JOAN: What about when you get older and you’re dyeing your hair and your hair kind of gets creepy and weird on you?

MARLO: No.

MARY: It gets creepy in what way?

JOAN: It sort of doesn’t hang in the same way.

LILY: Oh, you mean because gray hair has a different texture, generally.

JOAN: And then if you’re not doing the gray hair, and then you’re dyeing it …

MARY: My hair never hung the way I wanted. I always wanted to have long, straight, heavy hair that would hang this straight and swing, you know.

JOAN: That’s the way it looks in the pictures.

MARY: I would think you would have had that kind of hair, Joan.

JOAN: Well, I did. But now it needs professionals to blow-dry it because if I just let it dry myself, I look like I’m homeless.

MARY: Don’t you think that you get accustomed to that look?

JOAN: Lily. Your hair is amazing. Your hair hangs just the right way.

LILY: Oh, it is not. It’s real fine, too, and just —

MARY: It doesn’t look that way. Your hair looks like my dream.

JOAN: We were staring at it the other night, Lily. We were staring at your hair with envy.

LILY: Where were we?

JOAN: At Mary’s.

MARY: Your hair looks like that … it shines and it —

LILY: I was just lucky that night. It’s one of those totally unreliable hairs. You never know what it’s going to come out like.

MARY: I think when you get older you tend to give up about it. I mean, I can’t spend a lot of time having people fussing about my hair, so I’ve accepted who – what — my hair is. I just think you give up.

JOAN: You cut it yourself, right?

MARY: Well I do if I travel.

LILY: Oh, you’re so good. I think you finally figure out how to handle it and you kind of do it and some days it’s better than others. But my hair has a certain constant level that it doesn’t drop below. If I were performing, I might have a night where I’m really inspired, but I’ve learned enough that I can hit a certain level and not drop below that.

MARY: Well, you have the hair. But, even if you don’t have the hair, if you have something that you can rely on, you make the most of that and then you hope that people don’t look at anything else. I have big eyes, so I make sure that my eyes are made up. Then I pray that nobody looks at anything else, and they won’t notice my hair.

LILY: Well, they probably don’t because you know your eyes are beautiful and you project it and —

MARY: As we age, we tend to get wiser about those things.

JOAN: I have younger friends who show me the horrible shoes they’ve just bought that look —

MARY: How do they walk and not break their ankles?

JOAN: I think, “My God, I do not want this. It’s not interesting.”

MARY: In fact it looks Looneyville to me.

LILY: Are you guys talking about very high heels?

MARY: They tell you how they’re extremely comfortable so it’s no problem. And when you get into them you’re like 20 feet taller than your boyfriend or your husband.

LILY: Or your girlfriend.