In a big coin laundromat in the lower East Side in NYC,
Alan (Jordan Firstman, as “hairy”) meets Joseph (Tony Lewis, “thmooth”). While Alan waits for his clothes to finish,
Tony disappears. When Alan goes to the
clothes dryer, he finds his clothes gone.
A homeless woman says “don’t worry, your friend took them”.
Alan finds one of his socks in front of a brownstone
walkup near Baxter Street, goes up the “Vertigo” staircase (it’s a rather
obvious reference to Hitchcock and seems a little trite now) and lets himself
into Tony’s apartment with a credit card. (It’s that easy to break and enter.)
But, there is a kind of reconciliation. Maybe it’s payback, maybe its universal
social justice.
I once had a “trick” (back in NYC) in 1978 take money and
leave my wallet in the bathtub. He didn’t
mean to harm me. He was just that desperate.
You wonder, however, whether superficial personal
appearance does matter for casting parts sometimes.
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