:33,667 --> 01:46:34,862
Really?
1589
01:46:36,236 --> 01:46:37,932
Would I lie to you?
1590
01:46:40,008 --> 01:46:42,568
Howard Hughes has spoken publicly.
1591
01:46:42,677 --> 01:46:45,737
And he has told us
that we may hear more from him soon.
1592
01:46:45,847 --> 01:46:47,337
All right, thank you. Thank you.
1593
01:46:47,449 --> 01:46:49,441
Good night, from NBC News.
1594
01:46:50,618 --> 01:46:52,020
YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET
WHAT YOU WANT PLAYING
1595
01:47:05,602 --> 01:47:07,763
Sir, do you have any comment?
1596
01:47:53,887 --> 01:47:57,722
I'll cooperate
in exchange for leniency for Dick,
1597
01:47:57,825 --> 01:47:59,816
and especially for Edith.
1598
01:48:02,730 --> 01:48:05,756
Mr. Irving received a sentence of
two and a half years' imprisonment,
1599
01:48:05,867 --> 01:48:07,858
Mr. Suskind, six months' imprisonment.
1600
01:48:07,969 --> 01:48:10,631
In addition, they will pay
full restitution to McGraw-Hill
1601
01:48:10,739 --> 01:48:14,402
and the Internal Revenue Service,
totaling $ 1.3 million.
1602
01:48:14,509 --> 01:48:16,773
Mrs. Irving received
a suspended sentence,
1603
01:48:16,879 --> 01:48:19,473
but we have no control over what
the Swiss authorities decide to do.
1604
01:48:19,581 --> 01:48:21,209
Are you happy with the outcome,
Mr. Newman?
1605
01:48:21,317 --> 01:48:23,411
I'm not sure you're ever ecstatic
when a bargain is reached but...
1606
01:48:23,519 --> 01:48:26,977
In a surprise reversal,
the Nixon Justice Department today
1607
01:48:27,089 --> 01:48:30,992
approved the acquisition of Airwest
airlines by Howard Hughes' Tool Co.
1608
01:48:31,160 --> 01:48:33,925
This on the heels of
last week's Supreme Court decision
1609
01:48:34,031 --> 01:48:36,465
to dismiss the TWA
shareholders' lawsuit,
1610
01:48:36,567 --> 01:48:40,527
rescuing Mr. Hughes
from paying $ 137 million
1611
01:48:40,637 --> 01:48:44,096
made it a very good week
for the eccentric billionaire.
1612
01:48:44,541 --> 01:48:47,272
In other news today,
five men were arrested
1613
01:48:47,378 --> 01:48:50,211
breaking into the Democratic National
Committee headquarters
1614
01:48:50,315 --> 01:48:52,579
located in the Watergate Hotel.
1615
01:50:23,549 --> 01:50:26,382
Yeah, that's them.
Don't choke on the dust.
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