Frank: My beauty queen is here.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: Do my laundry.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: She comes here, takes care of me.
Fritzy: A little hug?
Frank: She made me a little, uh, a little egg salad.
Fritzy: No wonder you come down relaxed at night.
Frank: I'll tell ya, I didn't sleep with all this noise in the yard here. They're buildin' here.
Fritzy: What're they doin'? They, they throwin', pile drivin' or what?
Frank: They pile drive, they put down all these steel things for the...
Fritzy: Mannaggia, marone.
Frank: Now listen to this.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: That was yesterday.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: This building here is gonna take two years. Down by the water, they put up the, the, uh, a skyscraper, the, the American Express.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: It'll be finished in about another month.
Fritzy: So they're po...
Frank: They started the same time.
Fritzy: They poundin' all around you.
Frank: Know what they got over here?
Fritzy: What?
Frank: A hole.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: And, and six pilings down.
Fritzy: Mamma mi.
Frank: That's how long this, this'll be, this'll be here like for years.
Fritzy: Why don't we go get a job there, we'll get a construction job.
Frank: They're at the end of the hat here, these guys.
Fritzy: Geez, ya know, we'll wind up over here workin' for two, three years over there.
Frank: I need a job, too.
Fritzy: Yeah, so do I.
Frank: At my old age, I gotta go back to work.
Fritzy: Well now, I, I may go on a whattya call it, disability.
Frank: [In Italian, I'm hungry], ya know.
Fritzy: Yeah?
Frank: I know things are bad with you too, pal.
Fritzy: Yeah, they're a little rough, but.
Frank: Ahh.
Fritzy: Whattya gonna do? I think I, I may, if this don't correct itself, I'll go, I'm goin' on dis...
Frank: I got my brother, he helps me anyway.
Fritzy: I'm goin' on disability.
Frank: Yeah?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Well, Romolo [Fritzy's late father] left ya a little money anyway, right?
Fritzy: A couple of dollars.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Not much, ya know.
Frank: A little helps ya anyway, right?
Fritzy: Yeah, yeah.
Frank: That was nice.
Fritzy: I got by a little bit with it, ya know? But, it's, it's runnin' dry.
Frank: It's runnin' dry, I know.
Fritzy: I know.
Frank: Well, pal, anything I could do for ya, you know.
Fritzy: I appreciate it.
Frank: We could help one another.
Fritzy: I know.
Frank: Ah, we're up in the years now. Listen. We eat good. Right?
Fritzy: We don't need much, Frank. Believe me when I tell ya.
Frank: We, we're happy the way we are.
Fritzy: We don't need much. We, we don't need much to satisfy ourselves.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: You turn around and ya, ya, you wanna own things.
Frank: See you go on the Mediterranean, what happens to ya?
Fritzy: You get hijacked. Well, my name ain't Schwartz.
Frank: Marone a mi.
Fritzy: Marone.
Frank: Now, you know what happened with this guy?
Fritzy: Yeah. He started fightin' 'em.
Frank: I told Helen.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: I read the story about him.
Fritzy: Yeah, Jimmy Breslin had, had somethin', but I didn't read.
Frank: He comes from Avenue A and D.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: And he was a tough geezer in his day. He looked like he has this, a broken nose, too.
Fritzy: Yeah, yeah, huh?
Frank: His nephew went to work for him.
Fritzy: So, in other words, he must've started...
Frank: He worked 18 hours a day.
Fritzy: He must've started rantin' and ravin' with them.
Frank: He says, "Unc," he says, "you wanna give me some money for overtime?"
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: He says, "You just missed my balls." [UI] his balls. "Overtime?" He's a generous guy but a tough geezer.
Fritzy: Uh-huh. He says...
Frank: He invented the Roto-Broil.
Fritzy: Yeah, huh?
Frank: He's a millionaire.
Fritzy: Yeah, yeah.
Frank: So listen to me.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: He's a millionaire and he still lives in the old East Village.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: But he's in a big house on the corner, there. He's got a driveway. It's a condominium now. But he never left, like he could be on Park Avenue. He still lives where he came from, you know what I mean?
Fritzy: Yeah, yeah.
Frank: You think he'd buy a home, like, in Monaco? He bought one in Long Branch.
Fritzy: Well, he loved that.
Frank: He's in Long Branch.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: You know what he's not, I hear he's not a fancy dude. His kids'll wind up with all his money.
Fritzy: That's what happens. I think they're glad they threw him overboard.
Frank: I figure this guy, when they went to him, he don't hear too good, he must, "What the hell do youse want?" And he hit and he swung the cane at them.
Fritzy: Marone.
Frank: That's what happened.
Fritzy: Probably did. Probably...
Frank: What were they gonna shoot this guy for?
Fritzy: Mannaggia.
Frank: They shot him in the head then threw him overboard. He musta went after them with the cane.
Fritzy: Sure he went after them.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: He'd a, guaranteed.
Frank: 'Cause the nephew said he was a tough son-of-a bitch. He didn't take shit off nobody. And he came from all the way down there, Avenue A and D, down in that neighborhood.
Fritzy: Yeah, must've been a real tough Jew.
Frank: He had a hardware store.
Fritzy: Well, yeah, sure. Yeah, then he invented this here thing, the brothers, him and the brother.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: I think. And they got off.
Frank: Right, Freddie?
Fritzy: Yeah, let, lemme tell ya somethin'. I think we better get together. You know who was a good inventor?
Frank: Who?
Fritzy: Fat Dom. He was always inventin'.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: He would've sat in his laboratory, he would've invented. You know, I betcha he woulda become a billionaire.
Frank: You know who was good?
Fritzy: Who's that?
Frank: His uncle down in New Orleans.
Fritzy: He was good.
Frank: The old man who died?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Fritzy?
Fritzy: Uh-huh?
Frank: I saw paintings.
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: That he has a machine, that he makes the paintings of the originals. And you look at his paintings, I says to the, the son, I says, "Why don't you put these in a museum?"
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: He says, "I can't. They're counterfeit." Counterfeit everything, license plates.
Fritzy: No kiddin'?
Frank: He'd counterfeit the, the tags.
Fritzy: Yeah, yeah.
Frank: [UI] on the car.
Fritzy: Yeah, huh?
Frank: I met the uncle [UI].
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Ya know what he's like?
Fritzy: Yeah.
Frank: Carlo Mastroianni.
Fritzy: Yeah, yeah, yeah?
Frank: He says, "I was in my pajamas, sittin' on the lawn."
Fritzy: He's dead, the uncle.
Frank: "They came, they handcuffed me and they put me on a plane. To Italy. With no luggage."
Fritzy: Nothing. Right away, they got rid of, he was too, he was too dangerous.
Frank: Then he showed me when he went on the safari.
Fritzy: Eh?
Frank: He had the safari hat. He went to Africa.
Fritzy: [UI]
Frank: He was a nut.
Fritzy: Uh.
Frank: With the hat and with the [UI].
Fritzy: Uh.
Frank: Ah, Freddie.
Fritzy: Pal, the West Side is changin'.
Frank: Yeah, it is.
Fritzy: Yeah. Meantime, I gotta see that you make, that you start makin' some fazoolas over there, that for your old age.
Frank: [In Italian, I'm hungry.]
Fritzy: [In Italian, I'm hungry.]
Frank: Old Q.D. and me.
Fritzy: Mannaggia, marone.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: Well, you, ya, ya gotta start wakin' up.
Frank: Yeah, I know. How could you wake up?
Fritzy: You'll wake up.
Frank: We're here 18 hours a day.
Fritzy: Yeah, but you'll wake up. I'll show ya how you wake up.
Frank: I'm gettin' old, Freddie, ya know?
Fritzy: I, I think he's startin' to understand that.
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: I think he's startin' to look, I think he's startin' to look around a little bit.
Frank: Yeah, I know.
Fritzy: He knows, I'm tellin' ya.
Frank: They like to keep you dry sometimes.
Fritzy: Nah.
Frank: Ya got too much, you disappear.
Fritzy: You figure then, ya know. [In Italian, it's dry] Alright? You know asciutto, you know what asciutto means?
Frank: Yeah. Dry.
Fritzy: Dry. [In Italian, he says, "How are you." He says, "I'm dry."]
Frank: The old Sicilian way.
Fritzy: Well.
Frank: Huh?
Fritzy: Eh, what could, ya know, ya gotta, ya gotta go and hunt down. Ya gotta do a little huntin'. Ya gotta create.
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: Remember, [In Italian, our dear departed one] over there, the other guy that used to stay on Thompson Street.
Frank: Yeah.
Fritzy: Not the long guy.
Frank: I know.
Fritzy: But the guy with the glasses.
Frank: Yeah, I know.
Fritzy: With the green glasses, the old [UI], the old man. He says, "For you to get anywhere in life," he says, "you gotta cause trouble."
Frank: Uh-huh.
Fritzy: You understand?
Frank: Over here, they don't want nothin', though.
Fritzy: In other words...
Frank: [UI] over here.
Fritzy: In other words, you gotta, you gotta cause the trouble, otherwise you don't, 'cause he ain't goin' nowhere.
Frank: Right.
Fritzy: So you gotta go and [In Italian, disturb things]. If they...
Frank: [UI]
Fritzy: Nice. They dance and they sing, and hey-hoo-hoo. Yeah, okay. Badda-bup-bup-bup-bup-bup-bup. Before you know, okay, alright, alright, whatever it is. But meantime.
Frank: A squeaky wheel gets a little oil.
Fritzy: That's right, that's right.
Frank: If the wheel ain't squeaky it don't get nothin'.
Fritzy: That's right.
Frank: The squeaky wheel gets some oil.
Fritzy: That's right. That, you, you, you said it right. You said it right.