[Rick Lee]

I'll admit this only to my Pelican brothers, but I broke down and bought Valerie Bertinelli's book, just finished it yesterday. Man, Eddie was/is a basket case. That man has partied and abused his body more than all of us here combined. She said he was a non-stop coke addict through their entire 20 yr. marriage, started smoking again a few weeks after he had part of his tongue cut out for oral cancer, was a raging drunk and strangely, a total workaholic. She has a little bit in the book on the current tour and said Ed was doing pretty well. I honestly don't think he's gonna make it much longer. I don't think people change their lifelong habits when they're in their 50's.