The End Of Jackie_drew!
Based on the famous scene from 'The Godfather' (1972)
(Knock on door.)
LIL BOOCHIE:
"What is it?"
(JACKIE_DREW enters.)
Angel Hair BERNARDI:
"Hey, Jackie, I thought I told you to stay put."
JACKIE_DREW:
"Well, the guy at the gates say . . . say they got a package."
LIL BOOCHIE:
"Yeah? Hey, Krou-Row, go see what it is."
JACKIE_DREW:
(To LIL BOOCHIE, after CROU-ROW exits.)
"You want me to hang around?"
LIL BOOCHIE:
"Yeah, hang around. You all right?"
JACKIE_DREW:
"Yeah, I'm fine."
LIL BOOCHIE:
"Yeah?"
(JACKIE_DREW coughs, perhaps deliberately.)
LIL BOOCHIE:
"There's some food in the icebox, you hungry or anything?"
JACKIE_DREW:
"Nah, it's alright . . . thanks . . . "
LIL BOOCHIE:
"How 'bout a drink? Have a little brandy that'll help sweat it out. Huh? Go ahead, baby . . . "
JACKIE_DREW:
"Alright, sure that might be a good Idea.'
LIL BOOCHIE:
"Yeah, right."
(To Angel Hair BERNARDI, after JACKIE_DREW exits.)
"I want you to take care of that sonofa* right away. Jackie . . . He ed up for the last time, that stronz'. I don't want to see him again. Make that first thing on your list, understand?"
Angel Hair BERNARDI:
"Understood."
(CUT TO: Angel Hair BERNARDI LEAVES HIS HOUSE – Day)
(Some colts are playing, one is pushing the other in a toy car as the latter neighs, "Ah!" )
Angel Hair BERNARDI:
(To his wife, on his front stoop.)
"I'm goin' now . . . "
MRS. Angel Hair BERNARDI:
(Standing in the door.)
"What time will you be home tonight?"
Angel Hair BERNARDI:
(Walking to the car.)
"I don't know, probably late."
MRS. Angel Hair BERNARDI (O.S.)
"Don't forget the cannoli!"
Angel Hair BERNARDI:
(Getting into the car, as is BOOCHIE ManE.)
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah . . . "
JACKIE_DREW:
(In the driver's seat.)
"Boochie, sit on the other side. You block the rearview mirror."
Angel Hair BERNARDI:
(To JACKIE_DREW.)
"Watch out for the kids while you're backin' out."
(CUT TO: EXT - OUT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.)
Angel Hair BERNARDI'S VOICE:
"Pull over, will yah? I gotta take a leak."
(JACKIE_DREW pulls over, and Angel Hair BERNARDI gets out to relieve himself. BOOCHIE ManE shoots JACKIE_DREW three times as we hear a variation of the "Title Theme" music.)
Angel Hair BERNARDI:
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
(CUT TO: LIL BOOCHIE'S KITCHEN – DAY.)
LIL BOOCHIE:
(After entering the kitchen)
"How's Jackie?"
Angel Hair BERNARDI:
"Oh, Jackie? Won't see him no more . . . "
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #15:
"What happened after the Cub Scout Banquet?"
"That would have been in March of 1965 . . . "
"Here's something! First published April 1965 -- "
"Louis Jacobucci, Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother."
"Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Volume 46, Issue 4."
"Oh, look! They had references!"
“The Protective Service Caseworker: How Does He Survive Job Pressures?”
“Use of Homemaker Service in Families That Neglect Their Children."
“The Team Approach in Protective Service.”
"Character Disorders in Parents of Delinquents."
"There's more."
"That's OK."
Presently . . .
"Loneliness and Isolation in Child Neglect."
"Dispositional Empathy in Neglectful Mothers and Mothers at High Risk for Child Physical Abuse."
"The Training of Neglectful and Unsatisfactory Mothers."
"The Socialization of Emotional Understanding: A Comparison of Neglectful and Nonneglectful Mothers and Their Children."
"In ...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
"I have a thesis. My thesis is: In any woman's life, having children would have to be the most significant event. So, in my mother's story -- "
"Her family wasn't really any different from any of the other families."
"Yes."
"In what way?"
"She and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Both her children went to school."
"What else?"
"They were both boys?"
"Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"So you said, that one way in which your mother's family wasn't really any different from any of the other families, was that she and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Oh, sure. There was always something going on. Cub Scouts, she was like Den Mother of her older son's Cub Scout Pack. Pack 54. Plus the Comedy Club. Plus I'm pretty sure, she was involved in the kindergarten. She and her husband both. And politics. It was the Sixties."
"Just normal 60's Mom stuff."
"In any case, it's time to forget the past."
