[ Oval House] Director, Peter Oliver, Gave

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I Don't Know How Many Days I Worked There [on Star Wars]. The Thing I Do Remember Was I Somehow Got A Parking Space Next To Kermit The Frog. It Was Jim Henson's Space, With This Kermit The Frog Sign. I Took A Photo Of It And Sent It To My Mom With A Caption That Read, "look, Mom. I Made It. I Got A Parking Space Next To Kermit The Frog." I Was Always Fascinated By The Film-set Infrastructures.

It Was The Last Generation Of Writers [ The Cheers] That Had Grown Up Reading Books Instead Of Watching Tv. So You Weren't Getting Anything That Was Derivative Of I Love Lucy Or Happy Days. You Were Getting Real Characters [like Those] They Read In P.g. Wodehouse Or Dickens Or Somewhere Along The Line, Because They Had All Grown Up With A Love Of Literature.

I Was A Carpenter In Northern Vermont And Got This Tax Refund Check That Just About Covered A One-way Airfare To London. So This I Saw As A Sign From God. So I Went Over To See Ray [hussett] For A Couple Of Weeks And Ended Up Staying 10 Years. I Got Work As A Stage Carpenter At The Oval House In Kennington, South London.

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