My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

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• Tommy Rettig:

  The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.

• Tommy Rettig:

  I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

• Tommy Rettig:

  So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.

• Tommy Rettig:

  Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

• Tommy Rettig:

  Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear ab

• Tommy Rettig:

  I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun.

• Tommy Rettig:

  Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party t

• Tommy Rettig:

  Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

• Tommy Rettig:

  Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing

• Tommy Rettig:

  I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.