KNOTT PLANNED: Before Steve Martin was a...

KNOTT PLANNED: Before Steve Martin was a wild and crazy guy and a box office hit, he worked in Disneyland’s gift shop and acted at Knott’s Berry Farm’s Bird Cage Theater. . . . In January’s Playboy interview, he describes his Knott’s days: “We did a play and what they called olio acts, a singer or comedian would do four or five minutes. I was a college student and planned to be a professor and all that.” Goodby to a life of scholarship: Martin was destined for show biz.