UGLY. It's funny that you mentioned CAGNEY because another nephew of mine (MARK)was somehow associated with Madonna, Janet Jackson, Liz. Arnold, and even higher-ups and was invited to a dinner which was being hosted by "some older actor who lived next door to Jimmy Stewart, or George Burns, or some other famous actor of that time" (his words) and was asking me for some information so that he woulsn't appear to be a complete idiot over cocktails or at the dinner table.
When it came to movies he actually was a complete idiot because he was a total outdoor guy who never watched any movie except for the one time we took him to see ROCKY.
He also got kicked out of the house at a young age, but he did manage to meet the right people and ended up working with Madonna, Jackson, etc. and Herb Ritts ... which opened many opportunities within the model advertisement biz.
So he became popular within old Hollywood social gatherings and found himself having big dinners in Beverly Hills mansions without any idea of who was sitting at his right or left and no idea about the movie that would soon be shown in the mansion's private screening room.
But Mark was polite, good looking, and a perfect dinner guest, so he was on some exclusive dinner guest list.
So I' d usually get a call saying that he met so and so last night or he saw BATMAN before the sound effect track was added or he barowed some star's car and wanted to show me the sound system that cost many thousands, or how great Madonna's birthday was, etc.
Lots more to this story but I gotta head out.
If you saw the Madonna CHERISH video, you saw Mark.