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416:, and I would have the horrible experience of looking out and seeing a painter carefully touching up my set and getting it all ready to be smashed to pieces and sent to a landfill in Brooklyn. It was just a mismatch, although I didn't realize it at the time." He left the show in 1987.
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because he "just wanted to get as far from the New York environment as could." There, he wrote a film script for
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287:, his grades at Harvard were average and he suffered several bouts of depression. He graduated in 1978 with a degree in biochemistry and was accepted into medical school, but decided not to enroll.
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Meegaskumbura, Madhava; Manamendra-Arachchi, Kelum (2005).
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