[on getting hired to write movies for Elvis Presley] My agent called me up and said, "Would you consider doing a movie for Elvis Presley?". And I said, "Who's Elvis Presley?". I had no idea at the time who he was; I had never heard of him. I wasn't a rock-'n'-roll fan in those years. I had grown up in the big-band era. I was a popular song enthusiast as well as a singer. I'd done some singing, and had some training as a saloon singer. So when I went down to meet [producer] Hal B. Wallis, I was a little bit overwhelmed because I'd never heard of Presley. I didn't know what I was getting into. As it turned out, I rewrote a script they had, which turned out to be L'homme à tout faire (1964), and then I did two others later on. Those were good, but I remember I was on a week-to-week [contract], and every week at the end of the week I'd pick up my pencils and go home because I figured I was going to be fired. Show less «