Burning Down The House

Jim Farber/ NY Daily News "So many people were working so hard," she says. "New York is such a hard city to live in and people are so busy. But, in this case, people stopped to get behind a cause, which was incredible."

As things started to look bleak, Stein traveled with Kristal to Las Vegas to scout out possible new locations for the club - all of them on a suitably scuzzy side of town.

"He easily could have gone to Planet Hollywood or the Hard Rock Cafe, and they wanted it," she says. "Hilly had a vision of the place. He wanted the club to be in a part of town young musicians could afford."

Stein believes CBs would have ended up in Vegas had Hilly lived. Though the movie documents Kristal's sad end, it finishes on a hopeful note: with the installation of CBs' innards at the New York annex of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.