Contents
Copyright Page
Author’s Note
Growing Up in Pittsburgh, PA
My Grandparents and Other Loved Ones
From Thirteen to Eighteen Years Old
High School
Girls
Dad
University of Miami
The Military
The Pittsburgh Playhouse
More Mistakes
To Hollywood and Back
Uta
Don’t You Dare Show Up!
A Kiss with Troubling Ramifications
Getting Better and Getting Banned
Mad Men
Lee Strasberg
Julie
Doctors
The Woman in the Hotel
Candid Camera
Endings
Special Agents
Critics
The Graduate
The French Girl
Simon and Garfunkel and My Politics?
Benefactors
Steambath
Appearing on Johnny Carson and David Letterman to Show the Real Me?
Memorable Encounters with Icons
The Unexpected
A Most Formidable Woman —or Something
The All Knowing
I Go to Washington
Co-ops
Midnight Run
CNBC
The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Felony Murder Rule
How Naïve Can I Be?
Lousy Treatment of Kids
Highly Unusual Experiences That Make Me Not Miss Show Business
Why I’m Getting Increasingly Skeptical
What Did You Say?
Proceed with Caution
Socializing
Regrets
Peter Falk
Henry
Jack Paar and Regis Philbin
Paul Newman
Jack and Bob
Elie Wiesel
My Family
The Diary
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Illustrations