four questions -- your help please!
I've just watched "Uptown Girls" again, this time on YouTube (yes, the complete movie is there in 9 parts), and four questions occurred to me again after I had first seen the movie in the theater a few years back:
1. Who bought the guitars at the auction? The phone caller was never identified. Some say it was Neal, the rock singer; others say it was Ray (Dakota Fanning) who bought them. Anybody know for sure? Or did the screenplay writer decide just to leave it to our imagination?
2. What is the name of that quiet piano piece that plays when Ray returns, disappointed and hurt, from her recital that Molly failed to attend? It's used more than once in the film. I looked at the list of songs on the soundtrack listed by the IMDb, some of which are instantly recognizable, but I don't know which of the remaining titles applies to the piano piece.
3. What is the ballet term Molly uses when she is responding to Ray's mother after Molly's been fired? I kept replaying that line on YouTube over and over and still couldn't figure it out, so I went to "Memorable Quotes" and found the scene quoted, and this was the line I was looking for: "Do you know what etage your daughter's at in ballet?" I then went back to YouTube and replayed the scene again, and sure enough that's what it sounds like -- "etage". (Molly pronounces it something like "eh-TAZH".) But what does that mean? I tried looking up "etage" in the online dictionaries and even Googled it but came up with nothing, or at least nothing that made any sense in the context Molly uses it. Does anybody with a background in ballet know if "etage" is the correct word, and if so, what it means? Or did the "Memorable Quotes" poster just misunderstand the word?
4. And finally, did anybody find it strange that Molly never apologized to Ray for failing to show up at her recital? Ray comes home in the limo in the rain, gets out and storms into the hotel, and in the next scene Molly shows up at Ray's bedroom door the next morning, cheerfully chirping away in conversation -- but not one word of apology. By this time they had established something of a rapport and the beginnings of a real friendship, and I thought it was just plain odd, and even insensitive, for Molly not to say, "I'm sorry I missed your recital, Ray, it was inexcusable." (You'll remember that Molly had been clubbing the night before -- again.)
If any of you out there can answer these questions, I'd be grateful.