"The day Anthony Edwards came out to greet these Japanese women I was showing around and they acted like they were seeing the Beatles, that was a fun day."
Stephen Schochet, a 1980 Ocean View High School graduate, loves to tell stories about Hollywood. So much so that's he's written a book, "Hollywood Stories — Short, Entertaining Anecdotes about the Stars and Legends of the Movies!"
Here's a sample: "In 1999, an Australian gentleman told me about an interesting experience he and his family had at Universal Studios. They were on the backlot tour passing one of the theme park's main attractions, the Bates Motel used in the 1960 horror classic 'Psycho,' about a murderous young man named Norman Bates who loved his mother a little too much. As the guide gave out information about how director Alfred Hitchcock shot the picture, a tall man, dressed in drag and carrying a large knife, emerged from behind the old set and charged toward the tram. The narrator seemed to know nothing about the Norman Bates look-alike and clammed up completely.
