What I saw was a gracious, respectful, somewhat formal man who chose to be there when he could have been on the beach at the Kahala condos. Jack seemed very polite by nature and, when you do 281 episodes as the lead in a series, any grandness may very well have been in the eyes of the beholder. And anyway, in show business, it was his island. That he was speaking to me as a peer was, well, fortifying.
