Babylon

Actress Jane Thornton appears to insufflate cocaine from a tabletop. (0:04)

A man appears to insufflate cocaine from a woman’s body. (0:06)

Actress Nellie LaRoy asks film assistant Manuel ‘Manny’ Torres, "Do you know where I can find some drugs?" (0:09)

Manny tells Nellie, "Morphine, opium, ether, heroin, coke."
Nellie removes a lid, revealing a container heaped with white powder. (0:10)

Actor Jack Conrad asks waitress Jen for a drink with "... a dash of absinthe."
Jack’s driver, referring to Jack’s film producer friend: ”Sir, George... He’s insisting I drive him off the nearest cliff.” (0:12)

Jack tells George Munn, "... you’re not gonna kill yourself over it." (0:13)

After insufflating cocaine, Nellie asks Manny, "You’ve never done cocaine?"
Manny: ”Of course I’ve done cocaine.”
”I do cocaine all the time...”
Manny insufflates. (0:14)

Manny: "They’re all high down there." (0:22)

Actress Jane Thornton lies unconscious on the floor. (0:22)

Studio executive Bob Levine punches actor Orville Pickwick in the head. (0:23)

Nellie tells Manny, "Don’t worry about that." (0:27)

Jimmy tells Manny, "Jack Conrad’s passed out." (0:27)

Jack tells Manny, "We got to dream beyond these pesky shells of flesh and bone, map those dreams onto celluloid..." (0:29)

Drug dealer The Count tells Nellie, "Peanuts, good for hangovers."
Nellie cracks open a peanut, revealing a pill inside. (0:35)

An assistant tells director Ruth Adler, referring to an actress, "She OD’d." (0:35)

George tells Manny, "Well these are all junkies from skid row..." (0:36)

Journalist Elinor St. John dictates to a typist: "Soldiers swarm the field like flecks of paint from a madman’s brush..."
”Look at these idiots.” (0:39)

A man on the set tells the others, referring to a dead man: "He did have a drinking problem." (0:40)

An extra tells Elinor, "My wife died." (0:47)

Director Otto von Strassberger: "Otto, you should have fought for 20 cameras, you idiot." (0:49)

Ruth tells Nellie, "This is nuts..." (0:50)

Reporter: "... a Kansas teenager... slit her wrists at home. Meanwhile... Nellie LaRoy, is making other girls with California dreams... royally jealous." (0:58)

William Randolph Hearst tells Jack, "People went nuts." (1:01)

Nellie tells Manny, referring to Wallach, "... he thinks I have a gambling problem... I only gamble if I’m... pissed or drunk..." (1:04)

Nellie visits her mother in what appears to be a psychiatric hospital. (1:06)

Manny attends a screening of The Jazz Singer. (1:10)

A saxophonist tells Joe, referring to trumpet player Sidney Palmer, "Listen to this psychopath."
”... deranged, Sidney.” (1:24)

Nellie beats her head against the wall. (1:29)

Nellie insufflates cocaine. (1:31)

Bitten by a rattlesnake, Nellie loses consciousness. (1:36)

Otto tells Manny, referring to Nellie, "She’s been hanging around Jimmy McKay’s casinos like a halfwit." (1:41)

Manny tells the others, referring to Nellie, "No more drugs." (1:41)

By telephone, studio executive Irving Thalberg tells Jack, referring to George Munn, "He shot himself."
Jack rages at Estelle. (1:46)

Nellie tells the others, "I’m the... crazy one... I’m gonna stick some coke up my pussy..." (1:57)

Elinor asks Jack, "Is it true that you’ve quit drinking?" (2:00)

Movie posters: Grand Hotel, Tarzan the Ape Man, The Beast of the City, Red Dust (2:05)

Jack tells Elinor, "I’ve never had any illusions about us." (2:07)

The director tells Jack,"... I want to see more of that real emotion..." (2:18)

Nellie insufflates a line of cocaine. (2:18)

By telephone, The Count tells Manny, "Don’t worry." (2:19)

The Count tells Manny, "Don’t worry." (2:19)

Mob boss James McKay tells Manny and The Count, referring to the drink, "It’s brandy mixed with ether."
The Count tells Manny, ”You’re very nervous.”
McKay tells Manny, referring to a Wyatt Earp character, ”... you make him full-fledged retard.”
Manny: ”It’s probably the ether.” (2:21)

McKay: "This town has gotten so repressed..." (2:26)

Jack kills himself off camera. (2:38)

Nellie asks Manny, "Are you crazy?"
”I need another hit.” (2:38)

Nellie asks The Count, "Do you have any coke?"
”And some pills, please.” (2:38)

Nellie insufflates cocaine. (2:39)

Funeral for Jack (2:48)

Newspaper headline: "Nellie LaRoy Found Dead..." (2:49)

Sign and picture in store window: "Marilyn Monroe" (2:52)

Movie poster: Young Man With Ideas (2:52)

Manny in theater
Movie character: "The Jazz Singer..."
Excerpt from Some LIke it Hot
Singin’ In the Rain (2:53)