i don't wanna go to the waverly ballroom. they stand around, make me feel like i'm a bug.ngs, too, no, thank you. marty! (marty) i'm going to stay home and watch sid caesar. you goin' to die without a son! so then i... i will die without a son. marty, put on the blue suit. i'm a fat little man, a fat, ugly little man! (sidney lumet) you were coming to their homes. this is a new experience in the history of entertainment and i don't know whether we know its significance yet. (charles champlin) it was a time of terrifying transition. television was taking hold, the graph of television sets and uses climbing like this, and the graph of attendance was going like that. (music playing) (clicking of movie projector coming to a stop) hey, that was a good movie. yeah, seen it here before once. well, s'long, miss mosey. sorry you're closin' the show. nobody wants to come to shows no more. got baseball in the summer, television all the time. won't be much to do in town with the picture show closed. yeah. (charles champlin) hollywood was in a very peculiar period then. you had a curio