I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool and I never looked back.
Before I left for Germany I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high...
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army but I never called them...
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.