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In a telephone call to Ernie, who is downstairs in a formal black suit, Charlie, who is upstairs in pajamas, announces that he has gone temporarily blind. But that comes later and isn’t exactly true. Actually, Charlie is in his bedroom, bleeding all over the rug from a gunshot hole in his left earlobe made […]
