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you do want to hang out with me, don't you?

THEO
That depends-

BLUE
It depends upon you knowing that sex's got nothing to do with anything but you and some woman laying up in some funky bed, pumping and sweating your life away all for one glad moment——you hear that, one moment!

THEO
I'll take that moment!

BLUE
With every woman you've had?

THEO
One out of a hundred!

BLUE
(Laughing, and moving back into shop.) One out of a hundred! All that sweat! All that pumping and grinding for the sake of one little dead minute out of a hundred hours!

(MR. PARKER comes in from upstairs.)

THEO
(Pause, Stopping PARKER.) Pop, you know who this is?

MR. PARKER
I can't see him.

THEO
This is Blue!

MR. PARKER
Blue who?

THEO
The man I was telling you about . . . Mr. Blue Haven.

MR. PARKER
(Extends his hand to shake Blue's.) Please to make your acquaintance, Mr. Haven.

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BLUE
(Shaking MR. PARKER'S hand.) Same to you, Mr. Parker.

THEO
You sure you don't know who Blue Haven is, Pop?

MR. PARKER
I'm sorry, but I truly don't know you, Mr. Haven. If you're a celebrity, you must accept my apology. You see, since I got out of the business, I don't read the Variety any more.

THEO
I'm not talking about a celebrity.

MR. PARKER
Oh, no?

THEO
He's the leader!

MR. PARKER
Ohhhhh!

THEO
Right here in Harlem.

MR. PARKER
Where else he gon' be but in Harlem. We got more leaders within ten square blocks of this barbershop than they got liars down in City Hall. That's why you dressed up that way, huh, boy? So people can pick you out of a crowded room?

THEO
Pop, this is serious!

MR. PARKER
All right, go on, don't get carried away—— there are some things I don't catch on to right away, Mr. Blue.

THEO
Well, get to this: I got to thinking the other day when Adele busted in here shoving everybody around——I was thinking about this barbershop, and I said to myself:

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