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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 3153587, member: 7631"] I saw part of a Rikki Lee concert on a show called something like "Broadcasting from the Kate," (The Katharine Hepburn theater in Old Saybrook) on PBS. My wife and I both agreed she shouldn't put herself on display any more. She and Tom Waits were a couple in the 70's. The Chuck E from "Chuck E's in love" was Waits's friend Chuck E Weiss, who appears frequently in his songs/stories from early in his career. Waits cleaned up his act when he married Kathleen Brennan; I don't think Rikki Lee ever did, or at least not as early. I find it fascinating that after having given up drinking and smoking, Waits still hangs out at the track and his songs tell stories of the underside of society as though he's still part of it -- I wonder if he still hangs out in seedy places some. [/QUOTE]