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In The Best Of All Worlds, The Producers Would Take Some Responsibility For The Kinds Of Things They're Putting Out. Unfortunately, They Don't.

When I Get Some Budding Young Comic Who'll Come Up To Me And Say, 'what Was It Like To Do It In Those Days?' I Try To Be As Gracious To Him As Stan Laurel Was To Me.

I Went Public With The Alcoholism, Very Early On... The Early '70s. Mercedes Mccambridge, The Actress, I Think Was The First Recognizable Person That Went Before Congress And Talked About It, And I Thought That Was A Good Idea, To Take Some Of The Stigma Away From It And Say "normal, Average People Can Fall Prey To It." So It's Been Public For Me. I Did A Movie About An Alcoholic. And Today, You're Nobody Unless You've Been To Rehab. It Seems Like Everybody Has Some Kind Of An Addiction.

A Lot Of The Guilt Didn't Help My Drinking At That Point. I Never Expected A Divorce To Happen In My Life Particularly, But It Just Slowly Happened. My Wife Was Proud Of Me, But She Hated The Business, And For Good Reason. The Spouses Get Moved, Shoved Aside, And Ignored, And It's Just, It's Terrible.

I Think, The 'van Dyke Show' And 'mary Poppins' Are Two Of The Best Periods Of My Life. I Had So Much Fun, I Didn't Want It To End.