Beyond the Sea Page #2

Bobby.

Silly man doesn't know what he's

talking about.

Come on, let's get you back into bed.

Mama, tell me about my father.

You know all about your father.

You just rest now.

But I like to hear you tell it.

Well...

Sam Cassotto was an important man.

He was a cabinet maker,

but then he started working for

another man.

- Who was a gangster?

- Walden Robert Cassotto!

He was a businessman.

I thought you said you could

never go wrong with the truth.

All right, he was a gangster.

But he never did anything for this

family.

But your father, Sam Cassotto,

he was a loyal and good man.

And he would've been so proud of you.

Keep the noise down, all right?

I want it to be a surprise.

Don't wake the kid, see?

Hey!

You wake my kid, I'm gonna

stick that horn up your fat ass.

You hear?

Y'know, before your sister was born,

this is what your mama did for a

living.

Music opened a whole new world to me.

No matter how bad I feel,

no matter how sad or sick I am,

I just touch these keys and "Poof!"

Like magic, I always seem to feel

better.

I've always known you had talent,

Bobby.

This piano is for you. Charlie worked

hard for it.

See, God wouldn't have made you

suffer so much

if he weren't gonna make up for it

later.

Mama was right about music.

It opened a whole new world to me,

outside of time and illness.

A world I could live in.

I knew then if I could live to 10,

maybe I'd make it to 15, and then

maybe 20.

From then on, music was the most

important thing in my life.

Mama taught me all the moves

and dances from vaudeville

that made the greats stand out.

I would spend most days in bed with

fever

but when I had the strength,

Mama and I would practise,

and practise, and practise,

until we created what she called "The

Plan".

Soon I would be old enough

to head to New York,

but Mama had one more lesson to teach.

From the halfway mark!

To be a star, a big star,

you've got to be talented, obviously.

But you got to be tenacious, have

charisma.

But most importantly, you gotta

have... it!

The great intangible.

And you've got it all, Bobby.

You're gonna be bigger than Sinatra.

I'd settle for a little Jolson. Mama,

Mama, Mama.

So part of Mama's plan...

- Wait a minute.

- What?

You didn't go dancing down the street

like that.

I know. It's a fantasy sequence.

- But it's not real.

- Forget real.

Listen, kid. Memories are like

moonbeams.

We do with them what we want.

Oh. OK, then.

Go on. I'll be around when you need

me.

Mama's plan was to surround myself

with the best.

So I now had a manager

who had never managed -

Steve Boom-Boom Blauner,

a public relations guy who had never

related to the public - David Gershenson,

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