Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.