The POOR NORTH has MUCH to do with SLAVERY. It staggers under its LOAD and smarts under its lash.

There are a few PLACES around the country, north shore of Oahu would be one that I would point to, where PEOPLE really look out for each other; it's a real local sort of a PLACE and once you're in that sort of ohana, or that family, EVERYBODY kind of looks out for each other.

My parents, MARY Agnes SMITH and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding HOUSE of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south SIDE of Blackpool, just north of SAINT Anne's-on-Sea.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the LARGE mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are DESTROYING the other species that presently exist on this PLANET at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per YEAR.

I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to TEXAS in a camper with my parents and US six KIDS.

In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North AMERICA. I went to SEE a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks, in Toronto, and I was just fascinated. I ended up coming back for amateur hour on a Monday at midnight and GOT up there WITHOUT any thought as to what might come of it.

Before I ever acted as an AMATEUR - which I did a great DEAL at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my PARENTS in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all SORTS.

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It BECAME a FEATURE PROJECT in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the MEANS to do it PROPERLY.

I PLAYED the cello from when I was TEN, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, NORTH Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do SHOW up in our AMERICAN SATIRE.

Even with the FACT that I GREW up in NORTH Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was HIGHLY distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. CHURCHES in FIVE states, it was front-page NEWS. He was the most successful man in my life.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost INTEREST now in WHETHER one bunch of mercenaries in north London is GOING to beat ANOTHER bunch of mercenaries from west London.

The U.S. never LOST a battle against North VIETNAM, but it lost the WAR.