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Because as the years passed and the Depression slowly ended, movies in the neighborhood no longer cost only a dime — not even at The Scratch, and certainly not at the Capitol or the Colonial or the Decatur or the Loew's Pitkin. A quarter was more like it now; sometimes even thirty-five cents — and to have this money handy Vince took on all kinds of odd jobs after school, from shoveling snow to sweeping out at the barber's. But it was worth it to him. Because he knew he could learn by going to the movies. "And," as a friend of Vince's recalls, "sometimes you'd go to the show with him and it wouldn't be no fun at all. You'd want to pass a crack about something or throw a spitball a few rows ahead of you, and Vince would say 'Pipe down' or 'Cut it out' — that that was Bogart or Gable up there and you should have the proper respect for them because they were great artists. And, believe me, if you didn't show the proper respect after a few minutes, you got a nice hard poke in the arm from Vince." A girl who knew him 'way back remembers: "We went to the movies together this one Friday night when we were about fifteen. The Loew's Pitkin. We didn't know what was playing that night and when we approached the theater we saw the name of the picture and. above it, just the name Susan. I remember Vince said to me: "'Susan — who's she?' "And I said, 'Susan Hayward. She's a new young actress and this is her first picture.' " 'So why don't they put her full name?' Vince asked. " 'Because.' I said, 'it's like an honor. She comes from the neighborhood — from over across Saratoga Avenue — and it's the movie manager's way of making it something special by just putting her first name.' "I remember how after I said that there was a funny expression on Vince's face, a kind of smile. " 'Does it strike you stupid?' I asked him. " 'No,' he said, "it strikes me great.' Then he said, 'Can't you just see it someday up there — just the name Vincent?' "And he laughed. "And I laughed, too. "I mean, who had any idea at the time that he was being serious about it, that he wanted to be a movie star someday? I mean, who would have believed him . . .?" His mother believed Vince. when he finally told her. Although, and she's the first to admit it. she was a little bit skeptical about his chances at first. "They make the movies in Hollywood, Vinnie. You're way over here in Brooklyn," she said to him that night. "People start studying acting when they're twelve or thirteen years old. They go into plays, they sing at weddings, they get all kinds of experience. You're seventeen already, Vinnie, and you've never had a day of that kind of experience in your life." But after her son had talked to her a while longer — after he'd explained that he'd been experiencing life, and that that was as good a start as any: after he'd told her about all the reading he'd done on the subject, the reasons for the exercise, for going to the movies so often; after he'd said, "Mama, this 'lecatu * centjjueAl LEUKEMIA JOIN THE LEUKEMIA SOCIETY APPEAL is my dream, my dream!" — his mother nodded. And she said to him: "A dream's a good thing, Vinnie. Without them, after all, what would we be but pretty miserable people? The only trouble, though, is that a lot of people — they don't do anything about their dreams. But you — you be different, Vinnie. You get out there and work at your dream. Work at it hard. Be a movie star. Be a good movie star . . . And I'll tell you one thing" — she laughed through the tears that had somehow come to her eyes now — "if you don't send me an autographed picture of yourself when you are a movie star so I can show the people on the block, I'll come and I'll give you a slapping this big . . . !" It seemed, incredibly, as if it were all going to be a cinch at first. Only a few years later, Vince — who'd been working his way through the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (in the same class, incidentally, with three other young hopefuls named Grace Kelly, John Cassavetes and Anne Bancroft)— got his first offer to make a picture; in fact, to star in a picture. Success, it seemed, was so close at that moment that, even before he read the script. Vince borrowed some money and went to buy himself a big and shiny-black Buick. But a few days later they showed him the script of the picture — "Mr. Universe," it was called. And Vince wondered seriously, very seriously, if he'd