![]() ![]() ![]() We both firmly believe that public broadcasting is an essential bulwark (sometimes it seems like the only one) between corporate America and an independent electorate. Over the years, we slowly migrated to KPCC (other than a weekly pilgrimage for Harry Shearer's Le Show, of course). After Claire and I met, she got hooked on public radio first, by listening to KCRW to preserve her sanity while organizing the legal files at a movie studio in the early 80s in Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() My parents were longtime members of WKAR in East Lansing, where I grew up, but I didn't pay much attention at the time. We've made a living jointly since then mostly as screenwriters, authors and performers.Ī. We got married on in downtown L.A., having met four months earlier and being engaged for only eight days. We like the age difference because we're statistically likely to die at about the same time, and neither of us much likes the idea of living without the other. Claire turned 64 in January 2015 I turned 58 in February 2015. Their hope is to inspire others to make a similar decision to remember public radio in their estate plans.Ī. NPR is so important to the couple-who now live in Los Angeles-that they named NPR and their local Member station as the primary beneficiaries of their wills. The couple-who married in 1981 after a four-month courtship-have taken NPR with them in their travels across the country as screenwriters, authors and performers. ![]()
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