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I'm the accountant in the place...

...and it is me who is going down

with you

You get caught by blabbing your

big mouth all over the place

"Do me a favor, throw away that

nasty weed of yours"

Because paranoia is setting in

Hi

Hi. How is the new kid?

You need a little something

for the night?

"Buck tells me, you have been doing

a good job"

What sign are you?

"Umm, Cancer"

"Cancer, good people Cancer"

What do you think Viv?

Crabs

"Steve umm, I wanted to

talk to you about... "

I got some friends I wanted to

find about putting them on the list

Do they look like you?

One is my cousin

"Let me explain something kid, okay... "

Once a month...

"the nephew of the King of Saudi Arabia,"

flies... 7000 miles

"to dance here for one night, all night"

Then gets back on his plane at sunrise

He tells me it is the only place

on Earth...

...that he feels totally free

"So naturally, I,"

"... we, have a responsibility"

So I repeat. Do they look like you?

They are my friends

Fine. I'll put them on the list

But they better look like you

Thanks

Julie

"You are a mess, come here"

Hey did you sleep with somebody

to get your job?

"My job, please"

"Listen Shane, you better watch how much

you party, or you will get fired"

Here

I don't do that crud

"Come on, you need an equalizer"

Come on. You look like Stevie

There you go

"Steve could be a rat-bastard,"

there is no question about it

"He took my friends off the list,"

as soon as I left his office

"Look again man. Shane invited us,

Shane O'Shea"

He works here

"I told them later that,"

Steve was always playing

little games like that...

"... just cruel,"

never figured out why

With the kind of power he had

Why play games?

He was weird that way

Like some nights he would keep

the club almost empty

"There would be a thousand people out

on the streets,"

...and only a hundred inside dancing

"Shane look, it is Billie Austin"

"Billie, what is her deal?"

She knows everybody

Especially everybody in

the music industry

"Help me out, she is into coke"

You want to meet her?

Oh thanks

"Diana, help herself to the

last of my snow"

Recording artist...

You know Anita is a recording artist too

"Oh? Wonderful, what label?"

Well I don't really have one yet

"Oh so send me a tape, I would

love to hear it"

Thank you! Thank you!

"As a matter of fact, I think I have

a tape here with me"

The recording is not that great

Home equipment...

Bye

They are cute

I just love discovering new talent

You have the body of David and the

face of a Bottchelli

Bottle of what?

"Just say thanks, darling"

It is really funky but

I don't think it is me

"Darling, I don't think you realize

what is you"

"I just want to look cool when I'm out,"

...like a New Yorker

"What you are, is part of

Billie's Big Bang theory"

Billie taught me how the world worked

How I had the power to get

whatever it was I wanted

Oh yes!

Rhett... When did he quit?

Tonight

Oh I was crushed

He was incredible

Whoa! Can't Wait

"Easy, easy"

Yeah! Now try this

"Ooh, you learn fast!"

I bet I could do that job

Should I talk to Stevie for you?

I don't know

My friend has been waiting for that job

But do you want it?

"Yeah, I want it"

What would you do to get it?

Who is it?

That ought to be illegal

May I help you?

Rhett quit. Job... you know...

Let me get this straight

You want a job?

Shouldn't I be taking my pants off?

Of course everyone knows

Rhett is history

And Shane will take his place

"Later on I learned that,"

Billie had spoken to Stevie

about my promotion

"I have to admit, I felt bad for Greg"

I name you Shane 54!

"We were both right,"

too short and I do not suck cock

Well there is nothing you can do

about being short

I'm going to make us some real money

I got other ideas

How about the best f*** of your lifetime

So I made it

Bartending was the best job in the world

"But for me the big thing was,"

"when you are a bartender at "54"

Everybody knew your name

You were famous

"Come on, I want to introduce you to him"

He doesn't want to be

photographed tonight

Steve didn't draw a line between

customers and employees

"Before "54","

most clubs would hide their help

"Not Steve, he flaunted his"

"People made such a big deal about

getting into "54"

"But they didn't know,"

because once you got into the door...

...you wanted to get into

the D.J.'s booth

Or the office where the best coke was

"Or the balcony where the people were

getting laid,"

or the basement where the

biggest names hung out

Steve was so f***ing smart

I mean you would have to be

some kind of genius

"to take a dirty wet basement...

and turn it into a VIP room,"

which celebrities would kill

to get into

There was always another door

"Shane darling, I guess you

finally arrived"

Hi Andy

"Shane, Shane, this is Andy"

"Oh yeah, wow!"

"Andy loves it down here,"

"... don't you, Andy?"

"Oh yeah, it is really brown"

Even outside the club

I was always working it

"Getting an article placed in "Interview"

Mingling with the right people

I got it

Raising my profile

It was all coming together

"Billie got me and Anita an invitation,"

...to Liz Vangelder's

because she knew there would be

some great contacts for us

Her dinner parties were really

a big deal

Hi I'm Shane. This is Anita

We are Billie's friends

"Yes, of course. I'm Liz Vangelder"

"Well, the night life here is

amusing enough I suppose"

"Believe me, nothing compares to London

in the swinging sixties"

"Come on, where did you find them?"

L'universite de cinquante-quatre

"54?" The bartender at 54?"

You sly puss

Bringing a bartender to the table

Steve is holding auditions

for a New Years act

He says he wants something fresh

Nobody is as fresh as me

"I might even have a tape with, you know,

in my purse"

"Really, I have a tape deck in my... "

"So here I was,"

putting my Jersey moves on Park Avenue

I really believed I had come out of

there with some good connections

You have the essence of Errol Flynn

"Instead, I saw how far I have to go"

Who?

"Darling, you know who Errol Flynn is"

"Oh yeah, Arrow Flynn. Right"

You know you are the most gorgeous

troglodyte I have ever seen

Thanks

"Shane, I don't know who the f***

Arrow Flint is either"

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