In 1973, he made his professional acting debut in a televised production of Kaufman's June Moon, wearing a fedora.  | In 1960, he purchased a Baldwin grand piano from Leonard Bernstein for a paltry $5400.00. |
Once upon a time Katharine Hepburn was his next door neighbor.She complained about his late night sessions at the piano. | His longtime chef was Louis Vargas.
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He hardly ever wears a hat. | His father's name was Herbert. His mother's name was Etta Janet, but she called herself Foxy. |
He started piano lessons at the age of 7. His teacher's name was Mrs. Moss.  | He played chess with Humphry Bogart during the filming of Beat The Devil.  |
 For a short time he attended military school.
| While he was a freshman at college, he wrote a short story titled The Brass Goddess. |
While attending Williams College he appeared in Night Must Fall and The Skin Of Our Teeth.  | His favorite steakhouse is Christo's
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He had a standard poodle named Max.  | One of his stepbrothers is called Walter, the other one was called Herbie. |
He wrote 11 scripts for the television seriesTopper, while living in Hollywood.  | He doesn't like to cook. | |
For his 65th birthday Oscar Hamerstein's son William gave him a pair of his father's black velvet slippers with the monogram O on one foot and H on the other.  | Once he made a board game called Psychiatry, which consisted of little couches being moved around the board.  |
He became close friends with Anthony Perkins while planning what was to become a treasure hunt all over Manahattan on a Halloween night in 1968.  | He used to get around Manhattan via bicycle.  |
He likes Scotch.
 | He invented an elaborate game for Leonard Bernstein's 50th Birthday called The Great Conductor Hunt. |
He has a home in Connecticut.
 | In 1979, he had a heart attack.
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In 1959, he wrote a television show called In An Early Winter about an accident prone family.  | He made a home movie take-off of Puccini's Tosca with Leonard Bernstein.  |
