experience, he jumped on enthusiastically. He started off as an actor and pretty quickly landed off Broadway in New York. Six months later he landed his first starring role in “Angel Town” opposite Teresa Saldana. He didn’t have a very close relationship with his father until his early twenties. “I grew up brave able to take on the world but my personal relationships have suffered because the absence of my mother and father in my childhood turned into what I made to be my own negative perceptions of close relationships; inside I felt worthless”. He has wondered if that contributed to his desire for a life in show business– a longing for acknowledgment and admiration. Just after returning from Minnesota where he starred in a PBS American Playhouse film, he faced yet another challenge. He lost his vision in his right eye from a freak accident involving