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I started out in new York as an actor and was lucky enough to be around and a part of some of the works by the hot playwrights of the eary 1950's. I soon found my own creative ideas trumped performing those works of others. Case in point, my short stint in Tennessee Williams-Sweet Bird of Youth. After a few nights of waiting to go on and seeing the cast wittled down to a few by the playwright sitting in the alley with a typewriter on a crate in perpetual rewrites, I sarcastically exclaimed, "if he kills off any more actors I'll be out here doing a monolgue." I guess he heard me.

In the years that followed I produced Captain Kangaroo, worked with Ronald Reagan in General Electric Theater and created numerous game shows for the networks including RHYMAE AND REASON and BLANK CHECK. All the while my passion was SCREENWRITING and DIRECTING. I managed to make some independant films before the word became a household name with actors such as an 18 year old Marsha Mason, Keenan Wynn, Robert Lansing, George Stanford Brown and Bernie Kopel.

Now later in life I find I love the simplicity of just writing, just me and my words. For six years I worked on OJI_SPY GIRLS AT THE GATE, a memoir of my time in the ASA during the Korean War. I was kind of sad when the mad emotional roller coaster journey of writing it was over. But now that it is published I have moved into the phase of enjoying the reactions to it from the public.

Got to: www.ojispygirlsatthegate.com to read some episodes that didn't make it into the book and more about my Broadway Theater Career.