Since we are streaking off course...
My formative years (birth to 12) were spent in Southern California. My father worked in the audio-visual department of Union Pacific Railroad, making industrial films for the railroad and for other industries. Through the course of his work, he met many people in the show-biz industry. One of his films used the same guy who did the voice-over on the tape played by Mr. Phelps at the beginning of each Mission Impossible episode, a film that yours truly has a brief cameo. (To my great surprise, somebody posted this film is on You Tube. You really can find the strangest stuff there!).
To get to the point...through his show-biz connections he and my mother got tickets to attend the Academy Awards in 1974. As you may (or may not) recall, this was the year the streaker dashed across the stage and David Niven quipped "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings". It was later determined that it was a planned stunt, and my parents were so far away from the stage the couldn't see much, but that once in a lifetime experience was made all the more memorable for them.
