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1953. Sugar Plum Fairy. Ritz purple die + long underwear. Art Kelly’s “Pogo” first reading primer.1955. Walked the chicken before class in 2nd-grade class of wonders.1963. First Clarinet in New Delhi Orchestra. Lost my clarinet to love.1966. Graduated high school, New Delhi. Dew Drop Inn, Bangkok on way back to US. Hung out with GI’s from Nam. Monterey Jazz Festival. Slept on the beach. Charles Lloyd “Forest Flower”. Pomona College. Nope.1967. US Navy. Nope. NYC. Janis Joplin. Rolling Stones. The Who (empty). 1964 B&G Pommard eye-opener.1968. April 4. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated. 50 people in Filmore East. B.B. King dedicates the night to ‘a man dedicated to peace and justice, a man who was shot for my freedom.’ He & Buddy Guy rip it up. Xmas, stranded snowed-in Heathrow. Carnaby and all that.1970-78. House painter. Plugged Gibson Melody Maker into Leslie. Photographer Theater of the Third Eye. Sold sheep skin coats. Met my wife. SF. Produced sales training film for used car salesman pitching grave plots door-to-door. NYC. New York State Council on the Arts Exec Asst, Chairman's Office. Redrafted enabling legislation. Divorced (sadly).1978-80. Saved from demolition Eugene O’Neill’s Provincetown Playhouse, MacDougal St. Formed repertory theater. Directed US premier “Tango” by Slawomir Mrozek. Tried to bring Dario Fo’s “Accidental Death of An Anarchist” to Broadway. No soap. Someone needs to do it.1980. COO of new product design firm. Polo, Ralph Lauren’s 1st store inside Bloomingdale’s, YSL Opium, Calvin Klein Obsession.1988/89. LA. Sold remake rights of Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American”. Bummed about. Worked at Lifetime.1990's. Joint venture with Eastman Kodak to build film laboratory in Romania. London/Bucharest, TV commercials for European market. Shoah Foundation, produced video histories of Holocaust survivors Bulgaria, Hungary & Romania. Late 90’s besotted with learning what made burgundy so unique. Bashed head against challenging dialectic of Paul Wasserman’s unique interpretation of wine architecture.2008. Retail slogger of wines that tell their story over decades.2018. Owner of online wine retailer First The Wine/Then The Story. Hosted 60+ wine dinners Los Angeles, NYC & Paris. Created & 3-day LA EFFERVESCENCE, a festival of champagne & sparkling wine.2019. Launched bespoke European Wine Adventures for groups of 4-6 travelers.2021. With Tim Story & Ian Shive, producing a wine & food series. Sold The Wine Hotel private wine storage to Vino Vault LLC & became Cellarmaster.

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