i met him in the eugene o'neill foundation up in waterford, connecticut.e who really were -- we were herbalists. >> jimmy: oh, okay. [ laughter ] i think i got what you said. [ cheers and applause ] >> we were horticulturists. >> jimmy: that's a good way to put it. >> there were a lot of people there, and we wre very, very studied about it. so, we got together and then we decided to share an apartment. he paid -- we both paid half of the rent. it was $150 a week, a month. it was up on 89th street. and it was amazing, amazing apartment. and then michael got a show called "streets of san francisco." >> jimmy: oh, yeah, right. >> we were splitting that rent. >> jimmy: you're out on your own now? >> no, no, he paid while -- he sent the check. every month from san francisco. >> jimmy: what a good dude. >> swear to god. >> jimmy: what a good guy. that's awesome. that's a good story. yeah, it's cool. >> you wouldn't have done that. >> jimmy: i wouldn't have done that. >> no, i know. >> jimmy: no, no, no. i remember i had a roommate once, he slept in closet. and h

no one can say f sure that eugene o'neill used my grandfather is the model for his 1939 hickey of the iceman cometh but he did resembled t character into important ways. pa love to talk in the love to drink, not necessarily in that order. so, my irish relatives are certainly giggling and resonating with that one. later in life i went away to boarding school in berkley in the '60s, whichas a wild place to send a guy like me in the middle of the '60s. i write little b about boarding school. i went away to st. mary's high school in berkley. in number of tahoe parents send their firstborn males there to save them from this surge of public education. it was too early for parents to know that sacrilegious singers like muthanna or a produ of cathol high school and not the moral hennesey of the present. the school was ol boys all the time which mnt there was a constant bought about imaginary girls. other things happened at t boarding school. it makes you long for a lot of things you don't have, having a car with the milk contact of any kind for thenes you the proper ladies of nearby st. josep