Well, I moved to California from Ohio.

The year was 1973, and Dr. Oppenheimer had just moved to L.A.

I was in a little teeny office on Hollywood and Vine.

And one day, somebody came in my office and said, are you an eye doctor?

And I said, yes.

He said, well, can you help me?

This stranger had a problem. It turned out, he was a Hollywood producer, and he was working on a scene

where there would be an image of a letter that was blurry and would become clear as the actor

put on glasses. He figured he would go across the street and ask the local eye

doctor how to do it. I said, well, that's really easy to do. He said, well, can you come over and

talk to the cinematographer? So I went across the street. I talked to the cinematographer, and I told

him, it's very simple. All you do is this, this, this. So he said, oh, thank you so much. What's your name?

And so Dr. Stephen Oppenheimer became the eye doctor that the movie people called, and not just for camera tricks.

So about six months later, I had my own office. You got a call one day. It was this guy.

He said, I've been looking for you. I got a

problem. I got to get a pair of glasses for Kate Jackson. And I said, who's that? Kate Jackson,

Charlie's Angels. And Kate Jackson wanted a pair of glasses so that she could walk out and go to the

grocery store and not be recognized. But why couldn't't they just go, you know, a sunglasses hut?

Well, you don't know how Hollywood works.

There wasn't a sunglasses hut in those days.

So he said, you gotta come out to the studio and please bring some glasses.

So I put some sunglasses in the case and I went to the studio.

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