Radio Days (1987)
Woody Allen: Joe, the Narrator
Quotes
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[Last lines]
Narrator : I never forgot that New Year's Eve when Aunt Bea awakened me to watch 1944 come in. I've never forgotten any of those people or any of the voices we would hear on the radio. Though the truth is, with the passing of each New Year's Eve, those voices do seem to grow dimmer and dimmer.
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Narrator : For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror.
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Narrator : Despite his bravado, Mr Manulis panicked and bolted out of the car. He was so frightened by the reports of interplanetary invasion that he ran off, leaving Aunt Bea to contend with the green monsters he expected to drop from the sky at any moment. She walked home. Six miles. When Mr Manulis called for a date the next week, she told my mother to say she couldn't see him. She had married a Martian.
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Narrator : My most vivid memory connected with an old radio song I associate with the time that Aunt Bea and her then-boyfriend Chester took me into New York to the movies. It was the first time I'd ever seen the Radio City Music Hall and it was like entering heaven. I just never saw anything so beautiful in my life.
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Narrator : [First Lines] Once upon a time, many years ago, two burglars broke into our neighbors house in Rockaway. Mr. and Mrs. Needleman had gone to a movie and the following events occurred.
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Narrator : What Aunt Bea did with the rest of the money was treat us all to a Broadway dance palace. She and Sy seemed very much in love, and she seemed happy. But it was not to be, because after a week Sy did not leave his wife and children, nor did he after two weeks nor ever. And as the year came to a close, Aunt Bea would soon be back to her old dreams of finding a true love. Still, on this night, no one had any thoughts except what a wonderful time we were all having.
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Narrator : Mrs. Waldbaum had a steel plate in her head, and it was said she couldn't walk near magnets.
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Narrator : I love old radio stories. And I know a million of 'em. I've collected 'em down through the years, like a hobby. Anecdotes and gossip and inside stories about the stars. Plus, I recall so many personal experiences from when I grew up and listened to one show after another. This girl singing used to be a favorite at my house - one of many. Now, it's all gone, except for the memories.
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Narrator : [about a therapist's radio show] I found the show silly and always imagined my parents on it airing their standard complaints.
Mother : He's a business failure. He never finishes what he starts. We're forced to live with my relatives and thank God for them. And I should have married Sam Slotkin.
Father : Sam Slotkin's dead.
Mother : Yes, but while he was alive, he was working.
Father : She'd be lost without her whole family around her all the time, and you should see 'em. They're like some kind of tribe. They're like the Huns. Maybe if I had married a more encouraging woman, who knows?
Mother : So who do you think is right?
Mr. Abercrombie : I think you both deserve each other.
Mother : What does that mean?
Father : Look, we didn't come here to be insulted.
Mother : I love him, but what did I do to deserve him?
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Narrator : Sally hung around the Broadway area and tried to break into broadcasting but the only roles she ever seemed to wind up with were in the bedroom.
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Narrator : [an Affair comes to light] They were all so sophisticated about it that they just booked two Hotel Suites...
