Rich and Famous (1981)

Hart Bochner: Chris Adams

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• Liz Hamilton : I really don't understand why the interview.

  Chris Adams : Why?

  Liz Hamilton : Yeah. Why me? Why the 'Stone"? Why me for the 'Stone"?

• Liz Hamilton : Perhaps you could break through the language barrier and let me know what this is all about.

  Chris Adams : There's a language barrier?

  Liz Hamilton : I always thought this was a joke, you know, about your publication. The utterances of those who can't speak, written by those who cannot write, for those who cannot read.

• Chris Adams : [to Liz]  You have political anger, but reason keeps it cool - especially in your small magazine pieces. Your fiction, there's passion right there, but, again, within the parameters of taste - or, maybe, its art, not taste. You'll tell me.

• Chris Adams : Are you okay?

  Liz Hamilton : Do I sound okay?

• Chris Adams : You know what you need?

  Liz Hamilton : Do you know what I need?

  Chris Adams : You need to relax.

  Liz Hamilton : What do you mean?

  Chris Adams : Relax. Relax means relax.

  Liz Hamilton : Do you mean I need someone to relax me? You think I need someone to relax me? To come over here and relax me?

  Chris Adams : I didn't mention someone, no.

  Liz Hamilton : Well, were you going to do it?

  Chris Adams : Do what?

  Liz Hamilton : There's an arrogance about men sometimes.

• Liz Hamilton : My problem is I'm truly an old fashioned girl. I like men who talk. I *love* to talk. There's a whole generation crowding up behind us of people who want to talk with their bodies. Now everyone is so muscular and chic. With tits spilling out all over the place. And soft fashions. We've got a generation of beauties. They're more beautiful than the Greeks. But, what happened to the articulate guy? Nobody wants to talk anymore.

  Chris Adams : Well, you don't have to be hard on me. I'm just listening.

  Liz Hamilton : Just listening is an obscenely intimate act.

• Chris Adams : I'll agree with your point. A way to approach a woman - is through the ears. Ears, you know, they're little emblems of sexuality.

  Liz Hamilton : I'm listening to you through emblems of sexuality?

• Liz Hamilton : Why not with girls your own age?

  Chris Adams : They're always watching for their own orgasm.

  Liz Hamilton : Well, what should they be watching for? Your orgasm?

  Chris Adams : *Our* orgasm.

• Liz Hamilton : Does sex confuse you?

  Chris Adams : [kisses Liz's nose]  No.

  Liz Hamilton : I don't mean how to do it, but, that can be enormously confusing at times. I just mean that the question of sex.

• Chris Adams : What is everybody afraid of? Chances? Risks? Commitment? Those are the popular words, but, God, they don't measure up to the old words. Love sick. Heartfelt. With this hand. Sickness and Health. Death due us part. Those are sensational. You can't hear them without ladies weeping.

• Chris Adams : Did you ever think that what makes sex so exciting is that it's so frightening?

  Liz Hamilton : Is that what you think? Do I frighten you?

  Chris Adams : It's like T.S. Eliot, he made this crack about D.H. Lawrence. He said Lawrence was looking for an intimacy that was impossible between a man and a woman. Well, I say, bullshit, T.S. Eliot. You see, Eliot was just scared and there was Lawrence like some sexual test pilot ready to take the dive. You understand?

  Liz Hamilton : You intellectuals are too much for me.