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• Family moved frequently during his childhood, living briefly in Hong Kong and Iran.
• Won $15,000 as a contestant on Dick Clark's game show The $100,000 Pyramid during the late 1980s.
• Wrote for The Golden Girls in the 1990s.
• Pays homage to composer Steven Sondheim by using his songs as episode titles for Desperate Housewives.
• Chose the name Wisteria Lane from The Book of Lists because, he told People magazine, "I wanted a beautiful name for the street. Later I found out that the vine crushes everything around it."
• Was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2005.