Where the Boys Are (1960)

Frank Gorshin: Basil

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• Basil : Please, please! We don't want applause. Let's keep things as unfrantic and cerebral as possible. If you have any questions, ask them during the breaks. The selection you just heard was the "Nuclear Love Song" composed by our percussionist. Next is an original of my own, written for guitar and flute, entitled "A Meeting Between Shakespeare and Satchel Paige on Hampstead Heath".

• Basil : Date me, tonight, Baby Ruth.

  Merritt Andrews : Booked.

  Basil : Date me, tonight, Big Girl.

  Tuggle Carpenter : I gotta date.

  [Basil looks at Angie, says nothing] 

  Angie : Well, let's not be insulting.

  Basil : Date me, tonight, Short One.

  Angie : [smiles]  What time?

• Angie : What's dialectic jazz? I don't dig dialectic? What's the scene?

  Basil : Short girl, don't ever use jive talk in my presence. If you want to speak to me, keep it civilian.

• Basil : No, no, no.. please, please... We do not want applause. Let's keep things as un-frantic and cerebral as possible. If you have any questions, ask them during the break. The selection you just heard was The Nuclear Love Song, composed by our percussionist. Next is an original of my own, written for guitar and flute, entitled, A meeting between Shakespeare and Sachil Page on Hamstead Heath. Well, now, aren't we wonderful. Are we the greatest you ever heard? Compliment me.

  Merritt Andrews : Well, you're different.

  Basil : Dialectic jazz is not only different, it's profound. Beer for everybody. Let me know when that's gone.

  Angie : Angie : What's dialectic jazz? I don't dig dialectic? What's the scene?

  Basil : Short girl, don't ever use jive talk in my presence. If you want to speak to me, keep it civilian. No! No minor 7th there.

  Guitar Player : It's more emergent, less eruptive.

  Basil : Its offensive in that Sound Plane. My boys are tired... Five days coming down here. Six Concerts every day since we left school.

  Tuggle Carpenter : Six a day? No wonder you're loaded.

  Basil : Well, we did not earn this money. We never accept money. As a matter of fact, we pay the audience.

  Tuggle Carpenter : Tuggles: Huh?

  Basil : Well, usually in Beers. That way we're never indebted to anyone. We can play what we want. Not what everybody else wants us to. We're incorrupt. Like athletes, however, we sometimes become a little too finely trained... and we need to reestablish social contact with our public...