He asked me, so of course I came. And it's also something I like to do. I've read a fair number of stories for Selected Shorts here (a similar program), and it's a wonderful thing to do. I think reading prose in that kind of situation is great, because it's like getting back to the old storytelling roots.

One of the things about it that is important to me, and I think one of the powers of Angels is its great beauty. I think it's beautiful like Mozart. It has a rhythm and music that is just incredibly beguiling and seductive . . . and funny. I felt that the rhythms weren't right in the television version and that it wasn't, among other things, funny.

I kept leaning on him and I finally said, 'Mel, this isn't fair.' So I asked him to come on board as a co-writer with credit. And he was happy to do it.

They asked me if I'd be happy to represent the U.S., and of course, I couldn't be happier.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.