We each had to spend a week out at Lassie's ranch, and whoever got along best with the dog got the part.
I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.
I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.
Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.
I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.
Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.