When I was a kid, an action movie to me was Errol Flynn swinging from a ship with a sword. Swordfighting epics and cowboy movies. It didn’t change until I was an adult when they started making “Shaft” and buddy movies — “Starsky and Hutch” on TV.

I was this far away from a black-and-white TV on University Place. It felt like I was born there. I was raised by a black-and-white RCA TV. Rod Serling. Bill Shatner. Hogan’s Heroes and Gilligan’s Island. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father. Antonio Fargas, on Starsky & Hutch and in Putney Swope.