Biografia

Transitioning to NBC Business Affairs, he worked in: Program Cost Accounting and later, Ad Sales and Program Dev. Reporting.

For the (now) cult film "Voyage of The Rock Aliens" , he would direct the Music Video "New Orleans", performed by Neil Sedaka.

While Manager then, Director of Film Acquisitions & Dev. East Coast, he:

• was first rep for NBC at Cannes Film Festival
• acquired "The Adventures of Frontier Freemont" that spawned the "Grizzly Adams" series.
• pre-bought: "Piranha (1)" and "Harper Valley PTA" (led to series)
• when told to "make it happen", after Broadcast Standards rejected "Godzilla vs Megalon", he wrote funny opening for John Belushi,

who wore a Godzilla costume, eating planes out of the sky. The film then received Broadcast Standards approval.

• while walking to work, he bumped into Paul Newman and discussed and got approval for the edits and re-title of "Sometimes A Great Notion"/"Never Give An Inch".

As a NBC Page/Tour Guide (10/71-12/71) he: Stampeded a class of 1st graders out the Radio Sound Effects Room Tour, with an impression of Bella Lugosi's Dracula- "Don't be afraid, I only want to suck your blood!" In their hasty exit, they literally trampled their teacher. As a NBC Page he: while working on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show, Joan Rivers invited him to see her perform and soon thereafter he sold her a joke for $8.

Wanting to enter the NBC Program Dept. he took the job no one wanted: Office Manager. He catered to the executives that Patty Cheyefsky used as role models for his story & film "Network".