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"I always wore sneakers," he says, "so they wouldn't ask me to demonstrate." One day, as a favor to a fellow worker, Michael went to Warner Brothers to help with his screen test. When the film was viewed, it was Mike, not his buddy, who was asked to join the studio's talent school. Mike was elated. This time no one would ridicule the intense emotions which came so naturally to him. Just when his star seemed in assured ascendancy, the roof fell in on Mike again. "Mr. Warner walked into class one day. I don't think he knew such a program was going on, and when he realized he was paying for it, he cancelled the whole thing!" The only survivor after the demise of the studio class was an actor named James Garner. "I was really-loMike remembers. "I'd missed out again. They said I was too skinny!" At that time he weighed only 120 pounds. He now tilts the scales at a robust 165. A week later, however, producer Jerry Stagg gave him his first job. Then followed live tv and movies. 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