My first influencing movie was "Gone With The Wind" as an infant being held by my mother in 1941. What my ears heard and my eyes saw was imprinted by my brain into my heart and I became forever hooked on movie stories. In 1957 as a 17-year-old high school senior at one of Louisiana's three best schools, my essay news commentary entry won first place in the New Orleans Times Picayune's "Biggest News of the Week" tri-state contest and that became a background major influence that I had a tale more...
