I Was Going To Be The Hero

I'd Done A Pilot [of Townies] With Caroline Rhea [pride & Joy] That Didn't Go Anywhere.

That Was My Big Break [lonesome Dove]. My First Real Kind Of Adult Role On Something Really Well-written. It Was A Spin-off Of The Miniseries, And I Played Col. Mosby, A Very Dangerous, Southern Colonel In Post-civil War, Wandering The West.

There Was Not An Episode [on Perception] That Didn't Deal With Some Form Of Mental Illness, Either My Own, Or I Would Be The First To Notice If A Defendant Did A Certain Thing That Perhaps He Was Suffering From This. And So We Got To Do Some Really Outspoken Stuff For What Was Otherwise A Crime-solving Show. And It Was Just A Really Good Team.

Mental Illness Is The Last Frontier. The Gay Thing Is Part Of Everyday Life Now On A Show Like 'modern Family,' But Mental Illness Is Still Full Of Stigma. Maybe It Is Time For That To Change.

Growing Up, My Father Was A Financial Analyst For An Oil Company. He Was Just A Regular Dad. And When I Would Say, Hey, Come See My Play, Hed Say, Sure. Hed See One, Oh, Good Play - You Know, Very Typical Dad Reaction.