In L.a., Though, People Get

I Was A Carpenter In Northern Vermont And Got This Tax Refund Check That Just About Covered A One-way Airfare To London. So This I Saw As A Sign From God. So I Went Over To See Ray [hussett] For A Couple Of Weeks And Ended Up Staying 10 Years. I Got Work As A Stage Carpenter At The Oval House In Kennington, South London.

One Of The High Points In My Career Came From A Time I Had With Tim Conway On A Film When I Had Him Fall Down With Laughter. I Had This Scene With Him Where I Was This Mechanic Down Fixing His Car. I Can't Remember What My Line Was As Written, But They Were Okay With Me Doing A Made-up Line. So Tim Asks Me What's Wrong With His Car, And I Look Up And Say, "well, Looks Like You Got A Squirrel Caught Up In There."

[at Conventions] They Give Me All The Photos To Sign. Star Wars, Superman. And Hammy The Pig Is Right Up There.

It Was The Last Generation Of Writers [ The Cheers] That Had Grown Up Reading Books Instead Of Watching Tv. So You Weren't Getting Anything That Was Derivative Of I Love Lucy Or Happy Days. You Were Getting Real Characters [like Those] They Read In P.g. Wodehouse Or Dickens Or Somewhere Along The Line, Because They Had All Grown Up With A Love Of Literature.

Hollywood Has Lost Touch With Their Audience A Long Time Ago.