he loved to dance. so we would be at night clubs till 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, and he and i d be partying, dancing, with all these beautiful ladies. and the one thing he did do for me, which was the thing that i had to do first, introduce me to hugh hefner. you went to the playboy mansion a lot. i did. you re not supposed to tell everybody. listen, i had heard it from the outside. - i m serious. - i did. and i had a ball, and when i met hugh, i almost fainted, right? cause, you know, as a kid growing up in lansing, michigan, all you had was that magazine, that playboy magazine, so you were like, look at these women. - it came to life. - exact and it did, too. and we had a good time. and hugh was a big laker fan. and he even came to a lot of games. we re not even gonna talk about the forum club, are we? no, no. it s real legendary.
he loved to dance. so we would be at night clubs till 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, and he and i d be partying, dancing, with all these beautiful ladies. and the one thing he did do for me, which was the thing that i had to do first, introduce me to hugh hefner. you went to the playboy mansion a lot. i did. you re not supposed to tell everybody. listen, i had heard it from the outside. - i m serious. - i did. and i had a ball, and when i met hugh, i almost fainted, right? cause, you know, as a kid growing up in lansing, michigan, all you had was that magazine, that playboy magazine, so you were like, look at these women. - it came to life. - exact and it did, too. and we had a good time. and hugh was a big laker fan. and he even came to a lot of games. we re not even gonna talk about the forum club, are we? no, no. it s real legendary.
owners and players. snap out of it. there you go. how did you get to be such a big laker fan. my father used to take me to all the games when i was a kid, football, baseball, basketball, hockey, i m from seattle so i loved it all. mike: and you actually did a commercial, we ll see a piece of it for the lakers. look at this. and four on two. ooh! . it s always been fans. (laughter) well, i want to, i want to talk about not the lakers, but the fantastic book called dear cary , you knew him probably better than anybody knew him and you wrote a book that s warm and insightful, but it s not a kiss and tell, let s make him to be a bad guy. no. mike: it really presents a very human side of gare cary grant. i m so glad you got that.