Most Christmas trees are tall and green with pine needles. Not my mom’s. Ever since she and Dad…
What’s wrong with a guy who isn’t scared when he nearly breaks his neck filming Western pictures, but…
Lanky, graying, Hans Christian Adamson was visiting us in Hollywood when we noticed the first strange turn in…
When our first daughter was born, twenty-one years ago, my wife, Betty, and I prided ourselves on being…
Newsmen are said to have tough hides, cold hearts, “printer’s ink in their veins.” We see so much…
If there’s one thing I can’t stand people saying, it’s, “I’m no good at anything … I don’t…
A physician recently wrote me: “I have been impersonating you,” he said. “Badly, I’ll admit. But to the…
Mama and Papa had started calling me “Black Velvet” when I was a baby, the tenth of their…
My heart was pounding as I stood in the shadowy wings of the University of Chicago’s theater. It…
I stood looking around the airport in Newark, New Jersey, trying not to panic. It was the early…
In the early part of my acting career, I thought that if I could become a star, it…
You’ve probably noticed—if you start your morning watching me on the Today show—that I don’t take up as…
