The Man Behind the Throne Page #4

That was my bedroom,

up there in that top window.

After going to Catholic school,

we would sit and be so scared

because the nuns would tell us -

we're gonna turn right -

the nuns would tell us that

the end of the world was coming,

and we would sit and cry.

- Hello.

- It's good to see you.

- How are you?

- Nice to see you. Fine, thank you.

Our sisters would be thrilled

that you're here.

- Oh, they would be.

- Oh, my gosh. A long time ago.

- 'Cause we've been here a long time.

- I was here a VERY long time ago.

- We used to call it BrookHEAVEN.

- Oh.

Instead of Brookhaven,

they called it Brookheaven.

Good afternoon, boys and girls.

Good afternoon, Mrs Damson.

God bless you.

Good. God bless you too,

boys and girls.

We have a group of boys

that has a hip-hop club.

Oh, my gosh.

Some of them might be in here.

May I see the hip-hop boys

that are in the third grade?

Come and identify...

identify yourselves.

- This is Mr Paterson.

- Hi. How are you guys?

One of his jobs

is as a choreographer.

Do you know what choreographers do?

A choreographer is somebody

who makes up the dances.

Like, I made up many dances

for Michael Jackson...

My favourite singer?

Really? Yeah.

I'm the guy in Beat It who has the

little knife fight and all of that.

- That was me.

- Oh, yeah!

Yeah, that was me, so...

And what do you do, like,

little routines and stuff?

Yes.

We didn't have music class

and we didn't have...

All the dance that we had

was square dance.

Did you have gym outside?

- We didn't have gym at all.

- Oh.

My father taught social dance

in different places -

the jitterbug and the cha-cha -

and taught me

when I was a little kid.

My parents loved music

and that's kind of the way it was.

And they were both very young,

so, you know...

we kind of all grew up together.

He kind of had to take over,

you know, when his father left.

And it was a shame, because he was

only a 13-year-old boy,

but he tried to help me

as much as he could

with the raising of children,

you know?

Of course, we put

a lot of responsibility on him.

Tried not to,

but it just happens, you know?

- Yeah.

- But, uh...

No, he was... he was a good boy.

I thought he'd be an actor.

I thought he'd be more into acting,

because that's what they did,

you know?

And he'd dress up the kids

and my nieces

in their different little outfits

and they'd all perform.

I was an artist.

I didn't know what kind of artist,

but I knew I was an artist.

And I knew that there was

nothing in this area

that would ever give me

an opportunity

to... to understand what that meant,

that driving force inside of me.

You got the right one, baby

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