The interviews for this book were conducted from May 1977 to December 1979. They appeared as cover
stories for the _TV Shopper_, a free weekly paper that was distributed to homes and businesses in New York
City. Founded by Bruce Logan in the mid−1970s as the __West Side TV Shopper__, it consisted of TV
listings, advertisements, and two full−page stories per issue. One was a "friendly" restaurant review of an
advertiser; the other was a profile of a prominent resident of the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The
honoree's face appeared on the cover, framed by a TV screen.
