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Michael Lazarou

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Michael Lazarou (born March 17, 1960, in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television writer/producer.

Biography

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Lazarou began his career as story editor for the half-hour television comedy Doogie Howser, M.D. and the one-hour drama The Untouchables. He wrote the screenplays for the TV movies Heat Wave and Possessed, and for feature films Take the A Train and Satin Doll.

He adapted his semi-autobiographical novel Criminal Law into a film for HBO. This was followed up with The Stanford Prison Experiment, originally developed for television for HBO, but later acquired by Artisan Entertainment as a motion picture.

Lazarou, is dyslexic and dysgraphic and was unable to read or write until he was nearly ten years old.[citation needed] He is a graduate of UCLA, New York University and the AFI Center For Advanced Film Studies.

After a four-year career absence due to a near-fatal kidney ailment, he returned to establish High Road Productions with wife Charisse McGhee, a former Vice President of Primetime Series at NBC and Lifetime Television.

Personal life

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Lazarou was married to Melissa Tucker in 1981. They divorced in 1983. In 1991 he married Charisse McGhee. Lazarou and McGhee have since had four children together.

Awards

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For his script for Heat Wave, a fact-based drama about the 1965 Watts Riots,[1] Lazarou won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Paul Selvin Award, and was nominated for the WGA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Long Form.

References

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  1. ^ Solomon, Daina Beth; Thomas, Dexter (August 14, 2015). "Urban legend about Times reporting during Watts riots conceals a sadder tale". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 12, 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2016.

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Videography

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