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‐ [Frankie] In the dictionary
if it said "the coolest"

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it would have to be
underlined Dean Martin.

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♪ Everybody loves somebody

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‐ sometime. Yessir.

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‐ [Frankie] When I worked with
Dean on his television show,

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when I saw the
show being played,

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you would think
as a performer...

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‐ Oh no, I didn’t miss
it, I hit my head.

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‐ [Frankie] ...you
would look at yourself.

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(laughs)

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‐ I feel pretty good tonight.

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‐ My eyes were still
on Dean Martin.

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That’s how impressive
he was to me.

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‐ He was a natural,
one of a kind.

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‐ Few of the boys and myself,

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we have a little poker
game now and then,

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we’d kinda like have
a little new blood.

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‐ Dean Martin is a gigantic
star in the history

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of the 20th century.

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‐ When Dino sings, I
can hear him smiling.

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♪ Love was made for me and you

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‐ [Frankie] He
just had something

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no one else had had before.

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‐ [Narrator] Dean was a
straight man, romantic lead,

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singer, dancer, he was funny.

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‐ He did everything.

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‐ Very few artists have
been able to express

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so many different
talents, successfully.

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‐ [Will] 750 recordings
and 60 films,

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and two decades on TV.

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‐ [Bill] All combined,

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unlikely that we
will ever see again.

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‐ He’s got a fundamental cool

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that is very aspirational
for a lot of people.

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(chuckles)

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‐ Even the people that
don’t know Dean Martin

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and might not
traditionally be drawn

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to somebody of his
era or of his genre,

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you can study him because I
don’t think there’s anybody

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that captures or embodies
all of the qualities

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of American cool the way Dean
Martin did. He had all of it.

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(upbeat music)

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‐ To be cool was, to
borrow from Hemingway,

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having a certain kind
of grace under pressure.

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You didn’t let
things rattle you.

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‐ He could be in an avalanche

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and he would make it look easy.

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‐ We made a mistake and
we’re doing it again.

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That’s why they’re not
laughing, that’s why.

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‐ I have to say I idolized
him and I loved him.

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‐ I loved Dean.

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‐ Oh, and I loved Dean.

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‐ He was very special.

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‐ He was just a dear soul.

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‐ He was delicious,
warm. He invited you in.

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‐ [Ron] Two of the coolest
people, Frank Sinatra, Elvis,

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wanted to be as
cool as Dean Martin.

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‐ [Jeanne] Frank
wanted to be Dean.

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‐ Elvis Presley.

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‐ When I met Elvis, he said,

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"They call me the
King of Rock and Roll,

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but your dad is
the King of Cool."

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And I’ll never forget
that, it was like,

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Elvis Presley thinks my
dad’s the King of Cool.

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‐ Another element of cool,
which is sort of an X factor,

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is a sense of mystery.

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There has to be
something unknowable.

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There has to be an undealt card.

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‐ Dean was mesmerizing
in his complication.

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He was such a complex,
complicated guy.

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‐ You got a minute?

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‐ All right, these are
excerpts from the poem

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"The Secretary of Liquor."

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"Part of Martin’s appeal
was that no one knew him.

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It wasn’t a mask, his
detachment was who he was.

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He showed up, his spirit
remained elsewhere.

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His wives and children
found him unknowable.

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It wasn’t personal.

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When the producer of
"The Colgate Comedy Hour"

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suggested they have lunch
to get to know one another,

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Dino set him straight,
"No one gets to know me."

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‐ You didn’t see
a whole lot of him

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out of the dressing room
or hanging around the set.

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‐ We all were crazy about
just being in his company.

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But when you were in Dean
Martin’s company, were you?

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(chuckles)

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‐ He had this distance,
he had this menefreghista.

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‐ I’ve seen different
pronunciations of this word,

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which is a, basically, the
Italian élan of "who gives a F."

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(audience laughing)

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There was something about him

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that was a wonderful
personality trait,

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a card he had in his hand,

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which is that you don’t
take it too seriously.

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‐ Menefreghista.

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‐ [Interviewer]
What does that mean?

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‐ It means he who
doesn’t give a darn,

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he who could not care less.

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‐ [Interviewer]
Doesn’t give a fuck.

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‐ Well, I’m not gonna say that.

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‐ I met Dean on Rio Bravo,
but he was always quiet.

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When you’re that quiet,
people don’t know you.

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I don’t think he
wanted us to know him.

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‐ Feathers, thanks for the
shave, might call on ya again.

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‐ Anytime, because I’ll be here.

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‐ Everyone has a number of walls

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before you get to the
core of the person.

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And Dean had one wall
that, in my opinion,

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no one ever got past.

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‐ [Interviewer] What
was Dean’s Rosebud?

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‐ What was my dad’s Rosebud?

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What drove my dad?

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‐ It isn’t enough to
tell us what a man did,

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you’ve got to tell
us who he was.

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Wait a minute, what
were Kane’s last words?

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‐ Rosebud.

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‐ Now what does that mean?

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‐ So what was Dean’s Rosebud?

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‐ It’s an interesting question.

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‐ Hmm.

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‐ I don’t know, I don’t know.

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‐ That’s a very good question.

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‐ If you wanna take the
paradigm of "Citizen Kane"

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and see how it relates to Dean.

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In "Citizen Kane" there’s
the young kid is out

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and he’s sledding and
having a great time.

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But then he’s sent away,

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and he’s sent from his
happy sledding life.

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He never feels that
sense of joy again.

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‐ That’s a good question,
what was Dean’s Rosebud?

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I see this guy in a
glorious suit or tuxedo,

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and I see him undress, this
is all in my mind’s eye,

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and I see him undress

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and, uh...

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and he’s one of the
guys from Steubenville.

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(soft music)

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‐ He was this guy
from Steubenville

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who had lucked into mega fame
as nobody ever had before.

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‐ My stepfather is from
Steubenville, Ohio.

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My first time driving
into Steubenville

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there’s a sign. "Home
of Dean Martin."

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I’m like, wow, okay.

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There’s an icon who I’m a
fan of that comes from here.

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So maybe the town is okay.

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It just gave me a sense of hope.

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‐ Growing up in Steubenville,

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there weren’t a lot
of opportunities.

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‐ There have been people
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that have called it Stupidville.

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‐ They used to call
Steubenville "little Chicago."

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A lot of cards and
a lot of liquor.

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‐ [James] Steubenville
was a wide open town.

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Steubenville was gambling
dens and whorehouses.

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‐ Steel mills all around you

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and people who are working
there or nowhere working.

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‐ He knew that
there was something

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beyond Steubenville, Ohio.

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He just knew there was
something more for him in life.

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(upbeat music)

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Dad was born in 1917.

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He was born to sing.

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He loved to sing, he
loved to entertain.

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He was just a
happy‐go‐lucky kid.

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‐ His mother said, "I don’t
know where it comes from,

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but he got all the charm."

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Dean’s brother Bill
was very much like him.

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He became Dean’s
business manager.

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You never, ever heard a
harsh word out of this man.

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‐ [Deana] My grandfather
was a barber at that time.

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‐ [Mike] Dean and his dad
had same type of personality,

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he liked to joke a lot.

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‐ Dean’s father was an
absolute sweetheart.

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I never heard him raise
his voice in anger.

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He was a funny man,
he was a gentle man.

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‐ [Deana] My grandmother
Angela was a seamstress,

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and that’s where my dad
got his incredible style.

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♪ You should care for me.

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‐ Are you ready?

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‐ Let’s slaughter ’em.

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‐ She would alter everything.

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Say if it was my father’s
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he had a suit, and then if
my dad was going to wear it

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she would alter it
so it would fit him.

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‐ [Mike] She did help a
lot of people in them days.

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She did a lot of charity work.

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Very few people had any money.

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‐ In the Italian section

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there was a real fear
of the outside world.

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They were so, so tight.

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‐ Growing in an Italian
family we had so many friends.

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Food, it was something
that unites you.

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♪ Do they take ’em for
espresso, yeah, I guess so ♪

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♪ On each lover’s arm a girl

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‐ Mangia, mangia! An
ingredient that without it

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it doesn’t work,
that’s the family.

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♪ I am only one and
one is much too few ♪

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‐ That’s a kind of another
manifestation of Italian culture

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in the new world.

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He’s speaking to both
Italians and Americans

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at the same time, in a way
that’s so warm and engaging.

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‐ His father’s side
was from Abruzzo.

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The saying was "Keep
yourself to yourself."

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Otherwise people are
gonna get over on you.

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‐ Whatever it is it
keeps in the family,

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because they can
use against you,

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and especially in business.

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(opera music)

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‐ When Dean was
a very young boy,

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his parents were listening
to typical Italian music.

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You had Enrico Caruso records.

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You had Carlo Buti.

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And that’s where Dean
got his predilection

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for singing Italian songs.

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And because he had
that native language

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singing them in Italian.

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(sings in Italian)

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‐ Dean sang beautifully
from an early age.

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(sings in Italian)

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‐ His mom told him, "Someday
you’re gonna be great, Dino."

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‐ He did not know
how to speak English

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until he was six years old.

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He was what a lot of
immigrants were called

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which was an "analfabeto"...

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...which meant
you’re illiterate.

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And the kids made fun of him.

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‐ You’re growing up
in the United States

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and you spoke Italian for the
formative years of your life,

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coming to English as
a second language.

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And you’ve experienced
firsthand being ostracized

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for who you are, for
your native language,

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for your ethnicity and so forth.

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‐ He realized school
wasn’t gonna be for him.

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‐ My father tried the coal mine,

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he said that’s horrible,
hard, hard work.

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He was a dealer in
Rex’s cigar store.

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(music)

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‐ They had craps in
there, they had 21,

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but he was all around in there.

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‐ That’s the hustle.

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‐ "When anyone complained
that acting was hard work

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Dino responded as
Crocetti, the barber’s son.

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"You think acting’s work?

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Try standing on your feet 12
hours a day dealing blackjack."

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‐ Like a lot of kids that were
bullied he went into boxing.

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(bell ring)

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‐ [Joe] He was an amateur boxer.

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They called him "Punchy"
but I didn’t like that.

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He’d fight anybody,
he didn’t care.

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‐ Boxing was a way for a
poor kid to make money.

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Irish kids, Italian
kids, Jewish kids,

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and of course black
kids and Latino kids.

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All the outcasts of
America went into boxing.

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(music)

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Dean Martin coming out of an
Italian‐American background,

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there are not too many ways out.

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If you became a big time boxer
you yourself was a celebrity.

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Jack Dempsey,

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Gene Tunney,

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these people were celebrities.

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‐ There’s a total relation
between boxing and performance.

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The best boxers know that.

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Sugar Ray Robinson,
he understood the
showmanship of boxing.

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You have to be an artist,
as well as a fighter.

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It’s not surprising
that Dean Martin

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would be able to do that
because he’s an artist.

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‐ He thought that he might
have a career in boxing,

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but then he had his nose broke,

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he decided that that isn’t
what he wanted to do.

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♪ Which way did my heart go?

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‐ [Harry] I do
remember his voice.

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I remarked at the time I said
this guy can really sing.

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‐ [Virginia] He was
absolutely spectacular

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when he sang with
that perfect rhythm.

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‐ He would sing
anywhere that he could.

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‐ [Mindy] When he was
working at the casino

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I would pick him up at two
or three in the morning

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when they got through

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and there’d be three
or four guys in the car

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and we’d just cruise around

282
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and he would sing
to us all night.

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(upbeat music)

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‐ We’re talking
about the swing era.

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America was all about bands.

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‐ [Harry] There were all
kinds of clubs at the place.

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He would come in maybe two
or three nights a week.

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‐ When you come from
a world of nightclub,

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you’re dealing with an
audience, one on one.

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You know when
you’re not cooking,

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you know when
you’re not clocking.

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‐ [Harry] He got to the point

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where it was as though
he owned the place.

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He would grab the microphone
and start singing,

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no accompaniments.

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‐ Martin was
influenced by Crosby.

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♪ I give to you

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♪ and you give to me

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But he really liked
the source of Crosby,

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which was the Mills Brothers.

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‐ Dean loved the Mills Brothers.

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‐ They had this
beautiful harmony

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and sound. Mellifluous
and flowing.

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‐ Oh, I sure love
how you guys sing

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and I got every one of
your records and albums.

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‐ Every one of them?

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‐ Every one of ’em.

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‐ Harry Mills, the lead singer,

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had a coolness about him
that Dean wanted to copy.

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‐ Harry Mills had a wonderful
style, great rhythm,

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like Dean sang a little
bit behind the beat.

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♪ Up a lazy river by
the old mill run ♪

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♪ The lazy, lazy river
in the noon day sun ♪

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♪ Linger in the shade
of a kind old tree ♪

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♪ Throw away your troubles

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♪ Dream a dream with me

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‐ You don’t have to fit in
the frame and the measure,

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you could be before the measure,

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come in the middle
of the measure,

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but as long as you find
that location of exit,

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it’ll make sense.

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♪ Oh, everyone’s in love.

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‐ Dean Martin picked up from
them how to present a song

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in a way where you
seem cool and detached,

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but at the same time you’re
in control of the thing.

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(singing)

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‐ The Mills Brothers!

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(music)

329
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‐ Dean is singing
in a hotel club room

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and in walks Betty MacDonald,

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attracted by the
sound of Dean’s voice.

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And she has just dropped
out at Swarthmore.

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Dean saw somebody he
could have a family with.

334
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‐ Elizabeth McDonald,
that was my mom.

335
00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:06,259
She was so caring and so smart.

336
00:17:06,259 --> 00:17:10,229
‐ Before two families
melded together

337
00:17:10,229 --> 00:17:13,199
I remember going to
Dean’s parents’ house

338
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seeing broomsticks
laid out across chairs

339
00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:20,676
with pasta hanging down, they
were making their own pasta.

340
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‐ My mother helped Dad in so
many ways, helped mold him.

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Not that my grandmother
didn’t teach him manners,

342
00:17:27,980 --> 00:17:29,649
but there was something
a little more elegant

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about my mother.

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‐ Betty would walk around,
beating a spoon on a plate

345
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and going, "You don’t
go down to the soup,

346
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the soup comes up to you."

347
00:17:41,727 --> 00:17:44,257
Betty believed in his talent.

348
00:17:44,263 --> 00:17:46,799
I think he found it himself.

349
00:17:46,799 --> 00:17:49,599
She always built him
up. "You can do it."

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He didn’t speak well.
"Dems and dose."

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And my mother of course, very
educated, she would say no,

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it’s "them" or "those."

353
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And my father he ended up‐
he speaks very, very well,

354
00:18:00,179 --> 00:18:01,979
but that was because
of my mother.

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00:18:01,981 --> 00:18:05,718
She was a doer, she
would get things done.

356
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‐ Betty thought that Dean
should have his nose fixed.

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‐ He was very reluctant
to have it done

358
00:18:12,124 --> 00:18:13,824
and Betty talked him into it.

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‐ [Interviewer] What
was his career like

360
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in those first few years?

361
00:18:20,032 --> 00:18:22,932
‐ Oh, Lord...

362
00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:24,235
Very sketchy.

363
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‐ [Anne] They wired
my father for money

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and he never turned them down.

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‐ He was working
regional nightclubs.

366
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You’re playing these
toilets, as they called them.

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These were the marginal
dregs of show business.

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‐ [Deana] He would
go on the road

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and my mother went with him.

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‐ They would do those
one nighters on buses.

371
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‐ They had their first
baby, when Craig was born,

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they put him in a
drawer in a hotel room,

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that would be the crib.

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00:18:53,199 --> 00:18:55,829
‐ It seemed like every
third person that came along

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would offer to become his agent

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00:18:57,503 --> 00:18:59,538
and he would sell him
a piece of himself.

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00:18:59,538 --> 00:19:02,638
He had sold something
like 115% of himself.

378
00:19:02,642 --> 00:19:04,410
He just wanted to
get out and sing

379
00:19:04,410 --> 00:19:06,078
and that was all
that mattered to him.

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‐ There is another element
of cool, which is luck.

381
00:19:09,115 --> 00:19:12,718
And that‐ that
indicates to people

382
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that even God
thinks you’re cool.

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‐ [Interviewer] Dean,
what do you regard

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as the biggest
break of your life?

385
00:19:19,592 --> 00:19:21,192
‐ I think the biggest

386
00:19:21,193 --> 00:19:23,529
and the most wonderful
break in my life

387
00:19:23,529 --> 00:19:25,459
was meeting Jerry, Jerry Lewis.

388
00:19:27,633 --> 00:19:30,302
‐ Suddenly here
is something new,

389
00:19:30,302 --> 00:19:31,971
new enough that nobody
really understood

390
00:19:31,971 --> 00:19:33,639
what was happening
right at the beginning.

391
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(upbeat music)

392
00:19:36,208 --> 00:19:39,608
Suddenly these two
shlubs from nowhere

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do the biggest thing
in show business.

394
00:19:43,783 --> 00:19:45,983
‐ Martin and Lewis were huge.

395
00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:51,689
‐ [George] You
couldn’t get near them,

396
00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:53,659
they sold tables all the
way up to the band stamp.

397
00:19:53,659 --> 00:19:57,359
‐ What they were doing in
nightclubs was totally wild.

398
00:19:57,363 --> 00:19:58,597
‐ I don’t know the number.

399
00:19:58,597 --> 00:20:00,097
(audience laughs)

400
00:20:00,099 --> 00:20:01,967
They just had something no
one else had had before.

401
00:20:01,967 --> 00:20:03,497
‐ You better lock up
when you’re through.

402
00:20:03,502 --> 00:20:05,742
‐ They did things that
most people didn’t do.

403
00:20:07,306 --> 00:20:09,675
‐ Well, that was a collision.

404
00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:12,011
(laughs)

405
00:20:12,011 --> 00:20:14,041
‐ It was sort of
like proto‐punk rock.

406
00:20:16,782 --> 00:20:18,482
‐ They represented
a really good time.

407
00:20:18,484 --> 00:20:21,153
‐ [Bill] They were...
pure and simple funny.

408
00:20:21,153 --> 00:20:24,253
(instrumental music)

409
00:20:24,256 --> 00:20:26,892
(audience laughs)

410
00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:28,360
‐ I just loved it.

411
00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:31,230
‐ They were crazy, they
were all over the room.

412
00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:32,498
Anything goes,

413
00:20:32,498 --> 00:20:34,498
and we can say
whatever we feel like.

414
00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:36,530
‐ Together they
were just terrific.

415
00:20:37,737 --> 00:20:40,005
Here’s a picture
of Dean and Jerry.

416
00:20:40,005 --> 00:20:41,841
They were great,
no doubt about it.

417
00:20:41,841 --> 00:20:43,008
I loved them both.

418
00:20:43,008 --> 00:20:44,568
I thought well, gee,

419
00:20:44,577 --> 00:20:46,812
that would be nice to have
Regis and Dean together.

420
00:20:46,812 --> 00:20:48,012
Don’t you think?

421
00:20:48,013 --> 00:20:50,983
Look a little bit
alike...not even close.

422
00:20:50,983 --> 00:20:53,853
‐ Dean and Jerry, they got
together kind of by accident

423
00:20:53,853 --> 00:20:57,953
in Atlantic City at
Skinny D’Amato’s 500 Club.

424
00:20:57,957 --> 00:20:59,525
It was meant to be.

425
00:20:59,525 --> 00:21:01,827
(music)

426
00:21:01,827 --> 00:21:06,427
‐ Their fame and infamy came
from the nightclub stage.

427
00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:09,930
Jerry Lewis was doing what
they called a record act.

428
00:21:09,935 --> 00:21:11,737
It would be perfect for TikTok.

429
00:21:11,737 --> 00:21:13,167
He wouldn’t talk,

430
00:21:13,172 --> 00:21:14,502
the record would be
playing and he’d be going‐

431
00:21:14,507 --> 00:21:19,478
(miming singing)

432
00:21:19,478 --> 00:21:24,478
‐ From the moment Jerry
set eyes on Dean Martin

433
00:21:25,184 --> 00:21:27,384
he was riveted.

434
00:21:27,386 --> 00:21:31,657
‐ [Jerry] I was 19 when
we teamed up, he was 29.

435
00:21:31,657 --> 00:21:32,917
You know when you meet somebody

436
00:21:32,925 --> 00:21:34,960
and you just like
them immediately,

437
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,490
that’s what happened.

438
00:21:36,495 --> 00:21:39,165
‐ When you performed at a
nightclub you were thrown

439
00:21:39,165 --> 00:21:41,500
on the same bill with a
bunch of other performers.

440
00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:43,930
It would be an acrobat,
followed by a singer,

441
00:21:43,936 --> 00:21:45,604
followed by a comedian.

442
00:21:45,604 --> 00:21:47,373
Dean and Jerry started
to cross paths.

443
00:21:47,373 --> 00:21:49,008
(music)

444
00:21:49,008 --> 00:21:51,568
Jerry would sometimes
intentionally sabotage

445
00:21:51,577 --> 00:21:52,845
Dean’s act a little bit,

446
00:21:52,845 --> 00:21:54,745
give him a little
bit of a heckle.

447
00:21:54,747 --> 00:21:59,787
(singing)

448
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,688
‐ [Jerry] And he started
the first few notes,

449
00:22:02,688 --> 00:22:04,118
and I bang on the table‐

450
00:22:04,123 --> 00:22:06,693
"Waiter, where’s my steak
for Christ’s sakes!"

451
00:22:08,194 --> 00:22:11,194
‐ And the whole thing
starts right there.

452
00:22:11,197 --> 00:22:14,099
The audience instantly senses

453
00:22:14,099 --> 00:22:16,068
that something
completely different,

454
00:22:16,068 --> 00:22:18,968
completely brand new has begun.

455
00:22:18,971 --> 00:22:21,571
(music)

456
00:22:24,410 --> 00:22:27,240
‐ Another element of Dean’s
cool was spontaneity.

457
00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:31,110
‐ They did a good
job fixing your nose.

458
00:22:31,116 --> 00:22:33,953
‐ Yeah, used to be over here.

459
00:22:33,953 --> 00:22:36,153
‐ Jerry got goosebumps.

460
00:22:36,155 --> 00:22:39,024
Every comedian Jerry
Lewis had ever seen

461
00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:42,528
would have these
little pauses...

462
00:22:42,528 --> 00:22:44,388
...with Dean, nothing.

463
00:22:44,396 --> 00:22:46,065
It was instantaneous.

464
00:22:46,065 --> 00:22:48,135
(audience laughs)

465
00:22:49,168 --> 00:22:50,728
‐ Dean was in tune.

466
00:22:50,736 --> 00:22:53,276
So if Jerry comes in and he
throws something at Dean...

467
00:22:57,576 --> 00:22:59,311
‐ Are you sure you
got the right head

468
00:22:59,311 --> 00:23:00,481
back from the cleaners?

469
00:23:01,614 --> 00:23:03,349
‐ (RZA) Bang, nothing.
Bong, right there.

470
00:23:03,349 --> 00:23:05,179
‐ Give and take.

471
00:23:05,184 --> 00:23:07,152
I mean they were just
naturals together.

472
00:23:07,152 --> 00:23:08,520
‐ Oh Dean.

473
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:09,820
‐ What? What is it? What is it?

474
00:23:09,822 --> 00:23:11,252
‐ I’m eating ham.

475
00:23:11,257 --> 00:23:13,192
(audience laughing)

476
00:23:13,192 --> 00:23:16,332
‐ [Jerry] His reflexes,
instinct, rhythm...

477
00:23:17,496 --> 00:23:21,700
Dean used a force
that was within him

478
00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:23,869
that he didn’t know he had.

479
00:23:23,869 --> 00:23:26,599
‐ You would say, "I’m
going to the corner,"

480
00:23:26,605 --> 00:23:28,574
not, "I’m going to the corner."

481
00:23:28,574 --> 00:23:29,574
(audience laughs)

482
00:23:29,575 --> 00:23:31,245
Who talks like this?

483
00:23:32,411 --> 00:23:34,211
‐ The rudiment of
the act is this:

484
00:23:35,948 --> 00:23:37,748
Dean is the Playboy.

485
00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:39,480
And Jerry is the Putz.

486
00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,220
(machine dinging)

487
00:23:44,223 --> 00:23:47,793
(audience laughing)

488
00:23:49,995 --> 00:23:51,835
Here is this kid

489
00:23:55,567 --> 00:23:59,367
allowing Dean to come out
of himself a little bit.

490
00:24:00,673 --> 00:24:02,241
(audience laughing)

491
00:24:02,241 --> 00:24:06,578
To be less guarded, to
be less self‐protective,

492
00:24:06,578 --> 00:24:09,008
to be, yes, a little
more vulnerable.

493
00:24:11,984 --> 00:24:14,353
‐ Lewis was funny,
but let’s face facts

494
00:24:14,353 --> 00:24:15,587
if you had Lewis in your ear,

495
00:24:15,587 --> 00:24:17,187
you’d want to go out
in the parking lot

496
00:24:17,189 --> 00:24:20,559
and smash your head in
the door of your car.

497
00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:25,329
(singing badly)

498
00:24:28,067 --> 00:24:29,668
(laughs)

499
00:24:29,668 --> 00:24:30,828
‐ I’ll never forget.

500
00:24:32,438 --> 00:24:34,538
Dean brought him to the house,

501
00:24:35,908 --> 00:24:39,138
for the first time in my
life I saw a hyperactive kid.

502
00:24:39,144 --> 00:24:43,582
He jumped on the furniture,
he acted like a maniac.

503
00:24:43,582 --> 00:24:45,552
This guy was out of control.

504
00:24:46,852 --> 00:24:48,952
‐ Looks like I got myself a kid.

505
00:24:48,954 --> 00:24:50,522
‐ Yeah, yes Dad.

506
00:24:50,522 --> 00:24:53,292
‐ And we’re gonna
be... pals, right?

507
00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:56,829
‐ Lewis always needed to
be paired with somebody

508
00:24:56,829 --> 00:24:59,829
to dilute that
manic, high energy,

509
00:24:59,832 --> 00:25:01,967
very twitchy kind of thing.

510
00:25:01,967 --> 00:25:06,897
(singing)

511
00:25:06,905 --> 00:25:09,408
(orchestra playing)

512
00:25:09,408 --> 00:25:10,638
(audience laughing)

513
00:25:10,642 --> 00:25:13,979
‐ Straight man is highly
prized in the industry

514
00:25:13,979 --> 00:25:15,449
because it’s so hard to do.

515
00:25:17,349 --> 00:25:19,479
(audience laughing)

516
00:25:19,485 --> 00:25:21,085
‐ Dean was subtler.

517
00:25:21,086 --> 00:25:22,654
You would be laughing
your head off,

518
00:25:22,654 --> 00:25:24,623
but you didn’t know why.

519
00:25:24,623 --> 00:25:28,827
(audience laughing)

520
00:25:28,827 --> 00:25:32,727
‐ Dean’s comedic timing
was as good as my father’s.

521
00:25:32,731 --> 00:25:35,000
‐ You sure read
a lot, don’t you?

522
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,500
‐ Oh no, sir.

523
00:25:36,502 --> 00:25:37,970
I just use these to build
tunnels for my electric tr‐

524
00:25:37,970 --> 00:25:38,900
‐ Get away from me!

525
00:25:38,904 --> 00:25:40,404
(audience laughs)

526
00:25:40,406 --> 00:25:44,610
And that’s what lent such
great depth to the team.

527
00:25:44,610 --> 00:25:46,010
‐ Orson said, "You
know Jerry Lewis

528
00:25:46,011 --> 00:25:47,211
is not about Jerry Lewis,"

529
00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:48,412
and I said, "What do you mean?"

530
00:25:48,414 --> 00:25:50,682
He said, "It’s
about Dean Martin."

531
00:25:50,682 --> 00:25:51,682
And I said, "What?"

532
00:25:51,683 --> 00:25:54,783
He said, "Jerry Lewis’ success

533
00:25:54,787 --> 00:25:56,355
and what makes that so special

534
00:25:56,355 --> 00:26:01,365
is the incredible straight
comedy and timing of Dean

535
00:26:02,528 --> 00:26:04,728
and the fact that he
can maintain the level

536
00:26:04,730 --> 00:26:06,498
so that Jerry can play off of it

537
00:26:06,498 --> 00:26:08,428
and on it and go around it,

538
00:26:08,434 --> 00:26:12,004
and it’s a consistent line
that is held for the audience."

539
00:26:12,004 --> 00:26:14,804
He said, "Dean is the
genius behind that show."

540
00:26:14,807 --> 00:26:17,509
(upbeat music)

541
00:26:17,509 --> 00:26:20,079
‐ [Kaplan] Sinatra came to
see them at the Copacabana.

542
00:26:21,647 --> 00:26:24,149
Sinatra was huge in 1943.

543
00:26:24,149 --> 00:26:27,119
♪ Oh lonely night

544
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,719
‐ And he did that little croon.

545
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,090
And that’s when all the
girls would start screaming

546
00:26:31,090 --> 00:26:32,290
and fainting.

547
00:26:32,291 --> 00:26:35,591
‐ Sinatra was a great
friend to people,

548
00:26:35,594 --> 00:26:38,931
and he understood a lot of
times what people needed.

549
00:26:38,931 --> 00:26:42,101
‐ Sinatra stands up
to the huge applause

550
00:26:42,101 --> 00:26:45,501
and gives them the
ultimate endorsement.

551
00:26:45,504 --> 00:26:48,740
These guys are on a
trip to the galaxies.

552
00:26:48,740 --> 00:26:52,210
Nobody here really understands
how big they’re gonna be.

553
00:26:52,211 --> 00:26:54,081
‐ From there they just sprung.

554
00:26:59,384 --> 00:27:01,553
‐ And suddenly these two kids,

555
00:27:01,553 --> 00:27:03,653
they were the toast
of New York City.

556
00:27:03,655 --> 00:27:05,425
And now they’re the
toast of Hollywood.

557
00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:09,635
And they signed this big
contract with Paramount.

558
00:27:11,063 --> 00:27:14,063
‐ They were a hit in their
very first movie, a big hit.

559
00:27:16,668 --> 00:27:20,068
‐ The first time I saw them
was their first feature.

560
00:27:20,072 --> 00:27:22,307
‐ Am I wrong, were
they squeezing lemons?

561
00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:23,237
‐ Nice to know you.

562
00:27:24,843 --> 00:27:26,411
‐ See how embarrassing it gets?

563
00:27:26,411 --> 00:27:29,111
‐ I became an abject
fan of Martin and Lewis.

564
00:27:29,114 --> 00:27:30,254
Absolutely loved them.

565
00:27:31,183 --> 00:27:33,218
‐ Like 16 movies in a row.

566
00:27:33,218 --> 00:27:35,587
It was just an
incredible money machine.

567
00:27:35,587 --> 00:27:37,747
‐ Those movies were
huge, they were huge.

568
00:27:37,756 --> 00:27:39,324
Monster hit comedies.

569
00:27:39,324 --> 00:27:41,994
‐ I feel much better
now, thank you very much.

570
00:27:41,994 --> 00:27:44,663
Oh! Oh! I’m leaking!

571
00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:46,803
‐ My favorite would
have to be "The Caddy."

572
00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:51,167
♪ When the moon hits your eye

573
00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:54,800
♪ Like a big pizza
pie, that’s amore ♪

574
00:27:54,806 --> 00:27:56,942
‐ People loved "That’s Amore."

575
00:27:56,942 --> 00:27:58,842
♪ When the world
seems to shine ♪

576
00:27:58,844 --> 00:28:02,214
♪ Like you’ve had too
much wine, that’s amore ♪

577
00:28:02,214 --> 00:28:05,551
‐ Everybody applauded,
that’s very unusual

578
00:28:05,551 --> 00:28:07,419
in those days in movie theaters.

579
00:28:07,419 --> 00:28:10,189
‐ They did the movies,
they were doing television.

580
00:28:10,189 --> 00:28:11,749
Like it was nonstop.

581
00:28:11,757 --> 00:28:13,258
‐ Hello friends.

582
00:28:13,258 --> 00:28:18,258
‐ TV made them hot in a way
nothing had made them before.

583
00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:22,131
‐ Television is this
brand new phenomenon.

584
00:28:22,134 --> 00:28:25,604
Most of what was on TV was
stodgy and it was boring.

585
00:28:25,604 --> 00:28:28,004
People watched it
because it was a novelty,

586
00:28:28,006 --> 00:28:30,142
not necessarily
because it was good.

587
00:28:30,142 --> 00:28:31,542
But Martin and Lewis came on TV

588
00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:33,779
and they did
something just for TV.

589
00:28:33,779 --> 00:28:35,747
‐ [Announcer] "The
Colgate Comedy Hour"

590
00:28:35,747 --> 00:28:37,947
starring Dean Martin
and Jerry Lewis.

591
00:28:37,950 --> 00:28:39,750
‐ Jerry went right
up to the lens,

592
00:28:39,751 --> 00:28:41,381
he slapped the cameraman.

593
00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:42,654
‐ See when I walk close

594
00:28:42,654 --> 00:28:44,423
you gotta focus all
over and everything.

595
00:28:44,423 --> 00:28:46,823
Am I giving you trouble now?

596
00:28:46,825 --> 00:28:48,125
‐ That was new,
that was exciting.

597
00:28:48,126 --> 00:28:50,596
‐ Oh if I only knew
the line. What is it?

598
00:28:50,596 --> 00:28:52,097
‐ They broke the presenium.

599
00:28:52,097 --> 00:28:54,327
‐ Oh yeah, you clean up here!

600
00:28:54,333 --> 00:28:56,733
‐ It’s wonderful, it’s fresh.

601
00:28:56,735 --> 00:28:58,770
‐ After the burglar
bit, shame on me.

602
00:28:58,770 --> 00:29:01,100
(audience laughing)

603
00:29:01,106 --> 00:29:04,643
‐ "Colgate Comedy Hour"
one of the best shows

604
00:29:04,643 --> 00:29:07,813
in the beginning
years of television.

605
00:29:07,813 --> 00:29:08,643
‐ Hey man!

606
00:29:09,648 --> 00:29:10,608
‐ What is it?

607
00:29:10,616 --> 00:29:11,850
‐ Get outta here.

608
00:29:11,850 --> 00:29:13,950
‐ Ed Simmons was
my writing partner

609
00:29:13,952 --> 00:29:15,992
when we did the
Martin and Lewis show.

610
00:29:20,225 --> 00:29:22,527
It didn’t take long
working with them

611
00:29:22,527 --> 00:29:25,187
to understand that Dean
was as much the reason

612
00:29:25,197 --> 00:29:28,834
for the success of
the team as Jerry was.

613
00:29:28,834 --> 00:29:30,369
‐ Where are you?

614
00:29:30,369 --> 00:29:33,499
Oh, right now we’d like to
give you some impressions.

615
00:29:33,505 --> 00:29:37,175
First, Jerry. My friend Jerry.

616
00:29:37,175 --> 00:29:38,475
‐ Thanks a lot you’re my boy.

617
00:29:38,477 --> 00:29:39,745
‐ Good.

618
00:29:39,745 --> 00:29:41,380
‐ They were so funny
and they also seemed

619
00:29:41,380 --> 00:29:44,210
to really like each
other, love each other.

620
00:29:44,216 --> 00:29:45,416
That came across.

621
00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:52,489
‐ Jerry Lewis was a very,
very lonely, sad kid.

622
00:29:53,525 --> 00:29:56,128
He was an only child.

623
00:29:56,128 --> 00:30:00,158
‐ His parents did not
go to his bar mitzvah.

624
00:30:00,165 --> 00:30:02,134
As sad moments of childhood go,

625
00:30:02,134 --> 00:30:04,074
I would say that’s pretty good.

626
00:30:07,406 --> 00:30:10,546
‐ [James] Jerry had this fantasy

627
00:30:12,010 --> 00:30:15,710
that this guy was the big
brother that he never had.

628
00:30:18,283 --> 00:30:20,683
‐ [Jerry] He was like a
brother, a father, a friend,

629
00:30:22,087 --> 00:30:24,627
all of the best things a
man could have in his life.

630
00:30:28,794 --> 00:30:30,762
‐ You felt that they liked each
other and they were friends

631
00:30:30,762 --> 00:30:34,232
and you could see
Jerry breaking Dean up.

632
00:30:34,232 --> 00:30:35,132
‐ I bet you won’t know this‐

633
00:30:35,133 --> 00:30:36,333
(mumbles)

634
00:30:36,335 --> 00:30:37,235
I ad‐libbed, I
don’t know where I‐

635
00:30:37,235 --> 00:30:38,070
‐ I know.

636
00:30:38,070 --> 00:30:38,870
(audience laughs)

637
00:30:40,272 --> 00:30:41,342
‐ I love that stuff.

638
00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:45,342
Obvious affection.

639
00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:48,854
If you could bottle that you
could have peace in the world.

640
00:30:52,484 --> 00:30:54,753
‐ He filled a space
in my dad’s life

641
00:30:54,753 --> 00:30:56,822
that could never
have been replicated

642
00:30:56,822 --> 00:31:00,122
by my dad’s wives or anyone.

643
00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:05,997
‐ Jerry was the one
for the two of them

644
00:31:05,997 --> 00:31:10,167
who was the producer, the
director, the head writer,

645
00:31:10,168 --> 00:31:12,898
and that was fun at
the very beginning.

646
00:31:12,904 --> 00:31:17,914
Jerry Lewis eventually became
the Pope and knew everything.

647
00:31:19,378 --> 00:31:20,838
‐ Why are we always doing
things that aren’t right?

648
00:31:20,846 --> 00:31:21,780
‐ We’re on. We’re on.

649
00:31:21,780 --> 00:31:23,080
‐ Here’s one of our technicians.

650
00:31:25,016 --> 00:31:27,185
‐ Dean didn’t compete with Jerry

651
00:31:27,185 --> 00:31:31,395
and Jerry found it necessary
sometimes to compete with Dean.

652
00:31:32,758 --> 00:31:35,628
There were days when
Jerry wasn’t feeling well

653
00:31:37,062 --> 00:31:40,932
and they usually coincided
with days when Dean came in

654
00:31:40,932 --> 00:31:44,032
and was hilariously funny

655
00:31:44,035 --> 00:31:48,775
and Jerry would be curled
up in the corner in a ball

656
00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:52,171
complaining of a bad stomach.

657
00:31:53,111 --> 00:31:56,651
(jazz music)

658
00:31:59,117 --> 00:32:03,017
‐ We moved to LA in ’49
right when I was born.

659
00:32:04,890 --> 00:32:07,559
My dad bought my
grandfather his home

660
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:09,089
in Inglewood, California.

661
00:32:09,094 --> 00:32:11,394
He and my grandmother
went to live in LA.

662
00:32:12,297 --> 00:32:13,857
‐ It’s the American dream

663
00:32:13,865 --> 00:32:17,305
"Oh, I can make enough money
to buy a home for my parents."

664
00:32:18,804 --> 00:32:20,304
‐ [Deana] They
were always around.

665
00:32:20,305 --> 00:32:22,575
Of course we’d go over to
their house for dinner.

666
00:32:23,975 --> 00:32:26,885
My grandmother Angela
would make fabulous food.

667
00:32:28,180 --> 00:32:29,550
Unbelievable memories.

668
00:32:31,216 --> 00:32:33,556
Then things started to change.

669
00:32:36,254 --> 00:32:39,958
My mother Betty was
very, very unhappy.

670
00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:41,458
It was very, very hard for her.

671
00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:44,760
Four kids, a dad on
the road all the time.

672
00:32:44,763 --> 00:32:46,703
She started to drink more.

673
00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:49,730
That was hard for Dad.

674
00:32:53,772 --> 00:32:57,472
‐ Dean and Jerry had gone down
to Florida for some benefit

675
00:32:57,476 --> 00:32:58,876
and that’s where he met her.

676
00:33:00,912 --> 00:33:05,882
‐ Jeanne Biegger was the
Queen of the Orange Bowl.

677
00:33:05,884 --> 00:33:08,324
Dean would confide in Jerry.

678
00:33:10,055 --> 00:33:12,624
‐ [Jerry] I saw him go
nuts a couple of times.

679
00:33:12,624 --> 00:33:15,193
"I can’t spend my life
with her and the children.

680
00:33:15,193 --> 00:33:17,063
It’s all wrong,
it’s just wrong."

681
00:33:18,497 --> 00:33:20,499
I said, "Who the fuck is
telling you you have to?"

682
00:33:20,499 --> 00:33:22,129
He said, "We’re married,
she’s Catholic, I’m Catholic."

683
00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:23,203
I said, "Fuck Catholics.

684
00:33:24,369 --> 00:33:25,629
You have a life to lead,

685
00:33:25,637 --> 00:33:27,806
you’ve got the pink
slip on your life."

686
00:33:27,806 --> 00:33:31,810
‐ Jerry’s wife Patti tried
to warn Betty. She said,

687
00:33:31,810 --> 00:33:35,750
"This one is not going away."

688
00:33:37,315 --> 00:33:38,985
‐ [James] From that moment,

689
00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:44,626
Dean’s marriage to
Betty is history.

690
00:33:48,660 --> 00:33:52,160
‐ When they divorced,
it broke all our hearts.

691
00:33:53,832 --> 00:33:56,902
He’d been like a big brother
since I was five years old.

692
00:33:56,902 --> 00:33:58,202
He was part of the family.

693
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:04,374
‐ We moved to Hollywood.

694
00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:08,780
My dad and Jeanne had a house
just down the street from us

695
00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:09,980
and Dad would come over.

696
00:34:11,149 --> 00:34:12,679
We would always have
a great Christmas

697
00:34:12,684 --> 00:34:16,087
and Dad would come over
and bring presents to us.

698
00:34:16,087 --> 00:34:18,487
This is so sad for
me, I don’t even...

699
00:34:20,592 --> 00:34:22,592
Jeanne knew that I
was not doing well.

700
00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:27,865
In order to make me feel
more welcome into the family

701
00:34:27,866 --> 00:34:29,834
she took me to Capitol Records

702
00:34:29,834 --> 00:34:32,404
when Dad was recording
"Memories are Made of This."

703
00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:36,041
♪ Take one fresh
and tender kiss ♪

704
00:34:36,041 --> 00:34:38,771
I remember walking down
the hallway with Jeanne

705
00:34:38,777 --> 00:34:39,844
holding my hand.

706
00:34:39,844 --> 00:34:43,714
♪ Add one stolen
night of bliss ♪

707
00:34:43,715 --> 00:34:46,685
We walk into Studio A and
I see all the musicians.

708
00:34:46,685 --> 00:34:51,055
I’m just little, and I sit
on a chair and I hear Dad

709
00:34:51,056 --> 00:34:55,160
he made a joke and everybody
laughed. I thought, "Aw,"

710
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,760
and I put my arm around her‐
I put my arm around Jeanne‐

711
00:34:58,763 --> 00:35:00,863
and she said, "Everything’s
gonna be all right."

712
00:35:00,865 --> 00:35:03,802
That memory of sitting
there and I thought, "Huh,

713
00:35:03,802 --> 00:35:06,302
everything’s gonna be alright."

714
00:35:06,304 --> 00:35:07,973
And it wasn’t until
I was nine years old

715
00:35:07,973 --> 00:35:09,773
that we went to
live with my father.

716
00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:15,814
My mom’s drinking was
something that would eventually

717
00:35:15,814 --> 00:35:18,650
catch up with her, until
she finally decided

718
00:35:18,650 --> 00:35:20,318
she just couldn’t take
care of us anymore

719
00:35:20,318 --> 00:35:21,948
the way we should be.

720
00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:24,823
By that time, they
had their own family,

721
00:35:24,823 --> 00:35:26,493
they had their own kids.

722
00:35:30,095 --> 00:35:33,365
‐ [Jeanne] I have never
known such bliss as it was

723
00:35:34,599 --> 00:35:36,629
when I was pregnant
with my three children.

724
00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:41,973
‐ Jeanne was a hands‐on mother.

725
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:44,173
I mean, she had
seven kids to raise.

726
00:35:46,111 --> 00:35:48,980
She was just a beautiful
woman, oh my gosh.

727
00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:51,310
‐ Jeanne was kind
of like my mom,

728
00:35:51,316 --> 00:35:55,153
she made sure the house
was running very normal,

729
00:35:55,153 --> 00:35:57,022
to have regular
dinners and make sure,

730
00:35:57,022 --> 00:35:58,422
"Did you do your homework?"

731
00:35:59,557 --> 00:36:01,687
These sort of Norman
Rockwell scenes,

732
00:36:01,693 --> 00:36:03,228
but they grew up with it,

733
00:36:03,228 --> 00:36:05,528
okay, so they were trying
to make sure we had that.

734
00:36:05,530 --> 00:36:07,160
And it was given to us.

735
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:10,201
‐ Looking at that footage
of him playing in the pool,

736
00:36:10,201 --> 00:36:13,338
interacting with his
kids, I was jealous.

737
00:36:13,338 --> 00:36:17,938
He was a very... a much more
available father than mine was.

738
00:36:20,979 --> 00:36:22,849
His kids just adored him.

739
00:36:29,421 --> 00:36:30,451
‐ Are you on?

740
00:36:30,455 --> 00:36:31,322
I’m on.

741
00:36:31,322 --> 00:36:33,322
(mumbles)

742
00:36:33,324 --> 00:36:35,694
‐ Every Sunday night,
my grandfather,

743
00:36:35,694 --> 00:36:38,363
he and my grandmother
came to our house.

744
00:36:38,363 --> 00:36:40,799
‐ Well Jerry, what
else can I say?

745
00:36:40,799 --> 00:36:42,299
(laughs)

746
00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:43,730
Happy birthday.

747
00:36:43,735 --> 00:36:45,235
Every time I see his
splendor I forget myself.

748
00:36:45,236 --> 00:36:47,238
(laughs)

749
00:36:47,238 --> 00:36:50,508
‐ Now when I was nine years
old my grandmother Angela

750
00:36:50,508 --> 00:36:53,038
she taught me how to
make pasta fazool,

751
00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:56,281
which is my dad’s
favorite, favorite food.

752
00:36:56,281 --> 00:36:59,317
She said, "Now Deana, this is
important for you to remember.

753
00:36:59,317 --> 00:37:01,717
You can’t write
this recipe down.

754
00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:05,150
You can’t tell anyone,
don’t tell your sisters."

755
00:37:05,156 --> 00:37:07,959
So I stood there in her
kitchen she had the big pot,

756
00:37:07,959 --> 00:37:11,529
just everything right in and
you’d put Romano cheese on it,

757
00:37:11,529 --> 00:37:13,799
not Parmesan ’cause
Romano is just better.

758
00:37:14,666 --> 00:37:16,376
And then the secret ingredient.

759
00:37:20,572 --> 00:37:24,672
‐ Perfect house, the perfect
wife, the perfect family.

760
00:37:26,745 --> 00:37:28,215
It’s perfect.

761
00:37:30,949 --> 00:37:32,509
Except when it isn’t.

762
00:37:33,985 --> 00:37:35,255
‐ Mr. Kelly, watch it!

763
00:37:38,790 --> 00:37:41,890
(jazz music)

764
00:37:41,893 --> 00:37:44,593
‐ Something happens
in the last two films

765
00:37:44,596 --> 00:37:48,399
that really does clear
the way for Jerry Lewis

766
00:37:48,399 --> 00:37:51,569
to push the envelope pretty far.

767
00:37:52,470 --> 00:37:54,440
‐ The two Frank Tashlin movies,

768
00:37:55,607 --> 00:37:58,643
it’s created by a
master director.

769
00:37:58,643 --> 00:38:00,343
‐ I’ll be right down, I got it.

770
00:38:02,747 --> 00:38:06,817
‐ They bring a cartoon
world into reality.

771
00:38:06,818 --> 00:38:10,788
‐ Frank Tashlin
storyboarded everything.

772
00:38:10,789 --> 00:38:14,519
Jerry Lewis literally
sits at his feet

773
00:38:14,526 --> 00:38:17,695
and learns how do you
compose your shots?

774
00:38:17,695 --> 00:38:21,365
What is the nature
of a comic dynamic?

775
00:38:21,366 --> 00:38:22,901
How do you film it?

776
00:38:22,901 --> 00:38:24,331
How do you edit it?

777
00:38:24,335 --> 00:38:25,735
How do you time it?

778
00:38:25,737 --> 00:38:28,606
And he gets a
masterclass from Tashlin.

779
00:38:28,606 --> 00:38:31,342
That’s the point at
which Jerry Lewis says,

780
00:38:31,342 --> 00:38:34,242
"I think I can do
everything on my own."

781
00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:35,914
And he pushes it.

782
00:38:35,914 --> 00:38:37,448
‐ Now why don’t you stop that.

783
00:38:37,448 --> 00:38:38,678
(mumbles)

784
00:38:38,683 --> 00:38:41,183
‐ And Dean is more and
more the accessory.

785
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,490
It just wore on
Dean more and more.

786
00:38:45,490 --> 00:38:48,320
(audience laughs)

787
00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,762
‐ Dean wanted to get
through a whole song

788
00:38:50,762 --> 00:38:53,598
without interruption
and get the applause.

789
00:38:53,598 --> 00:38:57,268
But as the years went on, that
happened less and less often.

790
00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:04,739
(music)

791
00:39:04,742 --> 00:39:07,612
‐ [Deana] Jerry had written
"Delicate Delinquent."

792
00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:11,447
‐ And Dean was gonna play a cop.

793
00:39:11,449 --> 00:39:13,649
‐ When Dad read
the script he said,

794
00:39:13,651 --> 00:39:16,588
"I don’t wanna be a
policeman in a uniform

795
00:39:16,588 --> 00:39:20,688
and I wanna come in before
the second half of the movie,"

796
00:39:20,692 --> 00:39:22,827
and Jerry said, "Well,
that’s what the part is,

797
00:39:22,827 --> 00:39:25,787
that’s what the part calls
for. Dad said, "You wrote it."

798
00:39:25,797 --> 00:39:26,664
‐ What is this?

799
00:39:26,664 --> 00:39:28,099
‐ Thank you very much.

800
00:39:28,099 --> 00:39:29,667
Now I would like to do a number
that I have the pleasure‐

801
00:39:29,667 --> 00:39:32,267
‐ There was so much
that Dean couldn’t do.

802
00:39:33,805 --> 00:39:36,075
His talent had reached a wall.

803
00:39:37,508 --> 00:39:40,678
‐ [Angie] Jerry called the
shots a few too many times.

804
00:39:40,678 --> 00:39:44,148
‐ [Jerry] And I said this is
gonna explode before too long.

805
00:39:44,148 --> 00:39:46,948
‐ It was a very
uncomfortable time.

806
00:39:46,951 --> 00:39:51,221
I didn’t wanna play sides,
but it just amounted to that.

807
00:39:51,222 --> 00:39:53,722
(music)

808
00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:55,895
It was a pretty open war.

809
00:39:58,696 --> 00:40:00,331
‐ Dean says something to Jerry

810
00:40:00,331 --> 00:40:03,568
about what it is they
even have together anymore

811
00:40:03,568 --> 00:40:05,668
and Jerry says, "Well
I think it’s two men

812
00:40:05,670 --> 00:40:07,900
who feel a kind of
love for each other."

813
00:40:07,906 --> 00:40:09,607
Dean looks at Jerry and he says,

814
00:40:09,607 --> 00:40:10,837
"When I look at you

815
00:40:10,842 --> 00:40:12,712
I see nothing but a
fucking dollar sign."

816
00:40:13,578 --> 00:40:18,248
(suspensive music)

817
00:40:21,686 --> 00:40:23,154
‐ It was on the front
porch of our home

818
00:40:23,154 --> 00:40:26,791
reading in a paper,
is Dean gonna be okay?

819
00:40:26,791 --> 00:40:28,491
What’s gonna happen to Dean?

820
00:40:28,493 --> 00:40:33,431
‐ General public thought most
of the talent was Jerry Lewis.

821
00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:35,400
And Dean was very lucky.

822
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,270
‐ Well, I thought Dean
would have some problems.

823
00:40:40,605 --> 00:40:42,705
‐ Dean had huge insecurity
about being able to make it

824
00:40:42,707 --> 00:40:44,776
without Jerry and it was
constantly reinforced

825
00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:46,611
by everybody in Hollywood.

826
00:40:46,611 --> 00:40:50,151
Without Jerry he was
gonna fall on his ass.

827
00:40:51,616 --> 00:40:53,751
‐ It was very important
for Dean to do that picture

828
00:40:53,751 --> 00:40:56,851
and hopefully be successful,
but unfortunately

829
00:40:56,854 --> 00:40:58,189
it turned out to be the opposite

830
00:40:58,189 --> 00:40:59,689
it wasn’t a success for Dean.

831
00:41:01,492 --> 00:41:04,532
‐ Have you actually
seen this movie?

832
00:41:05,697 --> 00:41:07,598
‐ I don’t think so, I
don’t think anybody did.

833
00:41:07,598 --> 00:41:09,028
‐ It stinks.

834
00:41:09,033 --> 00:41:12,003
‐ I made a mistake,
everybody makes mistakes.

835
00:41:12,003 --> 00:41:14,703
‐ It was an unlucky moment
which was gonna be followed

836
00:41:14,706 --> 00:41:16,246
by a great stroke of luck.

837
00:41:18,776 --> 00:41:21,479
‐ He was rehabilitated
by being cast

838
00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:25,409
in a serious dramatic
role that starred him

839
00:41:25,416 --> 00:41:28,686
with two of the most

840
00:41:28,686 --> 00:41:32,656
iconic, serious
actors of the era.

841
00:41:32,657 --> 00:41:34,792
‐ On one side of him
is Marlon Brando,

842
00:41:34,792 --> 00:41:37,492
on another side of him
is Montgomery Clift.

843
00:41:38,596 --> 00:41:42,100
They insisted on casting
him, you know why?

844
00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:44,569
Because Dean Martin was cool.

845
00:41:44,569 --> 00:41:47,999
‐ Not every actor
would dare to step up

846
00:41:48,006 --> 00:41:50,675
with Brando and Clift...

847
00:41:50,675 --> 00:41:51,975
He did.

848
00:41:51,976 --> 00:41:54,546
‐ Dean was the guy that
went in. He just did it.

849
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:56,980
‐ You feel his freedom.

850
00:41:56,981 --> 00:41:58,149
‐ What’s wrong?
‐ It’s cold.

851
00:41:58,149 --> 00:41:59,917
‐ You see his freedom
in his acting.

852
00:41:59,917 --> 00:42:01,047
‐ Now cough.

853
00:42:01,052 --> 00:42:02,082
(coughs)

854
00:42:02,086 --> 00:42:03,988
Turn your head and cough.

855
00:42:03,988 --> 00:42:06,388
(coughs)

856
00:42:06,391 --> 00:42:08,891
‐ [Barbara] I was always
very fond of Dean Martin.

857
00:42:10,094 --> 00:42:11,594
I played his girlfriend.

858
00:42:11,596 --> 00:42:12,396
‐ I’m scared.

859
00:42:12,397 --> 00:42:13,937
‐ No, don’t be scared.

860
00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:18,300
I’ll come back, I
have to come back.

861
00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:20,638
How else can I marry you?

862
00:42:20,638 --> 00:42:23,038
‐ Montgomery Clift
just loved him.

863
00:42:23,041 --> 00:42:25,541
They were very
fond of each other.

864
00:42:25,543 --> 00:42:27,311
(laughs)

865
00:42:27,311 --> 00:42:28,541
‐ Montgomery Clift,

866
00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:32,256
he had just had this
terrible car accident.

867
00:42:35,219 --> 00:42:38,349
‐ He was so thin in
it and he was ill.

868
00:42:38,356 --> 00:42:41,496
It’s a wonder he had a
film at all, he was hurt.

869
00:42:43,795 --> 00:42:47,705
Dean was quite a doctor.

870
00:42:48,866 --> 00:42:51,702
He’d pick him up
and he carried him,

871
00:42:51,702 --> 00:42:53,202
he carried him around the set.

872
00:42:55,006 --> 00:42:57,442
‐ [Dean] He was so sick,
he was in that wreck

873
00:42:57,442 --> 00:42:59,272
and nobody paid any
attention to him.

874
00:42:59,277 --> 00:43:04,287
I used to carry him to
the restaurant and...

875
00:43:05,016 --> 00:43:06,417
I loved him so much

876
00:43:06,417 --> 00:43:09,317
because he was so helpless

877
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,520
but nobody else paid
attention to him.

878
00:43:13,991 --> 00:43:15,191
‐ They were brothers.

879
00:43:16,394 --> 00:43:18,994
They were each
other’s best friend.

880
00:43:18,996 --> 00:43:20,898
‐ He said that Monty
taught me how to act,

881
00:43:20,898 --> 00:43:22,628
he said just to
listen and react.

882
00:43:22,633 --> 00:43:24,833
‐ How do you spell
"extenuating?"

883
00:43:24,836 --> 00:43:25,836
‐ Hmm?

884
00:43:25,837 --> 00:43:26,947
"Extenuating."

885
00:43:29,073 --> 00:43:32,643
‐ I don’t know E,
X, T, E, E, X...

886
00:43:32,643 --> 00:43:34,712
‐ Illiteracy, that’ll do it.

887
00:43:34,712 --> 00:43:39,012
‐ Much to everyone’s
surprise, he held his own.

888
00:43:39,016 --> 00:43:40,718
‐ Who’s out there?

889
00:43:40,718 --> 00:43:42,318
‐ Crowley.

890
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:43,520
‐ Oh, Crowley good.

891
00:43:44,956 --> 00:43:46,958
‐ Yeah, except he can’t swim.

892
00:43:46,958 --> 00:43:48,458
‐ Even better.

893
00:43:48,459 --> 00:43:51,229
‐ That was the first time
I’d saw him do anything

894
00:43:51,229 --> 00:43:52,729
as a dramatic actor.

895
00:43:52,730 --> 00:43:55,160
I remember thinking
about how good he was.

896
00:43:55,166 --> 00:43:57,768
‐ When I look at
"Young Lions" today

897
00:43:57,768 --> 00:44:00,968
the most exciting thing in it
for me really is Dean Martin.

898
00:44:00,972 --> 00:44:02,872
‐ How about you son?

899
00:44:02,874 --> 00:44:04,142
You look fat and sassy.

900
00:44:04,142 --> 00:44:05,672
‐ Wait a minute,
I just got here.

901
00:44:05,676 --> 00:44:08,980
‐ I completely believe
he is that character.

902
00:44:08,980 --> 00:44:10,448
‐ Besides, I’m a coward.

903
00:44:10,448 --> 00:44:12,678
‐ I’d seen "The Young Lions"
where he was quite good.

904
00:44:12,683 --> 00:44:15,183
But Rio Bravo was
really a performance

905
00:44:15,186 --> 00:44:18,726
where he played all
that dramatic stuff.

906
00:44:19,891 --> 00:44:21,391
‐ Hey, Chance, you gonna
let him do that to me?

907
00:44:21,392 --> 00:44:24,892
‐ He loved to do westerns,
he was one of the kings.

908
00:44:24,896 --> 00:44:28,499
‐ He’d practice over and over
again to get the guns right.

909
00:44:28,499 --> 00:44:29,667
(gun shoot)

910
00:44:29,667 --> 00:44:32,767
‐ [Jeanine] And of
course, the Western hero

911
00:44:32,770 --> 00:44:34,300
‐ Do just about what
you want, Chance.

912
00:44:34,305 --> 00:44:39,110
‐ is a kind of cool guy who
rides into town and rides on,

913
00:44:39,110 --> 00:44:41,810
doesn’t need the town,
doesn’t need the people,

914
00:44:41,812 --> 00:44:44,652
can go on his own way.

915
00:44:46,017 --> 00:44:48,920
‐ Dean is so wonderful.

916
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:53,920
You felt he was really agonized
trying to beat the bottle.

917
00:45:00,798 --> 00:45:02,028
‐ Didn’t spill a drop.

918
00:45:02,033 --> 00:45:05,870
‐ And so many colors
to his character.

919
00:45:05,870 --> 00:45:06,770
‐ Shakes are gone.

920
00:45:08,172 --> 00:45:11,672
‐ Rio Bravo really broke the
mold for him, being as a singer

921
00:45:11,676 --> 00:45:13,186
to being an actor.

922
00:45:14,078 --> 00:45:15,408
‐ I don’t even wanna drink.

923
00:45:16,981 --> 00:45:18,749
‐ It’s about time.

924
00:45:18,749 --> 00:45:21,349
I was getting awful tired
of taking care of you.

925
00:45:21,352 --> 00:45:24,689
‐ If you wanna jump in,
I’ll take care of you.

926
00:45:24,689 --> 00:45:25,919
(chuckles)

927
00:45:25,923 --> 00:45:29,293
‐ Within that movie
is this strange moment

928
00:45:29,293 --> 00:45:32,129
where a musical
number takes place.

929
00:45:32,129 --> 00:45:34,029
‐ He and Ricky Nelson doing that

930
00:45:34,031 --> 00:45:37,931
"My Pony, My Saddle
and Me" I just‐

931
00:45:37,935 --> 00:45:40,705
or was it "My Rifle,
My Pony and Me."

932
00:45:40,705 --> 00:45:45,042
♪ The sun is sinking
in the West ♪

933
00:45:45,042 --> 00:45:47,842
♪ The cattle go
down to the stream ♪

934
00:45:47,845 --> 00:45:51,185
‐ That should be enshrined
in some museum somewhere.

935
00:45:52,550 --> 00:45:54,719
‐ It shouldn’t work
but it does work.

936
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,919
Because he’s created a
character that you believe

937
00:45:57,922 --> 00:46:00,122
really exists in this world.

938
00:46:00,124 --> 00:46:05,134
♪ Purple light in the canyons

939
00:46:06,564 --> 00:46:11,534
♪ That’s where I long to be

940
00:46:11,535 --> 00:46:13,437
‐ When you listen to Dean

941
00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:17,767
there’s this casual
cool kind of sound.

942
00:46:17,775 --> 00:46:21,345
♪ No more cows, no more cows

943
00:46:21,345 --> 00:46:24,215
♪ To be roping, to be roping

944
00:46:24,215 --> 00:46:28,919
♪ No more strays, no
more strays, will I see ♪

945
00:46:28,919 --> 00:46:30,549
It seems effortless.

946
00:46:30,554 --> 00:46:35,393
♪ For my rifle, my pony

947
00:46:35,393 --> 00:46:39,263
♪ and me

948
00:46:39,263 --> 00:46:43,901
At the time Dean sings
"My Rifle, My Pony And Me"

949
00:46:43,901 --> 00:46:46,370
(instrumental music)

950
00:46:46,370 --> 00:46:49,470
people were listening
to a more modern sound.

951
00:46:51,375 --> 00:46:55,713
‐ But our music as a kid growing
up was not Frank Sinatra.

952
00:46:55,713 --> 00:46:58,713
♪ That’ll be the
day when I die ♪

953
00:46:58,716 --> 00:47:02,453
‐ Dean Martin had a fairly
high level of intelligence

954
00:47:02,453 --> 00:47:05,089
and real awareness
about the business

955
00:47:05,089 --> 00:47:06,219
and what was happening.

956
00:47:09,060 --> 00:47:12,360
He had to think about,
"Where’s popular music going

957
00:47:12,363 --> 00:47:14,699
and what is gonna be my career?

958
00:47:14,699 --> 00:47:16,869
I need to develop
something else."

959
00:47:18,669 --> 00:47:22,239
‐ Dean has some
absolute film success.

960
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,339
But what’s he gonna
do in nightclubs?

961
00:47:25,343 --> 00:47:28,612
In a brilliantly,
aptly timed moment,

962
00:47:28,612 --> 00:47:33,622
You have Sinatra, great friend,
he books him at the Sands.

963
00:47:34,218 --> 00:47:36,318
(upbeat music)

964
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:46,390
‐ [James] Out of these feelings
of admiration for Dean,

965
00:47:46,397 --> 00:47:49,300
Frank really began
the first steps

966
00:47:49,300 --> 00:47:53,200
in what was to become Dean’s
comeback in nightclubs.

967
00:47:54,405 --> 00:47:57,775
‐ It was the first time
he was a solo performer.

968
00:47:57,775 --> 00:47:59,475
I know he was nervous.

969
00:48:00,945 --> 00:48:03,814
‐ Dean knows that because
Frank has engineered this

970
00:48:03,814 --> 00:48:05,714
he’s gonna have a
big audience there,

971
00:48:05,716 --> 00:48:07,518
but he’s gotta have an act.

972
00:48:07,518 --> 00:48:09,448
‐ [Deana] I remember
him talking about it.

973
00:48:09,453 --> 00:48:12,723
I remember him saying that
he needed to get a gimmick.

974
00:48:13,858 --> 00:48:15,158
‐ This is the moment
when Ed Simmons

975
00:48:15,159 --> 00:48:17,889
who had written for "The
Colgate Comedy Hour,"

976
00:48:17,895 --> 00:48:20,297
goes to Dean and says,

977
00:48:20,297 --> 00:48:22,657
"Let me help you
come up with an act."

978
00:48:22,666 --> 00:48:26,006
‐ Dean told Simmons
Joe E. Lewis is gone.

979
00:48:27,104 --> 00:48:30,074
Joe E. Lewis was a
famous nightclub comic.

980
00:48:30,074 --> 00:48:32,344
‐ And may I quote
the words of Byron,

981
00:48:34,345 --> 00:48:36,847
Irving Byron, a bartender,
you don’t know him.

982
00:48:36,847 --> 00:48:38,277
(audience laughs)

983
00:48:38,282 --> 00:48:40,451
‐ His character was
based on a guy who drank.

984
00:48:40,451 --> 00:48:43,721
Dean said, "Nobody’s doing
that, I wanna do that."

985
00:48:43,721 --> 00:48:45,921
‐ Dean Martin almost
played the straight man

986
00:48:45,923 --> 00:48:47,658
to his drunken self.

987
00:48:47,658 --> 00:48:50,758
‐ I feel sorry for you
people that don’t drink.

988
00:48:50,761 --> 00:48:53,061
I mean it ’cause when you
wake up in the morning,

989
00:48:53,063 --> 00:48:54,763
that’s good as you’re
gonna feel all day.

990
00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:57,575
(audience laughs)

991
00:48:59,470 --> 00:49:02,970
‐ And I became a
bellhop at the Cal Neva.

992
00:49:04,141 --> 00:49:07,941
The Cal Neva Lodge
was a hotel casino.

993
00:49:07,945 --> 00:49:11,081
All these big acts
would come through.

994
00:49:11,081 --> 00:49:14,381
At the end of the summer was
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

995
00:49:14,385 --> 00:49:16,720
And when I would
finish as a bellhop,

996
00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:20,690
I would go into the main
room to see the two of them.

997
00:49:20,691 --> 00:49:22,691
‐ Oh, thank you very much.

998
00:49:22,693 --> 00:49:24,128
(audience laughs)

999
00:49:24,128 --> 00:49:26,958
‐ When I saw Dean Martin,
I was amazed by him.

1000
00:49:26,964 --> 00:49:29,464
‐ Did he introduce me? I
just walked on... Somebody‐

1001
00:49:29,467 --> 00:49:31,168
‐ He was like,
really, informal and,

1002
00:49:31,168 --> 00:49:32,598
"Where’d I put my drink?"

1003
00:49:32,603 --> 00:49:35,203
He’d say, "What song
are we gonna do?

1004
00:49:35,206 --> 00:49:36,707
That song? I thought
we were doing that.

1005
00:49:36,707 --> 00:49:39,667
No, no? Okay..." He’s just
working this whole thing out

1006
00:49:39,677 --> 00:49:43,681
on stage. And he was a
little bit tipsy, maybe.

1007
00:49:43,681 --> 00:49:47,681
‐ Oh you just remember the
great words of Mr. Joe E. Lewis.

1008
00:49:47,685 --> 00:49:49,185
He says, "You’re not drunk

1009
00:49:49,186 --> 00:49:51,021
if you can lay on the
floor without holding on."

1010
00:49:51,021 --> 00:49:52,421
(audience laughs)

1011
00:49:52,423 --> 00:49:55,059
‐ I’m amazed how
spontaneous he could be

1012
00:49:55,059 --> 00:49:57,228
and still hold a show together.

1013
00:49:57,228 --> 00:50:01,758
The next night I come in,
it’s exactly the same.

1014
00:50:01,765 --> 00:50:04,635
‐ I like the wonderful
words of Mr. Joe E. Lewis

1015
00:50:04,635 --> 00:50:06,804
he said, "You’re not drunk
if you can lay on the floor,"

1016
00:50:06,804 --> 00:50:09,940
‐ One day I went into his
dressing room after he had left

1017
00:50:09,940 --> 00:50:12,470
and saw that glass
down on the table

1018
00:50:12,476 --> 00:50:14,211
and I picked it up.

1019
00:50:14,211 --> 00:50:15,411
Apple juice.

1020
00:50:15,412 --> 00:50:17,348
‐ Dean is gonna
play this character

1021
00:50:17,348 --> 00:50:19,478
for the rest of his
show business career.

1022
00:50:19,483 --> 00:50:22,353
‐ Martin and Lewis
was in another eon.

1023
00:50:22,353 --> 00:50:23,653
(chuckles)

1024
00:50:23,654 --> 00:50:26,123
‐ I don’t know if Dean
was a method actor,

1025
00:50:26,123 --> 00:50:28,893
but there are certain
strategic moments in his life

1026
00:50:28,893 --> 00:50:30,928
where he might have
been a method singer.

1027
00:50:30,928 --> 00:50:35,928
♪ Volare, oh oh

1028
00:50:37,701 --> 00:50:40,137
♪ Cantare

1029
00:50:40,137 --> 00:50:42,037
‐ I can remember all summer

1030
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:45,339
everybody playing his
version of "Volare."

1031
00:50:45,342 --> 00:50:49,412
♪ Your love is giving me wings

1032
00:50:49,413 --> 00:50:54,351
♪ Penso che un sogno cosi
non ritorni mai più ♪

1033
00:50:54,351 --> 00:50:58,789
‐ Dean had the origin element
of cool which is authenticity.

1034
00:50:58,789 --> 00:51:03,789
♪ E incominciavo a volare
nel cielo infinito ♪

1035
00:51:04,995 --> 00:51:07,898
‐ The great thing
about "Volare" is

1036
00:51:07,898 --> 00:51:12,898
it is this return
to the earliest days

1037
00:51:14,004 --> 00:51:18,309
of him singing in
Italian to Steubenville.

1038
00:51:18,309 --> 00:51:20,009
♪ non ritorni mai più

1039
00:51:20,010 --> 00:51:24,310
‐ He’s really leaning into it
and saying that this is me.

1040
00:51:24,315 --> 00:51:28,785
♪ Mi dipingevo le mani
e la faccia di blu ♪

1041
00:51:28,786 --> 00:51:30,996
(audience laughs)

1042
00:51:34,391 --> 00:51:38,891
‐ Coming on the heels of this
breakup with Jerry Lewis,

1043
00:51:38,896 --> 00:51:43,467
if you look at the Italian
to English translation

1044
00:51:43,467 --> 00:51:48,437
of "Volare," it really
does reveal a lot more

1045
00:51:49,573 --> 00:51:51,373
about what Dean
experienced personally

1046
00:51:51,375 --> 00:51:54,045
in that last year before
he made the records.

1047
00:51:55,546 --> 00:51:58,786
"Sometimes the world is a
valley of heartaches and tears.

1048
00:52:00,150 --> 00:52:03,787
And in the hustle and
bustle, no sunshine appears.

1049
00:52:03,787 --> 00:52:07,387
But you and I have our love
always there to remind us.

1050
00:52:08,826 --> 00:52:12,696
There is a way we can leave
all of the shadows behind us."

1051
00:52:13,831 --> 00:52:18,369
Now, if that doesn’t
fit how Dean felt inside

1052
00:52:18,369 --> 00:52:22,339
about the breakup of his
partnership with Jerry Lewis

1053
00:52:22,339 --> 00:52:23,539
I don’t know what does.

1054
00:52:25,442 --> 00:52:30,042
‐ Anytime you return to the
source of your authenticity,

1055
00:52:30,047 --> 00:52:32,549
you get a boost
for going forward.

1056
00:52:32,549 --> 00:52:35,149
(upbeat music)

1057
00:52:37,254 --> 00:52:40,424
‐ Dean Martin was
revered in Vegas.

1058
00:52:42,493 --> 00:52:44,528
He was one of the most charming,

1059
00:52:44,528 --> 00:52:47,958
almost childlike
personalities I ever met.

1060
00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:53,427
Totally relaxed, and everybody
around him was relaxed.

1061
00:52:53,437 --> 00:52:55,773
He was an experience.

1062
00:52:55,773 --> 00:52:59,143
‐ Easygoing, gentleman,
Frank loved him.

1063
00:52:59,143 --> 00:53:01,343
‐ [Announcer] Sammy Davis
joined the two on stage

1064
00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:03,013
and the night went
into high gear.

1065
00:53:03,013 --> 00:53:05,382
‐ Dean and Sammy were special.

1066
00:53:05,382 --> 00:53:06,782
They were more than entertainers

1067
00:53:06,784 --> 00:53:08,384
they were like brothers to him.

1068
00:53:11,922 --> 00:53:14,722
‐ When Sinatra made the
movie "Ocean’s Eleven"

1069
00:53:14,725 --> 00:53:17,261
in Vegas in 1960,

1070
00:53:17,261 --> 00:53:21,298
he decided that they would
do an act at night for fun.

1071
00:53:21,298 --> 00:53:22,228
‐ Say as long as we’re
all here together,

1072
00:53:22,232 --> 00:53:24,501
why don’t we have a drink?

1073
00:53:24,501 --> 00:53:26,570
(audience laughs)

1074
00:53:26,570 --> 00:53:31,570
‐ You had really sophisticated,
charismatic, handsome,

1075
00:53:32,443 --> 00:53:33,843
well‐dressed guys acting like

1076
00:53:33,844 --> 00:53:36,244
drunken fraternity
brothers on stage.

1077
00:53:39,450 --> 00:53:40,980
They call themselves
the Rat Pack.

1078
00:53:40,984 --> 00:53:45,924
This was the apex of nightclub
culture in the United States.

1079
00:53:47,357 --> 00:53:49,517
‐ They were the hipsters.
They were the hip thing.

1080
00:53:49,526 --> 00:53:52,096
(upbeat music)

1081
00:53:53,530 --> 00:53:54,730
‐ They would do the show
and then they would go out

1082
00:53:54,732 --> 00:53:57,972
in the casino, and
Dean would deal cards.

1083
00:53:59,203 --> 00:54:01,438
‐ These guys went
out into the Sands

1084
00:54:01,438 --> 00:54:03,438
and were gambling at night.

1085
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:04,708
‐ They’re having a ball.

1086
00:54:04,708 --> 00:54:06,208
You’re hanging out with
your friends having fun.

1087
00:54:06,210 --> 00:54:07,740
‐ [Narrator] As you might
imagine, in any picture

1088
00:54:07,745 --> 00:54:10,280
Frank Sinatra and Dean
Martin are engaged,

1089
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,410
there’s a gay party atmosphere
among all the players

1090
00:54:12,416 --> 00:54:13,350
in this set.

1091
00:54:13,350 --> 00:54:14,850
‐ All right, the show is on.

1092
00:54:14,852 --> 00:54:17,588
‐ You get older and you
start watching older movies

1093
00:54:17,588 --> 00:54:22,058
and realize that there was
this thing called The Rat Pack.

1094
00:54:22,059 --> 00:54:24,928
♪ How lucky can one guy be?

1095
00:54:24,928 --> 00:54:28,228
♪ I kissed her and
she kissed me ♪

1096
00:54:28,232 --> 00:54:30,267
♪ Like the fella once said,

1097
00:54:30,267 --> 00:54:31,927
♪ "Ain’t that a
kick in the head?" ♪

1098
00:54:31,935 --> 00:54:36,945
That was and remains a pretty
distinct signpost of cool,

1099
00:54:37,808 --> 00:54:39,438
especially masculine cool.

1100
00:54:39,443 --> 00:54:44,381
♪ A flower’s not a
flower if it’s wilted ♪

1101
00:54:44,381 --> 00:54:48,851
♪ A hat’s not a hat
’til it’s tilted ♪

1102
00:54:48,852 --> 00:54:51,622
And the deeper you dig into
it the more you realize

1103
00:54:51,622 --> 00:54:54,922
there’s a reason that
it has staying power.

1104
00:54:57,060 --> 00:54:59,490
‐ We definitely
have, over the years,

1105
00:54:59,496 --> 00:55:01,298
created our own Rat Packs,
you know what I mean,

1106
00:55:01,298 --> 00:55:04,067
you see the Rockefeller,
the Jay‐Z crew,

1107
00:55:04,067 --> 00:55:05,327
you see the Wu Tang Clan,

1108
00:55:05,335 --> 00:55:08,038
a bunch of men all
coming together,

1109
00:55:08,038 --> 00:55:11,338
and they actually move culture
forward when you have that.

1110
00:55:13,343 --> 00:55:15,843
‐ There was a feeling of
family, a feeling of community.

1111
00:55:15,846 --> 00:55:17,748
‐ And now she is
the leading lady

1112
00:55:17,748 --> 00:55:20,278
of our picture "Ocean’s
Eleven," Miss Angie Dickinson.

1113
00:55:20,284 --> 00:55:22,352
(claps)

1114
00:55:22,352 --> 00:55:24,788
‐ Did I hang out with
all of them much?

1115
00:55:24,788 --> 00:55:28,458
Not an awful lot, you
just can’t hang around

1116
00:55:28,458 --> 00:55:33,458
with that many gorgeous,
successful, fun, happy men

1117
00:55:34,865 --> 00:55:37,005
and pretty soon you’ll
have to explain yourself.

1118
00:55:40,037 --> 00:55:43,106
‐ My dad would be out
there, entertain everybody,

1119
00:55:43,106 --> 00:55:45,916
and then he was perfectly
happy being at home.

1120
00:55:46,944 --> 00:55:48,178
‐ [George] He and Jeanne Martin

1121
00:55:48,178 --> 00:55:49,878
had one of the great
families of all time.

1122
00:55:52,316 --> 00:55:54,818
Every night they’d
get home for dinner.

1123
00:55:54,818 --> 00:55:57,418
They would all meet in this
huge dining room they had.

1124
00:55:58,589 --> 00:56:01,019
‐ Together at 601
Mountain Drive,

1125
00:56:01,024 --> 00:56:03,224
seven kids sitting
around the table.

1126
00:56:03,227 --> 00:56:05,562
That was the happy place.

1127
00:56:05,562 --> 00:56:07,431
My grandmother was
making the pasta fazool

1128
00:56:07,431 --> 00:56:08,431
and the chicken.

1129
00:56:08,432 --> 00:56:10,801
Everybody was over at the house.

1130
00:56:10,801 --> 00:56:14,838
If we all had a friend over,
it’s 14 people right there.

1131
00:56:14,838 --> 00:56:17,038
‐ We would dine in
the dining room.

1132
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,540
Dean would be there at
the head of the table

1133
00:56:19,543 --> 00:56:21,411
and Jeanne would be there.

1134
00:56:21,411 --> 00:56:22,880
It’s something let me tell you

1135
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,249
having Dean Martin sit
at the head of the table.

1136
00:56:25,249 --> 00:56:27,417
‐ Dean came home one
night with Frank.

1137
00:56:27,417 --> 00:56:28,677
The kids brought their friends.

1138
00:56:28,685 --> 00:56:30,153
There was no room
in the dining room

1139
00:56:30,153 --> 00:56:32,222
and Dean says, "How do
you like that pally,

1140
00:56:32,222 --> 00:56:34,091
we screwed ourselves
out of a seat

1141
00:56:34,091 --> 00:56:35,559
at the dining room table."

1142
00:56:35,559 --> 00:56:36,789
(chuckles)

1143
00:56:36,793 --> 00:56:38,493
So Dean and Frank
ate in the kitchen.

1144
00:56:40,063 --> 00:56:42,763
‐ Guitarist Dino
Martin Jr. is 13.

1145
00:56:44,835 --> 00:56:47,704
‐ [Bill] Dino, Desi, and
Billy, they had a rock band

1146
00:56:47,704 --> 00:56:50,173
with some modicum of success.

1147
00:56:50,173 --> 00:56:52,109
♪ You can’t be kind to me

1148
00:56:52,109 --> 00:56:53,709
‐ You got Dean
Martin’s son, Dino,

1149
00:56:53,710 --> 00:56:55,779
Desi Arnaz’s son,
Desi Arnaz Jr.,

1150
00:56:55,779 --> 00:56:59,349
and another equally
talented guy named Billy.

1151
00:56:59,349 --> 00:57:02,679
‐ In 1965, I’d mark
that as our year.

1152
00:57:02,686 --> 00:57:05,656
We were sharing the top
10, 20 in any given city

1153
00:57:05,656 --> 00:57:09,266
with The Beatles, The
Supremes, The Stones.

1154
00:57:11,795 --> 00:57:14,698
‐ He had a big hit. In fact
Dino made so much money

1155
00:57:14,698 --> 00:57:16,258
when he was 16 years old,

1156
00:57:16,266 --> 00:57:18,836
he bought himself
a Dino Ferrari.

1157
00:57:19,970 --> 00:57:21,738
And I’m trying to
think what age he was

1158
00:57:21,738 --> 00:57:24,568
when he started flying
the helicopters.

1159
00:57:27,244 --> 00:57:32,014
We had a fun house, it was a
big crazy family that we had.

1160
00:57:33,784 --> 00:57:36,353
Dean Paul is just a couple
years younger than I am

1161
00:57:36,353 --> 00:57:38,153
and Ricky younger than that.

1162
00:57:38,155 --> 00:57:40,824
But Dino and Ricky
bought a Sherman tank.

1163
00:57:40,824 --> 00:57:44,094
Dad and Jeanne had just
gotten back from a trip

1164
00:57:44,094 --> 00:57:45,429
and Dad when he would come home,

1165
00:57:45,429 --> 00:57:46,989
he would turn on the lights.

1166
00:57:48,398 --> 00:57:49,858
So he said that he
and Jeanne go in

1167
00:57:49,866 --> 00:57:52,336
and they turned on the
lights and there’s a tank.

1168
00:57:52,336 --> 00:57:55,138
She said that Dad turned
off the lights and said,

1169
00:57:55,138 --> 00:57:57,908
"Is there a tank in the garage?"

1170
00:57:57,908 --> 00:58:00,108
And she said, "Yes there
is," he said, "Okay."

1171
00:58:00,110 --> 00:58:02,479
They were nuts, Dino and Ricky.

1172
00:58:02,479 --> 00:58:04,649
All of us were a
little bit crazy.

1173
00:58:05,782 --> 00:58:09,319
‐ I did security for
Dean for almost 10 years

1174
00:58:09,319 --> 00:58:11,449
between he and the family.

1175
00:58:11,455 --> 00:58:13,590
Two o’clock in the
morning, I would hear,

1176
00:58:13,590 --> 00:58:14,958
(mimicking footstep sounds)

1177
00:58:14,958 --> 00:58:16,488
and he’d be coming
down the stairs

1178
00:58:16,493 --> 00:58:18,093
and he’d have a sport coat on,

1179
00:58:18,095 --> 00:58:19,563
there’d be golf
balls in his pocket.

1180
00:58:19,563 --> 00:58:23,633
He had pajama bottoms on
the bottom and his slippers,

1181
00:58:23,633 --> 00:58:28,071
and he would be hitting
golf balls down Copa de Oro.

1182
00:58:28,071 --> 00:58:30,471
(bell rings)

1183
00:58:31,908 --> 00:58:36,578
‐ The very first movie I
ever did starred Dean Martin.

1184
00:58:36,580 --> 00:58:39,410
Jason, you and Melissa
were made for each other

1185
00:58:39,416 --> 00:58:40,984
and I unmade you.

1186
00:58:40,984 --> 00:58:44,021
Dean was so loose.

1187
00:58:44,021 --> 00:58:45,421
Jason, what are you doing?

1188
00:58:45,422 --> 00:58:48,492
And was a lot of
fun, very supportive.

1189
00:58:48,492 --> 00:58:50,392
I can help you I work
with mental illness.

1190
00:58:50,394 --> 00:58:52,162
Believe me, I know
what makes you tick.

1191
00:58:52,162 --> 00:58:54,131
He would go play golf a lot.

1192
00:58:54,131 --> 00:58:54,931
(chuckles)

1193
00:58:54,931 --> 00:58:56,400
When he was finished,

1194
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:58,230
he’d say, "I want to get out
of here so I can go play golf."

1195
00:59:00,103 --> 00:59:01,603
‐ He was an excellent golfer,

1196
00:59:01,605 --> 00:59:04,541
one of the best of
the entertainers.

1197
00:59:04,541 --> 00:59:07,511
‐ The carpet in our house was
green, it was like a fairway,

1198
00:59:08,445 --> 00:59:10,045
and he would practice his swing.

1199
00:59:11,481 --> 00:59:14,281
‐ A lot of people wonder
why celebrities play golf.

1200
00:59:14,284 --> 00:59:16,784
It’s because there was no way

1201
00:59:16,787 --> 00:59:18,897
anybody could get out
there to bother him.

1202
00:59:24,394 --> 00:59:26,794
‐ Dean really had
two basic lives.

1203
00:59:26,797 --> 00:59:29,299
He was the Dean
Martin everybody saw,

1204
00:59:29,299 --> 00:59:34,299
the laid‐back, playboy,
boozy type image.

1205
00:59:34,304 --> 00:59:38,474
And Dino Crocetti, the guy
who worried about his future

1206
00:59:38,475 --> 00:59:40,075
and the people he really loved.

1207
00:59:40,077 --> 00:59:45,087
And the golf game, which
showed him, I was good at golf.

1208
00:59:45,816 --> 00:59:47,284
It wasn’t made up.

1209
00:59:47,284 --> 00:59:50,020
I could really be good
or I could really be bad.

1210
00:59:50,020 --> 00:59:52,650
But in show business,
everything’s made up.

1211
00:59:59,596 --> 01:00:02,232
‐ Dean really never
spent much time

1212
01:00:02,232 --> 01:00:05,068
hanging out late at
night with Frank Sinatra.

1213
01:00:05,068 --> 01:00:07,198
‐ He would go to his room.

1214
01:00:07,204 --> 01:00:08,939
Frank would want to have
dinner with everybody,

1215
01:00:08,939 --> 01:00:10,369
we’d have dinner with everybody

1216
01:00:10,373 --> 01:00:12,313
and Dean would go
up to his room.

1217
01:00:13,410 --> 01:00:16,010
‐ Sinatra was a dictator,

1218
01:00:16,012 --> 01:00:17,781
and Sinatra could
dictate the terms

1219
01:00:17,781 --> 01:00:21,221
of any social interaction
except with one person.

1220
01:00:22,686 --> 01:00:25,088
If Sinatra told you that you
were gonna stay up with him

1221
01:00:25,088 --> 01:00:29,858
until 5:00, 6:30 AM and keep
him company, you did it.

1222
01:00:29,860 --> 01:00:32,690
If Sinatra said that
to Dean he would say,

1223
01:00:32,696 --> 01:00:36,533
"Fuck you Frank," and he’d
walk away and he’d go to bed.

1224
01:00:36,533 --> 01:00:39,103
(jazz music)

1225
01:00:41,738 --> 01:00:45,008
‐ Dean and Jeanne they had
a practically open house,

1226
01:00:45,008 --> 01:00:46,538
a lot of parties.

1227
01:00:46,543 --> 01:00:49,083
‐ Jeanne Martin would have
a party every Saturday night

1228
01:00:50,180 --> 01:00:51,510
and they’d invite everybody over

1229
01:00:51,515 --> 01:00:54,518
and they were the Milton
Berles and that society.

1230
01:00:54,518 --> 01:00:57,388
‐ The A‐list. The Billy
Wilders and Jimmy Stewart.

1231
01:00:58,822 --> 01:01:00,690
‐ 8:30, 9:00 o’clock Dean
would come through the room

1232
01:01:00,690 --> 01:01:03,290
with his martini, "Hey,
pally, how are you,

1233
01:01:03,293 --> 01:01:04,127
oh, nice to see you,

1234
01:01:04,127 --> 01:01:05,657
oh, hello, pal."

1235
01:01:05,662 --> 01:01:08,932
And everybody was sure that
Dean was so glad to see ’em.

1236
01:01:08,932 --> 01:01:10,432
‐ And after a little while,

1237
01:01:10,433 --> 01:01:12,873
suddenly everybody would look
around and say where’s Dean?

1238
01:01:15,372 --> 01:01:18,909
‐ I went to a party that
was given by Dean Martin.

1239
01:01:18,909 --> 01:01:22,809
It was a big affair, and
I went to the bathroom.

1240
01:01:22,812 --> 01:01:26,612
And I walked past this door
that was like a quarter open

1241
01:01:26,616 --> 01:01:28,485
and I heard the
television set inside

1242
01:01:28,485 --> 01:01:30,120
and I just looked
inside a little bit.

1243
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:32,650
And there was Dean
Martin at his own party.

1244
01:01:32,656 --> 01:01:35,759
And he’s watching The
Andy Griffith Show.

1245
01:01:35,759 --> 01:01:37,119
‐ If you won’t take
her to the movies

1246
01:01:37,127 --> 01:01:39,262
and buy her $2
worth of popcorn...

1247
01:01:39,262 --> 01:01:40,897
‐ I tried to duck back out.

1248
01:01:40,897 --> 01:01:43,427
He said, "Hey kid, come on
in, what are you doing you?

1249
01:01:43,433 --> 01:01:45,068
Oh, you’re from the party?"

1250
01:01:45,068 --> 01:01:48,238
And it’s like he
said it disdainfully,
and it’s his party.

1251
01:01:48,238 --> 01:01:51,468
And he was very
playful and friendly.

1252
01:01:51,474 --> 01:01:53,243
But I said, "Shouldn’t you
be back out at your party?"

1253
01:01:53,243 --> 01:01:54,743
And he said, "No,
they don’t need me."

1254
01:01:54,744 --> 01:01:56,112
‐ Dean wanted to go to bed.

1255
01:01:56,112 --> 01:01:59,649
And that party going on
downstairs bothered him.

1256
01:01:59,649 --> 01:02:02,549
‐ And he’d call the
Beverly Hills police,

1257
01:02:02,552 --> 01:02:05,488
he said, "I’m a neighbor
of Dean Martin’s,

1258
01:02:05,488 --> 01:02:08,318
and he’s having a
very noisy party."

1259
01:02:08,325 --> 01:02:11,261
‐ "I live on Mountain Drive
and the people down there

1260
01:02:11,261 --> 01:02:13,530
are having a party with
a lot of noisy people,

1261
01:02:13,530 --> 01:02:15,530
and I’d like for
them to be quiet."

1262
01:02:15,532 --> 01:02:18,268
‐ Police would come over
and knock on Dean’s door,

1263
01:02:18,268 --> 01:02:20,368
Dean would open the
door and they said,

1264
01:02:20,370 --> 01:02:23,700
"Mr. Martin, you really‐ tell
your friends to keep it down,

1265
01:02:23,707 --> 01:02:25,141
the neighbors are complaining."

1266
01:02:25,141 --> 01:02:27,611
So everyone then, well,
maybe we better leave.

1267
01:02:27,611 --> 01:02:29,980
So they all left and so
Dean could go to sleep

1268
01:02:29,980 --> 01:02:32,780
and get up for the golf game.

1269
01:02:34,718 --> 01:02:36,978
‐ I don’t wanna be
flippant about this

1270
01:02:36,987 --> 01:02:38,221
I mean, he loved to play golf.

1271
01:02:38,221 --> 01:02:42,559
And I don’t know that he
had a Rosebud, per se,

1272
01:02:42,559 --> 01:02:43,889
but it was just...

1273
01:02:49,065 --> 01:02:52,202
‐ The core of this,
the root of this,

1274
01:02:52,202 --> 01:02:55,538
was that when people got to
talking at a dinner party,

1275
01:02:55,538 --> 01:02:56,998
all kinds of things
would come up,

1276
01:02:57,007 --> 01:03:00,310
politics would come up,
studio gossip would come up.

1277
01:03:00,310 --> 01:03:03,880
And Dean ultimately felt
that he wasn’t equipped

1278
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:08,920
to hold his own in a
world of bright, shiny,

1279
01:03:10,353 --> 01:03:14,391
fast‐talking people. He was
this guy from Steubenville

1280
01:03:14,391 --> 01:03:16,491
deep in the core of his being.

1281
01:03:16,493 --> 01:03:18,093
And that’s what really
drove him to the den

1282
01:03:18,094 --> 01:03:19,894
to watch the Westerns on TV.

1283
01:03:21,965 --> 01:03:24,868
‐ Dean Martin was coming to
English as a second language.

1284
01:03:24,868 --> 01:03:26,998
Somebody who had that
kind of background,

1285
01:03:27,003 --> 01:03:29,739
this is going to make
you more inclined

1286
01:03:29,739 --> 01:03:33,309
to distrust the
mainstream culture,

1287
01:03:33,310 --> 01:03:35,140
to feel cynical about it,

1288
01:03:35,145 --> 01:03:38,255
you’re gonna be very leery about
wanting to be a part of it.

1289
01:03:41,618 --> 01:03:44,218
‐ When you come from
an Italian family

1290
01:03:44,220 --> 01:03:46,350
speaking only Italian

1291
01:03:46,356 --> 01:03:48,425
and then put into
another culture,

1292
01:03:48,425 --> 01:03:50,325
it gives you a small
advantage as well

1293
01:03:50,327 --> 01:03:51,561
because you know something

1294
01:03:51,561 --> 01:03:53,331
that the rest of the
people don’t know.

1295
01:03:54,731 --> 01:03:57,331
‐ [Gerald] Just look at
Martin’s attitude about JFK.

1296
01:03:59,169 --> 01:04:02,339
‐ When Kennedy was trying
to become president

1297
01:04:02,339 --> 01:04:05,239
there was a relationship between
the Rat Pack and Kennedy.

1298
01:04:05,241 --> 01:04:09,379
‐ Senator John Kennedy from the
great state of Massachusets.

1299
01:04:09,379 --> 01:04:12,809
‐ Kennedy comes to Las Vegas
for the Rat Pack shows.

1300
01:04:14,184 --> 01:04:17,084
‐ The Rat Pack were big
supporters of JFK when he ran.

1301
01:04:17,087 --> 01:04:20,256
They saw JFK as really
a new generation.

1302
01:04:20,256 --> 01:04:22,726
I mean, they saw him as
like the hip president.

1303
01:04:22,726 --> 01:04:25,766
If there was ever a hip
president, it was gonna be JFK.

1304
01:04:27,364 --> 01:04:29,532
‐ [Steven] Sinatra was yearning

1305
01:04:29,532 --> 01:04:31,502
to be a part of
the administration.

1306
01:04:32,802 --> 01:04:35,202
Sammy Davis Jr. was very hopeful

1307
01:04:35,205 --> 01:04:37,807
that Kennedy would represent
a kind of new chapter

1308
01:04:37,807 --> 01:04:39,067
in the civil rights.

1309
01:04:39,075 --> 01:04:40,610
‐ Negro baby is born there

1310
01:04:40,610 --> 01:04:42,940
and a white baby
is born next door.

1311
01:04:42,946 --> 01:04:46,049
His chance of being unemployed
is four times of that baby’s.

1312
01:04:46,049 --> 01:04:48,618
‐ Part of the attraction
of the Rat Pack,

1313
01:04:48,618 --> 01:04:51,448
and I think part of
actually their agenda

1314
01:04:51,454 --> 01:04:55,658
because they actually sort of
talked about this on occasion,

1315
01:04:55,658 --> 01:04:57,018
was civil rights.

1316
01:04:59,496 --> 01:05:02,665
‐ In Las Vegas at the time
that the Rat Pack has emerged,

1317
01:05:02,665 --> 01:05:05,468
having an integrated act
is very, very unusual.

1318
01:05:05,468 --> 01:05:07,498
It’s a big deal.

1319
01:05:07,504 --> 01:05:08,904
‐ [Deana] Sammy wasn’t allowed,

1320
01:05:08,905 --> 01:05:11,374
they wouldn’t let him
into a restaurant.

1321
01:05:11,374 --> 01:05:13,843
In the Sands he could
perform on stage

1322
01:05:13,843 --> 01:05:15,443
and bring in lots of money.

1323
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:20,110
‐ [Gerald] The Rat Pack made
it seem like a hip person

1324
01:05:20,116 --> 01:05:22,018
doesn’t have any
problem with somebody

1325
01:05:22,018 --> 01:05:23,318
because of their race.

1326
01:05:24,487 --> 01:05:27,087
‐ Dean Martin, he liked
Kennedy’s candidacy

1327
01:05:27,090 --> 01:05:29,820
and had great sympathy for
the civil rights movement.

1328
01:05:29,826 --> 01:05:33,163
But he was more
cynical about politics.

1329
01:05:33,163 --> 01:05:35,363
He didn’t really
trust politicians.

1330
01:05:35,365 --> 01:05:37,867
‐ Dean, who didn’t give
a shit about politicians,

1331
01:05:37,867 --> 01:05:39,327
said stay away from those guys.

1332
01:05:39,335 --> 01:05:41,471
‐ Hi Jack.

1333
01:05:41,471 --> 01:05:43,071
‐ What was his last name again?

1334
01:05:43,072 --> 01:05:45,909
(audience laughs)

1335
01:05:45,909 --> 01:05:48,239
‐ Dean Martin was wiser
than the other people

1336
01:05:48,244 --> 01:05:49,744
in the Rat Pack.

1337
01:05:49,746 --> 01:05:53,283
And certainly Sinatra was
kind of naive about Kennedy.

1338
01:05:53,283 --> 01:05:55,618
(soft music)

1339
01:05:55,618 --> 01:05:59,388
JFK made that very clear
to him once he got elected.

1340
01:05:59,389 --> 01:06:02,419
No, Sammy Davis isn’t
coming to the inauguration

1341
01:06:02,425 --> 01:06:05,094
because I can’t have an
integrated couple there,

1342
01:06:05,094 --> 01:06:07,430
that’s just not
gonna work for me.

1343
01:06:07,430 --> 01:06:10,099
Sammy Davis Jr. felt
betrayed by this

1344
01:06:10,099 --> 01:06:12,629
because he thought that
JFK was his friend.

1345
01:06:14,304 --> 01:06:17,240
‐ [Steven] Kennedy’s
inauguration,
absolutely dominated

1346
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:21,140
by Hollywood actors,
singers, entertainers.

1347
01:06:21,144 --> 01:06:25,654
Sinatra went along with all
of this, but not Dean Martin.

1348
01:06:27,250 --> 01:06:29,150
‐ [Deana] Dad did not
go to the inauguration

1349
01:06:29,152 --> 01:06:30,682
’cause of Sammy.

1350
01:06:30,687 --> 01:06:33,189
Dad said, "This is my friend,
I’m sticking with my friend

1351
01:06:33,189 --> 01:06:34,219
and I’m not going."

1352
01:06:36,493 --> 01:06:39,293
‐ Martin seemed like
somebody who had no tolerance

1353
01:06:39,295 --> 01:06:41,598
for bullshit. To be
somebody who was cool

1354
01:06:41,598 --> 01:06:43,128
was that you were honest.

1355
01:06:43,132 --> 01:06:45,032
You were honest about yourself.

1356
01:06:45,034 --> 01:06:47,403
You were honest about
the world about you.

1357
01:06:47,403 --> 01:06:50,173
You didn’t accept bullshit.

1358
01:06:50,173 --> 01:06:54,343
‐ Dean Martin had a
kind of honor code.

1359
01:06:54,344 --> 01:06:55,544
On "The Dean Martin Show,"

1360
01:06:55,545 --> 01:06:58,314
Greg Garrison, who
was his producer,

1361
01:06:58,314 --> 01:07:00,149
one of the most lucrative deals,

1362
01:07:00,149 --> 01:07:04,949
they never had a written
contract. They just shook hands.

1363
01:07:06,322 --> 01:07:09,092
‐ [Announcer] It’s "The
Milton Berle Show."

1364
01:07:10,860 --> 01:07:13,590
‐ In the early
1960s, variety shows

1365
01:07:13,596 --> 01:07:15,164
were the staple of television.

1366
01:07:15,164 --> 01:07:18,868
♪ We wish you the happiest,
the happiest, the happiest ♪

1367
01:07:18,868 --> 01:07:22,238
And NBC decided that they
would like Dean Martin

1368
01:07:22,238 --> 01:07:24,298
to host his own weekly show.

1369
01:07:24,307 --> 01:07:26,843
‐ He did not want
to do a TV show.

1370
01:07:26,843 --> 01:07:29,343
I think Frank Sinatra had
a show that didn’t work.

1371
01:07:31,447 --> 01:07:33,477
Jerry Lewis had a TV
show, it didn’t work.

1372
01:07:35,051 --> 01:07:36,581
Dad didn’t really wanna do it.

1373
01:07:37,453 --> 01:07:39,188
‐ So he made a lot of demands.

1374
01:07:39,188 --> 01:07:41,388
A lot of money, of course.

1375
01:07:41,391 --> 01:07:44,391
Also, he didn’t want to
come in for rehearsals.

1376
01:07:44,394 --> 01:07:46,930
And he would only tape the
show on one day a week.

1377
01:07:46,930 --> 01:07:48,898
‐ And I want that to
be on Sunday afternoon

1378
01:07:48,898 --> 01:07:50,058
after I play golf.

1379
01:07:51,534 --> 01:07:55,672
‐ He thought NBC would never
agree to that, but they did.

1380
01:07:55,672 --> 01:07:57,272
‐ Yeah, it sure is
good to be back.

1381
01:07:57,273 --> 01:07:59,108
On Nebec‐ Nebec?

1382
01:07:59,108 --> 01:08:00,608
‐ [Announcer] On NBC.

1383
01:08:00,610 --> 01:08:03,910
‐ NBC. Ya stick a period in
after everything there. Nebec.

1384
01:08:05,214 --> 01:08:07,414
‐ That show was hugely popular.

1385
01:08:07,417 --> 01:08:09,652
‐ I watch it every
Monday night, Andy.

1386
01:08:09,652 --> 01:08:12,252
(audience laughs)

1387
01:08:14,857 --> 01:08:17,557
‐ We were the top 10 for
the entire nine years.

1388
01:08:20,563 --> 01:08:22,432
‐ And they’re so nice to me.

1389
01:08:22,432 --> 01:08:25,802
They told me to treat this
place like it was my own home,

1390
01:08:25,802 --> 01:08:28,002
and I do, I show up once a week.

1391
01:08:28,004 --> 01:08:29,739
(audience laughs)

1392
01:08:29,739 --> 01:08:31,239
‐ It was a happy set.

1393
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:33,370
I can’t think of any other
show I’ve ever worked on

1394
01:08:33,376 --> 01:08:34,844
where everybody had a good time.

1395
01:08:34,844 --> 01:08:37,513
‐ We worked with
all the top stars.

1396
01:08:37,513 --> 01:08:39,213
‐ I’m working on a
Western right now

1397
01:08:39,215 --> 01:08:40,483
with Kirk Douglas...

1398
01:08:40,483 --> 01:08:42,783
‐ I did "The Dean Martin
Show" with Dom DeLuise.

1399
01:08:42,785 --> 01:08:44,253
You talk about funny.

1400
01:08:44,253 --> 01:08:47,723
We literally couldn’t go on,
we just couldn’t stop laughing.

1401
01:08:49,492 --> 01:08:52,028
‐ Dom DeLuise is one of the
funniest men in the world.

1402
01:08:52,028 --> 01:08:53,488
Greg Garrison, our producer,

1403
01:08:53,496 --> 01:08:57,100
he took Dom into Dean’s
dressing room and of course,

1404
01:08:57,100 --> 01:09:02,100
Dean’s dresser was full of
delicatessen stuff on the table.

1405
01:09:03,272 --> 01:09:04,807
And Dom said, "Look
at all this food!

1406
01:09:04,807 --> 01:09:07,237
You’re somebody I
could love!" to Dean.

1407
01:09:07,243 --> 01:09:10,013
And they did the
show many many times,

1408
01:09:10,013 --> 01:09:13,650
and went off to,
on an adlib spree

1409
01:09:13,650 --> 01:09:15,318
almost every time
he was on the show.

1410
01:09:15,318 --> 01:09:16,848
‐ How much was that again?

1411
01:09:16,853 --> 01:09:20,553
‐ 17,000,000, 369
79,000 million dollars.

1412
01:09:20,556 --> 01:09:22,592
(audience laughs)

1413
01:09:22,592 --> 01:09:25,128
‐ And Dean loved that,
he went along with it.

1414
01:09:25,128 --> 01:09:26,058
‐ That’s a lot of‐

1415
01:09:26,062 --> 01:09:26,892
(bleeping)

1416
01:09:26,896 --> 01:09:28,665
(audience laughs)

1417
01:09:28,665 --> 01:09:30,099
‐ He’d be in such
good spirits about it.

1418
01:09:30,099 --> 01:09:32,199
‐ You’re always
pretending to be so dumb.

1419
01:09:32,201 --> 01:09:33,569
You know what I mean?

1420
01:09:33,569 --> 01:09:35,338
‐ Yeah, I’m not pretending,
I really am dumb.

1421
01:09:35,338 --> 01:09:36,798
(audience laughing)

1422
01:09:36,806 --> 01:09:38,941
‐ He loved performers and
when he looked at Goldie Hawn

1423
01:09:38,941 --> 01:09:40,371
it was magic.

1424
01:09:40,376 --> 01:09:42,578
‐ He loved surrounding
himself with talented people

1425
01:09:42,578 --> 01:09:45,248
’cause he was so secure
in his own talent.

1426
01:09:45,248 --> 01:09:47,978
‐ If you were one of Doris
Day’s freckles would you tell?

1427
01:09:47,984 --> 01:09:49,819
‐ What are you reading, Dean?

1428
01:09:49,819 --> 01:09:51,219
‐ Popular Mechanics.

1429
01:09:52,321 --> 01:09:54,451
‐ It was like
going to university

1430
01:09:54,457 --> 01:09:57,760
to see these great
performers work every week.

1431
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:02,760
Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra,
Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald.

1432
01:10:03,633 --> 01:10:05,001
‐ We didn’t rehearse with Dean.

1433
01:10:05,001 --> 01:10:06,231
(chuckles)

1434
01:10:06,235 --> 01:10:07,470
He was on the golf
course playing golf.

1435
01:10:07,470 --> 01:10:10,640
‐ I never saw him
before a show ever.

1436
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:13,370
‐ Oh, will you stop
being so ridiculous?

1437
01:10:13,376 --> 01:10:15,712
‐ Hey there, that’s
not in the scrippy.

1438
01:10:15,712 --> 01:10:17,712
(audience laughs)

1439
01:10:17,714 --> 01:10:19,514
‐ They always said
Dean didn’t rehearse.

1440
01:10:19,515 --> 01:10:23,585
What he would do is he would
have the whole show recorded

1441
01:10:23,586 --> 01:10:25,455
and Dean would play
it in the golf cart

1442
01:10:25,455 --> 01:10:27,490
and play it in his car.

1443
01:10:27,490 --> 01:10:29,890
‐ I was the assistant
choreographer on the show.

1444
01:10:31,260 --> 01:10:33,229
I would stand in for
Dean for the dances

1445
01:10:33,229 --> 01:10:36,999
and he would watch it from his
dressing room on a monitor.

1446
01:10:42,772 --> 01:10:45,041
He would see me doing it but
he would see it in reverse

1447
01:10:45,041 --> 01:10:46,641
and I kept saying,
"Should I turn around

1448
01:10:46,642 --> 01:10:47,910
and do it backwards for him?"

1449
01:10:47,910 --> 01:10:50,410
And they said, "No,
do it like you do it."

1450
01:10:50,413 --> 01:10:52,148
And he would reverse
it in his head.

1451
01:10:52,148 --> 01:10:55,278
He’s an amazing natural talent,

1452
01:10:55,284 --> 01:10:58,554
an in intuitive,
natural performer.

1453
01:10:58,554 --> 01:11:00,189
♪ For every girl

1454
01:11:00,189 --> 01:11:02,319
‐ No, no that’s wrong, hold it.

1455
01:11:02,325 --> 01:11:04,093
♪ For every girl

1456
01:11:04,093 --> 01:11:06,993
‐ He would make little
mistakes constantly,

1457
01:11:06,996 --> 01:11:08,798
but that was a part of the show.

1458
01:11:08,798 --> 01:11:10,058
♪ Gimme a little kiss

1459
01:11:10,066 --> 01:11:11,934
‐ No now they only
gave you two bars.

1460
01:11:11,934 --> 01:11:15,538
‐ I was cool with it because
I also improvised a lot.

1461
01:11:15,538 --> 01:11:17,938
He would say to me, "Now
when it’s my turn to sing

1462
01:11:17,940 --> 01:11:19,570
just give me a little poke."

1463
01:11:19,575 --> 01:11:21,144
He never knew his lyrics

1464
01:11:21,144 --> 01:11:23,844
and we’d be laughing
during the takes.

1465
01:11:23,846 --> 01:11:25,786
(singing)

1466
01:11:28,851 --> 01:11:30,119
(singing)

1467
01:11:30,119 --> 01:11:32,819
‐ I knew it was that I
was just taking my time.

1468
01:11:32,822 --> 01:11:35,691
(singing)

1469
01:11:35,691 --> 01:11:38,891
‐ I did a routine on
a guy who got a toupee

1470
01:11:38,895 --> 01:11:40,495
for Christmas from his wife.

1471
01:11:41,931 --> 01:11:43,231
(mumbles)

1472
01:11:43,232 --> 01:11:44,767
...toupee fell into the tea...

1473
01:11:44,767 --> 01:11:47,067
(audience laughing)

1474
01:11:47,069 --> 01:11:49,939
I did 24 of Dean’s shows
and and I liked it.

1475
01:11:49,939 --> 01:11:53,709
We were two nightclub people
that were kind of used to

1476
01:11:53,709 --> 01:11:54,709
the unscripted.

1477
01:11:54,710 --> 01:11:57,110
‐ Would you want
a full exchange?

1478
01:11:57,113 --> 01:11:59,513
(audience laughs)

1479
01:11:59,515 --> 01:12:01,517
‐ I’d like the straight
man who didn’t laugh.

1480
01:12:01,517 --> 01:12:04,147
(audience laughs)

1481
01:12:04,153 --> 01:12:06,422
‐ Sometimes, something
would come out wrong,

1482
01:12:06,422 --> 01:12:07,990
and he’d make a joke out of it.

1483
01:12:07,990 --> 01:12:10,259
♪ I heard somebody whipser

1484
01:12:10,259 --> 01:12:12,089
♪ Whisper

1485
01:12:12,094 --> 01:12:15,097
(audience laughs)

1486
01:12:15,097 --> 01:12:16,897
‐ The S is before the P.

1487
01:12:16,899 --> 01:12:17,999
(audience laughs)

1488
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:19,900
‐ I think it was my first show.

1489
01:12:19,902 --> 01:12:22,038
(upbeat music)

1490
01:12:22,038 --> 01:12:25,608
They always had me
doing acrobatic things
at the rehearsal.

1491
01:12:25,608 --> 01:12:29,608
I did a backflip off a boy’s
back and landed on my foot

1492
01:12:29,612 --> 01:12:31,812
and broke it. The
show was the next day.

1493
01:12:33,082 --> 01:12:36,822
My foot started to swell
and it hurt so badly.

1494
01:12:41,490 --> 01:12:44,220
Get through the numbers and
I’m doing this crazy number

1495
01:12:44,227 --> 01:12:46,967
with all the boys
and my shoe pops off.

1496
01:12:50,933 --> 01:12:52,768
Then we were supposed
to go right from that

1497
01:12:52,768 --> 01:12:54,168
into a number with Dean.

1498
01:12:54,170 --> 01:12:55,070
(audience applause)

1499
01:12:55,071 --> 01:12:56,739
‐ Oh thank you Sir Galahad.

1500
01:12:56,739 --> 01:12:57,569
‐ Florence?

1501
01:12:57,573 --> 01:12:58,808
‐ Yessir, Dean?

1502
01:12:58,808 --> 01:12:59,868
‐ I know you’ve got
a sore toe but...

1503
01:12:59,876 --> 01:13:01,377
(laughs)

1504
01:13:01,377 --> 01:13:04,747
‐ One thing I’d learned about
Dean, he’d love spontaneity.

1505
01:13:04,747 --> 01:13:09,077
♪ It’s called Hernando’s
Hideaway. Ole! ♪

1506
01:13:09,085 --> 01:13:12,088
And he just decided
to do a pratfall.

1507
01:13:12,088 --> 01:13:14,918
♪ Like a flower
bending in the breeze ♪

1508
01:13:14,924 --> 01:13:18,461
(audience laughs)

1509
01:13:18,461 --> 01:13:22,098
We wound up on
the floor, we sang

1510
01:13:22,098 --> 01:13:26,168
♪ I’m in heaven

1511
01:13:26,168 --> 01:13:31,168
♪ And my heart beats so
that I can hardly speak ♪

1512
01:13:32,341 --> 01:13:35,511
It was really a high
point of the show

1513
01:13:35,511 --> 01:13:38,080
and people still
talk about that.

1514
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:43,080
(Christmas music)

1515
01:13:48,157 --> 01:13:49,917
‐ Dean had a great
relationship with Christmas.

1516
01:13:51,327 --> 01:13:53,262
One of the reasons that
Dean’s Christmas show

1517
01:13:53,262 --> 01:13:55,432
was so wonderful is
the happiness in it.

1518
01:13:56,933 --> 01:13:59,101
There’s almost
not a year goes by

1519
01:13:59,101 --> 01:14:01,170
when I don’t, around
Christmas time,

1520
01:14:01,170 --> 01:14:05,640
put in my bootleg copy of "The
Dean Martin Christmas Show."

1521
01:14:07,343 --> 01:14:08,843
‐ Around Christmas time

1522
01:14:08,844 --> 01:14:11,213
Dad was always thinking
about Steubenville, Ohio.

1523
01:14:11,213 --> 01:14:13,582
‐ [Dean] And I’d like to
start by telling all you kids

1524
01:14:13,582 --> 01:14:16,952
in Steubenville, Ohio, at
the St. John’s Hospital,

1525
01:14:16,953 --> 01:14:19,722
to keep a sharp
eye out for Santa,

1526
01:14:19,722 --> 01:14:22,358
’cause he’s on his way
with lots of gifts for you.

1527
01:14:22,358 --> 01:14:23,958
‐ There was one Christmas show

1528
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:26,860
and everybody
brought their kids.

1529
01:14:26,862 --> 01:14:28,831
‐ All these children
belong to the people

1530
01:14:28,831 --> 01:14:31,467
who work on my show.

1531
01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:34,967
Thank you sweetheart, and
they’re just like family to me,

1532
01:14:34,971 --> 01:14:36,501
so I invited...

1533
01:14:36,505 --> 01:14:39,742
‐ Christmas was back
home, it was the family,

1534
01:14:39,742 --> 01:14:42,611
and it was a very
important part of the year.

1535
01:14:42,611 --> 01:14:44,541
‐ Do you know who I am?

1536
01:14:45,514 --> 01:14:46,682
Who?
‐ Dean Martin.

1537
01:14:46,682 --> 01:14:47,512
‐ Dean Martin?

1538
01:14:48,517 --> 01:14:50,577
I’m glad I found that out.

1539
01:14:52,054 --> 01:14:55,324
‐ Christmas comes along and
you hear a Dean Martin song,

1540
01:14:55,324 --> 01:14:57,093
it really is Christmas.

1541
01:14:57,093 --> 01:14:58,893
♪ Oh, the world
is your snowball ♪

1542
01:14:58,894 --> 01:15:02,231
♪ See how it grows,
see how it goes ♪

1543
01:15:02,231 --> 01:15:03,761
♪ Whenever it snows

1544
01:15:03,766 --> 01:15:06,902
‐ Dean recorded one of the
landmark Christmas albums

1545
01:15:06,902 --> 01:15:08,272
in 1966.

1546
01:15:10,106 --> 01:15:12,608
His Christmas record
is still as popular

1547
01:15:12,608 --> 01:15:13,968
as it was back then.

1548
01:15:17,113 --> 01:15:20,913
‐ [ Neil] In 1967, they decided
to bring the Sinatra family

1549
01:15:20,916 --> 01:15:22,286
and Dean’s family in.

1550
01:15:24,453 --> 01:15:25,488
It was a very interesting time

1551
01:15:25,488 --> 01:15:26,988
because all the kids were there.

1552
01:15:26,989 --> 01:15:29,819
A lot of them haven’t
been on camera a lot.

1553
01:15:29,825 --> 01:15:31,694
‐ And we did a whole
Christmas medley

1554
01:15:31,694 --> 01:15:33,362
with the entire families.

1555
01:15:33,362 --> 01:15:35,962
‐ It was fun to be
with everybody and
so we all did duets.

1556
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:41,670
Frank Jr. and Dean Jr. and Dad
and Frank did their number.

1557
01:15:41,670 --> 01:15:43,170
♪ To your kids

1558
01:15:43,172 --> 01:15:45,272
♪ You say little, they say
little, your thumbs twiddle ♪

1559
01:15:45,274 --> 01:15:49,714
Gail and Nancy and Dad and
Frank they did their numbers.

1560
01:15:53,115 --> 01:15:56,752
Tina Sinatra and I we did "doe
a deer" with Frank and Dad

1561
01:15:56,752 --> 01:15:57,882
which was really fun.

1562
01:15:57,887 --> 01:15:59,522
♪ That will bring us back to

1563
01:15:59,522 --> 01:16:03,322
♪ Doe, a deer, a female deer

1564
01:16:03,325 --> 01:16:05,361
‐ It was well,
well‐received by the public.

1565
01:16:05,361 --> 01:16:09,231
The public got to
finally see Dean’s family

1566
01:16:09,231 --> 01:16:10,800
and got to see Frank’s family.

1567
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:15,800
♪ Silent night, holy night

1568
01:16:17,106 --> 01:16:19,675
‐ That moment in
American pop culture

1569
01:16:19,675 --> 01:16:22,478
is really a classic moment.

1570
01:16:22,478 --> 01:16:25,478
All we need to do is look
at Dean and Christmas

1571
01:16:25,481 --> 01:16:28,951
to appreciate how
much he valued family.

1572
01:16:28,951 --> 01:16:30,181
‐ It’s the time of the year when

1573
01:16:30,186 --> 01:16:32,788
old friends and
family get together.

1574
01:16:32,788 --> 01:16:36,018
Sure gives me a warm feeling
to be able to share Christmas

1575
01:16:36,025 --> 01:16:38,260
with my family and
such good friends

1576
01:16:38,260 --> 01:16:40,360
as Frank and his family.

1577
01:16:40,362 --> 01:16:43,899
From all of us to you
and your loved ones.

1578
01:16:43,899 --> 01:16:45,129
Merry, merry Christmas.

1579
01:16:48,003 --> 01:16:51,503
‐ Back when "The Dean Martin
Show" was starting in ’65, ’66

1580
01:16:51,507 --> 01:16:55,377
♪ You’re nobody ’til
somebody loves you ♪

1581
01:16:55,377 --> 01:16:57,737
Dean was at the
height of his career.

1582
01:16:57,746 --> 01:17:02,518
‐ I’m gonna blow up, let me
out of here. I’m cracking.

1583
01:17:02,518 --> 01:17:06,918
‐ The TV show was number one,
his records were soaring.

1584
01:17:06,922 --> 01:17:09,792
♪ Everybody

1585
01:17:09,792 --> 01:17:13,762
♪ loves somebody sometime

1586
01:17:13,762 --> 01:17:17,099
He just put the Beatles
out of number one position

1587
01:17:17,099 --> 01:17:18,599
with "Everybody Loves Somebody."

1588
01:17:20,636 --> 01:17:22,176
His movies were taking off.

1589
01:17:23,739 --> 01:17:28,039
He worked, and he
worked constantly, but
then Dean’s mother,

1590
01:17:30,679 --> 01:17:34,249
Dean’s father and
Dean’s brother Bill

1591
01:17:35,684 --> 01:17:38,554
passed away within the same
year and a half of each other.

1592
01:17:41,290 --> 01:17:44,660
I really don’t think he
had the time to mourn

1593
01:17:44,660 --> 01:17:47,660
the loss of his family, his
mother, his father, his brother.

1594
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:53,169
‐ I couldn’t believe I was asked

1595
01:17:53,169 --> 01:17:56,139
to be on "The Dean Martin Show."

1596
01:17:57,606 --> 01:18:01,376
And after the show I went out
into the dark NBC parking lot

1597
01:18:01,377 --> 01:18:03,979
and I saw him get
into his limousine.

1598
01:18:03,979 --> 01:18:08,979
As he came by I could just
see him in the backseat,

1599
01:18:08,984 --> 01:18:10,719
slumped,

1600
01:18:10,719 --> 01:18:15,719
looking quite sad, and I
waved to him, he waved back,

1601
01:18:16,892 --> 01:18:19,592
I thought this is...
this is show business.

1602
01:18:19,595 --> 01:18:24,265
Poor man gave everything in
that performance tonight.

1603
01:18:24,266 --> 01:18:28,571
Seeing him slumped in the
back of a dark limousine

1604
01:18:28,571 --> 01:18:32,971
on a dark night
looking very unhappy

1605
01:18:32,975 --> 01:18:37,545
is unfortunately the image
that remains with me.

1606
01:18:44,620 --> 01:18:46,689
‐ One beautiful thing
about our business is

1607
01:18:46,689 --> 01:18:48,657
that we get to come to Hollywood

1608
01:18:48,657 --> 01:18:50,657
and we could be who we wanna be.

1609
01:18:50,659 --> 01:18:53,029
‐ Oh, I’m happy you
all tuned in tonight.

1610
01:18:54,230 --> 01:18:56,660
‐ But who you are is
always who you are.

1611
01:18:56,665 --> 01:18:58,734
You can never leave yourself

1612
01:18:58,734 --> 01:19:00,404
’cause yourself is within you.

1613
01:19:01,870 --> 01:19:05,940
No matter how great
Dean Martin became

1614
01:19:05,941 --> 01:19:09,241
the child in him remained.

1615
01:19:09,245 --> 01:19:12,581
That child could be
smothered by other things

1616
01:19:12,581 --> 01:19:13,981
as you live through life,

1617
01:19:13,983 --> 01:19:16,983
but eventually like
that same blade of grass

1618
01:19:16,986 --> 01:19:18,554
that grows through the concrete

1619
01:19:18,554 --> 01:19:21,054
that child will come
back up and show itself.

1620
01:19:23,993 --> 01:19:26,693
‐ [Jeanne] He just didn’t
talk, what can I tell you?

1621
01:19:35,704 --> 01:19:37,973
‐ Jeanne said of Dean,

1622
01:19:37,973 --> 01:19:40,743
she was married to the
guy for two decades,

1623
01:19:40,743 --> 01:19:44,079
she had three kids with
him, she never knew him.

1624
01:19:44,079 --> 01:19:46,509
She tried to, she thought
she could fix him,

1625
01:19:46,515 --> 01:19:49,084
she thought she could
make him less distant,

1626
01:19:49,084 --> 01:19:50,454
and it just never happened.

1627
01:19:52,955 --> 01:19:54,490
‐ One day we came to work

1628
01:19:54,490 --> 01:19:56,759
and saw the headlines
in the LA Times

1629
01:19:56,759 --> 01:20:00,359
that Jeanne was divorcing him,
it was a shock to all of us

1630
01:20:00,362 --> 01:20:02,202
we had no idea that
was gonna happen.

1631
01:20:04,533 --> 01:20:07,870
‐ The way she handled it,
that’s how we all handled it.

1632
01:20:07,870 --> 01:20:10,800
It was okay, don’t be
mad at your father,

1633
01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:13,509
don’t put him down,
don’t badmouth Cathy,

1634
01:20:13,509 --> 01:20:15,309
don’t badmouth anybody.

1635
01:20:15,311 --> 01:20:20,311
It’s just, take care of it
with elegance and class.

1636
01:20:21,183 --> 01:20:21,883
I couldn’t understand it.

1637
01:20:25,187 --> 01:20:27,217
I was gonna say something
but I’m not gonna say it.

1638
01:20:29,358 --> 01:20:31,958
‐ There’s a line in
Shakespeare’s Macbeth,

1639
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:34,590
"The grief that does not speak,

1640
01:20:34,596 --> 01:20:37,966
whispers over the fraught
heart and bids it break."

1641
01:20:39,868 --> 01:20:44,838
Grief that you hold on
to, it wants to get out

1642
01:20:46,642 --> 01:20:48,512
and so it breaks the
heart to get out.

1643
01:20:49,678 --> 01:20:52,648
Dean had a hit in like ’70.

1644
01:20:52,648 --> 01:20:57,248
And it was a kind of
very sentimental song

1645
01:20:57,252 --> 01:21:00,222
called "My Woman,
My Woman, My Wife."

1646
01:21:00,222 --> 01:21:05,232
♪ Eyes that show
some disappointment ♪

1647
01:21:06,995 --> 01:21:08,263
♪ And there’s been

1648
01:21:08,263 --> 01:21:11,900
The loss of Jeanne
which was his fault,

1649
01:21:11,900 --> 01:21:14,970
he’s deeply deeply
grieving that.

1650
01:21:14,970 --> 01:21:19,970
♪ She’s the
foundation I lean on ♪

1651
01:21:22,111 --> 01:21:27,081
♪ My woman, my woman, my wife

1652
01:21:32,388 --> 01:21:36,188
(applause)

1653
01:21:36,191 --> 01:21:40,291
‐ On Dean’s variety show,
he had this wonderful moment

1654
01:21:40,295 --> 01:21:41,897
of the show,
totally spontaneous.

1655
01:21:41,897 --> 01:21:44,997
‐ Dare I? Dare I open it?

1656
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:46,769
‐ He would go over
and open the door.

1657
01:21:46,769 --> 01:21:48,029
‐ If there’s a bear in here...

1658
01:21:49,138 --> 01:21:51,068
(applause)

1659
01:21:51,073 --> 01:21:52,943
‐ He did not know who
was gonna be there.

1660
01:21:53,842 --> 01:21:55,212
Jimmy Durante could come out.

1661
01:21:56,645 --> 01:21:58,747
Whoever could come out.
Red Buttons could come out

1662
01:21:58,747 --> 01:22:00,247
or Bob Newhart could come out.

1663
01:22:01,717 --> 01:22:04,086
And I’d always been hoping,
oh I’d hope, open the door,

1664
01:22:04,086 --> 01:22:05,854
if only Jerry Lewis
would come out.

1665
01:22:05,854 --> 01:22:09,024
‐ Jer Bear walks through
there, I’m quittin’.

1666
01:22:09,024 --> 01:22:11,693
‐ Of course it never
happened in all those years.

1667
01:22:11,693 --> 01:22:12,528
‐ You all will?

1668
01:22:12,528 --> 01:22:13,828
(laughs)

1669
01:22:16,098 --> 01:22:19,298
‐ [James] After the
breakup in July of 1956,

1670
01:22:19,301 --> 01:22:21,731
they were still very
thoroughly broken up.

1671
01:22:21,737 --> 01:22:24,406
‐ We were not allowed to
talk about Dean at home,

1672
01:22:24,406 --> 01:22:25,974
that was a hot button issue.

1673
01:22:25,974 --> 01:22:29,812
And if we mentioned anything
in specific about him,

1674
01:22:29,812 --> 01:22:31,782
it would not be appreciated.

1675
01:22:33,649 --> 01:22:36,079
‐ My dad didn’t
talk about Jerry,

1676
01:22:36,084 --> 01:22:38,353
he just didn’t wanna
hear his name anymore.

1677
01:22:38,353 --> 01:22:42,057
Don’t talk to me about
Jerry Lewis, that’s done.

1678
01:22:42,057 --> 01:22:44,257
‐ They were very much
a thing of the past

1679
01:22:44,259 --> 01:22:47,559
until Labor Day
Telethon in 1976.

1680
01:22:50,399 --> 01:22:54,729
‐ The Telethon was the Labor
Day 20 and a half hour show

1681
01:22:54,736 --> 01:22:57,639
to benefit Muscular
Dystrophy Association.

1682
01:22:57,639 --> 01:22:59,408
‐ It’s sitting there, is
that the way it’s gonna stay?

1683
01:22:59,408 --> 01:23:01,508
‐ [James] Jerry was
the emcee every year

1684
01:23:01,510 --> 01:23:03,679
and made hundreds of
millions of dollars

1685
01:23:03,679 --> 01:23:05,848
for the MDA, muscular dystrophy.

1686
01:23:05,848 --> 01:23:09,148
‐ I was a big fan I used to
watch Telethon every year.

1687
01:23:10,853 --> 01:23:12,523
It was a major event back then.

1688
01:23:14,056 --> 01:23:15,357
Every star in the business

1689
01:23:15,357 --> 01:23:17,087
was clamoring to be on the show.

1690
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:20,260
‐ Come on, now.

1691
01:23:20,262 --> 01:23:25,202
‐ So in 1976, Frank was
going to be on the Telethon.

1692
01:23:28,070 --> 01:23:30,470
‐ Sinatra takes it upon himself

1693
01:23:30,472 --> 01:23:33,172
that he’s going to reunite
them at the Telethon.

1694
01:23:33,175 --> 01:23:35,511
‐ And that’s when
Frank said to Dean,

1695
01:23:35,511 --> 01:23:36,811
"I’m gonna bring you on."

1696
01:23:38,747 --> 01:23:41,407
‐ [Tony O.] At first Dean
thought he was pulling his leg

1697
01:23:41,416 --> 01:23:44,056
but Frank had a very
persuasive way about him.

1698
01:23:46,655 --> 01:23:48,055
‐ I was 20 years old.

1699
01:23:49,391 --> 01:23:52,931
My father had made me
Assistant Production Manager.

1700
01:23:54,363 --> 01:23:57,363
Mr. Sinatra had a mobile
trailer and my dad had one

1701
01:23:57,366 --> 01:24:02,104
and as I was walking around,
Mr. Sinatra’s trailer

1702
01:24:02,104 --> 01:24:05,004
had the curtains
open about this much

1703
01:24:05,007 --> 01:24:09,847
and when I looked in, I saw
the most beautiful face.

1704
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:16,180
Excuse me, he meant that
much to me, he really did.

1705
01:24:17,486 --> 01:24:20,396
And there he was
in Frank’s trailer.

1706
01:24:21,857 --> 01:24:25,761
With that beautiful frost
tip hair he had that year,

1707
01:24:25,761 --> 01:24:30,599
and a tuxedo, and so I
actually freaked out,

1708
01:24:30,599 --> 01:24:33,068
being conditioned
to feel that way

1709
01:24:33,068 --> 01:24:35,437
about Dean around my house.

1710
01:24:35,437 --> 01:24:38,297
So I ran to the production
manager, Maury Stevens,

1711
01:24:38,307 --> 01:24:41,410
and I said, "Do you know who
Mr. Sinatra’s got in there?"

1712
01:24:41,410 --> 01:24:43,940
And he said, "Yes, yes, relax."

1713
01:24:43,946 --> 01:24:45,686
He said, "Get a good seat."

1714
01:24:50,485 --> 01:24:54,222
‐ Frank Sinatra made sure
that not a whisper of this

1715
01:24:54,222 --> 01:24:55,722
would get out to Jerry Lewis.

1716
01:24:57,859 --> 01:25:01,029
‐ Jerry was not aware, it
was a complete surprise.

1717
01:25:01,029 --> 01:25:03,859
‐ I have a friend who loves
what you do every year

1718
01:25:03,865 --> 01:25:05,434
and who just wanted to come out.

1719
01:25:05,434 --> 01:25:08,874
Would you send my friend
out please, where is he?

1720
01:25:10,472 --> 01:25:11,402
Come here.

1721
01:25:11,406 --> 01:25:14,476
(applause)

1722
01:25:17,145 --> 01:25:18,085
‐ And I screamed.

1723
01:25:34,696 --> 01:25:36,832
‐ I think it’s about
time, don’t you?

1724
01:25:36,832 --> 01:25:38,400
‐ And thank you.

1725
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:40,570
‐ I think it’s about time.

1726
01:25:46,241 --> 01:25:47,409
‐ So how ya been?

1727
01:25:47,409 --> 01:25:50,039
(audience laughs)

1728
01:25:50,045 --> 01:25:51,285
‐ It was wonderful.

1729
01:25:53,315 --> 01:25:54,549
‐ So, you workin’?

1730
01:25:54,549 --> 01:25:56,749
(audience laughs)

1731
01:25:58,153 --> 01:26:01,323
‐ And when I interviewed Jerry
Lewis about that reunion,

1732
01:26:01,323 --> 01:26:03,558
Jerry’s comments that,

1733
01:26:03,558 --> 01:26:06,188
"It’s a shame it couldn’t
last," Jerry said.

1734
01:26:07,562 --> 01:26:10,232
‐ It never, never
got to be as close,

1735
01:26:10,232 --> 01:26:12,502
nowhere near as
close as it once was.

1736
01:26:13,468 --> 01:26:17,238
(suspensive music)

1737
01:26:17,239 --> 01:26:20,869
‐ Dean was slowly going
downhill physically.

1738
01:26:22,344 --> 01:26:26,814
I know Dean was hooked on
pills in his later years.

1739
01:26:27,549 --> 01:26:29,579
‐ How ya been, Joey?

1740
01:26:29,584 --> 01:26:32,454
(audience laughs)

1741
01:26:33,488 --> 01:26:34,848
‐ Yeah, sure.

1742
01:26:34,856 --> 01:26:36,658
‐ You’re gonna start already?

1743
01:26:36,658 --> 01:26:39,558
‐ No I’m not starting,
I’m almost through.

1744
01:26:39,561 --> 01:26:41,291
(audience laughs)

1745
01:26:41,296 --> 01:26:43,665
‐ We thought that was
making him not be as

1746
01:26:43,665 --> 01:26:45,867
up as he always was.

1747
01:26:45,867 --> 01:26:50,837
And we tried to understand
that, but what could we do?

1748
01:26:50,839 --> 01:26:52,969
We didn’t know what
hardships he had.

1749
01:26:52,974 --> 01:26:55,314
‐ You wanna know why your
monologue don’t go over?

1750
01:26:56,211 --> 01:26:57,641
‐ It was a smash tonight.

1751
01:26:57,646 --> 01:26:59,516
‐ Well, tonight I didn’t see it.

1752
01:27:01,783 --> 01:27:04,720
It’s ’cause he don’t cock
his wrist and you keep...

1753
01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:07,820
‐ We did several
specials where we had to

1754
01:27:07,823 --> 01:27:10,759
resort to him lip
synching to his records

1755
01:27:10,759 --> 01:27:12,959
because he couldn’t
sing properly anymore.

1756
01:27:14,129 --> 01:27:16,729
Those were sadder
years for all of us.

1757
01:27:16,732 --> 01:27:19,332
‐ You could see his breathing
was starting to get bad.

1758
01:27:21,570 --> 01:27:25,170
‐ He was in a bit of
a depression, that
he couldn’t shake.

1759
01:27:26,842 --> 01:27:28,672
He and Jeanne were
no longer married.

1760
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:36,450
‐ Jeanne, or I call her mom,
kept the whole family together

1761
01:27:36,451 --> 01:27:39,020
but she still had
601 Mountain Drive.

1762
01:27:39,020 --> 01:27:42,357
He would drop by but it
was Christmas and parties.

1763
01:27:42,357 --> 01:27:45,927
Craig and Claudia and Gail,
they had all left the home.

1764
01:27:45,927 --> 01:27:48,357
Dino, well I always
call him Dino,

1765
01:27:48,363 --> 01:27:50,098
but he came to me and he
said, "Now from now on

1766
01:27:50,098 --> 01:27:52,628
don’t call me Dino, I want
you to call me Dean Paul."

1767
01:27:52,634 --> 01:27:53,474
I said, "Okay."

1768
01:27:54,970 --> 01:27:56,900
But it had to be really
hard on his heart

1769
01:27:56,905 --> 01:28:00,408
to always be in the
shadow of Dean Martin.

1770
01:28:00,408 --> 01:28:03,578
He was not only my brother,
but my best friend,

1771
01:28:03,578 --> 01:28:04,978
we could laugh together.

1772
01:28:04,980 --> 01:28:08,680
He’s Dean Jr. and
I’m Dean with an A.

1773
01:28:08,683 --> 01:28:12,921
I was helping him with his
lines ’cause he was acting.

1774
01:28:12,921 --> 01:28:14,151
‐ Are you all right?

1775
01:28:14,156 --> 01:28:15,826
‐ He didn’t limit
himself to anything.

1776
01:28:17,626 --> 01:28:19,436
‐ By golly he married
Olivia Hussey.

1777
01:28:20,762 --> 01:28:22,662
She was in Romeo and Juliet.

1778
01:28:25,033 --> 01:28:28,003
‐ They had a son, my
beautiful nephew Alex.

1779
01:28:29,171 --> 01:28:33,271
During those years he
was playing tennis.

1780
01:28:33,275 --> 01:28:35,677
He went into the
Air National Guard.

1781
01:28:35,677 --> 01:28:36,907
He was flying everything.

1782
01:28:41,249 --> 01:28:43,449
On that day he called
me and he said,

1783
01:28:43,451 --> 01:28:45,221
"I’ve got a new TV series."

1784
01:28:46,688 --> 01:28:49,288
I ran over his
lines and he said,

1785
01:28:49,291 --> 01:28:51,821
"Deana, whenever you
look up in the sky,

1786
01:28:51,827 --> 01:28:53,595
just know that I’m
protecting you.

1787
01:28:53,595 --> 01:28:55,330
I’m in the Air National Guard."

1788
01:28:55,330 --> 01:28:57,630
And that’s one of the
last things he said to me.

1789
01:29:04,339 --> 01:29:05,439
‐ [News reporter] A
search is underway tonight

1790
01:29:05,440 --> 01:29:08,170
for the son of
entertainer Dean Martin.

1791
01:29:08,176 --> 01:29:10,445
Captain Dean Paul
Martin was the pilot

1792
01:29:10,445 --> 01:29:12,280
of a National Guard
fighter jet when it crashed

1793
01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:15,150
into a mountain east of
Los Angeles on Saturday.

1794
01:29:15,150 --> 01:29:16,580
‐ [News reporter] The
Air National Guard says

1795
01:29:16,585 --> 01:29:17,853
Dean Paul Martin

1796
01:29:17,853 --> 01:29:19,693
was one of the best
pilots in his unit.

1797
01:29:21,890 --> 01:29:24,659
‐ We were all each
other’s best friends.

1798
01:29:24,659 --> 01:29:27,859
When Dean’s plane went
missing, it was just...

1799
01:29:28,930 --> 01:29:29,960
catastrophic.

1800
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:36,137
The night before, we were at
Santana’s, which was our haunt.

1801
01:29:36,137 --> 01:29:38,567
He said, "You know I
gotta be flying more.

1802
01:29:38,573 --> 01:29:41,910
Even though I’m doing more
than the minimum requirement

1803
01:29:41,910 --> 01:29:43,778
you just wanna be
doing it all the time.

1804
01:29:43,778 --> 01:29:45,608
You have to be focused on it."

1805
01:29:46,948 --> 01:29:49,718
‐ Dino and his weapons
officer in their fighter jets

1806
01:29:49,718 --> 01:29:54,088
suddenly run into a snow
squall. They become disoriented

1807
01:29:54,089 --> 01:29:56,289
and they crash into
Mount San Gorgonio.

1808
01:29:56,291 --> 01:29:58,460
They don’t find the
wreckage for days.

1809
01:29:58,460 --> 01:30:00,560
‐ My nephew, Alex, Dean’s son,

1810
01:30:00,562 --> 01:30:02,597
went to the airport
with him that day

1811
01:30:02,597 --> 01:30:05,627
and saw all the planes
leave and he said,

1812
01:30:05,634 --> 01:30:07,974
"But my dad’s plane
didn’t come back."

1813
01:30:09,371 --> 01:30:11,971
‐ [Alex] For four days,
five days we waited

1814
01:30:11,973 --> 01:30:13,708
while they searched
for the plane.

1815
01:30:13,708 --> 01:30:15,608
Eventually someone had
to come and tell us

1816
01:30:15,610 --> 01:30:19,180
and tell my grandfather.
When the high‐ranking,

1817
01:30:19,180 --> 01:30:23,018
from Edwards or March Air Force
Base, came in and sat down

1818
01:30:23,018 --> 01:30:25,987
next to my grandfather

1819
01:30:25,987 --> 01:30:29,187
and said to him and the family

1820
01:30:29,190 --> 01:30:32,360
we were all around, "The
United States government

1821
01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:35,930
is sorry to inform you that
your son has passed away."

1822
01:30:37,699 --> 01:30:42,669
I remember the implosion
of my grandfather

1823
01:30:44,072 --> 01:30:47,809
sitting in this chair actually,
the sinking that happened.

1824
01:30:47,809 --> 01:30:51,479
That moment has stayed with me,

1825
01:30:53,114 --> 01:30:56,518
the impact of this, what
this man has just said

1826
01:30:56,518 --> 01:30:59,888
to my grandfather
has made a huge dent,

1827
01:30:59,888 --> 01:31:02,418
and this larger
than life person has

1828
01:31:02,424 --> 01:31:05,724
shrank just a little bit.

1829
01:31:05,727 --> 01:31:08,129
‐ We ran over there,
everybody ran over there,

1830
01:31:08,129 --> 01:31:10,359
Sinatra and they were all there.

1831
01:31:11,700 --> 01:31:14,670
But it was a terrible time.

1832
01:31:15,804 --> 01:31:17,672
‐ Dean we were all
very saddened to hear

1833
01:31:17,672 --> 01:31:19,742
about the tragic
death of your son.

1834
01:31:22,477 --> 01:31:26,007
‐ When it strikes home...

1835
01:31:27,215 --> 01:31:29,855
That’s, that’s terrible.

1836
01:31:31,686 --> 01:31:33,126
Eats you up.

1837
01:31:34,456 --> 01:31:37,492
‐ I thought man,
this guy is just

1838
01:31:37,492 --> 01:31:38,562
broken

1839
01:31:39,661 --> 01:31:40,491
inside.

1840
01:31:46,201 --> 01:31:49,301
‐ You have to believe that
when his son died that was it,

1841
01:31:49,304 --> 01:31:50,804
because the sun goes down.

1842
01:31:50,805 --> 01:31:54,209
You just can’t have the same
kind of life ever again.

1843
01:31:54,209 --> 01:31:56,739
To lose a child, I
mean that’s definitive.

1844
01:32:00,181 --> 01:32:03,481
‐ I give the eulogy at his
funeral, everybody’s there,

1845
01:32:03,485 --> 01:32:06,855
Frankie is there, Frank
Sinatra obviously, Rickles,

1846
01:32:06,855 --> 01:32:08,195
everybody was there.

1847
01:32:09,891 --> 01:32:13,761
‐ The girls were pleased
that so many people came.

1848
01:32:13,762 --> 01:32:17,602
Well at one point when they
turned around, and Dean didn’t,

1849
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:21,500
they saw Jerry come in
after the service started

1850
01:32:21,503 --> 01:32:26,513
and slip into the back pew
all by himself and very quiet

1851
01:32:27,642 --> 01:32:28,912
and never let anybody
know he was there.

1852
01:32:30,445 --> 01:32:35,115
‐ My dad was never a funeral
guy, he hated funerals

1853
01:32:35,116 --> 01:32:38,119
but for Dean and
his son he went.

1854
01:32:38,119 --> 01:32:41,219
It told that he felt
real emotion at the time.

1855
01:32:43,425 --> 01:32:45,725
‐ The things that Jerry did
that were genuinely selfless

1856
01:32:45,727 --> 01:32:47,195
were few and far between.

1857
01:32:47,195 --> 01:32:49,195
But one thing he did that
was genuinely selfless

1858
01:32:49,197 --> 01:32:51,833
was he went to Dino’s funeral.

1859
01:32:51,833 --> 01:32:54,202
Never told a soul
that he was there.

1860
01:32:54,202 --> 01:32:55,702
‐ That evidently touched Dean

1861
01:32:55,703 --> 01:32:58,373
and then they started
talking again.

1862
01:32:58,373 --> 01:33:01,609
‐ When they got home he went
in the den and closed the door

1863
01:33:01,609 --> 01:33:04,209
and called him and they
spoke on the phone.

1864
01:33:04,212 --> 01:33:06,782
Must have been a very
touching conversation.

1865
01:33:14,122 --> 01:33:17,862
‐ Frank talked Dean into
that Together Again tour.

1866
01:33:19,027 --> 01:33:20,628
Part of the reason
that Frank did that

1867
01:33:20,628 --> 01:33:23,198
was because he thought Dean
needed to get out and work.

1868
01:33:24,399 --> 01:33:27,199
‐ Frank was looking
to relive those days

1869
01:33:28,570 --> 01:33:30,970
they lived in Vegas
doing the shows together.

1870
01:33:32,107 --> 01:33:33,977
But Dean wasn’t feeling
well after the shows

1871
01:33:35,410 --> 01:33:38,940
he went back to his room,
to his suite. He was tired.

1872
01:33:38,947 --> 01:33:42,951
‐ Frank makes a
miscalculation about grief.

1873
01:33:42,951 --> 01:33:45,987
A lot of people think
that the grieving person

1874
01:33:45,987 --> 01:33:49,857
needs to kinda get out, get
back with the old friends

1875
01:33:49,858 --> 01:33:52,988
and get, and that’s
a lot of times not

1876
01:33:52,994 --> 01:33:54,364
what a grieving person wants.

1877
01:33:55,997 --> 01:33:57,797
‐ Frank was in a bad mood

1878
01:33:57,799 --> 01:34:00,768
and he was shouting at
Dean from the wings.

1879
01:34:00,768 --> 01:34:02,968
They had some kind of an
argument or some kind of thing.

1880
01:34:02,971 --> 01:34:05,001
In the middle of the night
Dean got his private jet

1881
01:34:05,006 --> 01:34:06,875
and went back to Los Angeles.

1882
01:34:06,875 --> 01:34:10,712
‐ Dean did not talk to Frank,
Frank did not talk to Dean,

1883
01:34:10,712 --> 01:34:12,947
that’s how pissed
off Sinatra was.

1884
01:34:12,947 --> 01:34:15,747
‐ He wasn’t mad at him,
he was disappointed.

1885
01:34:15,750 --> 01:34:19,280
He could never get mad at
him. He was worried about him.

1886
01:34:23,324 --> 01:34:24,524
‐ [Alex] People
always talk about

1887
01:34:24,526 --> 01:34:26,394
how the last years
were the lonely years

1888
01:34:26,394 --> 01:34:28,494
and how he was so sad and
all this kind of stuff.

1889
01:34:28,496 --> 01:34:31,099
But, I know that he was
surrounded by people

1890
01:34:31,099 --> 01:34:34,229
that loved and adored
him so, so much.

1891
01:34:34,235 --> 01:34:36,437
He always came over for
dinners or we went over there

1892
01:34:36,437 --> 01:34:38,797
for dinners and he
never once said,

1893
01:34:38,806 --> 01:34:41,809
you know I prefer if
you guys don’t come by.

1894
01:34:41,809 --> 01:34:43,809
‐ Dean would
frequent La Famiglia.

1895
01:34:43,811 --> 01:34:45,511
That was one of his hangs.

1896
01:34:45,513 --> 01:34:49,783
‐ This is Dino Crocetti.
Party of two tonight.

1897
01:34:49,784 --> 01:34:53,694
It was his office, his home.

1898
01:34:55,156 --> 01:34:56,658
‐ He was so cute.

1899
01:34:56,658 --> 01:34:58,618
He could be sitting there
and everybody catered to him

1900
01:34:58,626 --> 01:35:01,462
and people wouldn’t bother him,

1901
01:35:01,462 --> 01:35:03,732
but he felt safe and
comfortable there.

1902
01:35:05,833 --> 01:35:09,103
‐ Jeanne loved Dean to the end.

1903
01:35:09,103 --> 01:35:12,240
I would see them at dinner
long after they divorced.

1904
01:35:12,240 --> 01:35:15,710
And I’d say, "Oh good, you’re
both together, I’m so glad."

1905
01:35:17,111 --> 01:35:19,781
‐ We could be a dinner at La
Famiglia, and he said to mother

1906
01:35:19,781 --> 01:35:21,611
he says, "Well, what happened?

1907
01:35:21,616 --> 01:35:23,017
Why aren’t we still together?"

1908
01:35:23,017 --> 01:35:25,347
She says, "It’s because
of you that we’re not,

1909
01:35:25,353 --> 01:35:28,189
no one else left you,
you’re the one who left."

1910
01:35:28,189 --> 01:35:30,189
He had those double
takes and everything.

1911
01:35:30,191 --> 01:35:33,991
And I remember that and
I was a little upset.

1912
01:35:35,163 --> 01:35:36,803
‐ [Jeanne] He just
wanted to come back.

1913
01:35:38,433 --> 01:35:42,971
From 1980 on, we were as
close as close could be

1914
01:35:42,971 --> 01:35:45,101
without living together.

1915
01:35:45,106 --> 01:35:48,176
‐ Dean’s health was starting
to take a turn for the worse.

1916
01:35:49,644 --> 01:35:51,613
It was the smoking.

1917
01:35:51,613 --> 01:35:55,683
‐ He came in this one day, I
said, "You’re not smoking."

1918
01:35:55,683 --> 01:35:56,653
He said, "No."

1919
01:35:57,785 --> 01:35:59,185
We’d been trying to
get him to stop smoking

1920
01:35:59,187 --> 01:36:00,855
for years and years.

1921
01:36:00,855 --> 01:36:03,424
And I said, "When did
you stop smoking?"

1922
01:36:03,424 --> 01:36:05,624
He said, "I don’t know, I just
don’t want to do it anymore."

1923
01:36:05,627 --> 01:36:07,197
‐ He was diagnosed with cancer.

1924
01:36:08,529 --> 01:36:11,559
‐ It was happening
for a while, he knew,

1925
01:36:11,566 --> 01:36:13,336
he didn’t talk about it with me.

1926
01:36:14,502 --> 01:36:15,902
He wouldn’t make a
big deal out of it.

1927
01:36:15,903 --> 01:36:17,203
That’s not who he was.

1928
01:36:18,740 --> 01:36:20,540
So it’s Christmas
and I’m thinking

1929
01:36:20,541 --> 01:36:22,410
what can I get for my dad?

1930
01:36:22,410 --> 01:36:24,840
We had everything.

1931
01:36:24,846 --> 01:36:26,414
The pasta fazool.

1932
01:36:26,414 --> 01:36:29,414
So I go, I go to the store
I buy all the ingredients

1933
01:36:29,417 --> 01:36:32,287
and I hadn’t made it
in, say, 30 years.

1934
01:36:32,287 --> 01:36:34,722
So I stood there in the
kitchen with the big pot,

1935
01:36:34,722 --> 01:36:38,760
put in olive oil, chopped up
an onion, six cups of water,

1936
01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:42,290
two cans of the Progresso
cannellini beans,

1937
01:36:42,297 --> 01:36:45,066
just everything right in,
salt and pepper, stir it,

1938
01:36:45,066 --> 01:36:47,268
and then the secret ingredient:

1939
01:36:47,268 --> 01:36:49,398
a little bit of cinnamon.

1940
01:36:49,404 --> 01:36:52,373
I made it and I put it
into a Ball mason jar

1941
01:36:52,373 --> 01:36:54,873
with a red ribbon,
went over to his house,

1942
01:36:54,876 --> 01:36:56,277
and he looks at it.

1943
01:36:56,277 --> 01:36:57,977
Now I have to tell you
the look in his eye

1944
01:36:57,979 --> 01:36:59,979
was unbelievable to me.

1945
01:36:59,981 --> 01:37:02,050
He said, "Is this
what I think it is?"

1946
01:37:02,050 --> 01:37:03,950
I said, "Yes, it’s
the pasta fazool."

1947
01:37:03,951 --> 01:37:05,820
He said, "And it’s still warm."

1948
01:37:05,820 --> 01:37:08,990
A week passes by and the phone
rings. I answer the phone

1949
01:37:08,990 --> 01:37:10,390
and it’s Dad.

1950
01:37:10,391 --> 01:37:11,621
I said, "Hello."

1951
01:37:11,626 --> 01:37:13,094
He said, "Hi, this
is your father.

1952
01:37:13,094 --> 01:37:17,432
Do you think you could make
that pasta fazool for me again?"

1953
01:37:17,432 --> 01:37:19,132
And I got chills
because I’m thinking

1954
01:37:19,133 --> 01:37:21,703
this is exactly what
my grandmother wanted.

1955
01:37:22,870 --> 01:37:25,170
And I would sit with
him and we would talk

1956
01:37:25,173 --> 01:37:27,813
and it was just a
fabulous connection.

1957
01:37:30,311 --> 01:37:33,351
It was the connection that
my grandmother told me about.

1958
01:37:34,415 --> 01:37:36,255
So what was my dad’s Rosebud?

1959
01:37:37,352 --> 01:37:38,822
I think it’s pasta fazool.

1960
01:37:41,255 --> 01:37:44,495
He loved being
surrounded by family.

1961
01:37:46,094 --> 01:37:47,894
They’d be comfortable.

1962
01:37:47,895 --> 01:37:49,130
He was safe and warm

1963
01:37:49,130 --> 01:37:51,960
when he was with his
mother and his family.

1964
01:37:51,966 --> 01:37:54,076
It made him strong
and he loved them.

1965
01:37:56,170 --> 01:37:58,470
‐ Where somebody like a Kane

1966
01:37:58,473 --> 01:38:01,473
took this sort of Jerry
Lewis route of saying,

1967
01:38:01,476 --> 01:38:03,745
"I will show the world."

1968
01:38:03,745 --> 01:38:05,945
Dean Martin did
the exact opposite.

1969
01:38:05,947 --> 01:38:08,583
He said, "Well, I’m
gonna try to replicate

1970
01:38:08,583 --> 01:38:11,683
that situation that I
enjoyed, at my home,

1971
01:38:11,686 --> 01:38:12,920
walking around singing

1972
01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:15,620
with a bunch of crazy
Italian characters.

1973
01:38:15,623 --> 01:38:17,863
I’m gonna replicate it
in everything I did."

1974
01:38:19,427 --> 01:38:22,063
Time and again he
makes a family.

1975
01:38:22,063 --> 01:38:24,833
Whether it’s Jerry
Lewis as his brother.

1976
01:38:26,200 --> 01:38:29,570
The Rat Pack was a version
of the dinner table.

1977
01:38:29,570 --> 01:38:32,940
"The Dean Martin Show" was a
version of the dinner table.

1978
01:38:32,940 --> 01:38:36,140
The roasts was a version
of the dinner table.

1979
01:38:36,144 --> 01:38:40,181
Down to the sad irony of the
restaurant he hung around

1980
01:38:40,181 --> 01:38:43,121
and called La Famiglia. Family.

1981
01:38:45,620 --> 01:38:48,820
‐ Christmas Eve, Frank
and I got together.

1982
01:38:48,823 --> 01:38:51,523
Frank said I wonder
what the dago’s doing?

1983
01:38:51,526 --> 01:38:54,236
So I picked up the phone,
Dean got on the phone

1984
01:38:55,129 --> 01:38:56,829
and so Frank gets on the phone,

1985
01:38:56,831 --> 01:38:58,399
"Hey, dag, how you doing?

1986
01:38:58,399 --> 01:39:01,599
Okay, so you want to
tell me a joke, really?

1987
01:39:01,602 --> 01:39:03,002
Okay, what’s the joke?"

1988
01:39:04,439 --> 01:39:07,769
And so Dean said something,
and Frank said something back,

1989
01:39:07,775 --> 01:39:11,078
and then Dean said something
back and Frank laughed,

1990
01:39:11,078 --> 01:39:15,248
and he said, "I love you,
dago," and he hung up the phone.

1991
01:39:16,451 --> 01:39:18,119
And so when Frank
got off the phone

1992
01:39:18,119 --> 01:39:19,649
I said, "What the hell
was that all about?"

1993
01:39:19,654 --> 01:39:22,089
He says, "Can you believe
this crazy son of a bitch?"

1994
01:39:22,089 --> 01:39:26,389
He says, "As ill as he is,
he wanted to tell me a joke."

1995
01:39:26,394 --> 01:39:30,864
"What did one casket say
to the other casket?"

1996
01:39:32,266 --> 01:39:34,936
And naturally Frank said,
"I don’t know, what?"

1997
01:39:34,936 --> 01:39:36,376
"Is that you coughin’?"

1998
01:39:38,206 --> 01:39:41,816
And that’s the last
time they ever spoke.

1999
01:39:42,977 --> 01:39:45,337
About 12 hours or so
later Dean passed.

2000
01:39:50,084 --> 01:39:51,584
‐ When he passed
away at Christmas,

2001
01:39:51,586 --> 01:39:54,922
and I think he wanted to go
at that time, on that day,

2002
01:39:54,922 --> 01:39:58,592
and I see his mom and
the rest of the Rat Pack

2003
01:40:00,027 --> 01:40:01,287
and Dino.

2004
01:40:01,295 --> 01:40:04,265
So it was, it was
quite something.

2005
01:40:04,265 --> 01:40:06,535
‐ A terribly sad day to die on.

2006
01:40:07,735 --> 01:40:08,575
But...

2007
01:40:10,538 --> 01:40:15,038
nobody like him.
And at... at his...

2008
01:40:15,042 --> 01:40:18,042
at the crest of his transit

2009
01:40:18,045 --> 01:40:20,385
across the skies

2010
01:40:21,582 --> 01:40:24,582
nobody like him before or since.

2011
01:40:27,221 --> 01:40:32,221
‐ Our idols, our
parents, they age.

2012
01:40:33,394 --> 01:40:35,794
But then something
interesting happens.

2013
01:40:35,796 --> 01:40:38,006
The declining person dies

2014
01:40:39,867 --> 01:40:42,267
and they’re no longer
the declining person.

2015
01:40:42,270 --> 01:40:45,700
In a weird way
you get them back.

2016
01:40:48,876 --> 01:40:53,356
They return to being
everything that they were.

2017
01:40:55,483 --> 01:40:57,453
‐ Well, what makes
a person an icon?

2018
01:40:58,786 --> 01:41:03,796
When a person transcends
just their own genre

2019
01:41:04,659 --> 01:41:06,627
and they become someone that

2020
01:41:06,627 --> 01:41:09,357
people from different
walks of life

2021
01:41:09,363 --> 01:41:11,863
respect. Of their
art or their music

2022
01:41:11,866 --> 01:41:13,801
or their talent expression,

2023
01:41:13,801 --> 01:41:15,901
that puts them in
an iconic stage.

2024
01:41:17,505 --> 01:41:21,042
Dean Martin was
tuned into his art.

2025
01:41:21,042 --> 01:41:24,512
And no matter what he
did, it found its way out.

2026
01:41:24,512 --> 01:41:27,912
I think that puts him in
a unique, unique position

2027
01:41:27,915 --> 01:41:28,915
as an artist.

2028
01:41:30,318 --> 01:41:34,718
‐ He had so much more talent
and genius and instinct

2029
01:41:34,722 --> 01:41:38,592
and understanding, not only
of the work he was doing

2030
01:41:38,593 --> 01:41:41,133
but of the world
he was living in.

2031
01:41:45,733 --> 01:41:47,301
‐ I hadn’t worked
for Dean for a while.

2032
01:41:47,301 --> 01:41:49,401
And Dean called me up and said,

2033
01:41:49,403 --> 01:41:51,872
"Michael, I need
security again."

2034
01:41:51,872 --> 01:41:54,408
I said, "Dean, I’m doing my
own show now, I’m doing‐"

2035
01:41:54,408 --> 01:41:56,168
he said, "I know pally
come on over to the house

2036
01:41:56,177 --> 01:41:57,979
I wanna talk to you."

2037
01:41:57,979 --> 01:42:02,809
And he sat me down and he said,
"No matter how big you get,

2038
01:42:02,817 --> 01:42:05,086
don’t ever think
you have the power,

2039
01:42:05,086 --> 01:42:07,855
’cause if you do? The
real power, the people,

2040
01:42:07,855 --> 01:42:09,991
they’re gonna take
it away from ya.

2041
01:42:09,991 --> 01:42:12,591
I don’t even sing that good
but the people love me.

2042
01:42:12,593 --> 01:42:14,662
And if they didn’t, I might
as well have been a plumber

2043
01:42:14,662 --> 01:42:16,162
in Steubenville, Ohio."

2044
01:42:17,298 --> 01:42:20,728
He realized how lucky he’d been.

2045
01:42:20,735 --> 01:42:23,638
Whatever amount
of talent he had,

2046
01:42:23,638 --> 01:42:26,198
it was the people
that made him a star.

2047
01:42:29,744 --> 01:42:32,544
‐ "If you agree that Dino
lived to live on his own terms,

2048
01:42:34,915 --> 01:42:37,084
and if his triumphs were
in the significant films

2049
01:42:37,084 --> 01:42:40,221
where he had allowed
himself to take direction,

2050
01:42:40,221 --> 01:42:44,591
listen, learn,
tremble and transcend,

2051
01:42:46,694 --> 01:42:49,694
then his second greatest
trope after inventing himself

2052
01:42:50,765 --> 01:42:52,700
was convincing
producers and directors

2053
01:42:52,700 --> 01:42:56,300
to let him play a character
who sang and drank

2054
01:42:57,772 --> 01:43:00,742
and thought about
golf more than God,

2055
01:43:02,176 --> 01:43:05,916
so that the actor and the
part were entirely one."

2056
01:43:16,724 --> 01:43:19,294
(upbeat music)