The Four Seasons

Here they come.

Hi.

Hi, Kate.

Hi, Annie.

Here, let me take that. I'll get that out of your way.

- Kate? - Hi, babe.

Oh, look at this.

No, don't do that. It's for tomorrow.

Well, for him, there's no tomorrow.

Jack, control yourself. Please.

Hey, what are you doing?

I waited 20 minutes in line for that. Come on.

All right. Give me some of that. Come on.

- Are we all here? - Yeah. Let's go.

Hey!

The guy is going away for a weekend

and he's bringing his whole wardrobe.

Be careful.

Don't worry about the eggplants.

- I got five of them. - You got five eggplants?

What do you mean, the baby ones?

Baby ones? They're like salamis.

13 eggplants.

Isn't that kind of a lot?

You can never have too many eggplants.

- Hi, how are you? - Hi.

Claudia's at her studio.

Turn left on Christopher, right on Hudson.

Hey, what happened to the bread?

What is this, you started without me?

Need help?

I'm okay.

Hi, Claudia.

Hi.

Hi, Claudia.

You brought your work.

I stopped my work for the weekend.

Danny, please. You're a dentist.

Do you hear this?

I can sculpt a bicuspid that would fool God himself,

but I'm just a dentist.

Do we... Do we have any ginger?

I got two pounds of ginger and a pound of garlic.

Annie, didn't you have a tree there?

Yeah, but we just... We had to cut it down.

I miss it. You could see it from the bedroom.

Hey, we have locks, right?

Two locks. A big lock and a little lock.

Oh, I love those flowers.

- I forgot my cleaver. - That's all right, I got a cleaver.

You believe this?

They've been organizing this one meal for two weeks?

- I believe it. -

God, look at that.

- Look at this. - How did you take this?

- What do you do, throw them up in the air? -

I took a piece of glass

and put the vegetables on the glass, and I got--

Wait. That's... That one I want.

- Oh, isn't that gorgeous? - Too heavy to stand those up

- Is this the way this goes? - Yes.

Looks like a face.

It does look like a face.

The nose, the eyes, the ears.

Did you try the Pegasus Gallery in SoHo?

Yes. I just... I can't believe that man.

I just... I told him that I had been working

on this series of pictures for three years,

and do you know what he said?

He said, "Three years photographing vegetables?

Don't you think that's a little constipated?"

Do you believe that?

Well, it all depends on the vegetables.

What you gonna do with the cover?

Take it off. Please take it off.

The chili pepper's cooking. They have to be charred.

Okay. It will be charred.

Oh, come on.

Cook or laugh, what is this?

Well, do something with it. Pour water on it.

Pour water on hot oil. You're kidding, right?

My eyes are tearing. I can't see what I'm doing.

We're gonna have chopped knuckles and hot garlic sauce.

- Here, here. - I really can't see.

Wait. Come here. How is that? Is that better?

Oh, terrific.

You rubbed it in real good. I'm blind.

The oil's not hot enough.

Then why have I lost my eyesight?

It's not hot enough.

You cannot cook Chinese food unless the oil is 480 degrees.

- Oh, damn. - It's a scientific fact.

Did Einstein say that?

Newton. Isaac Newton. The inventor of Moo Shu Pork.

- Hey, Annie? - Mmm-hmm?

The magazine is doing a piece

on the top ten executives in the country.

How would you like to photograph them for us?

Oh, God, I'd love to be in Fortune.

When do you need them?

By July.

You mean of this year?

Annie, that's two months from now.

Yes, I know that.

I just, um...

I don't work that fast.

Annie, how are you ever going to get published?

You have to move.

What's the matter with you?

Just do a story on the top ten broccoli in the country.

Chicken salad. You got those rice things?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do it now and they'll all be ready at the same time.

I've got this timed out scientifically.

- Yes, sir. - Watch this. Watch this. You ready?

- Yeah. - Watch out.

Here we go.

Isn't that beautiful?

That's incredible.

Okay. First course.

And Chinese beer.

Bravo!

- Bravo! - Bravo!

Thank you.

Did you leave out the MSG?

No MSG. Grab your sticks and eat.

- Here's some rice. Pass it around. - Wait, wait. Start with the appetizers.

That's the chicken salad.

Oh, my God, Danny. That's fantastic.

Wait. Pass it around!

Danny's my genius!

The shrimp is incredible.

Okay. I have a toast.

Toast. To Nick and Anne.

Yeah.

And to this dinner which is wonderful.

Watch it, watch it, watch it.

And to the reason we're here tonight.

Not just to celebrate your anniversary,

but to that deeper thing that brings us all close together.

To what bonds us, and...

And makes us huddle against the cold winds of divorce

that have blown through the lives of our friends.

Oh, that's lovely.

- Really nice. - Nice, nice.

Thanks, Jack.

- May I say something? - Yes.

I just wanna say that I...

That was the most depressing goddamn toast that I have ever heard in my life.

Why? Why?

- What's wrong with that? - He got to the heart of it.

He faced it. He told us his fears.

That's why we're here.

That's why I'm in analysis, you know.

It's not why I'm eating dinner.

Well, I think he's right. That's what brought us together.

I don't get this close with all my patients.

We didn't meet through you.

- Sure we did! - Oh!

We did! We did!

Didn't I do some legal work for you?

Then we all got to know one another, started going out together.

No. I remember going over your estate with you.

We did not meet through the men at all.

No. They think everything revolves around them.

Annie is absolutely right.

You and I,

we met at a women's photographers exhibition

and then Anne and I met Claudia at an art gallery.

You didn't get at their teeth until months later.

Uh, we met seven years ago.

It was the third week... Thank you.

The third week in July.

And my first appointment with Danny was, uh, for a filling.

It was, uh, September 8,

uh...

and it was a Wednesday.

How can you remember that?

Oh, uh, I remember things like that because I feel they're important.

Look, the point is what brings us together.

- Right. That's the point. - Right?

That's the point.

We owe the depth, breadth and height of this friendship

to the world's most ancient emotions,

fear and panic.

Am I right? Am I right?

- I love you. - Am I right?

Listen, I spent three hours buying this