Born in The Bronx, immigrant family with a hard working Dad who never let on that we were anythin other than well off. His hard work and my mother's solicitude towards the kids paid off. One lovely brilliant sister who graduated from Yale, and clwent on to get her MFA in film from UCLA.

IGraduated from the University of Pennsylvania (no, not the one with football and Jerry Sandusky chillin' in the shower room), got my law degree from the University of California's law school, then called Boalt Hall. Practiced criminal law for many years which took me all over the world. Wrote a bunch of screenplays and teleplays, some produced, some not. Retired early to finish a script which my dream project even though it will (like all scripts, but even more so, will never make it to your local cine, your cable network, or a midnight movie showing..

Was married 30+ years, but sadly we divorced. But no regrets because we raised my two favorite kids, :my son, getting his Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics, and my daughter, who overflows with empathy, a student at UC Berkeley.

Happy New Year!