Ernie Kovacs, in top form, is a suspicious and designing captain, and Mickey Rooney is an inspired hep cat.

A Map Although it's not exactly a smoky den filled with finger-snapping hep cats, every night the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit's deceptively bland hotel lounge transforms into one of the city's best venues for live jazz.

This is one of their four albums that does not have the famous blue jazz cat on the cover; instead it features a yellow jazzy hep cat.

Playing a beatnik, he says "I am clearly the hep cat."

Orser of Canada: an eight-time national champion, 26 years old, the hep cat, the jitterbug, his programs allegro.

The hep cats in cool hats are postcard-home handsome and hang out in the cobbled street as well as in the cramped red-and-black rooms inside, and there's occasional live music at aperitivo o'clock (early evening).

In 1940, the word hepster was used by Cab Calloway in the title of his Hepster's Dictionary, which defines hep cat as "a guy who knows all the answers, understands jive".

Whether in The Dartmouth Review or "The Lion King," black English is the perpetual symbolic code for ignorance, evil and jest, the lingo of hep cats and hyenas.

It is positively unpretentious and one of the few places in town where you'll see young lions, black and white, drinking with hep cats, and grizzly city stalwarts groaning about how it's all gone to the dogs.

A large buzzard in a "hep cat" hairdo spots the troupe using his eyes which can extend and adjust to focus like binoculars.