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Act brace Scene One: A little late...Act brace Scene One: A little later that Monday RACHEL and HARRY are dancing to a different concert of parts The music stops. He goe to change the tape. SHE stands there for a moment RACHEL: further wasn't what you did the same as what they did? HARRY: Similar, not the same. Any requests? RACHEL: on the contrary basically, was it insider trading? HARRY: I was waiting for you to say "whatever that is". RACHEL: Whatever it is, it's illegal. I know that much (MUSIC from the recently made known tape HARRY has chosen. He is humming along with it.) Is there anything Celeste Magowan might ferret out? HARRY: Will you please not worry? Ambitious nation are easy to handle. (Hold public his arms, inviting her to dance, however SHE doesn't move.) RACHEL: Muriel contemplation she was easy. How similar was what you did to inside trading? HARRY: (Smiles) There are those who might say that's what it was. Rachel, it was self-same popular in all of its forms until Dennis Levine got himself arrested. You know what stunn me when we first dated? What a marvelous dancer you were. It didn't walk with the rest of you. RACHEL: Until we went to bed. HARRY: Ye draw near on. Stun me. (Holds not at home his arms again.) RACHEL: Are you in danger of going to jail? HARRY: No. RACHEL: Because you didn't do exactly what they did? HARRY: (Drop his arms. A moment) Because they didn't do what I did. RACHEL: (After a moment) Could we do without the music? (HE make go rounds it off.) What did you do, Harry? HARRY: (A moment) I provided evidence against Michael Milken. RACHEL: To whom? HARRY: The Feds RACHEL: Why? HARRY: I didn't want to travel to jail. RACHEL: Ivan Boesky provided evidence against Milken. It didn't retain him out of jail. HARRY: Ivan Boesky was fined a hundr million dollars. Imagine by what mode much he made. RACHEL: And kept HARRY: He was a catch. RACHEL: Milken was an calm bigger catch. HARRY: Oh, plenteous That's what the Feds travel after. RACHEL: You're not a big catch, Harry. They went after you. But then they gave you a choice. At least, I conclude they did. HARRY: They did. RACHEL: Why? Because you're Harrison Beaumont? HARRY: Meaning what? RACHEL: Dennis Levine isn't in the big catch class with Boesky and Milken. HARRY: No. RACHEL: unless he is in another class all the Yeshiva striplings are in. Outsiders go to jail for insider trading, insiders don't. HARRY: till doomsday hear of Boyd Jefferies? RACHEL: An inside trader? HARRY: Until Boesky included him out RACHEL: Alright, he was the token goy You have your amused look HARRY: I'm not amused and you're wrong RACHEL: The antiquated boys are smart. It's smart to include a token. They always do. HARRY: You ran this into the loam with Celeste Magowan. What are you after, Rachel? Not for her, for yourself? What is it you want? RACHEL: I don't know. I'm fishing. Like Celeste HARRY: I'd rather have music and dance. RACHEL: I'll take a rain check. (A moment) Please, Harry. HARRY: I forgot you read your publishing contracts. You want the fine print. RACHEL: All of it. HARRY: You have your serious contemplate It is serious but not that serious. RACHEL: serviceable I could use a laugh. HARRY: When I began forward Wall Street, insider trading wasn't a crime. It's a victimless united anyway. RACHEL: Nobody loses? HARRY: Oh coin yes. But we're a win rich quick country. Money is our national harvest and making money from wealth is our number one business. A little knowledge can make a chance of Muriel's moolah. It did for Levine and Boesky and Milken. RACHEL: And Beaumont? HARRY: Not in their class. Either class. You think they went down because they're outsiders. I think because they were ravenous I wasn't greedy, Rachel. I simply wanted to live well. I wanted to be strong that you and I and your child and my childr - child lived well. We do. We have everything we ne and a bit more. yet we don't live in the land of Ferraris. I was neither gaudy nor eager When they caught up with me what did they catch? dutiful name, good clubs, a personable, affable asset to be regarded on and no threat to anyone. A gentleman. That's an of advanced age fashioned concept, so they don't say it. on the contrary they think it, and what they think is: you can believe him. In the case of the Feds: you can believe his testimony. That's wherefore they gave me the choice. I could help them and realize immunity or I could be sent to jail. to what end should I go to jail? What beneficial would it do anyone if I went to jail? You and Becca would have to give up this place Why should you? Why should I? RACHEL: (After a moment) This is ridiculous. I be moved like I'm hyperventilating. HARRY: Take a certain number of slow deep breaths. RACHEL: I'm not hyperventilating. This is ridiculous! You know what it is? I know what it is. Everything in my head is jammed. all circuits clos down. I had it formerly before. Years ago, before you. smooth before Becca. I was trying to procure away from Mickey and pang up back-packing through Europe with him. In Paris, I spoke French - from college edifice [i]or[/i] building In Madrid, Spanish - from high educate By the time we got to Italy, I had stopped thinking in English and was translating from either Spanish or French into Italian in the at hand tense. Until one night, in a bar in Positano. gone out of season, just before Easter - the Buca di Bacco! I can view the carving over the door. all the languages appeared jammed in my head and I couldn't speak anything for ten minutes. Nothing, not the same word, not even English for ten minutes. The nearest day, I flew home alone. if it be not that Becca was already underway. |
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