Thirtysomething (TV Series)

Another Country (1990)

Ken Olin: Michael Steadman

Quotes 

• Michael Steadman : You're amazing! You're amazing. I mean, we aced that meeting.

  Elliot Weston : You think so?

  Michael Steadman : Are you kidding me? Did you see the client? He was drooling. I mean, he could practically smell the money.

  Elliot Weston : You think so?

  Michael Steadman : Tonight? We're celebrating tonight. The four of us. Hey, Katherine? Katherine! Would you get my wife on the phone?

  [to Elliot] 

  Michael Steadman : Where do you want to go?

  Elliot Weston : Mike, I don't know.

  Michael Steadman : C'mon, name it. It's on me.

  Elliot Weston : Mike, I don't know. I don't know. You pick it.

  Katherine : [beeping on intercom]  Hope's on five-seven-three-eight.

  Michael Steadman : [on phone with Hope]  Hi, honey. Good. Listen, do you think there's any way we can get a sitter for tonight? Really? Oh, that's good. Okay, would you try to call her? Yeah? Good. I have a little surprise. Yeah. Okay. I'll call - no, you call me back. Okay. Good. I miss you too. Okay. Bye, sweetie.

  Michael Steadman : [to Elliot]  Le Bec Fin. Hope loves Le Bec Fin. Katherine? Hey, Katherine! Katherine, would you, uhm, see about getting reservations for tonight?

  Elliot Weston : [realizing, changing his mind]  Michael...

  Michael Steadman : Wait a second. Four for tonight at Le Bec Fin? Eight o'clock? Thank you.

  Elliot Weston : Mike. About tonight...

  Katherine : [beeping]  Hope's on the line. She says she can get a sitter and what's the surprise?

  Michael Steadman : Uh, just tell her to hold on a second?

  [to Elliot] 

  Michael Steadman : Do you want us to pick you up? Seven thirty?

  Elliot Weston : [reluctantly]  No, Mike. Michael, I don't think tonight is going to be good for us. For Nancy.

  Michael Steadman : Oh. Uh, tomorrow?

  Elliot Weston : [very reluctantly]  I don't know about tomorrow. You see... uhm... Nancy's... she's sick. Nancy's uhm...

  Michael Steadman : [not getting it]  She's sick?

  Elliot Weston : Yeah. Yeah, she's sick, Mike. She's got cancer.

  [Michael pales as the news hits home with him] 

  Elliot Weston : So I'm sorry, okay?

  Michael Steadman : [quietly]  Okay.

• Michael Steadman : [seeing Elliot's expression just as Elliot's phone beeps]  You okay?

  Elliot Weston : Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine.

  [the phone continues to beep as he struggles with something to say] 

  Elliot Weston : Michael...

  [phone beeps again insistently] 

  Michael Steadman : What?

  Elliot's Secretary : [finally over intercom]  Mister Drentell on line 5104.

  Elliot Weston : [changing his mind and deciding to pick up the phone]  Uh, nothing. Nothing. Hi.

  [Michael listens to Elliot's conversation with Miles for a moment before heading out, tapping Elliot and waving. Elliot waves back] 

• Gary Shepherd : [all while Elliot watches Nancy quietly]  Why would I make something like that up? Seriously. I swear. I put them both in front of her, right? Runaway Bunny and Ulysses.

  Michael Steadman : And let me guess: she went right to Ulysses?

  Gary Shepherd : Right.

  Susannah Hart : And put it in her mouth. You forgot to mention that, right?

  Michael Steadman : So big deal. Listen. Janey, by the time she was five months old had eaten most of the major early work of Saul Bellow, up to and including 'Henderson the Rain King', but hey, I don't like to brag.

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, I'm sure Emma's as bright as a button, Gary.

  Nancy Krieger Weston : Hey, hey, what was that woman on the Lucy Show that was always bragging about her kids?

  Susannah Hart : [definitively]  Caroline Appleby. The kid's name was 'Stevie.'

  Gary Shepherd : [turning to her, clearly surprised]  I... I thought you hated pop culture?

  Susannah Hart : Lucy isn't pop culture. Lucy is God.