You play ball with me and I""ll stake you." As a new "fish," it was likely that Vince would be assigned a ""hard"" and ""dirty"" job in the coal yard, but with Hunk""s influence, he might be transferred - to the print shop - in exchange for a loan (to be repaid) of five cartons of cigarettes...I betrayed myself.I killed men.And I ordered men to be killed...I killed - I ordered the death of my brother.He injured me.I killed my mother""s son.I killed my father""s son.")The film""s coda was years later in 1997 with the anti-climactic, peaceful death from a heart attack of an aged, white-haired Michael at his Sicilian villa as he slumped over in his chair, while recalling the various loves of his life.Ominously, "Evil Eye also watches" from nearby.BackgroundCabaret(1972) is director/choreographer Bob Fosse""s defining, decadent, award-winning musical which popularized the phrase: "Life is a Cabaret.Before her death in her Lincoln General Hospital room, Emma had one last hospital goodbye scene with her children, when her youngest son Teddy (Huckleberry Fox) told off his bratty older brother Tommy (Troy Bishop).