My father became the technical advisor for 'The Desert Fox,' with James Mason as Rommel. They wanted an Aussie who had been in North Africa with the English, and found my father on the Pasadena police force.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'
One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.
Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
My dad was an English professor.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
My father was a writer and an acting teacher.
My father was a journalist.
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.