Clark Peters

And this is all happening in less than an hour.

Of course I was gaveled not guilty, you know, and they gave me back my gas mask and my things and I hightailed it out of there.

You know, to be exposed to our system like that with no evidence.

information as to how our legal system is supposed to work, you know, to be taken up and then dropped down and then saved, it's a hell of an emotional roller coaster for the day.

I could have easily been, you know, lynched.

You know, who would have known?

Who would have known?

maybe another time, but not necessarily another place.

And that's my point, is that having had that experience, the scales dropped from my eyes.

First of all, my career began in England.

My first professional job was in England with the Watford Rep, a repertory company, doing Guys and Dolls.

I did, yes.

Three times.

There and then twice with the National Theatre.

I've never been in luck before.

And also, the best song in that is My Time of Day.

Yes, that's right, because he couldn't sing it.

My time of day is the dark time A couple of deals before dawn When the street belongs to the cop And the janitor with a mop And the grocery clerks are all gone And the smell of the rain-washed pavement Comes up clean and fresh and cold And the street lamplight Fills the gutters with gold

That's my time of day, my time of day.

And you're the only doll I ever wanted to share it with me.