- Raised in Maplewood, New Jersey. Graduate of Boston University, where he served as editor of campus newspaper.
- Early career as ad copywriter, New York City.
- Contributing editor at Vanity Fair; long-time columnist for New York Observer, former editorial writer, the New York Times.
- Freelance articles have appeared in Playboy, SPY, The New Yorker, etc.
- One day in the 1980s, he wrote the line "Real men don't eat quiche" as dialog for a script. He went on to write a best selling comedy book using that line as a title.
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