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I started out, you know, to be an astronomer. There was no question in my mind that I was
going into astronomy. I had no thought of going into the theater. That’s why I went
to Ohio Wesleyan, which was the fourth largest telescope in the world at the time – visual
telescope. During the work that I was doing there, we really made some of the first discoveries
of how many double-stars that there are in the universe. Because we don’t realize that
they’re double stars, but they’re so close together and they rotate so quickly around
each other that it was only by the analysis of the spectroscope, spectroscopic evidence,
that these binary stars were discovered. And it was fascinating to me. But then I got the
idea that nothing ever happened in astronomy, and so I turned to more terrestrial stars
here in Hollywood and on the East Coast.