He started a consulting firm with two friends. After several years, my dad decided he wasn’t a 9-to-5 guy. My dad used to be an accountant for Arthur Andersen, in the days when wearing a blue dress shirt was considered daring. He got the Sopranos gig after he consulted on the movie Rounders.
Fox found him because he previously had been poker consultant for The Sopranos. Fox TV sought him out to appear in its show The Casino. Last summer he starred in a reality TV show-and not the kind where you have to eat bugs.
How much cooler? I’m the associate director of development for a nonprofit organization that provides legal services. TV has broadcast what I’ve long known: my dad is cooler than me.
