•Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. •Attended college on an acting scholarship. •Chickened out of pursuing an acting career midway through college (didn’t want to starve). •Cobbled together a double major, Acting/TV Journalism, and after graduation (BS, cum laude!) immediately went to work in the TV news business, first job: Decatur, Illinois! Soy bean capital of the world. •Twenty three years of anchoring/reporting for various tv stations across the country. Assignments to foreign lands, interviews of movers/shakers/losers, exposed corruption and infidelities, all the while maintaining a good haircut, and a neatly knotted double Windsor five nights a week. •When the internet killed TV news, produced/hosted syndicated weekly show, Tennis Television, which ran nationally for five years. Became certified tennis teaching pro and a pretty fair player. •Free-lanced as anchor/host/reporter for several more years, working his way toward being a fully recovered anchorman by 2008. •Returned to pursuing acting in 2003 (potential starving no longer an issue). •Opened ActorIntro in 2009, a video production service for actors. •Acquired ActorsInsite in 2015, an established actor/industry online feedback loop. Actors' demo reel mashup with casting directors and agents. •Voice actor for several audiobook novels, from 2020, available on Audible and Amazon. •Enjoys travelling, has visited all seven continents, most recently knocking off Australia in November 2018. •Enjoys Bordeaux wines, others not so much, but is not really a wine snob. •Lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and New York City, and has a beach house in Las Flores, Uruguay since 2009. •Favorite reads: Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Carl Sagan. •Favorite movies: The Graduate, Last of the Mohicans, Anchorman, Apocalypse Now, Body Heat, The Killing Fields, Fargo, Four Weddings and a Funeral, all of the Christopher Guest "mockumentaries". •Favorite music: Neko Case, Led Zeppelin, Kathleen Edwards, Frazee Ford, Bob Marley, Gipsy Kings, John Prine, UK fight song. •Favorite sports teams: University of Kentucky Wildcats and whoever is playing Duke •Married to Kate White, three kids. |
Below: From a 1990 broadcast of The Independent Network News, seen coast to coast. Yes, the USSR was still a thing, and cruise ships were getting stuck.
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