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00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:37,( doorbell rings )

00:00:39,417 --> 00:00:41,All:
Trick or treat.

00:00:41,125 --> 00:00:43,Well,
look at this.

00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:45,All the superheroes
on our porch.

00:00:45,583 --> 00:00:47,Ain't that cute?

00:00:47,125 --> 00:00:50,We g***t Superman here.

00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,And Batman.
And his sidekick Robin.

00:00:53,875 --> 00:00:56,( gasps )
The Green Lantern.

00:00:56,291 --> 00:00:59,And what about you,
young man?

00:00:59,625 --> 00:01:00,What about what?

00:01:00,917 --> 00:01:03,Who are you
supposed to be?

00:01:03,291 --> 00:01:04,I'm Harvey Pekar.

00:01:04,458 --> 00:01:06,( murmuring )
"Pecker, Pecker..."

00:01:06,458 --> 00:01:08,Harvey Pekar?

00:01:08,166 --> 00:01:10,That doesn't sound like
a superhero to me.

00:01:10,458 --> 00:01:13,( boys murmuring )

00:01:13,208 --> 00:01:15,I ain't
no superhero, lady.

00:01:15,208 --> 00:01:18,I'm just a kid
from the neighborhood,
all right?

00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:22,Oh, forget this.

00:01:29,792 --> 00:01:33,Why does everybody
have to be so stupid?

00:03:52,458 --> 00:03:57,Harvey Pekar:
Okay, this guy here,
he's our man.

00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,All grown up
and goin' nowhere.

00:04:00,708 --> 00:04:02,Although he's a pretty
scholarly cat,

00:04:02,708 --> 00:04:05,he never g***t much
of a formal education.

00:04:05,417 --> 00:04:08,For the most part he's lived
in s***t neighborhoods,

00:04:08,166 --> 00:04:10,held s***t jobs,
and is now knee-deep

00:04:10,917 --> 00:04:13,into a disastrous
second marriage.

00:04:13,333 --> 00:04:15,So if you're the kind
of person looking

00:04:15,166 --> 00:04:16,for romance or escapism

00:04:16,667 --> 00:04:19,or some
fantasy figure
to save the day,

00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:22,guess what?
You g***t the wrong movie.

00:04:22,333 --> 00:04:23,Interviewer:
That's great.

00:04:23,542 --> 00:04:25,Okay, so now
you g***t four takes.

00:04:25,417 --> 00:04:29,You ought to be able
to patch one together
from there, right?

00:04:29,625 --> 00:04:32,- Let's go to
the next one, all right?
- Interviewer: Hold on a second.

00:04:32,583 --> 00:04:34,Do you want some water
or something?

00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,Nah, I g***t
lots of orange.

00:04:35,625 --> 00:04:37,Interviewer:
Do you like orange soda?

00:04:37,291 --> 00:04:39,Pekar:
Yeah, orange
is all right.

00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:42,Interviewer:
All right, so let's go
to the next sequence.

00:04:42,125 --> 00:04:45,Did you actually
read the script?

00:04:45,125 --> 00:04:47,No.
A little bit.

00:04:47,166 --> 00:04:50,Just to check
the construction,

00:04:50,708 --> 00:04:54,you know, of how the piece
was constructed.

00:04:54,375 --> 00:04:56,I didn't read it
word for word.

00:04:56,333 --> 00:04:58,Interviewer:
Do you feel weird
saying that stuff?

00:04:58,083 --> 00:05:01,No, I don't
feel weird saying it.

00:05:01,166 --> 00:05:04,I don't know
how long my voice
is gonna hold on, but...

00:05:04,708 --> 00:05:07,( raspily )
Doc, you gotta
help me, man.

00:05:07,250 --> 00:05:11,My old lady's dumping me
'cause I can't talk.

00:05:11,542 --> 00:05:13,She says I'm
a "social embarrassment."

00:05:15,542 --> 00:05:16,Now that she's g***t
a PhD,

00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:20,she's some hot-s***t
academic star

00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,and I'm nothin'
but a file clerk.

00:05:22,875 --> 00:05:25,You know,
me being a file clerk
was fine when I was signing

00:05:25,208 --> 00:05:27,the d***n checks
for her tuition, man.

00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,Harvey,
stop talking, please,
and open wide.

00:05:30,041 --> 00:05:33,I started worrying
my voice would never
come back, you know?

00:05:33,041 --> 00:05:34,Say "ah," Mr. Pekar.

00:05:34,750 --> 00:05:37,- I mean, it's torture,
I'm telling ya.
- Shh.

00:05:37,250 --> 00:05:39,Ah.

00:05:40,333 --> 00:05:43,Ah-hh...

00:05:43,792 --> 00:05:47,- Doctor: Mm-hmm.
- What?

00:05:47,917 --> 00:05:49,Is it bad, Doc?

00:05:49,708 --> 00:05:52,Not good.

00:05:52,208 --> 00:05:53,It's cancer.

00:05:53,417 --> 00:05:55,First I g***t
marital problems,

00:05:55,667 --> 00:05:57,and now you're telling me
I g***t throat cancer?

00:05:57,708 --> 00:05:59,For Christ's sake, man.

00:05:59,291 --> 00:06:03,Harvey, calm down.
It's not cancer.

00:06:03,083 --> 00:06:05,You have a nodule
on your vocal cords,

00:06:05,250 --> 00:06:07,probably from screaming
and yelling so much.

00:06:07,083 --> 00:06:08,And if you don't
give it a rest,

00:06:08,583 --> 00:06:10,you're gonna lose
your voice completely.

00:06:10,834 --> 00:06:13,Okay, okay.

00:06:13,333 --> 00:06:15,But for how long?

00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:17,A few months.

00:06:17,083 --> 00:06:18,( squeaks )
Months?!

00:06:18,959 --> 00:06:20,Ugh-hh!

00:07:00,417 --> 00:07:04,( raspily )
Hey. Hey, come on,
what is this?

00:07:04,667 --> 00:07:07,It's exactly
what it looks like.

00:07:07,583 --> 00:07:10,What do you mean?
You mean you're
dumping me?

00:07:10,041 --> 00:07:11,( screeches )
For what?

00:07:15,542 --> 00:07:19,Look, this
plebeian lifestyle

00:07:19,417 --> 00:07:22,just isn't working
for me anymore, okay?

00:07:24,750 --> 00:07:27,I gotta get out of here
before I kill myself.

00:07:31,750 --> 00:07:35,( wheezing )
Wait a minute.

00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,( faintly )
Just listen to what
I have to say, please.

00:07:38,458 --> 00:07:40,( coughs )

00:07:46,750 --> 00:07:49,( wheezes )
Don't go.

00:07:49,875 --> 00:07:51,( squeaking )
I need you, baby.
Please--

00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:56,please
don't go, okay?
( squeaking )

00:08:15,583 --> 00:08:17,Pekar:
Here's our man.

00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:20,Yeah, all right.
Here's me--

00:08:20,041 --> 00:08:22,or the guy
playing me, anyway,

00:08:22,250 --> 00:08:25,though he don't look
nothin' like me,
but whatever.

00:08:25,166 --> 00:08:27,So it's a few
months later

00:08:27,083 --> 00:08:29,and I'm workin'
my flunky, file-clerk gig

00:08:29,917 --> 00:08:31,at the VA hospital.

00:08:31,625 --> 00:08:34,My voice still
ain't back yet.

00:08:34,583 --> 00:08:36,Thank you,
Harvey, dear.

00:08:36,417 --> 00:08:39,Things seem like
they can't get
any worse.

00:08:39,250 --> 00:08:42,( raspily )
"Plebeian"?

00:08:42,583 --> 00:08:45,Where the hell did she
get that s***t, man?

00:08:49,417 --> 00:08:51,( sighs )

00:08:56,041 --> 00:08:58,Man:
"Avoid the reeking herd.

00:08:59,834 --> 00:09:01,Shun the polluted flock.

00:09:01,792 --> 00:09:04,Live like
that stoic bird,

00:09:04,083 --> 00:09:06,the eagle
of the rock."

00:09:06,125 --> 00:09:08,Hey, Mr. Boats.

00:09:08,166 --> 00:09:10,You know what
that means, son?

00:09:10,083 --> 00:09:14,Yup, it's from
an Elinor Hoyt Wylie poem.

00:09:14,542 --> 00:09:19,It means-- excuse me.
It means stay away

00:09:19,375 --> 00:09:21,from the crowds
of common, ordinary people

00:09:21,667 --> 00:09:24,and do
your own thing.

00:09:24,417 --> 00:09:28,No, it means
don't compromise
yourself for women.

00:09:28,917 --> 00:09:30,Ain't gonna do you
no good.

00:09:30,625 --> 00:09:32,Get away from 'em
as soon as you can.

00:09:32,959 --> 00:09:35,Yup, well, I ain't g***t
no woman now,

00:09:35,291 --> 00:09:38,so I'm livin' like
"the stoic bird," man.

00:09:38,792 --> 00:09:41,It's the only way
to live, son.

00:09:41,708 --> 00:09:44,- ( music in headset )
- Harvey: Yeah, man.

00:09:44,708 --> 00:09:46,Mr. Boats:
Look at that fool there.

00:09:46,375 --> 00:09:49,Probably listening
to that loud rock stuff.

00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,Junk. Junk.
It's all junk.

00:09:51,875 --> 00:09:54,I don't know.
You know, I mean...

00:09:54,125 --> 00:09:57,rock music's g***t
some good qualities.

00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,It isn't jazz
or nothin', but,
you know.

00:10:01,333 --> 00:10:03,Say, when you gonna
bring me in

00:10:03,667 --> 00:10:05,some of those
good records?

00:10:05,542 --> 00:10:08,Some Nat King Cole
with strings?

00:10:08,166 --> 00:10:10,I don't g***t any
of that, Mr. Boats.

00:10:10,041 --> 00:10:13,Yeah, you g***t that.
You keep 'em
at home, though.

00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:15,You won't turn loose
the good stuff,

00:10:15,166 --> 00:10:17,you just sell
the junk.

00:10:19,834 --> 00:10:21,- You know, I... I just--
- ( jazz music playing )

00:10:21,875 --> 00:10:24,I, you know, keep the stuff
I want to keep.

00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:27,I don't-- I sold a lot
of good material

00:10:27,875 --> 00:10:30,by people
that he didn't like.

00:10:32,542 --> 00:10:35,And Mr. Boats,
he didn't like any blues

00:10:35,041 --> 00:10:37,or anything like that.

00:10:37,041 --> 00:10:40,And he played
classical violin.

00:10:43,208 --> 00:10:45,I started
record collecting

00:10:45,041 --> 00:10:48,when I was or 16 years old.

00:10:48,208 --> 00:10:50,I started getting
interested in jazz.

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