I'd better get her some treats.
Come on. Attagirl.
She is a bit of a joy.
- How old is she? A couple of months? - Yeah, three months.
She was born on April 1st.
A pure-bred little black lab'.
Her full name is Todd Mountain Midnight Lady
because I got her up in the interior
from a breeder that lives on Todd Mountain.
She's my jewel.
She's beautiful. How big will she get, do you think?
She'll probably be 80 lbs.
She'll stand about half again as tall as she does now.
But she brings me joy.
Very special little lady.
- She loves people. - Does she? That's great.
I think pets just mimic their masters.
Well, she's a lot nicer than I am.
In our business, image is very important,
when you're trying to get people to give you money.
You have to have a comfortable space.
I don't suppose you have to.
I do, I have a comfortable space that they can come into.
That's why I've got such a beautiful secretary
so that I can impress them that way.
She puts up with me.
But...
That's really what this does.
It sets the feel for the company.
Very nice.
Yeah, so this house is one of those things that...
We're all creatures of what we do.
And so in my case,
because I'm beat up and an ex-athlete,
and an ex-stunt guy with a lot of business interests.
I've got an office there.
In our business you put out thousands of sheets of paper.
So, I have a little larger photocopier, than is normal.
Which, as you can see, is stored in the laundry room.
I have to stay in shape for our business.
And so I've got a workout space.
And the thing that keeps me sane,
is carving and artwork.
So I'm setting up... I've got a shop over in another area of the city.
I'm moving my equipment over here.
This will become a carving studio.
The kind of stuff that I carve...
I'll bring them into the light so you can see them.
I carve a lot of duck decoys and fish decoys
and animals and people
So these are a couple of the carvings that I make.
They're not done, obviously. They're in process.
I was setting up a grid. I was going to etch scales into the fish.
It's become more complicated than I thought.
So I'll probably give up the scales.
What's the complication?
Time! I don't have the time.
You can see the scale pattern that I started to create.
But it puts too much time in the piece and I've got too many other things I want to do.
What kind of fish is that?
Lts a trout, actually.
But again, it's just in process.
You saw the backyard, the pool and everything.
Then I'll take you upstairs and show you my little studio.
- You'll see some pieces of my artwork. - How wonderful.
I'm limping because I've got a stressed Achilles tendon
and that's not a good thing.
- How did you do that? - Too much running around.
I'm old and feeble.
When you start to hit 60, if you're sane, you'll slow down.
If you're an idiot like me, you don't.
This is my little studio space.
Again, I've got a stereo so that I can listen.
That's a drawing I'm doing of a couple of friends of mine.
Peter and Don Delouise.
And this is an example of the kind of...
images I'm going to be hawking over the Internet.
It will be nudes and landscapes and still-lifes.
- How long have you been drawing? - All my life.
Yeah, I really got into this business,
with the idea that it would afford a base,
which would allow me to spend most of my time concentrating on creating artwork.
But then, as you know, in our business...
...it becomes more than a love of what you do.
It becomes almost a lust for what you do.
If you're going to succeed, you have to really become obsessed with it.
And that's what happened.
For the last few years, I've done less and less artwork.
Do you think that obsession sometimes gets in the way of your quality of life?
It has for me. I'm trying to change that now.
But it kind of took over my life.
Mainly, because I was fortunate.
What happened to me was, I got employed.
And I built a core of producers and directors who liked my work,
and enjoyed my company.
They keep me busy.
So, I'm never home.
I just split up a 30-year marriage, mainly because,
for the last 10 or 15 years, I was never home.
I was off, on one project or another,
filming this, that or the other thing,
and you wind up growing apart.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Oh, it's life. You know.
We're lucky in some things and unlucky in other things.
I think life leads you down the path you're going to tread.
We like to think we're in control...
I'm a type 'A' personality control freak.
But you have no control over what fate deals you.
You just pick it up and go ahead.
I like this little space.
Again I can listen to my music or watch...
The advantage of having a stereo and a TV, is I can turn that to The Golf Channel.
And there's a golf game if I want to look at it.
I'm the world's worst golfer but I love the game.
At the same time I can listen to my blues and jaZZ
and create art.