Buttons prefers to look ahead, not behind. Then there are the notorious Friars Club benefits, where Buttons button-holes celebs with his riotous sense of humor. It gives you this sense of community. As well as a sense of history. When it comes to the comical gene pool, Buttons' family was in the swim of things.
Buttons feels more married to the stage than to the movies.
In film, you're at the whim of others, you're not the general. Here, I'm five times as much in control. No such problems these days. The man deserves, at the very least, a dinner. Life is not so much a dinner for Red Buttons these days as it is a feast.