Mr Raines worked erratic hours, often staying late to call L.A. Having been the Unit Publicist on the first James Bond film ‘ Dr No’ in 1962 and latterly responsible for a monthly column on film for Vogue (typed – and sometimes researched – by me) his contacts book was deeply impressive. My boss was an ‘old school’ American expatriate Hollywood PR man called Halsey Raines whose career had been honed at MGM where he had been on the team who handled – and hid – the secrets of the studio’s most famous stable of stars. Jobs seemed so easy to acquire in those heady days – and although full of bravura for my age at 17, I added two years on my CV to give it more gravitas. I quickly fell into fashionable London life where my first job was found through a friend who knew a film publicist needing someone to run his office – a large room in Mayfair’s Mount Street.