Gil (”Buck Rogers”) Gerard can do more than act. He was a successful businessman before he decided to try his luck in front of an audience and he says that experience has given him ”a more objective point of view. You have to find out who you are as a person and remain loyal to that. If you live your life by your press clippings, you`ll be suicidal very quickly. My life has gone on since `Buck Rogers.` I`m not in an incredibly depressed state just because I don`t have a series.”
In Bob Hope`s ”Confessions of a Hooker,” ol` Ski Nose reveals his contribution to the U.S. space program. In 1970, when he was doing a TV special at NASA, Hope was strapped into a training device used to simulate the sensation of lunar gravity. He was holding his golf club, of course. ”I, in effect, weighed only one-sixth of my normal poundage,” he writes.
”Involuntarily I went up on my toes and, feeling just a bit frightened, placed my driver down to act as a tripod. Alan Shepard, watching closely, had a funny smile on his face. Later he told me that was where he got the idea to take a golf club with him to the moon.”
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”There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
–Christopher Morley
”Success is a journey, not a destination.”
–Ben Sweetland
”Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
–Earl Wilson
