Times Square (1980)

Tim Curry: Johnny LaGuardia

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• Johnny LaGuardia : The need is there, girls. The city is ready. The switchboards are jammed. You can do anything you want! Keep doing it for all us stay-at-homes! Let it be passionate, or not at all!

• Johnny LaGuardia : Apathy... banality... boredom... television. But a new iconoclast has come to save us. it's the Sleez Sisters. It's Nikki and Pamela. Go to it, girls. Lots of letters and lots of calls. Lots of sightings of our little Loch Ness Monster.

• Johnny LaGuardia : Dum da-dum-dum. Dum da-dum-dum-dummmmm. There are eight million stories in the big city. People say I have a bird's eye view, perched up here, night after night, looking down into the throbbing, pulsing, main-line lanes of the city. Looking right down into - the heart of the beast.

• Johnny LaGuardia : Runaways, can you hear me? Tune into me; because, I'm tuned into you. And I'm tuned into the big lie.

• David Pearl : Where is she?

  Johnny LaGuardia : She's camping out under the stars and giving herself over to scary thoughts and omens and excess.

• Johnny LaGuardia : You're live.

  Caller : Hello, Johnny? Pamela Pearl was in my class at Dalton.

  Johnny LaGuardia : Uh huh?

  Caller : She never did *one thing* wrong. I think she's *dead*, and this is someone else!

• Johnny LaGuardia : Yes, it's story time on WJAD in the heart of Times Square, New York, New York. The city so nice, they named it twice.

• Johnny LaGuardia : You have something very special inside you, young lady. The seed - that contains your unique self. You must learn to nurture that seed.

• Johnny LaGuardia : Maybe you're all alone. That's a pretty scary place to be. I know about it. You may have to jump off into the darkness. How desperately you feel those moments before you jump. But, sometime you just got to do it. You got to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you got to jump!

• Johnny LaGuardia : And now its time for the story time quote of the day - and it's a good one, friends. I'd like to share it with you: A helping word is like a prayer. A helping hand is an answer to that prayer.

• Johnny LaGuardia : It's 5:29 on a Tuesday morning and Times Square's answer to Diogenes is swinging his beacon far out into the night, looking for an honest man on Broadway.

  [singing] 

  Johnny LaGuardia : Looking for love on Broadway...

• Johnny LaGuardia : I saw in "Woman's Wear Daily", David Pearl, 34, recently appointed to head Mayoral Commission for Times Square, attired in a midnight blue tuxedo. He rushed home from the opening of the Met to catch Merv Griffin. Seems Suzanne Somers was guesting in young pearls inveterate to jigglevision addict. Time to shut off the TV set, David. Come see Times Square - in the flesh - not from the windows of your limo. It's *hot* down here. It's Hades. It's Rio at Carnival time. It's ripe, baby. Get in touch with our place inside you. The great slime, more than plastic, David. And vitality, more than manners, David. And life, more than television.

• Johnny LaGuardia : I want to tell you something, Nicky.

  Nicky Marotta : You want to tell me something? I want to tell you something! Fuckin' slimy do-gooder! You're so full of yourself, that you're bloated!

• Johnny LaGuardia : It's one minute to history. This is Johnny LaGuardia, coming to you live from the WJAD bird's eye view perch above a little place called Times Square.

• Johnny LaGuardia : yes its storry time right here in times square. the city so nice they named it twice.