"That Dean Martin died on Christmas Day was the kind of black joke he might have made. It didn’t seem..."

“That Dean Martin died on Christmas Day was the kind of black joke he might have made. It didn’t seem real to me until I heard that all the casinos on the Vegas Strip had turned off their lights for one minute to commemorate Dino’s passing. You could almost hear Dean saying, in amazement, “One whole minute? I must have been a big shot.” He was.”

- Peter Bogdonavich (via giovannifalcone)