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Kewpie Act 2 Flashcards

1
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Pike: And this bantam rooster showin’ another side of the picture.

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What makes you go?

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Pearl: I’m not sex starved, do you hear? I’m not!

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The door is pushed open by Kewpie

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Pike: Takin’ care of furnaces, Citizens! (Exits.)

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He swallowed a load of carpet tacks. (Pearl moves away). You’re afraid of me, Mabel.

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Pearl: You’re afraid of yourself. (Pearl exists as Gus enters)

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P.S., how’s Libby, Gus?

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Gus: Don’t you know?

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Come again? (No answer). Libby says your spark plug’s falling apart. Maybe you could use a few bucks to fix it?

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Gus: don’t want a wooden nickel off you, Mr. Kewpie!

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A few bucks should like the promised land to you—take ‘em!

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Gus: what for?

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Don’t gimme no kibitz. Take it!

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Gus: yes, we know why you’re giving me money. Here, I want you to keep away from my daughter’s house when he’s out lookin for work in the morning!

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P.S., you’re nuts!

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Gus: yes, I know what I am—a very ordinary person. But do you hear what I say? You hear? Do you?

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(Scornfully): your nose is bleeding!

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Gus: just you keep away from there and don’t gimme no money! Don’t buy me!

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(Taking hold of Gus, who shakes him off): Button up your funny mouth, Gussie!

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Gus: I tried to speak to her, but she don’t listen. All I’m good for is to my mind my grandchild while she takes in a movie. You’re a small/time character, that’s what it is, the whole thing! (Begins to cry).

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Why the gush?

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The whole world’s Fallon’ to pieces, right under our eyes.

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Kewpie (disgusted): where’s Ben?

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Gus: no money! Hear that? No buyin’ honor!

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Kewpie: Aaah…(Exits in disgust to kitchen)

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Julie: when I make a good run, no one sees it. Twelve. Kewpie come yet?

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(Kewpie enters): Get a load of the dress-up

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Julie: makes me feel good.

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Kewpie: lost your shirt in the market?

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Julie: first time in almost two years I wore it. Got any new card tricks?

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Kewpie: no new ones. (To Ben, until now only side-glanced.) chase the Boy Scout out.

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Julie: no, I don’t mind.

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Got any tips on the market?

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Julie: sure try “poison on the crib”! (He starts out one exit but changes his mind and goes the other way)

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He looks terrible

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Kewpie: he looks terrible Ben: yeah…

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They can’t fix him up?

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Kewpie: they can’t fix him up? Ben: No…

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Slow death.

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21
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Kewpie: Slow death.
Ben: yeah…

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Does he know?

22
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Ben: No, he doesn’t.

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Too bad—all dressed up and no place to go…the hell you looking?

23
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Kewpie: …the hell you looking?
Ben: why?

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Why? Aunt Tessie’s eye! What the hell you always putting on an act?

24
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Ben: I make you uncomfortable!

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Who the hell are you to make me uncomfortable?

25
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Ben: I’m the guy who slept with Mrs. God!

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Kewpie: (searching) what?

26
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Ben:…Christ, Kewpie, tell me, tell me—who died there—me you or him or what?

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Kewpie: what the hell you talking about!

27
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Ben: is Danny wearing wings in paradise? Or is he a cheap cluck like you and me, trying to make a living, trying to be a man and look the world in the face in some other hell?

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(Really touched): nobody’s a cheap cluck.

28
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Ben: he ducked out in time.

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(Hiding his feelings): always doing a song and dance.

29
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Ben:…I wanted to run till my heart exploded…a funny way to die…

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Kewpie: what’s it make me?

30
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Ben: what did I want? To be a great man? Get my picture or a postage stamp? (Finally tacking). Were you over my house this morning after I left?

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No.

31
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Ben: Libby lays there. Wears silk nightgowns and her belly’s soft. When I leave she’s warm and sleepy.

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Kewpie (wary): what’s the idea?

32
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Ben: you never go there in the morning?

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Kewpie: I said no!

33
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Ben: you gave her thirty dollars.

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Kewpie: Who said?

34
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Ben: maybe you forgot. (A pause). She’s my wife…

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Kewpie: Sure.

35
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Ben: you give her money, just like that?

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Kewpie: she needed some dough for the house.

36
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Ben: and the other stuff you’ve been buying her for months—the pink and black underwear? She need that to run the house too?

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Kewpie (after an intense second): were that way for each other.

37
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Ben: which way?

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Kewpie: (italics): that way!

38
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Ben: You’re a liar!

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Kewpie: Libby don’t care for you three cents. You’re sand in her shoes. I buy her clothes, keep your house running. The fancy carriage for the kid? My dough! The money in your pocket? Mine! I’m in you like a tale worm.

39
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Ben: You pushed me out of bed…

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Kewpie: You’re out—I’m in!

40
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Ben:Better than me?….What an honor to a better guy than Ben Gordon

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Kewpie: I am.

41
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Ben: The world is flat like table—Columbus was wrong—we’re being pushed over the edge.

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Kewpie: where are you going?

42
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Ben: To the corner, turn left, three blocks west as the crow flies. If she’s still home—

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Kewpie: You got a job now.

43
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Ben: To hell with that!

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Kewpie: No, you do it and like it!

44
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Ben: Who the hell are you talking to?

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Kewpie: Hold your guts a minute!

45
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Ben: P.S. a gorilla!

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Kewpie: You wanna kill me? Who gives a damn! Here! (Draws gun and shoves it in Ben’s hand)

46
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Ben: My hand might slip…

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Kewpie: Let it…(they look at each other. Ben finally lowers his hand.) Joe says for you to handle it. We’re leaving any minute. The car’s on Whitman Avenue.

47
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Ben: Where do we go?

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Kewpie: To Lincoln Avenue.

48
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Ben: Danger?

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Kewpie: Plenty!

49
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Ben: The Gordon exterminating service means to shoot the works!

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Kewpie: It takes ten minutes to get to Lincoln Avenue.

50
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Ben: I used to think it meant something: the sweet taking on and off of clothes—the silent tremble of love—the proud possession—(he laughs)

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Kewpie (gives Ben a small packet): Here. I took them outa hock. Libby gave me the tickets.

51
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Ben: Medals? kewpie if you were a Boy Scout your day’s work would be done. (Tosses packet to Julie) A present for your thirteenth birthday

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Kewpie: We better go.

52
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Ben: Sure (Ben spits on statue)

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(Kewpie carefully wipes statue off with a silk handkerchief and exists)

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