We’re talking really dangerous dumb decisions that continue to make me humble.
I’m talking here about seriously dumb decisions, not those minor regrets like that time in 1970 when Esquire magazine assigned me to fly to New Mexico where director Monte Hellman was filming Two-Lane Blacktop, about street-racing. Among the actors was a pair of musicians, James Taylor as a driver, and Dennis Wilson as a mechanic. They both agreed to be interviewed, besides screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and others.
During a conversation with Taylor about not laughing at jokes, he said, “My brother once told me a joke that made me laugh.”
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