Max loved women.
Max befriended an elderly woman.
MAX: Max, interviewed by Lisa or talking with other family members Once you know piano, you can't forget it. I have an old lady over there, eighty-five years old. She's a good piano player. So I hire her for her service, you know what I do for her, sometimes she has to go to the doctor, dentist... I take her, walk with her. And she plays my favorite pieces! Beethoven... Yeah!
LISA: Lisa, interviewing her grandfather, Max Do they have a good piano there?
MAX: Well, they have a piano, but I wouldn't say good. You know my children, my Herbie and his, what do you call it? Vitamins! She's a believer in vitamins. So we exchange, we do an exchange.
IMAGE: untitled, Max embracing a young girl wearing a bikini
Max loved women!
GEORGE: You give her vitamins and she gives you music!
MAX: Yeah. But lately she gets lost. She walks with a cane, everybody walks with a cane. Even those that don't need it, they walk with the cane.
NARRATOR: In love with women of all ages and types, Max was a magnificent charmer. It was quite natural for him to be attracted to this woman, both by virtue of her gender and her musical abilities. Physically she was an extremely frail lady, but in conversation her caustic wit would emerge in full force, making her a perfect companion for Max. They made each other's acquaintance not for the intention of spending the rest of their lives together, but out of their mutual need to survive. He got her vitamins from Herb or Paul's health food stores, she played music for him. People in Max's situation have no reason to play games with one another; after living in the world for such a long time they know their needs, and for the most part have no qualms about expressing them.