Boston Public: Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) meets Marla Hendricks (Loretta Devine)

Michael: Oh, I'm sorry.
Marla: No, no. It's my fault.
Michael: Okay, well, good night.
Marla: Excuse me. Are you guys any good?
Michael: Eh, we're okay.
Marla: How many songs do you know?
Michael: A couple of hundred, probably.
Marla: Oh, well this might be you lucky day. I might have a gig for you.
Michael: We're really not...
Marla: No, no, no. Don't get intimidated. You can do this. Now, this is the deal. Come back here tomorrow night, seven o'clock set up. You play until midnight and I'll have two hundred clams for you. You can split it any way you like.
Michael: Thank you very much but we are looking forward...
Marla: No, this is a good cause. We are trying to raise money for our music program. Winslow High School is a public school so we don't have a lot of fat ass rich kids with wealthy parents who can donate money, so we have to do everything on our own. And with this money we are gonna buy instruments, we're gonna tune the pianos, we're gonna buy sheet music. Did you know that we have lost all public funding for music? If we want our kids to have the gift of music then it is up to us to work together and make it happen.
Michael: We.. we really need a break.
Marla: Alright! Two hundred and fifty. But that is as high as I can go. I'll throw in a couple of drinks.

[@j.pwashingtoniii7432]

There is no one in the world like Loretta Devine!

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Devine

[@gedaman]

She was usually the best part of this absurd and outlandish TV show.

[@iniakalitoni3405]

That scream in the beginning though hahahaha. Oh this woman could act out reality 💯🤣🤣🤣

[@artteachernc9119]

This just gave me chills!

[@Instrumental187]

Humble.

[@Cerealgrl]

Sorry, but REM would do it without a blink of the eye for a music program!

[@paul16451]

Absolutely, but they would not have believed such a plea from someone who recognized them. Only the fact that she was clueless about their identity convinced them she was telling the absolute truth :).

[@sbrooks729]

I love this

[@blackjac5000]

And then the look on her face when he introduces them to the crowd...

[@lauaaaj]

Disculpa tendrás el capitulo completo??? te lo agradecería bastante.

[@cynthiatheendlesslyambitio6574]

Loretta is as “beyond the alphabet” Devine, and REM went in to obscurity by this tyme

[@dookcook3327]

Even in fiction rem appear as the most arrogant ever