From Lenny (1974), starring Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce and Valerie Perrin as his wife/ex-wife Honey. In this scene Honey calls collect from a payphone to tell Lenny that she has some good, if oft-repeated news, and to ask for money. Lenny promises to send as much money as he can, and he tells Honey to “Take care of yourself.” I think it is a strangely beautiful scene which captures the role of the payphone in America as it was through the mid-1990s, and which foreshadows Dustin Hoffman’s role in Kramer vs. Kramer 5 years later.





