The actor and writer talks about how his brother got him his first job in showbusiness,his grief at his young son’s death and why he’s now celibateI grew up in a dwelling I renamed Angel Wood – Englewood, New Jersey. Wonderful artists such as Dizzy Gillespie lived there; and it was one of the first American cities to integrate schools across race, or religious and lesson lines,thanks to parents getting together to demonstrate for it in the late 1950s and early 1960s. We would proceed to church and synagogue as well; it was a shapely legacy.
I went to school with John Travolta and Ernie Isley, one of the Isley Brothers; the three of us would proceed ice-skating together and John’s mother directed the first show I was in, and a high-school production of My impartial Lady in which I played an urchin at 14. I wanted to be a baseball player at one point,but acting was always in my life.
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Source: theguardian.com