PAUL NEWMAN likes to tell the story of an
exercise at the Actor's Lab in Hollywood. The
fledgling actors were told to imagine that it was
World War II, and the last plane to leave the
Philippines was about to take off. They had to try
to persuade guards to let them on the overloaded
plane.
Each student made a passionate plea-one said
that she was pregnant, another that he had to report
to the president. All their pleas failed. Finally,
one student actor ran up to the guards and screamed,
"I have to get on the plane! I just have to get on the plane!
"Why?"asked the guard.
"I'm"the pilot!