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♪ There's a place you gotta go ♪
♪ For learning all you oughta know about the facts of life ♪
♪ The facts of life ♪
♪ When your books are what you're there about ♪
♪ But looks are what you care about ♪
♪ The time is right to learn the facts of life ♪
♪ When the world never seems ♪♪
♪ To be living up to your dreams ♪♪
♪ It's time you started finding out ♪♪
♪ What everything is all about ♪♪
♪ When the boys you used to hate you date ♪
♪ I guess you best investigate the facts of life ♪
♪ You gotta get 'em right ♪
♪ The facts of life ♪
♪♪ [ Woman Vocalizing ]
♪ The facts of life ♪♪
♪ The facts of life ♪♪
And then when you put it on automatic, the little green dot lights up.
Aha. Cameras have come a long way since my Baby Brownie.
Right.
Now she knows the difference between a lens opening and a Broadway opening.
Hold it, fellas!
Be natural, Blair.
We don't want these osed.
ow
[ Shutter Clicking ]
ed.
Now, don't take any pictures I'm not ready for.
Why, Blair? You're always saying, "I don't have a bad side."
That's true.
.
[ Shutter Clicking ]
Let me run a comb air, okay?
Mr. Bradley.
Now, I just heard from the State Track Meet Committee in Albany.
of the trophy.
- All right! - Now, where's Sue Ann?
Oh, she's still down at the track, running with Cindy.
ood
Yes? Oh, yes.
Accepting this trophy for Eastland is udest moments.
.
Of course she won.
But I inspired her with my exploits of my track days.
You see, I was the top miler at Allegheny Teachers.
[ Chuckles ]
Most schools have a trophy
All we have is a trophy, and I want to make sure that we keep it.
May I? For a minute?
"Sue Ann Weaver, Eastland School, First Place." Isn't that marvelous?
Two
Yes. And after she wins it one more time, it's mine for keeps.
d.
Yeah, it's nice. But I always felt what happens in the classroom...
is more important than what happens on the track.
[ Chuckles ] Boy, are you new to this game.
You ought to see those faces when we hand
.
School spirit...
and endowments come from a winning athletic program.
Yup.
I am.
- I am! - Mrs. Garrett!
You should have seen Cindy down at the track. Boy, was she terrific.
Well, all right!
Well, after she showed me how to pace myself, it was a cinch.
Oh, hold it. May I, Molly?
I'll snap your picture.
- I'll call it Buddies Forever. - Right. Pals to the end.
Good girl!
I got two more pictures left.
Cindy, look athletic.
Okay, watch.
irls Cheer ]
[ Mrs. Garrett ] Very good!
Hey, wait for me.
I want to learn to load that thing.
You guys keep sweating till I get back.
Oh, no, Molly. Eastland girls don't sweat, they humidify.
Good!
Come back Thursday. I'll let you do the knives and forks.
There's my champ. Sue Ann, I hope you've been working out,
.
There's some girl from Schenectady High who really burns rubber.
Don't worry about her, Mr. Bradley. She's gonna get beat bad.
There's my champ.
- But not by me. - What?
- I'm not running this year. - Huh?
You heard her, Mr. Bradley. I'm running.
We've been training together for weeks.
Cind run
on.
Old Thunder Thighs is hanging up her spikes.
And you gave me an idea of right where I can stick 'em.
Sue Ann, I don't believe this.
I can't believe you're letting down Eastland.
Yeah, Mr. Bradley would have to give up his trophy.
nd?
and I don't feel like training again four hours every day.
And besides, I've got a bigger load this year.
That's obvious.
ial life,
if I can get that sweatband off you before our dance Saturday night.
Now, Sue Ann, maybe you're forgetting how exciting a race is.
as
Then by the half-mile, the exhaustion,
the blisters, the heat begins to take its toll.
But you go on. And then with 220 yards to go, a beautiful thing happens.
A taxi pulls up. [ Giggles ]
- You hit the Wall of Pain. - Not if you watch where you're going.
No, Natalie. The "Wall of Pain" is a runner's term.
Right! It's thrilling! Suddenly, with 100 yards to go,
your lungs feel like they've collapsed.
Your legs cramp. Your mouth is so dry you can't speak.
Gee, Sue Ann, you don't want to miss that.
Your entire body is screaming, "Stop! Give up!" But you don't listen.
You go on and you finish, because that is the thrill of victory.
Or the agony of "da feet."
Admit it, Sue Ann. It's worth it.
- Get into the race. - Mr. Bradley, no. I'm just not into it.
I don't feel like running anymore.
Did I hear you right, Sue Ann? You're not gonna run this year?
Oh, you didn't hit her
Mrs. Garrett, I'm just too busy for running to be the only thing in my life.
- Well, that's terrific! - I've already shown her how to breathe correctly,
- so she can develop her lungs. - Hey, maybe I should go out for track.
Sue Ann, you've got to run. Now, where's your school spirit?
That is the true Eastland spirit-- friendship, generosity.
Sue Ann, I think that's great, you helping Cindy get a shot at the trophy.
Butt out, Garrett.
This trophy means a lot to Eastland.
So can Cindy.
Just think of her as raw material--
a-a blob of Silly Putty that's just waiting to be shaped.
Sue Ann, you're making a big mistake.
I'll even let you take the trophy home for summer!
Mr. Bradley, Sue Ann's already made her decision.
Now-- Now is the time
[ Chanting ] Cindy, Cindy, Cindy, Cindy!
All right, all right!
- All right, all right. Cindy it is. - [ Girls Screaming ]
[ Ci Don'
Okay! Come on, gang.
Come on. You're the ones who volunteered for this running program.
t.
Ohh!
What's the matter?
More like the Wailing Wall.
Blair? Come on, Blair. Hustle it up.
[ Blows Whistle ]
Blow it out your track shoes.
Roger got so excited when I told him I was into exercise.
Roger gets excited at haircuts.
- Here comes Mrs. Garrett. - Let's see a fast finish!
Ah! Ah, I feel great!
It's so exhilarating. I "wogged" almost a whole mile.
"Wogged"?
It's a little faster but it's
"Wogging" isn't "weally wunning."
Guys, that was a terrific workout.
body
No, no, no, Sue Ann, you've got that all wrong.
It's, um, take care of your body and someone else will take care of you.
- [ Chuckles ] - Hiya, troops.
mp.
I wasn't talkin' to you, Sue Ann.
p.
We'll call her the "Eastland Streak."
Oh, Mr. Bradley, don't call me that. Champ's fine.
- Cindy, let's not be too overconfident. - Why shouldn't she be?
year.
- No, she clobbered you. See that? - Wow!
Easy!
I'll tell you what it says.
She ran the mile in five minutes and three seconds!
- She broke my record? - Without even breathing hard.
- She beat me by five seconds? - You know, it's funny how things work out just right.
Just when you lose your killer instinct, Cindy appears.
Now, she's gonna break the school record for the 880.
Huh! My 880? That's gonna be pretty hard to beat.
Sue Ann, records are made to be broken.
- Not that one. - Why do you care?
You've been put out to pasture.
Sue Ann, you'll always be a champ to me,
e has-been.
Sure!
Okay. Let's go, Champ. Oh, uh, Molly.
I want you to take a picture of Cindy breaking the ribbon for the front page of the yearbook.
Hey, that's big!
Even Sue Ann in her days make that.
[ Sighs ] Hold it a minute.
- I'm coming too. - Sure. Come on, Coach.
Uh-uh, not as a coach. I'm gonna run in the race.
But, Sue Ann, you said you were gonna help me win.
You're doing a pretty good job of helping yourself.
Wait a minute, Sue Ann.
You said you didn't have time for heavy training because of your studies this year.
Well, I can do both if I push myself a little.
ways told .
Don't worry about that. Sue Ann knows how to get in condition fast.
Cindy, you're not afraid of a little competition, are you?
[ All ] Mm-mmm!
[ Sighs ] I think I can hold my own.
[ All ] Mm-mmm!
[ Chuckles ] Good. Let's go.
Does that race?
.
[ Clicks Tongue ]
Mrs. Garrett, who do you think's gonna win?
I'm afraid nobody.
Ah, Mrs. Garrett, where are my two superstars?
Down at the track working out.
Looks more to me like a grudge match.
Great. I'll get down there and get my clock on 'em.
You sure are delighted that Sue Ann's back in the race.
Of course! You always get better times when two runners are pushing each other.
.
I, uh, bought myself a stopwatch.
r day.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I'm only human. My thumb may have ***.
I knew there was a jerk in there someplace.
of e girls?
Why should I do that?
I don't To w A li
[ Chuckles ] You're very observant.
My coach did the same It's what
It's what I call "bull... feathers."
Thanks to you and your motivation,
all those girls care about is winning, winning, winning.
Winning is the only thing! You cannot care too much.
This year we may wind up with first and second place.
Or a couple of nervous breakdowns.
Those girls are down at that track running every morning at 6:00 a.m.
I know. It's the best time to run.
ore they let
And at night they're falling asleep while doing their homework.
ht girls.
You got the answer for everything, don't you?
Remember what great friends they were?
They don't speak to each other anymore, not even when they run in the morning.
.
What do you mean, I nosed you out?
- I beat you by five yards. - That's because you tripped me.
d,
Face
Who could pass you on the right? You're built like a school bus!
Mrs. Garrett, she knocked me off my stride on purpose.
Like this!
this!
Sue Ann, protect your face!
[ Al
- [ Sobbing ] - [ Shouting Continues ]
Wonderful, Mr. Bradley!
How do you like your friendly little competition now?
You're the one who--
Roger, you never saw anything like it. It was awful.
Sue Ann and Cindy were punching and scratching and yelling.
And when Blair tried to stop it, it even made it worse.
They were just all tangled up, with arms and legs sticking out.
What do you mean, it sounds sexy?
No. Roger, you are sick and depraved!
e ght.
What am I gonna do?
Well, you could make your eye white to match your face,
or you could make your face black, to match your eye.
- [ Laughing ] - That's not funny, Tootie.
No, Tootie. If they were both black, that would be funny.
.
Hey, how about a picture to remember this by?
Molly, you click that shutter and you're dead.
dalism.
Yeah, defacing a national treasure.
Maybe if I put this on, nobody would notice.
Blair, how can you worry about a little thing like a black eye,
when Cindy and Sue Ann aren't speaking to each other?
You don't know how easy it is.
Excuse me.
Blair, do you mind if I move in here for a while?
Just keep your distance.
I'm not sleeping another night in the same room with that glory-hungry backstabber.
You know, you guys are both acting stupid.
You've been best friends all year. How can you hate each other's guts?
It's easy. You weren't down at the track with us.
,
Can you believe her? After all the time I spent coaching her.
Yeah, she beat you.
own.
d.
and now I'm the one who's suffering.
You're suffering?
I told you we'd find her in here.
why are you
She always jumps rope when she's mad.
wheels.
Molly chews on pencils. What do you do?
Um, what is the difference? We're talking about Cindy.
You know, first she's telling me how great I am, and then all of a sudden she's jealous.
Cin-- Wai-- Cin--
Cindy, either let me in our cut it out!
[ Pa Okay
I've cal but I'm
[ Panting ] You know, I was happy with baseball and tennis.
She's the one that got me into running.
You know what it's like rooming with her?
She throws her clothes everywhere.
You know, she may be older than me, but she's a spoiled brat.
Listen, Cindy. You know what Roger always says when we have an argument?
What?
Can you believe it? Double-crossed by my own roommate.
- I'm never talking to that jerk again. - You don't mean that, Cindy.
You're gonna be running right beside her in the race.
That's what you think. I'm goin' over there and tell her that...
she's not as fast as I am, and that she should get out of the race.
♪♪ [ Humming ]
- Mr. Bradley. - Mrs. Garrett.
Well, things have settled down.
Working in the darkroom.
How do you like it?
Sue Ann and Cindy, two ex-friends--
thanks to your killer instinct.
Killer instinct? [ Chuckles ]
Well, things got a little out of hand, but just a few high spirits!
High spirits? [ Laughing ]
That explains why they were trying to punch each other's lights out.
Nobody had their lights punched out.
Well, Blair certainly had one of hers dimmed a little.
[ Scoffs ]
You amuse me.
ng match?
[ Tootie ] Well, you can relax, Mr. Bradley.
The shoving's over. We've arranged a cease-fire.
Our committee has negotiated a peace.
- See? They've made up, huh? - No. They hate each other.
.
The U.N. couldn't have done it better.
- All right. What's going on around here? - It's simple.
l tell you.
You'll either have a thoroughbred or a Clydesdale.
High-strung athletes or not, I am getting impatient.
- Now, I want you both to shake hands. - [ Mrs. Garrett ] Sue Ann?
- Cindy? - Mrs. Garrett, please, don't try to be the peacemaker.
What I'm trying to do is be a printmaker.
Look at this, girls. My first photo.
I worked on it most of the afternoon with my teacher Molly.
[ Chuckles ]
That's terrific.
I mean, pretty sharp for your first print.
- Yeah, nice composition. - Thanks. Either one of you want to keep it?
I don't want it. That's for sure.
That's your idea of friendly competition?
If you understood sports, you'd know that it's good...
for competitors to get angry with each other.
- It turns them into winners! - Winners?
You call it winning to dump a close friendship for a race that's over in six minutes?
Five minutes and three seconds. I'm hoping to knock five seconds off the old record.
up
for the sake of five seconds and a lousy tin cup?
- Silver. - Plated!
Look, it boils down to this.
The world is made up of winners and losers. I want our girls to be winners.
All right. All right. You've made your point.
Look at this, look at this. How could I have called this Buddies Forever?
I'll call it Two Winners.
There you are. Now, neither of you has to stand next to somebody she hates.
- I never said I hated her. - Well, you've both been acting like it.
Yeah have
Yeah, I guess I've been acting pretty dumb, huh?
Yeah, but that's because I'm the one who caused it.
Cindy, when I heard
I'm sorry.
Okay.
I almost wish I hadn't broken your record.
Well, actually-- [ Clears Throat ] uh, you-you didn't.
- What do you mean? - [ Sighs ] I lied.
say is, l.
es.
- I know it. - Cindy, do you mind if I keep this...
to remind me of how dumb I've been?
Okay, and I'll keep this one.
Well, you have two pictures. I want one.
Yeah, how about posin' right over there?
I'll call it, um, Two Champs.
Sure, get in there.
No, I meant you, Edna.
All right. Smile.
Please, no pictures.
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♪ The facts of life The facts of life ♪
♪ If you hear 'em from your brother ♪
♪ Better clear 'em with your mother ♪
♪ Gotta get 'em right The facts of life ♪
♪ When the world never seems ♪
to your dreams ♪
♪ It's time you started finding out ♪
♪ The facts of life are all about ♪
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