The Audition
Sam Rosenberg, Certified Public Accountant, husband and father, was sitting in the tiny, windowless, over-crowded office of Jimmy Conti, in the basement of Heaven, the all-nude nightclub that Jimmy managed. Sam and Jimmy were going over last month’s books. Sam was embarrassed to have Heaven as a client—it was the one client he lied to his wife about. But Sam was the junior partner of Rosenberg and Rosenberg, and when Rosenberg the father gave Rosenberg the son an assignment, Rosenberg the son took it. “A client’s a client,” his father had said. “They pay their bills just like everybody else.”
Sam wished he could get out of there, but it was taking longer than he had hoped because they had been interrupted by phone calls that Jimmy apparently had no choice but to take.
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