DISSOLVE TO: 1941 the GangsterBB family is sitting at the table in the Hotel Lounge.
[DON CARDI sits down and begins to smoke.]: Ah, say -- what do you think of the nerve those Japs -- those slanty eyed bastards, huh. Dropping bombs in our back yard -- and on SC's birthday ya know.
DON SMITTY : Now they didn't know it was SC's birthday.
DON CARDI : They didn't know it was SC's birthday. :rolleyes:
PLAW : We should have expected it after the Oil embargo.
DON CARDI : What do you mean expect it -- expect it or not they have no right dropping bombs. What are you a Jap lover or something -- are you on their side?
TIS : I understand thirty thousand men enlisted this morning.
DON CARDI : A bunch of saps.
DMC : Why are they saps?
SICILIAN BABE : Cardi come on we don't have to talk about the war.
DON CARDI : Hey beat it -- you go talk to Mr. Babe, alright. They're saps because they risk their lives for strangers.
DMC : That's SC talkin.
DON CARDI :You're god damn right that's SC talking.
DMC : They risk, they risk their lives for their country.
DON CARDI : Your country's not your blood -- you remember that.
DMC : I don't feel that way.
DON CARDI :Well if you don't fell that way why don't you just quit collage and go to -- go to join the Army.
DMC : I did -- I enlisted in the Marines.
[Everyone is silent.]
DON CARDI : Nice -- real nice -- break SC's heart on his birthday.
DON SMITTY : That's swell -- congratulations.
DON CARDI : Go on encourage him.
MIGNON : SC's here come on.
[Every but DMC walks out.]
DON CARDI : Come on -- come on -- stupid.
[DMC sits alone at the table.]
EVERYONE TO SC : Surprise!!!! -- For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow -- that nobody can deny -- that nobody can deny!!!!!
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Happy Birthday to my most valued and trusted friend. I hope that your day is filled with happiness!
Don Cardi