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February 04, 2018

"I'll drink to that": Bobby Darin does the stars (by DL)

Cagney and Cary Grant don't want to hear any of your lip
so here's my friend Brandy
I mean Brando mumbling
rustic Walter Brennan, the real McCoy,
Clark Gable huffy
Jimmy Stewart that's how it goes
you see Robert Mitchum's face
but no words come out
he don't have too much to say
but W. C. Fields does
Dino would rather be drinking
and his ex-partner cracks
himself up with "One for My Baby
and One More for the Road"

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of the bedroom
as I enter
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