I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

