Alphabet City

Mmm.

I love you.

You're so beautiful.

I want you.

Renee.

Want me to get her?

It's okay. I'll get her.

Renee.

Hi.

Did we wake you up?

Come here. Look at you.

Daddy wants to give you a kiss.

20.

21.

22.

Oh, Renee, help me. 23.

24.

Either you're getting bigger

or I'm losing it.

I won't be too late.

Yeah? You bet.

Hey, Johnny, Gino's waiting for you.

Dumas, what's happening?

- Lippy give me 10 bottles of 357.

- We aim to please and so does Louise.

Louise?

See you later Dumas, man.

See you Friday.

Lippy.

Lippy! Lippy.

Hello.

Lippy.

Lippy!

Why aren't you minding the store?

You're supposed to be running the night shift!

What are you doing?

It's cool, baby!

I got some of my finest employees covering.

I just sold 10 bottles to that dumb ass honkie.

T-I-N. 10.

I'm not impressed, honey.

I'm running a volume business, not a nickel dime side show.

Oh, kiss me, honey.

Damn, look at you, you're a human mess.

Alphabet Johnny, so clean now.

You got it all.

What you gonna do,

you gonna pick on this poor defenseless black-

- Why don't you can the act, all right, Lip?

All right? Stop being your own best customer.

Yeah?

I'll tell you what, man. - What?

- I only peddle this shit so I don't gotta pay for it.

- All right? Oh, my God, can I cry?

Just a few. Let me squirt a few. All right?

Give me a fucking cigarette.

Give me a fucking cigarette. - You want a cigarette?

Give me a fucking cigarette.

Come on man, don't fuck about. - In the back. In the back.

Man, what do you think you're doing?

In the back, in the back.

Come on, in the back, in the back.

Put this window down.

-Come on, I got a pack in the back.

Something smells in here.

- What do you want? You want me to light it for you?

I can light it myself.

You paint these with tranny helper, or something, man?

- Come on, I have, I have a big heart.

- I got a big heart, you got something else that's big.

- What are you doing? What are you doing?

Come on, I have to save these for

charity cases like yourself.

Come on, hold it. Ah, forget about it.

- I can light my own. I can handle it, man.

Lippy.

Lippy.

What happened to you, huh?

You used to be pretty once I remember.

- Look, man... - I was in love with you.

I'm gonna tell you something.

We're making more money than we can count, man.

What do you want from me?

Hey, goombah, huh!

Yeah, my butt!

- You and me got this street by the balls,

we're practically legends, immortal!

Huh?

Well, why you on my ass?

- Because I want your ass watching the store.

You know how much those dudes could be skimming?

You ought to know. What?

What did you say?

What's the matter, man?

What's the matter, brother?

You got a salami up your eye-tie ass?

I got Gino up my ass.

Oh, is that right?

What does Don Corleone want now?

This building.

- Count me out, John, like you say.

I'm just a no...

No good fucked up junkie, man.

I hate fire!

Don't go away mad!

- Sophia, you're too much, honey.

Hi, Ma.

What're you doing?

- Get away, you're gonna burn yourself.

Who is that man?

Give me a hug or what? - Get away.

What is this?

How you doing, huh?

What, what? You know I'm lazy.

Well, I don't like the beard.

Hi, princess.

How you doing, Johnny?

Whoo!

So, what's on TV tonight, huh?

Hmm?

Who's that?

A friend.

Ooh, that's Julio Iglesias.

He's handsome, ain't he?

Whoo!

Really, what?

He treat you good, Mama?

Yeah.

Better than your father ever did.

- You let him rest in peace, all right, Ma?

This guy hit you?

- No. - This guy hits you,

you tell me- - Hit?

And I'll take care of it.

No!

He just drinks all her beer and passes out.

What is... What? What?

Mama.

What?

- You don't have to slave for nobody.

Yeah.

- You don't have to show us what a saint

you are all the time.

Yeah, we already know.

What is that? What is that?

You want me to wash it? Want me to-

Come on, Ma, just take it.

I'll wash it.

Get it off, I don't want that dirty money.

I do honest work.

Will you listen to her? Will you listen to her?

You gotta do something with her. You gotta talk to her.

I think she'll listen to you.

Be careful of the iron. - It's gonna be all right.

It's gonna be all right. Yeah.

Yeah, it's gonna be terrific.

Every night I think they're gonna wake me up, ring my bell,

tell me you're dead in an alley somewhere.

Oh, Mama.

It's never gonna happen.

Never. - Yeah.

- We always go through the same thing, am I right? Huh?

Yeah.

- I got it under control. No problem.

It's got you under control.

No, it doesn't!

I'm gonna talk to her.

I didn't do nothing, Johnny.

- 15 years old and already she's a tramp!

I'm an escort, Ma. Oh.

- You're an escort. What is that?

Is that the uptown name for a whore, huh?

When you sell your ass for Alphabet City, you're a whore.

Okay? - Oh, Johnny.

Johnny, I don't sell my ass.

They pay me for the privilege of my company.

I don't even have to come across.

It's a goddamn joke, I'm telling you, Johnny.

- It's not a joke. You know that.

- Yeah? - It's no joke.

- Well listen to this, big brother.

A limo. Uh-huh.

A limo is coming to take me to Park Avenue.

Some big doctor or a lawyer.

Johnny, look at me.

I ain't gonna end up like Mama,

having those old bums lying around me in my old age.

You shut up your mouth!

You don't ever talk about Mama like that. You understand?

- Johnny, Johnny, I didn't mean nothing against Mama.

It's just that I don't like all those dead beats

trying to catch me in my underwear, you know?

What? What?

What are you, Miss Bashful, now all of a sudden, huh?

Maybe.

- Look at yourself, Sophia, look at yourself.