T here were about 7,000 sent to the Shreveport area.

We're going to Shreveport, and I know were going to give everything we've got.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

I sent them an 18-page fax.

We need an icebreaker, ... We need a 'Steel Magnolias' for Shreveport-Bossier City. We need a blockbuster to come here and get things moving.

CBS encouraged us to do it in Shreveport, but we talked them out of it.