The Don Is Dead Page #4

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By that time

you'll have children of your own.

And your wife should be one of us.

I mean, our women, they understand.

They don't ask questions.

They know that business comes first.

You know what I mean?

Sure, I know what you mean, Ang.

My old man told me the same thing

a thousand times.

[ Laughs ]

Well, then you should understand.

Okay, son.

Go with God.

Hey, and do me a favor.

Take the early plane.

You got a six on the fifth.

No, no, I got a six

because I went in the rough.

Angelo.

Hey, hiya.

You got a minute?

I gotta talk to you.

Hey, Luigi, no business today.

No, it's not business.

It's a favor.

I think I prefer business.

Favors can be very expensive.

Well, this one's painless.

There's a girl named Ruby Dunne.

She's some kind of a singer

that Marie knows,

and Marie made me promise

to ask you if you'd see her,

maybe help her.

What am I, a talent scout?

No, but you do have connections

with a record company.

You see her

and you get me off the hook.

You know how Marie

gets on my back

when she wants something.

She's a strong woman,

but I thought you were the boss.

Well, not at home, anyway.

Okay, I'll see her.

Come on.

Ruby Dunne.

Is that a stage name?

No.

Authentic Chicago Irish.

Oh.

The south side.

Do you know it?

My uncle and his family lived there.

When I was a kid

I used to visit them every summer.

Where did they live?

They had a place on, uh--

uh, Kindred?

Yes, backyard full of fruit trees.

My uncle always wanted

to move to California and...

[ Laughs ]

grow oranges.

I hope he made it.

Well, like all of us,

he never realized all his dreams.

It was the same with my parents,

except that they had dreams for me.

They wanted you to be

Shirley Temple?

Not quite. My father

wanted me to be a doctor.

A doctor? Oh.

And my mother, well--

my mother wanted me

to be like her.

I had my own ideas.

What are you doing about your dreams?

Do you have an agent, a manager?

I mean, is, uh--

is somebody looking after you?

No, not yet.

But I had some tapes made

in Los Angeles on my own.

I'd like to hear them.

The quality isn't very good.

Quality can be bought.

Talent can't.

Excuse me.

Oh. Excuse me.

The contract we discussed

has been taken care of.

Mmm.

But there's some details

of yesterday's meeting

I wanted to talk to you about.

Uh, I'll be

right with you.

I'm sorry.

I have to go.

That's all right.

I'll try my luck at roulette.

Oh, don't use your own money.

The odds favor the house. Here.

No, thank you.

I'll pay my own way.

Look, send your tapes to my room.

I'll listen to them when I can.

Would you, please?

Of course.

And thank you very much

for having dinner with me.

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