My happy days in Hollywood

The Bronx: growing up allergic to everything but stickball

Northwestern: attending college with the thickest accent anyone had ever heard

Korea: welcome to the United States Army, Mr. Marshall

New York City: writing for stand-up comedians and being paid in corn beef

Hollywood: finding love, laughs and Lucy in California

The odd couple: running my first tv show with Oscar and Felix

Happy days: hanging out with the Cunningham family and friends

Schlemiel! schlimazel! Laverne & Shirley are driving the writers crazy

Mork and Mindy: managing a martian and a new playwrighting career

Young doctors in love: directing an outrageous hospital comedy as my first movie

The flamingo kid: going back to my New York roots

Nothing in common: working with the great ones Hanks and Gleason

Overboard: capturing love on the ocean with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell

Beaches: exploring female friendship with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey

Pretty woman: meeting a hooker with a heart of gold and a girl named Julia

Frankie and Johnny: Pfeiffer, Pacino, the Claire de lune and me

Exit to Eden: taking a wrong turn into the land of S&M

Dear God: building stories in a post office and a new career as an actor

The other sister: striving for different kind of love story

Runaway bride: walking down the aisle again with Roberts and Gere

Princess diaries: giving the royal treatment to Andrews and Hathaway

Raising Helen: directing Kate Hudson and the next generation

Georgia rules: Jane rules and Lindsay misbehaves

Valentine's day: turning the camera on love and my favorite day of the year

New year's eve: celebrating the splendor of New York City.