>> james: i can see him night after night, always standing at the corner of the kitchen, like a great impresario, watching everything, every dish that came out of there, he'd see. every dish. >> mike: he had this air of authority about him. he would stand at the end of the bar, usually with a glass of champagne in hand, and survey all before him. >> john: jeremiah was fully at home at stars. this is, i think, what he had aimed for all along. this was wholly his. >> mark: it's not real. it's just a -- it's fictitious. it's a painting. it's something out of a movie. i don't even vision reality, i envision the movie of it, because it's sort of romantically replaced in my mind, and i'm sure that's what most people think of, when they think of stars. [ sirens ] >> mario: i don't know what went wrong. i was gone by that time, and i just remember going back, and