Now approaching the
Grande, Collins flagged
down a young black kid
and—the ballroom being
unscathed amongst the
flames everywhere else—
pointed to the Grande:
“Hey, man…what’s going
down? How come that
place still standin’?” The
young boy replied, “Oh,
dey got MU-sic dere!”

Russ Gibb in Cary
Loren’s 1998 movie
Strange Fruit →