Voice Mail #6
...the phone rings...
Mark & Roger:
SPEAK!!
...from the answering machine...
Roger's Mom:
Roger, this is your mother!
Roger honey, I don't get these postcards!
Moving to Santa Fe, back in New York, moving to Brooklyn....
Roger where are you?
Roger where are you?
Please call.....
Mimi's Mom:
Mimi, chica, donde estas?
Tu mama- esta llamando.
Donde estas Mimi call....
Mr. Jefferson:
Muffin, wherever are you? Call....
Mark's Mom:
Mark, are you there, are you there?
I don't know if he's there!
We're all here, wishing you were here too!
Where are you Mark?
Are you there are you- where are you?
Mark are you there?
Are you there?
I don't know if- please call your mother!
On the Street #3
Homeless people:
Christmas bells are ringing....
Christmas bells are ringing....
Christmas bells are ringing-
how time flies- when compassion dies!
No stockings, no candy canes, no ginger bread,
no safety net, no loose change, no change, no....
Homeless man:
Santa Claus is coming!
Homeless people:
Cause Santa Claus aint coming!
No room at the Holiday Inn- again!
Well maybe next year or when!
Finale
Roger:
If I got a rope and hung myself, my face bright blue, my sneakers
dangling in the air!
Mark:
If I bought an AK-47, shot myself, would anyone care?
Roger:
Like Quentin Tarantino!
Mark:
Fuck, what does he know?
Both:
How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay?
How we gonna pay last years-
...Collins enters...
Collins:
Salutations! I had a little hunch, you could use a little flow.
Roger:
Tutoring again?
Collins:
Negative!
Mark:
Back at NYU?
Collins:
No, no, no.
I rewired the ATM at the Food Emporium to provide an honorarium to
anyone with the code.
Mark & Roger:
The code- well?
Collins:
A - N - G - E - L
Yet Robin Hooding isn't the solution.
The powers that be must be undermined where they dwell.
In a small exclusive gourmet institution
where we overcharge the wealthy clientele.
We'll open up a restaurant in Santa Fe.
Mark & Roger:
Santa Fe!
Collins:
With a private corner banquette all our own.
Mark & Roger:
All our own!
Collins:
We'll make it yet we'll somehow get to Santa Fe.
Mark & Roger:
Santa Fe!
Roger:
In a car this time that makes it past Beron.
All:
Oh......
...Benny enters...
Benny:
An espresso Allison, espresso Allison, and zambocadine-
Andelucia's closed.
We are the world, we are the children.
Hey, choo- choo Charlie.
All:
Off the Harley!
Benny:
No more fiction, this is an eviction!
Mark:
We're already moving.
Roger:
Williamsburg, yahoo.
Mark:
Gang way Blockbuster!
Benny:
Blockbuster fell through!
Collins:
You have a conscience?
Benny:
My wife did....
Roger:
You suck!
Benny:
I do this kind of business, I'm cut off from the trust fund!
Mark:
What about Mimi?
Benny:
You can stay if you pay!
Roger:
What about...
Benny:
Not so loud!
Mark, Roger, & Collins:
Mimi?!?!
Benny:
Hey!
...Roger picks up Benny's cell phone...
Roger:
How do you work these?
Benny:
Don't be a jerk please!
Roger:
I'm a jerk?
Benny:
I didn't see you paying her blue cross!
Roger:
Well I don't make money by selling out to destitute.
Benny:
Out of my house you squatters!
Mark:
You slumlord!
Benny:
I dumped Mimi anyways. It was a drag! Things got queer!
Mark, Roger, & Collins:
When?
Benny:
A week ago, more!
Mark:
Where is she?
Benny:
I assumed.... you mean she isn't here?
...Roger dials a number on the cell phone...
Roger:
Allison!
Benny:
Don't you do that!
Roger:
I just thought you might like to know....
Maureen:
Mark! Roger! Anyone! Help!
Mark:
Maureen?
Maureen:
It's Mimi!
I can't get her up the stairs!
Roger:
No!
Maureen:
She was huddled in the park, in the dark, and she was freezing, and
begged to
come here.
Roger:
Over here! Oh God!
Mimi:
Got a light? I know you.... you're shivering!
Joanne:
She was living on the street.
Roger:
We need some heat.
Mimi:
I'm shivering!
Mark:
We can buy some wood and something to eat.
Collins:
I'm afraid she needs more than heat.
Mimi:
I heard that!
Maureen:
Collins will get you a doctor honey.
Mimi:
Don't waste your money on Mimi, me, me.
Collins:
(counting money) 15, 16....
Maureen:
There, there.
Mimi:
Cold! Cold! Would you light my candle?
Mark:
Wait I'll sell the camera!
Collins:
Time to be on your way comrade- it's been 525,600 moments clad.
We were nomads together in a no mans land!
Where man's the only beast who pays rent.
And if it's spent, at least he's got to stay afloat.
And he's got to have a damn good coat.
Which you were, like an angel!
But it's over....
Goodbye love, goodbye love!
Goodbye love, goodbye!
Farewell Angel.
Mark:
I finished the film.
Maureen:
That's great.
Mark:
It's called "Today for You - Proof Positive".
Mark & Maureen:
God let her live!
Mimi:
I should tell you, I should tell you....
Roger:
I should tell you, I should tell you....
Mimi:
I should tell you Benny wasn't any....
Roger:
Shhh! I know.
I should tell you why I left- it wasn't cause I didn't....
Mimi:
Don't go! I should tell you.
Roger:
I should tell you....
Mimi:
I should tell you....
Roger & Mimi:
I love you!
Walking through fire without a burn.
Roger:
Clinging- a shoulder.
Mimi:
A leap begins.
Roger:
Stinging and older.
Mimi:
Asleep on pins.
Roger & Mimi:
So here we go, now we....
Roger:
Oh no.
Mimi:
I know.
Roger:
Oh no.
Roger:
Who knows where?
Who goes there?
Who knows?
Here goes.
...Mimi collapses...
Roger:
Who do you think you are?
Leaving me alone with my guitar.
...Roger passionately plays Musetta's Waltz on his guitar...
Mimi!
...Mimi stirs, and jumps up...
Mimi:
Moonstruck! The theme from Moonstruck!
Mark:
Moonstruck?
Mimi:
Moooooo!
Mark:
I knew it sounded familiar!
Maureen:
She's drenched!
Mark:
Her fever's breaking!
Mimi:
There is no future, there is no past....
Roger:
Thank God this moment's not the last!
Roger & Mimi:
There's only us, there's only this....
Forget regret or life is yours to miss.
All:
No other road, no other way....
No day but today....
Women:
I can't control my destiny!
I trust my soul...
My only goal is just to be!
Without you, the hand gropes, the ear hears, the pulse beats....
Life goes on, but I'm gone-
cause I die, without you.
I die without you.... I die without you..... I die without you....
Men:
Will I lose my dignity?
Will someone care?
Will I wake tomorrow from this nightmare?
There's only now, there's only here-
give into love or live in fear.
No other path, no other way, no day but today.
No day but today.... No day but today.... No day but today....
All:
No day but today!
