Irv Kupcinet

My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.