If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse.

I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.'