A Mighty Wind (2003)

Catherine O'Hara: Mickey Crabbe

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• Mitch Cohen : [while eating dinner]  What is it you do, Leonard? For work?

  Leonard Crabbe : Oh, for work. I'm in the bladder management industry. I sell catheters. I have my own distribution company, Sure Flo Medical Appliances. You may have heard of it. It's actually named in tribute after my mother, her name was Florence. It's a growth industry, really, because one in three people over 60 either have a flaccid or a spastic bladder, so in a sense, every 13.5 seconds a new incontinent is born, as it were. People like you and I have what they call "leakage problems." They can be running, playing tennis, laughing, sneezing, anything. I mean, the good old constipation, you know. You have impacted fecal mass in your rectum, you find that pushing on your bladder...

  Mickey Crabbe : You know, this might make good dessert talk.

• Mickey Crabbe : It does not seem like yesterday that Mitch and I met and started making music together. I don't know if any of you would know or even remember that Mitch and I met in the hospital. Mitch was there with his jaw wired shut after defending the honor of a girl he didn't even know. Me. And I of course was there to visit, I felt really bad. And the only way that Mitch could communicate with me was on paper. Every word of it poetry. And if you don't mind, MItch, I have the very first poem that you wrote me: Parched in exile / thirsty for your smile / though silence behind this barbed wire mask / your spirit burns through that I might bask / in your cool misty loveliness.

  Mitch Cohen : I just wanted a drink of water.

• Jonathan Steinbloom : [Mitch has disappeared]  Would you consider doing both parts?

  Mickey : No, I'd consider going home, making a nice tray of nanaimo bars, lying in bed and watching TV - that's what I like doing.

• Mickey Crabbe : Is there a cockfight arena near here?

• Mickey Crabbe : What are you doing? He could be lying in a ditch - it wouldn't be the first time.

• Mitch Cohen : It's like it's 1968... or 67... or 66... umm...

  Mickey : The good years.

• Mickey Crabbe : Then there's the kids - we're hearing: "You rock... you rock me... you rock my world!" What?

• Mickey Crabbe : Everybody, everybody loved to hang around Mitch. They tried to get close to him, but I was close to him. He was very smart, very intense and - distant, you know? He'd just - you'd get close to him and, you know, he'd just inch back that much further, you know. And you'd move in, you know, to get inside Mitch - and he'd just back off a little more. Just always kept you wanting to get there, to understand him. Which was impossible.

• Mickey Crabbe : I'd like to think that Mitch would agree to do this - with me. Because I already said yes. And I can't do it alone, so. No, I didn't think this through. I should've talked to him beforehand.

• Mickey Crabbe : I was playing with my sisters, Jocelyn, Claire, Estelle. We were the North Four. We were on-stage and we had a horrible little heckler. A little guy, but with the loudest voice in the world. And just, you know, "Take off your tops" and "Get off the stage" and...

  Mitch Cohen : "You sing Like crap!" "You get off the stage!" Very inarticulate. Rude.

  Mickey Crabbe : Mean. Mean little bugger. And all of the sudden this, we couldn't see clear, you got the lights on us, but I see this tall, dark figure go over and, you know, there's this intense little - something going on, and all of a sudden, he's pummeled. The crap pummeled out of him.

  Mitch Cohen : I was - I don't remember much. But the next thing I know, I'm in a hospital,

• Mark Shubb , Alan Barrows , Jerry Palter , Terry Bohner , Laurie Bohner , Mitch Cohen , Mickey Crabbe : [singing]  Oh, a mighty wind's a-blowing, It's kicking up the sand, It's blowing out a message, To every woman, child and man, Yes, a mighty wind's a-blowing, Cross the land and cross the sea, It's blowing peace and freedom, It's blowing equality, Yes, it's blowing peace and freedom, It's blowing you and me!

• Mickey Crabbe : [singing]  Won't make your patients cringe, Sure-Flo, Sure-Flo, Don't leave them cold and damp, Use our buttocks drapes and penis clamp, Sure-Flo, Sure-Flo...

• Mitch Cohen : [singing]  Your kiss

  Mitch Cohen , Mickey Crabbe : There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow

  [kiss] 

  Mitch Cohen , Mickey Crabbe : More precious than a pot of gold