So I asked this guy how he could say the F-word was wrong, but his favorite comedian used it with ease.

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All he asked in return was that someday I help the next guy in some small way.

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He's a young guy who's done all we could have asked of him in the last couple of years.

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He had not, although "the movie guy" (aka Francis Ford Coppola) asked Mr. Graves for some sketches shortly after he'd purchased the old Inglenook property, now known as Rubicon.

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"Calvin was in Studio 54 in the wee hours of the morning when a guy sent by Carl came up and asked him if he wanted to put his name on a pair of jeans, " recalls Barry Schwartz, Calvin Klein's business partner.

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