I was born in Princeton, NJ and raised in Princeton Junction near Grover's Mill which Orson Welle's mentioned in his infamous 1938 War of the Worlds radio program that scared the locals living there. I got my education at West Windsor/Plainsboro High School (located in Princeton Jct.). The cute little boy from the film - Close Encounters moved to Princeton Jct. around my Sophmore or Junior year and attended the West Windsor/Plainsboro High School along with me. He was around my age but a grade higher cause my parents started me in Kindergarten late. The Close Encounters Kid was handed carte blanche all the good roles to all High School Plays & Musicals thus ending my High School Musical/Play career (that's an exaggeration). Before he moved to my neighborhood I was the up and coming actor for High School Plays & Musicals (another exaggeration). Okay, okay I don't really think he ended my High School Play/Musical Career. Before he showed up I got a small, tiny background role in Guys & Dolls. I quit that musical cause the director accused me of making her daughter cry. Her daughter sobbed - "OLIVER IS MAKING FUN OF ME!" The previous year I played Oliver in the High School Musical - OLIVER! so her daughter thought my name was Oliver. The next thing that happens is my musical director charges up at me and yells - "HOW DARE YOU MAKE MY DAUGHTER CRY! BLAH BLAH BLAH! MY DAUGHTER IS CRYING!"