Emmy and Tony-nominated actor Stacy Keach looks back on his seven-decade career and talks about playing Shakespeare’s greatest characters, dining with Orson Welles, shooting pool with John Huston and sharing the screen with Paul Newman, George C. Scott, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck. Also, Rod Steiger passes on “Patton,” Stacy turns down Hawkeye Pierce, John Wayne parties with Zsa Zsa Gabor and the Keaches, Quaids and Carradines team up for “The Long Riders.” PLUS: “The Ninth Configuration”! Idolizing Olivier! Reinventing Frankenstein! Fonzie goes to college! And Stacy’s dad joins forces with Maxwell Smart!

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