I said I had a three-year-old with broken fingers, and you said, 'Maybe he owed somebody money.' " "Yes," he said, "I remember now".
"The volume," he added, "suggests that whoever stole it owes somebody a lot of money, and it's got to be a major-league villain".
Bakar said that when passengers and crew were being investigated, police were looking for "Maybe somebody on the flight has bought a huge sum of insurance, who wants family to gain from it or somebody who has owed somebody so much money, you know, we are looking at all possibilities".
And I would over time see him go to ludicrous ends to sidestep controversy: with Gordon Lish, his editor; with an agent he wanted to fire (I was the go-between there); with the director Michael Cimino when their deal for Ray to write a screenplay based on the life of Dostoyevsky went snafu and somebody owed somebody something.
"Maybe somebody on the flight has bought a huge sum of insurance, who wants family to gain from it or somebody who has owed somebody so much money, you know, we are looking at all possibilities," Khalid said.
That somebody's success is owing to somebody's misery, therefore the misery must be honoured?
He was owed, by somebody: an apology, a sum of money, carte blanche.
It's a principle I have in my life that if you owe money to somebody, then you pay it.
We always owe thanks to somebody for something -- birthday gifts, baptism presents, etc. -- and in my mind they'll all get written Sunday evening.
