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Screenplay
RED, HOT & BLUE: A BENEFIT FOR AIDS RESEARCH & RELIEF
[transcribed from the movie by Tara Carreon]
GALA PREMIER FOR "HIGH SOCIETY", Commentary by Michael Fitzmaurice, News of the Day
[Michael Fitzmaurice, News of the Day] They start gathering early for the Hollywood Premier of High Society,
MGM's delightful musical ...
starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra.
With the coming of night, comes a shower of millions of fragrant rose petals ...
heralding the parade of stars.
[High Society]
An excited crowd sees the arrival of Cole Porter,
the great songwriter who outdid himself with his magnificent score for High Society.
***
[Mike] [Singing] I have heard, among this clan, you are called a forgotten man.
[Dexter] Is that what they're saying? Well, did you evah? What a swell party this is.
[Mike] And have you heard, the story of, a boy, a girl, unrequited love?
[Dexter] Sounds like pure soap opera,
[Mike] I may cry,
[Dexter] Tune in tomorrow, what a swell party this is.
***
[Rock n' roll music]
[Debbie Harry] [Singing] I have heard, among this clan, you are called a forgotten man.
[Iggy Pop] Is that what they're saying?
Well, did you evah?
[Both] What a swell party this is.
[Iggy Pop] And have you heard, the story of, a boy, a girl, unrequited love?
[Debbie Harry] It sounds like pure soap opera, I may cry,
[Car crash]
[Both] What a swell party this is.
[Iggy Pop] What frails,
[Debbie Harry] What cocks,
[Iggy Pop] What broads,
[Debbie Harry] What jocks,
[Iggy Pop] What furs! They're beautiful!
[Debbie Harry] Why, I never seen such ...
yuppity
[Alex Cox] [Being yuppity]
[Debbie Harry] Neither did I.
[Iggy Pop] It's all just too ...
[Both] swelligant!
***
[Debbie Harry] This French champagne
[Iggy Pop] domestic,
[Debbie Harry] So good,
for the brain.
[Iggy Pop] That was what I was going to say!
[Debbie Harry] Well, you know, you're a brilliant fellow.
[Iggy Pop] Thank you, I am
[Debbie Harry] Drink up, Jim!
***
[Iggy Pop] So,
have you ever been out to L.A. lately?
[Debbie Harry] No, no, not recently.
[Iggy Pop] Well, I went there.
I had a rent-a-car and all.
[Debbie Harry] Oh, really?
[Iggy Pop] Yeah, I got invited to Pia's house, Pia Zadora's house.
[Debbie Harry] Really?
[Iggy Pop] Yeah!
[Debbie Harry] Was it nice?
[Iggy Pop] Well -- well I didn't go.
[Debbie Harry] Oh!
[Iggy Pop] But it would have been swell, though.
[Debbie Harry] You should have gone!
[Iggy Pop] It would have been elegant!
[Debbie Harry] Elegant!
Oh, wait. Look.
Look who's coming in now! Can you believe it?
[Dinosaur swooping in]
[Iggy Pop] I hear they dismantled Pigfair.
[Debbie Harry] Me, too!
[Iggy Pop] It wasn't elegant enough.
[Debbie Harry] Yeah, probably full of termites.
***
It's grand,
[Both] it's grand,
Wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wonderland.
La la la la
la la la la la la la la la. We sing, so well, like old, Camembert!
***
[Iggy Pop] Have you heard,
the dying star,
she got bit,
in the astro-bar.
[Debbie Harry] Sauced again,
well, did you evah?
[Both] What a swell ...
party this is.
Have you heard,
it's in the stars,
next July we collide with Mars?
Well, did you evah?
What a swell ...
party,
what a swell ...
party,
what a swelligant,
[Dinosaur screeching overhead]
elegant,
party.
[Debbie Harry] Smarty.
[Iggy Pop] Party.
[Debbie Harry] Carl is smarty.
Not this party.
[Iggy Pop] Yeah, that's right!
[Debbie Harry] Well, piss off!
[Iggy Pop] [Laughing] That's Debbie!
[Mars collides with Earth and Explodes]