There will be no rewrites, and the script stands, unless I say otherwise. Understand?"He sputtered and fumed, but when I threatened to fire him immedi...tely and reshoot his scenes with another actor, he shut up. He glowered at me though, and I knew I'd have to watch him. His revenge caught me by surprise. He went after Cindy, and got her, making sure I knew.I decided to follow his script, walking in on them. It didn't hurt me nearly as bad as they expected it to. I knew she was short term. I. I shrugged"Yeah, I guess you'd call me a regular," I said. "You?" A couple of times a month, I guess. To unwind, you know," she said. "Your wife with you?" she looked around as if scanning the crowd for her. I snorted. She picked up on it."Not a good subject?" she said. I shrugged again."It is what it is," I said. "We broke up." Wowzer," she said. "Sorry. Didn't mean to pry." I resorted yet again to my favorite means of expressing myself—I shrugged."It is what it is," I said. I took another sip. “Sorry,” the woman told the little girl, “Nobody under eighteen allowed in a strip club.”Paula’s eyes grew huge. “A strip club!?”“Yes, little girl, a strip club. And if you don’t know what that means go home and ask your daddy. Just maybe not...”“I know what a strip club is,” Paula interrupted. “I just didn’t know that a gentlemen’s club is the same thing as a strip club. I thought it was just some ‘no girls allowed’ place.”The pretty Asian woman chuckled. “Oh, we have girls here; we’re just. She sensed that I was preoccupied with something while we drove to the restaurant, and after we were seated at a quiet booth, she broke the silence."Tell me what's wrong, Jim."She was a strong woman, and I respected her too much to play games. "Mom, I love you and I don't want to hurt you, but I have made a decision about my future that is going to be very hard to understand."She had a stricken look on her face, and I took her hand and squeezed it gently."Jim, if you don't want to go back to.