Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.

Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

There is only a little difference between a man & a woman,but that little difference makes a very big difference.

And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon.

If you have two 15-year-olds, and one is a black male, and one is a white female, some people have a very different posture of the power between the two than if it's the other way around.