Dedication
With love, to the living:
SID STEBEL,
who showed me how to solve
my own mystery;
ALEXANDRA, my daughter,
who cleaned up after us.
And to the dead:
FEDERICO FELLINI,
ROUBEN MAMOULIAN,
GEORGE CUKOR,
JOHN HUSTON,
BILL SKALL,
FRITZ LANG,
JAMES WONG HOWE,
and GEORGE BURNS,
who told me that I was a writer
when I was fourteen.
And to
RAY HARRYHAUSEN,
for obvious reasons.