FROM GREGS IMDb BIO-TRIVIA Numerous op-ed letters hes written on subjects ranging from politics to entertainment and the media have been published in national periodicals including USA Today, TIME, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, TV Guide and Screen Actor (the Screen Actors Guild magazine). Wrote a piano piece, I Have Learned to Say as a possible theme for the sequel of the movie _Charly_ -- a 1968 picture that had been an Oscar-winner for its star, Cliff Robertson, whom Greg profiled and knew. But the sequel never got made. As a young actor-writer, sent a letter to Oscar-winning screenwriter Sterling Siliphant (In the Heat of the Night) seeking career advice and received a detailed, encouraging note in response. Profiled Mario Lopez while the Dancing with the Stars standout was attending Chula Vista High School near San Diego and lectured his class. Very first wedding gift was from composer Frederick Loewe -- Loewes second night tickets to Gigi at the Los Angeles Music Center. Was the first print journalist inside CNNs Atlanta headquarters at the start of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Was part of San Diego Evening Tribune staff that won 1979 Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting of commercial airliner crash in San Diego. As judge at the San Diego Improv in the late 1980s, helped give Bill Engvall his first stand-up comedy competition triumph. In 2008, acted opposite Engvall in Cowboy Dreams, playing The Soulless Gunfighter to Engvalls Wild Bill. His first newspaper boss in California, Harold Hubbard, had been editor of The Hollywood Citizen-News during the film industrys Golden Age in the 1930s and 40s.
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