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Django was like a god to him.
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I don't know if this is true,
or just another Emmet Ray story...
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but Sid Bishop, who was trying
to help him financially at the time...
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got him a job in this club,
and one night, just before show time...
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one of the guys backstage
decides to play a joke on him...
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and tells him this lie.
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Hey, Emmet!
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Emmet, you're not gonna believe it.
Guess who's sittin' at the front table?
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Django Reinhardt.
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Are you kiddin' me? We should
get him up on stage with you.
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Reinhardt.
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He's gonna show him up.
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- I'm gonna...
- Come on.
:52:39
Emmet, we can get him
up on stage with us.
:52:45
- Django Reinhardt's here.
- Really?
:52:54
Hey, Django's not in the audience.
:52:57
The house is half-empty. There's
just some guy that looks like Django.
:53:00
Let's see if he's got
the nerve to come down.
:53:02
- Harry, let's go.
- Emmet, we're on!
:53:05
We should do it anyway.
:53:08
Emmet, come on down.
I'll wait for you.
:53:11
I'll take you to the front table myself.
I'll introduce you to Django.
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Now, as the story goes...
:53:17
Emmet, as you know, was pathologically
phobic about Django Reinhardt...
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so he tried to escape
through the roof.
:53:23
He just figured,
to hell with the job that night.
:53:25
But remember, this was a guy
who had fainted twice...
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when he came face-to-face
with Django Reinhardt in Europe.
:53:32
He's looking for a way out, and decides
to jump to the building next door.
:53:36
Well, as fate would have it,
he hits a weak spot in the roof...
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and crashes through
into somebody's apartment.
:53:43
As it happened, the apartment was
being used by some counterfeiters...
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who thought it was a raid when
he came through the roof, and ran out.