Anecdotes

Was a contributing editor at New York Magazine.

His journalism has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Observer, the New York Times, Los Angeles, Worth, and Connoisseur.

From 2003 to 2010 he hosted a weekly, live roundtable radio interview show from the Hamptons called "Sunday Brunch Live from the American Hotel in Sag Harbor," that aired from Memorial Weekend to Labor Day on a local National Public Radio affiliate.

Co-founder of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1978 he wrote the lyrics for two major disco hits, "New York at Night" and "Like An Eagle," composed by Village People creator Jaques Morali.

Flunked out of Temple University in Philadelphia before he graduated from New York University,.

His father was a school teacher and child guidance counselor, and his mother a bookkeeper.

In the 1970s he was editor of Circus, a national teeny-bopper rock and roll magazine, and had a six-year run as the "Top of the Pop" columnist for the New York Sunday News.

In 1999 he created one of the first online magazines, iHamptons.com.