certainly, the advantage of being a second generation, growing up -- this is my father, burt lancaster, tony curtis, all these people were at the house all the time so you could see them as real people, their insecurities and foibles. i think it helped you conduct yourself in a better way. having said that, my mother and father got divorced when i was for. i mother remarried and i grew up back east. i mother remarried when i was 12. she married a great man, my stepfather, who kirk would be the first to say was a surrogate father. growing up in a regular household and westport, connecticut, all those years with the really thoughtful stepfather. stepparents never get any credit. you always to the bad stories, but there are a lot of stepparents out there, mothers and fathers, who out of love for their spouse assume the responsibility for kids from another family, and he certainly did that for me. tavis: you talked about growing j@ connecticut, he went back east. you went to bermuda to live. that experience has been good? >> my mother is from bermuda, so i had a lot of memories when i was a kid. we use