Sydney Pollack credited as playing...
Warren Feldman
- Warren Feldman: [Talking to John while being honest with him] Let me spare you the awkwardness. I killed my wife. Not that it's any excuse. I had reason to believe she was cheating on me at the time with her chiropractor. Granted, I was abusing cocaine at the time. And alcohol. But I came home one day, shot her four times. Twice in the head. I killed her aunt, too. I didn't know she was there. And the mailman. At that point, I had to fully commit.
- Warren Feldman: Why are you in here?
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: I've been accused of being part of a certain Italian-American sub-culture.
- Ginny Sacrimoni: [after she visits John in a prison hospital] How's he doing?
- Warren Feldman: [after shaking her head] Listen, I've been meaning to talk to you about the smoking: John shared with me how upset you were. Psychologically, when a person is told their dying, it's... the ultimate loss of control
- Ginny Sacrimoni: To hear him breathe like that
- Warren Feldman: I know, it doesn't make any sense, I do know he is a leader. I suspect his smoking, on some level... is an attempt to die as he lived: in total control
- Ginny Sacrimoni: Years ago, I asked him to stop for me and the kids, I lost twenty-seven pounds, he couldn't quit smoking?
- Warren Feldman: [shows him the book] there's my pal, how you doing? "Billy Bathgate", they had it in the library, it made me think of you. I don't know if you've heard but Gerry Torciano, he was "hit" last week in Brooklyn?
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: who?
- Warren Feldman: [speaks louder] Gerry Torciano: it was all over the news, they "whacked" him in some restaurant, did you know him?
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: yeah, good guy... it's hard to breathe
- Warren Feldman: [referring to his prison hospital doctor and the medication his being treated with] I'll talk to Gupte, see if I can get him to "up" the Becotrol
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: I'm dying, aren't I?
- Warren Feldman: [after looking at his medical charts and sighs, referring to his oncologist's diagnosis] it's not good, I won't lie to you, it's aggressiveness surprises me... I gotta concur with Rosen
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: I appreciate everything you've done
- Warren Feldman: [referring to the prison hospital] Why are you here "exactly"?
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: [referring to his involvement in organized crime] I've been accused of being part of a "certain" Italian-American sub-culture
- Warren Feldman: [amused, referring to his health] I know who you are, I meant what's wrong with you?
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: [referring to the location of cancer his been diagnosed with] Oh, lungs
- Warren Feldman: [referring to Kurtis' crime television show] I've been wanting to meet you actually, I saw you on Bill Kurtis
- Warren Feldman: [after introducing each other and shaking hands] Good to know you. I take it you've done chemo, huh? Mind if I take a look at your chart?
- Warren Feldman: [while looking at John's medical chart, referring to his doctor] Oh, you're seeing Rosen
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: [referring to the government allowing him to travel for medical treatment] They let me fly to Cleveland: at my expense, you know him?
- Warren Feldman: [referring to the American Society of Clinical Oncology symposium] I saw him speak once at a ASCO conference in Georgia: good man
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: But?
- Warren Feldman: Actually, very few people know this, but he really can't "Walk on water", what was his prognosis?
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: [referring to his life expectancy] Three months
- Warren Feldman: [surprised] With the treatment you've had?
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: What'd you mean?
- Warren Feldman: [listing the treatment, he read in John's chart] You've got a window of one to three years. Two rounds of Paraplatin, Docetaxel, and Pletal concurrent with radiation, any cancer inside you slows to a crawl
- John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni: Why is he so fuckin negative?
- Warren Feldman: [before leaving] We tell a patient three months, he lives a year. Who looks like a hero? I'll see you around, you take it easy