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I always dreamt of addressing someone as Mr. President. So I was thrilled when my friend Sid Ganis became the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after years as a Hollywood producer, studio boss and publicist extraordinaire. Born in Brooklyn, Ganis started off as an office boy for Broadway publicist Lee Solters delivering items to legendary columnists like Walter Winchell, Dorothy Kilgallen and Earl Wilson. When Solters told him he was never going anywhere in the business, that was all the challenge Ganis needed to make his way to the top. If it sounds like the beginning of a classic Harold Robbins novel....well, it is. Listen to Sid Ganis's amusing and inspiring story.