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do. My wife has said it and I certainly agree. She says, “I’m glad you did all the things you did before we met, and you have them out of your system now.” I can look at guys now and find them just floundering, and I say, “That’s their problem; it’s not mine any more.” FRED: Are you looking forward to living in New York again, Sammy, when you do “Golden Boy”? SAMMY: Oh yes. FRED: You’ll take an apartment? ! SAMMY: For at least two years. We'll take an apartment close to the theater during the show so I’ll be able to spend as much time as possible at home with May and the kids. I’m really looking forward to it, being able to be in one place for a long time and only having to travel between the apartment and the theater. What a gas that’ll be! FRED: Where will the kids go to school? SAMMY: In New York. They will be exposed to everything. May is looking forward to it — she has a great affinity for getting our children involved with others. FRED: Sam, what about all the controversy over your marriage? SAMMY: You learn to wear controversy as a person learns to wear a pair of illfitting shoes, if that's the only pair of shoes he has. Out of all the things that I become involved witli controversially, there are maybe two or three that I could have stopped and said, “No, I don’t want to do it because it’s controversial.” The rest of the things that I have done I have done because I think I have a right to it as a human being. I’ve got as much right to try to seek happiness in my own way, with whom I choose, so long as I don’t hurt anyone — the only people that stood to be hurt when I got married were my wife and myself. I don’t believe in the bugaboos. I believe you know this. I don’t believe in the bugaboos about what happens to children of a mixed marriage. I think if you walk in my house you will hear the same sounds of happiness that you hear in any house. I think that if you find yourself surrounded by beautiful people— the children are beautiful and thank God they’re healthy, and that’s all we want is healthy children — but I am proud to say, when 1 look at my daughter, she’s beautiful. Our son is, too. But do I like it? I have to accept it. I have no choice but to accept it. Because when I want to walk into a place and people say, “There’s Sammy Davis, Jr.” — and automatically that IBM machine upstairs in their brain starts to work, and they see all the covers of scandal magazines. So that if you’re not doing anything controversial they make you controversial by looking at you. The fact that maybe some of the stories were true (90% of them were not) does not matter to them, but they associate with it. But I must say that even that point of view is better now than it used to be. But to go out and solicit controversy, no. That’s ridiculous, stupid. Nobody can live with that. 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