Father was screenwriter who received an Oscar nomination for Brubaker (1980) and also penned The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
Speech writer for former President Bill Clinton and Michael Dukakis
Co-wrote Big (1988) with his then-next door neighbor, Anne Spielberg, sister of Steven Spielberg
Owned partial interest in a racehorse, Atswhatimtalkinbout, who finished fourth at the Kentucky Derby in 2003
Wrote the children's book Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind; the book originated as a few verses that was a favor for a friend, David Koepp, who was directing The Trigger Effect (1996) and needed a bedtime story that star Elizabeth Shue could read to her son
Served on Los Angeles Board of Library Commissioners
Grows tangerines on a working ranch north of Santa Barbara, CA and is know to give them as holiday presents to Hollywood friends