Major influences have been the Marx Brothers, WC Fields, Joseph Heller.

Contributing Editor - Playboy Magazine 1980-1985.
I've written for such magazines as Punch, Playboy, Oui, TV Guide, Publishers Weekly, National Lampoon.
I've had 6 books published:
"Official Hollywood Handbook" (Simon&Schuster)
"The Tinseltown Murders" (S&S)
"The Case of the Hardboiled Dicks" (S&S)
"Love's Reckless Rash" (Co-author, St. Martins Press)
"Hollywood High" (Ballantine)
"What's Wrong With Dorfman?" (St. Martin's Press)
I've also had 2 movies produced:
SHORT TIME (Fox 1990)
BLUE STREAK(Tristar, 1999)

My new novel "What's Wrong With Dorfman?" has just been published by St. Martin's Press. It's about a jaded screenwriter who wakes up one morning with a mysterious disease. reviews have been great! It'll be in the bookstores nationwide August 2003.