Acting Isn't A Game Of "pretend." It's

If You Apologize Because You Are Afraid, Then You Are A Child Not A Man.

Mine Was An Easy Ride Compared To Jackie Robinson's.

But Perhaps More Important, As Someone Wishing To Make A Comment Or Two About Contemporary Life And Values, I Don't Have To Dig Through Libraries Or Travel To Exotic Lands To Arrive At A View Of Our Modern Situation Refracted Through The Lens Of The Preindustrial World, Or The Uncommercialized, Unfranchised, Perhaps Unsanitized-and Therefore Supposedly More "authentic"-perspective Ofthe Third World. Very Simply, This Is Because That "other" World, As Alien As If Separated By Centuries In Time, Is The One From Which I Came

If You Apply Reason And Logic To This Career Of Mine, You're Not Going To Get Very Far. You Simply Won't.

I Know How Easy It Is For One To Stay Well Within Moral, Ethical, And Legal Bounds Through The Skillful Use Of Words - And To Thereby Spin, Sidestep, Circumvent, Or Bend A Truth Completely Out Of Shape. To That Extent, We Are All Liars On Numerous Occasions.