Sonrisas; No. 4; The Magician

<v Recording>Singing Smiles are called Sonrisas <v Rico>Uno, dos, tres, ira!

<v Children>Applause. <v Rico>Let's go again.. Uno, dos, tres, ira! All right. <v Emily>Ya se, ya se, tu quieres a Raphael. <v Rico>Y que? Tu no huvieras escogido si tu huvieras ganado. <v Rico>Es el mejor jugador de soccer, no? Raphael juega conmigo. <v Emily>Bueno, tu juega con nosotros. No necesitamos a Raphael para ganar. <v Children>[Quiet chatter]. <v All>Hi Mickie. <v All> <v Rico>Yo quiero a Andre. <v Rico>Come on Andre! <v Children>[Cheers]. <v Emily>Okay. I'll take Ratoncito. <v Rico>I'll take Cynthia, come on Cynthia. <v All>[Cheers]. <v Emily>You take Cynthia and I guess I'm stuck with the little twerp. <v Speaker>Hey! Yo no soy enano! <v Emily>OK, it's a jolly green giant also, <v Emily>vamonos, tu estas en el equipo de nosotros y te usamos de [unintelligible]. <v Cynthia>Hey, what about Mickie?

<v Rico>Mickie can't. <v Rico>Yo no lo quiero con los otros. De quiene el juego? <v Rico>Se lleva una hora para levantarse cuando se cai. <v Rico>Y cada rato se cai. Y'know Cynthia he's not the six million dollar man. <v Cynthia>How would you like it if you were crippled? <v Rico>But I ain't cripple. And if I was, how would it be hanging around here? <v Rico>Get in everybody's way. <v Rico>You know, he can't even get through the door. <v Speaker>Che para le pelea. Quieran podemos jugar altoque ?unintelligible? <v Speaker>guerra mundial. Ustedes paracen casados. <v Rico>Ah I voy I voy. <v Cynthia>You're terrible. Really terrible. I don't like you at all. <v Mickie>They never need me for anything. <v Mickie>I hate them all. <v Cynthia>Hey, Mickie, come on, you're gonna be score-keeper! <v Mickie>Oh, I don't want to be scorekeeper. <v Mickie>I don't want to play with you at all. <v Cynthia>Oh Mickie no seas asi. Vente! <v Mickie>Don't speak Spanish! <v Mickie>Look, I don't want to play that stupid game and I don't want anybody feeling sorry for

<v Mickie>me. So just leave me alone. <v Cynthia>OK, ok. That's how you feel. <v Cynthia>Nobody's feeling sorry for you. <v Cynthia>You're the one that's feeling sorry for yourself. <v Cynthia>Nos vemos Mickie. <v Mickie>Hey. <v Mickie>Who is up there? <v Mickie>Whoever's up there better come down. <v Mickie>Hey, who are you? <v Mickie>What were you doing up in that loft? <v Roberto Delgado>Dormiendo viejito. Dormiendo. <v Roberto Delgado>En ese riconcito. <v Roberto Delgado>Crashing in your loft. <v Mickie>Well, who are you? <v Roberto Delgado>Who am I? Who am I? <v Roberto Delgado>I am Roberto DelgadoA Puerto Rican prince <v Roberto Delgado>born in El barrio asegar de Nueva York.

<v Roberto Delgado>El Grand Mango. <v Roberto Delgado>Aplecando mi oficio de donde quiera. <v Roberto Delgado>Hasta en los dechos, y cordores, las cocheras, y los campos. <v Roberto Delgado>Ligero de mano. <v Roberto Delgado>Los misterios del universo. Magia. <v Mickie>How do you do that? <v Mickie>Who are you? My friends call me <v Mickie>El Coqui. <v Mickie>El Coqui. What kind of name is El Coqui? <v Roberto Delgado>El Coqui is a little frog that lives in the trees in Puerto Rico. <v Roberto Delgado>When I finish college, I think I'll go back to Puerto Rico. <v Mickie>What are you doing here if you're supposed to be in college? <v Roberto Delgado>Earning some coins. <v Roberto Delgado>I earn money by performing in Fiestas carnivals, picnics on the streets, <v Roberto Delgado>wherever. <v Roberto Delgado>Pero hablome de ti. Como te llamas?

<v Mickie>Don't speak Spanish, I don't understand. <v Roberto Delgado>Oh, lo siento. I don't speak it very well myself. <v Roberto Delgado>What's your name? <v Mickie>Mickie McCauley. <v Roberto Delgado>Mickie McCauley, little Big Man. <v Roberto Delgado>Oh hey, how long you been dancing with those crutches? <v Mickie>I mean, how long have I been crippled. <v Mickie>Since I was six years old. <v John>Hey Mickie! <v Roberto Delgado>Oh. Company. <v Roberto Delgado>I'll see you later. <v John>They make it come on, I've got the car, I'll give you a ride down to the soccer field. <v John>Martin sporting goods is sponsoring a neighborhood soccer league and the kids want to <v John>join. Come on. It'll be a lot of fun. <v Mickie>I don't wanna have anything to do with their soccer league. <v John>Oyes esperate un momento. <v John>Que te pasa? No te gusten soccer? <v Mickie>Don't speak Spanish! <v John>If I don't, how will you learn? <v John>Come on, let's go. <v Mickie>I hate to be around them. They treat me like I'm a vegetable. <v John>Quien? <v Mickie>All of them. Everybody. <v Mickie>I should have gone to the school for the handicapped, least there they wouldn't treat me

<v Mickie>like had a disease or something. And these kids are supposed to be my friends. <v John>Mira, Mickie. <v John>Ellos no lo hacen con malentencion Lo que pases que no entienden. <v Mickie>Look, I don't understand. <v Mickie>So don't talk about it anymore. <v John>OK, Mickie. Everybody needs some time alone, but maybe we could talk about this <v John>another time. <v John>Nos vemos al rato okay Mickie? <v Roberto Delgado>Feeling sorry for yourself, aren't you Mickie McCauley? <v Mickie>Why did it have to be? Me? Huh? Why me?

<v Mickie>What did I do? <v Roberto Delgado>Life works in a strange ways. <v Roberto Delgado>Many times when it takes something away, it gives you back something more important. <v Mickie>You're funny, El Coqui, you're really funny. <v Mickie>Come on, come on, stop that! Wow, it's beautiful. <v Roberto Delgado>Hey, you're all right. Mickie McCauley. <v Roberto Delgado>You're cool enough to be a Nuyorican dude. <v Mickie>What's a New York- Whatever you call it? <v Roberto Delgado>It's a Puerto Rican born in New York City. <v Roberto Delgado>It's like having the best of two worlds. <v Mickie>El Coqui, would you teach me those magic tricks you know? <v Mickie>Would you please? <v Roberto Delgado>Oh, I don't know Mickey. <v Roberto Delgado>Do you think you're ready? <v Roberto Delgado>Magic is powerful medicine. <v Roberto Delgado>You think you can handle it? <v Mickie>I knew it. You're just like all the rest of.

<v Mickie>You think because I'm crippled, I can't do anything. <v Roberto Delgado>Hold on, little brother. Hold on. <v Roberto Delgado>Those are your words, not mine. <v Roberto Delgado>Hey, hey, hey, hey. You're a pretty touchy dude, ain't ya? <v Mickie>Why does everybody think because I'm crippled I can't do anything? <v Mickie>I can do it El Coqui. Give me a chance. <v Mickie>Teach me. Please teach me. <v Cynthia>Hey look y'all! Dona Rosario made me some neon thread! <v Emily>It's just what we needed. <v Raphael>Watch it! <v Cynthia>I'm sorry. I'm sorry. <v Raphael>Well, why don't you look where you're going? <v Andre>Heard you got some neon thread. <v Emily>Hey Cynthia. A no tienos un hilo verde que me puedes presar por favor. <v Emily>Just throw it over here.

<v Rico>Hey, y'all look at this. I'm finished with my jersey. <v Rico>Let me try it on. <v All>[Laughs]. <v Speaker>Aha! That's a dumb lookin' soccer jersey! <v Rico>Ven aca enano. Como te gustaria si te <v Rico>a ventar al rincon desde aqui eh? <v Speaker>[Blows rasberry]. <v Andre>Hi John. <v All>Hi John <v Rico>Hey look at my jersey you like it? <v John>It looks good, but bad news team. <v John>The application says that we have to have league-approved uniforms. <v Ratoncito>Y que significa eso? <v John>It means we have to buy the uniforms. <v Raphael>Porque no podemos hacer estos? <v John>Sorry, they have to be official. <v Emily>So that means we have to raise the money by them? <v John>If we want to join the team. <v Speaker>Pero cuanto cuesta cada uno? <v Emily>Bueno pues la tienda en la esquina las tiene a seis dolares cada una. <v Emily>It's kind of high, but. <v John>Well, the way I see it, we're gonna have to raise about 60 dollars. <v Emily>There's a lady that lives next door to me and she has five kids. <v Emily>And if I babysit for her, I'm pretty sure she'll give me at least ten dollars. <v Rico>I can go recycle newspapers. I think it's a dollar or a pound.

<v Rico>I can make a lot of money. <v All>Yes. <v Cynthia>I can carry packages. <v Raphael>I can shine shoes. I can see it now. <v Raphael>A dollar a boot. <v Rico>All right. Yeah. We're gonna get rich. <v Rico>I bet you we could buy the whole uniform. <v All>[Cheers]. <v Rico>Let's go get started! <v Roberto Delgado>Mickey. <v Roberto Delgado>Knowing magic is nothing more than having the knowledge of the trick. <v Roberto Delgado>OK. And that knowledge is the power. <v Roberto Delgado>Right. So you pay attention. Okay. <v Roberto Delgado>Well, and I'm gonna teach you this trick. OK, ok. <v Roberto Delgado>OK. Here we have on this card one dot on this side. <v Roberto Delgado>Right. Four dots on this side, three on this side and six <v Roberto Delgado>on this side. <v Mickie>Wow! How do you do it? Do it again! <v Roberto Delgado>Okay, you watch now? <v Mickie>OK. <v Roberto Delgado>And I'll do it one more time. You be very careful. Watch. <v Mickie>OK. <v Roberto Delgado>Ok. One and third on this side. <v Roberto Delgado>Right. Four dots on this side, three on this side and six on that side. <v Mickie>Wow. Teach me how to do that. <v Roberto Delgado>OK, ok. Now you pay attention. OK. <v Roberto Delgado>This is OK. On this side we have what appears to be one

<v Roberto Delgado>dot. Right? <v Mickie>Right. <v Roberto Delgado>When in actuality it is two dots and I cover my hand- <v Roberto Delgado>cover one dot with my hand and it appears as if there's only one the same thing on this <v Roberto Delgado>side. It appears as if this four dots. <v Mickie>Right. <v Roberto Delgado>Right. But in actuality, there is actually <v Roberto Delgado>how many dots? <v Mickie>Five dots. <v Roberto Delgado>Right! <v Mickie>Right. <v Roberto Delgado>Now on this side. It appears as if we know how many dots? <v Mickie>Two dots. <v Roberto Delgado>Two dots, right. And, you and I know that there's only two dots on this side. <v Roberto Delgado>Right. Because that's what I showed you before, two dots, right? <v Mickie>Two dots. <v Roberto Delgado>Actually, two dots, right? <v Mickie>Right. <v Roberto Delgado>Two dots. Right. Same thing on this side. <v Roberto Delgado>We said that there were five dots and I covered my hand. <v Roberto Delgado>And it appears as if I'm accidentally covering my last dot. <v Roberto Delgado>The six dot. Right. Right. When in actuality, how many dots will have on this side? <v Mickie>Five. <v Roberto Delgado>Right. Five dots, right. <v Mickie>But why is there six dots? <v Roberto Delgado>It's very interesting. People find it very hard to believe this is there are six dots on <v Roberto Delgado>this side, three dots in this side that they can actually be

<v Roberto Delgado>eight dots on this side. <v Mickie>Wow! <v Roberto Delgado>And you can do this trick, too, if you had the knowledge. <v Roberto Delgado>And that's the power, Mickey. <v Raphael>Hey, you don't want dirty feet forever do you <v Raphael>mister? Hey madame wouldn't you like your shoes shined? <v Raphael>My dear lady wouldn't you like your shoes shined? <v Raphael>Hey cowboy, wouldn't you like your boots nice for your lady? I could shine them! <v Recording>[Singing montage song] <v Speaker>Mr. me corto las gamas por cincuenta centavos!

<v Speaker>I'll cut your grass, pa' dies centavos! <v Speaker>Cheapskape. <v Recording>[Singing montage song]

<v Cynthia>Would you like me to help you with your package ma'am? <v Woman 1>Are you sure you can handle this honey? <v Cynthia>Oh yeah! <v Recording>[Singing montage song] <v John>Las cosas no pueden estar tan malas, o si?

<v John>You guys look like you just got mugged! <v Raphael>Knocked out of the batter's box is more like it Johnny. <v Cynthia>We'll never get enough money by Monday. It means we don't join the league because we <v Cynthia>can't buy the soccer jerseys. <v Ratoncito>Hey, maybe you could sell some lemonade. <v All>Oh be quiet, that's dumb. <v Ratoncito>It was just suggestion. <v John>Vamos no se desanime. <v John>Yo estoy seguro que puedemos ganar el campionato. <v John>[unintelligible] por vencidos. Come on. We have until Monday. <v Emily>Look, Johnny, so far we've managed to raise eleven dollars and seventy-five cents between <v Emily>us and we still need 60 big ones. <v Andre>No es posible. <v Roberto Delgado>I hear your friends are having a hard time raising money for their uniform. <v Mickie>Oh, tough for them. <v Roberto Delgado>Oh ho. <v Roberto Delgado>Estas en buen humor esta manana. <v Mickie>Well, I'm tired of hearing about their dumb old soccer league. <v Mickie>It don't mean nothing to me.

<v Roberto Delgado>But it could. <v Roberto Delgado>Look, Mickey, you you could you could put out a magic show, charge admission, <v Roberto Delgado>and with the money you can help your friends buy their uniforms. <v Mickie>What? Me help them raise money for their soccer league? <v Mickie>Why should I help them? <v Mickie>They treat me like I'm a leper. <v Roberto Delgado>Oh, Mickey. <v Mickie>They never want me around. <v Mickie>They never talk to me. <v Mickie>They laugh when I can't get through the door. <v Mickie>Why should I do anything for them? <v Mickie>Why should I even help them? <v Roberto Delgado>Porque puedes! <v Roberto Delgado>Y tienes el poder. <v Roberto Delgado>You've got the power, Mickey, you've got the power. <v Mickie>But do you think I could. <v Mickie>Do you think I'm ready? <v Roberto Delgado>Oh, little big man, you'll never be more ready. <v Roberto Delgado>You can make the world spin around. <v Roberto Delgado>You've got it. Mickey. <v Roberto Delgado>Do it. Come on, Mickey, do it, do it. <v Mickie>OK, I'll do it because I've got the power.

<v Mickie>Hi, everybody. <v Mickie>This is my friend, el Coqui, he is from the <v Mickie>big mango, New York, and we <v Mickie>want to help raise money for your soccer team by putting on a magic show. <v All>[Jeers] What do you know about magic? <v Roberto Delgado>You've got the power, Mickie. <v Mickie>OK, look. Watch this. <v Mickie>A piece of rope with two ends in a middle, right? <v Mickie>Do you know what the middle's for? <v All>No, what? <v Mickie>To hold the two ends together, silly. <v All>[Laughs]. <v Speaker>Where's the punchline? <v Mickie>So you take it right about the middle and, you cut it. <v Mickie>So you have two pieces of rope right here, right? <v All>Yeah.

<v Mickie>But looks can deceive. <v Mickie>They only appear to be two pieces of rope. <v Mickie>Watch this. Voila! <v All>[Cheers] <v Mickie>And now, ladies and gentlemen, from my last illusion, a feat <v Mickie>never before performed in the history of the universe. <v Mickie>I am going to make Ratoncito disappear right before <v Mickie>your very eyes. <v Raphael>Make him disappear for good, Mickie! <v Woman 2>Es un buen idea. <v All>[Laughs]. <v Mickie>Curtain, please. <v Emily>Bye-bye. <v Ratoncito>I hope you know what you're doing. <v Emily>Don't worry. We've done this before.

<v Mickie>Abracadabra. Bats and mice. <v Mickie>Goodbye. Ratoncito, it sure was nice. <v All>[Cheers]. <v Mickie>Fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, <v Mickie>sixty dollars, and twenty-five cents! <v All>[Cheers] <v All>We got it! <v Ratoncito>No kidding Mickie. It was really good of you to help us. <v Speaker>Especially after the way everybody been treating you. <v Mickie>Let me get something straight.

<v Mickie>I did all of this to show you that I can carry my own weight. <v Mickie>I don't need to lean on anybody, for help. <v Rico>Yeah, I guess so. <v John>So everybody listened to what he said. <v All>Yeah. <v Mickie>Well, he said that. Did you listen to what he said? <v Mickie>He said I did it to show you. <v Mickie>Why did he have to show you? <v Rico>I guess he wanted to show us that he was somebody and that he can do something, you know, <v Rico>without anybody's help. <v John>Why would he have to do that? <v Raphael>Well, treating him like a nothing. <v Ratoncito>We were treating you like he couldn't do anything. <v Ratoncito>He proved us he could. <v Rico>I guess that he he told us that because we didn't see, you know, we didn't understand him <v Rico>to show us how he felt since we didn't see how he felt. <v John>That's a good point Rico because you didn't see. You were kind of blind to the whole thing. <v Emily>We couldn't put ourselves into his shoes. <v John>That's right. That's right. Well what if we could tell you what Rico you were talking <v John>about seeing and all that? Let's see if you were blind. <v John>What if you were blind? Coqui, do you have some kind of something bandana or something? <v Roberto Delgado>I have a scarf. <v John>Yeah, put a blindfold on him. Let's try something. Let Rico have the stage area over here. <v Rico>Hey this ain't funny.

<v John>That's right. Okay here you go. <v John>Let's turn him around a couple times. <v John>[unintelligible]. Okay, you are now in front of the stage and you remember <v John>where the chairs were? <v Rico>Kind of that way. <v John>Yeah they're in front of you. <v John>We were supposed to put all this stuff up now, you know now that we got the money and <v John>everything. So why don't you break down a couple of the chairs and bring a back over here <v John>to the stage. Here's the stage. I'll wait for you right here. <v Ratoncito>Yeah, we'll wait for you right here. <v Mickie>You want some crutches? <v John>Fold the chairs. <v Roberto Delgado>That's right. <v John>Okay. <v Rico>Help me. <v John>Bring it back. Bring it back one at a time, bring it back. <v Children>[Laughs] <v Mickie>It's not too easy, is it? <v Rico>It's hard. I can't find nothing. <v John>That's good. That's good Rico. That's good. Let's take this blindfold off you. <v Roberto Delgado>Okie doke.

<v Andre>It was right there! <v John>How did you feel? How did you feel? <v Rico>I felt. I felt weird because I don't know. <v Rico>I didn't know where I was at and I didn't have nobody to you know, helped me into finding <v Rico>the chairs. You know, I knew I had to do something. <v Rico>But I just couldn't do it because I didn't have noobdy to help me, you know? <v Children>Okay. Okay, let's keep that in our minds. Let's try something else. <v Children>Let's see uh. Emily come on over here. <v Children>Ha, Emily! <v John>And see what uh-. <v Ratoncito>I'll keep your seat warm. <v Mickie>Let's pretend that Emily, you know how Emily has both use of her <v Mickie>arms and everything. Are you right-handed or left-handed? <v Emily>Right. <v John>Right-handed. Okay so let's say you didn't have your right hand. <v John>Can you do something about her right hand so we don't have to uh-. <v Roberto Delgado>Here we go, here we go. <v John>Just her right hand. No, no, no. Not her left hand. <v John>Leave her left hand. <v Roberto Delgado>Oh, okay. <v John>So, Emily, you only have one arm. <v Children>[Laughs]. <v Roberto Delgado>One hand. OK. <v John>All right. We're still cleaning up, right? <v John>We're still cleaning up, OK. Here is a this is a blanket that we used that <v John>somebody let us borrow. We need this blanket. <v John>We need this blanket. Folded very very carefully, just like it was given to us. <v John>And I want you to fold it up

<v John>very carefully. Yeah, fold it up, that's right. Just with your left arm. <v John>You don't have a right arm anymore. <v Emily>Oh. <v John>You don't have a right. You can try <v John>it. <v Mickie>Go ahead, try it! Now you know the way I felt. <v Children>[Chattering and laughing] <v Emily>OK. Just a little towel. I get it. <v Emily>I'll show you. OK. <v Emily>This corner over here-. <v Raphael>So wait wait, you've got to do it slowly and carefully. <v john>Very carefully. <v Raphael>Yes, very carefully. <v john>But it's going to take an hour. We still got to clean up all this book. <v Mickie>Well, why don't we start cleaning up while she folds this up? <v Raphael>When does this have to be folded? <v John>Anybody had any coffee or donuts or anything? <v Emily>Do the people need this back by a certain time? <v John>Yeah, they gave it to us and we have to have it folded properly and everything. <v Mickie>Well, I would I would help you, but I've got other things to do. <v Andre>Yeah. I mean he can't walk. <v Emily>I'm sure you would. <v John>Neatly! Neatly! <v Roberto Delgado>[Unintelligible] a bit of a job.

<v Rico>That looks messy! <v Emily>Right. I'm just trying to get 'em lined up first. <v John>Gotta make it [Unintelligible]. <v Children>Sure, yeah. <v em>Yeah, you know, I mean. <v Speaker>And you're supposed to be the team captain. <v Speaker>With, with one arm. <v Emily>It's not too easy. <v John>That's right. <v Rico>That doesn't look like it's [unintelligible]. <v John>Okay. That's good. <v John>That's good. <v John>How did you feel? How did you feel about that? <v Emily>I felt-. <v John>Think a little bit. How did you really feel? How did how did your stomach feel? <v Emily>Well. I don't want to use my right <v Emily>arm, but I'm, you know, I was trying to prove a point. <v Emily>I just-. <v John>OK. The whole point of this the whole point is, is that I wanted you to experience <v John>maybe some of the problems that Mickie has experienced and how hard it's been for him to <v John>overcome his handicap. And yet he still saved the day for us. <v John>You know, we helped him a little bit, but he really saved the day and got us our money <v John>for the uniforms. <v John>So um Ratoncito, you've been you've been sitting over there. <v John>All, you know, through the session. <v John>What do you think about all this?

<v Ratoncito>Well, I guess that's magic. <v Mickie>That's the power.