about me

I am a forty year veteran of the Motion Picture and Television Industry.

I have worked at all major motion pictures studios since 1970 in various capacities of Studio Administration, Motion Picture and Television Production, Publicity, and in Motion Picture and Television Project Development.

I worked at a time when the studios were considered to be families of creative personnel; not the corporate processors of in-and-out production personnel that we see so much of today. It didn't matter what one's position may have been; everyone knew each other and if they liked you, they moved you forward. MGM was such a studio for me. In the 1980's the Hollywood studios began to change, often becoming part of large corporate conglomerates and that family atmosphere was lost forever. Those times, however, always remain in the memories of those of us who were in a Hollywood in which many of us remember what we now refer to as "The Classic Era."

Although I entered into the business in 1970, much of that Classic Era training had been ingrained into our professional lives, especially at MGM, even though imminent change was not only on the horizon, but which had already begun. Hollywood has definitely changed, with new brands of production and marketing which serves the present day motion picture and television business well; different work ethics, and different production values; but there are those of us who still remember the Hollywood as it was, the motion pictures that made the studios great, and above all, those creative families of friends and colleagues who taught us, guided us and moved us forward in our lives.

I am now concentrating on my own literary projects and my first novel, "I'll Look to the Sky!" is a retro tale of Star-Crossed Hollywood about young people who were striving to achieve their dreams and goals in an enchanted era when change was beginning to happen.

favourite books

Tales of the City series.
Out on a Limb
Wuthering Heights
Several others..,.

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