We're very close. Not just show business friends.

We don't really call it retirement. I call it out of work.

I retired about five years ago. I was working at the Riviera and decided I had had enough.

We were very, very close. Sonny and I have known each other for over 52 years. I'm all shook up about this. He was a sweetheart, a very strong person and a great performer.

I used to joke with him that his greatest ad lib was a right hook. He mellowed over the years.

I will be carrying on the way Sonny did. Whatever happens, happens.