Letters to the Editor: Angela Lansbury, the actress you really wanted to work with, is acting in “The Last Picture Show” on Broadway,” New York Times, September 1, 2014, A17. “‘The Last Picture Show,’ a new musical about the death of film, has been on Broadway since November and is about to bring you back to the cinema. I just came from a dress fitting there yesterday where they have me in a long blonde wig and a high-crowned black hat that says ‘Vanity Fair’ on it. And I’m not wearing any shoes, I’m just wearing a pair of black boots, a black trench coat and my long blonde hair is really short and curled up into this big topknot that I have. But they asked me to take off the wig and they said, ‘We’re going to cut it so that we can see your eyebrows so we had to trim them, but we like them.’”
In the early 1970s, I became the public face of the National Organization for Marriage. I was at that time employed as an advertising copywriter by a prestigious ad agency based in Hollywood. I received a memo and sent it in with my resume. This was in October of 1972. My resume was rejected and I received another rejection letter not long afterward. So I decided that I was going to start a chapter in the organization called the “The Marriage Rescue Team” and I began recruiting other people to join us. One of the things that I thought I would do was go after members of the clergy and the churches who are anti-gay marriage. Our organization’s first meeting was January 1, 1983, and I decided to call that the “Winter Meetings.” Our first meeting was in the back of a Los Angeles church basement. The members were: the founder, Robert George; his wife, Jan, and myself. A priest who was a member of the church went to our first meeting and left the first night; he said, “I know all of you. You all seem nice. You didn’t seem like you were planning on being there for a long time.” So I said to
