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(Angel discovers Collins, who has been mugged)
Angel: Oh my God, are you okay, honey?
Collins: I'm afraid so.
Angel: They get anything, or...?
Collins: I didn't have any money, but they took my stuff.
(Angel tries to wipe the blood from Collins' forehead)
Collins: No, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Angel: I'm Angel.
Collins: Angel. Friends call me Collins. Tom Collins.
Angel: Come on. Let's get you cleaned up. Sort of have to hurry; I have a life support meeting to go to.
Collins: Life support?
Angel: Yeah. It's for people with AIDS. People like me.
Collins: Me, too.
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Mimi: (sung) The heart may freeze or it can burn. The pain will ease if I can learn... there is no future. There is no past. I live this moment as my last! There's only us... there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road... mo other way. No day but today...
Roger: (sung) Excuse me, if I'm off track. But if you're so wise, then tell me, why do you need smack? Take your needle... take your fancy prayer. And don't forget, get the moonlight out of your hair. Long ago you might've lit up my heart. But the fire's dead, and ain't ever ever gonna start! Another time, another place. The words would only rhyme... we'd be in outer space. It'd be another song, we'd sing another way. You wanna prove me wrong? Come back another day... another day!
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Mr. Cohen: (on Mark's answering machine) We're sorry to hear that Maureen dumped you. I say c'est la vie. Let her be a lesbian! She doesn't know what she's missing!
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Roger Davis, Mark: (On answering machine) Speeeeeeeeeeeak.
(Beep)
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Life Cafe Manager: (Mark, Maureen, Joanne, Mimi, Angel, and Collins walk into the Life Cafe) Oh, no. Please, no. No. Not tonight. Please leave.
Mark: What are you talking about? Why?
Life Cafe Manager: Because you sit here all night and you never order anything.
Mark: That's a lie. Just last week I had a tea.
Life Cafe Manager: You couldn't pay.
Mark: Oh, yeah.
Angel: Tonight we can.
(Holding up money)
Angel: Ka-pow.
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Angel: New York City.
Mark: Uh-huh.
Angel: Center of the universe.
Collins: Sang it, girl!
Angel: Times are shitty, but I'm pretty sure they can't get worse.
Roger: I hear that.
Angel: It's a comfort to know, when you're singing the hit-the-road blues...
(sung)
Angel: That anywhere else you could possibly go after New York would be
(whispered)
Angel: a pleasure cruise!
Collins: Now you're talkin'!
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Mark: Hey look, all our shit's back.
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Collins: (sung) In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried. In bridges he burned, or the way that she died!
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Mimi: (on hands and knees to find her drugs) They say I have the best ass below 14th street. Is it true?
Roger: What?
Mimi: You're staring again.
Roger: Oh no. I mean, you do have a nice, I mean...
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Collins: I think they meant it when they said you can't buy love. Now I know you can rent it, a new lease you are my love - on life... be my life.
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Maureen: You always said how lucky you were that we were all friends. But it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones.
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Angel: You teach?
Collins: I teach- computer age philosophy, but my students would rather watch TV
Angel: America
All: America!
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Joanne: (sung) This is weird.
Mark: (sung) It's weird.
Joanne: (sung) Very weird
Mark: (sung) Fucking weird.
Joanne: (sung) I'm so mad that I don't know what to do. Fighting with microphones, freezing down to my bones, and to top it all off, I'm with you!
Mark: (sung) Feel like going insane? Got a fire in your brain, and you're thinking of drinking gasoline?
Joanne: (sung) As a matter of fact...
Mark: (sung) Honey, I know this act: It's called the Tango: Maureen.
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Joanne: Didn't give an inch when I gave a mile!
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Angel: Today for you, tomorrow for me!
Tom: And you should hear her beat.
Mark: You earned this on the street?
Angel: It was my lucky day today on Avenue A when the lady in the limousine drove my way - she said, "Darling, be a dear - haven't slept in a year! I need your help to make my neighbor's yappy dog disappear! This akita - Evita - just won't shut up! I believe if you play nonstop that pup will breathe its very last high-strung breath. I'm certain that cur will bark itself to death!"
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Alexi: How much did I love your footage? So mu - it reminded me of my Berkeley days - fighting the good fight. Kudos. Kudos
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Mimi: Give in to love or live in fear.
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Mark: We don't need your charity.
(hands Ben a cheque)
Mark: It should cover us a little while.
Benjamin Coffin III: Where'd you get this?
Mark: It's my first advance.
Benjamin Coffin III: Okay, congratulations.
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Roger: Zoom in on my empty wallet.
Mark: Touché.
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(first lines)
Mark, Angel, Maureen, Roger, Collins, Benjamin Coffin III, Mimi: Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes - how do you measure a year in the life? How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love... seasons of love.
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Maureen: Look, gimme that, I'm sick and tired of you always carrying that around
(takes camera)
Mark: Maureen, no! Your gonna break it!
Maureen: (while filming Mark and slightly running from him) Hey Mark! Happy New Years, Mark!
Mark: No! This is NOT my barmitzvah give it back to me!
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Angel: (sung) And sure as I am here that dog is now in doggie hell!
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Roger: We got power.
Mark: Oh. Merry Christmas.
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Collins: (about Roger) This boy could use some STOLI!
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Collins, Mark, Maureen, Mimi, Joanne, Angel, Roger Davis: To people living with, living with, living with... not dying from disease. Let he among us without sin be the first to condem La Vie Boheme.
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Mark: Has she ever pouted her lips and called you Pookie?
Joanne: Never.
Mark: Have you ever doubted a kiss or two?
Joanne: This is spooky.
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Maureen: Moo with me... Moooooo
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Gordon: I'm a New Yorker. Fear's my life.
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Mark: (as they Tango) It's hard to do this backwards.
Joanne: You should try it in heels.
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Gordon: (sung) I try to open up to what I don't know, because reason says I should have died three years ago...
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Collins, Mark, Maureen, Roger, Mimi, Joanne: No day but today!
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Angel, Collins: I've longed to discover something as true as this is.
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Mark: (sung) The opposite of war isn't peace!
Joanne: What is?
Mark: It's creation!
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Mimi: They call me... they call me... Mimi.
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Roger Davis: Find one song, one last refrain, glory, from the pretty boy front man... who wasted opportunity... One song - he had the world at his feet - glory, in the eyes of a young girl... a young girl... Find glory beyond the cheap, colored lights, one song before the sun sets - glory on another empty life, time flies... time dies.
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(about his parents message on the answering machine)
Mark: There are times when we're dirt broke, hungry, and freezing, and I ask myself, why the hell am I still living here?
(beat)
Mark: And then they call. And I remember.
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Joanne: (sings) Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?
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Collins: Ooh, Maureen dumped you?
Mark: Yes, she dumped me. For a lawyer named Joanne.
(choked laughter)
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Collins: Baby, you're drunk.
Angel: No I'm not.
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Mark, Roger: (answering machine) Speak.
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Benjamin Coffin III: (about Maureen) Still dating her?
Mark: Last month I was dumped.
Benjamin Coffin III: She's got a new man?
Mark: Well, no.
Benjamin Coffin III: What's his name?
Mark, Roger: Joanne.
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Collins: In honor of the death of Bohemia, an improtu salon will commence immediately following dinner. Maureen Johnson, back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot, will sing Native American tribal chants backwards through her vocorder, while accompanying herself on the electric chello, which she ain't never studied.
Roger: And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an erection on high holy days.
Mark: Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance to the sound of iced tea being stirred. And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song.
Roger: (picks up a guitar and plays)
Mark: That doesn't remind us of Musetta's Waltz.
Collins: Angel Dumont Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris while accomanying herself on the 10 gallon plastic pickle tub.
Angel: And Collins will recount his exploits as an anarchist, including the tale of his successful reprogramming of the MIT virtural reality equipment to self-destruct as it broadcast the words:
All: Actual reality! Act up! Fight AIDS!
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Mark: ...and then there was the time he walked up to this group of tourists and they were petrified because A they were obviously lost, and B had probably never spoken to a drag queen before in their lives... and he... she just offered to escort them out of Alphabet City... and then she let them take a picture with her and then she said she'd help 'em find the Circle Line...
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Mark, Roger: I don't own emotion, I rent.
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Roger: (sung) You look familiar.
Mimi: (sung) Like your dead girlfriend?
Roger: (sung) Only when you smile, but I'm sure I've seen you somwhere else.
Mimi: (sung) Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club? That's where I work. I dance.
Roger: (sung) Yes! They used to tie you up.
Mimi: (sung) It's a living.
Roger: (sung) I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs.
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Mark: And who are you two supposed to be?
Collins: Bond, James Bond.
Angel: And Pussy Galore... in person.
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All: (sung) No other road / No other way / No day but today
Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: (sung) I can't control / My destiny
Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: (sung) Will I lose my dignity / Will someone care
Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: (sung) I trust my soul / My only goal / Is just to be
Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: (sung) Will I wake tomorrow / From this nightmare
Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: (sung) Without you / The hand gropes
Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: (sung) There's only now / There's only here
Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: (sung) The ear hears / The pulse beats
Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: (sung) Give in to love / Or live in fear
Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: (sung) Life goes on / But I'm gone
Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: (sung) No other path / No other way
Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: (sung) 'Cause I die / Without you / I die without you
Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: (sung) No day but today / No day but today
Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: (sung) I die without you / I die without you
Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: (sung) No day but today / No day but today
Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: (sung) I die without you / I die without you
Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: (sung) No day but today / No day but today
All: (sung) NO DAY BUT TODAY!
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Mark: (after opening song) December 24th, 1989, 9 PM, Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes of it, instead of my old shit.
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Joanne: (sung) Measure your life in love!
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Mark: How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day? Headlines, breadlines blow my mind, and now this deadline - eviction or pay... rent!
Roger: How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong, though they once sounded right and rare? When the notes are sour, where is the power you once had to ignite the air?
Mark: We're hungry and frozen...
Roger: Some life that we've chosen!
Mark, Roger: How we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, how we gonna pay... last year's rent!
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