Storytelling (2001)

Jonathan Osser: Mikey Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction")

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• Mikey Livingston : Why was he on death row?

  Consuelo : For rape and murder.

  Mikey Livingston : Consuelo, what is rape exactly?

  Consuelo : It is when you love someone and they don't love you and you do something about it.

  Mikey Livingston : Sometimes I think my parents don't love me.

  Consuelo : Well, when you get older you can do something about it.

• Mikey Livingston : Wasn't there high school in El Salvador?

  Consuelo : We had to work. My family was poor.

  Mikey Livingston : It must have been hard being poor.

  Consuelo : I am still poor.

  Mikey Livingston : But Consuelo... even though you're poor, don't you have any hobbies or interests or anything?

  Consuelo : No, Mikey.

• Mikey Livingston : Speak English.

• [Marty and Mikey sit by the comatose Brady, who lies in his own bed] 

  Mikey Livingston : Dad? Do you think that Brady will ever get better?

  Marty Livingston : One in a million recover.

  Mikey Livingston : Maybe he's that one in a million.

  Marty Livingston : Mikey, there's optimism, and then there's stupidity. It's a very fine line.

  Mikey Livingston : [pause]  I don't think there's any hope, either. I was just trying to make you feel better.

• Mikey Livingston : Mom, it's not fair if Brady can say the F-word and I can't.

  Marty Livingston : Well Mikey, listen up 'cause here's a lesson: Life's...not...fair!

• Mikey Livingston : And you'll fire Consuelo. She's lazy.

• Mikey Livingston : What do you like to do when you're not working?

  Consuelo : I am always working.

  Mikey Livingston : But when you're not, like now, what do you like to do?

  [Consuelo is cleaning the stove] 

  Consuelo : This is work.

  Mikey Livingston : But it's not like... real work. This is just babysitting. You know, your job's really not so bad, if you think about it. You should smile more.

• Mikey Livingston : But why are you so upset about Jesus?

  Consuelo : He is dead.

  Mikey Livingston : Oh. How did that happen?

  Consuelo : He was executed. He was on death row... and then he was executed.

  Mikey Livingston : How did they execute him?

  Consuelo : Poison gas.

  Mikey Livingston : Maybe it's for the best. I mean, if he was guilty of doing something wrong. People who are bad should be killed. Don't you think so?

  Consuelo : Jesus was not bad.

  Mikey Livingston : Maybe he was and you just didn't know it.

• Brady Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : [asking about Holocaust survivors]  You know any survivors, Dad?

  Marty Livingston : Hmm. Do I know any? Personally?

  Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : Well, technically, your Zeda is a survivor.

  Brady Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : He was in a concentration camp?

  Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : No, but he had to escape the Nazis.

  Brady Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : But I thought he came over to America before the war.

  Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : Well, he did, with his family. But his cousins, they had to stay and they were all killed. And if he'd stayed, he would've been killed. So in my book, he's a survivor.

  Brady Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : Even though it was only his cousins that were killed?

  Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : But that could've happened to him, or... or to me, if I'd been alive. Or you.

  Mikey Livingston : Or me?

  Scooby Livingston : You mean, then we're all survivors?

  Fern Livingston (segment "Non-Fiction") : Well, yes. If it hadn't been for Hitler, he wouldn't have had to leave Europe. We would've been European.

  Scooby Livingston : But then, in a sense, since you would've never have met Dad if your family had stayed in Europe, if it weren't for Hitler none of us would've been born.

  Marty Livingston : Get the hell out of here.