Opening to A Million to Juan on HBO 2 (1997)
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00:00Yo, Colt Jack! Come here, man. Check it out, man.
00:12We launched a cool t-shirt. Godzilla. Logo. Check it out, man.
00:17Hey, look. Godzilla.
00:22How much, man?
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00:30I mean, these are bootlegs, man.
00:32No, man. This is the real thing.
00:34Check it out.
00:38Four bucks.
00:44Here's Juan.
00:45Don't you understand Spanish?
00:46Regular guy trying to make the rent.
00:48No credit in any language.
00:50Off-roadsome dude in a limo. Hands him a check.
00:52How many zeros in a million?
00:53Four?
00:54Six.
00:55That's a million. You gotta give him credit.
00:57Gracias.
00:58How can you use a check you can't cash?
00:59He may not have a green card.
01:00What part of Spain are you from?
01:02The east side.
01:03But he sure knows how to get lucky.
01:05Come and get it, Juan.
01:06Paul Rodriguez. Edward James Olmos. Chich Marin. A million to one.
01:18You'll be back, Doc.
01:20I couldn't handle it inside, but I can now.
01:25I'm still here, Doc.
01:32It's been so long.
01:36So long.
01:45Their instinct is to avoid the danger.
01:48Their instinct is to acquit.
01:50They're just waiting for somebody like you to march in there and give them the excuse to do it.
01:56I can't.
01:58You will.
02:03It's about a woman, a single mother who's called for jury duty on a mob trial,
02:07who gets chosen by them to convince the other jury members to vote not guilty so that they can get an acquittal.
02:16Well, someone's going to contact you and tell you to say two words too precisely.
02:24Do you know what they are? Have you guessed yet?
02:27No.
02:29Not guilty.
02:36New York City, 1959.
02:40The battleground was rock and roll.
02:44I'll give you close to show.
02:47You can stop me, but you're never going to stop rock and roll. How do you know that?
02:52It was the beginning of an era.
02:55You should have been there.
02:58American advice.
03:04Remember your biggest nightmare in grade school?
03:07Please delay my beating until Thursday.
03:09It's worse when you grow up.
03:13That guy just flipped a pan.
03:15Who?
03:16The shop teacher.
03:17Welcome back, baby.
03:18I'm an adult now. I'm not a little kid. He used to spit into my 2% milk.
03:21He was a little boy.
03:23But try telling him that.
03:25You're going to get it now.
03:27Rick Moranis, Tom Arnold, Big Bully.
03:31Premieres Saturday, March 1st on HBO.
03:34To be a Navy captain, you need experience.
03:39I'm here to pick up my new submarine.
03:40So do you need anything from me?
03:42A good crew.
03:45Prepare for dive!
03:48I better go see if any of the other rooms are still tilted.
03:51And a sense of humor.
03:55Kelsey Grammer.
03:56God, I love this job!
03:59Down Periscope. Premieres Saturday, March 8th, only on HBO.
04:03I'm Dave Chappelle. I'm here with HBO Entertainment News.
04:07Very exciting day today.
04:09See, all this month we're talking to people who have not just made black history,
04:13but are making black history.
04:15And this guy I'm talking to today is definitely making a mark.
04:18Acclaimed novelist Walter Moseley.
04:21You might have read some of his work.
04:23You know, Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty.
04:27This guy loves colors in the titles.
04:29You might especially know Devil in a Blue Dress,
04:32the tri-star adaptation of this movie,
04:35starring Denzel Washington,
04:37brought his character E.G. Rollins to life.
04:40I want to get behind the man that made the movie,
04:43or made the book that became the movie.
04:45Either way, I'm getting to the bottom of something.
04:53You know, when I was a kid,
04:55my father was very clear about what life was like.
04:58He said, there's only two things you have to do in life.
05:00The first thing you have to do is pay the rent.
05:02That's what he said.
05:04So he really worked on that.
05:06But then after a while he said, once you pay the rent,
05:08you can do what you love.
05:10After a long time of looking, I think I was in my mid-30s,
05:13I fell upon writing.
05:15And suddenly you're an author.
05:17It was very funny.
05:18I was working as a programmer at Mobile Oil,
05:20and I called him and said,
05:21I sold the book I'm celebrating today,
05:23but I'll be in tomorrow.
05:24And the next day I called him up and said,
05:26I celebrated so much yesterday,
05:28I can't get out of bed today, but I'll be in tomorrow.
05:30And they're still waiting for you to come in.
05:33Wow.
05:35And then the first book you wrote was?
05:38It was called Gone Fish.
05:40But it was a victim of what you call PTM,
05:43pre-Terry McMillan.
05:45So before Terry McMillan, what they would say is this.
05:47They'd say, well, you know, it's like this.
05:49White people don't read about black people.
05:51Black women don't like black men,
05:54in spite of all those black children.
05:56And black men don't read, so who's going to read your book?
05:59Of course, none of that's true.
06:00So what turned it all around?
06:01What knocked it open?
06:02Well, then I wrote a mystery.
06:03You know, it was, you know,
06:06Easy Robbins, Raymond Alexander,
06:08Devil in a Blue Dress.
06:10I wrote it, and I sent it around.
06:11And people said, oh, I get the trick.
06:13The detective is black.
06:21Hollywood reads your books, they write your books.
06:23Devil in a Blue Dress was made a movie.
06:25And you saw Denzel Washington,
06:27and you knew that this was going to be
06:29the face of Easy Robbins.
06:31You can't even write about it.
06:33Did you like the choice?
06:34I mean, you want a good actor, you know.
06:36Denzel's one of the best or something.
06:38You could be Easy Robbins.
06:40I'm just thinking, if I was sneaking around now,
06:41black dudes can't really sneak around in the 90s.
06:47Hey, Easy Robbins.
06:48What do you decide what the literature's going to be in,
06:51and how you unfold it?
06:52For me, I start at the beginning,
06:53I have no idea where it's going.
06:54All I know is somewhere around page 20,
06:56somebody's going to be dead.
06:58I know that writing is rewriting,
06:59so it doesn't matter how bad the writing is in the beginning.
07:01You just got to keep on going back,
07:02going over and over and over.
07:04How long can you write the same book?
07:07Sixteen drafts.
07:08Sixteen drafts?
07:09At least.
07:10It'd be like seven minutes, I'd kiss my ass.
07:13That's all I can do.
07:17Well, the most.
07:18Good to meet you, man.
07:20Thank you.
07:24Here's one.
07:25Don't you understand funny?
07:26Regular guy trying to make the rent.
07:28No credit in any language.
07:30Off-road, some dude in a limo, hands him a check.
07:32How many zeros in a million?
07:33Four?
07:34Six.
07:35It's a million.
07:36You got to give him credit.
07:37Gracias.
07:38How can you use a check you can't cash?
07:39He may not have a green card.
07:40What part of Spain are you from?
07:42The east side.
07:43But he sure knows how to get lucky.
07:44Come and get it, Juan.
07:46Paul Rodriguez, Edward James Olmos, Cheech Marino.
07:48A million to one.
07:56The following movie is rated PG.
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