Still alive? Paul Williams seems to be defying time, as it were.

He’s president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (otherwise known as ASCAP), in which he fights “to make sure people who created the music that’s being played and streamed and everything else are compensated fairly,” he says.

He’s still a practicing songwriter, continuing work on a stage musical based on the TV show “Happy Days” with Garry Marshall (aiming for an opening in London’s West End in the next year or so).

And he’s out on the hustings doing retail film promotion for a documentary, “Paul Williams Still Alive,” that he initially regretted saying “yes” to, when he was approached by filmmaker Stephen Kessler.

“It’s a weird life,” Williams says with a chuckle, (More…)