- I think that it's okay to wear whatever you wanna wear
and not cut your hair, and grow it down to your butt
if you want to.
- When did you start saying butt?
(upbeat music)
- I think it's obvious why I was chosen.
They got six of the biggest characters
they could possibly find,
and then threw Joe average in there to laugh.
(laughing)
- Well, let's go.
- Thank you, have a good night!
- (laughs) Oh man.
She said...
She's not from New York.
(whooping)
- Well, this one guy had a really cool Harley Davidson,
it was kind, like, kinda turquoise and white.
It's not like I'm some, you know, gearhead
or anything like that.
You know, they're kinda interesting.
I felt like there was a good opportunity there
for me to drive one.
So I just kinda beg and talk him into it.
(lively rock music)
- I love Julie. I think she's really, really cool.
And she definitely charmed everybody.
Well, she charmed me.
- Like, here's 57th street and then here's 56th.
- So I'm basically gonna get lost, right?
- No, no, it's so simple.
- How will I know where to get off?
(lively music)
Which way?
I guess I have really bad sense of direction
because I'm totally turned around and I don't know
which direction I'm going or facing at all.
I was late, I was real late.
Very unprofessional, I realize.
But I was very glad just to see the door.
When I heard on the radio that there was an audition
for an MTV show, all I was thinking was,
yes, here's a chance for me to get out of Birmingham
and, you know, just a ticket out,
ready to get some kind of career going.
(upbeat techno music)
My dancing is, you know, something I enjoy.
It lets me be really creative.
Eric ended up going to the hip hop class with me.
Right, the day I moved in he was like, you know,
I might wanna go take a class with you,
you know, this funk class or whatever, you know,
I might wanna go.
And I was like, great.
And got time to go.
And I was like, well, Eric, let's go.
And he was like, oh no, I'm not going.
I was like, what?
No, no, you have to go.
So he's like, well, I'll go watch just 'cause you're,
you know, bugging me about it,
but I'm probably not gonna take it.
He had no clue what was going on half the time,
and he was just getting out there and doing his stuff
and he was just wiggling and messing up and falling down.
And I was really impressed.
- (Girl over phone) I lost your number.
- Oh, that's cool.
- (Girl over phone) I did, no, I called your mother.
- Oh, all right.
- Is that is honey? His skin...
Is she a skeezer?
(laughing)
- Wait, hold on a second.
- (Girl over phone) Yeah.
- Can you shut up?
- In the beginning Heather just came across
really bitter to me, really upset towards things.
And it's just been so much fun getting to know her.
Who is this?
- Um, Gregory.
- Probably I should ask for Greg.
- Yeah.
- Can I speak to Greg?
Greg, oh my gosh, this is Louise.
I won a trip to Jamaica, can you believe it?
Oh my gosh! I leave the 27th.
Can you believe it?
I'm going to Jamaica.
I just, well I still gotta call all my friends
and tell them, so I gotta go.
But bye, Greg.
(laughing)
Louise with a southern accent.
- You have three dollars? You have just three dollars?
- Is that bad? Is it gonna be more than that?
- How much do you have?
- I'm just kidding.
(laughing)
- I brought Julie and Becky to the art opening
because a friend of mine who I respect a lot,
William Rand, was having a piece in this group show.
- Oh, those artists were so phony.
They weren't even looking at the art!
They were running around...
It was just a social event.
- Maybe we should do that when your kids come over,
turn flowers into food.
- We'll have to do that, then.
- Last Sunday we were in the park
and Julie told me that she had came
into one of these Reaganvilles
where, you know, everyone has kind of been
thrown out their homes and evicted
and they live in cardboard boxes on the river.
- It's a great day.
You wanna pet her?
- She'll bite me.
- No, it's a really nice dog.
- She's never bitten anybody.
- Really sweet dog.
- What's your name? I'm Julie.
- I'm Darlene.
- How long you been living here for?
- It's going to be a year.
- A year?
- Uh-huh.
Oh yeah.
- One thing I think about Julie is that she's really sincere
about trying to understand and trying to help people.
- What if I spent the night with you one night down here?
- You can.
- Can I?
- Yeah.
- That'll be cool with you?
- Yeah.
- It's a lot more real than, you know,
when you give somebody change and walk away.
You know, it goes a lot farther than that.
And I guess I just got a better understanding of what
you know, you basically already know.
That, who's to say that I couldn't be Darlene
if I didn't have the family that I have
and the friends that I have to support me?
We went roller skating at The Roxy.
They played kinda like disco-y music.
And there's a lot of homosexual skating there.
Isn't that funny?
- (Man over phone) I've never seen gay people a lot, like,
skating to disco music, no.
- I mean, that's just not a common thing.
- (Man over phone) Not in Alabama.
- And another thing about the South,
you get arrested if you pee on the street.
Here it is just very common.
- (Man over phone) People pee on the street?
- Oh yeah.
- Julie, how normal are you?
Do you do the right thing?
What is the right thing when it comes to matters of sex,
sleeping and toilet?
- And toilet?
- And I have my own business.
- You self-employed?
- Yeah. Ceramic, tile, marble, granite.
- Is that right?
- You want marble up that wall, on the stucco, I'll do it.
And look over at that pontoon over there.
- That what?
- See, they're up and down?
The reflection is different off some tiles.
Bad job.
- Finally, after an hour with this guy, she got up and left.
And then he asked me, well, is she coming back?
And I was like, no, she not coming back.
I mean, don't you get it?
(relaxed music)
- What are you doing?
- Checking for muscle content.
- What?
- I think you have a sturdy frame.
- Is that was you look for in a woman, a sturdy frame?
- Yes.
- I also have wide hips, so I'd be great for breeding.
- (chuckles) Do you?
You have a tremendous capacity for someone 19 years old.
For someone, anyway, but for 19.
- You are so... You're obsessed with that.
- Could you call me Dad?
(record scratch)
(laughing)
- We were sitting at the table,
and he starts saying things like,
I'm old enough to be one of your college professors.
(scoffs)
Who cares?
There's a camera sitting here.
My mom's gonna be watching this. Shut up, buddy.
(energetic music)
- Heather, Julie, and I decided
we were gonna check out the nude beach.
Norm told us that the whole place was nude.
- I take my video camera.
We're gonna capture the moment.
And I'm sitting there in my swimsuit, you know,
with my video camera.
And Heather's going, you are gonna get beat up.
All right, Heather, take it off.
- Girl, cut that (beep) camera off.
- I go out in the water
and this man comes over and, you know,
tells me, you've got like the best breasts out here.
You know, do you mind if I touch them?
Well, yes. Get away, what?
I just wonder if he was thinking,
oh sure, go right ahead, yeah!
No, get out, get lost.
My mom's saying that she's coming the weekend after Easter.
And, you know, the whole thing with my family is
you just can't believe it until you see it
because anything could fall through at any second.
Which could be good. (laughs)
Mom? You finally got here.
Well, why don't y'all come here?
You don't wanna come here?
I already feel like I'm in trouble.
- 'Course, I told you, they're mothers.
They need to walk around with a gun and a badge.
(laughs)
- Mom. M-O-M.
- Are your parents gonna be staying here with us?
- They're staying in the loft.
I'm just kidding.
(drum roll)
Nobody can bring out my temper like my family.
- For real?
- Julie's best quality is that she's honest and sincere.
- It's not a black/white issue!
- Yes it is!
- How?
- Get out of my face! I'm so sick of this!
- Why you upset?
- Thanks, Kev.
- I think when I came up here, I had career goals
as well as personal goals.
I feel like I've met more personal
and emotional goals than I've even wanted.
But at the same time I sacrificed a lot of career goals.
- You need to decide where you wanna go.
Whether it's gonna be Broadway or
whether it's to do, like, television or videos or whatever.
- I think It'll be television and videos.
I've always thought that it would be television and videos.
- Yeah. Okay.
But you know, videos is not that much money.
- Right.
- Oh, you know, Julie's a little more, I guess,
hip to certain things that she wasn't before and not
like she wasn't hip or anything, but she learned more
about the city and about how people react.
And, you know, a lot of kind of delusions of youth
are kind of washed away.
(dramatic music)
- We're getting to new lows tonight.
- You wanna get naked tonight?
We're getting naked.
You don't think I got it?
- I know you got it.
- I got it.
I'm a man.
- Eric was being loud and obnoxious.
I was just like, I wish he would just shut up
and go to sleep.
But then I thought, ugh, I needed to listen to this
and absorb because I'm not gonna hear it, you know, soon.
(upbeat music)
- Just because you're in New York and you're away from home,
doesn't mean that you necessarily have to change.
But anybody who can come from Alabama to New York,
it's gotta be tough.
Gotta be.
(upbeat music)