In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.'

When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work.

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren't even young and beautiful now.

[This did not come as news to Gordon Davidson, outgoing artistic director of Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. Wilson knew of his condition when Radio Golf , the final play of his cycle, transferred to the Taper, where it is running through Sept. 18.] He asked for privacy, ... But he has been remarkable, determined to do the work. He's even working on a new set of notes, to put things in before we close.