The Glorias

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- What are you in town for, hon? - Dakota Sioux powwow.

No kidding. Hmm.

Hey, sweetheart, can we get

some service around here?

You know, by afternoon there's gonna be 300,000 bikers here

for the Annual Blackhills Bike Rally. You didn't know?

No. No. Leave her alone. Come on. Come on.

You're Gloria Steinem.

I am.

It's her. I told you.

Oh, wow.

I wanna tell you how much Ms magazine

has meant to me over the years.

We love your work, Ms. Steinem. You changed our lives.

That means a lot to me. Thank you.

Um. You see the...

- the purple Harley out there? - Mm-hmm.

That big gorgeous one?

That's mine.

She always used to ride behind me.

Yeah. And I started reading your magazine

and... and I decided I wanted to take

to the road on my own.

- -

- - Yeah.

- -

Okay. Yeah.

- All good? - Yeah.

Voila.

Who found us a jukebox in the middle of nowhere?

That would be you.

It's, uh, just in case.

Hello?

This is she.

Hmm. Yeah.

I bet the roads are...

uh, I know they probably have a tight schedule, but...

Uh-huh.

Papa!

The Andrews Sisters aren't coming.

All right.

Now, I know you're all a little disappointed,

but we've got the Andrews Sisters here.

Right here on the jukebox.

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Yeah. And we know it's the next best thing.

So, let's get dancing. I am your host Leo Steinemite.

Let's make it dynamite!

- - Hit it.

- - Aw.

Whoa!

["(I'll Be With You) In Apple Blossom Time" playing]

- That was so much fun. - Honey, look at you.

- I love dancing. - Oh, you're soaked.

Was that jukebox not the find of the century?

Why the long face?

One summer storm wipes us out for an entire month.

You might as well be playing Blackjack.

Ruth, you worry too much.

Gloria, Susanne, it's time for bed.

They're gonna repossess our car, Leo,

if we don't pay by the first of the month.

So we'll park it down the road, no one will find it.

We'll get out of town in the fall. Huh?

We'll make a bundle doing the county auctions

up and down the coast, avoid the Michigan winter.

Pass through Georgia for those thin sugary pralines.

Right? Drink ourselves some fresh squeezed

all you can drink oranges

from those Florida roadside stands and then head west

for some California sunshine and slabs of fresh salmon

from a California smokehouse

by the time we get back next summer...

we'll be on top again.

Come here, kiddo, new set of maps.

See?

Okay.

We go from here, here, and then like this...

all the way to...

And then what?

Well, you know what they say, if you don't know

what's gonna happen tomorrow, could be wonderful.

Everybody in.

- It's time to go, go, go. - I'm not done with the dishes.

Oh, leave the dishes, they'll be clean by the time we get back.

Mom.

The winter automatically sterilizes the germs.

- Get the door for me. - Damn It!

- Damn It! -

Come on, come on. Right here, good boy.

Why'd you have to go name the dog Damn It?

It's so embarrassing.

It'd be more embarrassing if you had a father who swore.

Don't you think?

Gloria, you're gonna get car sick reading in the back.

I never get car sick.

Put the book down for a minute and look out of the window.

I looked out the window an hour ago.

- Gloria. -

Look at those houses. Slow down, Papa, aren't they pretty?

Don't you wish we lived in a house like that

- all year round? - Leo, we need to stay put

for a while and let the girls go to school.

Gloria would be starting the third grade by now.

No. Traveling is the best education.

- It's the only education really. -

Leo?

I think this one is valuable.

Can you do this without me? I have a splitting headache.

I need to go in for a lie down.

Right. There's no way I'm paying 25 dollars

for this cracked tea set.

Five dollars is my final offer.

- Twenty. - Fifteen?

Done.

We're gonna sell this tea set to an antique dealer

for 50 bucks.

Mark my words.

And all we need is ten dollars for gas money

to get us all the way to Wyoming.

When we get to St. Louis there's this one market,

- all they sell is china... -

Chai, madam?

- - Only one rupee, madam.

- Please. - Oh, please, no. No, no.

Thank you.

So you left the university in New Delhi. Why?

I wanna get out of the big city. See the villages.

What Gandhi talks about.

She is traveling in third class

because, this is ladies only carriage

and safer.

But why aren't you traveling in a private car

like most of the foreigners?

If I was in a car by myself,

I wouldn't really even be in India.

And I wouldn't have met you.

This used to be our beautiful farmhouse.

Lots of land all around.

Your granny was born here, Gloria.

Oh, good God.

Come inside, Mom.

You'll catch a cold.

Firemen drag their hoses

11 stories up to reach the fire on the 79th floor...

So, where's your father these days?

- South America. - South America?

"Buying and selling opals in Argentina.

Sending you a money order, love, your pop."

Are you okay, Mom?