By the time Shep’s parents and sister made it out to California for a visit, he’d been living there for three years. He’d been living with Felix for two of them, and with the most famous face in Hollywood for the last nine months. Shirleen’s instincts had not failed her: Felix ‘hit’ all right, and he hit it big. Say Cheese was a smash with test audiences, and the City-Mouse-Goes-Country set-up was a pet project of the network executive whose niece enjoyed a ‘Created By’ credit. It was ruthlessly marketed, and its Super Bowl Sunday premier set sit-com ratings records that Shirleen assured Felix, dollar signs cha-chinging in her eyes, would not soon be broken.
Once the money started rolling in, Felix started making some changes. He signed on as Raul’s silent partner, as happy to help buoy t
