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Ta-Daaaaa! The thought seemed to cheer her up. Her husband ordered a steak sent up to her room, and after she put it away she bounced up and taught a visitor how to do the shuffle and the shim-sham. Soon she was stomping to the music of an imaginary combo and shaking it up like the great little putter-outer she has always been. "Ta-daaaaa!" she yelled as she reached the Durante closer, her arms opened wide and her green eyes glittering happily through her long soft strawberry locks. Quit show business? Come off it! Just watch her face light up when somebody discusses her recent appearance at the Teamsters' convention or asks if she's been offered the Marilyn Monroe role in Arthur Miller's After the Fall. "I know I'm vulnerable," she said, still exploring that new-found capacity for pain, "but I'd rather not have a shield, even though it hurts more that way. As long as I can, I want to go out there and make millions of people happy!"