Random junk: I once had a firecracker explode in my mouth. I wrote a TV script that was directed by an unknown named Atom Egoyan. I still have my badge from the Phantom Fan Club. For all I know, I was the only member. I once drove 160 miles on a West Texas highway without seeing a car. (I was on a motorcycle.) I was once in a fistfight on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol. It was broken up by two state senators. Ive been to all fifty states, but never got out of the airport in Hawaii, Alaska, and Oregon. John Wayne called my house to invite me to be his guest at a press conference when I was 16, but I missed the call because I was there trying unsuccessfully to sneak in. My understudy in a school tour of the Scottish play later played Buffalo Bill in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. I cut my baby sisters finger off by accident when I was 8. I stabbed my oldest sister in the back with an icepick when I was 5. On purpose. My mothers family line includes 3 state governors, a U.S. senator, a U.S. congressman, a 3-time U.S. attorney general, 2 brothers who were generals on opposite sides in the Civil War, an officer killed at the Little Bighorn, and a guy who was lynched. I once ate 50 ketchup packets on a dare. It wasnt 50 eggs, but still. In the 1976 presidential race, I had Ronald Reagan and Eugene McCarthy bumper stickers on opposite ends of my cars bumper. (I voted for McCarthy.) The first week I had my drivers license, I blew out a rear tire on my dads new car driving nearly 120 mph. The day I got my license, I broke the axle on his old car. The first two times I ever shot a BB gun, I killed a bird. I cried after the first one, a robin. The second one was a woodpecker that had driven us crazy for months pecking on our roof. I felt bad for that one, but it was him or us. I never had a cavity till I was over 50. I once sold a car and forgot there was a letter to me from Laurence Olivier in the glove compartment. I studied piano for years and still basically cannot play anything. I once found a full-sized Nazi flag in a city dump in Texas. My favorite movie as a kid was THE ALAMO (1960). I got to film a movie on the exact same set when I was 43. The small town I grew up in had more people in it than the state I was born in. I got picked up by the cops once for trespassing on a construction site 2 miles from my house. I was on a tricycle. I was 3. My parents didnt know I was gone. I have 45 cousins on my fathers side alone. I once made Sid Caesar laugh. I taught my junior high school friends the American sign language alphabet so we could talk to each other in class. I once broke my wrist and shot myself in the leg in the same week. Doing the same activity both times. I look back on my life in utter wonder.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 01:19:04 +0000
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