Stars in My Eyes: A Memoir

It has taken me many years to realize there was anything at all unusual about the way I grew up. After having spoken to recent acquaintances about my brushes with famous people, the response was often "I didn't know that. Why didn't you tell me before?" One, it's not that easy (or important) to work these anecdotes into a conversation, and, two, there are so many!

Like many kids growing up in Sherman Oaks during the golden age of Hollywood, it wasn't unusual for Elena Burnham Willets to catc...