TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Born Free
A Young Jew on the Mason-Dixon Line
Glenn Close Is My Witness
Living a Paul Simon Song
Meeting Laure
Breaking Away aka My First Porno
Cocaine Coupons
Shrevie and Friends
California Here We Come
Driving Robert Redford at 100 Miles Per Hour
Kevin Arnold Teaches Me to Read
Enter Joe Roth
“So What Is Joe Pesci Really Like?”
The Secret of My Success? . . . Getting Fired!
Ride ’em Cowboy!
Sequel Time
Rookie Director—Miracles on Wrigley Field
No-Brainers
On the Parquet with Larry Bird
Barbra Streisand Is Getting Married and I’m Not Invited
Deep Diving into Malibu
Television—Success, Wrapped in Disaster
Too Much of a Good Thing
Papier-Mâché Saves the Day
Iraq and Back
Sugar Tits and Me
President Obama Makes Me Cry
The Play Is the Thing
“What Are the Chances?!”
Acknowledgements