Jessica Lange credited as playing...
Nina Veronica
- Bacchus: Why a benefit concert?
- Nina Veronica: Well, how else do you get rock stars to do television? Huh? You either give them a cause or give them an award.
- Uncle Sweetheart: He's virtually free. Who else can you say that about?
- Nina Veronica: Virtually free? No one is virtually free. You're either free or you're *not* free. You know, if he's gonna play this concert, then he's gonna play exactly what we tell him.
- Nina Veronica: So, now tell me, are we screwed or are we not screwed?
- Uncle Sweetheart: I'm not. Are you? I don't think you are getting screwed, that's your problem.
- Nina Veronica: Yeah, yeah. I can't believe you're gonna to turn this disaster into a seduction.
- Nina Veronica: So, where's my headliner? Huh? I just got off the phone with the network. They want something to promote. They *need* something to promote. They have some questions about your ability to perform services due.
- Uncle Sweetheart: And I suppose you told 'em I was a total showbiz stud, that you have total mystical knowledge and faith in me and absolutely no question about my ability to perform services due.
- Nina Veronica: Yeah, yeah, something like that.
- Nina Veronica: Nobody knows who Jack Fate is anymore. Nobody cares. I mean, he doesn't make records. He doesn't go on tour. He doesn't do interviews. He doesn't do anything!
- Uncle Sweetheart: He doesn't have to! He's a legend. Does Jesus have to walk on water twice to make a point?
- Nina Veronica: He' s not here.
- Uncle Sweetheart: How do you know?
- Nina Veronica: I say I don't see him.
- Uncle Sweetheart: How do you know he's not like Claude Raines in that movie "The Invisible Man".
- Nina Veronica: Who? If he doesn't show up, you'd better get invisible.
- Nina Veronica: I'm not going to debate semantics with you. Look, it's real. It's beyond phenomena. There's shooting and killing. And yet how do you define a war in this day and age?
- Dion: What are they fighting about?
- Nina Veronica: I don't know what they're fighting about. Do the Hindus, Arabs, Jews, Irish, Muslims, Buddhists know what they're fighting about? The last person who actually knew that was killed a long time ago. They're all religious wars. Look, we've got dead aliens stacked up in warehouses. What else do you want to know?
- Nina Veronica: I hope you got this cat's priorities in order. Have you explained the restrictions, the limitations, the boundaries, the rules?
- Uncle Sweetheart: Well we've talked about it.
- Nina Veronica: I hope you know we're dealing with the here and now. You can't compare the here and now with the there and then. I don't care what he's done in the past.
- Uncle Sweetheart: Miss Veronica, meet Jack Fate.
- Nina Veronica: Oh, yeah. I had one of your first albums. It's a shame. It's one of the things my husband took during the divorce.
- Nina Veronica: Are his songs going to be recognizable? That's what I want to know.
- Uncle Sweetheart: All of his songs are recognizable, even when they're not recognizable.
- Nina Veronica: Here are the lyrics for "Jailhouse Rock". The executives are insisting that this song be sung, okay.
- Uncle Sweetheart: "Jailhouse Rock"? Why they want to hear that?
- Nina Veronica: Well, look at the lyrics, man. Here, give it to me. Where is it? I don't know. It's something about a party that the warden's gonna throw in a county jail. They see it as a song of hope, you know. Some - some - some kind of *egalitarian* thing. They want to plant seeds of hope.
- Uncle Sweetheart: A lot of people have tried to plant seeds of hope.
- Nina Veronica: He did it. I was right there. I saw it all. He's responsible. I mean, it might have been a random act, but, I'll tell you what, you could put his whole life on trial.
