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Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper in Vibes (1988)

Cyndi Lauper: Sylvia Pickel

Vibes

Cyndi Lauper credited as playing...

Sylvia Pickel

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  • Nick Deezy: To whom were you speaking?
  • Sylvia Pickel: To youm.
  • Harry Buscafusco: May I ask, why d'ya keep a shotgun in your apartment?
  • Sylvia Pickel: It's not really mine. An old boyfriend left it here.
  • Harry Buscafusco: Why did he keep it?
  • Sylvia Pickel: I don't really know. You don't ask a guy named Icepick too many questions.
  • Sylvia Pickel: You're very brave.
  • Nick Deezy: Everybody looks brave holding a machinegun.
  • Sylvia Pickel: I'd give you the finger but I'm too refined.
  • Sylvia Pickel: [affecting a snobbish accent] Will someone please settle this? In a Rolls Royce Corniche, the bar opens from left to right, not right to left, doesn't it?
  • Dr. Weiner: All right Miss Pickle.
  • Sylvia Pickel: That's PickELL, Dr. Whiney.
  • Dr. Weiner: Whine-er
  • Sylvia Pickel: Sorry.
  • Nick Deezy: A women. She's dead.
  • Harry Buscafusco: Dead? A woman? Where?
  • Nick Deezy: She's easy to find she's the one that's dea... that's odd.
  • Sylvia Pickel: The police must have hauled her off,
  • Nick Deezy: No, no, no, it's only been 5 minutes and we'd have hear the police. there'd be one of those chalk outlines of the body.
  • Harry Buscafusco: Maybe she bounced, like outta the hotel. Women are soft.
  • Sylvia Pickel: A gang! A gang took her away so that no questions could be asked.
  • Harry Buscafusco: So we're discounting the bouncing theory?
  • Nick Deezy: Completely. A gang that's gonna take another shot at me.
  • Sylvia Pickel: Louise says gang.
  • Harry Buscafusco: Well, gangs are not necessarily bad. Ya know there are nice gangs. There was Our Gang, Alfalfa, Buckwheat...
  • Harry Buscafusco: He was a brilliant guy. Now, he could hold an in depth conversation with a cannoli.
  • Sylvia Pickel: Is he married?
  • Sylvia Pickel: Jerk! I had that guy eatin' outta my hand! Literally! Look! There's still melon.
  • Harry Buscafusco: After your fight last night, you should have slept with me.
  • Sylvia Pickel: What good would that have done?
  • Harry Buscafusco: It would have done me a lot of good.
  • Nick Deezy: What is it?
  • Sylvia Pickel: It's Louise. She's very upset. She says there's a tremendous psychic energy on this floor.
  • Harry Buscafusco: Probably somebody getting a sponge bath. I know that makes me crazy.
  • Nick Deezy: [Sylvia and Nick are kissing] You know, I'm curious. When did you decide you liked me?
  • Sylvia Pickel: Oh... I guess when you tried to save my life. I... I appreciated that. I thought back then, He's really nice. I thought, If there was ever anything I could do for him, I will.
  • Nick Deezy: What do you mean?
  • Sylvia Pickel: What do you mean?
  • Nick Deezy: Do for me? What, like now?
  • Sylvia Pickel: What's happening here? A minute ago you were ready to disappear down my throat.
  • Nick Deezy: I don't know. This is, uh, starting to sound a little like... charity.
  • Sylvia Pickel: I must have said the wrong words. I admit, I'm not that smart. I'm not a museum person.
  • Nick Deezy: Well, you know, the way it's coming out, you're looking for a little action, there's nobody here but me and Harry, and I won. But not by much.
  • Sylvia Pickel: Ok...
  • [adopts a sarcastic tone]
  • Sylvia Pickel: I want you bad, alright? I dream about you and me and a house in Long Island. I'm only half a woman 'til I make love to you.
  • [reverts to normal voice]
  • Sylvia Pickel: Are you happy now?
  • Nick Deezy: Must we spoil what's been a depraved and embarassing evening?
  • [Sylvia gasps]
  • Nick Deezy: No no no, please, not another word. This is just the way I want to forget you.
  • Sylvia Pickel: Screw you!
  • Nick Deezy: No thanks!
  • Sylvia Pickel: Boy, Nick, you really know how to show a girl a good time.
  • Harry Buscafusco: [enters the tent, hair set with pins and in a hairnet] Hey, I forgot to ask you. Can I sleep on this?
  • Sylvia Pickel: Who gives a shit?
  • [leaves the tent]
  • Harry Buscafusco: What's the matter with her?
  • Nick Deezy: I wouldn't sleep with her!
  • Harry Buscafusco: Really?
  • [grins]
  • Harry Buscafusco: Sylllviaaaa!
  • Dr. Harrison Steele: And you're available in the next three months? I can count on you?
  • Sylvia Pickel: You can count on me, draw on me, anything you want.
  • Sylvia Pickel: She says your girlfriend Hillary.
  • Nick Deezy: Hillary! Yes, is she hurt? Is there something the matter?
  • Sylvia Pickel: Worse. She's playing bouncy-bouncy with another guy. I'm trying to be as delicate as I can.
  • Sylvia Pickel: She's trying to protect us.
  • Harry Buscafusco: From what?
  • Sylvia Pickel: From death and - horrible agony.
  • Harry Buscafusco: Well, we're going to have to look beyond that.
  • Sylvia Pickel: What's your problem, aside from your face?
  • Nick Deezy: I brought my own food. I'm taking no chances. This is all dehydrated.
  • Sylvia Pickel: So are you.
  • Sylvia Pickel: Honey Muffin? She calls you Honey Muffin and I can't call you Stretch-a-roo?
  • Sylvia Pickel: I had to get outta that place. My body was still there, but, my mind would escape. Louise helped me do it.
  • Nick Deezy: Where would you go?
  • Sylvia Pickel: Anywhere I was happy. Like the movies! You know how hard it is to buy Goobers when you're outta your body?
  • Nick Deezy: I'm going to give it some more thought.
  • Sylvia Pickel: Why? Your life is in a shambles anyway.
  • Nick Deezy: No. No, it's not in a shambles. It's in a mild state of disarray.

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