Marie Windsor

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.