Skip had the opportunity to meet Maureen Stapleton a couple of times at Colleen Dewhurst's house, at a time when Ms. Dewhiurst and Ken Marsolais were involved with producing one of Skip's shows. Skip confimed the wonderful down-to-earth quality that Ms. Stapleton had: As an example, Skip would be cooking a meal, and Ms. Dewhurst would be about to open up a bottle of really fine wine for the dinner, but Ms. Stapleton would essentially say with a smile to forget about that wine, let's just open up the bottle of Gallo that I brought, I can't taste the difference anyway.