jacques henri robert antoine mercier-cointreau., i survived that -- >> that's why you fell in love with him. >> took "tony" -- right. 45 years later. but we [laughs] we -- the girl, patty, next to me, she heard "jacques," and she went, "eww." and there was this sweet girl on the other side of her with big dark brown eyes and slick pixie haircut, and she leaned over, and she looked at me, and she said, "oh, i think 'jacques' is a beautiful name." well, we became...like that. great pals. a week later, she comes to me. she says, "jacques," she said, "you want to go see mom's play?" i said, "yeah! what she doing?" she said, "gypsy." mom's ethel merman. >> [ riedel laughs ] >> i thought, "i can do that." so...that friday night, we were at "gypsy." and afterwards, 'miss merman' to me, then, took us to sardi's. >> riedel: of course. >> and i met -- an 18-year-old, you know, theater enthusiast, meeting all of show business heaven -- it was terrific. and then billy rose, the great producer, drove us home in his, uh...rolls-royce. >> riedel: