The Commissioner met him on New Years Eve 1999 in Palm Springs. It went like this: Commish: Hello Mr. Rooney - great show. Rooney: Who are you? Commish: The brother in law of your band leader. Rooney: Oh. And he walked away.
Thankfully, the author of The Naked And The Dead has aligned himself with the latter.
(d) November 10th, 2007