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Famous A**holes I Have Known. . . Chapter 4......©Tommy Mandel

MARIANNE & HILLY

I still remember the night my friend Hilly Michaels woke me up with a phone call from the road to hell. "You must meet my new girlfriend, Marianne," he said. I just couldn't get back to sleep. I knew he was a goner & I was right.

When the dust had finally cleared, and rehab rehad, Hilly had been laid way low. Two such talented people, oy vey iz meer,such a pity. Was he stranded in dreamland? Perhaps, but until you read her opinion of him in her autobiography, you ain't seen stranded.

I actually benefited from their association, perverse creature that I am under this blandly agreeable exterior. There was a song that I was writing with John Waite, (Just Like Lovers), and after we put it on his album, it took another direction at my home studio. I had ideas. So one night after dropping Hilly off at friends, on the way uptown, I asked Marianne if she'd come by and sing on my demo version of it for a mode$t amount of bux.

She called back later, asking me if I had been serious about the offer. I was, and so she came over, made me get Earl Grey Tea from the Korean, and spent the better part of the night working over the lyrics with me and then singing it in her gritty classy style. The words had to be really real for her to sing them, much more so than I was accustomed to writing. So thank you Marianne, but could you have been gentler on Hilly? Maybe not. He's married a Peruvian Siamese with, according to him, the most electric feeling skin he's ever touched * , so maybe I guess it's ok after all.

(* If you ever met Carol Mosner, Hillyís former girlfriend, (the one he
wrote the song ìGeminiî for,) you'd realize how intense his PeruvianThai
must be. Because Carol is definitely from Venus, or Atlantis or
somewhere else heavenly. I wrote her a song too, ("And the Band Played On...")
sheís so perfect, purr-fect. . . smart too. . . she's in a room, you FEEL her there...
so caring, her eyes are so green, her skin is so white, her voice is so soft,
her look is so knowing and understanding, her face is so beautiful, sheís so
slim, so graceful...so I guess I can't get over her...or my memory of her: a
very slippery and different animal...Hi Carol. Good luck with your new
career. Too bad the German didn't work out, I always thought Desi the
Sushi Heir was more in keeping. Come visit me in a dream sometime. Soon.

ok? And Marianne, as you know, Iím still a fan.

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