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But the day he died, that night they dimmed the lights on Broadway, so I knew at least they knew his worth. "I mean, he cared! Critics called him 'the television entrepreneur' - which he wasn't. But he said, 'I want to introduce them to good theatre.' It cost him $35,000 a week, to bring in the kids from the schools. And then he invited the kids from schools. He worked on that project for 15 years! He put on some of the best plays - The Crucible, Saint Joan - that I ever saw. Tony put eight million dollars of his own money in the National Actors Theatre. I see Broadway theatres named after guys that worked for Shubert, for God's sake! That's disgraceful. "My main goal," he said, "is to get a theatre named after Tony that's what I really want. On the other hand, if he makes a profit, Klugman hopes to donate some of it to the National Actors Theatre, the troupe founded and funded for years by Tony Randall. Self-publishing is "very expensive," Klugman found, but, he said, "I could afford it. So, this was a tribute to Tony, and I didn't want anybody to tell me what to write and what not to write about." "'You can't write this, you've got to write young kissable girls in' - just terrible. "In 1956, I wrote two live-television shows - one starred Walter Matthau, one starred Cliff Robertson - and sat all over me," he explained. Klugman chose to self-publish in order to keep control of his book's content. The result is the just-released Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship (Good Hill Press, distributed by Client Distribution Services), a loving reminiscence of Randall, which also incorporates stories and photographs from Klugman's own history. To keep everything in the family, as it were, the author-actor decided to publish the work himself. Klugman's two grown sons also helped prepare the text and select its many illustrations, and Paramount Studios allowed the use of some Odd Couple outtakes on a DVD to be included with the book. "So I put down the incidents, and he sorted it out and we. After the 2004 death of Klugman's friend and Odd Couple co-star, Tony Randall, though, Rocks approached Klugman with another idea: "He came to me and he said, 'What about us writing a book about Tony and you?'" Klugman told BTW.