he would organise, he came in one day with a tape recorder, it was actually a wire recorder. we were in a writers�* room and he came in and said, sir, i understand you're 2000 years old, someone told me. is that true? and i said, oh, boy. and suddenly i was a 2000 year old man. he created me. we have talked about carl, and there are many others in your life and they are all in the book, but there is one meeting, and it shows your hutzpah, if i can use a jewish word, which is which is the stalking of ann bancroft. i'm just looking at her picture. she is the most beautiful woman. she was the most amazing... when she came out and sang "i want to get married"... in the perry como show. the rehearsal. i saw that and i said, i have been looking for this all my life, i didn't know it existed