this bromance and father son relationship he has with hilde johnson his star reporter.s based on walter howie who is a familiar us editor in chicago. he did some of this stuff to charles mcarthur, he gave him his watch and had him arrested for steeling it. and you know theres was an escape convict, based loosely on. but he fation fum us for telling men not to get so involved with women because it would distrack them from the story getting their work done and he also apparent leigh the legend goes that he got drunk one night and fell on what they called a copy spike and fell out his eye so he had a glass eye and ben hecht said could you tell which one was the glass eye, it was the warmer one. they say he dressed very well, he looked like a very successful local merchant and had a purring voice but that disguised the monster under feet. >> great comedy is always about something certificate quus. >> well, yes, i would agree with that. it has to be played that way. certainly. i mean it's got to be played and usually-- yes, and usually-- what, john? >> to take the comedy as