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SOME careers peak early in life, others come to maturity in
later years. My career peaked when I was three years old. When
something like this happens it tends to create a dilemma as to
what to do with the anticlimactic years thereafter. Everyone
keeps expecting you to achieve something, not realizing you have
already been at the top. What happened in my case was being
discovered in a Chicago grocery store at an early age by a
talent scout from an ad agency. It was nothing remarkable that I
did, I was just standing there with my mother. Apparently the ad
man saw in me the ideal child who, by eating cornflakes for
breakfast the rest of his life, would reach a pinnacle of
success, such as president of the United States or third baseman
for the Chicago Cubs. As it happened I didn't achieve either of
these goals. I am - or was - a cornflakes eater who didn't make
it.  My wife was unaware of my early fame through much of our
married life. It all came to