Why would a mother tell that to a perfect stranger?
People from Brooklyn are less inhibited?
That's what I thought at the time.
She was bragging about being his mother. "You know, I'm Barry Manilow's mother"
Aids was really in the news back then. Everybody was talking about it, and how horrible it was.
Plus, I was there for 3 weeks, almost 12 hours a day. So I saw her a lot.