The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' in Kansas City.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a long history with Kansas City.
My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.
I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.
Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.
When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.
I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town.
I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still.
My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
When I did 'Young Guns II,' I hung out with Emilio and Kiefer, and I once took a trip with Rob Lowe - we jumped trains.