The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.