debbie reynolds was there, sammy kong, the songwriter who wrote for sinatra. dudley moorenna and years later i told dan i was at that party and he said "you've got to be getting. "anyway, i am passing out the shrimp heads. and there's this little short guy that spoke in kind of a german like access. turns out it was austrian. i asked him if he wanted one of these things and he said, and i can't do that accent but he said "we want to be an actor." i thought he was psychic. i wasn't included in yet that all the waiters want to be actors. i said yeah, how did you know that. he goes, you all want to be actors. he goes forget about it. i said why? he said you're too ugly to be a leading man and you're too pretty to be a character actor. i was like, so let me see, how do i do this. he said can you write? i said actually have been writing i used to write short stories. he said, that's what you do. you write your own stories, create your own characters, make your own way. because otherwise you're standing on the sidewalk with everybody else. he said that time you get noticed. sure