- [Dominic] Cat and dog my guess.
- Yeah, there better not be a big dog out there.
- He's got like a puppy German shepherd.
How ya doin'?
- Hi.
My name's Beth.
- [Dominic] Beth. And she was carrying a cat.
I can't stand cats.
(upbeat music)
- Yeah, he's got claws, but...
I was one of the last people to show up.
They were all having a good time at the pool table.
And a couple people didn't seem very happy about the cat.
- [Dominic] I have this dog named George.
I leave him with my brothers. He means a lot to me.
Me and kitty just don't see eye to eye.
- Hey, hang out on a different floor.
- So what do you do?
- I do production work. I'm to do a lot of PA work.
I, like have a different job every day.
(upbeat music) (phone rings)
Casting.
Great.
I love the entertainment industry.
I want to direct and I want to produce.
I'm interested in acting too.
I like experimenting with everything.
All my friends say that I'm a drama queen.
- Tuesday night she was more or less
dying on the floor from headaches.
We thought the brain tumor was going to explode.
Beth CPR, what do we need to do?
You know, call an ambulance.
You know, all this stuff.
- [Jon] Just don't decompose on us.
- "I just gotta go to bed."
(phone rings)
- [Jon] Is Beth in bed?
- I think so, yeah.
- [Jon] I believe she's in bed.
Can I take a message?
- [Beth] Is it for me?
- [Jon] Yeah.
- I got it, I got it! It's for me.
(upbeat music)
- You know what, she's going to be academy award winner.
(Dominic laughs)
"I would just like to thank my roommates,
they totally supported me.
- [Dominic] The kitty.
(Aaron laughs)
(upbeat music)
- And it was the best $20 I think we've spent
since we've been in this place.
(upbeat music)
We came home and we just started going at it, going at it.
♪ Rico ♪
♪ Suave ♪
♪ Rico ♪
♪ Suave ♪
As I was putting those pictures up,
I just knew that Aaron was going to flip
because he was going to feel like such a Joey.
- That's a pretty boy for ya.
- I thought that the picture of Aaron
was absolutely hilarious
because that picture stands for everything
that Aaron claims that he's against.
- We need to let's stay up on the roof
until we see his car coming.
- Everybody was like on the lookout.
Jon was like the watchtower up at the top of the house.
We were just waiting for him to come home.
Aaron come in like, "Aaron, hi, how you doing?
Guys, Aaron's home."
And he like got halfway up the stairs until he realized,
oh my God, I just stepped on my face.
- [Aaron] You guys! Shush!
(upbeat music)
- Welcome home 90!
(beep)
- Oh my, that's is such a burn.
- I got him. I burned him.
I burned him bad. I loved every millisecond.
- Dude. This is such a huge, huge burn on me.
It's unbelievable.
- Aaron more or less (beep) a brick,
but if he hadn't a said those fatal words,
"Oh, I would never do that,"
then it wouldn't have been a problem.
- What am I gonna do?
"Oh, you guys, by the way."
- No, I'm just teasing you about it!
- By the way, I did this really stupid thing
my junior year in college.
- Aaron, didn't I say,
"Aaron you'll probably end up posing in those calendars."
And you said, "No, I'd never do that."
- You know what, that's fine, that's right.
I did sell myself the devil,
but it was for a good cause.
- No, not to the devil,
just all the little teeny boppers in the whole world!
- I really didn't expect him to get as angry.
I thought he'd get just a little bit mad
and then laugh it off.
But he really got angry about it.
He didn't like it at all.
- You guys just raped me.
(everyone laughs)
I'm sure I'll be able to get some (beep) on you.
- Not on me.
- Honestly dude, I did not want to do it.
I only did it 'cause it was a friend.
- You should have said something to us like,
"I had to do one."
- Why would I tell you that though?
- Number one you said you were totally against
doing this kind of stuff.
- I never said that.
- By him standing here telling Beth, you know,
"You're a liar. I never said that."
If there was a liar in this situation,
it was Aaron because he did say it
'cause I was there.
- Do you realize what this could do to my life?
- This was my turn to just get him back.
Just to let him know how it feels.
- I think you, as an actress,
if you're excellent at your craft and true to your work,
if you're good,
they'll take him no matter what you look like.
- Well it's who you know and it's how you look.
It's definitely who you know.
No, but it is it's based on how you look first.
- I hope that Beth finds something that she likes to do
and is successful at it 'cause she's trying really hard
to be an actress.
And I'm not sure that, you know,
I don't think she's very confident in it right now
because I don't know, you know,
how good of luck she's having.
- Everybody in Los Angeles is an actor.
Everybody's something else than what they're doing.
Casting.
Just like I like production work and I like to act too.
Craig from SAG for Joe.
I had to get these pictures taken
because you need a headshot
so they can submit you for parts to casting directors.
So until I have a good headshot,
I'm really not going to get sent out for anything.
(gentle music)
♪ And oh, my dreams ♪
♪ It's never quite as it seems ♪
♪ Never quite as it seems ♪
♪ Then I open up and see ♪
♪ The person falling here is me ♪
(shutter clicks)
- Nice, good. Open it up, yeah.
Nice big smile. Good.
(shutter clicks)
- Yeah, when can I have them?
- Wednesday.
- Good.
- So call me Wednesday, I'll drop them off tomorrow.
- Thank you,
- Pleasure, you're a doll.
- Thank you.
But you know what though?
I mean, especially like living in Los Angeles,
there's so much pressure to like look flawless and perfect,
especially in the entertainment industry.
(phone rings)
- Media Artist Group.
Hold on please.
- Hey. Hi.
I'm sorry. How are you doing?
- Good, how are you?
- Okay. I had another client at lunch today.
- That's okay.
- So, come on in.
- Great.
- Okay.
So what do we have here?
- It's good to meet you.
- [Beth] You too.
- Finally.
- Here's her shot, her head.
These are her shots.
Oh my God.
Let's see here.
No, these are not going to work for what...
- [Gloria] That one's not going to work.
- [Agent] No.
- [Gloria] Not at all.
- No, we're not going to push you in that market.
Do you like this one here, Gloria?
- No.
The hair is...
- The hair is weird.
Also, she's not really comfortable with the camera.
I mean, it's cutesy and all that, but uh uh.
I think what's keeping you from really being accepted
is the pictures.
So we have to like sort of like...
- He wanted me to get a reshoot.
So now I've got to go hunting for another photographer
and try and come up with some more money
to take some headshots because if you don't have a headshot,
you don't have anything.
Tony is my ex-boyfriend from college.
He lives in New York now.
But he's coming in tonight,
eight o'clock from Newark.
And I have no idea what we're going to do.
Yeah, I'm pretty nervous about it.
Sometimes, see what he's going to look like.
Hey, how ya doin'?
- You look very New York.
- I know. Let's go.
(grunge music)
♪ But I'm a creep ♪
He's just different.
He purposely came with that facial hair
just to piss me off is what he did.
♪ What the hell am I doing here ♪
♪ I don't belong here ♪
I was never really looking for anything in a romantic sense,
but he did have some expectations.
I felt bad.
I had to get these pictures taken, but he got really mad.
He got really mad and there was nothing I could do about it.
I told him that I had to get my headshots done.
It was just, it was really awkward the whole entire time.
I'm not in a position to say whether he changed for better
or for worse.
If he's happy with the way he is, that's great.
I mean, he used to be like really conservative.
Now he's got a tattoo.
And that shouldn't change my feelings about anything,
but he's just different.
- Someone had oral sex in the closet.
- I didn't do anything in the closet!
- Yes!
- That was a joke.
- [Group] Oh!
- I told you. I told you the next day that it was a joke.
I was joking around just to make Jon feel uneasy.
And then the next day I told him I was only kidding.
- She had one of her boyfriends out from Ohio
and she was like, you know,
"I don't want anybody to see, you know,
me kissing him or anything so we got in the closet."
- I innocently kissed somebody
and it just so happened to be in the closet.
And that is all that happened.
She said she had oral sex with this guy in the closet.
- Jon!
- Oh my God. Oh my God.
- There's a tad bit of bragging
on what happened in the closet.
- A kiss is a kiss and a sigh is just a sigh.
I don't know.
- She told us she did it and now she's trying to deny it
and say she didn't do it.
But she did it.
(upbeat music)
- Shut up!
The phone rings, my mom, "I'm coming tomorrow."
- Oh, really?
- I'm like, "Oh great."
- Your mom's coming tomorrow?
- Yes.
My mom is a local celebrity.
My mother is the polish voice of Cleveland.
(accordion music)
- This is Eugenia Stolarczyk,
golden voice of the Polish radio program of a station
W-E-R-E in Cleveland, Ohio.
(airplane hums)
- No?
(Eugenia laughs)
- If we buy two of them, it will be...
- How about 11 for both?
- So you had more expensive taste?
- It was just nice spending time together
because when she's at home,
she's like all stressed out and she's running here
and then she's running to this meeting
and running to that banquet.
And I mean, she's non-stop.
- That's Mom.
Hadn't been here five minutes
and she looks down at the carpet and says,
"I feel sick, I need to sit down."
And then she starts vacuuming.
(vacuum hums)
- I don't know whose dishes are over there in a sink.
- [Jon] They're everybody's.
- Everybody's?
- [Jon] Yeah.
- So what maid will come and wash them?
Or what is the situation?
- They just kinda sit there for a couple of weeks, actually.
- [Eugenia] For a couple of weeks?
You have enough dishes
that they can lay for a couple of weeks?
- Yeah.
- That's the new generation unfortunately.
- She cooked for half the day.
And, you know, she did the mom things
that I hardly ever get, and that I really appreciated.
- Chicken is great.
- So I hear you are the Polish voice of Cleveland.
- Is that true?
- Which radio station?
- W-E-R-E and W-C-P-N.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Is it illegal to like say Polish jokes where you live?
(everyone laughs)
I'm just wondering.
- Then I will not cook for you.
(everyone laughs)
You want dessert?
(everyone laughs)
- [Tami] You go!
(speaking in foreign language)
- I'd like to make a toast.
This is a great meal by Mrs. Stolarczyk.
(mugs clink)
- I thought Glen and I were getting along okay.
- I've tried with Beth, and I'm beginning to hate her.
Her freaky friend brought a dog over
that crapped all over the place.
Who brings dogs over?
What the hell, why do you bring your dog?
- I really don't think it concerns you, Glen.
- It does concern me.
I'm walking around in (beep).
- [Beth] No you didn't, I cleaned it up.
- You did not!
I'll show it to ya.
I threw carpet over it.
- Well then show it to me, I'll clean it up.
Calm down.
- I'm glad you guys don't have any problems.
- Can't we all just get along?
- That's because Glen has no life,
and he has nothing better to do then complain about shit.
That's why.
- I have a great life, bitch.
- [Beth] Glenn, shut up.
- No, no.
I know it was the other guy's dog that (beep)
over the floor.
- [Beth] You don't know who (beep) on the...
- I know, it was his dog!
I know, I saw it!
- Well I said I would clean it up!
Show me where it is, Glen.
Grow up.
- [Aaron] That's cool. You should get used to it.
- Man, I was so mad. I was so mad.
- A lot of people were complaining about Beth
in the house and they were getting frustrated with her.
- I never did anything to Glen.
I never did anything to anybody.
It just amazes me how, you know, I'm pissed,
let's take it out on Beth.
Huh.
- You know, I love my mother very much.
I know that she loves me
and it was nice for her to see what I was doing
because she really didn't understand what I was doing.
It was nice to spend some time with her.
I don't know if anything is going to change,
it probably won't.
I'm really secure in myself
and I know I don't have to please anybody.
And I know that I have to make myself happy,
but for some reason,
I just keep thinking that I just want my mother
to be proud of me.
(country music)
- Her mom has been a very important person in Beth's life.
I found out a lot about Beth up through her mom.
- No, I don't think we really know each other that well.
My mother does the best that she knows how to,
and that's okay with me.
(gentle music)
- We were eating dinner, Beth and her mom and I
went out to dinner one night.
And we were sitting there talking.
- Do you miss Beth 'cause she's out here so far away?
- No. I'm too busy to miss anybody.
- We really, I mean, when I'm home,
we really don't do anything.
- But it's not the like,
you desperately want to do anything with me.
- How do you know that?
- No, because you like to go with your friends.
- Well, I like to go out with my friends.
But I mean, it would be nice if, you know,
once in a while we could do stuff together.
- Like what?
- I don't know.
Just spending time together.
- We don't enjoy the same things.
Like going to see the same movie.
You will pick different and I will pick different.
- [Beth] Mom.
- That's true.
- Did I bring up a sticky conversation?
(both laugh)
- No, I'm just stating a point
that we don't do anything together.
- No, we don't.
- At all.
- But this is not my choice.
- Mom!
I ask you all the time when I'm home,
"Do you want to do something?"
"No, no, no, no, no.
I have to do this. I have to this.
I have to run here. I have to run there.
I have to do this."
Which is fine, and you're busy, but I just, I don't know.
I would like to spend some time with her
and it just seems that every time that I attempt to,
she kind of blows it off.
She really cares a lot about working and doing things.
I mean, even on Christmas, you know,
she's got to do her radio shows on Christmas.
I mean, so it's like, it's never ending.
She will always put work first.
- I am very busy, because Elizabeth,
someone has to make money
to pay for all your high class living.
And you know, you don't have father,
so everything falls on mother.
- [Beth] I know.
- It sometimes not what you want to do,
but what you have to do.
- It's kind of a little bit sad that you know,
Beth's in her 20's now
and doesn't really know her mom that well.
- We didn't really have
the typical mother daughter relationship,
really didn't have the whole nurturing thing going on.
You know, I love my mother very much.
It's just hard to communicate
because I don't think anybody really taught my mother
how to express her feelings.
And so that's what the problem is.
Maybe I don't know how to express my feelings,
I think I do though.
(gentle music)
♪ Bright lights ♪
♪ Cruel, cruel people ♪
♪ Big city ♪
- So which way's Kentucky?
- [Beth] Yeah, which way's Ohio?
- I think as a result of this experience, living in LA,
I hopefully am lot more open-minded to other ideas,
ideas that are completely the opposite of mine.
(upbeat music)
♪ This is it. Dope from the fly ♪
♪ Kid, the Ice Mike is back with the high kids ♪
(crowd cheers)
- I think out of all of us, Jon changed the most.
He was just exposed to a new city, different people,
Beth Anthony being a lesbian, all of it.
- Probably the people that I will keep in contact with
and people that I will consider my friends
more than anybody, Beth S.
- [Beth] I really will miss everybody,
but I think I'll miss Jon the most.
(logo hums)