It's the challenge of making people's lives better that day, the challenge of doing something better, getting a lot done in new ways. The big difference between me now and in the past is that I have this acute sense of everything being an adventure. But it is at times brutally descriptive. Words like mysterious and cynical and stern are liberally used. Liz wears a smile.
Royal wears a semi-scowl.
Robbins doesn't blame it on anyone in particular. He doesn't blame it on his father, Royal Shannon, a womanizing, one-time West Virginia boxing champion who demanded too much and gave too little to his wife, Beaulah Robbins, and son. He doesn't blame it on his stepfather, James Chandler, a violent alcoholic who forced him to change his name to Jimmy Chandler and moved the family from Ohio to Los Angeles when he was 6. He just wishes someone had shown him the path to enlightenment. In February 1991, someone finally did.