Scrapbooks of my mind a hollywood autobiography

Each September, before the new season begins, the networks give parties here in Southern California. Huge affairs to which all their affiliate stations are invited.

These things go on for three days. During the mornings and afternoons, the affiliate members who either own or manage TV stations around the country are shown pilot films of the new shows and given the hype about what a great season has been lined up.

Scrapbooks of my mind: a hollywood autobiography pdf

The evenings are cocktail parties, sumptuous dinners, fairly nice wines on each table of ten or twelve, and they trot out their stables of current series stars to mingle, drink, and dine with the folks who are running the shows.

Vic hated those things and left as soon after dinner as he could. I enjoyed myself and in got into a conversation over cocktails with a very nice man, about my age, named Rene Picado who owned the affiliate station in San Jose, Costa Rica.

His English was excellent and I still remembered some of my Spanish, which pleased him