The casket was shipped to the Chemistry Department of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where something very secret was performed on the body of Henry Ford. The Board of Directors of the Ford Motor Company were in one of the lecture halls in the same building waiting nervously, including Henry Ford s grandson, who was the current CEO of the Ford Motor Company.
When Henry Ford walked into the lecture hall, he appeared almost green and very frail.
His hair was grey and he walked with the help of two assistants. They brought him to the podium which was off to the side. Mr.
Ford grabbed the side lips of the podium to steady himself. One of the assistants positioned the microphone near Henry Ford s mouth. The audience was in shock.
How could this be? They were told that Henry Ford could be raised from the dead for only an hour, and that during that time he could probably muster some kind of speech. But the chemists and biologists who had worked on the body were as startled as the audience at how vital the old man was.
Afterall, he had died back in 1947 at the age of 83, almost sixty years ago.
Old Henry Ford tapped the mike and it made a loud clack throughout the lecture hall. The Ford family, including all the cousins and great grandchildren, as well as the Board members, were all there.
The old man smiled at the thundering clack he made with the tap on the mike. The audience jumped from the noise.
Henry Ford, with his dry cracked lips that had the color of eggplant, leaned into the micorphone.
His voice was raspy but bellowed with a deep pitch, stronger than one would expect from a man temporarily raised from the dead. I am told I do not have much time. So let me keep this short and sweet.
You people are idiots. Every goddamn one of you. You have no guts.
You have no foresight. You have no vision. You have taken this great company that I built with every bead of sweat in my body and turned it into shit.
You have let events control the company rather than the company control events. Why the fuck do my cars still run on gasoline? You are still using the internal combustion engine?
That piece of shit is a hundred years old. Do you have a research and development department? Or do you assholes have stock in the oil companies?
What? Oh, are you scared of the oil companies? Or are you just fucking lazy?
And why the fuck did you turdheads bend over every three years and let the UAW ram anything they wanted up your asses? Don t get me wrong. I don t blame my workers.
But you know what you jerks taught them? You taught them if they asked for it, you would give it to them. So as far as I am concerned, the UAW was smart.
The UAW took care of their members. But you half-brains just sat on your fat asses and let the dividend checks come in without thinking of the future. So I am here to tell you to all go to hell.
I am ashamed of what you did to this great company. I am ashamed that you people come from the same gene pool as me.
At that moment Henry Ford started to cough.
The assistants came over to help. Henry Ford pushed them away, holding his index finger up with a gesture that he had one more thing to say.
Maybe you have one last shot at saving this great company.
Maybe. But you are going to have to break some balls and piss a lot of people off and spend a lot of money to do it. Good luck.
And try to make me smile when I am lying in my casket. Because recently all I ve been doing is getting pissed off.
With that, he turned and walked out slowly with the aide of the two assistants.
Everyone in the lecture hall was silent. As silent as a Ford assembyline.
She sat on a nondescript metal chair with a vinyl seat. Britney was alone in a white room with a medical examination table and acountertop replete with medical supplies. The window had venetian blinds that created horizontal slits of the white hot Los Angeles light.
Britney held a T-Mobile Sidekick cell phone in her right hand and a pack of Marlboro cigarettes in her left hand. She was tapping the Marlboro pack on her left knee that crossed over her right leg. Britney s left foot was air tapping with the same beat as theMarlboros.
The door opened and in walked Dr. Harriet Schwimmer.
How are we doing?
asked Dr. Schwimmer.
We are doing fine, said Britney Spears.
Well, not so much. I have your blood and urine tests results here, said Dr. Schwimmer.
And there is a problem? asked Britney.
Your liver.
It is showing signs of fatty tissue, said Dr. Schwimmer.
I am starting to aggressively diet, said Britney.
Caloric intake is not the issue. It s the alcohol. The drugs.
Or it may be something else, said Dr. Schwimmer.
Well, may I suggest that we clean up our act for a month or two to see if the blood work goes back to normal.
And you might want to give up tobacco, Britney, said Dr.Schwimmer.
I never heard of cigarettes being bad for the liver, said Britney.
They aren t. But it was not a good thing that you smoked while you were pregnant, said Dr. Schwimmer.
Let s stay on topic. My liver. What did the urine test show?
asked Britney.
Your kidneys are stressed. Your urine is very dark.
You are either dehydrating or your kidneys are struggling. Again, I suggest we change the life style issues before we start down a road of tests, said Dr.Schwimmer.
I m barely drinking. And I don;t really take drugs, OK. So now I am worried, said Britney.
Britney, when we took your blood you were drunk. You drove here during the day with a blood alcohol level that was above the legal limit for driving. Focus on that.
It was during the day, and you drove to your doctor s office for a medical checkup and you were drunk, said Dr.Schwimmer.
I was not, said Britney.
And the file says you were here for a 1:30 PM appointment, said Dr. Schwimmer.
I had lunch.
It was like a business lunch. I may have had a drink or two, said Britney.
And you stink of tobacco.
When was the last time you bathed? asked Dr. Schwimmer.
What? What is this? Are you my mother?
said Britney as she stood.
It is typical for alcoholics and drug addicts to eschew personal hygiene, said Dr. Schwimmer.
Eschew? I don;t even know what that means? Is that a medical term?
asked Britney.
Screw this. I don t need to listen to this stupid lecture.
If you think you can have a medical practice here in Beverly Hills and get away with this shit, you re fucked up. We celebrities don t take this crap from just any old doctor. So just, so just stick those blood tests up your ass, said Britney as she opened the door and walked out.
She was alone in the back sitting on a plush booth behind a table. Paris Hilton and Britney Spears were dancing with what must have been a hundred patrons, Paris attracting the most attention as usual. Britney, though piggishly fat and soft, was dancing with better moves than Paris, but she seemed to be more of a quaint curiosity than Paris.
Britney had a cigarette dangling from her matronly fat lips as she danced from the memory of some concert choreography. But paris gyrated falsely with her eyes closed, as if she was feeling the heat of her own glow.
Paris and Britney would be irritating to Lindsay except for the fact that Lindsay was not feeling well.
This was starting to happen more and more lately. The Vicodin pills that Lindsay was downing daily were starting to become a fixture in her life. And Lindsay had told herself that when she clubbed, she would avoid drinking if she was popping Vicodin.
But the fact was that Lindsay was clubbing daily, or more accurately nightly. And tonight she had several glasses of white wine and three Vicodin pills in rapid succession, the mixture sloshing her brain around, making the room dizzy and the music a jackhammer.
When Lindsay opened her leather bag she spied the following: a Blackberry cell phone, a Motorola Razr cell phone, a vile of Vicodin, a pack of Merit Light cigarettes, a solid gold cigarette lighter, three marijuana joints, a purple ultra fine point Sharpie, a palm-size leather notebook which contained phone numbers, emails and other private information, and a set of keys.
The nanosecond after she opened the bag, Lindsay forgot what she was rummaging for. Was it for a cigarette? A joint?
Did she want to check her email? Make a phone call? She picked up the vial of Vicodin which did not have her name on it.
It was the name of a friend who seemed to have an unlimited supply, and gave her dozens of vials that she kept at home in her closet in a wood box behind a pair of cowboy boots. The vial was half filled. These were the strong Vicodin pills, the heavy dose ones.
The label said Take One Every Twelve Hours As Needed. She had already popped three in the last two hours and she knew that if she popped oned more, she would feel better for about an hour before feeling bad again. But in that hour, she could get home, take some sleeping pills and maybe sleep it off till tomorrow.
Hey, Lindsay, you want to dance? asked Britney Spears, startling Lindsay. Lindsay clumsily held her hand over the vial betraying that she was hiding something.
Not really, said Lindsay. Britney still had the lit cigarette at the corner of her mouth, with smoke shooting from her nostrils and puffs forming with each word she spoke. She looked disgusting, thought Lindsay who was confident that she smoked a cigarette with more grace than Britney Spears.
What you got there? asked Britney, referring to Lindsay s cupped hand covering the vial of Vicodin.
Yeah.
Is it like strong Tylenot, if you know what I mean, said Britney with a smile.
Lindsay hated nosey bitches, and it was none of Britney fucking business what she was doing and what she was taking.
I have back pain, said Lindsay.
Yeah. I had that too. I love having back pain because then I can get Oxycontin.
Is that what that is? Oxycontin? asked Britney.
Damn. Britney can get Oxycontin, thought Lindsay. I mean Vicodin was cool and fun, but the one time Lindsay had Oxycontin it was one of the best nights she ever had.
But her friend told her that it is impossible to get, and if caught with the stuff, it was seriously bad news.
You can get Oxycontin? asked Lindsay.
Yeah, I guess you were right. That is like Tylenol, said Britney as she backed up with a shuffle, to the music, and slowly turned with her hips and arms moving to the music, disappearing into the crowd.
Fuck Britney Spears.
She was trash but Britney Spears had made millions with her stupid music and her stupid songs, and had now gotten fat and sloppy, looking like she was living in a trailer park with her two stupid kids. But she had one thing that Lindsay did not have. She had access to Oxycontin.
Lindsay tossed the vial of Vicodin back into her bag, pulled out a Merit cigarette and lit it, taking a deep drag, inhaling the smoke so deep it filled every air sack of her lungs. Lindsay remembered that she had to be on the set tomorrow, and it was already 1:30 in the morning, which meant she had to be on the set in five hours. Shit.
She picked up her Blackberry to call her manager. The Merit cigarette dangled from her mouth. She was going to tell her manager that she was not feeling well and would be at the set by noon.
Yeah. By noon. She started to relax and decided to pop another Vicodin as soon as she got off the phone with her manager.
Bloomberg offered his hand, which Sharpton took.
Hello, Mayor, said Sharpton. Sharton did not wait to be offered a chair.
He sat in the chair next to Kelly s. Bloomberg sat. Kelly sat.
How are you Mr. Kelly? asked Sharpton.
Fine, thank you, said Kelly.
Fine? How can you be fine under these circumstances.
Your guys plowed a bucketload of bullets into an innocent man. A black man. So you tell me, how can you be fine?
said Sharpton.
I meant I was personally physically, OK, said Kelly. The second he said it, Kelly knew it didn t sound right.
Physically OK? I would be sick to my stomach. In fact, I am sick to my stomach.
How can I be feeling sick and you feeling OK? said Sharpton.
Bloomberg killed a smile that started to form.
Sharpton knew how to grab the conversation.
I think we all feel sick about what happened, said Bloomberg.
So what are we going to do about this mess that you have gotten yourselves in?
said Sharpton.
Kelly hated that Sharpton presumed that somehow he was part of the government, as if he was charged with the high purpose of public office, almost as if this was one of his offices.
The offices are on administrative leave, Al, and they have turned in their guns, said Bloomberg.
That means they are still getting paid, and they have desk jobs. Sounds like a promotion, said Sharpton.
I can assure you it is not a promotion, said Kelly.
It s a slap on the wrist, said Sharpton without turning to look at Kelly.
You don;t know the facts, Mr. Sharpton.
We were staking that club out. Drugs. Prostitution.
Money laundering. They rented the place out as a cover. There was a bachelor party going on.
The kids who got shot were like human shields. Those bastards used their patorns as human shields, said the Police Commisioner. Kelly was irritated.
Police were not never allowed to fuck up. And when they did, their lives were often ruined.
Al Sharpton addressed the Mayor.
Your Police Commisioner says that the African American community of this great City of New York are the human shields for crime. And so what is he saying, that African Americans can be killed to fight crime? Cause if that is what he saying, I d like to tell that to the media, said Sharpton.
I am sure that is not what the Police Commissioner is saying, said Bloomberg.
I did not suggest that, said Kelly.
It sure sounds like you did.
One of those Freudian slipperoos, if you ask me, said Sharpton.
Look, we have to deal with this swiftly and aggresively, said Mayor Bloomberg.
I ll say, cause your Police Commissioner has handed me a golden opportunity.
It don t mattter how you play this music, it comes out the same. Fifty bullets at two unarmed innocent black men. That s music man that only plays one way.
And anyway you hear it, it makes the New York City finest seem like the worstest, s id Sharpton, not blinikng an eye on his misuse of the English language.
Al, our interests are the same. We need to find out what happened, discipline the officers for what they did, and try to start the healing, said Bloomberg feeling like he was on the Oprah show.
You ain t going to heal sqat without my participation, said Sharpton.
Of course. We need you, Al.
We need you to be part of the process, said the Mayor.
Hey, Mr. Mr.
Mayor, I know you re playing me. You think I don t know when you are playing me. And that is OK.
It s OK with me. You play me all you want. Just as long as you know I will be playing you.
And maybe, if you are lucky, you will come out smelling like roses. But any way this plays out, I will be OK. This is my game you have entered.
This is my game, said Sharpton.
Yes, yes, I know. And it is my desire to make us all do justice and try to prevent this from happening again, said Bloomberg.
So are we ready to meet the media? Cause I m ready. And don;t take it pewrsonally if I don;t smile with you Mayor and look like we re friends.
Cause I ain t gong to smile. This ain t time for smiling, said Sharpton as he rose from his chair.
I understand completely, said Bloomberg as he stood.
Kelly did not stand.
See you gentlemen downstairs. And Mr.
Kelly, don t look so sour. Feel as fine as you said you do, said Sharpton as he walked out fo the office.
I hate that sonofabitch, said Kelly.
We are all running the city together, Ray, said Bloomberg. We are all running the city together. Michael Bloomberg sat in theoak wood desk chair that has scratches and scuff marks from years of mayoral lounging.
The desk was also large, oak, heavy, standing in place as if it hadn t been moved in a century. Bloomberg never bothered to make New York City s Mayor s Offcie hi own. He did not consider it his own, anyway.
There were times when Bloomberg missed the private world of commerce and business, where one could spend money lavishly and be blunt in one s discourse. But here he was, presideing over one of the largest and most important citys in the world, the top manager, the spokesperson for a myriad of constituencies, a pandemonium of competing social, racial, cultural and financial interests, a city where the poor and the rich walk the same pavements, and shop at the same grocery stores, and buy coffee at the same Greek delis. It astounded Bloomberg that New York had not imploded from all the exploding quilts that patch the neighborhood landscape.
Do we really have to meet with that asshole? said Raymond W. Kelly, New York City s Police Commisioner as he sat alone with the Mayor.
Is there a reason why you think we shouldn t? said Bloomberg.
And we are not?
asked Bloomberg rhetorically.
I feel like I have to take a shower after I am with him, said Kelly.
Oh stop it, Ray.
Sharpton is a colorful guy. Entertaining. And whether we like it or not, he has grabbed the stage for a major constituency in this town.
If they listen to him, I have to listen to him, said Bloomberg.
Bloomberg actually liked Al Sharpton. Sharpton was a straight shooter and was very clear about what he was all about.
The public face of Sharpton was not the same man that Bloomberg had come to know in private meetings with him. This was not so different from the hundreds of business people he had dealt with. Indeed, he had known Wall Street to be particularly populated by charlatans and pretenders.
But sometimes you had to deal with them, and sometimes they held the strings. Quite frankly, from Bloomberg s perspective, the Wall Streeter s were boring. Sharpton was anything but.
And that mattered.
You feel like you can trust him? You feel comfortable with Al Sharpton?
asked Kelly.
Tell me again about the fifty gunshots fired by our police officers. Give it to me in a few words.
The Reverend will be here any moment, said Bloomberg. This was a management tool Bloomberg had used often. The essence of things could be described in a few words.
And it was the essence of things that seemed to matter even more in politics than in business.
At that moment, the door flew open and in walked the Reverend Al Sharpton.
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