In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
I was 15 years old in 1972, and yeah, when the 1970s broke, I was out there. Everything was kinda swirling around me - the music, women, cars, the culture.
I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.
The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.
By that time - the early '70s - Vimal was a fairly successful textile brand. So everybody expected me to do textile engineering. I shocked them by saying that I would go to IIT.
