From the time I was a youngster, I was always "acting up" with my family. I enjoyed cracking jokes, singing, and clowning around. I did impersonations (Eartha Kitt for a talent show) in overnight camp. I did taped interviews with my friends when my father got a tape recorder. And because my parents were active in community theatre, it was natural for me to join them. At the age of fourteen, I donned a set of green tights and played a leprechaun in "Barnaby". I was a conspirator in "Julius Caesar", a Russian Count in "Pygmalion" and an astronaut in "Night of the Auk". I was also a criminal henchman in "The Night of January 16th" in high school.
After dropping out of art school, I worked for a couple of years as a professional jeweler, then switched to high-tech. I started working in the aerospace industry, and learned computers. I eventually discovered my artistic side could not be kept down, and became a specialist in computer graphics.
Leaving aerospace, I made a major move from the East coast to the West and settled in the Los Angeles area. My first job was in marketing for a graphics display manufacturer. My company made the displays which created some of the images for the original "Star Wars", and when I was sent to an industry conference the Summer that "Star Wars" was released, I met one of the artists who worked on the scene of the Death Star. I stepped forward the following Winter when our company was contacted by Albert Brooks, who wanted some computer graphics for a movie he was making. I was happy to oblige, and not only did my animated face appear on screen, I was an extra in the scene which described how subjects were "tested" to participate in the project that the movie's story was written around.
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