I spent a year working in a Minneapolis paper mill to get the money to go back to Kalamazoo College and returned just in time to participate in their London foreign study program. I took all kinds of theater and film related classes at various London schools, universities,and colleges. Because my parents are British, I had a lot of family in London and my cousins helped me secure a cool apartment into which I moved a young Kalamazoo College theater student named Teresa Tucker. She was the "highlight of this period and we later married….much later.
After college, I worked at television stationsin Minneapolis, Michigan, and Chicago, where I hooked up with fellow WCHS graduates Carolyn Fessler and Nancy Auman, even rooming with them for a while.
It was a great time and they were very helpful to me while I tried to get my career going in the big city. Shortly after Carolyn and Nancy left town, I coerced Teresa Tucker, then running a film festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to move into my Chicago apartment. She came and we got married the day after my 34th
Birthday. We had some tremendous years in the not yet gentrified Chicago. Other than our newlywed bliss, the other "highlight" was producing Siskel & Ebert when the show was called SNEAK PREVIEWS.
For both of us, her in movies, and me in TV, all roads were leading to Los Angeles. We fought it off as long as we could, but soon had as much work in L.A. as Chicago. Because my work is primarily in L.A.,
I live four days a week in Burbank. My wife develops scripts for a movie director headquartered in Santa Barbara so we have a little place up there too. We take turns commuting. We have no children, a combination of poor timing, way too much attention to our work, and a period when we separated.