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For years my life was reduced to an About page. Awards I received while working in Hollywood (X), Peabody Award, Writers Guild of America Award, People’s Choice Award. Titles I held, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Vice President\/Creative Director. \u00a0Hit shows I wrote for. \u00a0Studios and networks that hired me to write pilots and movie scripts. \u00a0Venues I spoke at, The Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Broadcasting. \u00a0Theaters my stage plays were shown in, ad agencies I worked for, art galleries that presented my paintings and sculpture. \u00a0Then one day it occurred to me. \u00a0My life has been much more than a list of credits, hell, I scrambled from the ledge of a building in Needle Park to the heights of Madison Avenue and Hollywood. \u00a0As a teenage newspaper reporter I wangled my way into interviews with James Brown, The Temptations, Martin Luther King. \u00a0I snuck into the shattered Gaza Strip after the Six Day War, I hung out with Muhammad Ali, I survived an airplane crash. \u00a0I ate dinner with Jerzy Grotowski. \u00a0I slept in the Mojave Desert to watch the first Space Shuttle landing, partied with the NASA geniuses, shot the breeze with astronauts. \u00a0My children witnessed their Dad ascend from a crappy walk-down apartment they nicknamed The Roach Motel to a sprawling mansion complete with Otis elevator that I quickly sold for my freedom. \u00a0Yes, I have an About page, but my life has been way, way More About…<\/p>\n