So Amy, how did this almost 50-year-old tragedy inspire you now to write this book?

I think that, I think there's something about an unexpected death that's different than one where someone's sick and you kind of can assess it, and it was so unexpected, and Doug was also, for me, the kindest person in the entire world.

I could not be in a restaurant and a check would arrive, and it would've been paid, was paid.

I never went out with him.

We were co-writers at the National Lampoon.

That's how I first met him.

And then when I was a studio executive, he was a director and quite well-known and a quite well-known screenwriter, and I ran into him when I was being interviewed for the vice president of production job, and I think it's one of the reasons they hired me.

So I-

Mm-hmm

... goes missing, and she went missing a year before.

And the last thing she did is have lunch with her best friend, and as a result, no one knows what's happened to her, and so this residual grief, um, worry, and I think that Liza, her best friend-

Mm-hmm.

I think that when you're a female who worked in those days, my mother wore suits, and she wore heels to Fox every day, and she wore stockings.

I think that there was a lot of emphasis.

I think there still is a lot of emphasis, although I come out of the fashion world a little bit 'cause I worked for Vogue for so long-

Yeah.

And I also think that one of the other things I wanted to write about is something that we all experience, which is a kind of loss.

When someone unexpectedly disappears, it's a whole different thing than when you're dealing...

And it's a different kind of grief.

It's a kind of...

It, it's hard.

I've had a couple where you just had no idea it was gonna come.

Mm