Some of Ms. Pirie's favorite stories of life in L.A. centered around her friendship with Bob Hope and the teenage girls who would try to
sneak and steal things from her home in Benedict Canyon, previously owned by Cary Grant, and which was once used by the Beatles.
"A lot of things have happened in my personal life that are personal. I'm not going to tell anybody about them. I think what a person is, and is doing now, in the present, is more important than what has happened before".
