Masked and Anonymous (2003)

Jessica Lange: Nina Veronica

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• Nina Veronica : Nobody knows who Jack Fate is anymore. Nobody cares. I mean, he doesn't make records. He doesn't go on tour. He doesn't do interviews. He doesn't do anything!

  Uncle Sweetheart : He doesn't have to! He's a legend. Does Jesus have to walk on water twice to make a point?

• Bacchus : Why a benefit concert?

  Nina Veronica : Well, how else do you get rock stars to do television? Huh? You either give them a cause or give them an award.

• Uncle Sweetheart : He's virtually free. Who else can you say that about?

  Nina Veronica : Virtually free? No one is virtually free. You're either free or you're *not* free. You know, if he's gonna play this concert, then he's gonna play exactly what we tell him.

• Nina Veronica : So, now tell me, are we screwed or are we not screwed?

  Uncle Sweetheart : I'm not. Are you? I don't think you are getting screwed, that's your problem.

  Nina Veronica : Yeah, yeah. I can't believe you're gonna to turn this disaster into a seduction.

• Nina Veronica : So, where's my headliner? Huh? I just got off the phone with the network. They want something to promote. They *need* something to promote. They have some questions about your ability to perform services due.

  Uncle Sweetheart : And I suppose you told 'em I was a total showbiz stud, that you have total mystical knowledge and faith in me and absolutely no question about my ability to perform services due.

  Nina Veronica : Yeah, yeah, something like that.

• Nina Veronica : He' s not here.

  Uncle Sweetheart : How do you know?

  Nina Veronica : I say I don't see him.

  Uncle Sweetheart : How do you know he's not like Claude Raines in that movie "The Invisible Man".

  Nina Veronica : Who? If he doesn't show up, you'd better get invisible.

• Nina Veronica : I'm not going to debate semantics with you. Look, it's real. It's beyond phenomena. There's shooting and killing. And yet how do you define a war in this day and age?

  Dion : What are they fighting about?

  Nina Veronica : I don't know what they're fighting about. Do the Hindus, Arabs, Jews, Irish, Muslims, Buddhists know what they're fighting about? The last person who actually knew that was killed a long time ago. They're all religious wars. Look, we've got dead aliens stacked up in warehouses. What else do you want to know?

• Nina Veronica : I hope you got this cat's priorities in order. Have you explained the restrictions, the limitations, the boundaries, the rules?

  Uncle Sweetheart : Well we've talked about it.

  Nina Veronica : I hope you know we're dealing with the here and now. You can't compare the here and now with the there and then. I don't care what he's done in the past.

• Uncle Sweetheart : Miss Veronica, meet Jack Fate.

  Nina Veronica : Oh, yeah. I had one of your first albums. It's a shame. It's one of the things my husband took during the divorce.

• Nina Veronica : Are his songs going to be recognizable? That's what I want to know.

  Uncle Sweetheart : All of his songs are recognizable, even when they're not recognizable.

• Nina Veronica : Here are the lyrics for "Jailhouse Rock". The executives are insisting that this song be sung, okay.

  Uncle Sweetheart : "Jailhouse Rock"? Why they want to hear that?

  Nina Veronica : Well, look at the lyrics, man. Here, give it to me. Where is it? I don't know. It's something about a party that the warden's gonna throw in a county jail. They see it as a song of hope, you know. Some - some - some kind of *egalitarian* thing. They want to plant seeds of hope.

  Uncle Sweetheart : A lot of people have tried to plant seeds of hope.

• Nina Veronica : He did it. I was right there. I saw it all. He's responsible. I mean, it might have been a random act, but, I'll tell you what, you could put his whole life on trial.