One of the time that I went to see Al at Baffles, Peter O'Toole was in the audience. I knew Al but I didn't have a clue who Peter O'Toole was. The two women with me got excited. I told them to settle down, stop staring and give the guy a break.

Later, when I spotted O'Toole playing a drunk outside an apartment in an afternoon movie on TV, I said to myself, hey, that's they guy who was in Baffles.

Al told me that O'Toole would often come to hear him when O'Toole was shooting a movie in Canada. (They shoot quite a few movies in Canada. Our dollar is so low that we will do just about anything you might ask for nothing.)

Al told me that O'Toole would come to Baffles to drink and listen to music in the evening. Then O'Toole would go over to Al's apartment to drink after hours. Al was embarrassed by his apartment so he moved into a more upscale apartment to entertain O'Toole.