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Marty : Effie
White, this is Max Washington.
Effie : Hi, Max. Marty said you needed a singer.
Marty : I was just telling Max that you're serious
about working. He knows all about you.
Effie : You do, huh? Daddy, you don't know the half.
One night after you hire me, we'll sit down and I'll
tell you all about how I
blew
through half a million dollars in
two years!
Marty : Hey, come on.
Effie : Drinking.
Marty : You don't want to
take up too much of the man's time. Now,
Carl knows all the songs.
Effie : Carl? Where's Bernard?
Marty : He has a job in Evanston.
Effie : But I can't sing with someone I don't know.
Marty : Effie. You got to.
Max : Marty, I don't have the time.
Marty : Max, please. Just give me a minute. Now, you
listen, Effie White. For four months, I've been your
money. I've taken you to every club in this freezing
town, and I'm telling you that this is it. It's time
that you stop making excuses so that you don't have to
prove anything. You're gonna have to start proving it,
just like the rest of us. I don't know. Maybe Curtis was
right about you. You want all of the privileges but none
of the responsibilities. Hey, Max. Thanks anyway, man.
Sorry for wasting your time.
Effie : Do you know the song?
Max : I told you I didn't want to see her.
Effie : Well, you are, mister. You are.
Look at me
Look...
Jimmy : Sooner or later, the time comes around
For a man to be a man
Take back his sound
I gotta do somethin' to
shake things up
I like Johnny Mathis
But I can't do that stuff
Jimmy got soul, Jimmy got soul
Jimmy got S-O-U-L soul!
I can't do rock, I can't do roll
What I can do, baby, is show my soul
Jimmy got soul, Jimmy got soul
Jimmy got, Jimmy got, Jimmy got soul!
Man: Take it out. Ladies and gentlemen, please stay
in your seats. We're back live in two minutes.
Jimmy : What'd you think of my show, baby?
Curtis : You
made a fool
out of yourself.
Jimmy : What are you talking about, man? I was just
being Jimmy. Lorrell, will you please tell him, if you
can?
Lorrell : Jimmy keeps begging you for something new,
but all you do is ignore him. Of course he's confused.
It don't take a whiz to know that only a desperate man
would drop his pants in living color on network
television.
Jimmy : Thanks, Lorrell. You told it like it is.
Lorrell : Yeah, well, that ain't all I got to say to
you, sugar.
Curtis : My brother, we're through.
Jimmy : What you talking about? What do you mean,
we're through?
Curtis : Come on, Jimmy, your time has passed.
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