Mother was a New York society girl. She smoked. She didn't read books. She went to every fashion show because Daddy ran the show at Hearst. He got the company out of debt; he sold off newspapers to buy television stations. When Patty Hearst was kidnapped, he held the purse strings, and he was reluctant to give up the ransom money to get her back.

My mother wanted me to be a slim respectable socialite... Instead I became an overweight troublemaker.