Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.

Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp.

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in the process of taking a fresh look at the whole issue of morality. The only decline that's taking place - and it's about time - is in the old puritanical concept that sex is equated with sin.

Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.

I am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.