"Uh, I had couches," Tony said defensively, before counting out loud the number of them that had been in the house in Malibu.

"Five. Five couches. Sometimes I even sat on them."

But only sometimes. Usually, when he wanted to watch television, he did it from the garage, tinkering with one project or another.

"And I ate Burger King. And put my britches on one leg at a time, just like everybody else. "

Tony turned the television on and switched to the tv guide page.