Happy birthday, David Mamet

 Shteevie: Happy birthday...

David Mamet: yes... and by means... (pause)
Shteevie: Yes?
David Mamet: Yes, if you will... yes... if you will allow me to accept...
S: Why would I think...
DM: Excuse me...
S: ...you wouldn't accept...
DM: Because... yes... if you will... if you will allow me to say... (pause) I'm sorry, my wife has been out of sorts...
S: Your wife...
DM: Yes... she has been... the birthday cake...
S: I didn't...
DM: Excuse me?
(Pause.)
S: I'm saying I didn't make you a birthday cake? (Pause.) Do you see? Do you see? I don't make cakes. I write letters. And I wrote you a letter...
DM: Yes...
S: ...a long time ago...
DM: Yes. And I owe you an apology.
S: You do?
DM: Yes... do you see? Yes... in Vermont... the stoics... you see? In Vermont.
(Pause.)
S: Ghosts.
DM: YES!!!!
S: The ghosts on the hill...
DM: YES!!!
(Pause.)
S: When I was a boy, I had a dream...
DM: Yes...
S: ...a dream about a bear...
DM: Mm.
S: I had written the bear a letter.
DM: Mm.
S: The bear did not write me back. (Pause.) Do you understand? The bear did not write me back. (Pause.) Do you understand?
DM: Yes.
S: Are you sorry?
DM: No.
S: Oh. (Pause.) Happy birthday, you ^$#($#^*& ^(#@&*%^(!!! 

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Note: He is 74 today!!!

And I finally figured out how to get back into this blog again. Yay!!!!!