OK, now pay attention folks, this is wayyy up there with "Air vent dimensions" (Bert) and "Letters of Transit" (Peter) .....Why oh why, in every musical, or every gangster movie, does the singer..(or Fred Astaire) whether a big star or ingenue ALWAYS only does ONE number, and then gets to take a break..which always means joining important people...who always have the best table in the house...although they ALWAYS get to the club late?

It's not fair I tell you! Saloon Entertainers have to do full 45 minute sets. And rarely is the front table made up of Gangsters, theatre impresarios, famous ageing singers, or your future life-partner.

As anyone who's sung in niteclubs knows, that front table has drunken college kids in pre-throw-up mode, watching WWF on the big screen tv over the stage.

Does anyone find it a bit disconcerting to watch poor dooley Wilson WHEELING that stupid piano around Rick's niteclub? At least when you've done "strolling guitarist" you keep a BIT of your dignity. Not much, but a bit.

Rick