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Mr. Woody Allen.
請伍迪·艾倫先生。
Thank you. Let me start at the very beginning. I did a vodka ad, that's the first important thing.
謝謝。我還是從頭說起，我做的第一件大事與做伏特加酒廣告有關。
A big vodka company wanted to do a prestige ad, and they wanted to get Noel Coward originally for it. But.
有家很大的伏特加酒公司想打個有影響的廣告，一開始他們想請諾埃爾·考沃德【1】來做，但是……
He was not available, he had acquired the rights to My Fair Lady, and he was removing the music and lyrics, make it back into Pygmalion.
他脫不開身，因為他獲得了《窈窕淑女》【2】的著作權，正忙著將這部劇的音樂和唱詞去掉，重新改回到《皮格馬利翁》。
They tried to get Laurence Olivier, and Howdy Mokey. They finally got me to do it. I'll tell you how they got my name, it was on a list in Eichmann's pocket, when they picked him up.
他們還去找過勞倫斯·奧立佛和豪迪·羅基等等。最后他們找到了我來做。我來告訴你們他們是如何知道我名字的，它被列入了艾赫曼【3】的黑名單，在他們抓到他時在他衣袋里搜出來的。
And I'm sitting home, and I'm watching television.
當時我正坐在家里，看著電視。
I'm watching a special version of Peter Pan on television, starring Kate Smith, and they are having trouble flying her, because the chains keep breaking all the time, you know.
我看電視里正在放一個特別版本的《小飛俠彼得潘》，由凱特·史密斯【4】主演，當他們想讓她飛起來時遇到了麻煩，你知道，因為吊她的鏈條老是斷。
And the phone rings and a voice on the other end says, "How would you like to be this years vodka man?", and I say, "No. I'm an artist, I do not do commercials. I don't pander.
電話鈴響了起來，另一頭有個聲音說：“你愿不愿意成為本年度的伏特加代言人？”我說：“不，我是藝術家，我不做商業廣告，我不拉皮條。
I don't drink vodka and if I did, I would not drink your product."
我不喝伏特加，即使我喝，我也不喝你們的產品。”
He said, "Too bad. It pays fifty thousand dollars." and I said "Hold on. I'll put Mr. Allen on the phone."
他說：“太可惜了，這可以掙五萬美元。”我說：“慢著。我去叫艾倫先生來接電話。”
And I was caught here in an ethical crisis. Should I advertise a product that I don't actually use?
于是我陷入了道德危機之中，我應該去給我實際上并不使用的產品做廣告嗎？
It's a problem 'cause I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really.
這的確是個問題，因為我不喝酒，我的身體受不了……酒精，真的。
I had two martinis new years eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.
有年除夕我喝了兩杯馬提尼，結果我想劫持一部電梯飛到古巴去。
In the past whenever I had any sort of...emotional problem, I used to consult with my analyst all the time. This is public knowledge, I was in analysis for years, 'cause of a traumatic childhood I had.
以前每當我碰到任何……感情問題，我總是去向我的心理醫生求助，這是大家都知道的事。我已經做了很多年的心理分析治療，因為我的童年頗受創傷。
Remember I was breastfed from falsies.
記得我小時候是被假胸哺乳大的。
It scarred me emotionally, you know. I was in a strict freudian analysis for a long time.
你知道，這使我的心靈深受傷害。我接受嚴格的弗洛伊德精神分析治療相當長時間了。
My analyst died two years ago, and I never realized it, and now, whenever I have any sort of problem, I consult with my spiritual counselor, who in my case is my rabbi.
我的心理醫生兩年以前就死了，可我一直沒意識到。現在，無論我碰到什么樣的問題，我都去請教我的精神顧問，對我來說就是我的拉比。
I called him on the phone and laid the proposition on him, and he said, "Don't do it, 'cause it's illegal and immoral to advertise a product that you don't use, just for the money."
我打電話給他，說了讓我做廣告的事，他說：“別去做，因為如果只是為了錢給你并不使用的產品做廣告，這既不合法也不道德。”
And I said, "Okay." And I passed the ad up and I must say, that it took great courage at the time, 'cause I needed the money, I was writing and I needed to be free, creative.
我說：“好吧。”于是我推掉了廣告。我得承認，我在當時下了很大的決心，因為我需要錢，我正在寫書，我需要無后顧之憂的、富于創造力的生活。
I was working on a non-fiction version of the Warren report.
我那時正在創作《沃倫報告》【5】的非虛構版本。
I'd just passed the ad up and a month later I'm leafing through a Life magazine, and I see a photograph of Monique van Vooren in a slim bikini bathing suit, and she is on the beach in Jamaica, and there, next to her, with a cool vodka in his hand, is my rabbi.
就在我拒絕廣告一個月之后，有天我隨手翻閱《生活》雜志，看到一張莫妮克·凡·弗倫【6】的照片，身穿衣不蔽體的比基尼泳裝，在牙買加的海灘上，而在她的旁邊，有個人手握一瓶清涼的伏特加，那人正是我的拉比。
So I call him up on the phone, you know, and he puts me on hold.
于是我又打電話給他，你知道，他讓我一直等著。
What happened is, that he wanted to go into show business - he had done a late night prayer on television.
發生的事情是他已打算涉足娛樂行業——他正在電視里表演深夜祈禱。
He was in the middle of the twenty-third song and he tried to ad-lib, you know, tried to name the ten commandments, couldn't think of them quickly and instead he named the Seven Dwarfs.
當“第二十三篇贊美詩”【7】講到一半時，他想即興發揮一下，說說“十誡”，可是他一下子記不清了，反而說出了七個小矮人的名字。
He's got a discotheque now in his college, with topless rabbis, y'know, no scull cap on.
現在他已經在他的學會里開了家迪斯科舞廳，里面有上身裸露的拉比表演，我是說不戴圓頂小帽【8】的拉比。
