- 12:24 - http://www.whiterocking.org/pwc.html
- 29:32 - Benny Carter a été un des grands acteurs du jazz des années 1930 aux années 1990.http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Carter
- 29:59 - Claude McKay était un romancier et poète jamaïcain, puis naturalisé américain. Il a fait partie du mouvement littéraire de la Renaissance de Harlem.http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_McKay
- 44:06 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Shubert
- I have to meet a man at the Hotel Astor.- Very mysterious. I'll see you later?- Why else am I in New York?- Such a good liar.- And I'm going to call your landlord.- Don't.- You have a flood in here.- I just hate to bother Mr. Rothstein.- Whereas I love to bother Mr. Rothstein.
- Where is Jess Smith?- Jess Smith is conspicuously absent.- How is that an answer?- The client enters. The payment is placed in the bowl. The client leaves. Who has seen whom? No one has seen anybody. And the Republic survives another day.- This is your idea?- It has the twin virtues of simplicity and mystery.- It strikes me as idiotic.- Well, that is your prerogative. Mr. Thompson, did you not make prior arrangements with Messrs. Smith and Daugherty in regards to certain services and protections? And were you not given exact instructions as to where and when this transaction would take place?- I was.- And are we not now both growing older on a brisk winter's day in the great port of New York, eager to see where fate leads us next?- What is going on with Smith and Daugherty?- My understanding is that they are no more than close friends, base rumors to the contrary.- That's not what I meant.- I know what you meant. But that would be another conversation in a different room.- What would that cost?- How would you judge a man you could buy within five minutes of meeting him?- I wouldn't trust him for a second.- Well, then, we are face to face with paradox. Consider me an admirer, Mr. Thompson. Ordinary men avoid trouble. Extraordinary men turn it to their advantage. You and I have that in common.
- I've looked in on Mrs. Shearer.- The E. Coli case.- Yes, the E. Coli case.- What's your impression?- She's rather a difficult person, frankly.- Perhaps she's wary of well-meaning strangers.- Have I done something to offend you?- Why do you ask?- You just might find it useful to be a bit warmer.- Because you're on the board?- I meant with people in general.- How do you know how I am with people in general?- Let's say I'm forming an impression.- Perhaps your perception regarding my supposed brusqueness comes out of a sense of frustration.- Whose? Mine? I'm frustrated?- Are you?- You have a maddening way.- Perhaps it has something to do with the care we offer women like Mrs. Shearer. Or don't.- You're doing it again.- Doing what?- Blaming me for something.- What would I be blaming you for?- I haven't the slightest idea.- Then I'm really not sure what this conversation is about.