I remember thinking, 'He’s underused.' I’d become aware of him around the same time everybody else did: I saw Fantasy Island. It was a wild show, like a combination of The Twilight Zone and The Love Boat. '

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. Alan Arbus and Hervé Villechaize, in Greaser’s Palace and on Fantasy Island.”