First memory – the smell of my great Aunt’s Italian deli
First steps – according to my mother 7 months old, which I find hard to believe
First word – also according to my mother – airplane, I’m still fascinated by flying
First dream job – to work with Jacques Costeau and become a marine biologist
First artwork – a still life pastel drawing of a fern, an empty chianti bottle and a Turkish coffee pot
First artwork admired – "Salome", Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henri-Alexandre-Georges Regnault. I still love her!
First pet – a turtle, which after a long weekend away my mother thought was dead in his little palm tree oasis, and we ceremoniously flushed him down the toilet. As he hit the water he swam and my brother and I were screaming to fish him out. The things mother’s will do for their kids – she stuck her hand in the swirling flushing toilet and pulled him out!
First travel – technically flying from Texas to NY but I have no memory of it as a less than 1 year old. To Florida as a 5 year old, and to Europe as a 6th grader.
First car – a powder blue Toyota Corolla which was previously owned by my father … that thing ran for 100,000+ miles
First job – store clerk
First creative job – as a line producer
First shoot – a commercial for P&G
First long format – a film for the American Cancer Society
First Episodic TV show producer – Spy Game, a flop.
What are your firsts?
